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School of Technologies Research
A Review of Cyber-Ranges and Test-Beds: Current and Future Trends
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Ukwandu, Elochukwu
Mohamed, Amine Ben-Farah
Hanan, Hindy
David, Brosset
Dimitris, Kavallieros
Robert, Atkinson
Christos, Tachtatzis
Miroslav, Bures
Ivan, Andonovic
Xavier, Bellekens
Cyber situational awareness has been proven to be of value in forming a comprehensive understanding of threats and vulnerabilities within organisations, as the degree of exposure is governed by the prevailing levels of cyber-hygiene and established processes. A more accurate assessment of the security provision informs on the most vulnerable environments that necessitate more diligent management. The rapid proliferation in the automation of cyber-attacks is reducing the gap between information and operational technologies and the need to review the current levels of robustness against new sophisticated cyber-attacks, trends, technologies and mitigation countermeasures has become pressing. A deeper characterisation is also the basis with which to predict future vulnerabilities in turn guiding the most appropriate deployment technologies. Thus, refreshing established practices and the scope of the training to support the decision making of users and operators. The foundation of the training provision is the use of Cyber-Ranges (CRs) and Test-Beds (TBs), platforms/tools that help inculcate a deeper understanding of the evolution of an attack and the methodology to deploy the most impactful countermeasures to arrest breaches. In this paper, an evaluation of documented CR and TB platforms is evaluated. CRs and TBs are segmented by type, technology, threat scenarios, applications and the scope of attainable training. To enrich the analysis of documented CR and TB research and cap the study, a taxonomy is developed to provide a broader comprehension of the future of CRs and TBs. The taxonomy elaborates on the CRs/TBs dimensions, as well as, highlighting a diminishing differentiation between application areas.
Sensors;
Ukwandu, E., Farah, M.A.B., Hindy, H., Brosset, D., Kavallieros, D., Atkinson, R., Tachtatzis, C., Bures, M., Andonovic, I. and Bellekens, X. (2020) 'A Review of Cyber-Ranges and Test-Beds: Current and Future Trends', Sensors, 20(24), 7148; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247148
https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247148
Article published in Sensors, available open access at https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247148
Horizon 2020 (Grant ID: H2020 FORESIGHT)
School of Technologies Research [147]
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE AWARENESS OF CYBER SECURITY AND PRIVACY POLICIES AMONGST THE UK POPULATION
Darlington, Scott (Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2018-07)
Cybercrime is continually growing in today’s technological world. It is vital for individuals in the UK to be more aware of cyber security and privacy policies. Research into the UK population’s understanding on cyber ...
An Examination of Penetration Testing (Ethical Hacking) and Delivering
Jones, David Andrew (Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2015-05)
The overall aim of this research is to examine penetration testing and deliver the proposed tests to Clee Tompkinson Francis, to investigate the impact on a small business network’. The continual advancement in technology ...
What makes for effective visualisation in Cyber Situational Awareness for Non-Expert Users?
Carroll, Fiona; Legg, Phil; Chakof, Adam (ieee, 2019-11-14)
As cyber threats continue to become more prevalent, there is a need to consider how best we can understand the cyber landscape when acting online, especially so for non-expert users. Satellite navigation systems provide ...
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County boards of elections complete post-election audits
Written by Press Release
RALEIGH — As a statewide recount for a North Carolina Supreme Court contest begins in North Carolina, all 100 county boards of elections recently completed hand-to-eye audits for the 2020 general election, an important step in confirming accurate election results.
Pursuant to state law, the bipartisan county boards conduct a hand-to-eye audit of ballots from randomly selected voting groups. In a presidential election like 2020, the audited contest is always the president of the United States.
The audit is a comparison of the machine counts of ballots with hand-to-eye counts to ensure voting equipment recorded voters’ choices accurately. The voting systems and software of two companies – ES&S and Hart InterCivic – are certified for use in North Carolina. All counties use voting equipment from one of those companies.
Statewide, more than 150 Election Day precincts and 30 early voting sites were audited. Also, more than a dozen counties conducted a hand-to-eye audit of all mail-in absentee ballots.
Of the 200 voting groups audited, only 13 audits found any difference between the machine count and the human count, and all discrepancies were three votes or fewer. Most differences were attributed to human error, such as a voter marking outside of the bubble, or to human error during the hand count itself.
“We are glad to see that no significant issues were found during the audit,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “This successful audit is a testament to our elections officials and to the elections equipment used throughout the state. North Carolinians can be confident that their votes count.”
The State Board of Elections office conducts a series of post-election audits and investigations, where necessary, to ensure the integrity of election results. For more information on election security and audits, visit https://www.ncsbe.gov/about-elections/election-security/post-election-procedures-and-audits.
The State Board will certify statewide results for most federal, statewide, multi-district and judicial contests during the state canvass at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Results in each contest are not considered official until certified by the State Board.
After state canvass, the board of elections with jurisdiction over each contest will issue a certificate of election to the prevailing candidate.
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Conservative News, Cronyism, Democrats, Elections, Government Incompetence, Michigan, Michigan Politics
Why Wasn’t Nassar Stopped In 2014? Or In 2016?
by 10x25MM • February 10, 2018 • 0 Comments
Quid Pro Quo, Again
Dr. Lawrence Gerard Nassar’s molestation of young girls dates back to the 1990’s and at least 14 of his victims reported him to various figures of authority at MSU over the intervening years. In 2014, one of those authority figures finally took a Nassar victim seriously enough to report him to MSU’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. OIII was the MSU bureaucracy then responsible for investigating Title IX discrimination complaints. That accuser also reported the incident to MSU’s police department two months later.
The MSU Title IX investigation was a whitewash. The author of the report, Kristine M. Moore (currently MSU’s Assistant General Counsel) went so far as to issue two reports – a more truthful one to Nassar and another, abbreviated version to the victim. At some point in 2014, recently departed MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon was informed of the circumstances and did little or nothing. Nassar continued to molest his female patients; at least 12 more before he was finally arrested.
Some time in 2015, MSU’s campus police department finally made a criminal referral to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office. Stuart Dunning III’s office did nothing, perhaps because he was just too preoccupied with his much beloved prostitutes. And his subordinates were perhaps too busy covering for his wretched behavior. In March 2016, the Ingham County Sheriff arrested Dunning and his lawyer brother for pandering. Dunning plead out and resigned from office.
Ingham County Circuit Court judges selected Gretchen Whitmer, a current Democratic candidate for Michigan Governor, to serve out the remainder of Dunning’s term. Whitmer averred that Dunning’s distractions did not affect any ICPO case and immediately signaled her virtue by establishing a new domestic violence unit within the ICPO. You are allowed to be skeptical.
MSU Campus Police Chief Jim Dunlap returned to the new, interim Ingham County Prosecutor – Ms. Whitmer – with his department’s referral of the Nassar molestation incidents. He got blown off by Whitmer and her chief assistant, Lisa McCormick. Dunlap was convinced that Whitmer’s office was not interested in pursuing the molestation charges because they were “much more difficult to take to trial” than the kiddie porn charges then being developed by the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan.
Whitmer and McCormick were entirely content to allow Nassar to be prosecuted for kiddie porn by the Feds, but both now claim they did not file molestation charges against Nassar because of ‘jurisdictional issues’.
Dunlap stalked off and contacted Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office that same evening. He wanted Nassar fully charged for all his offenses. AG Schuette had no qualms about going after Nassar. At the time, there were only 5 or 6 molestation complaints against Nassar, all of which arose from MSU. The Eaton County Twistar cases were developed after Schuette took over the prosecution. There were no ‘jurisdictional issues’ when Whitmer blew off Dunlap.
The rest is history. But is it the entire history?
The key player behind the 2014 MSU Title IX investigation whitewash of Nassar was his superior at MSU: Dr. William D. Strampel, the Dean of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine from 2002 until December of last year. He must have vouched for Dr. Nassar’s ‘methods’, allowing Kristine Moore to officially conclude that Nassar’s molestations were “not of a sexual nature” in both versions of her Title IX report. Despite this deceit, Strampel dictated special protocols for Dr. Nassar’s future treatments. Of course, he had no intention of following up on those protocols. Moore made it clear in her undisclosed version that Nassar’s ‘methods’ would open up MSU to liability. All three knew what was going on: Moore, Strampel, and of course Nassar.
Strampel suddenly resigned from his position as Dean of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in December 2017 as the Nassar case exploded across national headlines. At the same time, he took medical leave from his faculty position at MSU COM – however he remains on the MSU COM faculty. The new Interim President of MSU, John Engler, just took the first step to revoke Strampel’s faculty tenure for “not act[ing] with the level of professionalism we expect from individuals who hold senior leadership positions”. An obvious reference to Strampel’s protection of Nassar during the 2014 Title IX investigation.
We know much less about Strampel’s involvement with Whitmer’s 2016 failure to charge Nassar, but scrutiny here is sorely needed. Strampel has been a major donor to Democratic candidates in the Lansing area:
Strampel Campaign Contributions Page 1
About $ 10,700 in direct contributions to Democratic candidates since 2000 and another $ 1,765 to a Truscott Rossman managed MSU PAC.. He has been especially generous to Gretchen Whitmer, donating $ 3,650 to her campaigns since 2003. $ 3,300 of that in 2017 to Ms. Whitmer’s current gubernatorial campaign. Deep gratitude or quid pro quo?
Strampel made only two itemized contributions, totaling $ 450, to Republicans. $ 200 to Battle Creek’s John ‘RINO Joe’ Schwartz back in 2002 and $ 250 to the House Republican Campaign Committee in 2011. His political sympathies and connections are pretty evident from his lopsided contribution history. These contribution numbers are big enough to convince any reasonable observer that Strampel was well connected to the Lansing Democratic establishment, and Gretchen Whitmer in particular. Note here that Whitmer has not disavowed Strampel or his contributions.
Strampel would have had Whitmer’s ear in 2016 when she was deciding what to do with the major embarrassment working in his college. An embarrassment he covered up in 2014. Strampel might even have gotten to Whitmer before Chief Dunlap. Strampel probably thought that hanging Nassar on the kiddie porn charge exclusively in 2016 would satisfy the public and avoid undue scrutiny of his baleful role in the 2014 Title IX investigation.
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Strampel is the very exemplar of the clowns turning our universities into delusional Marxist indoctrination camps. During the same period Strampel was contributing heavily to the Lansing Democratic establishment, he was a key player in a Stalinist faculty purge at MSU called ‘Advancing Diversity through the Alignment of Policies and Practices’ (ADAPP). ADAPP was “a sweeping effort to align [MSU’s] values of diversity and quality with academic human resource policies and practices at the department- (or unit-) level.” In plain text, a Stalinist purge of the few remaining conservative MSU faculty.
ADAPP was funded by a $ 4 million Institutional Transformation grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Program in 2008. It was so successful that it was institutionalized by MSU in 2014. No more Federal money needed. Somehow, ADAPP failed to align MSU’s values with fundamental human morality in the Nassar case.
Nassar himself does not appear to have had any particular political bent, or made any political contributions. He didn’t need to. He was protected from above. MSU knows this. They are furiously 404ing Strampel’s online history. There is no more fitting end to a Stalinist’s career.
Justice here needs to go well beyond Nassar.
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Fred Lorenz
By The Suffolk Times
Former Riverhead resident, Fred Lorenz, 82, of Dumas, Texas, died April 6, 2015.
Fred was born Oct. 21, 1932, in Riverhead to Oscar and Madeline Lorenz. He married Charlotte (Brown), June 6, 1954, in Riverhead. They moved to Dumas in 1992.
Fred loved to fish, hunt, and racing. He was a member of North Plains Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Frederick Thomas Sr., Jon Carver Lorenz, and Michael Scott Lorenz; three brothers, Bill, Doug, and Jack; a sister, Ruth Topping; four grandchildren, Jamie, Freddy Jr., Danny, and Olivia; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held April 13 at North Plains Christian Church, officiated by Pastor Sam White.
Arrangements were in the care of Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors of Dumas. An online guestbook is available at boxwellbrothers.com.
The family suggests memorial donations be sent to North Plains Christian Church, 702 S. Birge Ave., Dumas, TX 79029.
This is a paid notice.
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Earl Junius Trent
Earl Junius Trent of Riverhead died Dec. 30, 2015. He was 85.
In Memoriam: Riverhead residents we lost in 2015
The following is a list of obituaries published by the News-Review for Riverhead area residents who died in 2015....
Edmund F. McDowell
Edmund F. McDowell of Calverton died Dec. 30, 2015, at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola. He was 84.
Arnold A. Anderson Jr.
Former Riverhead resident Arnold A. Anderson Jr., 67, of Land O’ Lakes, Fla. passed away Dec. 29, 2015.
Carl Andrew Christianson
Carl Andrew Christianson, 91, died Dec. 31, 2015 at Kendal-Crosslands in Kennett Square, Pa. where he and his wife,...
Richard W. Lash
Richard W. Lash of Jamesport died at Peconic Bay Medical Center Dec. 27, 2015. He was 60.
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Isaac Hayes Dead at 65
Yes – Isaac Hayes, the enigmatic and fantastically talented musician and singer has died at 65 – too young as far as I am concerned. The picture above is of one of my most favourite and very played albums of his – Live at the Sahara Tahoe. I am sure many just think all Isaac Hayes ever did was sing Shaft and voice the part of the chef in South Park – but no – here is a tiny pocket guide to the breadth of his performing, composing and writing talents.
Not many people know that….
Isaac Hayes was a self-taught musician
Isaac Hayes was hired in 1964 by Stax Records as back-up pianist and saxophonist working as a session musician for big names such as Otis Redding.
Isaac Hayes wrote big hits for Sam and Dave such as Hold On, I’m Coming and Soul Man.
Isaac Hayes didn’t get a recording contract until the age of 26 in 1969 – he then shot to fame with the release his groundbreaking and influential album Hot Buttered Soul.
Isaac Hayes scored the soundtrack to the film Shaft. It was a number one hit in 1971. He won an Academy Award for the title song and was nominated for another one for the entire score. The song and score also won him two Grammys.
Isaac Hayes appeared in several films including It Could Happen to You with Nicolas Cage and Ninth Street with Martin Sheen.
Isaac Hayes was a Scientologist – which is why he quit South Park in 2006 after they released an episode where Scientologists were made fun of and lampooned.
Isaac Hayes was married four times and has 12 children.
Isaac Hayes was a unique talent and the music world will be a slightly emptier place without him.
Rest well Isaac.
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‘Legend’ gets chucked around far too much, but Isaac was the real deal.<br/><br/>I’ll even overlook the Scientology stuff.
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He was cool once. Ice cool.
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isaac <i>is</i> a brilliant name, isn’t it?
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Malc – is that ceeyalater Malc? Hello! Yes – I’ve erased the Scientology stuff because Isaac was the man.<br/><br/>Axeminster Victim – so damn coool<br/><br/>Rivergirlie – yes – you can see why they named Port Isaac so?! 😉
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it is a legend for too much time, as a brilliant singer and one of the best ever, love this kind of generous.
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Romance is Lover-ly!
February 26, 2014 February 26, 2014 stacey
Romance! Full of love and affection! Who doesn’t love love? Well, I guess maybe the heartless are physically incapable of love -not having a heart and all- but if we ignore those walking medical miracles? Reading a book that features strong emotions and two individuals struggling to become a happy pair will hopefully leave everyone in a good mood! Let’s see if that’s what happened in our very own romance genre discussion, shall we? (You’ll have to base your opinion on the brief descriptions people provided..)
Megan: Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg is the story of Levi and Macallan, two best friends set on proving to everyone that guys and girls can be just friends. They manage just fine for years, but then something changes. What follows is a series of missed connections and misunderstandings that could potentially ruin everything. Full of witty banter and lovable characters, readers will be rooting for Levi and Macallan long after they close the book!
Chris: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert tells the story of woman in desperate need of romance. Emma Bovary hopes to find it with her country doctor husband, Charles, but he proves to be dull beyond words. She enters into a secretive love affair with the worldly Rodolphe, but after awhile he becomes bored with her demanding affections and leaves. She then succeeds in rekindling the flame with an old lover, Leon, but soon tires of him. Will she ever find that excitement and passion she yearns for? Madame Bovary’s search for romance leads her to suffering financial woes and ill health and, ultimately, to taking her own life.
Emma: Getting Rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie is the story of two Bradleys’. One is Lucy’s ex-husband Bradley Porter, and the other is a high school friend of Lucy’s ex, John Bradley. John Bradley has stolen a sizeable amount of government bonds and Lucy’s ex is helping him hide the evidence. There is a key to a safety deposit box somewhere in Lucy’s house and it must be found. Tina, Lucy’s sister, has threatened her former brother-in-law if he ever enters the house or tries to contact Lucy. John Bradley tries to scare Lucy away from her house by blowing up her car, but she won’t leave her dogs behind. Police detective Zach Warren moves in to protect Lucy and catch the culprit. The two become a couple very quickly. Getting Rid of Bradley is a great combination of romance, humor, and a touch of suspense.
Dori: Ellen O’Farrell is a hypnotherapist, helping to guide people to change through the power of the mind eve4n though she can’t seem to hold onto a relationship of her own. Then she meets Patrick through an online dating site and the two hit it off immediately, though Patrick has a secret: his ex-girlfriend is stalking him. Ellen, being the empathetic person that she is, is both fascinated and repelled by the idea while Saskia, the stalker, is deeply hurt and confused by Patrick’s sudden rejection. Liane Moriarty explores the inner lives of both Ellen and Saskia in The Hypnotist’s Love Story while delving into the intricacies of relationships, love, loss and just plain old dumb luck.
Donna: The Rosie Project is the debut novel by Australian Graeme C. Simsion. Don Tillman is a genetics professor who is looking for a wife. He designs the Wife Project, a very detailed questionnaire, to screen for potential perfect matches. He starts the Rosie Project when he meets Rosie who wants him to help her find her biological father. Soon, the two projects merge. Rosie and Don are two delightful, quirky characters that the reader will constantly root for in this charming, laugh out loud romance.
Steve: A Knight in Shining Armor, by Jude Deveraux, finds Dougless Montgomery stranded by her boyfriend in a medieval English church near a statute of Nicholas Stafford, an earl who died in 1564, executed for treason. She had been anticipating a marriage proposal and asks aloud where her knight in shining armor is. The earl, in 1564, hears her sobbing and travels to the 1980’s to aid her. Dougless thinks he is crazy, but grows to believe his time-traveling story and soon is helping him research who falsely accused him of treason. This is a light, funny love story with a touch of intrigue. The historical details and time travel add a nice element. All in all not too shabby.
Ann: Anyone but You by Jennifer Crusie introduces us to Nina, recently divorced and turning 40. She’s moved into her own apartment and is going to get a puppy (her ex-husband never wanted a dog). She goes to the shelter to pick out a bouncing puppy- to cheer her up. Instead, she comes home with Fred. Fred is an overweight, quirky, sad-faced basset hound-beagle mix. But when he crawls through the wrong apartment window, Nina gets to meet her downstairs neighbor, Alex. Now Nina is not looking for a new man and if she would be, it would not be Alex. Sure he is charming, great looking, and shares Fred’s love of Oreos, but he just is turning 30! 10 years is a huge age difference- isn’t it? A witty, clever romantic comedy.
Carol: A Victorian Rose by Catherine Palmer is a historical romance that takes readers back in time to Victorian Yorkshire, England. Artist and young widow, Clemma Laird, has caught the eye of Dr. Paul Baine, a man who is shunned by the community for his past amoral behavior. Despite her better judgment, Clemma is drawn into Dr. Baine’s lifework, and what she discovers about his past changes her outlook on life and her future. This book was a quick, charming, and thoughtful read about love and redemption.
Julie: Beth Harbison’s latest book grabbed me with the title, Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave him the Wrong Finger – fun, right? The story follows Quinn ten years after she left her high school sweetheart at the altar because she found out he had cheated on her. Oh, and it was his brother who told her and who she then ran away with to Vegas. She quickly ended that, but now they’re both back in her life and she has to figure out what to do about it.
Stacey: The Wedding Bees by Sarah-Kate Lynch probably falls a bit between romance and general fiction but it delivers nicely on the main points of a good romance; and so this is my book of choice! Sugar Wallace has moved once a year for the past fifteen years and each new location is chosen by the queen bee of her hive. Wherever she lands, Sugar likes to help as many people as possible and it looks like her newest home in NYC will be business as usual. Well at least until her new friends decide Sugar might need some redirecting herself, no matter what she says! Even better if that new path takes her into the arms of Mr. Right, right?
And next time, if you care to read along with our genre challenge of March, you’ll want to find a biography or autobiography! Yes, that’s right! You’re looking for a book that is written by or about one person and focuses on their life experiences. Enjoy!
— Stacey
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Wolves: Will they survive life in the Premier League?
Wolves brushed off Derby County last night in comprehensive fashion to move 12 points clear of third place.
Solid recruitment
Scintillating attack
Great results against the divisions best
What to expect next season?
(Photo credit - Ben Sutherland)
In July 2016 Wolverhampton Wanderers were purchased by Fosun International with the expectation that the team would be contending for promotion.
Last season they floundered out of the gate with Walter Zenga before Paul Lambert steered the team to an unremarkable 15th place finish.
Change was afoot this summer and Nuno Espirito Santo was ushered in to bring about positive change at the Midlands club. But how have the club gone from 15th to 1st in the Championship?
While Wolves have flashed the cash since they got new owners, the most impressive thing about their summer business was the influx of great free transfers.
Ryan Bennett and John Ruddy have both been mainstays in the current side and have solidified the spine of Wolves while provided promotion experience from their days at Norwich.
Barry Douglas was brought in for £1 million which looks an absolute bargain - the left back has chipped in with four goals this season.
Oh, and who can forget Portuguese international Ruben Neves? He was brought in at a cost of over £15 million but looks worth every penny.
His six goals have been stunning and every game he looks a level above anyone else on the pitch. It will be difficult for Wolves to hold onto the 21-year-old this summer.
While it is important to bring in permanent transfers, often teams need a compliment of loan players if they are to see the job through. Wolves have utilised the loan market better than any other side in the Championship.
Willy Boly, Ruben Vinagre, Diogo Jota, Leo Bonatini, Alfred N’Diaye and Benik Afobe have played 165 games collectively for Wolves and contributed 38 goals. Jota, who will be signed permanently this summer, and Bonatini have been excellent scoring 27 goals between them.
People may think super agent Jorge Mendes is giving Wolves an unfair advantage and that remains to be seen. However, you cannot deny how impressive his transfer business has been with the club.
It will be no shock to see Wolves as the highest scorers in the division because of the breadth of attacking talent they possess.
While they do not have the divisions top scorer - that honour goes to Matej Vydra of Derby - they have goals from around the team.
In defence Danny Batth, Willy Boly, Barry Douglas, and Matt Doherty have contributed nine goals between them. In midfield Ruben Neves, Romain Saiss, Alfred N’Diaye, and Ruben Vinagre have scored 14 goals.
There attacking unit has been outstanding too. Diogo Jota, Ivan Cavaleiro, Leo Bonatini, Helder Costa and Benik Afobe have contributed 45 goals. The attacking talents of this team will surely not diminish in the Premier League - such is their quality.
Wolves have won ten of their 16 games against the eight teams currently below them in the league.
The fact that they have been able to secure impressive victories away from home against Middlesbrough and Cardiff in the last couple of weeks shows that this team can deal with the high-pressure games.
But not only that, the team have gone toe-toe with Premier League sides this season in the cup competitions. They won 2-0 away at Southampton in the League Cup before blanking Manchester City for 120 minutes and then losing on penalties.
In January the team succumbed to a 2-1 defeat against Swansea but the Swans were enduring a new manager bounce at the time with Carlos Carvalhal.
While Wolves are not yet mathematically promoted - the likelihood is they will be over the next couple of weeks.
There is no doubt that Espirito Santo, Jorge Mendes, and the club have already began planning for next season to shape this side into a Premier League unit. But what do they need to do?
The target will obviously be survival, but Wolves can take heart from the fact that the last three teams to look this good at Championship level took to the Premier League with flying colours.
Sunderland in 1999 finished 7th in the Premier League after a +100 point season. Reading finished 8th after they finished with 100+ points in 2007. Newcastle also finished with over 100 points in 2010 and managed a comfortable 12th place finish the next year.
If the club invests money, there is no reason to suspect they won’t, and they can keep their best players then this team should survive comfortably next season.
Do you think Wolves can stay up next season? Let us know in the comment section below.
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MahaRERA asks builder not to differentiate between buyer & investor2 hrs ago
Over 5,000 pending Amrapali flats up for grabs in Noida
Building violations thrive in Trichy, thanks to lax civic officials
Lack of teeth in the town planning act is cited as reason by the civic body officials in not being able to act decisively.
TRICHY: The City Corporation discovered that 264 buildings in Srirangam were constructed in violation of norms between 2012-2015. But there was nothing to fear for these violators as not a single building was sealed or demolished by the civic body, reveals information obtained through RTI. Even in one exceptional case where a multi-storey building was sealed near Srirangam temple, it was HR & CE department which served notice following which action was initiated.
Lack of teeth in the town planning act is cited as reason by the civic body officials in not being able to act decisively. However, observers blame it on the lack of will of the civic body to crack the whip on violators.
"We cannot demolish a building because it was constructed contrary to norms," corporation assistant executive engineer P Sivapatham said adding that they could only serve notice to the violator to reply within 30 days or impose a fine at the most.
Notice is issued to the concerned owner by civic body on deviation of building plan and time given to make changes in the building. Rs 1,000 is imposed as fine for the violators for not carrying the changes which would increase for subsequent delay followed by a judicial case for not adhering to the norms. In all, at least Rs 50,000 is collected as fine a month from the violators of building plan from all over the city which includes Srirangam.
However, retired deputy collector and resident of Sriangam R Govindaraju who filed the RTI to obtained details says that "Sec.296 Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 empowers the officials to issue notices to the buildings with violations/deviations or unauthorised constructions and demolish them. Rules and regulations are effective and stringent for taking action against violators. But unauthorised constructions are deliberately ignored to avoid embarrassment to the department." Moreover, the Commissioner of Trichy City Corporation was empowered to take action against the violations/deviations/unauthorized constructions as per Section 56, 57 in pursuance of G.O.289 Housing and Urban Development (UD4-1) dated 16.12.2010 and as per the resolution of Trichy Local Planning Authority Resolution No.6 dated 14.02.2011, he says.
Highlighting the data obtained from civic body, Govindaraju said that the "number of unauthorized constructions had come down to 47 in 2015 from 137 in 2014. While the reality is other way around as unauthorized constructions are not being booked to avoid embarrassment to the department."
It is mandatory to keep the buildings below the height of 9 metres around 1 km radius of the Srirangam temple that is not exceeding two floors (G+2). But we can see various buildings above the permissible height mushrooming in recent time in the close vicinity of the 237 feet tall Rajagopuram (the royal temple tower).
"There are commercial buildings as tall as over 20 metres within the 1 km radius of the temple which were only noticed in recent years," says another resident from Srirangam C Rangarjan.
Status quo has been maintained on the existing buildings exceeding the permissible height where no further construction of buildings has been allowed beyond the permissible limit from about four years ago. But in reality the violations have increased as corporation officials are being bribed by the building owners to escape action, he said.
"Property tax is not imposed on the building unless the building adheres to all norms. To avoid the issue getting dragged on and robbing the corporation of revenue in terms of property tax, often the officials ignore deviations and put tax on the buildings unless it is gross violation and the matter is settled," says a senior official from the city corporation.
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Disability-inclusive health systems research in fragile and shock-prone settings
Please check times and dates on the Health Systems Research 2020 website. Times listed below are in Gulf Standard Time (UTC +4).
If you're interested in other HSR2020 sessions related to fragile and conflict-affected settings check out this list [opens a Google doc] put together by the Thematic Working Group on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States.
If you missed a session the slides will be posted beneath shortly afterwards.
Fostering learning health systems in low and middle-income countries - Wednesday 13th January 2021 - 5-6:15pm GST
Learning is fundamental to health systems strengthening and the achievement of health goals. This participatory session will engage policymakers, civil society advocates, researchers and funders in structured conversation on experiences of learning health systems (LHS) in LMICs, and shape a shared understanding of how to foster this critical health system function. The session seeks to advance thinking on LHS based on experiential and academic knowledge and to move towards a shared understanding of how to conceptualise and foster LHS in diverse LMIC settings.
To share insights gained from reviews of literature and experiences on LHS
To elicit diverse actors’ (policymaker, civil society, researcher, funder) experiences and lessons on LHS (successes, failures, lessons on supportive factors and overcoming challenges)
To engage the audience in a reflective and creative dialogue on LHS
To reach a collective understanding of how to foster this critical but neglected health system function in LMICs
Professor Sophie Witter of ReBUILD for Resilience and Queen Margaret University will be speaking at this sessions. She will make a pace-setting presentation, drawing on her papers which were commissioned by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, in which she reviewed existing frameworks for and approaches to conceptualising learning health systems and examined experiences of systems learning in LMIC health systems to draw out enablers and characteristics of learning health systems.
Building capacity for research on migration and health: a call to action - Wednesday 13th January 2021 - 7-9pm GST
This panel session will explore strengthening research on migration and health globally, specifically:
discuss priority research topics in the field of migration and health and define an agenda for action,
identify models of and avenues for building the relevant capacities in LMICs;
and discuss how to engage more effectively in LMICs and between disciplines.
It is being jointly organised by Lancet Migration together with the WHO hosted special programmes for Human Reproduction (HRP), and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TDR) in collaboration with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems research.
During this session, Professor Fouad Fouad, of American University Beirut and ReBUILD for Resilience will bring perspectives on rethinking health systems frameworks to integrate human mobility - as research on migration and health advocate and from his personal circumstance as a forced migrant.
Managing global health research collaborations - Sunday 8th November, 6-9pm GST
Missed or want to revisit the session? Joanna Raven's presentation with notes is available here [pdf].
Skill-building session - several participants including Dr Joanna Raven (senior lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine).
Managing research collaborations requires navigating complex challenges, including aligning diverse interests and maintaining essential relationships. This session will provide a forum for participants to share experiences and resources. Participants will build skills in developing strategies to resolve managerial challenges and to negotiate the multiple dimensions of collaboration management.
Dr Raven will be sharing her experience of working in challenging, post-conflict contexts with programmes including ReBUILD.
This session is intended for health systems and policy researchers, practitioners, decision-makers and funders. It is open o participants with no to extensive experience with collaborations and from all contexts.
Health system responses to COVID-19: how can we meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people? - Monday 9th November, 4:05-5:20pm GST
This interactive panel discusses recent evidence on public health responses in Mali, Palestine, Lebanon and Colombia to address needs of internally displaced people and refugees impacted by COVID-19. Policy solutions and lessons learned for service delivery will be highlighted, contributing to a re-imagining of more just and equitable health systems.
Dr Fouad M Fouad, (Associate Professor of Public Health Practice, American University of Beirut, Lebanon) will chair the session. He is co-director of the Refugees Health Program at the Global Health Institute at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and sits on the R2HC Funding Committee.
Dr Karin Diaconu (Research Fellow, Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, UK) will present learning on how health service delivery in crowded refugee settlements in Gaza and Lebanon has been sustained since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Resilience and Recovery: exploring health system strengthening during and beyond crisis - Tuesday 10th November, 6:45-8pm GST
Dr Justine Namakula (Research Fellow/ Health Systems Researcher at Makerere University School Of Public Health, Uganda) is the first of four presenters to speak on the symposium sub-theme: conflict and fragility.
Her presentation is entitled 'Mapping relationships for supporting health service delivery during recovery from conflict - lessons from formal private for-profit health providers, Northern Uganda' and focuses on work conducted while part of the ReBUILD consortium. The research sought to provide evidence to inform decision making on the re-organisation of health service delivery during recovery from conflict. The study aimed to identify organisations related to the formal private for-profit health providers (FPFPs) and to highlight key relational objectives for supporting service delivery in the post conflict period.
Using participatory group model building methods for mapping, modelling and re-designing systems for health - Wednesday 25th November, 1-3pm GST
Dr Karin Diaconu of ReBUILD for Resilience and Queen Margaret University will speak in this session, focusing on methods that were pioneered during ReBUILD's resilience work. Alongside Professor Alistair Ager, also of QMU, Dr Diaconu will offer an overview and introduction to group model build approaches, including reflections on how these methods can be used in conjunction with other social science or ethnographic research methods, including qualitative interviews.
The session as a whole looks at securing improved and equitable population health care. This requires careful appraisal and mapping of available systems for health, and the identification of suitable areas and pathways for intervention. A systems for health framing acknowledges the complex and interconnected individual, community and (formal and informal) health system capacities needed to sustain population health, and challenges decision-makers, program managers, community members and researchers to consider multiple perspectives when appraising and designing health related programs, interventions or initiatives.
Supporting and strengthening the role of community health workers in health system development - Wednesday 25th November, 1-3pm GST
Missed or want to revisit the session? The YouTube video is here
In this session, the role of community health workers (CHWs) in fragile and conflict-affected settings will be discussed. Attention will be paid to CHWs’ interface role; the contribution of CHWs to improving communities’ access to health services; and identifying how CHWs can be supported in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Dr Haja Wurie of the ReBUILD for Resilience consortium will present 'Bridging the gap before, during and after crisis in fragile settings – the role of CHWs in Sierra Leone'. CHWs create a vital link between communities and health systems, particularly in fragile settings. This presentation will cover how CHWs were strategically placed to provide services to vulnerable groups before, during and after a shock to the health system in Sierra Leone. During the Ebola outbreak, in a climate of mistrust, CHWs were a trusted source for health education and social mobilisation. They had the potential to maintain service delivery at the primary level, within their scope of work. In the post-crisis and rebuilding phase, CHWs play vital roles in rebuilding of the health system, including crisis responsive systems. The session builds on work undertaken during the ReBUILD project.
Amuda Baba (of Institut Panafricain de Santé Communautaire et Medecine Tropicale and who was involved in ReBUILD) will present on the role of CHWs in the situations of extreme fragility in Democratic Republic of Congo, with a focus on their role in maternal and newborn health and prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence.
Doing Political Economy Analysis for health systems: challenges and approaches to ensure relevance and policy uptake - Wednesday 9 December, 7-9pm GST
While political economy analysis (PEA) is an essential tool for HSPR, there are challenges in ‘doing PEA’. This two-hour skills-building session aims at equipping participants with the skills needed to understand and critically reflect how to address them. Approaches and strategies will be discussed, based on case studies and participatory exercises.
Dr Maria Bertone of ReBUILD for Resilience and Queen Margaret University will introduce the session. She has been developing a body of work around the political economy of health systems reforms for some time, including during the ReBUILD programme, and has focused in particular on health financing and performance-based financing.
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2020 Media Guide
Yellow Jacket Softball Camp
Tiffany Johnson's Perfect Game Helps No. 23/16 Softball Sweep Maryland And Clinch ACC Regular Season Title
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score | Updated Stats
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A perfect game by senior pitcher Tiffany Johnson helped the No. 23/16 Georgia Tech softball team (40-13, 17-3 ACC) sweep Maryland (29-25, 9-11) Saturday afternoon and clinch the ACC regular season title. Johnson had nine strikeouts as the Yellow Jackets won game two 8-0 in five innings. In game one, Tech won 9-2 behind two home runs and five RBI off the bat of Yee.
The last no-hitter in Georgia Tech history was a combined one between Johnson and Sarah Wood in an 11-1 win over Lipscomb on March 3, 2007. The last perfect game in Yellow Jacket history was hurled by Jessica Sallinger against Florida State on March 26, 2005.
Redshirt junior Jen Yee was on base eight times in nine at bats as she went 3-for-3 with two home runs and five RBI. She also drew five walks. Johnson improved to 14-3 on the season as she threw just 61 pitches, 43 for strikes. She had nine strikeouts and only one three-ball count all game. Kristen Adkins improved to 22-7 with the game one victory. She scattered eight hits, all singles, and was charged with two unearned runs. Adkins walked three and struck out four.
Senior Blair Shimandle and sophomore Christy Jones each had three hits, three runs scored and a stolen base for the Yellow Jackets.
Tech will be the No. 1 seed in the ACC Championship, May 8-10, in Raleigh, N.C. The Yellow Jackets will play eighth-seeded Virginia in the first round on Friday, May 8, at 5 p.m. The ACC Tournament is single-elimination this year.
With the wins today, Georgia Tech has now won 13 straight league games this season. Regardless of tomorrow’s series finale, the Yellow Jackets have won all seven ACC series’ in 2009 and 10 in a row dating back to last year.
Game one was scoreless until the top of the third inning when the Jackets struck for three runs against Terrapin starting pitcher Kerry Hickey. Jones led off with a single, stole second base and came around to score when Yee hit her first of two home runs on the day, a line drive over the fence in right field. Shimandle reached on catcher’s interference, stole second base and scored the third Tech run later in the inning on a RBI ground out by Johnson.
A three-run home run by Yee in the fourth inning made it a 6-0 game and broke the game wide open. After there were two outs, freshman Jessica Sinclair singled to right-center field and then a walk by Jones set up Yee’s second round-tripper of the game. She now has a team-high 12 home runs, which is tied for first place in the ACC.
Tech made it a 9-0 game with three more runs in the top of the sixth inning. Shimandle had a two-run single and freshman Kelsi Weseman added a RBI double to complete the Jackets’ scoring in the game.
Maryland struck for two unearned runs against Adkins in the sixth to prevent the run-rule, but that would be as close as they would get.
Game two was scoreless with two outs in the top of the third inning until seven straight Georgia Tech batters reached base resulting in six runs. Maryland starter Sarah Dooley got the first two outs of the inning on just three pitches, but a walk to Yee started the rally. After a Shimandle single, Weseman made it a 1-0 game with a RBI single of her own. After senior Whitney Haller was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Johnson got hit on the first pitch she saw from Dooley forcing in the second run of the game.
Tech was not done with the two runs, however, Adkins made it 4-0 with a two-run single and then a two-run double off the bat of sophomore Jessica Weaver accounted for the fifth and sixth runs of the inning.
That would be more than enough offense for Johnson as she continued to mow down the Terps. She recorded eight of her nine strikeouts on swings and had just one three-ball count all day.
The Jackets capped the scoring in the fourth on RBI ground outs by Haller and Johnson, setting the stage for Johnson’s dramatics.
The Yellow Jackets will conclude the regular season tomorrow with a 1 p.m. game against the University of Maryland. Live audio and stats are available free of charge at www.ramblinwreck.com.
December 15, 2020 Huckabay Earns ACC Go Teach Tuition Award
Georgia Tech outfielder earns $2,500 scholarship to pursue a career in education
Huckabay Earns ACC Go Teach Tuition Award
December 15, 2020 PHOTOS: 2020 Winter Commencement
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What factors influence the use of contracts in the context of NHS dental practice? A systematic review of theory and logic model
Rebecca Harris, Sarah Mosedale, JAYNE GARNER, Elizabeth Perkins
UK NHS contracts mediate the relationship between dental and medical practitioners as independent contractors, and the state which reimburses them for their services to patients. There have been successive revisions of dental and medical contracts since the 1990s alongside a change in the levels of professional dominance and accountability. Unintended consequences of the 2006 dental contract have led to plans for further reform. We set out to identify the factors which facilitate and hinder the use of contracts in this area. Previous reviews of theory have been narrative, and based on macro-theory arising from various disciplines such as economics, sociology and political science. This paper presents a systematic review and aggregative synthesis of the theories of contracting for publicly funded health care. A logic map conveys internal pathways linking competition for contracts to opportunism. We identify that whilst practitioners' responses to contract rules is a result of micro-level bargaining clarifying patients' and providers' interests, responses are also influenced by relationships with commissioners and wider personal, professional and political networks.
Social Science & Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.032.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.032
10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.032.
Social Science and Medicine Review 2014.pdfFinal published version, 749 KBLicence: CC BY-SA
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Systematic Review Arts & Humanities
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Dr JAYNE GARNER
Undergraduate Medicine - Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Harris, R., Mosedale, S., GARNER, JAYNE., & Perkins, E. (2014). What factors influence the use of contracts in the context of NHS dental practice? A systematic review of theory and logic model. Social Science & Medicine, 108, 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.032., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.032
Harris, Rebecca ; Mosedale, Sarah ; GARNER, JAYNE ; Perkins, Elizabeth. / What factors influence the use of contracts in the context of NHS dental practice? A systematic review of theory and logic model. In: Social Science & Medicine. 2014 ; Vol. 108. pp. 54-59.
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Encouragers and Discouragers Affecting Medical Graduates’ Choice of Regional and Rural Practice Locations
McKillop, Ann ; Webster, Craig ; Bennett, Winfield ; O'Connor, Barbara ; Bagg, Warwick
Reference: Rural and Remote Health 17( 4):9 pages Article number 4247 07 Dec 2017
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Introduction: Access to health care as near to where people live as possible is desirable. However, not enough medical graduates choose to work in rural and regional areas, especially in general practice. The career decisions of recent medical graduates are known to be affected by a variety of professional, societal and personal factors. Internationally, medical programmes have exposed students to regional and rural experiences partly to encourage them to seek employment in these areas after graduation. As such, the Pūkawakawa Programme is a year-long regional and rural experience for selected Year 5 students from the University of Auckland‘s Medical Programme in New Zealand in partnership with the Northland District Health Board and two Primary Health Organisations. A lack of clarity about the drivers of rural and regional career decisions underpinned this study, which aimed to explore the barriers and encouragers for students of the programme to return as resident medical officers to the regional hospital where they had gained clinical experience. Methods: A mixed-method, descriptive design was used, including a short survey, followed by participation in a focus-group discussion or a one-on-one interview. Survey data were summarised in tabular form and inductive, thematic analysis was applied to transcripts of focus groups and interviews. Results: Nineteen doctors in their first or second year following graduation participated: 15 who had returned to the hospital where they had clinical experience in the programme and four who were employed elsewhere. 'A match of personal goals and intended career intentions' was the reason most frequently selected for junior doctors’ choice of early career employment. Other frequently selected reasons were lifestyle, friends and family close by, and the reputation and experience of the Pūkawakawa Programme. Qualitative data revealed that the learning experience, the unique design of the curriculum and associated support from clinicians were identified as important factors in encouraging students to work in regional and rural environments. However, discouraging factors included separation from friends and families, geographical isolation and the lack of opportunities for partners to find work. Conclusions: This study has confirmed the value of the Pūkawakawa Programme as an important contributor to the regional and rural workforce of the Northland District, New Zealand. The value of an academic‑clinical partnership has been shown to support a regional and rural clinical learning environment. Evidence is provided of one way of having overcome barriers to building regional and rural workforce capacity in this district.
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Moyes on the Boys: it’s going to take time
August 22, 2016 August 21, 2016 by Colin Randall
Jake flags our new columnist
John McCormick writes. Pete’s sevens were pessimistic but I thought we did OK in the second half and will be fine once we sort out our defence, midfield and attack.
What does our manager think, however? Well, to let you know, here’s a look at the letter he sent to M Salut, and maybe one or two others, immediately after the game:
Dear Colin,
I thought we didn’t deserve to be 2-0 down at half time; there was some poor defending on some occasions and their first goal was really good, however, before then Middlesbrough had barely been up the park.
Before the goal I thought we were the better team, we lost our way 10 minutes before half time when we lost John O’Shea to injury; that didn’t help and we had to change it quickly.
The second goal was poor and there are things we need to work on, we’re giving people games at centre back who’ve not been here long and we were short of midfield players today too.
The players who came in today because of injuries did a really good job. In the second half I thought [Lynden] Gooch was terrific and Steven Pienaar did brilliantly after coming on; everyone stuck to it. Papy [Djilobodji] had a good game, he looked really solid.
We struggled to find a real balance with the team today, but I think everyone understands we need more players in.
The fans were brilliant; I hope they understand it’s going to take time and we have some problems at the moment that we’re trying to make better.
Thanks for your support,
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7 thoughts on “Moyes on the Boys: it’s going to take time”
If he had any self belief he would be banging the drum about how he intended to change things. No players are going to want to come to a club managed by a bloke who anticipates his own failure after two games.
He isn’t the right man for the job, and he hasn’t done a single thing since he arrived to convince me otherwise. He is an unambitious man who had ambition thrust upon him by Sir Alex Ferguson. A decade at a club who at that time had even more modest expectations than he did. Never won a trophy in almost two decades of management but got the hot seat at Old Trafford where he was totally rumbled, and then embarrassed himself at Real Sociedad. Now its our turn. His stock has fallen so low that he took on the challenge at SAFC. His own expectations are rock bottom. Same as the rest of us now. He is out of his depth with this altogether. His only real achievement in management was to get Preston out of the third tier. Not the sort of track record that indicates his tenure will end in anything other than abject failure.
JohnM
The answer seems pretty simple to me. Spend some money and buy some players .
A bit disconcerting to hear what Moyes had to tell the BBC about supporters expecting another relegation fight: “Well, they would probably be right. That’s where they’ve been every other year for the last four years so why would it suddenly change? I don’t think you can hide the facts, that will be the case, yes. People will be flat because they are hoping that something is going to dramatically change – it can’t dramatically change, it can’t.”
His pessimism might well be realism but I worry about a manager who comes across sounding almost beaten before he starts.
But if he was a Pollyanna he’d get slaughtered for either being naive or creating false expectations. We all know it’s going to be tough but I like the use of young players. Better than the usual mercenaries.
Hard to understand why people get vexed playing the Boro. They parked the bus well ….smash and grab stuff. We once again failed to do well against a newly promoted team. That said I’ve never seen so many young players in our first team. It has to be the way forward even if we occasionally get turned over like today. It’s our 10th season in the Prem…..will the Boro be able to do the same? So well done Smoggie, enjoy the honeymoon period.
Ta mate
The fans were brilliant not so much, they were walking out before the whistle and they booed the team off at half time
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Customs impounds eight smuggled vehicles in Ogun
Shulammite 'Foyeku
The Ogun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, has said four operatives of the Command were injured as the Command impounded eight second-hand vehicles and a new Toyota Hilux in communities in Idiroko border area.
The Controller of the Command, Sani Madugu, said this at the Command’s Idiroko border office while reviewing its activities in one week on Thursday.
Other smuggled vehicles impounded were Toyota Tundra, Toyota Hybrid Prius, Toyota Sienna, Golf 3, Toyota Highlander, and Toyota Hilux.
Madugu said the operatives were attacked when they went to one of the villages along the border route to effect the seizure of a Toyota Hilux hid there by smugglers.
He said the smugglers, on sighting the operatives, started hurling stones and other dangerous objects at them, and in the process, they injured four of them.
The Customs boss said, “We had an intelligence report that a new Toyota Hilux smuggled into the country from the Republic of Benin was being hid in a village along the border route.
“When our operatives got there and they wanted to recover the smuggled vehicle, the smugglers started hurling stones and other dangerous objects at them.
“In the process, four operatives were injured and the operational vehicle was also damaged.
“Two of the operatives are still receiving treatment in the hospital while the other two have been discharged.
“I don’t want to mention the name of the village because investigation is still on. We will get all those who were involved.”
Madugu also said within one week, 1,479 bags of rice, 78 kegs of 25 litres of vegetable oil and nine vehicles used as the means of conveyance, were also seized.
He said the duty payable on all the seized vehicles was N84.06m.
Madugu said the command would continue to step up its anti-smuggling activities in the state.
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Nigeria-Turkey to ramp up security and and economic cooperation
Jite Eriabie
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday agreed to ramp up security and economic cooperation between both countries.
Speaking after talks at the Turkish presidential palace, Buhari and the Turkish leader vowed to increase investment and cooperate in the fight against extremist groups including Boko Haram jihadists.
“There are a lot of potentialities in terms of investment. Already a lot is being done in the education and the health sectors,” said Buhari.
“This will be strengthened and Nigeria is prepared to receive Turkish business people to come and explore more of Nigeria’s potentialities,” he added.
Erdogan said he believed both sides would push trade volumes above $1.245 billion.
“Turkish business people are ready to take on the development of Nigeria,” he said.
At a time of tense relations with the European Union and the United States, Turkey has been moving to broaden its influence in Africa, opening new diplomatic missions and air links.
Erdogan has been a frequent visitor to the continent, most recently travelling to Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar in January.
He said Turkey saw no difference between Boko Haram and Islamic State (IS) and the group of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen blamed for the 2016 failed coup.
“These organisations are the killers who feed off the blood of the innocent,” he said.
Asked how Turkey could help Nigeria defeat Boko Haram, Erdogan replied that intelligence cooperation was of the utmost importance.
Boko Haram’s quest to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria has left at least 20,000 dead and threatened regional security.
Buhari will on Friday travel to Istanbul to attend a summit of the Developing-8 (D-8), a grouping of growing mainly-Muslim countries first envisaged by Erdogan’s late political mentor and former Turkish premier Necmettin Erbakan.
It comprises Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey.
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Two ships denied access to Paris MoU region
Two vessels have been denied access to the region covered by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control, M/V Furkan and M/V Salah Aldeen 2.
M/V Salah Aldeen 2 was detained in Tarragona, Spain on December 16, 2014. This is the third detention in the Paris MoU region within the last 36 months.
The ship flies the flag of Sierra Leone, which is black on the current Paris MoU BWG list.
M/V Furkan was detained in Castellon, Spain on December 20, 2014. This is the third detention in the Paris MoU region within the last 24 months.
The ship flies the flag of Vanatu, which is grey on the current Paris MoU BWG list.
Under the provisions of section 4 of the Paris MoU, Article 16 of EU Council Directive 2009/16/EC1, both ships will be refused further access to any port and anchorage in the Paris MOU region, except a port and anchorage of the ships’ respective flag states.
The refusal of access will become applicable immediately after the ships are authorized to leave their current ports and anchorages.
As this is the first refusal of access order, the period of the refusal of access will be 3 months for each ship.
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Immediate Edge Review. Is Immediate Edge App SCAM? For Sure!
January 11, 2021 by Stephan Lindburg
Immediate Edge Review and SCAM Investigation
Crypto is back baby, and scammers are not wasting any time! Such is the case with the Immediate Edge SCAM (AKA Immediate Edge Bot) by the fictitious Edwin James. The Immediate Edge app and automated cryptocurrency trading platform (crypto robot) is advertised as a cryptocurrency investment system which generates money for you on auto pilot. However, as our detailed Immediate Edge review will prove, after you signup a Forx or CFD broker is assigned to you, in our case it was an unlicensed broker named Infinitrade which has a registered business address in Sofia Bulgaria. And this broker is scamming customers (that’s YOU) in what is commonly referred to as a revenue share scheme. A revenue or profit share scheme is when affiliate marketers or media agencies strike a deal where they split the profits based on customer referrals. But when it comes to Immediate Edge their profit is your loss, hence the conflict of interest.
Now, when we started receiving complaints we noticed something strange. We signed up ourselves and started receiving phone calls from this broker (Infinitrade), and they were trying to convince us to join another software. Well, we thought this was highly unusual as we are usually told the software we signup for is a credible system with proven results. However, this is clearly not the case when it comes to the fraudulent Immediate Edge app. Why does this happen? Well, we started connecting the dots and immediately realized that the broker was trying to cheat the affiliate marketers out of their commissions by having them signup again with a different email account. So, as Axl Rose would say “welcome to the jungle” and enter at your own risk because you are about to get ripped off by thieving con artists who view you as their personal cash cow and will do their utmost to steal your money.
Immediate Edge Complaints: We have received about a dozen complaints about the Immediate Edge app and they are all mentioning difficulties in cashing out and the fact that Immediate Edge is a losing software. This is not a big surprise as we are very well acquainted with these types of get-rich-quick schemes and how they operate. We also got wind of another broker which is actually deeply involved in this scam and they are blacklisted by the FCA as well as ConSob in Italy for illegally providing Investment Services without proper certification. So if for some reason you feel tempted to join the losing Immediate Edge App scam, we recommend you read our detailed Immediate Edge review before you take that leap of faith and risk your hard-earned money.
Official Website, Login Page, and Members Area: Spoofed website that keeps changing constantly
Ongoing Updates:
Immediate Edge is also Being Marketed these days as “Immediate Advantage”.
This platform is also being used with a different design these days. We have added a separate section which explains why this is happening.
OK, so below we can see the first version of the Immediate Edge SCAM sales page and registration area. A closer look will reveal that it is marketed as the “world’s most intelligent crypto software” which generates $950-$2,200 daily. That’s quite a bold claim from a totally sub-standard piece of trash trading technology. But that’s just the start of it.
Immediate Edge App Registration Area (Old Version)
Immediate Edge 2021 – Multiple Versions Spotted (Updated Constantly)
And right here you can see a screenshot of the latest versions of this trending scam. One template has been recycled many times, and these days it is being used primarily for German speakers. We are unsure as to why scammers keep using this recycled template, but we have mentioned previously in many of our reviews that the con artists need to plug into a type of turnkey solution which allows them to switch logos, add a bit of content or graphics, and then launch quickly. We also spotted 4 different sites which all claim to be the official “Immediate Edge Website” and they are all confirmed scams. Below we have attached an image of another website with a different design and logo. It also claims to be the “official site”.
Immediate Edge – Multiple Versions Of The Same Scam
Recycled SCAM Evidence – Continued
And here are side-by-side screenshots we have added for you as a point of reference for comparative purposes. This is to prove that the new Immediate Edge format is a scam just like the previous one, it’s just packaged differently.
Recycled SCAM Evidence
To continue, here is the testimonial section of the original Immediate Edge scam website. Its plain to see that “Delilah Adams” is not a real person and her image was stolen from the internet for promotional purposes. We are 100% convinced that The other two characters are also fake and all the promotional content is copied and forged.
Immediate Edge App Fake Testimonials
And here is the last piece of evidence (you will not need anymore). We have marked in red 2 sections. The first says Zero Risk, and the other one says 98.9% success rate. Take these two pieces of information, put them together, and what you have is a bona fide scam and confirmed get-rich-quick scheme.
Immediate Edge App Fake Claims
What is Immediate Edge, Who IS Edwin James, and How Does The Immediate Edge App Work?
Immediate Edge is advertised as an artificial Intelligence trading app which uses state of the art algorithms to identify only profitable trends (that’s the so-called edge). Edwin James is presented to us as the owner and creator of this software. The app is supposed to scan the market for price differences.
Immediate Edge Review, Is Immediate Edge App SCAM Or Real Deal At $950 Daily?
Edwin James is the man of the hour since he discovered a way to gain an immediate edge on the market. Immediate Edge follows a deeply ingrained rule of how cryptocurrencies are traded. It’s trading algorithms allow it to buy low from one exchange and sell high to another. The profits are in the margins and that is how you are supposed to generate the income.
There is also talk about a secret and how they know the insiders, so in other words they claim to have access to inside information. In reality this could not be farther from the truth and once you signup you will get ripped off by thieving brokers.
Immediate Edge Is NOT Working With ANY Of The Major Crypto Currency Exchanges
We checked with Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Poloniex, and Bittrex. They never heard about the Immediate Edge app or Edwin James, but they did warn us that there are many systems these days making all kinds of claims about integrating with their platforms. In most cases these are swindlers illegally using the names of legitimate exchanges for promotional reasons. Some fake review websites are trying to sell you an idea about a transactional trading platform which mitigates risk. But this has nothing to do with any of the so-called “features” associated with Immediate Edge, and these sites are deliberately trying to mislead you so you would invest through their website. Don’t believe it for a second!
Immediate Edge Just Made the FCA Blacklist
Immediate Edge has just been officially blacklisted by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom and effective immediately labeled as a scam (better late than never). For those of you who are not aware, the FCA is the official licensing body for all financial firms, instruments, or services which are provided for residents of the United Kingdom. We believe that this will cause a domino effect now and other legal entities such as ASIC or BaFin will follow this trend and update this section of our review when relevant. Scammers are always trying to evade the negative exposure, so they simply switched domains but kept the actual name of Immediate Edge Bot since it suited their needs.
Immediate Edge Blacklisted by The FCA
Fake Immediate Edge Reviews – There Are Many!
We have spotted multiple fake Immediate Edge Reviews. Originally when we published our article we could not find any, but now there are more than 8 confirmed fake reviews which are endorsing the Immediate Edge app in order to receive affiliate commissions. We honestly want to know how the owners of these websites feel now that the cat is officially “out of the bag” after the recent FCA scam alert and everyone can see just how biased their reviews are. So if you believe something isn’t quite right just stop and take a minute to think things over. If you need additional information simply reach out and let us know immediately.
Fake Immediate Edge Reviews
Other Viral Scams Trending
The scams to watch out for are Bitcoin Up and Bitcoin Profit.
Immediate Edge Fake News (Updated Daily)
It seems that despite the Facebook blanket ban on all CFDs (contracts for difference) advertising some scammers managed to slip between the cracks. The image below illustrates how advertisers in Poland were able to launch this fake news campaign and started baiting new victims using fake celebrity endorsements. Other fake news articles related to Immediate Edge include Gordon Ramsay, members of the Shark Tank, Dragons’ Den, Elon Musk, Stromae, Jim Pattison, Yvonne Catterfeld, Gert Verhulst, Ben Yeo, Richard Branson, Per Gessle, Celeste Barber, Jan Guillou, Paul McCartney, Robert Gustafsson, Harry and Meghan, Singapore Billionaire Peter Lim, Celeste Barber, Dick Smith, and other famous actors and politicians are also illegally used for promotional purposes.
Immediate Edge Fake News
Still Trust Immediate Edge App?
It happens, we all get tempted and for some reason connect to something without any logic. If this is the case and after reading our Immediate Edge review you still want to invest then you need to treat this little adventure as a type of gamble and as every gambler knows the house always wins.
Quick Update: Immediate Edge has been cloned and is also being marketed these days as Immediate Bitcoin.
A Few Alternatives That Really Work
OK so if you are searching for the real thing you need look no more. Our staff constantly tests new systems and every once in a while we identify a genuine trading software which actually delivers as promised. Once we conclude that the system generates profits consistently we add it to our recommended section, so take a minute and check it out!
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Immediate Edge Review, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Avoid the Immediate Edge SCAM app, software, and fraudulent trading platform. There are no signals or trading dashboard, its all just a bunch of hot air designed to get you signed up and trading with an offshore broker. Our research staff was able to produce more than enough evidence of scam, but if you feel you need more then please message us via our contact page or through our social media.
