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Position Grades Against Louisiana Tech
Posted on October 3, 2020 / by [email protected]_84 /
BYU is 3-0 for the first time since 2014. Today, let’s look at every position group and give them a grade for their performance against Louisiana Tech.
Quarterback: A+
Zach Wilson essentially played a perfect game against Louisiana Tech. Wilson accounted for five touchdowns, 325 passing yards, and 43 rushing yards. Wilson is playing quarterback at a level that BYU fans haven’t seen since Max Hall and John Beck.
Running Back: B
Tyler Allgeier played an efficient game on Friday night. Allgeier ran for 93 yards on 10 carries. Katoa was less efficient against the Bulldogs than he was in the first two games – Katoa ran for 23 yards on 11 carries. It’s worth noting that some of Katoa’s best runs were brought back by holding penalti
Wide Receiver: A-
Gunner Romney is playing at a very high level right now – he had over 100 receiving yards for the third time this season. Dax Milne and Neil Pau’u played well with 89 yards and 61 yards respectively
Tight Ends: B+
Carter Wheat saw his first significant targets in a BYU uniform – he did not disappoint. Wheat made a nice grab on a beautiful throw from Wilson for a 22-yard touchdown.
Fullbacks: A
Masen Wake played a fantastic game at fullback. Check out his pancake block on Tyler Allgeier’s long touchdown run that was eventually overturned.
He also set the tone in the second half with this reception:
Offensive Line: B+
BYU’s offensive line played another good game on Friday night. However, they were called for a few holding penalties bringing their grade down to a ‘B+’.
Defensive Line: A-
Newcomer Tyler Batty accounted for three sacks against the Bulldogs. Batty has the potential to be a star at defensive end for years to come. Batty will start to see more and more playing time as the season progresses.
Khyiris Tonga was a man amongst boys last night.
Linebackers: B+
BYU’s linebackers have been consistently good for the Cougars in 2020. I would like to see this group create a few more takeaways over the next few weeks.
Defensive Backs: B-
Besides a 66-yard touchdown in the first quarter that included some suspect tackling, BYU’s defensive backs played a good game against the Bulldogs.
Troy Warner had his first interception of his BYU career when Louisiana Tech was starting to gain some momentum.
Special Teams: B
Jake Oldroyd has been perfect in 2020. Ryan Rehkow has been effective in limited action. I would like to see some more from BYU’s return game.
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Rotherham Council urges everyone to get tested for Covid-19 - amid high new infection figures
By Chloe West | 13/07/2020
Teresa Roche, Rotherham Council's director of public health
PEOPLE in Rotherham are being urged to get tested for Covid-19 this week whether they have symptoms or not - as the borough is still one of the highest in the country for new infection rates.
Rotherham Council said Public Health England (PHE) and national leaders have granted permission for enhanced testing to be undertaken across South Yorkshire - aimed at accelerating the decline in new cases.
Teresa Roche, the council's director of public health, said the number of people becoming infected with coronavirus in Rotherham and across South Yorkshire was still too high.
She added: "We are changing our testing strategy to include people with no symptoms of Coronavirus. We are working with PHE to increase access to test sites to make it easier for people in Rotherham to get tested."
The borough's latest testing strategy was announced at the newly established Rotherham Local Outbreak Engagement Board on Friday - and further information for how people with no symptoms can get tested is expected this week.
Latest PHE data on new infection rates from swap testing between June 29 and July 5, Rotherham had 21.5 new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people - placing the borough as the sixth worst in the country.
Dr Richard Jenkins, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust said: "These additional measures are to try to bring down the rate of infections in the borough as quickly as possible.
"This extra effort will help us to identify more people with the coronavirus, who may not be showing symptoms. More testing will inevitably mean more positive cases, but it gives us a better chance of getting on top of the spread of the virus.”
Speaking after the meeting, chair of the Local Outbreak Engagement Board, and Leader of Rotherham Council, Cllr Chris Read said the council would continue to take a cautious approach to reopening services such as libraries and leisure facilities, and the council’s main customer contact centre at Riverside House, and that services not yet reopened will remain under review.
"We all want to get back to normal as quickly as possible, but we cannot afford to take any chances," added Cllr Read.
"People must continue to keep two metres apart, wash their hands often, self-isolate if they have symptoms and get tested as soon as possible, if we are to prevent even more people from dying of this terrible virus."
Cllr Read said that he himself would be getting tested and urged others to do the same.
As part of ongoing work on outbreak control work in Rotherham, one Rotherham business was reported to have taken the decision to close part of its site for two weeks on Friday, following an outbreak among its 35 workers.
Cllr Read added: “This is a laudable step from a company taking responsibility for the safety of its workforce and a credit to management. It is entirely possible that other workplaces will need to take similar steps over the coming days and weeks and all our agencies stand ready to support firms who might be facing an outbreak.”
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PhD Day Groningen 2017
Wanneer: vr 22-09-2017 08:30 - 18:00
Waar: De Oosterpoort, Trompsingel 27, Groningen
This year’s PhD Day Groningen will be bigger than ever before! On 22 September, the PhD Day will be organised by PhD students from the University of Groningen (UG) for PhD students to broaden their research and career perspectives. Registration opens on 1 June. Spread the word to your fellow PhD students and be sure to sign up if you want to be ensured of a spot.
