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Steelers rookies leave their mark in a strange first season
January 12, 2021 by Behind The Steel Curtain Leave a Comment
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With the most non-traditional offseason imaginable, several of the Steelers rookies still managed to stand out in their first season.
In what has been an extremely strange year for a majority of the world, 2020 made for an unusual NFL season. Starting with hardly any pro days leading into the virtual NFL draft, offseason workouts and team activities simply did not happen until players arrived for a very unusual training camp. Affected most among these players were those new to the NFL, both drafted and undrafted. With limited opportunities to earn playing time, rookies found themselves up against the wall in many cases.
When it came specifically to the Pittsburgh Steelers, they entered the season with the expectation of not relying on their rookie class for their 2020 success. With no first-round pick due to the trade for Minkah Fitzpatrick, the Steelers appeared to be in a place where any contribution from rookies would just be icing on the cake for the season.
So was it vanilla or chocolate icing? Or something fancy like cream cheese? Because the Steelers ended up with solid production from their 2020 rookie class despite the challenges they faced this past offseason.
Two players from the Steelers 2020 draft class landed on Pro Football Focus’ All Rookie Team. Third-round draft pick Alex Highmith was one of two edge rushers while fourth-round selection Kevin Dotson made the team at guard.
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Highsmith played in all 16 games for the Steelers in 2020 and started the final five regular-season contests as well as the Steelers playoff game before leaving with an ankle injury. Taking over for the injured Bud Dupree, Highsmith finished the regular season with an interception, 2.0 sacks, 6 quarterback hits, 5 tackles for loss, and 48 total tackles.
Fourth-round draft pick Kevin Dotson appeared in 13 regular season games in his rookie year and started four throughout the season. PFF‘s top rated guard when it comes to pass protection in 2020, it was highly controversial when the Steelers chose to start and play Matt Feiler at left guard after returning from injury when Dotson had started the final two games of the season and played very well. Regardless of his usage in 2020, Dotson looks to be the anchor of the Steelers offensive line for years to come.
Missing from PFFs All Rookie Team is the Steelers top draft choice from 2020 in second-round pick Chase Claypool. Although leading all rookies in receiving touchdowns (9), Claypool was edged out by the Vikings’ Justin Jefferson, the 49ers’ Brandon Aiyuk, and the Bengals’ Tee Higgins. Regardless of where he fell on the PFF team, Chase Claypool tied the Steelers rookie record in receiving touchdowns (9) and total touchdowns (11). Both marks were tied with Louis Lipps in 1984 and the total touchdowns also is tied with Franco Harris in 1972.
Claypool finished the regular season appearing in all 16 games where he had 873 receiving yards along with his nine receiving touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns. In the Steelers Wild Card Game, Claypool added another five receptions for 59 yards and two more touchdowns.
Another rookie many may have overlooked for the Steelers is undrafted rookie free agent James Pierre out of Florida Atlantic. Not only did Pierre make the team in a limited training camp setting, he was active for every game in 2020. Playing primarily on special teams, Pierre logged 18 defensive snaps at cornerback in the Steelers Week 17 game which was twice as many as he had over the entire course of the 2020 season. In the Steelers postseason game, Pierre was used in dime packages over cornerback Justin Layne and appears to be a player the Steelers will continue to develop in years to come.
When looking solely at draft picks, the Steelers had every player from the 2020 NFL draft log snaps in their rookie season. Although some would look at the rookie season of fourth-round running back Anthony McFarland Jr. as a disappointment, whether it be production or usage, he did appear in 11 games and rushed for 113 yards on 33 carries. McFarland was a healthy scratch for the Steelers playoff loss.
Antoine Brooks Jr., the sixth-round safety out of Maryland, started the season on the practice squad but ended up on the active roster after being elevated twice earlier this season. Although inactive in many cases in 2020, Brooks appeared in four games and played almost half the defensive snaps in the Steelers Week 10 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Steelers’ seventh-round draft pick Carlos Davis was seen as a project pick by many when he was selected in the 2020 draft. Making the Steelers 53-man roster to start the season, Davis was inactive the majority of his rookie year but was used in seven games over the last half of the season as well as being active for the Steelers playoff game. Davis played a total of 54 defensive snaps in 2020 where he logged one tackle for loss on six total tackles.
As the Steelers move into the 2021 offseason, there will be many tough personnel decisions which will have to be made before the NFL‘s new league year in March. Whether or not the Steelers are going to fight to retain most of their 2020 team or shift into a bit of rebuild mode, the Steelers are able to move forward with the knowledge that several of the 2020 rookie class have shown they will be key contributors to this team in years to come.
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At the end of 2020, Plansee will discontinue the production of TIG welding electrodes.
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The recession in key industries as well as trade disputes led to a decline in demand–causing sales in the Plansee Group to drop ten percent in the 2019/2020 fiscal year. The investment volume was 206 million euros, the expenditures on research and development 68 million euros. The Plansee Group feels well-prepared to cope with the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis.
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Effective July 1, 2020, Karlheinz Wex (Spokesman) and Dr. Wolfgang Köck will represent the Executive Board of Plansee Holding AG. Bernhard Schretter has decided to retire.
Webinar: Refractory metals and their applications
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Plansee Japan celebrated the grand opening of the new production hall
On February 28th, Plansee Japan celebrated the grand opening of the new 5,000 sqm big production hall that marks another milestone in the 30 years successful development of manufacturing in Esashi.
Anniversary celebration: Thanks to long-standing employees
The “older” ones among the staff present will be familiar with the story: Sometimes there is talk of new records at Plansee and Ceratizit’s traditional long-service celebration. And at other times, such as this year, it is more about business slowing down.
When self-produced hydrogen explodes
450 pupils and teachers were given fascinating insights into the apprenticeship trades at Plansee and Ceratizit during a factory tour as part of the open day on the 15th of November 2019.
3% online discount on Shop orders
Our customers now benefit from 3% discount* on online purchases of semi-finished and standard products made of molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum and their alloys online.
Pressing and sintering under one roof
There are two key production steps at Plansee: Fine metal powder is first pressed and then sintered at high temperature. Plansee is now investing heavily in making production even more efficient. The ground-breaking ceremony for the new building took place in mid-September.
Plansee in the thin film industry
Molybdenum and tungsten are two extraordinary metals that make a significant contribution to our modern lives today. We are in constant contact with these two materials without even being aware of it.
Groundbreaking ceremony for new training center
A groundbreaking ceremony heralded the start of construction for the new Plansee Group training center in Breitenwang/Reutte. In future, the center will provide 3,000 square meters of space to allow up to 240 young people to receive training in a variety of metalworking professions. Plansee is investing six million euros in the two-story building.
41 new apprentices at Plansee and Ceratizit
This year, 41 young people started their vocational training at Plansee and Ceratizit with a mixture of considerable anticipation and a little nervousness. The future employees were welcomed by the entire Plansee Group training team headed up by Christoph Willmann and school principal Bruno Dengg.
Plansee USA celebrates 80 years of business
In September this year, Plansee USA LLC celebrates the company’s 80 year anniversary.
Plansee presents Sputtertarges at Touch Taiwan
At the end of August the experts for displays and thin films will meet at the Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition in Taiwan. Plansee will also be exhibiting its sputtering targets for flat screens, touch screens and smart glasses.
Flexible, sharper, more efficient – trends in the international flat panel display industry
Tyrol hosts leading experts and researchers: Some 32 participants met up for two days at Plansee in Reutte this year for the working group meeting of the German Flat Panel Forum (DFF). The current challenges and trends in the international flat panel display industry were discussed.
Digital Days 2019: Enthusiastic participants present their projects
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Meet us at GIFA 2019
The 14th international trade fair for foundry technology will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, between the 25th and 29th of June. Plansee will again be exhibiting this year.
Plansee patents internal coating for monolithic rotary targets
Monolithic rotary targets offer advantages over bonded targets: greater material utilization and higher power density. Plansee has now patented an internal protective layer that ensures that coating material no longer comes into direct contact with the system's cooling water.
Start of the plant extension in Reutte
Since early April 2019, excavators have been rolling across the site in the new Kreckelmoos industrial park near Reutte where Ceratizit is building a new grinding and tool & die factory.
Companies for Families
The Plansee Group is now a partner of the Austrian network "Companies for Families", with the aim of family-friendly work policies.
Networking meeting at Plansee and Ceratizit
"Digitalization of core processes"
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Numerous applications for Digital Days 2019
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2,000 patents worldwide: Plansee Group Inventors Day
In the last fiscal year, the Plansee Group increased its number of patents yet again and now holds more than 2,000 patents worldwide—a new record.
Recycling of carbide tools
Ceratizit acquires 50 percent stake in Stadler Metalle.
Digital Days held for the second time
"Let modern technology inspire you" – this is the motto for the second Digital Days at Plansee this summer. Students aged 12 to 14 can now apply for the one-week summer vacation program at www.digital-days.at.
Plansee is expanding its product range in the online shop
Available with just one click: customers can now order SPARKAL® EDM electrodes, which are used in spark erosion, fast and easy online.
X-Ray Technology - Plansee presents product portfolio
Based on decades of experience Plansee develops and produces a broad range of X-Ray technology products for imaging X-Ray applications. These products are manufactured under highest precision, get continuously developed and optimized.
Plansee Powertech: Opening ceremony for our new building
Plansee Powertech AG in Seon, Switzerland, recently held the opening ceremony of a newly constructed facility. Attendees included the Chief of Government Dr. Urs Hofmann and other representatives of the Aargau Department of Economic and Interior Affairs.
Austrian Skills 2018: Successful participation
From November 22rd to 25th 2018 the Austrian Skills Championships for young skilled workers took place in Salzburg.
Hard Coating Seminar in China
At the end of November the Plansee Hard Coating Technical Seminar took place in Shanghai, China.
Plansee Tungsten Alloys: Best Master Thesis in Metallurgy
On November 21st a ceremony for awarding the Pierre Veyssiere Medal took place at the Material Science International Conference (Matériaux 2018) in Strasbourg.
Plansee at the National Foundry Conclave in India
At the end of November the ninth National Foundry Conclave took place in Coimbatore. Johannes Schröder from Plansee Composite Materials presented the advantages of Plansee tungsten alloys in the aluminium foundry.
Success as result of clear focus in our work
"We were able to set a whole series of records," said Bernhard Schretter of the Executive Board of the Plansee Group in his welcoming address at the annual long-service anniversary celebration.
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From Reutte to Shanghai
The Executive Board of the Plansee Group presented the Group Pin to Christine Toufar. The Pin is awarded when an employee of the Plansee Group transfers into another division, works there for a minimum of two years, and makes the new location his or her primary place of residence.
Luxembourg Ambassador visits the Plansee Group
Marc Ungeheuer, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Vienna, visits the Plansee Group at October 16th 2018
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Meet us at the “28th International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum” from 23rd until 28th of September 2018.
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Visit us in Madrid from 23rd to 28th September 2018.
43 new faces: Apprentices welcoming event at Plansee and Ceratizit
The apprentices welcoming event provided the opportunity for the training team at Plansee and Ceratizit to greet 43 new apprentices – more than ever before. A good third of them are young women. This means that Plansee is currently training a total of 159 apprentices in six different professions. Twelve of these are external apprentices attending vocational school.
Plansee presents an expanded product portfolio at the Touch Taiwan
From all over the world, experts for displays come together at the Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition in Taiwan at the end of August. Plansee will also be participating again this year and presents a new booth concept. In addition to rotary and planar targets used for PVD coating, the focus this year is on MOCVD equipment for LED production and products for energy gerneration and storage.
Awards for Plansee India
Recently our location in India received two awards for its export performance.
Real enthusiasm: Successful premiere of the Plansee Digital Days
15-18 year-olds spend a week exploring the top trends in digital technologies.
40 years: Plansee Japan celebrates company anniversary
The anniversary was formally celebrated together with customers, business partners and staff.
Boride targets for improved coating materials
In conjunction with Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG and the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology, Plansee Composite Materials GmbH is carrying out research into improved coating materials at one of the Christian Doppler Laboratories.
Increase in market share: Plansee Group increases sales by 11 percent
In the 2017/18 fiscal year ending on 2/28/2018, the Plansee Group achieved consolidated sales of 1.3 billion euros. This marks an eleven percent year-over-year increase (1.17 billion euros).
Our longest sputtering targets to date
Plansee sputtering targets are now available in even longer sizes: in glass formats of Gen 10.5 and Gen 11. Our sputtering targets are a huge 3.4 meters in length and can, of course, be supplied across the globe in the quality you have come to expect from Plansee.
Oxidation-resistant, easily etched Mo-Ti-Al films
In a collaborative effort with the University of Leoben, new Mo-Ti-Al films have been developed that are both oxidation-resistant and easily etched.
Our Plansee Online Shop has become even better
To further increase customer service, we have made numerous improvements to our online shop.
Meet us at ICMCTF 2018 in San Diego
The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) is the premier international conference on thin-film deposition, characterization, and advanced surface engineering. This year Plansee will be again exhibiting and presenting the newest products.
Awarded: Supplier Award of On Semiconductor
Plansee awarded for a good, reliable cooperation in 2017.
Plansee India celebrates its 30th anniversary with a big family day
Plansee started its activities in India 30 years ago - a success story.
Latest findings on the fracture toughness of Ti-Si-N thin films
Tests in the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory at the Vienna University of Technology investigated the fracture toughness of Ti-Si-N coatings, produced using special Ti-TiSi2 targets from Plansee Composite Materials GmbH.
Use of molybdenum makes Ti-Al-N coated tools even more wear resistant.
Laboratory tests carried out at the Vienna University of Technology to develop new PVD coatings for wear protection applications prove that Mo-alloys significantly reduce wear during machining.
Tungsten: Reliable supply of the high performance material at a stable price
Through our procurement strategy, we offer our customers a reliable supply coupled with price stability.
Meet us at the Semicon Korea in Seoul
From January 31th to February 2nd 2018
Vacuum and thin-film technology: Lecture in Regensburg
Between the 26th and 27th of February 2018, the Haus der Technik (HDT) will be hosting a series of lectures and discussions in Regensburg, giving professionals the opportunity to exchange ideas. And Plansee will also be there.
Ti-Al-N/Mo-Si-B multilayers: An architectural design for high temperature oxidation resistant hard coatings
Ti-Al-N/Mo-Si-B multilayers are highly temperature and oxidation resistant and are therefore an excellent coating for mechanical engineering parts.
The impact of reduction conditions on molybdenum morphology
Do different reduction conditions influence the morphology of molybdenum powder? Which role are temperature, dew point, hydrogen content and the flow rate of reduction gas playin in this process?
Rotary friction welding of molybdenum components
Inertia rotary friction welding is an established industrial process for joining small TZM components. Now this process was used to weld tubular components of pure molybdenum.
Non-destructive measurement of the tungsten content in the binder phase of tungsten heavy alloys
Measurement of the magnetic properties is well-established to non-destructively monitor composition and microstructure of cemented carbides.
Plansee Tungsten Alloys awarded Gold Status
A great triumph for the team from Plansee Tungsten Alloys in France: receipt of the "Gold Supplier Award" from UTC Group - Aerospace System Division (UTAS).
A method for measuring the high temperature emissivity of refractory metal surfaces
For high temperature applications, such as lighting components or heating elements, the thermal emissivity of refractory metals such as tungsten can be improved by altering the surface of the material.
CFDEM modelling of particle heating and acceleration in cold spraying
Cold spraying is a promising approach for the processing of refractory metals.
From powder to a sintered metal part - a numerical simulation
The finite element analysis and the discrete element method for simulating the powder compaction.
Molybdenum-copper-composites for the advanced thermal management of modern electronics
In the field of thermal management of gallium nitride based electronic devices, molybdenum-copper-composites play an important role.
Fundamental analysis of the influence of powder characteristics in selective laser melting of molybdenum based on a multi-physical simulation model
Selective Laser Melting (SLM) offers great potential for the processing of molybdenum as it allows the production of parts that can hardly be fabricated in a classical way.
Carbon doping - A key for the substitute of thoriated tungsten
Thoriated tungsten is the state-of-the-art cathode material for short arc lamps used in cinema lighting and semiconductor lithography. But the radioactive nature of thorium is driving the development of a substitute.
Fuel cell with Plansee interconnects runs for 10 years
The ITM interconnect supplied by Plansee was an important component in the planar solid oxide fuel cell developed at the Jülich GmbH Research Center. The system has now been running and producing electricity for 10 years and over its entire service life to date, it has exhibited only a very low level of aging of approximately 0.6% per 1,000 operating hours. A further development to the stack in 2010 provided even better results: Over 34,500 hours of operation, it aged only half as much.
Molybdenum and tungsten in sapphire crystal growth industry
High-temperature refractory metals such as molybdenum- and tungsten-based materials are essential in today’s sapphire crystal growing technologies and are widely used for crucibles, hot-zone shieldings or heaters.
Plansee Group remains on track for success
In the 2016/17 fiscal year, which ended on 28 February 2017, the Plansee Group achieved consolidated sales of 1.17 billion euros.
Michael Schwarzkopf is new Chairman of the Plansee Group Supervisory Board
Dr. Michael Schwarzkopf, long-standing Chairman of the Plansee Group Executive Board, has moved to the Supervisory Board. His former colleagues on the Executive Board, Bernhard Schretter and Karlheinz Wex, are now leading the Plansee Group together with immediate effect.
The 19th Plansee Seminar in Reutte: A highlight for experts in the fields of carbides and refractory metals.
It was back in 1952 that Professor Paul Schwarzkopf invited researchers and industry experts to the first Plansee Seminar. Since then, the sector has come together every four years, and the meetings have evolved into one of the largest conferences for researchers and industry experts in the field of refractory metals and carbides.
Convion takes 50-kW pilot SOFC plant with MK351 stacks into operation
In March 2017, Convion took its C50 biogas system into operation. In initial trials, the system achieved a net AC efficiency in excess of 55 %. Fitted with an exhaust gas recovery unit, the Convion C50 is able to achieve an overall efficiency of more than 82 %. At the heart of the plant lie the MK351 stacks developed by Plansee and Fraunhofer IKTS.
Tungsten Industry - Conflict Minerals Council (TI-CMC) board meeting in Towanda
This week GTP hosted the annual TI-CMC board meeting in Towanda. Board members from 4 smelters and representatives from the Refractory Metals Association (RMA) attended the Board meeting.
AlCr-based coatings now even more resistant to wear
The Vienna University of Technology has published new findings on wear-protection coatings based on aluminum-chromium oxides: A small amount of iron makes the coating even more resistant to wear.
New production line for medical engineering products
Plansee is investing ten million euros in the construction of a new production line for medical engineering products. The official launch of this largest single investment at the Breitenwang/Reutte site in 2017 took place today in the presence of Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern.
Ceratizit acquires tool manufacturer in California
After the acquisition of Becker Diamantwerkzeuge (diamond tools), Ceratizit now takes over the US manufacturer Best Carbide. This is already the second takeover in 2017.
Ceratizit acquires Becker Diamantwerkzeuge
On January 9, 2017, the Ceratizit Group has acquired the German company Becker Diamantwerkzeuge. Becker produces extremely wear resistant tools for the automotive, mechanical engineering, medical technology, and aerospace industries.
Heat-resistant coating for cutting tools
Nitride hard coatings made from titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN) protect drill bits, milling cutters and indexable cutting inserts against premature failure due to wear. Now, small quantities of tantalum improve the thermal stability of these adherent layers still further.
10,000 samples coated in our PVD application laboratory
For seven years Plansee is coating samples for its customers in an own PVD applications laboratory. Recently the 10.000th sample was produced for a display manufacturer in Asia.
New production site in Korea
On 3 November, Plansee Korea opened a new plant. The factory is located close to big customers in the industrial park Dongtan, in the South of the capital Seoul.
Hot products, easy choice - the new hot zone concepts from Plansee
All-metal hot zones from Plansee are used at high temperatures of over 1,000 °C / 1,832 °F. Three newly developed equipment packages cover the very differing requirements of plant operators. An online configurator gives potential buyers immediate access to prices, energy consumption values and equipment features.
In for the long haul! The "MeStREx" project extends the range of battery-powered vehicles
As part of the MeStREx (Metallic Stack for Range Extender) research project, Plansee is working together with partners from industry and research on an innovative "range extender". It is designed to convert ethanol based fuels to electric power extremely efficiently, and is intended to allow the battery packs to be recharged autonomously and continuously, far from any external source of electrical power.
New materials for displays
Plansee is keeping on the ball in the flat panel display industry with new materials developed especially for their customers. This is something that came out clearly at the latest Plansee Networking Forum. Researchers from a variety of disciplines presented the latest technology used in developing new sputtering targets for the display industry.
594 x 631 mm? Certainly! Economy sheets from moly and tungsten are now available cut to size.
In its Webshop, Plansee offers especially attractively priced economy sheets of molybdenum and tungsten. The sheets are available in standard sizes and can now also be supplied cut to size.
Plansee presents thin-film materials at the Touch Taiwan
From all over the world, experts for displays come together at the Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition in Taiwan at the end of August. Plansee presents sputtering targets for UHD displays and touch screens.
More than 200 million euros invested
In the 2015/16 fiscal year, which closed on February 29, 2016, the Plansee Group achieved consolidated sales of 1.18 billion euros. Significant investments were made in expanding existing sites and acquiring new ones.
Research project on Industry 4.0. Shaping the future together!
A team of partners from five European countries, led by Infineon Austria, have joined forces in the "SemI40" research project to work on further development of the autonomous factory. And Plansee SE is part of the team.
Stay flexible! New research findings on the fracture behavior of molybdenum films.
Molybdenum thin films in flexible solar cells and displays need to be flexible without fracturing. In cooperation with the Montan University in Leoben, Plansee is working on improving the ductility of molybdenum and has already been able to achieve some important successes. The findings of this collaboration will be showcased in a poster presentation at the EUPVSEC Conference on 22 June.
Cooperation with the TUfast Racing Team
The Plansee Group supports the TUfast Racing team from the Technical University of Munich and produces various components for the gasoline-powered race car.
Thermal management: MoCu30 sheet now available from the Plansee online shop.
MoCu30 is a material that reliably dissipates heat in semiconductor packages. Sheet made from this material is now available from our "Plansee Express" online shop.
Plansee at the Hannover "Hydrogen + Fuel Cell" trade fair.
This year, Plansee will once again be showcasing its innovative interconnects for fuel cells at the Hannover trade fair. With interconnects Plansee produces vital components in SOFC fuel cells and thus makes a decisive contribution to the further development of this technology in both mobile and stationary applications.
Having opened their own sales office in Seoul 12 years ago and after acquiring a Korean company five years ago, Plansee is now further expanding its production capacity in Korea. Mid-March, 2016, saw the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of their own production facilities.
Coating materials for the toughest tasks: Plansee at the ICMCTF in San Diego
Plansee will present its impressive developments in the field of ceramic target materials at the ICMCTF (International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films), which will be held from 25 – 29 April 2016.
Raw materials are the future!
From the 1st of March through to the 31st of May 2016, the Montana University in Leoben will again be welcoming visitors to the "Rohstoffe sind Zukunft" exhibition.
X-ray technology: A refractory metal innovation for every system.
Plansee has made a name for itself as a reliable, neutral development partner for refractory metals in the field of medical engineering. Let us show you some examples.
Plansee opens new production line
Plansee High Performance Materials (HPM) has opened a new production line in Mysore today. Here components and spare parts are produced for semiconductor manufacturing.
Production of CIGS solar modules – What's new in basic research?
The Munich University of Applied Sciences has conducted in-depth investigations into the ablation mechanism for molybdenum during the CIGS production. Up to now, it had been assumed that a rapidly expanding gas is responsible for removing material from the rear. The research findings refute this model.
Molybdenum and tungsten: Our metals show their new facets.
The early industrial exploitation of our metals was a hot affair, namely as filaments in lights at the beginning of the 20th century. Plansee's product range has grown enormously since then. Their high melting point means that molybdenum and tungsten can nowadays be found in virtually all high-temperature applications. But for many branches of industry, it is other properties of the materials that are becoming ever more interesting.
MOCVD: Why heating elements from Plansee do not need to get so hot
Our new heating element designs and patented coatings allow us to help increase service life and improve productivity in the MOCVD process.
David Lang receives Grand Prize of Excellence
David Lang is a PhD student at the University of Leoben and has worked closely with Plansee for many years during his research. Together with his co-authors, he was awarded the Grand Prize of Excellence in Metallography during the international powder metallurgy conference Powdermet 2015 for the paper "Evolution of Strain-Induced Precipitates in a Molybdenum Base Mo-Hf-C Alloy".
Schneider Electric Supplier Award 2015
The two production sites Seon and Shanghai of the Plansee BU Power T/D have achieved to become "preferred supplier" of the customer Schneider Electric for the fifth time in a row.
New source of tungsten
GTP, the tungsten powders division of Plansee Group, has recently started receiving tungsten ore concentrate from the Drakelands Mine in Hemerdon/England.
Plansee now offers molybdenum and tungsten sheets in three separate categories.
Not every application for molybdenum and tungsten sheets has the same material requirements. Plansee customers now have the opportunity to choose the perfect sheet for their application. The new quality levels are Economy, Standard, and Premium.
Replacement parts for ion implanters. Plansee launches online product catalog.
Plansee manufactures thousands of different replacement parts from tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, graphite, and ceramics for ion implantation and other semiconductor applications. The company has recently started a new online service to help manage this complexity and guide customers to the right products.
Ceratizit strengthens tool business in India
Ceratizit, the hard materials specialist within the Plansee Group, has acquired a majority share in Indian solid carbide tool manufacturer Cobra Carbide.
Innovative charge carrier for a hot isostatic press from Quintus.
Reliability and innovation are the hallmarks of systems from Quintus. Each and every component has to deliver high performance and a long service life, particularly in the face of increasingly demanding operating conditions, such as those found in hot isostatic presses (HIPs): In order to increase productivity, operators are striving to maximize the loads they handle in their systems. New processes often run at very high operating temperatures. And the entire system must be designed to cope with such conditions. At gas pressures of up to 2000 bar in the pressure vessel, there is pretty well no room for tolerances. Time and again, Quintus have pushed the boundaries of technical feasibility for their customers, developing systems that deliver a genuine competitive edge. When it comes to system components made from refractory metals, Quintus have for many years put their faith in Plansee as a reliable partner.
New research findings: Enhanced efficiency of CIGS cells with MoNa sputtering targets.
Small quantities of sodium in the CIGS absorber improve the efficiency of a CIGS cell. Research findings from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) confirm that MoNa sputtering targets are particularly suitable as a sodium source for CIGS thin-film solar cells.
Plansee Group increases sales again.
The Plansee Group increased consolidated sales in the fiscal year 2014/15, which ended on 28 February 2015, to 1.26 billion euros.
Thin and medium-thickness sheet is now even cheaper.
Plansee uses modern rolling mills to produce the world's largest molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum and niobium sheets. New investments mean that customers will immediately benefit from cost savings, which Plansee will also be passing on in their Web shop, Plansee Express.
SOFC innovations at Hannover Fair
Convion LTD, Fraunhofer IKTS and Plansee SE have one common goal: to contribute to the breakthrough of SOFC technology as a future form of affordable, reliable, and clean energy. From interconnects, through ready-to-install stacks up to SOFC systems they present their products and services at this year’s Hannover Fair, April 13-17, 2015.
GTP acquires hardmetal recycling expert Tikomet
Global Tungsten & Powders (GTP), the tungsten powders division of Plansee Group, acquires Tikomet Oy. Tikomet is one of the leading producers of reclaimed hardmetal powders.
Ceratizit acquires tool manufacturer
Ceratizit, the hard materials specialist within the Plansee Group, has acquired the German tool manufacturer Klenk.
Ion implantation: New GSD source from Plansee
The GSD is a popular implanter system from Axcelis. Plansee stocks the appropriate implanter sources for all generations of GSD systems. Feedback from many users over the past years has shown that the standard source has plenty of room for improvement. Thus, Plansee has improved the source by increasing both its lifetime and efficiency. This redesign allows it to be used in any existing systems without any complications.
Presentation on vacuum coating in Regensburg.
At the beginning of February, the Eastern Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute (OTTI) will once again be inviting participants to come to Regensburg for a two-day user forum on vacuum and thin-film technology. And, once again, Plansee will be there.
Improvement of the SOFC
Recently the Christian Doppler laboratory for the improvement of solid oxid fuel cells opened up at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. In trucks solid oxid fuel cells convert diesel into electrical current.
25 years Plansee in Japan
Our colleagues at the Esashi plant in Japan recently had cause to celebrate. It was 25 years ago that production of molybdenum and tungsten products started there under the leadership of Noriaki Nakayama and Masashi Tsuchiya.
Ceratizit acquires Italian drawing tool manufacturer VAN-Dies
Breitenwang/Reutte, 25. November 2014 – Ceratizit Italia will take over the Italian drawing tool manufacturer VAN-Dies at the end of the year.
David Lang wins EPMA Thesis Competition.
The thesis focused on Plansee's material MHC.
Glass melting electrode with new cooling system.
Plansee presented a new cooling system for molybdenum electrodes at the Glasstec trade fair in Düsseldorf. It is intended to protect against premature boiling water corrosion.
260 tonnes of carbon dioxide already saved with new heat pump.
Molybdenum and tungsten have an extremely high melting point. The very thing that makes our metals so outstanding in use also means that the manufacturing process demands considerable amounts of energy. And yet, in many companies, excess heat is simply wasted. But not at Plansee.
Plansee expands production in Korea.
The Plansee Group is building a new plant in South Korea. Today, Plansee and the political representative of Gyeonggi-do province signed a corresponding memorandum of understanding in Reutte.
Presentation at the NADCA Die Casting Congress.
The foundry industry generally uses steel molds for casting aluminum parts. Manufacturers have to work on reduced cycle times to stay competitive. This is where the properties of steel reach their limit and tungsten comes in.
Plansee supports the Tungsten Industry Conflict Minerals Council.
Plansee has been a supporter member of the Tungsten Industry Conflict Minerals Council (TI-CMC) since September. The working group is an initiative of the tungsten industry dedicated to promoting greater transparency in the realm of tungsten procurement. Tungsten from TI-CMC-compliant companies is only procured from responsible, conflict-free sources.
Interview about conflict minerals
Andreas Feichtinger talks about conflict minerals and the importance of having a sustainable supply chain.
Meet us at the Fabtech!
The Fabtech in Atlanta is the largest exhibition on the latest technology in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industries. This year Plansee will be exhibiting and presenting its TIG and resistance welding electrodes made of tungsten.
EU PVSEC poster session
Molybdenum-potassium (MoK) sputtering targets or sodium-doped CuGa targets: Our materials experts are constantly involved in basic research into the manufacture of thin films. You can find out about our latest research findings at a poster presentation at the 2014 EU PVSEC Conference in Amsterdam.
Perfectly flat
Plansee’s new cold-rolling mill represents a technological milestone in the cold forming of molybdenum sheet.
The Plansee HPM Group improves its customer service with shorter, guaranteed delivery times.
Tungsten vs. steel
Global Tungsten & Powders Announces Strategic Cobalt Partnership with Umicore
Global Tungsten & Powders, a division of the Plansee Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with Umicore for tolling GTP’s cobalt intermediate material.
Putting back casted TZM electrodes to the test.
A manufacturer of switchgears tested our back cast electrodes for resistance welding. The result: Due to the seamless joint with the electrode holder, back cast electrodes have a substantially longer service life than their soldered alternative.
Plansee presents thin-film materials at the Touch Taiwan.
Our tungsten turns into blinds
Tomorrow's energy-efficient window goes under the name "smart window". Made from electrochromic glass, the window darkens at the touch of a button or fully automatically to prevent buildings from becoming too hot.
Continued growth for the Plansee Group.
In the 2013/14 fiscal year (ending February 28, 2014), the Plansee Group increased its sales volume by 17 percent and realized sales of 1.2 billion euros. The Group made investments of 280 million euros.
Saving fuel with coatings.
Intelligently coating moving components reduces friction in vehicles and paves the way for additional efficiency measures.
Plansee develops selective laser melting process for refractory metals.
Simply “print” complex shaped components? Following the model of the 3D-printing process of plastics, Plansee has now developed a selective laser melting process for refractory metals. The first components have already been delivered to customers.
Strong tungsten alloy for the foundry industry.
The Aalen Foundry Colloquium, hosted by Aalen University in Germany on the 7th and 8th of May, was all about innovations in die casting.
Results of our customer survey 2013/14.
We are continually interested in what our customers think of our products and services. We can now announce the findings of our online customer survey for the business year 2013/14:
Meet our materials experts at PCIM Europe.
Between the 20th and 22nd of May, 2015 everything revolves around power electronics at the PCIM. Our molybdenum, tungsten, molybdenum copper and tungsten-copper (WCu). components for reliable heat dissipation in semiconductors will be there too.
Well done! Plansee Electro-Graph receives 5S award.
Well-organized workflows in production and administration provide an ideal environment for doing a job well. Our Plansee Electro-Graph plant recently received recognition for its lean processes.
CERATIZIT purchases Californian tool manufacturer
Breitenwang, Reutte, Austria, April 11, 2014 – Ceratizit, the Plansee Group’s carbide specialist, has acquired a majority interest in Californian tool manufacturer Promax.
Plansee opens new representative office in Singapore.
With more than 600 million inhabitants and constantly high growth rates, Southeast Asia has become an interesting location for international business. And now, the materials specialist Plansee has opened its own office in the heart of Singapore.
No wear in the nozzle: TZM for plastic injection molding.
Small quantities of titanium and zirconium improve the dimensional stability of molybdenum at high temperatures. But it is not only at temperatures above 1000 °C that the properties of the TZM alloy prove their worth. One important application is plastic injection molding.
Boosting the efficiency of CIGS by optimal use of MoNa sputtering targets.
Together with Plansee, the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) investigated the ideal sputtering parameters for achieving high efficiency of CIGS cells.
Mastery over our metals: Tools made by Plansee.
Our tools do not have it easy: After all, it is their unenviable task to machine molybdenum, tungsten and tantalum. And these belong to a group of materials known as refractory metals, a thoroughly apt name, as they are extremely difficult to machine.
Ion implantation: Ideal extraction assembly for VIISta HCP, HCS, Trident, and NexGen.
Plansee develops improved replacement parts from refractory metals, graphite, and ceramic for ion implanters from all major manufacturers. The latest development: an assembly for VIISta HCP, HCS, Trident, and NexGen configured systems.
Conflict-free tungsten procurement confirmed by EICC/GeSI.
Following an audit conducted in December 2013, the audit committee of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) has confirmed that Global Tungsten & Powders (GTP) – a division of the Plansee Group - does not process any tungsten sourced from conflict region. GTP is the world's first tungsten producer to receive this certificate.
Visit us at the FC-Expo in Japan
The International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Expo in Japan is Asia's premier forum for sharing information in the field of hydrogen and fuel cell technology. Once again, Plansee will be there to present its SOFC interconnects.
RSNA: New trends in x-ray imaging.
Thousands of registered visitors attended the 99th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting held by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2013 in Chicago. This congress is seen as a barometer for trends in imaging technology in medical science. Our "trend scouts" Dr. Wolfgang Glatz, Thomas Müller and Rick Dahlquist were there.
You can now track your order at every step. That's how it works:
Heike Larcher about refractory metals in LED production.
Their high temperature stability, a perfect coefficient of expansion, an incomparable purity. Heike Larcher knows that the special characteristics of our metals make them indispensable for the production of LEDs.
New insights into the oxygen content of copper-gallium thin films.
The residual gases in the vacuum equipment during the sputtering process determines the oxygen content of copper-gallium precursor layers much more than the target material itself. Read more about this result from one of our research projects.
Allrounders in the world of materials: Thomas Granzer on refractory metal composites.
In the search for the Holy Grail of the material that is fit for all purposes, it is the composite materials that come closest to the ideal. Thomas Granzer reflected on refractory metal composites and their benefits at the Dresden Materials Symposium.
Plansee opens production site in China.
Plansee has had its own sales organization in China for more than 20 years. As the importance of this market has grown, the next logical step was to set up their own production location, which has just opened near Shanghai.
Open house of the Plansee Group's apprenticeship.
Leaving school soon? Learn about the start for professional technical trainings in September 2014.
Practical guide to vacuum and thin-film technology.
In November, the East Bavarian Institute for Technology Transfer will be conducting the user forum "Vacuum and Thin-film Technology". Dr. Jörg Winkler from Plansee will address the question of sputtering targets for thin-film technology.
Harald Selb in the interview with Gary Thomas.
Find out what Harald says about the role of material purity in the production of touch panels.
How the thickness of molybdenum films influences their properties.
What influence does the thickness of molybdenum films have on their properties? The Faculty of Functional Materials at the Montan University in Leoben teamed up with Plansee to investigate this question in detail.
And they found that grain size grows as the thickness of the film increases. However, resistivity and stress remain constant as of a film thickness of 1 µm.
Research project for coating materials.
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency is providing support for a three-year development project conducted by Plansee.
New Ion Source for Exceed IHC 9600 offers 30% Longer Lifetime.
PLANSEE designs are made from high-performance metals, graphite, and ceramics and are available for most commercial ion implantation tools. Our most recent development is an extended life ion source for the Exceed IHC 9600 implantation system from Nissin.
Seamlessly joined? Comparing cast and soldered electrodes for spot welding.
Electrodes made from tungsten-lanthanum or TZM with a copper shaft are suitable for the high stresses involved in resistance spot welding. But cavities in the solder between the electrode and the shaft have a negative impact on the quality of the weld.
Ultra-pure sputtering targets for UHD screens.
Transistors in ultra-high definition displays (4K2K) possess particularly fine structures. Only extremely pure sputtering targets can be used as input materials for the fine conductor paths. Check out our ultra-pure coating materials at the Touch Taiwan!
Material tuning for ion implantation.
How the properties of graphite and refractory metals improve system reliability and the lifetime of ion source and beamline replacement components.
Densimet<sup>®</sup> tungsten heavy metal alloys now available online.
As of today, Plansee Express will provide even more density with the addition of: Densimet® D176, D185ND and D2M. In the leading online shop for semi-finished high-melting metals, tungsten heavy alloys are now also available.
Information on our tungsten supply chain.
In light of recent reports suggesting that the integrity of our tungsten supply chain may have been compromised, we would like to share with you proactively our initial thoughts and findings.
Second most successful year ever. The Plansee Group continues to expand.
In spite of the flagging economy, the Plansee Group plans to continue expanding. At the same time, the company intends to become more productive and innovative.
GTP Suspends Colombia Tungsten Sourcing After Questions Raised
Towanda/Pennsylvania, USA, 2 July 2013 – Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. (GTP) has received information suggesting that the integrity of its tungsten supply chain in Colombia may have been compromised.
Expat Award for Peter Aldrian. Our congratulations!
The "Expat Award" is presented by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce to recognize the achievements of successful Austrians abroad. In 2013, the award went to Peter Aldrian – our Managing Director in Japan.
From June 24th to the 27th in Chicago, everything revolves around powder metallurgy.
PowderMet is the largest American Conference on powder metallurgy.
Lower LED manufacturing costs.
Manufacturers and suppliers of LEDs will be meeting at LED Lighting in Taipei from 18th to 20th June. Visitors are excited at the prospect of developments that will help reduce manufacturing costs.
Doped tungsten doubles the lifetime.
We use creep-resistant WVM to manufacture heaters for sapphire growth. These have more than twice the service life of conventional tungsten heaters.
Your satisfaction – in black and white.
Many of our customers have appreciated our products and services for years. But, for us, that is not enough: now we have your opinion – in black and white.
Research project on 300 mm thin wafer production
The "Enhanced Power Pilot Line" (EPPL) is one of the largest research undertakings being conducted in Europe. 32 enterprises and scientific institutes are involved – including PLANSEE.
Opening of the world’s largest conference on powder metallurgically produced materials.
The 18th Plansee Seminar has opened today. Over 500 researchers and users from more than 30 countries will share insights into the future of manufacturing and unpublished research results.
Plansee Seminar: Make your choice.
The 18th Plansee Seminar takes places from 3-7 June in Reutte. Will you be there? You can now create your own programme online.
Plansee at the Semicon West 2013.
Anyone can produce exact copies, but our spare parts for ion implanters are more than just that. We will be presenting many of our cost-saving "Plansee Advanced Standard" graphite, refractory metal and ceramic products at Semicon West.
Our metals and our team are all set to go for the 18th Plansee Seminar scheduled for the 3rd - 7th of June. And you?
On the spot: Plansee at the SNEC PV Power Expo 2013
Come and meet our thin-film photovoltaics specialists from 14th to 16th May in Shanghai. Our monolithic rotary targets with a new inner-diameter coating will be there too.
We end our production of thoriated (WT20) plasma spray electrodes.
As of June 2014, Plansee will produce only environmentally friendly plasma spray electrodes made of tungsten-lanthanum (WL10). A scientific study has confirmed the excellent performance of these electrodes.
Plansee will present its impressive developments in the field of ceramic target materials at the ICMCTF (International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films), which will be held from 29.4. to 3.5.
Plansee at the power electronics industry hot spot
The leading actors in the power electronics industry will be gathering at the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) between 14th and 16th May 2013.
ようこそ! Now we can also welcome you in Japanese.
Our team from Plansee Japan is making sure that plansee.com now speaks even more languages.
Meet us at the SVC TechCon in Rhode Island.
Our coating experts will be ready for your visit at the SVC Technical Conference between 23th and 24th April. Learn more about monotlic rotary targets and CuGa sputtering targets for CIGS.
Open sesame. MIM hot zone door operation - simplified.
The hot zone's performance is just part of the story. Ease of installation and ease of use are also desired criteria for furnace operators. Plansee provides both.
plansee.com speaks Spanish.
Plansee Seminar: The program.
Academically examined and practically tested: Scientists and operators present new findings on Refractory Metals and Hard Materials at the 18th Plansee Seminar.
We did it again: Plansee India receives the All India Star Performer award.
Plansee India received the All India Star Performer Award from the Engineering Export Promotion Council of the Indian Ministry of Commerce.
Our niobium at its most dazzling
Every year, the Austrian Mint or "Münze Österreich" brings out a silver-niobium 25 euro coin. The niobium core of this collector's piece is produced by Plansee and is always presented with a different design and in a new color.
Our MSC cells on tour.
In the future, our Metal Supported Cells (MSC) are to be used to transform energy in mobile applications such as in trucks. From April 8 to 12, they will be on tour with our experts at the Hanover trade fair.
你们好! Now we can also welcome you in Chinese.
Our employee Phoebe Qian and her team are making sure that plansee.com now speaks even more languages.
The future is golden: Plansee ceases production of WT20 welding electrodes.
The independent German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has compared the thorium-free WL15 welding electrode with the earlier WT20 standard and has confirmed: WL15 is the high-performance, environmentally-friendly alternative.
Plansee at the leading international MIM event!
We will present our latest developments for metallic hot zones for the MIM industry.
Plansee nominated for Austrian State Prize for Innovation.
Companies throughout Austria have submitted more than 592 projects in their attempt to win the country's State Prize for Innovation. With our contribution to fuel cell technology, we made it through to the last six canditades. Cross your fingers for us!
Plansee Seminar: Enroll now!
The representatives of the powder metallurgy world are meeting again. At our headquarters in Reutte. Enroll for the 18th Plansee Seminar until 5th April and save 15% on the registration fee.
Article on MoNa sputtering targets published in "Thin Solid Films".
The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have worked together with PLANSEE and prepared a scientific article on molybdenum-sodium targets. The text has been published in the journal "Thin Solid Films".
Joyful holidays!
Our metals are used to high temperatures. But once a year their hearts warm.
Skaupy prize for Dr. Lorenz Sigl
Dr. Lorenz Sigl has been awarded the Skaupy prize 2012 at the Hagen symposium in Germany in the end of November. With this award a committee of diverse powder metallurgy organizations honors the outstanding activities of Dr. Sigl in R&D and industry.
Needed: Metalworking technicians for a cutting edge assignment.
Hi, girls and boys. Apply for one of our 32 apprenticeship places until February 28!
New production hall: More space for Plansee Composite Materials.
December 6 saw the opening of a new production hall at our Lechbruck (Germany) production site. This will allow us to meet the high demand for high-precision components for medical technology.
Densimet® tungsten alloy
The tungsten alloy Densimet® reliably shields against X-rays and gamma radiation. With its new production process and great expertise in the materials field, Plansee has made the manufacture of Densimet® shielding components particularly cost-effective.
Do you know the electron configuration of molybdenum?
Just look it up – simple and fast in our periodic table of elements.
Scientific article on sputtering targets for CIGS.
Our expertise in the field of coating materials for thin-film solar cells is once again set out in black and white and can be read in the latest edition of "Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis".
Urban mining - Cities as never-ending sources of raw materials
Across the globe, raw materials are becoming ever more scarce and more expensive. For many years, these mineral resources were exported to the industrial nations, where they were required for things such as computers, cell phones and cars. And now, the large cities can be compared to huge raw materials mines. The metals are well concealed in the products we use, and in the future the focus will be on how to recover them.
Plansee Express: Now purchase furnace parts online.
It’s getting hot at Plansee Express! The leading online shop for refractory metals such as molybdenum and tungsten is now also offering finished parts for high-temperature furnaces.
Molybdenum crucibles: Reacting quickly to dynamic markets.
Our employees submit their most exciting projects for the Plansee Innovation Award. But at the end of each year, there can only be one winning team:
Three days for thin films.
Whether for flat screens, tools or solar cells: We have the right thin film material for every type of application. Our experts from around the world meet once every year to discuss their ideas and experiences.
35 secondary school students are taking their lessons in our training workshop.
Learning in an industrial company rather than in the classroom. For another 16 fifth-year students at the Bundesrealgymnasium Reutte, Elementary Metalworking lessons are held in the Plansee training workshop.
Plansee at EUMICON.
Sourcing, processing and recycling of tungsten: These were the subjects covered by Managing Director of Plansee, Dr. Wolfgang Köck, in his presentation at the EUMICON raw materials conference in Leoben, Austria.
Fast ions and hot processes: experts from the semicon industry meet at Plansee.
The opportunity for users to report on their experiences provides an impetus for fresh ideas in the semiconductor industry. In September, practitioners, researchers, system manufacturers and suppliers met together at Plansee in Reutte, Austria.
EU PVSEC: Great to have seen you there!
It was a pleasure meeting you in Frankfurt. We certainly hope that our strong metals were able to convince you.
Best Supplier Award von Eaton.
On September 7 2012, Eaton singled out just eight of the company's more than 2500 suppliers to receive its "Best Supplier Award". Among them: Plansee China Ltd.
Inner diameter coating for monolithic rotary targets
A new inner diameter coating for monolithic molybdenum targets prevents direct contact between the target material and cooling water during the sputtering process. We will present our "upgraded rotary target" at the EU PVSEC in Frankfurt.
No barriers to hydrogen.
A hydrogen separator with an extremely thin palladium layer supplied ready for installation has made it possible: Pure hydrogen from natural gas.
TZM in XXL
2.7 square meter TZM sheet. Our newest world record.
plansee.com now speaks French
New system fixes ceramic arcing cathodes reliably.
To date an appropriate fixturing system for using ceramic cathodes in arc-evaporation was missing. A carrier plate and a cathode ring now enable the use of tungsten-carbide, chromium-silicon or titanium-diboride.
Cool base plates look for hot semiconductors.
The semiconductor components used in the electronics industry produce ever more heat during operation. Efficient cooling asks for high-tech materials from Plansee.
Plansee receives export award.
The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber honered the Plansee Group for its efforts in exporting.
We do care.
Read our sustainability report.
True energy savers: Lightweight metallic hot zones.
With our Enerzone series of products, we can provide genuine lightweight hot zones that reduce energy requirements by up to 25%.
Investment in Günther Wirth
The CERATIZIT Group will invest in a 50% share of the tool manufacturer Günther Wirth (GW). With this step CERATIZIT complements its product line with round tools made from hard metal, and whose production GW specializes in. CERATIZIT is a division of the Plansee Group.
Meet our coating team at the EU PVSEC in Germany!
To improve the molybdenum layers used in thin-film solar cells, we have developed two very special alloys: MoNa for a precise sodium doping, and MoTa for a better corrosion resistance. Dr. Christoph Adelhelm will present both materials at the EU PVSEC.
From concrete to strong metal.
Every year, the international engineering consulting company Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT awards its Innovation Award for outstanding achievements in the engineering sciences. This award was recently conferred on our employee Dr. Bernhard Valentini.
We like to move it!
Plansee Electro-Graph moved. Five kilometers away from the former production site in Carlsbad our components for ion implantation now have twice as much space as before.
Plansee Seminar celebrates its 60th birthday
It was 60 years ago that Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf conceived of the Plansee Seminar. At the end of June 1952, scientists gathered in Reutte / Austria at his personal invitation to discuss the properties of metals (De Re Metallica).
Nuclear Fusion: Only the best survive!
Heat exchanger from Plansee to become ready for series production for ITER.
Sales of more than 1,5 billion euros.
“Despite global uncertainties caused by government debts, euro and banking crisis we were able to continue our worldwide expansion during 2011”, Plansee Group’s executive chairman, Dr. Michael Schwarzkopf, said at the annual press conference in Reutte.
Plansee Express opens to the Japanese market.
Semi-finished and standard products can now be ordered in Japan at Plansee’s worldwide online shop.
Molybdenum tames the heat.
Confronted with conditions in which traditional metals quickly deform or contaminate the atmosphere as a result of high vapor pressures, molybdenum delivers with a high level of chemical purity, resistance to corrosion and dimensional stability.
EUMICON 2012: Visit our lectures.
We will be present when international experts focus on security of supply, resource efficiency and recycling.
EUMICON 2012. The biggest date in the European resources sector calendar.
Resource-efficient extraction, and sustainable, secure and affordable access to raw materials are pivotal issues – not just for the mineral resources sector but for the future of the European economy as a whole. The most influential event in this year’s international mineral resources conference calendar, the three-day EUMICON 2012, will examine these topics from a wide variety of perspectives.
Brilliant performance in sapphire growth.
Growing sapphire in a crucible has become child's play thanks to tungsten crucibles from Plansee. Their particularly smooth surface gives them a longer service life and reduces costs.
Overcoming all resistance.
The conductivity of the molybdenum back contact affects the efficiency of the entire CIGS solar cell. Working together with the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, we have subjected this material property to a thorough examination.
Precision in the semiconductor industry
How do our materials contribute in the semiconductor industry? Find out in Valladolid/Spain and San Francisco where we will present spare parts as well as our Advanced Standard components for ion implantation.
SOFC20: Initial test with hot box stack module completed successfully.
With new interconnects we contribute to a natural gas-fired, stationary system demonstrator. With an electrical power output of more than 5 kW, it will achieve an electrical efficiency in excess of 50%.
Jülich fuel cell with our interconnects breaks the 40,000-hour mark
The ITM interconnect supplied by Plansee was an important component in the planar solid oxide fuel cell developed at the Jülich Research Center.
Plansee India awarded for excellent export performance
India receives the prestigious "All India Star Performer".
Sputtering targets on tour in Taiwan. Be there!
As thin functional layers, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum, titanium and copper play an important role in flat panel displays. Normally found in the depths of thin film transistors, these metals will put in an apprearance at the Display Taiwan.
Sputtering targets for the solar industry: live on stage in Santa Clara and San Francisco.
Whether as rotary or planar target: Our materials are the optimum solution as coating materials in thin-film photovoltaics. What do all of our targets have in common? Unbeatable material purity, homogeneous and oriented microstructure and high density.
Plansee is supplier of the year
On 26th January, Plansee was singled out as "Supplier of the Year" by the Warstein-based Infineon Technologies Bipolar.
New: Molybdenum-tantalum against corrosion in CIGS.
Thanks to its good adhesion to glass and a high electrical conductivity, molybdenum is the back contact material in CIGS solar cells. However, exposed to corrosive atmospheres molybdenum can be prone to oxidation. Our answer: Molybdenum-tantalum.
LED: Mo-Cu R670 prevents cracks in semiconductor layers.
With Mo-Cu R670, Plansee has developed a new molybdenum-copper composite material for semiconductor wafer substrates. The material ensures optimized heat dissipation in LED chips.
Our hard coating team at the ICMCTF in San Diego.
Plansee sputtering targets for hard coating are on show from 23 – 27 April, 2012 at the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) in San Diego (CA/USA).
How our sputtering targets make CIGS production more effective.
The sputtering process is the most important technique for material deposition in CIGS-manufacturing. With innovative sputtering targets CIGS producers can significantly reduce their production costs.
Plansee Group sells PMG
The purchaser is the Essen-based asset management company Erben Dr. Karl Goldschmidt GmbH
Meet us in Tokyo and Santa Clara!
Strong metals for the LED industry at the Lighting Japan and the Strategies in Light (USA).
The online shop now accepts PayPal payments
To improve its Internet customer service even further, Plansee now features the well-known PayPal payment processing functionality in its online shop.
EICC certification for tantalum
We do not source any of our materials from regions afflicted by conflict. The fact that we only use tantalum raw materials from ethically unimpeachable sources is now officially confirmed by EICC certification.
Plansee grows in Korea
Plansee is further expanding its presence in the booming Asian market with the acquisition of Korean company TCB Korea Co., Ltd. The purchase agreement was signed on 20 October 2011, with the parties agreeing not to disclose the purchase price. Plansee has been active in Korea for six years, running its own sales office.
Laser scribing of thin films
Together with Manz, Plansee has been studying the influence of the coating parameters used during the sputtering of the molybdenum layer on laser scribing. The results show that the process pressure and target power have a great influence on quality.
And the Best Paper Award goes to?
The International Conference on Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials rewards Plansee's research paper.
Sales increase by 46 percent: Plansee Group achieves best ever figures
The Plansee Group realized record sales of 1.24 billion euros in the last fiscal year. “We recovered from the downturn that was caused by the financial crisis more quickly than expected and performed very well in the 2010/11 fiscal year – from both an operational and a strategic point of view,” said Plansee Group CEO Michael Schwarzkopf at the annual press conference in Reutte, Austria.
Award for Plansee Powertech
A supplier offering Swiss precision
Plansee Group acquires minority ownership of the Chilean company Molibdenos y Metales S.A.
The Plansee Group, one of the worldwide leading companies for powder metallurgical products made from high performance materials such as molybdenum and tungsten, has taken over 7 percent of the shares in form of a block deal of the Chilean company Molibdenos y Metales S.A. (Molymet) on 25 March 2011. Molymet is the worldwide leading processor of molybdenum ore concentrates.
Acquisition of Wolfra-Tech: Plansee Group strengthens activities in India
PLANSEE High Performance Materials intends to acquire a majority stake in Wolfra-Tech Pvt. Ltd, and has recently signed a letter of intent to this end. The transaction should be completed within the next couple of weeks.
Focus on increasing innovation and flexibility
The 2009/10 fiscal year saw the Plansee Group implement a range of initiatives in response to the drop in demand triggered by the global economic crisis. These included structural changes and a range of measures to improve liquidity and competitiveness. The Group’s sales fell by 22 percent compared with 2008/09, to 852 million euros, while its equity ratio increased to 47 percent. Overall, the Group’s outlook for the future remains positive. Plansee will focus on increasing its innovation activities and on implementing more flexible working practices.
A key component for high-temperature fuel cells
PLANSEE’s interconnects are making a significant contribution to clean, reliable, affordable energy generation as a component in Bloom Energy’s recently announced Energy Server.
Plansee Group increases sales in the last fiscal year
The 2008/09 fiscal year saw the Plansee Group’s consolidated sales rise by two percent, to a total of 1.1 billion euros. The Group continued to strengthen its position globally in the last fiscal year, and completed an investment program worth a total of 400 million euros. In the actual fiscal year managing the global economic crisis is a key priority: Measures to reduce costs and to increase liquidity are being implemented consistently.
Powder Metal community gathers in Reutte
The 17th Plansee Seminar, the world’s most prestigious conference on powder metallurgical refractory metals and hard materials, will take place at the Plansee Group’s headquarters in Reutte, Austria during the last week of May this year. The provisional program for the seminar has now been announced. 500 industry and research experts from 40 nations are expected to attend.
Plansee Group continues to grow: Sales reach over one billion euros for first time ever
Plansee Group's consolidated sales rose by 11 percent to a total of 1.079 billion euros in the 2007/08 fiscal year. Its number of employees increased by 350 to 5,900. Record investment of 400 million euros over the last three years has supported the Group's stable growth path. A range of acquisitions and the establishment of new subsidiaries has strengthened the Group's global presence.
Plansee Group acquires US powder expert GTP
The Plansee Group has signed an agreement to purchase the Global Tungsten & Powders (GTP) business unit from Osram. The activities are part of the US company Osram Sylvania. The purchase price has not been disclosed, and the transaction remains subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.
With the acquisition the Plansee Group will increase the company’s competitiveness and raw materials supply base for tungsten products, and expand its refractory metals activities in North America. GTP employs 1,050 people and will become a new division of the Plansee Group.
Environmental report published
The Plansee Group recently published the first-ever environmental report on activities at its largest production site in Reutte, Austria.
The fascination of light: the core for the new 25 Euro coin from Plansee
For the sixth time now, the Austrian Mint "Münze Österreich“ is issuing a bimetal 25 Euro coin in cooperation with Plansee.
Plansee continues to expand its international presence
The 2006/07 fiscal year saw the Plansee Group’s consolidated sales rise by 13 percent, to a total of 971 million euros, and its number of employees increase to 5,550. Record investment of 121 million euros ensured the Group continued its growth around the world, while a range of acquisitions and the establishment of new businesses strengthened the Group’s global presence.
Plansee Group celebrates 85th anniversary with record sales
The Plansee Group has announced record sales in its 85-year history. In the 2005/06 fiscal year the Group’s con-solidated sales increased by 26%, reaching 857 million euros. The merger of Plansee’s and Mitsubishi’s sin-tered steel activities positioned the PMG Group as one of the world’s leading suppliers of PM-products to the automotive industry. The Group’s consolidated head-count rose from 4,600 to 5,050. Profitable growth al-lowed record levels of investment.
CERATIZIT is expanding to Eastern Europe
New sales subsidiaries in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
PLANSEE got the KNEWLEDGE National Award
The national award for the “Encouragement and Development of Life Accompanying Learning in the Occupational Context” is a distinction granted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to companies and nonprofit organizations making an exceptional contribution to the continuing education and development of their employees’ competencies. The presentation ceremony was held on November 16, 2005, this year for the first time in the headquarters of the Federation of Austrian Industry on the Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna.
New Turnover Record for PLANSEE
In the 2004/2005 business year, which ended on 28 February, the PLANSEE Group was able to maintain its long-term growth, with consolidated group turnover up by 19% to 680 million Euros. This increase can be put down to considerably higher worldwide demand, changes in the product mix and raw material-induced sales price increases. From a regional perspective, Germany with its strong export industry as well as USA, Japan and Taiwan showed the largest growth rates. All important sales sectors of the PLANSEE Group, such as the automotive and electronics industries as well as lighting, medicine and power technologies contributed to the record year 2004/2005 with double-digit growth rates.
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Huge nine-storey block of flats to be built on Plymouth waterfront
Work is due to start on Harbour Arch Quay in 2019 - but first developer needs £3m
William TelfordBusiness Editor
Harbour Arch Quay would be nine floors high, similar to surrounding buildings
Work will start in 2019 on a multi-million pound block of luxury flats on Plymouth’s waterfront – but it wants to raise £3million first.
Sutton Harbour Holdings plc, the regeneration specialist which also owns the long lease on Plymouth’s former airport, has planning permission for the towering Harbour Arch Quay which will sit in between Pinnacle House and Salt Quay House, on Sutton Harbour’s North East Quay.
At nine floors it will be of similar height to both its neighbouring blocks.
The company’s half year report, for the six months to the end of September 2018, has revealed the firm wants the building completed by 2020.
But first it is launching an open offer, which means new shares offered to existing investors, to raise £3million needed to pay for the block and another, larger one: Sugar Quay on land once reserved for a BBC studio.
How Harbour Arch Quay could look
A statement to the Stock Exchange said: “The company has consent to move forward with the smaller residential scheme at Harbour Arch Quay, Sutton Harbour.
“The scheme will provide 14 high-quality apartments on the North East side of Sutton Harbour.
“The company intends to start construction during the second calendar quarter of 2019 with completion due during the second calendar quarter of 2020.”
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AIM-listed SHH recently resubmitted redesigned proposals for a mixed-use scheme to regenerate the long vacant site.
The scheme which gained unanimous approval from Plymouth City Council’s planning committee in November 2018, comprises 170 apartments, 32,000sq ft of commercial/retail space and basement parking for 106 cars with an additional 114 spaces being built at Harbour Car Park, nearby.