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Ross Hamilton says
Both Facebook and Twitter keep posting sponsored posts that link to Immediate Edge, Bitcoin Revolution and Bitcoin Profit scams. The ones appearing in my feed include what I believe to be fraudulent references to Australian media and other personalities. Today, May 15, at approximately 21:15 Australian Eastern Time, I found the latest of these which makes direct reference to what is almost a fraudulent claim to being featured on the Australian television show, Sunrise, which features a financial consultant David Koch. There is not a hope in hell that Koch would ever have anything to do with such scams. A few days ago they claimed to have shown their wonderful products on the Australian television show, Studio 10, making direct reference to the show’s lead host, Sarah Harris. I tweeted Ms Harris alerting her to it and she swiftly responded with the statement “Utter crap! Abort! Abort!” But try and lodge a complaint with either Facebook or Twitter about it! Yet both Facebook and Twitter presumably continue to pocket money from posting these ‘sponsored’ posts. Apparently making money is more important to Facebook and Twitter than eliminating fraud and scams.
Stephan Lindburg says
Hi Ross. These are exactly the kinds of comments we are looking for. Thanks for sharing.
Tomas says
Dziękuje bardzo za Twoją opinię – Thank you very much for your opinion.
I am considering compiling a dossier of their posts and passing it to the Feds.
Whoops – just realised I said ‘today’ is May 15. It is of course May 17.
DENANCE Fabrice says
100% scam indeed.
Another big scam is Scyllacoin Digital Payment.
Avoid it or you will lose all your money!
Hi Denance, you are correct. Immediate Edge is a horrible scam so make sure to avoid it.
Daniel G. says
There’s a big SPAM wave now, advertising for this scam in Germany and other german speaking countries. They claim, the inventors of this system were two german IT guys who appeared at the german version of shark-tank/dragon’s-den. A fake site, resembling the “Bild”, the largest german tabloid paper tells the potential investors about the TV appearance and how the airing of this presentation was allegedly forbidden by the german government, All is fake, All is lies.
Hi Daniel. Thanks for sharing
Theo says
Hello, I saw a fake news article with Per Gessle after looking for a way to make some money with Bitcoin. Inside there were some links and as you have said in your review they lead to Immediate Edge which was in Swedish. I lost 600 Euros and they keep calling me, someone name Karl Kennerman who sounding very convincing until I saw your review about Immediate Edge and that it is a scam. It’s a shame I did not read it before so it too late for me now right?
Hi Theo, thank you for sharing this is important information for our members to read about Immediate Edge. Stephan
Hugo says
Hello from lovely Gothenburg Sweden. I also have been cheated out of €1,000 after seeing a fake news article with Per Gessle who said he had a system for making money with Bitcoin. It’s a shame I didn’t check this review about Immediate Edge first as now I know it is a scam. They keep calling me and I refuse to invest more until I see some kind of return but I lost everything so yes you are right these people are liars and I feel very humiliated and frustrated now.
Hi Hugo, The sad thing is that there are many fake Immediate Edge reviews and they are not being truthful about this fake software. I’m sorry you lost your money. Stephan
Dieter says
Hello, I received an email which invited me to join a trading group on Telegram. They started training us but after about 30 minutes they told us to signup for Immediate Edge in order to speed things up. Thankfully I have researched this and ended up on your website, so thank you for this information.
Hi Dieter, thanks for sharing. S
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Schwalb Entertainment’s web store will be closing on December 26th. Changes in how the UK handles digital transactions internationally compounded by similar steps taken by the EU by the middle of 2021 have created an insurmountable obstacle for a company of my size. It is, with a heavy heart, that I am closing down this aspect of my business. However, I am not going anywhere! You can still find all of Schwalb Entertainment’s products on DriveThruRPG. Some answers to likely questions follow.
What about the PDFs I’ve already purchased from the SE store?
I will be keeping FetchApp open throughout the first quarter of 2021 (March 31), giving you plenty of time to download your PDFs and store them in whatever way you choose.
What does this mean for Shadow of the Demon Lord, Weird Wizard, et al?
Business continues as usual! The only difference is that existing and new products will be offered exclusively through DriveThruRPG.
What about physical products for Shadow of the Demon Lord, et al?
You can still order print on demand copies of nearly all of our sizable releases from DriveThruRPG and you can order offset products–Shadow of the Demon Lord and PunkApocalyptic from our partners at Studio 2 Publishing.
If you have additional questions, feel free to send emails to info@schwalbentertainment.com or find us on Facebook and Twitter.
December 10, 2020 /by Schwalb Entertainment
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Weird Tales: An Introduction
The Genesis of the Game
Anyone who’s been following me for the last few years probably knows that I’ve been tinkering with a family-friendly version of Shadow of the Demon Lord. Work began on this not long after the Demon Lord clawed its way out of my head and at first, I had planned to go the easy route: scrub out all the dick and fart and poop jokes, drop in a new setting, clean up the rules in a few places, and then push go. But what would have been the point, really? You can play Shadow of the Demon Lord without it being fantasy Evil Dead or something far more serious and darker. I put the tone on a dial on purpose so you can crank it up to Kult levels of nasty or down to the point that you’d almost expect to find happy halflings chewing on pipes, singing songs, and following Stormcrow along the road to adventure.
Add to this that I built the system to deliver horror. The game was supposed to be hard. Adventures challenge your characters and death happens. Can you imagine a version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which everyone survives and has a laugh after unmasking Leatherface? Demon Lord can accommodate groups who want more Scooby Doo than Hellraiser, but that all takes a fair bit of Game Master involvement.
Making the next cool game was not going to be as simple as a bit of spit and polish. It was going to take a fundamental redesign of the underlying math and a rebuild of everything to match. That’s a lot of work, yes, but surely it shouldn’t have taken this long, right? Right. I shopped this game around to audiences at conventions over the last few years in one form or other. It’s been called Shadow of the Witch King, Free Companies of Four Towers, Shadow of the Mad Wizard: and there have been an untold number of tweaks and changes to nudge this product closer to the finish line. During this time, I have released another game, continued to support Demon Lord, and enjoyed all the curve balls life has had to throw my way. But I have made progress. Am I done yet? Not quite. But I’m close.
I still need to deal with expert and master paths, and run them through testing. Some of you will get to help with that. Others will have to wait. Sorry. I’m not Wizards of the Coast or Paizo. But I’ll be showing off stuff here in the coming weeks and months and you’ll have a chance to participate in the discussion on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and wherever else you say glowing things about me to strangers in the internets’ tubes.
The World of the Wizard
This is already longer than it should be, so let me give you a snapshot of what the setting’s like and then we’ll move on with other posts about specific aspects of the game. The changes I made and the reasons for those changes.
Civilization has grown and fallen at least twice before. The first place it fell is a faraway place known as the Devastation. It’s a place of nightmare, fire, and death. Don’t go there. The second place is the Old Country, which was dominated by the Great Kingdom. Unfortunately, the Lord Commander of the Paladins murdered the Pontifex of the High One, burned the Cathedral of Hope, and ended the royal line. These actions plunged the kingdom into a civil war that’s still raging. Not the best place to hang your hat.
People flee the Old Country in droves, seeking refuge in a place known as the Lands of the Weird Wizard, a mysterious, eccentric, bearded fellow whose reckless use of magic has made these New Lands rather strange and mysterious. It’s not an ideal place to rebuild, but it’s the best hope anyone has. Best of all, the Weird Wizard hasn’t been seen for years and is thought to have withdrawn to the Clockwork City, which rises from a blasted, shattered plane, under a sky that burns and in which drift chunks of rock crawling with weird things.
Your characters are among the refugees looking to start again having escaped the troubles in the Old Country. You likely begin in the Borderlands, a stretch of territory that forms a band between the Old Country and new and set out on expeditions into the unknown to blaze a trail for settlers. You might battle strange monsters, explore old ruins of faerie cities, broker peace with orc tribes, find treasure, and, maybe, eventually, become renowned enough that you can carve out places for yourselves to rule.
That’s it for now. More to come. Hail!
August 10, 2020 /by Schwalb Entertainment
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Ionic Conduction Model in Salted Chitosan Membranes Plasticized with Fatty Acid
M.Z.A. Yahya , A.M.M. Ali , M.F. Mohammat , M.A.K.M. Hanafiah , M. Mustaffa , S.C. Ibrahim , Z.M. Darus and M.K. Harun
In this study, chitosan was used as the host with lithium acetate (LiOAc) as the doping salt and Palmitic Acid (PA) and Oleic Acid (OA) as plasticizers. The highest conducting film containing salt has composition 55 wt. % CA and 45 wt. % LiOAc. Complexation between chitosan and the salt can be proven by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) method. The NH2 and O = C-NHR vibrations which can be observed at 1580 and 1655 cm-1 shift to lower wavenumbers when the complexes are formed. In this study, other than the salt, plasticizers are also added to the polymer with the aim of enhancing the electrical conductivity of the polymer, the mixing of these three components could lead to some interactions for the formation of the polymer electrolyte with its own unique properties. Hence, apart from justifying the occurrence of complexation, it is also essential to know the possible interactions between the salt and plasticizer, the plasticizer and the polymer and within the polymer-salt-plasticizer system. With such knowledge, a model of the polymer-salt and plasticizer system could be devised which might be able to explain the electrolytic property of the sample, in particular, the ion conducting mechanism.
XRD and Surface Morphology Studies on Chitosan-Based Film Electrolytes
M.Z.A. Yahya , M.K. Harun , A.M.M. Ali , M.F. Mohammat , M.A.K.M. Hanafiah , S.C. Ibrahim , M. Mustaffa , Z.M. Darus and F. Latif
Chitosan was used as the host polymer with lithium acetate (LiOAc) as the doping salt and Palmitic Acid (PA) and Oleic Acid (OA) as plasticizers. The highest conductivity value was obtained for film containing salt 55 wt. % CA and 45 wt. % LiOAc. At this composition, the surface of the film shows clusters of needle or dendrite-like structures. The x-ray diffractogram shows peaks at 2θ = 16°, 21°, 26° and 31° attributed to the salt. The peaks are small and relatively broad in comparison to sample with equal amounts of polymer and salt. The surface of the film shows that the salt has recrystallized out of the film. This could reduce the number of mobile lithium ions in the film and thus lower the conductivity of this sample. Both films formed from solution containing 1.0 g chitosan +0.20 g oleic acid and containing 1.0 g chitosan +0.40 g oleic acid have a porous surface. Such films could be suitable as a separator for lithium ion cells. This surface morphology is different from those films obtained from a solution containing 1.0 g chitosan +0.40 g ethylene carbonate. The highest conducting OA plasticized film contains 50 wt. % CA, 40 wt. % LiOAc and 10 wt. % OA. The surface looks soft and spongy with tunnel-like structures.
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Midday Science Cafe
Expanding the Frontiers of Biofuels: Algae’s Rise as an Alternative Energy Source
Thursday, November 19th | 12pm – 1:30pm
Dr. Melissa Roth
Research Biologist
Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology
Dr. Sara Calhoun
Joint Genome Institute
Algae are more than just the gooey stuff at the bottom of your fish tank. Algae can be used as a sustainable alternative energy source. At this Midday Science Cafe, you’ll learn how studying the regulation of photosynthesis and metabolism of algae — the process and rate at which sunlight and carbon is used to produce energy — can help provide green strategies for biofuels and bioproducts. In addition, you’ll learn how scientists use genome sequencing to characterize algae and select for traits ideal for bioenergy and biotech applications
Dr. Melissa Roth is an interdisciplinary physiologist and ecologist studying photosynthetic organisms, symbiosis and global change. She is interested in how the environment shapes life, in life that shapes the environment. Her research seeks to understand how dynamic abiotic factors such as light, temperature, and nutrients affect organisms and their biology. Melissa leads a small group at UC Berkeley that focuses on how algae sense, respond and adapt to a changing environment with applications towards using algae for sustainable development of bioproducts and biofuels. Her group uses a variety of approaches from molecular biology to laboratory experiments to field studies to investigate ecological factors and provide solutions to mitigate environmental problems. Melissa is a two-time US National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. Melissa loves being immersed in nature, adventuring with her family, and experiencing the world through the eyes of her kids.
Dr. Sara Calhoun is a postdoctoral bioinformatics researcher in the Fungal and Algal Genomics group at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) researching algae for their potential as biofuel production strains. At the JGI, she collaborates on large-scale projects with researchers across the world to sequence the genomes of novel algal strains. With computational tools, she analyzes diverse datasets from genomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics to understand regulation and metabolism in algae. Prior to joining the JGI, she received a BS in bioengineering from University of Washington and a PhD in biophysics from UC San Francisco. For her PhD studies, she developed a method to predict the function of unknown genes in microbes. Outside of work, she enjoys attending ballet classes, hiking, and playing with her cat.
Brought to you by UC Berkeley’s Science at Cal and Berkeley Lab’s Government & Community Relations Office, “Midday Science Cafe” is a new virtual series that highlights compelling and complementary scientific research from both institutions. Grab your lunch and join us for some great science and discussion; questions are encouraged! This webinar will be recorded. If you require captioning to access a pre-recorded event, please contact Dione Rossiter at scienceatcal@berkeley.edu. Please expect 7-10 days for captioning to be provided.
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MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS – June 1, 2017 – While consumers enjoy ice cream, cheese and milk this June as part of Dairy Month, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) leadership and staff will be working to protect local dairy farms.
“New England has a rich history of dairy farming,” said MFBF President Ed Davidian, who farms in Northborough. “As such, it is the job of Farm Bureau to ensure those farms are not overburdened with regulations or heavy taxation. By lobbying on behalf of these farmers, we allow them to spend more time farming.”
MFBF supports the following bills that impact local dairy farms:
HB 2616 – An Act relative to the Dairy Farm Tax Credit – Representative Kulik;
HB 441 – An Act to promote the care and well-being of livestock – Representative Kulik;
HB 181 – An Act relative to updating the plumbing code in order to accommodate agricultural uses – Representative Mirra;
“Farm Bureau understands that dairy farming in New England is challenging financially, with the cost of producing milk sometimes exceeding the price paid to dairy farmers,” Davidian said. “These bills will help Massachusetts dairy farmers remain functional and hopefully profitable. Please join us as a member to help us maintain a healthy dairy industry in the Commonwealth.”
For more information on MFBF’s policy priorities, please visit http://www.farmbureau.co/legislative-priority/. To join online and show your support for the dairy industry, please visit http://www.farmbureau.co/online-application/.
The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation is a non-profit organization representing nearly 6,000 family members across the Commonwealth. MFBF is an advocate for farmers, run by farmer members who develop policies through its grassroots process. Its mission is “to protect the rights, encourage the growth, and be of service to its members, in the best interest of agriculture.”
For more information about the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation, please visit www.mfbf.net.
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February 20, 2016 April 9, 2016
Chapter 86: The First Cannon Fodder
Zhu Yao still maintained that dazed look, as though she could no longer hear anything or anyone at all.
Yet, from all around, more and more things were being swept into this outbreak, and from the looks of it, it was becoming even more rampant.
A cold voice, suddenly sounded from the horizon.
“Yu Wang!”
The dazed Zhu Yao suddenly jolted, and all of the anomaly, stopped at that very instant. She turned her head blankly, as she looked at that white figure, who looked as though he was walking over step by step from the far horizon.
Bit by bit, his figure slowly showed itself in her eyes, until that person raised his hand, and lightly pressed it on her head.
“Mas… ter.” As though her strings had been reattached, tears began to fall, drop by drop.
Yu Yan squatted down, hugged her in his embrace, and said in a low voice. “Don’t cry.”
As though she had been reminded of it, Zhu Yao hugged his neck, and burst out in tears. With her loudest voice, she screamed out with all her might. As though she wanted to cry out her lifetime worth of tears.
“Little wimp… little wimp…”
“I know, I know.” Yu Yan stroked her head, and said with the gentlest voice he ever had in his whole life.
“I don’t want to kill people… I have never thought of that before… Over there, ever since we’re young, our teachers teach us, to be kind, to be brave, to be good people…”
“Mn, I believe you.”
“But… I really can’t hold it in any longer. I wish to destroy everything! Everything!”
“Be obedient, you’re tired, sleep.”
Yu Yan raised his head and looked towards the nearby Sesame. Understanding his thoughts, in a flash, its figure entered Zhu Yao’s divine sense.
“Master, I’m so upset…” Her voice sank, she seemed to be extremely tired out.
Then, he lifted her hand, and circulated his spiritual energy, erasing the curse that was imprinted on it.
“Sleep, master will come to wake you up.”
Zhu Yao simply felt a sudden giddiness, and her vision instantly blackened.
At that moment, she saw that familiar conversation window.
Zhu Yao was stunned for quite a while, and simply felt her mind was completely blank. After a long while, she sighed in hindsight. So she was already dead quite some time ago.
That was understandable. For someone who was so afraid of pain like her, how could she endure so many days of brutal torture? Most probably, she was already tortured to death a few days ago. Xiao Yi and Rui Yu had simply prevented her from using that so-called ‘divine item’ to “takeover” someone’s body again.
They sealed her soul in her body, and it was unable to come out. However, how could they have known that she had never taken over anyone’s body? Although she was unclear of the reason, for every body she resurrected into, basically none of them had a former owner. As though those bodies had appeared out of thin air.
Zhu Yao looked at that conversation window. Probably because it knew that her mood wasn’t good, the notification wasn’t as provocative as the previous two times.
There was only a single, simple sentence written.
Do you wish to resurrect?
Of course, there was only a single option, “Yes”.
Sighing deeply, Zhu Yao felt as though she was about to suffocate from that deep sorrow pressing down on her in the depths of her heart. “I’m feeling very uncomfortable, I want to calm down for a moment. Is that possible?”
The conversation window paused for a moment. However, it did not behave like it did in the past, refreshing itself wildly right after receiving her objection. Rather, it shook about, and the words on it disappeared. A single, simple word replaced them.
She gave her thanks, and then, that conversation window disappeared. The view in front of her changed to the scene at the moment after her death. She looked at it a little numbly.
When Xiao Yi saw that his matters had been exposed, naturally, he wanted to run.
Yu Yan rooted the two of them to the ground.
Feng Yi, however, appeared at this moment. Zhu Yao thought that she was here to save her disciple, however, she looked straight at the corpse in Yu Yan’s hands, her eyes were filled with sorrow.
In the next instant, she actually raised her hand and slapped Xiao Yi. Naturally, he had no strength to resist.
“Master~” Xiao Yi’s face was filled with disbelief, as though he had never expected that his beloved and respected master would act against him.
“You betrayed the sect, and killed a fellow member of the same sect. You have even hooked yourself with a heretic practitioner. As of today, you’re no longer a disciple of mine.” Feng Yi once again waved her hand, erasing the mark of a personal succeeding disciple on his forehead, and also, forcefully retrieving the Metal Spirit from his body.
“They forced me!” Xiao Yi clenched his teeth, and wanted to resist, however, he was pressed strongly onto the ground by Yu Yan’s pressure. Adding that in that outbreak earlier, the Metal Spirit had strangely wanted to charge out of his body in the first place, hence currently, retrieving it was an easy feat.
The red Metal Spirit struggled a bit in Feng Yi’s hands, as though it wanted to return to Xiao Yi’s body. Feng Yi laughed coldly. “The Metal Spirit is supposed to be purest of gold in color, yet in your hands, it had turned into a sinister red. Only someone who possesses the quality of a devil is able to bring up such a Metal Spirit. Did someone else force you to do that as well?”
Xiao Yi was startled, as though he had just realized this problem. He had always thought that the color of the Metal Spirit was irregular, and believed that it turned out this way because it had taken his blood, and recognized him as its owner. The quality of a devil? How could he possess the quality of a devil?
Feng Yi no longer bothered to look at him, hugged her fist, and spoke to Yu Yan. “Senior-martial uncle Yu Yan, he killed a fellow member of the same sect, a crime of the extremely heinous degree. Now, I shall hand him and the Metal Spirit to senior-martial uncle, and have senior-martial uncle pass the verdict.”
Yu Yan reached his hand out to take the Metal Spirit from her hands. Frowning, he circulated his spiritual energy and strongly grasped it. Flashes of lightning appeared in his hand, in an instant, the Metal Spirit turned into countless of golden light particles, and disappeared. A devil-corrupted Metal Spirit could not be left in the world, so he allowed it to return to the normal metal spiritual energy flow.
At the instant when the Metal Spirit disappeared, the BUG on Xiao Yi’s face instantly disappeared without a trace as well.
After Yu Yan dealt with the Metal Spirit, he turned his head towards Xiao Yi’s direction, his expression instantly turned as cold as ice. Taking a deep breath, as though he was strongly suppressing the anger in his heart, he waved his hand, and a ray of white light struck into Xiao Yi’s body. Xiao Yi simply felt the spiritual energy in his body dispersing, and he was no longer able to accumulate them.
“I have already destroyed his Spiritual Vein and Dantian, henceforth, there’s no possibility of him ever cultivating into a deity.” That stupid disciple of his had always been soft, and could not bear to take lives. If he were to kill him now, once she regained her senses, she might regret it. “As for that heretic practitioner, similarly, her cultivation has been dispersed. Hand her over to Zi Mo to deal with.”
After saying that, he once again looked at the breathless Zhu Yao in his embrace. In a flash, his figure disappeared.
Zhu Yao took a deep breath. Xiao Yi was no longer a BUG, so her mission was accomplished. However, she was unable to feel happy in her heart at all.
Suddenly, the scenery in front of her changed once again. What appeared was a mountain and lush green fields. Beneath the mountain, there were plots of farmland which she was rather familiar with.
Wasn’t that the little mountain village she was at when she crossed over?
“Stop there, you stinky brat, let’s see where you will run off to!” A man was waving a small wooden pole as he charged out of the house, chasing after a child, who was running around the fields.
That was Doctor Wang!
Zhu Yao jolted. Then that person he’s chasing was…
She looked towards that little child, and as expected, it was Wang Xuzhi when she was young. Zhu Yao was agitated, and wanted to step forward to greet them, yet, she suddenly recalled she was in a spiritual state, and they were unable to see her at all.
The only thing she could do was stand at a side and watch them. A moment later, the scenery changed. She saw that running youth growing up bit by bit, as he turned into a big boy.
He was no longer rowdy and mischievous, instead, he was diligently learning medical techniques from Doctor Wang.
That’s not right? Wang Xuzhi had already went with her to cultivate into a deity when he was ten, how could he be learning medical techniques? Could it be… This was his original path in life?
Zhu Yao hurriedly ran back to the Widow Zhu’s house. As she had thought, the widow did not have a daughter, and was alone.
The scenery in front of her changed once again. Wang Xuzhi slowly gained achievements with his medical techniques, and was famous far and wide. Many people came over to visit him for medical treatment.
After another few years, he married a wife, and had a wonderful family. Zhu Yao was happy for him as well. However, the good days did not last, as his personality was too stubborn, and had offended the dignitaries.
An argument happened between him and his wife.
The scene once again changed. He was lying on his sickbed, however, no one was safeguarding by his side. Even his wife’s figure could not be seen. After looking around for a moment, she saw his wife, currently packing up, and leaving the house without even turning back for a look.
And Wang Xuzhi who had crawled up from the bed, was currently looking at his own wife from afar, as he let out a sigh.
And then, she saw Wang Xuzhi taking his last breath as he laid on the bed. He was merely thirty six years old.
So this was Wang Xuzhi’s original path?
The scenery she saw before her once again changed. She arrived at a dark and scary place. Zhu Yao was startled for a moment, however, she saw a figure, as translucent as a ghost, currently crossing a bridge.
Was this the Underworld told in legends?
Zhu Yao’s guess was correct, and in the next moment, she saw Wang Xuzhi’s soul. Similarly, no matter how much she shouted, he was unable to hear her at all.
He was simply looking blankly as he crossed that bridge.
And then, he saw a crying male infant. Was this… reincarnation?
Zhu Yao inspected her surroundings. Looking at the degree of luxury, it should be a family with a pretty good background.
A moment later, a gorgeous woman came over. She carried him up and coaxed him softly. There was a man behind her as well, and he was currently looking at his own wife and child with an affectionate expression.
Simply with a single glance, one could feel that this was a beautiful family.
Zhu Yao stood there quietly for a few moments, and then, she sighed deeply. She didn’t know what to say? Was the person, who got her to cross over to this place, trying to get her to let go by telling her all these?
But, so what? Even if he was initially only able to live for thirty six years, she had, after all, already changed his life. In the end, he died because of her as well. To her, this was reality.
How could she use things that never happened, to let go of the things that had already happened?
The people of this world, kept talking about deity cultivation, and more deity cultivation. But after cultivating into a deity, so what? In the end, everyone was still as greedy, as haughty, and some of them were even more brutal than regular people, as they held no regard for human life.
She once again lowered her head and glanced at the cradle. She could not see Wang Xuzhi’s facial appearance from that baby at all. She did not know why, but she could not help but feel sad.
So what if he reincarnated? Only Wang Xuzhi himself could be Wang Xuzhi. Even if he reincarnated, even if he were to look the same when he grow up, he would not be the same little wimp as before.
She had never approved of things like three lives, reincarnations and connected fates. With different experiences, and different feelings, how could they be considered as the same person?
That resurrection conversation window once again appeared in front of her, she knew that she had ran out of time. There was another BUG waiting for her at the cultivation world, however, she completely did not have the slightest bit of will to move at all.
Taking a deep breath, she tapped on that “Yes” button. She then closed her eyes, and waited for her resurrection this time.
At that moment when she closed her eyes, a string of red words appeared on the screen.
“A great emotional problem has occurred to the target. Emergency Response Measure Activated.”
Thanks for the chapter, but I wonder what the Emergency response will be…
chibi says:
Zhu Yao is one of the few “hero summoned to another world” that doesn’t go wild and loose her senses, and master respect it……. and she should actually have asked for her master to do that thing since the beginning…….
Now I’m looking forward her next incarnation~ since they’ve already said it will be an unusual one~
Thanks for the translation~!
I’m willing to bet, that she is going to learn absolutely nothing from this experience.
I hope I’m wrong, but the sad pattern of so many web-novels proves otherwise.
Nadia Syeda says:
Oh, that’s true…but maybe she’ll learn better. You can be in for a pleasant surprise.
Yi Yan's 100000th Disciple says:
ooooooh Thanks for the Chapter, Emergency Response? Ohohohohoho What is going to happening
Good chapter. Loved the payback. IMO, author is moving the pace too fast with the story, he can take time to flesh things out. Like here, whole plot was closed in 1 small chapter. That’s fast!
Well, its same with most web novels so I cant really complain. But this is good and interesting story.
ANIMEPLEX says:
That was only the first bug. There are more bugs to come.
And who knows maybe there will be reunited reincarnation in the future 😉 nudge nudge
…Excuse me, you wanted MORE of Xiao Yi? Seriously? o_0
I thought we just all wanted him to fuck off and die, never to be seen again. I think it’s awesome that we’re skipping over that cunt and wrapping things up, there are better things to focus on…Evidently, like Zhu Yao’s emotional distress.
Give, her nihilistic mentality seems to be a bit stupid (“What’s the point of protecting a world in which people are violent and greedy” — wow, talking about making a blanket statement, she can say that about every human culture) — but at least her nihilism takes the plot forward in a logical direction.
She can’t always be the happy-go-lucky that doesn’t think for shit. She ignored the signs and was unwilling to kill off Xiao Yi, and now suffered the consequences, and she’s aware of it. Hopefully, we’ll actually see her trying to move on with that in mind.
alzamer2 says:
this was sad one
i hope the system dont do any thing for her
…I’m pretty sure the system is going to do the opposite.
Like — resurrecting Wimp alongside with her, reversing the time-causation-effect thingy to make reality convenient for her.
Hopefully it won’t be something silly like “Let her go back a month back in time”.
broken heroine? (Ｔ▽Ｔ)
starvenus says:
I wonder how the system dealing with her emotional breakdown.
Turn her into ‘Data’ ? lol
This chapter is just so sad T.T
-_- seriously? He isn’t dead? Emotional break down how’s that gonna jive?
bobolander says:
chamchaworld says:
Xiao Yi punishment still too light. Someone need to torture him. Too bad Yu Yan respected Zhu Yao’s kindness.
So little wimp is already got reincarnated? I guess the next Zhu Yao reincarnation is something cute, like cat or little dragon.
Or maybe a message crane.
Why do I feel like this is a spoiler :p ? Just something about how off that last idea is… X3.. I’m all for a cat girl though : 3
Or a literal cat who has a split tail allowing them to live like a Nekomata switching between Cat form and Human form
Please don’t focus on punishment and revenge after this chapter. Just read it as is.
I think it’s pretty poetic that when he finally acted against Zhu Yao, he got the punishment she had initially saved him from.
Also, he lost everything: the girls, the cultivation, his master… even his own illusion of goodness certainly took a hit from the “devil” part.
And I agree with anon – rather than punishment I want to think of poor Zhu Yao.
It’s the best kind of punishment for people like Xiao Yi.
Turn him into mortal; no OP, no cultivate, no woman. Also the realization that his metal spirit is a twisted one that turn into devil was good. His illusion grandeur is destroyed.
J4n1 says:
It’s the type of punishment i really wish more stories would use.
Strip them of everything they hold dear, and then destroy their self worth, and leave em to live a long, miserable life, wanting nothing but forgiveness, and never getting it.
Sure, not for every villain, especially not the ones that could come back and hurt someone, but it would be nice to see more of it instead of simple “kill/forgive/ignore” often seen in fiction.
diffy2 says:
My life was stripped of everything I hold dear, and my self worth was destroyed long ago, I never gain forgiveness from anyone either. What did I do to deserve this punishment? 😦 also can’t reply directly to j4n1 weird..
Xiao Yi does not need to be tormented and tortured. He needs to die. Period.
If a rapist is caught, you don’t rape him back. You acknowledge the fact he/she is an insane person that cannot be fixed, so you put a bullet through their head.
The reason we kill people, is because they obstruct us or because we believe we’re preventing greater evils in the future that way. Torturing people will not help us gain any of that.
If you believe someone is evil and should be killed, just kill them. Do not lower yourself to their level. Be better then the insane psychopath.
I feel stupid that I have to point that out, but seriously: Try to be a better human being than a psychopath who tortures people for fun.
RainCloud says:
Thanks for the chapter!! Though this chapter is a little sad but at the end another unexpected thing happened!! (well, it’s not surprising anymore) But I’m still a little excited (well actually, a lot exactly) for the next chapter!! Will ZY reincarnate or not because of this ‘Emergency Response Measure’?
booya says:
How I longed for this moment : ) thank you for the chapters
Daybreak says:
“Emergency Response Measure Activated.”
“Comfort blanket and hot-chocolate deployed, please watch these puppies frolic about for 15 minutes before reincarnating.”
OMG THANK YOU FOR THE LAUGHS. And feels.
omfg. xD…
Why did that just remind me of Invader Zim.
“Deploying hot choco!”
Moe_Ronn says:
Much thanks.
Thor says:
Gosh, that was sad. Bravo.
mukurua says:
4.0!!!! woohoo!!
Sarang says:
Ahh at first I thought that the girl bug and Yu Wang would grow up together but because she delayed her reincarnation she’s probably gonna very younger than her? Also the possibility that she can reincarnate into a grown up in guess.. hmm how many years have passed I wonder. Can’t wait for next chapter!!!
Crombat Monta says:
Yay! Xiao Yi finally got some punishment. Not as much as I would have like, but at least it’s something.
Sicill says:
He’s leaving the cultivation world the same way he came in, as a powerless beggar.
True. That will be a painful future for him.
It’s poetic, in that and in the fact that this is the exact same as the first punishment she saved him from.
Zeenu says:
Finally, the first time I’m commenting after reading this……. Hmm…….. thank you~
This was an emotional chapter.
aesya says:
i hope she reincarnate as a cute puppy that help the little bug infant!
Taxman says:
For some reason I feel like the emergency response will be something like giving her new body large breasts since it was always denied to her in all the other forms. Silly, I know, but the kind of silliness that this story seems willing to go for.
Uh… what? I think I might of been reading something different this entire time. Oh well? I found something new to read!
Ma-master… Master is… So precious… TT TT
Little wimp~~~ I will miss you so bad~ Be happy in this next life~ TT TT
Omg. What will the system do to Zhu Yao?? Please comfort her~ TT TT
I hope that emergency response is the revival of little wimp. Even if he gets reincarnated though, without his memories, i will still feel tons lonely. Will surely miss him…
Wnia says:
There’s a slight chance of loosing memories here. Nooo! That shouldn’t happen.
libraryrocker says:
Somehow… I still don’t want Xiao Yi to be gone from the plot. More needs to happen to him!! He’s got to change his mind!!
Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!
Ritsuru says:
*Sheds some tears* Thanks!
This is so sad I just cry for her and I can feel your sorrow. Thank you very much for that chapter I want to see what happens in the next chapter can not wait for it thank you.
The only thing I can say is that you are AMAZING! Thank you sososo SO much for these updates!! m(_ _)m
(╥︿╥) Wang Xuzhi died…? I held a bit of hope that her master would bring him back with whatever method he was going to use on her the first time she died, but I guess it was inevitable.
*Sigh* Xiao Yi is the one type of person that I can’t handle. I’ll rather fly to another country than deal with someone like him…. (;¬_¬)
Zhu Yao 4.0 yay!
I missed you Little wimp I will never forget you bye bye
Noooo! Not Little Wimp!
Thanks for the chapter T-T
Ello…is there chapter 87 coz i can’t find it.I really love ur translation and I’ve finished 3 volume for 2 days XD.Trying to find chapter 87 in ARC 4 but its nothing in there D:
The feels… T_T
Awww! Poor Ajumma!
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Cloud outage report of 13 providers reveals downtime costs
A new report on cloud resiliency calculates average system availability at "three nines," which could cost cloud providers in more ways than one.
Stuart J. Johnston, Senior News Writer
Amazon's cloud services downtime earlier this month annoyed some AWS customers but beyond that, it raised the question of how expensive cloud outage downtime can be.
This week, a study group called the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) released its first Availability Ranking of World Cloud Computing report. The working group was formed in March by two Paris-based higher educational institutions, Telecom ParisTech and Paris 13 University.
The report's bottom line isn't pretty. It estimates the average unavailability of cloud services at 10 hours per year or more, while the average availability is estimated to 99.9% or less.
"It is extremely far from the expected reliability of mission-critical systems (99.999%) ... The cost of these failures amounts to more than $70 million [US] based on hourly costs accepted in the industry," the report states.
The two-page report attempts to cover outages of some 13 providers annually since 2007. On the list are Amazon, PayPal, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter, among others.
Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) came in eighth with 24 hours of outages -- but those outages occurred in 2009. Notably, the chart does not include any downtime from last year's highly publicized AWS outage, despite the report's claim that it only tracked outages that appeared in the news or press releases. The AWS outage earlier this month was too recent to have been counted in this report.
Microsoft, which was ninth on the list, shows outages of 24 hours in 2009 and seven hours in 2011. That gave AWS an availability rating of 99.954% versus Microsoft with 99.941%. What's more, the report figures the outages cost AWS and Microsoft, $4.3 million and $6.2 million, respectively.
In 2011, Research in Motion Limited had 72 hours of outages to its BlackBerry network of $14.4 million or availability of 99.86%.
The biggest loser, according to the report, was hosting provider OVH. Based in Roubaix, France, OVH had 168 hours of outages in 2009, followed by another two hours earlier this year. That cost a whopping $17 million, plus earned it the unenviable 13th slot on the group's list.
Several of these providers as well as others listed in the report were contacted, but did not provide comment.
Cloud outage costs depend on variables
One disaster recovery expert who read the report challenged the working group's data sources -- press releases and news articles -- as superficial at best.
To be fair, the IWGCR's report acknowledges its "imperfect methodology." The organization said in its report future work of [the] IWGCR will focus on improving the observation of cloud service availability and better measure the economic impact.
Beyond problems with data sources and outage calculations, however, there are many other variables that need to be considered if such reports are going to be very useful, said Charles King, principal analyst at corporate advisory firm Pund-IT, Inc. in Hayward, Calif.
"What time of day an outage happens can determine the cost of the downtime," King said.
For instance, if an outage occurs late on a weeknight -- as the latest AWS service outage did -- the potential loss may be significantly less if a customer is buying a book online rather than if it's a cash reconciliation application running at noon on a busy Friday.
"If it's a book, I might just decide to buy it at a different time," King said.
In fact, even with a more robust methodology, figuring out what an outage costs varies dramatically among customers.
"When you buy a single VM [virtual machine] in the cloud, it's analogous to setting up a single server on your own infrastructure [whereas] if you need five nines [of availability], you don't just set up a simple machine," said Matthew Gerber, CEO of IT-Lifeline Inc., a disaster recovery provider built on AWS.
IT-Lifeline was not impacted by the most recent AWS outage, he said.
Stuart J. Johnston is Senior News Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com. Contact him at [email protected].
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Details
Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has no shortage of big-name adaptations. Gene Wilder’s turn as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film musical film remains one of the legendary actor’s greatest performance, and the Tim Burton-directed 2005 movie provides a wild stylization perfectly befitting the world that Dahl created. Now, on Broadway, a staged production melds the melodies of the first film and the bright colors of the second, as Scottish playwright David Greig’s book came to New York City in early 2017 after a four-year run in London’s West End. Directed by Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, Henry IV), the American version landed on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in April. The show features a songbook of mostly new tunes, although classic songs “The Candy Man” and “Pure Imagination” have been carried over from the Wilder film.
Like the book and the film, the play follows the story of Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who lives with his parents and grandparents, as he wins a tour of the legendary confectioner Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Bucket is played by an alternating cast of young actors, while Wonka is portrayed by the energetic Christian Borle (Something Rotten, Peter and the Starcatcher). Also starring in the play are John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God) as Charlie’s Grandpa Joe, Emily Padgett (Grease, Rock of Ages) as his mother and F. Michael Haynie (Wicked, Dogfight) as Augustus Gloop. The show takes on the same brilliantly twisted undertones as its source material, giving Charlie’s spoiled tourmates their just desserts and Charlie an experience that he’ll never forget.
Frequently Asked Questions About Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the play follows the story of Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who lives with his parents and grandparents, as he wins a tour of the legendary confectioner Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.
How much are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tickets?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ticket prices on the secondary market can vary widely depending on the location, day of the week, season, and other factors. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tickets can be found for as low as $46.00, however the national average is $119.00.
What's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's tour schedule?
The 2020 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tour schedule is listed below.
Dates City Location
Jan 1 - Jan 5, 2020 Miami, FL Knight Concert Hall at Adrienne Arsht Center
Jan 14 - Jan 19 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Jan 21 - Jan 26 Kansas City, MO Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Jan 29 - Feb 2 El Paso, TX The Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Center
Feb 11 - Feb 16 New Orleans, LA Saenger Theatre-New Orleans
Feb 18 - Mar 1 Detroit, MI Detroit Opera House
Mar 3 - Mar 8 Worcester, MA Hanover Theatre
Mar 10 - Mar 15 Grand Rapids, MI DeVos Performance Hall
Mar 17 - Mar 29 St. Louis, MO The Fabulous Fox Theatre
Mar 31 - Apr 5 Norfolk, VA Chrysler Hall
Apr 7 - Apr 26 Washington, DC The National Theatre
Apr 28 - May 3 Dayton, OH Victoria Theatre
May 5 - May 10 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre
May 12 - May 17 Oklahoma City, OK Civic Center Music Hall
May 26 - May 31 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre San Antonio
Jun 2 - Jun 7 Houston, TX Hobby Center
Jun 9 - Jun 14 Nashville, TN Andrew Jackson Hall
Jun 16 - Jun 21 Tulsa, OK Tulsa Performing Arts Center
What is the recommended age for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Broadway?
Most shows will have both a recommended age limit and minimum age requirements. Generally, children under the age of 4 are not permitted at Broadway shows. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is intended for ages 6 and up.
How long is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the musical?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
What should I wear to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway?
There is no specific dress code for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Some people like to dress up an others will go in jeans. It is recommended to avoid anything too casual such as tank tops and cut off shorts.
Who was in the original cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
The original cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory includes:
Charlie Bucket Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Foust, Ryan Sell
Willy Wonka Christian Borle
Grandpa Joe John Rubinstein
Mr. Beauregarde Alan H. Green
Mrs. Gloop Kathy Fitzgerald
Mr. Salt Ben Crawford
Mrs. Teavee Jackie Hoffman
Augustus Gloop F. Michael Haynie
Violet Beauregarde Trista Dollison
Veruca Salt Emma Pfaeffle
Mike Teavee Michael Wartella
Mrs. Bucket Emily Padgett
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HomeSnooker News – 22.10.2019
Snooker News – 22.10.2019
October 22, 2019 Monique SnookerSnooker
More happened last week than just the English Open.
The Women’s Tour was in Australia where Mink (Nucharut Wongharuthai), still only 19, won her first ranking event, beating On Yee Ng by 4-2 in the final.
Here is WPBSA report
Maximum Mink Wins First Ranking Title
Nutcharut Wongharuthai has defeated Ng On Yee 4-2 in the final of the Australian Women’s Open to capture her first-ever ranking event title on Sunday.
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Held for a second time at the Mounties venue in Sydney, Australia, following last year’s inaugural event, the competition saw 24 players battle it out to become champion across four days of hard-fought action.
It would be the top two seeded players who would make it through to the showpiece match, Thailand’s Wongharuthai ominously doing so for the loss of no frames, while defending champion On Yee made it back-to-back finals in Sydney with victories against Jessica Woods and So Man Yan in the latter rounds.
Contested over the best of seven frames, the final saw 19-year-old Wongharuthai make the faster start by moving into a 2-0 lead, before former world number one On Yee hit back with a run of 70 to get herself off the mark. Mink, as Wongharuthai is also commonly known, took the fourth frame to restore her two-frame advantage, only for On Yee to again close the gap with a second 70 break to stay in the match.
Wongharuthai was not to be denied however, runs of 38 and 37 in the sixth and ultimately final frame proving enough for her to claim glory for the first time on the World Women’s Snooker Tour.
Victory for the Thai star adds to a career-best year which has already seen her reach her first World Championship final and become the first woman to make a verified 147 break back in March. She is now also guaranteed to climb to a new career-high ranking of number three, overtaking Rebecca Kenna who did not compete in Australia.
Wongharuthai’s success also represents the first ranking event win for a player other than On Yee or Reanne Evans on the circuit since Maria Catalano claimed victory at the Connie Gough Trophy back in February 2017 and the Thai star also finished the week with the highest break after her run of 90 during the group stage.
All at World Women’s Snooker would like to thank the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council for their hard work in running this event during the week.
Congratulations Mink!
This week, the Championship League Snooker continues with Groups 3 and 4.
Group 3 is in its second day and you can follow it on snooker.org
Meanwhile, this week a significant number of main tour players are already plaing in China, in a CBS event: the Haining Open.
Non Chinese main tour players: Mark Selby, Barry Hawkins, Jackson Page, Michael Georgiou, Jimmy Robertson, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Craig Steadman, Billy Castle, Jordan Brown, Mark Davis, Mark King, Michael Holt, Igor Figueiredo, Ricky Walden, Stuart Bingham and Elliot Slessor
Chinese players who compete(d) in the main tour or the Q-School: Zhou Yuelong, Zhao Xintong, Wu Yize, Zhang Yong, Zhang Jiankang, Pang Junxu, Mei Xiwen, Chang Bingyu, Zhang Anda, Fang Xiongman, Luo Honghao, Ju Reti, Lu Ning, Xu Si, Li Yan, Si Jiahui, Li Hang
Note that Barry Hawkins and Mark Selby withdrew from the Championship League to play in this one.
The full draw is here: http://bems.crandtec.com/index.php?g=&m=Index&a=huiwaisai_live&e_id=NzU%3D&s_id=MTcw&type=1
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One thought on “Snooker News – 22.10.2019”
Congrats, Mink, I’m happy for her and I’m kind of a fan, but it is a bit disheartening that a best-of-7 is a “final length” for the women’s tour: they’ll never be able to compete not at the SWC qualifiers, but in the Qualifying School against the men.
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About Rossing Center
About Daniel Rossing
JCJCR – Jerusalem Center for Jewish – Christian Relations
ADAShA
Educating for Change
Dialogue and Identity
Healing Hatred – Spiritual Counselling in Situations of Conflict
Fair Tourism Catalog
Know Your Neighbor
ADAShA: The Jerusalem Center for Interreligious Encounter provides groups which are interreligious in their composition or in their areas of interest with a serious, systematic and balanced educational experience in Israel. The Project’s innovative programs encourage personal discovery through firsthand experience. Site visits, text-study, lectures, meetings with local religious leaders and visits to local organizations serve as stimuli for far-ranging theological, historical and contemporary discussions amongst the participants.
ADAShA (Hebrew and Arabic for “lens”) allows participants to explore their own Christian, Muslim or Jewish roots and gain a deeper understanding of key religious, cultural, spiritual and educational issues in Israeli and Palestinian society. This, along with confronting serious questions about faith, people and nationality in the context of complex regional problems
Target Audience and Program Length
ADAShA creates programs for communities, universities, religious groups, inter-religious groups and others from abroad that want to experience a unique, nuanced, and sensitively multi-narrated visit in Israel/Palestine.
Programs range from in-depth seminar-tours (10-18 days) to short (half-day) workshops, and are designed for groups of first-timers or for returning visitors.
Seminars are tailored to the needs and interests of our partnering institutions (both universities and community groups).
Ophir Yarden, Program Director ophir@rossingcenter.org
Shakhaf Avital, Logistical Coordinator shakhaf@rossingcenter.org
Program themes
Religion and Politics » Hearing Two Narratives – and how not to export the conflict along religious lines » Understanding the Israel – Palestine Conflict and Interreligious initiatives for amelioration
The Faiths of the Holy Land » Commonalities and Differences between Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze
Sacred Text and Archaeology » Jewish, Christian and Muslim Education: Teaching about ourselves and the other »
The Parting of the Ways: Christian-Jewish Relations over the ages » Study the origins and development of the troubled relationship and learn about its rehabilitation in recent times.
History of the Holy Land » Exploring aspects of the vast history packed into very little geography.
Religion and Spirituality » Investigate the diverse spiritualties of the land which inspires so many and to which so many dream of journeying to on pilgrimage
Religious Education in the Holy Land » How is religion taught and passed on amongst Christians, Muslims and Jews in Israel/Palestine? What are the advantages of working in the land of history?
All Programs include:
Exploration of sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam from both spiritual and historical perspectives.
Study of sacred text, often in situ
Meetings with religious leaders and activists
Encounters with political and civil society activists on the ground
Visits to sites of religious and political tension
From the Participants
“It was stunning and overwhelming to discover new dimensions of my own faith whilst sharing important ‘moments of faith’ with Muslims and Jews.”
“I will always treasure the experience and fully intend to translate it into practical action which will work to unite faith communities.”
“The tour provided a learning opportunity that text books, articles or documentaries read and observed in the UK could never give. It gave a range of physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual experiences which I am now drawing on to develop my understanding and personal views about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”
“I hope to hold on to the idea of being pro-solution, rather than choosing a side… I hope to position myself in a way that promotes encounter and dialogue, actively seeking complexity to facilitate a deeper understanding.”
Ophir Yarden – ADAShA Program Director
Ophir is a senior lecturer in Jewish and Israel studies at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center and teaches in several other universities, colleges and seminaries in Jerusalem. He is a licensed Tour Educator and has trained Tour Educators and Guides in Judaism and Islam since the 1990s. Ophir has rich experience in interreligious work having coordinated and facilitated many engagement programs and has recently begun to teach courses on religion and conflict transformation. Born in the U.S.A and has been living in Jerusalem since 1978.
Articles and More:
The Balfour Declaration: From Imagining a State to Re-imagining Majority-Minority Relations in Jewish Thought and the Jewish State – Article by Ophir Yarden, Director of ADAShA. In: Walters, James (ed.), Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World. (2018)
Covering Religion in Israel and Palestine: Columbia school of Journalism reporters, articles and daily dispatches from ADAShA study tour. (2019)
In Tel Aviv, Jews join with Muslims in vigil mourning New Zealand dead : Article by Jonathan Harounoff, Columbia Journalism School Participant, written during ADAShA study tour (2019)
The Subjectiveness of Seeing : Reflections from Jessica Foster, after participating in an intensive ADAShA seminar (2018)
Godland: A Reporting Journey to Israel and Palestine. Columbia school of Journalism articles and daily dispatches from ADAShA study tour. (2018)
The Land: Covering Religion in Israel and Palestine. Columbia school of Journalism articles and daily dispatches from ADAShA study tour (2014)
Covering Sacred Ground. Columbia school of Journalism articles and daily dispatches from ADAShA study tour (2011)
Among Our Partner Institutions
Jerusalem Center for Jewish – Christian Relations
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THE ROYAL HERALD
a sovereign perspective
Official statement from HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor about the Washington DC riots January 7, 2021
A 2020’s Retrospective January 3, 2021
Happy 2021! January 1, 2021
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor appointed as an effective member of the Italian Heraldic Council December 22, 2020
Happy Holidays and a great 2021!!! December 20, 2020
The Royal House of Ghassan opens office in Geneva, Switzerland November 16, 2020
Official statement about the 2020 US elections November 7, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor to represent International Monarchical Forum in the US and Lebanon November 5, 2020
Dr Thomas Schirrmacher elected the new secretary general of World Evangelical Alliance October 31, 2020
Pope Francis appoints Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa as new Patriarch of Jerusalem October 24, 2020
Triton launches electric truck October 23, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor appointed as member of honor of the Noble College Croce Reale in Italy October 14, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor cited by “The Jerusalem Post” newspaper September 18, 2020
“The Gentleman’s Review” interviews HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor September 14, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor gives lecture about “Monarchy and Religion” to Rotary Club in Brazil (in Portuguese) September 10, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor gives interview for Brazilian monarchist group (Portuguese) September 9, 2020
Royal House of Ghassan launches online course about Monarchy and Geopolitics in Portuguese August 17, 2020
HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor addresses the Lebanese people (in French) August 10, 2020
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HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor is interviewed by Brazilian TV while visiting NGO
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII was interviewed by Record TV in Brazil while visiting the NGO “Orquestrando a vida” (“Orchestrating the Life”). The NGO is an example for the world since takes unprivileged children and teach them classical music.
The above video is in Portuguese
More about the NGO http://orquestrandoavida.com.br/
More about the prince http://www.princegharios.org/
By The Royal Heraldin Brazil, Christianity, culture, Ghassanids, Royalty, Uncategorized, United Nations August 23, 2016 77 WordsLeave a comment
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor visits veterans of UN Peace Corps of Suez
On August 4th, HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII visited the Association of the Brazilian veterans of United Nations Peace Corps (UNEF) Battalion of Suez.
The first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was established by United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis with resolution 1001 (ES-I) on November 7, 1956. The force was developed in large measure as a result of efforts by UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning (1957) proposal and effort from Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson. The General Assembly had approved a plan submitted by the Secretary-General which envisaged the deployment of UNEF on both sides of the armistice line.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor has received the medal of the UN Peace Corps Suez in a solemn ceremony at the City Council Hall. Watch the ceremony HERE
More about UNEF at http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/unefi.htm
More about HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor at http://www.princegharios.org/
By The Royal Heraldin Brazil, Ghassanids, Uncategorized, United Nations August 21, 2016 August 21, 2016 182 WordsLeave a comment
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor is acclaimed for lectures ministered in Brazil
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII visited Brazil from August 1st to 10th 2016 and ministered lectures about the situation in the Middle East and its effects in the Western world in five venues: at UCAM – Candido Mendes University (Latin America’s oldest private University founded in 1902), at the Fluminense Federal Institute (Technical Faculty), at the City Parliament (founded in 1652), at the Maria Imaculada Diocesan Seminary and at the Imaculada Conceicao Catholic Seminary. The lectures were very appreciated and acclaimed by the audience and the press.
(the above video is in the Portuguese language)
More about HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor HERE
By The Royal Heraldin Brazil, Christianity, culture, Ghassanids, Islam, Lebanon, politics, Religion, Royalty, Syria, terrorism, Uncategorized, United Nations August 15, 2016 117 WordsLeave a comment
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan receives UN Peace Corps Medal
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII received a UN Peace Corps’ medal (UNEF – United Nations Emergency Force – Suez), the very first unit deployed to the Middle East. Also, the medal Captain Manuel Theodoro de Almeida Batista, a hero from the Brazil-Paraguay war. The honors were conferred by the Brazilian Army veterans in the Campos City Hall, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on August 3rd 2016.
More about the United Nations Emergency Force HERE
More about HIRH Prince Gharios at http://www.princegharios.org/
By The Royal Heraldin Brazil, Christianity, Ghassanids, politics, Royalty, Uncategorized, United Nations August 13, 2016 99 WordsLeave a comment
Royal House of Ghassan is accredited by the United Nations
The Sovereign Imperial and Royal House of Ghassan was granted “Special Consultative Status” by the United Nations Economical and Social Council.
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; French: Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, CESNU) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, their functional commissions and five regional commissions. The ECOSOC has 54 members. It holds one four-week session each year in July, and since 1998, it has also held a meeting of April with finance ministers heading key committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Excerpt from the United Nations letter to the Royal House of Ghassan
The ECOSOC serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to member states and the United Nations system.
Non-governmental organizations have been granted consultative status to the Council to participate in the work of the United Nations. Consultative status enables an organization to actively engage with ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat, programmes, funds and agencies in a number of ways.
The status can be checked online clicking HERE
(Important: many organizations have profiles on the UN website but they don’t hold any accreditation unless expressly mentioned on the field “Accreditation(s)/Affiliation(s)”. According to the website: “A profile in this database and on this website does not in and of itself connote any affiliation with the United Nations, unless such affiliation is expressly indicated, i.e., by identifying the type of ECOSOC consultative status held by an NGO.” )
More about the Royal House of Ghassan HERE
More about the United Nations ECOSOC HERE
By The Royal Heraldin culture, Ghassanids, politics, Royalty, United Nations July 27, 2016 August 6, 2017 307 Words18 Comments
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Heathers the Musical review
By Simon Parris on April 15, 2014 • ( 6 Comments )
Off-Broadway gets in on the movie adaptation act with this lively, technicolor musical that opened on 31 March, 25 years to the day since the cult classic opened in cinemas. The blacker-than-pitch comedy has plenty of crowd-pleasing moments yet remains curiously uninvolving despite the very best efforts of the terrific young cast.
Possibly the hardest aspect of writing a new musical is the score, and in this regard Heathers really delivers. Hopes were high for the music, given that composer Laurence O’Keefe wrote Legally Blonde, one of my very favourite scores from the past decade. The snappy songs are infectious, varied and instantly accessible, with clever, funny lyrics. Music, book and lyrics are credited to both O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy (Refeer Madness), their teamwork meaning that the songs are perfectly integrated into the show, driving plot and revealing more about characters (are you listening Rocky?). “My Dead Gay Son” is a hilarious song that could only come from the man who gave us Blonde’s “There! Right There!” (Gay or European). “Seventeen” is a soaring love duet that doubles as a rousing full company anthem at the finale.
It is lucky the songs are so catchy because you would not come out whistling the scenery here. With an Off-Broadway budget, expectations are not as high for scenery but the problem is that the money has been spent on a rear walkway and central two-tier curved raised platform that are rarely used. Amy Clark’s costumes are flashy and fun, especially for the Heathers. Extra points for Martha’s rainbow unicorn windcheater. Jason Lyons’ excellent lighting design saves the day in terms of visual appeal.
A missed opportunity in the design, and, to a lesser extent, the script, is the chance to poke fun at the oversized 1980s. Few musicals are set in that era of shoulder pads and big hair, and, unlike the brilliant American Psycho musical, Heathers delivers very few laughs in this regard.
The story and setting are probably a little sunnier than the movie, making the murder and mayhem somewhat incongruous, although this could be looked at as a deliberately jarring choice. We have all been through high school, and the characters and their dilemmas are very recognisable. The plot has some nice twists, but overall the straightforward story telling is not particularly compelling, and does not add a great deal to the movie. Suicidal Martha Dunnstock’s ballad “Kindergarten Boyfriend” is the best example of breaking out and revealing more than the film.
Andy Fickman’s direction and Marguerite Derricks’ choreography keep the energy uniformly high and the pacing swift.
Barrett Wilbert Weed is an exceptional young leading lady as Veronica Sawyer, drawing us into her well-honed characterisation of the insecure teen who is seduced by high school power and privilege. Possessing a sensational belt, Weed surely has a solid future ahead on Broadway. Ryan McCartan is tall and darkly handsome as JD, capturing elements of the intrigue that Christian Slater created in the role.
Jessica Kennan Wynn, Elle McLemore and Alice Lee are strong as the Heathers. Wynn in particular has the preppy princess look that Hollywood cultivates, and is an excellent singer and dancer to boot. (Wynn is Heather Chandler, dressed in red)
Heathers is a fun night, and great value at Off-Broadway prices. In addition to the addition of scenery, its book needs some sharpening and addition of subtext and tension on the path to Broadway.
Heathers was reviewed 7.30pm 13 April 2014 at New World Stages, New York.
Photos: Chad Batka
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reviewedbymarkleonard says:
Your helping me decide my next show…great work! More, more, more! ML
Simon Parris says:
I presume you mean that this one is now crossed off your list Mark. It’s close to being really good but doesn’t quite make it. More reviews to come this week..
Of course, I meant “you’re”(hate when I do that), but I’m still not cancelling “Heathers” out completely. I’ve been somewhat reluctant, but I’m such a HUGE fan of the film. It will be an easier decision if I can find another slot for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”. Keep ’em comin’, Simon! ML
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The Long March (The Exiled Fleet Book 2) by Richard Fox
Commodore Gage has to seek the help of his archnemesis pirate captain Loussan in order to navigate the Kigeli Nebula and escape to friendly space.
Read this book if you
Enjoy reading about a protagonist who has to fight a war where he’s outmatched
Like space battles and reading about how the protagonist outmaneuvers his opponent
Avoid this book if you
Need to know about how some technologies work or want more background information about factions, species, or story universe to fully immerse yourself
Some of the battle scenes aren’t as intense or exciting
Need a protagonist who is interesting and dynamic
The Long March is an improvement over its predecessor Albion Lost. The story in this second book of the series becomes a lot more interesting and packed with more action.
The new pirate character, Loussan, and the cat-and-mouse game between Gage’s fleet and the Daegon, as well as a bit more insight into how the Daegon operate make the story universe come alive.
Commodore Gage has to navigate the remaining Albion fleet through the dangerous Kigeli Nebula in order to escape the Daegon commander who is hunting them.
The cast of characters remains the same from the previous book, with a new pirate captain Loussan commanding the Carlin included in the mix.
The Albion fleet has to go through frontier space and across the Kigeli Nebula.
The Long March Review
My opinion of this book is much higher than the previous one. There are several improvements simply because the story has a few story arcs that focus on characters other than Gage.
The pirate captain Loussan is a far more dynamic and interesting character than Gage. Loussan’s motivations are pretty clear, and his sense of humor gives life to an otherwise dull Gage. There are a few tense scenes where readers can just imagine Loussan breaking the agreement with Gage, making the engagement with the Daegon and the Carlin that much more tense.
