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When I heard about the "No guns allowed" signs outside of some stores in the US, this was the first thing I thought of.
In Denmark we just have "no freaking beer allowed when will you fucking learn!?" signs.
Norway America Denmark Sweden
HS Classpects (With Finland And Iceland)
Sister Nordics
JohannF09
So did he name his dog or gun 'fluffynator'? My money's on the gun, the dog is fluffynator II
MichaelZWilliamson
Actually, we could argue those signs say "No Scottish terriers" and "No Colt 1911s."
So a Shiba Inu and a Glock should be fine. ;)
BTW, the NO GUNS signs don't always have force of law. It varies by state.
P3rk3le
@MichaelZWilliamson That handgun looks a little bit Desert Eagle-ly to me.
AmericaTheBigBoned
Well who else was he supposed to trust with his gun?
Lupius
And now that I've seen this comic, I've got the overwhelming urge to design holsters for dogs so gun owners can leave their firearms in safe paws when they go inside a store and have to leave both outside.
TiminyCricket
@Lupius That's the great thing about 'Murica, we already have them!
Hinoron
@TiminyCricket
Dammit. I thought you were kidding!
SirKibbz
@Hinoron we take that stuff seriously
@Lupius We have those, and doggles (dog goggles) and dog body armor, and dog backpacks for water and food. Hey, the dog can carry his own damned luggage.
AngryToast
Can you please make the dog holding the gun an avatar?
thirsha42
@AngryToast I second this request.
tigercub123
y'know I was thinking about the amount of gun violence we have here in the U.S. and I had a thought. IF you look at most other countries the problem isn't as big. I mean I get the United Kingdom where it's next to impossible to get a gun, but what about a country like Canada where there are plenty of guns? Why don't they have as much gun violence? Is it because Americans are irresponsible morons?
Thunderbow
@tigercub123 No, it has nothing to do with Americans being somehow dumber than everyone else. It has more to do with the history we're dealing with, and the socioeconomic effects of that history - particularly in urban areas. If guns weren't available, you'd see at least as much and likely more violence, just not with guns. Violence is pretty much violence, whether a gun is involved or not is something of a red herring.
dumdristig
@Thunderbow
It might have more to do with the history and socioeconomic effects of the history, but that does not mean it has nothing to do with us being dumber than everyone else. Maybe we in fact aren't, as I tend to believe that nationality is not correlated to intelligence. But given that A - we created those historical problems, as almost none of the history that we're dealing with was out of the control of Americans as a whole (at various points in history), we've actually had more control over our own destiny than almost any other country, and B - our responses historically, including still today, tend to be incredibly short-sighted and have often made the effects worse, not better. We've compounded our problems exponentially by poor decisions.
Your last sentence is also partially true, partially not. It's true that it's something of a red herring, but not completely. Violence may be violence, but it's FAR more destructive when a gun is involved. Anyone that thinks gun control will fix the problem magically is hopelessly naive. It's too easy to be destructive, for one, and no amount of gun control will ever prevent the "bad guys" from having guns. However, that doesn't mean it is a bad idea to have any. It's been ridiculously easy for people who obviously shouldn't have a gun to legally get one. It doesn't take much to see that at least having some common sense restrictions are likely to have a positive impact. Granted, it'd probably only avert a tragedy every now and then, but that's better than nothing. Still, I would agree that given the intransigence of both sides in the gun debate, there are far more useful places to spend our energy. It's not a red herring, but it isn't worth the fight it'd take to only reduce the violence a bit.
@dumdristig @ThunderbowI want to be clear about something. While i do support gun control I don't think it will solve all our problems. because like dumdristig said anyone who believes that is naive. I support gun control because of the amount of gun violence and because it can lessen the amount of gun violence. (not get red of it) I would also like to point out that there are loads of responsible gun owners in america, some of whom even support gun control. Remember guns don't kill people, people kill people.
@tigercub123
sshipway
@tigercub123 Well, you know, we didn't say anything 'cause we didn't want to hurt your feelings, but...
@tigercub123 I take it you are not aware that the UK has a much higher violent crime rate than the US. Other countries like australia that have near total gun bans also have higher rates of home invasions and rape. Other countries like japan which have low crime rates accross the board no matter how you look at it also do not have a right against police searches or seizures. China has a low crime rate unless you understand that the chinese communist part is not technically the Chinese government but is responsible for innumerable human rights violations. It is difficult to compare apples to apples or one country to another because they are all too unique for accurate or easy comparison. Food for thought. Take out the top 10 cities with the strictest gun control in the US and the US rate of gun deaths drops significantly. This is not because more gun restrictions cause more gun deaths it is because the gun restrictions are a misconceived response to economic problems in these cities. America on the whole is a very well armed and very peaceful nation.
@thirsha42
Actually, that's only true if you use each country's definition of "violent crime," which includes FAR more crimes in the UK than in the US. If you compare the individual violent crimes, the US has WAY more murders, and all others are relatively close, but the US has slightly more on most. For example, burglary and rape are both more common in the US than in the UK (not the only ones, but considering you specifically called them out for Australia, I singled them out here). But a few others go the other way, and overall, if you exclude murders, it's so close that it could easily be considered a wash. It's clear, though, that there isn't a "much higher violent crime rate" in the UK, if you make any reasonable comparison. And while the number of assaults, robberies, rapes, etc is nearly the same, far more are killed in the US, so guns do have some impact.
And while it is difficult to compare across countries, especially if you try to go for all violent crimes, where gun ownership plays a negligible role either direction, there are a few patterns that one can see. Murders are the easiest to compare, and the are where gun ownership would certainly have the largest impact. And on that, the US has significantly higher rates than any country in Western Europe, by a factor of more than two. In fact, if you look at some charts, Norway is next behind the US (of countries in Western Europe, plus the US, Canada, and Japan, which are the fairest comparison nations), and that's only because the year used was the one with the terrorist attack that killed 77 people, which drove up the murder rate by a factor of nearly 4x. And yet it was still under half the US. No matter what year you use, more people are killed in the US than any other nation that is even close to our level of wealth and political freedoms. That much one can easily compare, and it is a fair comparison, when it's as overwhelming as that is. We are not necessarily a country that has more crime, but we are a country that kills more people than any country that is at all similar. We're not a "very peaceful nation."
What are the top 10 cities for strictest gun control? I don't know which cities you'd even be talking about, although I would guess that it would include cities like Chicago, New York, Washington DC, etc. They have large absolute numbers, because they are huge cities, but none of those three show up in the top 30 for per capita murders. So, while they might decrease the rate a bit, I don't know how much they would. Detroit, though, did make the list, although surprisingly not top five, given the utter economic collapse, and population drain, both of which tend to make per capita murder rates much higher. Yes, I will certainly agree that the economic problems in major urban areas is a FAR bigger cause of violence than gun ownership, and dealing with them would far outweigh any gun restrictions. But it's hardly true that the restrictions are completely misconceived, there are reasons to believe they have some positive impact, although city-level restrictions have less impact, given how thoroughly porous a city or state border is. It still has some impact, since for the type of spree killings that we've become famous for, it can make it a bit more difficult. However, on hardened, repeat criminals, which is where national regulations have more impact (as straw buyers can be prosecuted, and background checks actually work, unlike on many of our recent spree killers), city regulations would logically have almost no impact, since for them, traveling a little ways to buy isn't the hurdle it would be for someone who is just angry and lashing out.
ejay1118
@tigercub123 - As an American, I would like to take offense at that statement... but I really can't.
Doggo will 360nose-scope y'all noobs with a gun
Erzuq
@DanishPride oh the puns
You know, there's the 'It's illegal to bring your dog into a store unless its a service dog' law, but if you do bring a dog in, other people aren't allowed to ask you what your dog is servicing for. So, I could bring my dog into Wal-Mart (He isn't a licensed service dog) and no one would be allowed to ask why I need a service dog. So... America's laws are fucking stupid.
@nadia there's one part of america where it's illegal to have sex in any position other than missionary. fortunately, no one enforces it
@nadia
I do hear a lot about obnoxious dog owners buying used service dog vests for their pets, just to they can take them with them everywhere, regardless of hygienic concerns.
star3catcher
@nadia Kind of like how America hates dual citizenship and forces you to renounce your citizenship in other countries to be a citizen there, yet those countries in question can still see you as a citizen and thus provide you with dual citizenship, so it's ultimately pointless.
MarianneDos
@nadia They can't ask what it's a service dog FOR, but they can ask if it's a service dog, and you have to be able to prove it if needed.
SydneyCarton
I don't think this is what we meant when we said "attack dogs"...
KarlMarx-2
@SydneyCarton I saw a funny post once. Somebody said, "Are the sniffing dogs used by the police addicted to drugs, and that's how they find them?" Please get this person an education.
numbat
As an Australian & with quite a lot of strict gun laws here, I just don't understand why military-style weapons are allowed to be sold in the US. Why are utterly lethal weapons allowed in the hands of American people who aren't US military?
ApacheChief412
To put it as tersely as possible, there is a very different culture around guns in the United States. That, and guns are a significant part of our economy. Also, many Americans are fearful of what the government can do when it's populace doesn't have guns (not entirely without good reason, the American government is very powerful and somewhat corrupt).
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Quotes – After Babel by George Steiner
George Steiner has some interesting (some might say downright weird) ideas about language. He relates it to religion, politics, and the universe as a whole, and often seems to be insinuating that language can be a kind of controlling force. Here are a few choice quotes from After Babel.
‘Bad translations communicate too much.’
‘The underlying grammar of all human speech forms is a mapping of the world.’
‘Shakespeare at times seems to ‘hear’ inside a word or phrase the history of its future echoes.’
‘A translation from language A into language B will make tangible the implication of a third, active presence.’
‘A single genuine exception, in any language whether living or dead, can invalidate the whole concept of a grammatical universal.’
‘Those numinous letters whose combinations make up the seventy-two names of God may, if they are probed to the hidden core of meaning, reveal the cipher, the configurations of the cosmos.’
‘The cosmic Word cannot be found in any known tongue; language after Babel cannot lead back to it. The bruit of human voices, so mysteriously and mutually baffling, shuts out the sound of the Logos. There is no access except silence.’
‘National character is ‘imprinted on language’, and, reciprocally, bears the stamp of language. Hence the supreme importance of the health of language to that of a people; where language is corrupted or bastardized, there will be a corresponding decline in the character and fortunes of the body politics.’
‘Being erratic blocs, all languages share in common myopia; none can articulate the whole truth of God or give its speakers a key to the meaning of existence. Translators are men groping towards each other in a common mist… men misconstrue and pervert each other’s meanings. But there is a way out of darkness: what Boehme calls ‘sensualistic speech’ – the speech of instinctual, untutored immediacy, the language of Nature and of natural man as it was bestowed on the Apostles, themselves humble folk, at Pentecost. God’s grammar sounds through echoing Nature, if only we will listen.’
‘Almost all linguistic mythologies, from Brahmin wisdom to Celtic and North African lore, concurred in believing that original speech had shivered into seventy-two shards, or into a number that was a simple multiple of seventy-two. Which were the primal fragments? Surely if these could be identified, diligent search would discover in them lexical and syntactic traces of the lost language of Paradise, remnants equitably scattered by an incensed God and whose reconstruction, like that of a broken mosaic, would lead men back to the universal grammar of Adam. If they did exist, these clues would be deep-hidden. They ought to be ferreted out, as Kabbalists and adepts of Hermes Trismegistus sought to do, by words and syllables, by inverting words and applying to ancient names, particularly to the diverse nominations of the Creator, a calculus as intricate as that of chiromancers and astrologers. The stakes were very high. If man could break down the prison walls of scattered and polluted speech (the rubble of the smashed tower), he would again have access to the inner penetralia of reality. He would know the truth as he spoke it.’
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The Political Fix
The Political Fix: Coronavirus will put all of India’s state systems to the test
A weekly newsletter on Indian policy and politics from Scroll.in.
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
Mar 16, 2020 · 09:57 am
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The Big Story: Virality
Coronavirus is here. Covid-19, the disease caused by the new virus that has been declared a pandemic, has killed two and infected more than a 100 in India so far. The effects of the contagion are being felt all over the world, as entire countries shut down and brace for the impact of a disease that we can neither vaccinate against nor cure right now.
For a while, it seemed as if India might somehow be immune to the virus. In January, as China started to come to terms with the effects of the disease, India – like many other countries – was mostly observing from afar. Even as the infection spread through Italy, which eventually had to shut down the whole country as a preventive measure, India still had only a handful of cases.
Over the past two weeks, however, it has become clear that the disease is in the country, despite WhatsApp forwards and Op-Eds celebrating the Indian immune system and the germ-less interaction that is “namaste”.
India had 107 cases as of Monday, and the numbers are likely to keep going up. Last week, India took some dramatic moves: after politicians cancelled their Holi celebrations, India announced that it was suspending visas for all travellers into the country (with some exceptions) and recommended that Indians avoid all non-essential travel abroad.
As some newspapers put it, India quarantined itself.
Though the World Health Organisation has said that such travel restrictions do not have a major impact on the spread of the disease, what they might do is allow India to actually find out if the virus has been spreading domestically.
#COVID19 early signs of expansion in India. Italy cases grew from 9 (feb22) to 10.1K (mar11) over 18d at a daily growth of 47.72%. At > 40%, cases 2x every 2 days. India official cases grew from 6->74 in 8d at daily growth of 36.9%. Social distancing most effective - do it now! pic.twitter.com/x80TMnueza
— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) March 12, 2020
Despite the country’s well-earned reputation for fighting certain kinds of disease, whether it is polio, SARS or Nipah, state capacity is limited. Until now, India’s testing focused entirely on the assumption that the disease is “imported”: only people with a travel history, or those who came in contact with people who traveled, were being tested.
This means India was not testing enough and did not know if there was community transmission, which refers to the spread of the virus in the population beyond people who have traveled abroad recently. From this week, the Indian Council of Medical Research will begin looking for signs of community spread.
If, as many suspect, the virus has already spread among the population, the fear is that the numbers will suddenly spike, just as they did in Italy, Spain, the United States and South Korea.
NEW chart on coronavirus: we're now tracking death toll trajectories as well as cases
• Deaths in Italy & Spain now growing much faster than they did in China at same stage
• More deaths in Italy in last 24h than on any day in Wuhan
Live version here: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF pic.twitter.com/IM3jsHtCCy
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 15, 2020
This is why, as I argued last week, India ought to over-react with social distancing measures rather than regret it later.
Many authorities are doing so. Kerala, Delhi, Karnataka and some cities in Maharashtra have banned large gatherings, canceled sports events and encourage people to stay away from crowded areas. Other states are expected to follow suit.
The virus presents a three-fold challenge to India:
Healthcare: India spends a woefully small amount on health annually and its healthcare system reflects this. The country doesn’t have nearly enough hospital beds, never mind critical care ones, to deal with a massive crisis. After years of an uneven growth in private and public healthcare, the country may find it difficult to even coordinate a response.
State capacity: Indians don’t trust the state to take care of them, which is why stories will continue to turn up of people fleeing quarantine and isolation wards, which are often filthy. The loss of trust in the government over the recent Citizenship Act amendments adds to this challenge. Even if the country does want to impose social distancing, banning large gatherings, it will have a hard time enforcing such rules, not least because of the vast numbers of poor who must leave their homes to earn their daily wages.
Economy: Even if the country somehow manages to side-step a massive spike in infections, the economy is going to take a massive hit. It’s not as if things were good to start off with – we have been documenting the Great Indian Slowdown. But the virus is both a supply and demand shock, one that will reverberate through the entire economy. If infections and deaths do go up in India, things will get even worse.
The next few weeks will undoubtedly be spent tracking how this plays out. If India is lucky, some combination of state intervention and fortunate weather conditions will limit the spread of the virus.
Stay tuned for more coverage on this subject, and write to rohan@scroll.in if you have suggestions for what we should be doing in our Coronavirus reportage.
Recommendation Corner
We’re taking a break from recommendations by readers and friends of the newsletter this week so that I can put in a word for other newsletters that you might find useful. This is not a comprehensive list, but each of these would be a useful addition to your inbox:
Pranay Kotasthane’s Anticipating the Unintended is an excellent weekly public policy catch-up, with solid analysis and useful reading material.
This trio of daily newsletters for India, The Times Top 10, the Newsbury and Broadsheet, all have slightly different approaches to giving you information everyday, but are all very useful.
Praveen Krishnan’s Nutgraf on the Ken is an excellent look-back at the intersection of business and technology in India every week.
These two offer something fascinating everyday: Quartz’s Obsession is a deep-dive into one thing daily and the very popular Now I Know gives you superb little daily stories.
Casey Newton’s The Interface looks at where tech intersects with democracy, an area of focus that is impossible to look away from right now.
Finally, Ben Thompson’s Stratechery and Monday Note are both required reading if you’re interested in the world of media, tech and business.
Have recommendations for an article, book, podcast or academic paper that deals with Indian politics or policy? Send it to rohan@scroll.in. Previous recommendations from the Political Fix are collected here.
Madhya Pradesh crisis
Will the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh fall? As many as 22 Members of the Legislative Assembly from the party have resigned, a move that should give the Bharatiya Janata Party the numbers to cross the halfway mark. The governor has ordered a floor test on Monday, yet the Speaker of the Assembly has been non-committal about this.
If it does indeed go ahead on Monday, and the numbers remain as expected, then the BJP should be back in charge of the large North Indian state that it lost in December 2018. As I explained, what better way for the BJP to end its streak of poor state results than by winning one back without an election?
The new shape of the BJP government will be interesting. Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be in pole position to take over yet again, though his relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah has never been particularly smooth. And there is also the matter of demands from Congress turncoat Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Royal affair
The “Maharaj” has switched from Congress to BJP. (Here’s a short history of the royal Scindia family, if you’re unfamiliar). Op-Ed columnists and the Twitterati spent the week debating what his not-unexpected move meant.
Was it proof of the Congress falling apart? Or that Scindia is an opportunist with no ideology? Is it a reflection of the Congress-isation of the BJP? Or further evidence that no non-Gandhis can progress in the Congress? Is it an indictment of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to make the party more ideological? Or is it proof that this effort is working, shoving out those in the party who are partial to Hindutva? Will the loss of Madhya Pradesh push the Congress to sort out its leadership questions?
We’ll examine some of these in the coming week, but read this piece by Suhas Palshikar:
“This is an overdue development — and it is not just about one leader quitting the party. A full-blown internal war needs to explode in the party. More than leadership crisis, it is an identity crisis and that can be solved only through a painful process of “in-fighting” and possible fragmentation.”
J&K what? Rajini who?
How often does a new political party immediately get a “welcome” from the Bharatiya Janata Party? Jammu and Kashmir’s new Apni Party was launched this week by founder Altaf Bukhari, who soon after met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the future of the former state. As Ipsita Chakravarty writes, the party will have a hard time being seen as anything other than a Delhi puppet.
Meanwhile, actor Rajinikanth finally announced vague political plans this week, without actually launching a party, yet claiming he would give tickets to “good people” and was not looking to be chief minister of Tamil Nadu, where elections are due next year.
CAA, three months later
Three months after the government passed the discriminatory Citizenship Act amendments, sparking off protests across the country that was answered with brutal police action, we take a look at three key aspects:
First, Shoaib Daniyal points out all the problems with the law that make it essentially unworkable for anything other than posturing.
Next, people keep asking: The BJP has promised that no Indian Muslim need worry about the Citizenship Act so why are they still protesting? Because Modi and Shah’s well-earned reputation for being unpredictable (see: Demonetisation, Article 370) means nobody takes them at their word.
Finally, Shoaib Daniyal also looks at how states that are opposed to the National Register for Citizens are falling back on the 2010 format of the National Population Register as a way out. It won’t be enough.
Poll toon
Go Corona pic.twitter.com/YS2WhPdrAQ
— Cartoonist Alok (@caricatured) March 13, 2020
Scroll.in Ground Report
Anjali Mody takes you on a tour of riot-scarred North East Delhi through photos:
“During the three days of violence in North East Delhi starting on February 24, at least 14 mosques and a Sufi dargah were burnt by Hindutva vigilantes…
Not one of the many Hindu temples, big and small, in the entire area was reported to have been attacked.”
You should go read all of the stories our reporters have done on the violence in Delhi, and for background, refer to our explainer that puts together everything that we now know about the violence in Delhi.
It takes money to send reporters out into tricky territory to bring back the news that the mainstream ignores.You can help ensure Scroll.in is able to bring you more reportage by either contributing to the Scroll Reporting Fund or, if you’re outside the country, subscribing to Scroll+.
Linking out
Does the Indo-US relationship now rest more heavily on interests than on values? Alyssa Ayres, who oversaw South Asia under the Obama administration, writes in Foreign Affairs that the two countries continue to remain close, but on different terms than before.
YES Bank’s collapse makes public sector banks seem safer. They’re not. Vivek Kaul on Newslaundry explains the cost of relying on the State Bank of India to mop up all the messes of the sector, and how that means we are just kicking the can down the road.
Was an Indian rights activist’s computer hacked to frame him? Martand Kaushik and Anjaneya Sivan in the Caravan found malware on the hard drive of Rona Wilson – an activist who was jailed in a case that appears to be retribution for anti-government critics – that allowed for remote access.
How do I disinfect my home? My phone? What is quarantine like? This thread from the Newsminute is a great collection of links of their coverage of the Coronavirus.
India’s employment figures deteriorated significantly over 2019-20. Mahesh Vyas of the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy writes about how the numbers make it clear that investment prospects for the coming year are bleak.
Can’t make this up
You have probably been inducted into the world of Coronavirus songs. Vietnam’s health department put out an extremely popular one, which quickly turned into a TikTok dance challenge. Singapore arrived with its usual cheesiness, with a rap offering called “Wash Yo Hands.”
But let me direct you to two Indian creations.
First there’s Punjabi singer Yanboy who compared himself to the killer virus in a song called, “Yaar Tera Coronavirus.” There are also Odia and Bhojpuri songs that reference the disease.
A few days ago, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale stood along with the Chinese consul in Mumbai and led chants of “Go Corona, Corona go”, as a sort of performance. Or an appeal. Or a precaution. It isn’t quite clear.
So naturally, someone remixed that with rather catchy trance beats. Here is “Go Corona”, the trance mix.
The Political Fix: Poll results show that BJP has failed to upend the politics of Jammu and Kashmir
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Skill Bites
Ken Hames
Ken grew up in a farming community and then joined the Army where he spent 30 years learning about leadership and teams. Sixteen years in the SAS taught him that high performance and teamwork is derived from constant effort and reflection and having joined, as he calls it, the more dangerous world or civilian life, he seeks to impart that knowledge and experience into the business world.
Ken has a love of the great outdoors and tries where possible to integrate elemental experiences into his facilitation and coaching. He is passionate about ‘leadership for all’ as a driver to create outstanding working environments while also committed to giving leaders the right tools to be as effective as possible.
Ken’s passion is getting to grips with business improvement and helping leaders make sense of complexity.
Last book you read…
“Underground Adventures” by Dave Haigh and John Cordingly – terrifying tales of the historical navigation of the labyrinth of underground ‘potholes’ and ‘caves’ in the Yorkshire dales –it’s hairy stuff particularly the cave dive called ’dead man’s handshake’.
Your heroes include…
Mother Theresa for her love, Violet Szarbo (SOE) for her courage and my Dad who fought years of post-traumatic stress from too much ‘war’ and three bullet wounds!
Favourite line from a film…
“A man has just got to know his limitations” Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry.
Best day at work (so far)…
Watching leadership teams break down barriers and move towards clarity and unified purpose.
Who make you laugh…
My wife who always leaves for the airport with her case still on the driveway!
What’s on your desk…
Paper diary (steam navigation!) and loads of mail I have not opened and a compass.
How do you deal with stress…
Go and climb a really difficult rock face – its resets the level playing field!
3 people you’d like to have dinner with (dead or alive)…
Judi Dench, Barack Obama and Stephen Hawking.
Favourite place…
Tissington in the Derbyshire Dales where I learnt the art of survival.
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In 1957 Buddy Holly emerged out of Texas as the new wind of first, rockabilly, then rock, full stop, going directly to Number One with a series of refined international hits such as "Peggy Sue." The Beatles built their early style learning his tunes, and the first Rolling Stones hit was a Buddy Holly cover version. Bruno Blum here tells the story of a legend among legends: a singer whose 'hiccups' signature made his style inimitable. A lead guitarist and a brilliant melody composer, he was a revelation - promised for a long career at the top. Sixteen months later, his plane crashed, killing him on the spot at the age of twenty-two.
Label: FREMEAUX HERITAGE
Indispensable Buddy Holly / Various (3pk)
Artist: Indispensable Buddy Holly / Various 3pk
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On December 1, 1990 Galaxie 500 played their last European show, in Copenhagen. The show was recorded and released as the live album named for the city. On the 20th anniversary of the release of Copenhagen the album, a special edition is being released by the band for Record Store Day 2020. The etching on the album, and a new t-shirt being sold at record stores on 4/18 features artwork from tattoo artist Matt Crocker.
SIDE A: 1 Decomposing Trees 2 Fourth of July 3 Summertime
SIDE B: 1 Sorry 2 When Will You Come Home 3 Spook
SIDE C: 1 Listen, the Snow is Falling 2 Here She Comes Now 3 Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste
SIDE D Etching
Label: 20/20/20
Copenhagen [RSD Drops Aug 2020]
Artist: Galaxie 500
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2. Fourth of July
3. Summertime
5. When Will You Come Home
6. Spook
7. Listen, the Snow Is Falling
8. Here She Comes Now
9. Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
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King Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus Eryngii)
The King Oyster mushroom, otherwise known as Pleurotus Eryngii, boasts a meaty flavor and holds a lot of texture. Its distinctive trumpet-like shape is made up of a brown cap and a white stem that can grow to be 6 to 8 inches long and up to 2 inches wide. A single mushroom can even weigh well over one pound, making the King Oyster the largest of the Oyster genus. Other names for the species include King Trumpet, French Horn, King Eryngii, and Royal Trumpet.
Native to the Mediterranean regions as well as parts of Asia and North Africa, the King Oyster mushroom is naturally grown on the roots of hardwood trees and emerges from the soil. While other Oyster varieties produce shelf-life formations, King Oysters maintain a defined stem with a round and stout cap. Fruiting time depends on both temperature and humidity with ideal conditions sitting at a temperature of 15 to 18 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 80 to 90 percent. With proper growing techniques and cultivation practices, these mushrooms can be grown both inside and outside at all times of year.
The timing of the harvest largely depends on the preference of the cultivator. Younger mushrooms typically offer more desirable textures and flavors while older mushrooms provide the prized large stems that are characteristic of King Oysters. These stems are special in that they are less fibrous than those of Shiitake mushrooms and Portobello mushrooms, making them particularly pleasant to eat. When harvesting King Oysters, the mushroom is removed at the base of the stem and stored in clusters to increase shelf life. Fresh mushrooms keep for up to 10 days in the fridge while dried mushrooms keep for 6 months.
Given their chewy taste, resilient texture, and grand size, King Oysters are valued by chefs and are a favorite addition to many recipes. These hearty mushrooms are highly versatile and can be prepared whole or in smaller pieces depending on their intended culinary use. Preparation methods range from braising and broiling to grilling and sautéing, and the cooking time varies accordingly. Given their meaty texture and thick consistency, these earthy mushrooms are great meat substitutes in vegetarian and vegan cooking, replacing ingredients such as pulled pork, squid, and scallops. Additional uses include Asian stir-fry recipes, barbecue skewers, vegetable stews, and pasta sauces - Matsutake mushrooms can be substituted in many of these.
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Bureaucrat Beat: Tax Pain, Divide and Fail, and Crowe Man!
By News Staff on April 17, 2009 in Bureaucrat Beat
We don’t know about you, but we in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom find payment of taxes a painful experience these days. The agony seeps in with thoughts of how our government has spent our money in the past several years.
We work our fingers to the bone on our manual typewriters while Haliburton rakes in billions in no-bid contracts in Iraq where their former division, KBR, holds responsibility for improperly grounded water pumps in military showers. At least a dozen soldiers died from electrocution.
The depth of unethical spending and behaviors practically paralyzed our hands as we wrote out tax payments this year.
Let’s go to the movies to raise our spirits! The Disney people have a new gimmick. They have promised that Disney will plant a tree for every moviegoer who views the new eco-documentary, “Earth” by Disneynature. We really like that, considering that the Owens Valley will have lost 200 more trees after all of the sidewalk projects are done.
More businesses have closed their doors at the Village at Mammoth. This has grown into a vortex of sadness. Remember the businesses who continue there and the fine products they offer. Many of them have come up with creative ideas and great deals to keep the business wheels whirring.
A warning light has been flashing for years in Inyo County, but officials have turned a blind eye. Inyo has refused to enforce the Inyo-LA Water Agreement, failed to insist on a workable groundwater enforcement plan and now water supplies have dwindled. Officials’ fear of DWP and selfish financial interests have left us all vulnerable.
On a national level, we became vulnerable as our country dove wildly into humungous debt in the past. One of our website readers, Jason, felt that the TaxDayTeaParty participants who protested in Bishop “didn’t lift a finger during the last 8 years when the budget deficit/ federal debt increased sharply.” This commenter also said, “I think it’s best that people feel free to disagree, but party allegiance has become too important. Allegiance ought to be strongest toward a common good. Derision for the sake of division isn’t a healthy deal.” Wow! We like that. And, by the way, Gallup polls released this week found that 53% of Americans approve of the expansion of the U.S. government to help fix the economy. The same poll found that 48% think they’re paying the right amount of taxes. The other side of the Tea Party.
We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom have to agree with the reader who said ridicule of one party or another for the sake of dividing people doesn’t cut it. When we watch TV news on some channels, we have to look away, turn it off or choose to gaze out the window instead. Loud, hateful blame games do no good. We prefer careful analysis and cooperation. Blame games usually mask the real motive of greed or lust for power.
The latest weight loss program? Airlines that will charge obese passengers for two seats.
Movie reviewers call actor Russell Crowe “overweight and disheveled” in his new movie, “State of Play”. Then, the reviewers quickly explain that Crowe portrays an investigative news reporter, as if we’re all dumpy and a bit chubby!! The movie mockers also claim that U.S. audiences don’t like highbrow adult drama anymore as they flock to simplistic, no brainer films. Hey, maybe so, but come on – an hour and a half with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck! How bad could it be?
Of course, remember Depression Era movies. The audiences in the 30s liked musicals, comedies and “The Wizard of Oz”! Weary of thinking about our troubles, maybe we need super-silly escapes. We must admit that our own Bureaucrat Beat meanderings sometimes fall into depressive analyses. That’s when we turn to Bob Todd and Catherine Hurdle who deliver the funniest repartee around. Listeners proclaim that Bob and Catherine drive them to laugh out loud. Even in the dark, windowless climes of the newsroom, we chuckle audibly during 10:20 Trivia.
But, we will probably check out the Crowe man, anyway.
Want to comment on plans to demolish the Cottonwood Plaza in Bishop? City officials say you will have your chance over a 30-day period that will start in a week or two. Stay-tuned. We’ll let you know.
And, in Mammoth Lakes, the VP of Real Estate for Mammoth Mountain, Jim Smith, speaks candidly and down to earth. He talked about the “Perfect Storm” in real estate and retail that hit the Village at Mammoth and many others. What do you do with a storm? Ride it out with as much rain gear as possible.
We’re going to go confer with one another now over the gear part. More later.
With that, this is Benett Kessler signing off for Bureaucrat Beat where we await your word on our lives in the Eastern Sierra and beyond.
Snowpack for 08-09 Comes in Low
First Time Home Buyer Help For Bishop?
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Day Care Provider Will Appear in Court
By News Staff on October 13, 2010 in Past Posts
Long-time day care provider in Mammoth Lakes, 56-year-old Lupe Almaguer, was scheduled to appear via video in Mammoth Lakes court for an arraignment on Wednesday.
Lupe Almaguer, 56
Last week, Mammoth Police Chief Dan Watson issued a news release that said that Almaguer was booked on five counts of Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Child under 14. Officers allege that Almaguer committed crimes of sexual abuse on two children in his care who are now adults.
The District Attorney’s office and our news agency have received many calls and communications from members of the Mammoth public on this case. Chief Investigator for the DA, Wade McCammond, urges members of the public who may have important information on this case to contact him at 760-932-5553.
Contrary to rumors in Mammoth Lakes, Mr. Almaguer remains in the Mono County Jail. His bail remains $500,000. Mono Judge Stan Eller has disqualified himself on this case which has now been assigned to Inyo Superior Court Judge Dean Stout.
Investigator McCammond said that all involved are moving as quickly as they can with the victims and the due process of the defendant in mind. That arraignment hearing was scheduled for Mammoth Superior Court at 1:30pm Wednesday.
Bureaucrat Beat: Foreclosure Fairs, Creaky Internet, and Freedom
Highlands Mobile Home Park Secures Enforceable Speed Limit
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Yosemite Search Winds Down
By News Staff on August 6, 2007 in Past Posts
After a week of major search operations in Yosemite, Park Service officials report that they have scaled back their efforts to find a missing 80 year old backpacker.
The search for 80 year old Ottorina Bonaventura begana week ago Monday when the backpacker separated from her group and didn’t return the Vogelsang High Sierra camp where she was staying.
According to park officials, about 150 people, using helicopters, dogs, and ground teams searched the area.
Adrianne Freeman with Yosemite National Park reports that the search area included over 100 square miles of rugged wilderness terrain ranging in elevation from 8,000 to over 10,000 feet above sea level near the Vogelsang High Sierra camp.
One searcher that we spoke to was surprised that the missing woman was not found given the number of people in the area looking for her. The search isn’t over, but the major effort is. The plan is to continue the search on a limited basis using local ground searchers and an investigations unit.
Freeman reports that the change in search strategy came after a review of continuing risk exposure against the probability of locating Ottorina Bonaventura.
Yosemite National Park continues to investigate this incident. Anyone with information or should contact the park service investigators at 209/372-0778.
Floods and Poor Drainage in Mammoth
Critical Habitat For Sierra Bighorn Sheep
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Four dead as rival protesters clash in southern Iraq
NASIRIYAH: Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in Iraq’s south on Friday (Nov 27), medics said, in clashes between anti-government protesters and supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
The violence erupted as tens of thousands of Sadr supporters hit the streets of Baghdad and the southern city of Nasiriyah in a show of force as preparations ramp up for June parliamentary elections.
Their turnout overshadowed the rival youth-dominated movement that had erupted in October 2019 but had petered out in recent months due to geopolitical tensions and the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi has called for early polls to take place in June 2021 – nearly a year ahead of schedule — to fulfil a key demand of last year’s protest movement, which also included Sadrists.
On Friday, followers of the cleric attacked a tent camp of anti-government protesters in Nasiriyah’s Habboubi Square, said Mohammad al-Khayyat, a leader of the anti-government movement.
“Sadrists armed with guns and pistols came to try to clear our tents. We fear that more violence could take place,” Khayyat told AFP.
Medical sources told AFP that the violence had left four people dead and wounded 51 others, nine of them by gunfire.
“The security forces clearly failed to prevent armed gangs from storming Habboubi Square,” wrote Asaad al-Naseri, an ex-Sadrist based Nasiriyah.
In the evening, clashes continued with an AFP correspondent reporting that many of the demonstrators’ tents had been set on fire while chaos reigned around the square.
Authorities meanwhile imposed an overnight curfew in Nasiriyah and sacked the city’s police chief.
SHOW OF FORCE IN BAGHDAD
Nasiriyah was a major hub for the anti-government protest movement that erupted in October 2019.
It was also the site of one of the bloodiest incidents of the uprising nearly one year ago on Nov 28, when more than three dozen died in protest-related violence.
The deaths sparked outrage across Iraq, including by the country’s top Shiite authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and prompted the resignation of then prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi.
Kadhemi’s plan to hold early elections is seen as an effort to reach out to protesters.
The polls will take place under a new electoral law agreed by parliament that will see district sizes reduced and votes for individual candidates replacing list-based ballots.
Smoke rises during clashes between anti-government protesters and supporters of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Nassiriya, Iraq on Nov 27, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Dhahi)
Most observers expect a delay of at least a few months while political parties prepare their campaigns, but experts say the new system is likely to benefit Sadr and his candidates.
Sadrists had already won big in the May 2018 vote with 54 of parliament’s 329 seats, granting him the biggest single bloc.
In a tweet this week, Sadr said he expected major wins in the new elections and would push for the next prime minister to be a member of his movement for the first time.
He also called for a protest on Friday, prompting tens of thousands to turn out in Baghdad, and in other Iraqi cities including Al-Hillah and Basra in the south.
In the capital’s Tahrir Square, they gathered shoulder-to-shoulder despite the novel coronavirus pandemic for the noon Muslim prayers and spilled out into the surrounding streets.
‘WE CALL THE SHOTS’
In a sermon read out by the cleric’s representative, the firebrand leader called for a “Sadrist majority” in parliament.
Sadr is very rarely seen in public and did not attend the rally.
“This is a protest against the corrupt, the oppressors, who have driven Iraq to brink of bankruptcy, to the brink of the abyss,” said Talal al-Saadi, a cleric who was among those protesting on Friday.
Supporters of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are seen during clashes with anti-government protesters in Nassiriya, Iraq Nov 27, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Dhahi)
Iraq is facing its most dire fiscal crisis in decades following a collapse in oil prices earlier this year and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the government unable to pay public sector salaries on time.
On Friday, Sadr supporters carried Iraq’s national tricolour and posters of the cleric, including some that evoked his past as a militia leader and showed him in camouflage.
Volunteers dressed in light blue – the movement’s colour – sprayed the crowd with disinfectant.
“Obeying Sadr’s call, we’re making a stand that the whole world will see – we don’t want criminals or corrupt people in Iraq,” said protester Ahmad Rahim, with an Iraqi flag draped around his shoulders.
“We call the shots,” he added.
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Esper Millennial Cooling in Context
A new paper in Nature Climate Change from Esper et al. (2012) develops a 2,000-year local summer temperature reconstruction based on 587 high-precision maximum latewood density (MXD) tree ring series from northern Scandinavia, using living and subfossil pine trees from 14 lakes and 3 lakeshore sites in the region (>65° N). The results are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1a: The Scandanavian summer temperature reconstruction extends back to 138 BC highlighting extreme cool and warm summers (blue curve), cool and warm periods on decadal to centennial scales (black curve, 100-year spline filter) and a long-term cooling trend (dashed red curve; linear regression fit to the reconstruction over the 138 BC–AD 1900 period). Estimation of uncertainty of the reconstruction (grey area) integrates the validation standard error (±2 × root mean square error) and bootstrap confidence estimates. Figure 1b: Regression of the MXD chronology (blue curve) against summer temperatures (red curve) over the 1876–2006 common period. Correlations between MXD and instrumental data are 0.77 (full period), 0.78 (1876–1941 period), and 0.75 (1942–2006 period). Figure 2 from Esper et al. (2012)
The reaction from climate contrarians in the popular media has been predictable; for example, they have made various outlandish claims about the study somehow debunking global warming and suggested that other climate scientists will have to "poo-poo" the results of Esper et al. Unfortunately, Jan Esper himself fueled this climate contrarian confusion by exaggerating the impact of his study's results in a press release, where he proclaimed:
"Our results suggest that the large-scale climate reconstruction shown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate this long-term cooling trend over the past few millennia."
However, as we discuss below, this conclusion does not follow from Esper et al. (2012) for several key reasons.
Putting Esper et al. in Proper Context
Most importantly, as noted above, the Esper et al. temperature reconstruction is a local one (from northern Scandanavia), and of summer temperatures. The IPCC on the other hand focused on annual Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions; thus the Esper et al. results are not directly comparable to those discussed in the IPCC report.
In another Arctic regional temperature study, Kaufmann et al. (2009) discussed the same Arctic summer cooling over the past several millennia noted by Esper et al., which they find is primarily due to the Earth's elliptical orbit:
"The millennial-scale cooling trend in our temperature reconstruction correlates with the reduction in summer insolation, which was primarily driven by the precession of the solstices around Earth’s elliptical orbit. Over the past 2000 years, summer (JJA) insolation at the top of the atmosphere decreased by about 6 W m−2 at 65°N. The forcing was weaker at lower latitude, especially for the early summer."
Kaufmann et al. suggested that a decrease in incoming solar radiation in the Arctic due to the Earth's orbital changes was amplified by various feedbacks like expanding Arctic sea ice and increased snowfall, both of which increase the local surface albedo, reflecting more sunlight and causing additional cooling.
In fact, Esper et al. note that the orbital forcing and feedbacks identified by Kaufmann et al. are a key difference between Arctic and Northern Hemisphere temperatures:
"the [orbital] forcing and radiative feedbacks decrease towards equatorial regions."
As noted by the climate scientists at RealClimate,
"insolation forcing is near zero at tropical latitudes, and long-term cooling trends are not seen in non-tree ring, tropical terrestrial proxy records such as the Lake Tanganyika (tropical East Africa) record (Tierney et al, 2010)"
Figure 2: Lake Surface Temperature from Lake Tanganyika palaeorecord for the past 1,500 years, measured in core KH1 (red line) and MC1 (dark red line) with 95% error bars (orange shading).
Thus we should expect annual Northern Hemisphere reconstructions - which include data from both the Arctic and equatorial regions - to exhibit less of an orbitally-caused cooling trend than reconstructions of summer Arctic temperatures like those in the Kaufmann and Esper studies. In an interview with Bud Ward, one of the co-authors of Esper et al., Robert Wilson noted:
"Our paper is for northern Scandinavian summer temperatures so extrapolating to large scale annual temperatures is not really correct."
Esper's Divergence Non-Problem
As the RealClimate post also notes, perhaps the most useful contribution of Esper et al. lies in the fact that they may have resolved the so-called "divergence problem." This refers to the fact that in some tree rings, mostly from high northern latitudes like those examined by Esper et al., temperatures appear to have declined since about 1960, whereas we know from thermometer measurements that real-world temperatures have actually increased over this period. However, the MXD data in Esper et al. appear to track instrumental temperatures quite well even in recent decades, as illustrated in Figure 1b above. Note the strong correlations between MXD and instrumental temperature data in the Figure 1b caption.
MXD vs. TRW
Esper's claims that he has identified a shortcoming in Northern Hemisphere millennial temperature reconstructions stem from the fact that tree ring width (TRW) temperature reconstructions exhibit less of a long-term cooling trend than their maximum latewood density (MXD) reconstruction. Thus Esper suggests that including TRW data will lead to an underestimate of the long-term Northern Hemisphere cooling trend.
However, the RealClimate post notes that this hypothesis is not borne out in the data. For example, Moberg et al. (2005) created a Northern Hemisphere millennial temperature reconstruction without using any tree ring data, and it has among the smallest long-term cooling trends of all such reconstructions (just -0.06°C per millennium from 0 to 1900 AD, as opposed to the -0.31°C per millennium trend in Esper et al.). The long-term annual Northern Hemisphere cooling trends in Ljungqvist et al. (2010) (-0.18°C per millennium from 0 to 1900 AD) and Mann et al. (2008) (-0.19°C per millennium from 300 to 1900 AD) are similar to but less than the summer northern latitude trend in Esper et al., as we would expect.
Another Hockey Own Goal
There is a key point that often gets lost in discussions about 'hockey sticks' - larger long-term natural variability is inconsistent with a low climate sensitivity. Low climate sensitivity is the lynchpin for all climate contrarianism; therefore, arguing for a highly variable climate is a contrarian own goal (meaning they accidentally score against their own team).
Climate contrarians tend to tie themselves up in knots trying to argue that the hockey stick is broken and the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today. We'd be better off if temperatures were relatively stable and invariable as in the original 1999 'hockey stick,' which would indicate that the climate is relatively insensitive to CO2 and other forcings, which in turn would suggest that we have relatively more time to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions before we're hit by the really nasty consequences of climate change.
