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Companies Fail to Live Up to ESG Promises
Thu., Jul. 23, 2020
The Center for Political Accountability released its "Conflicted Consequences" report on July 21, a study that shows despite corporate PR promises about pursuing environmental, social and governance commitments, companies are "laundering" contributions via 527 organizations to undermine those lofty vows.
Amid such heady rhetoric, the Report "is a bracing reminder that talk, when not backed by action is cheap," wrote Yale professor Jacob Hacker and UC Berkeley's Paul Pierson in their forward to the CPA study. "Indeed in few places today is the gap between word and deed as wide as it is in the political spending of American corporations."
The 527 organizations take corporate cash and then spend it to advance a broad political agenda. "For corporations pursuing agendas they do not want scrutinized, this type of spending has three big advantages over traditional political spending: it is less likely to attract attention than PAC contributions that go directly from firms to candidates; it is effectively laundered by running through the 527 organization so the donor can duck accountability for specific uses of the money; and it allows the resources of many companies to be pooled to achieve maximum impact," wrote Hacker and Pierson.
While both Republicans and Democrats run 527 organizations, the bulk of corporate money flows to GOP-affiliated groups that work against stated corporate ESG commitments.
The Report tracks $800M in spending for GOP-tied 527 groups, of which 46.6 percent of the amount came from companies and their trade groups, vs. $475M in Democratic-affiliated 527s.
The CPA monitored money flowing to the Republican Attorneys General Assn., which filed a lawsuit in 2018 to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
Facebook, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Walmart, Noble Energy, Altria, Southern Co., Pinnacle West, Anthem, and Mallinckrodt rank among the top 20 corporate donors to the RAGA.
More than 20M Americans would lose healthcare coverage in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, if the RAGA succeeds in trashing ObamaCare.
The Report also found corporate hypocrisy on climate change. Though companies such as Uber, ExxonMobil, Western Union, Intel, HP, DuPont, Bank of America and Microsoft publicly support the Paris Climate Accords, they donated to the RAGA, which filed the lawsuit to kill the Clean Power Plan, which would help fight global warming.
The CPA also tracked corporate spending designed to boost racial gerrymandering, restrict women's reproductive rights and promote anti-LGBTQ legislation.
The group believes its study highlights the increasing risk that companies face from their political spending.
"When corporations take a public stand on such issues as racial injustice or climate change, the money trail illustrated here can lead to their boardroom door," the CPA said. "It can reflect a conflict with a company’s core values and positions."
There's been a lot of good reading about the Trump administration (John Bolton's "The Room Where it Happened") and the dysfunctional Trump family (Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man") of late.
But it's Michael Cohen's upcoming book that may do the most damage to the re-election bid of the president.
A federal judge on July 23 ordered the release into home custody of Donald Trump's former fixer. Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Cohen was sent back to jail earlier this month as "retaliation" for his memoir, which is tentatively titled, "Disloyal: The True Story of Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump."
The book must have been a tough one for a former loyalist like Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Trump, to write. According to Cohen's July 21 lawsuit, "Disloyal" will describe anti-Semitic remarks made by Trump about prominent Jewish people and racist remarks against Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela.
Hellerstein said Cohen has the "First Amendment right to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media or with others."
Cohen, who was thrown under the bus by Trump, may wind up with the best revenge.
Say it ain't so, Ryan. There's something ironic about LinkedIn, the networking site that helps people connect to get jobs, laying off six percent (960 people) of its workforce.
In a memo to "Team," CEO Ryan Roslansky wrote that the global pandemic has impacted LinkedIn as "fewer companies, including ours, need to hire at the same volume they did previously."
He pledged to help "impacted employees look for other roles within the company, build new skills and land on their feet if they no longer have a role at LinkedIn."
The company will provide exiting workers a minimum of ten weeks of severance pay and bonuses. The package also includes LinkedIn learning courses on interview prep, compensation fundamentals, job search strategies, and integrating into a new role.
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Directors of companies have a continuing duty to carry out their management responsibilities no matter what is happening in the wider world. The frequency by which Board meetings are held to enable directors to discharge these duties will be dictated by circumstances, and the current pandemic may require meetings to be held more often than usual.
As the current lockdown is preventing Board meetings being held in person, many companies are having to use alternative means of communication to hold Board meetings, whether by Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype or even good ‘old-fashioned’ telephone. However, we are being asked by clients whether these alternatives are allowed and whether decisions made at such meetings are valid and binding.
The first port of call is to check the company’s Articles of Association. The Articles are a document which, along with the Memorandum of Association (in cases where the Memorandum exists), form the company's constitution. Amongst other things, the Articles contain the rules and procedures by which the directors shall meet as a Board. The Articles should be reviewed to ensure that meetings can be held by alternative means rather than in person. In modern Articles, it is usual to find provisions allowing Board meetings to be held by electronic means. Companies incorporated before 2006, however, do not typically have such a provisions in their Articles.
Where the Articles are silent on whether Board meetings can be held otherwise than in person, there is conflicting legal opinion as to whether such meetings can be held remotely. However, where there is no explicit prohibition in the Articles preventing Board meetings being held by electronic means, it is likely that a Court will take a lenient approach provided that all participating directors are able to hear and communicate ‘live’ in the discussions and decisions made at the meeting.
The commonly held view now is that where directors unanimously decide to hold meetings other than in person then, unless the Articles contain a prohibition preventing such meetings or are silent on the issue but the directors are unable to actively participate in the meeting, Board meetings can be held remotely by electronic means and decisions made at such meetings will be valid. It is, however, important to bear in mind that the rules and procedures for meetings which are set out in the Articles will apply to remote Board meetings. The directors will therefore need to ensure that a quorum is present at any remote Board meeting, and ensure compliance with rules relating to such things as notices, voting, conflicts of interest and when meetings can be called and held.
As ever, good corporate governance practice should include ensuring all directors are given due notice of a meeting which is to held remotely with an agenda setting out a description of the matters to be discussed and circulating any relevant documents. Each director should be asked to confirm that they consent to the meeting being held by electronic means (Zoom, telephone, etc) and the director chairing the meeting should ensure that everyone present can hear and participate throughout the meeting. A minute of the meeting should be made to record the proceedings and decisions made at the meeting, and a copy of that minute should be distributed to all directors (whether they attended the meeting or not) afterwards.
As a further alternative to holding a Board meeting remotely the Articles may permit decisions of the directors to be made in writing. If the Articles do allow decisions to be made in this way then, so long as the directors indicate their consent to a matter in writing unanimously, it is valid and binding.
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Carl Love: Temecula students stand up for…
Carl Love: Temecula students stand up for mental health
Great Oak High club works with National Alliance on Mental Illness chapter to help youths navigate life — and the pandemic
Students at Great Oak High School in Temecula stretch during a yoga session hosted by the National Alliance on Mental Illness club on campus. (Photo courtesy of Olivia Chmiel)
By Carl Love | Contributing Columnist
PUBLISHED: October 29, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 29, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.
High school can be a time of angst, but when distance learning is tossed into the mix, the stress can go off the charts for some.
Students are feeling more isolated because they’re not in regular classes where they can interact with each other in person, said Olivia Chmiel, a senior at Great Oak High School in Temecula.
Jack Norwood, left, and Olivia Chmiel are involved in a club helping students navigate mental-health issues. Norwood was vice president of Great Oak High School’s club last year; Chmiel is the current president. (Photo courtesy of Olivia Chmiel)
Learning how to handle the workload of an entirely new way to learn can also be a big challenge, Chmiel said.
She leads a school club that works with the Temecula Valley chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness to help students.
Chmiel stresses that the group is not providing mental-health support, leaving that to the professionals. But the group steers students toward help.
Dolores DeMartino is the volunteer president of the Temecula’s group. She estimates she’s working 30 to 40 hours a week to help get locals the mental-health support they need as the pandemic drags on, no end in sight.
“Lately, I’ve been putting in a lot of time,” she said.
DeMartino, a dental assistant, stresses that she and other alliance volunteers know their limits.
“We’re not doctors or clinicians,” she said. “We’re just parents with a lived experience.”
The local group is working to set up a webinar for Great Oak parents to discuss potential issues they are having, including how to navigate life during a pandemic and how to talk with their children about mental health.
The high school group was organized in 2018 to address general student concerns. It became affiliated with the Temecula alliance in 2019 to focus more on mental health issues.
“There weren’t that many resources on campus at the time,” Chmiel said.
The club has hosted a variety of activities, including a yoga session for students.
“The event was heavily attended and the feedback across the board was that the event helped with stress reduction and anxiety prior to test taking,” said Natalie Vargas, a world language teacher and faculty advisor for the club.
The club organized a successful arts showcase to raise awareness of mental-health issues, and made friendship bracelets to spread messages of kindness. Students also worked with others to get a social worker placed on campus and suicide training for teachers.
Then there are the kindness rocks they are making this year, with painted messages such as “you are loved,” “go with the flow” and “be kind.” They will be placed in public spaces around Temecula as a way to be kind to everyone. They are also making videos to spark discussions among students about mental health.
The student group’s board of directors meets once a week and includes Gabrielle Montroy, Angelina Hanneman, Dannela Lagrimas, Danielle Prejusa and Angelina Jones. The general membership also meets weekly.
Vargas said students in the middle of a pandemic are still expected to do all their course work, but the perks that can make high school more fun — such as athletic events, dances, academic competitions and other activities — aren’t happening nearly as much. Life can be unfair in this pandemic.
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She says the club and other campus groups “have helped to create an environment wherein the dialogue regarding mental-health awareness is less uncomfortable and certainly less taboo.”
“If this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we are in a situation where we have no choice but to address our personal mental-health issues.”
That lesson applies to students and adults.
Reach Carl Love at carllove4@yahoo.com
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Viterra Senior Bowl to kick off in Yorkton May 25-27
The intent of the Viterra Senior Bowl game is to showcase the best high school football players in 6, 9, & 12 man, who have used their last year of eligibility, in a North vs. South all-star game.
Each season the Viterra Senior Bowl Game changes locations between Regina’s Mosaic Stadium and Saskatoon Minor Football Field but this year for the first time in the history of the Senior Bowl will be held in Yorkton, Saskatchewan at Century Field on May 25-27.
Every year Football Saskatchewan asks all high school coaches throughout the province to nominate players from their school, who they feel are capable of playing and competing with the best football players in the Province.
Selection camps will run in late April or early May in Regina (South) & Saskatoon (North). The respective North/South Coaching staffs will run the two-a-day practices scheduled for this weekend with guest coaches from the high school leagues. The weekend selection camps will consist of four practices, two Saturday and two Sunday. Players will be evaluated by the Senior Bowl coaching staff and will be notified after if they will be representing one of the Senior Bowl teams. At least half the practices must be attended to be eligible for selection to the senior bowl team.
The 6, 9, & 12 man games feature the top 170 graduating high school players from the Northern and Southern parts of the province. The game was developed to promote and further develop the game of football for residents of Saskatchewan. This game is a showcase for all scouts, coaches, players and fans that love and have contributed to the game of football in Saskatchewan. Prior to 2012 the Senior bowl had a single 12 man North vs South all-star game. Since 2013 the new format now includes three North vs South all-star games: 6 man game, 9 man game and a 12 man game.
The South Team leads the series, 19 wins to 14 and has outscored the North Team 1,081 to 1,075 in the 33 game series to date.
Listen to the games live on Melville's Rock Station, The Buzz : www.TheBuzzRocks.ca. You can also watch the games on demand following the games on www.SaskNews.net.
Viterra Senior Bowl Schedule:
All games are at Kinsmen Century Field located West of YRHS in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
May 27th - 10 am - 6 Man North vs South Game
May 27th - 1pm - 9 Man North vs South Game
May 27th - 4pm - 12 Man North vs South Game
NORTH SCHOOLS
Aberdeen, Bethlehem, Biggar, Birch Hills, Carrot River, Centennial, Clavet, Dalmeny, Davidson, Delisle, Elrose, Eston, Hafford, Hague, Hanley, Hudson Bay, Humboldt, John Paul II (North Battleford), Kerrobert, Kindersley, La Ronge, Loreburn, Luseland, Martensville, Meadow Lake, Meath Park, Melfort, Nipawin, North Battleford, Outlook, Outlook-LCBI, Plenty, Porcupine Plain, Prince Albert, P.A.C.I., Rosetown, Rosthern, Shellbrook, Spiritwood, St. Mary's, Tisdale, Unity, Wakaw, Warman, Watrous, Watson, Wilkie.
Saskatoon Schools: Marion Graham, Tommy Douglas, Evan Hardy, Aden Bowman, Mount Royal, Holy Cross, Walter Murray, Bishop Mahoney, Bedford Road, St. Joseph.
SOUTH SCHOOLS
Assiniboia, Balgonie, Broadview, Canora, Caronport, Central Butte, Cupar, Esterhazy, Estevan, Foam Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, Gull Lake, Indian Head, Kamsack, Kelliher, Lanigan, Lemburg, Lumsden, Maple Creek, Melville, Milestone, Moose Jaw Central, Moose Jaw Vanier, Moose Jaw Peacock, Moosomin, Raymore, Preeceville, Shaunavon, Southey, Swift Current, Weyburn, Wilcox, Wynyard, Yorkton Regional, Yorkton Sacred Heart.
Regina Schools: Miller, Luther, O'Neill, Johnson, Sheldon Williams, Riffel, Campbell, Leboldus, Thom, Balfour, Winston Knoll.
Senior Bowl Results since 2013:
2013 - 6 Man: North 36, South 9 9 Man: North 40, South 7 12 Man: South 19, North 18
2014 - 6 Man: South 12, North 0 9 Man: South 7, North 1 12 Man: North 55, South 2
2015 - 6 Man: North 20, South 14 9 Man: North 36, South 8 12 Man: South 37, North 13
2016 - 6 Man: North 22, South 8 9 Man: North 47, South 13 12 Man: North 53, South 29
2017 - 6 Man: North 69, South 40 9 Man: South 19, North 15 12 Man: North 34, South 29
Senior Bowl to kick off in Yorkton May 25-27
Viterra Senior Bowl 2018
Saskatchewan Football
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Sask Government to Invest $2 Million for Central Region Provincial Park Improvements
The Government of Saskatchewan is investing more than $2 million in facility and infrastructure improvements for parks in the province’s central region, which includes Blackstrap, Duck Mountain, Fort Carlton, Good Spirit Lake, Greenwater Lake and Pike Lake provincial parks.
Upgrades scheduled for completion prior to the 2019 camping season in the central region include:
Completion of campground electrical system expansion and upgrades in Blackstrap Provincial Park and Greenwater Lake Provincial Park;
Completion of water system upgrades and replacement of the main sewage lift at Greenwater Lake Provincial Park;
Phase two of pool building upgrades and a new accessible playground at Pike Lake Provincial Park;
Shoreline protection at Blackstrap Provincial Park; and
Campground office replacement in Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
The $2 million is in addition to more than $21 million invested in central parks over the past five years for improvements including:
Campground development with electrical and full service sites, a playground and new service centre at Blackstrap Provincial Park, as well as beach service centre replacement and upgrades to the entry gate site for improved traffic flow;
Service centre replacements and upgrades to roads, trailer sewage station and boat launch at Duck Mountain Provincial Park;
Infrastructure upgrades and reconstruction at Fort Carlton Provincial Park;
Electrical expansion and upgrades, road improvements, major boat launch upgrades, shoreline stabilization and a new playground structure at Good Spirit Lake Provincial Park;
Campground development with full service campsites, service centre replacement, electrical expansions, new playground equipment and major road upgrades at Greenwater Lake Provincial Park; and
Pool and waterslide improvements and major water system upgrades at Pike Lake Provincial Park.
A total investment of more than $11 million for planned improvements throughout the provincial park system in 2018-19 will increase total investment in parks to nearly $110 million since 2008. Saskatchewan’s provincial parks continue to be an important destination, attracting visitors and bringing economic benefits to the entire province.
Saskatchewan Provincial Parks
Greenwater Lake
Pike Lake
Fort Carlton
Duck Mountain
Blackstrap
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Imprint: Vintage
The Girl Who Escaped ISIS
Farida's Story
Andrea C. Hoffmann
The astonishing true story of a heroic young woman's capture and eventual escape from ISIS
Our world as it once was
In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against the Yazidi people began.
The catastrophe
ISIS murdered the men and boys in the village, including Farida's father and brother, and took the women hostage. Farida was one of them. She was held in a slave camp, in the homes of ISIS members and finally in a desert training camp. Continually she struggled, resisted and fought against her captors, showing unimaginable strength and bravery.
Eventually, Farida managed to plot her escape and fled into the desert with five young girls in her care, but defeating ISIS was just the first step in her journey. In this book she tells her remarkable and inspiring story.
Farida and her brothers were brought up in the Yazidi community in Kocho, Iraq. She was 19 years old when ISIS attacked her village, killed the men, captured the women and sold them into slavery. After four months, Farida managed to escape against all odds. She was reunited with her mother and her brothers in an Iraqi refugee camp and was granted asylum in Germany in 2015.
Andrea C. Hoffmann is a Middle East expert, a writer for Focus magazine in Germany, and author of numerous books. Her specialisation is the situation of women in Muslim countries.
Praise for The Girl Who Escaped ISIS
Shattering, brave, angering account
Truly a triumph of the human spirit over terror
Farida's story needs to be told
‘How much can a single person endure? Traumatised, uprooted, abused – Farida continues to deal with the consequences of ISIS. Nevertheless, this memoir is full of hope. She is a very strong individual, she has the heart of a lioness. An amazing story that encourages us never to keep quiet or to give in’
Frank Heinrich, German Parliamentary Speaker on Human Rights
‘Farida tells her story courageously and bravely as she describes how she resisted attempts to convert, marry and rape her, for so long in some cases that the ISIS henchmen actually left her alone’
This is one of those rare volumes that offers astonishing insights into the human spirit
A compelling testament to the suffering of ordinary people caught up in violence far beyond their control
‘Farida shows the good and bad sides of religion… She criticises aspects of her own upbringing like certain religious taboos – such nuance is impressive’
HEUTE.de
‘Her story highlights atrocities, but it is also a moving account of how friendship, love and the will to survive are mightier than any barbarism’
A harrowing, unforgettable tale.
Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday
A stunning, heart wrenching narrative... Everyone should read this in order to get to the heart of the tragedy of the Arab world and the distortion of Islam being perpetrated by ISIS. Beautifully written in the voice of a teenage girl, this book gives more of an understanding of what is happening than political treatises.
This powerful testimoney is ... as gripping as it is appalling
A compelling testament to the suffering of ordinary people caught up in violence far beyond their control – and to the particularly terrible price it exacts from women.
Rachel Aspden, Guardian
Starkly horrifying memoir.
Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post
Farida Khalaf won her small but significant battle. Its happy ending notwithstanding, it's difficult to focus on positivity – but then, perhaps that's why this remains a vital read.
A gut-wrenching and relentless experience...Farida's story needs to be told.
Catherine Philip, The Times
A powerful description of a world ripped apart... Farida tells a story that is testament to how toxic violence can be born of religion.
This is a mesmerising study of human cruelty and a brave depiction of the monsters that arise when reason sleeps.
Oliver Thring, Sunday Times
It’s a shattering, brave, enraging book but also a stirring story of survival.
Sunday Express
An unflinching account… This is one of those rare volumes that offers astonishing insights into the human spirit… A catalogue of horror is made bearable only by her extraordinary courage.
Joan Smith, Observer
Although a harrowing story it is also an uplifting one as it is truly a triumph of the human spirit over terror.
Frank McGabhann, Irish Times
This is a brave, harrowing but necessary book.
Colette Sheridan, Irish Examiner
Timely, excruciating and important.
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By Rowan Coleman
Category: Women's Fiction | Contemporary Romance
About We Are All Made of Stars
“Fans of Jojo Moyes will love We Are All Made of Stars” (Good Housekeeping). “A beautiful web of a book” (Jodi Picoult), this life-affirming novel tells an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart.
A dedicated nurse, Stella finds comfort at the hospice where she works the late shift, especially since her husband returned from Afghanistan—cold, distant, and shattered by painful memories he refuses to share. The hospice at night is another world, where the dying receive closure by creating the letters that Stella helps them write. The pages are filled with love and humor, sometimes regret, and, occasionally, even instructions for a perplexed husband on how to run appliances. There’s one rule: The letters are mailed only after the patient has passed.
Suddenly Stella is faced with a dilemma: A woman under her care, Grace, has written a confession to the son she abandoned many years before. The letter clearly needs to be read before Grace dies. But if Stella mails it now, she breaks the rule—and risks tampering not only with Grace’s wishes but also with fate.
Navigating passion and grief, loyalty and loss, and a marriage threatened by silence and secrets, Stella discovers that letters hold a special power: granting solace, saving memories, nurturing relationships. As the words endure, love redeems.
Praise for We Are All Made of Stars
“A beautiful web of a book that reminds us of how we are all connected, and how to die—and live—without regrets. Is that a tear in my eye? No, that’s a tear in your eye.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and The Storyteller
“We Are All Made of Stars will break your heart and put the pieces back together—fans of Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You, this one is right up your alley.”—Refinery29
“Coleman uses several voices and perspectives to turn a potentially dark story into one filled with light. Fans of Jojo Moyes will love this beautifully written, deeply engaging novel that understands death and celebrates life.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A powerful, emotional read.”—RT Reviews
“Fans of Jojo Moyes will love We Are All Made of Stars.”—Good Housekeeping
“Coleman has written a poignant story that examines the value of life, love, and forgiveness. . . . A tear-jerking but ultimately uplifting story.”—Kirkus Reviews
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About Rowan Coleman
Rowan Coleman lives with her husband, and five children in a very full house in Hertfordshire. She juggles writing novels with raising her family which includes a very lively set of toddler twins whose main hobby is going in the… More about Rowan Coleman
Category: Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Romance
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France and Ireland
Notes and Narratives
Reimagining Ireland
Edited By Una Hunt and Mary Pierse
The rich association between Ireland and France is embodied in music, art and creative writing from both countries and this collection provides a tantalising selection of these interweaving influences. The book presents a vivid picture of interactions between composers, performers, poets and novelists on each side of the Celtic Sea. Surprises abound, with music unexpectedly linking Ireland and France through George Alexander Osborne and Frédéric Chopin, through Thomas Moore and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, through Irish-inspired French opera and a French-directed Irish orchestra. Words and music meet in a Kate O'Brien novel, a musical interpretation of Verlaine and a selection of Paula Meehan's poetry, while the encounter between wine and music creates new possibilities for artistic and cultural expression. Exploring the works and influence of a wide range of figures including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Jacques Derrida, J.M. Synge, Hélène Cixous, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Neil Jordan and John Field, the essays collected here uncover a wealth of artistic interconnections between France and Ireland.
Book (Paperback)
https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0743-6
English Literature and Culture
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2015. X, 264 pp.
Part I: Centre Stage
George Alexander Osborne, Paris and the Pluie de Perles
The Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Thomas Moore
‘De la musique avant toute chose’: Poldowski’s Settings of Verlaine’s Poetry
Part II: Operatic Engagements
Kate O’Brien’s As Music and Splendour: When Words and Music Chime
Gilbert Bécaud’s L’Opéra d’Aran (1962) – A Rapprochement
Ireland in the Musical Imagination of Third Republic France
Part III: Fruitful Encounters
Assuaging Loss: Artistic Approaches by Neil Jordan and Françoise Lefèvre
Silent Pictures in Mind and Memory: Irish Poets and a Proustian Madeleine?
Wine and Music: An Emerging Cultural Relationship
France, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause in Richard Murphy’s The Battle of Aughrim
‘Claude de France’: Debussy’s Great War of 1915
Part IV: Dublin à la française?
Maestro, Magician, Midwife: Jean Martinon in Dublin
‘Play it in the original’: Music, Language and Difference in James Joyce’s ‘Sirens’
‘The music you’re carrying in your head’: Reading Hélène Cixous in the ‘Breath’ of Paula Meehan’s Poetry
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Fugitive who hid in Connecticut for decades released on bail
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by Rob Polansky, August 30
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A man who spent 48 years on the lam after escaping from a prison in Georgia faced a judge in Danbury Tuesday morning.
Robert Stackowitz, 71, appeared in Danbury Superior Court for an extradition hearing.
He was initially sentenced to 17 years in prison for a robbery; however, He fled a prison work camp in Carrolton, GA in 1968.
He hid in the town of Sherman where he lived a quiet life of making repairs at auto shops and teaching shop at a local high school, Stackowitz said.
He assumed the name Robert Gordon.
Prosecutors said his mistake was applying for social security benefits. He was arrested on May 17.
Now his lawyer is working to fight Stackowitz's extradition back to Georgia. Stackowitz said he has major health problems, including heart failure and bladder cancer.
On Tuesday, he was released on a $100 bail.
"Georgia is asking for him, we're fighting for him and we'll take this fight as far as we can for as long as we can," said Norm Pattis, Stackowitz's attorney.
The judge is giving Stackowitz a few more weeks before hearing Pattis' Habeus Corpus argument challenging the extradition. Pattis' goal is to keep the 71-year-old in Connecticut for at least another year.
Stackowitz said any time in prison would essentially be a death sentence.
The next hearing will be on Sept. 26.
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Prize mower wins College place
by Steve Mitchell
in Schools & Colleges
0 Prize mower wins College place
A John Deere 2653B triplex cylinder mower is making life a lot easier for head groundsman Ben Connell and his team at St Joseph's College in Ispwich, a co-educational independent day school for 2 to 18 year olds.
Ben won the use of the mower for the 2009 season after entering a Cricket World website competition. It is used across the college's 56 acre site, which includes four rugby and three cricket pitches, a small five-a-side football pitch, plus extensive gardens and areas of amenity grass.
"We had been using a 42in walk-behind cylinder mower on the sports pitches," says Ben. "It used to take us around five hours to cut our two main rugby pitches, for example - about 5 acres - but with the 2653B it now takes less than half the time."
The college already runs a few John Deere machines, supplied by local dealers P Tuckwell and Tomlinson Groundcare. In 2004 they bought a 4410 compact tractor and a Gator utility vehicle, then added a second Gator and a GX355 lawn tractor, which was upgraded last year to an X740, but they've never had a ride-on cylinder mower before.
"Last year it was a real push to try and stay on top of the grass cutting, in particular," Ben explains. "I was looking to put together an equipment wish list and doing some research over the winter, just to see what might be the best machine for us to use. I Googled the 2653B, as I'd seen and heard some good reports from other groundsmen about it, and top of the search list was the Cricket World competition.
"To be honest, I entered and then forgot all about it, until they rang to tell me I'd won. It's certainly taken a big weight off my shoulders, knowing we can now get round when we need to and get the jobs done a lot quicker. It frees me and the other grounds staff to concentrate on other areas of the site that we now wish to develop to a similar high standard.
"Having a cylinder mower also means it not only covers the ground, it gives a really good finish as well. If the option is there to buy one at the end of the loan period, we would definitely love to have it!"
Image: St Joseph's College head groundsman Ben Connell (front) with the John Deere 2653B mower, with (left to right) Tony Baker on the X740 lawn tractor, Ray Squirrel standing, and Karl 'Buster' Bentman on the Gator 6x4 utility vehicle.
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Specialist Turf Maintenance Equipment required at 9 hole Links Course
by Peter Driver
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Bomb craters are a major feature and require dedicated equipment
Ransomes Jacobsen's distributor for The Netherlands, Van der Pols, has provided specialist turf maintenance equipment for a unique golf course situated on the south-west coast of the country.
The Domburgsche Golfclub is the only genuine links course in the country and has been rated as the best nine-hole course in Holland. Established in 1914, it has been ravaged by two world wars which have shaped the course in the extreme.
In 1944 it was used by the German army as a defence structure to prevent the landing of allied forces. The concrete bunkers and anti-aircraft guns located on the course were heavily bombed and the resulting bomb craters have become the 'signature' feature, requiring special tools for maintenance.
Arjen Bosschaart is the head greenkeeper at the Domburgsche and uses a Jacobsen SLF-1880 to maintain the fairways. The craters in the fairways were partly reinstated after the war, but the specialist SLF, with its 18 inch cutting cylinders, is the only machine capable of handling the spectacular contours.
"We used to use a Jacobsen TriKing on the fairways and it proved to be a good and reliable machine, but the LF-1880 with its narrow units and turf groomers has definitely made a huge improvement to the condition of our fairways. The severe undulations are perfectly followed and the small width and low weight makes turning in the roughs easy," he said.
"Also, because of the huge height elevations on the fairways the machine has been equipped with an additional safety structure. This prevents accidents as there are several situations where the machine cannot be seen by the golfers."
The rough areas on the course also present challenges and a Ransomes remote controlled Spider mower is used for cutting the craters and landwalls.
"A couple of years ago, when the Spider was introduced, Pols demonstrated the mower on our course. I was not only impressed with the machines capabilities and productivity but also saw the value for safety and comfort of our operators. Although this type of machine is a significant investment for our nine-hole course, it has been word every Euro."
The Jacobsen machinery package at the Domburgsche also consist of two Greensking VI triple mower for greens, tees and surrounds and a Tri-King that is used on the driving range.
For more information on Ransomes Jacobsen products visit: www.ransomesjacobsen.com
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MICH: Lagos kicks off research project with 1,140 pregnant women
Thursday, November 26, 2020 3:14 pm | Nigeria News | 0 Comment(s)
Princess Aderemi Adebowale
The Lagos State Government will on December 1, 2020 kick-off a research project with 1,140 indigent pregnant women under its Mother Infant and Child (MICH) programme.
The MICH programme, a brainchild of Office of Civic Engagement, has the aim of supporting the development of socially responsible citizens from the womb through infancy, childhood, youth and into adulthood, with the first phase of the programme held in July, 2020.
Speaking at the second phase of MICH programme on Thursday at the Bariga Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Special Adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Princess Aderemi Adebowale, said the research programme was a follow up to the initial pilot with a view to assessing the impact of the MICH Food and supplements on the pregnant participants with full monitoring of their existing conditions, along with their unborn children throughout pregnancy till delivery and post-partum.
She said the MICH programme at full launch, is targeted at 15,000 participants over the course of the next three years, but said the government was kicking off with this second pilot phase with 1,140 participants comprising a research study with 20 pregnant women in each of our 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs.
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“This phase, tagged the Research Phase will include independent case studies and research involving 1140 pregnant women with follow up and monitoring of diverse medical and social indices starting from December 1st 2020 till the next six months.
“Our formidable team of medical and technical experts have come up with a research proposal which aims to provide informed recommendations for the use of the State Government, the Federal Government and international development agencies like the United Nations,” she explained.
Adebowale said to ensure this research phase was impactful, government would ensure that the participating pregnant women receive qualitative health care and follow-up through home visits by a dedicated team of public and State-approved private community health workers and medical consultants.
In addition, the special adviser explained that each of the beneficiaries would have access to a toll-free line with membership on a social media chat group that would be created in each local government area for direct feedback as part of the monitoring and evaluation process of the Office of Civic Engagement.
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She urged every beneficiary to cooperate with government’s team of medical experts, research team and care volunteers at every stage of the process.
“Also, I strongly appeal to all husbands, partners, families and support systems of the pregnant participants to ensure that the MICH Plus Food packs meant for sole consumption of our target participants are not abused or misused. Additionally, I encourage our participants’ spouses and families to continue to be responsible support systems to our pregnant women so that our dream of building the society through the unborn child and his family is realized maximally.
“We have thought ahead of the need to support struggling spouses of our indigent pregnant participants, hence we have included indicators relating to the family engagement component of the MICH programme as part of our research studies.
“I unequivocally assure everyone on this programme that the MICH research experience, over the next few months, will not only birth new healthy, virile babies and economically stable and civically responsible families but re-write the social inclusion narrative in our local governance and global sustainable development,” she stated.
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Adebowale emphasised the need for total cooperation of all LGA/LCDA Chairmen for the successful implementation of the research exercise since it would be domiciled at the Local Government Level.
She urged the Chairmen, and other political leaders in each local government, to work hands in glove with the medical officers of Health in their domains, especially in ensuring objective selection of participants according to the criteria.
The special adviser said the criteria for selection of the participants included: pregnant and underprivileged, EGA must be between 21-24 weeks, must be registered for ANC at the PHC within the LGA/LCDA, must possess a LASRRA card, must be resident in the LGA/LCDA, must be from low-income household and 75% of selection must be indigenous.
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Team Peugeot Total goes full factory for 2018 FIA World RX title bid
By Sam Petters on 23rd March 2018 Team News
Peugeot has unveiled its latest 208 WRX challenger ahead of the 2018 season — the first to be developed in-house by the car maker.
Having marked its swansong Dakar Rally appearance with a third consecutive victory at the start of the year, Peugeot is turning its attentions to its World RX effort under the revised Team Peugeot Total banner, following several seasons competing as Team Peugeot Hansen.
Despite the new name, the Hansen rallycross dynasty remains integral to Peugeot’s 2018 World RX title challenge, with nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb joined once more by seasoned race winner Timmy Hansen and his younger brother Kevin Hansen in an unchanged three-driver line-up.
World RX managing director for IMG Paul Bellamy commented: “We are delighted to see Team Peugeot Total not only continue its commitment to the FIA World RX Championship but do so with the full support of its factory team for the first time.
“Peugeot has been synonymous with World RX since we took the championship global in 2014 and the decision to bring its expert WRC and Dakar Rally winning team on board is both testament to its title aspirations and the fantastic platform World RX provides for manufacturers.”
Team Peugeot Total will bring a significantly revised 208 WRX to the grid in 2018, with development focusing on making the 560hp Supercar lighter, more powerful and easier to drive for Loeb and Timmy Hansen. Kevin Hansen will drive an evolution of the 2017-specification 208 WRX as a Team Peugeot Hansen entry.
Bruno Famin, Peugeot Sport director, said: “This marks the start of an exciting year for us, as the FIA World Rallycross Championship will be Peugeot’s key motorsport engagement in a factory capacity, with new rivals and a new environment.
“We are aiming for some wins this season, then something more in the seasons beyond. We decided to participate in world rallycross because we firmly believe in the future of this sport: the sporting format, which is short and intense, is exciting, the audience, younger than in other categories, is still growing, and furthermore we also believe in the electric future of the championship.”
Loeb said: “My expectations are high for this year. Peugeot coming in as a factory team was exactly what was needed to take things up a level and enable us to fight for the championship. In the past we were close, but we were just missing a little extra. Now Peugeot’s official engagement can bring us that. We won’t have all the evolutions at the start of the year and that will make it difficult to fight for the championship from the beginning, but you never know: it all depends on how quickly we can develop.”
Team Peugeot Total will first be seen in action at the World RX Championship season-opener in Barcelona from April 14-15.
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Pence prepares to oversee Trump’s loss — and then leave town
It’s a tactic Pence has used in recent weeks: stay out of the spotlight and insulate himself from his boss’s election-fraud crusade, while still bolstering his own credentials.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a rally in support of Georgia's Republican senators Dec. 10. | Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
By GABBY ORR and NAHAL TOOSI
On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Then he’ll likely skip town.
As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding over the session of Congress that will formalize Biden’s Electoral College victory — a development that is likely to expose him and other Republicans to the wrath of GOP voters who believe President Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen from him.
But Pence could dodge their ire by leaving Washington immediately for the Middle East and Europe. According to three U.S. officials familiar with the planning, the vice president is eyeing a foreign trip that would take him overseas for nearly a week, starting on Jan. 6.
Though Pence aides declined to confirm details of the trip, which remains tentative, a U.S. government document seen by POLITICO shows the vice president is due to travel to Bahrain, Israel and Poland, with the possibility of more stops being added. A pre-advance team of Pence aides and other U.S. officials left earlier this week to visit the planned stops in preparation for the multicountry tour, which would be Pence’s first trip abroad since last January, when he traveled to Rome and Jerusalem on a whirlwind two-day sojourn.
On the surface, the trip is part of a push to underscore the Trump administration’s role in brokering a series of diplomatic agreements to normalize relations between Israel and a handful of Arab countries, including Bahrain. But for Pence, visiting these countries is also a way to bolster already-strong credentials with the Christian right, which strongly supports Israel. And it allows Pence — once again — to put distance between himself and Trump’s complaints about the election outcome that are likely to intensify after Congress affirms Biden’s win.
It’s a tactic Pence has used to navigate the final days of Trump’s presidency: stay out of the spotlight and insulate himself from his boss’s baseless election-fraud crusade, all while still finding ways to burnish his own credentials and technically toe the party line.
Pence has promoted Trump in his work as head of the government’s coronavirus task force and while boosting two GOP Senate candidates facing runoff races in Georgia. But he’s declined to publicize his minimal involvement in the president’s election-fraud strategy. And while he has privately assisted the Trump campaign when asked — joining donor calls and lending his signature to fundraising pleas — his public comments since the election have almost all centered on other topics, including hosting an event focused on the Trump administration's anti-abortion policy at the White House on Wednesday.
“I suspect the timing is anything but coincidental,” one Pence ally said of his tentative travel plans.
A senior administration official said the trip has not been confirmed and was proposed for early January because it was the first available date following the holidays and other obligations that Pence has committed to.
The vice president’s last trip abroad came just before the novel coronavirus arrived in the U.S., forcing both Pence and Trump to confront a global pandemic in the midst of a presidential election and later grapple with the fallout over the administration’s much-criticized public health response. Pence, who will receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday, would be traveling to regions where daily case counts have steadily risen since November. As recently as last week, Israeli officials were considering new coronavirus-related restrictions to reverse growing outbreaks.
The U.S. has faced similar trend lines since late fall, as colder temperatures, increased indoor activities and uneven adherence to social distancing guidelines are believed to be the culprit for a rapid acceleration in Covid-19 cases not seen since earlier this spring. The worsening conditions have created an increased workload for Pence since the Nov. 3 election. While Trump has kept his focus on furnishing long-promised evidence of mass voter fraud — something he’s been unable to provide so far — the vice president has hosted calls with state and local leaders, toured vaccine production facilities and continued to work with the relevant agencies involved in the pandemic response.
On Monday, Pence held a conference call with the nation’s governors to discuss distribution of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and the anticipated approval of a second coronavirus vaccine from Moderna by the FDA later this week.
"Be confident that we have cut red tape, but we've cut no corners when it comes to the development of this vaccine," Pence said Tuesday at a vaccine production center in Bloomington, Ind. "I look forward, in the days ahead, to receiving the vaccine myself and do so without hesitation."
In between his task force duties, Pence has traveled twice to Georgia for “Defend the Majority” rallies in support of GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. He is scheduled to visit the state again on Thursday for campaign stops in Macon and Columbus. The two races, slated for Jan. 5, will determine which party controls the Senate.
“He’s still helping out where asked by the [Trump] campaign, but the biggest help is him being in Georgia,” a senior White House official said of the vice president’s schedule.
The vice president’s most recent appearance in the state included a brief and rare nod to the alleged voter-fraud scheme Trump claims cost him the election.
Referring to a lawsuit challenging the election results in four battleground states that was led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Pence said Trump “deserves his day in court … and all I can say is: God Bless Texas.”
The lawsuit was subsequently rejected by the Supreme Court, joining more than 40 other cases that the Trump campaign has lost or withdrawn across Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona in the weeks since Election Day.
Some of the vice president's top allies have also become more vocal about the reality confronting Trump and the importance of shifting the Republican party’s attention to the Georgia runoff races. During a Monday night appearance on Newsmax, a conservative TV network that has promoted Trump’s voter-fraud claims, former Pence communications director Marc Lotter said there’s been a lack of evidence provided “that would allow [the election result] to be overturned in a court of law.”
“I think we have to be honest with ourselves, it’s not just one state we have to flip. … It would basically be overcoming three Mount Everest-size hurdles in three different states,” said Lotter, who also worked on the 2020 Trump campaign, referring to the number of states Trump would have to flip to win.
Such hurdles will disappear altogether when both chambers of Congress convene next month to lock Biden in as president-elect — thus hammering one final nail into the coffin of Trump’s election-fraud crusade. The tense moment is sure to attract attention, both for its finality and for the theatrics that are expected to unfold.
