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A snapshot of the South African Hedge Fund landscape
Written on 24 June 2020 by Lucy Eldred
Written by Charles Gubert
South Africa remains Africa’s pre-eminent hedge fund jurisdiction with Assets under Management (AuM) now standing at R61 billion ($5.1 billion) at year-end 2014, as the industry continues to grow, delegates at Fund Forum Africa in London were told.
This represents a growth from R42.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in 2013, according to data compiled by Novare Investments, an independent investment advisory business based in South Africa. Novare said in its report that the increased AuM in South Africa’s hedge funds was attributable to the strong performance by its managers, particularly its equity-focused hedge funds, and impressive net flows.
In terms of strategy, equity long/short represents 59.9 per-cent of industry assets, and it is recipient to the majority of new capital inflows. The Novare study added almost 80 per-cent of industry assets are managed by individuals with more than five years experience in the hedge fund industry.
As with the rest of the world, the bulk of capital is concentrated in a handful of the largest managers. Half of assets are managed by the top five firms, while 83 per-cent of industry assets are controlled by the top 15 firms, added the Novare study.
Novare highlighted 63.6 per-cent of net cash flows was allocated to hedge funds managing more than R2 billion ($165 million), while 20.5 per-cent flowed into managers running R1 billion ($82 million) to R2 billion ($165 million). Firms running between $500 million ($41 million) but less than R1 billion received less than 6.3 per-cent of new inflows.
The South African hedge fund industry has had difficulties, which has somewhat stymied its ability to raise meaningful international and domestic institutional capital, according to one attendee. In July 2012, Herman Pretorius, a hedge fund manager, murdered his business partner before committing suicide himself following a visit from the country’s Financial Services Board, which was investigating whether Pretorius was running a Ponzi scheme.
Nonetheless, South Africa is a leading financial centre and is well-positioned to develop as a key hedge fund market. The World Economic Forum’s 2014-2015 Global Competitiveness Index Report ranked South Africa 7th overall and 1st for regulation of its securities exchange, 3rd for financing through local equity markets and 6th for the availability of financial services and soundness of its banks. It also is one of the developing market’s leading derivatives centres.
In addition, regulation of South Africa’s burgeoning hedge fund industry has finally come into fruition after several years of debate. It was announced on March 6, 2020 that rules distinguishing between qualifying investor hedge funds and retail hedge funds would take effect.
It will require qualifying investor hedge fund managers to obtain a declaration of eligibility from clients confirming their suitability to invest. The obligations imposed on retail hedge funds are tougher and subject managers to counterparty risk restrictions, prudential asset class requirements and derivative requirements, according to a report by Allen & Overy. Some believe these rules could precipitate the emergence of a South African UCITS.
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'Resolve isn't a suggestion': Westfield proves toughness to the very end
David Woods
INDIANAPOLIS – When a high school football team is so resolute that it extends from the two-way star needing surgery to the student manager needing cancer treatment, that is a deep reservoir.
So you hate 2020? At Westfield, it is the opposite.
“There’s nothing other than love for our teammates” said Micah Hauser, a running back/defensive back. “It keeps us going, no matter what.
“No matter what is thrown at us, we’re always going to persevere for the person right next to us because we know how much it means to the brother right next to us.”
It means so much that there were more tears than usually seen in any postgame, but that was another measure of the way the Shamrocks devoted themselves to this pandemic season.
They lost to Center Grove 38-14 in the Class 6A championship game Friday night at Lucas Oil Stadium. Please, don’t skip over the other chapters.
They opened by losing 56-20 to 5A finalist Cathedral, arguably the second-best team in Indiana. They closed by losing to a nationally-ranked team considered among the best ever to come out of Indiana.
In between, the Shamrocks won 12 in a row, along with conference, sectional, regional and semistate titles. In the second half, they outscored Center Grove 7-0.
“Resolve isn’t like a suggestion,” Westfield coach Jake Gilbert said. “We say resolve is our theme for the year. We wanted to show it. We talk about outworking and out-loving, and we needed to show that with how they played.”
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For instance, take junior quarterback Maximus Webster. Center Grove kept taking him down.
Webster was sacked five times and smacked on virtually every play by the Trojans’ vaunted defensive line. He managed to complete 16-of-28 passes for 155 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown strike to Mason Piening.
Piening caught seven passes for 111 yards, giving him 1,057 receiving yards and 13 TDs for the season.
“Taking hits? It is what it is,” Webster said. “It’s going to happen. You’ve just got to get back up.”
Center Grove had trouble taking down Hauser.
Against a defense limiting opponents to 38 rushing yards per game, he had two nearly that long on successive plays: 25 and 31 yards. He finished with 118 on 11 carries, and he had eight tackles and an interception when he was on that side of the ball.
He said his left ankle “wasn’t too bad” . . . but bad enough for surgery next week.
“I’m pretty tired now. These teammates keep me going,” he said. “They mean so much to me. I’ll fight to the last breath for these kids.”
The Trojans (14-0) were breathtaking in the first half, scoring six times and piling up 349 yards. Westfield allowed as many points in the half (38) as it had in the previous six games combined.
“Amazing football team,” is the way Gilbert characterized Center Grove.
“They give you an onslaught, and you have to survive. And we didn’t quite do that,” he said. “In the second half, we tackled better, managed to run the football. I thought we just showed tremendous toughness.”
So did Jeannelle Rooney, and she would know. She is a student manager. In December 2017, she was diagnosed with pediatric melanoma. The Shamrocks have supported her, as she has them.
“It’s amazing having them say that it’s for me, and me just knowing they have come so, so far,” Rooney said from her wheelchair. “Seeing the way they’re doing it for me, I just see so much growth in their football.
"It’s so truly amazing.”
Westfield defensive back Benji Welch won the Mental Attitude Award in 6A. He plans to attend Taylor University and study ministry.
Contact IndyStar reporter David Woods at david.woods@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidWoods007.
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Vucic: I feel ashamed to talk about the recognition of Kosovo on the eve of Vidovdan
Published by B92 on Tue, 06/16/2020 - 13:15
"I am ashamed to even answer to the question whether Serbia will recognize Kosovo on the eve of Vidovdan. I am ashamed, because it says more about them. It will never be on our agenda. It speaks about what others have done," he said.
He pointed out that we are facing a difficult period, which will commence with the arrival of Miroslav Lajcak.
"I talked to Putin yesterday, we had a long discussion. The day after the election, Lajcak is coming to Belgrade, the day after that I'm going to Moscow. Two days after that, we have to agree which delegation is going to Washington. A few days after, I think that there will be some more important meetings that we cannot talk about right now, because we were told so", he said, adding that we would "try to successfully protect our national interests".
Vucic stated that we should wait to see if the Albanians will comply with Grenell's request to stop Kosovo's run for the membership in international organizations.
"Don't forget that Thaci never wanted to accept that. For four years I offered it, for four years he insisted because there was always a terrible campaign against us. For four years they did not accept it, and now we are suddenly informed that they agree to it. We will see," he said.
As he stated, there is a big conflict between United States and Germany, but it is important that Serbia pursues a smarter policy than it did before in relation to the great powers.
"No matter how it ends, it is important that we remain unharmed in the fight of elephants. We will not fight with Germany and America," Vucic said, adding that Serbia wants to talk and not run away from it.
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Sid Sheinberg has passed away at the age of 84.
We usually don’t write news on passings, but Sheinberg was very instrumental in the modern success of Universal Studios. Sheinberg, along with Lew Wasserman, oversaw Universal’s growth, which saw the company expand its divisions, including the theme parks.
Sheinberg was the man who gave famed director, Steven Speilberg, his first job. Under his leadership, we saw the release of some of the most influential, and highest-grossing, films of recent decades, including Jaws, E.T., Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park – all films that were a key part of the success of the Universal Studios theme park.
Other films include Schindler’s List, The Sting, American Graffiti, and Out of Africa.
Sheinberg is survived by his wife, former actress and co-star of Jaws, Lorraine Gary, whom he married in 1957; and his two sons, Jonathan and William.
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Canada’s top scenic summertime escapes
The birds chirp, the bees buzz, and the smell of freshly cut grass fills the air: summertime has returned! With it comes the promise of adventure and the call of the open road. You have a full tank of gas and time to spare, but where should you go? We’ve put together a list of Canada’s top five scenic road-trip destinations to get you on your way.
Saguenay Fjord National Park, Quebec
Who says you have to go to Scandinavia to find a world-class fjord? We call this one the “Fjord and the Stone” route, because every kilometre of this stunning journey will give you plenty of both.
Saguenay Fjord National Park sits at the eastern end of the Saguenay River, about three hours north of Quebec City. Once you reach your destination, you can explore the imposing cliffs, take in the local wildlife (watch for whales!), and camp out under the stars. While the fjord itself is the main attraction, local villages line its shores, each with their own distinct charms.
Lake Superior’s Northern Shore, Ontario
Southern Ontarian destinations get plenty of press, but when it comes to beauty per square kilometre, nothing beats Lake Superior’s northern shore. A drive that runs from Sault Ste. Marie up to Thunder Bay and beyond, it promises countless breathtaking vistas, striking flora and fauna, and powerful waterfalls. With your camera at the ready, prepare to stop frequently as you discover hidden beaches and historic lighthouses tucked into the route along the way.
The Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia
Historians may disagree whether Cabot landed at Cape Breton in Nova Scotia or in Newfoundland, but one thing is for certain: the trail that bears his name is one of Canada’s greatest scenic destinations. Running for almost 300 kilometres around the northern part of the island, it mixes ocean views, golf courses, friendly locals, and a national park. Ruggedly beautiful (and admittedly a bit harrowing at times), this striking coastal route offers picturesque panoramas you won’t soon forget!
The Icefields Parkway, Alberta
Don’t be put off by the name, come summertime, this magnificent drive rivals the best tours in the country. With stately mountains rising all around you, you’ll enjoy a diverse array of wildlife, meadow flowers and shimmering lakes as you wind your way through an all-star roster of natural attractions: Lake Louise, Jasper and Banff National Parks, the Canadian Rockies, and more. Make sure to bring hiking boots and strap your bike to the back of the car – you will want to get out there and experience the natural beauty of western Canada first-hand.
Osoyoos Desert, British Columbia
When you think of Canadian landscapes, forests, mountains, ice fields, prairies and coastal views probably come to mind. What about a desert? With a unique distinction as Canada’s only arid desert, Osoyoos in British Columbia is unlike any other experience you can have without digging out your passport. Expect much more than cacti as you pass through the Okanagan Valley, sample wine and fine cuisine, jump into the famously warm Osoyoos Lake, or lounge on one of the region’s many sandy beaches.
Summer really is the best time to explore Canada by car: the snow has melted (in most places, anyway!), the weather is fine, the flowers are in bloom and the open road beckons. No matter which route you choose, you are sure to come across something memorable, such as breathtaking scenery, an iconic landmark or some rich Canadian culture. Whether it be for a day trip, a weekend or longer, get out there and explore what our country has to offer this summer.
Now, buckle up and enjoy!
Quebec Original – Fjord Route: https://www.quebecoriginal.com/en-ca/listing/things-to-do/heritage-sites-and-attractions/routes/fjord-route-49128190
Lake Superior Magazine – Simple Map of Lake Superior: https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake
The Cabot Trail – Welcome to the World Famous Cabot Trail: http://www.cabottrail.travel
The Icefields Parkway – The Most Spectacular Journey in the World!: http://www.icefieldsparkway.ca
The Toronto Star – Osoyoos, Canada’s lone desert: https://www.thestar.com/life/travel/2009/06/24/osoyoos_canadas_lone_desert.html
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Introducing the Australian Small Companies Fund - Part 2
Ahead of a live online Q&A session on Tuesday, here's more detail on our recently announced small companies fund, including a few stocks already in the portfolio.
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'I love investing. There is no other profession where being the oddball, the contrarian, is not only tolerated but rewarded.' So says Intelligent Investor Deputy Research Director Gaurav Sodhi, who should know.
If you want returns that beat the market, then do something different to the market. The people best capable of that usually are a little different, a point well made by the Michael Lewis book The Big Short, featuring oddballs and outsiders of various strains. The Intelligent Investor offices are similarly loaded, including, much to my wife's regret, with yours truly.
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In part two of this feature covering the launch of our Australian Small Companies Fund (see part 1 here), I'm going to introduce you to the oddballs doing much of the legwork running this new fund. They'll explain a little about their investing background, the aim of the fund and some of the stocks already in it.
1. How did you get into value investing?
Gaurav Sodhi: I purchased my first stock aged 16 and haven't looked back, although it wasn't until 2009 when I joined Intelligent Investor that value investing became my day job. The value investing philosophy is at the heart of our approach to the new fund but I'm not instinctively drawn to small caps. I look for anything neglected and cheap.
I've learnt over time, though, that small caps can be illiquid, tend to offer less guidance and have fewer analysts covering them. Many funds can't even own smaller stocks because of size or mandate restrictions. This raises the odds of discovering a mispricing, which is what value investing is all about.
Jon Mills: Growing up I read as many biographies about successful business people as I could but it wasn't until my first year at university that I read Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. I was instantly hooked.
My first stock purchase was Aristocrat Leisure in the early 2000s. I put 20% of my then net wealth into it, only for the stock to quickly halve. I hung on and the stock eventually eight-bagged but I didn't sell until after it plummeted in the GFC and had partially recovered. It was still a decent return but could have been a lot better. There were many lessons for me in this one investment.
Alex Hughes: I had been following Intelligent Investor for many years, dating back to the 'cornflakes stock' era with RHG. I really admired the team's ability to think independently and the appreciation for esoteric ideas. When an opportunity came up to join the team in July last year I jumped at it.
My dream was to become a professional snowboarder but a crash and an ACL reconstruction [that's anterior cruciate ligament, not an ASX code – Ed] put paid to that. In 2006, while recovering, I started reading about investing and got hooked, despite my Dad, who lost money as a novice investor in the ‘87 crash, warning me off.
The first stock I purchased was Woolworths. It was a business I could understand, protected by a large moat, at a price I thought reasonable. I made money on it and eventually sold out to buy something else. My investment style started out like the 80-year-old Buffett, but has transitioned to be like the 30-year-old Buffett, and my returns have improved accordingly.
2. Tell us about some of the stocks in the portfolio:
Gaurav Sodhi: For starters, the portfolio won't be a collection of hot stocks. Thrill seekers will be disappointed. Instead, we look for businesses that have been mispriced for some reason.
One early investment by the fund was in payment software business Touchcorp, which owned a 30% stake in Afterpay. Touchcorp was trading at the value of the Afterpay stake alone and a profitable operating business was available at our favourite price: free. The two companies have now merged to form Afterpay Touch Group and we've more than doubled our money on the initial investment.
This is the kind of opportunity we're looking for. They take time to uncover and analyse and don't usually come with low PERs. But they are cheap, often with decent operating businesses obscured by other factors. This is a portfolio that thrives on the neglect and prejudice of others.
Jon Mills: Adacel is another stock already in the portfolio, a leader in the North American air traffic control simulator market and which also supplies air traffic control software. Having spent $100m developing its intellectual property, including detailed models of civilian and military airports and weather conditions, it has a wide moat and has successfully transitioned to a recurring revenue model. Adacel is well placed to benefit from a likely increase in the number of US air traffic controllers and the simulators they will require. Plus there are growth opportunities in its software business.
Alex Hughes: RPMGlobal is a software company once priced like a miner. It pioneered enterprise software for mining, which allows scheduling software products used at mine sites to communicate directly with the ERP systems used at head office. Instead of cutting R&D during the downturn, RPMGlobal expanded its product suite. Now that commodity prices have improved, it's in a good position to grow strongly.
Unlike RPM, educational software company 3P Learning remains out of favour. The company's Mathletics product is written into many curriculums and ingrained in Australia's educational system. There's potential to boost earnings by raising prices, and the company has a few wild cards that could be quite lucrative, including an investment in Learnosity and international expansion.
3. Why doesn't the Small Companies Fund adopt the same Separately Managed Account (SMA) structure as the Intelligent Investor Equity Income and Growth portfolios?
Team response: This fund is a more traditional unit trust, not an SMA. That means investors will buy units in the fund, which will hold the portfolio rather than hold stocks directly. It's an important change, driven by the fact that SMAs aren't ideal for smaller stocks because of their generally lower liquidity and higher bid-ask spreads.
When an investor contributes to an SMA, their money is automatically allocated to the various stocks in the portfolio, based on their respective volume weighted average prices (VWAP) on the day of the contribution. This potentially disadvantages the investor if part of their investment is allocated to smaller stocks. The transaction itself could push up the stock's VWAP when buying (or down when selling), thus reducing returns.
Structuring the fund as a managed fund gives us the flexibility to instruct brokers to only pay up to a certain price (or sell above a certain price) and allows us to wait until our preferred price triggers the execution.
It's also important to note the fund isn't one to buy for its yield. Smaller companies tend to reinvest their earnings, which means dividends are small or not paid at all. The tax law, however, requires us to distribute any realised capital gains each year. Investors should expect (lumpy) half-yearly distributions, dependent on when any capital gains are realised.
4. Why is the fund limiting initial contributions?
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Getting too big tends to be how formerly great funds become merely good ones. We will actively avoid this by closing the fund early as we approach size constraints. We would rather run a smaller fund making great returns than a larger one making acceptable returns.
On the way to that point, when we have enough money for a given set of ideas, we will close the fund from time to time. But there's no rush. Right now, we have more ideas than cash so are happy to take flows for the moment, although we expect this to change at some stage.
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Is Obama White House willing to jeopardize national security for political gain?
Ed Farnan
Recent revelations that leaks of the most highly sensitive military intelligence operations emanated from the White House, have triggered FBI investigations. Additionally, last Friday Attorney General Eric Holder announced he appointed 2 Deputy Attorney Generals to investigate the source of these leaks.
Security experts have been quoted they have never seen the magnitude of such leaks in their experience. These leaks could be responsible for the deaths of many who work in the clandestine world of intelligence and result in the crippling of America's ability to defend itself in the war on terror. But the leaks all have one thing in common: They portray President Obama in a good light.
Did leaks result in deaths to SEAL Team 6?
Last year, as news was released from the White House regarding the successful operation in the killing of Osama Bin laden in Pakistan, you could hear a collective gasp from the intelligence community as major details of the operation were released to the public. Those details included identifying SEAL Team 6 as the military team performing the successful operation.
Military intelligence experts were horrified to hear even the mention of this highly trained team being involved in this operation and feared for reprisals against team members and their families. Just 3 months later, a helicopter loaded with SEAL Team 6 personnel, many the same ones involved in the Osama Bin Laden operation, was shot down in Afghanistan. 31 members of the team perished when that helicopter was hit with a Taliban missile. Coincidence?
Major setback in effort to stop Irans nuclear ambition?
Iran has been feverishly working to perfect a working nuclear weapon. Many fear if Iran gets nuclear capabilities it would work with terrorist organizations to spread them around the world and not hesitate to use them.
But Iran has been plagued with technical problems in their quest to build nuclear weapons. Their computers were infected with a virus and their top nuclear scientists were dying from another virus spread by lead poisoning (bullets). But thanks to White House leaks, the Iranians know their computer problems have been the result of clandestine US and Israeli operations, introducing a worm called Stuxnet . The Iranians know the name of the virus and will now be able to examine security cameras and find the double agent who introduced that virus into their system. Iranian reprisals to anyone that betrayed them will be brutal and deadly.
Drone use should be top secret
Leaks that President Obama was personally picking out terror suspects in the middle east for killing by our ultra secret drones, has also damaged our security. Military experts have said even the mention of our drones is a breach of our military security, much less announcing that President Obama was personally making those life/death decisions.
Some secrets need to stay secret forever
Even more damaging to our war on terror, was the blurting out by White house sources that allies had infiltrated an agent into Al Quaeda. This security breach came when a terror suspect was arrested attempting to board an aircraft wearing the most sophisticated bomb yet seen. The blood sweat and tears spent on the infiltration into Al Quaedas operations was wasted by one statement crowing that we had infiltrated them.
Will investigation be all sound and no fury?
Attorney General Holder works for the White House. The two Assistant Attorney Generals, Holder appointed to investigate these security leaks, work for Holder. Many people don't expect much to happen with Holder in charge of the investigation, especially before November elections. In the meantime, how many brave people working silently in the undercover war on terror will be sacrificed for political gain?
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Grief doesn’t leave you. It lays bare your capacity to tolerate what is terrifying
Four years, and still I don’t know what to do on my mother’s anniversary
Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 06:00
Laura Kennedy
Laura Kennedy: “What is there to do, but get on with it?” Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Each year, the anniversary comes, and I’m not sure what to do with it. There’s a thick, syrupy texture to the week leading up, and the world becomes slower. I feel older, and get mysterious aches that I don’t talk about, because they feel like a mutinous body acting hysterical, and I’m embarrassed. My stomach aches and I lose interest in foods I usually like. My body desires dull, plain things in small quantities, as though it has enough to digest already.
This is year four. Four years since I’ve seen or spoken to her, and though I know I never will again, the time registers as a betrayal deep in my guts. The first year after she died (typical of that initial, sinuous grief) every experience I lived through was in the context of her absence, tainted by it, and rendered livid by it. Normal life was like walking with a new wound – every move pulled on the stitches, so that at the very least, she was still, in a sense, there. I was marked by her death, and I could feel it.
Now, we are at year four, and I am different, while she is captured in the unreliable stasis of memory. If she were here, she would be different too. I think about her still, every day. Of course I do. But I have learned to be resilient, and I am able to be without her; that too feels like a betrayal. It isn’t as though there is much choice in the matter, but even now, sometimes having a good day can feel like an insult to her memory.
I don’t like this time. Even before she died, it always felt like the perilous edge of the year. That span of short, brittle days from November to early February, when the year segues from a murderously apathetic end into the frozen, dark birth of an ambivalent beginning. It seems to be the window of time in which people die, or something vital is particularly prone to shattering inside them, and they disengage from their lives. There is too much time to think; too little warmth to make venturing out seem any more than an act of masochism. We stay at home with our problems, and churn.
Four years, and still I don’t know what to do on her anniversary
Grief does not leave you. It lays bare your capacity to tolerate the things that most terrify you, and to live in less than ideal circumstances. This is empowering, but it is also rather grim. You carry it with you into new experiences, into your attitude toward relationships and your life. You get, as they say, on with it. I was so reliant on my mother. She was my only parent, and my closest friend. I was twenty-seven when she died, and had yet to do so many things that I needed her guidance on. I hadn’t yet reached the point when I could give anything back to her, or take care of her. She was 58.
People around you don’t quite forget, but neither do they fully remember. They can find it odd when you don’t know what to do on the anniversary, or when Christmas makes you anxious and maudlin. They look at you baffled and with horrifying pity when they ask if you’re spending Christmas at home with your family, and you tell them you don’t really have either one.
Sometimes, they are wildly insensitive. Someone recently told me: “I don’t think I could ever fully function if my mother died. She’s my best friend. I really need her.” She looked at me then, as though it was my responsibility to solve this puzzle for her. As though my ability to conduct my life without my mother’s help and support was, in fact, evidence that I must not have really loved her.There is nothing to say in these situations that would make either person feel any better, so I stay silent.
Four years, and still I don’t know what to do on her anniversary. Mope alone? Go for dinner? Celebrate her life or mourn her absence? Each year, she drifts a little further back in time, and I don’t know what to do about that either. No amount of grasping will hold her in the present. What is there to do, but get on with it?
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French and Dutch loosen German grip on 2015 team title
21 August- Team France jumped into the lead in the first round of the team final at the FEI European Jumping Championships 2015 in Aachen, Germany this afternoon. On a day when clear rounds were hard to get, overnight individual leader Penelope Leprevost produced yet another foot-perfect performance when first in for the French side. And when team-mates Simon Delestre and Kevin Staut did likewise, her side stood firm on the score they carried through from yesterday’s opening speed competition to move up from second spot to the top of the leaderboard.
The Dutch demonstrated exactly why they are the reigning world champions when also posting three fault-free runs to move up from overnight fifth to silver medal spot. And now that they are in a position of strength they look really threatening. Meanwhile the first-day leaders from Germany slipped to third, their decline halted however by two brilliant runs from Ludger Beerbaum and Daniel Deusser.
With only the top ten teams eligible for tomorrow’s second round medal-decider, today’s competition was a fierce one, and the British dropped one place to fourth ahead of Ukraine in fifth spot. The Swiss really rose to the occasion, rocketing up from 13th to sixth when they were the only others to add nothing to their scoreline. Spain, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden have also made the cut.
Emotions have been high all week, with Olympic qualification also hanging in the balance. As it stands this evening the last three places on offer to European teams are in the hands of the British, Swiss and Spanish. But the Danes and the Irish are hot on their heels and it’s still all to play for in tomorrow’s closing stages.
Another great track
Frank Rothenberger presented another great track today, testing riders of all levels. Israeli individual, Danielle Goldstein, was first to find the key with her mare Carisma when going sixth of the 10 individuals who got the class underway. And when the next clear was posted by Romain Duguet with Quorida de Treho, the Swiss began their upward curve. These championships have turned up some interesting new partnerships including Romania’s Andy Candin and his very sweet grey gelding Caruso who competes without a noseband and seems to really want to please his rider. And Russia’s Maria Madenova and Natalia Belova were eyecatchers with their two lovely horses, Kleiner Onkel and Upset des Cinq Chenes.
The triple combination at fence five claimed plenty of victims, while the bending line from the vertical at nine to the oxer at 10 and the following vertical at eleven needed to be carefully handled. However two of the most influential obstacles on the course were the penultimate vertical, jumped off a roll-back, and the final double of massive oxers. The latter produced more than a few moments of drama, including a fall for Portugal’s Luis Sabino Goncalves when his gelding Filou Imperio Egipcio, who had been going beautifully until then, suddenly threw in a stop at the second element.
A few horses seemed to miscalculate the two-stride distance here, but the most spectacular of all was Ben Maher’s mare Diva who picked up after one stride and landed in the middle of the second element. It wasn’t the perfect start to the British day, but both horse and rider left the arena unscathed and with another otherwise clean sheet. A 12-fault result from Jessica Mendoza and Spirit T put Maher’s team-mates under pressure, but then Joe Clee, lying individually third after a spectacular first day with Utamaro D’Ecaussines, produced another fabulous run. There was no room for error as last-line rider Michael Whitaker he set off with the stallion Cassionato, and his reaction when retrieving the situation with an amazing ride epitomised the spirit and passion that has been rippling through the competition arena this week.
Talking after leaving the arena he said, “I’ve got a lot of confidence now in my horse, I didn’t know what to expect, he’s never been in this ring, and he’s never been under that kind of pressure so I didn’t know how he would react and he actually rose to the occasion”, he said proudly. And then Germany’s Ludger Beerbaum, another much-respected older statesmen of the sport, came up and shook his hand. “ Great job” he said, “I hope you make it through to the Olympics”, and Michael Whitaker burst into tears.
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Storming up the leaderboard
Meanwhile the Dutch were storming up the leaderboard with clears from Dubbeldam and his world championships winning ride SFN Zenith, Jur Vrieling with VDL Zirocco Blue and Gerco Schroder with Glock’s Cognac Champblanc. But the host nation lost their grip with single mistakes from their first two riders, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (Fibonacci) and Christian Ahlmann (Taloubet). Ludger Beerbaum was amazing yesterday with Chiara, and today he rode another stunning round with Chiara. “We need another good round, otherwise we are going down the ladder” he said after coming out of the ring. But Daniel Deusser’s clear with Cornet d’Amour ensured Team Germany is still very much in contention going into tomorrow’s final team test.
The individual scoreboard hasn’t changed at the top end, with Leprevost still in pole position ahead of Beerbaum in second and Britain’s Clee in third. “My mare was just a dream today- he was so easy to ride, scopey, careful, everything was perfect for me!”, the Frenchwoman said. But she knows that there is still plenty more to do before the medals are awarded. “Yes we are in the lead now, but we have one more difficult day tomorrow....” she pointed out.
Full results of FEI European Championships Aachen 2015 here
Facts and Figures:
92 horse-and-rider combinations started in today’s second competition of the FEI European Jumping Championships 2015 in Aachen, Germany today.
10 of the 92 were competing as individuals.
Teams competed in reverse order of merit.
Only three teams, France, Netherlands and Switzerland, produced three clear rounds today.
France heads the team standings going into tomorrow’s final round of the team competition with Netherlands in second and Germany in third.
On the individual leaderboard Penelope Leprevost FRA, Ludger Beerbaum GER and Joe Clee GBR have remained in the top three places but Belgium’s Gregory Wathelet has moved up to fourth ahead of Spain’s Sergio Alvarez Moya in fifth and Ukraine’s Cassio Rivetti in sixth.
Michael Whitaker GBR: (Talking about today’s course) “you couldn’t get it wrong, you had to ride every fence, think about the lines, even the last fence, the problems it caused. You had to get it all right. Joe was brilliant and Ben was brilliant - what the mare (Maher’s Diva) did was absolutely nothing to do with Ben. She just took it in her own hands to take off and Ben did unbelievable to stay on! He deserves a medal actually!”
Ludger Beerbaum GER: “today is the team competition, and that’s what counts. I’m really pleased with her (Chiara) performance, it was harmonious, a really nice easy-going round.”
Jessica Sprunger SUI- “We knew it was like our final day today, otherwise the championship was over for us, so we did the best we could. We made three clear rounds and now we have to see how it is at the end of the day. After yesterday everyone was disappointed because the horses are in good shape, but yesterday not even one pair could bring a top result home. So it was difficult after yesterday, but we tried to put that aside and just focus on jumping clear, whatever it would take, we were fighting. I was very nervous - normally I’m nervous walking the course or before I go in, but today I was very nervous riding. We have fought our way back, and we won’t give up until the end!”
Jeroen Dubbeldam NED: “I didn’t have to do too much today because my horse did everything for me. Normally in a triple combination on two strides he comes out too fast, but he didn’t. The only thing I have to do now is not get too easy for tomorrow, I have to keep sharp”.
Source: FEI press release
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Which is First?
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Re: Which is First?
by Alf » Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:59 pm
encode_decode wrote: I don't know what VO is and I do not know a great deal about Nietzsche otherwise I agree.
VO is Vanity Occultism.
by Sauwelios » Tue Aug 15, 2017 12:52 am
I wasn't going to respond (to Arminius) anymore, but this trolling of his kind of forces my hand:
Arminius wrote: Sauwelios is in a dilemma. If he admits that logic is before ethics, then he also admits that Nietzsche was partly wrong, but he does not want to admit that Nietzsche was partly wrong.
I promptly acknowledge that Nietzsche was partly wrong. He wasn't wrong about this issue, though (possibly about some details regarding it, but not about the fundamentals).
The modernity of philosophy is a philosophy of ethics. Okay. But this does not prove that ethics comes before logic - the reverse is true, because it gives evidence for the developmental fact that logic comes before ethics.
So if Sauwelios admitted this, then he would have to give up his idol (false god) Nietzsche who was justifiably a famous philosopher of the modern times of philosophy. I know that this is an imposition for Sauwelios. But maybe - someday - he will learn just from Nietzsche at last, because Nietzsche at least seemed to give up his idol at last.
The historical development of the philosophical question of our current subject - "logic comes before ethics" - can be called "modern war of philosophy" and has a parallel in science: "modern war of science". On the one "war front" ("left") are fighting ethical philosophers and social scientists, and on the other "war front" ("right") are fighting logical philosophers and natural scientists and spiritual (especially logical, mathematical) scientists. (Note: There are also "spies", "renegates", "defectors", "deserters" in that said "war".) - If the ethical-social side will "win" that "war", then the science as we have known it and will have known it till then will be finally "dead".
So? That only means modernity will be over--and it's always been highly questionable whether modernity be a good thing.
Calling logicians and mathematicians "spiritual" scientists is pathetic, especially coming from a German(-speaker).
Nietzsche was of course the father of postmodernism (which doesn't mean he was himself a postmodernist, even as he wasn't himself an existentialist. Nietzsche overcame postmodernism and existentialism before those terms were coined, but he was misunderstood--especially by Heidegger).
Sauwelios wrote: Something is not "nonsense" just because it's possible to think deeper, to elaborate on it.
It is, because you have not thought deeper and not elaborated on it.
The reason that what I said is nonsense just because it's possible to think deeper, to elaborate on it, is that I haven't thought deeper or elaborated on it? That makes no logical sense, buddy.
And how do you know I haven't thought deeper on it, or elaborated on it elsewhere?
Sauwelios wrote: The child will indeed first have to have learned that "bad", "not allowed" etc. mean that the kind of behaviour of which that is predicated tends to be followed by experiences that are unpleasant for the child.
So you admit that logic comes before ethics. Okay. :)
Premiss 1: "If I behave like this, that and that will probably happen."
Premiss 2: "I do not want that and that to happen."
Conclusion: "I will not behave like this."
Makes sense. But then you should also believe that dogs think logically when they are conditioned (the so-called "Pavlov response")...
By the way, premiss 1 rests on what may be a great stupidity:
"The question 'why' is always a question after the causa finalis [final cause], after the 'what for?' We have no 'sense for the causa efficiens [efficient cause]': here Hume was right; habit (but not only that of the individual!) makes us expect that a certain often-observed occurrence will follow another: nothing more! That which gives the extraordinary firmness to our belief in causality is not the great habit of seeing one occurrence following another but our inability to interpret events otherwise than as events caused by intentions. It is belief in the living and thinking as the only effective force--in will, in intention--it is the belief that every event is a deed, that every deed presupposes a doer, it is belief in the 'subject.' Is this belief in the concept of subject and attribute not a great stupidity?" (Nietzsche, Will to Power 550, Kaufmann trans.)
Habit, by the way, falls squarely in the domain of ethics. "Habit" is after all a synonym of "custom", and the morality of custom (Sittlichkeit der Sitte) is the oldest morality.
"The one intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws." (Charles Sanders Peirce, "The Architecture of Theories".)
Sauwelios wrote: This does mean ethics is preceded by--aesthetics...
Nobody said that here.
I'm saying it now. "Unpleasant" is an aesthetic judgment.
"In its more technically epistemological perspective, [aesthetics] is defined as the study of subjective and sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics)
"[Axiology] is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics--philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth--or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiology)
The ONLY "argument" you have is "Nietzsche". But Nietzsche was not always right, as you should know.
The typical dismissal of those who cannot deal with the content of my quotes.
It does not matter whether it is typical or not, because you are in any case more typical than most others here (including me).
And what you are saying here has nothing to do with dealing with the "content" of your posts. It is just that I am not always in the mood to talk about the words of your god.
Sauwelios wrote: I asked you to consider that passage from "On Truth and Lies". Did you? And if so, do you not consider it most sensible?
That answers my first question, but not my second.
You were willing to read that passage, but are unwilling to talk about it?
Also: If you try to teach a child "to think logically by teaching it that it's bad, not allowed, punishable to contradict oneself", then the child will always ask "why?" (if not "what does that mean?" [see above]). So without referring to logic you will always (always!) be unsuccessful, because you will not be capable of giving an answer to the child without referring to logic.
If by "logic" you're referring to the logos in the sense of a (walking) stick, as I have investigated in my videos...
"Don't do that!"
--"Why not?"
[Smack]
:?:
Yeah, the word I was looking for was "explored", not "investigated". And I should probably have written "[whack]" instead of "[smack]". Or "'because I say so!'"
The stick is still the "trump card" of the Indian warrior caste. It's like magic!
"India Untouched", 45:43 f.
We use language in order to teach, and we use just the logical part of language in order to teach. And even more so in the case of ethics, because ethics can only be taught by using logic.
If ethics can only be taught by using logic, how can logic be taught?
Did you never learn logic?
Are you that ignorant?
Or are you just joking? :P
Logically, logic cannot be taught by using logic... at least not only; at least not the fundamentals.
And how do we learn language? Our first words--"mama", "papa" and the like--are sounds we utter spontaneously, without referring to anything; it's only because our parents tend to use them to refer to themselves that they come to refer to anything. Later, our parents/guardians will point to things while saying words, and we're encouraged to imitate those sounds (not typically with a stick, by the way, but with a carrot: the joy our parents express at us when we get it right, or even when we get it only partially right--wrong in a funny way).
What you are saying is always the same:
That is no argument.
Forget the last German romanticist, leave the 19th century and be welcomed in the 21st century, Sauwelios! :)
That's grand, coming from someone who thinks Kant is the greatest philosopher. Or have you come around on that since http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?p=2531041#p2531041?
I was referring to af fact, the fact that you are always using the quotes of your false god and some of his translators (also always the same).
Again. I am not always in the mood to talk about them. Okay?
Okay man, whatever you say.
Sauwelios wrote: You said there that you were not a Kantian, but a historian of philosophy. But it's precisely as a historian that you are lacking. Where's your solution to the problem posed by historicism?
If you had the tiniest idea of what history is could be, then you would know that history has not much to do with solutions, unless they themselves are historical objects (but this is not the case here).
I wasn't referring to history "proper", but to philosophy of history--this is ILovePhilosophy, after all. Strauss immediately continues:
"In a word, the difficulty indicated compels Heidegger to elaborate, sketch or suggest what in the case of any other man would be called his philosophy of history."
Nietzsche was not Heidegger, and his philosophy should indeed be called a philosophy of history:
"In contradiction to Pascal, whom he unwaveringly read and loved, Nietzsche equates the God of the philosophers with the God of the Christian faith, because theology and the Church have fused Christian faith and metaphysics into an undissolvable unity since Clement of Alexandria at the latest. With the death of God and the end of metaphysics, however, very much more begins to totter than one should think on superficial consideration. Nietzsche teaches--and in this he is a student of Hegel's--that the whole of European culture, its religion, but also its morality and, last but not least, European science rest on the foundation of that metaphysics from which they have sprung. If God is dead, a priori knowledge loses its basis and the categories lose their validity. Logic is then no longer true but a system for the production of fictions, and all the principles of morality are put into question and shaken, indeed, turned over into their opposite. Nietzsche is far removed from wanting to bring about this process of the great catastrophe of European culture with his philosophy. Already in 'Things Human, All Too Human' does he refer to his philosophy as 'historical philosophy'. History is the essential content of his philosophy, and therefore he can characterize his prediction of European nihilism and its terrible consequences by the paradoxical concept of a historiography that does not recount the past, but anticipates the future." (Georg Picht, Nietzsche, "By way of an introduction: the philosopher as (at)tempter", my translation.)
"Like Heidegger, I too depart from a fundamental thesis [..., namely] that, through Nietzsche, history has become the sole content of philosophy." (op.cit., page 15.)
Sauwelios wrote: "[T]he full phenomenon of a cow is for a Hindu constituted much more by the sacredness of the cow than by any other quality or aspect. This implies that one can no longer speak of our 'natural' understanding of the world; every understanding of the world is 'historical.' Correspondingly, one must go back behind the one human reason to the multiplicity of historical, 'grown' not 'made,' languages. Accordingly there arises the philosophic task of understanding the universal structure common to all historical worlds. Yet if the insight into the historicity of all thought is to be preserved, the understanding of the universal or essential structure of all historical worlds must be accompanied and in a way guided by that insight. This means that the understanding of the essential structure of all historical worlds must be understood as essentially belonging to a specific historical context, to a specific historical period. The character of the historicist insight must correspond to the character of the period to which it belongs. The historicist insight is the final insight in the sense that it reveals all earlier thought as radically defective in the decisive respect and that there is no possibility of another legitimate change in the future which would render obsolete or as it were mediatise the historicist insight. As the absolute insight it must belong to the absolute moment in history." (Straussthus: Nietzsche,"Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy", with my emphasis.)
Nietzsche [duh!] solved the difficulty indicated here, by his philosophy of the eternal recurrence of the world as will to power.
Sauwelios, I have nothing against Nietzsche. I have something against the fact that it is not you who is talking when you are "talking". Nietzsche was a human being that lived in the 19th century. He has done many great things and some silly things. He is important for the history of philosophy, of literature, but he is certainly not that god that you obviously see in him.
He's not just important for the history of philosophy, but also and especially for the present and future of philosophy. That is, not just for philosophy's--and mankind's--past history, but also for their present and future history.
"Whereas in Kant the apriority of reason is condition of the possibility of designing, through the change carried out by Nietzsche the design becomes the condition of the possibility of reason. The model from which the essence of the design can be read, however, is still the experiment. Hence philosophy as a whole must now emerge as an attempt, for the attempt is the design of the open horizons for the future forms of thinking and acting. The attempt is the design of the possibilities of the future history of mankind. [...]
If the attempt is understood as the design of the future possibilities of historic existence [Dasein--Picht had just mentioned Heidegger], the experiment carried out here can no longer be interpreted as if the experimenter stood toward the experiment he conducts as an impartial observer. In this design he designs his own possibility. The carrying-out of his own life [or living--Leben] is the attempt. [...]
This [i.e., life conceived as a means of knowledge or cognition (Erkenntnis)] is the total sublation [Aufhebung] of the traditional distinction between theory and practice. Since Nietzsche, every thinking is reactionary which does not venture to accomplish the entire life of him who thinks as an experiment of the knower, as a designing [Entwerfen, lit. "unthrowing oneself"] into the future possibilities of human history." (Picht, Nietzsche, page 72.)
by Fixed Cross » Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:40 am
Alf wrote:
No, it means Value Ontology.
It'll be a bit tricky to discern proper sources from fake ones - all the trolls on these boards have attached themselves to VO and are incessantly working to invent their own meanings.
For a lot of them it is frustrating that a great degree of capacity for protracted reasoning is required, hence they call it "vanity", after the Vanir - he highest Nordic Gods, and "Occultism" in the sense that it is hidden to most, since it involves reason.
Anyway, just playing.
VO gets a lot of attention, mostly it is people who are frustrated that its not as simple as they would like life to be, but sometimes someone capable of handling it will turn up. Were at about 8/10 people now that have cultivated methods with it.
Sauwelios - a great bear can be moved my a swarm of mosquitos -
I should thank the mosquitos. That is a beautiful post.
There is no chance that the troll you responded to will be able to read it, and so much the better - our writing is here for the occasional thinker that stumbles on it. We may have more friends than Nietzsche did, but the vast majority of people still absolutely hate the fact that their cranium contains so inconveniently much brain matter. They mostly use that matter to have it obstruct its own function - another thing explained by VO; A drab, dumb person can simply not value intelligence.
N's ideas about the ER as a selective mechanism, a fitness determinator, apply to VO as well, it has been apparent since 2011 - all the most ostensibly unwholesome types rush on stage to do their little desecration dance with it, unwittingly making the most preposterous and unsalvageable messes of themselves - where the most ostensibly intelligent types have all adopted it in one way or another.
Some of the latter have been producing their own parallel theories, none of which however is as dynamic as VO - and reality.
I dont counteract all the attempts at obscuring the doctrine for simple reasons of utility. It will be beneficial for me in the long run if there are a lot of inferior versions of the theory around; the actual logic will cut through them all like a hot knife through butter. This is why I expect of people that want to actually learn the logic to seek it out on their own strength. It is in terms of this strength that they will learn the meaning. I killed intellectual neutrality.
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by James S Saint » Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:59 am
Sauwelios wrote: Calling logicians and mathematicians "spiritual" scientists is pathetic, especially coming from a German(-speaker).
Actually, it is merely that you have a perverted sense of "spiritual" .. pathetically un-philosophical.
Sauwelios wrote: Nietzsche was of course the father of postmodernism (which doesn't mean he was himself a postmodernist, even as he wasn't himself an existentialist. Nietzsche overcame postmodernism and existentialism before those terms were coined, but he was misunderstood--especially by Heidegger).
Oh gyahd .. give it a break. "Postmodern" refers to after 1980. Nietzsche died 3-4 generations before then, even before actual modernism (circa 1900).
James S Saint wrote:
What are we going to do with this obscene degree of ignorance?
Lets just let these guys troll on a bit, Sauwelios. Dit is echt te dom om los te lopen.
Fixed Cross wrote: What are we going to do with this obscene degree of ignorance?
Ignorance of what exactly, or are you just too damn drugged up to know what you are saying (again)?
Google wrote: The dates of the Modernist movement (itself a problematic term, as there was in no sense a singular, consolidated, “movement”) are sometimes difficult to determine. The beginning of the 20th century is an extremely convenient starting point.
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Ignorance of all you mentioned. Its too much, Im serious.
I don't know who is telling you stories about drugs, I assume you're on KTS now. That s low even for you.
New people:
So what you will get now, if they don't scare off, is the trolls throwing some insults at the real posters and doing their best to obscure the fact that they are never addressing any issues, and never using a logical argument.
Back to topic though.
Logic requires a consistency of discernment and type of decisions.
Logic can not provide this consistency.
It is not necessarily logical that one would want to use logic, for one.
It would be logical if it were sure to lead to the sort of values that one values.
This is a matter of ethics.
Why use logic? Because of certain values. (terrain: ethics)
How use logic? By upholding a certain standard. (terrain: ethics)
Fixed Cross wrote: Ignorance of all you mentioned. Its too much, Im serious.
Just more of your lies and unsubstantiated BS. How pathetic can you get.
Fixed Cross wrote: Logic requires a consistency of discernment and type of decisions.
Logic IS "consistency". That is all that "logic" means - the "logged", "docked", unchanging", "consistent".
And without consistency in thought, no one can even know what ethics" means. much less study it.
Because ones capacity for both axioms and consistency in logical argument relies on ones control of ethics (integrity, etc) we can see that those who do not understand ethics to be prior to logic are entirely incapable of addressing the logical arguments that those that do present them with; that is to day, those that argue for logic to be prior aren't actually arguing at all, but writing strings of unrelated statements.