We also need to bear in mind that the relative absolute global temperatures of Medieval and Roman times as compared to current temperatures are not all that important. In all likelihood we have already matched or exceeded the peak average global temperature during those prior periods, but far more important is the current rate of warming, which greatly exceeds anything in the prior several thousand years. Even if we hadn't quite yet matched peak Medieval temperatures, we would certainly blow past them very soon, with several degrees more global warming likely to come this century. Current temperatures are not the concern - everybody involved would be happy if we could maintain the current average global temperature. It's the rapid rate of warming that concerns climate scientists.
Esper et al. - A Valuable but Overstated Contribution
In the end, Esper et al. did produce a valuable result by potentially resolving the divergence problem and identifying the apparent shortcomings of TRW data. However, it's also important not to overstate the relevance of the study's results, which do not appear to have identified any significant shortcomings in annual Northern Hemisphere millennial temperature reconstructions, and certainly have not undermined the robust human-caused global warming theory.
Posted by dana1981 on Saturday, 21 July, 2012
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Welcome to the 14th day of December, which also sees the 14th installment of our SSFC Advent Calendar feature.
Throughout the first 24 days of the month we will attempt to spread a bit of festive cheer, and today’s feature is kicked off by Wouter Verstraaten, whose message for fans can be viewed via the tweet below.
Allow Wouter Verstraaten to introduce Day 1⃣4⃣ of the #SSFCAdventCalendar as he delivers a festive message for you all!
He also asks the latest question as part of our comp to win a mascot package! Submit your answers after question 4⃣ on Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/EyOwWgvDqP
— South Shields FC (@SouthShieldsFC) December 14, 2020
Over the first 24 days of December, you will be able to enter a range of competitions to win prizes courtesy of the club and several of its sponsors.
The latest item up for grabs is a South Shields FC mascot package.
To enter this competition, supporters must wait until four questions have been asked, with the fourth to be published on Wednesday. Supporters will have until 9am the following day to submit all of their four answers together via email to info@southshieldsfc.co.uk.
The first question, asked by Ross Coombe yesterday, was: Ross Coombe made his league debut for Shields against Radcliffe last December. What was the final score that day?
Today’s question is: Which famous Dutch club did Wouter Verstraaten spend most of his junior football days with?
Remember, don’t submit your answers until the fourth question has been published on Wednesday.
We are today launching another competition in partnership with our sponsor Barbour.
Up for grabs is a Women’s Mullein or Men’s Penton Quilted Jacket, and to enter the competition you must do one of the following by 1pm on Wednesday…
TO ENTER VIA TWITTER:
1. Like and retweet the below tweet
2. Make sure you are following the following accounts on Twitter: @SouthShieldsFC, @SSFCFoundation, @SSFCAcademy, @Barbour
📢 COMPETITION!
Win a Women's Mullein or Men's Penton Quilted Jacket from Barbour in the #SSFCAdventCalendar!
1. Like and RT this post
2. Follow @SouthShieldsFC @SSFCFoundation @SSFCacademy @Barbour
One winner will be selected from all Twitter and Facebook entries! pic.twitter.com/KB1MYwUqG4
TO ENTER VIA FACEBOOK:
1. Like, share and tag three of your friends on the competition posted on the South Shields FC Facebook page on Monday morning.
2. Make sure you like the following pages on Facebook: South Shields FC, SSFC Foundation, Barbour
We would like to thank Barbour for their continued support.
We are also now highlighting our fourth charity of the month, the Customs House.
The Customs House is synonymous with South Shields as the breeding ground of some of the area’s brightest entertainment talent, and offers entertainment to all.
To find out more about the Customs House, click here. To donate financially, click here.
Over the month, donations will also be encouraged towards the club’s charitable Foundation, which works with hundreds of children each week and does such fantastic work within our community.
To support the Foundation with a donation, please click here.
Thank you for your continued support and keep an eye out for Day Fifteen tomorrow!
Wouter Verstraaten has told of his delight after putting pen to paper on a new contract at South Shields.
The Dutchman made 14 appearances for the Mariners last season after joining from Consett in January.
The PSV Eindhoven Academy graduate impressed in a number of roles and attracted the attention of a number of clubs higher up the football pyramid, but has opted to commit his future to Shields after extensive discussions.
Verstraaten said: “I am very happy to have signed this deal, as it took a while before we finally got it done.
“I am very pleased that South Shields have shown their confidence in me during these unprecedented times.
“Ever since I joined the team in January, I have felt the professionalism and will to win this league.
“That this didn’t happen last season was obviously a very disappointing moment for the whole club, but I feel that we are very motivated to make things right next season.
“That is one of the many reasons I have signed with South Shields.”
The coronavirus pandemic has meant that the Shields squad has not been together since the memorable 5-3 victory over FC United of Manchester on March 14th.
Motivation among the players remains high, though, and Verstraaten is eagerly awaiting the day football returns and he can play in front of the Mariners Park faithful again.
He added: “I feel that it is the right place for me to grow as a player and improve in areas that will help me perform to a higher level.
“It is a pleasure to play in front of such a big crowd every week. There are not many places where the stage is set every weekend like it is at South Shields.
“I’m currently back in the Netherlands staying fit and spending some time with my family and I’m in regular contact with the management, but we just have to wait to see when the Government allows us to get back together.”
The club’s full retained list following the completion of the 2019-20 season will be announced on Tuesday morning.
South Shields take on Morpeth Town for the first time this season as the two sides go head-to-head in an eagerly anticipated clash on Tuesday.
Both clubs have risen to the BetVictor Northern Premier Division from the Northern League over recent years and come into this game highly motivated to strengthen their promotion ambitions.
Shields are a point clear at the top following Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Stalybridge Celtic while Morpeth are 14th, 10 points adrift of the play-off places but with a number of games in hand on all those above them.
A large following of Mariners supporters is expected at Craik Park on the club’s first visit to Morpeth since the 2016-17 season, when Shields triumphed 4-0 in Northumberland in both the Northern League and FA Vase.
A stern test is expected against a Morpeth side which returned to winning ways on Saturday with a 3-1 victory against Radcliffe.
Shields are looking to improve on their performance in Saturday’s draw at Stalybridge and joint manager Lee Picton is confident they will turn in an impressive display.
He said: “I think everyone knows what kind of game it will be and we’re ready for it.
“We’ll give a good account of ourselves, I know that.
“It could potentially be a springboard for us to get right back up to where we need to be between now and the end of the season.”
Shields could come up against a number of familiar faces on Tuesday, with Carl Finnigan and Wayne Phillips – both members of their 2016-17 title-winning squad – now among Morpeth’s ranks, along with former Mariners defender Michael Turner.
Wouter Verstraaten is one of the Shields players who haven’t yet tasted this fixture, but he is excited about the prospect of playing a part.
The Dutchman made his first league start for the club in Saturday’s draw and marked it with a goal from midfield.
He said: “Local derbies always bring something extra so I’ve really been looking forward to this one.
“The fans are amazing at every game and I can only imagine that they’re going to be absolutely amazing in this match.
“We feel like we’re in a good position heading into this game after Saturday.
“It didn’t feel like a good result straight afterwards but when we looked at some of the other results a point wasn’t the worst outcome.
“We’re still top of the league and that’s where we want to be at the end of the season.”
Shields will be without the injured Luke Daly and Ross Coombe on Tuesday and there are doubts over the availability of Jon Shaw, Blair Adams and Gary Brown.
Kick-off at Craik Park – which has a postcode of NE61 2YX – is at 7.45pm and admission prices are £8 for adults, £6 for concessions and £2 for children.
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Rocket Lab’s first mission of 2021 will deploy a small clandestine satellite for OHB, a German aerospace company. The company’s light-class Electron rocket is set for launch from New Zealand at 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 GMT) Saturday.
A small communications satellite built by the German company OHB — a payload so secret that no one has officially disclosed its name or end user — is set to ride a Rocket Lab Electron launcher into orbit Saturday from New Zealand.
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In a pair of mission extensions, NASA has cleared the way for more seismic observations on Mars with the robotic InSight lander and approved plans for the Juno spacecraft to alter its orbit and perform close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, Ganymede, and the volcanic moon Io.
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Spectacular Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #254
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Title: Spectacular Spider-Man (Vol. 1)
Not long ago, during Spider-Man's fight with the son of Kraven the Hunter, Norman Osborn commissioned Dr. Jonas Mueller (a.k.a. Professor Angst) to conduct an "experiment." Guess who's the lab rat?
Story 'Angst!'
Summary: Dr. Angst, Norman Osborn
Plot: J.M. DeMatteis
Writer: Tom DeFalco
Pencils: Luke Ross
Inker: Dan Green
Cover Art: Luke Ross
Articles: Doctor Angst, Green Goblin I (Norman Osborn)
The issue begins with poor Spidey slumped over in a metal chair with wires trailing from practically every part of his body. According to Professor Angst, who sits nearby with his bodyguard Sir, the device to which Spider-Man is connected amplifies his anxiety to the point where it "thrusts through your mind like a flaming dagger." But, Angst's employer being the caring soul that he is, Angst announces that Spider-Man will not die, just have the limits of his endurance tested.
While writhing in agony, Peter's mind returns to earlier events. After turning in some photos from an AIDS hospice, Norman Osborn can't help taunting him about the death of Joey Z, which Spider-Man is blamed for. This is interrupted by Joe Robertson storming through the news room, looked for Jonah. A few seconds later, about enough time for a man to yell "I quit!", Robbie re-emerges and makes a public announcement to that effect, despite Peter's effort to convince him otherwise. Furious, Peter then charges into Jonah's office only to get kicked out. Jonah's bluster immediately crumbles though, and as he opens a drawer containing a gun and an ammo clip he mutters: "This is your fault, Osborn ... but the day is coming when justice will be served!"
After a quick shot of the present, in which Spider-Man is comforted by the vision of Aunt May, the scene returns to the newsroom. Mary Jane has arrived, ready for their lunch date. They mention how Aunt Anna took MJ's revelation that Peter was Spider-Man (she didn't believe it) but are interrupted by Ben Urich, who has an appointment with Mr. Osborn. Urich clearly expects to be fired for the book he wrote exposing Norman as the Green Goblin, but Osborn instead tells Urich that he wants him to expose the "true" Goblin and clear his name.
Another brief interlude ensues as Spider-Man is pushed beyond his limit and breaks free of his restraints. In his weakened state, however, he is quickly overpowered and drugged into unconsciousness. Returning to the Bugle one last time, Sir has broken into Norman's office and is pretending to threaten his safety when Peter, dressed appropriately, breaks through the window, grabs Sir, and promptly leaves with him, discovering a waiting helicopter. Grabbing onto the waiting rope ladder, the two are flown out over the city with Spidey dealing Sir both blows and quips, neither of which have any real effect.
Eventually, Sir beats Spider-Man up the ladder and the helicopter extends to electrified metal tentacles down towards Spidey, who cannot escape before being zapped. The back story now complete, the next page shows Angst kneeling over an unconscious Spider-Man with a syringe full of liquid that will erase his memory. Spidey, however, has just been playing possum and easily throws Angst into a nearby wall. He cries out to Sir for help, but Sir views that as a sign of weakness and leaves. Unfortunately, Spider-Man can't turn Angst into the police, not being held in high esteem lately, and as such he leaves him on the floor, promising that Angst will fall with Osborn.
I just hope this Angst character isn't a member of my HMO. Sheesh! This issue was an example of J.M. DeMatteis' talent of creating a creepy, psychologically intense story. Unfortunately, this particular one feels a bit stale. I've been a Spidey fan for more than a few years now, and it seems like every so often some freak's got the Wall Crawler at his mercy and trying to break his spirit. Of course, Spidey always overcomes him in the end and all is well. DeMatteis did a good job with an old plot, but let's let this plot device rest in peace for awhile.
Also, while I thoroughly enjoy watching Norman Osborn manipulate Spider-Man's life at will, if this goes on for TOO much longer it's going to start to seem a tad ludicrous. I guess every diabolical villain feels the need to toy with the hero's life, and if it's not resolved fairly soon this time around I think Osborn will just turn into the stereotypical nemesis. The events at the Daily Bugle were interesting, although they were mostly a launching pad for future plotlines until Sir finally makes his appearance. And what's Jonah doing with a handgun in his drawer? This could be interesting....
No major quibbles with or praises for the art, although I did like the center panel on page 20 when Spider-Man's got Angst by the throat. Spidey looked seriously mad even through the mask. I do have one question, though. How come Jacob Conover looks so much younger than he did?
We've been down this road before, but J.M. almost makes it seem like a brand new drive. Three webs.
Issue: #253
Review: #254
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Ultimate Spider-Man #85
Staff: Peter Kroon (E-Mail)
Title: Ultimate Spider-Man
A new mob boss, a mutant known as Hammerhead, has made a move against Wilson "The Kingpin of Crime" Fisk's mob holdings - and pitted Spider-Man against a new costumed vigilante: Moon Knight. At the same time, Fisk - whom Spider-Man has long tried to put behind bars - provided Peter with concrete evidence linking Hammerhead to a recent murder.
Hammerhead's attempt to extort money from a Kingpin-owned restaurant in Chinatown brought Shang-Chi (the Master of Kung-Fu) and Danny Rand (the Iron Fist) into the mob struggle. As if that weren't enough, the Black Cat (a former jewel thief who has a personal interest in Spider-Man) arrives on the scene, tracking down Hammerhead to look for help in her war against the Kingpin. But perhaps the most dangerous of all is the Kingpin's personal assassin... the woman known as - Elektra!
Finally - all the players have assembled in Hammerhead's penthouse! Just as Spidey thinks he's got the upper hand - Elektra makes her move and smashes him through the top floor window, down to the street below...
Arc: Part 7 of 'Warriors' (1-2-3-4-5-6-7)
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Mark Bagley
Inker: Scott Hanna
Cover Art: Mark Bagley
Reprinted In: Spider-Man TPB (Ultimate) #14
Reprinted In: Ultimate Spider-Man Reprints (Hardcover) #7
Spidey is down, on the top of a car. Elektra watches from above. As she cuts Hammerhead loose from the webbing. Hammerhead is trying to get his act together, he needs to leave the country. Elektra wonders whether his job offer is still valid. Outside, the police try to arrest Spidey. Captain DeWolfe interferes. Inside, Hammerhead is pissed, at Elektra too. She stabs him, several times and throws him out the window like she did with Spider-Man. Spider-Man, barely standing, uses his webbing to create a cushion for Hammerhead. He'll live.
Above, the Black Cat hits Elektra. The two of them start to fight. It ends with a shuck. And then Elektra goes down. Moon Knight used one of the moon darts and hit her in the back of her head. Then he goes down again. Out the window goes Elektra (not shown, but obviously the Black Cat did this). The Black Cat quickly frees the other heroes. They disappear before the police can enter the building.
Later on, Spidey is on a nearby rooftop. The Black Cat joins him. They talk a bit and then she flirts with him and takes of his mask. Peter, waiting for the kiss, is in for a surprise. The Black Cat realizes how young he is and she throws up, on Peter's lap. After which she takes off.
Elsewhere, the Kingpin is talking to a person in the shadows. An update is provided. Hammerhead is in a coma, the feds are going to press charges but the DA said nothings gonna stick. Elektra is in bad shape, and switched sides, twice. Moon Knight is in a coma too, no prints, could be ex-CIA. Kingpin then asks "Spider-Man trusts you?" And Captain Jean DeWolfe says yes.
Peter arrives home late. Aunt May is waiting for him She says that she won't live in a house of lies. If she has to speak to Peter about this again, she'll kick him out.
Well, like with the previous issues, this one has it all too! Action, drama, romance. Elektra switches sides again, cool. So perhaps she'll stay in the employment of the Kingpin. Would be nice to see what happens to her, if and when she recovers fro her injuries.
Also, Hammerhead turns out to be nothing more than a big baby. He has a history with the police, got a steel plate in his head (how and why isn't told) and had his face changed. As soon as things start looking bad, he crumbles and wants to leave the country. So much for becoming the new crime boss.
Black Cat, well, she's hot and want's to do the horizontal mambo with Spider- Man. Spidey finally gives in (since he broke up with Mary Jane, he's kinda free to do so). As soon as the mask comes off, what's left of dinner comes out. Although gross, it's the only thing Black Cat could have done. She obviously is (much?) older than Peter and a (sexual) relationship with him would get Marvel into trouble.
Then Captain DeWolfe. Did we see this coming? Looking back, she was too nice to Spider-Man. It did not feel right, but I could find the reason why it did not feel right. Perhaps I had the regular Marvel Universe (or should I say the 616 Universe?) version of her in mind and didn't think much of it. Then again, the 616 version had a crush on Spidey. And Spidey was much older then his Ultimate counterpart. Anyway, nice twist, her working for the Kingpin.
Finally, Aunt May, can't wait to see where this'll go. My guess is, Peter tells her, or he finds a place for himself to stay. If it's the first option, why not do it in issue 100?
A cool ending to Warriors. Nuff said.
Issue: #84
Review: #85
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20 Years of Nike Basketball Designs: Air More Uptempo
“I think generally the mid-90s were just a bigger-than-life time….”- Wilson Smith
Sometimes less isn’t more – logic is restored, and more is more. The Nike Air More Uptempo took branding to new heights to match an unprecedented application of Nike Air that ran from the toe to the heel. The mission for lead designer Wilson Smith was simple, “How can we just let the world know and express it as well as we can?”
Inspired by the oversized objects in pop art, graffiti on the side of trains and an architectural project he had worked on, Wilson worked ‘AIR’ into the upper to drive the point home. In 1996, cars were big, jeans were big, and big was better. The Nike Air More Uptempo was an extension of the environment.
Anti-subtle, but carefully correlated with the sole’s technology, Wilson was tactical in his approach. ”I knew where the air bag kind of lined up, so I flipped it and on the medial I made the ‘AIR’ in the other direction.”
Ideal for the vertical player who needed the lockdown and abundance of cushioning, the Nike Air More Uptempo became Scottie Pippen’s shoe of choice. Accompanied by the lighter Nike Air Much Uptempo, a point guard’s favorite, the shoes were hard to ignore on camera as the bright lights shined on Pippen and the game’s elite in Atlanta.
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Home Adidas David Beckham Predicts Argentina to Win 2014 FIFA World Cup
David Beckham Predicts Argentina to Win 2014 FIFA World Cup
by Mario Briguglio
On the eve of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final, David Beckham predicted Argentina as the winners during the last episode of adidas’ live streamed “The Dugout” series.
Hosted by KICKTV’s Jimmy Conrad and Layla Anna-Lee and streamed live from adidas World Cup headquarters in Rio, the episode featured Beckham giving his thoughts on this year’s tournament, discussing the most exciting players and detailing his storied history in adidas’ Predator cleats, which celebrates its 20th anniversary next week with a new launch.
“It has been a truly fantastic tournament, with two great teams in the final. Whilst they have no superstar, Germany has a fantastic team, where they work really well together and have played some amazing football at this tournament. Argentina also has a great team, but they also have Messi, who is quite simply an unbelievable footballer and who I cannot wait to see play with my kids on this greatest of stages. This is why I am going for a 3-1 Argentina win.”
Beckham singled out Colombian superstar James Rodriguez as one of the most exciting players of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, especially his goal against Uruguay as one of the highlights of the tournament.
“My advice to James would be to just continue to enjoy playing this wonderful game, and not let the added attention that will inevitably follow this tournament faze him. He has the makings of a true star, with an incredibly bright future ahead of him. He is so young with already so much experience. He can certainly go on to become one of the world’s best players.”
Beckham also went on emphasize his admiration for the Brazilian stars who he had played with throughout his career and discussed the rise of Major League Soccer and how the league has transformed since his arrival in the USA from Real Madrid back in 2007.
Throughout the World Cup, adidas has provided fans will unprecedented access to the tournament and previous “The Dugout” episodes stared soccer legends Cafu, Fernando Hierro, Patrick Vieira and Kaka.
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What comes to mind when you hear the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) reports mention severe wind?
Well, severe wind is a term used to describe high wind conditions mostly experienced during days of heavy thunderstorms, tornadoes, cyclones (within tropical areas) and the extensively deep low-pressure systems. These are often described in weather reports as gale-force winds or storm-force winds.
How a severe wind hazard happens
Severe storms are often associated with the low pressure system displayed on most weather maps. Intense low-pressure systems coupled with cold fronts can produce strong winds and heavy rainfall in a wide area leading to local flash floods and riverine flooding.
The most serious wind damage caused by these low-pressure systems occurs in the coastal areas and the neighbouring mountain ranges. The low pressure systems can also lead to coastal erosion through combined effects of huge waves and a rise in the sea level referred to as a storm surge. Severe winds can also play a role in fueling dangerous bushfire activities.
Severe thunderstorms produce highly damaging wind gusts usually brought about by downbursts such as heavy rainfall and hailstorm push the surrounding air down to the ground. Severe thunderstorms generate wind gusts of speeds of at least 90km/h and wind gusts that exceed 160km/h for most damaging storms. Australia recorded its strongest wind gusts moving at 196km/h on 16 December 2006 in Double Island Point, Queensland.
A tropical cyclone refers to low pressure systems that usually develop in the tropics and are adequately intense to generate well-sustained gale force winds of at least 63km/h. If sustained winds attain a hurricane force of at least 118km/h, the system evolves into a severe tropical cyclone. These are also referred to as typhoons or hurricanes.
Wind damage is majorly caused by peak gusts in a cyclone. As such, the renowned tropical cyclone severity categories employed by the BOM to give warnings are based on peak wind gust speeds.
A storm surge is considered the most catastrophic weather hazard related to tropical cyclones which causes a landfall. Storm surge has resulted in more deaths than any other element of tropical cyclones. Generally, a storm surge is a dome of water raised at about 60 to 80 kilometres wide and about two to five metres above the ordinary tide level.
A storm surge features a combination of strong winds that drive water onshore and the lowest atmospheric pressure present within a tropical cyclone. Within the southern hemisphere, the onshore winds emerge on the left of the track used by the tropical cyclone. In Australia, this falls on the eastern side on the northwest and the northern coasts and the southern side of the east coast.
While tornadoes rarely happen, they are considered the most violent of all thunderstorm events. Basically, a tornado is a highly violent rotating air column hanging from huge thunderstorm clouds onto the ground. Tornadoes feature a funnel shape which ranges from just a few to hundreds of metres. Most of the strong and very violent tornadoes are associated with supercell thunderstorms. Naturally, tornadoes occur at the junction of updraught and downdraught zones of a thunderstorm. Weaker tornadoes transpire from either a single-cell or multi-cell thunderstorm.
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Chipewyan Granite— a building-stone prospect in Alberta
JOHN D. GODFREY, Earth Sciences Branch, Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta
Geological mapping on the Canadian Shield in northeastern Alberta outlined several granitoid rock masses potentially suitable as building stone. A particularly attractive prospect, the Chipewyan Red Granite, was subjected to an aerial survey and ground check. The petrologic and fracture characteristics critical for quarrying and use as a building stone were assessed in the course of detailed mapping at two of the most favourable sites. The extension of good rock was tested to shallow depths at one site by shallow diamond-drill coring.The Chipewyan Red Granite displays a warm red colour, medium grain size and fairly massive texture, and takes a good polish. Deleterious geologic features studied in outcrop and subjected to structural analysis included regular joint systems, quartz veins, pegmatite dykes, basic shear zones and fault zones. Many of these key geologic features are systematic and hence predictable for stone quarrying purposes; other features, such as irregular fractures, are non-systematic and are far less predictable. The megascopic structural features studied show similar preferred orientations which appear to be collectively related to the tectonic history.
Keywords: Chipewyan Granite, Industrial minerals, Building stone, Alberta, Precambrian Shield, Lithology.
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Terms and Concepts
Applies to Zephyr Scale Cloud, last modified on November 18, 2020.
Below is a reference for terms used throughout Zephyr Scale Cloud.
Test Case: A test artefact developed for a particular test condition, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific requirement.
Test Library: The location where test cases are created and stored. This is also known as a test repository. Any Jira project can be a test library. Test cases are created and managed under a test library; however, you can share and reuse test cases across Jira projects when necessary to prevent duplication and increase reusability. Within a test Library, you can organize test cases by using a folder structure and categorize by using labels or custom fields.
Test Script: A specified sequence of steps and expected results for the execution of a test case. This is also known as manual test script or test procedure specification. Zephyr Scale allows the use of traditional step-by-step as well as BDD (Gherkin syntax) and plain text scripts.
Test Cycle: An ordered list of test cases assigned to testers and test environments created to achieve specific testing goals (usually a longer test run, such as regression tests, build verification tests, end-to-end tests, etc.).
Test Plan: An artefact used to track testing progress throughout an entire release or version. You can associate several test cycles to a test plan to can get real-time progress reports. Test plan fields are customizable, which allows you to track scope, risks, strategy, entry and exit criteria, test environment, test bed, and more.
Test Execution Result: A set of information that generates and is stored when a test case is executed. Data includes the tester responsible for the execution, the execution date, the defects raised, the environment and the status of the execution (e.g., passed or failed), and more.
Test Environment: A test environment is an attribute of a test execution result used to determine the environments to be tested for each test case. Planning your test environment includes defining your platform coverage, such as operational systems, browsers, databases, etc.
The tight integration between Zephyr Scale Cloud and Jira means you can reuse common elements created on Jira, such as projects, users, versions, etc., and avoid duplication.
The following diagrams show a high-level overview of the relationship between Zephyr Scale and Jira:
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Ackerman & Co. Purchases 4-Building, 217,089 SF Lavista Business Park in Metro Atlanta
Sep 8, 2017 | Business
Firm grows industrial portfolio with $12.7-million acquisition.
ATLANTA, GA, September 08, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Expanding its strategically located Atlanta industrial portfolio, Ackerman & Co. has acquired Lavista Business Park, a 4-building, 217,089-square-foot business center in the Tucker/Stone Mountain industrial submarket, one of the most accessible locations for distribution operations in metro Atlanta. Ackerman & Co. purchased the properties for $12.7 million from CRE Lavista LLC (Onward Investors).
Tom Shafer and John Hinson of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Frank Farrell, senior vice president of leasing at Ackerman, will lead leasing efforts at the business park, which is 87 percent leased.
“Lavista Business Park provides tenants high-quality, shallow-bay distribution space in an extremely convenient location,” said Kris Miller, President of Ackerman & Co. “With Atlanta’s ongoing population growth and increasing traffic congestion, we’ve learned the value of close-in locations that offer quick access to Atlanta’s major submarkets and the opportunity for last-mile distribution to consumers.”
Lavista Business Park is located 1/4 mile from I-285, the interstate perimeter that encircles metro Atlanta, and provides convenient access to the key transportation corridors of I-85, I-20, U.S. Highway 78, Buford Highway and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. The property also offers tenants walkable access to nearby shops, restaurants and hotels.
Located on 12 acres at 2000-2062 Weems Road, the business park’s diverse tenant roster includes Sonnen, a German energy firm that recently established its 26,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters and innovation center in the park. Other tenants include the Veterans Administration, Pure Red Marketing and WaveGuide Studios.
The acquisition is part Ackerman & Co.’s ongoing strategy of acquiring well-located, high-quality industrial space near Atlanta’s I-285 perimeter. These major acquisitions include Stone Mountain Industrial Park, a 4.1-million-square-foot business park encompassing 69 buildings in the Tucker/Stone Mountain submarket.
About Ackerman & Co.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ackerman & Co. is a privately held, full-service commercial real estate firm focused on providing quality investment, brokerage, management and development services in the Southeast. The company, founded in 1967, retains an expert team of more than 100 real estate professionals. To date, Ackerman & Co. has developed and acquired nearly 35 million square feet of office, medical, industrial, retail and mixed-use space, has more than 7 million square feet under management, and maintains an investment portfolio valued at $1 billion.
For more information on Ackerman & Co., visit www.ackermanco.com
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Tawanna “Taji” De Souza formerly Ingleton is an only child from Queens NY’s Hollis and Queens Village area. She was raised by her mother and great grandparents whom are very dear to her. The name Taji was created in her childhood ‘best friends’ group that combines her first, middle and maiden last name. Her mother and great-grandparents were always a solid support system. Her additional support and even inspiration were provided by her high school mathematics and global teachers that always spoke life into her growth as a person. She later attended Nassau Community College’s computer science and IS program but had to take a pause.
As a 14-year-old girl, Taji had a terrible cough that didn’t seem to go away. After a key doctor’s visit, Taji’s mother found out that she had a heart murmur that required surgery to save her life. Her family held off surgery until she graduated high school. Taji’s life changed again at the tender age of 15 years old with the passing of her great-grandmother – followed by her great-grandfather on her birthday in 2004. Taji went off to college life but then her parents opted to cut her time at Nassau short to tend to her medical needs -- but she didn’t allow that to hinder her educational progress. She went back to school for her Health Administration and Medical billing certification.
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Taji was able to create the three entities that are now her lifeline: Fashion Coffee stylist services in October 2018, U-GAME event entertainment in November 2018, and “LIVE” With Taji Radio Show in April 2019. Taji took her recovery time to plan her next steps as an entrepreneur that will represent the underdogs in the entertainment and fashion industry. “LIVE” With Taji is an outlet for creatives in the fashion, music, arts and entertainment industries. Fashion Coffee has created a platform for the voiceless in the fashion industry with weekly fashion shows and NYFW events. U-GAME became the natural progression of her planning and hosting game nights for her family and friends, which is now requested by party planners for weddings, birthdays and corporate events.
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The secrets behind Leeds striker Patrick Bamford’s success this season, including importance of Marcelo Bielsa and Mateusz Klich
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By Jackson Cole
27th November 2020, 8:25 am
Updated: 27th November 2020, 11:56 am
Written off before a ball was even kicked this season, Patrick Bamford is really making a fool of his doubters now.
He played a big part in helping Leeds win promotion to the Premier League, finishing top scorer with 16 Championship goals last term.
But Bamford didn’t do enough in the eyes of many last season
Yet many still didn’t think he was good enough to lead their line in the big time and former manager David O’Leary and ex-player Mark Viduka were among those suggesting Leeds needed to sign ‘a top class striker’ last summer.
It didn’t seem to bother the 27-year-old too much, who defiantly responded to O’Leary’s comments that were made a matter of days after Bamford helped deliver the promotion Leeds fans had obsessed over for 16 years.
And with good reason as Bamford has made a electric start with seven goals in nine Premier League matches this term, 50 per cent of his team’s total so far.
He’s scored in each of his last four league away matches this season, meaning he can be the first Leeds player since Ian Lawson in 1963 to score in five away league clashes on the bounce if he nets against Everton on Saturday, LIVE on talkSPORT.
Bamford has been one of the Premier League’s best players this season
Everyone wants a piece of Bamford now. Former Premier League striker Carlton Cole praised the player for proving the doubters wrong, while talkSPORT’s Tony Cascarino admits he’s changed his mind about him, having previously held reservations about the former Chelsea man’s ability.
But why has it all gone so well for him? talkSPORT.com has investigated the secrets behind Bamford’s success.
We have to go back a bit and look at his form for Leeds since he signed for them in the summer of 2018.
Bamford’s first season saw him score nine goals in 22 Championship appearances which is a decent return considering the campaign was hugely disrupted by two knee injuries.
Bamford joined Leeds shortly after Bielsa was appointed manager in June 2018
Stats by FBref show Bamford had an average of 0.6 goals per 90 minutes in league matches, although he took an average of 4.3 shots per 90 in 2018/19.
He stayed fit last season with a return of 16 goals in 45 Championship appearances. His goal and shot average per 90 minutes were slightly lower at 0.42 and 3.68 respectively.
But this term, Bamford has seven in nine with 0.83 goals per 90 minutes and 4.05 shots per 90. And he’s playing at a higher level.
Marcelo Bielsa has generally stuck to the 4-1-4-1 system that served Leeds so well last season, however, the odd change in system has benefited Bamford.
His best game so far this season saw him score a second-half hat-trick at Aston Villa as Leeds ran out 3-0 winners. They played 4-4-2 that night.
Bamford was unstoppable on that Friday night at Villa Park last month
Bielsa employed a 4-2-3-1 system in six of Leeds’ nine league matches after last season restarted – Bamford scoring in three of those.
WhoScored stats show Leeds tend to build their attacks on the wings this season, although only one of their goals has come directly from a cross on either the left or right side, suggesting their personnel in the middle is of huge importance.
This brings us onto the development in the role of central midfielder Mateusz Klich, who’s assisted three of the striker’s seven Premier League goals. It would have been four out of eight had Bamford’s early goal at Crystal Palace not been disallowed for offside earlier this month.
In contrast, Klich only got five assists in 45 Championship appearances last term. One of them came after the restart, which was for a goal Bamford scored against Blackburn. Did this moment make Bielsa plot a change in Klich’s role?
Bamford and Klich didn’t have a huge amount to do with each other last season but maybe Bielsa saw something the rest of us didn’t
Bamford and Klich have developed a link between midfield and attack this season
The Poland international has made a habit of bombing forward this season with Bielsa playing him in an attacking midfield role in four Premier League matches. Two of his assists for Bamford have come when he’s played further forward.
But surely the most important factor in Bamford’s stunning start has to be the belief Bielsa has in him.
He appears to not be too concerned about those who don’t rate him and he’s responded excellently by proving them wrong on the pitch. But no one’s impenetrable and anyone will agree confidence in your convictions is key to success in any aspect of life, never mind when playing football.
Bamford’s response to O’Leary’s criticism back in July
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Being backed by Bielsa would make any player’s confidence go sky high
And when you’ve got one of the most respected names in management signing you and playing you regularly, that’s going a long way in helping Bamford having such a positive mindset.
Bamford told talkSPORT last month: “Since he’s come in he’s put his faith in me from the beginning.
“There were tough times last season when he stuck by me because as long as I was working for the team, even if I wasn’t scoring, he still had this belief in me.
“There’s a big thing there where I feel like I need to repay him and I’ve a good start and that goes some way to repaying him.”
Listen to full commentary of Everton vs Leeds LIVE on talkSPORT on Saturday, kick-off 5:30pm
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The Bridge Of Peace
The Glass Bridge stretches 150 meters over the Kura River (Mtkvari). The Bridge was ordered by the City Hall of Tbilisi to create a contemporary design & LED lights. The Bridge of Peace was designed by an Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, who had previously designed the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Presidental Administration of Georgia.
The structure of the bridge was built in Italy and transported to Tbilisi. The lighting was installed on site during the assembly of the structures. As a result bridge connecting Old Tbilisi with the new park Rike.
The official opening took place on May 6, 2010. The glass bridge stretches over the Kura River providing a unique view of Metekhi Church. On the one side you will find Narikala Fortress and statue of city’s founder Vakhtang Gorgasali. On the other side Baratashvili Bridge and also Presidential Office.
The bridge is especially beautiful at night when the lights are reflected in the water. In 2012 the Bridge in Tbilisi hit the Top-13 most unusual bridges in the world.
“A bridge is a structure that joins two points, allowing people to get over an obstacle, and it is also a highly symbolic form of architecture in that it can be an emblem of dialogue between two opposite and divided positions” Michele De Lucchi.
Beautiful Bridge
This Bridge really very Beautiful, and also from bridge very nice panoramic view of the old town
Galleria Tbilisi
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Big Bicycle monument, Tbilisi
Dry Bridge Flea Market
Dry Bridge Market, Dedaena Park, Tiflis
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Tbilisi Central Railway Station
Lado Gudiashvili Square
Lado Gudiashvili Square ლადო გუდიაშვილის მოედანი
Sulfur Baths
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AUTOMATED SYSTEM + PEER REVIEW = STRONG SANCTION SCREENING
To keep federal resources from being abused by certain individuals or entities, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has created the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE). This list contains the names of people and groups that have been excluded from participating in healthcare programs that benefit directly or indirectly from government funds. The exclusion or sanction can be caused by a proven history of committing fraud, abusing medical supplies such as medicine and other medical equipment, and exploiting resources that could have otherwise been used for providing healthcare to patients.
The OIG requires health organizations to make sure that they are not affiliated with any individual or entity that is included in the LEIE. By working with an excluded person or group, a healthcare organization faces serious consequences that could cost up to millions of dollars in heavy penalties, depending on the amount of resources successfully claimed by the excluded person or group.
Protecting Healthcare Organizations thru Sanction Screening
Healthcare organizations are required by the OIG to perform monthly sanction screenings on individuals that have established ties with them. During a sanction screening, employees and contractors are checked to see if their name is included in the LEIE. Once a match has been confirmed, the healthcare organization must do the following:
Terminate business with the excluded individual or entity
Assess the amount of resources that were reimbursed in the name of the excluded person or entity
Send a letter of disclosure to the OIG regarding the discovery of a LEIE match
Advise the excluded individual or entity to refrain from referring any more patients to the organization and/or getting involved in other kinds of healthcare programs.
Notify patients who have been involved with the excluded individual or entity during the time the exclusion is in effect
While sanction screenings are important, many health organizers fail to carry them out on a monthly basis. As a result, some excluded individuals may get past the process and have the opportunity to keep siphoning off healthcare resources for their own gain. On the other hand, organizations who try to be more meticulous with their screening process may find themselves spending too much time and effort on conducting the screenings. This is especially true for large organizations that have hundreds of employees and contractors.
Automating the Screening Process
Health organizers that struggle with regular sanction screenings will be glad to know that there are different tools available to help make the process more manageable and the results more accurate. A great example of these tools would be powerful exclusion screening systems that are designed to automate most of the screening process.
Automating the screening provides a number of key benefits that any health organization will be glad to have, such as:
Automatic Updates – The best screening system always uses the most recent version of the LEIE to ensure that all information is accurate by the time of screening. Other exclusion list databases may also be used when performing searches for more thorough screenings. The screening service can be prompted as soon as the OIG updates the LEIE.
Thorough Screening – By using a complex series of algorithms, automated screening tools may be able to analyze the chances of an individual or entity being included in the LEIE, even if they do not have a successful match in the database. The service can be programmed to comb through various databases to accurately match individuals and entities. Furthermore, the software can also use an individual’s social security number or cross-reference pertinent details to verify a match. These functions help track down certain individuals that may be using false information in order to avoid detection.
Automatic Notification – Should there be a match, the software can immediately send a series of notifications to the healthcare organization’s HR department. The HR personnel, in turn, can take action by ordering a background check on the individual or vendor in question in order to confirm or verify the exclusion. The automated process helps the company conserve resources and avoid unnecessary background checks, while the automated notification ensures that fraud and abuse is stopped as soon as possible.
Augmenting Automation with Peer Review
Although automated sanction screening already makes a lot of difference when it comes to the speed and accuracy of the process, there’s always room for improvement. By combining the strengths of automated screening tools and peer review, healthcare organizations can expect a more powerful sanction screening system.
Some may think that adding more human elements to an already automated system is kind of defeating the purpose of the software, but peer review actually complements advanced exclusion screening tools. Excluded people are more likely to be detected, and individuals that may warrant being in the LEIE can also be spotted before any harm is done. How does peer review make it possible?
Once the software is done sifting through various databases to gather resources that will help confirm or clear a potential match, the result of the search will be sent to an analyst. The analyst will then review the sources and supporting documents, adding a human element to the screening process. After that, the analyst will ping the company’s HR personnel and inform them that one of their employees or vendors may have been excluded. The analyst will also offer recommendations, like doing a more in-depth background search, to confirm if the sanctioned individual and your employee refer to one and the same person.
In short, giving each search an “eyes on” treatment will help build a compelling case when pursuing a potential match or clearing the identity of an individual. By conducting a quick automated screening and subjecting its result to discerning eyes, Emptech ensures a more thorough search and matching process.
Accurate automated screening solutions and peer review play a crucial role in helping healthcare organizations avoid harsh penalties. And by learning how to take advantage of the two aspects of sanction screening, healthcare organizations will be able to properly do their part in making sure that the resources meant for the patients will always go to the patients.
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Osun State and a drive to technological inclusiveness
Titilola Oludimu May 16, 2017 0 0
Did you know that Nigeria has a Mechatronics institute that provides world-class training in automobile diagnostic and repair?
The Bola Ige Mechatronics Institute (BIMI) located in Osun State, is the first of its kind in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa as whole.
According to the manager, the institute’s programme covers every aspect of automobile technology.
Bola Ige Mechatronics Institute(BIMI) is one of the most recent efforts of the Osun State’s government to promote technology in the state and encourage the made-in-Nigeria movement.
This is not the first effort of the Osun state government towards driving technological inclusiveness. In 2011, the government of the state in a bid to promote local products inaugurated the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme- Technology (O-YESTECH), a 6-months programme designed to train 5000 participants in various aspects of applied technology.
Following the success of the O-YESTECH initiative, the state government in 2014 partnered with RLG– a Ghanaian ICT company — to commission the RLG/Adulawo Technology City, a world-class facility designed to train youths in the manufacture, assembly, and repair of electronic devices.
April this year, the RLG/Adulawo Technology company secured a $30.5 million deal to produce terrestrial broadcast set top boxes for the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA)’s TV enterprise, a big win for the company and the Osun state government.
The Opon Imo– “Tablet of Knowledge”– was another novel initiative introduced to the state educational system in 2013. The initiative provided e-learning tablets for 150,000 secondary school students across the state.
The tablets, reportedly contain 56 e-textbooks, 900 minutes of virtual classroom lessons and thousands of WAEC and JAMB practice questions.
According to the Osun State government, this initiative has saved the state over ₦8 billion in textbook costs and improved the academic performance of students.
Beneath the noteworthy initiatives
These feats by the Osun State government promoting technology are laudable and should be emulated by other state governments. However, beneath all the fanfare, are things exactly what they seem?
It is not uncommon for the Nigerian government to release awe-inspiring reports which are mostly untrue. Or implement mediocre solutions to existing (non) problems. So the question remains, are these reports just propaganda?
Is the Opon Imo initiative truly making an impact?
Beneficiaries of the Opon Imo initiative
A certain beneficiary of the initiative revealed that prior to getting the tablet, there was no training or guide on usage; he had to figure it out on his own.
He also revealed that he mostly uses the tablet to play games and some of his friends download x-rated contents on their devices.
For an educational tool, the tablets’ access should and could be restricted to just educational websites, if not, the purpose of the initiative will be defeated.
The beneficiaries of the initiative can be further impacted if, in addition to the e-textbooks, coding tutorials for kids are also included.
If some of these students can develop interests in coding at such early ages and are encouraged, imagine the number of innovations that would emerge from the state in a few years.
Hopefully, the Osun State government will prove us wrong by seeing the Bola Ige Mechatronics Institute initiative through.
Technical institutions like BIMI have produced the likes of Jelani Aliyu — current Director-General of the Nigerian Automotive Design and Development and the creative mind behind the Chevrolet Volt– and many other exceptional professionals around the world.
If BIMI does not suffer the same fate as other vocational institutes in Nigeria, the automobile industry in Nigeria and Africa will boom.
Generally, Osun State will experience unprecedented growth if all its technology-based initiatives are properly implemented.
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Frankel Patient, Angie Green Knows Fitness!
Beachbody, the company the brings you P90X, Insanity, and Turbo Kick, has a Frankel smile. That’s right, Angie Green, one of the trainers that you will see on many of the videos of Charlene Johnson brings her Frankel smile on set.
Angie Green began her life as a fitness instructor while in college at BGSU. Upon graduating with her Masters, Angie accepted a position at the University of Toledo REC Center in 2001. However, it was when she decided that she wanted to work for Charlene Johnson that her life took an amazing new turn. After an extensive tryout, Angie was selected to be a member of the demo team for TurboKick.
After Angie had her son, she needed a new family dentist. That is when she joined the Frankel Dentistry family. “I love it at Frankel Dentistry,” she said. “I am very pleased with they treat my son and take care of all our needs.”
Angie, however, is beginning a new adventure. Being a Beachbody trainer, means there is a lot of traveling. In fact, not too long ago, Angie traveled to train the Toronto BlueJays in an Insanity workout. Therefore, Angie is no longer working at UT. Today, her new adventure is focusing on her Beachbody career not only as a star of the videos but also a coach.
Check out Angie Green’s facebook page to learn more. https://www.facebook.com/AngieGreen11
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Michel and Giselle's year spent together, where he gradually opens up and even learns to love another human.
The White-Haired Girl's time with Bestia, leading him to realize even briefly that he was not a beast by nature but a human man.