“Upon delivery, the development will be a landmark development in the Sutton Harbour area with its future occupiers contributing to the sustainability of the area as a place to visit, live and work in,” the company’s statement said.
The half-year report also revealed the firm, now led by Canadian architect Philip Beinhaker, made a pre-tax profit of £110,000 in the first half of its financial year – an improvement on the £702,000 loss it made in the same period in 2017.
Harbour Arch Quay will sit between Pinnacle Quay and Salt Quay House
It’s net debt also rose to £23.459million from £22.956million in just six months.
But the company said this was expected as it invested £960,000 during the period into planning and professional fees in connection with the planned regeneration around Sutton Harbour, including Sugar Quay, Harbour Arch Quay and the extension of Harbour Car Park.
Profit and loss – the ups and down’s of SHG’s finances
This is how Sutton Harbour Group Plc has performed during the past nine years:
2019 - PROFIT: £72,000
2018 – LOSS: £136,000
2017 – PROFIT: £331,000
2013 – LOSS: £3.679million
2012 – PROFIT: £1.68million
So in order to fund the pre-construction project costs and “essential infrastructure updating projects”, the company is trying to raise £3million by offering new shares to existing shareholders.
“Net proceeds of the open offer will be utilised in the ongoing development of Company including pre-construction costs in respect of both Harbour Arch Quay and Sugar Quay, capital maintenance across the company's assets, and to meet the company's general funding requirements arising from its ordinary and development activities,” the half-year statement said.
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At Harbour Arch, SHH envisages a “contemporary” and “striking” apartment block.
It would contain 14 flats: six with two bedrooms and eight with three bedrooms.
On the ground floor there would be a commercial unit, which could be used as a shop, cafe, restaurant or even a gym.
The Harbour Arch Quay site was formerly known as Horsewash House, because it was where working ponies were brought to be cleaned.
The area was earmarked for regeneration in the Sutton Harbour Area Action Plan in 2008 and features in the Sutton Harbour Vision published in 2014, which out-lined SHH’s aspirations to continue regenerating the area.
Who is Phil Beinhaker?
Canadian Phil Beinhaker has splashed £20million on shares in Plymouth’s waterside development company Sutton Harbour Holdings plc, now taking a controlling interest.
But, of course, he had to make those greenbacks first.
Mr Beinhaker set up the world’s fourth biggest architecture practice and was involved in building major sports arenas, hospitals, office blocks, restaurants and housing estates in North America and Europe.
The 76-year-old founded IBI Group, in Toronto, Canada, an international professional services company working in architecture, engineering, planning, landscape architecture, transportation, and technology.
It is one of the largest architecture or architecture/engineering firms in the world – in fourth place according to some rankings, with more than 2,500 employees and 60 offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Most of its business is in Canada and the USA but its UK operations account for 15 per cent of the workload.
Mr Beinhaker now lives in the UK where he has founded Beinhaker Design Services.
FB Investors is an English limited liability partnership incorporated on November, 13, 2017, and it now controls SHH.
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Royal Navy and traditional Armed Forces could miss out in post Brexit defence spending increase
Foreign Secretary says major increase in military funding needed after Brexit due to 'aggressive Russia and a more assertive China' - but it should be spent on cyber and artificial intelligence
Traditional military resources major would miss out on increased defence spending called for by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. (Image: MoD)
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Traditional Royal Navy resources and other Armed Forces would lose out in the post-Brexit defence spending increase being demanded by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Addressing the Lord Mayor of London's banquet at the Mansion House, Mr Hunt said Britain should be prepared to "decisively" raise the proportion of national income it spends on defence once it has left the EU, to demonstrate the UK's commitment to defending democratic values at a time of growing global uncertainty.
However, he said the additional funding should be for new capabilities, such as cyber and artificial intelligence, rather than "plugging gaps" in existing plans.
At the same time, he warned that it was not sustainable to expect the US to carry on spending 4% of its GDP on defence while other Nato allies spent only 1% to 2%.
"For these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next strategic defence and security review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence," he said.
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"The outcome of such investment should demonstrate beyond doubt that when we say Britain stands for the defence of democratic values, when we promise never to leave our great ally, the United States, to perform this task alone, then we are as good as our word and in doing so we encourage other democracies who share our values to follow suit."
The Foreign Secretary is widely expected to be a contender for the Tory leadership when Theresa May steps down, and his address will be seen as a pitch to Conservative MPs concerned about the level of defence spending.
He acknowledged the UK currently accounted for almost 20% of total EU defence spending, and that British forces possessed a "hugely disproportionate share" of some key capabilities such as heavy lift transport aircraft.
But at a time of evolving threats, he said the country needed to be prepared to do more to defend its traditional values.
"We are in a multipolar world without the assurance provided by unquestioned American dominance," he said.
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"We face a more aggressive Russia and a more assertive China.
"We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years time.
"At the same time the nature of warfare is changing.
"The conflicts of tomorrow could well start with a cyber attack, then escalate into precision strikes by hypersonic missiles followed by swarms of unmanned aircraft.
"The new domains of space and cyber and the immense capabilities of artificial intelligence will transform the conduct of warfare.
"If we want Britain to defend the Enlightenment values that owe so much to our finest thinkers, like David Hume in Edinburgh and Adam Smith in Glasgow, then we need to be leaders in these areas too."
Mr Hunt's comments were dismissed by Labour's shadow defence secretary, Nia Griffith.
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She wrote on Twitter: "Jeremy Hunt has been a Cabinet Minister since 2010. Since then the Tories have cut defence spending by £9 billion in real terms. If he was so bothered, you'd have thought he might have said something a bit sooner?"
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "UK defence spending is the largest in Europe, we are one of only a handful of Nato countries currently spending 2% of GDP on defence.
"We have a £39 billion core defence budget which will rise to almost £40 billion by 2020-21 and we will spend more than £186 billion on equipment and support between 2018 and 2028.
"Last year we allocated an extra £1.8 billion for defence spending.
"At the next defence and security review we will consider the spending level required to continue to meet the threats to our national security, as we did at the last one in 2015."
Mr Hunt, who backed Remain in the referendum but has since sought to appeal to Brexiteers, said it was essential to honour the 2016 vote by leaving the EU "cleanly and properly".
"To do so is to live up to a democratic promise," he said.
"And to fail would betray the promise of a democracy.
"It would also fail the values that Britain has always stood for.
"How could we defend democracy on the international stage if a large part of our population believes we are ignoring it at home?"
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The Mi Mix 2S arrives as the standard bearer of the Xiaomi delegation for its arrival on the French market. A smartphone that does not do things by halves and should overshadow the competition.
Xiaomi remains very aggressive in terms of prices, even in Europe. The Mi Mix 2S is sold at € 499, making it one of the cheapest high-end smartphones on the market. It is therefore placed in front of the OnePlus 6 (€ 519) which will be one of its fiercest competitors. The Honor View 10 is also a serious opponent for the Xiaomi terminal. The biggest obstacle that the Mi Mix 2S may encounter in Spain remains the lack of awareness of the Chinese brand, which must build an image in Spain. With such a standard bearer, Xiaomi in any case puts the odds on its side.
After a first Mi Mix which had marked the spirits by the "almost borderless" aspect of its screen, Xiaomi comes back to the task with this Mi Mix 2S which uses the same recipe. While most manufacturers on the market seem to have bowed to the notch, the Mi Mix 2S is resisting. On three of its sides, the screen displays a border of only 2 mm. Only the lower border is a little more imposing. This allows the display to occupy approximately 82% of the front face of the terminal, a score among the highest on the market. This does not mean that the Mi Mix 2S can be used with one hand, given its screen of almost 6 inches (15.2 cm).
The choice to dismiss the notch still has a somewhat unfortunate consequence. Indeed, the front photo module is found in an impractical location, forcing to turn the camera over to capture a self-portrait. If you don't put it upside down when taking a selfie, the Mi Mix 2S will especially highlight your chin.
As often with Xiaomi, the finishes do not suffer from any defect. The Mi Mix 2S displays elegant simplicity. It sports a ceramic back which has the merit of not retaining fingerprints, at least on the white version that we are testing. The slightly rounded edges of the rear face make it comfortable in the hand. The metal surround also contributes to the elegance of the device.
The back accommodates a fingerprint reader which falls perfectly under the index finger when the smartphone is taken in hand. However, you have to deal with its inaccessibility when the Mi Mix 2S is placed on a table, for example. The terminal can carry 2 nano SIM cards, but does not offer the possibility of memory expansion by microSD. It is also a shame that Xiaomi has not opted for a waterproofing certification, which has become essential on the high end.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S opts for a screen in IPS panel of 5.99 inches (15.21 cm) diagonal. It displays a Full HD + definition of 2,160 x 1,080 px, for an 18: 9 ratio and a resolution of 403 ppi. The latter is sufficient for a precise display in almost all uses. We can regret that the Mi Mix 2S did not opt for an Oled technology; the screen therefore sees its contrast ratio cap at 1,214: 1, an average value for IPS technology. This is the only real criticism that can be made on the display of the Xiaomi.
Indeed, with a maximum brightness of 490 cd / m² and a light reflection rate of 12%, readability in full sun is perfectly guaranteed. In the dark, the Mi Mix 2S does not burn the retinas of its user, the brightness can drop to 2.1 cd / m².
Xiaomi is not outdone when it comes to taking care of the colorimetry of its screens. To get the best result, you have to go to the display settings and choose the "Default contrast" mode - which is not selected by default. Once you choose this setting, you get an excellent Delta E at 1.3 and a perfect color temperature at 6,480 K.
Reactivity side, we note a tactile delay of 89 ms, in the average, and a correct afterglow at 16 ms.
By choosing to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, Xiaomi ensures its Mi Mix 2S high performance. Nothing can resist the beast, which swallows all the tasks that are submitted to it without showing the slightest sign of weakness. With its 6 GB of RAM, the Xiaomi smartphone easily juggles with applications.
The Adreno 630 graphics chip remains one of the most powerful on the market. It allows the Mi Mix 2S to run all the games in the Play Store in the best possible conditions of fluidity and graphic quality. A real treat for lovers of mobile games.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S has entered the caste of smartphones without a 3.5mm jack. As more and more often, you will have to opt for a wireless headset or use the USB-C adapter supplied in the box. Our measures relate to the latter and it gives rather satisfaction. The power delivered opens the doors to even greedy helmets, without leaving space for distortion. The dynamic range measured is among the widest in our comparison, the rendering of the stereo image is however slightly below.
The speakers are a little less pleasing. The power is there, of course, but the precision drops significantly past 70% of the maximum volume. Above all, there is a clear imbalance in the stereo, with one speaker much more powerful than the other. Whether for movies or music, the result is not optimal.
Xiaomi highly praises the performance of its Mi Mix 2S in photos. The terminal is based on an essential duo of photo modules on the back. The main module combined with 12 Mpx sensor and stabilized optics, equivalent 26 mm and opening at f / 1.8. The second module is composed of a 12 Mpx sensor also, but smaller than the first, and a non-stabilized optic, equivalent 46 mm and opening at f / 2.4.
With the first module, the Mi Mix 2S proves that Xiaomi is perfectly in the race. In broad daylight, there is a good amount of detail and above all excellent dynamics. The image processing used by the Mix Mix 2S is very satisfactory because it does not take advantage of the accentuation found in many competitors. The shots are natural and the image edges retain a good sharpness. If there was a criticism to be made of this Mi Mix 2S, it is the slowness of the animation that the interface performs after each capture (to show that the photo has been taken and make it appear in thumbnail), this which slows down the camera a bit in its ability to chain photos.
Doing well in broad daylight is a given for many high-end smartphones. The real difficulty lies in the ability to be good in low light. An exercise in which the Mi Mix 2S is far from being ridiculous. Xiaomi is going against the grain of the market with its image processing. Many use a mixture of smoothing and accentuation, bringing out the contours but erasing the small details. The Xiaomi terminal retains more electronic noise, without damaging the small details, which are better preserved here than with the Honor View 10 for example.
The second module presented as offering 2x zoom is a clear notch below the first. The results in broad daylight suffer from electronic noise and a clear lack of detail. The Mi Mix 2S does worse here than an iPhone X. In low light, the result is also poor. We note that Xiaomi is one of the only manufacturers not to opt for a digital zoom when the brightness is insufficient. A choice that is not successful.
For video, the Mi Mix 2S can climb to a UHD definition. The result remains more satisfactory in Full HD, with less afterglow and better managed exposure transitions. The follow-up of development is for its part rather effective.
The 5MP front sensor seems to have been somewhat forgotten in history. In addition to its positioning which forces you to put your smartphone upside down to use it, the captured photos are not the best we have seen. The Mi Mix 2S is quite easily dazzled by strong lights due to hazardous exposure management.
The optimization work done by Xiaomi on its Mix 2S is very good. Despite its muscular configuration, the terminal delivers a good performance in terms of endurance. On our SmartViser test protocol, the Mi Mix 2S lasted no less than 3:50 pm, an excellent score which places it just behind Honor View 10 and Huawei P20 Pro. However, it distances to Samsung Galaxy S9 +. In practice, the Mi Mix 2S will survive for two full days in standard use. In case of more intensive use, it will have no trouble finishing the day.
Xiaomi offers an excellent smartphone with its Mi Mix 2S. People allergic to the notches that swarm in smartphone screens will be thrilled with a terminal that has almost everything good. A more than serious competitor for the Honor View 10. Very good omen for the French market.
Kryo 385 - 2.8 GHz
150.86 x 74.9 x 8.1 mm
Oui, via adaptateur USB-C
Impressed coming from S9
I replaced an S9 with the mix2s and can say that the experience is much better. Battery life is way better and the phone is overall much faster. I have a feeling there are a bunch of hidden processes running on the s9 that we never see hence causing poor performance and battery life. The mix2s has great call quality and the gesture UI option is an improvement over navigation buttons. Nice work Xiaomi!
So it has no headphone jack, has a chin, non-amoled, and the front camera's only 5mpx? But so what?
Never did I expect to love this phone so much. The extremely fast SD845 and the camera makes it all the while better than other phones of the same price range. I was conflicted as to whether buy this or the OP6, but so far I've had no problems nor any misgivings against this phone.
+ The bezels are small yet uninterriptive, you don't get ghost touches by grabbing the phone on it's sides.
+ The bottom "chin" isn't as distracting (or as debilitating) as what appearances suggest.
+ 100% notch-free
+ Charges quickly and holds up well throughout the day, the MIUI skin it has is very well optimized and light, it doesn't come with much bloatware at all. If anything, with the proper themes and configuration, it's much better than Samsung's touchwiz UI.
+ I received the Spanish version of the box with the Global ROM installed. Didn't have to fiddle around with Chinese settings at all.
+ Camera can be compared to, if not, compete with high-end flagship phones.
+ Wireless charging is a plus
+ The use of the headset sepaker and the bottom firing speaker lets you watch videos with very decent quality sound.
+ Pretty much an all day battery with the 3400 mAh battery. Didn't have to carry my bulky portable charger to enjoy the phone.
+ IPS LCD screen doesn't have as high-tier quality as the AMOLED screens of it's competition, but it does well enough for itself to hold up against it. It doesn't drain as much battery as AMOLED either.
- as with the price range, they had to cut some corners. The front facing camera, being just a measly 5 mpx, could see some more improvements. (Never was a big selfie-girl anyway though so I really don't have a problem with it.
- No headphone jack
- Non-expandable storage
While I was mulling over which phone to buy-- OP6 or this Mi Mix 2S - considering the price, the notch-free screen, and the benchmark scores that reflects the optimization and 'snappyness' of the
MIUI skin it has, overall I'd say I'm very happy with the phone. If given the chance to choose again, I'd without a doubt choose this phone over the OP6.
Exceptional design, great all-round flagship
I have been following Xiaomi for a while. Decided to give this phone a try when I read that it has a global edition which supports lots of LTE bands in US for both GSM and CDMA / LTE networks.
- Extremely fluid UI and operations, Xiaomi has done a great job using the SD845 chip efficiently.
- Battery life is stellar, you should easily cross 1 day heavy usage with 20-30% left. With moderate usage it's a 2 day battery.
- Camera is surprisingly good. But it has some nitpicks, like unwarranted smoothing in portrait mode. I'm hoping future updates will resolve that. The image stabilization is pretty good, and I like that Xiaomi doesn't oversharpen photos and videos. Video performance is slightly better than photo capture. Low light performance is good too.
- Gesture UI is well implemented and smooth.
- Audio output is top notch. I was surprised by wired as well as bluetooth audio performance.
- Display is more than adequate, but it's not exceptional or anything.
- All radios are good, I have had better coverage than any other phone before. VoLTE seems to work on T-mobile.
- Design wise this phone sits at almost the very top with no notch display, ceramic back and solid in-hand feel. IMHO the design beats all phones I know of till now in 2018.
- Not having a headphone jack is never great. But I'm happy that the usb-c / bluetooth audio output is great.
- Slightly heavier than similar sized / spec'ed phones, but not uncomfortable to hold for long duration.
This is a great all-round, flagship grade device for any kind of user. The design is exceptional. Great job Xiaomi!
PS: The presentation in the box is nice, as always for Xiaomi devices.
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Review Babel Rising
Break the walls down.
After Halfbrick successfully turned the mobile hit Fruit Ninja into the outstanding Fruit Ninja Kinect, the expectations were high for a wave of smart smartphone-to-Kinect crossovers. Doodle Jump Kinect is on the way (apparently), but that and this new edition Babel Rising seem to be the long and the short of the rush. Some...
Mon 13th Aug 2012
Review Brave: The Video Game
Red Head Redemption?
Let’s dispense with pleasantries, shall we? We all know that games based on movies are usually average or downright awful, with THQ’s excellent Puss in Boots perhaps being the only notable exception of late. So, we won’t dwell on that. Or we wouldn’t dwell on that, were THQ’s latest Disney/Pixar crossover, Brave: The...
Review Wreckateer
Castle Crasher
Angry Birds has a lot to answer for, doesn’t it? Not only are we besieged by clones of the game in each operating system’s app store, but now we’re seeing the influence stretch to console gaming. Even the master itself – Rovio — is exerting its influence, confirming that Angry Birds Trilogy will be coming to Kinect for Xbox...
Tue 31st Jul 2012
Review Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
The ice is wearing thin
Games based on movies have a somewhat dodgy reputation. The publisher grabs the movie licence – generally as filming wraps up – and assigns a developer to get a game completed in time for the movie’s release. In rare cases, the development teams have struck gold. Generally though, the publisher ends up releasing a game...
Fri 27th Jul 2012
Review London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
Go for gold, or settle for bronze?
Even though there have been many, many attempts at putting multi-event sporting action into the next generation, only a few attempts have even come close to emulating the quality shown in the likes of Konami’s 1983 arcade hit Track and Field, Sega’s own DecAthlete (Athlete Kings) for the Saturn, or even Olympic...
Review Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Wreck warrior
On paper, it seemed like a recipe for disaster. How could Capcom possibly take the Steel Battalion series — famed for its intimidating controller and unwavering adherence to hardcore, hard-as-nails gameplay — and condense it into a motion-controlled game on a platform that is beloved by casual players and loathed by ‘proper’...
Tue 19th Jun 2012
Review Kinect Star Wars
Your powers are weak, old man
It isn’t hard to picture the glee that must have filled the offices of Microsoft Studios when the deal to produce Kinect Star Wars was inked. Kinect has always been about removing barriers thrown up by physical controllers and letting players filful their fantasties, and what better advert for the tech than the...
Fri 6th Apr 2012
Review Diabolical Pitch
Warning: baseball puns
Leave it to developer Grasshopper Manufacture to take a perfectly innocuous activity like throwing a baseball and find the perfect way to twist it into a weird sci-fi horror show. As a former major league pitcher down on his luck with a bum arm, an anthropomorphic bovine in a suit grants you a souped-up bionic arm — to earn...
Wed 4th Apr 2012
Review Country Dance All Stars
If you’ve always wanted to play Dance Central but prefer twangy guitars and cowboy hats over Lady Gaga, you'd better strap on your cowboy boots and bolo tie because Country Dance All-Stars is your game. Eschewing the top 40 pop assortment of modern hits, Country Dance All-Stars serves up a Texas-sized helping of country songs from such...
Review Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure
Fools rush in?
Kinect is proving to be the ideal platform for younger gamers right now; we’ve already had the reasonably enjoyable Disneyland Adventures, and it’s highly likely that the forthcoming Kinect Star Wars will find more favour with pre-teens than thirty-something geeks. Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure is another controller-free...
Thu 29th Mar 2012
Review Puss in Boots
Nearly purrrfect
Any Kinect game that lets you play a swashbuckling cat should have your attention, and Puss in Boots manages to overcome its obvious handicap of being a movie tie-in to result in one of the more enjoyable action games available on Kinect. With several styles of gameplay to sample, from sword fighting and bar room brawling to...
Fri 23rd Mar 2012
Review Mass Effect 3
Don't fear the Reapers
It’s been a long time coming, but Commander Shepard’s battle with the Reapers is at a boiling point. The entire galaxy prepares for a war that could quite easily mean the extinction of all sentient life. Do you have what it takes to take back Earth? Mass Effect 3, the final instalment in BioWare’s sci-fi trilogy, takes...
Thu 22nd Mar 2012
Review The Price is Right Decades
The Price is Right Decades celebrates over 40 years of one of the most beloved game shows of all time. As a tribute to the source material it’s a resounding success; as an actual piece of entertainment software it has a few problems that unfortunately hinder the rest of the experience. The one-player mode of Decades breaks the...
Tue 6th Mar 2012
Review Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
C, Decent, Final Answer
It’s very hard to capture the tension and drama of a game show in a video game when said game show focuses on one contestant rather than a competition. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s single-player mode captures very little essence of what made the show such a runaway hit, and the shoehorned multiplayer would make Regis...
Review Cabela's Adventure Camp
If you go down to the woods today
Set in a kids' summer camp with a sergeant keeping on things, the heat is on in Cabela's Adventure Camp as you compete for gold medals against three other happy campers. With six customisable characters to choose from — no Avatar support, sadly — you and three friends can take part in summer camp-themed...
Fri 24th Feb 2012
Review My Self Defence Coach
Poor in defence
Why dance yourself fit when you can fight yourself fit instead? Ubisoft's My Self Defence Coach offers just that, with a workout regime that's also designed to teach you how to fend off any would-be assailants, too. After creating a profile to help chart your productivity and progress in cardio, reflex, defence process and balance,...
Tue 21st Feb 2012
Review SpongeBob's Surf & Skate Roadtrip
SpongeBob Surfpants
If you lived in a pineapple under the sea, you'd probably enjoy skateboarding, right? That's the basic premise of SpongeBob's Surf & Skate Roadtrip, and that's all right with us. Choosing from either SpongeBob or pink pal Patrick, you pick your pants and surf or skate the night away. As you'd expect from a game based on the...
Review Double Fine Happy Action Theatre
It’s incredibly difficult to review Double Fine Happy Action Theater with a traditional review system. It’s hardly a game at all; there’s no challenge, no goal, no direction. Calling it a “game” is, honestly, hardly appropriate - it’s more of a toy than anything. Toys and games are both designed to be fun, though,...
Fri 3rd Feb 2012
Review Haunt
You want Haunt
While Kinect has had a handful of really great games over the past year, the stinkers have all had the same problems: poor controls and general lack of charm. Developer NanaOn-Sha comes along to save the day with Haunt, which controls wonderfully and drips with so much charisma it forms a very likeable puddle on the floor. Haunt, with...
Wed 25th Jan 2012
Review Deepak Chopra's Leela
Kinect's incessant insistence that you get up and thrash about isn't to everyone's liking, but is a fact of motion control all the same: many developers prefer to paint with broad brush strokes, getting the general idea right rather than attempt finer detail and end up going outside the lines. Deepak Chopra's Leela uses more...
Fri 20th Jan 2012
Review Wipeout 2
The worst spill in human history
There are bad games, and then there are bad games. Even worse is Wipeout 2. Wipeout 2 is the second game for Kinect — Wipeout: In the Zone came first — based on the ABC television show that features competitors navigating wild obstacle courses designed to fling, smash and bounce them about in various painful...
Review Rapala for Kinect
Lacks a-lure
This'll surprise you: Rapala for Kinect isn't a fishing simulation in any way. Sure, you can select your lure in the hope of attracting a particular fish, but that's about as deep as it gets. This is fishing arcade-style: score as many points as you can in the time limit. Your fish is scored on size and rarity, with bonuses for grabbing...
Review Let's Cheer!
Let's not
2K Play's Let's Cheer! isn't the first cheerleading game in the world — there was We Cheer on Wii a few years back, for instance — but it is the first that doesn't need anything in your hand to get you into the game. Is that enough to make it worth a purchase, though? As you'd expect from a game based on pep, everything is bright and...
Review Nickelodeon Dance
Excellenté?
There's no end of dancing games on Kinect, but each occupies a small subsection of the genre. Nickelodeon Dance joins Just Dance Kids at the very youngest end of the spectrum, and if you've got little ones who like to get jiggy it might be worth a look. As you'd expect, Nickelodeon Dance is a collection of catchy kids' pop tunes from...
Wed 14th Dec 2011
Review Yoostar on MTV
Warning: this game contains Jersey Shore
Yoostar on MTV isn’t a video game so much as it’s a toy that relies on the Kinect technology. Sure, there’s a score element, but that will never be the reason you play. The very definition of a party game, Yoostar on MTV will be a game that you bring out when you have lots of people over and the alcohol...
Review Kung Fu High Impact
The fight of your life
Okay everyone, you can stop saying that there are no hardcore games for Kinect, because Kung-Fu High Impact is as hardcore as they come. Kung-Fu High Impact, the awesomely-named video game from the equally awesomely-named developer Virtual Air Guitar Company, casts you as the hero of a comic book, pitting you against hordes of...
Wed 7th Dec 2011
Review Victorious: Time to Shine
No boys allowed
Licensed games always tend to be less accessible than those based on original intellectual property. The barrier to entry is even higher when, as grown men, we must tackle games that are based on television shows designed for young girls. Still, we soldier on in the name of our craft. Victorious: Time to Shine is based on the...
Tue 6th Dec 2011
Review Winter Stars
Stay frosty
Any prospective Kinect sports compilation has a rough road ahead of it: Kinect Sports set the bar pretty high, and so far no competitor has been able to get close. That's why it's so surprising that Winter Stars is actually quite good. For starters, it's not just a mini game compilation like Big League Sports or its associates: events...
Mon 5th Dec 2011
Review Motion Explosion
More of a "pop" than an explosion
Motion Explosion is a tough nut to crack. At first glance it seems like nothing more than another simple minigame compilation, and a sloppy one at that. It’s only after really looking at how the game presents itself and what it asks of you that you truly realise what game Majesco actually made. Motion Explosion...
Review Big League Sports
Sports compilations are what motion controllers were made for, if you believe the Wii and Kinect catalogues, both of which heave with representations of all manner of bats, balls and beyond. After two leading efforts from Rare and middling efforts from other developers, Activision's Big League Sports takes to the field in the hopes of...
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Home > Scotch Beef Radio Ads Set To Reach Over 2.2 Million Consumers
Scotch Beef Radio Ads Set To Reach Over 2.2 Million Consumers
Over 2.2 million Scottish consumers are hearing what makes Scotch Beef PGI a cut above the rest in a new radio campaign launched this month by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).
Four adverts aimed at enticing consumers to buy Scotch Beef as a mid-week treat and for special occasions such as Easter, are running on commercial radio stations across Scotland during March.
In addition to the radio adverts, 1 million adults in Scotland are set to see the “Get Behind The Label” creatives in key newspapers across Scotland this month. These adverts feature farmers from across Scotland and aim to improve consumers’ understanding of the quality, welfare and traceability behind the Scotch Beef brand.
This marketing activity complements the main 13 week Scotch Beef campaign “There’s beef, there’s Scottish beef, then there’s Scotch Beef” which kicked off in February and is targeting 10 million consumers across Great Britain, aiming to inform, educate and inspire them to use Scotch Beef when they cook.
Clearly differentiating Scotch Beef and showcasing the flavour, provenance, traceability and integrity which underpin the brand’s PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) status is a key objective of the 2016 campaign, and the marketing push includes billboard and press advertising as well as on-line activity.
Three hundred independent butchers, who are members of the Scotch Butchers Club, also received promotional packs with steak sauce recipe cards and resources to help them boost their sales of Scotch Beef steaks during the campaign.
Suzie Carlaw, QMS Marketing Controller, said that initial feedback indicates that the campaign is being very well received.
“The target market for this campaign is professionals, food enthusiasts and busy families and the message is cooking with Scotch Beef can be really simple - it’s perfect for mid-week meals as well as occasions,” said Miss Carlaw.
“When shoppers are in their butchers shop or supermarket aisles, we want to encourage them to look for the Scotch Beef PGI logo which guarantees quality in every bite as well as world-leading levels of traceability, assurance and welfare standards.”
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Chaccu!
By Mike Safley
The wild Vicuna stood rigid and still a mere three feet away. Her round ebony eyes mirrored the image of man — her mortal enemy for more than ten thousand years. She seemed to be simultaneously contemplating escape and submission. The cria stood boldly at her side, while the chaccu swirled on around them.
Vicuna are one of nature’s most elegant creations, with long fragile necks and oversized heads that somehow suggest an extra-terrestrial intelligence. The coppery golden color of their fleece is punctuated by the long, silky white hair found at their breast. This smallest member of the camelid family has the largest heart, by 50 percent, of any mammal its size.
The hair of the Vicuna is the world’s finest natural fiber, measuring 12 to 13 microns. The cloth woven from its fleece is the world’s most exclusive. The fashion houses of Armani and Channel passionately compete for this rarest of natural commodities. An ounce of Vicuna fleece, unprocessed, sells for five times more than an ounce of pure silver.
Why had this Vicuna, standing an arm’s length away, only recently pulled back from the brink of extinction? Vicunas and Guanacos populated the western face of South America for hundreds of thousands of years, their numbers so large they were impossible to count. Then one hapless day, man appeared on the horizon and their numbers began a 10,000 a year retreat into the present.
The Guanaco and Vicuna hunters pursued their wild prey for more than 7,000 years before eventually domesticating them. The nomadic Selk-Nam Indians of Patagonia knew the Guanacos well, often exploiting their natural curiosity by crawling on the ground to portray a wounded animal, then jumping up and driving a spear into the fatally attracted camelid.
The Vicuna hunters of the Peruvian Puna led a sedentary life, living among the stationary families of Vicuna. These Indians often hunted Vicuna by running them into man-made pits. Occasionally a cria survived and they became the domesticated foundation stock of the modern day alpaca.
The Incas, and before them the Tiwanaku and Wari people, refined the practice of raising huge herds of llamas and alpacas, turning their fleece into fine cloth. The Incan rulers, with their gift for organizing and governing vast territories, elevated the wild Vicuna to exclusive status in the empire.
The Sun Kings forbid the killing of Vicuna. Instead, ceremonial hunts, or Chacus, were held annually. These hunts were an enlightened form of conservation. Thirty thousand Indians would form a half circle, beating drums and chanting, as the Vicuna ran before them. With the human circle growing ever tighter, tens of thousands of Vicunas were soon surrounded.
The Vicuna were counted. The old and infirm slaughtered for their pelts and meat. The females, their cria, and the best male specimens were shorn and released. Thus, the Vicuna prospered as the harvest of priceless fiber found its way to the Incan royal warehouses.
When the Spaniards arrived atop their horses, with visions of sheep and cattle in their heads, camelids, once too numerous to count, were slaughtered and disrespected. Previously unknown diseases were introduced into the native herds by the Spanish sheep and the population was further wasted.
In 1777 the Spanish colonists passed a law forbidding the hunting of Vicuna. However, the killing continued until there were almost none. After Peru gained independence from Spain, General Simon Bolivar, Peru’s first governor, issued many decrees dictating severe punishment for anyone who killed the fragile Vicuna. The governments of Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina followed suit, but nothing stopped the rape of the Vicuna. Their fleece was too valuable to allow the defenseless Vicuna to live. Poachers prevailed.
The Vicuna was finally declared an endangered species and in 1965 the region known as Pampa Galeras, in the Peruvian Department of Ayacucho, was designated as a national Vicuna reserve. The project began with 16,000 acres and 1,000 Vicunas.
Dr. William Franklin came to Pampa Galeras in 1968 to embark on what would become the definitive study of Vicuna sociology. He observed the Vicunas primary social groups. He found families made up of six to eight females and one male, grazing 40 to 50 acres on a permanent basis and sleeping in adjacent, highly defined areas along the ridges overlooking their pasture.
These families, without fail, expel their cria annually. The banished males join nomadic herds of 25 to 50 male Vicunas. They roam the lesser pastures of the puna until they acquire their own females and a grazing territory large enough to support their families. The female driven from her family seeks admittance into a new family unit. Thus, nature avoids the perils of inbreeding. Each Vicuna group occupies and defends an ecologically appropriate pasture, never overgrazing.
By guarding and expanding the reserve at Pampa Galeras, adding new reserves throughout Peru, and curtailing commerce in Vicuna pelts by use of the Endangered Species Act, the Vicuna avoided extinction. But the poachers persisted and the long term health of the Vicuna population was far from assured.
In 1986, the Peruvian company, Grupo Inca, was laboring to create a plan that would save the Vicuna forever. These were no ordinary conservationists. Their roots were in alpaca textile manufacturing. The company was co-founded by Swiss and Peruvian families, the Pattheys and Corzos. The company is now headed by Francois Patthey and Fernando Corzo, a second generation of enlightened family leadership.
Grupo Inca is motivated by capitalism, but the soul of their company is driven by many conservationist pursuits. Projects which demonstrate their commitment to the landscape of Peru include the Manu Foundation and an internationally acclaimed book of the same name published in conjunction with the New York Zoological Society. Manu, a Peruvian rain forest located in the Amazon Valley, is recognized as one of the most significant ecological parks in the world. Their recently published book Gold of the Andes depicts the history of South American camelids. They also operate the Sallalli foundation dedicated to the improvement of alpaca breeding in the Alta Plano of Peru.
Fernando Corzo explained the essence of the Grupo Inca philosophy for saving the Vicuna by reciting their battle cry, Shear a Vicuna to Save a Vicuna. He finished by explaining that no poacher is interested in shooting a shorn Vicuna. This concept, married to the Inca model of Vicuna management, became the genesis for a unique plan to conserve the Vicuna by organizing its commercialization.
Grupo Inca initiated a complex strategy which required the Convention of International Trade in Endang-ered Species (CITES) to reclassify the Vicuna. CITES is an international body organized to regulate the trade and treatment of animals and their product between countries. Most, but not all, countries belong to and observe the rules set by the organization. Changing the Vicuna from an endangered species to an appendix II animal would allow the animals’ fleece to be harvested and manufactured into cloth.
In 1986 Grupo Inca received permission from the Peruvian government to manufacturer a cloth sample using fleece from the hides of dead Vicunas confiscated from poachers. This cloth was presented to the International Conference of CITES in Ottawa, Canada in 1987. As a result, Peru was granted permission to manufacture cloth so long as the fleece was harvested from live animals and manufactured in the country of origin.
This change of status made it legal to sell Vicuna products around the world for the first time in over 30 years. These new regulations represented significant progress, but the most delicate problem of all remained — Peruvian politics. It was still illegal to harvest the fleece in Peru and ownership of live Vicuna was vested in the government. Longstanding Peruvian law also made it illegal to export llamas and alpacas from Peru. All this was about to change.
Peru had just elected a new president, Alberto Fuji Mori, a Peruvian of Japanese descent. He was an unknown university professor, specializing in agrarian economics, until two weeks before the election. A complex set of circumstances conspired to catapult Fuji Mori into the presidency. Peruvian politics, always byzantine, were now turned upside down.
The new president immediately set about rebuilding Peru. Decades of misguided laws and policies fostered by communist and socialist rule were swept aside. The leader of the deadly Shining Path guerrillas, Ismael Guzman, was captured, dressed in striped pajamas for the world to see, and locked in an island prison for life. After five years of Fuji Mori’s rule, Peru is beginning to prosper. The story of the Vicuna provides a micro view of how Fuji Mori has worked his magic.
In 1991, Peru passed an innovative new law to govern the management of all camelids. For instance, it became legal to export alpacas and llamas. The ownership of Vicuna production was transferred from the government to the Compensinos (Indians) and their village communities. A new government entity, the Council of National Camelids of South America (CONACS), was formed to manage camelid agriculture.
CONACS had the power to act, but inertia set in and little happened until, once again, politics played a role. Fuji Mori was impatient and he demanded action for the Vicuna program, not more bureaucracy. Into the breech stepped a second personality, almost as unique as Fuji Mori — a Quecha Indian lawyer.
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Vargas was born in Puquio, not far from Pampa Galenas and the Vicunas’ heartland. He moved to Lima at age 13 and later studied law. His vision helped create CONACS. When the new commission failed to energize the Vicunas’ commercialization to the benefit of the compensinos, Fuji Mori appointed Martinez president of the organization.
Mother Nature’s invisible hand seemed to be orchestrating the Vicunas’ salvation. First, Grupo Inca, represented by Francois Patthey, obtained international approval for the sale of Vicuna products. Then, Alfonso Martinez, aided by Fuji Mori, placed ownership of this valuable resource where it belonged –with the Quecha ancestors of the Inca Sun Kings. Having established ownership and the potential market for their newly acquired assets, the Indian communities, guided by Martinez, joined together to form the International Society of Vicuna Breeders.
This society is over three hundred communities strong and represents all the villages with Vicuna habitat in their vicinity. Through this new entity, the breeders can collectively negotiate the sale of the fleece which they inherited from their Incan ancestors.
All the elements for the commercialization and conservation of the Vicuna were now in place. The world stage was set, textile manufactures from Italy, Japan, Germany, and England all wanted a piece of the Vicuna action. The Peruvian textile house, Condor Tips, owned by the Grupo Inca, coveted the prestige associated with marketing Vicuna to the world’s fashion centers. Mother Nature seemed to be whispering in the ear of Dr. Martinez as he drafted a plan to hold an international competition for the right to buy the entire production of the Vicuna Breeders Society. He wanted an agreement which would prosper his fellow compensinos and have the potential to perpetually ensure the Vicunas’ well being.
Martinez embraced the Incan concept of sustainable harvest as he drafted the bid specifications, saying Our ancestors were managing Vicuna intelligently over 1,000 years ago. He required each bidder to include a plan and financing to enhance conservation efforts, thereby proving their commitment to the long term health of the Vicuna. He added another unique feature — upfront funding of a portion of the contract. No empty promises would be tolerated.
The Vicuna competition was won by the International Vicuna Consortium of Textile Manufactures. Condor Tips, joined by Lono Piana and Agronomo of Italy, submitted the winning bid of one million three hundred thousand dollars, with one million dollars to be funded up front. The financial terms for one year’s harvest of fleece (2,000 kilo grams) included the following elements:
2,000 kilo grams of fleece $ 600,000
Administration $ 30,000
Minimum guaranteed royalties, 10% for
uncut cloth and 5% for finished products $ 440,000
Vicuna Conservation Management Plan $ 150,000
Cloth previously manufactured for trials $ 80,000
Now all that remained was ratification by the Vicuna Breeders Association at the upcoming National Congress of Vicuna and Camelid Producers to be held June of 1995 in Puquio.
Alonso Burgos worked for four years on behalf of Grupo Inca to engineer the winning bid in the Vicuna competition. As he stood in the Puquio village square, flanked by flower beds full of red geraniums and bright blue benches full of people from around the world, he observed, You could travel throughout Peru year after year and not find an event similar to this convention. Look around you — the poorest Compensinos have traveled thousands of miles to negotiate with the most influential of our society, everyone celebrating the Vicuna.
At the last minute, the Vicuna Breeders Society demanded changes to the contract. They wanted the right to provide the labor to dehair the fleece from their communities. Late into the night Alonso, Francois, the Italian’s lawyer, and Martinez labored to renegotiate the contract.
Finally, the agreement, which contains the hopes and dreams of many people, was voted on and accepted by participants at the National Congress.
The genius of the Vicuna deal lies in the portions set aside for management and administration. The Indian communities now have the financial means and the motive to combat poachers. They have rapidly armed themselves in order to protect their newly productive resource. Poachers, once ignored, are now a target.
The current contract, which extends another five years, calls for the production of 2,000 kilograms of fleece annually. Approximately 9,000 Vicuna will be shorn, making each one of them worth about $144 annually to the Compensinos. A significant sum of money in the high sierra, but not much in the world of high fashion.
Vicuna will never be a major profit center for Condor Tips or the Italian textile firms. A Vicuna fleece weighs about 220 grams, or less than one-half pound. It takes one person a week to dehair the fleece. Once it is washed, there are only a few ounces left. The total annual production of cloth will probably not exceed 2,000 square meters. Enough to fashion a few wonderful coats, shawls, and scarfs. The ultimate value of the contract to the International Vicuna consortium lies in the luxurious image of being the sole source of the world’s rarest fiber.
The Vicuna and her keepers are the true beneficiaries of this unique plan for ecological sanity. If the Society of Vicuna Breeders maintains its solidarity, purges the poachers, and continues on the path set for them by Grupo Inca and the lawyer from Puquio, the Vicuna will have finally found a way to co-exist with humans and securely multiply.
Today the Vicuna standing just a few feet from her traditional enemy, man, will be shorn and released unharmed. The Chacu is underway and the Quecha ancestors of the Inca are chanting, Viva Vicuna, Viva El Presidente, and Viva El Chacu.
VIVA VICUNA!
The Vicuna occupies a mystical place in the soul of Peru. Its image graces the Peruvian coin and the Vicuna is the national symbol. In ancient times, the Indians of the sierra rubbed their newborn with bone marrow from the fleet Vicuna, hoping their children would run fast and far, and fat from the Vicuna was rubbed on expectant mothers’ bellies to bless the unborn child.
Today the Vicuna has brought the Italians from the halfway around the world and caused them to deposit cash into the coffers of the small Andean communities. The Vicuna has created for the villages and their leaders a link to the outside world. Television cameras are everywhere, light bulbs flash, and for a fleeting moment the Vicuna has provided her keepers with an international stage. Viva Vicuna!
VIVA EL PRESIDENTE!
The Inca Sun Kings presided over the Chacu at the height of the Vicunas’ glory. At today’s Chacu, El Presidente, Alberto Fuji Mori, has his day in the sun. As Indians, dressed in ancient Incan costume, carried the Royal Throne down the ridge that surrounds Pampa Galeras, Fuji Mori arrived in his helicopter to assume command.
He told the huge crowds that the Chacu was possible because they were free — free from the deadly Shining Path terrorists, which Fuji had subdued, and free from bureaucracy. Fuji had passed a decree granting not only the Vicuna fleece production to the villages, but actually giving them the Vicuna. He read a new law which dictated the same punishment, fifteen years, for a poacher as for a terrorist. In a Peruvian prison, this is a life sentence. As the Indians cheered, Fuji sheared a Vicuna, performed the Vicuna marriage ceremony, and had his cheeks smeared with blood from the Vicuna’s ear.
As a politician, he understands that 70% of Peruvians are Indians. As an economist, he understands the importance of a few million dollars funneled into one of the poorest regions of South America. As a conservationist, he has done immeasurable good for the Vicuna. As he mounts the Royal Throne, carried on the backs of the Compensinos, he has become, for a moment, a modern day Sun King.
VIVA EL CHACU!
The Indians, the Italians, and the press all began leaving Poquio as dawn crept over the hill, warming the path to Pampa Galeras. The International Vicuna Conference is over, the speeches are given, and the contracts signed. The moment has come — El Chacu will soon begin.
The reserve at Pampa Galeras, once home to Dr. Bill Franklin’s research, was burnt to the ground by the Shining Path guerrillas. German conservationists have come and gone. But, the Vicuna have survived, their numbers up twenty fold since 1965.
Today, the complex is rebuilt and teeming with Compensinos from around Peru. A museum dedicated to the Vicuna is being completed. New fences are everywhere, built to form the capture pens of this modern day Chacu.
The Indians’ faces are alive. Banners identify communities from Puno, Macusani, and Cusco. Thousands of men, women, and children are organizing to form the human wall that will encircle the Vicuna. The military is futilely attempting to control the crowds, but nothing can stop the surge into the hills by a people intent on capturing their birthright.
The ridge overlooking Pampa Galeris is punctuated by a line of men. The Vicuna are running out front, relying on their speed to rid themselves of their pursuers. Fifty, then a hundred Vicuna race for the valley’s end, a human wall forming at their rear. The herd grows to five hundred by the time they enter the fenced corral.
Escape routes are sealed off with black netting. The Vicuna are herded into ever smaller catch pens, finally standing only a few feet away from their pursuers, trapped, trying to understand their fate.
Men catch two cria and the Vicuna marriage ceremony begins. These rituals are followed by speeches, and then by shearing. Few, if any, animals are harmed. Once caught and confined, the Vicuna become almost still, their huge eyes calculating every opportunity for escape, realizing there is none.
Once shorn, they are tagged, counted, and released. Their absence of hair becoming a shield against the poachers, because, as Fernando Corzo said, a shorn Vicuna is of no value to the poacher. Viva El Chacu!
What will the future bring Vicuna families roaming the Alta Plano of Peru? Dr. Bill Franklin is cautiously optimistic as he reflects on the week’s events. He worries about the politics of keeping over 300 Indian villages united, but says, I’m impressed that these textile firms are spending such significant sums of money and insisting that the Indians are the direct recipients. Maybe with enough money funnelled into Vicuna management and protection, they will succeed. I certainly hope so.
Mother Nature seems to be winning for the moment. Alfonso Martinez is lawyering hard on her behalf, Fuji Mori heeds her call, and the Quecha Indians have known and respected her command for thousands of years. The Italians, in the form of Lono Piana and Agronomo, are acting as her bankers. The plan, originally conceived by Grupo Inca, is sound; shear them to save them and with any luck an ever-growing population of Vicuna cria will prosper. VIVA VICUNA!
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Goals Quotations
Goals Quotes from:
Ron Wilson
John Tortorella
Brian Durocher
David Cope
H Hunt
Martin Jol
Barry Trotz
Dave Tippett
Dominik Hasek
Ken Hitchcock
Scott Skiles
Bruce Arena
Ed Belfour
Build Quotes
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want
Marsha Sinetar
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil Mille
Arab Quotes
I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.
Alain Juppe
Becoming Quotes
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert
It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
Russel Honore
Among Quotes
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
Bob Menendez
Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
King Felipe VI
Altogether Quotes
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
Allison Pearson
Advocate Quotes
The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.
Hugh Evans
Artist Quotes
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
Dean Quotes
I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.
Timothy F. Cahill
Email Quotes
Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.
Darren L Johnson
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
Greg Anderson
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
American Writer Quotes
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Came Quotes
I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
Larry Dixon
Exhibit Quotes
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
Steven Sinofsky
Adulthood Quotes
Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.
Gail Sheehy
Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.
Familiar Quotes
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
Brent Scowcroft
American Businessman Quotes
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.
Accept Quotes
Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.
Boxers Quotes
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
Broken Quotes
My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.
Aaron Quotes
Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.
Brian O'Driscoll
Aims Quotes
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
Framework Quotes
The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.
Ray Krauss
Athletes Quotes
We are proud and delighted to work with Chicago's educational and recreational leaders within the Latin American community. We are determined in our goals to help create a better environment for many gifted students and athletes through our Foundation and community programs so that they can enjoy a better and more productive life. The Hispanic community and the Mexican American community in particular have greatly supported us for nine years and we are happy to be able to give back.
John Guppy
We are pleased with the improved performance in the fourth quarter of 2005, including strong expense control in Contract and substantial margin expansion in Retail. With the fourth quarter Contract and Retail results, we continue to believe that OfficeMax is positioned to achieve the 2006 and intermediate- term goals that we outlined in our turnaround plan last month.
Sam Duncan
Balance Quotes
We are pleased with our revenue and profit growth in the first quarter of 2006. Our US and Canadian distribution teams performed well and built on the momentum they generated in the second half of fiscal 2005. We look forward to further executing on our fiscal 2006 goals throughout the balance of the year.
Robert Huang
Across Quotes
We are pleased with our continued progress in meeting strategic goals and continue to see good customer flows across many business lines, ... It is clear, however, that the increasingly weak economic environment is making it difficult for our efforts to show up on the bottom line." ()
Hugh McColl
We are pleased to welcome John and Will to our Board of Directors. With their depth and breadth of experience, they bring relevant knowledge of the industry and an important financial perspective, which we believe will enhance the goals of the Company.
Agreement Quotes
We are pleased to be resuming our long and productive partnership with the people and the state of Libya in this strategic asset. This agreement provides a strong basis for us to invest in our aligned goals for increased reserves and production, and in the training and development of our Libyan work force.
Jim Mulva
We started to do a lot of the things today that we've been working on. We need to continue to do those things in each game and keep improving so we're at our peak come playoff time. Derek Graham possibly had his best game of the year with two goals and an assist.
Mike Ackerman
Ball Quotes
We started slow and Littleton played well in the first half. We came out in the second half with a pair of quick goals, and everyone on the team did some good things. I am very pleased with the three head ball goals we scored. We don't do that very often.
We started really young. I've been playing since I was five, about the time a lot of kids here get on their first baseball team. But a lot more young kids are getting into soccer now. Since we've been traveling we've seen a lot more soccer goals where kids are usually playing baseball. I think it is going to be huge, really massive.
Mark Scowcroft
We started really well with two goals and good counter-attacks. But, after we conceded, it was difficult. But the most important thing is to start with a win.
Rafa Benitez
Ahead Quotes
We are ahead of our gross margin goals and we are continuing in the same direction.
Brian Halla
Coming Quotes
We are a growth company. We are not giving up our goals of 20 percent growth. I see it coming, but it's not coming tomorrow.
Capable Quotes
We are a team that always has goals in it and as a result we are capable of winning anywhere. It will need a good run from us, possibly half-a-dozen victories from our last 11 games, but we haven't given up hope yet.
Terry Harris
Boom Quotes
We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.
Contact Quotes
We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal.
E. O. Wilson
Aggressive Quotes
We started out sluggish in the first half. In the second half I set some goals for them and asked them to play more aggressive and it paid off.
Katie Keazer
Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.
Kim Yuna
Goal Quotes
We're not going to shy away from our goals. Our No. 1 goal is always to get back to the NCAA tournament.
Cover Quotes
We didn't cover the slot. A lot of goals were off of rebounds or passes in front of the net. We have been on the fortunate side a few times this season, but you can't think any game is going to be an easy game.
Tomas Vokoun
Cannot Quotes
Until you get a unified champion, it is split. Since I have been champion, I have really stopped setting goals because I do not see them realistically happening from the other boxers' point of view. You cannot make certain fighters fight. I will be 90 years old before I see myself unifying any kind of belt. Right now, I am just taking one fight at a time and just see what happens.
Chris Byrd
Creative Quotes
was to integrate the company, so all the creative juices and goals were the same.
Bonnie Hammer
Game Quotes
We've always set team goals. Making 100 points in a game isn't one of them, but if it happens it happens.
Rick Spring
Continue Quotes
We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.
Chris Killingstad
Help Quotes
We're going to need a lot of help to win conference. But our goals are still there. We're getting ready for the tournament and hopefully a run to the state tournament.
Angie Murphy
We're going to go game by game right now. But our first goal is to score more goals this season.
Laura Paro
Bit Quotes
What this group has managed to do is not let anything get in the way of their goals in qualifying and winning games. We miss a player due to an injury or a suspension, they don't blink an eye, they just move forward. If they're in games where the officiating may be a little bit questionable, it doesn't bother them. They just keep their concentration and get after the task at hand.
When we came out and had two quick goals it helped, and when they scored, we scored right back and they didn't get the energy to get back.
Henrik Zetterberg
Drinking Quotes
... When we get youth involved I would hope we have an impact on our school-age people. Whether we're in the schools or outside of (them), as long they (know) the risks of risky drinking I think our goals are being met.
Box Quotes
We would've put 10 guys in the box if we had to. ... We saved a few goals by chopping and whacking, and the ones that got through Nick was there to stop.
Perry Florio
Ask Quotes
What he modeled was decency. He'd always ask me questions. 'How are you doing? What were my goals? Did I get my master's?' More is taught than caught and that's Bob Gary to me.
Al Roberts
Cash Quotes
We got two power-play goals but it's not really about percentages. As a group it's about finding the big goal. We had chances, especially late, to get the equalizer, and we couldn't cash in.
Jarome Iginla
Both Quotes
We both should have three or four goals already this series but don't and we have to find a way to do it. As a goal scorer, it's important to get chances and we've got those. We're working hard. We just need one good game where we both get some damage done and get that scoring touch. Even if it goes off your (butt).
We believe we have put in place an aggressive but achievable plan to reach our goals this year. As an integral part of this, we will continue to sharpen our marketing focus in each of our business segments.
Tom Kilian
Ability Quotes
What's real is your ability to sing, your ability to entertain the public, your goals to be the best artist you can.
Acute Quotes
What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
David Archer
Heavy Quotes
We're going to have heavy recruiting goals in the summer, so the timing of these incentives is good.
We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners.
Maxim Afinogenov
Unless she commits herself to living like a monk, it is not likely she will be able to achieve all of her goals in the next few years.
Phil Cook
Four Quotes
Usually Kipper is really sharp and he wasn't very sharp tonight. When you score four goals you should win the game.
Darryl Sutter
Couple Quotes
Usually I kind of understand him, but tonight I couldn't even understand what he was saying. I think it was Slovak. I don't know. He was pretty happy, though. It was nice to see him get a couple of goals because he played there so long.
Craig Conroy
Corners Quotes
Usually corners are sure goals for us. We probably score on one out of three.
Monica Tooley
Besides Quotes
World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.
Lindsey Kildow
Serve Quotes
working with other staff to restructure constituent services to better serve the governor's goals.
Beat Quotes
With no red line there should be a lot of goals. You can read the play where it is going up the wall. If you leave the zone early and a guy can make a good pass to you then you can have a breakaway if you beat the defenseman. There could be two or three breakaways for each team every game, especially if a defenseman falls down. It will be interesting.
Scott Hartnell
Course Quotes
We're finally getting those crossing passes out to her. Of course Carolyn's scored all of our goals ... but we'll take that.
Daniel Rich
Biggest Quotes
We're just inconsistent-that's the biggest thing. Even though we've set goals, we've been inconsistent with them. We have to be more consistent with all these things to make some noise here at the end.
Bear Quotes
We're getting chances, we just have to be more determined to bear down and turn those chances into goals. They can't block them all. We just have to find a way.
Rob Sumner
Hard Quotes
We're getting better. We're working hard with a sense of urgency and accomplishing our goals. (The players) realize how hard they have to work.
Ronnie Stubbs
Accomplish Quotes
We're getting better every weekend but at the same time we're up and down. In order to win the Big Ten, we're going to have to steady out and play at our top level all the time to accomplish all our goals we want to this year.
Sam Tortorello
Excited Quotes
We're real excited about the possibility of playing at home. That was one of big goals all season.
Next Quotes
We're ready to start talking about next year's goals. We'd like to become one of those regular teams that are at state, year in and year out.
Amy Rymer
Areas Quotes
We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.
Gary Young
Align Quotes
With the Ontario lift on the tuition fee freeze and the rising costs associated with sending a child to post-secondary education, it is becoming increasingly important for parents to start saving as early as possible. Not only will saving early set the financial foundation for a child's education, it also demonstrates to a child that you are taking steps to help them pursue a post-secondary education, helping to align their goals from an early age.
Due Quotes
We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.
Freddy Adu
We knew they were going to come out strong. Ray was really on tonight. We knew that we had to get a couple goals on him.
Brian McDonough
We know what our goals are, ... What we have to do is sit down and decide if the industry is going to meet those goals and if it's done in a way that's in the best interest of the public.
Mike Moore
We know we have to go there and score two goals, and if anyone's capable of doing that it's our squad.
Clean Quotes
We know we can score goals and we know we can keep it clean in the back. You combine those two things and you know you are going to win a lot of games.
Kasey Keller
Very exciting. But I think this team has been very good on putting personal goals aside for the benefit of the team, and I think this should be no different. I think my goal right now is just to play as good as I can so we can win the series. This is a nice note, but still, we're looking at the big picture here.
Bernie Williams
Based Quotes
We're still going to have to see what the benefits will look like based on what kind of programs come back from private industry. We do have high goals for the industry.
Andrea McCauley
We're still going to be able to accomplish our goals for a good station configuration for shuttle retirement. In our schedule and planning we assumed that we'd have some shuttle problems along the way.
William Gerstenmaier
Giving Quotes
We're starting to get used to each other and play more like the way I thought we'd be able to play. But we get a good lead and we're still giving up some goals I wish we wouldn't give up.
Craig Patrick
Fields Quotes
We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.
Pete Vagenas
We're looking Final Four, national championship. Our goals are a lot higher this year.
Jeff Rowland
We're not good at getting on the other end of head balls. We just don't score goals like that. We scored four headed goals all year.
Laurie Calloway
Excitement Quotes
We've got more work to do. The excitement is fun and it will last for a little while, but we've got some goals that are still out there.
Jon Jansen
Few Quotes
We've got a young team, but we played better today picking up a few goals.
Tim Tierney
Achieving Quotes
We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.
Begin Quotes
We want to provide role models for them. We want them to develop self-esteem and feel good about who they are, to begin to learn how to set goals and how to make decisions, to begin to carve out their own identity.
Sharon Williams
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Rackspace Announces FedRAMP Authorized Platform on Amazon Web Services
4 Februar, 2020
SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace extends its FedRAMP authorization to include Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) within Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC), a managed security and compliance platform, enabling state-of-the-art private, public and hybrid cloud solutions for the government ecosystem.
Rackspace Government Cloud was the first Joint Authorization Board (JAB) authorized platform as a service originally built on VMware. This highly anticipated update adds full support for AWS services as a part of the RGC platform. Using RGC as its foundation, the Rackspace Inheritable Security Controls (RISC) program, powered by Xacta, is a first-of-its-kind cyber risk management solution that leverages the power of inheritance, significantly shortening the time and reducing the cost required to achieve FedRAMP Authorization to Operate (ATO) for system integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) selling software as a service to the federal government.
Rackspace Inheritable Security Controls is a three-step acceleration program, which includes Workshop, Gap Assessment and Managed Service for FedRAMP authorization, a requirement to sell cloud services to the federal government. Leveraging RISC, Rackspace helps customers quickly and efficiently achieve their own FedRAMP authorizations.
“RISC powers federal ATOs for application owners in a fraction of the time, with cost savings of up to 70%,” said Rick Rosenberg, vice president and general manager of Rackspace Government Solutions. “Today, a majority of government computing systems need to meet rigorous security and compliance requirements, which is time-consuming and costly. With FedRAMP compliance, agencies can utilize a streamlined process when leveraging cloud applications to meet their unique business objectives – now Rackspace customers can do the same when delivering cloud solutions in support of them.”
Rackspace partnered with advisory firm Quzara, an ATO on AWS partner and leader in FedRAMP compliance, to accelerate delivery of AWS-specific security controls.
“The Rackspace team showcased their deep technical knowledge of AWS, which combined with our expertise on security and compliance, enabled us to achieve in months what typically takes years,” Saif Rahman, founder of Quzara.
Rackspace remains a leader in the FedRAMP authorization enablement space, powering 13 FedRAMP ATOs built on its managed service, and provides 24x7x365 hybrid-cloud management, operational support and security services as a packaged, on-demand, audited and pay-as-you-go service.
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Defective Medical Devices Lawyers
Zimmer Kinective Hip Recall
Zimmer Kinective Hip Recall Lawsuits
Zimmer is the latest manufacturer of hip replacement devices to issue a recall of its products due to the risk of severe complications and health concerns. The M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis with Kinectiv Technology was designed to be a versatile option for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures. Zimmer’s recall was the result of discovery that the products were linked to unhealthy levels of cobalt in the blood, resulting in metal toxicity and conditions such as metalosis. The recall was one of three Class One recalls mandated by the FDA affecting Zimmer, HeartWare and Maquet Holdings.
As with our other hip implant lawsuits, Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC is committed to maximizing the recovery for each person impacted by these faulty products. Our attorneys have experience with hip implant lawsuits and are ready to go the distance for your Zimmer Kinective hip case. Contact our office for a complimentary case review and for information about pending Zimmer Kinective hip lawsuits.
