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DC Legends review
By Campbell Bird on November 3rd, 2016
Our rating: :: COLLECTIBLE COMICS
This collection-focused, turn-based strategy game follows a pretty bland format that is becoming ubiquitous on the App Store, but it manages to surface some interesting concepts along the way.
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Marvel Future Fight from Netmarble Launches Globally This Week
Posted by Jessica Fisher on April 28th, 2015
Netmarble has announced that their action RPG, Marvel Future Fight, is launching globally in just a few more days.
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Marvel Mighty Heroes, the Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, is Here
Posted by Jessica Fisher on April 1st, 2015
Our rating: :: OVERLY SIMPLE :: Read Review »
DeNA and Marvel Entertainment have brought us a new action-packed brawler: Marvel Mighty Heroes. You can play with up to four of your friends as you favorite marvel heroes like Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man, Captain America, Star-Lord, Hulk, and Hawkeye, and you'll be collecting new characters and levelling-up as you battle evil and save the world. Each character has different powers and abilities, and you can discover alternate costumes for them that grant new powers.
"Marvel Mighty Heroes starts with old-school Super Hero gameplay from the glory days of playing alongside friends at the arcade and adds a modern twist for mobile devices through intuitive touch controls and global cooperative gameplay,” said Barry Dorf, Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances at DeNA, in a press release. “Marvel fans of all ages will love the timeless characters and evolving Marvel storylines based on classic plots and new story arcs.”
The first in-game event starts today with the release of the game. You'll be playing in a six-part weekly “Infinity” event series, where the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy will be facing off against Thanos, the Mad Titan. Marvel Mighty Heroes is available for free on the App Store.
F84 Games & POW! Announce Stan Lee Video Game App!
Posted by Jessica Fisher on March 2nd, 2015
F84 Games has announced that it is working with legendary comic creator Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment to produce Stan Lee’s Hero Command. The game will be a action adventure of heroic proportions. The game stars Stan Lee, himself, as he recruits and controls a team of super heroes including Captain Steamhammer, a Russian strongman with a steam-powered suit and Seer, a kid genius and powerful psychic. He will send them on missions every day to fight evil and save the world.
Stan Lee’s Hero Command will be available as a free to play download from March 19th 2015.
The Sandbox Gets Exclusive Update, Adds Invincible Characters Campagin
Posted by Tre Lawrence on January 29th, 2015
Our rating: :: CREATE :: Read Review »
The batch of pixelated goodness known as The Sandbox is no stranger to update goodness, and its latest build brings in yet more interesting features.
The latest update reveals a collaboration with Robery Kirkman's Invincible comics characters.
★ THE SUPER-HEROES CAMPAIGN ★
Battle against villains and restore peace in the world with the heroes from Invincible! Heroes Team! Punch enemies, solve puzzles, and make your heroes work as a team by toggling between them!
Discover the incredible powers of our 4 new super-heroes elements: Dupli-Kate, Invincible, Rex-Splode and Monster Girl! (Based on the comic book series entitled “Invincible" created by Robert Kirkman, Corey Walker and Ryan Ottley)
We had an opportunity to review The Sandbox a while back, and loved it.
The update is out now, with the game available for free (with optional in-app purchases) on the App Store. The new update trailer is below:
LINE Webtoon Review
By Jennifer Allen on July 15th, 2014
Our rating: :: FREE COMICS ARE GOOD
Want free comics to read, even when you haven't got an internet connection? LINE Webtoon is probably what you want to try out.
Opinion: Why the Comixology Debacle Shows That Apple Needs to Change its Consumer-Unfriendly App Store Policies
Posted by Carter Dotson on April 28th, 2014
Are you angry about the new Comixology app, which removes the ability to buy comics from inside the app itself? If so, you should be just as angry at Apple for their policies making such an absurd situation, where an app can offer the ability to consume the content it sells without actually selling it, as much as you are at Comixology/Amazon for inconveniencing you.
The economics for the change are clear: they were giving 30% of every sale to Apple, as per App Store policies. That's the way it's been since the App Store opened - every time money changes hands, Apple takes its 30% cut. When in-app purchases were introduced, Apple kept the rate per transaction the same: 30% on everything. Thus, when Comixology sold a comic for $3.99, they only got ~$2.80 from it, for a book they had to sell for the same price on their site, by Apple policies.
It's likely that this 30% cut hurt Comixology's bottom line - they are beholden to a number of outside forces and right holders for the comics they sell - and the move to Amazon apparently provided them the opportunity to change their selling model.
For years, Comixology's Comics app was one of the top grossing apps on the App Store - especially on the iPad. Source: AppAnnie
So, that 30% fee on transactions that Apple takes is problematically high. Certainly, it can be justified for paid apps: Apple provides approval, storage, bandwidth, tax collection, and a variety of services beyond just taking the money, in order to justify taking such a cut of a developer's revenue.
But for in-app purchases, Apple is serving as little more than a payment processor, though they do track whether non-consumable IAP is owned by the user. And 30% is exorbitantly high for payment processing. PayPal merchant fees are 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. Amazon charges the same for transactions $10 or above, with a 5% + $0.05 per order for smaller transactions. These aren't counting the bulk volume discounts that these processors provide.
You could go to your local comics shop or to a vendor at a convention, and using a Square credit card reader, they can sell you that comic at a 2.75% per swipe fee. So what right does Apple have to be taking 30% on a similar transaction? I think they should be allowed to take a reasonable premium on top of payment processing for the App Store services they provide, but it's clear that 30% is unreasonable, especially for low-margin fields like the sale of music, movies, and comic books.
And because Apple specifically restricts outside payment systems, there's no recourse for anyone who wants to offer media or subscription services through an app but to not sell said services in the app itself. It's why you can't buy a Netflix, Spotify, or Dropbox subscription from inside their apps at all - because Apple can't take their steep tax.
Apps like Kindle have to sidestep just why they can't actually sell you books in the app itself
Why would Apple, a seemingly pro-consumer company in the way that they design their products to be easy to use, do this? Well, they're not actually a pro-consumer company. They're a pro-Apple-consumer company. Everything they do is designed explicitly to get you to stay with Apple products. Ever thought about getting an Android or Windows Phone but decided not to because you didn't want to lose iMessage? Exactly.
Remember that Apple sells music, video, and books of their own (though not comics to the scale that Comixology does); they have a weighted incentive to make it hard for outside sources to provide them on the App Store unless they pay the exorbitant 30% fee. And when people are inconvenienced by app makers because of Apple's policies they get mad at the app maker, not Apple, which has to cause a chill to run up the spine of anyone struggling with a similar decision as Comixology.
The thing is, it doesn't have to be this way. Google has a similar setup with in-app purchases where they take 30% of every transaction, but they provide alternatives. Specifically, they have a policy that enables Comixology to still sell comics through their app through their own payment system: "Developers offering additional content, services or functionality within another category of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play's in-app billing service as the method of payment, except: where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g., buying songs that can be played on other music players)."
Thus, Android Comixology users can still buy comics through the app. Those who relied on Google Play credit to buy books will find themselves out of luck. Of course, Google doesn't have a monopoly over content distribution or an interest on keeping people as tied to Google Play and their own services, but it's still a better way to operate than the monopolistic way that Apple does. The 30% payment processor fee for in-app purchases is still on the exorbitant side, but the nature of it is a lot more fair.
So, what Apple ultimately has is a situation that's meant to give off the illusion of consumer-friendliness by making it only possible to spend money through iTunes accounts, when it really restricts the freedom that people have to get the content they want, where they want it from.
If a solution that's actually friendly to users (and not just to those who buy in to the Apple system) is to happen, it's going to require public pressure. They could enact the exact same policy that Google Play has, for one. This same policy is the one that allows Starbucks to allow for store credit refills through direct credit card or PayPal payments. It just needs to be expanded to cross-platform media so that users don't get left out in the cold, or compelled to buy from Apple's stores. Give them actual choice.
Or Apple needs to make their tax on in-app purchases - these purely digital transactions - a smaller fee, in order for it to be viable for sellers in high-margin transactions involving media. Somewhere from 5 to 10% may be more reasonable than the current 30%. Whatever the solution I believe change needs to happen, because right now, the ultimate loser from Apple policies are ordinary people who have had convenience taken away from them because of corporate politics.
Uncanny Comics Review
By Lee Hamlet on March 11th, 2014
Our rating: :: EXCELSIOR
Uncanny Comics is a great resource for interesting articles and exclusive interviews, but it needs some fine-tuning to make it more interactive and iOS-friendly.
Geek Resort Review
By Arron Hirst on March 5th, 2014
Our rating: ::
Geek Resort is a tycoon-style park creation title with an overall fun art-style; it's simply let down on its reliance of in-app purchases to drive its gameplay, and a few obvious bugs.
Chunky Comic Reader Review
iPad App - Designed for iPad
By Mike Deneen on January 31st, 2014
Our rating: :: THE BEST AT WHAT IT DOES
Looking for a Comic Book Reader that has it all? Chunky Comic Reader will keep things organized and make comics look amazing, all while giving users a ton of options.
148Apps 2013 wrAPP-Up - The Dynamic Duo of Digital Comics and iOS
Posted by Lee Hamlet on December 31st, 2013
Comic book purists who like their comics bagged, boarded, and boxed may disapprove, but there's no doubt that digital comics have revitalized the comic book industry these last few years as more and more people embrace the platform on their tablets. Below are just a few of the ways and reasons to go digital this year.
Where better to begin than with the biggest comic book store on iOS: Comixology. Featuring titles from DC and Marvel (sharing content from their respective apps), Valiant, Image, and a plethora of indie publishers - their thoughtful collections, frequent discounts, and generous giveaways are a great avenue for discovering new series and lesser-known works. Digital format is also often the only way to read out-of-print comic books or issues that would cost a fortune to purchase from online merchants.
Comics have often been thought of as a perfect medium between literature and cinema, and Comixology's Guided View technology only strengthens that idea. Delivering the content in a frame-by-frame format not only makes reading possible on smaller devices, but really builds suspense unlike anything comic readers will have previously experienced. Especially since there is no opportunity to have a cheeky peek at those bottom-of-the-page spoil-the-surprise panels.
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This Week at 148Apps: December 2-6 2013
Posted by Chris Kirby on December 8th, 2013
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So little time and so very many apps. What's a poor iOS devotee to do? Fortunately, 148Apps is here to give you the rundown on the latest and greatest releases. And we even have a tremendous back catalog of reviews; just check out the Reviews Archive for every single review we've ever written.
Skulls of the Shogun
Death is a very common thread in gaming, though admittedly in most cases it is being used as a motivating factor that the player wants to avoid. In the freshly ported iOS version of Skulls of the Shogun, the focus is actually on what happens after the main character has left the land of the living. General Akamoto and his ragtag group of hoodlums are trying to fight their way to the proverbial pearly gates, one decapitation at a time. Naturally they face quite the uphill struggle, with plenty of amusing shenanigans along the way. --Blake Grundman
Assassin’s Creed Pirates is a game that’s appropriately multi-faceted: it encompasses multiple types of gameplay in its quest for pirate action in the Caribbean seas around the time of Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s a game with plenty to do and offers fun looting and boat-sinking times, it’s just structurally sub-optimal. There are two main parts to the game: sailing and combat. Sailing takes place in two different environments: a top-down map view that allows for just drawing lines to get around, and an “immersive” view where players can actually steer the ship, raise or lower the sails to control their speed, find random items to pick up, and challenging neutral ships that they cross. This is more fun, just more time-consuming. Certain missions require a certain view: race missions require immersive view while assassination missions which require stealth to sail past ship patrols use the top-down view. --Carter Dotson
Maps Pro With Google Maps
Offering fairly powerful mapping features tied into Google Maps, Maps Pro with Google Maps is the kind of app that regular travellers are going to want to keep on their iPads for future reference. So much simpler and more intuitive to use than the website, it’s a very handy tool. Even better, it hardly needs learning. That’s how easy it is to figure out. Immediately placing a pin on the user’s current location, everything about Maps Pro with Google Maps is easily laid out. The opening page offers up directions, sharing, street view, settings, and a search bar. --Jennifer Allen
PDF Expert 5
PDF Expert 5 isn’t an update to the already popular app, but is instead a newly redesigned package that provides iPad users with more features. It handles everything about a PDF - like reading, annotating, and editing. The app was just released this week and its fresh and sleek design make it a perfect fit for iOS 7. Whether users are familiar with previous versions or are just trying it out for the first time, it’s clear that the new features help to make navigation easier. For starters, there is a new PDF viewer that allows users to open large files, search through text, extract text from PDFs, and even open password-protected documents. There’s plenty of room to view PDFs thanks to full screen annotations and the smart zoom option that help users make notes and draw with ease. --Angela LaFollette
Roxie's Puzzle Adventure
Roxie’s Puzzle Adventure is a terrific universal puzzle adventure app for all ages, adapting the richly detailed illustrations of Roxie Munro’s previous puzzle app, Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure, into a jigsaw puzzle that players of all abilities will enjoy. This app consists of a colorful, stylized, and magnificently drawn landscape that is then broken up into 16 different smaller puzzles. I appreciate how up to five players use this app and their game will be saved independently, and how players can choose to break these individual puzzles into a number of puzzle pieces ranging from six chunky pieces to 260 small pieces on the iPad and 130 pieces on the iPhone, giving young children as well as seasoned adults a chance to enjoy this app equally. --Amy Solomon
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If you are looking for the best reviews of Android apps, just head right over to AndroidRundown. Here are just some of the reviews served up this week:
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In Banana Kong, the players can learn an important lesson: eventually, your possessions and greed turn on you. And the more things you get, the harder they will fall on your head, and no matter how long you run, they will eventually bury you. Unless you have a hog you can ride on. This is where the analogy kind of falls apart for me. --Tony Kuzmin
Dream of Pixels
There’s no point beating about the bush when talking about Dream of Pixels. It’s Tetris but with a twist. There’s no other way to explain it. Dream of Pixels is a puzzle game where you have to place familiar look shapes onto the screen. Unlike the game it clearly derives from, these shapes don’t drop down from the top of the screen, so there’s no need to shift your shapes from left to right before they hit the bottom. Instead, Dream of Pixels slowly (at first) scrolls the entire screen upwards. Your job is to ensure that no empty spaces make their way to the bottom of the screen. This means you need to use your shapes to ensure that each line is full of blocks. --Matt Parker
Thor: The Dark World is an arcade pseudo beat-em up arcade game that also serves as an official Android companion game to the movie of the same name. The game is nice to look at. Thor’s hair has the golden yellow halo effect, and the virtual environment is a fine interpretation of of cinematic imagination. Bright colors, interesting beasts and nicely animated characters rolling to the booming voice of Thorish proclamations. There is a judicious use of color, and while some of the animations are a bit formulaic they are altogether hard not to enjoy. --Tre Lawrence
And finally, this week Pocket Gamer reviewed Blek, Assassin's Creed Pirates, Space Hulk, and The Wolf Among Us, picked the best iOS and Android games of November, tore it up with Touchgrind Skate 2's video upload feature, went hands-on with The Room 2, and put together holiday gift guides for 3DS and Vita. For all that and loads more, Head to Pocket Gamer for their weekly wrap-up.
Story Me Review
By Mike Deneen on December 5th, 2013
Our rating: :: EASY TO USE
There are a lot of comic creator apps out there, but this one is perfect for beginners.
Comics Gets a New Design to Fit the iOS 7 Look
Posted by Andrew Stevens on October 21st, 2013
Comics by Comixology, the app with over 40,000 comics, has been updated with a brand-new look that goes along with the iOS7 theme. Give it an update, check out its new look, and get back to reading your favorite comics.
YACReader Review
By Rob Rich on July 11th, 2013
Our rating: :: GOLDEN AGE
Simplicity meets functionality in this clever little comic book reading app.
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Dakota Access Pipeline Developer Now In Legal Battle With Greenpeace Activists
Tensions over the Dakota Access Pipeline are still brewing
The Dakota Access Pipeline development attracted several thousand environmentally-conscious activists to protest against the project. The tensions are still strong as the Energy Transfer Group, that is behind the pipeline project, filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and affiliated nonprofits on Tuesday.
Energy Transfer Group accuses Greenpeace of “Criminal Activity”
Energy Transfer Group filed a racketeering lawsuit in the federal court over the claims that Greenpeace and other environmental groups involved in the protests have made damages of billions of dollars due to their “criminal activity”. Moreover, the group accuses Greenpeace of having spread false information about the project. EarthFirst! and BankTrack
EarthFirst! and BankTrack are the two other groups that have joined Greenpeace in protest of the pipeline. Energy Transfer Group believes they are “rogue eco-terrorist groups”. Moreover, they have engaged in campaigns of misinformation about the impact of the project on the environment and the sites of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Due to their racketeering and efforts at defamation, the costs of the project have increased by at least $300 million. The developer wants the federal court to establish the full extent of the damage.
Lawsuit “Meritless” according to Greenpeace
The law firm that has Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s attorney, as managing partner represents the Dakota Access Pipeline Developer. Tom Wetterer, General Counsel at Greenpeace USA, said that it is the second consecutive year that the Kasowitz law firm filed a “meritless” law suit against Greenpeace. Wetterer has harsh words about the suit:
It is yet another classic ‘Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation’ (SLAPP), not designed to seek justice but to silence free speech through expensive, time-consuming litigation. This has now become a pattern of harassment by corporate bullies, with Trump’s attorneys leading the way.
The controversy regarding this project is that it would disturb the sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota and threaten its water sources. The tribe managed to halt the construction of the pipeline during the last months of the Obama administration. However, President Trump quickly reversed the policy.
Karen Jackson has always been passionate about technology. All the way through high-school she immersed herself in computers and web-design. Her ambitious nature helped her become a pro in Adobe Photoshop only by watching online videos and working with the program herself. This is also the program that she mostly uses in the creation of websites at her work-place. Technological innovation and gadgets that push the boundaries of what we are comfortable with have always fascinated her, so expect to see some weird gadget reviews coming from her.
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Photographers Unite
Take Peak Design's new Travel Tripod with you on your next adventure
Try out pictures in an all-new place.
Peak Design as a company has created many crowdfunded accessories targeted toward the photographers of the world, including camera gear like clips and micro plates as well as comfortable bags, shoulder straps and more. Now Peak Design has announced a new Kickstarter campaign for something altogether new - the Travel Tripod. The design for the new tripod started from the ground up and took more than four years before the company was ready to announce it to the world.
Stability on the go
Peak Design Travel Tripod
Peak Design makes a lot of camera gear, especially awesome bags. The tripod is a first, but it definitely looks like a winner.
$349 (aluminum) or $599 (carbon fiber)
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Most tripods have two majorly inconvenient negatives for the photographer on the go: unnecessary bulk and spatial inefficiency. This new tripod when fully packed together is only 3.25 inches long because the legs and center column come together perfectly. When you deploy it, you'll be able to stretch up to 58.5 inches, which is nearly five feet. It's fast and intuitive, and that mostly comes from how it was engineered. The legs deploy using a system of locking cam levers, and it only takes a few motions of your hands to fully extend it.
The Travel Tripod ball head uses one simple adjustment ring for 360-degree adjustments. The quick-release plate technology developed by Peak Design works lightning fast, can accommodate a full frame DSLR, is compatible with Peak Design's other carrying equipment, and works with Arca Swiss. At just 3.25 inches in diameter, the ball head stays compact with the rest of the tripod so it's easy to carry.
Other features of the tripod include a universal phone mount, a bubble level, a hook for counterweights, and a soft carrying case. It will be available in both carbon fiber and aluminum. The carbon fiber version weighs only 2.81 pounds and will start at a price of $599. The aluminum version is 3.44 pounds and will retail for $349. You can purchase either one at a pre-sale discount through the Peak Design Kickstarter campaign starting May 21. That campaign will last through July 18, but soon after we expect you'll find the tripod available at major retailers.
These are the products Hayato couldn't live without in 2021
Whether they were released this year or not, these are some of the things that Hayato simply couldn't go without in his daily life.
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Separate Ways, Book 1
By: Laura Harner, Lisa Worrall
Narrated by: Dax Fischer
Detective Remington frickin' hates the missing persons detail, but a cold fury builds in the pit of his stomach when he realizes that over the past three months, six boys have disappeared from the smaller communities that surround the greater Phoenix area. All were reported to be runaways looking to escape their shitty lives, but Remy's starting to put together a different picture, and he doesn't like it one damn bit.
By In the mood writer on 19-05-20
Series: Separate Ways, Book 1
Unshakeable Faith
By: Lisa Worrall
Narrated by: Sean Lenhart
Of all the bars in all the towns in all the world, the stranger walks into Brody Tyler's. With no memory and a name he chose from a newspaper, Nash is a gamble - one Brody is willing to take. It isn't long before Brody and Nash fall in love, but then a tragic accident shatters their cozy world, resetting Nash's memory once again.
Narrated by: Chris Patton
After a kayaking accident took Josh Donald's sight, he's faced with learning to negotiate the world as a blind man. In short order, his boyfriend leaves him behind, making it clear he's not inclined to deal with special needs. Reeling from the blow, Josh flounders. In an attempt to help, Josh's friends take him to a camp for the blind, where he falls for the camp organizer, Charlie Cooper.
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CORNVILLE — One by one, visitors made their way to the dirt road that, on Sunday, meant so much more.
It was the road televisions nationwide showed illuminated with law enforcement vehicles the previous night — the path the late Sen. John McCain traversed for his final time as news spread of his Saturday death.
By daybreak Sunday, mourners in this rural community — one McCain came to love — had erected a small shrine in his honor.
Some left flowers.
Others letters.
Many brought American flags to lay next to the hand-made sign bearing the message, “Sen. McCain thank you for your service.”
Visitors here remembered him as a “patriot,” a “war hero” and a “salt of the earth” kind of man. Some wrote short, simple messages on the sign: “You are our hero. Godspeed.”
Some gave a salute before walking away. Others stood silent, holding their hands and their hats over their hearts before beginning the drive home to Rimrock, Clarkdale or Phoenix — the capital city where memorials big and small were also in the works.
Luis Aniceto, a 43-year-old Phoenix resident, made the 100-mile drive north to the Cornville memorial Sunday morning. He brought an ornate, handmade vase from Mexico. In it, he stuffed flowers and American flags.
He made the drive alone. He carried the vase across the road in silence.
“To tell you the truth, a tear drop rolled down,” he said. “We lost a huge man yesterday. I’m totally not a Republican — far from it — but you have to respect him.”
He carried his vase the couple hundred feet from his car to the memorial, pausing once to say, “I cannot believe it.”
Standing guard at the mortuary
As Arizona awoke to its first day without McCain, 18-year-old Aaron Cartland was already standing guard next to a makeshift memorial that had grown in the hours after McCain's body arrived at A.L. Moore-Grimshaw Mortuary in uptown Phoenix.
His crisp, white shirt was soaked with sweat. It was barely 8 a.m.
Still, he planned to brave the sweltering heat — the high temperature surpassed 100 degrees Saturday in Phoenix — for six hours.
It was his way of paying respect to the senator.
The 13 members of the POW/MIA/KIA Honor Guard planned to remain outside of the mortuary around-the-clock until McCain's body is moved to the capitol. Then, they will do the same there.
The group provides the same honor to dozens of veterans each year, but this one is different for Cartland and his mother, Marion Cartland.
She had grown to know McCain well while serving at different military events over the years. The McCains had always supported her son's chapter of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corp.
"It's a state senator who spent nearly 40 years serving this state," she said. "He had such a passion and commitment to his fellow veterans."
The memorial grew through the day as passersby trickled in to pay their respects.
The guarding continued, too.
“We are here because he is family. He is a brother and we are here out of honor and respect,” Lt. Jay Meyers of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corp said. “... Whether you agree or disagree, he is a fallen brother, and we are here for him and that is what matters."
A quiet crowd in a Phoenix courtyard
It was quiet in the small courtyard outside of McCain's Phoenix office Sunday morning.
The four white candles placed by mourners overnight had all blown out, but the bouquets of flowers and handwritten notes were visible reminders of the late senator's impact.
"Often disagreed, but always respected you," one person wrote in marker on a large blue poster. "Thank you for your service and leaving our nation better than you found it."
"Prayers and deep gratitude," was scrawled in shaky handwriting on a small card tucked into a bouquet of white roses and purple flowers. The buds were already beginning to wilt in the morning heat.
MORE:Tributes, old laughs help John McCain's former staff process his death
Glendale resident James Bolton struggled to find a place for his own bouquet on the overflowing decorative wall. He settled on an open spot next to the makeshift memorial as he wiped tears from his eyes.
Bolton installed fiber optic cables throughout the complex where McCain's office was. He can still picture McCain exiting the front door of the building to make the short walk across the courtyard back to his Phoenix condo a few hundred feet away.
The lone mourner re-lit the candles.
He paid his respects to the man he credited with making him a better person.
"There's not many more guys like him left," Bolton said. "He was just here, and now he's gone. It's hard to believe."
'To talk across the aisle'
Some in the Valley went to the mortuary or the office or planned their visit to the capitol.
Others took a road trip.
Vincent Hood drove to Cornville from the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe reservation. He wore two bandanas on his head. One was red, and the other was blue — each were for a political party.
Sweat pooling beneath his bandanas, he tied his tribute, a small wood etching, to the thick brush.
“I think that was his message,” he said through tears. “To talk across the aisle.”
He knelt in silence and took a photo of the memorial.
MORE:McCain will lie in state at the Arizona Capitol Wednesday; memorial Thursday
Hood admired his service in the U.S. Navy and his work for Native Americans. McCain was the longest current-serving member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, where he worked to get sovereignty for the tribes.
Hood’s voice choked as he tied a knot around his etching, marked by the POW-MIA emblem, an anchor with wings representing the U.S. Naval Academy and a feather representing his tribe. On its other side was the Arizona state flag.
It's inscription: “With Honor.”
He etched Roman numerals of McCain’s dates of birth and death on the bottom.
The senator would have turned 82 on Wednesday.
'A hell of an American'
Life went on in Cottonwood.
Churchgoers attended their Sunday services, shoppers filled the thrift stores and families ran their weekend errands. They walked past a chalkboard in the Safeway off Main Street that bore a simple message:
“It is your character and your character alone that will make your life happy or unhappy.
“John McCain. 1936-2018. Rest in peace, beloved friend.”
By midday Sunday, storm clouds rolled in as mourners trickled toward the road. A few drops of rain fell, and the wind kicked up dust, knocking over vases and flags.
MORE:John McCain's final project: 45-mile development of dry Salt River bed
But it was nowhere near enough to stop anyone.
One vase just off Page Springs Road bore a handwritten message on a purple Post-It Note: “John McCain, you are our hero. RIP.”
Others left a wreath on the center of the site’s sign, enclosing a miniature POW-MIA flag. They left a black-and-white photo of a young McCain in his Navy days.
Some shared stories they heard about the McCain family.
Others said they appreciated his military service.
“I didn’t always agree with him, but he was a real hero,” said Clarkdale resident Laura Koch. “My son has a business in Phoenix, and he’s done their floors several times. He said, ‘Cindy’s so nice, she always buys us pizza.’”
If they spoke at all, those visiting and mourning weren’t talking politics. They were honoring the memory of a man they admired for working across the aisle and standing up for what he believed in.
They were honoring a man they saw as the definition of an American.
“I’m not a Republican, but I really respected the way he rolled,” said Christy Gardner, a Rimrock resident. “A hell of an American.”
Reporter Ali Phillips contributed reporting.
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About Bacardi Martini
Drinks company Bacardi-Martini might have had a difficult year but it has been careful not to give its staff a rum deal.
The firm has grown from a 19th-century Cuban rum distillery into a multinational yet still family-owned company.
Its UK division has seen big changes in the past year, with the closure of production operations at Southampton, and the move of the entire commercial arm to Winchester.
This has taken a toll on pretax profits, while staff turnover has risen from 13% to 20% with 16 redundancies, but since only the commercial arm was surveyed last year (because production was run by the European operation), employee numbers have remained identical at 253 people.
To soften the blow of losing their job, outgoing staff were given a £1,000 allowance on top of redundancy pay, as well as professional advice and the opportunity to retrain.
Despite the problems, Bacardi-Martini still scores 10th in our survey for pride in the organisation, with an 87% positive score, and 20th for employees saying that they are in their dream job (56%).
One of the most obvious perks of working for the company is a drinks allowance of £25 a month for products which include Bacardi rums, Martini, Bombay Sapphire gin and Bacardi Breezers. The new offices include a free restaurant and a bar, used for “brand training” and sampling sessions.
Holiday allowance increases from 24 days to 30 after a decade of service (although senior managers start with the six-week allowance).
More than four out of 10 members of staff have been with the company for more than five years.
Everyone is eligible to job share, work compressed hours or flexitime, and can take a sabbatical. Almost all employees can work from home, and two-thirds of them do, with the aid of company laptops, wireless connections, broadband, mobile phones and BlackBerrys.
Maternity (and adoption) pay is a generous 18 weeks at full pay, 21 weeks at the statutory rate and then 13 weeks unpaid. Paternity leave is fully paid for two weeks.
All employees are entitled to performance- and profit-related pay, and private healthcare, including partners and dependants. They also have life assurance, a non-contributory pension and an employee assistance programme. There is a wellness programme, free on-site gym and subsidised activities. Parents are given childcare vouchers, and there are also company discounts and a concierge service to make life easier.
There are various schemes for training managers, and the firm rates 25th for managers caring about employees’ job satisfaction (76%) and 13th for supporting them (81%). John Beard, the chief executive, meets new recruits for lunch after their six-month probation to find out what they have to say, runs quarterly road shows, and an annual “commercial conference” to update everyone and take questions.
A Bacardi Learning Centre offers technical and personal training online and all vacancies are advertised internally.
The company sponsors the Best Bar None initiative in partnership with the police, bars and clubs in a bid to ban happy hours and educate the public about responsible drinking.
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Each year employees from the office attend a Christmas Conference at which they are trained and educated around their Christmas sales plans. They then split into teams and during December go out into the market, stacking supermarket shelves. There is a competition to see which teams deliver the greatest volume.
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Ascot Intersects 320 g/t Gold over 1.0 Meter at the Big Missouri Deposit; Ongoing Drilling to Focus on Exploration and Discovery
Vancouver, B.C. July 25, 2019 — Ascot Resources Ltd (TSX.V: AOT; OTCQX: AOTVF) (“Ascot” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the third set of results from its 2019 drill program at the Premier Project (“Premier”) located near Stewart in northwestern British Columbia.
Highlights of the most recent results include (silver assays pending):
320g/t Au over 1.0m in hole P19-1949 at Big Missouri included in 5m averaging 66.3 g/t Au
48.9g/t Au over 1.0m in hole P19-1954 at Big Missouri included in 4m averaging 12.8 g/t Au
In late April, the Company commenced its 2019 drill program and related development activities at the Premier site. This news release summarizes the third batch of results consisting of 24 drill holes. All holes in the release were drilled to the west and north of the S1 pit at the Big Missouri Ridge.
Derek White, President and CEO of Ascot Resources commented, “In this latest round of drilling we encountered some impressive, near-surface visible gold (see Figure 1) and high-grade intercepts. These intercepts are contained within broad mineralized zones of approximately 4 to 5 meters thickness. These drill results continue to confirm our belief in the high-grade nature of the Big Missouri deposit. We still have a significant amount of exploration work to do, including south of Silver Coin where we are now drilling geophysical anomalies outside of known resources. We will continue to update our shareholders with additional drill results as soon as they become available.”
Drill Results
This news release presents the results from 24 drill holes, comprising 3,990 metres of drilling, completed from six separate pads to the west (19BM-09, 19BM-10, 19BM-14) and north/northeast (19BM-18, 19BM-20, 19BM-27) of the historic S1 pit (see Figure 2). The results from these drill holes are summarized in Table 1 and the pad locations are listed in Table 2.
Drill holes P19-1949 and P19-1954 intersected a high-grade zone just 75m from the northern pit wall of the S1 pit at an approximate depth of 50m from surface. The zone is likely coinciding with the mineralization that was mined from the bottom of the S1 pit by Westmin in the early 1990s, and to the east of underground bulk mining by Cominco in the 1940’s. Both holes have intervals with strong visible gold, demonstrating the character of gold mineralization in the area with high grade shoots surrounded by a thicker zone of anomalous gold content.
Figure 1 Image of cut surface of drill core from hole P19-1949 showing visible gold in association with sphalerite (Zinc sulphide) and quartz.
The infill program at southern Big Missouri is now complete and drill rigs have been moved to Silver Coin to upgrade resources and to test the surrounding IP geophysical targets. Two drill rigs are now dedicated to exploration drilling.
Figure 2 Image of the S1 pit area at Big Missouri looking northwest showing the location of the drill pads discussed in this release. Hole P19-1949 is located at pad 19BM-20 and intersected 320g/t Au over 1.0m at a depth of 59m approximately 75m from the northern pit wall of the S1 pit. The drill holes for each pad are listed in Table 2.
Table 1 Summary of drill results from Big Missouri
Hole #
azimuth/
P19-1918 19BM-27 270/76 103.50 107.50 4.00 7.30 11.0
incl. 105.50 107.50 2.00 12.00 15.0
also 120.50 126.50 6.00 2.22 4.7
P19-1919 19BM-10 90/50 189.87 191.87 2.00 1.89 9.0
P19-1922 19BM-10 90/87 169.95 174.00 4.05 3.64 82.5
incl. 169.95 171.00 1.05 7.45 205.0
P19-1923 19BM-10 270/73 213.00 214.50 1.50 4.79 2.0
also 208.00 209.00 1.00 3.17 11.0
P19-1925 19BM-18 196/73 18.80 20.00 1.20 3.51 8.0
incl. 22.00 24.00 2.00 7.72 10.0
also 43.00 45.00 2.00 2.48 2.0
also 188.98 191.00 2.02 10.01 8.5
incl. 190.00 191.00 1.00 16.80 8.0
P19-1941 19BM-09 270/81 180.50 184.50 4.00 4.56 b.d.
P19-1947 19BM-09 196.00 199.00 3.00 2.52 b.d.
also 215.00 216.00 1.00 5.40 b.d.
P19-1948 19BM-20 270/54 56.80 59.75 2.95 3.20 15.7
P19-1949 19BM-20 270/67 56.5 61.5 5.00 66.28 pending
including 56.5 57.5 1.00 5.35 pending
including 58.5 59.5 1.00 320 pending
also 79.20 80.20 1.00 8.70 17.0
P19-1953 19BM-20 90/52 49.37 51.37 2.00 2.06 39.5
also 106.39 107.62 1.23 23.80 30.0
P19-1954 19BM-20 90/88 51.00 55.00 4.00 12.78 pending
including 52.00 53.00 1.00 48.87 pending
True width is believed to be approximately 70-90% of reported intercepts. The drill hole numbers that are missing in the sequence have been assigned to geotechnical drill holes or have assays pending. The abbreviation b.d. stands for below detection limit, which is 2g/t for silver. Top cuts have not been applied to high-grade assays.
Table 2 Drill pad locations
Pad #
UTM N
UTM E
Hole no.
19BM-09 6219375 436295 1082 1941, 1942, 1947
19BM-10 6219425 436299 1078 1919, 1922-1924
19BM-14 6219481 436317 1087 1929-1933
19BM-18 6219511 436632 970 1925-1928
19BM-27 6219625 436474 1025 1918
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
Lawrence Tsang, P. Geo, the Company’s Senior Geologist provides the field management for the Premier exploration program. John Kiernan, P. Eng., Chief Operating Officer of the Company is the Company’s Qualified Person (QP) as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this news release.
Analytical work is being carried out by SGS Canada Inc (“SGS”). Ascot’s quality-assurance and quality-control program includes the use of analytical blanks to monitor for cross contamination, certified reference material standards to assess analytical accuracy, and duplicate samples to quantify sampling precision. This is in addition to the internal quality assurance program employed by SGS.
Samples are dried and weighed by SGS. They are then crushed to 75% passing 2mm, with 250g split and pulverized to 85% passing 75µm. Samples are processed on site by a mobile lab supplied by SGS and run by SGS personnel. All splits are sent to SGS in Burnaby. There, all samples are digested using aqua-regia with an ICP-AES finish and fire assay with AA finish for gold. Samples over 100ppm silver are digested with aqua regia and then volumetrically diluted before an ICP-AES or AA finish (up to 1,500ppm). Samples over 1,500ppm silver are fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. Samples over 10ppm gold are fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. Identified or suspected metallic gold or silver are subjected to “metallics” assays. Sampling and storage are at the Company’s secure facility in Stewart.
For more information about the Company, please refer to the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or the Company’s web site at www.ascotgold.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
ASCOT RESOURCES LTD.
“Derek C. White”, President and CEO
Kristina Howe
VP, Investor Relations
778-725-1060 / khowe@ascotgold.com
About Ascot Resources Ltd.
Ascot is a Canadian-based junior exploration company focused on re-starting the past producing historic Premier gold mine, located in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The Company continues to define high-grade resources for underground mining with the near-term goal of converting the underground resources into reserves, while continuing to explore nearby targets on its Premier/Dilworth and Silver Coin properties (collectively referred to as the Premier project). Ascot's acquisition of IDM Mining added the high-grade gold and silver Red Mountain project to its portfolio and positions the Company as a leading consolidator of high- quality assets in the Golden Triangle.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
All statements, trend analysis and other information contained in this press release about anticipated future events or results constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as “seek”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “plan”, “estimate”, “expect” and “intend” and statements that an event or result “may”, “will”, “should”, “could” or “might” occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking statements. Although Ascot believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and/or information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since the Ascot can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements, including the risks, uncertainties and other factors identified in the Ascot’s periodic filings with Canadian securities regulators, and assumptions made with regard to: the estimated costs associated with construction of the Premier and Red Mountain Projects; the timing of the anticipated start of production at the Premier and Red Mountain Projects; the ability to maintain throughput and production levels at the Premier Mill; and the Companies' ability to achieve the synergies expected as a result of the Transaction. Forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results of operations to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Ascot’s expectations include risks associated with the business of Ascot; risks related to exploration and potential development of Ascot’s projects; business and economic conditions in the mining industry generally; fluctuations in commodity prices and currency exchange rates; uncertainties relating to interpretation of drill results and the geology, continuity and grade of mineral deposits; the need for cooperation of government agencies and native groups in the exploration and development of properties and the issuance of required permits; the need to obtain additional financing to develop properties and uncertainty as to the availability and terms of future financing; the possibility of delay in exploration or development programs and uncertainty of meeting anticipated program milestones; uncertainty as to timely availability of permits and other governmental approvals; and other risk factors as detailed from time to time and additional risks identified in Ascot’s filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com). Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management at the date the statements are made. Ascot does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements.
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There's a difference between an enforcer and a goon. A goon is just some meathead who goes out looking for a fight any chance they can get. They lack discipline and honor. But an enforcer? Well an enforcer abides by the code. An enforcer is there to provide the threat of violence, but only acts upon it when necessary to keep other players in line.
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If it could work for Kenny Wu, it could work for anybody. Stick. Gloves. Shirt. Choke out.
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CalculusCalculus: An Applied Approach (MindTap Course List)In Exercises 5-10, evaluate the double integral. ∫ 0 1 ∫ 0 x x d y d x
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Prove the statement using the , definition of a limit. 27. limx0x=0
Find equations of both the tangent lines to the ellipse x2+4y2=36 that pass through the point 12, 3.
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Why cities need to future-proof against chronic stresses & acute shocks
Along with Durban, Cape Town recently joined the Rockefeller Foundation’s international 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) project, which seeks to empower cities to withstand the chronic stresses and acute shocks that could lie ahead, even in thriving downtown areas.
The 100RC …
Creating A Resilient Downtown: Cape Town CCID’s 17-Year Journey
SA Real Estate Investor Magazine Feature:
The Cape Town Central City is not exceptional in a global sense, believes Carola Koblitz – editor and chief author of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District’s (CCID) annual investment guide, The State …
Cape Town CCID Updates Local Govt on Smart Cities in Service Magazine
Smart City strategies are not only essential for each South African municipality to ensure its success into the future, but could place our collective cities at the forefront of Smart City development worldwide, writes Carola Koblitz.
In its March …
Businesses in bid to save water, says IOL
Some city business are doing their bit to reduce or recycle water as dam levels drop to an all-time low and water restrictions are tightened in the face of a growing crisis.
The Level 3B restrictions came into effect on …
Company’s Garden Safety boost adds to CBD success story of 90% crime rate drop since 2000, says News24
Cape Town – A busy corridor in the Company’s Garden, alongside Parliament, connects many students, workers and tourists to central Cape Town.
The tree-lined avenue, closed off to cars, is usually a tranquil commute for those on foot.
An occasional …
Cape Town property values in CBD soar – State of the Central City Report 2015 launched in Business Day
BY BEKEZELA PHAKATHI
CAPE Town’s central business district (CBD) has experienced a boom in property values over the past decade with investors flocking to the area, according to the latest State of Cape Town Central City Report produced by the …
The people that keep a CBD clean
The Cape Town CBD is the cleanest “downtown” in South Africa, according to participants who take part in a number of surveys conducted annually by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID).
But it takes a great deal of …
Cape Town CBD is boom town
Cape Town – While the Cape Town city centre is well known to be “open for business”, it’s also becoming a sought-after home address.
Last year residential property worth R296.4 million was sold in the CBD.
The average property sale …
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Welcome to Tauranga's bar and pub scene. If it's nightlife you are after, then Tauranga has certainly grown up in the past few years. There are many nightclubs and bars catering to both the "mature" and younger crowds. During the week many do close on the early side if patronage is low. But the weekends can see an influx of locals and visitors from the wider Bay of Plenty. Get amongst it!
Greers
Rain Bar & Restaurant
Flannagans Irish Pub
The Crown & Badger
Astrolabe (Mac's Brew Bar)
Martys Pool Lounge
Worlds End Sports Cafe
Imbibe Bar
Molly OConnors
The Landing Cafe & Bar
Brewers Bar
Krazy Jacks Bar & Restaurant
Mount Mellick Bar
Bundys Bar Papamoa Beach
The Western Bay of Plenty’s nightlife scene has arrived! More pubs and bars are opening, some really quite swish —putting the pressure on the old-timers to up their game. So now, happily, you’ve got a choice: there are funky late-night cocktail lounges, cheery English ale-houses as well as a good old-fashioned Kiwi pub or two for a game of pool & a pint of Lion. One or two establishments defy description, but that’s a compliment.
As with any city, use your commonsense: stick to well-lit areas premises and their courtyards —and remember the liquor ban that applies beyond the licensed premises and their courtyards. You risk a fine if you wander the streets with a bottle of beer in hand.
Our Top Tips for Gigs & Venues
There’s plenty of live music in the Western Bay, with Tauranga regularly attracting top NZ bands and not-infrequent international acts. Expect a whole range of styles, from rock and dance music, with plenty of jazz and blues —in fact Tauranga is best known for the world’s longest-running jazz festival, drawing crowds of up to 20,000.
In Harington Street, a short walk from the centre of Tauranga. Set up to showcase original, live music – both up and coming Kiwis and international acts. Even jazz…
at the Mount: ‘a good honest rock venue’ with fine acoustics and music most nights, where you can catch top Kiwi bands on tour as well as many local acts.
Bureta Park
—every Wednesday The Bureta Park All-Stars (formerly the Dr Jazz Band) play almost anything from the jazz world and invite musicians to jam.
Mills Reef Winery
(Bethlehem) has impressive sessions on Sunday afternoons, including Marion Arts, Oscar, The Self-Righteous Brothers, Derek Jacombs and Nigel Masters. Wine and music.
For more or less middle-of-the-road rock, pop and covers, various pubs & bars downtown have bands playing on Friday and Saturday nights Try Home, Cornerstone, Naked Grape, Crown and Badger and Imbibe).
Local Bands & Artists to Catch…
Winston Watusi recommends:
Tauranga Big Band, a ‘top-class regional big band’ that’s gone from strength to strength and hold monthly dances; veteran bluesman Peri Kohu and his trio, the ‘most authentic gut-bucket blues you’ll come across’; Torch Songs, a sophisticated jazz band; Marion Arts, contemporary jazz singer, who often performs with Trevor Braunias, virtuoso jazz guitarist; Kokomo, well-known nationally for original blues and roots music; Tracie De Jong, silky smooth folk/jazz singer; Brilleaux, hi-energy R & B band; Abstract Thought, Stardrunk and Storm fish —original rock at its best.
To find out what’s on, check out ...
The Weekend Sun (www.thesun.co.nz)
Out free on Friday, widely distributed to accommodation providers and restaurants. The Sun’s big entertainment guide includes a comprehensive ‘What’s On,’ a DVD movies review, and a gig guide. Catch excellent Music Plus column, with the ‘opinionated ravings’ of Winston Watusi, in reality an accomplished local muso, Derek Jacombs of Kokomo.
A free community newspaper (out on Wednesday) with a ‘What’s On’ as
well as movie and gig listings.
The Bay of Plenty Times
Thursday edition’s big Bay Beat section has arts and music columns and an arts diary, movie reviews, a gig guide and what’s on.
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By Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Elaine Taylor-Klaus is the founder and CEO of ImpactADHD.com, where she teaches thousands of parents, educators, and other professionals dynamic strategies for parenting and educating children with complex issues. She is a former parenting advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a former national Board member of CHADD (Children and Adults with AD/HD), and an internationally recognized parenting coach, educator, and speaker. She is a mother of three complex kids and the author of Parenting ADHD Now!
"An invaluable resource for parents (and hopefully for those working with them), this book is certainly now on the top of my “must read” list for all the parents (and teachers and mental health specialists) I work with. I am recommending it every chance I get."
- Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Harvard Medical School Author: Nowhere to Hide—-
"Elaine Taylor-Klaus is the parent coach you can trust. Writing from her own life experience as a parent of three complex kids, the work of ImpactADHD.com, and the stories of the parents she has coached, Elaine clearly has the lived-through wisdom and compassion. This book is smart, engaging, and written for busy (and sometimes chaotic) families. It teaches parents to use reflection and self-care to connect with the radical acceptance and the "bring it on" attitude needed to take on the parenting challenges. At it's heart, this is also a call to understand both the children and the parents, grow connection within family, and ultimately celebrate the journey."
- Lidia Zylowska MD, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Dept of Psychiatry—-
"With wit and wisdom that can only come from experience, Elaine Taylor-Klaus reminds fellow parents that they really can make a difference in the lives of their complex kids, and she guides them to do just that."
- Susan Stiffelman, MFT, author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence—-
An essential resource for any parent! For parents raising children with ADHD or other learning differences, this book is invaluable. Taylor-Klaus gives you a skill-based road map to manage yourself and be a better resource for your child.
- Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees & Wannabes—-
Deftly written with humor and compassion, this book offers a framework for developing a collaborative approach in working with your child, opportunities for self-reflection, and action-oriented solutions to some of life’s most difficult parent-child issues. This book is a life saver for many struggling parents who may feel they are barely holding on.
- Mary Anne Richey, M.Ed., co-author of Raising Boys with ADHD—-
Elaine Taylor-Klaus has been helping parents of "complex" kids for years with her engaging, witty, and blessedly calm advice. Now she has put it all in a wonderfully accessible guide that's like having her wise voice in your ear.
- Katherine Ellison, author of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention—-
Elaine Taylor-Klaus has given anyone leading kids a new lens to see their struggles as opportunities and new tools to turn their most frustrating situations into moments of connection and growth.
- Hal Runkel, New York Times bestselling author of Screamfree Parenting—-
My favorite parenting book, bar none! Raising complex kids is tough and Taylor-Klaus nails it. A ‘must-read’ lifeline for parents of struggling kids. This book will transform your life.