While Pence allies said there is no reason to doubt he will perform his duties as prescribed, some congressional Republicans have already vowed to push their colleagues to reject enough electoral votes to block Biden from becoming president. If Pence were to decline, the president pro tempore of the Senate would step in for the first time since 1969, when incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey — also the defeated Democratic nominee for president at the time — skipped the proceedings to attend a funeral.
The effort, led by GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, is unlikely to yield Trump’s desired result but could easily leave Pence in an excruciating situation. One White House official compared the task at hand for Pence — which will include opening and counting electoral votes sent from each state — to someone delivering a death notice.
“By no means is this going to be an easy moment for the vice president or president to stomach,” the official said.
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X Factor host Dermot O' Leary in talks to front BBC political show
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X Factor host Dermot O’ Leary has revealed in the Radio Times that he is in talks with the BBC to front a new politics show.
O’ Leary, who is also a DJ on BBC Radio 2, spoke of his “excitement” at the prospect of doing a political programme, but said it will not be “particularly serious”.
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“I won’t be the man with the swingometer, but politics is a huge obsession with me, so I’m incredibly excited about it.
“It’s a bit weird because I don’t really consider myself a classic, mainstream shiny-floor presenter.
“I always try to bring a little bit of edge to whatever I’m doing, but at the same time I’m not a comedian.
“I’d love to do something that is documentary-based, but slightly more than ‘straight’.”
Last month X Factor producer, Simon Cowell told BBC’s Newsnight he was thinking of launching a political debate programme ahead of the general election for the public to talk and vote on “hot topics”.
Cowell wants the show to have a “bear pit” atmosphere and a red telephone for Number 10 to ring in on.
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Wiluna Mining set for transition to stage 1 sulphide production after putting funding in place
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The departure of Rio Tinto’s chief executive is the very least that was required after the destruction of sacred aboriginal sites
Those deemed responsible originally had their bonuses capped
Believe it or not, he’s actually staying until a new successor is appointed.
But compared to the original sanction proposed after his company was publicly censured for blowing up a 46,000 year-old aboriginal site, the “mutually agreed” separation of Jean-Sébastien Jacques and Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO)(ASX:RIO) is at least a significant stride in the right direction.
But the only real saving grace in this whole sorry situation is that it wasn’t just the wider world that looked on with shock and horror at the destruction of the burial grounds at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara, it was the mining industry too.
The mining industry knows it has a PR problem. It’s known for some time. All new junior and mid-tier companies bake in ESG programmes from their very inception these days. They are budgeted for and taken seriously, and whereas in decades gone by community relations work would always have been tacked on at the end of presentations, investors are keen to hear about it up front. They know as well as anyone else that if a company doesn’t have what’s now termed “social licence” nothing’s coming out of the ground, no matter how valuable it is.
But at the top end, it may be that some companies still think they are just too big to fail. During the apartheid era, Anglo American (LON:AAL) famously controlled much of the land in South Africa, with a legal title that was much stronger than anything you’re likely to see in the world today. It took some years after the election of the ruling African National Congress for all that to be unravelled, but although still riddled with imperfections, South Africa’s current legal and financial framework does at least testify that cultural change can be wrought both within and without the industry.
Rio’s history is slightly less stark. Or to put it another way – the plight of the aboriginal communities in Australia have received a lot less media attention than apartheid did. But that initial advantage may now start working against it. Because the realisation amongst the wider investment community that Rio Tinto’s internal processes are so unfit for purpose that not only are they able to green-light the destruction of ancient and sacred aboriginal sites well into the twenty-first century, but they are apparently also unable to see the gravity of allowing such actions to take place.
It’s not just the violation of graves – it’s the bulldozing of an entire culture. In today’s media and social media climate, things are brittle enough. Extra care and attention is needed from companies that make a business of tearing up land for profit, and it’s hard enough to do well even when there is social licence. But to walk with eyes wide-open into this PR nightmare and moral disaster zone shows an incompetence and inability to understand the modern world that we all live in that cannot possibly be tolerated at the top of a multi-billion dollar company.
Not surprising that Chris Salisbury, head of iron ore, is to leave at the end of 2020, with nor that corporate relations director Simone Niven is also stepping down.
But will it be enough? Why were there no whistle blowers lower down the chain of command? The impression given is that there is need of wholesale root and branch reform.
Broker SP Angel this morning highlighted a report in the Australian financial review that referred to “multiple unethical and unprofessional failures” inside the company, as reported to the board of directors by a leadership consultant called Blackswan, failures which dated back to at least 2017. Where were the non-executive directors in all this? Apparently nowhere. Where were the appropriate governance procedures. Where indeed is the evidence that Rio Tinto is operating in the twenty-first century and not the nineteenth century?
The original project that the company is named after, the Rio Tinto mine in Southern Spain, remains an apocalyptic stain across miles and miles that country’s landscape. Mining’s legacy scars are deep enough already.
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Review Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking
One for the committed
Ubisoft's crazy Rabbids hit the Wii five years ago, but what many don't realise is that the original Rayman Raving Rabbids was ported to Xbox 360 with support for the doomed Xbox Live Vision camera. Surely with that experience — and the vastly superior Kinect — to bring to bear on Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, Ubisoft...
Review The Black Eyed Peas Experience
Some would say we've already had too many dancing games on Kinect, and certainly with Dance Central 2 and Just Dance 3 now on the sensor there's not much of a gap left for another title to make an impression unless it's of a competitively high quality, and that's where The Black Eyed Peas Experience comes in. Developed by iNiS — the...
Mon 21st Nov 2011
Review Blackwater
Misfire
Kinect's had a few quirky shooters so far — step forward The Gunstringer and Child of Eden — but nothing so conventional as Blackwater. Dubbed a "first person experience" by its publisher, it's the first war game we've seen on Kinect, and carries with it all the pleasures and pitfalls you'd expect from that mantle. Blackwater...
Review Kinect Disneyland Adventures
Taking the Mickey?
Parents, take your child or children aside and ask them what the happiest place on Earth is. If the answer isn’t a resounding and enthusiastic “Disneyland” then you’re not doing your job properly. Those Disney DVDs are chocked full with adverts for their vast wonderland getaways aimed directly at an audience that’s...
Review Family Game Night 4: The Game Show
After four instalments of EA's Family Game Night series you'd expect the company to have the format pretty down-pat by now, but regrettably Family Game Night 4: The Game Show is totally off the mark. Based on the Family Game Night TV show, the game is split into five activities, each based on a Hasbro board game: Connect 4 Basketball,...
Review Cabela's Big Game Hunter: Hunting Party
Aim for something else
The appeal with Kinect was always supposed to be that you didn't need a controller to play. With the "You Are the Controller" mantra so engrained in Kinect's marketing, it's a bit of a surprise to see a Kinect game ship in a large box with a hefty peripheral. Cabela's Big Game Hunter: Hunting Party certainly does...
Review Grease Dance
It’s got groove, it’s got meaning
If you’re a die-hard Grease fan who’s daydreamed about roaming the halls of Rydell high with the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, then Grease Dance is an absolute must-purchase for you. For everyone else it’s not as sure a bet as Greased Lightning, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had. At first glance,...
Review Kinect Fun Labs: Musical Feet
Can you stamp the high note?
Keeping in mind that Kinect is supposed to be a piece of equipment which the entire family can enjoy, Kinect Fun Labs: Musical Feet initially appears to be a lot of fun; recording and playing a virtual keyboard in your own living room while also messing around to other sounds such as a dog barking or cow mooing. Upon...
Review Twister Mania
Twister, as a traditional video game, would be destined to fail. Pressing a button to put right leg on red would just be nowhere near as fun as wiggling your limbs to screw over some poor sap struggling to make their body obey the almighty colour spinner. But Kinect’s Twister Mania is no traditional video game, eschewing buttons...
Mon 7th Nov 2011
Review MotionSports Adrenaline
Adrenaline junk
Last year's MotionSports was deeply average, but then it was never going to compare favourably to Rare's Kinect Sports. Ubisoft hasn't surrendered the sporting crown easily though, returning with MotionSports Adrenaline's all-new range of extreme sports. Far from the familiar motion-gaming sports that made up most of last year's...
Fri 4th Nov 2011
Review The Sims 3 Pets
Ruff?
Traditionally, The Sims hasn't transitioned to consoles particularly well: the move from mouse-clicks and keyboards to analogue sticks does nothing to streamline the controls, and seeing as The Sims is all about control that's a major problem. The Sims 3 Pets still doesn't fully conquer the issue, but it does a good job of hiding any cracks...
Thu 3rd Nov 2011
Review Hulk Hogan's Main Event
In the sweeping midst of Hulkamania, Hogan set out three demandments for Hulkamaniacs: to train, say your prayers and eat your vitamins. A fourth was added a few years later in 1990: to believe in yourself. Had Hogan had the foresight to add a fifth — “don't make terrible video games” — we all would have been spared of the tedium...
Mon 31st Oct 2011
Review Kinect Sports: Season Two
The best just got better
Despite posting impressive sales figures and delivering some engaging titles, Kinect has arguably struggled to find that elusive ‘killer app’ that is capable of convincing both casual and hardcore gamers of its worth. While the original Kinect Sports was a fantastic grounding in Microsoft’s brave controller-free world,...
Review The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Bored quiff?
You know the drill by now: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a film tie-in. It also uses Kinect. It can't be any good, right? Well, the drill has changed slightly this time around. Unlike THQ's efforts such as Kung Fu Panda 2, Tintin is a standard controller-led platformer, with Kinect's functions tucked away in the...
Sun 23rd Oct 2011
Review Minute to Win It
Bored in 60 seconds
Another day, another Kinect mini-game collection themed around a reasonably popular TV game show. This time out it's NBC's Minute to Win It, in which Food Network chef Guy Fieri takes a break from introducing the nation to diners, drive-ins and dives across the country to give contestants a chance at the big bucks through...
Sat 22nd Oct 2011
Review Michael Phelps - Push the Limit
When it comes to the world of swimming, there's no bigger name than Michael Phelps, but even his mighty reputation isn't enough to secure Michael Phelps: Push the Limit a gold medal. Any game that starts with a warning that it's physically draining even by Kinect standards should set alarm bells ringing, but Michael Phelps smartly rations...
Thu 20th Oct 2011
Review Dance Central 2
Step out of the ordinary
If history has taught us anything it’s that dancing games will eventually go the way of the Guitar Heroes and the Rock Bands before them – although we anticipate the grave will be filled with less plastic instruments. Like any trend, what goes up must eventually come tumbling down but if Harmonix’s dance-em-up sequel...
Review Nicktoons MLB
Not quite a home run
With the real MLB season coming to a close, the sport is rapidly approaching its Toy Story moment: when no one is around to see, what happens to all the players? They're recruited by Nickelodeon, apparently, for a simplistic and, despite its best efforts, charming take on America's pastime. Nicktoons MLB falls under the same...
Wed 19th Oct 2011
Review Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
"C" is for "charming"
It’s every child’s dream to be able to play with their favourite TV characters. To them, they’re not pretend; they’re just as much a part of their reality as anything else. The talented folks at Double Fine have teamed up with Sesame Workshop to give kids the chance to play with their favourite Sesame Street monsters in...
Review Forza Motorsport 4
We've seen a handful of games call themselves "Better with Kinect" — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Virtua Tennis 4 are two of the more high-profile titles, but neither managed to use the sensor for more than mildly entertaining side games. Arguably, Forza Motorsport 4 is the first game to show the...
Review Just Dance 3
Hands in the air like you just don’t care
With a whopping ten dance titles shuffling towards store shelves in time for the holidays, you’d be forgiven for writing off every single one as being just another dancing game. Whilst that’s arguably the case, the Just Dance series hasn’t earned its millions by just being another dancing game...
Review PowerUp Heroes
Here to save the world?
After last year's disastrous Fighters Uncaged we thought we'd never want to touch a Ubisoft fighting game for Kinect again, but then along came PowerUp Heroes to change our mind. It's easy to see the big difference here: whereas Uncaged was set in the dirty world of street-fighting, PowerUp transports you to a world of...
Review Kinect Fun Labs: Mutation Station
Malformed
We all imagined that Kinect Fun Labs was Microsoft's way of providing engaging, free content to Kinect fans, but with the third paid add-on it's clear the emphasis has shifted towards a microtransaction model. Does Kinect Fun Labs: Mutation Station offer enough to justify the adoption of this new sales strategy? While Kinect Sparkler...
Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Review The Penguins of Madagascar: Dr. Blowhole Returns Again!
The legacy of Reel 2 Real lives on
Dreamworks’ Madagascar films are notable for two things: Resurrecting Reel 2 Real’s 1994 jam I Like to Move It and spawning a zoo filled with a team of goofy penguins. Said penguins proved popular enough to get their own spin-off show on Nickelodeon, which then went on to birth TV specials, DVD collections and...
Mon 26th Sep 2011
Review Burnout CRASH!
A crashing disaster or a wheelie good success?
When it was first announced, Burnout CRASH! was dismissed as a cash-in on a very popular video game series. Nothing like the titles before it, nothing to do with racing and what seemed like boringly simple controls portrayed this game as one that'd head straight to the scrapyard. But those first...
Review The Gunstringer
A fistful of crazy
You'd be hard-pressed to find a development studio with more spring in their step than Twisted Pixel or a game with such joie de vivre as The Gunstringer. Where a lesser studio may have slapped some skeletal cowboy puppets into a Kinect-enabled rail shooter and called it a day, Twisted Pixel snatches the western marionette theme...
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Google Apologizes for Plus Mistake
Technology Articles > Social Networking > Social Network News > Google Apologizes for Plus Mistake
Google Plus will hit the one month mark on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Throughout the first month, the new social network has hit some bumps in the road. One such bump was Google’s decision to delete a number of Google Plus accounts. This decision was based on the G+ policy that account profiles on the new network must be real.
Google believes that allowing people to set up accounts with fake names creates a spam breeding ground. While seemingly admirable, the policy that Google instilled has a few major flaws -- one of those flaws being that it’s hard for anyone to tell (let alone Google) whether or not someone’s name is false.
Google Makes a Big Mistake
Sticking to the company’s policy guns, Google deleted a number of accounts last week. Many of these accounts were, in fact, false. Unfortunately for the search giant, some of the deleted accounts belonged to real people. Google was quick to restore these accounts, but the damage had already been done.
In addition to deleting false accounts, Google took down some company profiles. Again, Google quickly reinstated select company profiles, but those companies now have a clear “test” button located beneath the respective company names. Google is, in fact, testing out business profiles, and attempting to find ways to make using the G+ service easier for businesses of all types.
Rumors Put to Rest
There are some rumors circulating that anyone whose false account has been suspended will also be locked out of other Google sites. The sites mentioned included Google Mail, Google documents, and, of course, Google Plus. However, these rumors are completely false according to a publically released Google statement.
Google also reminded Plus users that the network is still in its beta stage. As Google attempts to grapple with false accounts, spam, and ways to make the social network better for businesses, it can be expected that more mishaps will occur. For now, those people who have had accounts deleted can expect Google to restore all real accounts quickly.
G+ Grows
Google has made attempts into the social networking arena before. These attempts were so awful that they’ve been largely forgotten. After peeking its head into the social networking world a few times, Google sat back and paid attention to what was happening with LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Combining all of these networks together, Google Plus was born.
Now in almost its first month of service, Google Plus has grown by leaps and bounds. Facebook has become quiet as people migrate towards the new Google system. Twitter still remains on top of the social networking heap, but Twitter has always had a different vibe. It takes some getting used to Google Plus, and learning how Plus circles work is somewhat confusing.
But, when met with certain Google Plus frustration (including account deletion), one must remember that this platform is still the new kid on the block, and as a new kid, Google Plus will falter now and then, though the final outcome of the new platform holds a great deal of promise.
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You are here: Home / News / State will dip into cash reserve to cover current year’s budget plan (AUDIO)
State will dip into cash reserve to cover current year’s budget plan (AUDIO)
March 14, 2017 By O. Kay Henderson
REC members David Underwood, Dave Roederer, Holly Lyons.
It appears officials will soon make a significant withdrawal from the state’s “rainy day” account to cover the latest state budget dilemma.
“The Iowa economy is showing signs of weakness in some areas,” Holly Lyons, director of the Legislative Services Agency said today. “There is no indication that we are headed into a recession in the near-term, but we are facing a difficult time.”
Lyons serves on a small panel of financial experts who met late this morning and reduced their estimate of state tax collections by $131 million for the current budgeting year. After a previous round of budget cuts in February and with just three months left in the state’s spending plan, Iowa Department of Management director Dave Roederer said using the state’s cash reserve is the only real option left.
“We’ll just have to work our way out of it,” said Roederer, who is also a member of the Revenue Estimating Conference.
In a written statement issued shortly after the meeting concluded, Senate Republican Leader Bill Dix agreed with Roederer that additional budget cuts “are not reasonable” and state policymakers will opt to use some of the “hundreds of millions” in the state’s rainy day account.
Lyons, the Legislative Services Agency director, said there’s “underlying strength” to the Iowa economy, but slightly fewer Iowans were in the workforce in 2016 than originally thought.
“Iowa is close to full employment,” Lyons said, “and it may be more of an issue of qualified employees than a lack of available jobs for the economy to grow at a healthy pace.”
Roederer, who is the governor’s top budget advisor, told reporters the situation is not dour, as the state is still projected to collect about four percent more in taxes this year compared to last.
“Over a 25 to 30 year period to time, our average growth in the state has been four percent and if you were to recalculate the numbers now, it’s still about four percent,” Roederer said. “We had some years that it was up in the five and six and seven (percent) range and when we’re up higher, obviously, it was when agriculture commodity prices were much higher.”
David Underwood, a retired businessman from Mason City, is the other member of the panel that sets the official estimate of state tax collections. Underwood said during the meeting that he’s surprised there’s not more income growth being shown on the 2016 personal income tax returns Iowans have filed so far.
“And the sales tax continues to be perplexing in Iowa,” Underwood said. “It’s difficult to believe there’s that small a level of growth…It doesn’t really make a lot of sense.”
More than a third of all the revenue collected by the state comes from the state sales tax. Sales tax collections are running not quite even with a year ago. Experts cite the shift to online purchases, where customers often can avoid paying state sales taxes.
In addition, lawmakers last year erased the state sales taxes manufacturers paid on goods that are “consumed” during the manufacturing process, things like bolts, hydraulic fluid and drill bits. Critics like House Democratic Leader Mark Smith say that and other “corporate tax giveaways” are having a bigger impact that anticipated.
AUDIO of Revenue Estimating Conference meeting, 32:00
The Revenue Estimating Conference has reduced it’s prediction of tax collections during the next state budgeting year by $191.8 million. The governor and legislators will have to adjust the tentative spending plans they’ve developed. The next state budgeting year starts July 1.
Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Democratic Party, Legislature, Republican Party, Taxes, Terry Branstad
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‘I want to make sure they have everything they deserve’
For four little girls who were removed from their mother, Bonnie Davis is a familiar face despite all the tumult they’ve seen in their lives.
When Bonnie, a ProKids CASA Volunteer, met the older three – Jaycia, Joelle and Jada — about two years ago, they had been in a difficult situation. The mother was using drugs so the then 6-year-old Jaycia would take charge, trying to microwave hot dogs and putting her sisters into the bathtub.
At first, it looked like an aunt and uncle would take care of the children. But they didn’t have a stable home and were quickly overwhelmed by three young children.
With no other relatives to care for them, the girls were moved to a foster home two hours from Cincinnati. That didn’t stop Bonnie from visiting them regularly, making sure they were safe and happy.
And what she saw was an amazing transformation. In their new home, they never miss a day of school, they go camping and ride bikes around their neighborhood and are regulars at their foster mother’s church. Living in a rural area, they even got to show a pig this year at the 4H fair.
They continue to receive therapy to deal with the scars from their earlier life and they also get the help they need to succeed in school.
When a fourth daughter, Jia, was removed from the mother at birth, she was placed with a different foster family. Bonnie also checks in on that child, making sure she is safe and gets everything she needs.
Bonnie has even made sure that the two foster families get together regularly so that the older girls get to know their little sister – who they adore.
The future of these four little girls will eventually be decided by Hamilton County Juvenile Court and Bonnie knows that she will help the magistrate decide what is in the children’s best interests.
“I will let the court know what I’ve seen, what I’ve learned and what I’ve observed,” Bonnie says. “I don’t have control over what will ultimately happen, but I will know that the court understands what these children need and I have a strong voice in its decision.”
Bonnie says being a CASA Volunteer is rewarding because she knows she can do something no one else involved in their lives can do: speak up for the girls themselves. “I’ve developed a good relationship with them. They trust me and they express how they feel,” she says. “You can’t help but get attached to them … and I want to make sure they have everything they deserve.”
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Clock ticking on federal inmate clemency?
By Jeffrey Benzing | June 29, 2015
President Obama’s clemency initiative is bogged down, and time is running out.
Recently, U.S. Pardon Attorney Deborah Leff urged lawyers not to delay, even if they are doing so to craft stronger arguments for their clients.
The Justice Department launched the clemency initiative last year and is encouraging non-violent inmates who have served at least 10 years in prison for drug offenses to consider filing for commutations or clemency.
The existence of the program is an acknowledgment that federal prisons are crowded with inmates serving long sentences with questionable benefit to public safety.
But so far, not much has happened.
Obama has only approved 3 percent of nearly 17,000 commutation petitions, according to USA Today, though he said early this year that he wants to use his clemency powers “more aggressively.”
The related Clemency Project 2014, a working group of pro-bono lawyers, only filed 31 petitions in its first year, the story said.
The timing matters because a backlog means Obama could leave office before decisions are made.
According to USA Today:
The Clemency Project has set a goal of Jan. 20, 2016, for all petitions to be filed, to give the Obama administration a full year to consider them and send them to the president's desk for a decision before his term ends. Leff said any petitions that come in after that date could be left to Obama's successor.
“So if we receive an enormous number of petitions at the last minute, yes, they will be reviewed. But a lot of them will not be reviewed during this administration," she said.
Leff emphasized speed over meticulous lawyering, saying “this is not the time to prepare a treatise of hundreds of pages.”
But lawyers are trying to be careful. These are clients who feel they’ve already been badly served by the justice system, now with a rare chance to be heard.
Margaret Love, who served as pardon attorney in the Clinton administration, told USA Today she is concerned Leff’s message puts volume over quality.
“What I heard was hurry up, hurry up, deliver as many cases as quickly as you possibly can,” she told the paper.
Elsewhere in Washington, a bipartisan Senate group under leadership of Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is reportedly making progress on an effort to lessen sentences for qualified inmates.
As POLITICO reports, nothing is even on paper yet, but the group wants to allow inmates unlikely to re-offend the ability to earn time off their sentences. Some mandatory minimum sentences could also be eliminated.
Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has previously questioned the worth of eliminating mandatory minimums. Legislation will have to balance concerns from libertarians like Rand Paul, R-Ky., who want more sweeping reforms and concerns from tough-on-crime conservatives who want mandatory minimums to stay.
Grassley appears to be in the middle.
According to POLITICO:
“I have different views than Paul and those guys,” Grassley said in a short interview. “They’d make you believe [people are incarcerated] for smoking one pot [sic] or one ‘roach.’ … But they’re not; they’re in for a lifetime of violent crime.”
“But I know there needs to be reform,” he quickly added. “We need this.”
Meanwhile, the federal prison system is overcrowded, with facilities operating at roughly 40 and 50 percent above their rated capacities.
Reach Jeffrey Benzing at 412-315-0265 or at jbenzing@publicsource.org. Follow him on Twitter @jabenzing.
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Doctor Who lost Dalek episode has been recreated and will be released after 54 years
A new version of 1965 episode Mission to the Unknown will premiere on the Doctor Who YouTube channel
By Thomas Ling
Wednesday, 2nd October 2019 at 12:00 pm
Ring the cloister bell, it’s finally happened: lost Doctor Who episode Mission to the Unknown will finally be seen on screens.
Well, sort of. Although original footage of the 1965 episode featuring the Daleks is still lost to the time vortex, a team of students, graduates and staff from the University of Central Lancashire have reconstructed the lost instalment.
Classic Doctor Who companion Peter Purves helps recreate lost episode Mission to the Unknown
Set to premiere on the Doctor Who Youtube Channel at exactly 5.50pm BST on Wednesday 9th October, the episode will feature modern voice of the Daleks, Nicholas Briggs, plus Peter Purves, who played First Doctor companion Steven Taylor.
But who will play The Doctor himself? Nobody. As Whovians will know, Mission to the Unknown is one of the few episodes of the show not to feature the Time Lord (played by William Hartnell at the time). The 25-minute standalone episode instead follows Space Security Agent Marc Cory (Edward de Souza) as he tries to warn Earth about the Daleks’ latest plot – a scheme portrayed in 1965 story The Daleks’ Master Plan.
Alongside the episode itself, Mission to the Unknown will premiere with a special making of documentary created by YouTuber Josh Snares.
Luke Spillane, Digital Publishing Manager for Doctor Who at BBC Studios, said: “It is such a fantastic recreation, made lovingly with real craft and expertise by everyone at the University of Central Lancashire.
“I hope audiences around the world can imagine that it’s tea time on the 9th October 1965 as they rather excitingly watch a black and white episode of Doctor Who premiere on their television sets, mobile phones and tablets.”
Andrew Ireland, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Digital and Creative Industries at the University of Central Lancashire, added: “It is such a loss to our cultural heritage that so many episodes of 1960s Doctor Who are missing from the BBC archives.
“This project presented us with an exciting opportunity to address that, to explore a new way of bringing these missing slices of TV history to life, and in the process, help students learn their craft by comparing contemporary production methods with historical approaches.
“The project gave so many people great experiences, and it is wonderful to see the Daleks menacing a black and white jungle once more.”
Mission to the Unknown will debut on the Doctor Who Youtube channel 5.50pm, Wednesday 9th October
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Breed Reply portfolio company, FoodMarble raises $2.6 million to scale at-home digestive health solution
FoodMarble subsequently launches crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.
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FoodMarble, the digital digestive health company, has closed a seed investment round of $2.6 million. The round was led by Business Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from Breed Reply, Delta Partners, Enterprise Ireland and SOSV. Breed Reply first invested in FoodMarble in 2017.
Following a hugely successful product launch in 2018, supported by a grassroots campaign, FoodMarble has opted to allow customers to invest in the Company through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs (here). The funding will support expansion into new markets, the continued development of the FoodMarble AIRE, and other research and development projects.
The FoodMarble AIRE is the world’s first personal digestive tracker. Digestive health issues are a common and often untreated problem for people, affecting up to 1-in-8 people worldwide. Approximately one billion people have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and many more have intolerances to everyday food items and ingredients such as lactose, wheat, and fructose. Clinical breath analysis tests carried out today to diagnose these issues are typically hospital-based, single snapshot tests with large, expensive devices that may not always capture how the patient reacts to certain foods or food groups.
As an alternative, the FoodMarble Aire is a personal hydrogen breath test device that connects via Bluetooth to a smartphone app, providing immediate results to the user, with actionable insights to optimise their diet. Everyone’s digestion is unique, and FoodMarble allows users to measure how their body digests food in real-time to identify possible trigger components in different foods. FoodMarble empowers users to gather objective data of what is happening in their gut to avoid highly restrictive diets by accurately determining what foods cause symptoms via a simple, non-invasive breath test.
Commenting on the investment, Tim Stone, Partner, Breed Reply, said: “Designed to help the millions of people who experience digestive difficulties, FoodMarble is the first personal device of its kind. By making leading digestive science readily accessible through a connected handheld device, FoodMarble helps people take control of their digestive health. It is a brilliant combination of device, data and insight leading to real improvements in peoples’ lives. We are delighted to be continuing to support Aonghus and his team as FoodMarble moves on to the next stage of its development.”
Aonghus Shortt, Co-founder and CEO at FoodMarble added “The funding raised today, and from the Seedrs crowdfunding campaign, will help us continue our mission. Healthcare systems are not suited to helping people with common but incredibly challenging gut health issues. Digestive symptoms can be profoundly disruptive to normal life, and we are seeking to end that. Our mission is to help people cut through the complexity and uncertainty to find “their foods”. We started as a direct-to-consumer business, and we are delighted to now be able to also assist clinicians in managing their patient’s digestive health. We are just getting started. We want this to be a tool that every family can have in the home to monitor and manage their digestive health so that they can live healthy and happy lives.”
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Dublin-based FoodMarble raises €2.1 million to scale its at-home digestive health solution
FoodMarble, a Breed Reply Portfolio company focusing on digital digestive health, has closed a seed investment round of around €2.1 million, led by Business Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from SOSV, Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland.
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Health Technology in a Post-COVID-19 World
There’s no question that the global pandemic is changing the way healthcare is delivered. In the latest Breed Reply blog we take a look at how technology, such as IoT, can help diagnose and treat specific ailments, reducing the need for a physical visit to the doctor.
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Fermentation tracking device finds out which foods are making you bloated
FoodMarble AIRE is a breath-analysis device that tracks your fermentation levels. For some people, too much fermentation can cause digestive issues.
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Slimer Speaks: We Interview Robin Shelby!
Courtesy: Ghostbusters News.
Most noted for her portrayal of Slimer in 1989's Ghostbusters II, Robin Shelby has enjoyed success as a Hollywood suit actor and stunt woman, working on a variety of high-profile productions. She's also done voice acting and is a producer for television. Retro Injection emailed her some questions about her career in working just outside of the spotlight.
What would someone need to be a convincing suit actor?
Really, it’s not much different than the skills needed to be a good actor outside of a suit. It takes being prepared for the job you’re going to do, listening and committing 100% to what you are doing at the time. I will say acting in a suit requires your energy to be able to transcend through the suit, so you do have to be aware of how the character reads with your movements. It requires a higher energy to have your physical actions read on camera through a full body suit.
Robin suits up for her role as the iconic Slimer in Ghostbusters II. Collage courtesy: Damn Cool Pictures.
What was it like performing in the Slimer suit for Ghostbusters II? Did you have any interaction with the rest of the cast? How did you get the job?
It was as hot as you’d think, and heavier than you would ever believe. But, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. My interaction with the cast didn’t happen while I was shooting, as I was working with the special effects team at ILM in front of a blue screen. The shots that Slimer was being put into had already been shot with the cast. I have had the good fortune to meet many of the cast members since then. I got the job because I had worked for a few days on “Willow” at ILM a year earlier. When they needed someone to step into the role of Slimer, they had remembered me and asked me in for an audition.
Please explain how you came to voice the Lady Slimer character in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot.
I was messaged on Twitter by Paul Feig (who I didn’t know at the time) reaching out to see if I’d be interested. Of course, that decision took about 2 seconds. ;) I was surprised, honored and grateful he thought of me.
Ms. Shelby with Paul Feig. Courtesy: Robinshelby.net.
How would you compare the directorial styles of Ivan Reitmann, who helmed the original Ghostbusters films, and Paul Feig, director of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call?
I met both Ivan and Paul prior to working on their films. But with Ghostbusters 2, before we started shooting Ivan had given direction to the crew and myself for the shots that we had to do, and I was directed by Tim Lawrence on set for Ghostbusters 2. Tim was incredibly creative, patient and always making sure all was well with me and the crew while we were shooting. He was a joy. With Answer the Call, Paul Feig had met with Becky Sullivan (Supervising Sound Editor) and she was with me in the booth when we recorded Lady Slimer. Paul is amazing, kind and simply brilliant. I consider myself one of the luckiest actresses in the world to say I’ve been in both of these directors' films.
In 2016, my friend Luke gave me this Slimer coaster, which promoted the Ghostbusters reboot. He also hooked me up with a box of Hi-C Ecto Cooler!
Ghostbusters went twenty-seven years with no new feature films, and the Paul Feig movie was met with a flurry of publicity. Why do you feel there is an enduring fandom for the Ghostbusters franchise?
I think the comedy stands the test of time. There is also an “underdog” quality to the Ghostbusters films that people can relate to. Friends who are against all odds and come together to kick some butt and save the world…who doesn’t love that?
Ghostbusters II and Ghostbusters: Answer the Call are unique in that they combine the genres of action, comedy, horror and science fiction. What did you want to emphasize and convey in your portrayal of ghosts?
For me, it was important to have as much fun as I could and add an element of that to these characters. I figured if Slimer and Lady Slimer were having the time of their life… people watching it would, too.
Which Ghostbusters character is your favorite, and why?
I’ve always loved the character of Louis. I think Rick Moranis is brilliant, and truly respect his body of work.
You performed in front of a blue screen as Slimer in Ghostbusters II and as a troll in the fantasy epic Willow. What difficulties do actors face when working with composite sequences?
With Slimer and Willow, it was just me on screen even when you may have another actor in the scene with you. It’s using your imagination (and in some cases, watching the previously shot footage with the actor in the scene with you over and over before shooting) to make it work. It’s so much fun to see it all put together in the end.
Courtesy: Robin Shelby.
You appear in 1994's Beverly Hills Cop 3 as Floyd and Axel Fox, costumed theme park mascots. Would you share a story about working with Eddie Murphy and/or director John Landis?
John Landis was wonderful to us, and he had his hands full with shooting at Great America, a theme park in Northern California. Eddie Murphy had his work cut out for him, and we didn’t talk to him too much on set. (And I didn’t want to bug him!) For me, being on set with these people at all was like being a kid in a candy shop.
Tell us about your experiences with performing stunt work.
I had done stunts for “The Little Rascals” (stunt double for Spanky) and “The Fantasticks”. (stunt double for Luisa). I had a blast doing both, but realized that acting is more in my blood than stunt work. I have such mad respect for any stunt person who is doing it every day!
Courtesy: Internet Movie Database.
You're the executive producer of the television show Far from the Tree (2011-2012) and the upcoming 2 Cops and a Car. What's the most challenging part of bringing a TV show to fruition?
The most challenging is getting a group of people together at the same time. People are busy, and scheduling can be crazy to make one day work for everyone involved. But, the end result makes it all worthwhile.
Suit and stunt actors are “secret celebrities.” How does it feel to have appeared in major films, and not have people recognize you on the street?
It’s kind of fun! What’s great is having a conversation with someone on the street about Ghostbusters, for example. I’ll tell them about the work I did on it, and sometimes they freak out a little. I love it.
What projects of yours have been the most personally satisfying?
I did a musical with my husband called “I love you, you’re perfect, now change”. Was so proud of it, and so glad I got to work with him on that. The projects we have produced are pretty special and satisfying because it’s your “baby” and something that was created by you.
Thank you so much for your time, Robin. We really appreciate it. I had to end this interview with a photo of my Ghostbusters II kids' meal boxes from Hardee's, featuring Slimer himself. I've had these since 1989. Since they were meant to last about five minutes, the containers are quite brittle, and I don't dare dust them! For more Ghostbusters fun, check out my other articles.
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Over 2,500 cops to be deployed during Fadnavis swearing-in
A strict vigil will be maintained during the swearing-in of Devendra Fadnavis as Maharashtra chief minister at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Friday, with over 2,500 security personnel being deployed in and around the sprawling ground.
The stadium, which will host the first open air oath taking ceremony, has been declared a no flying zone, police said.
Under the supervision of city Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, about 2,500 security personnel, including those of Mumbai Police, Special Protection Group and Quick Response Teams, will maintain a strict surveillance during the ceremony, Additional Police Commissioner (South) Krishna Prakash said.
The area has already been sanitised and a number of policemen had been deployed to the area, said another officer.
From Friday morning, all the 2,500 policemen will be on security duty at the ground, the officer added.
According to sources, as many as 30,000 invitees are expected to attend the grand affair and nearly 5,000 would be seated on special chairs to be arranged on the ground, while the rest will occupy stadium chairs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah, veteran party leader L K Advani, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat, several Union ministers, chief ministers of other BJP-ruled states, party MLAs, Bollywood celebrities and industrialists are likely to be present during the ceremony, police said.
The bomb squad and dog squad has been carrying out regular checks in the stadium. Police have also installed 'nakabandis' at the city's entry points.
Plans are underway to create a no parking zone near the stadium and vehicles of invitees, except VVIPs, are likely to be parked near the BJP office at Nariman Point and adjacent to the ground of Mumbai Hockey Association.
Police are conducting anti-sabotage checks and heavy frisking of visitors will be done. "Snipers will be positioned at strategic locations," said another police officer.
"Policemen will be armed with advanced communication equipment," he said.
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The New & Returning Faces In Killing Eve Season 2
Everyone Returning To Killing Eve Season 2 & A Few New, Mysterious Faces
Madison Medeiros
Photo: Courtesy of AMC.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the first season of Killing Eve
The season one finale of Killing Eve left fans with so many unanswered questions. Will things escalate between Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) after their last encounter? Who exactly are The Twelve, and what do they want? Will we ever learn where Carolyn Martens' true allegiances lie? And, most importantly, who can we expect to see in the cast of Killing Eve season two?
We don't have all of the answers (yet), but we do know this: Eve and Villanelle are at it again — and their drama picks up immediately where it left off (36 seconds, to be exact), which means things are going to be action-packed and, well, probably bloody. If you'll recall, Villanelle narrowly escaped death after Eve stabbed her in the abdomen in Villanelle's Paris apartment during what was otherwise a sweet encounter in the finale. This means season two will likely open up with the aftermath of said stabbing, with Villanelle on the run and Eve recovering from her impulsive decision.
Our leads' problems don't end there, however. Eve is also grappling with the loss of her job (though, the trailers indicate that she does spend a lot of time back in the MI6 offices) and the potential demise of her relationship with Niko (Owen McDonnell). Meanwhile, Villanelle is on the outs with The Twelve after shooting Konstantin, and, according to a press release, Villanelle is in yet another assassin's crosshairs in the second series. Needless to say, some major changes are on the horizon.
"There's a duality and a sense of self-examination — both women learning a lot about who they are," Killing Eve executive producer Emerald Fennell told Entertainment Weekly. "We're starting to see the mirror-image similarities between them, for the good and the bad. What does it look like when a psychopath starts to learn how to feel things, and when a woman who's incredibly empathetic and intuitive starts to lose those parts of herself? At what point do they meet?"
Of course, all of this drama doesn't mean that our leading ladies have to sacrifice their style — save for that time Villanelle has to don Crocs in the Killing Eve season two trailer. The cast will still look fabulous as hell, thanks to some stellar hair and fashion styling.
While we don't know the identity of this mysterious hitman, we do know that some of our favourite Killing Eve cast members are back, and they'll be joined by a handful of exciting newcomers.
Killing Eve season 2 starts on BBC America on 14th April and will air in the UK later this year
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Fresnel Number
Definition: a parameter determining the regime of diffraction effects
German: Fresnel-Zahl
Categories: general optics, optical resonators
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Originally, the Fresnel number was introduced in the context of diffraction theory for beam propagation. If a light wave first passes through an aperture of size (e.g. radius) a and then propagates over a distance L to a screen, the situation is characterized with the Fresnel number
where λ is the wavelength.
For values of the Fresnel number well below 1, Fraunhofer diffraction occurs where the screen essentially shows the far-field diffraction pattern of the aperture, which is closely related to the spatial Fourier transform of the complex amplitude distribution of the light field after the aperture.
Fresnel numbers around 1 or larger characterize the situation of Fresnel diffraction (or near-field diffraction), where the mathematical description is more complicated. For not too large Fresnel numbers and diffraction angles, the Fresnel approximation can be used.
Fresnel Number of a Resonator
The concept of the Fresnel number has also been applied to optical resonators (cavities), in particular to laser resonators [1]. One again uses the equation
where a is now the radius of the end mirrors, and L is the resonator length.
A large Fresnel number (well above 1) of a resonator (cavity) means that diffraction losses at the end mirrors are small for typical mode sizes (i.e. not near a stability limit of the resonator, where mode sizes can diverge). This is the usual situation in a stable laser resonator. Conversely, a small Fresnel number means that diffraction losses can be significant – particularly for higher-order modes, so that diffraction-limited operation may be favored.
Most stable laser resonators have a fairly large Fresnel number, whereas small Fresnel numbers occur in unstable resonators, which are sometimes applied in high-power lasers.
The Fresnel number is also important for the analysis of the modes of (plane) Fabry–Pérot interferometers, which extend to the edges of the mirrors.
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Want a full-body home workout to help you exercise while social distancing? Start with boxing.
Jimmy HascupUSA TODAY
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That bottle of wine? That laundry detergent? Those canned goods? They’re more than household items these days. They’re also your free weights.