Loussan’s humor and self-serving interests make him a fun character. For instance, he tells his crew that he has secured them room and board, even though that room is a jail cell and that board is prison food. His ability to twist events and situations to his own benefit makes him someone readers are likely to enjoy.
We also get to enjoy a chess game between the faceless on the ship. Seeing the plan unfold to catch the faceless was satisfying.
The much-needed character development in this book makes readers a lot more invested in the story. Readers learn a little more about Prince Aidan, but he’s comes across as selfish and obnoxious. It’s almost enough to make one wonder why anyone bothers with appeasing the prince when lives are at stake.
The one downside is that Gage isn’t any more likable as a character in this book. He’s still too stiff. It’s almost as though he has to restrained in his behavior, making him difficult to relate to. Meanwhile, the people around him become more alive as we read about their exploits.
What’s also interesting is that we learn a little more about how Daegon hierarchy. The Daegon become less mysterious, but they’re still just as strong and dangerous. We still don’t know for certain just where the Daegon come from and what their motivations are outside of a vague sense of revenge.
There’s a lot of potential for the series. While the Daegon are still human, there’s so much unknown about where they got their technology and why they appear so different from other humans. How can a group of modified humans who live on the fringes become powerful enough to compete against established powers? I hope we learn more later.
There’s enough intrigue in this book to keep readers interested. While the title of the book suggests a story about a retreat, we don’t quite get a sense of a “long” retreat. A good chunk of the action happens onboard the ship and with the resistance on the planet occupied by the Daegon.
The actual reporting of the retreat or navigation through the Kigeli Nebula is sparse. Most of space travel is pretty boring, but calling it a “long” march is a bit of a stretch. Still, if Fox is recalling the historical Long March in Chinese history, then there may be some foreshadowing with Gage and his rise to power.
Read reviews on other books in The Exiled Fleet series.
Review of Albion Lost, Book 1 of The Exiled Fleet
2017 Book 2 Richard Fox The Exiled Fleet The Long March
New Frontiers (Expansion Wars Book 1) by Joshua Dalzelle
Albion Lost (The Exiled Fleet Book 1) by Richard Fox
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Tag: Interviews with Writers
The Adjacent Reality: An Interview with Charles Yu
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on HBO’s Westworld and has also written for an… Read More The Adjacent Reality: An Interview with Charles Yu
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SR 72 Contributor Interviews: Lisa Chen
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to forms animated by what Viktor Shklovsky called ostranenie, or “making strange”—sometimes translated as “estrangement” or “defamiliarization.” Otherwise we are lulled to stupor and blindness by familiar narratives, gestures, humors, small talk, breakfast cereals…
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SR 72 Contributor Interviews: Carrie Kosicki
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I read more fiction than nonfiction. Having said that, I think people, all of us, are odd and intriguing, and in my everyday life, I can’t help but try to coax stories out of the people I talk to.… Read More SR 72 Contributor Interviews: Carrie Kosicki
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SR72 Contributor Interviews: Sam Brighton
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? As a writer, I prefer creative nonfiction because I simply lack the creativity to make up a good readable story. All of my attempts at fiction have been thinly-veiled nonfiction with a few changes, and it was exciting to… Read More SR72 Contributor Interviews: Sam Brighton
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by j.l. stoever
in Blog-O-Versary, Editorial Collective, Sound Studies
** Click here to head straight to our free, downloadable X! 10.0 Blog-O-Versary Mix! It’s okay, like Tupac, we ain’t mad at ya! It’s cool to come back here though and check this out. **
We didn’t have a clue where the blog was headed when we started out in 2009, packed into AT’s humid apartment on Seminary in Binghamton, alternately helping him pack, looking through his records, and making plans for this writing thing we were going to do together to stay in touch. I had a newborn baby strapped on my chest, Aaron was leaving BU to start a PhD program at Rutgers and Liana was embarking deeply into her dissertation (and just a year later for Kansas City. . .for the full origin story, catch our recent co-authored piece “The Pleasure [is] Principle: Sounding Out! and the Digitization of Community” in Digital Sound Studies). Our tight-knit research crew was facing so much change and uncertainty, that I’m pretty sure we decided to name the blog Sounding Out! as a form of echolocation. If talking and thinking about sound waves had brought us together in the first place, perhaps their resonance could stretch out to fill the unknown contours of the future that lay ahead.
And over the past decade, it has. Not just for us as friends, co-workers, and eventually shared hive-mind cells, but for the field of sound studies, which in the same decade went from “huh?” to “emerging,” then from academic hipster cred and to everybody’s tryna put “soundscape” in everything, to the New York Times magazine does a cover story on it AND you can now get a Masters in it at Northwestern University in Chicago [shout out to SO! special editor Neil Verma, who not only edited a media stream for us from 2013-2016 but—among many other awesome things—helped get this very program up and running]. It’s no coincidence that the field’s trajectory and reach has grown exponentially along with ours, and we are proud as hell of that.
Other things we are most proud of:
that, on separate occasions in the past year, two brilliant people have told us that reading SO! inspired them to go to grad school because our site hosted and valued research on sound by/about women of color (these stories are literally our favorite 😭 😭 😭 and inspire us to go even harder!).
growing deep, connected relationships among scholars and professionals in the field infused with fun and feeling amongst the brilliance and rigor.
surpassing one MILLION unique clicks (not that “metrics” has ever been our goal but holla!!).
getting on the podcast tip early (2010!!) and staying weird as hell with it (free format por vida!).
always being down to shout out and collabo (over the years we’ve worked with Antenna, Locatora Radio, The Radio Preservation Task Force, IASPM-US, Soundbox, The Middle Spaces, Tuned City Brussels, WHRW 90.5, Everything Sounds, Not Your Muse, and The UC Riverside Punk Con, among many others. In 2020 we have something going with the Zora Neale Hurston festival in Eatonville, Florida. . . stay tuned!).
publishing a post on “Old Town Road.” IJS. Our regular writers always bring it. Thank you to Justin Burton and Robin James, our current roster, and to all of our past fam: Regina Bradley, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Maile Colbert, Osvaldo Oyola, and Andreas Pape.
pushing so hard for our reach, readership, and coverage to become increasingly global (in the past year we hosted pieces from and/or about Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, and Ukraine).
developing a strong undergraduate internship program through Binghamton University that brings us literally the best interns in the WORLD 💯. They bring us new ideas, excitement, and new social media accounts, and we entrust them with everything we know about editing and digital publishing. It’s been a blast, and we are so proud they’ve all gone on to do wonderful work in the world.
that our roster of writers more accurately represents the diversity of sound studies scholars than any other publication out there by leaps and bounds.
that SO! has continued to evolve in interesting ways while strengthening and refining our guiding mission over the years: to find, nurture, and share accessible top-notch scholarship/art/thought that investigates how power impacts how we sound and listen, while amplifying sound studies knowledge toward social justice.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, that so many readers have put their faith in us and so many amazing writers have thought of us as a home for their work. We take your trust so very seriously, and remain humbled by your generosity and confidence. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for being Sounding Out! along with us.
I’m trying to keep it short and cute today, not saying too TOO much because this post [our 624th!] is neither a retrospective nor a tribute, but a celebration. . .as Diddy once said, we ain’t going nowhere! [Editors’ Note: Other notables JS has referenced in the previous decade of Blog-o-Versary posts includes Bob Marley, LL Cool J, De La Soul, Schoolhouse Rock, Dionne Warwick, the Solid Gold Dancers, S.E. Hinton, Beyoncé, Langston Hughes, X-Ray Spex, A Tribe Called Quest, Fred Moten, Bill Withers, and . . . Taylor Swift. Oof.]. And bet, we have AMAZING things planned for next year, including forums on Soundwalking while POC (starts next week!), the 50th anniversary of Charles Mingus’s Ah Um (guest edited by Earl Brooks), audiobooks (edited by Liana Silva), and sound and climate change (guest edited by Anja Kanngieser), an undergraduate sound studies showcase, and . . . . . . . . . .
[🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁]
we just finished a book proposal for a Sounding Out! anthology: working title Power in Listening: The Sounding Out! Reader.
[🎉 insert airhorn sound here 🎉]
YES! We couldn’t be more grateful for the last ten years, and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s coming up next. Even though we didn’t know where we were headed in 2009, we have arrived nonetheless, and all because we knew what we wanted—to create a community just like this one. Happy X! Blog-o-Versary to all of us, today!
–JLS, LMS, and AT
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Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo successfully defended her dissertation, and had the chance to open for Bikini Kill in June, under her stage name Sammus. In fall of 2019 she will be starting a two-year postdoc at Brown University’s music department, and will be getting married to fiction writer Lance Akinsiku. She is presenting a Making/Doing session at this year’s 4S Conference in New Orleans in September.
John Melillo has a new essay on the French sound poet Henri Chopin in Ties: Journal of Text, Image, and Sound. His book, The Poetics of Noise, is under contract for Bloomsbury’s Sound Studies list.
In summer 2018 Kristin Moriah began a position as an Assistant Professor of African American Literary Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “Where Are the Black Angels?” her review of Mickalene Thomas’s historic exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario is forthcoming in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 123, as is “A Greater Compass of Voice: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Black Performance in Nineteenth-Century North America,” which will be published in Theatre Research in Canada. She is excited to attend the ASA annual meeting in Honolulu where she will present “Playing the Red Record: Black Feminist Recording Practices.”
Phillip Sinitiere published several pieces on W. E. B. Du Bois in The North Star. He also co-organized a forum on Shirley Graham Du Bois at Black Perspectives. He is the 2019-2020 W. E. B. Du Bois Visiting Scholar at UMass Amherst.
SO! Ed-in Chief Jennifer Lynn Stoever published three essays in 2018/19: “‘Doing fifty-five in a fifty-four’: Cop Voice, U.S. Policing and the Cadence of White Supremacy” (Interdisciplinary Journal of Voice Studies), “Black Radio Listeners in America’s ‘Golden Age'” (Journal of Radio and Media Studies), and “Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and ‘70s Bronx” in the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Studies, which you can download for free here.
And remember, the “notes” on our Facebook page is *still the best place to hear about calls for art, calls for posts, and upcoming conferences, shows, and volumes in sound studies. “Like” us here and please continue to keep us in the loop regarding new projects. We love to signal boost, as you can probably tell by our very active Twitter feed!
Clic here for Sounding Out!‘s Blog-O-Versary “X!” mix 10.0 with track listing (and of course which writers suggested which songs)!
Jennifer Lynn Stoever is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is also Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, lead organizer of The Binghamton Historical Soundwalk Project and author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press, 2016).
2018 “Sound the Alarm” mix 9.0
2017 “!!!!Resist!!!!” Blog-O-Versary mix 8.0
2016 Blog-O-Versary “!!!!!!!” mix 7.0
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2013 Blog-o-Versary 4.0: Solid Gold Summer Countdown!
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Lunar rover wakes up after near-death experience
China's Yutu moon rover woke up this week and radioed Earth after worries the mobile research platform would succumb to frigid temperatures during the two-week lunar night, but officials say the robot is still malfunctioning.
Chang'e 3's rover, dubbed Yutu, appears on the moon's surface in this image from the landing platform taken Dec. 21 or Dec. 22. See a collection of panoramas from the mission. Credit: SASTIND/CNSA
"Yutu has come back to life," said Pei Zhaoyu, a spokesman with the Chinese lunar program, in a report by the government-sanctioned Xinhua news agency.
Ground controllers confirmed they received signals from the rover Wednesday, two days after the rover's scheduled wakeup.
The rover was struck by a mechanical anomaly before nightfall Jan. 25, forcing the craft to go into sleep mode without proper precautions against nighttime temperatures reaching as low as minus 180 degrees Celsius, or minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit.
State media did not describe details of the problem, and Xinhua reported Thursday engineers are still trying to identify the cause of the technical glitch, which left many observers concerned the roving explorer would not wake up.
The rover, dubbed Yutu or "jade rabbit," is designed to hibernate during lunar nights, when the sun slips below the horizon for two weeks and temperatures plunge cold enough to damage sensitive electronic circuits and avionics systems inside the spacecraft.
During hibernation, Yutu is unable to charge its batteries or communicate with Earth.
Chinese designers installed small radioisotope heaters fueled by plutonium to keep critical components warm at night. Before each sunset, Yutu is supposed to retract its camera mast and fold two solar panels over the rover's body.
The Chang'e 3 lander took this image of Earth in December. Credit: SASTIND/CNSA
Unconfirmed reports by Chinese space analysts indicate something went wrong with one of the solar panels as Yutu prepared for night.
"Now that it is still alive, the rover stands a chance of being saved," Pei said in a report by Xinhua.
Yutu was designed to operate on the moon for three months. The rover touched down Dec. 14 and drove off its four-legged landing platform to begin exploring the bleak, cratered terrain in the moon's Mare Imbrium region, one of the dark spots on the moon as seen from Earth.
The rover has logged about 100 meters, more than 300 feet, of driving since the mid-December landing. Controllers spent the initial days of the mission using the lander and rover to take pictures of each other.
Yutu used a mechanical scoop to sample the lunar soil earlier this month, according to state media, and it studied the moon's underground structure with a ground-penetrating radar. The robot used X-ray and near-infrared spectrometers to measure the composition of lunar rocks.
Engineers also established a radio communications link between the four-foot-tall rover and its stationary landing platform. Chinese media have reported no problems with the four-legged lander other than the failure of its main camera, which was only designed to function for a few weeks.
The Chang'e 3 lander has its own suite of instruments including an ultraviolet telescope to observe Earth's plasmasphere and conduct the first long-term astronomical observations from the lunar surface.
Yutu is part of China's third lunar mission. Named Chang'e 3, the project achieved the first soft landing on the moon since 1976 and followed two Chinese lunar orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010.
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Lihi Ben Shitrit
Ph.D., Yale University 2012, Political Science
MPhil, Yale University 2009, Political Science
MA, Yale University 2008, Political Science
BA, Princeton University 2006, Near Eastern Studies
Women, Gender and Politics
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
Selection: Luce/ACLS Religion, International Affairs & Journalism Fellowship (2019-2020) Harvard Kennedy School, Middle East Initiative Fellowship (2018-2019) Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellowship, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2017) Colorado Scholar, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University (2013-2014) The Kathryn Davis Peace Fellowship (2012) Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2009-2010)
Course Instruction
Middle Eastern Political Systems
Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Women, Gender & Politics
Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right. Princeton University Press, 2015 Link: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10629.html
Journal articles:
“Gender Differences in Support for Direct and Indirect Political Aggression in the Context of Protracted Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 54 issue 6, 2017 (with Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler and Julia Elad-Strenger).
“Gender and the (In)Divisibility of Contested Sacred Places: The Case of Women for the Temple.” Politics & Religion. Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2017.
“Authenticating Representation: Women’s Quotas and Islamist Parties.” Politics & Gender Vol. 12, Issue 4, 2016.
“Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious-Political Movements: Reflections from Women Activists in Shas and the Islamic Movement in Israel.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Vol. 9 Issue 3, 2013.
Selected book chapters:
“The Politics of De-Radicalization in Israel/Palestine.” In Hansen SJ and Lid S. eds. The Routledge Handbook of De-radicalization. Routledge (forthcoming).
“Intersectionality Theory and Working with ‘Both Sides’.” In Janine Clark and Francesco Cavatorta eds. Doing Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa: Methodological and Ethical Challenges. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Email: lben@uga.edu
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How many times has a team trailing by at least 3 goals won a Stanley Cup playoffs game?
The Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 - 3 on the third game of their best of 5 Stanley Cup qualifier of the 2019-20 season. The Blue Jackets did so after trailing 3 - 0 in the second period, but eventually got the game winner with less than 2 minutes to go in the first overtime period. The Blue Jackets also came back to win with the same score after being down 3 - 0 again in the second period of the first game of the first round playoffs the previous season against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The president trophy winning Lightning had posted the highest points total in the history of NHL regular season and were huge favorite to win the Cup, but after losing their 3 goal lead were swept by the wildcard Blue Jackets.
Interestingly enough, the next game of the series was also won 4 - 3, this time by the Maple leafs, who were down 3 - 0 with less than 4 minutes remaining in the third. They scored 3 after pulling their goalie and got the winner in the OT. Making both teams overcoming 3 goal deficits in back to back games. This made Toronto the third team ever to come back from 3 behind with less than 5 minutes remaining in the game in a playoff game.
This makes me how many times in the Stanley Cup playoffs has a team come back trailing at least 3 goals down since 1980? What percentage of teams who trail at least 3 goals in the playoffs go on winning that game?
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alamootalamoot
Really interesting question. I might be able to use the NHL Stats API to at least approximately answer this - we'll see. – Joe♦ Aug 7 '20 at 21:19
Can you drop me a link for the Stats API? If there is an API that has all the data (unlike the one the NFL has which has plenty of holes in their data) or a public DB to run queries on, I could work towards an answer too – alamoot Aug 7 '20 at 23:40
Do you have links to share for APIs? @Joe – alamoot Aug 12 '20 at 19:18
Oh, sorry - yes, there's a few links. gitlab.com/dword4/nhlapi/-/blob/master/stats-api.md is one, kevinsidwar.com/iot/2017/7/1/the-undocumented-nhl-stats-api is another. The main API endpoint is statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1 . – Joe♦ Aug 13 '20 at 0:29
Dallas Stars became the first team in NHL playoffs history to be down by 3 goals and then lead by 4 in the same game. It happened on game 6 of round one match up against Calgary flames (2019-20 season) – alamoot Aug 21 '20 at 16:07
Looking through old box scores, it happens fairly frequently - more than would be appropriate to list here. In 1982, for example, it happened twice in one series - LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers, the Kings came back twice from down three, including this game where they were down an incredible 5 goals (down 5-0 after 1, won 6-5 in OT).
You can view my code to scrape hockey-reference.com for this on github, to see a complete list.
Taking a sampling (1980-1999):
1992: 1 (ugh)
From that same subset, it looks like about 40% of games at some point have a 3 goal lead by one team (This would, please note, include situations like an EN goal to ice the game), and about 5% of games where one team has a 3 goal lead include a comeback from down 3 or more by the winning team.
Joe♦Joe
Nice job. I edited to question so that it only asks for 3+ goal comebacks since 1980. Can you run your script and let it go till this year so we have a complete answer? – alamoot Aug 22 '20 at 13:12
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No room for Giroud: An XI of FA Cup winners with two teams
Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud will be looking to win his fifth FA Cup this Saturday, having lifted the trophy three times with Arsenal and once with his current side. Here’s an XI made up from players who’ve won the cup with two different teams.
Goalkeeper: Petr Cech
Arsenal and Chelsea faced off in the final three years ago, with the now retired Petr Cech on the bench for the Gunners as they defeated his former club 2-1. The result made Arsene Wenger the most successful manager in the competition’s history, as he won the trophy for an incredible seventh time, whilst Cech himself became a five-time winner, having lifted the cup four times before with Chelsea alongside Frank Lampard. If you fancy a goalkeeper challenge, try naming the keeper who won the cup once but was on the losing side with three different clubs.
Right-back: Lassana Diarra
French international Lassana Diarra watched from the bench as Didier Drogba’s big-match instincts won the cup in 2007. The Ivorian’s goal in extra-time was enough to defeat Manchester United but a year later the final wasn’t such a heavyweight affair, as Cardiff City and Portsmouth battled it out at Wembley. Diarra was in the starting line-up this time, helping Pompey to the win under Harry Redknapp.
Centre-back: Sol Campbell
Captain of the Portsmouth side that year was the one and only Sol Campbell. The Notts County legend won the Cup with Arsenal in 2002, helping the Gunners to a 2-0 win over Chelsea. Campbell was suspended for the 2003 victory over Southampton and watched from the bench as Arsenal defeated Manchester United on penalties in 2005.
Centre-back: Gary Ablett
Eight years ago, Merseyside mourned the death of a man who was a hero for Everton and Liverpool in the FA Cup. Gary Ablett lifted the famous trophy with the Reds first, with his side defeating their local rivals in the dramatic 1989 final. Six years later, Ablett was celebrating with the Toffees, as they saw off favourites Manchester United at Wembley in 1995.
Left-back: Ashley Cole
From lining up alongside David Seaman and Tony Adams in 2002 to lifting the trophy next to John Terry and Frank Lampard in 2012, Ashley Cole has won the FA Cup a momentous seven times. The London-born defender has three wins in Arsenal colours and four in the blue of Chelsea. Having worked with Lampard at Chelsea in an academy role, Cole will surely be supporting the Blues on Saturday. Arsenal fans wouldn’t want it any other way.
Central midfield: Cesc Fabregas
A team-mate of Cole in the 2005 FA Cup final, Cesc Fabregas is another player who has won the competition with Arsenal and Chelsea. However, unlike Cole, the Spaniard had to wait 13 years before he lifted the trophy for a second time. Fabregas was part of the Chelsea side that scored just once against a central defensive partnership of Chris Smalling and Phil Jones in the 2018 FA Cup final – although Eden Hazard, Giroud and friends did still fire them to victory.
Central midfield: Patrick Vieira
The fourth member of Arsenal’s 2005 FA Cup-winning squad in this side, Patrick Vieira captained the Gunners to glory over Manchester United in his last match for the club. The Frenchman’s decisive penalty in the shoot-out earned him a third winner’s medal, after victories in 1998 and 2002. Vieira missed the 2003 triumph through injury but came off the bench to play in Manchester City’s 2011 win over Stoke City to bag himself a fourth FA Cup.
Central midfield: Juan Mata
He might well be one player Manchester United need to ditch this summer but lovely Juan was man of the match for Chelsea back in 2012 as the Blues defeated Liverpool to win the cup. The Spaniard was on the score-sheet at Wembley four years later, equalising for the Red Devils against Crystal Palace in the 2016 FA Cup final. Jesse Lingard’s winner ensured fans all over the world were spared Alan Pardew’s full dance move repertoire and helped Mata to his second win in the competition.
Centre forward: Mark Hughes
Like Mata, Mark Hughes won the FA Cup with Manchester United and Chelsea, with the Welsh Wonder first lifting the trophy way back in 1985. Hughes scored twice in 1990, bagging the equalising goal against Crystal Palace to take the game to a replay. Lee Martin’s winner in the following match saved Alex Ferguson’s job and ensured Hughes won the trophy for a second time. He lifted the cup again four years later as the Red Devils thrashed his future club 4-0 in the 1994 showpiece before winning the competition for a fourth time with Chelsea as a 33 year old in 1997.
Centre forward: Nwankwo Kanu
One of Harry’s heroes in 2008, Nwankwo Kanu scored the all-important goal for Portsmouth as they defeated Cardiff City to win the FA Cup for the second time in the club’s history. The Nigerian had previously won the competition twice at Arsenal but was on the bench for the Gunners in 2002 and 2003, with Wenger’s men seeing off Chelsea and Southampton respectively.
Centre forward: Nicolas Anelka
Giroud will have to settle for a familiar spot on the bench in this side, with his fellow Frenchman Nicolas Anelka taking the final starting spot. Le Sulk won le bulk of his medals at Chelsea, including two FA Cup wins in 2009 and 2010. However, he first lifted the trophy as teenager in 1998, scoring Arsenal’s second goal in the Gunners’ 2-0 win over Newcastle to complete the club’s league and cup double.
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Casillas proposes ‘vintage’ Clasico to raise funds for charity
Former Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas has suggested organising a “vintage Clasico” with past Real Madrid and Barcelona stars to raise funds for charity.
Madrid 06 April, 2020 22:11 IST
“When this whole nightmare is finished, we should get all the emblematic players of the past years together and play a vintage Clasico,” wrote Iker Casillas on Twitter. - Getty Images
Former Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas on Monday suggested organising a “vintage Clasico” with past Real Madrid and Barcelona stars to raise funds for charity once the coronavirus pandemic is over.
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“And the funds will go to people in need.”
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Cobblestone Buildings - A Waymarking.com Category
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Cobblestone buildings were constructed during the 1800's, found mostly in the Great Lakes region, although they can be found elsewhere in the world. This category is for cobblestone buildings only. (Cobblestone streets and walls will not be accepted).
Expanded Description:
Cobblestone buildings were constructed mainly between 1825-1860. It is estimated that there are approximately 700 to 1,200 cobblestone buildings located in New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Vermont, Colorado, Michigan and Ontario, Canada. This type of contruction was used not only for homes, but schools, barns, shops, privies, smokehouses, carriage houses, churches and cemetery receiving vaults. Most cobblestone buildings were Greek Revival architecture style, other styles used were Federal, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Post Colonial and Victorian.
It is believed masons based their technique on cobblestone buildings and outbuildings built during the 14th century in Europe. These buildings were called flints, masons split cobblestones and used limestone mortar in a flush treatment.
A cobblestone is a stone that can be held in one hand, measuring between 2.5 to 10 inches or 64 to 256 mm. The shape is the result of water action, either by glaciers as they melted or wave action of streams and lakes.
The cobblestones were held in place by soft lime mortar made of locally dug sand, powdered lime and water. This type of mortar cured slowly, letting the stones settle and bear weight, sometimes taking 35 years to harden. This slow process allowed buildings time to settle without cracking.
How to recognize a cobblestone building?
Cobblestones were laid in horizontal rows with decorative mortar treatment to the horizontal and vertical joints. They have large squared corner stones called quoins, which is derived from the French word for corner. The quoins added structural integrity to the corners. They also have lintels (horizontal memebers above doors or windows) and sills (below doors or windows) often made of limestone or sandstone, but were also made of brick, wood or fieldstone.
Some of these buildings can be found at the National Register of Historic Places website.
Cobblestone Quest is a book written by Rich and Sue Freeman explaining cobblestone construction and listing 17 tours within New York State. Their book was very helpful in creating this category.
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3. Post at least one photo of the building, no photos of GPS or person are required.
4. Any information or history about the building.
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Cobblestone House - Santa Cruz, California
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This cobblestone house is on the corner of Eaton and 6th Avenue in Santa Cruz.
Main St - Victor, NY (USA)
This cobblestone on the corner of Victor-Manchester Rd and McMahon Rd is currently in use as an antique store.
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2 E Main St - Victor, NY (USA)
Currently home to Rite of Passage Tattoo parlor, the cobblestone is on the corner of East Main Street (96) and 'Moore Ave (444) in Victor.
Gananda, NY
This Wayne County cobblestone sits at the crossroads of a modern cul-de-sac. Likely the only farmhouse for miles around at one time In it's history.
Carter County Courthouse - Van Buren, MO
WPA Project #168
London Bridge Resort Lobby Building -- Lake Havasu City AZ
Cobblestones are used on the lobby building of the London Bridge Resort in Lake Havasu City to create a Medieval Castle ambiance.
London Bridge Golf Clubhouse -- Lake Havasu City AZ
The London Bridge Resort Golf Clubhouse is made of cobblestone and some wood in Lake Havasu AZ
120 West Washington St., Bath, NY, USA
This lovely cobblestone has smaller cobbles on its entrance face than on the sides (4 rows versus 3).
Quigley`s Castle - Eureka Springs AR
One of kind home and interesting story behind it. The gardens are also very interesting.
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St Mary the Virgin Church - Monken Hadley, Barnet, UK
This church is in the charming village of Monken Hadley just to the north of Barnet. It was rebuilt in 1494 but a church has stood here since the 12th century.
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Chamber of Commerce - Neosho, MO
Looks like it once was a private home
St Bartholomew-the-Great - Cloth Fair, London, UK
This church is tucked away in a quiet area close to the Central Market Smithfield and the world famous Barts hospital.
Monark Springs Former School Cobblestone Home - Monark Springs, MO
A cobblestone former school, now a home, in a tiny town in Newton County, Missouri
St Margaret's Church - Canterbury, Kent, UK
This church, founded in the 12th century, is located on the north west side of St Margaret's Street in Canterbury. The cobblestone building no longer serves as a place of worship but is a tourist attraction named "The Canterbury Tales".
location: South East England, United Kingdom
Canterbury Pilgrim's Hospital - High Street, Canterbury, UK
This old building stands on the south west side of the High Street to the west of Canterbury Cathedral and just a few minutes walk away.
house of flint
Flintehuset ved Saxenhøj - Flint House by Saxenhøj
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830 Telephone Rd - Henrietta, NY
One of 7 or 8 cobblestone homes in Henrietta, with another just across the road, and two more around the corner on Rush Henrietta Town Line Rd. This is a typical Federal Style which is common in this area.
Liberty Hill - Henrietta, NY
Liberty Hill is owned by Rochester Institute of Technology and is provided as a residence to the college president, who traditionally hosts talks and other events monthly. It is also a cobblestone house.. At least it's oldest portions are.
791 Rush Henrietta Townline Rd - Henrietta, NY
This is a lovely 2 story 5 bay federal style cobblestone set well back from the road.
877 Telephone Road, Henrietta, NY
With primarily Federal style cobblestones all around the area, we have a singular example of the Greek Revival style that I've seen in greater numbers in Greece, NY and Hilton, NY, to the northwest.
Webster Baptist Church - Webster, NY
Also listed and well described under NRHP category. Listing here in an effort to catalog all 30+ cobblestones in Monroe County.
5121 W Henrietta Rd - Henrietta, NY
Of the 30 known cobblestones in Monroe County, at least 8 of them are found in Henrietta! NY. This one is located just north of the RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Conference Center on West Henrietta Rd.
Abel Post Homestead - Henrietta, NY
At 5582 W Henrietta Rd, this is a very well preserved two story cobblestone with a beautiful center entrance in a symmetrical 5 bay Federal Style.
Carriage Shop - Henrietta, NY
At 5375 W Henrietta Rd, this building was built as a carriage shop, served as a factory, and is now used as a Moose lodge.
889 Rush-Henrietta Townline Rd - Henrietta, NY
Thi is one of at least 8 cobblestone houses in Henrietta, and two on Rush Henrietta Townline Rd. It is a simple colonial with a barn-plank sided addition on the east side. Simple center entrance, with the roof gable facing the road.
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Keeping up on your 'Hy-genie'
Anna Flockett
As part of a new mini-series with Nova, a Liverpool-based tech cofoundery that partners with entrepreneurs to turn ideas into successful, scalable tech startups, in sectors including healthtech, fintech and edtech, Startups Magazine caught up with Gavin Delaney CEO, of Hy-genie.
Tell me about your startup and what they do?
Hy-genie is an active monitoring system that allows hospitals to autonomously detect the usage of hand hygiene stations by their medical staff. The system provides real-time insight into staff's hand hygiene behaviour and frequency, without disrupting existing hospital workflows, and minimal interruption to healthcare service.
Hy-genie consists of 3 distinct hardware components: a beacon incorporated into the NHS staff ID badge, a sensor adjacent to a wall-mounted hand gel or soap dispensers and a centrally located base station.
Information on the usage of hygiene stations is uploaded to a dashboard, where staff can view their own performance and to see how they are progressing towards their own performance goals. Fundamentally, the system is able to fit into a typical clinical environment, without any disrupting to the existing workflows of very busy NHS staff.
Where did the idea come from / How long have you been going?
Hy-genie was founded by Dr Richard Cooke, retired consultant medical microbiologist and Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. In his role at Alder Hey, he was responsible for minimising the risks of patients acquiring healthcare associated infections (HCAIs).
It comes as a surprise to most people when they learn that hand hygiene is actually quite poor in hospitals and is a recognised problem in clinical settings worldwide. There have been many attempts to solve the issue at an operational level, such as adding more sanitation units throughout hospitals like hand gel dispensers and washing basins. But, they are not necessarily effective in improving the hand hygiene compliance of clinical staff as it is difficult to keep capture this information accurately.
Richard’s long standing passion for tackling preventable healthcare-associated infections linked to hand hygiene practices, led him to co-found Hy-genie in 2017 with Nova, a tech startup cofoundery based in Liverpool, who provided him with the technical team to build and help scale the startup into a viable business.
What have some of the biggest challenges been?
As with every start-up, we’ve had our hiccups along the way. Firstly convincing people outside the NHS that maintaining good hand hygiene practices is a really important issue that needs to be tackled and warrants investment. Secondly to ensure that NHS staff are on your side by constantly seeking their feedback so that the proposed solution will really help them in their role and will not be seen as a threat. Finally, bringing together the right team with the appropriate technical expertise funded in an appropriate manner for our product development and clinical evaluation.
How have you managed through the COVID-crisis and lockdown?
As a team we have managed quite well, we are all used to working remotely so that posed no problem. We use a remote team of developers and our data is all cloud based so from a technical point of view it has caused us no issues. Richard has been back working in Alder Hey during the crisis and we have thus been able to maintain access to the hospital. However, as with everyone else in the country, the team has been missing some of the face to face contact that we all take for granted in building and maintaining business relationships.
Have you had to make any big changes and how have you pivoted and adapted?
The biggest change we have made is that by the start of April we had developed a new product that was specifically targeted to tackle the spread of Covid-19 on hospital wards. In simple terms this was a scaled back version of our technology platform that we have called Hy-genie Lite. It is smaller, less cumbersome, quicker to deploy, requires less staff training and interaction and is significantly cheaper that the full product.
How has COVID affected your business?
Covid has brought to the forefront of everyone's minds the importance of good hand hygiene. Whilst the advice we are given seems, to many people, to be constantly changing, the consistent message has been to wash our hands. Hygenie-lite puts this front and centre of the fight against Covid. Whilst we have had our challenges as have every business we have also been extremely fortunate in so far as our technology is very much of the moment.
What does the future have in store for you?
As mentioned before, we have just launched our first commercial site in Alder Hey, we hope to expand on this and have entered discussions with several interested parties. Whilst Hygenie-lite is the short term focus we hope to be able to launch a modular upgrade to it that will deploy our full technology seamlessly on top of the Lite system in Q3 this year.
Do you have any advice for other startups out there?
Understand your customer - Too often start-ups fail, not because they have a bad idea, but because they build the wrong thing. The best way to avoid this is regularly getting feedback from both your users and your customer (they’re not always the same person).
It's easier to spend your investment than raise it - Be critical of your expenditure. In a new start-ups, funding will likely be your scarcest resource, so be precise in where you place your bets. Throwing money at the problem is rarely the best solution.
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Nova becomes an equity holding business partner in each of the startups it supports. Its startup success rate is six times higher than the industry average.
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All Games > Early Access Games > Ariel
Intense survival experience based on a Sci-Fi, space terror script. Unravel the story of Ferdinand Ludec as he attempts to escape his fortune. Partially procedural world along with different endings to the story. Hunger, avoiding insanity and extreme weather will only be some of the threats to face.
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Title: Ariel
Genre: Action Games, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access
Developer: Nuclear Fiction
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“The game will be constantly updated, with new features, mechanics and more!
We are small team of developers who have previously worked on Steam and Playstation titles. We are fully committed to this project and we decided to launch Ariel on Steam's Early Access in order to get the right feedback from the right audience. In this way we intend to polish the game mechanics and its essence in accordance to what the project needs based on the player's feedback.”
Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“At least 1 to 2 years, based on the reception of the players, we will continue to update the game until all the features are implemented.”
Full Mechanics Implemented
Full Playable Ending
Many possible endings
VR implementation
Additional perks
Full gameplay almost implemented
Most game mechanics already active
Missing playable ending
Enemy system almost completed
General weather system almost implemented
Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?
“Yes, the complete version of the game would have a little price raise.
The final version of the game and every update is included to Early Access adopters.”
“We plan to raise an organic community based on the feedback that the players provide. We want to get involved with the community regarding what the players want to see in the game, in this way the final product will be appealing to the core section of our community.”
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Ariel is a First/Third person survival experience, story based, Sci-Fi adventure.
Be ready to experience a unique survival adventure as Ferdinand Ludec, a mathematician who is suddenly kidnapped and forced into a drama. Professor Ludec arrives in Ariel, one of Uranus' moons, only to find an entire crew of scientists dead. He is an expert in Electro Mono-Pole theory, and somehow, this knowledge puts him in an extreme situation which will test his inner endurance. Ariel is the name of a black budget project funded by a mysterious group of men. The space station is desolated; all the crew members from the first and second expeditions are dead; you find yourself alone.
With a partially procedurally generated world, along with different endings to the story (Future Implementation), Ariel takes into account the replayability as one of its assets. Hunger, getting tired and avoiding insanity will only be some of the threats to face.
Ariel - There is no way out -
Survival Mechanics
Dozens of items, enemies to hunt down and survival skills will be needed to succeed and escape the isolated moon.
Different types of weapons and upgrades.(Future Implemention)
Internal Stats are displayed in the player's interface, so you can always be aware of your hunger, dehydration, mood etc.
Pressurized station systems, Food and liquid Processors; Manage your resources.
A full open world with mysteries to explore, get lost in Ariel.
Weathers Events; Ariel's climate is always changing.
Environment that reacts according to your decisions.
Space Terror
Different levels of difficulty are considered for the experienced players.
Both First and Third Person modes (Third Person to be implemented in an Early Update).
VR would be implemented in a future update. Ariel is taking into account the whole VR experience. (Future Implementation)
The sound design has been carefully created in accordance to the project's atmosphere and storyline.
The composer wanted to pour down mixed feelings; A Sci-fi OST which was unique, not limiting itself to the standards.
Many experimental, as well as classical sounds merge to find the right atmosphere.
Ariel is being developed by a small team.
- The lead programmer has worked on various projects in the past, such as Kerbal Space Program.
- The second developer is a musician who has experience on Playstation releases. He worked on the 3D models, sound effects, music and story line. He is the producer of the game as well.
Many skilled people have helped us along the way. Ariel is the result of much dedication and commitment. We are very happy with the results, and we can't wait for you to experience the game.
With a tiny budged and a lot of passion, Ariel stands as an indie videogame that we want everybody to play; we think the price range will allow this, encouraging players into Ariel's experience.
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Beer advert starring Armstrong and Miller is banned for ‘insulting the Poles and Irish’
A new TV ad for a beer starring comedians Armstrong and Miller has been banned for making fun of the Poles and Irish.
The sketch for Spitfire ale features the funnymen as RAF characters from their BBC show.
Armstrong asks a Polish soldier if he could work on his nan’s patio and Miller tells him it is “the Paddies what does the building isn’t it.”
The ad has been outlawed by Clearcast, the watchdog which decides which adverts can be broadcast on British TV.
But Kent-based brewers Shepherd Neame said they would still show it online later in ths year.
Jennie McShannon, chief executive of the Federation of Irish Societies, said: “It is disappointing to see once again outdated and unfunny stereotypes being used to sell products.
“In our view this ad reflects badly on consumers of Spitfire, as if they will find these ‘tongue-in-cheek’ assumptions about Irish and Polish people funny.
“Tongue-in-cheek means not to be taken seriously. Where does Spitfire draw a line?”
But Polish national Pawel Kardas, who lives in Kent, said: “I think it is all right – it is funny.
“The thing which is not right is that Polish people do not like it when we are compared to Russia. We really do not like that.”
Brewery spokesman David Netherton said: “The campaign juxtaposes old and new using modern day street language and commentary in a historical setting.
“The Armstrong and Miller RAF pilot characters are the focus of each advert and their stereotypical perceptions and street vernacular is intended to be the comical subject rather than the subject matter itself.”
Spitfire ale was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and markets itself as the bottle of Britain.
FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE ADVERT
Alexander Armstrong: “Listen blud, is you like one of them geezers that’s like a Pole from Poland or Russia or something place like that?”
General Vladimir Zhigorski: “I am General Vladimir Zhigorski, Supreme Commander in Chief of free Polish forces yes.”
Alexander Armstrong: “Only my nan’s patio needs doing and I thought we could do, like, a deal for cash?”
Ben Miller: “Man, you can’t say that, that’s just wrong. That’s like stereotyping a whole people by profession[…] anyway it’s the Paddies what does the building isn’t it?”
Police arrest suspected killer on flight from Thailand after dad-of-two was shot dead
Village dog show banned after pet owners start FIGHTING each other
HeatherTN says:
To quote Detective Inspector Richard Poole of the Saint-Marie Police..
“Oh, for crying out loud…..!”
I bet the Paddies and Polacks don’t give a damn, Christ, man up!
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Star Formations
Nurturing Nature: Artists Engage the Environment
April 9, 2011 EcoArtSpaceBuddhism Images, C Ompassion, Food Agriculture, Knowled, Liberal Arts College, Michele Brody, Moon Cycles, Mystical Texts, Nature Artists, Ny Artists, Pagan Rituals, Patricia Miranda, Species Decline, Star Formations, Theran, Tikkun Olam, Transformative Approaches, Udents, William Meyer, Wn, Xavier Cortada
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Nurturing Nature opened on February 10th, 2011 and runs through April 16th at OSilas Gallery on the campus of Concordia College in Bronxville NY.
Artists in the exhibition include: Eva Bakkeslett, Norway; Vaughn Bell, Seattle; Susan Benarcik, NYC; Michele Brody, NYC; Jackie Brookner NYC; Linda Bryne NYC; Xavier Cortada, Miami FL; Sonja Hinrichsen, Germany; Basia Irland, CO; William Meyer, Westchester, NY; Maria Michails, NYC; Roy Staab WI; Joel Tauber, CA.
Curated by Amy Lipton, ecoartspace and Patricia Miranda, Director OSilas Gallery
Concordia opened 130 years ago as a small Lutheran College. SInce then it has grown from a pre-seminary religious training school to a liberal arts college welcoming students of all faiths. OSilas Gallery Director Patricia Miranda invited me to curate an exhibition on art and the environment. In keeping with the college’s history, we decided the show would include a focus on various spiritual or ethical traditions in relationship to our care of the planet, what Christianity terms Stewardship, Tikkun Olam or repair the world in Judaism and Compassion for all living beings in Buddhism. Images and knowledge of nature can all be found in all ancient spiritual traditions, as well as Biblical and medieval mystical texts and pagan rituals which involve sun and moon cycles, star formations, tides, seasons, animals, gardens and plants. The artists in this exhibition are working with transformative approaches and processes towards a new vision that is ecological, and participates with the living cycles of nature.
The works cover a range of sensibilities and formal styles and address various issues including solar energy, suburban sprawl, species decline, food, agriculture, recycling, water purification and plants for restoration. What all these artists have in common a desire to to bridge the gap between art and life by raising an appreciation of the natural world and by working in a collaborative process with nature. Many of the artists work in an interdisciplinary basis with scientists, botanists and biologists and also participate in community based educational projects where they engage with the public.
Linda Byrne ‘s sculptural installation titled Ghost Net resembles a giant fishing net. Her material (the ubiquitous and life-threatening to marine life), 6-pack plastic ring, tells a tale of our vanishing natural world. She cut and tied the uniform, machine-made rings into strands and, with repetitive action, wove them into a linear shape. Subject, concept, and material coalesce to examine the uneasy relationship that exists between nature and synthetics. Also included are 6 of Byrne’s large scale drawings based on the forms of fishing nets. The series are devoid of color to express the lifeless nets left behind by our ailing fisheries and polluted coastal waters.
Susan Benarcik takes elemental forms of the natural and man made world into her studio and carefully transforms them by stacking, stringing, layering, knotting, and weaving them into dimensional sculpture for public and private spaces. Simple materials become contemplative compositions as they evidence a fondness and respect for the natural world and bring equilibrium to our senses by allowing the nature to become part of our daily cognitive experience. Her work for Nurturing Nature is titled Why Our Hangers made from wire clothes hangers, and string. These materials dictated the final form, which resemble chrysalis, wombs, or droplets, forms that are unique to essential natural processes.
The essence of Michele Brody‘s work is to understand how we live with change and the constant flux of our environment. She invites the viewer to a more openness of sensation through the production of ephemeral installations and living sculptures. Her work titled Grass Skirt Sentinels, use materials including copper pipe, fabric, light, grass seed and water, and are sustainable sculptures that support the growth of plants. During the course of the exhibition the works will transform as they go through a full life life cycle with the use of unique lighting
and a water irrigation system.
Alchemy – The Poetics of Bread by Eva Bakeslett is a beautifully executed and lyrical film about a n activity once ubiquitous in almost every household. Eva is the both the maker and the baker of Alchemy and was brought up in Arctic Norway where baking bread is still common in many homes. Her rhythmical movements and confident touch is rooted to generations of woman baking their bread. The timeless beauty of the process brings baking into the realm of poetry and the art that goes beyond the walls of the gallery and onto our kitchen tables.
Roy Staab is a nomadic artist who has been traveling around the world to make art installations in nature for the past thirty years. His earth-sensitive site-specific works use locally available materials and result in ephemeral earthworks that eventually devolve back into nature. The works can last for days or weeks depending on weather conditions and forces of nature. Since 1979 he has been documenting these works with his own camera immediately upon finishing them. Included in Nuturing Nature are two of Staab’s large scale photographs. Baleen was made in the Northwest Harbor in Gardiner’s Bay (Eastern L.I.) off the Atlantic. Big Round pictured here was created in Denmark in summer of 2008 for a group exhibition on Marbaek Beach near Esbjerg. Staab spends the first few days at the site, studying the landscape and watching the changes of light over the course of the day. When the tide came in he walked along the beach and found a sand-dollar fossil. With that in mind the next morning he walked up the river estuary and found a small bay off the shore in an open area. Using the sand dollar design as inspiration he made the five rays of the fossil and then started to walk around and around in a pattern of his foot steps using his eye for measurement.
Taking the form of a running rickshaw, William Meyers’ Green Rickshaw Project highlights what individuals, businesses and municipalities are doing towards creating sustainability in Westchester County NY. The Green Rickshaw builds a community of its own as it conceptually and physically navigates between actions being taken by organic farmers, locally made products, municipal sustainability initiatives, and home energy audits. Components of the Green Rickshaw include a rickshaw chassis fabricated from recycled bicycle parts, a steel kiosk, reclaimed oak ‘pulls’, zero formaldehyde birch plywood, bamboo flooring, flexible solar panels, a green roof module, a traveling library, and a cell phone recharge station.
Nurturing Nature includes 180 pencil drawings by Xavier Cortada for the first time presented in their entirety Endangered World: LifeWall. In 2009, Cortada created drawings of the 180 Endangered World animals struggling to survive on our planet’s eastern hemisphere and, as a performative work, assumed the identity of the animal by uploading those images online as self-portraits on his facebook profile photo.
A second installation by Cortada titled Reclamation Project includes 180 Atlantic Cedar saplings in clear, water-filled cups arranged in a grid on the gallery windows and mirroring the 180 drawings in the Endangered World Project. The saplings are up for adoption, visitors can sign up to take home an Atlantic White Cedar tree for their yard or neighborhood at the end of the exhibition.
Maria Michails‘ The Handcar Projects are a series of works revolving around issues of industrial agriculture, topsoil erosion and biofuel. The handcar reflects on the history of the train and its impact on economic and urban growth and explores the artist’s interest in energy generating mechanisms in the form of a mode of transportation. On the wall behind the Handcar are a series of small plexiglass houses covered in photographic images of corn. Titled, Off the Grid they reflect the competing economic factors on land use exerted by population growth and urban expansion. The small houses in Off the Grid question the ubiquitous use of this raw material and raise the question of whether we use precious land to feed ourselves, house ourselves or fuel ourselves?
Sonja Hinrichsen has 3 video works/ perfomances of ephemeral works created in nature. In Sun/Moon an environmental installation/performance piece from Wyoming, 2008 the artist chose an open plain to perform a ritual, positioning rocks, one by one, to draw an ancient symbol that has been used by indigenous cultures throughout the world, to represent the sun – as well as the moon. The rocks were coated with a phosphorescent material and glowed for several hours after sunset.
For Paradise Tree, an environmental intervention in Spain, (Sept. 2008), Hinrinchsen tried to find words reflecting what she saw, heard, smelled and experienced and then embroidered these words onto the leaves of a fruit- bearing fig tree.The slow, meditative act of embroidering became a performance, commemorating myths of Moorish times telling of beautiful young women who, while being kept at home, were dreaming of passion and adventure.
Vaughn Bell’s sculptures Personal Biospheres explore the miniaturization of landscape, the separation of one piece of “land” from the whole, and the relationship of care and control that this embodies. A tiny mountain or a small piece of land is suddenly within the scale of the human body, implying a different relationship than the one of awe, alienation or domination that is present in many encounters with our surroundings.
Jackie Brookner has been making sculptural tongues out of soil called Biosculptures™ since 1992. Thes
e works are vegetated water filtration systems that create destinations, restore urban habitat, and reclaim the undervalued resources of stormwater and other polluted water. Early versions of these evolved into soil chairs, where earth can embrace the whole body. “The tongue is a provocative image because it is a part of our selves where our physical and mental functions come together–a place where taste, sex and speech meet–where the dualism of mind and body clearly breaks down”.
Basia Irland‘s A Gathering of Waters: Boulder Creek, Continental Divide to Confluence was created for Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, curated by Lucy Lippard for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. The Backpack/Repository, suspended from beaver-cut aspen, is constructed from recycled truck inner tubes. Objects from the four-month long project contained within the Backpack/Repository include the Logbook, Canteen, video documentary, forty-seven water samples (one for each mile of the creek), watershed maps, and two images of Arapaho Glacier. The Glacier provides most of Boulder’s drinking water, so when it has melted away, where will the residents of this Colorado community obtain their water? This question prompted the artist to create a 250-pound, hand-carved ice book embedded with native riparian seeds – Columbine, Blue Spruce, and Mountain Maple. This ‘ecological text’ is released asthe ice melts in the current. Irland
worked with stream ecologists, river restoration biologists, and botanists to determine the best seeds. When the seeds regenerate and begin to grow along the river, they help with restoration efforts by building the soil, holding banks in place, and stopping erosion.
A beautiful and forlorn tree, stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot. Ignored and neglected. Hit by cars, and starved for water and oxygen. Joel Tauber, a young and amorous man, is drawn to the tree. Outraged by the indignities that the tree is forced to endure, he devotes himself to improving the tree’s life – watering it with giant water bags, installing tree guards to protect it from cars, building giant earrings to celebrate its beauty, lobbying to remove the asphalt beneath its canopy and to protect it with a ring of boulders, and helping the tree reproduce. Sick-Amour functions as a microcosm of the plight of urban trees and of forgotten individuals in general. Sick-Amour culminated as 3 distinct artistic entities: a 12-channel video tree sculpture, a public art project comprised of approximately 150 “tree baby” plantings throughout California, and a 33-minute hybrid love story / documentary film.
Images top to bottom: Installation view with Grass Skirt Sentinels by Michele Brody; Grass Skirt Sentinel by Michele Brody; Why Our Hangers by Susan Benarcik; Big Round by Roy Staab; Green Rickshaw by William Meyers; Endangered World by Xavier Cortada; The Hand Car Project and Off the Grid by Maria Michaels; still from Paradise Tree by Sonja Hinrichsen; Biosphere by Vaughn Bell; and A Gathering of the Waters: Boulder Creek by Basia Irland. For further info please see the website for OSilas Gallery.
ecoartapace is one of the leading international organizations in a growing community of artists, scientists, curators, writers, nonprofits and businesses who are developing creative and innovative strategies to address our global environmental issues. We promote a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and uniquely educational. Our philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems.
Founded in 1997 by Tricia Watts as an art and nature center in development, ecoartspace was one of the first websites online dedicated to art and environmental issues. New York City curator Amy Lipton joined Watts in 1999, and together they have curated numerous exhibitions, participated on panels, given lectures at universities, developed programs and curricula, ad written essays for publications from both the East and West Coasts. They advocate for international artists whose projects range from scientifically based ecological restoration to product based functional artworks, from temporal works created outdoors with nature to eco-social interventions in the urban public sphere, as well as more traditional art objects.
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Jonathan can’t take decision on subsidy removal alone–Rep Asuquo
on: January 04, 2012 In: Other News
04 January 2012, Sweetcrude, CALABAR – A member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, representing the Akamkpa/Biase Federal Constituency in Cross River State, Daniel Asuquo, says President Goodluck Jonathan cannot take decision on fuel subsidy removal alone.
Asuquo, who spoke in Calabar, stated that President Jonathan “does not have the power to sit alone and say there is no subsidy”.
His words: “I am the most vexed on the issue of subsidy removal. I lashed at successive administrations for its failure to build functional refineries in the country.
“The Executive has a responsibility to provide a soft landing for Nigerians who have been traumatised over the years. It is unfortunate that members of the cartel who benefit from the oil subsidy largesse cannot build functional refineries. Rather, they engage in massive importation of petroleum products to the detriment of the masses.
“President Goodluck Jonathan does not have the power to sit alone and say there is no subsidy. It is a collective decision. As the head of the executive he has his own feelings. As far as I am concerned, the issue of subsidy removal is his opinion, but he has the duty to convince the people’s representatives, like me, that subsidy should be removed.”
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USP <800> Raises Awareness of an Obscure Concern
BY SHELLEY R. CARRY
Hazardous Drugs in Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary care workers encounter a plethora of hazards in their daily work. In addition to the animals themselves, which need to be restrained so they don’t inflict injuries, veterinary care workers can be exposed to infectious organisms, bloodborne pathogens, hazardous chemicals, musculoskeletal disorders, workplace violence, fire, radiation, waste anesthetic gases, and noise. Recently, the promulgation of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter 800 standard has led to increased interest in preventing exposure to hazardous drugs in veterinary medicine providers.
When most people hear the term “hazardous drug,” they usually think of chemotherapy drugs administered to patients within a human healthcare setting. Veterinary care workers also administer a fair number of hazardous drugs, albeit to furrier patients with two (or more) legs in some rather unorthodox environments. The potential for exposure to hazardous drugs, and the challenges related to minimizing it, are quite similar in veterinary and human healthcare settings. USP is a nonprofit organization that develops standards for the uniform preparation of drugs to ensure their quality, potency, and purity. USP <800> was developed with the goal of protecting the health and safety of all healthcare workers and patients who may be exposed to hazardous drugs. On December 1, 2019, USP <800> became official, yet informational only until updates to USP chapters <795> and <797> become official. The effective dates for those chapters have yet to be determined. The unique aspect of USP <800> is that its scope is not limited to the pharmacy space: USP <800> is applicable to personnel handling hazardous drugs in all healthcare settings, including pharmacists, nurses, veterinarians, and technicians. USP <800> provides an 18-section framework to help veterinarians protect their staff from exposure to hazardous drugs from the moment the drug enters an organization to the time it leaves, encompassing preparation, administration, use of engineering controls, personal protective equipment, training, and disposal. ENFORCEMENT OF USP <800> The enforcement of USP standards is unclear and varies across local, state, and federal agencies as well as veterinary medicine and pharmacy licensing boards. Veterinary medicine may be practiced by veterinarians licensed by the Board of Veterinary Medicine at private clinics within the local community; veterinary hospitals that offer more specialized services such as oncology, orthopedics, cardiology, and dermatology; and research facilities at universities and specialty schools of medicine, which may employ pharmacists licensed by a separate Board of Pharmacy. If the state Board of Pharmacy has adopted USP standards, the pharmacy licensure process offers opportunities for enforcement, but according to Emily Sorah, director of clinical pharmacy services at North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine and president-elect of the Society of Veterinary Hospital Pharmacists, “this would be rare and likely to occur only in a university setting.” Another avenue of enforcement of USP standards would be through the Board of Veterinary Medicine, but according to an article from the Veterinary Information Network Services, as of February 2018 only four states—Delaware, Georgia, New Mexico, and Washington—had confirmed that they will either be amending or have already incorporated USP <800> language into their state’s veterinary practice act. In Alaska, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Virginia, USP <800> was “under review.” Many states have adopted or are in the process of adopting their own OSHA standards related to hazardous drugs—for example, North Carolina and Washington have adopted OSHA standards, while California has a rule pending—which would impact veterinary care workers. If your state does not have a local OSHA standard specific to hazardous drugs, there is always the OSHA Hazard Communication standard (29 Code of Federal Regulations 1910.1200), which requires employers to provide information about the hazards of each chemical in the workplace; and the OSHA General Duty Clause, which stipulates that each employer furnish to each of its employees a workplace that is free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm. DEFINING “HAZARDOUS DRUG” The foundation for a successful and comprehensive program for safe handling of hazardous drugs is a complete and accurate inventory of hazardous drugs used within the veterinary setting. According to USP <800>, “an entity must maintain a list of hazardous drugs, which must include any items on the current National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) list that the entity handles.” NIOSH defines a drug as hazardous if it causes cancer or embryonic malformations, interferes with the development of the fetus, impairs reproduction, damages organs at low doses, or mutates genetic information within cells. NIOSH regularly reviews drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration and publishes a list of hazardous drugs that meet the agency’s criteria. The list released in 2016 contains 266 hazardous drugs grouped into antineoplastics; non-antineoplastics that meet one or more of the NIOSH criteria for a hazardous drug; and non-antineoplastic drugs that primarily have adverse reproductive effects. (Ed. note: NIOSH released its most current hazardous drug list for public comment on May 1, 2020, too late to be considered for this article.)
The enforcement of USP standards varies across local, state, and federal agencies as well as veterinary medicine and pharmacy licensing boards.