Morgana and Maria's relationship during Morgana's time. During the backstage portion, Maria even forgives Morgana for how things turned out and doesn't hold a grudge against her, saying she enjoyed the time they spent together at the brothel.
The fact that both Georges and Didier were so consumed with guilt for what they had done to Michel that their souls found their way back to the mansion, despite not being summoned there by Morgana.
Michel discovering Morgana's remains and spending hours, even days with them and realizing that as bad as his life has been, someone has had it worse than him. Though it becomes less heartwarming when it's revealed she was using Michel for her own means, she genuinely was grateful to him.
Morgana: You were the only one to ever have pity for me...and I shall be the only one to have compassion for you. You were the only one to stay at my side...and I shall do the same for you.
Maria and Jacopo's friendship in both time periods. It becomes a Tearjerker once you remember what is destined to happen to them in 1869, however.
It's a bit lost on Georges and Morgana, but the crude drawing Michel scribbles on the painting at the end seems to depict himself, his brothers, the stray cat they took in for a time... and a fourth figure, shorter, feminine, with bangs or pigtails, that calls to mind Morgana herself.
At the end of the backstage portion unlocked at the end of the game, Michel, Giselle, and Morgana pose for a group picture to send the player off. It's rather sweet, especially to see Michel with a genuine smile.
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Barnier, of all people, gets a couple. He tells Ceren not to pretend to feel emotions she doesn't have and simply be herself; and when he talks with her, it's the only time his sprite isn't seen with his signature crazy, wide-open eyes. He also goes out of his way to protect Ceren during the revolution and admits he was a fool and a tyrant, and that he knew his days were numbered.
Mell and Morgana's expanded backstory on their friendship. Unfortunately, the reader knows it is doomed not to last.
Imeon correctly predicting that someone would appear to Michel soon to lead him out of his darkness, a task she wanted to do if she was not dying.
Michel remembering his promise to seek out Morgana in the present day and become her friend, a task he puts an even higher importance on than finding his brothers. And she makes an unseen cameo at the very end of the last sub-episode, as one of Michel and Giselle's new tenants.
Michel: We meet again.
At the end of the backstage portion, Jacopo, Maria, Morgana, Ceren, and Gratien all pose for a picture. It's quite heartwarming to see even Morgana smiling this time, unlike at the end of the backstage portion of the original game.
The final sub-episodenote unlocked upon completion of the previous sub-episodes and the backstage portion, "Fragment", has Morgana accompanying Jacopo's soul to the afterlife. It's nice to see that after all the crap they've been through, she comes to see him off and allows him to pass on peacefully.
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SXSW 2011: The Video Companion
Monday, April 11, 2011 By Mayer Danzig
I got a bit carried away with the videos, compiling 26 great videos captured live at SXSW. Not surprisingly, we kick things off with the performance that introduced me to Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven.
From there, a three-fer from Alejandro Escovedo’s special Sunday night gig at the legendary Continental Club. We’ve got Alejandro’s take on the Rolling Stone’s “Miss You” (with Charlie Sexton joining on guitar), Jesse Malin’s “Burning the Bowery” and Willie Nile’s classic “Heaven Help the Lonely.”
Non-traditional venues are a SXSW hallmark. Representing here we’ve got Josh Ritter literally singing his song “In the Dark” in a darkened church. Josh is followed by the Head and the Heart and by Yuck, both performing in Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop. Jack White closes this mini-set out with his parking lot set.
Next up, the indie kids. Sharon Van Etten launches a stellar collection that includes Glasgow’s Admiral Fallow, Detroit’s Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr and Portland/Washington DC bi-coastal rockers Wild Flag.
Then it is about the rockers. The Jim Jones Review blast through an adrenaline-fueled number, following by J Roddy Walston & the Business, the Stone Foxes, Liam Finn, Prima Donna and Kasey Anderson.
From the blast from the past category, figuratively and literally, we get Men Without Hats (“the Safety Dance”!) and Fitz & the Tantrums. The a few miscellany from Mona and Dave Alvin.
As we near our conclusion, Austin and the state of Texas represent. The Old 97s preview a new track, followed by Jon Dee Graham, both with his own band, the Fighting Cocks, and his new outfit, the Hobarts (featuring Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill).
Because I couldn’t resist, we close out where we began: with Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven.
Whew, now to begin resting up for next year.
View more Twangville coverage of SXSW 2011 here.
Photo Credits:Sean Phillips (Alejandro Escovedo); Erica Bruce/Between Love and Like (Old 97s).
About the author: Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.
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Laurette Mushimiyimana, Cloe Liparini, Christian Mazimpaka, and Maguy Mbabazi during the April Leadership & Management course. Photo by Franz Stapelberg for UGHE
World-class health care delivery requires that practitioners possess the breadth of skills necessary to manage programs, but also the skills to inspire others through their leadership. University of Global Health Equity’s (UGHE) flagship academic program, the Master of Science in Global Health Delivery (MGHD), teaches students to do just that.
A year after its launch in September 2015, the program’s inaugural cohort has completed its first year, during which students were encouraged to look at health systems with a holistic, multidisciplinary lens. In their Leadership & Management course, MGHD students investigated what makes dynamic and responsive managers, and inspiring leaders. In doing so, they acquired the tools necessary to implement projects effectively and efficiently. During this course, students were challenged to identify the larger role they can play in effecting change within their workplaces, and in health systems.
The Leadership & Management course addressed organizational barriers to health care by developing each student’s capacity to employ strategies that support professional growth and development within their workplace. Professor Cloe Liparini, MA, worked with students to explore the characteristics of influential leaders, trained students to effectively manage teams and projects, and exposed students to a toolbox of skills to enhance their personal and professional development.
“The course challenged students to reflect on both the skills they already possess and the areas that they need to strengthen in order to build their capacity for smarter management and visionary leadership,” Cloe explains. Utilizing experiential learning, reflective practice, and hands-on assignments, Leadership & Management helped students to develop competencies crucial for their roles as emerging global health delivery leaders.
Recognizing the benefit of sharing these lessons with their colleagues, students were eager to put their new skills into practice. Students identified areas of growth for their colleagues, from effective communication to time management to emotional intelligence, and later shared these skills through trainings for their own colleagues. After facilitating a session on constructive feedback, Angeline Mumararungu, a doctor and program manager at Gardens for Health International, felt confident in her ability to continue to engage her colleagues in open discussions.
“My colleagues were very receptive to my presentation. I feel empowered to strengthen other areas of the organization, together,” Angeline later reflected.
After strengthening their leadership skills and developing their own managerial skills and those of their colleagues during this course, students have already begun to effect change outside of the classroom. In their third semester of the program, students will build on these skills in their Managing Global Health Care Delivery course, and further develop the tools required for innovative implementers delivering care in the field.
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Doom Eternal game – The devil’s nightmare is back!
By Kristina Douglas
In Doom Eternal, the Doomslayer has returned and been a hundred times more powerful. That is the message Id Software wants to convey through its recently published information series.
Doom guy re-exported. He does not need to introduce, because everyone knows about him. He did not ask, nor did he need permission, simply taking what he needed.
Doomslayer, the devil’s nightmare returned in Doom Eternal, against Mick Gordon’s wrathful rock songs. But he not only returned but was also upgraded with new “toys”, promising more impressive performances and more gore – good news for us, and bad news with evil demons Street.
What does he have in Doom Eternal? It is a versatile gun mounted on the shoulder, a scary knife in the left hand, and the Crucible sword has appeared in the 2016 version of the game. Called by Software, Slayer 2.0, the Doomslayer armor adds a new feature that allows him to dash in the air or climb on the wall, providing unprecedented flexibility in another Doom version.
And yet, a series of new weapons also find their way to Doomslayer, for example the Balista can pierce the target with an explosive arrow. Old guns have also been upgraded, for example, the new Plasma has more powerful destructive power and Machine Gun can fire destructive bullets.
BFG 10000 that ‘s a more “genuine” version of BFG 9000 also appears, but Doomslayer may not be able to carry it with him. New weapons and new skills come together to allow Doomslayer to show exciting fighting scenes, pushing the already fierce battles in 2016 to a great new level of hysteria.
Meanwhile, the demons also found new ways to deal with Doomslayer. Hellknight put up two more fiery blades, Mancubus looked more violent and evil. The evil forces also call back some old-style Pain Elemental, Archvile or Arachnotron. And yet, there are new enemies who are very confident in their dominance of Marauder when imitating Doomslayer with a familiar double-shot shotgun, while another claims to be Doom Hunter.
Is it time to leave “easy mode” out of the game
In the video game, ‘easy‘ is a somewhat hard to hear word, even if it must be. Something about the word ‘easy’ makes some gamers feel like they are being condemned. Something that we should forget – unless that’s when we shouldn’t.
A game that, when it is debuted, began a familiar debate: Should it be an ‘easy’ mode? A FromSoftware game has become something to tell when you break them and join the club who have made that feat. In addition, Sekiro abandons the mechanism of summoning other players to help you as in Souls.
So, talking about Sekiro is about you, about what you have done to overcome the challenges that the game offers and why you have a place in the community who broke Sekiro Island. For some people, difficulty is the basic factor that makes up a FromSoftware experience. It creates every aspect of the company’s design criteria.
Minimal storytelling style, communicating much through obscure descriptions of items and signs scattered in a better operating environment when you are forced to run back and forth in the level. The plot of these games often carries a theme related to death and the loss of humanity.
Failure allows you to understand the story that has just joined it, completing the loop set out at the beginning. In Sekiro, these ideas are focused in a strange way in terms of FromSoftware; dying and resurrecting between battles is a mechanism you can interact with, and the plot of the game does not hesitate to say the price to pay for the death sentence.
This creates a solid argument that Sekiro must be hard, because high difficulty is the focus of the whole game. There are lots of ways for video games to change elements to become more difficult or easier, and many developers have done this without compromising on the quality of the product.
One of the things that both developers and gamers understand is Halo’s Heroic difficulty is how the studio wants the game to be played. ‘Easy’ and ‘normal’ are still there to welcome players who need them, and even these two difficulty levels require less than you but you can still get the plot that the game wants to convey. .
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Mac Miller Sued by Lord Finesse for $10 Million, Mixtape Track Center of Lawsuit
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When Mac Miller put out a free mixtape in 2010, he likely never thought it would be costing him millions of dollars in the longrun. The Pittsburgh rhymer is being sued by veteran rapper Lord Finesse for $10 million as a result of the use of his 1995 "Hip 2 Da Game" instrumental, which Miller sampled for his breakout song "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" off his 2010 K.I.D.S. mixtape.
According to CourthouseNews.com, Finesse, born Robert Hall, claims Miller, born Malcolm McCormick, put out "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" without authorizing use of "Hip 2 Da Game."
"This is a case about a teenage rapper -- Mac Miller -- copying the music from a song written, produced and performed by Lord Finesse, a hip-hop legend, changing the title and then distributing it under his own name in order to launch his music career," the complaint states in the lawsuit.
In addition to suing Miller, Finesse, also sued the website DatPiff.com, a popular mixtape distributor, and Miller's label, Rostrum Records.
Finesse took to his Twitter page to voice his opinion on the matter. "This case is about the overall picture.. If you're just looking at "one" point.. It's about so much more ‪#look‬ deeper..," he wrote.
Miller also had some words to share. "1. I made that record and video as nothing more than an 18 year old kid who wanted to rhyme and pay homage, no other intentions.," the Blue Slide Park creator stated. "2. Finesse and I spoke on the phone for an hour after he heard the record and cleared the air. We even planned to work on music together.
"3. All I wanted to do is shed light on a generation that inspired me 4. When I heard there was a problem, I reached out to him to try and solve it. No response. 5. Finesse never cleared the Oscar Peterson sample on the original record."
A music video for Mac Miller's "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" has since been taken down. The visual for the song garnered more than 20 million hits on YouTube.
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The effect of wildfires impacts on glaciers in western Canada
Chris Moore January 7, 2019 0 Comment
Scientists in Western Canada are concerned about the impact ash and smoke plumes from forest fires can have on Rocky Mountain and Columbia glaciers.
“The surface of the glaciers has never been so dirty,” says Ben Pelto, a scientist who has been following the evolution of glaciers near Golden for five years with support from the University of Northern British Columbia.
“When you’re in the middle of the fire season, you can even taste the smoke in the water,” says Ben Pelto. It’s a shame, because you expect to drink pure water, but it tastes weird. ”
But it’s not the taste of water that worries Ben Palto the most: it’s rather the dirt that covers the glaciers. The wildfires that raged last summer in British Columbia are particularly involved, he says.
However, the more the surface of the glaciers darkens and the more it absorbs the sunlight. Not to mention that the big forest fires of the last years in the West, if they continue, may accelerate the disappearance of these fields of eternal ice formed by the accumulation of snow.
On the other side of the Rockies in Alberta, his counterpart John Pomeroy, who studies Peyto and Athabasca Glaciers at the Hydrology Center and Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, confirms that glacier pollution appears to be coming from forest fires.
“You can follow smoke plumes with atmospheric models and observe their effects [on the ground],” he says.
Pomeroy says he found ash from forest fires in the neighboring province during the summer.
During the summer, when the snow melts, glaciers tend to absorb nearly 60% of the sun’s rays, explains the researcher. “But the last two summers were a shock. Last summer, 70% of the sun’s rays were absorbed on the surface of glaciers. And this summer, we are talking about 80%, “he says.
A missing factor
To this day, the effect of forest fires on glaciers is still difficult to measure, agrees John Pomeroy.
For glaciologist Shawn Marshall, who works at the University of Calgary, understanding the impact of smoke and ash on glaciers is crucial.
“If we have a major forest fire season, the weather becomes hot and dry – conditions that are already difficult for glaciers. So, if these glaciers take in addition this dark hue, it’s even worse! ”
He who has been studying the impact of climate change on the Haig Glacier in Alberta since 2000 believes that more time should be spent studying the phenomenon.
For the time being, these factors are not included in the analysis and projection models of Canadian scientists.
Last year, forest fires burned 9450 square kilometers in British Columbia. Alberta, for its part, experienced wild fires in 2016.
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How Pakistan was saved by rains from a difficult situation in 1992 World Cup
June 23, 2019 by Keyur Seta 2 Comments
Winning the 1992 World Cup has been the biggest achievement for the Pakistan cricket team till date. The second best might be their triumph in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy where they defeated India convincingly in the final.
Pakistan sprung a surprise by winning the cup in ’92 as not many would have fancied their chances during the league stage. But their performances in the semi-final against New Zealand [what a chase it was!] and final against England [Wasim Akram’s mystery ball to get Chris Lewis out] showed that they were the deserving winners of the cup.
Interestingly, while going through the points table and the scores of the league matches in the series, something alarming caught my eye. The points table showed Pakistan with 9 points on the fourth position while Australia and West Indies tied on the fifth position with 8 points each.
Now, let us go back to the match between Pakistan and England in the league stage played on March 1 at Adelaide. Pakistan were sent in to bat by England and they were all out for a mere 74 runs! At one stage they were reduced to 47 for 8.
England looked like winning the match as after eight overs there were 24 for 1, needing only 51 more with plenty of overs left. Unfortunately for England, rains started pouring in and as per the weird rain rule in the series, they needed 62 off 10 overs to win the match.
Reacting on this, England’s Gladstone Small, who played that match, told The Guardian, “It was ridiculous. It should have been that we needed to get 14 or something like that.” But the rain kept interrupting and ultimately the match was abandoned. Both the teams got one point each from the match.
Small also admitted that the same rain rule helped them in the infamous semi-final where South Africa were reduced to getting 21 to off just 1 ball.
Going back to the points table of the ’92 WC, if rains wouldn’t have interrupted the match, England was on course to winning this one. If this would have happened, Pakistan, Australia and West Indies would have been tied on the fourth position with 8 points each.
Source: ESPN Cricinfo
As seen in the points table above, the Net Run Rate [NRR] of Pakistan, Australia and West Indies was 0.166, 0.201 and 0.076 respectively. If Pakistan had lost the match, their NRR could have been affected.
Also read: He was selected for 1983 WC, but had to wait till ‘99 to play for India
It would have been interesting to see the extent to which Pakistan’s NRR would have been reduced and whether it would have impacted their chances of qualifying for the semi-finals.
By: Keyur Seta
With valuable inputs from Tamojit Ghosh
Filed Under: Cricket Tagged With: 1992 World Cup Pakistan, England Pakistan league match 92 World Cup, Pakistan 1992 World Cup matches, Pakistan England 92 World Cup, Pakistan England final 1992 World Cup, World Cup trivia
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Retail’s mobile-led future loses sci-fi feel
Looking back through my notes from Cannes Lions, I remembered the fact I wanted to flag up some thinking relevant to retail from Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, 2011’s Media Person of the year.
One of the most interesting speakers during the week of seminars, he covered everything from globalisation to self-driving cars and accessing consumer social graphs (which makes far more sense since following the launch of Google +).
He also spoke about the benefit of ‘cloud computing’ and asked delegates to imagine that everything they needed for daily life was accessible through their smartphone. [Not a bad focus considering this is a company that has previously said everything it now does is based on a “mobile first” policy].
You’re walking along the street in Cannes, he said, your phone knows you, knows who you are. You tell it you want a t-shirt. As you’re walking it tells you which stores are nearby that you can go to, and which ones have discount or offers on. It directs you to one of them and you go in. The shop assistants already know you’re coming and welcome you as you arrive. You take your t-shirt and pay for it through your phone.
Now, that would have sounded foreign just a mere few years ago – science fiction almost. To many it probably still does. But when you consider the fact technology for location-based services and offers are commonplace, with mobile transactions (Google wallet) the latest focus, it’s all perfectly feasible. Schmidt further highlighted this at Cannes when he said a third of all checkouts in restaurants and retail stores will allow “tap and pay” through mobile phones within about a year.
The concept reminded me of one of my favourite-ever posts from Federated Media’s John Battelle: The Gap Scenario. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you do now.
In it, he takes the idea of the retail experience itself to the next level, incorporating everything from customer service to CRM. Now not only does your phone know you, but the store does.
As Battelle highlights, however, while the technology and the platforms exist for such scenarios to play out, what’s not solved as yet are the business processes that sew it all together.
Watch this space. The term Google “branding” might just take on whole new meaning for retail.
Rachel Arthur - July 11, 2011
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Movies Of The Year Awards: 2000
Best Picture:
The End: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Gladiator
Best Director:
The End: Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Steven Soderberg, Traffic
The End: Tony Leung, In The Mood For Love
Oscar: Russell Crowe, Gladiator
Actress:
The End: Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
Supporting Actor:
The End: Benicio Del Toro, Traffic
Oscar: benicio Del Toro, Traffic
Supporting Actress:
The End: Michelle Yeoh, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Marcia Gay Harden, Pollack
Original Screenplay:
The End: Edward Yang, Yi yi
Oscar: Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
Adapted Screenplay:
The End: Steve Cloves, Wonder Boys
Oscar: Stephen Gaghan, Traffic
Foreign Language Film:
Oscar: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Documentary Feature:
The End: Jeff Buckley: Live In Chicago
Oscar: Into The Arms Of Strangers
Live Action Short Film:
The End: The Heart Of The World
Oscar: I Want To Be . . .
Film Editing:
The End: Tim Squyres, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Stephen Mirrione, Traffic
The End: Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, In The Mood For Love
Oscar: Peter Pau, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Costume Design:
The End: X-Men
Oscar: How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Sound Effects Editing:
The End: Gladiator
Oscar: U-571
Visual Effects:
Original Score:
The End: Tan Dun, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oscar: Tan Dun, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Original Song:
The End: Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed”, Wonder Boys
Oscar: Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed”, Wonder Boys
Soundtrack:
The End: In the Mood For Love
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My Name Is Not ‘Ma’: Why Street Harassment Is Everyone’s Problem
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If you’ve ever walked down a NYC block it is likely that you’ve heard “Hey yo, ma, can I holler at you for a sec?” or “ Damn, ma, you’re fine,” or “God bless you, ma,” or “But why aren’t you smiling?” as if women walk around all day smiling for no reason at all. If you haven’t been the victim of catcalling, then consider yourself lucky, but the reality for many women is that they’ve experienced some form of street harassment.
We are disrespected almost every day by men who feel they have a right to talk to us, approach us, or even go so far as to touch us without permission. Men, who believe we should feel flattered because they’ve noticed us or given us a compliment. From the time a woman walks out the door of her home in the morning, be it walking to the corner bodega or to school, she is forced to dodge the unsolicited advances from men just to keep herself safe and we are taught do so from a very early age.
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By the time a young girl hits puberty she is faced with having to deal with unwanted sexual attention and harassment by her peers and older men alike. As she gets older and enters womanhood the harassment continues, and instead of educating boys and men on how to treat women, women are taught to accept and deal with it. It’s the reason we cross to the other side of the street when we see a group of men together. It’s the reason why we’ll speed walk like we’re preparing for an event at the next Olympic Games when a man approaches and begins walking alongside us. We’ve been taught to ignore it while our male counterparts haven’t been taught anything at all.
Women are not afforded the opportunity to express their feelings when confronted with harassment. Why? Because a woman who defends herself or vocalizes her discomfort risks the chance of the incident escalating by either being verbally abused by the harasser or even experiencing a possible physical threat. Because you know, “You wasn’t all that anyway, b*tch.” The thing is, women have a right to defend themselves and click here to read the rest
The FIERCE Woman 1 yr. Anniversary Keynote Speakers & Honorees
Raygrid Calderon
In 2013, Latina techie, Raygrid Calderon launched her mobile application, DreemKaCHer, under her new start up tech company DreemKaCHer ECLECTIC. The app made its debut on Apple’s iOS platform as a business networking tool for entrepreneurs, musicians, students and the creative mind. Those looking to get booked or connected are called ‘Dreemers’, while those looking for products and services are known as ‘Kachers’. The dynamic allows a balance between users on the interface where each person’s profile serves as an interactive resume. The company also provides users with information and tips to help people start their business while helping inspire and motivate those in unconventional working fields.
Maribel Rivera
Maribel Rivera is a Marketing Brand Specialist focused on creating brand stories that influence for clients that include not only global organizations but small businesses and individuals. Maribel develops brand strategies so that a company’s brand touch-points (corporate identity, product design, web site, online marketing, traditional advertising, PR and word of mouth) all work in harmony to create a positive perception in the mind of clients and prospects.
A person of action, Maribel has developed strategies to attain her goals including learning to listen instead of speak. She is considered a social connector constantly networking, meeting new people and seeing what she could do for others. While being a single mom raising two sons of her own and taking in six other boys, Maribel climbed the corporate jungle gym moving through the ranks from secretary at 19 to VP of Marketing & Events prior to starting her own company in 2013. Maribel sits on the board of three associations – Women in eDiscovery, which is focused on developing women both professionally and personally and ARMA Metro NYC, an association for records and information management professionals and ACEDS NY Metro, an association which promotes e-discovery competence and professional development. She is currently working with a group to create mentoring programs in technology for young adults. In her spare time, Maribel can be found at the gym or shoe shopping.
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EVENTS: The FIERCE Woman 1 Yr. Anniversary
On April 13th, The FIERCE Woman™ (TFW) officially turned one. To celebrate this milestone we will be hosting our 1 yr. anniversary celebration and awards ceremony this Sunday, April 26th at an undisclosed location in the Bronx. The invite only event was personally planned by TFW founder & Executive Director, Nancy Arroyo Ruffin who was very selective about who would attend. When asked how the attendees were selected she told us “I wanted to share this milestone with women who have supported The FIERCE Woman this past year by attending one of our past events. These are the women who have made The FIERCE Woman such a success and this was my way of saying thank you.”
This year’s keynote speakers and honorees are Raygrid Calderon and Maribel Rivera, two women who exemplify everything a F.I.E.R.C.E. woman should be. Raygrid is a Latina applications developer and Maribel is a marketing brand guru. These women will be honored for their contributions in business & technology and will also be sharing their success stories with the attendees. Check back with The FIERCE Woman next week for all the highlights of the event.
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Event: The FIERCE Woman 1 Yr. Anniversary Brunch & Awards Ceremony
In April of last year what started out as a small idea while sitting in my downtown Manhattan office to host an event where I could connect and unite women to celebrate everything that makes us FIERCE evolved into The FIERCE Woman Foundation. Last year we produced 3 events each of which sold out. This month we will be celebrating our 1 year anniversary and I could not be a prouder of what we have created. Though still in her infancy, The FIERCE Woman Foundation is committed to change the way women perceive themselves and each other. We are an unstoppable force. We are mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts, friends. We are business women, entrepreneurs, leaders, coaches. For a very long time women have been taught to believe that it is almost impossible to have both successful personal lives as well as professional lives. I am here to tell you that it is possible to have both and to also live the life that you’ve always dreamed of because I am living proof.
Please join me April 26, 2015 at the Mott Haven Bar & Grill as I celebrate the The FIERCE Woman One Year Anniversary Brunch & Awards Ceremony. This year’s theme is “I Am Every Woman: Celebrating the FIERCE Woman in All of Us” because women no longer have to choose between roles. We can do it all if we choose to.
We will be honoring two phenomenal women who are making great strides in business and technology. These women are FIERCE women determined to make their dreams come true and are doing just that. In addition to being honorees they will also share their personal stories of success. They will wow you with their sheer will to get things done by any means possible. Where most people find an excuse they find a solution. They will share with you their pearls of wisdom on how to make it in business and succeed as a woman.
This is a very intimate event and only a limited amount of tickets are being made available to the general public. Once all tickets have been sold there will be no additional tickets and absolutely no tickets will be available for sale at the door. To purchase tickets please visit: www.tfwturnsone.eventbrite.com
Your ticket includes a pre-fixed brunch and your choice of unlimited mimosas, sangria, or non-alcoholic drink (for the duration of the event), complimentary manicures by Nails by Jassy, sweet treats provided by Cake Pops by Keyla, and unlimited access to some of today’s most influential women in business. Bring your business cards and charm and be prepared to mingle with some very successful women. Please note that this is a FEMALE ONLY event.
Thank you to all who have supported us this past year. I look forward to seeing you all and celebrating this milestone with you.
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Protestors in Florida speak out against private prisons, which prefer to house Black people because they cost less than white people, according to Kellogg.
Ending racial injustice begins with curbing law enforcement industry's political power
Ronnie Kellogg
Kellogg is a volunteer in Lincoln, Neb., for Wolf-PAC, which is seeking to build grassroots support for a constitutional amendment that would permit more regulation of money in politics.
"I can't breathe." The panic in my brother's faint voice struck me like a hammer blow. These words have become dreadfully familiar. We were at my uncle's house for an overnight stay and my brother's asthma had flared up. But for Black folk nationwide, these words are far more ominous.
My little cousins and I knew what to do. We set up a nebulizer and gave him medicine — and he could breathe easily again in less than five minutes. Compare that to the way police officers commonly treat unarmed Black men in this country. Imagine the repercussions if we hadn't helped my brother. Then, compare that to the impunity with which officers deal out murder and abuse to Black folk.
Now that everyone has a video camera in hand, the racism of policing and our justice system is starkly obvious. But how did we get here? What made our system so biased, and what is the history behind this?
President Richard Nixon began his drug war in 1971. His effort had racist roots and was based on bogus evidence as well as willful ignorance. Thus, part of Nixon's legacy is that Black people are arrested for drug possession at a far higher rate than whites, even though white and Black people do drugs at close to equal rates.
Because several of Nixon's successors expanded this policy — Ronald Reagan supported no-knock warrants like the one that got Breonna Taylor killed — an entire industry has a profit motive to ensure people of color are arrested more often. The private prison industry, which sprang up during the Reagan administration, prefers housing Black people because they cost less than white people, who are more often older and less healthy. Besides, their contracts with the states often dictate that a high percentage of their prison beds must be filled, or else the company gets paid for the empty beds.
The "corrections corporation" CoreCivic Inc. made so much revenue from its prisons last year that a mechanical counter tabulating a dollar every second would take almost 63 years to finish: $1.98 billion. But in order to keep the gravy train going, the industry participates in campaigns and influences lawmakers by investing some of its profit in candidates. It would take about three weeks for that same machine to tabulate all the money the industry put into the 2020 election: $2.7 million, which was 40 percent more than two years before.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and members of Congress ranging from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell to Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, have all taken money from this industry at some point in their careers.
The industry has even influenced judges. This was evidenced by the 2009 kids for cash scandal in Pennsylvania, in which two judges were paid kickbacks by the owners of for-profit juvenile detention centers in return for sentencing hundreds of kids to time in those facilities. The industry does whatever it can politically to keep the inmates coming in and the cash flowing, including pushing for harsher laws and longer sentencing periods.
The undue influence of money in our election system makes it close to impossible for we the people to stop this injustice. So, how do we fix it? We fix it by getting rid of that influence. Amending the U.S. Constitution is the best way to do this. We need language in there to prevent dollars from drowning out the voices of average Americans. Personally, I'm not sure what the exact language should be. We would decide that together at a convention to propose the amendment.
This is why I volunteer with Wolf-PAC. Our plan is to propose real reform of our campaign finance system through a convention of the states. Five states out of the 34 we need have already passed legislation calling for a second constitutional convention, which is allowed under Article V of the Constitution, and our activism contributed to these successes.
Amending the Constitution is the only way to bypass our broken Congress and the Supreme Court. Besides, we must make this change permanent. So join us. We need all of the help we can get.
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Ballot extensions in 2 key states survive Supreme Court, but Pa. fight not over
David Hawkings
Ballots that arrive several days late in the pivotal battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and North Carolina will get counted. But whether all those votes will actually count in the contest for president is still not sure.
That's the main takeaway from back-to-back rulings Wednesday from the Supreme Court. They were likely the last important voting decisions before an Election Day where the ground rules have been whipsawed as never before by partisan litigation fueled by a pandemic.
<p>The Pennsylvania case remains in legal limbo. That because all the court did was say it wasn't going to fully reconsider the three-day grace period before the voting stops — but that it might afterward.</p><p>It made that decision after the state promised to to instruct local boards of elections to segregate all the mailed votes that arrive after the polls close Tuesday but before the end of the workday Friday — making it logistically possible to remove that part of the tabulation later, potentially changing the outcome in a tossup state with 20 electoral votes. (As of Thursday, 1 million requested absentee ballots in the state had not yet been returned, while 2.1 million had.) </p><p>The nine-day extension that North Carolina has granted for ballots postmarked as late as Tuesday was locked down by the court, however — so the presidential race could be up in the air until Nov. 12 or longer if the state's 15 electoral votes prove decisive. (The state says 600,000 of its requested mailed ballots have not come back.)</p><p><p style="text-align: center;" id="sufn"><a style="font-weight: bold;margin:40px auto;font-size:2rem" href="https://thefulcrum.us/st/newsletters">Sign up for The Fulcrum newsletter </a></p></p><p>Justice Amy Coney Barrett, on the bench only a day, did not participate in either case because, the court said, she had not had time to get up to speed on the disputes.</p><p>The non-legalistic bases of both are the same. People are voting absentee in unprecedented numbers to avoid possible coronavirus exposure at their polling places. Democrats have spent months pushing for more leniency in the distribution and counting rules for mailed ballots. And Republicans have fought them at almost every turn, arguing with hardly any evidence that such relaxations will sully American democracy with cheating.</p><p>The Pennsylvania extension was ordered by the state Supreme Court, based on the belief that the state Constitution required the easements to protect voting rights in light of Covid-19 and pervasive Postal Service delays. The Supreme Court <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/pennsylvania-election" target="_self">first upheld </a>that decision on a 4-4 tie last week. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberals, later explaining his position that state courts are free to interpret their own state constitutions in voting cases.</p><p><div class="x12"><div class="htlad-Desktop_Content_Banner"></div></div></p><p>The state Republican Party tried again, and on Wednesday only three of the most conservative justices said they wanted to decide the case in the week before Election Day and will ask their colleagues to pick it up afterward: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. </p><p>The same three also dissented from the North Carolina decision, which was unsigned and had no majority opinion. It <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/nc-vote-by-mail" target="_self">upheld a federal appeals court</a>, which ruled 12-3 last week that the state Board of Elections could extend the deadline under its authority to change voting rules during emergencies. (It's done the same thing after hurricanes in two recent election years.)</p><p>Where the court takes election law next is a bit unclear.</p><p>Alito declared that, by not finalizing the Pennsylvania fight, the election will be "conducted under a cloud" and the court has "needlessly created conditions that could lead to serious postelection problems."</p><p>He also reiterated his view that the federal Constitution gives state legislatures exclusive authority to make the rules for their congressional and presidential elections.</p><p>That echoed a concurring opinion issued on Monday by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/voting/vote-by-mail-wisconsin" target="_self">the court struck down</a> an absentee ballot extension in another battleground, Wisconsin, that had been ordered by a federal judge. His opinion has alarmed some legal scholars and democracy reformers because it pointed to the Supreme Court's decisions in cases culminating in Bush v. Gore. That 5-4 ruling, which settled the disputed 2000 results in Florida and handed the presidency to George W. Bush, has been ridiculed ever since as both legally flawed and motivated by raw partisanship.</p>
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In Pennsylvania, Supreme Court punts on constitutional issues. For now.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on an important absentee voting case from Pennsylvania means that, for now, mail-in ballots will have more time to arrive and be counted in this key swing state. That could have a significant impact on the election, but this might not be the last word from the high court.
The justices were reviewing a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar. Many commentators had expected the Supreme Court to stay that decision, as requested by state Republicans, and in so doing possibly address difficult questions about the meaning of some key provisions in the U.S. Constitution. But with only a few weeks to go before the election, and on a 4-4 vote, the Supreme Court avoided reaching the underlying questions. The state ruling will stand for now.
<p>Under Pennsylvania law, absentee ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on the day of the election. But during the June primary, election offices were overwhelmed, thanks to Covid-19. Nearly 20 times the expected number requested to vote absentee. Thousands didn't receive their ballots in time to return them by Election Day. </p><p>In response, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and others asked the state Supreme Court to permit absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day in the general election to be received several days later. The Pennsylvania court agreed. It also said mailed ballots received by the third day after Election Day even without a legible postmark should be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day unless evidence established otherwise. </p><p><p style="text-align: center;" id="sufn"><a style="font-weight: bold;margin:40px auto;font-size:2rem" href="https://thefulcrum.us/st/newsletters">Sign up for The Fulcrum newsletter </a></p></p><p>The state court relied on the Pennsylvania Constitution's "Free and Equal Elections" provision, which protects "a voter's right to equal participation" in the state's electoral process. Essentially, it said absentee voters should not be disenfranchised by delays beyond their control, as long as those voters have actually cast their votes by the same deadline applicable to voters who vote in person. A secondary though critical element of the court's ruling was that Pennsylvania's election process (like the process in every state) already provides time after Election Day for officials to count other ballots that arrive later, including ballots of military and overseas voters. </p><p>Indeed, there's a compelling argument that allowing military and overseas voters to cast an absentee ballot that arrives after Election Day, while denying other voters the same opportunity, is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the law. This argument prevailed in <a href="https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Opinion_006.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Obama for America v. Husted</a>, a 2012 challenge to an Ohio law that provided different dates for military and overseas and domestic voting. </p><p><div class="x12"><div class="htlad-Desktop_Content_Banner"></div></div></p><p>A second part of the state court case is trickier. The court decided to permit the three-day extension of the ballot return deadline to apply to ballots without a legible postmark. The Pennsylvania Republican Party argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that this ruling would permit voters to cast ballots after Nov. 3. But voters do not control whether an absentee ballot return envelope bears a legible postmark. Voters shouldn't be disenfranchised, the court said, "for the lack or illegibility of a postmark resulting from the USPS processing system." </p><p>The Supreme Court's denial of a stay doesn't mean it agrees with the Pennsylvania state court on the merits. It's merely a decision not to disturb this state court decision now, with the election only two weeks away. So we wait to see whether absentee ballots arriving by the third day after the election without a postmark will make a difference in <a href="https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-pennsylvania-mail-in-voting-cd322239-57bb-4bae-aabe-a4116e5bf6d5.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Pennsylvania outcome</a>. If they do, it's still possible the U.S. Supreme Court may have to consider the details. </p><p><em>Steven Huefner is professor of law and deputy director of the </em><a href="https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>election law program</em></a><em> at The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. Read more from The Fulcrum's </em><a href="https://thefulcrum.us/election-dissection" target="_self"><em>Election Dissection</em></a><em> blog.</em></p>
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Pennsylvania election officials cannot begin processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, ensuring the winner of the state's 20 electoral votes will not be known for days.
GOP looks to keep fighting against late-arriving mail ballots in Pennsylvania
Republicans signaled Tuesday they are not giving up their effort to shut down the vote count on Election Day in Pennsylvania, hours after the Supreme Court delivered a significant win to Democrats by permitting absentee ballots in the pivotal battleground to arrive later.
Word from GOP leaders in the state magnified the realities that legal fighting over almost every aspect of the presidential race is far from over — and that Judge Amy Coney Barrett could play a deciding role in this year's essential democratic exercise as soon as she arrives on the high court, probably next week.
For the time being, though, the situation in Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes crucial to both candidates, is something of a good news, bad news situation for an already confused electorate.
<p>On the one hand, voters who wait until the last minute to cast their absentee ballots are less likely to be disenfranchised because they get delayed by the mail. But on the other hand, the winner in the state, and perhaps the winner of the presidency, very likely won't be known until the weekend after the election — at the earliest.<br></p><p>That suspense will be compounded because none of the state's 2 million or more expected vote-by-mail envelopes will even be opened, and the signatures on them checked, until after the polls open Nov. 3. Negotiations in Harrisburg on a last-minute deal to allow that processing to start earlier essentially collapsed Monday. </p><p><p style="text-align: center;" id="sufn"><a style="font-weight: bold;margin:40px auto;font-size:2rem" href="https://thefulcrum.us/st/newsletters">Sign up for The Fulcrum newsletter </a></p></p><p>What the Supreme Court decided later Monday night, because of a 4-4 deadlock, was to let stand a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. It had ruled that ballots arriving by Nov. 6, or three days late, should be counted so as not to punish voters for the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and delays by the Postal Service — so long as they were postmarked by the time the polls closed or, if the postmark was missing or illegible, it could be proved the ballot went in the mail after Election Day.</p><p>The state court noted that Pennsylvania law allows mail ballots to be cast on Election Day, even though delivering them by the end of the day is impractical. Republicans say the court claimed authority that belongs to legislators.</p><p>Putting a halt on that ruling, called a stay, would have required five votes. The four most conservative justices justices would have done so: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On the other side were Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and the three liberal justices, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.</p><p><div class="x12"><div class="htlad-Desktop_Content_Banner"></div></div></p><p>Neither side offered anything in writing, and the fact that it took two weeks for the decision in such an urgent case suggests that compromise had proved impossible.</p><p>But it also gave the Republicans a legal window to try again after all nine seats are occupied. Barrett is on course to secure Senate confirmation in the first half of next week, which is the week before the election. During her confirmation hearings she declined to say if she would recuse herself from presidential election cases, on the grounds she would be biased toward the candidate who put her on the court. </p><p>Top Pennsylvania GOP officials issued statements Tuesday signaling they were ready to press the issue.</p><p>Monday night's ruling "only underscores the importance of having a full Supreme Court as soon as possible," Chairman Lawrence Tabas said. "The Supreme Court decided not to grant a stay — which does not mean the actions of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would withstand a legal challenge to their Judicial overreach should the court hear the case."</p><p>"We are still hopeful that a full court will reverse the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's intrusion, added the party's top attorney, Tom King.</p><p>Trump, meanwhile, derided the Supreme Court ruling as "ridiculous" on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning.</p><p>The decision sets aside one of the biggest legal hurdles still facing the election in Pennsylvania. The state Supreme Court is expected to decide in the coming days what rules, if any, should face election officials confronted with sloppy mail ballot signatures. </p><p>Democrats had requested 1.7 million absentee ballots in the state as of the end of last week, to just 672,000 for Republicans — one of the reasons the Joe Biden campaign is optimistic of carrying the state if all his supporters follow through. Trump carried the state by 44,000 votes, or less than 1 point, last time.</p><p>"In a year where there is a very real possibility that the final presidential election result hinges on Pennsylvania, the new rules imposed by the decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (a body elected in partisan elections) could destroy the American public's confidence in the electoral system as a whole," the state GOP and the party's legislative leaders said in their high court brief.</p><p>Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the two presidential tossup states where Republicans control the legislatures but Democrats hold most state Supreme Court seats.</p><p>The justices' decision was a big deviation from its record in election cases since the pandemic began. In all but one other case, the court has come down on the side of stricter rules for voting — mainly by applying a precedent against judges loosening procedures close to Election Day. It's first such ruling, hours before Wisconsin primary day in April, overturned a federal judge's decision lengthening the time for absentee voting. (The court did allow ballots to arrive late in that case, too, however.)</p>
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Pennsylvania may decide the election, but has to decide many rules first
Eighteen days from when the voting stops, no battleground state has its election procedures more up in the air than Pennsylvania.
Whether to permit an extension for the arrival of absentee ballots will be decided any day by the U.S. Supreme Court, protecting or disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters.
Whether to reject ballots for sloppy signatures will be decided any day by the state Supreme Court, determining the validity of thousands more votes.
Whether to allow processing of mailed ballots before Election Day will be decided any day at the state capital, either speeding or delaying results that could settle who wins the presidency.
<p>And then there are the continued disputes over how expansively to permit ballot drop boxes, what to do with mistakenly duplicated vote-by-mail applications, how to recover from ballot printing mistakes, how much more to regulate poll workers — and whether <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/voter-fraud-cases" target="_self">discarded vote envelopes</a> sent by Pennsylvanians in the armed forces overseas are a sign of sweeping election fraud. (The big hint here: There were nine of them, not the "thousands of ballots" President Trump falsely claimed Thursday night.)</p><p>All the indecision suggests that another round of fresh legal fights is likely to be unleashed after Nov. 3 if the national contest between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains too close to call — and Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes remain up for grabs. (State law says that's supposed to be settled with the certification of election results by Nov. 23.)</p><p><p style="text-align: center;" id="sufn"><a style="font-weight: bold;margin:40px auto;font-size:2rem" href="https://thefulcrum.us/st/newsletters">Sign up for The Fulcrum newsletter </a></p></p><p>"I happen to think that Pennsylvania could be ground zero in the country for determining the outcome of the presidential election because of the delays from litigation," Philadelphia election lawyer Matt Haverstick t<a href="https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2020/10/pa-supreme-federal-courts-election-decisions/" target="_blank">old Spotlight PA</a>. "I have a feeling we are going to be the Florida of 2020."</p><p>The most dramatic possible scenario involves competing slates of electors vying for the eye of Congress — one group backing Trump that gets forwarded by the Republican-majority General Assembly, and a group for Biden endorsed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.</p><p>But that hypothetical would come true more than two months from now, and several more tangible disputes must be settled in the next two weeks.</p> <p>In the meantime, a record 2.6 million Pennsylvanians have already asked for and received mail-in ballots, and 518,000 had been returned by the middle of the week. Four years ago, Trump carried the state by just 45,000 votes out of 6 million cast.</p><p><div class="x12"><div class="htlad-Desktop_Content_Banner"></div></div></p><p>Assuming turnout is higher this year, as widely expected, the most important pending case looks to be the one before the U.S. Supreme Court. </p><p>Republicans are asking the justices to reverse a ruling by the state's high court last month, ordering a three-day extension for the arrival of absentee ballots mailed by the time the polls close Nov. 3. The state's justices also ruled 4-3 that envelopes with a missing or unclear postmark must be accepted, so long as there's no indication they were sent in after polls closed.</p><p>More than 18,000 envelopes were tossed because they arrived after primary day in June, or about 1 percent of the total vote.</p><p>Republicans say Election Day arrival should be the rule again, not only because the state court imposed its will on a decision that should have been left to legislators but also because the justices changed the rules too close to the election. Both arguments have fared well in a series of election cases the Supreme Court has considered since the coronavirus pandemic upended normal election rhythms this spring.</p><p>The state high court said this week it would decide another big dispute before Election Day: Democratic Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania's top election official, wants the court to prevent counties from rejecting ballots based on a subjective assessment of the signatures on the envelopes by election officials, who are not trained to see how handwriting can change over time. (About 1,800 primary ballots were rejected for this reason this summer.)</p><p>The Trump campaign wants to disqualify mail-in ballots with signatures that don't appear to match what's on file. A federal judge in Pittsburgh last week threw out a lawsuit to that effect, which also sought to lift the county residency rule for partisan election monitors and an effective ban on ballot drop boxes.</p><p>While Trump's team readies a federal appeal, his GOP allies in Harrisburg are pursuing his poll watcher and drop box preferences as their main objectives in negotiations over a last-minute election bill. But on Thursday the governor's office described his latest offer as having been spurned and said the talks are at an impasse.</p><p>Wolf's main goal is a change in state law to permit county election officials a head start of at least a few days to check the signatures, open the envelopes and stack the ballots for tabulating — painstaking work that right now can only begin the morning of Election Day. (Winners of some close legislative and congressional primaries were not clear for weeks afterward as a result of that late start.)</p><p>Such a switch would speed the vote count, assuring a vast majority of ballots are tabulated on election night and reducing the ability to credibly claim the results are being manipulated. At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this week, Trump falsely asserted that the only way he could lose the state is if Democrats cheat. (Polling for now shows Biden with a single-digit lead.)</p><p>A spurt of worry about potential fraud quickly subsided Thursday but was supplanted by a wave of voter confusion.</p><p>The state reportedly rejected 372,000 requests for mail-back ballots that seemed fishy at first blush, but the cause of that enormous number turned out to be benign. More than 90 percent were duplicates — from people who failed to remember that, back when they asked to vote absentee in the primary, they checked a box to get a general election absentee ballot as well. </p><p>Even before the pandemic, the state had decided to drop strict excuse requirements on the books for years and to encourage more use of the mail — and the new system has proved baffling or worry-inducing to many, and overwhelming to local officials. </p><p>Officials in Pittsburgh, for example, were scrambling to get more than 29,000 replacement ballots to voters who had received vote-by-mail packets asking the to cast down-ballot votes for races in a different parts of the state</p><p>Only 4 percent of votes were cast by mail statewide just two years ago, but it was more than half in the primary.</p>
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, also known as PUBG is a battle royale game, and it used to be heavily popular amongst mobile gamers. However, the govt of India recently banned PUBG Mobile along with 117 other mobile apps due to their Chinese connection.