Metal Toxicity is a Common Concern for those Receiving Hip Replacements
The M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis is one of many artificial hip replacements that have caused health concerns due to cytotoxicity, which occurs when elevated levels of heavy metals enter the blood stream. What many of the devices that have been recalled have in common is that metal components in the devices are able to grind against each other, resulting in injuries when metal shavings enter the affected joint or the heavy metals in the devices reach the blood stream and are carried to the rest of the body. Symptoms of metalosis— a form of metal toxicity— include the following.
Infection of the affected joint which may spread to other areas of the body. When the infection reaches the bloodstream, it becomes what is referred to as sepsis, which is an advanced infection that can reach vital organs.
Sudden changes in hearing or sight. Metal poisoning can impact the sense of sight or hearing and result in temporary or permanent vision and hearing loss.
Tissue necrosis, which is defined most simply as the death of tissue surrounding the joint. This can result in damage to nerves and muscles that require corrective surgical procedures to address.
Damage to the thyroid gland. The thyroid is primarily responsible for managing the body’s metabolism and metal toxicity can result in symptoms of thyroid problems which can include weight gain or loss and the development of goiters.
Kidney disease or renal failure. Metalosis may adversely affect the kidneys resulting in infection or renal failure, in some cases requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant.
Respiratory problems. Some patients suffering from metal toxicity experience breathlessness or difficulty breathing. Other respiratory diseases may follow, especially if the lungs become infected.
Heart tremors, cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Toxic levels of metals such as chromium or cobalt can directly harm the heart or cause death due to sudden heart failure.
Cognitive disorders. Those suffering from metalosis may find it difficult to concentrate, experience problems with memory, suffer from seizures or exhibit other symptoms of cognitive impairment.
Severe pain at or near the site of the implant. If metal on metal parts produce metal shavings, this can cause great pain and discomfort that is exacerbated by the risk of infection and the pain that may accompany the other symptoms listed above.
Death. Elevated levels of heavy metals are poisonous and if the metals accumulate over a significant period of time undetected, it could ultimately result in death due to metal poisoning or one of the other serious complications that are the result of metalosis.
Zimmer Named With Two Other Manufacturers in Recalls
In May of 2015, Zimmer sent an urgent medical device recall of 752 patients who received an M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis warning of the potential complications and providing instructions on how to respond to the recall. Existing devices are to be quarantined and Zimmer may ultimately pull the product from the market if it is determined that the current recall is not sufficient. This recall comes as the FDA also issued Class One recall orders to Maquet Holdings and HeartWare, citing health serious concerns over their medical devices.
The number of medical device recalls has been continuing to rise at an alarming rate in recent history, making it even more important to put products through extensive trials and clinical research before allowing them to make it to market. Zimmer’s recall is a symptom of a larger problem. There is a lack of oversight and too many avenues for medical device manufacturers to rush products to market before understanding the potential risk that patients will endure harm.
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EXCLUSIVE: Why we’re accepting Buhari’s GCON award to Gani Fawehinmi — Family
bySamuel Ogundipe
The family of late Gani Fawehinmi would accept the latest attempt by the Nigerian government to honour the iconic rights activist for his pro-citizens advocacy and other legacies of bravery, PREMIUM TIMES can report.
President Muhammadu Buhari announced Wednesday that Mr Fawehinmi would be posthumously conferred with the Grand Commander of Nigeria (GCON), Nigeria’s second highest honour, in an unexpected gesture that has since rippled through the nation’s sociopolitical structure.
Mohammed Fawehinmi, the first son of the late activist, told PREMIUM TIMES in the family’s first statement since the announcement that they would accept the GCON because it truly honoured the memory of Mr Fawehinmi.
Mr Fawehinmi died in September 2009 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer. He was 71.
His life was replete with widely-recognised acts of selflessness and remarkable moments of candour. He confronted repressive military regimes, including Mr Buhari’s, and fought for the entrenchment of a just and democratic Nigeria, suffering state attacks and imprisonment in return.
Mr Fawehinmi was arguably the most iconic champion of the June 12 agitation. He demanded the dictatorial Babangida and Abacha regimes recognise a mandate Nigerians accorded Moshood Abiola in the 1993 elections.
Mr Abiola was the presumed winner of the election, which analysts and historians categorised as the freest and fairest in the history of the world’s largest black nation. Ibrahim Babangida, the military ruler who conducted the election at the time, abruptly annulled it, eliciting public outrage.
A defiant Mr Babangida shrugged off demands for the installation of Mr Abiola as Nigeria’s president, including concerted interventions by the international community.
Mr Abiola was later arrested in 1994 by Sani Abacha, another military ruler who seized power shortly after Mr Babangida relinquished his position to a civilian interim government. He was held in custody for until his death in 1998 in still inexplicable circumstances.
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Also jailed over the June 12 strife were Mr Fawehinmi and a host of other pro-democracy campaigners, labour unionists, journalists and university students. Even then, the June 12 agitation was not the most consequential in Mr Fawehinmi’s career of relentless activism. He had been in prison back and forth in the preceding decade, especially under Mr Babangida, who was in office from 1985 to 1993.
Late Lagos Lawyer and fiery human rights activist, Gani Fawehinmi
Since Nigeria returned to civil rule in 1999, attempts had been made to recognise Mr Fawehinmi, even though his criticism of successive governments unabashedly intensified. He refused to recognise Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military ruler who was Nigeria’s first democratically-elected president in the Fourth Republic, as a democrat or a leader with the interest of the masses at heart.
In 2008, he was offered a national honour as Order of the Federal Republic by President Umar Yar’Adua, an accolade he rejected on several bases of democratic ethos.
In 2014, five years after his passing, Mr Yar’Adua’s successor, Goodluck Jonathan, decided to honour him posthumously with another national honour, but his family immediately rejected this on behalf of his memory. The award was part of the Nigeria’s centenary celebrations since the 1914 amalgamation of the north and south by British colonialists.
In a February 27, 2014 letter sent to the then-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, Mohammed Fawehinmi, the first son of the late activist, said his father’s memory would not be properly served if the family accepted such honour.
Mr Fawehinmi listed several national crises that dogged Mr Jonathan’s administration at the time and said they contradicted his father’s belief system.
Amongst them were the unabated killings of vulnerable Nigerians by the Boko Haram insurgents, a crisis which the government at the time looked helpless to contain.
The high degree of corruption suspected to be going on under Mr Jonathan’s watch at the time was also cited by Mr Fawehinmi.
Perhaps the most off-putting wrongdoing of Mr Jonathan for the Fawehinmis was the inclusion of Mr Babangida amongst those to be honoured alongside their departed patriarch.
The family blasted the Jonathan administration for being insensitive to the traumatic experience which Mr Babangida inflicted on the late Mr Fawehinmi.
“We therefore, find it morally incongruous and psychologically debilitating for our family to stand on the same podium with General Babangida to receive awards,” the family said in the letter rejecting the award.
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But the fundamentals of the latest move by Mr Buhari appeared to have elicited the warmth of Mr Fawehinmi’s family, Mr Fawehinmi told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Thursday morning.
Mr Fawehinmi said the association of Mr Abiola with the latest offer made it difficult to reject like the previous ones.
“Accepting the award is a fuller affirmation of the commitment” of the late Mr Fawehinmi, his son said.
“The award is coming at the same time as the recognition of Abiola as the winner of the June 12 election,” he added.
Many Nigerians see the award of GCFR to Mr Abiola as a recognition of his mandate and elevation to the position of a former president. But Mr Buhari did not make that announcement yesterday. He only said Mr Abiola would be given a GCFR.
The speculation is fueled by the historic nature of the decision: the GCFR was hitherto seen as a honour reserved only for presidents.
But the GCON, which was conferred on Mr Fawehinmi was also seen as being reserved for vice presidents and senate presidents until 2012 when Mr Jonathan bestowed it on Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian industrialist. Mike Adenuga, founder of the indigenous communications giant, Glo Mobile, is also a holder of GCON.
This makes it difficult to assume that Mr Abiola is now effectively a former president strictly on the basis of Mr Buhari’s conferment of GCFR on him.
More so, other prominent players in the June 12 struggle, including Joe Okei-,Odumakin, are insisting that Mr Buhari should formally unveil a portrait of Mr Abiola and hang it amongst past presidents before his mandate could be seen as having been fully restored.
The award to Mr Abiola “is a veiled indictment of the old decision by the evil geniuses of yesteryears,” Mr Fawehinmi said in apparent reference to Mr Babangida, who now appears estranged from Mr Buhari following his scathing letter to the presidennt earlier rt this year.
“This would have been my father’s happiest moment, because what he had canvassed for is the now being done,” Mr Fawehinmi said.
Mr Fawehinmi also responded to concerns from some quarters that Mr Buhari is also honouring Babagana Kingibe, one of the president’s closest allies.
Mr Kingibe was the running mate to Mr Abiola, but later denounced the June 12 campaign and joined Mr Abacha’s junta.
“The president’s gesture to Mr Kingibe was a recognition of the ticket rather than whatever controversies Mr Kingibe might have courted at the height of the June 12 struggle,” Mr Fawehinmi said.
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Samuel Ogundipe is a general assignment reporter at PREMIUM TIMES. At various times, he has covered the Presidency, National Assembly and Defence. Twitter: @SamuelOgundipe
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No Hero V2C4: Under the Wailing, the Hated Hero
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Legend of a Hero Chapter 4: Under the Wailing, the Hated Hero – translated by Raylight
… When I’m being a hero, ought I let Charles come and help me?
No way! Definitely no way!
I have already made a promise with him.
Charles is my butler and is not in charge of fighting!
I continued searching until around four o’clock in the morning before I returned home. At first, I had thought that the young master should not have gone out yet, for the young master would always step out of the front door at five o’clock sharp. However, right now it was only 4:40, yet there was already no one at home.
Regarding this, I was simply a bit astonished. The young master would rarely step out of his regular pattern of life. However, it was also possible that something had suddenly popped up and hence he had gone out.
I walked into the kitchen and started to prepare breakfast.
At 6:45, Mr. Bramble, Dell, and May came down to wait for breakfast, proving my previous guess wrong.
“An incident?” May shook his head and said, “There has been no need to monitor for the young master since yesterday night. He doesn’t want to go out.”
I was a little astonished. Probably because he had seen my expression, Dell shrugged his shoulders and said, “Don’t be nervous, butler. This isn’t anything strange. It’s not like the young master will go out and help every time there is an incident.”
Mr. Bramble gave a smile as he explained, “There are too many incidents in Sunset City, so the young master couldn’t possibly go and intervene every time something happens. Generally speaking, if it was an ordinary brawl, then even if it resulted in someone dying, the young master would not go and help.”
“Butler, don’t tell me you don’t know?” Dell suddenly shouted excitedly.
Of course I did not know what he was referring to, so I shook my head.
He immediately gave a grin, and then as though he were singing a limerick, he said, “In Sunset City, miscreants have to know the rules. At Solitary Butterfly’s, one must never bully women; in Dragon Peace’s sphere of influence, one must love and protect animals; under First Wind’s watchful eye, don’t ever sell drugs or collect debts forcefully; if you’re walking in Dark Sun’s territory, you can’t lay a hand on any elderly, weak, women, or children.”
Elderly, weak, women, and children… Last night’s pair of mother and daughter fits that category perfectly.
Mr. Bramble went into further explanation. “This rule just makes clear that the heroes have a target that they are especially fond of rescuing. If something like a bank robbery happens, the heroes will still go and help.”
May abruptly cut in, “The young master is probably feeling very upset! He didn’t manage to save that pair of mother and daughter… The target that he has never given up on saving is exactly a mother with a child.”
I see. Because the young master is very upset, he did not want to go out again and help last night, and moreover, went out ahead of schedule this morning? I nodded my head and questioned the three, “Last night, what exactly happened on the rooftop?”
Dell gave a shrug of his shoulders and said, “The surveillance cameras on the rooftop were destroyed by the criminal beforehand. We could only watch from another building’s surveillance cameras and don’t know any more than you do.”
“Those are all not the main point, butler!” Dell’s face suddenly became serious, which made me follow suit and become solemn…
“The main point is, have you cooked breakfast yet?”
So it was about breakfast. I was unhappy but found it funny as I said, “What ought to be prepared is already all done. Wait until the young master gets home, and in the time while he is bathing, I will then start to make the food, so as to prevent the food from going cold.”
Dell gave an “oh,” and then as usual, sprawled onto the sofa, complaining that he was hungry as he waited for breakfast to be served.
I glanced at the clock. It was only two minutes until seven, so I hurriedly went to grab a towel and stand by the side of the front door.
“6:59… Ten seconds, nine seconds… It’s seven!”
Dell jumped up, and then shouted at the door, “Young Master, welcome home!”
I stood at the door, my posture slightly bowed. In my hands was the towel for the young master to wipe off his sweat, and on my face I had on a butler’s perfect faint smile. The line “Welcome back” was held in my mouth, ready to come out at any moment.
Everyone looked at the front door, but the door showed no indication of being opened. The living room fell into silence. Time ticked on, minute by minute, second by second. I still continued standing by the door, my hands holding the towel, and my smile… Perhaps it was a little stiff.
May’s voice drifted over. “It’s 7:10.”
The door still remained tightly shut.
After a while, Dell seemed to have difficulty getting by as he said, “It’s 7:20. I’m so hungry…”
I straightened my back. My waist and face both felt a little stiff. I turned around to face the others and said, “I will give a call to the young master.”
“The young master’s cell phone is over there.” Mr. Bramble interrupted my words, pointing at a cell phone on the sofa.
I was a little speechless. Looks like we can only continue to wait.
“Sorry, I’m late.”
I was stunned. When I turned around, I saw the young master walking in from the front door. He was covered in sweat all over, and even his hair appeared to be a little damp. I had never seen the young master sweat so much before, but though I was shocked, I still hurried forward and presented the towel, saying, “Young Master, please go and shower first. Your change of clothes has already been placed in the shower room.”
“Okay.” The young master received the towel, and as he wiped his hair, said, “Charles, help me prepare a little more breakfast. I’m starving.”
I was startled for a moment but quickly answered, “Understood.”
The young master walked by the living room and greeted the others. “Morning, Bramble-shū, Dell-gē, and May-gē.”
Must prepare a bit more breakfast… Before I started swiftly walking into the kitchen, I even heard Dell give a mutter under his breath, “Did the young master go out and fight with a monster?”
In my heart, I could not help but secretly agree.
Under the situation where I did not know the extent of the young master’s hunger, I could only cook ten servings of breakfast and hope that it would be enough to fill up the ”starving” belly of the young master.
Just as I finished carrying all of the breakfast onto the table, the young master walked into the living room. Moreover, he was actually not dressed in his outdoor clothes but rather his ordinary home clothes.
I was a little astonished as I inquired, “Young Master, are you not going to school today?”
“Yeah, I’m not going to school today!” The young master straightforwardly answered and then said, “Let’s eat” to everyone. Following that, he sat down and started wolfing down breakfast.
Seeing the situation, everyone could only lower their heads and work hard at eating breakfast. Though it was not much different from usual, the atmosphere was a little stifling. Even Dell, who usually loved to speak nonsense, did not open his mouth much, and everyone just tried to eat their share of breakfast.
At this moment, Mr. Bramble picked up the television remote control out of habit and turned to the news channel.
At first, I did not really pay attention to it. However, I immediately remembered… Yesterday’s incident was so serious, it would definitely end up on the morning news!
I looked at Mr. Bramble, and then realized that Dell and May were both staring at him. The former’s face changed, and just as he was about to press the button on the remote control, the young master abruptly said, “Don’t turn it off!”
Mr. Bramble could only put down the remote control. The young master stopped his action of eating and concentrated on watching the television, as did the others.
Yesterday night, around ten o’clock, a major case of a criminal threatening a pair of mother and daughter occurred.
According to police investigations, the aim of the criminal was actually to divert the police’s attention and take the opportunity to rob the jewelry store two blocks away.
Though there were three heroes and the police were all standing guard at the scene, there were unknown figures who were brawling on-the-spot mid-way. In the midst of the fighting, the mother and daughter unfortunately fell off the building, and an explosion occurred. According to witnesses at the scene, the hero Dark Sun was on the rooftop at the time…
Now, we will switch the scene to the information meeting that the police are holding.
The image on the television screen changed, and instead of the news reporter, there appeared a man wearing a police uniform. He was standing on a platform filled with microphones. Though his face was full of stubble, I believe that he should only be twenty years old or so. His expression and manner of speaking was as expected, as rash as someone of that age.
He was scowling and looked agitated as he roared, “… Dark Sun, no matter whether you are a hero or anything else, this is the result of taking action before going through careful evaluation and judgment. If it wasn’t for your recklessness, that pair of mother and daughter originally would not have died at all! You hear that? You caused them to die!”
Hearing such severe words from the police, I almost gasped. Following that, I looked at the others from the corner of my eyes. Everyone’s expressions had changed. Their brows were furrowed tight, but instead they intentionally lowered their heads to eat, not looking at the young master.
When I think about it, it was likely they were worried that the young master would feel awkward, and hence they did not look at him. However, I did not have that kind of concern. A butler’s duty has always been looking at their employer, and of course there was no exception this time either.
The young master looked blank for a moment, and then turned to me and said, “Charles, use your cell phone to help me call Kyle-gē.”
“Understood.” I immediately did so and handed the cell phone over to the young master. However, I felt a little uneasy. The young master could not be thinking of using the master’s strength to punish that policeman, could he?
The young master took the cell phone and said, “Kyle-gē? I’m Ah Ye. You tell Gēge not to take action against that policeman on TV, and also not to do anything against any media who is speaking against Dark Sun, and also not to… Ah! In short, tell Gēge that I don’t mind, and tell him not to go about killing people just because of this!”
… Go about killing people?
Including me, everyone here had looked at the young master with wide eyes by this point, the problem of awkwardness long disregarded.
Following that, the young master quietly listened on the cell phone. However, roughly a dozen or more seconds later, he suddenly stood up agitatedly and roared at the cell phone, “Retaliation that does not involve killing is not allowed either! Basically, don’t let Gēge discipline anyone just because of me! Tell him, if he dares to do that, then— then… Then in the future, even if it’s vacation, I won’t go back and see him!”
So, a simple thing like “going back to see your brother during vacation” could actually save human lives? I sighed. This is sure simpler than being a hero.
After that roar, the young master became quiet again as he listened. After a few minutes, he rejected what the person said in one go as he stubbornly said, “No! I won’t go back during summer vacation either. I have already said, before I finish university, I’m going to continue living away from home… Boring? It’s not! There’s Charles, Melody, Bramble-shū, and the others to accompany me. Moreover, I have already decided that during summer vacation, I’m going to go work and earn some money.”
Work and earn some money? Including me, everyone’s faces were filled with shock.
Though I could not see Mr. Kyle’s face, I think that he too must be extremely confused. He probably asked a question, something along the lines of “why,” and hence the young master gave him a reply with a tone as though it was to be expected, “Because I asked my classmates what they are doing over summer vacation, and they all said that they are going to work and earn some money. So, I am also going to go work and earn some money. Okay, okay, you don’t have to help me look for a job. I will go and find one myself… Okay! My stomach’s growling! I’m going to eat breakfast. Basically, Kyle-gē, help me tell Gēge to be more obedient, and don’t do a single thing. Then tonight, I’ll give him a call.”
The young master ended the call, and then started to put a lot of effort into eating breakfast again. He looked like he was really extremely hungry, for his eating speed was even faster than usual.
When breakfast was done, I handed the young master a napkin to wipe his mouth. After simply dabbing at his mouth, he lifted his head to look at me and asked, “So, what kind of work should I do?”
“Young Master, I have not done any part-time work before,” I gave a wry smile as I answered.
Once I finished answering, the young master’s gaze shifted onto Dell and May. The two of them had an odd expression on their faces, and nobody opened their mouths to say anything. However, the young master kept on staring at the two, awaiting an answer.
It was silent for a while before May opened his mouth with difficulty, and tried suggesting, “Young Master, you could… could… be a hacker?”
“I know! A firearms dealer!” Dell punched his palm, looking proud of himself, as though he thought that it was a good suggestion.
Mr. Bramble shook his head and then continued to drink his tea and read the newspaper.
At this moment, the young master looked at me and asked, “Charles, what do you think?”
In such a short time, I actually could not think of any answer better than “hacker” or “firearms dealer.” Thus, I could only inquire, “That would have to depend on the nature of the work that Young Master is looking for.”
After the young master had tilted his head to one side to consider, he said, “As long as it’s a job that a normal person would work as.”
A hacker and firearms dealer, no matter what, they do not seem like a job that a normal person would work as. All of the people present fell silent again.
A normal job… Carrying plates? Selling drinks? Distributing flyers?
Actually, the young master should be competent in an overwhelming number of jobs. After all, the young master is both a master of the pen and the sword. No matter what the work involves, be it brains or physical strength, there is no problem. However, it was simply hard to imagine a young master who has a butler of an annual salary of twenty million working the jobs of a part-timing student.
“In short, I must find a job within the next few days! Otherwise it’ll become harder and harder to find one!” After the young master said that loudly, he turned to face us and said, “This was what Abner told me… Ah! Actually I didn’t have to ask you guys. It’ll be fine if I go and ask Abner tomorrow.”
It seems that the young master still does not intend on going to school today. I quickly said, “Young Master, since you are not going to school today, then I am not going to sleep either. Please let me…”
The young master interrupted my words and shook his head as he said, “No, go and sleep. Wake up at around the same time you usually do. At night time, accompany me to X-Killer to look at the photos!”
“Young Master, vampires are fine even if they do not sleep for several days. For these two weeks, you have already let me take leave after midnight. This is already extremely generous of you, so today please let me wait upon you…”
The young master abruptly called out to me. “Charles.”
“Go and sleep obediently.”
“… Understood.”
I answered a little helplessly. Suddenly, Dell burst into laughter. I turned my head, wanting to give him a grudging look. However, I discovered that even May and Mr. Bramble had a smile forming at the corners of their mouths.
As per usual, I would always brew a pot of tea and deliver it to the rooftop before returning to my metal cabinet to sleep. Today was no exception. Just as I had delivered the tea and was about to go down the floors, Dell called out to me.
I turned back and saw an odd expression on Dell’s face as he asked, “Butler. How much is your annual salary?”
Hearing this question, I froze for a moment, but I still honestly replied, “Twenty million.”
“Tsk, tsk, that’s not a small amount at all!” Dell gave me an envious look and continued, “Bramble-shū, May, and my salary add up to more or less six or seven million. Based on how the company pays, Melody should be receiving more than ten million.”
He used his fingers to count, and count… Suddenly he gave a loud shout. “The salary of the employees under the young master is already over forty million combined together, and he actually wants to work and earn money? Even if he worked for two months, I don’t even know if he would get forty thousand yuan!”
Indeed so. However, I actually approve of the young master’s idea to work. Money is not the issue. Working will help the young master in the aspects of interpersonal relationships, how to treat people, and how to conduct oneself in society. Therefore, there was no harm in giving it a try.
“Mr. Charles,” May called out.
He looked at me, and with worry in his eyes, asked, “Say, just now, what the policeman said on the news… Does he really not mind?”
“I too do not know,” I honestly admitted.
“You three youngsters, don’t think about doing anything!” As Mr. Bramble poured the tea, he slowly said, “The young master doesn’t like to show sadness, so don’t force him. Though the young master is easy to get along with, you all should never forget that we are only his subordinates!”
Three youngsters… Does that include me?
I fell silent for a while, but I still did not refute Mr. Bramble. After all, among vampires, having an age of a hundred and fifty two years old is indeed considered a “youngster.”
The metal cabinet is designed to completely brighten at four o’clock in order to wake me. The moment it brightened, I immediately opened my eyes.
The young master should be in the workshop modifying guns? Then, I should pour him a glass of milk. After I freshened up in a simple fashion, I immediately took the milk jug and a glass, and then I headed to the living room. However, when I approached the living room, I heard laughter, so I slowed my steps down.
This voice did not seem like the young master’s voice. It sounded more like… a girl’s laughter?
Feeling puzzled, I reached the living room. In a single glance, I saw that the young master was currently chatting and laughing with a girl. The girl was very young, likely around ten to twelve years old. On the table, she had out a booklet that looked like schoolwork, and before the young master was a sheet of drawing paper and a box of crayons. In his hand, he even held a crayon.
“Charles, you’re awake!” The young master noticed my presence and smiled as he introduced, “This is Briar, Bramble-shū’s daughter.”
The girl had a hairstyle of two buns. Both of her cheeks were pink and her chin was slightly sharp, making the shape of her face look like a peach. Accompanied with a set of large eyes, she looked extremely cute. I remembered now. This was indeed the little girl who had been abducted by the criminals, and afterwards saved by the young master.
She laughed as she said, “Is this the butler that Ah Ye-gēge spoke of, Charles-gēge?”
“Yes indeed. Nice to meet you, Briar!” I smiled in return.
Briar blinked her eyes and then said, “Charles-gēge can just call me Bri.”
The young master explained, “Bramble-shū said that for some reason, the school mysteriously had a vacation, and he didn’t feel at ease leaving Bri at home by herself. He also didn’t know anyone who he can entrust her to, so he brought Bri over.”
The school has a vacation on Thursday? I said, “So I see,” but in my heart I did not quite think so. Especially since after the young master had finished explaining, Bri revealed a smile and secretly winked at me.
“Charles.”
The young master seemed a little puzzled as he asked, “Usually, what do you do at this time?”
I truthfully replied, “Usually, I will go out and buy groceries.”
“Oh! Then you can go out and buy groceries now too.” The young master looked at me with serious eyes and said, “Don’t act differently from usual just because I’m at home!”
“Understood.” I inquired, “Then, may I ask if there is anything in particular that you wish to eat?”
The young master shrugged his shoulders, obviously not minding what he would have for dinner. This was not out of my expectations, for the young master eats “anything.” Except for liking fried meat and milk, he did not have any other special preferences.
“How about Briar?” I turned around and questioned our guest with a smile.
“Can I ask for anything?” Briar asked with sparkling eyes.
“Anything is fine.”
If the person in front of me were a grown-up, I would perhaps not dare to say this line. However, Briar was only a little girl, and she was not a rich lady. Therefore, she likely would not ask for something that I am unable to make.
“Then I want to eat curry rice!” Briar happily stood up and shouted, “It has to be a curry rice kids’ meal!”
A curry rice kids’ meal? I went blank for a moment. Curry rice was naturally not a problem, but what is a curry rice kids’ meal? My honorable father, is it because you have never served an employer who is very young, hence you could not teach me how to cook a curry rice kids’ meal?
At this moment, Briar used her finger to indicate for me to come closer. I leaned in, and she whispered, “Just make the rice into a half circular shape, and stick a small flag on top. Also, there are bunny shaped carrots and cauliflowers carved into the shape of small flowers. Sprinkle a lot of powdered sugar on top, and put colorful mashed potatoes… Ah Ye-gē will definitely like it a lot!”
So this is a curry rice kids’ meal? It seemed to sound a little childish, but I could not deny that the young master perhaps would really like it.
“What are you two saying?” The young master leaned closer and asked in curiosity, “What is a curry rice kids’ meal?”
“It’s. A. Secret!” Briar jumped onto the young master’s leg and used her two hands to cover the young master’s ears. But then, she yelled, “Ah Ye-gēge can’t know about it yet, so you’re not allowed to ask Charles-gēge!”
The young master tilted his head to one side, and though the curiosity on his face did not fade one bit, he did not question me either. He only smiled as he said, “Bri, you covered my ears but also yelled at me. So do you want me to hear or not?”
“Of course I want you to hear!” Briar turned her head, and then she started exclaiming, “Charles-gēge, hurry and go buy the groceries. Hurry, hurry!”
I smiled at her, but my eyes drifted to the young master. After seeing the young master nod his head at me, only then did I say, “All right, then I will be going out to buy the groceries.”
The young master nodded his head. Thus, after helping pour both the young master and Briar a glass of milk, I went out to buy groceries. Though I could not serve the young master, my worries were much lighter than before I had gone to sleep. Briar seemed much more mature than her actual age, and the young master seemed to be very fond of her too. With her around, the young master should not have any problems.
The moment I stepped out of the door, the cell phone on my body started ringing. The name shown on the display was “Bodyguard Captain.” I answered the call, and immediately Mr. Bramble’s voice came through. “Young Master… No! How’s Briar?”
I told him the truth, “Bri is currently chatting with the young master while doing her homework.”
“Then… how is it? Happy?”
I smiled, and intentionally inquired, “Are you asking about Bri? Yes, she looks very happy.”
“Then is the young master happy… Cough! The young master doesn’t dislike Bri, right?”
“Nothing of the sort. The young master seems to like Bri very much.”
“That’s good. That’s all I wanted to ask. You can go and be busy with your own stuff!”
After hearing Bramble murmur, “I just knew that Bri, that child, wouldn’t let me down,” the connection was cut. At this point, my mood suddenly turned extremely good.
Only the young master’s subordinates?
Mr. Bramble, your words are really not convincing at all.
The most troublesome aspect of curry is the spices used for seasoning.
That is because everybody has different likes, and hence different spices would be used for seasoning. Therefore, my honorable father only taught me the most basic ingredients at that time. Then, he told me that I have to mix the seasoning according to the master’s tastes.
The young master likes food that is heavy and leaning towards sweet, and Briar is also still a child. Therefore, I intended to make honey apple curry. Both of them should like it.
After buying the various spices around the supermarket, I walked to the market.
Among the people coming and going, some looked at me with wide eyes. These were mostly people who caught sight of me for the first time. There were also people who smiled and nodded at me, and I naturally returned a smile to them. Following that were the various vendors that I was extremely familiar with.
Ever since I had become the young master’s butler, I had always bought from this market. When I had first started, everyone had looked at me with strange looks. Probably it was because of the fact that I was wearing splendid clothes. However, after I had bought five catties of pork from the pork stall, everyone became completely relaxed.
It was even at the point where, after I had come here to buy ingredients several times, several stall-keepers came to chat with me out of curiosity.
I walked to the stall selling chicken and asked with a smile, “May I ask if there is any good chicken today?”
The chicken vendor was a tall and strong young man who had just taken over his father’s stall not long ago. However, he had a good eye for chicken, and he was outspoken and honest while doing business—a very decent young man. While he was chopping the chicken, he raised his head up and exclaimed, “Oh! Charles, you’re here! You’re pretty late today!”
“Yes, I was delayed for a bit.”
“Today’s chickens are not big, and seeing that huge appetite of your family, you’ll probably need five chickens or there won’t be enough.” His eyes narrowed, and then he whispered to me, “If you introduce your family’s little sister to me, then these five chickens can be treated as a welcome gift!”
“That would not do. My older brother would scold me to no end.” I rejected his offer naturally. That is because at home, I absolutely did not have any sisters to introduce to him.
For a man to go to the market often and buy so much food at once while always wearing splendid clothes, it is inevitable that it would attract a lot of attention. Thus, under everyone’s endless, curious inquiries, I too spun a lot of stories to answer them. For example, there were twelve children at home, and due to our mother’s early demise, as the second brother, I had to cook for the children at home when my father and older brother were out working.
Ever since I had offhandedly fabricated the lies of having a younger fifth sister who is currently twenty years old and looks very cute, having an eighteen years old younger brother who looks very much like me, and having an older brother who had just obtained his civil service qualification and is much better looking than me, I could always get an extremely cheap price.
The reason being that every stall vendor would want me to introduce my older brother, my younger brother, or my younger sister to them. As to which one the chicken vendor wanted to get the most acquainted with, that was the “twenty years old, cute younger fifth sister” of mine.
“Please give me five chickens.” After saying that, I added on, “My little sister likes to eat chicken the most. She loves fresh and tender chicken meat, so…”
“No problem!” The chicken vendor straightforwardly said, “I’ll definitely give you the best and most tender chicken! When you have time, introduce your younger sister to me!”
“Thank you.” I avoided as the topic by saying, “Today I am making curry, so please help me cut—“
“You there, don’t move!”
There came a shout from behind me. I stilled. Originally, I did not think the shout was directed at me. However, the shocked expression on the chicken vendor told me… that it was indeed directed at me. Moreover, it probably was not anything good.
“Put down everything in your hands! Then slowly turn around.”
I did as he said and put all of the plastic bags in my hands onto the stall of the chicken vendor. Following that, I turned around. What appeared in front of me was a man wearing a police uniform and who was pointing his gun at me. Moreover, his face… He was the policeman who had appeared on today’s morning news, scolding Dark Sun!
“May I ask—” I was extremely puzzled as I opened my mouth.
“Shut up!” The policeman roared, “You vampire, there is no place for you to speak here!”
I was startled. How did he know that I am a vampire?
The policeman glanced at the stall selling chicken and was full of confidence as he said, “You’re buying chicken so that you can go back and suck on its blood?”
“It is for making curry rice.” I gave a forced smile as I said, “Mr. Policeman, to kill a chicken, you have to bleed it first. Whether I am a vampire or not, it is impossible for the chickens being sold here to have any blood for me to suck.”
Hearing that, the policeman looked dumbfounded. The surrounding vendors and spectators started laughing under their breath one-by-one.
“Mr. Policeman, I am not a vampire.” I tried saying, “You can ask the vendors around here. I come here every day to buy ingredients. If I am a vampire, then it is not quite possible that I would do that, right? What I am saying is, do not vampires drink blood for survival? But, there is no blood being sold in the market.”
The surrounding vendors started clamoring.
“Charles has been coming here to buy groceries for a long time already!”
“You gave me such a fright. What vampire, it’s still broad daylight right now!”
“Mr. Policeman, don’t malign the wrong person!”
Hearing that, the policeman’s confidence seemed to waver, but he still put up a bold face as he said, “Who said there isn’t? Isn’t there still chicken’s blood, duck’s blood, and pig’s blood cake?1”
I started laughing, and all of the surrounding vendors started roaring in laughter too. If vampires could eat their fill on chicken’s blood, duck’s blood, and pig’s blood cake, then probably humans would not be that afraid of us anymore, would they?
The policeman’s face flushed red, and he growled, “Why are you all laughing? Y-You, take off your hat and your coat. Wearing such thick layers, you definitely have to be a vampire who is scared of the light.”
Before I even had the chance to speak up, the chicken vendor behind me had already shouted in a loud voice, “Mr. Policeman, you can’t do that! Charles is allergic to light. If he removes them, he will die!”
As for being allergic to light, of course it was also one of the lies that I had fabricated. However, the truth was that quite a long time ago, patients who were allergic to light had really been thought of and treated as vampires. Of course, in this age where medical technology is so advanced, there is no such matter anymore.
I looked at the policeman with an apologetic look.
Actually, it would be fine even if I took off my hat and my clothes. The sunlight would indeed make me feel uncomfortable. However, not showing any peculiar symptoms for a short period of time is not hard at all, especially since it was evening at the moment and the sunlight was not strong. However, due to the lie that I fabricated about being “allergic to light,” I could not obey the policeman’s orders.
The policeman frowned, and then his left hand, which was not holding the gun, dug into his chest pockets, taking out an antique cross.
“Don’t move!”
“As you wish.” I raised both of my hands up, expressing that I had no evil intentions.
He walked over cautiously, the gun in his hands still pointing at me. When he was about a step’s distance away from me, he stuck the cross onto my face, and he had even used quite a bit of strength to press it onto my face. I could only give a forced smile at him.
Thankfully, this policeman only had a superficial knowledge of vampires. The cross that he held was made of silver, and vampires were indeed afraid of silver. However, he did not seem to know that silver has to come into contact with a vampire’s blood for it to have any effect.
Moreover, we are actually not afraid of the cross.
The cross was just like a police’s badge. It does not have any practical use. If a vampire really were afraid of the cross, he would be afraid of the “Church” that the cross represents and not the cross itself.
“Are you really not a vampire?” The policeman hesitated for a moment, and then put away both the cross and the gun. He muttered, “It doesn’t make sense. What you’re wearing is obviously the same as what the vampire wore last night.”
So the source of the problem was the clothes. I had a sudden glimpse of realization, and felt that I was simply too careless.
The policeman looked at me with suspicion, sizing me up. He asked, “What is your name?”
“Charles, Charles Endelis.”
“Charles, is it? Take me to your house!” The policeman looked immensely pleased with himself as he concluded, “As long as I go to your house, I would definitely know whether or not you are a vampire!”
Follow a vampire back home?
This was simply not a good idea. If I were not a butler and was merely a vampire, I would perhaps consider bringing this policeman back home and biting him to death. This way, not only would I be able to get rid of someone who was suspicious of me, I could also eat my fill as well.
It is a pity that I am a butler, and I do not want to dirty the young master’s home either; thus, I cannot execute this plan that is so attractive to vampires.
“Then, may I inquire if I may pick up these groceries and also buy some chicken?” I gave a wry smile as I said, “My younger siblings at home are still waiting for me to go home and cook!”
The policeman waved his hand impatiently. “Hurry up!”
I helplessly told the chicken vendor, “Please help me chop the chicken, and please be quick.”
“Cooking curry rice, right? I got it!” The chicken vendor found it funny as he chopped the chicken while speaking, and he even joked, “Do you want to conveniently buy some chicken blood to take home to drink, Mr. Vampire?” I could only smile wryly at him.
Not too long later, I carried a few bags of vegetables and two bags of chopped chicken and started to walk back home alongside the policeman.
“A grown man, yet you’re buying groceries?” The policeman said to me in disapproval and then snatched the two bags of chicken from my hands.
“Thank you, Mr. Policeman.” I was a little surprised, for I did not think that he would help me carry my items.
“Sigh! What Mr. Policeman. I’m called Yue Gang.2 Hey! You still haven’t answered me!”
Yue Gang glanced at the plastic bags in my hands, and then asked me in doubt, “Why is a grown man like you buying so many groceries?”
“It is like this.”
I could only talk once again about my mother’s early demise, my father and big brother who are out at work, along with my younger siblings who are waiting to be fed with cries of hunger…
Once Yue Gang finished listening to my story, he immediately scratched his head furiously, and with a face that implied “what a pity,” he said, “Tch! The eldest girl is only twenty years old. That’s a bit too young. I’m already twenty eight.”
I broke into a smile. This policeman called Yue Gang might unexpectedly be someone who the young master would say is “interesting.”
When I returned home, though I had the key, I intentionally rang the doorbell.
After waiting for a moment, the door was pulled open and the young master poked his head out. He looked at me, a little confused, and started to say, “Char—”
I immediately interrupted the young master’s words and smiled as I said, “I am back. Ah Ye, did you obediently help me look after the place? Did you look after your sister without letting her run around wildly? Has both Father and Dàgē3 not returned yet?”
The young master paused for only an extremely short moment before he switched his tone, and his voice became slightly child-like as he said, “Charles-gē, you’re back! I’m so hungry. Hurry and cook curry rice for me!”
Briar had also walked over. I was just worrying whether she would be unable to coordinate with us, or if she would let this whole ruse fall apart, when her set of large eyes darted around to look at the situation. Then, she threw herself at me, shouting, “Gēge! Bri is also really hungry. Curry! Curry!”
I turned around, and with a faint smile, said, “Mr. Yue Gang, please come in and have a seat?”
“No!” Yue Gang was a little embarrassed as he said, “There’s no need. I misunderstood! However…”
He suddenly lowered his voice to a whisper, “Is your younger fifth sister home?”
It seems that everyone is extremely interested in that cute ”younger fifth sister” of mine… I gave a forced smile as I said, “She is in university at the moment and will only be back on the weekends.”
“Is that so… Then I’m heading off!”
He looked extremely disappointed. Once he finished speaking, he instantly turned around to leave. However, following that, he stopped in his tracks and looked behind me with a skeptical look… When I turned my head, I saw that Mr. Bramble, Dell, and May were walking over. The three of them were looking at Yue Gang with a bewildered and alert look.
“Father, you sure got off work today early. Did you climb up the stairs again?” I quickly called to Mr. Bramble in a loud voice and then turned around to introduce to Yue Gang, “That is my father, my younger third brother, and my younger fourth brother.”
Yue Gang gave a sigh, “What a big family! It’s really rare to see one nowadays.”
“Yes, it is very rare indeed.”
He looked suspiciously at Dell and May, and then looked at me again. He asked, “But, why do your two younger brothers look older than you?”
I was speechless. I had completely forgotten that though Dell’s and May’s ages are much younger than mine, appearance-wise, they perhaps might look older than me. However, I was not able to confirm this for I rarely had any chance to see my own appearance.
Since the lie had already been spoken, I could only forcefully say, “They just happen to look a bit more mature.”
The young master and Briar started laughing quietly.
“Is there a guest?” Mr. Bramble walked over, not batting an eyelid as he asked, “Why didn’t you invite him in to sit down? What a lack of manners!”
“Yes, my humble apologies.”
“You lad, did you get addicted to being a waiter?!” Bramble knocked my head, and then reprimanded, “Do you speak to your father like this?”
“Ah… I am sorry, my honorable fathe—Father!” I hurriedly changed my words, for I had nearly made another mistake.
Mr. Bramble looked at Yue Gang, and then courteously said, “Are you Charles’s friend? Please come in and take a seat.”
“No, no!” Yue Gang hurriedly waved his hand and shouted, “I really have to go! My apologies for mistaking you as a vampire! Goodbye!”
“It is okay.” I answered with a smile, and at the same time felt the gaze of everyone looking at me through the corner of their eyes… as though they were asking me, “Mistaking?”
Yue Gang walked over to the elevator. I was about to heave a sigh of relief, thinking that this whole farce was finally ending, when the elevator doors opened. Another person walked out from the elevator… It was Head Butler Kyle!
As always, Mr. Kyle carried his computer case. He walked out of the elevator, and just happened to brush past Yue Gang as he walked by. Yue Gang did not step into the elevator, but instead turned around and gazed at Mr. Kyle in doubt.
Mr. Kyle looked straight at the young master and started to say, “Yo—”
Once his words were out, everyone’s faces changed. Other than Mr. Bramble, all of the others shouted together, “Dàgē! You’re finally back!”
Mr. Kyle froze.
“Dàgē.” The young master dashed up to him and snatched Mr. Kyle’s computer case, even trying to curry favor with him as he said, “You have worked hard today!”
Mr. Kyle looked at everyone and pushed his glasses. Then, his tone became gentler as he asked, “What’s wrong? Why is everyone gathered at the door? Oh, Father, you have gotten off work too? That’s early. Also, Charles, have you started cooking yet?”
He had looked at Mr. Bramble and me while saying the last few lines. What a powerful person, to be able to understand the situation in such a short period of time, and even the “family relations?” No wonder he is the head butler.
“Y-Yes! There wasn’t overtime today.” Mr. Bramble’s answer was a little forced. I assume that it was obviously not an easy task for him to treat this “higher-higher-higher-higher-up” as a son.
At this moment, Yue Gang stepped into the elevator and shouted loudly, “I’ll be leaving first! If I have time, I’ll come and find you to drink some tea together! Charles-xiǎodì!4”
Little brother? I waved goodbye to him while giving a forced smile. First, it was youngster. Now, it is little brother, but my age is obviously much older than everyone else at the scene by a hundred years and more. This really makes me not know whether to correct them or to accept it silently.
Once the elevator doors shut completely, I immediately bowed and apologized to Mr. Kyle. “My sincere apologies, Head Butler Kyle.”
Mr. Kyle returned to his expressionless face, and in a formal and flat tone, replied, “I’m a secretary, not a butler. Please remember this, ‘Charles-dìdi.5‘”
I froze and then put on an expression as though I had received good advice as I answered, “Yes, Secretary Kyle. My apologies for making you lie along with us.”
A sudden burst of laughter was heard, and this laugh was…the young master’s voice. Following that was a burst of laughter that sounded like silver bells. Among all the people at the scene, only Briar would have a laugh like that. My waist was still bent, and hence I could only use the corner of my eyes to look. I saw both the young master and Briar currently hugging each other, and they were laughing very hard and loudly.
In the end, both Dell, May, and even Mr. Bramble started laughing.
Within the sound of everyone’s laughter, Mr. Kyle too showed a faint smile. He pushed his glasses up his nose, and then naturally said, “It’s no problem, as long as the young master is happy.”
Hearing that, I straightened my back, and looked at the young master.
The young master was really laughing very happily. He was giggling with Briar and looked just like an overgrown child. The oppressive atmosphere from this morning was already completely gone.
The young master roared in laughter, clutching his stomach. When his laughter ceased for a moment, he looked at me, and promptly burst into an even bigger laughing fit. As he laughed, he said, “C-Charles, you really are very interesting! Dell, May, why aren’t you all calling your Charles-gē?”
May glanced at Mr. Kyle and then obediently called me “Charles-gē.” Dell did not look at Mr. Kyle at all but immediately said in a wheedling tone, “Charles-gēge! There’s only half an hour to dinner time, are you still not going to cook?”
Though I felt very helpless about always being addressed as youngster and little brother, to be truly addressed as big brother made me feel even more helpless.
The young master abruptly said, “Bramble-shū, you have to call him too!”
“What?” Mr. Bramble received a huge shock and said in disbelief, “I have to call him brother too?”
This really was something that made me feel extremely horrified too, even though my age was enough for me to be Mr. Bramble’s grandfather or the like.
“Of course not!” The young master replied as though it was to be expected, “You should call him son!”
Mr. Bramble was speechless for a while. After Mr. Kyle coughed twice, he stroked my head and said sincerely, “My good son, hurry and go cook.”
The young master gave a “Pffft” and then started laughing again. He and Briar took turns to laugh and call each other “Gēge” and “Mèimei.6”
At this moment, I saw the same message appear on everyone’s faces:
As long as the young master is happy.
1 Pig’s cake blood: As the name suggests, it really has pig’s blood inside it! It’s made of pig blood and sticky rice, and is fried or steamed as a snack or cooked in a hot pot. It’s a popular snack at local night markets in Taiwan.
2 Yue Gang: (嶽剛, pronunciation: yuègāng). Yue is his surname while Gang is his given name. His name sounds very similar to “Bathtub”, which is yùgāng (浴缸) in Chinese.
3 Dàgē: In this case, dàgē (大哥) means eldest brother. The 大 means big, signaling that this brother is the eldest child out of them all.
4 xiǎodì: Xiǎodì (小弟) means younger brother. Xiǎo (小) means little while dì (弟) means younger brother.
5 dìdi: Dìdi (弟弟) also means younger brother. It is the most common way of saying younger brother. Many Chinese terms of address can be formed by doubling the word, such as dìdi for younger brother, bàba for father, etc.
6 Mèimei: Mèimei (妹妹) means younger sister.
oct-2014, Volume 2
October 31, 2014 | Reply
Another Briar appearance. Yahh.
November 1, 2014 | Reply
LOL!!! Briar is so cute! And that policeman is hilarious. XD He seems just as rash as Ah Ye! Pot calling the kettle black, maybe. This chapter is extremely cute. I’d love to have Charles as my gege.
lol! luckily, sun emperor wasn’t there. pfft.haha
Andylinx
@tsukiyo
If he was there or if the cameras and microphones were still there that policeman would be gone in 3 minutes
@Andylinx
but if he was there, the police officer will recognise him anyway… but it’d be funny if he family roleplay as well
Illumi Senri
Thanks for the chapter…!!! My site stalking effort finally paid off…!!! I love the part where Ah Ye is frantically shouting at the phone to prevent his brother from killing anyone…!!! Then he use the ‘I’ll never go home threat’ so hilarious…!!!
I am joinng Ah Ye in roaring with laughter!
Crimson Rhapsody
Omg that was hilarious! I laughed so much at the end. Ah Ye, Briar, Charles, May and Dell are all so adorable XD The family roleplay cuteness was just too much for my fangirling soul~~~ <3 Thanks for the chapter PR! Love you guys! *gives curry rice kid's meals* You deserve lots of yummy foods and snacks for translating such a long chapter! *also gives blueberry tarts*
Thanks for the chapter! I like this family play, so funny!
Ah, that was so cute and funny! It just made my day. Poor Charles, getting caught up in all these strange situations. But, it is nice to know that Ah Yeh is feeling better :)
Oh wow—–Thanks so much for this! This chapter is so cute and amusing!
15B looked like she was at a loss. How could it be that Officer Yue Gang went to search for Charles first? She had assumed Melody’s appearance would be much more memorable to a single, twenty-eight year old police officer than Charles’ full body formal attire. The officer hadn’t even flirted with the feminine-looking May once. Could he actually have been the most interested by a certain second oldest brother?
*a little disappointed* I was hoping for a certain blue-haired, green-eyed, glasses-wearing, mad-scientist-type “uncle” to step out of his lab for a moment to see his “nephew.” (On the bright side, Bill is a megane character! We finally got something about his physical description other than “professional demeanor.” I guess the mark of a good secretary is to quietly and efficiently fulfill your duties in the background.)
I’m mildly puzzled, though. Why is curry rice so brightly colored if food coloring seems to scare the appetite out of Asian people? *chews on a bright blue piece of Halloween candy* By now, natural colors and flavoring scares me more than the artificial counterparts.
And just because Briar reminds me so much of Doll… *lobs a Meatbun into Ah Ye’s apartment*
After this chapter, I’ve officially fallen in love with No Hero. Thank you.
Well, you would have to remember that in the No Hero time period, people wearing full body formal attire is very, very rare and much more likely to make a sticking impression than people dressed scantily! (Not to mention the exact same outfit)
Though I wouldn’t be surprised by your theory. It does seem that Charles is actually quite pretty after all… (*cough cough*)
Fear not, there will be a few characters from Eclipse Hunter making an appearance. ^^
Curry rice is usually an orangey-brown color!~ The color is not due to food coloring, but rather, curry spices. Curry powder is usually yellow/brown/orange/red and it contributes to the color in curry. (Though if you add chili to the curry, it’s definitely going to turn out… rather red)
Haha I guess it’s a culture thing? Vivid blue food tends to scare me a little. It’s not that Asians don’t eat anything with food coloring at all, we just don’t have such vivid food coloring in our food. XP
No problem and I hope you enjoy No Hero as much as we do!
i’ve been wondering for a while now, the characters from Eclipse Hunter that appear at the moment are the main character, ah ye, sun emperor, ah ye’s doctor, kyle, ezart. there’s elian, too. i wonder who that silent bodyguard in the earlier chapter, maybe it’s Sin? but i miss eliose. and eli, too. and the lunar father and son?
It’s really hard for me to give hints without spoiling! The Eclipse Hunter characters are mostly cameos, playing a small part of the story, except for a certain overprotective big brother.
Technically, Charles does not appear in any part of Eclipse Hunter, so the characters that make an appearance is Ah Ye, Sun Emperor, Ah Ye’s doctor, Kyle, Ezart, Elian. A certain gender-ambiguous beauty will also make an appearance.
Does that answer your question? XP
It was great how quickly everyone caught on and pretended to be family!
And what’s up with that policeman blaming Dark Sun? When did he do anything wrong? He didn’t manage to pull off a “hero’s rescue” but I don’t see how he was reckless or caused anyone to die.
@KT
they said that the mother and child are dead…
After thinking about it, I thought it was strange that the mother and daughter fell down, since none of the heroes on scene approached the pair. But if the criminal noticed Dark Sun had dismantled the bomb, then that might have been the reason why they went into freefall, and why he’s being blamed for their deaths.
Even though he arrived on the scene, he couldn’t do much but watch them plummet. If he tried to catch them, he would have been blown apart with them. People could have believed Dark Sun was just idly standing by if they didn’t realize he was the one who yelled out the warning.
I’m not sure why the heroes didn’t try to directly go after the criminal. Maybe leaving the scene would have looked too suspicious, and led to both places being blown up. Or it could have been that they weren’t sure they could sneak up and defeat him before he pressed the detonator. But most likely, a hero’s first priority is to save the victims, not to catch the criminal.
Bramble, do you want your daughter to marry Ah Ye? She’ll have a very scary brother in law, you know.
libraryrocker
Rofl! Thank you so much for all your hard work translating!!!
On my!
This chapter was so funny!
I kept laughing out loud as I read it!
My family had to yell at me several time to be quiet XD
Thanks =D
Ceiye
I think this was my favorite chapter yet, but feels as if it is the calm before the storm. Well, it’s not exactly calm. More like, the comic relief before stuff gets real
As it should, seeing as it IS the fourth chapter and the only mildly serious thing that has happened is that mother and child exploding. Only mildly serious. Yup. Only a minor plot point.
Hmm… I have a feeling that the younger fifth sister will have to be introduced soon… Melody much? Haha… Oh great… Poor Dark Sun, being hated on (I’m still holding onto a slim hope that they survived somehow though Charles said he saw it happen…) and the policeman might become another insider to all this eventually… Convoluted mess but extremely eye-catching. Thanks for the translation!!
SniffingYou
Why do I have a feeling that IF the Solaris/Sun Emperor did arrive with Kyle, he’ll play the “cute younger fifth sister”….. suggested by Ah Ye/Dar?
Good thing he was not there or Charles might end up dead.
Totally awesome I was roaring through the whole chapter and after I was done roaring I just had to tell someone about it. Then I went back and reread it again.
NanoLaughing
Ahahaha~ How did the policeman know?? Pfffft!!
Shroomish
Gosh! I wish I was also part of that family! (Even an eyewitness will do. WISH!)
I’m very very late, but still, thank you for the chapter.
It was so fricking hilarious that i almost rolled over the chair!
@SniffingYou
That’s a spoiler for non Eclipse Hunter’s readers, right? I can only imagine why!
January 22, 2015 | Reply
Luckly, Charles said they were a family of 12, otherwise there would be too many ramdom guest appearances to be able to put this act together…. Laughing hard here.
I just re-read the chapter and found something. ten to twelve yours old. Didn’t notice it the first (few) times I read it.
March 2, 2015 | Reply
I couldn’t resist commenting. Veery well written!
It was an instant KO. An instant KO. Important things must be said twice. I died laughing, oh my gosh ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha——
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Morris County, NJ is a family place. 35% of the county's families in towns like Chatham, Madison, Parsippany and Randolph have children living at home. Parents are always looking for things to do with their kids! This article should help.
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July 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Morris County, New Jersey is a beautiful community located in the central part of the state. This affluent, growing area is actually just a short drive from New York City, the Jersey Shore and many other popular New Jersey destinations. Morris County towns such as Boonton, Chatham, Morristown, Parsippany and Riverdale offer a wonderful mix of country and city settings, with an abundance of shops, restaurants and parks.
35% of Morris County, New Jersey's households have children living at home. A lot of parents in Morris County are constantly looking for things to do and places to go with their children! The fact is, there are plenty of great events and activities for children throughout Morris County, New Jersey on nearly every day of the week. The challenge has been, finding the best options for fun or educational options for kids in the many communities and corners of this busy county. Until recently, families with children in Morristown might not find out about great kids events in Roxbury. Parents from Kinnelon wouldn't know about activities for children in Montville. Quite simply, there was no reliable go-to resource for events and information for familes living in the Morris County area.
There's a new website called http://yourmorris.com which features information about all sorts of events in all Morris County, New Jersey communities. The yourmorris.com Events Calendar is typically loaded with events for families with children. This calendar is great because it also includes events from neighboring counties like Somerset County.
Yourmorris.com even features a section called Kids Corner ( http://www.yourmorris.com/activities-for-children-kids-nj...) which highlights really special happenings for and about kids in places like Dover, Morristown, Mountain Lakes and Parsippany.
if you're looking for Morris County children's museums, central NJ family holiday events, educational activities for kids within Morris County's amazing Parks System, or anything else that's fun, special, educational or appealing to you and your kids in Morris County, you'll probably find it on yourmorris.com.
Point Media, based in Montvale, NJ is the company that produces http://www.yourmorris.com. Point Media also produce websites in Bergen, Hudson, Hunterdon and Somerset Counties. They'll be launching new websites for Essex and Passiac Counties in New Jersey in October of 2011. These new websites will feature lots of events for kids, many within easy driving distance of Morris County, New Jersey.
Point Media is New Jersey's largest producer of county-specific community websites.
Currently, Point Media produces websites for five of New Jersey's 21 counties. Point Media websites include mybergen.com, myhudsoncounty.com, yourhunterdon.com, yourmorris.com and yoursomerset.com.
Additional websites will be launched by Point Media in 2011 and 2012.
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This Australian nurse will meet his kids after 8 weeks of multiple isolations due to COVID-19
Australian Nurse Qasim Mehmood with his daughters in a park before COVID-19. (Right) Qasim at his home in self-isolation. Source: Supplied
After spending a month in lockdown in Pakistan from 19th March 2020, the father of two returned from overseas and spent 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine in Melbourne. Now he is spending another 2 weeks of self-isolation due to interstate travel at his home in Hobart.
By Talib Haider
“For many people, it is a 14-day ordeal, for me it is unending,” says Qasim Mehmood who has now spent the last several weeks in multiple isolations in Australia and overseas.
The Australian nurse says that he went to Pakistan on 6th March 2020 on a personal visit for two weeks.
“I haven’t been to my ancestral country since I was a teenager, so I was really looking forward to this trip,” Qasim told SBS Urdu.
Australia requires 2-weeks of mandatory quarantine of Australian citizens and permanent residents from overseas travel
Qasim spent 4 weeks of isolation in Pakistan, 2 weeks quarantine in Melbourne and currently spending 2 weeks of self-isolation in Hobart
Australian Nurse will meet his children on Eid day
He says that there were initial concerns about the COVID-19 spreading in few countries at that time but the idea of international lockdown never came across.
“My trip was for two weeks and I knew that I will return home safely, in case something happens.”
Unfortunately for Qasim, he missed his flight by a day as the ban on international flights to Australia started from 22nd April 2020, while his flight was the next day on 23rd April 2020.
For the next month, the Australian nurse stayed in Pakistan where the lock-down started due to the pandemic on 19th April 2020.
Nurse Qasim Mehmood at his home in Hobart during self-isolation.
Before leaving his hometown Hobart, Qasim told his two daughters that he will be returning soon after his 2-week trip.
“It was never on the cards that I will spend that much time without my children. My daughters were okay for me to leave them for two weeks, but not more.
“I missed them every day while I was in isolation there. It is not easy to explain to your children why their father can’t be with them for such a long time.”
Virtual Iftars helping Muslims to connect during COVID-19
Being a Muslim, Qasim has been fasting during the current Islamic month of Ramadan.
“When I returned to Australia, it was the first day of Ramadan. So, I am fasting since I have come back home.
Ramadan is all about meeting family and friends, food and festival, but Coronavirus has simply taken that experience away.
Finally, after a whole month of isolation in Pakistan, an international flight was announced to come to Australia from Pakistan.
“I was really happy that I will be able to meet my children.”
The isolation journey for Qasim continued. The Australian government requires 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine for Australian citizens and permanent residents returning from overseas.
Hobart Nurse Qasim Mehmood with his children.
But Qasim had to return to his hometown Hobart, which meant another two weeks of quarantine due to interstate travel. “The journey just kept increasing," he lamented.
“Being a nurse, I understand the hygienic and safety concerns and follow them too.
“But this was too overwhelming. I was back in Australia but had to spend another four weeks without meeting my children.”
Qasim requested the state authorities to let him self-isolate instead of spending another two weeks of quarantine in Tasmania, which was allowed.
Hobart Nurse Qasim Mehmood is waiting to see his children for the past 8 weeks.
Qasim’s self-isolation will end this weekend.
He will finally meet his children on the day of Eid (day to celebrate the end of the fasting month).
“It will be double happiness, meeting my kids and celebrating Eid with them.”
People in Australia must stay at least 1.5 metres away from others. Check your state’s restrictions on gathering limits.
Testing for coronavirus is now widely available across Australia. If you are experiencing cold or flu symptoms, arrange a test by calling your doctor or contact the Coronavirus Health Information Hotline on 1800 020 080.
The federal government's coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe is available for download from your phone's app store. SBS is committed to informing Australia’s diverse communities about the latest COVID-19 developments.
News and information is available in 63 languages at sbs.com.au/coronavirus
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Xinfadi wholesale market has been hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease. One regular customer reported feeling a sense of loss, rather than fear, at its absence. Photo: Reuters
Wet markets in China: more than a shopping venue, they’re a way of life
Xinfadi market in Beijing leads in the value and volume of goods traded among over 4,600 farm produce wholesale markets in the country
With 600 million people in China living on less than US$5 a day, such markets are a hub for canny shoppers
Jane Cai in Beijing
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$9 Billion ADB Facility To Help Members Access And Distribute Covid-19 Vaccines
Saturday, 12 December 2020, 6:18 am
Press Release: Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a $9 billion vaccine initiative—the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX)—offering rapid and equitable support to its developing members as they procure and deliver effective and safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines.
“As ADB’s developing members prepare to vaccinate their people as soon as possible, they need financing to procure vaccines as well as appropriate plans and knowledge to be able to safely, equitably, and efficiently manage the vaccination process,” said ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa. “APVAX will play a critical role in helping our developing members meet these challenges, overcome the pandemic, and focus on economic recovery.”