- Melissa Orlov, author of The ADHD Effect on Marriage—-
Speaking from years of practical experience Taylor-Klaus dispenses wit, wisdom and effective strategies.
- Sam Goldstein Ph.D., co-author of Raising Resilient Children—-
Taylor-Klaus provides empathetic and sensible guidance to parents and professionals who struggle to provide effective help and support for kids whose lives are complicated by ADHD and related problems.
- Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., author of Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD—-
This book is rich with highly useful ideas and new perspectives that can help you and your child succeed while establishing a more peaceful and loving relationship.
- Russell A. Barkley Ph.D., author of Taking Charge of ADHD—-
This book is smart, engaging, and written for busy (and sometimes chaotic) families. It teaches parents to use reflection and self-care to connect with the radical acceptance and the "bring it on" attitude needed to take on the parenting challenges.
- Lidia Zylowska MD, author of The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD—-
This is truly the book so many parents have been waiting for and is sure to help many families. They will find the compassionate guidance they need to move from surviving to thriving by learning how to make simple but impactful adjustments in the way they care for themselves and their complex kids.
- Michelle Frank, Psy.D., co-author of A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD—-
This smart, practical book will make a difference not only in your child’s life, but also in yours. If you’re tired of working too hard for too little, let Elaine show you a better path.
- Ari Tuckman, author of More Attention, Less Deficit—-
With wit and wisdom that can only come from experience, Elaine Taylor-Klaus reminds fellow parents that they really can make a difference in the lives of their complex kids.
- Susan Stiffelman, MFT, author of Parenting Without Power Struggles—-
You’ll want to read this book cover to cover, and then keep it on your nightstand, for it will surely become your “how to” manual as you shift from “parenting from desperation to parenting from inspiration.
- Jerome Schultz, Ph.D., author of Nowhere to Hide—-
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Family & Relationships / Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD)
Family & Relationships / Autism Spectrum Disorders
Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs
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The Bhojpur Consulting has designed and implemented enhanced versions of Digital Architecture reference models, business processes, frameworks or methodologies based on the following industry standards or regulatory guidelines.
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Daughters get set for cycle trek in memory of mother
By Rebecca Murphy
Published: 7:00 AM May 11, 2015 Updated: 8:10 PM October 10, 2020
Jo Ivens (left) and Jennifer Brewin preparing to cycle 150 miles in memory of their mother - Credit: Archant
Two sisters will be taking on a 150 mile cycling challenge over three days to remember their mother who died from cancer nearly a year ago.
Christina Crease. - Credit: Archant
Jo Ivens and Jennifer Brewin will be starting their trek on June 4 from the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research Unit at the University College Hospital London where their mother, Christina Crease, received pioneering treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1987.
Mrs Crease, who was a popular figure in Loddon and was involved in organising various events for the town including carnival parades, died on June 5, 2014 from Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
They will finish at Norfolk and Waveney cancer charity Big C’s Family Support Centre at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital - a charity their mother was very fond of.
“Mum was a big supporter of Big C and organised family fancy dress parades in aid of the charity,” said Mrs Ivens, who now lives in Brighton.
“This will be a positive thing to do on her anniversary. It’s a slightly extreme endeavour but it is something mum would have come up with.”
On June 6 the women will stop off at The White Horse in Chedgrave at 11am to collect more sponsorship and friends will join them for the last leg of the ride.
Mrs Ivens added: “A lot of people in Loddon knew mum because she was very involved in community life. I’m nervous but this ride reflects the journey and fight mum had.
“She was so determined and optimistic.”
To sponsor Jo and Jennifer, visit uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Mightyride
Are you taking part in a fundraising challenge? Email rebecca.murphy@archant.co.uk
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Chinese province reports hottest month in 55 years
Beijing, Sep 4 (IANS) China's Qinghai province reported the hottest month in 55 years, 3.4 degrees Celsius above the average August temperature.
Data provided by the local climate centre on Saturday showed the average temperature in Qinghai last month was 16.4 degrees Celsius, the highest since records began in 1961, Xinhua news agency reported.
The centre attributed the temperature rise to the aftermath of El Nino.
Heat waves were reported in many parts of the province last month, particularly the Qaidam basin and major agricultural production bases in the eastern areas.
The second half of August saw more rains and floods, landslides and hailstorms than usual, said Ma Zhanliang of the provincial climate centre.
Last month, average precipitation in the province was 83.9 mm, slightly more than normal but unevenly distributed, he said.
Some areas, including Golmud, Gangcha, Huangyuan and Qilian, were battered by the heaviest rainfall since 1961. More than 60 flood disasters were reported across the province.
Qinghai province has an average altitude of about 2,200 meters and is known for its cool summer season.
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Ominous signs for South Africa after England win ugly
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Tabraiz Shamsi has been a lock in South Africa's T20I side for the best part of three years now, but the jury is out as to whether he is a genuine match-winner or simply keeping Imran Tahir's spot warm before the T20 World Cup. Shamsi showed in the series against England and Australia in February that he is a canny operator with good variations, but was only afforded three overs in Friday's series opener as Jonny Bairstow took a particular liking to him. With England creating left-right partnerships throughout their batting order, he will need to find a way to keep the right-handers quiet - perhaps by using his googly more.
It has been a difficult nine months for Jason Roy in an England shirt - with injuries limiting him to only seven white-ball innings for them in that time, his highest score was his 24 against Ireland back in July. Roy spoke before this series about feeling refreshed and re-energised after withdrawing from the IPL to spend time with his young family, but managed a second-baller on Friday night. He has a huge amount of credit in the bank, and has fifties in three of his last six T20I innings, but can expect South Africa to target him with Linde's left-arm spin early on again.
The two Covid-positive players in South Africa's enlarged squad may be able to rejoin the group relatively soon, but the team doctor said on Thursday that they were highly unlikely to play a part in the series. Anrich Nortje was left out, perhaps with a focus on transformation targets, in the series opener, but looks set to replace Beuran Hendricks after his nightmare final over. That will mean a batting reshuffle, with Reeza Hendricks the most likely player to come in, possibly at the expense of Pite van Biljon. If Quinton de Kock decides he needs another bowling option in the top six, Jon-Jon Smuts could be handed another chance.
South Africa (possible): 1 Quinton de Kock (capt, wk), 2 Reeza Hendricks, 3 Temba Bavuma, 4 Faf du Plessis, 5 Rassie van der Dussen, 6 Heinrich Klaasen/Jon-Jon Smuts, 7 George Linde, 8 Lungi Ngidi, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Anrich Nortje, 11 Tabraiz Shamsi
England are unlikely to rip up their latest blueprint immediately, though could make changes for the third game if the batting line-up fails to click again. Instead, the most likely change would involve Mark Wood replacing Tom Curran to add pace to the bowling attack.
England (possible): 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jonny Bairstow, 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Eoin Morgan (capt), 7 Sam Curran, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Mark Wood
The pitch at Boland Park in Paarl tends to be flat, and it is set to be a 30-degrees scorcher on Sunday. The average score batting first in all T20s there since the start of the 2018-19 Mzansi Super League is 166, but there is a strong chasing bias: the team batting second has won nine out of the last 13 games there. In the same timeframe, Shamsi is the leading wicket-taker on the ground, with 14 wickets. In terms of atmosphere, the ground is one of the best in the country, so the absence of a crowd will be keenly felt.
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"It's always very special. It doesn't matter how many times you've done it. The time away from the game really made me miss the game of cricket again so to come back and play for the Proteas is just as special as it always has been, especially against a quality team like in England."
Faf du Plessis is delighted to be back in the green and gold
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The Pressure Sensor of the Venus Flytrap
The display of a smartphone reacts to finger pressure. The carnivorous Venus flytrap, on the other hand, even notices when a lightweight like a fly lands on it. Special genes make this possible.
Open trap of Dionaea muscipula with potential prey. Middle: basal part of a trigger hair, where action potentials are elicited in the sensory cells upon touch stimulation. During the late phase of the action potential, potassium ions need to be reimported into the sensory cells via KDM1 to enable the generation of consecutive action potentials. (Image: Ines Kreuzer, Sönke Scherzer / Universität Würzburg)
All plant cells can be made to react by touch or injury. The carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) has highly sensitive organs for this purpose: sensory hairs that register even the weakest mechanical stimuli, amplify them and convert them into electrical signals that then spread quickly through the plant tissue.
Researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, have isolated individual sensory hairs and analysed the gene pool that is active in catching insects. "In the process, we found for the first time the genes that presumably serve throughout the plant kingdom to convert local mechanical stimuli into systemic signals," says JMU plant researcher Professor Rainer Hedrich.
That's a fine thing, because virtually nothing was known about mechano-receptors in plants until now. Hedrich's team presents the results in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
Sensory hairs convert touch into electricity
The hinged trap of Dionaea consists of two halves, each carrying three sensory hairs. When a hair is bent by touch, an electrical signal, an action potential, is generated at its base. At the base of the hair are cells in which ion channels burst open due to a stretching of their envelope membrane and become electrically conductive. The upper part of the sensory hair acts as a lever that amplifies the stimulus triggered by even the lightest prey.
These micro-force-touch sensors thus transform the mechanical stimulus into an electrical signal that spreads from the hair over the entire flap trap. After two action potentials, the trap snaps shut. Based on the number of action potentials triggered by the prey animal during its attempts to free itself, the carnivorous plant estimates whether the prey is big enough - whether it is worth setting the elaborate digestion in motion.
From genes to the function of the touch sensor
To investigate the molecular basis for this unique function, Hedrich's team "harvested" about 1000 sensory hairs. Together with JMU bioinformatician Professor Jörg Schultz, they set out to identify the genes in the hairs.
"In the process, we noticed that the fingerprint of the genes active in the hair differs from that of the other cell types in the trap," says Schulz. How is the mechanical stimulus converted into electricity? "To answer this, we focused on the ion channels that are expressed in the sensory hair or are found exclusively there," says Hedrich.
In search of further ion channels
The sensory hair-specific potassium channel KDM1 stood out. Newly developed electrophysiological methods showed that without this channel, the electrical excitability of the sensory hairs is lost, i.e. they can no longer fire action potentials. "Now we need to identify and characterise the ion channels that play an important role in the early phases of the action potential," Hedrich said.
"The Venus flytrap trigger hair-specific potassium channel KDM1 can reestablish the K+ gradient required for hapto-electric signalling." Anda L. Iosip, Jennifer Böhm, Sönke Scherzer, Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid, Ingo Dreyer, Jörg Schultz, Dirk Becker, Ines Kreuzer, Rainer Hedrich. PLOS Biology, 9 December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000964
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hedrich, Chair of Botany I (Plant Physiology and Biophysics), University of Würzburg, T +49 931 31-86100, hedrich@botanik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser, 297 pp, RL 4
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
by Karina Yan Glaser
Cover art by Karl James Mountford
Map by Jennifer Thermes
Interior illustrations by Karina Yan Glaser
Purchased at Barnes & Noble
I have always been fascinated by New York City. As a kid, the books that left the deepest impressions on me were set there (Eloise, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Harriet the Spy) and, as I got older, it seemed like all the things I loved (Saturday Night Live, the best bookstores, the world of publishing) were there, too. It wasn't until my daughter moved to New York City for graduate school in 2017 - when this book debuted - that I really got to visit the city. So, with my daughter living a mere ten blocks from the Vanderbeekers, it seemed like the perfect time to read Karina Yan Glaser's superb book as I flew to see her receive her master's degree.
Realistic fiction is not my favorite genre of kid's books and when I do read it, these days it tends to be because the characters and story are mirrors for mostly Latinx student population at the school where I am the librarian. While The Vanerbeeker's of 141st Street doesn't fit this bill, with a cast of biracial (although it's not clear exactly which races, but does it really matter? As Ilana says on Broad City, "Statistically, we're headed toward an age where everybody's going to be, like, caramel and queer.") siblings, it is a great window for my students. And, it's a great story!
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street reminds me of a contemporary, urban version of a favorite real-life-family-fiction series of mine, The Penderwicks, and, happily, this family is very unplugged, despite the fact that Mr. Vanderbeeker is a computer technician. At twelve-years old, twins Isa, passionate and talented violinist, and Jessie, inventive science lover, are seeming opposites and best friends. Nine-year old Oliver is the only boy and therefore gets his own room, a closet with a loft bed and endless bookshelves, built by an attentive uncle, and perfect as he is a voracious reader. Six-year old shy Hyacinth is a future Etsy shop owner with a seemingly endless supply of craft supplies, and almost-five-year-old Laney is comic relief. Their story begins on Friday, December 20, when their parents (mom is a professional baker and dad repairs computers) tell their brood that their landlord will not be renewing their lease and they have until the end of the month to find a new home.
Having lived in their brownstone (which, thankfully for West coast, suburban and rural readers, Glaser describes and illustrates, both outside and in) for as long as they can remember, the children spring into action, devising scheme after scheme to convince their reclusive landlord, Mr. Beiderman, to change his mind. Using all their talents and enlisting their neighbors and community for help, the children also try to learn more about the man who lives on the third floor of their apartment building. A tricky task, Glaser does a wonderful job of keeping the Vanderbeeker parents involved in the story while also giving the children the space to pursue their secret project in a way that does not feel forced. I was especially impressed with Glaser's resolution and the moving reasons behind Mr. Beiderman's decision to evict the Vanderbeekers as well as the authentic and emotionally rewarding conclusion.
The neighborhood setting, close connections the siblings share and their varied and genuine creative talents make this memorable story one that readers will return to. Happily, you can get the second book now, with the third coming in September of this year, with books 4 and 5 coming in 2020 and 2022! AND! The marvelous Amy Poehler optioned the movie rights last year!
While I only have three kids, not five like the Vanderbeekers, I have a house full of animals like them - and like the Glaser family! Currently, we have four box turtles, three cats and two dogs, but we also had four house rabbits at one time and I have been poring over Glaser's Instagram account where she shares fantastic shots of her furry family, including Izzy, the inspiration for the Vanderbeeker's bunny, Paganini. I do miss my bunnies...
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A Visit With the Olivera Brothers at Fast Gourmet
by Borderstan.com February 14, 2011 at 6:00 am 2,957 3 Comments
Juan and Manuel Olivera at Fast Gourmet at 14th and W Streets NW. (Luis Gomez Photos)
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For our series in local business owners Borderstan sat down with brothers Manuel and Juan Olivera to find out more about Fast Gourmet, which they opened with two other investors in October of last year. A take-out/dine-in restaurant would not normally cause a stir — unless you open it in a gas station.
That’s right, the gas station/restaurant at the Southeast corner of 14th and W Streets NW has been talked about by U Street Girl, WUSA9 and BYT, so we thought we would find out more about their unique business model and the food that is getting great reviews.
Borderstan: How did you come up with the concept of a restaurant in a gas station?
Manuel Olivera: Well, sometimes things don’t always happen as you plan. We originally wanted to do delivery only, but the neighborhood was changing so fast that we added eat-in and take-out.
Borderstan: Do you own the gas station as well?
Manuel Olivera: We lease the building for Fast Gourmet and also manage the operations of the gas station for the owners.
Borderstan: Why not sell junk food and soda like all the other gas station convenience stores?
Manuel Olivera: There are so many of them around and lots of competition, we decided to be different. We are going to upgrade some of the snack food we do sell. We also try to be eco friendly — we use environmentally friendly containers for to-go food and we recycle the fryer oil as well.
Borderstan: Tell me about your backgrounds.
Manuel Olivera: We are from Uruguay and have been here for about eight years. We have backgrounds in the food and hospitality industries. My brother, Juan, is the chef and handles the kitchen and food, and I am the general manager.
Borderstan: How did you decide on the menu?
Manuel Olivera: Juan worked with a designer to come up with the menu. It has a variety of things — Latin American, Middle Eastern and European.
Borderstan: What are your most popular items?
Juan Olivera: The Chivito (tenderloin, mozzarella, black forest, bacon, green olives and hard boiled eggs) and the Cuban Sandwich.
Borderstan: How busy have you been so far?
Manuel Olivera: Things have really picked up in the past few weeks. We were not aggressive with advertising when we opened — we hoped people would find out about us through word of mouth. We are usually busy at lunch time and all day on Fridays and Saturdays. We are open until 5:30 am on the weekends and we do get a late night crowd as well.
Borderstan: What are the plans for the future?
Juan Olivera: We would like to add beer and wine to the menu. We are also thinking about a food truck to visit other parts of the city.
Fast Gourmet is located at 1400 W Street NW, two blocks north of U Street.
Natives of Uruguay, Juan and Manuel Olivera own and operate Fast Gourmet. They are considering a food truck as well as adding beer and wine to the menu. (Luis Gomez Photos)
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Bull: ‘A win for Gavin McDonnell won’t be topped’
Stefy Bull on the significance of Gavin McDonnell's WBA super-bantamweight title fight with Daniel Roman. He speaks to Matt Bevan
STEFY BULL is adamant that a win for Gavin McDonnell over WBA super-bantamweight champion Daniel Roman on Saturday in Chicago, will be a win that won’t be topped in British boxing for a long time.
McDonnell will be a part of Matchroom Boxing’s first US card as part of the eight-year deal with DAZN and Bull is more than confident that the Doncaster man has the beating of Roman, who is making the third defence of the title he won last September in Japan.
Roman was announced as one of Matchroom’s big signings when they confirmed their monumental deal across the pond, yet Bull thinks that Gavin, who was beaten for the WBC title last February by Rey Vargas, has all the tools to add a world title to his ever-growing collection of belts.
Bull told Boxing News: “Gavin’s fight with Daniel Roman is more than winnable. Put it this way, he is no Rey Vargas. Roman is flat footed and fights at a very steady pace, whilst Gavin just grows as a fight goes on, whilst keeping a fast pace, so Roman will really have to work for this.
“Gav is flying at the moment and although he is technically away from home, this is still a Matchroom card and he remains a Matchroom fighter, so he is going to get a fair crack. They won’t be too concerned who wins or loses, as a win for Roman sees him carry on over there, whilst if Gavin wins, there will be a rematch over here, as there is a clause and Gav is a voluntary defence. I’m more than confident he can win this.
“It’s a win that won’t be topped for a very long time in this country. To win a world title in your own country is impressive enough, but to do it on the road is another thing altogether. Then to do that having had barely any amateur experience, having to prove that you are eligible for a professional licence drawing in your fifth fight and then joining your twin brother as a world champion. That is the stuff dreams are made of.”
A win for McDonnell will be the final part of what could be a successful weekend for Bull, who promotes his own card the night before, headlined by Robbie Barrett and Matty Fagan’s clash, whilst former British bantamweight champion Josh Wale is also in action in his hometown.
Bull will be making a quick dash across the Atlantic to be there for McDonnell, but not before he has seen his young charges secure potential opportunities for themselves in 2019.
He said: “It’s going to be a manic weekend. Not many promote their own card on Friday, before jumping on an 8am plane to the States to see another of their fighters win a world title. My own card has been a bit of a headache, especially with the situation regarding Josh Wale’s fight, so hopefully it all runs smoothly.
“The fight between Barrett and Fagan is an excellent domestic fight where a win will open doors for you, whilst there is another excellent clash between Kyle Yousaf and Conor Blackshaw for the English flyweight title.
“Andy Townend was due to fight Atif Shafiq in an eliminator for the British, however Atif has pulled out and Andy will have to face a foreign opponent, as no domestic fighter will take it on short notice. I’m confident Andy will be mandatory for the British lightweight title after, so he will face the winner of Joe Cordina and Scotty Cardle’s fight on November 10 in 2019.”
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Police hunting Ian Betton who has absconded from South Gloucestershire prison
The public is advised not to approach him
Police have launched a manhunt after a convicted robber has absconded from jail.
Ian Betton is serving a sentence for robbery and driving offences at HMP Leyhill.
UPDATE: Ian Betton was arrested on January 24.
But this afternoon, a spokesman from Avon and Somerset Police confirmed he absconded from the South Gloucestershire open prison.
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He was reported missing at about 12.30pm today (Thursday) and was last seen by staff at 6am this morning.
However, there are unconfirmed reports he was spotted in the Rangeworthy area two hours later.
A force spokesperson said: "He is described as a white man, aged 44 years, 5ft 10ins tall of medium build. He has brown hair and brown eyes and a goatee-style beard.
"He was sentenced for robbery and driving offences.
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"Ian Betton has links with West Mercia and it is possible he may be making his way through South Gloucestershire.
"Anyone spotting him is advised not to approach him but call 999, quoting 5220017900."
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Galton and Simpson’s 60th Anniversary
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As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock’s Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie to his huge success with scriptwriters Galton and Simpson.
Way back in the mists of time a chance meeting between two budding scriptwriters and a comic unhappy with his role in a show would set off a chain of events that would change the face of comedy as we then knew it.
Those scriptwriters were Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the unhappy comic was one Tony Hancock and the show was Happy Go Lucky.
Derek Roy was a huge star of his day. His BBC Radio show Hip Hip Hoo Roy, was a huge success and he’d also hosted Variety Bandbox, a talent show that had helped many upcoming comics of the day make a name for themselves, including one Tony Hancock.
Happy Go Lucky did not fair well. First broadcast in August of 1951 it had been conceived as a ‘light-hearted blend’ of comedy and music. By October of that year the show was falling apart the writers had been fired; the producer had suffered a nervous breakdow. To make maters worse one of the regular sketches was considered so poor that the up-and-coming comic (Tony Hancock) leading it was begging for his performances to be excised from broadcast.
Today it would just have been cancelled, but back in the day the BBC decided it to see it through to the end. In came the new producer – the now BBC legend Dennis Main Wilson. He called a meeting of cast and crew. He turned to two young men, who were there only because they had recently started selling jokes to Roy for a few shillings a time. He asked them if they could write the last few shows of the series so it could limp to completion before Christmas; and they agreed, the show went on until the end.
More importantly it was the first meeting between Galton and Simpson and Tony Hancock. Between them they were about to change the way we see comedy for good. Hancock’s part in this show had been written by someone else, but a sketch written by Galton and Simpson for the show featuring Benny Hill and Frances King as squabbling children caught the eye of Hancock. Alan Simpson takes up the story “We were rehearsing a bit that we did write and he said “did you write that?” and we said “yes” and he said “very funny” and walked off.
We never heard from him after that, then two months later he got in touch and asked us to write a 5 or 10 minute sketch for him, for Workers Playtime, where he had to provide his own material”
Tony Hancock and Galton and Simpson would work together again before the “big one”
Happy-Go-Lucky (HGL) was a one-hour variety show broadcast on the BBC Light Programme, commencing in August 1951. It was a vehicle for Derek Roy, a significant star of the time, but now largely forgotten. The idea of the show was conceived as a ‘light-hearted blend’ of comedy and music.
This post is adapted from a blog written by: Tristan Brittain-Dissont the current Archivist of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. Click here to read the story in full and to hear excerpts presumed ‘lost’
Starring: Derek Roy, Tony Hancock
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Sublime's Coconut Cake Named Best Vegan Sweet in the U.S.
Hannah Sentenac | February 14, 2018 | 2:53pm
Sublime's three-tiered Coconut Cake.
Courtesy of Sublime Restaurant
Fort Lauderdale's plant-strong paradise just earned another honor for one of its culinary creations: Sublime Restaurant & Bar's coconut cake was named "Best Vegan Sweet Treat" in the nation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
The animal rights organization released its Top 10 list just in time for Valentine's Day, and Sublime topped it for the second year in a row. In 2017, the eatery's chocolate nirvana cake (made with Kahlúa buttercream and dark chocolate ganache) was the big winner.
PETA representative Moira Colley says the desserts were chosen from restaurants, bakeries, and cafés based on input from PETA members, staff, and supporters who tried them, as well as from diners at restaurants across the nation. Sublime's coconut cake earned top honors because it was "the one that was constantly mentioned."
The all-star dessert includes three layers of white cake surrounded by coconut buttercream frosting and is paired with a crisp almond tuile cookie. A slice costs $9 at the Fort Lauderdale eatery, frequented by celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney, Alicia Silverstone, and Bob Barker.
"Since PETA is the most knowledgable organization when it comes to vegan food and animal rights, it is so exciting to win their award for Sublime's coconut cake," Nanci Alexander, Sublime's founder, tells New Times.
"A slice of Sublime's coconut cake is a dream-come-true ending to a perfectly lovely meal," PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said in a news release. "PETA's new 'dessert directory' will help diners indulge in the best compassionate confections from coast to coast."
Other treats that earned spots on the list came from NuVegan Café in Washington, D.C.; Divine Treasures in Manchester, Connecticut; Nami in Phoenix; Timeless Coffee in Oakland, California; Venerable Bean Bakery in Morgantown, West Virginia; Detroit Vegan Soul in Detroit; Plant in Asheville, North Carolina; Mud Pie Vegan Bakery & Coffee in Kansas City, Missouri; and Morels Cafe in Louisville, Kentucky. Each eatery will receive a framed certificate.
"In advance of Valentine's Day, PETA listed the Top 10 vegan sweet treats in the U.S. to let people know that with all the extremely delicious, animal-friendly options available all across the country, treating your sweetheart or yourself to a truly memorable vegan dessert this holiday is as easy as vegan pie," Colley says.
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By Tina Van Horn, Reliv Product Marketing Specialist We are raising children today in a different society than most of us were raised in. Each generation faces their own unique set of challenges and today’s youth are no exception, especially…
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1 Samuel 21 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
David Takes Consecrated Bread
1Sa 21:1
1Sa 21:1 - Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone and no one with you?”
1Sa 21:2 - David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’
1Sa 21:3 - “Now therefore, what [fn]do you have on hand? Give [fn]me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
1Sa 21:4 - The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread [fn]on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1Sa 21:5 - David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will [fn]their vessels be holy?”
1Sa 21:6 - So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.
1Sa 21:7 - Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.
1Sa 21:8 - David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons [fn]with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”
1Sa 21:9 - Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you [fn]killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
1Sa 21:10
1Sa 21:10 - Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath.
1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”
1Sa 21:12 - David took these words [fn]to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.
1Sa 21:13 - So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.
1Sa 21:14 - Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?
1Sa 21:15 - “Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?”
Literally: is under your hand?
Literally: in my hand
Literally: under my hand
Literally: it be holy in the vessel
Literally: under your hand
Literally: smote
Literally: in his
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Genesis 30 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Sons of Jacob
Gen 30:1 - Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, [fn]she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”
Gen 30:2 - Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Gen 30:3 - She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that [fn]through her I too may have children.”
Gen 30:4 - So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Gen 30:5 - Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
Gen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, “God has [fn]vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him [fn]Dan.
Gen 30:7 - Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Gen 30:8 - So Rachel said, “With [fn]mighty wrestlings I have [fn]wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.
Gen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen 30:10 - Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Gen 30:11 - Then Leah said, “[fn]How fortunate!” So she named him [fn]Gad.
Gen 30:12 - Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
Gen 30:13 - Then Leah said, “[fn]Happy am I! For women will call me happy.” So she named him [fn]Asher.
Gen 30:14 - Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Gen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”
Gen 30:16 - When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.
Gen 30:17 - God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Gen 30:18 - Then Leah said, “God has given me my [fn]wages because I gave my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
Gen 30:19 - Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Gen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband [fn]will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
Gen 30:21 - Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
Gen 30:22 - Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.
Gen 30:23 - So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Gen 30:24 - She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD [fn]give me another son.”
Jacob Prospers
Gen 30:25 - Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.
Gen 30:26 - “Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have [fn]rendered you.”
Gen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, “If now [fn]it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account.”
Gen 30:28 - He [fn]continued, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”
Gen 30:29 - But he said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have [fn]fared with me.
Gen 30:30 - “For you had little before [fn]I came and it has [fn]increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you [fn]wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?”
Gen 30:31 - So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:
Gen 30:32 - let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black [fn]one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.
Gen 30:33 - “So my [fn]honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my [fn]wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”
Gen 30:34 - Laban said, “[fn]Good, let it be according to your word.”
Gen 30:35 - So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the [fn]care of his sons.
Gen 30:36 - And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Gen 30:37 - Then Jacob [fn]took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was [fn]in the rods.
Gen 30:38 - He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they [fn]mated when they came to drink.
Gen 30:39 - So the flocks [fn]mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 - Jacob separated the lambs, and [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
Gen 30:41 - Moreover, whenever the [fn]stronger of the flock [fn]were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might [fn]mate by the rods;
Gen 30:42 - but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the [fn]stronger Jacob’s.
Gen 30:43 - So the man [fn]became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.
Literally: Rachel
Literally: from her I too may be built
Literally: judged
I.e. He judged
Literally: wrestlings of God
Hebrew: niphtal, related to Naphtali
Literally: With fortune! Some versions read Fortune has come
I.e. Fortune
Literally: With my happiness!
I.e. happy
Hebrew: sachar, related to Issachar
Hebrew: zabal, related to Zebulun. Some translate will honor
Literally: add to me; Heb Joseph
Literally: served
Literally: I have found favor in your eyes
Literally: said
Literally: been
Literally: me
Literally: broken forth
Literally: at my foot
Literally: sheep
Literally: righteousness
Literally: wages which are before you
Literally: Behold, would that it might be
Literally: hand
Literally: took to himself
Literally: on
Or, conceived
Literally: set the faces
Literally: bound ones; i.e. firm and compact
Or, conceive
Literally: broke forth
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State Submits $17B Waiver Plan; Advocates Urge Medi-Cal Rate Review
Published On - March 31, 2015
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California health officials submitted a Medicaid waiver request to federal regulators calling for $17 billion in health care reform projects in a five-year proposal.
The 1115 federal waiver proposal seeks to build on the first five-year Medi-Cal “Bridge to Reform waiver” approved in 2010.
In a letter to federal regulators last week, a consortium of advocacy groups — including the California Medical Association — asked CMS for an independent review of the waiver proposal.
“We … respectfully urge CMS to require California to conduct an independent assessment of Medicaid provider reimbursement rates as a condition of approval of the state’s 1115 Medicaid waiver,” the letter said. “We believe an independent assessment of rates is necessary.”
The $10 billion “Bridge to Reform” waiver helped create the Low Income Health Program and implement the Affordable Care Act. It is due to expire in October, and the state wants to build on the successful health care reforms from the first waiver with the next one, known as “Medi-Cal 2020.”
The payment reform and delivery system projects would move California into the next stage of health care reform. Now that Medi-Cal has been expanded to about 12 million Californians, it’s time to refine how care will be delivered to all of those beneficiaries, state officials have said in previous interviews.
Mari Cantwell, chief deputy director at DHCS, said earlier this month that the components of the waiver request have remained relatively intact throughout the stakeholder refinement process.
“What you’ll see in our proposal is consistent with what we’ve discussed before,” Cantwell said. “Nothing is missing, there aren’t any big surprises.”
The letter from the California Medical Association and 17 other provider and advocacy groups throws a wrench into the waiver process. State officials have said they’ve made a special effort to solicit stakeholder input for this waiver renewal. But for 18 significant stakeholders in California, it clearly wasn’t enough.
“The goal of this waiver is to allow California to experiment with innovative ways to improve patient care, as well as reimburse, recruit and retain physicians for the Medi-Cal program,” the letter said. “As such, we urge CMS to make an independent assessment of rates a priority in the renewal of California’s Section 1115 Medicaid waiver.”
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The Wireless Heritage Group
Related events About the group Group champions Resources
CW (Cambridge Wireless)
22 Jun 2019 10:00AM
Telecommunications Heritage Conference
19 Oct 2018 10:00AM
A Tour of Orford Ness Nature Reserve Military Test Sites
5 Oct 2018 4:00PM
Sixty Years of Satellites – from Sputnik to Space X
Time for Telecoms
Tour of Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
29 Apr 2017 11:00AM
The Old Greys to Flash Mob Kensington
Military Radio Communication, Radar & Navigation Equipment - Restored and Working
75 years of radar
12 Jun 2015 2:00PM
19 Feb 2015 6:00PM
RF testing - from the archives
Signals in War and Peace
6 Feb 2014 1:00PM
100 Years of Radio
The Wireless Heritage Special Interest Group (SIG) has been established to develop existing contacts with museums and organisations with an interest in telecoms and wireless history. The objective is to organise events that reference past experience in a contemporary context.
The telecoms industry has a well-documented history and rich collection of iconic articles, the majority of which are in storage with intermittent public access. The collections include examples of materials and manufacturing innovation which are inspiring and informative with direct relevance to present decision making and industrial policy.
Prior to the formation of the Wireless Heritage SIG, Cambridge Wireless has organised a number of events with an industry relevant heritage theme including one and two day events at Duxford in association with the Pye Telecom Wireless Heritage Group, and the Cellular 25 event at the Science Museum in January 2010.
Cellular 25 helped raise funds for the new telecoms gallery, The Information Age at the Science Museum which opened in September 2014.
While fund raising is not a core objective of the Heritage SIG we will be looking to develop events that can produce a profit which can be invested to support curatorial and research activities within the sector.
Follow us on Twitter @CambWireless, and join the conversation using #CWHeritage
Mr. Stirling Essex — Director, Espansivo
Stirling Essex has over 25 years of product development, product management, strategic marketing and business development experience in many areas of wireless technology, and has been intimately involved in the development of test systems for GSM, CDMA (IS-95), 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE. He founded Espansivo, a technology consultancy specialising in helping organisations with their technology, product and business decisions, in...
Stirling Essex has over 25 years of product development, product management, strategic marketing and business development experience in many areas of wireless technology, and has been intimately involved in the development of test systems for GSM, CDMA (IS-95), 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE. He founded Espansivo, a technology consultancy specialising in helping organisations with their technology, product and business decisions, in 2005. Stirling was previously a co-champion of the CW Future Wide Area Wireless Special Interest Group and has been a member of the CW Board since 2004.
Mr Stephen Haseldine — Chairman, Deaf Alerter, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain
Steve Haseldine FIMC FRSA is the Chairman of three companies, Alerter Group plc, Electronic Communications Ltd and Evets Communications Ltd, businesses that design and manufacture in-building, radio-based, emergency communication systems; software defined radio solutions and operate PMR, FM Broadcast and Cellular transmission sites. He is also the Chairman of the Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain. His connection with radio...
Steve Haseldine FIMC FRSA is the Chairman of three companies, Alerter Group plc, Electronic Communications Ltd and Evets Communications Ltd, businesses that design and manufacture in-building, radio-based, emergency communication systems; software defined radio solutions and operate PMR, FM Broadcast and Cellular transmission sites. He is also the Chairman of the Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain. His connection with radio started over 50 years ago as a schoolboy, when he became a licensed radio amateur, an interest which has influenced much of his professional career. Sponsored as a Computer Science student focused on software development with Rolls Royce, he subsequently worked for GEC Telecommunications before becoming a Management Consultant with Price Waterhouse. Starting his own software house and radio communication businesses in 1979 he has found it rewarding that his two passions of software and radio have evolved into an almost common technology. He has seen his own companies being judged the Midlands Best Small Business of 2013 and the leading Company for Innovation in both 2012 and 2013. As well as remaining an active radio amateur, Steve has now amassed one of the largest personal collections of communication radio equipment in the UK, with over 3000 receivers, transmitters and ancillary equipment, the vast majority of which are fully operational. The collection spans from the early spark transmitters to the latest Software Defined Radios.
Prof Andy Sutton — Principal Network Architect, British Telecommunications
Andy Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Architecture and Strategy team. He is responsible for 5G end to end network architecture, RAN architecture evolution and mobile backhaul strategy and architecture. Andy holds an MSc in mobile communications from the University of Salford and has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry. Andy’s research interests include; distributed...
Andy Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Architecture and Strategy team. He is responsible for 5G end to end network architecture, RAN architecture evolution and mobile backhaul strategy and architecture. Andy holds an MSc in mobile communications from the University of Salford and has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry. Andy’s research interests include; distributed and centralised RAN and core architectures and protocols, network dimensioning, QoS and mobile backhaul (optical transmission, microwave and millimetre wave radio systems, network architecture and protocols along with synchronisation and time distribution in telecommunications networks). He also works on low latency and ultra-reliable networks architecture and design. During his career Andy has worked for Mercury Communications Ltd, Orange, H3G, EE and BT. Andy holds the post of Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool and University of Salford. Andy is a chartered engineer and holds fellowships from the IET, BCS and ITP. Andy contributes to International telecommunications standardisation activities and several industry forums. Andy also has an interest in the history and heritage of telecommunications and is a CW Heritage SIG Champion.
Geoff Varrall — Director, RTT Online
Geoff Varrall joined RTT in 1985 as an executive director and shareholder to develop RTT's international business as a provider of technology and business services to the wireless industry. He co-developed RTT's original series of design and facilitation workshops including 'RF Technology', 'Data Over Radio', 'Introduction to Mobile Radio', and 'Private Mobile Radio Systems and developed 'The Oxford programme', a...
Geoff Varrall joined RTT in 1985 as an executive director and shareholder to develop RTT's international business as a provider of technology and business services to the wireless industry. He co-developed RTT's original series of design and facilitation workshops including 'RF Technology', 'Data Over Radio', 'Introduction to Mobile Radio', and 'Private Mobile Radio Systems and developed 'The Oxford programme', a five day strategic technology and market programme presented annually between 1991 and 2005. Geoff has been running in depth technology and market workshops for the industry for over 33 years, spanning five generations of mobile cellular technology. A co-author of the Mobile Radio Servicing Handbook (Heinemann Butterworth, UK), Data Over Radio, (Quantum Publishing, Mendocino, USA and 3G Handset and Network Design (John Wiley, New York). Geoff's fourth book, Making Telecoms Work – from technical innovation to commercial success (John Wiley) was published in early 2012 followed by 5G Spectrum and Standards published by Artech House in July 2016. His latest book 5G and Satellite Spectrum Standards and Scale is now available from Artech House and can be ordered from http://uk.artechhouse.com/5G-and-Satellite-Spectrum-Standards-and-Scale-P1935.aspx. As a past Director of Cambridge Wireless, Geoff is actively involved in a number of wireless heritage initiatives that aim to capture and record past technology and engineering experience and is a patron of the Science Museum In his spare time he plays Jazz trumpet semi-professionally and is a marathon and ultra-runner.
Nigel Wall — Director, Climate Associates
Nigel has been involved with connected vehicle research since 1992 when he led BT’s mobile data research team – initially using modems on first generation analogue TACS mobile phones! Since 2001 he has worked an independent complex-systems engineer, with a primary specialism in connected vehicles. For the last seven years he has acted as the Monitoring Officer for twelve of...
Nigel has been involved with connected vehicle research since 1992 when he led BT’s mobile data research team – initially using modems on first generation analogue TACS mobile phones! Since 2001 he has worked an independent complex-systems engineer, with a primary specialism in connected vehicles. For the last seven years he has acted as the Monitoring Officer for twelve of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle research projects supported by Innovate UK and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. These projects included Gateway, Venturer, UK Autodrive, MOVE UK, INSIGHT, Flourish and UK Cite. During this period he has not offered CAV-related consultancy services to other companies to avoid any potential conflict of interest. As these Innovate UK projects have now completed, he is now returning to offer traditional consultancy services to organisations that need to pragmatic advice on developing market share in this exciting market.
Contact the SIG champions
SIG Related Resources
Next Stop- the Sun
Presented by Matthew Stuttard, Airbus at Sixty Years of Satellites – from Sputnik to Space X
Sixty years of technical, commercial and regulatory innovation
Presented by Geoff Varrall, RTT Online at Sixty Years of Satellites – from Sputnik to Space X
The Making of Madley
Presented by Nigel Wall, Climate Associates at Sixty Years of Satellites – from Sputnik to Space X
Cube SATS
Presented by Chris Brunskill, Satellite Applications Catapult at Sixty Years of Satellites – from Sputnik to Space X
ArthurCClarke
75 years of radar and electronic warfare in the UK
Presented by Steve Roberts, Leonardo at 75 years of radar
Signal analysis from 1930 to 1990, the analogue years of transmitter and receiver testing
Presented by Nigel Adams, VIAVI Solutions at RF testing - from the archives
Signal generation from 1930 to 1990, the analogue years of transmitter and receiver testing
Presented by Tony Rudkin, Independent at RF testing - from the archives
Paradigm shifts in RF testing beyond LTE: Lessons learnt and challenges ahead
Presented by Li-Ke Huang, VIAVI Solutions at RF testing - from the archives
100 Years of Electronic Warfare
Presented by Steve Roberts, Leonardo at Signals in War and Peace
Liberating the laptop: an overview of cellular data communications
Presented by Andy Sutton, University of Salford at Signals in War and Peace
1914-1934:The Wireless Wave
Presented by Colin Smithers, Plextek at 100 Years of Radio
1945 to 1974: The cold war – radio goes underground
Presented by Stephen Haseldine, Deaf Alerter at 100 Years of Radio
1974 to 1994 -Radio gets personal
Presented by , University of Salford at 100 Years of Radio
1934 to 1945: The wireless war
Presented by Geoff Varrall, RTT Online at 100 Years of Radio
1994 to 2014: Mass consumer cellular and the mobile broadband revolution
Presented by Andy Sutton, EE at 100 Years of Radio
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Saint December 13 : St. Lucy : Patron of Blind; Martyrs; Epidemics; Salesmen, throat infections
Born: 284, Syracuse
Died: 304, Syracuse
Major Shrine: San Geremia, Venice
Patron of: blind; martyrs; epidemics; salesmen, throat infections
A virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated by Latins and Greeks alike on 13 December. According to the traditional story, she was born of rich and noble parents about the year 283. Her father was of Roman origin, but his early death left her dependent upon her mother, whose name, Eutychia, seems to indicate that she came of Greek stock.
Like so many of the early martyrs, Lucy had consecrated her virginity to God, and she hoped to devote all her worldly goods to the service of the poor. Her mother was not so single-minded, but an occasion offered itself when Lucy could carry out her generous resolutions. The fame of the virgin-martyr Agatha, who had been executed fifty-two years before in the Decian persecution, was attracting numerous visitors to her relics at Catania, not fifty miles from Syracuse, and many miracles had been wrought through her intercession. Eutychia was therefore persuaded to make a pilgrimage to Catania, in the hope of being cured of a hæmorrhage, from which she had been suffering for several years. There she was in fact cured, and Lucy, availing herself of the opportunity, persuaded her mother to allow her to distribute a great part of her riches among the poor.
The largess stirred the greed of the unworthy youth to whom Lucy had been unwillingly betrothed, and he denounced her to Paschasius, the Governor of Sicily. It was in the year 303, during the fierce persecution of Diocletian. She was first of all condemned to suffer the shame of prostitution; but in the strength of God she stood immovable, so that they could not drag her away to the place of shame. Bundles of wood were then heaped about her and set on fire, and again God saved her. Finally, she met her death by the sword. But before she died she foretold the punishment of Paschasius and the speedy termination of the persecution, adding that Diocletian would reign no more, and Maximian would meet his end. So, strengthened with the Bread of Life, she won her crown of virginity and martyrdom.
This beautiful story cannot unfortunately be accepted without criticism. The details may be only a repetition of similar accounts of a virgin martyr's life and death. Moreover, the prophecy was not realized, if it required that Maximian should die immediately after the termination of his reign. Paschasius, also, is a strange name for a pagan to bear. However, since there is no other evidence by which the story may be tested, it can only be suggested that the facts peculiar to the saint's story deserve special notice. Among these, the place and time of her death can hardly be questioned; for the rest, the most notable are her connexion with St. Agatha and the miraculous cure of Eutychia, and it is to be hoped that these have not been introduced by the pious compiler of the saint's story or a popular instinct to link together two national saints. The story, such as we have given it, is to be traced back to the Acta, and these probably belong to the fifth century. Though they cannot be regarded as accurate, there can be no doubt of the great veneration that was shown to St. Lucy by the early church. She is one of those few female saints whose names occur in the canon of St. Gregory, and there are special prayers and antiphons for her in his "Sacramentary" and "Antiphonary". She is also commemorated in the ancient Roman Martyrology. St. Aldhelm (d. 709) is the first writer who uses her Acts to give a full account of her life and death. This he does in prose in the "Tractatus de Laudibus Virginitatis" (Tract. xliii, P.L., LXXXIX, 142) and again, in verse, in the poem "De Laudibus Virginum" (P.L., LXXXIX, 266). Following him, the Venerable Bede inserts the story in his Martyrology.
With regard to her relics, Sigebert (1030-1112), a monk of Gembloux, in his "sermo de Sancta Lucia", says that he body lay undisturbed in Sicily for 400 years, before Faroald, Duke of Spoleto, captured the island and transferred the saint's body to Corfinium in Italy. Thence it was removed by the Emperor Otho I, 972, to Metz and deposited in the church of St. Vincent. And it was from this shrine that an arm of the saint was taken to the monastery of Luitburg in the Diocese of Spires--an incident celebrated by Sigebert himself in verse.
The subsequent history of the relics is not clear. On their capture of Constantinople in 1204, the French found some of the relics in that city, and the Doge of Venice secured them for the monastery of St. George at Venice. In the year 1513 the Venetians presented to Louis XII of France the head of the saint, which he deposited in the cathedral church of Bourges. Another account, however, states that the head was brought to Bourges from Rome whither it had been transferred during the time when the relics rested in Corfinium.
Novena to Our Lady of #Guadalupe - #Miracle #Prayer and #chaplet - SHARE
Miraculous Prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe
Beautiful Virgin of Guadalupe, I ask you on behalf of all my brothers and sisters of the world that you bless us and protect us. Give us proof of your love and kindness. Oh pure Virgin of Guadalupe, give me through your Son, forgiveness for my sins, blessings for my job, cure for my diseases and needs, and all that you deem necessary I ask for my family. Oh Mother of God, do not disdain the pleas we present to you in our needs. Amen.
Prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe by Pope John Paul II
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church! You, who from this place reveal your clemency and your piety to all those who ask for your protection; hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer.
Mother of mercy, teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love.
We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities, and our sorrows.
Grant peace, justice, and prosperity to our peoples; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother.
We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church: Hold us always with your loving hand.
Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls.
Contemplate this immense harvest, and interced with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole People of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God's mysteries.
Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God.
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Fair Love, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children.
Our hope, lookk upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth.
Thus, most holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which comes to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.
Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe
First DayDearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness
and strength. Hear my humble prayer offered with heartfelt confidence to beg this favor....
(name your intention)Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Second DayO Mary, conceived without sin, I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent
devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to you under the glorious Aztec title
of Guadalupe. Obtain for me a lively faith to do your Son's holy will always: May His
will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Third DayO Mary, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by seven swords of grief, help me to walk
valiantly amid the sharp thorns strewn across my pathway. Obtain for me the strength to
be a true imitator of you. This I ask you, my dear Mother.
Fourth DayDearest Mother of Guadalupe, I beg you for a fortified will to imitate your divine Son's
charity--to always seek the good of others in need. Grant me this, I humbly ask of you.
Fifth DayO most holy Mother, I beg you to obtain for me pardon of all my sins, abundant graces to
serve your Son more faithfully from now on, and lastly, the grace to praise Him with you
forever in heaven.
Sixth DayMary, Mother of vocations, multiply priestly vocations and fill the earth with religious
houses which will be light and warmth for the world, safety in stormy nights. Beg your
Son to send us many priests and religious. This we ask of you, O Mother.
Seventh DayO Lady of Guadalupe, we beg you that parents live a holy life and educate their children
in a Christian manner; that children obey and follow the directions of their parents; that
all members of the family pray and worship togeter. This we ask of you, O Mother.
Eighth DayWith my heart full of the most sincere veneration, I prostrate myself before you,
O Mother, to ask you to obtain for me the grace to fulfill the duties of my state in life
with faithfulness and constancy.
Ninth DayO God, You have been please to bestow upon us unceasing favors by having placed us
under the special protection of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. Grant us, Your humble
servants, who rejoice in honoring her today upon earth, the happiness of seeing her face
to face in heaven.
Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength. Hear my prayer, offered with deep-felt confidence to beg this favor...(mention your intentions here).
O Mary, conceived without sin, I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to thee under the glorious Aztec title of "Guadalupe"--the Virgin who crushed the serpent.
Queen of Martyrs, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by seven swords of grief, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns strewn across my pathway. Invoke the Holy Spirit of Wisdom to fortify my will to frequent the Sacraments so that, thus enlightened and strengthened, I may prefer God to all creatures and shun every occasion of sin.
Help me, as a living branch of the Vine that is Jesus Christ, to exemplify His divine charity always seeking the good of others. Queen of Apostles, aid me to win souls for the Sacred Heart of my Saviour. Keep my apostolate fearless, dynamic, and articulate, to proclaim the loving solicitude of Our Father in heaven so that the wayward may heed His pleading and obtain pardon, through the merits of your merciful Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Chaplet of Our Lady of Guadalupe
On the Crucifix:Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mystical Rose, make intercession for our Holy Church, protect the sovereign Pontiff, help all those who invoke you in their necessities, and since you are the ever Virgin Mary and Mother of the true God, obtain for us from your most Holy Son the grace of keeping our faith, of sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life, of burning charity, and the precious gift of final perseverance. Amen.
1 Our Father, 4 Hail Mary's, 1 Glory Be
First Apparition: Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to Juan Diego the first time. Our Lady requests a temple in her honor.
1 Our Father, then Meditation: Our Lady of Guadalupe, my Queen and my Mother, I thank you for your first apparition to Juan Diego when you revealed that you are the Most Pure Virgin, Mary. Mother of the true God and Mother of all mankind, I thank you for your requesting a temple to be built where you stood, to bear witness to your love, your compassion, your aid, and your protection for all who would love you, trust you, and invoke your help.
3 Hail Mary's, 1 Glory Be
Second Apparition: Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to Juan Diego a second time.
1 Our Father, then Meditation: Our Lady of Guadalupe, my Queen and my Mother, I thank you for your second apparition to Juan Diego when, upon his return from the Bishop's house, he knelt in humiliation and defeat before you since he was unable to accomplish your mission. I thank you for the courage and encouragement you gave to Juan Diego to make a second appeal to the Bishop.
Third Apparition: Our Lady of Guadalupe promises a sign to Juan Diego for the Bishop.
1 Our Father, then Meditation: Our Lady of Guadalupe, my Queen and my Mother, I thank you for your third apparition to Juan Diego when after this unsuccessful attempt to have a temple built, you said to him, "So be it, son. Return tomorrow in order that you may secure for the Bishop the sign for which he has asked. When this is in your possession, he will believe you; he will no longer doubt your word and suspect your good faith. Be assured that I shall reward you for all that you have undergone."
Fourth Apparition: Our Lady of Guadalupe fulfills her promise by showing herself on the tilma of Juan Diego.
1 Our Father, then Meditation: Our Lady of Guadalupe, my Queen and my Mother, I thank you for your fourth apparition to Juan Diego when you ordered him to pick the roses he would find on the summit of the hill and bring them to you. I thank you for arranging them in his tilma when you said, "this cluster of roses is the sign you shall take to the Bishop. You are to tell him in my name that in this he will recognize my will and that he must fulfill it. You are my ambassador, wholly worthy of confidence. Only in the presence of the Bishop shall you unfold your mantle and disclose that which you carry." I thank you for your image printed on the tilma which appeared when the roses were released.
Closing Prayer: Remember O Most Gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to you, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother, to you I come, before you I kneel, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
#PopeFrancis “Nothing is impossible if we turn to God in prayer. Everyone can be an artisan of peace”. FULLTEXT - #Peace Message
50th papal Message for the
World Day of Peace, marked on December 1st . The Message was released in the Vatican on Monday.
Please find below the full text of Pope Francis’s message for the World Day of Peace:
"Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for Peace"
1. At the beginning of this New Year, I offer heartfelt wishes of peace to the world’s peoples and nations, to heads of state and government, and to religious, civic and community leaders. I wish peace to every man, woman and child, and I pray that the image and likeness of God in each person will enable us to acknowledge one another as sacred gifts endowed with immense dignity. Especially in situations of conflict, let us respect this, our “deepest dignity”, and make active nonviolence our way of life.
This is the fiftieth Message for the World Day of Peace. In the first, Blessed Pope Paul VI addressed all peoples, not simply Catholics, with utter clarity. “Peace is the only true direction of human progress – and not the tensions caused by ambitious nationalisms, nor conquests by violence, nor repressions which serve as mainstay for a false civil order”. He warned of “the danger of believing that international controversies cannot be resolved by the ways of reason, that is, by negotiations founded on law, justice, and equity, but only by means of deterrent and murderous forces.” Instead, citing the encyclical Pacem in Terris of his predecessor Saint John XXIII, he extolled “the sense and love of peace founded upon truth, justice, freedom and love”. In the intervening fifty years, these words have lost none of their significance or urgency.
On this occasion, I would like to reflect on nonviolence as a style of politics for peace. I ask God to help all of us to cultivate nonviolence in our most personal thoughts and values. May charity and nonviolence govern how we treat each other as individuals, within society and in international life. When victims of violence are able to resist the temptation to retaliate, they become the most credible promotors of nonviolent peacemaking. In the most local and ordinary situations and in the international order, may nonviolence become the hallmark of our decisions, our relationships and our actions, and indeed of political life in all its forms.
A broken world
2. While the last century knew the devastation of two deadly World Wars, the threat of nuclear war and a great number of other conflicts, today, sadly, we find ourselves engaged in a horrifying world war fought piecemeal. It is not easy to know if our world is presently more or less violent than in the past, or to know whether modern means of communications and greater mobility have made us more aware of violence, or, on the other hand, increasingly inured to it.
In any case, we know that this “piecemeal” violence, of different kinds and levels, causes great suffering: wars in different countries and continents; terrorism, organized crime and unforeseen acts of violence; the abuses suffered by migrants and victims of human trafficking; and the devastation of the environment. Where does this lead? Can violence achieve any goal of lasting value? Or does it merely lead to retaliation and a cycle of deadly conflicts that benefit only a few “warlords”?
Violence is not the cure for our broken world. Countering violence with violence leads at best to forced migrations and enormous suffering, because vast amounts of resources are diverted to military ends and away from the everyday needs of young people, families experiencing hardship, the elderly, the infirm and the great majority of people in our world. At worst, it can lead to the death, physical and spiritual, of many people, if not of all.
3. Jesus himself lived in violent times. Yet he taught that the true battlefield, where violence and peace meet, is the human heart: for “it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come” (Mk 7:21). But Christ’s message in this regard offers a radically positive approach. He unfailingly preached God’s unconditional love, which welcomes and forgives. He taught his disciples to love their enemies (cf. Mt 5:44) and to turn the other cheek (cf. Mt 5:39). When he stopped her accusers from stoning the woman caught in adultery (cf. Jn 8:1-11), and when, on the night before he died, he told Peter to put away his sword (cf. Mt 26:52), Jesus marked out the path of nonviolence. He walked that path to the very end, to the cross, whereby he became our peace and put an end to hostility (cf. Eph 2:14-16). Whoever accepts the Good News of Jesus is able to acknowledge the violence within and be healed by God’s mercy, becoming in turn an instrument of reconciliation. In the words of Saint Francis of Assisi: “As you announce peace with your mouth, make sure that you have greater peace in your hearts”.
To be true followers of Jesus today also includes embracing his teaching about nonviolence. As my predecessor Benedict XVI observed, that teaching “is realistic because it takes into account that in the world there is too much violence, too much injustice, and therefore that this situation cannot be overcome except by countering it with more love, with more goodness. This ‘more’ comes from God”. He went on to stress that: “For Christians, nonviolence is not merely tactical behaviour but a person’s way of being, the attitude of one who is so convinced of God’s love and power that he or she is not afraid to tackle evil with the weapons of love and truth alone. Love of one’s enemy constitutes the nucleus of the ‘Christian revolution’”. The Gospel command to love your enemies (cf. Lk 6:27) “is rightly considered the magna carta of Christian nonviolence. It does not consist in succumbing to evil…, but in responding to evil with good (cf. Rom 12:17-21), and thereby breaking the chain of injustice”.
More powerful than violence
4. Nonviolence is sometimes taken to mean surrender, lack of involvement and passivity, but this is not the case. When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she clearly stated her own message of active nonviolence: “We in our family don’t need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace – just get together, love one another… And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world”. For the force of arms is deceptive. “While weapons traffickers do their work, there are poor peacemakers who give their lives to help one person, then another and another and another”; for such peacemakers, Mother Teresa is “a symbol, an icon of our times”. Last September, I had the great joy of proclaiming her a Saint. I praised her readiness to make herself available for everyone “through her welcome and defence of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded… She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity; she made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crimes – the crimes! – of poverty they created”. In response, her mission – and she stands for thousands, even millions of persons – was to reach out to the suffering, with generous dedication, touching and binding up every wounded body, healing every broken life.
The decisive and consistent practice of nonviolence has produced impressive results. The achievements of Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the liberation of India, and of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in combating racial discrimination will never be forgotten. Women in particular are often leaders of nonviolence, as for example, was Leymah Gbowee and the thousands of Liberian women, who organized pray-ins and nonviolent protest that resulted in high-level peace talks to end the second civil war in Liberia.
Nor can we forget the eventful decade that ended with the fall of Communist regimes in Europe. The Christian communities made their own contribution by their insistent prayer and courageous action. Particularly influential were the ministry and teaching of Saint John Paul II. Reflecting on the events of 1989 in his 1991 Encyclical Centesimus Annus, my predecessor highlighted the fact that momentous change in the lives of people, nations and states had come about “by means of peaceful protest, using only the weapons of truth and justice”. This peaceful political transition was made possible in part “by the non-violent commitment of people who, while always refusing to yield to the force of power, succeeded time after time in finding effective ways of bearing witness to the truth”. Pope John Paul went on to say: “May people learn to fight for justice without violence, renouncing class struggle in their internal disputes and war in international ones”.
The Church has been involved in nonviolent peacebuilding strategies in many countries, engaging even the most violent parties in efforts to build a just and lasting peace.
Such efforts on behalf of the victims of injustice and violence are not the legacy of the Catholic Church alone, but are typical of many religious traditions, for which “compassion and nonviolence are essential elements pointing to the way of life”. I emphatically reaffirm that “no religion is terrorist”. Violence profanes the name of God. Let us never tire of repeating: “The name of God cannot be used to justify violence. Peace alone is holy. Peace alone is holy, not war!”
The domestic roots of a politics of nonviolence
5. If violence has its source in the human heart, then it is fundamental that nonviolence be practised before all else within families. This is part of that joy of love which I described last March in my Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, in the wake of two years of reflection by the Church on marriage and the family. The family is the indispensable crucible in which spouses, parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to communicate and to show generous concern for one another, and in which frictions and even conflicts have to be resolved not by force but by dialogue, respect, concern for the good of the other, mercy and forgiveness. From within families, the joy of love spills out into the world and radiates to the whole of society. An ethics of fraternity and peaceful coexistence between individuals and among peoples cannot be based on the logic of fear, violence and closed-mindedness, but on responsibility, respect and sincere dialogue. Hence, I plead for disarmament and for the prohibition and abolition of nuclear weapons: nuclear deterrence and the threat of mutual assured destruction are incapable of grounding such an ethics. I plead with equal urgency for an end to domestic violence and to the abuse of women and children.
The Jubilee of Mercy that ended in November encouraged each one of us to look deeply within and to allow God’s mercy to enter there. The Jubilee taught us to realize how many and diverse are the individuals and social groups treated with indifference and subjected to injustice and violence. They too are part of our “family”; they too are our brothers and sisters. The politics of nonviolence have to begin in the home and then spread to the entire human family. “Saint Therese of Lisieux invites us to practise the little way of love, not to miss out on a kind word, a smile or any small gesture which sows peace and friendship. An integral ecology is also made up of simple daily gestures that break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness”.
My invitation
6. Peacebuilding through active nonviolence is the natural and necessary complement to the Church’s continuing efforts to limit the use of force by the application of moral norms; she does so by her participation in the work of international institutions and through the competent contribution made by so many Christians to the drafting of legislation at all levels. Jesus himself offers a “manual” for this strategy of peacemaking in the Sermon on the Mount. The eight Beatitudes (cf. Mt 5:3-10) provide a portrait of the person we could describe as blessed, good and authentic. Blessed are the meek, Jesus tells us, the merciful and the peacemakers, those who are pure in heart, and those who hunger and thirst for justice.
This is also a programme and a challenge for political and religious leaders, the heads of international institutions, and business and media executives: to apply the Beatitudes in the exercise of their respective responsibilities. It is a challenge to build up society, communities and businesses by acting as peacemakers. It is to show mercy by refusing to discard people, harm the environment, or seek to win at any cost. To do so requires “the willingness to face conflict head on, to resolve it and to make it a link in the chain of a new process”. To act in this way means to choose solidarity as a way of making history and building friendship in society. Active nonviolence is a way of showing that unity is truly more powerful and more fruitful than conflict. Everything in the world is inter-connected. Certainly differences can cause frictions. But let us face them constructively and non-violently, so that “tensions and oppositions can achieve a diversified and life-giving unity,” preserving “what is valid and useful on both sides”.
I pledge the assistance of the Church in every effort to build peace through active and creative nonviolence. On 1 January 2017, the new Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development will begin its work. It will help the Church to promote in an ever more effective way “the inestimable goods of justice, peace, and the care of creation” and concern for “migrants, those in need, the sick, the excluded and marginalized, the imprisoned and the unemployed, as well as victims of armed conflict, natural disasters, and all forms of slavery and torture”. Every such response, however modest, helps to build a world free of violence, the first step towards justice and peace.
8. As is traditional, I am signing this Message on 8 December, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary is the Queen of Peace. At the birth of her Son, the angels gave glory to God and wished peace on earth to men and women of good will (cf. Luke 2:14). Let us pray for her guidance.
“All of us want peace. Many people build it day by day through small gestures and acts; many of them are suffering, yet patiently persevere in their efforts to be peacemakers”. In 2017, may we dedicate ourselves prayerfully and actively to banishing violence from our hearts, words and deeds, and to becoming nonviolent people and to build nonviolent communities that care for our common home. “Nothing is impossible if we turn to God in prayer. Everyone can be an artisan of peace”.
From the Vatican, 8 December 2016
Today's Mass Readings and Video : Monday December 12, 2016 - #Guadelupe
Lectionary: 690A
Reading 1ZEC 2:14-17
and they shall be his people,
and he will dwell among you,
and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
The LORD will possess Judah as his portion in the holy land,
and he will again choose Jerusalem.
Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the LORD!
For he stirs forth from his holy dwelling.
OrRV 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB
God’s temple in heaven was opened,
and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple.
A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in the sky;
it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns,
and on its heads were seven diadems.
Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky
and hurled them down to the earth.
Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth,
to devour her child when she gave birth.
She gave birth to a son, a male child,
destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod.
Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
The woman herself fled into the desert
where she had a place prepared by God.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have salvation and power come,
and the authority of his Anointed.”
Responsorial PsalmJDT 13:18BCDE, 19
R. (15:9d) You are the highest honor of our race.
Blessed are you, daughter, by the Most High God,
above all the women on earth;
and blessed be the LORD God,
the creator of heaven and earth.
R. You are the highest honor of our race.
Your deed of hope will never be forgotten
by those who tell of the might of God.
Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary, deserving of all praise;
from you rose the sun of justice, Christ our God.
GospelLK 1:26-38
The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the house of David,
and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said,
“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
But she was greatly troubled at what was said
and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her,
“Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel,
“How can this be,
since I have no relations with a man?”
And the angel said to her in reply,
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born
will be called holy, the Son of God.
And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,
has also conceived a son in her old age,
and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;
for nothing will be impossible for God.”
Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.
OrLK 1:39-47
Mary set out
and traveled to the hill country in haste
to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said,
“Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you by the Lord
would be fulfilled.”
And Mary said:
“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
my spirit rejoices in God my savior.”
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Saint March 13 : St. Roderic and St. Salomon : Martyrs in #Spain - #España
Sts. Roderic and Salomon
MARTYRS OF SPAIN
9th century southern Spain
Roderic, also called Rudericus and Rodrigo, was a priest at Cabra who was assaulted by his two brothers, one a Muslim and the other a lapsed Catholic. He was denounced by the Muslim brother and imprisoned for falling away from the Islamic faith. Roderic proclaimed that he had always been a Christian but was charged with apostasy. In prison, he met Salomon, a man under the same charge. They were beheaded at Cordoba after a long period of imprisonment.
(Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia
Pope Benedict XVI “foolish prejudice of those who see Pope Francis as someone who lacks a particular theological.. formation," on New Book Series of Pope Francis
Pope Benedict XVI: there is continuity with Pope Francis' Pontificate
Pope Benedict wanted to give a contribution, very significant as always, to the interior spiritual unity of the two pontificates. Thus Msgr Dario Edoardo Viganò characterizes the letter sent to him by the Pope Emeritus.
By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp
Regarding the magisterium of Pope Francis, Benedict writes that “there is interior unity” between his pontificate and that of Pope Francis, his successor. Pope Benedict’s letter was presented by its recipient, Msgr Dario Edoardo Viganò, during a press conference presenting “The Theology of Pope Francis,” a series of 11 books written by 11 different authors, and published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. The news conference was held in Sala Marconi in the headquarters of Vatican Media.
Pope Benedict applauds publication of the series
“I applaud this initiative,” writes Pope Benedict. “It contradicts the foolish prejudice of those who see Pope Francis as someone who lacks a particular theological and philosophical formation, while I would have been solely a theorist of theology with little understanding of the concrete lives of today’s Christian.
Pope Francis has profound theological formation
The Pope Emeritus writes that he is grateful to have received the set of 11 books edited by Roberto Repole, President of the Italian Theological Association. Pope Benedict XVI adds that these volumes “reasonably demonstrate that Pope Francis is a man with profound philosophical and theological formation and are helpful to see the interior continuity between the two pontificates, even with all the differences in style and temperament.”
Language editions in the works
During the event, Br Giulio Cesareo, OFM, the recently-appointed head of Libreria Editrice Vaticana, explained that contracts have already been signed for the English, Spanish, French, Portoghese, Polish and Romanian editions of the series, and that further negotiations are in process with publishers throughout the world.
Text Source : Vatican News
Wow Pope Francis meets with Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. - Bernice Winner of Award for Peace
Pope Francis receives Bernice Albertine King, Martin Luther King, Jr's daughter
Bernice Albertine King visits Pope Francis while in Italy to receive an award recognizing her commitment to non-violence and peace.
Vatican News Report: By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp
Pope Francis received in audience this morning the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr, Bernice Albertine King.
Bernice King was awarded an International Prize recognizing women involved in non-violence and peace initiatives. Gabriela Lio, a Baptist pastor says that “In the present racist and xenophobic climate, awarding Bernice King puts the spotlight on the legacy of M L King of non-violence, by recovering the courage of a faith that welcomes, encounters, and dialogues, which in this moment cannot but be interreligious. The legacy of which Bernice King is an authoritative spokesperson reconnects these aspects of the faith as a lesson of consistency between what is believed, what is preached, and what is practiced.”
The award ceremony took place on 10 March in Monteleone di Puglia in the Province of Foggia and was organized by the Gandhi Centre located in Pisa, and Rocco Altieri, a pacifist and an authority on the issue of non-violence.
Today's Mass Readings and Video : Monday March 12, 2018 - #Eucharist
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Reading 1IS 65:17-21
Thus says the LORD:
Lo, I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
The things of the past shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness
in what I create;
For I create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and exult in my people.
No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,
or the sound of crying;
No longer shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime;
He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years,
and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
They shall live in the houses they build,
and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
Responsorial Psalm PS 30:2 AND 4, 5-6, 11-12A AND 13B
R. (2a) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
“Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
Verse Before The GospelAM 5:14
Seek good and not evil so that you may live,
and the LORD will be with you.
Gospel JN 4:43-54
At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified
that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him,
since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast;
for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee,
where he had made the water wine.
Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,
he went to him and asked him to come down
and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him,
“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
The royal official said to him,
“Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While the man was on his way back,
his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover.
They told him,
“The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.”
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him,
“Your son will live,”
and he and his whole household came to believe.
Now this was the second sign Jesus did
when he came to Galilee from Judea.
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The Visa Waiver Program: Our Achilles’ Mouth
By Jim Harper
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) have slammed ($) DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff for certifying the expansion of the Visa Waiver program. Under the expansion, citizens of 34 countries that satisfy certain security and immigration‐related requirements do not have to obtain visas to enter the United States for up to 90 days. The seven newly added countries are: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, the Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia.
In criticizing Chertoff and the Visa Waiver Program, Senator Feinstein is quoted by National Journal saying, “I continue to believe that the visa waiver program is our Achilles’ heel.”
Achilles is the mythical fighter in Greek and Roman poetry who was killed by an arrow striking his heel where there was a void in his armor. It’s a totally inappropriate metaphor for the security of the United States against terrorism.
The United States is a large and vibrant nation, and our security is nothing like the security of a lone fighter. A lone fighter may die if his armor fails, but there is no realistic strike against our body politic that could do us in. (Never mind what terrorists and their fear‐monger allies concoct in their heads.)
The United States is too large and strong to be taken down by anything any terrorist could execute, and our country is too capable of self‐repair. (This all assumes that ‘leaders’ like Feinstein don’t attack the mechanisms of self‐repair — the nation’s vital organs of freedom, prosperity, and decentralized power — in the wake of any attack).
The error in Senator Feinstein’s thinking is significant because it drives the expectation that any harm coming to the country from terrorists is potentially fatal. This falsehood drives a zero‐risk attitude about terrorism that is ultimately self‐destructive. Excessive security around our trade and travel will hinder it and deny us its benefits. We hurt ourselves — shoot ourselves in the foot, as it were — if the costs imposed by security measures are greater than the risks they avert.
Restricting travel from countries in the Visa Waiver Program is like Achilles putting armor on his mouth. Doing so forecloses the possibility of being struck by an arrow in the mouth, yes, but it also makes it harder to breath and impossible to eat.
Security is hard, and metaphors like “Achilles’ heel” don’t help people understand the problems.
Secretary Chertoff has done the right thing by starting to re‐open the country to trade and tourism. He should be commended rather than skewered. Senators Feinstein and Lieberman are wrong.
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Crime Along the Border Is Historically Low
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Czech Republic Property Investment MarketView Q3 2020
In the first three quarters of 2020, the residential sector clearly dominated with a share of 62% of the total volume of investments, followed by the retail sector with 14% and offices with 12%. Investments in industrial and logistics real estate accounted for about 9% of the total volume. The total volume of concluded investment transactions in commercial real estate in the first three quarters exceeded 2.1 billion euros, which corresponds to the average investment amount for the last five years in this period.
Generali Real Estate bought the Kotva department store from PSN, opened in 1975 in the very centre of Prague.
From the office segment, we can mention, for example, City West C1 + C2 in Prague 4, which was bought by Českomoravská Nemovitostní, or City Empiria in Prague 4, which was sold by the Generali group, buying PSN.
In the industrial sector we have recorder an acquisition of the Goodman portfolio by GLP, expanding their footprint in Europe.
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CTM Saturday
CBSN Originals
CBS News October 20, 2019, 9:44 AM
Escapism: The immersive adventure of escape rooms
Playing an escape room
Playing an escape room 06:04
There's a lockbox. And what's inside? A bloody finger, which means ... a bloody fingerprint!
Ordinarily, it takes only one "Sunday Morning" correspondent to report a story. But today, we're working as a team: David Pogue, Martha Teichner and Nancy Giles, joined by "Sunday Morning" intern Cory Peeler.
They are locked in a "CIA office," and they only have one hour to escape before a "bomb" goes off. The clock is ticking … 2:58 left! And here's the crazy part: They paid to do this!
They are playing an escape room called Clue Chase in New York City. You pay 25 or 30 bucks, and you have one hour to hunt for clues and unravel a mystery. What's that ... a hidden doorway?
Pogue asked escape game enthusiasts David and Lisa Spira, "What's it like? Is it like a videogame? Is it like a boardgame? Is it like a movie? Is it like a play?"
"Yes," they replied.
David and Lisa have played more than 700 escape rooms, out of the estimated 8,000 around the world. They write reviews at their website, roomescapeartist.com.
"An escape room is an immersive adventure for a group of people, your family, your friends, whomever you want to play with," said David. "Maybe you're stopping the missiles from launching, or you're in search of the holy grail."
The "Sunday Morning" team - correspondents Martha Teichner, Nancy Giles and David Pogue, and intern Cory Peeler - try to solve an escape room puzzle before they "die." CBS News
Pogue asked, "Why would anyone want to be shut into a room for an hour?"
"It is bizarrely revolutionary, in 2019, to go and do something in real life with the people that you care about and to not have a screen in front of you," David said.
Lisa added, "And doing something tangible. You get to pick up things and manipulate them and see if you can figure out what it does or where to put it or what it might be used for. You're solving puzzles."
By the way, our "Sunday Morning" team is not actually locked in … and there's not an actual bomb. They're never alone, either; behind the scenes, a staff member is always watching and listening.
Monitoring the progress of some escape room players. CBS News
Escape rooms started in Japan in 2007. Since they began opening in the U.S. in 2012, they've been growing fast, and showing up on TV shows. There was even a hit horror movie about an escape room with no escape.
Escape rooms have also been getting more elaborate. If you want proof, check out 13th Gate, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's like being inside a movie.
Pogue and his teammates try to solve the puzzles of 13th Gate. CBS News
Pogue's teammates this time included Tim Nicolas Tang, an escape room superfan who traveled all the way from Las Vegas to play 13th Gate.
The elaborate puzzle included a shipwreck, built by the crew brought on by 13th Gate creator and owner Dwayne Sanburn. "They're just amazing, talented guys," he said. "A lot of them came out of the movie industry. It takes a year to build [a game]. A lot of work, a lot of research."
Pogue asked, "On a typical day, how many people come through?"
"We run about 50 to 60 games a day."
"In general, it's a profitable enterprise?"
"It's a tremendous amount of work. But it can certainly be profitable," Sanburn said.
But it's not an enterprise where you can have a lot of repeat customers. "That is probably the only downside to escape room, is that after you play it, there's no replayability, really," he said. "So, you have to continue building new games to keep audiences coming back."
It's hard to explain the rush you get from an escape room until you've played yourself. The danger feels real. Your heart races. And as for our crack team of "Sunday Morning" correspondents, well, they did not win. The time ran out … and the bomb went off.
"Oh no! We just blew up!"
But you know what? They didn't care. For one hour, they'd been working their wits, having fun with friends transported to a different time and place. Talk about escapism!
Clue Chase, New York City
13th Gate Escape, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Trap't Escape Room Adventures, Stamford, Conn.
Clue Carré, New Orleans
"Escape Room" (Columbia Pictures)
Story produced by David Rothman.
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Catholic Charities Weekly Blog
when are raindrops a blessing?
The Sisters Haven Dedication & Blessing
Under gray skies and light rain, more than 100 community members and women religious gathered to dedicate The Sisters Haven on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 1. The light rain would not deter Eastern Washington’s 18 orders of nuns from attending the opening of their namesake building. So after offering a short prayer, Bishop Emeritus Skylstad and Sister Donna Markham, president of Catholic Charities USA, sprinkled holy water across the community center and grounds at The Sisters Haven, and 75 new units of affordable housing in Spokane were officially opened.
The ceremony, which took place on All Saints Day, celebrated the latest affordable housing complex built by Catholic Charities as part of its push to solve homelessness. It is named in honor of the legions of women religious who have dedicated vocations of care and prayer to the people of Eastern Washington. The festivities included Mass, breakfast, the dedication ceremony and tours of the facility.
Attendees began the day by celebrating Mass in the chapel at the former Convent of the Holy Names with Bishop Skylstad presiding. The opening hymn offered a symbolic invitation to the 75 families who now have their own homes. Its opening line, “come to the table of plenty,” joyfully affirmed that all Eastern Washington residents deserve to be served with dignity, and that the community is capable of meeting all their needs. After Mass, guests shared a time of fellowship over a light breakfast.
Vice President of Housing Jonathan Mallahan opened the dedication and blessing ceremony on notes of appreciation for the many hands that contributed to The Sisters Haven.
“I thank you all for being here today and thank our residents for helping create this place as a place of peace, joy and justice,” Mallahan said. These many partners include the Holy Names Sisters, who provided the land; the Inland Group, which developed the project; and the city of Spokane, which worked closely with Catholic Charities through the development process and will provide emergency services to our residents.
christmas bureau shines through adversity
The Christmas Bureau officially wrapped up on December 23rd after 3 months of operation. In a normal year the program would run over an 11-day period including setup and service days. Over 3 months th
new year, same catholic charities.
spreading a little christmas cheer.
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Episode 1 - Installing Fear Episode 2 - Maintaining Vigilance Episode 3 - The Power of the Vote Episode 4 - The New Normal Episode 5 - The Right Way Episode 6 - Prevention Through Deterrence
With unprecedented access to ICE operations, as well as moving portraits of immigrants, this docuseries takes a deep look at U.S. immigration today.
Monsters vs. Aliens
Inspired by DreamWorks Animation’s 2009 blockbuster feature film, this new series follows the further adventures of the beloved monsters- B.O.B., the gelatinous blob without a brain; Link, the prehistoric fish-man;…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Short
Grandma’s House
Grandma’s House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of…
We Are the Joneses
Witchblade is an anime series based on the American comic book by the same name. Instead of an adaptation of the original story, the producers decided to create an entire…
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Follow a group of affluent young Persian-American friends who juggle their flamboyant, fast-paced L.A. lifestyles with the demands of their families and traditions.
Solomon’s Perjury
A male student’s body is found at school. Authorities assume that the student killed himself in a fall. Other students at the school hold a trial to uncover the truth…
Rolling in It
StephenMulhernpresentsthisnewgameshowfeaturingagiantarcademachine.Membersofthepublicpartnercelebrityguestsinthreeteamstorollcoinsdowntheconveyorbelttowincashprizes.
Genre: Game-Show
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in…
When Kids Kill
DocumentaryseriesexploringthestoriesofBritain’smosthigh-profilechildkillers.
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Some of Australia’s most opinionated and avid TV viewers comment on the best, worst and controversial shows and news stories of the past week, from the comfort of their sofas.
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Velvet Colección
It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her project Velvet…
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Into the Unknown (2020)
Episode 1 - The Rougarou Episode 2 - The Legend of Mount Shasta Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5
Exploring some of the most nightmarish myths of all time. Searching for hidden clues to lost-in-time legends, Into the Unknown follows adventurer and survivalist Cliff Simon as he makes his way through forbidding landscapes to explore some of the most nightmarish myths of all time. Part investigation, part travelogue, and part survival lesson, Cliff ventures solo-deep into one extreme wilderness to the other-determined to uncover the source of these scary stories. That means using all his skills to hike, swim, and crawl into places most people wouldn’t ever dare go. Along the way, scientists, shamans, historians, and witnesses all provide clues that shed light on these dark secrets that often defy explanation. And while local guides help plan his route.
Actors: Cliff Simon
Networks: Travel Channel
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
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Wedding Cake Championship
Sixduosoftheworld’sbestprofessionalweddingcakebakersfaceextremerequestsfromspecialguestsandreal-lifecouplesthattesttheirlimitsofskillandcreativity.
Sam Swift, the former star of a hit cop series whose epic breakdown is broadcast to the public and sends her to rehab. Desperate to restart her career, she talks…
The lives of four best friends bound together by their shared experience of being “the losers” in high school. Now ten years later the women are about to become winners,…
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down…
Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law’s dance school.
A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100…
Waco: Madman or Messiah
Few had ever heard of the Branch Davidians and their leader until a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that led to a 51-day stand-off with the…
An Unexpected Killer
TVseriesthattakesacloserlookintohomicideinvestigationsthroughinterviewswithpotentialsuspects,re-enactmentsandin-depthexaminationsofthecrimescene.
A look at the work of high court enforcement officers, also known as sheriffs, as they strive to retrieve cash for members of the public that are owed money
The Wrestlers
The Wrestlers is an exploration of the wrestling world’s underground. Traveling from First Nations communities in rural Manitoba to Mexico’s Lucha Libre scene in Juarez, the series sees Damian Abraham…
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4 Republicans say they’ll vote to impeach President Trump Wednesday
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. A deepening divide among Republicans over President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election runs prominently through Wyoming, the state that delivered Trump's widest prevailing margin by far. Eleven Republican senators saying they will not be voting Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory include Wyoming's newly sworn in Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Cheyenne-area rancher and former congresswoman. Vocal opponents of any such move include Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, leader of GOP messaging in the House as its third-ranking Republican (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
By: Justin Boggs
Four Republican members of the US House said on Tuesday they will join Democrats in impeaching President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Reps. John Katko, R-N.Y., Liz Cheney, R-Wy., Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Fred Upton, R-Mich., made their announcements on Tuesday, setting the stage for additional Republicans to join them. Their votes will come one week after a violent mob stormed the US Capitol during the counting of Electoral College votes. The riot was caused by supporters of Trump who were attempting to disrupt the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect.
Moments before the riot, Trump addressed those in attendance before the storming of the Capitol.
“It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection – both on social media ahead of January 6th, and in his speech that day,” Katko said. “By deliberately promoting baseless theories suggesting the election was somehow stolen, the president created a combustible environment of misinformation, disenfranchisement, and division. When this manifested in violent acts on January 6th, he refused to promptly and forcefully call it off, putting countless lives in danger.”
All told, five people died during the riot, including a Capitol police officer.
Moments after Katko’s announcement, Cheney, the third-ranking member of the GOP caucus, announced her support of Trump’s impeachment. Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President,” Cheney wrote.
"There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States, of his office and his oath to the Constitution," Cheney added.
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Green-fingered forensics
By Raychelle Burks2019-10-10T08:10:00+01:00
A new method for producing print powders goes against the grain
Revealing fingerprints using powders has been a staple of sleuthing science for nearly 130 years, with prints developed this way still the leading identification method for crimes worldwide.1 Yet despite its age and widespread use, latent print development using fingerprint powder is still very much an active area of research, with each new technique allowing us to process more ridge detail, on more surfaces and under a variety of conditions. Even something as seemingly ‘solved’ as fingerprint powder can benefit from a makeover.
A world of whorls
Current commercially available powders come in a variety of colours. At a crime scene or in the crime lab, forensic investigators can choose which powder will give the best contrast and definition against the underlying surface. The pigments lampblack and iron oxide black are popular ingredients for black powder, along with graphite. Titanium dioxide, of sunscreen fame, features in white powders. Powdered aluminum gives prints a grey–silver look, with red lead oxide for red–orange. There are even formulations incorporating fluorescent particles, which are ideal for print processing on busy backgrounds.
For all fingerprint powders, key considerations are the particles’ size, shape and relative surface area, which play significant roles in the visualisation of latent prints. Finer powders can resolve more detail, different shapes will adhere in different ways, and powders with particles of a well-defined size and shape give a consistent performance. The technical challenges in meeting these requirements means that good powders can be hard to make and there are many proprietary formulations on the market. So it may come as a surprise to learn that researchers have recently shown you can make fingerprint powders from rice.
In recent times, the move toward more green and sustainable processes has turned the idiom ‘waste not, want not’ into a research objective. Rice husk (RH) waste is a prime example. About 20% of the world’s annual rice production of 500–600 tonnes will end up as RH waste or as its incineration product, rice husk ash (RHA).2 That’s a million-plus tonnes of trash – or treasure. RH is mostly cellulose, lignin and silica, which lends it all sort of uses – a recent review lists potential applications for RH in ‘silica gels, silicon chips, silica−carbon composites, construction materials, catalysts, zeolites, battery materials, graphene, energy storage/capacitor, carbon capture, as well as in drug delivery vehicles’. Now, thanks to the researchers at Universiti Sains Malaysia and Malaysia’s Management and Science University, that list includes crime fighting.
Caught green handed
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Grow the rice, remove and burn the husks, and what do you get? Fingerprint powder
Rice husk ash is a promising candidate for fingerprint powders because of its carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) and silica nanoparticles (SNPs), whose morphologies are tailorable by producing RHA under different conditions. Revathi Rajan and colleagues used RH waste from local rice mills and produced RHA under different and specific thermal conditions to generate their nanoparticles. They then obtained a range of well-defined nanoparticle powders using simple processing methods: brown CNP powders were made from an acid digest of the ash, followed by drying for different lengths of time; white SNP powders were obtained by treating the ash with NaOH to produce sodium silicate, which was then heat-treated.3,4 The CNPs had an average particle size of 385nm, and the SNPs produced powders of around 200nm particle size. For comparison, many commercially available traditional powders fall in the micron size range, though nanoparticles are becoming more popular. They found that the powders could be used to develop latent fingerprints with the ‘high clarity and clear ridge details’ that are critical for investigators to identify persons of interest.
The team then went further with its SNPs – producing a rainbow of powders by doping the SNPs with various natural and synthetic colourants. Again this involved a simple preparation: adding the colourant to ethanolic suspensions of the SNPs and evaporating the solvent. Of their various formulations, a curcumin-doped SNP powder gave the best performance in terms of stability and visualised print. While a yellow powder might seem a difficult-to-see choice, this formulation is fluorescent due to the curcumin (λex = 420nm) and its yellow–green emission is easy to see in a dark setting. When compared with a commercial fluorescent powder, the researchers report that their curcumin-doped SNP powder performed as well as the commercial version or better. Illuminating results from trash-turned-treasure.
R Romaotowski, Lee and Gaensslen’s Advances in Fingerprint Technology, 2012, CRC Press
N Prakash and S Ito, Sustainable Waste Management, 2003, Thomas Telford
R Rajan et al., Malay. J. Forensic Sci., 2018, 8, 7
R Rajan et al., Egypt. J. Forensic Sci., 2019, 9, 50 (DOI: 10.1186/s41935-019-0155-1)
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A letter looking back on the life of the evangelic communicator and titan of solid state chemistry
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If New York has a cake, it is most certainly our richly indulgent and sumptuously creamy cheesecake. There is a lot of culinary history to support this claim. And then there’s Junior’s, a Brooklyn Temple to Cheesecake which made history last year when its owner, Alan Rosen, rejected a $45 million offer to buy its downtown Brooklyn location. Rosen simply didn’t have the heart to see the landmark torn down to be replaced by a condo tower. That gives you some idea of how passionately New Yorker’s in general and Mr. Rosen in particular, feel about cheese cake. Cheesecake itself goes back to the 1st Century AD. According to an article written by Linda Stradley for the website www.whatscookingamerica.net, Marcus Porcius Cato, a Roman politician and writer gave his recipe for “Libum”, a small cake used as a temple offering. He wrote: “Libum
Libum, the world’s first
cheesecake.
to be made as follows: 2 pounds cheese well crushed in a mortar; when it is well crushed, add in 1 pound bread-wheat flour” and then offered the first recorded piece of dietary advice about cheesecake, Cato adds: “Or, if you want it to be lighter, just 1/2 a pound, to be mixed with the cheese. Add one egg and mix all together well. Make a loaf of this, with the leaves under it, and cook slowly in a hot fire under a brick.”
William Lawrence, the inventor
of Cream Cheese
Cheesecake is commonly made with one of four cheeses: Ricotta, Nuefchatel, cottage cheese or Cream Cheese. But for true New York Cheesecake only the latter is ever used. Cream Cheese was invented in 1872 in Chester, New York by one William Lawrence. In attempting to duplicate the popular Neufchatel cheese from France, he discovered a formula for an un-ripened cheese that was even richer and creamier, hence the name “Cream Cheese”.
Despite it being a New Yorker’s invention, for some obscure reason, New York’s Empire Cheese Company began producing “Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese”, the cream cheese that is still far and away the preferred brand for making a true New York Cheesecake. According to Kraft Foods website it was James Kraft, who in 1912 developed and method to pasteurize Philadelphia Cream Cheese. This newer kind of cream cheese became the industry standard.
New York cheesecake is pure, unadulterated cheesecake, made with pure cream cheese, cream, eggs, and sugar and lemon zest. It has a slight tartness from the lemon counterbalancing the intense richness of the cream. Even the strawberry topping we’re celebrating today would raise some eyebrows among New York Cheesecake connoisseurs. And virtually every New Yorker is one: By the turn of the 20th century virtually every New York restaurant had their own cheesecake recipe on their menus. Today, while it’s not on every menu in town, it well represented nonetheless.
Andrew’s recipe comes from Ms. Greenspan’s “Baking” (Houghton Mifflin 2006) and from Mr. Maglieri’s “Perfect Cakes” (Harper Collins 2002) . Ms Greenspan, who is responsible for the filling and the crust, starts her recipe off by saying “Not really a New York Cheesecake—there’s no lemon”. Mr. Maglieri, whose strawberry topping Andrew used, first gives us a set of cheesecake rules:
1. All ingredients must be at room temperature of a smooth, lump-free batter.
2. Don’t overmix the batter. If you do, you incorporate too much air which will make the cheesecake rise too much while it is baking only to “sink dismally in the center as it cools”.
3. Bake most cheesecakes in a pan of water to help reduce the bottom heat so the cheesecake sets without rising and ruining its texture.
4. Don’t overbake the cheesecake. When the baking time has elapsed, take the cake out of the oven. It will still be wobbly in the center which it is supposed to be.
Now that you know the rules and the history, here’s the recipe with grateful thanks to Dorie Greenspan and Nick Maglieri.
Recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake
1 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted
For the cheesecake:
2 pounds (four 8-ounce boxes) cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/3 cups sour cream or heavy cream, or a combination of the two
For the Strawberry topping:
2 pints of strawberries, hulled and sliced
½ cup red currant jelly
To make the crust:
1. Butter a 9-inch springform pan—choose one that has sides that are 2 3/4 inches high (if the sides are lower, you will have cheesecake batter leftover)—and wrap the bottom of the pan in a double layer of aluminum foil; put the pan on a baking sheet.
2. Stir the crumbs, sugar and salt together in a medium bowl. Pour over the melted butter and stir until all of the dry ingredients are uniformly moist. (I do this with my fingers.) Turn the ingredients into the buttered springform pan and use your fingers to pat an even layer of crumbs along the bottom of the pan and about halfway up the sides. Don’t worry if the sides are not perfectly even or if the crumbs reach above or below the midway mark on the sides—this doesn’t have to be a precision job. Put the pan in the freezer while you preheat the oven.
3. Center a rack in the oven, preheat the oven to 350°F and place the springform on a baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Set the crust aside to cool on a rack while you make the cheesecake filling.
4. Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F.
To make the cheesecake:
1. Put a kettle of water on to boil.
2. Working in a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese at medium speed until it is soft and lives up to the creamy part of its name, about 4 minutes. With the mixer running, add the sugar and salt and continue to beat another 4 minutes or so, until the cream cheese is light. Beat in the vanilla. Add the eggs one by one, beating for a full minute after each addition—you want a well-aerated batter. Reduce the mixer speed to low and stir in the sour cream and/or heavy cream.
3. Put the foil-wrapped springform pan in the roaster pan.
4. Give the batter a few stirs with a rubber spatula, just to make sure that nothing has been left unmixed at the bottom of the bowl, and scrape the batter into the springform pan. The batter will reach the brim of the pan. (If you have a pan with lower sides and have leftover batter, you can bake the batter in a buttered ramekin or small soufflé mold.) Put the roasting pan in the oven. Pour enough boiling water into the roaster to come halfway up the sides of the springform pan.
5. After 1 hour, carefully pull the setup out of the oven, lift the springform pan out of the roaster—be careful, there may be some hot water in the aluminum foil—remove the foil. Let the cheesecake come to room temperature on a cooling rack.
6. Bake the cheesecake for 1 hour and 30 minutes, at which point the top will be browned (and perhaps cracked) and may have risen just a little above the rim of the pan. Turn off the oven’s heat and prop the oven door open with a wooden spoon. Allow the cheesecake to luxuriate in its water bath for another hour.
8. When the cake is cool, cover the top lightly and chill the cake for at least 4 hours, although overnight would be better.
Next, make the Strawberry topping:
1. Rinse, hull and slice 2 pints of strawberries.
2. Starting at the outer edge of the baked and chilled cheesecake, arrange the strawberry slices in concentric circles, points outward, like the petals of a flower. Heat ½ cup of currant jelly and reduce until slightly thickened, the glaze the berries, using a pastry brush.
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Meeting of the Titans
Part of the 36th Ravello Concert Season
Add to my Calendar 29-09-2021 18:30 29-09-2021 20:30 36 Meeting of the Titans A paradise high above the Amalfi Coast whose many facets of beauty are composed of medieval ruins, breath-taking views and luxuriant gardens overlooking the sea. In this evocative atmosphere the Ravello Concert Society (RCS) concert series is a traditional and well-established date, which over the years has delighted thousands of visitors with a wide range of performances by soloists and chamber music ensembles.The scope and diversity of the RCS repertoire are increasing every year: the 2021 programme features a total of 33 chamber music concerts.All events are spectacular as the environment we present and produce them in. Come and discover our impressing venues, cosy atmosphere and great acoustic in locations full of history and culture:* the Annunziata Historic Building (also known as RCS Recital Hall), built in 1281 by the noble family Fusco and located just beyond the Villa Rufolo Park: its world famous domes are the landmark of Ravello and its Music Festival;* the Ravello Art Centre at the former Grand Caruso Wine Cellars, a purpose restored concert hall for chamber music which is integrated with an exhibition space;* the gardens of the Ravello Arts Council Guest House, an ancient tower located among olive trees, recently restored and integrated with an open air space set up to host chamber music concerts.At RCS there is always interesting, engaging music. In addition, you will always have the chance to make new friends, meet the artists and escape from your to-do list for an hour or two. Annunziata Historic Building, Ravello DD/MM/YYYY
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Franz Liszt – Sonetto 47 del Petrarca in D flat major, S.161 no.4
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A paradise high above the Amalfi Coast whose many facets of beauty are composed of medieval ruins, breath-taking views and luxuriant gardens overlooking the sea. In this evocative atmosphere the Ravello Concert Society (RCS) concert series is a traditional and well-established date, which over the years has delighted thousands of visitors with a wide range of performances by soloists and chamber music ensembles.
The scope and diversity of the RCS repertoire are increasing every year: the 2021 programme features a total of 33 chamber music concerts.
All events are spectacular as the environment we present and produce them in. Come and discover our impressing venues, cosy atmosphere and great acoustic in locations full of history and culture:
* the Annunziata Historic Building (also known as RCS Recital Hall), built in 1281 by the noble family Fusco and located just beyond the Villa Rufolo Park: its world famous domes are the landmark of Ravello and its Music Festival;
* the Ravello Art Centre at the former Grand Caruso Wine Cellars, a purpose restored concert hall for chamber music which is integrated with an exhibition space;
* the gardens of the Ravello Arts Council Guest House, an ancient tower located among olive trees, recently restored and integrated with an open air space set up to host chamber music concerts.
At RCS there is always interesting, engaging music. In addition, you will always have the chance to make new friends, meet the artists and escape from your to-do list for an hour or two.
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"Just keep updated on where the rain is," Deitsch said, advising trick-or-treaters and their parents to watch the weather if they want to avoid damp costumes or melting makeup.
But compared to the last few Halloween holidays, this year's will be relatively calm, he said. Last year temperatures dropped low enough for some flurries and the year before, there were severe thunderstorms.
Louisville and Southern Indiana can expect much nicer weather for Halloween events Friday afternoon. Deitsch said the National Weather Service isn't predicting any precipitation and temperatures will be in the 50s Friday night.
Here are a few of Louisville's most extreme Halloweens for weather, according to the National Weather Service:
Highest temperature: 84 degrees in 1950
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Support Young Poets in Wales
by Poetry Wales in Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
Help create a new bilingual competition and anthology for young people across Wales and the UK.