Now that the game has been officially banned in India. PUBG Mobile players were searching for alternatives. So, in this article, we have decided to share some of the best and working PUBG Mobile alternatives for Android and iOS smartphones in 2020.
Best Games Like PUBG Mobile For Android and iOS
All of these games are working as of now and they offer an impressive battle royale experience on smartphone. So, let’s check out the best PUBG Mobile alternatives for Android and iOS in 2020.
1. Free Fire – Battlegrounds
Free Fire – Battlegrounds
This is one of the best games like PUBG mobile in which you have to fight with 49 other users. However, the game comes with a few twists. You will be given a 10-minute time frame to survive in the game. The game features impressive visuals and it will test your skills for sure. The game also houses a voice chat feature that can be used to devise a strategy.
Download: Android, iOS
2. Pixel’s Unkown Battle Grounds
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As we all know, PUBG mobile requires at least 2GB of RAM and a powerful processor to run. So, if your smartphone doesn’t fit with the requirements, then Pixel’s Unkown Battle Grounds could be the perfect choice for you. If you like pixel-style visuals just like you see in Minecraft, then this game will not let you down. This is also a battle royale game in which you need to survive while killing other players.
3. Bullet Strike: Battlegrounds
This game drops you on an island with 20 other players. You need to be the last man standing in order to win the game. The great thing about Bullet Strike: Battlegrounds is its 3D graphics which looks amazing. The gameplay is pretty much similar compared to every other battle royale game, but the gaming controls are good.
4. Survivor Royale
Survival Royale
Well, the Survivor Royale replicates the PUBG mobile in a perfect way. You will hardly face any difference between PUBG mobile and Survivor Royale. The great thing about the game is that it features impressive graphics and great controls. In the game, you will be dropped with 100 other players to fight against each other. The last man standing would be the winner.
Download: Android
5. Vast Survival
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It is a open world, multiplayer survival game for mobile. The game puts you in an expansive 3D world where you need to endure the hardships and survive. You can do many things in the game like crafting, building, voice chat, hunting, and much more. Vast Survival will put you against 26 other players where you need to take advantage of the open world to fight battles and survive.
6. Last Day on Earth
It is a survival game that you can play on your mobile. The ultimate goal of the Last Day on Earth is to be the last man standing. In this game, you need to fight against zombies which is full of fun. In the game, you can join clans, craft objects, make shelters, and do almost everything to survive in the game. The game features impressive visuals and the gameplay is very addictive.
7. Black Survival
Black Survival
This one is completely different from all other games listed above. The game drops you with 9 other players into a location where you need to find cover, craft weapons, and shoot enemies in order to survive in the game. The best part of Black Survival is that the island is divided into 22 areas including forest, beach, hospital, and much more.
8. Conflict.io
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In Conflict.io you will be dropped with 35 other players and the ultimate goal of the player is to survive till the very end while killing others. The game has lots of weapons, simple controls, and much more. However, the game is not stable and it has lots of bugs, but, still unlike all other battle royale games, developers are working hard to fix the bugs.
9. Fortnite Mobile
Well, Fortnite Mobile is nothing less than PUBG Mobile. In fact, it takes second place in the list of best battle royale games. The game is available for iOS devices and Android users can opt for the beta version. In this game, you will be dropped with 100 other players in an imaginary world where you need to survive until the very end. The gameplay is pretty much similar to the PUBG Mobile. However, Fortnite Mobile only runs on high-end smartphones.
10. Radiation Island
It is both regular and a battle royale game. You can’t unlock the multiplayer mode unless and until you complete the single-player campaign first. However, on the multiplayer mode, you will be dropped in a deserted island where you need to craft and gather supplies.
11. BattleLand Royale
BattleLand Royale
Unlike PUBG Mobile, BattleLand Royale is not high on visuals and its meant for low-end devices. The best thing about BattleLand Royale is that it’s a 32 player game and each match lasts for 3-5 minutes. During that, you need to play, parachute, loot, and survive.
12. Call Of Duty: Mobile
If you like the ‘Evoground’ section of PUBG Mobile, then you would love to play Call of Duty Mobile also. Call of Duty Mobile does have a battle royale section, but it comes nowhere close to the PUBG Mobile. The game is known for its Fast 5v5 team deathmatch and maps. Also, there’s a zombie survival mode where you can join your team and take part in an epic FPS battle of survival.
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Kiloglugs of Liquid?
In a recent episode of Modern Marvels Essentials, on The History Channel, the subject was Freight Trains. Modern train braking systems, which use a combination of air brakes and dynamic brakes, are described. On long downhill grades, the electric motors, which are used to move the train, are used in reverse as electrical generators. This provides mechanical resistance, and slows down the train. This is called dynamic braking. The operator of the train then is shown on screen and states:
“I’m in full dynamic brakes. I’m demanding 35 kilopounds from my motors.”
A modern flat panel computer screen is shown, mounted in the cab of the train engine. A small yellow rectangular indicator is then shown with this title: Effort klb, and the number -34 inside of the indicator box. Kilopounds!? WHAT ON EARTH! A metric prefix kilo with the non-metric unit of pound (force). The unit is described as effort?–not force! It seems as though the engineering designers of the train anthropomorphized their creation! Perhaps too many Thomas the Tank Engine reruns? Kilopound “Effort” is simply an American proxy, mongrel retread unit, with an attached human metaphor, created out of thin air. Its use should embarrass American engineers with its absurdity.
A Kilopound?—What will we create next?—the peter for pint-liter?
I was convinced that a unit this ridiculous had to be an aberration, and was created in a single instance of industrial foolishness.
When I next had breakfast with Sven, I related the strange unit and before I could finish my sentence Sven asked with slight surprise and levity:
“Haven’t you heard of a kip?”
My mind screeched to a halt, the walls began to close in on me, and time ceased for a microsecond.
“A what?” I blurted.
“A kip, a kilopound?”
No, in fact, I had not. Sven asserted the “unit” was not uncommon in the US.
I stated with incredulity: “Metric prefixes with non-SI units?—that’s just wrong. It’s twisted.”
Sven told me to look on Wikipedia for Kips, he suspected there would be an entry. There is, and reading it only distressed me further.
A kip is a non-SI unit of force. It equals 1,000 pounds-force, used primarily by American architects and engineers to measure engineering loads. Although uncommon, it is occasionally also considered a unit of mass, equal to 1,000 pounds, i.e. one half of a short ton. One use is as a unit of deadweight to compute shipping charges.
1 kip = 4448.2216 Newtons (N) = 4.4482216 kilonewtons (kN)
The name comes from combining the words “kilo” and “pound”; it is occasionally called a kilopound. Its symbol is kip, or less frequently, klb. When it is necessary to clearly distinguish it as a unit of force rather than mass, it is sometimes called the kip-force (symbol kipf or klbf). Note that the symbol kp usually stands for a different unit of force, the kilopond or kilogram-force.
The kip is also the name of obsolete units of measure in England and Malaysia.
When I checked the reference, I found out that the kip has alternative definitions, making it a retread unit:
In England, at least as early as the 16th – 17th centuries, a unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat. Also spelled kippe, kyppe, and kipp.
In Malaysia, ? – 19th century, a unit of mass primarily used for tin, about 9.19 kilograms. link to a chart showing relationships between units of mass in Malacca Said to be equal to 37½ Dutch troy pound, but that is difficult to understand, as it is much closer to 37½ marks trooisch.
Dutch troy pound?—marks trooisch? A kilogram-force?—called a kilopond? Who could confuse that with a kilopound?
Wikipedia made matters worse for my blood pressure by also telling me:
There are also reports of engineers using base-ten SI prefixes in combination with Imperial or US customary units, for example the kiloyard (914.4 m). The kip or kilopound is regularly used in structural engineering. Similarly, the kilofoot is quite common in US telecommunication engineering, as significant distances in cable route planning are usually given in thousands of feet. Instruments like optical time-domain reflectometers usually have an option to display results in kilofeet
Humans seem to relish creating new units, and apparently are most interested in doing so when they have no idea how to use commonly accepted ones—you know—SI.
When I operated an offset printing press years ago I went to a technical lecture on how to understand all the interrelated parameters of this printing method. One needs to mix fountain water of a printing press with a small amount of acidic chemical, generally just called fountain solution. It is then best practice to measure the PH pH of the solution and make certain it’s within an accepted range. If the PH pH varies, and the acidity becomes too large, it can damage the printing plate. As I recall, the amount of fountain solution was about 50 mL to a liter of tap water.
The technical lecturer then related that he was called into a printing company to investigate problems with plate wear and printing quality. He asked the pressman how much fountain solution he puts into a liter of tap water.
The man replied “two glugs.”
Yes, he was taking the bottle of fountain solution, turning the bottle over and counting two glug sounds. He had created a new proxy unit, where sound would be used to measure liquid volume.
I’m sure a lot of American engineers might laugh at this story, but apparently they don’t seem to realize that creating kilopounds, kiloyards, kilofeet is not far from determining the dynamic breaking in kilopounds needed for a set of railroad tanker cars with 500 kiloglugs of water in each.
Unfortunately, it has been my experience that many American engineers see nothing wrong with feral and mongrel units, and have tried to justify them, rather than “giving in to metric.” One may not judge a book by its cover, but I’ve often had a hard time not judging engineers from Engineers according to their preference for metric or not. It’s long past time that American Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Civil, Nuclear and so on, demand and embrace metric in the US. Unfortunately US engineers may be desensitized to these scientific absurdities because they grew up in the perennial Barley Corn Hillbillies zeitgeist. When one is surrounded by a world measured with imperial and a science classroom where metric is taught in isolation, it’s tough not to be inculcated. However, this is no excuse. In Engineering the simplest way to solve a problem is often the best and most robust. Engineers are taught to express formulas produced from mathematical derivations in the simplest form possible. Why should measurements be any different? Everything you need to express engineering quantities, in the simplest manner possible, is provided by the metric system. One possible way to determine the difference between Engineers and engineers is that the former use kilonewtons (kN) and the later use kilopounds or kips. The feedback I’ve received from well known engineers (and scientists) which I have approached about endorsing metric, has been tepid or non-existent. It seems very much like a “foolish consistency” to me.
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America’s Fractional Mind
“This is dialectics, it’s very simple dialectics, one through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can’t travel in space, you can’t go out into space, you know, without like you know, with fractions. What are you going to land on?—one-quarter?, three-eights? What are you gonna do when you go to from here to Venus or something?”
Dennis Hopper — Apocalypse Now!
While Dennis Hopper’s character in Apocalypse Now! might have been traveling into space without a spacecraft, those who went to the moon in the 1960s did follow his advise about fractions—thankfully! The navigation computer on Apollo 11 was programmed with decimal numbers—in metric. The data internal to the computer was entirely metric. Only when the desired navigational data had been computed was it converted to the “inch-pound” non-system. The computer had such minimal memory that the conversion was a burden. Those who recall the flights might remember that the distances were all given in nautical miles. In America, a sea going romantic metaphor triumphs over measurement clarity.
Every common US measuring tape or ruler with inches on it has fractional divisions. In the US we are all familiar with 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 of an inch.
The very first thing one is taught in school, is that in order to add fractions they must have a common denominator. If one measures 1 3/4″ and wants to subtract that from 2 7/32″ well we have to change 1 3/4″ to 1 24/32″ and then there is more work…..I won’t take you through it, I think I’ve made my point. In decimal inches it would be about 2.22″-1.75″ or 0.47″, but good luck finding an inch ruler with decimal divisions in the US. The other choice is to use an all metric, mm only tape measure, like the Australian construction industry does. As I’ve pointed out in a previous blog, finding millimeter only tape measures in the US is only marginally easier than locating Amelia Earhart. In this case we would have 56 mm – 45 mm = 11 mm. That was easier, now wasn’t it? Ok, for those who want sub millimeter accuracy in everyday life it’s 56.39 mm – 44.45 mm = 11.94 mm, yes it’s off by almost a millimeter or 1/25 of an inch.
Tape measures in mm only — Good luck finding one in the US. Click on image to enlarge
The proverbial video which illustrates how arithmetic with fractions can cause confusion features the crew of American Choppers in an epic numerical struggle. American rulers have several sets of fractional divisions. Most of the time, two measurements on an American ruler do not have the same denominator. One can almost never directly add two fractions, but with millimeters and decimals, you always can. If you are willing to live with 1/25 of an inch or so of tolerance, then just use integers.
My friend Thern has asserted many times that even Americans who have worked in construction for many years seldom learn how to read fractional tape measures. Not because they are intellectually challenged, but it’s the user unfriendly nature of fractional divisions. This is why Australians have saved about 10-15% on construction costs compared with the United States since the 1970s. Less material gets wasted and time is more efficiently used. Apparently confusing the fractional divisions on a scale is so easy that some manufacturers have four different fractional scales separated out on the same scale:
A scale with separate scales on each of its edges. Click on image to enlarge
It has been asserted that not having the metric system costs each of us $16.00 per day. When one adds up all the small efficiencies encountered every day in the US, it’s not hard to believe. My friend Lapin showed me a situation that illustrates this point. Lapin is an amateur radio enthusiast, and like most of his cohort has an interest in antenna design. He directed me to a website which has a computer program which will compute the design values for basic types of antennas. The RFID frequency in the US is 915 MHz. I put that number into the program as an example; the output is below:
Notice all the 1/32 fractions it spits out. My mind recoiled at the output, but I quickly realized that in the US, tape measures are all fractional, so the programmer did what he needed to, to output fractions so one could use an American ruler. The computer program itself is available to view, and uses decimal arithmetic as you might expect, to compute the lengths of A, B, C, D and E. Similar to the computer navigation program on the Apollo 11 mission, it has to compute the fractional values for output at the end of the program, so they will correspond with our 17th century rulers. Don’t be afraid of what is shown next. I only put it in for illustration, you don’t need to understand it. The computer code below is used by the antenna design program to sort out what fractions correspond to what decimal values for display:
if (temp3 <= .03125) fract = “1/32”
else if ((temp3 > .03125) && (temp3 <=.0625)) fract= “1/16”
else if ((temp3 > .0625) && (temp3 <=.09375)) fract = “3/32”
else if ((temp3 > .09375) && (temp3 <=.125)) fract= “1/8”
else if ((temp3 > .125) && (temp3 <=.15625)) fract= “5/32”
else if ((temp3 > .1875) && (temp3 <=.21875)) fract= “7/32″
else if ((temp3 > .21875) && (temp3 <=.25)) fract=”1/4″
else if ((temp3 > .25) && (temp3 <=.28125)) fract=”9/32″
else if ((temp3 > .28125) && (temp3 <=.3125)) fract=”5/16″
else if ((temp3 > .3125) && (temp3 <=.34375)) fract=”11/32″
else if ((temp3 > .34375) && (temp3 <=.375)) fract=”3/8″
else if ((temp3 > .375) && (temp3 <=.40625)) fract=”13/32″
else if ((temp3 > .46875) && (temp3 <=.5)) fract=”1/2″
else if ((temp3 > .5) && (temp3 <=.53125)) fract=”17/32″
else if ((temp3 > .65625) && (temp3 <=.6875)) fract=”11/16″
else if ((temp3 > .75) && (temp3 <=.78125)) fract=”25/32″
else if (temp3 > .9375) fract=”31/32”;
If we had the metric system in this country, writing code like this would be eliminated. Clearly creating and writing this sorting section of computer code took a long time to accomplish. Had we become metric in the 1970s, like Australia did, this computer code would never have been written, there would be no need.
The word fraction comes from the latin word fractio which means to break. I cannot think of a more appropriate rubric. It’s long past time to break with the past, and embrace the decimal metric system, so we can live in the future, rather than living in the past.
Stickin’ it to Yardsticks
The American “Metric Ruler”
The Design of Everyday Rulers
My friend Pierre was asked to fill out a form which provides information for a medical report. The form asked for his height, and defaulted to centimeters (tsk…tsk millimeters please!) Below is the first image:
We won’t go into the fact that it is in centimeters, but requests a person’s height to tenths of millimeters. Straight millimeters would have been just fine, which is a single unit, and may be expressed without a decimal point. Pierre is a proud user of Ye Olde English units and attempted to set the software to feet and inches. You can see in the screenshot below his what his choices are:
Indeed the software designer did not use USC, Ye Olde English, Imperial, WOMBAT, “royal measurements” or whatever, to describe the choice, but something perhaps even more appropriate: archaic. The final screen after the selection is shown below:
Now the programmer needs to also embrace the international date format. Thanks to Pierre for letting me share this.
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British Explorers who Conquered Style
Modern menswear has a lot to thank the intrepid mavericks who risk life and limb to chart all the corners of the globe. Here are the explorers who have planted their flag in the territories of style.
by Chris Cotonou
‘Little islands are all large prisons’, claimed 19th-century adventurer, Sir Richard Burton. He was talking, of course, about Britain. For hundreds of years British explorers have left our shores to seek new adventure in otherwise hostile places; be it on Arctic expeditions, or trudging through sweltering deserts, encountering ancient cultures and experiences absent from our comfortable little islands.
They have often been ex-servicemen; soldiers, restless misfits hankering for a challenge - inspired by the stories told by those before them, like Sir Francis Drake or Burton himself. Style is, and perhaps has always been, important for the explorer. It follows their experiences with uniform in a regimented military career - the requirement to shine shoes, dust jackets, stand up straight and be on parade. And then there is the technical side. The smartest explorers think carefully about which materials are best suited to the environment into which they will be going. This is why some of the most utilitarian items in menswear are based on military clothing – including of course, the trench-coat and parka; with faithfully-constructed examples by brands like Private White VC or Grenfell. With the launch of British-made adventure-outfitter Shackleton on The Rake, we are celebrating the men who sought to go further; testing their endurance against odds that most of us could hardly fathom; bringing home stories about people and places that have given a certain romance to travel and to the lives of the explorers themselves.
Sir Ernest Shackleton
How many historical figures can claim to have a clothing brand – and a beer – inspired by them almost a hundred years after their death? Knighted for his achievements during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, which included not one, but two polar records and a reputation for being a resourceful hero – the Irishman was voted eleventh in a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Rightly so, as Sir Shackleton had leadership skills of mythical proportions. He also looked the part, too; like in these photographs of him wearing chunky knitwear and a fitted parka jacket. Shackleton, the brand, has worked hard to produce clothing worthy of the great man’s motto ‘Fortitudine vincimus’ – By Endurance We Conquer. Explorers like Scott Sears, Lou Rudd and Aldo Kane agree, bringing Shackleton gear on expeditions in the DRC, the South Pole and Greenland. It's tested by the best in the worst of conditions, so it'll tackle any adventure you have in store. Click here to shop the entire collection now.
Black Kentmere Utah Leather Field Boots
Captain Lou Rudd MBE
Somewhere in the Antarctic - right at this moment - Captain Lou Rudd MBE is suffering through the harsh cold and loneliness of the Great White South. Following in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton himself, he is hoping to become the first person in history to complete a solo crossing of Antarctica, unsupported and unassisted. That’s approximately 70 days covering a distance of 1,500km. Like all record-breaking adventurers, he will be using the highest quality equipment, supplied, aptly, by Shackleton, including their parkas (which endure cold survival performance to minus 30 degrees) and performance t-shirts. While there won’t be another soul around to see him (maybe the odd penguin here and there?) he will at least be doing it in style, all while raising money for the Royal Foundation’s ‘Heads Together’ charity which aims to raise awareness and provide support for sufferers of mental health, specifically former-servicemen and women. On the importance of clothing, he tells The Rake: ‘Getting layering right is super critical… I love my Shackleton signature sweater, and got great use out of it during The Spirit of Endurance expedition’.
Major Levison Wood
Major Wood follows a tradition of storytelling globetrotters like his heroes T.E. Lawrence and Burton. Since leaving the military, Wood has produced documentaries covering his long walks - most famously that of the River Nile from source to delta – while writing books on the Himalayas, and, more recently, the Arabian Peninsula. Ruggedly handsome, he is not only a charming representative of Britain abroad, but also a champion of good taste, carrying his equipment in Bennett Winch bags during trips. When asked for his best clothing tip for long expeditions, he replied, ‘always pack a linen shirt. You’ll never know when it might come in handy’. True enough (as Mr Wood can attest to) one moment could see you sweating up the Caucasus and the next invited to attend a family wedding in a nearby village. Any self-respecting guest would at least make some effort.
Beige Linen Safari Shirt
A real man’s man if there was one. No nonsense, taskmaster Fiennes - whose brother, Ralph plays the sharply suited M in the James Bond films – boasts several endurance records, a seasoned military career and a life enlivened by various scrapes and escapades. Fiennes is the type of man many of us wish we were, seemingly in tune with his fears – having completed an ascent of Everest at the age of sixty-five – and with an energy that shows no sign of slowing. He looks the part, too. Take this photograph of him reading in Oman during his time with the SAS. Wearing dark knitwear (like those made by Shackleton in Britain), beige trousers and dusty desert boots – he looks both heroic and ready.
T E Lawrence
There are plenty of photographs from during the first World War where T.E. Lawrence is wearing his tribal Arab garb; staring into the camera lens with an intense smoulder and attitude - more Hollywood than His Majesty’s Service. But something is even more striking about these photographs from 1928. Presumably on a day off from adventuring, the archaeologist, soldier, and writer wears dark tones – an oversized t-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, charcoal wool trousers and a pair of black Oxfords. It all looks incredibly mysterious, but modern too. Like a promotional shot for an indie musician; or a ‘bad boy’ actor (á la Ryan Gosling or James Dean). Lawrence was deeply troubled after his involvement in the Arab Revolt of 1916 (described in his book, ‘The Seven Pillars of Wisdom’). Nonetheless, he understood the value of style, integrity, and self-confidence.
Black Chelsea Cap-Toed Leather Oxfords
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How We Roll, May 24: three reviews of the Expo extension
by Steve Hymon , May 24, 2016
Things to read whilst transiting: The NYT Magazine asks which rock star will historians remember in 300 years? Hint: One of the star’s songs is traveling the cosmos.
Things to listen to whilst transiting: Judge John Hodgman considers a case known as “Grand Theft Risotto” that brings together several strands, including a mom putting dog waste in her son’s car, the son putting his mom in a garbage can and the mom stealing a recipe from a daughter-in-law who stole the recipe from the internet. Almost as funny as JJH episode #204 starring me, me and me.
Art of Transit:
Babies + Transit on the Expo extension. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.
Expo Line, meet the real world: a car on the tracks and a broken down train (LAT)
A really nice piece of journalism by transportation reporter Laura Nelson that efficiently captures the dichotomy that was Monday, the first regular weekday commute with train service to Santa Monica. Hats off to this sentence:
For every frustrated commuter who shared a photo of a packed car or a full platform, another posted a selfie grinning next to an Expo Line sign or with a bicycle, rejoicing over getting to work without a car.
As for the car that crashed through a fence and onto the tracks, I see that as a very unfortunate reminder of the daily carnage that motorists regularly inflict on themselves and other innocents — carnage which often sees little media attention. As for delays experienced by some riders later in the day, Metro officials say they will continue to strive to do better.
Nope, the Expo Line doesn’t beat a car or bike in a race (KPCC)
I’m a sucker for these kind of stories even though they almost always end for transit the same way a Walking Dead episode ends for non-rotters: badly.
Leo Duran’s trip from Union Station to the Santa Monica Pier took 90 minutes, not as good as the 65 minute trip by a colleague on a bike. Train delays slowed the westbound trip and then another colleague in a car beat Leo’s Expo train back to DTLA.
As would be expected, a lot of folks are paying attention to the time of their commute when it comes to Expo. It’s interesting, too, that many riders aren’t so time sensitive and see Expo and other transit as a net gain of time to do things like catch up on work/internet/Game of Thrones. And still others have found that their transit trips are now faster.
Of course, service on the new Expo extension is not yet four-days-old. This is a rail line that should be here for many decades to come. Is it fair to pull out the stopwatch and put Expo to the test? You bet. But let’s also see what the future holds as I don’t think the first weekday commute is necessarily going to be the best weekday commute.
And from the Department of FWIW: I can’t begin to describe how heartbreaking it was to look down at my phone as I was heading out the door Monday morning and see the news about the car crash. The most gratifying part of this job is seeing actual everyday people get to use the projects they paid for with their taxes. And to see that jeopardized was about three degrees beyond awful.
L.A.’s costly bet on curbing car culture (WSJ)
A smart story that looks at the many different tensions and arguments for and against rail expansion, both in L.A. and across the nation. The last word, I think, echoes the sentiment that Anna and I heard the most over the weekend: it’s great to have an alternative to sitting in traffic and trying to find parking.
Along some transit lines there are signs of change. In LA’s Koreatown, Jimmy Han, owner of a craft beer bar and restaurant, examines his half-empty parking lot on a busy Friday evening. A few years ago it was jammed with cars on popular nights, but more patrons now walk from the train station about a block away.
“It used to be that no one walked anywhere in Los Angeles, even if you were going to the corner store five blocks away,” Mr. Han said. “But slowly that mentality has been changing, and it’s giving people more options.”
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Metro to host Veterans’ job and resource fair on June 15
Expo Line ridership numbers from Monday’s commute
Any progress in getting Hollywood, Pasadena, Long Beach, Norwalk, El Monte….. put back on 2016 Metro Rail System Map?
Replacing “Hollywood” type on the Map with “Central LA” type is a mark of gross stupidity.
And add Santa Monica to Metro Rail map–not too complicated–
Mike Eff says:
Frankly, it’s way too early to assess the reliability of the new Expo Line service. Just like the latest Gold Line extension, bad luck happens. The WSJ link was probably posted to be ‘fair and balanced’, but I rarely trust their knee-jerk conservative twist on everything. Wall Street is the home of ‘Short Attention Span Theatre’ where long term investment in anything is despised and derided.
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New World, Second Chance
The Talon
Talon Talks
Senior Installs Meditation Garden to Provide Students Stress-Free Space
When senior Jake Parrish had to come up with a project for his Eagle Scout badge, he immediately thought of an old idea he had about providing a place at RHS for students to escape stress and reduce anxiety. Talon Photo by John Hydrick
John Hydrick
When senior Jake Parrish had to come up with a project for his Eagle Scout badge, he immediately thought of an old idea he had about providing a place at RHS for students to escape stress and reduce anxiety.
His idea culminated in a meditation garden installed in the courtyard between A and B halls that features a gravel area and bench beneath a canopy of trees.
“I want it to bring people together and for others to work and add onto it so it can have a lasting and changing impact and constantly provide a safe place for the students at RHS,” Jake said.
Jake’s mom, English teacher Karen Parrish, hopes to see students use the garden for a variety of purposes.
“The garden isn’t just for meditating, but for a mental break from everything school-wise,” Karen Parrish, English teacher at RHS, said.
During the project Jake had to get approval from assistant principal Bill Parker before he could go to the district and get the school board’s approval, a monthlong process.
“Jake had to bring me what his idea was, his renderings, and where he wanted to locate it, and my job was to make sure it was feasible,” Parker said.
Some of the materials that Jake wanted to use for the garden were not approved at the start of the project.
“The district did push back on some of the materials due to maintenance issues because they required higher grade materials so it could last longer,” Parker said. When it did get approved he went to work.” Through many hours of paperwork and preparation, he developed and worked on his project with the guidance and assistance of his Troop Scoutmaster, Lester Cox.
The meditation garden is a border of pavers, 128″ x 126,” with loose gravel and individual pavers inside the perimeter and a custom 48″ x 22″ bench built by Jake.
“When it was time for his Eagle Project, there are all different things that you can do to update or renovate a place which is great, but he wanted to do something for the high school and his friends,” Karen said.
Jake hopes future organizations to add to his project to make it even more useful to students.
“Depending on the upgrades, approvals would have to be met with the district –generally they are very generous with the approvals,” Parker said. “I think it looks great, and I hope that students use it for years to come.”
After receiving a final merit badge, Jake will be recognized at a ceremony called Court of Honor where his troop, friends and family can attend.
“This was my final step before achieving Eagle Scout – It’s been a long journey to get here,” he said.
Varsity Basketball Makes it to Regional Tournament for first time in 33 years
Henry Patton
When the entire the Richardson student section rushed the floor after beating number one Duncanville, the team knew what they were capable of. They then proved it by making...
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Teaching for the Stars
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The student news site of Richardson High School
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Plans in Action
We have been privileged to work with many amazing partners who have shared our belief in the ability of people to envision a dynamic future and form teams for inspired action. Together, we have helped build non-profit facilities, expand social and micro-enterprises, reclaim blight, develop jobs, and build resource networks.
Who have some of these partners been?
Graffiti artists setting up their own art park; teens running a super club; former gangsters dropping the recidivism rate of returning citizens; Christians and Muslims working together to train trainers in the Middle East and Northern Africa; a partnership formed to reclaim 20 blocks of Detroit’s historic Mexicantown; teams expanding access to micro-lending; a youth board sparking a multi-million campaign; and a team of 8 cultural groups turning culture into commerce — to highlight a few.
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Variety Read Next: New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘Locked Down,’ ‘The Marksman,’ ‘One Night in Miami…’
Nov 30, 2020 12:42am PT
Ventana Sur: 10 Takes on a Revolutionary 2020 Edition
John Hopewell, Jamie Lang
Courtesy of Ventana Sur
Spearheaded by Cannes Film Market and Argentina’s INCAA agency, Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest movie market, will put through an out-of-the-box reset of market dynamics. Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, it will also register the energetic and exciting build up of women on the Latin American film scene, as directors, producers and market playmakers.
Following is a down-to-the-wire appreciation of 2020’s edition:
A Multi-City Movie Market Revolution?
Movie markets traditionally take place in one physical setting. No more. In an unprecedented move, the brainchild of Cannes Film Market head Jerome Paillard, Ventana Sur looks set for a game changing five city on-site roll-out to run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in Madrid, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Colombia’s Bogotá. In some ways, Ventana Sur was unlucky. France’s lockdown lift does not kick in until Dec. 15, nixing planned screenings in Paris, the world’s art film capital. Projected screenings in Rome also had to be shelved. Just how much of the multi-city roll-out will be used in the future remains to be seen. But it’s there as a new festival model for the future, if needs be.
Brazil’s New Female Wave Sweeps over the Market
Led by Iuli Gerbase’s “The Pink Cloud,” a sci-fi character-driven thriller, Flavia Neves’ “Fogaréu,” a magic realist tinged Brazilian sticks film noir, and Thais Fujinaga’s “The Joy of Things,” a probing portrait of pressured motherhood, a female Brazilian new wave looks set to sweep Ventana Sur. The directors have attitude: All three titles carry, implicitly, a feminist agenda. They often embrace genre and can be stylistically ambitious. What the future of these directors can be in a Brazil, whose government wages a war on culture, is another question. Neves has already written episodes for Netflix original “Omnisciente,” from “3%” producers Boutique Filmes, which may be one of the answers.
The Pink Cloud CREDIT: MPM PREMIUM
Netflix, Amazon Join the Party
Francisco Ramos, Netflix VP of Latin American Originals, will talk on Dec. 2 about how the U.S. streaming giant will navigate an immediate future faced by ever more VOD competition and roiling COVID-19. Pablo Iacoviello, head of Latin America, Amazon Prime Video, will look at Amazon’s post-pandemic strategy in the region, which looks to involve hiked production levels. Once seen as the death-knell for any independent production and distribution, and indeed film markets, the global streaming giants are ever more part of their landscape. Markets are now marketing springboards for OTT buys, as territory-by-territory roll-out of the past. “That’s why we have a broad presence at Ventana Sur: Netflix and Amazon, but also Mubi, Watcha, Tubi … and many new players like festivals or distributors who are launching their platforms,” Paillard said. Where that leaves sales agents is another question.
A New Generation of OTT World Sales Agents?
One answer is serving as filters, whether on individual titles or catalogs, in a world of exploding VOD demand. Spain’s Feel Content, a new pure-play sales agent, has launched on the back of that premise. A total of 108 market premieres are being brought onto Ventana Sur, said Paillard. That seems to suggest an act of faith in the future of the business, a subject likely to be touched on in one key Ventana Sur panel: “Gone With the Wind: Trend, Status and Perspective of the Audiovisual Markets,” on a busy Dec. 2.
Buzz Titles
In Copia Final, there’s good word of mouth on Claudia Huaiquimilla’s “My Brothers Dream Awake,” an involving juvenile detention center drama, as well as Henry Rincón Orozco’s “The City of Wild Beasts,” a rapper-jells-with-grandfather likely crowd pleaser. Of Spanish titles, Cesc Gay’s “Sentimental” is racking up first major territory sales. One of Blood Window’s most awaited titles is cyberpunk thriller “Virtual: The Hologames,” from Daniel Hernández Torrado (“The 9,” “Pixel Theory Pandora’s Box”), while the Dominican Republic’s “Jupía” ticks a lot of boxes: A female co-director in Leticia Tonos, indigenous mysticism, award-winning producers and a cast of POC. A brace of titles from Europe, such as Spain’s “Ane Is Missing” and “Courtroom 3H,” Poland’s “I Never Cry” and Lithuania’s “The Flood Won’t Come,” have garnered an upbeat initial critical reception.
Animation! Packing Theatrical Potential
The seven-digit dollar figure pre-sales racked up by Edward Noeltner’s CMG on “Noah’s Ark,” playing Animation’s WIPs, underscore the fact that no movie medium at Ventana Sur packs such theatrical potential as four-quadrant animated features, given the resilience of family audiences in COVID-19 times. Of potential family animated hits, Latido Films has boarded Chile’s “Nahuel and the Magic Book.” The macabre “Ghost Bros.” will pitch as a TV project. Ali Chen’s “Forest Girl” is one of a clutch of exquisitely animated 2D feature projects. Meanwhile, “Unicorn Wars,” far from family fare, probably rates as the most anticipated title of the whole market.
Forest Girl Courtesy: Ventana Sur
Brazil: The Tragedy
Brazilian titles at Ventana Sur still proudly brandish a trio of logos: Ancine, FSA (Fundo do Setorial Audiovisual) and BRDE. It’s a moot point how long this may continue. In late July, Ancine, now guided by Bolsonaro appointees, announced that it had totally approved the accounts of just 10 of 168 film subsidy applications analyzed, some of these dating back nearly 20 years. Where this leaves the adjudication of new incentives, frozen since early 2019, is a huge question for producers. In this context of uncertainty, as President Jair Bolsonaro’s onslaught on Brazilian culture continues, Sao Paulo has emerged as Brazil’s biggest oasis of sanity and support for its film-TV industries. One Ventana Sur panel, spearheaded by SP Cine, will detail how that support looks set to play out. Another, backed by Brazil’s Project Paradiso, Brazilian Content and Cinema do Brasil will map out 50 funding opportunities around the world.
Uruguay: A New Haven
Escaping the full brunt of COVID-19, the number of shoots – commercials, series, films – in Uruguay grew 100% in 2020. Of the 36 movie shoots there this year, 25 initiated production from March onwards. Hosting shoots by Amazon, HBO and Netflix, extending tax breaks, and now introducing a new and significantly higher cap for high-end productions, Uruguay looks like a rare case of growth during COVID-19. Ventana Sur’s 70-or-so delegates from Uruguay are another sign of its vitality.
Ventana Sur’s New Showcase: Punto Género
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The Hague will invest €65 million (US$79 million) into its cycling infrastructure over the next five years as part of a plan to increase cycling numbers 50% by 2040.
Through its Plenty of Space for Cycling Program 2020-2025, the Dutch city will improve safe cycling infrastructure and facilities while encouraging more groups to use bicycles for daily commutes and tourism.
Robert van Asten, Deputy Mayor for Mobility, said: “Cycling is only becoming more popular thanks to electric bikes, cargo bikes, and bike-sharing.
“[It] is healthy and cyclists do not cause any dangerous gas emissions or take up much space. By providing good cycle routes and by making cycling more accessible, we can ensure that even more residents choose to get around by bike.”
While cycling is already one of the most popular modes of transport in The Hague, the city wants cycling to become its primary mode, and measures under the plan include: improving the flow of traffic at intersections; replacing 13 kilometers of brick cycle paths with paved paths; and creating 40 new parking facilities in neighborhoods and shopping streets and near tram and bus stops.
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The city will also provide bicycle lessons and service points, and ensure every child has access to a bike through the ANWB Children’s Bicycle Plan.
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The city has more shared cars than anywhere else in the country, and recently won the 2020 Autodeel Award – hosted by environmental group Natuur & Milieu and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management – for its efforts.
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Nutrients in 100 grams of Oat Milk
Oat Milk.
Energy53.5 kcal
Oat Milk has 53.49 kcal of Energy per 100 grams, which is 1.84% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 2900kcal per day for Men 19-50 years
Fat0.9 g
Oat Milk has 0.9 g of Fat per 100 grams, which is 0.93% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 97g per day for Men 19-50 years
Protein1.9 g
Oat Milk has 1.9 g of Protein per 100 grams, which is 3.4% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 56g per day for Men 19-50 years
Carbohydrate9.7 g
Oat Milk has 9.7 g of Carbohydrate per 100 grams, which is 7.46% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 130g per day for Men 19-50 years
Sugars0.1 g
Oat Milk has 0.1 g of Sugars per 100 grams, which is 0.14% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 72.5g per day for Men 19-50 years
Fiber1.5 g
Oat Milk has 1.5 g of Fiber per 100 grams, which is 3.95% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 38g per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0 mg of Cholesterol per 100 grams, which is 0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 290mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Saturated Fat0.2 g
Oat Milk has 0.2 g of Saturated Fat per 100 grams, which is 0.63% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 32g per day for Men 19-50 years
Omega 30 g
Oat Milk has 0 g of Omega 3 per 100 grams, which is 0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1.6g per day for Men 19-50 years
Omega 60.3 g
Oat Milk has 0.3 g of Omega 6 per 100 grams, which is 1.76% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 17g per day for Men 19-50 years
Water86.7 g
Oat Milk has 86.7 g of Water per 100 grams, which is 2.34% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 3700g per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamin A61.7 μg
Oat Milk has 61.7 μg of Vitamin A per 100 grams, which is 6.86% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 900μg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0.1 mg of Thiamine per 100 grams, which is 8.33% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1.2mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0.2 mg of Vitamin B2 per 100 grams, which is 15.4% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1.3mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0.2 mg of Vitamin B3 per 100 grams, which is 1.25% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 16mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamin B60 mg
Oat Milk has 0 mg of Vitamin B6 per 100 grams, which is 0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1.3mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0 μg of Vitamin B12 per 100 grams, which is 0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 2.4μg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0 mg of Vitamin C per 100 grams, which is 0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 90mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamin D41.2 IU
Oat Milk has 41.2 IU of Vitamin D per 100 grams, which is 6.87% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 600IU per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamin E0.1 mg
Oat Milk has 0.1 mg of Vitamin E per 100 grams, which is 0.67% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 15mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamin K0.3 μg
Oat Milk has 0.3 μg of Vitamin K per 100 grams, which is 0.25% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 120μg per day for Men 19-50 years
Folate4.8 μg
Oat Milk has 4.8 μg of Folate per 100 grams, which is 1.2% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 400μg per day for Men 19-50 years
Calcium124 mg
Oat Milk has 123.5 mg of Calcium per 100 grams, which is 12.4% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1000mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 0.1 mg of Copper per 100 grams, which is 11% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 0.9mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Iron0.7 mg
Oat Milk has 0.7 mg of Iron per 100 grams, which is 8.75% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 8mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Magnesium20.7 mg
Oat Milk has 20.7 mg of Magnesium per 100 grams, which is 4.93% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 420mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Manganese0.5 mg
Oat Milk has 0.5 mg of Manganese per 100 grams, which is 21.7% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 2.3mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Phosphorus61.7 mg
Oat Milk has 61.7 mg of Phosphorus per 100 grams, which is 8.8% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 700mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Potassium49.7 mg
Oat Milk has 49.7 mg of Potassium per 100 grams, which is 1.46% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 3400mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Selenium4.3 μg
Oat Milk has 4.3 μg of Selenium per 100 grams, which is 7.8% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 55μg per day for Men 19-50 years
Oat Milk has 45 mg of Sodium per 100 grams, which is 3% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 1500mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Zinc0.5 mg
Oat Milk has 0.5 mg of Zinc per 100 grams, which is 4.55% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of 11mg per day for Men 19-50 years
Vitamins in 100 grams of Oat Milk:
100 grams of Oat Milk has a good amount of Thiamine and Vitamin B2. It has some Vitamin A and Vitamin D. While 100 grams of product has trace amounts of Vitamin B3 and Folate, it has no Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Vitamin K.
Minerals in 100 grams of Oat Milk:
100 grams of Oat Milk is an excellent source of Manganese. It has a good amount of Calcium, Copper, Iron, Phosphorus and Selenium. It also has some Magnesium, Sodium and Zinc. The product has trace amounts of Potassium.
Macronutrients in 100 grams of Oat Milk:
100 grams of Oat Milk has a good amount of Carbohydrate. It has some Protein and Fiber. While 100 grams of product has trace amounts of Fat and Omega 6, it has no Sugars, Saturated Fat and Omega 3.
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Update: August, 17/2019 - 08:19
Workers assemble a car at a factory in northern Việt Nam. It is possible that a revision of GDP reading will see Việt Nam’s GDP and per capita GDP increased. — VNA Photo
HÀ NỘI — The General Statistic Office of Việt Nam (GSO) announced on Friday it has started a process to revise the country’s GDP calculation.
It is possible that the revision will increase Việt Nam’s GDP and per capita GDP, with the latter having an impact on household spending as Việt Nam approaches the upper-middle income level.
The bureau, however, played down the effect a revision may have on GDP targets and the country’s socio-economic development.
“The revision of GDP calculation is a regular task for any statistics office,” said GSO’s chief Nguyễn Bích Lâm. “This revision looks at all economic activities considered legal under the country’s current laws and regulations. The underground economy and illegal activities will not be included.”
Lâm said the GSO’s revision would bring Việt Nam’s GDP calculation more in line with international standards. The bureau has been working closely with experts from the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations.