However, as Sorah noted, “The [2016] NIOSH hazardous drug list focuses on human drugs and does not list veterinary-specific drugs.” Jenny Cassibry Fisher, director of education at Practivet, a provider of veterinary equipment, agreed that “the lack of a veterinary-specific hazardous drug list makes it challenging for veterinary providers to identify all the hazardous drugs used within veterinary medicine and that smaller practices do not have the bandwidth to evaluate new drugs to determine if they meet the NIOSH criteria.” Jerald Ovesen, a NIOSH pharmacologist who coordinates the agency’s hazardous drug list, indicated that “although the [2016] NIOSH hazardous drug list is undergoing revisions, it will not contain veterinary-specific drugs at this time, but NIOSH does consider input from the public concerning potential changes to the list.” In lieu of a NIOSH veterinary hazardous drug list, Cassibry Fisher recommends “using the current NIOSH hazardous drug list as the foundation of the facility-specific list and add veterinary-specific drugs that have similar toxicological profiles to the human drugs” on the NIOSH list. BRIDGING THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP Although USP <800> provides an 18-section framework to manage hazardous drugs, the requirements surrounding implementation can be quite overwhelming, especially for small veterinary practices that have limited safety resources. No doubt, Section 5 on facilities and engineering controls is the most challenging section to implement. Section 5 requires substantial capital investment to renovate existing spaces to meet USP <800> containment primary engineering control (C-PEC) requirements such as the installation of appropriate biological safety cabinets within an appropriate containment secondary engineering control (C-SEC). (An example of a C-SEC is a negative-pressure room to protect the worker from exposure to hazardous drugs and protect the preparation from microbial contamination.) Overcoming the renovation hurdle to achieve protection for workers and drug preparation is enough to give even the most experienced design consultant pause. Sorah recommends focusing on low-hanging fruit to minimize exposure to hazardous drugs and consider outsourcing areas or processes where you may not be able to achieve compliance. Many online tools are available to assist in the identification of program gaps; some are listed in the Resources section at the end of this article. CLOSED SYSTEM DRUG-TRANSFER DEVICES Closed system drug-transfer devices, or CSTDs, are readily available supplemental engineering controls that offer an additional level of protection by limiting the aerosolization of hazardous drugs during compounding and administration. Cassibry Fisher recommends “checking with the CSTD distributor to determine if they offer education and training services as part of the product roll-out.” PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT PPE such as chemotherapy-tested gloves, impermeable gowns, head/hair/shoe/sleeve covers, goggles, face shields, and respirators protect workers from surface residues and aerosols generated from handling hazardous drugs during receipt, storage, transport, compounding, administration, deactivation/decontamination/cleaning/disinfection, spill management, and waste disposal. PPE varies by risk of exposure and activity performed. To determine the appropriate PPE, conduct an exposure assessment that reviews dosage, formulation, route of exposure, and frequency and duration of exposure. USP <800> stipulates that “disposable PPE must not be re-used. Reusable PPE must be decontaminated and cleaned after use.” Gloves. Gloves used for compounding and administration of chemotherapy drugs must meet the ASTM International D6978 standard, which tests the permeation (breakthrough) of nine chemotherapy drugs through the glove material over a certain period of time. Although ASTM D6978 gloves are not required when handling non-chemotherapy drugs, it is a best practice to use the ASTM D6978 gloves. If you are uncertain whether your current gloves meet the ASTM D6978 requirements, look on the glove box for the symbol indicating ASTM D6978 testing or contact your distributor or manufacturer for the glove specifications. Users should change gloves every 30 minutes or when torn, punctured, or contaminated, and wash their hands with soap and water after removing gloves. Gowns. Compounding and administration (via injection) of chemotherapy drugs requires the use of a gown that resists the drugs’ permeability. Unfortunately, there is no current test for permeability of chemotherapy drugs on gowns, so manufacturers tend to use chemotherapy drugs as surrogates for ASTM F739, Test Method for Permeation of Liquids and Gases Through Protective Clothing Materials Under Conditions of Continuous Contact. USP <800> recommends using “disposable gowns made of polyethylene-coated polypropylene or other laminate materials [that] offer better protection than those made of uncoated materials.” When in doubt, review the manufacturer specifications, especially for isolation gowns, which typically are not made with polyethylene-coated polypropylene or other laminate materials. As with gloves, gowns are required when handling non-chemotherapy hazardous drugs. The use of gowns made with polyethylene-coated polypropylene or other laminate materials, though not required, is a best practice. Change gowns per manufacturer recommendations or every two to three hours in the absence of manufacturer recommendations. Eye and face protection. USP <800> states that “appropriate eye and face protection must be worn when there is a risk for spills or splashes of hazardous drugs or hazardous drug waste materials when working outside of a C-PEC (e.g., administration in surgical suite, working at or above eye level, or cleaning a spill).” Use of eye and face protection is especially important when veterinarians administer electrochemotherapy (delivery of chemotherapy drugs through electric pulses to tumors) on large animals, as this work tends to be above eye level. A common misconception when working with hazardous drugs that present a potential splash hazard to the eyes and face is that the use of safety glasses is adequate. Safety glasses are similar in shape to prescription glasses and sunglasses—they have open sides that allow a splash to reach the eyes above, under, or around the lenses. Chemical safety goggles that seal to the face on all sides are the appropriate type of protection from splash hazards coupled with a face shield to prevent splashes to the face. Another misconception is that a face shield is adequate protection in lieu of eye protection. As with safety glasses, a splash can enter the eyes and face through the openings above, under, and around the face shield. Respiratory protection. An exposure assessment should be conducted to determine which tasks require respiratory protection and which type is appropriate. In addition, ensure that you follow the OSHA respiratory protection standard (29 CFR 1910.134), which requires medical clearance, fit testing, and training for those tasks that require respiratory protection. EDUCATION AND TRAINING The OSHA hazard communication standard (29 CFR 1910.1200) requires that all employees who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals must be trained prior to their initial assignment on how to work safely with the hazard. USP <800> essentially reinforces this requirement, but it is specific to working with hazardous drugs and requires reassessment at least every 12 months. Sorah tackled the training dilemma by developing online learning modules to provide quick and efficient training with standardized content for many staff who handle hazardous drugs. “Boards of pharmacy typically also prefer an observational checklist demonstrating understanding and skills,” Sorah said, adding that, at North Carolina State, the observational checklist is independent of online training. But she cautioned that “training through staff meetings is likely more efficient in small clinic settings.” Quick wins with low-hanging fruit can also be achieved through labeling of hazardous drugs, obtaining safety data sheets, and procuring spill kits. Sorah recommends “focusing on the ‘must’ versus the ‘should’ language of USP <800>, and remember that the implementation of USP <800> is a learning process and to remain flexible in workflows to achieve proper compliance.” SHELLEY R. CARRY, CIH, CSP, is principal consultant at Kaiser Permanente. She can be reached at . Acknowledgments: The author thanks Jerald L. Ovesen, PhD; Jenny Cassibry Fisher, RVT, VTS-Oncology; and Emily Sorah, PharmD, RPh, DICVP, FACVP, FSVHP, for their contributions to this article. Send feedback to The Synergist.
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ASTM International: ASTM D6978 - 05(2019), Standard Practice for Assessment of Resistance of Medical Gloves to Permeation by Chemotherapy Drugs (2019). ASTM International: F739-12e1, Standard Test Method for Permeation of Liquids and Gases through Protective Clothing Materials under Conditions of Continuous Contact (2012). California OSHA: Occupational Exposure to Antineoplastic Drugs. CriticalPoint: 2020 USP <797> & <800> Compliance Study and Gap Tool. HazMedSafety.com: “Self-Assessment of Safe Handling Practices for Hazardous Drugs,” www.hazmedsafety.com. NIOSH: NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings, 2016 (2016). North Carolina OSHA: 13 NCAC 07G.0101, Handling of Antineoplastic Agents. OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection. OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Toxic and Hazardous Substances, Hazard Communication. USP: United States Pharmacopeia General Chapter 800, Hazardous Drugs — Handling in Healthcare Settings (PDF, 2016). VIN News Service: “Veterinary Profession Mulls Implementing USP 800” (February 2018). Washington OSHA: WAC 296-62-500 Hazardous Drugs (PDF).
Veterinarians and COVID-19
In April, CDC issued interim guidance to protect veterinary providers from COVID-19. Although CDC is aware of a small number of animals reported to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 after close contact with people who have COVID-19, at this time there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus. Review the interim guidelines on CDC's website.
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Tuesday Reads: Larry Klayman v. NSA; CBS’ 60 Minutes v. Truth; and Police v. Foreign Diplomats
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Out of Town News, Harvard Square, 1957
Good Morning!!
Our weird winter weather is continuing. This morning’s temperature outside my house is zero degrees! And we’re expecting five more inches of snow this afternoon, most of it during the afternoon rush hour. I guess all I can do is grin and bear it.
Now let’s see what’s happening in the news today.
Lots of people are excited about the ruling yesterday by US District Court Judge Richard Leon that NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records is “likely unconstitutional,” but the decision is on hold pending appeal by the Feds and as Reuters notes this morning, SCOTUS is probably going to have the final say on what happens to NSA surveillance programs following revelations from the massive trove of data stolen by Edward Snowden and passed to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.
“This is the opening salvo in a very long story, but it’s important symbolically in dispelling the invincibility of the metadata program,” said Stephen Vladeck, a national security law expert at the American University law school.
Vladeck said 15 judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have examined Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, the provision of law under which the data collection takes place, without finding constitutional problems. “There’s a disconnect between the 15 judges on the FISA court who seem to think it’s a no-brainer that Section 215 is constitutional, and Judge Leon, who seems to think otherwise.”
Vladeck said there is a long road of court tests ahead for both sides in this dispute and said a higher court ultimately could avoid ruling on the big constitutional issue identified by Leon. “There are five or six different issues in these cases,” Vladeck said.
Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law, predicted Leon’s decision was highly likely to be reversed on appeal. He said the collection of telephone metadata — the issue in Monday’s ruling — already has been addressed and resolved by the Supreme Court.
Maybe the solution would be to repeal the Patriot Act? Anyway, I think it’s important to note that this lawsuit was brought by Larry Klayman, a certified right wing nut who used to head Judicial Watch and now runs something called Freedom Watch.
Here’s a little background on Klayman from The New York Times:
In the 1990s, he filed numerous lawsuits against President Bill Clinton and his administration, alleging a litany of personal and professional transgressions. Mr. Klayman later nettled Vice President Dick Cheney over his secret energy policy meetings and claimed that members of George W. Bush’s administration might have known in advance of the 2001 anthrax attacks in Washington.
More recently, Mr. Klayman, who has been called “Litigious Larry,” sued OPEC, accusing oil-rich nations of price fixing and of trying to “bring Western economies to their knees.” And he sued Facebook and its founder for $1 billion when, he said, it was too slow to take down a web page that threatened Jews with death.
The guy is a weirdo, so I have to wonder what it was that convinced a conservative Bush-appointed judge like Leon. And will ne be able to convince our right wing Supreme Court? I’d love to see NSA reined in, but I have serious doubts as to whether it will happen.
More on Klayman:
Mr. Klayman is a fixture of sorts in Washington. He founded, and then parted ways, with the conservative interest group Judicial Watch, which continues litigating grievances despite Mr. Klayman’s bitter departure. (He sued Judicial Watch, too, accusing it of breach of contract and other offenses.) His 2009 book is titled “Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment.”
Mr. Klayman has not spared the current Democratic administration. At a Tea Party rally in October, he urged conservatives “to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.”
Last year, Mr. Klayman filed a lawsuit in Florida arguing that Barack Obama was ineligible to be president because “neither Mr. Obama, nor the Democratic Party of Florida, nor any other group has confirmed that Mr. Obama is a ‘natural born citizen’ since his father was a British subject born in Kenya and not a citizen of the United States.”
A little more on the case from Politico:
On June 6, just a day after the Guardian report [on Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA phone data collection], Klayman filed suit in Washington on his own behalf and on behalf of two clients — Charles and Mary Ann Strange, parents of a Navy SEAL killed in a disastrous helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2011….
Klayman said he and Charles Strange were being targeted by the government because of their claims relating to Strange’s son’s death, which include a complaint that a Muslim imam cursed the dead SEAL team members during a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base.
“My colleagues have received text messages I never sent,” Klayman told the judge. “I think they’re messing with me,” he said, referring to the government.
Klayman implored the judge to rule against the NSA program not only on legal grounds but in order to avert what the conservative gadfly said was a violent revolution on the verge of breaking out due to the federal governments [sic] unbridled use of power.
“We live in an Orwellian state,” Klayman said, warning that citizens angry about surveillance were about to “rise up.”
If litigation fails, “the only alternative is for people to take matters into their own hands,” he told Leon.
I wonder what parts of these arguments convinced Judge Leon?
Despite the weirdness, Charles Pierce is cheering Leon’s decision:
No matter what you think of Snowden, or Glenn Greenwald, and no matter what you think of what they did, this ruling does not happen if the NSA doesn’t let a contractor walk out of the joint with the family jewels on a flash drive. This ruling does not happen if we do not know what we now know, and we don’t know any of that unless Snowden gathers the data and leaks it to the Guardian. This entire country was founded after a revolution that was touched off to a great extent by the concept of individual privacy. I can forsee it becoming common practice, to use the best VPN service available to protect ourselves and our famillies.
Read all about it at the Esquire link.
I know it’s difficult for some males to understand this, but if Americans do have a right to privacy, then American women should also have that right in making decisions about what happens to their bodies–they should be able to choose whether or not and/or when to have a child. Therefore, they should have access to birth control and abortion without the interference of the state. If women–who represent more than 1/2 of the U.S. population–can’t have privacy; then there is a very big disconnect in the law that needs to be clarified. Are women people? Are they citizens? Griswald and Roe were also decided on the basis of privacy.
After their fluff piece on NSA on Sunday, CBS’ 60 Minutes announced yesterday that Lara Logan, who was “suspended” after she hosted an utterly false report on the Benghazi attacks, will be returning to the program next year. Politico’s Dylan Byers:
Logan and McClellan took leave following public pressure over an Oct. 27 report in which security contractor Dylan Davies claimed to have been present and active at the Sept. 11 raid on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Reports later indicated that Davies had told both his contractor and the FBI that he was not present at the compound on the night of the attack. Logan later apologized and “60 Minutes” retracted the story.
Despite public criticism and internal frustrations among some members of the “60 Minutes” team, CBS News chairman and “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager decided to stand by Logan. Earlier this month, he held a meeting with CBS News staff in which he defended the 42-year-old journalist, saying that as EP he was ultimately responsible for failing to catch the mistake.
As an antidote, I recommend reading TBogg’s take on this decision at Raw Story: Lara Logan is tan, rested and ready to come back and be kind of bad at her job again.
Last week, it was revealed that LA Sheriff’s Office deputies who have been indicted by a Grand Jury had illegally arrested and “roughed up” two foreign diplomats in 2011. From the LA Times:
An Austrian consulate official was improperly arrested and searched by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies at the Men’s Central Jail, according to four indictments filed against 18 department officials.
The incident occurred in 2011 when the official and her husband were visiting an inmate who was an Austrian national….
The Austrian consul’s husband was arrested outside the jail because he had walked near the doors going into the visiting center, according to one of the indictments unsealed Monday.
When the consul requested to speak to a supervisor about her husband’s arrest, she too was placed in handcuffs and arrested, even though she had committed no crime and would have been immune from prosecution, the indictment said.
The couple were taken to a deputy break room and searched, the indictment said.
Read more details at the link. And from Firedoglake, Peter Van Buren explains why this is so outrageous:
One of the primary jobs for any embassy or consulate abroad is the welfare of its citizens. Indeed, many of the first diplomatic outposts abroad were set up to protect sailors and merchants. This work typically includes visiting one’s citizens in foreign jails, a task young diplomats around the world conduct. As a State Department foreign service officer myself for 24 years, I must have done this hundreds of times. But no matter how many times I did it, it was always an unsettling feeling to walk into a jail, go through security into a cell or holding room, and then walk back out.
Getting out, and being treated properly inside, was however more than an act of faith on my part. Diplomats abroad are protected people; under both formal treaties and long-established traditions (“diplomatic immunity”), a country should not mess around with another’s diplomats. Take a look at Iran– over thirty years since the kidnapping of American diplomats in Tehran, our two countries still are a long, long way from reestablishing relations.
I once safely visited in an underground facility of an Asian country’s secret police an American Citizen who likely had been tortured. The system generally works everywhere, from first world countries to crappy police states in the developing world. However, one rough area where it does not work is in Los Angeles.
Please read the rest if you can.
Today we learn that the NYPD also abused a foreign diplomat. The woman, a deputy consul general at the Indian embassy in NYC was arrested and handcuffed on the street and then subjected to a strip search at police headquarters. From The Guardian:
Bulldozers have removed security barriers outside the US embassy in Delhi as a diplomatic row prompted by the arrest of an Indian diplomat on visa fraud charges in New York intensified.
Devyani Khobragade, India‘s deputy consul general in New York, was charged last week with making false statements on an application for her housekeeper to live and work in the United States.
India’s national security adviser on Tuesday called the treatment of Khobragade “despicable and barbaric” and the country’s foreign secretary summoned the US ambassador. Politicians – including Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and vice chairman of the ruling Congress party, and Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu nationalist opposition BJP – refused to meet a visiting US congressional delegation.
The removal of the barriers was one of a slew of retaliatory actions taken by the Indian government as outrage at the arrest grew, including the withdrawal of import clearances and special airport passes. The incident has become a major story in India, dominating TV bulletins.
The false statements were that Khobragade had agreed to pay the housekeeper the New York minimum wage ($9.25), but had agreed privately with the woman that her actual salary would be only 1/3 that amount.
From NDTV All India:
Furious with the US for the arrest and alleged strip search of its high-ranking diplomat Devyani Khobragade, India today retaliated with a slew of measures to pare down the privileges of American diplomats. (10 latest developments)
US diplomats in consulates across India have been asked to surrender identity cards issued to them and their families, which entitle them to special privileges. India has also withdrawn all airport passes for consulates and import clearances for the embassy.
The Delhi police removed barricades outside the sprawling US embassy in the capital.
Ms Khobragade was subjected to a humiliating strip search and was kept in a cell with drug addicts after her arrest for alleged visa fraud in New York last week. (Read) Noel Clay, a spokesperson for the US State Department, told NDTV that standard procedures had been followed during Ms Khobragade’s arrest.
The US has implied that she enjoyed only limited immunity.
As part of its reciprocal measures, India is asking for details like salaries paid to Indian staff employed in US consulates, including those working as domestic helps with the families of American officials.
It seems that, between the NSA revelations and the increasing use of police state tactics by law enforcement, the US is managing to alienate much of the rest of all the world.
I’m out of space, so I’ll wrap this up. Now it’s your turn. What stories are you focusing on today? Please post your links in the comment thread and have a great day!
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Monday Reads: Some Populist Pokes at the Eyes of the Privileged
Posted: June 17, 2013 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: morning reads | Tags: corporate corruption, environmental destruction, reprouductive rights, right to privacy | 51 Comments
I thought I’d take a few looks at what should be done differently in this country if we indeed we’re interested in progressing as an entire nation. It seems these days the only folks that progress are the politicians and their owners. So, hold on here, we go.
Why is no one calling for an investigation of Booze Allen Hamilton?
Booz Allen reacted with anger in a press statement released hours later:
“News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking, and if accurate, this action represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm.”
Core values? Let’s examine Booz Allen Hamilton’s track record.
In February 2012, the US air force suspended Booz Allen from seeking government contracts after it discovered that Joselito Meneses, a former deputy chief of information technology for the air force, had given Booz Allen a hard drive with confidential information about a competitor’s contracting on the first day that he went to work for the company in San Antonio, Texas. US air force legal counsel concluded (pdf):
“Booz Allen did not uncover indications and signals of broader systemic ethical issues within the firm. These events caused the air force to have serious concerns regarding the responsibility of Booz Allen, specifically, its San Antonio office, including its business integrity and honesty, compliance with government contracting requirements, and the adequacy of its ethics program.”
It should be noted that Booz Allen reacted swiftly to the government investigation of the conflict of interest. In April that year, the air force lifted the suspension – but only after Booz Allen had accepted responsibility for the incident and fired Meneses, as well as agreeing to pay the air force $65,000 and reinforce the firm’s ethics policy.
Not everybody was convinced about the new regime. “Unethical behavior brought on by the revolving door created problems for Booz Allen, but now the revolving door may have come to the rescue,” wrote Scott Amey of the Project on Government Oversight, noting that Meneses was not the only former air force officer who had subsequently become an executive in Booz Allen’s San Antonio office.
So, corruption is rampant in these organizations that only exist to expand government destruction of civil liberties. But, let’s not forget that a lot of these organizations also are responsible for our economic bad health. Rampant corruption is part and parcel of the financial industry. As our ability and desire to produce real stuff has fallen, so our national experience shows we have gambling houses for financial institutions eager for extraordinary returns. And, it’s all for profits of a few.
This reminds us of something I fear is often forgotten – that our economic troubles did not begin with the financial crisis of 2007-08 but rather pre-dated them.
My chart shows this. It shows that firms were loath to invest long before the crisis. Capital spending fell relative to retained profits in the early 00s and stayed very low by historical standards. This reflects the “dearth of domestic investment opportunities” in western economies of which Ben Bernanke spoke in 2005. This is, of course, a cause of the weak income growth of which the IFS speaks; firms’ reluctance to spend held down wage and employment growth. The “Great Moderation” might have led to irrational exuberance in financial markets, but it certainly did not unleash a boom in corporate animal spirits and real investment.
In fact, one could argue – as Ravi Jagannathan has (pdf) – that the financial crisis is not the cause of our woes but rather a symptom of this underlying problem. The story goes something like this.
After 1997, Asian economies wanted to run big current account surpluses, either as a policy of export-led growth or in order to rebuild reserves depleted by the 97 crisis. By definition, this meant they were net savers, which put incipient downward pressure upon global interest rates. In a parallel universe, these high savings might have financed a boom in real capital spending in the west. But because firms couldn’t see good investment opportunities, this didn’t happen.Instead, the lower interest rates fuelled a housing boom and the hunt for yield led to strong demand for mortgage derivatives. These bubbles in housing and derivatives then burst, giving us the crisis.
In this way, we’ve seen what Marx saw in the 19th century – that a lack of profitable opportunities in the real economy pushes people down “the adventurous road of speculation, credit frauds, stock swindles, and crises.”
Our state is a pretty good example of what happens to people and the natural environment if the only driving force in a decision is profit of the owners. Here’s some information on the chemical plant explosions we recently experienced near the place I taught for a few years during grad school.
Back-to-back explosions at chemical plants only miles apart along the Mississippi River have given pause to those who live in the shadows of America’s dirtiest industries.
On Thursday, an explosion at a chemical plant in Geismar, La., owned by Williams Cos. Inc. led to two deaths and injuries – some serious – to dozens of others. Then late Friday, another explosion at a chemical plant just a few miles away in Donaldsonville claimed one life and injured eight people after a nitrogen tank exploded during an offload.
“The incident involved the rupture of an inert nitrogen vessel during the off-loading of nitrogen,” a news release from the company, CF Industries, said. “There was no fire or chemical release nor is there any threat or hazard posed to the community.”
Hundreds of industrial plants, many that either produce or consume poisonous and explosive chemicals, line rivers and bayous throughout the South, but in few places as heavily as around New Orleans and the Mississippi River.
Some 311 chemical manufacturers employing 15,727 people currently exist in the parishes that line the Mississippi from Baton Rouge to its mouth. That number excludes the large numbers of oil refineries and plastics manufacturers in the area.
To be sure, locals welcome jobs that pay an average of more than $40,000 a year. But explosions like the ones that roiled the river this week remind many of the dangers, both to human life and the environment, such jobs bring.
I’d like you to read a story about the Tulane Environmental Law Center and how the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction–a mentor of Bobby Jindal–tried to destroy it in an effort to let a Japanese chemical company locate here. It gives you an idea of what we’re up against when trying to protect the people, the wild life, and the natural beauty of the nation’s Mississippi delta and Gulf area.
In late 1996, the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic (the Clinic) took on representation of a community group called St. James Citizens for Jobs and the Environment in a controversial challenge to Shintech Inc.’s proposed construction of a polyvinyl chloride plant in Convent, Louisiana. After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a petition to veto the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s issuance of an air permit to Shintech,1 Shintech changed its plans and located a downsized facility elsewhere in Louisiana.2
The Shintech dispute sparked a national controversy, featured on national television news shows and, ultimately, in a cable-television movie called “Taking Back Our Town.”3 A common postscript to retellings of the Shintech story is a statement that the Clinic essentially paid for its contribution to St. James Citizens’ success with its life—suffering retaliatory restrictions that supposedly would prevent it from ever representing a group like St. James Citizens again.4 In fact, the Clinic has continued to represent St. James Citizens and similar clients and continues to enjoy its fair share of successes and to weather its share of defeats.5
We continue to have efforts to suppress protection of people, animals and environments from the abuse of the petro-chemical industry. They create huge costs to taxpayers, people and the environment, yet many governments refuse to ensure these costs are recoverable and the loss of life and natural gifts prevented.
No where has the suppression of so many by so few been felt than in the area of women’s health. No less than 300 bills have been introduced this year that restrict women’s access to birth control, abortion, and basic family planning and health care.
State legislatures across the country have enacted an avalanche of restrictions that deny women of their reproductive rights. Just this year alone, more than 300 anti-abortion measures have been introduced in the states — in direct violation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.
The anti-abortion legislation is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s right to make decisions about her body and health. At least 185 anti-abortion laws have been enacted since 2011, and the likelihood that more will be passed this year are very real.
“Half of pregnancies are unintended,” Elizabeth Nash told Lawyers.com. She is the state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute. “Instead of trying to figure out why and preventing women from being put in the situation to need an abortion, we’re doing nothing but putting all these restrictions in place to make it harder to access services when they are needed.”
The laws are the result of the 2010 elections, when droves of conservative and tea party candidates were voted into the state legislatures. The result has been a surge of radical and unconstitutional laws that choke off reproductive rights.
Eleven states have passed abortion bans, making it illegal to get an abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization, or as early as 12 weeks in Arkansas and six weeks in North Dakota. Women are often unaware they are pregnant within this time. Roe v. Wade provides a right to abortion up to 24-26 weeks, when the fetus is viable.
Eight states have passed “personhood” laws, giving the zygote legal rights. These laws could make an abortion a crime — regardless of rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Eight states require the doctor to give the woman false information, such as requiring doctors to tell women that having an abortion increases their risk of suicide. Scientific research refutes this claim.
In 26 states, women are required to receive anti-abortion “counseling” followed by a waiting period before they’re allowed to undergo an abortion.
There is a pattern of increased control of individual rights and of usurping national assets in the name of corporate profits. It’s been systemically enshrined in law at all levels of government. It is hard to be complacent in the face of these assaults. We await this week the decision of the Supreme court on issues central to GLBT rights in this country. It seems there are few government institutions that aren’t corrupted by religious nuts, anti-science nuts, and profit-addicted corporations. Whatever happened to our rights?
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Anti-Abortion Senator Endorses Roe v. Wade Reasoning
Posted: February 23, 2013 | Author: bostonboomer | Filed under: just because, Republican politics, U.S. Politics, Women's Rights | Tags: abortion, Charles Grassley, Indiana State Senate, Mike "Two Times" Pence, right to privacy, Roe v. Wade, transvaginal ultrasound | 23 Comments
I’m getting a slow start this morning, so I thought I’d put up an open thread to get us started. This story is a couple of days old so you may have heard about it already, but I just had to take note of it anyway.
On Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Chariton Iowa, Senator Charles Grassley got a strange question about some wingnut conspiracy theory from one of his constituents: From the Atlantic Wire:
Constituent: They’re saying that they’re going to start, in 2013, putting microchips in government workers and then any kid that enrolls in school, starting in pre-school, will have a microchip implanted in them so that they can track them. Is that true?
Senator Grassley’s response was absolutely priceless:
Grassley: No. First of all, nothing can be done to your body without your permission….It’d be a violation of the constitutional right to privacy if that were to happen.
In case Grassley hasn’t thought about it that carefully, forcing a woman to have a baby certainly qualifies as doing something to her body without her permission. Actually, there is no right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution, but the Roe v. Wade decision created one; and Roe could certainly be used as precedent in any case relating to violations of body integrity.
In fact, the majority opinion of Roe v. Wade clearly states:
The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however, going back perhaps as far as Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250, 251 (1891), the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution…
Roe v. Wade, of course, established the right to privacy — the kind that might spare you from a government conspiracy to embed microchips that might reveal your entire health history. Or, you know, the kind of privacy that allows women to obtain a legal abortion in this country:
This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
Grassley is a long-time opponent of abortion rights and advocate of overturning Roe v. Wade, and Naral gives him a zero rating on pro-choice issues. If Roe were overturned, where does Grassley think he’d find a constitutional “right to privacy”?
And let’s not forget the recent Republican obsession with forcing women to undergo vaginal probes before they can have an abortion.
Not to be outdone, the Indiana State Senate has passed a new law that requires a woman to have two (2) ultrasounds–before and after her “abortion”–even if she is just taking RU 487, or the morning after pill! The bill doesn’t specific intravaginal ultrasounds, but they would, in effect, be required, since most abortions are performed when the embryo or fetus is too small to be detected by a traditional ultrasound.
I’m not sure what Grassley’s position on these ultrasound laws is, but someone should definitely ask him. If forcing a woman to have two transvaginal probes in order to get a pill doesn’t qualify as the government doing something to “your body without your permission,” what does Grassley believe would qualify as a violation of a woman’s privacy? Maybe because the town hall questioner was a man, he was suggesting that only Americans with penises have privacy rights?
As the inimitable Charles Pierce once wrote about Senator Grassley in a different context:
This is also funny because, you see, if there’s one thing that Chuck Grassley is noted for, it is that he is the most spectacular box of rocks, the most bulging bag of hammers, in the history of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body. If brains were atom bombs, he couldn’t blow his nose. If his IQ was one point lower, they’d have to water him. As the great Dan Jenkins once put it in another context, if the man had a brain, he’d be out in the yard playing with it.
I’ll have a Saturday Reads post up a little later on.
High Tech Stalking
Posted: March 31, 2012 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: Women's Rights | Tags: Apple Aps, right to privacy, social media | 16 Comments
It seems there’s an ap for that. It’s called Girls All Around Me and the details as explained by the site Cult of Mac are chilling reminders of the dark side of social media. The functionality of the ap depends on how open your settings are on Foursquare and Facebook.
“So let’s say I’m a bro, looking to go out for a night on the town and pick someone up. Let’s say I’m going to the Independent around the corner, and checking it out ahead of time, I really like the look of this girl Zoe — she looks like a girl I might want to try to get with tonight — so I tap her picture for more information, see what I can find out about here.”
I tapped on Zoe. Girls Around Me quickly loaded up a fullscreen render of her Facebook profile picture. The app then told me where Zoe had last been seen (The Independent) and when (15 minutes ago). A big green button at the bottom reading “Photos & Messaging” just begged to be tapped, and when I did, I was whisked away to Zoe’s Facebook profile.
“Okay, so here’s Zoe. Most of her information is visible, so I now know her full name. I can see at a glance that she’s single, that she is 24, that she went to Stoneham High School and Bunker Hill Community College, that she likes to travel, that her favorite book is Gone With The Wind and her favorite musician is Tori Amos, and that she’s a liberal. I can see the names of her family and friends. I can see her birthday.”
“All of that is visible on Facebook?” one of the other girls in our group asked.
“More, depending on how your privacy settings are configured! For example, I can also look at Zoe’s pictures.”
I tapped on the photo album, and a collection of hundreds of publicly visible photos loaded up. I quickly browsed them.
“Okay, so it looks like Zoe is my kind of girl. From her photo albums, I can see that she likes to party, and given the number of guys she takes photos with at bars and clubs at night, I can deduce that she’s frisky when she’s drunk, and her favorite drink is a frosty margarita. She appears to have recently been in Rome. Also, since her photo album contains pictures she took at the beach, I now know what Zoe looks like in a bikini… which, as it happens, is pretty damn good.”
My girlfriend scowled at me. I assured her Zoe in a bikini was no comparison, and moved on.
“So now I know everything to know about Zoe. I know where she is. I know what she looks like, both clothed and mostly disrobed. I know her full name, her parents’ full names, her brother’s full name. I know what she likes to drink. I know where she went to school. I know what she likes and dislikes. All I need to do now is go down to the Independent, ask her if she remembers me from Stoneham High, ask her how her brother Mike is doing, buy her a frosty margarita, and start waxing eloquently about that beautiful summer I spent in Roma.”
Author John Brownlee calls this a “creepy ap”. I’d say it’s dangerous. I think about all that information out there on youngest daughter’s Facebook and then consider she’s smack dab in the middle of a university campus and its student slums 24-7. My mother’s radar is off the scale.
Girls Around Me is a standard geolocation based maps app, similar to any other app that attempts to alert you to things of interest in your immediate vicinity: whether it be parties, clubs, deals, or what have you. When you load it up, the first thing Girls Around Me does is figure out where you are and load up a Google Map centered around your location. The rest of the interface is very simple: in the top left corner, there’s a button that looks like a radar display, at the right corner, there’s a fuel meter (used to fund the app’s freemium model), and on the bottom left is a button that allows you to specify between whether you’re interested in women, men or both.
It’s when you push the radar button that Girls Around Me does what it says on the tin. I pressed the button for my friends. Immediately, Girls Around Me went into radar mode, and after just a few seconds, the map around us was filled with pictures of girls who were in the neighborhood. Since I was showing off the app on a Saturday night, there were dozens of girls out on the town in our local area.
Fortunately, an update to this piece shows that FourSquare actually read it and stopped the access to the ap. However, it should serve as a cautionary tale about checking exactly what your social media sites are sharing with other vendors. As the mother of daughters, I’m going to go wicked crazy making sure their privacy settings are set to kill.
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ZAKAT AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER AND POVERTY IN ISLAMIC WORLDSTUDENTS
Categories: Hunger In The Third WorldIslamPovertyZakat
ZAKAT: AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER AND POVERTY IN ISLAMIC WORLDSTUDENTS NAME: ABDIHAKIM SHARIF ABDIKADIRSTUDENT ID: 10091240COURSE NAME/CODE: THS 401A proposal submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirement of the award of bachelor degree of Islamic Banking, Economics and Finance at Islamic Online University.April, 2019Zakat: An effective tool to alleviate hunger and poverty in Islamic WorldAbstractHunger and Poverty are among the major challenges confronted by the Islamic world. Eradication of extreme hunger and poverty is the number one Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the world every year.
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Yet, no substantial progress was made. Zakat, an Islamic economic institution established in 9AH is an effective tool to alleviate hunger and poverty in Islamic World. This paper intends to explore, how Zakat if used effectively can help alleviate hunger and poverty in Islamic World. Key words: Zakat Institution, Effectiveness, Hunger and Poverty Alleviation, Islamic Economic System.1.0 Introduction Hunger and poverty is deepening the crises in the world. Governments and Aid organizations are yet to end this economic crisis not due to inadequate resources but also absence of moral uplift and unsustainability of their programs.
This crisis is not spared in the Islamic world. More than half of OIC member states are categorized as less developed countries. Civil strife and terrorism war in Islamic world has displaced more people resulting in famine. States and Aid agencies could not cater for the wellbeing of all the displaced people. Hunger and poverty continues affecting more.Zakat, an Islamic institution has historically proved to solve the problem of poverty in Islamic world.
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During the periods of Umar bin Khattab and Umar bin Abdiaziz, poverty was completely eradicated to such an extent that there was no one to receive Zakat. The ultimate goal of all Islamic teachings is to be a blessing for mankind. This is the primary purpose for which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was sent to this world (Al-Qur’an 21:107). The five basic Maqaasid of the Shariah clearly states what constitutes a blessing for mankind. They are preservation of faith, soul, wealth, dignity and progeny (Auda, 2008).In Islam, poverty is defined as an individual failure to fulfill any of the five basic Shariah Objectives (Maqaasid). of life that is based on Maqasid SyariahZakat falls under wealth as a blessing institution to address income inequality and unjust allocation of resources. This is to ensure man lives in a blessed life free from poverty and hunger. In the Islamic world, significant progress has been made in poverty alleviation. Yet poverty level is high for a considerable number of countries. The number of people who live under $1.25 a day in the OIC member countries is nearly 150 million as of 2002-2010 data. 19 out of the 57 OIC member countries are in the low-income country group with a total population of nearly one-fourth of OIC region. Their combined total GDP is only 4.5 percent of the total GDP of OIC countries. (COMCEC, 2013)1.1 Problem StatementAllah created the world to worship Him alone. I did not create the Jinn and the Mankind except to worship Me. Poverty and Hunger lead man to go astray and worship affluent people. This financial worship degrades man and deteriorates his poverty. Zakat Institution is established to free man from the bondage of worshipping his fellow human to Allah, the creator of all. It has historically proved to solve the problem of poverty and hunger during the periods of Umar bin Khattab and Umar bin Abdiaziz. This paper points out the role of Zakat in alleviating Hunger and Poverty in Islamic world. It describes; Conceptual understanding of Zakat as an Institution of hunger and poverty alleviation. Conceptual understanding of hunger and poverty. OIC states approach to Zakat Grass root Approaches to Zakat1.2 Objectives This paper aims to present a clear understanding of the role of Zakat institution in hunger and poverty alleviation in Islamic world. 1.2.1 Specific Objectives To examine scope of Zakat as an economic pillar of Islam. To describe opportunities of establishing Zakat To find out challenges of establishing Zakat1.3 MethodologyDescriptive approach will be used in this paper to describe concepts and find out the variables determining the relationship between Zakat institution and hunger and poverty problem. The main sources of this study are Islamic Muamalat and Islamic economics. 2.0 Literature Review2.1 Concept of ZakatLinguistically, Zakat means to grow. It also means to purify. The first meaning is construed as to cause growth in wealth or increase in reward. This is supported by the hadith of the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), No wealth decreases because of Sadaqa (Zakat). This implies increase in wealth and multiplication of reward. The second meaning to purify implies purifying the human soul from sins as well the vice of avarice. According to Shariah, Zakat refers to a determined share of wealth prescribed by Allah to be distributed to 8 deserving categories, poor and needy among them. (Hussein, 2017)
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Families in Syria are displaced as a result of loss safety in their areas because of military operations and continuous bombardment, as they leave everything they own and rush to search for a place where the simplest elements of safety are available because so they can survive with their, if you can do that it is considered a great win in Syria.
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Lennox Lewis makes Anthony Joshua offer to clear the air and put an end to their public feud
By Alex McCarthy
16th August 2019, 12:52 pm
Anthony Joshua and Lennox Lewis is the feud no one wanted or expected, but here it is.
This has seemingly stemmed from boxing legend Lewis’ past criticism of how Joshua’s team handled negotiations with Deontay Wilder about a possible undisputed heavyweight title fight.
Anthony Joshua celebrates winning Olympic gold with Lennox Lewis at London 2012
The deal wasn’t completed, but Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn hit back suggesting Lewis ‘had an agenda’ as he worked for TV companies that deal with Wilder.
Joshua then fired back at Lewis and called him a ‘clown’, which didn’t go down well with his compatriot.
Lewis has tried to handle his business respectfully on Twitter and feels Hearn is pitting the two big men against each other.
He is a former undisputed heavyweight champion, something Joshua strives to be and he’ll have his chance to work his way back to that goal when he faces Andy Ruiz Jr in a rematch to win his belts back on December 7.
However, Lewis has suggested an end to their feud and one way to settle things – and it’s not a boxing match, obviously.
AJ has my number if he ever wants to clarify what is being said in the media or show me where im wrong about something. My doors remain open to him, but just know that disrespect is not answer to his frustrations. Gotta go catch a flight now. Bless!
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) August 15, 2019
Lewis tweeted: “AJ has my number if he ever wants to clarify what is being said in the media or show me where I’m wrong about something. My doors remain open to him, but just know that disrespect is not answer to his frustrations. Gotta go catch a flight now. Bless!”
He prefaced his offering of an olive branch with: “He is the first AJ, not the next Lennox Lewis. Like I said, I won’t fall into that trap and be pitted against him. He has a watershed moment in his career coming up and all this only serves as a distraction by the media. Notice how they only led with his comments about me?”
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Joana Vasconcelos has become one the most respected and sought-after artists of the 21st century. She is known for using non-traditional materials, and particularly textiles, to create monumental and expansive works that intrigue, inspire and entertain the viewer: her chandelier decorated with tampons caused a sensation at the Venice Biennale in 2005, and she has since had solo exhibitions at Versailles and Manchester Art Gallery.
Vasconcelos aims to re-present and subvert everyday objects, often manipulating scale and form, and is keenly interested in the role of women and items associated with them. This book focuses on her extraordinary works in textiles. It highlights in particular her ‘Valkyries’ series, vibrant patchwork extravaganzas that weave together knitting and crochet with silk, velvets, recycled clothes and industrially produced textiles embellished with Portuguese tassels, crystals and beads. Enrique Juncosa and Crispin Sartwell offer thoughtful and in-depth overviews of her work and its development over the past fourteen years.
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Enrique Juncosa is a writer and a curator based in Spain. He was director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003-12), and previously deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2000-03) and also deputy director of Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (1998-2000)
Crispin Sartwell is a writer and philosopher, teaching philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Publications include Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity (1998); Six Names of Beauty (2004); Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (2008); Political Aesthetics (2010); and How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism (2014).
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Parents of 4-year-old Palmdale boy originally thought to have drowned arrested
by City News Service • September 26, 2019
Noah Cuatro and parents, Ursula Juarez and Jose Cuatro [Images via gofundme]
PALMDALE – The parents of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy whose death was originally reported as a drowning but led to an investigation of possible child abuse were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder.
Ursula Juarez, 25, and Jose Cuatro, 27, were arrested by Palmdale-area sheriff’s deputies around 8 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26. Jail records show both were being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Noah’s parents reported a drowning in their family pool in the 1200 block of East Avenue S around 4 p.m. July 5, but the boy’s injuries later raised suspicions about how he died. Medical staff found the trauma he had suffered inconsistent with drowning.
The youngster was taken first to Palmdale Regional Medical Center and then to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he was pronounced dead July 6.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced the following week that an investigation was underway into the boy’s death. Villanueva said Noah lived with his parents and three siblings. Authorities said those siblings were taken into protective custody.
The boy’s death raised questions about the actions of county social workers who interacted with the family. Hernandez last month filed a multimillion-dollar damages claim against the county, saying the boy died despite “countless reports of abuse” that had been made to the county Department of Children and Family Services.
“There were at least a dozen calls made to the child abuse hotline and police from people who said they suspected Cuatro and his siblings were being abused,” according to the claim filed on behalf of Hernandez.
DCFS issued a statement last month saying, “At any given time, the Department of Children and Family Services serves more than 34,000 families and vulnerable children in Los Angeles County with an unwavering commitment to pursue child safety every day in our communities. Our 9,000 employees are committed to this mission, and we look to do everything possible to safeguard the children entrusted to our care.
“We cannot comment on any pending claim, litigation or lawsuit involving the department at this time,” according to DCFS.
Hernandez told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year that Noah spent time in various foster homes, and she was one of the people who served as a foster parent for the boy. She told that paper that she would facilitate visits between Noah and his mother, and the boy once begged her not to make him go.
“He’s looking at me, begging me not to let him go, and I had to let him go,” she said.
According to the damages claim filed by Hernandez, Noah was repeatedly removed from his mother’s care, once after she was arrested and another time due to neglect, but each time he was returned to the home.
“In February 2019, a DCFS caseworker noted that Cuatro appeared lethargic and withdrawn,” according to the claim. “There were then three more referrals in March and April, including a report that Cuatro arrived at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar with bruises on his back.”
The claim also contends that in May, a DCFS caseworker filed a 26-page petition to have Noah removed from his parents’ custody. That petition was granted, “but willfully ignored by DCFS,” according to the claim.
The claim also points to redacted DCFS records showing high or very high risk assessments in the case, with one caseworker noting, “There are current concerns for the mother’s mental health.”
“DCFS employees ignored reports that Cuatro and his siblings were abused and in danger,” according to the document. “Instead of protecting Cuatro and his siblings, DCFS continued to place the children with their parents where the children continued to be abused over the course of several years.”
The Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection released a report earlier this month that determined DCFS officials acted “appropriately” in their handling of Noah’s case.
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Re read the article looking to identify Hernandez, geez . This two so called parents should stay locked up and spayed or neutered or both .
$1mn says
These two low IQ cruzados thought they could fool the police.
JD says
Please direct me to the paragraph where the person “Hernandez” is identified/explained/fully named. My eyes must be going.
Or this is a really, very badly written article.
So Palmdale/Lancaster is where DCFS turns a blind eye, huh. Horrific.
Alexis says
JD…I thought it was just me. I read this article four times, and I only see the person “Hernandez” mentioned as the person that filed the multimillion dollar damages claim against the county.
Other articles say “Hernandez” is Noah’s maternal great-grandmother.
Wow,it took this long, really. More Mediocre police work. But what else is expected out here, we have the JV TEAM IN THE SHERRIFS assigned to the AV
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I asked the US government for my immigration file and all I got were these stupid photos
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker / 2 years
“Welcome to the United States of America.”
That’s the first thing you read when you find out your green card application was approved. Those long-awaited words are printed on fancier-than-usual paper, an improvement on the usual copy machine-printed paper that the government sends to periodically remind you that you, like millions of other people, are stuck in the same slow bureaucratic system.
First you cry — then you cry a lot. And then you celebrate. But then you have to wait another week or so for the actual credit card-sized card — yes, it’s green — to turn up in the mail before it really kicks in.
It took two years to get my green card, otherwise known as U.S. permanent residency. That’s a drop in the ocean to the millions who endure twice, or even three times as long. After six years as a Brit in New York, I could once again leave the country and arrive without worrying as much that a grumpy border officer might not let me back in because they don’t like journalists.
The reality is, U.S. authorities can reject me — and any other foreign national — from entering the U.S. for almost any reason. As we saw with President Trump’s ban on foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority nations — since ruled unconstitutional — the highly vetted status of holding a green card doesn’t even help much. You have almost no rights and the questioning can be brutally invasive — as I, too, have experienced, along with the stare-downs and silent psychological warfare they use to mentally shake you down.
I was curious what they knew about me. With my green card in one hand and empowered by my newfound sense of immigration security, I filed a Freedom of Information request with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to obtain all of the files the government had collected on me in order to process my application.
Seven months later, disappointment.
USCIS sent me a disk with 561 pages of documents and a cover letter telling me most of the interesting bits were redacted, citing exemptions such as records relating to officers and government staff, investigatory material compiled for law enforcement purposes and techniques used by the government to decide an applicant’s case.
But I did get almost a decade’s worth of photos, taken by border officials, entering the United States.
Seven years of photos taken at the U.S. border (Source: Homeland Security/FOIA)
What’s interesting about these encounters is that you can see me getting exponentially fatter over the years while my sense of style declines at about the same rate.
Each photo comes with a record from a web-based system called the Customer Profile Management Service (CPMS), which stores from a camera at port of entries all the photos of foreign nationals visiting or returning to the U.S.
Immigration officers and border officials use the Identity Verification Tool (IVT) to visually confirm my identity and review my records at the border and my interview, as well as checking for any “derogatory” information that might flag a problem in my case.
The government’s IDENT system, which immigration staff and border officials use to visually verify an applicant’s identity along with any potentially barring issues, like a criminal record (Source: FOIA)
Everyone’s file will differ, and my green card case was somewhat simple and straightforward compared to others.
Some 90 percent of my file are things my lawyer submitted — my application, my passport and existing visa, my bank statements and tax returns, my medical exam and my entire set of supporting evidence — such as my articles, citations and letters of recommendation. The final 10 percent were actual responsive government documents, and some random files like photocopied folders.
And there was a lot of duplication.
From the choice files we are publishing, the green card process appears highly procedural and offered little to nothing in terms of decision making by immigration officers. Many of the government-generated documents were mostly box-ticking exercises, such as verifying the authenticity of documents along the chain of custody. A single typo can derail an entire case.
The government uses several Homeland Security systems to check my immigration records against USCIS’ Central Index System, and verify my fingerprints against my existing records stored in its IDENT system to ensure it’s really me at the interview.
USCIS’ Central Index System, a repository of data held by the government as applications go through the immigration process (Source: FOIA)
During my adjustment-of-status interview with an immigration officer, my “disposition” was recorded but redacted. (Spoiler alert: it was probably “sweaty and nervous.”)
A file filled out by an immigration officer at an adjustment of status interview, which green card candidates are subject to (Source: FOIA)
Following the interview, the immigration officer checks to make sure that the interview procedures are properly carried out. Homeland Security also pulls in data from the FBI to check to see if my name is on a watchlist, but also to confirm my identity as the real person applying for the green card.
And, in the end, two years of work and waiting came down to a single checked box following my interview. “Approved.”
The final adjudication of an applicant’s green card (Source: FOIA)
It’s no secret that you can FOIA for your green card file. Some are forced to file to obtain their case files in order to appeal their denied applications.
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Times Internet buys majority stake in Taskbucks for $15 million
Tasbucks plans to use the proceeds to build out more ways for companies to leverage access to its five million strong and rapidly growing user base.
NEW DELHI: Times Internet, India’s premier digital products company and part of the Times of India Group, has invested $15 million to acquire a majority stake in Taskbucks, a mobile-only tasks marketplace that matches consumers with brands and enterprises on its unique platform.
“Companies offer tasks to consumers, who are rewarded for completing these micro tasks, via the Taskbucks marketplace,” the two companies said in a statement Monday. Taskbucks is currently Android only, and has reached nearly five-million downloads without marketing, adding over one million new users each month virally.
Taskbucks is ranked in the top 50 Android apps in India, according Google Playstore rankings. The company has set a target to cross 50 million downloads in the next two years, engaging millions of users with a variety of tasks they can perform to earn supplemental income.
Miten Sampat, vice president, Corporate Development at Times Internet, said: “Taskbucks is reducing friction in the connection between consumers and companies, in a way that drives value for both.” Tasbucks plans to use the proceeds to build out more ways for companies to leverage access to its five million strong and rapidly growing user base.
“We will soon launch Taskbucks Pro, a premium version of Taskbucks where users can perform real-world tasks for brands, to earn more. We’ll also be working closely with Times Internet to build our brand and drive growth of our mobile app,” said Kumar Apurva, CEO and the founder of Taskbucks.
Taskbucks currently offers brands the option for app discovery, user retention, referral tasks, offer signups, and social content sharing, as promotions that they can offer consumers. It will soon add crowd-sourced tasks, surveys, opinion polls, offline photo tasks, and many other modules that will provide more variety and options for consumers and advertisers.
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Tonk is located 96 Km. away from Jaipur. This is a quiet town which was ruled by 'Pathans' from Afghanistan. The focal point of Tonk is the Suneri Kothi, the Golden Bungalow. A fairly ordinary looking monument from outside, it has stunningly rich ornamental interiors. There are some interesting buildings that accommodated the British office. Tonk is also famous for its leather and felt industry and one can pick up a good bargain from the markets. The Nawab of Tonk was an avid book lover and built a sizable library of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The Arabic and Persian Research Institute is also located here.
ARABIC PERSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Arabic Persian Research Institute in Tonk is the premier Indian Institute engaged in promotion and furtherance of Arabic and Persian studies. This institute was established by the Government of Rajasthan in 1978 with the objective of preserving and conserving the sources of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts available in Rajasthan.
Some of the important and historical manuscripts are displayed in a separate hall with the name of “Display Hall”. Namda Calligraphy, the art of charming photography, collection of postage stamps etc. are displayed in and art Gallery started in 2002. Calligraphy on human hair, pulse, rice and sesame along with the lines written inside the transparent glass bottles are main attractions for many visitors.
*Source : http://www.rajasthantourism.gov.in/ Please Click Here for Virtral Tour of Arabic Persian Research Institute
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SUNHARI KOTHI, TONK
Sunhari Kothi (Mansion of Gold) is a magnificent hall in the city of Tonk in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
The hall in within the old palace complex, white walls and ceilings are one sumptuous expanse of enamel mirror-work, gilt and painted glass illuminated through stained-glass windows. The entire effect is that of an exquisite piece of enamel jewellery blown up to the size of a hall.
It is said that, it was built by Nawab Mohammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (1867-1930), the Nawab of Tonk, for poetry recitals, dance, and music.
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HATHI BHATA
Situated 30 kilometers from Tonk- Sawai Madhopur Highway, the Hathi Bhata Tonk Rajasthan is one of the beautiful monuments in Rajasthan India. Carved out from a single stone this is a stone elephant which attracts tourists from all over to this place. Indianholiday.com offers online information on Hathi Bhata, Tonk Rajasthan and other tourist attractions of Rajasthan and other parts of India.
Located in the dry and arid zones of Rajasthan, Tonk is a little district in Rajasthan. The Tonk is the administrative headquarters of the state. Bounded by Jaipur and Sawai Madhopur Tonk is one of the biggest producers of sandstone.
BISALDEO TEMPLE & BISALPUR DAM
Bisalpur or Vigrahapura was founded by the Chahamana ruler Vigraharaja IV in the twelfth century A.D. Bisalpur was preceded by a still older city called Vanapura, which seems to have been ruled by the Takshakas (Nagas) of Todarai Singh. The importance of Bisalpur is due to its temple of Gokarnesvara, also known as Bisal Deoji’s temple, constructed by Vigraharaja IV or Visala, who was a devotee of Gokarna. The temple (22.20 m x 15.30 m) has a pancharatha sanctum, antarala, square mandapa and portico with sikhara. The sanctum enshrines a linga. The temple surmounted by a hemispherical dome, is supported on eight tall pillars carved on the lower section with floral festoons, chain-and-bell, and circular medallions. There are several short inscriptions which record the visit of pilgrims from time to time. The earliest of these is dated A.D. 1154-65 and the inscription is important for mentioning the Chahamana chief Prithviraja III.
HADI RANI BAORI, TODARAISINGH
The step-tank is rectangular on plan with double-storeyed corridors on the western side, each having arched doorway. Below the lower storey, there are images of Brahma, Ganesa and Mahishasuramardini which are enshrined in niches. On all the three sides, steps are arranged in sets of thirteen each at the higher level and five each at the lower level, going up to the water level. It is datable to circa twelfth-thirteenth century A.D.
DIGGI KALYAN JI TEMPLE
This is a very old temple, the antiquity of which is fabulous. The pinnacle of the temple (Shikhar) is magnificent. There are sixteen pillars supporting the Shikhar which has become extremely attractive because of the statuettes incurved thereon. The Sanctum Sanctorum, circulatory path, Jagmohan therein are a fine example of elegant architecture in marble. Adjacent is the temple Laxmi Narayan Ji. On the front gateway beautiful figures and statuettes have been incurved.
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Big Boi : General Patton
TL Team· June 12, 2010
Big Boi, one-half of the southern playalistic rap group Outkast, will be releasing his much anticipated solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot : The Son of Chico Dusty on July 6th. Four tracks have already leaked, all bangers, and I am going to make an early prediction by saying that this will go down as a classic.
The latest song to reach the web is entitled “General Patton” and the track is the definition of the word epic. The orchestral arrangements are massive and feature a big horn section, choral chants and skittering sixteenth beats. This is the type of track that’s purpose is to make a statement and all I can think of when I listen to “General Patton” is that Big Boi is back and Big Boi is KING… all take a bow.
Listen to “General Patton” here
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SWIMMING became a sport in 1896, and in the olympics they competed in the 100 meter and 150 meter freestyle. Swimming class is a class that takes up a lot of energy, but can be very fun if a student is really into it. Students tend to take the class because it feels more as an activity than an actual class.
“I feel like the swim class is a very challenging class, it doesn’t only have a purpose of showing you new skills on how to swim but also how to time manage and challenge yourself to difficult things. It trains you not to give up,” Citlali Diaz (11) said.
Being a part of a sport at school really does teach students how to manage their time better and shows them that giving up is never the right thing to do. “I do enjoy swimming, and I enjoy the vibe it gives me after practice and the excitement when winning,” Diaz said.
Many students believe that swimming is just a fun class where you could swim for the whole period and just mess around. “Swim focuses on proper technique not just swimming back and forth. You have to know when to kick with every stroke and when to breathe. We also focus on how long a swimmer can swim and how to manage long distance. We have to learn the proper technique on how high our elbows should go and how far on the water they should go,” Diaz said.
According to an article on the AlabamaWritingTutor.com website, swimming is considered to be one of the hardest and most challenging sports. Swimming is one of the few sports that train year round, as swimming athletes always need to be in sharp shape if they do not want to lose strength and speed.
“I think swimming class can be a challenge, but it’s a challenge that you can enjoy and have fun with,” Cassandra Diaz (10) said, “I enjoy the challenges the class comes with because it’s something that I like taking on.”
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Security Men Deployed To NIMC Office In Zamfara As Workers Strike Continues
A team of armed security operatives has been deployed to the Zamfara State office of the National Identification Management Commission in Gusau, to protect the lives and properties of the workers.
Our correspondent who visited the office reports that it was sealed while no official of the commission could be sighted, except security men who were patrolling the premises.
However, one Haruna Abdulahi who said he is a messenger in the office told our reporter that the workers were on strike due to the inability of the management of the commission to implement the approved minimum wage.
Abdulahi claimed that since the federal government and the labour unions agreed on a new minimum wage two years ago, the management of the commission has not mentioned anything about it.
He also alleged that workers promotions have been stalled without any implementation, forcing the workers to agitate.
“Everyone knows quite well the pressure mounted on us by Nigerians due to the rush to obtain their national identification cards, yet our management feels unconcerned” he lamented.
We gathered that the national identification cards seekers were distancing themselves from the area due to the presence of the armed security men in the area.
When asked what brought about the presence of the armed security men in the area, Abdulahi said that the officials of the commission were afraid that the angry crowd of customers could use the opportunity to destroy and loot properties in the commission.
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V2 | Issue 62 | 3.29.13
The CyberWire Daily Briefing for 3.29.2013
The CyberBunker/Spamhaus denial-of-service attack appears to have subsided, and yesterday's suggestion that the attack was big and broad but limited in impact holds up. CyberBunker backs away from earlier boasting of responsibility and now denies involvement (although they still think Spamhaus had it coming). With the qualified exception of Moscow's Highload Labs, which thinks it sees involvement by a Russian cyber gang, no one's really buying the eleventh-hour disavowal.
The DNS amplification attacks exploited open DNS resolvers (Anonymous threatened but failed to do this in last year's fizzled SOPA protests). Analysts suggest source address validation as a partial answer to DNS amplification threats.
Dark Reading sensibly asks who's supplying CyberBunker and finds that it's difficult to say—possibly A2B or DataHouse (both unavailable for comment), who in turn may be supplied by Tata Communications and Intelliquent. Intelliquent was also incommunicado, but Tata says, in essence, that CyberBunker is their customer's customer, and that they try to enforce acceptable use policies, but it's tough.
And yesterday CyberBunker's site itself fell to a denial-of-service attack.
A BIND nameserver vulnerability opens the possibility of fresh DNS exploits. Spammers bypass reputation filters with Google Translate to redirect victims to malicious sites.
Fear of Chinese cyberespionage continues unabated, as US firms report high rates of intellectual property theft while doing business in China. A US House member notes with satisfaction Sprint's decision to avoid Huawei equipment—a sign new Congressional cyber-counterespionage measures already affect markets.
US Senators want the National Guard to develop cyber capabilities.
Today's issue includes events affecting China, India, Iran, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States..