More than 14.3 million positive cases have been identified in Asia and the Pacific, causing more than 200,000 deaths. As the pandemic persists, economic growth in developing Asia is projected to contract by 0.4% in 2020—the first regional gross domestic product contraction since the early 1960s.
Promoting safe, equitable, and effective access to vaccines is a top priority for ADB’s COVID-19 response efforts. Vaccination programs can break the chain of virus transmission, save lives, and mitigate the negative economic impacts of the pandemic by restoring confidence in people’s ability to work, travel, and socialize safely.
The APVAX provides a comprehensive framework and resource envelope for supporting developing Asia’s vaccine access, using two complementary components. The Rapid Response Component will provide timely support for critical vaccine diagnostics, procurement of vaccines, and transporting vaccines from the place of purchase to ADB’s developing members.
The Project Investment Component will support investments in systems for successful distribution, delivery, and administration of vaccines along with associated investments in building capacity, community outreach, and surveillance. This may include such areas as cold-chain storage and transportation, vehicles, distribution infrastructure, processing facilities, and other physical investments. The component may also be used to develop or expand vaccine manufacturing capacity in developing members.
ADB financing for vaccines will be provided in close coordination with other development partners including the World Bank Group, World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX), GAVI, and bilateral and multilateral partners.
APVAX promotes safe and effective vaccines to be accessed in a fair manner. For a vaccine to be eligible for financing, it must meet one of three criteria. It must be procured via COVAX, prequalified by WHO, or authorized by a Stringent Regulatory Authority. Additional access criteria, such as a vaccination needs assessment, a vaccine allocation plan by the developing member, and a mechanism for effective coordination among development partners also help ensure that vaccine support under APVAX can be fairly and effectively implemented.
ADB is also making available a $500-million Vaccine Import Facility to support the efforts of its developing members to secure safe and effective vaccines, as well as the goods that support distribution and inoculation. The facility is part of ADB’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program. AAA-guarantees available through the program’s vaccine import facility will mitigate payment risks and facilitate import of these goods. This will employ the same eligibility criteria on vaccines as COVAX. Cofinancing with private sector partners could result in the Import Facility supporting $1 billion in vaccine and related imports within a year.
In April, ADB approved a $20 billion package to support its developing members in addressing the impacts of the pandemic and streamlined some procedures to deliver quicker and more flexible assistance. ADB has committed $14.9 billion in loans, grants, and technical assistance, including $9.9 billion in quick-disbursing budget support from the COVID-19 Pandemic Response Option (CPRO) and support for the private sector.
In November, ADB announced $20.3 million in additional technical assistance to establish systems to enable efficient and equitable distribution of vaccines across Asia and the Pacific.
ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
Find more from Asian Development Bank on InfoPages.
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Fujitsu says green IT services can cut bills by 20 percent
It's offering new services in the U.K. and the U.S. and will later take them worldwide
James Niccolai (IDG News Service) 02 September, 2010 04:00
Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity to cut costs as well. Fujitsu is rolling out some new services Wednesday that aim to help companies tackle both areas at once, and it claims they can reduce a company's IT energy bills by 20 percent on average.
Fujitsu has been offering the services in Australia for a few years and has signed about a dozen customers there, including Toyota and "a large Australian airline," said Kartik Ravel, practice director for green IT at Fujitsu America. It's now rolling them out in the U.S. and the U.K. and will add other parts of Europe and Asia in the future.
There are two components to the services. A two-week "quick-start" project looks at how efficient a company is today and where there is room for improvement. It covers the data center -- whether servers are virtualized and whether there is hot-aisle containment to manage air flow, for example -- and the office, to see if companies are using PC power management software or turning off printers at night. It also looks at things like procurement practices and e-waste disposal.
That's followed by a four- to six-month engagement where Fujitsu looks at the energy consumption of individual IT assets to come up with "quantifiable cost-saving opportunities and a business case to implement them," Ravel said. It studies how much each asset is used and runs "what if" scenarios, to see if a worker can be as productive if power management settings are at their most aggressive, for example.
One aspect involves installing desktop software that allows employees to track their own power consumption and that of their business unit. The idea is to motivate staff to conserve their power use and create a "competitive culture." It also looks at ways to eliminate unnecessary equipment, improve buying habits and cut waste.
The quick-start program is priced at US$25,000 and the longer engagement, called the Green IT Delivery Solution, is $150,000 plus the cost of any software installed. Fujitsu says most customers will see a return on investment after six to eight months.
The company talked to its CIO clients around the world and found that while most have a plan for IT in the data center, few are looking holistically at IT energy use elsewhere. And yet the non-data center component can often account for half of all IT energy usage depending on the type of business, Ravel said.
There have been several efforts by power companies and environmental groups to get people thinking about PC power management. Even the basic tools included with every PC can yield annual savings of $25 to $30 per desktop when used effectively, the head of Pacific Gas & Electric's consumer energy efficiency group said last year.
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Thanksgiving Baskets Create Traffic Jam, 11/25/09
by adminRH | Nov 25, 2009 | In the Media
In this 2007 file photo, Leah Udwin, a teacher from Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st St., helps hand out Thanksgiving baskets at Restore Hope Ministries. Tulsa World File
Rush for Thanksgiving baskets causes Tulsa traffic jam
BY MIKE AVERILL World Staff Writer
A record number of people registered for Thanksgiving baskets this year at Restore Hope Ministries, resulting in a traffic jam along Charles Page Boulevard Wednesday morning when they arrived to pick up their turkeys.
More than 800 families signed up for baskets this year compared to 550 last year.
“About 60 percent have never been here before. They’re families that are newly low income that either one or both of the people have lost jobs and are trying to make ends meet on unemployment,” said Rev. Larry Johnson, executive director.
The majority of the families showed up about 7 a.m., hours before the scheduled 9:30 start time.
“We had a traffic jam. These families aren’t used to doing this. They weren’t sure we could follow through,” Johnson said.
The line for baskets was four blocks long outside the ministry, 2960 Charles Page Blvd. “We usually don’t have that problem. Most families come out between 9:30 to noon. That didn’t happen today,” Johnson said.
“I haven’t seen the need like this since the late 80s. The economy was bad then, but it seems worse now. Maybe it’s the kind of families that have been impacted, more white collar that never thought they’d be in the position they are in now. Maybe that’s why feelings are a little heavier.”
Overall demand at the ministry is up 30 percent this fall.
Johnson said they had to stop registration for the Thanksgiving baskets halfway through the three-week registration period because demand was so high.
Restore Hope began its Thanksgiving basket program more than 20 years ago when it was located across the street from the Salvation Army.
“They came over and asked if we could help with baskets so they could focus on Christmas,” Johnson said. “It was on a lot smaller scale then.”
Johnson said about 300 families were assisted in the first year. Each basket contained a turkey and 19 other items.
“We try to give them enough for the whole weekend,” Johnson said.
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Hedge funds working to limit redemptions
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON (Reuters) - Dozens of hedge funds have told investors they cannot get their money back right now as managers try to limit a wave of redemptions to safeguard all their clients’ investments -- as well as their own futures.
Only a few months ago, hundreds of the world’s estimated 9,000 hedge fund managers made it tough for wealthy investors to put money into their funds by requiring high investment minimums of $1 million (617,500 pounds) or more and charging heavy fees.
Now managers are making it hard for investors to get out.
“Everyone is looking at their gate provisions (mechanisms that limit redemptions) and what rights they have to close their gates,” said Timothy Mungovan, a partner who advises hedge funds at law firm Nixon Peabody LLP. “It is a phenomenon that has been occurring for some time and is picking up pace now.”
On Thursday, Knight Capital Group’s Deephaven Capital Management halted redemptions at two of its hedge funds.
Recently, hedge fund firm Basso Capital told investors it was postponing redemptions. Hedge fund firm Ore Hill Partners imposed a gate in late August.
Before that Drake Capital Management and Pardus Capital Management began restricting clients’ departures and Ellington Capital Management stopped allowing investors to exit one of its portfolios last year.
Blocking investors’ exits, even if only briefly, was once a highly unusual move that often signaled a hedge fund was on the verge of collapse, managers and investors acknowledged.
That is changing now as ever-more managers and investors engage in a tug of war over who can receive money right now.
“Hedge funds are trying to act as the ultimate fiduciary to their investors and the way they are doing that is by restricting the capital that can leave,” said Perrie Weiner, a partner and international co-chair of law firm DLA Piper’s securities litigation practice.
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Managers argue that, if they had to return investors’ money exactly when investors demanded, funds would have to unload securities at fire-sale prices and many clients who were not looking to get out would be hurt by those moves.
Already, hedge funds have been blamed for accelerating the stock market’s tumble by dumping shares to get liquidity.
“Restricting redemptions allows the managers to withhold selling into unfavorable markets,” said Michael Tannenbaum, a partner at law firm Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse and Hirschtritt LLP, explaining that panic selling in these markets can be “harmful to both sides: the investor and the redeemer.”
But investors are not wholly convinced by this argument. Many are still asking to get their money back now.
Spooked by hedge funds’ worst-ever returns at a time the average fund has lost 20 percent this year, pension funds and wealthy individuals alike are leaving hedge funds faster than ever before, lawyers and managers said.
Between July and September, investors pulled out a record $31 billion, which helped shrink the industry 11 percent to $1.7 trillion. And more redemptions are expected to flood in by November 15, the deadline to get money back by year’s end, industry lawyers and investors said.
“A lot of people are looking for liquidity which is causing people to redeem investments,” said Dean Junkans, chief investment officer at Wells Fargo Private Client Services. “And hedge fund managers are looking for a variety of ways to keep the capital.”
Some managers and lawyers are saying the stigma of blocking an investor’s exit is disappearing.
“It is a changing environment and in a while these won’t be viewed as a scarlet letter anymore,” Nixon Peabody’s Mungovan said.
Still locking investors in, even if it is only briefly, can breed ill will and many managers are also looking for gentler ways to persuade investors to keep their capital with them for a while longer.
Some firms such as Ramius Capital have proposed cutting fees to keep investors locked in, people familiar with their plans said. Also some managers said they are considering modifying their high water marks, or levels that must be topped before investment managers can be paid their performance fees.
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Clifford Ozzidi & The Hellfire
Edison, New Jersey, United States | SELF
Band Rock Singer/Songwriter
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"Clifford Ozzidi--Out of Africa"
Clifford ozzidi is a man truly chasing the American dream. Raised in Nigeria. Now,after years of striviing, practicing his craft . Clifford and his band The Hellfire can finally present their debut album''Baby I'm cool''. The record ,due out later this year, is preceded by his first single''Girlos.Girls,Girls, available now on CD Baby.
And this is which is certainly worth the wait. ''Girls,Girls,Girls'' is the sort of infeectious pop tune that will appeal across the board. It is a dance tune with rock sensibilities and one of those songs that sound like it has been on your head for a very long time. Backed with a sparky , original version of John Lennon's Imagine''. the single promises to be a major hit and is a fitting tribute to one of Clifford's musical heroes. You can catch Clifford and The Hellfire on tour in May 2009. Check out www.coandthehellfire.com for more details. - Beatwire.com
Single: Girls, Girls, Girls is the first single from my yet to be release debut CD Title "Baby i'm cool". Also the CD single features a remake of John Lennons Imagine as the number two track . My debut CD is an eleven tracks Album, due for release in late 2008. Streaming on 91.7fm wmph Delaware,91.3fm wyep Pittsburgh pa,Jukeboxalive.com
Born and raised in Nigeria. After college, with a major in mechanical engineering. My passion for music made to migrate to the united states of America to pursue a career in music in 1986. My band is a very unique band in the sense that i have one of the best gurtarist in the east coast , and we do move the fans.
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Lydia Cant Breathe
Melbourne, Florida, United States | SELF
Band Metal Rock
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EP- Dirty Rat (2008)
single- Straight Pimpin' (Native Noise show airplay on 101.1 WJRR)
EP- Lydia (2009)
LP- At the Bottom of the Podum Stole (2010)
single/music video- Winner (Native Noise airplay)
Today rock and metal music seems to have been masked, manipulated, and drawn in every characterization possible. Stagnate duplications in today's music scene have left pools of curiously aggressive music addicts wanting something different. A growing number of these looming fans looking for an outlet have found Florida quartet Lydia Can’t Breathe. Over the past few years they have made a lot of noise in their once dying metal scene and have watched it come back to life. Constructing a blend of music unique to the usual genre classifications, this metal/rock band from Florida defies the normal sound with an exciting mixture of screams and natural vocals which range from brutal to beautiful, and from silly to serious. Their music provides a prism of heavy and soft styles with catchy progressions and surprise genre changes which distinguish them from the pack.
Lydia Can’t Breathe, also known by LCB and often shortened to Lydia, is a unique American rock band from Central Florida. Formed in 2005, LCB consists of Kyle Bolduc (lead vocals, guitar), Dan Wilson (guitar), Shad Roundy (bass, background vocals) and Josh Runfeldt (drums). All four members were born in the United States, and are known for their funny personalities. Dan influences the heavier side of their music with his catchy riffs and brutal breakdowns. Josh comfortably manages the diversity of the band with a variety of styles and time signatures on drums, and Shad maintains the low end with plenty of movement and character. Lead singer, Kyle, is known widely amongst Lydia fans for his unique writing style and the views that are expressed outspokenly in his lyrics. Along with his infectious behavior while performing, their array of styles combined make up the sound of Lydia Can't Breathe.
The band has achieved independent success with the release of multiple EP's and their full-length studio album (At The Bottom Of The Podum Stole) released under Spinnit Records. As LCB continues to embrace new fans at home, they draw more and more of their fan base from outside of their native Florida. Drawing from the support of their growing production team, booking agents and other organizations, friends and fans, collectively they have been able to drive more sales of albums and merchandise by playing hundreds of shows over multiple tours all over the eastern United States including FL, GA, LA, TN, NC, SC, VA, MD, PA, DE, NY, CT and MA with plans to continue westward.
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omni sight
Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan | Established. Jan 01, 2013 | INDIE
Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan | INDIE
Established on Jan, 2013
Band Electronic Electro
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Their music background comes from homage to breakbeats, ambient, house, techno, dub, balearic psych music in 1990s-2000s, and is also inspired by electronic musicians in Kyoto. It achieves a dense/unique dynamic dance music as well as incorporated acoustic sounds.
The long-awaited first full album ‘eternal return’ was released in September 2015, with great guest artists Hiraku Yamamoto from Nabowa (violin)(http://www.nabowa.com/), Marihiko Hara (piano)(http://www.marihikohara.com/), Polar M (guitar)(http://www.polarm.net/)and Yuichiro Sato (sax)(http://katoyuichiro.com/).
It also includes a remix track by Kaoru Inoue a.k.a Chari Chari.(http://www.seedsandground.com/)
This new Japanese crossover sound master piece is launched from Kyoto for every music lover and dance floors. released February 23, 2015
split / flip is a collaborative release from Captain Earwax (AUS) and omni sight (JPN). Following a year of Skype calls and emails in mid-2017, the artists decided to do a ‘split / flip’. The idea behind it was that each artist would create a new track for the release and then get the other artist to ‘flip’ it.
split / flip features new material from both artists, drawing on natural textures, acoustic elements mixed with sparse experimental and electronic sounds, and inspired by the people and Japanese culture.
omni sight’s ‘night market’ inspired by
"Ningxia" famouse night market in Taipei is a dense mix of dynamic dance music and ambient,dub and psych acoustic sounds with their unique organic/mighty beats by raw bass and drums. They also has unique cosmic soundscapes with experimental and respectful attitude for clubbing music.
Captain Earwax’s ‘Sky Burial’ is an exploration of earthly sounds, and emotive melodies, intricate percussion and crunchy textures. With a musical background that pays homage to breakbeats, ambient, house, techno, dub and psych music.
split / flip is release on The Community Records, Friday April 6, in both digital and a limited edition tape. released April 6, 2018
“omni sight” is a Kyoto based electronic music band since 2013. The band itself consisted of Motohiko Sato, a leader of a cinematic instrumental band L.E.D. (http://led-net.com/), and
Naoki Hirai, a drummer of BOOM BOOM SATELLITES (http://www.bbs-net.com/) and various artists. Their sound has organic/mighty beats by raw bass and drums, also has unique cosmic soundscapes with experimental and respectfulattitude for clubbing music. The long-awaited first full album ‘eternal return’ was released in September 2015. It also includes a remix track by Kaoru Inoue a.k.a Chari Chari (http://www.seedsandground.com/). This new Japanese crossover sound master piece is launched from Kyoto for every music lover and dance floors.
omni sight have performed in festivals and on stages across the globe in their attempts to spread their light of hope, including in their home country Japan, Thailand, South Korea,Taiwan, Mongolia, encompassing prestigious festivals such as Asagiri Jam,Itadaki,Nemachizuki no show,Cat Foodival,Zandari Festa, Steel Art Festival, Urban Nomad Film Festa, We Are South,Playtime Festival, among others.
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Women paid R23 'femininity' bonus to wear make-up & skirts to work
By Zola Zingithwa - 31 May 2019 - 13:20
Would you accept a bonus for wearing make-up to the office?
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A company in Russia is enticing its female staff to wear make-up and skirts to work by giving them bonuses.
According to CNN, the initiative is part of a "femininity marathon" campaign by aluminium producer Tatprof, which will run until June 30.
The bonus - which is 100 rubles (about R23) - supposedly rewards women for embracing their femininity in the male-dominated company, but there are some rules:
The skirt or dress they wear must be no longer than five centimetres from the knee;
They'll only be given their extra cash once they're submitted proof of their participation in the form of a photograph.
The company has come under fire on social media for the campaign, which one Twitter user labelled as "straight up sexism".
Another tweeted that it was "disgusting abuse of power" that exploited women.
Apparently 60 of Tatprof's female employees have already taken advantage of the bonus
Tatprof has rejected accusations of sexism; apparently 60 of its female employees have already taken advantage of the bonus.
Company spokeswoman Anastasia Kirillova said that the "femininity marathon” was dreamt up by Tatprof CEO Sergei Rachkov because he was concerned about the issue of "mixing gender roles", reports the BBC.
"[Rachkov] really wants to maintain the female essence in every female employee of the company, so that young women do not have male haircuts, do not change into trousers, so that they engage themselves in handicraft, project all their warmth into raising children," Kirillova told Russian media.
The company is planning other "femininity" events in June, as well as competitions for its male employees.
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When I Was 17: Jenna Ushkowitz
Jenna Ushkowitz from Glee talks about her first job, why her prom was such a disappointment and the rest of her not-so-crazy teenage years.
By Seventeen Magazine
Just like Tina Cohen-Chang, this Glee start was a total theater kid in high school! Jenna Ushkowitz dishes on her first job, why her prom was such a disappointment and the rest of her not-so-crazy teenage years.
East Meadow, NY. It's on Long Island.
What was your favorite class?
Dance.
Making Dough
Did you have any after school or summer jobs?
When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop — I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
What was the worst trend when you were in school?
Glitter stars on your face. I don't know what we were thinking!
The Strong, Silent Type
What was your high school crush like?
He was a total actor, very brooding and serious. But he was cute!
Cautious Courter
What's the craziest thing you ever did to get a crush to notice you?
I don't think I was brave enough to do anything crazy!
Theater Kids
What were your friends like? Where did you hang out?
We were all in the theater program at my high school, so we were all really, really close. We either hung out in my backyard (because I had a pool) or in the theater wing of our school in the auditorium.
Goody-Two-Shoes
What's one time you got in major trouble?
I'm trying to think if I ever really got in trouble... I don't think I really did! We didn't do anything too crazy. I don't think I ever went to the principal's office in high school. I was a goody-goody, like Rachel Berry.
Did you have any nicknames?
Since my initials are J U, people called me Ju. Or Jujube, like the candy.
I wanted to be a vet. It was right around 17, actually, that I realized I wanted to do theater.
Did you have to deal with any rumors about you when you were in high school?
I never had any really bad rumors about me go around, but I always stood up for my friends if there were rumors about them going around. I wasn’t the most outspoken person, but I always stood up for my friends. My school wasn’t too catty, though. They called us the theater geeks and they called us the losers, or the goody-goodies, but no terrible rumors.
Who was your celebrity crush?
I loved boy bands. Kevin Richardson, from the Backstreet Boys. And Orlando Bloom.
What was the best advice your parents gave you?
They gave me a lot of great advice, but the best was to treat people the way you want to be treated.
So Crafty
What hobbies, besides theater, did you have?
I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I’m always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!
Anti-Prom Queen
Did you go to prom? What was it like?
I went to prom. It was awful! Our pre-prom pictures came out beautifully because we did them in the Westbury Gardens, where the movie Cruel Intentions took place. The prom was supposed to have a beach-front view, but there were no windows! It was a big letdown. Now, my advice is always go in with low expectations, and you’ll get the most out of it!
What would you tell your 17-year-old self?
Don't take yourself too seriously. High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life. Laugh every day.
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S E V E N T H S I G N
Show Announcement - Halloween Sat. Oct. 31st - Rapids Theatre
Visit our Gigs page to see show details
Welcome Nori Bucci - 8/28/20
Seventh Sign is excited to announce the addition of Nori Bucci to the band. Nori is a very talented and accomplished guitar player and vocalist and will bring a great dimension to Seventh Sign. Nori has played in Gamalon & Tribal Reign, and has released original solo albums "Speak My Soul" and "Tales of a Dream".
We are excited to have her in the Seventh Sign family.
Guitar Player Search Update 8/16/20
Seventh Sign has been searching for a new Guitar Player since the departure of Lew Bowman in March. With the added issues of Covid-19, it has been a long process. We are making progress in the search are are looking forward to making an announcement on the addition of the newest member of the Seventh Sign family very shortly. Stay tuned...
Covid-19 Cancellations - 5/1/20
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the mandates put in force by NY State have forced the cancellations of all our scheduled shows. We will be updating our website with any new developments in show dates when it is determined that it is safe to play shows.
Lew Bowman Announcement - 3/18/20
There is news on the personnel of Seventh Sign,
as Lew Bowman has decided to step down as
guitarist/vocalist of Seventh Sign.
After many years of putting forth great effort
and dedication to the band, Lew is going to be
focusing more on creating original music and will
continue to be around in the local music scene
with his new band "Bowman and Brothers".
We appreciate all that Lew has done for Seventh Sign and we will miss having our
brother in the band. Thanks Lew and good luck!
In lieu of that news, Seventh Sign is currently searching for Lew's replacement which will not be an easy task. If you are, or know a capable candidate, please contact us.
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The SEC’s Liquidity Rule: Where Do We Stand?
In October 2016, a unanimous Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a package of rules for Investment Company Liquidity Risk Management Programs (collectively, the “Liquidity Rule”) and set a deadline for implementation (in most cases) of December 2018. The fund industry greeted the Liquidity Rule, and especially the so-called “bucketing” element that assigns a liquidity rating to every portfolio investment, as a significant new operational hurdle. A series of easing steps taken by the agency since January 2018, which include implementation pushbacks to next year, were therefore met with surprise and relief. But the rulemaking also brought division within the Commission into clear view: advocates for the status quo—including Commissioner Kara Stein, who issued a strongly worded dissent to the new proposal—worry that underlying risks remain unchanged, while Commissioner Hester Peirce suggested in a speech that she was open to scrapping mandated buckets altogether.
As a recap, much happened in just eight weeks:
January 10 - The SEC staff issues a package of Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) responses in January that were viewed as broadly sensible clarifications that would ease day-to-day compliance with some elements of the Liquidity Rule. Notably, those responses were encouraging for funds considering bucketing broad groups of securities together (so-called “asset class classification”) in lieu of security-by-security analysis and clarified that in many cases monthly classifications could be maintained without being automatically revisited on a more frequent basis. In other words, the FAQ responses reinforced flexibility already built into the Liquidity Rule.
February 21 - The SEC authorizes postponement of the compliance dates for certain provisions of the Liquidity Rule. On the same day, the SEC staff added another set of responses to the FAQ file, which again generally provide for more day-to-day compliance flexibility.
March 14 - The SEC proposes amendments suggesting that public posting of a fund’s aggregate liquidity scores will not be required and instead could be replaced with a requirement to discuss the fund’s liquidity management efforts in fund reports.
And as a reminder of where we started from, the Liquidity Rule, as adopted in 2016, included the following key requirements:
Open-end funds (other than money market funds) and certain exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) will establish and maintain liquidity risk management programs, based in each case on fund-by-fund liquidity risk assessment. The program will be overseen by a designated liquidity risk management administrator and will provide for at least annual reporting to the fund board. The board also must make certain findings, notably approval of the initial program and the administrator.
These funds will make quarterly “bucketing” reports to the SEC on new Form N-PORT.
These funds will comply with a 15% limit on illiquid securities (substantially similar to a longstanding requirement with the same limit but a somewhat different definition of illiquidity).
Many funds will establish and maintain a highly liquid investment minimum (the “HLIM”).
Certain breach reports relating to the 15% test and the HLIM will be filed with the SEC and made to fund boards.
New Compliance Dates
The SEC postponed compliance for certain provisions of the Liquidity Rule by six months. The extended compliance dates relate to the classification requirements, HLIM, board approval, board reporting, and recordkeeping of the liquidity risk management program and the reporting requirements tied to the classification and HLIM requirements. Larger funds[1] have until June 1, 2019 (revised from December 1, 2018) to meet the asset classification requirements. Smaller funds[2] have until December 1, 2019 (revised from June 1, 2019).
However, the SEC did not postpone other provisions of the Liquidity Rule, and registered funds are still required to adopt a liquidity risk management program and limit illiquid investments to 15 percent of their portfolio holdings by December 1, 2018, for larger funds and June 1, 2019, for smaller funds. The new compliance dates also do not relate to fund considerations relating to swing pricing, which go into effect in November 2018.
As a quick reference table:
Delayed to June 1, 2019 (for larger funds)
Not Delayed (December 1, 2018 compliance date for larger funds)
Classification requirement (commonly known as “bucketing”)
Written Liquidity Risk Management Program
HLIM (determinations and periodic reviews)
Board approval of designated Liquidity Risk Program Administrator
Board approval of Liquidity Risk Management Program and related annual review requirements
Compliance with the 15% limit on illiquid investments
Form N-PORT disclosures relating to fund classification and HLIM
Redemption in-kind procedures
Form N-LIQUID disclosures regarding breach of HLIM (Part D)
Form N-LIQUID (Parts A through C)
Recordkeeping requirements related to the delayed elements (but not recordkeeping requirements related to liquidity risk management, 15% illiquidity or board designation of the program administrator elements)
Changes to Form N-CEN (report on lines of credit and interfund lending)
The amendments propose to
Eliminate public disclosure of the aggregate liquidity profile (bucketing) on Form N-PORT.
Require funds instead to “briefly discuss the operation and effectiveness of the Fund’s liquidity risk management program during the most recently completed fiscal year” in their annual reports to shareholders (funds generally still would have the option to disclose any classification information they choose).
Permit funds to “split” classification of an investment across buckets in certain defined circumstances when reporting investment-specific bucketing information on Form N-PORT (Form N-PORT currently contemplates that a fund will place each investment in a single liquidity bucket).[3]
Require funds to report their holdings of cash and cash equivalents on Form N-PORT to assist the SEC in monitoring trends in their use.
In the release, the SEC indicated that the staff has engaged extensively with industry participants regarding the complexities of the Liquidity Rule and especially around concerns that public disclosures of liquidity classifications—which can vary firm-by-firm and even fund-by-fund—will be confusing. The alternative of discussion of the liquidity risk management program in the annual report was described as a more flexible, principles-based approach and appropriate to the goal of informing shareholders of a fund’s liquidity profile.
If adopted, the SEC expects to provide a tiered set of compliance dates based on asset size aligned with the compliance dates previously adopted for Form N-PORT.
The FAQs
On January 21, 2018, the SEC staff released a series of FAQs related to the Liquidity Rule. These FAQs discuss the staff’s views on sub-advised funds, ETFs that redeem shares through in-kind transfers of securities, and asset class liquidity classifications, among other things.
Then on February 21, 2018, the SEC staff issued an additional set of FAQs related to the Liquidity Rule, generally focusing on questions that arose with respect to the liquidity classification process.
The industry, broadly, is cheered by the prospect of an SEC willing to reopen and ratchet back a rule before it goes into effect. Some observers, however, are concerned that an unwelcome precedent may be set—that late-stage changes can just as easily upset implementation planning as they can ease it (as an example in this case, vendor contracts may have been negotiated on the basis of the original Liquidity Rule’s terms) and also that too much change calls into question the SEC’s “steady hand.”
As to the specifics of the latest proposal, the task of presenting a brief annual overview of the operation and effectiveness of the liquidity risk management program in shareholder reports will not necessarily be an easy one. There can be subjectivity and the prospect of confusion there too.
Finally, keep in mind that funds subject to the Liquidity Rule still must have a written liquidity risk management program in place by December 1, 2018, although more onerous components (liquidity classification and the HLIM) can be implemented by the later June compliance date.
Don’t take the foot too far off the gas.
[1] Funds that, together with other investment companies in the same group of related investment companies, have net assets of $1 billion or more as of the end of the most recent fiscal year of the fund.
[2] Funds that, together with other investment companies in the same group of related investment companies, have net assets of less than $1 billion as of the end of its most recent fiscal year.
[3] Funds would be permitted to classify the same investment in different buckets only under three circumstances: “(1) if a fund has multiple sub-advisers with differing liquidity views; (2) if portions of the position have differing liquidity features that justify treating the portions separately; or (3) if the fund chooses to [also] classify the position through evaluation of how long it would take to liquidate the entire position (rather than basing it on the sizes it would reasonably anticipate trading). In (1) and (2), a fund would classify using the reasonably anticipated trade size for each portion of the position.”
As the SEC noted, under the proposed Instructions to Item C.7 of Form N-PORT, a fund taking the proportionality approach would split the entire holding among the four classification categories. “For example, a fund holding $100 million in Asset A could determine that it would be able to convert to cash $30 million of it in 1-3 days, but could only convert the remaining $70 million to cash in 3-7 days. This fund could choose to split the liquidity classification of the holding on Form N-PORT and report an allocation of 30% of Asset A in the Highly Liquid category and 70% of Asset A in the Moderately Liquid category. Such a fund would not use sizes that it reasonably anticipates trading when engaging in this analysis, but instead would assume liquidation of the whole position.”
Funds that choose not to take advantage of this proportional splitting approach may continue to use the approach laid out in the final rule of bucketing an entire position based on the liquidity of the sizes the fund would reasonably anticipate trading.
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
The first sex guide for people who live with disabilities.
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is the first complete sex guide for people who live with disabilities, pain, illness, or chronic conditions. Useful for absolutely everyone, regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation, the book addresses a wide range of disabilities — from chronic fatigue, back pain, and asthma to spinal cord injury, hearing and visual impairment, multiple sclerosis, and more.
Expertly written by a medical doctor, a sex educator, and a disability activist, The Ultimate Guide provides readers with encouragement, support, and all the information they need to create a sex life that works for them. The authors cover all aspects of sex and disability, including building a positive sexual self-image; positions to minimize stress and maximize pleasure; dealing with fatigue or pain during sex; finding partners and talking with partners about sex and disability; adapting sex toys; and more.
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Marvel Cave
In the beginning, there was Marvel Cave.
Silver Dollar City theme park evolved around the entrance to one of nature's greatest wonders, Marvel Cave. In 1894, Canadian entrepreneur William Henry Lynch and his two daughters, Miriam and Genevieve, opened the cave as an Ozarks tourist attraction. For more than 50 years, Marvel Cave operated as a tourist show cave. In 1950, Hugo Herschend, a Danish immigrant from Chicago, his wife Mary and sons Jack and Peter, leased the cave. By 1960, the Herschends introduced their 1880s Ozark Mountain Village, Silver Dollar City theme park. The theme park was literally built around the entrance to Marvel Cave, upon the foundations of a genuine 1800s mining town - Marmaros.
The Early Days of "The Devil's Den"
Around 1500 AD, the Osage Indians were the first to discover Marvel Cave. Hearing strange noises arising from deep within the entrance, the Indians feared the cave, never entered it, and named it "The Devil's Den." In 1541, Spanish explorers entered the cave hoping to uncover riches and possibly the fountain of youth. Then, in 1869 explorers descended into the cave looking for priceless mineral deposits. Led by Henry T. Blow, a St. Louis lead industry leader, the party traveled by horseback to the entrance of Devil's Den. One by one, the miners lowered themselves over 200 feet down into the vast unknown blackness. They carried lanterns for light and spent hours studying the cave walls carefully searching for signs of mineral deposits. The miners returned to the surface late that evening having failed to discover the lead ore they sought, but convinced that marble could be found inside the cave. Their report sparked the interest of area locals who decided to rename the cave, Marble Cave. It was not until after Mr. Lynch's death in 1927, that the cave's name was changed from Marble to Marvel Cave. In fact, no marble was ever mined from Marble Cave, only bat guano.
Take a Marvelous Tour!
When visiting Silver Dollar City, a tour of Marvel Cave is always included with your ticket, with tours departing approximately every half hour, weather permitting. Marvel Cave is a wet limestone cave, complete with formations that are still alive and growing! To begin, you will travel 300 feet below the surface and enter the Cathedral Room. The breathtakingly beautiful Cathedral Room is the largest cave entrance room in the United States. The visitors' trail consists of stairs and ramps. The tour lasts approximately 60 minutes, with most of that time spent descending and climbing stairs. The strenuous nature of the tour requires us to not recommend the tour for visitors with heart or lung conditions, bad backs, weak knees or ankles. A trained cave guide will host your journey and provide you with interesting and entertaining anecdotes of historical or geographical importance.
After descending nearly 500 feet below the surface, how do you get back up to daylight? In 1957, cave operators installed a unique cable train designed to take cave visitors up the half mile, 1070 foot climb back to the surface!
Novelist Harold Bell Wright represents one of the many famous spelunkers to venture into Marvel Cave. Missouri's deepest cave is rich in history and beauty. Don't miss out on a unique opportunity to see a side of Mother Nature few are fortunate enough to experience. Tour Marvel Cave the next time you visit Silver Dollar City!
Lantern Light Tours!
Explore Silver Dollar City's deepest, darkest secret! Take a step back in time and experience Marvel Cave just as the early explorers did - by Lantern Light! Guides dressed in period costume delight guests with historical facts and little known stories during this nostalgic 90-minute journey each day. Tours have a limited capacity, so order online today or make your reservations early at the Cave Information Desk located in the Hospitality House.
Please Note: One-day admission ticket or season pass is required for all Marvel Cave Tours including Lantern Light Tours.
March 17 - January 01
Height Requirements
Min Height: 50
Max Height: 78
Guests under the age of 8 may participate with a supervising companion.
Ride Accessibility Guide
McHaffie's Homestead
Silver Dollar City's authentic 1800s hewn-log cabin, complete with petting zoo, farm, and fun entertainment.
Fire-In-The-Hole
This signature Silver Dollar City indoor roller coaster is a family favorite, offering high-speed drops and thrilling surprises around every corner.
The Flooded Mine
A signature Silver Dollar City ride, the Flooded Mine is a great shoot out for kids of all ages! It's a fun indoor float-through family attraction.
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Coronavirus: Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan tests positive
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By Blake Welton
Monday 21 September 2020 19:27, UK
Image: Ilkay Gundogan will miss Manchester City's opening Premier League game against Wolves
Manchester City have confirmed that Ilkay Gundogan has tested positive for coronavirus following the latest round of testing.
The midfielder is observing a 10-day period of self-isolation in accordance with Premier League and UK Government protocol on quarantine.
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Gundogan is likely to miss three matches for City while he self-isolates, including Monday's Premier League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers, live on Sky Sports, as well as Thursday's Carabao Cup game against Bournemouth and Sunday's league game against Leicester City.
The German is the third member of Pep Guardiola's squad to test positive for the virus, following winger Riyad Mahrez and defender Aymeric Laporte.
Both players returned to training last week but City boss Guardiola said only Mahrez would be available against Wolves.
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The 29-year-old is a regular starter in City's midfield and made 49 appearances in all competitions last term as well as being a key part of the treble-winning side the year before.
Gundogan also started this season on international duty with Germany - playing in both 1-1 Nations League draws against Spain and Switzerland, and scoring in the game against the latter.
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Manchester City gave no further details of Gundogan's condition, only adding: "Everyone at the club wishes Ilkay a speedy recovery."
Can Man City close the gap on Liverpool?
Manchester City begin their new Premier League campaign live on Monday Night Football when they travel to Wolves, aiming to close the 18-point gap that separated them from Liverpool last season.
After winning the Premier League for two successive seasons, City stumbled last year as Jurgen Klopp's side raced away with the title.
Ahead of Man City's trip to Wolves, live on Sky Sports, the pundits gave their own pre-season assessment of what Pep Guardiola's team need to compete and whether they can really challenge this season...
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How does Pep regain the title?
By Adam Bate
Pep Guardiola has never regained a league title in his coaching career. In fairness, he has never even attempted it before. The only previous occasion he surrendered the crown was in his final season at Barcelona prior to his sabbatical. This is new territory for him.
It is rare for anyone to accomplish it in the modern European game. The increased turnover in managers, coupled with the monopoly in existence in France, Germany and Italy, means that few find themselves in this position of being asked to win back something lost.
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There was a time when it was common. Stan Cullis and Matt Busby regained the English title. Don Revie did it and so did Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. Howard Kendall and Kenny Dalglish traded the trophy, while George Graham regained it with Arsenal in 1991.
Only two managers have done that in the same stint at the same club during the Premier League era. Arsene Wenger managed it once with Arsenal. Sir Alex Ferguson did it no fewer than five times with Manchester United. Perhaps he is the man to defer to on such matters.
Summer transfer window - key dates and times
The summer transfer window closes at 11pm on Monday October 5 with a feast of activity lined up on Transfer Deadline Day on Sky Sports News and across our Sky Sports platforms.
A domestic-only window for deals between the Premier League and EFL then runs from October 5 and closes on Friday October 16 at 5pm. Follow all the news and analysis on SSN and across Sky Sports' digital platforms, including with our dedicated Transfer Centre blog.
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SIX New board members bring COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation today announced the election of six new members to its Board of Directors.
“We welcome new board members who bring both seasoned expertise from their respective industries and a strong commitment to our community to our grantmaking,” said Board Chair Paul Snyder. “Their commitment to our purpose of inspiring generosity, advocating for equity and investing in community-led solutions will contribute greatly to growing programs and increasing impact across Minnesota.”
The new board members are: Jacy Grais, Eric Hammes, Mark Henneman, Joe Nayquonabe Jr., Andy Reeher and Pahoua Yang Hoffman.
Jacy Grais currently serves on the Community Impact Committee for the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. As an active organizational leader and philanthropist with legal expertise, she is passionate about harnessing resources to enhance lives and improve communities. Grais is also involved with the Jewish Federations of North America, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Eric Hammes is 3M’s executive vice president of business transformation and information technology. He and his team work to enable a premier experience for every 3M customer. Hammes has been a financial leader throughout his career as an auditor, analyst and, most recently, 3M’s corporate controller and chief accounting officer.
Mark Henneman is chairman and CEO of Mairs & Power, Inc., Minnesota’s oldest investment firm under private ownership and management. Since joining Mairs in 2004, Henneman served as President and Chief Investment Officer, Executive Vice President and Vice President. He also served as either co-manager or lead-manager of the Mairs & Power Growth Fund since 2006. Henneman is a CFA charterholder as well as a Chartered Investment Counselor. He currently serves on the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Board.
Joe Nayquonabe Jr. has spent his career reimagining and reinventing how American Indian tribal economies grow and prosper. Serving as chief executive officer and board chair for the Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures, Nayquonabe Jr. is responsible for analyzing new business opportunities and overseeing the Band’s existing businesses. Nayquonabe Jr. is affiliated with ten boards in Minnesota including National Diversity Advisory Board for the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul Downtown Alliance and Mille Lacs Health System.
Andy Reeher is the former founder and CEO of Reeher LLC, a SaaS solution used by leading colleges and universities to help achieve their fundraising goals and impact the communities they serve. Reeher’s company was acquired in 2018 by Blackbaud, the global leader in technology to advance social good. Reeher now serves as head of data intelligence responsible for Blackbaud’s data science and data strategy. He has more than two decades of experience in consumer marketing, executive leadership and entrepreneurship, including serving as vice president for marketing at Deluxe Corporation.
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Roman Amphitheatre of Syracuse
Syracuse, Italy
The Roman amphitheatre is located in the ancient suburb of Neapolis, in what is now an archaeological park, near the Greek theatre and the Altar of Hieron. The amphitheatre is on a different orientation to these other structures and probably follows the lines of an urban plan developed in the late classical period, which is reflected by the street discovered near the Sanctuary of Demeter in the suburb of Achradina. The main road from Achradina to Neapolis led up to the amphitheatre through an Augustan period triumphal arch, whose foundations are still in situ. Between the arch and the amphitheatre, there was a monumental fountain, fed by a large cistern which has not yet been identified. A separate cistern provided water to the amphitheatre itself - it is preserved under the nearby church of San Nicola.
The amphitheatre is largely excavated out of the living rock and in the north east it takes advantage of the slope of the same rocky outcrop which the Greek theatre is built into. Almost nothing of the superstructure, which was built from masonry, survives.
There were two entrances and a complicated system of steps which led from the upper levels to the exterior. At the centre of the arena there was a rectangular pit, which was originally covered. An underground passage ran from this pit to the entrance at the southern end of the amphitheatre. This pit and passage were necessary for machinary used during the shows. The seating in the cavea is separated from the arena itself by a high platform, under which was a vaulted corridor through which gladiators entered the arena. Above this were the front seats, which were reserved for high ranking individuals. The inscriptions carved on the blocks of the railing were edited by Gentili and seem to have been intended to indicate the different seating areas.
Higher up, there are another two covered walkways running around the entire arena under the seating, while a third walkway ran around the top of the monument and may have had a colonnaded portico running around the top of it. From these circular walkways, a series of radial passages allowed access to the various sectors of the cavea.
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Cathedral of Syracuse (2,1 km)
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Bellomo Palace Regional Gallery (2,3 km)
Greek Theatre of Syracuse (0,4 km)
Palazzo Montalto (2 km)
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Castello Maniace (2,7 km)
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi (0,7 km)
Palazzo degli Elefanti (50,6 km)
Terme Achilliane (50,5 km)
Catania Cathedral (50,5 km)
University of Catania (50,7 km)
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Palazzo Ducezio (27,5 km)
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Wim Weeres (3 months ago)
Most of the area was closed to visitors. The maintenance of this site needs improvement
Will Falconer (4 months ago)
Very impressive Roman and Greek amphitheatres. The Greek one is better preserved. Also some impressive caverns. Lots of history to take in.
Polo Martin (10 months ago)
Went here after the Greek Amphitheater, and it was included in our ticket, next door and this is a bit underwhelming. It's overrun by grass and not much history is provided. You walk along the perimeter of the seats and that's about it. You can't see much because of the weeds.
Maja Ch. (2 years ago)
It's worth a visit if you're interested in discovering buildings constructed in ancient times. BUT don't expect to learn smth new-there are no boards or informations about what you're seeing. Prepare yourself, bring a guide, read before and enjoy the visit. 10€ is a high price also.
Roland Erickson (2 years ago)
We went at night expecting to see some of the features lit and there was nothing. Several cars pulled over to look as well, so we weren't the only ones disappointed. So many of the Italian ruins are spectacular at night, shame Siracusa hasn't caught on.
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Getting Back to School
By Diana Middleton
Business-school applicants have to juggle their real-world work and family commitments with GMAT-taking, tedious applications and dozens of essays. It can be difficult to figure out when to apply””and when to tell the boss you might be leaving. Here’s how to handle M.B.A. application season:
”¢ Choose your application round carefully. Most schools have several windows in which applicants can apply. The deadlines start in November and can go as late as April. The key is to zero in on your top choice and work on that application before the others, says Stacy Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting, which coaches individuals during the M.B.A. admissions process. But don’t wait until the third round to apply to a school you’re serious about. By that time, schools are looking for very specific types of people to round out the rest of the class, says Jennifer Hayes, senior associate director of admissions at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
”¢ Break the news to your employer. Applicants with letters of recommendation from a current employer are much stronger than those without. Ideally, you have discussed your long-term goals with your employer, so this won’t come as a surprise. Ms. Blackman recommends telling your supervisor about your ambitions two years before you apply. However, if you feel as if sharing your goal will endanger your employment, include an additional letter addressed to the admissions committee explaining your concerns.
”¢ Work harder in the office. Truth is, not every applicant will get into their dream school. Scott Shrum, director of M.B.A. admissions research of Veritas Prep, an admissions firm in Malibu, Calif., suggests finding ways to make your candidacy even stronger while waiting for a final answer. If there’s a new workplace project that needs a leader, volunteer. It will give you more to talk about if you make it to the personal interview at your choice schools, says Mr. Shrum.
”¢ Prepare for the interview. You should count on spending three weeks preparing for each interview, Mr. Shrum says. That includes checking online forums, such as those found on Accepted.com, to familiarize yourself with the specific questions each school tends to ask and studying the details of your application. Even if the interviewer has only a copy of your résumé, rest assured he or she is familiar with your application and will have questions regarding career changes or a spotty résumé.
”¢ If you are wait-listed, don’t panic. Every school handles wait-listed students differently. You may be assigned a wait-list counselor who will keep tabs on your progress. Other schools will instruct you to submit information to supplement your application materials. If you suspect a mediocre GMAT score is a culprit, send transcripts of accounting or finance classes you took at a community college to boost your skills, for example. Make sure to inform the school of recent promotions or new work assignments.
”¢ Plan your exit. When the acceptance letter comes, you have anywhere from four to six months to plan a departure. If your employer isn’t already aware of your plans, ask for a meeting to explain. Offer to finish any significant projects and to train your replacement, says Ms. Blackman. Work out a clear transition plan. This will leave your employer happier””and more likely to offer a positive reference. “Document all your work, make sure the files you leave behind are easily accessible,” she says. “This is still your network, and your former company is still important.”
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: U.S. changes for the better: And Trump won’t get credit
The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest and, of course, fake news — from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the smears of the Covington Catholic High School students.
But aside from the weekly hysterias, the world has dramatically changed since 2016 in ways we scarcely have appreciated.
The idea that China systematically rigged trade laws and engaged in technological espionage to run up huge deficits is no longer a Trump, or even a partisan, issue.
In the last two years, a mainstream consensus has grown that China poses a commercial and mercantile threat to world trade, to its neighbors and to the very security of the United States — and requires a strong response, including temporary tariffs.
The world did not fall apart after the U.S. pulled out of the flawed Iran nuclear deal. Most yawned when the U.S. left the symbolic but empty Paris Climate Accord. Ditto when the U.S. moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In retrospect, most Americans accept that such once controversial decisions were not ever all that controversial.
There is also a growing, though little reported, consensus about what created the current economic renaissance: tax cuts, massive deregulation, recalibration of trade policy, tax incentives to bring back offshore capital, and dramatic rises in oil and natural gas production.
Although partisan bickering continues over the extent of the upswing, most appreciate that millions of Americans are now back again working — especially minority youth — in a manner not seen in over a decade.
The Supreme Court and federal judges will be far more conservative for a generation— as Trump's judicial nominations are uniformly conservative, mostly young and well qualified.
For all the acrimony about illegal immigration, the government shutdown over the wall and the question of amnesties, most Americans also finally favor some sort of grand bargain compromise.
The public seems to be agreeing that conservatives should get more border fencing or walls in strategic areas, an end to new illegal immigration and deportation for those undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
Liberals in turn will likely obtain green cards for those long-time immigrants here illegally who have a work history and have not committed violent crimes.
Both sides will be forced to agree that illegal immigration, sanctuary cities and open borders should end and legal immigration should be reformed.
Americans have paradoxically grown tired both of costly overseas interventions and perceptions of American weakness that led to the Libyan fiasco, the Syrian genocide, the rise of the ISIS caliphate, and Iranian-inspired terrorism.
Today U.S. foreign policy actually reflects those paradoxes. The public supports a withdrawal from the quagmires in Afghanistan and Syria. But it also approved of bombing ISIS into retreat and muscular efforts to denuclearize North Korea.
Two years ago, most Americans accepted that the European Union and NATO were sacrosanct status quo institutions beyond criticism. Today there is growing agreement that our NATO allies will only pay their fair share of mutual defense if they are forced to live up to their promises.
Europe is not stable and steady, but torn by Eastern European anger at open borders, Southern European resentment at the ultimatums of German banks, and acrimonious negotiations over the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.
Most Americans have now concluded that while the EU may be necessary to prevent another intra-European war, it is increasingly a postmodern, anti-democratic and unstable entity.
Trump has not changed his campaign reputation for being mercurial, crass and crude.
But what has changed is the media's own reputation in its hysterical reaction to Trump. Instead of empirical reporting, the networks and press have become unhinged.
When reporting of the presidency has proved 90 percent negative, and false news stories are legion, the media are no longer seen as the remedy to Trump but rather an illness themselves.
Since 2016, polls show that Americans have assumed that the proverbial mainstream media cannot be counted on for honest reporting but will omit, twist and massage facts and evidence for the higher "truth" of neutralizing the Trump presidency.
When asked on "The View" why so often the liberal press keeps making up facts, "jumps the gun" and has to "walk stuff back when it turns out wrong," Joy Behar honestly answered, "Because we're desperate to get Trump out of office. That's why."
Trump's popularity is about where it was when he was elected — ranging on average from the low to mid-forties. But many of his policies have led to more prosperity and address festering problems abroad.
And despite the negative news, they are widely supported, even — or especially — if Trump himself is not given proper credit for enacting most of them.
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author.
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“I absolutely love St Giles. If anyone is thinking about volunteering, I’d tell them to just do it.”
Julie Deaves, aged 46, has been volunteering at St Giles for just over two years.
Initially she helped out at events – handing out leaflets, shaking buckets and marshalling people – but Julie found volunteering to be so much fun that she now also works one day a week in the fundraising office, and has even affectionately been named “Del Boy”.
“They call me Del Boy because I’m always saying ‘I know someone who could help with that!’” said Julie. “I haven’t always been that forward – in fact I was really nervous the first time I volunteered at an event, but I thought: ‘It’s OK, it’s just for one night’.”
But that one night totally changed how Julie thought about volunteering. She added: “A friend of mine worked at the hospice in the fundraising team and asked if I’d like to help out at the Light up a Life event. I remember being very nervous, but everyone was so friendly – the other volunteers, the St Giles team, and all the people who attended the event.
“I came away with an all-round beautiful feeling because I felt that we were doing something that was so lovely for people and I haven’t looked back.”
Julie fits in volunteering with a number of other roles, including being mum to 10-year-old son Riley. She also sells clothing and cosmetics and runs a business from home with her husband.
Julie says it’s the feeling she gets from making a positive difference that keeps her so motivated.
“Last year I offered to visit local garden centres to see if I could get them more involved with supporting and promoting the St Giles Christmas Treecycle appeal. I was amazed at the response I got, and the amount we raised was fantastic. Seeing the difference that that made has given me such a huge sense of pride and achievement.”
There are so many other stories that Julie could tell about the events she’s supported and the people she’s met, she said. “I absolutely love St Giles. The team are all great fun and it’s all to support such an amazing place. If anyone is thinking about volunteering at St Giles, I’d tell them to just do it – there are so many roles to choose from!”
If you’ve been inspired by Julie’s story and would like to know more about volunteering at St Giles, you can book onto a volunteer open session here. Plus, you can reach the team on 01543 434546 or email volunteer@stgileshospice.com.
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Exports make up over 80% of our business and our teams support clients in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia Pacific. We respect the differences in international cultures and recognise that every organisation has their own preferred way of working. Our flexible contracting models, coupled with cultural awareness, ensure that customer satisfaction is achieved throughout the project lifecycle. In 2018, Stirling was acquired by Expleo and continues to operate under the Stirling Dynamics brand focussing on the delivery and support of Stirling core capabilities worldwide.
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Gold falls as dollar firms after China halts trade talks
(Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Monday as the dollar held firm on news that China has cancelled trade talks with the United States, with the market also eyeing this week's U.S. Federal Reserve meeting for guidance on future rate hikes.
Investors were squarely focused on Sino-U.S. trade tensions, after China cancelled mid-level trade talks with the United States, as well as a proposed visit to Washington by vice premier Liu He originally scheduled for this week.
Spot gold inched down 0.2 percent to $1,196.17 by 0323 GMT, after falling as much as 1.3 percent on Friday.
U.S. gold futures were virtually unchanged at $1,200.60 an ounce. Liquidity is expected to be thin during Asian hours as markets in Japan and China are closed for a holiday.
"The news out of China does seem to be having some negative impact (on gold) with the U.S. dollar cautiously higher and gold a bit lower by extension," said Ilya Spivak, a currency strategist for Dailyfx.
"The moves are relatively tepid because much of what is happening was telegraphed earlier and is already priced in to some degree," Spivak said.
Last week, China added $60 billion of U.S. products to its import tariff list, retaliating against U.S. duties on $200 billion of Chinese goods that come into effect on Monday.
Although gold is generally considered to be a safe-haven asset, the months-long trade rift between Washington and Beijing has prompted investors to buy U.S. dollars in the belief that the United States has less to lose from the dispute.
The dollar rose 0.1 percent against a basket of currencies at 94.276.
Gold has fallen over 12 percent since a peak in April amid the intensifying trade disputes and as rising U.S. interest rates diminish demand for non-interest bearing bullion.
Investors are awaiting this week's Federal Reserve meeting, where the U.S. central bank is widely expected to raise benchmark interest rates and shed light on the path for future rate hikes.
"Gold traditionally trades poorly ahead of anticipated Fed hike and the dollar will have up ground," said Stephen Innes, APAC trading head at OANDA.
Meanwhile, speculators increased their net short position in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Sept. 18, U.S. data showed on Friday.
Among other precious metals, spot silver was down 0.4 percent at $14.19. Platinum fell 0.5 percent to $822.10, after hitting its highest in six weeks at $838.40 on Friday.
Palladium fell 0.6 percent to $1,042.65, after hitting five-month highs at $1,056.72 in previous session.
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Heat blow late 12-point lead, fall 129-126 to 'Wolves in Jimmy Butler’s return
By Ira Winderman
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Erik Spoelstra on loss to the Timberwolves.
MIAMI — "This," Erik Spoelstra said when it was over, "is where we find out where we are as a basketball team."
And yet, his Miami Heat players already know.
"It's like," guard Goran Dragic said, "we're not the same team we were the first half of the season."
For the third time in a week, this time after Wednesday night’s 129-126 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves at AmericanAirlines Arena, the sound of the Heat locker room was one of silence — stunned, bewildered silence.
Like after last Thursday's loss in Atlanta, when Trae Young went for 50 points and left the Heat in his dust.
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Or Monday in Cleveland, when the Heat blew a 22-point lead in an overtime loss.
And, now, with this loss that might have been the most difficult to digest, after leading by 12 with 3:59 play.
Against a team lacking Karl-Anthony Towns.
An opponent that had not won on the road since Jan. 5.
"Right now," Dragic said, "we just don't have it."
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Technically, this one was decided on a driving Jordan McLaughlin layup past Bam Adebayo with 8.5 seconds left that put the Timberwolves ahead for good.
But it was about more than any single play.
Because even against the worst of the NBA, the Heat find themselves lacking answers.
"With this kind of game," Dragic said, "we don't have any chance in the playoffs."
In a building where the Heat this season previously only had lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Boston Celtics — Wednesday night’s game ended with the Heat victimized by a two-game series sweep by the Timberwolves.
"This is our period of the season where we are facing adversity," Spoelstra said. "If we approach it the right way, we are going to get better from this."
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Kendrick Nunn led the Heat with 24 points, supported by 22 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists from Adebayo and 18 points and nine assists from Jimmy Butler, who was back after a two-game absence due to personal reasons.
Guard D'Angelo Russell led the Timberwolves with 27 points.
1. Butler back: It was an uneven return for Butler, who closed 4 of 10 from the field and missed two late shots, including a driving layup that could have put the Heat up one with 3.2 seconds to play, after his two free throws had given the Heat a 126-125 lead with 13.8 seconds left.
"That's me, and I have to be better," he said.
"My job is to help us win, and I haven’t done that in I don’t know how long."
But he also still sees hope.
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"We can fix it," he said. "We will fix it. The time is now."
With Butler back, Derrick Jones Jr. returned to the bench, playing as the Heat's second reserve, with Spoelstra staying with Kelly Olynyk in the first five.
2. Adebayo perseveres: There initially was doubt whether Adebayo would play, listed on the 5:30 p.m. injury report as questionable due to an ankle sprain.
But there he was, back in the starting lineup, his 144th consecutive appearance, 30 from Glen Rice's franchise record, a mark that has stood since 1994.
Adebayo said it's as if some of the joy has been lost.
"I feel like we have to get back to really enjoying the game," he said.
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"There's frustration. I wouldn't say too much anger, just frustration."
3. Johnson returns: James Johnson returned three weeks after he was dealt at the NBA trading deadline.
He played off the bench as a de facto backup center for the Timberwolves, with Towns sidelined.
"He's in great shape," Spoelstra said. "He's playing simple basketball right now and he's playing great."
An argument could be made that to this point, Johnson has given more to the Timberwolves than Iguodala, the centerpiece of that trade, he delivered for the Heat.
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Johnson closed with 11 points, five rebounds and four assists, before fouling out with 3:59 to play.
4. Still pushing: Goran Dragic continues to thrive in his sixth-man role, this time with 16 points, shooting 5 of 6 over the opening two periods.
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The Heat are billing Friday night's game against the visiting Dallas Mavericks as a Slovenian Showdown, with the visit by Luka Doncic. There already was a contingent of fans from Slovenia at Wednesday's game.
5. Deadline boost: Russell showed why the Timberwolves had been so aggressive in pursuing him even before the trading deadline, eventually acquiring him from the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Andrew Wiggins.
Russell was up to 16 points by the intermission.
Russell later became the 29th player in the Timberwolves’ 31 seasons with at least six 3-pointers in a game.
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premier blow Spurs-Fulham off at three hours’ notice due to Covid-19 cases in Cottagers’ camp
The game had been due to kick off at 6pm on Wednesday.
Tottenham’s match against Fulham has been postponed (Steve Parsons/PA)
By PA Sport Staff
The Premier League match between Tottenham and Fulham has been postponed after a coronavirus outbreak at the west London club.
The Cottagers returned a number of positive test results on Tuesday and, after more came in on Wednesday, the Premier League decided to call the match off less than three hours before the scheduled 6pm kick-off.
It becomes the third top-flight game to be wiped out by the virus, following Newcastle’s match with Aston Villa earlier this month and Monday’s game between Everton and Manchester City.
A statement from Tottenham read: “We can confirm that our Premier League home fixture against Fulham, scheduled to take place this evening, has been postponed.”
It is understood Spurs are unhappy about the decision and the timing of it. There had been speculation throughout the day that the game might be called off and manager Jose Mourinho indicated his frustration in an Instagram post shortly after 2pm.
Mourinho posted a video on his account of his staff waiting waiting for news with a message which read: “We still don’t know if we play. Best league in the world.”
The video was filmed at 2.02pm – something the Portuguese made clear by showing the time in the corner of a TV screen in the room.
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The Premier League confirmed the decision to postpone the game was taken following a meeting.
A statement read: “Fulham lodged a request with the Premier League board to rearrange the fixture following a significant rise in positive Covid-19 cases, as well as a number of players showing symptoms (on Wednesday).
“The Premier League board has consulted its medical advisors and the decision to postpone the game has been taken as a precaution and with the health of players and staff as the priority. The group will now be retested immediately.”
A general view of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Wednesday (Steve Parsons/PA)
The news comes after the Premier League announced on Tuesday there had been a season-high 18 positive tests in its latest round of testing across the competition.
However, despite calls in some quarters for the league to consider halting all games in a “circuit-breaker”, the competition will continue.
The statement added: “With low numbers of positive tests across the overwhelming majority of clubs, the Premier League continues to have full confidence in its Covid-19 protocols and being able to continue to play our fixtures as scheduled.
“The League wishes those with Covid-19 a safe and speedy recovery and will rearrange the postponed fixture between Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham in due course.”
The Premier League continues to have full confidence in its Covid-19 protocols and being able to continue to play our fixtures as scheduled. Premier League statement
Fulham confirmed the postponement followed “a number of the club’s players and first-team staff returning positive results from the most recent Covid-19 tests this week”.
It added: “This decision follows discussions with the Premier League and advice from Public Health England.