I can speak from experience as someone who has tried to stay on a daily workout routine from home, forced to share my living and working space with fitness during the coronavirus pandemic.
But in the month I’ve been sheltering in place, I’ve learned a productive and varied workout is possible — and so is all the love, good vibes and energy (shoutout, coach Jonathan!) one feels from going to the gym with friends and coaches whose goals are to push you to get better physically and mentally.
All it takes is 40 minutes and you’ll be burning more than 400 calories, dripping sweat and channeling your inner Muhammad Ali.
I can thank the group fitness experience at BASH Boxing in Arlington, Virginia, that is now streaming classes free on Instagram Live. Its rotation of coaches is still bringing passion and encouragement, accompanied by music that makes you shake it like you're on the dance floor during rest periods.
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It is possible to fuse boxing with a functional-body workout that improves endurance, strength or power — even from home.
“We want (people) to feel like they’ve had a full-body workout,” said Alex Trakas, co-founder, founding coach and CEO of BASH Boxing. “We want your entire body to be in that exhausted point, and also that you feel well-rounded.”
Fist bumping your neighbor after a difficult exercise is 100% still encouraged, albeit in emoji form during what becomes a big group chat during the workout.
Take it from me, a 31-year-old journalist: It is possible to enjoy a thorough workout from your apartment, turn up the volume on some throwback beats and have fun while doing it, too. You will feel accomplished and better mentally when you’re done.
“Don’t get discouraged about the low days,” said Trakas, who alluded to the BASH coaches and community coming together to brighten her days during these unprecedented times.
Even Tom Wilson, the Washington Capitals’ forward and owner and partner of BASH, has taken classes since the NHL was suspended March 12. He said it’s “nice to do something different and get in a good sweat” rather than repeating the same hockey-focused workouts during the off time.
“I went from 100 to 0 overnight as far as working out and playing hockey,” Wilson said. “Doing a little bit every day — staying consistent — will save you from having to get out of a hole you dug yourself while staying in quarantine.”
How can you pull this off at home? First, think of using your household items as weight (laundry detergent for squats, wine for curls, canned goods for boxing ... be creative), and let Trakas, the expert, explain the rest:
WHY BOXING?
“Boxing is the best form of cardio there is,” Trakas said. “You’re moving your body through all planes of motion. So when you’re on a bicycle or treadmill or running outside, you're working through one plane of motion. When you're boxing, you're forced to move in every direction.”
Plus, Trakas said, there's a lot of forward movement, which helps those of us not moving much, stuck in chairs or couches all day.
Do it at home: Shadowbox. (Practice your punches. You’ll be surprised at how exhausting it gets.)
What kind of movements? “To test your endurance, you have to test your consistency,” Trakas said. "It’s not about the most powerful motion you can make. It’s about keeping the same one-second count of tempo for a 60-second interval.”
Do it at home: Jab-cross punches. Repeatedly.
What kind of movements? “It’s explosive,” Trakas said. “Load down for two seconds and explode up in your body. Shorter, maximum effort, maximum output. It’s maximum effort, it’s maximum output.”
Do it at home: Squat jack. (Feel the burn in the quads and glutes.)
What kind of movements? “This is where the tempo is the most important,” Trakas said. “The best way to describe strength is time under tension.” As in, count three seconds during your time in the movement, then hold for a second before coming out of it.
Do it at home: Dips. (Remember: Three seconds down … it’ll get hard!)
Do a morning workout. “If you get up and move your body, your day is going to be a little bit brighter and better,” Trakas said.
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WWE RAW Viewership Rises With Second Night Of WWE Draft
by H Jenkinson October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 at 4:06 pm
WWE brought the second night of their yearly draft to the USA Network this week. How did the viewership turn out?
Click here for our complete coverage of WWE Raw from this week.
Showbuzz Daily reports that WWE Monday Night Raw brought an overnight three-hour average of 1.86 million viewers this week. That is up from last week’s number.
Last week drew a three hour overnight average of 1.686 million viewers. That was a big fall from the previous week’s number.
The week prior drew an overnight average was 1.822 million viewers. That was up a bit from the previous week. The week prior brought in 1.667 million viewers.
The previous week’s episode of Raw was “In Your Face.” They drew 1.689 million viewers. They had 1.812 million viewers in the first hour, 1.734 million viewers in the second, and the third hour saw 1.521 million viewers stay until the end of the show.
The week prior, WWE Raw brought in an overnight average of 1.725 million viewers. The week prior’s three hour overnight average was 1.89 million viewers. That is a substantial fall from the previous week’s number number of 2.045 million.
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Where the Crawdads Sing is much more than your average murder mystery. As the book alternates between two time periods, Delia Owens draws in readers with provoking plot structure and content, making the novel undeniably addicting to read. Alongside the plot, Delia Owens’ gorgeous descriptions of the coastal wetlands in North Carolina make the book an aesthetically engaging read.
Set alternately in the 1950s and 1969, the book’s first time period is centered around the life of Kya Clark, a girl who lives alone in a secluded marsh. Infamously known as “Marsh Girl” in the neighboring town of Barkley Cove, Kya was left by her mother and physically-abusing father. Alone, Kya learns the ways of the marsh, finding friends in the flora and fauna of her surroundings. But she still feels lonely. On missions to secure gas and food, she befriends Jumpin’, an African-American man who owns a gas station off the coast of Barkley Cove. Jumpin’ often slips Kya food and clothes for her survival. Driving her father’s motorboat, she meets her first love, Tate Walker, who brings human interaction and love into Kya’s life. Kya is ecstatic and love-struck, until Tate moves away to college, leaving Kya alone. Broken by loneliness, Kya rebounds in a romance with a former high school football star, Chase Andrews. Taking advantage of Kya, Chase keeps his seemingly dishonorable relationship with the “Marsh Girl” a secret from his entitled peers.
Fast forward two years, and Chase Andrews, the alpha male of Barkley Cove, is found dead on the outskirts of town. As the town riles in disbelief, the town’s sheriff and detective set off to investigate Chase’s killer. In a classic whodunnit format, the law officials divulge clues, gather testimonies, and check alibis, all leading to the arrest and arraignment of one woman: Kya Clark. As the two plotlines converge, the book follows Kya’s criminal proceedings, captivating readers with the intriguing events of the murder case.
The author does a remarkable job of depicting the relationships Kya forms, particularly with Tate Walker and Jumpin’. Kya’s relationships are especially delightful because of the social bubble she had been in for the first ten years of her life. Drawn together by the loss of a mother, Kya and Tate bond over the love of nature. Tate teaches Kya to read, which solidifies their bond. Their relationship unearths simple but beautiful lines of dialogue depicting Kya’s appreciation for writing: “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.” The author uses Kya and Tate’s relationship to heighten Kya’s oneness with the marsh, now allowing Kya to express and document her experiences through writing and drawing.
Kya’s relationship with Jumpin’ represents a father-daughter relationship, as Jumpin’ assumes the role of Kya’s father figure when Kya was left by her real one. Owens draws on the beauty of a young white girl befriending an older black man. When both Jumpin’ and Kya are seen as outcasts in the eyes of Barkley Cove, the two are drawn together and dually experience life in the 1950s and 1960s. An especially heart-warming moment occurs after Kya gifts Jumpin’ with her first reference guide on marsh life: “And each time she came to his wharf, she saw her book propped up in the tiny window for all to see. As a father would have shown it.”
Another highlight of this book is the stunning descriptions of the marsh. By means of Delia Owens’ own experiences as a wildlife ecologist in Africa, the book truly allows the reader to appreciate outdoor scenery. Even as autumn approaches in the book, the author elegantly illustrates nature as a dynamic and intelligent entity: “Autumn was coming; the evergreens might not have noticed, but the sycamores did. They flashed thousands of golden leaves across slate-gray skies.” Additionally, throughout the book, the author details Kya’s unity with nature, both appreciating and caring for marsh life. Continually Kya is described as “Marsh Girl,” and truly this is an accurate description. Kya is unified with nature, allowing the author to describe her lifelong relationship with her surroundings. Kya’s life is defined by the marsh: “Kya waltzed to the music of katydids and leopard frogs.” Kya’s relationship with nature depicts the meaning of the book: relationships define one’s life. Through Kya’s accord with her surroundings, her life is molded by her experiences in these relationships.
I highly recommend this book. Even if right now people may be stuck in their homes, unable to go out and experience nature, readers can vicariously love nature through this book. Whether or not you currently appreciate your surroundings, readers of this book will develop a gratification for the nature around them, even if you’re unable to experience it yourself. As readers delve into this book, they will be drawn in by the mystery of who murdered Chase Andrews. After reading this book, readers will see their own connection with nature, and will develop a push to protect it.
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. Delia Owens. New York City: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018. 368 pp.
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Curing With Compassion:
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Sojourner Center in Phoenix does more than support thousands of women and children affected by domestic violence—it also refines the skills of advanced naturopathic medical students by exposing them to some of the Valley’s most physically and emotionally battered patients.
Wendy Dickerson (pictured right), ND, a recent graduate from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM), took on the role of naturopathic student clinician at Sojourner Center from January 2015 to April 2016. Sojourner houses one of eight community clinics funded by the SCNM Sage Foundation.
Wendy said a passion for community health fueled her excitement to start at the clinic, but she didn’t expect the level of personal and professional growth she would achieve through the experience.
“There is never a dull moment at Sojourner, with a wide variety of acute and chronic concerns being treated each day,” Wendy said. “I have gained experience [with] patient intakes, [particularly] when a woman’s past may be filled with abusers, drug use and emotional trauma. I have grown in my confidence in all aspects of patient interaction skills, and I have enjoyed forming relationships with my patients over time.”
During her time at Sojourner, Wendy used many aspects of naturopathic medicine to treat her patients, including acupuncture, homeopathy, botanical medicine, physical medicine, hydrotherapy, dietary counseling and nutritional supplementation, in addition to prescription writing, ordering labs and making referrals for specialists and imaging. Because the students and doctors work with limited supplies at the clinic, Wendy said she learned to think more creatively when choosing patient treatments, utilizing many therapeutic approaches she learned at SCNM.
It all pays off in the end, as women served at the clinic show their appreciation for the compassionate naturopathic care they receive, Wendy added.
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rose petals and obligations by anna vangala jones
Every year on the day Mina’s victim perished, Luke drove to the boy’s house and waited outside in his car until both parents left for work. Then he would go and slip an envelope of money under their front door.
Sometimes he wondered what the boy would have grown up to be. Who he would have become if Mina hadn’t snuffed out his flame before he’d had a chance for it to catch fire and really dance. It had only flickered before Mina whispered and extinguished it, like the small waxy candles on her birthday cakes each year.
At times, Luke’s wonderings got confused. His imagination wandered down paths that didn’t exist, twisting and bending reality, until the boy was his and Mina’s son that they’d lost. And then he grieved even harder than he’d ever grieved for him when he was just a helpless stranger who crossed their path by unforgiving coincidence. It became easier to forget this way that he and Mina had never actually had any children of their own or even gotten married, leaving them with no tangible links to tie them together after they parted ways. Only the invisible bonds of memories and disappointments.
“We don't deserve to have any children,” she said when their efforts at getting pregnant failed yet again. “Not after what we did.”
Then they thought of the boy’s parents together in agonizing silence, so thick they couldn't find each other through it. His hurt made no dent in her resolve. She just stared out the window, though with the curtains closed, she couldn't see outside.
Luke had held Mina close, eight years earlier, as they danced cheek to cheek on cobblestones under the streetlights on Montmartre. With him humming la vie en rose into her ear.
“You can hardly claim to be drunk on only one glass of wine,” he said as she swayed away from him afterward, her movements unsteady and hypnotic. He said the same thing three years later, the night they left their favorite restaurant, as they argued over who was sober enough to drive.
The sky was a rigid obsidian and the street winding through the woods that Mina preferred to the busy highway was quiet with no lights anywhere. When their car thudded, rough and violent, they both breathed, "deer", before continuing home, shaken.
It wasn't until they saw the boy on the news in daylight-- he'd been getting high with his friends in the woods and ambled over to the road to get better service on his cell-- that the fear of possibilities gripped them and wouldn't let go.
The boy glided through each room of their small yellow and white house, caressing their skin with shivers on the off chance they'd forgotten him. He speckled Luke’s strawberry blonde hair with silver. He drew lines and pressed creases into Mina’s face, one for each year he'd been dead. The boy watched as the silence between Luke and Mina billowed and rippled like strong trees with weak branches in merciless winds, littering the ground with leaves too tired and dry to fight anymore.
The day finally came when Mina said she was going to turn herself in. “Just sleep on it,” Luke pleaded with her. So she did. And in the morning, they didn't go to the police station together. He went through his usual getting ready routine and drove to work. She, on the other hand, packed her clothes and books into a suitcase, and left forever.
Haunted as they’d been, the world had still managed to drizzle rose petals every so often. Thick as satin, airy as silk. Luke never sang to Mina again, but the tune lingered in their heads anyway. But after she left him and the obligation to protect her and her guilt had long since atrophied, the sky was flowerless.
One morning, as Luke sat in his Chevy outside the boy’s home, quite unsure if his parents still even lived there or if he’d been financing another set of strangers all these years, he thought he saw Mina’s head of wild curls across the street and her brown eyes staring straight ahead. He didn’t go check to be certain. He preferred to imagine her there, sitting in a car like his, nursing a debt that could never be repaid.
Anna Vangala Jones’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Kartika Review, Fiction Southeast, The Airgonaut, and The Fem, among others. Her stories have earned honorable mention at Glimmer Train and placed as finalist and semi-finalist at Gigantic Sequins, American Short Fiction, and Ruminate. She will be pursuing her MFA in Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles. Visit her online at annavangalajones.wordpress.com and find her on Twitter @anniejo_17.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Eighth Blackbird’s Hand Eye
Posted on July 4, 2016 by maestrobeats
Six composers. Six instrumentalists. Six works of art. Six brand new musical compositions. One evening-length adventure into the exquisite power of art and music.
Hand Eye is a collection inspired by a collection. Recorded by the four-time Grammy Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird, the album is comprised of six new pieces, each composed by a member of the Sleeping Giant musical collective—and each based on a work of visual art featured in the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art.
In fact, listening through the album is a lot like walking through a museum: each piece its own extraordinary work of art, each with its own distinct colors, creative spark, and inspiration. Perhaps one work’s use of texture catches your eye—or another work’s subject matter, size, shape, or color palette.
Likewise, for Hand Eye some of the composers chose to recreate their chosen artwork aurally, while others responded more broadly to the work’s subject matter, character, themes, or artistic process. And to help bring to life this incredible variance of color, content, and artistic media, each piece on the album highlights the unique talents and timbre of a single instrument from the ensemble.
The album begins with a work by Timo Andres titled “Checkered Shade.” Based on the patterned pen-and-ink abstractions of artist Astrid Bowlby, the piece is a labyrinth of tangled strings and circling woodwinds. Gradually the persistent rhythms and aggressive bowings zoom outward until the lines begin to blur, and the black and white turn to softer, slower, and ever-varied shades of grey.
“9.8.08 (Varigated Spirals)” by Astrid Bowlby
Andrew Norman’s “Mine, Mime, Meme” explores a different type of musical maze. It was inspired by rAndom International’s installation piece Audience, a modern-day fun house of sorts in which a field of mirrors rotate to follow the movements of any viewer who walks in their midst. In Norman’s musical interpretation, the cellist becomes the equivalent of that viewer. The other five instruments mimic the cello’s musical gestures, innocently enough at first—but as the music progresses, the followers get better and better at predicting the cellist’s next move, eventually consuming him altogether.
“Audience” by rAndom International
Man and machine is the main theme of the next piece, Robert Honstein’s “Conduit.” The piece takes its cue from an interactive sculpture by digital artists Zigelbaum and Coelho titled Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, in which the human body merges with computational process. Honstein recreates this synthesis sonically through bold waves of sounds and electric bursts of color that transport you straight into the computer itself.
“Six-Forty by Four-Eighty” by Zigelbaum + Coelho
Another interactive light sculpture provides the basis for the next piece on the album: Christopher Cerrone’s “South Catalina.” Inspired by rAndom International’s Swarm, an art installation which responds to sounds with a blast of delicately asynchronous lights, Cerrone’s composition features gentle illuminations of sound which twinkle like wind chimes in response to the piano’s heavy steps.
“Swarm Light” by rAndom International
Ted Hearne’s contribution to the album, “By-By Huey,” takes as its basis Robert Arneson’s chilling painting of the same name. It’s a portrait of Tyrone “Double R” Robinson, a member of the Black Guerilla Family who murdered Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, in 1989. Like Arneson’s painting, Hearne’s piece is meant to memorialize the self-destructive: jazzy piano motives snarl and growl restlessly forward as the rest of the instruments are forced to follow or be left behind.
“By-By Huey” by Robert Arneson
A frenzied interlude transitions into the final piece of the album, Jacob Cooper’s “Cast.” Drawing inspiration from Leonardo Drew’s paper casts of everyday objects, Cooper’s composition creates “sonic casts” of individual instrumental gestures—gradually removing the melodic gestures themselves to leave only the empty casts that surrounded them.
“Number 94” by Leonardo Drew
True, paper casts are a pretty far way from the pen-and-ink abstractions that began the album (though perhaps even farther from the interactive light installations at the center of it), and yet the album feels wholly unified by the precision, momentum, and bold musicality of Eighth Blackbird. Stylistically, each piece stands confidently on its own—but together as an album, the pieces illuminate the endless possibilities when art and music collide.
And as you exit the gallery in stillness and silence, you begin to listen to art in quite a different way than you ever have before.
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Songs From Purgatory
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The material embodied on Songs From Purgatory was recorded in vans, dank basements and tiny apartments in Grand Forks & Fargo, North Dakota using crappy microphones on an even crappier 4-track machine. This body of work showcases a songwriting and producing talent that perhaps was only commercially held back by its medium - one which he initially embraced as a matter of necessity, but eventually grew to deliberately embrace with the zeal of a lo-fi revolutionary. According to June, "Over time, I came to appreciate the sounds I was getting, and it dawned on me that recording in an expensive studio is not somehow inherently superior to 'lo-fi' recordings - it is simply a different medium." Originally released as cassette-only albums on his own label 3 Out Of 4 Records, June's master tapes were almost destroyed in the Great Flood of 1997 that consumed Grand Forks. Over 200 master tapes sat submerged under the murky Red River water for several days in his parents' basement until saved through a painstaking cleansing process that is hilariously documented in the liner notes to this collection. Brought into this world by June, taken out by the Flood, then brought back by June, these songs have been re-mastered by the able hands of the iconic KRAMER.
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Kids Using Burt’s Bees on Eyelids to Get High?
Rumor: Kids are rubbing Burt's Bees lip balm on their eyelids to get high.
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Kids are rubbing Burt's Bees lip balm on their eyelids to get high.
A popular lip balm has become part of a viral trend called "beezin.'" You won't believe how teens use this lip balm to get high.
Collected via Facebook, March 2015
On 19 March 2015, a Richmond-area ABC affiliate TV station published an article warning about a purported teen trend known as “Beezin'” in which kids rub peppermint-flavored Burt’s Bees brand lip balm onto their eyelids in pursuit of a stealthy way of getting high. The rumor involving Burt’s Bees lip balm was not new at the time the article appeared, previously having been circulated online and in the news media in April 2014 and January 2013.
The 19 March 2015 article did not explain why the supposed Beezin’ trend suddenly warranted additional parental concern. Moreover, the article paradoxically noted that it isn’t actually possible to get high by rubbing peppermint lip balm on your eyelids (thereby mostly negating any concern that such a practice was common or worth worrying much about):
Dr. Mary Romano at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital says beezin’ could lead to health risks like inflammation of the eye, swelling, and other symptoms similar to pink eye.
She said it’s not only dangerous but pointless since there is no active ingredient in the balm that could actually get someone high.
“Getting high means you create an effect on your brain where dopamine is released, which creates a pleasurable experience feeling,” Dr. Romano explained. “That’s what happens when you use drugs and that’s why they become addictive, so you’re absolutely not getting high.”
Mention of Beezin’ first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2010, but a video published to YouTube (some language is explicit) in January 2013 likely advanced the spread of the rumor online:
The clip in question clearly revealed at its conclusion that the claim about beezin’ was intended to be both preposterous and satirical. Although articles published since the release of the video have warned of the dangers of teenagers’ rubbing Burt’s Bees lip balm on their eyelids, no evidence has since been produced suggesting anyone has actually done so, much less that it’s either a common or widespread practice. The Beezin’ rumor bears strong resemblance to other apocryphal warnings about worrisome teen behaviors, such as smoking bedbugs, to get high, inserting vodka-soaked tampons to get drunk furtively, or signaling their sexual availability with rainbow bracelets.
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Ramdass, Nadia. “Beezin’: Popular Lip Balm Being Used by Teens to Get High.”
WRIC [Richmond]. 19 March 2015.
Hathaway, Jay. “Teens Supposedly Get High by Putting Burt’s Bees on Their Eyelids.”
Gawker. 24 April 2014.
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Home » RACE ETHNICITY » Racial Classifications and the Meaning of Race
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Racial Classifications and the Meaning of Race
If we examine racial classifications throughout history. we find that in ancient Greece and Rome a person's race was the group to which she or he belonged. associated with an ancestral place arid culture. Feom the Middle Ages until about the eighteenth century. a person's race was based on family and ancestral ties. in the sense of a line, to a national group. During the e eighteenth century. physical differences such as the darker skin hues of Africans became associated with race, but racial divisions were typicaLly based on differences in religion and cultural tradition rather than on human biology. With the intense (though misguided) efforts that surrounded the attempt to justify black slavery and white dominance in all areas of life during the second half of the nineteenth century. races came to be defined as distinct biological categories of people who were not all members of the same fanlily but who shared inherited inherited physical and cultural traits that were alleged to be different from those traits shared by people in other races. Hierarchies of races were established: placing the "white race" at the top. the "black race" at the bottorn, and others in between. However, racial classifications in the United States have changed over the past century. If we look at U.S. Census Bur eau classifications, for example, we can see how the meaning of race continues to change. First. race is defined by perceived skin color: white or non- :;; white. Whereas one category exists for "whites" (who ivary considerably in ac ual skin color and physical api pearance), all of the remaining categories are considjered "nonwhite." j( Second, racial purity is assumed to exist. Prior to the g 2000 census. for example, the true diversity of the u.s. population was not revealed in census data because multiracial individuals were forced to either select a single race as being their "race" or to select the vague category of "other:' Professional golfer Tiger Woods is an example of how people often have a-mixed racial heritage. Woods describes himself as one-half Asian American (one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese), one-eighth white, one-eighth Native American. and one-fourth African American (White, 1997). Census 2000 made it possible=for the first time-for individuals to classify themselves as being of more than one race (see "Census Profiles: Percentage Distribution of Persons Reporting Two or More Races"). Third, categories of official racial classifications may (over time) create a sense of group membership or "consciousness of kind" for people within a somewhat arbitrary classification. When people of European descent were classified as "white: some began to see themselves as different geom "non whita" Consequently, Jewish. Italian, and Irish immigrants may have felt more a part of the Northern European white mainstream in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Whether Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans. Korean Americans, and Filipino Americans come to think of themselves collectively as "Asian . Americans" because of official classifications remains to be seen. In the future. increasing numbers of children in the United States will be likely to have a mixed racial or ethnic heritage such as this student describes:
I am part French, part, part Filipino. and part black. Our family taught us to be aware of all these groups, and just to be ourselves. But I nave never known what I am. People have asked if I am a Gypsy. or a Portuguese. or a Mexican. or lots of other things. It seems to make people curious. uneasy. and sometimes belligerent, Students I don't even know stop me on campus and ask. "What are you anyway?
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Boys basketball: Shelton falls to Southington High
Evan Azary to play lacrosse at King’s College
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Tom O'Reilly
Dec. 27, 2017 Updated: June 7, 2019 8:19 a.m.
A hot start for the Shelton High boys basketball team quickly turned as cold as the frigid weather outside in a 67-57 loss to Southington on Wednesday night in the first round of the Shelton Holiday Tournament at Murray Gymnasium.
Coupled with a 77-56 loss at North Haven on Saturday, the Gaels fell to 0-3 on the season.
Shelton will look to earn its first win on Friday when it hosts Achievement First High School at 5 p.m. in the consolation game of the tournament. Achievement First was beaten 79-33 by New Canaan in a first round game on Wednesday.
The Gaels got off to a quick start Wednesday night, attacking Southington’s man-to-man defense behind senior point guard Kyle Davis.
Davis scored 10 of his career-high 17 in the first quarter, including a pair of free throws with 30 seconds left, to give Shelton a 22-19 lead heading into the second quarter.
But the Blue Knights (2-1) switched to a zone defense in the second frame, and Shelton struggled to get much going offensively.
“When they played man, we were able to get to the basket at will,” said Shelton coach Brian Gardiner. “Once they went zone, it takes us back.”
The Gaels also started to regularly get outrebounded by Southington on the defensive end.
“We couldn’t get a clean rebound,” said Gardiner. “They kept getting second and third chances. If we can’t get a clean rebound, it’s hard to get up the floor.”
All told, Southington went on a 28-8 run over about 11 minutes to take a 47-30 lead midway through the third quarter.
“We’re just making a lot of mistakes, especially on the defensive end,” said Gardiner of his team. “What that does is carries over to sluggishness on the offensive end.”
The Gaels battled back to make things interesting, getting to within seven points four times in the fourth quarter.
The first happened with 6:12 left in the game.
Brian Berritto (9 points) blocked a shot, grabbed the rebound and eventually set up Davis for a trey to make it 56-49 with 6:12 remaining.
But the Blue Knights had an answer to that as well as the next three times Shelton got within seven to hold the Gaels at bay.
The final time Shelton got within seven was with 1:52 left when Berritto made a steal, fed Brian Belade on the break who dished it back to Berritto for an easy lay-up.
But Southington’s Andrew Lohneiss capped his 20-point performance with a breakaway lay-up and slam dunk over a span of 35 seconds to push the Blue Knight advantage back to double digits.
Peri Basimakopoulos led the way offensively for Shelton with 20 points, including three 3-pointers.
The Gaels shot a solid 45 percent from the field, but allowed Southington to not only shoot 48 percent but also take 14 more shots than Shelton due largely to second and third chances.
Gardiner will be looking for his Gaels to pump up the intensity when they play Achievement First, a relatively new charter school located in Hartford, on Friday.
Said Gardiner, “The guys have to bring a little more tenacity to what they are doing on the floor, a little more sense of urgency.”
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Fort Point – A photographer’s dream!
Last checked: Dec 14th, 2020 | By: Andrea Griffin
Fort Point is a luscious historic site and a spot I love because of its incredible variety of textures, shapes and colors, providing for some fantastic photos! The late afternoon light that streams through the masonry structure of Fort Point creates such a beautiful, warm glow.
Fort Point, a National Historic Site, is no doubt in the guidebooks due to its history and incredible view of the Golden Gate Bridge. For me however, capturing the light and shadows in my photographs while walking through the brick arches or the inside the powder magazine – where barrels of cannon powder are stored – is my favorite thing to do at Fort Point. Many people head straight to the top to see the Golden Gate Bridge and miss these other really cool areas.
Another bonus to exploring Fort Point is watching the surfers riding the waves directly under the bridge. There’s a cutout section of wall in a spot on the level just below the top of Fort Point where I like to aim my camera to catch the underside of the bridge and the surfers below in the same shot. Fort Point really is a magical place and a photographer’s dream!
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The Most Important Ingredient to the High-Performance Team
Becky Morehouse
High-Performance teams are about recognizing the importance of teams in organizational success. Let’s take a quick look at the single most important characteristic of a high-performance team.
Over the years I’ve worked with hundreds of teams at different colleges and universities. What sets the high-performance teams apart from the rest is not talent, big budgets, or a great leader.
What sets high-performance teams apart from the rest is a shared purpose. Without a shared purpose, all those other qualities will never meld and catalyze. Their potential will remain untapped.
The idea of a shared sense of purpose has two important dimensions.
Let’s look at the second word in that phrase first: purpose.
High performance team members must be individually attracted to the goal. It must be worthy of their attention, it must be worthy of their talents, and must be clear. Importantly, each team member must immediately sense how their individual contribution will impact overall success.
Many credible leaders understand that the nature of the goal dictates who should be on the team. In response, they assemble the team after the goal is identified. This allows the leader to vet potential team members for talent and temperament a priori.
The second word, “shared” is equally important. Not only does everyone understand the purpose, but everyone on the team must commit to both the shared purpose and to other members of the team.
The benefits of shared purpose are almost too numerous to mention.
There will be less confusion about the team’s purpose. Valuable time and momentum will be saved.
There will be greater team identity and less self-identity. This is as rare in organizations as it is precious.
Turf and silos will disappear as there is less competition and more genuine cooperation. This means all resources will stretch further.
Information is shared rather than hoarded. As a result, trust will increase.
Finally, and this one is tremendously important, honest debate will increase even as destructive, often tangential, conflict is reduced.
Most teams call this shared purpose a “vision.” While this term is well-understood and well-used, there is another that I have found to be very useful: North Star.
In many senses the high-performance team’s shared purpose, like the North Star, is a navigational aid. It keeps you on course. It tells you where you are on the journey. And perhaps most importantly, it tells you when you’ve arrived.
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Ethical Manufacturing in Apparel
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Ethical manufacturing takes a holistic approach to the manufacturing process and focuses on sustainable processes throughout the life cycle of a product and its facets. Ethical businesses as a general rule, look into the care and green practices of every part and process of the company or brand, from the human element to the production, logistics, and even the customer. The mandate for ‘Ethical Manufacturing’ is an integral part of Star’s overall business process and trickles down to every person, place, and product.
The apparel industry in Sri Lanka, even in a world suffering from the effects of Covid-19, is still one of the world’s leading destinations for ‘Ethical Business and Manufacturing Practices’ for several reasons. Sri Lanka as a destination creates excellence and provides exceptional solutions to global brands. The industry is powered by titans such as Star, a subsidiary of American-based – Komar Brands.
Ensuring that all aspects of production are safe and conducted through a sustainable process, companies such as Star work to ensure maximum efficiency in production, reducing the strain on resources, and personnel. In addition, ethical businesses enforce safety procedures that care for the best health, well-being, and progression of workers in addition to legal requirements. Following in the footsteps of Star, many newer entrants have improved their safety and sustainability standards at work noticing the benefits of increased productivity.
Ethical People
Workers in an ethical business aim to create procedures and protocols that create standardization across the board and aim to ensure the fair treatment of all members which results in balanced work hours, appropriate compensation, and protection against injury. These companies, such as Star understand the importance of safety and well-being for all members.
Ethical Energy
An ethical business ensures all parts of its product production cycle is energy efficient with sustainability goals met at every turn. Star introduced South Asia’s first passive house, located in Sri Lanka as its Innovation Center in 2017.
As a building with thermal comfort guaranteed through reheating fresh air flow, responsible for sufficient air quality without additional recirculation; special insulation materials have been used to prevent heat gain within the building. Ethical Energy a.k.a sustainable manufacturing is practiced at Star for the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. This process promotes minimizing or eliminating production and processing waste through eco-efficient practices and encourages adopting new environmental technologies. Ethical businesses go beyond the basic legal restrictions to minimize their production of waste and emission as much as possible.
Ethical businesses strive to produce and ensure their products do not affect the health of their customers nor the safety of the environment. The journey to producing such safe products involves stringent testing to eliminate harmful contaminants or effects.
In the last decade, in particular, with Gen Y (Millennials) and Z (Zoomers), market trends have shifted to value ethical businesses, whether small enterprises or large corporates – where employee management, product testing, locational production, and environmental protection takes foremost priority. Ethical Business practices have taken a new form of popularity in almost every industry.
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Carl & Susan promoted
One of the things I love most about my job is helping people fulfil their potential and watching them grow, it gives me great pleasure to announce two more promotions at Signify.
Congratulations firstly to Susan Barrance who was promoted from a Talent Sourcer to a Consultant this month. Susan joined Signify back in August, she has truly excelled as a Tech recruiter and developed a great understanding of the Scala market. Susan is super hard working, determined to succeed, has become a key part of the team and has a great sense of humour. Some of my personal highlights are seeing Susan place her first Scala Developer within 8 days of joining the team, placing candidates with three different companies across the UK and Germany, becoming a Scala expert, bringing on her first client in Holland and being an integral part of the Signify Family. Susan has surpassed all of our expectations and has achieved so much in a short space of time and now holds a several company records.
The second promotion is for Carl Woodbridge who was promoted from a Consultant to a Senior Consultant. Carl joined us a few months after we founded Signify back in September 2016 and wow what a journey he has had so far. Carl has grown so much not just as a tech recruiter but as a person too, it’s been unbelievable to watch what he has achieved by working hard, showing determination, changing his mindset to be more positive and optimistic and listening to all of the advice around him. Carl has very much become Mr Poland as he has been building out Signify’s presence in Poland, over the last 12 months Carl has been promoted twice, achieved all of his personal goals, placed candidates in four Countries with nine different clients and has represented Signify at Scala Wave in Poland and Scale by the Bay in San Francisco. Carl has been one of the most consistent performers and I am so proud of him and everything he has achieved. Carl is also known for his bad jokes in the office and his Hockey skills before life in recruitment.
Congrats to Carl and Susan for their amazing performances, keep up the good work and we look forward too many more years of success with the Signify family.
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Sisense Earns ‘Honorable Mention’ in 2017 Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Award for Business Intelligence and Analytics
The Peer Insights Customer Choice Award in the BI and Analytics Market honors vendors whose customers love their products, as rated by the customers themselves
New York – Sisense, disrupting the BI market by simplifying business analytics for complex data, has received an honorable mention in the Gartner Peers Insights Customer Choice Award for 2017 for Business Intelligence and Analytics.
The award shows which vendor products are most valued by customers in this market. The designation of Honorable Mention is awarded to vendors with an average score of four out of five stars in 50 or more client reviews published during the submission period.
Sisense focuses on the success of its clients, helping them unlock actionable insights from complex data. We believe the Gartner Customer Choice Award measures this real-world impact as reported directly by our clients, so we are proud to be recognized as a top performer for business intelligence and analytics.
Guy Levy-Yurista, PhD., Sisense Head of Product
Sisense is committed to driving 100% customer satisfaction, and to disrupting the BI industry with radical innovation and product ease of use — even for nontechnical users. Customer reviews for the Gartner Peer Insights cited:
Great team to work with – helped us to get up and running efficiently. Their architecture increases the trust in the platform, knowing there is less risk of getting the wrong numbers.
Full review.
Our internal business analysts and data architects were able to work collaboratively with Sisense remotely and we had a great engagement with their staff in terms of getting quickly set up, users provisioned, and data connections established. Very easy integration into our current processes and environment since it’s a SaaS based application.
The software is very user friendly and provides a lot of really cool features to display analytics effectively.
Based on 190 Gartner Peer Insight customer reviews, Sisense earned a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. Winners and honorable mentions were selected by IT Professionals and end users who have experience purchasing, implementing, and/or using the Enterprise Solution.
Announcing the Peer Insight Customer Choice Awards, Gartner stated, “Business users are driving the need for new capabilities by demanding access to analysis and insights from advanced analytics, while IT wants to deliver on this demand from business users for data discovery capabilities, but without sacrificing governance.”*
To view Sisense’s Gartner Peer Insights profile and reviews, please visit: https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/business-intelligence-analytics-platforms/vendor/sisense.
*Gartner press release, Gartner Announces Winners of the Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards for Business Intelligence and Analytics, October 11, 2017.http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3814763.
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2018 Open Championship – How Will Carnoustie Play?
Steve Schirmer
Golf’s oldest major championship returns to Carnoustie for the first time since 2007 and is ready to live up to its name as one of the world’s hardest golf courses. I don’t make that claim lightly. I could lazily make this statement based on a few google searches on “world’s toughest golf course”, see Carnoustie on nearly everyone’s list and hope you all find me credible enough to just take my word for it.
But when mapping out the course on Google Earth, over and over I kept thinking to myself “holy s**t, this course really is is f***ing hard”.
There’s so many ways Carnoustie can fluster the most talented golfers in the world. For one, the course is completely exposed to the elements and offers no protection from the winds. And when the winds get up, the course can be nearly unplayable. We saw that in 1999 where winds were 15-30 MPH all week, causing the cut line to be +12 and yield a winning score of +6 (and allegedly send Sergio Garcia back home to sob in his mothers arms).
The layout of the golf course also isn’t the traditional “out-to-in” style like at most Scottish Links courses such as St. Andrews and Royal Troon. At those tracks, the golfers see fairly consistent wind directions for most of the front nine as the holes are laid out in the same directional track, before turning around and heading in at the opposite wind direction back to the clubhouse. At Carnoustie, there is more of a variety of tee-to-green directional layout, meaning the golfers will have the challenge of trying to gauge the wind from different directions hole to hole (including dreaded crosswinds). This will up the difficulty should the winds pick up.
But even when the winds aren’t much of a factor, the architecture of the golf course can force many tough decisions. For example, let’s take a look at some of the strategy on the 358 yard 3rd hole:
The wind direction might make the decision easy for most players – when the prevailing winds are coming out of the SE/ESE, attempting a 316 yard shot over the burn is reckless. But if the wind is coming out of the SW (like what’s supposedly in the forecast for Thursday through Saturday), several golfers are going to be very tempted to take on the burn in front of the green.
But even the so-called “safe shot” is no bargain either. Most players who take an iron off the tee will need to carry or navigate around the far bunker up the right side 250 yards out (no easy task for the shorter hitters). Even if they play it away from the bunkers, they’ll flirt with the burn that borders the left side of the fairway if the ball comes off a bit hot off the turf.
Several holes on the golf course are like this. There’s truly no safe shot. Every shot, whether they go for glory or lay up, carries a material degree of risk. This year’s Open will not only be a test of skill but of mental fortitude (which is exactly how Carnoustie likes it).
For a gambler, it’s very important to critically evaluate the golf course and how it will play before putting down any bets. And if the major has been played at the course recently, it makes it much easier to gauge the keys to success. Unfortunately, neither tournament that was played in 1999 and 2007 will resemble anything like how the 2018 Open Championship will play.
As mentioned previously, the winds in 1999 were absolutely brutal and the golf course saw quite a bit of rain in the weeks leading up to the tournament. In 2007, the wind wasn’t quite as blustery until the final round and yielded lower scores, but wet conditions yet again allowed for Carnoustie’s famous rough to flourish and punish anyone who couldn’t find the short grass off the tee or on their approach.
The year’s edition will play completely different. Scotland has famously seen an unprecedented heat wave and drought over the last two months. If we played a drinking game where anytime someone mentioned “baked out” on the telecast, you probably would have a tough time making it to the afternoon wave of the Thursday coverage. The conditions have browned out the fairways and turned them into concrete, meaning the golf ball will roll out much farther than usual. Want proof? Either the 135th ranked golfer on the PGA Tour in driving distance drove the ball on 18 down an airport runway or he’s been hanging out with Roger Clemens lately:
https://twitter.com/BrandtSnedeker/status/1018192385849864195
Because the ball will roll out so far, though, we probably won’t be seeing guys hit driver a whole lot this week. Most players should be content hitting fairway metals or long irons off the tee in order to keep the ball in play and avoid the over 100 bunkers on the property and the rough. Here’s Henrik Stenson talking with YouTube instructional coach Rick Shiels on what he expects the players to do this week at Carnoustie:
.@RickShielsPGA caught up with 2016 Champion Golfer @henrikstenson to get his thoughts on the course ahead of The 147th Open at Carnoustie ⛳️#TheOpen pic.twitter.com/UH2SrAR0wj
— The Open (@TheOpen) July 16, 2018
On this week’s ShackHouse Podcast, Geoff Shackelford alluded that Rory McIlroy was thinking about going against the grain and try to bomb and gouge Carnoustie. There is a bit of logic to this – the famously thick rough at Carnoustie shouldn’t have nearly as many teeth as normal because of the lack of moisture over the last few months. We kind of saw this at Hoylake in 2014 when he boat raced the field. Hoylake featured whispy, thin rough like Carnoustie will have this week, and that allowed Rory to hit his favorite club, the driver, on most holes. Even if he sprayed it a bit, he was able to get good contact on the golf ball out of the rough. His irons were so locked in during the summer of 2014 that he piled on birdie after birdie on his way to capturing the Claret Jug.