In addition, the rapid growth of the country’s private sector in recent years has not been adequately documented and reported by relevant agencies. With the results of a number of national surveys and censuses becoming available the GSO believes this is the right time to review the country’s GDP, which is also a norm among the international community.
According to the GSO, GDP remains one of the key figures in the Government’s evaluation of the scale and capacity of the economy, it is important that GDP calculation must be accurate, inclusive and can be compared to other countries. This is especially relevant as Việt Nam is building its 10-year-strategy for socio-economic development for 2021-31.
This is the second time the GSO has conducted a review of GDP calculation. In 2013, the bureau revised Việt Nam’s GDP for 2008-12 in which it re-evaluated economic activities of banking and finance, insurance and real estate sectors. — VNS
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By Simone Jonker
Ji Gong was born in the year 1130. (Image: Jhmlms via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
One of ancient China’s most beloved folk heroes is the colorful monk, Ji Gong. These fables of his escapades are guaranteed to entertain and amuse all.
Li Xiuyuan was born in the year 1130 in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province (Song Dynasty). He was 18 when he went to Lingyin Temple. It’s an immense structure on the hills above Hangzhou, near Shanghai. Li Xiuyuan was a true monk. His monastic name was Daoji and he used to work very hard at his chores.
Daoji’s job was to scrub the pots in the kitchen every morning. It’s well-known that Buddhist monks are all strictly vegetarian. They are absolutely prohibited from eating meat, but one day, Daoji shocked the other monks when he brought meat into the kitchen, and then went on to eat it. The abbots were not pleased in the least and decided to expel him from the Lingyin monastery.
A wayward monk
The abbots expelled Ji Jong from the Lingyin monastery for eating meat. (Image: Tyg728 via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
Daoji then took on the name Ji Gong. But the wayward monk was a little wild. His hair was unkempt and he always carried a gourd full of wine with him. His hat was dusty, his clothes were full of holes and the shoes were falling apart. He also carried a “magic” fan.
Despite looking like a tramp, Ji Gong had a heart of gold. He was kind of unique, and he traveled to wherever he felt he was needed. Having mastered the martial arts, Ji Gong had a keen sense of justice and loved using his skills to fight evil and right wrongs.
Ji Gong was humble and he always roamed around among ordinary folks. In those days, the boundaries between the human and divine world were blurred, and as someone who cultivated in the Buddha school for a number of years, Ji Gong possessed a few supernatural powers.
Summoning logs from a well
One story tells of Ji Gong using paranormal powers to pull logs out of a well. A temple was to be built in Hangzhou and desperately needed wood. But the best wood was found only in Sichuan Province, some 900 miles away. The monks were desperate. But nothing could faze Ji Gong. He used his magic powers to teleport the logs over one after another.
The other monks piled them up until the monk charged with counting suddenly yelled, “Enough!” Ji Gong had already beckoned another log, but hearing the monk, he stopped it mid-way. That last log remained half-submerged in the well, and later generations built a pavilion over it, naming it the “Divine Teleportation Well.”
Stopping a flying mountain peak
Another tale, Stopping a Flying Mountain Peak, tells of when Ji Gong gatecrashed a wedding and abducted the bride. He carried her away from the village which led all the guests to chase after him. The fact of the matter was Ji Gong had the supernormal power of clairvoyance and he saw that there was going to be a terrible landslide. The villagers did not heed his words to get out of the place.
That was when he abducted the bride. No sooner had the chase gone past the village, a nearby mountain peak broke off and landed right on the village. Huge rocks flew everywhere, shattering windows and flattening buildings in an instant.
Ji Gong is a featured immortal of Buddhism. (Image: Pixabay / CC0 1.0)
Ji Gong is a featured immortal of Buddhism. There are many more stories about his adventures. Monk Jigong will always be remembered for his joyful, yet solemn demeanor and pragmatism. Ji Gong is one of the most endearing and beloved folk heroes in traditional Chinese myths and legends.
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So this is happening. I guess in normal reviews there’d be a short intro paragraph here about the history of The Settlers of Catan (henceforth referred to as “Catan” or “Settlers” with reckless yet mysteriously inconsistent abandon), but honestly I don’t know it and can’t really be bothered. If you’re interested it’s on Wikipedia, probably. Regardless. It’s a board game, which is great, because that’s what I’m writing about.
Thoughts / Verdict
So, if you’ve never seen or heard of Catan before, basically you’re playing as a set of intrepid explorers who happen across an island and then have no choice but to plunder its literally five resource types in the hopes of one day claiming the island for your own. I’m at least 35% sure this is the game’s backstory, so that’s what I’m going with.
Catan is played with hex (short for hexagonal, from the Swiss “hexagon”, meaning “a shape with six sides” or “you shouldn’t trust etymologies that you get from a board game blog”) tiles, which may be a shock to anyone who hasn’t played a game like this before. If you find that you’re getting overwhelmed by the sheer number of sides of these tiles, you should sit down, breathe into a paper bag, and try something more like Carcassonne, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, or Betrayal at House on the Hill, whose square tiles can make you feel whole again.
Now, a nontrivial portion of the game is actually just assembling the board, which is locking the 6 ocean tiles together and then shuffling / laying down the resource tiles and then laying down the number tiles. I have a strong recommendation / strong opinions about this, so I’ll make those clear from the writeup. Before that, I am going to make some enemies by establishing a clear and consistent way that I’m going to refer to the resource tiles. There are plenty of disagreements surrounding this, so, just call it what you want.
The red-brown looking ones? Those are BRICK.
The forest-looking ones? WOOD.
The pastures? SHEEP.
The ones that look like wheat fields? WHEAT.
The dark grey quarries? STONE.
The one that’s clearly a desert? That’s the desert.
This is just the way it’s going to be. Please leave vitriolic feedback in the comments.
There are a surprising number of ways to set this up, but I’ll leave you with some personal suggestions:
You can go across or around, it doesn’t matter, but try to avoid having the desert in the middle ring. This means, as shown, you want the desert either on the coast or in the center. I find this makes the next step easier.
Lay the number tiles (shown) IN ORDER. Do not switch them up or shuffle them, or you’ll get situations like this:
In both of these, you’ve got either a hot spot (too many high-probability numbers) or a dead spot (too many low-probability numbers), which can make the entire game a bit irritating.
Finally, choose who goes first (I recommend Chwazi) and play your settlements. I’m going to assume you read or will read the rules and not explain much past this, but we usually play that the last settlement you place, you get those resources to start. It helps make the first player a bit weaker overall.
Just, when you’re placing your settlements, don’t get greedy and ruin a tile like this:
Hex tiles have six (surprise!) corners and each settlement must not be adjacent to another settlement. That means you can have min two, max three settlements on a tile. If you play like that you’ve only put two, which is less than three. This is a disappointment.
This is where the game gets interesting, for some definition of game and interesting.
Rolling for Resources and Robbers
As you may or may not know (I’m inconsistently asserting that you’ve read the rules), you roll the dice and get the resources for the number that comes up, assuming you have a settlement (little house) on that tile’s corner. If you have a city, you get two, and if you have nothing, you surprisingly get nothing. If you roll a seven, the table collectively tenses up, as anyone with more than seven (>= eight) resources in their hands must discard half, rounded down (for some reason), and then the robber makes his rounds. You can place the robber on someone’s tile to both steal one of resources (a polite middle finger if there ever was one, especially if they just discarded half) as well as block that tile from collecting resources for as long as the robber is there (a more aggressive middle finger). For reasons known to some we’ve house-ruled that if you roll seven in the first two rounds (round meaning complete cycle of player turns) you roll again, just so we can get the game going.
Personally? I kind of hate the robber. Sure, it’s useful to have someone lose half their resources if they’re on a roll (pun intended or whatever), but meh. After playing a game where we rolled seven consecutive sevens (for those of you doing the math at home, that’s a 0.000357% likelihood, I believe), we lost faith in everything and descended into a neverending fit of madness and honestly we just stopped using the robber unless someone was going to win their next turn. We found that this made the game actually slightly easier and a lot more friendly, to the point that we now refer to this as Friendship Catan or The Best Friends of Catan or something equally … that. I’d recommend this strategy. If you have to roll the robber just move it to the 12 or the 2 tile. No hurt feelings.
Trading (or, “Does anyone want sheep?” “No?”)
You can (and honestly should unless you’re the Magnate of Catan) consider trading with other players, in which you offer resources in exchange for other resources. This is a very difficult concept to understand, so I will explain it in full in another blog post later. Key insights / house rules here are that you can only trade DURING your turn (seriously, stop.) and you should offer at least one resource in exchange for at least one resource (to prevent donating to help the second place person beat the first place person, though you can still trade one sheep for twenty stone if you really want to screw first place and general etiquette).
If you find yourself with too many of a single resource (“The SheepLord”, “Making it Grain”, “Oreverloaded”, “Bricked”, there are others), you can trade either four of yours to the bank for one of anything or use the ports, provided you have a settlement on them. Some people will offer you a port fee, in which they’ll take three of your resources and trade you one of anything back. This is a good deal if you need it, and it’s not if you don’t. Economics, yay! Overall, trading is nice and you should do it, because if you’re the person that trades with everyone then everyone usually trades with you. This breaks down somewhat in the endgame, as nobody wants to trade with the person who is one point away from winning (Settlements are one point, cities are two points, Largest Army / Longest road are two points each, and victory point cards are one point). Oh well.
Building Stuff
So, in order to settle Catan, you must trade resources to the bank for stuff, as outlined on this handy card.
Great! That’s about all there is to say. Development cards can give you sweet powers or let you move the robber or score you points, so keep those face-down when you get them. Due to a profound laziness half-assedly disguised as a desire to keep the cards a surprise, I won’t show you what the development cards look like. Other than that, it’s pretty straightforward and I don’t really have much else to say about it.
So this is actually where Catan shines a bit. It has a lot of varied replayability even in the base game because your strategies shift drastically based on who you play with and how the board gets set up. Do you try to secure the sheep port and wool rule Catan with an iron fist? Do you focus on development cards and swarm Catan with your armies? Do you build cities and settlements and settle Catan as you would directly surmise from the name of the game itself? It’s up to you. Personally, I find that most people focus on wood and brick in the early game to build roads and settlements and then focus on wheat and stone in the end game. Nobody focuses on sheep, ever (save for the SheepLords, but they’re few and far between). Sheep are the trash resource, but you sort of need them to build settlements and development cards, which is unfortunate. This can all be false if you, too, can get the sheep port (two sheep for any one resource of your choice) and become the SheepLord of legend.
Different people focus on different things, so do that.
So what do you think about this game, then? People will ask. And honestly, I want to like Catan a lot more than I do. It’s got fun sorta area-control mechanics, there’s some tension when you’re competing with another player to settle a good spot, and it’s got a nice thing where once you start rolling in resources you can rapidly accelerate to winning, but there’re a few issues. Let’s look at it as pros and cons:
Really friendly to new players! In fact, if you’re trying to get someone into board games, this is a great place to start. It’s VERY different from any of the “Classic” board games (Clue, Monopoly, Life, …Stratego) so it’s definitely an interesting one.
Lots of different strategies. I’ve seen people win with three cities, largest army, and two points in victory point cards, I’ve seen 4 cities and two settlements, I’ve seen longest road, largest army, and a mess on the board. It really does have a lot of value in rewarding different strategies.
High replayability. As you might surmise from a randomly generated board, it plays very differently every time, so you can get a lot out of the box. You can also buy expansions to further expand the game, which is your business.
High player interaction. It’s fun being able to affect / help the other players at the table, and this game is a game that allows for a lot of dialogue / trading / trash talk / petty revenge. Someone block your port? Never trade with them again! Someone not roll the number you wanted? Block their most useful resource. Revenge is easy to administer.
Nice art. It’s not my favorite, but it’s definitely colorful and not samey. You can also check out online, as some people have done amazing stuff with theirs, like 3D Catan boards or Pokemon Catan!
Very luck-based. As with most games that center around dice rolls, the game is incredibly dependent on how your dice fall. This can lead to the theoretically-improbable seven sevens in a row, or it can be something as simple as my group’s terrified belief that our dice are rigged. We haven’t done the exact numbers, but we believe (probably due to confirmation bias) that we roll far more nines than eights, and almost no sixes. This leads to players picking “sub-optimal” placements due to their belief in (and questionable understanding of) probability. This also can affect the board placement. Do you have three brick tiles adjacent to each other? Good luck convincing someone not to settle that first out of spite. And even then, if you’ve picked all the “best” tiles, your numbers may just … never come up. So you sit, stunted, while everyone else gets resources. This is kind of a bummer.
The base game’s components are kind of crappy. Yeah, this game is far less durable than a good copy of Monopoly, with its metal pieces. You’re likely to have the ocean pieces get warped after many consecutive plays, and there’s really no recourse for that short of buying a new version of the game, which is … well it’s not terrible but not cheap. This also means the resource tiles might not sit well and you start wondering whether or not you should just buy one of the crazy-expensive Catan boards that keep everything perfect. I’m not enough of a fan of this game to do so, but that’s your business.
Very limited player count. Would you like to play with either three players, or four players? Good. So if you have more than two or three friends (hey, some people don’t), this could be the best possible game for you. Personally, I prefer games with more variable player counts because if I’m hosting it’s not quite as limiting. But Eric, you say, there’s a 5-6 player expansion! It costs $21, which is only 50% of the base game price! But …you, I respond, since I don’t actually know your name and am trying desperately to avoid admitting it, I don’t think this is a game that’s worth $63. That’s kind of ludicrous to me, actually, now that I think about it. Which leads me to:
Kind of expensive, really. $42 is a lot for a board game that only has two different player counts, so it’s a bit of a tough sell if you want to get it as a gift for a friend because it’s right over the “kind of uncomfortable amount to spend on someone who isn’t quite your best friend”, which is a real threshold that is observed by all sorts of economists. Furthermore, if you’re looking at expansions, they’re ALSO $42 + $21 each, meaning that if you were to buy the complete Catan (without adding in the other weird versions like Star Trek or Settlers of America or whatever), you’re looking at like $250 of just. Catan. That’s not great for me, especially considering …
It’s just … vanilla. I think it’s a great gateway game to sort of the “modern” board gaming hobby, but it doesn’t have much going for it in terms of uniqueness. I think Terra Mystica takes it to town on everything it tries to do, in my opinion (though it’s also kind of long). Personally, I like games where people have variable starting abilities, like Bang! or 7 Wonders or even The Resistance: Avalon, but to each their own. It’s like a nice appetizer for the hobby, but in order for me to really be sold on it, I’d like to see more complexity from the base game (maybe less dice). I’m just not spending $$$ on the expansions.
Overall: 6.5 / 10
Honestly, I want to like it more, and I enjoy playing it sometimes, but I can’t say it’s a classic game for my collection. It’s just missing a lot of other, more modern features in my opinion, and it tries to add that later for lots more money. If I were rating it on its economic model, I’d definitely give it top marks, but that’s … not the case.
Fresno County, CA, USA
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Protein kinase C zeta type
Protein kinase C, zeta (PKCζ), also known as PRKCZ, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRKCZ gene. The PRKCZ gene encodes at least two alternative transcripts, the full-length PKCζ and an N-terminal truncated form PKMζ. PKMζ is thought to be responsible for maintaining long-term memories in the brain. The importance of PKCζ in the creation and maintenance of long-term potentiation was first described by Todd Sacktor and his colleagues at the State University of New York at Brooklyn in 1993.[1]
2.1 PKCζ
2.2 PKMζ
3 Model organisms
4 Inhibitors
5 Interactions
PKC-zeta has an N-terminal regulatory domain, followed by a hinge region and a C-terminal catalytic domain. Second messengers stimulate PKCs by binding to the regulatory domain, translocating the enzyme from cytosol to membrane, and producing a conformational change that removes auto-inhibition of the PKC catalytic protein kinase activity. PKM-zeta, a brain-specific isoform of PKC-zeta generated from an alternative transcript, lacks the regulatory region of full-length PKC-zeta and is therefore constitutively active.[2]
PKMζ is the independent catalytic domain of PKCζ and, lacking an autoinhibitory regulatory domain of the full-length PKCζ, is constitutively and persistently active, without the need of a second messenger. It was originally thought of as being a cleavage product of full-length PKCζ, an atypical isoform of protein kinase C (PKC). Like other PKC isoforms, PKCζ is a serine/threonine kinase that adds phosphate groups to target proteins. It is atypical in that unlike other PKC isoforms, PKCζ does not require calcium or diacylglycerol (DAG) to become active, but rather relies on a different second messenger, presumably generated through a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) pathway. It is now known that PKMζ is not the result of cleavage of full-length PKCζ, but rather, in the mammalian brain, is translated from its own brain-specific mRNA, that is transcribed by an internal promoter within the PKCζ gene.[2] The promoter for full-length PKCζ is largely inactive in the forebrain and so PKMζ is the dominant form of ζ in the forebrain and the only PKM that is translated from its own mRNA.
PKCζ
Atypical PKC (aPKC) isoforms [zeta (this enzyme) and lambda/iota] play important roles in insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Human adipocytes contain PKC-zeta, rather than PKC-lambda/iota, as their major aPKC. Inhibition of the PKCζ enzyme inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose transport while activation of PKCζ increases glucose transport.[3]
PKMζ
PKMζ is thought to be responsible for maintaining the late phase of long-term potentiation (LTP).[4][5][6] LTP is one of the major cellular mechanisms that are widely considered to underlie learning and memory.[7] This theory arose from the observation that PKMζ perfused post synaptically into neurons causes synaptic potentiation, and selective inhibitors of PKMζ like zeta inhibitory peptide (ZIP), when bath applied one hour after tetanization, inhibit the late phase or maintenance of LTP. Thus PKMζ is both necessary and sufficient for maintaining LTP. Subsequent work showed that inhibiting PKMζ reversed LTP maintenance when applied up to 5 hours after LTP was induced in hippocampal slices, and after 22 hours in vivo. Inhibiting PKMζ in behaving animals erased spatial long-term memories in the hippocampus that were up to one month old, without affecting spatial short-term memories,[6] and erased long-term memories for fear conditioning and inhibitory avoidance in the basolateral amygdala.[8] When ZIP was injected into rats' sensorimotor cortices, it erased muscle memories for a task, even after several weeks of training.[9] In the neocortex, thought to be the site of storage for most long-term memories, PKMζ inhibition erased associative memories for conditioned taste aversion in the insular cortex, up to 3 months after training.[10][11] The protein also seems to be involved, through the nucleus accumbens, in the consolidation and reconsolidation of the memory related to drug addiction.[12] PKMζ is thus the first molecule shown to be a component of the storage mechanism of long-term memory. Although results from PKCζ/PKMζ-null mice demonstrate LTP and memory appear largely the same as wild-type mice,[13][14] the normal function of PKMζ in LTP and long-term memory storage was shown to be compensated by the other atypical PKC isoform, PKCι/λ in the knock-out.[15][16][17]
Alteration in PKMζ may be involved in neurodegeneration Alzheimer's disease.[18]
Prkcz knockout mouse phenotype
Homozygote viability Normal
Fertility Normal
Body weight Normal
Anxiety Normal
Neurological assessment Normal
Grip strength Normal
Hot plate Normal
Dysmorphology Normal
Indirect calorimetry Normal
Glucose tolerance test Normal
Auditory brainstem response Normal
DEXA Normal
Radiography Normal
Body temperature Normal
Eye morphology Abnormal[19]
Clinical chemistry Abnormal[20]
Plasma immunoglobulins Normal
Haematology Normal
Micronucleus test Normal
Heart weight Normal
Tail epidermis wholemount Normal
Skin Histopathology Abnormal
Brain histopathology Normal
Salmonella infection Normal[21]
Citrobacter infection Normal[22]
All tests and analysis from[23][24]
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of PRKCZ function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Prkcztm1a(EUCOMM)Wtsi[25][26] was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program – a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to interested scientists.[27][28][29]
Male and female animals underwent a standardized phenotypic screen to determine the effects of deletion.[23][30] Twenty five tests were carried out on mutant mice and three significant abnormalities were observed.[23] Homozygous mutant males had Bergmeister's papilla, while both sexes had atypical plasma chemistry and abnormal melanocyte morphology.[23]
1,3,5-Trisubstituted Pyrazolines[31]
PRKCZ has been shown to interact with:
AKT3,[32]
C-Raf,[33]
C1QBP,[34]
CENTA1,[35]
FEZ1,[36]
MAP2K5,[38]
NFATC2,[39]
PARD6A,[40][41][42]
PARD6B,[42]
PAWR,[43]
PDPK1,[44][45][46][47]
RELA,[48]
Src,[49]
WWC1,[50]
YWHAB,[33] and
YWHAQ,[33]
YWHAZ.[33][35]
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↑ Bandyopadhyay G, Sajan MP, Kanoh Y, Standaert ML, Quon MJ, Lea-Currie R, Sen A, Farese RV (February 2002). "PKC-zeta mediates insulin effects on glucose transport in cultured preadipocyte-derived human adipocytes". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 87 (2): 716–23. doi:10.1210/jc.87.2.716. PMID 11836310.
↑ Ling DS, Benardo LS, Serrano PA, Blace N, Kelly MT, Crary JF, Sacktor TC (2002). "Protein kinase Mzeta is necessary and sufficient for LTP maintenance". Nat. Neurosci. 5 (4): 295–6. doi:10.1038/nn829. PMID 11914719.
↑ Serrano P, Yao Y, Sacktor TC (2005). "Persistent phosphorylation by protein kinase Mzeta maintains late-phase long-term potentiation". J Neurosci. 25 (8): 1979–84. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5132-04.2005. PMID 15728837.
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↑ Serrano P, Friedman EL, Kenney J, Taubenfeld SM, Zimmerman JM, Hanna J, Alberini C, Kelley AE, Maren S, Rudy JW, Yin JC, Sacktor TC, Fenton AA (2008). Lu B, ed. "PKMζ maintains spatial, instrumental, and classically conditioned long-term memories". PLoS Biology. 6 (12): 2698–706. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060318. PMC 2605920. PMID 19108606.
↑ von Kraus LM, Sacktor TC, Francis JT (2010). Brezina V, ed. "Erasing Sensorimotor Memories via PKMζ Inhibition". PLoS ONE. 5 (6): e11125. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011125. PMC 2886075. PMID 20559553.
↑ Shema R, Sacktor TC, Dudai Y (2007). "Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKMζ". Science. 317 (5840): 951–3. doi:10.1126/science.1144334. PMID 17702943.
↑ Shema R, Hazvi S, Sacktor TC, Dudai Y (2009). "Boundary conditions for the maintenance of memory by PKMζ in neocortex". Learn. Mem. 16 (2): 122–8. doi:10.1101/lm.1183309. PMC 2661244. PMID 19181618.
↑ Crespo JA, Stöckl P, Ueberall F, Jenny M, Saria A, Zernig G (February 2012). "Activation of PKCzeta and PKMzeta in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for the retrieval, consolidation and reconsolidation of the drug memory". PLoS ONE. 7 (2): e30502. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030502. PMC 3277594. PMID 22348011.
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↑ Tsokas P, Hsieh C, Yao Y, Lesburguères E, Wallace EJ, Tcherepanov A, Jothianandan D, Hartley BR, Pan L, Rivard B, Farese RV, Sajan MP, Bergold PJ, Hernández AI, Cottrell JE, Shouval HZ, Fenton AA, Sacktor TC. "Compensation for PKMζ in long-term potentiation and spatial long-term memory in mutant mice". eLife. 5: e14846. doi:10.7554/eLife.14846.
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↑ 35.0 35.1 Zemlickova E, Dubois T, Kerai P, Clokie S, Cronshaw AD, Wakefield RI, Johannes FJ, Aitken A (2003). "Centaurin-alpha(1) associates with and is phosphorylated by isoforms of protein kinase C". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 307 (3): 459–65. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01187-2. PMID 12893243.
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Serine/threonine-protein kinase SIK2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SIK2 gene.[1][2]
SNF1LK2 has been shown to interact with CRTC2.[3]
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Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, Gassenhuber J, Glassl S, Ansorge W, Böcher M, Blöcker H, Bauersachs S, Blum H, Lauber J, Düsterhöft A, Beyer A, Köhrer K, Strack N, Mewes HW, Ottenwälder B, Obermaier B, Tampe J, Heubner D, Wambutt R, Korn B, Klein M, Poustka A (Mar 2001). "Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs". Genome Research. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.GR1547R. PMC 311072. PMID 11230166.
Horike N, Takemori H, Katoh Y, Doi J, Min L, Asano T, Sun XJ, Yamamoto H, Kasayama S, Muraoka M, Nonaka Y, Okamoto M (May 2003). "Adipose-specific expression, phosphorylation of Ser794 in insulin receptor substrate-1, and activation in diabetic animals of salt-inducible kinase-2". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (20): 18440–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M211770200. PMID 12624099.
Katoh M, Katoh M (Nov 2003). "Identification and characterization of human KIAA1391 and mouse Kiaa1391 genes encoding novel RhoGAP family proteins with RA domain and ANXL repeats". International Journal of Oncology. 23 (5): 1471–6. doi:10.3892/ijo.23.5.1471. PMID 14532992.
Lizcano JM, Göransson O, Toth R, Deak M, Morrice NA, Boudeau J, Hawley SA, Udd L, Mäkelä TP, Hardie DG, Alessi DR (Feb 2004). "LKB1 is a master kinase that activates 13 kinases of the AMPK subfamily, including MARK/PAR-1". The EMBO Journal. 23 (4): 833–43. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600110. PMC 381014. PMID 14976552.
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Home Analysis Match Analysis Five Massive Moments As West Ham Are Punished By Man City
Five Massive Moments As West Ham Are Punished By Man City
For missed chances throughout the 90 minutes, Manuel Pellegrini’s West Ham United were punished by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City at London Stadium on Saturday afternoon to the tune of 0-4 to slip to their first Premier League defeat in over a month. Join us as we analyse Five Massive Moments from the surprisingly even encounter.
Pellegrini Makes Critical Masuaku Error
Our first Massive Moment from two days ago in East London is one that occurred before the game between two sides that would start and end the day in the same position, 13th and first respectively, had even kicked off.
It comes in the form of a crucial tactical decision made by Pellegrini in his pre-match preparations to make two changes to the West Ham starting Xl from the draw with Huddersfield Town last time out. One of them was forced, with suspended Robert Snodgrass being replaced by arguably their best performer on the day, Michail Antonio, but the other wasn’t.
This one, to many’s surprise, saw Aaron Cresswell, who had started the last two matches ahead of Arthur Masuaku, drop out of the Xl in favour of the Democratic Republic of Congo international. The change, to go with the more attack-minded left-back, was a statement of intent from the veteran Chilean gaffer.
However, it didn’t pay off, leaving the Hammers severely exposed on the left side in the first half and City with a flank they could exploit, getting in behind the defence each time. The reason for this being that Masuaku was producing one of the worst performances of his two years and three months in Claret & Blue.
The full-back offered next to nothing going forward, not completing or even attempting a single dribble or interception, but at the back, things were much worse, still. The defender allowed Raheem Sterling’s cross to deflect off him and set up David Silva to open the scoring, as well as losing his marker twice to allow the visitors to double and triple their lead. He was substituted for Cresswell at half-time on an afternoon to forget.
Super Silva Puts West Ham Behind
It would be the overwhelmingly poor quality of Masuaku’s performance and more specifically, his lack of alertness and closing down that led to our next Massive Moment, the breaking of the deadlock in Stratford.
After an opening ten minutes that had seen half-chances at both ends, with both teams adopting very attacking game plans from the start, the hosts were pushing to open the scoring in a league match for the sixth time this season and second time this month.
It was this pushing that cost them dearly, with City always ready to punish sides on the counter-attack if they can’t take their chances, a common theme in this match. And when Felipe Anderson lost the ball in his own half in the 11th minute, it was inevitable.
Guardiola’s men, as they always do, broke hard with Kyle Walker advancing deep into the East Londoners’ half and shifting the ball onto Sterling, the man who’s been involved in the most goals in the PL this campaign, to face up to Masuaku.
The defender allowed the England international to attempt a cross, something that he shouldn’t have done, even if he was a tad unfortunate that the ball deflected off his right foot and perfectly into the path of Spain legend Silva to flick past Lukasz Fabianski. It had taken City just 11 minutes to hit the front.
Sterling Pounces To Double Advantage
A team like the Citizens, who have broken nearly 20 Premier League records since Guardiola’s arrival in the summer of 2016, are hard enough to face at the start of the match when the scores are level, let alone when they have the momentum of taking the lead.
It was always going to be a difficult task for the side that have failed to recover from any losing positions this term to take full points and equally, have thrown away the most from winning positions, to get back from any kind of deficit. And it was made even tougher by our third Massive Moment.
Following going a goal down in a match for the eighth time in all competitions under Pellegrini, the boss that led the Citizens to their second PL title win in 2014, a period of survival ensued for the Irons.
Under immense pressure in a rare period of the game where they were all but hemmed into their own half, the home side could last all of eight minutes against the highest scoring attack in PL history last season, with them doubling their advantage just shy of the 20-minute mark.
On the left flank, the returning Leroy Sane had the beating of veteran ex-City right-back Pablo Zabaleta for pace and was able to get beyond him, crossing low into the danger area. Having wriggled free of the dumbfounded Masuaku, Sterling was there to tap home and follow an assist with a goal, giving his team a cushion.
Sane Sends Man City Out Of Sight
If the Manchester club’s second of the afternoon provided them with a two-goal cushion, their third essentially put the match beyond all doubt comfortably before referee Andre Marriner’s half-time whistle, forming our penultimate Massive Moment.
Of the four goals conceded on the day, this one would have been the most frustrating for Pellegrini, as it came straight after a spell in the game where his side had enjoyed the better chances.
A change of formation from the 64-year-old for the first time this side of the September international break saw two strikers fielded, with Antonio making his first start in the league since mid-September, alongside talisman Marko Arnautovic.
Both spurned opportunities to get the Hammers back into the game, making it 2-1, the former even testing out Ederson in a usual quiet 90 minutes for the Brazilian international. But failing and allowing the visiting team an opportunity to triple their lead prior to half-time.
This was one they could take full advantage of in simple fashion, with Fernandinho picking out a long ball over the head of Masuaku for the unmarked Sterling to bring down and ship to Sane. The German international could too turn goal-maker to goalscorer by wrongfooting both Fabian Balbuena and Fabianski and putting Blue Moon more or less out of sight.
Antonio Fails To Get Hammers Back In The Game
Having seen out the rest of the first half without conceding any further and heading into the break with their biggest deficit of the campaign thus far, Pellegrini’s men sought to improve, if they could, in the second period.
This was, in part, due to the replacement of Masuaku with Cresswell at half-time, which shored up the left flank and provided a platform for them to attack freely without as much worry of conceding more and turning a defeat into a humiliation.
Through this all-around better performance after half-time, the Irons were able to create a chance that was so clear-cut, it had to be taken, one they weren’t going to see the like of against a team of City’s quality again for a long time.
It involved West Ham giving Blue Moon a taste of their own medicine by counter-attacking on them to near-deadly effect, doing everything right apart from finishing, with Antonio the guilty party. He wasn’t able to find his first league goal since February.
The golden opportunity the ex-England striker sent begging was one that was created by the excellent pass of substitute Javier Hernandez in the wake of a foul on the breaking Pedro Obiang. The ball sent Antonio clean through one-on-one with Ederson and he could beat him, only to see his low and powerful effort cannon off the post and behind for a goal-kick, summing up the East Londoners’ afternoon.
So, now that we’ve well and truly analysed the Five Massive Moments as Pellegrini’s West Ham lost an unbeaten run of three matches in the Premier League, will we be reliving some more positive Massive Moments come this time next week? After the Hammers have visited Newcastle United in the league? Join us once again, then, to find out.
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BC Courts Resuming In-Person Proceedings with Added Health and Safety Protocols
2020 has been a disruptive year in the BC court system. Alongside the regular workings of the court, the COVID-19 pandemic forced many legal proceedings online. In the months since, the BC Government has worked to re-open the courts in a safe manner. Judge alone trials have been taking place in all court locations since early June, and criminal jury trials resumed in most court locations in September.
As we head towards winter and the potential of a second wave, we wanted to give an update on how court proceedings are likely to look in the coming months.
Modifying Courtrooms
The Province of BC has retained the services of a private consultant to assist in identifying the necessary steps to modify courtrooms and courthouses to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission. All persons attending courtrooms will be required to participate and cooperate to attain the recommended COVID-19 health and safety protocols. These include steps we’ve all become accustomed to in recent months: physical distancing, sanitizing hands upon entry to the premises, and adhering to all other directions.
Addressing Instances of COVID-19 Symptoms
In a physical court setting, counsel and self-represented parties must confirm at the opening of a proceeding, and at the start of each day of the proceeding, that to their knowledge, no one involved on either side (counsel, both parties, or witnesses) has any symptoms of illness that may be related to COVID-19.
Counsel and all parties must also be in a position to confirm that no one involved has traveled outside Canada within 14 days of their anticipated in-person appearance in a courtroom.
Witnesses and COVID-19
If any witnesses are reluctant to attend court due to concerns over COVID-19, it is up to counsel (or involved parties) to make necessary inquiries with Court Services Branch to ensure there are sufficient resources at the location for their testimony to be delivered remotely via video or audio conference. It is also up to counsel to ensure witnesses have the necessary technology to appear remotely.
Courtroom Layout
The physical layout of the courtroom will be altered (where possible) to maintain a safe physical distance between all participants. In areas where physical distancing cannot be maintained, plexiglass barriers will be installed. The ability to move within the courtroom, such as by approaching a witness, will be restricted for physical distancing purposes.
Any participant in a court proceeding is encouraged and permitted to wear a mask or protective face covering in the courtroom if they wish to do so. The mask can be removed, if necessary, in order for the participant’s evidence or submissions to be heard and understood. The Judicial Officer and court clerk can wear facial coverings at their own discretion.
Find the latest BC Courts News Release on steps being taken to ensure safety at provincial courts.
Need any advice on navigating family law during COVID-19? Our family law experts at Westside Family Law are standing by to assist. Get in touch and we’ll be happy to discuss your options.
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Hadwin’s Judgement – Saturday 10:00am 91min. SID
by CP-SMS | Dec 2, 2015
Hadwin’s Judgement
Saturday 10:00am SID
www.hadwinsjudgement.com
Director: Sasha Snow
Grant Hadwin loved the forest, and made his living finding the best routes for roads that cut deep into BC’s remote and ancient forests for logging companies. But the utter devastation wrought by clear-cutting these beautiful forests began to obsess him and gradually drove him to commit an act that ran contrary to all he had come to love—killing the most beautiful and sacred tree on Haida Gwaii. Based on John Vaillant’s award–winning book, The Golden Spruce, director Sasha Snow interweaves speculative re-enactments, Haida legends, interviews and stunning cinematography to explore the motives and pressures that led to Hadwin’s unprecedented crime. Hadwin’s Judgement charts his crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest—a crusade that ends tragically with his disappearance and prophetic warning, sealing Hadwin’s fate as both madman and visionary.
Bikes vs. Cars – Saturday 10:00am 88min. UNS
Bikes vs. Cars
Saturday 10:00am UNS
Kinosmith
www.bikes-vs-cars.com
Director: Fredrik Gertten
Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis that we need to talk about; climate, Earth’s resources, and cities where the entire surface is consumed by cars. The bike is a great tool for change. The powerful interests who gain from the private car invest billions each year on lobbying and advertising to protect their business from the growing popularity of alternative modes of transportation. In the film we meet activists and thinkers who are fighting for better cities, and who refuse to stop riding bikes despite all obstacles. Audience Award, UK Green Film Fest; Best Feature, San Francisco Green Film Festival; Grand Prize for Best International Documentary at Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival
Food Chains – Saturday 10:00am 86min. LNS
www.foodchainsfilm.com
Director: Sanjay Rawal
Farm labour has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the most vulnerable people. Exploitation still exists, ranging from wage theft and sexual harassment to modern-day slavery. This exploitation is perpetrated by the corporations at the top of the food chain, supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low, but desperately poor people are willing to put up with almost anything to keep their jobs. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm workers in the US.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret – 10:00am 85min. FFR
Saturday 10:00am FFR
www.cowspiracy.com
Filmmaker: Kip Andersen
Cowspiracy follows filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers one of the most destructive industries facing the planet today and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations won’t talk about it. Anderson asserts that animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and contributes to many other environmental ills. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
As Andersen approaches leaders in the environmental movement, he uncovers what appears to be an intentional refusal to discuss the issue of animal agriculture, while industry whistleblowers and watchdogs warn him of personal risks if he dares to persist.
The Hand That Feeds -11:40am 84min. LNS
McNabb Connolly
thehandthatfeedsfilm.com
Filmmaker: Robin Blotnick
At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick.
Risking deportation and job loss, the workers team up with innovative young organizers and form their own independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In one roller-coaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout. Lawyers battle in back rooms and workers walk the picket line with support from the “Occupy” crowd. If they can win a contract, it will set a historic precedent. But whatever happens, these workers will never be the same. Audience Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Audience Award, DOC NYC; Best of Fest, AFI Docs
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The recipes that make up our family diet are a large part of its culture.
Some recipes are family favourites that may go back several generations. Some arrive, stay a month or two and vanish. Others reflect special interests - my father's love of fishing; my own love of Indian food. Charlie became a vegetarian at 12 years old, and has generated a need to locate tasty and nourishing recipes without meat or fish.
As a child I lived on a dairy farm and later a market garden in Waiuku. (When Dad retired, one of the more interesting consequences was watching him make the change from planting 20 acres of potatoes to just a couple of rows in the back garden, and ditto with all the other vegetables we had taken for granted.)
We had a small orchard with peaches, plums, and apples, and these featured whenever we wanted dessert. Milk puddings were the go then - bread and butter puddings, rice puddings, tapioca, or sago, with an occasional apple pie with orchard apples and cream straight from the separator in the cowshed, and no, I've never found one as nice anywhere else. (Mum also made a mean steak and kidney pie. Alas, I'm the only one of our mob that will eat kidneys - a treat when I'm home by myself.)
Always there were jars of preserved Golden Queen peaches and stewed red plums and a bunch of rhubarb plants. Mum also made the best cream puffs I have ever seen, and since mum's arthritis dictated that we own the first electric mixer in the neighbourhood, our sponges were pretty awesome as well. I even won a prize with one at the calf club. (Calf clubs are like a junior Agricultural Crafts Day, held annually by all rural schools.)
Scones, yes, certainly. Mum could see a car coming in the road gate and have a batch of scones on the way and the oven heating before they reached the front door.
And I remember haymaking and a billy full of tea, already milked, with a large roasting dish of scones, already buttered and jammed.
Mum's pies, in the absence of a pie chimney — war years, and they were hard to come by — were held up by an inverted china egg cup in the middle of the pie dish. Came the first plastic egg cups onto the market, and we discovered first hand one of the strange properties of this new substance — it melted when you used it for a pie chimney and the pie tasted really foul. So did plastic plates when you put them in the oven to heat up a dinner gone cold.
Dad had no sweet tooth to speak of, and desserts usually meant guests or birthdays. These days, Miranda tends to be allotted the task if a dessert seems appropriate and she works for the most part with fresh fruit and the odd dollop of cream.
At Pukeoware School, a sole charge country primary school with about 20 pupils, our school milk allowance was parlayed into hot sweet milky cocoa in the winter, and that's still something I enjoy on a cold day. (We also had a fence at the school covered in banana passionfruit vine, kindling a lifelong love of these politically incorrect delicacies.) In the cowshed, I enjoyed the Bushell's Coffee and Chicory Essence drink that Dad made, squirting the milk straight from the cow into the blue and white enamel mug. Just postwar, and pre-Nescafe, that's about all the coffee we ever got to taste. Wouldn't that rip your ration card.....
In my teens, mum was very sick for about a year and very much an invalid for some time after that. Prime time then was visiting Grandma Woodward, and from her table I have inherited a love of barley soup, rolled oats — with brown sugar, golden syrup, sultanas and top milk — and all things wholemeal. Grandma's fruitcake sustained me through years at university. Grandad Charlie taught me about fish-head soup and thermos tea and honeycomb straight from his bees. He also grew some of the first "chinese gooseberries" in the district and his glasshouse produced a generous crop of huge Black Hamburg grapes.
The half acre section that went with my first house in Drury was full of fruit trees and inspired my present philosophy of the "grazing garden".
After Drury, I lived for 18 years at Centrepoint Community. Meal time was communal but family occasions, and birthdays were special occasions. Nothing like a couple of hundred people singing "Happy Birthday". There were other "special" days, too, such as Christmas, and CP Day, and weddings. We did the feast days very well.
Centrepoint, too, provided us with Murray's (now Dave's) Meatloaf, probably the single heaviest dose of calories any meal of ours provides in one go, and a favourite of Clifford's, and Centrepoint also generated, for me at least, a terminal distaste for institutional refried beans and stale flounder.
Farm breakfasts as a small lad left me with an (unhealthy) love of fried bacon, eggs, sausages, liver, chops and so on and these were also part of the Centrepoint Sunday Brunch tradition, but (sigh) a rare indulgence for me these days. The Zone diet is sparking a fresh look at these, and breakfasts with more protein are now favourably viewed.
Missing for years until recently has been fish, an important staple in my childhood and early adult years. Dad had a commercial fishing licence and smoked his own mullet for sale. We were never without flounder, mullet, snapper, whitebait and so on in the freezer. Mum's whitebait fritter mix was legendary. About half a dozen eggs to start with, perhaps a bare dessertspoon of flour and a touch of salt and baking powder, a couple of pounds of whitebait, and a cast iron frying pan with the temperature just right, and lard or dripping to fry with! And lemons.
At Warkworth, in the sixties, I had gone spearfishing regularly, and there was always something for the pot. When I lived in Drury in the early seventies, kahawai and mullet were to be had from the bottom of the garden, and my favourite baked gutted mullet or kahawai in foil with a sprig or two of dill in the stomach cavity dates from that time.
(I've always enjoyed baked fish. At home as a kid it was always baked snapper, the big ones that didn't get smoked, with plenty of sage and thyme in the stuffing, but fresh mullet and kahawai baked in foil did just fine, with a bowl of steaming rice, chopsticks, and half a lemon to accompany.)
Fish, like refried beans, did not take well to mass-production cooking at Centrepoint, and fishwise the CP years were significant only for deep fried battered mussels,of which we had a bountiful and relatively cheap supply. Even mussels, though, need to be straight from the rocks or straight from the mussel farm for best taste.
In London in the late sixties I had discovered quality Indian (restaurant) cooking, and I began experimenting with spice mixtures as soon as I had my own kitchen in Drury in the early seventies. Mum's curried mutton flap never really cut it, and I was pleased to find and even invent less greasy "Asian" dishes. Chinese restaurants of the chop suey kind were just beginning to become common and were cheap enough to dine at regularly for a bit of something more exotic. I also began to make my own bread, and the oatmeal loaf dates from this time. Drury also marked my first ventures into pasta (macaroni cheese excepted), chilli, and garlic.
One evening, at Drury, in the mid seventies, we hosted for dinner half a dozen lads from various schools around New Zealand, in Papakura for a hockey tournament, until their billets were able to pick them up. We fed them spaghetti bolognese, and what an icebreaker! None of them had seen it before and none knew how to eat it "politely". In the end we all fell about laughing.
The seventies also marked a shift to lightly cooked vegetables: the practice of putting the cabbage on to boil and then beginning to peel the spuds began slowly to reverse itself. A much wider range of vegetables also began to appear on the greengrocer's shelves.
(Just recently I came across an article on the Weston A Price Foundation site which suggests that there may have been a bit of folk wisdom in cooking cabbage for an extended period, that raw cabbage - and other members of the Brassica family - may contain potentially harmful elements that are diminished with prolonged cooking.)
Late sixties and early seventies began to see also a much greater variety of cheeses to supplement the tasty, mild, chesdale processed, and blue vein that had been pretty much the entire menu. We still bought them mostly in chunks cut off a larger piece at the deli, rather than thickly encased in plastic as we do now. I'm not sure it's been an improvement. Salami began to appear also.