“Those players and staff who tested positive have been self-isolating in line with UK Government and Premier League guidance.
“We wish the players and staff who tested positive a safe and speedy recovery.”
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Théodore Roussel
The Reading Girl
Walk Through British Art: 1840
Théodore Roussel 1847–1926
Support: 1524 × 1613 mm
Presented by Mrs Walter Herriot and Miss R. Herriot in memory of the artist 1927
French by birth and upbringing, Roussel moved to London after his first marriage in 1870. He was a close friend and pupil of Whistler and shared his love of Japanese art, evident here not only in the elegant kimono, casually draped over the folding chair, but in the overall treatment of space. The young girl is Hetty Pettigrew (1867-1953) who was the artist's favourite model and also posed, along with her sisters Rose and Lily, for Millais and Whistler. She met Roussel in 1884 and not only became his mistress but gave birth to his daughter. She continued to sit for him until he re-married in 1914.
In its frank nudity, flattening of forms and strong light-dark contrasts, The Reading Girl pays tribute to Edouard Manet's (1832-83) boldly subversive masterpiece, Olympia of 1863. But Roussel combines Manet's modernism with careful draughtsmanship and a more traditional classicism that looks back to J.A.D. Ingres (1780-1867). On the other hand, the subject is not presented as a classical Venus, but rather as a robust and healthy young woman, with a taste for current fashion. The discarded kimono, the model's elegant hairstyle and the folding campaign chair, are evidence of aesthetic preoccupations which align Roussel with such artists as Sir Frederic Leighton and the English Aesthetic movement. The critic Frederick Wedmore was impressed by the model's firm and youthful figure and compared the picture with 'the most health-suggesting, health-breathing of Courbets, with the most rosily robust of Caro Delvaille's (Le Sommeil fleuri), with the dreamiest Henner, with the slimmest and least material of Raphael Collin's (Floréal)' (Frederick Wedmore, 'Théodore Roussel', The Art Journal, 1909, p.184).
During the 1880s British art was moving away from an elevated, Neo-Classical interpretation of the nude towards a new naturalism, regarded as a threat to moral standards. Roussel's picture was exhibited at the New English Art Club in April 1887 and caused a mild scandal. The critic for the Spectator wrote: 'Our imagination fails to conceive any adequate reason for a picture of this sort. It is realism of the worst kind, the artist's eye seeing only the vulgar outside of his model, and reproducing that callously and brutally. No human being, we should imagine, could take any pleasure in such a picture as this; it is a degradation of Art' (Spectator, 16 April 1887).
Kenneth McConkey, British Impressionism, London 1989, p.57, reproduced p.50, in colour.
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Though based in Britain from 1870, Roussel was French, and this composition shows a debt to the fashion for Oriental art that swept France in the 1860s. The nude model, Hetty Pettigrew, provides the key element in Roussel's bold pictorial design. Her diagonal placing effectively cuts the square canvas in half, creating equal areas of light and dark. Roussel uses naturalistically painted detail to decorative effect. The luminosity of the model's skin tone is echoed by the peach fabric of the kimono, and is dramatically opposed to the blackness of the setting. In the opinion of Roussel's contemporary, the painter Sir William Orpen, this was the finest nude painting of his time.
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Frank Huddlestone Potter A Girl Reading
Mary McEvoy Interior: Girl Reading
Philip Wilson Steer Mrs Cyprian Williams and her Two Little Girls
Albert Moore A Sleeping Girl
Norman Garstin A Woman Reading a Newspaper
Gwen John A Lady Reading
On display at Tate Britain part of Spotlights
Arthur Boyd Houghton Mother and Children Reading
Sydney Starr Study in Blue and Grey
Philip Wilson Steer Seated Nude: The Black Hat
Alphonse Legros Femmes en Prière
Sydney Starr A Study
Augustus John OM An Old Lady
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Miss Agnes Mary Alexander
Frank Huddlestone Potter Girl Resting at a Piano
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
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Mobile phone roaming charge cuts confirmed
By Marc Chacksfield 09 June 2009
Phoning from abroad set to get cheaper this July
Roaming charges capped as of 1 July
The European Union has agreed to new roaming rules for mobile phone users, which should see bills slashed by around 60 per cent.
Customers making phone calls abroad is big business for the telcos, but Vodafone's recent announcement that it is to drop roaming charges for the summer and now the EU's decision to cap charges means that customers phoning home from abroad should get a better deal.
Data roaming cap
The new rules will mean that consumers will pay just €0.11 (before VAT) for sending a text message, with the current price at €0.28. Data roaming charges have also been dropped, but don't expect those massive bills to disappear just yet.
It will now be €1 per megabyte downloaded, compared to an average price of €1.68 per megabyte. This does mean that the average album will still cost you around €40 to download.
Good news is that an automatic cap will be put in place of around €50 although you can opt out of if you wish.
On 1 July, the charge of a mobile phone call will be capped to €0.46 for calls made and €0.22 for calls received. This will go down to €0.39 and €0.15 on in 2010, dropping further to €0.35 and €0.11 by 2011.
We've decided to leave all the prices in euros, as the exchange rate is just €1 to £0.9 at the moment.
No more bill shocks
Speaking about the new call costs, EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, explained: "The new roaming rules have passed the very last procedural hurdle and will now bring instant benefits to consumers as of July 1.
"This is great news for European citizens who will be able to go on holiday this summer and roam with peace of mind and without the fear of 'bill shocks'."
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12 November 1999 November 14, 2015 Julianne Ture
PROCESSORS are scheduled three at a time. One carries the offering bason, one the flagon, and one the ciborium.
The Offertory Procession consists of: the Thurifer (TH), two or four Torches (TT), the Verger, and the three Processors.
At the time of the Offertory, Processors leave their pews and go to the back of the church to wait for the Procession.
The Procession starts up the center aisle, led by the Thurifer, as the Choir begins to chant the Offertory Sentence.*
The order of the Procession is as follows:
Ciborium Flagon
Processors should keep approximately two pews’ distance between themselves and the person in front of them. This prevents the procession from slowing down excessively.
As the Procession reaches the Altar Steps where the Sacred Ministers are waiting, the Thurifer steps off to the far right. The Torches take their appointed places at the altar rail. The MC will be inside the rail to the right to cue the genuflection, as described below. Processors should keep an eye out for this signal.
The Processor with the bason arrives at the steps first, hands the bason to the Celebrant, then steps to the left to make room for the other two Processors.
The Processors bearing the Ciborium and Flagon come up together, the Flagon-bearer on the right so that the Ciborium-bearer is in the middle (with the Bason-bearer, now empty-handed, on the left). The Celebrant receives the Flagon first, then the Ciborium.
When all the Gifts have been received, the Sacred Ministers bow to the Processors and turn toward the Altar. At this point, MC cues Torches, Thurifer, and Processors to genuflect. The cue is an outstretched forearm lowered straight down. All genuflect on this cue, and Processors turn and proceed single file out the Smoke Sacristy door and down the hall of the Parish House to return to their places in the pews.
* When the Choir is not singing (during the summer season), an Organ Voluntary takes the place of the Anthem and Offertory Sentence, and the Offertory Procession will simply start when it is ready, directed by the Verger.
Solemn Mass in Summer (without Choir)
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Edwin Ong
Chongqing Correspondent, Lianhe Zaobao
Edwin has been with Zaobao China Desk since 2015, and has assumed the role as Chongqing Correspondent since April 2019. Based in the operating hub of the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative, he monitors the political, economic and social development of China's emerging western region, simultaneously keeping an eye on technological trends and developments in China's rural hinterland.
Exemplary punishment: How China's using wolf-warrior tactics on Australia to warn the rest
By Edwin Ong 03 Dec 2020
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's recent tweet of an image depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife to a child’s throat has brought China-Australia relations to a new low. While the Australian prime minister has softened his stance and even made goodwill gestures to China, these were rejected by Chinese officials and its people. Edwin Ong traces the deterioration of China-Australia relations and notes that China may not rein in its abrasive wolf-warrior tactics anytime soon. However, he says such tactics may not benefit China in the end.
50 years later, is China ‘preparing for war’ again?
By Edwin Ong 05 Nov 2020
In China’s just-released "14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035", the centennial goal of modernising the PLA by the latter’s 100th anniversary in 2027 was set out. In the face of headwinds caused by turbulent US-China relations, does this spell China’s hardened mindset of getting prepared for war? What impact will such defensive thinking have on China and the world in the next 15 years?
Lifting 'the poorest of the poor' out of poverty in Sichuan: Does poverty alleviation mean uprooting people from their homes?
By Edwin Ong 08 Oct 2020
As China’s poverty alleviation efforts continue apace, Zaobao correspondent Edwin Ong visits a community deep in Sichuan’s Daliang mountains. He finds out more about how the Yi people, once mountain dwellers, are taking to their new lives after relocating to government-built flats. Here, residents need only pay a one-time security deposit of 10,000 RMB to stay in their apartments for a lifetime. They have access to modern facilities, jobs and even dividends from shares. Is this truly utopia on earth?
Inner Mongolia's new language policy: Will it endanger Mongolian culture and language?
By Edwin Ong 04 Sep 2020
Inner Mongolian students were told that they will be taught in Mandarin instead of the Mongolian language using national textbooks. This policy seems to be for the greater good of fostering national unity in China, but the implementation methods can certainly be better refined. Zaobao correspondent Edwin Ong examines the issue.
Chongqing residents on worst floods in 40 years: This has not been a good year
By Edwin Ong 20 Aug 2020
This year, Chongqing has seen its worst floods in 40 years, with torrential rains swelling the Yangtze and Jialing rivers. Zaobao correspondent Edwin Ong speaks to residents and shares his personal experiences.
China and India say 'no' to Trump's offer to mediate border tensions
By Edwin Ong 04 Jun 2020
Anti-Chinese and anti-Indian sentiment have been stoked by recent escalating incidents along the Line of Actual Control between China and India. While tensions are still simmering, will they boil over into violent clashes if too many cooks spoil the broth?
Chinese academic: Tsai's true intention was to redraw boundaries in cross-strait relations
By Chuang Hui Liang , By Edwin Ong 21 May 2020
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration speech yesterday delved into various areas concerning the future direction of Taiwan, but the most important aspect was the strong tone she set regarding the handling of cross-straits relations. Chuang Hui Liang and Edwin Ong analyse the nuances of her speech and gather reactions from Taiwan and mainland China.
Blame game can lead to showdown between China and the US
By Yu Zeyuan , By Edwin Ong 04 May 2020
China and the US are pointing fingers at each other for the coronavirus, with the US seeking accountability and compensation from China. Will it work? And what consequences will there be for China-US relations? Zaobao correspondent Yu Zeyuan examines the circumstances.
Anti-American poem sparks fierce debates in China
By Edwin Ong 30 Apr 2020
The publication of an offensive poem suggesting American origins of Covid-19 while lavishing praise on the Chinese government has ratcheted China-US tensions up a notch. Although the paper claims that the poem was not their idea but a prank played by cheeky hackers, the incident highlights a serious raising of the stakes simply through careless hatred.
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New year, new metal: 21 of the best cars arriving in 2021 that you'll soon be able to buy - from affordable superminis to F1-derived hypercars
If 2021 is the year you want to buy a new car, these are some of the latest models that are hitting the market
We've chosen 21 brand spanking new models that will hit showrooms this year, from superminis to hypercars
Many of the machines coming to dealerships have electric - or electrified - power as switch to EVs accelerates
These are our favourite newcomers confirmed for 2021, how much they will cost and when they're due on sale
By Rob Hull For Thisismoney.co.uk
Published: 09:04 EST, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 12:41 EST, 5 January 2021
With a new year comes a raft of new cars that will be hitting showrooms for the first time.
The next 12 months promises a mix of fresh metal, from affordable small cars to ultra-fast hypercars with engines taken from Formula One racers.
After a misery-filled 2020 and the threat of new petrol and diesel cars being banned from sale in 2030, this will be the year might be thinking about treating themselves to a new ride. Fresh national lockdowns have arrived with the start of 2021, but the economy and people's fortunes are forecast to hopefully pick up in the second half of the year.
We have listed 21 brand-spanking cars arriving in 2021, detailing what makes them stand out, how much they will cost and when we expect to start seeing them on our roads.
1. Nissan Qashqai
Price: from approx £20,000
Due to launch in: Q2
The third-generation Nissan Qashqai is due to be unveiling shortly, and it will play a huge part in securing the nation's biggest since car factory in Britain
The new third-generation Qashqai SUV is an important new arrival in 2021, for two reasons.
The first is that it has been the best-selling model in its segment in Britain since it first launched in 2007 and is the most important car for Nissan in Europe from a sales perspective. The second is that it's a huge deal for UK manufacturing, with the Qashqai produced for Europe at the Sunderland factory. Its success could be a significant influence on the future of Nissan's production commitment to Britain.
As well as styling tweaks, the new version promised to be more spacious, have a larger boot and be lighter than before. When it arrives around May time, buyers won't be able to get one with a diesel engine as the manufacturer begins its shift away from the fuel type. There will be an e-Power conventional hybrid, though. Find out more about the new Qashqai here.
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2. Dacia Sandero
Price: from £7,995
This is the new Dacia Sandero for 2021. It will continue to be the nation's most affordable new passenger car, with prices starting at a fraction under £8,000
Dacia will bring a new Sandero supermini to the UK market around April time, and it will officially retain its crown as Britain's cheapest new car.
Prices and specifications for the budget-friendly supermini show the entry-level Access version ringing in at £7,995. While this is a £1,000 hike on the previous-generation car - which is much celebrated for offering no-frills motoring - the revised Sandero continues to prop up the market as the most affordable new motor you can buy in UK showrooms.
It will be better than before, too. Handsome new looks, more space, a much-improved cabin and access to Renault's current line of frugal engines means this budget car will deliver in droves. Read more about the new Sandero.
3. Mercedes-AMG One
Price: from £2.4million
The Mercedes-AMG One will be one of the most expensive new cars to arrive in 2021, with a massive £2.4m price tag. It does use the same engine as Lewis Hamilton's F1 racer, though
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A sizable change of budget and pace from the Dacia Sandero is one of the most expensive new cars to arrive in 2021. The Mercedes-AMG One will be the latest hypercar to hit the market, and it comes with plenty of pedigree and a whopping £2.4million price tag.
Just 275 examples are due to be produced, all of them using the 1.6-litre turbocharged hybrid powertrains from Lewis Hamilton's Formula One racing cars. It will have four electric motors combining with the six-cylinder petrol engine to produce around 1,000hp and a top speed of 217mph.
The lithium-ion batteries and the system used to cool them have also been lifted directly from the Petronas Mercedes-AMG's F1 machines, though the One has more of them to boost the zero-emissions driving range and a plug-in socket so you can replenish electricity from the mains. With the batteries fully charged, the car will be able to cover 15 miles in electric-only mode - enough for almost five laps of the Silverstone circuit or a quick blast to the local shops and back. Find out more about the Mercedes-AMG One in our full report.
4. Volkswagen ID.4
Price: from approx £42,000 (with government grant)
The second car in Volkswagen's electric-exclusive 'ID' range arrives early in 2021 - the ID.4 SUV. Range topping models will cover 323 miles on a full charge, says VW
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One of the first entirely new models to hit the market in 2021 will be the eagerly anticipated VW ID.4. The SUV will be the second model in the German brand's all-electric ID range range, following the arrival of the ID.3 last year.
The ID.4 will be VW's chance to again showcase the mainstream-use benefits of EVs, with the Tiguan-sized SUV providing a maximum claimed driving range of 323 miles - enough to take you from London to Newcastle without having to stop. That will be for versions with the range-topping 77kWh battery, which is also compatible with 124kW rapid charging.
The roomy family car will have plenty of poke, too. The entry models will hit 62mph from a standstill in 8.5 seconds, while top speed is limited to 99mph. Revealed in full last year, you can expect to start seeing them on the road in the first quarter of 2021. Want to know more? We listed 10 things we think you need to know about the ID.4.
5. Citroen Ami
Price: from approx £5,000
Due to launch in: TBC
The Citroen Ami has yet to be officially confirmed for UK sale, but there's a very good chance it will be available in Britain
This is a bit of a wildcard entry for a couple of reasons: it has yet to be officially confirmed to be sold in the UK and it isn't technically a car. The electric Citroen Ami is instead categorised as a quadricycle, and for that reason alone means it can be used by teenagers in Britain.
Drivers as young as 16 can legally drive the diminutive Ami on our roads, though they won't be able to travel at any significant speeds. It has a top speed of a mere 28mph and a range of just 44 miles. And it's not just the performance figures that are small. The Ami also has just two doors and is 2.41-metres long by 1.39-metres wide. The price is pretty dinky too, expected to ring in at around £5,000.
The vehicle has already been launched in Paris and is being used as part of a city rental and leasing scheme for cleaner transport around the French capital. And while there is no confirmation about the Ami being sold in the UK, Citroen has conducted a UK launch - which we attended - signalling their intent to sell it on British shores.
6. Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA
Price: from £153,000
Alfa is bringing back the iconic GTA name in 2021, with this, the incredible Giulia GTA super saloon
An iconic name returning for 2021 is Alfa Romeo's legendary 'GTA' badge, which is reserved for the hottest road cars the Italian brand makes. It's been some years since a model was adorned with the three letters, but this year fans of the brand will be able to get their hands on the Giulia GTA.
It won't be cheap. Priced from £153,000, it's more expensive than an Aston Martin V8 Vantage. But it has all the ingredients to be a phenomenal performance saloon car.
Under the bonnet will be the same 2.9-litre V6 unit that's used in the already searing-hot Giulia Quadrifoglio. However, it's been tweaked to boost power by 30bhp to a massive 533bhp output. It also gets a mightily aggressive bodykit and uses enough carbon fibre to trim the car's weight by around 100kg, If you're on the hunt for a super-fast family car, this is your best choice in 2021.
7. BMW iX
Price: from £85,000
The iX will be BMW's flagship electric SUV when it arrives late in the year. The 372-mile-range family wagon will rival the likes of the Tesla Model X and Mercedes EQC
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BMW will start putting more of its weight behind the shift to electric cars this year, with the arrival of the flagship iX SUV, which is due to launch in the UK around the end of 2021.
The £85,000 family wagon will rival the likes of the Tesla Model X, Audi E-tron and Mercedes-Benz EQC. It will be driven by two powerful electric motors developing 503bhp - potent enough to catapult the hefty SUV from 0 to 62mph in under five seconds and onto a top speed that is electronically limited to 155mph. A high voltage 100kWh battery should allow up to 372 miles of range. That compares to the 348-mile range of the rival Tesla SUV. Charging up to 80 per cent takes 40 minutes on a 200kW DC fast charger. And a ten minute burst is enough to add 75 miles of range.
Behind that new kidney-shaped grille - which has been divisive among car fans - is a raft of sensors and radars that will power the iX's semi-autonomous driving mode. As far as technological arrivals in 2021, this is one to keep an eye on. Find out more about the iX here.
8. Fiat 500
Price: from £19,995 (with government grant)
The latest-generation Fiat 500 will be available exclusively with electric power, with the Italian brand designing the new city car for battery-powered driving from 2021
An electric car in far smaller dimensions is the new Fiat 500. Oddly, the Italian brand has already discarded the idea of having a new petrol or diesel version of its iconic small car, instead launching this latest derivative as an electric-only model. However, the existing 500 model will continue to be sold new with petrol units under the bonnet.
Designed for city living, the 500 does not have the range-munching capacity of the BMW iX or VW ID.4 already mentioned. Instead, the range is just 199 miles, which is more than suitable for a week's worth of trips around urban environments. We found out how it drove during the official press launch ahead of the 500's showroom appearance this year.
The stumbling block could be the near £20,000 price tag, which is almost twice the cost of the cheapest Fiat 500 that runs on unleaded fuel. That £19,995 fee is also inclusive of the government's £3,000 Plug-in Car Grant.
9. Land Rover Defender P400e
The Land Rover Defender was indisputably the biggest new-car launch of 2020. However, from 2021 it will be sold as a plug-in hybrid for the first time ever
Without question, the most hotly-anticipated new car of 2020 was Land Rover's Defender. The modern take on the brand's iconic offroader might not be to all tastes, but it's already proving a hit with big demand for the three-door Defender 90 and larger five-door 110.
In 2021, Land Rover will bring a new dimension to the Defender with plug-in hybrid power. That's right, the rugged offroader will be hauled into the 21st century with a lithium-ion battery and an electric motor to supplement the 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine. The combined output is 398bhp, enough to help the Defender crack the 0-to-62mph sprint in 5.6 seconds. Possibly more important for owners, however, is the fact that the plug-in model can tow a trailer up to 3,000kg in weight.
It will only be sold in 110 guise, and we're still waiting for Land Rover to confirm the price. You can read more about the conventional Defender here.
10. Vauxhall Mokka-e
The new Vauxhall Mokka arrives in 2021 with striking looks that will make you forget the drab first-generation compact SUV. And it will also be sold as an all-electric version
Incredibly, it could be Vauxhall that launches the most striking model of 2021 in the shape of the new Mokka SUV, which will also be sold as an all-electric model called the Mokka-e.
Gone are the plain - and rather drab - looks of the first-generation Mokka, which was a forgettably dull compact SUV. In its place is this bold new design that is completely unrecognisable from the outgoing car, with two-tone paint and bulky silhouette.
The Mokka-e isn't cheap for a small SUV, priced from almost £31,000, even when you take into account the £3,000 Plug-in Car Grant. It has a range of 201 miles, which is a mere 2 miles longer than the £20,000 Fiat 500. Power comes from a 50kWh battery, which feeds a single 134bhp electric motor that hauls the Vauxhall to 62mph in a little over 8 seconds. It also has 100kW rapid charging capability, so a battery can be replenished to 80 per cent capacity in around half an hour.
11. Maserati MC20
Maserati's back! This is the new MC20, the Italian firm's new supercar as part of efforts to kickstart the luxury brand from 2021
Having not sold a supercar for 15 years, Maserati is due to unleashed the stunning MC20 in 2021, which will cost from £187,230 when it arrives in the UK next year. It will rival the likes of the Ferrari F8 Tributo, McLaren 720S and Lamborghini Huracan and is powered by Maserati's own V6 engine producing in excess of 600bhp.
When you do want to put your foot down - and are on a closed road, track or the Autobahn - Maserati says the MC20 will hit 62mph from a standing start in 2.9 seconds - a match for the rival Ferrari F8 Tributo - and has a claimed top speed of 202mph. The gorgeous styling should make it a big hit with nostalgic petrolheads with the appropriate funds in the their accounts.
The MC20 is launched to spearhead a return to form for the wavering Italian maker, which has a long heritage in Formula One but has been in a tailspin in recent years. It has promised to unveil 13 new models in the next three years - including electric vehicles - as part of a bid by parent group Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to revive its premium vehicle strategy heading into a mega-merger with French automaker Groupe PSA, which will be completed later this month.
12. Hyundai Tucson
The new Hyundai Tucson will be hitting showrooms this month and could be a real contender with bold looks, plenty of equipment, great driving dynamics and green engines
Hitting showrooms this month will be the fourth-generation of Hyundai's Tucson SUV. While this might not sound like big news compared to models already featured with electric drivetrains and bonkers performance, its all-round capabilities could see it become a real favourite with family-car buyers.
Inside, the Korean brand has gone to town to make the Tuscon feel on-par with far pricier rivals. Engineers have done this by stripping the cabin of function buttons and switches to give a minimal feel with lots of premium appeal. Most of the controls are now within a touchscreen, making the interior feel more elegant than before.
Equipment levels are impressive and even the lower-spec models come loaded with kit. What's more, the engine range is a diverse line-up of conventional powertrains with mild-hybrid technology to cut emissions, or the option of a plug-in or self-charging hybrid for those wanting more eco-benefits. It's also a hoot to drive for an SUV, though the busy and bulbous looks might not be to all tastes. For a little over £20,000, it might be one of the bargains of the year.
13. Tesla Model S Plaid
Tesla will unleash a performance-busting version of the Model S later this year. the tri-motor 'Plaid' claims to offer over 520 miles of driving range on a single charge, a top speed of 200mph and a sprint time from 0-to-60mph in less than 2 seconds
Fans of Tesla cars will be able to get their hands on the most performance-packed machine the US firm has ever produced in 2021, though will have to wait until around November to try it out for themselves. It called the Model S Tri-Motor 'Plaid' and will become the electric car with the longest range available when it eventually arrives on British shores.
This range-topping version of the Model S is already listed for sale in the UK, with an 'estimated range' in excess of 520 miles - beating the Model S Long Range by 141 miles and more. It's also claimed to be able to complete a 0-to-60mph dash in under 2 seconds. It is powered by the company's most potent three-motor electric powertrain – which delivers a claimed output of 1,100bhp.
However, it won't come cheap; the starting price is a whopping £131,000. Even by Tesla standards, that's steep for what is essentially a family car. You can find out how it compares to the electric Porsche Taycan in our report here. Tesla is also due to launch the new Model Y in 2021, though no firm dates have been released for UK deliveries.
14. Toyota Mirai
Toyota wants to step on the gas with a new Mirai for 2021. The Japanese firm's new hydrogen fuel cell car, seen here, is far more handsome than before
Toyota will push ahead with its development of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with the release of the second-generation Mirai later in 2021. The revamped super-green family saloon will feature new and sleeker looks, but more importantly the Japanese firm will slash the original model's expensive price tag by 20 per cent to encourage a ten-fold increase in sales.
Prices are said to be starting from £52,800, though there is a chance that the Japanese manufacturer will slip the charge to a fraction under £50,000 so that buyers will qualify for a £3,000 government plug in grant, taking the cost down to £47,000.
The new Mirai’s hydrogen fuel-cell creates enough electric power – equivalent to 174 horsepower (128kW) - to propel it from rest to 62mph in 9.2 seconds and up to a top speed of 108.5mph. It also has a range of 403 miles – far more than most, but not all, electric cars. However, a poor hydrogen infrastructure is what could restrict sales in the UK. Find out more about the 2021 Mirai in our first report.
15. Ford Mustang Mach E
Ford's Mustang Mach-E is not like any Mustang you've seen before. Instead of a burbling V8 engine, this SUV has a silent electric motor
Don't be fooled by the Mustang name - the Mach-E is as far from Ford's famed American muscle car as you can possibly get. That's because it's a zero-emissions family SUV rather than a gurgling V8 emitter. And it's been a long time coming, having been sold in the US for a number of months though only due to hit UK dealers around March this year.
The fully-electric SUV is aimed at families and throws into the mix bruising looks, the iconic charging horse symbol and one of the most affordable large EVs on the market.
Prices for the Standard Range RWD start from £40,350, though for the Extended Range RWD version - with an extra 110-miles of claimed range from a more substantial battery pack - you will need to fork out an additional £9,500. Find out more about the Mustang Mach-E in our original report.
16. Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Mercedes-Benz has upped its limo game for 2021 with the arrival of the all-new S-Class, which is more technologically advanced than ever before
This is one car that's already started to arrive in the UK, but when there's a new S-Class it's worth noting, mostly because of the huge amount of new technology the flagship Mercedes limo always delivers. This is the seventh-generation car, which will be priced up to £110,000 for the most luxurious example - and over £150,000 if you go for the Maybach version.
And it doesn't disappoint on the tech front. In fact, it is already equipped with a level of self-driving technology that's not yet legal to use on UK roads - but could soon be permitted on our motorways, if given the green light by ministers in a matter of months.
Across the range, engines available for the S-Class in the UK are the S350d and S400d 4Matic diesel (the latter only available in long-wheel-base layout) and the more potent S500 4Matic petrol with a 430bhp 3.0-litre straight-six cylinder petrol engine. If you're looking for the ultimate silky-smooth and premium-class limousine this year, the S-Class is the car to have.
17. Mazda MX-30
Mazda will sell its first electric car in 2021. The CX-30 is a compact SUV designed for use in urban spaces, but has a relatively short range of just 124 miles
Mazda will launch its first production electric vehicle in 2021, called the MX-30. It's a compact crossover with funky looks and lots of equipment.
The Japanese brand intends to do things differently with its electric cars - as it has done in recent years with conventional models by steering clear of small-capacity turbocharged petrol engines in favour of bigger - naturally aspirated - powerplants. For its EV assault, it wants to fit smaller batteries to allow for a more competent ride and better driving dynamics. The flipside of this is that the range is relatively short in comparison to rivals.
While the likes of the Vauxhall Mokka-e have a range of just over 200 miles, the MX-30 will cover just 124 miles on a single charge. Mazda says this is an ample distance for urban use, though could put many buyers off, given the asking price.
18. Lotus Evija
Price: from £2million
The new two-seater electric Lotus Evija develops a massive 1,923bhp and aims to be the most powerful production electric car in the world
Inspired by fighter jets and with a sky-high £2million price-tag to match, legendary British sports car maker Lotus is accelerating back into the limelight with a new all-electric hypercar that aims to be the most powerful production vehicle on the planet.
With a top speed in excess of 200mph, the new Lotus Evija accelerates from rest to 62mph in under 3 seconds and up to 186mph in under nine seconds. This is thanks to a mega-potent battery and electric motor set-up, that delivers up to 1,923bhp if requested. It has a total of five driving modes: Range, City, Tour, Sport and Track. Only the latter setting provides the full power output, but even with the energy-sipping 'Range' mode selected, the Lotus offers 1,000bhp to the driver.
Just 130 versions of the exclusive Evija hypercar will be produced. Many expect it will be the car that changes Lotus' fortunes and will spark a return to the forefront of the car market, though only time will tell.
19. Nissan Ariya
Ready for launch: This is Nissan's all-new electric family that looks more starship than SUV. Called the Ariya, it will be sold alongside the comparatively-sized Qashqai
While the Nissan Qashqai (mentioned first in this list) will continue to be produced in Sunderland and available as a petrol or hybrid version, there's a good reason why there isn't a fully-electric variant of the popular SUV. That reason is the forthcoming Ariya, a spaceship-inspired model Nissan will produce in Japan and sell in the UK from the middle of 2021.
With its bold looks, low roofline, big grille, and razor thin sci-fi looking LED lights constructed with four 20-millimeter mini-projectors, design chiefs said the aim was to make cars that were sleek and 'sexy' – not a word you usually associate with the mainstream Japanese brand.
And it's not just the looks that are impressive. Nissan says it will produce 389bhp and cover up to 310 miles on a full charge. With prices expected to ring in at around £40,000, it's certainly one to keep an eye on in the summer. Want to know more? Read our Ariya report from last year.
20. Citroen C4
Citroen is definitely reverting back to tradition with bold styling and quirky looks for its latest cars. This new C4 is an alternative option to traditional family hatchbacks
Citroen has revamped its long-running C4 family car yet again for 2021, this time opting for a new coupe-like crossover that will make it stand apart from the conventional hatchbacks it goes up against. The styling is yet another sign of the French brand returning to the quirky design language that it's famed for.
As well as returning to tradition with out-there styling, the car maker is also concentrating on comfort over driving performance, as was the norm for the brand in years gone by. While it might not be the most dynamic, it will certainly provide a cushioned ride.
Citroen is certainly looking forward with powertrains, though. The C4 will be sold with the choice of three options: petrol, diesel and electric. While unleaded versions start from just under £21,000, the electric version comes at a premium of £29,180 (after deducting the £3,000 plug-in car grant).
21. Skoda Enyaq iV
Like other brands previously mentioned in this list, Skoda will launch its first 'dedicated' EV in 2021. It's called the Enyaq iV and could be the practical electric family car you're looking for this year
Want a Volkswagen ID.4 (mentioned earlier in this list) but don't want to stump-up the premium asking price? Then the Skoda Enyaq, which is built on the same platform as the VW ID.3, might be the answer.
It's not the first electric Skoda (there has been an electric version of the Citigo) but this is the first 'dedicated' model from the Czech brand that's been designed from the ground up to be an EV. Entry-level versions priced at just over £30,000 get a single 177bhp motor and 62kWh battery, enough for a claimed range of up to 242 miles. Skoda will also use its performance vRS badge for Enyaq iV, which has two motors to boost performance to 302bhp. The more potent model also gets an 82kWh battery - this boosts range to 285 miles.
At just over 4.6-metres long, the Enyaq iV is fractionally shorter than Skoda's current largest SUV, the Kodiaq, and has a 585-litre boot. It could be the practical electric family car you're looking for in 2021.
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'I am never cycling again'
CRASH: The dark blue van crushed Taufik's green bicycle. The boy (above, with parents) will now take the bus to school.PHOTOS: BENJAMIN SEETOR, SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
CRASH: The dark blue van (above) crushed Taufik's green bicycle. The boy will now take the bus to school.PHOTOS: BENJAMIN SEETOR, SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
CRASH: The dark blue van crushed Taufik's green bicycle (above). The boy will now take the bus to school.PHOTOS: BENJAMIN SEETOR, SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
Boy hit by van escapes with only scraped shins
Goh Yan Han
As he cycled home from school, he saw the van coming up behind him and thought the driver would stop.
But the next thing he knew, he was lying underneath the middle of the van with his crushed bicycle.
As he lay there, he thought to himself: "I am never cycling again."
Mohamed Taufik Syavendy Yasin, eight, had been cycling home after remedial lessons in school when he was hit by the van.
Both were turning left at the junction of Jalan Sultan and Victoria Street at about 3.50pm on Tuesday.
Miraculously, the Primary 3 pupil escaped with just bloody scrapes on both shins.
The accident occurred just a day after The New Paper ran a story on children cycling or skating on roads unsupervised.
The driver, who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, told TNP: "It was a green light and I wanted to turn left. I never saw him at all."
When asked how it happened, he said repeatedly: "I don't know."
But in an interview with Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao, he said he hoped to explain the accident to Taufik's family. He also said that it was his first accident in 22 years of driving.
The accident happened as the Stamford Primary School pupil was cycling home from school to Block 10, North Bridge Road. He has been taking this 10-minute journey every day since the beginning of this year.
The shy and quiet boy recalled the accident yesterday: "I saw the van and I thought the driver saw me and would stop. Then the van hit my head and I screamed before falling off my bicycle."
He has no idea how he ended up under the panel van, but the vehicle crushed his green bicycle.
His father, Mr Mohamed Suhaimi, 47, said: "He is very, very lucky."
At the scene, several passers-by helped to pull Taufik onto the kerb.
Both shins swathed with bandages, Taufik said, shaking his head: "I don't want to cycle anymore."
Just as well. His parents have decided he will now take the bus to school. Taufik has an MC till the end of the week.
The couple have also decided not to let their other children, two six-year-old girls, cycle.
Mr Mohamed, an odd-job worker, said: "If they are so brave to want to learn to cycle after this, okay then. But I would rather they don't."
He had been hesitant when Taufik first suggested cycling to school as some of his schoolmates did.
Mr Mohamed said: "As a parent, I was definitely worried. Especially after the Tampines accident involving the two boys," he said, referring to the brothers who were killed by a cement truck at the junction of Tampines Avenue 9 and Tampines Street 45 last January.
But because he and his wife were too busy to take him to school, they agreed to his request after accompanying him the first few times. Taufik had also cycled to and from the mosque safely many times previously.
Mr Mohamed taught Taufik how to cycle three years ago, before Taufik started primary school. He had bought Taufik the green bicycle for about $100 then. They will not be buying a new bicycle although the green one is beyond repair.
Mr Mohamed said: "The wheel at the back was crooked, the chain was broken and the seat was gone."
He had been at home in their one-room rental flat when he was alerted to the accident by Taufik's schoolmates, who live in the same neighbourhood and were cycling behind when the incident happened.
Mr Mohamed said: "They came to my door and told me Taufik had been in an accident, but they didn't know how it happened because they didn't see it."
Mr Mohamed rushed to KK Women and Children's Hospital, where he was met by his wife, Madam Yeni Zulika, 30.
The housewife had been collecting food for the family in Pasir Ris when her friend called and told her of the accident.
Madam Yeni said: "I was so scared, I didn't know what happened."
Both were relieved that Taufik was not severely injured.
Police said they received a call about the accident at 3.49pm. No arrests have been made. A Singapore Civil Defence Force spokesman said they had dispatched an ambulance.
He is very, very lucky.
- Mr Mohamed Suhaimi, Mohamed Taufik Syavendy Yasin's father.
Look out for each other
Oh Ming Xuan
Banning young children from cycling alone on roads is impractical.
Driving safety expert Gerard Pereira said that it is unfair to set an age limit on cyclists as cycling is a leisure activity for children as well.
Mr Pereira, manager of the Singapore Safety Driving Centre, said that it is also difficult for an adult to supervise all the time.
He said: "Sometimes, there is no other option than for the child to cycle alone. Parents have to make the judgment whether the child is ready or not."
Mr Lim Biow Chuan, Member of Parliament and member of the Government Parliamentary Committee on Transport, feels that children should be supervised, but he admitted that it depends on the maturity of the children.
Parents have to teach them about road safety, but he feels they do not spend enough time doing it.
He added: "They often take it for granted that other road users will be careful, but other drivers may not be.
"It is an accident waiting to happen, especially when people in Singapore become more impatient."
Mr Gopinath Menon, vice-chairman of the Singapore Road Safety Council, agreed.
He said: "Motorists still do not have much regard for cyclists yet.
"We have to further educate them that the roads belong to all users and we have to share the road with cyclists as well."
Mr Pereira highlighted the need for care between road users, especially for the young.
He said: "Even though road safety is everyone's responsibility, children are still young and innocent, so as motorists, we should be looking out for them more."
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Scottish prisoners to make jail’s old social club a Vegan Bistro
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Plans to convert Perth Prison’s old social club into a vegan restaurant have been submitted in an effort to provide a second chance to prisoners and ex-convicts.
A new vegan restaurant named the Yew Tree is set to open in a maximum-security prison in Scotland.
The project is being led by local social justice business Starting Step and will be set up in Perth Prison’s old social club.
According to the organization, the business will initially start as a café with plans to later convert it into a fine-dining restaurant in the evenings.
The idea behind the venture is to support prisoners and ex-convicts while giving them a second chance in life as well as create employment for people outside the criminal justice system.
“I’ve worked with charities and the third sector for some time and I had always wondered why Scotland has such an appalling number of people in prison,” said Starting Step CEO Dodie Piddock
“We’re one of the worst in Europe, per capita.
“I did a lot of work on focus groups and I found that the vast majority of people in prison need a second chance. I came away from this thinking, how do we do this?”
However, when she spoke of her plans for the abandoned social club to the prison service, she said: “they probably thought I was bonkers.”
“That’s the usual response I get,” she joked.
A planning application to change the building into The Yew Tree has been submitted to Perth and Kinross Council and the prison service is closely monitoring Starting Step’s project.
‘Positive outcome’
As per the plan, “trainees will be able to develop their skills and reap the benefits of a real work environment,” Starting Step told The Courier UK.
“They will be able to interact with members of the public, where there will be no attached stigmas of their past mistakes.
“This will bring an added positive outcome of breaking down barriers between community and clients.”
Vegan café
Of the “many reasons” why Yew Tree plans to offer a vegan menu, Piddock said: “There is a growing need for chefs that are able to produce high-quality vegan food.
“What is important about this project is the end result. I don’t want this to be just another training programme; I want to do something more than give them hope.
“I knew there were two areas where we could just about guarantee them jobs – horticulture and hospitality.”
Confident about the plan, she added: “It will be beautiful. And hopefully, it will be something Perth can be proud of.”
“Ultimately, I really want to eradicate the stigma of people who have touched base with the criminal justice system.”
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Boris Johnson drops Tory pledge for 100 per cent superfast broadband in UK by 2025
Boris Johnson dumps key Tory election pledge on superfast broadband
By Kathleen Nutt @kacnutt Journalist
Boris Johnson's election manifesto pledge for 100 per cent superfast broadband across the UK by 2025 has been dumped
BORIS Johnson's government has quietly ditched the Tory manifesto pledge to give all homes across the UK superfast broadband by 2025, it has emerged.
The Prime Minister came under fire from business and telecoms chiefs as the small print of the Chancellor’s spending review revealed that planned spending on the roll-out of the technology had also been slashed from £5 billion to £1.2bn, reports say.
Critics said Johnson had been caught “sneaking out” the abandoned target and the spending cut as MPs in England focused on plans for new coronavirus tiers.
Up to 5 million people are set to lose out as a result and critics have pointed out that high-speed broadband is needed more than ever during the pandemic as home working becomes the norm.
The Tory election commitment to deliver “gigabit-capable” broadband to every home and company across the UK within five years was a landmark pledge, bringing forward by eight years a similar goal of predecessor Theresa May.
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Johnson repeatedly campaigned on the promise, which he said was a central part of his “levelling up” agenda to make rural and urban parts of the UK ready for a post-Brexit future.
The broadband pledge was first made in his speech on the steps of Downing Street when he first took office. He had ridiculed May’s own 2033 timetable as “laughably unambitious”.
The Tory manifesto boasted: “We know how difficult it will be, so we have announced a raft of legislative changes to accelerate progress and £5 billion of new public funding to connect premises which are not commercially viable.”
But buried in this week’s spending review was a sharp drop in planned spending. The accompanying National Infrastructure Strategy confirmed the target of 100% of homes with superfast broadband by 2025 had been watered down to a “minimum of 85% coverage” by that date.
Labour's shadow digital secretary Jo Stevens told HuffPost UK: "Not only is this broken promise another kick in the teeth for businesses and families up and down the country, it’s yet another example exposing his hollow promises.
"This year has underlined just how essential good broadband is for businesses, families and individuals. No one should be held back and penalised because of poor broadband connection.
"Sneaking this out in the spending review is not good enough – the government should be much more ambitious for our country.”
Johnson said in October last year he was not sure what gigabit broadband was but promised it would be “sprouting through every home like a kind of very informative vermicelli”.
Some in Whitehall also claim that both the pandemic and the decision to exclude Chinese firm Huawei from future infrastructure plans have setback the scheduled works.
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Craig Beaumont of the Federation of Small Business said: “Covid has shown that a good connection at home is fundamental for work and business.
"This is not good news for businesses in rural areas, nor those made redundant in the coming months who we hope will want to become self-employed and set up in business from their kitchen table.”
The Internet Service Providers’ Association said it was disappointed to see only a quarter of the committed spending on broadband allocated across the next four years.
Andrew Glover, chair of ISPA, said: "The announcement scaling back the government’s ambitions for supporting broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas is a blow to rural communities.
"This will not stop providers from continuing to press ahead with their commercial rollout plans, but it puts an even greater emphasis on tackling the regulatory and practical barriers that make rollout more difficult than it should be.
"As our experiences over 2020 have proved, our broadband infrastructure is fundamental to propping up the UK’s economy in periods of lockdown, so we urge the Government to ensure that this policy pivot does not lead to longer term digital exclusion of those in harder to reach areas.”
Sarah Lee, head of policy at the Countryside Alliance, said: "This is a significant concern for rural communities and businesses who now more than ever need better digital connectivity. If ever the business potential of the countryside is to reach its full potential, indeed recover economically from Covid-19, it must have gigabit broadband sooner rather than later.”
Digital minister Matt Warman had told MPs on the digital select committee a few weeks ago that the 2025 100% rollout was “a stretch goal that we are more than capable of meeting.”
A DCMS spokesperson told the HuffPost: “We remain committed to ensuring the UK’s hardest-to-reach areas benefit from our record £5 billion gigabit broadband investment. We will continue working with the industry to maximise rollout in rural areas to get as close as possible to nationwide coverage by 2025.”
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This 16-year-old just took apart Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy
Published: 7:51 AM July 11, 2019 Updated: 6:06 PM September 17, 2020
Alex McGovern on LBC Radio. Photograph: Global/LBC. - Credit: Archant
A 16-year-old has just effectively taken down Boris Johnson's Brexit strategy - leaving fellow guests in awe at his coherency.
Alex McGovern, a member of the Youth Parliament for Kent, offered a coherent critical analysis of Johnson's plans for Brexit saying that "having a loud voice and peddling optimism" will not get us through the crisis.
He was appearing on Iain Dale's LBC radio programme alongside Simon Heffer from the Telegraph, Brexiteer broadcaster Liz Kershaw, and activist Lauren Booth.
They reacted with open mouths as he succinctly explained the problem with Boris Johnson's "plan".
The 16-year-old told Dale: "The issue with Boris Johnson and why he is not taking these media interviews is because he knows what he's saying is just fundamentally flawed.
Simon Heffer on LBC Radio. Photograph: Global/LBC. - Credit: Archant
"If you look at his Plan B as it were, if he can't get a deal with the EU, GATT 24. I just can't see it working. He knows it as well. I think he's just trying to sound like he's done his research."
He continued: "Personality is not going to help us get through this crisis. Having a loud voice and 'peddling optimism' as Jeremy Hunt described it is not going to help.
"I think optimism is one thing, but it has got to be founded optimism, it can't be optimism for the sake of it, and saying we might as well be happy. We need to be realistic and pragmatic. The EU has been so engrained in our society for so many years, and we need to realise we can't just smile through it, it'll be fine, and I don't think Boris can do it."
One listener tweeted: "@TheAlexMcGovern member of the Youth Parliament has been absolutely sterling on @IainDale radio show cross question. Came across as calm, thoughtful, informed and added real value to the discussions. "
Another said: "Brilliant hour. I was stunned by the maturity and intellect of young Alex. What a future that lad has in front of him!"
A third told Iain Dale: "You need to make Alex your side kick. He provides a surprisingly articulate view (for his age) which nicely tempers yours @lbc."
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ANDREW ADONIS: Decoding the doublespeak of Brexit
Published: 10:00 AM May 16, 2019 Updated: 6:02 PM September 17, 2020
The People's Vote Rally. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA. - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images
ANDREW ADONIS talks about the links between Brexit and a George Orwell novel.
Author Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen-name, "George Orwell". - Credit: PA Archive/PA Images
Brexit is George Orwell's greatest triumph since Soviet Russia. Well, apart from Trump, its bedfellow - or fellow traveller. It's not just the Orwellian language and lies.
Orwell's Ministry of Truth has finally made it to Whitehall. It is called the 'Department for Exiting the European Union' - a department where the only thing that ever exits is the ministers and their acolytes.
Brexit was Orwellian from the start, founded on a Big Lie that Britain's democratic and existential imperative was to destroy an 'undemocratic and dictatorial' European Union.
This was rapidly buttressed with fake facts, fake news - much of it written by Boris Johnson in the Daily Telegraph - and slogans straight out of Animal Farm, repeated on a never-ending loop.
All in pursuit of a utopia - Brexit Britain - which to anyone not drinking the Kool-Aid (did that start with Orwell too?) is a dystopia worthy of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
'Brexit Means Brexit'. 'No deal' - or, even better, 'managed no deal'. 'No deal is better than a bad deal' - until a bad deal overnight became better than no deal. 'Four legs good, two legs bad'. 'Four legs good, two legs better'.
The European Research Group deserves a special mention: a group which does no research and dislikes Europe. As for Farage, Napoleon with his cigars and whisky in Manor Farm is the original. Orwell would have loved the Brexit Party with its one member - Farage - buttressed only by supporters, whose manifesto is only to be published after the election to which it applies on the grounds that 'all manifestos are lies'.
An entire Orwell novel could be devoted to Ireland and Brexit, where truth and lies, reality and dissembling, collide in highly dangerous fashion. What is now called the 'Irish backstop' - the complex treaty provisions in May's Brexit deal that would largely keep Northern Ireland in the EU customs union and single market post Brexit - began in the draft text as a 'bridge' to the 'deep and special partnership' between Britain and the EU which it was intended would apply to the UK as a whole once the final status Brexit negotiations were complete.
Except that this objective had to be immediately disowned when the DUP and ERG decided that the 'bridge' was an Evil Remain Plot. So it became a backstop. And within days May had committed to scrapping it entirely, while still promising no hard border in Ireland.
Problem - this couldn't be done without also scrapping the Good Friday Agreement. So May said the backstop would be replaced with 'alternative arrangements'. But what would these be, since none were viable? Never fear. May announced an Alternative Arrangements Working Group, which is still working but has not produced any alternatives.
The Remain side of the argument would have been applauded by Orwell for its attempt to expose and defeat this dangerous nonsense. But he would have observed its own hilarious lapses.
The funniest is the second referendum, which became the People's Vote then the public vote and is now the 'confirmatory vote with an option to remain' - except that the last five words sometimes have to be construed because they are not always stated, and sometimes the confirmatory vote is turned into 'an option' which may be 'backed'. But it all amounts to a second referendum, and the dear voters are just confused as to why we won't call a spade a spade, unless it is intended not really to be a spade.
But of course, we all know that's not true. Don't we, Winston Smith?
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Golden balls-up: the veil slips on brand Beckham
Kevin O’Sullivan
Published: 8:03 PM February 12, 2017 Updated: 6:27 PM September 17, 2020
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The Beckileaks scandal has opened a door on the hidden world of celebrity, and Brand Beckham in particular
Deep down in my cynical soul there's a tiny part of me that feels sorry for David Beckham. After devoting his life to meticulous self-promotion the former footballer's carefully-crafted reputation looks to be in tatters. A nation weeps.
On a scale of one to ten, our fallen hero's chances of the knighthood he so desperately craves are somewhere between nought and zero. And in the eyes of an appalled public his once-saintly status seems to have plummeted from revered to reviled. In soccer parlance, the poor guy must be sick as a parrot.
Clearly, the damning emails that have shattered his cosseted world were illegally obtained. Everyone has a right to privacy and his has been criminally invaded. But in an age where state secrets are routinely hacked and published, 'Beckileaks' was hardly the greatest of shocks. And regardless of the nefarious back-story behind them, wannabe 'Sir' David's angry missives reveal an unpleasant reality that has left his millions of fans horribly disillusioned.
In Fleet Street, where long-suffering hacks have endured Brand Beckham's tiresomely relentless PR machine for many years, the current escalating scandal will have come as far less of a surprise. They who live by the publicity sword always run the risk of dying by it too. In fairness, the only difference between the hapless Beckham and hundreds of other image conscious celebrities is he got found out. Image creation is a kind of lying and if the punters ever cotton on that they've been hoodwinked rest assured they will be merciless.
When I was the Daily Mirror's showbusiness editor during the early noughties, while David and Victoria were pursuing their King and Queen dream, barely a day went by when we weren't locked in ludicrous horse-trading over what we could and couldn't print about Mr and Mrs Perfect. If we agreed to leave out some unsavoury detail in tomorrow's edition they would do something exclusive for us next week. It was soul-destroying. It's not only war in which the first casualty is the truth.
This was the beginning of the golden couple's ascent from very handsome sports star and ultra-ambitious Spice Girl to their lofty position at the pinnacle of the global fame game. Behind them was the formative era when they flogged their hideously tacky 1999 wedding to OK! magazine for a million quid. Ahead of them lay untold wealth in terms of advertising and sponsorship deals raking in a reputed half a billion a year.
A lot of people have made a lot of money from polishing Beckham's halo, especially him. Worth £280million, he reportedly earns £71,000 every 24 hours. Not bad for a Walthamstow lad. The boy done brilliant.
Throughout Posh and Becks' inexorable rise to the top, the crucial element was pushing the idea of their blissfully happy marriage and – as their kids were born – painting an idyllic picture of dedicated parenthood. Naturally, fab family man David's profound love for his own offspring triggered his interest in children's charities. It is now depressingly apparent that he also calculated that his theatrically selfless work for underprivileged youngsters would garner favourable headlines and fast-track him to becoming a knight of the realm.
The last time the good ship Beckham sailed into choppy waters was after he kicked an Argentinian opponent and got sent off in a display of petulance that was widely regarded to have wrecked England's chances in the 1998 World Cup. Other players would have taken such thoroughly well-deserved unpopularity on the chin.
Beckham called in his expensive public relations team and a couple of flattering photo-spreads later (accompanied by the type of mind-numbingly anodyne interviews for which he is notorious) his squeaky-clean glory was restored. Phew.
Now he has been engulfed by a much more serious storm from which there may be no escape. Calling the honours selection committee 'a bunch of c***s' for failing to recognise his suspiciously conspicuous charity work was not the response of a proper role model. And dismissing singer Katherine Jenkins' OBE as 'a f***ing joke' betrayed a nasty jealous streak. David's ambitious wife – who, incidentally, is anything but posh – is reported to have once dismissed her husband as 'an Essex yob'. I think we can see where she was coming from.
As more disturbing allegations emerge that he declared 'it's my f***ing money' and refused to personally donate to a charity dinner, demanded that UNICEF pay him £6,685 for a business class flight he never took, got the BBC to foot the bill for a private jet and invested in a legal but dubious tax avoidance scheme, Brand Beckham's crumbling castle is under siege.
Tragically, Beckham's defence has been to 'tell friends' that he's just a normal person who was disappointed not to be knighted. Oh that's all right then.
And, yawn, to post on Instagram yet more of those nauseating great-dad pictures (Brooklyn and co are vital part of the family business) that he believes will make us all love him again. Dream on Dave.
Can he dig his way out of this unmitigated disaster? Around the world, his image may not be quite as damaged as it is in the UK. But damaged it certainly is.
Beckham's dramatic fall from grace has brought back into focus the tawdry tales that were stumbling blocks on his rocky road to success. Reports of extra-marital affairs were strongly denied. The public wanted to believe that the first family of fame were wonderful.
But therein lies Beckham's problem. No one is as impossibly perfect as his PR flunkies try to say he is. There is the shiny facade of him weeping for the poor and needy and there is the grim reality of his pathetically small-minded emails. They don't make him a monster.
They just make him less of a likeable person who, having accrued his vast fortune, was unseemly in his insatiable desire for a title.
Employing his dubious grasp of grammar, he wrote: 'If I was American I would of got something like this ten years ago.' But this is Britain, and in these here parts we don't approve of flashy do-gooders who just want to be feted and adored. Nor – as he is destined to discover – do we forgive them. In showbiz – with honourable exceptions – charity must not only be done, it must be seen to be done. It's a sickening syndrome. Ironically, if Beckham had gone about his fundraising quietly he'd probably be a Lord.
For the record, Beckham is considering hiring cyber experts to investigate how more than 18 million emails were stolen from his publicity guru Simon Oliviera's Portugal-based company.
And his spokesman insists: 'This story is based on outdated material and taken out of context from hacked and doctored private emails from a third-party server and gives a deliberately inaccurate picture.' Unsurprisingly, we are also instructed that he has given generously to worthy causes.
Fair enough. But the best advice for David Beckham now would be to stop listening to ridiculous PR advice.
Opposing Scottish independence because his squad of lackeys said it would endear him to the establishment and guarantee him a place high on the KBE shortlist was as manipulative as it was fatuous.
The sad fact is that after a traumatic week there are three words Becks will never hear: 'Arise Sir David'. Somehow one suspects that plain old Mrs Beckham will not be pleased. She could have been a Lady.
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Lib Dems and Change UK still won’t back Corbyn as caretaker PM despite SNP, Plaid and Green support
Published: 5:08 PM September 27, 2019 Updated: 6:04 PM September 17, 2020
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks in the House of Commons. Photograph: House of Commons/PA Wire. - Credit: PA
The Lib Dems and Change UK are continuing to oppose Jeremy Corbyn as caretaker PM despite the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and even Ken Clarke supporting the plan.
Nicola Sturgeon said she would support the Labour leader as a candidate for caretaker prime minister, though added she was "open minded" about who takes on the role.
The Scottish first minister said she supports the Labour plan of bringing down Boris Johnson with a vote of no confidence and then securing a Brexit extension before an immediate general election.
But Labour would need vast cross-party support for the move to work, including from those among the Lib Dems' 18 MPs, the Independent Group for Change (IGC) and the 21 exiled Tories.
Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has called Corbyn unfit to govern, and a party spokesman made clear that they do not believe he can win the backing of the Commons.
"The question of whether or not we would support Corbyn in an emergency government is futile. He does not command the support of the House," a spokesman said.
"Liberal Democrats are clear that we need to bring people together and find a candidate that can command the support of the House, and to push this disgraceful Conservative Government out of office."
IGC leader Anna Soubry told PA she was "disappointed" with the SNP for expressing their support, and pointed towards suggestions that expelled Tory veteran Ken Clarke should take on the role.
"It's being made very clear to Jeremy Corbyn that he won't be in Number 10 with the support of myself and [the four other IGC MPs] or the Liberal Democrats."
Corbyn called in August for a no confidence vote followed by a temporary government under his leadership to secure an extension to Article 50 and then a general election.
Plaid Cymru and the Greens are willing to back Corbyn.
Plaid MP Jonathan Edwards said: "Our priority is to stop a disastrous crash out Brexit and to deliver a referendum, we will seek to work with anyone willing to do so."
Green MP Caroline Lucas reiterated her support earlier this week. She said: "He's leader of the opposition and I think he has every right to expect to be interim prime minister... I think we need to come together,"
Last month Tory rebel Ken Clarke signalled his support for Corbyn.
He said: "So long as it were absolutely certain we could keep Jeremy under control and he wouldn't have the slightest chance of implementing any bits of his Labour manifesto, I hate to tell you but I probably would."
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Farage dismisses social care worker concerns ‘because for it’s 30 years away’ for him
Published: 10:49 AM February 19, 2020 Updated: 6:25 PM September 17, 2020
Nigel Farage appears on Sky News. Photograph: Sky. - Credit: Archant
Nigel Farage has dismissed concerns about who will care for the elderly under the new immigration system because it is personally '30 years away' for him.
Home secretary Priti Patel meets students and staff at Imperial College London in South Kensington. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire. - Credit: PA
The Brexit Party leader was responding to the point made by the Royal College of Nursing who said that the newly-announced proposals will "not meet the health and care needs of the population".
"They close the door to lower-paid healthcare support workers and care assistants from overseas, who currently fill significant numbers of posts in the health and care workforce," said Dame Donna Kinnair, the organisation's chief executive.
The UK Homecare Association also criticised the plans saying that "cutting off the supply of prospective careworkers under a new migration system, will pave the way for more people waiting unnecessarily in hospital or going without care".
They added: "Telling employers to adjust, in a grossly underfunded care system, is simply irresponsible."
Asked who was going to look after Nigel Farage when he turns 85 and is old and "in need of care", Farage dismissed a question from a Sky News presenter about who was going to look after him.
"Somebody who is trained to do it," responded Farage shrugging his shoulders and smiling.
"Under this new system there will be a lot of people who are not as fortunate as you are," responded the presenter.
"Luckily that is 30 years away that problem as far as I'm concerned," said the Brexiteer.
The presenter, however, pointed out there will be those "over the next two, three, four, five years in desperate need of care and they won't receive anything".
Sighing the politician insisted that "before 2004 before we had an open-door to eight and then 10 former Communist countries, the elderly got looked after, hotels ran, and strawberries didn't rot in the fields."
He said that the "big employers need to recognise their days of cheap labour... is finished".
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Pressed again on the question, Farage insisted: "The elderly will get looked after, the fruit will be picked, the buses will run. These are scare stories. We have left the European Union, the government is now in control of immigration and work permits and all of those things, and I have no doubt that adjustments will happen every single year".
He said that those making the warnings over immigration were "those who want cheap labour", and the government's plans were a "step in the right direction".
Any serious questions about the proposals, Farage claimed, were for the home secretary Priti Patel to address.
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Lt.-Col. Arthur Joseph Sullivan1
Lt.-Col. Arthur Joseph Sullivan is the son of P. J. Sullivan.1 He married Dilys Myfanwy Knox, daughter of Edmund Francis Vesey Knox and Annie Elizabeth Lloyd, on 25 September 1934.1
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the The Queen's Royal Regiment.1 He was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)1
Child of Lt.-Col. Arthur Joseph Sullivan and Dilys Myfanwy Knox
Christopher Sullivan2 b. 22 Jun 1935, d. 12 Feb 1958
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
John Echlin1
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John Echlin is the son of Robert Echlin and Mary Leslie.2
He was ancestor of the Echlins of Ardquin.2 He lived at Ardquin, County Down, IrelandG.1
Children of John Echlin
Hester Echlin+2 d. c 1766
Elizabeth Echlin+2
Rose Echlin+3
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Hester Echlin1
F, #332053, d. circa 1766
Hester Echlin was the daughter of John Echlin.2 She married Thomas Knox, son of John Knox and Elizabeth Keith, on 29 June 1722.1 She died circa 1766.1
From 29 June 1722, her married name became Knox.