Fixed Cross wrote: Because ones capacity for both axioms and consistency in logical argument relies on ones control of ethics (integrity, etc) we can see that those who do not understand ethics to be prior to logic are entirely incapable of addressing the logical arguments that those that do present them with; that is to day, those that argue for logic to be prior aren't actually arguing at all, but writing strings of unrelated statements.
No. Because "ethics" does NOT mean "self-control", "discipline", "having standards", or even "integrity".
All of those things are your particular bias concerning what YOU believe GOOD ethics are. But that is only YOUR version, opinion, preference. It has nothing to do with what ETHICS actually entails.
It is an utter disgrace that at best 10 percent od Sauwelios writing is being quoted so as to be directly responded to by his challengers - a disgrace for them of course - it is a sign that 90 percent of his responses are too difficult for them to engage.
Parallel to this we have the 90 percent of his challengers posts that consist of nagging and trying to find ways to prickle, to win the emotional battle, to exasperate the thinker.
The opposition in 2001 was stronger though. Well, back then we were the opposition.
All these posts of mine here are largely ethics. Exhibition of standard vs standard - my ethics versus those of the ones that can not attain to logic;
self-assertion is required to hold a position. A position is necessary for positivism. Positivism is the paradigm of logic.
Fixed Cross wrote: It is an utter disgrace that at best 10 percent od Sauwelios writing is being quoted so as to be directly responded to by his challengers - a disgrace for them of course - it is a sign that 90 percent of his responses are too difficult for them to engage.
Oh, try posting without looking into the mirror. Your effort to create heroes, especially of yourself, is kind of pathetic.
To say that 1+1=2, we need to lay a lot of groundwork.
This groundwork is the formulation of standards, which is always done with non-abstracts; real consistencies.
This can be a wide range of things, from a physical object always falls with the same acceleration, or a symbol that is always drawn the same, etc.
"A"="A" is an ethics. It may be or seem self-evident, but that doesn't make it logical.
Logic uses ethical agreements like this in combination with each other.
Logic can be practiced by using this law of identity (ethics) in combination with the decision to try to be able to work with physical quantities of qualities that approximate perfectly equal amounts of the same stuff - physics.
Physics is the bringing about of logical strings of controlled events by strictly upholding several ethics at once, so that the hypothetical event A accurately describes a real event A', and can be related to hypothetical and real events B and B'.
Well that was informative.
James, you give such. perfect demonstration.
Your lack of ethics, consistency, prevents you from doing the logical thing and abiding by the real-world (empirical, actual) meaning of the term.
etymonline wrote: ethos (n.)
"the 'genius' of a people, characteristic spirit of a time and place," 1851 (Palgrave) from Greek ethos "habitual character and disposition; moral character; habit, custom; an accustomed place,"
It means exactly what I said it means.
Ethics is that which pertains to standards.
An ethos is a standard or set of standards.
A standard is a consistency, a character, a nature.
Fixed Cross wrote: "A"="A" is an ethics.
Yes, it is "AN" ethic. It is one ethic recommended so as to maintain sanity and coherence in society. And what is it's name? - LOGIC.
Logic is ONE Ethic that is recommended, once a society actually forms in order to have a need for ethics.
Fixed Cross wrote: Your lack of ethics, consistency
You are the definition of it. How many times have you blatantly lied about ME? - TOO Many.
No, it is a definition.
That definition, the law of identity, is one of the requirements of logic. Another requirement is that there is something besides "A". And there are a bunch of others, some of which are only comprehensible through Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan - signifier theory, the destruction of the belief in language, the start of its subjection - to logic. The young Wittgenstein would have liked RM. The later one would have seen its inability to account for the actual gradations of differentiation. Youre a dimension off.
Again, logic is a high form of ethics, requiring several standards in play at once.
You are the definition of it.
I am the definition of your lack of ethics. That is uncannily true.
Fixed Cross wrote:
BS. The definition of ethics has nothing at all to do with laws of logic. Ethics is about social behavior. It is a good idea to be consistent in communication and behavior in society, but that is not the definition of logic, nor of ethics.
Fixed Cross wrote: Another requirement is that there is something besides "A". And there are a bunch of others, some of which are only comprehensible through Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan - signifier theory, the destruction of the belief in language, the start of its subjection - to logic. The young Wittgenstein would have liked RM. The later one would have seen its inability to account for the actual gradations of differentiation. Youre a dimension off.
Now you are just off in the weeds again.
We managed to arrive at logic despite language - Nietzsche did this by appointing a supreme term.
Will to power.
He identified such a term that could form an logical emerging hierarchy of hypothetical events that resembles the real world.
His work is the constant relaying of the identity between the actual character of specific cases of existence and the hypothesis of will to power.
So that is how a principle is born from the reality of man. Which is the reality Aristotle conveniently circumvented by opting for "A". It was useful for the time being.
Now, "A" means : a quantum of will to power. An minimum of WtP, of which I have no clue if it is infinitesimal or an actual physical minimum; there is no way to know, and it doesn't matter. We seek only to understand how a thing comes into being and how it proceeds through becoming until its merges with its environment in a larger becoming, not anything a priori to being.
I do not presuppose a logic before being - being is predicated only partially and then only very passively, by the lack of necessity of its opposite.
I rather allow myself to restrict myself to define that which, if there is being, must be its most fundamental character.
Where WtP is the filling in of the equation "A"="A" as WtP matches WtP,
VO is the inquisition imposed on the = sign, so as to discover how one quantum matches another. How exactly is the match established? What is the criterium? This criterium is the same thing as the origin of the uncovering of the logic of quality from the insufficiency of purely quantitative reasoning to ground itself.
On the stock market the law of identity pertains to the technical analysis, which is to say the graph, the moving post-facto distribution of forces, where value ontology pertains to the fundamentals, the nature of the company and the climate of the economy - the qualitative background of the technical analysis, which is analogous to Rational Metaphysics.
As they say, when news breaks, charts go out the window. Fundamentals are what I interested in, how to predict those without having to go in and do forensics. Thats how I arrived at the concept of valuing. Its the most accurate all round identifier, completely inevitable as a standard for every bit of logical equation you can build.
Fixed Cross wrote: We managed to arrive at logic despite language - Nietzsche did this by appointing a supreme term.
Wow. After all this time, you STILL have no idea what Nietzsche meant by "will to power" ... damn.
It had absolutely NOTHING to do with Logic.
That is why I told you to stop worshiping people of the past.
by surreptitious57 » Tue Aug 15, 2017 6:22 am
Logic is a system that can be taught because its rules are universal and objective. That is to say they are true for everyone
Ethics is not a system that can be taught because its rules are arbitrary and subjective. That is to say the ethics of one will
not be the same as the ethics of everyone. This is the basic difference between them and so logic cannot come from ethics
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by Arminius » Tue Aug 15, 2017 4:04 pm
The main reason why it is not possible to discuss something with Nietzscheanists is that they are too fundamentalistic, just too extremely religious: they believe in Nietzsche as their god, their false god. Even a Nietzschean as the one who is not that religious like them is their enemy, their "heather“.
Indeed. He does not know what he is saying.
Ignorance and arrogance - the result of his drug abuse. First it was only ignorance.
I don't know who is telling you stories about drugs ( ), I assume you're on KTS now. That s low even for you.
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James S Saint wrote: Logic IS "consistency". That is all that "logic" means - the "logged", "docked", "unchanging", "consistent".
And without consistency in thought, no one can even know what "ethics" means. much less study it.
That is what all those Nietzscheanists will never understand (but Nietzsche or some Nietzscheans certainly would), because Nietzscheanists do not know what logic means, are too fundamentalistic, just too extremely religious ... (see above).
It seems that they are not capable of thinking, that they are merely capable of believing, having faith in their false god. And this although their false god himself has said that faith means "not wanting to know what is true“ (translated by me). Thus they do not know what their idol wanted them to be, to do, to live for.
They are just too dumb. When I joined ILP I had sympathy for Nietzsche. After merely three days, having had contact with Nietzscheanists on ILP, this sympathy for Nietzsche was eliminated by Nietzscheanists (!). Later I started to get some sympathy for Nietzsche again, but each time when I talked to a Nietzscheanist the just gotten sympathy was blowing away again.
Nietzscheanists are not capable of missionizing either.
Thank you, idiotic trolls.
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THE TALE OF RAJYA SABHA SEAT OF GUJARAT
The tussle between congress and bjp has again started, the time the reason of dispute is the Rajya Sabha elections of Gujrat.
The voting for the 3 seats of Rajya Sabha was held in Gujarat legislative Assembly. The constitution of India has laid down the process of Rajya Sabha election in Article 80(4). This is consider one of the most complex procedures of election which is done Proportional Representation by the means single transferable vote. It should be noted that the nominated members in the Assembly does not take part in voting.
The current dispute :-
The voting was held today for three Rajya Sabha seats. The counting of the votes was scheduled to start at 5 pm, but it has still not started. The reason is that congress has claimed that 2 of its MLA’s have cross voted in the election. It is said that they had shown the ballot paper to the Amit Shah after filling it. This has also been recorded in the cctv camera. The Congress has asked the Election Commission to view the cctv footage and decide on its basis. In the case a ballot paper is shown to someone other than the polling agent, it is considered illegal. Hence the vote in such case is cancelled.
Hence the demand of Congress is to cancel the two votes.
The matter now lies with the Election Commission of India. The meeting is being held and it is being chaired by the Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti. Various member of BJP and Congress are approaching the Election Commission’s office. Some of the dignitaries approaching are Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal and P. Chidambaram.
Now the Details :-
The Gujarat Assembly has total 182 seats.
Due to the resignation of 6 MLA’s of Congress, now there are total 176 members left.
Members of BJP – 121
Members of Congress – 31
Minimum number of votes for a candidate to win – 45
Due to which the seats of Amit Shah and Smriti Irani is confirm in the Rajya Sabha. But the third seat lies in contest between both the parties.
For the 3rd seat the contest is between Ahmed Patel and Balwant Singh. Balwant Singh has only 31 votes from his party members. The Congress has 51 seats in the Assembly but only 49 are with Mr. Patel. This was the reason these MLA’s were kept in Banglore. Ahmed Patel is also the political Secretary of Sonia Gandhi and considered very close to her.
Hence to win this election is a matter of prestige for the Congress Party, because if Sonia Gandhi can not even get her close associates into Rajya Sabha, then how will she lead the party in such moment of despair.
My opinion :-
I am infact ashamed of the way our democracy has turned. I am not a supporter of BJP or CONGRESS, but I can clearly see how a party which has only 31 members voting for the third seat is still claiming it’s victory (BJP) How?
The politics has become an instument of corruption. May i ask how many of politicians have visited the flodded areas of Gujrat? Has Ahmed Patel been there? Has Amit Shah been there for people in distress? The politics is now so called CHANAKYA RAJNEETI today it is being operated from AC chambers. This is the main reason why people like Vijay Malya once became the members of Rajya Sabha. The elections of Rajya Sabha is also corrupted.
Ravi Shankar Prasad is the law minister of our country, he has headed 3 times to the election commission, don’t you think it will pressurise the officers? The conditions and cases are same for the people of Congress. So the only question left with us today is
IS IT ONLY ABOUT POWER AND NO DIGNITY?
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The fact is, Kadmos was an immigrant.
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He came to Europe in search for his sister who was incidentally called Europa. Europe was not Europe at the time. It only became known as Europe after what happened to Europa. And Europa, as some might recall, was a very lovely young girl, a princess from a well-to-do Phoenician family. Everyone adored her, and so did Zeus, who was enraptured. He may have completely lost his senses, but to seduce Europa he turned himself into a splendid white bull. Of course, she couldn’t resist an offer of a ride. And perfidiously, the bull-Zeus took off with her to Crete.
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A few years later, with his bodyguard lion, looking more mature and clearly gaining authority
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Kadmos married Harmonia and they had beautiful children. All became kings and queens.
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Meanwhile, more than 1.4m UK households bought a no or low alcohol beer in the last year (a massive 57% increase on two years ago). During 2017, Heineken 0.0% was launched, and retailers such as Tesco began to dedicate more shelf space to no and low alcohol products.
Cider stays strong
Cider did well last summer, and was one of the fastest-growing alcohol categories in the last 52 weeks. Value grew 7.5% and volume grew 5.9%, thanks to the popularity of large multipacks. While both apple and fruit Cider saw robust growth, pear cider experienced significant declines and now accounts for only 4% of category spend, with fruit cider’s share growing to one-third of all spend. Again, it is premiumisation in the category that is driving value growth – and both Jack Daniels and Smirnoff aim to capitalise on this as they launch new products. Both have proven effective in attracting a younger cider shopper, and helping cider’s stellar performance in the last year.
Own label products are actually growing faster than brands, at 26.1% YOY, largely thanks to gains from Aldi and Lidl as they grow faster than other supermarkets. Within these disruptors, spend on own label dominates – less than half of spend on beer and cider is on brands, compared to 91% in the total market. Aldi saw 23.4% growth in beer and cider sales, while Lidl enjoyed 16.8% growth. Outside of Aldi and Lidl, Asda was the fastest growing retailer over the year, with 8.7% growth in spending on beer and cider.
Occasions are the big thing to consider when it comes to further growth in this category. Kantar research shows that ‘Quiet Nights In’ have grown in importance over time, a trend that should further benefit drinks such as craft and world beers, as drinkers tend to splash out on more premium choices on down-tempo occasions. A growing number of consumers tell us it’s “worth paying extra at home”, and the percentage of beer and cider drinkers saying they “consider price [when buying to consume] at home” is decreasing; down to 60% from 66% in 2013.
Who drinks beer?
Data from Kantar’s TGI database can help brands understand how to better target beer drinkers in the UK. Drinkers of bitter, ale, mild or stout are more likely to also drink lager than lager drinkers are to try those drinks: 36% of lager drinkers consumer bitter, ale, mild or stout, whilst 59% of bitter, ale, mild, stout drinkers consume lager.
Lager drinkers are a third more likely than the average adult to be male but the bias is far stronger amongst drinkers of ale, bitter, mild or stout, who are 61% more likely to be male. The age profile of lager drinkers is relatively flat, but drinkers of ale, bitter, mild or stout are likely to be in the older age ranges – they are 30% more likely than the average adult to be aged 55+.
Lager drinkers are 29% more likely to agree ‘I like to try new drinks’ vs 14% more likely for ale, bitter, mild, stout drinkers. Other noticeable attitudinal differences between the two groups include a predilection towards video gaming for lager drinkers. They are 24% more likely to agree ‘I play video games to beat other players’ and 22% more likely to agree ‘I like to keep up with the latest news and developments in the video games industry/community’ – compared to 16% less likely and 8% less likely than the average respectively amongst the bitter, ale, mild, stout drinkers.
For bitter, ale, mild, stout drinkers, the quality of what they drink is all-important and they often don’t mind paying that bit extra to get that quality. They are 71% more likely than the average adult to agree that it’s worth paying extra for good quality beer (compared to 47% more likely than average for lager drinkers) and 43% more likely to agree they are prepared to pay more for good quality wine (compared to 28% more likely than average for lager drinkers).
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Over the last decade, technology has become more and more prevalent in our everyday lives. But in 2020, especially, we have come to realize that technology is crucial to our lives, our work, and how we stay connected. Technology is helping to keep our society functioning as we adapt to changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic enabling remote work, online learning, entertainment, communication, and more. In this technological-driven, ever-changing world, it’s important for technology providers to focus on continued innovation and growth. That’s why iWave’s new platform incorporates leading-edge technology such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and is built on next-generation architecture meaning faster and more reliable results, more functionality, as well as additional data and integrations. We’ve recently announced some new enhancements, some already implemented in our platform, and some coming soon, that will help nonprofits turn quality data into actionable intelligence.
If you’re looking for a fundraising intelligence tool that will stay up to date with your needs to help you stay on the leading edge of fundraising, here are a few features to prioritize:
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Uzbekistan: Pressure on media sparks international response
Attempts by Uzbekistan's state media regulator to censor coverage of the government's struggle to provide reliable electricity and gas supplies to households has drawn rebukes from members of the international community concerned at potential backsliding into repressive practices.
Warning letters were also issued earlier this week to outlets reporting about discrepancies on official statistics for COVID-19 figures.
In its letter to Kun.uz dated November 23, the Agency for Information and Mass Communications, or AIMK, warned the outlet that an article about preparations for the heating season was composed "one-sidedly and under the influence of emotions."
In including one quote in an article - "leaving a nation without power and gas in the 21st century is an unforgivable crime" - Kun.uz violated media legislation prohibiting the dissemination of content deemed to be generating negative sentiments among the public, the AIMK said in its warning letter.
The regulator did not specify what measures could be adopted.
Another four online publications, Podrobno, Gazeta, Daryo and Repost, received a similar warning a few days earlier, regarding their COVID-19 coverage. The complaint in that instance related to the way in which the two websites alluded to the discrepancy on the number of coronavirus patients reported by the Health Ministry and the presidential administration.
The Health Ministry had reported on November 17 that 2,123 people were undergoing treatment for the coronavirus, while the president's press service alluded to 6,570 patients. The difference is notable as it is uncertain that the government has been anywhere near fully transparent with its figures since the outbreak first began.
The Health Ministry later issued a clarification to claim that the higher number alluded not just to those diagnosed with the coronavirus, but also to patients with unspecified acute respiratory diseases for whom a COVID-19 diagnosis could not be confirmed.
Gazeta ran this clarification on its website, but this was not enough to avoid the rebuke from the AIMK, which accused it and the other publications of publishing information based on unverified data.
All the outlets have issued statements to protest what they have described as attempts by the authorities to pressure them and limit press freedoms.
They have been backed in their protest by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum, who wrote a tweet to express disappointment at "recent actions taken by [the] Agency for Information and Mass Communications to pressure [independent] media outlets."
"To succeed, Uzbekistan's ambitious reforms require a free and open press. AIMK pressure not consistent with this," the ambassador wrote on November 28.
British Ambassador Tim Torlot expressed similar dismay.
"I am surprised and sad to see how [AIMK's] approach to support of development of mass media seems to have changed recently. A democratic society cannot be built without a robust, free media," he wrote.
The missions of the United Nations and the European Union in Tashkent similarly threw their weight behind the outlets.
The AIMK has objected to the criticism, saying it is wholly entitled to demand from the media that they uphold national legislation about refraining from inciting tensions and public discontent.
"The agency is convinced that the main goal of journalism is to responsibly convey comprehensively verified and objective information, wherein all points of view are presented," the AIMK said.
Political analyst Rafael Sattarov said, however, that it is necessary to consider this episode as a possible part of an intra-elite struggle.
"There are conflicting parties within the power structures. Especially in the office of the president," Sattarov told Eurasianet. "One of them believes that the AIMK has too often 'taken the side of the media.' And that it is thereby supposedly undermining the standing of the authorities in the eyes of society. The AIMK is trying to survive, to prove itself necessary in order for it continue existing as a state body."
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Re-opening of Churches for Personal, Private Prayer – Killaloe Diocese from May 18th, 2020 – A message for the People of the Diocese – Bishop Fintan Monahan
The decision to close church buildings in Killaloe was an act of solidarity and commitment to the national effort required to suppress the Corona Virus. Closing Churches was a demonstration of the depth of commitment (not just compliance) required to safeguard the health of all in our society, both the vulnerable and the strong. I fully recognise the huge sacrifice that closing churches has been for parishioners and priests alike.
At this point, following consultation at many different levels and much advice – it is time to consider reopening our churches in a responsible manner for private and personal prayer from the date of May 18th, 2020. In order for this to happen, each parish would need to ensure a safe environment for both parishioners and parish staff. This will require looking at the geography/layout of the church and putting in measures that will help facilitate social distancing and hygiene.
In order for churches to re-open in a responsible manner, the following need to be considered:
• Availability of hand sanitisers in appropriate locations in the church.
• Access to and flow of people within the building: If there are two entry points, could one be designated as an entrance and the other as an exit? How will social distancing be facilitated in the space? Can doors be left open to minimise the amount of touching?
• Signage: reminding people of distancing, hand hygiene, minimum touching of surfaces etc.
• Cleaning of the church: Can measures be put in place to ensure that surfaces are cleaned at least once a day? Who will do this? Can this be done by our parish staff or volunteers? Might the parish enlist the help of extra volunteers?
Masses will continue to be celebrated behind closed doors, but I look forward to a later stage in the roadmap, at the designated phase where it will be possible to recommence weekday Masses, and other liturgies with small numbers present, but we are not anywhere near this yet.
All of this will be open to ongoing review. Our first stage must be a gentle reopening of churches responding to the deep need for parishioners, some who have perhaps been in isolation for weeks, to call into their local church and offer a prayer.
At a time like this we as a diocese and Church Community redouble our efforts to look out for each other and continue to pray for each other at this challenging time.
Our thoughts, prayers, sympathies go out to anyone who has experienced illness, loss or bereavement during this difficult time, especially those affected by the Corona Virus.
The Prayer of Pope Francis for the month of May helps us in our time of challenge:
O Mary,
You shine continuously on our journey
as a sign of salvation and hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who, at the foot of the cross,
were united with Jesus’ suffering,
and persevered in your faith.
“Protectress of the Roman people”,
you know our needs,
and we know that you will provide,
so that, as at Cana in Galilee,
joy and celebration may return
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform ourselves to the will of the Father
and to do what Jesus tells us.
For he took upon himself our suffering,
and burdened himself with our sorrows
to bring us, through the cross,
to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God;
Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always
from every danger, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
St. Flannan, Pray for us.
St. Senan, Pray for us.
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Journalists put watchdogs to shame
Original article can be found here.
The media has regularly found itself at the front line of debate. My concern is that for too many Kiwi battlers the media has also become the last line of defence.
Increasingly, people approach the media to report abuses of power. They are reluctant to go public but feel they have no choice.
Citizens vote, pay taxes, and instill faith in politicians, judges and other civil servants. Yet when systems fail - due to a lack of consistency or clarity - it is the media which too often holds officials to account.
There is a word for when officials fail to be consistent, clear and fair. That word is corruption.
Corruption is a word that many Kiwis don't like to use for fear of being labeled a trouble maker. This is the problem.
But most Kiwis battle for the underdog, right? We believe that everyone deserves a fair go. Our desire to keep informed and share opinions is why our newspaper readership is amongst the highest and TV current affairs rate so highly.
The media are so effective because they hold officials to account in the public eye. You need look no further than the gauntlet politicians face on the walk to the House in Parliament. There's accountability right there. If a politician doesn't 'fess up, they'll be hounded until they lay everything on the table.
If only our public service watchdogs did the same.
Every day a new story emerges of a politician being duplicitous or a government agency failing to perform functions entrusted to them.
While it could be said that the system worked because eventually the truth came to surface, if it weren't for the pressure by the media the injustices would have faded in to obscurity.
The fact that the media act almost as advocates says a lot about a system dominated by allegiances, smoke screens, and drawn-out wars of attrition.
Only occasionally do the inner workings of power surface.
One has to ask, if it weren't for people like Dame Margaret Bazley, where would we be?
Bazley sat on the Commission of Inquiry in to Police Conduct after the Louise Nicholas rape allegations surfaced in the media. Since then, her cutting report on criminal lawyers milking the legal aid system steered change in the industry. Now she is Commission Chair Designate of Environment Canterbury and Registrar of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament.
If only there were more Bazleys. She has become a beacon shedding light in to shadows where corruption might thrive.
People like Bazley are used too sparingly. People like her weren't used to investigate other under-performing councils and their lawyers. People like her weren't used to investigate ministerial travel expenses.
Instead, we get what many call whitewashes - an important-sounding person asked to deliver a report that 'exonerates' the person in the spotlight.
When key people aren't interviewed, when evidence isn't recorded, when conflicts of interest aren't declared, when complainants are criticised, when basic principles of natural justice aren't followed, the media won't tolerate being taken for fools by such political spin.
One has to ask, if it weren't for the role the media played, would ministers have resigned?
Names like Taito Philip Field, Donna Awatere Huata, Richard Worth, David Garrett, and Nick Smith demonstrate the role the media plays in holding politicians to account when others turn a blind eye.
When the government accounts for so much of the economy the need for transparency is even greater.
Right now the public sector is preparing to spend the largest amount ever on new infrastructure, including the rebuilding of Christchurch. The Government also plans to sell shares in state-owned assets.
Decisions on what is built or sold, by whom, and for how much, should stand up to legal and public scrutiny. How much has been spent on consultants to plan the new Christchurch? How much are the investment banks being paid to flog off our state assets? How where those consultants and bankers chosen?
Officials aren't afraid of lawyers. Often officials just hide behind their taxpayer-funded lawyers and draw things out until the problem goes away. But nothing scares an official more than being contacted by a journalist.
When New Zealanders think that journalists are less trustworthy than politicians, think again.
Pita Sharples proposed the establishment of a Corruption Commission. Just like similar authorities in Australia and elsewhere, it would act independently to investigate abuses of power and could absorb the roles of the Independent Police Conduct Authority, the Ombudsman and the Auditor General. More importantly, it would act independently and access information that the media could only obtain through leaks.
If Sharples presented such a proposal, there is no doubt that, even without National, it would have the numbers to get through Parliament. Until such time, the public will rely on leaks to the media to hold our officials to account.
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Adam Pearce Talks Working At The WWE Performance Center, His TNA Gut Check Exit, ROH, More
Former NWA World Champion Adam Pearce appeared on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast, and discussed his travels within pro wrestling. Among them include his time at the performance center, the TNA Gut Check, and more. Here are the highlights:
Working at the Performance Center:
"I think anyone who is actively watching the WWE Network and specifically the NXT product itself sees the talent that NXT has as well as the incredible coaching staff and the staff behind the scenes and sees why it is an incredibly fun place to work. It is an absolute honor to step into the building in Orlando (the WWE Performance Center) and in my two decades in the business it is probably the biggest honor to actually have my hands on the future of what will amount to the wrestling business in our country. It was really gratifying to allow to turn loose that beast that everyone believes in behind the scenes and to have the ability to have the Takeover special on the network. That night with Kevin Owens debuting that night was the icing on the cake for what was an absolutely awesome experience. The tasks that are at hand for a guy who is working as a coach, trainer, agent or producer are literally a million things that are encompassed by one hat. When the television tapings are happening there are people that need to be agenting matches and producing for the television product and I was doing that, which are both obviously different then the nuts and bolts and hand to hand in the ring action."
His exit from the TNA Gut Check challenge:
"The funny thing about the Gutcheck thing is that the real story of what happened is far less interesting then what everyone's imagination pretends happened. I laugh about it because obviously I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't going to be good for me. People forget that pro-wrestling is a scripted form of entertainment and Gutcheck was supposed to be presented as a Reality TV (which is scripted entertainment) portion of a pro-wrestling show (which is scripted entertainment) and yet somehow millions of people were so upset and thought that I was wronged in some way without ever batting an eye lash to stop and say; Wait a minute, this is scripted. What happened, was what was supposed to happen because that is what was written. While I never ever will be mad at anyone who supported my character and wanted to see that character featured in a more prominent role by TNA that is simply not what was ever agreed to. TNA presented me with a two week opportunity on TV and I accepted a two week offer to take advantage of that opportunity to be on TV for a couple of weeks and that is what happened. Nothing more, nothing less. They lived up to every letter of the agreement that we made and so did I. Here we are two years later still talking about it. I think what people don't think about is to have an ongoing relationship there has to be people that want an ongoing relationship."
Working for ROH both backstage and in the ring:
"That five year period, three of that exclusively as a talent and two years after that running wrestling operations account for a humungous part of why I am doing what I am doing today with WWE and NXT. Especially with the last two years as not only a writer for the television but the booker of the house show schedule and kind of being a general babysitter of wrestling talent. Learning how to "manipulate" the locker rooms different egos and personalities and get everyone rowing the boat in the same direction, without that experience I am in no way qualified to be doing what I am doing today. I count my time as NWA Champion and my time involved with Ring of Honor running the wrestling operations as the two keys in pushing my development as a wrestling talent not just in the ring but all the way around in the direction it would need to be to having the kind of career that I am having. I am so grateful every day for it."
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Here’s Mario Kart 8 Running On A PC
Published 5 years ago: December 17, 2015 at 7:00 am -
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In October, the Cemu emulator — which allows Wii U games to be played on a PC — could barely boot Mario Kart 8’s menu. Now, just two months later, it’s doing an OK job of actually running the game.
The video below shows how quickly progress is being made on the emulator. On the right is what Mario Kart 8 looked like on version 1.1.1 of Cemu. On the left, the latest version, 1.1.2b, running on an i7-4790K with a GTX 980.
There’s still a long way to go on development of Cemu. MK8 here is still missing a lot of effects (here’s another video on a slower PC), and as is the case with most emulators, a lot of other games are still struggling to be even remotely playable:
But hey, this is a long game. The Dolphin emulator (for GameCube and Wii games) is still being worked on, honed and perfected, and it’s been around for years. Progress on emulators tends not be measured in massive milestone moments (at least, not beyond big early gains like this), but in incremental improvements, the kind that make you look back a few years down the line and realise, hey, these games are running pretty damn well.
To get an idea of how progress on Cemu is shaping up, here’s the emulator’s changelog.
But don’t download it or anything, right Kotaku?
bushrat011899 says:
I’m really curious as to what’s going on with the two halves of the screen. Is the left side being rendered after the right? Cause it’s not just a difference in textures, there’s different animations and camera angles going on in the different sections.
zetrox2k says:
left half is the latest version, 1.1.2b and right hand side is the initial version, 1.1.1
look at the top left and top right corners for version info
Of course that makes so much more sense. That’s a huge improvement in texture support and more, very impressive.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Has Sold 13 Million Copies, Even After Refunds
Lauren Rouse
Published 4 weeks ago: December 23, 2020 at 12:25 pm -
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The focus may be on Cyberpunk 2077’s faults at the moment, but despite many players choosing to refund their copies of the game, it’s still managed to blitz sales numbers.
Bloomberg reports that CD Projekt Red sold 13 million copies of Cyberpunk 2077 by December 20. This number also takes into account the number of refunds requested.
In a regulatory filing on December 22, the management board of CD Projekt SA chose to reveal these numbers due to their potential impact on ‘investment-related decisions’:
“This figure represents the estimated volume of retail sales across all hardware platforms (factoring in returns submitted by retail clients in brick-and-mortar as well as digital storefronts), i.e. the ‘sell-through’ figure, less all refund requests e-mailed directly to the company by the publication date of this report.”
Last week CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk had recouped its development costs thanks to its pre-orders alone – which hit 8 million copies.
CD Projekt Red says that it has sold 13 million copies of Cyberpunk through digital and physical distribution channels as of December 20.
This number factors in refunds processed by this point at both retail / digital.
The game had 8m pre-orders prior to launch. pic.twitter.com/ZIg4j9nDeB
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) December 22, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been controversial, to say the least. Players found the highly anticipated game to be riddled with bugs and at a much lesser quality than advertised, particularly on older consoles.
After the game was pulled from sale on the PlayStation store, CD Projekt Red told customers that they would be eligible for a refund from both physical and digital stores. If players were refused a refund by retailers they could also request one from CD Projekt Red itself up until December 21.
While the exact number of refund requests for Cyberpunk 2077 hasn’t been revealed, they don’t seem to have had a huge impact on its sales. Cyberpunk managing to hit 13 million sales in just ten days is no easy feat. For comparison, The Witcher 3 sold 6 million copies in its first six weeks.
While these numbers are impressive there are still some outside factors to consider. There are bound to be players out there who have purchased Cyberpunk but are holding off on actually playing the game until patches are released, which CD Projekt Red has promised are coming in 2021.
It will be interesting to see how Cyberpunk 2077’s sales progress in the coming months now that its issues are more widely known.
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akeashar says:
Unsurprising, since despite the spin of gaming media and associated clickbaiters on youtube that its an absolute trainwreck, the game is playable and fun. Its current state is far better than the final patched version of New Vegas, and it didn’t have the Devs release an alpha instead of the finished game like Dead Island when it launched on Steam. It is far from the worst gaming launch.
Really, the only reason you’d be seeking a refund on GOG or Steam (as I’ve seen some people in the comments say) is if their PCs aren’t good enough. CDPR isn’t even as bad as Origin were in the days where you needed the cutting edge equipment to get it to run, since it runs on six core processors (like mine).
chinesefood says:
It’s the best and most engaging game I’ve played in years.
But it’s also the buggiest game I’ve played in years. Maybe ever. I’ve had to reboot so many times now that it’s crazy.
I always think people whinge far too much about buggy games… but 2077 is next level buggy 🙂
But at the end of the day it’s CDPR. They’re going to fix it.
lastskysamurai says:
I dunno man, There’s a whole smaller percentage of complaints on PC if it were just pc complaints alone then the any sort of backlash should have amounted to a small ripple in the grand scheme of things, probably not that much different from plenty of other pc release generally speaking. But you’re forgetting. The big issue here are the console releases. Zero footage of xone & ps4 shown before release, have you seen long form footage from those consoles? It’s garbage. & how many millions more people own a last gen console then the newer ones, so there’s a lot of warranted upset players around.
That said at some point CDPR should have dumped the xone & ps4 versions & simply stated that the game they’re trying to make’s simply too big & complex for current gen consoles & focussed purely on the PC version till they had next gen dev kits in their hands.
It all seems so obvious now.
maggitjef says:
I’m running it on the Xbox One X, and not having too many problems.
In about 25 hrs of play I’ve had three crashes to dashboard, and a few minor bugs and texture problems, but it honestly runs fine, and for a game of this scope, I’m really not sure what people were expecting.
My favorite bug so far, was Jackie picking up and important box and leaving with it, but the box model staying where it was.
“This is super important to our mission…. meh, fuck it, leave it”
transientmind says:
Well, yeah… it’s as fun as fuck. Even when crashing every couple hours.
They didn’t do what was promised or expected, but they delivered a really enjoyable product all the same. No shit it’s selling.
Easy to forget, I guess, when calling for the devs to be placed in stocks for their many perceived crimes, and for the game to be set on fire and thrown in the bin forever so that those who hate it with an irrational fervour can finally be ‘freed’ to write or think about something they don’t hate.
On further reflection, I reckon the fact that the bulk of sales are preorders is pretty revealing. I’d say it means that the relentlessly negative press definitely had an impact on post-launch sales. Most of your game’s sales probably shouldn’t be preorders.
The fact that those numbers are still high despite the offer of refunds also tells me that people who preordered and played are much, much happier with the game than the press are, because it’s nowhere even fucking close to as disappointing (let alone as unplayable) as some are making it out to be. People who’ve had hands-on know this. People who didn’t preorder, not so much.
Bit disappointing, that.
I mean I haven’t played it, but a friend on base PS4 played an 2 hour of it and said the performance was so bad and the bugs so frequent in that 2 hour session that he hasn’t touched it since and doesn’t plan to until he can pick up a PS5.
I’m sure there are plety of people loving the game, and power to them, but on the base consoles I think the quality is so far below any expectations that it’s very dissappointing for a lot of people, perhaps even unplayable for some.
thyco says:
on consoles its a completely different story because the base consoles just cant handle it and the stop gap consoles can only just run it. mean while the next gen consoles can run it fine, but its subpar compared the PC version
louie says:
Not all refunds are done yet. GOG still hasn’t been handing any out from what I’ve seen, in spite of their bullshit guarantee. Wonder how many sales will happen after they’re done with that.
angorafish says:
’cause nearly all of those sames were through GOG, amirite?
The PC sales were largely split between GOG and Steam. Unless you want you want to have a cry about that financial reality too?
You seem very bitter about the fact that only an insignificant fraction of people are as angry and about the whole experience as you are.
But hell louie, no matter how many made up statistics you want to spout it is still not going to make you the kind of guy that people want to invite to parties.
I dunno mate, I’m making a comment on my ongoing consumer experience which is shared with many other people who purchased from GOG. But here you are getting defensive because your favourite megacorp borked it up and you feel the need to do some unpaid shilling like a noob.
Only one of these actions is useful to other people and the butthurt unpaid shilling because my experience existing hurts your fee fees is not the useful one. Cry more and cry hard, because you’re not getting paid for wasting your time when people already know a shill and know that the payment you receive is equivalent to your IQ.
anderi says:
Yeah, I’m having a good ole’ time! I haven’t wooed anyone enough to have sex though … IRL LOL …
kwenty says:
Minus another $500 for the collectors edition I returned an hour ago.
pablo77 says:
I think the general consensus is that if you’re playing on a decent PC, a mid-tier console refresh (PS4 Pro/XBOne X) or a next gen console, you’re alright.. So no surprise that there’s a lot of people very happy with the game and not returning it..
This does leave a LOT of people playing it the vanilla last gen consoles. This game was always touted as a PS4/Xbox One game, NOT a PS5/Series X game, as it was meant to be released months before the new consoles came out.
I don’t own it, but I’ve seen it running on a base Xbox One and I can confirm, it’s pretty bad sometimes, with hitches in frame rates and slowdown. My mate is still playing it and enjoying it, but it’s definitely not in what I would think is a proper playable form on those consoles..
pomplemoose says:
Bought on GOG, updated to 1.5 and I went from being able to play part of the prologue to not even being able to boot without it flatlining.
The memory leaks are so bad that if you play for an extended period it starts fucking with your PC. Anyone who’s saying “it works fine on PC” is kidding themselves. I was well above the system reqs for recommended and they’re a complete lie in addition to the rest of the game being a lie as well. Guess we know why TW3 team all left before this project released.
badge says:
Hey louie
Sorry you’re having problems on your PC, but I’m seriously not kidding myself when I say it works just fine on mine. Played a little over eight hours yesterday without a hitch. No memory leaks, no crashes, no glitches.
I hope things improve for you.
I had it BSOD my computer, which is well ahead of their recommended specs along with all of the broken textures, collision detection and other issues being in full effect. I remember Skyrim on launch and the worst that got for me was “use a console command to fix a broken questline”. I’m glad it works well for you man, but the stability of this game is absolutely terrible.
hevihtr says:
The game is great, that said I’m not playing it until another few patches come out, making it a little more stable and playable than it is right now, I had issues I could have worked around but chose not to.
The sales point to people believing in the game despite a rocky start, but it also shows the fickle nature of certain types of gamers, they didn’t get their instant fix so they dumped it and moved on, I say good riddance, this type of game is too much for these dimwitted players.
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Posted: Nov 24, 2020 / 05:29 PM MST / Updated: Nov 24, 2020 / 05:57 PM MST
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — As President-elect Joe Biden begins to reveal his Cabinet picks, Democrats are sharing hopes that the new administration can bring the country together.
Democratic South Carolina Congressman Clyburn said he’s ready to get to work alongside Biden, his long-time friend.
“I’m gonna do my part,” Rep. Clyburn said, adding that the president-elect has a wide range of experience “that will allow us to come together and continue this pursuit of a more perfect union.”
Clyburn said Biden’s administration will stop the harm caused by the Trump presidency and what he called “a decaying of basic goodness in our political process.”
“And that to me is what this campaign was all about,” he said.
Clyburn acknowledged his endorsement was a turning point for the Biden campaign. The long-time congressman threw his support behind the former vice president in February.
“But you don’t take any of the credit for helping get him on track?” Washington Correspondent Kellie Meyer asked.
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“No, I won’t take it,” Clyburn responded. “But if you give it to me I’ll accept it.”
But Clyburn said taking any role inside the Biden administration is off the table.
“I just got re-elected [House] Majority Whip and I am gonna stay here and do what I can to help Biden become a successful president,” he said.
Biden named some of the key members of his Cabinet on Tuesday. The list didn’t impress some on Capitol Hill, including a Florida lawmaker.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted Tuesday and said Biden’s pick will “be polite and orderly caretakers of America’s decline.”
But Clyburn trusts Biden to make the right choices.
“This country cannot be great if the people are not good,” Clyburn said.
With his national security team selected, Biden’s next nominees are expected to focus on domestic policy and could be announced in the coming days.
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Texas' Abortion Ban Is Halted By A Federal Court – Again
KUT 90.5 | By Ashley Lopez
Published April 9, 2020 at 6:25 PM CDT
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A federal court has – yet again – temporarily halted Texas’ ban on abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued on order last month banning procedures that are “not immediately medically necessary” during the outbreak, which he said includes abortions.
On Thursday, the U.S. District Court in Austin said the order constitutes “an absolute ban” on abortions in Texas and that women could suffer "irreparable harm."
“When a temporary delay reaches 22 weeks [of last menstrual period], the ban is not temporary, it is absolute,” Judge Lee Yeakel wrote. “A ban within a limited period becomes a total ban when that period expires. As a minimum, this is an undue burden on a woman's right to a previability abortion.”
Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the ruling a "temporary sigh of relief" for some women.
"We know that abortion is essential because it is time-sensitive care that cannot wait," she said in a statement. "Gov. Abbott should stop trying to force Texans into unconscionable choices: to travel long distances and increase their risk of exposure to the new coronavirus or carry a forced pregnancy."
Abortion providers sued the state in late March and a court agreed to temporarily halt the ban. Shortly after that ruling, however, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted that court order and overturned it last week.
Providers in Texas have said the state’s ban has forced them to cancel hundreds of appointments across the state. They say many of women will be forced to have the procedure later in their pregnancies and, in many cases, forced to carry out a pregnancy.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement the ruling "demonstrates a lack of respect for the rule of law" and that the state would appeal to the Fifth Circuit again.
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In June 2019, Cuba Gooding, Jr. was at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge in New York City where he encountered a woman who claimed he grabbed her breast without her consent. The woman filed a criminal charge and Gooding turned himself in to the police but was later released on his own recognizance.
In October, Gooding returned to Manhattan to appear in court to plead not guilty to the charge from June and additional charges from another incident that was alleged to have happened in October 2018. In that incident, a woman claims that the famous “Jerry Maguire” star made sexually explicit remarks to her at another New York nightclub and later in the night pinched her buttocks. In all, Gooding was charged with two counts of third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of forcible touching.
Gooding's attorney, Mark Jay Heller, later said, “We are shocked, outraged and absolutely dumbfounded that the district attorney's office wasted the taxpayer's money, resources and time in charging Cuba with these two incredulous cases." Heller also maintained that Gooding engaged in no criminal conduct.
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But court documents show that Gooding is also accused of groping 12 other women in incidents going back to 2001. These incidents are alleged to have happened at various nightclubs in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York City. Gooding has not been charged in those incidents, but a New York prosecutor stated that the 12 accusers could testify in Gooding's criminal trial.
In response to the 12 women's accusations, Heller stated,
Cuba denies all of these allegations. This is a typical scenario in which random people come out of the woodwork to accuse a celebrity who has already been charged. They have no credibility because Cuba was not charged with any of those allegations.
Gooding's camp has alleged that some of these other accusers have only stepped forward with their stories to shake the actor down. Gooding has been acting in movies since his breakthrough appearance in Boyz n the Hood in 1991, and it is estimated his net worth is $24 million.
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Myers scores 2 as Canucks thump Flames 5-2 for fifth straight win
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Dec. 29, 2019 9:55 p.m.
CALGARY — Tyler Myers scored twice and added an assist — all of the damage inflicted in the first period — as the Vancouver Canucks built up an early 3-0 lead and cruised to a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night.
Myers opened the scoring on a power play at 3:29, scoring his second goal of the season on a 55-foot wrist shot that beat a partially screened David Rittich.
Just over three minutes later, Myers struck again from the same distance, again on a wrist shot, only this time it came with nobody in front, his low shot squeaking through the pads of the Flames goalie.
Myers’ two goals equals a career-high, having also done it on four other occasions.
Tanner Pearson with a pair, the second into an empty net, and Jake Virtanen also scored for Vancouver (21-15-4) whose fifth win in a row moves them past Calgary and Arizona into second place in the Pacific Division. The Canucks are even in points with the Coyotes but hold a game in hand.
Rasmus Andersson and Noah Hanifin, in the game’s final minute, scored for Calgary (20-16-5). The Flames are winless in their last four games at home.
Virtanen extended the visitors’ lead to 3-0 at 10:52 of the first period, striking on the man-advantage yet again. The Flames entered the night with the league’s second-best penalty kill but Vancouver’s fourth-best power-play made it 2-for-2 in the early going when his shot deflected in off Travis Hamonic’s stick.
That goal ended the night for Rittich, who was replaced by Cam Talbot after giving up three goals on seven shots. It’s the second time Rittich has been pulled this season. His record falls to 17-9-5. Talbot made 19 saves in relief.
With Jacob Markstrom having started the last nine games including a 49-save performance against Los Angeles on Saturday, rookie Thatcher Demko made his first start since Dec. 7.
Demko finished with 23 stops to improve to 8-4-1.
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Calgary finally got on the scoreboard with 1:24 left in the second period.
While the teams were playing 4-on-4, Andersson jumped into the rush and neatly buried a rebound of a Sean Monahan shot to cut the deficit to 3-1.
The Canucks restored their three-goal cushion at 6:14 of the third when Pearson collected the puck in front, spun and sent a shot over Talbot’s shoulder.
Notes: Miikka Kiprusoff, the Flames all-time wins leader, was in attendance. Living in Finland since retiring, he got a standing ovation when he was introduced and there were chants of “Kipper, Kipper”… Calgary LW Sam Bennett was a healthy scratch. He has no points in his last eight games… Canucks have scored 45 first period goals, which leads the NHL. Flames are last with 24.
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Kim Jong Un Guides Actual Drill of KPA Combined Units
Posted on October 24, 2014 by Official USA Delegate
Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, guided an actual drill between KPA Large Combined Unit 526 and KPA Combined Unit 478.
He was greeted at the drill ground by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Army General Hyon Yong Chol, minister of the People’s Armed Forces, Army General Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, and Army General Pyon In Son, first vice-chief of the General Staff and director of the Operation Bureau of the KPA.