I’m not a proponent of this strategy this week. For one, the super dry conditions are going to cause the ball to roll out even on errant shots into the rough. Sending a drive out into the rough without a care in the world might lead to some incredibly unfortunate bounces and give him some very awkward approaches and angles into the green for his second. Plus, clubbing down will still yield 300+ yard shots off the tee and dramatically shorten up the golf course. It’s better to have a full swing iron off the fairway than a shorter, awkward distance from a less than ideal lie.
An interesting wrinkle at Carnoustie will be the contrast of speeds between the fairways and greens. While the fairways and areas around the green will be lightning fast and bouncy, the greens have been well maintained and watered and will run very slow. Carnoustie typically likes to keep its green speeds between 10 and 11 on the stimpmeter, which is much slower than most majors normally run. But even with the slow greens, the lack of moisture still firmed up the surfaces and will make it difficult for the golfers to get much spin to hold greens.
Knowing all of this, here are some of the areas gamblers should focus their attention on when trying to pick contenders and pretenders at this week’s Open Championship:
Overall Ball-Striking: Over the last five years, the average ranking in Strokes Gained Tee-To-Green of players in the Top 10 was 46.4 and a median of 33. This statistic sometimes doesn’t include prolific ball-strikers like Henrik Stenson or Lee Westwood, who’ve seen a tremendous amount of success at Open Championships over the last five years but hadn’t accumulated enough rounds on the PGA Tour to qualify. Like the U.S. Open, the Open Championship rewards consistency, patience, and the ability to avoid trouble while also rewarding the best ball-strikers in the world with strong finishes. Therefore, Strokes Gained Tee-To-Green should be used in all gambler’s consideration this week.
Off The Tee: There will be spots this week where players will be tempted to pull driver (especially when the wind is in their favor). However, most players will probably settle for an iron off the tee and letting the firm turf do the rest of the work. Because of the fast conditions of the fairways, though, distance control will be key to avoid letting the ball run out into the burn or through the fairway into a bunker.
If the ball does run out into the rough, however, it won’t be nearly as penalizing as years past. To assess prowess off the tee, you could use Strokes Gained Off-The-Tee as a metric, but that statistic primarily measures performance with the driver. This week should make that metric a bit meaningless. While I won’t completely ignore off-the-tee statistics if someone is struggling in that area, I won’t be using it to make a case for anyone either. If anything, gamblers may need to do a bit of digging on which golfers are more comfortable and prolific using driving irons off the tee.
Approach Shots: The ability to have distance control on approach shots through tough winds is most often the best defining characteristic of what it takes to be successful at the Open Championship. So Strokes Gained on Approach will be a key statistic to look at as well. But with most golfers being able to far surpass their normal driving average off the tee, it should significantly shorten up 7,400-yard track.
It might be beneficial then to try and hone down on the possible ranges of approach shots to better identify stronger players in those areas. Most successful golfers this week should be able to hit the ball out at minimum 300 yards with roll (assuming they keep it in the fairway) even if they just take an iron off the tee. That should make most approach shots into the greens under 150 yards (with a few holes under 100 yards and in). Because of that, I’ll try and focus on golfers who typically score well with wedges and high lofted irons from 150 yards and in.
Around The Green: This is an area I tend not to focus a lot of attention on. When looking back at most tournament’s history, I seldom find a strong correlation between success or failure in scrambling and tournament performance. This week, however, I expect to scramble to be a vital part of success at Carnoustie. For one, it’ll be very difficult to hold greens with how firm and bumpy they will be.
Not only will it be difficult to get enough spin on a golf ball to hold it, but one wrong bounce could send it careening well off into a collection or waste area. And depending on how hard the winds blow, it will present quite a challenge for the golfer to keep their approach on the proper line. I’m going to put a greater emphasis on performance around the green in my analysis this week. Not only will I look at Strokes Gained Around the Green, but I’ll also look at scrambling % from the bunkers and in “other areas” (normally defined as from the fairway or non-fringe tight lies). Placing a larger emphasis on scrambling statistics also will help on holes where golfers have no more than 50 yards into the green for their second.
Putting: The general rule about putting is this – on faster surfaces, it levels the playing field and makes it more difficult for all (meaning it reduces the variance between poor putters and good putters). On slower surfaces, however, better putters tend to rise to the top and have an advantage over weaker putters. Though the R&A may try and speed up the greens through the week, they should still run on the slower side. Therefore, putting performance should be taken into account on identifying contenders.
Weather: If you’re betting on The Open and not looking at the weather reports, then you’re setting yourself up for failure. The weather in Scotland is so volatile and if a golfer happens to be on the wrong side of the draw on Thursday and Friday, their tournament may be over before it started (Adam Scott at Hoylake in 2014 is violently nodding in agreement). Here’s how the weather sets up for Thursday and Friday:
Thursday AM: Sunny, 60 Degrees, Winds WNW 7-12 MPH shifting to WSW 10-20 MPH
Thursday PM: Progressively cloudy through the day, 65 degrees, Winds SW 12-20 MPH
Friday AM: Slight chance of showers, 60 degrees, Winds SW 10-20 MPH
Friday PM: Cloudy, 64 degrees, Winds 10-18 MPH, slightly subsiding early evening.
If anything, guys who go out very early on Thursday have a slight edge to put up a good score before the winds pick up through the day and make the course much tougher. Once we hit about 10:30-11 AM BST, the conditions should be the same for pretty much everyone the rest of the day. On Friday it looks like everyone will face the same conditions with a slight chance someone teeing off late could post a nice score on the Back Nine (though they’d have to do it on the toughest part of the golf course in holes 15-18). Therefore, I’m slightly leaning on favoring guys on the Thursday AM/Friday PM draw to get off to good starts, but because the advantage isn’t that strong I’ll primarily be using it to break ties between two players.
Coming up tomorrow – picks to win the 2018 Open Championship, my favorite props and head-to-head matchups of the week.
Golf and NASCAR analyst for SportsGamblingPodcast.com. Co-Host of the Golf Gambling Podcast on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network. Hit him up on the SGP Slack Channel at SportsGamblingPodcast.com/Slack
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Snowstorm, cheater can't slow down WWSP 90FM Trivia in Stevens Point
STEVENS POINT - As a historic April snowstorm pummeled central and northern Wisconsin this weekend, the World’s Largest Trivia Contest in Stevens Point prevailed after some changes and hiccups, including the catching of one cheater.
WWSP 90FM held Trivia Rush of 49 from Friday through Sunday in Stevens Point just as a snowstorm settled in across the area, which forced organizers to cancel traveling questions and award presentations.
Unrelated to the snowstorm, organizers caught someone cheating Sunday afternoon.
Jim "Oz" Oliva said in all his years of hosting the contest, this was just the second time someone was caught cheating.
The person had been volunteering to answer phones for the contest, and whenever a new question would come on the air, he would fill out an answer form with his team’s ID and mark that they got the answer right, Oliva said.
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Oliva, chairman of the contest, didn’t say how organizers caught the person, other than it took about 45 minutes to find the suspected cheater once they suspected something strange was going on.
He said it was one person and not a coordinated effort. However, the rules are if a single person cheats, the whole team’s out. The team’s disqualification was announced live on air.
“The team was extremely apologetic,” Oliva said.
Overall, Oliva said the event turned out well despite the massive amount of snow dropped on the area that caused cancellations of some critical Trivia events. Oliva said he had never seen snow like this during a Trivia weekend.
Oliva said he heard from some participants that it was a weekend to remember — the historic snowfall caused some forced team bonding because many teams were trapped inside together.
This story will be updated with the list of winners once they’re made available online today.
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WindowsMaster
B2B platform for enhanced brand identity and sales growth.
Great client collaborations become even greater and more meaningful when we are fortunate to work with organizations like WindowMaster.
Client: WindowMaster.
Case: New corporate website - https://www.windowmaster.com/
Industry: Cleantech/Building Materials
Launch: August 14, 2020
Technologies: Umbraco 8, Multi language, Personalized customer user login, PIM and Tag-manager.
WindowMaster delivers products that make a real, positive impact in our society. A Danish company and a global leader within indoor climate solutions, that helps the construction industry meet their sustainability goals. At Strømlin, we value the opportunity to work with ambitious organizations like WindowMaster, which has a clear purpose and strives to create value for all stakeholders. This is when great client collaborations become even greater and more meaningful to us at Strømlin.
In this video Laura Starkey, Head of Digital Marketing at WindowMaster, shares her experience of the journey together with Strømlin.
WindowMaster is a technology savvy organization. They were in search of a technology developer and strategic partner who could help them build much more than just a pretty, new website. The ambition was to build an industry-leading digital communication platform. It had to be the key facilitator to enhance their brand identity and deliver growth in sales across Scandinavia and international markets.
As a brand, WindowMaster, wanted to strengthen their position as a climate conscious company, not only in their own production and operations, but also to help customers meet their sustainability goals. In a sales context, the ambition was to drive significant growth in new sales leads through their new WindowMaster.com website. Due to client confidentiality we cannot share by which factor WindowMaster expects to grow sales, but it is bold and if announced, it would leave competitors shaking in their boots.
Our colleagues at the design agency 1508 were responsible for delivering the design, which provides an aesthetic user experience with the highest level of usability. Once the foundation with the design guide and user insights had been established, Strømlin took the lead as technology development partner.
It was clear that WindowMaster wanted to move from what was a basic website solution to a platform as a dynamic digital tool. With open and very technology savvy minds, the WindowMaster team was a dream to work with. A steadfast focus throughout the process, on building a website for the benefit of their customers first, which at the same time would deliver efficiency and growth in sales and marketing. With technology as the enabler, their mindset was in sync with Strømlin’s Human Technology approach.
We had a series of bilateral meetings with senior management at WindowMaster with the purpose of fully understanding each department’s role and strategic ambitions with the new digital platform. This provided us with vital insights for planning and execution of the development process, but also allowed us to present and agree on our recommendation for the implementation of PIM (Product information management) in the early project scope.
During the process, Strømlin identified that a PIM solution would help WindowMaster manage their diverse product catalog. The vision was to implement a solution that would provide WindowMaster with scalability and ease as they implemented the products and technical documents on the new site. After suggesting a solution to WindowMaster, Strømlin built the infrastructure of the PIM to integrate with the Umbarco solution and flow with current marketing processes. This product data is created by an internal organization to support a multichannel marketing strategy. For a B2B production company like WindowMaster, this is an inevitable asset to succeed with their digital and business development strategy.
For the users of the new WindowMaster website, they experience a multi-language site that is easy to navigate and a structure in design, animations and content that leaves no doubt about the WindowMaster position as a climate conscious and green company. Successful storytelling and communication of purpose on many levels, both visually, in text and by functionality.
As a customer of WindowMaster, the personalized login has followed the journey from the old website to the new, but with several updates in personalization and user experience. Enhanced personalization has a high priority in our continued collaboration with WindowMaster and on future developments.
The ambition of getting a dynamic digital tool was very much also driven by the WindowMaster strategic conviction that the path to growth in sales is digital. The new WindowMaster website is therefore developed and optimized as a digital dream-machine for a lead generation. All available features play a part in achieving this, and the technical SEO and the design, accommodates the users improved access to find WindowMaster.com and usability when browsing the product catalog.
A good way to describe the process and the result is: Very ambitious but realistic. In collaborations with ambitious clients like WindowMaster, we, in our role as a strategic partner, become the filter for the client’s vast list of desired features and functionality, to narrow it down to the best project path for a successful launch of a first solution. Again, as a compliment to the team at WindowMaster, this collaborative exercise in restricting and prioritizing was seamless and obstacle free.
The bottom line result at this first stage launch: We, together with 1508, assisted WindowMaster to create a new digital platform for their Scandinavian and International market. We launched their new, corporate website. The platform embraces a new digital brand identity and integrates with the WindowMaster' product catalog system, giving the user a 1:1 information experience on the website. With next steps in collaboration and developments already agreed!
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Where to Eat in Avoriaz
Discover the top Avoriaz places to eat
Updated 2 October 2017 02/10/2017
There's a wide range of restaurants in Avoriaz to suit all tastes, and budgets. Read our guide on all the best places to eat in Avoriaz and where to find your favourite style of cuisine.
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At lunchtimes, most restaurants will offer a well-priced 'Plat du Jour' (dish of the day), normally consisting of locally-sourced meat, potatoes and a salad or seasonal vegetables - exactly what you need after a hard morning on the slopes!
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Take-away Restaurants
Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks all day long at the foot of the pistes, Le Fantastic is an extremely popular bar and restaurant. Starting with breakfast from 08:00, they serve a wide range of foods including burgers, pasta, croute, galettes, crepes, salads and desserts all day long. You can ski to the door and it’s always with buzzing with people out enjoying the snow. Prices are reasonable.
Also opening its doors to people looking for a hearty breakfast is Les Fontaines Blanches in the centre of Avoriaz. Good size portions and reasonable prices mean the large sunny terrace is popular with locals and tourists alike. From French Alpine dishes to pizza, BBQ’s and lobster, there’s something for everyone on this menu.
Mamo’s Café in Lindarets, is open for breakfast, brunch and lunch and is a beautiful spot to grab some food during a long day in the hills. It serves a variety of food including burgers, crepes (gluten-free available), tapas and vegetarian dishes.
Les Trappeurs also opens its doors bright and early for people looking to take the first lifts. Serving mainly Savoyard dishes, this restaurant is located in one of the busiest piste-side spots next to the 3S cable car in Avoriaz.
Pre-ski, there are a select few early-bird cafés that will whip up an English breakfast, crepe or much needed coffee for you. One of Avoriaz’s gems is the boulangerie, Le Fournil de Cannelle. As you walk in to what can only be described as the Aladdin’s cave of Avoriaz, you are greeted with the smell of freshly baked bread and fruit pastries. It is here that you will find the ultimate snack – although once consumed it feels more like an entire meal – reblochon, lardon bread for just 6€. This cheese, bacon and bread combination is the perfect take-away fast food on the mountain, for those more eager to ski than sit down and eat (it is also a great hangover cure for those making the most of the après scene).
Most of the restaurants here serve traditional crepes as a dessert, however at Café le Fantastique, you can choose from a selection of sweet, savoury and also gluten-free crepes, made with black wheat. This lively brasserie/creperie/music bar has a full menu for breakfast and lunch, serving food from 8am until 5pm, and drinks right up until 2am.
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Most restaurants in Avoriaz will welcome children and have children's menus. Several of the restaurant-cafes in the resort are open all day and through to the evenings so you can eat early if you wish.
In the heart of Avoriaz on Place Centrale you will find Les Intrets. It’s great for big group bookings because of its large terrace and big dining rooms. Serving the traditional Savoyard menu alongside contemporary dishes like pizzas and pastas, it’s also got an extensive choice for children. You’re looking at paying around 25€ a head.
Les Trappeurs opens its doors bright and early for people looking to take the first lifts. Serving mainly Savoyard dishes, this restaurant is located in one of the busiest piste-side spots in Avoriaz. With an extensive children’s menu, it’s popular throughout the day and is accessible on foot or by snow.
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If you’re looking for a slightly more intimate experience, La Poya, also in the centre of Avoriaz, offers a Savoyard experience not to be missed. With soups, salads, crepes and other French meals it’s great for lunch and dinner. You can get there by walking, which in the height of winter in Avoriaz is quite unique!
If you’re happy to travel a little further afield, or even ski to your restaurant, La Pierre aux Loups in Chatel is definitely worth considering. Located in Plaine Dranse, at the top of the Pierre Longue chairlift, this restaurant serves mainly local specialities. If you want adventure with your meal, this is definitely for you. If arranged in advance you can take a torchlit descent down the slopes after your dinner!
A popular restaurant which is also open in summer is the family-run La Cremaillere, a little way out of Avoriaz in Les Lindarets. Serving traditional Savoyard specialities including fondue, charcuterie, snails, trout and various snacks, it’s famous for its atmosphere and good food.
La Taniere, directly at the bottom of the Avoriaz pistes, is a great place to dine if you’re in a big group. Offering a traditional Savoyard menu and with a huge outside terrace in the heart of the après scene in Avoriaz, it’s a great place to finish a hard day on the slopes.
In the goat village of Les Lindarets, Le Chaudron Restaurant is hoping to tempt you in with its traditional Alpine cuisine made from fresh local produce.It’s known for its warm welcoming atmosphere and reasonable price.
Le Yeti Restaurant, just a few minutes from the centre of Avoriaz, is an extremely popular spot offering huge portions of traditional Savoyard cuisine. It’s famous for its warm service and lively atmosphere. If you can’t face a filling main dish, there are plenty of snacks to keep you going as well. Amazing views!
Cheese lovers! This one’s for you! Le Chalet d’Avoriaz offers a traditional menu on offer but the real pull is the “trio des fondues de fromage”. It's a three-pot fondue where you can try three cheeses from a selection of eight different cheeses. It’ll set you back around 25€ per person.
If you’re after a simple meat fix, look no further than Le 155 Steakhouse in the centre of Avoriaz. It also offers special menus, breakfasts and puddings that will make your mouth water.
If pudding is your thing, Les Rhodos Restaurant in Les Lindarets is just what you’re looking for. Alongside a Savoyard menu, their home-made desserts, such as blueberry tart, are extra special. You can choose from the "à la carte" or go for one of the set menus, which are generally good value. Open daily from 09:00 to 17:00 in winter and from 09:00 to 20:00 in summer (1st July to 30th September)
In an old farmhouse building, dating back to 1860, La Ferme Restaurant has retained the warmth of an old mountain chalet. It’s open year-round in the village of Lindarets with lots of special menus containing all the local specialities you’re looking for when visiting the Portes Du Soleil.
Le 66 is a little less traditional than some of the other restaurants we’ve mentioned. Not when it comes to food though. Offering traditional French dishes in a more contemporary style setting, the restaurant in the centre of Avoriaz is also slightly more upmarket. It sells gourmet pizzas and burgers and you’re looking at main courses starting at around 20€.
Also mixing traditional with contemporary, Au Briska, in the centre of Avoriaz hopes to tempt you in with its home-made pies, pastry and puddings. It’s right next to the tourist office, so if you don’t want to travel far, this cosy restaurant is perfect.
Lots of Avoriaz restaurants now offer pizzas cooked in wood-fired ovens if you fancy a break from traditional French cuisine.
Le Fangle is a charming restaurant with a spacious traditional alpine interior and a roaring log fire to keep you warm on chilly days. You can also take part in a torch-lit descent back to Morzine from here, just don't be tempted by too much vin chaud!
With a colourful menu full of regional specialities, La Falaise has something for everyone. With lovely, alpine wooden décor, it’s reasonably priced with plenty on offer including pizzas, tapas and fish dishes. The plat du jour is 14€, expect to pay around 35-65€ for your main meal.
Avoriaz has no Michelin starred restaurants, but there are a few recommended by the Guide Michelin in nearby Morzine.
La Cabane in Avoriaz is a lively restaurant that serves traditional French dishes but also offers Asian cuisine and Tapas dishes. It’s a big restaurant that spreads over two floors and at around 35€ a head it’s not the cheapest place in the resort. However, it’s popular with people looking for an upbeat dining venue.
With incredible views out over the Avoriaz pistes, Chez Flo is an extremely popular après bar, hosting some of the biggest parties and events. It also has a restaurant that’s always buzzing with people trying the full menu or the quicker express menu. It’s great if you just want to refuel before heading back on the slopes and, like most places in Avoriaz, you can ski straight to your table.
Le Bistro is an apres-ski bar & restaurant that provides afternoon live music & DJ's. Specialising in Savoyard dishes, there’s also a rotisserie for a wide selection of meats. You can eat on the large terrace or sit inside in the restaurant. With a plat du jour offer, it’s reasonably priced as well.
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Le Bistro has its own ‘sushi master’ who can suggest a selection of sushi and sashimi for you to try. Le Bistro is also renowned as one of the best venues for après ski, and they have a cracking cocktail menu to prove it.
Perhaps the most popular is Changabang Snack Restaurant. It's always busy whether it's lunchtime, afternoon or après ski. Their curly fries are to die for, as is the range of burgers, sandwiches and wraps on offer. With something for the kids, it’s an easy place for a quick stop off with a very friendly welcome from all of the staff.
Avoriaz isn't over run with vegetarian restaurants but there are plenty of places serving pizza and pasta dishes that will hit the spot. Le Fantastic on the snow front has a varied menu with plenty of options.
Mamo’s Café in Lindarets serves some vegetarian dishes and is open for breakfast, brunch and lunch. It's is a beautiful spot to grab some food during a long day in the hills. Mamo's have recently announced their new Hard Wok Cafe menu of noodles and Asian inspired food.
You'll also find that the typical Savoyard dishes such as fondue and raclette are often available without meat, as long as you don't mind plenty of cheese!
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Coast Guard Academy - USCGA
CGA vs USNA - pros and cons
Thread starter bt2011
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I applied to both USCGA and USNA - and though I haven't heard from either yet, I am wondering how others with this choice decided? or will decide?
Seems like there is alot of insight on these forums and so I'm asking for opinions.
I've gone to both summer programs but I don't want to base a decision on a week at each. Also want to know about career and stuff after the 4 years at the academy. Guess this won't matter if only one or none happens, but still can't help thinking about it.
USNA69
Okay, I will be the first to jump into this hornet's nest. Your decision should be based on what you want to do for a career. If you want to fly, go Navy. The odds of flying in the Coast Guard is much less. Many of the Coast Guard pilots are inter-service transfers from the Navy, Army, USMC, and USAF.
If you like the idea of being on the sea, go Navy.
If you like things technical, go Navy.
If you don't think you will like the idea of being away from home, go Coast Guard.
If you need instant and constant job satisfaction, go Coast Guard. They do the same thing day after day after day.
After a career in the Navy and 12 years of it at sea, I can honestly say that I would not trade the experience for anything. Flying at sea is the most challenging and rewarding career that one could imagine. For the surface types, the ultimate goal of command at sea, commanding officer of your own ship has got to be one of life's greatest accomplishments.
Last edited: Jan 10, 2007
Whistle Pig
USCGA seems to have a high degree of satisfied customers with over 80% going beyond minimal 5 year hitch post commissioning. It would seem like CG would be more conducive to quality family life than some of the other services. Lots of opportunity to fly, just not jets. And you don't have to generally land 'em on a postage stamp in the middle of a typhoon.
CG is smaller, possibly less political. Different mission than other services, and it would seem to be growing in import given our national security issues of our generation. All of which would SEEM to suggest that CG should be positioned to get a fairer piece of the $$ pie. But that may be overly logical.
All that said, the USNA is THE greatest fraternity in the history of humankind, aside from Christianity. Tough to beat the many opportunities for those that can abide the downsides. As McKain's grandad said, "The greatest profession for men seeking adventure."
For a biased but informed point of view, I suggest talking to LT McMunn @ USCGA. He was accepted @ both and went CG. And just ask any Navy man for the flipside, I suspect.
Good luck. Hope you get the choice. Bottom line? They're both amazing opportunities for a young person setting the course of their life's calling.
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My son applied to both and will accept an appointment from the Coast Guard before the Navy. Why? He was selected for the Coast Guard Academy's summer camp, AIM, and had a great time. He made relationships there, enjoyed the taste of the academy lifestyle, and has a better appreciation of Coast Guard mission.
There's no question he would have had the same experience at the Naval Academy's summer camp but he wasn't selected. Naturally he is more loyal, at this point, to the academy that gave him a chance.
MaritimeGirl11
Well My dad was Air Force but I like the water and boats. I like the size and the family style service. I like what the Coast Guard has to offer and I dont want to go to war but I still want to serve and thats what the Coast Guard has to offer. It's not a war kind of service its a humanitarian service and I love helping peple and keeping the bad guys out of our nation. I also like what it stands for, the mission of the Coast Guard and what it has to offer.
bossf51
Both the CGA and USNA are great places and the CG and Navy are great services. You may wish to attend the CGA as it is a smaller school with a family atmosphere. You are more likely to be able to play a varsity sport, even one which is new to you(crew for example). The classes are small and you get very close attention.
There are plenty of opportunities to fly. I heard that they are increasing the number of flight billets especially relating to helicopters.
For women the Coast Guard has tremendous opportunities as well. Every job up to and including Commandant is available to women.
It is a humanitarian service which also has a great appeal, along with its mission in the fields of homeland security and environmental protection.
Good luck to all in their search for the right school.
Did you pick Crew as an example because of me?
repIII
"I've gone to both summer programs but I don't want to base a decision on a week "
I would say it depends. At AIM you have to memorize a lot of stuff. and many that I have talked with say that AIM at USCGA is the hardest but I think its what ur choice is. I went to FLC at Norwich and I tought it was tough. it was longer and I think very phsically demanding with PT every morning and hicking up and down mountains and long huge hills everyday. I would recommend that you also look into FLC at Norwich University because its a it easier to get accepted to and its longer, 2 weeks. For the most part they are all unique in their own way.
im am facing the same decision. as of right now i am leaning more towards USNA, but i would gladly take my CGA appointment if i dont get one from USNA.
Make a List of your OWN Pros and Cons because yours are prob. different then someone elses and go from there.
By the way bt2011, Don't listen to USNA69
Naval officers, no matter what career path they choose, normally start out with schooling of some type or other. Then, commencing with sea duty, they will alternate sea and shore duty. Each period is approximately three years with sea duty often being a little longer and shore duty being slightly shorter. After two each sea-shore rotations, they are usually O-5s eligible for command. After that, things get less structured. So, by the 16th or so year, the average Officer has had two three year sea duty assignments.
The typical sea duty tour will consist of two extended deploymenst of six months or so and a lot of work-ups preparing for these deployments. Typically, half or slightly more of the tour is spent away from home.
Navy families are not like a civilian in the same situation. The entire neighborhood knows the spouse is deployed and bends over backwards to provide support, both morale and physical. And the neighborhood is usually comprised of like-minded families. When the hurricane swept up through MD last fall, son was away. The electricity went out and the basement sump pump, of course, failed. Daughter-in-law came home from work to a flooded basement. Within an hour, a loaned jury-rigged generator had pumped the basement dry. The neighborhood retired chiefs were having a blast.
When a unit deploys, the spouses group is very active. They become the family. They do things together constantly, as much as each spouse will allow.
Also, before kids, there is usually an in-port period at a nice port where the spouses come over. Some ships assist with arranging charter service. My daughter in law has been to Australia twice.
A Navy career does require a supporting spouse because the member will be having the time of his life doing extended underway operations but it is manageable.
That's true. My friend who goes to the USCGA sid that he choosed USCGA because it allows you to have more time with your family then the Navy. He got accepted to NA and CGA and that what made him decide CGA.
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Lesya25 said:
I think there are quite a few coast guard cutters in Iraq right now.
That is correct. Don't get the impression that there are "no dangers" in the Coast Guard...quite the contrary. They do patrol the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico for drugrunners and illegal immigration, guard our harbors against terrorists, etc. etc.
But what Lesya alludes to is it is not a military aggressive type service. We are not shelling the coast and invading countries.
However in times of world war CG comes under the Navy so they in past years have served in the rivers of Vietnam and landing Marines on Guadalcanal.
wow - thanks for all these responses so fast...lots of good stuff.
um, the question about which summer week was harder -- its hard to say really. I think USNA was tougher physically. Both were amazing fun but hard work. You just have to expect to be yelled at...
I am in no way attempting to be critical, but, in most instances, there are two sides to every story. Here is the other side.
Whistle Pig said:
USCGA seems to have a high degree of satisfied customers with over 80% going beyond minimal 5 year hitch post commissioning.
This is really a non-statistic. At both academies, officers will normally stay through their first shore duty assignment, which is a year or so beyond the minimum commitment. When comparing those who make it a career, the percentages are comparable.
It would seem like CG would be more conducive to quality family life than some of the other services.
Let's not impose our middle-aged family value requirements on our young adventurous offspring and make this an issue when it is not. There aren't many places in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Far East I haven't been. I have been in places in the Vatican which the general public will never see. I saw the Mona Lisa when she was just a nondescript painting in an out-of-the-way third floor hallway. I have sat on the Spanish Steps and watched cute young American girls line up in the morning at the American Express office to receive money orders from home. I have played golf with the future sultan of Oman, hitting the ball off Persian carpets and putting on oiled sand greens. I have skiied the Alps with expatriate CIA agents. I have caught bonefish, permit, and tuna in the Indian Ocean until I was tired of catching them. I have played W Somerset Maugham and taken the three day train trip from Singapore to Bangkok, overnighting in little coastal villages. I have sat in sidewalk cafes in little Vietnames villages eating roast monkey on a stick with very spicy noodle soup, knowing that my waiter would, that very evening, don black pajamas and come after me, trying to kill me. The earliest memory my oldest son has is Christmas shopping in El Corte Ingles in Madrid. There are bars all over the world where, to this day, I could not buy a drink. Millionaires could not afford these experiences. I would not trade these memories for anything in the world.
And not forgetting that for whice we are deployed, a trained crew on a operational ready ship is a team and an experience that few will experience. The operational requirements are there and the funding is available to operate on the cutting edge of one's abilities. It is truly an opportunity to savor.
And, as has been mentioned on this thread, CG ships do deploy. My understanding is that billets on these type ships are extremely competitive since a deployment is a very nice "tick mark" when being considered for promotion. So perhaps for comptetitive promotable CG officers, family separation is also an issue. Maybe someone with more current knowledge can comment on this.
Lots of opportunity to fly, just not jets.
About 45% of the USNA class of 2005 is presently in aviation, over 400 officers. About half of the 800 or so CG pilots are transfers from other services. Maybe 12-15 of each class at USCGA go immediately into aviation with a few more later on. The fact is only 15 or so new USCG helo pilots are trained annually and even less fixed wing.
And you don't have to generally land 'em on a postage stamp in the middle of a typhoon.
You might want to tell this to the USCG helo drivers. The typical SAR scenario is to get a cutter on scene as rapidly as possible to serve as a refueling platform. A night SAR condition in the Bering Sea makes for a mighty small postage stamp, and an erratically moving one at that.
All that said, the USNA is THE greatest fraternity in the history of humankind,
Very well said. And the greatest job-hunting network in the world for recently retired USNA officers. Graduate contacts, willing to help, are everywhere doing everything.
Also, the group that you spend four years with at either academy will be the closest friends you will ever have.
Tough to beat the many opportunities for those that can abide the downsides.
I have always hated the "been there, done that" statements but I have to invoke that statement here. Unless you have experienced the opportunities of the Navy, don't try to compare them to the downsides. Any young person contemplating the Academy has to condider these "downsides" as an adventure and an opportunity. In short, you are correct, if they do not, they are probably at the wrong institution. Again, a middle-aged family guy's downside is a twenty-something's opportunity and adventure of a life time. Let's not hold them back.
They're both amazing opportunities for a young person setting the course of their life's calling.
Without a doubt.
And good luck to all who do it.
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What was the ugliest win this season? Most Packers teammates agreed it was the last game they played, the regular-season finale, a 23-20 victory over the 3-12-1 Lions. It was only fitting for this Packers team to close out the season with their ugliest win to top all the ugly wins. Rodgers was 27-of-55 for 323 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. For the second time this season, he connected on less than half of his attempts. The Lions' offense caught the Packers with a trick play touchdown.
“Shoot, probably that last one,” Williams says, laughing. “That last one was pretty bad. It had a little more meaning at the end because if we didn't get that we probably wouldn't have had a bye, we wouldn't have been able to go into the playoffs ready to go, so I feel like that was the one where it was a real ugly one.”
The Packers never led in either win over Detroit until the very end, and in the first matchup with the Lions, Green Bay gave up three turnovers, yet still won.
“I also think that last game was probably the hardest game too. I think just having to close that out, a 12-3 team going against a 3-11 team, you know they are going to give you their best shot because they have really nothing to play for. I think for us, it's like, you have to bring that type of energy.”
Securing that first-round bye came down to kicker Mason Crosby, who drilled a 33-yard field goal to win the game. Crosby also kicked a 23-yard game-winner in the first Detroit game this season. He recognizes the direct correlation between winning ugly and his own job.
“So if we have to kick field goals, is it ugly?” Crosby says. “Is that how it is? I don't take offense to it. I'll be happy to win ugly every game if we had to. If that's what it means.”
This divisional-round matchup against Seattle is a fitting one. Both teams' records are much prettier than their play has been, and the Seahawks have been fluky winning all season.
Players say that though the media and fans have latched onto the Winning Ugly mantra, it hasn’t taken hold inside the locker room because it’s in direct opposition of their goal. “Throughout the week the game plan is to not win ugly, the game plan is to win normally,” says Jackson.
Head coach Matt LaFleur purposely made sure his team didn’t have too many rest days during the first-round bye last week. He needs his team to start fast against Seattle, something the Packers have rarely done this season. But if it comes down to it, the Super Bowl is only two wins away, whether ugly or pretty.
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U.S. Soccer altered its plans to hold its January camp in Qatar, the site of the 2020 World Cup. Here's how the decision was made.
At 9:35 p.m. ET on January 2, Tom King, U.S. Soccer’s managing director of administration, was two hours into a 14-hour flight from Chicago to Doha on Qatar Airways Flight 726 when an unsettling email landed in his inbox. The subject line was “Latest News from Iraq,” and it contained a link to a news story that would shake the world. The U.S. had killed Iranian general Qassim Suleimani, the nation’s second-most powerful figure, in a missile strike in Baghdad.
The possibility of a new war in the Middle East had just increased dramatically, and it meant that King had a problem, too. For the last 25 years, the genial Brit has been in charge of
scheduling games and arranging all travel aspects for the U.S. national teams. It’s a job that requires the skills of foreign diplomacy, large-scale logistics and, in this case, crisis management. The USMNT was set to begin a three-week training camp in Doha, with players arriving less than 48 hours later, and now news reports were saying that Americans in the Middle East could be targets for reprisal.
King, who was joined on the flight by team administrator Sam Zapatka and equipment manager Kyle Robertson, digested the news and got to work. “We were aware of the protest situation outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad [starting December 31], so we knew there were some issues going on in the area,” King told SI.com in an interview. “So for the preceding 24 hours before departure we were already in contact with the embassy in Doha to discuss that and make sure from a security standpoint there were no concerns. But as soon as the [Suleimani] attack had happened, I immediately contacted our primary security contact at the embassy and arranged to meet him as soon as we landed.”
King’s plane landed in Doha at 4:40 p.m. local time (8:40 a.m. ET) on January 3. By 6 p.m., he was sitting down with officials from the U.S. embassy at his hotel to discuss the situation in detail. The meeting lasted three hours.
Security is a big thing when it comes to the U.S. national soccer teams. They’re a symbol of America in the world’s most popular sport, after all.
Much of the security around U.S. teams is not conspicuous, but some is. At World Cup 2002 in South Korea, less than a year after 9/11, the USMNT had even more guards than usual, including an armed officer next to the bench during games. Four years earlier, European law enforcement made more than 100 arrests and broke up a terrorist plot backed by Osama bin Laden that planned to attack three locations during World Cup ’98 in France: The USMNT at its hotel in Paris, the England-Tunisia game in Marseille and a nuclear reactor in central France.
“On every single international trip we take, not only the men and women but every single youth team, we interface with a regional security officer in the embassy of the country that we’re going to,” King explained. “The security plan is taken care of in conjunction with local authorities based on any concerns they may have.”
By 9 p.m. in Doha on January 3, King concluded his meeting with U.S. embassy officials. Next came individual phone calls to U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter, sporting director Earnie Stewart and Brian Remedi, the acting chief administrative officer of U.S. Soccer. Then came a conference call with the senior leadership of the federation, including president Carlos Cordeiro.
They were following a process to reach a decision as quickly as possible. But on the ground in Doha, King had a sense in his gut. “It didn’t feel right to me to keep the camp [in Qatar],” he said. “It just didn’t feel right.”
Gregg Berhalter woke up in Chicago on the morning of January 3 and saw a missed call on his cell phone from Stewart. Berhalter was planning to leave for Doha that evening with several other staff members, a day before the players were set to do so. Now he got Stewart back on the phone. “The first call with Earnie was, ‘O.K., what’s the situation?’” Berhalter said. “’What does it mean for the team? And what do we need to do?’ To me, the most important factors were if there’s going to be a change, how quickly can we get information and make new plans?”
The plan for having a three-week training camp in Qatar, the host of World Cup ’22, had been a sound one, Berhalter said. In the past, the U.S. has taken trips to World Cup hosting countries before the event, including to South Korea before 2002, to Germany before 2006, to South Africa before 2010 and to Brazil in January of 2014. “The idea of Qatar was a great idea, I think,” Berhalter explained, “to let the guys see what the environment is, to give them a goal to reach to make the World Cup and become familiar with the environment.” Several club teams like Bayern Munich and Ajax also spend their winter breaks in Doha, and the U.S. was planning to have some closed-door games, including one against Red Bull Salzburg.
When Berhalter spoke to King on the phone, though, it became clear that the circumstances had mitigated the benefits of the trip. “It was due to the uncertainty of the situation,” he said. “There was no longer an upside. We felt like we wouldn’t be able to get the most out of training.”
When U.S. Soccer had its conference call with senior leadership at 10:30 p.m. Doha time, there was no disagreement among the participants. They decided to change the site of the January camp. King said: “If you put the best interest of the players and staff in the center of the decision and balance that with the uncertainty of everything going on in the region … it really is important to draw the distinction between the region and Qatar itself, because the security issues within Qatar are extremely buttoned-down. But when you look at what’s going on now within the region as it relates to flight paths and things of this nature, even before the tragedy in Tehran [of a Ukrainian airline being shot down], just within the region it didn’t feel right. Even though we knew that the Qatar authorities would have done an admirable job in making sure every aspect of our stay was safe and secure, as they will in 2022 [if the U.S. qualifies].”
Cordeiro made the final decision on the conference call to move the training venue from Qatar, and then they followed a strict protocol sequence to communicate the news internally and externally. First, Cordeiro called his counterpart at the Qatari Football Association, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed Al Thani. Then they contacted staff members who were set to fly to Qatar that day to tell them plans had changed. Next came the U.S. players and their union, teams that U.S. Soccer had been making plans to play in Doha and the MLS clubs of the players.
More calls were made, and within two hours they had secured a new January camp location at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. More than 4,000 pounds of team gear had already arrived in Doha, including balls, training gear, medical and high-performance equipment and the mannequins you stick in the ground to form a wall in training. Now all of that had to be shipped to Miami, then put on a truck and taken up to Bradenton.
The final shipment wasn’t set to arrive on the Gulf Coast—from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Mexico—until midnight on Friday. But U.S. Soccer staffers always have contingencies in place if customs don’t work on time, and so they had enough gear to start training sessions last Tuesday morning with the players.
“To me, it’s incredible that our first session was going to be on Monday afternoon in Doha, and we ended up training Tuesday morning in Bradenton,” Berhalter said.
Before he left Qatar, King—ever the diplomat—made sure to visit with four entities and leave on good terms. “I wanted to meet personally with the QFA, with the Aspire Academy, with the hotel and with the State Department and just make sure those four entities understood why we took the decision we did,” he said, “and just to make sure we left Qatar with everybody understanding how much we appreciated the incredible support they had given us setting up the camp. And we certainly plan on coming back before too long.”
Quite likely, he said, in January 2022.
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Claire Olshan Bridges Food and Design with New Art-Inspired Snack Line, DADA Daily
By Stephanie Sporn
Passionate about art’s links to food, fashion and design, Claire Olshan is collaborating with Sotheby’s for our The Sleep of Reason Part II | A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online auction (29 October–18 November). Tasty vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free treats from her newest project, DADA Daily, are also available in a pop-up shop in our New York galleries.