Children of Hester Echlin and Thomas Knox
Hester Knox2 b. 26 Apr 1723
Elizabeth Knox+2 b. Jul 1724, d. c 1812
Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland of Dungannon+2 b. 20 Apr 1729, d. 5 Nov 1818
William Knox2 b. Sep 1735
John Knox2 b. Feb 1740, d. c 1791
William Knox1
M, #332054, b. September 1735
William Knox was born in September 1735.1 He was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin.2 He died, young.1
P. J. Sullivan1
P. J. Sullivan lived at Bombay, IndiaG.1
Child of P. J. Sullivan
Lt.-Col. Arthur Joseph Sullivan+1
John Knox1
M, #332056, b. February 1740, d. circa 1791
John Knox was born in February 1740.1 He was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin.2 He married Anne Phyllis Waring, daughter of Henry Waring, on 21 March 1766.1 He died circa 1791.1
He lived at Waringsfort, County Down, IrelandG.1 He lived at Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandG.1
Anne Phyllis Waring1
Anne Phyllis Waring is the daughter of Henry Waring.1 She married John Knox, son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin, on 21 March 1766.1
From 21 March 1766, her married name became Knox.
Hester Knox1
F, #332058, b. 26 April 1723
Hester Knox was born on 26 April 1723.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin.2 She married James Moutray, son of John Moutray and Elizabeth Montgomery.1 She died, without issue.1
Her married name became Moutray.
James Moutray1
M, #332059, d. 17 May 1777
James Moutray was the son of John Moutray and Elizabeth Montgomery.2 He married Hester Knox, daughter of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin.1 He died on 17 May 1777, without issue.2
He lived at Favour Royal, County Tyrone, IrelandG.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.)1
[S142] Bernard, Sir Burke, editor, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 3rd ed. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1912), page 498. Hereinafter cited as Landed Gentry of Ireland.
Elizabeth Knox1
F, #332060, b. July 1724, d. circa 1812
Elizabeth Knox was born in July 1724.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin.2 She married Mathew Forde, son of Mathew Forde and Christian Graham, on 15 August 1750.1 She died circa 1812.3
From 15 August 1750, her married name became Forde.
Children of Elizabeth Knox and Mathew Forde
Anne Forde4
Elizabeth Forde+4 d. 15 Aug 1840
Jane Forde4
Charity Forde4 d. 30 Apr 1843
Mary Forde4 b. 1751
Mathew Forde+4 b. c 1753, d. 31 Mar 1812
Thomas Forde4 b. 1769
[S47] BIFR1976 page 439. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
[S47] BIFR1976. [S47]
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Graham Costello’s STRATA – OBELISK
Filled with texture, OBELISK is an hour-long journey that demonstrates all of the most gripping aspects of a rising ensemble
Album Review by Eugenie Johnson | 29 Jan 2019
Album title: OBELISK
Artist: Graham Costello's STRATA
Label: bpqd Records
Release date: 1 Feb
From the very first notes of the opening, title track, as propulsive and agitated piano kicks in, it's almost instantly apparent that OBELISK, the debut album from Graham Costello’s STRATA, takes influence from more than just jazz standards. Indeed, OBELISK is an album that sees the sextet pushing the boundaries between jazz and rock, a polyrhythmic, genre-melting journey.
All of the ingredients of a more traditional jazz outing are here, yet there are often more staccato, repeated refrains that run through tracks. At times it almost mirrors the urgency of math rock while still feeling free-flowing and maintaining an improvisational edge. The brass is sometimes punchy and at others smoky; piano melodies can be smooth or insistent, while the guitars come to the fore in dramatic, squalling fashion. Composer Costello ties all of these elements together with his own drumming that can sometimes feel airy and at others carry a greater weight where the percussion joins the musical dialogue, rather than simply acting as an anchor.
Yet, although the bombastic but groove-laden moments could easily become overwhelming, there’s just enough variation in tempo to make sure that the listener can catch their breath. Filled with texture, OBELISK is an hour-long journey that demonstrates all of the most gripping aspects of a rising ensemble.
Listen to: OBELISK, OCELOT
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India Travel Guide India Trips Pondicherry - Friends And Fun
Pondicherry - Friends and fun
By Vivek Kumar
Ah! A trip after a really long time and what a wonderful trip this turned out to be. It was not only about the place but also the wonderful company of six other friends from college which it made it worth remembering.
Pondicherry welcomed us with its clean beaches, wonderful food, and lovely crowd - all set in the backdrop of a center for international living in the form of Auroville. Read on to know more.
Two of us started our journey on Thursday night from Benagaluru. We booked tickets for a bus and reached there early morning at about 7. Our other five friends were coming from Chennai.
Our hotel was Green's resort which is very close to Auroville in Pondicherry, barely 500m. But Auroville and the hotel were far from the main city, about 10-12kms away. So we took an auto for the resort which cost us about Rs 500. Our friends were already waiting there for us.
Rock Beach
Frend War Memorial near Rock Beach
So after exchanging hugs and smile and the usual banter we rented four scooty from the resort and started our trip towards the main city. We first planned on visiting Rock Beach, also called as The Promenade.
Now Rock Beach is beautiful, there are concrete pathways, lampposts, seating areas and impeccable cleanliness. Also there are many options to enjoy french cuisine and satisfy your taste buds. We had our breakfast at La Coromandel.
From rock beach, we headed toward Arulmigu Manakula Vinayagar Temple which is in the middle of the city and is very famous for its elephant blessings and the golden chariot. The ceilings are also beautifully painted. The temple remains closed in the afternoon.
Our next stop was Serenity beach which was closer to Auroville and our resort, about 5-6kms. We spent some 2 hours there and enjoyed bathing in the sea. On both ends of the beach are stone platforms that extend well into the sea and you can enjoy the sea view from a height. Be careful not to go to deep in the sea while bathing, the waves are powerful and there are no coastguards.
Mother's Grace
This wrapped up our tour of first day but we were hungry and stopped at Mother's Grace, a small organic food restaurant on route to our resort. The food that is served here is freshly prepared so the wait time is more. But the food is delightfully tasty. There were volunteers from different nations here who took our orders and served us food. The owner of the restaurant is a lady and she is delightful to talk to.
Mother's grace restaurant
Tired from the day's travels we all sat down together in our resort and remembered the good old days of bliss. We played ludo as well and it brought back so many fond memories. We had a good night's sleep. For the next day our plan was to visit Paradise beach and Auroville.
Paradise beach can be accessed in two ways. If you are on your scooty or other vehicle you can park it near the beach and need to walk for some 10 minutes to reach the main area. Or you can also take a boat that goes through the backwaters. In either case the entry to beach is paid and charge about Rs 100 per person, but the beach has facilities for shower and changing. There are life guards as well. A rain dance facility is also available.
Backwaters of Paradise beach, the sea in far distance
The beach is clean and you will enjoy here. Since we walked up to the beach we had a lot of time to appreciate the entire coastline and also witness the backwaters on the other side. Walking barefooted on the fine sand was like a massage for the feet.
From Paradise we went to Auroville, the international city. After a 10 minute walk you can reach the viewing point of Matri Mandir, the meditation center. The entry passes for viewing point are free but to enter Mantri Mandir you have to come one or two days before to collect the passes. Entry to Mantri Mandir is allowed in the morning.
The visitor center has several facilities like a boutique; stores to buy fragrance incense sticks and soaps; a book shop having teaching of Shri Aurobindo and The Mother; and a cafeteria as well.
From Auroville, we went to Brother's Pizzeria which is again on Auroville main road. They serve delightful Italian style pizzas at very reasonable prices. Two pizzas, one veg and one non-veg cost us only around Rs 400 or so.
With this our journey to Pondicherry came to and end. We bid each other good bye, hoping to meet again sometime.
Our return to Bengaluru was on a train and we had a good sleep. Puducherry railway station is just opposite to Basilica of Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The scooty that we rented cost us Rs 350 per day, plus fuel extra. They gave us the scooty with tanks full and we returned them as is.
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Greens Guest House
The resort no doubt was very beautiful. The rooms were spacious and there was dense greenery all around. In fact the entire Auroville main road, on which the resort is located is densely forested. However the roads are good and you will find a lot of options to eat along the entire road.
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New Straits Times, 4 October 2014 - Kenanga keeps 'market - perform' on Tropicana
Kenanga keeps 'market-perform' on Tropicana KENANGA, research says Tropicana Corp Bhd's disposal of its RM37.6 million land in Selangor, is part of the group's degearing strategy. "Tropicana entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Mediaraya Sdn Bhd for the disposal of a piece of freehold land measuring approximately 0.98ha in Subang Jaya for a total cash consideration of RM37.6 million. "The deal does not surprise us as it is part of a degearing exercise to strengthen its balance sheet as the group has quite a large choice of land banks in its books. "While that particular piece of land's net book value stands at RM18.6 million, Tropicana is only expecting a net gain of RM3.7 million from the disposal, after net tax and payables due to some development cost incurred on that land previously" said Kenanga in its note yesterday. The research house said to date, the group has sold RM956.9 million worth of land banks including in Canal City, Jalan Bukit Bintang and Subang Jaya. Kenanga said Tropicana's management remains focused on their de-gearing exercise in which they are still actively looking to dispose of non-core assets like malls and office towers. "We are keeping our 'market-perform' call on Tropicana but have lowered our target price to RM1.28 from RM1.40" said the research house..
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Trump concedes no coronavirus economic relief deal before Election Day
Published: Oct 27, 2020 at 12:33 p.m.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that a coronavirus economic relief deal would likely come after the Nov. 3 election, with the White House unable to bridge differences with fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate as well as congressional Democrats.
"After the election we'll get the best stimulus package you've ever seen," Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving on a campaign trip.
Trump and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi have traded blame for the impasse over another large stimulus package worth around $2 trillion to help Americans weather the pandemic.
"We'll always talk about it because our people should get it, the stimulus, but Nancy Pelosi is only interested in bailing out badly run, crime-ridden Democrat cities and states," Trump said.
Pelosi in turn pointed to the assertion by Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday that the administration was not going to control the pandemic. "The White House and (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell have resisted, and on Sunday, Mark Meadows told us why," she said in a letter to Democratic House members.
"The President's words only have meaning if he can get Mitch McConnell to take his hand off the pause button," Pelosi wrote.
Pelosi, the top elected Democrat, led the House to pass a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill in May, but Republicans who control the Senate balked at another large bill. They pushed a much smaller measure, which failed, then left Washington after confirming Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, to the Supreme Court.
The White House has said aid to state and local governments has been the main sticking point in the talks, while Democrats also cited the lack of a national coronavirus testing plan.
Infections are surging again in the United States and 36 out of 50 states have seen an increase for at least two weeks in a row, according to the Reuters analysis. Deaths have also more than doubled in seven states.
On Monday, Pelosi's spokesman said she was hopeful an agreement could be reached before the elections.
But the White House began tamping down expectations for a major package before the vote.
"The chances are slim," White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox Business Network.
(Reporting by Steve Holland, Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by David Gregorio and Grant McCool)
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Turkish soldier killed in clash in northwest Syria: ministry
Published: Dec 03, 2020 at 11:16 a.m.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish soldier was killed in northwest Syria on Thursday in a clash with Kurdish militia fighters in the Afrin region, Turkey's Defence Ministry said, adding that six militants were "neutralised" in the fighting.
Turkey's military and its Syrian rebel allies seized control of Afrin, a mainly Kurdish region, from the Kurdish YPG militia in March 2018 in one of a series of Turkish incursions into northern Syria.
Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984.
The ministry said the YPG had infiltrated the area and Turkish forces had opened fire in the direction of the attack, "neutralising" six of the militants as they retreated. This term usually means killed but could also mean wounded.
Operations were continuing in the area, with Turkish forces supported by drones, the statement said.
The governor's office in Turkey's Hatay province, bordering Afrin, said the killed soldier was a sergeant and that the attack was staged overnight in the Gazaviye base area in Afrin.
(Reporting by Daren Butler; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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Let’s make groundwater an issue of national security
Adèle Hurley
Published December 4, 2015 Updated December 4, 2015
Adèle Hurley is the director of Program on Water Issues at the Munk School of Global Affairs
The year 2015 was the hottest year on this planet in recorded history. Drought, heat waves and forest fires were all symptoms of rising average temperatures in North America.
Temperature records invite Canadians to rethink the importance of groundwater. The resource is extensively used by communities, industries and farmers. It sustains rivers and wetlands, plays a key role in replenishing surface water systems and provides resilience in times of unpredictable weather.
The impacts of climate change are highlighting the strategic importance of groundwater in this country. As most Californians appreciate, groundwater, like money in the bank, can sustain societies through lean times of little precipitation. Canadians instinctively understand this.
According to a recent Nanos poll, a majority of Canadians not only view the essential resource as a public commons, but want to see this so-called "hidden treasure" carefully mapped, monitored and protected. They oppose allowing private companies to take as much groundwater as they need to run their businesses at no cost.
Public concern reflects, in part, the public's dependence on the resource. About 10 million Canadians depend on groundwater for their domestic use. In Ontario alone, nearly 30 per cent of the province's residents obtain their drinking water from the ground. The nation's grocery stores would be bare without meat and vegetables sustained by groundwater. These realities help to explain why so many Canadians recognize groundwater as a precious ecological service that keeps rivers, wetlands, municipalities and farming communities in good health.
But on the national stage, groundwater remains an undervalued and neglected resource. To date, only 19 of the country's 30 so-called "key aquifers" have been properly mapped. And this federal project, key to understanding groundwater behaviour, flows, levels and vulnerabilities, likely won't be finished for another decade. In the meantime, provinces largely give away this unmapped resource to foreign-owned bitumen miners, multinational water bottlers and water-hungry shale gas fracking companies for little to nothing in terms of fees, rents or royalties.
In many parts of the country, long-term monitoring of vital aquifers is almost non-existent. The governments of British Columbia and Alberta, for example, permit oil and gas companies to fracture shale in regions where groundwater hasn't been properly quantified, contrary to recommendations made by the country's environment ministers as far back as 2002. The government of the Northwest Territories is poised to permit fracking in the permafrost, where no groundwater mapping has been done.
To date, no regulatory body in Canada has set up a rigorous program to track methane and other contaminants in shallow and deep groundwater in areas of intense hydrocarbon drilling. Yet science shows us that all oil and gas well casings leak over time and that these leaking wells serve as pathways for contaminants that can put groundwater at risk for thousands of years.
Energy companies can also legally hide groundwater contamination by giving well owners cash for damages and having them sign non-disclosure agreements. Hundreds of such agreements have been signed in Alberta.
At the national level, it is time to close the gaps on basic groundwater science and reset the annual reporting responsibilities of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) for mapping and monitoring of the country's aquifers. Enhanced mapping and monitoring is needed to protect and sustain the resource and understand the cumulative impacts of human use and climate change. For this, governments need stable, transparent funding.
A recent paper prepared by David McLaughlin, former head of the National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy, recommended that provincial governments charge groundwater users a specific levy or royalty. He argued that this dedicated groundwater levy should be used to fund mapping and monitoring programs run by independent groundwater authorities. It's time to launch such programs now.
But more than funding is needed. There is no point inventorying groundwater if governments continue to allow polluters to cover up contamination and other abuses with non-disclosure agreements.
Climate change is breaking temperature records, affecting our water resources and contributing to economic volatility. Investment in the protection of groundwater is a form of national security. Like much in life, this security comes with a price.
The Globe examines the future of our most critical resource: water
Study led by B.C. scientist first to map Earth’s hidden groundwater
Calgary scientists create mini-worlds to test water-treatment strategies
Great Lakes are on the mend, but new threats loom
Water scarcity poses economic and security threat around the world
Our water shouldn’t be free. So what’s a fair price?
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At BIAFF 2010 The Space Between won a 4-Star Award with Hey, Kiddo.
What has a theater group got to do with film making? Borrow a few actors perhaps, but what else can it do for film makers?
Southwest Utah is a conservative area and The Space Between Theatre Company (TSBTC) was founded to introduce theatre and arts events that were outside the rather anodyne local productions. The objective was not to offend but rather to educate, open a window on an exciting world and stimulate the local population. A population that was changing as the area grew and the local community college morphed into a four year college with plans to become a university.
The theatre group mounted plays such as Waiting for Godot, Cabaret, Facing East and works by local playwrights. Music and play readings are a part of the offering. A film unit was created for recording rehearsals and grew into a production unit with a life of its own under The Space Between umbrella. First video promos were made and then in 2009 it was decided to hold a script writing contest, the winning script to be produced and sent to as many festivals as possible.
We had three judges; two lecturers from the communication/theatre department of the local college and a professional actor. We received twenty entries; the winner was written by Dan Hesse, a retired lawyer who has written several short stories but this was his first attempt at a film script. So Hey, Kiddo was born: a story of two recovering alcoholics from opposite ends of the social scale and how they help each other. We had our winner and so we set to work.
Day 1 - The Auditions
Our director, Douglas, is an experienced theatre director/actor and has appeared in films and TV but never directed a film. He set up the auditions through the members of TSBTC, his network of local actors and by advertising in the local newspaper. There was an excellent turnout for the leads, both in their 40s, some acting experience required but not necessarily in film. The selected actors were Dianne Marius, an experienced stage actor with no film experience and Roger Dunbar a well known local actor/director with limited film experience. Ten extras were recruited for a half day shoot.
Day 2 - The Read Through
Douglas and Katie With everyone present, Director, Actors, Writer and crew; the actors read through the entire script. Dan made changes as required and we all got a feel for how the script would work. It looked as if the finished time would be between 20 and 30 minutes. We wanted to get under 30 minutes as a number of festivals set this as their short film time limit. We also decided on the "look" of the film. We decided to go for well lit and photographed, no hand held, HD and thus 16:9. We also reviewed our crew:
Director: Douglas Caputo
Camera: Ned Cordery (and co-producer).
Sound: Alberto Kniepkamp
Location management: Iris Vazquez
Props & wardrobe: Bri Buckley
Grip: Dan Hesse(also the writer and co-producer).
Continuity: Susan Kniepkamp
Coordination: Katie Hulet
Post production: Edit Ned Cordery, sound by Alberto Kniepkamp.
The first requirement was to get permits to shoot on the city streets and around the County and Federal offices, plus a location for a meeting. We decided to apply for permits rather than take a guerilla approach as we are trying to establish ourselves as a vital part of the community. Iris was completely successful with all our objectives.
Days 3/4 - Location Shoot
The "homes". This sequence was to set the contrast between "Kate" and "Dave's" life styles - their homes and their transportation - as they set out for a meeting: "Kate" in her tiny apartment and on bicycle; "Dave" in his substantial home and in Porsche Boxster.
We used a dolly for a tracking shot, which worked well. We tried a small crane for the departing car, a shot which was not entirely successful. We also shot a later scene of "Dave" being awoken during the night by a phone call from "Kate" as she left for Bakersfield .
Day 4 - The AA Meeting
It was decided not to show the actual meeting but rather people going in; the sound of the meeting over "Kate" arriving late and then the discussion between "Kate" and "Dave" after the meeting. We shot this in the courtyard of the local Episcopal Church ,who gave us free rein in exchange for a new tree for their garden. The discussion between "Kate" and "Dave" was under a canopy so we had to use additional lighting: two 1000 watt halogen lights with blue gels. The extras filled in the background. This sequence involved long dialogue passages that were shot from four different angles.
Day 5 - The Office Visits
This required "Dave" to drive "Kate" to a number of offices to complete her probation and pay off debts. It was a long and busy day.
Day 6 - The Picnic
This was shot in the Pinion/Juniper zone on a day when the "no see'ums" (insects) were biting. There was another dialogue sequence and the wind overcame the "fuzzy" on the microphone. The was overcome by Alberto lying on the ground with the mic and Dan holding a blanket just out of shot as a windbreak.
Day 7 - The Road to Bakersfield
This sequence was supposed to be shot at dawn but due to other commitments we had to shoot in the evening. It looks like dawn provided you don't know the area and we had to shoot "backwards" as the lighting decreased rather than increased.
This began immediately the shoot was completed. There were four hours of HDV shots, these were loaded into the Mac and edited in Final Cut Pro v 5.
The Director supervised the edit and decided that he didn't like the close-up shots of the actors as HD is so revealing of every blemish, so few cutaways were used during the dialogue sequences.
The soundtrack was sweetened and the dialogue equalised by lifting out the edited sound track, writing to a CD as an AIFF file and then passing to Alberto who did all the post sound in Cakewalk. He then wrote the new file to a CD and it was dropped back into the FCP timeline. Amazingly, everything was still in sync! Music was selected from the AudioNetworkplc music library. They have a full professional music library but have special rates for home/student productions of $1.50 per song the commercial cost is about $150+ per song!
The finished run time is 21 minutes. Four stars at BIAFF is a fair result we feel. On to our 2010 script competition and a new production!
- Ned Cordery
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Vectrus Buys HHB Systems, Expands Intelligence Capability
Global service solutions Vectrus, Inc. has acquired HHB Systems, a provider of high-end solutions for facilities management, logistics, engineering, enterprise operations and asset management solutions supporting intelligence community projects.
HHB also provides IT and cybersecurity solutions to select clients.
Founded in 2003, HHB Systems brings capabilities that will advance Vectrus’ offerings and will further differentiate the company within the converged infrastructure market.
The acquisition “creates a stronger platform from which we can deliver fully converged solutions across all our clients’ missions,” said Sue Deagle, senior vice president and chief growth officer of Vectrus.
“I am delighted to welcome the talented employees of HHB to Vectrus,” she added. “We look forward to building upon the HHB team’s past performance, reputation, and long-standing and trusted relationships in the Intelligence Community,” she said.
HHB Systems has more than 50 employees, 95% of whom are cleared at top secret or above.
“Importantly, the acquisition of HHB further builds on our recently announced acquisition of Zenetex and together these acquisitions advance Vectrus’ transformation into a higher-value, technology-enabled and differentiated platform,” Deagle said.
Contact for media queries at:
michael.smith@vectrus.com
by Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO - Vectrus Inc. credited $330 million in new contracts so far this year for boosting revenue and profits by double-digit percentages as the Colorado Springs-based defense contractor heads into a key year in 2019.
Revenue for the third...Read more
by Anna Forrester, GovCon Wire, TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 18, 2018 — Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) will provide maintenance and operations services to the U.S. Navy in support of the service branch’s base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under a potential $59.7M task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday....Read more
by Marjorie Censer, Inside Defense, Washington, D.C. - The chief growth officer of Vectrus told Inside Defense last week the contractor views infusing technology into its programs as the best approach to lower the cost of these efforts.
Speaking from Vectrus' Reston, VA, office...Read more
by Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO - Vectrus Inc. credited a pair of new contracts totaling more than $125 million with producing one of the best quarters in the nearly four years since it was spun off from Exelis Inc.
The Colorado Springs-based military contractor...Read more
by Anna Forrester, GovCon Wire, TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2018 — Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has been named in an annual list of employers that best served the needs of service members, veterans and their families in 2018 based on culture, veteran recruitment, policies and accommodations for National...Read more
by Nichols Martin, ExecutiveBiz, July 26, 2018 -
Vectrus has landed a spot under a survey-based ranking that recognizes organizations supporting veterans and their relatives.
Over 35 percent of Vectrus’ workforce consists of individuals who have previously served with the...Read more
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X-Men: Days of Future Past - Movie Review
Bryan Singer returns to the franchise that first put comic book movies on the map and the pressure is on to bring two generations of mutants out of the past and into the future. X-Men: Days of Future Past features an all star cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, and Lucas Till.
In a world where mutants and humans alike are being hunted by deadly robots designed to adapt to any situation and to use any foe's strengths against them, the X-Men have found themselves in a truly desperate situation. With few options left, Professor X (Stewart) and Magneto (McKellan) have once again united forces and gathered their remaining allies for a last stand against this seemingly unbeatable foe. These robotic soldiers, known as Sentinels, were originally created decades prior by Dr. Bolivar Trask (Dinklage) to identify and eradicate mutants although it was a chance encounter with the mutant known as Mystique which provided him the key to creating something even he didn't think possible at the time.
With only one option left before them, Kitty Pryde (Page) is tasked with using her powers to send Logan aka Wolverine (Jackman) back in time to change the course of history before it is turned towards the dark destiny they are currently trying to survive. To complicate matters, Logan is sent back to a time when neither the younger Xavier or Magneto are in any position to help him, let alone themselves or even each other. Meanwhile, Raven aka Mystique is bound and determined to carry out the one mission that ultimately puts humanity in danger.
As far as X-Men movies go, I would have to say Days of Future Past ranks among the best of the bunch. No, I'm not going to rank them all, but this one definitely stands out simply for having the ability to seamlessly weave two timelines together while pulling off a super star balancing act of truly epic proportions. Seriously, when was the last time so many headline quality stars have been together in one movie. Every single person I mentioned at the beginning of this review could and have been featured in their own films let alone as part of various ensembles. Putting this team of talent together should earn this movie some sort of special recognition award. All that being said, I would have to point out Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy as the standout performers as each takes their characters down paths we have never seen from either of them before.
When it comes to big time, blockbuster special effects, I would say this movie does a fine job, but doesn't do anything to raise the bar like Marvel's other recent super hero feature did just a few weeks prior to this movie coming out. That being said, there are still plenty of jaw dropping effects and intense battles that will keep you on the edge of your seat and stuffing popcorn into your face. Special shout out to Blink (played by Bing Bing Fan), and her power to open portals, for providing some of the most fun and innovative fight sequences I've seen in a while. Magneto also gets to use his powers in some really cool ways that are also quite devastating to whoever is on the wrong side of his wrath.
There is also one particular scene in this movie which features a new character to the movies that you are absolutely going to love. You may have already heard about it, but I;m not going to say anything else here in my review. You'll know the moment as soon as it starts and you will most likely applaud when this particular slice of time in the movie comes to a conclusion.
While X-Men: Days of Future Past is thoroughly entertaining on many different levels, I still felt like it was lacking a few things that would otherwise put it front and center on my favorites list for the year. Maybe the near impossible juggling act of heavyweight talent and iconic characters needed more story to chew on to justify all of them being thrown together or maybe it was the fundamental issues of time travel that always make me a little apprehensive about its inclusion into a story. This is the part where I stop rambling and encourage you to go out and decide for yourself whether this movie ranks among your own personal favorites.
Thinking of seeing it in 3D? While I felt the heightened format added some visual pop to the big screen spectacle, you could just as easily get by without that extra D and still be just fine.
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Vicky Alvear Shecter
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Cleopatra’s Moon
Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
Anubis Speaks: A Guide to the Afterlife by the Egyptian God of the Dead
Hades Speaks: A Guide to the Underworld by the Greek God of the Dead
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Curses and Smoke: Book Excerpt
When your world blows up, what will you hold on to?
About the Book: Vetted by Roman experts and a Latin teacher, the novel tells the story of two teens in alternating voices: Lucia, the daughter of the owner of a struggling gladiatorial school, and Tages, a medical slave in her father’s school. Concerned by strange signs in the natural world around her, Lucia dreams about discussing them with the naturalist Pliny, who lives across the bay. Tag dreams of training to fight in the arena to earn his freedom. Their lives intertwine under the shadow of an old curse tablet and the ominous rumblings of Vesuvius.
Edited by Cheryl Klein and published by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
…The morning’s warm-up consisted of running an obstacle course with wooden shield and sword in hand. When it was Tag’s turn, he sprinted for the barrels — three large ones — and leapt over them, landing on his feet in a crouch. Making sure his equipment never touched the ground, he weaved in and out of the low ropes tied between posts. Next, he dodged a line of sandbags sent swinging in different rhythms, and finally, still on the run, he struck a swinging straw man on its chest. A dishonorable hit to the back would have meant three sprinting laps around the courtyard.
Tag bent over his knees, gasping for air, then got back in line for the next go-round. He looked up when he heard a strange popping sound. A heavily muscled man dropped to the ground behind the barrels, grabbing the back of his thigh, bellowing in pain.
Tag winced. That popping sound meant only one thing — the man had torn a major muscle in two. He ran out to the fighter and could already see the bulge forming where the muscle separated. He cursed under his breath.
The man’s red, sweating face was contorted in agony. “You two!” Tag pointed at two fighters staring at their downed friend. “Lift him and take him to the treatment room. Statim!”
Tag jogged ahead of them. “Cool clay from near the cistern,” he called to a wide-eyed slave standing by. “Two buckets’ worth. Now.” The young man took off.
When Tag applied the cool clay to the man’s back thigh, some of the fighter’s curses eased. He reached for a poppy tincture to relax the man, mostly because he wanted him to be still. The worst thing the fighter could do now was to continue moving that muscle, and getting a gladiator to stop moving — no matter the pain — was no easy task.
When the man’s breathing eased, Tag headed to the herbal room for additional supplies, Castor trailing on his heels. Inside, he took a deep breath and thought about his next steps. He would reapply the clay, maybe adding crushed mint to the mix. Then he’d wrap the leg tight, holding the muscle together so that it could reattach and heal. Perhaps calendula paste applied before bandaging would —
“Lady Lucia,” Castor cried, running over to her as she stood in the doorway.
Tag’s heart jumped. Lucia never came into the medical rooms because it meant walking among the gladiators, which her father strictly forbade. “Are you ill or hurt?” he asked.
“No,” she said.
“Look, Domina,” Castor said before she could say anything else. He pointed at a row of terra-cotta containers. “I marked the medicine jars.”
She touched the top of one wax-sealed jar. “How do you know which one contains what medicine?”
Castor traced a grimy finger over the Greek letters scratched onto the surface of each jar. “I can read letters now! If this letter is the first one,” he said, indicating the alpha, “then it means A, for apple tree bark. And if that letter is tau, it means T for toadflax.”
“That is impressive, Castor!” she said, looking up at Tag through her lashes. Her gaze lingered for a moment before she smiled down on the boy, and Tag felt the weight of it like a physical caress.
He cleared his throat. “Castor, I need you to go and check on the injured gladiator. I want you to make sure he hasn’t moved.”
Castor stuck his lower lip out and crossed his arms. “I don’t want to go. I want to show Domina all that I’ve been learning.”
Tag raised an eyebrow. “Are you going to misbehave in front of Domina?” he asked in an overly surprised voice. He knew that was a low blow — Castor adored Lucia.
The boy’s face grew blotchy.
“Go,” Lucia said gently to the boy. “After you have finished your healing work, bring a wax tablet to the atrium and show me then.”
Castor nodded, gave her a shy grin, and raced out of the room.
Then Lucia’s eyes met Tag’s, and they stared at each other in silence. It was all he could do not to rush over and press her against him.
One of the gladiators walked by the door, and she quickly spoke. “My nurse has been feeling poorly, and I wondered if you could recommend a tonic.”
Tag struggled to remember the proper response. “Uh . . . Tell me her symptoms.”
“Metrodona is fine,” she said in a low voice, coming closer when the gladiator had passed. “I just wanted to talk to you.”
Gods, how he loved her warm, clean scent — like blooming citron trees drenched in sunshine. He would not look at her mouth. Or the silk of her neck. He needed to keep his head.
What did you want to talk about?”
She twisted her fingers together. “I miss you. I wanted to see you.”
“Your ankle is well enough to go out into the woods?”
She nodded. “But you are usually training in the afternoons.”
As the sound of footsteps approached in the hall, he said loudly, “Perhaps this salve for tight muscles may ease your nurse’s backache.”
“Thank you, healer,” she responded in the same overly loud tone as the footsteps disappeared.
She walked over to the shrine of Asclepius and he moved beside her. Standing close with their heads bowed in front of the shrine was the only way such proximity would be allowed. Tag let his arm brush hers, and even at that small touch, his heart raced.
“I can come this afternoon,” he whispered, glad that Quintus’s sudden absence gave him the freedom to sneak away.
She smiled. “Good.”
“In the future, I’ll send Castor with a message when I think I can get away.”
“You can’t — then he will know.”
“It will be in code.”
She released a breath. “What will the code be?”
“How about, ‘The medicus is out on an errand,’” he said.
She looked at him disbelievingly. “That’s a terrible code. It’s too obvious.”
He grinned, embarrassed. “All right. You come up with one.”
“Send Castor with some salve for Metrodona’s back. When he delivers it unexpectedly, I’ll know you will be free and heading for the woods.”
“All right. But how will you get free of Metrodona?”
“I’ll figure out a way.”
He smiled. She placed her fingertips on a clay foot votive. “Is this for the stable boy? How is he recovering?”
On an impulse, he ran his finger lightly over hers, tracing slowly down and around the curve of her thumb. It made no sense that such an innocent touch could cause him to nearly vibrate with desire for her, but it seemed to have the same effect on her, judging by the way her breath hitched. They both stared at their hands in silence as he continued stroking her skin.
“I will . . . I will find a way to get out there today,” he promised.
She shivered and pulled her hand away. “This afternoon, then,” she said in a shaky whisper and rushed out of the room.
By the time Tag bound the hurt gladiator’s leg and got him to his barrack room to rest, the morning training had ended. Tag stared at the sun over the trees, calculating how much time needed to pass before he could head out to the woods to see Lucia. Either way, it couldn’t come soon enough.
“Healer! Pontius wants to see you,” one of the men called, startling him. “He is in the weapons room.”
Whatever it was the overseer wanted, Tag hoped it wasn’t something that would take up the afternoon. He needed to see Lucia.
He entered the weapons chamber, momentarily blinded by the shift from the bright courtyard to the dark and dusty room. As his vision adjusted, he spotted the shelves crowded with gladiator helmets. When he blinked, he had the uneasy sense that all of the bronze heads — as one — had turned to look at him with silent menace.
“Who’s there?” Pontius called from the corner.
“It’s me, Tag.”
“How is Brutus?” the overseer asked as he inspected the dings on an old shield.
“Severe tear of the major back thigh muscle.”
Pontius growled irritably. “What is going on lately? Our injury rate is ridiculous. The latest rumor is that Spartacus himself has returned to the mountain and is punishing Pompeii.”
“What?” Tag laughed.
“His ghost, anyway,” Pontius said. “And that his fury at not being avenged is causing the mountain to shake.”
Tag shook his head. “That makes no sense. Spartacus and his men died in the fields of Lucania, not here!”
Pontius waggled his eyebrows. “Yesssss, but they never found his body, so some of the men believe he came back to Vesuvius to die.” He rolled his eyes. Every slave knew that Spartacus and his army of slaves — many of them from Pompeii and the Campanian region — had defeated at least two Roman legions from their Vesuvian stronghold.
Everybody’s uneasy. Haven’t you noticed all the overwhelming offerings to Hercules lately?” continued Pontius.
Tag had noticed — the niched shrine on the main barracks wall overflowed with flowers, fruits, small statuettes, coins, and other gifts to the muscular son of Zeus.
“The master has heard some of the talk,” continued Pontius. “He wants me to shackle all of the gladiators at night so they don’t get any ideas about running away and joining Spartacus’s ghost.”
Tag swallowed. “Is . . . is the master increasing the number of guards around the compound, then?” he asked. Gods.
“No, costs too much,” Pontius said, picking up an angled Thracian sword. He cut his eyes at Tag. “Any particular reason that’s a concern, boy?”
“No, no. Not at all.”
“Because it never ends well when a slave tries to run away.”
“I am aware.”
“Ye might even say new fighters have a greater chance of winning their freedom in the arena than slaves have surviving a run,” he continued, inspecting the tip of the sword with one eye. “Which is to say, barely any chance at all.”
“I know,” Tag said.
Pontius put the blade down and grinned at him. “Good.” He slammed the trunk lid, clasped Tag by the shoulder, and ushered him out of the room. “Now, take me to Brutus and let’s talk to him together about what he’s gotta do to heal that bum leg.”…
…They set off, ambling in the shade of the multistoried insulae that towered over the well-worn stone road. Lucia slowed her pace in time with her nurse’s sluggish, rolling gait.
“You know, you could have bought your freedom ten times over if you hadn’t spent so much on these charlatan fortune-tellers like the Egyptian,” Lucia said.
“Bah, what would I do with freedom?” Metrodona huffed.. “I am too old to start taking care of myself. Besides, who will watch your babies except for me — me, who wiped your bottom from the day you came into the world screaming?”
“I’m not having babies any time soon,” Lucia snapped.
Metrodona cackled. “You will be married soon. If you are as fertile as your mama, you will be knee-deep in ’em before you know it.”
Lucia didn’t want to be as fertile as her mother, not if it meant her babies died at birth or in her womb. She took her nurse’s arm to help her navigate the large stones that got them across the street without having to step into the excess water from overflowing fountains .. When Lucia realized she’d gotten too far ahead of Metrodona, she slowed again and began idly reading the graffiti scratched onto insulae walls. ‘Secundus defecated here,’” she read, wrinkling her nose and checking the bottom of her shoes. Gods. Most were just as crude but one stopped her cold: “Learn this: while I am alive, you, hateful death, are coming.”
She shook off a shiver. Why would someone scratch such a morose thought on a street wall? Scanning for something more uplifting, she lighted on “Figulus loves Idaia.” Much better.
The market announced itself with a cacophony of noises — coppersmiths hammering on gleaming pots, leather workers punching holes into harnesses with iron mallets, wine sellers hawking their latest vintage, butchers extolling the sweetness of their ewe meat. They walked past a poultry farmer hawking the newest craze — parrots strung up by their strange little feet, looking like bunches of feathered fruit. “Only for the best banquets in Pompeii!” he called out. Behind the man with the parrots, a boy yelped as his teaching master caned him in front of the other students attending the open-air school.
They found Metrodona’s Egyptian sitting on a low wooden stool in the shade of the colonnade near the flower stalls. Lucia leaned against a dusty red column as she examined the old man, who had leathery skin scored by the sun into deep ravines around his mouth and forehead, under a turbaned head. The man held out a dirty palm and Metrodona slipped some coins into it. In a blink, the coins were gone and the man turned to stare at Lucia. Metrodona waved her closer.
“What am I supposed to do?” Lucia asked through the side of her mouth, afraid to look away from the old man’s strangely piercing stare.
“Nothing,” Metrodona said. “He is reading you.”
The man signaled, and Metrodona grabbed Lucia’s right hand and held the palm out for him to inspect. His brow furrowed and Lucia fought the impulse to snatch her hand away. But then he grinned, showing three brown teeth hanging from inflamed gums like tiny figs about to drop from their branch. He began chattering with Metrodona in heavily accented Latin. Lucia caught the words “love” and “a great passion” and decided she’d heard enough. The very idea of “passion” with her doddering betrothed made her shiver.
“I’m going to go look at the incense,” she said, bending toward Metrodona’s ear. Her nurse nodded and waved her away as she continued her lively conversation with the old Egyptian.
Dozens of terra-cotta bowls filled with tiny hills of brightly colored powders — yellow, red, blue, brown, purple — crowded the incense seller’s cart. Garlands of myrtle and rosemary hung from wooden beams, mixing with the sweet and tangy smells of so many different powders.
“Ah, I have something special for a pretty young girl like you,” said a fat old woman with wiry gray hair She drew out a small leather pouch and opened it, stroking the worn brown leather as if it were a lover’s face. “Venus the goddess of love favors my special mix of rose and narcissus,” she said in a low tone, as if sharing a secret. “It will draw the true love of the one you seek.”
“I need . . . do you have something for . . . making sure a marriage doesn’t happen?” Lucia asked.
“Hmmmmm. Sometimes the goddess of love is insulted by unions that should not be so. To attract her attention to it, use powder of lilies in her sacred fire.” The woman quickly drew out another pouch. “These have been dried under moonlight. The goddess will notice this special blend and grant you your wish. I am certain of it.”
“How much?” Lucia asked, and the haggling began. When they finally settled, the woman handed Lucia her portion wrapped in a carefully folded piece of old papyrus.
“Purchasing something special?” a familiar voice asked from behind her. She turned, her heart skipping a beat.
“Tag! What are you doing here?”
He held up several small cloth bags pungent with the smells of earth and dried bitter herbs. “Pontius made me come today to pick up some things for him,” he said. “And I needed to refill some of our herb stores.”
“Metrodona insisted I come today too. Funny, isn’t it?”
He nodded, his eyes crinkling.
“Healer! Healer!” came a high little voice. Castor ran up to Tag and pulled on his tunic. “Can we go see the monkey now,pleeeeease?”
“You’re here too?” Lucia asked the boy, laughing.
“I go where the healer goes, because I am going to be a healer when I grow up,” he said.
“Wait,” Tag said, pretending confusion. “I thought you said you were going to be a gladiator.”
The boy scowled up at him. “I am going to be both!” He turned to Lucia. “I am the healer’s appistant.”
“A-what?”
“Assistant. I am helping with everything.”
“Helping create a mess, more like it,” Tag said. Something about the way he ruffled the slave boy’s hair made her heart contract.
“The monkey! Please can we see the monkey now?” Castor begged.
“I want to see it too,” Lucia said, following as the boy pulled Tag to the small gray-and-black monkey leashed to the fruit and nut seller’s stall. Castor dropped to his haunches before the creature, grinning from ear to ear.
“Little monkey, meet little monkey,” Tag said, looking down at the boy. “You know, Castor, the resemblance between you two is downright troubling.”
But the boy didn’t hear the teasing, so entranced was he by the small creature that looked into his eyes with a defeated, soulful gaze.
“I let you feed the monkey if you buy from me,” the seller said.
Castor shot up and bounced on his bare toes. “Oh, please please please please buy something! I want to feed him!”
“Let us see,” Tag said, then turned to the grocer. “Show me your best Persian walnuts.”
After Tag purchased a wrapped bundle of nuts and Castor had excitedly handed the monkey his treat — a piece of cucumber, which the creature took with tiny, delicate hands — they walked slowly away. Lucia asked, “Walnuts? Doesn’t the cook buy those?”
“Yes. But these are not to eat — they are medicinal.”
She looked up questioningly at him.
“They are for my father,” he explained. “I have read that ground walnut powder mixed with bone-ash may help with his mental confusion. That and the occasional bleeding should help I hope.” He paused. “Which reminds me, my supply of leeches is getting low.”
“Ugh. I’d rather be cut and bled than have leeches used on me.”
“I will remember that.”
They promenaded around the market, occasionally stealing glances at each other as they chatted about the household. Sometimes they bumped shoulders or brushed arms. Lucia felt as if all her awareness and sensation was gravitating toward Tag like iron to a magnet rock. She wondered how the weight of it didn’t make her tip over into him. Why was she reacting this way? This was Tag.
“Well, do you?”
His question startled her. She blinked. “Do I what?”
“Want some bread? I’m hungry.”
“Oh, sure.” She hadn’t even noticed that they’d stopped in front of a baker’s cart. They exchanged a few coins with the baker and ripped into the crusty, scored round loaf with relish. Castor stuffed so much into his mouth at once it looked like he’d shoved a trigon ball in his cheek.
After finishing his bread, Castor ran toward a clutch of dirty, ragged chickens pecking at seeds near the vegetable carts. A great squawking of outrage ensued, and not just from the chickens. The sellers cursed at the boy to go away.
“Gods, he never slows down,” muttered Tag.
“It is very sweet that you have taken him under your wing,” Lucia said.
“He is a smart boy,” he said. “What a waste it would be if no one ever bothered to train his mind.”
His eyes were the color of dark, rich honey. She looked away quickly, her cheeks warming. “Yes, of course.”
“In fact,” he continued, “he seems to pick up Greek naturally. Much faster than you ever did.”
She stopped in her tracks. “That is not true! I learned it so fast, Father didn’t even know I was joining you in your lessons.”
“I am teasing, Lucia,” he said, smiling down at her.
“Oh. Right.” His smile was devastating. Apparently, she wasn’t the only one who found it so. Some of the other young women in the market were looking at Tag the same way she was — and some of the men too. Yet the moment someone attempted to talk to him — even if just to ask which baker had the best bread that day — his scowl returned. The expression was his shield, she realized, and it pained her to think how much he needed one.
Castor bounced through the forum and toward the Temple of Venus. They slowly followed.
“So, how fares Quintus?” he asked. “Or maybe I should ask, ‘How much sympathy has he been milking for his nose?’”
She chuckled. “Half the time, I can’t tell whether it’s all an act or if he really is as insufferable as he comes across. Do you know how he introduced himself to me the first time I met him? He said, ‘My father owns the largest villa in Herculaneum.’ I wanted to say, ‘How nice for you — my father owns the smelliest gladiators in Pompeii.’ Really, it’s a wonder to me that no gladiator has pummeled him to death yet.”
“Give it time,” he said.
They walked in silence, dodging the people moving to and from Venus’s temple and altar. Wooden scaffolds climbed up the sides of the temple as builders scraped and pounded the walls that seemed always under some sort of renovation. As they neared the outdoor altar, Lucia pulled out her powder of lilies. “Excuse me a moment,” she said to Tag without looking at him.
She sprinkled the fragrant powder over the dancing orange flames. The powder made a crackling sound, releasing a burst of sweetness mixed with apple-wood smoke. Closing her eyes, she murmured her prayer to the goddess of love:
Save me, o goddess, from a terrible union
One that would be an insult to your ways of love
and I shall sacrifice a white lamb for you every year
and spread word of your kindness and magnificence to all in Pompeii.
Tag leaned against a red-painted column in the colonnade, waiting for her. After she rejoined him, they trailed Castor to the edge of the complex, where the child began jumping from rock to rock.
“Have you ever been to the secret temple?” Tag asked.
“What secret temple?”
Castor ran back, staring up at him with large, round eyes. “There is a secret temple? Where?” he squeaked.
Tag pointed to a depression in the rocks. “Down there. To Mephistis,” he said. “The goddess of poisonous vapors.”
The little boy looked at Lucia. “Can we go, please? Please?”
Lucia shrugged. “Sure.”
Tag led them to a section of scrubs and rocks at the edge of the old quarter, where they climbed down an embankment.
“I’ve never heard of Mephistis,” Lucia said.
“She is a Samnite goddess. The Romans built the temple to Venus over her ancient shrine when they conquered Pompeii,” Tag said, holding his hand out to help her down the moss-covered rocks. “A great many old-timers are convinced Mephistis will not take the insult lying down. They await her punishment.”
He released her hand to lift Castor and “fly” him down, the boy whooping with glee. She curled her fingers around the lingering warmth of his touch.
“They’ve been waiting a long time, then,” she said, forcing her attention back to his words. “Sulla took Pompeii many generations ago.”
“The gods work in their own time,” he said. “Many believe she will exact her punishment on the Romans in her own way.”…
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Braden Holtby’s new mask designed in collaboration with Luke Marston and David Gunnarsson. (Mike Wavrecan photo)
B.C. Coast Salish artist designs new mask for Canucks goalie
Braden Holtby’s new mask features artwork by Luke Marston inspired by the legend of the seawolf
Cole Schisler
New Vancouver Canucks goalie Braden Holtby will be sporting a new mask, designed in collaboration by Vancouver Island Indigenous artist, Luke Marston, and NHL mask artist David Gunnarsson.
Holtby’s initial mask attempt, featuring an Indigenous thunderbird design, was greeted with controversy. The thunderbird mask was not created in collaboration with an Indigenous artist, which led many to criticize it for cultural appropriation. Holtby apologized, and committed to working with a Coast Salish artist on a new mask.
When Marston, a member of the Ladysmith-area Stz’uminus First Nation, first saw the thunderbird mask, he was surprised to learn an Indigenous artist wasn’t involved.
“It was cool that he wanted to put native art on his mask, but he just went about it the wrong way,” Marston said. “They just didn’t know that it’d be so offensive to people appropriating an art form like that.”
The new mask features a design inspired by the Coast Salish legend of the sea wolf — a pack of wolves that can transform into killer whales. Marston has said the story represents families travelling together, and hunting on land and sea.
“Every time I do something for somebody I talk about what they want. [Holtby] asked me to share some stories with him about different things. He wanted something that was more universal, legends that every one has,” Marston said.
“I started telling him about the orca — because of the Canucks and the orca — everyone on the coast kind of has a version of that. A lot of nations on the Island like Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Kwakwaka’wakw — up and down the coast everyone has a version of orcas transforming into wolves, and hunting the land and ocean in packs and pods.”
Marston asked if Holtby wanted to revisit the thunderbird design, but Holbty wanted to start with something new. Holtby was hooked by the legend of the sea wolf, as it’s a fitting metaphor for the Canucks as a team.
“That’s what he liked about it. I told him ‘you guys are on the hunt this year’,” Marston said.
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Both an away mask and a home mask are being designed. Each will feature unique Coast Salish designs. Marston hinted that the away mask may feature a Coast Salish eagle design.
Marston and the Canucks hoped to have the home mask ready for the NHL season opener against the Edmonton Oilers, but the mask is still being equipped with the proper protective padding. In a tweet, the Canucks said that the mask will ‘debut in games soon’.
This beauty will debut in games soon. 😍
For now, enjoy a sneak peek of Holtby’s new mask – a collaboration between Coast Salish artist, Luke Marston, & @daveartofficial. Inspired by the legend of the orcas & the wolves, transforming in packs to hunt the land & in the ocean. pic.twitter.com/64xiXMAcWB
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) January 14, 2021
Marston said that working on the goalie mask was a fun experience for him. When creating traditional masks the work is more serious. Working on Holtby’s mask gave him the opportunity to blend tradition with mainstream society.
“It was super fun and exciting. I was texting with Holtby, and talking to the Canuck’s brass about everything. Collaborating with David Gunnarsson was great. It’s not just me that did it, it was a collaboration between myself, Gunnarsson and Holtby.”
In 2015, Marston unveiled his Shore to Shore sculpture in Stanley Park, a 14-foot bronze-cast sculpture that honours the link between Portuguese and Coast Salish First Nations cultures. At the unveiling Marston met Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini.
When Marston saw the controversy around Holtby’s thunderbird mask, he reached out to Aquilini and offered to work on a new mask with authentic Coast Salish designs.
“I love that fact that Francesco, the Canucks, and everyone involved respect First Nations and our art form enough to correct this and address it,” Marston said.
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ICMR moves to check under-reporting of deaths
Posted: Jun 27, 2020 07:04 AM (IST)
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, June 26
Amid concerns over potential under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths, the Indian Council of Medical Research has issued key guidance on accurate recording of mortalities.
The National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), an ICMR institute which runs the National Cancer Registry, in its guidance document shows how comorbidities in Covid patients may enhance the risk of disease but can’t be termed underlying causes of death.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said a comprehensive serological survey in Delhi will begin from Saturday in a bid to prepare a broad strategy to combat the spread of Covid-19 infection in the national capital.
Aligned with WHO’s International Classification of Diseases-10 Code on Covid mortality, the document says, “It is likely that Covid-19 is the underlying cause of death that led to acute respiratory distress syndrome or pneumonia in most deaths. In these cases, Covid-19 must be captured as the underlying cause of death. Acute respiratory failure is a mode of dying.”
The guidance adds that some patients may present with preexisting comorbidities like asthma, chronic bronchitis, ischemic heart disease, cancer and diabetes. “These conditions increase the risk of developing respiratory infections and may lead to severe disease in a Covid-19 positive individual. These conditions are not considered underlying causes of death as they have directly not caused death due to Covid,” the document notes, with some states auditing Covid deaths and attributing many to comorbidities.
West Bengal tried such auditing, triggering a controversy over under reporting of mortality. The auditing was later revoked. Now Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is learnt to be auditing Covid deaths with potential risks of under reporting.
NCDIR has also created India’s first online platform to record hospital deaths, including COVID deaths. The platform called e-MOR (e-Mortality Software) is a smart alternative to the existing paper-based death registration system in India, which is faulty.
“In most death registrations, the causes of death are not accurately recorded. We learnt this when we tried to find the proportion of deaths caused by cancer. In 99 per cent registrations we checked, the cause of death was mentioned as cardio-respiratory failure or septic shock, not cancer despite cancer being the cause. So we developed e-MOR that contains all ICD-10 disease codes, including the COVID code and allows hospitals to electronically feed causes of death. E-MOR will curb incomplete reporting as it does not let you proceed unless all information slots are filled. Death reporting includes description of the underlying cause, contributing cause and immediate cause. All three are key to epidemiological study,” says NCDIR Director Prashant Mathur.
Karnataka on Friday became the first state to adopt e-MOR for better reporting of COVID deaths. Tamil Nadu and many other states are mulling the idea.
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COVID-year police recruits inducted at SCG
NSW Police Force recruits who missed out on the usual attestation ceremonies at the Goulburn Police Academy due to COVID finally had their day.
by Joe Attanasio
4th Dec 2020 5:39 PM
With police blood in their families, the Prime Minister and his deputy had good reason to look on with pride as the latest recruits were inducted into the NSW Police Force.
The 189 recruits who missed out on the traditional attestation ceremonies at the Goulburn Police Academy this year because of COVID restrictions finally had their day when they gathered for a mass parade at the SCG on Friday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the Special Attestation for NSW Police Force's new probationary constables at the SCG. Picture: Dylan Robinson
The ground was as full as COVID restrictions would allow, with proud parents, siblings and grandparents cheering on the new recruits from the stands.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke emotionally about his policeman father, while his deputy Michael McCormack watched his son graduate.
Mr Morrison said he wasn't initially planning on making comments but after "looking upon NSW's finest" he couldn't resist.
"My father stood where you stand decades ago, he would be very proud to look upon you today," he said.
"You are a part of our community and you protect our community … you have joined the gold standard of policing, not just here in Australia but all around the world."
Proud families cheered on from the grandstands of the SCG. Picture: Dylan Robinson
Mr McCormack, whose 23-year-old son Nicholas was instated into the force, said it was "a very proud father moment".
"It was a very special ceremony today at the SCG, I'm very proud," he said.
"They've all done a sterling job this year under great adversity and even though COVID-19 has been such a challenge for everybody, the police have been there all the way."
Graduate Brianna Gorman with her twin sister Lauren. Picture: Dylan Robinson
Brianna Gorman had been waiting to become a police officer all her life and at the end of a year with many setbacks, she is proud to be among the 49 women in the new crop
"I'm just stoked today, it's been a long process for me," said Ms Gorman who was
accompanied by 10 of her closest relatives, including both grandmothers, her parents, twin sister and younger brother.
"It's been a long time coming but I've finally made it to the finish line."
Originally published as COVID-year police recruits inducted at SCG
Special Attestation for NSW Police Force's new probationary constables at the SCG. Picture: Dylan Robinson
The celebration was all the more special after a tough year due to COVID. Picture: Dylan Robinson
NSW Police's new probationary constables. Picture: Dylan Robinson
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Ask your hotel to write their name and address in Mandarin for you. It will be easier for your taxi driver to figure out where you want to go and prevent any confusion.
When ordering food at a restaurant in Beijing, your starter dishes won't come out first. Your server will bring whichever dish is ready, so when it arrives start eating as it might be awhile before the next one shows up.
If you are a vegetarian or vegan screenshot and save key phrases in Mandarin on your phone. Make sure you have the English translation, the Chinese characters and the Chinese word spelt out with English letters. It will make ordering your soy latte easier and communicating other dietary preferences.
While at a restaurant, don't leave your chopsticks upright in your rice bowl. In Beijing, this symbolises that someone has died. Rather keep your sticks together on your plate or lying across the top of your bowl.
Setup a virtual VPN before you enter China if you want to bypass the country's Internet censorship. Many websites like Google and most social media sites are blocked, making it difficult to check-in with loved ones or keeping an eye on your inbox.
Beijing's subway system is the best way to get around the city. Rides will cost CNY 2 - 5 depending on your destination and all announcements, station names and signs are in English.
Try your best to avoid rush hour (anytime before 9 am) as commuters make their way to work and again from 6 pm. Download Beijing' free metro system app to plan your route and make getting around the city even easier.
Taxis in Beijing are an affordable way to get around the city. Fares start with a minimum charge of CNY 10 and include a CNY 2 surcharge for fuel.
Catching the bus in Beijing can often be a more direct route between two destinations than the subway. While all the stop names and announcements are in English, it is a bit more of a challenge to navigate. Use the Beijing Public Transport to map out your route beforehand. Depending on how far you travel, fares should cost around CNY 1.40.
Beijing is a massive city and shouldn't be attempted to tackle solely on foot. Rather use public transport to go to a specific neighbourhood and then spend time walking around as much you can.
Renting a car in Beijing is more complicated than other cities in the world. Without a Chinese driver's license, you cannot drive a car on the roads. If you want the freedom of getting around, hire a car service for the day.
When is The Best Time to Visit Beijing?
If you can handle the city's heat in summer and below freezing temperatures winter, Beijing is a destination that can be visited all year around. But if you want to save money, plan your travels around the national public holidays to avoid the crowds and high room rates.
Temperatures are still quite warm during September and October, making it an ideal time of year to visit Beijing. You'll still need to bring some light layers to stay warm when it gets a bit colder, but it's worth it with hotel rates being lower during this shoulder season.
Beijing's winter months (November to February) are when the city is virtually empty from tourists. For budget travellers who can handle the freezing temperatures, you'll save on below average room rates and have no long lines at any of the popular tourist sites.
Springtime in Beijing (March to May) means a pleasant climate and colourful scenery. Hotel prices will begin to increase in anticipation for the summer crowds, so book early to secure a low price.
From June to August Beijing experiences it's peak travel season. From the sweltering heat, high hotel prices and long lines at attractions it's not the best time to visit the city for budget travellers. July and August are also Beijing's rainiest months, meaning some of your outdoor activities might get rescheduled.
Airports in Beijing
Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing Capital is the main international airport serving the city. It's the main hub for Air China, the country's flag carrier, which flies to over 120 destinations around the world. The airport's third terminal is the second largest in the world and the sixth largest building in the world.
Getting to and from Beijing Capital International Airport
If you are arriving at Beijing Capital Airport at night, a taxi ride will be your only option. A taxi ride from the airport into the city centre will cost CNY 70 to CNY 120 and will take 30 minutes depending on the traffic. You'll also have to pay a CNY 10 toll for the airport expressway.
The easiest way to get to downtown Beijing from the airport is via the Airport Express train. There are stations at Terminal 2 and 3, with the journey taking 16 to 20 minutes. A one-way ticket will cost CNY 25 and trains run every 15 minutes from 6:20 am to 11:00 pm.
If you need to get to different locations throughout Beijing, an affordable option is the airport shuttle. Buses for each route leave every 10-30 minutes from the airport and will cost CNY 24 for a one-way trip.
The cheapest way to get to the city from the airport is with public bus no. 359 or no. 640. The only downside is that the buses are not fast or convenient and you will need to transfer to catch the subway into the city.
Beijing Nanyuan Airport
Located 13 km from Tiananmen Square, Beijing Nanyuan Airport serves as the city's secondary airport. Currently, China United Airlines is the only airline operating flights to more than 50 domestic destinations. If you want to go to other cities around China, prices at Nanyuan will be almost two-thirds cheaper than Beijing Capital.
Getting to and from Beijing Nanyuan Airport
If you go to the Xidan Civil Aviation Building, you can use your flight ticket to catch a free airport bus.
Otherwise, you can use a taxi or public bus no. 501 to get to and from Nanyuan. Keep in mind that you might need to negotiate a price with your driver, as it's not a popular route.
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NC State football’s season opener at VT pushed back 2 weeks over COVID-19 concerns
North Carolina State quarterback Ryan Finley (15) passes against James Madison Reggie Gallaspy II (25) blocks during the first half an NCAA college football game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (Source: Gerry Broome)
By CBS 17 Digital Desk | August 26, 2020 at 12:35 PM EDT - Updated August 26 at 12:35 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – N.C. State football’s season-opening game at Virginia Tech has been pushed back two weeks following a series of COVID-19 cases within the athletic department, the ACC announced Wednesday.
The Wolfpack and Hokies were originally slated to play in Blacksburg on Sept. 12.
They will now play Sept. 26.
“We appreciate the ACC and Virginia Tech working together in partnership to move this game to a mutual open weekend,” said N.C. State Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan. “There’s no blueprint for what we’re all trying to navigate and we are grateful for everyone’s collaboration to make this work.”
State will host Wake Forest to start the year on Sept. 19 while Virginia will play VT in Blacksburg.
On Monday, N.C. State paused all athletic activity following 27 positive cases within the department.
On Tuesday, Corrigan sent a letter to football season ticket holders saying season tickets have been suspended, but left open the possibility of single-game sales.
With the announcement of the season opener’s delay, N.C. State said no decision on how many fans will be allowed in Carter-Finley Stadium this season other than it will operate at reduced levels.
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COVID-19 outbreak declared at First Nation in northern B.C. as cases soar to 32
Number of positive cases soars to 32
Jan. 11, 2021 2:38 p.m.
FILE – Interior Health medical health officer Dr. Silvina Mema addressed Kelowna city council. (Alistair Waters/Capital News)
Multiple health agencies are working together to bring additional resources to support the Canim Lake Band, where a COVID-19 outbreak has been declared, due to what Interior Health describes as “rapid spread.”
Interior Health declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the community, located approximately 40 kilometres east of 100 Mile House, on Monday, Jan. 11, after identifying 32 positive cases.
The outbreak comes three days after Canim Lake Band launched a community-wide lockdown Jan. 8 after the number of positive cases rose to nine.