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Support our underrepresented writers. All funds will go towards creating poetry resources for young people and to subsidising free entries for low-income writers to Wales Poetry Award, our international poetry competition.
Land of poets
It's in our national anthem, our language, our landscapes, our voices, and our young people.
Poetry Wales has been publishing poets for 55 years now. In that time we've been a platform for everyone from Dannie Abse, Tishani Doshi, Owen Sheers and Ailbhe Darcy to Jonathan Edwards, Hanan Issa, Marvin Thompson, and Sascha Aurora Akhtar. We've platformed hundreds of poets, many with published collections of their own. All unique, all brilliant, all with Poetry Wales in common.
New and established, we're proud to be a part of their poetry careers, but as we adapt to a world where we must continually prove the worth of art and empathy, against hostility from governments outside of Wales that affect us all, we need to support our poets of the future. After all, what is a land of poets without its poets?
The Young Poets Competition and Anthology
We need your help to raise funds for Wales Young Poets Award, a new bilingual competition for young people aged 10-17 across Wales and the UK.
The competition will be free to enter and its theme will be empathy. We will produce an anthology that will find a home in every school in Wales. Our winners and runners-up, in Welsh and English, published together, will receive coveted book vouchers.
But, more importantly, they will gain confidence in their writing, which they will take with them through life. They will know and take strength from what's on offer here in Wales: an unrivalled community of poets, writers and artists.
But this cannot happen without your support. We are asking you to contribute to our crowdfunder to raise £3000 so we can create this invaluable opportunity for our young poets.
Poetry Resources for All
While our first £3000 will go to prizes, judging, translation and the cost of a print anthology, in order to give all our young poets a fairer chance as many children will remain at home due to the coronavirus, we'd also like to raise funds for new accessible online resources for all, including activity plans and video lessons on writing and performing poetry. We've currently outlined 10 of these lessons, each costing around £375 each for planning, creating and recording. These are designed to complement the new Welsh national curriculum, and priority will be given to freelance poets who have lost income due to lockdown.
Wales Poetry Award
If we're fortunate enough to surpass £6000, any further funds raised will subsidise free entries for low-income writers. Last year we successfully held the inaugural Wales Poetry Award, our international competition for English language poetry. It is one of the only poetry competitions in the UK to offer free, equal entry to those from households earning £16,000 or less per year. Due to coronavirus, we no longer have a sponsor for free entries to the competition. However, we're dedicated to making poetry accessible, so any additional funding we receive here will be used to support these underrepresented poets.
We are a non-profit company. Despite our long history, we are a small magazine. While we would love to dedicate £3000 to fund the competition ourselves, another £3000 to pay our poets to create resources for young poets, and any spare to support low-income writers entering our competition for adults, we simply do not have the money.
We are grateful to Books Council Wales from whom we receive our core funding of £20k. This funding primarily pays for staffing (and our dedicated Poetry Wales staff are both part-time). We, unfortunately, do not have the money to start the several projects we would like to.
Your support will allow us to fund the most important of our outreach projects: to reach young and underrepresented writers in Wales.
The competition will likely yield no profit, but it is a huge opportunity we want to give all young writers in Wales. For many poets, a writing competition is the first and most important jaunt into the literary world. We would like for every young person to write, to find their voice and be able to express themselves. So, please pledge what you can. Please share with friends, family, teachers, universities, businesses, publishers, everyone. And above all, please donate to help us support the next generation of poets.
What your support will fund
Your support up to £3000 will fund Wales Young Poets Award, including prizes, a print anthology sent to schools in Wales, judging and bilingual translation.
Your support up to £6000 will fund the creation of freely accessible poetry resources, including activity plans and video lessons for young poets. These are designed to complement the new Welsh national curriculum.
Support exceeding £6000 will be used to subsidise free entry to Wales Poetry Award for those from low-income backgrounds, ensuring fair access for all.
We are grateful for any contribution, no matter how small. Please pledge today to help nurture young talent. Thank you.
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On September 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a cyber-security related settlement with a Missouri investment adviser for failing to maintain policies and procedures in violation of the so-called "Safeguard Rule" of Rule 30(a) of Regulation S-P. This announcement represents a notable "warning shot" in advance of the broader upcoming SEC cybersecurity examinations that we described in our recent client alerts, found here and here.
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The Safeguards Rule, which the SEC adopted in 2000, requires that every investment adviser registered with the SEC adopt policies and procedures reasonably designed to: (1) ensure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information; (2) protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of customer records and information; and (3) protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer records or information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer. The SEC adopted amendments to the Safeguards Rule, effective January 2005, to require that the policies and procedures adopted thereunder be in writing. Only in 2015 did the SEC publish guidance about specific cybersecurity policies and procedures that should be adopted and implemented by regulated entities.
According to the SEC order, found here, the adviser stored personally identifiable information of its clients and others on a third-party hosted web server from September 2009 through July 2013. During this time, the adviser had failed to adopt written policies and procedures reasonably designed to safeguard customer information. Specifically, as noted in the SEC order, the adviser failed to conduct periodic risk assessments, implement a firewall, encrypt personal information stored on its third-party hosted web server, or maintain a response plan for cybersecurity incidents.
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A lawyer representing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s Ukraine expert who testified publicly this week in the impeachment hearings, sent a letter to Fox News on Wednesday asking the network for a retraction.
The request for a retraction centers around an October 28 segment on Laura Ingraham’s prime time show, “The Ingraham Angle.”
During that segment, Ingraham seemed to suggest Vindman, a decorated military officer, was perhaps more loyal to Ukraine than the United States. Vindman was born in Ukraine but grew up in the US.
“Isn’t that kind of an interesting angle on this story?” Ingraham asked her guest John Yoo, a law professor who served in President George W. Bush’s administration.
“I find that astounding,” Yoo replied. “Some people might call that espionage.”
Vindman’s attorney, David Pressman, characterized the segment in his letter as “false and defamatory” and “deeply flawed and erroneous,” noting espionage is punishable by death.
Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient, has been a target among Trump and his allies for his testimony before House investigators. Vindman has testified that he believes it to be “improper for the President of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a US citizen and a political opponent.”
Trump and his allies have retaliated against Vindman’s testimony by calling him a so-called “Never Trumper” and questioning his patriotism, even though it was his job as the White House’s Ukraine expert to work with the Ukrainian government. At his hearing on Tuesday, Vindman insisted that he is a “never partisan” after GOP lawmakers suggested that he was biased against the President.
Pressman said that Ingraham’s segment “sparked a torrent of republications and copycat false charges” and was amplified by Trump on Twitter.
“Fox News has a grave responsibility to the truth, “Pressman wrote. “The segment was not true. It has now been repeated by some of the most powerful people in the world.”
“It is causing great pain,” Pressman added. “We ask you to retract the coverage, correct the record, and publish the truth.”
After the controversial segment, Yoo wrote an op-ed for USA Today in which he conceded he “really stepped in it” and clarified that he meant to say Ukraine had engaged in “espionage.” Yoo also appeared on CNN and said he did “regret the choice of words” he had used in the Ingraham interview.
A Fox News spokesperson pointed to Yoo’s clarifications when asked for comment on Pressman’s letter to the network.
“As a guest on Fox News, John Yoo was responsible for his own sentiments and he has subsequently done interviews to clarify what he meant,” the Fox News spokesperson said.
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Fundraisers prepare to run London Marathon for The Royal Star & Garter Homes
Woking dad Piers Fox helped his grandfather volunteer at the old Richmond Home, before Norman became a resident himself
Joanna Arnold’s grandmother was cared for by the Charity for the last two years of her life
Royal Navy Commando Rikky Toyer is swapping his Green Beret and boots for a running bib and trainers
The relatives of two former residents and a Royal Navy Commando are running the Virgin Money London Marathon to raise money for The Royal Star & Garter Homes.
Joanna Arnold, Piers Fox and Rikky Toyer will all be taking part in their first ever marathons when they take to the streets of the capital on 28 April.
Piers’ grandfather and Joanna’s grandmother were both cared for by the Charity during the final years of their lives, while Rikky decided to run after being told about the work of the Charity. The Royal Star & Garter Homes cares for ex-Servicemen and women and partners who are living with disability or dementia.
Piers remembers helping grandfather Norman Knowles volunteer at the Charity’s old Home. In later years, Norman would become a resident there, before moving to the Surbiton Home. He died in 2016.
Norman served in the Army during the Second World War, and saw action in Myanmar (Burma), where he suffered a bullet wound to the leg.
Piers, 42, from Woking, said:
“When I was a kid I would go with my grandad to the Richmond Home where he was a volunteer. I was eight or nine at the time and I would go up with him and help with the veterans.”
Piers is a Finance Controller for Apple, and the technology company is match-funding donations given by his work colleagues. He said:
“I’m doing this to say thanks to the Charity for the care and support it gave my grandad. I believe we need to look after our veterans, and The Royal Star & Garter Homes does a great job of doing that. I’m hoping to raise as much as I can and I’m grateful to Apple for the match-funding. The Marathon’s not going to be easy but thinking of my granddad will help me.”
Joanna’s grandmother Muriel Webster lived at the Surbiton Home for two years before her death in August 2018. The 35-year-old, from Horsham, is also running to thank the Charity:
“The care and love my Grandma received from everyone at The Royal Star & Garter Homes was amazing. I was blown away by it. It was a real home-from-home, not just for Grandma but us relatives too.”
Father-of-three Rikky, 36, is a Helicopter Engineer with the Commando Helicopter Force, based at RNAS Yeovilton. He is raising money for the Charity following a chance conversation:
“A friend of mine told me about the Charity, and being in the military myself, I think it’s great. Maybe one day in the future The Royal Star & Garter Homes will be caring for me or someone I serve with.”
To sponsor Piers, go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/piers-fox
To sponsor Joanna, go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/joanna84
To sponsor Rikky, go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rikkyt
Goolistan Cooper
Communications Officer / goolistan.cooper@starandgarter.org / 0208 481 7669 / 07391 868796
Cally Madden
Marketing & Communications Manager / cally.madden@starandgarter.org / 020 8481 7692 / 07881 017299
About The Royal Star & Garter Homes:
The Charity provides award-winning care for military veterans and their partners who live with disability or dementia.
The Royal Star & Garter Homes is a charity founded in 1916 to care for the severely injured men returning from the battlegrounds of the First World War.
Today our friendly, state-of-the-art Homes offer a pioneering approach to nursing, dementia and therapeutic care. We have award-winning Homes in Solihull, West Midlands and Surbiton, Surrey. Our third Home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire opens in spring 2019.
We continue to expand our services to reach even more veterans. In 2018, we were able to support 185 residents and over 60 guests at the Star & Garter Club, our day care service. We also offer interim care for young disabled Service personnel. We provided 11,700 individual sessions of physiotherapy and speech & language therapy last year to support our residents’ health, and over 5,600 places to residents for activities, outings and events, to promote well-being.
We are proud to have enjoyed Royal patronage since our foundation, including that of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from 1953 to the present day.
Twitter: @starandgarter
Facebook: facebook.com/starandgarter
Website: www.starandgarter.org
The Royal Star & Garter Homes is a member of the National Care Forum – the leading voice for not-for-profit care providers. A national perspective may be available from info@nationalcareforum.org.uk or by contacting 02476243619. More details on NCF available at www.nationalcareforum.org.uk.
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Home Comics Graphic Novels George M. Johnson to pen STONEWALL graphic novel for Tu Books
George M. Johnson to pen STONEWALL graphic novel for Tu Books
The nonfiction graphic novel for young readers centers on the history of the LGBTQ+ movement and the Stonewall Riots
Deanna Destito
Activist and author George M. Johnson (All Boys Aren’t Blue) announced via Twitter this week that his nonfiction graphic novel Stonewall has been acquired by Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, and is set for publication in 2022. The young readers title focuses on the history of the LGBTQ+ movement and its roots in the Stonewall Riots in 1969. It will be illustrated by artist Theo Lorenz.
I SIGNED A SECOND BOOK DEAL!!!
STONEWALL a graphic novel!!! Thanks @stacylwhitman & @ericsmithrocks. Excited to be writing this one 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/snKesFuzkk
— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) August 22, 2019
June 28, 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the protests in New York City’s Greenwich Village against the NYPD. The event became known as the Stonewall Riots, and is credited as a major turning point for the LGBTQ rights movement. The protests were led by trans women of color, and also led to the first-ever Pride Parade, which has evolved into June becoming Pride Month.
Unfortunately, over the years much of the true narrative of the event has been rewritten, giving credit to white activists, specifically a cis white gay man, virtually erasing the presence of leaders and activists such as Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, and others who were at the forefront of six days of riots.
Johnson’s graphic novel will offer readers a more accurate depiction of what the Stonewall Riots were really about and who the prominent players were in the historical—and important—movement that set the stage for LGBTQ+ rights today. It will also shed light on the rights of people of color whose contributions to this movement (and others) have been co-opted by other groups, specifically by white men.
Stay tuned for more on Stonewall including official release dates and art. Head over to Tu Books’ website for updates.
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Jamestown, Lafayette cross country teams look to keep up the pace
By Sean CW Korsgaard
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Running through the trails at the Warhill Sports Complex, the Lafayette Cross Country team has two goals this fall - to push it's returning runners even farther, and to get their new members up to speed. (Sean CW Korsgaard)
JAMES CITY COUNTY — The summer heat and early morning practices have done little to slow down Williamsburg’s cross country runners as they prepare for the fall season.
After strong finishes in both regionals and states last year, the Rams look stronger this fall than they have in a few years, according to coach Craig Wortman. According to him, the team has two goals this fall: to push it’s returning runners even farther and to get new members up to speed.
“We were able to win states not that long ago, 2013, 2014, and we’ve been trying to build back to that level,” Wortman said. “We’re looking strong, even this early, our top performers are doing very well, and (we have) some new kids who may surprise everyone.”
Senior team members Brenner Beard and Scottie Coleman agree that, after coming short last year, everyone on the team is working to make up for it this fall.
“Last year we had a good squad, we went to states, but I don’t think we did as well as we’d wanted,” Beard said. “This year, we’ve got a lot of young guys joining us, and they’ve already proven to be hard workers and harder runners, which has everyone excited.”
One of those freshmen, Harper Wagner, said that as much as new runners might improve the cross country team, the team has already helped improve the performance of many of the freshmen runners like her.
“I’ve already improved a lot, everyone on the team is really supportive, it’s a great team environment,” Wagner said. “I’ve been wanting to improve my mile times, and they’ve already helped me do that.”
First Meet: vs. Warhill, Jamestown and Tabb, 4:00 p.m. Sept. 11 at Warhill High.
Early morning practices are doing little to slow down the Jamestown Eagles Cross Country team as they prepare for the upcoming season. (Sean CW Korsgaard)
Last year, the Eagles enjoyed a strong cross country season, with the boys and girls both finishing second in the region behind Grafton. This year, according to coach Mark Tompkins, the team is hoping some talented newcomers will help carry the Eagles to a stronger run in states.
“We had a solid season last year, a lot of that same squad is returning, and we have some promising freshman joining us this year,” Tompkins said. “The expectation is they’ll do well during the season and regionals, but we’re hoping to have a stronger finish in states this year.”
According to senior Sorenna Jean, the mood on the team is positive. She said that mixture of returning talent and raw potential puts the Eagles in a good position.
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“I’d say as a whole the team is optimistic this year,” Jean said. “Our big rival, Grafton, lost a lot of seniors this year, and not only do we have a lot of our older runners returning, but we’re going to do what we can that our younger guys step up and get ready to fill our shoes next year.”
One interesting case of the Eagles returning runners this fall is team captain and senior John Vogel, who is returning to Jamestown after having spent his junior year in Colorado after his father was transferred there by the Air Force. Now back in Williamsburg, Vogel said there’s no place he’d rather run in his senior year than Jamestown.
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“I’m excited to be back, I love running for Coach Tompkins and Jamestown has a great team, which has always made this a great experience,” Vogel said. “I’d love to get a top 10 finish at states this year, and plan to do my best, but for now I’m just happy to be back with my team.”
First Meet: vs. Lee-Davis, at 8:00 a.m. on Sept. 7 at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville.
Coming Saturday: We’ll wrap up our cross country with a look at Warhill and Bruton
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How the Left Rebranded as Non-Ideological
Daniel Greenfield October 08, 2015
Every time Obama issues another public ultimatum to Congress (before doing what he wants to do anyway) he phrases it in terms like "common sense" or "pragmatic". It's "non-ideological" he insists. The left's ideological agenda just happens to be the common sense pragmatic non-ideological solution.
Obama may be the most radical political figure to occupy the White House, but he is careful to avoid political labels. His leftist allies calculatingly compare him to Reagan or Roosevelt. He's not an ideologue. Just another one of those "Great American Leaders" bent on helping ordinary people.
A big part of the left's latest successes can be attributed to this non-ideological rebranding.
The old left (both old and new) was a political movement that wanted to be understood in terms of its ideology. The post-leftist left wants to be seen as progressive. It emphasizes policies linked to people instead of ideology. The ideology is still there and choking entire university departments to death, but its public face emphasizes an apolitical technocracy of pragmatists and caring social workers.
It's not a new idea. Communists heavily leaned on non-ideological front groups. Its activists were writers or grandmothers even when they were parroting Soviet talking points. They weren't anything political. They were just ordinary common sense folks looking for pragmatic solutions.
But American leftists used to be more like Bernie Sanders and less like Barack Obama. Today Sanders is a strange romantic anachronism which is why he attracts so much of the left. The modern leftist politician follows a left-wing line, but without a lot of the ideological trappings. He does his best to sound like a reformer. He's a political extremist who tries to sound like a moderate.
Bernie Sanders appeals to the left for the same reasons that post-left lefties like Hillary and Obama don't. Hillary and Obama pursue their goals, but Sanders talks their talk. He doesn't pretend to be the voice of a new generation looking to find common ground. He doesn't pretend to be anything except a political extremist convinced of his rightness and unapologetic about it.
But Sanders' only real function is to serve as a stalking horse for Biden, weakening Hillary to enable a third proxy term for Obama. Bernie Sanders is what the left used to be. It's now a collection of political shapeshifters like Obama and Hillary who bury their radicalism beneath a paper thin veneer of moderation and caring. His kind of leftist never sold well and doesn't sell in this type of market.
Americans are suspicious of political agendas. They like their leaders to be common sense apolitical pragmatists who put people ahead of ideology. So that's what the left pretends to be.
The public face of the left has become non-ideological. No longer even liberal, but progressive. There's no Marxism here, folks. Just science and humanitarian impulses.
The left doesn't talk ideology. It just claims to care about people. It wants illegal alien amnesty, not because it believes in open borders, but because it cares about illegal aliens. It champions gay marriage, not because that's a part of its ideology, but because it cares about gay couples. It wants universal health care, not because it's Socialist, but because it cares about the uninsured.
Its MO is to put a human face on an issue. Then ram through the policy as an "act of love" to pragamtically "solve" a problem. The ideology remains hidden out of sight behind the curtain.
This post-leftist left requires a steady supply of victims as human faces of their latest totalitarian measure. Children are always useful because they're adorable and can be told to say anything. But it also requires a complete embrace of identity politics. And identity politics brings back ideology in the most toxic of ways.
The Social Justice Warrior has revived political correctness and taken it to new lows. While these activists have been key to the left's agenda, they are making it increasingly obvious that there is an agenda and that it's built out of Marxist gobbledygook.
The left wanted its activists to be thought of as people who volunteer to build homes in the Third World. Not the same old angry Marxists clutching pamphlets and screaming slogans filled with terminology no one understands. The SJWs are slightly more diverse than the old Marxists, but they are if anything even more obnoxious and their "problematic" vocabulary is very revealing.
Liberal outlets have been churning out pieces critical of the SJWs (without using that name) because, like the Cultural Revolution, these activists excel at internecine violence and because they risk destroying the left's new brand as a bunch of non-ideological problem solvers.
SJWs operate publicly within the shadow of popular culture. This has given them a certain amount of plausible deniability as they parasite and prey on creative fields, playing critics, commentators and writers, rather than ideologues, but the civil wars within some creative fields are bringing that time of quiet infiltration to an end.
And yet the left created the SJW problem by its apolitical reinvention. It needed a lot of identity groups to take the place of a formal ideology in public. The identity groups were meant to interlink with the technocracy of the left, the consultants, experts and academics who would claim that their demands were pragmatic and scientific. But the SJWs are spinning out of control.
Americans hated political correctness the first time around. Even liberals hated it. And the SJWs with their safe rooms and trigger words, their contention that they should have the right to violently berate and cyberlynch anyone they please without criticism (that's tone policing and punching down) are worse than any 80s sensitivity training course.
Political correctness doomed the public image of liberalism to a bunch of Bernie Sanders', pinch-faced scolds with no sense of humor who were always furiously angry over everything. The brand became so toxic that it had to be abandoned. The new leftist was non-ideological. Like Obama, he was supposed to be a natural comedian. He might show empathy, but he wouldn't be a scold.
But the idea that the left could sustain a non-ideological image while ramming through a radical ideological agenda was always tenuous. Not because Republicans would expose it. That might have happened in the era of Reagan and Goldwater, but we tend to forget that they were already frustrated responses to the failure of Republicans to check the radical agendas of FDR and JFK. An immediate successful Republican campaign against Obama was probably always too much to hope for.
Conservative movements are notorious for their slow burns as they react to a left that has learned to get around public distaste for its agenda with shameless lies and fake patriotism. FDR and JFK both knew that they had to make their agenda seem like Americanism, inspirational, exceptional and patriotic. Republicans never figured out how to counter them, relying first on legalism, and then searching desperately for compromises. Obama had managed to successfully repeat the same trick.
It wasn't the right that would bring down the left. Historically it's the left that brings down the left.
The Obama era was a brilliant public relations ploy that was made possible by the entire media and the cultural industries turning themselves into a non-stop commercial for it. But its ability to fool enough of the people to stay in power wouldn't last.
Obama's own aggressive ObamaCare bid precipitated the original conservative reaction. His growing aggressiveness after his last midterm election defeat was mimicked by a left drunk on power and echoing his arrogance and contempt.
Sanders is a stalking horse for the Obama agenda, but he's also a symptom of a left that distrusts non-ideological rhetoric and is convinced that the public would embrace its agenda and allow it to accelerate its program of Socialism, mass seizure and abolition of property and rights, if only it was allowed to make the case. Before Sanders, Elizabeth Warren became the darling of the left for her, "You didn't build that" message. It was Socialism, though still cloaked in the non-ideological common sense brand, but the left could taste how close she came to saying it all.
The left has become too successful to sustain its non-ideological brand. What the right hasn't managed to do, the left is doing to itself.
As Lincoln knew, no lie can sustain itself indefinitely. Even when it isn't exposed from the outside, success creates its own internal tensions that will tear it apart. The left needs a right to fight because otherwise it will fight itself. The left is obsessed with purging its own ranks and the SJWs are the mechanism of that purge.
The return of political correctness, of censorship and the culture war, is not only creating new enemies, but exposes the fraud that there is no left, only a non-ideological progressive movement that eschews dogma and just tries to solve problems because it cares about people. The SJW, an angry freak who identifies with as many identities as he/she/it can, is a wailing hub of dogma, a physical embodiment of an ideological power structure-in-waiting that is built on repression and political terror.
Also he/she/it ruins everything.
The SJW reminds everyone that there is a left and that there's nothing progressive about it. That despite its culture heroes, it's a humorless movement whose aim is cultural censorship, and whose claims of caring about people are undermined by its angry hysterical tantrums.
Meanwhile Obama's plan to replace himself with his own LBJ just means that if the Republicans still can't get it together, Biden will be a sitting duck as the non-ideological common sense pragmatic Socialist program really begins coming apart. It was LBJ's failures that really buried the JFK era. Biden will bury the Obama era just as thoroughly when the chickens of a disastrous foreign and domestic policy have really come home to roost.
Posted by: Daniel Greenfield at October 08, 2015
112 8/10/15
I've made the comment for years that when talking to young people, an hour of left wing propaganda is just facts, debating what they say becomes "politics". I've never had the clear-sight and brilliance to expose the phenomenon like you just did. You're a genius.
Question, though, why do you have the Jerusalem Post scrolling in your sidebar?
I don't even need to go back to their history, click any link off the top of the list, and it's like a muddy stain on your website of crystal http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Extreme-right-wing-protesters-chanting-Arab-slogans-marching-in-Jerusalem-421395 For that one, what protest? Report on it, and we'll take care of branding them, we don't need a biased reporter to tell us what they are.
Should I launch a 2 hour tirade on them? How can you support that propaganda rag?
Y. Ben-David 9/10/15
Another perceptive piece.
"112" points out correctly that the Left likes to brand its opponents as "extremists". In Israel, those who support the Jewish communities in Judea/Samara are branded as "extreme Rightists". In the Israeli Leftist controlled media, there are no "extreme Leftists", only "extreme Rightists". That is also the reason B Hussein Obama refers to ISIS as "violent extremists"....as opposed to "violent Muslim"....he knows he can ignite public opinion against "extremists" but he doesn't want to use the word Muslim in mobilizing publicopinion, being a Muslim himself.
The all-time low occurred during Sharon's destruction of Gush Katif. Brett Stephens, who at the time was editor of the Jerusalem Post and is now with the WSJ" had been very good in his analysis of the Arab terror war against Israel. However, he fell into Sharon's trap and wrote a piece saying "only extremists want to stay in Gush Katif, but it is "moderate" to stay in Judea/Samaria"....the implication being that "extremists are always wrong, and moderates are always right" (who says?). I believe he now regrets that but he was acting as a cheap propagandist at the time for Sharon and he lost all credibility with me after that.
Some good news from the Nobel Prize Committee....I was worried when I saw a report earlier that Kerry and the Iranian Zarif were "front-runners" to get the so-called "Peace Prize". We know that this prize was degraded when they gave it Rabin, Peres and Arafat in addition to Obama, but I still am glad Kerry didn't get it. It reminds of the time that Gertrude Stein and others wanted to have it granted to Hitler and Chamberlain for the Munich sell-out. Kerry and Zarif were entitled to it as much as those earlier "peace makers".
Tricia 9/10/15
Great post, very insiteful and spot on!
Doug Mayfield 9/10/15
Thanks for the insightful article.
I think the Republicans have a chance to win the Presidential election if they choose someone who runs a better campaign than McCain and Romney. Against competent opposition, I don't think Biden, or Hillary, will win.
And as you say, 'Sanders' only real function is to serve as a stalking horse for Biden, weakening Hillary to enable a third proxy term for Obama'. He has no chance.
Thanks for the analysis. No better chance for social climbers than in the ideological state. Give your child the proper verbal training (like they do in Park Slope) and they are made. They will sound so much better and will instantly brand themselves as better (meaning richer) than the troglodyte, victimized kids who give themselves away as having gone to the public schools where the ideological state first fails.
Nothing has disappointed me more than seeing public school life become American life. Behind every ideological state is the sick marriage of corrupt government with its academic/media corroborators. Always thought crime. Never real reform.
Absolutely brilliant. Understand these principles and you can dismantle any Leftist machine no matter how complex.
The left pretends to use scientific thinking only because of their atheism. It makes them feel so superior even when they tend to have problems with K12 Maths. As for their humanitarian impulses, they last as long as it is paid for with others money. They wouldn’t donate from their own money in a million years…
If anyone wants to know the nature of those who follow the progressive movement, go read the comments on a liberal blog.
Fair warning though, piercing your forehead with a spike is less painful.
fsy 12/10/15
I'm not sure I understand the LBJ analogy at the end. I think it's well known that LBJ was a more competent (i.e. ruthless) politician than JFK, and anyway was not a stand-in for him since he was dead. Whatever you think about JFK, LBJ's failures stand on their own. Don't know what this has in common with Biden who is certainly even less intelligent than 0bama.
RAM 12/10/15
Once truth is exchanged for lies, it becomes possible to call a mad ideology non-ideological.
blogNATHI 12/12/15
Daniel's a whiz. Im finally getting the education I paid for. I actually couldn't understand the Deep Ecology or the ravings of that mad old Chinese American communist professor in polisci 20 years ago. I remember every one saying he was the real deal and his course would be transformative. Now i know why. They seemed so knowing, conspiratorial. He was the mangod of the department for sure. He was about 6 2 which is unusual for anyone in Hawaii, and he would stand up and rave for a few minutes, a steam of unintelligible gobbledygook pouring forth, and geticulate wildly, and then he would freeze suddenly in midpose immobile for ages, trying to dredge the finer details of maoist theory from his ossified mind. I still recoil at the image.
But like i say I couldn't make heads or tails of it fortunately. Until now :)
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Irish dancing hopefuls from New York to Russia compete for a trophy and make for an engaging documentary
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For this writer, Irish dancing holds about as much appeal as football or wine tasting. But the new documentary Jig proves that the people involved can be fascinating.
Sue Bourne’s film tells the remarkable story of an assortment of dancing hopefuls, their families, their teachers and their efforts to win a coveted prize at the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held last March in Glasgow.
The dancers come from all corners of the globe. Derry girl, Brogan McCay and New Yorker, Julia O’Rourke are transatlantic rivals, with O'Rourke studying McCay's moves on YouTube, while McCay practices in the Derry drizzle. She’s a charming wee thing, is McCay, dispensing pearls of wisdom from her poster-adorned bedroom.
Across the pond, O'Rourke’s parents – Filipino American mother, Irish American father – throw their wages at their daughter, but thankfully it’s the closest we come to 'stage mom' syndrome throughout the movie.
In Chelmsford, Glasgow, Galway and, er, Moscow, more competitors prepare for a pop at the various titles. They’re mostly under 20, but are mature beyond their years. They aren’t interested in money or fame, or consumed by bitchiness, but simply dedicated to their craft, and passionate about it.
In this age of ASBOs and instant gratification, it’s heartening to see kids prepared to work their socks off year after year for the reward of just a few minutes onstage and a trophy. Especially notable are the downtrodden Russian competitors, who as well as the cultural incongruities have to endure visa rejections and a cramped Glasgow youth hostel.
Meanwhile, in Birmingham, 10-year-old John, the youngest of five brothers, rates Irish dancing as ‘10 out of 10’, and football ‘two out of 10’. Clutching his favourite teddy bear, he explains how he ignores the bullies at school – though he probably doesn’t do himself any favours when he announces proudly about his dancing footwear, ‘I like the shoes.’
But the most unlikely competitor is perhaps Sandun Verschoor, an adopted Sri Lankan living in Rotterdam, whose struggle with the teenage temptations of drugs and alcohol forms a backdrop to his championship efforts.
There’s no contextual matter – we don’t learn anything about the history of Irish dancing, for instance – so the film remains solely about the characters involved. As we reach the nail-biting climax, it’s impossible to know which of these likeable youngsters to root for.
Irish dancing seems to be a hugely subjective art form, with a lot of it coming down to the judges’ personal tastes. To make matters worse, the scoring system is so fiddly even the coaches often can’t tell who is in the lead.
As for those coaches, they range from Derry’s Rosetta McConomy, who makes Sue Sylvester in Glee seem like a pussycat, to the David Walliams look-alike John Carey, from Brum. ‘Either do it right or don’t do it at all,’ McConomy barks at her young charges, while the less abrasive Carey offers his thoughtful insights into the balance between natural talent and hard graft.
Jig is a joyous affair, far more engaging than The X Factor or indeed most modern Hollywood flicks. The only problem with the film is the costumes the contestants are made to wear for the final. Resembling miniature versions of Blackadder’s Prince Regent, the kids’ wigs, make-up and elaborate dresses seem to have been designed by Gary Glitter. But the sour taste isn’t enough to spoil this delightful and surprisingly captivating tale.
Jig is showing at Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast, from May 20 to June 2.
Andrew Johnston
Tuesday, 17 May, 2011 - 10:26
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Obscure Rebadges From Around The World: Part 8
– August 1, 2019
Over seven instalments, I’ve featured almost three dozen different rebadged vehicles. Alas, I’ve only seen a grand total of two of these vehicles in the metal. On my recent trip to Vancouver, I spotted three more obscure rebadges. Though they’re not as obscure as a Ssangyong Kalista or a Mazda Roadpacer, they’re worthy inclusions in this series as are the other cars in this, Part 8 of Obscure Rebadges From Around The World.
Pontiac Firefly
With Canada’s vast expanses sometimes making a Chevrolet dealer prohibitively far from a Pontiac dealer for some buyers, dealers had even more sway than their American counterparts in getting additional product. Once Chevrolet got a rebadged version of the Suzuki Cultus/Swift, badged the Sprint, Pontiac dealers insisted they have their own version. Thus, the Firefly was hatched. It mirrored the Sprint lineup – 1.0 three-cylinder naturally-aspirated and turbocharged engines, three- and five-door hatchback body styles.
In 1989, a new generation of Firefly debuted. Like its Chevrolet, Geo and Suzuki-badged counterparts, it was now manufactured alongside the Suzuki Sidekick and its sidekicks at CAMI Automotive in Ingersoll, Ontario, a 50/50 joint venture between GM and Suzuki.
Japanese-built convertible and sedan variants were added to the Firefly line for 1990; the Firefly convertible lasted just two years. The entire line took a leave of absence for the 1992 and 1993 model years, re-emerging in 1994 but only in hatchback and sedan guises.
Canadians were treated to more powertrain options for their Suzuki clones. In addition to the 1.0 three-cylinder sold in US-market Geo Metros, there was a turbocharged version sold from 1989 until 1991 – the same engine offered in the old Chevrolet Sprint – plus a naturally-aspirated 1.3 four.
Like the Firefly, Canadian-market Chevrolet and Geo Sprints were also available in sedan form.
The Firefly continued on a rebadged version of the new, North American-exclusive ’95 Geo Metro. The two ranges mirrored each other: sedan or three-door hatch, 1.0 three-pot or 1.3 four. Both lines were discontinued at the turn of the century, the cute and clever Firefly name never to return.
Asüna Sunrunner
One sunny summer day in Vancouver, I spotted this Suzuki Sidekick/Escudo/Vitara in the distance. I knew that, because I was in Canada, it wasn’t necessarily going to wear Suzuki badges. Instead, it could have worn one of five (!) different GM nameplates.
Let’s unpack this. Geo and Saturn didn’t arrive up north until 1992 and GM Canada’s different dealership networks all wanted small cars to sell. This led to the introduction of the Passport dealership network/sub-brand, which existed from 1988 until 1991, and the Asüna brand sold from 1992 until 1993.
The dealer networks’ influence over GM meant the little Suzuki was offered at both Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac and Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealerships. As Geo didn’t arrive until 1992, the Suzuki was initially introduced in 1989 as the Chevrolet Tracker and GMC Tracker. Then in 1992, with the arrival of the Geo and Asüna brands, the two rebadges became the Geo Tracker and Asüna Sunrunner.
Asüna was different to Passport. The erstwhile sub-brand had only officially sold one Passport-branded vehicle – the Optima, a Pontiac LeMans clone – and existed predominantly as a dealership network selling Isuzu vehicles (it was replaced by Saturn-Saab-Isuzu dealers). Asüna, in comparison, was largely a clone of the Geo brand for Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealers.
The Passport Optima became the Asüna SE sedan and GT hatchback and, confusingly, was sold alongside the identical Pontiac LeMans. The Geo Storm’s counterpart was the Asüna Sunfire. The Pontiac Firefly actually disappeared during Asüna’s run and so the Geo Metro had no counterpart for 1992-93, buyers at these dealerships instead being directed to the SE/GT.
I hope nobody ever professed this Asüna experiment to make any sense because it certainly didn’t. Effectively, GM had dropped a model from Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealerships, swapped the name of another and cloned another. It wasn’t inherently illogical to offer the same products at two different dealer networks, considering how far a Chevy dealer might be from a GMC dealer. But for all this waste of marketing money, they’d only introduced one new product, the Sunfire, which overlapped to some degree with the Pontiac Sunbird anyway. Why not just badge them all as Pontiacs?
Asüna lasted just two years after which it was mercifully terminated. Instead of the Sunrunner becoming the GMC Tracker once again, it picked up its fifth nameplate: Pontiac Sunrunner. For the sake of everyone’s collective sanity, it actually kept that name until its discontinuation in 1998.
The Acura EL and Pontiac Firefly hatchback had a few things in common. Both, obviously, were Japanese designs but both were manufactured in Ontario. They were also both introduced in large part to satisfy dealers. In Canada, there were standalone Acura dealerships, unlike Infiniti and Lexus which were always partnered with the more proletariat brands in their corporate line-up. Though the Acura range opened with the Integra, the sedan was a slow-seller and Honda’s Canadian operations saw fit to replace it with a more conventional compact sedan, the 1997 Acura 1.6 EL.
Honda didn’t insult buyers’ intelligence, either. Unlike the Cadillac Cimarron, which had been priced almost twice as high as a top-line Chevrolet Cavalier sedan, the Acura 1.6 EL represented only a modest increase over the top-line Civic sedan. Unlike the Civic sedan, the Canada-only Acura used the Civic Si coupe’s 1.6 VTEC four. There were some modest chassis revisions, too, such as springs and shocks retuned for a plusher ride and a thicker front sway bar. Otherwise, the EL was more or less identical to the Civic but for small details like the lights and grille. In the Japanese market, this variation of the Civic sedan (Civic Ferio in Japan) was called the Domani and was sold through a different dealership network.
The 1.6 EL proved to be a hit and didn’t cannibalize sales of the Civic, regularly the best-selling car in Canada. The EL’s success resulted in a replacement based on the seventh-generation Civic, renamed 1.7 EL on account of a larger engine shared with the new Civic Si sedan. The restyled front end did a convincing job of fitting in with the rest of the Acura line-up although the rest was plainly a Civic sedan. For just $700 more than a Civic Si, the base 1.7 EL added four-wheel disc brakes with ABS, automatic climate control and an upgraded stereo.
The EL was replaced by the CSX in 2006, based on the eighth-generation Honda Civic. It used the exterior styling of the Civic used in Asia-Pacific markets, distinguished from North American Civics through the use of different headlights and taillights. Instead of using the Civic Si’s engine or the regular Civic’s 1.8, the CSX used the 2.0 VTEC four from the Acura RSX. A Type-S variant arrived for 2007 using the same powertrain as the Civic Si, a 2.0 VTEC four producing 197 hp and 139 ft-lbs and mated to a five-speed auto or a six-speed manual. The CSX Type-S also featured the same limited-slip differential and suspension tuning as the Civic Si sedan.
For 2009, the CSX was given a rather subtle version of Acura’s controversial Power Plenum grille. Otherwise, there were only detail changes for the rest of the CSX’s run. Despite being Acura Canada’s best-selling model, the CSX was discontinued in 2011. In 2013, however, the new ILX arrived in both the Canadian and US markets. Though no longer manufactured in Ontario, Acura’s entry-level sedan was finally more than just a rebadged Civic even if it was built on the same platform.
The 1990 Isuzu Piazza and Gemini (Impulse and Stylus, respectively) initially sold well, only for volumes to decline with the recession in Japan. Isuzu decided to abandon passenger car production and focus on commercial vehicles and SUVs, the Piazza and Gemini ending production in 1993. The automaker still wanted to keep a passenger car presence in the Japanese market and so they reached out to Honda. The fourth-generation Gemini, therefore, was simply a rebadged Honda Domani.
The Domani sedan spawned the European-market Civic hatchback and wagon but on the Japanese market it was a sedan-only affair. So, too, was the Isuzu Gemini. The Isuzu had an even more limited range than the JDM Domani, missing out on the Honda’s 1.8 and available only with the less powerful SOHC 1.5 and 1.6 four-cylinder engines. While handsome and a perfectly competent car, it was much more conservatively styled than the last “real” Gemini and lacked that car’s sporting variants. It was, however, available with Honda’s Real-Time Four Wheel Drive system.
A new generation of Gemini was launched in 1997 which, like the Acura EL, was based on the second-generation Domani. Again, there was a limited range consisting of 1.5 and 1.6 engines and a choice of FWD or AWD. This new Gemini was short-lived, Isuzu pulling the plug on the 26 year-old nameplate in 2000.
The year 2000 also saw the end of the Thai-market Isuzu Vertex. Unlike the JDM Gemini, which used the Domani as a base, the Vertex was a rebadged version of the slightly plusher Honda Integra SJ sold in Japanese Honda Verno dealerships.
Isuzu Aska
A few years before Isuzu formalized its partnership with Honda, they had a small problem. The J-Car Aska was getting long in the tooth and their commitment to passenger cars was wavering. Isuzu and GM remained close, the former providing GM with vehicles like the Trooper, but there’d no longer be any joint Isuzu-GM involvement on passenger cars as with the Aska. Indeed, GM’s North American, Australian and European divisions had all gone their separate ways for their Aska replacements. Isuzu put the nameplate on ice after 1988, resurrecting it in 1990 with a rebadged Subaru Legacy.
It wasn’t the first time Isuzu had rebadged a Subaru product, Isuzu having rebadged the Leone Van (a commercial version of the Leone/GL/DL wagon) as the Geminett II from 1988 until 1993.
Subaru naturally got something out of this deal. Like Honda and General Motors divisions like Holden and Opel, they received a rebadged version of the Isuzu Trooper. The Subaru Bighorn was such a thin rebadge, it even kept the Bighorn name used by Isuzu in the Japanese market. It lasted two generations.
Like the Geminett, the Legacy-based Aska was the lightest of rebadges. Unlike the first-generation Aska, which had been available with both turbocharged petrol and diesel engines, the second-generation Aska was only available with naturally-aspirated gasoline engines. There was a choice of 1.8 and 2.0 flat fours, both mated to either a four-speed automatic or five-speed manual and available with either front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive. The Subaru’s turbocharged engines and wagon variant weren’t offered.
Isuzu and Subaru’s partnership agreement expired in 1993 and the Aska and Geminett were discontinued. Leftover stocks of the Aska lasted until 1994 upon which Isuzu’s mid-sizer was replaced with a new model based on the Honda Accord. Honda and Isuzu’s tie-up made a lot of sense as Isuzu specialized in SUVs and Honda in cars and this agreement would also result in North American rebadges like the Isuzu Oasis (Honda Odyssey), Acura SLX and Honda Horizon (Isuzu Trooper) and Honda Passport (Isuzu Rodeo).
The third-generation Aska had an even more limited line-up than before, available exclusively with Honda’s 2.0 four-cylinder engine mated to a four-speed automatic. As before, the Aska was available only in the Japanese market.
A fourth and final generation of Aska arrived in 1998. It was based on the new, two inch-narrower JDM Accord (not to be confused with the European and American Accords) and was available with both 1.8 and 2.0 fours and either a four-speed automatic or five-speed manual. The smaller body allowed the JDM Accord and Aska to fit in the Japanese compact car tax bracket.
Though the Aska outlived the Gemini by two years, it was discontinued in 2002. This Honda Accord clone was Isuzu’s last passenger car offering.
Isuzu Geminett
Wait a minute, didn’t I just say above the Isuzu Geminett was a rebadged Subaru Leone? Yes, it was. Before that, however, it was a rebadged Suzuki Cultus/Swift. Yes, this article has come full circle.
Sold from 1986 until 1988, the Geminett was a “van” version of the Suzuki Cultus, available only with a 1.0 three-cylinder engine mated to a four-speed manual transmission. These van versions of passenger cars typically kept their rear seating but were intended for commercial use.
The real mystery is how a compact wagon was a logical replacement to a subcompact hatchback.
What started out as an article about three rebadged vehicles spotted by the curbside in Canada became a compendium of convoluted rebadges. If you were counting, we’ve actually covered roughly a dozen in this article. Such is the world of rebadges!
Sunrunner, EL and Firefly photographed in Vancouver, BC and Metro sedan in Squamish, BC in June 2019.
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Posted August 1, 2019 at 3:33 AM
LOL, its a whole parallel universe, the Suzuki Nomade Sidekick etc was also rebadged as a Mazda in Japan Ive seen two in NZ, the Jcar Isuzu Aska also wore Holden Camira badging in New Zealand the only market to get it under that name the car on the Wiki page is my fathers, photo harvested from the cohort with permission, they emailed me, Ive seen a Subaru Big Horn never realised Subaru did it I thought some local was just playing a prank no doubt part of a bulk used car import purchase, it can be fun watching traffic here all day most of the obscure JDM rebadges turn up sooner or later.
DougD
Double LOL, I didn’t realize the first three were that obscure, having seen them regularly on the street 😛
Posted August 1, 2019 at 12:40 PM
DougD rarity is relative, Australia had a very limited range of cars. Tariffs and local assembly/content saw to that, paticularly noticeable to Kiwis emigrating.
Thanks Will, now I have a big headache! 🙂
Wow, so much confusion here. Although I was vaguely aware of some of the Honda/Isuzu tie-ups, the small Canadian Acura was a new one to me.
And great find on that Firefly convertible. I am amazed that so many of those are still on the road given their advanced age. I have been seeing a Geo Metro convertible (red, of course) zipping around my corner of the city in recent weeks.
VanillaDude
To incompetent marketers in the global auto market – absolutely nothing.
Marketers believe in magic that turns an object into a desirable phenomena when given the perfect name and presentation. This is the kind of thinking we see here. There was no reason an auto brand needed to repeatedly rename models, unless the first name was considered filthy or immoral. How do we know this? Because once auto marketers believe that a name is perfect – they apply that name to a completely different car. For forty years the brand name “Corolla” has been applied to dozens of completely different vehicles. It is a completely made up word, like Camry or Schnizzelfitz Deluxette.
Yet in this case, the same vehicle is repeatedly renamed. What was accomplished by doing this? The reason these are obscure brand names is because the idea of repeatedly renaming the same damn car is illogical only in the real world. These obscure badges are flaming marketing failures, not vehicular failures.
These were perfectly fine cars. Too bad the marketers weren’t as competent as the engineers.
It’s easier (in the marketer’s minds) to change the name than it is to build value through effective messaging. In fact, keeping the name consistent actually *helps* with messaging, but try convincing a marketing person of that!
True, but I do have to laugh about the Asüna name.
First, let’s create a brand comprised of captive Asian imports… then let’s invent a completely made-up yet vaguely Japanese-sounding name… oh then we’ll just add a random umlaut to one of the letters… you know, umlauts always make a product seem sophisticated.
Although, come to think of it, I’m not sure if Asüna is any better or worse than Geo.
A: Do you know what all these vehicles are called by their owners?
B: “Shouldaboughtsomethingelse”
Ate Up With Motor
Not to nitpick, but corolla is not a made-up word; it’s a botanical term meaning the petals of a flower. (Note how the spellchecker doesn’t balk if you type it lowercase? That’s why.) “Camry” is a corruption of the Japanese word “kanmuri” (冠), which means “crown.”
There was no reason an auto brand needed to repeatedly rename models, unless the first name was considered filthy or immoral.
Well, none of these cars represent a given brand renaming an existing product. The whole point of the exercise was to enable an existing product to be sold by a different brand.
This happens all the time in all manner of retail businesses. Go to the grocery store in the U.S. and you’ll see a variety of products sold under the store’s various house brands. Often, different house brands’ products come from the same “white label” suppliers, but Kroger, Safeway, etc., are going to put their own names on it. It can be kind of cynical, but it isn’t illogical or stupid.
Because it promotes the “importance” and career prospects of marketers to continually chop and change names and roll out big campaigns that “will change everything.” And for the quick-buck artists it’s a substitute for the difficult and expensive, more substantive activity of actually making better cars.
If GM put less energy and attention into their marketing and more into engineering they might not be a shadow of their former self.
I nearly bought that Metro/Firefly sedan in that exact green colour, as I really liked the design and styling but decided on a Tracker. That open top on the Tracker sold it to me.