F or as long as she can remember, Claire Olshan was that little girl commenting on napkin rings, wallpaper and outfits. A “full-blown aesthete,” as she describes herself, the New York-based Olshan first made her mark in fashion with the 2012 opening of Fivestory, a luxurious retail destination on the Upper East Side. With that same sense of artful curation, Olshan is trying her hand at the food industry with this spring’s launch of DADA Daily, a line of healthy and beautifully packaged snacks, ranging from Crispy Almond Butter Brussels Sprouts to Matcha Latte Truffles. “I always wondered why the health food world never jumped on the bandwagon to make products chic similar to the beauty and wellness industries,” Olshan told Sotheby’s. With her goal of elevating snacking, she also produced a dinner party set of whimsical accessories for hosting, including an Urs Fischer-esque hand candle, where all but the middle finger will burn once lit. “Just like many DADAists, we are cheeky, playful and just a tad bit dark in everything we do.” Ahead, Olshan talks art history inspiration and why snacking should never be thought of as naughty – even if your candles are.
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How has your art history background influenced your career?
I got my bachelor’s and master’s in art history from New York University and Sotheby’s respectfully. I loved learning and being around art and teaching people about it. But when I had to sell it, something didn’t click for me. I realized then and there, art would be a lifelong hobby but not my vocation. That being said, I have carried my art training into everything I do. Training as a curator creates a discerning eye and has made me realize that I want to bring beauty into all aspects of my life…including snacking!
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What was your impetus for entering the highly competitive food space?
Having been obsessed with the healthy food snack industry for a very long time, I saw a hole in the market for something that wasn’t being advertised as a diet or prescription. Eating and healthy living should be about joyfulness and freedom, so I started a company that is “accidentally” vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free, but very purposefully good for you. I also didn’t see any healthy snacks on the market that could express my aesthetic point of view. With DADA, we are creating a fun, carefree world where indulging doesn’t have to be something naughty and where snacking can be chic and elevated to a dinner party setting.
"DADA Daily is not about someone telling you what to eat, just like it’s not about a critic telling you what is or isn’t art."
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What attracted you specifically to Dadaism as a movement to inspire your brand?
Dadaists challenged artistic and intellectual conventions and always sought to avoid classification. In each city that it manifested – whether New York, Paris, Berlin, Cologne or Hanover – Dada expressed itself differently. It was about making art that felt right to in the moment to the artists themselves. DADA daily is all about stripping down the restrictive nature of the health food industry and getting away from the word "no." Dada is about "yes, yes" – "da" means "yes" in many languages.
As the story goes, the name “Dada” was chosen in a typically Dada manner: by chance. Using a paper knife, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp and others in Zurich arbitrarily selected a word from a French-German dictionary. Its meaning – hobbyhorse – was meaningless in this context. It simply served as an empty vessel into which artists could pour themselves. It is the only art movement named not by critics but by the artists themselves. As this relates to my company, DADA Daily is not about someone telling you what to eat, just like it’s not about a critic telling you what is or isn’t art.
(LEFT) THE DADA HAND CANDLE, FEATURED IN THE DINNER PARTY SET, BURNS ALL BUT THE MIDDLE FINGER TO CREATE A CHEEKY SEMI-MELTED SCULPTURE. (RIGHT) THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE DADA SNACK LINEUP: CHEESY CAULIFLOWER POPCORN FLORETS .
Is there any particular artist whom you are most drawn to?
Marcel Duchamp has always been one of my favorite artists of all time. His Bicycle Wheel, the first readymade, was part of a class of objects he invented to challenge assumptions about what constitutes a work of art. The work placed a major importance on the human mind and body while heavily influencing the Surrealist focus on the fantastical imaginative world that they created. To me, all those elements sum up the ethos of DADA Daily.
What was your experience like selecting Surrealist works from Sotheby’s Sleep of Reason auction?
It was a dream to look through all these amazing works. What surprised and delighted me was the percentage of pieces done by female Surrealists. When learning about the movement in school, it is so heavily dominated by men, and none of these amazing women, such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning, get very much air time.
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Fake texts from fraudsters pretending to be Royal Mail and emails impersonating the likes of Microsoft, UPS and car park operators were among the scams which tried to catch Britons out over the festive period.
This is Money asked for readers’ experiences after we reported how phishing emails which pretended to be from the courier company DPD and Royal Mail were targeting Britons’ inboxes in the run-up to Christmas.
Of the dozens of responses we received many detailed scams in a similar vein, with recipients told they needed to pay a fee in order to reschedule a missed parcel delivery, causing confusion at a time when people were expecting Christmas deliveries.
This is Money received dozens of emails from readers after we reported on how fraudsters were spoofing the courier company DPD and Royal Mail in the run up to Christmas
One reader, Mark, told us how he was nearly caught out by a text claiming to be from Royal Mail, at a time when he was expecting several deliveries.
The message, which appeared to come from the same number as other legitimate texts from Royal Mail, asked him to click a link to reschedule a delivery.
Scammers had swapped out the ‘l’ in Royal Mail for an ‘i’, something he only noticed when he copy and pasted the message and changed the font colour.
‘But for the URL I would have been taken in totally’, he said.
Scammers can use cheap software to make it look as if messages or phone calls have come from the same number as legitimate ones.
One This is Money reader almost fell victim to a phishing text which claimed to be from Royal Mail. It appeared alongside legitimate texts from the parcel delivery firm
Banks and the taxman frequently see their phone numbers spoofed by scammers, and there were thousands of reports of phishing texts last year as fraudsters sought to cash in on the coronavirus pandemic.
Britons have recently been urged by Trading Standards to beware another phishing scam doing the rounds which claims to come from the NHS.
It offers recipients the opportunity to apply for the coronavirus vaccine provided they follow the link and provide personal and payment details, which will be harvested by fraudsters.
Vulnerable Britons are being targeted with fraudulent text messages offering them access to coronavirus vaccinations
The website is designed to look like the legitimate NHS one, and was first reported at the end of last month by people living in the Western Islands in Scotland.
Trading Standards’ Katherine Hart said: ‘The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others.
‘The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or Pin numbers and these should serve as instant red.’
Trading Standards said text messages had been sent out including links to fake NHS websites that asked recipients for bank details, supposedly for verification purposes
Such impersonation messages are often very convincing. Another reader, Helen said a fake email claiming to come from Royal Mail ‘was so convincing’ she actually took it to her local sorting office in Waterlooville, Hampshire, where it was confirmed to be fake.
‘I was nearly fooled and clicked on the link which then asked for bank details’, she said.
How do fraudsters get my details?
Unfortunately, contact details are not as secure as everyone would like them to be.
With the amount of newsletters, subscription services, and marketing emails people sign up to or opt into receiving, it only takes a breach or improper handling of customers’ at one company to hand fraudsters your contact details.
It is not even that sophisticated, with fraudsters often taking a scattergun approach and targeting hundreds or even thousands of people at once, especially in cases like the fake emails from DPD and Royal Mail where people nationwide would be on the lookout for parcels.
Contact and personal details can also be gleaned from public forums like social media platforms, which is how fraudsters may also crack your passwords without you necessarily handing them over.
The DPD scam duped 35 victims out £103,000 in total in the first week of December, or £2,942 each, according to figures from the fraud reporting service Action Fraud.
But the fraud was not limited to the festive period, with 5,478 reports of suspicious DPD emails forwarded to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service, set up by the National Cyber Security Centre, in November, when England’s second national lockdown saw shops closed.
And parcel delivery firms were not the only ones impersonated by fraudsters over Christmas.
One reader, Michelle, received an email in mid-December claiming to be from NCP, the UK’s largest private parking company, which falsely said she owed £14.99 for a penalty charge after failing to pay a fare at the start of September.
She said she ‘very nearly fell for’ the scam if it hadn’t been for funny characters in the email.
Had she followed the link and attempted to pay, she likely would have also had her bank details compromised, on top of losing nearly £15.
Beverley told This is Money she had received a fake email in the first week of December saying her ‘car tax was overdue’.
‘It looked like a genuine DVLA form’, she said, and she had even filled in the form as far as her bank details before she called her garage to check if the tax was overdue, which it wasn’t.
Another reader, Michelle, was sent an email claiming to be from NCP saying she owed a £14.99 penalty charge due to failing to pay a parking ticket in September, which hadn’t happened
The DVLA had previously told This is Money there had been a 603 per cent rise in scam emails and texts between July and September last year compared to the same three months the year before.
And Tom, a reader from Devon, received a fake email at the start of December from ‘Microsoft’ telling him his account would be disconnected if he did not verify his email address, another way of trying to steal his details.
Microsoft and the UK Government were also impersonated by fraudsters. The fake ‘free payment’ message was a popular choice among scammers in 2020
Bank fraud chiefs urged recipients to be on their guard and avoid clicking on any suspicious links, and instead access a website through typing in a web address known to be legitimate.
Lloyds Bank’s retail fraud director Paul Davis said: ‘Scammers are ready to disappear as soon as they’ve got their hands on your cash, so it’s more important than ever to treat every email, message and call that you’re not expecting with caution.
‘Even if you think you know the sender, don’t reply to a text or email message if it seems odd and never enter your personal information.
‘If you’re not sure, phone the company on a number you trust or visit its website by typing the web address directly into the address bar at the top of your screen.’
And one request for money which was actually legitimate
Sandra Cross, from Mansfield, sent a Christmas present to her cousin in Canada which she had bought from The White Company and was delivered through DPD.
However, she was concerned when she received an email claiming to be from the logistics firm Aramex saying she needed to pay a fee.
Sandra Cross, from Mansfield, was concerned she was the target of fraudsters when she was asked to pay import duties on a present she sent to her cousin in Canada
She was also worried by a post on the company’s website warning about ‘unexpected requests for money in return for delivery of a package’, which it said was often a sign of fraud.
However, after contacting Aramex’s customer services it turned out she had to pay duties after all, due to The White Company’s choice of courier.
She said if the parcel had been sent through Royal Mail there would have been no import duties to pay.
‘I paid them £20 to deliver some shower gel and body lotion not pick a carrier that didn’t operate in Canada who wanted £11 import charges’, a frustrated Sandra told us.
Barclays’ head of fraud, Jim Winters, added: ‘Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated means to get unsuspecting members of the public to divulge their personal information.
‘In this new national lockdown, they will continue to target individuals when they may be feeling more vulnerable than usual, and we all need to stay a step ahead by doing the appropriate research and never giving out our personal information.’
Those who receive suspicious emails can forward them to ‘[email protected]’ and texts to 7726.
Some tips to protect yourself from scams
Barclays offers the following advice:
Stop and think – check a website is secure before entering any personal or payment information and look out for any unusual requests.
Never share personal or security information on a site accessed via a link in an email or text message.
Only access online banking by typing your bank’s web address into your browser or access from your favourites.
Never share confidential information by email or text – it’s not secure.
Stop and think when clicking on links or opening attachments in emails or texts you weren’t expecting – if in doubt, delete it.
Be wary of any phone calls especially after a suspicious email.
Also watch out for texts, emails or social posts out of the blue which claim to be from your bank, an organisation or another company asking for personal information.
If you’re unsure, get in touch with the sender using an independently sourced phone number.
Never call the number in a text, email, message or on an answerphone.
Remember to add payment purpose when completing a payment with your bank as it helps to identify any suspicious activity.
This post first appeared on Dailymail.co.uk
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Ghana polls: Obasanjo writes two major parties, calls for peaceful, credible elections
in Elections, National, Politics
By Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
As Ghana prepares to hold its general elections on December 7, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the two major political parties in the country, the NPP and NDC to ensure peaceful, credible and transparent polls.
Obasanjo, in a letter dated November 20 and addressed to the leaders of the parties by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, sought for building efforts aimed at enhancing mutual trust and confidence among themselves in the relevant national institutions and in the electoral process.
The letter, copied to Hon. Frederick Blay, the Chairperson of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Hon. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and members of the National Executive Committees of the two parties, reads in part:
‘As the preparation for the 7 December 2020 general elections continue, we must be reminded of the importance of preserving the unity, peace and stability of the country which has been bequeathed to you by those before you including our late brother.
‘Ghana has for a long time remained the beacon of democracy in our West African region and the continent at large. The progress in governance has been the pride of Ghanaians who continue to make enormous contributions and sacrifices to enhance nation-building, development, peace and stability in the country.
‘I write to you, leaders of the two main political parties in Ghana, to urge you to do all you can to ensure a peaceful conduct of the general elections. My concern about the elections in Ghana is not only as an African but also because of our shared colonial history, our anthropological background and the fact that I began my military career from Teshire, Ghana and without that I would perhaps have been what I am today.
‘As leaders of the two main political leaders, this is the legacy you have been entrusted to preserve heading into elections. Your role is unique in that the NPP and the NDC are the main players, have made significant contributions to the peace and stability of Ghana and are vested with the capacity, influence and control to constructively shape national discussions and processes such as the upcoming elections.
‘In this vein, the success or failure of the elections, a key aspect of democratic consolidation in Ghana will largely depend on the posture of the NPP and NDC leadership and how that manifested by the actions of their supporters’, Obasanjo said.
‘I would like to underscore that disagreement, frustrations, accusations and counter-accusations are common attributes in politics and especially in electoral processes. While Ghana is no exception in this regard, the Ghanaian political class has often demonstrated an admirably high level of political maturity in handling their differences and ensuring that elections remain issues-based. The call from Ghanaians and the region as a whole is for this to be the case in the 2020 general elections.
‘However, for this to happen, the NPP and NDC must enhance efforts to build mutual trust and confidence among themselves, in the relevant national institutions and in the electoral process. The NPP and NDC must ensure that the message of peace is not only delivered in closed-door settings but amplified to the extent that they are received and adhere to by their supporters at the community level. The NPP and NDC must constructively engage with all national institutions to identify, address or mitigate any potential threats to the smooth organisation of the electoral process”.
‘The NPP and NDC are opponents and not enemies in this process. They are both indispensable beyond the elections to preserve peace and stability in Ghana. That is why amid the tensions and disagreements, they must desist from language that incites violence and hate while reinforcing the messages of peace and togetherness.
‘Therefore, I implore you to approach these elections with a very competitive spirit but also with respect for one another, respect for democratic values, love for the country and a sense of responsibility to preserve the gains Ghana has made since the advent of democracy.
‘Let me also take this opportunity to make a special appeal to the presidential candidates of the two main parties who are both my brothers to demonstrate the statesmanship that they are known for throughout the election process.
‘My prayer for you and the country is that Ghana should emerge the winner irrespective of which party wins. Through my most humble voice, the region and the continent count on your sense of patriotism and guided by the aspirations of all Ghanaians who would want to see Ghana live up to its ideals by organising elections that are peaceful, credible and transparent.’
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Bowline Knot
How to Tie a Bowline Knot
Step 1: Form a loop with the working end of the rope on top.
Step 2: Thread the working end back through the loop and beneath the main rope.
Step 3: Loop the working end around the main rope and back through the loop a second time.
Step 4: Pull the tag to constrict the knot.
About the Bowline
Use the bowline to create a fixed ‘eye’ or loop at the end of the rope. Once you know the bowline, it’s easy to tie and fast to untie. It’s a historic knot, receiving its name on sailing vessels. A bowline, or bow line, holds a square sail into the wind, towards the front of the boat. It also prevents the wind from pressing the sail to the mast.
Many people know how to make a bowline with the help of the rabbit mnemonic device. After making the loop, think of the working end of the rope as a rabbit who comes out of the hole, runs around the tree (the standing line), and goes back into the hole.
Related Knots
There are many variations of the bowline knot, with some adaptations to suit it to different applications or make the original stronger.
Sheet bend: used for connecting two ropes of varying thicknesses or elasticities. It has a similar structure to the bowline, made more stable by adding a second bend.
Boling knot: the original name for the bowline, described by John Smith in the 1691 book A Sea Grammar.
Round turn bowline: a doubling up of the initial loop in the bowline knot.
Eskimo bowline or anti-bowline: a bowline with the initial loop created backward, or the working end underneath the standing line. Use this version of the bowline to make attachments and connections at the end of a rope.
Yosemite bowline: used in mountain climbing, the working end follows the standing line through the loop and the original loop before being drawn tight.
When to Use a Bowline Knot
Anytime you’re carrying a load, use a bowline knot, especially in survival situations where you need to rappel down steep slopes or carry gear.
The bowline performs best when holding a load. Otherwise, it can loosen over time. With practice, you can learn to tie the bowline with one hand, making it an ideal knot for survival situations. Whether tying up a boat or in rescue situations, you can rely on this essential knot to hold.
While Camping
Anytime you’re hanging a load around the campsite, you can use a bowline. When hanging food away from the campsite, hammocks, or solar showers from trees, use a bowline. You’ll experience the genuine appeal of the bowline; the ease with which you’re able to untie it, even after it’s been holding a load for a while.
With Other Knots
Adding variations to the bowline can suit it to almost any application, such as the water bowline where a clove hitch forms the initial loop of the bowline, making a stronger knot that won’t jam when wet.
In any situation where you need to join two lengths of rope, cord, or line together, use a bowline. If you’re stringing Christmas lights outside, use a bowline to join strings of lights together to ensure the plugs won’t pull apart. When securing camping gear or outdoor equipment in a garage or basement, use a bowline knot to tie the loads in place. The knot won’t slip while holding heavy gear, but it’s easy to untie when you’re ready to head out for a weekend.
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Security of TagMyDoc
Policies and security
Emails, as we know, are very popular for valid reasons which explain its strong presence in a company’s operation… even in 2020.
Dangerous reality #1: Everyone has an email address with its mailbox on their electronic devices (computer, phone / tablet). In terms of accessibility, it couldn't be better.
Dangerous reality #2: It is possible to get in touch by email with someone we don't know. Think about it, it is a reality that systematically requires increased vigilance.
What needs to be changed #1: An unknown person could send you an email hacking attempt on all your devices.
What needs to be changed #2: Keep the content of emails only for non-sensitive information.
The best security advice is to start simple and effectively
Engage your employees in a safety policy with shared responsibility
Reality: A low level of awareness and a malicious state of mind are explosive elements to undergo a cyber incident deliberately triggered by an insider.
What needs to be changed: Training on the value of data and on the definition of the data processed by your organisation is the key to avoid internal cyber attacks. Once the training is done, your employees need to commit to good governance and use of the data they will be processing as part of their job. When we are accountable for our actions, it always has been a good formula for doing the right thing.
Invest in security solutions that are simple to use
Reality: Computer security is a science with countless variations. On the other hand, there is a basic cyber-hygiene, such as not using emails to share and store confidential content, that must be present in order to optimize your level of security.
What needs to be changed: There are several tools that offer you very high levels of protection, but it is important to validate that they are easy to use. A very common trap, but one that you must avoid, is setting up a security solution that is complex to use. For example, if you ask not to use emails in your organization, but your alternative solution is not user-friendly and simple to use, your clients and colleagues will very quickly abandon the secure solution and unsecured email will return to your operations.
Beware of widespread computer systems in your organization.
Reality: Excessive promise that technology brings absolute productivity. Whether it's after following the advice of a representative from a large foreign company or an operational performance consultant.
What needs to be changed: Your company should not have all its activities on the same system or have all its data centralized on the same server or network.
Encrypted sharing platform which is easier to use than email
We position ourselves as a portal to your company that, at its simplest, replaces the sharing of confidential data by email.
TagMyDoc is safer, but also much more productive for everyone. Avoid hours of searching through your email chains to find an attachment or a note received by email. With TagMyDoc, it's only a matter of seconds before finding your confidential content. We are continually researching and developing to be a leader in what we do. Naturally, when we talk about security, in addition to offering the latest standards in data security and governance (availability, integrity and confidentiality of data), we use the best encryption practices.
If you want to know more about TagMyDoc's security and what it can do for your organization, get in touch with one of our experts.
TagMyDoc infrastructure security
TagMyDoc uses Amazon Web Services to host your data in Canada (Canada Central). AWS also maintains the following certifications: HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 1/2/3, Directive 95/46/EC and PCI DSS Level 1
Two Step Authorization
Combined with the Google Authenticator app, one-time password codes are used for two-step authorization in TagMyDoc. Even if your password is stolen, your account will not be accessible to a potential hacker.
Proactive Protection
TagMyDoc has more than 10 years of experience in developing web projects according to the highest industry standards in terms of security and performance. TagMyDoc users benefit from all this experience and our development philosophy "privacy by design".
Even in places with public WiFi connections (cafes and airports), TagMyDoc passwords cannot be stolen. Users can confidently open their TagMyDoc account in public places via WiFi or mobile network connections. TagMyDoc is accessible exclusively via an SSL connection, regardless of the action you take on the platform.
All data centers used by TagMyDoc are protected in accordance with the strictest industry certifications and standards (which includes access to physical storage media based on biometric data and maximum protection against intrusion). All the details here: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/data-centers/?nc1=h_ls
Data isolation
User data is isolated at the database level. We also offer isolation at data center level. The data of our users is isolated in such a way that there is no possibility of receiving access of another user's data by accident.
TagMyDoc uses two independent data centers and redundancy to ensure that the service is available to the maximum.
Backup copies of your data are created daily.
Data transfer for all users is carried out via an SSL-encrypted connection.
Your data deposited on our architecture is encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not earn any revenue from the sale of user data on our architecture.
The services that TagMyDoc™ provides to its users are subject to the following terms of use. TagMyDoc™ reserves the right to modify and update the Terms of Use at any time without notice. The most recent version of the Terms of Use can be consulted by following this link: www.tagmydoc.com/terms
The GDPR is a good thing to eliminate the malicious exploitation of digital data in the business world. Whether it's the completely transparent use of information, more visibility into processing or the right to forget. We have online governance with GDPR. If you have any questions regarding this subject, you can send an email to the following address: gdpr@tagmydoc.com
DPA means "data processing agreement". When TagMyDoc works with suppliers who will process confidential data (customers, prospects, employees, ...) in the course of providing services, it is mandatory to enter into a data processing agreement or DPA. This applies to our clients towards their clients.
What is TagMyDoc?
The best platform for your organization's needs to encrypt and share your content.
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What does the future hold for online advertising?
over 1 year ago by Talent
This year, it’s predicted that global digital ad spend will total a whopping US$333.25 billion (around £263.01 bn), rising by an impressive 17.6% from 2018. This means that, for the very first time, digital will make up around half the global advertising market.
In the UK, Barclays predicts that digital ad spend will hit £15bn, reports The Drum. Whichever way you look at it, online advertising is big business. But with digital trends shifting so rapidly, what changes are we likely to see down the track?
CMO.com asked experts to give their predictions, and here’s what you need to know about the future of online advertising.
Smarter technologies
Advertisers are already harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to automate tasks and boost ad efficiency through better optimisation. But there’s currently some serious, untapped potential and possibilities that will be unlocked soon.
Keith Eadie, VP and GM of Adobe Advertising Cloud says, “Imagine a media-buying platform where a marketer can input goals – sales, new customers, loyalty program sign-ups – and a transparent algorithm does the rest, executing buys and optimising every millisecond.” He gives another example of an ad that dynamically changes the voiceover tone based on viewer preferences.
The merging of AI with human creativity will completely transform advertising. At the moment, we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
More automated
This year, eMarketer estimates that more than 70% of digital video and more than 80% of display ads will be bought through automated channels.
Programmatic advertising is no longer a siloed channel; it’s simply how businesses are buying ads. As a result, the focus is shifting from execution to strategy and forming a better connection through marketing and advertising.
Droga5’s chief intelligence officer, Amy Avery, said the main appeal of programmatic for advertisers is efficiency – but it must be about effectiveness, as well. She can’t picture the landscape ever being 100% programmatic, but it will increase once “effectiveness variables come into play.” And that will happen, says Avery, as AI is put to widespread use for context and clues to inspire messaging.
Still, advertisers that features elements of storytelling, brand value and other experiential tactics will always require a human driver.
More measurable
Jennifer Breithaupt, global consumer CMO at Citi, rightly points out that measurement is key to demonstrating the value of advertising in relation to overall ROI. But as advertisers’ tactics shift, measurement will need to shift too.
She gives the example of experience-based campaigns currently being hard to quantify, despite having a huge impact on brand perception. “We need to evolve the measurement model to align,” she said.
These days, clicks and visits aren’t the only metrics for success. Therefore, the future will require marketers to figure out how to bring those metrics together to tell a holistic story.
It will become equally as important to measure experiences in new and emerging ad formats, such as VR and AR.
Other expert predictions see online advertising becoming more experiential, as advertisers appeal to consumers with one-of-a-kind experiences. There’ll be more transparent and safe experiences, with brands committed to maintaining a strong brand image by running ads in a positive, trusted environment.
The pace of change in the digital space is incredible. Keeping up with the pace isn’t enough. If you want to stay ahead of it, you need the right people.
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Google lends its machine-learning tool to fight deforestation
Posted Mar 21
Google’s machine-learning tool is being used to detect and combat illegal deforestation
The news: Rainforest Connection, a San Francisco nonprofit, has developed a cheap, rigorous acoustic monitoring system made from modified cell phones and solar panels. An app on the so-called Guardian devices, which can be hidden in trees throughout forests, continuously listens for the telltale signs of illegal logging and animal poaching.
On March 21, the organization announced that it will be using Google’s TensorFlow, a free tool that makes it simpler for other companies and groups to develop machine-learning software (see “Google stakes its future on a piece of software”). Rainforest Connection says it will enable the organization to more accurately detect troubling sounds in the uploaded audio, such as chainsaws, vehicles, and gunshots.
Why does it matter? Deforestation reduces biodiversity, increases erosion, and promotes desertification. Felled trees also release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere, accounting for around 10 percent of global emissions driving climate change, according to an earlier NASA study. Between 50 percent and 90 percent of all logging in tropical countries is done illegally, according to a 2012 report by the UN and Interpol.
The final word: “When fighting deforestation, every improvement can mean one more saved tree,” Rainforest Connection said in a blog post.
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RT-PCR test to detect Covid-19 to be available for free in Delhi; will give results in 6 hours
Times Now Digital
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday launched a mobile laboratory that will conduct free RT-PCR tests for COVID-19.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Spicejet CMD Ajay Singh during the launch of mobile RT-PCR lab at ICMR headquarters, in New Delhi, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. |  Photo Credit: PTI
The tests would be conducted free of cost for the people of Delhi and the reports will be available in 6-8 hours
The cost of the test is Rs 499 and it will be borne by the Indian Council of Medical Research
SpiceHealth said it will set up 20 laboratories in different parts of the country in the first phase
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday paved the way for a free test to detect Covid-19. The real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, which in some states costs as high as Rs 2,400, will be conducted in mobile labs at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) headquarters in New Delhi for free.
The cost of the test Rs 499 will be borne by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). As opposed to the 24-48 hour period, the test report will also be generated in a record 6 hours after the collection of sample.
SpiceHealth has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ICMR for setting up testing laboratories and collection centres across the nation. A number of portable testing facilities will be set up across the country by SpiceHealth, led by CEO Avani Singh, and GeneStore to make them available to people at large for an economical rate as part of make-in-India initiative.
While the ICMR has certified the testing kits and laboratory facilities, the mobile laboratories have been duly accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).
In Phase 1, 20 labs will be established with the capacity of processing 3,000 tests per day. Amit Shah on Monday launched the first of a series of mobile labs at the ICMR.
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Internet Web Browsers
Google Chrome 76 Released – Here the Full Changelog and Download Links
Google Chrome developer team has upgraded the stable version of Google Chrome web browser to version 76. Google Chrome 76 has been improved with several features, stability, and improvements. The new version has featuring 43 security fixes included Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection resistance, intrusive ads blocked by default, and more.
Google Chrome 76 is rolled out to all platforms such as Windows, Android, and Linux. Here the full details of changelog for Google Chrome 76:
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Ashampoo Backup 2020 comes with modern and easy to user interface, the main window provides buttons to show Backup Contents, Restore, and Verify. Users can create backup plan at predefined times or choose manual backups, everyday at a specific time, biweekly or choose advanced settings. The program also features automatic synchronization to run in background without slowing down PC performance.
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DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper is an advanced full-featured Blu-ray ripper application that enable to rip and convert any 2D/3D Blu-rays to 2D or 3D videos (Includes H.265 and 4K videos) in almost all famous formats such as MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, M2TS, TS, and audios in formats of MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AAC, WAV, AC3 and DTS, read Blu-ray discs/ISOs/folders, batch conversion, video editing, video preview, multi-threading, multi-core, and more without loss the output quality.
DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper comes with preset conversion characteristics which can modified by user, including encoding method, bit rate, frame resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate and more.
With it user friendly interface, everyone can easily rip and convert video or audio. DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper currently available in English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian languages.
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Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18898 Released to the Fast Ring with Task Manager Improvements
Microsoft has released another new Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18898 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring with brings an improvements for Task Manager, a number of fixes, and improvements.
With improvement in Task Manager, Windows 10 users is now able to see the type of hard disk which operating under system. It don’t just show Windows 10 users the information for main local drive but also include disk type for other installed drives in operating system. In addition, the latest build also including the resolution of many issues such as crashes in Desktop Window Manager and explorer.exe.
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The software comes with AES-256 encryption, two-step verification, unlimited number of passwords, secure synchronization passwords and data across multiple computers and devices, automatic backup data, restore, and unlimited sharing of passwords and Secure Notes.
Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 Build 18362 (19H1)
The latest build of Windows 10 Build 18362 (19H1) has been released to Fast ring and Slow ring Insiders. Windows 10 version 19H1 is expected to be released to the production branch in May 2019. For Windows users who intend to get the update right now, you can update with Media Creation Tool.
Media Creation Tool is a special tool which enable Windows users to create bootable media with Windows 10. New Media Creation Tool launch on Microsoft’s servers to allows Windows users available install the official version of Windows 10 ‘May 2019 Update’.
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Government releases draft pension and deferred salary leave plan regulations
Wednesday, August 05, 2020 @ 9:41 AM | By Elizabeth Boyd
Elizabeth Boyd
As part of the government of Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, on July 2 the Department of Finance Canada announced the release of proposed draft regulations that would amend the Income Tax Regulations (draft regulations) in order to assist sponsors of registered pension plans (RPPs) and deferred salary leave plans (DSLPs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the provision of temporary relief from certain requirements under the Income Tax Act.
The draft regulations address the following matters:
Adding stop-the-clock rules to the conditions applicable to DSLPs for the period of March 15, 2020, to April 30, 2021. The purpose of these rules is to ensure that DSLPs applicable to employees who return early from a leave or who defer the start of a leave during the specified period are not subject to premature termination and taxation. DSLPs allow employees to defer a portion of their salaries, while actively employed, to fund a leave of absence. Tax is payable on the deferred salary only when paid during the leave period, as long as the DSLP continues to comply with the prescribed requirements
Providing time-limited relief from the restrictions that prohibit an RPP from borrowing money for more than 90 days or as part of a series of loans and repayments. Specifically, the amendment would permit an RPP to borrow money, including by way of series of loans, after April 2020, provided the loan or series is repaid no later than April 30, 2021. Although, it is important to note that all other borrowing restrictions, including a prohibition on using RPP assets as security for a loan (other than in connection with certain transactions involving real estate), will remain in effect.
Extending the deadline for decisions to retroactively credit pensionable service under a defined benefit plan or to make catch-up contributions to money purchase accounts in an RPP.
Permitting catch-up contributions to money-purchase accounts in an RPP to be made in 2021 to the extent that 2020 required contributions are reduced. These catch-up contributions may be made from Jan. 1, 2021, to April 30, 2021, and can be applied to the plan member’s 2020 pension adjustment (PA) calculation. PAs in a year reduce Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contribution room for the following year and an RPP’s registration may be revoked, resulting in the RPP losing its tax-free status, if prescribed PA limits are exceeded.
For application to 2020, setting aside the 36-month employment condition in the definition “eligible period of reduced pay,” for the purpose of using prescribed compensation to determine benefit or contribution levels in an RPP. “Eligible periods of reduced pay” are periods in which plan members may accrue benefits or receive or make contributions based on their regular salary although that salary has been temporarily suspended or reduced. The purpose of this amendment is to permit RPPs to give more plan members, including newer employees, the opportunity to participate in their employer’s RPP, as if they were earning full salary throughout 2020.
Allowing wage rollback periods in 2020 to qualify as an eligible period of reduced pay for prescribed compensation purposes under an RPP. This change will ensure that plan members who experience reduced wages in 2020 are able to earn pension benefits and receive contributions based on their regular rate of pay.
The temporary changes to the DSLP rules respond to concerns that employees who are essential workers for purposes of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as health-care workers, were being required to postpone leaves under DSLPs or return to work ahead of schedule, although the changes are not limited to essential workers.
In some cases, without the proposed relief, delaying the start of a leave or returning early could contravene the requirements under Income Tax Regulation 6801(a) relating to DSLPs, resulting in adverse tax consequences to participants.
The proposed RPP changes, broadly speaking, appear designed to assist plan members, employers and plan administrators to cope with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, employees have experienced layoffs or salary reductions, and employers have suffered from significant revenue reductions, which can adversely affect the ability to make contributions.
Layoffs may also affect members’ ability to earn pensionable service. Relaxing borrowing restrictions could assist RPP administrators in managing cash flow that has been impacted by reductions in contributions and volatility in investment returns resulting from the pandemic.
The government’s announcement did not specify when the draft regulations would come into effect. However, in a July 10 announcement relating to the RPP changes, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed that plan members and administrators could rely on CRA’s long-standing practice of allowing taxpayers to act on proposed tax measures, on the assumption that the legislation will be enacted with respect to the draft regulations.
Elizabeth Boyd is a partner at Blakes. She is involved in all aspects of the taxation, design, implementation, administration and termination of pension, other employee benefit, stock option, share purchase, profit sharing and executive compensation arrangements, including compliance with tax, pension investment and other regulatory requirements.
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Man who beat woman to death in BDSM case gets life sentence
Stephanie Ingersoll
USA TODAY NETWORK – TENNESSEE
CLARKSVILLE — One of four people convicted in connection with the 2014 beating death of a BDSM "house slave" was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.
For the first time, Matthew Lee Reynolds took the stand. He was convicted, along with Alphonso Richardson, of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder and especially aggravated kidnapping in the beating and strangulation death of 39-year-old Shirley Beck at a Wilson Court home on June 26, 2014.
BDSM "mistress" Cynthia Dianne Skipper, who kept Beck as a "house slave" was found guilty of the lesser charges of criminally negligent homicide and especially aggravated kidnapping. Derek Vicchitto was found guilty of two counts of facilitation of second-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping.
Four found guilty in 'house slave' murder
Richardson, Skipper and Vicchitto will all be sentenced May 31.
All shared a Wilson Court home with Beck and were convicted April 1 in Circuit Court of some role in her murder.
Defense: Slain 'house slave' wanted beatings
The defense tried to put up mitigating circumstances Wednesday that might convince Judge Jill Ayers to lean toward the lightest possible sentence. The prosecutor argued there were a number of enhancing factors in hopes of swaying her to give the harshest punishment on all charges.
Because Reynolds was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and first-degree felony murder, those charges were merged. State law requires that he be sentenced to life in prison, which is 60 years. He can not be considered for release until he serves at least 51 years.
What Assistant District Attorney Robert Nash wanted was for Ayers to sentence Reynolds to 25 years on the especially aggravated kidnapping charge to run consecutively to the life sentence, meaning the kidnapping sentence would not start until after Richardson served out the murder sentence.
Nash argued that Reynolds was on probation for another crime when he took part in the beating that killed Beck, that he had a criminal history involving an assault, that his crime involved exceptional cruelty and that he showed no hesitation in an act that could kill another.
Beck was beaten for hours while she was suspended from a ceiling with her hands bound above her head after Richardson accused her of trying to poison him because he spotted a residue on his glass that he thought might be boric acid used to kill roaches. Skipper authorized a punishment, and Reynolds and Richardson kicked and hit her for almost four hours while she and Vicchitto mostly watched, according to trial testimony.
Three times Beck lost consciousness while being beaten, three times she was taken down, revived and hung up and beaten again, Nash said. He argued the public needed to be protected from people like Reynolds.
"Is there any more dangerous people than these?" Nash said during the hearing.
Ayers sentenced Reynolds to life in prison on the murder charges and 25 years for the especially aggravated kidnapping. That charge and a violation of probation charge will run at the same time as the murder sentence.
Despite Reynolds' testimony and testimony from his mother that he had been abused as a child and that he didn't want any part in the happenings at Wilson Court, Ayers found no mitigating circumstances.
Linda Johnson said her son, Reynolds, had been homeless and only lived in the Wilson Court house for a short while before the murder.
"Before this, he called me and said, 'There's some crazy stuff going on and you need to come get me,'" she said.
BDSM stands for overlapping abbreviations that include bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadism and masochism.
Beck came to Clarksville to take part in the BDSM lifestyle and agreed to be Skipper's slave after leaving the home of another mistress, according to court testimony.
From wife and mother to 'slave' to murder victim
Reach Breaking News Reporter Stephanie Ingersoll at 245-0267 or on Twitter @StephLeaf
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Moygashel Mills
Stevensons were a Scottish Plantation family who moved to Co. Tyrone in the 1600s. Robert Stevenson, bought the Linen Mill at Moygashel and turned it into one of the most technologically advanced mills of its time which included 15 houses for employees.
By 1901 a village of 28 dwellings had been developed at the mill, some of which are still in place today.
During The War Years
Stevenson’s became a limited company in 1907. By 1936 the Stevensons were aware that a European war would prevent flax imports reaching Moygashel and began growing their own supplies using Belgian seed.
Moygashel played an important role in both World Wars, as an employer and as a manufacture of essential materials like parachute harness straps, gun coverings and hosepipes. Finer yarns were spun as ‘aero linen’ which was fitted to the frame of fighter aircraft like the de Havilland Mosquito.
Moygashel Ltd was bought by Courtaulds in 1969 who sold it to Lamont Holdings in 1980 before it was transformed into The Linen Green, Ireland’s 1st village style luxury fashion outlet in 2000 by Moygashel Community Development Association Ltd. Since then the Linen Green has established itself as one of Ireland’s premier shopping locations with over 30 independent high end retailers.
The Linen Green’s unique Linen Mill heritage is still clearly evident in its use of names for each of the blocks of shops including The Framehouse, Warehouse, Workhouse, Bleaching Sheds, Dyehouse, Weavings Sheds and Cloth Loft. It also hosts a small exhibition of Moygashel Mill artefacts which is earmarked for development next year. The current exhibition includes photographs, mill tools & machinery, letters, material samples, products and office log books which are currently displayed within the exhibition Centre.
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Some clouds. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 28F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph..
Some clouds. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 28F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
HAPPY TO SERVE — From left, Pastor Jason Miller, Dutch Cove Baptist Church, and Pastor Josh Evans at Crabtree Baptist Church worked at the Clyde serving site.
SERVING OTHERS — This is the morning crew that assembled barbecue lunches for first responders on 9/11.
Bill Wilke
THE MEAL — In addition to a tasty meal, first responders received a personally written thank you note, a booklet on responding to brokenness and a prayer.
LUNCHES — Carl Moore of Crestview Baptist offers a sneak peek at the lunches inside a container that will keep them piping hot until delivered.
ON DUTY — Lorena Smathers, Crestview Baptist Church, was one of the volunteers at the Clyde meal distribution site.
HARD AT WORK — Steve Brooks, representing the Gideons, Kathy Whent with Crestview Baptist Church and Jim Haynes with Antioch Baptist work at the Clyde site.
SIGNAGE — A sign at Hillside Baptist Church in Canton let first responders know they were in the right place.
CLEAN-UP CREW — Lynn Caldwell, Bill Wilke, Donna Willett, Pastor Chris Willett, Doris Clark wind things down Friday afternoon at Hillside Baptist Church.
Bonding through barbecue, serving others through prayer
By Vicki Hyatt vhyatt@themountaineer.com
Vicki Hyatt
Baptist church volunteers across Haywood County providing a barbecue meal to first responders on 9/11 had as much fun working together for a single goal as they did honoring those who put their lives on the line to protect and defend.
“It’s been a great day,” said Pastor Jason Miller with Dutch Cove Baptist Church as he helped serve and deliver meals in the Clyde area.
The Haywood Baptist Association planned to serve more than 600 meals out of four locations in the county. The Haywood Community College Public Services Training Facility was used to serve the central area of the county, and more than 200 meals were handed out by 4:30 p.m. Friday.
While there was a socially distanced dine-in option, the vast majority of meals were take-out, Miller said.