And home ground coffee beans, Real Jamaican Blue Mountain Beans, now as scarce as hen's teeth and super-expensive, that filled the entire house with the smell when we ground them. Only a small number of plantations left in the Blue Mountains now as property developers turned them all into housing estates.
Red wine was beginning to be readily available, and small shops selling New Zealand wines, ports and sherries sprang up in most towns and shopping centres, quite separate from the sale of spirits and beer and foreign wine, which was still restricted to hotel bottle stores and wholesalers. Kumeu Dry Red captured the intellectual market for a number of years.
(Sherry drinking seems to be a thing of the past today, at least among people I know, with cheap supermarket brands, mostly imported, providing most of what's available. What Dylan Thomas used to refer to as washing sherry. In the seventies, most vineyards provided a wide selection, and most houses sported a set of sherry glasses, and a decanter to disguise which particular half gallon flagon it had come from.
Longview Vineyards just south of Whangarei have tragically stopped producing their dry sherry, but their golden sherry is still a caramelly treasure to be looked for if you are travelling north. You can also order it from their website.) [Not any longer, sadly. But the Gumdiggers Port is still a treasure. DCW]
Somewhere in the early-mid seventies I remember visiting a Dalmatian friend who introduced me to "grappa" (aka "marc"), which he distilled himself for the purpose of fortifying his sherry and port. Every drop was supposed to be accounted for to the IRD, for assessment of excise, but the occasional bottle warmed his winters unofficially, and a teaspoonful of his 150 proof nearly blew my head off as it burned its way into my interior. Another Dalmatian, years later, introduced me to slivovitz, and I went on later still to discover calvados and Poires Wilhelm and kirsch.
High end fruit spirits (eaux de vie) are a delight, but look for them in New Zealand and you wade through shelves of alcoholic syrup around 23%, fit only for pouring over lowfat icecream to disguise the taste of each, or loosening upper thigh muscles. We haven't really graduated from blackberry nip, yet, though that classic piece of kiwiana has been long gone, along with Screwdriver, Gimlet and Merry Widow, and been replaced by somewhat more subtle labels (Purple Death).
There was some good white wine about in the seventies if you hunted, but the greatest sales were of what was lightly termed "sauternes", with or without the final "s". There was nearly always a half gallon of the Glenvale variety to be found chilling in Dad's fridge. He bought it, as he had previously bought beer, by the crate of nine flagons, and drank it ice cold by the tumbler. Very refreshing.... You could also buy locally made chablis, moselle, claret, and red and white burgundy. About the only survivor from that period is Corban's Premier Cuvee, a bottom of the line carbonated sweet red or white sparkling, which we mixed with DB Vita Stout and called Black Velvet.
And McWilliams Bakano, the 1964 vintage once proudly supplied to the French Rugby team, but now a sad mix of Australian and South American cheap reds dispensed from a cardboard cask.
Then New Zealand white wine shifted from it's early grapy flavours and to my taste became sour and mouth puckering as winemakers celebrated the "herbivorous" (= green and sour) qualities of our world-famous sauvignon blanc. Any white wine that wasn't capable of dissolving spoons just didn't cut it. Years later when it was politically acceptable, I found a bottle of a South African quaffing white in a supermarket, and found once again the grapy flavours I had been missing for years.
These days, they're also beginning to creep back into New Zealand whites.
I would never claim a sophisticated wine palate. I still shudder when over and undertones of apple, gooseberry, plum, melon, citrus, nectarine, capsicum, tobacco, tar, and so on are celebrated as worthwhile features of a beverage that first and last comes from grapes.
(I think you'll enjoy the complexity of these potatoes, with their subtle overtones of parsnip at the back of the mouth following an introductory rush of curry and celery, with a hint of butter carrying throughout...
Though with the GE boys on the job we could still face such horrors.)
If you can, buy your sauvignon blanc a couple of years old at least. As far as I'm concerned, most first year sauvignon blanc is OK for cutting the excessively fatty taste of the local fish and chips, or possibly as paint stripper. I enjoy our Matua and Waimarie reds, Coopers Creek does a fine merlot, and Westbrook have a sticky to die for, and rather a nice chardonnay.
(I admit my bias is towards the middle-lower end of the wine range. I still have a hard job making sense of the idea that a single bottle of wine can legitimately cost more than twice as much as the entire remainder of the meal.)
I have had to branch out considerably in the last few years to accommodate Charlie's decision at twelve years old to become vegetarian, but it has not all been hard going. Finding (being given) Simon and Alison Holst's wonderful vegetarian recipe books, Meals Without Meat, and Very Easy Vegetarian Recipes not only supplied me with recipes but changed the whole way I thought about food, and provided me with a starting point to devising my own dishes. They are very, very good. Christine Dann's NZ-based Cottage Garden Cookbook is also a useful source of ideas. Oh, and sorry. The Edmonds Book. Of course.
As I said, these pages were put together partly to have a readily available collection of family recipes for the boys to tap into from a distance, and partly because I enjoy doing this sort of thing anyway in the same way as I enjoy putting together collections of family photos, as a celebration and appreciation of where we have been.
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Investors continue to ignore the ugly scenes in the US, with the rally in stock markets largely extended in Asia today and oil prices again higher too (Brent crude is above $40bbl for the first time since early March) on continued optimism that the worst of the pandemic (at least in the major economies) is behind us. With risk appetite firm, in FX markets the dollar maintained its downtrend, with DXY sliding further to its lowest level since March.
While the latest PMI updates on services activity in Japan and China (details below) provided conflicting signals, with the former remaining extremely weak but the latter suggesting growth for the first time since January, the Topix closed up a further 0.7% but the CSI300 closed little changed from yesterday’s close. Australia’s main ASX index shrugged off confirmation of a drop in GDP in the first quarter with a solid 1.8% gain. And US stock futures are higher too while European equities are opening up this morning.
In the bond markets, USTs are somewhat weaker, with yields back to the top end of the range of the past week (10Y yields are up a couple of bps to back above 0.70%). JGBs were slightly weaker after the BoJ reduced its purchase amount for 3-5Y bonds at today’s regular operation, having increased the frequency of such operations (from 5 to 6 times) this month. And ahead of tomorrow’s ECB policy announcement, when news on the PEPP purchase programme is widely expected, euro area government bond yields are a couple of bps higher across the board this morning.
Like the equivalent official non-manufacturing PMI (which rose a further 0.4pt to 53.6, the highest since January), today’s equivalent Caixin services PMI signalled an improvement in activity in May. However, the pace of improvement suggested by this survey was far more striking, with the headline PMI leaping more than 10pts to 55.0, suggesting the first growth in the sector since January and the strongest since 2010. Within the survey detail, the resumption of economic activity and firmer domestic demand was reflected in the first rise in new orders in the sector since January (the respective PMI jumped more than 7pts to 55.8, also a near 10-year high). But – as implied by the official survey – external demand for Chinese services remains weak, with the new export orders PMI still firmly in contractionary territory (44.4). And while firms appear to remain upbeat about the outlook, today’s survey added to evidence that jobs continue to be shed, with the services employment PMI below 50 for a fourth successive month.
When combined with the findings of the manufacturing survey, the Caixin composite PMI jumped almost 7pts to 54.5, similarly marking the first expansion in total activity since January. However, while overall orders were also stronger (up almost 5pts to 52.9), the other composite PMIs similarly suggested that employment continues to be cut and that downwards pressure on prices persist too.
There were no major surprises from the final Japanese services PMI. Admittedly, the headline index was pushed higher from the flash release, by 1.2pts to 26.5, leaving it 5pts higher than April. Nevertheless, the index still marked the second-lowest reading on record (by a considerable margin). And the new business component similarly indicated ongoing sharp contraction in the sector, albeit to a less extent than in April. With the manufacturing output PMI having been revised lower in May (down 1.4pts from the flash estimate), the recovery in the composite PMI was more modest, up just 2pts on the month to 27.8, implying a contraction in output at an unprecedented pace so far in Q2.
National accounts data published by the ABS today showed that, like all other major economies, Australia’s GDP contracted in Q1 as the country battled the bushfire crisis and then the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. Indeed, despite an increase in government support in response to the natural disasters and virus crisis, output fell 0.3%Q/Q in Q1 – the first negative reading since the global financial crisis – to leave it up just 1.4% compared with a year earlier, the softest annual growth since Q309.
Within the detail, despite a notable increase in disposable income in the first quarter as some households received government support, there was significant weakness in household consumption, which fell (-1.1%Q/Q, to subtract 0.6ppt from growth) for the first time since Q408 and the most since Q186. This reflected an unprecedented drop in spending on services (-2.4%Q/Q), while spending on goods (+1%Q/Q) was driven by food, alcohol, pharmaceutical products and home office equipment. Private investment also fell for the fifth quarter out of the past six, knocking a further 0.2ppt off quarterly GDP growth, with residential investment down for the sixth consecutive quarter and spending on machinery and equipment down for the third consecutive quarter. Meanwhile, public sector investment also contracted for the first quarter since 2018.
In terms of trade, exports fell sharply in Q1 (-3.5%Q/Q – the most for nine years) as services exports slumped almost 13%Q/Q on the back of the impact on restrictions associated with education- and tourism-related travel. But services imports were similarly significantly impacted (-13½%Q/Q). And with goods imports disrupted by supply constraints, total imports fell a steeper 6.2%Q/Q in Q1, to leave net trade contributing 0.5ppt to GDP growth.
Looking ahead, with the economy having largely remained closed to non-essential business for much of April and travel bans still in place, the contraction in output in Q2 will undoubtedly be significantly larger and therefore confirm the first technical recession in Australia for three decades. Having escaped the worst of the coronavirus, however, the pace of decline in GDP should be more moderate than the double-digit percentage declines anticipated in much of Europe and the US.
Among today’s other Australian data, the number of dwellings approvals remained remarkably resilient in April, down just 1.8%M/M compared with the forecast drop of 11%M/M, with approvals for private sector houses rising 2.7%M/M. However, new vehicle sales continued to decline sharply in May, with the 59.9k units sold that month down 35.3% from a year earlier, the largest decline for the month of May since the series began in 1991, following a record-49%Y/Y fall in April.
Euro area:
In terms of data, likely of most interest in the euro area today will be the latest German labour market figures for May, as well as the aggregate euro area and Italian numbers for April. The more timely German figures are expected to report a further increase of 190k in unemployment, albeit less than the 373k rise recorded in April. The smaller increase will reflect the easing of economic restrictions as well as continued support provided by the government’s short-time work ‘kurzabeit’ scheme, which the ifo institute yesterday subsidizing the wages of 7.3mn workers in May (this compares with 1½mn workers on the scheme at the height of the global financial crisis). Overall, with tens of millions of workers on government-supported furlough schemes across Europe, the full labour market impact of the crisis will not be fully reflected in the euro area’s unemployment figures too. Indeed, the euro area unemployment rate is expected to rise less than 1ppt from the March level of 7.4%, and thus remain well down on the high of 12.1% reached in 2013.
Elsewhere, the final release of the service sector and composite PMIs for May is likely to highlight that economic conditions remain extremely weak. Indeed, like Monday’s manufacturing PMI, these are expected to confirm the main findings of the flash surveys showing that economic activity improved slightly in May, albeit remaining well below the pre-crisis level. The headline euro area composite index is expected to match the flash estimate of 30.5, up from a record low of 13.6 in April but still the second-lowest reading on record by a considerable margin and firmly below the key 50 level. The Spanish indices, published for the first time this morning, saw the services PMI rise more than 20pts from April’s extreme low to 27.9, a level still consistent with substantive contraction. And that left Spain’s composite PMI up 20pts on the month at a still very low 29.2.
Like elsewhere, this morning will also see the release of the final UK services and composite PMIs for May. The preliminary services PMI increased to 27.8 in May 2020 from an all-time low of 13.4 the previous month. And together with the improvement in the manufacturing PMI, the composite output PMI is expected to have risen by at least the 15pts seen in the flash release to 28.9. But this would still mark the second-lowest reading on the series, leaving it still almost 10pts below the trough during the global financial crisis, pointing to an extremely deep contraction at an unprecedented pace.
Meanwhile, the negative effect on inflation of the slump in demand last month was again evident in today’s release of the BRC shop price survey. In particular, the survey measure of non-food prices was down 4.6%Y/Y in May – the steepest annual drop since the series began in 2006 – following a drop of 3.7%Y/Y previously, as retailers cut prices further to try to attract consumers. And with food prices having eased back slightly too, the BRC’s measure of overall shop price inflation fell considerably further in May, down 0.7ppt to -2.4%Y/Y, the steepest drop since the series began.
In the US, the non-manufacturing ISM and final services PMI for May will be published later today alongside final factory orders data for April. And ahead of Friday’s payroll figures, today’s release of the ADP employment report will also be watched for signs of life in the labour market.
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When your $600 stimulus check will arrive: Answering frequently asked questions
Direct deposit payments already started arriving Tuesday night for some and will continue into next week. Paper checks will begin to be mailed Wednesday.
Author: TEGNA
Published: 5:54 AM PST December 30, 2020
WASHINGTON — The second round of economic impact payments are already on their way, according to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion-plus COVID-19 and annual federal spending package Sunday providing relief for millions of Americans amid the pandemic, which includes the checks.
The package provides $600 direct payments to individuals making up to $75,000 per year; $1,200 for couples making up to $150,000 per year — with payments phased out for higher incomes — and $600 additional payments per dependent child.
Some direct deposit payments may have arrived as early as Tuesday night for some and will continue into next week. Paper checks will begin to be mailed, Wednesday, Dec. 30.
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.@USTreasury has delivered a payment file to the @FederalReserve for Americans’ Economic Impact Payments. These payments may begin to arrive in some accounts by direct deposit as early as tonight and will continue into next week (1/2)
— Steven Mnuchin (@stevenmnuchin1) December 29, 2020
“Throughout this challenging year, the IRS has worked around the clock to provide economic impact payments and critical taxpayer services to the American people,” said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig in a statement. “We are working swiftly to distribute this second round of payments as quickly as possible. This work continues throughout the holidays and into the new year as we prepare for the upcoming filing season."
Here are some answers to questions Americans might have about the stimulus checks:
Who is eligible for the second economic impact payment?
Generally, U.S. citizens and resident aliens who are not eligible to be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s income tax return are eligible for this second payment, according to the IRS. Eligible individuals will automatically receive an economic impact payment of up to $600 for individuals or $1,200 for married couples and up to $600 for each qualifying child.
If someone has adjusted gross income for 2019 up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns and surviving spouses, they will receive the full amount of the second payment. For filers with income above those amounts, the payment amount is reduced.
What do I need to do to receive the check?
The IRS emphasizes that there is no action required by eligible individuals to receive this second payment. Some Americans may see the direct deposit payments as pending or as provisional payments in their accounts before the official payment date of Jan. 4, 2021.
The IRS reminds taxpayers that the payments are automatic, and they should not contact their financial institutions or the IRS with payment timing questions.
Payments are also automatic for anyone who successfully registered for the first payment online at IRS.gov using the agency’s Non-Filers tool by Nov. 21, 2020, or who submitted a simplified tax return that has been processed by the IRS.
What if I never received the first economic impact payment?
The IRS urges taxpayers who didn’t receive a payment this year to review the eligibility criteria when they file their 2020 taxes; many people, including recent college graduates, may be eligible to claim it.
People will see the economic impact payments (EIP) referred to as the Recovery Rebate Credit (RRC) on Form 1040 or Form 1040-SR since the EIPs are an advance payment of the RRC.
How do I find out if the IRS is sending me a payment?
People can check the status of both their first and second payments by using the Get My Payment tool, available in English and Spanish only on IRS.gov. The tool is being updated with new information, and the IRS anticipates the tool will be available again in a few days for taxpayers.
Will people receive a paper check or a debit card?
For those who don’t receive a direct deposit by early January, they should watch their mail for either a paper check or a debit card, the IRS said. To speed delivery of the payments to reach as many people as soon as possible, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, part of the Treasury Department, will be sending a limited number of payments out by debit card. Please note that the form of payment for the second mailed EIP may be different than for the first mailed EIP.
Some people who received a paper check last time might receive a debit card this time, and some people who received a debit card last time may receive a paper check.
Will someone on Social Security, other beneficiaries receive a check?
Most Social Security retirement and disability beneficiaries, railroad retirees and those receiving veterans’ benefits do not need take any action to receive a payment, the IRS said. Earlier this year, the IRS worked directly with the relevant federal agencies to obtain the information needed to send out the new payments the same way benefits for this group are normally paid. For eligible people in this group who didn’t receive a payment for any reason, they can file a 2020 tax return.
Will I receive anything for my tax records showing I received a second economic impact payment?
Yes. People will receive an IRS notice, or letter, after they receive a payment telling them the amount of their payment. They should keep this for their tax records.
Why are only $600 checks being sent? I thought it was $2,000.
President Donald Trump and Democrats have pushed for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks, but it stalled out in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote.
Trump wants the Republican-led chamber to follow the House and increase the checks from $600 for millions of Americans. A growing number of Republicans, including two senators in runoff elections on Jan. 5 in Georgia, have said they will support the larger amount. But most GOP senators oppose more spending, even if they are also wary of bucking Trump.
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How much will my stimulus check be?
On direct payments, the bill provides $600 to individuals making up to $75,000 per year and $1,200 to couples making up to $150,000, with payments phased out for higher incomes. An additional $600 payment will be made per dependent child, similar to the last round of relief payments in the spring.
It's still up in the air if the U.S. Senate would pass a standalone $2,000 stimulus check bill. For now, the checks will remain at $600.
Here is a tool from Omni Calculator that may help you determine how much you might receive, based on the $600 number:
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There Will Only Be 4 Black Fortune 500 CEOs When Kenneth Chenault Leaves American Express
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The already thin ranks of Black chief executives has been decimated recently.
Bruce C.T. Wright
The list of Fortune 500 CEOs has never been more diverse, but it was set to take a major hit in one key demographic after American Express Co. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault announced on Wednesday his plans to leave his position early next year. By departing American Express, Chenault will leave behind just four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
By the time his February 1, 2018, departure date rolls around, Chenault will have led American Express for 16 years.
Amex Announces Stephen J. Squeri to Succeed Kenneth I. Chenault as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer https://t.co/wF6MeIU7So #amexnews
— American Express (@AmericanExpress) October 18, 2017
“We’re starting a new chapter from a position of strength and this is the right time to make the leadership transition to someone who’s played a central role in all that we’ve accomplished,” Chenault said in a brief statement on Wednesday.
Consistently ranked as one of the top CEOs in America, an increasingly tough feat considering that 70 percent of senior executives in America are White men, according to Fortune. In fact, if the trend keeps up, which is all but promised, not even 1 percent of Fortune 500 companies will have a Black leader.
There have been a couple of recent resignations of Black CEOs, which decimated the already thin ranks of Black chief executives: Ursula Burns left her CEO perch at Xerox earlier this year and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. led Delphi for eight years before stepping down in 2015.
Below is a look at the last of a dying breed — the country’s remaining Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Rosalind Brewer, Starbucks
Brewer is the newest, and the only woman, of the Black Fortune 500 chief executives. She assumed her position a little more than two weeks ago on Oct. 2.
.@Starbucks names Rosalind Brewer group president and chief operating officer https://t.co/U1epTXV9Ab pic.twitter.com/lbDyEoU2f1
— Starbucks News (@Starbucksnews) September 6, 2017
Arnold W. Donald, Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival’s president and chief executive officer has led the tourism company since 2013. But his future at the company was unclear after he reportedly sold nearly 91,000 shares of Carnival stock on Monday.
#CES2017 Keynote reminder! @CarnivalPLC President and CEO Arnold W. Donald will be at the Venetian Level 5, Palazzo Ballroom at 8:30am! pic.twitter.com/1m7aZrjK0H
— CES (@CES) January 5, 2017
Kenneth Frazier, Merck
Frazier ascended Merck’s corporate ladder after beginning as general counsel in 1992. Nearly 20 years later, he was named CEO in January 2011, becoming the first Black chief executive of a pharmaceutical company. He made headlines this summer when he famously quit Donald Trump’s American manufacturing Council over the president’s response to a racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Who is Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier #TheBlackCitizen https://t.co/gFZM7pn2tQ pic.twitter.com/hEcWA1CQl0
— TheBlackCitizen (@TheBlackCitizen) October 18, 2017
Roger Ferguson, TIAA
Ferguson has led the financial services organization since 2008. He recently predicted he would retire “at some point many years from now,” according to Bloomberg.
TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson: Communities of Color Must Focus on Retirement Security https://t.co/EzGMG5HT4G pic.twitter.com/qJvJluc8cY
— Trailblazers.FM (@tbpod) September 25, 2017
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Hillington, Norfolk
Hillington today is a small village straddling the A148 road between Kings Lynn, (c.11km to the southwest) and Fakenham (c.20km to the northeast) in north Norfolk. The village sits at between 20m and 25m OD on both mudstone and chalk bedrock.
The 15th century church of St Mary is set south of the A148, which would have been along the original main road between Hillington and Grimston. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book as Helingetuna which is believed to mean ‘the farmstead of the family or followers of a mall called Hythla or Hydla’.
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Understanding Aboriginality Webinar 2018.
Watch webinar here.
Australian Council of Deans of Education and Australian Indigenous Lecturers in Initial Teacher Education Association webinar on:
• Unpacking the complexities of Aboriginality
• How to identify and challenge prevailing concepts
• What cultural safety means
• How issues of cultural safety play out in education
• How to make spaces more culturally safe.
Dr Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes
Sheelagh, a Kamilaroi woman originally from north-western NSW, is passionate about Aboriginal education. She worked in senior project management in community corrections, disability services, and chronically homeless youth before joining the Sydney School of Education and Social Work in 2017 as a Fellow in the Wingara Mura Leadership Program.
In 2016, Sheelagh completed her doctorate, Culturally Responsive Pedagogies of Success: Improving educational outcomes for Australian Aboriginal students , at the University of South Australia. Sheelagh has studied education, criminology and psychology and now specialises in Aboriginal education; using a framework of cultural responsiveness infused with the tenets of Critical Race Theory.
Shirley Gilbert , a Gunditjmara woman, has worked in Aboriginal Education for over 25 years. Shirley is an authority on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum research and development; has provided expert advice to ACARA on the development of the national Aboriginal Studies curriculum; and is part of the AITSL-sponsored project team developing curriculum resources to address cultural responsiveness for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Shirley is often asked to advise on professional development for pre-service and in-service teachers in NSW and nationally. This lecturer in Western Sydney University’s School of Education is National President of the Australian Indigenous Lecturers in Teacher Education Association. She is currently researching her own teaching with secondary pre-service teachers, investigating ways to improve how teachers move from being culturally competent to culturally responsive professionals.
Dr Graeme Gower is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research at Edith Cowan University. This descendant of the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia, and has been involved in Indigenous education for 38 years – eight years as a primary school teacher and 30 years in higher education.
Graeme, a teacher and researcher, is particularly interested in Indigenous cultural competency and Indigenous research methodologies. He is a strong advocate of cultural competency training for researchers who engage in Indigenous research to strengthen ethical practices and effective communication among participants and Indigenous communities.
Facilitator: Anne Szadura, ACDE.
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Pheidole
is the world's most species-rich ant genus. These myrmicine ants have a cosmopolitan distribution but are particularly diverse in the tropics, filling a number of niches from seed-harvesting to ant-plant symbionts. The genus is marked by a pronounced worker caste polymorphism; major workers are considerably larger than minors and have disproportionately large heads.
Pheidole aberrans
Major workers of the South American species Pheidole aberrans have an unusually large head even for a Pheidole. Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Major and minor workers. Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
A minor worker of Pheidole aberrans, a small but ambitious South American harvester ant, lugs a grass seed to her nest. Correa, Santa Fe, Argentina
Pheidole barbata
Major and minor workers of Pheidole barbata, a small harvester ant. Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA
Pheidole bicarinata
Pheidole bicarinata is the most widespread native species in this genus in North America. Here, workers scavenge the carcass of an immature stink bug. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois, USA
Pheidole bergi
Frías, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Pheidole biconstricta
Pheidole biconstricta is one of the larger and more common Pheidole in northern South America. Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia
Pheidole sp.
Although roughly 15,000 ant species have been formally described, thousands more await scientific diagnoses and names. This Ecuadorian big-headed ant, related to the better-studied Pheidole biconstricta, is among them. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
A minor worker carries a small feather she has scavenged back to her nest. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Pheidole bos
The massive head of some Pheidole ants serves primarily to power seed-crunching mandibles. Here, a P. bos major worker cuts open a seed casing while her nestmates stand by. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
The massive head of some Pheidole ants serves primarily to house the muscles behind seed-crunching mandibles. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Pheidole californica
Major worker. Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, California, USA
A busy nest entrance. Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, California, USA
Pheidole dentata
Brackenridge Field Lab, Austin, Texas
Entylia carinata & Pheidole dentata
Treehoppers in the genus Entylia are often attended by ants. Here, a pair of immature nymphs produce honeydew for a Pheidole big-headed ant. Austin, Texas, USA.
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Cast : Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners Screenplay : John L. Balderston Release : December 22, 1932 Director : Karl Freund Genre : Horror Country : USA Stream Now Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
The Mummy (1932)
Posted by Tim Brayton Posted on Oct - 5 - 2013 9 Comments
Universal Horror: All wrapped up with no place to go
The rise of horror as a real thing in American cinema was not an uncontroversial process; concerns over propriety and morality kept the genre from ever taking hold in the States during the silent era the way it so vitally did in Germany. When the dam finally broke in the early sound days, with Universal's one-two punch of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931, it was still using the fig leaf that these were actually literary adaptations, not scuzzy little monster shows (even though both of those films bent the literary source into such unrecognisable shapes that it barely counts). This had, in fact, been true of nearly all the meager horror offerings of the '20s, as well: they were based on important, high-toned books and stories, and they just happened to be freakish and scary, and that's how the 1923 period drama based on Victor Hugo's sober social critique The Hunchback of Notre Dame is sometimes held to be the starting point of Universal's horror cycle.
Once horror found its toehold in '31, though, all bets were off, and the explosion of original horror stories the following year created a perpetual motion genre machine that, except for a few rough patches here and there (primarily in the '40s, with smaller die-offs in the '60s and '90s), remains with us even today, 80 years later. Universal itself broke into the world of "original" horror in December, 1932, with The Mummy, the very first monster movie made about a more or less original monster: mummies exist, sure, and the very idea of a carefully preserved corpse is creepy enough that the horror connection isn't a particular leap, but the particular way that this film presents its undead killer isn't derived from folklore like vampires, werewolves, or golems are.
Though you'll note, I did put "original" in scare quotes up there, because John L. Balderston's screenplay is hardly a model of creativity and invention. It's frequently little more than a redressed version of Universal's Dracula, based closely on Balderston's own play; this married to a story treatment by Nina Wilcox Putnam & Richard Schayer for a horror-romance based on the life of Cagliostro, from which comes The Mummy's only real innovation on the Dracula model, the idea of a reincarnated love from across the centuries (with cheerful redundancy, this idea would re-enter many future vampire pictures, most prominently in Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1992).
The important bit in all of this fun but somewhat inconsequential trivia is that The Mummy isn't just a Dracula rip-off, it's a Dracula rip-off that is, in fact, considerably better than Dracula in almost every regard, despite failing to possess anything like the same cachet. I assume this is what being first does for your reputation; that or the fact that vampires have always been popular, while the last time that mummies were brought into the public eye was in the form of Universal's own extremely loose 1999 remake, The Mummy as an action-adventure romp with a dime-store Indiana Jones.
No matter what, the film is still a damn impressive exemplar of 1932 horror filmmaking, one of the few films of that vintage that remains legitimately creepy whatsoever. A huge amount of credit for that falls on Karl Freund, the legendary cinematographer making his American directorial debut (after, perhaps, having kept Dracula propped up throughout Tod Browning's incapacitating drunkenness, depending on which rumor you listen to), and proving just as cunning in charge of the whole visual scheme of a movie as when he was just in charge of lighting it (and while The Mummy's camerawork is officially credited to Charles Stumar, it looks so much like Freund's work in every regard that it seems ridiculous not to speculate that the German master wasn't really dictating all the elements of the image). In Freund's eminently capable hands, The Mummy is the most gloomy, Expressionist of all the Universal films of the '30s, more foreboding and atmospheric than Frankenstein, and easily the equal to the Freund-lensed opening sequence of Dracula, in all its decaying splendor, without having anything resembling Dracula's subsequent lapse into starchy white interiors, overlit with a painfully static camera. It's the difference of a year of technological development and solving the problems of sound filmmaking, that The Mummy has such a more fluid camera than Dracula could dream about, and as Freund has the camera gently sneaking through his sets and moving up tight to the characters in their moments of fear and distress, it all hits much harder than a film of this vintage "ought" to.
Certainly, the film's opening scene benefits enormously from the new freedom available to the filmmakers, and this by itself is possibly the best sequence in American sound horror through the end of 1932. It is the year 1921, and an archaeological dig sponsored by the British Museum has uncovered a particularly wonderful tomb in Egypt, where the disgraced priest Imhotep was buried; it's like nothing that crack archaeologist Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Bryon) or Egyptologist Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan, playing very nearly the same part he had in Dracula) have ever seen. Imhotep was buried alive, it seems, for some unspeakable sacrilegious crime, and one of the treasures in his tomb is a gold casket marked with stern injunctions against opening it for threat of releasing some curse related to the dead priest's infamy. Muller takes this all very seriously, but Sir Joseph and his assistant Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) do not, and while Sir Joseph has the superstitious doctor outside, haughtily talking Science this and Intellectual Responsibility that, Ralph is busy cracking open the casket and reading from the seal inside.
Everything up to this point has been terrific: dusty old Egyptian tombs are fine places, all the more with the production having been designed by Hungarian fairy tale illustrator Willy Pogany, who gives it a suitable sense of mythic dread. It is an especially velvety kind of blackness that Freund achieves in suggesting the unseen corners of the tomb, and it's a lovely scene overall, and then in one magnificent whip pan from Imhotep propped up in his coffin to Ralph busily studying the Scroll of Thoth, everyone involve ups their game all the way as high as it will go. For it's here that, slowly, almost painfully, the corpse of Imhotep begins to open its eyes, unseen by Ralph, and now we get to talk about the other two people chiefly responsible for The Mummy being so much better than most '30s horror films: Boris Karloff, a superstar after Frankenstein, as the reincarnated Imhotep, and Jack P. Pierce, the makeup designer whose work done to give Karloff the illusion of desiccated flesh is even better, in my opinion, than his deservedly iconic work designing Frankenstein's monster. The mummy version of Imhotep barely gets any screentime - I haven't timed it, but 90 seconds sounds plausible - but oh my Christ, the impact it makes. When Ralph turns around and starts screaming and then laughing madly at the sight, it seems weirdly plausible that he'd actually be driven insane on the spot, so persuasive is the make-up and the haunted house setting where we see it.
At this point, the movie skips ahead 11 years, and ceases to be quite as good, though still much better than it could have been, all things considered. Briefly, there is a new expedition being headed by Sir Joseph's son Frank (David Manners, playing exactly the same character he played in Dracula, the wet noodle romantic lead), and as it is on the verge of finding absolutely nothing useful, a vaguely menacing Egyptian man with unpleasantly dry, flaky skin named Ardath Bey (Karloff) comes to camp to suggest where the English team can find a terrific find, the tomb of the princess Ankh-es-en-Amon. This dig turns out to be quite a big deal, and it receives a splashy display in the Cairo Museum, where Ardath Bey comes one night after hours. He has with him the same Scroll of Thoth, and he's just about to enact a ritual in front of the mummy of Ankh-es-en-Amon herself, when he's interrupted by a guard. Whatever he did was enough to trigger something in an English-Egyptian resident of Cairo, Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), who begins to act in odd ways suggesting a certain confusion about who she is or where. As Frank notes upon meeting her at the museum, where she's arrived in a trance, she looks exactly like Ankh-es-en-Amon would have in life, and whatever a viewer in '32 might have thought, a viewer from any year since then immediately grasps that we're dealing with the modern incarnation of the princess's sole, and that Ardath Bey - who is, of course, the same Imhotep, given somewhat more robust flesh - will stop at nothing to capture her, while Frank, aided by his father and Dr. Muller, looks for some way to break the mummy's spell on the woman he fell in love with, by his own admission, because she resembled a preserved corpse.
Not only is this like Dracula in the abstract, several individual scenes recreate, more or less, individual scenes from the earlier movie, and the biggest problem with both films is the same: the relationship between the bland male lead and his romantic interest is not remotely interesting enough to sustain a scene, let alone a feature. And this is enough to keep The Mummy stuck in "oh, it's great! if you like '30s movies" mode, while something like Frankenstein is great, full-stop. Still, it's a huge step up for Universal's horror films: superior to Dracula not just because of Freund's infinitely more successful visuals (even the chatty exposition scenes in the middle have a softer, more withdrawn lighting style than the bright rooms in Dracula), but to the general improvement of the cast as well. Van Sloan, never a great actor, is still a lot less broad and shrill here (that, and there is less of him), and Johann is a terrific leading lady, with a face that doesn't like half-Egyptian, half-anything (she was Romanian), but still looks amazingly different from the usual leading lady. It's rounder, more inquisitive, more attentive, like Claudette Colbert but with angry eyes. She hated movies and got back to theater as soon as possible (at the time of The Mummy, she was married to future legendary Broadway impresario John Houseman, in fact), and she and Freund quarreled endlessly, but none of that shows in her performance, which is otherworldly in just the right degree to really make an impression, unlike the parade of bland female horror movie stars of that and every other generation. She even gets to save herself from peril at the end! Which is a script detail, not an acting one, but it helps to make Helen a more pronounced and interesting character than women in '30s horror usually tended to be.
The clear stand-out - and, my love for Freund notwithstanding, the reason that The Mummy still works so beautifully - is Karloff, whose bandaged-up mummy is a memorable image, but whose stiff, menacing Ardath Bey is a magnificent performance of a tremendously compelling villain. There's none of the plummy charm that he frequently brought to his subsequent villains; Bey is not without wit (which he uses to cutting effect against the blithely imperialistic British characters), but he is without humor, and Karloff's performance is an unimpeachable triumph of presence and restraint. He moves slowly, and methodically, every bit the incompletely-reanimated corpse, but also like a snake, for whom every movement is weighted with great consideration for the final killing strike. It's easily the most menacing performance that I have ever seen the actor give, and one of the great pieces of villainy of the '30s, and for all that lovers of the grotesque might bemoan the short shrift given to the iconic mummy, I think that Karloff's Bey (with some great subtle makeup by Pierce to make his skin look sandy) is such a profoundly effective character that I wouldn't want to trade a frame of it.
There are, of course, ways in which the film shows its age, mostly due to representational matters. There's no way that any 21st Century viewer can comfortably observe the blithe racism of the film's treatment of native Egyptians or the casual assumption that we'll like the white English heroes by default, because they are white and English and busy taking the cultural treasures of North Africa to the civilised countries that can really appreciate them. On a slightly less profound note, the way that archaeology worked in 1921 and 1932 is so different from the way it works today as to be comical; the way that Sir Joseph chats unconcernedly about a millennia-old wooden box falling into pieces in his very hands would be cringe-inducing if it wasn't so darn absurd. Or maybe I have those the wrong way 'round.
So yeah, it's dated. But many films are this dated without this many compensating factors, and for a movie made so early into America's dalliance with horror, The Mummy is a ridiculously confident, sophisticated piece of filmmaking.
Reviews in this series
The Mummy (Freund, 1932)
The Mummy's Hand (Cabanne, 1940)
The Mummy's Tomb (Young, 1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (Le Borg, 1944)
The Mummy's Curse (Goodwins, 1944)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (Lamont, 1955)
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Latin American Sports Fans Embrace Music, eSports Amid COVID-19 Live Sports Shutdown as Pay TV Providers Shift Strategies to Retain Subscribers
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COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, reaching nearly every nation and costing tens of thousands of lives so far. While protecting public health is the clear priority in this pandemic, there has already been an unprecedented impact on the global economy with massive job losses and plunging stock market indexes.
Altman Vilandrie & Company clients have asked us over the last couple of weeks for our views on the near- and long-term impacts of this crisis. This article represents the next installment in a series of articles that dive deeper into different aspects of the crisis and how they will impact our lives, our work, and the Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) industries on which we rely.
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Latin American sports fans are turning to music, exercise, and eSports to fill the void during the live sports shutdown created by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new survey by Altman Vilandrie & Company. The survey of 3000 consumers in six major Latin American nations shows that while most sports fans are still following their favorite teams and leagues/competitions during the shutdown, more than 10% of sports fans have cancelled or are considering cutting the cord from pay TV, creating challenges for pay TV providers as sports competitions remain suspended.
“Latin American sports fans are some of the most loyal and passionate in the world so trying to fill that void has been difficult,” said Altman Vilandrie & Company Director Daniel Torras. “While other pursuits can help fans pass the time, it is critical for pay TV providers and sports programmers to provide engaging content for viewers during the live sports shutdown – or risk losing them as customers over the long term.”
According to the survey, adult sports viewers from six counties – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru – are listening to music (~40%), exercising (~30%), reading (~30%), and playing video games (~25%) more during the gameplay suspension. By contrast, only ~20% expressed interest in watching non-sports programming, compared to 55% of American sports fans from a similar recent Altman Vilandrie & Company survey. Sport documentaries, classic games are popular, eSports top in Brazil
There are still opportunities for sports content creators and pay TV providers to attract Latin American sports fans, as nearly 80% of sports fans – and 100% of Brazilian fans – express interest in alternative sports programming, including documentaries (top choice for ~20%), classic sports games (20%), and variety shows (~20%). While eSports is not the top choice in five of the countries, it is the most popular option in Brazil at 26%. In responding to a separate survey question, about half of Latin American sports fans say they are more interested in eSports now than before the COVID-19 pandemic – far more than in the United States (15%). “There is a significant opportunity for eSports leagues and providers like Twitch to invest heavily in Latin America right now,” said Torras. “In addition, sports TV providers should look at broadcasting eSports and making more direct connections between eSports and traditional sports, which our research shows can be mutually beneficial.”
Sports fans value Pay TV, but some looking to cut service
While Latin American consumers overall value home internet service over Pay TV, a larger percentage of sports fans place an equal importance on TV and home internet. But it’s not all good news: more than 10% of Latin American sports fans indicate they have cancelled or are considering cancelling their pay TV service since the onset of COVID-19. And in Mexico, this percentage is significantly above the Latin American average at 17%. However, a return to gameplay should help solidify a base of viewers who want to stay connected to their favorite sports teams and leagues: approximately 70% of respondents say are still following their favorite teams and leagues. The challenge, according to Torras, is finding ways to continue engaging sports fans in the meantime – and retaining them as subscribers.
He noted that many Latin American Pay TV and content providers are already employing innovative techniques to keep sports viewers engaged. Sky Mexico, for example, is broadcasting classic matches from Spain’s La Liga and the English Premier League at no charge to its subscribers. Other providers, like Claro in Brazil and DirecTV through Latin America, are providing free access to a wealth of premium tier channels, including sports, to their subscribers. Premium sports channel Win Sports+, which holds the exclusive rights to the professional soccer league in Colombia, has gone as far as to waive monthly subscription fees to all its customers. And Chilean cable provider VTR is giving targeted fee reductions to subscribers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19. “A prolonged live sports shutdown has significant risks for traditional Pay TV providers,” said Torras. “Temporary price reductions, free premium content, and alternative programming, as some have already implemented, could help retain subscribers until gameplay resumes and the stickiness of TV returns. With the importance Latin American consumers place on home internet, virtual MVPDs could accelerate the use of video streaming as an alternative to traditional TV.”
Once gameplay returns, 75% of Latin American sports fans plan to return to watching sports programming on TV, a slightly lower number than in the U.S. (89%). It is less certain whether sports fans will be equally keen on attending live sporting events, especially if gameplay resumes before a COVID-19 vaccine is available. A separate survey conducted by AV&Co. showed than roughly half of sports fans in Mexico and Brazil would be reticent to attend live games in the absence of an effective vaccine. And this percentages climbs to 70% or more among some demographics, such as sports fans aged 55 and over in Mexico. Altman Vilandrie & Company’s survey, which polled 3000 consumers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru on April 2-4, was led by Daniel Torras and Matt Del Percio.
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69 years later, woman returns to find dorm room surprise
AOL.com Editors, AOL.com
Jul 14th 2014 3:23PM
DES MOINES, IOWA -- When a Grand View University alum returned to campus, she soaked it all in -- and she just couldn't get over what the college had done to her third-floor home.
KCCI reports: Alice Humphrey wasn't walking into a mock-up at Grand View University, but her actual dorm room -- just the way it was when she arrived on the train from Connecticut in 1945.
"I've heard so much about the closet," her granddaughter, Katie, said as they walked in.
"This just [brings] so many memories back," Humphrey said about her old room.
Back then, Grand View's oldest building did not have Humphrey's name on it. However, when she donated the money to renovate the building, the college asked her for a few photos and pulled off a one-room surprise -- right down to the radiator, the radio, and the tiny closet that she shared with a roommate.
"We did it. I can't tell you how...I can never go back and do that again." Humphrey quipped.
69 years after her first night in this dorm, she returned with her granddaughter and a lesson -- how choices you make as a teenager can change everything.
"If I hadn't come to Grand View, I wouldn't have met my husband, and it would've been a whole different life," the alum pointed out.
Katie said about her grandmother's space, "I had no idea that it was that important ... I've seen pictures, but it's all exactly what Grandma had it as, which is crazy to see."
It's clear that dorm rooms have the power to make a grandma seem so much more relatable.
Katie explained, "Me going off the college myself [and] realizing that this was Grandma's college experience, [I see that] this is to her what everything -- Penn State -- is to me ... I'm definitely really glad I got to be here."
After graduating from Grand View, Alice and her husband built a successful chemical company together on the east coast.
As you can tell, though, she never forget her college experience in Des Moines.
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Oregon Community Join to Support Solutions for Working Families
Home/News & Events/Press Release/Oregon Community Join to Support Solutions for Working Families
New University of Oregon Report Highlights Need for Action to Address the High Cost of Low Wages
Portland, Ore. – Community and labor organizations from across the state will join at 9:30 am on Thursday, January 8th at the Center for Intercultural Organizing in Portland to launch Fair Shot for All, a new coalition that is supporting solutions to create economic opportunity for Oregon’s working families.
During the upcoming legislative session, Fair Shot for All will push Oregon lawmakers to approve policies that stand to create real change for Oregonians.
The coalition’s priorities include:
Raising the minimum wage;
Ensuring all Oregonians earn paid sick days;
Ending profiling;
Making saving for retirement easier; and
Creating job opportunities for people with prior convictions and arrests.
The need for a new approach to economic opportunity is highlighted in The High Cost of Low Wages in Oregon, a new report from the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center that details the growth of low wage work in Oregon and illuminates the financial crisis that low wage, no benefits jobs have created for working families and Oregon taxpayers. Copies of the report will be available at the Fair Shot for All launch event.
Fair Shot for All includes Family Forward Oregon, SEIU, the Urban League of Portland, Oregon AFL-CIO, Center for Intercultural Organizing, Oregon Education Association, CAUSA, Basic Rights Oregon, UFCW, Rural Organizing Project, PCUN, AFSCME, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, Oregon Action, and an ever-growing coalition from across Oregon.
Thursday, January 8, 2015, 9:30 AM
Center for Intercultural Organizing
700 N. Killingsworth St.
Launch of Fair Shot for All, a new statewide coalition of community and labor groups pushing for real policy solutions to address economic inequality.
As the gap between the wealthy and working families continues to grow, it has become increasingly clear that the economy is working only for a few. Despite working hard, many of us are left struggling from zero retirement savings and work policies that simply don’t work for families. On top of that, staggering opportunity gaps and long-standing inequalities faced by communities of color leave us even further behind. It’s time to un-stack the deck so everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We need policies that fix our broken economy and give all of us a fair shot.