Enterprises Less Confident They Can Stop Targeted Attacks On Their Servers (Dark Reading) More than half of server administrators worldwide rate targeted malware attacks as their number one concern and they are becoming less confident in their ability to identify and halt attacks. And the number of organizations suffering targeted attacks increased by 8 percent over last year, according to a new report
Former CIA Director Predicts Network Security Breaches a Major Threat for Energy Companies (EdgeWave) Energy industry executives from all over the world gathered for the annual IHS CERAWeek energy conference held in Houston this month. According to the official website, the conference is designed to offer new insight on the energy future and on the strategic and investment responses by producers, consumers and policy-makers. One of the keynote speakers at the conference was Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA)
Concerns Arise over Increased Frequency, Power of Cyber Attacks (Techzone360) U.K. authorities formed a cyber-crime protection project involving the private and public sectors. Also, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focusing more on cyber threats, and the government could launch pre-emptive cyber strikes on foreign
US, Russia are top cyber-threat hosts (Infosecurity Magazine) 1 rank, having held the position at various times in the past," Host Exploit said. "Ecatel does not top the rankings for any particular category of activity
New Trends in Cyber Threats (Security Management) For a few hundred dollars in start-up money and another couple hundred each month in fees, anyone can get the software tools and even 24/7 call center support services they need to build and run their own malicious botnet that allows them to surreptitiously control a network of computers. The computer owners have no idea their machines have been turned into zombies in the service of others
Bitdefender: privacy being impacted by app monetisation (Mobile World Live) Bitdefender said that adware targeting Android devices "jumped 61 per cent worldwide in the five months through January", while malware grew by 27 per cent. "While Android adoption increased steadily in the past five months, so has the number of
US swipes at China for hacking allegations (Yahoo) The U.S. has taken its first real swipe at China following accusations that the Beijing government is behind a widespread and systemic hacking campaign targeting U.S. businesses. Buried in a spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday is a provision that effectively bars much of the federal government from buying information technology made by companies linked to the Chinese government. It's unclear what impact the legislation will have, or whether it will turn out to be a symbolic gesture
Heads-Up - How do utilities prepare for the cybersecurity executive order? (Energy Central) In February, President Obama signed an executive order with the intentions of beefing up the cybersecurity protection for bits of critical infrastructure, including the electric power structure strewn across the country. The order itself states that repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate the need for improved cybersecurity. The cyber threat to critical infrastructure continues to grow and represents one of the most serious national security challenges we must confront
Don't Leave Iran's Cyber Dissidents Unarmed (Cyberwarzone) In a few short months, the world won't have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to kick around anymore. Not that many on the world stage, save his fellow anti-American aspiring autocrats, will miss him. This is because, in June, the Islamic Republic of Iran will be holding the quadrennial charade that they call a presidential "election"
China lists all the countries in the world that block Facebook except for China (Quartz) China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a curious article (link in Chinese) on its website yesterday (March 27). The story is headlined "Myanmar lifts ban of Facebook, blocked now by only four countries in the world." It lists the offenders: North Korea, Cuba, Iran and "another." (Here's a summary in English.) Of course, the "another" is China–which has blocked the social media site for about three years
New Senate bill seeks to create a National Guard cyber capability (FierceGovernmentIT) A newly-introduced Senate bill aims to beef up the National Guard's cybersecurity capabilities by creating cyber and computer network incident response teams, or CCNIRTs. If passed, the legislation would set up these teams in every state and the District of Columbia
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as 'Top Priority' for 2013 (Slate) Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a "top priority" this year
Tougher Computer Crime Penalties Sought By U.S. Legislators (InformationWeek) Draft version of CFAA includes amendments largely recycled from 2011 DOJ proposals -- running counter to experts' demands to narrow anti-hacking laws
Does your breach email notification look like a phish? (Internet Storm Center) With the continual cycle of systems being compromised and customer data being stolen, using email notification is a fast, easy and direct method to send out warnings and advice to the unfortunate victims. It's the one way, other than physical interaction (Phone calls, personal visits while offering a warm cup of tea and a sad smile or hiring street criers calling out the names of the afflicted in every town in the land…) that means all the right people do get notified, well, if they read their emails. It's a defacto standard to communication so surely we've worked out how to use it properly
Should Cloud Providers Secure Their Outbound Traffic? (Dark Reading) Discerning between malicious traffic and legitimate traffic in real time is challenging for companies targeted by distributed denial-of-service attacks, but the task is made more difficult when the attacks come from reputable Internet properties that cannot easily be filtered. The attacks on U.S. financial institutions, for example, have used compromised publishing platforms to target banks with a variety of attack traffic since last September. A key factor in the success of those distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks is the use by attackers of compromised, but reputable hosts
Sprint pledges not to use Huawei, lawmaker says (ComputerWorld) Sprint Nextel and Softbank have pledged to keep Huawei Technologies products out of the Sprint network and try to replace Huawei gear that is already in Clearwire's network, according to a U.S. lawmaker. The companies met with Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, as the government reviews Softbank's planned $20. 1 billion investment in Sprint
Why We Need More Troops For Escalating Cyberwar (USAToday.com) Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face, and the risk of calamitous attack is growing. We have the tools to catch up. We can catch up if together we work to expand the pipeline of highly skilled cyber-professionals by embracing new ways of engaging our talent, educating our students, and employing a new workforce
NJVC Cloudcuity Management Portal to Provide Secure Cloud Brokerage Services to NCOIC (Sacramento Bee) NJVC will lead efforts to provide secure cloud brokerage services to the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) using its first-to-market Cloudcuity Management Portal during a series of 2013 geospatial community cloud demonstrations that will be conducted on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). NJVC's partners are The Aerospace Corporation, The Boeing Company and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
LGS to Build HHS Anti-Malware Systems (New New Internet) LGS Innovations has won a $1 million task order to build systems intending to help the Department of Health and Human Services defend its networks from malware and security breaches
State Govts Pick Symantec eDiscovery Platform (New New Internet) Symantec Corp. has said that at least 25 state governments in the U.S. have purchased Clearwell eDiscovery platform as a solution, according to a company statement
David Rowland Tapped as Accenture CFO; Pamela Craig to Retire (GovConWire) David Rowland, senior vice president of finance at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has been promoted to chief financial officer and will succeed Pamela Craig on July 1. Craig will then retire from the consulting and professional services firm Aug. 31 after a 34-year career there, Accenture said Thursday
Cisco Fixes Seven Critical Security Bugs (Threatpost) Cisco Systems issued seven security updates yesterday, all of which patched vulnerabilities in the networking giant's internetwork operating system (IOS), the software it deploys on the majority of its routers and network switches
Chronology of a DDoS: SpamHaus (Cisco) Around 12:00 GMT March 16, 2013, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took offline both the spamhaus. org website and a portion of its e-mail services. SpamHaus was able to restore connectivity by March 18; however, SpamHaus is still weathering a massive, ongoing DDoS attack
When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS (Ars Technica) Over the last ten days, a series of massive denial-of-service attacks has been aimed at Spamhaus, a not-for-profit organization that describes its purpose as "track[ing] the Internet's spam operations and sources, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks." These attacks have grown so largeup to 300Gb/sthat the volume of traffic is threatening to bring down core Internet infrastructure. The New York Times reported recently that the attacks came from a Dutch hosting company called CyberBunker (also known as cb3rob), which owns and operates a real military bunker and which has been targeted in the past by Spamhaus. The spokesman who the NYT interviewed, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, has since posted on his Facebook page that CyberBunker is not orchestrating the attacks
Open DNS Resolvers Center Stage in Massive DDoS Attacks (Threatpost) For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, lets just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading Internet service providers. Chances are, all but three or four will tell you Thanks, but no thanks, we can't handle your business. That, according to Jared Mauch of the Open DNS Resolver Project, is an anecdotal picture of the largest surges in DDoS traffic directed at Spamhaus this week, an attack that also reportedly caused some collateral damage to unrelated online services
How Spamhaus' attackers turned DNS into a weapon of mass destruction (Ars Technica) DNS amplification can clog the Internet's core—and there's no fix in sight. A little more than a year ago, details emerged about an effort by some members of the hacktivist group Anonymous to build a new weapon to replace their aging denial-of-service arsenal. The new weapon would use the Internet's Domain Name Service as a force-multiplier to bring the servers of those who offended the group to their metaphorical knees. Around the same time, an alleged plan for an Anonymous operation, "Operation Global Blackout" (later dismissed by some security experts and Anonymous members as a "massive troll"), sought to use the DNS service against the very core of the Internet itself in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act
Where Were You During the Great DDoS Cybergeddon of 2013? (Internet Storm Center) We've had a few e-mails come in to the ISC now that the popular media has picked up the story of the distributed denial of service attack on CloudFlare and SpamHaus. For instance, here is the New York Times article on the subject. CloudFlare has their own write-up here. I was peripherally involved (very peripherally) as were some other handlers. Let's start with some truth. The attack did reach upwards of 300 Gb/sec and is the largest recorded DDoS to date. It combined already known issues on DNS open resolvers but combined it with specific targetted at a choke point which did have a real impact for SpamHaus and CloudFlare. There also were many people who spent many hours helping deal with this problem. A good number of those had no real connection to SpamHaus or CloudFlare, they are just fellow members of the information security community who came together to deal with a threat. This is a Very Good Thing that this level of cooperation has built up over time and we respond to these threats as a community
Who Supplies CyberBunker? (Dark Reading) The hosting company behind CyberBunker, the company allegedly behind the DDOS attacks on Spamhaus, connects to the Internet through other providers. Perhaps the only way to pressure those responsible for the attacks is to put pressure on the upstream providers. Reputable businesses don't like to have customers using their services to facilitate crimes. Sadly, not all businesses are reputable. Some don't even pretend to be. Consider CyberBunker. (The site has been offline a lot today.) Their website says they will sell hosting services to any website "except child porn and anything related to terrorism." They brag about it. Is it any wonder that spammers and other such miscreants use their services? Spamhaus, one of the most popular DNSRBLs (DNS-based Blackhole List; they are a service which provide lists of IP addresses of hosts known to spam), called them on it and when their direct ISP, A2B Internet, didn't comply with Spamhaus's requests, Spamhaus put their network on the SBL and that's when things got really ugly. Attackers, claiming to be acting on CyberBunker's behalf, conducted a major DDOS against Spamhaus and their hosts
How the world's largest cyberattack slows down your Internet use (CSOonline) Websites take longer to load. Netflix cuts out. Normally you can blame those annoyances on a slow Internet connection speed, but this week, it's the result of the largest global cyberattack in history
Cyber Attack Thought to Originate in Russia (Wall Street Journal) A massive cyber attack targeting a European spam-fighting group that slowed some global Internet traffic to a crawl appears to have been launched by a gang of hackers from Russia and neighboring countries, says the head of a Russian firm
DDoS Spam Feud Backfires: 'Bulletproof' CyberBunker Busted (InformationWeek) Stophaus.com campaign and anarchic, allegedly pro-spam Dutch hosting provider have apparently been disrupted via ongoing DDoS attacks
Anti-Spam Group Says Cyber Attack Has Subsided (Voice of America) An anti-spam group says a large cyber-attack that slowed down parts of the Internet in recent days appears to have subsided. The London-based group Spamhous said in a web posting early Thursday that it was still seeing some "distributed denial of
Q&A: Behind 'biggest' cyber-attack in history (Aljazeera.com) But the group has raised the ire of attackers, who in recent weeks launched what may have been the biggest cyber-attack ever. Spamhaus blames Dutch hosting company Cyberbunker for the assault. Cyberbunker denies the charge, but its spokesman has
The Truth Behind the 'Biggest Cyberattack in History' (Yahoo) Is it "the biggest cyberattack in history"? Or just routine flak that network-security providers face all the time? News websites across the Western world proclaimed Internet Armageddon today (March 27), largely due to a New York Times story detailing a "squabble" between the spam-fighting vigilantes at Spamhaus and the dodgy Dutch Web-hosting company Cyberbunker."Fight Jams Internet," the Times headline said
Questions arise over massive cyber attack (The Age) A day after details emerged of an alleged massive cyber attack targeting the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, questions arose about its severity and origin. The target of the attack, which was widely reported on Wednesday, was the anti-spam
Sceptics Dispute Claims Of Massive DDoS Attack Slowing Down The Internet (Huffington Post) Scepticism has been thrown on reports that a massive online attack caused speeds on the internet to slow around the world on Wednesday. Publications including the BBC and the New York Times reported that a 'war' between a hosting firm and a non-profit spam-fighting organisation had clogged up the internet for millions of users. The New York Times said this attack was "jamming crucial infrastructure around the world" and quoted an expert who likened its effect to a "nuclear" attack
Is massive cyber-attack just the first of many? (The Week) Millions of internet users were left with slower internet connections last night after what is being described as "the biggest cyber-attack in history". Access to popular sites such as Netflix was disrupted and there were fears that the attack could spread to web browsing, online banking services and email. Five national police forces are said to be investigating
'Biggest Cyber Attack in History' could be bad news for your home computer (kypost.com) If you think what's being called the "biggest cyber attack in history" doesn't affect you, think again. The attack was launched against Spamhaus , an organization that stops spam emails from getting to people's inboxes, apparently by one
Cold War bunker is nerve-centre for biggest ever cyber-attack (The Sun) Spamhaus said it was subjected to a massive cyber-attack after it blacklisted Dutch company Cyberbunker for its alleged malicious internet use. Millions of web users have already experienced disruption with big delays in loading websites such as film
A peek inside the EgyPack Web malware exploitation kit (Webroot) On a daily basis we process multiple malicious campaigns that, in 95%+ of cases, rely on the market leading Black Hole Exploit Kit. The fact that this Web malware exploitation kit is the kit of choice for the majority of cybercriminals, speaks for its key differentiation factors/infection rate success compared to the competing exploit kits, like, for instance, the Sweet Orange exploit kit or the Nuclear Exploit pack v2.0. In this post Ill profile the EgyPack, a Web malware exploitation kit that was originally advertised on invite-only/vetted cybercrime friendly communities between the period of 2009-2011
Critical Flaw Threatens Millions of BIND Servers (Threatpost) BINDThere is a critical vulnerability in several current versions of the BIND nameserver software that could allow an attacker to knock vulnerable DNS servers offline or compromise other applications running on those machines. The bug is present in several versions of the ubiquitous BIND software and the maintainers of the application have released a patch for it that they recommend users install as soon as possible
Evernote account used to deliver instructions to malware (CSOonline) A piece of malicious software spotted by Trend Micro uses the note-taking service Evernote as a place to pick up new instructions. The malware is a backdoor, or a kind of software that allows an attacker to execute various actions on a hacked computer. Trend Micro found it tries to connect to Evernote in order to obtain new commands."The backdoor may also use the Evernote account as a drop-off point for its stolen information," wrote Nikko Tamana, a Trend Micro threat response engineer
Sudan Embassy website Hacked by Ymh (The Hackers Post) Official website of South Sudan Embassy in Norway (www. embrss-norway. org) hacked and defaced by a Yemeni hacker with the handle of Ymh
MI5 undercover spies: People are falsely claiming to be us (The Register) British spook hive MI5 has taken the unusual step of placing a front-page warning on its website about a financial scam carried out by people pretending to be spies or the agency's director general. The online alert was prominently posted on mi5. gov. uk, and occupies more space than the UK security threat level indicator, which describes the danger to Brits as "substantial"
Spammers Finding Favor with Google Translate (Threatpost) Google TranslateSome spammers, looking to launder the dirty links they email you, are relying on the positive reputation of Google Translate to redirect victims to rogue websites. Researchers at Barracuda Labs who maintain the company's spam honeypots have spotted a rash of illicit messages trying to beat reputation filters by using this tactic
Dwolla Is Latest Victim Of DDoS Attacks – Site & API Down For Second Day (TechCrunch) While the media continues to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup Dwolla announced today that it, too, is now experiencing a distributed denial-of-service event (DDoS attack). The attack, which is still underway, began yesterday, resulting in either limited or no availability to
Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt (NY Times) American Express customers trying to gain access to their online accounts Thursday were met with blank screens or an ominous ancient type face. The company confirmed that its Web site had come under attack. The assault, which took American Express offline for two hours, was the latest in an intensifying campaign of unusually powerful attacks on American financial institutions that began last September and have taken dozens of them offline intermittently, costing millions of dollars
Pirated software use triples leaving PC users at risk of infection (welivesecurity) Use of pirated and counterfeit Windows software has tripled since 2006, according to analysts IDC creating a fertile breeding ground for malware. For the report, entitled The Dangerous World of Pirated and Counterfeit Software, IDC analysts conducted 533 tests on counterfeit software from P2P and web sources. The tests found that counterfeit software led to infection with Trojans and malicious adware in 36% of cases
China offers businesses big opportunities, including the chance to have your data stolen (Quartz) International businesses have flocked to China for years to try and grab a slice of the nation's economic growth. That is why publishers never stop producing upbeat books such as this one, or this one, which appeal to entrepreneurs dreaming of the riches they could make by selling to just a fraction of the nation's 1.35 billion people. Yet according to a survey, a quarter of American businesses in China say they have experienced the expensive theft of proprietary data since setting up in the country
Android: The IT community's latest problem child (IT World) Microsoft's Windows operating system spent close to two decades as the 'problem child' of the IT world - ubiquitous, buggy and easy to hack. But this week brought more evidence that Google and its Android mobile operating system may be taking that mantle from the folks in Redmond, Washington
BAE Systems Detica: Capture the Flag! (University of Southhampton) BAE System Detica ran a very successful 'Capture the Flag' event for students in ECS-Electronics and Computer Science earlier this month
Chinese Authorities Investigating Apple for Violations in Customer Service (CSO) Chinese authorities are investigating Apple for violations in its customer service, after state-run media ran reports critical of the company's warranty policies in the country
StrikeForce Commences Patent Litigation Against Out-of-Band Authentication Infringers (Dark Reading) PhoneFactor, Fiserv & First Midwest Bancorp all have been named in a patent lawsuit
cybergamut CompTIA Security+Certification Boot Camp Training Program (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 29 - May 2, 2013) Security+ certification training delivers a foundational proficiency in the network security arena. Security+ Certified Professionals are better able and positioned to support small and medium-sized organizations that are at increased risk of cyber crime and other forms of security-related threats. Security+ certified professionals may now apply the CompTIA Security+ certification towards the Microsoft MCSA and MCSE Security certifications.
CSO40 (Braselton, Georgia, USA, April 2 - 3, 2013) The CSO40 Security Confab + Awards will honor and share the critical viewpoints of today's leading CSOs, CISOs and security executives at the nation's leading CSO thought leadership conference.
Cloud Connect Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, California, USA, April 2 - 5, 2013) Cloud Connect returns to Silicon Valley, April 2-5, 2013, for four days of lectures, panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of cloud topics taught by leading industry experts.
An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders (National Harbor, Maryland, USA, April 6, 2013) UMUC is pleased to present An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders. Join us for this special black-tie event to support the next generation of cybersecurity students. The evening will feature a reception, dinner, keynote and entertainment.
Cyber 1.3 (, January 1, 1970) Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, USAF, commander, 24th Air Force, and commander, Air Force Network Operations, will discuss the global strategic implications that relate to the cyber domain at the Space Foundation national conference Cyber 1.3, to be held Monday, April 8th, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cyber 1.3 is a full-day conference that takes place immediately before the official opening of the 29th National Space Symposium. The conference includes a networking breakfast, a luncheon and concludes with a networking reception, co-sponsored by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. Government Executive Media Group is a Cyber 1.3 media co-sponsor.
HITBSecConf2013 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 8 - 11, 2013) HITB2013AMS will feature cutting edge attack and defense research including the a presentation on the inner workings of the iOS 6.1 Evasi0n jailbreak presented by members of the world famous Evad3rs Team, a brand new kernel level exploit affecting _all versions_ of Microsoft Windows up till Windows 8 and even a presentation on remotely hacking airplanes.
SANS Northern Virginia 2013 (Reston, Virginia, USA, April 8 - 13, 2013) This event features comprehensive hands-on technical training fand includes several courses that will prepare attendees for DoD 8570 and GIAC approved certification exams. Four of the courses can apply to a SANS Technology Institute's Master of Science Degree in Information Security Management or Master of Science Degree in Information Security Engineering.
INFILTRATE 2013 (Miami, Florida, USA, April 11 - 12, 2013) INFILTRATE is a deep technical conference that focuses entirely on offensive security issues. Researchers focused on the latest technical issues will demonstrate techniques that you cannot find elsewhere.
Software Engineering Institute Invitational Career Fair (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 11 - 12, 2013) Attention software engineers and cyber security professionals, the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute needs your top notch skills to meet today's challenges. SEI staff will be interviewing on April 11 & 12 at their offices in Pittsburgh to fill immediate local positions. All candidates must be eligible to obtain a Security Clearance. Interviews are by appointment only. At the SEI you will have opportunities to make an impact on internet security and work with some of the most talented people in the field.
Information Tech Expo Series - Hawaii (Oahu, Hawaii, USA, April 12 - 19, 2013) This 6-series showcase will feature stops at 5 DoD locations and 1 Intel Center on the island of Oahu. Celebrating 20 years of these expos is a true testament to the government and military's readiness to learn from and work with industry partners. .
InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2013 (Orlando, Florida, USA, April 15 - 17, 2013) With the primary objective of providing top-notch education to all levels of information security and IT auditing professionals, InfoSec World delivers practical sessions that give you the tools to strengthen your security without restricting your business.
Cyber Guardian 2013 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 15 - 20, 2013) Cyber Guardian is the SANS Institute's annual, interactive training session for cyber security professionals. All courses are associated with a GIAC Certification, and cover topics like intrusion detection, perimeter protection, hacker techniques, penetration testing, and advanced forensics. Cyber Guardian will feature the popular SANS NetWars Tournament on April 18-19, a hands-on, interactive training exercise.
A Dialogue on Cyber Warfare from Legal and Corporate Perspectives (New York, New York, USA, April 16, 2013) Conversation on Cyber Warfare and the LawThe Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare in partnership with the Columbia Society of International Law is honored to host this first cutting edge conference on the complex issues of cyber warfare.States are faced with the multi-faceted challenges of cyber warfare. No longer confined to the world of technology professionals and spies, these threats are a growing part of the daily lives of corporations and individuals. The constitution and legislation are both scarce and obsolete and the bench and the bar lack the resources and expertise to decide or advocate on these issues.
Infosec Southwest 2013 (Austin, Texas, USA, April 19 - 21, 2013) InfoSec Southwest is intended to be a general security and hacking conference with no specific industry or topical focus. As such, nearly all topics (other than vendor pitches) are fair game and the attending audience is expected to span all demographics.
Mobile Device Security for Defense and Government (Alexandria, Virginia, USA, April 23 - 24, 2013) This Defense Strategies Institute conference addresses the challenges of operating mobile devices in networks whose security is mission critical. The symposium's overall theme will focus on DOD's plan to maximize the potential uses of mobile devices. Within specific key areas: wireless infrastructure, mobile devices and mobile applications. The thought leadership and community goal of this event is to advance flexible and secure mobile devices to benefit the warfighter and keep pace with changing technology.
Infosecurity Europe (London, England, UK, April 23 - 25, 2013) Europe's number one Information Security event. Featuring over 350 exhibitors, the most diverse range of new products and services, an unrivalled education programme and over 12,000 visitors from every segment of the industry, it's the most important date in the calendar for Information Security professionals across Europe.
INSA Leadership Dinner Featuring Betty Sapp, Director, NRO (Reston, Virginia, USA, April 25, 2013) - This leadership dinner will feature a keynote address from Betty Sapp, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office highlighting her focus on innovation at the NRO and for the Intelligence Community. Registration will open on Thursday, March 14 and will close Thursday, April 18.
23rd Annual Government Procurement Conference (Washington, DC, USA, April 25, 2013) This unique one-day event attracts more than 3,000 participants representing government agencies, prime contractors and small businesses from around the country. Participating companies are able to network with procurement officials from federal, state and local government agencies under one roof.
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Pegasus (a.k.a. Trident) found in UAE dissident's iPhone (Apple issues patch). Zscaler finds AgentTesla keylogger in cybersquatting campaign. Ramnit, Dreambot Trojan notes. NIST takes up de-identification. CSE ramps up surveillance
Citizen Lab and security company Lookout disclose iOS persistent spyware they found on a UAE dissident's iPhone. The tool, "Pegasus," is an intercept product of NSO Group; it was apparently deployed by UAE authorities. The researchers were given the affected phone after its owner saw a suspicious text message on August 10. They located the exploits (which they've called "Trident") and disclosed them to Apple. Apple's patch, now generally available, was ready in ten days. The Citizen Lab and Lookout reports are linked below; see also commentary from Errata Security for brief, interesting perspective.
Cisco, Huawei, and Juniper Networks are said to be downplaying the impact of the Shadow Brokers' leaked exploits. The US Intelligence Community continues to investigate the incident.
Zscaler's ThreatLabZ reports finding a cybersquatting campaign that's delivering the AgentTesla keylogger.
The Ramnit banking Trojan is out and about, again, now afflicting six major British banks. Proofpoint tracks another banking Trojan, Dreambot (an Ursnif or Gozi ISFB variant) that's spreading via Tor.
Russia feels it's more sinned against than sinning in cyberspace, and points an accusatory finger Beijing-ward. Cybercrime rises in India as a function of device use. A FireEye study suggests many cyber incidents in the Asia-Pacific region are kept very quiet.
In the US, NIST issues a draft publication on de-identifying personal data in government systems.
The Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) has dramatically increased electronic monitoring; no one's quite sure why.
Clinton email sensitive content (more coming, by court order) prompts calls for a special prosecutor.
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A note to our readers, especially those of you interested in art and design--"STEM to STEAM," as they call it: the CyberWire is partnering with Maryland Art Place to sponsor a competition for an original work of art on the theme "creating connections." You can read about the competition in NY Arts Magazine. A full prospectus may be found here.
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The CyberWire's regular daily Podcast will be out later this afternoon, with interviews, educational tips, and more on the stories of the day. Today Joe Carrigan from our partners at the Johns Hopkins University will tell us about photo backups. And as students prepare to start the academic year, AT&T's Bindu Sundaresan will make our flesh creep with back-to-school cyber security concerns. (Just kidding about the flesh-creeping thing, but he will share some knowledge worth having, fellow kids.) If you enjoy the podcast, please consider giving it an iTunes review.
7th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit (Washington, DC, USA, January 1, 1970) Cyber attacks continue to pose high-stake threats to national security. Top government, military and private sector cybersecurity leaders will explore the threats and solutions at the leading fall cybersecurity forum.
Russia More Prey Than Predator to Cyber Firm Wary of China (Bloomberg Technology) While the West sees Russia as a cyber predator, hackers in the East increasingly view it as prey, according to online security company Kaspersky Lab, which says there’s been a sharp spike in attacks from China
Cyber crime in India up 300% in 3 years: Study (Indian Express) India has emerged as one of the primary targets among cyber criminals with growing adoption of internet and smartphones, reveals the study
FireEye releases First Mandiant M-Trends Asia Pacific Report (Data Quest) FireEye released the first Mandiant® M-Trends® Asia Pacific report. The report shares statistics and insights gleaned from Mandiant investigations in the region in 2015, and examines the latest cyber trends and tactics threat actors used to compromise businesses and steal data
Stolen devices to blame for many breaches in the financial services sector (Help Net Security) Bitglass performed an analysis of all breaches in the financial services sector since 2006, with data aggregated from public databases and government mandated disclosures. They found that leaks nearly doubled between 2014 and 2015, a growth trend on track to continue in 2016
The current state of privileged access management practices (Help Net Security) There’s a widening gulf between organizations that adhere to best practices for privileged access management, according to BeyondTrust
Rules? What rules? Huge gap between parents and teens on digital guidelines (Silicon Beat) This shouldn’t come as a big surprise: There is a gap between teenagers and parents over their understanding of family rules about being online, according to a new study by the National Cyber Security Alliance
Russian “New Generation” Warfare: Theory, Practice, and Lessons for U.S. Strategists (Small Wars Journal) Russian unconventional warfare—dubbed by analysts as “new generation” warfare—elevates the psychological and popular aspects of conflict more so than any of its geopolitical partners and rivals
Polish think-take advocates offensive cyber stance for NATO (IHS Jane's Defence Weekly) NATO should opt for developing offensive cyber capabilities as opposed to only defensive ones, says one of Poland's leading security think-tanks. The mixed nature of hybrid warfare requires the shift, it argues in a new paper
Canada’s Spy Agency Now Intercepting Private Messages 26 Times More Than Previously (VICE) Federal spies in Canada have ramped up the monitoring of phone calls and online messages—but it's not clear why
Experts: Org chart and budget, not technology, is key to federal cybersecurity (FedScoop) Boring work in the back offices is what's needed — not another shiny new piece of security technology
Products, Services, and Solutions
Zensar Technologies to showcase ‘Return on Digital’ solutions at Oracle Open World 2016 (Yahoo! Finance) Zensar Technologies, a leading digital solutions and technology services company, announced that it will exhibit digital solutions on the central theme of, ‘Return on Digital’ at this year’s Oracle Open World
Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 6.0 Decrypts FileVault 2, Downloads iCloud Photos, Retrieves Apple ID Password (PRNewswire) ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. releases a major update to Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, adding support for decrypting FileVault 2 volumes by downloading the Recovery Key from iCloud. The new release adds the ability to download existing and recently deleted photos from iCloud Photos, introduces the updated Keychain Explorer and the ability to cache online authentication credentials for streamlined subsequent logins into iCloud, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10
CrowdStrike Integrates Scanning Engine With VirusTotal (Dark Reading) Machine Learning engine first in virus-scanning service to provide confidence levels with results, vendor says
AlienVault and Zscaler Announce Partnership to Provide Customers With Increased Security, Visibility and Control (MarketWired) Partnership extends the Zscaler Platform by integrating threat intelligence while augmenting AlienVault's Unified Security Management with Intelligent Nanologs to improve visibility and control
Balabit Recognized for Blindspotter Security Solution (Find Biometrics) Balabit has become a top-level award winner in this year’s Golden Bridge Awards. The company’s Blindspotter behavior analytics system netted the company a Gold award in the category of User Behavior Analytics (UBA) – Innovations
VMware Helps Service Providers Accelerate Production Deployment of Network Functions Virtualization With Growing Portfolio of VMware Ready Solutions (Yahoo! Finance) VMware, Inc. (VMW) today announced new VMware Ready™ for NFV certified solutions, further demonstrating its ongoing commitment to supporting communications service providers (CSPs) in the adoption and production deployment of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). These new certified solutions from Brocade, Check Point, Infoblox, Mitel and Netrounds support virtualized mobile infrastructure and SD-WAN
RingCentral and Okta Partner to Enable the Future of Work with Seamless Mobility, Security and Communication (BusinessWire) New integration simplifies identity and access management for IT, supporting secure user access to RingCentral’s UCaaS cloud solutions
Armor helps streamline HITRUST certification (Help Net Security) As the healthcare industry continues to be a major cybercrime target, compliance has gained even more significance. HITRUST certification has emerged as the benchmark for healthcare organizations to demonstrate sound security policies and a commitment to patient privacy
The Password is Dead: MobileIron and Entrust Datacard Partner on Derived Credentials for Next-Generation Multi-Factor Authentication (PRNewswire) MobileIron (NASDAQ: MOBL), the stand-alone EMM leader, and Entrust Datacard, a leader of trusted identity and secure transaction technologies, today announced a technology alliance partnership to deliver derived credentials for next-generation multi-factor authentication
Security Firm Releases Decrypter for Alma Locker Ransomware (Softpedia) Victims can recover files for free without paying the ransom
TrapX launches ransomware deception tool, CryptoTrap (Healthcare IT News) The technology is effective at deceiving TeslaCrypt, Locky and 7ev3n ransomware families, luring hackers away from valuable data assets
Niara's PartnerWatch™ Extends UEBA Reach To Monitor and Track Third-Party Access to High Value Assets (MarketWatch) Advanced machine learning models use behavior profiling to detect misuse of credentials by compromised or malicious business partners
WhatsApp will share your phone number with Facebook (Help Net Security) For the first time in four years, WhatsApp is updating its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the big news is that the messaging service will share users’ phone numbers with Facebook
Virtustream and Iron Mountain Join Forces to Build Cloud Platform for Enterprise Data Management (BusinessWire) Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud services and software provider and an EMC Federation Company, today announced that Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, has selected Virtustream® xStream® and Virtustream Viewtrust® software to orchestrate, automate and secure cloud storage services for Iron Mountain’s cloud-based service offerings
Managing Application State in Duo Insight (Duo) Duo Insight is our new free, easy-to-use risk assessment tool to help companies identify their users and devices that may be vulnerable to phishing attacks. One of the key user interface components of Duo Insight is the campaign wizard, where users can quickly and easily configure a phishing campaign using one of several pre-made services
DRAFT NIST Special Publication 800-188: De-Identifying Government Datasets (NIST) The US Government collects, maintains, and uses many kinds of datasets. Every federal agency creates and maintains internal datasets that are vital for fulfilling its mission, such as delivering services to taxpayers or ensuring regulatory compliance. Federal agencies can use de-identification to make government datasets available while protecting the privacy of the individuals whose data are contained within those datasets
Helping to Secure Education Networks (AT&T) Schools and colleges are particularly vulnerable to attacks by cyber criminals. Here’s what education leaders can do to help prevent these incidents
Stand-alone cyber coverage had direct loss ratio of 65.2%: Fitch (Canadian Underwriter) Cyber-related insurance products present a “significant growth opportunity” for property and casualty insurance carriers, with more than a third of the U.S. market held by American International Group Inc. and Chubb Ltd., Fitch Ratings Inc. suggested in a report announced Wednesday
Global mobile deep packet inspection market explodes (Help Net Security) The global mobile deep packet inspection (DPI) market will grow at an impressive CAGR of almost 22% until 2020, according to Technavio
Proofpoint buys Return Path’s email fraud protection division (BizWest) New York-based data-solutions provider Return Path has sold its Broomfield-based email fraud protection business unit to Proofpoint Inc. for $18 million
Cybersecurity business of Sypris Electronics sold to Analog Devices (Military Embedded Systems) Officials at Analog Devices, Inc. announced that the company has acquired the Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) business of Sypris Electronics LLC., in Tampa, Florida, which is owned by Sypris Solutions in Louisville, Kentucky
Cybersecurity Company Raises $1.2M in Seed Round to Protect ICS/SCADA Networks (PRNewswire) Dragos, Inc. to offer new threat hunting service and ICS-tailored technology
Closer Look: Qihoo Retires from Public View after Record Privatization (Caixin Online) Having pulled off the biggest privatization in history for a US-listed Chinese security software maker, Qihoo 360 is saying it isn't in any hurry to re-list in China. The strategy contrasts with the more than three dozen Chinese firms to announce similar plans to leave New York since last year, most of them hoping to quickly re-list in China at higher valuations
How IBM is pushing data-driven security (FedScoop) The perimeter strategy is no longer effective, an IBM senior security strategist said
Whatever we do is around mobile now: Akamai CEO Tom Leighton (Live Mint) Akamai CEO Tom Leighton on content delivery and Internet trends, and why it makes sense for Akamai to also sharpen its focus on enterprise security
CRN Exclusive: Palo Alto Networks CEO On Security Platform Evolution And When Partners Can Expect Traps To Take Off (CRN) The security industry is at an inflection point, and CEO Mark McLaughlin maintains he is confident that Palo Alto Networks is positioned to win in that shift
Valuing BlackBerry As A Security Software Company (Seeking Alpha) BlackBerry's market value as a security software and services company is at the low end among competitors. BBRY has more cash than most companies in this line of business. But having a handset business (barely) works against it being considered an S&S company
Leesburg’s PhishMe grows into cyber security powerhouse (Loudon Times-Mirror) Leesburg-based cyber security company PhishMe is making waves against fraudulent emails with a new, innovative approach
2016 IPO Prospects: Optiv Grows Inorganically (Seeking Alpha) Optiv is helping address the cyber security problems faced by organizations by offering a holistic approach as a solution provider, and not just a reseller. Optiv continues to grow inorganically. Since the start of the year it has made three acquisitions within the cyber security space. In April this year, Optiv was estimated to be valued at $2 billion
Muddy Waters claims device maker vulnerable to hackers (Financial Times) Muddy Waters, the hedge fund, on Thursday claimed that a pacemaker manufacturer’s life-saving devices are vulnerable to hackers, the first time a shortseller has publicly used alleged cyber security vulnerabilities to put pressure on a stock to fall
Cybersecurity Center in Colorado Springs to hire CEO and host national conference (Colorado Springs Gazette) The National Cybersecurity Center in Colorado Springs plans to hire a CEO next month and will host officials from across the country at a three-day conference in November at The Broadmoor
Apple plugs three actively exploited iOS zero-days (Help Net Security) Owners of Apple’s mobile devices are advised to upgrade to iOS version 9.3.5 as soon as possible, as it fixes three zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild
Cisco starts patching firewall devices against NSA-linked exploit (Computerworld) Cisco has released some fixed versions of its Adaptive Security Appliance firewalls, and more patches are expected
Dropbox prompts certain users to change their passwords (CSO) The move appears to be a precautionary measure
Google to rate down sites with aggravating pop-up ads (Naked Security) Annoying pop-up ads that get in the way of content are going to be the new lead balloons: Google’s planning to penalize mobile sites that use them by placing those sites lower in its rankings
Apple iOS up to 9.3.4 Kernel Trident Information Disclosure (Vulbd) A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 9.3.4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Kernel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (trident). Impacted is confidentiality
Apple Software Vulnerability Is Linked to Intrusions (New York Times) One of the world’s most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in its efforts to spy on dissidents and journalists
Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool (Motherboard) On the morning of August 10, Ahmed Mansoor, a 46-year-old human rights activist from the United Arab Emirates, received a strange text message from a number he did not recognize on his iPhone
A Hacking Group Is Selling iPhone Spyware to Governments (Wired) These days it seems like every government has a far-reaching and well-developed digital surveillance operation, complete with defense, international espionage, and offensive components. Smaller nations even join spy alliances to pool resources. But there are still many nation-states that for various reasons prefer not to handle their cyber intelligence development in-house. So they do what we all do when we need software: They buy it from a vendor
The UAE Spends Big on Israeli Spyware to Listen In on a Dissident (Foreign Policy) In attacking the iPhone of human rights defender Ahmed Mansour, the Emirati government reportedly bought a rare, zero-day, Israeli exploit of Apple’s iOS
The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender (Citizen Lab) This report describes how a government targeted an internationally recognized human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, with the Trident, a chain of zero-day exploits designed to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware
Sophisticated, persistent mobile attack against high-value targets on iOS (Lookout) Persistent, enterprise-class spyware is an underestimated problem on mobile devices. However, targeted attack scenarios against high-value mobile users are a real threat
Mobile Cyber Espionage is Real! (Skycure Blog) Targeted, persistent spyware called Pegasus
How to know if you’ve been impacted by Pegasus (Lookout) The guidance below will help you determine if you are impacted by the Pegasus threat. Pegasus is a sophisticated attack that uses three vulnerabilities in the iOS software, collectively known as Trident, that, when exploited, enables attackers to install spyware on your device
Apple zero-days mark a new era of mobile hacking (TechMedia Magazine) Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture, Ivan Krstic, told a rapt audience at the Black Hat security conference earlier this month that his notoriously secretive company was ready to open up its vulnerability reporting process to researchers
Notes on the Apple/NSO Trident 0days (Errata Security) I thought I'd write up some comments on today's news of the NSO malware using 0days to infect human rights activist phones. For full reference, you want to read the Citizen's Lab report and the Lookout report
The National Security Agency has no idea how a rogue hacking group leaked its exploits (International Business Times) A group called The Shadow Brokers leaked NSA exploit kits online on 13 August
Cisco, Huawei and Juniper play down NSA attack reports (Capacity Media) Cisco, Huawei and Juniper have played down reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has developed tools to spy on traffic running through their equipment
Boko Haram's Doomed Marriage to the Islamic State (War on the Rocks) When the Nigerian jihadist group popularly known as Boko Haram publicly pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State in March 2015, this new alliance made perfect sense to both groups
Agent Tesla Keylogger delivered using cybersquatting (ZScaler) Zscaler ThreatLabZ recently came across an attack chain in which cybersquatting was being used to deliver a commercial keylogger, called “AgentTesla,” with an intent to steal confidential information. The keylogger payload was configured to relay the stolen information back to the cyber-squatted domain, which had been registered two months prior to the attack
Ramnit Trojan rides again, targets customers of six major UK banks (Help Net Security) The infamous Ramnit Trojan is on the prowl again, and this time it targets personal banking customers of six unnamed UK banks
Nightmare on Tor Street: New Ursnif Variant Dreambot Adds Tor Functionality (Proofpoint) One of the most active banking Trojans that we have observed recently in email and exploit kits is one often referred to as Ursnif or Gozi ISFB [6]. Thanks to Frank Ruiz from FoxIT InTELL, we know that the actor developing one of its variants since 2014 has named this variant Dreambot. The Dreambot malware is actively evolving, and recent samples in particular caught our attention for their addition of Tor communication capability, as well as peer-to-peer (P2P) functionality
Anatomy of a cryptographic collision – the “Sweet32” attack (Naked Security) Researchers at the Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in France (INRIA) have come up with the latest BWAIN
Monitoring SSL traffic now everyone's concern: A10 Networks (ZDNet) As the uptake of SSL grows, Tim Blombery, systems engineer at A10 Networks, said threat actors are increasingly leveraging SSL-based encryption to hide malicious activity
Cyberattack could impact 148,000 with Highmark Medicaid (Delaware Online: the News Journal) Close to 150,000 Delaware Medicaid clients enrolled in Highmark Health Options are being notified this week that a cyberattack at the end of May could have compromised their health plan information
Brainjacking: Hacking brain implants (Help Net Security) Did you know that Dick Cheney, former US Vice President who held that office from 2001 to 2009, had the wireless telemetry on his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator disabled during his time in office for fear of political assassination?
Essential Pokémon GO protection tips (Help Net Security) Since its release, Pokémon GO has become the most downloaded game in history on iOS and Android. However, Gemalto is now warning its millions of players around the world to stay safe and ensure they only battle fellow players’ gyms, not viruses and identity theft
Westpac, Deloitte-backed Day of STEM launches in Australia (ZDNet) Australian tech leaders have launched LifeJourney's Day of STEM program, using the power of the industry to get the word out to inspire kids to take up a career in the tech industry
Going Global: SUU Will Train Vietnam's Next Cyber Security Experts (Utah Policy) Information technology students in southeast Asia will soon be taking graduate-level cybersecurity courses from Southern Utah University
Court orders State to hand over new Clinton emails by Sept. 13 (Washington Examiner) A federal court ruled Thursday that the State Department has until Sept. 13 to begin handing over emails recovered by the FBI from Hillary Clinton's private server
Graham: Let special prosecutor probe Clinton emails (The Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is joining a growing number of GOP lawmakers calling for an independent prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton's emails
Submarine Data Leak Could be Setback for Indian Navy (Voice of America) A massive leak of secret data relating to the combat capabilities of submarines being built for the Indian navy by a French shipbuilder could delay their induction as India investigates the huge security breach
Islamic State group recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi 'loves Australia' (BBC) A Sydney man who helped seven young men travel from Australia to Syria to join the Islamic State conflict has told a court he is "not a terrorist"
Russian Lawmaker’s Son Convicted in U.S. of Hacking Scheme (Bloomberg) The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted of orchestrating a global hacking bonanza in what a U.S. prosecutor called one of the most prolific credit card trafficking schemes in history
US authorities investigate cyber-attack against Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones (BBC) US authorities have launched an investigation into the hacking of Leslie Jones' website and iCloud account after intimate photos of the actress were posted online
Leslie Jones website hack reveals stars' tricky cyber landscape (Chicago Tribune) The hateful hack of comedian Leslie Jones' personal website reveals the tricky cyber landscape celebrities tread and the murky legal protections that exist for personal digital content
Massachusetts man admits hoax distress calls to Coast Guard (Stars and Stripes) A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to making hoax radio distress calls to theCoast Guard that prompted fruitless searches that wasted time and resources
Cyber Attack Hove Man Sentenced (Juice 107.2) A man who bombarded Sussex Police's contact centre with 3,000 emails in just six hours has been sentenced to ten months in jail, suspended for 18 months
Design and Innovation
This Biohacker Wants to Implant Cryptographic Keys Beneath Your Skin (Motherboard) The millennial trope of your phone feeling like another limb may not be so far off, with new technology that would allow much of the same information in your phone to be stored in a chip under your skin
newly Noted Events
HTCIA International Conference and Training Expo (Summerlin, Nevada, USA, August 28 - 31, 2016) The High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) sponsors this conference for professionals in law enforcement cyber security and cyber forensic investigations. College and university faculty working in these areas are also welcome, as are their students. Learn how to protect your agency, organization, or company against cyber threats in the more than 125 lectures and labs offered at the event. Hear distinguished keynote speakers, and network with colleagues. Industry vendors will also be available to discuss their newest products and services.
2016 Government Cyber Security SBIR Workshop (Washington, DC, USA, August 30 - September 1, 2016) The 2016 Government Cyber Security SBIR Workshop affords Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awardees in the completed Phase II or Phase III processes the opportunity to collaborate and present their research and technologies to researchers and cybersecurity leadership from the government, private sector and academia. This workshop facilitates knowledge-sharing, improvement of existing deployed technologies and transition to the marketplace by innovative research that safeguards cyberspace.
CyCon US: International Conference on Cyber Conflict (Washington, DC, USA, October 21 - 23, 2016) The inaugural U.S. based International Conference on Cyber Conflict will take place 21-23 October 2016 in Washington D.C. Focusing on a theme of Protecting the Future. CyCon U.S. seeks to create greater information exchange among industry, academia, and government entities at both the national and international levels. The issues to be covered include the future of international cooperation, imminent technical challenges and requirements, forthcoming conflicts in cyberspace, and the potential for new legal frameworks, standards, and regulations.
Regional Cyber Security Summit (Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 30 - November 1, 2016) The Regional Cyber Security Summit comes this year with the theme of “Boundless Collaboration, Boundless Protection”. It focuses on the cooperation in cybersecurity as one of key pillars to tackle the complexity and the scalability of the main challenges of today’s cyber threats. The regional cybersecurity summit has been conducted for the last 4 years under the umbrella of ITU-ARCC in Oman to share experience and knowledge, learn from each other, get in tight to recent updates and collaborate to enhance organizations’ cybersecurity became a must.
SINET Showcase 2016: Highlighting and Advancing Innovation (Washington, DC, USA, November 2 - 3, 2016) SINET Showcase provides a platform to identify and highlight “best-of-class" security companies that are addressing industry and government’s most pressing needs and requirements. The chosen SINET 16 Innovators present their technological solutions to representatives from the ecosystem of the entrepreneur: venture capital, investment banking, system integration, academia, science, legal, policy, private industry and executives from the Federal Government, including civilian, intelligence and military professionals. Showcase’s objective is to increase awareness of innovative solutions that may lead to an investment in, or the purchase of, advanced technologies that will help secure our nation’s critical infrastructure and command-and-control systems.
CIFI Security Summit (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 30 - December 1, 2016) The Annual CIFI Security Summit takes place all over the world, Asia, Europe, Australia & North America. These summits are essential 2 day conferences and exhibitions bringing together leading security experts from around the globe to discuss Cyber Intelligence, Digital forensics, Cyber Security and Cyber Investigations. This is the only event of its kind that will run 4 simultaneous streams over 2 days in addition to case studies, demonstrations from global business leaders and a 30+ Exhibition.
SANS Alaska 2016 (Anchorage, Alaska, USA, August 22 - 27, 2016) SANS is bringing our renowned security training to Alaska! Join us in August for a week of hands-on training and compelling bonus sessions while taking in breathtaking views and experiencing the great Alaskan wilderness. SANS Alaska will feature two hands-on, immersion-style security training courses taught by real-world practitioners August 22-27, 2016 in Anchorage.
Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference 2016 (Montgomery, Alabama, USA, August 29 - 31, 2016) America is faced with a national emergency in cyberspace. US national security, economic vitality, financial stability and foreign policy are being eroded. Increasingly prevalent and severe malicious cyber activities are being directed against the DOD, USG, Private-Sector, Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource operators, Academia and Civil Society. USG industrial-aged thought, processes, and organizational relationship are not fostering “success” against decentralized, digital-age threat actors. An information-age solution is needed. Private-public dialogue is integral to building a new paradigm in which digital platforms are secure, and the nation is defended in a domain. Building bridges between government and the private sector is essential for victory. This conference will promote a national dialogue between the US Air Force, commercial businesses, academia and civil society to generate “whole of nation” strategies and processes aimed at overcoming challenges and ambiguities of an increasingly digital world.
CISO Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 30, 2016) A data breach is not only a PR nightmare, but cause for customers to turn to competitors, exposing sensitive company information and racking up fines from industry regulators. In order for organizations to operate smoothly, CISOs and IT security executives need to be ahead of the hackers, and kept abreast of the latest IT security topics and trends.
ISAO SO Public Forum (Tysons, Virginia, USA, August 31 - September 1, 2016) This public forum is the last opportunity to meet face-to-face and participate in conversations that will shape the first set of standards and guidelines to be published in September! Speakers will include leaders from multiple industry sectors, government and academia. The meeting will feature topics including: an in-depth public discussion of ISAO 100-1: Guidelines for Establishing an ISAO and ISAO 600-1: Government Relations, Programs, and Services; the State of the Ecosystem from the ISAO SO: “Where We Are and Where We’re Going” and “How We’ll Get There”; a special meeting of emerging ISAOs, and panel discussions from industry experts and thought leaders on ISAO Services and Capabilities, and Building an ISAO.
cybergamut Technical Tuesday: Quantifying Cyber Attacks: To Optimize and Assess your Defense by Jason Syversen of Siege Technologies (Elkridge, Maryland, USA, September 6, 2016) cybergamut Technical Tuesday is for cyber professionals to exchange innovative ideas and discuss technical issues of mutual interest. We’ll have a Technical Tuesday event on 6 September 2016 (1600 – 1730 East Coast Time). This talk describes the challenges of quantifying offensive and defensive capabilities and posture. This is not an IT-oriented metrics-talk about measuring the firewall rules or number of incidents last year. Instead, you’ll hear about new military-backed research on how to quantify the effectiveness of attacks, predict outcomes and measure defensive strength, as well as the future of data-driven security technologies.
2016 Intelligence & National Security Summit (Washington, DC, USA, September 7 - 8, 2016) Third annual unclassified summit hosted by AFCEA International and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). There are five plenary sessions and nine breakout sessions related to cybersecurity, policy, and enduring strategic issues
Annual Privacy Forum 2016 (Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, September 7 - 8, 2016) In the light of the upcoming data protection regulation and the European digital agenda, DG CONNECT, ENISA and, Goethe University Frankfurt is organizing APF 2016. In the light of the upcoming data protection regulation and the European digital agenda, DG CONNECT, ENISA and, Goethe University Frankfurt is organizing APF 2016.
SecureWorld Cincinnati (Sharonville, Ohio, USA, September 8, 2016) Join your fellow security professionals for affordable, high-quality cybersecurity training and education. Earn 6-12 CPE credits through 30+ educational elements learning from nationally recognized industry leaders. Attend featured keynotes, panel discussions & breakout sessions all while networking with local peers
Borderless Cyber Europe (Brussels, Belgium, September 8 - 9, 2016) Join CIOs, CISOs and cyber threat intelligence experts from industry, government and CSIRTs worldwide to share experiences, strategies, tactics and practices that will improve your state of preparedness and more effectively protect your business against cyber threats. You will learn how to build communities of practice between C-level professionals and IT security practitioners, access the latest cyber threat information sharing and get actionable experiences from real-world use cases.
SANS Network Security 2016 (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA , September 10 - 16, 2016) We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend SANS Network Security 2016 at the magnificent Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, on September 10-19. SANS Network Security is your annual networking opportunity! SANS will bring you the best in network security training, certification, and up-to-the-minute research on the most important topics in the industry today.
Business Insurance Cyber Risk Summit 2016 (San Francisco, California, USA, September 11 - 12, 2016) The Business Insurance Cyber Risk Summit provides risk management professionals and chief information security officers with the practical information and tools needed to combat the latest cyber risks that threaten their organizations. The day-long conference will explore cyber exposures, regulations, governance and insurance coverage. Risk managers and CISOs will learn how to adapt proven risk management strategies to their current cybersecurity environments, how to better communicate with their information security teams, and how to effectively convey risks, exposures and coverage options to their corporate boards and the C suite.
Hacker Halted 2016 (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 11 - 16, 2016) This year, Hacker Halted’s theme is the Cyber Butterfly Effect: When Small Mistakes Lead to Big Disasters. The goal of the conference is to bring the IT security community together to discuss how organizations are often compromised through the smallest of mistakes and how implementing effective changes can have ripple effects throughout all departments of an organization.
(ISC)² Security Congress (Orlando, Florida, USA, September 12 - 15, 2016) (ISC)² Security Congress offers attendees over 90 education sessions, designed to transcend all industry sectors, focus on current and emerging issues, best practices, and challenges facing cybersecurity leaders. As cyber threats and attacks continue to rise, the goal of (ISC)² Security Congress is to advance security leaders by arming them with the knowledge, tools, and expertise to protect their organizations.
7th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit (Washington, DC, USA, September 13, 2016) Join over 600 senior-level attendees, more than 50 distinguished speakers, and over 40 prestigious sponsors and exhibitors at the 7th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit, the leading Fall forum on cybersecurity in the Nation’s Capital, on September 13 in Washington, D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Keynotes Include NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers and top U.K. and Israeli Cyber Leaders.
CISO GAS (Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany, September 13, 2016) A data breach is not only a PR nightmare, but cause for customers to turn to competitors, exposing sensitive company information and racking up fines from industry regulators. CISOs and IT security executives must always have this in mind, as well as a host of other evolving concerns, from curbing Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) risk to controlling vulnerable social media data. In order for today's leading enterprises to operate smoothly, information security must be ahead of the hackers and kept abreast of the latest IT security topics and trends. The CISO Summit will bring together C-level IT security executives, industry analysts and solution providers to discuss challenges and best practices in a relaxed, yet focused business setting. Agenda sessions include engaging Keynote Presentations, Thought Leadership sessions, CISO Think Tanks, Analyst Q&As and much more
ISS World Americas (Washington, DC, USA, September 13 - 15, 2016) ISS World America is the world's largest gathering of North American Law Enforcement, Intelligence and Homeland Security Analysts as well as Telecom Operators responsible for Lawful Interception, Hi-Tech Electronic Investigations and Network Intelligence Gathering and Sharing. ISS World Programs present the methodologies and tools for Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Government Intelligence Communities in the fight against drug trafficking, cyber money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism and other criminal activities conducted over today's Telecommunications networks, the Internet and Social Networks.
Tarleton State University Cyber Security Summit 2016 (Dallas, Texas, USA, September 13, 2016) Cyber Security for the Board and the C-Suite: "What You Need to Know." Cyber Security experts will discuss corporate cyber-attacks and legal practitioners will discuss strategies to help companies comply with the increasingly complex data security laws. Data privacy and security experts will discuss practical solutions to current problems.
Insider Threat Program Development Training For NISPOM CC 2 with Legal Guidance (Germantown, Maryland, USA, September 14 - 15, 2016) Insider Threat Program Development Training for NISPOM CC 2 (Germantown, Maryland, September 14 - 15, 2016) Insider Threat Defense will hold a two-day training class on Insider Threat Program Development (NISPOM Conforming Change 2). For a limited time the training is being offered at a discounted rate of $795 (normally $1395). The training is comprehensive and provides students with the knowledge and resources to develop and implement a robust Insider Threat Program. The training will include "Legal Considerations & Guidance For Insider Threat Programs" (Privacy Concerns, User Activity Monitoring, Investigations, Etc.) - Provided By Co-Instructor Insider Threat Law - Licensed Attorney. Insider Threat Defense has trained over 400 organizations and has become the "leader-go to company" for insider threat program development training.
SecureWorld Detroit (Dearborn, Michigan, USA , September 14 - 15, 2016) Join your fellow security professionals for affordable, high-quality cybersecurity training and education. Earn 12-16 CPE credits through 60+ educational elements learning from nationally recognized industry leaders. Attend featured keynotes, panel discussions & breakout sessions all while networking with local peers
Insider Threat Program Development Training for NISPOM CC 2 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, September 19 - 20, 2016) Insider Threat Defense will hold a two-day training class on Insider Threat Program Development (NISPOM Conforming Change 2). For a limited time the training is being offered at a discounted rate of $795 (normally $1395). The training is comprehensive and provides students with the knowledge and resources to develop and implement a robust insider threat program. Insider Threat Defense has trained over 350+ organizations and has become the "leader-go to company " for insider threat program development training.
4th ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 19 - 21, 2016) This three-day workshop brings together diverse players in the quantum-safe cybersecurity community to facilitate the knowledge exchange and collaboration required to transition cyber infrastructures and business practices to make them safe in an era with quantum computers. Attendees and presenters will include leaders from the fields of post-quantum (quantum resistant) cryptography, quantum key distribution (QKD), theoretical and commercial integration of cryptography and security tools, first-adopters of quantum-safe tools from industry and government, and members of standards bodies. Anyone interested in joining the growing community that is working to mitigate the quantum risk and creating quantum safe cryptosystems for the future should attend this workshop.
Cyber Physical Systems Summit (Newport News, Virginia, USA, September 20 - 22, 2016) On September 20-22, 2016 the Commonwealth will be hosting a Cyber and Physical Systems Summit. The three day event will consist of roundtable discussions, plenary and panel presentations across the intersection of cyber and three vectors – Autonomy, Physical Systems (Mfg), and Critical Infrastructure. Participants in the Summit will engage in conversations surrounding challenges, opportunities, threats, and the associated policy and budgetary implications.
hardwear.io Security Conference (The Hague, the Netherlands, September 20 - 23, 2016) hardwear.io Security Conference is a platform for hardware and security community where researchers showcase and discuss their innovative research on attacking and defending hardware. The objective of the conference revolves around four key concerns in hardware, firmware and related protocols i.e. backdoors, exploits, trust and attacks (BETA). hardwear.io is seeking innovative research on hardware security. If you have done interesting research on attacks or mitigation on any Hardware and want to showcase it to the security community, just submit your research paper.
3rd Annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference: Navigating Today's Cyber Security Terrain (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, September 21, 2016) The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and COMPASS Cyber Security are hosting the 3rd Annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference on Wednesday, September 21, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. Hear from industry leaders on cyber security best practices and trends that will help you better secure your organization's data. This year's agenda examines the current cyber security landscape, threats, and challenges ahead for organizations and how senior leaders can work towards "shifting their data to being safe and secure."
New York Cyber Security Summit (New York, New York, USA, September 21, 2016) The Cyber Security Summit is an exclusive conference series connects C-Suite & Senior Executives who are responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. This educational and informational forum will focus on educating attendees on how to best protect highly vulnerable business applications and critical infrastructure. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the nation’s leading solution providers and discover the latest products and services for enterprise cyber defense.
Gigaom Change 2016 Leader's Summit (Austin, Texas, USA, September 21 - 23, 2016) Over an immersive 2.5 days, we will explore the current state-of-the-art technologies, how these are transforming industry, and why this all matters. You’ll emerge with a greater understanding of the exponential technological changes occurring around us, and the confidence to accelerate tangible next steps. Gigaom Change is designed to empower businesses of today to thrive in a world of tomorrow. Gigaom Change will focus on the seven most disruptive enterprise technologies that are widely known but little understood: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Cybersecurity, 3-D Printing, and Human-Machine Interface.