In addition to a healthy portion of barbecue and sauce, the Ninevah Baptist Church cook team prepared a container of beans to be placed in each meal, which was rounded out with a roll, chips and a cookie. The personal touch included a booklet on brokenness, along with a hand-written thank you note to all the first responders and their families. Some were written by children.
“I had my Sunday school class make cards,” said Donna Willett, whose husband, Chris, pastors High Street Baptist Church, which served as the Canton meal distribution site.
Pastor Chris Willett said most of the 250 meals served in the Canton area were assembled and delivered by more than 50 volunteers. While some came in with families and ate at the church, most of the meals were delivered to fire halls, the police department and other first responder sites in the east end of the county. The delivery team offered a prayer at each stop, he said.
“People were very appreciative that we reached out in the current climate,” Pastor Willett said, adding that he was personally able to pray with several of those coming in for meals about challenges they were facing.
Miller said when first responders were asked how they would like people to pray for them, the response was often, “pray for our safety and pray for our protection.”
“These men and women have the most dangerous jobs in this county,” Miller said. “It’s an honor to pray for them and serve them a meal.”
Carl Moore of Crestview Baptist Church was delighted to spend time “giving back to people who give so much to us,” while Emily Lyda of Woodland Baptist Church said she felt humbled.
“They have done so much for us in a time we need them more than ever,” she said.
Miller said the Haywood Baptist Association was fortunate to be in a position to put on an event to honor first responders, and said seeing the churches working together was heartening.
Pastor Willett agreed.
“Churches getting to work together was really good,” he said. “You don’t always get to know everyone.”
Bill Wilke, a retired police officer who attends Dutch Cove Baptist Church, was delighted to serve his colleagues.
“It’s been a great day working with people from other churches and serving first responders who put their lives on the line every day,” Wilke said.
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By Steve LambertThe Canadian Press
WINNIPEG - Manitoba is expanding its capacity to inoculate people against COVID-19 to such an extent that it could provide vaccine to every adult in the province before May — if there are enough doses in the national supply chain.
“We’ve had a number of cases ... related to larger households and some spread among households as well, so there’s work being done to contain and mitigate the spread of the virus in those communities,” Atwal said.
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Saskatchewan reports 247 new COVID-19 cases, highest rate of active infections
REGINA - Saskatchewan is reporting 247 new cases of COVID-19.
Health officials say there are 205 people in hospital and 36 of them are receiving intensive care.
Two more residents who were 80 or older have died, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 206 — 51 of those since the start of January.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says Saskatchewan has the highest rate in the country of active cases per 100,000 people.
Premier Scott Moe says he believes gatherings over the holidays are behind the recent spike in infections.
His Saskatchewan Party government has extended existing public-health measures for another two weeks, but has not tightened them in the hope that numbers will start to go down.
Health officials say the province’s seven-day average of new daily cases sits at 316.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan, 13, 2021
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Tyler Perry's Sistas cast and characters, season 2 release date
6 months ago read comments by Caiaphas Wanjala
Who plays which role in Tyler Perry's Sistas series? The Sistas cast is made up of renowned, talented actors and actresses that you may have interacted with in other productions. If you have been following this interesting 2019 comedy-drama but only know the characters by their stage name, then it is time you learned their real names.
Image: instagram.com, @sistasonbet
Sistas is a film that everyone can relate to in real life because it captures the day to day things that we go through. You may be caught up in the series and the roles that the actors play to the extent of referring to the cast by their Sistas character names even when they are starring in another movie. More so, you may associate them with a specific role even when they act a different part in another production, so it is important to know the real names of Tyler's Sistas.
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It is tough balancing career, romance, and other platonic friendships, especially in the current world where "couple goals" result in unrealistic targets in relationships. Sistas series, which started airing on October 23rd, 2019, explores various experiences of single black women in their daily lives. The series focuses on how the single relationship status drives these women to bond and maintain friendships. Furthermore, the twists and turns in the film bring to light the complications of dating, and unrealistic social media influences and exposures affect the characters in the play.
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Who is Lisa on Sistas? Who is Fatima on Sistas? The 25 episodes of season one of the series, with a running time of 42 minutes, bring out a lovely story featuring talented actors and actresses, including Fatima and Lisa. The main cast includes:
1. KJ Smith
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Image: instagram.com,@kjsmithofficial
The 35-year old is an American actress from Tallahassee, Florida. Khaneshia JaNea (KJ) Smith graduated from Florida A & M University and, after that, moved to Los Angeles to start her career in art. She is now unmistakable for being a strong female character in different movies including the following;
Oprah Winfrey's drama series Queen Sugar
Dynasty as Kori Rocks
The Fosters (as Angela)
Skinny Dip TV series
Smith takes the lead role of Andi, a virtuous and high powered attorney in the Sistas TV series. The hardworking Andi finds herself in a controversial romantic relationship with a married man.
2. Mignon Von
Image: instagram.com, @seriesletstalk
The actress is a favourite for providing comic relief in different TV series. Mignon is now in her sweet 30's and renowned for her appearances in the following productions
Sister Code(2015)
Mignon portrays the character of Danni on Sistas, where she works as an airline supervisor. The contrast of her adventurous and abrasive nature is genuinely appealing to most fans.
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3. Ebony Obsidian
Image: instagram.com,@ebonyobsidian
The 26-year-old New Yorker previously worked on independent projects before landing a lead role TV series such as;
Netflix's Master of None (S2)
Ebony portrays a beautiful and talented Karen Mott in Sistas. She is an ambitious young woman running a salon business. Life and love struggles end with her developing interest in a man who recently separated with his wife
4. Novi Brown
Image: instagram.com,@iamnovibrown
The American-German actress is also a talented model, photographer, producer, and writer. She is now living in the US and has previously featured in productions such as;
Sleeping with My Student
Spider (2019)
National Geographic program Cosmos
Novi stars the role of Sabrina Hollins in Sistas. She is the dramatic banker who keeps questioning the sexuality of her lover.
5. DeVale Ellis
Image: instagram.com, @iamdevale
DeVale is an American actor from Brooklyn, New York. He is now married to fellow actress Khadeen Ellis with whom he has three children. DeVale is a long time actor best known for his notable roles in;
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Gotham (2014)
A Piece of Me: An Everyday Story (2016).
DeVale portrays the role of Zac in Sistas. He is an ex-lover to Karen and now in a love triangle. She is willing to do anything to get him back after sensing unfaithfulness.
6. Chido Nwokocha
Image: instagram.com, @yea_imchido
Chido is an alumnus from Ohio University now in his early 30's. He is an exciting character in various television series such as;
Murder in the First (2014)
The Night Shift (2014)
Gary is in the middle of an illicit relationship with Andi. Sistas brings out the ups and downs of this extramarital affair with an engaging story.
7. Brian Jordan Jr.
Image: instagram.com, @brianjordanjr
Brian is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The 29-year-old is a dancer, singer, and actor with several credits for featuring in the following television series.
Kenya Moore: Gone with the Wind Fabulous (2013)
Bolden (2019).
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Brian takes the role of Maurice in Sistas. He is a co-worker and close confidant to Sabrina.
8. Anthony Dalton
Image: instagram.com, @therealanthonydalton
The 40-year old Antony is a famous actor and producer. He was among the cast in the following productions;
Saints & Sinners (2016)
Shots Fired (2017)
The Paynes (2018).
Calvin Rodney is an exciting man in the Sistas cast because his desires and interests leave Sabrina in a state of confusion.
9. Kevin Walton
Image: instagram.com, @sourceradiance
Kevin Walton has been acting and writing for years now. He is best recognized for his work in television series such as;
Fractured Minds (2011)
Brother's Keeper
Step Up Revolution (2012).
Kevin features the role of Aaron Carter in Sistas. He is that handsome man who keeps Karen interested.
10. Crystal Renee'
Image: instagram.com, @luvcrystalrenee
Crystal's notable productions include;
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2008)
Little Inspectors (2016)
Magic Button(2016).
Tyler Perry's Sistas fans can not resist her role as Fatima. She is a dramatic assistant in the office of Andi.
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The recurring cast is made up of:
Jasmine Borders (Crystal-Lee Naomi)- She is Gary's wife.
Fawn Carter (Madison McKinley) - Aaron's wife. She commits suicide inside Karen's salon.
Leslie Davenport (Keena Ferguson) - He is a tough private investigator employed to investigate Andi's love triangle.
Preston Horace (Trinity Whiteside)
Morris Hollis (Tobias Truvillion)
Lisa Mott (Shari Belafonte)
Don Bellamy (Michael King)
Is there a season 2 of Sistas?
Sistas series fans can finally sigh with relief because their favourite comic drama series is coming back for its second season. The upcoming second season proves that there are more tokens of entertainment in store. On May 12th, 2020, BET reaffirmed the return of Sistas, and after that, Perry went on to disclose that productions for the second season are effective July 8th, 2020.
Sistas Season 2 plot and expectations
The second season of Sista will continue the story of single life in season one. The new season will, however, concentrate on career and personal developments of individual singles. Sistas season two trailers are yet to come out, and until then, we can only speculate that they will only build the show to greater heights.
Where is Sistas filmed at?
The Hollywood film director will film the two BET series, The Oval and Sistas, at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. His plan to shoot for a short span of two and half weeks has left many shocked on how the whole process will work out.
The series post will require all those involved in the upcoming shoot not to travel outside within the shooting duration. The team has confirmed that there are sufficient structures for all those who will attend the shooting—the assurance bashes earlier claims that hinted a possible need for portable housing.
Sistas appointed Professor Carlos Del Rio from the Emory Vaccine Center to works as a testing consultant for the team. Therefore, everyone in attendance will undergo a mandatory testing procedure and after that quarantine in their rooms. In Addition, the crew will undergo four tests during the two and a half weeks of shooting exercise.
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Tyler Perry's plan on the cast, characters, and release date for the second season is underway. So far, there are enough reasons to believe the love for Sistas cast is still alive and warming for the second season.
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The Chi season 3: full cast and characters list, episodes
5 months ago read comments by Vivian Mutsoli
Season 3 of The Chi is back with a bang! And despite the cast changes, the fun experienced is as thrilling as ever. Who are these characters gracing your screens? Who were killed off?
Image: facebook.com, @TheChionShowtime
The Chi reminds you of Chicago's gritty south side, a place where residents are striving to survive. In this tough neighbourhood, danger looms everywhere, and every day's decisions not only quash dreams, but they often have consequences. Nonetheless, the series reinforces the fact that every thought is valid regardless of one's current circumstances.
The Chi season 3 synopsis
In a nutshell, a maturing Emmett tries to change his mother's perception about him. He transforms from a demoralized teenage to a full-fledged business person, but Jada has her sights set on her next chapter of her life. Ronnie is still unsure of his purpose in life but hopes he can transform himself too.
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Kiesha, Kevin and their newlywed mothers, Dre and Nina, undergo a significant change in attitude in their family. Jake, on one hand, finds himself in a tug-of-war between his estranged brother Trig, and Douda, his dominant new father-figure, while Papa, on the other, finds love in an unlikely place.
Season 3 revolves around a group of residents who become linked by coincidence, but they become bonded by the need for connection and redemption.
The Chi full cast, real names, and their roles
A team of talented actors and actresses have combined both their intellectual and physical resource to ensure that you get entertained. Below are the names of your favourite characters.
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Ronnie - He is a straight forward man, but it seems that he does not have the strength to extricate himself from bad situations. He lives with Ethel, who is his grandmother and has a dream of getting back with his true love.
Jacob Latimore as Emmett - A sneaker-obsessed teen who is on the loose, and as a result, he has an unplanned child. With the help of his strong mother, he does all he can to provide for the kid.
Alex Hibbert as Kevin - He is a well brought up kid, from a caring household. All he wants it to enjoy time with friends and flirt with girls. He is, however, caught up in serious trouble.
Yolonda Ross as Jada - Emmett's mother. She is an eldercare nurse, and one of her patients is Ethel.
Shamon Brown as Papa - He is smart, funny, and likes to eat. He is the third member of Kevin's posse. Papa's objectives are to flirt with girls and pursue his diverse interests.
Michael Epps as Jake - Jake is Kevin's good friend. The two are inseparable. However, he is at risk of fall under the evil influence of his brother, who is a leader of a local gang.
Birgundi Baker as Kiesha - She is Kevin's older sister is a high school track star who, like any typical teenager testing independence, has an over-protective mother. She is so close to her brother.
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Tyla Abercrumbie as Nina - A mother to Kevin and Kiesha. She is a proud lesbian who is determined to shield her children from the trouble of the city. She does so by keeping them focused on education.
Miriam A. Hyman as Dre - Nina's new wife who is excited and fully immersed in Nina's family. She is a co-parent to Kevin and Keisha.
Curtiss Cook as Douda - He is a successful businessman and mayoral candidate by day, and a leader of a brutal local gang by night. He knows how to stage PR stances, but his motives are selfish.
Luke James as Trig - Jake's older brother who returns to town with his girlfriend. He is determined to reunite his family and get custody of Jake. His complicated past is a stumbling block to him in his quest to be Jake's guardian.
Jasmine Davis as Imani - Trig's lovely girlfriend. She is a principled lady who will stand up to Trig when she feels he is wrong. She is compassionate and willing to help those who deserve help.
Jason Mitchell as Brandon - A young man who is striving to better himself. With the help of his girlfriend, Jerrika, he opens a restaurant. However, a devastating tragedy threatens to bring down all he has worked hard to build.
Tiffany Boone as Jerrika - Brandon's girlfriend. She is trying to help him build a future with her by starting a restaurant together.
Barton Fitzpatrick as Reggie - Jake's older brother. He is a leader of a local gang and a drug peddler. Nonetheless, he looks out for his little brother for better or worse.
Armando Riesco as Detective Cruz - He is a soft-hearted policeman, who want to contain and wipe out violence and bloodshed in the neighbourhood. Unfortunately, he is face resistance from both the side of the police, who think he is too soft and the local populace, who wants nothing to do with the police.
Sonja Sohn as Laverne - She is Brandon's fragile mother, who needs more parenting than she gives. She is struggling with a drinking problem, lack of ambition, and a questionable taste in men. A terrible personal tragedy threatens to derail her altogether.
Steven Williams as Quentin - He is a neighbourhood kingpin elder. He has been away for a while but has recently returned to re-stake his claim. He earns a living illegally, but seem to maintain a degree of civility and an interest in protecting the families of the neighbourhood.
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The Chi Season 3 episodes
Season 3 of The Chi began airing on June 21st 2020, and so far only five episodes have been aired. The storyline is utterly captivating and will leave everyone glued to their screens.
Episode 1 - Foe 'Nem
It begins with one of the happiest moments ever - a wedding. Nina and Dre are getting married. The rings have barely been exchanged before we are exposed to treated to the grim reality of Chicago's South Side - the demise of one of the main characters (Brandon).
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Reg is also dead, but Trig, his elder brother, is back with his girlfriend - Imani. He has the interest to take Jake back from Douda, who is running for mayor. He also kills the man who killed Reg.
Episode 2 - Brewfurd
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Kevin appeals to Jake and Papa for help, and Emmett finds a solution to his food problem. Jada on his part samples the dating scene and a local trap kitchen run by Dom, while Trig comes up with a plan to get custody of his brother Jake from Douda.
Episode 3 - Buss Down
Jake enlisted his brother’s help to search for Keisha, and Emmett and his family moves in with his mother. On the other side, Nina and Dre with the assistance of an established support group hold a vigil for their missing daughter to spread the word.
Episode 4 - Gangway
Ronnie finds a new calling in his quest for redemption. On the other hand, Emmett lets his dad Darnell and his insecurities get the best of him. Kevin is weighed down by a lie, and the mayoral race heats up when Camille Halloway and Douda face off.
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Episode 5 - Terror Town
Ronnie's past encounters threaten to drown his progress, and an unexpected visit threatens Trig's battle to get custody of his young brother. On the other hand, Kevin and his friend's adventure tests the limits of their fight-or-flight instincts. Emmett takes advantage of a predicament, and Jada meets Tomas's family.
For fans of the show, many questions remain unanswered. If you're sailing in the same boat, we've got you covered. Here are some of the questions fans ask repeatedly.
What are The Chi cast changes?
Season 3 treats you to a surprise cast changes that will see actors depart and others emerge. In episode 1, it is crystal clear that Jason Mitchell (Brandon) will not be back on the show. A look at why he is not back to the show reveals that he was fired from the show due to allegations about his off-camera behaviour.
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The two police officers, Armando Cruz (Armando Riesco) and Alice Toussaint (Crystal Dickinson), who dominated the first two seasons are also absent. However, their storylines are not mentioned.
Who plays Reggie in The Chi?
Barton Fitzpatrick plays the character Reggie or Reg. He is a drug peddler and a leader of a local gang group. In Season 2, we are treated to a scene where an assailant shoots him. His friend comes in to help, but he finally dies in Season 3 episode 1.
Who died in The Chi season 3?
Brandon and Reggie are killed off in season 3. It is not clear about what kills Brandon, but Reggie succumbed to the injuries sustained when he was shot.
The first two seasons of The Chi have attracted an incredible number of viewers, and season 3 does not disappoint. Keep watching to see what unfolds in the coming episodes.
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Antihero - Movie Review
"AntiHero" is an independent film directed by Joseph Weindl that was awarded Best Feature from the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival and also found its way in to both the Guam International Film Festival and Seattle's True Independent Film Festival.
It is a Sci-Fi, adventure, comedy filled with hilarious scenes that will have you laughing at how absurd, yet strangely familiar they are. Filmed on a budget of $8,000, the cast and crew get every penny's worth out of their effort to produce 84 minutes of entertainment you won't soon forget.
Here is the official synopsis of the movie that is on the official website.
"Pork Rind is a busboy with sticky fingers and a belly full of cheap beer. When he realizes a psychic power he never knew he had, he and best friend, Weezie, embark on an all-too-easy burglary spree. Due in part to this newfound power, Pork Rind and Weezie keep finding themselves in the position of accidental heroes.
When their thieving ways finally catch up with them, the opportunity arises to test their mettle, and prove that even the least-expecting slacker can rise to occasion to become a true Antihero.
Antihero is equal parts raunchy-comedy and heartfelt adventure. Geurilla filmmaking at it's best, Antihero was shot over the Summer of '10, on a shoestring budget, with a two-man crew, and a lively cast comprised mostly of VCU theater students and graduates."
What I like most about "AntiHero" is how easily you can relate to the main characters as they almost literally stagger through what turns out to be quite an adventure. What starts out as a drunken, pothead, slacker comedy quickly branches out in to the realm of Sci-Fi as Pork Rind discovers his psychic powers and, along with his best friend Weezie, uses them initially for nothing but personal gain.
Eventually, the less-than-dynamic duo are pulled in to a drug deal gone bad by their new found friend Lainee and they are forced to come up with a plan to save the day. Meanwhile, lots of drinking, pot smoking, video game playing, and movie watching takes place and everyone is having such a good time, you can't help but feel like you are one of the gang and along for the ride on this unexpected adventure.
Of course, you should not be looking for any type of elaborate special effects or big, sweeping camera shots as this is low budget film making at its finest. What Weindl manages to put together is a charming story with some hilarious moments and you can really see the makings of an inspired film maker. Hopefully "AntiHero" can pick up some kind of distribution or a run at a few movie houses around the country as it definitely deserves to be out there for people to see.
Check out the official "AntiHero" website HERE!
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Activist Jolovan Wham to be charged with holding illegal assemblies
Mr Jolovan Wham. BERITA HARIAN FILE PHOTO
Yunita Ong
Social activist Jolovan Wham will be charged in court today with organising public assemblies without a police permit, vandalism and refusing to sign his statements when required by police.
Mr Wham is an advocate for migrant workers' rights and the former executive director of Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics.
Police said in a statement released yesterday that Mr Wham, 37, had created a Facebook event asking the public to participate in a vigil outside Changi Prison Complex on July 13.
He went on to hold the vigil although he had stated in the online post that a permit had not been sought.
The vigil had been for Malaysian Prabagaran Srivijayan, 29, who was convicted of importing 22.24g of heroin into Singapore and was hanged on July 14.
Police said 17 people, including Mr Wham, were investigated for organising and participating in an illegal public assembly outside the prison complex.
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The remaining 16 people are still being investigated.
On June 3, Mr Wham organised a silent protest on an MRT train with eight others without a police permit.
They had been protesting against the detention of 22 activists in 1987 under the Internal Security Act for allegedly trying to overthrow the Government.
He also faces a charge of vandalism under the Vandalism Act for pasting two A4 sheets on an MRT train panel. The other eight are still under investigation, said police.
On Nov 26 last year, Mr Wham held an indoor public assembly featuring a foreign speaker, Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong.
Police said they had advised him earlier that a police permit was required but he went ahead without one.
During the investigations, Mr Wham had also refused to sign his statement on multiple occasions when required to, an offence under the Penal Code.
The police statement said: "(Mr) Wham is recalcitrant and has repeatedly shown blatant disregard for the law, especially with regard to organising or participating in illegal public assemblies."
Those convicted of organising a public assembly without a police permit can be fined up to $5,000 under the Public Order Act. Repeat offenders can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed up to six months, or both.
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The Edmonton Police Service is warning citizens to do their research when looking to adopt a new fluffy friend as online puppy fraud becomes more prominent.
In May of 2020, police received a report from a couple who believed they had lost money to a puppy fraud. After deciding to add a new dog to their family, they reportedly began an online search and responded to an ad that they believed belonged to a legitimate breeder. The couple was soon contacted by the seller to discuss the purchase of a puppy, as well as the cost of shipping. The couple reportedly agreed to the terms and sent an e-transfer to the seller. A day later, the seller allegedly reached out to request several hundred additional dollars for a travel crate and travel vaccinations, claiming they were required prior to shipping. The couple once again agreed to pay. The seller then reportedly reached out a third time to request several thousand additional dollars for pet travel insurance, which they claimed would be refunded when the puppy arrived. Becoming suspicious, the couple reportedly ended communication with the seller and contacted the EPS.
“Unfortunately, this is only one of many reports,” says Acting Detective Dana Gehring with the EPS Cyber Crimes Investigations Unit. “As more citizens add furry friends to their families during the pandemic, fraudsters have found a way to take advantage of them.”
Since October 2019, the Edmonton Police Service has received 17 complaints of online puppy fraud, with individual losses ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. In total, more than $40,000 has been defrauded from citizens over a 13-month period.
While each situation is unique, the frauds seem to follow a similar pattern and often begin with the victim conducting an online search that leads them to fraudulent websites/ads for breeders/suppliers. In most cases the purchase price is largely undervalued, and the fraudster will add additional costs like insurance, vet bills, shipping fees, quarantine housing fees, and more, claiming it must all be paid before the puppy can be sent. Payment is usually sent via e-transfer, though some fraudsters have also asked for payment through Western Union or Bitcoin.
As the holidays approach, investigators anticipate the fraudsters will be ready and waiting and are hopeful this warning will prevent more heartbreaking frauds from taking place.
“These fraudsters frequently try to use the emotion of the situation to their advantage,” says Acting Det. Gehring. “They may claim the puppy is waiting in an airport or shipping facility and will remain there until payment is received, which often tugs at the heartstrings of dog lovers.”
If you are planning to add a new fluffy friend to your home, the EPS advises doing plenty of research to ensure you’re getting a real pet from a trusted organization. When possible, seek out a local organization first. Edmonton has numerous legitimate organizations and registered charities/incorporated societies who have furry friends waiting for their furever homes. If you must search outside of the Edmonton area, keep the following tips in mind:
Do your research.
Research adoption fees and prices for the dog you are considering ahead of time. If the price seems too good to be true, it likely is.
Ask for detailed information about the seller such as full name, phone number and mailing address. Search the seller’s name or phone number online along with the word “scam” or “complaint.”
Try doing a reverse image search of the website or ad photos. If the same photos show up in older ads, on social media or on other websites, it is likely a scam.
Ask questions. Responsible breeders and rescues like to discuss and educate you about the dog or breed. Ask anything you want to know, including breed traits, information about the parents, temperament, the dog’s history or health concerns, etc.
Request proof. Ask for proof of health records/screenings and registration with any breed specific organizations (CKC), all of which you can confirm by calling the veterinarian and organization. This information will also be helpful when you bring your dog home.
Meet in person. If possible, ask to meet the seller and the dog in person or, at minimum, meet them both via video call. If the seller declines, ask why.
Avoid providing payment via e-transfer, Bitcoin or using a money transfer service. Scammers often use these forms of payment because they are like cash; once payment is sent it cannot be retrieved. Use a method of payment that has some form of fraud protection such as a credit card or PayPal.
Be patient. If the seller seems anxious to complete the sale, get your deposit or pushes you to make a quick decision, be cautious. Likewise, don’t trust a seller if they claim they must sell the dog quickly, cannot take care of it or threaten harm to the animal. Responsible breeders and rescues seek out the best homes for their dogs and are typically not in a rush.
Have you lost money to online puppy fraud? Do you have information about an ongoing puppy fraud? Contact the EPS at 780-423-4567 or #311 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.p3tips.com/250.
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Published on January 15, 2021
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have placed goaltender Mike Smith on long-term injury reserve, and have re-assigned Olivier Rodrigue to the club’s taxi squad, pending quarantine protocols.
Edmonton announced both transaction on Friday, but did not elaborate on Smith’s injury.
Smith was supposed to start Thursday’s game at home against the Vancouver Canucks but was declared inactive, forcing Mikko Koskinen into back-to-back starts.
Smith and Koskinen were expected to split duties in the Oilers net this season. Edmonton re-signed the 38-year-old Smith to a one-year contract in the off-season.
Rodrigue had been with the Graz99ers of the Austrian National League.
The 20-year-old Rodrigue was drafted 62nd overall by Edmonton in 2018.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published January 15, 2021.
Alberta health minister says vaccine schedule to take hit from manufacturing delays
EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says it will take longer than expected to start immunizing seniors over 75 outside long-term care homes due to a delay in manufacturing one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Tyler Shandro called the news out of Ottawa on Friday a blow and said it’s not clear how severely the delay will affect Alberta’s vaccine allocation in the coming weeks.
“This is out of our control, but it will impact Alberta’s immunization schedule,” he said Friday.
The schedule for seniors over 75, regardless of where they live, and Indigenous people over 65 is up in the air because it will take longer to immunize priority health-care workers, Shandro said.
“We had hoped to announce the start of these vaccinations in the coming days, but that is now in question.”
Federal officials said earlier in the day that only half of promised Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses will arrive in the next month due to production issues in Belgium.
“This is unfortunate news and we are all disappointed. However, we will not stop,” Shandro said. “Health officials will continue giving out what vaccines we do have as quickly as possible.”
Senior medical officer of health Laura McDougall said Alberta is still ramping up its ability to administer vaccines and has been able to deliver more shots than expected so far.
She said the province has recruited pharmacists, retired health-care workers and nursing students to give out shots and pop-up clinics have been set up in emergency departments to reach more front-line staff.
“We have enough immunizers and more than enough people wanting to be immunized,” McDougall said. “What we need is more vaccine.”
Alberta reported 785 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday along with 13 more deaths. There were 796 people in hospital, with 124 of those in intensive care.
More than 74,000 vaccine doses have been given out so far, and the province still aims to administer 50,000 a week by the end of January if there is enough supply.
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The number of club stands, the focal point for many eye-catching displays, has increased for 2020 – with the well-established organisations joined by newcomers showcasing their members’ machinery.
Trade stands are also more prevalent than ever too, with David Brown Parts Ltd. and Tractorparts.co.uk Ltd. just two of the traders attending for the first time – joining the extensive selection of specialists on-hand to offer parts and supplies to tractor owners.
One of the big success stories from last year’s show will be making a welcome return in 2020. Jon Mitchell Shotblasting Ltd. is offering an on-site service for those that require parts shotblasted for their restoration project(s). Take your small items along for shotblasting while you’re at the show.
As for the all-important exhibits, there’s still time to enter your machine(s) – with free camping available to exhibitors. The closing date for entries is 1 February, with booking forms obtainable from the show office on 01697 451882 or downloadable from the website www.tractorworldshows.co.uk
Around 90 per cent of exhibits will be in the site’s four halls and although you can expect to see tractors and agricultural machinery of all ages, the special themes in 2020 will be 75 years of the Fordson E27N, 50 years of the International Harvester World Wide Series and Conversions.
Amongst the veteran, vintage, classic and modern tractors, there will also be classic trucks and vans (with a drive-in day on the Sunday of the show – no booking necessary),
horticultural machinery, model displays, miniature steamers and stationary engines.
H J Pugh & Co will be staging the renowned annual auction on the Saturday of the show, with more than 100 tractors and 2,000 lots in total expected at the sale.
A vintage sort-out and spares day will be held on the Sunday, with outdoor plots available for £30 (pre-booked). Forms are available to download from the website.
The Three Counties Showground has two restaurants serving breakfasts, snacks and lunches, plus a coffee lounge, and numerous outdoor catering units will also be in attendance. There is also a cash machine onsite.
To exhibit: download an entry form from www.tractorworldshows.co.uk or call 01697 451882.
For the auction: call 01531 631122 or visit www.hjpugh.com
For the vintage sort-out and spares day: Download an entry form from www.tractorworldshows.co.uk
For Drive in Sunday: No booking required
For tickets and up-to-date information on the traders and clubs that will be attending, please visit the website: www.tractorworldshows.co.uk or 01697 451882
Admission: Discounted tickets are available online, Adults £12.50 (£10.50 advance), Weekend £20 (£15 advance) and under 15s are admitted free. Weekend camping (three nights) for two adults costs £65 – or £55 in advance. Dogs on leads are welcome
The Spring Tractor World Show and the Classic Commercial Show takes place at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NW (follow brown signs from all major routes), on 22nd and 23rd February 2020.
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Ford Focus Zetec 2007 new car review
With a longer wheelbase and wider track than its predecessor, the Focus caned through the world’s toughest roads.
Darren Cottingham
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Ustaw. ukladu kier. It means power steering setup in Polish. I didn’t need to know this, but seeing as the Ford Focus Zetec is designed and engineered in Germany for the European markets, its trip computer comes in lots of different languages, like Polski. The interesting thing about the Ustaw. ukladu kier is that you can have sports, standard or comfortable courtesy of electro-hydraulic steering, and there’s not that much difference between them.
Nice to drive — comfortable ride and solid handling
The not-so-good
Spongy, long-throw brake pedal that’s set too high
Sequential shift is slow
Lacks cubby holes
With a longer wheelbase and wider track than its predecessor and the benefit of a rally program that’s seen the Focus caned mercilessly through the world’s toughest roads, road-holding is superb. 107kW of power emanates from the two-litre four-cylinder Duratec 16V motor at 6000rpm, and the maximum torque is 185Nm at 4500rpm.
This is sufficient to give it some hustle if you’re heavy with your right foot, and if you have the steering set to sport you are rewarded with a responsive suspension setup that is fun to chuck around. The Control Blade rear suspension has been tuned for an engaging ride but left supple enough to absorb most of the bumps afflicting NZ’s roads.
The Focus shares its platform with the Mazda3, and the motor and gearbox are also modifications from Mazda (unless you get the 5-speed manual, which is unique to the Focus).
Inside, the Focus has the usual European quirks: the indicators on the left, and the handbrake on the wrong side of the central binnacle. Also, there is a distinct shortage of storage, with nowhere to put a bottle, no large central binnacle and a lack of other pockets and cubby holes to store bits and bobs like sunglasses, coins and kielbasa (go on, Google it). But, you do get air conditioning, CD player, a couple of airbags (but no side curtain ones).
Like the Chrysler Sebring, I had a few weeks ago, the CD player actually needs the bass turning down even from a flat EQ to give a balanced sound mix. Stereo controls are on a European-style stubby wand on the left of the steering column and are easy to use. Cruise control buttons are located on the steering wheel. The cruise control itself is good except up steep hills where it searches and faffs around trying to maintain speed.
The seating position is comfortable and the steering wheel position is fully adjustable, making it suitable for the tall and short.
While visibility is good out front, and it’s easy to see down the side of the car with the heated wing mirrors, the steeply raked rear window threw up some new blind spots at the back of the car that took some getting used to. In the back, the passenger legroom is a little on the tight side with a tall driver, but the seats are very comfortable and there are aircon vents provided.
A trip computer resides between the rev counter and speedo. It’s a dot matrix screen that shows temperature, fuel usage, trip distance and time, and various setup options for the car. Above that (on the automatic) is a display showing which gear you’re in. If you change to the sequential gearbox, it shows you the actual gear.
Quoted figures for fuel economy are 8l/100km for the auto, but if you like a manual then you’ll better that with 7.1l/100km. The Focus will run on 91 octane fuel as well — something many of its competitors can’t do.
The Focus won Car of the Year in both the USA and the UK, so it’s obviously a competent car, but the market has moved onwards and upwards. Unfortunately for the Focus Zetec while it’s equal or better than its current competitors (Mazda3, Astra and Golf) it’s not a match for Subaru’s Impreza 2.0R Sport which is a few grand cheaper, so while the Ford is a nice car, it's one that needs a bit more Polish.
Note: This was reviewed as a new vehicle.
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Danvers, MA Cross Country Skiing Trails and Maps
Looking for the best Cross Country Skiing trails around Danvers?
Find the top rated cross country skiing trails in Danvers, whether you're looking for an easy short cross country skiing trail or a long cross country skiing trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a cross country skiing trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Derry Rail Trail
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Goffstown Rail Trail
Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
Granite Town Rail-Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
Head's Pond Trail
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Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area Trail
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Ballast, Gravel, Sand
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Dirt, Sand
Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Portsmouth Branch)
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
Windham Rail Trail
This exquisitely maintained trail slices through forested areas and wetlands for a wonderful experience in southern New Hampshire. The trail will eventually be part of the Granite State Rail Trail,...
NH 3.6 mi Asphalt
The Dover Community Trail snakes its way through the heart of the Garrison City—so nicknamed for the fortified log houses, or garrisons, built by 17th-century settlers—-offering a variety of trail...
NH 3.8 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
The year 2017 marks 20 years since a rails-to-trails project was first mentioned in the Goffstown Master Plan, and thanks to work by the Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail and support throughout the...
NH 5.5 mi Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
Mile 0.0 - DPW Garage Cross the bridge in the parking area, the trail starts behind the fence, crossing over Great Brook on a old dam. Mile 0.53 - After crossing Union St. you will come to a...
NH 3 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
The Head’s Pond Trail (formerly known as Hooksett Rail Trail) is a 1.9-mile rail-trail that visits two scenic ponds, including the eponymous Head’s Pond, in a woodsy area of Hooksett. The trail’s...
NH 1.75 mi Gravel
The smooth paved surface of the Londonderry Rail Trail offers a pleasant, tranquil 4.5-mile adventure for trail users in south-central New Hampshire. Its route follows a corridor once used by the...
The rail-trail through the Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area begins at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail station near downtown Newburyport, a coastal...
MA 3.4 mi Dirt, Gravel, Sand
The Mason Railroad Trail runs for nearly 7 miles from near the New HampshireMassachusetts border (nr. Townsend, MA) to Greenville, NH. The trail follows a heavily wooded corridor through Russell...
NH 6.7 mi Ballast, Gravel, Sand
Mine Falls Park in Nashua is a 300-acre-plus urban park with a network of approximately 9.7 miles of a variety of trail types. This forested park offers an extraordinary nature experience in the heart...
NH 9.7 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
The New Boston Rail Trail follows the former railroad corridor of the same name for 3.9 miles through densely wooded areas in the town of New Boston. The railroad was in operation from 1893 to 1931,...
NH 3.9 mi Dirt
Constructed in 1967, the Province Lands Bike Trail is the first bike trail ever built by the National Park Service. The trail, located at the northern tip of Cape Cod, features steep hills, sharp...
Crossing through wooded areas and featuring magnificent wetland vistas, the Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Fremont Branch) offers an 18.3-mile trail adventure from Epping to Windham. The northern...
NH 18.3 mi Dirt, Sand
The Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail brings at least two superlatives to mind: it’s one of New Hampshire’s longest rail-trails at just more than 28 miles, and it begins in Manchester, the state’s...
NH 28.1 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Sand
The Windham Rail Trail passes through the woodsy periphery of Windham in southern New Hampshire, but it sits in the heart of the future cross-state Granite State Rail Trail. Its connections to the...
NH - 3.6 miles
MA,NH - 12.3 miles
NH - 3 miles
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fantastic trails
December, 2020 by kdiramio_tl
Great trails to take you out of the city.
Trail has degraded for cyclists
December, 2020 by bagley.michael
The portion of the trial from I-95 to Hayfield St has substantially degraded for cyclists. A small portion of trail floods for a good portion of the summer (thank you beavers!). The flooded portions can be walked around.
New in 2020 are sand and rock obstructions in which your tires sink and it is impossible to continue pedaling without walking a bit. Maintenance on this trail is sufficient for vehicles, walkers and the utilities, but my mountain-style bike struggles.
It is an interesting trail otherwise in the middle of know-where. Pity.
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Not in a great area
November, 2020 by ellenkillam
Where this trail starts in downtown Nashua is not a great area. We biked it recently to get access to the Mine Falls Park. About half way down the trail is better but would probably have to park on a street. If you are looking for a nice bike ride I suggest the Nashua River trail. Mine Falls is nice but you are in the minority if you are biking. There are a lot of walkers.
October, 2020 by glo1196
Flat surface with a places you can sit if need be. Beautiful this time of year.(OCT) can’t wait to explore the rest! Great for families, bikes and walkers.
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The Illecillewaet Glacier, near Revelstoke in Glacier National Park was one of the glaciers studied. (Submitted)
Study finds glaciers in Columbia River valley 38 per cent thicker than expected
New study also predicts most glaciers will disappear from the basin within 80 years
Liam Harrap
Radar surveys on multiple glaciers in the Columbia River Basin found ice to be much thicker than previously estimated, according to a recent study from the University of Northern British Columbia.
Researcher Ben Pelto and his colleagues skied more than 180 km across glaciers pulling sleds loaded with radar equipment to capture tens of thousands of measurements for determining ice depth. On average, they found the glaciers to be 38 per cent thicker than expected.
“It wasn’t surprising that it was thicker, but it was by how much,” said Pelto.
READ MORE: Glaciers in Western Canada retreat because of climate change: experts
The data showed ice volume to be 23 per cent higher than previously shown by computer modeling estimates.
Glacier data in the study was obtained from the Kokanee, Conrad, Nordic, Zillmer, Haug, West Washmawapta Glacier, and Illecillewaet, near Revelstoke in Glacier National Park. While glaciers are important in the Columbia River Basin both economically and ecologically, little is known about them.
From the summit of Mount Conrad at 3290 meters looking into Bugaboo Provincial Park. The Conrad Glacier occupies the lower left of the image, with (left to right) Osprey Peak, Vowell Peak, Bugaboo Spire, Pigeon Spire and Howser Spire. (Photo by Ben Pelto)
Pelto’s study was to advance the current ice thickness database for Canadian glaciers and provide better data for understanding the impacts of climate change on the landscape.
“It’s nice to know how much ice we have up there as glaciers act as water towers,” he said. The ice provides drinking water for communities, for example the Illecillewaet Glacier feeds into the headwaters for Revelstoke’s water supply. Glaciers also keep streams cold, which is important for many fish and plant species.
READ MORE: Shrinking ice: Study looks at the diminishing Illecillewaet Glacier
While Pelto said it’s good news that the glaciers are thicker, it won’t change their fate.
“They’re still doomed.”
The study predicts most glaciers will disappear from the basin within 80 years. Pelto said it’s possible some glacier scraps may persist, such as on the Illecillewaet. However, overall there will be a pitiful amount of ice left in western Canada compared to today.
The extra thickness, only means glaciers will be around for a couple extra decades, said Pelto.
“Even if we all went to Mars tomorrow and there were no more emissions, most glaciers are going to blink out.”
Ben Pelto, Alexandre Bevington and Jesse Milner taking radar measurements while towing the radar high on the Nordic Glacier, across the “Angel’s Traverse”. Nordic Glacier is the ski terrain of Sorcerer Lodge. Ice thickness here was around 60 m. (Photo by Jill Pelto)
There are approximately 200,000 glaciers in the world, 17,000 of which are in B.C. and Alberta.
In the study, the Conrad Glacier had the greatest depth measured at almost 320 metres and Illecillewaet was second at 260 metres. On average, all seven glaciers had an average depth of 92 metres.