Watching the drill were commanders of the services of the KPA, corps commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders and teachers of military universities at all levels.
Kim Jong Un received a report on the plan of the drill at the observation post and guided the drill.
Combatants of Light Infantry Unit of Combined Unit 478 of the KPA put under control the defense lines at a lightning speed through a bold attack in order to overcome various obstacles laid by engineering units of Large Combined Unit 526 of the KPA and pave the way for mechanized units. Then units supporting the advancing forces conducted combat actions to destroy different kinds of obstacles.
“Helicopters” which had flown to check the advance of mechanized units were destroyed to pieces by precision strikes of shoulder-fired rockets and various type self-propelled artillery pieces of Combined Unit 478 of the KPA blew up targets by volley firing.
As the drill was over, Kim Jong Un analyzed the merits and demerits in the drill and set forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines for developing the KPA into the invincible revolutionary armed forces by intensifying the training just as the anti-Japanese guerillas did in Mt. Paektu.
Noting that the drill staged this time is of weighty significance in implementing the party’s military and strategic policy, he instructed the KPA to frequently organize such drill as the commanding officers and staff officers have to use their brains a lot when similar actual drills are staged between the two sides.
He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and O Il Jong, department director of the C.C., the WPK.
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Posted: May 20, 2020 / 11:08 PM PDT / Updated: May 20, 2020 / 11:09 PM PDT
Cloth face masks worn during the coronavirus pandemic should be washed regularly, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The covering should be washed daily after use, says Penni Watts, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Nursing.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGET) — Nearing the end of his 10-day sprint to vaccinate one million people within 10 days in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state is nearing its goal.
“We are on pace to exceed our one-million goal,” he said.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues around the country and in Kern County, people over age 65 are now eligible to receive the shot and distribution centers are seeing long lines of people ready to get vaccinated.
One man waiting for the vaccine outside Express Pharmacy in Northwest Bakersfield spoke to 17 News Friday morning says he'll be glad when the pandemic is over.
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Asia Today: Tokyo sets virus case record as holiday begins
Posted: Jul 22, 2020 / 08:04 PM PDT / Updated: Jul 23, 2020 / 04:34 AM PDT
People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus walk in the central business district in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state reported a record new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and health authorities warned that numbers could continue to rise. With Australia’s second-largest city Melbourne now in lockdown for two weeks, authorities had hoped the infection rate would begin to plateau. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)
TOKYO (AP) — The city of Tokyo announced a record 366 new daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, exceeding 300 for the first time as Japan begins a four-day weekend with many people joining a tourism promotion campaign that the government is pushing despite concerns of a new wave of infections nationwide.
The number of daily cases in Tokyo had fallen to just several in late May after the government ended a national state of emergency but have climbed steadily since late June, with the number tripling in the first three weeks of July. Tokyo now has 10,420 confirmed cases, including 327 deaths.
“Please be mindful of your actions and do your utmost not to get infected, and not to infect others,” Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Thursday.
Koike on Wednesday asked residents to stay home as much as possible during the long weekend, even though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has gone ahead with a “Go To” tourism promotion campaign that excludes Tokyo for now to help the badly hit tourism industry.
Though he said he was “increasingly alarmed” by the spike in cases, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura defended the tourism campaign. He said travel itself did not increase the risk of infections as long as basic safety measures were taken such as wearing masks and washing hands.
“Please do not go out if you cannot take these measures,” he said.
Until recently, officials have said most cases were limited to younger people linked to nightlife entertainment districts, but experts at a Tokyo task force meeting on Wednesday said infections have spread to older people and to regular homes, workplaces and restaurants.
Tokyo hospitals are also on the brink of running out of space. The city, which earlier allocated 1,000 beds for coronavirus patients, has asked hospitals to secure up to 2,800 beds, but preparations are taking time and beds are filling up quickly. Koike said the city is also in the process of securing hotel rooms for less sick patients.
Three prefectures neighboring Tokyo — Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba — also recorded record daily cases on Wednesday for a combined total of 170. Osaka also had a daily record of 121.
Nationwide, Japan had 775 new confirmed cases Wednesday, the largest daily increase since 720 on April 11 during an earlier peak, for a national total of 27,029 cases.
— India added 1,129 deaths to its coronavirus toll after including a southern state’s unreported fatalities. India has the seventh-most confirmed deaths in the world with 29,861. Health experts have warned that India likely has more deaths than reported because some states used varying criteria to categorize deaths. Thursday’s increase includes 444 previously unreported fatalities in Tamil Nadu, as well as 685 deaths nationwide reported in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry also reported a record 45,720 new cases, taking total confirmed infections to 1,238,635. Many states are reimposing or considering lockdowns. Late Wednesday, Kashmir announced a complete five-day lockdown in areas where infections are spiking. A two-day complete lockdown also started Thursday in the eastern state of West Bengal.
— Wearing masks became compulsory in Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne,as hot spot Victoria state posted 403 new cases and five deaths. Much of the spread is blamed on sick workers who do not take time off from their jobs while they wait for coronavirus test results. The wait for those results has usually been two days. The state government announced Thursday that workers who do not have sick leave will be eligible for a one-time support payment of 300 Australian dollars ($213) while they await test results.
— Hong Kong’s daily coronavirus cases hit a record high of 118 on Thursday in a renewed wave of infections that has hit the city since the beginning of the month. Of the new infections, 111 were locally transmitted, of which authorities unable to trace the source of 51. Hong Kong now has a total of 2,250 confirmed infections, including 14 deaths. To combat the spread in the community, the Hong Kong government has made masks compulsory on public transport and in public indoor areas. Health officials have urged people to stay home as much as possible, especially the elderly and those with underlying conditions. Social distancing measures have also been tightened, with gatherings of more than four people banned. Gyms and amusement parks are shuttered, and restaurants can only operate at limited capacity.
— Malaysia will make wearing masks mandatory in crowded public areas and on public transportation from August to prevent flareups in coronavirus infections. Defense Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said Thursday that those who fail to comply will face fines of 1,000 ringgit ($235). He said virus cases appear to be creeping higher, with many people and businesses lax in observing social distancing and health safety measures. Daily infections have risen to double digits since Malaysia reopened its economy last month after weeks of lockdown. Most restrictions have been removed, but nightclubs and karaoke clubs remain shut and mass gatherings are still banned. Malaysia has reported 8,840 cases, including 123 deaths.
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Is Lindsey Lohan Going Back to Jail?
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Why were the police called out to Honey Boo Boo’s house?? RadarOnline.com is reporting that the family came and noticed a door was open. They were thinking some burglars might be up in there so they called the police. Besides that little scare, the family had a great weekend, cheering on Honey Boo Boo as she competed in the Miss Sparkle & Shine pageant. Even Honey Boo Boo’s one-month-old niece Kaitlyn was there. She’s not old enough to have a fun nickname just yet, but she’s old enough for Mountain Dew! Kaitlyn’s mama Pumpkin was photographed dipping her baby’s pacifier in Mountain Dew Code Red before popping it into her mouth.
What happens when you bump into a Spice Girl? For Russell Brand and Geri Halliwell, sparks flew. They ran into each other at the Olympics closing ceremony and reportedly they’ve been running into each other over and over and OVER ever since, if you know what I’m saying. Yeah, I think you do. Anyway, Russell reportedly was so smitten by Geri that he dumped his yoga girlfriend to be with her and things are serious enough that she’s already introduced him to her 6-year-old daughter, Bluebell Madonna.
Snooki did allow cameras into the hospital room while she was in labor, but when it came time to push, the camera crew had to go. RadarOnline.com is reporting that baby daddy Jionni LaValle whipped out a camcorder and filmed his son’s birth. So we will get to see Lorenzo’s birth, just not the messy parts.
Lindsay Lohan and a bunch of other people crashed at this guy’s house after a party, and when the homeowner woke up the next morning, he realized $100K of his watches and sunglasses were missing. All of the house guests were questioned by police, but everyone was adamant that Lindsay was not a suspect and she happily darted off to the other side of the country to visit her mama. Here’s where it gets weird. Now the guy who called the police is telling officers, Oops! Forget what I said. Nothing was stolen. But the cops aren’t buying it. In fact, they have a couple of witnesses who say they saw Lindsay and her assistant steal that stuff, and now police want to bring Lindsay in for questioning. Remember, she’s on probation and if they find out she stole this stuff, she could go to jail.
RadarOnline.com is reporting that those two pictures of Prince Harry partying naked in his Vegas hotel room are just the tip of the iceberg! What’s worse than naked pictures? Naked video!! And a source says there’s a video of Prince Harry letting it ALL hang out with a bunch of girls in Vegas. Nobody knows who shot this video. Apparently as of right now, the owner is just putting out feelers to see how much something like this would be worth. This source told Radar, “This video could generate an enormous privacy lawsuit, but it could also make the seller rich.”
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Law on expropriation.
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Thomson Reuters Warns Firm Central Customers of Security Vulnerability
By Bob Ambrogi on April 24, 2019
Thomson Reuters has notified customers of its Firm Central practice management product of a security vulnerability in its optional desktop software.
Because of an “obscure security vulnerability” in its desktop software for PCs, the notice says, customers should uninstall the software. This applies to anyone who has the software installed, even if they are no…
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Ten years ago, I missed out on buying my first home. Having scraped enough money together to pay the deposit and associated government tax, I only had to figure out how to pay for the legal fees. My plan was to use my 0% purchases credit card to pay my lawyer, and eventually pay this…
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At launch in 2013, Firm Central was a solid user friendly, cloud-based matter management software. Fast forward through five years of gathering customer feedback and making product improvements, to present day, where the robust end-to-end software consists of customizable matter management, sophisticated time & billing, legal rules-based calendaring, enhanced reporting, and most recently, built-in…
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When Thomson Reuters acquired the UK-based Practical Law Company three years ago, the legal industry generally reacted positively, although no one knew quite what would come out of the acquisition. Practical Law sells “know-how” for transactional and corporate lawyers, which means that it sells various resources that literally help lawyers know how to do specific…
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Mad Men - "Ladies Room" (season 1, episode 2)
Welcome to my viewing diary for Mad Men. Most days (except Saturday) I am offering a short review of another episode until concluding the first season. Later seasons will be covered at another time. I have never seen this series before so there will be NO spoilers.
Story (aired on July 26, 2007/written by Matthew Weiner; directed by Alan Taylor): Last time, Betty Draper was little more than a punchline - "Oh look, Don Draper has a wife. Surprise!" This episode, on the other hand, treats her almost as the main character. Not only is she onscreen about as much as her husband, we begin to glimpse her interior life (externally rendered). Her hands tremble, her eyes flicker with confusion - she even crashes her car into a neighbor's fountain (after witnessing a divorcee move in down the street). Trying to explain to Don that their daughter could have been scarred in the accident, she expresses her fear that the little girl would by condemned to a sad, lonely life. Don is perplexed: isn't Betty happy with what she's got? After initial hesitation, he agrees that she should see a pyschiatrist. This unease with her anxiety spills into the office; as his co-workers attempt to pitch a space-age campaign for aeorosol deoderants, Don is lost in a soliloquey, mumbling, "What do women want?" Eventually - he thinks - he comes up with the cocky answer: "To get closer." Notably he receives this epiphany not with Betty, but with his mistress. The other focal point of this episode is Peggy mooning over a glib postcard from Pete on his honeymoon. (In one of the best lines of the episode - more due to delivery than context - Roger snickers, "Niagara Falls - redefines lack of imagination.") Peggy also has some flirtatious lunchtime encounters with Paul Kinsey (Michael Gladis), the acid-tongued copywriter with high aspirations and a sniffy attitude toward his surroundings. Paul is occasionally bashful, especially compared to the frat-boy leering of Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton) and Harry Crane (Rich Sommer). Nonetheless, when he aggressively goes in for a kiss, Peggy pushes him away. She's unable to express what - or who - is compelling her to repel him. The company men aren't the ones who have trouble explaining themselves in "Ladies Room," while the women struggle not just to communicate their experiences to others, but to understand them themselves.
Like the premiere, "Ladies Room" is written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Alan Taylor. It's certainly of a piece with "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" but nonetheless has a slightly different feel. There seemed to be quicker, and more noticeable, cuts at times and some images that announce themselves more boldly (including the opening shots of an egg, followed by Don from the "behind view, lifting a cigarette" image that we see in silhouette during the opening montage). Storywise, "Ladies Room" notably expands Mad Men's sociological study into the domestic realm, beginning to dissect the Long Island suburbs with the same thoughtful attention it has already brought to bear on midtown Manhattan. The episode also indulges in some further, albeit more minor, look-Ma-it's-1960 nudges, as when Betty sternly reprimands her daughter Sally (Kiernan Shipka) for wrapped herself in a plastic dry cleaning bag, not because it's dangerous but because she's afraid the little girl left all of her clothes on the floor. I had seen "Ladies Room" once before, and I've enjoyed it both times for its deeper dives into character; one strong scene I've forgotten to mention till now depicts the flaring tension between Joan and Peggy, in which Joan snaps, "You're the new girl, and you're not much, so enjoy it while it lasts." Coming off Top of the Lake, I'm marvelling at Elisabeth Moss' subtle range - her character in that show is so fundamentally different, and not in an Oscar-baity over-the-top fashion, that at times I almost think I'm watching a different actress, not just a different character. I have enough vague knowledge about the show (very mild, general spoiler warning I guess) to suspect Peggy is headed down a different path than she presently seems to be on; I look forward to seeing her come out of her shell, as she already begins to do here ("I'm not blushing!"). She's not the only character in the process of discovering who she is and what she wants, right alongside the viewer.
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Veterans Day turns jubilant for 70-year-old Army vet after he wins lottery in NC
North Carolina Lottery: Veterans Day turns jubilant for 70-year-old Army vet after he wins lottery in NC
A 70-year-old Army veteran found himself counting cash on Veterans Day, after he won more than a quarter of a million dollars in the North Carolina Education Lottery.
Ernest Dodson bought the Cash 5 ticket at Sons of Nie, an Asian market in Greensboro, and realized the next morning that it was worth $276,688, lottery officials announced on Veterans Day.
He paid $1 for the ticket.
"I about fell over," Dodson said in the release. "I'm tickled to death that I can be debt free."
Federal and state taxes whittled his winnings to $195,757, but the Greensboro resident says that's still enough to pay off his car and his house, with some left over for fun.
He's got a plan for that, too.
"I'm also going to get a bigger TV so I can watch my favorite wrestling matches," he said in a release.
Cash 5 is a statewide draw game that gives players the chance to win a jackpot every single night. Tickets cost $1 and players can buy tickets at most lottery retailers. Jackpots start at $100,000.
Ticket sales from draw games like Cash 5 make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $700 million a year for education.
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Mover who plays the lottery in every state finally hits the jackpot in North Carolina Nov 27, 2019
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TheMeatman2005
Better late, than never! Congrats on the big win!
The Meatman 🥩🍗🍔🍖🍤🌭
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” Will Rogers
Winning happens in a flash, Like A Bolt Of Lightning!
Congrats to the Winner!
A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions!
Catch-22: A dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges: When the republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous.
Stack47
Quote: Originally posted by Todd on November 11, 2019
Nice payoff for a 5/43 game!
"I'm also going to get a bigger TV so I can watch my favorite wrestling matches,"
Between the WWE Network and Youtube, he can watch wrestling 24/7 for years.
And great story!
hearsetrax
Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on November 11, 2019
sounds like a good time to me
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Congratulation to Ernest Dodson on his Win. I like his comment about being debt free. I LOL when he said he is getting a bigger TV to watch his favorite wrestling matches. This was a good story Todd. Mr Dodson is going to be talking about this Veteran Day for a while.
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Chasing $ Millions.
White Shores- California
For just a Dollar investment, Dobson made out like a bandit.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it- George Bernard Shaw.
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Congrats to another North Carolina jackpot winner!
He was born in 1949. He would have been 20 years old when the Tet Offensive was launched in South Vietnam. He could have joined the military when he was 18 and been in that battle.
I am happy that he is alive and celebrating each and every day.
"We are all in this together!"
For what it's worth, the Tet Offensive began on January 30, 1968 right after Arm Forces Radio replayed Gen Westmoreland's speech to Congress.
Enjoy Ernest. and thank you for your service.
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Véronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen
Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein
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ABSTRACT / EXCERPT
The chapter explores three adaptations of Mary Shelley’s metatext from the French-speaking world of bande dessinée via the prism of Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject. It first examines how Mousse’s Frankenstein de Mary Shelley (2008) uses expressionistic angular lines to convey the tormented fearful minds of both Victor and his Creature. The second part of this chapter focuses on the intermedial and sensory potential of the visual in Baladi’s Frankenstein, Encore et Toujours (2001) and Deprez’s FrAnKeNsTein (2003) to convey the destabilising formlessness of abjection via their texture, empty spaces, splash of colours putrefaction and deformed lines.
Adapting Frankenstein
Editors: Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
Literature and Theatre
Mary Shelley; Frankenstein Complex; Adaptation; Stage; Television; Cinema; Comics; New media; Liveness; Culture text
(361 total)
List of illustrations
Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio
Chapter 1: Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy
Chapter 2: A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’
Chapter 3: The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein
Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein
Chapter 4: A paranoid parable of adaptation
Chapter 5: The Curse of Frankenstein
Chapter 6: The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen
Chapter 7: The new ethics of Frankenstein
Chapter 8: Hammer Films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project
Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein
Chapter 9: ‘Plainly stitched together’
Chapter 10: Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland
Chapter 11: Young Frankensteins
Part 12: In his image
Chapter 13: The soul of the matter
Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics
Chapter 14: Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon
Chapter 15: ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’
Chapter 16: Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein
Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein
Chapter 17: Assembling the body/text
Chapter 18: Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Frankenstein’s pulse
The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829
Author: Christina Morin
The gothic novel in Ireland, 1760–1830 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Against traditional scholarly understandings of Irish gothic fiction as a largely late-nineteenth century development, this study recovers to view a whole body of Irish literary production too often overlooked today. Its robust examination of primary texts, the contexts in which they were produced, and the critical perspectives from which they have been analysed yields a rigorous account of the largely retrospective formal and generic classifications that have worked to eliminate eighteenth-century and Romantic-era Irish fiction from the history of gothic literature. The works assessed here powerfully demonstrate that what we now understand as typical of ‘the gothic novel’– medieval, Catholic Continental settings; supernatural figures and events; an interest in the assertion of British modernity – is not necessarily what eighteenth- and nineteenth-century readers or writers would have identified as ‘gothic’. They moreover point to the manner in which scholarly focus on the national tale and allied genres has effected an erasure of the continued production and influence of gothic literature in Romantic Ireland. Combining quantitative analysis with meticulous qualitative readings of a selection of representative texts, this book sketches a new formal, generic, and ideological map of gothic literary production in this period. As it does so, it persuasively positions Irish works and authors at the centre of a newly understood paradigm of the development of the literary gothic across Ireland, Britain, and Europe between 1760 and 1830.
Stories of women
Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation
Author: Elleke Boehmer
Why is the nation in a post-colonial world so often seen as a motherland? This study explores the relationship between gender icons and foundational fictions of the nation in different post-colonial spaces. The author's work on the intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the post-colonial nation with new work on male autobiography, ‘daughter’ writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, the author offers close readings of writers ranging from Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Nelson Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation such as Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. Moving beyond cynical deconstructions of the post-colony, the book mounts a reassessment of the post-colonial nation as a site of potential empowerment, as a ‘paradoxical refuge’ in a globalised world. It acts on its own impassioned argument that post-colonial and nation-state studies address substantively issues hitherto raised chiefly within international feminism.
Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love
Author: John Robert Keller
This study is about the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing. Stating that Beckett is ‘primarily about love’, it makes a re-assessment of his influence and immense popularity. The book examines numerous Beckettian texts, arguing that they embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goodness, one founded on early experience with the mother. Writing itself becomes an internal dialogue, in which the reader is engaged, between a ‘narrative-self’ and a mother.
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Sanjay Dutt’s Next Movie Details Revealed
Sanjay Dutt’s role in his next film is revealed. While the movie is yet untitled, the Mahesh Manjrekar directorial, is a remake of the Marathi film ”De Dhakka” and is set around a flawed family going on a road trip. Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt plays the father of the family that holds them together while on the road trip.
Filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar has directed many films in Hindi, Bengali and Marathi. He says, “It’s a mix of all genres. The comedy is situational and yet emotional, there’s an element of thrill in it and it is about the triumph of the underdog — all in one narrative.” Manjrekar considers “De Dhakka” to be the best screenplay in his career.
And this will be the perfect character for Sanjay Dutt, adds the filmmaker. He also says that “I wanted to approach him with a role that’s right for him vis-a-vis his personality, age, etc.. Sanju has exceptional comic timing without resorting to buffoonery. He can fit into any role but the director has to know what to get out of him.”
Currently, Sanjay Dutt is teaming up with director Raj Kuamr Hirani for a film, which will be his biopic and Ranbir Kapoor will be playing the lead role in it.
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Was Ranveer Singh The First Choice For The Film Sanju?
Hrithik Roshan delivered one of biggest hits of 2019 with War, a movie jam packed with action, fights and beautiful visuals. Following the movie, Hrithik Roshan seems to have taken some time off to vacation with friends.
Hrithik Roshan posted a picture from his vacation where he can be seen walking barefoot on a grass lawn wearing a red t shirt and a white towel wrapped around like a ‘lungi.’ The actor credited Ranveer Singh for the fashion inspiration.
It is well known that Ranveer Singh has a fondness to make style statements through his eccentric dressing styles. Ranveer Singh earlier paired a white t shirt with a green lungi and Hrithik Roshan’s credit was a subtle hint towards that.
. Pic courtesy : @iam_sentinel . . Fashion inspiration courtesy : I guess @ranveersingh . .
A post shared by Hrithik Roshan (@hrithikroshan) on Mar 2, 2020 at 1:21am PST
Needless to say, Ranveer Singh immediately responded with a comment on Hrithik’s Instagram post saying ‘sax’ god, a subtle nod to Hrithik Roshan’s popularity and being on the list of the world’s sexiest men.
Hrithik Roshan will be working on Krrish 4, the next instalment of the Krrish franchise while Ranveer Singh will be seen in the upcoming Kapil Dev biopic 83.
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Countrywide Industrial Gambling casino plus Racino Game playing Earnings Examination
A Period of time of Adjustment
Oops! That big hissing seem is the gaming balloon that experienced been developing above the a long time, gradually dropping air. But, it has not been a tide that reduced all ships even so, as some rising and increasing gaming jurisdictions confirmed powerful progress in 2008.
Total, the professional and racetrack on line casino sectors (excluding Indian gaming), experienced a 3.5 per cent drop in gaming revenues for 2008, producing a total of $36.two billion, down some $800 million from 2007. It was the Racino sector that has tempered this fall, as they showed a gain of practically $1 billion in 2008, therefore bringing the Industrial sector market place decline to $1.8 billion, or 6.seven %. Nevada was the biggest loser in 2008, dropping practically $one.3 billion, far more than half of which stemmed from the Las Vegas Strip segment.
Hunkering Down
For the most element, on line casino operators had been caught reasonably flat-footed by the extent of the 2008 profits downturn, as it was not until finally the 3rd and fourth quarters when it genuinely nosedived. Using the crest of year more than 12 months market place growth throughout the country and the availability of sufficient credit and equity cash, new development and enlargement proliferated in latest years. These days, confronted with the realities of declining, or at ideal stagnant need, many of these projects are now regarded as over-leveraged and/or above-sized. As a consequence a lot of gaming organizations are attempting to renegotiate their credit card debt – produced a lot more hard by reduced valuations – although also paring down operational costs. The latter has become a extremely problematic conundrum when working with the competition, especially in individuals jurisdictions that are now vying for market place shares with new emerging casino tasks in neighboring areas. A matter we examine far more entirely in the State by Point out analysis area of this publication.
As a consequence of these problems the gaming industry landscape is now strewn with impending fatalities. Between the far more noteworthy troubled companies are Station Casinos, Empire Resorts, Harrah’s Entertainment, Greektown Holdings, Legends Gaming, Tropicana Entertainment, Herbst Gaming and the list grows each and every 7 days.
“How extended will these financial situations persist, and are we at the base nevertheless?” are concerns no 1 seems to be answering nevertheless. What is distinct nonetheless is that most gaming jurisdictions will have to learn how to deal with a scaled-down pie.
Be aware:
This analysis contains only gaming revenues of certified casinos and pari-mutuel shops that provide casino online games, and not Indian gaming functions, card rooms, or small non-casino sort slot areas. The entire write-up, which includes profits tables is available on our net webpage.
Enter/Output Design
A important element that appears to have arisen from the ashes of this existing pattern is that numerous casino tasks ended up just too huge to assist them selves. The input, in terms of investment pounds, was not proportional to the output, in phrases of internet profit right after personal debt provider, in comparison to previously accomplished benefits. More and/or larger is not often much better. Observing the rise in non-gaming income at the Las Vegas Strip resorts, gave impetus to the improvement of more thorough amenities in numerous other jurisdictions. The flaw in this method however is that the fees connected with widening market penetration and occasioned-use, are significantly increased than people incurred to draw in the foundation market.
As muk-sos.net grow to be more competitive, on line casino venues will have to count more and more on their in-house hotel patrons, and dimensions their homes (and expectations) appropriately. Even though Steve Wynn started a key development in making up-marketplace mega-places, there merely was not adequate demand from customers on the Strip to warrant the numerous other related assignments that adopted that aimed at the same specialized niche.
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Other Gaming Activities
Although there are no revealed comprehensive knowledge of American Indian gaming revenues, anecdotal proof seems to advise that this segment has been as difficult strike as the Business sector. The two Connecticut Indian gaming installations report slot income of $one.six billion in 2008, symbolizing a fall of about 7 per cent, or nearly $114 million, much more than doubling the 3.5 percent fall from the calendar year just before. This industry is seemingly nevertheless reeling from the ripple-influence of a casino expansion in Rhode Island, and the opening of slot operations in New York and Pennsylvania.
The Arizona Division of Gaming stories that contributions dependent on a gaming income formula from the state’s 23 Indian gaming casinos, have been declining each quarter in 2008 compared to the preceding calendar year reducing .8 per cent in the initial quarter, 7.five per cent in the second quarter, nine.five percent in the 3rd quarter, and sixteen.1 per cent in the fourth quarter.
Some SEC reporting Indian gaming homes report related decreases. Seneca Gaming, which operates a few Class III casinos in upstate New York, studies that while calendar yr 2008 showed an almost two per cent growth charge in gaming revenues, there was an 8.7 per cent decrease in the third quarter and an nearly ten % decrease in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with 2007. Gaming earnings developments at nearby Niagara Falls, Ontario ended up down one.5% in 2008 in contrast with 2007.
It’s been a combined-bag for state lotteries across the region. The North American Affiliation of State & Provincial Lotteries reviews that U.S. lotteries generated a whole of $60.six billion in sales in fiscal 2008, up about three percent from the preceding yr however some jurisdictions described decreases, most notably California, which confirmed an 8 p.c drop. Inasmuch as some of these states are on different fiscal yr ends, it would seem that the information does not reflect the affect of third and/or fourth quarter outcomes.
According to info provided by Equibase, horse racing pari-mutuel revenues continue their downward spiral, slipping seven p.c to $thirteen.seven billion in 2008, versus $14.seven billion in 2007.
Prepared & Proposed New Expansions
As earlier famous, it has been new gaming jurisdictions that have spawned considerably of the growth in yearly on line casino/racino revenues above the years, and their affect is apt to proceed into the near potential.
Miami Dade voters approved a ballot situation that allows every single of 3 pari-mutuels to have a on line casino facility of up to 2,000 slot machines. The Flagler Dog Track and Miami Jai-Alai are reportedly arranging opening in late 2009 or early 2010, even though the Calder set up in Miami Gardens has nevertheless to declared its ideas. There are numerous other proposals becoming considered that would more increase on line casino improvement during the condition.
The point out finally received around to reissuing its tenth license, late in December, 2008 awarding it to Midwest Gaming & Amusement, LLC for a 1,200+ sport casino positioned in Des Plaines just east of O’Hare. The new facility is not most likely to open until finally 2010. There has also been some dialogue about allowing an enhance in for each area gaming positions and slots at racetracks, even though neither initiative seems to have any traction at this time.
The state’s expanded lottery program that allows for the development of 4 casino gaming zones and slots at present horse and pet tracks seems mired, as only one facility is presently under design, although three other proposals were rescinded. The only bidder on the Cherokee County deal, claimed it could not compete with the new Quapaw tribal casino in Oklahoma, which is positioned so close to the state line that its parking good deal is in Kansas. The Boot Hill On line casino Vacation resort in Dodge City is planing a December 2009 opening with 575 slots and 10 desk online games, together with a 2nd stage due to open in 2011 with 875 slots and twenty table online games. The point out has prolonged the application process for the other a few zones until finally April, 2009.
There is nevertheless a great deal of ‘jockeying’ going on, but the prospect of as a lot of as eight slot parlors and racinos seems to be again on the front-burner, but most likely not resolved in the course of the current legislative session.
There are about 14,000 rooms scheduled to arrive on line in 2009, with the most current getting the 390 place M Vacation resort in Henderson. There are expansions underway at each Caesars Palace and Difficult Rock and new hotels contain two parts of the City Center project, and the Fountainebleau.
Pinnacle Entertainment’s new on line casino growth assignments in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, whilst delayed, are reported to still be on-monitor for opening this year and/or early 2010.
There is a invoice under thing to consider that could far more than double Penn National’s slot equipment to three,000, as well as a proposal that would get rid of the restriction that slots be situated inside of five miles of the observe. Scarborough Downs, which has been unsuccessful in convincing regional residents to permit slots, might be thinking about transferring to a a lot more hospitable town.
A referendum was accredited in November, 2008 that permits for the advancement of five casinos with a overall of fifteen,000 slots, and now the bidding war is afoot despite the fact that it is not as intense as the condition experienced expected.
Grand Soleil Casino Vacation resort in Natchez had been slated to open up in 2008, but has operate into various financing problems and whilst the resort part is open up, the riverboat is noted to open up in the Spring of ’09. Harrah’s Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi, even though scaled back again fairly, is nevertheless on observe to open this yr.
Massachusetts, a sleeping-giant in conditions of market place potential, is nonetheless maneuvering to open up casinos/racinos, and/or a Class III Indian gaming facility, but are not able to appear to muster the political help. A latest study concluded by Dartmouth University estimates that Massachusetts resident expended a lot more than $920 million very last 12 months at Connecticut casinos and slot machine parlors in Rhode Island and Maine. The New Hampshire legislature lately declined an choice to build casinos, even so the matter is most likely to be revisited, especially if Massachusetts decides to go forward. There are also tries in Maine to reconsider its alternatives.
Atlantic City’s casinos have imposed their political will on staving off the addition of slot equipment at racetracks by lately agreeing to carry on augmenting purses with an extra tax. The governor nevertheless, has appointed a new panel to research the state’s sagging racing system which ironically, can only be preserved by allowing the tracks to have slot equipment particularly at the Meadowlands. (See The Nor’easter Squeeze part)
Just when it looked as if Aqueduct’s 4,500 VLT facility would finally be developed, the successful bidder indicated an lack of ability to make the necessary $370 million charge, citing the present lending local weather, and throwing the task back again into the lap of the governor. Though the market desire in the area could be regarded as quite strong, the prospect of further competitiveness from close by Belmont could have an effect on Aqueduct’s underlining financial feasibility, especially contemplating that slightly less than 30% of the internet get is retained by the operator.
Strategies to relocate Monticello Raceway into a vacation resort sophisticated are getting reconsidered probably owing to the two the probable opening of at least one or maybe two racino functions in the NY metro location, and the resurfacing of initiatives to growth a Class III Indian gaming facility in the Catskills.
However an additional gaming proposal is getting set forth in Ohio, after last year’s version was turned down by the voters. This program phone calls for 1 on line casino every in the state’s biggest towns: Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. There would be a minimum expense needed of $250 million, as nicely as an first licensing fee of $50 million, and a 33 percent tax on gaming earnings.
The Sands in Bethlehem is due to open up in the Spring of ’09, and the new Rivers task in Pittsburgh is predicted to be operational in August, ’09 while Philadelphia’s two slot facilities nevertheless wallow in a political mire, but are expected to start construction this year.
The Lodge at Deadwood is slated to open up in the Drop of 2009, and incorporate 300 game titles, one hundred forty rooms and a vast assortment of amenities.
Legislators are proposing a voter referendum that would amend the condition constitution to let casino gambling in specified locations, as properly as permit gambling on American Indian lands in Texas and at existing racetracks.
The Greenbriar, the state’s venerable resort facility has filed for individual bankruptcy, but has a new suitor in Marriott Lodges, who have reportedly tendered an offer. Point out authorities has proffered the idea of making it possible for the vacation resort to provide casino games, but this effort is in as well early a phase to have any traction a single way or yet another.
Indian Gaming
A recent Supreme Court ruling that restricts the having of lands into have faith in on behalf of federally acknowledged American Indian tribes has further stymied some new Course III gaming projects across the country. Additionally, there had been eleven Indian casino projects turned down by the DOI final year simply because of its new rule that casinos have to be around ample to a reservation that tribal customers can function at them. It has been recommended that the new Obama administration might be far more sympathetic to the growth of Indian gaming initiatives, but this concern has however to be addressed.
In the meantime, there are other Course III projects in the a variety of levels of growth. The Seneca on line casino venture in Buffalo, NY, although operating a modest momentary facility, has delayed an previously under development everlasting facility until finally the marketplace rebounds. They have also expressed an fascination in creating a casino in the Catskills. The point out gaming compact with Seminoles in Florida is getting challenged, and could impact their plans for more substantial projects. There are new Indian gaming assignments set to open in Michigan and Oklahoma this calendar year, and other folks are in the organizing phase. Texas might permit the reopening of Indian gaming facilities and permit other location and there are ideas afoot by the Navajos in Arizona to construct further casinos. California is poised to open up two to a few new Class III casinos in 2009/ten.
The Nor’easter Squeeze
Complete gaming profits in Atlantic City has declined 7.6 p.c, from $4.9 billion in 2007 to $4.five billion in 2008 with decreases continuing into 2009, as the town is finding alone in an intense comp-war with the Pennsylvania venues. At one particular time the only casinos in the Northeast were found in Atlantic Metropolis, exactly where it looked as if it may well actually even eclipse the Las Vegas Strip’s once-a-year gaming revenues.
Gradually nevertheless its industry share was being encroached on, initial by the growth of a large Class III gaming operation in Connecticut, and then another slots functions in Rhode Island, and then video lottery terminals at New York racetracks, racinos in West Virginia and Delaware, and most just lately Pennsylvania.
Now, with the planned opening of slot functions in Maryland, the impending opening of a new on line casino in Bethlehem, PA, and eventually two functions in Philadelphia, the noose is tightening around Atlantic City’s foreseeable future potential clients. It is reliance on day-trippers lulled it into a false sense of protection, and it now finds itself getting to redefine its mission assertion to “vacation spot resort.”
The only difficulty with this strategy nevertheless is that it is ill-outfitted to pull it off. For all intents and needs, Atlantic Town is beneath-roomed and/or in excess of-gamed. There is just not sufficient day-tripper industry to go around, and their successful investing area is tightening, as the peripheral populations northward now/will have more ready obtain to a widened provide in New York (Yonkers, and shortly at Aqueduct and possibly Belmont), westward in Pennsylvania and southward in Delaware, West Virginia and Maryland.
Other than the ocean accessibility, the city’s only genuine competitive benefits are its lodge capability and the availability of table games, despite the fact that the latter is probably to eventuate in Pennsylvania, and perhaps Delaware. In get to adequately contend as a spot resort the city demands to build further guest rooms and not essentially gaming capability. By comparison, the Las Vegas Strip homes – accurate gaming places, in that they do not have considerably of a day-trip industry, other than for the ‘locals’ – have an common of .87 gaming positions for each guest room while Atlantic City’s average is two.74 positions for every visitor space.
It is not a coincidence that Atlantic City’s two largest hotels, the Borgata and Harrah’s Marina, the two of which included new rooms in 2008, ended up the least impacted by the most recent downturn. The Borgata knowledgeable a gaming earnings drop of 1.6 p.c, even though Harrah’s Marina reported a four.nine per cent boost in contrast to 2007. Additionally, the toughest strike venues, namely the AC Hilton, Resorts and the Trump Marina, also have the smallest number of rooms. In the meantime some of the venues are teetering on viability, such as the the Trump homes and Resorts with the hoped for sale of the Tropicana has been even more delayed, and getting rid of valuation.
With a regular increase in gaming revenues by way of 2006, the metropolis seemed key for additional development, which precipitated organizing for 4 new resort initiatives, every of which have now been indefinitely delayed. Revel Enjoyment Group’s $2.five billion undertaking stays an iron skeleton, Pinnacle Leisure has introduced it may find to promote its razed Sands site, MGM Mirage has shelved its on line casino ideas, and Penn Nationwide appears to have stopped its pursuit of the Bader Area airport internet site.
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Maxis The First To Activate 4G LTE For Apple Devices
All new and existing Maxis customers using iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad 4 can now enjoy super fast internet on Maxis' 4G LTE network
Maxis quadruples its 4G LTE footprint, enabling more than 100,000 customers to enjoy super fast internet services
Maxis expects to expand 4G LTE coverage further in Klang Valley, Penang and Johor Bahru by Q3 2013
Kuala Lumpur, 9 April 2013
Find out how fast your iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad 4 can go with the nation’s largest 4G LTE network! Maxis Berhad (Maxis), Malaysia's only integrated communications service provider, today announced that customers using the iPhone 5, as well as iPad mini and iPad 4 can now enjoy super-fast internet through its 4G LTE network. These three Apple devices join the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC One XL which were the first two smartphones to be activated on Maxis' 4G LTE network.
Suren J Amarasekera, Maxis' Joint Chief Operating Officer, said, "In 2009 Maxis was the pioneer to introduce the iPhone to Malaysia and now Maxis is proud to announce that Maxis users of Apple iPhone 5, fourth generation iPad with Retina display and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular model will be the first in Malaysia to experience superior services on Maxis' high speed 4G LTE network. We firmly believe that our range of plans offer compelling value to our Apple users and will give them the opportunity to get the most out of the amazing features of these Apple devices. We are certain that our Apple customers will be pleasantly surprised with the superb experience with Maxis' 4G LTE network."
Mark Dioguardi, Maxis' Joint Chief Operating Officer, added, "Since the launch of our high-speed 4G LTE network on 1 January 2013, we have worked hard to expand our footprint. At present, we have successfully quadrupled our 4G LTE coverage, allowing approximately 100,000 customers to enjoy super fast internet from Maxis. With today’s announcement, even more customers will be able to enjoy incredible internet speeds from Maxis.
"We are extremely encouraged by the take up of our 4G LTE service and in response will expand 4G LTE coverage to more areas in the Klang Valley as well as Penang and Johor Bahru by the third quarter of 2013."
With 4G LTE, customers using iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad 4 can now experience download speeds five to ten times faster than 3G, enabling them to upload pictures and video ten times faster and enjoying significantly quicker response time when they use their favourite applications like Facebook and YouTube. Customers can expect their Facebook news feeds to download up to four times faster, compared to HSPA+. Backing up or uploading of big files - for example more than 50MB - to Dropbox will be up to seven times faster.
Following the 4G LTE activation for iPhone 5, iPhone 5 customers on Maxis iValue plans as well as data plans of 1G and above will receive an SMS requesting them to update the settings on their respective devices. Once customers do so, they will automatically be able to experience 4G LTE speeds in Maxis 4G LTE coverage areas. In areas where 4G LTE services are not available, the device will automatically and seamlessly fall back onto Maxis' 3G network.
Maxis now has 4G LTE service available in the following areas:
Bangsar, Mont Kiara, Desa Park, Damansara Heights
Damansara Utama
Kota Damansara, Sunway Damansara
Puchong (Wawasan Puchong, Bandar Kinrara 1, Bandar Kinrara 3, Bandar Kinrara 4, Bandar Puteri)
Seapark, Dataran Prima, Tropicana
Petaling Jaya Section 13, 14, 17, 19, SS2
Sunway, Kampung Tunku, SS2, SS3
Taman Desa, Pantai Dalam, Old Klang Road
Taman Gembira, Desa Petaling
Taman Kinrara 2, Taman Kinrara 3, Taman Kinrara 4
Taman Megah (SS23, SS24, SS26), Kelana Jaya
Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI), Bandar Utama, Mutiara Damansara
USJ3, USJ4, USJ5, USJ9, USJ11, USJ12, USJ13
For more details, please refer to www.maxis.com.my/4GLTE.
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List of former Phillies on Hall of Fame ballot grow to eight with Jamie Moyer, Jim Thome added
By Stephen Gross
Former Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer, a Souderton High School graduate, has been added to the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. (Mark J. Terrill / AP)
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced the 2018 Hall of Fame ballot and two more ex-Phillies will have a chance to join the all-time baseball greats in Cooperstown.
Jim Thome and Souderton’s Jamie Moyer join 14 holdovers from the 2017 ballot, including five other former Phillies — Brad Lidge, Kevin Millwood, Scott Rolen, Curt Schilling and Billy Wagner.
First baseman Jeff Bagwell, outfielder Tim Raines and catcher Ivan Rodriguez were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this past year after being named on at least 75 percent of ballots. Reliever Trevor Hoffman was five votes short coming in at 74 percent while outfielder Vladimir Guerrero was 15 votes shy at 71.7 percent.
Chipper Jones, Omar Vizquel, Johan Santana and Chris Carpenter are a few of the other notable names among the 19 first-time candidates on the ballot.
As long as players receive at least five percent of the vote, they can remain on the ballot for up to 10 years.
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Moyer, a 25-year MLB vet, spent five years with the Phillies after 11 in Seattle. He’s one of five hurlers, and ten total players, to play at least 25 seasons. With a total of eight teams he went 269-209 in his career with a 4.25 ERA.
Two of those wins came after his 49th birthday, making him the oldest pitcher to win an MLB game in 2012.
The left-hander also owns the record for most home runs allowed in major league history with 522, just 17 ahead of another former Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer Robin Roberts.
Moyer, along with Lidge, was on the Phillies’ 2008 World Series championship team.
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Thome, a five-time All-Star, played 22 seasons, four coming with Philadelphia. He amassed 612 homers (eighth-most on the all-time list) and 1,699 RBIs. The slugger was a career .276 hitter with a on-base-plus-slugging percentage of .956.
Along with Barry Bonds, Mel Ott, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, Thome is one of just five players to hit at least 500 home runs, score 1,500 runs, knock in 1,600 RBIs and draw 1,700 walks.
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ROUND 2/POLAR LIGHTS
In 2010, Polar Lights was planning to reissue the Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was originally an Aurora kit. But there was a hitch: the company didn't have a built up Hunchback to photograph for the box art, advertisements, and so on. So they contacted Steve "CultTVman" Iverson, whose web site boasts an enormous photo gallery of models of all types. I had posted photos of my work on Steve's site and was fortunate enough to have my Hunchback chosen by Polar Lights to be photographed. This led to my being contracted to build test shots of models manufactured by Polar Lights and MPC, which are both under the Round 2 umbrella.
This and the other photos of the Beatles with the white backgrounds were generously provided by Mr. James Hood, of Round 2.
This photo courtesy of Round 2.
Paul with Disguise
Since I had the test shots at hand, I assembled the upper bodies of the figures. The shoulders were trimmed away and the cuts blanked off with pieces of 0.20" sheet styrene. These were then glued to the pillars with liquid cement and became the displays for the alternate heads.
Paul in Disguise, Right
Finishing the Beatles was almost like painting "desktop" car models. The paint had to applied smoothly for the proper cartoon appearance. That's difficult to do with a brush, which was required for the smaller areas.
Paul in Disguise, Left
The body of the drum doesn't appear in YELLOW SUBMARINE, so I simply sprayed it with some Rustoleum paint I had handy. The Sgt. Pepper graphic on the front of the drum took an entire night to paint.
Paul, Full Figure
I avoided using black outlines except around the figures' eyes, Paul's cuffs, places like that. Glossy surfaces were represented with squiggly white lines in the cartoon, but for the three dimensional models I opted for a shiny overcoat.
Ringo in Disguise, Full
When Polar Lights reissued these kits, they had some old buildups for me to upgrade. The heads were missing, so I had to build them from test shots of the models.
Ringo in Disguise, Right
I had to come up with little display bases so both versions of the heads could be displayed at the same time. I cut the pillars from a plastic wedding cake topper, thinking they would make classy-looking displays. But the pillars wound up looking more like upside-down flashlights.
Ringo in Disguise, Left
I borrowed a copy of YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) from the local library and made screen caps of all the Beatles, with and without their disguises. That ensured that the colors with which I painted the models were as accurate to the movie as Testors and I could make them.
Ringo in Disguise, Another Angle
I found that the pegs which attached the heads to the holes in the bodies were tight enough to require no extra effort to keep them securely in position.
Round 2/MPC Monsters
Round 2, the parent company of Polar Lights, also owns MPC, which first issued these two models in the mid-1960s. The kits were based on characters that appeared in the Gothic soap opera DARK SHADOWS. The show was originally run on the ABC television network in the afternoon from 1966 to 1971.
Barnabas Collins, Full Right
Barnabas was a vampire, who was introduced into the show when its ratings began to slide after its first few months on the air. Portrayed by the late Johnathan Frid, he became an overnight sensation and was the linchpin of the series for the next five years.
Barnabas, Close Up
Although there is subtle texture molded into the fabric of Barnabas and the Werewolf's clothing and the overall quality of the sculptures are very good, the likenesses to the TV characters leave a lot to be desired. The use of artists oils helped me get a better resemblance to Mr. Frid.