A diverse group of organizations with a shared goal to give Oregon women and working families a fair shot at getting ahead, not just getting by. Fair Shot for All includes Family Forward Oregon, SEIU, the Urban League of Portland, Oregon AFL-CIO, Center for Intercultural Organizing, Oregon Education Association, CAUSA, Basic Rights Oregon, PCUN, UFCW, Rural Organizing Project, AFSCME, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, Oregon Action, and an ever-growing coalition from across Oregon.
To learn more, visit www.fairshotoregon.org
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Message From Presidant
Abera Bayisa (Ass.Prof)
( Assosa Uniiversity Academic Vice President )
The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
Message from the Academic Vice President
Welcome to the Academic Vice President’s page at Assosa University.
Assosa university is one of the public Higher learning Institutions Established to contribute for production of qualified human power for the ongoing Socio-economic development of the country. Assosa university is aspiring to be one of the top ten universities in Ethiopia in the year 2025. Due to the decision by the government of Ethiopia to expand HLIs and huge investment in the sector, the university has assumed rapid growth both in its infrastructure, teaching-learning, and research facilities. As it is known Assosa university is the only university found in the Benishangul Gumuze regional state tailored to contribute and play its best level to societal need-based education, demand driven research and community service.
The university has also undergone institutional transformation in its organizational structure and business processes. As the result, the academic wing of the university is organized into six colleges and three schools comprising 38 departments including three local languages. Hence, it gives me a great pleasure to provide a piece of information in a nutshell as to the current status of ASU focusing on training programs, academic staffs and students.
Currently, Assosa University is delivering training in 38 departments in undergraduate and four post graduate programs in regular modality. The university has also been providing training opportunity at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to the community. To quench the long aged demand of education for the surrounding community, the university launched different program in 24 under and 3 postgraduate programs in extension, weekend and summer schemes in Assosa town and nearby region of Oromia at Mandi town. This depicts how much the university is working to bring people together. Generally the university is working aggressively to expand demand based programs in both under and postgraduate in different modality.
Regarding teacher development program, the university has developed a 5 year strategic plan to attain 75 :25 qualification mix. The staff development plan of the university has been progressing pretty well with a total number of academic staffs amount to 832, out of which 480 are engaging in teaching, research and community service whereas 352 are on study leaves.
The university is catering a total student population of 7,565 training in (38) undergraduate and (4) postgraduate programs as of 2019/2020 academic year in regular modality and 4,321 in (24) undergraduate and 4 postgraduate programs in CDEP modality. The university is striving to attain the set target 17,000 by the year 2025 in regular modality. It is worth mentioning that 36% of these students are females
Assosa University is organized into the following Colleges, schools and Directorates
College of Informatics and computing
College of Natural and computations Sc.
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
College of Business & Economics
School of education and behavioral science
School of Postgraduate study
Directorates Accountable to Academic Affairs Vice President
Academic Program and Staff Development Directorate
Registrar Office Directorate
Library and Documentation Directorate
Continuous and Distance Education Directorate
Office of the Academic Vice President,
Assosa Uniiversity, Assosa
Assosa Unversity,Ethiopia
Phone (Office): +251 577750692
Phone (Mobile): +251 939 30 93 25/
Email: Jiratuabera@gmail.com
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Grave Decisions: A Detective Sophie Whitton Story
By: Claire Highton-Stevenson
Narrated by: Fiona Thraille
Categories: LGBTQ+, Literature & Fiction
A Detective Sophie Whitton Story
A body turns up in a field. She’s blonde and her eyes have been gouged out. DI Sophie Whitton knows it's him - The man the press has dubbed: The doll maker. Whitton and her team must act fast if they are to stop anyone else falling victim to the doll maker. With an innate need to seek the truth and find justice for the dead, DI Whitton risks losing it all, including her long-term relationship with live-in lover, Yvonne, as she strives to find a killer, and maybe even herself along the way.
Don't let the Cover deture or frighten you
By Nic on 28-08-19
Narrated by: Ariel Royce
Fleeing a toxic relationship, Olivia Copeland packs her bags and heads back to LA with her five-year-old daughter Gracie, intent on a new start. When Olivia keeps bumping into the same woman, she begins to think that maybe the potential for happiness is a real possibility.
Heart of Ice
By: T. B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod
Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy
What happens when the one person who makes your heart sing is also the one person who could destroy everything you’ve worked for? Laurie “The Hatchet” Emerson is a ruthless leader in Boston finance who’s rumored to have a block of ice where her heart should be. If only. Recently widowed, Laurie fears she’s broken beyond repair, until a once-in-a-lifetime business deal reignites her passion for work and gives her a shot at proving to the world she still has some life left in her.
Tit for tat in the office
By evenwolvesdream on 11-12-20
Life in Bits
A Lesbian Christmas Romance
By: Harper Bliss, T. B. Markinson
Eileen Makenna is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has traveled the world for over two decades, chasing the next big story. She returns home for the holidays shattered by a life-altering event and facing the terrifying prospect she'll never be able to work again. When Eileen meets Naomi Weaver, a small-town girl who dedicates her free time to helping those in need, Eileen is entranced by Naomi's zest for life. Can Eileen overcome her inner demons and troubled family relationships to let Naomi in?
When youth resparks the joy of life - christmas edition
Wrong Number, Right Woman
By: Jae
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Flirting has never been Denny’s strong suit, but so what if she’s too shy to ask women out? She’s content with her simple life, working as a cashier and helping her sister raise her niece. But then she gets a wrong-number text message from a stranger named Eliza, asking her of all people for dating advice!
Feel good read with quality narrator!
By Client d'Amazon on 15-12-20
Reaping the Benefits
By: E. J. Noyes
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Morgan Ashworth isn't having a good day. The award for Minion of the Year is slipping out of reach, and she has to administer an afterlife package to one of her human employees. An employee she's attracted to. An employee who'll soon know Morgan isn't quite what she seems. Jane Smith was having a great day. Until her hot boss dropped a bombshell. It's time for Jane to complete the questionnaire to decide where she'll spend her afterlife.
It's EJ Noyes...! It's Abby Craden...!
By Sarah on 25-05-20
In Dyer Need: The First Chapter
Ren Dyer Series, Book 1
Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
Ren Dyer is at the pinnacle of her career. Newly appointed as head of the protection team for Home Secretary Andrea Fielding, she is a woman focused only on her job. Andrea Fielding is a woman who is looking for love and finding it in all the wrong places. When the worst happens, and the world changes dramatically around them, will Andrea finally see what's been right in front of her all along? On the road, together with a group of people that includes Andrea's ex, Dutch Foreign Minister Marja Stegenga, they must try to reach the safety of HQ at the other end of the country.
a new twist on the apocalypse.
By TomL on 05-02-20
By: Lynn Ames
It’s November 3, 2020, and Emma McMasters has just been elected the 46th president of the United States. She’s facing a divided Congress and nation, allies that no longer trust America, enemies that have been emboldened, and the legacy of destruction left by the last administration. She must rebuild and reestablish trust in government, in the media, and in the electoral system, all the while carrying the mantle of first female president, and along with it, the hopes and dreams of millions of women and little girls who need her to prove that a woman can get the job done.
I loved this book...
By Juliet Vorster on 13-09-20
The Stars at Night
By: Gerri Hill
Park ranger Kyler Clemons had loved the vibe and the beach of Mustang Island. Getting caught with her boss’ wife, however, got her transferred to the wild and remote Davis Mountains State Park - in the middle of nowhere. Now after four years, she’s forgotten about the beach and has embraced the mountain life, feeling like a local. She hangs out at the Cottonwood Creek Bar and Grill. She watches football with Mark Walton. She’s taken up birdwatching and stargazing. She is perfectly content. No stress. No drama. And no desire to date. Then Lexie Walton waltzes into her life.
If You Kiss Me like That
By: Harper Bliss
Narrated by: Carmen Rose
Ashley "Ash" Cooper is still reeling after her recent divorce, throwing all her energy into her job in the city. When she's seated next to one of her mother's friends at a family party, falling in love is the last thing on her mind. After losing her husband many years ago, Gloria Young rebuilt herself as a single parent. Now that her daughters are both at university, she's perfectly content with her quiet life in the village of Murraywood. An unexpectedly enjoyable evening with a friend's daughter pushes Gloria into exploring a new side of herself.
Good book🤦🏽♀️
By hopie lawrence-moore on 30-12-20
By: Ali Vali
Narrated by: Lori Prince
When orthopedic surgeon Harriet “Harry” Basantes is called to the ER to assess a patient who has been assaulted by her husband, she’s instantly thrust back 16 years to the day her childhood sweetheart, Desi Thompson, walked away and disappeared without a trace. Desi’s always done the right thing, including marrying the man her father insisted was a better match than Harry. But when she ends up in the ER after an argument gone wrong, she can’t help wondering if the right thing is worth the cost.
By hayley bryant on 24-10-20
Sylver and Gold
By: Michelle Larkin
Narrated by: Keira Grace
Boston Homicide Detective Reid Sylver closes every case that comes her way. Her secret? She can talk to the dead. Reid’s perfect record has earned her the freedom to work with the only partner she can tolerate: a scarred one-eyed mastiff called Mugshot. Then the new boss saddles her with rookie London Gold. How will she keep her gift a secret with this ambitious rookie underfoot? London Gold has dreamed of being a homicide detective since long before she became a cop.
Changing the Script
By: Lee Winter
Narrated by: Claire Alain
LA-based English indie filmmaker Alex Levitin reluctantly takes a job in New Zealand to save the "worst movie ever", Shezan: Mistress of the Forest. Things might go easier for her if she didn't almost run over the standoffish, beautiful local cop on her first day in town. And it'd really help if her film set wasn't being mysteriously sabotaged. When Ika Whenu's Senior Constable Sam Keegan isn't trying to stamp out a motorcycle gang drug problem afflicting her town, she's publicly slamming everything about the exploitative film and the Hollywood blow-ins making it.
Story lacked substance.
By Anonymous User on 28-06-20
Those Who Wait
By: Haley Cass
Sutton Spencer's ideas for her life were fairly simple: finish graduate school and fall in love. It would be a lot simpler if she could pinpoint exactly what she should do when she graduates in less than a year. Oh, and if she could figure out how to talk to a woman without feeling like a total mess, that would be great, too. Charlotte Thompson is very much the opposite.
Loved this lesbian romance
By FC51 on 08-01-21
By: Melissa Brayden
Narrated by: Melissa Sternenberg
Josephine Wilder’s torrid love affair is with Tangle Valley Vineyard, her family’s legacy. She’s grown up dreaming between the vines. She’s always had secret ideas about how to make the place shine, so when it passes to her, Joey vows to make Tangle Valley everything she knows it can be. Her biggest obstacle? That overly commercial hotel going up, and the uppity manager trying to kill the vineyard’s rustic charm.
By: Maggie Cummings
Narrated by: Paige McKinney
Dylan Prescott has all the answers, even when she doesn’t know the questions. She’s in her element cruising the singles scene and crushing cases as a newly minted NYPD detective. Equal parts free spirit and thrill seeker, catching bad guys and charming good girls are what she was born to do.
16 Steps to Forever
By: Georgia Beers
If there’s one thing Brooke Sullivan knows for sure is that people let you down, but that hasn’t stopped her from going after the life she wants. In a new city, with a new job and a new start as a high-end real estate agent, she’s finally back on her feet. The last thing she needs is a distraction. Not her volatile neighbors, not a damn stray cat, and certainly not the flaky, infuriatingly adorkable girl-next-door property stager she has to work with.
Collide-O-Scope
Norfolk Coast Investigations Story Series, Book 1
By: Andrea Bramhall
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
An unidentified woman is found murdered on the North Norfolk Coastal Path and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon and Kings Lynn's CID have the task of figuring out whom, how, and why. A job that's made more difficult when every one of the 40 residents in the village has something to hide and answers her questions with a string of lies. Georgina Temple has her own secrets to keep, and her own reasons to keep them. But her growing attraction to Kate makes it increasingly difficult to keep them.
Cliche and uninteresting
By Mr on 28-12-20
Do you believe in fate? That Karma will even things out?
Anita Simmons didn't, and now she must pay for her crime with her life.
Detective Inspector Sophie Whitton had hoped for something simple to ease herself back into the job following the Doll Maker case. She should have known it would never be that easy.
It’s hot, summer has arrived with a wave of heat that has the town of Woodington steaming, a powder keg waiting to explode. When Anita Simmons’ body is found on top of a grave, Whitton and Saint are perplexed as to why anyone would want to kill this woman. She’s a married mum of two who spends her life helping others. What could she have done to deserve this?
While working hard to catch the killer, Whitton is also working to fix herself. PTSD has taken its toll after the Doll Maker and she’s having flashbacks, imagining her lover Rachel at every scene. Now she’s seeing Dr Westbrook to work through her issues, but will it be enough to keep her relationship intact?
As the team delves deeper, they uncover a lot more than they anticipated. And when more grave murders are discovered across the country, Whitton realises that this isn’t an ordinary killer they’re chasing. It’s a vigilante set on restoring his own form of justice, acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
©2019 Claire Highton-Stevenson (P)2020 Claire Highton-Stevenson
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What listeners say about Grave Decisions: A Detective Sophie Whitton Story
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Superb sequel to the series!
Great story and excellent narration. I suggest starting with book one 'The Doll Maker'. Amazing!
lous
Another great book
I never tire of listening to Claires' books. Another great story, narrated brilliantly by Fiona Thraille. Great detective work and one that leaves you guessing who the culprit is, only realising who was responsible when revealed. Sounds like there could be another book in the the Sophie Whitson series? I hope so. Very talented author who never leaves me disappointed, but wanting more. A must read. Well done.
Great Listen
The 2nd book featuring Sophie Whitton and just as good as the 1st, a great entertaining listen.
Oh, I should have listened to the first book first! Not because it was hard to follow the story, because it wasn't. But because I want to know how these women come together and the things they went through to be so traumatized. The mystery part of the story is enthralling, the case complex and ser well into the grey zone of morality. A vigilant is 'taking care' of those who escaped justice and they are laying the corpses on the tombs of the victims. I really enjoyed the pace of the story, the interaction between the characters and Sophie and Rachel's relationship. I loved that Sophie was able to trust Rachel about her fears, and how Rachel answered trusting her with her own. A very, very good story, which was made even better by Fiona Thraille's excellent job with the narration. I most certainly will keep reading this series.
Rabid Reader
Whitton is back!!
I really enjoyed listening to book 2. Whitton is back with all her smarts, kindness and flaws :-). It was nice seeing Whitton and Rachel's relationship continue to develop. I see many more stories coming from Whitton and look forward to this being a series with many books to come!
This is a great follow up to The Doll Maker. Sophie and Rachel are each dealing in their own with the trauma left at the end of the Doll Maker. Sophie works on another serial murder case. The mystery and suspense of the murder plot is engaging and keeps you listening for clues on who the murderer is. Sophie and Rachel learn to work together on their relationship and their traumas and this story line will keep your romantic heart aflutter. The narration is spot on. You will absolutely love it!
Excellent Audio!
I loved Grave Decisions. Yes, I had already read the book. But I loved the audiobook. Lots of investigative work and police procedure. Sophie and Rachel continue to recover in their relationship. Fiona Thraille does a great job with the narration.
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Showing results by narrator "Heather Jane Hogan" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Ash Suspense Thrillers with a Dash of Romance, Book 2
By: Uvi Poznansky
Narrated by: Heather Jane Hogan
The last thing Ash expects when she lands in Clearwater, Florida, is to be stalked by a troubled teenager. If that's not bad enough, she is caught in a shooting spree next to the nearby elementary school. The cops think it’s an attempt at mass killing, but Ash wonders if the only victim was specifically targeted by the killer. Will she manage to identify him and have him arrested before he comes after her?
By miss on 31-07-20
Series: Ash Suspense Thrillers with a Dash of Romance, Book 2
Ash Suspense Thrillers Trilogy
From USA Today best-selling author Uvi Poznansky comes a gripping trilogy of three suspense thrillers: Coma Confidential, Overkill, and Overdose.
Series: Ash Suspense Thrillers with a Dash of Romance, Book 1-3
Coma Confidential
Ash finds herself in the ER diagnosed with coma. She has no memory of what has happened to her, but what she can do - despite what everyone around her might think - is listen to the conversations of her visitors. One of them is the man who raped her. For Ash, there's little time to gather clues: blackouts are happening not only in the hospital but throughout California. The Russian hackers who are intent on sabotaging the power grid are trying to blackmail her boyfriend, Michael, into helping their cause. And what better way for them to do it but by kidnapping her out of the hospital?
Exciting thriller
By Enda Mcloughlin on 01-07-20
Months after recovering from coma, Ash discovers that the man who performed her brain surgery has a questionable medical experience and a dark past, starting with his medical mission in India, 10 years ago, and ending just recently, with his wife’s suicide. Should Ash expose him at the risk of becoming vulnerable to his revenge?
Dream Sequence
Dream Series, Books 1-3
By: J.J. DiBenedetto
Sara Barnes thought her life was perfectly ordinary - until the night she began stepping into other people’s dreams. Follow Sara as she learns to cope with this extraordinary gift (or curse) in the first three books of the Dream Doctor Mysteries: DREAM STUDENT - It’s bad enough that, thanks to her supernatural talent, Sara is learning more than she ever needed to know about her friends and classmates, watching their most secret fantasies whether she wants to or not. Much worse are the other dreams, the ones she sees nearly every night, featuring a strange, terrifying man.
Good series.
By Inishowen Cailin on 29-11-17
Series: Dreams (DiBenedetto), Book 1-3
Dream Student
By: J. J. DiBenedetto
What would you do if you could see other people's dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets without them ever knowing? Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that all she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding whether she likes the cute freshman in the next dorm who's got a crush on her.
By Layla on 21-11-19
Series: Dreams (DiBenedetto), Book 1
Dream Doctor
Dreams, Book 2
"I didn't expect to be woken up by someone I don't know dreaming about killing somebody. I thought I was done with that once and for all..." But Sara's not done with it. As if adjusting to life as a newlywed and starting medical school weren't difficult enough, she's started seeing the dreams of everyone around her, again. Before everything is said and done, those dreams might destroy Sara's hopes of becoming a doctor, wreck her marriage and even end her life...
By MeDi on 23-12-16
Dr. Sara Alderson can deal with eighty-hour workweeks as a resident at Children’s Hospital. Dealing with crises in the Emergency Room or the OR is second nature to her. But now she faces a challenge that all of her training and experience hasn’t prepared her for: Lizzie, her four-year-old daughter, has inherited her ability to see other people’s dreams. After Lizzie befriends a young boy on a trip to Washington, DC, and then wakes up in a panic that night because of a “bad funny dream,” Sara knows exactly what it means: her daughter is visiting the boy’s dreams. Complicating matters is the fact that the boy’s father is a Congressman, and he’s dreaming about a “scary man in a big black car” threatening his Daddy. Unraveling a case of political corruption and blackmail would be hard enough for Sara under the best of circumstances. But when she has to view everything through the eyes of a toddler, it may be an impossible task.
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Bureau Update of 25 March
Today cabinet approves urgent measures to help employers and employees.
Special residence permit extensions for migrant workers in Thailand, up to 30th June 2020
Employees enrolled in the Social Security system who have been laid off or asked to take leave without pay will receive compensation from Social Security at half their salary for up to 180 days. Employees affected by official orders to shut down certain businesses will receive Social Security compensation at half their salary for up to 60 days. Effective on 1 March – 31 August 2020.
A package of stimulus measures to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
Loans up to 3 million baht for SMEs at 3% interest rate in the first two years while the government will also delay business tax payments for companies. Filing of other taxes for affected operators extended by three months, Filing of excise tax by service businesses extended by one month, Filing of excise tax for oil products operators extended to the 15th of the following month for three months, Exemption of import duty for products related to the prevention and treatment of Covid-19, Exemption of taxes and fee cuts for debt restructuring with non-financial institution creditors
The measures include 5,000-baht cash handouts a month for three months for some 3 million workers not covered by the Social Security Fund and freelance workers, who will also be offered soft loans worth 60 billion baht as well as tax breaks. To receive the 5,000-baht handout, workers must register at the website www.เราไม่ทิ้งกัน.com from 28 March onwards, with the cash handout set to begin on 1 April.
Loans up to 3 million baht for SMEs at 3% interest rate in the first two years while the government will also delay business tax payments for companies. Filing of other taxes for affected operators extended by three months, Filing of excise tax by service businesses extended by one month, Filing of excise tax for oil products operators extended to the 15th of the following month for three months, Exemption of import duty for products related to the prevention and treatment of Covid-19, Exemption of taxes and fee cuts for debt restructuring with non-financial institution creditors. The state-run/ SOE banks, various ministries and government foundations will also conduct occupational training to the informal workers and new graduates.
The Social Security Board decided to defer the monthly contributions of the employers and self-employed individuals to the Social Security Office for the months of March, April and May by 3 months (ie: the deadline for the March contribution would be postponed to July 15.)
The Bank of Thailand’s Monetary Policy Committee voted by 4:2 to keep the policy rate at 0.75 percent. The central bank noted that while Thailand’s financial system is sound, the prolonged outbreak means the market would take some time to recover.
The Bank of Thailand expects Thailand’s GDP to contract by 5.3 percent in 2020 before rebounding to a 3 percent growth in 2021. The main factors contributing to Thailand’s GDP contraction this year are the decline in export and tourism – the latter of which is expected to drop by 60 percent.
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Thank You, Dante Sheriff!
With the 2019-20 NAHL Season coming to an abrupt and unexpected end, the Austin Bruins are taking this time to thank the players whose junior careers wrapped up this season. TJ Chillot takes you through each of the 1999-born players who finished the season on the Austin roster and what they brought to the Bruins both on the ice and off. In addition, TJ looks ahead to see what’s on the horizon for these incredibly talented hockey players. #OnceABruinAlwaysABruin
Sitting atop the Austin Bruins all-time scoring list stands one name, Dante Sheriff. After three seasons, Sheriff is first or second on MANY Austin Bruins records. As mentioned, he’s the all-time leader in points, he’s also the all-time leader in assists, he’s second in goals-scored, second in points-per-game, and has the second highest points total in a single season (and he likely would have been first had the Bruins season gone the full 60 games this year). Not to mention, Sheriff has been one of the most dynamic players to grace Riverside Arena. Sheriff suited up in 141 total games for the Bruins, good enough for 10th all-time behind his teammates Josef Mysak and Jaden Shields.
In those games, there is no shortage of incredible goals that Dante has scored for the black-and-gold. From his 11 game winning goals over three seasons, to his record-setting goal in Chippewa this season, to the handful of overtime winners. Yet, of all the amazing moments, none can compare to the energetic, electrifying, breakaway overtime winner Sheriff scored during 2019’s Paint the Rink Pink game.
What’s interesting, is if we look back to the very first two games of Dante’s junior career, we might have seen some foreshadowing. In a pair of games against Bismarck, Sheriff netted a goal and added assist in back-to-back nights. For those counting, that’s four total points in his first two games in junior hockey. Over the course of his career, the Woodbridge, Ontario native would have 40 total multi-point nights, including a quadruplet of four point games, three of those coming in 2019-20. By the time his junior career ended, Sheriff would end up with a litany of honors. The 20-year-old has earned the NAHL Central Division MVP, NAHL Central Division Forward of the Year, All-NAHL First Team, four NAHL Forward of the Week Honors, two NAHL Forward of the Month honors, and a slew of other commendations.
The Mercyhurst (NCAA D1) commit has a very bright future ahead of him, after leaving his mark on the Bruins record book. Heading off to college, we’re certain that Sheriff’s name will come across headlines almost weekly, as one of the most dynamic players the NAHL has ever seen moves onto the college ranks.
Thank you Dante, for ever stick handle, every exciting goal, every set-up pass, and for years of entertainment and enjoyment. We look forward to watching your career blossom at the next level.
Dante Sheriff
152 Games Played, 52G, 1061A, 158 pts, +33, 219 PIM
Thank You, Josef Mysak!
Pietila Announces Commitment to Michigan Tech University
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Home New Mum Baby Essentials
Up The Duff 2nd Edition, Kaz Cooke
Well, here it is: the new edition of Up the Duff.
The up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home. No bossy-boots rules, just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get. Everything you need to know about the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts.
Up the Duff has reprinted every five or six months, and Kaz Cooke has always updated it with new medical info. (And will continue to do so.) Eventually, though, it was time for a big overhaul (and a new cover colour - sunshiny yellow instead of limy, well, lime).
Kaz also added new stuff for partners (signalled by a heart in the book's margins), and made sure all the latest on medical tests is included, covering what they are, when to have them, why they're done, and how to interpret the results. Kaz badgered a whole new lot of experts working at the coalface of caring for pregnant women, helping them through birth, and looking after new babies. They've checked the facts, provided all the latest info and made suggestions.
The book now kicks off with a new chapter on getting ready for pregnancy and closes with a bigger, better Help part at the back, featuring added chapters on fertility troubles and assisted conception (including IVF) as well as an updated contacts and resources chapter for pregnancy and after the baby is born. Throughout the book there's also loads more info on everything from which fish you can eat safely to when you can have sex after the baby's birth.
Parenting Advice from Trusted Experts
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Horned rioter’s ridiculous jail demand
by Vandana Rambaran, Fox News
A QAnon activist and Trump supporter, who was pictured in the US Capitol shirtless in a horned bearskin headdress, is refusing to eat in prison unless he is given organic food, his mother said on Monday, echoing the complaints of the man's public defender.
Gerald Williams, the lawyer for Jacob Anthony Chansley, who goes by Jake Angeli, told the court during a virtual hearing that his client had not eaten since he turned himself over to the FBI on Saturday because he has restrictive dietary needs, Fox News reports.
Capitol rioter Jake Angeli is refusing to eat in jail unless he is served organic food. Picture: ORF
"He gets very sick if he doesn't eat organic food," Martha Chansley, Mr Angeli's mother, told reporters outside the courthouse.
"He needs to eat."
The court said the US Marshal's office would need to make accommodations for Mr Angeli, adding that it is imperative that he eat.
The US Marshal for Phoenix, David Gonzalez, told The Arizona Republic on Monday that the Marshals Service would comply.
"For religious or health reasons, if (inmates) need a special diet, we are required to accommodate them," he said.
Mr Angeli was charged with knowingly breaking into the Capitol building and its grounds, along with violent entry and disorderly conduct. His arrest came after photos circulated on the internet that authorities said showed him holding a spear inside the building after a violent siege ignited by pro-Trump supporters backing the President's false claims of election fraud.
Mr Angeli became known in right-wing circles for protesting in Phoenix in his wild costume, telling the Arizona Republic in a 2020 interview that he is a QAnon supporter.
The activist told the FBI that he went to Washington D.C. with other "patriots" from Arizona at the "request of the President" to protest the certification of the electoral college results by Congress.
This article first appeared on Fox News and is republished with permission
Originally published as Horned rioter's ridiculous jail demand
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Patriots 2020 NFL Draft Preview: Defensive Tackles
Positional Overview: As with all living things, the position of interior defender in the NFL is evolving. (Sorry to lose all you fundamentalist readers who think we came into the world fully formed 5,000 years ago, but go handle your snakes somewhere else.) Birds, reptiles, mammals, me over the last month becoming more sofa than man, everything adapts in order to survive. And professional defensive tackles are no exception.
As the league changes, so does this position. There is a still a role for huge, space-eating war daddies. It's math. As long as offensive fronts have seven or eight gaps to fill, there will be a need for men to fill them. Sometimes one man to fill two at a time. But as teams go to more spread formations and those seven or eight turn into six, and someone's job is going to be outsourced to a defensive back.
And also, the emphasis is more and more on pass rushing from the interior. To state the obvious, everyone's looking for the next Aaron Donald. Someone with the quick twitch burst to shoot gaps and collapse pockets from the inside. So those Reubenesque, run-stuffing gentlemen who would've been Top 15 locks a generation ago are falling to the later rounds.
For the Patriots, there is never not a need at this position. Bill Belichick has a thing for large men. In 20 drafts, he's selected 14 pure defensive tackles among his 30 overall D-line picks. Including back to back first rounders in 2014 and 15. And that doesn't include all the capital he spent of 3-4 ends like Richard Seymour and Ty Warren in the early championship days. Like his Jedi Master Bill Parcells was fond of saying, when you want big guys, you have to get them from the big schools. So if you're shopping for players who shop at the Big & Tall store, you know that that's where you have to start. And after his front essentially rolled over and let Derrick Henry scratch their belly in the Wild Card game and losing Danny Shelton to the Detroit Patriots, Belichick has to bring in reinforcements.
Current Roster: Lawrence Guy, Adam Butler, Deatrich Wise, Jr, Nick Thurman, Keionta Davis
Derrick Brown, Auburn. 6-foot-5, 326 pounds, 5.16 40-time
After playing through his senior year at Auburn, Brown comes into the league ready as a Day 1 plug and play starter, with the polish and fundamentals of an experienced veteran. He's got a variety of moves and counter moves to fend off blocks, including a swim, a rip, a push-pull. With the size and strength advantage no matter where you line him up. In school he was one of those overachievers who makes the rest of us who just wanted to float to graduation on a river of Nattys look ridiculous, winning academic and community service awards and being the Advisory Committee president. Even with his size, he's got the wheels to chase runners down from behind. And as his 28 reps on the bench press at the Indianapolis Gym Class would indicate, he's got upper body to ragdoll even big tackles. If he's limited anywhere, it's as a pass rusher. But then he's got the length to get his hands up and disrupt passing lanes. And good luck to any guard who's left to solo block him.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Akeem Hicks
Another Certain First Rounder the Patriots Met with in Indy:
Javon Kinlaw, South Carolina. 6-5, 324 lb, 4.85
Kinlaw is another senior who represents the Platonic Ideal of what the perfect defensive tackle body should look like. With 10 1/2" hands and a wingspan that is just under 35". He's got a better get-off in the pass rush than Brown, though his set list of moves has fewer songs on it. Which means he's got a lot more room to grow and develop. So to be fair, at the moment he's a better pure athlete than he is a football player. And he was inconsistent in the pass rush, maybe owing to the fact at SC they ran a lot of three-man rushes out of sub-packages, so he drew a ton of double teams. Even at his size, he dropped an unbelievable 40 lbs after transferring from a Juco, and became more explosive, with a lot of tape of him pursuing sideline-to-sideline. But too often overpursues and teams have taken advantage of the aggressiveness. He finished his three seasons with 95 tackles, 10.5 sacks and 10 passes broken up. For any team that can coach him up and harness all that freakish athleticism, his potential is off the charts.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Chris Jones
Next Tier, Potential Second Rounders
Ross Blacklock, TCU. 6-3, 290 lb, 4.90
The consensus Best Action Movie Detective Name in his class, if not all time, Blacklock played a lot of traditional nose tackle for the Horned Frogs, either heads up on the center or a 1-shade in the C-G gap, with a lot of stunts and slants. And that makes him a little hard to evaluate. He's projected to be more of a 3-tech in the pros and take advantage of that speed and burst that is rare for a guy his size. He's more of a gap penetrator than someone who's going to fight off a blocker because he's not built for that. Still he's got the lateral quickness to have made himself one of the highest graded tackles against the run according to the analytics crowd. He had an Achilles injury which cost him some time, but shows no effects from it other than some lack of experience. He's a high energy guy with a ton of upside with the right system fit. And probably right now the best interior pass rusher in his class.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Sheldon Richardson
Jordan Elliot, Missouri. 6-4, 302 lb, 5.02
Jordan took kind of the long way around to get to the draft. He started out at Texas. Got hurt. Transferred to Mizzou. Sat out. Had an OK redshirt freshman year. Then took a huge bounce last year, doubling his totals with 44 tackles, 8.5 for loss, 2.5 sacks and three batted balls. There's a knock on him that it makes him a One-Hit Wonder but scouts will tell you he's more of a Two-Hit Wonder. That if he was the band Fun, his last games against Tennessee and Arkansas in 2018 were the "We Are Young" to his 2019 "Some Nights." As you'd imagine with a player who look such a circuitous route - and with less than 500 total snaps before last season - he's got a lot of being coached up to do. But as it stands he's that guy who can do everything pretty well, with a decent variety of pass rush moves and the lean, muscular build to be a gap rusher.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Kawaan Short
Neville Gallimore, Oklahoma. 6-2, 304, 4.79
As traditional, 0-tech nose tackles go, Gallimore is the girl in the 90s movie who takes off her glasses, puts her hair down and gets a makeover and totally transforms herself. He dropped 30 pounds in one year while you've been yoyoing the same 10 pounds on and off again. And now he is the most explosive, gap-shooting inside rusher in this bunch. Interestingly enough, he's from Ottawa, which I guess would make him yet another immigrant who came here to sack the quarterbacks Americans are no longer willing to sack, but he made the U.S. Army All America team, so he's cool. Reportedly he's benched 500 lb and squatted 800 lb. Though unlike me, he did it all at once. So one can assume that should help him fight off guards and centers. At his best, he gets low and fires past O-linemen before they're into their pass blocking sets. At his worst, he seems to have a hard time disengaging when his first move doesn't work and needs some refinement to his game. But you will not find a more unique athletic specimen this year.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Quinneen Williams
Justin Madubuike, Texas A&M. 6-3, 293 lb, 4.83
Madubuike is a lot like Blacklock and Gallimore, only less so. If that makes sense. He's another guy who'll be best suited to line up in the G-T gap and get by on burst rather than Kool-Aid Manning his way through blockers. And he's made a lot of splash plays against top opponents throughout his career (as a sophomore, a sack against Clemson, a TFL and forced fumble against Alabama, last year a pick against Arkansas and a forced fumble for a TD and a blocked kick against Ole Miss). But there are stretches where he doesn't show up on tape. Generally speaking, he's more proficient in the run game than as a pass rusher. Which means in 2020 is like applying for a job and saying you've worked with PowerPoint but not Zoom. In the right system, he could be a rotational, early down/redzone guy, with the potential to get better at rushing the passer.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Davon Godchaux
Another Guy the Patriots Spoke to at the Combine:
Davon Hamilton, Ohio State. 6-4, 320 lb, 5.14
Feel free to question your manhood and your puny Spongebob arms whenever this mountain of a man passes. Because not only were Hamilton's 33 reps on the weight bench the fourth best at the Combine, they were the most by any non-offensive lineman. He was already considered one of the best run stoppers in the nation over the last two years, but then did more to help himself at the Senior Bowl than almost anyone else in Mobile. He's a bit of a unicorn in so far as he can one- or two-gap. He was a five-year player at Ohio State, but that's tempered somewhat by the fact the Buckeyes play a heavy rotation, similar to the Patriots, so that he's never taken more than 357 snaps in a season. Still, he managed to rack up 21 TFLs in his career. He's reasonably fast and nimble for a guy his size and has shown the ability to pursue from the back size on zone runs and stretch plays. There's potential there for a team that needs someone with sand in the pants early downs and short yardage.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Vince Wilfork
Two Guys the Patriots Have Had Video Chats With:
Larrell Murchison, NC State. 6-2, 297 lb, 5.05
Murchison was a two-year star starter after transferring from Juco and he produced. He's a high energy guy who doesn't take plays off or stop before the whistle. He's produced some big games against bigger opponents, like his 3.5 sacks last year against Florida State and three sacks the year before vs. Virginia. There's an obvious limit to his athletic skills and there doesn't appear to be much room on his frame to add mass. But he plays bigger than his Lucas Oil Olympics measurables would lead you to believe, with a ton of effort. Still, those are the numbers of a DE/DT tweener and rotational player.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Zach Seiler
Robert Windsor, Penn State. 6-4, 290 lb, 4.90
I usually include a heading for the Sleeper of the group, and Winsdor is that guy. Maybe nobody helped improve his stock with his week of practices in Mobile than him. In his senior year he produced 40 tackles with five for loss and 3.5 sacks, including a game where he dominated Iowa with 2.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks. In 2018 he had 7.5 sacks. He's a little light for his size but has the frame to use carefully chosen, league-approved supplements to add bulk. He's a guy who gets by on sound technique and effort to compensate for his less than ideal power. But he's got a long stride that helps him cover ground on backside pursuits. And he's a sound run force tackler. But he's probably at this point best suited to be a situational interior pass rusher with the potential to be a solid 3-down rotational guy.
Compares to the Other Leading Brand: Dalvin Tomlinson
The Perfect Patriot: Brown, obviously, who reminds you of the prototype of a DT in the Belichick system, Richard Seymour. But more realistically since the Pats had to go 5-11 to get Seymour and there'll be no repeat of that, thankyouverymuch, among the guys they can realistically get, Hamilton checks the most boxes.
Whom The Pats Will Draft: Early on, Hamilton. In the later rounds, they take a flyer on Windsor as a developmental guy. The need is that great.
Earlier Previews:
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GeometryElementary Geometry for College StudentsRegular octagon ABCDEFGH is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 7 2 2 cm. Considering that the area of the octagon is less than the area of the circle and greater than the area of the square ACEG , find the two integers between which the area of the octagon must lie. (Note: For the circle, use A = π r 2 with π ≈ 22 7 .)
Regular octagon ABCDEFGH is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 7 2 2 cm. Considering that the area of the octagon is less than the area of the circle and greater than the area of the square ACEG , find the two integers between which the area of the octagon must lie. (Note: For the circle, use A = π r 2 with π ≈ 22 7 .)
8.1 Area And Initial Postulates8.2 Perimeter And Area Of Polygons8.3 Regular Polygons And Area8.4 Cicumference And Area Of A Cicle8.5 More Area Relationships In The Circle8.CR Review Exercises8.CT Test
Regular octagon ABCDEFGH is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 7 2 2 cm. Considering that the area of the octagon is less than the area of the circle and greater than the area of the square ACEG, find the two integers between which the area of the octagon must lie.
(Note: For the circle, use A = π r 2 with π ≈ 22 7 .)
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If...Ch. 8.5 - An exit ramp from one freeway to another freeway...Ch. 8.5 - In ABC,mC=90 and mB=60. If AB=12 in., find the...Ch. 8.5 - A triangle has sides of lengths 6 cm, 8 cm and 10...Ch. 8.CR - For the Review Exercises, give an exact answer...Ch. 8.CR - For the Review Exercises, give an exact answer...Ch. 8.CR - For the Review Exercises, give an exact answer...Ch. 8.CR - In Review Exercises 4 to 5, drawABC , if...Ch. 8.CR - In Review Exercises 4 to 5, drawABC , if...Ch. 8.CR - Given: Trapezoid ABCD, with...Ch. 8.CR - Given: Trapezoid ABCD, with AB=6andBC=8,ABCD Find:...Ch. 8.CR - Find the area and the perimeter of a rhombus whose...Ch. 8.CR - Tom Morrow wants to buy some fertilizer for his...Ch. 8.CR - Alices mother wants to wallpaper two adjacent...Ch. 8.CR - Given: Isosceles trapezoid ABCD Equilateral FBC...Ch. 8.CR - Given: Kite ABCD withAB=10BC=17,andBD=16 Find:...Ch. 8.CR - One side of a rectangle is 2 cm longer than a...Ch. 8.CR - One side of a triangle is 10 cm longer than a...Ch. 8.CR - Find the area of ABD as shown.Ch. 8.CR - Find the area of an equilateral triangle if each...Ch. 8.CR - If AC is a diameter of O, find the area of the...Ch. 8.CR - For a regular pentagon, find the measure of each:...Ch. 8.CR - Find the area of a regular hexagon, each of whose...Ch. 8.CR - The area of an equilateral triangle is 1083in2. If...Ch. 8.CR - Find the area of a regular hexagon whose apothem...Ch. 8.CR - In a regular polygon, each central angle measures...Ch. 8.CR - Can a circle be circumscribed about each of the...Ch. 8.CR - Can a circle be inscribed in each of the following...Ch. 8.CR - The length of the radius of a circle inscribed in...Ch. 8.CR - The Turners want to install outdoor carpet around...Ch. 8.CR - Find the exact areas of the shaded regions in...Ch. 8.CR - Find the exact areas of the shaded regions in...Ch. 8.CR - Find the exact areas of the shaded regions in...Ch. 8.CR - Find the exact areas of the shaded regions in...Ch. 8.CR - Find the exact areas of the shaded regions in...Ch. 8.CR - The arc of a sector measures 40. Find the exact...Ch. 8.CR - The circumference of a circle is 66 ft. aFind the...Ch. 8.CR - A circle has an exact area of 27ft2. aWhat is the...Ch. 8.CR - An isosceles right triangle is inscribed in a...Ch. 8.CR - Given : Concentric circles with radii of lengths R...Ch. 8.CR - Prove that the area of a circle circumscribed...Ch. 8.CR - Prove that if semicircles are constructed on each...Ch. 8.CR - Jeff and Helen want to carpet their family room,...Ch. 8.CR - Sue and Daves semicircular driveway is to be...Ch. 8.CT - Complete each statement. a Given that the length...Ch. 8.CT - Give each formula. a The formula for the area of a...Ch. 8.CT - Determine whether the statement is true or false....Ch. 8.CT - If the area of rectangle ABCD is 46 cm2, find the...Ch. 8.CT - In square feet, find the area of EFGH. _Ch. 8.CT - Find the area of rhombus MNPQ given that QN=8 ft...Ch. 8.CT - Use Herons Formula, A=s(sa)(sb)(sc), to find the...Ch. 8.CT - In trapezoid ABCD, AB=7 ft and DC=13 ft. If the...Ch. 8.CT - A regular pentagon has an apothem of length 4.0...Ch. 8.CT - For the circle shown below, the length of the...Ch. 8.CT - Where , find the approximate length of AC. lAC_Ch. 8.CT - Where 3.14, find the approximate area of a circle...Ch. 8.CT - In the figure, a square is inscribed in a circle....Ch. 8.CT - Find the exact area of the 1350 sector shown. _Ch. 8.CT - Find the exact area of the shaded segment. _Ch. 8.CT - The area of a right triangle whose sides have...Ch. 8.CT - Pascual is remodeling a house and plans a complete...
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Job Posting: Data Scientist, Baseball Research & Development (Cleveland Indians)
Ginny Searle
The Cleveland Indians Baseball Research & Development group is seeking to hire an experienced data scientist to use advanced machine learning techniques to enhance our ability to quantify the game of baseball. In this role, you will work with complex high-dimensional, spatiotemporal data such as video, player tracking, and biomechanics data. You will use these data sources to help the team acquire the best possible players (i.e. trades, free agency, draft) and develop them into members of a championship-caliber team. As a machine-learning expert within the research team, you will be responsible for model conception, design, and implementation. We are open to a remote role for the right candidate, but relocation to Cleveland, OH is preferred.
Design, build, test, and deploy statistical and/or machine learning models to support all facets of baseball operations, including scouting, player development, and the major league team.
Integrate and share important findings published in the fast-paced machine learning academic literature.
Effectively communicate actionable insights to key stakeholders across the organization.
Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Machine Learning, or Operations Research.
Strong programming skills in a language such as R or Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
Desire to continue learning about data science applications in baseball.
Demonstrated research experience in a sports context (baseball is a plus).
Experience with a database language such as SQL (NoSQL experience is a plus).
Standard Requirements
Represents the Cleveland Indians in a positive fashion to all business partners and the general public.
Ability to develop and maintain successful working relationship with members of the Front Office.
Ability to act according to the organizational values and service excellence at all times.
Ability to work with multicultural populations and have a commitment to fairness and equality.
Ability to work extended days and hours, including holidays and weekends.
Ability to work in a diverse and changing environment.
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Someone Collects Celebrity Doppelgangers And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
Celebrities, People1 year ago
Jonas Grinevičius and
Mindaugas Balčiauskas
People aren’t as unique as they want to believe. Nearly all of us have been in a situation where we’re walking around town and we spot someone who looks exactly like a friend of ours. Or even us. It’s a very peculiar feeling to realize that we’re not alone. That there’s at least one person out there who is our copy. Our twin. Our doppelganger.
Do you know what’s awesome? Looking just like a celebrity. Plenty of other people think so, which is why they became part of the ‘Same de la Same’ Instagram community that is dedicated to sharing celebrity look-alike photos with the entire world. We’ve picked out some of the best side by side comparison photos, so upvote the ones that left an impression, and share this post with your pals to see whether they notice the photos are of famous doppelgangers and not the celebrities themselves. And let us know in the comments what popular celebrity your friends think you look like (for example, some of my pals think I look a bit like Keanu Reeves).