READ MORE: Our melting glaciers
BC Hydro supported the study as the company relies on glacier melt to power the province through hydroelectricity.
The company said it’s important for it to have a better understanding of the glacier mass left in the Columbia Basin in particular, as glacier melt can account for up to 30 per cent of the late summer inflow to streams and reservoirs in the Upper Columbia watershed, including the Mica and Revelstoke dams.
More than 40 per cent of the hydro power generated in the U.S., is from the Columbia River Basin.
The study will help the company with its long-term planning on how climate change will impact hydro operations.
Parks Canada also supported the study and said understanding the long-term effects of shrinking glaciers on the ecosystems in Glacier National Park will also help guide future conservation and restoration efforts in the park and throughout the Columbia Mountains.
READ MORE: PHOTOS: Highway 1 improvements restoring fish habitat in Glacier National Park
The agency is in the process of drafting a new management plan for Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks that will likely use glaciers as a measurement of health for the alpine environment.
Long term Parks Canada data shows glaciers in Glacier National Park are overall declining and the most significant loss has occurred over the last 30 years.
Glacier National Park currently has 129 glaciers, down from 337 in less than 40 years.
Do you have something to add to this story, or something else we should report on? Email:
liam.harrap@revelstokereview.com
@pointypeak701
Radar equipment was mounted on sleds and pulled by researchers to take thousands of glacier depth measurements. (Submitted)
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Craig Wills
Craig Wills is the co-owner of Farm on Cowcross Street, an independent cafe which sells “honest British food”. Katy Salter talks to him about bacon baps, competing with the chains, and why the council should appreciate ravers stumbling out of Fabric…
What’s the story behind Farm?
Five years ago, I was working inLondon and going away to Devon and Hampshire at the weekends to see friends. I’d pick up great food in farmers’ markets that I just couldn’t get here. I’d moan about it to friends, who said stop moaning and do something about it. So I took an arch in Bethnal Green and made sausage rolls and sarnies and a delivery guy took them round offices. My friend Dom was working in the city. He wanted a change and became my business partner. We put together a Dragon’s Den-style pitch to investors to raise money for a shop, and we opened on Cowcross Street in 2009.
What’s the ethos behind Farm?
The idea of Farm is great, honest British food at reasonable prices that aren’t the reserve of the wealthy few. We’re not one of those second mortgage places. I grew up in Rugby, where my father had an allotment, so I always thought it was funny when people paid a fortune for carrots covered in mud.
Why did you choose Clerkenwell for your first cafe?
When we opened on Cowcross Street in 2009, it felt like the heartland to us. Some of our suppliers sold produce in Smithfield Market. And we liked that Clerkenwell had one of the most diverse sections of workers in London – the lawyers from the law courts, the digital darlings, the guys from the market.
What are your best-sellers?
We sell an enormous amount of breakfast baps. We use Paul Rhodes bread and we don’t scrimp on the bacon. We sell them to lots of hungover people. At lunchtimes, we get an interesting mix of people in – from the traditional boys in for a sausage roll to designers in for pie and mash. And people walk a long way to get one of our peanut butter brownies.
Do you worry about the amount of chains on Cowcross Street?
We made a conscious decision to go head to head with the chains. We were flanked by two Starbucks when we opened, and one’s now closed down. I believe there’s room for everybody. I feel proud when I see Polpo, Hix, St John and us – it’s an interesting area and a destination for tourists. But Clerkenwell is becoming more homogenised – don’t take these things away. More chains are coming in and rates have gone up. There are higher rates for eating outside, too. The council should be careful what it wishes for. I’d love the council to come down at 5.30am and see the unique mix – the guys from the market in The Hope, the Italian ravers coming out of Fabric. We hang on because we believe in what we’re doing.
Are your customers coffee savvy?
Very much so. People now demand to have a really good coffee as the norm. London has got to the stage of Melbourne or Sydney [as a coffee city] now. We serve a pretty consistentcup. We use Square Mile Coffee Roasters. Workshop on Clerkenwell Road is good, too.
Do you get time to hang out in the area?
Definitely. I love Polpo – the building, the atmosphere. I’m envious of what they’re doing. I love drinking at Jerusalem Tavern, too. It’s a workers’ crowd, no fuss.
We want to branch out into retail with our own products. Two more shops would be good this year – we’ve just opened a cafe in Bank. We want to keep the principle of honest British food and grow the connections between farm and city. We set up a foundation and are partnering with CHICKS, a brilliant charity for city children who are disadvantaged or carers. It takes them for breaks in the countryside. We’d like to support them more as we grow.
www.farmcollective.com
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Is Splitsvilla 9 Winner Pre-decided? Ranvijay Singh and Sunny Leone’s Reality Show’s Winner Seem to be Already Fixed
MTV Splitsvilla 9 Winner: From the past few installments of the reality shows “Roadies” and “Splitsvilla,” it has been a usual trend that the strong contenders of the former show, land up becoming the finalists of “Splitsvilla”. Going by the facts, Prince Narula went even further than this and ended up in capturing the winning flag for both the reality shows “Roadies X2” and “Splitsvilla 8.”
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Analyzing all the facts, many fans have come to a conclusion that both the series are fixed. Also, if we consider the fact, that both the shows are aired on the same channel and even feature the same host. The fans consensus of the show being fixed can be considered true.
Now, a heart sinking report that has steamed up in media, that the winners of the season of “Splitsvilla 9” are already decided. The show hit the lines last week and is hosted by Sunny Leone and Ranvijay Singha.
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Minting the holes, news has spread that Varun Sood and Gurmeet Singh of Ranvijay’s team in Roadies, will be the finalists of the season. Gurmeet and Kavya have been preset to be the winners of the “Splitsvilla 9.”
It is worth mentioning here both Varun and Gurmeet were a part of “Roadies X2” and Gurmeet was also the finalists in the same season. Later the both were part of Ranvijay’s show “Squad Rann.” Also, Kavya was also a strong participant in “Roadies X4.”
While the fan may get fumed at the fact the show is already fixed, a participant of “Splitsvilla 9” also has felt the same. The statements point that the makers have been biased towards Gurmeet and Varun. He said – “Yes, even we felt that the makers gave importance to Gurmeet and Varun, but I am shocked to know that it was pre-decided. It’s unethical on the makers’ part as we have equally put in efforts to win the show,” a contestant of “Splitsvilla 9.”
Not only the rigging, the team of “Splitsvilla 9” even manipulates the tasks and performances so as to decide the winners become hot favourites of the viewers. Inching to the fact of what happened recently – “Gurmeet was initially dumped by one of the princesses, but the ‘Book of Fortunes’ was opened at the same moment and he got saved. One cannot dictate in terms of task performance, but can certainly manipulate scenarios to suit someone’s interest,” another contestant added.
However, Lalit Sharma producer of “Splitsvilla 9” has refused any such implications. He said that the show has always been governed by the fair mechanism. People will talk rough and he refused to pay any heat to such talks. Rather he is happy that people are gossiping about his show.
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Stories of Yesteryear
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Advertisement for the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, is from my good friend and author David Zeni of the "Forgotten Empress".
Date: Turn of the 20th century
Location: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland
Credits: David Zeni Collection
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Plan of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Shipyard
Credits: Glasgow City Libraries and Archives
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Fairfield's Drawing Office this is where the Empress of Britain and her sister ship the Empress of Ireland was first designed in 1905 to 1906.
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The complete plans of the Empress had to be approved by Canadian Pacific Railway Company before any work had started. Certain tracings such as midship section, rudder, stern post, decks and various other parts of the vessel had to be drawn on linen, including three sets of photo prints which were also on linen and supplied to the builder.
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A scale model and lines of the Empress had to be approved, and on completion of the vessel a well finished full model on the scale of 1/4" inch to 1 foot. Which had to be supplied in a glass case, with a frame of walnut, oak and mahogany as may be decided by the owners.
Credits: Glasgow City Libraries and Archive
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Moulding Loft at Fairfield Shipbuilding. Gigantic lofts its only purpose was to draw out the design of the ship which was currently being built. Here to the Empresses would have been planned out.
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The Material and Receiving Yard. Here the raw materials such as wood would be received first by the company's receiver and stored until required by the Model Shop, Joinery Shop and Cabinetwork Shop. Carpenters would also use the teak or pine planks to be used for the wooden deck, hand rails, awnings, hatch covers, mast and spars .
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Turbine Shop is where turbine engines would be assembled into vessels which had design to use such an engine.
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Huge boiler single and double ended and weighing up to 150 tons each were built in this shop. The heads of these huge boilers were riveted together but the long seam was actually joined by a new invention called welding. The Empresses long seams had also been welded.
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Joinery Shop
Joiner work had to be done in a superior style and use only season hardwood in saloons, staterooms, officers quarters' and engineers', to be French polished or fumed or stained as approved. All work had to be designed to the passenger comfort.
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Giant boilers sit outside the Engineering Shops at Fairfield's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.
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Reciprocating Engine Assembly Shop
Both the Empresses had two reciprocating engines had been built here, The engines had four cylinder per engine and produced 18,000 Internal horsepower each.
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Cabinetwork Shop
The 1st class staterooms were fitted with a wardrobe, with three drawers in the lower part and the upper part fitted with folding doors, and a small chest of drawers. They would have also had to build small mahogany tables, upholstered arm chair, fold up cane seat and other furniture and this was only 1st class, two other classes to go.
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Angle Bending Shop
In building the Empress almost every metal component would need to be bent to some degree. This machine would bend heavier metal components such as plating, tanks, girders and so on.
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Brass, Bronze & White Metal Work
Thousand of components had been made of these materials, everything from locks, telegraphs, voice pipes, stanchions and rails, bells, brass covers, name plates, storm valves, baths, water closets (toilets) and so on.
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Shell plating on the Empresses had to be overlapped and faired so that each plate could be riveted to each other to build the hull of the ship. Materials had to be British mild steel by the Siemens-Martin process. The steel and iron was required to withstand all tested needed to insure a good quality steel was used and all steel had to be stamped.
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Brass Finishing Shop
Also made sounding and air pipes which had been covered with a patent hinged and screwed brass covers.
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Sheet Iron Department
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Outside of the plate shop men standing in front of the machine that would cut these thick plates to various sizes for each and every vessel being built in Fairfield Shipbuilding Yards.
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Once the Empress of Ireland and her sister ship the Empress of Britain. They had both been brought to the Fitting Out Basin at Fairfield. Here hundreds of tradesmen's would pour over the ship finishing off the vessel, while Lloyd's Register Surveyors would continue to inspect the ship.
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Workers returning home at the end of their shift leaving from the large gates of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was known to build naval warships for the Royal Navy and navies from other countries through the 1st and 2nd world war, builders of transatlantic liners including the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the R.M.S. Empress of Britain and her sister ship the R.M.S. Empress of Ireland and many other liners of the day.
But what did Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company looked like during the early 1900's. When you look through these pictures you will see a huge difference in there approach towards safety. No personal safety equipement such as work boots, hard hats, protective fire proof gloves or other garments, safety glasses and very poor ventilation within the Fairfield Shops. But this would change slowly as the decades past.
The work of the drawing office that most important department where, previous to the actual building work, the qualities of a ship are decided upon, and every part of the design is measured on paper. The manufacture and mechanical qualities of mild steel are also dealt with at some length, a proper knowledge of this is very important to the individuals who ordered the material into the shipyard.
Before Fairfield Shipbuilding had actual started building the Empress of Britain and then on the Empress of Ireland in 1905 to 1906 the ships had to be designed and constructed, on paper, so that each plate and bar may be measured and ordered from the steel works, and so that the various parts may be properly shaped and put together by the workmen. The dimensions, displacement, and general features of the Empresses are, of course, determined before any plans are drawn; and this preliminary work is exceedingly important, for upon it depends upon the capabilities of the ship for the work required of her. The Empress of Ireland had been built in 14 months. The enormous steam engines, boilers, furnishings and interior decorations were made at the shipyard by the 7,000 people who worked there. Thousands of planks of teak covered the various decks, and about 1.1 million rivets were used to attach the steel plates of the hull.
The responsibility of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. in producing a successful ships like the Empresses, varied according to the data supplied to Fairfield. Depending on the customer sometimes little would be left for Fairfield Shipbuilding to make a judgment on how to build a vessel, the dimensions and every other particular being specified; in others the design may be left entirely to Fairfield Shipbuilding, the customer may have asked to build a ship of a certain type, capable of carrying so much cargo measured by weight or bulk at a certain minimum speed, on a certain length of voyage. In the case of the Empress of Britain and the Empress of Ireland the designed and specifications had been prepared by Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
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Advertisement for the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, is from my good friend and author David Zeni of the "Forgotten Empress". Date: Turn of the 20th century Location: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland Credits: David Zeni Collection
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Wildcat closet provides free clothes to families
Photo by Renee Nieckula
A parent chooses clothes from the Wildcat closet during parent teacher conferences.
Ian Wesselhoff, Staff Writer
Wildcat Closet, the school’s annual clothing drive, collected clothes to display during parent-teacher conferences on Nov. 5 and 6, where all are welcome to visit the Media Center and shop.
According to Rose Fleming, English teacher, “anyone from the district is available to come in” and purchase these clothes. All visitors have to do is come in and take whatever clothing they need.
The program was started years ago by Anne Campbell, former athletic director. After her retirement, it was passed on to the National Honor Society, who now organizes the event. This is their second year in charge.
For struggling families, it’s “an opportunity to get some nice clothes,” said Fleming, also a sponsor for NHS.
The goal at Wildcat Closet is to “open up the school to the community,” according to NHS member Noah Franceschini, senior.
“Any of our students can take new or gently used clothes,” Franceschini said.
“We’re just trying to help out needy Plainfield School District families,” NHS member Rishad Dharani, senior said. Dharani said that clothes would be “one less worry” for these families.
“It’s really an amazing service for people in need,” said Fleming, “a benefit to the whole community.”
Ian Wesselhoff, Multimedia Editor
I'm heading into senior year as an editor.
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The Free Library > Health > Health, general > South African Medical Journal > June 1, 2012
The Free Library > Date > 2012 > June > 1 > South African Medical Journal
Polyglutamine disease: from pathogenesis to therapy.
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Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are inherited neurodegenerative conditions caused by expansion of a coding trinucleotide CAG repeat, which is translated into an abnormally long polyQ tract in the mutant protein. (1) There are currently 9 known polyQ diseases: Huntington disease (HD), dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA), spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) and 6 spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 17). The molecular diagnostics laboratory of the National Health Laboratory Service in Cape Town is the only centre in South Africa offering diagnostic testing for the polyQ SCAs, and works in close collaboration with the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to provide patients with the opportunity to participate in ground-breaking research into pathogenesis and treatment.
Despite genetic and clinical heterogeneity, the presence of a common mutation suggested that a common pathogenic mechanism must link all 9 diseases. However, emerging evidence indicates that polyQ pathogenesis is more complex (Fig. 1). Here we summarise theories of pathogenesis and discuss how this knowledge underpins the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
PolyQ disease pathogenesis mechanisms
Aggregation and impairment of proteasome clearance
Early studies of polyQ disease revealed large nuclear inclusion bodies containing proteolytically cleaved mutant protein as a common pathogenic marker. These aggregates recruit nuclear proteins, in addition to proteins containing polyQ tracts. They are marked for ubiquitin proteasome degradation but for unknown reasons are not degraded. This suggests that the structure of the aggregates renders them resistant to the misfolded protein clearance pathway, leading to cellular dysfunction. (2) This theory could account for the susceptibility of neurons associated with all 9 disorders, since these highly metabolically active cells may be more sensitive to perturbations in cellular machinery.
Further investigations--including the observation that their formation does not entirely correlate with neuronal susceptibility--have contradicted the theory of inclusion body toxicity, with increasing evidence suggesting that they might instead serve a protective role within cells. It is now generally accepted that the toxic species are smaller, less visible micro-aggregates. Nevertheless, inclusions remain a hallmark of polyQ disease pathogenesis.
Impairment of autophagy, the process by which the cell recycles intracellular components, has been implicated in polyQ disorders. (3) Although the mechanism is unclear, upregulation of autophagy alleviates cytotoxicity in models of polyQ disease. This provides a common theory of polyQ pathogenesis since loss of autophagy causes general neurodegeneration in mice. (4) However, all studies to date have been performed in models over-expressing the mutant protein, and therefore studies in more representative models of polyQ disease are crucial.
Protein-protein interactions/post-translational mechanisms
The expanded polyQ tract imparts a conformational change to the mutant protein and therefore directly affects interactions with its native binding partners. In addition, post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation, SUMOylation and acetylation of specific residues in several polyQ proteins can be altered in the presence of the mutation, affecting interactions with their natural binding proteins. Importantly, direct inhibition of these post-translational alterations reduces mutant protein toxicity (reviewed by La Spada and Taylor (5)).
Transcriptional alterations
Many polyQ proteins function in transcriptional regulation, (6) and several reports have identified transcriptional changes in molecular chaperones and genes involved in neuronal differentiation, often observed prior to cellular dysfunction. However, studies have not revealed a common subset of dysregulated transcripts. How then do the polyQ proteins confer transcriptional alterations if not through the shared mutation? A possible answer is that transcriptional effects depend on the cellular context of the mutant polyQ protein. Each native protein has distinct regulatory mechanisms in different neuronal sub-types; thus, the mutation is likely to lead to transcriptional dysregulation in the neuronal subset most susceptible to changes in that protein. One mechanism for this change may be chromatin modification. If chromatin architecture is unique to each neuronal subset they may be differentially susceptible to mutations in each polyQ protein. (6)
Loss of function and additional pathogenic mechanisms
Although polyQ diseases are caused by a toxic gain-of-function of the mutant protein, it is likely that loss of function also contributes to pathogenesis, since knockout models of polyQ disease show neurodegeneration and polyQ inclusions recruit the native protein, impairing its normal function. Thus, understanding normal protein function is critical in understanding disease pathogenesis. A number of additional disease mechanisms have been proposed including mitochondrial dysfunction, enhanced apoptosis and excitotoxicity caused by glutamate receptor overactivation.
Given the multitude of cellular insults triggered by expanded polyQ tracts, developing an effective therapy appears a daunting prospect. However, based on current theories of pathogenesis, several proof-of-principle treatments have already been demonstrated.
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Therapeutic strategies
Historically, treatment for polyQ diseases has focused on symptomatic management, rather than disease modification. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis offers the opportunity to prevent or delay disease symptom onset, through the identification of targets within the disease pathway which may be amenable to therapy (Fig. 1). Experimental therapies fall into 2 categories--those aimed at removing the burden of accumulated mutant protein and those targeting downstream effects of the mutant protein.
Therapies targeting polyglutamine proteins Gene silencing
Given the complexities of polyQ pathogenesis, one logical approach is to suppress production of the mutant protein upstream of its deleterious effects. Further, silencing the mutant gene, while retaining wild-type expression may be of therapeutic benefit. This has led to the development of gene silencing therapies, using either RNA interference (RNAi) or antisense oligonucleotide (AON) approaches. Both have shown promise in studies in animal models of polyQ diseases, including SBMA, SCA1, and HD--rescuing toxicity, preventing apoptosis, and allowing for the development of sophisticated delivery mechanisms. (7) Researchers at UCT, in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford and the Witwatersrand, were the first to demonstrate the potential for RNAi-based gene silencing in the South African SCA7 population. However, a number of challenges must be addressed before these results can be translated to the clinic.
Evidence from knockout animal models suggests that several polyQ genes are critical in development and central nervous system (CNS) function and therefore that allele-specific therapies may be required. This approach, which relies on the presence of targetable sequence differences in order to discriminate between the normal and mutated transcripts, is technically challenging, and likely to limit eligibility for therapies, since it relies on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in linkage disequilibrium with the polyQ expansion, or differences in CAG repeat length to accomplish sequence discrimination. Two recent studies, encouraging efforts to continue to develop gene silencing therapies for the polyQ diseases, indicate that non-allele-specific approaches are better tolerated in HD and SCA3 mouse models than was originally thought; (8,9) and that allele-specific silencing may provide therapy in a majority of European HD patients using relatively few disease-linked SNPs. (10)
Clearing misfolded mutant protein and inhibiting aggregate formation
Decreasing mutant protein levels may also be achieved by enhancing polyQ protein clearance, through upregulation of the two main cellular pathways responsible for degradation of misfolded proteins--the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy. While impairment of the UPS has been observed in several polyQ diseases, upregulation of this pathway is technically challenging and attention has therefore shifted to enhancing autophagy. Activation of autophagy using the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin has been shown to reduce mutant protein toxicity in models of HD and SCA3, suggesting that small molecules capable of inducing the autophagic cascade may be of therapeutic benefit. (11,12)
Another approach to clear mutant polyQ proteins is via molecular chaperones capable of promoting refolding of misfolded proteins. Overexpression of heat shock proteins Hsp27 and Hsp104 suppresses neurotoxicity in HD models. (13) However, global induction of the heat shock response (HSR) is of only transient benefit, suggesting that impairment of the HSR may occur during polyQ disease progression. (14) These findings motivate for the development of combinatorial therapies such as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors capable of enhancing HSR gene transcription.
Direct methods of preventing polyQ protein aggregation using molecules such as Congo Red and cystamine, which act to stabilise the native non-toxic conformation of the protein, prevent cross-linking of the mutant isoform, or promote clearance from the cell, have also been attempted. All have demonstrated some therapeutic benefit but efficacy and delivery remain to be optimised. (15)
Therapies targeting downstream effects of polyQ proteins Transcriptional dysregulation
The inhibition of HDACs, repressors of transcription, has been proposed as a method for mitigating transcriptional dysregulation. A variety of small-molecule HDAC inhibitors have been tested as anticancer drugs and several have been shown to rescue polyQ disease phenotypes. (16) In particular, the discovery that HD mice, engineered to be deficient in HDAC4, show a phenotypic improvement suggests that this may be a promising therapeutic approach.
Upregulation of specific genes known to have a neuroprotective role (e.g. brain derived neurotrophic factor) has also shown beneficial effects. However, this requires a thorough understanding of the functions of downstream targets of transcriptional regulation by polyQ proteins, in order to identify the most promising therapeutic targets.
Additional therapeutic approaches
A number of additional therapeutic approaches have been proposed, which aim to reverse the downstream cellular effects of mutant polyQ proteins. These include compounds capable of alleviating energy metabolism defects or mitigating oxidative stress. Riluzole and remacemide, which mitigate excitotoxicity, have achieved some success in HD mice, although these results have not been successfully reproduced in clinical trials. (17) Anti-apoptotic drugs such as minocycline and caspase inhibitors have also shown promise in polyQ animal models, although data from long-term studies will be required in order to rule out possible side-effects associated with suppression of these key cellular pathways.
Clinical considerations
Despite the plethora of preclinical investigations, few have progressed to clinical trials. The low incidence, late onset, slow progression and clinical heterogeneity of polyQ diseases make demonstration of clinical efficacy particularly difficult.
A number of major technical issues remain to be addressed, including questions of dosage and delivery--particularly pertinent in CNS conditions, which require delivery across the blood-brain barrier, and rapid attenuation in the event of adverse effects. There are also more challenging tasks--designing therapies which treat the maximum number of patients, without compromising on off-target effects, immunogenicity or allele specificity (in the case of gene silencing); and balancing the benefits of relatively broad-spectrum therapeutics (such as HSR induction or RNAi) with their potential to disrupt normal cellular processes.
Nonetheless, the recent progress of RNAi to the clinic suggests that effective therapies for polyQ diseases may be within reach. At the time of writing, 14 clinical trials involving RNAi are ongoing, although none yet involve the CNS. (18) AONs are also being tested in trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and cancer (http:// www.clinicaltrials.gov), and the first clinical study of AONs in neurodegenerative disease has been initiated. (19)
Several therapies designed to target additional polyQ pathogenic mechanisms, including mitigators of exicitotoxicity, UPS activators, anti-apoptotics, and modulators of transcriptional activity, are undergoing clinical trials (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov). SBMA, unique among the polyQ diseases by virtue of its X-linked mode of inheritance, is also the target of novel therapeutic strategies involving androgen deprivation, but with limited efficacy to date.
Results from these trials should provide valuable insight into how to safely and effectively deliver therapies to the human CNS. However, critical to success will be the generation of more accurate in vitro and in vivo models of disease (see below).
The South African context
The development of effective therapies for polyQ diseases is particularly relevant to South Africa, where the frequencies of SCA1 and SCA7 are among the highest globally. (20) Researchers at UCT have previously reported founder effects in the mixed-ancestry population (SCA1 (21) and HD (22)) and the indigenous black African population (SCA7 (23)), with further research ongoing into the HD founder haplotypes. This phenomenon offers the ideal genetic background for the development of allele-specific gene-silencing-based therapies in South Africa, allowing patients to be treated by targeting a single disease-linked SNP. (24)
The neurodegenerative disorders research team at the UCT Division of Human Genetics, in collaboration the University of Oxford, has recently established a ground-breaking new disease model for SCA7 using patient-derived cells to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This offers the first human disease cell model to test and refine the novel therapies developed in the UCT laboratory.
The identification of a common pathogenic mutation underlying the clinically and genetically heterogeneous polyQ diseases suggested initially that common therapies could be easily designed. The reality is vastly different. As the molecular basis of polyQ diseases is revealed in ever-increasing complexity, it is clear that the task of developing therapies is not straightforward. Nevertheless, the identification of numerous therapeutic targets and development of a human cell-based model of disease, offers the potential to develop effective treatments for polyQ diseases.
Acknowledgements. LW is funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF), the Harry Crossley Foundation and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission UK. At the time of writing, JS was an Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellow. Work in the UCT laboratory is funded by the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences Research Council and the NRF. Work in the MJAW Laboratory is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Trust, Parkinson's UK, Ataxia UK, and the John Fell Fund. The financial assistance of the NRF of South Africa towards this research is hereby acknowledged. Opinions expressed, and conclusions arrived at, are those of the authors and are not necessarily to be attributed to the NRF.
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Lauren Watson is a PhD student and member of the Neurodegenerative Disorders research group, Division of Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), University of Cape Town (UCT). At the time of writing she was a visiting Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford. Janine Scholefield obtained her PhD in the Division of Human Genetics, UCT. At the time of writing she was a Nuffield Medical Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is currently a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. Professor Jacquie Greenberg has worked at UCTs FHS since 1971 and obtained her doctorate in 1990. She is a medical scientist and genetic counsellor, and heads up the molecular genetics diagnostic laboratory at UCT/National Health Laboratory Service. She is the principal investigator of the Neurodegenerative Disorders research group. Matthew Wood is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at Somerville College, Oxford. He is an Honorary Professor at UCT. He directs a leading research group investigating RNA-based therapies for neurological and neuromuscular diseases.
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Sexually transmitted infections in children: a prospective cross-sectional hospital-based study.
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Byline: Swati Singh and Satyendra Kumar Singh
Keywords: STI, child abuse, condyloma-acuminata, syphilis.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality with the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there is a renowned interest in the field of STIs as they can increase a person's risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV by many folds. STIs primarily affect sexually active population in the reproductive age group and are largely acquired through sexual act or close contact with genitals. However, in children the acquisition can be sexual or nonsexual such as accidental contact with secretions or inoculation by a diseased individual. The probability of intrauterine/perinatal transmission is more likely in children aged less than two years, and a venereal mode of transmission should be considered as the primary mode of transmission for children between 2 and 10 years1 with sexual abuse as a definite possibility and in children near puberty, voluntary sexual activity and sexual abuse to a lesser extent would be the main modes of transmission.
Sexual abuse is a major concern related to STIs in children2 and is also becoming one of the important factors for acquiring STIs including HIV.
The increasing research over last two decades into the prevalence, childhood correlates and later consequences of childhood sexual abuse has established that exposure to some form of unwanted sexual attention during childhood is not uncommon.3
It was a cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted at the STI clinic of a tertiary health care centre, from January 2011 to July 2017. Children with suspected STI were included in this study. Inclusion criteria were children up to 13 years of age suffering with STIs and no topical or systemic drugs within two weeks. Written consent was taken from their parents' in every case. Exclusion criteria were patients more than 13 years and patients suffering with any other genital dermatological conditions. Diagnosis of STI was done on the basis of detailed history, clinical examination and relevant laboratory investigations. ELISA for HIV-1 and 2 and rapid plasma regain (RPR) test in dilution were carried out in all patients to screen HIV infection and syphilis. RPR titer of more than 1:16 was designated as syphilis. A titer of 1:16 was subjected to treponemal test (TPHA) for confirmation and titer below 1:16 were not considered as syphilis.
Other tests like Gram's staining (gram negative intracellular diplococci) and culture for Neisseria gonorrhoeae; KOH examination for candidiasis (budding yeast like structure and or pseudo-hyphae), Tzanck smear (multinucleated giant cells) and serological HSV-2 IgM and IgG for herpes progenitalis were also performed to help in the diagnosis of different STIs. Family structure and relationship of culprits were also noted. Joint family was labelled when a consanguineous family unit that included two or more generations of kindred related through either the parental or maternal line who maintained a common residence and were subject to common social, economic, and religious status. Pre-and post-test counseling was done in every patient. Their parents were also counseled regarding child care. During the counselling and treatment, privacy of patients was maintained and patients were assured regarding confidentiality of the conversation.
Table 1 Type of exposure in the study population (n=57).
Type of exposure###Male (no.)###Female (no.)###Total (no.)###%
Heterosexual exposure###08###19###27###47.4
Homosexual exposure###25###00###25###43.9
Denial of exposure###02###01###03###5.2
Bisexual exposure###02###00###02###3.51
Table 2 Frequency of different sexually transmitted infections in the study population (n=57).
Infection wise distribution###Male (no.)###Female (no.)###Total (no.)###%
Condyloma acuminata###19###08###27###40.3
Syphilis###10###00###10###14.9
###Primary###01###00###01###1.5
###Secondary###09###00###09###13.4
Gonorrhea###04###05###09###13.4
Vaginal candidiasis###-###09###09###13.4
Molluscum contagiosum###04###00###04###6.0
Herpes progenitalis###07###00###07###10.5
HIV###00###01###00###1.5
Total###44*###23###67###100
Table 3 Frequency of mixed sexually transmitted infections.
S.No###Infections###Male###Female
1.###Herpes progenitalis with syphilis###2###0
2.###Herpes progenitalis with gonococcal proctitis###2###0
3.###Herpes progenitalis with condyloma acuminata###1###0
4.###Herpes progenitalis with molluscum contagiosum###1###0
5.###Herpes progenitalis with HIV###0###1
6.###Condyloma acuminata with gonococcal vulvovaginitis###0###2
7.###Condyloma acuminata with syphilis###1###0
A total of 8,421 STI patients were seen from January of 2011 to July of 2017, out of which 57 (0.7%) were children. Males comprised of 37 (64.9%) cases while females comprised of 20 (35.1%) cases. The age ranged from 3 to 13 years with mean age of 9.76+-2 years. The majority of the cases 41 (71.9%) were in the age group of 10-13 years followed by 6-9 years (22.8%) and 3-5 years (5.3%). Forty-one children were from joint family and 16 were from nuclear family structure. In majority of the cases family members were culprit. The most common relationship was cousin 23 (33.3%) followed by brother 12 (17.4%), mixed relations 8 (11.6%), father 4 (5.8%), relatives 3 (4.4%) and others were involved in 19 (27.5%) cases. Type of sexual exposure was heterosexual, homosexual, as well as, bisexual (Table 1). The predominant STIs observed among these children were condyloma acuminata followed by syphilis. The distribution of various STIs is shown in Table 2.
Mixed infections were found in male and female both. Detail of mixed infections is given in Table 3. One female child of 13 year age was seropositive for HIV. Sexual contact was accepted in 94.7%.
STIs are generally considered as a problem of sexually active age groups. Sexual abuse against children is not uncommon in our societies. Child sexual abuse (CSA) has been found to be widespread in all nations, although studies have used different definitions of the term.7,8,9 Evidence of the etiology, prevalence, and sequelae of CSA has grown considerably since the late 1970s.
CSA is form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulations. Forms of CSA include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), indecent exposure of the genitals of a child, displaying pornography to a child, actual sexual contact with a child, physical contacts with the child genitals, viewing of the child genitalia without physical contact.10
The main aim of our study was to determine the STIs in children who are up to 13 year of age. Thirteen years of age is the age of puberty, development of sexual organs and production of sex hormones. After puberty it is very difficult to access a differentiation between the desire/willingness and sexual abuse.
Few studies have been conducted on STIs in children and most have emphasized sexual abuse in detriment to the STIs themselves. A study conducted by Pitche et al.11 (2001) in Togo reported 33 cases of STIs in children up to 11 years of age, emphasizing the role of sexual abuse within this context. In a retrospective study conducted in a specialist clinic in Nigeria, Olayinka and Olayinka12 (2002) described 102 cases of STIs in children up to 13 years of age who attended consultations within a 12-year period, highlighting the real problem of these diseases in the pediatric population. Likewise, in 2003 Pandhi et al.13 conducted a study in New Delhi, India and reported 127 cases of STDs in children under 15 years of age, showing that children represent a significant subgroup of the population affected by STIs.
Due to sexual abuse of children, STIs have been reported in children in many studies. The prevalence of STIs varies from country to country and from place to place in the same country. In the recent times there has been a steady rise in the STIs in children probably as a consequence of increased premature sexual activity and increased child abuse because of various prevailing misbelieves and myths.14 The prevalence of childhood STIs in the present study was 0.7%. Similar studies by Pandhi et al.4 and Mendiratta et al.5 reported childhood STIs in 0.82% and 2.5%, respectively. The peak incidence of STIs was seen in the age group of 10-13 years which accounted for 71.93% of cases which is similar to studies by Bhogal et al.6 and Pandhi et al.4 who reported STIs in 66% and 66.1%, respectively, but higher compared to the study by Mendiratta et al.5 who reported in 41.2%. All these studies point to the fact that STIs are increasingly seen among the adolescents.
Early-onset of sexual activity along with homosexual and bisexual behavior increases the chances of acquiring STIs including HIV at an early age.
Boys were more commonly affected than the girls, which are similarly reported in the previous studies6,15,16 because of greater possibility of exploring sexual adventures in the adolescent boys, increasing homosexuality and more conservative upbringing of the girls with a greater regard for moral and ethical issues in them. Majority of children was in the school-going age group, which highlights the importance of an enhanced exposure and risk of acquiring STDs in this age group.
The various factors responsible STIs in children could be low socio-economic status, overcrowding and myths like curing STIs by having sex with a virgin.6 History of homosexual contact was reported in 24 (42.1%) males. Out of 24, 17 males were above 9 years of age. A study by Mendiratta et al.5 reported that homosexuality was in 11.1% of cases. One female of 13 years was HIV positive and she was victim of child abuse. Thus child abuse is one of the important markers for STIs and HIV in pediatric patients.17
In the recent years, there has been a shift in the pattern of STIs from bacterial to viral.18,19 In the present study also viral STI (condyloma-acuminata) was the commonest STI seen in pediatric patients accounting for 27 (40.3%) cases. Condyloma acuminata shows a rising trend.20 Out of nineteen males with condyloma-acuminata, history of homosexuality was reported in 12 cases, four cases were of heterosexual, two was bisexual while one denied any history of exposure. Condyloma acuminata was less in female patients. These females may have lesions of wart on cervix or deep in vaginal mucosa. We did not examine cervix because per speculum examination is not advisable in female children.
Syphilis was the second most common STI detected in our study. Acquired syphilis was quite common in the older children i.e. >10 years age. Lowy (1992) emphasized that 95% of acquired syphilis in children is transmitted by sexual abuse and the perpetrator is someone the child knows or trusts. Syphilis cases were found in males only. Of our 10 patients less than 12 years of age with acquired syphilis, most were 4 to 10 years old. A symmetrical macular papular non-itchy rash, which also involved the palms and soles was most frequent (77.8%) presentation; condylomata lata was reported in two (22.2%), and chancre in one case.
No cases of chancroid, nongonococcal urethritis and granuloma inguinale, or lymphogranuloma venereum were observed in the present study.
Knowledge of the characteristics of family structure may be helpful to the pediatrician and venereologist for predicting child abuse. There are increase in teen age pregnancies, unmarried motherhood, divorce rates, and frequencies of unrelated surrogate parents, most often male, cohabitating in the home. In these settings, identifiable characteristics of the mother, the father or surrogate, the child, the family history and the immediate neighborhood of the family have been associated with the greater likelihood of child and/or spousal abuse.21
School health programs aiming at safe sexual practices should be strengthened. Comprehensive sex education should be provided to each child. Health education along with behavior therapy and regular screening is required for high-risk groups like street children and children at work. It is of great concern due to high morbidity and mortality of the disease, along with its associated psychological and social stigma. It is important to improve awareness among children, adolescents, parents, and general population. It is also important to improve a more patient friendly health care delivery system where victims get support and treatment, thereby enabling prevention or reduction in STIs among children.
The limitations of the study include a possible bias in results because it was based on the participants attending STI clinic at a single tertiary care hospital. Moreover, the results cannot be generalized to the normal population.
The rise of STIs in children could be related to child abuse, early sexual maturity and activity due to changing societal perspective. Early-onset of sexual activity, lack of knowledge about the disease, practices of high-risk homosexual/bisexual behavior with multiple partners, and child abuse increase the risk of acquiring STIs and HIV. So, children with STIs should be fully assessed to screen for child sexual abuse or the circumstances which brought in the infection. Evaluation for sexual abuse should be done in all cases.
We acknowledge the support of Uttar Pradesh Aids Control Society under NACO for providing test materials and drugs for STIs' treatment.
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Another Sonepat to Delhi road via Narela to be constructed
SONEPAT: Deputy Commissioner Vinay Singh on Saturday said that an alternative road from Sonepat to Delhi via Rathdhana and Narela would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 101 crore in order to tackle the growing problem of traffic congestion on the National Highway-1 between Sonepat and Delhi via Bahalgarh.
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Deputy Commissioner Vinay Singh on Saturday said that an alternative road from Sonepat to Delhi via Rathdhana and Narela would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 101 crore in order to tackle the growing problem of traffic congestion on the National Highway-1 between Sonepat and Delhi via Bahalgarh.
The Deputy Commissioner, while addressing mediapersons here, said that around 9.4 acres had been transferred to the Sonepat Municipal Corporation for the construction of Port City at Jat Joshi village near Sonepat.
To ensure a safe journey for people, particularly women, CCTV cameras had been installed in 25 roadways buses in the district, he said. Seven special buses for women had also been started.
The Deputy Commissioner said that with active participation of around 1.44 lakh school students, the administration plans to plant 3.84 lakh saplings during this season. “The survival of saplings will be assessed after six months and every student will be given an incentive of Rs 50 for every surviving plant,” he said. Plantation would be done on 116 acres at Murthal village, he added.
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Erica Lucas
Crime reports: Running a stop sign leads to drug possession charge
By Tim Reeves
Published 2:01 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The mistake of running a stop sign led to far more than a traffic citation for a Vicksburg woman Tuesday.
Officers stopped a 2005 Dodge Ram driven by Erica Lucas, 34, of Vicksburg, near the intersection of Iowa Avenue and North Frontage Road for running a stop sign.
During the stop, officers noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. As a result, officers conducted a search of the vehicle where they found methamphetamine.
Lucas was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine. She appeared in Vicksburg Municipal Court Wednesday, where Judge Penny Lawson set Lucas’ bond at $20,000 and bound her case over to the grand jury.
About Tim Reeves
Tim Reeves, and his wife Stephanie, are the parents of three children, Sarah Cameron, Clayton and Fin, who all attend school in the Vicksburg Warren School District. The family are members of First Baptist Church Vicksburg. Tim is involved in a number of civic and volunteer organizations including the United Way of West Central Mississippi and serves on the City of Vicksburg's Riverfront Redevelopment Committee.