“We are advising members to be prepared for at least one month,” said Demian Pettman, emergency operations centre communications officer with the First Nation.
CLB has an on-reserve population of 228 according to the 2016 Census by Statistics Canada.
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Interior Health is overseeing COVID-19 outreach testing, contact tracing, transportation and isolation for those impacted.
Outbreak response activities are being co-ordinated together with the Nation, health officials, Emergency Management BC and others.
Medical health officer Dr. Silvina Mema said aside from the lockdown, there are four nurses on-site to do testing full-time while others are making arrangements to provide access to food and medication.
She said she hopes they will be able to provide the vaccine to members this week if they can get the supply.
“We’re working very hard to protect the Elders in the community who are the most vulnerable,” Mema said.
Although the outbreak has been declared in Canim Lake, Mema noted increased COVID-19 activity has been broadly detected throughout the 100 Mile House region and Interior Health, following the Christmas break. Since Jan. 1, there have been 182 cases across Interior Health.
“It’s a very large area. I would say the Kamloops area, Cariboo-Chilcotin, Revelstoke and 100 Mile are the ones that have the most cases,” she said.
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Bloomington Video Gambling Moratorium Extended To Sept. 1
By Breanna Grow • Feb 26, 2019
Bloomington Alderman Kim Bray says extending the city's video gambling moratorium allows more time to consider the impact of upcoming legislation.
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Bloomington will keep its moratorium on video gambling until after state legislators have made key decisions about sports betting and marijuana.
Aldermen on Monday voted 5-4 to extend the ban on new video gaming terminals to Sept. 1, past the staff-recommended date of April 9.
Alderman Kim Bray offered Sept. 1 for the moratorium’s expiration date because it falls after the end of the next legislative session in Springfield. Lawmakers are expected to introduce bills to legalize recreational marijuana and sports betting.
"I see businesses left in limbo and that makes me uncomfortable."
Bray said she wanted to give the city time to consider the “community impacts” such legislation could have.
“It’s my understanding that the cannabis bill that will be put forth in Springfield will have an opt-out provision for municipalities,” she explained. “However, should a municipality choose to opt out, they would also opt out of some of the statewide revenues that are generated. So that will be a big question for our group, our community, to take on.”
Alderman David Sage expanded on Bray’s concerns.
“What does this do to the nature of the city?" he asked. "If you have legalized pot, if you have legalized gambling, in addition to video gaming, how does that change the character, the essence, the quality of life here. That seems worthy of some additional study and reflection to me.”
The council put a year-long moratorium in place last February to give staff time to explore the impact of video gambling within the city and what, if any, regulations the city should place on the practice.
But others on the council Monday night worried about the impact of the moratorium itself on the city.
“I see businesses left in limbo and that makes me uncomfortable,” said Alderman Karen Schmidt. City Clerk Leslie Yocum said since enacting the moratorium the city has heard from a few businesses wanting to add video gambling.
Alderman Diana Hauman said she’s uneasy about leaving the issue to a new council.
“We’ve been living with it for two years at least,” she said. “To lose the institutional knowledge we know we’re going to lose with three of us going off council at the end of April, I think we should keep to the April 9 date.”
Aldermen Scott Black and Amelia Buragas joined them in voting against the Sept. 1 extension.
The city could also enact a new annual $500 per-terminal video gambling fee. That’s one of the proposals council members will consider March 25 to increase revenues as part of the FY2020 budget process.
The council will also consider increasing the motor fuel tax from $0.04 to $0.08, resulting in an additional revenues for asphalt and concrete work.
Future of O'Neil Pool
With around 250 existing terminals, a new video gambling fee would mean an additional $125,000 of annual revenue for the city, Gleason said. While the revenue from video gambling is currently unrestricted, Gleason said the fee could support the city’s new economic development activities, or be invested in the city’s downtown.
Still, “it’s not going to build an aquatics park,” Gleason said, referring to proposed improvements at O’Neil Pool, one of several unfunded capital improvement projects in the city. That would take somewhere between $10 million and $12 million, he said.
While the city can’t afford to do that right now, it will invest between $35,000 and $50,000 to get the pool ready to open for the 2019 season.
Gleason said it looks like the state will grant the city permission to open the pool this summer, although staff are still waiting on official confirmation.
Gleason said the money will only pay for the bare minimum repairs to get the pool through the upcoming season. As for long-term improvements, “The current number from the architect and the designer is somewhere in the $6 million to $6.5 million range,” he said. That would include improvements to just the pool and the parking lot, without addressing the surrounding O’Neil Park.
Focusing on improving just the pool could bring the price tag down even further. Gleason said staff will continue exploring ways to make the project feasible throughout the budget process.
Staff will present additional information on all three items at the next committee of the whole March 11.
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Kroll Report: Fraud Will Rise as Economic Crisis Deepens
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The risk consultants at Kroll predict an increase in white collar crime and significant changes in the manner in which corporate criminals operate in today’s world, according to a 16-page quarterly report released on Wednesday.
“The risk for companies right now is not just economic–they don’t have to just deal with decreased revenue and how to stay afloat,” says Blake Coppotelli, a senior managing director in Kroll’s business intelligence and investigations practice. “There’s increased fraud risk. As technology and markets become more sophisticated, so does fraud.”
Corporate criminals are becoming more sophisticated in concealing their illicit activities and the proceeds from those activities, says Coppotelli. Consequently, once domestic and international law enforcement agencies–including the Justice Department and SEC–turn their attention to a particular type of fraud, corporate criminals adapt quickly and devise increasingly complex schemes. The regulatory apparatus will have to adapt as quickly to adequately respond to criminal activities.
Congress already has held hearings on the issue of transparency in business conduct. Coppotelli says that the Justice Department and SEC have already pursued similar actions to increase transparency and combat fraud in light of the subprime meltdown that entered the public consciousness early last year.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 is one historical example of an innovative regulatory measure enacted to combat criminal conduct, says Coppotelli, noting that the FCPA was “ahead of the curve” in requiring due diligence investigations of parties used by certain companies within their jurisdiction to determine their risk to foreign corrupt practices.
As Coppotelli sees it, companies today will have to be more proactive in protecting themselves against fraud, while at the same time engaging in more stringent financial and investigatory due diligence to assess regulatory risk and its impact on future investments.
The risks are everywhere, whether it’s increased exposure to complex fraud and corruption abroad–as highlighted by the accounting scandal at Hyderabad, India-based Satyam Computer Services–or failing to encourage whistleblowers to come forward when they discover irregular or inappropriate actions. (Kroll has issued its own Satyam-specific fraud report.)
The report recommends various approaches to identifying and combatting fraud, including adopting a more open and accepting stance on whistleblowers. Companies must demonstrate support of whistleblowers, encouraging them to come forward to disclose wrongdoing. Failing to do so can be devastating both to a company’s reputation and to its financial standing.
The occurrence of fraud–as established by investigations and prosecutions–and increased awareness of fraud risk has been documented and quantified in previous studies. What separates this financial crisis from the fraud and subsequent litigation spikes that dovetailed with economic downturns in 1987, 1991, and 2001?
The interconnectedness of international markets, Coppotelli says.
“None of those downturns were as global and significant as the one we’re facing now,” he says. “A real indication of that is how much the federal government has committed in bailout funds to institutions in a number of different industries. The economic instability right now is something we haven’t really seen in quite a bit of time.”
Coppotelli admits that the circumstances surrounding the collapse of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities make his pitch to corporate clients much easier.
“That’s one of the beauties when writing a report like this,” he says. “Madoff proves the point, it’s ready made.”
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Watch Little Dorrit
The television mini series Little Dorritt is an adaptation of the Chalres Dickens story of the same name produced by British television station BBC and the U.S. PBS affiliate WGBH Boston. Although critically well received the show failed to become as popular as other recent British costume drama's, such as Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford.
Like many of the novels of Charles Dickens Little Dorritt was first published in a serialized form in magazines; reflecting the original format writer Andrew Davies produced a script in 14 parts with two 60 minute specials and 12 30 minute episodes. Davies had written in a similar format for the earlier adaptation of Dicken Bleak House. The 14 episodes of Little Dorritt first aired in the U.K. in 2008 and later appeared as part of PBS Masterpiece series in the U.S. in 2009.
First published between 1855 and 1857 Little Dorritt tells a series of intertwining stories based around a group of characters largely based in Marshlea Debtors Prison. The story revolves around the characters of the Dorritt family, including Any Dorritt, played by Clare Foy who has spent her entire life living in the prison because her father cannot clear his debts. Amy works as a seamstress for the Clannam family with whom her life intertwines. Taking in characters as diverse as a French murderer recently released from a Marseille jail and comedic characters such as Edmund Sparkler. The Dorritt family later find they have inherited a fortune and leave the debtors prison for a grand tour of Europe.
Dickens story was largely autobiographical as his own family had spent the early part of his life in a Marshlea prison because of his fathers debts. The TV adaptation won several awards, including a best mini series Emmy. In the U.K. critics claimed the strange scheduling of 60 minute specials to open and close the series made it difficult for viewers to become involved in the show.
Little Dorrit is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (14 episodes). The series first aired on October 26, 2008.
Where do I stream Little Dorrit online? Little Dorrit is available for streaming on BBC, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Little Dorrit on demand at Amazon Prime, Amazon, Starz, iTunes, Pluto TV online.
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Cast: Andy Serkis, Maxine Peake, Freema Agyeman, Janine Duvitski, Judy Parfitt
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Episode 14 - Episode 14
Mr Merdle's death and the collapse of Merdle's Bank sends shockwaves through London as thousands face financial ruin. Arthur returns to the Marshalsea a prisoner, Amy goes back to her birthplace to look after him as he lies gravely ill, and Rigaud returns to play out his blackmail in the Clennam house.
Mr Dorrit returns to Venice a broken man, after a visit to London revives some unwelcome memories. Meanwhile, Arthur warns his mother that she may be in danger from Rigaud, and he is reunited with Amy once more.
Romance is in the air as Mrs General starts her campaign to woo Mr Dorrit, and Fanny turns the full beam of her attention on Sparkler. Meanwhile, an unwelcome reminder of the old days comes to haunt Mr Dorrit in Venice.
Fanny has stolen the heart of Edmund Sparkler, whose mother is determined to separate them once and for all. Meanwhile, Merdle's Bank is besieged by investors, and Arthur is worried when he sees a suspicious French stranger, the villainous Rigaud, at his mother's house.
Episode 9 - Episode 9
The Dorrits arrive in Venice, and Fanny renews an old acquaintance with Edmund Sparkler and his redoubtable mother Mrs Merdle. Meanwhile, Amy makes a friend in Pet Gowan, united through their mutual affection for Arthur, and Rigaud scents a deeper connection between the Dorrits and the House of Clennam.
Mr Dorrit is released from the Marshalsea after more than twenty years, and takes his family abroad to reinvent themselves as members of society. Miss Wade commissions Rigaud to spy on Pet and Henry Gowan, and he takes the chance to follow the Dorrits abroad and find out what connects them to the House of Clennam.
Rigaud introduces himself to the House of Clennam, while Arthur is best man at Pet's marriage to Henry Gowan. Pancks concludes his investigation into the Dorrit family's long incarceration in the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison, and Arthur and Amy break momentous news to Mr Dorrit.
Pancks recruits John Chivery to help him solve the mystery that connects the Dorrit family with the House of Clennam, while Arthur proposes to Pet Meagles. Elsewhere, Tattycoram runs away from Twickenham, and Amy resigns herself to a life without the man she loves.
Amy accompanies her sister Fanny to meet Mrs Merdle, queen bee of London society. Meanwhile, Rigaud comes into possession of the Clennam papers, and Chivery the turnkey asks Arthur to put in a word for young John with Amy.
Amy receives a proposal of marriage which throws her into confusion, Arthur is taken on as a partner in Daniel Doyce's engineering works, and the French villain Rigaud arrives in London.
Flintwinch taunts Arthur's mother about the mystery at the heart of the House of Clennam, while Amy discovers that 'a gentleman' has paid off her brother's debts, and Arthur is invited to Twickenham to renew his acquaintance with the lovely Pet Meagles.
Suspecting his family's involvement in their ruin, Arthur, having befriended Amy Dorrit, involves himself in her family's affairs. While hoping to pay off Amy's brother's debt and give him the chance to start again, Arthur himself is also planning to start again with a new job, and perhaps renew his love for childhood sweetheart Flora Casby.
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Yukon Court of Appeal holds up former YG employee’s vexatious litigant designation
Juanita Wood had appealed a Yukon Supreme Court decision declaring her a vexatious litigant
The Yukon Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by a Whitehorse woman to have her designation as a vexatious litigant overturned.
Juanita Wood, a former Department of Highways and Public Works (HPW) employee who was fired while on probation in 2015, was declared a vexatious litigant by Yukon Supreme Court Deputy Justice Gisele Miller earlier this year.
The declaration was the result of an application brought forward by the Yukon government during proceedings related to a petition Wood filed seeking judicial review of the Yukon Human Rights Commission’s decision to terminate an investigation into her complaint over her firing.
The vexatious litigant designation means Wood, who has undertaken a number of unsuccessful complaints, appeals and legal proceedings over her termination, cannot pursue action in court without receiving permission from the court first.
Since her dismissal, Wood has appealed to the deputy minister of the HPW; filed a complaint with the Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board; filed a complaint with the Yukon Human Rights Commission; filed a lawsuit against HPW; filed a petition to the Yukon Supreme Court seeking judicial review of her termination; filed another petition seeking judicial review of the Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board’s decision to not prosecute HPW; appealed twice to the Yukon Court of Appeal; and filed a petition seeking to set aside the Yukon Human Rights Commission’s decision to end its investigation into her complaint.
Miller found that at least two of the proceedings — the lawsuit against HPW and Wood’s appeal after the lawsuit was dismissed — were vexatious, and that Wood had acted in a vexatious manner when choosing not to continue with her petition seeking judicial review of her firing after “engaging significant judicial resources.”
In her appeal over the vexatious litigant declaration, Wood argued that she had only launched one vexatious proceeding — the lawsuit against HPW.
In a decision released Dec. 19, Yukon Court of Appeal Justice Barbara Fisher, supported by Justices John Savage and Shannon Smallwood, wrote that she found Miller had, in fact, “properly exercised her discretion in declaring Ms. Wood to have persistently instituted vexatious proceedings.”
“I cannot accept Ms. Wood’s submission that her claims are ‘the legitimate assertion of legislated rights under three separate pieces of legislation,’” Fisher wrote.
“While she may have used different vehicles, her destination was always the same: to determine the validity of the termination of her employment with the Department of Highways and Public Works. There was ample evidence to support the judge’s conclusion that the history of Ms. Wood’s persistent litigation was to this aim, and that this met many of the factors to be taken into account in an application under (section 7.1 of the Supreme Court Act).
“In this case, those factors include (1) bringing numerous proceedings to determine an issue that was already determined; (2) bringing proceedings that were bound to fail; (3) repeating the same issues in different forms in subsequent proceedings and seeking superficially different remedies; and (4) persistently taking unsuccessful appeals and reviews before the various tribunals and courts.”
The court dismissed Wood’s appeal and awarded legal costs to the Yukon government.
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Home PRESS RELEASES Edgewood College: CUNA Mutual Group Foundation makes significant investment in Community Scholars...
Edgewood College: CUNA Mutual Group Foundation makes significant investment in Community Scholars Program
Madison, Wis. (September 16, 2020) – Edgewood College is honored to announce that CUNA Mutual Group Foundation has awarded $206,000 to support the Community Scholars Program.
“The CUNA Mutual Group Foundation is committed to helping eliminate the barriers to financial access and stability, and student debt is one of those barriers, especially for our Black, Latina(o), and Indigenous communities,” said Alex Shade, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at CUNA Mutual Group. “If we can help tackle the burden that student debt places on individuals through our investment in the Edgewood College Community Scholars Program, then we can start building a bridge to equity that enables more people in more ways to achieve a brighter financial future.”
Launched in 2007, the Community Scholars program supports up to four incoming freshmen from Dane County each fall with a full-tuition award, textbooks, and a laptop. Scholars participate in leadership development opportunities, attend local, regional, and national conferences, and contribute significant community service and leadership each year. Students are selected based on their academic potential, financial need, and commitment to serving Greater Madison.
“Edgewood College created this program to engage underserved students in Dane County,” Andrew P. Manion, President, said. “We are both humbled and energized by this tremendous support from CUNA Mutual Group Foundation. Their focus on education and economic security for all aligns with our mission to build a more just and compassionate world. This partnership and our shared commitment to equity and inclusion marks a clear path forward for our community, and for Edgewood College.”
Graduates of the Community Scholars Program include educators, healthcare professionals, public service professionals, and more. Most graduates remain in Dane County to begin their professional lives.
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Four people die in a house fire in Rome
Four adults died in a house fire on Route 69 in the outer district of Rome Tuesday night.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 10:28 PM
Updated: Dec 16, 2020 2:36 PM
ROME, NY - Four adults died in a house fire on Route 69 in the outer district of Rome Tuesday night.
The Oneida County 911 Center reports the fire started just before 9:00 p.m. When the Rome Fire Department arrived on scene there were flames and heavy smoke coming from the home.
Firefighters were initially unable to enter the residence to fight the fire. The house was completely destroyed by the flames.
The victims were four family members – two parents and two adult children. Two were found in a bedroom, and two in another section of the house.
The Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office will be conducting autopsies on the deceased. The sheriff's office says it will provide more information, along with the names of the victims, when identification has been confirmed.
For much of Wednesday afternoon, Route 69 in Rome was down to one lane of traffic. The sheriff's office is asking drivers to avoid the area while crews work at the fire scene.
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Sections 130-135 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
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Reviews policy (PDF 72 KB)
This policy explains the principles that underpin WorkSafe’s approach to its reviews of decisions made under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) and associated regulations.
Policy purpose
This policy is for internal operational use and will guide staff in how to make good decisions when conducting reviews, which are:
This policy applies to reviews of all decisions made by WorkSafe under HSWA and associated regulations. Where the legislation requires explicit action, as is the case with internal reviews, the policy will be more specific.
In scope
Internal Review (HSWA - sections 130-135)
Health and safety concern[1]
Authorisations where a worker, work activity or a workplace is authorised by licence, permit, registration, consent, certificate, or other authority as required by regulations.[2]
Out of scope
The following changes to a notice[3] will not be subject to the internal review process:
Minor changes to a notice can be made by an inspector in accordance with s113 of HSWA without requiring an internal review.
The time for compliance with an improvement notice can be extended by the inspector who issued the notice but only if the compliance period has not ended (s104).
By applying this policy, reviews of decisions made by staff with the appropriate delegations will:
demonstrate consistency, accountability and transparency
withstand scrutiny
be in the public interest
build legislative duty holders’ capability.
Objectives of reviews
Promote good decision-making
Poor decision making and ineffective administrative processes can lead to complaints and challenges to decisions. A focus on good decision-making leads to better safety outcomes for duty holders, and can
prevent applications for some reviews being made at all. It is also likely to result in fewer reviews that are made being upheld.
Having an effective review process in place can help to encourage good decision making in the first instance and reduce the need for reviews. A review process aims to:
enable WorkSafe to test the lawfulness and the merits of decisions that affect the regulated community and
improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of regulator decision making generally.
Enable quick resolution
(‘Justice delayed is justice denied’)
A good review process provides WorkSafe with an immediate opportunity to consider the matter and provide a remedy where necessary. Reviews not completed within a reasonable timeframe are unfair to the person requesting the review. Reviews that are not addressed quickly can also create significant additional workload for WorkSafe, both in terms of staff time
and resources required. Completing reviews internally, promptly and close to source can avoid this.
Develop public confidence
An effective review process provides the regulated community with a direct avenue to raise their concerns with decisions made by WorkSafe. As a result of applying this policy:
duty holders will trust WorkSafe to make sound decisions and as a consequence will positively respond by following direction, accepting guidance, seeking assistance and complying with enforcement action
the regulated community will value WorkSafe’s contribution to making work healthy and safe
compliant duty holders will feel their actions are acknowledged because they trust WorkSafe to hold non-compliant duty holders to account.
Reviews can be a rich source of information about any problems or inefficiencies that might be occurring. WorkSafe will analyse intelligence gained from reviews to identify:
recurring themes that may highlight systemic issues
service, process and information inadequacies
opportunities for improvement.
Effective monitoring of reviews provides WorkSafe with an opportunity to identify any problems and sort them out before they escalate and cause widespread concern. As a result, WorkSafe can save time and money before complaints multiply and escalate to the point where external intervention may be sought.
Make a good decision
The role of the reviewer is to make a good decision taking into account all relevant information and disregarding all irrelevant information.
legislation sets out what staff must do when conducting reviews. In some situations the legislation may allow discretion to be exercised. In these situations WorkSafe policies and procedures will provide guidance for staff.
When conducting a review, reviewers must act reasonably and fairly. They must follow legislative and procedural requirements, as well as satisfy general administrative law requirements. In general, reviewers should:
act independently, in good faith and for a proper purpose
comply with relevant legislation
follow any relevant policies and guidelines, unless there is reason to make an exception
take into account all relevant matters
ignore matters that are not relevant to the decision.
The reviewer will have sufficient knowledge of:
HSWA and associated regulations
WorkSafe’s policies and procedures (including but not limited to the Enforcement Policy, Enforcement Decision-Making Model, Response Policy
the subject area.
Verify the decision-maker’s delegated authority
The legislation or WorkSafe policy will set out who has the authority to make a decision, and whether that authority may be delegated. Before taking action or making a decision, the reviewer should check they have the authority to do so, or that the authority has been delegated to them. The reviewer should ensure that they are aware of the actions they can take and the decisions they can make when conducting a review. If the situation requires a decision that is outside the reviewer’s delegated authority, they must escalate the matter according to the Authorising and Decision Making Framework for Managers.
Act in good faith
Reviewers must act in good faith when undertaking a review of a decision. In this context, good faith refers to the reviewer’s state of mind in acting or carrying out an action or transaction. It requires the reviewer to fully disclose all relevant information and to display honesty, fairness and an absence of intent to harm the applicant or document holder. Acting in good faith enhances the robustness of the decision and reduces the risk of subsequent reviews or appeals.
A key aspect of acting in good faith is maintaining impartiality. To ensure the reviewer is impartial, unbiased and independent the review will be undertaken by a staff member who was not involved in the original decision. In making the decision, the reviewer may seek advice from peers, technical experts and the legal team.
Ensure procedural fairness
Procedural fairness, or ‘natural justice,’ is an implied common law duty on the part of an administrative decision-maker to act fairly when exercising statutory powers that may affect a person’s rights, interests or legitimate expectations. Further information should be requested if required. Applicants should be advised that the review will be based on the information available if further information is not provided.
A fair process should be followed in making a decision about a review. The following will help to ensure that a fair and correct decision is made. The decision- maker should:
where appropriate, provide sufficient notice to enable the applicant to be heard and make submissions before the decision is finalised
ensure full disclosure of relevant information to enable the applicant or document holder to make informed submissions (or oral presentations)
provide a reasonable opportunity for the applicant to be heard and make submissions
supply a full statement of the reasons for the decision
provide clear explanation of the applicant’s appeal rights.
Complete the review in a timely manner
Applicants require timely decisions to facilitate business operations and planning. WorkSafe will acknowledge receipt of all applications for review. Where regulations specify a decision-making or processing timeframe, staff are expected to meet or exceed these standards. Where this is not possible, the reviewer must advise the applicant of the reasons for the delay and date by which they can expect a decision.
For internal reviews conducted under sections 130-135 HSWA, the specified timeframes are:
for a decision to issue an improvement notice, the period specified in the notice for compliance with the notice or 14 days, whichever is the lesser or
in any other case, 14 days.
Where the legislation does not specify timeframes, WorkSafe expects reviews to be completed within 14 days of receiving the request to review. Applications for review should be acknowledged in a timely manner and addressed promptly; and according to order of urgency.
Keep applicants informed
It is important to keep applicants informed during the decision-making process. In particular, how the process works and if there are likely to be any delays. Once the review is complete, the person should be advised of:
the outcome of the review
the reasons for any decisions that have been made
any remedy that is offered
information about any other remedy that might be available, such as to appeal the matter to the District Court or complain to the Ombudsman.
Give reasons for the decision
Giving reasons for decisions is good administrative practice and promotes accountability and transparency. Providing reasons will help to ensure that decision- makers reach decisions that are well founded and procedurally fair. Reasons can help applicants understand and accept the decision even if the outcome is not a desired one. Conversely knowing the reasons for a decision can help applicants decide if they should appeal the decision if that option is available. For some types of reviews, the legislation will specify that reasons are to be given. WorkSafe will always give reasons for decisions made under HSWA and associated regulations.
Make it clear that staff are acting on behalf of WorkSafe
As far as possible, any communications with the applicant should focus on the actions of WorkSafe the agency as a whole and how they may have affected the applicant, rather than focusing on the actions
of individual staff members. This is on the basis that staff members do not act on their own behalf, but as representatives of WorkSafe. Complaints about the way staff have undertaken their work are covered in the Feedback and Complaints Policy.
Keep good records
A full record of the review should be kept. The record should include:
the request to review the original decision
details of all communications with the applicant and other relevant parties
any report that has been prepared.
The record should be stored securely to preserve confidentiality and saved in the correct place in WorkSafe’s record keeping system so that it can be recovered if necessary.
Business units should keep central records of all review applications received, and their progress and outcome.
Make it easy for applicants to request a review
Worksafe will provide a form to be used when applying for a review. If the application is not received in the preferred format, WorkSafe will provide assistance to applicants to ensure that the application is completed correctly. Where applications do not contain sufficient information to identify the decision to be reviewed, additional information will be sought. The timeframe for completing the application will begin once the information received is complete and correct.
Applications for review will only be accepted in the following circumstances:
from eligible persons (ie a person affected by the decision or their representative)
for reviewable decisions as defined in HSWA and associated regulations
applications for reviews received outside of the timeframe specified in legislation will only be accepted if there are extenuating or special circumstances and evidence of this is provided
for reviews where the legislation does not specify a timeframe in which the application must be received, WorkSafe expects requests for reviews to be received within 14 days of the original decision being communicated to the applicant. late applications will only be accepted if there are extenuating or special circumstances and evidence of this is provided
applications will not be accepted if the applicant has already sought a review of the same decision, and this has been determined.
Internal Review (sections 130-135 of HSWA)
Managers must refer to this policy when an eligible person applies for a review of a reviewable decision made by an inspector. A reviewable decision is a decision:
to issue a notice (including subsequent notice) under HSWA
made by an inspector to extend the time to comply with an improvement notice
made by an inspector in respect of a provisional improvement notice under s81 or
of a type prescribed by regulations for the purposes of s130 of HSWA.
An eligible person is defined as a person affected by the decision or their representative (s130).
Staying a decision to issue a notice
The reviewer may identify the need to stay the notice, or the request may form part of the application for internal review.
A stay only remains in force whilst the internal review is being carried out. It is in everyone’s interest for the review decision to be made quickly.
If a request to stay a notice is made, Worksafe must make a decision within three working days. If a decision is not made within this time, then Worksafe is taken to have made the decision to grant it.
A request to stay a notice may only be made if there is a request for internal review of the decision to issue the notice.
Each request for a stay will need to be determined on its merits. In the case of a prohibition or non-disturbance notice, a stay will not normally be granted unless there is compelling new evidence that was not available to the inspector at the time the prohibition notice was issued.
In other cases the reviewer will consider:
the health and safety implications of granting the stay
any other measures proposed to reduce the risk if the stay were granted
whether a failure to grant the stay would have implications that cannot be reversed
where the stay applies to an improvement notice where the period of time to remedy the contravention would expire before the internal review decision can be made, the stay will usually be granted.
The reviewer should ensure that an application for internal review to stay the issue of a notice is decided within three working days of receipt of the application. A stay of a prohibition notice or non-disturbance will not usually be granted unless information that was not available to the inspector is provided.
On completion of the review, the reviewer may:
confirm the original decision
vary the original decision or
set aside the original decision and/or substitute another decision that the reviewer
considers appropriate.
Below is a list of the regulations covered by WorkSafe’s Authorisations regime.
Decisions made under these regulations are subject to review.
Geothermal Energy Regulations 1961
Health and Safety at Work (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2016
Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017 (in draft at the time of writing this policy)
Health and Safety at Work (Mining Operations and Quarrying Operations) Regulations 2016
Health and Safety at Work (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2016
Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Regulations 1999
Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999
Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995
[1] Health and safety concerns: When someone informs WorkSafe about a possible unsafe or unhealthy situation, with the expectation that WorkSafe will take action. A concern may relate to work health and safety (sometimes referred to as a health and safety complaint) or to energy safety.
[2] Authorisations: See appendix for full list of regulations in the Authorisations regime.
[3] Notice: Notice means any of the following notices issued under HSWA: an improvement notice, a prohibition notice, non-disturbance notice, a suspension notice and a subsequent notice (s100).
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CA Technologies acquires SourceClear in DevSecOps push
It is hoped SourceClear technologies will help enterprise clients secure their SaaS-based tools.
By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | April 10, 2018 -- 10:29 GMT (03:29 PDT) | Topic: Security
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CA Technologies has agreed to purchase SourceClear in a bid to improve the security of software and SaaS-based applications in the enterprise.
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Sam King, General Manager of CA Veracode, said in an announcement that the acquisition is intended for the improvement of DevSecOps and to mitigate the risks that open-source software poses.
Founded by Mark Curphey, the creator of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), SourceClear is the developer of a SaaS-based software composition analysis tool.
The tool draws on a vulnerability database beyond the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to scan and detect which applications utilize vulnerable components, as well as whether or not the vulnerable functionality is in active use -- which may reduce false positive rates when bug scanning through open-source libraries.
Given this knowledge, security and development teams can tackle the most high-priority issues first -- and dismiss the components which are not in active use -- which may save time, money, and reduce the risk posed to the enterprise due to some open-source systems.
"With the acquisition of SourceClear, we're taking a great step forward in bringing that same combination of security, productivity, and efficiency to the way developers use and test open source libraries so that our customers can use open source libraries to accelerate software development without adding unmanaged risk," King says.
Open-source systems and libraries are of incalculable value to enterprise players. According to SourceClear, there will be close to half a billion open-source libraries available to developers within a decade.
However, open-source systems can also pose risk, due to the nature of their development, patching, and bugs which may or may not be picked up by developers. Researchers from Black Duck found that in 2017, the majority of enterprise apps in the financial industry which used open-source software contained vulnerabilities -- some of which were over four years old.
See also: Open-source software management fails to meet security concerns
"In some cases, the vulnerabilities causing breaches are well known and documented," King added. "But in other cases, they are not included in the National Vulnerability Database. And with the number of open source libraries only growing it can be difficult for companies to keep track of which component and which version are secure."
CA Technologies intends to fully integrate SourceClear technologies into the Veracode platform, and hopes that this gives clients the opportunity to take advantage of open-source technologies without "introducing unnecessary risk."
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39 Films to Screen on ‘Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection’
Cat in the Wall
Amazon Prime Video and SXSW announced “Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection” will launch on April 27, 2020 with 39 films, composed of narrative and documentary features, short films and episodic titles. Filmmakers in the official 2020 SXSW Film Festival lineup were invited to opt in to take part in this online film festival, which will play exclusively on Prime Video in the U.S. from April 27, 2020 thru May 6, 2020. The one-time event will be available in front of the Prime Video paywall, free to all U.S. audiences with or without an Amazon Prime membership — all that is needed is a free Amazon account.
“SXSW has always championed creators forging their own paths to success, often with just the right mix of passion, vision and radical experimentation to make their dreams happen,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film, SXSW. “There is no one-size-fits-all, especially in these uncertain times, and we knew this opportunity would be of interest to those filmmakers who wanted to be in front of a large audience now. We believe people will be captivated by this selection of intriguing work that would have been shown at our 2020 event.”
“We understand every film has its own strategy and we know this opportunity may not make sense for every filmmaker. However, for those who want to share their stories right now and with as many people as possible, we’re excited to provide them this platform,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. “Until we are able to be together in person again, we hope this program allows these wonderful stories to virtually reach film lovers everywhere in the country.”
In addition to online panels and Q&As produced by SXSW, FREE THE WORK is collaborating with Prime Video to promote and raise awareness for this program, organizing hosted panels featuring films and filmmakers from the lineup. Founded by filmmaker Alma Har’el, FREE THE WORK is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to identifying systemic inequalities in film, television, advertising, and media, and finding actionable solutions to expand access for underrepresented creators.
FREE THE WORK’s Har’el said, “Amazon’s SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection is giving a platform to work that would have been celebrated at this year’s festival. FREE THE WORK’s mission is to find new pathways to the discovery of underrepresented creators and we’re excited to help celebrate, spotlight, and provide a platform for the voices of these talented filmmakers.”
Starting on 4/27/20 thru 5/6/20, the following titles will stream on Prime Video
“Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection”
Cat in the Wall / Bulgaria, UK, France (Directors, screenwriters and producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova) — This terrific comedy-drama is set on a southeast London council estate, which is riven by social and economic divisions and threatened by the all-consuming force of gentrification. Irina, a Bulgarian woman lives there with her small son and her brother. The lift serves as a toilet, the multi-cultural residents exchange shouts rather than pleasantries, and an expensive refurbishment is undesired but must be paid for. And in the midst of this: an apparently ownerless cat which has had enough of the heated atmosphere barricades itself ‘in the wall’, requiring the residents to collaborate. Cat in the Wall is an arresting critique of society, a whirlpool of emotions from despair to joie de vivre conveyed by strongly delineated characters. This heart-warming tale, shot in a documentary style, is this year’s equivalent of director Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. Cast: Irina Atanosova, Angel Genov, Gilda Waugh
Gunpowder Heart / Guatemala (Director and screenwriter: Camila Urrutia, Producer: Inés Nofuentes) — Claudia and Maria have fallen in love. They live in the city of Guatemala, a city full of stories related to abuse, unforgiving police officers, and charming secret corners. Everything changes one night when they are attacked by three men. They manage to escape but they now have to choose if they want revenge. Cast: Andrea Henry, Vanessa Hernández
Le Choc du Futur / France (Director and screenwriter: Marc Collin, Co-Writer: Elina Gakou-Gomba, Producers: Marc Collin, Nicolas Jourdier, Gaelle Ruffier) — In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore and new music must arise. In a male-dominated industry, Ana uses her electronic gadgets to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future. Cast: Alma Jodorowsky, Philippe Rebbot, Clara Luciani
Selfie / France (Directors: Tristan Aurouet, Thomas Bidegain, Marc Fitoussi, Cyril Gelblat, Vianney Lebasque, Screenwriters: Giulio Callegari, Noé Debré, Hélène Lombard, Julien Sibony, Bertrand Soulier, Producers: Mandoline Films, Chez Georges Productions) — Algorithms, Technophobics, Dating App addicts, Vloggers, cloud security breach… each one of us can relate to the wired madness happening on screen. In five subversive and hilarious Black Mirror-like tales, Selfie takes on our digital shortcomings and shows how the new 2.0 era is driving all of us nuts! Cast: Blanche Gardin, Manu Payet, Elsa Zylberstein
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / U.S. (Director and Producer: Karen Bernstein, Co-Producer: Nevie Owens) — Fellini meets Motown in I’m Gonna Make You Love Me, the tragi-comedic tale of one man’s search for self-acceptance, a journey that included tabloid celebrity, Tupperware parties, and two coming-outs — first as a straight woman, then as the gay man he was born to be. Cast: Brian Belovitch aka “Tish,” Gloria Walker, Michael Musto
My Darling Vivian / U.S. (Director: Matt Riddlehoover, Producers: Dustin Tittle, Matt Riddlehoover) — The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash’s first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.
TFW NO GF / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Alex Lee Moyer, Producers: Adam Bhala Lough, Cody Wilson, Ariel Pink, Alex Lee Moyer, Michael Reich, John Eisenman, Matt Ornstein, Claire Bargout, Deagan White, Barrett Avner) — Born from the internet, the phrase “TFW NO GF” was originally used online to describe a lack of romantic companionship. Since then, it has evolved to symbolize a greater state of existence defined by isolation, rejection and alienation. The meme’s protagonist, “WOJAK,” has become the mascot to a vast online community consisting of self-described “hyper-anonymous twenty somethings” and “guys who slipped between the cracks.” TFW NO GF asks: How has the zeitgeist come to bear down on a generation alienated by the ‘real world’? Meet the lost boys who came of age on the internet in places like 4chan and Twitter, where they find camaraderie in despair.
A Period Piece / U.S., France (Director and screenwriter: Shuchi Talati, Producer: Esra Saydam, Co-Producer: Claire Chassagne) — Geetha, a control and order loving Indian-American woman, finally has sex with Vehd one afternoon but things quickly turn messy, causing a fight to erupt mid-coitus. Cast: Sonal Aggarwal, Nardeep Khurmi
Basic / U.S. (Director, screenwriter and producer: Chelsea Devantez, Co-Producer: Kevin Walsh) — Basic is a very, very, very short film about a dumb lil’ ho doing lil’ ho things. Starring Nelson Franklin (Veep, Abby’s, Blackish), Georgia Mischak (Arrested Development, Love), and Chelsea Devantez (Bless This Mess, Abby’s), who also wrote and directed. It’s a darkish comedy exploring the insecure lil’ ho in all of us.
Blocks / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Bridget Moloney, Producers: Kate Chamuris, Kristin Slaysman, Valerie Steinberg) — An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks. Cast: Claire Coffee, Mark Webber, Ruha Taslimi
Broken Bird / U.S. (Director, screenwriter and producer: Rachel Harrison Gordon) — Birdie, a biracial girl raised by her Jewish mom in a New Jersey suburb, spends a rare day with her father while preparing for her Bat Mitzvah. She overcomes her doubts, and decides to risk inviting him back into her life. Birdie confronts what independence means as she steps into adulthood on her own terms. Cast: Indigo Hubbard-Salk, Chad L. Coleman
Daddio / U.S. (Director, screenwriter, and producer: Casey Wilson, Co-Writer: Laura Kindred, Co-Producers: Ursula Camack, Laura Kindred, Adam Silver) — Daddio is a comedy about death. A year after the sudden passing of their beloved wife and mother, a dad and daughter grapple with life after loss. Grief looks very different on both of them. Paul, played by Michael McKean (Better Call Saul, Spinal Tap), is manic. He gets a perm and begs neighbors to hot tub with him. Abby, played by Casey Wilson (SNL, Happy Endings, Black Monday) is depressed. She sleeps in her closet and uses a shopping cart for a laundry basket. At its heart, Daddio is a love story between a father and daughter after the unimaginable has happened. Based on real death events. Cast: Michael McKean, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael
Dirty / U.S. (Director: Matthew Puccini, Producers: Cecilia Delgado, Jeremy Truong, Matthew Puccini) — Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend. Things do not go as planned. Cast: Morgan Sullivan, Manny Dunn
Face to Face Time / U.S. (Director, screenwriter and producer: Izzy Shill) — Claire takes the bold step of initiating a FaceTime call, only to discover Danny’s flaccid enthusiasm for her. Cast: Izzy Shill, Sean Patrick McGowan
Father of the Bride / U.K. (Director and screenwriter: Rhys Marc Jones, Producer: Alex Polunin) — The best man attempts to keep face and deliver his speech at his brother’s wedding, following an advance in the hotel bathroom by the father of the bride. Cast: Jay Lycurgo, Dominic Mafham, Marcus Rutherford, Isabelle Connolly
Figurant / France, Czech Republic (Director and screenwriter: Jan Vejnar, Producers: Origine Films / Silk Films) — A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events. Cast: Denis Lavant
Reminiscences of the Green Revolution / Phillipines, U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Dean Colin Marcial, Producer: Armi Rae Cacanindin) — A ghost story about love and eco-terrorism in the Philippines. Cast: Annicka Dolonius, Sid Lucero, Abner Delina Jr.
Runon / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Daniel Newell Kaufman, Producer: Lizzie Shaprio) — All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it — all before the person they’re running from puts together the pieces. Cast: Erin Markey, Luke Visiage, Mike Alonzo
Single / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Ashley Eakin, Producer: Connie Jo Sechrist) — A girl born with one arm goes on a blind date with a guy who has one hand…and she is pissed! Cast: Delaney Feener, Jordan Wiseley
SOFT / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Daniel Antebi, Producers: Casey Bader, Reid Hannaford, Nicole Quintero Ochoa) — Sam — 16, queer, and falling in love — struggles to untangle himself from his abusive martial arts coach. Cast: Josh Lerner, Benicio Franqui, Alex Kramer
Still Wylde / U.S., Canada (Director and screenwriter: Ingrid Haas, Producers: Devin Lawrence, Katie White) — Gertie and her sometimes boyfriend, Sam, are faced with a major life decision only to realize that even when they know what they want, life has other plans. Cast: Ingrid Haas, Barry Rothbart, Sabrina Jalees
Summer Hit / Germany (Director and screenwriter: Berthold Wahjudi, Producers: Melissa Byrne, Philipp Link) — Laia from Spain and Emil from Iceland are Erasmus students in Munich. After having sex for a couple of times, Emil professes his love to Laia — but she panics and runs away. Now the two have to figure out whether they are more than just a summer fling. Cast: Martina Roura, Atli Benedikt, Katrin Filzen
The Voice in Your Head / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Graham Parkes, Producer: Brendan Garrett) — A surreal comedy about an office worker who has resigned himself to spending every waking hour tortured by the negative voice in head, until a concerned co-worker decides to take action. Cast: Lewis Pullman, Mat Wright, Trian Longsmith
Vert / U.K. (Director and screenwriter: Kate Cox, Producers: Nick Rowell, Sophie Reynolds, Gabriele Lo Giudice) — Emelia (BAFTA Nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird) and Jeff (Nick Frost) are an open-minded couple celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary by venturing into the Virtual world of “Vert” together. Vert presents them with a character that is their ‘ideal self’ and what is supposed to be re-awakening for them as a couple becomes the unearthing of Jeff’s secret. Cast: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Nick Frost, Olivia Vinall
Waffle / U.S. (Director: Carlyn Hudson, Screenwriters and producers: Katie Marovitch, Kerry Barker, Co-Producers: Pamela Robison, Bridgett Greenberg) — Kerry is at a sleepover with the socially awkward, mysteriously orphaned heiress Katie. Friendship — in a society that grows ever isolating — is explored as Kerry learns the hard way that Katie always gets what she wants. Cast: Katie Marovitch, Kerry Barker, Raphael Chestang
Affurmative Action / U.S. (Director: Travis Wood) — An exploration of workplace diversity through “meet the team” pages.
Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Christine Turner, Producer: Erin Wright) — At 93, there’s no stopping when it comes to the legendary artist Betye Saar.
Broken Orchestra / U.S., Canada (Director: Charlie Tyrell, Screenwriter: Josef Beeby, Producer: Julie Baldassi) — A documentary short about the Symphony for a Broken Orchestra,, which collected hundreds of broken instruments from the Philadelphia public school system, fixed them and then returned them into the hands of students.
Call Center Blues / U.S. (Director: Geeta Gandbhir, Producer: Jessica Devaney) — Call Center Blues is a lyrical portrait of an unlikely community of US deportees and their loved ones struggling to rebuild their lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
Dieorama / U.S. (Director: Kevin Staake, Producer: Ryen Bartlett) — Abigail Goldman spends her work days as an investigator for a public defender’s office in Washington state, helping people who are seriously in trouble—which can mean hours of staring at grisly pictures of crime scenes, visiting morgues, even observing autopsies. By night, she dreams up gruesome events, which she then turns into tiny, precise dioramas. Rife with scenes of imminent death and brutal dismemberment, the fruits of Goldman’s painstaking labor would be adorable … if they weren’t so disturbing. In this new documentary short, we follow along as Goldman brings her miniature worlds of murder and mayhem to life with tweezers, paint, and resin, and meet the people who just can’t get enough of her twisted visions—where the final touch is always, in the artist’s words, “two or three brushstrokes of red paint.”
Hiplet: Because We Can / U.S. (Director and producer: Addison Wright) — Created with the intention to inspire young Black women, this film brings the Hiplet™ [hip-lay] ballerinas to center stage. With elements of a Short Film, Music Video, and Documentary, this artistic work showcases not only the talent of the Hiplet ballerinas, it also gives them a platform to discuss the challenges they have faced with giving traditional ballet a hip new twist. Cast: Homer Hans Bryant, Jayda Perry, Nia Parker
Lions in the Corner / U.S. (Director: Paul Hairston, Producer: Jake Ewald) — In Virginia, Scarface started Streetbeefs in his backyard to combat gun and knife violence in the area. Soon it turned into something much more for the men involved. Cast: Chris Wilmore
Mizuko (Water Child) / U.S. (Directors: Katelyn Rebelo, Kira Dane, Screenwriter: Kira Dane, Producer: Amy Hobby for Tribeca Film Institute) — In Japan, there is a special way to grieve after having an abortion. This Buddhist ritual, called the water children memorial, allows people to metaphorically return their lost children to the sea. Told through the Japanese American filmmaker’s personal story of abortion in the US, Mizuko (Water Child) is a partially animated, intimate reckoning with the impact of this cultural context.
Modern Whore / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Nicole Bazuin, Producer: Lisa Baylin) — Former escort Andrea Werhun shares the ins and outs of escort review board culture, exposing the complexities of sexual power and social stigma in a post-#MeToo world. Cast: Andrea Werhun, Chester Brown, Michael Cuddy
No Crying at the Dinner Table / Canada (Director: Carol Nguyen, Producers: Carol Nguyen, Aziz Zoromba) — Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.
Quilt Fever / U.S. (Director and screenwriter: Olivia Loomis Merrion) — Every year, thousands of quilters descend upon Paducah, Kentucky for its annual quilt competition, doubling the town’s population. “The Academy Awards of quilting” is a weeklong spectacle in which quilters from all over the world vie for the coveted Best of Show award. Beyond the competition, the film weaves through stories of individual quilters to reveal deeper motivations behind the art.
Cursed Films / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Jay Cheel, Producers: Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith, Laura Perlmutter, Brian Robertson, Jay Cheel) — Cursed Films is a five-part documentary series from Shudder exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumoured use of human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?
Motherland: Fort Salem / U.S. (Creator: Eliot Laurence) — Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution by cutting a deal with the government to fight for the country, Motherland: Fort Salem follows three young women from training to deployment, as they fight terrorist threats with supernatural tactics.
Tales from the Loop / U.S., Canada (Creator/Writer: Nathaniel Halpern, Director: Mark Romanek, Executive Producers: Nathaniel Halpern, Matt Reeves, Mark Romanek, Adam Kassan, Rafi Crohn, Mattias Montero, Samanthan Taylor Pickett, Adam Berg and Simon Stålenhag) – Based on the acclaimed art of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe. In this fantastical, mysterious town poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling. Cast: Rebecca Hall, Paul Schneider, Daniel Zolghadri, Duncan Joiner, Jonathan Pryce
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Film at Lincoln Center Announced Lineup for Spring 2020 Virtual Cinema
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Vista Lakes Community Development District
https://www.vistalakescdd.org/
The Vista Lakes Community Development District (CDD) owns and maintains properties including the median strips and land along the sides of Lee Vista Boulevard and Chickasaw Trail, the signature walls and gates as well as some other walls, the retention ponds and lakes including the land surrounding them, and the conservation areas. See this map for details.
Community Development Districts are local units of a special-purpose government entity created in accordance with Florida statutes for the purpose of financing and managing the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of the basic infrastructure for communities like Vista Lakes. The basic infrastructure includes roads, streetlights, bridges, culverts, walls, water supply, sanitary sewage, wastewater management, storm sewers and retention ponds. The Vista Lakes CDD was established in February 2000.
The Vista Lakes CDD issued bonds to finance their efforts. Money for bond principle and interest payments as well as operating and maintenance expenses comes from payments from residents and owners of commercial properties. We pay this money when we pay our annual tax bills. The “non-ad valorem” assessment on your tax bill is the CDD assessment.
The Vista Lakes CDD is managed by a five member Board of Supervisors. Currently there are three Vista Lakes residents on the Board. The Board meets the second Thursday of February, May, August and November at 10:00 am at the Vista Lakes Residents' Club, 8841 Lee Vista Blvd., Orlando. Meetings are open to the public with a portion of each meeting is devoted to audience comments and questions.
The Vista Lakes CDD has contracted with Severn Trent to manage the maintenance and operation of CDD assets in Vista Lakes.
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Zoo's Unique Treatment Puts King Cobra With Cancer In Remission
By Kathy Walsh, CBS Denver
DENVER — A veterinarian at the Denver Zoo has put a king cobra with cancer in remission. Thanks to a unique treatment plan pioneered at the zoo, there is no longer any sign of cancer in the huge snake.
Determined zookeepers were able to successfully treat the cancer called lymphosarcoma.
"Which is a type of cancer that affects the scales," said Denver Zoo Associate Veterinarian Betsy Stringer.
Concern started last February when a zookeeper noticed purplish scales. Stringer wanted a closer look.
"His size and being venomous definitely makes this a really challenging patient," she explained to CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh.
Zoo staff kept the snake asleep with his head in a tube hooked to an anesthesia machine. It took nine X-rays to evaluate his 13-foot long body.
A biopsy confirmed the cancer. But what next?
"There's no publication that tells me how to treat lymphosarcoma in a king cobra, so this was uncharted territory," said Stringer.
Stringer worked with a veterinary oncologist at Colorado State University and came up with a treatment plan.
"The chemotherapy drug we used is used in domestic cats, in people," said Stringer.
It's a little trickier treating a cobra. In this case, a pill was put in the throat of a dead rat. The cobra was fed one every three weeks for five months. A biopsy in December showed success.
"The cancer did not come back and he's officially in remission," said Stringer.
This is one lucky reptile with the Denver Zoo able to tip the scales in his favor.
The zoo plans to publish its treatment plan in a scientific journal to help other sick snakes. The cobra at the zoo is considered geriatric, almost 19 years old, but zookeepers are happy to have bought him some time.
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The Ultimate Guide to the Future of Work
By Emily Bonnie, February 1, 2016
10 years ago, Genentech and Wegman’s were the top companies to work for. Facebook had just opened itself to anyone with a valid email address, including businesses. Email and IM were starting to overtake phone calls and meetings as the top form of business communication. Needless to say, a lot has changed since 2006, and the next decade will bring an equally dramatic transformation.
So take a few moments to stop worrying about today's work and take a peek into the future — you don’t want to let these big trends sneak up on you!
The Line Between Home and Office Will Blur
Remember offices that resembled Dunder Mifflin or Initech — hives of cubicles and harsh fluorescent lights? Now, open floor plans and standing desks are becoming the norm. So what will the office look like 5-10 years from now?
Office Buildings are Going Extinct
Monday mornings will find you working at your home office, library, or local coffee shop. Time says technologies like Dropbox, Skype, and collaboration apps mean the traditional office is disappearing, making way for the wave of freelancers, independent contractors, and remote teams that is growing exponentially. Businesses see the benefits of a workforce that doesn’t need to commute two hours every day to an expensive office, and workers are embracing the ability to work from anywhere, leading to the emergence of second-tier cities like Austin and Atlanta.
Your Favorite Armchair Will Be at the Office
FastCompany notes 8 top trends in office design, including bringing in natural and “homey” elements like fireplaces, comfortable armchairs, and designated lounges to make the office cozier and less stressful. They also predict the end of cables, cords, and other visual clutter, along with multi-purpose, modular workspaces that can be easily reconfigured or adjusted for height. ACI UK predicts health-conscious furniture that promotes movement and proper posture, branded decor, and hybrid open office plans with designated quiet zones.
Workspaces Will Be Personalized
When you picture your office you can likely visualize its layout pretty clearly. But that will change, says futurist Jacob Morgan. He notes that businesses will begin treating physical space like software that requires constant updates and iterations, rather than investing in extensive, long-term remodels. Organizations will also look to technology to personalize every aspect of the office, including open work stations that will be “beamed” a worker’s lighting and temperature preferences, as well as their contacts, projects, and work files, so employees can easily move around.
Offices Will Be Less Expensive to Maintain
Emerging Internet of Things technologies will measure foot traffic and daily activity to turn off lights and A/C in empty rooms, tell cleaning crews not to bother with an unused conference room, and make offices more efficient.
Technology Moves from Tool to Strategic Advantage
Advances in technology will continue to be a huge driver of change. How we interact with our colleagues, clients, and employers is about to see a radical shift thanks to the prevalence of mobile devices, social media, and wearable tech.
You'll Join a Social Workplace
Although there was once a pronounced line between your life on social media and your life at the office, that line has blurred in recent years and will start to disappear completely as companies start implementing internal social networks like Slack and Facebook At Work.
Your Smartphone Will be One of Your Most Important Work Tools
Today, 44% of people check or use their mobile devices for work more than 20 times a day, and 70% believe they'll use it even more in the future. This widespread mobile usage will help us establish a healthier work-life balance: 69% of those who use their mobile devices for work say doing so either has no impact on, or improves, their work-life balance.
There Will Be Professional Rules for Your Personal Devices
With 62% of people currently using their own mobile device for work, both companies and employees will be faced with the tricky task of implementing policies and measures to protect sensitive work data on employees’ personal devices.
More Collaboration Tools Will Be Adopted
Collaboration apps, along with the remote teams they support, are here to stay, and more companies are using them than ever before. But in order to spur adoption of these tools among their teams, businesses will start emphasizing the benefits for individual employees (schedule flexibility, better recognition for achievements, etc.) over benefits to the company (greater innovation, productivity, etc.).
Your Own Personal JARVIS is Coming Soon
Smart assistants like Siri and Cortana are going to keep improving, to the point where artificially-intelligent assistants will be running in the background at work, learning our patterns in order to anticipate and provide the information we need to improve our productivity and work performance.
Expect IoT and Wearables at Work
Routine, mundane tasks like starting a fresh pot of coffee or turning on lights will be taken care of by IoT devices, freeing employees to focus on more creative and complex tasks. Wearables will tell employees when to take a break and which foods to avoid for better energy and focus. And companies will collect that data on employee activity, mood, and habits and start to experiment with people analytics in order to determine how best to support employee performance and satisfaction — without looking like Big Brother.
Work Management Will No Longer Be Ad Hoc
It’s not just the tools and technologies we use that will change; our attitude towards work and how we approach getting it done is shifting. Over the next several years, organizations will embrace new management techniques, values, and standards.
There Will Be Three Spheres of Business
In PriceWaterhouseCooper's recent report on the future of work, they identify three "worlds" that businesses of the future will belong to: the Blue World of capitalism, where profits and market share are top priority; the Green World, where employees and customers demand that companies foster sustainability, greater well-being, and make a positive difference in the world; and the Orange World of small businesses, freelancers, and entrepreneurs, where lean, agile practices dominate.
Expect Smaller, Flatter Organizations
More new ventures will keep it small, with a core group of founders and key employees, and they'll hire freelancers from around the globe to fill the other necessary roles. Meanwhile, larger companies will minimize hierarchy and embrace flat management styles like Zappos' “holacracy,” giving workers greater ownership over their projects, freedom from rigid job titles and descriptions, and more input in the company’s direction.
'Entrepreneur' Will Be Redefined
As the way we take on new projects changes, so will our concept of entrepreneurship. The word will no longer primarily refer to someone who invents a new product or launches a business; it will come to include independent freelancers who team up with other freelancers, forming a temporary group to take on bigger, more lucrative projects than they could tackle individually.
Experimentation and Iteration Will Be the Norm
Companies will start to see themselves as laboratories, focusing less on refining the same standard processes and products, and instead prioritizing experimentation and constant innovation.
Slacking Off? You Won’t Have to Hide It
Businesses are coming to appreciate and encourage “off times” when the brain is able to wander, explore, and later make interesting connections that lead to new ideas. Companies like Google have long encouraged and made time for employees to pursue side projects and indulge their curiosities, and that attitude will spread to companies looking to keep their employees sharp and engaged.
Cross-Functional and Soft Skills Dominate
As new tools and technologies open up fresh possibilities and modes of approaching our work, the skills we'll use to succeed will become more unconventional, and soft skills will be highly sought after.
The Gig Economy Will Bring New Opportunities
Some of the most in-demand skills for the next decade revolve around the emerging "gig" economy, like Personal Brand Coaches who help freelancers and consultants market themselves, and Tribers, people who work with companies to assemble the perfect teams for specific projects. Even teachers and professors will go freelance, choosing to work for one of the many on-demand, online learning platforms.
You’ll Be Updating Your Resume More Often...
The days of spending your entire career at one company, painstakingly working your way up the ladder to the corner office, are gone. The next generation of workers is expected to change careers at least 10 times before the age of 40. The new norm will be to work for a company for a handful of years, gain experience and skills, and then move on to a new opportunity. It'll no longer be enough to master one skill and use it throughout your career — you'll need to master several and be able to switch between them. Highly specific "nanodegrees" that take a year or less to earn will become increasingly popular, and both companies and employees will learn to adapt to higher turnover rates.
.. And You'll Include "World of Warcraft" Among Your Work Skills
Collaborative decision-making, especially with distributed team members, will become increasingly important — something traditional business schools rarely teach outright, whereas players of MMORPGs and other online games have mastered the skill.
You'll Need to Know IQ, EQ, and CQ
Increasing globalization and a growing emphasis on diversity means, in addition to IQ and EQ, cultural intelligence (CQ) and sensitivity will be a must for effective leadership and collaboration.
You'll Need to Master Remote Work
You’ve seen the statistics — with 80-90% of the workforce stating they want to telecommute at least part time, and 50% stating they already do, remote work is here to stay. But over the next several years, we’ll refine our approach to remote teamwork in order to better recreate the genuine social connections and collaboration that, as of now, we can only get at the office.
Companies Will Be Remote by Default
Instead of established companies embracing some remote teams, or employees telecommuting occasionally, companies will be built remotely from the get-go. Everyone meeting face-to-face will be the exception, not the norm, as companies embrace the technology that allows them to hire talent wherever it happens to be located.
You'll Redecorate Your Home to Accommodate Work
Many homes have an open floor plan, which isn't usually conducive to focusing and getting work done. With more people working from home, telecommuters will start creating spaces within their homes for work.
The Office Will Only Be Open for Collaboration
Offices will get rid of single desks or cubicles and be solely collaborative spaces, since people will only come to the office in order to work together in groups.
Culture Will Define Company Success
Flexible hours, remote work, and the need keep talented workers engaged over the long term will lead many organizations to spend more time and resources creating a company culture that makes employees want to come to the office.
Colleagues Will Become Members of a Community
In a time when more than 70% of workers in the US (and 87% worldwide) admit that they’re not engaged at work, the question is more commonly not how to hire the best talent, but how to keep them. Companies will focus more effort on creating a tangible and genuine sense of community, one that excites its employees and compels them to stick around.
Circular Evaluations and Feedback are Coming
Performance reviews are going away as companies phase them out in favor of more flexible means of giving and receiving employee feedback. Organizations will place greater emphasis on coaching, skills development, and letting employees set their own goals, as well as gathering internal feedback on an ongoing basis so that everyone in the company is focused on improvement, from the CEO on down.
And Don't Forget: New Employee Perks
While health insurance, paid vacation, and other typical benefits won't go away, more companies are adding personalized perks that stress their company's unique culture and their employees' personalities. They're rethinking standard benefits to provide what their workforce really wants, like paid parental leave, ongoing learning opportunities, and helping employees repay student loans.
Organizations Will Prioritize Diversity
Facebook and Pinterest require that at least one woman and one underrepresented minority is considered for every open senior position, and Twitter and Pinterest are making their hiring goals public for greater accountability. More companies will follow suit, as they become increasingly intentional about cultivating diversity on their teams, and they'll implement measures to counteract unconscious bias, like “blind” interviews where candidates and interviewers can’t see each other or their voices are masked.
Hiring Managers Will Look for Culture Fit...
For your next job search, experience, diplomas, and GPAs will start to take a backseat to your drive, goals, and willingness to learn. Essentially, do you fit with the company culture? You also may be able to BYOP (Build Your Own Position) focused around your specific interests and industry, developing a relationship with a company first and then creating the right role from there, rather than applying for a specific open position.
... And You'll Be Choosier About Accepting Jobs
Compensation will no longer be the top consideration. As people look for jobs that fit in with their lifestyle, values, and professional goals, organizations will adapt by fostering a sense of purpose for employees — although what that looks like can be difficult to discern (and even more difficult to deliver).
We'll Finally See More Women in Management
Studies show that, in general, women's management styles are less competitive and more collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and focused on the long-term. With a looming talent shortage, the fact that women earn the majority of college and advanced degrees, coupled with the fact they control 83% of consumer purchases, all mean more women in business, working with and selling to other women.