Barnabas, Full Front
This was an early Round 2 project for me, and I made a serious error. I wanted to show the bat that came with the kit, but there was nothing on which to mount it. My solution was to park the bat on Barnabas' shoulder - a cute idea, but not one that could be replicated by the parts in the box. Therefore the bat was removed from all Round 2 photos of the model.
Barnabas, Full Left
Round 2 reissued these figures with styrene and vinyl arms, along with wire armatures and bending jigs. These features were part of the original MPC issues. The idea was that the builder could bend the wires to pose the vinyl arms in alternate positions. I was doubtful about this feature and used the styrene arms.
The Werewolf, Full
There were actually several werewolves during the run of DARK SHADOWS, but all were portrayed by the same actor, Alex Stevens.
The Werewolf, Close Up
Sorry to have to admit it, but the Werewolf's head is pretty goofy; the extra finger joints don't help either. Sadly, 21st century builders were once able to find nice resin replacement heads by Cult of Personality, but it's proprietor, Tom Parker, has passed away and his business' future is in limbo.
The Werewolf, Full Left
I used a limited color palette to tie the Barnabas Collins and Werewolf figures together. Barnabas is dressed in gray with brown accessories, the Werewolf in brown with gray items. By the way, many of both figure's parts come in glow-in-the-dark plastic.
The Werewolf, Full Right
A comparison of the tree and critters on the bases of the Dark Shadows models leads me to believe that these items were "borrowed" from the Aurora Dracula and Phantom of the Opera kits when MPC first released the models in the 1960s. That said, they work as well for MPC's monsters as they did for Aurora's.
Strange Change
In 2011, Round 2/MPC reissued the "Strange Change" models of the Mummy, Time Machine, and the Vampire. These unique kits featured two figures or scenes on turntables contained in decorative boxes with hinged lids. Powered by rubber bands, the turntables were designed to flip 180 degrees when the lids were closed. When the lids were reopened, the scene had changed!
SC Mummy, Full
This is how the Mummy looks on opening the coffin.
SC Mummy, Close Up
The Mummy looks quite serene, doesn't he?
SC Mummy, Coffin
The coffin was evidently copied from that of King Tutankhamen. I referenced photographs of King Tut's coffin when I painted this one.
SC Mummy Awake, Full
The coffin is closed, and when it's opened again -- the Mummy has had a rude awakening!
SC Mummy Awake, Close Up
I follwed the color scheme indicated in the instructions a much as possible. Photos of real Egyptian scorpions provided references for these critters.
SC Time Machine, 20th Century
Here's our happy Time Traveler, about to set off from the year 1936 AD.
Time Machine, Closed
The Time Machine is closed, and Our Hero is off on his journey into the past.
SC Time Machine, Pre Historic
Where, upon opening the door, we see that the Time Traveler is observing prehistoric life a lot more closely than he intended!
SC Time Mach. 20th Cent., Angle
This higher angle shows the arguable dull color palette I used for the machine's interior. I wanted it to have a "businesslike" look, rather than be garish and cartoony. But I did spray the recessed panels around the back with fluorescent colors to suggest the exotic forces that propelled the machine through Time.
SC Time Mach. Pre Hist., Angle
The sky background was painted to look dark and menacing. Of course, it's painter's choice for the dinosaurs, although I used the color suggestions of the instructions as my point of departure.
SC Vampire Coffin, Hinge Side
The Vampire's coffin was very carefully painted to look old and rotted.
SC Vampire, Full
When you open the coffin, you find him resting comfortably- perhaps a little hungry - on somewhat faded upholstery.
SC Vampire, Close Up
It was difficult to paint the small-scale figure convincingly. But the details are there if you're willing ( and have the optical aids) to make the effort.
SC Vampire Coffin, Handle Side
I reinforced the handles, which are butt-joined to the coffin, with sections of straight pins. Otherwise I was afraid they'd snap off almost immediately.
SC Vampire Skeleton, Full
Another Strange Change! The Vampire has turned into a skeleton, with more scorpions AND some rats to keep him company. These kits were surprisingly well sculpted and a lot of fun to build and paint.
SC Vampire Skeleton, Close Up
Round 2/MPC Super Heroes
MPC Superheroes
In 2012, MPC reissued The Incredible Hulk and The Amazing Spider-man as snap-fit model kits. The fit of these types of fit is better than you'd think, but they do pose challenges for those who want to assemble them with glue.
MPC Hulk, Close Up
This Hulk sports a 1970s-era hairdo while he wears the classic enraged expression.
MPC Hulk, Left
This issue of The Incredible Hulk came molded in green and purple plastic. My test shot was white, which I painted with Testors oil-based enamels.
MPC Hulk, Back
There's quite a gap between the Hulk's back and the top of his trousers, one of the fit issues that occurs with snap-fit models. I couldn't fill the gap without altering the shape of the back part. For Polar Lights' purposes, the models had to be built strictly out-of-the-box.
MPC Hulk, Right
I left the seams along the side of the Hulk's pants alone because they would appear on a real garment, but I did fill all the gaps on his body. I didn't photograph the alternate open hands because Round 2/MPC wanted the Hulk built with the closed fists.
MPC Spider-man, Front
The Amazing Spider-man is a terrific companion piece to The Incredible Hulk. It's also an airbrusher's dream to paint.
MPC Spider-man, Right
The detailing of Spidey's figure was very well done, as was the webbed engraving of his costume. The blue and red sections of Spidey's costume come molded in those colors. Therefore, if a modeler prefers to paint the figure, there will be a lot of masking involved.
MPC Spider-man, Left
The engraved webbing of Spidey's costume isn't too difficult to paint. A clear gloss finish can be applied to the figure to seal the underlying colors. Then thinned black water-based paint can be applied to the webbing with a fine tipped brush. Errors can be easily wiped off and the finished webbing sealed with a clear matte finish; I used Testors Dullcote.
MPC Spider-man, Back
Spidey's flat left hand shows that the figure can be posed in alternate positions off the kit base - on a wall, for starters.
Round 2/Polar Lights Figures
Robby the Robot and Altaira
In 2013, Polar lights released their third issue of Robby the Robot, the mechanical man first seen in the classic Science Fiction film, FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956). This time, Robby came with alternate parts to accommodate the figure of Altaira, as seen in the copy of the movie poster they're posed with here.
Robby and Altaira, Full
From the waist up, the Robby model is a duplicate of the earlier releases. Robby's arms and legs were changed to fit the movie poster pose along with the new base. My test shot didn't come with the printed background.
Robby and Altaira, Right
I painted Robby, Altaira, and the base to match the movie poster as closely as possible. The glittery effect of Altaira's dress was achieved with craft store spray paint.
Robby and Altaira, Close Up
Please note that it was I and not E. James Small who assembled this model, as noted on the instructions. I think the error was made because Mr. Small, who is an excellent builder, had completed Robby for the earlier releases of the model.
Polar Lights Superheroes
The last two models I built for Round 2 were all new snap-fit models of Superman and Wolverine. Since they'd never been on the market before, and therefore I had no experience with them, both posed interesting challenges.
Polar Lights Superman, Left
The basis for this model was the cover of SUPERMAN #233, "Kryptonite Nevermore". This was DC Comics' attempt to remove an overused plot device - Superman's weakness to Kryptonite - while also scaling back his powers. Both ideas faded quickly.
Polar Lights Superman, Close Up
Unfortunately the weakest feature of the model is Superman's head.
Polar Lights Superman, Back
The cape requires a lot of work to eradicate the large seam running down the middle. I found that adhering a piece of stretched sprue into it with liquid cement gave the strongest joint. Filler putty was still needed in spots along the joint.
Polar Lights Superman_Right
Getting the chains fitted with no instructions was not easy. They represent the deactivated Kryptonite described in the comic book, so I painted them a metallic, rather than glowing, green.
Polar Lights Wolverine
This is a fine model from every standpoint. The pose is dynamic, the sculpture spot on, and the base is well detailed. Also, the breakdown of assemblies makes it possible to paint them with a minimum of masking.
Polar Lights Wolverine, Back
The model looks great from any angle. As with Superman, I had to print the decals on my own, using image files from Polar Lights. But they fit the figures perfectly; I'm sure the kit decals are far superior.
Polar Lights Wolverine Mask_Close Up
Alternate masked and unmasked heads come with the kit; I used tiny magnets to secure them in place on the figure. The test shot came without the chrome claws, so I used Bare Metal Foil on them with less than satisfactory results (that I admit I've overcome in these photos with Adobe Photoshop).
Polar Lights Wolverine, Left
Here's a good view of the base. I created battle damage on the Sentinel's helmet by sprinkling salt onto the moistened silver base coat. An acrylic metallic purplish red was sprayed over the salt and allowed to dry. The outer layer was scrubbed with a moistened toothbrush; as the salt came off it left behind a "chipped paint" effect, allowing the underlying silver to show through the outer metallic purple.
Polar Lights Wolverine, Right
This guy looks ready to fight from any angle!
PL Wolverine, Unmasked
Wolverine's features were very nicely sculpted. I couldn't help but paint the squinty-eyed appearance so frequently seen in comics. His heavy 5 o'clock shadow seemed natural for him.
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Environmental Groups Oppose Pipeline Project
Posted By Toby Sells on Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:30 PM
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A diagram shows the layer of aquifers underneath Memphis.
Environmental advocates urged against a crude oil pipeline that they say will cut through several Black neighborhoods and could endanger drinking water.
Two companies began surveying here last year for a project to build a 49-mile pipeline from Memphis to Marshall County, Mississippi to connect to other crude-oil pipelines in the area. Plains All American Pipeline and Valero hope to begin work next year on the new Byhalia Connection Pipeline to bring more crude oil through Memphis to other places in the U.S.
A website for the project said the Byhalia Connection project is in the “pre-construction and easement acquisition phase of the project. We’re targeting to start construction in 2021 and be in service approximately nine months later.”
The plan was been questioned by Shelby County Schools (SCS), property owners along the proposed route, and by protestors last week.
On Friday, four local environmental groups asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny the federal permit for the pipeline. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Protect Our Aquifer, Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) argued the “pipeline that would cut through several Black communities and the municipal wellfield that provides their drinking water, which is drawn from the Memphis Sand Aquifer.”
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The proposed Byhalia Connection would run through Black communities and across drinking water intake wells.
”We’re alarmed that — so far — no local, state, or federal agency is looking out for the groundwater that serves as Memphis’s drinking water,” said George Nolan, SELC senior attorney. “The nationwide permit the companies have applied for under the Clean Water Act states in very plain language that this type of permit does not allow for the construction of pipelines near drinking-water intakes, like the municipal well field it will run through.
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”If this oil pipeline leaks or spills, as many have done before, it could have devastating effects on the residents that live in southwest Memphis and their drinking water source.”
The groups argue that the pipeline would cut through many Black communities in southwest Memphis, including the Boxtown neighborhood. They claim that neighborhood is already “burdened” by dozens of industrial facilities. The area is home to the Valero oil refinery, Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) shuttered, coal-burning Allen Fossil Plant, TVA’s gas-powered plant, and more.
"This resilient community, where many of our loved ones live and our ancestor's bones rest, is being treated this way because of economic racism and environmental racism," said Justin J. Pearson, a lead organizer of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline. "We care about the water that we drink, the land we live on, and the air we breathe, but too often our lives are deemed expendable by our own elected officials and company's insatiable quest to profit off our very lives."
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This image shows how the pipeline would cut through a drinking-water well field in southwest Memphis.
The groups say that because the pipeline would cross wetlands and streams, it would have to get a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act. While the companies are trying to get a permit, they’re asking for the wrong one, according to the groups, because of the pipeline’s proximity to a drinking water intake source.
The pipeline would cut through a drinking-water well field in southwest Memphis, operated by Memphis Light, Gas & Water. The wells there draw water from the Memphis Sand Aquifer, the famously clean source of the city’s drinking water. The wells in southwest Memphis supply drinking water to the primarily Black communities there.
“We think the Corps should consider the risks to our drinking water plus the environmental injustices this pipeline poses to residents,” said Jim Kovarik, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer. “This area of the Memphis Sand Aquifer is known to be vulnerable to contamination due to holes in its protective clay layer. In fact, there is a known breach in the Davis Well Field, near the pumping station. On top of that, the route is also near an earthquake fault line known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This is the wrong place for a pipeline.”
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October 03, 2003 Music » Music Features
Local Beat
by Andria Lisle
I got my radio on: Thanks to WMBZ-FM 94.1 The Buzz, hard-rock fans have a new reason to bang their heads. DJ Renn Wilson, host of the Saturday night Homegrown program, has launched the Homegrown Local Music Showcase at Newby's on the Highland Strip.
"I started doing the radio show in January, and we got such a huge response from listeners that the decision to do the showcase was easy," Wilson explains. "Bands like Sammy's Good Eye, Mr. Peeplez, and Leroy Star are always working hard to make things happen. With their help, the show has really taken off."
A 13-year radio veteran, Wilson managed bands and promoted concerts in his native North Carolina and in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before coming south. "I worked with bands like Ben Folds Five and Hootie & the Blowfish in a scene that was comparable to Memphis," he says. "There's a lot of talent in this town, and it's just a matter of time before the major labels take notice."
Wilson recalls one memorable night in Atlantic City, when Saliva played a show with Nickelback and Default. "Saliva blew everybody away," he says, "and once I came to Memphis I realized why. Most Jersey groups are cover bands, but Memphis is definitely a real music town."
Upcoming showcases will feature Leroy Star with Starliner (October 7th), Michael Tolcher (October 14th), Mr. Peeplez with The Nina Makris Band (October 21st), and Sammy's Good Eye with Slamhound (October 28th). Two bucks will get you in the door, with burgers and drinks costing a deuce apiece -- and don't forget to tune into the Buzz on Saturday nights at 9 p.m. for a preview of the headliners.
"Any local musician has a fair opportunity to get involved," Wilson says. "Just send in a CD that's broadcast-quality." Citing such disparate Memphis talents as Cory Branan, Retrospect, Ingram Hill, Scott Sudbury, and Crash Into June, Wilson adds that "there are a lot of bands here who could really go places." To get your group on the air -- or to become a part of Wilson's behind-the-scenes street team -- go to VenuePromotions.com or 941TheBuzz.com.
Further down the FM dial, the sound isn't nearly as sweet: WUMR-FM 91.7, the University of Memphis jazz station, is in a precarious financial position. The 25,000-watt station -- known around town as "The Jazz Lover" -- held its first radiothon last week in an effort to create a salaried position for a programming director.
WUMR broadcasts a blend of traditional and contemporary jazz, Latin, and new-age music alongside educational, sports, and community-service programming. According to Dr. Bob McConnell, the station's general manager and an associate professor at the U of M, WUMR serves as "a training lab for students, providing hands-on experience in announcing, news reporting and writing, talk-show hosting, and sportscasting."
McConnell primarily serves as adviser to WUMR, "making sure the station adheres to FCC rules and regulations. We need someone who can come down and work at the station full time," he says. "A lot of students aren't that familiar with jazz. We have to teach them what fits the format."
So why is WUMR a jazz station? "That decision was made before my time," McConnell, an avowed fan of Dinah Washington and Duke Ellington, confesses. "When the station was formed in 1979, we knew we had to fill a particular void and educate students and general listeners. The format ties into a jazz program in the music department taught by Dr. Jack Cooper."
"The state has drastically cut university budgets," McConnell continues, "and we were hit with a $7 million cut. When we decided to create the [programming-director] position, we realized we'd have to create our own funds." The station, which collected $10,000 in an earlier fund-raiser, has already reached $8,800 with its radiothon. "The climate for jazz is good in Memphis right now," McConnell says, citing club openings and local heroes like Kirk Whalum. "We're just doing whatever we can to enhance the interest in America's original art form." Supporters can send tax-deductible donations to WUMR, c/o Department of Communications at the University of Memphis.
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NatGeo “Shares” Social Publishing Strategy
Kim Mateus • April 21, 2016
What drives social publishing success? Plus, InStyle makes digital push, Bauer Xcel on print-digital tactics, and programmatic’s big slice of the advertising pie
Social publishing, or preparing and posting content to platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others, is no longer just an option up for discussion. Today, when it comes to distributing your good work and deploying it as a tool in audience development, a social media strategy is an absolute necessity.
The challenge is perfecting that strategy as much as possible. Especially in a business where the ground seems to shift every other week. But one way to stay ahead of the curve is to pay attention to the digital publishers doing it right, the ones who unite great content, great timing, and great discipline, to produce a whole other source of traffic and revenue.
But don’t fall prey to just slapping some articles up on Facebook Instant or Apple News. This just won’t cut it. Publishing social media successfully requires dedicated resources, including staff. But it will be worth it!
Just ask NatGeo. MinOnline did, as you’ll see below.
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Social Publishing Secrets From NatGeo VP
It’s not every day you can get social publishing advice from one of the most successful digital publishers on the planet. MinOnline has an excellent interview with National Geographic Vice President of Social Media Rajiv Mody that will prove helpful for publishers trying to pull off a social media strategy.
“Be willing to take some smart risks and let go. We’ve given the keys to the account to some of the best photographers in the world and they literally post on their own. This approach has been critical to our success. We see social media as a place to reach new audiences no matter what the platform. We’re targeting people who are curious about the world and want to give them access to things that they can’t get anywhere else,” Mody tells Jameson Doris.
“It’s tough to single out one platform because they all have their own benefits. Facebook is a powerhouse, which drives traffic and is constantly evolving their platform with new features. Snapchat enables us to reach younger audiences and have some fun with our brand. Instagram is a great way for us to reach Millennials while celebrating photography and photojournalism. Twitter allows us to reach people in real time and try to teach them something new. Pinterest is a great destination for travel and other NatGeo content.”
InStyle’s New Digital Publishing Approach
InStyle is expanding its digital publishing efforts, MinOnline reports.
“InStyle.com plans to double the volume of original content it delivers beginning this month on what it’s calling The InStyle Collection. In addition to the fashion coverage that it’s known for, InStyle.com will launch lifestyle verticals focused on entertainment, home and weddings, and will continue to expand its umbrella to include other Time Inc. properties, including Time Inc.’s Mimi, a vertical focused on beauty, and The Outfit, an offshoot of StyleWatch,” Michele Shapiro writes.
“Additionally, two other sites that Time Inc. purchased last year, xoJane and xoVain, will increase the amount of syndicated content that currently runs on InStyle.com, and Jane Pratt, the editor of both sites who formerly reported to Time Inc. Style Network VO and GM Deborah Marquardt will now report to InStyleeditorial director Ariel Foxman. (Marquardt is no longer with Time Inc.) The two sites will continue to publish content on their own landing pages, and Mimi will maintain its own social channels.”
From Print to Digital, Bauer Xcel Seeing Big Picture
Another great interview from MinOnline, this one with Bauer Xcel President Christian Baesler, one of the most forward-thinking publishing executives in the industry.
“The mission for Bauer Xcel Media was to create a profitable presence online that would provide brand-appropriate content for the audiences who love our print magazines, as well as new audiences, in an updated, more flexible digital format. We have several unique strategies that have worked very well. We have found a huge audience online with an organic growth strategy, and have embraced social media channels as well as a new editorial approach that is more focused on real-time trending topics than our print teams. This has created incredible engagement with our readers. We have also embraced a programmatic approach to advertising, which allowed us to grow our revenues at the same rate we grew traffic,” Baesler tells Doris.
“After successfully launching Bauer Xcel Media in the US in 2014, the model was expanded internationally in 2015, to become Bauer’s global digital division. This way, we are able to leverage technology, content, business models and talent internationally, and are able to build global products at a much faster pace.”
How Big Is the Programmatic Ad Sales Slice of the Pie?
We knew programmatic ad sales were big, but this big? MinOnline has the report.
“According to an eMarketer report, ‘US Programmatic Advertising: Seven Things Buyers and Sellers Need to Know,’ automation adoption rates have risen from 7% to 50% for nearly two-thirds of respondents (62%) in just two short years. eMarketer collected this data from a survey conducted by AdRoll in January,” Caysey Welton writes.
“According to the survey, efficiency was amongst the driving forces for marketers to turn to automation. Beyond that, programmatic’s ability to target specific audiences and pair them with ideal inventory also appeals to marketers. So as programmatic continues to become more “premium,” marketers are more interested in shifting their investments into automation.”
What social publishing advice can you share? Let us know in the comments!
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Day One sales for The Flame in the Flood on Switch has beaten all other formats, says Curve
MCV Staff 13th October 2017 Consoles
Curve Digital released indie roguelike The Flame in the Flood on the Nintendo Switch yesterday, and the game has already "smashed" expectations, according to publishing director Simon Byron, beating Day One sales for all other platforms it’s been released on.
Byron also added on Twitter (see below) that the success of The Flame in the Flood has resulted in increased interest for its upcoming title Bomber Crew as well, which is now the publisher’s most wishlisted game prior to launch.
"It’s a real relief having our personal enthusiasm for the Switch being backed up with sales success," he told MCV. "It’s been incredibly frustrating only having anecdotal evidence about the buzz for Switch titles, so we’ve been genuinely desperate to get a game out there so we could get some hard data ourselves.
"There was a real buzz in the office this morning – [managing director] Jason [Perkins] was in before me, which is very rare indeed – and it was specifically due to the excitement of seeing figures. I had a number in my head which I would be very pleased with – and it was a third over that.
What a week: Flame in the Flood has absolutely smashed it on Switch and Bomber Crew is our most wishlisted game prior to launch ever.
— Simon Byron (@byronicman) October 13, 2017
"Indeed, it’s fair to say it’s had its best ever day on any console since we’ve been publishing it, beating any other format we have launched on. It’s done just under half of our first full month forecast in a day.
"There are always nerves around launching a new title – and particularly on a new format – but The Flame In The Flood is a perfect fit on Switch and we’re delighted it’s been received so well. Next up for us on Switch will be Serial Cleaner, with Human: Fall Flat following in December."
MCV spoke to developer The Molasses Flood earlier in the year about the creation of The Flame in the Flood and why it chose Kickstarter to help fund the game’s development. To see the game in action, check out the Switch launch trailer below:
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Tag: Totalplay
Amazon Prime Video Secures Distribution With Altice European Subsidiaries
Amazon (and Amazon Prime Video) may be available in the U.K., France, Germany and Italy via the Internet. Now, the No. 2 SVOD service behind Netflix has secured direct access deals with pay-TV operator Altice Europe.
The Dutch-based owner of New York-based Cablevision, inked a deal with Prime Video to make the latter’s content directly available via set-top boxes of SFR in France and Altice units in Portugal, Israel and the Dominican Republic, among others.
SFR will be the first of Altice operations and the first operator in France to have the Prime Video app within its LaBox SFR Fibre, SFR Box Plus and SFR Box 8 set-top boxes.
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Subs will have access to Amazon Originals “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Good Omens,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “The Grand Tour,” “The Boys,” “The Man in the High Castle,” “American Gods” and the highly-anticipated “Carnival Row,” an American neo-noir fantasy Web television series with Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne launching this fall.
SFR customers will also have access to local Originals like Jérôme Commandeur: Tout en douceur and Raphael Varane: Destin de Champion, and popular French and Hollywood movies.
A large selection of titles on Prime Video are available in Ultra High Definition (UHD) and HDR.
The deal furthers Altice’s strategy combining third-party over-the-top online video apps and services with its own content and TV functionality in an integrated experience. The launch will commence after the arrival of Amazon Alexa within SFR Box 8.
“We’re excited to collaborate with Amazon to deliver its highly-popular content, including Amazon Originals and Exclusives, directly to our consumers,”Alain Weill, Altice Europe CEO, Altice France Chairman and CEO, said in a statement. “We know our customers want to see their favorite shows and programming on their big screen at home, and our collaboration with streaming services like Amazon continues to make that happen.”
Indeed, earlier this month, Mexico’s Totalplay became the first SVOD service in Latin America to offer direct access to Prime Video.
Amazon is also bowing its first original series in Australia with “LOL: Last One Laughing,” starring Rebel Wilson.
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Senators Tell FTC To Put Brakes On Antitrust Cases Against Tech Companies
by Wendy Davis , Staff Writer @wendyndavis, November 15, 2012
With reports swirling that the Federal Trade Commission is readying an antitrust case against Google, some Republican senators say the agency should hold its fire.
"In the interest of providing more regulatory certainty for American consumers and job creators, we urge the Federal Trade Commission to act with humility and restrain itself," states the letter, sent today to the FTC. The letter was signed by Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas), Orrin Hatch (Utah), John Thune (S.D.), John Cornyn (Texas), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), John Boozman (Ark.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), and Marco Rubio (Fla.).
"We hope the commission considers the consequences of hampering legitimate business model innovations and market activities of companies under an aimless, expansive and possibly unauthorized use of the commission's powers," the lawmakers write.
Although the senators don't mention Google by name -- and, in fact, say they aren't taking a position on any matters under investigation -- the letter specifically expresses concerns about an antitrust action "against businesses in the rapidly evolving technology industry."
Bloomberg reported this week that the FTC is pressuring Google to enter into a consent decree to settle the probe of its business practices. The news service says the FTC's investigation focuses on several areas, including allegations that Google returns links to its own services higher in the search results than those of competitors.
Meanwhile, the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is urging the FTC to file suit against the search giant. "The fully developed public record that would result from a trial would ensure that effective remedies could be put in place," the group says in a letter sent today to the FTC.
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Wendy Davis is a Senior Writer at MediaPost. You can reach Wendy at wdavis@mediapost.com
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New York Look
by Phyllis Fine , Staff Writer, January 10, 2008
An admiring mention of a "full-skirted... dress printed with bloody deer." Emptyheaded quotes from designer Roberto Cavalli ("I am all about nature, about... things that are unspoiled! Money is spoiled!"). Pictures of hilariously hideous men's clothes, like the ICU-goes-to-the-Easter-parade look (green scrubs decorated with purple flowers).
All these elements indicate that the recently launched New York Look (a twice-yearly brand extension of New York magazine) is meant for a select readership: true or wannabe fashion insiders. If you already know, or are dying to learn, the name of Anna Wintour's college-going daughter (Bee Shaffer -- a fact actually referenced twice in NYL), this is the mag for you.
NYL 's focus is the New York, Milan and Paris fashion shows -- which it covers with obsessive depth, almost like a fan mag. Yet any fawning is filtered through the witty, sometimes edgy worldview of its flagship pub, New York, whose "The Approval Matrix," charts weekly entertainment/culture on a graphic scale of "highbrow" to "lowbrow," "despicable" to "brilliant."
So in NYL "Fashion Week By The Numbers" details each designer's show according to such factors as DJs, playlist and "paparazzi bait." "The Front Row" consists of four pages of photos of, yes, exactly who sat where at the fall New York Marc Jacobs show -- coverage that can be seen as either helpful (for social climbers?), or as bizarrely thorough social commentary.
The possible edginess of this feature is echoed in the mostly black-and-white shots by photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin that appear throughout the issue. Pellegrin provides some arresting, non-cliched images (like an excellent shot of Cavalli that brings the text's description of him "as the fashion world's Bob Evans" to life), but sometimes veer too much into the avant-garde. Photos of a model's bandaged foot juxtaposed with shots of hair fragments? Weird. And the out-of-focus cover shot will just confuse literal-minded fashionistas who want to know what the dress actually looks like.
They'll be happier with the rest of the pub, where clear graphics and text present the trends of the season perfectly well, along with personality pieces on Cavalli and Marc Jacobs, a tongue-in-cheek piece on Anna Wintour's affinity for tennis player Roger Federer, and a feature that categorizes the strengths of the hottest new London designers.
Unlike consumer fashion books. which aim to interpret runway items for readers, NYL has little regard for what's actually wearable. That's particularly true of the aforementioned men's fashions, one of which -- a combo of Little Lord Fauntleroy and my Uncle Moishe's Miami Beach wear -- just about scared me off runway looks for good. But for someone with a closer connection to the clothes life, NYL is an interesting addendum to the business journalism of Women's Wear Daily.
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Frequency: Twice yearly
Phyllis Fine is the editor of MediaPost's Marketing Daily and Marketing Insider. You can reach Phyllis at pfine@mediapost.com.
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ORENCIA 250 mg powder for concentrate for solution for infusion
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals limited contact details
Each vial contains 250 mg of abatacept.
Each mL contains 25 mg of abatacept, after reconstitution.
Abatacept is a fusion protein produced by recombinant DNA technology in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
Excipient with known effect
sodium: 0.375 mmol (8.625 mg) per vial
Powder for concentrate for solution for infusion.
The powder is a white to off-white whole or fragmented cake.
ORENCIA, in combination with methotrexate, is indicated for:
▪ the treatment of moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adult patients who responded inadequately to previous therapy with one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) including methotrexate (MTX) or a tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitor.
▪ the treatment of highly active and progressive disease in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis not previously treated with methotrexate.
A reduction in the progression of joint damage and improvement of physical function have been demonstrated during combination treatment with abatacept and methotrexate.
ORENCIA, alone or in combination with methotrexate (MTX), is indicated for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in adult patients when the response to previous DMARD therapy including MTX has been inadequate, and for whom additional systemic therapy for psoriatic skin lesions is not required.
Polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis
ORENCIA in combination with methotrexate is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe active polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) in paediatric patients 6 years of age and older who have had an inadequate response to previous DMARD therapy.
ORENCIA can be given as monotherapy in case of intolerance to methotrexate or when treatment with methotrexate is inappropriate.
Treatment should be initiated and supervised by specialist physicians experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis or pJIA.
If a response to abatacept is not present within 6 months of treatment, the continuation of the treatment should be reconsidered (see section 5.1).
To be administered as a 30-minute intravenous infusion at the dose specified in Table 1. Following the initial administration, ORENCIA should be given 2 and 4 weeks after the first infusion, then every 4 weeks thereafter.
Table 1: Dose of ORENCIAa
Body Weight of Patient
Number of Vialsb
< 60 kg
≥ 60 kg to ≤ 100 kg
> 100 kg
1,000 mg
a Approximating 10 mg/kg.
b Each vial provides 250 mg of abatacept for administration.
No dose adjustment is required when used in combination with other DMARDs, corticosteroids, salicylates, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), or analgesics.
The recommended dose of ORENCIA for patients 6 to 17 years of age with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis who weigh less than 75 kg is 10 mg/kg calculated based on the patient's body weight at each administration. Paediatric patients weighing 75 kg or more should be administered ORENCIA following the adult dosing regimen, not to exceed a maximum dose of 1,000 mg. ORENCIA should be administered as a 30-minute intravenous infusion. Following the initial administration, ORENCIA should be given at 2 and 4 weeks after the first infusion and every 4 weeks thereafter.
The safety and efficacy of intravenous ORENCIA in children below 6 years of age have not been studied and therefore, intravenous ORENCIA is not recommended for use in children under six years old.
ORENCIA solution for injection in pre-filled syringe for subcutaneous administration is available for paediatric patients 2 years of age and older for the treatment of pJIA (see Summary of Product Characteristics for ORENCIA solution for injection in pre-filled syringe).
Elderly patients
No dose adjustment is required (see section 4.4).
ORENCIA has not been studied in these patient populations. No dose recommendations can be made.
For intravenous use.
The entire, fully diluted ORENCIA solution should be administered over a period of 30 minutes and must be administered with an infusion set and a sterile, non-pyrogenic, low-protein-binding filter (pore size of 0.2 to 1.2 μm). For instructions on reconstitution and dilution of the medicinal product before administration, see section 6.6.
Severe and uncontrolled infections such as sepsis and opportunistic infections (see section 4.4).
Combination with TNF-inhibitors
There is limited experience with use of abatacept in combination with TNF-inhibitors (see section 5.1). In placebo-controlled clinical trials, in comparison with patients treated with TNF-inhibitors and placebo, patients who received combination TNF-inhibitors with abatacept experienced an increase in overall infections and serious infections (see section 4.5). Abatacept is not recommended for use in combination with TNF-inhibitors.
While transitioning from TNF-inhibitor therapy to ORENCIA therapy, patients should be monitored for signs of infection (see section 5.1, study VII).
Allergic reactions have been reported uncommonly with abatacept administration in clinical trials, where patients were not required to be pretreated to prevent allergic reactions (see section 4.8). Anaphylaxis or anaphylactoid reactions can occur after the first infusion and can be life-threatening. In postmarketing experience, a case of fatal anaphylaxis following the first infusion of ORENCIA has been reported. If any serious allergic or anaphylactic reaction occurs, intravenous or subcutaneous ORENCIA therapy should be discontinued immediately and appropriate therapy initiated, and the use of ORENCIA should be permanently discontinued.
Effects on the immune system
Medicinal products which affect the immune system, including ORENCIA, may affect host defences against infections and malignancies, and affect vaccination responses.
Co-administration of ORENCIA with biologic immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents could potentiate the effects of abatacept on the immune system (see section 4.5).
Serious infections, including sepsis and pneumonia, have been reported with abatacept (see section 4.8). Some of these infections have been fatal. Many of the serious infections have occurred in patients on concomitant immunosuppressive therapy which in addition to their underlying disease, could further predispose them to infections. Treatment with ORENCIA should not be initiated in patients with active infections until infections are controlled. Physicians should exercise caution when considering the use of ORENCIA in patients with a history of recurrent infections or underlying conditions which may predispose them to infections. Patients who develop a new infection while undergoing treatment with ORENCIA should be monitored closely. Administration of ORENCIA should be discontinued if a patient develops a serious infection.
No increase of tuberculosis was observed in the pivotal placebo-controlled studies; however, all ORENCIA patients were screened for tuberculosis. The safety of ORENCIA in individuals with latent tuberculosis is unknown. There have been reports of tuberculosis in patients receiving ORENCIA (see section 4.8). Patients should be screened for latent tuberculosis prior to initiating ORENCIA. The available medical guidelines should also be taken into account.
Anti-rheumatic therapies have been associated with hepatitis B reactivation. Therefore, screening for viral hepatitis should be performed in accordance with published guidelines before starting therapy with ORENCIA.
Treatment with immunosuppressive therapy, such as ORENCIA, may be associated with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). If neurological symptoms suggestive of PML occur during ORENCIA therapy, treatment with ORENCIA should be discontinued and appropriate diagnostic measures initiated.
In the placebo-controlled clinical trials, the frequencies of malignancies in abatacept- and placebo-treated patients were 1.2% and 0.9%, respectively (see section 4.8). Patients with known malignancies were not included in these clinical trials. In carcinogenicity studies in mice, an increase in lymphomas and mammary tumours were noted. The clinical significance of this observation is unknown (see section 5.3). The potential role of abatacept in the development of malignancies, including lymphoma, in humans is unknown. There have been reports of non-melanoma skin cancers in patients receiving ORENCIA (see section 4.8). Periodic skin examination is recommended for all patients, particularly those with risk factors for skin cancer.
Patients treated with ORENCIA may receive concurrent vaccinations, except for live vaccines. Live vaccines should not be given concurrently with abatacept or within 3 months of its discontinuation. Medicinal products that affect the immune system, including abatacept, may blunt the effectiveness of some immunisations.
It is recommended that patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis be brought up to date with all immunizations in agreement with current immunization guidelines prior to initiating ORENCIA therapy (see section 4.5).
A total of 404 patients 65 years of age and older, including 67 patients 75 years and older, received abatacept in placebo-controlled clinical trials. Similar efficacy was observed in these patients and in younger patients. The frequencies of serious infection and malignancy relative to placebo among abatacept-treated patients over age 65 were higher than among those under age 65. Because there is a higher incidence of infections and malignancies in the elderly in general, caution should be used when treating the elderly (see section 4.8).
Autoimmune processes
There is a theoretical concern that treatment with abatacept might increase the risk for autoimmune processes in adults and children, for example deterioration of multiple sclerosis. In the placebo-controlled clinical trials, abatacept treatment did not lead to increased autoantibody formation, such as antinuclear and anti-dsDNA antibodies, relative to placebo treatment (see sections 4.8 and 5.3).
Parenteral medicinal products containing maltose can interfere with the readings of blood glucose monitors that use test strips with glucose dehydrogenase pyrroloquinolinequinone (GDH-PQQ). The GDH-PQQ based glucose monitoring systems may react with the maltose present in ORENCIA, resulting in falsely elevated blood glucose readings on the day of infusion. When receiving ORENCIA, patients that require blood glucose monitoring should be advised to consider methods that do not react with maltose, such as those based on glucose dehydrogenase nicotine adenine dinucleotide (GDH-NAD), glucose oxidase, or glucose hexokinase test methods.
Patients on controlled sodium diet
This medicinal product contains 34.5 mg sodium per maximum dose of 4 vials (8.625 mg sodium per vial), equivalent to 1.7% of the WHO recommended maximum daily intake of 2 g sodium for an adult.
There is limited experience with the use of abatacept in combination with TNF-inhibitors (see section 5.1). While TNF-inhibitors did not influence abatacept clearance, in placebo-controlled clinical trials, patients receiving concomitant treatment with abatacept and TNF-inhibitors experienced more infections and serious infections than patients treated with only TNF-inhibitors. Therefore, concurrent therapy with abatacept and a TNF-inhibitor is not recommended.
Combination with other medicinal products
Population pharmacokinetic analyses did not detect any effect of methotrexate, NSAIDs, and corticosteroids on abatacept clearance (see section 5.2).
No major safety issues were identified with use of abatacept in combination with sulfasalazine, hydroxychloroquine, or leflunomide.
Combination with other medicinal products that affect the immune system and with vaccinations
Co-administration of abatacept with biologic immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents could potentiate the effects of abatacept on the immune system. There is insufficient evidence to assess the safety and efficacy of abatacept in combination with anakinra or rituximab (see section 4.4).
Live vaccines should not be given concurrently with abatacept or within 3 months of its discontinuation. No data are available on the secondary transmission of infection from persons receiving live vaccines to patients receiving abatacept. Medicinal products that affect the immune system, including abatacept, may blunt the effectiveness of some immunisations (see sections 4.4 and 4.6).
Exploratory studies to assess the effect of abatacept on the antibody response to vaccination in healthy subjects as well as the antibody response to influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in rheumatoid arthritis patients suggested that abatacept may blunt the effectiveness of the immune response, but did not significantly inhibit the ability to develop a clinically significant or positive immune response.
Abatacept was evaluated in an open-label study in rheumatoid arthritis patients administered the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine. After pneumococcal vaccination, 62 of 112 abatacept-treated patients were able to mount an adequate immune response of at least a 2-fold increase in antibody titers to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
Abatacept was also evaluated in an open-label study in rheumatoid arthritis patients administered the seasonal influenza trivalent virus vaccine. After influenza vaccination, 73 of 119 abatacept-treated patients without protective antibody levels at baseline were able to mount an adequate immune response of at least a 4-fold increase in antibody titers to trivalent influenza vaccine.
Pregnancy and women of childbearing potential
There are no adequate data from use of abatacept in pregnant women. In pre-clinical embryo-fetal development studies no undesirable effects were observed at doses up to 29-fold a human 10 mg/kg dose based on AUC. In a pre- and postnatal development study in rats, limited changes in immune function were observed at 11-fold higher than a human 10 mg/kg dose based on AUC (see section 5.3).
ORENCIA should not be used during pregnancy unless the clinical condition of the woman requires treatment with abatacept. Women of childbearing potential have to use effective contraception during treatment and up to 14 weeks after the last dose of abatacept.
Abatacept may cross the placenta into the serum of infants born to women treated with abatacept during pregnancy. Consequently, these infants may be at increased risk of infection. The safety of administering live vaccines to infants exposed to abatacept in utero is unknown. Administration of live vaccines to infants exposed to abatacept in utero is not recommended for 14 weeks following the mother's last exposure to abatacept during pregnancy.
Abatacept has been shown to be present in rat milk.
It is unknown whether abatacept is excreted in human milk.
A risk to the newborns/infants cannot be excluded.
Breast-feeding should be discontinued during treatment with ORENCIA and for up to 14 weeks after the last dose of abatacept treatment.
Formal studies of the potential effect of abatacept on human fertility have not been conducted.
In rats, abatacept had no undesirable effects on male or female fertility (see section 5.3).
Based on its mechanism of action, abatacept is expected to have no or negligible influence on the ability to drive and use machines. However, dizziness and reduced visual acuity have been reported as common and uncommon adverse reactions respectively from patients treated with ORENCIA, therefore if a patient experiences such symptoms, driving and use of machinery should be avoided.
Summary of the safety profile in rheumatoid arthritis
Abatacept has been studied in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis in placebo-controlled clinical trials (2,653 patients with abatacept, 1,485 with placebo).
In placebo-controlled clinical trials with abatacept, adverse reactions (ARs) were reported in 49.4% of abatacept-treated patients and 45.8% of placebo-treated patients. The most frequently reported adverse reactions (≥ 5%) among abatacept-treated patients were headache, nausea, and upper respiratory tract infections (including sinusitis). The proportion of patients who discontinued treatment due to ARs was 3.0% for abatacept-treated patients and 2.0% for placebo-treated patients.
Summary of the safety profile in psoriatic arthritis
Abatacept has been studied in patients with active psoriatic arthritis in two placebo-controlled clinical trials (341 patients with abatacept, 253 patients with placebo) (see section 5.1). During the 24-week placebo-controlled period in the larger study PsA-II, the proportion of patients with adverse reactions was similar in the abatacept and placebo treatment groups (15.5% and 11.4%, respectively). There were no adverse reactions that occurred at ≥ 2% in either treatment group during the 24-week placebo-controlled period. The overall safety profile was comparable between studies PsA-I and PsA-II and consistent with the safety profile in rheumatoid arthritis (Table 2).
Listed in Table 2 are adverse reactions observed in clinical trials and post-marketing experience presented by system organ class and frequency, using the following categories: very common (≥ 1/10); common (≥ 1/100 to < 1/10); uncommon (≥ 1/1,000 to < 1/100); rare (≥ 1/10,000 to < 1/1,000); very rare (< 1/10,000). Within each frequency grouping, undesirable effects are presented in order of decreasing seriousness.
Table 2: Adverse reactions
Infections and infestations
Upper respiratory tract infection (including tracheitis, nasopharyngitis, and sinusitis)
Lower respiratory tract infection (including bronchitis), urinary tract infection, herpes infections (including herpes simplex, oral herpes, and herpes zoster), pneumonia, influenza
Tooth infection, onychomycosis, sepsis, muskuloskeletal infections, skin abscess, pyelonephritis, rhinitis, ear infection
Tuberculosis, bacteraemia, gastrointestinal infection, pelvic inflammatory disease
Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl. cysts and polyps)
Basal cell carcinoma, skin papilloma
Lymphoma, lung neoplasm malignant, squamous cell carcinoma
Thrombocytopenia, leukopenia
Depression, anxiety, sleep disorder (including insomnia)
Headache, dizziness
Migraine, paraesthesia
Conjunctivitis, dry eye, visual acuity reduced
Palpitations, tachycardia, bradycardia
Hypertension, blood pressure increased
Hypotension, hot flush, flushing, vasculitis, blood pressure decreased
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbated, bronchospasm, wheezing, dyspnea, throat tightness
Abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea, dyspepsia, mouth ulceration, aphthous stomatitis, vomiting
Liver function test abnormal (including transaminases increased)
Rash (including dermatitis)
Increased tendency to bruise, dry skin, alopecia, pruritus, urticaria, psoriasis, acne, erythema, hyperhidrosis
Arthralgia, pain in extremity
Amenorrhea, menorrhagia
Fatigue, asthenia
Influenza like illness, weight increased
In the placebo-controlled clinical trials with abatacept, infections at least possibly related to treatment were reported in 22.7% of abatacept-treated patients and 20.5% of placebo-treated patients.
Serious infections at least possibly related to treatment were reported in 1.5% of abatacept-treated patients and 1.1% of placebo-treated patients. The type of serious infections was similar between the abatacept and placebo treatment groups (see section 4.4).
The incidence rates (95% CI) for serious infections was 3.0 (2.3, 3.8) per 100 patient-years for abatacept-treated patients and 2.3 (1.5, 3.3) per 100 patient-years for placebo-treated patients in the double-blind studies.
In the cumulative period in clinical trials in 7,044 patients treated with abatacept during 20,510 patient-years, the incidence rate of serious infections was 2.4 per 100 patient-years, and the annualised incidence rate remained stable.
In placebo-controlled clinical trials, malignancies were reported in 1.2% (31/2,653) of abatacept-treated patients and in 0.9% (14/1,485) of placebo-treated patients. The incidence rates for malignancies was 1.3 (0.9, 1.9) per 100 patient-years for abatacept-treated patients and 1.1 (0.6, 1.9) per 100 patient-years for placebo-treated patients.
In the cumulative period 7,044 patients treated with abatacept during 21,011 patient-years (of which over 1,000 were treated with abatacept for over 5 years), the incidence rate of malignancy was 1.2 (1.1, 1.4) per 100 patient-years, and the annualized incidence rates remained stable.
The most frequently reported malignancy in the placebo-controlled clinical trials was non-melanoma skin cancer; 0.6 (0.3, 1.0) per 100 patient-years for abatacept-treated patients and 0.4 (0.1, 0.9) per 100 patient-years for placebo-treated patients and 0.5 (0.4, 0.6) per 100 patient-years in the cumulative period.
The most frequently reported organ cancer in the placebo-controlled clinical trials was lung cancer 0.17 (0.05, 0.43) per 100 patient-years for abatacept-treated patients, 0 for placebo-treated patients and 0.12 (0.08, 0.17) per 100 patient-years in the cumulative period. The most common hematologic malignancy was lymphoma 0.04 (0, 0.24) per 100 patient-years for abatacept-treated patients, 0 for placebo-treated patients and 0.06 (0.03, 0.1) per 100 patient-years in the cumulative period.