Imagine showing up to a Subie meet full of WRXs and Forester XTs, or a Honda meet full of lowered Civics and Preludes, in a rebadged Trooper. “Yeah, it’s JDM, bro!”
Looking at this is probably how a complete non-car person views the car world in general. Just can’t keep the brands and names straight and wait, how is that an Isuzu, I thought that was a Subaru, etc.
Just when you think you were somewhat in the know about cars, brands, and joint ventures, here comes Will again with another of this series to show what a big world it really is. Thanks for this installment!
Asuna was definitely an oddball but the oddest GM one of that time period was Passport for sure. Yet another Canada only brand … it pre-dated Asuna and was introduced at the same time as Geo was in the US. They sold a badge engineered Opel Kadett E (ie Pontiac LeMans) as well as Saab and Isuzu (not re-badged). This is the only one I have seen semi-lately.
The Asunas are getting pretty rare these days. I still think the Tracker might be the most badge engineered vehicle. Wikipedia lists the following variants.
Santana 300/350
Geo Tracker
GMC Tracker
Pontiac Sunrunner
Wanli WLZ5020XLD (China)
Guangtong GTQ5020XLZ (China)
Also known as the Suzuki Vitara in Australia.
Stéphane Dumas
One more obscure rebadge, the Suzuki Swift was badged also as Subaru Justy for the European market but it wasn’t just a simple rebadge, it was only sold in 4wd version.
I saw one photo on this website from Slovaquia.
https://www.suzukiclub.sk/showthread.php?t=1494
That is bizarre especially when Subaru already had a three cylinder AWD vehicle of the same relative size. Seems like a big rework for little pay off.
Stumack
The picture of the Passport dealership is of this location in Whitby, Ontario, now operating as Motorcity Mitsubishi, but owned by the same family. As indicated in the text, it became Saturn-Saab-Isuzu and then a standalone Saturn dealer until the brand was discontinued.
At the right of the photo is their Chevrolet-Cadillac dealership which has been at this location since the 1960s.
JUst to add something to further muddy the waters Suzuki Escudo/Nomade Vitara etc also came as diesels and from 2000 onwards with the Peugeot HDI 1997cc engine.
Tatra87
Posted August 1, 2019 at 5:26 PM
A 3-cyl. Pontiac?
Mind officially blown.
BunkerMan
Not so sure on 1991 being the last year for Passport dealers. I bought my first car (a 1992 Saturn SL1) in 1992 at my local Passport dealer. I still have the bill of sale as a keepsake.
A year or so later, it was renamed “Saturn Saab Isuzu” and later just “Saturn”, as described above.
During the search for my first car, I was actually looking at an Asuna Sunfire. I remember it being priced just barely higher than it’s Geo Storm counterpart. I think it was less than $100. For prestige, maybe???
There is a yellow Firefly convertible in my town. I see an elderly lady piloting it around every summer.
There are still a ton of the Civic-based Acuras around here. I think people saw them as a sort of halo car for those obsessed with Civics. I live in Civic/Corolla land, so this isn’t surprising.
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Status update on Peyton Manning after his Monday consultation
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. --Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is expected to miss at least the next two weeks as he continues his recovery from a plantar fascia tear.
Following a Monday consultation with noted foot and ankle specialist Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte, N.C., it was recommended that Manning spend at least the next week in a walking cast. After the cast is removed, he will begin additional rehabilitation on his injured foot.
"Peyton and I had a good visit today, and we've got a plan in place for his recovery," Head Coach Gary Kubiak said. "His foot will be in a cast for at least a week, but he'll be able to be part of meetings and do some workouts with the rest of the team.
"We expect him to be unavailable for at least a couple of games. We'll proceed from there and will continue to support him as he does everything he can to get healthy."
Manning did not play last Sunday in Chicago because of the injury, remaining back in Denver for rehabilitation work while Brock Osweiler started in his place.
With Manning sidelined for multiple weeks, the Broncos will look to add depth at quarterback. The team is expected to work out former Minnesota Vikings starter Christian Ponder on Wednesday.
Breaking down the Broncos' initial roster at the 53-man deadline
With injuries striking players such as Jake Butt, Drew Lock and Theo Riddick in recent weeks, the Broncos had some tricky waters to navigate and will likely be busy in the coming days.
Broncos 20, Cardinals 7: Observations
Malik Reed was a force, Khalfani Muhammad and the running game got going in the third quarter, and punter Colby Wadman had an impressive night as the Broncos concluded the preseason.
Rams 10, Broncos 6: Observations
Keishawn Bierria's fourth-and-goal tackle was one of two fourth-down stops in the red zone that defined an outstanding night for the Broncos' front-seven depth.
Broncos-Rams: What to watch
QBs Kevin Hogan and Brett Rypien are expected to get the snaps in a game that will likely showcase players competing to provide roster depth.
49ers 24, Broncos 15: Observations
Emmanuel Sanders looked like his usual, explosive self. Given how the Broncos need his vertical speed, that was the best news of the night.
What to watch in Broncos-49ers
There are not many first-team positions up for grabs, but the returner spots are. Kelvin McKnight, who had an 18-yard punt return in the preseason opener, is in the mix.
Broncos-49ers Saturday joint practice report: Offense 'came out firing'
Drew Lock noticed a difference in the energy of Denver's offense, which led to a productive practice. "We got the juices flowing early, so whenever that happens, you know it's going to be a good day," he said.
Broncos-49ers Friday joint practice report
The 49ers ratcheted up the intensity, which players like Chris Harris Jr. embraced so they could learn more about their team. "I want to see who wants to compete, who shies away, who doesn't like the competition," Harris said.
Broncos Day 18 camp report: Defending tight ends a focal point
But with San Francisco's George Kittle dealing with a calf injury, Chris Harris Jr. and the Broncos may not get the challenge they hoped to receive in the upcoming joint practices.
Broncos Day 17 camp report: One last practice show for the fans
Now "it's time to get serious," as wide receiver Tim Patrick said. But on Tuesday, they treated the fans to an aerial circus.
Broncos Day 16 camp report: Jamal Carter gets used to his new spot
Previously a safety, Carter now finds himself learning how to be an inside linebacker.
Broncos Day 15 camp report: George Aston's plate is full
As the only healthy fullback on the roster, he will be busy with the offense during its team periods. But his work on special teams could determine whether he makes the 53-man roster.
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The Need For Motorcycle Helmets
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has stated that helmets reduce the chance of a motorcycle crash death by as much as 42 percent and head injuries by as much as 69 percent. Yet every two years freedom-loving motorcyclists in North Carolina seek to have the General Assembly repeal the state’s law requiring all bikers to wear safety helmets. The latest attempt went down to defeat, as reported by NewsObserver.com.
The House Transportation Committee had endorsed the motorcyclists’ proposal, which would require helmets only for rookie motorcyclists, namely those licensed less than 12 months, and riders younger than 21. To compensate for the lack of a helmet, riders would be required to carry enough insurance to cover the first $10,000 worth of medical bills for potential injuries from a motorcycle crash.
Concerns about medical costs defeat bill
The bill ran into trouble in the House Judiciary B Committee. A dozen white-clad emergency room doctors testified before the committee that repealing the law for most bike riders would cause more deaths and serious head injuries. This increase would in turn drive up medical costs for hospitals, taxpayers and families.
Both Republican and Democratic committee members related stories about brain-injured survivors of motorcycle accidents. The bill’s sponsor, motorcyclist Rep. John Torbett, a Republican from Gaston County, was left with obtaining committee approval for a watered-down bill to have the Legislature study the helmet law and related medical and economic issues.
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A representative of the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force expressed satisfaction with the outcome, pointing out that young motorcyclists suffered more injuries in Florida after that state repealed its mandatory helmet law for adult riders. Even younger riders in Florida stopped wearing helmets.
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Facebook Dolphin Websites
I see more and more Boonex Dolphin based websites that appear to look more like Facebook. The obvious noticeable thing is the actual template or design, but sometimes other features as well.
I guess it's a popularity thing. People want to imitate and copy Facebook's success or something. Dolphin users did the same thing a few years back when Myspace had soaring popularity. At that time there was a bunch of Myspace templates and modifications for Dolphin.
Boonex Dolphin is not the only script people use to make a Facebook like website. I have seen a number of other scripts that people use to do the same.
It doesn't matter to me I just don't get why people want the same look and as much similarities as Facebook in their website. I can understand some Facebook integration, but to copy or mimic as much as possible doesn't really appeal to me. If I came to a website that had the same look, feel, and similar features as Facebook I don't see the point of joining. There would have to be something really interesting or helpful for me to join. Otherwise, I would just stick with Facebook. That is just my opinion and take on websites that are similar.
There are a lot of Twitter like sites out there too. Some nearly identical, while others slightly different with a similar feel. Same thing with these. I would likely just use Twitter.
The list goes on and on actually.
It's like very few websites are truly unique and different anymore. Everyone just installs some script, a fancy template and a few modifications and they are good to go.
I am guessing they are hoping it might attract visitors and encourage people to sign up or join their site. But, people actually have to find your website and there has to be some interesting, helpful, and active content as well. So just remember there is much more work to do besides making your website template, design, and features like Facebook.
But, hey whatever works for you and your Dolphin website.
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When History Fades
Collide-a-ScapeBy Keith KloorOctober 6, 2010 7:30 PM
This headline to a book review in yesterday's NYT made me think of a sideline conversation I had with Robert Lee Hotz last week. It was after the Amy Wallace talk at NYU, which Hotz, a science columnist for the WSJ, moderated. We were chatting about the rise of the anti-vaccine movement. Hotz speculated that the phenomena may owe, in part, to people not remembering (or being cognizant of) the everyday fears and tragedies once commonly associated with childhood infectious diseases fifty years ago--which modern medicine has since largely eradicated. I think he's on to something, so I figured I'd take a stroll down memory lane with this doctor who was on the infectious disease frontlines in New York City, circa 1948:
Most of the patients treated were quite ill and required around-the-clock care. Children with laryngeal diphtheria needed to have membranes removed from their vocal cords by laryngoscopy two or three times a day. A half teaspoon of good whiskey on a lump of sugar in a tablespoon of warm water served as an excellent sedative for these patients and seemed to relax their respiratory distress. Some of the patients with pharyngeal diphtheria progressed to diphtheritic paralysis or myocarditis, and required special care. We treated all types of polio cases (ie, nonparalytic, paralytic, bulbar and encephalitis) using modern respirators for individuals with intercostal weakness and breathing difficulties.
Despite the anti-vaccine movement's staying power, childhood immunization rates are currently over 90 percent in the U.S., so I don't think we'll be returning to those days. Still there are legitimate concerns of outbreaks, which perhaps may shake some sense into parents who buy into the anti-vaccine claptrap that emanates from people who you think would know better. What will it take for reason to win over irrational fear? Unfortunately, I think this haunting quote from pediatrician and vaccine advocate Paul Offit (via Wallace's terrific Wired piece) will prove prescient:
"I used to say that the tide would turn when children started to die. Well, children have started to die," Offit says, frowning as he ticks off recent fatal cases of meningitis in unvaccinated children in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. "So now I've changed it to "˜when enough children start to die.' Because obviously, we're not there yet."
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Concrete + Extremophile Bacteria = Walls That Repair Themselves
Science Not FictionBy Jeremy JacquotSeptember 4, 2010 1:20 AM
When William McDonough and other pioneers of the sustainable architecture movement first envisioned the concept of living, breathing buildings, it's safe to say that they probably didn't have structures teeming with actual living, breathing bacteria in mind. But don't tell that to Henk Jonkers of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. What he and his colleagues have developed—a self-fixing bacteria-concrete hybrid—may do more to propel sustainable architecture into the mainstream than McDonough could have ever hoped for. While it may sound unheard of, scientists have been pressing bacteria into service in construction for years. The use of mineral-producing bacteria has already been explored in a variety of applications, including the hardening of sand and in repairing cracks in concrete. But there are two problems inherent to this approach. First, the reaction that these bacteria undergo to synthesize calcium carbonate results in the production of ammonium, which is toxic at even moderate concentrations. The other problem is a more prosaic one. Since the bacteria have to be applied manually, a worker or team of workers would have to go out every few weeks to patch up every little crack on every slab of concrete—nearly defeating the purpose of making the repair process simpler and more cost-effective. Jonkers' solution was to track down a different bacterial strain that could live happily buried in the concrete for prolonged periods of time. Because the bacteria would be mixed into the concrete from the start, they could immediately nip small cracks in the bud before they had a chance to expand and become exposed to water, rendering them vulnerable to further wear and tear. (Concrete structures are typically reinforced with steel bars, but these can easily become corroded when water seeps into the cracks.) Such a strain would have to endure the high pH environment of concrete and churn out copious amounts of calcium carbonate without also producing large quantities of ammonium.The researchers found just the right candidates: a hardy bunch of spore-forming bacteria belonging to the genus Bacillus that make a great living in the alkaline soda lakes of Russia and Egypt. Jonkers and his colleagues placed the spores and their food source, calcium lactate, into small ceramic pellets to prevent them from being activated prematurely by the wet concrete mix and adversely affecting the integrity of the material. The spores remained dormant until the formation of a crack allowed water to sneak in, waking the bacteria and their appetite. As they began to chow down, gobbling up the calcium lactate and water, they also began to pump out calcite (a very stable form of calcium carbonate), which quickly went to work filling up the holes. Now that they've successfully tested the bacteria's mettle, Jonkers and his co-workers plan on comparing the strength of their natural concrete to that of the real thing. While not examined in the New Scientist story, I imagine that it should be possible to genetically tweak the bacteria into building a stronger form of calcite (or an even tougher material) that would match up more favorably to its man-made counterpart. For those of you who would prefer to keep bacteria out of your walls (not that you need to worry, since these particular strains wouldn't survive outside), there are other alternatives. Michelle Pelletier, an engineer from the University of Rhode Island, has created a microencapsulated sodium silicate healing agent that, like the bacteria, springs into action when a crack begins to appear. The sodium silicate reacts with the calcium hydroxide embedded in the concrete to form a malleable gel that covers the holes and hardens within a week of activation. According to Pelletier, the material may also help ward off corrosion by enveloping the steel bars in a thin, protective film. Though their approaches to solving the problem may differ, both Jonkers and Pelletier tout the climate benefits of their inventions: Cement production already accounts for roughly 7 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emission production, so any technology or procedure that could make concrete structures more durable would be a welcome development.
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Thanksgiving: A day for giving thanks
By By Barbara Mahany
(ARNO BURGI, EPA)
In this season when we gather roots from the earth, and fowl from the field, when the slant of the sun drops lower and the light turns molasses, here is the challenge: Be attentive to wonder and wisdom. Stitch the day with blessing. Bow head and whisper, "Thank you."
In the liminal landscape between asleep and awake, thank you, holy one, for heart still beating, for breath, for first thought, the one that tickles us into consciousness.
Thank you for bed, and blanket. Thank you for the one I love who lies beside me, whose breathing I know by heart.
Thank you for the dawn itself, for the stillest hour when all that moves is the barest breeze that rustles leaves, and far off, the stirrings of the lake that never cease.
Thank you for this old house, with arthritic floorboards that creak at just the same juncture, with just the same footfall. Thank you for whiny old cat there at the door. Thank you for coffee beans and hissing pot, and the old chipped mug that fits snug in my palms.
Dear maker of all that's blessed, thank you for the sound of those footsteps clomping onto the floorboards above, and the certitude that — so far this day — all is well.
Thank you for the porridge I stir at the cookstove, the alchemy of cooking for those we fuel for the day.
Thank you for clementines, and sugary cinnamon. Thank you for butter, slathered and melted. Thank you for school bus drivers who wait.
Thank you, blanketer of wonder, for the quiet stitched into the morning's hours, the quiet so thick I can drink in the tick and the tock of a grandfather's clock. And the squawk of the blue jay, and the chatter of sparrows.
Thank you for work to be done. Thank you for dishes piled in the sink, whose scrubbing and rinsing gives me a moment to think, to ponder the day.
Thank you for wisdom, the sort that comes in unexpected flashes, when only you know you've found it as you feel your heart go thumpety-thump, or feel the goose bumps sprout up and down unsuspecting flesh.
Thank you for all that's poetry — wisdom-steeped or just plain beautiful, breathtaking. And thank you for gospel of any brand — be it birthed from holy child, everyday saint or even the so-called kook who stands on the street corner, proclaiming through a megaphone.
Thank you, yes, for telephones, for that rare sound of a voice that nestles against the tenderest heart. That, within the first breath of the very first syllable, brings comfort, collapses miles and aloneness.
I might be among the few who salute the cloudy skies of November on my long list of thanks. Ah, but those angora gray skies, they comfort me, harbor me. I'll take the somnolence, the introspection of a gray day any day. So thank you for cloudy and gray.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how thankful I am for hearts that continue to tick, day in and day out, despite the trials we toss their way, as we worry and fret, then, without notice, shriek in deep joy and excitement. Poor ol' heart, the one that landed in me anyway, it might not have realized it was signed on for a roller coaster ride of such seismic proportion.
Speaking of ticking, thank you for the schoolhouse clock that does just that, minute by minute, hour upon hour, heartbeat against the wall.
Thank you, too, for windows. And for the flutterings and flashes just beyond the glass, as clouds of gentle creatures take off and land, from sky to limb and back again — each time, lifting just a little bit of my soul.
Thank you for doors, the ones that let in unexpected someones, someones we love. And keep out the wind and the cold.
Thank you for fires that roar and logs that crackle. Thank you for the one that's turning the so-called sleeping room, across from the kitchen, into a chamber of flickering gold. Thank you for the two lumps under blankets, snoozing by the fire.
Thank you for the dinner hour, and the blessing of slow-simmering stew. Thank you for the bounty of greens from your earth, and spices from pods and seeds and stamens.
Thank you for the trees and the gnarly limbs, and the hummingbird now buried deep in my garden.
Thank you for candlelight. And the lights of your making: moonlight and sunlight and dappled radiance scattered like seed across the landscape. Thank you for twinkling stars and streaking ones, too — chalk marks etched across the slate of the night sky.
Thank you for the blankets we tuck under the chin of our sleeping child.
Thank you for the child. For the breathtaking chance to infuse all that's good in this world. Thank you for lessons taught while holding a hand, or wiping a tear. Thank you for bandages that quell the hurt, and words that do the same. Thank you for everyone who lifts up our child, the teachers who inspire, the coaches who are kind. And the lady down the block who never fails to plant a fat wet kiss on that child's pink cheek.
Thank you for the year drawing to a close, and this pause to nod our heads and whisper gratitude. Thank you for crunching leaves, and tumbling snowflakes.
Thank you for love in all its iterations. For birth, and death, and all that animates the interstitial hours. Thank you for those who walk beside us, who put a hand to the small of our back, or reach out to carry us across the bottomless abyss.
Thank you for all of this. And more. So, so much more.
Barbara Mahany is the author of "Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door."
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Cause Marketing in the Time of COVID-19
Posted on March 20, 2020 by Kaylee Hultgren
Editor’s note: This article has been periodically updated with additional brand initiatives.
“We’re all in this together.” That is the message many companies are communicating to customers and the general public while the world grapples with the COVID-19 health crisis. With countless businesses feeling the effects of event cancellations, restaurant and bar closures, limited mass transit and a halt on business travel, consumers are starved for good news—and brands are equipped to deliver.
Below we’ve compiled a list of companies that have jumped on the cause-marketing relief train during this unprecedented time by creating funds for consumers and businesses in need, alleviating employee hardships, providing food for children who depend on school for meals and more. The list below touches a wide variety of industries and is just a sample of what’s out there—but each has made a commitment to give back to the community in a time of need.
*Burger King is offering two complementary kid’s meals for each adult meal purchased online or through the Burger King app.
*In the absence of major sports league seasons like the NBA and the NHL, leagues are offering free access to certain programming. NFL is offering free access to NFL Game Pass, including access to past regular and postseason NFL games. Basketball fans will get a free preview of NBA League Pass. The MLB has pledged $30 million to help cover the lost wages of ballpark employees.
*Hootsuite is providing free access to its Professional Plan to nonprofits and small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
*Influencer marketing platform Takumi is developing two pro-bono influencer campaigns that deliver critical health messages to the public: a #safehands partnership with the WHO to help spread information about proper handwashing and a Takumi-owned initiative to promote mental health and mindfulness amidst anxiety and misinformation about the pandemic.
*Dunkin is encouraging ordering to go through its app, also as a way to reward loyalty members.
*To encourage staying in shape while at home, Popsugar is offering up its monthly Active subscription for free to encourage social distancing. Likewise, after closures of its gyms, Planet Fitness is offering live-streamed home “work-ins” from 4pm to 7pm daily.
*Starbucks has delayed the expiration of its “Star” loyalty member points until June 1, 2020. It also announced April 1 that it’s donating $3 million toward fighting the virus.
*Jameson is pledging $500,000 to support the charity of the United States Bartenders’ Guild and also matching every dollar donated by consumers to the cause, up to $100,000 total. Molson Coors is also donating $1 million to the Guild.
*Mint Mobile is providing all current and new customers free unlimited high-speed data.
*T-Mobile is donating from $300,000 to $500,000 to charity Feeding America when consumers engage with its promotional program, T-Mobile Tuesdays. It’s also providing unlimited data to customers for the next 60 days in addition to data for mobile hotspot users.
*Kraft Heinz has committed to donating $12 million to food bank charities across the globe.
*KFC is working with Blessings in a Backpack to provide bags of food for children in need. The brand donated at total of $400,000.
*Facebook is offering $100 million in cash grants and credits to up to 30,000 eligible small businesses in 20 countries. It’s also offering another $100 million in grants and advertising credits to publishers.
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*Grocery store chains, including Dollar General and Stop & Shop, are offering specific hours early in the morning for seniors to shop before the general public is allowed to enter.
*Chipotle launched virtual hangouts on video-conference app Zoom, called “Chipotle Together,” that offer free burrito giveaways, special guests and Q&As.
*Many automakers have stepped up to the plate to help potential buyers, current customers and workers. Hyundai’s Assurance Job Loss Protection program makes up to six car payments for current customers and its lender arm will defer payments if needed. Ford created a “Built to Lend a Hand” program to assist with payments. And, in light of recent automotive closures, Ford, GM and Tesla are in talks with the Trump administration to begin producing much-needed ventilators for people infected by the virus.
*Ally Bank is deferring payments for auto and mortgage customers for 120 days and has pledged $3 million in financial aid to local communities and organizations.
*Walgreens is offering free shipping, free delivery for prescriptions, a free pharmacy chat about symptoms and healthcare provider consultations. In addition, it’s working with the government to create dedicated spaces at and around stores to conduct COVID-19 testing.
*Amazon launched the AWS Diagnostic Initiative to support its customers working on diagnostic research and development and has initially invested $20 million.
*Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are working to map adaptive immune responses to the disease in order to better understand, treat and prevent the virus from spreading.
*Internet providers like Comcast, AT&T and Sprint are offering up free data or suspending shutoffs.
*IKEA is donating 50,000 face masks that it found in a warehouse in one of its furniture stores in Sweden.
*With Vita Coco sales skyrocketing during the crisis, the brand has decided to pay it forward by donating $1 million to Feeding America and No Kid Hungry. CEO Michael Kirban has also challenged other businesses that have profited from COVID-19, like Netflix and Charmin, to put their profits into relief efforts. (Netflix did just announce a $100 million relief fund for the creative community.)
*Walmart is providing cash bonuses to its employees as its stores experience unprecedented demand. Trader Joe’s has followed suit.
*Under Armour has donated $1 million to Feeding America and $1 million to Good Sports. It’s also staging an at-home fitness challenge.
*Hanes is working with the government to use its factories to make masks for health care workers in order to meet the high demand for protective gear in hospitals.
*Shopify is offering employees $1,000 to buy supplies for a work-from-home office in order to ease the transition to remote work.
*Tito’s Vodka is donating $1 million to four organizations that support the service industry, CORE, USBG Foundation, Southern Smoke, and World Central Kitchen, and is allocating another $1 million to organizations in need.
*Apple has donated $15 million to communities affected, pledged a two-to-one corporate match of funds donated by employees toward COVID-19 relief and has committed to source much-needed medical supplies for health care workers. It also released a COVID-19 screening tool and has sourced and donated 10 million face masks to the medical community in the US and Europe.
*Headspace is offering health care professionals free access to Headspace Plus, a subscription for its meditation app, for 2020.
*AB InBev is donating millions of gallons of alcohol to manufacturers for the purpose of making hand sanitizer and disinfectants. It’s also donating $5 million to the American Red Cross to help fight the virus and created a PSA announcing that the company is shifting dollars from sports investments to helping organizations on the front lines.
*Bacardi Rum is also helping by committing to produce more than 1.7 million 10-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer.
*Gap Inc. has pledged to use its factories to make essential gear, clothing and equipment for health care workers.
*Twitter is protecting and supporting journalists during this time by giving $1 million to the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation.
*CVS, publisher brands like the NY Times and Uhaul were some of the first companies to step up.
*Twitch is holding “Stream Aid 2020,” a 12-hour streaming event on March 28 featuring big talent from gaming, music and sports, to benefit the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO powered by the United Nations Foundation.
*Airbnb is providing free or subsidized housing for 100,000 health care workers who are fighting the pandemic.
*Dyson is creating 15,000 ventilators for distribution in the UK and other countries.
*Wendy’s is shifting marketing spend originally allocated for its new breakfast menu toward support and relief for its franchises.
*ADT updated its logo to reflect social distancing behavior, launched a new social media campaign promoting the spread of kindness and positivity, ceased all door-to-door sales and invested in new technologies for salespeople working from home.
*Salesforce is making some of its technology free and has pledged not to do significant layoffs for 90 days.
*Chaco Footwear pivot from repairing and making custom sandals to producing protective equipment needed by healthcare workers. Meanwhile, Crocs is donating its footwear to medical professionals.
*Pornhub is donating 50,000 surgical masks New York City workers and is making its service free.
*FedEx is moving test specimens to 50 test centers across the country and UPS is setting up a drive-through testing program.
*Harbor Freight is donating 44 million pairs of gloves and hundreds of thousands of masks and face shields to hospitals in the 1,000 communities served by its stores.
*Employees at Neiman Marcus and Joann stores are making nonsurgical masks, gowns and scrubs at Neiman Marcus alterations facilities in California, New Jersey and Florida.
*Amazon is partnering with Lyft to recruit drivers to deliver packages and groceries during government-mandated lockdowns.
*In partnership with the World Health Organization, teams from Microsoft, Slack, Pinterest, Twitter and TikTok are building tools to address the challenges brought on by the outbreak through a #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon.
*Campari has donated $1 million to Another Round Another Rally, a nonprofit organization raising funds for hospitality workers, bars and hotels.
*Burberry, Emporio Armani and Dior are making masks and gowns for hospital workers within its factories. Burberry is also using its global supply chain network to fast-track delivery of 100,000 masks to the NHS in the UK.
*Google has pledged to donate $800 million toward small- and medium-sized businesses, health organizations, governments and health care workers on the front lines.
*Johnson & Johnson has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a billion doses of a vaccine, committing more than $1 billion in investment to co-fund the research.
*Home Depot has halted the sale of its N95 masks and is now donating them to hospitals, health care workers and first responders treating patients. It’s also donating millions of dollars in personal protective equipment and other products.
*Unilever is contributing 100 million pounds ($124 million) worth of donations of soap, sanitizer, bleach and food toward COVID-10 relief.
*Nestle is donating food, medical nutrition products and bottled water to communities most in need, putting CHF 10 million ($10.3 million) to countries most in need and matching Red Cross donations.
*TikTok is donating $10 million to the WHO’s Solidarity Response Fund as well as assisting with distribution of food support for families affected by the crisis. It then pledged $250 million toward supporting medical workers, educators and communities affected by the crisis.
*Dutch Bros coffee is donating all profits it makes for the month of April toward supporting medical responders.
*Given the decline of rideshare use, Uber has launched a “Work Hub” to help connect drivers to other employment opportunities from companies like McDonald’s, FedEx, UPS, Pepsi, Hertz and Walgreens. It also has waived delivery fees for restaurants and is providing free transportation to healthcare workers.
*Nike is working with Oregon Health & Science University to create personal protective equipment, including face shields and air-purifying respirator lenses, out of Nike-owned materials and within the brand’s manufacturing facilities.
*Intel is committing $50 million toward a pandemic response technology initiative that aims to help patient care, scientific research and online learning for students.
*Boll & Branch bedding company is manufacturing pillows and mattresses to give emergency medical operations.
*Verizon Media is donating $10 million in ad inventory to support mental and public health organizations and donate creative and staff to build campaigns for partner organizations.
*General Mills’ foundation is donating $5 million in charitable gifts in the form of meals for children and community programs, in addition to previous grants across the globe to increase food bank capacity.
*Mercedes Formula One is working with University College London engineers and clinicians to build Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) breathing devices.
*PepsiCo is donating $45 million toward food and other resources, including 20 million meals to communities in need through The PepsiCo Foundation’s Food for Good program, a partnership with No Kid Hungry.
*Bud Light Seltzer is partnering with Call of Duty on the Bud Light Seltzer Charity Royale Tournament. From April 21-May 7, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday night, major athletes will raise money for charities helping workers on the frontlines.
*Subaru of America is donating 50 million meals to communities in need.
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Christian Sauvé
The Silent Partner (1978)
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(In theaters, June 2008) Both good enough to be entertaining and bad enough to be amusing, this drama benefits from a good script by Curtis Hanson (who would later achieve notoriety with L.A. Confidential), capable actors, and a very Torontonian setting to overcome thirty years of bad editing, ridiculous replies and stiff direction. This low-budget film has definitely aged, but more in individual moments rather than overall story: The plot (about a bank clerk who matches wits with a robber) still works wonderfully well today, as the protagonist (Elliott Gould) proves both resourceful and sympathetic in a cornered-sad-dog fashion. A slick-faced scenery-chewing Christopher Plummer plays the devilishly evil antagonist, while John Candy makes an appearance as another bank employee. People familiar with Toronto will get plenty of small thrills as the film is largely set in the Eaton center, features shots of City Hall and the CN Tower, and even has its characters talking while driving a convertible down the Gardiner Expressway. The film isn’t so successful in its shot construction, reflecting the stiff pre-digital low-budget conventions. But once that’s past (and once given the indulgence to laugh over some unexpectedly terrible moments), The Silent Partner remains an effective little crime drama, with unexpected twists, a better-than-average duel between protagonist and antagonist, and a uniquely Canadian flavor.
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Briefs: Nation & World
Dog's fate up to judge after being accused of attack in Spring
June 4, 2004 Updated: Aug. 14, 2011 12:20 a.m.
take a breather
WASHINGTON — Rates on 30-year and 15-year mortgages dipped this week but are up sharply from a year ago, a main reason behind the slowdown in home-mortgage refinancings.
Freddie Mac reported Thursday that rates on benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages declined to 6.28 percent, down from 6.32 percent last week. A year ago, rates on 30-year mortgages averaged 5.26 percent.
Rates for 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages fell this week to 5.63 percent from 5.69 percent. A year ago, rates averaged 4.66 percent.
For one-year, adjustable-rate mortgages, rates rose to 3.98 percent from 3.87 percent. At this time last year, rates were at 3.59 percent.
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up for money funds
The seven-day average yield on money market mutual funds rose in the week that ended Tuesday to 0.53 percent from 0.52 percent the previous week, said Money Fund Report.
The 30-day average yield stayed at 0.52 percent. The seven-day compounded yield rose to 0.53 percent from 0.52 percent, and the 30-day compounded yield stayed at 0.52 percent. The average maturity of portfolios held by money funds was 51 days, down from 52.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An eighth former HealthSouth executive escaped prison time in a massive fraud as a judge rejected government claims on Thursday that her actions resulted in millions in losses.
U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon sided with the defense, which contended the actions of Catherine Fowler, 37, were an insignificant part of a broader fraud.
The former vice president and cash manager, who got two years on probation and a $5,000 fine, has agreed to testify against fired HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.
In other news ...
• Wal-Mart Stores is expected to unveil a compensation policy for hourly workers at its annual shareholders meeting today, a change that is expected to tie pay more closely to job responsibilities, The
Wall Street Journal reported. Unions accuse the retailer of working to reduce employee compensation.
• Microsoft has scrapped plans to roll out an online video game that had been touted as a way to revive its Xbox in Japan. Microsoft said True Fantasy Live Online didn't live up to expectations.
• A possible buyer has emerged for Walt Disney Co.'s specialty stores in North America. Children's Place Retail Stores said it was in talks to buy 323 Disney Stores, the Los Angeles Times reported.
• Merrill Lynch & Co., dissatisfied with its asset-management business, may sell a stake in the unit or expand it. The New York Times reported Merrill has held "exploratory" talks to sell part of the unit to Legg Mason.
• The Justice Department closed an antitrust investigation into video-on-demand service Movielink, saying there was no evidence the joint venture was anticompetitive. It was created by Sony Pictures, Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros. and Universal.
• Burger King said its U.S. same-store sales have increased for four straight months, a sign the chain's turnaround is succeeding.
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Dec. 27, 2004 Updated: Aug. 14, 2011 12:25 a.m.
7 stabbed at tot's party; 2 charged
AKRON - Seven people were stabbed in a fight at a birthday party for a 2-year-old girl, and police said Sunday they charged two men with assault. The little girl was not hurt. The victims of the melee Saturday night were hospitalized and at least one victim required surgery. One paramedic said the scene looked like a "blender," with blood splattered everywhere. Tam T. Nguyen , 25, and Vi Tran , 35, were charged. Nguyen was jailed and Tran was being treated at a hospital for injuries he suffered in the fight. Police would not release the victims' names or give specifics on their conditions.
Actor home from Pakistani prison
LOS ANGELES - An American actor accused of drug smuggling returned home to Los Angeles Sunday after spending nearly three years in a Pakistani prison before a judge commuted his sentence. Erik Aude, 24, who had roles in the film Dude, Where's My Car? and the WB Network TV series 7th Heaven , met his mother,
Sherry Aude , manager Richard Murphy and others at Los Angeles Airport . "It's such a relief to be home," the actor said. Aude was arrested at the Islamabad airport in February 2002 after officials reported finding nearly 8 pounds of opium hidden in the lining of a suitcase he was carrying.
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Future of Food #38
Water balancing act
Food Loss and Waste Day
Farmers in protest
Next wave of GMOs
Food Dive
How to make plant-based ingredients look, smell and taste like meat
From the aroma created by cooking to the replicating the different textures, ADM’s flavorists and protein experts detail the complex process to design a product similar to the real thing.
The Nevada Independent
In correcting misappropriation of water, state must balance legal rights with existing use
OVERTON, Nev. — More than three decades ago, Joe Davis landed a part-time job installing pipes for the Moapa Valley Water District. When he took the job, his grandfather gave him a piece of advice: “Keep your nose clean and do anything you are asked.” Davis followed it.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Food loss and waste must be reduced for greater food security and environmental sustainability
First International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste observed on 29 September 2020
A teachable moment on sustainability
This is far from a typical year. We can, and should, use this moment to promote bold change. Because — even as our nation grapples with an acute public health emergency wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting fiscal crisis — the U.S. remains largely unprepared for another disaster that is already in progress and will only grow into the future: the threat of climate change. We — a former governor and administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and a former U.S. education secretary — believe that America’s public schools are an essential and, as of yet, an underutilized asset in the fight against climate change and the work to build stronger communities.
In film on over-the-top Versailles gala at NY Met, Ottolenghi proves food is art
NEW YORK — Anyone who wants to argue that food cannot be art has clearly never cracked open a Yotam Ottolenghi cookbook.
Ktchn Rebel
A tasteful step into the future | KTCHNrebel
These are the times. Nobody knows what it will be like tomorrow, let alone the day after tomorrow. It is futile to ask what gastronomy will look like in the next few decades, what we should get ready for and how we can profit from it. Is this really true?
Farmers in protest: An angrier trend beyond new farm bills
The farmers’ protest continues in different parts of the country despite the Narendra Modi government asserting that the new farm bills are not against the interests of the farmers. Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Karnataka have seen protests over the farm bills 2020.
Plant-based diets can halt further climate change
The term vegan was initially coined by Donald Watson, a British man who was one of the founders of the original Vegan Society in 1944. Veganism is the ethical practice of avoiding as much as possible any cruelty towards non-human animals.
Green Biz
Get ready for the next wave of GMOs | Greenbiz
One summer day almost 20 years ago, a group of protestors arrived at a plot of genetically modified corn growing near the town of Montelimar in southern France.
Dairy Reporter
Some UK cheese rapped in new report on recyclable packaging
A new report from UK independent consumer group Which? says two-thirds of branded grocery packaging is not fully recyclable – and several well-known cheese brands came in for criticism.
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James Fisher, and Scott Goss
In the wake of the 2008-2009 recession, it's been easier than ever for smaller-scale businesses, and even individual fans, to attain sponsor status.
For Chess For Hedrick of Iron Source, which sells and rents heavy equipment from stores in Smyrna and Georgetown, arranging a sponsorship meant sharing the cost with some vendors and partner businesses.
Chess Hedrick always saw NASCAR races at Dover as a chance to wine and dine his industrial supply company's most loyal customers, so he bought extra tickets for them and handed out as many pit passes as he could on race days.
But the game changed when he realized he and his Delaware small business, Iron Source, could do one better, and actually sponsor a driver's car.
Many major NASCAR sponsors are Fortune 500 companies: Coca-Cola, 3M, Coors. But especially in the wake of the 2008-2009 recession, it's been easier than ever for smaller-scale businesses, and even individual fans, to attain sponsor status. With it comes not only advertising exposure — a logo on a racing team's car, and possibly lapel space on a driver's uniform too — but even greater behind-the-scenes access for the sponsors to dole out to customers or friends.
"When you take them up into the skybox and enjoy the hospitality, you're not going to go back to the stands," Hedrick said.
Sponsorships are the lifeblood of NASCAR teams; the revenue they bring in is what pays for the gas in the tank, the mechanics turning the wrenches and the trailer that takes the team and its car from track to track.
There are plenty of big-ticket sponsors orbiting NASCAR. Rick Harris, vice-president of the Florida company Race Day Sponsor, said many teams were accustomed to striking high-dollar, multi-race deals with sponsors in the last decade.
"The old standard was, it's $35,000 for a race and you have to do three races. Take it or leave it," Harris said in an interview Friday. The recession, he said, changed that calculation for many businesses and race teams.
That's when his company, which is essentially a broker between small entities and the teams they can sponsor, got its start.
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"We had to find creative ways to raise money for these teams," Harris said. "They started realizing $10,000 goes a long way."
Harris's company will even link individual people, NASCAR superfans, with teams for what they call 'fan sponsorship.' That's a pretty popular option at Dover, Harris said. It gets the fans pit passes and in many cases pre-race access to drivers, cars and teams they otherwise couldn't get.
For Hedrick of Iron Source — which sells and rents heavy equipment from stores in Smyrna and Georgetown — arranging a sponsorship meant sharing the cost with some vendors and partner businesses. Meding's Seafood, another Delaware company, is also sponsoring the No. 1 Camaro, and two Iron Source vendors chipped in as well: Wacker Neuson, which makes construction equipment, and TIPCO Technologies, a hose and tubing supplier.
To sponsor one car for one race costs Iron Source $5,000 to $6,000, Hedrick said. He estimated his slate of sponsors together contributed around $15,000 to the JD Motorsports with Gary Keller team that Cassill races for.
"It's expensive, but not as expensive as everybody thinks it is," Hedrick said. "It gave us a lot more to do with the customers. They can sit in the trailers with the drivers and talk to them. It means a lot."
It means a lot to the drivers, too; for many of them, recruiting enough local sponsors is the only way they'll get to race day. CJ Faison, of Seaford, had hoped to compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Saturday. But, he said, he couldn't round up enough sponsorship funds to make the cut with a racing team. A $50,000 sponsorship package, he said, would have allowed him to be on a team with an average-performing car. Drivers who can put together $100,000 or more, he said, get access to faster vehicles and a much better shot at the winner's circle.
Making time to indulge the sponsors and the customers they bring with them, he said, is no burden; it's just part of the deal.
"Your fans make you who you are. If you can take time with fans and sponsors and their customers, at the end of the day, it’s what everyone does for each other," Faison said Friday. "I actually thoroughly enjoy that. You get to make people’s day.”
For midsize organizations, being an umbrella sponsor for a race brings with it a lot of brand exposure. AAA Mid-Atlantic has invested in sponsoring at Dover since 2005, and for the past eight years has been a title sponsor for one of the races, said its chief marketing officer, Terry Rubritz.
"NASCAR is a different audience in terms of demographic. We want to appeal to all types of people," Rubritz said. The race, he said, lets AAA get the word out about its auto insurance business, a less widely known offering than its roadside assistance for members.
Ex-chief medical examiner gets probation
Pardo guilty of manslaughter in cyclist's death
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College-sponsored National Merit scholarships announced
By Laura Groch
More than two dozen local students have been chosen to receive college-sponsored scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Each sponsor college selected from among the finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. The awards range from $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
This year, 167 higher education institutions are providing Merit Scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Program. The college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners are among roughly 7,600 high school seniors who will receive National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million.
San Diego County’s scholarship winners are:
Arizona State University: Alexander J. Oleksyn, La Mesa, Grossmont High School
Claremont McKenna College: Jiayi Ruan, San Diego, La Jolla Country Day School
Colby College: Sabrina Jiang, San Diego, Westview High School
Emory University: Catherine Wang, San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy
Florida State University: Alexa N. Brunkow, San Diego, River Valley Charter School
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering: Esme E. Abbot, San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy
Harvey Mudd College: Eli J. Pregerson, Carlsbad, Sage Creek High School; Julia Du, San Diego, Del Norte High School
Northeastern University: Mohebbi S. Barjasteh, San Diego, Torrey Pines High School; Daniel T. Jung, San Diego, Westview High School
St. Olaf College: Kendra Gregg, San Diego, Mt. Carmel High School
Texas Tech University: Gwendolyn R. Wagner, Escondido, Classical Academy High School
Tufts University: Andrew J. Bender, La Jolla, The Bishop’s School; Katherine M. Chang, San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy
University of Alabama: Eliyana A. Van Ee, Escondido, Calvin Christian High School
University of Southern California: Connor M. Duncan, Coronado, Francis Parker School; Katherine R. Arnold, Rancho Santa Fe, Canyon Crest Academy; Matthew S. Ai, San Diego, The Bishop’s School; Vlada A. Demenko, San Diego, Torrey Pines High School; Arnav V. Kanodia, San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy; Kyle N. Ke, San Diego, Del Norte High School; Eli H. Morris, San Diego, Canyon Crest Academy; Junu Song, San Diego, Westview High School; Sandy S. Tran, San Diego, Rancho Bernardo High School; Jason H. Tu, San Diego, Scripps Ranch High School; Manasvi H. Vora, San Diego, Del Norte High School; Daniel Zeng, San Diego, Rancho Bernardo High School
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Laura Groch
Laura Groch has been a newspaper reporter and editor for her entire career, serving longest at the Escondido, CA-based North County Times, where she was the features editor and a food columnist. She is now a Community News reporter in the North County bureau of The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Five county schools awarded Blue Ribbon designation
Five San Diego County schools have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2020, placing among 36 schools from California and 367 nationally.
Five educators announced as San Diego County Teachers of the Year
Educators now in running for state title
County sends three to National History Day contest
Four student projects from San Diego County recently won honors in the National History Day California competition.
Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair announces county winners
San Diego County students showed off their expertise at the recent 2020 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, with dozens being named winners for their projects.
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Bugging Out: 5 of the Greatest Killer Bug Flicks
by Steve Barton June 12, 2014, 5:00 pm
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Killer bug and insect invasion films are some of the most challenging to really nail in a memorable manner. I honestly believe that’s why so few directors and production companies will even entertain the idea of approaching the critters.
They’re typically goofy flicks, and most who would consider themselves “serious” filmmakers (whatever that is) probably wouldn’t waste a scoff at the thought of creating one. But every once in a while something special arrives and leaves its mark on our psyche.
Perhaps it’s an over-the-top exploitation piece that happens to piece the puzzle together properly. Maybe it’s a film so astonishingly complex and multi-layered that one cannot avoid the intrigue of a grand mind fuck. It doesn’t matter why bug flicks work or how bug flicks work. What matters is that when the truly innovative minds out there set out to make a film of this nature, they manage to make it work.
Here are five (with a few bonus recommendations for good measure) movies all about the creepy crawlies that make our flesh tingle and sprout goosebumps. Purchase a can of insecticide before you read this one if you’re squeamish or suffer from entomophobia. Just a heads up.
Arachnophobia:
Spiders scare the shit out of me. I mean petrified, cannot run, cannot move, cannot think straight in the presence of an eight-legged monstrosity. “Daddy Longlegs’” strike fear in my heart. Babies send me into hysterics. And if I spot an egg sack, oh good night… I’m done. Haul me away and beat the shit out of me with the pansy stick. That’s why I can’t watch Frank Marshall’s Arachnophobia. It’s also why I respect and love it so much. For someone like me it’s about as close to the perfect horror presentation as you can get. It genuinely terrifies me to the point I’m able to experience that special feeling that we become so desensitized to at a very early age. I honestly can’t watch the film. It’s a tremendously successful production, illustrating very real personalities, delivering jaw-dropping, truly jarring visuals (due in large part to pure realism), and combining humor and scares like few pics ever manage. But you’ll have to bribe me to sit through it… without shielding my eyes with my sweaty palms. If you’re not particularly frightened by spiders, this one won’t climb under your skin in quite the same fashion, but it’s still an entertaining and well shot pic. You can’t lose when John Goodman steps into the shoes of a mouthy and overtly cocky exterminator.
Mimic:
Mimic doesn’t seem to be recognized as a “bug flick” often. Perhaps that’s due to the overall intensity of the film, or even the technical mastery that Guillermo del Toro thrusts – quite unexpectedly – in our faces. Regardless of reasoning, Mimic is a big buggy bastard of a flick that defied the neglect it did and still does receive thanks to a functional drive to succeed on all fronts. Succeed it does. The story is mesmerizing, the onscreen performances can be considered nothing short of the product of elite thespians, and visually it’s absolutely genius; you cannot take your eyes off of this movie. While giant ants may not be a paralyzing idea by today’s standards, giant cockroaches capable of actually mimicking the physical appearance of man – whom they target and dispose of – most certainly is. Guillermo del Toro has gone on to make some amazing features. I don’t care what anyone says, Blade II was a fantastic example of horror and action combined to produce pure entertainment, the Hellboy flicks are a blast, and Pan’s Labyrinth has such an astounding ethereal quality that it’s hard for me to even express my feelings about the movie. Cronos came first, but Mimic was an amazing follow-up for del Toro.
Bug (2006):
Now here’s an interesting selection. Technically William Friedkin’s Bug is a psychological affair rather than a tangible insect-attacks-the-populace form of feature. But that doesn’t steal away from the fact that Bug is disgustingly unnerving. Stupid creepy. We’re talking pick at your skin for no good reason, disturbing. The degree of paranoia boiling over on the set feels so overwhelmingly organic that a brief mental hiatus from the insanity unraveling before our eyes feels utterly unmanageable. The fact that hordes of vicious insects never even need to really swarm the screen doesn’t change the fact that Bug is one of the most overlooked pictures to hit the market in the last decade. It also holds the rare distinction of being a film that sucks you in while you’re begging, but incapable of escaping. Bug is the equivalent of the proverbial car crash on the side of the road, and it’ll leave you feeling just about as distressed as the nastier collisions we inevitably stumble upon at least once in life. It’s just a… fucked up and savage film.