NYIT Annual Cybersecurity Conference (New York, New York, USA, September 22, 2016) Presented by NYIT School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, this conference brings together cyber experts from academia, business, and government to address: Cyber Defense Against Attacks–How Industry Is Addressing Evolving Threats; Information Currency and Blockchain Vulnerability; Cyber Physical Systems, Cyber Infrastructure, and the Internet of Things; Government Agencies' Strategies for Securing Cyberspace; Cyber Risks of Smart Transportation; and Accelerating Cyber Education and Career Paths.
Cyber Security: How to Identify Risk and Act (Frankenmuth, Michigan, USA, September 26, 2016) Join us on 9/26/2016 for the PMI-MTC's annual project management PDD focusing on "Cyber Security: How to Identify Risk and Act." Earn 7 PDUs during the interactive sessions with well-known information security and project management experts. Featuring a keynote speaker from the FBI Detroit Cyber Task Force. Also featuring speakers from the Dow Chemical Company, UHY LLP, Ally Financial, CBI, and more.
CYBERSEC (Kraków, Poland, September 26 - 27, 2016) The CYBERSEC forum is the first of its kind in Poland and one of just a few regular public policy conferences in Europe devoted to the strategic issues of cyberspace and cybersecurity.The goal of the CYBERSEC conference is the formulation of practical recommendations that aim to increase resilience to cyber threats within specific economic sectors, states, and the EU as a whole.
Third Annual Women in Cyber Security Reception (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, September 27, 2016) The CyberWire is pleased to present the 3rd Annual Women in Cyber Security Reception in cooperation with our partner the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland (CAMI) on Tuesday, September 27, 2016, in Baltimore, MD - See more at: https://thecyberwire.com/events/s/3rd-annual-women-in-cyber-security-reception.html#sthash.Kgzd4dXp.dpuf
IP EXPO Nordic 2016 (Stockholm, Sweden, September 27 - 28, 2016) IP EXPO Nordic is part of Europe’s number ONE enterprise IT event series, designed for those looking to find out how the latest IT innovations can drive business growth and competitiveness. The event showcases brand new exclusive content and senior-level insights from across the industry, as well as unveiling the latest developments in IT. It covers everything you need to run a successful enterprise or organisation. Arrive with challenges, leave with solutions. IP EXPO Nordic 2016 incorporates six IT events under one roof – Cloud, Cyber Security, Networks and Infrastructure, Data Analytics, DevOps and Open Source. This year’s event will be the most comprehensive business-enhancing experience for those across the IT industry, including IT managers, CTOs, CDOs, network and storage engineers, CISOs, data analysts, developers and communications specialists.
SecureWorld Dallas (Plano, Texas, USA , September 27 - 28, 2016) Join your fellow security professionals for affordable, high-quality cybersecurity training and education. Earn 12-16 CPE credits through 60+ educational elements learning from nationally recognized industry leaders. Attend featured keynotes, panel discussions & breakout sessions all while networking with local peers
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A little update for those that have been reading this blog from the beginning — I’m going into my final year at Cambridge which requires a lot more unpacking, but this post is something I wished had existed when I made my application, and have been wanting to write for a while. The title is not the most nuanced but I am hoping the buzz words and generalisations here will help make them accessible for all those in a similar situation.
I watched my elder sister go to a university in London and it was always an option and ambition. However, everything around my university of choice: Cambridge; the moving out for university bit, living alone for the first time, the barriers and cultural differences that came with it as a Muslim, Bengali woman, was completely unheard of for my parents. I know for some, University implies leaving home for three years and potentially never moving back, for me it did not. Often, the first question from prospective applicants who have a similar background to me is questions about moving out, to them, as it sometimes did for me, that almost seemed more difficult than the academic hurdles. Their questions are more focused on my parents’ reactions and how my living arrangement works now than the intense academic pressure. I have had conversations with so many who are worried to bring this up at all to their parents. People who are worried to make an application in the event that they don’t receive an offer and will then have brought up this conversation for no reason. Despite the good work being done by universities on making these institutions more accessible, I think this is a part that is difficult for an admissions team to address and quite specific to our community. I hope sharing my experience helps and if anything, just reassures those of you who have the ambition and capability that no cultural barrier should prevent it.
Part I: the moving out bit, convincing your parents
My ambitions for Cambridge were not met with the same enthusiasm I or my teachers had, by my parents. It was constant and soul wrenching frustration as I would come home with good grades and yet, Cambridge just was not necessary; an ambitious hassle and just slightly out of reach. For me, academia and putting everything into my studies was not something enforced at home or school. My parents saw no need for me to go to what I considered the best university for me and make such a big move when there were plenty safer, easier and cheaper options nearby. I guess what I am saying here is my parents did not really understand, or know how to respond or cater to my ambitions. I think it took a while for them to understand how different our outlooks were. For me, my academic ambitions and capabilities was channelling that defensive streak I always had in me. The anger of not being enough, of doing something just for myself, it was leaving behind the teenage behaviour of secondary school; an escape from teenage traumas and expectations at home and school. I guess I am also saying, I was not that bookworm super smart kid reading Dickens at age eight. I was often the kid outside the classroom, the teenage girl embroiled in silly school girl drama and at home, the mature and too big for my own boot’s elder sister.
With that context, when I realised I could go to Cambridge and how much I wanted to, I would be met with firm no’s from both parents. My Mum never placed academic pressure on me, she was happy when I came home with A*’s and there to tell me it doesn’t really matter when I was stressed and came home with bad grades. Which I was beyond grateful for. For her and my dad, having not been to university or really understanding the ranking of universities, their measure of what was ‘best’ what was closest to my house and familiar. I think the first hurdle to convincing my parents to allow me to move out of home, to a city an hour’s drive away was explaining why Cambridge was so important to me. It was explaining the concept of Oxbridge, top Uni’s and the opportunities they could open up and visualising for them the specific academic and career path I see for myself. Prior to that, Cambridge was just another of 100’s of universities, in another city that we were not from nor lived in. Foreign to them in ways it would be to me once I had got in. Slowly, my mum understood how much Cambridge meant for me – I remember my Dad saying “darling you can go Cambridge, I will even pay for your travel, but you must stay at home” – not realising that moving out came with this.
As much as my parents never pushed any career on me – not even doctor, lawyer, engineer, they did not always share or encourage my ambitions. They had and probably always will, have an unsettling sense of fear and desire for safety. They’ve never been able to dream in the way I have. They learnt to survive, to create beginnings and safe foundations for us, in a way that my dream chasing and wondering does not follow on from. I spent a lot of time just explaining to my mum and asking her friends and my friends mothers to also explain. My sisters were always on board and really encouraged me throughout.
It is important to understand the reasons or the premise from which your parents are disagreeing with you moving out for University. For my parents it was rooted in cultural expectations of a young girl living at home until she was married, it was about the fear of being in such a ‘foreign’ environment unlike where I grew up, Newham. I decentred the conversation and their worries to a perspective where we share ideals, in faith. I explained my intentions to my parents. Studying was never out of fear that I would be told off for not getting the best grades. It was a deeply personal thing rooted from my belief that we are obliged to seek knowledge and to use our opportunities and talents to excel in our chosen fields and give back. It was not about doing the bare minimum to get into a job. Once I explained my intentions to my parents, the conversation was about Cambridge, not about a young woman living alone and moving out of home. It was about studying in one of the best institutions worldwide and choosing to enter a high pressured, intensely academic environment. I convinced my parents I was moving out for the right reasons – for an amazing education, and for Cambridge, not to be away from their rules or watch. My parents never really mentioned things about partying or doing things they would not approve of. Partly because of my low noise tolerance but also because there was nothing they disapproved of at home to mention it or have those fears about University.
As I worried about getting an interview and then making the grades to meet my offer, my mother worried about her daughter growing up for three pivotal years away from home. This was also about trust, which I will touch on a later post at greater depth, but my parents feared their good daughter going away and growing up away from them. They worried about not being able to ‘watch’ me. I had to explain this was no different to everything else I did by myself. It was always about the values they instilled in me, trusting how they raised me and not because they were watching me. My parents were pretty strict growing up and I had to understand for them, moving out also meant ‘freedom’. I asked my mum to trust in how she brought me up and the person I am, not the potential fears. After all, every terrible thing she feared happening could just as easily be happening the time I spent outside of the house here. In an odd way these arguments about; why I ‘had to go’,‘how could they possibly not understand how amazing this was?’, ‘doesn’t she trust me?’ bonded us and led to my mum reiterating how much she did trust and have faith in me.
I also assured my mum that if I got in and made the grades, it was meant to be. The way we communicated was in our common belief. Getting in to Cambridge then, was a sign from Allah that I could and should be there. I asked my mum to pray if it was the right thing for me; now and in three years. To pray it works out. It was a way of saying let’s put both of our worries aside and put our trust in Allah, whatever happens is what is meant to be.
By results day my parents were beyond overjoyed and immediately made preparations for me to move out. The first few weeks as a fresher, as I cried endlessly and told my parents I don’t think I can do it, it was them that said it would be difficult but I could do it. By the end, my parents shared my dream and ambition, they believed in my capability. They saw how much I wanted this and at points of complete burnout and exhaustion these past two years where I felt like I could not continue, they became my biggest motivators and the people I most wanted to get through it for.
I hope this was helpful and gave you some pointers of how to approach these conversations, please feel free to leave comments or get in touch if there is anything more specific or personal.
Lots of love and good wishes,
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Singaporeans will not be allowed to choose which COVID-19 vaccine to take
"Allowing individuals to have choice of vaccines will unnecessarily complicate this already complex vaccination programme," said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong
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Health Minister Gan Kim Yong revealed on Monday (4 Jan) that Singapore residents will not be allowed to choose which COVID-19 vaccine to take, since allowing them to do so would “unnecessarily complicate the already complex vaccination programme.”
The Government announced late last year that it will be bringing COVID-19 vaccines to Singapore sometime this year. Revealing that vaccination will be free for all citizens, permanent residents and long-term residents, the Government encouraged all to take part in the non-mandatory immunisation scheme when vaccines become available.
Although the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only vaccine that has been approved for use in the immediate term, Workers’ Party MP Louis Chua asked whether individuals will be given a choice of vaccines when more than one has been approved for use.
Mr Gan replied in Parliament: “The allocation of vaccines will largely be based on medical indications of the different vaccines and the suitability of the vaccine for the different population groups, as well as availability of the vaccines.”
Asserting that any approved vaccines will have to meet stringent safety and efficacy requirements, he added: “Allowing individuals to have choice of vaccines will unnecessarily complicate this already complex vaccination programme. Anyway, in the immediate term, only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved for use. So there is no choice.”
In his ministerial statement, Mr Gan also confirmed that individuals will be issued vaccination cards after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. He said:
“Every person who is vaccinated will receive a physical vaccination card, and this will remind them of their appointment to return for their second dose, indicate clearly which vaccine was administered, and provide brief post-vaccination advice.
“In addition, any person who is vaccinated will have their record updated in the National Immunisation Registry, and individuals will be able to check their vaccination status digitally.”
Calling on Singaporeans to get immunised when the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, Mr Gan also said: “While the COVID-19 vaccination will be voluntary, we strongly encourage everyone who is medically eligible to get vaccinated when the vaccine is offered to you. This will not only protect yourself, but also indirectly protect others who cannot be vaccinated due to medical reasons.
“This collective protection will be more effective the more people are vaccinated. In case of a fresh outbreak, with more people vaccinated we can keep the number of cases low, minimise the stress on the healthcare system, ensure that those who are ill get the treatment they need, and allow us to return to normalcy sooner.”
He added: “Some may feel that there is no urgency to get vaccinated given the current low number of community cases and the local situation is well under control. We must not be complacent or wait till an outbreak and then rush to be vaccinated.
“We have seen a few community cases in the last few days, which shows clearly that there are hidden cases among us. We are also seeing new variants that are more contagious. Any of these cases has a risk of sparking a major outbreak as we have seen in other countries.
“The best time to vaccinate is now. If people wait until an outbreak has happened to get themselves vaccinated, it will be too late, both to protect themselves and to prevent the outbreak in the first place.”
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As is required by law Titans staff are basic First Aid / CPR trained. If a gymnast should become ill or injure him/herself during training we will take appropriate action and immediately inform the parent. If a serious injury occurs that requires more than basic first aid, an ambulance will be called and someone designated by the Head Coach will accompany the gymnast in the ambulance. For this reason, each parent must ensure that the Club has pertinent medical information on file, which will be kept in the office as part of the registration process.
Part of your registration fee is submitted to Gymnastics Nova Scotia in order for them to provide all member clubs with insurance, which protects both the club and your child, should he or she be injured.
Please advise the coach of any changes in your athlete’s general medical status.
The Board of Directors and the coaches of Titans work hard to ensure the club functions effectively and efficiently. Occasionally problems do occur and we encourage parents to bring issues to the attention of the staff or board members. Most board meetings are open to all members and we encourage participation. This is a parent run volunteer board organization so all suggestions are welcome. If you have an issue that has not been resolved to your satisfaction, please write to the Board of Directors or attend a meeting.
We are confident that open and effective communication will eliminate most if not all difficulties before they arise. If parents or their children feel that they have a problem, they should contact the child’s coach. If a resolution cannot be reached at this level then the Head Coach should be contacted. If the Head Coach is unable to resolve the matter, then it will be referred to the Parent Liaison member of the Board of Directors.
The Parent Liaison member will investigate the issue and attempt to resolve it in a fair and equitable manner. If the matter warrants consideration by the board it will be discussed in full confidentiality and a resolution will be decided upon. All board decisions are final.
Refunds, Make-ups and Cancellations
Fall and Spring Program: Titans will offer a full refund until the first class of term. After this time, you will have a four (4) week period to opt for a refund on the remaining class fee only. No refund will be given on the Registration fee. After the four (4) week period, a credit for missed classes will only be given with a doctor’s note.
Summer Program: Titans will offer a full refund with seven (7) days notice of the camp starting. After this time, a credit for missed classes will only be given with a doctor’s note.
These policies are subject to change in extreme circumstances such as unforeseen extended closures.
MAKEUP POLICY:
Due to our strict student to teacher ratio, missed classes will not result in make-up classes, prorated tuition or refunds. No refunds for classes missed including scheduled holidays.
In the event of extreme conditions (e.g. COVID-19), Titans may create a make-up week at the end of term to encourage those who may be sick to not attend class.
Any such week will be clearly communicated prior to registration for that term
Titans reserves the right to cancel one class per program term without a makeup for weather or power related emergencies.
Any cancellations other than the above mentioned will result in a makeup class being scheduled or a refund being given.
TITANS GYMNASTICS ANTI-BULLYING POLICY
Titans is committed to providing a friendly, safe and positive environment for all of our members so they can enjoy our programs in a relaxed and secure atmosphere. We strive to create a setting where athletes encourage each other in a teamwork-based approach. Harassment or bullying of any kind is unacceptable at our club. If incidents do occur, they will be dealt with promptly and effectively. In keeping with Gymnastics Nova Scotia’s policies Titans has developed this guideline for ensuring the complete enjoyment of our members.
Bullying is any intentional act that results in the emotional or physical injury of another person.
Bullying can be
Emotional being unfriendly, excluding, tormenting (e.g. hiding conversations, threatening words or gestures, belittling)
Physical pushing, kicking, hitting, punching or any use of violence
Racist racial taunts, graffiti, gestures
Sexual unwanted physical contact or sexually abusive comments
Homophobic because of, or focussing on the issue of sexuality
Verbal name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, teasing
A child may indicate by signs or behaviour that he or she is being bullied. Adults should be aware of these possible signs and they should investigate if a child:
develops a disinterest in attending training
becomes withdrawn anxious, or lacking in confidence
becomes aggressive, disruptive or unreasonable
is bullying other children or siblings
changes eating habits
is afraid to say what’s wrong
gives improbable excuses for any of the above
Club Policy
All gymnasts, parents and coaches shall have an understanding of what bullying is. Acknowledgement of club policies is required at registration.
Titans will take clear and appropriate measures if bullying occurs.
Parents and athletes are assured that they will be supported when bullying is reported.
Bullying will not be tolerated.
Any bullying incidents should be reported to your child’s coach. Coaches will attempt to resolve the problem through time-outs, or temporary removal from gym floor. Parents will be informed. (both aggressor and victim)
For more serious incidents, or when coaches actions does not stop the inappropriate behaviour, the incident will be referred to the Head coach who may take more extreme measures such as temporary suspension of club privileges.
In cases where harassment or bullying continues despite warnings, the issue will be referred to the parent liaison officer and potentially the Board. The Board will agree on appropriate action, which may include permanent suspension from the club. All Board decisions are final.
After the incident / incidents have been investigated and dealt with, each case will be monitored to ensure repeated bullying does not take place.
If necessary and appropriate, police will be consulted.
Titans Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about Titan’s practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information (information that could be used to identify you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone number) that you may provide through the registration and membership with the club.
Titans collects personal information about you when you voluntarily provide it. Whenever you voluntarily provide information through your registration, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
When we collect your personal information and how we use it
In order to enroll in gymnastics program a member or parent/guardian are required to submit a registration application form, which asks for your personal contact information.
Titans uses your personal information in order to register membership and to conduct business related to the various programs it offers. Titans may also use your personal information to create aggregated information that does not allow you to be personally identified or contacted. Titans may disclose aggregated information to its affiliates and related companies and to unaffiliated third parties.
When we disclose your personal information.
Titans will not, without your permission, disclose your personal information to third parties, except that Titans reserves the right to disclose your personal information in an emergency medical situation where reasonably warranted.
How we protect your personal information.
Recognizing that your privacy is important to you, Titans makes all reasonable efforts and employs security measures to protect your personal information. However, Titans, its directors, employees and agents do not represent, warrant or guarantee that personal information will be protected against accidental misuse, loss or alterations that may occur.
Titans reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and you are advised to review this policy regularly for any changes. This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 31st, 2010.
You can contact Titans in person or by mail to request access to your personal information or to request that Titans update your personal information. If you believe that Titans has failed to adhere to this Privacy Policy, please contact Titans at;
Titans Gymnastics and Trampoline Club
4B Broom Road
Dartmouth NS
B2W 0J4
Ph: 466-5470
Email: titans@titansgym.ca
Competitive Viewing Policy
Titans allows minimal viewing during competitive training sessions. We believe in an environment that will allow our athletes to be safe and progress under their coaches guidance and expertise. Titans is open and aware that there may be special circumstances that warrant viewing on an occasional basis. Should viewing of your childs’ competitive session be required on a regular basis please contact Head coach Susie Gallagher. For occasional viewing please let your child’s personal coach know on the day of viewing ie a grandparent or family member is visiting from out of town.
Selected viewing weeks will be established to allow for viewing on average 3 times per year. We ask that a few simple rules be followed when viewing:
Please limit contact with your child during a training session, as it will distract from their training and the coaches ability to conduct a class.
No videotaping
If you wish to speak to a coach contact them either before or after a session and make an appointment. They are responsible for a group of athletes and therefore need to concentrate on coaching and safety in the best interests of all.
Should you have additional concerns please email headcoach@titansgym.ca or parentsliaison@titansgym.ca
Titans Private Coaching Policy
This policy sets out the guidelines governing situations where a member wishes to arrange private coaching for their athlete. As Titans is a community based non-profit organization, private coaching is normally discouraged except in special circumstances.
Private Coaching – Definition
For the purposes of this policy Private Coaching is defined as:
A regular, periodic arrangement between a parent (or adult member) and Titans where one-on-one coaching is provided separate from regular classes. This arrangement is normally initiated by the member (parent) to augment what would normally occur in a gym class situation.
This definition does not apply to occasional situations where coaching staff may initiate action to individually coach an athlete for a specific, short-term purpose such as preparation for a high performance meet.
The following guidelines will apply to all private lesson arrangements.
Members will be assessed a per-lesson cost based on the Gymnastics Canada qualification level of the coach. Therefore, the higher the coach level, the higher the fee. Fees for all levels of private coaching will be set by the board annually at the AGM.
Individual coaching for special needs athletes will not be subject to the same fee structure.
Private coaching arrangements will only be made if the coach is available and willing to conduct the individual training.
Private coaching will only occur on a non-interference basis with other club activities.
Club priorities will take precedence over any private coaching arrangements. For example, a private arrangement may be cancelled at the discretion of the club if the coach is needed for another class or the gym space is no longer available.
Approval of any private coaching arrangement is by the Titans Head Coach.
Titans Sponsorship Policy
The Titans Gymnastics and Trampoline Club welcomes sponsorship from local business, corporations, families and individuals. The aim of sponsorship is to obtain funding or in-kind support to provide services, equipment and donations for infrastructure to enhance the clubs ability to provide programs to the community. The Board of Directors of the Titans Gymnastics and Trampoline Club believes that amateur sport and healthy living play an essential role in the quality of life of the community and in this important function, the club should be supported through a combination of public, private and revenue based funding.
The following principles will guide the Titans Gymnastics and Trampoline Club in the solicitation and acceptance of gifts, grants or support to enhance or develop programs and services:
All gifts, grants and/or support must further the clubs mission, goals, objectives and priorities. They must not drive the clubs agenda or priorities.
All gifts, grants and/or support must safeguard equity of access to club programs. Sponsorship agreements must not give unfair advantage to, or cause discrimination against, members or potential members of the club.
Since the Titans organization is committed to active and healthy lifestyles, sponsors must also share this vision as reflected in their business ethics, products and/or services.
All gifts, grants and/or support must ensure the confidentiality of member records. The club will not sell or provide access to member records in exchange for gifts or support.
All gifts, grants and/or support must leave open the opportunity for other actual or potential donors to have similar opportunities to provide support to the club. (I.E. no exclusionary clauses)
Recognition and Acknowledgement
The club will ensure that each sponsor receives acknowledgement and to the degree that the donor is willing, public recognition. The following guidelines will be used in providing acknowledgement to and recognition for sponsors:
A letter of acknowledgement for gifts of money and in-kind support will be sent to all sponsors and a copy will be placed on file.
Any special recognition agreements will be stipulated in the letter.
Public acknowledgement of sponsorship in the club’s promotional materials will normally be restricted to a statement of the sponsor’s name and a display of logo. The size format and location of such acknowledgment will be negotiated with the sponsor and approved by the Board of Directors to ensure both consistency and quality of appearance. Such acknowledgement will not take precedence or have prominence over the club ‘s own logo or promotional material.
For gifts and/or sponsorships valued at over $500, the club may submit a press release to local newspapers and/or publish an article regarding the sponsorship in their own newsletter if the sponsor is willing.
Acknowledgement of sponsorship may also take the following forms at the club ‘s discretion and by agreement with the Sponsor:
o Sponsor’s name on promotional materials.
o Banners and/or plaques may be placed on donated furniture or equipment.
o Larger advertising type banners may be placed in public view inside the club for regular business hours and / or during events and meets for a period of time agreed to with the sponsor.
o Other types of sponsor benefits may be agreed to at the discretion of the board
In all cases, the type and scope of donor recognition required by the donor will be weighed against the benefit to the club.
The Board of Directors must approve all gifts, grants or in-kind support given involving special requirements outside the normal process. The solicitation of gifts, grants or in-kind support by club staff and valued at over $500 must receive prior approval of the Board of Directors.
Authority for Implementation
The club reserves the right to make decisions regarding the implementation of each grant, gift, or offer of in-kind support. Purchasing decisions, including type of equipment, materials, furnishings, and other components of a gift will reside with club management. All details as to design of programs and allocation of resources for will also reside with club management.
Safe Sport Policy
Titans is committed to providing a safe and positive environment free of abuse and/or maltreatment for its membership. Titans follows the Safe Sport Framework developed by Gymnastics Canada.
Please see the link for more detail: http://gymcan.org/programs/safe-sport/overview.
Titans Gymnastics and Trampoline Club is located at 40 Broom Rd in Dartmouth. In June 2010, we realized our dream of opening our own permanent facility. Our state-of-the-art club boasts 16,500 sq feet filled with all necessary equipment for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, as well as Trampoline and Tumbling.
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About Te Kāpehu Whetū
Te Kāpehu Whetū (the Māori Star Compass) is a kura based in Whangarei that combines the wisdom of our tupuna with 21st century learning systems. Our unique approach empowers our students to excel as Māori and develop the character, knowledge and skills required to navigate today’s global society.
Te Kāpehu Whetū has Preschool, Primary and Secondary schools units.
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“Hapaitia te ara tika pumau ai te rangatiratanga mo nga uri whakatipu
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Pānui ā Kura – December 2018
‘Hec’ Busby made a Knight in 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Hekenukumai Puhipi (Busby) can keep a secret.
Late last week even his family remained unaware he was about to be knighted, and he and the few who were in the know were anxious the news should not leak before the embargo was lifted at 5am today.
The first thing Busby said when he did talk about being named a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours was that it was an honour to be shared with his late wife Hilda, who died 22 years ago.
“We worked together for our people for years,” he said.
Busby, who will celebrate his 86th birthday on August 1, began earning his international reputation as a master waka builder and navigator in 1990, when he built the double-hulled Te Aurere (although he had built a less ambitious waka the year before, for the 1990 Waitangi celebrations).
He had worked hard to develop the skills required to build waka that would not only float but would be stable, and there had never been any “trouble” on any of the voyages his craft had sailed over many thousands of miles of open sea.
“Someone has been looking after us,” he said.
It was an invitation from John Rangihau, who Busby said he regarded as prophet, to travel to Hawaii in 1984 that was the “beginning of everything,” however. Work was well under way there to restore the ancient craft of building and sailing waka, and when he was asked to name a New Zealander who might be interested, Rangihau had no hesitation in nominating Busby.
Before that he had established a reputation in the Far North as a builder of bridges. He had built about 200, he said, about 150 in what was the Mangonui County and as far south as Waipū.
Now he was building bridges between the past and the future, and the peoples of Aotearoa.
His service to Māori goes even further. He has been involved in various leadership and committee positions with organisations including the Waitangi National Trust, the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii, and Te Tai Tokerau Māori District Council. He maintains roles as senior adviser to his iwi (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kuri and Ngāpuhi).
He is a kaumatua for Māori Tourism in Northland, remains a member of the Waitangi Day Organising Committee after 36 years, and continues to be involved with waka activities during Waitangi Day commemorations.
He was bestowed with a Te Wananga o Awanuiarangi Honorary Doctorate in Māori Development last year. In 1994 he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire, and in 2014 as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
He was also awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
Originally featured in the Northern Advocate, Monday, 4 June 2018, 5:11 am
Huia takes third win at Northland’s Smokefreerockquest regional finals
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Live music, original songs, and stage nerves were all part of the mix at Forum North in Whangarei on May 26 in this year’s Smokefreerockquest Northland heats.
The event was one of a number of nationwide heats which will see over 800 bands and solo/duos in over 20 venues from Invercargill to Whangarei contest for their position in the finals in Auckland in September.
The top two Northland solo/duos selected in Whangarei were Huia Shortland from Te Kapehu Whetu – Teina school, Whangarei (first) and No Credit (Giorgia Davies and Israel Reid) from Kerikeri High School.
I write about the little experiences we have every-day, and I think I stood out to the judge because my song was very honest and to the point
Whangarei Tangata Beats winners; Harmonies Divergent – Danika Holland (keyboard), Dana Scott (guitar),Mihitaurangi Koperu (guitar, vocals) and Jade Norman (vocals).
For singer-songwriter and guitarist Huia Shortland, this is her fifth Smokefreerockquest, and her third win in the solo-duo category for the region. Despite her success, she does not go in expecting to win.
The 15-year-old said “I write about the little experiences we have every-day, and I think I stood out to the judge because my song was very honest and to the point, came from my heart I guess.”
* Teen soloist hits the winning note at Smokefreerockquest
The Smokefree Tangata Beats Award went to Harmonies Divergent, from Bay of Islands College.
The band members are Danika Holland (keyboard), Dana Scott (guitar), Mihitaurangi Koperu (guitar, vocals) and Jade Norman (vocals).
Koperu offered some advice for future participants in SmokefreeTangata Beats: “If you ever want to do something like this just believe in yourself, and then do it.”
Smokefree Tangata Beats recognises and reflects the unique cultural identity of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.
The top 12 bands selected will play off at the Northland regional final at Forum North, on June 22 – two will be selected for the finals.
The top regional bands and solo/duos submit footage for selection as finalists to play at the Smokefree Tangata Beats national final on September 21 in Auckland, followed by the Smokefreerockquest national final on September 22.
Originally featured in Stuff, Wednesday, 30 May 2018, 4:30 pm
Article written by: Annette Lambly
Photo: Duo – No Credit Giorgia Davies and Israel Reid and soloist Huia Shortland.
Te Kāpehu Whetū ranked top two in Northland
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The latest University Entrance results as published by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show a Northland charter school (with a 100% Maori roll) ranks in the top two in the region.
Te Kapehu Whetu – Terenga Paraoa is outperforming most other private and public schools in Northland in UE success and is well above the New Zealand average for UE pass rates.
It’s abundantly clear that charter schools work for Maori students. This school’s 2017 University Entrance results are the second highest in Northland and well above the New Zealand average.
E Tipu e Rea Chief Executive Graeme Osborne says ‘how can anyone believe that closing the second best high school for University Entrance in Northland is in the best interests of student success and wellbeing. This charter school’s University Entrance results are well above the New Zealand average and show that the school is working for its 100% Maori students. It’s abundantly clear that charter schools work for Maori students. This school’s 2017 University Entrance results are the second highest in Northland and well above the New Zealand average. Why shouldn’t younger Maori students be given the same opportunity to achieve at this school?”
The graph below shows the top five Northland schools, ranked by 2017 UE success.
Originally featured in Scoop, Monday, 30 April 2018, 1:10 pm
Photo: Te Kapehu Whetu perform at Te Tai Tokerau Festival 2018. Photo / Elisa Kawiti
Northland schoolgirl headed to parliament to join new Youth Advisory Group
Northland schoolgirl Hadassah Wharawhara was one of 12 young people selected to be a member of the new Ministry of Education Youth Advisory Group.
The group has been set up to enable young people to have their say and have more input on the education system and issues that affect them.
Topics the ministry expected the group to cover included the future of work, student well-being, education, mental health, perspectives on technology and the use of digital tools in learning and assessment.
The group will meet quarterly, in the third week of every term at the Ministry of Education in Wellington.
Hadassah is in Year 12 at Te Kāpehu Whetū partnership school in Whangarei.
“It’s really important for youth to have a say, a lot of the policies that are being created affect us firsthand so having a youth voice is key.”
She said her school had been very supportive, and she was excited to make a meaningful contribution.
“I’m the only student from the far North.
“I’m just doing this on behalf of my school and for Northland, and it’d be great for more Northland kids that want to do this, and proving that they can do it and anything else is possible.
Minister of Education Chris Hipkins said he will attend the orientation and the group meetings where possible.
When he couldn’t attend he said he would Skype in on the meeting.
An experienced youth facilitator selected by Ministry of Education officials will be present at each meeting.
Mr Hipkins expected the group to offer fresh perspectives and valuable insights about education.
“I want our young people to have a say in the way our education system works and the Youth Advisory Group provides an exciting opportunity for young New Zealanders to get involved in the decision-making.
“I am looking forward to working with this inspiring group of young people, hearing about their experiences of our education system, and how they think we can improve it.”
Insights from this group will be shared with the Ministry of Education and other education sector agencies.
Originally featured in the Northern Advocate, Monday, 23 November, 2017
by Charlotte Carter
Photo: Te Kapehu Whetu Partnership School student Hadassah Wharawhara has been selected for a Youth Advisory Group with the Ministry Of Education. Photo / John Stone
NZ Provincial Barbarians officially welcomed to Whangarei
Te Kapehu Whetu and Whangarei have welcomed the New Zealand Provincial Barbarians to Northland ahead of their clash with the British and Irish Lions.
The charter school performed a beautiful waiata and a rousing haka to the Barbarians side, with Whangarei Mayor Sheryl Mai welcoming them to town.
Barbarians and Northland loose forward Matt Matich said he had never experienced a welcoming quite like it.
“The first part of it was really quite intense, almost intimidating. There was a lot of passion showing and some beautiful voices in there,” he said.
“I don’t know if I’ve had a powhiri this powerful before, there was so much of energy behind it. The boys definitely enjoyed it.”
We have a helluva lot of young players wanting to become Super players who will announce themselves to the world on Saturday
Roger Randle
The Barbarians squad were training earlier in the day at Marist RFC Park in what was their third day together as a squad.
Matich said the squad is in great spirits ahead of the enormous fixture.
“We’re feeling pretty positive. Obviously we’ve identified the Lions have a strong scrum, but we’re definitely not going in like we are going to lose in that area,” he said.
“We’re trying to figure out how we can win the scrum. There’s a whole lot of positivity and that’s what we need if we want to go in and win this one.
“No one goes out there to lose obviously.
“As an individual it’s a huge opportunity especially for us guys who aren’t fully contracted.
“We’re just on three month contracts so it’s a huge opportunity to get exposure in New Zealand and overseas.”
Barbarians assistant coach Roger Randle concurred with Matich, saying they aren’t going into the match to make up numbers.
“We’re New Zealand rugby players, every New Zealand team has that winning mentality built in,” he said.
“We’re not going out there to come off second best but we’re well aware of the challenges we face with the calibre of players that are coming.
“We’ve got a great bunch of guys in our group. We have a couple of experienced guys who have been at the Super level and we have a helluva lot of young players wanting to become Super players who will announce themselves to the world on Saturday.”
Randle said the excitement was bubbling within the unit and they were wary of overplaying their hand.
“We’re just trying to throw a simple plan together, trying to not complicate things.
“There are challenges with not spending a heap of time together but we knew that going in so it’s not really something we’ve spoken about other than when we first came together.
“We’ll just try to keep things simple but throw in a bit innovation.
“It’s been a long time coming; we’ve been in preparation for months as a group.
“We’re massively excited.”
Originally featured in the Northern Advocate, Monday, 29 May, 2017
by Andrew Johnsen
Photo: Te Kapehu Whetu students perform an intimidating haka to welcome the New Zealand Provincial Barbarians to Whangarei. Photo/John Stone
Huia wins Smokefree Rockquest 2017 Solo/Duo Northland Regional Heats
Huia Shortland looks set for solo success after taking out the Smokefreerockquest solo/duo title last night (Friday) at the Northland regional heats at Forum North on Friday. She won the national Smokefree Pacifica Beats solo/duo title last year in a duo with her cousin Izaia Tilialo, who has now left school.
Fourteen year old Huia who is in year 10 at Te Kapehu Whetu Teina plans to make music her career but was very surprised with her win last night.
“I really didn’t expect to win Smokefreerockquest as I was also entered in Pacifica Beats,” she said. “My songs are a bit funkier and groovy than the reggae sound I do with Izaia and I think it might have been that genre that made me stand out.”
Mollie Harvey from Rodney College came second, while third place went to Dani Ngakuru-Smith. These three solo-duos now put 15 mins of their best material together to submit for selection as national finalists.
The winners of Smokefree Pacifica Beats for Northland were Barry & Te Rina from Whangaroa College, who are Barry Jubei and Te Rina Kahle. They submit 15 minutes of their best material for selection as Smokefree Pacifica Beats national finalists.
The 12 top bands selected at the heats will go on the play off for the top two places and other awards at the Northland final at Forum North on Saturday 1 July at 7pm. Tickets are available from Ticketek. The 12 bands selected to go on to the final are:
H.K.A. Broadwood Area School, Panguru Area School
Weevils Rodney College
Jinx Springbank School
Denial Kerikeri High School
Mad Gravity Whangarei Girls’ High School, Huanui College
The Pastie Boys Tauraroa Area School
Theoretically Impossible Kerikeri High School
LIVEWIRE Mahurangi College
A08 Kamo High School
Room 44 Whangarei Girls’ High School
Mic’s Mates Huanui College
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Founder and director Glenn Common said the level of performance at the heats seems to keep going up every year as entrants get more support for contemporary music from their schools, make use of on line resources and have role models who have used Smokefreerockquest as a springboard to success.
“Between now and the regional final their preparation work is part of the process that makes Smokefreerockquest and Pacifica Beats such valuable learning experiences for young people,” he said. “The 12 bands going on to the finals need to practise hard, craft their set, get their supporters rallied and make good use of networking opportunties and social media to promote themselves and their achievements. For a lot of students these steps can be part of their NCEA assessments.”
The regional events for both Smokefreerockquest and Smokefree Pacifica Beats run from May 12 until July 7, with the top regional bands and solo/duos submitting video footage for selection to play off at the Smokefree Pacifica Beats national final on Friday September 1 at the Dorothy Winstone Centre in Auckland, followed by the Smokefreerockquest national final on Saturday September 2.
Smokefreerockquest, powered by Rockshop, has national winners’ prize packages for bands and solo/duo winners that include $22,000 in Rockshop vouchers, a $16,000 NZ On Air recording, video and promo package a ‘Decent Exposure’ campaign on The Edge TV, and a photo shoot and branding package from Imaginary Friends. There is also the MAINZ (Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand) Scholarship for Outstanding Musicianship, the APRA Lyric Award, the Lowdown Best Song Award, Smokefree Vocals Award, and the People’s Choice voted by text with the opportunity to open the Smokefreerockquest national final.
Musical successes from Smokefreerockquest over its 28-year history include Broods, Leroy Clampitt, Kimbra, Aaradhna, Opshop, Evermore, Ladyhawke, Kids of 88, Die!Die!Die!, Joel Little, Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, Brooke Fraser, Anika Moa, Kora, Thomston, Midnight Youth, Steriogram, Phoenix Foundation, Devilskin, The Black Seeds, Bic Runga, and The Naked and Famous; Smokefree Pacifica Beats standout successes include Nesian Mystik, the only New Zealand band to ever have ten singles all certified gold or platinum.
Originally featured in Scoop Culture, Monday, 22 May, 2017
Smokefree Rockquest Press Release
Enrolment Spaces Available for 2017
download, enrol, form Paerangi, Paetawhiti, Panui
We have now settled our numbers for 2017 and have some places available in the following year levels:
Paetata – Yr7 & Yr8, several places available
Paetawhiti – Yr10 girls, limited places available
Paerangi – Yr11 & Yr12, limited places available
2016 NCEA Results
Our kura is growing and at only 3 years old we have continuously striven to improve ourselves and our educational offering and employ committed staff. We demand high expectations of ourselves, ākonga and our whanau that ensures we continually do well academically. Our provisional 2016 NCEA roll based results results reflect this commitment:
Provisional 2016 NCEA Results
Te Kāpehu Whetū (%)
National Māori Avg. (%)
National Average (%)
NCEA Level 1 85.71 63.7 74.2
University Entrance 58.82 30.2 47.9
To apply for an enrolment space, please contact Christie in the front office for an enrolment form (or use the download button below) and to set up an interview c.jobe@mokonz.co.nz or Ph: 09 438 4228.
Download the Form2017 Enrolment (PDF, 650 KB)
Pānui ā Kura – January 27, 2017
Nga mihi manahou o te tau hou pakeha, kia koutou katoa
Nei ra nga mihi aroha ki nga ākonga me nga whanau o Te Kāpehu Whetū.
E tika ana me poroporoaki matou i a ratou katoa kua hinga i tenei wa, kotahi anake te korero ki a ratou, haere, haere, haere atu ra
Hoki mai nga rarangi korero kia tatou, tena koutou katoa
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Nga Pou
Te Kāpehu Whetū offers an opportunity to raise generations of Ngāpuhi who are confident, competent and capable so that they may find their place on the marae and their place in the world - “Tu ki te marae..... Tu ki te Ao”.
To do so, the Kura Hourua continues with a focus around three pou: Kia Māori, Kia Mātau, Kia Tū Rangatira ai!
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New Orleans: Agricultural Research Service, U.S.Department of Agriculture, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall iv & 11 pages, 4 illustrations, 2 tables, references. A little-known green vegetable which originated in Mexico. This vegetable becomes a small but vigorous tree that can be harvested year round for its succulent and nutritious foliage. The techniques recommended can be applied on a small scale or with a low level of technology. (Book ref. 6991) £4.00
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Tindall, H.D; Sai, Florence A. Fruits and Vegetables in West Africa
Rome: F.A.O.; H.M.S.O, 1976. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 925100062X Fourth printing, 259 pages, b/w photos and figures; some wear to covers, no marks internally; sections include: nutritional value of West African fruits and vegetables; principles of cultivation; practical vegetable growing; fruit growing; school gardening; soil conservation; extension techniques; bibliography, appendices, general index, index to common and botanical names of plants. Text in English. (Book ref. 6908) £6.50
Tindall, H.D. Rambutan Cultivation; FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper 121
Rome: FAO, 1994. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 9251033250 Softcover edition, xix & 163 pages, 26 colour photo plates, tables, bibliography, index.; bright condition; technical manual in series dealing with promising minor tropical fruit crops; deals with the botanical, physiological and genetic characteristics of rambutan (Nephelium Iappaceum L.) and with its ecology, then presents technical guidelines for propagation and cultivation of the crop in suitable environments. Useful to the researcher, the horticultural technician and the farmer. (Book ref. 6862) £14.50
Martin, Franklin W; Pollack, Bernard L. Vegetables for the Hot, Humid Tropics: Part 5. Eggplant
New Orleans: Agricultural Research Service, U.S.Department of Agriculture, 1979. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall iv & 18 pages, 6 illustrations, 5 tables, references; the popularity of eggplant and its use in varying the diet make it one of the most important vegetables of the hot, humid tropics.The techniques recommended can be applied on a small scale or with a low level of technology. (Book ref. 6804) £4.50
Samuel C Litzenberger Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and the Subtropics
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National Academy of Sciences Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value
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Akubuilo, C.J.C. An Introduction to Practical Agriculture for West Africa
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Leakey, C.L.A; Wills, J.B.(Editors) Food Crops of the Lowland Tropics
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Allen, O.N; Allen, Ethel K. The Leguminosae: A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation
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Van Oss, J. F. Materials and Technology Volume VII: Vegetable Food Products
London: Longman / De Bussy, 1975. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 058246207X xxxii & 905 pages, very good clean condition, not ex-library. This volume covers: fertility and fertilisers, control of plant infestation, structure and constituents of vegetablen foodstuffs, cereals, crops, wheat and rye and their flour products, starch, sugars - sucrose, glucose and fructose, synthetic sweeteners, honey and confectionary products, spices, hot beverages, tobacco, preservation of vegetable food, alchoholic fermentation processses and products. This work has been written specifically with the intention that each subject should be capable of being fully understood by a person who is not an expert in that subject. (Book ref. 6024) £22.25
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Kerala state film awards: Kani Kusurti bags best actress award, Suraj best actor and Lijo is best director
Tuesday 13 October 2020 7:13 PM UTC
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Oct 13: Kani Kusurti bagged the award for the best actress, while Suraj Venjaramoodu adjudged the best actor at the 50th state film awards announced here on Tuesday.
“Kani Kusurti bagged the award for her performance in the movie “Biriyani”, while Venjaramoodu got it for his acting in “Android Kunjappan”,” Kerala Culture minister A K Balan told reporters.
Kusruti had won the best actress award at the recently concluded 42nd Moscow International Film Festival for her performance in “Biriyani”. Lijo Jose Pellissery, who directed “Jallikattu” bagged the best director award, while the best movie award was given to “Vasanthi”, directed by Rahman Brothers.
“Vasanthi” also bagged the award for the best female actor in a character role. “Biriyani” traces the life of Khadeeja (role played by Kusruti), a married Muslim woman, who is forced to suppress her desires due to the patriarchal society she lives in.
Venjaramoodu bagged the award for his role in “Android Kunjappan”, in which he played Bhaskara Poduval a stubborn senior citizen, who reluctantly starts accepting an Android robot into his life, and then, unexpectedly, becoming too attached to it.
Balan said Fahad Fasil secured the best male actor award in a character role for a negative personality he played in the movie “Kumbalangi Nights”, while Swasika the best female actress in a character role for “Vasanthi”.
The minister said the awards were selected from 119 movie entries of which more than 50 per cent of them were helmed by debutant directors.
“71 movies were from debutant directors. The jury had to face unprecedented difficulties due to COVID-19 scenario in the state. The jury members, including the chairman who arrived from Chennai, had to undergo quarantine and the selection was done following the COVID-19 health protocol,” Balan said.
The awards are usually announced at the beginning of the year but were delayed due to the pandemic and the minister said it will be distributed in the last week of December.
The jury was chaired by well-known cinematographer and director Madhu Ambat and consisted of other members including filmmakers Salim Ahmed, Abrid Shine, writer Benyamin, cinematographer Vipin Mohan, Editor L Bhoominathan. – PTI
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**Property Location**.With a stay at HYATT house Pittsburgh- South Side in Pittsburgh (South Side), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. This hotel is 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and 3.3 mi (5.4 km) from PPG Paints Arena. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .University of Pittsburgh - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi Pittsburgh Playhouse - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi Rex Theater - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi Schenley Park - 2.5 km / 1.6 mi University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum \- 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Phipps Conservatory - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Cathedral of Learning - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Carnegie Museum of Art - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Petersen Events Center - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi Carnegie Museum of Natural History - 2.9 km / 1.8 mi Heinz Memorial Chapel - 3 km / 1.9 mi Carnegie Mellon University - 3.1 km / 1.9 mi Duquesne University - 3.7 km / 2.3 mi .The preferred airport for HYATT house Pittsburgh- South Side is Pittsburgh Intl. Airport (PIT) - 34.6 km / 21.5 mi. **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 136 guestrooms, featuring kitchens with stovetops and microwaves. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 32-inch flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.**Dining**.You can enjoy a meal at the restaurant serving the guests of HYATT house Pittsburgh-South Side, or stop in at the snack bar/deli. Meet other guests and eat at the complimentary reception. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served on weekdays from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM and on weekends from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Pittsburgh? This hotel features 1634 square feet (152 square meters) of event facilities.
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2.3℃London
Ex minister who had affair with PM tells man to try getting 'f***ed in the ass'
A former minister has told an anti-masker to try being ‘f***ed in the ass by his girlfriend’.
Edwina Currie, who had an affair with former Prime Minister John Major, was responding to a tweet by far-right YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson, who claimed men who wear masks are ‘broadcasting the fact that you have been f***ed in the ass by your girlfriend’.
Ms Currie, 74, wrote: ‘Idiot. Try it, you might enjoy it’, sparking widespread amusement on social media as users referred to her four-year affair with Mr Major.
One reply depicted the front cover of Private Eye, with the pair smiling as Ms Currie points as says ‘Now its my turn to screw you!’ Others posted unverified pictures claiming to show conspiracy theorist Mr Watson wearing a mask.
The 38-year-old, who also rallies against lockdowns, had written earlier: ‘The closer you get to central London, the more people wear masks. Even outside. What does that say about people who live in central London?’
He went on: ‘Literally no man who proudly wears a mask has not also been f***ed in their own ass by their girlfriend (reluctantly on her part).
‘Basically, if you’re a man who wears a mask, you’re broadcasting the fact that you have been f***ed in the ass by your girlfriend. And that is not something to be proud of.’
But former health minister Ms Currie, who appeared on I’m a Celebrity in 2014, was unimpressed by the tweet, branding him an idiot and suggesting he should try being pegged.
Mr Watson replied ‘No thanks, Salmonella woman’, in reference to Ms Currie’s incorrect statement about the bacteria being in most of the egg production in the UK in December 1988, which led to her resignation.
Tonight she jokingly declined to write an opinion article about the Twitter spat, suggesting her tweet ‘speaks for itself’.
She revealed in her diaries that she had had a four-year affair with Mr Major between 1984 and 1988, while they were both married.
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Astonishing footage shows Premier League footballers' guard dogs in training as they take down handlers in fat suits
THIS astonishing footage shows how Premier League footballers' guard dogs get their first-class training – by targeting handlers in safety fat suits.
The ferocious dogs are trained to be docile family pets that can become roaring beasts if a threat is detected.
With the likes of Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Tyrone Mings, and Paul Pogba as clients, Chaperone K9 train the guard dogs to the highest standard.
After Tottenham midfielder Dele Ali was hit in the face and robbed of his jewellery worth around £350,000, other Premier League footballers decided to step up their security and snap up a guard dog.
Earlier this year, Aston Villa star Jack Grealish invested £25,000 in a Belgian Malinois pooch from the popular security firm.
Marcus Rashford, the Manchester United attacker and free school meals champion, got himself a huge Cane Corso dog named The Saint in 2018.
And Chelsea’s former captain John Terry recently forked out £15,000 on a protection dog from Chaperone K9.
Mark Noble, West Ham's captain, also has two guard dogs from the company, adding: "We were so impressed with our first Chaperone K9, we had to get a second."
Incredible footage shared on the firm's Instagram account shows three employees training one of their dogs Striker during a light-hearted session.
Striker, with his ears pricked up and tongue-wagging, gets ready to pounce on the suited handler who is posing as an intruder.
Asked how nervous she is on a scale of one to 10, the first employee, fit with a helmet and fat suit, brazenly replies: "Zero."
Video footage then shows the guard dog striking the worker from behind and knocking her to the ground in one swoop.
Striker then continues his work as he takes his next target down to the floor.
And before the session is over, one handler lights an orange flare for Striker to chase but he's down within seconds of the dog being released.
The canine takes him down into the mud, before chomping on his sleeve.
Despite the battering, the handler says: "I'm buzzing mate!"
The clips reveal how the dogs are a force to be reckoned with as they guard footballers homes.
Director and Head Trainer at Chaperone K9, Richard Douglas, told The Sun Online: "Everything we do is bespoke, so it's about the level of training that a particular dog needs.
"It can take up to two years to train our guard dogs.
"This particular video was just for fun."
ON YOUR GUARD
Chaperone K9, which has built up a network of celebrity clients, aims to provides dog that can act as the ultimate personal security, as well as loving and loyal family members.
The company promises the "highest level of obedience and loyalty, providing peace of mind for you and the safety of those most dear to you."
Based in the Leicestershire countryside, the family-run business has racked up an elite clientele from Rio Ferdinand to rapper Stormzy.
Each pooch goes through rigorous training so that they can recognise and deal with a number of different threats, including raids on homes, road rage, personal attacks and robbery.
The pups start their intense training at eight weeks old – and can be up to 30 months old before they're ready to live in their owner's home.
But each dog's journey is unique and the firm says: "Chaperone K9 Protection Dogs receive the highest quality training perfectly tailored to each client’s individual needs.
"The process begins with a detailed consultation which allows our expert trainers to identify the most appropriate breed of dog and to develop a bespoke training package based on the requirements of the client."
In August, The Sun exclusively revealed that Rio Ferdinand splashed £40,000 on TWO highly-trained mutts in order to protect his family.
And Raheem Sterling and Aaron Wan-Bissaka also have trained dogs from the same company, as well as Leicester duo Hamza Choudhury and Jamie Vardy.
Atletico Madrid and England footballer Kieran Trippier also got himself a rottweiler in a bid to stop raiders from entering his house after his former Tottenham team-mate Dele Alli was robbed at knifepoint.
The suits and helmets worn by staff during the exercise are specially designed to ensure there are no injuries to the handler and the dogs, and are also used by US and UK police in training.
Several members of staff also have a policing background. Protection Dog Trainer Bob Pocock was an operational handler for 25 years and won many regional competitions and trials with his dogs.
In 2000 he went on to become the forces senior police dog instructor and in 2010 he retired with 42 years service bringing his expertise to K9 Protector.
Alaster Bly joined the Metropolitan Police in 1988 and spent the majority of his time as an operational dog handler.
His role included handling general purpose dogs, drug search dogs and tactical firearms dogs before left the service to set up K9 Protector.
On Chaperone K9's website, bosses says: “Chaperone K9 have built a strong reputation.
"We are renowned for supplying trained dogs to the very highest quality that offer both security and love to their new families in an often unpredictable society.
“At Chaperone K9 we know the full history or all of our dogs only accepting those who have been bred from quality stock with a known family history.
“We have truly bridged the gap between security dogs and family pets.
"We run a specialist in house training programme for a minimum of six months with a dedicated team of eight staff who expose the dogs to as many different experiences and environments so that they are fully prepared for all eventualities.
“We have a broad range of clients with varying needs and we pride ourselves on being able to offer each a truly bespoke service which is supported by all of our client testimonials.
"We provide dogs to couples, families, people with disabilities, the elderly and those looking for additional security of larger estates.
“Our client base also includes premiership footballers, international rugby players, pop stars and people working in high risk environments.
"We have supplied dogs all over the UK and Ireland, USA, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
“We appreciate that buying a dog is a huge commitment, especially one that is fully trained to be loving family pet as well as a home protector.
"Consequently, we work very closely with you from the initial meeting throughout the dog’s life.”
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Lesley Slade1
F, #6971, b. 13 December 1946
Last Edited=4 Aug 2003
Lesley Slade was born on 13 December 1946.1 She is the daughter of Albert Henry Cecil Slade and Hon. Constance Montague.1 She married unknown Crenell.1
Her married name became Crenell.1
[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 71. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
David Slade1
M, #6972, b. 10 April 1943
David Slade was born on 10 April 1943.1 He is the son of Albert Henry Cecil Slade and Hon. Constance Montague.1
He was educated at William Ellis School, Highgate, London, EnglandG.1 He lived in 1999 at 27 Howitt Road, London, EnglandG.1
unknown Crenell1
M, #6973
unknown Crenell married Lesley Slade, daughter of Albert Henry Cecil Slade and Hon. Constance Montague.1
Stephanie Slade1
F, #6974, b. 25 February 1956
Stephanie Slade was born on 25 February 1956.1 She is the daughter of Albert Henry Cecil Slade and Hon. Constance Montague.1
Hon. Betty Montague1
F, #6975, b. 15 October 1920
Hon. Betty Montague
by Bassano, 1936 2
Hon. Betty Montague was born on 15 October 1920.1 She is the daughter of Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell and Constance Mary Craig.1 She married John Forbes Dudley, son of Arthur Dudley, on 13 January 1941.1
She was educated at St. Aidan's High School, Hornsey, London, EnglandG.1 From 13 January 1941, her married name became Dudley.1 She lived in 1999 at 76 Eastcourt Road, Burbage, Wiltshire, EnglandG.1
Child of Hon. Betty Montague and John Forbes Dudley
Lysbeth Dudley1 b. 23 Mar 1947
[S140] National Portrait Gallery, London, online http://www.npg.org.uk. Hereinafter cited as National Portrait Gallery.
John Forbes Dudley1
M, #6976, d. 10 July 1995
John Forbes Dudley was the son of Arthur Dudley.1 He married Hon. Betty Montague, daughter of Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell and Constance Mary Craig, on 13 January 1941.1 He died on 10 July 1995.1
Child of John Forbes Dudley and Hon. Betty Montague
Arthur Dudley1
Arthur Dudley lived.1
Child of Arthur Dudley
John Forbes Dudley+1 d. 10 Jul 1995
Lysbeth Dudley1
F, #6978, b. 23 March 1947
Lysbeth Dudley was born on 23 March 1947.1 She is the daughter of John Forbes Dudley and Hon. Betty Montague.1 She married Kenneth John Hall in 1972.1
From 1972, her married name became Hall.1 She lived in 1999 at The Anchorage, The Chalks, Chew Magna, Somerset, EnglandG.1
Kenneth John Hall1
Kenneth John Hall married Lysbeth Dudley, daughter of John Forbes Dudley and Hon. Betty Montague, in 1972.1
Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st and last Baron Allen of Hurtwood1
M, #6980, b. 9 May 1889, d. 3 March 1939
Reginald Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood [CIT]130;[:CIT]
Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st and last Baron Allen of Hurtwood was born on 9 May 1889.1,2 He was the son of Walter Allen and Frances Augusta Baker.1 He married Marjory Gill, daughter of George Gill, on 17 December 1921.1 He died on 3 March 1939 at age 49, without male issue.1
He was educated at Berkhamsted School, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, EnglandG.2 He was educated at University College, Bristol, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.2 He graduated from Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)1 He was Secretary and General Manager of the Daily Citizen between 1911 and 1915.1 He was Chairman of the No Conscription Fellowship.1 He was imprisoned for conscientious objection three times.1 He held the office of Treasurer and Chairman of the Independant Labour Party between 1922 and 1926.1 He was Chairman of New Leader between 1922 and 1926.1 He was director of the Daily Herald between 1925 and 1930.1 He was created 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood, co. Surrey [U.K.] on 18 January 1932.1 He lived at Hurtwood House, Albury, Surrey, EnglandG.1 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.3
Child of Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st and last Baron Allen of Hurtwood and Marjory Gill
Hon. Joan Collette Clifford Allen1 b. 1922, d. 23 Jun 2017
[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 4. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 505. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), reference "Allen, Reginald Clifford, 1889-1939". Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography.
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Former Intel Officer Says Barack Obama Spying on Trump Could be a Felony
Home Feature
March 9, 2017 at 2:52pm
President Donald J. Trump exposed what the real Russia scandal is by focusing on the shameful wiretapping and spying under President Barack Obama on Trump Tower during critical parts of the 2016 campaign. Some of the actions against Trump and his supporters may have been illegal.
Despite media skepticism, there has been plenty of evidence showing that Obama frequently used spying for political reasons, for example against Fox News reporter James Rosen. And if the surveillance of Team Trump can be confirmed, the result could be a felony charge for the former President!
Former top intelligence officer, retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, explained Obama’s potential felony charge on the Rusty Humphries show.
Listen (below) as he explained that this potential crime is an “order of magnitude” larger than Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal.
Shaffer added, “This could be the first time a former president could be indicted for a felony. Because I think it is very possible that he acted outside of the scope of his duties, responsibilities, and authorities to turn the resources of a nation-state on a candidate.”
He concluded, “This is, as I’ve said before, soviet-dictator level wrongdoing.”
Shaffer also explained him claims about Obama’s spying on Fox News (below):
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The Segun Okeowo Blog
Redefining journalism to reach the unreached
IF WITCHES WERE HORSES… Episode 7
Posted byogabattle April 25, 2020 April 27, 2020 Posted inFiction, If Witches were Horses
A Novel Written By: Kolade Segun-Okeowo (KSO)
Gbayike cut in “No problem, I understand.” She really did ‘understand’. Morakinyo was not the kind of man she will resist his visit. After praying for about two years hoping to get a brother to propose marriage to her, it was only right for her to welcome a man like Morakinyo; only God knows what he came for.
“I hope you won’t mind a cup of tea?”
“Ah please, don’t bother giving me anything. I’m okay, thanks so much.”
“I’ve come to discuss something very important with you. I wish we’ll round it up fast so that I can leave on time. I have a lecture with my students at ten and this is nine-fifteen besides, I can see you’re preparing to go out.”