Infusion-related reactions
Acute infusion-related events (adverse reactions occurring within 1 hour of the start of the infusion) in seven pooled intravenous studies (for studies II, III, IV and V see section 5.1) were more common in the abatacept-treated patients than the placebo-treated patients (5.2% for abatacept, 3.7% for placebo). The most frequently reported event with abatacept (1-2%) was dizziness.
Acute infusion-related events that were reported in > 0.1% and ≤ 1% of patients treated with abatacept included cardiopulmonary symptoms such as hypotension, decreased blood pressure, tachycardia, bronchospasm, and dyspnea; other symptoms included myalgia, nausea, erythema, flushing, urticaria, hypersensitivity, pruritus, throat tightness, chest discomfort, chills, infusion site extravasation, infusion site pain, infusion site swelling, infusion related reaction, and rash. Most of these reactions were mild to moderate.
The occurrence of anaphylaxis remained rare during the double blind and the cumulative period. Hypersensitivity was reported uncommonly. Other reactions potentially associated with hypersensitivity to the medicinal product, such as hypotension, urticaria, and dyspnea, that occurred within 24 hours of ORENCIA infusion, were uncommon.
Discontinuation due to an acute infusion-related reaction occurred in 0.3% of patients receiving abatacept and in 0.1% of placebo-treated patients.
Adverse reactions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
In study IV, there were 37 patients with COPD treated with intravenous abatacept and 17 treated with placebo. The COPD patients treated with abatacept developed adverse reactions more frequently than those treated with placebo (51.4% vs. 47.1%, respectively). Respiratory disorders occurred more frequently in abatacept-treated patients than in placebo-treated patients (10.8% vs. 5.9%, respectively); these included COPD exacerbation, and dyspnea. A greater percentage of abatacept- than placebo-treated patients with COPD developed a serious adverse reaction (5.4% vs. 0%), including COPD exacerbation (1 of 37 patients [2.7%]) and bronchitis (1 of 37 patients [2.7%]).
Abatacept therapy did not lead to increased formation of autoantibodies, i.e., antinuclear and anti-dsDNA antibodies, compared with placebo.
The incidence rate of autoimmune disorders in abatacept-treated patients during the double-blind period was 8.8 (7.6, 10.1) per 100 person-years of exposure and for placebo-treated patients was 9.6 (7.9, 11.5) per 100 person-years of exposure. The incidence rate in abatacept-treated patients was 3.8 per 100 person-years in the cumulative period. The most frequently reported autoimmune-related disorders other than the indication being studied during the cumulative period were psoriasis, rheumatoid nodule, and Sjogren's syndrome.
Antibodies directed against the abatacept molecule were assessed by ELISA assays in 3,985 rheumatoid arthritis patients treated for up to 8 years with abatacept. One hundred and eighty-seven of 3,877 (4.8%) patients developed anti-abatacept antibodies while on treatment. In patients assessed for anti-abatacept antibodies after discontinuation of abatacept (> 42 days after last dose), 103 of 1,888 (5.5%) were seropositive.
Samples with confirmed binding activity to CTLA-4 were assessed for the presence of neutralizing antibodies. Twenty-two of 48 evaluable patients showed significant neutralizing activity. The potential clinical relevance of neutralizing antibody formation is not known.
Overall, there was no apparent correlation of antibody development to clinical response or adverse events. However, the number of patients that developed antibodies was too limited to make a definitive assessment. Because immunogenicity analyses are product-specific, comparison of antibody rates with those from other products is not appropriate.
Safety information related to the pharmacological class
Abatacept is the first selective co-stimulation modulator. Information on the relative safety in a clinical trial versus infliximab is summarised in section 5.1.
Abatacept has been studied in patients with pJIA in two clinical trials (pJIA SC study and pJIA IV study). The pJIA SC study included 46 patients in the 2 to 5 year age cohort and 173 patients in the 6 to 17 year age cohort. The pJIA IV study included 190 patients in the 6 to 17 year age cohort. During the first 4-month open-label period, the overall safety profile in these 409 pJIA patients was similar to that observed in the RA population with the following exceptions in the pJIA patients:
▪ Common adverse reactions: pyrexia
▪ Uncommon adverse reactions: haematuria, otitis (media and externa).
Infections were the most commonly reported adverse events in patients with pJIA. The types of infections were consistent with those commonly seen in outpatient paediatric populations. During the first 4-month treatment period of intravenous and subcutaneous abatacept in 409 patients with pJIA, the most common adverse reactions were nasopharyngitis (3.7% patients) and upper respiratory tract infection (2.9% patients). Two serious infections (varicella and sepsis) were reported during the initial 4 months of treatment with abatacept.
Of the 190 patients with pJIA treated with intravenous ORENCIA, one (0.5%) patient discontinued due to non-consecutive infusion reactions, consisting of bronchospasm and urticaria. During Periods A, B, and C, acute infusion-related reactions occurred at a frequency of 4%, 2%, and 4%, respectively, and were consistent with the types of reactions reported in adults.
Antibodies directed against the entire abatacept molecule or to the CTLA-4 portion of abatacept were assessed by ELISA assays in patients with pJIA following repeated treatment with intravenous ORENCIA. The rate of seropositivity while patients were receiving abatacept therapy was 0.5% (1/189) during Period A; 13.0% (7/54) during Period B; and 12.8% (19/148) during Period C. For patients in Period B who were randomised to placebo (therefore withdrawn from therapy for up to 6 months) the rate of seropositivity was 40.7% (22/54). Anti-abatacept antibodies were generally transient and of low titer. The absence of concomitant methotrexate (MTX) did not appear to be associated with a higher rate of seropositivity in Period B placebo recipients. The presence of antibodies was not associated with adverse reactions or infusion reactions, or with changes in efficacy or serum abatacept concentrations. Of the 54 patients withdrawn from ORENCIA during the double-blind period for up to 6 months, none had an infusion reaction upon re-initiation of ORENCIA.
Long-term extension period
During the extension period of the pJIA studies (20 months in the pJIA SC study and 5 years in the pJIA IV study), the safety profile in the pJIA patients aged 6 to 17 years was comparable to that seen in adult patients. One patient was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis while in the extension period of the pJIA IV study. One serious adverse reaction of infection (limb abscess) was reported in the 2 to 5 year age cohort during the 20-month extension period of the pJIA SC study.
Long-term safety data in 2 to 5 year age cohort with pJIA was limited, but the existing evidence did not reveal any new safety concern in this younger paediatric population. During the 24-month cumulative period of the pJIA SC study (4-month short term period plus 20-month extension period), a higher frequency of infections was reported in the 2 to 5 year age cohort (87.0%) compared to that reported in the 6 to 17 year age cohort (68.2%). This was mostly due to non-serious upper respiratory tract infections in the 2 to 5 year age cohort.
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Doses up to 50 mg/kg have been administered without apparent toxic effect. In case of overdose, it is recommended that the patient be monitored for any signs or symptoms of adverse reactions and appropriate symptomatic treatment instituted.
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Immunosuppressants, selective immunosuppressants, ATC code: L04AA24
Abatacept is a fusion protein that consists of the extracellular domain of human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) linked to a modified Fc portion of human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1). Abatacept is produced by recombinant DNA technology in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
Abatacept selectively modulates a key costimulatory signal required for full activation of T lymphocytes expressing CD28. Full activation of T lymphocytes requires two signals provided by antigen presenting cells: recognition of a specific antigen by a T cell receptor (signal 1) and a second, costimulatory signal. A major costimulatory pathway involves the binding of CD80 and CD86 molecules on the surface of antigen presenting cells to the CD28 receptor on T lymphocytes (signal 2). Abatacept selectively inhibits this costimulatory pathway by specifically binding to CD80 and CD86. Studies indicate that naive T lymphocyte responses are more affected by abatacept than memory T lymphocyte responses.
Studies in vitro and in animal models demonstrate that abatacept modulates T lymphocyte-dependent antibody responses and inflammation. In vitro, abatacept attenuates human T lymphocyte activation as measured by decreased proliferation and cytokine production. Abatacept decreases antigen specific TNFα, interferon-γ, and interleukin-2 production by T lymphocytes.
Dose-dependent reductions were observed with abatacept in serum levels of soluble interleukin-2 receptor, a marker of T lymphocyte activation; serum interleukin-6, a product of activated synovial macrophages and fibroblast-like synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatoid factor, an autoantibody produced by plasma cells; and C-reactive protein, an acute phase reactant of inflammation. In addition, serum levels of matrix metalloproteinase-3, which produces cartilage destruction and tissue remodelling, were decreased. Reductions in serum TNFα were also observed.
Clinical efficacy and safety in adult rheumatoid arthritis
The efficacy and safety of intravenous abatacept were assessed in randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials in adult patients with active rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed according to American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria. Studies I, II, III, V, and VI required patients to have at least 12 tender and 10 swollen joints at randomisation. Study IV did not require any specific number of tender or swollen joints.
In studies I, II, and V the efficacy and safety of abatacept compared to placebo were assessed in patients with an inadequate response to methotrexate and who continued on their stable dose of methotrexate. In addition, study V investigated the safety and efficacy of abatacept or infliximab relative to placebo. In study III the efficacy and safety of abatacept were assessed in patients with an inadequate response to a TNF-inhibitor, with the TNF-inhibitor discontinued prior to randomisation; other DMARDs were permitted. Study IV primarily assessed safety in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis requiring additional intervention in spite of current therapy with non-biological and/or biological DMARDs; all DMARDs used at enrollment were continued. In study VI, the efficacy and safety of abatacept were assessed in methotrexate-naive, Rheumatoid Factor (RF) and/or anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide 2 (Anti-CCP2)-positive patients with early, erosive rheumatoid arthritis (≤ 2 years disease duration) who were randomised to receive abatacept plus methotrexate or methotrexate plus placebo. Study SC-II investigated the relative efficacy and safety of abatacept and adalimumab, both given subcutaneously without an intravenous loading dose and with background MTX, in patients with moderate to severely active RA and an inadequate response to previous MTX therapy. In study SC-III, abatacept subcutaneous was evaluated in combination with methotrexate (MTX), or as abatacept monotherapy, and compared to MTX monotherapy in induction of remission following 12 months of treatment, and the possible maintenance of drug-free remission after complete drug withdrawal, in adult MTX-naive patients with highly active early, rheumatoid arthritis (mean DAS28-CRP of 5.4; mean symptom duration less than 6.7 months) with poor prognostic factors for rapidly progressive disease (e.g., anti-citrullinated protein antibodies [ACPA+], as measured by anti-CCP2 assay, and/or RF+, baseline joint erosions).
Study I patients were randomised to receive abatacept 2 or 10 mg/kg or placebo for 12 months. Study II, III, IV, and VI patients were randomised to receive a fixed dose approximating 10 mg/kg of abatacept or placebo for 12 (studies II, IV, and VI) or 6 months (study III). The dose of abatacept was 500 mg for patients weighing less than 60 kg, 750 mg for patients weighing 60 to 100 kg, and 1,000 mg for patients weighing greater than 100 kg. Study V patients were randomised to receive this same fixed dose of abatacept or 3 mg/kg infliximab or placebo for 6 months. Study V continued for an additional 6 months with the abatacept and infliximab groups only.
Studies I, II, III, IV, V, VI, SC-II, and SC-III evaluated 339, 638, 389, 1441, 431, 509, 646, and 351 adult patients, respectively.
Clinical response
ACR response
The percent of abatacept-treated patients achieving ACR 20, 50, and 70 responses in study II (patients with inadequate response to methotrexate), study III (patients with inadequate response to TNF-inhibitor), and study VI (methotrexate-naive patients) are shown in Table 3.
In abatacept-treated patients in studies II and III, statistically significant improvement in the ACR 20 response versus placebo was observed after administration of the first dose (day 15), and this improvement remained significant for the duration of the studies. In study VI, statistically significant improvement in the ACR 20 response in abatacept plus methotrexate-treated patients versus methotrexate plus placebo-treated patients was observed at 29 days, and was maintained through the duration of the study. In study II, 43% of the patients who had not achieved an ACR 20 response at 6 months developed an ACR 20 response at 12 months.
Table 3: Clinical responses in controlled trials
MTX-Naive
Inadequate response to MTX
Inadequate response to TNF Inhibitor
Study VI
Study II
Study III
Abatacepta +MTX
Placebo +MTX
Abatacepta +DMARDsb
Placebo +DMARDsb
ACR 20
18%**
64%††
62%***
75%†
76%‡
6%††
Major Clinical Responsec
DAS28-CRP Remissione
* p < 0.05, abatacept vs. placebo.
** p < 0.01, abatacept vs. placebo.
*** p < 0.001, abatacept vs. placebo.
† p < 0.01, abatacept plus MTX vs. MTX plus placebo
‡ p < 0.001, abatacept plus MTX vs. MTX plus placebo
†† p < 0.05, abatacept plus MTX vs. MTX plus placebo
a Fixed dose approximating 10 mg/kg (see section 4.2).
b Concurrent DMARDs included one or more of the following: methotrexate, chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, azathioprine, gold, and anakinra.
c Major clinical response is defined as achieving an ACR 70 response for a continuous 6-month period.
d After 6 months, patients were given the opportunity to enter an open-label study.
e DAS28-CRP Remission is defined as a DAS28-CRP score < 2.6
In the open-label extension of studies I, II, III, and VI durable and sustained ACR 20, 50, and 70 responses have been observed through 7 years, 5 years, 5 years, and 2 years, respectively, of abatacept treatment. In study I, ACR responses were assessed at 7 years in 43 patients with 72% ACR 20 responses, 58% ACR 50 responses, and 44% ACR 70 responses. In study II, ACR responses were assessed at 5 years in 270 patients with 84% ACR 20 responses, 61% ACR 50 responses, and 40% ACR 70 responses. In study III, ACR responses were assessed at 5 years in 91 patients with 74% ACR 20 responses, 51% ACR 50 responses, and 23% ACR 70 responses. In study VI, ACR responses were assessed at 2 years in 232 patients with 85% ACR 20 responses, 74% ACR 50 responses, and 54% ACR 70 responses.
Greater improvements were seen with abatacept than with placebo in other measures of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity not included in the ACR response criteria, such as morning stiffness.
DAS28 response
Disease activity was also assessed using the Disease Activity Score 28. There was a significant improvement of DAS in studies II, III, V, and VI as compared to placebo or comparator.
In study VI, which only included adults, a significantly higher proportion of patients in the abatacept plus methotrexate group (41%) achieved DAS28 (CRP)-defined remission (score < 2.6) versus the methotrexate plus placebo group (23%) at year 1. The response at year 1 in the abatacept group was maintained through year 2.
In the substudy of study VI, patients who had achieved remission at 2 years (DAS 28 ESR < 2.6) and after at least 1 year of treatment with abatacept in study VI were eligible to enter a substudy. In the substudy 108 subjects were randomised 1:1 in double blinded fashion to receive abatacept at doses approximating 10 mg/kg (ABA 10) or 5 mg/kg (ABA 5). After 1 year of treatment, the maintenance of remission was assessed by the relapse of the disease. The time to and proportion of patients with the relapse of the disease observed between the two groups were similar.
Study V: abatacept or infliximab versus placebo
A randomised, double-blind study was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of abatacept or infliximab versus placebo in patients with an inadequate response to methotrexate (study V). The primary outcome was the mean change in disease activity in abatacept-treated patients compared to placebo-treated patients at 6 months with a subsequent double-blind assessment of safety and efficacy of abatacept and infliximab at 12 months. Greater improvement (p < 0.001) in DAS28 was observed with abatacept and with infliximab compared to placebo at six months in the placebo-controlled portion of the trial; the results between the abatacept and infliximab groups were similar. The ACR responses in study V were consistent with the DAS28 score. Further improvement was observed at 12 months with abatacept. At 6 months, the incidence of AE of infections were 48.1% (75), 52.1% (86), and 51.8% (57) and the incidence of serious AE of infections were 1.3% (2), 4.2% (7), and 2.7% (3) for abatacept, infliximab and placebo groups, respectively. At 12 months, the incidence of AE of infections were 59.6% (93), 68.5% (113), and the incidence of serious AE of infections were 1.9% (3) and 8.5% (14) for abatacept and infliximab groups, respectively. The open label period of the study provided an assessment of the ability of abatacept to maintain efficacy for subjects originally randomised to abatacept and the efficacy response of those subjects who were switched to abatacept following treatment with infliximab. The reduction from baseline in mean DAS28 score at day 365 (-3.06) was maintained through day 729 (-3.34) in those patients who continued with abatacept. In those patients who initially received infliximab and then switched to abatacept, the reduction in the mean DAS28 score from baseline was 3.29 at day 729 and 2.48 at day 365.
Study SC-II: abatacept versus adalimumab
A randomised, single(investigator)-blinded, non-inferiority study was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of weekly subcutaneous (SC) abatacept without an abatacept intravenous (IV) loading dose versus every-other-weekly subcutaneous adalimumab, both with background MTX, in patients with an inadequate response to methotrexate (study SC-II). The primary endpoint showed non-inferiority (predefined margin of 12%) of ACR 20 response after 12 months of treatment, 64.8% (206/318) for the abatacept SC group and 63.4% (208/328) for the adalimumab SC group; treatment difference was 1.8% [95% confidence interval (CI): -5.6, 9.2], with comparable responses throughout the 24-month period. The respective values for ACR 20 at 24 months were 59.7% (190/318) for the abatacept SC group and 60.1% (197/328) for the adalimumab SC group. The respective values for ACR 50 and ACR 70 at 12 months and 24 months were consistent and similar for abatacept and adalimumab. The adjusted mean changes (standard error; SE) from baseline in DAS28-CRP were -2.35 (SE 0.08) [95% CI: -2.51, -2.19] and -2.33 (SE 0.08) [95% CI: -2.50, -2.17] in the SC abatacept group and the adalimumab group, respectively, at 24 months, with similar changes over time. At 24 months, 50.6% (127/251) [95% CI: 44.4, 56.8] of patients in abatacept and 53.3% (130/244) [95% CI: 47.0, 59.5] of patients in adalimumab groups achieved DAS 28 < 2.6. Improvement from baseline as measured by HAQ-DI at 24 months and over time was also similar between abatacept SC and adalimumab SC.
Safety and structural damage assessments were conducted at one and two years. The overall safety profile with respect to adverse reactions was similar between the two groups over the 24-month period. After 24 months, adverse reactions were reported in 41.5% (132/318) and 50% (164/328) of abatacept and adalimumab-treated patients. Serious adverse reactions were reported in 3.5% (11/318) and 6.1% (20/328) of the respective group. At 24 months, 20.8 % (66/318) of patients on abatacept and 25.3 % (83/328) on adalimumab had discontinued.
In SC-II, serious infections were reported in 3.8 % (12/318) of patients treated with abatacept SC weekly, none of which led to discontinuation and in 5.8 % (19/328) of patients treated with adalimumab SC every-other-week, leading to 9 discontinuations in the 24-month period.
The frequency of local injection site reactions was 3.8% (12/318) and 9.1% (30/328) at 12 months (p=0.006) and 4.1% (13/318) and 10.4% (34/328) at 24 months for abatacept SC and adalimumab SC, respectively. Over the 2 year study period, 3.8 % (12/318) and 1.5 % (5/328) patients treated with abatacept SC and adalimumab SC respectively reported autoimmune disorders mild to moderate in severity (e.g., psoriasis, Raynaud's phenomenon, erythema nodosum).
Study SC-III: Induction of remission in methotrexate-naive RA patients
A randomised and double-blinded study evaluated abatacept SC in combination with methotrexate (abatacept + MTX), abatacept SC monotherapy, or methotrexate monotherapy (MTX group) in induction of remission following 12 months of treatment, and maintenance of drug-free remission after complete drug withdrawal in MTX-naive adult patients with highly active early rheumatoid arthritis with poor prognostic factors. Complete drug withdrawal led to loss of remission (return to disease activity) in all three treatment arms (abatacept with methotrexate, abatacept or methotrexate alone) in a majority of patients (Table 4).
Table 4: Remission rates at end of drug treatment and drug withdrawal phases in study SC-III
Number of patients
Abatacept SC+ MTX
Abatacept SC
Proportion of randomised patients with induction of remission after 12 months of treatment
DAS28-Remissiona
Odds Ratio (95% CI) vs. MTX
P value
2.01 (1.18, 3.43)
SDAI Clinical Remissionb
Estimate of Difference (95% CI) vs. MTX
17.02 (4.30, 29.73)
4.31 (-7.98, 16.61)
Boolean Clinical Remission
Proportion of randomised patients in remission at 12 months and at 18 months
(6 months of complete drug withdrawal)
DAS28-Remission a
a DAS28-defined remission (DAS28-CRP <2.6)
b SDAI criterion (SDAI ≤ 3.3)
In SC-III the safety profiles of the three treatment groups (abatacept + MTX, abatacept monotherapy, MTX group) were overall similar. During the 12-month treatment period, adverse reactions were reported in 44.5% (53/119), 41.4% (48/116), and 44.0% (51/116) and serious adverse reactions were reported in 2.5% (3/119), 2.6% (3/116) and 0.9% (1/116) of patients treated in the three treatment groups, respectively. Serious infections were reported in 0.8% (1/119), 3.4% (4/116) and 0% (0/116) patients.
Radiographic response
Structural joint damage was assessed radiographically over a two-year period in studies II, and VI. The results were measured using the Genant-modified total Sharp score (TSS) and its components, the erosion score and joint space narrowing (JSN) score.
In study II, the baseline median TSS was 31.7 in abatacept-treated patients and 33.4 in placebo-treated patients. Abatacept/methotrexate reduced the rate of progression of structural damage compared to placebo/methotrexate after 12 months of treatment as shown in Table 5. The rate of progression of structural damage in year 2 was significantly lower than that in year 1 for patients randomised to abatacept (p < 0.0001). Subjects entering the long term extension after 1 year of double blind treatment all received abatacept treatment and radiographic progression was investigated through year 5. Data were analysed in an as-observed analysis using mean change in total score from the previous annual visit. The mean change was, 0.41 and 0.74 from year 1 to year 2 (n=290, 130), 0.37 and 0.68 from year 2 to year 3 (n=293, 130), 0.34 and 0.43 from year 3 to year 4 (n=290, 128) and the change was 0.26 and 0.29 (n=233, 114) from year 4 to year 5 for patients originally randomised to abatacept plus MTX and placebo plus MTX respectively.
Table 5: Mean radiographic changes over 12 months in study II
Abatacept/MTX
Placebo/MTX
P-valuea
Total Sharp score
Erosion score
JSN score
a Based on non-parametric analysis.
In study VI, the mean change in TSS at 12 months was significantly lower in patients treated with abatacept plus methotrexate compared to those treated with methotrexate plus placebo. At 12 months 61% (148/242) of the patients treated with abatacept plus methotrexate and 53% (128/242) of the patients treated with methotrexate plus placebo had no progression (TSS ≤ 0). The progression of structural damage was lower in patients receiving continuous abatacept plus methotrexate treatment (for 24 months) compared to patients who initially received methotrexate plus placebo (for 12 months) and were switched to abatacept plus methotrexate for the next 12 months. Among the patients who entered the open-label 12 month period, 59% (125/213) of patients receiving continuous abatacept plus methotrexate treatment and 48% (92/192) of patients who initially received methotrexate and switched to combination with abatacept had no progression.
In study SC-III, structural joint damage was assessed by MRI. The abatacept + MTX group had less progression in structural damage compared with MTX group as reflected by mean treatment difference of the abatacept + MTX group versus MTX group (Table 6).
Table 6: Structural and inflammatory MRI assessment in study SC-III
Mean Treatment Difference between Abatacept SC+MTX vs. MTX at 12 Months (95% CI)*
MRI Erosion Score
-1.22 (-2.20, -0.25)
MRI Osteitis/Bone Oedema Score
MRI Synovitis Score
* n = 119 for Abatacept SC + MTX; n = 116 for MTX
Physical function response
Improvement in physical function was measured by the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) in studies II, III, IV, V, and VI and the modified HAQ-DI in study I. The results from studies II, III, and VI are shown in Table 7.
Table 7: Improvement in physical function in controlled trials
Methotrexate-Naive
Inadequate response to Methotrexate
HAQc Disability
Baseline (Mean)
Mean Improvement from Baseline
Proportion of patients with a clinically meaningful improvementd
† p < 0.05, abatacept plus MTX vs MTX plus placebo
c Health Assessment Questionnaire; 0 = best, 3 = worst; 20 questions; 8 categories: dressing and grooming, arising, eating, walking, hygiene, reach, grip, and activities.
d Reduction in HAQ-DI of ≥ 0.3 units from baseline.
e After 6 months, patients were given the opportunity to enter into an open-label study.
In study II, among patients with clinically meaningful improvement at month 12, 88% retained the response at month 18, and 85% retained the response at month 24. During the open-label periods of studies I, II, III, and VI the improvement in physical function has been maintained through 7 years, 5 years, 5 years, and 2 years, respectively.
In study SC-III, the proportion of subjects with a HAQ response as a measure of clinically meaningful improvement in physical function (reduction from baseline in HAQ-D1 score of ≥ 0.3) was greater for the abatacept+ MTX group vs. the MTX group at month 12 (65.5% vs 44.0%, respectively; treatment difference vs. MTX group of 21.6% [95% CI: 8.3, 34.9]).
Health-related outcomes and quality of life
Health-related quality of life was assessed by the SF-36 questionnaire at 6 months in studies I, II, and III and at 12 months in studies I and II. In these studies, clinically and statistically significant improvement was observed in the abatacept group as compared with the placebo group in all 8 domains of the SF-36 (4 physical domains: physical function, role physical, bodily pain, general health; and 4 mental domains: vitality, social function, role emotional, mental health), as well as the Physical Component Summary (PCS) and the Mental Component Summary (MCS). In study VI, improvement was observed at 12 months in abatacept plus methotrexate group as compared with the methotrexate plus placebo group in both PCS and MCS, and was maintained through 2 years.
Study VII: Safety of abatacept in patients with or without washout of previous TNF-inhibitor therapy
A study of open-label abatacept on a background of nonbiologic DMARDs was conducted in patients with active RA who had an inadequate response to previous (washout for at least 2 months; n=449) or current (no washout period; n=597) TNF-inhibitor therapy (study VII). The primary outcome, incidence of AEs, SAEs, and discontinuations due to AEs during 6 months of treatment, was similar between those who were previous and current TNF-inhibitor users at enrollment, as was the frequency of serious infections.
Clinical efficacy and safety in adult psoriatic arthritis
The efficacy and safety of abatacept were assessed in two randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (studies PsA-I and PsA-II) in adult patients, age 18 years and older. Patients had active PsA (≥ 3 swollen joints and ≥ 3 tender joints) despite prior treatment with DMARD therapy and had one qualifying psoriatic skin lesion of at least 2 cm in diameter.
In study PsA-I, 170 patients received placebo or abatacept intravenously on day 1, 15, 29, and then every 28 days thereafter in a double blind manner for 24 weeks, followed by open-label abatacept 10 mg/kg intravenously every 28 days. Patients were randomised to receive placebo or abatacept 3 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, or two doses of 30 mg/kg followed by 10 mg/kg, without escape for 24 weeks, followed by open label abatacept 10 mg/kg monthly intravenous every month. Patients were allowed to receive stable doses of concomitant methotrexate, low dose corticosteroids (equivalent to ≤ 10 mg of prednisone) and/or NSAIDs during the trial.
In study PsA-II, 424 patients were randomised 1:1 to receive in a double-blind manner weekly doses of subcutaneous placebo or abatacept 125 mg without a loading dose for 24 weeks, followed by open-label abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous weekly. Patients were allowed to receive stable doses of concomitant methotrexate, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, hydroxychloroquine, low dose corticosteroids (equivalent to ≤ 10 mg of prednisone) and/or NSAIDs during the trial. Patients who had not achieved at least a 20% improvement from baseline in their swollen and tender joint counts by week 16 escaped to open-label abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous weekly.
The primary endpoint for both PsA-I and PsA-II was the proportion of patients achieving ACR 20 response at Week 24 (day 169).
The percent of patients achieving ACR 20, 50, or 70 responses at the recommended abatacept dose in studies PsA-I (10 mg/kg intravenous ) and PsA-II (125 mg subcutaneous ) are presented in Table 8 below.
Table 8: Proportion of patients with ACR responses at week 24 in studies PsA-I and PsA-II
PsA-Ia
PsA-IIb,c
Abatacept 10 mg/kg IV
N=40
Estimate of difference (95% CI)
Abatacept 125 mg SC
28.7 (9.4, 48.0)
6.9 (0.1, 13.7)
3.7 (-1.5, 8.9)
* p < 0.05 vs placebo, p values not assessed for ACR 50 and ACR 70.
a 37% of patients were previously treated with TNF inhibitor.
b 61% of patients were previously treated with TNF inhibitor.
c Patients who had less than 20% improvement in tender or swollen joint counts at Week 16 met escape criteria and were considered non-responders.
A significantly higher proportion of patients achieved an ACR 20 response after treatment with abatacept 10 mg/kg intravenous in PsA-I or 125 mg subcutaneous in PsA-II compared to placebo at Week 24 in the overall study populations. Higher ACR 20 responses were observed with abatacept vs placebo regardless of prior TNF-inhibitor treatment in both studies. In the smaller study PsA-I, the ACR 20 responses with abatacept 10 mg/kg intravenous vs placebo in patients who were TNF inhibitor-naive were 55.6% vs 20.0%, respectively, and in patients who were TNF inhibitor-experienced were 30.8% vs 16.7%, respectively. In study PsA-II, the ACR 20 responses with abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous vs placebo in patients who were TNF inhibitor-naive were 44.0% vs 22.2%, respectively (21.9 [8.3, 35.6], estimate of difference [95% CI]), and in patients who were TNF inhibitor-experienced were 36.4% vs 22.3%, respectively (14.0 [3.3, 24.8], estimate of difference [95% CI]).
Higher ACR 20 responses in study PsA-II were seen with abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous vs. placebo irrespective of concomitant nonbiological DMARD treatment. The ACR 20 responses with abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous vs placebo in patients who did not use nonbiological DMARDs were 27.3% vs 12.1%, respectively, (15.15 [1.83, 28.47], estimate of difference [95% CI]), and in patients who had used non-biological DMARDs were 44.9% vs 26.9%, respectively, (18.00 [7.20, 28.81], estimate of difference [95% CI]). Clinical responses were maintained or continued to improve up to one year in studies PsA-I and PsA-II.
Structural response
In study PsA-II, the proportion of radiographic non-progressors (≤ 0 change from baseline) in total PsA-modified SHS on x-rays at Week 24 was greater with abatacept 125 mg subcutaneous (42.7%) than placebo (32.7%) (10.0 [1.0, 19.1] estimate of difference [95% CI]).
In study PsA-I, the proportion of patients with ≥ 0.30 decrease from baseline in HAQ-DI score was 45.0% with intravenous abatacept vs 19.0% with placebo (26.1 [6.8, 45.5], estimate of difference [95% CI]) at Week 24. In study PsA-II, the proportion of patients with at least ≥ 0.35 decrease from baseline in HAQ-DI was 31.0% with abatacept vs. 23.7% with placebo (7.2 [-1.1, 15.6], estimate of difference [95% CI]). Improvement in HAQ-DI scores was maintained or improved for up to 1 year with continuing abatacept treatment in both PsA-I and PsA-II studies.
No significant changes in PASI scores with abatacept treatment were seen over the 24-week double-blind period. Patients entering the two PsA studies had mild to moderate psoriasis with median PASI scores of 8.6 in PsA-I and 4.5 in PsA-II. In study PsA-I, the proportions of patients achieving PASI 50 response was 28.6% with abatacept vs. 14.3% with placebo (14.3 [-15.3, 43.9], estimate of difference [95% CI]), and the proportion of patients who achieved PASI 75 response was 14.3% with abatacept vs. 4.8% with placebo (9.5 [-13.0, 32.0], estimate of difference [95% CI]). In study PsA-II, the proportion of patients who achieved PASI 50 response was 26.7% with abatacept vs. 19.6% with placebo (7.3 [-2.2, 16.7], estimate of difference [95% CI]), and the proportion of patients who achieved PASI 75 response was 16.4% with abatacept vs. 10.1% with placebo (6.4 [-1.3, 14.1], estimate of difference [95% CI]).
Paediatric population in polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Children and adolescents with moderate to severe active pJIA, ages 6 to 17 years with an inadequate response or intolerance to at least one DMARD, which may have included biologic agents, were enrolled. The safety and efficacy of intravenous abatacept were assessed in a three-part study. Period A was a 4-month open-label lead-in designed to induce an ACR Pedi 30 response. Patients achieving at least a ACR Pedi 30 response at the end of Period A were randomised into a double-blind, withdrawal phase (Period B), and received either abatacept or placebo for 6 months or until pJIA disease flare as defined in the study. Unless they had discontinued due to safety reasons, all patients who completed, or had a flare during Period B or were non-responders in Period A were offered entry into Period C, the open-label extension, which assessed long-term safety and efficacy.
In Period A all patients received 10 mg/kg of abatacept on days 1, 15, 29, 57 and 85 and were assessed on day 113. During period A, 74% were taking methotrexate (mean dose at study entry, 13.2 mg/m2/week) thus, 26% of patients received abatacept monotherapy in Period A. Of the 190 patients entering the study, 57 (30%) had previously been treated with TNF-inhibitor therapy.
ACR Pedi 30 responders at the end of Period A were randomised into Period B, the double-blind, withdrawal phase, to receive either abatacept or placebo for 6 months or until JIA flare.
Flare was defined as:
▪ ≥ 30% worsening in at least 3 of the 6 pJIA core set variables
▪ ≥ 30% improvement in not more than 1 of the 6 pJIA core set variables
▪ ≥ 2 cm (possible up to 10 cm) of worsening must have been present if the Physician or Parent Global Assessment was used to define flare
▪ worsening in ≥ 2 joints must have been present if the number of active joints or joints with limited range of motion was used to define flare
The patients entered in the trial were a mean of 12.4 years of age with mean disease duration of 4.4 years. They had active disease, with baseline mean active joint count of 16 and a mean number of joints with loss of motion of 16; and elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels (mean, 3.2 mg/dl) and ESRs (mean, 32 mm/h). Their pJIA subtypes at disease onset were: oligoarticular (16%), polyarticular (64%; 20% of the total were rheumatoid factor positive), and systemic (20%).
Of the 190 patients enrolled, 170 completed Period A, 65% (123/190) achieved an ACR Pedi 30 response, and 122 were randomised to Period B. Responses were similar in all subtypes of pJIA studied and for patients with or without methotrexate use. Of the 133 (70%) patients with no prior TNF-inhibitor therapy, 101 (76%) achieved at least an ACR Pedi 30 response; of the 57 patients who had received prior TNF-inhibitor therapy, 22 (39%) achieved at least an ACR Pedi 30 response.
During Period B, the time to disease flare for the patients randomised to placebo was significantly shorter than for those randomised to abatacept (primary endpoint, p=0.0002; log-rank test). Significantly more placebo recipients flared during Period B (33/62; 53%) than those maintained on abatacept (12/60; 20%; chi-square p<0.001). The risk of disease flare for patients continuing on abatacept was less than one third that for placebo-treated patients (hazard ratio estimate=0.31; 95% CI 0.16, 0.59).
Most randomised Period B patients entered Period C (58/60 Period B abatacept recipients; 59/62 Period B placebo recipients), as did 36 of the 47 Period A non-responders (n=153 total patients).
Response rates at the end of Period A, at the end of Period B and after 5 years exposure in Period C are summarized in Table 9:
Table 9: Proportion (%) of polyarticular JIA patients with ACR responses or inactive disease
End of Period A
(day 113)
End of Period Ba
Period Cb
(day 1765)
Abatacept group in Period B
Placebo group in Period B
Non-responder in Period A
n= 190
n= 58
ACR30
Inactive disease
a day 169 Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) for patients treated in Period C
b As observed
Participants in Period C at day 1765 included 33 of the 58 Period B abatacept recipients, 30 of the 59 Period B placebo recipients, and 13 of the 36 Period A non-responders. The median duration of abatacept treatment in Period C was 1815 days (range 57–2,415 days; nearly 61 months). One hundred and two (67%) of the subjects had received at least 1,080 days (~ 36 months) of abatacept therapy in Period C. All patients had at least 4 months of prior, open-label abatacept treatment in Period A.
Abatacept in pJIA patients has also been studied with the subcutaneous formulation in children and adolescents with moderate to severe active pJIA, ages 2 to 17 years with an inadequate response or intolerance to at least one DMARD, which may have included biologic agents. The safety and efficacy of abatacept in the ongoing SC study were consistent with the results seen with abatacept in the IV study (see section 5.1 of the ORENCIA solution for injection in pre-filled syringe SmPC for complete study description and results).
Adult rheumatoid arthritis
After multiple intravenous infusions (days 1, 15, 30, and every 4 weeks thereafter), the pharmacokinetics of abatacept in rheumatoid arthritis patients showed dose-proportional increases of Cmax and AUC over the dose range of 2 mg/kg to 10 mg/kg. At 10 mg/kg, the mean terminal half-life was 13.1 days, ranging from 8 to 25 days. The mean distribution volume (Vss) was 0.07 L/kg and ranged from 0.02 to 0.13 L/kg. The systemic clearance was approximately 0.22 mL/h/kg. Mean steady-state trough concentrations were approximately 25 mcg/mL, and mean Cmax concentrations were approximately 290 mcg/mL. No systemic accumulation of abatacept occurred upon continued repeated treatment with 10 mg/kg at monthly intervals in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Population pharmacokinetic analyses revealed that there was a trend toward higher clearance of abatacept with increasing body weight. Age and gender (when corrected for body weight) did not affect clearance. Methotrexate, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and TNF-inhibitors were not found to influence abatacept clearance. No studies were conducted to examine the effects of either renal or hepatic impairment on the pharmacokinetics of abatacept.
Adult psoriatic arthritis
In PsA-I, patients were randomised to receive intravenous placebo or abatacept 3 mg/kg (3/3 mg/kg), 10 mg/kg (10/10 mg/kg), or two doses of 30 mg/kg followed by 10 mg/kg (30/10 mg/kg), on day 1, 15, 29, and then every 28 days thereafter. In this study, the steady-state concentrations of abatacept were dose-related. The geometric mean (CV%) cmin at day 169 were 7.8 mcg/mL (56.3%) for the 3/3 mg/kg, 24.3 mcg/mL (40.8%) for 10/10 mg/kg, and 26.6 mcg/mL (39.0%) for the 30/10 mg/kg regimens.
In study PsA-II following weekly subcutaneous administration of abatacept at 125 mg, steady-state of abatacept was reached at day 57 with the geometric mean (CV%) cmin ranging from 22.3 (54.2%) to 25.6 (47.7%) mcg/mL on days 57 to 169, respectively.
Consistent with the results observed earlier in RA patients, population pharmacokinetic analyses for abatacept in PsA patients revealed that there was a trend toward higher clearance (L/h) of abatacept with increasing body weight.
Population pharmacokinetic analysis of abatacept serum concentration data from patients with pJIA 6 to 17 years of age following administration of intravenous abatacept 10 mg/kg revealed that the estimated clearance of abatacept, when normalised for baseline body weight, was higher in pJIA patients (0.4 mL/h/kg for a child weighing 40 kg) versus adult rheumatoid arthritis patients. Typical estimates for distribution volume and elimination half-life were 0.12 L/kg and 11.4 days, respectively, for a child weighing 40 kg. As a result of the higher body-weight normalised clearance and volume of distribution in pJIA patients, the predicted and observed systemic exposures of abatacept were lower than that observed in adults, such that the observed mean (range) peak and trough concentrations were 204 (66 to 595) mcg/mL and 10.6 (0.15 to 44.2) mcg/mL, respectively, in patients weighing less than 40 kg, and 229 (58 to 700) mcg/mL and 13.1 (0.34 to 44.6) mcg/mL, respectively, in patients weighing 40 kg or greater.
No mutagenicity or clastogenicity was observed with abatacept in a battery of in vitro studies. In a mouse carcinogenicity study, increases in the incidence of malignant lymphomas and mammary gland tumours (in females) occurred. The increased incidence of lymphomas and mammary tumours observed in mice treated with abatacept may have been associated with decreased control of murine leukaemia virus and mouse mammary tumour virus, respectively, in the presence of long-term immunomodulation. In a one-year toxicity study in cynomolgus monkeys, abatacept was not associated with any significant toxicity. Reversible pharmacological effects consisted of minimal transient decreases in serum IgG and minimal to severe lymphoid depletion of germinal centres in the spleen and/or lymph nodes. No evidence of lymphomas or preneoplastic morphological changes was observed, despite the presence of a virus, lymphocryptovirus, which is known to cause such lesions in immunosuppressed monkeys within the time frame of this study. The relevance of these findings to the clinical use of abatacept is unknown.
In rats, abatacept had no undesirable effects on male or female fertility. Embryo-foetal development studies were conducted with abatacept in mice, rats, and rabbits at doses up to 20 to 30 times a human 10 mg/kg dose and no undesirable effects were observed in the offspring. In rats and rabbits, abatacept exposure was up to 29-fold a human 10 mg/kg exposure based on AUC. Abatacept was shown to cross the placenta in rats and rabbits. In a pre- and postnatal development study with abatacept in rats, no undesirable effects were observed in pups of dams given abatacept at doses up to 45 mg/kg, representing 3-fold a human 10 mg/kg exposure based on AUC. At a dose of 200 mg/kg, representing 11-fold a human exposure at 10 mg/kg based on AUC, limited changes in immune function (a 9-fold increase in the mean T-cell-dependent antibody response in female pups and inflammation of the thyroid of 1 female pup out of 10 male and 10 female pups evaluated at this dose) were observed.
Non-clinical studies relevant for use in the paediatric population
Studies in rats exposed to abatacept have shown immune system abnormalities including a low incidence of infections leading to death (juvenile rats). In addition, inflammation of the thyroid and pancreas was frequently seen in both juvenile and adult rats exposed to abatacept. Juvenile rats seemed to be more sensitive to lymphocytic inflammation of thyroid. Studies in adult mice and monkeys have not demonstrated similar findings. It is likely that the increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections observed in juvenile rats is associated with the exposure to abatacept before development of memory responses. The relevance of these results to humans is unknown.
In the absence of compatibility studies, this medicinal product must not be mixed with other medicinal products. ORENCIA should not be infused concomitantly in the same intravenous line with other medicinal products.
ORENCIA should NOT be used with siliconised syringes (see section 6.6).
Unopened vial
After reconstitution
Chemical and physical in-use stability has been demonstrated for 24 hours at 2°C - 8°C. From a microbiological point of view, the reconstituted solution should be diluted immediately.
After dilution
When the reconstituted solution is diluted immediately, the chemical and physical in-use stability of the diluted infusion solution has been demonstrated for 24 hours at 2°C - 8°C. From a microbiological point of view, the product should be used immediately.
Store in a refrigerator (2°C - 8°C).
Store in the original package in order to protect from light.
For storage conditions after reconstitution and dilution of the medicinal product, see section 6.3.
Vial (15 mL Type 1 glass) with a stopper (halobutyl-rubber) and flip off seal (aluminium).
Pack of 1 vial and 1 silicone-free syringe (polyethylene), and multipacks containing 2, or 3 vials and 2, or 3 silicone-free syringes (2 or 3 packs of 1).
Not all pack-sizes may be marketed.
Reconstitution and dilution should be performed in accordance with good practices rules, particularly with respect to asepsis.
1. Determine the dose and the number of ORENCIA vials needed (see section 4.2).
2. Under aseptic conditions, reconstitute each vial with 10 mL of water for injections, using the silicone-free disposable syringe provided with each vial (see section 6.2) and an 18-21 gauge needle.
- Remove the flip-top from the vial and wipe the top with an alcohol swab.
- Insert the syringe needle into the vial through the centre of the rubber stopper and direct the stream of water for injections to the glass wall of the vial.
- Do not use the vial if the vacuum is not present.
- Remove the syringe and needle after 10 mL of water for injections have been injected into the vial.
- To minimise foam formation in solutions of ORENCIA, the vial should be rotated with gentle swirling until the contents are completely dissolved. Do not shake. Avoid prolonged or vigorous agitation.
- Upon complete dissolution of the powder, the vial should be vented with a needle to dissipate any foam that may be present.
- After reconstitution the solution should be clear and colourless to pale yellow. Do not use if opaque particles, discolouration, or other foreign particles are present.
3. Immediately after reconstitution, the concentrate must be further diluted to 100 mL with sodium chloride 9 mg/mL (0.9%) solution for injection.
- From a 100 mL infusion bag or bottle, withdraw a volume of sodium chloride 9 mg/mL (0.9%) solution for injection equal to the volume of the reconstituted vials.
- Slowly add the reconstituted ORENCIA solution from each vial to the infusion bag or bottle using the same silicone-free disposable syringe provided with each vial.
- Gently mix. The final concentration of abatacept in the bag or bottle will depend upon the amount of active substance added, but will be no more than 10 mg/mL.
- Any unused portion in the vials must be immediately discarded in accordance with local requirements.
4. When reconstitution and dilution are performed under aseptic conditions ORENCIA infusion solution can be used immediately or within 24 hours if stored refrigerated at 2°C to 8°C. Prior to administration, the ORENCIA solution should be inspected visually for particulate matter and discolouration. Discard the solution if any particulate matter or discolouration is observed.
- Do not store any unused portion of the infusion solution for reuse.
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The Gupta Guide > Neurology
L-Dopa to Power the Aging Brain?
by Charlene Laino, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today March 25, 2013
When money is on the line, a dose of levodopa appears to boost the decision-making ability of older adults -- although most "seniors" are still likely to lose out to younger competitors.