Eight Legged Freaks:
There’s a certain charm that comes in watching vintage ‘50s and ‘60s giant insect films. The vast majority of those old clunkers are just that, clunkers. They’re not typically well-assembled slices of cinema, but cheap hokey laugh-fests designed to produce brainless entertainment for roughly 70 minutes. And there’s something quite special about those films, as terrible as they may be. When they work their way into your heart, they stay there. Up until 2002, I wasn’t convinced I’d ever see a modern motion picture capable of replicating that goofy, must-have sensation that was alive and well on screens in 1960. Then along came Ellory Elkayem’s Eight Legged Freaks, and as is the norm in my life, my beliefs were proven wrong. Elkayem nails the golly gee do-gooder appeal of yesteryear’s cult favorites with a piece that functions as an obvious homage to grand camp and big bugs. David Arquette feels as though he was teleported here directly from Awshucksville, 1960, and it’s hard to refute the lighthearted appeal of it all. One of the few freaky bug flicks that actually totes serious replay value and comedy tame enough to appeal to the whole family without feeling entirely watered down.
Them!:
Speaking of throwback insect invasions, what kind of list would this be without the oddly addictive and massive cult fave Them!? A masterful performance from James Whitmore transforms another preposterous product into a vehicle of joyful entertainment. There isn’t anything about the idea of the tale itself that stands out as distinctive, but the dialogue is generally engaging and there’s a fluidity to the storyline that captivates. My daughter gets a kick out of poking fun at me whenever I watch this one, but what’s interesting is, she never seems too eager to get away from the flat screen while the flick unfolds. And that’s what a prodigious picture will do: win the hearts of all viewers, regardless of age or genre preference. In 2014 giant ants aren’t even remotely near frightening, and yes, I again fully acknowledge that. No one’s tuning in to a film like Them! and struggling with nightmares for weeks on end. But they are tuning in and walking away with a fuzzy little feeling inside that comes when art impacts life for one reason or another.
Bonus Recommendations
Starship Troopers:
Starship Troopers isn’t universally adored. I personally find it quite enjoyable. Massive alien bugs, loads of severed limbs and exploding heads and impaled torsos… it’s good fun, in a sadistic way. Paul Verhoeven creates an interesting visual experience that proves worthy of pursuing.
Infested (AKA Ticks):
Infested wasn’t a fantastic movie, but it was a picture that made an attempt at being memorable during a time in which the market had slumped into a virtual black hole and memorable genre works were thinning out at a staggering rate. Infested gave the chills a go, putting ticks at the forefront of danger. It’s worth a look.
Ice Spiders:
So. Bad. It’s. Good.
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Hosting an intern takes work, but it can help identify future employees.
Ag Career Audition
1/1/2018 | 6:00 AM CST
Shelby Schmitt, an animal science major at Purdue University, worked with sows and piglets as an intern for Legan Livestock and Grain, Coatesville, Indiana, Image by Des Keller
By Des Keller
Progressive Farmer Contributor
The owners of Legan Livestock and Grain produce tens of thousands of weaned piglets annually from their 3,000-sow operation in west-central Indiana, near Coatesville. In addition, they’ve also prepared a handful of college students with real-world experience through internships on their farm.
“This is in alignment with our core value of relationships,” says Beth Tharp, who runs Legan Livestock and Grain Inc. with her husband, Nick, and her parents, Mark and Phyllis Legan. “We want to help expose farming to young people who have a passion for agriculture and will be future decision-makers.”
One recent intern to explore career possibilities at Legan Livestock and Grain was Shelby Schmitt, an Anderson, Indiana, native and a senior majoring in animal science at Purdue University. She spent last summer working with sows and piglets while living in an apartment on-site in the house that serves as the operation’s offices.
“I had no clue as to how any of this works,” says Schmitt, referring to the hog business, in particular, and farming, in general. She is a city girl who had no agriculture experience whatsoever prior to college. “I always knew that I wanted to work with animals, but I had no idea how big a community and industry this is.”
MEETING A NEED. Schmitt is undoubtedly one of many--there are no solid statistics--students who work as interns on farms every year. The experience can help determine a career direction and gain the skills to find a job. The Legan and Tharp families are happy to do their part.
Schmitt’s stint at Legan Livestock and Grain was actually her second livestock-related internship. During the summer of 2015, she worked for Crawfordsville-based AMVC, a full-service swine-management and production service. That first internship helped prompt her change from an animal behavior major to animal production.
Still, Schmitt had no idea what an actual workday at Legan Livestock would look like. “My first day on the job, they had me feed and water sows, process piglets and clean manure from the backs of the sows’ farrowing crates,” she says. “The typical day would start with a morning meeting discussing what to expect for the day.”
Schmitt was learning on the fly. “I had questions like, ‘Why do we need to give piglets iron shots?’ and ‘How much do we feed sows and gilts and how frequently?’ ” she says. She loved the experience and hopes to possibly work as a manager at a farrowing operation.
“My internships have solidified my continuing interest with livestock management,” Schmitt says.
LONG-TERM BENEFITS. Even though the Tharps and Legans have hosted college interns over several years, they have yet to have any students return to work for the operation full-time. But they can live with that. “We want to give them a foundation to understand what it’s like on the agriculture side,” Beth Tharp says.
“Last year’s summer intern,” Nick Tharp says, “went to a small school in pre-vet, so she learned a lot about pigs here. That experience gave her a better understanding of production agriculture, particularly swine production, that she can take with her as she becomes an influencer in the industry down the road.”
The Tharps know the demand for internships is great. Initially, the operation advertised for interns at Ohio State University, Iowa State University, Purdue University and an area community college. The candidates were impressive. “We probably had 15 quality applicants for one spot,” Nick Tharp says. “We could have chosen any of them.”
Depending on the specifics of the internship and the students’ class program and degree requirements, they may or may not get academic credit for the experience. In the case of Legan Livestock, all the interns earn an hourly wage. The Tharps declined to specify the exact wage as they compete with several manufacturing plants in the region for employees. Their farm has 12 full-time employees.
CAREER PATH. At any given time, there may be 200 internships (and nearly 6,000 full-time jobs) listed at www.agcareers.com, a private agricultural job listing website. “In 2015, we had 1,800 internships posted--that was a 17% increase over the previous year,” says Ashley Collins, AgCareers education and marketing manager. “We don’t know how many of those are on-farm production-based positions.”
Certainly, the bulk of internships listed at agcareers.com are varied: a title examiner with AgStar Financial Services in Mankato, Minnesota, pork procurement for Tyson Foods in Logansport, Indiana, or vegetable research and development analytics for Monsanto in Woodland, California.
Colleges and universities are usually more than willing to help the process of advertising and finding an intern, Legan’s Nick Tharp explains.
“From our experience, the biggest thing is to have the right contact at each school to assist with posting it [internship],” he says. “College credit is dependent on the school. It is on the student to coordinate that piece. Some schools have evaluation forms for us to complete during the course of the internship.”
TIME-CONSUMING EFFORT. The time needed to train and manage an intern is a major hurdle for farm businesses, explains Whitney Fisher, human resource specialist with Illinois-based management consulting company FamilyFarms Group.
“You have to spend a lot of time with an intern and give feedback to those employees,” she says. “Many don’t have time to dedicate to the effort.” A number of operations in the 80-member FamilyFarms Group have used interns, but that number is still well under half.
On the plus side, the major benefit of having interns is that they are “very motivated workers,” Fisher says. “These are students who are looking for the next challenge, and they want to prove they can do a good job for you,” she adds.
Since the management of an intern can be daunting to a sole operation, FamilyFarms Group plans to establish an intern program. Its offices will help coordinate and guide the effort.
While the benefits of an internship to the intern are pretty easy to identify, the host operation can also be rewarded beyond having additional labor. One intern at Legan Livestock and Grain, for example, helped conduct research on the use of a particular pharmaceutical.
“We were looking at using this product but wanted more information as to how and when we used it,” Nick Tharp says. Working with professors at the university, the intern conducted trials with the medication, collected the data and even presented a research poster at school and at the farm. “It was a kind of mini-thesis,” Tharp says.
“The research gave us good data to consider, how we might best use the product in our operation,” he adds. The student also earned three credit hours for the internship and the research. That’s a win-win for everyone.
INTERNSHIP GUIDELINES:
There are several factors to consider with internships, but the basics include:
• Establish a time frame for the internship-- a start and an end date.
• Define the role of the internship along with projects on which an intern will work.
• Determine the level of student you want as an intern-- junior or senior, or any age college student.
• Determine the expected outcomes. What should be accomplished or learned during the period?
• Define the manager’s responsibilities. It’s generally best if the intern has one “boss” to answer to.
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Former Minister and Cork TD Kathleen Lynch: Plastic surgery? Never... but I go to the gym daily
Former Labour Minister and Cork North Central TD Kathleen Lynch tells CHRIS DUNNE about her new life away from politics
Pupil Sarah Quinlan with her grandmother Kathleen Lynch at the official opening of North Presentation Primary School new School Yard last year.
Chris Dunne
WHEN Kathleen Lynch was on a ministerial state visit to Shanghai, she was once asked a pertinent question.
“‘Where’s my school blouse?’ Ruth asked me on the phone,” recalls Kathleen, who is mum to said Ruth, as well as Thomas, Eve, and Valerie.
“So yes, to them I was always just mum!”
“I took the phone off Ruth!” recalls Kathleen’s husband, Bernard. “Calls from home to abroad were very expensive then!”
Kathleen was first elected to the Dáil in a 1994 by-election, for Cork North Central, and served as Junior Minister for Mental Health and Disabilities during the Fine-Gael-Labour Government between 2011 and 2016, when she retired from politics.
Now she has stepped down, it means the forthcoming general election will not involve weeks of electioneering, knocking on doors, and being on the end of some choice comments — good and bad!
So will Kathleen look forward to spending more time with her family and 10 grandchildren now she is taking a back seat?
“That’s part of the plan, she says. “Bernard and I are planning on doing a bit of travelling too, to Berlin and Paris. We both like travel.
“I asked a pal of mine the other day; do people go on holidays in June! We used to always have to go in August.”
She is looking forward to another luxury.
“Not being elected, I can say ‘no, I have other plans’ now! Up to this I had to say ‘Yes’ to everything, on call 24/7. Having time for myself and managing it will be a big change. Nobody on their death bed says they should have spent more time at the office.”
At the office, at the Dáil, Kathleen was never daunted about being part of the ‘big boys club’.
“Not being a pub person was a slight disadvantage,” she admits, “but I got on well with all my male colleagues. The first time I entered the Dáil, I didn’t know where the female toilets were! That was daunting. The volumes of work and the screaming and roaring that went on was daunting. But there was never a chauvinistic atmosphere in the Dáil.
“I had a good friend in James Reilly; he’d give you credit. Loyalty is huge to me. My staff who worked with me were always loyal and worked well with me. Being outside of Dublin, four days away from home, then working from home; there was a lot of juggling to be done.”
She has held on to her friends, old and new.
“I still meet up with my friends from the Northside, says Kathleen.
“In the office I was the Minister. To them, I’m always Kathleen. To me, they are always Joan or Mary. My friends have the cráic, asking me am I doing my own shopping? I tell them it’s the maid’s day off!”
Everyone is the same to Kathleen, “prince or pauper”, and she and Bernard love spending time with their grandchildren.
She has impressed her values on her children.
“They are well-rounded, resilient and capable.”
She is old-fashioned and likes being ‘the boss’.
“I have never had cosmetic work done,” says Kathleen, when I marvel about her clear skin at 66.
“My niece was on the bus the other day and overheard a conversation between three ladies about that very subject; discussing if I’d had any plastic surgery!
“When she told me, I said to her, can tell me how much it is, where I went for the procedure, and who did it!”
Kathleen, who never drank or smoked, does believe in keeping old age at bay.
“At my gym every morning in Blackpool when we’re lifting light weights, the instructor says to us, ‘Remember, you’re pushing away the commode!”
Holding that thought is good motivation.
“It sure is,” says Kathleen, who knows all about motivation. She suffered a serious accident at the age of 10 when she was hit by a bus, spending seven years in hospital as a result.
“They took everything off my legs, and left me with the bone. I had to learn how to walk again three times.”
She had to learn to take things in her stride.
“I remember when I was made Junior Health Minister, I was so excited,” says Kathleen.
“I went up home to Farranree to my mother’s house, where my brother now lives. All the family were sitting at the kitchen table and I swept in announcing my appointment, showing them the headlines in the papers.”
“Put on the kettle! I was told!”
It is not easy to deflate Kathleen Lynch. How did she cope with losing her seat twice, in 1997 and 2016?
“Of course, you’d be absolutely disappointed,” says Kathleen, who is backing John Maher, the newly-elected Labour councillor, to win a Cork-North Central seat.
“You wouldn’t be normal otherwise, especially after having done so much work.”.
“When it happened in 1997, it was completely unexpected, totally unexpected. In 2016, we were half prepared, even though up to the final close of poll you feel you’re still going to do it.
“But you get on with it, because when I lost my seat in 1997, two years later my mother died and that event put things in perspective. That was the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
Kathleen cites the highlights of her career as free GP care for the under sixes and mental-health funding.
Although she believes Labour must pass on the torch to the future generation she wouldn’t encourage her own children go into politics.
“Politics has changed. Sometimes, what’s said about you affects those around you even more. They can be hurt more than you by abuse on a daily basis.”
What sustained Kathleen during her reign in Irish politics?
“Resilience and courage,” she says.
“And having some input into change for the better. I was thrilled to get free GP care for the under sixes. My daughter brought her child to the GP when the child was sick. Between the doctor’s visit and the medicine, she paid out well over a €100. Nobody can come up to that as well as paying out for childcare.”
Kathleen believes in equality for all.
“I’d like for social class balance to be given the same priority as gender balance.”
What does she think of the Labour’s leader?
“I think Brendan Howlin is an exceptional leader,” she says.
Will she miss the buzz of being in the lime-light?
“I think this is the right time for me to step back and allow the new generation to put their name forward. I thought that inside my own head for 18 months.
“Young women are much more confident now. They understand the importance of a work/life balance.”
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Douglas fire latest: City Hall carry out audit of empty retail spaces to help businesses facing 10-month layoff
Aftermath of Douglas Village Shopping Centre fire in the multi-storey carpark.
Robert McNamara
AN AUDIT of empty retail spaces in Douglas has been carried out as traders at Douglas Village Shopping centre were told it will be at least 10 months before they can move back in following a devastating fire.
In a statement, Douglas Village Shopping Centre announced it will be the summer of 2020 before the centre will reopen.
“Demolition is now scheduled to start next week. An initial area for demolition has been identified but given the extent of the damage, additional areas may have to be added as the damaged areas get exposed and inspected up close,” the statement read.
“The current advice we have is that it may be summer 2020 before the centre will be rebuilt and ready to open. The extent of the rebuild will depend on the amount of demolition. More on the rebuild time frame will be known once demolition is complete,” he added.
Aftermath of Douglas Village Shopping Centre
Councillor Mary Rose Desmond told The Echo that Cork City Council has mapped out empty retail spaces and will do everything it can to help businesses reopen at temporary locations in the village.
“The council will do everything in its power to help the traders but ultimately, the retail space is a private endeavour and I don't know how feasible it will be to get some up and running.
“The council doesn’t have any access to this space.
“It’s imperative that we act quickly now the time frame has been communicated because consumers develop new habits very quickly. There are five independent traders that do not operate at any other location other than Douglas Village and they will need somewhere to set up and trade.”
Ms Desmond added she is encouraging business owners to speak to the Revenue Commissioners to make alternative arrangements around tax payments.
Ray O’Brien of the Music Zone record store said he is desperately searching for a new unit to trade from.
“I suppose the most important thing now for me is to get a roof over my head which has easy enough access and a bit of parking for folk and I suppose it needs to be reasonably priced, so that's what I am looking to find now.
[It’s] a seller's market around Douglas now but look I will find something. It’s huge upheaval matched with problems on every corner it seems but once I find that place, things will settle down a bit.
“The latest on the centre is that they are looking at summer 2020 for reopening. It's probably a bit concerning because human nature might make one think that that could be [the] best-case scenario, so I need to find a temporary home,” he added.
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Sinead at home in new city outlet
TV presenter Sinead Kennedy officially opened the new Homesense store on Grand Parade, Cork on Thursday. Pic: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
Echo reporter
One of the flagship tenants of the new Capitol building on Grand Parade has officially opened its doors.
The Homesense store was opened yesterday, to great fanfare, by TV presenter Sinead Kennedy.
It is the brand's second store in the country – the first one opened last week in Blanchardstown. The two stores combined will create more than 60 jobs between Cork and Dublin.
As one would expect, Homesense sells items of homeware and forms part of the overall TK Maxx family.
Yesterday saw crowds of shoppers enter the premises for the first time, greeted by Ms Kennedy.
“Homesense has blown me away today! I am an avid TK Maxx Home fan so to have a store fully dedicated to branded homeware in the heart of Cork city is amazing,” said the presenter.
“The collection of unique finds available in store is really impressive and I have found some fantastic bargains and eclectic pieces for my home. I will most definitely be a regular customer and look forward to adding to my homeware collection at Homesense.”
Commenting on the opening, Deborah Dolce, group brand and marketing director for TJX Europe, said she was delighted to now have a store in Cork.
“Since we announced the arrival of our second chain, the response from around the country has been wonderful and overwhelming,” she said.
“Homesense is quite different to any other home store in the market, and we are thrilled that Irish customers are ready to welcome our concept of a dedicated homeware and giftware destination, packed with unique gems and top brands at up to 60% less. We are proud to now have two stores officially open in Ireland.”
As part of the TK Maxx family, Homesense offers savings of up to 60% off branded homeware.
For more information, go to www.homesense.ie or find them on Facebook via www.facebook.com/HomesenseIreland. They are also on Twitter and Instagram.
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Thu, 12 Nov, 2020 - 16:15
Tony Considine on why Cork hurlers can beat Tipp if their attitude is right
Robert Downey takes on Ronan Hayes and Éamon Dillon, right, of Dublin last weekend in Thurles. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
Tony Considine
THERE are two provincial finals on across a bumper hurling weekend, yet as big and all as these games are, they are not as big as the two going on in the qualifiers.
That is not something you would have said years ago, but times have changed. There is a second chance after the provincial finals, but no second chance in the qualifiers, beaten and you are gone. This is why the two biggest games of the weekend are Clare-Wexford and Cork versus Tipperary.
Both fairly mouthwatering for different reasons.
Since I was a young lad there was always a magic about a Tipp-Cork game in Limerick for me, as I used to walk to the Gaelic Grounds with my father, from where I lived on the Clare border.
What magic occasions they were with magical atmospheres and with plenty of brilliant players on both sides - happy days. Things are so different now with Covid and no attendance at the games, very strange indeed.
A few things have come to my mind about the game on Saturday. Firstly Cork, who are on a complete high this week after their success at the weekend in both hurling and football. I’m sure there is a great buzz about.
It is a great way to go into a big game with that feeling and confidence with you, but of course you have to remain focused on the task ahead. Another thing too is that Cork are out three weeks in a row and that can take its toll on the body. A strong panel is crucial here, especially playing the All-Ireland champions, who are on a downer after their defeat against Limerick. Surely there will be a big bite in them this week.
A strange thing about a losing team, and the criticism that goes with that, they come out the next game and win, and they usually say that it was the criticism that got them going. Now I find it hard to believe that. I think all good teams should be motivated and perform without taking any notice of the critics, after all critics are only giving their opinion, and as we all know everyone has one!
I believe this game will be a cracker, but I am surprised that Tipp and Cork didn’t toss for the venue as they usually do, to play in either Thurles or Cork. I always believed they had home and away arrangements, one team to travel would make more sense than having two teams heading to Limerick, especially in our present situation.
Cork were impressive against Dublin last weekend, but they are up against a lot stronger opposition this weekend. I liked the way Cork played their game, their two central defenders, Colm Spillane and Robert Downey, shored up the defence very well. It wasn’t that they hit a lot of ball, but they played as defenders should, being strong and protecting their area and they seemed to solve these problem positions that Cork have had for a while now.
They will have to be even better this weekend with two snipers like Jason Forde and Seamus Callanan around, they will have to be on their guard at all times.
Mark Coleman was brilliant last weekend in the sweeper role but I do not think Tipperary will give him that much freedom, and if they do they will be in trouble, he will punish them.
Midfield, with Bill Cooper and the very effective Luke Meade, features two strong players with big engines who can also come in with a couple of scores. I can see these two winning the battle for Cork here but they will need to be on their toes.
Shane Kingston battles James Madden and Paddy Smyth of Dublin. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile
I think the real plus for Cork last week was the excellent form of Seamus Harnedy, Shane Kingston and especially Robbie O’Flynn. They caused all sorts of problems with their power and lightning pace, especially O’Flynn and Kingston, and Harnedy looked back to something like his old form. Add in Patrick Horgan’s skill and score-taking and also Jack O’Connor’s pace and the strength of Declan Dalton... most of these forwards would make any team in the country.
Yet they have to work as hard as, if not harder than, last week, especially against defenders like Pádraic, Brendan and Ronan Maher. Add in Cathal Barrett.
I don’t ever remember seeing Pádraic Maher being taken off before, he was always a big leader for Tipperary. That must have hurt a lot for a player of his calibre. Now I am sure he will be out to make amends here, as will a lot of these Tipperary players, like Callanan, who got no score against Limerick the last day.
Also John McGrath wasn’t up to his usual high performance. Bubbles O’Dwyer, just back from injury, would be a dangerous forward as well. Tipp have a lot to prove.
Séamus Callanan. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile
The question is will they be able to do that? These are players with a lot of mileage on the clock, and in my opinion, they are lacking pace in certain parts of the field, which this Cork team can expose.
I’m sure Kieran Kingston knows his best team now. I’m not sure I can say the same for Liam Sheedy.
Limerick beat Tipperary fairly easily all over the field, and they could have won by a lot more.
Always hard to call a Tipp-Cork game but I still believe there is something in this Cork team. If their attitude is right and fully tuned in I expect them to win.
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Massive effort isn't rewarded as another season slips by for Cork hurlers
Robbie O’Flynn started at midfield but only came into the game after a switch to half-forward. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
Rory Noonan
SPORT can be cruel at times and it certainly was for Cork against Tipperary.
Their season over despite a battling display in tough conditions in Limerick.
Having been well beaten by Waterford in their opening game Cork bounced back with a far more impressive display against Dublin, with greater aggression and determination delighting supporters. However, drawing the All-Ireland champions wasn't much of a reward.
Tipp came in bulling to get back on track after losing to Limerick, no matter who they were paired with it. That it was the Rebels only focused their minds further.
What you can't fault in any way was the Leesiders' level of commitment and determination here and it was two sucker punch goals that cost them in the end.
The weather, particularly in the first half, was horrendous and Tipperary having won the toss elected to play with them. It was tricky for both sides, but it was harder on Cork facing the elements.
At half-time, Cork would have been happy with their initial efforts. Two points down at the break and turning to play with that strong wind.
In that first half, they fought ferociously for every breaking ball and in some ways didn't deserve to be behind. Horgan's goal typified that aggression and determination in style.
A tussle for possession saw Cork players there in numbers and out the back popped Horgan to run at the Tipp defence and cooly slot home. That came from swarm tackling and hunting in packs, which was there for all to see in that half.
Declan Dalton moved out around the middle of the pitch to help out, leaving Jack O'Connor on his own inside at times. Dalton's aggression was helping to smother Tipp and they were finding it tough to break down the Cork rearguard.
The second half didn't go to plan and even the weather seemed to be against Cork as the rain eased and the wind became less of a factor.
Tipperary's Niall O’Meara and Darragh Fitzgibbon of Cork. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
Jason Forde's goal, after 41 minutes, was a big blow as it put Tipp four points up, but Cork responded well and 20 minutes later they led again.
Jake Morris's goal in the 68th minute proved to be a blow too far and it killed off any chance of a Cork win, in a game that their manager Liam Sheedy admitted he was glad to get over and move on.
“The goal after half-time was a big score and Jake’s goal finishing up just gave us a cushion because Cork came right back at us after we got the first goal.
“It’s not long coming around but we’re exactly where we want to be, back in the All-Ireland series after beating a very, very good Cork team,” said Sheedy.
For Cork, the wait goes on and thoughts will have to quickly turn to what we need to do to bring Liam McCarthy back to Leeside.
There were some positives to take from the loss with the likes of Dalton showing they have plenty to offer.
Yet when the ante went up in the final 10 minutes or so Cork struggled.
Michael Breen showed his class throughout and he dominated in the middle of the park, shooting five points and picking up the Man of the Match award.
As Kieran Kingston said after Cork have raised the bar this year, but have to raise it further to have any chance of winning the All-Ireland.
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Tips on staying fit and healthy this summer
Reality star-turned-fitness guru, Lucy Mecklenburgh talks to LIZ CONNOR about keeping up with her regime during beach and barbecue season
Lucy Mecklenburgh on the beach. Picture: Results With Lucy/PA.
Liz Connor
WHEN the warm weather rolls around, we all know the lure of the pub garden, weekend barbecues and rooftop cocktails can mess with your good intentions to make it to your regular workout classes.
Sure, you could hit the treadmill for an hour-long sweat session — or you could soak up the rays in the garden with an Aperol Spritz instead.
If this sounds like a familiar scenario, it’s often reassuring to know that even the fittest folk on Instagram can sometimes struggle to stay on track.
Anyone who follows Lucy Mecklenburgh on the social media platform will know that she never looks anything less than perfectly toned — but she admits that it’s tougher to stick to your gym goals when it’s warm and sunny outside.
The TV star made a name for herself on ITV reality show The Only Way Is Essex but has since struck out with her own online fitness platform, Results With Lucy (resultswithlucy.com), which provides workouts and recipe plans to help women who are looking to lose weight and improve their fitness.
With over one million followers on Instagram, many of her fans look to Mecklenburgh for tips and tricks for staying healthy and getting the most out of their workouts. So, how does she make room for fitness and summer fun?
Here, Mecklenburgh, aged 27, gives us the inside track on how she keeps the balance during holiday season...
1. BE MINDFUL OF THE CALORIES IN YOUR DRINKS
Sugar-sweetened drinks can often be a forgotten source of calories in your diet, and Mecklenburgh says that nixing them is one of the easiest ways to see a change.
“Being more conscious of what you are drinking and removing empty calories can make a huge difference and it only requires small changes,” says Mecklenburgh.
“For example, if you drink a few cups of tea a day, why not swap a breakfast tea with milk to a herbal tea or even a homemade ice tea?”
“You could also swap squash drinks for homemade fruit flavoured water, or just water.”
If you fancy having an alcoholic beverage (and we always advise drinking in moderation, of course), your choice of tipple can make all of the difference too.
Mecklenburgh says that there’s “nothing wrong” with a rooftop cocktail now that the evenings are longer and warmer, but it’s worth keeping in mind that they’re often sugar-loaded. She suggests enjoying one cocktail when you arrive, and then switching to gin and tonic or vodka, soda and lime afterwards.
2. MAKE YOUR OWN
Staying healthy doesn’t mean you should have to forgo popular picnic foods, or feel guilty about eating them either.
“Learn to make some of your summer favourite treats at home, rather than buying them,” says Mecklenburgh. “That way you know exactly what goes into the food you are eating.”
Instead of buying ice lollies containing artificial colours and sugar, for example, she suggests finding a delicious recipe for fresh fruit ice lollies that will be just as refreshing and tasty.
“Embrace a healthier BBQ and swap shop-bought coleslaw and potato salad, which is often high in fat, to a healthier, homemade version,” she adds.
Lucy Mecklenburgh on the beach. Picture: Results With Lucy/PA
3. MOVE YOUR WORKOUTS OUTDOORS
Move your workouts outdoors If you don’t like to spend beautiful sunny days hidden away in the gym, it doesn’t mean you should exercise less over summer.
Mecklenburgh says: “Warmer weather means that popping out for a walk is much more appealing.
“Walking is a really effective form of exercise and it’s something you can do with friends and family.
“Swap shorter trips you take in the car or on the train with walking,” she suggests.
“You could walk or even cycle to work. I also follow the rule of taking the stairs instead of the lift when I can.”
4. GET YOUR PALS INVOLVED
“I find it’s much easier to work out and stay motivated if I have a training buddy,” admits Mecklenburgh.
“It’s a good idea to plan your workouts with your buddy, and together you can help each other stick to them.”
Mecklenburgh says that if your friend or colleague expects that you are going to do a workout on a Monday evening, it makes it much harder to ditch exercise for the sofa.
“You can share workouts, photos, recipes and tips with each other to keep support and motivation high.”
5. PLAN WORKOUTS AT HOME TOO
Picnics, sunny happy hours, trips to the beach — with so many fun social events going on, it can be harder to find time for getting to that HIIT class. But here’s the great thing: You can still stay in shape with a short living room session, while the kids are getting ready for school in the morning or before heading out to work.
“Working out at home is a great time and money-saver and it can be just as effective as working out in a gym,” says Mecklenburgh.
“It all comes down to planning. If you’re time-poor, look at your week in advance and figure out where you will realistically be able to squeeze in a 20-30 minute at-home session.
“You can find hundreds of workouts online. On Results with Lucy, for instance, we have thousands of pre-filmed workouts you can follow.
“Body weight exercises are great but if you want to add a separate weight, you can find a set of cheap dumbbells or kettle bells online too.”
6. HAVE A POSITIVE MINDSET
The power of positive thinking is a popular concept, and although it sounds like a cliche, studies have found that it can really help to boost confidence and improve your mood, and ultimately keep you motivated.
“It’s a sad truth, but lots of us will start our day thinking negative things about ourselves,” says Mecklenburgh.
“We tend to focus on negatives, especially when it comes to how we look and our perception of how successful we are.
“It may feel strange at first, and it will take some practice, but try and say a few positive affirmations to yourself when you wake up in the morning,” she adds.
She suggests saying three things you like about yourself each day, for example: ‘My skin looks great’, ‘I love this new top I’m wearing’, ‘I’m going to be amazing in my meeting today’.
Mecklenburgh says: “I believe doing this really builds your confidence, opens you up to new opportunities, and makes life much more enjoyable.”
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Bill McKibben Gets Arrested Exposing Exxon's 'Unparalleled Evil'
Oct. 17, 2015 10:55AM EST Climate
Environmental activist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben was arrested on Thursday after staging a protest at a gas station in Burlington, Vermont to bring attention to Exxon Mobil's decades-long efforts to undermine climate action for the corporation's own gain—a strategy he called "unparalleled evil" in an op-ed for the Guardian on Wednesday.
Bill McKibben staging a protest at a gas station in Burlington, Vermont. Photo credit: 350.org
McKibben blocked a gas pump at Simon's Quick Stop and Deli Mobile station, armed with a sign that read, "This pump temporarily closed because Exxon Mobil lied about climate (#ExxonKnew)" with a link to a Tumblr page explaining his actions.
In recent weeks, two separate investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon hid evidence of the role of fossil fuels in climate change from the public and stymied political action on global warming. "They predicted that some Arctic oil fields would become cheaper and more accessible," McKibben told the Burlington Free Press on Thursday.
To explain why he felt compelled to stage his solo protest, McKibben wrote on his Tumblr:
This is not just one more set of sad stories about our climate. In the 28 years I’ve been following the story of global warming, this is the single most outrageous set of new revelations that journalists have uncovered. Given its unique credibility—again, it was the biggest corporation on earth—ExxonMobil could have changed history for the better. Had it sounded the alarm—had it merely said "our internal research shows the world’s scientists are right"—it would have saved a quarter century of wheel-spinning. We might actually have done something as a world before the Arctic melted, before the coral reefs were bleached, before the cycles of drought and flood set fully in.
"I don't want this story to disappear in all this media clutter," McKibben said before his arrest. "We need to let people know what we now know about Exxon Mobil. In a noisy world, this may be what we have to do."
The demonstration drew immediate support from McKibben's fellow activist and writer Naomi Klein, who tweeted, "Exxon has earned hundreds of billions of profits off of decades of lies and deceit. So proud of my friend Bill today:"
Exxon has earned hundreds of billions of profits off of decades of lies and deceit. So proud of my friend Bill today https://t.co/zqtSKDPevz
— Naomi Klein (@Naomi Klein)1444941083.0
"Recent reporting has shown Exxon to be the willing and cold-blooded perpetrators of one of the worst corporate crimes in U.S history," 350.org spokesman Karthik Ganapathy told The Huffington Post. "We should be paying more attention to it, collectively."
McKibben's protest came on the heels of a congressional push for a federal inquiry into Exxon to determine if the corporation broke the law by "failing to disclose truthful information" about climate change.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) on Wednesday wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Exxon violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as a slew of other laws, including those protecting public health, truth in advertising, and consumer safety.
"If these allegations against Exxon are true, then Exxon's actions were immoral," Lieu and DeSaulnier wrote. "We request the DOJ investigate whether ExxonMobil's actions were also illegal."
"When I read the Times investigation it occurred to me that it is very similar to what the tobacco companies were doing decades ago," Lieu told the Los Angeles Times. "Evidence showed that what they were saying was incorrect and they kept spreading this disinformation campaign."
.@BillMcKibben: 'No Corporation Has Ever Done Anything This Big & This Bad' http://t.co/NUpqWQOZ8J @democracynow http://t.co/vLqV1TkkmI
— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)1444838235.0
Federal prosecutors used the RICO Act to charge tobacco companies after they were found to be withholding information about the health impacts and addictiveness of smoking. "Exxon's situation is even worse," said Lieu. "It was taking advantage of the science ... while denying the facts to the public."
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Investment summary
Company description: Document automation specialist
Financials: Maintaining margins despite COVID-19
Valuation: Reflects SaaS business model
Sensitivities: Currency, on-demand transition, competition
Company description: Automating business processes
Growth strategy: Broaden functionality, add partners
Well established management team headed up by founder
DPA software
Automating invoice and order delivery and receipt
Document delivery the final step in the process
Demand drivers: Efficiency, cash management, regulation
SaaS-based software driving growth
Sales strategy: Mainly direct, adding channel partners
Competitive positioning: Esker competes by process
Legacy Products (4% of FY19 revenues)
Revenues: SaaS business is the driver
Review of H120 results: A robust performance
Strong cash position
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Esker provides end-to-end document automation solutions, offering on-demand and on-premise delivery models. In FY19, the business generated 57% of revenues from Europe, 38% from the US and the remainder from Asia and Australia.
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Esker reported revenue growth of 8% for H120, despite COVID-19 disruption. The company continued to invest in headcount during H1; while this resulted in a decline in operating profit year-on-year, Esker achieved a respectable operating margin of 11.4%. We have trimmed our revenue forecasts for FY20 and FY21 but this is outweighed by the positive effect of lower tax rates in both years. Esker’s cloud delivery model has proven resilient during the pandemic and the company expects a resumption in 15%+ revenue growth rates from FY21 as the pipeline of new business converts and volumes transacted on Esker’s platform return to more normal levels.
Revenue (€m)
PBT*
Diluted EPS*
12/20e
Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.
Robust performance in H120
While it was more difficult to sign new business and volumes processed by the platform declined in Q2, Esker reported 8% revenue growth for H120. Despite lower demand in H1, the company continued with its investment plans. Higher growth in headcount costs outweighed revenue growth resulting in a 14% decline in operating profit (margin 11.4% versus 14.4% in H119). The first-time application of patent box rules to software in France resulted in lower tax rates and a 4% decline in reported diluted EPS. Net cash at the end of H120 was €22.9m, up 9% from the end of 2019.
Expecting growth to accelerate in FY21
Management trimmed its guidance for FY20 constant currency revenue growth from double-digit to 9% but in FY21 anticipates that revenue growth will return to rates seen in recent years. In FY20, it expects to maintain operating profitability at a similar level to FY19. We have trimmed our revenue forecasts and reduced our tax rate assumptions for FY20/21, resulting in normalised EPS upgrades of 1.5% for FY20 and 6.5% for FY21.
Valuation: Reflects high recurring revenues
The stock has gained 50% year-to-date and is trading 22% higher than its pre-COVID-19 peak. The stock trades at a premium to DPA software and French software peers but at a discount to US SaaS peers. Esker has re-rated over the last year, with its P/E multiple moving more towards the US SaaS peer group. We believe that this is due to the value placed on businesses with high levels of recurring revenue, providing visibility through a period of economic uncertainty. Esker has the added advantage of a strong balance sheet that does not require additional funding to support growth. Successful execution of Esker’s partner strategy could be a trigger for earnings and share price upside.
Esker is a document process automation (DPA) software developer, specialising in moving business processes from paper-based to digital. Its software is used to automate the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles. The company principally operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model and the majority of revenues are generated from customers using its on-demand solutions. Esker’s revenues are well spread geographically, with 57% from Europe, 38% from North America and the remainder from Australia and Asia. In recent years, the company has made small bolt-on acquisitions and we believe it would consider further acquisitions if they added technology expertise or geographic presence at a reasonable price. The company generates organic growth from a combination of winning new customers globally and deepening existing relationships. To accelerate the pace at which it can sign up and on-board customers, it is developing a network of partners to undertake implementation work and resell Esker software.
Esker expects to generate constant currency revenue growth of c 9% for FY20 before reverting to previous growth rates of 15%+ in FY21. It aims to maintain profitability at a similar rate to FY19 despite the disruption caused by COVID-19. We have slightly reduced our revenue forecasts to reflect the longer duration of the pandemic than originally expected. A cut in tax rates due to the first-time application of patent box rules to software in France means that overall, our EPS forecasts increase by 1.5% in FY20 and 6.5% in FY21. Net cash remains strong (€22.9m at the end of H120) and we forecast it will grow to €33.0m by the end of FY21.
The stock is up 50% year-to-date and on a P/E basis continues to trade at a premium to both a group of listed global DPA software companies and to French-listed small-cap software companies, in our view justified by revenue growth and operating margins at the upper end of both groups. Compared to US SaaS companies, which have a similar business model to Esker, the company trades at a material discount to average EV/sales and P/E multiples. We note that on average US peers are growing faster than Esker, although they are generating lower operating margins. The typical growth path for US SaaS companies involves investing heavily in sales and marketing to gain market share as fast as possible, with little focus on achieving profitability in the short term. Esker’s model sits somewhere between low-growth, high-profitability on-premise software businesses and US SaaS companies’ high growth operating model, aiming for a happy medium of double-digit revenue growth while achieving mid-teen operating margins. Esker has the added advantage of a strong balance sheet that does not require additional funding to support growth.
Our forecasts and the Esker share price are sensitive to the following factors. Currency: Esker is exposed to the US$/€ exchange rate. Competition: Esker competes with well-established, well-funded software companies and will need to maintain its technology to continue this. Success of channel partner strategy: revenue growth and headcount needs will depend on the rate at which partners are able to resell and/or implement Esker software. Rate of decline of on-premise licensing and legacy business: these businesses are very profitable maintenance revenue generators. The rate at which these businesses decline will affect growth and profitability. Reliance on datacentre providers: Esker leases datacentre capacity for its on-demand products. Changes in the availability and pricing of capacity will have an impact on Esker’s profitability.
Esker is a DPA software developer, specialising in moving business processes from paper-based to digital. The company’s SaaS delivery model generates high levels of recurring revenue and has proven robust during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Esker was founded in 1985 by Jean-Michel Bérard, the current CEO. Management was originally focused on software consulting and developed its first host access product in 1989. The company listed on the Nouveau Marché in 1997. From 1998 to 2000 the company made a series of acquisitions in the US host access and fax server markets. Esker launched the DeliveryWare platform in 2000, Mail on Demand in 2003, Esker on Demand (an automated on-demand mail and fax service) in 2004 and FlyDoc in 2006. The current SaaS products for accounts payable and accounts receivable were launched in 2009. The company’s listing was transferred from Euronext C to Euronext Alternext in 2010 (since renamed Euronext Growth). The company made bolt-on acquisitions: TermSync and CalvaEDI in 2015 and e-integration in 2017. The company has operations in 13 countries and its revenues are well spread geographically, with 57% from Europe, 38% from North America, and the remainder from Australia and Asia.
Esker’s DPA SaaS software supports order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay business processes. The company is working to broaden the functionality of its product suite and ultimately join up the processes to create a business collaboration network. It is also exploring the opportunities that such a network could open up in the supply chain finance market. As well as increasing headcount to support organic growth, management would consider acquiring complementary businesses. Excluding acquisitions, growth in recent years has come from a combination of adding new customers and existing customers adding new processes and/or pushing higher volumes through Esker’s platform. To accelerate growth, the company is building a network of partners to undertake implementation work and resell Esker software.
As described above, the company’s CEO, Jean-Michel Bérard, founded the company in 1985. Emmanuel Olivier joined the company in 1999, was originally the CFO and became COO in 2003. He previously worked at Ernst & Young in France and the US for seven years. The CEO’s brother, Jean-Jacques Bérard, is the EVP of R&D, having joined Esker in 1995. Other members of the management board include Eric Bussy (global director of marketing and product management), Steve Smith (COO, Americas), Eric Thomas (VP business development) and Anne Grand-Clément (global director of professional services and technical support).
Esker has developed a unified cloud platform to automate order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay cash cycles. Its DPA software operates in five areas: procurement, accounts payable, accounts receivable, sales order processing and document delivery. These can be combined to fulfil the cash cycles as per Exhibit 1: order-to-cash to fulfil customer orders and collect payment; and purchase-to-pay to source, order and pay for goods and services.
Exhibit 1: Esker’s positioning
Source: Esker
Features of the software include:
multi-tenant cloud platform;
single solution with common interface to access all functionality;
mobile capabilities;
enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrations;
artificial intelligence (AI) functionality; and
ongoing development via agile methodology.
Esker’s DPA software operates in the following way. For receipt of documents (eg sales orders, supplier invoices), the software converts paper documentation into digital format and populates standard templates with the data from the digital document. The software can also extract data from other sources such as emails, email attachments and faxes. Esker has used machine learning for many years to train the software: if there is any doubt over the accuracy of the data, the user compares the original document to the digitised version and corrects it as necessary helping the software to learn. The standardised data can then be fed into the customer’s ERP system and processed and viewed by the relevant people throughout the organisation before being archived automatically. For sending documents, the software generates orders or invoices in the format required and if paper documents or fax services are required, Esker’s document delivery service can be used. The software provides a dashboard showing relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) and data analytics to support performance monitoring.
The software has certified integrations with the main ERP vendors, including SAP (including S/4HANA), Cegid, Oracle’s E-Business Suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Sage, Infor and NetSuite. Earlier this year, Esker announced that it had partnered with Cegid to provide its supplier invoice processing software for Cegid’s XRP Flex solution.
Esker’s mobile solution, Esker Anywhere, can be used for procurement, accounts payable and sales order processing.
The business helps buyers and suppliers to collaborate by providing a portal for each process that they can both access, with features such as invoice status and chat. More recently, using AI it has developed a shared database of document recognition models for orders and invoices in pdf format. The longer-term goal is to connect these portals together to create a networking platform that would allow customers and suppliers to interact securely and could be used for direct exchange of purchase orders and invoices, payment of invoices, early payment discounting, dispute resolution and data clarification.
Enhancing cash and credit management processes for accounts receivable
The software offers self-service online payment options such as credit cards, ACH, SEPA and direct debit, or can be integrated with the customer’s preferred payment processor. The software also manages cash allocation automatically. The company recently integrated its order-to-cash software with Stripe Connect to offer the convenience of a single payment provider globally.
In June, Esker launched a credit management solution that allows companies to automate new customer on-boarding and secure their credit approval process. The solution includes customisable credit application templates, workflow rules and a customisable dashboard to monitor application status and tasks. Periodic credit reviews can be automated and a customer repository includes all customer-related documents, credit and business information to make informed decisions. Esker has partnered with Dun & Bradstreet globally, CreditRiskMonitor in North America and Ellisphere in Europe to provide access to external credit data.
Document delivery services enable customers to send business documents via cloud fax or mail centres directly from their desktop or enterprise applications. Esker services on-demand document delivery through its fax servers located in France, the US and Australia and mail production centres located in France, Belgium, the UK, the US, Australia, Spain and Singapore.
The software improves productivity by accelerating the cash conversion cycle, reducing errors, enabling faster processing, improving process visibility and improving customer service. It has the added benefit of reducing paper and paper-related costs.
The software also meets government legislation around e-invoicing. In Europe, the EU has mandated that paper and digital invoices should be treated equally and lays out ways that documents can be authenticated. EU member states have been subject to the 2014/55/EU directive since April 2019: this specifies that businesses selling to government entities must use e-invoicing that is based on specified interoperability standards. This should increase demand for e-invoicing solutions. In Latin America, e-invoicing is government-mandated to ensure tax compliance and collection.
Exhibit 2: DPA product range
Esker on Demand
On demand DPA platform for outsourcing and automating the enterprise process linked to the circulation of documents (invoicing, reminders, sales administration). Supports the following processes: accounts payable, accounts receivable, procurement, sales orders.
CalvaEDI
Designed for transport decision-makers, manufacturers, freight forwarders, logistic services and haulers to automatically exchange shipping orders in real time in the EDI (electronic data interchange) format.
Esker EDI Services
Enables industrial companies to exchange different business documents (orders, order confirmations, delivery slips, payment notices, inventory reports, consignment notes, etc) in EDI format with their partners.
TermSync
Cloud-based service for managing the accounts receivable collection process for customer invoices issued by Esker on Demand or a third-party solution.
Online fax and mail delivery service; targeted at SMEs and individuals. Only in France and the US.
The table above details Esker’s product range for DPA, all of which are SaaS-based. Esker on Demand is the main product; this multi-tenant solution was originally developed by Esker in 2004, ahead of many other software companies’ entries into the SaaS market. It started to gain traction from 2009 as customers were attracted by the lack of upfront investment and the usage-based payment mechanism. The company has more than 6,000 SaaS customers and 600,000 SaaS users.
Esker upgrades Esker on Demand every 15 days. The software is hosted out of six data centres: two leased by Esker (France, US) and four Microsoft Azure facilities (Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Singapore).
Esker’s longest-standing product, DeliveryWare, is an on-premise solution. The company discontinued new sales of this product in September 2019; we would expect related maintenance revenues to slowly decline. In FY19, DeliveryWare-related revenues made up 6% of group revenue.
The table below shows the development of the platform in terms of functionality.
Exhibit 3: Product development roadmap
Customer invoices
Dynamic discounting
Supplier invoices
Source: Esker, Edison Investment Research. Key: ✓ = available; = under development/partially available.
We understand that the company’s main priorities for product development include:
Employing artificial intelligence to increase automation. Esker has used machine learning for many years to improve the accuracy of its software in automating invoice processing. It also incorporates robotic process automation into its software in selected areas, for example to automate invoice submission to a customer’s accounts payable portal or to retrieve sales orders from portals and input them into a customer’s ERP system. It is applying deep learning, which requires access to a very high volume of documents, to a number of use cases. For example, it is using deep learning to classify and route documents received in an email inbox (‘triage’). The software needs to be able not only to figure out which department a document is intended for, but also to reject documents that are spam. The goal is to achieve accuracy on a par with a human; this then frees up the software user to focus their attention on exceptions rather than routine email sorting. Other AI-based enhancements to the platform include auto-splitting of batch invoices, semantic recognition of purchase orders and anomaly detection. The company is developing new enhancements in the area of fraud detection, semantic recognition of other documents and non-OCR1 recognition of documents.
Extending the functionality of the P2P solution: Esker is increasingly adding functionality to its purchase-to-pay offering, through a combination of in-house development and technology partnerships, and is focusing its efforts on the functionality demanded by customers. One area of demand is catalogue management: Esker already offers ‘punch out’ functionality, which allows purchasing customers to access online suppliers such as Dell and Amazon Business from within the Esker e-procurement application and place orders with those suppliers. The company continues to add features in this area. In June, Esker added supplier management functionality. A self-service portal allows suppliers to provide all required account information and documentation and keep it up-to-date. The software verifies the accuracy of supplier information and uses third-party data to monitor supplier risk. Contract management functionality is also being developed so that invoices and purchase orders can be linked to the related contract.