You'll Still Be Working Long Hours
Although it’s proven very successful in Sweden, the six-hour workday probably won’t come to the US any time soon. Not because it doesn't work, but simply because voters have proven resistant to government mandates on business practices in general. It just goes to show that although work is evolving in a myriad of important ways, some things never change!
Your predictions for the future of work?
Although these are sweeping trends, the future of work ultimately looks different for every single company — which is why it’s so important to constantly evaluate what’s working best for your organization and your employees, and watch for ways to improve with the times.
Thousands of you expressed your opinions on the future of work by taking our recent surveys. Download the work management and mobile productivity survey reports to find out what your peers believe are the most important changes coming to the workplace, then share your own predictions for the future of work in the comments below.
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2010 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
Robert Lee Brewer
For today's prompt, write a poem with a hole in it. The hole could be referenced in the poem, which could be about subjects such as hitting a golf ball in the hole, punching a hole in the wall, or even visiting a hole in the wall bar. Of course, with everyone flexing their concrete poetry skills lately, I'm sure at least a few poets might take a stab at writing a poem with an actual hole in the middle (maybe a doughnut-shaped poem?). Another possibility is to write a poem with a hole in its logic, but I'm sure you can find any number of loop-holes for attacking this prompt.
Here's my attempt:
"We're not strangers"
We're not strangers, but we are
visiting. Tonight, we will worship
the moon--not because we think
it's a god or ghost rising over us.
Instead, we'll worship it, because
the moon is the closest object
that doesn't touch the earth.
We, who are not strangers, will
praise the moon and consider
those close to us who we do not
touch--those beautiful men and
women who might destroy us
if we were ever to collide.
Like stars, our hearts surround
the moon with smaller hopes
as it reflects the bright hope
of the nearest star toward us.
We, who are not strangers, are
unable to speak. Instead, we
reflect all that burns and hope
to be praised like the largest
orbiting hole in the evening sky.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes editing Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, Smash Poetry Journal, and The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets. He loves blogging on a variety of writing and publishing topics, but he's most active with Poetic Asides and writes a column under the same name for Writer's Digest magazine. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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BofA Exits Credit Protection
Move Comes as Debt-Cancellation Services Have Drawn Consumer Advocates' Ire
By Andrew R. Johnson
Updated Aug. 21, 2012 8:31 pm ET
Bank of America Corp. and other banks have stopped selling to credit-card customers products that suspend borrowers' minimum monthly payments in the event of a job loss or other hardship as regulatory scrutiny of these offerings rises.
Bank of America stopped offering products called Credit Protection Plus and Credit Protection Deluxe to new customers this month but is continuing provide them for now to existing cardholders who are enrolled in the services, said Bank of America spokeswoman Betty Riess.
The Charlotte, N.C., bank will offer six months of credit protection to existing customers who are enrolled in the services at no charge before ending the products some time next year, Ms. Riess said.
The decision to discontinue the products, which are provided by third-party vendors, is part of the bank's "larger strategy to streamline our business," Ms. Riess said, citing Bank of America's recent moves to exit from certain businesses and sell assets deemed noncore.
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172 Hours on the Moon
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There were twist and turns that were not predictble and surprises all the way until the end of the novel. I would recommend this novel to fans of horror and suspense.
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Avoiding bad science through better research design
Health policies and treatments should be based on solid evidence. But what if such evidence is flawed, and the resulting treatments and policies are therefore ineffective, inefficient, or harmful? Professor Stephen Soumerai tells more in this blog.
Stephen Soumerai, ScD 10 Sep 2015
Improving research design for health policies and treatments
What if policymakers, science reporters and even scientists can’t distinguish between weak and trustworthy research studies that underlie our health care decisions?
Many studies of healthcare treatments and policies do not prove cause-and-effect relationships because they suffer from faulty research designs. The result is a pattern of mistakes and corrections: early studies of new treatments tend to show dramatic positive health effects, which diminish or disappear as more rigorous studies are conducted.
Indeed, when experts on research evidence do systematic reviews of research studies they commonly exclude 50%-75% because they do not meet basic research design standards required to yield trustworthy conclusions.
In many such studies researchers try to statistically manipulate data to ‘adjust for’ irreconcilable differences between intervention and control groups. Yet it is these very differences that often create the reported, but invalid, effects of the treatments or policies that were studied.
In this accessible and graph-filled article published recently by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we describe five case examples of how some of the most common biases and flawed study designs impact research on important health policies and interventions, such as comparative effectiveness of medical treatments, cost-containment policies, and health information technology.
Each case is followed by examples of weak study designs that cannot control for bias, stronger designs that can, and the unintended clinical and policy consequences that may result from the seemingly dramatic reporting of poorly designed studies.
Flawed studies have dictated national flu immunization policies, influenced a generation of clinicians to falsely believe that specific sedatives could cause hip fractures in the elderly, overstated the health benefits and cost-savings of electronic health records, and grossly exaggerated the mortality benefits of hospital safety programs, resulting in trillions of dollars spent on interventions with few demonstrated health benefits.
As Ross Koppel and I recently stated in an op-ed in US News and World Report, “Our worry is that as a research community, we are losing our humility and our caution in the face of declining research funding, the need to publish and the need to show useful findings. Perhaps it’s becoming harder to admit that our so-called big data findings are not as powerful as we wish, or are, at best, uninterpretable.”
This ranking should help the public, policy makers, news media, and research trainees discriminate between biased and credible findings in healthcare studies.
In our article we provide a simple ranking of the ability of most research designs to control for common biases. This ranking should help the public, policy makers, news media, and research trainees discriminate between biased and credible findings in healthcare studies.
Editors of medical journals can also benefit from this design hierarchy by refusing to publish research based on study designs that fail even the minimal criteria for inclusion in a self-respecting systematic review of the evidence (something they often don’t do at present).
It is time to embrace the quality rather than the quantity of studies published daily in our field. We are slowly losing the credibility of the public who find it difficult to believe many clinical and health policy studies – especially when they appear to contradict other recent studies.
It is not too late to remedy this misdirection. We hope that some of the simple illustrations of common biases and strong research designs will be helpful to the broad population of users of health research.
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Stephen B. Soumerai is Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Director of the Drug Policy Research Group, a research program focused on pharmaceutical outcomes and quality of health care. He is co-chair of the Evaluative Sciences and Statistics Concentration within Harvard University’s health policy Ph.D. program.
Dr. Soumerai has published more than 250 original scientific articles and is well known nationally and internationally for his work on the impact of health policies and methods to improve the quality of medical practice. He frequently advises Congress and state legislatures on the design of cost containment, insurance coverage and quality-of-care policies. His research has been used extensively in policy decisions by Medicaid and Medicare.
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What is the longest song you know?
GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River 10 Jan 06 - 08:55 PM
Arne 10 Jan 06 - 08:17 PM
Snuffy 10 Jan 06 - 08:00 PM
Bill D 10 Jan 06 - 07:26 PM
Tootler 10 Jan 06 - 06:19 PM
garybs 10 Jan 06 - 03:09 PM
Den 10 Jan 06 - 01:54 PM
GUEST,guest 10 Jan 06 - 01:51 PM
open mike 10 Jan 06 - 11:36 AM
GUEST,Guest 10 Jan 06 - 07:48 AM
GUEST,reggie miles 10 Jan 06 - 02:23 AM
Guy Wolff 10 Jan 06 - 12:02 AM
John Routledge 09 Jan 06 - 08:09 PM
Don Firth 09 Jan 06 - 07:13 PM
GUEST, Topsie 09 Jan 06 - 01:48 PM
GUEST 09 Jan 06 - 12:23 PM
Bunnahabhain 09 Jan 06 - 12:19 PM
Mr Fox 09 Jan 06 - 12:08 PM
Folkiedave 09 Jan 06 - 11:27 AM
GUEST,potbelly 09 Jan 06 - 10:31 AM
GUEST,Greycap 09 Jan 06 - 07:55 AM
Paul Burke 09 Jan 06 - 06:22 AM
GUEST,DB 09 Jan 06 - 04:43 AM
Tradsinger 09 Jan 06 - 02:36 AM
sharyn 09 Jan 06 - 01:57 AM
GUEST,Anonny Mouse 08 Jan 06 - 08:26 PM
GUEST,Guset 08 Jan 06 - 07:19 PM
Little Hawk 08 Jan 06 - 06:58 PM
Morticia 08 Jan 06 - 06:48 PM
JohnInKansas 08 Jan 06 - 06:36 PM
Tradsinger 08 Jan 06 - 05:42 PM
GUEST,Bruce Baillie 08 Jan 06 - 04:57 PM
Dave Sutherland 08 Jan 06 - 04:38 PM
Joybell 08 Jan 06 - 03:07 PM
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Subject: RE: What is the longest song you know?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
The longest one is...
19 million 9 hunnert and 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall!
I woulda sung it thru, but we ran out at only 72 bottles.
Other than that...i heard that some guy took the whole 3 books of Lord of the Rings and, like, made a song out of it, eh? The WHOLE FLIPPIN' THING! I kid you not, eh? It was one of them progressive rock gods. It mighta been Rick Wakeman. They say he was, like, insane, eh? It was the longest flippin' album set ever, but didn't get releesed in stores. Too bad. You could get serious money for that puppy now, I bet.
- BDiBR
From: Arne
Hmmmmm. Think I saw a cartoon short subject treatment of TROTN once upon a time. Pretty hilarious too. Any relation, do you know?
From: Snuffy
Serendipity: the chorus of Lamarca's Ring song just popped into my head yesterday, for no apparent reason. It is indeed wonderful, Bill, when Mary sings it.
And it's even pretty good when Micca sings it! **BG**
(Mudcat's own "lamarca" has written a "Hamlet" treatment of the entire "Ring of the Niebelung" .... to the tune of "Barret's Privateers". She does it 'occasionally', and it is wonderful!)
Ummm, how about best long subject done succinctly?
As in songwriter (and teacher) Adam McNaughton's Reader's Digest condensed version of Hamlet that he put together to try and get the little tykes interested in Shakespeare....
Without much further ado, Oor Hamlet.
When Iain Mackintosh sings this, he does it in a rapid-fire version that gets it down to just a few deep breaths' worth....
Maybe such sublime efforts as McNaughton's make up in part for the terminal length of some of the Child balladry....
From: Tootler
To John Routledge
I thought I counted 76 verses of the Chevy Chase, but I could be wrong. I'm not surprised you never heard anyone sing it. Apart from the length, the version I have (Northumbrian Minstelsey) is in 15th century English and no one has spoken like that for some time now :-)
From: garybs
Gotta be Ina-Gada-Da Vida by Iron Butterfly
From: Den
Little Musgrave. I enjoy performing it too.
From: GUEST,guest
Just an aside -- my daughter (11) always says that if the song tells you it "won't delay you long" you should get comfortable.....
From: open mike
Date: 10 Jan 06 - 11:36 AM
Christmas in the Trenches has 7 verses...
i wrote one with 20 verses once, but
never could commit it to memory!
I'm still learning "The ballad of Odivere", one quarter of which is really the "Silkie of South Skerrie", 104 verses.
John Whaltham has been known to sing a ballad in installments as it took about 30 minutes.
From: GUEST,reggie miles
I heard a friend of mine do a longish version of "The Ballad of the Rock Island" and I was suitably impressed. So, I decided to try my hand at this one and developed a compilation of several versions with plenty of my own verbal calisthenics thrown in for good measure.
I play this one bottleneck style and add harmonica for the train whistlin'. I've had an entire bluegrass style band working this one with me in the past. Now that was a great version!
If I hurry I can usually get through it in about 15 minutes but I enjoy stretching it for all it's worth. I love doing this one when I've got a lot of time to kill on stage. ;o) Folks have said that my version has an Arlo air to it.
I've always enjoyed Arlo's work and used to have his version of Alice's restaurant memorized so I could recite it. I've never worked up the guitar part though.
"Now it all started about three Thanksgivings ago"...
Im with Sharyn .. "The Famous flower of Searving Men" is the longest one Ive tried.. Matty Groves is second for me .. All the best , Guy
From: John Routledge
Guest DB
I have two versions of Chevy Chase - each around 68 verses.
Will count them in a quiet moment.
The tune Chevy Chase however has only eight bars.
Never heard anyone sing it :0)
From: Don Firth
"The Twelve Days of Crispness."
It may not actually be all that long, but when you've heard it for the four-hundred and seventy-eighth time over the holiday season, the bloody thing seems interminable!
Don Firth
From: GUEST, Topsie
I've never managed to listen to "Jesus' Blood" all the way through - it is played on Late Junction now and then - but I think it lasts about 20 minutes or so.
Sad-eyed Lady of The Lowlands
From: Bunnahabhain
There's a hole in my bucket.
Another one of those repeating songs, but with a repeat of 5-6 minutes.
Not sure if this counts, but I've heard of Paradise Lost being performed. Not quites rread and not quite sung if I remember, and they only did three or four books a night...
From: Mr Fox
Steelye Span - Montrose (15m 16s)
Mr Fox - The Gypsy (12m 58s)
Carolanne Pegg - Fair Fortune's Star (Close to ten minutes)
Martin Carthy - Jack Rowland (8m 47s)
Fairport's version of 'Jack Orion' must run around ten minutes, too. And what about 'Red and Gold'?
From: Folkiedave
Say goodbye to your web footed friends
Cos that duck may be somebodies mother.
It lives in the cold and the swamp,
Where the weather is really damp,
You may think that's the end of this song,
Well it is.
But just to prove that I'm a liar,
I'll sing the song once again,
Only this time a bit louder and much higher.
Change key.........
I have been there when Mike has sung Tam Lin, Sure it only takes eleven minutes?
From: GUEST,potbelly
From: GUEST,Greycap
A certain old friend of mine could make "Sir Patrick Spen" seem as long a ballad as you are likely to hear.
From: Paul Burke
A bear climbed over a mountain,
To see what he could see.
And what do you think he saw?
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see.
So what do you think he did?
He climbed back over the mountain,
(ad infinitum... kept the Boy amused for hours).
From: GUEST,DB
I was once at a singaround at which the 'worst' singer in the group announced that he was going to sing the ballad 'Chevy Chase'. He then proceeded to do so - I'm not sure how long it was because I lapsed into a coma ... several people died ...
Now, I have no basic objection to long songs, per se; I'm sure that there are a few singers around who could tackle 'Chevy Chase' and I'd listen to it with pleasure. Unfortunately, there appear to be far too many people around who learn long songs so that they can monopolise as much of a singaround as possible. Usually, in such cases, the length of the song tends to be inversely proportional to the quality of the singing.
In the example quoted above several people (those who were still standing) walked out - one of the few examples that I can think of where this has happened; it served the selfish git right!
From: Tradsinger
The New Scorpion Band's vesion of Lord Bateman is about 15 minutes.
Gwilym
From: sharyn
I sing the Martin Carthy version of "The Famous Flower of Serving Men." It's very long (and I'm a ballad singer). Since I learned it orally, I've never counted the verses.
From: GUEST,Anonny Mouse
The malaprop-dyslexic-mix-up-song-"Innavidadaggada"
(I knew a woman many years ago who claimed that her version of "The Lass of Roch Royal" ran 13-14 minutes...she used it a couple of times to punish newcomers to our Hootenanny for doing things like "Puff, the Magic Dragon")
From: GUEST,Guset
"The Guest of Robin Hood".( Gueste of Robynn Hoode) The lyrics in the Harvard Classics must contain at least 100 verses. I have never heard it sung but at 4 verses per minute = 25 minutes.
From: Little Hawk
I had a friend (since deceased) who once wrote a song shortly before his 15-minute spot at the open stage, and it took him the entire 15 minutes to play it. Alas, I cannot remember the title. I think it had 35 verses or thereabouts. (it moved along quickly too...whole lot of lyrics)
I don't know many long songs myself. The longest one I know of anybody singing in Scots or English is "Graysteil", which I think Andy Hunter has sung all the way through (probably the first person to do it since the reign of James IV).
The longest song to be orally performed complete by a single performer in any language is probably the Kirghiz epic "Manas" - look it up.
"The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" is a mere bagatelle at 45 minutes.
From: Morticia
Maria Martin or Murder in the Barn is the nomination from my other half...........I would say Tam Lin
an interesting way to rate them is the size of an MP3 needed to digitize them.
There was a recent posting of many, many versions of Child Ballads in newsgroups, and where a common size was from 3 to 7MB, some ran 12-15-18-or 20MG, and a few...wow! (The list with lengths was also posted)
the longest ones I see were:
The Broom of Cowdenowes - Ewan McColl 10:47
The Knight & the Shepherds Daughter - The Baltimore Consort 10:15
Little Musgrave - Jean Richie 12:02
Little Musgrave - Planxty - 11:26
Barbary Allan - Jody Stecher 12:44
Child Waters - Frankie Armstrong 11:18
Fair Annie - Peggy Seeger 10:40
Glasgerion (Jack Orion) Fairport Convention 12:39
Glasgerion (Jack Orion) Pentangle 18:38
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship - Ewan McColl 10:01
Tam Lin by Anne Briggs 10:44
by The Watersons 11:00
then there is Bonnie Annie & Andrew Lammie by Jeannie Robertson at 13:24 (not sure if that counts as 'one'..)
and the Little Gest of Robin Hood, recorded by Bob Frank, using his own tune, running about 78 minutes!
From: JohnInKansas
Guinness World Records does not return an entry for longest song or for longest musical performance.
There's a goal once a winner is found here....(?)
So...how come I never get to hear this stuff on the radio? ;-)
I used to sing Tam Lin, which was about 8 minutes. At school, we used to sing "Goodbye horse, goodbye horse, I was saying goodbye to my horse, and as I was saying goodbye to my horse I was saying goodbye to my horse" (tune 'Bless 'em all'.) This is repeated ad lib and to infinity or until someone throws something at the singer.
The late Gordon Hall from Sussex was reknowned for having the longest versions of everything. I once took at tape recorder to him and he announced he was going to sing his version of Lord Bateman. As I had 21 minutes tapetime left, I was not worried .. at first that it ... but as the song progressed I kept glancing at the counter. Finally, 17 and a half minutes and 2 cigarettes later (his cigs, not mine), the song finished. Speach and movement slowly returned. His version of 'The leaves of life' was 'only' 14 minutes.
I suppose the longest I sing these days is the Devon song 'When mother and me joined in' but I've never timed it.
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
The Wars of the Roses, you can listen to it on wovenwheatwhispers its only a mere 8 minutes long...
From: Dave Sutherland
Personally "Tam Lin" 43 verses - the longest one I have heard has to be Roy Harper's "Magoonan's Blues" which lasts around a glorious fifteen minutes
From: Joybell
"Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene", but I rarely find anyone willing to hear me out. I think I could do "Johnny Cock" too but that's True-Love's favourite long ballad and he has the same problem as the above. Cheers, Joy
There was another time in the early Sixties when I was singing in a coffeehouse and a guy offered me roughly five times what I was making per night at the coffeehouse to come and sing a few songs at a late party. Sure, says I. It turned out to be a gathering of salesmen who were (I think) in town for a convention. The party was in a big room in one of the nicer hotels in downtown Seattle. I sang for a while, then the guy who invited me asked If he could borrow my guitar. What followed was an open ended song made up of whatever limericks anyone could come up with, to the tune of—what?—the Mexican Hat Dance? Anyway, the chorus ran
"Aye aye aye aye
In China they never eat chili.
Let's have another one
Just like the other one,
And waltz me around again, Willie."
Anyway, people tossed in whatever limericks they could think of—and talk about raunchy!!—for also well over a half-hour, until finally the hotel night manager knocked on the door and asked us to keep it down.
The guy paid me in cash—more than he had initially offered—and sent me home in a cab.
We once dragged out "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor" for well over half an hour. With a dozen of us improvising verses and having to think up only one line before our turn came up again, it probably could have kept right on going. Fortunately, after a bit, cooler heads prevailed.
Got pretty damned raunchy toward the end!
That's how long it takes him to die, right?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
I will toss in Gunga Dihn also - it goes for about 12 minutes.
From: GUEST,Joe_F
You mean, like, memorized all the way thru in a misspent youth? "Thais".
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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I Used To Work in Chicago.
Over 150 verses.
You had to be there. It was funny at the time. I would not much want to hear it now. (Alice's Restaurant)
From: Bert
Eskimo Nell?
From: Peace
PS That was in no way meant to insult Arlo's song.
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Jack Layton brings you... CanWest Global (a Jew-owned Zionist entity)
Okay, with the revelation that several NDPers, including Jack himself, are awfully chummy with the "I'm not an anti-Semite but the goddamned dirty Jews caused 9/11" crowd, I couldn't resist the above headline. In researching the last post I came across this page on the CanWest site.
Now tell me it doesn't actually look like the NDP site, and the Dippers are just including a snippet from a canada.com newspaper article? (click for full-sized):
The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce
Tonight CBC television news claimed that their "fact checking team" [can "CBC" and "fact" be ever reliably said in the same sentence? -ed] has discovered NDP candidate Bev Collins is one of these "9/11 Truthers". Trouble is that the Liberals just lost a candidate for the same reason.
There's one more minor issue, though: blogger Jason Cherniak found this out last week. So how can the CBC take credit for it now? (Incidentally, partisan Liberal Cherniak is now taking serious flack by NDP commentators and the Vancouver Sun for daring to speak out against "9/11 Truthers" in the NDP (despite renouncing them having any role in his party as well).
Lets go Oilers, lets go!
A CFL team in Edmonton? Never heard of 'em.
Breaking news: Jack Layton's wife defects to the Conservatives
Jack Layton, as per usual, was going around earlier this week sounding like an idiot:
The New Democrat leader told reporters outside a Petro-Canada gas station here, where a litre of regular goes for $1.35, that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has failed Canadians by refusing to create a separate consumer protection branch.
Er, gas in B.C. is high because of Gordon Campbell's efforts to fight "global warming". If Jack Layton really wants gas prices in B.C. to drop, all he has to do is outlaw any silly carbon plans; from cap-and-trade to carbon tax, if none of them can be enacted by provincial governments then gas won't be so expensive in Lotusland. Of course, I'm sure Layton and his cronies would be the first to accuse Harper of being a control freak by advocating the feds coming in and taking away provincial responsibilities.
Anyways, it was about this time that Layton really started going off the deep end.
"Campbell slapped on his carbon tax and hurt families here in B.C. Bay Street Harper let it happen. He says he's against it now, but his Bay Street ministers sing a different tune," the NDPer said.
Jack Layton needs to brush up on his geography. Or else be better in the sack so his wife isn't adultering on him with some Conservative Party staffer. Because Bay Street is in downtown Toronto. The Conservatives don't have any MPs in Toronto, let alone ministers. In fact, Bay Street is in the riding of Trinity-Spadina (which Wikipedia describes as "the most left-leaning in Toronto and has voted NDP provincially for a number of years").
Who's the MP for Trinity-Spadina? Why if it isn't Olivia Chow, Jack Layton's wife. Is she the "Bay Street ministers" advising Harper?
You'd better stop campaigning Jack and go give her a good poke before she ends up moving to Jasper and running for the Tories in Yellowhead!
...and Kurt Cobain was obviously a Winnipeg Jets fan
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, a longtime Chicago Cubs fan and Wrigley field attendee, has just penned a tribute song to the Cubs just in time for their big playoff push in what has to be their most hopeful season since 1989 (strong pushes exist for highly ranking the 1998 and 2003 seasons, the latter of which saw me in the stands around this time five years ago, but the 1989 season was the last one with this much promise (and the .574 winning percentage). May 2008 end without a 1-4 drubbing in the NLCS like that fateful year. Before '89 and '84 you have to go all the way back to '72 for even a second place showing (and back to the infamous goat-series in '45 before another first place showing). This is a club that's waited 99 years and counting for a World Series (I once saw a homemade Cubs T-shirt in 2005 that said "86 years is nothing").
Which, as I gleefully pointed out to a big Pearl Jam fan, might just explain all of the angst and mournful moping in Vedder's lyrics/voice. Being a Cubs fan leaves you feeling the need to listen to "Corduroy" with the lights off and a bottle of whiskey in your hand come early October more often than not, and there has to be more than an idle connection.
(This posts' title is an idle connection though, as the Jets hung on for two years longer than Cobain)
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Catchy, but can you dance to it?
A friend on vacation in the U.S. reported in this morning. It turns out that Idaho's state motto is Esto perpetua -- Let It Be Perpetual -- not Amo Saskatchewan vacuus tripudium -- Like Saskatchewan Without the Excitement -- as I previously had thought.
Speaking of Wheat Herder territory, living in Alberta right now is going to be tough between your friends from B.C. braggng about beating Saskatchewan 27-21 last night and friends from Saskatchewan crying about losing to B.C. 21-27 last night.
Even worse, B.C.'s victory coupled with the Blue Bombers beating Hamilton on Thursday means that Edmonton's upcoming game against Montreal will be burdened with bad karma: two of the three teams not in Ottawa with the strongest claims on the "ownership" of the late Ron Lancaster have lost their games following his death. If Montreal wins today, it will be a clean sweep for the Grim Reaper this weekend in the CFL.
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Another anti-Harper flareup entirely manufactured by the media
There's another inappropriate campaign comment (besides the infamous Ritz listeriosis crack) that has begun plaguing the Tories. And again, its not that serious a comment but is being blown far out of proportion.
Cannon was officially opening his campaign office in Maniwaki, Que. on Thursday when protesters from the Barriere Lake community arrived to make their demands known to Cannon.
Cannon listened to some of the group's concerns before he left in a vehicle.
However, one of his aides, Darlene Lannigan, continued to speak with Norman Matchewan, the 25-year-old man leading the protesters.
In a video clip from the Aboriginal People's Television Network, Matchewan asks if he would be arrested if he came into Cannon's office.
"If you behave, and you're sober, and there's no problems, and if you don't do a sit-down and whatever, I don't care. One of them showed up the other day and was drinking," Lannigan said in the clip.
"Are you calling me an alcoholic?" asks Matchewan
"I'm not calling you an alcoholic, it's just to say you're in a federal office. If you're coming in to negotiate, I expect, there's decorum that has to be respected."
Liberal Party deputy leader Michael Ignatieff appeared on CTV's Mike Duffy Live on Thursday evening and said the comments made by the Conservative aide were troubling because of what they assumed about Matchewan.
"The issue here is what assumptions you start with. If you start with the assumption that when an aboriginal man come towards you in good faith and you think he's been drinking, you have a problem," Ignatieff said. "It's an insult to Aboriginals right across the country.
A statement from Cannon's director of communications, Catherine Loubier, sent to CTV.ca on Thursday afternoon said that the comments did not reflect the views of the Government of Canada.
"We would like to take this opportunity to apologize for an offence given," Loubier said in the statement.
"We also understand these comments were made in a difficult context. That is regrettable. The good news is the parties have agreed to meet later this week in a spirit of collaboration."
Matchewan spoke with CTV Newsnet on Thursday afternoon from Barriere Lake. The part-time police officer and schoolteacher said the apology issued by Cannon's office was "not good enough."
"I was offended...my community is offended (and) they are still upset," said Matchewan. "This goes to show how much they disrespect our communities.
"We were there in a peaceful, respectful manner to meet with Mr. Cannon (and) I do not know why she would say such things. That's hurtful, hurtful words for a community."
Matchewan released a statement to The Canadian Press on Thursday that condemned Lannigan's remarks, calling them "patronizing and racist" and "another example of the Conservative government's disrespect for our community."
Er, I'm sorry, this is a massive non-issue. Not only was this a staffer, but also one who had just recently had to deal with unruly intoxicated Indians† from Matchewan's own lobby group. Sorry, no excitement here.
But in the comments on the CTV page, some lib-lefties are going nuts over this. Here are some highlights:
The Conservatives are out control. Yesterday, it was disgusting jokes by Gerry Ritz on dying people and today it an aide to Lawrence Cannon on aboriginals. The Conservatives are still showing their Reform colors.
Mary Ewen
What I find interesting,is how the media failed to make headline news of the Lib. M.P. in Quebec who made disparing comments about Aboriginals.
In fairness,if you're going to attack one Party,then at least report the others gaffes.
Besides,being asked to show up sober for meetings,despite bringing race into the issue,is a fairly honest request.
Inference about being a drunk to a native man... If you don't find the offense in this inference, then you're way too partisan. If a Liberal had said these comments, the Conservative blog-o-sphere would be on fire right now. You're hypocrites.
So this woman had a run-in with someone who had been drinking, who, by chance, was also a native. Supposing that all other natives are always drinking is woefully ignorant. It is hard to negotiate eye to eye when one party constantly looks down their nose at you.
Just goes to show how much Racism still exhists here in Canada after reading some of your comments. Just because on man drinks is it fair to say we all do??
That's like saying because you raped and molested our children in the Residential Schools then all of you rape and molest!!!
It is an insult to say that to somone who has never shown that past behaviour.
If the individual who the comment was made to had previously visited the office in such a state the comment may be warranted. However, the Minister's Assistant projected the behaviours of others to this individual and therefore it is an insult.
Hopefully people will see what Stephen Harper and his associates are up to.
Voting anything but Blue!
WOW - I cannot believe some of the comments I'm reading. Do you people honestly not see the problem with this situation? Nowhere have I read that Norman Matchewan was in any way intoxicated when he approached the Minister's office. The fact that he was told to be sober in any further discourse is a blatant use of a terrible stereotype that has been ascribed to Native peoples for decades. Shame on the minister's office and on anyone dim enough to think this kind of exchange is okay at a kindergarten level, let alone a federal government level.
The sooner this bunch of ignorant yahoos is gone from government the better!
I actually thought this sounded pretty bad when I first read the quote but after reading it again it appears that one of the protesters with Matchewan was drinking when they showed up at Cannon's office. Just because Matchewan is native it shouldn't mean that you can't say to him that someone in his group of protesters was drinking when they showed up previously.
Sort of depends if the word 'you' meand Matchewan himself, or if it meant the group of protesters as a whole. If it meant the protesters as a whole it's a completely valid statement. If it meant just Matchewan it's possibly racist but more likely a generalization across the protest group. It wouldn't have been a fair statement but sounds like it's because of the previous actions of the people he was with, not because of his race. If a white protester is drinking when they show up to a person's office, they don't get treated well either. I expect the group would be generalized the same way as this group of protesters was.
Sam Crawford
For me the answer to "where is the story" is the question: would he have said the same thing to a group of women; Muslims; Dentists; Farmers?
What makes it okay to tell a group of natives that they have to be sober? Has there been a problem with groups being drunk when they come to see the minister?
David in Ontario
No wonder there is very little progress with dealing with the unrest in Caledonia and Deseronto in Ontario when ones hears comments like these.
The First Nations are a federal responsibility under the BNA act. With recent attitudes and comments like this by the Conservatives, things will not improve.
Better vote Cons. Diane Finley out of her riding, which I think covers Caledonia. Things will get uglier there. She has done little to resolve that issue for her constituents.
I think Cons. Daryl Kramp is the Deseronto area. What has he done to rectify the unrest there? Things will get heated up there with public views like this coming from Conservatives.
Too many self-inflicted wounds here that do not bode well for the Conservatives and do not reflect well on Canadians as a whole.
Surprising to see so many comments in support of views in this day and age suggesting we have swung too far to the right here in Canada. Shades of the US situation when Kanye West saying "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" to 100 Million people in the US after Katrina hit New Orleans.
Steve Harper and the Cons may get hit hard for this one for those questionable Conservative views/attitudes on race.
Scott Stelmaschuk
I think the problem rests in the fact that the comment was "one of them showed up the other day and was drinking,"...
Lannigan didn't say 'a man/woman showed up yesterday, drinking." or "we had a person show up yesterday drinking." By saying, "one of them", he is specifically referring to Aboriginal people.
Also, this may be personal bias on my part, but I doubt Lannigan would have made the same comments if he were talking to a Caucasian group.
It would be like them addressing a gay rights group and specifically singling out men who came in dresses and make-up. It's a stereotypical image of a community that the Conservatives have about these minority groups and it's clearly coming through now that they're able to speak without PMO permission.
Paul Vancouver Island
To those who say get on with it, take another step back. This is an issue and relevant to an election.
It's about attitude toward First Nations people and there appears to be racism expressed today by conservatives.
Let's bring back the Paul Martin Accord reached in Kelowna that Harper cancelled when he came to power and give back to First Nations the dignity and respect they deserve.
The other 2 incidents were serious:
1) the con shots at the father of a Canadian soldier who died in battle.
2) the light-hearted joking about Listeria deaths by the con Minister.
This newer "incident" doesn't seem comparable (unless maybe something has been left out of the story).
The cons will be PLEASED to see this story, as it may have the effect of WATERING DOWN the COLLECTIVE seriousness of con gaffes. They got a similar benefit when they were being attacked by what seemed like dozens of parliamentary committees.
The opposition parties will be wise to stay on focus with a FEW REALLY GOOD items, as only hard-core political junkies are going to see through a wash of complexity.
Melissa- Ontario
The issue here is the prejudice - she's assuming that since he's representing a native group he's an alcoholic - doesn't matter if a native group showed up drunk at a different time - if he wasn't there she's being rude and offensive.
Nonetheless her comments won't affect who I vote for... not likely conservatives anyways
Doug BC
I'm also finding it difficult to find a real issue here.Is the "noise" being created by the media,or by other politicians?
And,while I'm not sure how intention,or even that it's blatant,I agree that the media,both in Canada and the USA appear to have a slant to the left.Perhaps I've seen it more in American coverage this time.The media seem very determined to elect Sen.Obama.
It gets harder and harder to know what,or who to believe any more.Of course politicians don't do much to clear the air either.And making mountains out of mole-hills seems to be a deliberate way to distract voters from honestly debating real issues.
Hmmm.Now that I think of it,quite a lot like "question period" in parliament.
But here.Sorry.I see no story.If protestors expect to be treated with respect,I think they have to protest with respect.
Typical, typical, and the Tories want to run our country. With an attitude like that, she might as well stay assistant. Her view on Natives may be mirrored by the Natives if every time they see a white man in a suit they know they are going to get screwed in the end. Because we all know the Natives will be on the losing end in THEIR own country.
Anyone who does not see an insult here is either ignorant, insensitive, or biased towards a certain party (most probable), and possibly all three. This has nothing to do with liberal bias,left wing media, or making a story from a non-issue.
This was a generalization made by a representative of the government. It may come as a surprise to those who choose to see otherwise but not all First Nations members are irresponsible drinkers any more than all whites are tea-totalling examples of decorum.
To ask a group to behave "sober" is very insulting and in this case racist, regardless of whether there were prior incidents from a similar group in the past. For example, should a politician in B.C. have the right to say in seriousness to a Students Union group "I'll meet with your group as long as you are not high". It goes beyond the ridiculous to the sublime.
The aide could have simply said "if there is a civil discussion with a respectful tone, we would be happy to arrange it", and that would have been completely acceptable. Instead, an insulting stereotype was thrown in the mix for good measure.
If it really was no big deal, then I can guarantee this party would not have apologized. We are in the midst of an election, and apologies are BAD news. So, obviously someone withing the group realized that this was a major faux pas.
It seems being "Politically Correct" is politically incorrect, literally.
Gerald from Belleville
We, as usual, probably don't have all the facts. But, based on what is presented here, I don't think there should have been an apology.
Consider this sequence, as described in the article(paraphrasing):
1)Matchewan asks if he'll be arrested if he goes to the office (nobody asks that unless there's some intent to challenge or disrupt, or else it wouldn't need to be asked...ESPECIALLY by a part-time cop who would know the law).
2)Lannigan says it's okay, as long as "you" behave and aren't drunk.
3)Lannigan also specifies that one of "them" showed up and was drinking last time
4)Matchewan asks if Lannigan called him an alcoholic
5)Lannigan specifies no, but decorum is expected during negociations
"You" and "them" appear to refer more to the collective protesters rather than strictly Matchewan.
We can deduce, from the article at least, that there had been a previous incident where protesters had shown a lack of proper "decorum" and at least one person had been drinking. It is not unreasonable then for Lannigan to ask "them" to behave and refrain from drinking (being drunk).
This seems like a case of protesters trying to provoke and get a good sound bite to further their protest. Turn it around: Group A show up at your house and make trouble on Tuesday. A member of Group A shows up at your house on Thursday, you tell him to behave based on Tuesday's incidents. It's totally reasonable. In fact, you'd be an idiot NOT to tell him and his group to behave...
sickened
No real surprise here, instead of saying "...as long as we are all seriously negotiating" or something not as inflammatory as the "drunken indian" mentality, it would have been a non issue. But when an apology has to be given because the views of the Minister do not reflect that of the GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. I have said it before here and I'll say it again, these are NOT your Daddy's Progressive Conservatives, these are namely Reform hacks. Harper can barely trust them to speak in public without insulting the population of Canada. The narrow mindedness ranges from Stockwell Day mocking climate change saying basically that his constituents (in the Mountains) were looking forward to having water front property, to insulting natives, to mocking those dying from Listeria. Now Canada, see what you are electing to a majority. Me, I'm voting ABC.
And so on, and so forth.
Some of these comments just cry out for a response. The first thing you notice is a consistent claim that Cannon's aide was engaging in "unfair negative stereotyping", namely that any Indian you come across is an alcoholic. Re-read "Vote Anything But Blue's" comments above: "The fact that he was told to be sober in any further discourse is a blatant use of a terrible stereotype that has been ascribed to Native peoples for decades." A terrible stereotype, eh? Well, then perhaps the taxpayers of Canada should ask for their money back.
The National Native Alcohol Abuse Program is a joint effort by the Department of Indian Affairs and Health and Welfare Canada to provide up to $13 million over three year trial period to help native people across Canada to develop and carry out preventive and rehabilitative projects.
In the past, federal and provincial governments have funded a variety of native alcohol abuse projects, but the approach was piecemeal and evaluations of projects success' have not been undertaken. The new program is intended to treat some of these shortages and also to begin to provide a technical support and expertise while giving native people the leading role in designing and implementing projects.
The need for a concerted attack on the native alcohol problem has been acknowledged by all governments and agencies who have been involved in past efforts in this area. Native leaders have increasingly called for greater assistance.
Now why would "Native leaders have increasingly called for greater assistance" if the whole notion of the drunken Indian is just a shallow racist generalization as these CTV commentators are claiming? I know this link was from 1975, but the fact that governments keep funding programs to get Indians to sober up, and the Indians keep asking for more, seems to negate the criticisms being leveled.
Now it turns out Cannon has in fact wandered into a bit of a intra-Indian controversy. Remember how Bill Cosby got in trouble for insisting that much of the socioeconomic problems amoungst U.S. blacks were a result of poor personal decisions and not racist white policy? Well, Glen McGregor for First Nations Drum has an artcle about this very issue:
When Assembly of First Nations Chief Matthew Coon Come warned that native leaders must sober up, he was drawing on a long-standing and persistent stereotype of native alcoholism that never has been proved conclusively.
``Our people smoke too much and drink too much,'' said Mr. Coon Come, Canada's top elected native. ``I think it does not give a good signal if a chief and council and anyone who is in Indian leadership is denying that he has alcohol problems.''
To many, Mr. Coon Come's recent remarks came as a welcome recognition of a health problem endemic to Canada's aboriginal communities.
But to others, it was an endorsement of an unfair stereotype that natives have tried to shake for years.
Had it been anyone but Mr. Coon Come who said it, they suggest, the remarks would be vilified as bigoted and uninformed.
Indeed, former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin was publicly castigated last year for saying pretty much the same thing as Mr. Coon Come when he suggested many aboriginal leaders in Labrador are ``themselves abusers of alcohol and themselves in need of help.''
His remarks set off a rage of controversy, with Phil Fontaine, Mr. Coon Come's predecessor at the AFN, denouncing the comments as ``a stereotypical image of our people that's so completely wrong.''
So Cannon should really have, instead of apologizing, stood up to Matchewan and his band and told them that if they don't like the notion of Indians being mischaracterized as drunk, they should follow Matthew Coon Come's advice and fix rather than deny alcohol abuse problems in his group (both "his group" as in his protesters and "his group" as in the reservation he represents... its best to be explicit here because it seems that pronouns are being jumped on left right and centre and its best to just be bold from the get-go).
Other comments are almost too hilarious to believe:
Whats surprising is that the poster fails to realize that Kanye West's claims were so laughably and demonstrably false that it boosted Bush's profile: now his enemies were claiming that he was sending the forces of nature into cities with black populations and somehow tricking the black mayor to act like an idiot. These same enemies will call him a "simple moron" the next day, and not once think about the inconsistencies. Likewise this poster: if Canada really doesn't care about Indians, why is the government spending billions on them? It was $5 billion in 1998-99 (under the Liberals, one may note). If anybody has newer figures for how much money DIAND costs us, feel free to post them in the comments.
Meanwhile I find the comment how this gaffe is weak and will weaken the anti-conservative argument to be a much more reasonable leftie to be trying to discuss this with. I don't think the Ritz situation is particularly serious either, at least the cold-cuts gag. The wishing a Liberal minister was a victim was a little over the line for my tastes, but it seems that reasonable leftie is turning out to be right: now the tide is starting to turn in favour of accepting the cold-cuts comment: "In a crisis, Ritz did what people do – resort to gallows humour to cope or make it through."
Lets just hope that bigger campaign issues, such as the Liberals out-promising the NDP by a 4-1 ratio, start to make it to the forefront.
† You will notice that I blatently use "Indian" in this post even though it creates an East Indian/West Indian/North American Indian element of confusion. This is intentional, because none of the "more politically correct" terms are suitable. "Native" is a person who was born in the country in which he lives: a Sioux born in South Dakota who moves to Toronto isn't a native, while the hot asian girl who lives next door is because she was born in Halifax. Not only is "Peoples of Canada's First Nations" too long to say, but it and its derivatives are wholly inaccurate as well: these people were tribal communities at best and were not in any practical level "nations". If you can come up with a better term, suggest it in the comments.
Breaking news: pinkos in B.C. smoke cannibus
Harper's campaign gaffes are catching: A candidate for the NDP in British Columbia has resigned over video surfaced of him consuming large amounts of drugs and then driving.
The first thought that came to my mind was is it possible to be an NDP supporter in B.C. and not be a drug addict? Come to think of it, don't you have to be a serious drug user to even think of voting for the Dipper morons?
Even more insight comes from commenter "Andy" on the Times-Colonist's article online I link to above:
Now you know why so many of these guys are against sending troops to Afghanistan. The taliban also make their money off the drug trade, and who wants to fight a brother in arms?
This is more than a half-decent point, and for all the rallying the left wing morons do about "we're only in Iraq for oil" (again forgetting that many of the countries opposed to the Iraq war were illegally funding Saddam during the UN embargo), remember that Layton and his NDP buddies have their own selfish (and corrupt) reasons for their own policies on the matter of international politics.
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One of the big stories today is Lindsay Lohan's recent rant against Sarah Palin.
I mean, this is so amazingly outrageous that even hard-core left-wing MTV couldn't help but note this was less than a blistering attack:
Just typing about Palin, whom Lohan called a “narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe,” apparently filled her with so much “fear, anxiety, concern, disappointment and stress” that she reportedly punched a paparazzo in the nose later that night, after tripping over a metal barricade that she mistook for a photog’s foot, according to TMZ.
After all, if you're looking for socio-political analysis, naturally you go for the rehab-regular girl celeb who's famous for her cocaine and alcohol addictions, and has decided to follow the trends by carpet-licking a woman so ugly that even dogs won't lick her without at least 3 gallons of gravy poured over her. In fact, Lohan and this woman who looks more manly than I do are rumoured to be engaged to be sapphist-married. If this doesn't put another 600,000 votes in the McCain camp, who knows what would? (Even MTV almost wants to make this point).
Still, the best part of Lohan's post is this:
Also interesting that she got her passport in 2006.. And that she is not fond of environmental protection considering she’s FOR drilling for oil in some of our protected land…. Well hey, if she wants to drill for oil, she should DO IT IN HER OWN backyard.
Er, Lindsay, Sarah Palin supports drilling for oil in the infamous ANWR wildlife refuge. Assumably, her support for this famous concept is what is being mentioned. Should somebody tell Lindsay Lohan that Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska? And maybe, just to make sure, ask Lohan if she can guess what the "A" in "ANWR" means?
Sarah Palin wants to drill for oil in protected land, which is in her backyard you useless lesbo twat (no pun intended).
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Super Morphing Outer Space Fighting Robots:
A Michael Bay film
Back when it came out, I watched Transformers and reviewed it. It's also the last movie I've watched in theatres to date. Huh.
Anyways, its reviewed again in YouTube format below:
The changes in robot design result in the title of this post hilariously suggested as the new movie.
"How does Megatron turn into a gun that's 1/100th of his original size?"
"Where the fuck does Optimus Prime's trailer go when he transforms?"
At 8:43 he figures out the entire plot (minus the computer hacker subplot) only from the trailers, correctly surmising that a black box shown in two of the quick preview scenes is what the Decepticons were after.
Bonus Transformers YouTube discoveries: You can check out the epic battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron from the 1986 movie, Galvatron (Leonard Nimoy) murders the living daylights out of Starscream from the same flick, the First, second, and third parts of the original pilot episode. (Each part a full 22 minutes). Finally, the Black Lab theme version set to scenes from the cartoon.
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Believe me when I say that I got somethin for his punk ass
So with major elections being held in both Canada and the United States, with the anniversary of 9/11 coming into play, and a variety of exciting photos I took today in the Bonnie Doon area all of which would make excellent blog postings, I decide to use my Friday night home alone to make a post of Sublime music videos. Enjoy.
Santeria:
Caress Me Down:
Burritos:
What Happened -- not the official video, but the guy looks like this creepy dude I know:
April 29, 1992 (Miami) -- again just a bunch of images from some guy. And whats with all the video-less YouTube videos for this song?:
Smoke Two Joints -- this time at least a bunch of Sublime publicity stills. Did these guys ever make actual videos?:
Date Rape -- yes, that is Ron Jeremy. Yes, that is also Ron Jeremy:
In search of God (particle form only)
Today the Large Hadron Collector "went online" (though powerless tests and powered tests with this machine aren't fundamentally different).
All of the cool experiments are still to come, as power is ramped up. And, well, the possible side effects include the destruction of the Earth. Though that is extremely unlikely (though the LHC death toll is now greater-than-zero).
The big question is "Will it find the Higgs Boson?" I have said no since I first saw the specs of this experiment. Stephen Hawking agrees with me (though I admit its ultimately unclear which of us came to the conclusion first). Hawking says no in the hope that there will be some revolutionary need for Higgs-free theories. I say no because I don't think the theoretical Higgs is as heavy as people think.
Its not fun to be at a BBQ without the B
Yesterday lovable Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe warned Quebec voters that the Conservatives were dangerous right-wing ideologues, in part because Charbonneau Barron is a member of the Catholic group Opus Dei. Duceppe, a supposed Catholic, is not impressed with this.
Which makes this statement all the more interesting:
Referring to the discovery that Nicole Charbonneau Barron, the Conservative candidate for St. Bruno-St. Hubert, a riding on Montreal's south shore, was the former spokesperson for the group, Duceppe called Opus Dei a "secret society" with a "narrow ideology" that doesn't fit with a modern Quebec.
"Those people are against a lot of things that are generally accepted in Quebec," he told reporters in Quebec City. "That candidate said very openly that self-whipping is a sacrifice they have to make. I question such practices."
First off, Duceppe's own regular Catholicism doesn't fit into the modern Quebec of low birthrates and Muslim conflicts.
Secondly, why is Dion so concerned about a candidates (alleged) practise of "self-whipping"? After all, he doesn't mind that one of his own MPs is a disgusting sodomite. Why is whipping, which Menard likely does in the presence of dozens of nubile young boys, not acceptable when done alone as a test of piety?
"I have made the first move. That is all they know."
Today, popular p2p aggregate site isohunt.com launched a lawsuit against the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
As one digg commenter puts it, the CRIA is so quick to sue....lets see how they like it.
Now, before the critics say isoHunt.com is full of links to copyright infringing content and we should just pack up and leave. To which I'll summarize what our petition to the BC court is all about. isoHunt is a search engine of BitTorrent sites, and our sister sites are indices of direct user contributed .torrent links. None of the pieces of files exchanged over BitTorrent pass through our servers, they are exchanged over external P2P networks. We serve cached .torrent links to such files on P2P networks. Some of these files maybe copyright infringing, some aren't. But given the ridiculously long copyright terms in most countries of the world (which does differ) and that all creative media are copyrighted by default (in many countries), large majority of files exchanged on the internet would be copyrighted. That includes Linux ISO images and your videos of friends and family doing whacky things. The real question is are they infringing against the wishes of respective copyright owners. We make and run a great search engine here at isoHunt, but we unfortunately do not have the technology to mind read what are the wishes of all copyright owners, or who they are to begin with in association with the tens of millions of files on BitTorrent, to which we only indexes metadata links and not actual content files. Whatever copyright laws or safe harbor provisions provided in different countries, the only sensible and technically possible thing to do we've found is to take down links to allegedly infringing content upon request and verification. This part of the US's DMCA is one which has much foresight and makes sense. (although not perfect obviously, it should add provisions for monetary punishment on erroneous notices as we receive plenty of ignorant or erroneous takedown requests and there isn't much recourse about them, but that's another topic)
The bottom line is we developed a search engine for BitTorrent protocols when it was still in its infancy, and even now it has not yet gained full mainstream use. We are on the cutting edge of emerging internet technologies, and I ask reasonable people of Canada and whoever else reading this to accept that it is not my wish for my websites and search engines to infringe rights of others. As all emerging technologies go, increasingly beneficial usage of BitTorrent will emerge with more widespread adoption by various parties. I'm referring to the US's Sony Betamax decision here; as the VCRs have been allowed to develop, enabling a new industry of videos playable at home, I plead that emerging technologies like BitTorrent and our web services be allowed that same chance to develop.
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In a new series of ads released this weekend and broadcast during the BC-Hamilton football game today Harper sits wearing a blue shirt with a dark sweater talking about various political issues.
I think it was the "Family" one shown below, where they cut from the usual close-in shot to another camera angle some 10 feet away from where Harper is sitting.
Even I, politically astute as I am, first glanced up at the TV (sound was off as it was in a bar) and first thought "is Ted Danson in a new movie?"
Is there a particular reason Windows 95 was deliberately not back-compatible?
After some hard drive reconstruction as a result of the joke.blusod worm not being so "low" threat as advertised, and since I dual-boot with MS-DOS 6.22 I thought it was time to stop having to read G:\PROGRA~1.
So imagine the mind-blowing shock when I suddenly noticed yesterday that PROGRAMS is an eight-letter word, and therefore fits just fine into the 8.3 naming system.
Now surely some Microsoft engineers in 1994 could have figured this out from scratch, and stopped having 16-bit programs having to deal with 255-character directory names fresh out of the gate.
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John McCain and I have the same problem
With the Democratic Convention recently wrapped up, and with the pre-convention McCain news that his running mate is going to be a beauty queen contestant I guess its no better time than now to reveal that I have recently had an insight regarding last week's two weeks ago's big U.S. Presidential news story: John McCain hilariously doesn't know how many homes he owns.
Ahh, look at the rich Republican being out of touch with the common man! How can you not know how many homes you own? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Er, wait, those are all his homes, n'est pas?
No, they aren't. They're all his properties, but its not like he has the New York condo to stay at while in Manhatten, and the mansion in Arizona that's his primary, and that beachfront villa near San Diego that he likes to reside in from time to time, and don't forget that little cottage in Vermont with the little orchard behind it and what are we up to did we forget the ranch house near Richmond Virginia? He owns all of them, yes. They are investment properties [and if we need a reason aganst McCain entering the White House, perhaps we should consider the fact that this genius currently has properties in the United States of America, where realtor.com shows $14,000 houses in Ohio, as an investment... -ed]. They are McCain's real estate investments. Now should this change the scandal considerably? Yes, yes it should, because like John McCain I had an embarassing situation last week where I didn't know my own investments.
You see, I stopped in for one of these "annual investment reviews" on Friday, where they ask about your knowledge, term of investment, and risk acceptance. From all this, its determined which underperforming accounts you should be in. 99.5% of all my investments are in RRSPs, which I've been adding to for almost a decade now. So the lovely girl who's been in banking for at least 24 hours is looking over my account. It turns out mutual funds are the way I should be heading.
"Do you currently have any mutual funds with us?" she asks? I shake my head, knowing that I did some mutual fund work about 5 years ago with a non-bank investment house, but really not much else. Just to be safe, she looks up my account anyways. Lo and behold, I do have a mutual fund RRSP in place with them, dated 2006. And suddenly I realized that John McCain's "gaffe" is nothing new.
With all the RRSPs and GICs and such, I don't where my money is, or even who has it. Two weeks after tax time, I couldn't tell you my current RRSP status if you held a gun to my head. I have a pension plan at work, and an RRSP matching plan that a previous job had set up, as well as the RRSPs I did 5 years ago with that non-banking outfit, and I think Wood Gundy took some retirement investments from me when I was 14 years old. I don't have any apartment properties that I've forgotten about, but I'm not in the "buying property for shits and giggles" bracket. I earn 5 figures, and not on the high end of that scale, yet here I am losing $4000 investments into the aether.
John McCain is a rich man. He couldn't remember how many investment properties he had in his portfolio, that being the job of his accountant. There is no scandal here. Time to move along.
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Work Won't Be Scarce--It's Paid Work That Will Be Scarce
We need a new economic model that recognizes the value of useful work that isn't necessarily profitable.
All the media chatter about work disappearing due to automation fails to draw the critical distinction between useful but unpaid work and profitable work.Since value (and profits/wages) flow to what's scarce, what matters is not the decline of useful work--there's plenty of that even in a society that has automated production--but the supply of paid work--work that is profitable and hence worthy of wages.
Mark Jeftovik and I discuss work, profit and new models of paying for useful work(44:47) in a free-ranging podcast on my book A Radically Beneficial World.
The great fantasy that many are depending on to solve the decline of paid work is taxing the robots and software that ate all the jobs. These taxes are supposed to pay for the Universal Basic Income that everyone will enjoy once work is automated and jobs become scarce.
The problem with the fantasy is that profits only flow to what's scarce, and as the tools of automation are commoditized, they will no longer be scarce. Once anyone can buy the same robots/software you own, where is your competitive advantage? If anyone on the planet with some capital can buy the same robots and software, where is the pricing power that is essential to reaping big profits?
Commoditization and globalization push profits down to near-zero. In a world of ever-cheaper, ever more abundant commoditized tools and software, it becomes much more difficult to generate increases in productivity and profits.
Those who dream of the the end of work forget that robots will only be purchased to perform profitable tasks. Much of human life is not profitable. For example, maintaining dedicated bikeways is useful work that serves the health and transportation needs of the community and economy.
There is no way to make this work profitable unless you charge bicyclists for using the bikeways, which defeats the purpose of the bikeways.
The typical response is that governments will pay for robots to maintain bikeways. But that leads right back to the decline of profits and paid labor: since government depends on profits and paid work for its revenues, as those decline, where will government get the revenue to make good all its vast promises for pensions, services, healthcare etc., and buy and maintain robots to do unprofitable but useful work such as maintain bikeways?
Take a look at these charts of productivity and income. Ultimately, increases in jobs, wages and profits flow from increases in productivity, which typically rises as a result of investments in better tools, training and processes.
Productivity struggles when investment stagnates, external costs (such as paying to remediate industrial pollution) reduce the available pool of capital/profits to invest, and new technologies are either limited in scope or do not scale well.
All these factors played a role in the 15-year stagnation of productivity from 1966 to 1980.
As computer/digital technologies improved and dropped in price (i.e. scaled up to impact the entire economy) and financialization (i.e. abundant credit and leverage, and the commoditization of financial assets) provided new sources of profits, productivity increased from 1981 to 2005.
Since then, growth of productivity has been in a freefall: financialization has reached diminishing returns, the technologies of automation have been commoditized, and globalization has opened up a vast new labor force and new places to invest capital.
In sum: what was once scarce is now abundant, and thus it no longer generates value or profits.
When new productivity tools were scarce (unique to American factories and workplaces) and required a growing labor force, productivity growth translated into higher wages. But when productivity growth relied on financial capital and processes and higher-level technical/managerial skills, the gains flowed only to those who owned these processes and skills: generally speaking, the wealthy owners of productive capital and the highly educated technocrat/managerial class (the top 5% and to a lesser degree, the top 20%.)
All of which is to say the model of paying wages for profitable work (or collecting taxes from profits and profitable work to pay government workers) is broken: not slightly broken, but fundamentally broken.
We need a new economic model that recognizes the value of useful work that isn't necessarily profitable, an economic system that creates money to pay those doing useful work at the bottom of the pyramid rather that creating money only for banks, corporations and financiers at the very top of the pyramid.
There is plenty of work that is useful but not profitable. Work won't disappear; it's paid work and profits that will become increasingly scarce. We need a new system that enables an abundance of paid work. This is the topic of my book, which Mark Jeftovik and I Discuss in this podcast (44:47).
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Stock Exchange Challenges Theater Giant Wanda Film’s Huge Write-Down
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Wanda Film Holding, China’s biggest movie theater operator controlled by billionaire Wang Jianlin, was questioned again by the stock exchange on its asset impairment and liquidity after it posted its first annual loss in five years as a publicly listed company.
The theatrical film business has been hammered by the Covid-19 pandemic as theaters were shuttered and production was halted.
In an inquiry letter related to the company’s 2019 financial reports — before the pandemic — the Shenzhen Stock Exchange asked Wanda to disclose information by May 18 on a 5.9 billion yuan ($834 million) provision for asset impairment and whether the company faced tight liquidity. The exchange also told the theater chain to explain why its statements on box office revenues were inconsistent.
On April 21, Wanda Film reported a net loss for 2019 of 4.7 billion yuan on revenue of 15.4 billion yuan. The company attributed the loss to a 5.6 billion yuan goodwill impairment provision, including 2.34 billion yuan of asset impairment in the movie theaters it acquired between 2014 and 2018.
In its annual report, Wanda Film, which operates more than 600 cinemas around the country, said its box office revenue increased 3.06% in 2019 to 9.86 billion yuan and audience visits rose 1.57% to 230 million. But in a separate statement disclosing the asset impairment, the company said the impairment reflected a sharp decrease in audience visits and box office revenue at theaters it acquired.
The stock exchange asked why Wanda Film failed to record any asset impairment earlier and told the company to disclose how it calculated the impairment and justify the large amount.
This was the second time the stock exchange questioned the theater chain’s asset impairment accounting. On Jan. 20, after the company issued a loss warning, the exchange inquired about the large amount of asset impairment disclosed.
Wanda Film responded at the time that the theaters it acquired and its advertisement business suffered losses as the industry reached a turning point. Company Vice President Zeng Maojun told Caixin that the company chose a large, one-time write-down because gradual charge-offs had a worse impact on the market.
Despite losses at its theaters, Wanda Film didn’t slow its investment in movie and television production in 2019. The company increased advance payments for such investments and for purchases of studio equipment by 43% to 1.2 billion yuan. Meanwhile, the company didn’t take any impairment charges on its inventory goods, including movies and TV series.
In 2019, Wanda Film had 2.15 billion yuan of inventory, an increase of 72% from the previous year. The company said in its annual report that the increase was mainly due to a rise in production costs.
The exchange asked the company to explain the inventory increase in detail, including the content of the movies and TV series, investment amounts and expected release dates.
The exchange also asked whether the company had enough cash to repay debt and continue its operations. At the end of 2019, the company had monetary capital of 2.46 billion yuan and 3.46 billion yuan of short-term debt, including about 1 billion yuan of debt due within a year.
Wanda Film reported a 250% plunge in profits and 70% year-on-year drop in revenue for the first quarter amid China’s lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. All of Wanda’s theaters have been closed since January as it awaits a reopening green light from regulators.
The company has said it plans to raise as much as 4.35 billion yuan by issuing more shares to pay down debt and build new theaters.
– This article originally appeared on Caixin Global.
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Bob is a graduate of the Ohio State University, where he majored in Political Science and earned his Bachelors Degree of Arts. Born and raised in the Toledo area, he began his career working in the real estate title business in Toledo and later in Bowling Green. After several years in the private sector, he began working for Wood County in the public sector. Since leaving Wood County, he has served in administrative positions for a number of governmental entities including Paulding County, Ohio as County Administrator; Springfield Township in Lucas County as Township Administrator; Ellaville, Georgia as City Manager; Marion, South Carolina as City Administrator; East Jordan, Michigan as City Manager and finally in Northwood as City Administrator.
Bob also served with the Ohio National Guard’s 612th Engineering Battalion on Tracy Road and currently resides in the City of Northwood.
e-mail: admin@ci.northwood.oh.us
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