That finding, which emerged from small study of healthy septuagenarians versus healthy gen-X adults, was published online in Nature Neuroscience.
Researchers from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College in London theorized that age-related loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area might decrease an elderly person's ability to differentiate between "actual and expected rewards." That lack of discrimination, they said, appears to impair decision making.
They tested this theory with a "two-armed bandit" test. The participants were asked to "select one of two fractal images, which were then highlighted in a red frame." This was followed by frames that indicated the outcome of their choices -- a green arrow indicated a winning choice which paid 15 cents, a yellow horizontal bar was used to indicate no win.
Rumana Chowdhury, MD, and colleagues administered L-DOPA or placebo to 32 participants mean age 70 and compared their performance on the two-armed bandit with a 22 young adults, mean age 25. The older participants also had baseline fMRI studies, which revealed abnormal signaling in the nucleus accumbens in some of the older adults.
The older adults "were slower overall under both conditions than young adults," they wrote.
Although the overall amount of money won by the older adults didn't differ whether they were receiving placebo or active treatment, there was a measurable difference in the amount won by the older adults on placebo versus young adults -- about $20 less. That difference disappeared when older adults taking L-DOPA were compared with the young adults.
But the L-DOPA benefit was limited to those participants who had evidence of nucleus accumbens deficits on fMRI -- the participants with no evidence of impairment actually did worse when given L-DOPA.
Sorting out the clinical implications of this finding is not easy.
In an interview Chowdhury, who is a researcher with the Wellcome Trust's neuroimaging center at University College, said, "We tried manipulating other chemicals, like serotonin, but so far dopamine has emerged as the most important one in terms of decision-making,"
Translating this research from the lab to the clinic isn't going to be easy said Kathleen Shannon, MD, a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She noted that one of the big unanswered questions is the effect of L-DOPA in healthy individuals.
Both Chowdhury and Shannon agreed that the finding remains hypothesis-generating since even if additional studies confirm the value of fMRI screening to identify those who might benefit from L-DOPA, it is prohibitively expensive.
But the research does open to door to a pathway for improving decision-making as we age, Shannon said.
And Chowdhury noted that challenging the brain -- continued exposure to novel situations -- serves as a natural booster to dopamine levels.
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Interns Still Sleepy and Now More Worried
By Kathleen Struck, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Mandated shorter on-duty shifts for resident physicians has not improved patient care nor has it noticeably reduced the numbers of sleepy house staff, according to a pair of studies.
Infections Tied to Dementia Risk in Large Study
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Infection with a variety of common pathogens, especially herpes viruses and cytomegalovirus, was associated with increased risk of dementia in a large prospective cohort study, researchers said.
The authors declared no competing financial interests.
Source Reference: Chowdhury R, et al "Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age" Nat Neurosci 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3364.
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CDW LLC
Announcement of Periodic Review: Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of CDW Corporation
Covenant Quality Assessment: CDW Finance Corporation: Covenant Quality Post-Sale Snapshot: $700m 3.25% Senior Notes due 2029
Rating Action: Moody's assigns Ba2 to CDW's proposed $630 million of new notes
Covenant Quality Assessment: CDW Finance Corporation: Covenant Quality Post-Sale Snapshot: $600m 4.125% Senior Notes due 2025
Rating Action:
Moody's assigns Ba2 to CDW's new senior unsecured notes
NOTE: On April 21, 2020, the press release was corrected as follows: In the methodology paragraph, the principle methodology was changed to Distribution & Supply Chain Services Industry. Revised release follows.
New York, April 16, 2020 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") assigned a Ba2 rating to the proposed senior unsecured notes to be issued by CDW LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation ("CDW"). CDW's Ba1 Corporate Family Rating (CFR), stable outlook, and all other ratings are unchanged. Net proceeds from the new notes will be used for general corporate purposes including enhanced liquidity.
Assignments:
..Issuer: CDW LLC
....Gtd Senior Unsecured Notes, Assigned Ba2 (LGD5)
RATINGS RATIONALE
The proposed note issuance preserves CDW's very good liquidity which supports the company's ability to navigate through the challenges of the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) including a weakened economy in the company's primary markets in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. Given uncertainty and difficulty forecasting the COVID-19 impact on operating results, CDW has also withdrawn its 2020 targets (e.g. net sales growth, Non-GAAP Operating Income margin) and related financial information.
CDW's credit profile is pressured by Moody's expectation that revenues could decline in the mid to high single digit percentage range over the next 12 months. There are further downside risks in the event demand for CDW's offerings is depressed beyond the first half of 2020 in a scenario in which COVID-19 is not contained. The rapid and widening spread of the coronavirus outbreak, deteriorating global economic outlook, falling oil prices, and asset price declines are creating a severe and extensive credit shock across many sectors, regions and markets. The combined credit effects of these developments are unprecedented. The technology distribution sector has been one of the sectors affected by the shock given its sensitivity to enterprise demand and sentiment. More specifically, the weaknesses in CDW's credit profile, including its exposure to the global supply chain have left it vulnerable to shifts in market sentiment in these unprecedented operating conditions and CDW remains vulnerable to the outbreak continuing to spread.. Moody's regards the coronavirus outbreak as a social risk under our ESG framework, given the substantial implications for public health and safety.
CDW's ratings are supported by the company's very good liquidity, including enhanced cash balances and good free cash flow generation, which can absorb mid to high single digit percentage revenue and EBITDA declines over the next several months. As of December 2019, adjusted debt to EBITDA was 2.3x. Assuming CDW issues up to $500 million of new notes and adjusted EBITDA were to decline up to 10%, adjusted leverage would remain just below 3.0x leaving some room under Moody's 3.5x adjusted debt to EBITDA downgrade trigger. The negative impact of higher gross leverage is offset by CDW's track record for adhering to disciplined financial policies, the benefits of securing additional liquidity, and the suspension of share buybacks which averaged $571 million annually over the last three years.
Ratings benefit from CDW's consistent track record of revenue growth and expanding free cash flow leading up to the COVID-19 crisis. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, CDW's top line grew 10.9%. As a leading multi-brand provider of IT solutions with a history of good execution, CDW has favorable prospects for maintaining market share due to its scale, extensive product offering, and broad market access relative to smaller value-added resellers of IT products. Nevertheless, Moody's recognizes CDW has reasonably high vendor concentration among its major suppliers, exposure to the more volatile spending patterns of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and exposure to budgetary risks of the public sector, which can be exacerbated during an economic recession.
Moody's expects CDW will maintain very good liquidity supported by ample cash balances and revolver availability. Upon completion of the note issuance, CDW estimates it will have over $600 million of cash and roughly $0.8 billion of availability under its unrated $1.45 billion senior secured ABL revolver (expires March 2022) after accounting for reserves tied to its floorplan sub-facility. CDW benefits from the absence of significant near-term debt maturities through 2022, and expectations for mid to high single digit percentage adjusted free cash flow to debt over the next 12 months despite the impact of COVID-19 and quarterly dividends. Free cash flow is supported by relatively stable operating margins (though low on an absolute basis, similar to other IT distributors) and low capital intensity with annual capex typically less than 1% of revenues. In addition to suspending share buybacks ($522 million to $657 million in each of the last three years), CDW is implementing cost initiatives. Moody's expects CDW to remain in compliance with its bank financial covenants (primarily incurrence tests) over the next 12 months.
CDW issues debt at its wholly-owned subsidiary CDW LLC, which holds all material assets and conducts all business activities and operations. Ratings for the senior secured term loan (Baa3) and senior notes (Ba2) reflect the overall probability of default of the company, incorporated in the PDR of Ba1-PD, and the expectation for an average family recovery in a default scenario.
CDW has reduced exposure to environmental risks as one of the largest North American IT distributors and solutions providers with annual revenues of $18 billion. Despite exposure to Cisco and HP Inc. for 25% of revenues, CDW has less reliance on any single program across its very broad offerings. This revenue diversity reduces risk in a scenario in which a given program is impacted by an environmental event. Similar to its peers, CDW has a B2B focus with minimal direct consumer exposure contributing to an overall low level of social risk.
CDW has a consistent track record for maintaining financial leverage within its public target range and adjusted free cash flow to debt in the mid teen percentage range or better, despite growing dividends, both of which allow CDW to fund growth investments. CDW adheres to its disciplined financial policies which include maintaining net leverage ratios between 2.5x and 3.0x (as defined). CDW is publicly traded with its two largest shareholder, Vanguard and Blackrock, owning roughly 12% and 9% of common shares, respectively, followed by other investment management companies holding less than 5%. Good governance is supported by a board of directors with ten of the company's eleven board seats being held by independent directors.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATINGS
The stable rating outlook reflects Moody's expectation that, despite the potential for mid to high single digit percent revenue and EBITDA declines over the next 12 months, CDW will continue to generate free cash flow in the mid to high single digit percentage range (compared to 17% - 20% in each of the last three years) and be able to maintain adjusted debt to EBITDA below 3.5x. Moody's expects CDW to maintain disciplined financial policies including very good liquidity with ample cash balances and revolver availability to manage through the global pandemic.
Ratings could be upgraded if CDW demonstrates consistent revenue and free cash flow growth and sustains adjusted operating margins at current levels (5.9% - 6.3%) with a commitment to conservative financial policies including total adjusted debt to EBITDA being sustained below 2.5x and adjusted free cash flow to debt above 20%. Ratings could be downgraded if CDW experiences loss of customers/market share or pricing pressures due to the impact of COVID-19, increasing competition, or a weak economic environment, resulting in erosion of operating margins, interest coverage, or free cash flow. Adjusted debt to EBITDA being sustained above 3.5x or funding share repurchases prior to Moody's being assured of a long term rebound from COVID-19 could also lead to a downgrade.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Distribution & Supply Chain Services Industry published in June 2018 and available at https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1121974. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
Based in Vernon Hills, IL, CDW is a leading IT products and solutions provider to business, government, education, and healthcare customers in the U.S. and Canada. Net revenue for the 12 months ending March 2020 totaled $18.4 billion but is expected to decline over the next 12 months due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions in the disclosure form. Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions can be found at: https://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_79004.
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Written by: Paige Rodawig- Senior, Morningside College
As visitors make their way through the museum, their eyes will be drawn to a retired United Airlines Boeing 727-100 cockpit. This aircraft flew commercial flights across the world before going out of commission. While the cockpit is not ready for viewing quite yet, this centerpiece for the museum gives visitors a sense of what luxury commercial transportation was like in the 1960’s.
In this area, you can imagine the thrill of commercial flight when ladies and gentlemen dressed up like they were going to a party, and service was first-rate. The food was first-rate as well! On display at the museum is a serving set of fine china and silverware from the days when a full meal was served at no additional cost! The meals didn’t vary between first and second classes. However, gold-trimmed plates were exclusive to first class. If your plate had a silver trim, you were in second class. No matter where you were seated, the food was freshly cooked at each airport, and then carefully transported onto the plane. Depending on the time of your flight, you were served a full and hearty breakfast, lunch, or dinner. United Airlines was an innovator in commercial aviation. For example, they were the first airline to start using computers during the ticket process.
The MAMAT museum has Irving Jensen III, a Sioux City native and owner of the cockpit, to thank for this amazing display. Irving has always been interested in aircraft and taking on projects, and this cockpit restoration is certainly one of his largest! The cockpit was recovered in a aviation salvage in Mississippi just South of the FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. The first class seating area is displayed on the museum floor behind the actual cockpit, and features a film about the Sioux City Orpheum Theater restoration. Eventually, this cockpit and surrounding display will be an area for people to gather, view films about the history of aviation and transportation in Sioux City, and explore what it was like to be aboard one of these planes.
Come see the Boeing 727-100 while it is being restored! We cannot wait for it to be finished so you can step inside.
Marilyn Eastman
Nice job Paige!
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Mintz IP Team Delivers ITC Initial Determination Win for Standard Essential Patent
ITC Judge Ruled that Korean Manufacturer SK Hynix Infringed on Mintz Client Netlist’s Standard Essential Patent Related to Server Memory Modules
This important victory solidifies Mintz’s successes on behalf of patent owners at the ITC
A team of Mintz intellectual property attorneys achieved a favorable Notice of Initial Determination at the U.S. International Trade Commission on behalf of the firm’s client Netlist, Inc., a California-based technology company focused on developing innovative server memory module products, including technology that is essential to certain JEDEC memory standards. Significantly, this is the first time since 2013 that a Section 337 violation has been found based on a standard-essential patent.
For background, Netlist filed a complaint in October 2017 alleging that SK hynix’s LRDIMM and RDIMM products infringed two of Netlist’s standard-essential patents. Netlist relied on Mintz’s award-winning team of intellectual property attorneys to architect the case.
The Mintz team expertly presented the complex, technical issues of the case to the Chief Administrative Law Judge (“CALJ”) of the ITC during an evidentiary hearing, and successfully demonstrated that the accused memory module products infringed one of two asserted standard-essential patents. The Mintz team also defeated all of SK hynix’s affirmative defenses, including the contention that Netlist had violated its RAND obligations to implementers of the JEDEC standards.
As a result, on October 21, the CALJ issued a Notice of Initial Determination finding that SK hynix’s sale, sale for importation, and importation into the United States of accused LRDIMM memory modules violated Section 337 due to their infringement of Netlist’s ’907 patent.
“This victory continues Mintz’s successes on behalf of patent owners at the ITC. It is also an important reminder that, contrary to reports otherwise, enforcement of standard-essential patents at the ITC is still possible,” said Michael Renaud, Chair of Mintz’s Intellectual Property Division.
“It was rewarding to deliver a long-fought win for our client, one that recognizes the standard-essential nature of Netlist’s patents and protects the intellectual property that drives their valuable innovations,” said Mintz Member and Lead Counsel James Wodarski.
The Mintz team representing Netlist includes Members James Wodarski, Drew DeVoogd, Steve Akerley, Aarti Shah, and Associates Kristina Cary, Matthew Galica, and Tiffany Knapp.
The matter is ITC Section 337 Investigation No. 1089.
For more information about Mintz, please visit www.mintz.com.
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Forester brings expertise in data center production that results in higher quality, greater efficiency, and faster delivery timelines
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Compass Datacenters has hired Jay Forester to be the company's senior vice president of Data Center Product Delivery, a new position at the company with responsibility for the construction and delivery of data center facilities across the United States. Forester joins Compass from Digital Realty, where his most recent title was vice president of construction, North America. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Forester worked for Fidelity Investments for several years as a senior manager of its data center assets.
"Jay played an instrumental role in developing and refining the construction and delivery methodology that was so central to Digital Realty's success. This background makes him the perfect choice to help us deliver on our re-invention of the process for data center development in a way that utilizes best practices from the manufacturing industry. Our methodology streamlines every aspect of the process — from supply chain to pre-manufacturing to on-site construction and final delivery — to provide our customers with a higher-quality, better-built standalone hardened data centers that are completed in a fraction of the time as traditional methods," said Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters. "Jay's expertise will help us introduce this next generation of data center delivery in which industrialization transitions into productization, which is analogous to changes implemented in the auto industry by Honda in the mid-1970s."
Crosby added, "Jay's addition to the team will enable Compass' senior vice president of Acquisitions and Development Chris Curtis to focus on identifying, acquiring and developing new land sites for our customers. While we had always planned for this structure, we did not anticipate that the demand for our product-based approach would dictate the need so soon. With Jay and Chris's leadership, we have the best team in the industry to guide the process from land acquisition to delivery of fully commissioned data centers to our customers."
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We are excited to share The Chicano Batman, our new Band Taco. It’s a vegan taco made with soyrizo, potatoes, guacamole, salsa verde on an organic corn tortilla. HomeState’s Band Taco program was established in 2015 as a way to raise awareness and funds for community organizations while working with bands we love.
The Chicano Batman is available starting today, Wednesday, July 15th through the end of the year. All profits will be donated to Watts Empowerment Center and No Us Without You!.
Chicano Batman is a Los Angeles-based psych-soul band. Their most recent record, Invisible People (released on May 1, 2020), is a tropicalia-infused “statement of hope, a proclamation… that despite race, class, or gender we can overcome our differences and stand together.”
Here are some of our favorite lyrics from their new record, listen as loud as you can:
Invisible people
We’re tired of living in the dark
Everyone is trying to tear us apart
All we wanna do is heal now
Smoke a spliff so I can feel now, yeah
The truth is we’re all the same
The concept of race was implanted inside your brain
It’s time to start all over
You best believe we’re taking over
Spinnin’ the world around you
WATTS EMPOWERMENT CENTER
The Watts Empowerment Center is a state-of-the-art facility committed to the children, youth, and families within Watts Housing Projects. Locals can develop their talents with the help of top industry and business professionals who provide mentorship to many within the community.
Over the past 8 weeks, WEC has provided:
22,000+ face masks
Hundreds of meals to elderly and disabled people
Semi trucks full of food
Thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables
Social, academic and athletic resources over video, phone and social media
Mental and sociological support
Resources offered range from tutoring, STEM Media Lab, Culinary Arts, Performing Arts Studio, Music, Resume Building Workshops, Anti-Bullying Classes, Mental Health/Stress Management, Hiring Opportunities for previously incarcerated parents, and beyond.
100% of donations go directly to on-site impact within the Watts Housing Projects.
NO US WITHOUT YOU!
NO US WITHOUT YOU! is a Boyle Heights organization distributing food to undocumented workers who are the backbone of the hospitality industry. These hard-working people who have, for years, fulfilled back-of-house restaurant positions, now find themselves in the vulnerable position of being unemployed.
Launched with a goal of distributing meals to 30 families a week, NO US WITHOUT YOU! is now serving over 600 families. Founders, Damian Diaz and Othón Nolasco, plan on offering food packages through 2020 and potentially into 2021.
Every $33 donated feeds a family of 4 for 1 week.
Every Band Taco has its own original artwork created by a local artist. The first 10 guests to order The Chicano Batman taco at either location will receive a poster (seen above) created by our longtime collaborator, Mallory Cohn. Every guest who donates $33 to either WEC or NO US WITHOUT YOU! via our website will also receive a free poster!
We hope you love The Chicano Batman Band Taco as much as we do – IT’S REALLY GOOD! And thank you for helping strengthen our community.
Stronger together,
The HomeState Team
This Saturday, we’ll be joining forces with restaurants around the country to raise funds to support the fight for racial justice. 5% of all sales from both locations will be donated directly to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
More info at https://www.foodindustryaction.com/
UPDATE: With your support, we were able to donate $1400.06 directly to The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
We are living through a historical time, one that inclines us to reflect on our core values. As both humans and an organization, we are confronting our own roles, failures, and opportunities to be agents of change. We are continuing to have important conversations regarding systemic police brutality, economic oppression, and deep-rooted racism that our Black community, our neighbors, and fellow citizens have been confronting for over 400 years. This will be a long journey, one that a quick statement or gesture will not address. Our work is happening internally, within our own hearts, minds, community, and leadership team.
We are mapping our short-term and long-term courses of action through partnerships, projects, company practices, and personal education. Our work will not be finished until racism and all of its systems are broken down to establish a world where all people can live and thrive without the threat of violence and oppression.
To our peers within the restaurant industry, let’s do this. Let’s talk, expose weaknesses and create change in our own kitchen, dining room and office. Email us at [email protected].
Owner, Briana Valdez
HomeState fully supports the ongoing demonstrations in our city and around the country. HomeState stands definitively against police brutality, racism and injustice in all its forms. We are devastated and angered by the murder of George Floyd and the countless Black people before him who have suffered the same fate. We are actively looking for the best ways to contribute and take meaningful action.
Here’s where we are today as an organization:
We’ve begun an internal analysis of our recruiting techniques to examine how we can increase representation of the Black community on our team.
Here is a list of organizations to which we have donated and are actively supporting (see below). These organizations will remain linked on our website to promote ongoing awareness and contributions.
We can live in a world where the police don’t kill people, by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.
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Join When We All Vote to make sure every eligible voter is registered and ready to vote in every election.
We believe this is a time for us to unite and work collectively to defeat racism and all other forms of systemic oppression and marginalization. We will continue to explore how we can best aid in these efforts and support direct action in our community and beyond.
We look forward to starting conversations with our neighbors on how we can productively work together. Please email us at [email protected] to share your ideas.
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Appeal after man stabbed in stomach in Stanmore
Police would like to speak to this 18-year-old as they believe he was in the area at the time.
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Police would like to speak to 18-year-old Reece Tivendale
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Police in Harrow have released an image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with an attempted murder in Stanmore.
According to a Met Police spokesman, a 21-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach following an altercation with two men at The Broadway at 10.15pm on Friday June 5.
Police would like to speak to 18-year-old Reece Tivendale as they believe he was in the area at the time and may be able to help with enquiries.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Detective Sergeant Matt Smith or Detective Constable Mark Mildenstein at Harrow CID on 020 8733 5414 or via 101.
Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Regional parks staff posted warnings at the Witchcraft Lake Trail head after a cougar made off with a Nanaimo woman’s dog while she was hiking in Mount Benson Regional Park Wednesday. Conservation officers are warning people cougars normally inhabit the park and hikers should keep dogs leashed or avoid taking their pets into the woods altogether.
Cougar attack on dog prompts warning
NANAIMO – Dog snatched by cougar in front of owner while hiking on Witchcraft Lake Trail on Mount Benson.
Sep. 9, 2014 1:00 p.m.
A Nanaimo woman is reeling from seeing her dog taken and killed by a cougar.
Serra Stewart was returning from a hike with her father and three dogs on Witchcraft Lake Trail, in Mount Benson Regional Park, Wednesday at about 11 a.m. On a steep section of the trail, about 20 minutes from the parking lot on Wilkinson Road, a cougar appeared, eyed up the dogs that were off-leash and about seven metres away and snatched Charlie, Stewart’s eight-year-old female dog.
“It was just there. The dogs didn’t bark or anything,” Stewart said in a text message. “It looked at all three and grabbed my girl. She screamed, only for about five to 10 seconds, and it was done. I lost it, threw my backpack and ran down the mountain after it. Of course, what’s the point? She was gone and no way I can catch a cougar.”
Sgt. Ben York, mid-Island region conservation officer supervisor, said in this case the cougar exhibited natural behaviour, given the circumstances.
“As far as that cougar’s concerned, a small dog matches its prey profile,” York said. “The complainant was in a wilderness area and it’s normal for cougars to be hunting there.”
York said Stewart and her father acted correctly by calling back the other dogs and leaving the area.
Conservation officers patrolled the park, but failed to find the cougar, and asked regional parks staff to post warnings about the encounter on the trail. The notices were up Thursday morning.
York also said conservation officers would not take action against the animal.
“As it happened out in wilderness territory and didn’t attack a human, they wouldn’t kill it, which honestly, I am grateful for,” Stewart said. “I feel like we actually may have surprised it coming down, as the wind was blowing up the mountain, so it wouldn’t have had our scents. I really think it was one of those freak things.”
York said dogs should be on a leash for their protection in the wilderness, but he’d prefer not to see pets taken into the woods at all since they can attract predators or chase a predator and have an animal, such as a bear, turn and defend itself.
York said if confronted by a cougar, make yourself look big, behave aggressively, throw things and try to scare it off.
“If you are attacked by a cougar, fight back for all you’re worth,” York said. “If a cougar does take your pet, don’t try to defend the pet. Just accept that it’s not worth your life to defend your pet.”
York said the Island has a high-density cougar population and whenever people are in the woods they should assume cougars are always present.
“We do recommend people carry bear spray when they are hiking in the woods and it is effective on everything, not just bears,” York said. “Certainly thousands of people take their dogs for a walk on a wilderness trail with nothing like this happening, so we’re talking worst-case scenario.”
In case of an emergency involving a bear or cougar or to report poachers and polluters, please call the B.C. Ministry of Environment at 1-877-952-7277.
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Study: False widow spiders carry harmful strains resistant to common antibiotic treatments
A team of zoologists and microbiologists from NUI Galway have published a new study showing that common house spiders carry bacteria susceptible to infect people, with the Noble False Widow spiders also carrying harmful strains resistant to common antibiotic treatments.
This new research, published in the international journal Scientific Reports, confirms a theory which has been debated among spider and healthcare specialists for many years, and explains a range of symptoms experienced by victims bitten by the invasive noble false widow spider in Ireland and Britain over the past decade.
Australian Black Widows or Funnel Web spiders are well known for their potentially deadly venom, but rare "skin-eating" conditions following seemingly harmless European and North American spider bites were thought to be the result of secondary infections caused by the victim scratching and probing the bite site with contaminated fingers. This new study shows that not only do spiders carry harmful bacteria, but those germs can be transmitted when a spider uses its fangs to bite.
Furthermore, many spiders have been shown to have venom with antibacterial activity and it is often debated as to whether the venom would neutralise bacteria at the bite site, but this also demonstrates, at least for the Noble False Widow, that the venom does not inhibit bacteria.
Dr Aoife Boyd, Director of the Pathogenic Mechanisms Group at NUI Galway's School of Natural Sciences, and senior author of the study, said:
The diversity of microbes never ceases to amaze me. The power to survive and thrive in every environment is shown here by the presence of antimicrobial resistance bacteria even in spider venom. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent and growing problem worldwide. A One Health approach interconnecting human, animal and environmental health is the only way to tackle the problem."
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Dr John Dunbar, Zoologist at the Ryan Institute's Venom System Lab in NUI Galway, said: "About 10 species of spiders common in North-western Europe have fangs strong enough to pierce human skin and deliver venom, but only one of them, the recent invasive noble false widow spider, is considered of medical importance. Most of the time, a spider bite results in some redness and pain.
"In some cases, however, victims seem to develop long lasting infections for which strong antibiotic treatment - and sometimes a hospital stay - are necessary. It is this increasing range expansion and massive rise in dense populations of false widow spiders around urbanised areas across Ireland and Britain that has seen a rise in bites with some severe envenomation symptoms but also infections, which in some cases proved even difficult to treat with antibiotics."
Neyaz Kahn, co-lead author of the study and PhD student at the Pathogenic Mechanisms Group in NUI Galway's School of Natural Sciences, said:
Our study demonstrates that spiders are not just venomous but are also carriers of dangerous bacteria capable of producing severe infections. The biggest threat is that some of these bacteria are multi-drug resistant, making them particularly difficult to treat with regular medicine. This is something that health care professionals should consider from now on."
National University of Ireland Galway
Journal reference:
Dunbar, J. P., et al. (2020) Synanthropic spiders, including the global invasive noble false widow Steatoda nobilis, are reservoirs for medically important and antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientific Reports..doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77839-9.
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Samaritans Purse DC-8 plane will take a second shipment of relief supplies and a second Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to St. Maarten/St. Martin today, Sept. 11, 2017.
By NAN Staff Writer
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Sept. 11, 2017: As Saint Martin national Malaika Maxwell used Facebook live to appeal globally for more soldiers on the island and donation of basic emergency supply including water, milk for babies, flour and sugar, a US non-profit organization has announced it will be taking a second round of supplies to the islands of St. Martin/St. Maarten today, Sept. 11th.
Samaritan’s Purse is a North Carolina-based non-denominational evangelical Christian organization which has been providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world since 1979.
French Gendarmerie Nationales hand out two bottles of water per person in Saint Martin.
On Sunday the organization’s DC-8 plane took a second shipment of relief supplies and a second Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Puerto Rico. The team and supplies are bound for St. Maarten today and include blankets, shelter plastic, hygiene kits, and household water filters for 2,000 families.
Samaritan’s Purse, which recently pitched in to help in Houston and Texas during Hurricane Harvey, has already taken down emergency supplies to the islands. They delivered a first round of relief supplies and a DART to St. Maarten on Sept. 8th for 2,000 families.
The organization will be working with government officials and church contacts to identify people who will most benefit. Samaritan’s Purse said its DC-8 was a welcome sight to storm-weary Irma survivors stranded on St. Maarten on Sept. 8 and they were also able to bring back 29 people who had ridden out the storm.
“This was a significant encouragement to the people, that somebody cared that much for them and was willing to go and help them in their time of need,” said Samaritan’s Purse Hurricane Irma response manager. “We believe God has opened a unique door on St. Maarten, and we want to show the compassion of Jesus Christ and bring His hope to people who are suffering.”
“We’re taking critically needed supplies to storm survivors, enough to provide shelter and warmth for thousands of families,” said Samaritans Purse President Franklin Graham. “Please pray for all those affected by this horrific storm. These are difficult days, but we are more committed than ever to help the hurting in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
The island of St. Martin/St. Maarten has extensive infrastructure and building damage; water and food supplies are dwindling and security has become a major issue with looting and criminals reportedly roaming some areas with guns and knives. However, several members of the Gendarmerie Nationales are on their way to Saint Martin to help.
Former President of the Office of Tourism in Saint Martin, Jeanne Vanterpool said the island will take years to bounce back and needs food and roofing supplies immediately.
Her comments come as French president Emmanuel Macron is set to travel to the battered Dutch-French island of Saint Martin on Tuesday following the passage of hurricane Irma and fellow storm Jose.
“Emmanuel Macron will leave to Saint Martin on Tuesday morning with goods and reinforcements,” French interior minister Gerard Collomb told journalists on Sunday after a meeting with Macron at the Elysee palace in Paris.
Royal Caribbean is sending cruise ships to the Caribbean to help with Hurricane Irma relief efforts and to transport those impacted by the devastating storm to safety, the cruise line announced Sunday.
Ships from Royal Caribbean’s fleet are being mobilized and filled with supplies to “help people in need,” according to a press release. On Sunday, the Adventure of the Seas said it will be making humanitarian stop in St. Martin, while the Majesty of the Seas will make stops in both St. Thomas and St. Martin. That ship will then assist in transporting evacuees from the island.
Irma reportedly killed 10 people in the French part of Saint Martin and in nearby island of Saint Barthelemy. Seven people are still reported missing.
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Dodgers beat Astros ace Justin Verlander to force Game 7
Dodgers' Kenta Maeda reacts against the Astros during Game 6 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium on Oct. 31, 2017. Credit: Getty Images / Harry How
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11 Updated November 1, 2017 1:17 AM
LOS ANGELES — Kind of had to be this way, right?
After what took place the first five games of the 113th World Series, it just had to — had to — go seven games.
The Dodgers made it happen Tuesday night, rallying against Justin Verlander and beating the Astros, 3-1, in front of a loud Dodger Stadium gathering of 54,128 who rarely sat down.
“Only fitting,” Dodgers first baseman Cody Bellinger said. “This is just pure entertainment. Two 100-win teams and this is what you get. We knew coming into this it was going to be crazy.”
Game 7 is back here Wednesday night as the Astros will try for their first World Series title and the Dodgers will go for their first since 1988.
“This series has been back and forth,” Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. “Two incredible teams, trying to get to the finish line.”
Verlander, the Astros’ horse all postseason and in whom they had every confidence Tuesday night, retired 15 of the first 16 he faced, taking a 1-0 lead into the sixth inning.
But the Dodgers got to the 34-year-old, scoring twice, the first on a double by Chris Taylor and the second on Corey Seager’s sacrifice fly that made it 2-1. Verlander, who allowed two runs and three hits, and struck out nine, took his first loss as an Astro.
“He’s really good for a lot of reasons,” Seager said of Verlander. “He didn’t make very many [mistakes] tonight but we scratched some runs off him. He’s tough.”
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Joc Pederson’s homer off Joe Musgrove in the seventh — which the leftfielder punctuated with an arm-waving trip around the bases that made any of the bat-flipping exercises by both sides in this homer-happy Series seem tame by comparison — gave the Dodgers a 3-1 lead.
Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts, who before the game said his plan was to ask for no more than three outs from tank-nearing-empty closer Kenley Jansen, asked for six.
He got them as Jansen, roughed up a couple of times in the series, most recently in Houston’s wild 13-12 Game 5 victory when the righthander took the loss, retired six straight for the save.
Roberts, hammered by many for his bullpen moves in Game 5, came up aces in Game 6. He pulled Rich Hill, who allowed one run and four hits in 4 2⁄3 innings, and replaced him with Brandon Morrow. The righthander, torched for four runs in Game 5, pitched a scoreless inning, his most important moment retiring Alex Bregman with two out and the bases loaded to end the fifth, keeping it a 1-0 deficit.
“Every guy on our staff wants the baseball,” Roberts said. “This is what they train for.”
Tony Watson stranded two in the sixth and Kenta Maeda, who allowed Jose Altuve’s three-run homer that tied Sunday’s game at 7, retired the Astros second baseman with two on in the seventh on a groundout, a bang-bang play at first that kept the tying run from scoring from third. Bellinger was actually the hero of the play, scooping Justin Turner’s throw out of the dirt.
“In that situation, just make sure you catch it,” Bellinger said. “That’s why I take so much pride in my defense.”
It, overall, was the most unexpected of pitchers’ duels after much of what preceded it in the series.
Verlander, 4-0 with a 2.05 ERA this postseason coming in, did not go to a three-ball count until two outs in the fifth against Logan Forsythe. He struck him out swinging at a 96-mph fastball.
George Springer’s fourth homer of the series, a shot in the third, provided the 1-0 lead.
Austin Barnes opened the sixth inning with a single. Verlander got ahead of Chase Utley, batting in the ninth spot after a double switch, 1-and-2 but hit him on the right foot. Verlander again got ahead 1-and-2 but Taylor poked a 97-mph fastball to right for a double.
The pitcher hung a 1-and-2 breaking ball to Seager, who missed a homer by mere feet in right, the sacrifice fly making it 2-1.
“That’s how it’s been all year,” Taylor said. “At some point in the game, it seems like everybody plays a huge part. Whether it’s defense, offense, getting a guy over, a big baserunning play. There’s more than one way to win a game. And I think our team shows that.”
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11
Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.
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Fox News Contributor Morgan Ortagus To Be Named State Department Spokesperson
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Morgan Ortagus is the latest to go through the revolving door from Fox News to the Trump TV administration. Unlike her predecessor, Fox News host Heather Nauert, Ortagus appears to be qualified for the position of State Department spokesperson.
You may recall that Nauert abruptly announced she would leave the position “to spend more time with family” after her nomination to be ambassador the U.N. (for which she was even less qualified) ran into trouble.
Today, NBC reported that three sources told the network Ortagus will replace Nauert. She has remained on staff at the State Department but has not conducted a televised briefing since her decision to leave.
I have to wonder whose idea it was to hire Ortagus given that she’s not the usual Fox hire in that she’s both qualified and not a complete loyalist. In fact, she once worked for the Obama administration. From NBC News:
Ortagus previously served as a public affairs officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an independent agency that takes direction from the State Department, according to a biography posted on the website of her consulting firm, GO Advisors. Her tenure included work in Iraq.
She also worked for the Treasury Department in the first term of the Obama administration as an intelligence analyst and as Treasury's deputy U.S. attaché to Saudi Arabia, where her GO Advisors bio says she worked on countering illicit finance.
On Fox, Ortagus has occasionally abandoned the party line. Although a public Trump supporter, she was mildly critical of Trump’s behavior toward Russia, e.g. However, she’s a big supporter of the wall (that Mexico was supposed to pay for) and, likely mindful that her future boss was watching yesterday, she gave a thumbs up to Trump’s effort to do away with millions of Americans’ health insurance. I'll bet Trump never bothered to read Oratgus' CV.
Watch Ortagus cheerlead Trump’s sabotage of Americans’ health insurance below – and suck up to Trump by urging Republicans to emulate him and “not to run” from repealing Obamacare below, from the March 27, 2019 Special Report.
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NZ Election 2020: Labour will 'do a few wacky things' with or without the Greens - Simon Bridges
Dan Satherley
Simon Bridges and David Parker on The AM Show. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Image - Getty/Newshub.
Simon Bridges says Labour will try to "look centrist" to keep voters they've been "lent" by National, but end up giving National a way back to power by doing "extreme Greens stuff".
Labour made history at the weekend, winning an outright majority in Parliament - the first time any party's managed to in the MMP era.
But the votes didn't come from their friends the Greens, who also increased their share of the party vote - ironically bringing in more MPs, but in a weakened position when it comes to coalition bargaining since Labour doesn't need them.
"Whatever the shape of our relationship is with them, it will be cooperative - as it was last term," said Labour MP David Parker, appearing on The AM Show with Bridges.
"We could ignore them, but you know, I'm sure we'll work out a cooperative relationship. It will reflect the fact that we won the election, that we want to govern - as the Prime Minister said - in the interests of all New Zealanders."
National supporters backing Labour?
There has been speculation Labour's strong showing in the polls was buoyed by people who would normally vote National, but gave Labour their party vote so they'd get a majority and not have to make compromises with the Greens, whose policies in areas such as welfare, tax and the economy are further to the left.
Bridges backs the theory.
"They've been lent votes by traditional National voters," he insisted, predicting they'll leave the Greens out in the cold not to lose those votes in 2023.
"I think they'll try and look centrist, but I think David's animal instincts will mean ultimately they'll do a few wacky things along the way - and that's National's opportunity."
'Goodness, why'd I do that?': Collins admits she could have done better but expects to remain leader
Collins heaps praise on Green MP who 'people on her own side' get 'very jealous' of
Whether a significant number of National supporters ticked Labour to reduce the Greens' power won't be known until the NZ Election Study - a joint effort between three universities and the Electoral Commission - is complete. University of Auckland political scientist Dr Lara Greaves, one of the brains behind the study this year, told Stuff it's unlikely though.
"Most people probably voted for Labour because they wanted to vote for Labour."
'No one to blame but themselves'
Bridges predicts Labour won't find governing alone any easier than in coalition.
"When things turn to custard - and they always do in Government - they'll have no one to blame but themselves."
Things turned to custard frequently during Bridges' reign as Leader of the Opposition. His first year was tarnished by leaks, constant rumblings of a leadership coup and the Jami-Lee Ross saga. He'd just got his poll numbers back up earlier this year when COVID hit, and was rolled before having a chance to lead his party into an election campaign. That job fell to Judith Collins.
Collins promised to get the party back on track, but failed - getting just 26.8 percent of the vote (not including specials). National's lowest poll result under Bridges was 29 percent - and that saw him rolled. Collins has said she has no plans to step down, despite her leadership seeing the party drop at least 21 seats.
"The reality is we had a really tough night, but we had a constructive caucus meeting this week and New Zealand needs an effective Opposition," said Bridges. "We've got to regroup and rebuild, and be strong."
Bridges and Parker on The AM Show. Photo credit: The AM Show
He shut down questions around whether he could have done better than Collins.
"I'm not going to get into that. No, no no. I'm not going to get into that sort of stuff."
Parker was happy to though.
"I've got an answer to that. The answer is yes."
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Former TERI chief RK Pachauri passes away after prolonged heart ailment
Pachauri headed the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
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Top UN officials urge US to revoke blacklisting of Yemen's Houthis, warn of famine
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US designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels as ‘terrorists’ may also impede the flow of much-needed aid, agencies say.
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U.N. climate chief looks to Biden to boost global action
A swift resurgence in U.S. leadership under President-Elect Joe Biden and wealthy nations fulfilling a promise of cash for poorer countries could galvanise action on climate change this year, the United Nations climate chief said on Tuesday.
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U.N., aid agencies decry U.S. Yemen decision
The outgoing U.S. administration is to designate Yemen's Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, a move the United Nations warned could have serious repercussions for peace talks and efforts to combat the world's largest humanitarian crisis. Matthew Larotonda reports
Nobel Peace Prize One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel
World Food Program Receives Nobel Peace Prize
The humanitarian organisation received the award via an online ceremony on December 10th.
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WFP receives Nobel Peace Prize in virtual ceremony
At least 270 million people around the world - equivalent to the combined populations of Germany, Britain, France and Italy - stand on the brink of starvation.
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Ethiopians cross to Sudan to flee fighting in northern Tigray region
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, on Sunday gave the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) 72 hours to surrender -- an ultimatum rejected by the leader of the dissident region, who has said his people are "ready to die" for their homeland.View on euronews
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Natura to Launch New Rec Brand: 13 Leaves
Natura Naturals
TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2018 /CNW/ - Natura Naturals Inc. ("Natura"), a licensed cultivator of cannabis located in Leamington, Ontario has announced today that they will enter the recreational cannabis market. Natura's new recreational brand,13 Leaves, was created to provide high quality, medicinal-grade cannabis to discerning and conscientious recreational users.
13 Leaves (CNW Group/Natura Naturals)
"We want to celebrate legalization and show our support of responsible, recreational cannabis use in Canada with a behind-the-scenes look at our recreational brand,13 Leaves" stated Ben Nikolaevsky, President and CEO of Natura. "13 Leaves caters to a more mature and confident demographic looking to rekindle their relationship with cannabis or discover new ways to elevate their life experiences."
While full strain profiles will be unveiled closer to the launch of 13 Leaves, Natura is excited to share the following preview of their new recreational brand:
We believe there is strength in numbers.
13 Leaves is the sum of 40 years of experience; it's also the maximum number of leaflets a cannabis plant will grow under ideal conditions. For us, strength in numbers goes beyond our history, quality and efficacy, it's the reason we align our values with those of environmentally conscious Canadians. After decades of working hand-in-hand with Mother Nature, we've discovered the perfect ratio of natural, sun-grown hydroponic methods, and proprietary, state-of-the-art technology; the result is premium cannabis with a smaller carbon footprint – and we've got the numbers to prove it. We do everything by the numbers because your experience with cannabis is our number one.
Natura is working toward Health Canada approval of their sales license for the end of 2018. Official launch and sales information to follow.
For more information, please visit: www.naturanaturals.com
About Natura Naturals Inc.
Based in Leamington, Ontario, Natura Naturals Inc. is a licensed cultivator of cannabis in accordance with the Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations. The Company's cultivation facility is capable of producing plants in a 662,000+ square foot greenhouse facility under optimal growing conditions. Natura grows high-quality hydroponic cannabis which can be used for various medical and recreational applications. Natura has an extensive genetics library and continues to develop innovative products for the Canadian and International marketplace. Natura is authorized by Health Canada to sell bulk lots of cannabis to other Licensed Producers in Canada.
SOURCE Natura Naturals
For further information: For media inquiries only please contact: Alexander C. Logie, SVP Business Development, Natura Naturals Inc., (647) 216-8997, [email protected]
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Home Culture 2017 Nobel Prize For Chemistry Goes To This Masterminds
2017 Nobel Prize For Chemistry Goes To This Masterminds
Amit Pandey
Nobel Prize, 2017
Swiss researcher Jacques Dubochet and Americans Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the Nobel prize for chemistry this year. The prize was awarded for developing cryo-electron microscopy, which simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules. Therefore this new method starts a new era of biochemistry.
Scientific background on the 2017 #NobelPrize in Chemistry ”The development of cryo-electron microscopy”: https://t.co/K20ncnqoOW
“Researchers can now freeze biomolecules mid-movement and visualise processes they have never previously seen, which is decisive for both the basic understanding of life’s chemistry and for the development of pharmaceuticals.”
Cryo-EM makes it possible to portray biomolecules after freezing them very fast (vitrification method) so its natural shape is preserved. pic.twitter.com/SXgeAVUk24
It was the third Nobel prize of 2017.
Nobel prize for physics went to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for detecting gravitational waves and Medicine Prize went to three Americans studying circadian rhythms — Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.
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Brand New Pontiac Solstice Coupe For Sale: Have You Ever Seen One?
by Thom Taylor on May 16, 2020
As soon as the Pontiac brand was killed you knew the Solstice coupe would someday be highly collectible. That’s because Pontiac had just started producing them. When Pontiac’s run was over only 1,200 Solstice coupes had been made. Have you ever seen one in the wild? It seems like few of them became transportation. Instead, they got parked to increase their value which is the case with this coupe for sale. It has only 23 miles on the ticker. For $63,000 it can be yours.
The price may seem high, but the circumstances surrounding these coupes make them unique in the annals of GM history. Most brands within corporations get phased out of existence. The last Packards, Desotos, Mercurys, Plymouths, and Oldsmobiles were all slowly starved to death in a planned death march. Not so for Pontiac.
Pontiac had future plans, many models, and new products including the Solstice coupe
Pontiac had future plans, many models, and new products including the Solstice coupe. Its demise came at the hands of the government in the turmoil of GM going bankrupt. It’s abrupt and unusual end meant the Solstice coupe would become an instant collectible.
Interestingly, the next-to-last Oldsmobile ever made is also for sale right now. But it is a typical end-of-production four-door sedan. It’s a nothing car as most cars are at the end of a brand’s life. What’s unique about it is it was the next-to-last Oldsmobile. But other than that it’s like probably 200,000 other four-door Olds sedans just like it.
It’s a sporty coupe with a manual transmission, rear-wheel-drive, and zoomy looks
The Solstice coupe is more aspirational. It’s a sporty coupe with a manual transmission, rear-wheel-drive, and zoomy looks. Sure, it’s a “parts-bin” car but that was the whole point and part of its legacy. When uber-product genius Bob Lutz saw the sketches by future Tesla design head Franz Von Holzhausen he saw an opportunity.
First, the roadster and coupe would juice up Pontiac’s lineup. And, he could use it as a way to get other GM products to market quicker by raiding different division’s parts bins. GM is a huge company making lots of components. Why reinvent the wheel when there are plenty of combinations available already? This was a way to spotlight the idea of internally sharing components to reduce development time and costs.
GM was on a collision course to bankruptcy
GM was on a collision course to bankruptcy. But the more unique cars you can squeak out the better your chances of increasing profits. And the less development costs the higher the margins. So, the Solstice is not a great car by average standards. But it’s a great car for what it represents, how it looks, and in this case how many were expected to be produced and actually were. That number being only 1,200.