Supply chain finance: as an interesting add-on to its existing software business, Esker has evaluated the supply chain financing market to assess the best way to participate. Several invoice networks are active in this space, for example Taulia and Tungsten, offering invoice factoring, reverse factoring and/or dynamic discounting. Rather than offering finance itself (not a core skill of the company), Esker has entered the market via a partnership in Singapore. If this proves popular, Esker would look to extend this type of offering in other countries.
Partnering to access niche technology
As well as in-house product development and acquisitions of companies with relevant technology, Esker partners with other companies to provide access to technology that augments its products. One example is Rimilia, a UK-based company with a SaaS-based product that provides automatic matching of cash receipts to invoices for Esker’s order-to-cash solution. Last year, Esker made a 40% investment in the initial seed finance round for a US start-up called B/2BNOW, which has since changed its name to Highview. Highview provides EDI solutions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP systems. Steve Smith, COO of Esker US, joined the board of Highview.
Esker has a direct sales presence in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK), the US and Asia-Pacific (Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore). Esker has sales representatives in Miami (to target South America, in particular Argentina, Brazil and Colombia), Brussels (to target European-headquartered US companies) and Montreal. Esker also sells its software to several companies on a white-label basis.
Land and expand strategy
The salesforce tends to target those responsible for business processes; in most cases this will be the finance department, although sometimes it is customer services. The company also works with the customer’s IT department, but this is mainly to work on integrating the software rather than to sell to. As the implementation process takes time and can be disruptive, most customers tend to select Esker for one process initially. Esker may then benefit from growth within that process eg more departments, more geographies. Some customers go on to use Esker for additional processes. Last year, the company created a customer experience team to strengthen the relationship with customers and to minimise churn.
Signing up channel partners
Excluding the effect of COVID-19 on demand, the main gating factor for Esker’s growth is the availability of consultants. To accelerate the pace at which it can sign up and on-board new customers, Esker is developing a network of channel partners. These partners are providing consulting and implementation services, and in some cases are reselling Esker’s technology.
Key partners include:
Fuji Xerox: Esker announced an agreement with Fuji Xerox2 in early 2019 whereby Fuji Xerox would initially market Esker’s accounts payable automation solution as part of its offering to optimise accounts payable management processes in Japan, with a view to extending this to Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Both parties were already working together in New Zealand with customers in the construction, retail, business and education sectors using Esker’s accounts payable solution. The agreement also included the provision of consulting, implementation and support services by Fuji Xerox, potentially accelerating Esker’s penetration of this region without Esker incurring substantial sales and consulting costs. In March 2020, Esker announced that the partnership was being extended to include the accounts receivable solution.
Fuji Xerox is owned by FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation; its direct salesforce covers Japan and the Asia-Pacific region including China.
KPMG Netherlands: In 2019, the company signed a reseller agreement with KPMG Netherlands. KPMG will market Esker’s cloud-based accounts payable solution as part of its RPA and Finance Transformation offering.
Cegid: As mentioned earlier, Esker’s software is distributed by Cegid via its XRP Flex Marketplace.
The company noted in its H120 results that it has signed several deals in Japan via the Fuji Xerox partnership. While these are small in terms of revenue, they provide Esker with the opportunity to learn and adapt product to suit customers in the Japanese market.
Joint venture with Quadient targets SMEs
Esker sold its software on a white-label basis through Quadient (previously called Neopost) in France for several years and in 2015 entered into a joint venture (JV) with Quadient to expand the scope of this agreement. The JV (owned 70% Quadient, 30% Esker) is focused on selling Esker’s software, marketed as Neotouch, to SMEs in France, the US and the UK (Esker’s direct salesforce tends not to target the SME market) and to date has c 3,500 end customers. Neotouch is a hybrid mail solution, converting internet mail into physical form for transfer to postal services. In FY19, Esker reported a €0.5m contribution from its share in the JV, and the JV generated 10.2% of group sales.
Esker competes against a different group of companies for each business process and by geography. As well as specialist DPA software companies, the company also sees competition from business process outsourcers such as Accenture and Xerox.
Most of the companies that Esker competes with operate in either the order-to-cash or purchase-to-pay markets. Esker has the advantage that its software can be used across all processes, reducing the number of software suppliers a company deals with and simplifying the implementation process. More than 6,000 companies globally use Esker software, including BMW, GE Healthcare, Heineken, Microsoft, Novartis, Samsung and Siemens. Esker has more than a decade’s experience in SaaS delivery and has achieved various SaaS certifications such as SSAE18, ISAE3402 and ISO27001, providing a level of confidence regarding business continuity and data security.
Accounts payable is the most competitive area; when Esker wins business it tends to be for customers that have decided to move from manual to automated processing, rather than winning business from an existing supplier (although this occasionally happens). Accounts receivable has historically been Esker’s strongest area; the customer owns the process so the document format is set in-house and therefore data recognition is more straightforward. Due to European legislation around electronic signatures, demand for automated accounts receivable processing is growing, as companies move from paper to digital invoices. Esker sometimes replaces mail houses in this market. The most complex market from a technical perspective is sales order processing. This is because end-customers send orders to Esker’s customers in many different non-standard formats such as faxes, emails or within email attachments. This market has the fewest suppliers and Esker has a very high win rate. The newest area for Esker is purchasing (launched in 2014), which contributes less than 1% of revenues. This is a sub-set of the procurement software market, which is dominated by cloud provider Coupa. Esker’s purchasing solution covers the procurement process from purchase requisition to invoice payment authorisation, but over time we expect the company to extend the functionality of the solution to encompass the earlier part of the procurement process. Esker typically sells this solution to existing accounts payable customers to support the full purchase-to-payment cycle.
Exhibit 4: Competitive environment – DPA software suppliers
Basware
Billtrust
HighRadius
ITESOFT
Kofax*
OmPrompt
SAP (Ariba)
Sidetrade
Tungsten (OB10)
Yooz
Source: Esker, Edison Investment Research. Note: *Includes ReadSoft.
Exhibit 4 shows the most common competitors for each process. Competition tends to be country specific; for example, Billtrust for accounts receivable in the US, ITESOFT for accounts payable in France. Global competitors include Basware, Kofax, OpenText and SAP.
Document delivery has a different group of mail-focused competitors, including j2 Global, Docapost, and Maileva (both subsidiaries of Le Groupe La Poste) and OpenText.
Supplier/buyer networks present an opportunity for Esker
Many customers use Esker’s software to enable them to join supplier networks such as Ariba or OB10. These networks usually require e-invoicing and Esker’s software enables them to produce invoices according to the requirements of the networks. In other cases, such as Taulia, the networks rely on invoices that are approved for payment to provide supply chain financing. As Esker’s software provides dashboards to show this type of information, the company is able to introduce customers with the necessary volume of approved invoices to the networks.
Esker’s Legacy Products division includes fax servers and host access products. While the legacy business continues to be supported, the company is not actively seeking new business or developing new products.
Fax servers were developed to send the fax directly via a word processing programme, or to receive a fax and send it directly to the recipient’s inbox. Esker Fax works on Microsoft operating systems and is compatible with electronic messaging systems including IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and SMTP. VSI-Fax is designed for UNIX and Linux operating systems.
Host access supplies terminal emulator software that enables users to access mainframes from PCs. Tun PLUS supports access to SCO Linux, Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, IBM 390 and IBM AS/400 servers, and SmarTerm supports access to Digital (Vax Open VMS), Data General and IBM servers. Esker mainly generates maintenance revenues from this business, although occasionally it wins new business as the number of host access suppliers reduces.
Our forecasts and the Esker share price will be sensitive to the following factors:
Currency: while Esker has some natural hedging, the R&D and central function teams are based in France, resulting in exposure to the US dollar-euro exchange rate. If the US dollar weakens against the euro from the current level, it would have a negative effect on revenues and profitability.
Competition: Esker competes with well-established, well-funded software companies and will need to maintain its technology to compete.
Success of channel partner strategy: the rate at which the company is able to sign up channel partners, the pace at which those partners are able to resell Esker solutions and the ability of partners to successfully implement Esker solutions for clients will influence revenue growth and headcount requirements.
Rate of decline of legacy businesses: the host access and fax server businesses and DeliveryWare are very profitable maintenance-revenue generators. The rate at which these businesses decline will have an impact on profitability, although as these businesses make up a decreasing proportion of revenues (8% in H120 compared to 11% in H119), the effect is reducing.
Reliance on datacentre providers: Esker leases datacentre capacity for its on-demand products. Changes in the availability and pricing of capacity will influence profitability.
Exhibit 5: Revenues by business line and by type
€m
FY20e
SaaS-related DPA revenues
License-based DPA revenues
New licenses
Fax card sales/hardware
Source: Esker, Edison Investment Research
Esker reports revenues in two ways:
split by business line: DPA (split out as SaaS and licence-based) and Legacy Products, on a quarterly basis; and
split by type of revenue: SaaS, maintenance fees, licence sales, hardware and consulting, on a half-yearly basis.
SaaS revenues are generated on a per-transaction basis from all SaaS DPA products customers. Licence and maintenance fees are generated from DeliveryWare on-premise licence sales and the fax server and host access businesses (although as DeliveryWare has been discontinued there will no longer be any licence sales from this product). Hardware sales are generated by the fax server business. Consulting revenues are generated from on-premise and on-demand DPA business. Older DPA subscription sales were structured on a traffic-only basis, with consulting revenues charged for the initial integration of the software. For the last few years, Esker has sold on a hybrid subscription model that guarantees minimum monthly revenues plus transaction-based revenues, reducing Esker’s dependence on the speed at which a customer implements the software. On-demand contracts are typically signed for a minimum of 12 months, and most commonly are for three years. See Exhibit 5 for historical and forecast divisional performance.
SaaS-related revenues (which include SaaS and consulting revenues) have shown significant growth in recent years. On a like-for-like, constant currency basis, these grew 21% in FY17, 20% in FY18, 21% in FY19 and 11% in H120 (SaaS +9%, consulting +15%). Licence-based DPA revenues (licences, consulting and maintenance revenues) declined 23% in FY17, 1% in FY18, 18% in FY19 and 15% in H120, now making up only 5% of revenues.
High level of recurring revenue provides good visibility
In H120, recurring revenues3 made up 80% of the total, versus 78% in FY18 and 79% in FY19. Esker has a strong record of retaining customers – management estimates that churn is less than 1% per year. As each new customer comes on board, this adds another layer of recurring revenues. In H120, Esker won orders worth €12m (+3% y-o-y); this is the amount of revenue the company is contracted to earn over the (usually) three-year life of the contract, and does not include variable per document fees, which can make up the same amount again over the three years. This was a strong performance considering the difficulties in signing new business during Q2.
SaaS plus maintenance revenues.
Exhibit 6: Half year results highlights
y-o-y
Reported operating profit
Reported net income
Basic EPS (€)
Diluted EPS (€)
Net cash
Esker generated 8.2% y-o-y revenue growth for H120 (7% constant currency), despite COVID-19 disruption. On a quarterly basis, Q120 was 16% higher on a constant currency basis whereas Q220 revenues were flat. Consulting revenues were robust in the period (+15%) as a backlog of projects meant that consultants were fully utilised as they were able to undertake implementation projects from home. SaaS revenues were 9% higher year-on-year; while the US and Asia-Pacific were more robust and benefited from new customers coming onboard, Europe was hit harder by lockdowns in Q2. We note that SaaS revenues are made up of monthly subscription fees, which continued unaffected by COVID-19, and volume-based fees, which declined c 24% in April and May, as companies processed fewer invoices during lockdown.
The company slightly slowed the pace of hiring during H1, but still grew headcount 6% h-o-h and 14% y-o-y. This resulted in staff costs increasing 20% y-o-y. Other operating costs (excluding depreciation and amortisation) fell 6% y-o-y, as travel and marketing costs fell significantly in Q2 and a higher level of development costs were capitalised (although the percentage of R&D costs capitalised remained flat at 63%). Overall, this resulted in a 14% decline in reported operating profit and a 3pp decline in the operating margin year-on-year.
Until March, the JV with Quadient (see above) was on a growth path, but as it involves physical mail, COVID-19 disruption (particularly in France) drove a decline in business for the JV of c 35% in H120. The contribution to Esker of €174k in H120 therefore declined from the €251k in H119 and €272k in H219.
France recently updated its tax rules to allow software companies to take advantage of its patent box regime. This reduces the tax rate on profits from copyrighted software resulting from R&D in France from 31% to 10%. This resulted in a one-off tax credit of €852k for FY19 (reported as exceptional income in H120) and reduced the effective tax rate from 31% to 27% in H120.
In H1, the company generated operating cash flow of €9.5m. As well as paying the prior-year dividend of €1.9m, the company paid down €1.5m of debt and took advantage of a government-guaranteed loan of €11.5m (one-year maturity, 0.5% rate).
The company invests in tangible fixed assets for its mail centres and offices and capitalises development costs. In H1, Esker capitalised €4.0m of development costs and amortised €2.6m and spent €1.2m on tangible assets. We expect a gradual increase in both capitalisation and amortisation in FY20 and FY21 reflecting the growing R&D headcount.
Gross cash was €33.8m at period end (excluding a further €5.7m recorded in fixed assets), providing ample funds for acquisitions and investment. The company ended H120 with a net cash position of €22.9m, up from €21.0m at the end of FY19. We forecast that net cash will increase to €26.0m by the end of FY20 and €33.0m by the end of FY21.
We have slightly reduced our revenue forecasts reflecting company guidance for FY20 for constant currency revenue growth of c 9%. Management expects growth to return to more normal rates in FY21. We have reflected the new tax rates of 27% (down from 31%) for FY20 and FY21. Overall, this results in a 1.5% increase in our FY20 normalised diluted EPS forecast and a 6.5% increase in FY21.
Exhibit 7: Changes to forecasts
FY20e old
FY20e new
Normalised EBIT
Normalised EBIT margin
Reported EBIT
Reported EBIT margin
Normalised PBT
Normalised net income
Normalised dil. EPS (€)
Reported basic EPS (€)
Reported diluted EPS (€)
DPS (€)
Source: Edison Investment Research
Currency impact
With 37% of revenues from the US but a lower proportion of the cost base in US dollars, the company is exposed to changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate. In our cost calculations, we use a rate of $1.125/€ for FY20 and FY21. Any weakening of the dollar could have a material negative impact on our forecasts.
The stock has gained 50% year-to-date and is trading 22% higher than its pre-COVID-19 peak. We have compared Esker’s valuation to a group of listed global DPA software companies and to French-listed small-cap software companies (Exhibit 8). We have also included aggregate data for a group of more than 40 US SaaS software companies. We note that most companies in the first two peer groups are not predominantly SaaS companies, whereas Esker has been operating a SaaS business model for more than a decade.
US SaaS companies on average are growing faster than Esker, although they are generating operating margins below the level of Esker. The typical growth path for US SaaS companies involves investing heavily in sales and marketing to gain market share as fast as possible, with little focus on achieving profitability in the short term. Esker’s model sits somewhere between low-growth, high-profitability on-premise software businesses and US SaaS companies’ high-growth operating model, aiming for a happy medium of double-digit revenue growth while achieving mid-teen operating margins.
Esker has re-rated over the last year, with its P/E multiple moving more towards the US SaaS peer group. We believe that this is due to the value placed on businesses with high levels of recurring revenue, providing visibility through a period of economic uncertainty. Esker has the added advantage of a strong balance sheet that does not require additional funding to support growth.
Exhibit 8: Peer financial and valuation metrics
Market cap (m)
EV/sales
Software companies with DPA software offerings
Tungsten Corp
French small-cap software companies
Axway Software
Lectra
Linedata Service
US SaaS software companies
Source: Edison Investment Research, Refinitiv (as at 10 September)
In Exhibit 9 we show how Esker (marked in green) compares to a selection of US SaaS peers when considering next year revenue growth versus next year EV/sales multiple. Exhibits 10 and 11 show how the peer group is trading on a P/E basis compared to revenue forecasts this year and next (we have excluded any companies trading on a P/E above 150 for either year). In Exhibit 12, we compare average revenue growth and average EBIT margins over the next two years.
Exhibit 9: Next year revenue growth and EV/sales: US peers versus Esker
Source: Edison Investment Research, Refinitiv
Exhibit 10: Revenue growth (%) and P/E – current year forecasts: US peers versus Esker
Exhibit 11: Revenue growth (%) and P/E – next year forecasts: US peers versus Esker
Exhibit 12: Two-year revenue growth and EBIT margins: US peers versus Esker
Exhibit 13: Financial summary
€'000s
Year end 31 December
French GAAP
Operating Profit (before amort and except)
Amortisation of acquired intangibles
Exceptionals and other income
Net Interest
Profit Before Tax (norm)
Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)
Profit After Tax (norm)
Profit After Tax (FRS 3)
Ave. Number of Shares Outstanding (m)
EPS - normalised (c)
EPS - normalised fully diluted (c)
EPS - (GAAP) (c)
Dividend per share (c)
Gross margin (%)
EBITDA Margin (%)
Operating Margin (before GW & except) (%)
Tangible Assets
Debtors
Long Term Liabilities
Other long term liabilities
Acquisitions/disposals
Net Cash Flow
Opening net debt/(cash)
HP finance leases initiated
Closing net debt/(cash)
Revenue by geography (FY19)
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President of the board and CEO: Jean-Michel Bérard
COO: Emmanuel Olivier
Mr Bérard received his computer engineering degree in 1984 from the Lyon Institut National des Sciences Appliquées and shortly after co-founded Esker. He is responsible for defining and executing Esker’s business plan. He also represents Esker to potential partners, the European technological community, IT analysts and the trade press.
Mr Olivier leads Esker’s operations worldwide, covering sales, marketing and consulting activities. He also supervises Esker’s finances and is in charge of financial communication and IR. He joined Esker in 1999 as CFO and was promoted to COO in 2003. He previously worked as an audit manager for Ernst & Young for seven years, including two years in the US. He has an MBA from SKEMA Business School, Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and earned a CPA qualification from the state of Pennsylvania, US.
Principal shareholders
Jean-Michel Bérard
Credit Agricole Group
Premier Miton
Montanaro Group
Grandeur Peak Global Advisors LLP
Wasatch Advisors Inc
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Ard R. Strauser, 81, a lifetime resident of Northumberland was called home to be with the Lord on September 28th, 2020. He was born on June 25, 1939 at Sunbury Community Hospital to Richard Strauser and Ardie (Schrey) Strauser also of Northumberland.
Ard was a graduate of the Northumberland High School Class of 1957 and 1960 graduate of PA School of Gunsmithing. After college, Ard married his classmate and love of his life, Rebecca A. (Hollenbach) Strauser. They were married 40 years at the time of Becky’s passing. They have two children, Ardie M. Strauser and Matthew W. Strauser. Ard is preceeded in death by his wife, parents, and brother Murray K Strauser. He is survived by his children, his brother Robin Strauser, his first cousins Caryn Strauser Kauffman and Woody Strauser, his nephew Chad Strauser, nieces Kristin (Strauser) Tasker and Taylor Strauser, niece Alicia, several great nieces and nephews, and his brother-in-law and sister-in-law Gayle (Hollenbach) Reichner and Edward D. Reichner of Northumberland.
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After the death of Pope Clemente VII, leaders of the Catholic Church realized there was a need to reform and standardize certain doctrines and practices. All church leaders, including bishops from all the dioceses in Europe, were called to a council in the city of Trent on December 13, 1545. After many stops and starts, protests, and suspensions, the reforms of the Council of Trent were adopted. One of the mandates was that every parish priest would keep a record of the vital events in each parishioner’s life, the baptism, marriage, and death.
Typically, these events were recorded when they happened. This mandate was passed in January 1564, but not every parish complied immediately, even though every diocese had to ratify and comply with the council’s reforms. In fact, the reforms were not universally accepted before 1595, when a papal proclamation was declared.
Most Catholic parishes in Italy have records dating from this time (if the register books have survived) and continue to the present. The population belonging to the Catholic Church in the mid 1500s was about 99%. It is still around 95 percent, so almost the entire population has been covered in the parish registers. In larger cities there were some Jewish and Protestant residents who were not covered by the Catholic Church registers.
Copies of these records were not regularly sent to the diocese until about 1900, so most parishes have their records stored at the parish church. Occasionally the original register was deposited in the diocesan archive.
The Catholic Church parish registers are the most reliable and accurate source for family history information in Italy until civil registration was enforced in 1820. The event information, including the names of the principal individuals, is highly reliable. Other information, such as ages, parents’ names, and other relationships, is generally regarded as reliable but could be subject to error.
The records are generally kept in bound registers consisting of approximately 100-400 pages per volume. Some registers include an index at the end of each volume. Volumes prior to 1815 were handwritten by the parish priest in narrative form with details of the event and after 1815 the records were handwritten in printed forms. The text of the records is in Italian and partially in Latin.
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"I was [picked out of the blue], same age or a bit younger than Lyonsy, but it was a great experience for me, and it was tough for me as well because at that stage we had a strong side and there were good players around everywhere," Higgs told ESPNcricinfo. "You don't realise how close you are when you're actually playing first-class cricket.
"I had good performances that year in the one-day competition, and it still came out of the blue. I learned a lot playing in NSW with a lot of the idols, but then to be among the full Australian team was a great experience."
The Australians were eliminated in the first round by India, courtesy a teenager called Yuvraj Singh, and Higgs was never chosen again. Often cited as a wasted talent who could be more prolific at the bar than in the middle, Higgs carved out a moderate career with the Blues and later South Australia, but gradually lost interest in the game and all its attendant pressures.
"One thing I struggled with was the runs side of things," Higgs said. "I couldn't score the runs I wanted to. I put a lot of pressure on myself to do that, and cricket is a statistics game. If you average 35, you're not holding your spot in the team.
"I knew that and was working hard to try to change my game enough to get to a place where I could score runs consistently, but to be honest I wasn't able to do it as well as I would've liked. I learned more when I got away from the game, but the pressure I put on myself to do well was undoing my talent I guess.
"All the guys train pretty hard; it's whether they train enough on the mental side of the game. The great players all talk about it being 90% mental, and to be able to learn that sort of stuff is more important than having a great cover drive or a great stock ball."
Cut more or less adrift from cricket in Australia, Higgs moved to England and was only called back in 2006 at the behest of a former Canberra Comets team-mate, who reckoned Higgs' talents, and misadventures, would be useful in aiding the development of a younger generation.
It was in the middle of this return that Higgs had his first glimpse of Lyon, then a quietly spoken teenager from country NSW with plenty of ability and the desire to learn more, who soon graduated from the ACT Under-19s team into the senior side, which takes part in the Futures League second XI competition. Together with Higgs, Lyon developed his philosophy on spin, moving beyond the natural tendency to bowl darts at the first hint of attack.
"He came in pretty raw, but had natural loop with the ball and had good fingers and was able to turn the ball. That was the thing that was really noticeable - he was able to turn the ball, and he was happy to bowl and ask plenty of questions," Higgs said. "We had a couple of spinners before that who moved on, and Lyonsy got thrown into the deep end a bit with us.
"His ideas about bowling to good players were okay, but I thought they could use improvement and we tried to get his fields right and also get him a game-plan that went to those fields, so he was able to hold good players first of all and then get them out as well.
"The ideas of lines of attack, and where we want to get players out and where we want to stop them from scoring, was really important.
"I'd like to see him get an opportunity at some stage. Hopefully he will do well. I think he will - he's got a great personality for it"
Higgs looks forward to seeing his protégé Lyon get a game during the Sri Lanka series
"I think when Lyonsy first came to us his idea when guys were attacking was to get it into the wicket and try to stop them on the crease, which we know on Australian wickets is like facing a medium-pacer. Once they get used to that, it's even harder to stop them because it opens up more of the field. So the idea was to get them to hit where we want them to hit, and to get them to play on our terms. That was the early work we did, and also to get his action right."
Believing they had a talent on their books in need of wider exposure, ACT Cricket took Lyon down to Adelaide Oval last winter in the hope of securing him a start with South Australia. Surprisingly, SA's high performance director, Jamie Cox, and the then coach, Mark Sorell, were not overly impressed by Lyon, and baulked at the suggestion of a state contract. Instead, a compromise was reached whereby Lyon would be transferred onto the SACA ground staff but would still play for the ACT.
"We said, 'We'll take him on again', and luckily enough he was able to come back and play for us last year and then he came away with us during the Baby Bash [Under 23 Twenty20 competition]," Higgs said.
"That was when Chuck [Darren] Berry saw him bowl and he was lucky enough in the match we played against SA to get the chance to bowl to some left-handers. He held them really nicely and used some flight in that match,and Darren took him on from there."
From this point Lyon's tale is more widely known. He and Higgs still converse regularly, and most recently have dealt with the question of how to handle the mass of additional media interest Lyon's national selection has stirred. Higgs is optimistic about Lyon's prospects in Sri Lanka, provided his coaches and the captain, Michael Clarke, handle him correctly.
"It's hard to say if you're ready until you get in there and have a go," Higgs said. "Every hurdle that's been set in front of him he's been able to get over and get over it well, so I can't see why he wouldn't do it again. He's still got a lot to learn, I'd say that.
"I'd like to see him get an opportunity at some stage. If he's ready now, he's ready now. If they need him on a turning wicket I think he can be effective. We've seen a lot of guys get picked for Australia on a few opportunities and Nathan's now another one of those, and hopefully he will do well. I think he will - he's got a great personality for it."
For Higgs, the sight of Lyon bowling for Australia would make his own journey seem worthwhile. He has learned as much about cricket being captain and coach of the ACT as he ever did as a precocious young allrounder, and is now at peace.
Lyon's success would make Higgs' own unfulfilled journey seem worthwhile Associated Press
"I think the big thing I teach the lads growing up is that I didn't succeed as much as I would like to and here's some of the reasons why," Higgs said. "I wasn't able to control my emotions, I took a lot of baggage home when I went home from games, and it put me down a bit.
"Also from not playing so well as a player and showing glimpses that I could do it but to not succeed the way I wanted to... looking back now, it was the pressure I put on myself to succeed, and the statistics show I wasn't good enough. I had a great time in the game, I'm still having a great time coaching, but I think I learned a lot more from not being successful as well, and that's helped me for my future life."
Higgs' knowledge of spin bowling, too, has only grown with experience. He now thinks himself a better bowler than he was when playing, as instructive a detail about the slow-burning art of spin bowling as any technical advice can possibly be.
"I've learned more about spin bowling in the last three or four years than when I was playing, just by talking to people and being around spin bowlers more often," Higgs said. "My own bowling is better now than it was when I was playing, purely because I've learned more from talking to a lot of people about it, and spending time [with] people about different ways of getting people out.
"When you're a captain and a coach, you're analysing how they go about the game, but you're also looking at ideas for how they can do things better, and the learning curve of that has been great for me. If you spoke to most spinners, I think you learn more post 27-28. You very rarely have players who come onto the scene young and are very successful straight away.
"I think they need time to learn how people will play them - different players around the world play spin so differently from the way we play. It's great Lyonsy is in the system so young, but I think he needs the time to learn the craft and learn what it takes to be successful at all levels."
Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo
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Babel 7.16
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui choreography | Damien Jalet choreography |
Antony Gormley stage design |
Kazunari Abe, Patrizia Bovi, Mahabub Khan, Sattar Khan, Gabriele Miracle, Shogo Yoshii (musicians)
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Taking the tale of 'The Tower of Babel' as its starting point the dance performance explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion.
Presented in the famous Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes choreaographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet have joined forces with visual artist Antony Gormley to create Babel 7.16. The cast of 21 Dancers comprises artists from 15 Nations.
Recorded live at the Festival d'Avignon 2016.
"The most fiercely resonant dance theatre of the decade." The Guardian
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Make-A-Wish-Foundation Website gets trapped with Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
Cybercriminals appear to have extended the first-hand squat, as they have attacked one of the websites which are a well-known children’s non-profit organization in the world and has been affected the site with cryptocurrency mining malware.
According to a report published in CCN website, the investigators from Safety Company has reported that a CoinImp crypto mining script was put in the Make-A-Wish Foundation website and after this, the entire text used the intelligent control of client’s details to mine crypto for the hackers.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit foundation established in the United States that places experiences labeled as “wishes” to children diagnosed with critical illnesses. The website created on Drupal, a general and famous open-source gratified organization. In 2017, Drupal publicized that there had been a susceptibility in their system that let the hackers to put a harmful code into precise websites that had not combined their safety patch. However, in November 2018 the Drupalgeddon second bug, a Remote Code Execution (RCE) susceptibility in older forms of Drupal, exaggerated more than 100,000 websites. A quick examination that displayed the province drupal updates showed it could host the script of mining malware. It was the known movement which has been misusing Drupalgeddon 2 from June 2018.
Though the new movement has been rationalized many times from June 2018, a lot of website proprietors have not informed and duly upgraded their version of Drupal. This has allowed cybercriminals to compromise their websites to mine cryptocurrency.
Trustwave researchers feel that Make-A-Wish Foundation must have negotiated from the same susceptibility. The organization later must have recognized and detached the hateful script from the website. Cryptojacking, which includes the usage of offensive code to force other computer users to mine cryptocurrencies without their information, has developed a near-epidemic for online customers.
In 2017 a Citrix report exposed that a crypto jacking malware had affected more than 60 percent of UK firms. In the country like India, crypto jacking is a threat, having 300,000 routers in India as well as Brazil found to have been affected with cryptocurrency mining malware.
As per the report published in The Economic Times (ET) in September, Indian websites are not secure from this wonder, informing that extensively trusted Indian sites had been demoralized by the crypto hacking threat. A security researcher recently quoted to Economics Times that the govt websites besieged because of the more significant amount of online users and the belief these users have when they visit them.
“Earlier, we saw a lot of government websites getting defaced (hacked). Now, injecting crypto jackers is more fashionable as the hacker can make money.”
Drupalgeddon 2 is not the only attack vector that cybercriminals use to infect sites with Cryptojacking malware. The Cryptojacking phenomenon so widely spread that it is sometimes hard to tell whether the site owner genuinely added a website infected with malware or the mining code.
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Established in 1881, The Fishermen’s Mission is the only UK based charity providing personalised support to active and retired fishermen and their families. Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. The statistics for the UK can be shocking (Source: MAIB- Marine Accident Investigation Branch):
Fishermen are 115 times more likely to suffer a fatal accident than the rest of the workforce
Every year an average of 15 fishermen are killed or seriously injured
Traumatic amputation and bone fractures are the most common injuries sustained by active fishermen
From an underpinning of Christian values, we provide 24/7 Emergency Response each day of the year and assistance to families of fishermen who have been killed, injured or lost at sea. We liaise with the teams who rescue our fishermen when in peril and help them find accommodation, food, and clothing and re-connect with their families. In 2016 alone we responded to 123 emergencies and visited 4,507 fishing boats: nearly a third of the entire UK commercial fleet.
While response to emergencies is our highest priority, our Outreach Programme has always been our most comprehensive tool in delivering long term, ‘wrap-around’ support to fishing communities. From over 30 mini centres and through a network of staff and volunteers in over 80 ports and harbours, we deliver a ‘person-centred’ and flexible welfare Outreach Programme throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Fishermen’s Mission, along with a number of partners including The Merchant Navy Welfare Board, Seafish, ILO 188 (Fishing Convention) and the RNLI, is also actively involved in key issues such as working conditions in the fishing industry and national safety initiatives.
Our core beneficiaries include active and retired fishermen and their widows and dependents. The active fishermen we support are primarily comprised of the smaller operators with boats less than 15 metres in length. Commercial success depends heavily on a host of complex factors from the weather to fluctuating fish prices. Many are in serious debt to ‘loan sharks’ in order to pay for life’s basics such as rent and food for their families. With financial fragility come other associated welfare issues such as high risk alcohol use, stress and family relationship difficulties. Active fishermen also face specific occupational health issues such as heart disease and for a number of reasons including long working hours, are failing to regularly access primary healthcare services which is the first step towards the diagnosis and treatment of serious health conditions.
Health and financial problems often result in isolation and social exclusion which in turn can have serious implications for mental health. With statutory mental health services across the country arguably at breaking point, our outreach personnel in all three areas have seen increases in symptoms of severe anxiety, depression and dementia among their beneficiaries and a disturbing lack of local provision to adequately address this.
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Implementing Successful Strategies To Cut Fleet Costs
March 18, 2016 • by Kat Sandoval
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.com.
Fleet managers are always on the lookout for the best ways to reduce costs, when possible, while maintaining the same level of efficiency. Running a cost-effective and efficient fleet requires reliance on the knowledge and expertise of fleet managers.
Fleet Financials reviewed fleet managers’ strategies for cutting costs from its archives and compiled a list of the top four ways fleet managers can reduce fleet costs and add value to their fleet operations.
Handling Fleet Operations In-House
When deciding whether a fleet management company (FMC) works for their operations, fleet managers should consider running certain areas of fleet in-house to reduce costs.
For example, Western Refining Wholesale’s Phoenix location handles its fleet maintenance operations seamlessly, without FMC assistance.
After careful evaluation, Jared Hanis, director, procurement and contract services for Western Refining, and his team decided to run maintenance for the fleet’s vehicle in-house.
By cutting out the need for a maintenance provider and doing it themselves, Western Refining Wholesale ensured that processes were streamlined.
Further, maintenance is handled through the company’s internal total maintenance track (TMT) program, which is administered by Kristen Signor, the fleet’s asset maintenance administrator.
Similar to Western Refining Services’ in-house management of maintenance, Dean Foods, a processor and distributor of dairy products, does maintenance in-house when possible. Although the fleet has third-party providers (Penske and Ryder), Dean Foods places a strong emphasis on getting maintenance done right the first time the vehicle comes in.
The company’s trained technicians, as well as its third-party providers, help to ensure vehicles are repaired correctly the first time. By focusing on preventive maintenance (PM) Michael Ahart, Dean Foods VP of Transportation, helps his fleet avoid unnecessary expenditures on maintenance.
Western Refining Wholesale has also simplified the process for the sourcing of its equipment by transitioning to direct sourcing.
Cost savings are directly associated with direct sourcing of equipment because the company goes to the manufacturer that offers the best incentives and warranties that meet the fleets current and future equipment supply needs.
Related: How to Minimize the Impact of Fleet Management 'Pain Points'
Moreover, the company even created its own fleet card, which has allowed the company to reduce fuel costs. The card can be used at any CFN or Fuelman location, since it is part of the CFN Fueling Network. The fuel card allows fleet administrators and managers to view fuel transactions in real time, which holds drivers more accountable for their fueling practices.
Developing Strong Relationships
Fleet managers that manage large fleets dispersed throughout the U.S. and other countries understand how important it is to have and maintain strong relationships with the people and companies that work with the fleet, at whatever capacity that may be.
Commercial real estate services provider, CBRE’s North American operations are dispersed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. This makes fleet management sometimes challenging for J.J. Keig, CAFM, corporate fleet manager for CBRE, Inc. But, because of the well-built relationships CBRE has with its clients, nothing is lost in translation. Thus, they provide the proper upfits and vehicles without mistakes, which eliminate any additional costs going in to remedy wrong vehicle orders and etc. And, as a result, their fleet portfolio continues to grow.
By creating maintenance guidelines and relying on their leasing company’s maintenance department, CBRE provides preventive maintenance (PM) when needed and is able to cut out unnecessary services that would cost the fleet not only time, but also money.
This approach to maintenance ultimately leads to lower total cost of ownership rates without compromising safety or quality.
Additionally, similar to Western Refining Wholesale, CBRE looks to fuel as an area to reduce costs. CBRE relies on oil like monitoring systems, which aids the company with the elimination of unnecessary oil changes. And, this is another area where the company saves time, money and its resources.
Through its working relationships, especially with its maintenance provider, CBRE avoids needless maintenance, repairs, and depletion of resources while cutting costs.
Standardizing Operations
Developing uniform procedures for the fleet is something fleet managers strive for. Fleet managers often have a hard time determining where a strict protocol or set of procedures need to be set in place or when to have flexibility, but have a mix of both will help fleet in the long run.
For example, agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO’s fleet manager Ralf Wessel understands the need for uniform procedures in such areas as its personal-use policy and more flexible ones in other areas.
Previously, the company was losing money because of the flexibility in its personal-use policy. But, after careful consideration, Wessel and his team were able to develop a global standard for personal-use of company vehicles. The policy now clearly delineates who can and cannot drive the vehicle, and it states that an MVR check must be done before the person can drive the vehicle.
Other ways the company was able to reduce costs were through the standardization of fleet vehicle levels (e.g. personal-use vehicle, work-only vehicles, etc.), this standard carries over globally; creating a streamlined accident review process; and overall improvement of its safety program.
By implementing the changes above, the company also experienced a cut in insurance costs.
Similarly, ADP, a human capital management company was able to see results through the standardization of its operations.
The company’s fleet spans the U.S. and Europe and it experienced complexity with more than 35 different makes. By developing a set number of manufacturer groups, from which the European side of its fleet would get its vehicles, the company was able to standardize manufacturer groups.
Furthermore, the company was able to reduce the number of leasing companies for its European fleets from 25 to three.
This level of standardization allows the fleet to avoid wasting time and money, and creates a uniform process and pool of vehicles and lessors, instead of having too many to choose from.
Additionally, the company saw savings once vehicle insurance was managed in-house to its global risk management group instead of through its leasing companies.
By doing so, the company is saving money, but also has developed a standard for the future.
Exploring New Initiatives and Setting Goals
By focusing on areas that can be improved, such as the fleet’s carbon footprint, the fleet manager is opening the door to plans or programs that could reduce costs.
Setting up goals or targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can help the fleet manager see reduction in costs.
ADP’s fleet took on a CO2 reduction plan in conjunction with a global safety initiative. With the introduction of greener vehicles, ADP’s U.S. fleet is currently 100-percent hybrid or runs on high-mileage diesel and has seen a significant reduction in GHG emissions. In turn, this also produces cost savings for the company.
Reduction in GHG emissions plus the integration of greener vehicles leads to overall savings to the fleet. And, as gasoline prices fluctuate, the fleet will remain stable because their vehicles run on cleaner fuels. Fuel savings lead to cost savings.
By the same token, Dean Foods’ fleet also set a GHG reduction goal for its distribution fleet. To meet its goals, the company also created an initiative to optimize routes, maximize fuel economy, provide training for its drivers, and invest in new technology and equipment. Its fleet runs on diesel and the company continually strives to reduce fuel use. This plays an integral part in cost savings and meeting the goals outlined in their sustainability initiatives.
Fleet managers have to thoroughly analyze their fleet operations before determining areas where they can cut costs from.
Every fleet manager’s reality is that there is always room for improvement and savings to be attained.
Understanding what other fleets are able to do to increase cost savings and improve operations is especially helpful in opening the fleet manager’s mind to an idea they had yet to consider.
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Inspiration for the Ghanaian Smock
By Molly Hamilton
If you've been around here for a while, you know that I took a trip to Ghana in February 2018. I traveled to Accra and Cape Coast to work with Global Mamas, a non-profit business that works with women in Ghana to create a fair-trade, sustainable clothing and accessories line, based on the locals crafts of batik dying and glass bead making. I volunteered with them to help with product development and education, but also so that I could learn more about production in another country. I learned soooo much (some of which you can read about here and here)!
When in Cape Coast, I stayed with a family and the host mother was a seamstress - quite skilled. We became friends, and while I was out on a walk with her, I saw a man wearing what I she told me was a Ghanaian Smock. It was handsome, somewhat traditional-looking, but also casual. I thought, "here is a folkwear pattern". I learned more about the smock while I was there, and more from research when I came home.
Another inspiration for this pattern was the West African patterns that Folkwear produced in the 1990s - the Yoruba Tunic and Trousers and the West African Tunic and Trousers. These patterns have a very similar construction, with strips and godets, but these older patterns were for formal clothes (like a chief would wear) and were extremely voluminous. I love these garments, but they are not really for "common folk" (and they take a huge amount of fabric to make). And, I've wanted to increase the number of patterns from Africa in the Folkwear collection.
The origination of all of these patterns, including the Ghanaian Smock, is from northern Ghana, Burkina Faso and into northwestern Nigeria. In Ghana, the smock (like our pattern) is for informal occasions and is often called a fugu or batakari. The longer or more full the garment, the more formal it is.
I loved the Ghanaian Smock also because it became a symbol of African liberation after Kwame Nkruma and his colleagues wore them when setting up Ghana's independence in 1957. The popularity of this garment soared and spread around the world.
Though originally was only worn by men, the smock is also worn by women today (usually women's smocks have an elastic band in the waist or can be belted). These smocks looks great with trousers, jeans, over t-shirts, and as a dress on their own (you might want to make ours a little longer).
Our smock is fairly easy to make, easy to size, and fun and comfortable to wear. It is made of strips of cloth which can be cut or torn from regular yardage. Or, you can use aso-oke fabric which comes in strips (usually 4" or 5" to 7" wide). With these strips, you might want to size down (our pattern has strips finished at 4". You can also use your own handwoven fabric! We provide instructions using handwoven for that in the pattern. Often, the strips of fabric are made with lengthwise strips, so the garment has a striped look. Also in the pattern are designs and instructions for embroidery which are iconic of the garment (as well as history of the garment and West African weaving). However, you don't have to embroider - or you can just add you own, very simple, stitching to the neckline or pockets.
Either way, I hope you thoroughly enjoy this pattern! We have a Pinterest board with lots of inspiration, but I will include a few of my favorites below.
Wear to the office or on the weekend - as a tunic or as a dress!
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Men's wear - you can see that these have very little embroidery - just some stitching around the neckline made as running stitches.
The Smock can be cut short or made much longer, like these images. Lots of possibility!
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FFXIV: catch all
Posted by ranalin – August 10, 2009 5:10 PM
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Looks like they've updated their website with a chunk of information.
I'm definitely more intrigued now that they seem to be going a skill based route.
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I almost re-subscribed to FFXI last month, but decided not to and just wait on FFXIV to show up. I'm definitely interested and I can't wait for some more gameplay details and specially an in game video.
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If it's less restrictive than FFXI was, then I might be interested. I loved everything about FFXI except for the core level grind and the resultant pain in the ass that it became to find any groups. Gave up on the game after a while because of it, and subsequent attempts to give the game another shot always met the same fate.
fangblackbone
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Skill based systems are always interesting. I really hope they work out the kinks though.
They are so ripe for exploiting. I know Square states there are no levels. Are they also implying no stats (str, dex, wis, int) either? If so how are they going to differentiate between a player who's had many skill increases versus someone fumbling around with the sword for the first time? Say, for instance, you level up armor so that you can wear plate. That is going to be a great boon with farmers that can run into areas designed for those who have only mastered chain or leather. Also I'm sure it would piss someone off if they were 20/20 skill plate/mace that gets their ass handed to them by someone 50/5 skill plate/dagger. Or worse if skill really matters so much that a 50/50 skill chain/mace will always lose to a 55/50 chain/mace or a 50/60 chain/mace will always lose to a 51/50 chain/mace.
If they are going to have stats, how are they going to be earned or distributed without character levels? If you have stats tied to skill levels, you'll have people racing through blacksmith or animal husbandry because they are the quickest gains in stats from skill ups. Then these people will grief or power their way through lower content with 10x the strength and hit points with no weapon skills. I.E. they are going to be able to solo early game bosses that were meant for full groups.
There is also the flip side of the coin if you prevent someone from accessing lower content with higher skills. If they have 50 skill in plate and fire magic, how are they supposed to skill up their 5 polearm skill if they can't enter the 5-10 skill areas.
Is it going to be like UO with just bears, wolves, ettins and liches instead of bears (level 7,15,28,32,49,51,55,57), bats (4,7,11,32,53) and undead bears (35,44,47,51,59)? Or will it be like baby wolves, angry baby wolves, junior wolves, mother wolves, mother wolves with cubs, really pissed mother wolves, wolves on roids, evil black wolves, rabid evil black wolves, black wolf mages... ?
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
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Allow me to run around on my own from beginning to end, and I'm interested. As soon as you force me to group just to gain regular experience, I'm out.
[actual FFXI experience in the noob area]
That orc cons as an even challenge, why did it kill me in 3 hits!?
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Tyrian wrote:
Forced grouping is lazy game design. It takes skill on the part of the developer to make grouping actually appealling.
Everquest in the old days actually hit a decent balance of it, in my opinion. You could solo. Some classes could do it more easily than others. But all classes could do it. However, it was mainly something you did when you couldn't find a group to do something more fun with.
Even cons were just that: intended to be dead even. You take on an even con, you have a 50/50 shot of dying. Makes sense. (Again, some classes had an easier or harder time of it of course)
Posted: August 11, 2009 12:07 AM
fangblackbone wrote:
They are so ripe for exploiting. I know Square states there are no levels. Are they also implying no stats (str, dex, wis, int) either?
I cant imagine why that would be implied. Most other skill based games had stats behind the skills.
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Venetian Terror
Southern New Hampshire
I'm wary of the game. I got way too sucked into FFXI for three years or so following the NA release, and no MMOs have been able to hook me like that since (played WoW a lot but that was really for the sake of my ex-girlfriend [who I met in FFXI], not myself). I think my time-played clock ended up at 260 days or so.
I'll probably end up seeing if any of my old Linkshell pals are going to be playing, and if so try and hook up with them...
As much hatred as you see for the requisite group play, it did a nice job of making sure everyone knew what they were supposed to do in the endgame. I can't tell you how many raids in WoW I went on that were ruined by people playing passive-antagonistic or flat-out not knowing their class.
IUH4L
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Nintendo Network ID: Blind_Evil
Blind_Evil wrote:
Except that I compared FFXI to EQ classic, not WoW. You still had tools in EQ who didn't know how to work in a group, but it was vastly different from the frequency and severity of said tool population in WoW. Most people who grouped in EQ either knew what they were doing, or were willing to learn and listen to group leaders who did know what they were doing. I'd be willing to bet the ratio of morons to reasonable people was pretty close between EQ and FFXI.
While this is very true, I found it very unsatisfying on the whole. I only knew a couple of people that were playing the game with me, and was not big on the public player experience. Thus, I quickly found myself unable to make any real progress. I was disappointed, because the game was actually pretty fun!
If nothing else, I know I'll be picking up the soundtrack. The one for FFXI was really good. I imagine this one will be even better!
Cheeto1016
Barely Adequate Ginger Queen
I looked around the website, but was a little confused by it all. Is this a sequal to FF11? I see that it has all the same char model designs the same. The races do have new names, but are all looking the same. Also where did you see that it says no Levels? Are you going outside the website to other sites? Or am I dumb and blind? hehe
Sorry a million possibly idiotic questions.
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Pull my finger
Cheeto1016 wrote:
Here is a link to a Q&A from July 9
From Q&A wrote:
Q. Does the new land of Eorzea hold any connections or similarities to Vana’diel?
A.While Vana’diel was a fully developed world, Eorzea is simply a region within the world of Final Fantasy XIV. This will, however, be the main region in which players interact, so webmasters who snatched up an Eorzea based URL can breathe a sigh of relief. The world itself will be named ハイデリン (ha-i-de-ri-n), but we have yet to receive an official English spelling of the word. As for differences between the two worlds, Final Fantasy XIV will be a little more “high-tech” in line with the sci fi style of Final Fantasy XIII. However, they still wish to have the foundation of the game’s setting based in traditional fantasy.
Q. Are there any connections beyond the style of Avatars?
A. Players can go into Final Fantasy XIV expecting no significant similarities. However, they realize some comforts just cannot be abandoned so easily - like friends. Therefore, they are looking at ways to allow names to transfer as well as other methods to keep adventurers together. The main objective here is to make transferring to Final Fantasy XIV as comfortable as possible without providing the advantage of transferring completed characters.