“I’m not really in a hurry” She said it before realizing the implications.
‘Am I offering myself?’
“I mean to finish up my ironing before going out” She quickly said trying to prove she is not too free. “Just a minute” She stood to disconnect the pressing iron from the power source.
Morakinyo quickly used that opportunity to study the sitting-room. He was looking for signs of any form of a relationship with any man. He looked at the pictures on the wall and the shelf, there was none ‘incriminating’. She returned.
“Yes Bro. Morakinyo I’m all ears.” She was indeed all ears. She was almost sure he came to propose; what else could he have come to say? They were no longer in the same sub-group. No prior discussion, no former arrangement or talks. She prayed silently, her heart beating fast; that Morakinyo would make a proposal.
“I don’t want to mince words,” he started, damning all consequences. He had said to himself before leaving the house ‘if she will say no, let her say no! That’s the worst.”
“For some days now, the Lord has been ministering to me concerning you”
‘I said it, thank you Jesus’… “Concerning me?” She said putting on an almost too serious look while trying to suppress her joy. She wished he would go straight to the point. ‘I hope this is real’
“The Lord is making me to understand that He wants to assign me and you to a particular mission work”
‘Oh no, not again, mission work?’
“What kind of mission work? In the church?”
‘I’m not interested in any mission work, I’m doing enough already all I want now is my own partner’. Gbayike had prayed long for a partner. Fear was beginning to creep into her. Though she was just twenty-six, she had become skeptical. She had two older sisters who married quite late. That was the genesis of her fears; she hoped her case would be a difference.
“Not in the church” Morakinyo continued “The way the Lord has being ministering to me, the mission looks like a village outreach”
‘Village outreach?’ Gbayike’s countenance changed. ‘So that is why he came to waste my time, village outreach? No way!’
“But why is it that the Lord wants to use you and myself for this assignment, why not another person or some brothers in the church?”
Gbayike could not hide her anger. She had given up the thought of a proposal coming from Morakinyo. She knew he was the Director of Evangelism and Outreach; he had on a couple of occasions gone with the evangelism team to some villages for a weekend or more. Morakinyo was known to have called upon some sisters on different occasions to go into harlot joints and brothels to preach the gospel.
‘So he thinks am his next evangelism Aide de Camp! No way, I’m not interested’
“Sister Gbayike, don’t you understand? What I mean is that the mission God has placed in my hands is so big and it is my desire that you should be of assistance to me”
‘I see, he’s trying to raise funds’
“Be of assistance? Please explain better. Are you referring to financial support and contributions?”
Financial contribution for a mission work was not going to be a problem for Gbayike. She earns a good salary as a teacher in a high profile private international school where she works. Her monthly income would make a good offering to any of the sub-groups in the church.
“I am not referring to financial support of any kind.” Her heart missed a beat. “What I mean is simply that I sincerely love you, I have prayed about it and wish that you’ll become my wife”
Morakinyo could not believe the words could flow out so freely like that. He had spent hours trying to construct that single sentence. He memorized it while driving to Gbayike’s place that morning.
Gbayike stared blankly at him; the anger gave way to confusion. At last the Lord has answered her prayers but…not this way!
“Thank you very much” She said her voice shaking. “This is a serious issue I must confess, my vision does not tally with yours, so I really don’t know what to say. You’ll need to give me some time to pray seriously about it”
“Oh, no problem… but when should I see you for a reply?”
“Ah no! I can’t fix a time. Whenever I’m ready, I’ll simply call you and let you know.”
The tears started flowing immediately Morakinyo left. Gbayike knew she had got more than what she asked for.
“But, why God! Why? Why? Why a missionary! Why village outreach. I never bargained for that, Lord……. No o! I’m not interested! No way!”
“Congratulations Sister Gbayike” a voice from behind interrupted. She turned around to see where the voice came from. She knew it was her flat mate’s but she never knew Wonuola was still in the house. She had told Gbayike earlier in the morning that she will be going out to see some people.
“What Congratulations?” She said quickly using her palm to carefully wipe the stains of tears away.
“Ah! You think I’ve not heard all what he came to discuss with you? I see, you want to play hide and seek with me, you’re not serious.” Wonuola said jokingly sitting beside Gbayike.
Wonuola was always interested in gists. Just a few days ago, she had opened a gossip on couples in courtship in the church with Gbayike. Gbayike remembered Wonuola had said, “What if that brother leading the Evangelism Unit comes to propose to you, what will you say?”
“I’ll fall down flat for him!” Gbayike said as the two of them burst into laughter. But she was no longer sure if she could ‘fall down flat’ for him again.
“Don’t tell me you’ve been eavesdropping” said Gbayike “I thought you said you were going out to see some people? …… Sister Wo-nu-ola…You!” Gbayike pointed a finger at Wonuola in funny accusation.
“I decided not to go again. I never knew I was going to be a witness to this great doing of the Lord” Wonuola said smiling mischievously. “Sister Gbayike, this calls for celebration. Just last week, I prophesied that he would come, and here he comes today! Oh hallelujah!” She spinned her head around, enjoying the joke. “Someone should recommend me as a Prophetess in the church”
“With specialty in courtships and marriages!” Gbayike added jokingly, the two of them burst into a loud laughter.
Gbayike was not really happy but she was grateful for the company of Wonuola. The tears had suddenly given way to smiles and laughter not because she liked the jokes but at least they provided her a temporary comfort. She loved Wonuola so much. You can never have a dull moment with her. Gbayike had invited Wonuola to stay with her in the flat when Wonuola was looking for a job.
Even when Wonuola got one, Gbayike had continued bearing the cost of renting the flat without asking Wonuola for any amount. They both buy the food stuffs but Gbayike spends more. They were really like twin sisters. Most people find it difficult to believe they were not related in any way.
“So what’s all these tears supposed to mean, tears of joy ehn? Or are you saying you don’t want that brother again?” Wonuola asked still in the mood of fun.
“Sister Wonu, on a more serious note, I think the issue has become complicated” Gbayike said, her countenance changed very fast. “I must confess, I like him and wish to have him as my husband. Sincerely, I’ve prayed about him before”
“So what then are you waiting for?” Wonuola asked wearing a puzzled expression. To her, Gbayike was trying to play hard as the habit of most ladies in the church.
“Sister Wonu, the brother said something that scared me” Wonuola drew closer appearing more serious now.
“He said God has called him into a particular assignment which appears to be village outreach” Wonuola’s countenance changed, squeezed her face in disdain. “Sometimes last week, I stumbled on a discussion Pastor was having with Professor Adarabioyo. They were talking about a brother wanting to resign his job on campus to go into the ministry; it just occurred to me today that it’s Bro. Morakinyo”
“Oh my God! Full time!” the words rolled out from Wonuola’s mouth unconsciously, her lips hanged open as she stared wildly at Gbayike.
“You see what I mean, do you think I can ever marry such a man. Suffering and hunger will kill us. I’m sorry; I’m not ready for that at all”
“That’s true! A full time ministry in the village, God forbid! I reject it in Jesus name!”
“Amen!” Shouted Gbayike
“But what are you going to tell him?”
“I’ll simply say I’m not ready”
“Suppose he asks you why?”
“Then I’ll say the Lord has not convinced me”
“But that’s a lie, why not tell him you’re still praying about it”
“That will give him some hope and assurance”
“Then you’ll continue praying until he gets tired and looks elsewhere” said Wonuola gesticulating with her head as if in prayer. They burst out into another round of laughter with tears rolling down their eyes.
Three days later, Morakinyo was ready with his resignation letter. He had taken pains to type out the letter himself. He sat there staring at the letter again and again. He had directed it to the Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Academics) through the Dean Faculty of Technology.
Several thoughts flashed into his mind as he sat there reading the letter again. He looked around and saw his PhD research works and several other papers and research reports he had written over the years.
“So what are you going to do with this collection of books, it took you about ten years to gather all these together, will they become useless?” The thoughts rang out clearly. Morakinyo closed his eyes, pulled the letter out of the printer, signed it and enveloped it. He stood and went straight to the bedroom.
‘I must do whatever I want to do tomorrow’ He thought. ‘I must submit this letter tomorrow unfailingly’
He turned around on the bed again and again trying to get some sleep, but the sleep simply refused to come. He remembered Gbayike again and smiled. He hoped Gbayike would give a positive response.
‘But what if …..’ He stopped. ‘No what ifs tonight, the Lord is in control’
He knelt, prayed and turned off the lights…then, he started gathering firewood on a farm. He sings as he gathers a big bundle. He looked around for a rope to tie the bundle of firewood. He saw a good one and pulled at it but the rope would not give way, he tried again and a sharp thorn pricked his hand, he screamed and turned away from the rope.
He looked around for another one; he saw a thin rope not strong but was easy to pull, he pulled it out and tied the bundle all around. He pulled off his shirt and made it into head-rest. He carried the bundle to his head just then, the rope broke and the bundle scattered….
Then he woke from the dream!
“My goodness, so I’ve been dreaming and it appeared so real” He sat up and looked around for the table clock; he drew it closer and saw it was just five minutes beyond two. “But what kind of dream is this?” He asked himself “Firewood and rope?” He stood up and picked his Bible and read some chapters and slept again.
He had gone to pick his mail from the pigeon-hole when the Secretary to the Head of Department saw him.
“Ah Madam, good morning how are you today? Morakinyo greeted in his characteristics manner.
“I’m fine Sir and you?”
“Always enjoying the Lord” He said firmly!!!
Everyone in the Department of Engineering Physics knew Morakinyo with that statement. The junior workers always want to greet him to hear him say “Always enjoying the Lord!”
He picked the mails, two white envelopes with one marked ‘Ford Foundation’. He tucked the two into his pocket and headed towards the door, just then the woman called “Ah! Just a minute Sir” He turned back. “I need to share this funny dream I had over the night today with you.” The woman stood and came closer, smiling childishly.
“I saw you in our village, you wore a native dress and you were gathering firewood. You got a large bundle and looked around for a rope to bind it. You tried dragging one rope but it hurt you badly, so you left it and got another”
Morakinyo sighed heavily, his heart was beating faster. ‘This can’t be true!’
“After binding the bundle, you removed your dress and made an head-rest with it.”
‘I must be having another dream’
“As you carried the bundle, the rope broke and the firewood scattered”
‘Oh my God, can this be true?’
“When I woke from the dream, I laughed and laughed, it was such a funny dream”
‘You laughed, you don’t know anything’
“I asked myself what would a Senior Lecturer have to do with gathering firewood in the farm, our village for that matter. So I told myself, I must share the joke with you”
The woman laughed childishly, completely unaware of the impacts of what she was saying on Morakinyo. He was too shocked to know what to say. He simply managed to gather himself together, with an uneasy smile and said “Madam, that was really a funny one… Well you know dreams could be very funny?”
“And foolish sometimes” added the woman.
‘Not this one woman’
“Madam, by the way, what is the name of your village?” Morakinyo was already calculating.
“Onigba-Iwofa Sir… anything?” The woman asked curiously.
“No, nothing serious. I simply want to know the name of your village. You’re fond of talking much about the village. How far is it from here and how do you get there? Who knows I may find myself on a research mission there one of these days” Morakinyo said. He knew the Lord had used the woman to give him vital information he needed urgently; the similarities of the dreams are too real to be simple coincidence. It must be divine!
“Ah! It’s a very far place Sir” The woman said, smiling and holding her palms together childishly. “It’s one of the villages in the extreme part of Oyo State. It’s very close to Kwara State. It’s just about one hour drive from Shaki. From Ibadan, one can get a vehicle to Oyo town and from there……”
She gave all the details. Morakinyo returned to his office beaming all over with smiles, he closed the door and clenched his fist. “That’s it! I’ve got it right…. Onigba-Iwofa village, one hour from Shaki, very close to Kwara State in Oyo State of Nigeria! Beautiful!” He clenched his fist again.“That is exactly where the Lord wants to use me. That is the final confirmation I’ve been waiting for!” He started parking his files into the briefcase on the table.
Just then he remembered the letters in his pocket. He brought them out and opened the one marked ‘Ford Foundation’ and read the contents. His countenance changed, he squeezed his face and bit his lips.
“The Ford Foundation is glad to approve the sum off 16,000 dollars as take off grants for the proposals you submitted. You are to immediately….” He stopped reading, dropped the letter and sat on the table.
‘Sixteen thousand dollars as research grants for the proposal I sent over three years ago. O God! Why is the approval coming at a time like this?”
Then the thoughts rolled in again!!!
‘That’s some big money you know! If you convert that into local currency, it will run into several thousands’
The naira had crashed further in the last month to fifteen naira to a dollar!
‘Sixteen thousand dollars…That’s approximately 240,000 naira. If you collect the money, you can use part of it to do what God has called you to do, that will make the work easier you know….or won’t you use money?’
‘Should I tear this resignation letter now?” He asked himself. His thoughts were ready with the answer ‘Yees! Go on, tear it. Think of this money and other allowances coming your way soon. Do you know that Gbayike may refuse to marry you because of this? Think again.’
To be continued in Episode 8.
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BREAKING NEWS: Media says “Fight, fight, fight!” after Wikileaks yankee pen-pusher email shitstorm
Posted on November 29, 2010 November 30, 2010 by TailoredVagabond
Ahmadinejad: "Ah, fuck!"
The world’s media is petitioning Governments around the world to go at it like two whores bitch-fighting over the same patch, after the shitstorm Wikileaks created by publishing incoherent email ramblings from some American prick working for the US Government.
Rational people the world over are said to be both fearful and livid.
The emails, or “cables”, as they have never ever been referred to in human history, ever, reveal badly spelled musings about “someone’s” opinion on world leaders, and divulges the process used to take the US to war. The Saudi Arabian government, it is revealed, has also called for Iran to be “nuked til it’s fucking glowing” in anticipation of President Ahmadinejad’s order to step up the country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The media has called for action on Iran, but only afer “an almighty ruck between the leaders of the G8 nations.” Reuters has sent out its best winder-uppers to various capitals in order to shame the various leaders in the hope it will cause World War Three, and Rupert Mudoch has arranged a “Max Mosely-style” spanking of half of the British Cabinet.
The content of the documents is varied in terms of how the Communist contingent is treated, with one of the emails describing Colonel Gadaffi’s nurse as “OMG, a smokin-hot MILF with a massive rack – we should bug her shower” and describes how Vladimir Putin is “well hard, but not in a gay way.”
US President, Barack Obama is said to be embarrassed, after it was revealed he is “indifferent to whities” and British Prime Minister, David Cameron in particular. The Conservative leader is said to “Have his shit awwwl fucked up, with extremely conflicting ideologies. He cites Thatcher as his political heroine, yet apparently, the Smiths – fronted by a man who wrote a song called ‘Margaret on the guillotine’ – are his favourite band . That nigga’s cold!”
The Prime Minister has yet to respond to the revelations, but Vince Cable, who has nothing to do with the actual cables (stick with me), said “Well, these are emails from some paid-up nobody, so let’s not get carried away just yet. On the other hand, those Saudi’s are a naughty bunch of shits, aren’t they, eh!?”
The emails also reveal personal details about various world leaders, such as how Silvio Berlusconi’s fondnss of handjobs by young Italian women pretending to be his mother, with one email stating “he likes a good cry afterwards, too – bless him.” Treatment of other European leaders was mixed, with French President Sarkozy depicted as “a whimsical eunuch with a sexy wife.” German Chancellor, Andrea Merkel, who earned the nickname “Teflon” was said “not to be fucked with in any way!”
Wikileaks has also released emails from the Associated Press that details a rumour yet to be stared about its founder, Julian Assange. One of the emails reads “we’ll say he bit the head off a new-born AIDS baby – people will hate him, finally.”
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Organic Tapioca FlourOrganic Tapioca Flour Tapioca Flour, also known as tapioca starch, is a non-gluten white starch extracted from cassava root. When the roots have fully developed, they are harvested and processed to remove toxins. The starch is then extracted from the root by pulping the mixture and separating off the liquid - which is then dehydrated. Tapioca is a mildly sweet flavoured white flour that is great for gluten-friendly baking, especially good in cakes and biscuits and wonderful pie crusts. Because it has a very smooth texture it can also be used to thicken sauces. Used to replace wheat flour and corn starch, it is also a substitute for arrowroot in many recipes.
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Tapioca Flour, also known as tapioca starch, is a non-gluten white starch extracted from cassava root. When the roots have fully developed, they are harvested and processed to remove toxins. The starch is then extracted from the root by pulping the mixture and separating off the liquid – which is then dehydrated. Tapioca is a mildly sweet flavoured white flour that is great for gluten-friendly baking, especially good in cakes and biscuits and wonderful pie crusts. Because it has a very smooth texture it can also be used to thicken sauces. Used to replace wheat flour and corn starch, it is also a substitute for arrowroot in many recipes.
Tapioca flour, or ‘starch,’ is especially popular in gluten-friendly recipes and is suitable in sweet or savoury cooking due to its subtle flavour. In baking, it is best in combination with other non-gluten flours as it binds with the other ingredient and improves the structure and texture. It is great in bread, cookies and cakes, and helps create delicious crisp pie crusts.
Tapioca flour is an excellent thickener in sauces, hotpots, pie fillings and soups. To substitute Tapioca Flour for arrowroot as a thickener or in baking, replace one for one. Tapioca can also be used in recipes to replace corn starch at a ratio of 2 tbsp. of tapioca flour for each tbsp. of corn starch required.
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Our approach to custom suiting here in New York is simple: we aim to provide a design and fit that affirms a client in their identity and projects an image of confidence to the world around them. Authentic self-presentation is the name of the game.
The process is totally different when it comes to collaborating with drag performers. A garment is just as crucial to creating a fully-fledged persona as makeup and stage presence. Expressing the wearer’s true identity is no longer the goal; instead, we must work towards the creation of an illusory character.
Drag as an artistic medium is inherently political; it utilizes exaggerated modes of gendered presentation to subvert socially-constructed concepts of binary masculinity and femininity. We have worked with two drag artists so far: Nicky Doll of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 12, and iconic New York nightlife personality and comedian Murray Hill.
Nicky Doll is the first French drag queen on Rupaul’s Drag Race. As such, every outfit she wears is an homage to French culture. She came to us looking for an outfit that would convey powerful femininity while referencing while referencing iconic fashion designers Jean-Paul Gautier and Karl Lagerfeld.
We had two weeks to deconstruct the classic tuxedo into a double-breasted dress top and flared pant combo, using a graphic corded black and white pinstripe fabric to create the illusion of dramatic vertical length. The outfit is traditionally tailored yet still quintessentially drag; We created an exaggerated hourglass silhouette with black satin details as a visual anchor point; the jutting lapels and oversized flap pockets accentuate her feminine shape by emphasizing her tapered waist. We actually measured Nicky in her drag undergarments (pads and cincher) to obtain the dimensions for the getup, which gave us valuable insight into the oft-ignored trappings of drag illusion.
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GET IN! | FALL ’20
100 BOYFRIEND BRONTEZ
WORDS by BRONTEZ PURNELL
PHOTOGRAPHY by MARCUS BRANCH
I am rolling around naked on a Chinese rug from like the late 1800s. I’m thinking really, really hard about it because I’m on ketamine and can’t telescope back any emotion for the life of me. Every shape of every thought becomes bigger and bigger and then multi-sided—I have to catch my breath when I think of, like, the world and its vastness and blah blah blah, things of that nature. Like, China, OMG! that’s SO. FAR. AWAY. And the late 1800s, also. OMG! SO. FAR. AWAY. Just by rubbing my schlong on this old ass rug I feel like I’m sticking my whole dick in the space/time continuum without a rubber. This is probably how the characters on Star Trek feel ALL THE TIME.
My Daddy is this older Asian dude, he collects boys and art. He has shit in this house that’s even older than the rug. In fact, everything in his house is like a THRIVING specimen of a different time. Himself included.
He’s damn near 60 but looks like a 9-year-old in the face. He’s wearing a black see-through lace romper that, for whatever fucking reason, is paired with a big ass button that says “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.” I’m like, “but it’s not St. Patrick’s Day?!”
“No, like, I’m from Vietnam, you get it?!” He is holding a plate of drugs and high as fuck also. He asks this without a hint of humor or irony and this is why I love this man.
My Daddy is handing drugs to some guys on the couch. He is holding his annual Wednesday orgy.
Doing copious amounts of drugs with other gay men is so cathartic. Gay drug brotherhoods are powerful. Every time I do hella drugs with other faggots I feel like it erases, in my brain, a time a bully kicked my ass.
I might really actually be in love with this man but he is upset with me for two reasons. 1. I can’t participate in the orgy cause I have chlamydia in my dick hole (I got the call from the doctor the morning of the orgy) and 2. He told me a month ago that he wanted me to make him a special painting just for his collection, something he could keep from me forever. But it felt like such a call to action that I flaked on it for months.
The first time he and I fucked I was so stoned I actually said, “Have you ever thought about how the word painting has the word pain in it?”
That’s when he decided I should make him a painting for his personal collection.
Part of me dreams of slaying box at this orgy, of course. This is, of course, only a dream. Even though I don’t have chlamydia in my asshole, it’s still a blood-born virus; it doesn’t mean I can’t give it to someone out of my dick. My Daddy is insisting I come to the couch and get fucked anyway, “These sluts don’t give a FUUUUUUCK,” he insists, but out of modesty and self- preservation I stay high and solitary on the carpet.
Now I need not play the prude here—I know all the nooks and crannies of the city, all the deep dirty dark cuts and cervices, places I can go where the boys don’t care what you have; in fact, you need not talk about anything. I know places where the boys don’t care how much money you make, or what private college you went to. Places where the boys are so horny, they don’t even give a fuck what your dick looks like. Places where a penicillin shot in your butt cheek or a lifetime regimen of pills is merely an occupational hazard. The places where I can go and not mention a single thing about myself. I can be just a walking fuck shadow that’s willing to grant any stranger, who insists upon it, any inch of my body full entry. That is to say, I could do this…but I’m just too fucking comfortable high as fuck on this ancient ass Chinese rug. “IM ON DRUGS ON AN ANCIENT CHINESE RUG RIGHT NOW.” I send it in a group text. OMG! Is this how Grace Jones felt in the ’80s? Is this how Grace Jones feels EVERYDAY? I mean, probably!
As I roll around on this ancient rug, I keep fantasizing about moonlighting as a top. Sometimes I wish I could have been like the boy in Moonlight. That movie, remember? Like the movie where he touches one dick as a teenager and spends like 20 years really really wrestling with his desire around it. I think that’s why that movie won an award—he didn’t become the lavender menace that boys like me become the second a dick enters our life. He let that hand job crescendo him into a specimen of masculine restraint, and honestly, I’m so fucking over the world rewarding piety, but of course I’m a promiscuous homosexual and no one listens to me. If it had been a movie about a boy like me, it would have suffered from a lack of piety. Like there would be the scene of me touching my first dick and then another and another and then like 900 more, and it would end with a shot of the camera panning down from a group of wind-wisped leaves falling onto a tombstone (mine) that reads, “She touched A LOT of dicks”. The movie about my sexual life would be a bleak romantic comedy with super-awkward and chatty orgy scenes sprinkled all through it. I don’t see it winning any awards.
I am curled in the fetal position and playing with my penis, it is hard and the head of it is resting on my navel and the skin around it is configured into some asymmetrical circular shape and I am envisioning what it would look like if I were to be circumcised. I can’t really picture it, but I pull back the foreskin and my dick is lacrimating from the view of my Daddy fucking literally everyone on the couch. Like is it even an orgy if there’s just one top? Or is this called “community work”? Someone should REALLY buy my Daddy lunch for, like, getting all the drugs AND topping. (Again, I might actually really be in love with this man.)
My Daddy has absolutely zero interest in my dick; as the saying goes, that man is such a top that he doesn’t even bother wiping his ass after he takes a shit. Only, like, that’s just a saying. This man not only is a top who owns a bidet, but he still also splashes expensive French toilet water on his asshole and balls as, like, a whole aromatherapy trip for whoever’s sucking his dick. (Again, I MIGHT ACTUALLY BE IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN.)
I am not by nature an overly choosy person when it comes to lovers but my one rule is that his skin has to be as soft and as beautiful as mine. Just like my Daddy’s.
I like the feel of another smooth body, so smooth that I can only imagine it being akin to the texture of the skin of a dolphin. Like every time I fuck another hairless man, part of me can’t help but imagine that we are having telepathic, high-pitched, squealy dolphin sex that’s too high-pitched for other humans to hear, and only we can hear it in our heads and every dog within a two-block radius is like dying from how dog-whistle-like our fucked-up human-dolphin sex sounds. We say nothing because dirty talk is for people who watch too much porn. Sex with a top of my caliber demands a telepathic-charged silence. Except for the dolphin imagery, every part of the scenario is turning me on, and I jack off on the carpet alone away from the five others on the couch having sex. I honestly don’t think I’ve noticed any of them once. I spray the entire contents of my balls all over myself and my stomach is covered in chlamydia laced seamen and I am so relieved that I found enough ego within me somewhere to bust a nut and my mind can finally calm itself. I don’t even bother to wipe myself clean. I simply sleep in it.
BRONTEZ PURNELL
is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. To them, he’s one of The New York Times’ 32 “Black Male Writers of Our Time,” but to us, he’s a renegade fag who knows no fear nor lack of freedom in his work, no less his body. His new work, 100 Boyfriends, is available to pre-order HERE.
MARCUS BRANCH
is a visual artist whose images matter because of their health benefits—extreme joy, the warming effect of vivid color, the strength of a solid identity, a photographic representation of the love effect. A Philadelphia native and art world “it kid,” since Volume One, he’s continually bent the Black Queer form into startling new shapes for us.
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Warm Up Sydney 2018
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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1 Dalgal Way, Forest Lodge NSW 2037
Level 1 within the Tramsheds complex
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Nathan Seeto and Sebastian Robbins
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Jayden McNeill won with an average of 7.53 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Vincent Wong finished second (8.55) and Kirt Protacio finished third (9.50).
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T-Pain Performs to a Packed House at Jet Nightclub
Hip-hop and R&B singer and producer T-Pain excited a packed house last night at Jet Nightclub at The Mirage by performing a high-energy set during the club’s renowned Monday night industry party (Photos courtesy of T-Pain).
Professional athletes were seen all over VIP, including retired NBA great Charles Oakley, current NBA players Jason Terry (Mavericks), the Boston Celtics’ Patrick O’Bryant, Kendrick Perkins and Ronjon Rondo, and Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney.
Poker pro Phillip Ivey was also in the house.
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The BBC Endeavours to Provide More Biased Coverage on Climate Change
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The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has released a report on its coverage of climate change, that is based partly on “an independent review” by Steve Jones, a Genetics Professor at University College London (UCL).
The report states that “Professor Jones describes incidents of what he calls “false balance” and suggests there may sometimes have been “an over-rigid application of the (editorial) guidelines to what is essentially a fact-based field. This can produce an adversarial attitude to science which allows minority, or even contrarian, views an undue place. The BBC has tried hard to find a suitable balance.
There will of course be occasions when a scientific story should be presented as a debate purely and simply within the scientific community. There will be others when it is appropriate to broadcast a range of views, including some from non-experts, because science cannot be divorced from the social, political and cultural environment in which it operates”
“The Trust notes the Executive’s plans for ongoing monitoring of impartiality and accuracy in science coverage. The results of the Editorial Standards Board review that the Executive plans to carry out in a year’s time should be shared with the Trust. The Trust expects this report to measure the accuracy and impartiality of BBC science coverage, using the findings from this Trust review as its benchmark. The report should include an account of:
• The effect of the new “due weight” stipulation within the editorial guideline on impartiality in relation to BBC science coverage
• The influence of the Science Editor on the quality of BBC News science journalism and content
• The impact of the Science Editor and the pan-BBC science forum on connections between BBC divisions, in-house access to science expertise and the standard of BBC-wide science coverage”
In the associated July 20, 2011 press release by the BBC it states that “the report concludes however, that in particular the BBC must take special care to continue efforts to ensure viewers are able to distinguish well-established fact from opinion on scientific issues and to communicate this distinction clearly to the audience.”
“When considering ‘due impartiality’ under the new Editorial Guidelines, the BBC needs to continue to be careful when reporting on science to make a distinction between an opinion and a fact. When there is a consensus of opinion on scientific matters, providing an opposite view without consideration of “due weight” can lead to ‘false balance’, meaning that viewers might perceive an issue to be more controversial than it actually is. This does not mean that scientists cannot be questioned or challenged, but that their contributions must be properly scrutinised. Including an opposite view may well be appropriate, but the BBC must clearly communicate the degree of credibility that the view carries.
The BBC Executive will establish a new training programme for journalists on impartiality as it applies to science and will run seminars with science journalists to debate current issues and coverage in the media.”
The BBC’s oxymoronically and euphemistically named “BBC Trust – Review of impartiality and accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of science” page can be found here.
The BBC’s existing biases are apparent, for example in this 27 May 2011 BBC News article “Unlocking the secrets of the Arctic’s melting ice”, it states that “A scientist hopes that a better understanding of what is happening beneath the Arctic ice will offer an insight into why summer sea ice is melting at rate that is alarming experts. Unlocking the secrets of the Arctic’s melting ice”
“As a scientist, the reason I am prepared to come out here and be cold is because of the desire to learn and answer burning questions I have about what is going on up here, why the ice is melting as fast as it is” she told the Earth Reporters programme.
“My theory is that this organic matter absorbs the Sun’s energy, making the ice melt faster.
and this 7 April 2011 BBC News article “New warning on Arctic sea ice melt” states that “scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.”
“Since the spectacularly pronounced melting of 2007, a greater proportion of the Arctic Ocean has been covered by thin ice that is formed in a single season and is more vulnerable to slight temperature increases than older, thicker ice.”
This is biased reporting by the BBC, because these articles imply that the decrease is Arctic Sea Ice is mysterious, that it will continue to decline at an accelerating rate and that the decline is caused primarily by warming in the arctic. Whereas there is ample evidence that, “perennial sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean decreased by 23 percent during the past two winters as strong winds swept more Arctic ice than usual out Fram Strait near Greenland. The study relied on 50 years of data from the International Arctic Buoy Program, currently directed by Ignatius Rigor of the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory, and eight years of data from NASA’s QuikScat satellite, a review of which was led by Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”
“The most important thing about this paper is that it foretells this summer’s record minimum ice extent in the Arctic,” Rigor, a research scientist and co-author on the paper, says. “While the total area of ice cover in recent winters has remained about the same, during the past two years an increased amount of older, thicker perennial sea ice was swept by winds out of the Arctic Ocean into the Greenland Sea. What grew in its place in the winters between 2005 and 2007 was a thin veneer of first-year sea ice, which simply has less mass to survive the summer melt.”
University of Washington September 28, 2007 fact sheet: “Perennial ice, sometimes thick enough to defy icebreakers, may be key to predicting Arctic thaw”.
In this October 01 2007 NASA article,
“Nghiem said the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual winds. “Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic,” he said. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters.
“The winds causing this trend in ice reduction were set up by an unusual pattern of atmospheric pressure that began at the beginning of this century,” Nghiem said.”
The 2007 paper “Rapid reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice” by Nghiem, Rigor, Perovich, Clemente-Colo, Weatherly and Neumann states that, “Perennial-ice extent loss in March within the DM domain was noticeable after the 1960s, and the loss became more rapid in the 2000s when QSCAT observations were available to verify the model results. QSCAT data also revealed mechanisms contributing to the perennial-ice extent loss: ice compression toward the western Arctic, ice loading into the Transpolar Drift (TD) together with an acceleration of the TD carrying excessive ice out of Fram Strait, and ice export to Baffin Bay.”
This 2011 paper, “Recent wind driven high sea ice export in the Fram Strait contributes to Arctic sea ice decline”, submitted to The Cryosphere by L. H. Smedsrud, et al.;
used “geostrophic winds derived from reanalysis data to calculate the Fram Strait ice area export back to 1957, finding that the sea ice area export recently is about 25 % larger than during the 1960’s.”
In 2010 the Guardian reported that, “Much of the record breaking loss of ice in the Arctic ocean in recent years is down to the region’s swirling winds and is not a direct result of global warming, a new study reveals.”
“About half of the variation in maximum ice loss each September is down to changes in wind patterns, the study says.”
Here’s the associated study, “Influence of winter and summer surface wind anomalies on summer Arctic sea ice extent” by Masayo Ogi, Koji Yamazaki and John M. Wallace, published in Geophysical Research Letters.
It found that, “based on a statistical analysis incorporating 925‐hPa wind fields from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses, it is shown that the combined effect of winter and summer wind forcing accounts for 50% of the variance of the change in September Arctic sea ice extent from one year to the next (DSIE) and it also explains roughly 1/3 of the downward linear trend of SIE over the past 31 years.”
“We have shown results indicating that wind‐induced, year‐to‐year differences in the rate of flow of ice toward and through Fram Strait play an important role in modulating September SIE on a year‐to‐year basis and that a trend toward an increased wind‐induced rate of flow has contributed
to the decline in the areal coverage of Arctic summer sea ice.”
This 2004 paper “Variations in the Age of Arctic Sea-ice and Summer Sea-ice Extent” by Ignatius G. Rigor & John M. Wallace, states that “The winter AO-index explains as much as 64% of the variance in summer sea-ice extent in the Eurasian sector, but the winter and summer AO-indices combined explain less than 20% of the variance along the Alaskan coast, where the age of sea-ice explains over 50% of the year-to year variability. If this interpretation is correct, low summer sea-ice extents are likely to persist for at least a few years. However, it is conceivable that, given an extended interval of low-index AO conditions, ice thickness and summertime sea-ice extent could gradually return to the levels characteristic of the 1980′s.”
This 2001 paper, “Fram Strait Ice Fluxes and Atmospheric Circulation: 1950–2000” by Torgny Vinje published in the American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate found that “Observations reveal a strong correlation between the ice fluxes through the Fram Strait and the cross-strait air pressure difference.”
“Although the 1950s and 1990s stand out as the two decades with maximum flux variability, significant variations seem more to be the rule than the exception over the whole period considered.”
“The corresponding decadal maximum change in the Arctic Ocean ice thickness is of the order of 0.8 m. These temporal wind-induced variations may help explain observed changes in portions of the Arctic Ocean ice cover over the last decades. Due to an increasing rate in the ice drainage through the Fram Strait during the 1990s, this decade is characterized by a state of decreasing ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean.”
As such, the BBC’s reporting is currently biased, because they are not accurately informing the public that a significant portion of the recent decrease in Arctic Sea Ice is due to natural wind variations versus warming due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, the BBC is now planning to increase the bias of its reporting to prevent “false balance”. As such, the BBC is not a trustworthy source of information on Earth’s climate system.
This BBC article offers an interesting look back at when the BBC was still capable of reporting facts, uncertainties and countervailing hypotheses about why Earth’s climate changes.
Tags: Arctic, BBC, Bias, decreace, Fram Strait, geostrophic, Sea ice, wind
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j ferguson
Regrettably, the real problem is how to report fairly when you yourself are clueless.
“As such, the BBC is not a trustworthy source of information on Earth’s climate system.”
The BBC ceased to be a trusted source of any information in about 1997. Since then its bias has become something the old soviet governments would have been proud of.
miket
Yes, I read about this. I suspect that the Trust will use this report to give short thrift to and deny a hearing to my recently submitted appeal to them on a complaint of general bias in the reporting of climate science. And it has taken me over two years to reach this point too! They are just not set up for looking at more than an individual complaint. I believe that I’ve taken a balanced approach, but will they? Don’t answer that!
stevefb
Speaking as a Brit I can confirm the BBC’s science output is mostly appalling, dumbed-down drivel.
Looking at the regular output of their science and environment correspondents – many of whom are arts grads – it’s hard to imagine how their coverage of this issue could become any more biased.
The approach of the BBC would put its reporting heavily on the side of the papacy against Galileo. But perhaps they see that as being ‘unbiased’.
These people are morons. Their vanity in their own belief in their intelligence carefully stoked by Warmists.
Don Horne
Fox, meet Henhouse!
j ferguson says: July 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Very incisive. I am impressed by your ability to argue without the benefit of facts.
When you have a few minutes try reading the post, as you might actually learn something…
Nice piece on this topic in the Telegraph
http://tinyurl.com/3hll2dc
Ken Harvey
BBC. In the inimitable words of Mickey Spillane – “I the jury.”
Justa Joe
This Professor Jones is a very outspoken partisan lefty. Why was this guy selected by the BBC to do their “independent review”? As part of his review Jones determined that the BBC was not biased pro-AGW. That should let you know where this guy is coming from.
I think the ‘you’ who has the problem reporting fairly in J Ferguson’s comment is the BBC rather than yourself, JTF. At least, that’s the way I read it.
Luther Bl.
> “Professor Jones describes incidents of what he calls “false balance”…”
Professor Jones is an expert on metaphor as well as fruit flies?
Keith says: July 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Can you, or J Ferguson, cite something within my post that you disagree with? For example, can you cite a factual inaccuracy?
The BBC is all too often only concerned with trendy science. This is a quasi government organisation whose programs vary from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The era of fat cat salaries may be coming to an end for the senior executives of the BBC, so in order to curry favour with their political masters seeking new ways of tax generation,they will only produce ‘science’ which pleases their masters.
As a Brit, I can only apologise when the BBC does this type of thing.
Archonix
jtf, step back a moment and think. TKeith and J Ferguson are saying that the BBC reporters are clueless, not you. Is it fair to be so quick to assume you’re being attacked here?
P Walker
I believe that Keith and j ferguson both agree with you , JTF .
Archonix says: July 23, 2011 at 2:35 pm
P Walker says: July 23, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Apologies, I am so used to be attacked by trolls that my knee jerk has become to assume as such. I will take care not to do that again. JTF
Dave Dardinger
Can you, or J Ferguson, cite something within my post that you disagree with?
Huh? They’re agreeing with you (and so am I). I’m not sure what the grammatical usage of “you” is in this case but it’s not directed at you the writer of this thread, but the clueless BBC.
1DandyTroll
A government owned and operated news agency has to be objective and unbiased as can be under the current EU legislation. And if I’m not mistaken any local government aren’t allowed to own and operate news agencies otherwise.
So, essentially, the BBC might just be another illegal criminal enterprise.
With respect, this article misses the main story entirely: The main issue is the aggressive and abusive language Prof Jones adopts in the report. He refers to “Deniers” and “Denialists” seven times in the global warming chapter. What next: A BBC report on racial programming that uses the N word? Or a BBC report on the Israel using the Y and K words? Prof Jones’s report should have been rejected by the BBC on the grounds of its insulting and aggressive language. Needless to say his arguments are garbage too – full of appeals to authority and one-off weather events – the usual tosh. But frankly when such unacceptable bias and hate speech are used, it’s not even worth reading his opinions. Shame on the BBC. I hope GWPF take legal action against the Beeb over this report – for breach of their Charter.
TinyCO2
I think Professor Jones needs to pull out of the climate debate since he’s not even grasped that ‘hide the decline’ doesn’t mean ‘doctoring a graph to hide global cooling’ p69.
It’s not only the BBC that are clueless, climate science as it sits right now is in it’s infancy.
The models produced to date have no chance of survival due to so many missing inputs, which allows gross weighting applied to those that they do use. Mankinds ability to understand our environments and climate are achieved with our intelligence coupled with curiosity and imagination.
Wacking down those that don’t agree with you is the stuff wars are made of. Unknowling, many are forcing their ideas upon Mother and Human Nature, which neber works out.
The planetary ocean and air currents have a coupling with all that happens in the troposhere, mesosphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere, including the chemical and magnetic properties that act upon the constiuents molecularly in the lower spheres and atomically in the upper spheres. Our sun’s influence is large, but its extent is unknown. From the ebb and flow of the polar ovals and Vanallen belts to the bouyancy and source attraction seen in the plasma aprticles, we are very much in a learning curve with miles to go.
Lars P
stevefb says:
Thanks, it is indeed spot on, was really interesting to read
Edward Bancroft
Chilli: “The main issue is the aggressive and abusive language Prof Jones adopts in the report. ,,,”
Yes, it is Prof. Jones, the ‘independent’ reviewer, who should get the flack on this report.
Jone’s position on this is strange. He is a virulent anti-Creationist, on the grounds that creationism flies in the face of science. Yet by advocating that we should automatically accept the AGW consensus as proclaimed by the anointed experts, he is promoting a faith-based approach to science.
In both creationism and AGW there is a requirement to follow an entirely infallible source, whose word must be accepted without question.
As a regular BBC presenter, not only is Jones an odd choice for an independent BBC reviewer, but he cannot see his own inconsistent and glaring philosophical contradictions in the matter.
Patrick Hadley
I agree with Chilli’s comment that the real story is that a report supposed to examine and define impartiality repeatedly used the highly offensive terms “denier”,”denial”, “denialist”, “denialism”.
Those terms show that Steve Jones is totally biased, and therefore unfit to produce a report on impartiality. If proof were needed that the BBC is not impartial on this issue then one needs only to see that the Trust considers a report using these inaccurate and prejudiced words to be helpful to BBC in determining how to be balanced.
This report will turn out to be good news for sceptics and bad news for those who want to maintain the existing bias on this issue at the BBC.
“There will be others when it is appropriate to broadcast a range of views, including some from non-experts, because science cannot be divorced from the social, political and cultural environment in which it operates”
Paging the Al Gores, the David Suzukis etc.
ScientistForTruth
“an over-rigid application of the (editorial) guidelines to what is essentially a fact-based field”
“the BBC must…ensure viewers are able to distinguish well-established fact from opinion on scientific issues”.
“the BBC needs…to make a distinction between an opinion and a fact. When there is a consensus of opinion on scientific matters, providing an opposite view without consideration of “due weight” can lead to ‘false balance’.”
The last sentence is a non sequitur based on the penultimate sentence. The ‘layman’, and no doubt the journalists, will interpret this as ‘consensus of opinion’ = ‘fact’; alternative view = mere opinion.
This shows that the BBC Trust and Professor Jones haven’t really got a clue about what science is, what it is about, and what is its referent.
Science is not a ‘fact-based field’, since fact implies what is certain and can never be superseded, i.e. no possibility of scientific progress; and of all the scientific fields, climate science is one of the least fact-based (though astronomy is worse).
Science is not about ‘facts’, it is an idea about the interpretation of ideas and ‘data’. If we are dealing with ‘facts’ then we are entailing ‘knowledge’, and the issue is an epistemological one. Facts and knowledge belong to what is universal, necessary and certain. This is the domain of theology and logic. Science operates in a different realm, that of the particular, contingent, hypothetical, corrigible, probable, context-dependent and historical.
Much modern science is conflicted concerning its referent, pursuing methods that are empirical (i.e. particular, contingent, hypothetical, corrigible, probable, context-dependent and historical), whilst claiming that such experimental methods can penetrate experience to reality (the universal, necessary and certain). That is a definite ‘bust’ from an epistemological perspective.
If the BBC is “to ensure viewers are able to distinguish well-established fact from opinion on scientific issues” it will find this a task that cannot possibly be achieved. Trying to enforce such a policy is guaranteed to mislead the viewers even more of what science is about.
So we’ll get even more crap like the example back in December 2009
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/24/bbc-botches-grade-school-co2-science-experiment-on-live-tv-with-indepedent-lab-results-to-prove-it/
Steve from Rockwood
Another clueless twit who has jumped on a bandwagon that is going over a cliff.
Bye-bye.
My previous comment was in reference to the BBC’s governing body, the BBC and Professor Jones. Nice post JTF!
The BBC has five billion in retirement funds invested in carbon trading. If they and others can’t keep the AGW scare going, their stock, already worth muss less than it cost, will become worthless. That’s five billion reasons to do what they’re doing.
And since I have reminded us of a particularly bad piece of BBC science and bearing in mind that phone hacking is a crime (and much in the news at the moment) may I remind us that just after 6:20 in the embedded BBC video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8418356.stm
the former UK Government chief scientist (Professor King) makes allegations of phone hacking. Has he reported this to the police yet or has the BBC apologised for reporting such tosh? Or is it not only the decline that had been hidden?
R.S.Brown
It should be interesting too see how Dr. Jones advises the BBC to deal with
the soon-to-be released results of the CLOUD experiment at CERN.
In the US, NASA and NOAA have both put out recent statements that soften
their organizational positions on solar (including electromagnetic variations
effecting incoming cosmic rays) influences on the earth’s atmosphere.
They’re ready to play a new tune or even switch bandwagons to continue
to be a relevant factor in the study of all things climate.
This autumn Phil Jones’s name will be tossed around again in some of the
e-mails forced out of hiding by a successful FOI request to the University
of Virginia for the stuff they retained from/to Mike Mann.
What Professor Jones decries as “false balance” this summer may
be seen to be a pitifull and pitiable effort to stop the clock by this time
next year.
It’s been said before in many places but it needs repeating – they (the BBC) are nowadays truly not to be trusted for honest reportage on many levels.
The group think inside the BBC and The Guardian Newspaper (two cheeks of the same backside as some are fond of saying) is a thing of wonder. As others have remarked almost all the correspondents have no skill set related the subject they report on (and the same goes for editors who are supposed to weed out / catch whoopsies) and many on the science and environmental staff are essentially militant activist eco alarmists / propagandists (on rather fat state salaries)
Simple, howling errors in geography abound in news reports, eco scare stories routinely are not fact checked or even sanity checked – it would seem from what I’ve seen and heard that not only are they ignorant, they have difficulty counting aloud past their fingers. It’s mostly about presentation without messy truth rearing it’s ugly head.
The breathless theatricality of it all is nauseating (as is the music they slap all over science programs) and when they’re actually brought to book about basic, pivotal factual errors, I’ve actually heard a producer say “oh, getting a few numbers wrong didn’t affect the story at all”
It’s embarrassing – getting an egotistical media struck self publicising geneticist who’s on the payroll to pontificate on the institution’s climate science coverage… pheweee…. yep, the Galileo / Pope thing … there’s something in that. Prof Jones should be led to Richard Feynman’s pronouncements on scientists pontificating off specialty.
SSam
“Trust” is earned. You don’t stick that table on yourself and expect anybody to trust you. If you do you’re an idiot.
“Board” … yet another layer of B/S buerocratic tripe.
BBC – All the news that’s fit to flush.
You would think that if someone was so overly concerned with the dissapearance of the ice, that they would question the practice of intentionally breaking it up and increasing the available surface area. This enhances melting, wey they keep driving icebreakers through it and then complain that it melts.
Go figure
This sort of thing happens on all sorts of subjects. When the media get into “soul-searching” mode, it means that they’ve detected someone in their midst who is only 99.9999% orthodox, someone who may have appeared to twitch the far end of one hair of one eyebrow in the wrong direction while reading the pure 100.0000% Gramscian doctrinal statements that constitute “news”. After the soul-searching and self-criticism sessions, the guilty party goes on a year-long Apology Tour, and everyone else gets fresh Botox injections.
their organizational positions… … ready to play a new tune or even switch bandwagons …
to be a relevant factor…”
With NASA, that’s a laugh. A functional defunct space organization is a functionally defunct space organization. They do still have that “outreach” program… maybe they can find a purpose in life with that.
Ref my last post: “label” vs “table” and “but” vs “wey”, How “wey” is a autocorrect version of “but” is beyond me… but that’s what the phone wanted, that’s what the phone got. Thank you phone, now go burn in hades.
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Hide the decline actually has to do with the correlation between tree ring size and temperature in the temperate region of Russia that Briffa focused on. Briffa assumed that smaller ring size represented colder climes. So ring size should have increased as the world heated up. It did not. This was a vastly important finding, perhaps obvious to botanist and tree farmers. But it meant that much of the paleo-climatic science was now questionable. So it was hidden. Later Steve McIntyre would show the cover up was far worse than was imaginable. And in fact the mainstream media in America and the BBC continue the fraud.
kadaka (KD Knoebel)
I did not know that was even possible.
The Law of Diminishing Returns has been well and truly invoked. How much effort will it take to squeeze one more drop of blood-like substance from that shriveled turnip?
“Professor Jones describes incidents of what he calls “false balance” ”
This should obviously have read “False consciousness”. We must have a serious word with Professor Jones when he reports back at the Kanzlerbunker. 😉
wat dabney
False balance is certainly a concern in journalism generally, but in this case a complete red herring. The problem of the BBC is one of complete journalistic failure: years of shocking revelations glossed over or gone entirely unreported. And unfortunately Prof Jones is apparently entirely ignorant of these huge ongoing scandals (not a crime in itself, unless you are writing a report on the subject…)
Perversely, had the BBC done a better job of examining and reporting the subject over the years, rather than just cheerleading the lies and spin of state-appointed charlatans, Jones would have been rather better informed and perhaps less inclined to pre-emtively and sneeringly dismiss the damning criticisms.
Whilst the failings of the BBC in the regard are not unique, its positions as state (and statist) broadcaster with huge artifical market dominance makes this report a scandal in its own right.
I quite like Prof Jones, and have a couple of his books, but he has embarrassed himself severely over this.
Dawn Weaver
The BBC hasn’t been a reliable or trustworthy source of information on much of anything for many, many years. Ever since journalism schools stopped teaching journalism in favor of advocacy.
TomRude
Indeed many mainstream journalists claim ignorance on the question as a convenient way to excuse their “consensual” reporting. As much as this could have hold some ground at the beginning, such position is simply untenable since climategate. When a journalist or a newspaper publishes on climate, their selection is deliberate as I have never seen any balanced information, for instance discussing one paper one year and its later refutation, as revisiting the issue.
JTF, always engage 1 beer before moderating. Relax. Find the Zen. Just a tip from an old moderator back in the olden internet days. Trolls will always be there, but sometimes they actually have a point worth listening to.
LazyTeenager
And no explanation of why we should have year after year after year after year of trend in increasing polar wind speed with very little random variation superimposed on that trend.
So if we plot the wind speed trend against the ice extent trend what do we get? I am betting no relationship and the “just the facts theory” will then be in the toilet.
The BCC employees have created their own imaginary paradigm. Unfortunately or fortunately, we live in the real world or alternatively we are not gods and are limited to the physical world. It is awkward as the BCC has significant influence if the BCC lobbies and promotes policies that are fundamentally flawed, based on scientific theories that are also fundamentally flawed. (Note there are two problems:
1) Proposed action is irrational and ineffective. The proposed action will not solve the problem(s). The lack of critical discussion is a direct result of the propaganda effort. Well meaning people will follow the paradigm or push the paradigm assuming intelligent people how understand the details are in agreement.
2) Problem is not a problem and therefore no action is required.
The Medieval warm period and the Little Ice Age occurred for a reason. The glacial/interglacial cycle occurred due to a physical reason. The past abrupt terminations of the last 22 interglacial periods occurred for a physical reason.
There are three significant issues:
1. The plans advocated for reducing CO2 will waste trillions of dollars and will not significantly reduce atmospheric CO2. Western governments are trillions of dollars in debt and must immediately start very difficult expenditure cuts to avoid multiple currency collapses. The liberal press typically do not understand scientific issues and economic science and assume that if expenditures are labelled “green”, “progressive” or for third world governments those expenditures must be “good” and should be supported by the press. Look at the consequence in Greece, Ireland, or Spain of 35% unemployment of the youth.
2. The planet’s feedback response to a change in forcing is negative rather than positive. A doubling of CO2 will therefore result in less than 1C in warming with most of the warming occurring at higher latitudes. As plants eat CO2 and higher latitude forests are limited by temperature the increase in atmospheric CO2 and higher latitude temperatures will result in an expansion of the biosphere which is win from the environmentalists standpoint.
3. There is in the paleoclimatic record peculiar abrupt climate changes that correlate with peculiar abrupt geomagnetic field changes that occur with a periodicity of roughly 10,000 years which in the past has ended every interglacial period. Cyclic 24 appears to be the lead into the once in 10,000 year driver for the geomagnetic field change. Optimistically there has been at least three recent peer reviewed papers published that connects the cyclic abrupt climate events with cyclic abrupt geomagnetic field event. We can worry about and take action concerning issue 3 later.
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PiperPaul
“The BBC ceased to be a trusted source of any information in about 1997.”
I don’t know about that; TopGear has been pretty good.
My suspicions were raised a few years ago when the BBC created a page for SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT (Sci/Environment). It used to be Science & Technology and Nature and Environment which IMO go very well together as they feed the other.
Sci/Environment IMO is a garbled mess of articles that have little or no connection. I have complained a number of times and once got a reply that I was not the only one with this opinion but no reasoning as to why.
If you feel the same as I do then please add your voice here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
DISCLAIMER: I’m not in the UK, just a curious American.
How the BBC is not compared to Sovet era Pravda or Izvestia is beyond me. And this thing is piped right in to living rooms of the Proletariat and Bourgeoisie alike, fees automatically billed to the taxpayers. Marx must be ROTFIHLHAO (rolling on the floor in hell laughing his ass off).
To be sure, the leftists here in the USA tried something similar but came up short. We have PBS (Public Broadcast Service), partially subsidized by USA taxpayers and it has pretty deep penetration on over-the-air and cable (don’t know about satellite). But they are smart enough to not push the propaganda too far, or else the peasants like myself are likely to show up with pitchforks.
If we can finally manage to wrest control of the government from the Socialists infesting the District of Criminals, PBS will be severed from the taxpayers and billed for all prior contributions. Then it can survive or die, I don’t care, but by standing on its own (with help of course from all the liberal foundations that are already involved).
I don’t see what our brothers and sisters in the UK can possibly do at this point. Or am I mistaken?
Anton [July 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm] says:
Wow. If that doesn’t violate every written and unwritten law on Conflict of Interest, I don’t know what does. When I hear of these types of examples of business as usual, I fear for the future. It may be that prosperity in the west has just bred stupidity and we are simply marked for darwinistic de-selection.
Elizabeth (not the Queen)
I think the general public would be better served if the media stopped treating scientists as gods.
Al Gored
The only reason to watch the BBC is to see how they are spinning the propaganda.
On the AGW front they were relentless until Climategate. Daily climate crisis story, with dire AGW warnings. Now they have become more subtle. Just relentless weather porn that is supposed to subliminally convince us of climate disruption or wierding or whatever.
The BBC currently hits bottom with Richard Black’s blog and articles. Like Monty Python’s Black Knight, he just keeps coming back with the same old tune no matter how many times new evidence chops off more of it.
To paraphrase an associate from another lifetime, BBC doesn’t know “$h!t from shinola” when it comes to climate science. Much like the CBC in Canada, ABC in Oz, and NPR in the US. This lot of taxpayer-funded broadcasters share something in common with the likes of NASA and the Met Office – when Big Government writes your cheques you tend to list to the lefty way of thinking, i.e. a love of social engineering and a disdain for those very same taxpayers who fund their socialist fantasies.
What is it with geneticists talking out of their arse to/at the BBC? It was bad enough with Paul Nurse claiming we annually produce seven time more CO2 than global natural emissions. Science isn’t about facts, it’s about interpretation of observable data and increasing knowledge and understanding of why something happens. Knowledge is changeable, facts are not. If it was about facts then warmists would take into account 4.5 billion years of the unpredictable, unstable natural variation of the planet’s climate. If it was about facts there wouldn’t be a need to alter datasets to fit your argument. Wasn’t it a ‘fact’ that the Earth was flat?
I sometimes wonder if scientists know what they do any more, other than get paid. Of course, the more crap you talk the more the liberal elitist MSM takes note, the more the MSM takes note the more money you make due to obviously being an ‘expert as you’ve been on TV.
Peter Plail
LazyTeenager says:
Ah, at last you seem to understand. Both weather and climate are the consequences of chaotic events, so attempts to derive predictable relationships are doomed to failure. Variability in wind speed, wind direction, ocean and atmospheric circulation, sun’s output across the full electromagnetic spectrum, radioactive decay, volcanism, proportions of atmospheric gases and vapour (both natural and anthropogenic) all conspire to challenge our efforts to predict the future and even explain fully the causes of observed (past) climate changes.
I compliment you on seeing the light.
Rhys Jaggar
The question Professor Jones should be forced to answer, under oath, before the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, is this:
‘Name one climate scientist whose professional career will not be adversely affected by expressing skepticism about the veracity of carbon dioxide-driven global warming yet still does so in public in on-the-record briefings’.
Then he should be asked the same question replacing the words ‘climate scientist’ with ‘Higher Education Institution employing climate scientists’ and the words ‘professional career’ with ‘financial health’.
Ditto with the words ‘venture capitalists with investee companies dependent on carbon dioxide theories for their credibility’.
Etc etc.
Professor Jones should be told in no uncertain terms that scientists are not dispassionate observers in this matter. They are financial participants.
And if that is beyond his powers to understand he should be told to stand down immediately from any position involving climate science.
This in fact changes nothing. The BBC either ignores or repeats the normal stupid platitudes by way of reply to any comment or complaint on climate change inaccuracy or lie.
Prof. Jones should be ashamed of himself especially since he is not a specialist in the eare of climate, being a geneticist, and since he himself has had problems getting truth out within his own area of expertise.
Sorry ‘area’ not as typed. My brain is working faster than the fingers today.
Not just in Climate matters do the BBC exhibit their left of centre proclivities. Being somewhat of a night owl I watch both the BBc and the Sky TV rolling news channels at 11.20 pm and 11.30 pm respectively as they divulge and discuss the headlines from the next morning’s national daily papers.
It is quite remarkable how regularly the reviewers, usually senior journos from the national press, are those from the Guardian, Independent, and left wing red tops ( often being a pair of pinkos together), on the BBC resume, whilst BSKYB with it’s almost identical format invariably has press people with opposing perspectives.
Needless to say the BSKYB review is much more lively and informative in it’s disection and analysis, whilst that of the BBC is dull self evident left wing propaganda.
Roger Longstaff
Anton, do you have a reference for this? I am pursuing a formal complaint against the BBC and this would be useful ammunition.
Dave Baker
Justa Joe is right about Prof Steve Jones. He is also a militant atheist in the mould of Richard Dawkins, yet can’t see that his pro-AGW stance of stifling opposition to AGW and vilification of any heretical opposing view, even in the face of proper scientific findings, is quite analagous to religious belief that he so despises.
‘His successor, Sir John Beddington, an applied population biologist, is only the latest of those held up as ”scientists” to pronounce on climate. Yet, outside their own specialism, the scientists have no more authority than the proverbial man in the pub.’
Recognition from Booker is praise in itself.
Roger Longstaff says:
http://www.iigcc.org
In their News, Press and Events section you will find a document announcing the appointment of the current chairman on 2 June 2009. Before that time the chairman was Peter Dunscombe, BBC Head of Pension Investments. Short bio:
http://www.spsconferences.com/our_speakers.asp?spkid=386
Steve Jones was an engineering apprentice in shipbuilding before converting to biology and genetics. However as a scientist he just follows the establishment view on global warming in the UK which has always followed the biased view of the IPCC.