RELATED: Cancelling The Pontiac Solstice Was A Mistake
On the plus side, this coupe is a GXP model. That means it got the 260 hp turbocharged 2.0-liter engine, limited-slip diff, and other bits unique to the GXP. On the downside, this one is an automatic transmission model. The chances of it being a stick were low as only 287 GXP coupes were made.
There will always be rarer, better, and more interesting collectible cars than the Solstice coupe. But its back story and pluses outweigh most other cars from the first decade of the new millennium. What would you pay for one?
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
Co-Vid Blog
The Quarantine Diaries: Farewell & Let's Celebrate!
Hey Party People in da House,
I'll start with the great news, and descend from there. We're having a party and you're invited!
CVR's Senior Send-Off 2020 - An Insta-Adieu to say Farewell
I've been telling you all along that GRAD AND PROM are not cancelled, just postponed. The CVR staff and community have made a commitment to honour the accomplishments of the Class of 2020 as soon as it is safe to do so, sometime in the fall probably. We are discussing what these would look like, but no decisions have been made, so please don't listen to any gossip or rumors going around town.
In the meantime, CVR staff have wanted to do something to send you off in style. So we have planned a last day at school of sorts. It's a Senior Send-Off on July 4th from 1-6. This is a mini-celebration for you to say a proper goodbye to the school and staff, along with a few surprises up our sleeves. Told ya we were up to something!
See the invitation left and note to students explaining the details. Once you book your time slot by the deadline, you will then get an email with more details about how to proceed on the day and a few things we have in store for you! Due to public health guidelines there's a cap of 10 students per 30-minute appointment. So you can plan your attendance and your group of 10 accordingly. I really hope you'll be able to join us so we can see your faces again! Register here by Friday, June 26, 2020.
Final Marks
The Minister has clarified a few things. For grade 11 the following is true for now:
Term 3 'marks' will read as one of the following comments: successful, not successful, or not evaluated (NE) per competency per subject. This comment has no mathematical weight. Final marks will be represented as a % grade, calculated as follows: Term 1 counts for 40% and term 2 counts for 60%. The teacher will use what you did from February to March 12, and anything you did in these last 5 weeks which were evaluated, plus anything you did between March 12 and May 11 which was optional and not evaluated. Then, the teacher, using their professional judgment, will determine the final overall grade and express it as a % mark. Both term 3 comment and final mark will be on your final school report card accessible on the portal by mid-July or so.
Ministry report cards will be sent out in late July. Right now they will transform your final % grade into a comment: either successful or not successful.
For now, this is what we know and are working toward. If it changes, you'll be informed.
Well we've reached the end of the school year. It definitely was not the year end any of us had planned, but there is some comfort in the fact that it is over. This will be the final official weekly check-in/update, as classes end on the 23rd. You may get the odd information from the office, but this will be my sign off. It has been a singular pleasure getting to know and work with you all this year. You are a very special group of people.
Bad news for me: Sons of Anarchy is only on Netflix Canada for season 1. AARGH. But I found another crime procedural set in Scotland called Shetland which I am enjoying. For some reason, I've been on a crime procedural bender for the last couple of years. Maybe it's that everything gets wrapped up? There's a satisfaction to that I must need in my life somehow. That's for Dr.Phil to figure out! At any rate, there's nothing like a Scottish accent! I did see a turtle the other day, so She-Ron (which Ms. Hardy tells me is probably a crane) and He-Ron have some company. There's also a cute family of little duckies hanging out in the marsh. But the turtle sighting is new. I need to name him - Tootle? Shellie? Slo-Poke? Hmm.
I hope that you are taking the time to appreciate your surroundings, and are looking forward to the summer and next year and the new adventures open to you. Now that some limits on gatherings and businesses are opening up, I hope you'll find yourselves getting out there again (safely), not being too afraid of it, and resuming life as we knew it one small step at a time. I've never appreciated my routine so much as when it was gone. But I don't want to be afraid of it starting up again in September either. This is a delicate balance indeed.
And with that I say my in-print goodbye for the year:
Remember to register for your send-off, because:
BUT: (public health permitting)
So for now:
See you July 4th, in the meantime:
I beseech you to:
Congratulations and all the best,
Ms. Sauve
June 17: Farewell & Let's Celebrate!
Email to Students & Parents
June 10: Watch Something
June 3: Trivia and News
May 26: Poetic Inspiration
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April 30: Week 7 Check-in
April 25: Write Something
April 19: Cook Something
April 14: Make Something
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THIS YEAR'S SHOW
202o season
"Way Out West in a Dress"
Life's a Hurdle when You're Wearing a Girdle!
“Way Out West in a Dress” is our 39th year of production, and young actor Clarence Rawlins’s falsetto voice isn’t the only ’false’ thing about him after he gets himself and his acting troupe into a little debacle in Lucky Lady, Nevada. Discovering that he has misread his distant aunt’s handwritten will, Clarence learns he has not inherited a profitable saloon, as expected, but instead the Lucky Lady Salon, a beauty parlor. Flat broke, Clarence has no choice but to raid the costume trunk and transform himself into a down-on-her-luck British aristocrat, Lady Claire Rawl, now head hair stylist of the small town’s only salon.
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Leena Kejriwal, a well known photographer has captured Calcutta through her lens and takes you through a pilgrim route from north to south Calcutta, taking the reader through the various facets of the city, its people, its landmarks, its communities, its grand past and its could be better present, its natives, its immigrants, its history, its rituals, its celebrities, its streets, its religion, its artisans and craftsmen, its culture, its everyday life, its richness along with its emptiness, its nature and most of all its vibrant colours.
Calcutta : Repossessing the City
Leena Kejriwal
Om Books International
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Investigation of the Department of Corrections in relation to the detention and treatment of prisoners
Systemic investigations Fri 2 Dec 2005
Under the Ombudsmen Act 1975, it is a function of the Ombudsmen to investigate complaints relating to matters of administration affecting persons in their personal capacity against various bodies, including the Department of Corrections (the Department). Pursuant to this Act, the Ombudsmen have power to investigate complaints by prisoners about all aspects of their detention by the Department. At the end of 2004 serious issues related to the treatment of prisoners came to public attention.
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Georgia Tech Participates in NSF Aerosol Study
Georgia Tech students participated in the largest U.S. atmospheric chemistry field project in decades -- the Southeast Atmosphere Study (SAS). The summer initiative brought together dozens of national and international institutions. The research teams used instrumentation onboard aircraft and ground sites aimed to better understand how chemicals emitted by human activities and plants interact with each other and affect air quality and climate in the southeastern United States. For more informati
Cranfield MSc Strategic Marketing Retailing and Multichannel Management module introduction
Dr Tamira King introduces the Cranfield MSc Strategic Marketing Retailing and Multichannel Management module.
1.4 Stellar masses and stellar evolution
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Blog Tour: Escape To The Riviera by Jules Wake – Extract and Review
Published July 5, 2016 | By Laura
It’s lovely to welcome Jules Wake to the blog today and her blog tour for her latest novel, Escape To The Riviera which was released by Avon on 30th June 2016.
Carrie Hayes has a job she enjoys and a perfectly nice boyfriend. She’s sorted. Isn’t she?
But Carrie’s life wasn’t always like this. As a young, wild drama student, she married fellow actor, Richard Maddox, after a whirlwind romance. Life back then was full of possibilities, but when Hollywood beckoned Richard, Carrie was left behind.
Now an A-list superstar, Richard’s life couldn’t be more different to Carrie’s, so when their paths cross in glamorous
St Tropez, she can’t help but wonder what might have been.
But with lovely, sensible Alan in tow, Carrie knows she needs to do the right thing. The only problem is, Carrie and Richard never quite got round to getting a divorce…
My review on the book is below but first, Jules has very kindly shared an extract from Escape To The Riviera with us. Enjoy.
‘Jade!’
‘I’ll catch you up.’
Carrie decided this was a lost battle and it would be better if she left – and quickly, before Richard turned around and linked the two of them together. Would he remember Jade from all those years ago?
She hurried down the street, fighting the temptation to take one last look back. A few streets later, a piercing stitch stabbing into her side forced her to stop. Her whole body hurt but it had nothing to do with the stitch. Her face crumpled and she bent double trying to ease the pain.
‘I say, are you alright?’
Jade loomed over her. ‘You look terrible.’
For Jade to notice, she must have looked horrendous.
Now that she stopped, dizziness overcame her and she swayed on the spot, praying that the light-headed sensation would recede. With her knees trembling and nausea dancing in the pit of her belly, she wondered if she might pass out. It had to be shock. Her body reacting after the see-sawing of emotions she’d put it through this morning. The up of fearful anticipation and down of abject relief.
‘Auntie Carrie,’ Jade’s voice held a note of panic. ‘Are you okay? Can I . . . Shall I . . .’
Uncertainty flashed in her expression.
‘I’m fine. Just a bit faint. Probably too much heat.’ She wasn’t going to confess to Jade, it was more likely a post- shock, adrenaline hangover. The aggressive punch of chemicals which had rolled through her system, setting all her senses on alert, had now evaporated like a magic genie rescinding its powers, leaving her with an overwhelming sense of being unutterably tired. She clung to a nearby wrought-iron hand rail.
‘Are you sure?’ asked Jade doubtfully.
‘Let me catch my breath a minute. I’ve overdone it, that’s all. Too much sun. Not enough fluids.’ Carrie sounded like an aged great aunt well into her dotage rather than an auntie scant years older than her niece. There were plenty of occa- sions when Carrie had been taken for Jade’s older sister. As for fluids, she could do with a shot of something to put some fire back.
‘Do you want me to get Mum?’
‘No, I’m fine, honestly. I . . . let’s get back to the car.’ The sooner they got away the better.
‘If you’re sure.’ Doubt filled Jade’s face.
Despite the sick sensation churning around her stomach, which was stupid, it wasn’t as if she’d got up close and personal to real danger, she picked up her pace and almost marched down the hill back to the car park. Every now and then she threw anxious looks back over her shoulder.
Jade threw open the back passenger door and hurled herself in, pushing her phone out to her mother. ‘Guess who we saw? Look I got a selfie with him. Richard Maddox. Isn’t he gorgeous? He’s even more gorgeous in the flesh, isn’t he, Caz?’
‘You saw Richard?’ Angela’s eyes went wide, studying Carrie with concern.
‘Oh God, yes,’ said Carrie, limp in her seat, now that she’d reached the air-conditioned haven of the car. She put her head in her hands and leaned over her knees. ‘I walked right into him.’ Reliving the moment as she told her sister was every bit as bad as the moment it happened.
She straightened up and took a peek at herself in the mirror before turning to Angela. ‘What a nightmare.’
Jade leaned through the gap between the passenger and driver seats, like a fox scenting a chicken, her nose almost quivering.
‘I don’t believe it.’ Carrie rubbed at her forehead as if that might dissipate the band of tension which had tightened around her forehead. ‘Blood, bloody, bad luck.’
‘Why? I don’t understand.’ Jade flicked through her screen. ‘I got two pictures with him and they’re both great. I’m going to WhatsApp them now to Becky, Charlotte and Eliza.
Carrie groaned, still unable to believe what had happened. Jade caught her eye in the mirror. ‘Hang on.’ Her eyes narrowed and she examined Carrie. ‘Have I missed something?’
Angela looked from Carrie to Jade and back again. ‘Mum? What’s going on?’
With a sigh, Carrie said, ‘Let’s wait until we get home.’ She gripped the steering wheel with purpose. ‘I need to concentrate on driving and finding our way back.’
‘Why can’t you tell me now?’ whined Jade.
‘Because,’ snapped Carrie.
My verdict on Escape To The Riviera:
Carrie believes herself to be happy. She teaches drama, is dating fellow teacher, Alan and lives with her sister Angela and niece, Jade. When the three girls get a chance to spend a month in a villa in the south of France for free, Carrie jumps at the chance to get away although her sister initially doesn’t know her ulterior motive. She needs to track down the Hollywood A-lister she married over eight years previously. The couple didn’t get around to getting a divorce and now she is engaged to Alan, things need to be sorted ASAP. What she doesn’t count on is how she feels when she sees Richard Maddox again after so long.
This book was such a lovely escape from all this horrible and unpredictable weather. Jules Wake paints such a gorgeous, clear picture of the south of France I am getting ready to move there. It all sounded amazing. The style of writing makes this book very easy to fall into and I mean that in all the positive ways. It’s effortless.
I immediately wanted to know more about these characters – who they were and what was going to happen to them. I found Jade a little sulky but I think with her being a teenager that was kind of the point.
Carrie is a complicated character who feels that she should have the weight of the world on her shoulders. Some of this is self inflicted to stop herself from having to make some of the important decisions in her life and for that, she is a little frustrating and lovable all at the same time.
Richard is a likeable hero. There is nothing wrong with Alan either. Just all the way through, I felt like she belonged with Richard.
There wasn’t a moment that dragged for me in this novel. I really did feel like I was on holiday and that feeling is never bad.
This book was great and is perfect if you want to get away from this horrible weather (even if it’s only in your head.) It’s also pretty perfect to take away with you on holiday too. A lovely summer book (and a beautiful cover too.)
The blog tour continues tomorrow over at Handwritten Girl: http://handwrittengirl.com/
A bout Jules:
Jules considers herself an honorary Yorkshire woman living in the Chilterns, who still misses proper hills.
She has always wanted to be a writer and blames this on her Grandmother taking her at a young age to the Brontes’ parsonage at Haworth.
After reading English at the University of East Anglia, her working life began in the glamorous, but deeply shallow world of PR, where she honed her fiction writing skills on press releases and other copy-writing projects.
Creative writing has always been a passion lurking within and after completing a course, Jules set up the Tring Writers Circle.
With her eldest having now taken flight to university Jules is hoping to have even more time to devote to writing She has four published novels thus far.
To find out more about Jules, visit: http://www.juleswake.co.uk/
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Far west gets boosted arts and cultural support
Far west gets boosted arts…
NSW Nationals Upper House MP Sam Farraway has announced communities in Barwon will receive $135,000 in funding through Round 2 of the Government’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program.
Local organisations such as the Broken Hill Historical Society Inc were included in 74 successful projects sharing in over $2.7 million as part of the second round of Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program across Project, Annual Organisation and Creative Koori categories, on behalf of the NSW Nationals in Government.
Mr Farraway said that the Barwon electorate welcomed the support through the revised funding program that was designed to deliver a dynamic and diverse range of arts and cultural experiences to communities across NSW, and contribute to the development of vibrant and accessible art and cultural sector.
“I’m delighted to see Opera in the Pilliga supported by the NSW Nationals in Government, which I know is one of many projects reflecting the rich diversity of the State and our region,” Mr Farraway said.
“This funding is critical now more than ever during these challenging times, as we work to support and develop our local arts and cultural professionals and rebuild the sector. I look forward to seeing all of these projects come to life.”
The Arts and Cultural Funding Program provides funding opportunities for small to medium arts and cultural organisations, professional artists and arts and cultural workers across a wide range of artforms and disciplines, through two open rounds for the Project, Annual Organisation and Creative Koori Projects categories.
A full list of Round Two recipients is available at www.create.nsw.gov.au.
For further information about arts and cultural funding, including the NSW Nationals in Government’s $50 million Rescue and Restart package and additional $6.34 million support for arts and cultural organisations impacted by COVID-19, visit www.create.nsw.gov.au.
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Knicks must take pass on injured Thunder star Kevin Durant
By Frank Isola
CELTICS 96, KNICKS 92
The news regarding Kevin Durant continues to get worse. The NBA's reigning MVP is done for the season after the Oklahoma City Thunder announced on Friday that Durant will need another surgery to repair a broken bone in his foot.
For those scoring at home, this will be Durant's third such operation since October. You don't need Bill Walton or Brook Lopez to tell you that all those foot surgeries can be game changers. For Durant's sake and the sake of basketball fans everywhere you want him to come back as good as ever.
The Thunder remains optimistic that in six months Durant will be as good as new. Of course, last month OKC management sugar coated Durant's latest setback only to see things get worse, not better. Yao Ming had foot issues and was forced into an early retirement. Zydrunas Illgauskas experienced foot problems early in his career but still managed to produce a rather productive career.
You want to believe that Durant, a brilliant player and class guy, has a long career ahead of him as well. But Durant's injury should provide Phil Jackson and the Knicks some clarity as they head into this summer and next summer with available cap space to sign free agents.
Phil Jackson and the Knicks should stay away from Kevin Durant. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News)
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The Knicks fell to 14-59 following Friday's 96-92 loss to the Boston Celtics. A loss on Saturday to Jackson's former club, the Chicago Bulls, would represent the Knicks first 60-loss season in franchise history. And Durant thinks he's had it rough.
The smart money says Durant's foot will recover quicker than Jackson's Knicks. Considering what transpired on Friday, the prudent plan would be to stop dreaming of signing Durant 16 months from now and build the right way; with this year's lottery pick and quality free agents, even if they have to be so called second tier free agents. The Knicks need to start building a team, not a fantasy league roster.
What the Knicks can ill afford to do is hand over a max contract to an All Star with a checkered medical history. Allan Houston became the franchise's first $100 million man 14 years ago and right on cue his knees gave out. It took the Knicks nearly seven years to escape that abyss.
News is not good for Thunder star Kevin Durant, who is expected to miss 4-to-6 months after announcing Friday that he will have bone graft surgery next week to treat a fracture in his right foot. (Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images)
In 2010, the Knicks ignored the warning signs regarding Amar'e Stoudemire's health and made him the club's newest $100 million savior. By the third year of his contract, Stoudemire began breaking down just as the Phoenix Suns' doctors told Steve Kerr he would.
Last July, Jackson and Garden chairman James Dolan went all in on Carmelo Anthony, signing him to a massive $124 million deal, and by the second game of the season Melo began experiencing knee soreness. Anthony's year ended last month on the operating table.
When Jackson spoke with reporters two weeks ago in Los Angeles he suggested that the Knicks will rebuild through free agency, not the NBA Draft. Jackson, who turns 70 in September, wants to win now, especially with this year's epic failure on his resume.
Championships are a part of Jackson's legacy. He modestly called his latest book, "Eleven Rings" and there is nothing Jackson wants more than to make it an even dozen before he calls it quits, which could be sooner rather than later.
In October, Kevin Durant sits on the bench with a cast on his foot. (Don Ryan/AP)
Long suffering Knicks fans want a title just as badly as Jackson. But if the Zen Master wants to really enhance his legacy he can do it by putting together a team that a perennial contender for a decade as opposed to rolling the dice on instant success.
Just because you can throw gobs of money at free agents doesn't mean you have to. And just because you have money and the lure of a big market doesn't mean you're going to land the big fish. LeBron James was a free agent twice in the last five years. He changed teams twice. And never had any desire to rescue the Knicks.
There is no guarantee that Durant will leave Oklahoma City. Despite the market size, Durant has more endorsements than he'll ever need. Plus, his hometown Wizards could be in play in 2016. And don't ever count out the Lakers or Pat Riley and the Miami Heat.
The Knicks have been down this road before. They dream big, overpay for the consolation prize and then start all over once their max player falls apart.
Doesn't mean Durant will. But the Knicks, who have won one playoff series since 2000, can't afford to take that risk.
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Sri Lanka tycoon suspected of helping sons in suicide bombings
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Police are holding the father of two Sri Lanka suicide bombers on suspicion of aiding and abetting his sons, as an international investigation continues into the devastating terror attacks which left at least 359 people dead across the country, CNN reports.
Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim was arrested Sunday, April 21 following attacks at hotels and churches. His adult sons, Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim and Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim, blew themselves up in Sunday's attacks.
On Thursday, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said their father, Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim, was is in custody on suspicion of aiding and abetting his sons. Gunasekera added that all other members of the Ibrahim family are believed to be in custody.
Meanwhile, a huge international criminal investigation is ramping up in Sri Lanka, with six foreign police agencies and Interpol assisting local police, including Scotland Yard from the UK and the FBI from the US.
Gunasekera told CNN that officers from Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) have raided five safe houses across the country in connection with Sunday's attacks. Those locations have since been sealed for forensic investigation.
More than 70 suspects have been taken into custody on a range of charges, including suspicion of terrorism, aiding and abetting terrorism and conspiracy to commit terrorism, Gunasekera said. Four high level suspects are being held by TID, and 33 are being held by CID, he added.
Of those arrested, four suspects are female, and all are Muslims. Gunasekera said most of them are family members and friends of the suspected suicide bombers. None of those arrested are foreigners.
Significant raids were carried out on Wednesday night, he added, in which 16 people were arrested at various locations, most near the capital Colombo. Three shotguns and two walkie-talkies were also seized.
As police continue to investigate how a previously little known terror group managed to pull off a huge and coordinated series of attacks, Gunasekera also revealed that police had confirmed that an explosion in the predominantly Muslim area of Kathankudi, in eastern Sri Lanka, in early April was a test run by the terrorists. In that explosion they blew up a motorcycle.
On Thursday, police said search operations were currently underway across Colombo, including the setting up of roadblocks.
Police have asked the public not to panic, a police spokesman said.
Sri Lanka remains on high alert and numerous controlled demolitions have been carried out of suspicious packages and vehicles in recent days. However, Gunasekera said that he did not believe the controlled demolitions on Thursday were of actual explosives.
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By Sadiq Suleman
The current lockdown due to the coronavirus has made a significant toll on the mental health of people across the world. People have been doing some strange activities. Some are doing this out of boredom while others due to pure desperation.
Within this context, a weird incident occurred in India. During this lockdown in India, a mother in Ghaziabad sent her son to get groceries for home. Instead, the son came home with a bride.
Source: India Today
According to a report by an Indian news channel, the mother was shocked to learn that her son Guddu married secretly. She denied him entry into the house when he brought his newly-wed bride home. The mother then went to the police and complained about her son. This weird incident happened in Sahibabad, an area in Ghaziabad District of Uttar Pradesh.
‘I am not ready to accept this marriage’
Talking to an Indian news channel, the mother said, “I had sent my son to do the grocery shopping today. However, when he returned, he came back with his wife. I am not ready to accept this marriage.”
Mother sent son to buy grocery, he returned with a bride. Mom didn’t allow them to enter the house, took them to police station. Couple has no proof that they got married. The priest who got them married told them he can give a certificate only after the lockdown. 😀#UP ki batein pic.twitter.com/MPQG1MQaQY
— Smita Prakash (@smitaprakash) April 29, 2020
Guddu decided to bring his wife home. The decision was directly prompted by the lockdown. Savita, his wife, had been asked to empty her in Delhi in which she was staying during the lockdown.
He said, “Today, I decided to bring her to my mother’s house as she was told to leave the rented accommodation due to lockdown.”
The wedding took place at an Arya Samaj Mandir in Hardwar two months ago, and the newlyweds are hopeful of getting a marriage certificate once the lockdown is lifted.
Guddu, 26, further added, “We could not get the marriage certificate at that time due to lack of witnesses. I had decided to visit Haridwar again but could not due to the lockdown.”
The Sahibabad police tried to give a solution to this issue. The police asked Savita’s house owner in Delhi to let the couple stay there during the lockdown period.
India observes a strict lockdown
In March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a total lockdown in India to combat the deadly coronavirus. The crucial step has been taken by the government for preventing the spread of Covid-19 across the country. The lockdown was further extended till May 3.
The Indian government also issued a notification. It stated that all essential services would remain open. Moreover, all medicines and essential commodities would be available. As of April 30, the total number of coronavirus cases in India has now increased to 33,050. The total number of recovered cases stands at 8,325 while a total of 1,074 deaths.
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Florida Guide > Other Activities
After many trips to Florida over the years, we are always looking for something new and different to try. Despite passing by many times and wondering what it would be like we had never sampled a dinner show, so last time we decided to tick it off our list and give it a try.
After reading the reviews we decided to go to Medieval Times, along the 192 heading east, and booked our tickets for the show. In our party were 3 generations, grandma, ourselves, and children aged 12 and 6, so we were hoping it would be suitable for all ages.
The show was due to start at 7pm, and we were advised to arrive at least an hour before. This was good advice, as it gave us a chance to tour the medieval village before the show.
The medieval village is spread across several buildings, and gives you a sample of the various trades, clothing, battle wear and lifestyle of that period. The last section we came to was ‘The Dungeon’, where there were gruesome exhibits of the various forms of torture used in that time, which the children enjoyed learning about very much! The village is well worth a visit and very interesting.
Just before 7pm we made our way to the castle, where we queued to relinquish our tickets and find out where we were going to be sitting. We were given a row number, a red crown each to wear and found out we were to be in the red section, and the red knight was ‘our’ knight to support during the show. We then proceed to an enormous hall, where you could buy souvenirs and drinks from the bar in a various assortment of themed glasses.
The ‘kings’ trumpeters then gave a fanfare and the host announced it was time to enter the arena for the banquet and show.
When red section was called we were directed to our tables in rows facing the arena, where we were served with soup and garlic bread, which was very nice. We were also offered either soft drinks or beer (2 throughout the show, which was more than adequate), or you could purchase alternative drinks from the bar. The main course was half a roast chicken, a rib, and baked potato, followed by a pastry and coffee, all very well cooked and we all enjoyed it. No cutlery is used, but this just adds to the atmosphere!
The show itself follows a story of romance, competition and treachery, and we were treated to some fantastic displays of horsemanship, jousting and sword fighting, made all the more fun by cheering for ‘our’ knight, and booing the ‘baddies’ and competitors knights. The show lasted for approximate an hour and a half.
We all agreed that it was a great night out, and the children are still talking about it now.
We are now looking forward to our next trip, where we will definitely have a dinner show on our list of things to do!
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Title: Displaced vertex signature of type-I seesaw model
A certain class of new physics models includes long-lived particles which are singlet under the standard model (SM) gauge group. A displaced vertex is a spectacular signature to probe such particles productions at the high energy colliders, with a negligible SM background. In the context of the minimal gauged B-L extended SM, we consider a pair creation of Majorana right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) at the high energy colliders through the production of the SM and the B-L Higgs bosons and their subsequent decays into RHNs. With parameters reproducing the neutrino oscillation data, we show that the RHNs are long-lived and their displaced vertex signature can be observed at the next generation displaced vertex search experiments, such as the HL-LHC, the MATHUSLA, the LHeC, and the FCC-eh. In conclusion, we find that the lifetime of the RHNs is controlled by the lightest light neutrino mass, which leads to a correlation between the displaced vertex search and the search limit of the future neutrinoless double beta-decay experiments.
Jana, Sudip; Okada, Nobuchika; Raut, Digesh
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
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OSTI ID: 1457542
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arXiv:1804.06828; OSU-HEP-18-02; FERMILAB-PUB-18-176-T
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 035023
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SC0012447; SC0016013; AC02-07CH11359
Journal Article: Published Article
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Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 98 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Jana, Sudip, Okada, Nobuchika, and Raut, Digesh. Displaced vertex signature of type-I seesaw model. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035023.
Jana, Sudip, Okada, Nobuchika, & Raut, Digesh. Displaced vertex signature of type-I seesaw model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035023
Jana, Sudip, Okada, Nobuchika, and Raut, Digesh. Thu . "Displaced vertex signature of type-I seesaw model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035023.
title = {Displaced vertex signature of type-I seesaw model},
author = {Jana, Sudip and Okada, Nobuchika and Raut, Digesh},
abstractNote = {A certain class of new physics models includes long-lived particles which are singlet under the standard model (SM) gauge group. A displaced vertex is a spectacular signature to probe such particles productions at the high energy colliders, with a negligible SM background. In the context of the minimal gauged B-L extended SM, we consider a pair creation of Majorana right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) at the high energy colliders through the production of the SM and the B-L Higgs bosons and their subsequent decays into RHNs. With parameters reproducing the neutrino oscillation data, we show that the RHNs are long-lived and their displaced vertex signature can be observed at the next generation displaced vertex search experiments, such as the HL-LHC, the MATHUSLA, the LHeC, and the FCC-eh. In conclusion, we find that the lifetime of the RHNs is controlled by the lightest light neutrino mass, which leads to a correlation between the displaced vertex search and the search limit of the future neutrinoless double beta-decay experiments.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035023},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1464848}, journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 3,
volume = 98,
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“The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is to help create awareness about how the use of the Internet and ICT is and will be an important catalyst in bringing about change in societies and economies. Zong 4G is determined in bridging the digital divide and effectively helping the Government of Pakistan realize its vision of a digital Pakistan. With coverage in over 300+ cities, Zong 4G is aggressively augmenting its network to reach every nook and corner of the country”
Commenting on the World Telecom Day, CEO Zong 4G Mr. Wang Hua said,
“In light of the COVID19 outbreak, our CSR strategy for COVID19 has been developed with an eye on long-term and far reaching impacts. We are fully determined in this fight against coronavirus through multi-stakeholder partnerships that support access to critical needs during these challenging times. At China Mobile, we fully understand our role as a responsible and honest corporate entity in the communities we operate in and we will continue investing in Pakistan and in providing the best-in-class services and products to our Zong family”, he continued.
As part of the World’s largest Telecom, China Mobile (CMCC), and Zong 4G is in a unique position to implement the latest technologies and best-practices in Pakistan. Zong 4G will continue investing in the country to realize the vision of a digital Pakistan. To mark the day and to create awareness about the use of internet and ICT Zong 4G is running a special campaign on its social media channels today. Visit Zong 4G’s official’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Zongers/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/Zongers and learn how #Zong4GEmpowersYou on this #WorldTelecomDay.
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In a speech light on tech, Trump's immigration line provides hope
With help from Ashley Gold, Alex Byers and Theodoric Meyer
TRUMP SKIPS OVER TECH IN JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS — President Donald Trump largely side-stepped tech in his joint address to Congress, focusing more broadly on bringing back struggling American industries, renegotiating trade deals, tax reform and repealing and replacing Obamacare. This could raise questions on where issues of interest to the tech industry fall on the president’s priority list. He mentioned pricy national infrastructure plans multiple times, but did not enumerate plans for expanding broadband access — an initiative both Democrats and Republican lawmakers have said they’d like to see in any upcoming infrastructure package.
— On the immigration front, Trump said the U.S. should move to a “merit-based” system, a statement that could spark hope in tech companies looking to retain or even expand the H-1B high-skilled immigration program. And Trump again touted a line about companies like Sprint parent Softbank and Intel pledging new American jobs under the Trump administration — commitments that mostly predate any meetings with Trump. See POLITICO’s fact-check on that here.
— One bit that made us laugh was Trump’s nod to American innovations and possibilities at the end of the speech — telegraph and electric pen, anyone?
KEEPING A LOOKOUT FOR NEW IMMIGRATION ORDER — Trump is expected to sign a revised version of the executive order curbing the flow of refugees and immigration from a number of Muslim-majority countries soon (though it apparently won't be today as had been earlier anticipated). The previous order, opposed by the tech industry, has faced numerous legal challenges and was halted by a federal judge, a decision that was later upheld by an appeals court. The administration says the updated policy will be tailored to address the court’s concerns, while achieving the same results.
REPUBLICANS SPLIT ON PAID PRIORITIZATION — Ashley and Margaret have the story on a net neutrality flashpoint that has conservatives divided: “On one side, GOP lawmakers, like Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the new chairman of the House telecom subcommittee, are OK with letting internet service providers cut deals with websites for faster access to consumers, a concept known as ‘paid prioritization.’ But other powerful Republicans, like Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, consider the practice harmful to consumers and want to make it illegal. … Blackburn acknowledged this week she differs from Thune and House Energy & Commerce Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) on the issue, but expressed confidence they can ‘talk it through.’”
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING and welcome to Morning Tech, where we’ve gotten re-hooked on “The Bachelor” just in time for the three-hour (!!) finale. And, as always, catch the rest of the team’s contact info after Quick Downloads.
POLITICO Event — Future of the Wireless World: The Move to 5G — American firms are on the cusp of launching the first commercially-available production of ultra-fast mobile broadband that will transform the economy and spur innovation. How can policymakers enable this revolution while preserving competition and innovation? Speakers include FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly and more. District Architecture Center — 421 7th St. NW; Tuesday, March 7 — Doors at 8:00 a.m. RSVP: here.
SECTION 702 IN HOT SEAT — The House Judiciary Committee is scrutinizing the future of surveillance reform and Section 702 at a hearing this morning that’s intended to inform the committee’s decision on reauthorizing this portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Due to expire at the end of this year, Section 702 enables law enforcement agencies to target and monitor the communications of foreigners outside the U.S. While the first part of the panel, featuring testimony of officials from several agencies, is classified, we’ll be tracking the second (public) half.
— “America’s intelligence community has deemed Section 702 its most important tool in battling terrorism,” Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) will say, according to prepared remarks. “However, it has also been criticized by some as an overly broad program that collects communications of U.S. citizens without sufficient legal process.”
— A dozen civil society groups, including Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are asking Vera Jourová , the European commissioner for justice and consumers, to suspend the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield unless reforms are made to Section 702. “We urge you to ensure that the United States substantively reforms its surveillance laws this year to protect the rights of non-U.S. persons including Europeans,” they write. “Without meaningful surveillance reforms, we believe that it is your responsibility to … suspend the Privacy Shield.”
SENATE COMMERCE ADDS MORAN, WICKER AIDES — The Senate Commerce Committee is adding Crystal Tully and Cort Bush to its staff ranks, a personnel influx that follows the departure of two of the panel's tech aides in the last couple of months. Tully, formerly an aide to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), will join the committee as a counsel, while Bush, who comes from Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran's office, will serve as a professional staff member. The pair haven't landed yet; a committee spokesman did not make their start date public.
TODAY: EYES ON BROADBAND — Broadband will be one of the focuses of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing today examining access to infrastructure across the country. “While the U.S. is a global leader in broadband innovation and investment, millions of Americans still do not have access to the internet, most of them in rural communities,” Thune is expected to say, according to prepared remarks. Shirley Bloomfield, the CEO of NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, will testify.
— Next Century Cities urges broadband inclusion in Trump infrastructure plan: More than 60 mayors and community heads representing cities including Chattanooga, San Francisco and San Antonio are calling for broadband investment to be part of infrastructure legislation, with an emphasis on access and affordability, they write in a letter to President Trump and congressional leaders today.
A message from SoftBank Group:
Entrepreneurs of color are vastly underrepresented in the tech industry. That’s why SoftBank Group launched a new $100 million venture fund dedicated to supporting and building a community of outstanding Black, Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs. Learn more at TheOpportunityFund.com.
THUNE SAYS TIME IS TICKING ON CRA — Thune says time is running out for Congress to use the Congressional Review Act to roll back the FCC’s broadband privacy rules and that he expects action in “the not-too-distant future.” He told MT: “We’ve got a clock running if we are going to do something on CRAs, we have a limited amount of time in which to do it. There’s interest in both the House and the Senate. There’s also been action taken by the FCC, and I don’t think that negates the need for Congress to step in to weigh in, and we’re just looking at the best way to do that.”
TRUMP-CONNECTED LOBBYIST TO PUSH AGAINST UBER — Gotham Government Relations & Communications, the New York lobbying firm that helped organize Trump's campaign announcement in 2015, has signed its first federal clients since opening a Washington office. The firm will lobby for Taxi Fleet Management in its fight against Uber, according to Brad Gerstman, the firm's founding partner. Gerstman's connection to Trump wasn't part of the pitch, he said, but the client, which also works with the firm in New York, knew about Gotham’s work for Trump, which goes back to 2010. Gotham plans to lobby the Labor Department to look into whether Uber drivers should be classified as employees rather than contractors, as well as whether Uber is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Gerstman said. He also plans to lobby the Justice Department to look into whether Uber is doing enough to vet its drivers and prevent them from assaulting female passengers.
SPOTTED — House E&C Chair Greg Walden (R-Ore.) dining with telecom lobbyists, among others, at the Trump International Hotel on Tuesday night ahead of the president's address to Congress. Per an MT tipster, the groups represented included AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, CTIA and USTelecom.
TRANSITIONS — Brian Regan, former associate chief of the FCC wireless bureau, joins the policy and legal team at Starry as a senior director for legal, policy and strategy.
A fare fight? Uber CEO Travis Kalanick sent an internal email apologizing for yelling at a driver, who accused him of lowering fares, and said he was getting “leadership help,” Tony reports. The mea culpa follows a Bloomberg report that included a video of Kalanick and the driver.
YouTube’s television network: The video platform is unveiling an online cable bundle, with 40 major networks. VentureBeat reports.
Amazon web servers back up: After a major cloud storage glitch that affected many platforms including Slack and Netflix, the company says servers have recovered, GeekWire reports.
Tips, comments, suggestions? Send them along via email to our team: Alex Byers ([email protected], @byersalex), Eric Engleman ([email protected],@ericengleman), Angela Greiling Keane ([email protected], @agreilingkeane), Tony Romm ([email protected], @tonyromm), Nancy Scola ([email protected], @nancyscola), Margaret Harding McGill ([email protected], @margarethmcgill), Ashley Gold ([email protected], @ashleyrgold) and Li Zhou ([email protected], @liszhou)
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Charlie Hales
Charlie Hales was a Portland city commissioner, serving from 1993 through 2002. After leaving the City Council, he joined HDR Engineering as senior vice president, working on new light rail and streetcar lines.
Charlie Hales's Website
Latest Fact-checks of Charlie Hales
stated on July 18, 2012 in a newspaper article:
On suspending system development charges for two years.
By Ian K. Kullgren • July 20, 2012
stated on April 30, 2012 in a debate:
Says "I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door."
By Janie Har • May 5, 2012
Say that under state law, "systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment."
stated on March 28, 2012 in campaign material :
Says "I worked with our Mayor and other commissioners to help save the school year when a budget crisis in Salem threatened to cut four weeks of the school year," including negotiating with teachers to work for free.
By Janie Har • April 27, 2012
stated on February 12, 2012 in an interview.:
Says "streetcars carry more people than buses … you attract more riders who don't ride transit now, and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus."
By Ian K. Kullgren • April 3, 2012
Latest Fact-checks About Charlie Hales
Jefferson Smith
stated on April 30, 2012 in a debate :
Says "I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics."
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What Corinne Remembers From BIP Incident
Details Emerge About What Corinne Remembers From Bachelor In Paradise Incident
Caitlin Flynn
Last week, ABC abruptly halted Bachelor in Paradise filming due to allegations of "misconduct on set." Although details of the incident between Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson remain scarce, the issue of consent is at the center of the crisis that shut down production. Specifically, Olympios may have been too intoxicated to consent to a sexual encounter with Jackson that was caught on tape. Although no charges have been filed, Olympios has reportedly hired a lawyer and publicist to navigate the aftermath.
According to a statement released by Olympios earlier this week, she has little memory of the night in question but "something bad obviously took place."
A source who spoke exclusively to E! News has shared what Olympios does remember. She says her last memory from that night is taking a shot of tequila. According to Olympios, she was blacked out for the majority of the night, and she hasn't seen the tape of the incident with Jackson.
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The source also tells E! that Olympios remembers drinking two cups of champagne in the limo on the way to the set, as well as a dirty martini and one or two shots of tequila. She also barely ate throughout the day. The combination of extreme heat and alcohol consumption likely caused her to black out, the source says.
Some of Olympios' fellow cast members have told her that she was too intoxicated to walk and she fell down a flight of stairs. The source also says she fell face first in the Jacuzzi and is still covered in bruises, but has no recollection of these events.
E!'s source also says that Olympios didn't know she and Jackson would have a romantic storyline, and she had nothing to do with the complaint that was filed by a producer. They added that Olympios has spoken with the producer, who has since deleted their social media accounts and stopped answering phone calls.
The insider also reiterated what Olympios herself has stated: She wasn't capable of giving consent, and she wants to stand up for herself and other women who have been in the same situation.
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)
Requirements and Procedures
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Boston Medical Center
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Background Check Notice
The purpose of the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty to facilitate education of the nurses needed to address the nursing workforce shortage.
Regis makes loans from the fund made possible by a grant from the federal government. The program offers partial loan forgiveness for those borrowers that are accepted into a DNP program and graduate and serve as full time nursing faculty for a specific period of time. The loan recipients may cancel 85% of the loan over four years in return for serving full time as faculty in any accredited school of nursing. See our Fact Sheet for more information.
An NFLP loan may not exceed $35,500 per student per year and not to exceed 5 years per student.
Students of the Regis DNP Programs are eligible once approved by the Director of the Nurse Practitioner Program and depending on availability of funds, as long as they meet the following criteria:
Must be willing to commit to a full-time teaching position with an accredited nursing program within an educational institution after graduation.
U.S. citizen or national of the U.S, or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. or its territories.
Enrolled full-time or part-time in an eligible program at the time the NFLP loan is established and must complete the education component(s) to prepare qualified nurse faculty
Be in good academic standing in an advanced nurse education program at the university
Have no judgment liens entered against him/her based on the default on a federal debt, 28 U.S.C. 3201(e)
The borrower must maintain full-time or part-time enrollment status for a minimum of 2 terms/semesters during an academic year while receiving the NFLP loan.
To determine if you meet eligibility requirements please submit the Confirmation of Commitment to the Office of Financial Aid at the Center for Student Services in St. Joseph Hall 221 or fax to 781.768.7225.
2019-2020 Applications are due prior to the start of each semester.
Submit the Application to the Office of Financial Aid at the Center for Student Services in St. Joseph Hall 221 or fax to 781.768.7225. Applications will be reviewed and eligible applicants will be notified by email. Applicants will go through a review process with the Director of the Nurse Practitioner Program and approvals are subject to the availability of funds.
Once approved, additional documents and an in-person Entrance Counseling session are required.
Cancellation Provision
The NFLP is a loan cancellation program with a service obligation for recipients of the loans. To be eligible for the maximum 85 percent cancellation, the Borrower must agree to serve as full-time nurse faculty at an accredited school of nursing for a four-year period following graduation.
Following graduation, the Borrower must submit the certification of employment form within a reasonable timeframe. Please refer to the Regis College NFLP Administrative Guide for definition of full-time employment.
NFLP borrowers are limited to a 12-month period following graduation from the program to establish employment as full-time nurse faculty at an accredited school of nursing in order to qualify for cancellation. If the borrower does not commence employment or receive an offer of faculty employment within the 12-month period, the borrower will not be eligible for the loan cancellation provision.
Cancellation Process
To receive loan cancellation, the Borrower must be employed full-time as nurse faculty at an accredited school of nursing for a complete year, as defined by the employing school of nursing or 12 consecutive months. The school will cancel an amount up to 85 percent of the loan (plus interest) as follows:
Upon completion by the Borrower of each of the first, second and third year of full-time employment as a faculty member in an accredited school of nursing, the school will cancel 20 percent of the principal and the interest on the unpaid loan balance at the start of employment.
Upon completion by the individual of the fourth year of full-time employment as a faculty member in an accredited school of nursing, the school will cancel 25 percent of the principal and the interest on the unpaid loan balance at the start of employment.
To receive loan cancellation, the Borrower must submit the Request for Partial Cancellation of Loan form to the lending school at the end of each complete year of full-time employment as faculty at a school of nursing.
The beginning of the Borrower’s repayment period may be postponed only if the Borrower is employed full-time as nurse faculty at an accredited school of nursing and will request loan cancellation at the end of each complete year of this employment. To receive postponement of the repayment period, the Borrower must submit a Request for Postponement of Installment Payment form to the lending school 30 days before the end of the 12-month grace period, and annually thereafter. Subsequent requests for postponement must be filed 30 days before the expiration date of the initial request for postponement for each year of employment. If the Borrower ceases to be employed full-time as nurse faculty prior to completion of a year, the postponement ends and the repayment period begins immediately.
The grace period begins immediately following completion of the program, dismissal or voluntary termination as a student for a period of nine (9) consecutive months. During the grace period, repayment of the loan is not required. After the 9 month grace period, repayment of the loan begins. Borrowers have 12 months to obtain a full-time nurse faculty position. If the borrower certifies full-time employment as nurse faculty within the 12-month period, repayment can be postponed.
Repayment Period
The NFLP loan is repayable in equal or graduated periodic installments (with the right of the Borrower to accelerate repayment) over a 10-year period that begins 9 months after the Borrower completes the program, ceases to be enrolled as a student in the advanced nurse education program, or ceases to be employed as full-time nurse faculty.
The NFLP loan will bear interest on the unpaid balance of the loan at:
The rate of 3 percent per annum beginning 3 months after the Borrower graduates from the program, or
Bear interest on the unpaid balance of the loan at the prevailing market rate if the Borrower fails to complete the advanced nurse education program or when the Borrower fails to establish employment as full-time nurse faculty at accredited school of nursing.
Borrowers employed as full-time nurse faculty at a school of nursing for a four-year period will bear interest at the rate of 3 percent for the four-year period and the remaining six years of the “repayment period”.
If the borrower ceases full-time employment as nurse faculty at a school of nursing, the NFLP loan will bear interest at the prevailing market rate.
The Borrower may, at his or her option and without penalty, prepay all or any part of the principal and accrued interest on the loan at any time.
If the Borrower fails to make a scheduled repayment or fails to comply with any other term of the Promissory Note, the entire unpaid balance of the loan, including interest due and accrued and any applicable penalty charges, will, at the option of the school, become immediately due and payable.
Deferment
NFLP borrowers are eligible for deferment for up to 3 years,
When the borrower is ordered to active duty as a member of a uniformed service of the United States (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps, or the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps)
A borrower who voluntarily joins a uniformed service is not eligible for deferment,
Nor is a borrower who is employed by one of the uniformed services in a civilian capacity
When the borrower that graduates and is employed, decides to return to a graduate nursing education program to pursue a doctoral degree to further their preparation as nurse faculty.
During periods of deferment, interest on the loan continues to accrue at the prevailing market rate but is not required to be paid during this period. During the period of deferment, the borrower may repay the interest if they wish but is not required to do so.
Death and Disability
In the event of the Borrower’s total and permanent disability or death, the school will cancel any remaining payments on the Note.