More by Tim
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Lakutis Gets Lost In A Thicket Of References On I’m In The Forest
by Phillip Mlynar
“Y’all know about the seven spiders of hip-hop?” Yep, we’re in weirdo rap territory with Lakutis’s debut mixtape I’m In The Forest. That query comes from the title track, a song full of somewhat naturalistic images and pop culture references bookended by the droning chant, “I’m in the forest/ I’m in the forest/ I’m in the forest/ I’m in the forest.” If the refrain brings to mind Das Racist’s breakthrough moment, “Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell,” it’s not too much of an accident: Lakutis is down with Heems and company. He appeared on Sit Down, Man; his seven-track EP is being released for free through the group’s Greedhead imprint. But his skill at delivering a provocative, educated approach to rap is less refined than Das Racist’s—Lakutis doesn’t so much push buttons or spark debate as come across as the idea of a bunch of intended Internet hip-hop memes shoe-horned into rap form.
Lakutis, “I’m In The Forest”
Lakutis is a New York-based rapper of Russian heritage. He shouts out and disses the Bronx High School of Science and “that fuckin’ bartender at that shit on 18th Street” on the intro to his jump-off song, “Lakutis In The House.” (The pronunciation of his rap name makes the hook sound like “the cutest in the house.”) But while that track has a certain uptempo, electronic charm, the mixtape flits uneasily between pop-culture-packed verbose tracks (Jon Voight, Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Bill Hader, and Saturday Night Live all get namecehceked), and concepts whose natural home is a fleeting life as a Twitter-distributed joke.
“Death Shark” contains the lines, “Proud black people—think Don Cheadle” and “Jewish Eddie Murphy in your barber shop.” Swap out the celebrity names and you might have a mildly amusing afternoon’s Twitter trend. “Ja Rule” is a meandering exercise consisting of Lakutis singing “I’m tired of being lonely,” and it’s neither particularly witty or pleasant to listen to. And “Wifey,” which has an assist by his pals Das Racist, sounds far funnier if you keep with the pronunciation shenanigans and convince yourself that they’re boasting “I’m a white Pharrell” on the hook.
Lakutis, “Lakutis In The House”
It’s a shame, as when Lakutis just puts his head down and raps, he does it pretty decently. He can flow comfortably and sometimes excitedly: The lead single, “Lakutis In the House,” “Swann Gangg” (with D.V.S.), and “I’m Better Than Everybody” (which features Kool A.D.) are most impressive—they may brim with scatterlogical pop culture references, but they’re delivered within the safety of a more standard rap track.
I’m In The Forest might just be a consequence of social-media culture. Quick thoughts and half-baked ideas can seem funny or entertaining in the micro-moments of scanning over a Twitter accout, but that doesn’t mean they translate to a medium even as disposable as a mixtape. It’s hard to make amusing rap music, especially so if you try and work in somewhat knowing references—the excruciating specter of book-smart M.C. Paul Barman and his rap lines in the form of palindromes can still induce chilling shudders. Das Racist just about pull the feat off; it helps that the group is adept at working the press to both bolster and query their image. But as I’m In The Forest unravels, you wish Lakutis would dump the attempts to follow in the path of his label bosses and just, well, rap.
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VISIONIST HISTORY
Riddled With Spots is now available at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. How exciting to see it sandwiched between bodies/works from Kiki Smith, Salvador Dalí, Judy Chicago, Miyazaki, and Omar Kholeif!
“Riddled with Spots” – paperback book
Riddled with Spots is a visual meditation on the Artist’s quest.
Upcoming publication: “On Othering”
This is an upcoming publication, available as an ebook for advance readers.
The advance copy of the ebook is currently available to anyone who becomes a monthly patron HERE (starting at $1.67).
“Riddled with Spots” -signed, 1st edition book
Riddled with Spots is a short book about the Maker’s search. It traces the journey of artists (also known as The Moonlight Hunters) on the search for their creations. This pictorial poem was created as a posthumous collaboration between contemporary artist Sarah Zar and the late Charles Whymper. A visual narrative that invites interpretation, the space and pacing reflect how artists internalize the world, and how the world internalizes them.
Sorry folks, the limited editions are sold out.
You can still find standard editions at Barnes & Noble and Amazon, or *Subscribe to this author on Patreon.
MoMA Bookstore photo courtesy of Brendan Schweda, A. Keck Press. If you find yourself in NYC, looking for a gift for an artist, this one is full of hidden messages to discover. There is also a hinty codex on Patreon (a pdf with notes), for any teachers out there who wish to use it to engage Others in acts of symbolic perception.
If you already own Riddled With Spots, Click here to get the decoder on Patreon
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A good knight’s sleep is assured for guests at Legoland in Denmark
Robert Lacy
Legoland in Denmark opens new castle themed hotel
The new castle inspired property provides a true fairy tale experience with 142 specially themed rooms fit for a princess or a knight; for aspiring wizards and even fiery dragons. The huge Castle-like hotel LEGOLAND Castle Hotel also features a restaurant for 300 diners, an indoor play area and a large outdoor playground. Prices start from £318 per night for a family room which sleeps up to five people on a B&B basis.
The fairy-tale theme continues with a daily ‘Battle of the Brick event running through to 17 August 2019 and will see knights on real horses competing with lances in a tournament to win the coveted LEGO trophy.
LEGOLAND is packed with family fun and guests can explore other themed areas such as Miniland, where more than 20 million LEGO blocks have been used to recreate model versions of iconic Danish and international sights. In LEGOREDO Town, visitors can live as cowboys and try the Flying Eagle rollercoaster, which opened last year as part of the LEGOREDO Town expansion. Other areas include Pirate Land, Polar Land, Adventure Land, Ninjago World and Knights’ Kingdom. For older kids the LEGO House, only a few minutes’ walk from LEGOLAND, offers an interactive ‘hands-on minds-on experiences’ where they can experiment and express their imagination with LEGO bricks by moving through colour-coded ‘Experience Zones’ to solve puzzles and put their creative skills to the test.
Entry price for the theme park is at £42 for a one-day ticket, if booked online.
LEGOLAND is just one part of the LEGOLAND Billund Resort experience. The Be Happy Pass gives families access to unique experiences and various discounts at other major attractions in the region. These include a massive waterpark next door at Lalandia where kids can cool off in Europe’s longest outdoor Wild River water slide or dive down to the Cave Pool where they’ll see colourful tropical fish swimming past in a huge underwater aquarium.
Also included is nearby Givskud ZOO which is celebrating its 50th anniversary on 12 August 2019. The wildlife safari park enables visitors to drive among lions and monkeys and see rhinoceroses, gnus, gemsboks, black horse antelopes and African buffalo roam free in large enclosures. To mark the anniversary, it has introduced a new habitat for the Peruvian Spectacled bear and has opened a new play tower and a new swing set for disabled children this year. New exhibitions at the zoo also focus on biodiversity, life after death and introduce children to the problems of plastic contamination.
For adrenalin junkies there’s more animal style antic at Gorilla Park in Vejle where older families can feel the thrill of swinging on 2km of tree top high ropes on six different courses with varying degrees of difficulty. Gorilla Park Vejle offers more than 100 great elements at heights from 1-21 metres including zip lines, Tarzan swings, base jumps, climbing walls, BMX and snowboard. The Gorilla Big Swing is a pure adrenalin rush. Participants get the feeling of free falling from a height of 15 metres, before sliding into the swing and then a split second of weightlessness just as the return swing begins.
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Stepping back in time families visiting the Ribe Viking Centre can see Viking history come to life at Denmark’s oldest town, Ribe on the west Jutland coast. Offering a fascinating re-enactment of the Viking’s way of life, visitors can grind flour using ancient techniques and bake flat bread over the flames in true Viking style. On a visit to the royal mint they can even make their own copy of the coins in use in the eighth century at the marketplace by the Ribe Å river.
The Viking adventure trail leads on to the UNESCO World Heritage site at Jelling, where the Viking king Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth erected two famous rune stones, built the largest Viking structures of the period and converted the Danes to Christianity. As a living memorial, the town features the Royal Jelling Experience Centre – where visitors can embark on an interactive journey back in time.
Fast forward into the 20th century, for those keen to learn more about WW2 history, the Tirpitz Bunker was part of the Atlantic Wall built by the Germans along the coast of South-West Jutland. They started building the bunker in 1944 but never finished it. 75 years later the Danish architect group, Bjarke Ingels Group have turned the bunker into an impressive hidden away, state-of-the-art, glass and grass roofed museum in the coastal dunes. The museum now comprises four separate exhibition spaces featuring the Atlantic Wall, life on the Danish West Coast, the World’s largest collection of amber and a visiting exhibition area.
Just off the coast families can spot seals and look for Oysters in the Wadden Sea National Park. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site it’s also one of Denmark's most ecologically important areas as a home to birds, seals and oysters. At low tide up to 700 seals fill the sandbanks on Sønderho beach on the island of Fanø and can be observed from the deck of a harbour cruise. Guided tours such as foraging excursions for fresh oysters and to see the ‘Black Sun’ can also be arranged.
LEGOLAND Billund Resort is easily accessed from Billund Airport which is located right in the heart of the area.
New twice weekly Ryanair flights from Edinburgh to Billund cost from £15 per person one way. And four new weekly flights from Manchester to Billund started in April 2019, price from £10 per person one way.
British Airways has daily flights from Heathrow to Billund cost from £70 per person one way a well as flights from London City Airport and Manchester to Billund through the airline’s franchise partner Sun-Air.
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Development Maps
Cities, Places, Regions
2010 urbanized area figures
By krazeeboi, February 18, 2006 in South Carolina
krazeeboi 173
Gigalopolis
Here are SC's urbanized area figures from 2000:
1) Charleston--North Charleston: 423,410
2) Columbia: 420,537
3) Greenville: 302,194
4) Spartanburg: 145,058
5) Myrtle Beach: 122,984
6) Mauldin-Simpsonville: 77,831
7) Anderson: 70,436
8) Rock Hill: 70,007
9) Florence: 67,314
10) Sumter: 64,320
What are your predictions for the 2010 Census?
By the way, are there any GIS images or anything for the urbanized areas in 2000?
*Meant to put this in the SC forum. Can a moderator help me out here?*
teshadoh 0
Location: Louisville, CO
You should have posted this on a day I was at work!
I might have something worthwhile to say on Tuesday, Monday is a holiday where I work
But Columbia & Greenville (especially with Mauldin) will post the biggest increases with incorporating nearby urban clusters into their respective urban area. Since we can assume Mauldin won't be around in 2010 - most likely Rock Hill will enjoy it's last decade as a solo Urbanized Area.
I'm not going to bother posting my projections - but just guessing at the ranking for 2010:
1) Columbia
2) Greenville:
3) Charleston--North Charleston:
4) Myrtle Beach:
5) Spartanburg:
6) Rock Hill:
7) Anderson:
8) Florence:
9) Sumter:
10) Hilton Head, Clemson, or Beaufort?
Census.gov does have pdf's of all urbanized areas - just search the site.
It sucks that eventually Rock Hill will get sucked into Charlotte's UA. I'm actually surprised that Concord's UA was still independent in 2000. I expect that to change in 2010.
Greenville will most certainly add Mauldin-Simpsonville, so that will boost its figure quite a bit.
I'll dig around on census.gov and try to find something. I would specifically like to know how much of their counties the principal cities of the urbanized areas take up.
The_sandlapper 0
Location: The SC Sandhills
Just out of curiosity what outlying areas do you predict to be added to Columbia's UA by 2010 (Camden, Lexington, Newberry, Sumter????).
For reference, here are the 1990 figures:
1) Charleston: 393,956
6) Myrtle Beach: 58,384
7) Sumter: 57,632
Wow, the '90's was really Columbia's decade in SC, wasn't it? The urbanized area added almost 100,000 people, which is pretty good for a mid-sized Southern city. Myrtle Beach more than doubled its UA.
For fun, I'll throw in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Atlanta:
If Myrtle Beach maintains/ed its 1990's growth rate through the 2000's it will come close to passing Greenville to become the #3 urbanized area in the state. I would not be surprised if Georgetown and Conway will now be included given the continuous development down 501 and on Hwy 17 that did not exist in 2000. The difference in the last 5 years has been staggering. I also expect the urbanized area to stretch from Little River to Georgetown. That is about 50 miles.
I am not so sure about Rock Hill joing the Charlotte UA. It seems to me that once you pass the Tega Key/Ft Mill area near the NC/SC border, the amount of development drops off dramatically until you get to the Cherry Rd exit in Rockhill.
I think by the time the 2020 census rolls around, there's a good chance that the small stretch of relatively undeveloped land will be developed by that time, thus linking the Charlotte and Rock Hill UA's (or pretty darn close). We already see signs of this happening now, with Citi Financial and Baxter Village. The new hospital in Ft. Mill will probably be located somewhere along/close to that stretch as well, and that has the potential to spur even more development, thus narrowing the gaps.
sandlapper - definitely Lexington, but there are some other small urban clusters also. Camden is also a possibility...
I agree 2020 Rock Hill's UA will definitely be absorbed into Charlotte. Growth is very high in that York Co corner & Charlotte had already 'stolen' Ft Mill from Rock Hill's UA in 2000 (it was part of Rock Hill's UA in 1990). The UA definitions are already quite liberal & sprawling low dense areas are able to expand across wide areas. Which is why Ft Mill is part of Charlotte, though there are gaps between them both.
Hmm, somehow we managed to jump from a discussion of what will happen in 2010 to 2020. By then, I predict that Charleston and Myrtle Beach will be the #1 & #2 urbanized areas in the state. There will be little growth in Greenville, Spartanburg and Columbia due to the constant loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas locations. And yes I agree that Rock Hill will disappear into Charlotte by then.
If the Bush administration manages to sell off the Francis Marion national forest to private developers, we might eventually see one huge urbanized area, albiet a very linear one, running from Charleston all the way on the coast to the NC border. Fortunately NC has a little better development restrictions there so hopefully the sprawl won't be as bad on the other side of the line.
I disagree concerning Columbia's growth slowing due to manufacturing losses, as much of the losses the metro area has recently experienced is primarily due to state government downsizing. USC, Palmetto Health, and Fort Jackson constitute the other major players in the local economy, so any decrease in growth there won't be due to offshoring.
I also think that USC's research campus, as well as the International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville, would have established themselves by that time and cushioned any blows due to manufacturing losses.
I don't know how we got to discussing 2020, I only mentioned that date to suggest Rock Hill wouldn't merge into Charlotte's UA until then. Besides that, who knows but it would be expected that Charleston & Columbia would still be at the top, but Greenville & Spartanburg might combine by that point. It depends on how long each city retains their 'identity', as the Census Bureau loosely defines how neighboring Urbanized Areas are merged / kept seperate.
Another interesting question to post for 2010 would be what new Urbanized Areas will be started?
Beaufort most likely will be upgraded from an Urban Cluster (Beaufort & Port Royal). Hilton Head will likely also, due to growth in Blufton. The question mark would be if Clemson is merged into Greenville's UA, if not Clemson would also be a new UA. Otherwise, growth isn't happening enough for Greenwood, Orangeburg & Gafney to develop into UA's. Gafney may eventually be combined into Spartanburg over the coming decades anyways.
Yeah, Columbia has never been a heavy manufactoring town. State Govt., Education, & healthcare are pretty much the hat hangers there. I do believe consistant growth will be the case in the next 10 years with the development of venues like Innovista, and ICAR. Maybe not as fast as the coast but that area is one of the fastest growing in the country. The south as a whole has a ton of potential to grow. Cheap land an a very low cost of living when relatively compared with the rest of the country will ensure that trend I think.
sonofaque86 11
Location: NC/SC
By 2010 Columbia may gain Camden with growth in the NE continuing into Kershaw County. Lexington may def be added....But Columbia isn't really a manufacturing center anyways so loss really won't affect the region.
Keep in mind we are talking about urbanized area and not MSA or CSA size.
GvilleSC 372
Metropolitan Area
Greenville will definitely not fall below third. There's no way when you add Mauldin-Simpsonville to the UA in addition to the occuring growth that any other place in SC could pass us.
I would predict the Greenville UA to be over 400,000.
For those of you who think Greenville isn't growing or isn't growing fast enough, you need to take a closer look. I forsee no slowdown before 2020, much less 2010.
^ Greenville should easily hit 450k, which is weird to think that was roughly the size of Charlotte in 1990. But those aren't that comparable as Charlotte had developed as an economic center for various other small cities in the 1980's. Still - the population center in my mind will always be around Greenville / Spartanburg, once those two urban areas combine - at that point you will have an UA of at least 750k to 1 million in a few decades.
waccamatt 8
Columbia: 537,000
Charleston 525,000
Greenville: 419,000
How do you justify these? Just curious how Columbia and Charleston will jump over 100,000+...
Columbia jumped nearly 100k in the 90s...It's growing much faster now, so why not
I often think people don't think Columbia is growing fast. But Yeah in the 90"s it was the fastest grwoing large metro in the state, with only 13th ranked (nationally) Myrtle Beach, Rock Hill, & Hilton Head-Beaufort growing faster. And I believe your right Columbia is growing at a faster rate now than it was back then. So yeah why not?
This is why.....
Change in Metro Employment 2001 - 2004
Metro, Jobs in 2001, Jobs in 2004, Change, Percentage
Myrtle Beach, 102.4, 116.5, 14,090, 13.75%
Florence, 66.1, 70.1, 4,000, 6.06%
Charleston, 255.9, 266.4, 10,510, 4.11%
Sumter, 42.3, 42.6, 230, 0.63%
Columbia, 311.7, 304.7, -6,950,-2.23%
Greenville, 488.8, 470.0, -29,840,-5.97%
Skyliner 73
Location: Greenville, SC
If we're talking sheer population numbers, the Upstate will continue to keep pace with the rest of the state, even though the other major centers of growth will continue to strengthen as well. You have to consider that the cities in the Upstate have lost numbers to the suburbs for the past couple of decades (latest estimate was 6 years ago), while the suburbs have steadily exploded over that same period of time. With the renaissance of downtown and the city as the true urban core (heart) of the region, it cannot be denied that Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson (the Upstate) will continue to remain equally as powerful, if not continue to retain its status as the top economic powerhouse in the state of South Carolina.
Another regional factor is the growth of Asheville just north of Greenville and Spartanburg. The alliance between Greenville and Asheville has been growing recently, and this will continue to be the case throughout the progression of time. It is legitimate to imagine a possible megalopolis that includes Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Clemson, Hendersonville, and Asheville. It is not as far off as some of you would want to say it is.
I've seen those figures before, but I find them dubious for both Columbia and Greenville. If the numbers employed have decreased so significantly, how have the populations increased so precipitously?
Because both cities are seeing significant growth. I know anyone that lives in Columbia will tell you that the growth in the last five years is as great or greater than it was in the previous 10 years.
I question these numbers too. I mean how can Greenville County grow in sheer number more than any other in the state and keep such a low unemployment, yet it has lost so many jobs??? I just don't see Columbia and Greenville in this situation.
I too find these numbers somewhat amusing, but not too serious. I can't speak for Columbia (I'm sure someone else can do so), but I do know that Greenville County has the 2nd lowest unemployment rate in the entire state despite having the highest population. On top of that, a recent survey indicated that Greenville County will have a job growth rate well above both the state and national averages in 2006 (this year). This certainly puts things into perspective.
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Eagle Ranch Metro ups mill levy, but property taxes will remain about the same
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Pam Boyd
pboyd@eaglevalleyenterprise.com
The Eagle Ranch Golf Course, the largest single amenity at the subdivision, is expected to bring in $978 million, but cost $1.4 million to operate in 2014.
Special to the Enterprise |
For Eagle Ranch residents, their metro district property taxes are likely the largest single line item on their annual bill from the Eagle County assessor.
As a result, the announcement that the Eagle Ranch Metro District mill levy was increasing its mill levy from 38 mills to 50 mills for 2014 may cause some alarm. But while the district’s mill levy is going up next year, property taxes for the average resident should remain roughly level.
According to Eric Weaver of Robertson and Marchetti, P.C. of Edwards, the decrease in property valuation at Eagle Ranch resulted in the mill levy increase. The subdivision, like virtually every other locale in Colorado, has seen a drop in overall valuation. In Eagle Ranch, the overall assessed valuation decreased 24 percent, coming on the heals of a 33 percent decrease two years ago.
“Our debt requires an automatic increase in the mill levy to bring in revenues sufficient to fund the annual payments,” said Weaver. “To offset this decline, the mill levy had to increase from 38 mills to 50 mills to generate the necessary taxes.
Weaver noted that even with the higher mill levy, the average taxpayer will pay roughly the same amount to the district as last year, with only a .07 percent overall increase planned.
“By refunding a portion of our bonds during 2013, the district was able to avoid an increase in payments of roughly $90,000 annually,” said Weaver.
Tracking dollars
The Eagle Ranch Metro District brings in nearly $2.1 million in property taxes annually. Of that amount approximately $150,000 will go to operating expenses and $1.4 million will go to pay off the debt service — the bond issued to build the subdivision’s infrastructure and amenities.
The Eagle Ranch Golf Course was one part of the overall amenities package, and it collects revenues to offset its debt. However, in 2014, the golf course is expected to bring in $978,000 and cost approximately $1.4 million to operate.
That leaves a $451,131 deficit for the metro district to make up.
Smaller capital year
Weaver characterized 2013 as a large capital year for Eagle Ranch Metro. Weaver noted that to avoid property tax fluctuations, the district used reserve funds to pay for some of the capital needs. However, in 2014, the district will again begin building its reserve funds.
“The reserves we have on hand are needed for eventual capital replacements at the golf course,” said Weaver. “And, just as importantly, they enable us to keep a good credit rating on our debt which results in favorable interest rates.”
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Richard Carnes: Palin’s got to go
Richard Carnes
poor@vail.net
To pass a sophomore accounting class, I would scribble, in letters as small as visually possible, every formula and definition that might be covered in a test onto a single sheet of paper.
Studying consisted of staring at that single sheet of paper for hours on end, cauterizing the mental snapshot upon my corneas in an attempt to memorize every square inch, and thus be able to recall with at least a “B” grade-level comprehension.
Some called this action “learning,” but I referred to it as “passing.”
With that thought in mind, I’m sorry to keep sticking a needle in the Sarah Palin bubble, but like my college level study habits, last week’s vice presidential debate showed her to have little more than an ability to memorize sound bites.
Virtually every answer began with a cute quip of some sort, usually involving Alaska or hockey, and then she would look at the camera, wink, morph into a Stepford wife, and recite the party line answer for that particular subject.
This is the same woman who, just a few days earlier, continued her deer-in-the-headlights stare for the media when asked which newspapers,
specifically, she reads on a normal basis.
“All of ’em,” she replied.
And now we are supposed to believe that practically overnight she ” (at this point I think it comes across better if say it in Wasilla-ese), “Well, gosh darn it all, you betch’a, she’s a real Maverick, that girl, and she done learnt everything there is to learn about the economy and foreign relations and what not, by golly.”
Talk about saying it ain’t so, Joe.
Can you say it without mascara, Sarah?
OK, good for her that she apparently exceeded everyone’s expectations, but the actual problem is that the expectation bar was set so exceptionally low in the first place. I will grant that she avoided being a complete embarrassment to the McCain ticket, but the Republican spin afterwards probably made Karl Rove shudder in his Reagan jammies later that night.
I mean, really, pointing out the fact that Palin did not spontaneously combust into a question mark-shaped cloud of smoke as clear evidence of success is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?
And what was that line about “expanding the scope” of the vice president’s responsibilities?
Governor Palin was asked about current VP Dick Cheney’s bizarre interpretation a few years ago that his job was not part of the Executive Branch but instead part of the Legislative Branch. She didn’t even seem to understand the question, or seemed oblivious to Cheney’s unusual (and completely false) claim.
All she showed was a talent for debating, nothing more. It’s not like anyone watching would have changed or even made up their mind on this election based upon the one evening.
I would like to believe the majority of American voters are not that shallow.
Really, I’d like to believe that.
Anyway, back in 2000 we elected a “regular” person who “wasn’t from Washington D.C.” and “spoke to the average Josephine Six-Pack soccer mom.” Do I really need to explain how that worked out for us?
I know there are those of you who think Governor Palin is a wonderful choice and will do just about anything to help get her elected, but I also think you are the same ones who are convinced McCain’s campaign strategy (temporary suspensions, pulling out of Michigan, etc.) is secretly brilliant. Here’s a suggestion: You need to let a few more in on the secret.
I think it’s pretty safe to say most Americans fear the mere thought of her being one heartbeat away from sitting in the biggest chair in the most powerful office in the world. And I say this without even discussing the details of the video clip where she is being “de-hexed” by a witch doctor from Kenya barely three years ago at her Wasilla church (google “palin witch doctor” to see it for yourself). It is verified and real, and speaks volumes on its own.
So like me learning a long time ago why I should never become an accountant, this woman is in way over her head and should never be considered for a nanosecond to lead our great nation.
And that is why no one should even think of voting for McCain until he dumps her.
NOTE: The preceding opinions belong to Richard and are not necessarily shared by this newspaper … but for electoral reasons, he thinks they should be.
Richard Carnes of Edwards can be reached at poor@vail.net. E-mail comments to letters@vaildaily.com.
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November weather forecast and climate
Opatija, Croatia
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The last month of the autumn, November, is also a fresh month in Opatija, Croatia, with average temperature varying between 2°C (35.6°F) and 11°C (51.8°F).
In Opatija, the average high-temperature in November drops, from an enjoyable 16°C (60.8°F) in October, to a fresh 11°C (51.8°F). In November, the average low-temperature is 2°C (35.6°F).
November is the month with the most rainfall in Opatija. Rain falls for 15 days and accumulates 178mm (7") of precipitation.
Sea temperature
In November, the average sea temperature is 16.8°C (62.2°F).
Note: For most, swimming in 16.8°C (62.2°F) is not an enjoyable activity. Furthermore, controlling your breathing becomes progressively more difficult as the water temperature decreases from 21°C (69.8°F) to 15°C (59°F).
In November, the average length of the day is 9.5h.
In November, the average sunshine in Opatija is 4h.
In November, the average daily maximum UV index is 2. A UV Index estimate of 2, and below, represents a minimal health hazard from unsafe exposure to the UV radiation for ordinary individuals.
Note: The average daily UV index of 2 in November transform into the following instructions:
People with sensitive skin, children, and babies should always be protected from prolonged sun exposure. The solar radiation is most powerful near the mid-day, so the exposure to the direct Sun should be reduced accordingly. Sun-protective clothing, a long-sleeved shirt and pants, a wide-brimmed hat, and UVA and UVB-blocking sunglasses are particularly helpful in blocking UV radiation's harmful effects.
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What is the temperature in November in Opatija?
In Opatija, in November, the average high-temperature is 11°C (51.8°F), and the average low-temperature is 2°C (35.6°F).
How much does it rain in Opatija in November?
In Opatija, in November, during 15 rainfall days, 178mm (7") of precipitation is typically accumulated.
What is the wettest month in Opatija?
The month with the most rainfall is November when the rain falls for 15 days and typically aggregates up to 178mm (7") of precipitation.
How cold is the water in November in Opatija?
In November, the average sea temperature in Opatija, Croatia, is 16.8°C (62.2°F). For swimming, a surface water temperature of 16.8°C (62.2°F) is not enjoyable for the majority. It is not considered safe, as controlling breathing becomes progressively more difficult as water temperature decreases below 21°C (69.8°F).
What is the average length of the day in November in Opatija?
The average length of the day in November is 9.5h.
How long on average sun shines in November in Opatija?
In November, the average sunshine in Opatija, Croatia, is 4h.
What is the UV index intensity in November in Opatija?
In November, the average daily maximum UV index in Opatija, Croatia, is 2. A UV Index value of 2, and less, symbolizes a low health risk from the exposure to the Sun's UV rays.
Average high temperature in November: 11°C
Warmest months (with the highest average high temperature) are July and August (25°C).
Months with the lowest average high temperature are January and February (6°C).
Average low temperature in November: 2°C
Months with the highest average low temperature are July and August (13°C).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (-3°C).
Average rainfall in November: 178mm
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is November (178mm).
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is July (88mm).
Average rainfall days in November: 15 days
Months with the highest number of rainy days are April, May and June (16 days).
Months with the lowest number of rainy days are February, July, August, September and October (13 days).
Average sea temperature in November: 16.8°C
The best month for swimming (with the highest average sea temperature) is August (24.9°C).
The coldest month (with the lowest average sea temperature) is February (10.7°C).
Average daylight in November /
Average daylight in November: 9.5h
The month with the longest days is June (Average daylight: 15.6h).
The month with shortest days is December (Average daylight: 8.8h).
Average sunshine in November: 4h
The month with most sunshine is July (Average sunshine: 9h).
The month with least sunshine is December (Average sunshine: 3h).
Average UV index in November: 2
Months with the highest UV index are June and July (UV index 8).
Months with the lowest UV index are January and December (UV index 1).
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Weather Atlas: Opatija, Croatia - November weather forecast and climate information. November weather forecast for Opatija, Croatia. The last month of the autumn, November, is also a fresh month, with average temperature ranging between min 2°C (35.6°F) and max 11°C (51.8°F). [112]
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When is the best time to visit Boracay?
Boracay has two distinct seasons: wet and dry. The most popular time to visit the island is between November and April when there is the least amount of rain. If you're looking to spend your holiday dancing the night away at the many bars, book your flights to Boracay over this summer period. While airfare and hotel rates are more expensive, you can't beat the idyllic island weather!
Travellers buying return flights to Boracay in the dry months can also attend the Boracay Dive Olympics. It's one of the most popular events of the season and is usually held from the last week of March to the first week of April.
For a quieter escape, buy your airfare to Boracay for travel over the wet season (July to October). There will be fewer crowds on the beaches, and the hotels usually lower their rates. It's also a good time to find deals on cheap flights to Boracay if you don't mind brief showers and cloudy days.
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How to get to Boracay
There are no direct flights to Boracay. The main airport you'll fly into is Caticlan Airport (MPH), which is on Panay Island. Once your flights to Boracay arrive, you'll need to take a taxi to Caticlan Jetty Port where you'll catch a boat ride to Boracay. Some of the hotels on the island may offer a transfer from Caticlan Airport (MPH) for you, so you don't have to worry about anything else.
Check with your hotel to see if a transfer is included in your accommodation rate, or if one can be arranged at an additional cost.
Don't only visit White Beach
White Beach is the most popular stretch of sand on Boracay. It's 4 kilometres long and is where you'll find dozens of hotels, bars, restaurants and shops. However, it's also the most crowded part of the island. Travellers buying flights to Boracay can escape all the other tourists by venturing to the quieter (but equally beautiful) other beaches on the island.
How to get around Boracay
The easiest way for travellers booking cheap flights to Boracay to get around is by foot. But if you want to explore at a faster pace, you can hop onto a motor-tricycle. It's a cheap mode of transport on the island, and you can hail one down from the street. Keep in mind that you'll need to haggle with the driver before the journey begins.
What are the best things to do in Boracay?
Go on a beach-hopping excursion
If you want to beach-hop around Boracay, you can use public transport or walk. One of the best beaches on the island, besides the popular White Beach, is Puka Shell Beach. If you like kiteboarding and windsurfing, add Bulabog Beach to your beach itinerary. For travellers buying cheap flights to Boracay that want to explore further afield, you can join an organised island-hopping tour, available from one of the operators on the island.
Soak up the nightlife
Boracay is known as a top nightlife destination in the Philippines. During the busy summer months, travellers from all over the world book flights to Boracay to attend the famous themed parties. For solo travellers, you can experience the island's nightlife by joining the Boracay Pub Crawl. It's a great way to meet locals and other travellers at the same time.
Try the local food
Don't fly all the way to the Philippines to dine only at Western-style restaurants - try the local fare! Not only is Filipino food delicious, but it's cheap. You can pick up dishes for less than Php 50 ($1.40 AUD), making Boracay an affordable destination for foodies buying tickets to Boracay. Some of the top dishes to try include Adobo, Lechon and chicken inasal.
Go scuba diving or snorkelling
White Beach isn't the best place for travellers buying flights to Boracay to go snorkelling. Instead, take your snorkel mask and fins to Illig-Iligan or Tambisaan beach. Keen scuba divers buying return flights to Boracay can explore the coral reefs in the deeper parts of the ocean. If you're a PADI certified diver, you can expect to pay around Php 1,600 ($44.71 AUD) for a dive trip and beginners can take an introductory course for Php 3,000 ($83.83 AUD).
Go cliff diving
Want to get an unforgettable adrenaline rush? Don't leave Boracay without going on a cliff diving adventure! One of the best places to go is Ariel's Point. You can sign up for a full-day tour for around Php 2,800 ($78.24 AUD). The cost includes a round-trip boat ride, unlimited drinks, a lunch buffet and use of canoes, kayaks, and snorkelling gear.
Upon arrival at Ariel’s Point, travellers buying return flights to Boracay can jump from diving platforms with heights of between three and 13 metres.
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Home Community Politics Sainte-Anne’s Firefighters hose tower true costs made public
Sainte-Anne’s Firefighters hose tower true costs made public
by Rhonda Massad
The majority of the 3 person Demolition Committee voted yesterday to authorize the issuance of a demolition permit for the 80 year old landmark Firefighters Hose Tower that sits atop Sainte Anne de Bellevue City Hall.
The actual costs which had remained confidential until yesterday’s meeting were publicly unveiled. They show a current cost difference of $14,000, rather than the original $40,000 previously advanced, between the cost of repairing the historic tower versus demolition.
Until yesterday due to the laws that protect the confidentiality of the contracts process, the general public was unaware that the $40,000 included annual regular maintenance costs of $1950 per year, for the next 10 years.
Sainte-Anne Mayor Paola Hawa and Councillors Dana Chevalier and Ryan Young voted to restore and preserve the tower at the August council meeting. Councillors Francis Juneau, Daniel Boyer, Yvan Labelle and Michel Boudreault voted to demolish the Hose Tower..
Hawa lists the specific costs that were under a veil of confidentiality on her Facebook page explaining how the costs are divided. She also points out that there are 30 days to appeal the demolition committee decision.
In a bold attempt to respond to the residents who are in favor of restoring the tower, Sainte-Anne Mayor Paola Hawa has set up a GoFundMe campaign for people who wish to save the tower. So far the fund has raised $1,205 on the website with $2000 off-line pledged.
Should you wish to help save the Firefighters’ Hose Tower, go to GoFundMe – Save the Hose Tower and make a donation.
As seen on Paola Hawa’s Facebook page:
“The exact breakdown as per the estimates are:
Repair:
Phase 1 – 2016: $30,725
Phase 2 – 2017-2020: $41,000
Total repair: $71,725
Demolition: $57,500
Difference between Repair /Demolition = $14,225
* the estimates reflect the presence of asbestos
* repair would require annual maintenance cost of approx $1,900.
Thirty (30) days to appeal the demolition committee’s decision.”
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Chris October 6, 2016 2:57 pm At 2:57 pm
Quite interesting indeed. The project analysis was for 10 years so the combined $20,000 of annual maintenance is being left off for the tax payers to assume after they voted to demolish it in the first place. Then there is no mention of incidentals and the fact that there are no professional or legal guarantees on the work based upon those prices. So the crowd funding can cover the cost of the restoration and the citizen get stuck with taxation in order to maintain it without warranties.
Lucie marceau October 7, 2016 11:05 am At 11:05 am
What or who can confirm that the hose tower dates back to 1936 ? So far, nobody seems to know for sure and all the speculation is hearsay. In fact, when one checks the book published by the town for its 300 year-anniversary in 2003, the picture of Town Hall is painted in white and no tower appears on the picture. Where did it go ?
Are you all as confused as I am ?
Demolition vs Restoration:
Wednesday at 21h38, the Mayor stated on «Remembering Ste-Anne» facebook (a non-political website) that she had just found out that the difference was $14000 instead of $40,000 as originally believed. Strangely enough, her comment and those of other concerned citizens disappeared shortly after. Could it be that the numbers don’t add up ? Fortunately, some of us (the small group) record her every word, now that we know her stories change as the world turns … Wednesday night, she apparently found out about the «new» cost. Thursday morning, she states that she knew about it weeks ago. During last month’s question period, she talked about a $40,000 difference.
Oh, by the way, it’s no longer a restoration; now it’s a reconstruction.
Go Fund Me:
The «Go Fund Me Save the Ste-Anne Hose Tower» seems to have been initiated by Paola Hawa although, according to a Viva Media article dated Sept. 28, 2016, the Mayor is stated as saying she is pleased that a grassroots initiative accumulated $5205 ($4000 from benefactors + $1205 from the Go Fund Me). Yet Thursday, according to you, they only have $3205 ($2000 + $1205). Where and why this discrepancy ?
The original objective ($40,000) was lowered today to $14,000. Since the Mayor had the real figures for weeks, why did she start the bidding on Sept. 27th knowing that those figures were confidential ? When one understands how this kind of fundraising works (the first week makes or breaks it), why did the Mayor not wait a few days more before initiating the fundraiser at $14,000 instead or $40,000 ?
When all is said and done, where were the Mayor’s grassroots Hose Tower proponents wednsday night ? Is it possible that the 50 signatures out of a population of over 5000 on a 2-month old petition represented the total «nay» votes ? Better yet, is it possible that the 4 councillors Juneau, Boyer, Labelle and Boudreault got it right and actually did represent the majority while Ms Hawa is already working on next year’s election ?
I’m not confused about that one; are you ?
Stephen October 14, 2016 6:40 pm At 6:40 pm
I’ve heard you at council meeting and I agree that you are confused
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Wade Michael Page, Sikh temple shooter: His Colorado past, racist background
Michael Roberts | August 7, 2012 | 6:50am
As our Dave Herrera reported on The Latest Word yesterday, Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page is from Colorado and was part of racist bands such as End Apathy.
Herrera has since done more reporting about Page on our Backbeat blog. Here's additional information about the murderer from that item and other sources.
According to the Denver Post, Page, who killed six people at the Milwaukee-area worship space before dying in a gun battle with police, grew up in the Denver area and had a Littleton address from 2000 to 2007. He talked about his background in an interview with Maryland-based Label 56 about his band. Here's an excerpt.
Label 56: Are you originally from out in California? How did you wind up moving from one side of the country to the complete other?
Wade Michael Page: I am originally from Colorado and had always been independent, but back in 2000 I set out to get involved and wanted to basically start over. So, I sold everything I owned except for my motorcycle and what I could fit into a backpack and went on cross country trip visiting friends and attending festivals and shows. I went to the Hammerfest 2000 in Georgia, over to North Carolina, up to Ohio, down to West Virginia, and out to California and that's when I joined Youngland.
After news broke about Page and this interview, Label 56 pulled down this material and issued the following statement:
Label 56 is very sorry to hear about the tragedy in Wisconsin and our thoughts are with the families and friends of those who are affected. We have worked hard over the years to promote a positive image and have posted many articles encouraging people to take a positive path in life, to abstain from drugs, alcohol, and just general behavior that can affect ones life negatively. Likewise we have never sought attention by using "shock value"/ symbols and ideology that are generally labeled as such. With that being said, all images and products related to End Apathy have been removed from our site. We do not wish to profit from this tragedy financially or with publicity.
In closing please do not take what Wade did as honorable or respectable and please do not think we are all like that.
Thank you, Label 56
Page still has connections to Colorado, but they're tenuous. Here's a 9News interview with his locally based stepmother, Laura Page, who says she lost touch with her stepson in the late 1990s:
Earlier in the 1990s, Page served in the Army, but after six years in uniform, he was demoted and received a less-than-honorable discharge, for what the Guardian newspaper describes as "a pattern of misconduct, including being drunk on duty."
In 1999, the Post notes, Page was convicted on a driving while ability impaired charge and served sixty days in jail. He also earned driving citations in El Paso and Arapahoe counties, but his prior record doesn't include acts of violence on anything like the scale of the weekend's assault.
More recently, Page was in North Carolina before settling in Wisconsin -- and an interview on TMJ4 in Milwaukee with Kurt Weins, ID'd as the killer's landlord and former roommate, suggests that Page had plans to leave the area immediately after the temple attack. Here's that report.
Thanks to local officers, Page never got the chance to get away. But he leaves behind him pain, sorrow and frustration over yet another mass shooting with a Colorado connection.
More from our Media archive: "Sikh temple shooting getting less coverage than Aurora theater tragedy: Why?"
Michael Roberts has written for Westword since October 1990, serving stints as music editor and media columnist. He currently covers everything from breaking news and politics to sports and stories that defy categorization.
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