@Roger Longstaff at 3:19 am
There was a a good thread over at Bishop Hill blog on the BBC pension fund (with good links). They are “Not Guilty” unfortunately – I would have loved them to have put their eggs in the windmill subsidy farmer basket – truly….
To falsely accuse the BBC of having an overiding financial interest via the pension funds – is to gift them something they really don’t deserve and makes critics look bad – I wish the accusers would actually make the effort to confirm the veracity of their claims before slinging mud..
The wage bill for dishonest alarmist activists with unequivocal connections to eco loon political movements and parroting their catechisms is bad enough – it doesn’t need varnishing.
Anyone who does not think the BBC is biased towards the warmistas clearly does not watch their programmes.
On the media: it should also be asked to what extent the Murdoch media have influenced matters? After all Rupert Murdoch has been in close cahoots with the warmers Blair, Brown and Cameron whose collective efforts and carbon taxes are slowly ruining the British econolmy and really hurting poor disadvantaged people, the worst off who will not be able to both keep warm and eat properly this coming winter.
The most worrying thing is that those who trumpet global warming most loudly know next to nothing about the climate system – and that includes chief scientific advisers, past and present, to government, to say nothing about the pathetic Steve Jones (what a mighty shot in the foot!).
You forgot the link:
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/7/19/bbc-review-of-science-coming.html
Maybe you were Brownedoff?
Doesn’t look good if your pension manager is chairman of an international group of investors in AGW and you have a grave institutional bias in the same direction.
Filbert Cobb
Steve Jones, as a self-confessed “media tart”, has merely acceded to his client’s wishes. Job done. Kerching!
@ william
Can you provide some links for your item no, 3 please.
In all of this AGW nonsense the thing that interests me most is which one of the minimums will we not bounce back from. The one we are entering now ? or the one due in 200 years or a still later one. There seems to be some evidence that suggests that this one may be it. I am intensely interested in anything that provides information in this direction.
I live in the UK and 90% of my TV viewing is BBC programs. I do not know how the BBC can be more biased against the skeptical view!
It is not just the failure to acknowledge any science contradicting the AGW dogma, it is the outright propaganda which is most repulsive.
Recent examples are ‘Meet the Skeptics’, which turned out to be a 1 hour hatchet job on Lord Monckton, with no right of reply.
Another was in a series about the effects of geology of human development. The presenter was the guy who fronted the ‘Climate Wars’ farce. In this series he said that the interglacial should be a lot cooler by now, and, smirking to the camera, he said the lack of cooling stemmed from the period when humans started farming! [I didn’t watch any more so not sure how he justified it]
The news clip about methane in water as an argument against fracking showed flames coming from a tap – but no water! The guy had to turn the tap off to shut off the flame – obviously a stunt.
The recent studies in to the possibility of the Sun becoming dormant and causing global cooling was presented [web only] as being at a small unimportant meeting by advocates. At the same time a report suggesting drastic destruction of ocean life by ‘Climate Change’ was presented as being by ‘scientists’ [web and TV], not the eco-activists who feed off the rotting corpse of AGW that they were.
With the Gulf oil spill a TV reporter at the scene said a SMALL patch of oil had landed at a pelican colony, and ONE pelican had dived in to it. A picture of this pelican became the backdrop picture for this story for the next several months! Interestingly they did have one expert on who said that natural oil spills were a regular feature in the Gulf, and so the local bugs were adapted to eat oil. This was never referred to again.
In addition there are all the wildlife series, usually with some propaganda, included. The worst being ‘South Pacific’ where a whole program is given over to propaganda : eg. Coral atolls sinking beneath the waves [there was an excellent article on WUWT some time ago explaining how atolls by their nature are ALWAYS at sea level, whether the sea is level is rising or falling]; Ocean ‘acidification’; etc.
There may be some poetic justice in this : If, as I suspect, the costs of renewables will destroy the UK economy, there will be be very few funds to support the BBC. It may very well disappear completely. I would be sad at this as the BBC CAN often produce some truly excellent programs.
Dave says: July 24, 2011 at 9:21 am
“On the media: it should also be asked to what extent the Murdoch media have influenced matters?”
In the MSM the few papers that have any kind of skeptical view are often owned by Murdoch : The Australian, South China Daily, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and others. Indeed, it did cross my mind that part of the drive behind the recent feeding frenzy against Murdoch and News International was because of this. If he can be ousted then perhaps this chink of skepticism can be closed.
`I think the main problem is that ‘environmental correspondents’ will usually be from the Green Movement, either as members or with strong affiliations. To be objective with regards to the science which contradicts AGW risks alienating them from friends, and even a whole lifestyle, should they be ostrasized.
There is also the obvious question as to whether they would even want to be objective. It is no surprise that they would want whatever the green movement dictates to be regarded as the only truth. The surprise is how successful they were at the BBC, but I have no knowledge of the backgrounds of those they convinced so easily, or their reasons for agreement.
I do not know if environmental correspondents are ‘gullible idiots’ who simply believe what they are told to believe, or more knowledgeable people who simply want to push propaganda ‘for the good of the cause’. It would take someone brave to be objective as the consequences on their lives could be far reaching.
The same must also be true of climate scientists who, if they were ‘too objective’, could lose friends, research grants, their job, any future career, etc.
“‘Anton says:
”The BBC has five billion in retirement funds invested in carbon trading. If they and others can’t keep the AGW scare going, their stock, already worth muss less than it cost, will become worthless. That’s five billion reasons to do what they’re doing.'”
Yes. And the BBC has not been cleared, as claimed by one of the posters above. It most certainly IS guilty.
Here a few links to get you going:
http://climateresearchnews.com/2010/02/bbc-pension-funds-linked-to-climate-policy/
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2010/02/bbc-pension-fund-invested-in-climate-companies/
http://www.abeldanger.net/2010/04/bbc-pension-trust-carbon-laundering.html
This is a big big problem of those that went in head first into this carbon trading con. Even the
World Bank got into it, on June 1st this year, to say, carbon trading was failing and if they didn’t get more investments – the climate would plunge into a 3 – 4 C increase by 2020. This is why that
as I have always surmised, that the truth of the fact AGW is a myth will cause great harm to not just bankers but also those who have trusted their pension funds in this con. Can they have any
recourse to save their investments? I consider they can by calling those who promoted this climate change fraud and that is what it is, be called to court. That’s why many of the foremost
alarmists are now saying that the data could be corrected and up dated. 5 billion pounds? In a
shonky investment. They should be called to explain why those in charge of investments are not
held to account! It’s a repeat of the 18th Century, South Sea Bubble. Shall we rename it the 21st century Carbon bubble. People will be hurt financially. Sell their shares now before they become
valueless. The government in UK just cashed in 8% of theirs? Maybe they know something is blowing in the wind, eh? Maybe Al Gore could finance some of those who have lost out?
Charles S. Opalek, PE
Besides (a) computer projections (which are often more wrong than right) based on woefully inadequate global climate models using dubious initial conditions, (b) unrelated anecdotal information, (c) daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly changes in weather, and (d) strong beliefs, give me one piece of irrefutable evidence that CO2 concentration over centuries, millenia and beyond leaves its fingerprints on climate. JUST ONE! (Hint: ice core data won’t work, since CO2 increases occur about 800 years after the temperature increases.)
Richard S Courtney
Several commenters in this thread seem to have ‘lost sight of the ball’.
The issue is;
The BBC could not be more biased in its coverage of AGW and this has induced many complaints at this coverage. Meanwhile, the present UK government is making expenditure cuts and has repeatedly stated it is mindful of making severe cuts to expenditure on the BBC. The accusations of BBC bias could be used as one of several possible justifications for severe cuts to government spending on the BBC. Hence, the BBC needs justification for its bias.
The “independent review” by Steve Jones is one such needed justification. And similar so-called “independent” assessments are commonly used by organisations seeking a justification.
A classic example from some years ago of such an “independent review” was when the then UK government wanted to justify construction of a light-railway to the Docklands area of London. The light-railway would be a hi-tech showpiece to publicise the development of the Docklands area. And the then government thought a light-railway was so obvious a need that any review would recommend one to be built. Hence, a truly independent review of the need was commissioned. But the resulting report of the review said bus routes – not a light-railway – were needed. Bus routes and numbers of buses needed no new infrastructure and could be altered as and when circumstances changed so would be cheaper, more flexible, and more reliable than a light-railway as a transport system for the developed area. The then government ignored this report – which it had commissioned – and established a new “independent review” by a committee of true-believers in light-railways. This second report of course reported that a light-railway was needed, and it was acted upon.
In all such cases, the “findings” of the “review” are pre-determined by the choice of reviewer.
A truly “independent” review of BBC bias on AGW would have utilised several reviewers with opinions that are known to differ concerning the alleged bias. The Steve Jones “review” is merely an excuse for the BBC having its blatant bias in all its reports on AGW and mentions of AGW.
Jeremy says: July 23, 2011 at 7:45 pm
JTF, always engage 1 beer before moderating. Relax. Find the Zen.
Trolls will always be there, but sometimes they actually have a point worth listening to.
Also agree, but it is not the points that bother me, it is the tone… 🙂
LazyTeenager says: July 23, 2011 at 8:32 pm
So if we plot the wind speed trend against the ice extent trend what do we get?
It is a combination of wind direction and wind speed.
I am betting no relationship and the “just the facts theory” will then be in the toilet.
I certainly get no credit for what appears to be sound and reasonably established science. Credit seems to belong to
Torgny Vinje;
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Vinje,%2520Torgny&ei=a0YyTsrQHvS10AGA4tSgDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCAQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTorgny%2BVinje%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dbfg%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsbo
Ignatius Rigor;
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/people/staff_pages/Rigor_Ignatius/home.php
and Son V. Nghiem;
http://radar.jpl.nasa.gov/people/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowPerson&pplID=12&Pubs=All
among many others.
Sea Ice Extent in the Greenland Sea is trending above average this year;
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/plots/r07_Greenland_Sea_ts.png
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.5.html
which may limit ice transport through the Fram Strait as compared to recent years.
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Are non-vaccinators intellectually superior?
Are non-vaccinators intellectually superior…or do they simply have better motherly instincts?
I do not believe non-vaccinators consider themselves intellectually superior. The fact that Shelley Bridgeman chose her provocative title “Non-vaccinators believe they’re intellectually superior” based on the comments of two people, are obviously purely for sensation.
You can read her full article here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10859544
I find it really interesting that Shelley is so quick to point the finger to people who have chosen not to inject their children with a cocktail of toxins, aka vaccines, when she herself didn’t have the guts to take her daughter for her shots.
Shelley wrote a piece about hands-on dads in February 2012 (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10785239) when she included that her husband had to take their daughter for all her vaccinations because “I didn’t want to witness the injections.”
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Then again, this is the same mother who paid for an extra room at Birthcare in Parnell, so that her husband and newborn baby could sleep in a different room to her as she wanted some uninterrupted sleep…so maybe motherly instincts are not her strong suit?
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve just about had enough of smug pro-vaccinators who try to make non-vaccinating families out to be the “bad guys.” Shelley’s article mentions the 7-year-old unvaccinated boy who was hospitalised for tetanus. While I have the deepest sympathy for the boy and his family, this is yet another classic case of the media going into a frenzy over an unvaccinated child contracting a so-called “vaccine preventable disease.” If that boy had been vaccinated, the story would never even have made it into the papers, let alone be headline news!
It’s time for the pro-vaccination lobby to stop their bullying of non-vaccinating families. New Zealand’s Bill of Rights state that we all have the right to refuse medical treatment – this includes vaccination! If vaccines were really the safe, effective medical treatment it is made out to be, then everyone would be lining up to get them and no one would have to be bullied or made to feel guilty for choosing not to vaccinate. As it stands, vaccine injuries and deaths occur on a daily basis and everyone has a right to question – and refuse – vaccination.
Well-known Kiwi, Jude Dobson, once thought as Shelley Bridgeman did, until her child suffered a vaccine reaction. She wrote the following in The Aucklander: “I remember thinking that anyone who didn’t vaccinate their child was irresponsible and possibly a little weird. Then our first child suffered a reaction to her 6-week vaccine that made her collapse in a shock-like state.”
Many commenters on Shelley’s article were also quick to point out that non-vaccinating families are putting others at risk. If vaccines were so effective, then surely those families that vaccinate their children have nothing to worry about as the vaccine will “protect” them. And for those that point out that non-vaccinating families put those who are too young to be vaccinated at risk, well, if you’re really that worried, then stay at home for the first 6 weeks of your baby’s life before sending them off for their shots.
Each of us is responsible for the health and well-being of our own families, not for that of the “herd.” Those who claim that 95%-100% of a population has to be vaccinated in order for “herd immunity” to protect us, are quick to forget this one important point: When a child suffers a permanent disability due to a vaccine reaction, the “herd” won’t be there 24/7 to take care of that child. It will be the family of that vaccine damaged child whose lives will be changed forever, as they have to plan their future and finances around the care of that child.
The comments are now closed on Shelley’s article, but luckily there was one clear-thinking poster who managed to get their voice across. I will leave you with this post from “Copernicus” to mull over:
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“Your” choice to have a caesarian, causes incorrect gut flora for years; significant immune system dysfunction, and parenting issues. “Your” choice to formula feed causes massive physiological disadvantage to your baby, even through into their 80’s. “Your” choice to use pamol in your child for every fever, toothache and just because they are awake, has significant effects on the cellular immune system of that child. “Your” choice to feed your children junk food, significantly increases asthma, allergies, and obesities. “Your” choice to allow your children coca-cola and other phosphoric acid drinks regularly, causes significant thinning in their bone density. “Your” choice to raise children who think binge drinking is cool, causes significant harm not only to your child, but to others and the taxpaper.
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Whitakers Skink at The Nest Te Kōhanga
The female skink, nicknamed Chitwah by Zoo staff, is part of a recovery plan for the species and arrived at The Nest Te Kōhanga in April in an emaciated state and with an injured tail.
Skinks are the most frequently encountered reptiles in New Zealand, but predation and habitat loss are a big threat to their survival.
Skinks play an important role in our gardens as they are insectivores who love eating pest invertebrates like moths, small slugs and other insects that live in the leaf litter and mulch. Skinks can also help to disperse seeds from native plants, as they sometimes supplement their diet with fruit and berries.
After being treated at The Nest Te Kōhanga for the past five months, the skink’s tail has started to grow back and she has reached a healthy weight.
Our Vet Team made the decision to house the skink over winter so she could continue to gain weight, avoid brumation which is a reptile’s version of hibernation, and therefore have the best chance at survival. Leading up to Chitwah’s release, we started to acclimatise the skink to the outside temperature so that she could transition back to her habitat without any issues.
Chitwah’s carer, Dennis Keall works with the Department of Conservation to breed endangered native reptiles and has one of the most successful breeding programmes for native skinks and geckos in human care in New Zealand.
Whitaker’s Skinks are rare in New Zealand as they are only found on Mercury Island, Castle Islands and locally in Pukerua Bay.
The community can help protect our native reptiles by creating lizard-friendly habitats in their gardens through planting native trees and shrubs, as well as providing shelter from small introduced predators like cats by keeping the pet cat indoors at night.
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Working with people like Dennis Keall to help save native wildlife is a crucial part of the work we do at The Nest Te Kōhanga. Combining our efforts and expertise is crucial to conserve these unique reptiles.
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why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable?
Expert Answer . Answer: Mechanismand policymust be separate to ensure that systems. No two system installations are the same, so each installation may want to tune the operating system to suit its needs. allocation policies. Separation of powers between various organs The separation of powers, sometimes vaguely used interchangeably with the ‘Trias politica’ principle is a model for the governance of a state. In our discussion of what Unix gets wrong, we observed that the designers of X made a basic decision to implement “mechanism, not policy” —to make X a generic graphics engine and leave decisions about user-interface style to toolkits and other levels of the system. No two system installations are the same, so each installation may want to tune the operating system to suit its needs. No two system installations are the same, so each. Why is the separation of mechanism and policy a desirable property? (Flexible and easy to modify) 2. installation may want to tune the operating system to suit its needs. Separation of mechanism and policy is desirable because new services need to be added only a few alterations are required to be made to the user space. What are the advantages of using a higher-level language to implement an operating system? are easy to modify. Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? With mechanism and policy separate, the policy can be changed at will while the mechanism Why is the separation principle still valid in a world with (a) Nonmarketable assets? With mechanism and policy separate, the policy may be changed at will Answer: Mechanism and policy must be separate to ensure that systems are easy to modify. • At that time, the process ID as well as its entry in the process table Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? Previous question Next question Get more help from Chegg. 6. Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? adequate to implement a large class of desirable resource . The decision to exclude certain policies is . [5] 3.15: Why is the separation of policy and mechanism a desirable principle? (b) A nonstochastic risk-free rate? View Answer. Students also viewed these Finance questions. No two system installations are the same, so each installation may want to tune the operating system to suit its needs. 5. Show that if the signal (or V) and wait (or P) operations are not executed atomically, then mutual exclusion may be violated. Chapter 3 1. Separation of mechanism and policy This design principle states that mechanisms should not dictate(or overly restrict) the policies. Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? Why is the separation of mechanism and policy a desirable property? Changing policies, such as allowing users to share files or not, can be done easily without changing the mechanism (meaning code). Separating policy and mechanism allows for greater flexibility, by leaving the policy decisions up to the administrator, user, or program. Disabling interrupts can effect the system. Explain why it could and how such effects could be minimized. Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? Mechanism and policy must be separate to ensure that systems are easy to modify. Assignment 2 – Question 2 • When a process terminates, it moves to the zombie state and remains in that state until the parent calls wait(). 2.19 Why is the separation of mechanism and policy desirable? Answer: Mechanism and policy must be separate to ensure that systems are easy to modify. Decoupling the mechanism implementations from the policy specifications makes it possible for different applications to use the same mechanism … ... important examples of policy/mechanism separation in Hydra.
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Roman and Williams-Designed Brooklyn Brownstone is an Eclectic Mix of Curiosities
Posted On Wed, December 3, 2014 By Dana Schulz In Design, Interiors, Park Slope
Interior design buffs are undoubtedly familiar with J. Crew Creative Director Jenna Lyons’s former home; it was featured in countless magazines and blogs, hailed for its mix of traditional pieces with mid-century modern and pops of color. But in 2012, after a bidding war that included prospective buyers being asked to write personal essays, she sold the 19th century Park Slope pad for $4 million to Vince Clarke, founder of Depeche Mode, and his wife Tracy Martin, CEO of the Morbid Anatomy Museum. And needless to say, they gave the 4,000-square-foot home quite the overhaul, infusing it with a mix of historic styles and curious touches that could serve double duty in Martin’s taxidermy-filled museum.
The masterminds behind the transformation were Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the founders of design firm Roman and Williams, who created a home that looks like it was furnished in the last century. Their goal was to embrace the home’s historic details while achieving an idiosyncratic and moody approach.
When you think of “morbid anatomy” and a Victorian Gothic mourning style, you likely picture the creepy, dark, or even grotesque. But Roman and Williams skillfully combined elements of these aesthetics with feminine touches to create a space that is warm and welcoming while still offering a taste of the unknown.
The living room features worn Art Deco club chairs, Spanish woven leather stools, and a green Eastlake mirror. The vintage Berber carpet and rustic buffalo hide on the sofa add a bit of masculinity to the space. A custom-made dark-wood table is the centerpiece of the dining room and is paired with a fun mix of chairs from Provence and Amsterdam. Diners can entertain themselves between courses by peeking into the antique wooden cabinet filled with offbeat artifacts.
Homeowner Vince Clark collaborated with Roman and Williams on the 19th-century-style kitchen, which features a charming wood window seat. The early-20th-century oak table is from Belgium, and the oak and rush chairs are mid-century French.
The yellow and purple bathroom off the dining room is dressed in hand-embroidered silk wallpaper from England. Its brass faucets are Roman and Williams’s own design from their Atlas line for Waterworks, and the pedestal sink is vintage.
The eggplant-colored master bedroom is crowned by an 1850s Indian four-poster bed. The 17th-century botanical engravings are Dutch, and the 19th-century serpentine dresser is Belgian.
Down the hall from the master is a sitting room accented by hand-embroidered silk wallpaper from England that shows branches reaching across the room. The other focal point is the plush Louis XVI daybed sitting atop a vintage Aubusson rug.
Swooning over this curiously beautiful Brooklyn brownstone? See what else Roman and Williams has to offer here. And plan a visit to the Morbid Anatomy Museum to see even more eclectic offerings.
[Via Design to Inspire and NY Times]
Photos via Roman and Williams
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Universal Pictures cancels thriller "The Hunt" following mass shootings
Published: Aug. 10, 2019 at 8:47 PM EDT
(08/10?19- Universal Pictures has canceled the planned September release of its controversial social thriller "The Hunt" in the wake of recent mass shootings and criticism from President Donald Trump.
The movie is a gory, R-rated political thriller that depicts liberal "elites" hunting people in red states for sport.
Trump criticized the planned movie on Twitter Friday, without mentioning its name, saying it was intended "to inflame and cause chaos."
Universal had already suspended the marketing campaign for the film, which stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank and is directed by Craig Zobel.
But the studio said in a statement Saturday that it had decided to cancel release altogether, saying "we understand that now is not the time" for the film.
It was due to hit theaters Sept. 27.
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Facts lacking in neighboring gunfire
Ed Driekorn
Richland Township Police Station as seen after the 10:30 a.m., Spet. 13 shooting incident. The alleged shooter was apprehended.
Brandon Zeris, Managing Editor
Shots were fired around 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Richland Township Police Station prompting two nearby schools to be locked down while Pitt-Johnstown remained opened with no university-issued information on the shooting until nearly 11 hours later.
Kevin McGee, 45, fired at a police cruiser with a shotgun while police were inside the station at the Richland Municipal Building, 322 Schoolhouse Road, about 200 yards from the main Pitt-Johnstown campus entrance at Highfield Avenue.
Officers ordered McGee to drop the shotgun, and, when he did not, they shot him, according to District Attorney Kelly Callihan.
“Officers were able to get outside, get him into custody and into a secure position,” Callihan said.
Police said officers aided McGee, who was wounded in the abdomen, until an ambulance arrived. He was taken to Memorial Medical Center where he underwent surgery while being guarded by police.
McGee was charged with eight crimes, including two counts of attempted criminal homicide, two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and four counts of aggravated assault.
Many Pitt-Johnstown students remained unaware of what happened as the school remained under normal operations.
Richland Schools and Penn Highlands Community College were locked down until administrators there were notified that the situation was under control, police said.
Pitt-Johnstown was not locked down, and students were only told, in an email at 12:34 p.m. that a portion of Schoolhouse Road was closed.
Community Relations Associate Vice President Bob Knipple notified students, in an email at 9:14 p.m., that a shooting had taken place and that students had not been in any immediate danger.
Knipple said students had no reason to worry because campus police were in direct contact with Richland police.
“We had the benefit of some inside information,” he said.
Some students said they were upset because they didn’t approve of how the university handled the situation and there were reports of family members and friends contacting students and staff to determine whether they were safe after broadcast reports were aired.
Freshman Megan Dively said she was surprised when she found out about the shooting.
“I didn’t even know about it for a while. My boyfriend texted me and told me that a shooting happened and that the other schools were locked down,” Dively said.
According to Sophomore Zach Palmer, administrators should do more to inform students when situations like this arise.
“It bothers me,” he said. “If he hadn’t been caught, he could have easily made his way to UPJ. We should have been at least informed of what was happening.”
Knipple said no other information needed to be released.
“We didn’t want to create a panic since the situation had resolved itself,” Knipple said.
Palmer said the emergency-notification system needs to be changed to ensure students’ safety.
“In the future, if something happens, measures should be taken to keep us indoors,” he said, adding that more information clarity is needed too.
“Being told a road is closed is not the same as a shooting,” he said.
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The Ties That Bind: What if the Shoe Were on the Other Foot?
Imagine the following scenario from the perspective of a “conservative,” “pro-life,” hunter, trapper, and wolf hating Wisconsinite.
Wisconsin has elected a progressive and pro-living wildlife governor and legislature. The governor has decided to appoint an outspoken living wildlife advocate as the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Upon assumption of the position the Secretary of the DNR decided to “reassign” most of the pro-hunting and trapping biologists and wardens along with filling her assistant positions with outspoken living wildlife advocates, former lobbyists from groups such as the Humane Society of the United States, and other outspoken animal welfare advocates. One of these assistants was a former state legislator responsible for an amendment to the state constitution that allowed for a guaranteed right for wildlife watchers to enjoy and protect wildlife and not be subjected to hunter harassment and intimidation. The agency is also now funded solely by wildlife watchers.
The next step in the governor’s revamp of the WDNR comes with her appointments to the Natural Resources Board. Upon the expiration of the terms of the current pro-hunting/anti-wolf board members, the governor decided to fill the board with pro-living wildlife advocates including the president and CEO of a pro-wildlife lobbying group, The Wildlife Watchers Rights Coalition, that pays lobbyists to argue on behalf of living wildlife before the legislature.
To take advantage of these changes the legislature introduced and approved, several laws banning or limiting barbaric hunting practices were enacted. These pieces of legislation included the ban on using dogs against any form of wildlife, the banning of trapping, and the requirement that all wildlife killed by hunters be consumed and not used as trophies. These bills were all passed and signed into law in record time. The Natural Resources Committees in both the Assembly and Senate gave the public 24 hours notice of their public hearings and rubber stamped the proposed laws despite massive opposition from hunters and their respective groups in the state. The DNR and Natural Resources Committees said that while public input is important, it really has no bearing on what is ultimately decided by them. After the laws were signed by the governor, they went before the Natural Resources Board. The Natural Resources Board received in excess of 3,000 letters voicing opposition to these laws but decided to ignore them and voted to approve all of the DNR recommendations on the laws.
The next step for the WDNR Secretary was to revamp the 17 “citizen advisory” committees that advise policy to the DNR. The Secretary has decided to place representatives of the HSUS, Defenders of Wildlife, PETA, Wisconsin Wildlife Ethic, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf, and tribal representatives on these committees. One of those on several of the committees is a paid lobbyist for a “coalition” of groups that are very influential with several legislators. This lobbyist is a former state senator with a wind-tunnel tested hairdo, and he will be a member on 13 of the 17 committees. The lobbyist works for the Wildlife Watchers Rights Coalition ran by a member of the Natural Resources Board. The lobbyist is also notorious for making numerous controversial comments that offended many hunters and anti-wolf citizens. While the lobbyist claimed to represent the HSUS on the website for the Wildlife Watchers Rights Coalition, the HSUS claimed no ties with him or support for his offensive comments. The WDNR decided that none of the controversy or dishonesty mattered and allowed the paid lobbyist to remain on the 13 committees. Concerns by hunters and their affiliated groups were ignored by the WDNR and the paid lobbyist continued to “advise” the WDNR through the committee and wrote several pieces of anti-hunter legislation for pro-wildlife legislators.
Then there is the “citizen advisory” group known as the “Conservation Congress.” The Conservation Congress, once dominated by hunters and the groups that support them, has experienced a radical change and is now stacked with living wildlife advocates. In fact the leaders and spouses of most of the wildlife advocacy and lobbyist groups have been elected as “delegates” for the secretive group. These delegates include high ranking leaders of the most active pro-wildlife groups in the state, including those also represented on the DNR’s own “advisory” committees and the Natural Resources Board.
All of the above sure sounds crazy, corrupt, undemocratic, and certainly unethical, doesn’t it? But if you just switch the roles from living wildlife advocates to the anti-wildlife forces currently running this state each and every one of these things are currently occurring, and much worse than described above. This is how each of the above scenarios are occurring today:
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appointed former state legislator and real estate developer, Cathy Stepp, to the position of DNR Secretary. Upon taking over the position Stepp filled her deputy positions with pro-killing shills like Scott Gunderson who “authored” the Constitutional Amendment that allows the “right” to hunt, fish, and trap in the state. Stepp has also appointed numerous anti-wolf employees to prominent positions within the department and has excluded those with pro-wolf leanings from being involved any in the processes or having contact with the media.
The Natural Resources Board is now being filled with appointees of Governor Walker that give new meaning to the term “conflict of interest.” Most prominent of all is Walker appointee, Greg Kazmierski, who is a hunting outfitter and the founder of the “Hunters Rights Coalition.” The HRC is a lobbying group that pays former state senator and he of the wind tunnel tested hairdo, Bob “Connecticut Effect” Welch, to lobby for their group. So for those not making the connection, Walker appointed a hunting outfitter that is also the founder of a lobbying group that lobbies on behalf of issues Kazmierski supports before the legislature. Kazmierski then can vote on rules and regulations that directly benefit himself financialy from his seat on the NRB. Don’t people in other states either recuse themselves when their is a conflict of interest? Don’t people in other states actually go to jail for this kind of “pay to play” behavior? I guess in Walker’s Wisconsin this is perfectly acceptable. How can this have not garnered more attention?
And speaking of Bob Welch, he is considered a member on 13 or the 17 “advisory committees” that the DNR has set up. Not only is a paid lobbyist a “member” of supposedly “citizen based” committees, Welch also represents the “Hunters Rights Coalition,” and he also is the paid lobbyist for the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, and the Wisconsin Chapter of Safari Club International. And guess what? All of these groups take up individual spots on the various committees. So essentially the DNR is allowing the deck to be stacked from the get go by allowing one lobbyist to be a “member” representing all of these groups on the committee. What? Can someone explain to me how a PAID LOBBYIST is allowed to be on “citizen” and “science-based” committees?
Continuing with Bob Welch (anyone sensing a pattern here?), how can we forget the nefarious bills that allowed Wisconsin wolves to be slaughtered and ALL state parked to be opened up to hunting and trapping for SEVEN MONTHS of the year? Welch and his bear hounder benefactors admitted before the Senate Natural Resources Committee that they and seven lawyers had written the wolf kill bill that Rep. Scott Suder (R-ALEC) claimed authorship of. There is also the fact that the bear hounders, George Meyer, and other anti-wolf factions knew about the “public hearing” in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee almost a week before the public was notified regarding this nefarious bill. The public was given 24 hours notice. So much for that “citizen input” they claim matters so much. Of course the bill went on to be rubber stamped by the Legislature, signed by Walker, and again rubber stamped by the Natural Resources Board, featuring Greg Kazmierski.
And about the NRB. Amazing how the Board had received well over 3,000 letters and e-mails strongly opposed to the use of dogs against wolves, yet completely ignored them along with impassioned citizen testimony and again rubber stamped the use of dogs against wolves. And guess who was there speaking in support of the use of dogs against wolves? You guessed it Mr. Wind tunnel Tested Hairdo himself, Bob Welch. And of course guess who one of the voting members on the NRB was? None other than the one that pays Welch to lobby for the organization that he heads, Greg Kazmierski. Funny how the same names and the ties that bind them keep appearing.
Finally, we come to the illustrious “citizen advisory” group known as the “Conservation Congress.” Not known to many citizens in the state, except for the hunting clubs, this group was legislatively enacted decades ago to be the “sole” citizen advisory to the DNR on wildlife issues. Unfortunately, this organization has essentially become a propaganda arm for the DNR and the killing cartels in the state. Look no further than the fact that the “congress” doesn’t advertise their yearly spring gatherings in each county as anything other than “hearings” when in reality they are elections for sending delegates to the group and for advisory questions. Because the group has long been dominated by the killing cartels in the state, the vast majority of the “advisory” questions are geared toward providing more and more killing opportunities and less and less restrictions on those activities. On April 8th of this year the election of pro-wildlife delegates from the counties of Dane, Milwaukee, and Polk sent shock waves through the good old boy club. Gasp! The pro-killing factions now control over 300 of the seats and wildlife advocates control five. If you read the “outdoor” pages you would have thought our side ran the tables and now control the entire group. But as expected if the killing cartels do not have 100% control they scream doom and gloom for their “heritage.” And their is this little tidbit as well. As it turns out many of the “delegates’ for this “citizen advisory” group come directly from the killing cartels like the dubiously named “Wisconsin Wildlife Federation” including one of that groups leaders, Ralph Fritsch, who is a “delegate” from Onconto County. And to top it all off, the wife of the WWF head, George Meyer, is a delegate from Dane County. So the killing cartels even have their tentacles entrenched firmly in this supposedly “citizen advisory” group.
So what if the shoe was on the other foot? What if wildlife advocates behaved and legislated in the manner that is currently occurring on our state? We would be called “undemocratic” and be accused of ignoring the “will of the people.” Just try to fathom the outrage. Yet, this is exactly what is happening in Wisconsin this very day. Corrupt, undemocratic, and unethical behavior is the norm when it comes to the DNR, NRB, and the state legislature. The ties that bind the DNR, the NRB, the legislature, the killing cartels, and their lobbyists are plain to see. Wake up Wisconsin. We need to expose these blatant unethical and corrupt practices that seem to have become the norm in our state.
Please share your thoughts.
Posted by dvoight09 on May 10, 2013 in Hounding, Hunting, Trapping, Wisconsin Insanity, Wolves
11 responses to “The Ties That Bind: What if the Shoe Were on the Other Foot?”
Exposing the Big Game
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I had to smile @ your hypothetical mandate hunters must consume any wildlife they kill. Anyone who knows me @ all is aware of my passionate disdain for hunting so once in a while someone decides to pick on me for sport. “Pete” decided to push my buttons regarding bow hunting he was about to engage in on the weekend, I gor sick of it & said “You know I really hate hunting”- he continued… I then said ” You know I especially hate bow & arrow, coyote & canned pheasant hunting” He reponded by saying “but a coyote is a predator” I said “So do you eat coyotes?”. He was shocked & said no & in fact I have never heard him brag about hunting again.
Sandra McGee
We live in crazy times. Humans are destroying Mother Earth, when the earth & all of the wildlife is gone – so are humans. It’s absolutely disgusting what WI, WY, MT, MN, & ID have done to the wolf, & other wildlife. They think that it is “their” right to kill whenever, where ever they want. Well, it’s NOT “their”right. That is an egotistical view & very, very selfish. I don’t like hunting & never have. More people have to get involved or “our” wildlife wouldn’t last the next quarter century ( if we are lucky enough to have them around that long.)
My Dad died this morning. He taught me a very important lesson @ about 5 years old about hunting, but in a way he had not intended. He took me squirrel hunting…I imagine I felt it was an special treat to go along wiith my Dad. I remember he shot a few squirrels, but I remember 1 squirrel in particular-he was lying there looking @ me with fear & pain in his dying eyes. I told Dad the squirrel wasn’t dead-he just continued on & the squirrel died shortly thereafter. I never forgot the squirrel or the lesson I learned regarding the sanctity of life that day. Dad never did understand how I came to have such a dislike for hunting, but perhaps the DNR push to introduce children to killing/hunting will backfire with others as it did with me.
rali74
I am so sorry for your loss Diane. My father is terminally ill with cancer and I have also been thinking back on both the good and bad. The thing that I thank my dad most for is his kindness for animals and how that found its way into me from birth. He sure didn’t have the same fondness or patience with humans but he sure did with dogs. To this day I think he is more excited when we bring our little dog up than he is to see my wife and I :). He always told me that I am just like my great grandfather in my bond with animals. That man could make any animal his friend and I am the same way. My great grandmother once told him that “you treat me like a dog.” My dad was there and said what are you complaining about then? This was the same man that would make fresh meat for his dog and literally chew the meat for her if it was too tough in her old age. My moms side were Iowa farmers so there is not much compassion for animals there. My mom refused to let us have pets as children but our neighbors all had dogs that I bonded strongly with. People are always amazed at how good I am with animals and I have my dad and great grandfather to thank for those genes. They didn’t hunt either and my dad is disgusted with the whole practice. I was shocked when I was home visiting last week and saw that he put a big decal of a wolf on the back door. I guess I am now influencing my dad :). Funny how life can go full circle.
The crazy times have been with us, always. Its the same people over and over, all throughout north American history. The crazy times are actually a crazy people. Whether they were murdering native men, women, and children to feed their insatiable greed, or entertaining themselves by ruthlessly slaughtering vast populations of north American mammals indiscriminately from trains, boats, aircraft, trees, tractors, pick-up trucks, whatever, they have always been here with us, an indelible part of the north American experience, well at least they have been as long as Europeans have been here, murdering off native fauna, and stealing the land in the name of their god, and their “manifest destiny!”
My counsel is fairly straight forward, fight fire with fire. I would see all of you get involved more directly, meet them in the field, learn their identities, take their images, and post them to the www. You need to get into their faces, let them know that their lives are going to be made public, where they live, where they go to school, or work, ect. ect…You need to meet them in their comfort zone, so that they come to know fear, and then you need to scare them, seriously!
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David Hochtritt
The only way to get an accurate number of wolves in Wisconsin is 1)know the number of wolves that moved into the state,2) the number of wolves that left the state, 3)the number of wolf pups born, and 4)the number of wolf pups that died. This is impossible! These shills are guessing so they can inflate the count. “Quick Kill Cathy and “DNR Death Squad” are getting ready for the slaughter. God willing we can stop these bastards.
David Hochtrit
Wolf is my Soul
Reblogged and shared. A really thought provoking scenario. My love for all living things must be genetically imprinted, since both my parents never showed or expressed any special concern about animals when I was growing up. I remember begging for pets all my life and I really, really wanted a dog, my father finally caved in and I remember the joy with which I greeted our first and only family dog, we named her Tina. Sadly, we didn’t have her for long. My father decided to put her down after she had bitten the next door neighbor’s boy. What they didn’t know was how he cruel he was to her every day, throwing rocks and shooting pellets, scaring her and harassing her daily. No wonder she finally showed aggression toward him! She left a hole in my heart and it took many years until I finally could get the dog I had missed having throughout all my childhood. Today I share my life with two wonderful dogs and a partner as passionate about wildlife and nature as I am.
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Mountain View, signed on the platform as Mountain View–Wayne, is a station maintained by New Jersey Transit in Wayne, New Jersey. The station is located on the Montclair-Boonton Line, a merge of the Boonton Line and Montclair Branch in 2002. Prior to the Montclair Connection in 2002, the station was served by the Boonton Line. The station maintains one high-level side platform for the lone revenue service track. The station is located on Erie Avenue, just off of U.S. Route 202 and New Jersey Route 23 in downtown Wayne. Since January 2008, Mountain View station is the second of two stations in Wayne, the other being the Wayne Route 23 Transit Center, a station off the Westbelt interchange. The station boasts 389 parking spaces on four different lots maintained by New Jersey Transit throughout Wayne. Bike lockers are also available.
The station is located in New Jersey Transit's ninth fare zone. Service southbound from the station terminates at Hoboken Terminal. Transfers at Newark Broad Street allow for travel to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is served by one bus line, the No. 871, a former Morris County Metro Bus Line. Mountain View is accessible for handicapped persons under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As of the July, 2014, five inbound (to Hoboken) trains stop at Mountain View on weekday mornings, while ten outbound trains (from Hoboken) stop on weekday afternoons/evenings. There is no weekend service to Mountain View, as all service terminates at Bay Street station in Montclair, New Jersey. However, during holidays, three of extra trains heading to Lake Hopatcong stop at Mountain View along with three heading to Hoboken Terminal. Trains continuing northbound next stop at Lincoln Park Station in its namesake town of Lincoln Park.
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Downtown Mountain View Station is an intermodal passenger transportation station that serves the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system, Caltrain commuter rail line, and numerous bus and shuttle routes. Downtown Mountain View is the northern terminus of the Mountain View-Winchester light rail line. The station house was rebuilt, in the early 2000s, using the style of a station house type (SP#18) built by the Southern Pacific in 1888.
Platforms and tracks
Connecting bus service
VTA Bus Route 34
Mountain View Community Shuttle
"Mountain View. To San Francisco: 39 8/10 miles. Elevation 76 feet."
Station from Centennial Plaza.
Plaza seating area. VTA Light Rail train in background.
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Why Colombia Should Legalize Coca And Leave Cocaine To Others
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Coca leaf is part of the traditional fare of Andean people. So it is "absurd" and wasteful for Colombia to ban its cultivation to hinder cocaine production.
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BOGOTÁ — While the world decides on whether or not to legalize cocaine — which would be a necessary condition (though not the only one) for Colombia's transition toward peace — we might start with a more modest and less risky step in our own country: Legalizing coca leaf.
If coca leaf were legalized in Colombia, those costly, inane and absurd efforts to reduce its harvest could be redirected toward attacking cocaine production.
Fighting drug trafficking is an idiotic and useless activity that drains our resources and senselessly sacrifices the lives of our policemen and soldiers. It is also true that cocaine is not going to be accepted any time soon. There is a lack of political resolve on this right now, because those who suffer the worst consequences of the ban are a bunch of producing, and developing, countries.
When First World countries decide to allow the regulated and open consumption of cocaine (as it's happening with marijuana), they will find ways of producing their own cocaine, as Germany did in the 19th century, importing coca leaves from South America and processing them into cocaine in laboratories.
We shall be left out of the business and observe — like an abandoned lover trying to get a peek through the door — how all our efforts and sacrifices to protect the health of users in the First World were in vain. Not only will they continue taking drugs, but it is the First World, not us, which will make a fortune from it. But let us return to our point here, which is legalizing coca farming.
Instead of criminalizing farmers who do not cultivate a harmful product but a plant that has given nutrition to indigenous people in South America for centuries, all effort should be focused on seeking out laboratories, routes, bank accounts and money laundering businesses.
Fighting drug trafficking is an idiotic and useless activity
Remember, the coca leaf is not cocaine but one of its components, alongside acetone, sulfuric acid, gasoline and other items. Nobody would think of outlawing sulfuric acid to fight cocaine production, so why do it with coca leaves?
If this happens, it is because it is easier to find and fumigate plantations than control other substances. The institutions fighting drug trafficking need to gauge the success of their efforts in numbers, and seemingly it is less dangerous and costly to reduce the numbers of cultivations than those of labs.
But if coca were legalized, its production could take place in fields, thus limiting deforestation. Forests are now used to hide the crops. And it might even be easier to monitor sales and find the labs, which the prohibition mentality sees as the "real problem."
Coca leaf plan — Photo: Crista Castellanos/Wikimedia Commons
Perhaps prices might even drop enough to make planting coca leaves no more attractive than other crops. That clearly would not happen in outlying areas, where coca is cultivated for the absence of road infrastructure. Obviously, there are complications. Selling your coca to drug dealers would not be legal, just as it is not legal to sell them other components. The restriction would still leave the door open to criminalizing producers and does not resolve the problem of how to protect farmers from the war on drugs.
It is a complex issue, beyond the scope of this column.
My proposal is based on the premise that it is not just impossible to end cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, but even to minimize its scale. The only thing we can do is to choose which sections of the population we wish to set aside from a senseless war. Senseless because, sooner or later, it will end through legalization, which will leave us standing like the idiot victims of a story we could control — but we refuse to do so.
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On our last day in Belarus, we spent the afternoon walking around Minsk looking for a sign labeled “сувенир.” If you happen to read Cyrillic, the alphabet of the Slavic world, congratulations, you can skip ahead. If not, take a wild guess at what that word might translate to. A couple of hints, it is pronounced almost exactly the same as its English counterpart. Need another one? The sign pertained to a shop where we would be able to find traditional Belarusian keepsakes to take back to the States with us. Still can’t crack it? Perhaps you can use this phonetic key to help: с=s, у=u, в=v, е=e, н=n, и=i, and р=r. Yes, “сувенир,” is “souvenir.” If you enjoyed doing that and are amused at how a word pronounced exactly the same can look so different, then you may understand just how fun it was for Kate and I to learn the Cyrillic alphabetand try to decipher signs, seeing if they bore any resemblance to their English translations. A few more of our favorites were:
Restaurant (the top word)
Big Z Supermarket
And, a subway station map with the Cyrillic word on the left and what it would roughly sound like in English written in yellow on the right.
While we found the most joy in deciphering common items like those above, perhaps our favorite contrast between the two alphabets was for the city of Nezvizh, which in Belarusian was written as “Нясвіжскі” (pronounced “knee-ez-Vee-chee”). There, we planned to tour the city’s palace, which dated to the 16th century and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Belarus. Before being allowed to enter though, we had to go through our first ever mandatory coat check, where our coats were taken from us with such sternness and efficiency that we almost felt as if we had done something wrong by choosing to dress warmly that day. Being a bit chillier than we had hoped to be after being unburdened of our coats, we began to tour the palace, where we were confronted with the excessiveness of wealth, inspiring in us equal feelings of awe and envy, as all displays of wealth seem to do.
Kate imagining herself as a knight
Prior to the trip, Belarus’s history had been completely unknown to us and we were now coming face to face with the physical manifestations of its grandeur. As a part of the ill-fated Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the land and people of present day Belarus were once members of one of the largest, most populous and most powerful empires of the Middle Ages. It remained this way for the better part of three centuries until the Russian and Germanic forces that bordered it began eating away at its prominence. We were glad that remnants of its glorious past were still on display for us to have a glimpse into.
Perhaps the easiest (read “least fun”) translation we came across was the town of Mir which was unceremoniously translated as “Мір.” There, we would tour a castle that shared its name with the town. We thought that the name for the castle, which is Belarusian for “peace,” was a rather Orwellian name to bestow upon a military fortress. Inside, we roamed its vast halls and elaborate rooms, though it was its exterior that intrigued us the most. This created a dilemma as seeing the outside of the castle involved being outside, a feat that presented a significant challenge as the weather was in an arctic kind of mood that day.
Looking up at a very symmetrical ceiling within the castle
coming up from one of the castle tower’s spiraling staricases
A view of Mir from atop the castle
As we went outside, we were thrust into the grips of winter and shuffled about the castle’s grounds in a futile attempt to stay warm, teetering all the while between our desire to see as much of it as we could and our increasingly more urgent desire to find a warm place to escape into. Before succumbing to the latter, we made one more heroic push against the gusts of frigid air in a quixotic attempt to walk around the grounds outside the castle so we could view it from afar. As these grounds were even more open to the elements than we had been when in the castle, our heroism didn’t last long. Kate made it about one hundred yards in, turned around, looked at the castle for about five seconds, chattered “Okay, good enough,” and shivered her way back to the cafe where our friends Emmet and Olga were waiting for us. Foolishly, I continued on, though once bodily numbness became an issue, I quickly abandoned my pursuit to circumnavigate the castle and scampered back to the cafe to join them. There, over a cartoonishly large cup of hot cocoa, and some of the more delicious Belarusian food we would have during our time in the country, Kate and I had a long and painful thaw as our toes and fingertips regained feeling. Just as we were beginning to recall what warmth and comfort felt like, it was time to leave.
A church on the castle grounds
Towards the end of our time in Belarus we began feeling very confident about our Cyrillic skills, so much so that I assured everyone that I could comfortably split from the group and follow road signs to meet up with them at a predetermined destination. My reason for doing so was to get some pictures of Belarusian houses, whose colorful facades had intrigued me since our first day in the country. “It’s very easy, just look for this sign, take a right, and then the next left and that road will take you directly there,” Olga explained to me. “Got it,” I said. I didn’t have it. Not even one hundred yards into the walk I saw the street sign that I thought could possibly be the one she was talking about…and walked right past it. As it turns out, like with the Roman alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet has different fonts and letters can look slightly different depending on which font is used. So, despite the letters on the sign looking similar enough to the ones I was expecting to see, they were still just different enough for me to convince myself that I should continue lumbering forward. It wasn’t until I got to the edge of town and the road I was walking on turned into a highway that I suspected that I may have missed my turn. I frantically retraced my steps through the rapidly darkening landscape, making guesswork of where to turn and, by complete dumb luck, happened across the store where we were supposed to meet. As it turned out, beer had saved the day. Kate, Emmet and Olga, justifiably worried that I was lost, were planning to get in the car and drive around to look for me until they remembered that they had forgotten to pick up beer in the store and went back in to get it. I arrived just as they were checking out. The panicked moment was brief, but worth it as I was able to capture the houses that I had become so endeared by.
Emmet guessed that the reason for the houses’ unorthodox colorfulness was that bright colored paints were cheaper and easier to come by and therefore a better option for painting a large surface like that of an entire house.
We’ve come to look forward to seeing what seemingly mundane things capture our attention when visiting a new country. If you had asked me before traveling to Belarus what I thought would intrigue me the most, grand medieval castles and palaces or modern everyday houses, I would undoubtedly have chosen the former. But, as I look back on our time in Belarus, it is the houses that come to mind first along with the language whose characters, masquerading as the familiar Roman alphabet, twisted our minds time and again trying to discover what familiar word lay behind them. We’re thankful to have been able to see all of the incredible sites that we have throughout our travels, but it’s the unexpected places, people, and experiences in between that have stuck with us the most, and for those, we are even more grateful.
Merely Mir
Groups shuffle past
oil-painted faces
frozen in frames,
staring out
at each passerby
who absently takes in
their features
and scarcely scans
their golden name plates
They pass through
bed chambers
and libraries.
From family trees,
centuries-long branches
but can’t
get past
that now encases them.
their roots stood firm,
growing into a home
for generations
to live their lives
in a palace meaning peace.
the castle is a museum,
as disconnected from its visitors
as it is from its former inhabitants.
A part of a holiday,
a piece of an itinerary.
Below, you can find some pictures that didn’t quite fit in to any of our posts about Belarus, but that we thought were worth sharing still.
Looking up at Puslovskys Palace. We thought it looked like a large birthday cake elaborately decorated with white and pink frosting.
One of our favorite experiences was going to a banya, which was like a Belarusian spa. There, you sit in a sauna that’s so hot inside that you can only last about ten or fifteen minutes. After leaving the sauna, you dump an ice cold bucket of water over top of your head to cool off. In between sessions you can sit in a common area and have snacks and tea. At the very end of your time at the banya, once your pores have opened up entirely, you take a bundled group of leaves dipped in water and hit your body with them. This is supposed to help your body absorb the nutrients in the leaves.
In Minsk, we went to a Soviet-era cafeteria where they served food much like they would have during its time under the rule of Communism. The food, simple, consistent, dirt cheap, and delicious, was enjoyed in a bare bones dining area with videos of Russian pop music playing on a television screen.
Inside an Eastern Orthodox Church in Minsk
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2016 Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction Guidelines (closed)
Posted on March 4, 2016 September 23, 2016 by cacedirector
The Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for non-fiction by emerging African writers resident in Ghana administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE).
The prize shall in future years widen its eligibility criteria to include non-residents of Ghana but for now seeks to remedy the prominence gap of Ghanaian writers on the African scene.
Entrants must be unpublished writers (unpublished here means those who have not had a book published), resident in Ghana.
Questions of eligibility shall be resolved by the CACE administration and their decision is final.
Non fiction for purposes of the prize includes factual prose that is written beautifully using literary techniques, be it in essay, reportage, memoir and other forms.
Entries must be submitted online, by emailing them to info@writivism.com as attachments (not in the body email), clearly labeled in the subject: Kofi Addo Prize 2016. The writer must include in the body of the email, other information about him/her, as city/town of residence, age, legal name and pen name (where applicable) and telephone contact.
Only one entry per writer may be submitted for the Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction. The story must be original and previously unpublished in any form except on the writer’s personal blog.
All entries must be in English, and 2,500 – 3,500 words long.
Entries should be attached in Microsoft Word or Rich Text formats, with the title of the story as the file name. The first page of the story should include the name of the story and the number of words.
The entry must be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font and 1.5 line spacing. No mention should be made on the identity of the writer in the entry.
Entrants agree as a condition of entry that CACE may publicize the fact that a story has been entered or shortlisted for the Prize.
Worldwide copyright of each story remains with the writer. CACE will have the unrestricted right to publish and translate the long-listed stories in an anthology and for promotional purposes.
The NEW deadline for receiving entries is May 30, 2016 at midnight GMT.
The prize judging panel comprises NoViolet Bulawayo (Chair), Yewande Omotoso and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah.
Shortlisted writers will be invited to attend an arts festival in Accra, where the winner shall be announced.
The winner shall be awarded $500 (USD).
About Kofi Addo
Nana Kofi Addo, Ex Werempehene of Kwahu-Twenedurase, near Obo, was born on 6th May 1921 in Abetifi, Kwahu and passed on, the 2nd of December 2011. He loved to write, and in his retirement authored and published, ‘Letters to a Son: Guideposts to Morality and Discipline’ (Published by Dorrance U.S.A., 2000) and his second book, “A Village Boy’s Dream – A Will to Succeed” – An Autobiography (Self-published in 2009). He had numerous articles published in various magazines and left behind 3 unpublished manuscripts including “Guidance for Young Women”.
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March 16, 2017 – Mountain View, CA – AliveCor, the leader in FDA-cleared mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, today announced the U.S. release of Kardia Pro, an industry-first artificial intelligence-enabled platform for doctors to monitor patients for the early detection of atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia that leads to a five times greater risk of stroke1. The company also announced $30 million in new funding, led by Omron Healthcare and Mayo Clinic, further validating AliveCor as a medtech leader and fueling the company’s mission to improve the quality of care in the fight against heart disease and stroke.
“Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. To manage heart disease and stroke risk, leading cardiologists want to see more than just ECGs from their patients,” said Vic Gundotra, AliveCor CEO. “Kardia Pro tracks important measures of physiology like weight, activity and blood pressure, and, for the first time, AI technology is used to create a personal heart profile for each user, enabling user identification. The new platform enables doctors to be better doctors and patients to be more active participants in their own heart health, driving healthcare forward into the 21st century.”
“What I find so compelling about Kardia is how it empowers my patient, making them much more proactive in their own healthcare,” said Dr. Theodore Takata, cardiac electrophysiologist. “Reviewing data this quickly also lets me make important medical decisions, accelerating the time to diagnosis and avoiding unnecessary healthcare utilization.”
“Omron Healthcare is excited to expand our strategic partnership with AliveCor. We are establishing new partnerships to redefine the role of technology in heart health as part of our Going for Zero mission. Partnering with AliveCor advances our path forward to build robust software programs that play a dynamic role in expanding heart health awareness, transforming the patient and caregiver dynamic and taking real steps toward eliminating heart attack and stroke,” said Omron Healthcare President and CEO Ranndy Kellogg.
AliveCor also announced today a series D funding round of $30 million, led by Omron Healthcare, with participation from Mayo Clinic and existing inside investors. This investment by two major healthcare leaders will help Kardia Pro become the new standard of care for doctors to enable early detection and prevention of heart disease and stroke. AliveCor will use the additional capital to accelerate innovations in heart health and continue the rapid expansion of the business.
AliveCor’s AI technology will make it easier than ever for doctors to detect changes early and practice preventative medicine. This announcement comes at a pivotal time for the company as it becomes more than just a consumer-facing device and evolves into a trusted platform for doctors.
For more information on pricing and the availability of Kardia Pro, please visit the AliveCor website: www.alivecor.com
About AliveCor
AliveCor, Inc. is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared ‘machine learning’ techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. The FDA-cleared Kardia Mobile is the most clinically validated mobile ECG solution on the market and is recommended by leading cardiologists and used by people worldwide for accurate ECG recordings. This simple-to-use mobile device and app-based service provides instant analysis for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) and normal sinus rhythm in an ECG. Kardia Pro is the first AI-enabled platform for doctors to monitor patients for the early detection of atrial fibrillation, the the most common cardiac arrhythmia that leads to a five times greater risk of stroke. AliveCor was recognized by Fast Company as one of 2017’s most innovative companies in health (#3). AliveCor is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, please visit alivecor.com.
About Omron Healthcare, Inc.
Omron Healthcare, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of personal wellness products. Omron’s market-leading products include home blood pressure monitors and electrotherapy devices. Since Omron invented its first blood pressure monitors nearly 40 years ago, the company has been passionate about empowering people to take charge of their health at home through precise technology. Helping people improve their ability to live a healthier life is the heart and soul of Omron’s purpose. For more information, visit OmronHealthcare.com.
“Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Awareness,” “Atrial Fibrillation Fact Sheet.” Heart Rhythm Society. http://www.hrsonline.org/News/Atrial-Fibrillation-AFib-Awareness#axzz2PBnbTEfH
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Bridget Loudon says COVID-19-style working must stay
Lauren SamsFashion editor
Nov 25, 2020 – 10.03am
As NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian urges employees to head back to the office, Expert 360 chief executive Bridget Loudon says the workplace must maintain COVID-19-style flexibility.
Speaking at a Vogue Codes event in Melbourne on Wednesday, Ms Loudon, who became the youngest-ever board member of Telstra earlier this year, said the COVID-19 work-from-home lockdown “accelerated the trends we were already seeing".
“People have been ready to work this way for a long time,” Ms Loudon said. “Having a full-time job on-site, five days a week, doesn’t work for so many of us. Many of those people end up leaving the workforce and they never come back.”
Bridget Loudon says workplaces should embrace flexible working for the long term. Wolter Peeters
Ms Loudon acknowledged the challenges of 2020 for the workplace, particularly for recent graduates, as well as freelancers and contractors, who “were the first to go”.
“There was a huge amount of angst this year that we can’t ignore,” she said. “This year has been tough. We can’t ignore that. But at the same time it has pushed us to rethink work in a very positive way.
“The notion of coming into the office every day was invented post-industrial revolution, when the idea of work was binary – you were in or out.
"The entire fabric of our society was then built around that, down to meal times. And it was really just about one person in a family working for a very long time.
"Obviously a lot has changed since then, from our family make-up to the ways technology has improved to almost total globalisation ... and yet the infrastructure of the workplace hasn’t evolved to meet modern needs.”
Workplace culture, said Ms Loudon, will naturally look different if remote working becomes commonplace.
"We do need human connection, and working from a screen can be difficult," she said.
"That’s a fundamental human need. It will depend on the person and the team, but I do think we do need to come together every once in a while physically.
"There will be a more hybrid workplace in the future, with probably 30 to 40 per cent of the workforce in the office on any given day. For the rest of the workforce, we need to be thoughtful about engaging them while working from home."
Ms Loudon said her team had established a "five-minute early" rule, where employees who wanted to chat socially were encouraged to join Zoom meetings before kick-off, and Zoom coffee catch-ups.
"And we’ve done frequent, smaller physical gatherings," she added, "like drinks at the pub or mini-golf. The thing is, we’re working from social bonds we orchestrated pre-COVID.
"Now we’re entering a new world where we are joining companies where we might never have been in the office or met our co-workers. It's all new but the benefits are obvious."
Expert advice for getting ahead in the new world of work left by COVID-19
Lauren Sams is the fashion editor, based in Sydney. She edits the quarterly glossy LUXURY and writes about lifestyle including the arts, entertainment, fashion and travel. Lauren has worked as a features editor and fashion journalist for ELLE, marie claire and more. Email Lauren at lauren.sams@afr.com
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