Bored Panda interviewed ‘Same de la Same’s’ creator Freddy Slivinski to learn more about the community of celebrity doppelgangers. Make sure to scroll down for our full in-depth interview with him.
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Look-Alike And Shakira
"The public that decides to follow me, values me for the work I do in the stage. They value the singing and the professional dance I perform, but on the day to day they know that I am still Rebeca Maiellano, a Venezuelan singer and impersonator"
same.de.la.same Report
Mihran Hovnanian
I’ve no idea which is which...
Look-Alike And Bryan Cranston / Walter White
"I've been Heisenberg look-alike since 2015. I've met Bryan Cranston twice, I was mistaken for him in Albuquerque and got featured on the local news channel. At comic con I sometimes get celebrities who want to be photographed with me"
Lara B.
Wait...What?! How?! Who???
Look-Alike And Kim Jong Un
"Looking like an a**hole has been one of the best things that have happened to me. People shock and horrified for the first 10 seconds then usually laughter. However some people never move to the second phrase."
Chyppa Homer
I imagine he would keep a few clones around for decoys
31-year-old Freddy told Bored Panda that he was born in Uruguay, but moved to Israel when he was 14. He got married a month ago and works as a copywriter. “I love to think about cool and different ideas and to create new things. I wanted to create an Instagram page that everyone in the world would know about and to make it one of the biggest communities.”
Look-Alike And Kate Moss
"There is only one Kate Moss but it’s a pleasure to be her lookalike. I keep busy travelling working for brands, modelling, promotions, events...life is an adventure"
Doober
I wouldn't second guess someone if they told me they were the same person.
Look-Alike And Simon Cowell
"I was spotted at The Isle of wight festival in the VIP area and someone mentioned the likeness. Since then had a privilege to work with Simon on 3 occasions, also enjoy being able to help so many worthy charities since this started"
A hotter Simon
Look-Alike And Katy Perry
"It's such a compliment to be compared to Katy. I have always been such a big fan of her so it definitely gives me confidence to be compared to someone I look up to"
Kristy P
They're knocking it out of the park with the spellings of some of these names! XD
“I thought a lot about different ideas for different pages and suddenly I remember a game that I used to play with my twin brother that we loved to play. The game was to look at people on the street, mall, beach, or elsewhere and find famous people that looks like him. A strange game, but it was fun,” Freddy explained how the idea for ‘Same de la Same’ came to him.
“When I remembered this game, I decided to create a page, a community of ‘real people’ that look like celebrities, singers, actors, athletes, politicians, and other famous people. When I created the page, I discovered these people’s amazing and cool stories.”
Look-Alike And Tom Cruise
"I've been doing this for 9 years now. It's been an awesome journey. I do this full time as a job. People really love to take photos with me, even though they know I'm the young version. The nostalgia is a strong feeling, it brings people back in the 80s"
I like this one. You can tell who the look-alike is since his tooth isn't in the middle of his face. Probably is a nicer guy than the real Tom, too.
Look-Alike And Elton John
"It's great fun, a lot of people do a double take which is always funny and appreciated. I was at Elton's concert in Leicester UK a couple of years ago and of course I dressed as Elton and got mobbed by people all night and even had to sign a few autographs"
Ola Polowczyk
Gosh, even the teeth!
Look-Alike And Meghan Markle
"I'm currently a flight attendant and ever since she was on Suits people would tell me I look like her. When she married Prince Harry it intensified. People stare at me and smile a lot, they stop and tell me that I look like the new Princess Meghan Markle"
Now I am convinced that they just put two pictures of the celebrities next to each other to troll us :D They all look so much alike.
Freddy continued to reveal what he learned about these celebrity lookalikes: “I discovered the amazing life of lookalikes. They live like stars, like rock stars: they act in commercials, sing on shows, go on TV programs, they make money just because of this. They are like famous celebrities, and only because they look like them. So I decided that I want everyone in the world to know about their amazing stories. I want to bring these amazing stories to the entire world.”
When asked by Bored Panda how many doppelgangers he thinks we all have on Planet Earth, Freddy replied that there’s ‘at least’ 1 person out there somewhere who is almost our carbon copy: “I'm sure that everyone has a doppelganger and that everyone can find some resemblance with a celebrity or a famous person.”
Look-Alike And Robbie Williams
"I've been turning heads for the best part of two decades now and you'll always hear a random shout of, "Robbie!" whether it be in an airport, supermarket or pub! I've met RW himself, he's always been super cool and supportive and we just ended up chatting about football"
Cyndi H
This one is kinda cool...
Look-Alike And Daniel Craig / Agent 007
"It's great being mistaken for James Bond. I get stopped in the street nearly every time I go out. I have people wanting their photo taken with me. I've even had some believing I was him. I love it and will never get fed up with it"
Pao Pao
Uh? That is an ugly doppelganger!
Look-Alike And Angelina Jolie
"Every time I get the comparison, whether it’s at work, running an errand or online, it’s very flattering but also hard for me to believe. I think she is absolutely gorgeous and never thought of myself in that respect"
Dilly Millandry
The 'faux' Jolie's head looks hysterically large next to her shoulders! She's fiddled around with her image a tad too much!!
Ironically, Freddy and his friends don’t know what celebrity he resembles. But he hasn’t given up hope and knows they’ll find someone sooner or later: “When that happens, I hope they will find some handsome and cool celebrity.”
Freddy also loves the idea of events where people compete to see who looks, acts, and sounds most like a particular celebrity. “It sounds like so much fun!”
Look-Alike And Benedict Cumberbatch
Over the years people have said that I look like Benedict, but I thought nothing of it. Then I cosplayed Dr Strange at a Comic-Con and couldn't walk anywhere without being stopped for photos!
LuckyL
He looks kind of alike, but when there's a picture to compare you can see quite a few differences. The lips are most different for me, but also the nose has a differen "tip". - But I do understand why people would thinks it's him
Look-Alike And Mila Kunis
"In person so many people have said to me "you know who you look like?" and I'll always already know what they are about to say so I say (Mila Kunis) and then they always say "that girl from that 70s show!"
Ed Souza
Two Mila Kunis... we need more of them.
Look-Alike And John Lennon
"My resemblance is something natural but I work hard in my appearance (look alike) equally. People get astonished and excited when they see me"
Kioh81
I like that he's basically like I do look like him and I just add the extra flair to further that. Instead of some of them that have actively changed themselves to become an impersonator.
“I discovered that followers and people in general really like lookalikes because it entertains them. And of course, they love their stories because the truth is that everyone dreams of looking like celebrities and living like rock stars,” Freddy of ‘Same de la Same’ mused.
Furthermore, he had a message for all potential celebrity lookalikes: “Don’t be ashamed to send me a picture if you think that you, your family member, or friend look like a celebrity. Maybe you’ll discover that you really look like a celebrity and you will start living like a rock star as well. I just want to make a page that everyone knows in the world because of its special and exclusive content, not just for the likes. I love to tell stories. I try to tell interesting stories about special and different people.”
Look-Alike And Johnny Depp
"This Israeli man is well know for being the "Israeli Johnny Depp look alike"
Stephen Lyford
Isn't that just Jack White? O:-)
Look-Alike And Samuel L. Jackson
"I get people everyday telling me I look like Samuel L. Jackson. It's amazing! I actually did work with him as a photo double and stand-in"
same hair style... that's all. There's a difference between being an impersonator and actually looking like someone.
Look-Alike And Jason Statham
"When people see me at the first time, they think that I‘m the real Jason Statham. Only at second glance they see the difference. Also a lot of people think we are Twins"
Pretty Pangolin
Jason Statham is hot, but the lookalike is more kindly-looking, like a nursery-school teacher or a vet.
Look-Alike And Álvaro Morte
"It's fun to look like the Professor from 'La Casa de Papel' because people always talk to me on the street, ask me for photos and want to make videos with me to send to their friends"
The lookalike looks like Richard Ayoade.
Look-Alike And Mariah Carrey
"When I make an appearance at an event as Mariah Carrey impersonator it's such a fabulous experience. Everyone is always happy to see someone in the likeness of the queen. People are always so kind and supportive"
Zoe's Mom
Does it look like she has cheek implants?
Look-Alike And Rihanna
"I love it when they say I look like her. Rihanna is a big inspiration to me and so many other women around the world. She ' s wonderful ! "
Gimme 10 pounds of make-up and I too can look like Rihanna. Even though i'm a bearded 6'2'' bald dude.
Look-Alike And Psy
"It's a strange and funny sensation when I walk on the streets, specially with sunglasses. Suddenly people start moving like the "Gangnam Style dance" or use their cell phones to take pictures with me"
Pearl_TheRapperLOL
Take any chubby Korean man, give him a nice haircut, and the outfit and BOOM. Got a Psy.
Look-Alike And Charlie Chaplin
"Since 2006 I imitate Charlie Chaplin as Little Tramp at events and parties. I dedicate myself every day to improve my characterization and performance. The people are delighted when them see me and I give them a big hug"
Fun fact: Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and got 3rd place!
Look-Alike And Justin Timberlake
"People get really excited when they see me. For me it's an honor to look like someone so loved and respected by his fans . My hope is that I bring a little of that JT—ness to everyone I meet. I'm just bringing sexy back"
Mina Molnar
The left guy is the love child of Justin Timberlake and Orlando Bloom
Look-Alike And Drake
"It's amazing to be so similar to such a great and talented artist like Drake. People love to take pictures with me. In bars and parties they go crazy when they see me and they always ask me to sing, is very funny"
Ale_Vidal23
Looks like a drawing
Look-Alike And Andrew Lincoln / Rick Grimes
"Good god its been an amazing time, I have been booked all over the world. I'm living an adventure most dream of and everyone loves Rick Grimes. I feel so lucky and blessed to have been given this random opportunity and had the courage to go for it"
He looks like Andrew Lincoln in Walking Dead (grimy, haggard etc). I don't think he can pull off Andrew Lincoln looking normal like in Love Actually.
Look-Alike And Sansa Stark / Game Of Thrones
"It actually started as a joke between my friends back in high school. I get the "Oh my gosh you look like that lady I watch on TV" a lot. I've had people stop me on the street and asked for pictures. I had a guy once yell out of his car at me. That was intense lol"
oh c'mon, dressing like them doesn't make them look alike.
Look-Alike And Selena Gomez
"I don't do anything to look like her, it always makes me kinda awkward whenever people tell me that I look like Selena Gomez. When I was younger I got told I looked like her a lot but now barely, so I'm actually happy with that"
tuzdayschild
Similar but not a doppel
Look-Alike And Mike Myers / Austin Powers
"It's very groovy to look like Austin, especially since without the costume, I look NOTHING like him!"
I really wish it would only store those who naturally look like celebrities especially bc the article discussed how there's the possibility of a doppelgänger for everyone in the world. But when no one is "trying" to look like another normal person, but lots of people DO try to look like celebrities bc they can cash in on that.
Look-Alike And Leo Messi
"It's an honor to look like the best soccer player in the history. It's amazing when people ask for selfies with me and it's so weird but people think I'm the real Messi. In fact, I'm the Israeli Messi"
I think the angle is throwing us off. And his beard is more groomed. But I see it!
Note: this post originally had 44 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Jonas Grinevičius
Writer, BoredPanda staff
Jonas is a Bored Panda writer who previously worked as a world news journalist elsewhere. After getting his bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester, he returned home and graduated from Vilnius University with a master's degree in Comparative Politics. Jonas enjoys writing articles ranging from serious topics like politics and social issues to more lighthearted things like art, pop culture, and nature. In his spare time, Jonas writes books and short stories and likes to draw lighthearted illustrations. A huge fan of literature, films, philosophy, and tabletop games, he also has a special place in his heart for anything related to fantasy or science fiction.
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troufaki13
Once, Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for best Charlie Chaplin lookalike and came in third!
Kaisu
Hugh Jackman went to a convention dressed as Wolverine and no one recognised him and they even told him he's not tall enough
TheBlackPanda
Wolverine isn't even tall in the comics and cartoons lol and they had to make Hugh Jackman look shorter in the movies because he's actually too tall for the role
But he's 1.88m / just over 6 foot. How tall did they want him to be!!!
the only place he could walk undisturbed 😂
Sarah Kate Lamming
Dolly Parton came second to a man in drag in a Look a like contest too!
DrGirlfriend
That is crazy! Ahah I gotta go look that up. As a kid, I used to be weirded out by his mustache. I didn't get it was makeup . Lol
Alison Grace
Same thing happened to Dolly Parton
Biljana Malesevic
Some are real doppelgangers, some barely look a like, some just have same hair. We probably all have some doppelgangers in the world it would be interesting to find them. Here is an idea for an app!
Apparently I have a doppelganger in the next town - people will approach me and say things like "Thanks for speaking up at the town meeting!" and I have to tell them it wasn't me.
Alusair Alustriel
I was once almost grounded after coming back to school, cause my mom claimed she saw me dropping classes and heading downtown. :f
Seabeast
I'm told that I have a doppelganger in town. I've never met her, but apparently she must live or work nearby, because the person who told me about her rides a certain bus to our area each day to work.
There's a website to find your doppelganger. It's called twinstrangers.net
Roger Haywood
Some of these comments are too critical. They are look alikes, they are not going to look exactly like the celeb. Most of them could fool most poeople in a passing glance.
Alia G.
Especially because you don't have a reference photo right there to compare them to.
You would do a doubletake at the very least.
I've never even heard of some of these celebrities.
actors,
almost identical,
bp-exclusive,
carbon copies,
celebrities,
celebrity lookalikes,
doppelgangers,
Freddy Slivinski,
Hoolywood stars,
living like a rock star,
lookalikes,
Ordinary People,
ordinary people look like celebrities,
people look like celebrities,
people look like stars,
pop stars,
Same de la Same,
Same de la Same Instagram page,
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World Cup winner Mario Gotze to leave Borussia Dortmund
Mario Gotze is on the search for a new club
Mario Gotze will leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of his contract this summer, the club’s sporting director Michael Zorc has said.
The 27-year-old midfielder, a Germany international, has managed only six starts for the club this season.
Gotze, who netted the winner for Germany in the 2014 World Cup final, is in his second spell with Dortmund after a three-year stint at Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich.
🎙 Zorc prematch presser:
“We will part ways with Mario Götze this summer. It was a mutual and respectful decision. Mario is a great man.” pic.twitter.com/XHcvuRsOrQ
— Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) May 23, 2020
Ahead of Dortmund’s trip to Wolfsburg, Zorc said in quotes on the club’s official Twitter account: “We will part ways with Mario Gotze this summer.
“It was a mutual and respectful decision. Mario is a great man.”
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Solution or pipedream?
10 November 2020 9 minute read
Rick Stathers
Darryl Murphy
Stanley Kwong
Reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is becoming an increasingly urgent priority in the fight against climate change. Both new and established pathways to remove the gas are under scrutiny, as decision makers around the globe grapple with how to take the most effective action.
Could commercial direct air carbon capture and storage play a major role in bringing atmospheric CO2 down?
On the roof of the energy-from-waste plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, sits an enormous frame housing multiple vents, designed to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air. Vast fans pull air into ducts, where a sorbent is used to bind with CO2. Later in the process, heat is used to trigger the release of the gas, which is then piped to a greenhouse to enhance plant growth.1 Elsewhere, harvested CO2 is being used to add fizz to drinks, from mineral water to Pepsi. In Iceland, the captured gas plays a less useful role, pumped for storage into rock strata deep underground.
This raises a number of questions. Could commercial direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS), like the solution offered by Climeworks at Hinwil, or any other commercial capture and storage approach, play a major role in bringing atmospheric CO2 down? Or might these bring their own issues if they allow difficult, but potentially more effective, consumption choices to be deferred?
A matter of scale
“We have a huge challenge to face in the climate debate,” says Rick Stathers, senior responsible investment analyst and climate specialist at Aviva Investors. “Atmospheric CO2 is at record levels, about 40 per cent higher than it was in 1800, and that has worrying implications in many parts of the biosphere.”
Atmospheric CO2 is at record levels and that has worrying implications in many parts of the biosphere
Analysis of the carbon flux shows the gigantic scale of the problem. The net flow of CO2 to the atmosphere is around 17 gigatons - or 17 thousand million tonnes in layman’s terms - each year, as shown in Figure 1.2 Climeworks’ largest plant captures less than one million tonnes annually. The process costs around $600 per tonne, but the company claims that could fall by 80 per cent as it scales up in the next five to ten years.3 It reports receiving hundreds of unsolicited commercial enquiries, and is actively canvassing for individuals to play a more active role, paying subscriptions to have their carbon footprints reduced.4
Meanwhile, in Canada, another operator – Carbon Engineering – is exploring the possibility of using air-captured CO2 to make synthetic jet fuel. Bill Gates, Chevron, Occidental and BHP are all interested; they are established shareholders in the company.5
Significantly, both Climeworks and Carbon Engineering focus on utilisation. “Using (captured) CO2 as a feedstock can result in a cheaper or cleaner production process compared with using conventional hydrocarbons,” as a recent academic paper in Nature noted.6 For now, though, the technologies are still evolving, and DACCS is too small to make a significant impact in reducing emissions.
Figure 1: The carbon flux: Net average annual flows of CO2
Note: Data in gigatons CO2 (Gt CO2). Based on average annual flows, 2008–2017. Source: Cameron Hepburn et al., ‘The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal’, Nature 575, November 6, 2019
Industrial revolution?
What about the carbon capture and storage (CCS) already taking place in industrial hotspots, from point sources in steel works, cement works and the like? These large-scale commercial plants are difficult to decarbonise, as CO2 is a by-product of the chemical processes taking place.
Take the plant operated by Emirates Steel Industries in Abu Dhabi, for example. A project that was planned for years has been capturing CO2 produced from manufacturing steel, then compressing it and running it into natural gas fields offshore.7 The process improves the recovery rate; it also allows CO2 to be stored in aquifers deep underground. In this case, the ratio of CO2 injected to natural gas freed up is one to 1.5. So, two issues are being addressed simultaneously, but there is more fuel gained than CO2 stored.
Capturing and compressing CO2 is highly energy intensive and increases the total energy requirement quite considerably
Although the UAE is committed to expanding renewables, the capture process - originally developed in the US oil and gas industry - perpetuates an energy model based around fossil fuels. Capturing and compressing CO2 is highly energy intensive and increases the total energy requirement quite considerably, which creates a site-specific ‘power penalty’. On the other hand, those involved with the project say their actions are equivalent to taking 170,000 cars off the road.8
“A lot of the scenarios being considered by the International Panel on Climate Change that get us to 1.5 degrees of warming rely on CCS,” says Stathers. “But the economics and logistics of capturing, then liquifying CO2 and transporting it to various locations to be locked away are not viable now. If we are going to have CCS as an effective solution, we need significant investment in infrastructure, and we do not have that right now.”
Sequestering (or storing) a meaningful portion of industrial flux would involve an enormous scaling up of CCS. There were 19 CCS plants in operation around the world in 2019, with a further four under construction and others in various stages of development.9 (See Figure 2 for European expansion plans.) Sequestering just over 15 per cent of today’s industrial CO2 emissions would imply a one-hundred-fold increase in global CCS capacity.10
One practical issue lies in identifying sites suitable for low-cost geostorage. The fossil fuel industry has around 1,000 gigatons of capacity in fuel-depleted sites,11 and there has been a surge of interest in locations where geologists see potential, like Australia’s Cooper Basin. There, the latest to join the rush is energy giant BP, which recently agreed with Santos to sequester CO2 on the site of Australia’s largest onshore oil and gas field.12 Here, it is calculated CO2 abatement could cost as little as $20 per metric tonne.13
Public policy decisions will determine what happens next. If the financial penalties for emitting CO2 rise sharply, or subsidies are enhanced, the current practical challenges are more likely to be addressed. Conversely, if penalties remain low, CCS development is unlikely to pick up pace. (For now, only a small part of the world’s emissions (around 20 per cent) are subject to pricing.14)
There is no consensus around the pathway to deliver net zero
“There is no consensus around the pathway to deliver net zero, where greenhouse gas emissions are constrained and warming is limited,” says Darryl Murphy, Aviva Investors’ managing director of infrastructure. “In the very near term, governments are going to have to define it and set out a granular plan about how it is going to be achieved. In reality, it is most likely to result in governments picking technologies to support.”
Meanwhile, the environmental clock is ticking. “We need to remember it’s 2020, and emissions have to decline by around 50 per cent in ten years,” Stathers says. “In my opinion, CCS technology won’t be at the required scale to facilitate that in the timeframe we have.”
Figure 2: Existing and planned carbon capture and utilisation facilities in Europe
Note: Projects listed in italics are in operation. Source: International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, June 2020
If the economics of CCS are not compelling now, it may still play a greater role in future. “If we are looking out to 2040 and 2050, there is scope for a lot of change,” says Stanley Kwong, Aviva Investors’ associate director of environmental, social and governance (ESG) for real assets. “We can see that in the way in which renewables have ramped up, both onshore and offshore, in the past 15 years.
“One pragmatic view might be that some carbon-intensive fuel will be required on the path to net zero, and CCS might form part of that,” he adds. “Running a low-carbon economy solely with renewables will be a challenge and may not be achievable immediately.”
Aside from technical solutions, there are various natural pathways that sequester carbon too. Nature already ensures a vast flux of CO2 to the land via photosynthesis; as the concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased, so too has the pace of plant growth.15
On the other side of the equation, however, more and more forest around the world is being lost. In 2019, millions of hectares of primary forest were destroyed, releasing 1.8 gigatons of carbon, equivalent to putting another 400 million cars on the road.16 The soil itself is also a gigantic carbon store, containing around 2,500 gigatons of carbon, far more than in the atmosphere and in living plants and animals.17 But its capacity to act as a sink has been diminished by the way land is being converted for agriculture and managed.
The capacity of soil to act as a sink has been diminished by the way land is being converted for agriculture and managed
“About 25 per cent of global emissions are generated from the way we use the land,” Stathers says. “At the moment, 77 per cent of agricultural land is used in the production of meat, whether for feedstock or for raising the livestock themselves. But the meat produced only contributes about 18 per cent of our global calorie intake. It’s an 80/20 rule.
“We can address this if we shift our diets. That could bring about a significant change to the volume of emissions overall. If we were to cut meat consumption by 80 per cent, and we all ate meat just once a week, you could convert the land used for livestock to growing forests, fixing carbon through natural sequestration, and supporting biodiversity at the same time,” he adds.
In fact, academics believe that just managing soils on cropland better could remove as much carbon as that produced by the world’s entire transport industry.18
An investable opportunity?
With countries beginning to set out their ambitions to achieve net zero emissions in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the ways to enhance natural sequestration and generate value from it are getting more attention. Increasing plant yields, producing bio-derived chemicals or forestry products are all options that could prove useful carbon sinks. As they receive greater scrutiny, so are the routes to investment.
Around 50 per cent of the mass of a tree is made up of carbon
Commercial forestry harvested in rotation is one option. Around 50 per cent of the mass of a tree is made up of carbon, and there is a worldwide shortage of forest products. Wood, plant-based packaging and bioenergy feedstocks are all in demand, but the rate at which different species carry out sequestration varies considerably, as Figure 3 shows.
Figure 3: Illustrative natural sequestration rates
Note: Data in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per hectare. Source: Woodland Carbon Code
Nature-based solutions have their own dilemmas, if you seek results that demonstrate additionality (i.e. sequestration above natural rates) and wish to invest at scale.
If you stray too far towards generating a return, you may find you are not achieving as much sequestration as you might think
“How can you access the land you need, then balance that with other environmental considerations?” Kwong asks. “Carbon sequestration is one factor, but there are other ESG considerations too, like the importance of maintaining biodiversity and equilibrium in the water cycle. If you stray too far towards generating a return, you may find you are not achieving as much sequestration as you might think. If you are not careful, you might even lock-in emissions, because you think you are sequestering more than you are.”
Timing considerations are important too, as destroying primary vegetation cover and replacing it with commercial forestry may initially create a carbon debt, because the newly planted trees absorb less carbon than the untouched woodland.19
There are also practical challenges, as the frameworks for measuring carbon lock-in are voluntary and not standardised.
“We need to focus on how sequestration is measured,” Kwong says. “We have codes like the Woodland Carbon Code, but we need a unified code that would address what sequestration is and exactly how to measure it. If, for example, you choose to be involved in agroforestry, salmon farming and forestry, each of which can each achieve net negative carbon impacts, there are three different voluntary standards to be monitored and adhered to. It gets complicated very quickly. Even within forestry, if you choose to invest in the US, Europe and the UK, there are different guidelines. Starting to address these issues would be helpful.”
Achieving net negative emissions through bioenergy
Combining the pathways that lock in carbon for long time periods in construction materials or shorter periods for bioenergy are other important considerations. Bioenergy is receiving a lot of attention, particularly alongside CCS (known as BECCS), because power stations are major C02 emitters. If natural feedstock is grown in a sustainable way, perhaps by using marginal land unsuitable for agriculture, it can then be harvested and burnt to generate electricity with the resulting CO2 permanently stored underground. Hence, in theory, BECCS delivers negative carbon emissions overall. Once again, there are trade-offs to be made, as wood has lower energy density than coal, so a wood-fired station requires a larger volume of fuel to achieve the same output.
Using hydrogen could significantly improve the prospects of achieving net-zero emissions
One potential spin-off from BECCS is that it could also drive the growth of hydrogen as fuel. The energy generated can be used to heat organic material to a high temperature, then broken down into its component parts, releasing the hydrogen. The appeal is that hydrogen is a zero-carbon energy carrier; when burnt, water is the only by-product. Using it could significantly improve the prospects of achieving net-zero emissions, but hydrogen is also highly flammable and corrodes steel, so may require the creation of a parallel infrastructure or network upgrades to enable the use of a fuel blend.
In the UK, commercial power generator Drax is using BECCS in a pilot project to feed the national grid. Around one tonne of CO2 is being captured each day and injected under the North Sea.20 Drax’s experience has been a learning process: its carbon analysis initially failed to take a whole lifecycle approach, so the carbon cost of getting the feedstock to the plant via a lengthy transatlantic journey was not taken into account.
“The issue here is that there are a number of problems to be addressed at the same time,” says Kwong. “It’s not just that we are trying to reach net zero and our only focus is carbon sequestration; that discounts many of the wider factors that also need to be considered. As well as achieving net zero, we would like to achieve a just transition, where the economic benefits of a greener economy are more widely shared, and we also need a secure energy supply. BECCS contributes to secure energy and creates jobs.
“It illustrates the central dilemma,” he adds. “If we really want to get to net zero, and there is already a net zero commitment by the UK, should we only invest in assets that are purely green?”
Time for action
Although there is growing consensus around the need to reduce the net flow of C02 into the atmosphere and lock-in more in various sinks, there is little agreement around how best to achieve it; the gulf between technological optimists and pure environmentalists feels large. All the options take time to implement, but the growing prevalence of extreme climate events makes the need for action increasingly urgent.
We cannot keep looking over the horizon for solutions with silver linings that allow us to continue as before
“There are proven technologies and approaches that can start to make a change immediately,” Stathers says. “Renewable energy works, the price of energy storage is coming in, electric vehicles are becoming more effective, and managing the land better can make an enormous difference as well. There are significant changes that need to be made, and we don’t have time to waste. We cannot keep looking over the horizon for solutions with silver linings that allow us to continue as before.”
‘Direct air capture: A technology to reverse climate change’, Climeworks
Cameron Hepburn, Ella Adlen, John Beddington, Emily A. Carter, Sabine Fuss, Niall Mac Dowell, Jan C. Minx, Pete Smith and Charlotte K. Williams, ‘The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal’, Nature, November 6, 2019
‘The Swiss company hoping to capture 1% of global CO2 emissions by 2025’, Carbon Brief, June 22, 2017
‘Enable removal of CO₂ from the air’, Climeworks
‘BHP invests US$6m in emissions reduction company, Carbon Engineering’, BHP, March 4, 2019
Cameron Hepburn et al, ‘The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal’, Nature, November 6, 2019
Anthony McAuley, ‘Abu Dhabi starts up the world’s first commercial steel carbon capture project’, The National, November 5, 2016
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‘2020 thought leadership: The value of carbon capture and storage (CCS)’, Global CCS Institute, 2020
Sara Budinis, Samuel Krevor, Niall MacDowell, Nigel Brandon and Adam Hawkes, ‘An assessment of CCS costs, barriers and potential’, Energy Strategy Reviews 22, November 2018
Phillip Coorey, ‘Santos and BP join forces on carbon capture and storage’, Financial Review, March 4, 2020
Craig Guthrie, ‘BP deal boosts Santos’ CCS ambitions’, Petroleum Economist, March 13, 2020
‘The world urgently needs to expand its use of carbon prices’, The Economist, May 23, 2020
‘World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon’, National Science Foundation, February 25, 2019
‘We lost a football pitch of primary rainforest every 6 seconds in 2019’, World Resources Institute, June 2, 2020
Renee Cho, ‘Can soil help combat climate change?’ Earth Institute, Colombia University, February 21, 2018
Robert J. Zomer, Deborah A. Bossio, Rolf Sommer and Louis V. Verchot, ‘Global sequestration potential of increased organic carbon in cropland soils’, Nature, November 14, 2017
‘EU must not burn the world's forests for 'renewable' energy’, The Guardian, December 14, 2017
‘Drax sets world-first ambition to become carbon negative by 2030’, Drax, December 10, 2019
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As part of our engagement efforts, every January we send a letter to the chairs of companies we invest in (and some we don’t, but still want to use our influence with) to set out our stewardship priorities for the year. Here, in full, is our 2021 letter.
Issuance, support from equities and volatility: The outlook for convertible bonds in 2021
Shawn Mato, convertible bond fund manager, picks three themes that could have a big say in how the asset class performs in 2021.
Zombie revival, improving fundamentals and monetary policy: The outlook for high yield in 2021
Kevin Mathews, Brent Finck and Sunita Kara, high yield portfolio managers at Aviva Investors, pick out three themes that will shape the asset class in 2021.
Stimulus, M&A and US politics: The outlook for investment grade credit in 2021
Mike Cho and Jonathan Manning, investment-grade portfolio managers at Aviva Investors, look at the themes that will shape the asset class in 2021.
Chemical compounds: The good, the bad and the ugly
After decades of secrecy, light is increasingly being shone on the potentially hazardous compounds produced by chemical companies. In the latest instalment of our editorial series, Link, experts from Aviva Investors’ credit, equities and ESG teams discuss the prevalence of chemicals in modern life, and how to balance usefulness and safety.
Sustainability in credit: Why ESG scores don’t tell the whole story
ESG ratings are a helpful baseline to assess companies, but views on their ESG risks and opportunities can be honed – and sometimes corrected – through deeper research, trend analysis and meetings with company executives.
US Election 2020: Expect the unexpected
As the US presidential election looms, we explore potential scenarios – from a Democratic “blue sweep” to a Trump re-election to a divided government – and assess the implications for investors.
Global high yield: Stimulus fuels the march of the zombies
Zombie companies are the talk of the town. Will they limp on forever, storing up potential trouble for investors’ portfolios, or can they revive and thrive after the COVID crisis?
Home and leisure in a pandemic: Girls (and boys) still want to have fun
From cinemas to cruises, the consumer-driven home and leisure sector was hit hard by lockdown restrictions. With economies reopening in a disjointed manner, some sub-sectors have rebounded quickly while others continue to struggle. Here, we look at how the pandemic is reshaping the industry and the implications for investors.
Fed’s policy shift may spell long-term trouble for bonds
Bond markets have taken the recent shift in the Federal Reserve’s policy framework in their stride, partly because interest rates are now expected to stay lower for even longer. But they look vulnerable if the Fed can revive inflation.
Emerging market debt: A path less volatile
After one of the most volatile periods on record, hard currency emerging market debt is once again drawing investor interest, thanks to attractive yields and its diversification potential. But while markets recovered quickly from the volatility, investors should remain cautious for the challenges ahead.
The new rules of client engagement
As the coronavirus pandemic reshapes our working lives, asset managers must find new ways to interact with their clients, says Apiramy Jeyarajah.
Electric avenue: EVs and the transformation of autos
In the latest instalment of our editorial series, Link, experts from our infrastructure, credit research and equity teams discuss why efforts to ‘build back better’ as economies recover from COVID-19 could further accelerate investment in electric vehicles and associated infrastructure.
Education, entrepreneurship and biological age: An interview with Andrew Scott
In part two of our interview with Professor Andrew Scott from London Business School, we look at how policy will shift to take account of people living for longer and how service providers will respond.
Longevity, policy and technology: An interview with Andrew Scott
Living longer brings enormous opportunities to reshape how we spend our time. But in the first of a two-part interview, Andrew Scott from London Business School explains how advances in longevity and technology have not been matched by innovation in social structures or our approach to financial planning.
Reality bites: Retailing in a health crisis
In the latest instalment of our editorial series, Link, experts from Aviva Investors’ credit, equities and real asset teams discuss the consequences of COVID-19 on the retail sector and their implications for investors.
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Carbon capture: Solution or pipedream?
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"Invincible" hypersonic glide weapon may enter Russia's arsenal by 2020
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
Russia conducted a successful test of the hypersonic weapon called "Avangard" and has plans of including it in Russia's arsenal by 2020, CNBC reports.
Why it matters: The weapons have been described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as "invincible." They're capable of carrying nuclear warheads, according to the report, and are capable of reaching targets at 20 times the speed of sound.
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Texas church shooting: Who is Devin Kelley?
Greg Toppo
The 26-year-old gunman in Sunday's church shooting in Texas served briefly in the U.S. Air Force until a reported bad conduct discharge.
Authorities did not immediately identify a motive for why Devin Kelley opened fire at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. Kelley lived in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels.
Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told USA TODAY that Kelley served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge.
Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his spouse and their child — he received a bad conduct discharge, was confined for 12 months and busted to the grade of E-1. He was discharged in 2014.
Sunday's shooting killed at least 26, including several children.
Law enforcement officials said Kelley was found dead in his vehicle a short time after the shooting, after he drove off the road in a neighboring Texas county. Officials did not immediately say whether Kelley was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot or by one received from a good Samaritan who pursued him from the church.
More:Texas gun laws are among most lax in the nation
More:3 mass shootings in the past 17 months have been among the nation's bloodiest
More:Trump tweets 'May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs'
More:Texas Motor Speedway drops pistol celebration in light of mass shooting at Texas church
More:Stars react to Texas church shooting with grief, disbelief: 'No words. Numb. Again.'
More:First Baptist Church pastor's 14-year-old daughter among dead: A 'beautiful, special child'
More:Sutherland Springs church shooting: What we know now
More:Gunman opens fire at Texas church, kills 26
Contributing: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY. Follow Greg Toppo on Twitter: @gtoppo
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OLMT project becomes operational
Recorder Report Updated 27 Oct 2020
LAHORE: The long-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project initiated by the previous PML-N government under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) inaugurated by the PTI Punjab government here on Sunday.
The project was jointly inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Chinese Council General Long Ding Bin at Dera Gujran depot.
Provincial Transport Minister Jahanzeb Kachchi, Managing Director Punjab Mass Transit Authority Sabtain Fazal Haleem and C R Norinko authorities were also present on this occasion.
It is worth mentioning that inaugural ceremony of Lahore Orange Line Metro Train was also held in Beijing which was attended by Authorities of National Development Reforms Commission, C R Norinko and top brass Chinese officials. The ceremony was broadcast live through video link.
The Chief Minister along with Chinese Consul General formally inaugurated the Orange Line Metro train by pressing a button, whereas, Chinese officials also inaugurated Orange Line Metro Train from Beijing.
While addressing the inaugural ceremony chief minister thanked Chinese government on the behalf of the people and government of Punjab. The ties between both the countries are 6 decades old and have strengthened with the passage of time despite the notable changes on world scenario. He said that this project would not only ensure the stabilization in urban development but also become a factor in green GDP.
Undoubtedly, Pak-China friendship is deeper than the sea, sweeter than honey and stronger than steel, he added. He said that project of CPEC is the height of Pak-China friendship. The success of CPEC will start a new era of development and prosperity which will further strengthen the bilateral relations between the two countries.
He said that the PTI government set a new political tradition by successfully completing the projects of the previous governments and did not let any project become a victimization of politically biasness as projects like Wazirabad Cardiology Institute and the new building for the Punjab Assembly are an example of this political maturity.
He said that PTI government was also working on the completion of the collapsed projects of previous governments worth Rs 1115 billion. He said that in order to operate the Orange Line Metro Train project successfully, transparency has been ensured in the tendering of operational and maintenance besides saving nation’s billions of rupees.
He further added that the Punjab government, despite limited resources and the weak economic health due to Covid-19 pandemic, is also giving a subsidy of billions of rupees annually to ply the Orange Line train.
Buzdar said that he would also like to pay tribute to the Pak Army and other law enforcement agencies’ support and cooperation for the success of CPEC project. He said that numbers of CPEC projects are being successfully completed due to the sacrifices and day and night hard work of Pak Army and other law enforcement agencies. He invited China’s businesses organizations and companies to come together in the journey of progress and development. He said that there were vast opportunities of investment in Punjab in transport, livestock, agriculture, housing and other sectors.
He said that this ceremony was a milestone in Pak-China relations. He thanked the entire industrial chain of Chinese urban rail transit and relevant departments for their efforts to complete the project and for introducing the design, manufacturing, construction, operation and maintenance in abroad.
Chinese Consul General Long Ding Bin while addressing the ceremony said that the Punjab government provided full support for the completion of the Orange Line Metro Train project. He congratulated Punjab and people of Pakistan. He said that this project is a milestone in the friendship between Pakistan and China. This is the first state-of-the-art rail project in Pakistan which was successfully launched. This project has given new dimension to Pak-China friendship as this project of CPEC is a best example of partnership between Pakistan and China.
Provincial Minister for Transport Jehanzeb congratulated Lahorites on the inauguration of the Orange Line Metro Train and said that PTI government has set a new political history by completing the project of former government with good faith. This train is environmental-friendly which will solve transportation problems as well in controlling smog. Relations between Pakistan and China would further strengthened under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Jahanzeb added. He said that the subsidy of billions is required to ply this train but the government will make every possible effort to reduce the subsidy.
Officials of National Development Reform Commission of China in their address through a video link from Beijing said “Today one more project of CPEC was completed on which they congratulate the people of Pakistan and the Punjab government. Commercial operation of Orange Line Metro train is of great importance and it is a matter of great pleasure for them which were completed despite corona outbreak.
Managing Director Punjab Mass Transit Authority Sabteen Fazal Haleem in his briefing said that this project first of its kind in Pakistan and this project was included in the CPEC. The ceremony was attended by Provincial Ministers, Assembly Members, Chief Secretary, Inspector General of Police, officials of Chinese companies and other high ranking officers and former chairman CPEC projects, Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa (retd).
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Biden unveils plan to pump $1.9trn into pandemic-hit economy
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Sudan says Ethiopia military aircraft entered its airspace
Ethiopia, for its part, said in mid-December that Sudanese military forces had "organised attacks... using heavy machine guns".
Ethiopia warns Sudan it is running out of patience over border dispute
Ethiopia sees the dam as key to plans to become Africa's largest power exporter. Egypt, which gets more than 90% of its scarce fresh water from the Nile, fears the dam across the Blue Nile could devastate its economy.
Ethiopia says Sudan pressing further into disputed border zone
In early December Sudan accused Ethiopian "forces and militias" of ambushing Sudanese troops along the border, leaving four dead and more than 20 wounded.
Sudan signs deal normalising ties with Israel, agrees aid deal
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi welcomed the signing.
Sudan signs Abraham Accord, paving the way for normalization of ties with Israel
Sudan has signed the Abraham Accords with the United States, paving the way for the African nation to normalize ties with Israel.
The signing came just two months after President Trump announced that Sudan will begin normalizing ties with Tel Aviv.
UN opens new Ethiopian refugee camp in Sudan
Refugees are continuing to flee the unrest in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, with 800 having crossed the border with eastern Sudan since the New Year.
Sudan says back in full control of border with Ethiopia
Some 50,000 Ethiopian refugees poured across the border to escape the fighting.
Published 31 Dec, 2020 08:58pm
Peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur ends, stoking fears
Conflict erupted in Darfur in 2003, when African minority rebels rose up against Bashir's Arab-dominated government, which they accused of marginalising the region.
Sudan, Ethiopia start border talks one week after clash
Sudan has since deployed troops to the Al-Fashaqa border region, the site of sporadic clashes.
US reinstates Sudan's sovereign immunity, authorizes funds to help pay debt
The bill also appropriates an additional $150 million for Sudan's settlement payment, in order to redistribute the funds in a way the bill's sponsors say is more equitable.
Published 22 Dec, 2020 11:01am
US rescinds Sudan's State Sponsor of Terror designation: embassy
President Donald Trump announced in October that he was delisting Sudan, a step desperately sought by the nation's new civilian-backed government as the designation severely impeded foreign investment.
U.N. plans for 200,000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people have died since Ethiopian government troops launched a war two weeks ago in northern Tigray state against regional authorities they accused of staging a surprise attack on federal forces.
Published 20 Nov, 2020 05:31pm
Sudan welcomes rebels back to Khartoum after peace deal
The United Nations estimates at least 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million were displaced in the Darfur conflict.
Israel delegation visited Sudan in push to normalise ties
Sudan experienced a historic shift last year as Bashir was ousted in April in the face of youth-led street protests.
Published 22 Oct, 2020 06:45pm
Sudan says US deal on embassy attacks reparations 'close'
The United States reconnected with Khartoum under former president Barack Obama.
Published 25 Sep, 2020 01:50am
Sudan floods affect over half a million people: UN
At least 111,426 homes were damaged or destroyed across the country, OCHA said in a statement.
Published 10 Sep, 2020 11:49pm
Sudan declares 3-month state of emergency after record floods
Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October, and the country faces severe flooding every year.
Sudan and rebels meet to implement peace deal
Previous peace accords in Sudan, including one signed in Nigeria in 2006 and another signed in Qatar in 2010, have fallen through.
Sudan government and rebel groups agree peace deal
Conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile erupted in 2011, in the wake of South Sudan's independence, resuming two decades of war.
Published 31 Aug, 2020 06:00pm
Sudan confirms 'contacts' with Israel, says UAE move is 'brave'
Under the US-brokered deal announced last week, the UAE becomes the just third Arab country to forge full relations with Israel in more than 70 years.
The Emirates' move is a brave and bold step and contributes to putting the Arab world on the right track to build peace in the region and to build sustainable peace.
Sudan protests mark one year since post-Bashir deal
Bashir was overthrown by the army on April 11, 2019 after a wave of mass protests against his three-decade, iron-fisted rule.
Published 18 Aug, 2020 02:11am
Floods in Sudan kill 63 since July: interior ministry
Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October, and Sudan faces severe flooding every year.
Death toll rises to 30 in Port Sudan clashes: medics
Violence broke out in the Red Sea city on Sunday evening and has continued despite the arrival of security reinforcements, witnesses said.
Civilians, soldiers clash leaving 127 dead in S.Sudan: army
Major General Lul Ruai Koang told AFP that the fighting erupted on Saturday as security forces carried out an operation to disarm civilians in the area which has seen deadly inter-communal clashes.
Sudan says 13 killed in ethnic clashes in Port Sudan
Violence broke out in the eastern city of Port Sudan on Sunday evening, the SUNA news agency said, quoting medics who had treated the wounded.
Trial of Sudan's ousted Bashir delayed
The trial of Bashir over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago, as well as of 27 other defendants, opened with a brief hearing in July.
Sudan rains and floods claim 20 more lives
The UN said that more than 50,000 people had been affected by the flooding.
Floods affect more than 50,000 in Sudan: UN
More than 50,000 people have been affected. The numbers are expected to rise.
Sudan to deploy troops to Darfur after killings
Violence in Darfur has eased since Bashir's ouster by the army amid mass protests against his rule last year.
Published 27 Jul, 2020 12:48am
Sudan says to devalue currency amid huge budget deficit
"The government must take urgent measures and change the official rate of the (Sudanese) pound," acting Finance Minister added.
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