Q. If there are no levels, how do characters advance?
A. Although Final Fantasy XIV will eschew the traditional levelling system in favour of something new, there will be parts of the Job System that make it over. Most importantly, we wish to retain the concept of being able to switch roles and work on one job one time and another job the next time. At this time, the developers are unable to give any specifics.
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emyln
Posted: August 12, 2009 11:09 PM
Cheeto1016, its not a sequal in the true sense. Its a new MMORPG, by Square Enix and will have the same races. Think of it as FFXI with updated graphics and game mechanics. And most importantly, you can solo.
If FFXI allowed you to solo beyond level 20 I would have gone back to it.
Steam ID: Automan
Posted: August 13, 2009 3:01 AM
emyln wrote:
They look the same but they're different named races
ranalin wrote:
That's true. I also think its a mistake. Nothing tops Taru Taru as the name for a race of cute midgets
Posted: September 24, 2009 5:58 PM
New trailer under media on their homepage
Yeah this frightens me alot. I absolutely loved FFXI, especially the Chains of Promathia content. I'm a sucker for high challenge, low-probability-of-success content. I'm a sucker for required grouping.
I do a great job at juggling RL, hobbies, kids, family, and gaming, but FFXI definitely was crack for me. Its the only game ever that I had to stop playing even though I didn't want to.
Having said that, the moment I first ran across the FFXIV stuff I was hooked. I'm sure I'll be playing this. Some.
I'll reserve judgement on the soloability of it. Clearly it is going to be more solo friendly than FFXI, but that's not saying a whole lot. There will be solo instanced questing you can do. I can't for the life of me believe thats is going to be THAT solo friendly overall since (possibly mis-interepreted racist remark incoming) it is a very Japanese design team and company. (And yes, you can be *very* Japanese.)
I'd be shocked beyond all belief if any of the good content was remotely soloable. (And that would be the fourteenth time for me being "shocked beyond belief".)
When I played FFXI I was in a mostly JP linkshell and we had great times, but the buzzword for fun was "teamwork" not "solo".
Posted: September 25, 2009 10:56 AM
Frolic wrote:
I think any MMO that has entered into development post WoW will at least throw a few bones to the "allow me to solo some content" crowd. It's obvious there's a decent sized percentage of the market that enjoys playing these games, even if they don't have the time or skill to see endgame content.
Oh they will, no question. There's a dev interview floating out there where they specifically say they will. I'm just saying I bet, based on nothing other than my educated guess, that will mean: Out of the content in this game, you can do 20% of it solo and repeat it ad nauseum to level up and have adequate gear, otherwise get a group.
But it's all speculation other than we do know it will be *more* solo friendly than FFXI. (Which you could, ironically, solo in pretty well once you hit 70+ or so and got geared properly, you just couldn't get there by soloing.)
Posted: October 8, 2009 1:49 PM
They've started to add some info on their classes (disciplines)
Posted: October 9, 2009 12:38 AM
So excite!
Posted: October 10, 2009 4:06 PM
KillTrash wrote:
Indeed, so excited you misspelt it
Color me intrigued as well. I too loved FFXI, but absolutely hated the majority of people the game attracted. Here's to hoping there's less of them this time around.
AnimeJ wrote:
Sorry, I forgot the /borat tag!
Q/A responses from the game producer
Q1: Will we be able to fly somehow either by ourselves free roaming or scheduled transport airships like in FFXI?
A: At present, we have no plans for free-form aerial movement for players. We are, however, looking into a number of different types of flying transportation.
Q2: How will player run guild/linkshells work? What features can we expect and what benefits can a guild/linkshell get through progression if any?
A: For the time being, we are still keeping this information secret. But, we are very adamant about creating an entirely novel system.
Q3: Will the races hold the same benefits as they did previously in FFXI, or will the stat bonuses be different and play a larger role? In addition, will faction choice play a bigger role? In FFXI we had separate mission lines and friendly competitions such as ballista. Will we see something similar or something dramatically different than FFXI system for different factions?
A: The bonuses among races will be of a different variety than those seen in FFXI. But players need not be concerned with this when choosing a race based on aesthetics.
There is also an element of freedom in that players will not pledge their allegiance to a single city-state. This means that the guildleves or skills available will differ region to region, which all being accessible. Of course, this applies quests as well.
Q4: Will the artifact story line quests return for each class from FFXI? If not, will similar quest lines carry on a system of “right of passage†such as limit break quests?
A: Character development along the lines of the Armoury system and skill levels will incorporate familiar concepts from FFXI as well as entirely new elements.
Q5: What do you expect the cap level to be in FFXIV at the start and/or at the end?
A: This has yet to be decided. We will be setting the level cap after looking at the Beta phase results and other considerations.
Q6: Will there be a cooldown timer or anything that limits how often we can change class?
A: There is no real concept of static "classes" in the traditional sense. Rather, there may be somewhat of a restriction placed on the changing of weapons or tools mid-combat.
Q7: Will there be something like a Mog House? Maybe this time around we will have an actual HOUSE, and not a little tiny room!
A: Nothing is set in stone yet. There are a number of possibilities that we are still looking into.
Q8: Limit Breaks were powerful combat moves featured in several Final Fantasy titles. In FFXI we saw Weapon Skills and Magic Burst. Do you have any plans to include a similar system in FFXIV?
A: This has not been decided at this time. But it's safe to say that players can expect to see a completely new and revolutionary system.
Q9: Are there any plans to add female Roegadyn and male Miqo'te?
A: Well, the character model designs are finished... But further details regarding their implementation have yet to be decided.
Q10: Will this FFXIV be more "new person friendly" than FFXI was? (Once everyone had been playing for years, it was hard for new people who started to be able to play, even with the "level sync" system that was added in later. Not to mention, finding armors/weapons in the Auction House was nearly impossible for new players. Barely anyone used the "mentor" system in FFXI either, or rather, there were barely any hosts.)
A: We are developing in-depth introductory tutorials for new players. We are also designing the game while keeping in mind those users who enjoy playing solo, as well as those who can only log in for short periods of time. There will also be plenty of content for newcomers.
But, on the other hand, there will also be complex battles requiring large numbers of people for players more interested in content of that nature.
Our main goal is really to create a variety of ways in which to enjoy the game.
Q11: Will mobs actually drop armors/weapons like most MMOs or is FFXIV going to be like FFXI where you can only obtain these in Auction House or Crafting, or Raids?
A: The complete details of this are still undecided.
As in FFXI and other MMORPGS, some monsters will drop armor and weapons. However, items that drop in this manner are always a target for RMT exploitation. So to avoid any kind of player exclusion, most instances of these drops will yield items which cannot be passed between players.
To put it broadly, there will be a number of ways available to obtain a number of different items.
Q12: Is crafting still going to be an integral and value added portion of the game and somewhat prohibitive so that a selected dedicated few will feel like they are part of the economy and adventuring aspects? (Crafting and not adventuring usually keeps me hooked)
A: Players who wish to do so will be able to fully enjoy the game using only their crafting skills.
The same can be said not only for those wishing to specialize solely in synthesis of items, but those who prefer combat or the gathering of materials as well. All of these types of players will be important to the game world.
Seems very vague...with a lot of... thats to be decides... I mean was anything new really shared?
Posted: October 19, 2009 10:58 PM
So many words, so little information.
Too bad the interviewer spent all that time getting questions together.
Well, at least we know we aren't going to be roaming free in the skies on winged chocobos.
Kehama
I'm Allergic To People
The FF MMO always kinda' scared me. People made it sound like if I wanted to even be passably acceptable at that game that I would have to quit my job, divorce my wife, put my child up for adoption, and devote at least a few years of my life to doing nothing but sitting in front of a PC playing this game. Oh, and that there were furries. I think it was that odd combination of "ultra super hardcore MMO!" in a setting filled with furries and chocobos that scared me off. Is there any indication that this iteration of a FF MMO won't require me to make the above sacrifices to enjoy the setting or is this still going to be the MMO for people who pine for the days of UO?
While they are supposed to be making it more solo friendly this game is going to be skilled based and pretty much all skill based games put that extra bit of crack that makes people want to play that much more. Because if you're not doing something your not leveling. So you'll have people that will poopsock their way through. Oh and it's still furry friendly but that was never an issue that i noticed while playing.
So you'll have people that will poopsock their way through.
Poopsock as a verb. Well done.
Sinkwater
Posted: December 17, 2009 2:47 AM
That guy.
There is now a beta application for anyone who's interested. Applied.
http://entry.ffxiv.com/na/index.html
The slippery slope argument: Do nothing, because if you do anything, you'll do everything.
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/hobocop85
XBL: hobocop85
Posted: December 17, 2009 3:42 PM
I applied last night. I hope I get in, even though I've had no luck lately with betas.
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Jews Lie To Americans To Get Them Into Wars and Get Rich While Doing It
http://www.renegadetribune.com/lie-america-into-war-and-get-rich-doing-it/
Bloomberg News is reporting that National Security Council official Richard Goldberg, who was “central” to the Trump administration’s “hawkish Iran policies,” was receiving a salary from a Sheldon Adelson-funded pro-Israel think tank throughout his time at the White House.
✔@lhfang
President Trump’s national security staff member Richard Goldberg, whose job was shaping Iran policy, had a salary paid by pro-Israel think tank FDD while working at the White House https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-03/u-s-official-central-to-hawkish-iran-policies-departs-nsc …
U.S. Official Central to Hawkish Iran Policies Departs NSC
Richard Goldberg, the U.S. National Security Council official who clashed with other members of the administration over his push for a more hawkish stance toward Iran, is leaving the job after one...
12:46 PM - Jan 4, 2020
From Bloomberg, Jan 3, “U.S. Official Central to Hawkish Iran Policies Departs NSC”:
Richard Goldberg, the U.S. National Security Council official who clashed with other members of the administration over his push for a more hawkish stance toward Iran, is leaving the job after one year for personal reasons, a person familiar with the matter said.
[…] Former National Security Adviser John Bolton created Goldberg’s job — director for countering Iran’s weapons of mass destruction — explicitly for him. The goal was to counter what Bolton saw as a desire at the departments of State and Treasury to weaken the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.
Tension over that issue flared in March as the administration mulled whether to extend waivers allowing Iran to sell a limited amount of oil. The waivers were eventually ended in May.
That fight was only one of the administration’s internecine battles related to Iran and underscored the influence wielded by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the think tank where Goldberg previously worked, in pushing for a tougher line against Iran.
Goldberg will return to FDD, which continued to pay his salary during his time on the National Security Council.
Here’s a video of Goldberg (with a total 91 views despite being up since Feb 2019) shilling for regime change in Iran:
From Wikipedia’s entry on the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:
In 2011, ThinkProgress, a progressive advocacy organization, published FDD’s Form 990 documents that revealed where FDD funding came from, from 2001 to 2004. Donors included:
Roland Arnall: $1,802,000
Edgar M. and Charles Bronfman: $1,050,000
Michael Steinhardt: $850,000
Abramson Family Foundation (of Leonard Abramson): $822,523
Bernard Marcus: $600,000
Lewis Ranieri: $350,000
Paul Singer and Sheldon Adelson are also major donors.
ThinkProgress concluded, “Most of the major donors are active philanthropists to ‘pro-Israel’ causes both in the U.S. and internationally. With the disclosure of its donor rolls, it becomes increasingly apparent that FDD’s advocacy of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, its hawkish stance against Iran, and its defense of right-wing Israeli policy is consistent with its donors’ interests in ‘pro-Israel’ advocacy”.
Adelson, Singer and Marcus are all top donors to the GOP and Trump despite largely snubbing him during the election.
· Jan 4, 2020
FDD was founded to advance Israel’s interests in the US. The group led the effort to defeat the Iran nuclear deal and according to this New Yorker piece coordinated with an Israeli intelligence contractor to gather surveillance on US critics of Israel https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire …
Private Mossad for Hire
Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.
newyorker.com
1:08 PM - Jan 4, 2020
Pro-Israel activist Nikki Haley, who compared Trump to Dylann Roof during the election, has also got on the Trump train and is pushing for regime change in Iran.
✔@NikkiHaley
“The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership and Democrat Presidential candidates.”
She was just recently rewarded with a position on Boeing’s board of directors.
✔@mtracey
What's really being "mourned" is not Soleimani himself but the total devolution of US foreign policy into a neocon wet dream best represented by the likes of Nikki Haley https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1214376391229227008 …
There is almost always a direct profit motive with these creeps. https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/441705-nikki-haley-joins-boeing-board …
Nikki Haley joins Boeing board
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has officially joined Boeing's board of directors.
Presumably, Haley will be helping them in their super-successful quest to outsource all our jobs to India.
It’s worth noting that President Kushner is pushing for Haley to replace Mike Pence as Trump’s VP for 2020.
In November, Haley received the Theodor Herzl Award from World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder.
Stand For America@standamericanow
.@NikkiHaley on calling out anti-Semitism: "Whether it comes from Iran’s Supreme Leader, or the leader of Britain’s Labor Party, or a Congresswoman from Minnesota, or white supremacists on the internet... it must be called out for the dangerous bigotry that it is."
11:38 AM - Nov 8, 2019
The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump called Lauder up in late December to “yell” at him to “support” him with campaign cash because he has “done more for Jews than any other president” and “could still lose the Jewish vote”… Read the rest
This article originally appeared at Information Liberation.
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FLIP Those FSBOs
Up for a game? If you can deduce why FSBOs want to go it alone, you’ll be more likely to win their business.
BY ROBERT FREEDMAN
Watch TV game shows, and it’s hard not to wonder what goes on in the minds of contestants: Why isn’t he giving the obvious answer? Why doesn’t she take the money and run?
When the game is trying to capture FSBO business, it actually pays to spend time trying to get into the prospect’s head. FSBOs aren’t all cut from the same cloth. They have different motivations for wanting to sell without an agent. How you respond to their beliefs about the value of real estate agents and the cost of representation can have a direct impact on your bottom line.
“I make understanding why they’re going without representation a big part of how I approach them,” says John Maloof, sales associate with Century 21 Grande in Harwood Heights, Ill.
Look for clues about whether money, control, or another factor drives an owner’s desire to remain unrepresented. For example, owners who price high may just be testing the market. They may not want to sign a listing agreement because they’re not really motivated to sell. On the other hand, if the owners are pricing low to sell quickly, money is likely the concern because they don’t want to further deplete an already low price.
Money is probably less of a factor for sellers who’ve sold homes on their own before; they likely enjoy retaining control and may believe that representation isn’t necessary. And sellers who complain about the bad job the last salesperson did are probably worried less about spending money than they are about getting their money’s worth.
Once you know the why, you can tailor your marketing and listing presentation accordingly.
It’s the Money
A majority of unrepresented sellers (51 percent in 2006) chooses the FSBO route to avoid paying a commission, according to NAR data. Practitioners put the number even higher—some say 80 percent or more. “It’s always about the money, no matter what they say,” says Howard Gottlieb, associate broker of Keller Williams Real Estate in Langhorne, Pa.
To identify whether money is the sellers’ primary motivating factor, ask if they’d be willing to pay a commission if a practitioner brought them a buyer, suggests Maloof.
“If you ask them this, it eventually leads to what their motivation is,” he says. Many FSBOs will respond to Maloof’s question with something like, “The reason I’m going FSBO is because I don’t want to pay a commission.” Or they might say, “I don’t mind paying the commission; it’s the bad representation the last time I used a salesperson that bothers me.”
To show sellers that they’re being penny-wise but dollar-foolish by focusing on the commission, Maloof says he relies on 2005 NAR data showing that homes sold by practitioners fetch 16 percent more than those sold by FSBOs. The 2006 data shows an even greater difference for those who start out with an agent (see “FSBOs earn less on home sale,” page 32).
“FSBOs often end up showing a home to such a small universe of buyers that they don’t realize how much more they could get if they exposed the property to all the interested buyers out there,” he says.
Showing FSBOs the higher price they could realize with representation is especially important for sellers who are upside down on their mortgage and fear that having a salesperson involved in the transaction will mean coming to the closing table with their checkbook.
“These sellers don’t think it’s worth it for them to add in the cost of a commission until you show them how much more money they can get,” says Bruce Hackel, GRI, an associate with RE/MAX South Suburban in Flossmoor, Ill.
In many cases, friends or neighbors who had a successful experience going it alone persuade sellers to go without representation. “Their neighbors say, ‘We got $10,000 more as a FSBO than the house down the street,’ so they think they should do it, too,” says Chad Dion, a sales associate with RE/MAX Preferred in South Burlington, Vt. “What the neighbors don’t realize is [their] house might have actually sold for $25,000 more with the proper representation. Many sellers just don’t put a lot of value on the market knowledge we bring to the transaction.”
Qualified practitioners know the subtle pricing adjustments based on condition, neighborhood, comparables, and other market factors that can alter a home’s appeal to buyers, says Dion.
To attract money-sensitive sellers, Dean Nikodemski, GRI, broker-owner of Carolinas Real Estate in Charlotte, N.C., offers a graduated commission rate. The rate is based on the listing price, but the scale is lower than what he typically charges a non-FSBO customer.
“Once they see how much it would cost them to pay any cooperating broker who brings them a buyer, it becomes clear they’re not paying that much more to get professional representation on the listing side,” he says.
It’s About Trust and Control
Although money matters to every seller, keeping control of the transaction is another major reason sellers go the FSBO route. According to NAR data for 2006, about one in 10 FSBOs either wants to avoid contact with salespeople or feels dissatisfaction with a practitioner who couldn’t sell a home.
“After a bad experience, they want to know what’s going on,” says Dion.
Converting these disgruntled sellers means identifying the cause of their dissatisfaction, then showing how you can give them the help they need.
Maloof recently converted an unrepresented seller whose previous listing agent had failed to sell the home. He started by demonstrating where the first agent went wrong. Using a copy of the old MLS listing, Maloof walked the sellers through the previous salesperson’s mistakes, thereby demonstrating that he could manage the listing competently.
“The listing was described as a 2-bedroom when in fact it was a 3-bedroom; it included only one photo; and the cooperating commission was very low. I had the listing right there in my hand as we talked and I asked the owners if they knew any of this, and they said no,” said Maloof.
The mistake on the number of bedrooms was particularly damaging because buyers looking for a 3-bedroom home wouldn’t even see the couple’s house in an online search.
Disgruntled owners such as this are often easier to work with than sellers who are solely motivated by a desire to stay hands-on no matter what.
“Those who want to stay hands-on are very high-maintenance clients,” says Dion. “You’ll have a very tough couple of months if you end up listing their property. I won’t even work with them at this point, but it took me 10 years to learn that.”
Nikodemski lets control-oriented FSBOs know they can ask questions of him or other professionals with whom he maintains a relationship (including an attorney and a lender) for free. Of course, if sellers decide to use any of their services, the professionals charge a fee.
After their initial distrust, buyers gradually see Nikodemski as an ally rather than just another practitioner trying to get them to sign a listing agreement. Even if a particular owner remains unrepresented, the positive feelings this consultative approach creates may lead to referrals.
It’s About Already Having a Buyer
Perhaps the hardest type of FSBO to convert is the one who already has a buyer—or thinks so. In 2006, 22 percent of FSBOs successfully sold to a friend, neighbor, or family member. Another 12 percent had been contacted by an unsolicited buyer.Hard doesn’t mean impossible. Many FSBOs who think they’re all set to go learn the hard way that an expression of interest does not a transaction make.
“Nine times out of 10, their ‘friend’ doesn’t purchase the home,” says Jason L. Penrose, CRS®, GRI, an associate broker with Melcher Agency Real Estate in Phoenix. “Then these sellers are left trying to market their properties alone.”
“Sellers have an unrealistic expectation about how people behave,” agrees Hackel. “People say they’ll look at the house but don’t show up. Or they make promises and never call back.”
For this group of FSBOs, focus your presentation on the money they’re leaving on the table by not exposing the property to market forces. “If you’re selling to your neighbor, usually you’re selling too cheap,” says Maloof.
You also want to alert them to the risks of selling to someone with whom they have a relationship.
“I advise them that having me as part of the process helps limit the chances of the transaction going sour and putting them at risk of a lawsuit and a damaged relationship if their buyer is dissatisfied later,” says Penrose.
Even if the transaction seems likely to close, you can offer your expertise in handling the hundreds of details needed to get to closing. NAR’s 2006 survey found that handling paperwork was one of the two biggest concerns for unrepresented sellers.
“It can be scary for sellers working alone when their buyer is seeking 100 percent financing and wants closing costs funded from the transaction,” says Hackel. “We see that all the time, but they don’t.”
For these already-connected sellers, Penrose offers a pricing structure that’s lower than the one he typically negotiates. He also offers to work without a long-term listing agreement. “They can fire me at any time if they’re not happy,” he says. This easy exit strategy provides a comfort level for uncertain owners, he says.
Whatever their motivation for going it alone, unrepresented sellers who choose to make the switch and work with a real estate professional can win in the end with a quicker, easier transaction and a likely increase in what they realize from the sale. Your task is to find the most persuasive approach to help them to recognize your value.
4 Ways to Find FSBOs
Before you can convert them, you have to find them.
1. Look for a sign — or two. About 40 percent of FSBO sellers rely on a sign as their principal marketing tool. Drive different routes through your market area to look for FSBO signs.
2. Subscribe to a service. Services such as FSBO Hotsheet (www.fsbohotsheet.com), which combs through newspaper and magazine FSBO ads, generate daily lists of leads.
3. Generate your own lead lists. Read open house and For Sale listings in newspaper classifieds.
4. Check out FSBO Web sites. Owners.com and similar sites can help you pinpoint prospective new clients. Legal hint: Check FSBOs against the federal do-not-call list before you make a cold call. You can download five area codes for free at https://telemarketing.donotcall.gov.
FSBOs’ Main Concerns
Handling paperwork and preparing the home for sale are two of the biggest concerns for FSBOs, whether they know their buyer upfront or not. Among those who don’t know their buyer, generating interest is a top concern.
Didn’t know
their buyer
Knew their
Handling paperwork 17% 16%
Selling in time desired 17% 13%
Preparing home 16% 21%
Attracting buyers 15% N/A
Finding time to manage details 8% 10%
Setting price 7% 17%
Helping buyer find financing 2% 8%
Data from the NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers,
2006 edition, NAR Research
Why Go FSBO?
Saving on the commission remains the No. 1 reason sellers elect to go it alone, but that reason is declining, while knowing the buyer upfront is a growing reason.
Commission savings 61% 53% 51%
Sell to friend, relative, neighbor 17% 22% 22%
Buyers contacted seller 9% 9% 12%
Avoid dealing with agent 6% 8% 8%
Seller has real estate license 2% 2% 2%
Agent unable to sell home 2% 3% 3%
Couldn’t find agent 1% N/A 1%
Other 2% 3% 2%
2004, 2005, and 2006 editions, NAR Research
Will They Go FSBO Again?
Recent FSBOs who knew their buyer were more likely than those who didn’t to say they’ll turn to an agent the next time they sell.
Yes, will go FSBO again 46% 13%
Not sure 44% 51%
No, will use agent next time 10% 35%
FSBOs Earn Less on Home Sale
Unrepresented sellers have a median household income that’s only about 11 percent lower than that of sellers who use an agent from the get-go, but FSBOs’ homes sell for 25 percent less.
(median)
Agent-assisted $87,100 $250,000
First FSBO, then agent-assisted $70,700 $192,000
FSBO/don’t know buyers $77,800 $187,200
Happy Convert: From FSBO to Client
In the then-hot Phoenix real estate market, home sellers Ron and Sherry Creer saw little need for professional representation when they decided to sell their home. They expected a steady stream of buyers from the several other houses for sale in their neighborhood, so why pay a commission? “Rather than pay an agent, we thought we’d use the money we’d save to fix up our new house,” says Sherry.
The Creers had just bought a 100-year-old house in Grand Junction, Colo., and were giving it a top-to-bottom redo. But after weeks went by with little traffic, they were grateful when Jason L. Penrose stopped by to chat and offered help with no strings attached.
Penrose, CRS®, GRI, an associate broker with Melcher Agency Real Estate in Phoenix, went with the classic approach to converting FSBOs: He cultivated the Creers’ trust by providing useful information and then was ready to help when they realized they couldn’t do it alone.
“I never felt he was pushing us. He was very honest and open, and he gave us information we could use,” says Sherry. “After we talked to him a few times, we decided to list with him.”
In the end, the Creers consider the commission they paid Penrose money well spent. Not only did he find a buyer, but “he got us out of a big jam,” says Sherry. “There was a last-minute snag with the financing, and the whole deal was about to collapse. But Jason was able to clear it up really quickly so we could sell the house.”
Unconverted FSBO: The Market Was Too Good
Before Benjamin Kende put his home on the market during the sizzling hot seller’s market in suburban Chicago, he listened to a listing presentation from a friend who was a real estate practitioner. But, among other factors, the lure of saving the commission money was too strong, and he opted to sell his house on his own.
“If the market wasn’t as good or if I wasn’t as proud of my home as I was, I might have gone with an agent,” Kende says. The fact that the couple was in no hurry to sell also made going FSBO more inviting.
To generate buyers, Kende and his wife sent a letter to their wide network of friends and neighbors, advertised in the newspapers, and hosted an open house. Within a week, the Kendes had four offers. The eventual buyer was a neighbor who had been to many get-togethers at their house over the years.
“We had a lot of parties,” says Kende. “People knew what our house looked like.”
Despite his success at going it alone, Kende says he has no illusions about the unique nature of the seller’s market at the time. That’s why he might rely on a professional next time. Should he seek representation in the future, one marketing tactic he’ll want his agent to try is a letter-writing campaign similar to the one he and his wife used. “It’s the one thing we did that we don’t find many agents doing, and it helped generate buyers,” he says.
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Google Now Launches on iOS to Challenge Apple's Siri
The search giant's virtual assistant will challenge the Mac maker's.
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Search giant Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has updated its flagship Google Search app on Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform to version 3.0.0, bringing its Now virtual assistant to the rival operating system for the first time. Now offers functionalities that will rival Apple's own Siri virtual assistant.
Google Now launched on Android last summer alongside 4.1 Jelly Bean, while Siri was released in 2011 with the iPhone 4S. Many consider Google Now to be superior to Siri, since Google has a larger collection of user data that it can use to proactively suggest things, such as when someone should leave earlier for their commute due to congested traffic.
Now and Siri will compete much like Google Maps and Apple Maps do, offering rival services for iOS users.
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Every word Frank Lampard just said on Man United loss, VAR, Batshuayi, Kante and Maguire
The Blues are now just one point ahead of Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League places after their 2-0 defeat to Manchester United at Stamford Bridge
Frank Lampard and Jody Morris during Chelsea's loss to Manchester United (Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images) (Image: Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images)
Decisions went against you. VAR?
“Decisions like that are crucial. Maguire should have got a red and then scores the second goal. I think that is a major part what VAR was brought in for. The second viewing, different angles. The referee can’t see all the angles, so if you aren’t going to look at the monitor then you won’t see them. That one was wrong. The Zouma one I think should have stood. At first I didn’t it looked like a shove from Azpilicueta. But you see it again and he gets shoved in the first place. It’s certainly not clear and obvious. The goal is given and he gets a shove, then you say goal given. Giroud was offside."
What did you say or the referee say to you?
"It was behind me to be fair. He didn’t say anything. I had nothing clear to say, when the VAR check happens you are waiting and trusting the right decision. I didn’t have anything to say.”
An obvious frustration then?
“Yeah. It is just the wrong decision. Which is harder to take. It is what it was brought in for. Love it or hate it but if they see it and make the right decision then fine. It is confusing, though, with all the angles that it is the wrong decision. It is universally the wrong decision, everyone I have spoken to, not just in our changing room but neutrals as well have said the same.”
Concerned about the form?
“I don’t like the word concerned, because this game will throw up the word concerned when you have six or seven on the bounce. Concerned about many factors. I don’t like losing games, the way we are losing games. Losing games, particularly at home, where we have had big chunks of possession, big chances at goal, around goal but not finishing. It is a reality that is getting clearer all the time. We are not getting enough goals in the striker areas. Tammy had his period at the beginning of the season, now we are not getting enough. Enough from wide areas. That is a fact. It is hard to win games. You can dominate as much of the game as you want, but this Premier League there are not many teams who can keep clean sheets week in, week out. We have a feeling of superiority at the beginning of the game, we have started games very well. I have hardly ever looked at the team and said ‘started sloppy, slowly’. But not many. If you don’t take your chances, then silly moments like allowing headers, particularly from the set piece changes the game.”
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Regrets about not signing anyone in January?
"I honestly don’t want to talk about the window because it affects nothing now. The reality is, when you watch it every week, like I do, I watch and we go over the games again and the stats, that we create as much as anyone, barring Liverpool. I know that. We are not finishing them. I don’t want to talk about regrets. The window is shut, we have to look forward. We are in fourth by a point, which means that we need to get fourth place."
Michy Batshuayi lacking confidence?
“Maybe, but confidence is part of football and the only way I felt that you get over that is hard work. Complete dedication and hard work. Every player will go through it. Doesn’t matter who you are, you will have varying levels of confidence. The only thing for me was hard work, that goes for any player.”
What was the injury to N'Golo Kante?
"It’s an adductor injury. We will have to assess it, scan it. But it doesn’t look great.”
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Related to previous injuries?
“I don’t know that yet, for sure. I can’t give you that information. It’s the same leg, so similar.”
Lost all three games against United. Wonder how you haven’t won any of them?
“No because football is what it is. They are going to score goals and have those moments, we can’t be naive to that. But when you look at the reality that we scored one goal in those three games, 60 minutes of being the better team at Old Trafford, at home here clearly the better team and today again the better team. I don’t want to sound like I am naive, but it is football. We are going to lose games if we don’t score and you give them a chance. To be fair to Manchester United, they are a fantastic counter-attacking team. They didn’t give us loads of problems on the counter today. A couple of small ones, but we gave them two headers. It’s something you can’t do. That is a moment for the players, you can’t let them run in the box, you have to jump and head it away.”
Does OGS set up his teams better against better teams?
“I don’t know but we have come up against a lot of teams here at the Bridge who have set up with five at the back, deep block and we have had problems. We create a lot of chances, but when a lot of teams defend the box then you need to be extra clinical. Extra sharp about getting shots away and on target, we have struggled against that in general.”
Chelsea's Champions League squad
Kepa Arrizabalaga, Willy Caballero, Jamie Cumming*, Nicolas Tie*
Cesar Azpilicueta, Marcos Alonso, Emerson Palmieri, Antonio Rudiger, Andreas Christensen, Kurt Zouma, Fikayo Tomori, Reece James*
Jorginho, N'Golo Kante, Mateo Kovacic, Ross Barkley, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Billy Gilmour*, Mason Mount*
Willian, Pedro, Tammy Abraham, Christian Pulisic, Olivier Giroud, Michy Batshuayi, Callum Hudson-Odoi*
* B-list players
Does the Man City situation ease pressure on fourth?
“It’s potential, though. When there is question mark over an appeal I don’t think we can get caught up with that in those terms. All we can do is say that we are fourth so it is in our hands. We want that fourth, or look up above us and close the gap. That is a game by game situation. The gap is closed, but I don’t think many people thought we’d be fourth by this point of the season. The fight starts now and we can’t effect the Man City situation.”
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Can Crispr-Based Covid-19 Testing Using Smartphones Slow The Pandemic?
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A new CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 developed by researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, ... [+] and UC San Francisco essentially converts a smartphone camera into a microscope to provide a positive or negative test result and measure viral load.
We continue to struggle with the ongoing pandemic in the U.S. due to political and cultural influences on mitigation measures (wearing masks, distancing), the lack of a comprehensive national testing strategy, but also due to the difficulty in reliably identifying symptomatic, asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19.
While we typically wait for many days to get results from PCR-based nasal swabs, a test which has been inappropriately used to screen the U.S. population for SARS-CoV-2, two recent proof-of-concept studies using novel smartphone-based Crispr technology coupled with optics and fluorescence detection may be poised to change how we approach not only rapid testing and screening, but also testing for acute infection. Interestingly, the motivation for research to enable Crispr-based Covid-19 monitoring was actually inspired by the need for rapid HIV testing and for patients to be aware of their viral loads without the need for formal laboratory monitoring.
In short, Crispr has the potential to augment our current approach to testing if, in future studies, it is shown to demonstrate comparable or improved accuracy or sensitivity (as the gold standard PCR-based approach). This novel technology is now possible due to advances that obviate the need to amplify SARS-CoV-2 RNA, a rate-limiting step in standard Crispr technology, thus enabling point-of-care testing using smartphones.
Newly published research in the journal Cell last week from Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley sets the stage for such a shift in our current paradigm for testing. Dr. Jennifer Doudna, one of the collaborating authors of this novel amplification-free RNA approach to Crispr-based smartphone testing described in this paper, was also the co-recipient (along with Emmanuelle Carpentier) of the 2020 Nobel prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work in Crispr gene editing.
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“Our study shows that we can do the detection part of this assay very quickly, making the measurement with mass-produced consumer electronics," said Daniel Fletcher, PhD, a bioengineer at the University of California in Berkeley and co-senior author on the paper, in a press release. "We don't need fancy laboratory equipment."
To be more specific, the researchers developed a proof-of-concept amplification-free, rapid Crispr-Cas13a assay to directly detect SARS-CoV-2 from nasal swab RNA that can be read by converting a cellphone camera into a specialized microscope. This assay, distinct from prior Crispr diagnostics, does not require pre-amplification of the viral genome (utilizing DNA) to ultimately detect SARS CoV-2 RNA. Specifically, RNA in the sample can be detected using the Cas13 enzyme, eliminating the need for reverse transcription of RNA into DNA, and then amplification by PCR-based technology used in current standard tests. Moreover, by employing direct detection of the viral RNA, the test is able to provide a numerical value of RNA copies, as opposed to just a positive or negative result, as with standard PCR-based testing. The new assay is simple, portable and measures fluorescence using a smartphone camera that attaches to a compact laser-based device.
"It's super exciting to have this quantitative aspect in the assay," said Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, a virologist at Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco. "PCR is the gold standard, but you have to go through so many steps. There are huge opportunities here for pathogens and for biology in general to make RNA quantification more precise."
The clinical value of this novel amplification-free Crispr-based approach certainly lies in its speed, without compromising sensitivity. The assay correctly identified all SARS-CoV-2 positive RNA samples from patients tested [Cycle threshold (Ct) values 14-22] within 5 minutes after being measured on the smartphone device, demonstrating its potential value as a rapid, accurate, portable and potentially low-cost approach for point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 screening. Obviously, additional work will be required to translate this proof-of-concept study into widely available point-of-care device.
While nasal swab RNA was used for evaluation in Ott and Fletcher’s study, another group of researchers from Tulane led by Drs. Bo Ning and Tony Hu decided to pursue the potential for a 15 minute saliva-based point-of-care test, also employing the use of Crispr and smartphone-based technology. Their proof of concept study, published last week in Science Advances, tested in 12 people with active Covid-19 infections as well as 6 healthy controls.
In an nutshell, the Tulane researchers found that their approach, which combines a fluorescence microscope readout device with a smartphone to determine viral load from a Crispr/Cas12a assay, worked as effectively as the well-established quantitative PCR method.
"We believe this smartphone platform, a similar future application, offers the potential to rapidly expand Covid-19 screening capacity, and potentially simplify the verification of contact tracing, to improve local containment and inform regional disease control efforts," the authors write.
At this time, Covid-19 testing requires swabbing the upper part of the throat behind the nose. It’s an uncomfortable process that requires medical professionals in full PPE to collect samples before running PCR tests. However, recent studies have found that SARS-CoV-2 may be equally present in the nasopharynx and the saliva during early infection, suggesting saliva-based Covid-19 tests could enable comparably reliable but simpler, safer testing. And while saliva may be less sensitive compared to nasal swab RNA for PCR-based testing, this may still be acceptable if frequently used for screening or surveillance in those who remain asymptomatic.
To develop a widely accessible platform for saliva-based testing, Ning and colleagues built a prototype assay chip that uses the Crispr/Cas12a enzyme to enhance an amplified viral RNA target's signal within a saliva sample. They integrated the chip into a smartphone-based fluorescence microscope readout device, which captures and analyzes images to determine whether the virus is present above a threshold concentration. The researchers using this approach successfully distinguished between patients with and without the virus.
The Tulane researchers further compared nasal and saliva swabs from non-human primates before and after infection with Covid-19. They found higher SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in saliva, further suggesting that saliva may provide a promising means of diagnosis, and potential surveillance, after infection. They also believe that a future version of the chip used in this technique could contain pre-loaded reagents and sample controls, paired with a smartphone app could transmit data securely, thereby strengthening the power of telehealth to allow contact tracing and population surveillance during the pandemic.
Eric Topol, M.D, Executive VP, Scripps Research, Professor, Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, Director & Founder, Scripps Research Translational Institute, and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape feels that development of such technologies will accelerate progress in developing rapid, home-based Covid-19 testing. “I do believe this remarkable capability of using smartphone, Crispr genome editing, a kit, and a swab (preferably from anterior nares, not saliva) will enable very rapid, accurate, and inexpensive home tests for Covid-19 infectiousness. Having these or other rapid home tests widely and freely available ASAP—in every household—is essential to contain the pandemic.”
Michael Mina MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Assistant Professor in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard Chan School and Associate Medical Director in Clinical Microbiology and Virology in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, concurred. “I think these [CRISPR-based] approaches hold tremendous promise! Theoretically, they can become as sensitive and specific as PCR—and potentially more specific than lab-based PCR because there can be less chance of contamination from other specimens.”
“These assays that use Crispr as well as tests like Jonathan Rothberg’s hybrid LAMP/paper strip test (the proteins on the paper strip capture the amplicons, instead of unamplified antigen) can be very very powerful,” added Mina.
Paradigm for Covid-19 Screening and Surveillance
The current gold standard approach for diagnosing acute infection with SARS-Cov-2, the PCR assay, is inappropriately and widely used as an approach for general screening in the U.S.
Issues with PCR include prolonged turnaround time (still several days, in some cases)—allowing one to continue transmitting the virus while awaiting results if not quarantined—as well as it’s high sensitivity, which can be problematic in those people who end up testing positive after the period of acute infection has passed, as small fragments of non-infectious RNA remain in the body turning the test “positive”, although you are not infectious to others and no longer able to spread the disease. This results in needless quarantines of non-infectious individuals from falsely positive results, but also the potential for false negatives if performed at points before or after the the viral load peaks. Instead, PCR’s are ideal for someone who is acutely ill with the virus, for whom you have high suspicion of illness.
Consequently, a PCR test’s utility in screening and surveillance is compromised by both lack of speed and being too sensitive a test for the purpose of conducting surveillance and reducing transmission in an at-risk population. Instead, what’s actually needed are point-of-care tests which have a lower sensitivity, but can be performed in the home setting (like a pregnancy test) more often in order to make up for a lower threshold of detection. This is the premise behind rapid viral antigen testing which detects small of viral proteins instead of viral RNA fragments.
While there may certainly be enthusiasm for a Crispr-based smartphone approach for testing, Mina believes that “they will not be able to scale as quickly as high-volume antigen tests at this point, so I think a terrific use of them could be the orthogonal confirmation of rapid antigen tests. These rapid molecular tests can serve as the gold standard in many ways. And I believe that they serve to indicate a changing tide in medical diagnostics and public health, a democratization of testing which people clearly are yearning for.”
But one important issue with tests that are so sensitive is detecting viral RNA fragments in those who aren’t infectious any longer, testing positive— but not able to spread Covid-19. “The only lingering issue for molecular RNA SARS-C0V-2 detecting tests is that they are so sensitive that like PCR, they will detect RNA long after somebody has been infected and infectious,” explained Mina. “This has been a major issue that has not been well discussed by the regulatory agencies nor the CDC but it is a problem.”
“People can remain positive for months potentially after being infectious—that’s why these tests have to be used cautiously, he warned. “If they are used as confirmatory test for the rapid antigen tests, which can sometimes have small numbers of false positives, then they become very very powerful confirmatory tools because they are identifying entirely distinct molecules. In addition, if they are being used after a positive rapid antigen test, the likelihood that somebody who turns positive on the RNA test who is still infectious is very high, so using it to confirm rapid antigen tests (which are positive only when someone is likely infectious) sort of solves the issue of detecting people long after they have been infectious.”
“But the molecular tests that can be used at home hold so much more promise as well for the future of infectious disease monitoring and many other conditions: they should become part of our normal lives in the future so that people do not have to always go visit a doctor if they just want to know if they have influenza or if their child has other viruses,” offered Mina.
“They can also serve to provide a powerful tool for many other diagnostic uses in the future,” he concluded.
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By Taryn Asher and FOX 2 Staff
DETROIT (FOX 2) - UPDATE (1-14): Mike Lackomar said his group has reconsidered and is not expected to protest Sunday. He said the determining factor were reports that the Proud Boys group was expected to also protest. His group wanted to avoid the potential conflict with the Proud Boys, who have a reputation for physical altercations around the country at some public events.
A Michigan militia plans to protest outside the State Capitol Sunday. Their leader said his group will be loud and be armed but he does not expect trouble unless they have to defend themselves.
"I don't anticipate anything like that happening again in the near future without a particular amount of provocation," said Mike Lackomar.
State militia planning protest at Lansing Capitol for Sunday
The FBI has been alerted about the Sunday rally and we've learned the Michigan State Police is working with the Michigan National Guard, which has a quick reaction force ready to go if any violence erupts on Sunday and up until the inauguration.
Lackomar, the team leader for the Southeast Michigan Militia. He doesn't agree with the violence that took over the US Capitol last week.
His group, made up of about 217 militia members, created quite a disruption when they carried guns into the State Capitol protesting the governor's stay at home order last April.
"In Michigan we have a number of issues that concern us," he said. "Obviously the election, questions as to how our state handled the federal election and we are also going on our 11th month of severe Covid restrictions in our state."
Mike Lackomar
"The things I would look for to make things a little more contentious - would be the forced removal of President Trump before that date, crackdowns by a new administration after they take office, or at a state level: extensions or crackdowns over the restrictions we are already living under," he said.
FOX 2: "With the new Biden administration, the militia is not going to agree with a lot of things. What sort of retaliation should we expect?"
"First of all we are going to do what we've always done, we will be loud, we will be visible, and we will make our voices heard," he said.
FOX 2: "Could we see violence once again?"
"It depends on how we are pushed," Lackomar said. "If we are forced to defend ourselves, we will defend ourselves. If our rights are violated, we will resist that violation with whatever level we need to."
FOX 2: "Are you talking about storming the Capitol again at the State Capitol?
"That is not in the cards at the moment," he said. "We have no plans of storming the Capitol."
Mike Lackomar, the team leader for the Southeast Michigan Militia
Lackomar said his group is not affiliated with the Wolverine Watchmen militia that is accused of plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying that is a private club.
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Nutrition and Rural Development MSc
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In the first academic year of the MSc program, the students of the 3 main subjects have several courses in common, aiming in giving them all an in-depth knowledge and know-how related to nutrition and rural development related topics, creating a common academic level between all program students of diverse backgrounds. Read more
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Sindy scoops GOLO's first big prize
THE first big winner of Godalming’s town lottery has been announced.
Winner of the very first GOLO charity draw, Sindy Hammond, with Di Clift from GOLO
Sindy Hammond scooped the top prize of £500 at the first official GOLO draw, which was held as part of the Town Day celebrations.
In addition to Ms Hammond’s top prize, 16 other winners of smaller amounts were also drawn.
She was due to be presented with a cheque for £500 at the Party Company where she bought her winning ticket.
Di Clift, from the GOLO team, said: “We are absolutely delighted with the response we’ve had to the first month of GOLO. The first draw was so much fun and we’re really pleased it went so well.
“We sold more than 2,000 tickets and have already raised substantial funds for local good causes. We would like to encourage more people to take part though, because the more who join in, the more money we’ll raise.
“There are still plenty of prizes to be claimed, so check your ticket numbers and look at the list of winners at the outlets where GOLO tickets are sold."
The first people to benefit from the GOLO good causes fund will be children from Chase, the children’s hospice, and Young Carers [children who look after disabled parents or siblings].
They will be treated to trips to see Sleeping Beauty at the Ben Travers Theatre in Godalming and Aladdin at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
Godalming retailer Work Station sold the most GOLO tickets for November, winning a bottle of champagne from lottery chairman Steven Haines.
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Coronavirus in Scotland: 141 new confirmed cases, 68 of which reported in Greater Glasgow area
No new deaths of people who have tested positive were reported in the last 24 hours.
No new deaths of people who have tested positive were reported in the last 24 hours. (Image: Andrew Milligan/REUTERS)
141 people in Scotland have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 21,189.
This includes 68 cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde area and 20 cases in Lanarkshire, with the total number of cases in the Glasgow area now numbering 5,777.
Appeal to help trace missing Stepps teenager Caitlin Mcerlean
Dog rushed to vets after wolfing down face mask on walk as vets issue plea to public
Two people were in intensive care with confirmed Covid-19, with 251 people in hospitals across Scotland with confirmed cases of the virus.
Of these 251, 152 were in Glasgow (the same as Friday's figures) and eight were in Lanarkshire (also as per Friday's figures).
The latest figures comes amid a warning that lockdown measures could be reintroduced in Lanarkshire because of rising infection rates in the region.
NHS Lanarkshire's director of public heath Gabe Docherty said yesterday that the figures "should be a wake-up call".
Police ScotlandHunt for pervert who exposed himself to young woman in ClydebankPolice are appealing for witnesses to track down creep who targeted 19-year-old last night
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New hires on Viracon architectural design team
By Viracon
Oct. 8, 2013 – Viracon
has announced the hire of Jennifer Highfield as its newest
architectural design specialist. Jennifer will work closely with
architects and designers in all Viracon markets. Highfield comes to
Viracon with a Bachelor of Science degree in interior design from
Minnesota State University, Mankato and more than 15 years of design
experience, including running her own interior design business.
Oct. 8, 2013 – Viracon has announced the hire of Jennifer Highfield as its newest architectural design specialist. Jennifer will work closely with architects and designers in all Viracon markets. Highfield comes to Viracon with a Bachelor of Science degree in interior design from Minnesota State University, Mankato and more than 15 years of design experience, including running her own interior design business.
Jennifer Highfield
In addition, Marni Windschitl has been promoted to architectural design associate within the design department. Windschitl has been with Viracon since 2004, first as a member of the inside sales team and for the past 18 months as a specialist in the architectural design department. Windschitl will continue to be a valuable resource for architects’ aesthetic and technical inquiries. She will now have the increased responsibility of meeting with architects in their offices to provide education regarding the vast Viracon product portfolio and consulting with architects on project specific glass selection.
Marni Windschitl
Viracon’s architectural design team provides a significant service by assisting architects through their process of selecting glass products to meet design and performance requirements.
“Our goal is to make the glass selection process as easy as possible for architects by providing everything from appearance characteristics of our glass products to energy performance to LEED information and more,” says Alissa Schmidt. “Adding Jennifer and moving Marni into an expanded role reinforces Viracon’s desire to offer exceptional architectural support."
Alissa Schmidt
Schmidt herself was recently promoted to technical resources manager at Viracon. She also has an interior design degree and has been with Viracon since 2005, where she started as a specialist in the architectural design department and most recently was managing the department. In her new role, Schmidt is responsible for managing Viracon’s architectural design and technical services departments with a specific focus on effective utilization of the team members as well as process improvements.
“I felt it was the right time to implement an organizational structure that takes advantage of the synergies of both departments and enhances the capabilities and services we provide to our customers,” says Rick Voelker, vice-president of technical services.
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