Regis may, in its discretion, place the Borrower’s NFLP loan in forbearance whenever extraordinary circumstances such as poor health or hardship temporarily affect the Borrower’s ability to make scheduled loan repayments.
During periods of forbearance, interest continues to accrue on the unpaid principal balance of the loan.
If an NFLP borrower defaults on the loan, the school must immediately stop the disbursement of the NFLP loan and begin collection on the loan. Default will occur in the following situations:
Failure to complete the advanced nurse education program.
Loss of the status as a student in good standing, as used by the school for the advanced nurse training program.
Failure to become or maintain employment as a full-time faculty member at an accredited school of nursing (“full-time” has the meaning used by the employing school of nursing for its faculty).
Failure to provide certification of employment.
Failure to make payments as required by the NFLP borrower’s Promissory Note and repayment agreement.
If the Borrower fails to comply with any other term of the Promissory Note.
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American Assets Trust CEO Says Repositioning Continues
Allen Kenney
Ernest Rady, president and CEO of American Assets Trust (NYSE: AAT), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview at REITWeek 2017: NAREIT’s Investor Forum at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Based in San Diego, American Assets Trust acquires, develops, refurbishes and manages a portfolio of retail, office and apartment properties.
Rady said American Assets is continuing its work to reposition the company.
“We have a number of assets that require some attention to bring them into the status that the current marketplace requires,” he said. “We’re going as quickly and as efficiently as we can.”
American Assets’ West Coast retail real estate assets are performing well, according to Rady, although opportunities for growth are limited. The company’s office and apartment assets do provide some growth prospects, though, he said.
Regarding the potential for property acquisitions, Rady characterized the marketplace as “somewhat” accessible. That’s particularly true in the office sector, he noted. On the other hand, retail assets for sale aren’t particularly appealing, according to Rady.
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Must Attend Events in March
Spring is right around the corner and March boasts a variety of venues with parades, after-parties, chocolates, brews and more! Here are a few of the many must attend events to get on your social calendar this month:
KUSF & Noise Pop Festival 2019 Presents: Current Joys at Great American Music Hall w/ Gap Girls, Small Crush, Grumpster on March 1.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Film with the SF Symphony on March 1-2.
Exploring the World: Family Matinee w/ Banda Magda at SFJAZZ on March 2. Each one-hour matinee features live performance, audience participation, Q&A, and amazing music.
Dance the night away, immerse yourself in artwork, and indulge at the open bar and buffet at the Asian Art Museum’s ART + FASHION After-Party on March 7.
One of the top San Francisco events in March is the International Ocean Film Festival from March 7-10.
Enjoy creative corn dog specials plus the usual street-truck fare, eating contest and more during The Great San Francisco Corn Dog Festival on March 9 at SoMa StrEat Food Park.
Mosey to The Market on March 15 for the GlobalSF Annual Reception and enjoy cuisine and drinks representing SF’s diverse community and performances from Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Join the St Patrick’s Day Parade on March 16, starting at the corner of Market and Second where 100+ colorful floats, Irish dance troupes and marching bands will wind their way to Civic Center Plaza.
Join Chef Kaz Matsune on March 16 for a fun and educational basic Sushi-Making Class everyone is raving about.
San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary and Sam Malouf Authentic Luxury present an exclusive Fashion Showon March 20 from acclaimed designer Jason Wu.
Celebrate Persian Women in Tech on March 22 during the Nowruz 1398 Gala at San Francisco City Hall with a 3 course seated Dinner, Music, Dance and Entertainment.
The 25th Anniversary Red Cross Gala on March 23 features a cocktail reception, three-course dinner by renowned Paula LeDuc Fine Catering & Events, live auction, entertainment, and an after-party.
The Bay Area Brew Festival returns on March 23 with dozens of breweries, hundreds of beers, food trucks, dj, photo booth, and much more!
The Speakeasy is a 1920s watering hole with multiple rooms of bootleggers, bouncers, war veterans, and barflies – all behind a secret door. The Vaudeville cabaret runs through March 29.
On March 30, SweetSpotSF will be transforming SOMArts Cultural Center into a dessert lover’s paradise, where the best confectioners in the Bay Area will showcase their unique creations.
Chocolate lovers, get ready for a world of premium chocolate at the San Francisco International CHOCOLATE SALON on March 30.
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A Three-Year
There’s a lot of ground to cover over the course of our three-year model to empower Fellows to research, select, and pursue their postsecondary credential of choice. Each year’s lessons have been created to help Fellows set and meet academic and personal milestones, whether identifying the importance of identity representation at an institution or completing FAFSA.
Year One:
Junior Year of High School
Students are placed in a cohort of approximately 25-30 Fellows and begin taking a credit-bearing OneGoal class in person, remotely, or in a hybrid model depending on their school’s structure. Participating in the Online Fellow Experience, they will:
Explore personal identity, professional aspirations, and a positive sense of self
Research career and postsecondary pathways aligned with their goals
Build on academic skills to bolster their GPA and SAT/ACT scores
Develop personal statements, leveraging the power of storytelling
Stories from Year One
“I was initially indifferent about college, I was just trying to go to community college and get it over with. … OneGoal gave me a better understanding of how I can get to where I want to go. It’s not, ‘You can’t go there because your grades are low.’ I can be more than what I thought.”
Celinette Valentin
OneGoal Fellow, Massachusetts
“One thing that you don’t see much of in my community is college graduates. So for me, it was natural that I hadn’t considered college before. OneGoal absolutely opened my mind to what was possible and exposed me to so many careers that I had never before considered.”
Destiny Domeneck
OneGoal Fellow, New York
“I realized that I needed to turn things around when I joined OneGoal and learned how large the gap was in college graduation between high-income and low-income communities. It suddenly dawned on me that in feeling apathetic about my education, I was being a participant in my own oppression.”
Mary Morel
Year Two:
Senior Year of High School
Fellows continue through the Online Fellow Experience with their cohort for a second year. Year Two is crucial as it is when Fellows investigate, decide on, and enroll in their path after high school. Throughout the year they will:
Complete applications to college and other postsecondary programs
Reflect on how their identity will impact their postsecondary experience
Weigh school options based on professional aspirations, personal values, and financial aid support
Choose their postsecondary pathway and begin the enrollment process
Stories from Year Two
“I wanted to have all the information in front of me before I narrowed down my college choice. You accepted me? Cool, now show me how you’re going to help me pay to attend. I can afford you? Great, now show me that you have a diverse environment that will welcome a Black man onto your campus.”
Patrick Ben
OneGoal Fellow, Chicago
“I was so excited the day that I received my first scholarship award letter from CITGO STEM for $1,000! I framed it and hung it up in my room, and every time I see it, I’m just overwhelmed with pride. This let me know that let me know college was truly in reach. And my Program Director Mrs. Fain was there with me step by step.”
May Al-Maliki
OneGoal Fellow, Houston
“When it was announced that I had won a $10,000 scholarship, I thought I was in a movie and the whole ordeal was a joke. I hadn’t won any of the 25 scholarships I had applied to beforehand, so this news was extremely surprising. The experience solidified in my mind that you should always apply for scholarships.”
Alexiea Feaster
“Within the OneGoal classroom, we learned to pick each other up at our lowest moments and applaud every success. I learned to confide and rely on other students, and for someone like me who solely depended on herself, that was a big deal. To this day, I can call anyone from my cohort for support.”
Year Three:
First Year of Postsecondary Pathway
Program Directors continue to support the same cohort of Fellows remotely for one full year following their high school graduation. Additionally, Fellows are connected to on-campus supports and empowered to lean on the non-cognitive skills, such as growth mindset and self-efficacy, developed in high school to drive their success. Throughout the year, they will be guided to:
Attend orientation, leverage OneGoal summer supports and start classes in college or an alternative postsecondary institution
Keep in touch with their Program Directors, to discuss action plans to successfully navigate their courses, on-campus relations, mental health, etc.
Meet with a school advisor to review academic and financial plans
Renew financial aid application + register for next year’s courses
Stories from Year Three
“I now know how to look for the best scholarships for me. When FAFSA opened up on Oct. 1, I finished it on the 2nd. It feels really good that I don’t have to be behind or wondering, ‘Am I going to get as much aid as I need,’ because once you become an expert in it, filling it out year after year isn’t that scary. ”
Jonathan Jackson
“In October of my freshman year, I had run out of money and was going to be unable to pay for rent for my housing. But I knew to ask for help so I visited a financial aid advisor. We talked about my situation and what I could do. Ten minutes after I had left, he called and told me he had found $2,000 in Texas Grant money.”
Mario Martinez
“I already broke through many barriers of education by being the first in my family to go to college. Now I’m on track to beating the statistics about the academic success of students from low-income communities. I don’t just have sights on graduation; I want to aim higher and earn a master’s degree in physical therapy.”
Anabel Ruiz
“It’s weird to say, but for being someone that didn’t even think that college was for him, I’m thriving. I’ve hit the typical college milestones, making new friends, passing my classes, but I’ve also pushed myself in ways I hadn’t expected. College graduation is the only path for me now. ”
John Morales
“Postsecondary education provides students with critical skills that shape every aspect of life: time management, rational thinking, and understanding your own cultural value. I’m excited to become a sophisticated, educated, and well-respected man throughout the next three years at North Park University.”
Cesar Bustos
What Comes Next:
Becoming An Alumni
OneGoal Fellows become alumni of the program after completing their first year of postsecondary. While they have completed their time as a Fellow, we know their postsecondary journey, career goals and life aspirations are, in some ways, just beginning. We work tirelessly to ensure that our alumni have the tools they need within themselves and resourcefulness to seek out additional support to reach their evolving and growing goals and aspirations throughout their educational pursuits and beyond.
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The Failure of Liberal Politics
“The rise of right wing populism represents the failure of liberal and progressive politics,” says Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel. He joins The Agenda to diagnose the failure of liberal politics, the decline of civic life, and what liberals need to know in the age of anger and populism.
Source: youtu.be
Tags: anti-elites, canada, class-useless-class, demoralization, economic-populism, inequality, inequality-demoralization, inequality-skyboxification, liberal-progressive-failure, liberalism, meritocracy-hubris, michael-sandel, politics-of-resentment, populism, populism-right-wing, resentments, steve-paikin, stoking-grievances, why-liberalism-failed, working-class-alienation
How to Destroy Democracy, the Trump-Putin Way
All around the world, strongmen are seizing power and subverting liberal norms.
fascism came out of particular historical circumstances that do not obtain today—
a devastating world war,
drastic economic upheaval, the
fear of Bolshevism.
.. When Naomi Wolf and others insisted that George W. Bush was taking us down the path of 1930s Germany, I thought they were being histrionic. The essence of fascism after all was the obliteration of democracy. Did anyone seriously believe that Bush would cancel elections and refuse to exit the White House?
.. So maybe fascism isn’t the right term for where we are heading. Fascism, after all, was all about big government—grandiose public works, jobs jobs jobs, state benefits of all kinds, government control of every area of life. It wasn’t just about looting the state on behalf of yourself and your cronies, although there was plenty of that too. Seeing Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the press conference following their private meeting in Helsinki, though, I think maybe I’ve been a bit pedantic. Watching those two thuggish, immensely wealthy, corrupt bullies, I felt as if I was glimpsing a new world order—not even at its birth but already in its toddler phase. The two men are different versions of an increasingly common type of leader:
elected strongmen ‘who exploit weak spots in procedural democracy to come to power, and
once ensconced do everything they can to weaken democracy further,
while inflaming powerful popular currents of
authoritarianism,
reactionary religion,
misogyny,
homophobia, and
resentments of all kinds.
.. At the press conference Putin said that associates of the billionaire businessman Bill Browder gave Hillary Clinton’s campaign $400 million, a claim Politifact rates “pants on fire” and about which The New York Times’ Kenneth Vogel tweeted, “it was so completely without evidence that there were no pants to light on fire, so I hereby deem it ‘WITHOUT PANTS.’”
.. A Freudian might say that his obsession with the imaginary sins of Clinton suggests he’s hiding something. Why else, almost two years later, is he still trying to prove he deserved to win? At no point in the press conference did he say or do anything incompatible with the popular theory that he is Putin’s tool and fool.
.. These pantsless overlords are not alone. All over the world, antidemocratic forces are winning elections—sometimes fairly, sometimes not—and then using their power to subvert democratic procedures.
There’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey—remember how when he first took office, back in 2014, he was seen as a harmless moderate, his Justice and Development Party the Muslim equivalent of Germany’s Christian Democrats? Now he’s shackling the press, imprisoning his opponents, trashing the universities, and trying to take away women’s rights and push them into having at least three, and possibly even five, kids because there just aren’t enough Turks.
.. Then there’s Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, who coined the term “illiberal democracy” to describe these elected authoritarian regimes, now busily shaping the government to his own xenophobic ends, and
.. Poland’s Andrzej Duda, doing much the same—packing the courts, banning abortion, promoting the interests of the Catholic church.
Before World War II Poland was a multiethnic country, with large minorities of Jews, Roma, Ukrainians, and other peoples. Now it boasts of its (fictional) ethnic purity and, like Hungary and the Czech Republic, bars the door to Muslim refugees in the name of Christian nationalism.
One could mention
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, and
India’s Narendra Modi as well.
Pushed by anti-immigrant feeling, which is promoted by
unemployment and
austerity,
right-wing “populist” parties are surging in
Greece,
Austria, and even
Sweden and
And don’t forget Brexit—boosted by pie-in-the-sky lies about the bounty that would flow from leaving the European Union but emotionally fueled by racism, nativism, and sheer stupidity.
.. At home, Donald Trump energizes similarly antidemocratic and nativist forces. Last year, outright neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, and Trump called them “very fine people.” This year, Nazis and Holocaust deniers are running in elections as Republicans, and far-right misogynist hate groups like the Proud Boys are meeting in ordinary bars and cafés.
.. The worst of it is that once the leaders get into power, they create their own reality, just as Karl Rove said they would:
They control the media,
pack the courts
.. lay waste to regulatory agencies,
“reform” education,
abolish long-standing precedents, and
use outright cruelty—of which the family separations on the border are just one example—to create fear.
While everybody was fixated on the spectacle in Helsinki, Trump’s IRS announced new rules that let dark-money groups like the National Rifle Association and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity keep their donors secret.
.. American democracy might not be in its death throes yet, but every week brings a thousand paper cuts.
.. There’s nothing inevitable about liberal democracy, religious pluralism, acceptance of ethnic diversity, gender and racial equality, and the other elements of what we think of as contemporary progress.
.. He has consolidated a bloc of voters united in their grievances and their fantasies of redress. The
fundamentalist stay-home moms, the
MAGA-hat wearing toughs, the
Fox-addicted retirees, the
hedge-fund multimillionaires and the
gun nuts have found one another.
.. Why would they retreat and go their separate ways just because they lost an election or even two? Around the world it may be the same story: Democracy is easy to destroy and hard to repair, even if people want to do so, and it’s not so clear that enough of them do.
Source: www.thenation.com
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The End of the Two-Party System
In retrospect, the civil war in the Balkans was the most important event of that period. It prefigured what has come since: the return of ethnic separatism, the rise of authoritarian populism, the retreat of liberal democracy, the elevation of a warrior ethos that reduces politics to friend/enemy, zero-sum conflicts.
.. Back in the 1990s, there was an unconscious abundance mind-set.
.. Today, after the financial crisis, the shrinking of the middle class, the partisan warfare, a scarcity mind-set is dominant: Resources are limited. The world is dangerous. Group conflict is inevitable. It’s us versus them. If they win, we’re ruined, therefore, let’s stick with our tribe. The ends justify the means.
.. The scarcity mind-set is an acid that destroys every belief system it touches.
.. Now, Donald Trump leads the Republican Party, the personification of the scarcity mind-set. Fox News, with its daily gospel of resentments, is the most important organ of conservative opinion.
.. Republicans are happy to trade away their fiscal principles if they can get their way on immigration, which is what they did in last week’s budget deal.
.. He insists on perpetual warfare — against all comers. Stuck fighting his wars with him, Republican politicians have had to say goodbye to most of the pillars of conservatism:
rule of law,
fiscal discipline,
global engagement,
moral decency,
the idea that people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
.. In theory, the G.O.P. restrictionist position on immigration is perfectly legitimate. But Trump has fatally entwined it with his constant race baiting. Republican politicians could have denounced the race baiting but remained silent. They allowed themselves to become fellow travelers to bigotry, and spoiled their own cause.
The fact is that the scarcity mentality and the perpetual warrior style it demands are incompatible with any civilized political creed. At first the warriors seem to be fighting for the creed but eventually they transform it.
Under the influence of this mentality, evangelicalism turns from a faith into a siege-mentality interest group that reveres a pagan immoralist. Under the influence of this mentality, liberalism goes from a creed that values individual rights and deliberation to one that values group separatism and intellectual intolerance.
The scarcity mentality always ends up eating the host philosophy because it operates on a more fundamental level of the psyche.
All of this would be survivable if the mentality was going away in a few years. But it is not going away. The underlying conditions of scarcity are only going to get worse. Moreover, the warrior mentality builds on itself. As the right pulverizes the left, the left feels the need to pulverize back, and on and on. This is a generational challenge. Trump will be succeeded by some other warrior.
Eventually, conservatives will realize: If we want to preserve conservatism, we can’t be in the same party as the clan warriors. Liberals will realize: If we want to preserve liberalism, we can’t be in the same party as the clan warriors.
Eventually, those who cherish the democratic way of life will realize they have to make a much more radical break than any they ever imagined. When this realization dawns the realignment begins. Even with all the structural barriers, we could end up with a European-style multiparty system.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Tags: abundance, authoritarian, balkanization, bigotry, civil-war, civilized-creed, color-blind, ethnic-separatism, evangalicals, fiscal-responsibility, foxnews, global-engagement, immigration, individual-rights, intellectual-intolerance, intolerance, moral-decency, multiparty-system, partisan, populism, race-baiting, resentments, rule-of-law, scarcity, siege, tribalism, us-vs-them, warrior, warrior-ethos
Trump was an election surprise. Expect more.
The Trump election likely signals a new era of extreme voter discontent and improbable national election results. Why? Because the so-called American Dream — that each generation would live better than its predecessor — has ended for most of our citizens. Half of the young adults in this country will earn less over their lifetimes than their parents did. Indeed, the whole idea of rising living standards, which defined this country for so long, is a thing of the past for most Americans. More and more voters realize this and are angry about it.
.. Are wages rising? Looking back over the past 40 years, the answer is no.
According to the Hamilton Project, overall U.S. wages, adjusted for inflation, are essentially flat over this period — registering about 0.2 percent growth. Which means that purchasing power, a good proxy for living standards, is flat, too.
.. The 2016 Federal Reserve Board survey of household well-being found that 46 percent of U.S. adults could not meet a $400 emergency expense without borrowing or selling something they owned.
And a stunning one quarter of adults cannot pay their monthly bills in full.
.. A series of powerful, entrenched factors have brought the American Dream to an end. Economists generally cite
globalization,
accelerating technology,
increased income inequality and
the decline of unions.
What’s noteworthy is that these are long-term pressures that show no signs of abating.
.. there continues to be a debate among political scientists and sociologists as to whether these income pressures or cultural factors such as a rebellion against the establishment contributed more to the Trump upset. But, in reality, the two factors are interrelated. Household financial troubles increase cultural resentment and the sense that there are two Americas. Especially with the share of national income going to the lower 80 percent of earners at a 100-year low.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Tags: american-dream, anti-establishment, discontent, extremes, globalization, growth, income, inequality, paycheck-to-paycheck, rebellion, resentments, technology, unions
What’s the Matter With Republicans?
Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” In answering his title’s question, Frank argued that hardworking heartland Americans were being duped by a Republican Party that whipped up culture-war frenzy to disguise its plutocratic aims.
.. Middle-class and working-class Republican voters, he insisted, were voting against their own economic self-interest and getting worse than nothing in return.
.. You don’t have to be a dupe to be a “values voter”
.. believe that some moral questions are more important than where to set the top tax rate.
.. embracing theories about how the working class was actually undertaxed, rallying around tax plans that seemed to threaten middle-class tax increases and promoting an Ayn Randian vision in which heroic entrepreneurs were the only economic actor worth defending.
.. Trump has essentially become the Frankian caricature in full
.. a mistake for liberals to suggest that Trump is just returning to the Bush playbook
.. conservatism doesn’t have to be a mix of Randianism and racial resentment
.. a depressing percentage of American conservatives seem perfectly happy with the bargain that Frank claimed defined their party, with a president who ignores their economic interests and public policy more generally and offers instead the perpetual distraction of Twitter feuds and pseudo-patriotic grandstanding.
.. a segment of religious conservatives, like those gathered at last week’s Values Voters Summit, who cheered rapturously for an empty, strutting nationalism and a president who makes a mockery of the remoralized culture that they claim to seek.
.. Far better to have a president who really sticks it to those overpaid babies in the N.F.L. and makes the liberals howl with outrage — that’s what a real and fighting conservatism should be all about!
.. they’ve decided to become part of the caricature themselves, become exactly what their enemies and critics said they were, become a movement of plutocrats and grievance-mongers with an ever-weaker understanding of the common good.
they claim patriotism as their own, try to spiritualize secular laws, and demonize immigrants.
Maybe Trump can supporters can live well on spite, resentment, and the veneer of religion (“Merry Christmas!), but I can’t.
.. Jesse The Conservative
The biggest fear of Democrats, is that Conservative Republicans will gain the upper hand–and actually enact some of their ideas–lower taxes, less regulation, free market health care, school choice, tightened welfare guidelines, and control of our borders and enforcement of immigration laws.
Democrats are scared to death that American will become accustomed to lower taxes, more disposable income, a smaller, less intrusive government, a vibrant economy, better schools, better health care, and the enforcement of the rule of law. Liberals know full well, that as soon as Americans return to their free-market, capitalist roots, Conservative messaging will be powerful and direct. Americans will have no problem understanding where their newly-found prosperity comes from.
.. I’m a Republican. I don’t like big government. I am against almost everything they do in DC night and day, aka, The Swamp. I vote on moral issues first and all the rest second. AND, I want the government to do something to return moral values to the center of American life.
.. DougTerry.us
What’s wrong with this picture? I don’t like government and I want government to do something about it!
.. Does anyone remember that Obama was staging war games in Texas a couple of years ago as part of a master plan to take over the country and stay in office? Never mind.
The old south still hates “the north” from the Civil War.
The far west hates Washington because it owns and controls so much public land.
The Republicans generally hate federal taxes because of the vast power amassed by Washington to tax for the common good. They aren’t really interested in that all that much. They want to whack away at “common” and shift to “good for me”, which is, after all, a basic human instinct.
.. Nothing is going to satisfy the dissatisfied 1/4 to 1/3. NOTHING. They are wedded to their grievances.
.. Victor James
.. So forget Reagan and think Brownback, the Kansas version of Trump who led that state into financial ruin. Brownback only denied financial reality, but Trump has that beat by a mile.
.. Francis W
.. The most depressing thing about the rise of Trump is that a sizable percentage of the population really wants a bullying, inexperienced narcissist to be president and and another substantial percentage didn’t see it as a major problem when they cast their vote last fall.
.. WallyWorld
.. There has been one balanced, pragmatic, Republican President since Dwight Eisenhower, and that’s George H.W. Bush, and the party cast him out for trying to be responsible about the budget deficit. Trump did not create the current Republican party, he merely fully unmasked it. The Republican party of today is full of a lot of very dark and dangerous thinking, governing out of animus and resentment, all from a base of ignorance. It’s bad out there.
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The Bannon Revolution
Bannon’s grand ambitions should inspire the same soul-deadening déjà vu, the existential exhaustion, with which Bill Murray’s weatherman greeted every morning in Punxsutawney, Penn. They should bring to mind both Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence and his warning that if you stare deep into the abyss, it stares into you.
.. What Bannon is promising is what the Tea Party actually delivered, in a past recent enough to still feel like the present: a dramatic ideological shake-up, an end to D.C. business-as-usual, and the elevation of new leaders with a sweeping vision for a new G.O.P.
.. The ideological shake-up took the form of paper promises, not successful legislation. The end to D.C. business-as-usual just created a new normal of brinkmanship and gridlock. And when the Tea Party’s leaders — Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, above all — reached out to claim their party’s presidential nomination, they found themselves steamrolled by a candidate who scorned all their limited-government ideas and offered, well, Trumpism instead.
.. when it comes to governance, Trumpism turns to have two fatal weaknesses:
the dearth of Trumpists among elected Republicans, and
the total policy incapacity of Trump himself.
So having failed in his appointed role as Trump whisperer and White House brain, Bannon has decided to do the Tea Party insurgency thing all over again, except this time with his
nationalist-populist cocktail instead of the
last round’s notional libertarianism.
.. Maybe the Tea Party was a dead end, but some Trumpist primary candidates will finally produce a Republican Party capable of doing something with its power.
.. His professed nationalism, with its promise of infrastructure projects and antitrust actions and maybe even tax hikes on the rich, is potentially more popular than the Tea Party vision ..
.. But this imaginative exercise collapses when you look at Bannon’s own record and the candidates he’s recruiting.
.. The record features big talk about populism and political realignment, plus a dismissal of the white identitarians and racists drawn to his flame as just incidental idiots … but it never seems to cash out in anything except a return to empty, race-baiting culture war.
.. At the White House, Bannon did not manage to inject much heterodoxy into any part of the same old, same old Republican agenda. But he did encourage the president to pick racialized fights at every chance.
.. his new grass-roots populism promises to be more of the same:
a notional commitment to some nebulous new agenda,
with white-identity politics and the
fear of liberalism supplying the real cultural-political cement.
.. Especially because the would-be senators he’s recruiting are a mix of cynics and fanatics who seem to share no coherent vision, just a common mix of ambition and resentment.
.. if you believe figures like Roy Moore and Erik Prince are going to succeed where Trump is obviously failing, I have some affidavits attesting to Harvey Weinstein’s innocence to sell you.
.. He and his allies are the latest group to recognize the void at the heart of the contemporary Republican Party, the vacuum that somebody, somehow needs to fill.
.. The activists and enforcers of the Tea Party era tried with a libertarian style of populism.
Paul Ryan tried with his warmed-over Jack Kempism.
My friends the “reform conservatives” tried with blueprints for tax credits and wage subsidies.
.. now they, too, need to reckon with a reality that has confounded every kind of Republican reformer since Barack Obama was elected: Our politics are probably too polarized, our legislative branch too gridlocked, and the conservative movement too dysfunctional and self-destructive to build a new agenda from the backbenches of Congress up, or even from the House speaker or Senate majority leader’s office.
.. Our system isn’t really all that republican anymore; it’s imperial, and even an incompetent emperor like Trump is unlikely to restore the legislative branch to its former influence. So if you want to remake the Republican Party as something other than a shambolic repository for anti-liberalism, the only way it’s likely to happen is from the top down —
with the election of an effective, policy-oriented conservative president (which Donald Trump is not),
surrounded by people who understand the ways of power (which Bannon, for all his bluster, didn’t) and
prepared to both negotiate with Democrats and bend his own party to his will.
.. I would not be wasting my time trying to elect a few cranks and gadflies who will make Mitch McConnell’s life more difficult.
Instead I would be looking for the thing that too many people deceived themselves into believing Trump might be, and that Bannonite populism for all its potential strength now lacks: a leader.
Tags: abyss, ambition, anti-liberalism, cranks, dysfunctional, erik-d-prince, fear, friedrich-nietzsche, gadflies, gridlock, infrastructure, jack-kemp, leadership, legislation, libertarians, nationalism, paul-ryan, polarizing, political-vacuum, populism, promises, race-war, rand-paul, reform-conservatives, resentments, roy-moore, self-destruction, stephen-bannon, tax-credits, tax-hikes, taxes-wealthy, tea-party, ted-cruz, trumpism, wage-subsidies, white-identity
Ending DACA would be Trump’s most evil act
No, if Trump cancels DACA, it will be one more attempt to endear himself to his shrinking base with the only thing that truly energizes the dead-enders: vengeance fueled by white grievance. And it will also be an act of uncommon cowardice. (“Should Trump move forward with this decision, he would effectively be buying time and punting responsibility to Congress to determine the fate of the Dreamers,” writes The Post.) Dumping it into the lap of the hapless Congress, he can try evading responsibility for the deportation of nearly 800,000 young people who were brought here as children, 91 percent of whom are working.
.. However this turns out, the GOP under Trump has defined itself as the white grievance party — bluntly, a party fueled by concocted white resentment aimed at minorities. Of all the actions Trump has taken, none has been as cruel, thoughtless or divisive as deporting hundreds of thousands of young people who’ve done nothing but go to school, work hard and present themselves to the government.
The party of Lincoln has become the party of Charlottesville, Arpaio, DACA repeal and the Muslim ban. Embodying the very worst sentiments and driven by irrational anger,
Tags: anger, anti-trump, arp, charlottesville-virginia, grievance, immigration-daca, irrational, jennifer-rubin, joe-arpaio, minorities, muslim-ban, resentments, white-identity
Commentary: I study liars. I’ve never seen one like Donald Trump.
The real reason Donald Trump lies
Joint Session of Congress for Counting of Electoral College Ballots
How will Trump’s Mar-a-Lago-neighbors enforce the 1993 covenant that he cannot stay more than 21 days a year and 7 consecutive days when he has spent 130 days during his presidency and it is registered as his permanent Florida address?
What would the mob of 1/6/2021 in Washington DC have to have done in order for the coup attempt to be successful? Or was there never a chance?
Was the 2020 Election Stolen?
Did Philadelphia Use Dominion Voting Machines in the 2020 Election?
Donald Trump & Joe Biden 1st Presidential Debate 2020 (Transcript)
President Trump’s “Peaceful Transfer of Power” “Bluff”
Naked Quotations
US could have a digital currency in 12-18 months.
Investment Portfolios: Diversification Strategies
What will Democrats have to pay Trump to leave?
Why Did Corporations “Waste their Capital”?
Why did corporations borrow to buy back their stock rather than invest it for productive purposes?
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NFL Analysis: Week 14 Action Full of Comebacks
ESPN's stat-savvy NFC-West blogger Mike Sando points out that this past week was the first in NFL history that produced 5 comebacks of 12 or more points, which doesn't even consider the 10-point comeback win by the Denver Tebows. It was a fun weekend in the NFL, no doubt, and there's still one game to go. But have there been other weekends with even better comebacks?
Total points is one way to gauge a comeback, but it may not be the best way. A comeback from a 10-point deficit in the 1st quarter is not the same as a 10-point comeback with under 5 minutes to play in the 4th quarter. An alternative way to measure the comebackiness of comebacks is by using the win probability graphs.
One of the two cryptic acronyms on the bottom right of each of the WP is CBF, which stands for Comeback Factor. CBF represents the chance that the winning team would be victorious at their low point in the game. For example, the Giants beat the Cowboys last night despite having a WP of only 0.02 at their nadir. That translates into a CBF of 50, because the Giants had about a 1 in 50 shot at winning. WP is not measured below 0.01, so the maximum CBF is 100.
This past weekend's average CBF for all games is 14.7, meaning the winning teams averaged a low-point WP of 0.14. That's good enough for the 8th biggest comeback regular season week since 2000. The biggest comeback week in the data was week 12 in 2003. In that week, there were seven highly improbable comebacks, including two games with a 100 CBF.
NYJ won 13-10 over JAX, despite a 0.11 WP--trailing by 4 points with 3:33 to play and facing a 4th down at their own 40.
IND beat BUF 14-10 on a TD from 4 and goal at the 1 with 1:42 to play.
Billy Volek led TEN to a 38-31 win over ATL despite trailing 21-0 in the first half.
MIA beat WAS 34-23 despite muffing a punt on their own 15 while trailing 20-10 late in the 3rd quarter.
The STL-ARI game was crazy. Both teams came back from WPs of 0.03. STL ultimately won thanks to a 23-yd pass from Bulger to Holt on 4th and 7 that led to the tying TD with only seconds remaining. STL went on to win with an OT FG.
The NE-HOU game was an even bigger roller coaster. NE tied it up on a 4th and goal Tom Brady TD pass in the final seconds to force OT. Then in the first play in OT, Tony Banks threw an interception inside HOU's own 30. HOU managed to block the NE FG attempt, then drove to the NE 35 with a 1st and 10. HOU was driven back out of FG range, punted, and allowed NE to drive for the winning FG with only 45 sec remaining in OT.
BAL beat SEA 44-41 despite trailing 41-24 while on defense as late as 7:19 to play in the 4th quarter. Blocked punt for a TD, a fumble recovery on their own 30, a heroic effort by QB Anthony Wright, and a clutch FG by Matt Stover brought BAL back from the brink to win in OT. This wasn't one of those games where a team's WP spiked to a low-point before a clutch conversion or score. This was a type of game I call a "flatline," where one team has such an insurmountable lead the WP graph is pegged at 0.99 WP for an extended period.
Although it's not something you ever thought you'd think about again, 2003's week 12 stands out as the biggest comeback week in recent memory.
For an index of the biggest comebacks by year or by team, you can use the Top Games tool.
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The Montmaray Journals 2: The Fitzosbornes In Exile
The evocative and exciting sequel to the NSW Premier’s Award-winning and critically acclaimed A Brief History of Montmaray.
The evocative and exciting sequel to the NSW Premier’s Award-winning and critically acclaimed A Brief History of Montmaray. Forced to leave their island kingdom, Sophie FitzOsborne and her eccentric family take shelter in England. Sophie's dreams of making her debut in shimmering ballgowns are finally coming true, but how can she enjoy her new life when they have all lost so much?
Aunt Charlotte is ruthless in her quest to see Sophie and Veronica married off by the end of the Season, Toby is as charming and lazy as ever, Henry is driving her governess to the brink of madness, and the battle of wills between Simon and Veronica continues. Can Sophie keep her family together, when everything seems to be falling apart?
An enticing glimpse into high society, the cut and thrust of politics as nations scramble to avert world war, and the hidden depths of a family in exile, struggling to find their place in the world.
Michelle Cooper is the author of The Rage of Sheep and The Montmaray Journals trilogy. The first Montmaray book, A Brief History of Montmaray, won a NSW Premier's Literary Award and was listed in the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults. Its sequel, The FitzOsbornes in Exile, was shortlisted for the NSW and WA Premier's Literary Awards, named a Children's Book Council Notable Book and listed in Kirkus Best Teen Books of 2011. The FitzOsbornes at War concludes the Montmaray Journals.
Michelle lives in Sydney and is currently working on her next book for teenagers.
Also by Michelle Cooper
Praise for The Montmaray Journals 2: The Fitzosbornes In Exile
Fans of the first book ... will be pleased to know Sophie is back, with her entertaining and personal journal entries.
Soo Lee Tan, Viewpoint
This delightful novel teaches history without hitting you over the head with it, and you can believe in the characters ... There's adventure as well as history here, as the young royals take matters into their own hands ... A great holiday read.
Sue Bursztynski, January Magazine
Family secrets, exciting adventures and a convincing picture of the time combine for an absorbing, intriguing reading experience.
Lyn Linning, Magpies
Another long-anticipated book, for me, is the sequel to the simply delightful A Brief History of Montmaray ... I totally squeed when my advance reader's copy of The FitzOsbornes in Exile arrived on my desk, and I have been eking out the pleasure of it for some weeks now. Books like this don't come along every day, you just can't rush them!
Judith Ridge, www.misrule.com.au
WA Premier's Book Awards
Shortlisted • 2010 • Young Adult
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Longlisted • 2011 • Gold Inky Award for an Australian Book
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The impact of shadow coverage on receivers' fantasy production
Nov 19, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson (21) defends against a pass intended for Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins (10) during the fourth quarter at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports
The Fantasy Playbook is an excellent resource if you want to compete for fantasy titles this year with minimal effort on your part. In it, Director of PFF Fantasy Jeff Ratcliffe has written profiles for every important fantasy option on both offense and defense, has put them into tiers to organize your draft preparation, and has provided the critical data you need like red-zone looks and yards per route run to quickly identify regression and breakout candidates.
Of course, if you’re on Pro Football Focus, then you’re probably like me. If anything, I over-prepare for the draft, and so I love the Playbook as a research tool that empowers me to uncover trends that no one else has realized. And I think I’ve found one such tendency with my first attempt with the new Playbook: shadow coverage means different things to different types of receivers.
The news that Darrelle Revis was retiring led me down this research path. At his best, Revis was unmatched as a shutdown corner. From 2008 to 2011, he held his covered receivers to a 44 percent catch rate, 5.4 yards per target, and just 8 touchdowns on 337 total targets, the bulk of which went to his opponents’ best receivers.
The trend of shadow coverage is alive and well in today’s NFL. The Playbook details the 136 instances of shadow coverage from 2017 and even provides you the fantasy results from those matchups to help you decide which corners to sit your top receivers against in 2018. A few of those corners could stake a claim to islands like Revis had, but many more of them allowed a handful of productive fantasy days to their shadowed receivers. There wasn’t a pattern that governed the success of those matchups that jumped out to me, but I was able to connect the dots to another set of unique data from the Playbook, receiver average depth of target.
Across the board, receivers suffer when they draw shadow coverage. Teams can clearly evaluate which of their corners and in which of their matchups shadow coverage will be an effective strategy. However, notice how the fantasy impact of shadow coverage ratchets way up when those shadowed receivers tend to work the middle depths of the field. Receivers with average depths of target between 12 and 15 yards lose at least two fantasy points from their typical totals when they are shadowed. In contrast, receivers with aDOTs below 12 yards and above 15 yards lose just half a fantasy point on average or even less.
Receivers run routes that cut in every direction. Often they run by picks and visual screens. To be an effective shadow, cornerbacks need the instincts, intelligence, and athleticism to handle all the tricks receivers throw at them. Amazingly, a handful of corners have all of those traits, but no amount of film study will allow a corner to close on a slot receiver on a quick slant or stay in step with a deep threat with track speed on a go route. Those receivers are often too specialized to demand shadow coverage, but that isn’t universally the case. In fact, several of the most productive fantasy receivers — the kinds of receivers you would naturally think of as No. 1 guys — show extreme tendencies in the average depth of their targets. The Playbook makes it easy to find those exceptions and use them to your advantage as you build your teams and weekly lineups.
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Just This - (for now)
The Adventure Of The Old Ladies Book - part two
It was literally just the one whiskey in the Bell, I stood with John P at the bar and we didn’t say a word to each other. Friends can do that.
“Are you ready?” We walked outside.
“Freezing.”
“Goose Fair weather John, something you’ll never understand. You’re serious about this book business aren’t you?”
But he was already walking towards the taxi rank. He turned:
“Speak tomorrow and don’t forget you’re picking the heap up.”
I wasn’t quite ready for Bingham Road and was soon ordering a pint in Jacey’s. Roxy Rob was stripped to the waist on the pin ball machine, not so much nudging as harassing. Birdcage Chris was playing pool with Tony Guise and Maggie was on next. I chalked my name up.
“Maggie can you remember Saul & Saul investigators, they had the offices, well you know where mine and John P’s office is, that was their’s.
"No but I vaguely remember Chris having something to do with them."
Maggie worked upstairs at ‘The Birdcage’ on Bridlesmith Gate, the women’s clothing section. She had me fascinated once with a story about Vivian MacKerrell the actor behind the 'Withnail' character who apparently frequented Jacey's whilst studying at the private 'Trent Colledge'.
Chris was the either the owner or the manager of the exclusive clothing shop', I wasn’t sure how far back he went, but he often talked about the time when Paul Smith worked there. Before he set up shop on Byard Lane and the rest was history.
“Chris you had a thing with ‘Saul & Saul” the investigators?”
“Oh god years ago, it was a fraud, we’d been duped by a suppler and..”
He paused as if an emotion had been triggered.
“We felt so embarrassed that we had trusted this person, we had to react. Saul, the oldest brother wouldn’t let go, he found the guy after about six months, it was settled out of court. We got around a third of what we’d lost back. I think ‘Saul & Saul’ got a third as well. They were very good, but you paid for it.
Why did you ask that?”
“We just get the odd person wandering in, ‘Saul And Saul investigators’ the name is still in the glass door pane, there’s still a brass plaque outside with the Company name on!”
“Different time, different age!” Said Chris. “Now put your 40p in..”
The next morning I was waiting in the ‘Car Phone Warehouse’ reception to pick up the heap. The heap was John P’s Dad’s old car, which was now John P’s. The heap was having a car phone down grade, an unusual technological regression considering car phones were still rare enough to leave gawping faces.
“Put the old ‘Mobira’ handset back in.”
The receptionist looked like Goldie Horn, she smiled at me. Maybe she’s the one?
“Reg number 'TH3 H3AP' your car’s ready, nothing to sign.”
She held up the keys - rather tantalising I thought.
“Thank you so very much, bye.” Was all I could flirt.
The old Mobira hand set looked so small now, not small, narrow compared with the rejected Motorola fat wide boy.
“Glad you’re back!” I said to the familiar phone. I was glad though!
I pressed number one but just got number one. Have to go old school mmm - 0115 292012
“Hello Teq Spec Solutions, can I help you?”
“Jane it’s Paulie put John P on for me.”
“He’s in Italy Paulie, big meeting with a manufacturer, had you forgotten?”
“That’s today, yes I had forgotten, no worries Jane, I’ll see you in a couple of hours.”
Petrol station, petrol station, need petrol, why didn’t he tell me he was going to Italy?
The familiar ring tone of ‘car phones reunited’ had thankfully not been messed with. I pressed green with the feeling of importance I always felt when pressing green to answer on a car phone and said hello. Then as if by magic.”
“Because I had to concentrate, this is a massive deal for me, and us, you have too much to do. Jane will give you a company credit card I’ve left for you. It’s for expenses, petrol, lunch. Not for watches, rent or trips to London. You know what to do. Find Mrs Derwent’s Book! Back in five days enjoy your coffee!”
He rang off.
YOU’VE CHANGED! I shouted into the old Carphone’s Reunited handset. The line was dead of course, he’d hung up on me, but I knew that my oldest bestest friend had heard me, and the shit was Laughing as he pictured me smiling which I now was.
"What Coffee?" I said to the phone.
Jane was trying to understand the workings of a new coffee machine when I got back to the office, after finally finding a parking space for the heap near the playhouse.
“Oh Paulie thank god, help me with this it makes coffee.”
Ok, so this is the coffee I’m meant to enjoy. After evaluating the coffee situation for a minute or two, I addressed my conclusions at Jane.
“Jane it’s a filter coffee maker, don’t you have filter coffee in Snienton? Look put the paper, this shape, in there, put .. say one spoon of coffee per cup, out of these packs.. 1 per cup per so… 2-3 -4 there in. Then you put water in the back, use the jug, that’s in then switch on. Done.
“Then what will happen?”
“Did John P leave me a credit card, or just shoot me now Jane!”
“Your credit card’s here Paulie, and their’s no need to be facetious. He left you a message as well, he said it’s an itinerary but it looks just like a list. I read it by accident it’s on your desk. I’ll put the kettle on.”
I went straight into John p’s office and wheeled his chair into my office & then shot reverse shot. Long story. Jane brought me a nice cup of tea and I opened the envelope with my credit card in. It had my name on. I had to sign it though, pen, there was one on John p’s desk. I signed my credit card, I had credit. Not to be used for things I like to do though, but them’s the breaks.
After another sip of Jane’s excellent tea, I picked up the white envelope in the room. My Itinerary, or as Jane had remarked, my list of things to do.
I took out the itinerary, screwed it up into a little ball then threw it where I threw the rest of my itineraries, and then thought twice. This missing book had really got under John's skin, I really wanted to find it, for him as well as Mrs Derwent! Could I find it in five days while he was away and would I need his itinerary?
"What are you doing?" Said Jane, she was stood in my office doorway with her coat on and a thermos flask sticking out of a pocket.
"Straightening out my itinerary Jane, what about you, you going home now? What's the flask for?"
"I'm taking some coffee home, can I help with your straightening?"
"Your taking a flask of coffee home 'from' work?"
"I don't like to see it go to waste. I've got those enquiries for the rare book John asked me to send out, I'll post them on the way home. They have the office number and the car phone number on, did you get the car phone changed? See you tomorrow."
"Oh Jane have you got Mrs Derwent's Granddaughter's phone number?"
"Keep straightening."
I wasn't far behind Jane in leaving, and got back to the heap to find an admirer looking around it.
"Not for sale I'm afraid it goes back three generations in my friends family."
"The Chief Constable' had one when I started on the Force, I think he inherited his, you don't see many around now."
"Can I give you a lift? I'm going up Derby Road then along the Forest to Sherwood, thought I'd have a look at the fair."
"Thanks very much, you can drop me at 'the goose' I live in Basford."
"How long were you on the Force mate?... I'm going to go up Forest Road now I think.. Drop down Mansfield road to the goose."
"Twenty Five years, went like that!" He clicked his fingers.
"My Uncle Keith was a Policeman, in fact this road was on his beat, my Mum and Dad had a flat, we've just passed it when they first got married. Dad said he used to pop in for a cup a tea"
"What's you Uncles name?"
"Keith, Keith Hallam, he died recently."
"I knew Keith! Ah that's sad, good sportsman, he had a few brothers they were all sporty, one of them was in Germany on his National Service, boxer."
"Yes, Terry, that's my Dad!"
I pulled the heap into the petrol station at the bottom of Basford Road.
"I can't believe that, what's your name?" I held out my hand.
"Frank Thominson, it's a small world." He said, shaking my hand and putting the other on my shoulder.
I got Frank's number and semi arranged to meet up for a pint sometime soon.
"Frank Thominson.. ex policeman." I said to 'car phones reunited' as I pulled up outside my flat on Bingham Road.
"Frank Thominson."
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