Every year the PhD Day attracts hundreds of PhDs from different disciplines from all over the Netherlands, making it one of the biggest career events in the country. This year’s theme is “Your Talent Matters!”. Our aim is to emphasize that the talents of PhD students extend beyond writing a thesis. PhDs are challenged to further explore these talents and to use them in their future career inside or outside academia. The day will be filled with talks and workshops, and will end with an optional dinner and drinks. The first confirmed speakers are:
Nobel Prize winner Prof. Ben Feringa
dr. Malvina Nissim, Teacher of the Year 2016
Camiel Verschoor, cofounder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence software company birds.ai
philosopher dr. Menno de Bree
Prof. Ingrid Molema, who is involved in the Talent Development program at the University of Groningen
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By Alfonz Juck on January 9, 2018 9:26 AM | 0 Comments
Dina Asher-Smith, photo by PhotoRun.net
Schippers vs Asher-Smith
GLASGOW (GBR): World 200m champion Dafne Schippers and European 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith will face each other over 60m at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow on 25 February, informs organisers. "We have some very strong female sprinters in the world at the moment and Dafne is certainly one of them. My aim over the next few years is to keep improving and turn my fourth and fifth places into podium finishes. The races in Glasgow are sure to be great," said Asher-Smith, who is aiming to skip the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham ahead of the Commonwealth Games in April.
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Any possible port disruption will be short-lived, says UK's Gove
FILE PHOTO: A Stena Line ferry from Dublin arrives at the port of Holyhead on the island of Anglesey, Britain, December 14, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - Any possible disruption at Britain’s ports after Britain ends its status quo transition period with the European Union and introduces new customs rules will be short-lived, British minister Michael Gove said on Thursday.
Asked about a previous warning from government that even with a trade agreement, 7,000 trucks heading for ports in southeast England could be held in queues, Gove told a parliamentary committee that was a worst-case scenario.
“I would expect that we would find that after an initial few days and weeks of potential disruption that things will resolve themselves and find a new normal relatively early in the new year,” he added.
Reporting by William James and Elizabeth Piper, editing by Estelle Shirbon
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In response to a Trump supporter
I’m responding to the letter to the editor published May 22 from a reader stating her support for Trump. I see him much differently than she does.
In her letter she states that she is thankful he wants our country and our economy to prosper. Right now it certainly isn’t. Most of the people prospering are wealthy and the ones who got the biggest tax cut. He hasn’t done much for the working class.
She is thankful for how Trump handled the COVID virus. I’m certainly NOT thankful or happy how he handled the COVID crisis. If he had taken it seriously, when it was first reported, our country could have taken action and been better prepared to fight this virus and lives would be saved. Instead he called it a “hoax.” He said the outbreak would be temporary and “It’s going to disappear.” It hasn’t disappeared! It is n ow a full-blown pandemic and it’s far from over! The United States has over 96,000 deaths due to the virus and that number is rising. I’m sure the families and friends of the deceased don’t think it a “hoax.”
Another thing she is thankful for is how he cares for the American people and value lives. Does a person who cares make fun of and bully people? Does a person who value lives refuse to wear a mask in public? Wearing a mask is a way to take reasonable precautions from further spreading of the virus. If he really cares about lives, he would wear a mask in public to set a good example and to protect those around him.
The May 22 letter to the editor states: “He is criticized with every decision he made but he kept reaching out to governors to help them.” Really? I disagree with this. From what I have seen it depends on “WHO” the governor is and “WHAT” political party they belong to. One of his remarks about the governors was they “have to treat us well” if they want face masks and ventilators.
Most of the time I have trouble understanding what he says. How can a president say he is proud and “it’s a badge or honor” that because of testing the United States has the most coronavirus cases in the world. Is this REALLY something to be proud of? He has also said “without testing we would have very few cases.”
In her letter, she said she is thankful he doesn’t apologize to other foreign leaders for our “behavior.” I don’t understand what she means by this. What foreign countries? What behavior? He should be apologizing to the American citizens for his delayed response and mishandling of this virus.
The one thing I do agree with her on is when she says “he can be mouthy and abrasive sometimes.”
BOB BEVERIDGE,
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The Use of Force Policy (https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcj/agguide/useofforce2001.pdf) is a policy that applies to all 36,000 state, county, and local law enforcement officers in New Jersey, outlines when an officer may—and may not—use force against a civilian. As part of the revision process, the Attorney General is seeking input from a wide range of stakeholders, including police officers, civil rights organizations, religious leaders, victims’ advocates, youth groups, and community members. To facilitate this effort, the Attorney General is partnering with the state’s County Prosecutors to host listening sessions this summer in all twenty-one of New Jersey’s counties.
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Here’s how you can support women in period poverty in Ireland
by Kat O'Connor
Once a month us women have to endure the utter joy that is the period. Cramps, bleeding, headaches, tender boobs, backache and acne are just some of the things we have to cope with during our ‘time of the month’.
Many women will spot little signs that warns them their period is on the way, whether that’s feeling extremely emotional or suffering a massive breakout on your chin.
We gorge on as much chocolate as we want, dose ourselves up with Feminax and rush to the local Boots to make sure our sanitary product supply is well stocked up.
A post shared by HomelessPeriodIreland (@homelessperiodireland) on Jul 9, 2018 at 11:49pm PDT
I’m sure we’ve all had that moment of dread when you’re out in public and your period decides to surprise you by making an unexpected appearance.
You have no tampons or pads in your bag, but luckily there’s a pharmacy on practically every street in Ireland so all you have to do is pop in and pick up some supplies.
To many, it isn’t a major purchase, but to 50 percent of Irish women sanitary products are a mass expense.
A post shared by HomelessPeriodIreland (@homelessperiodireland) on Jul 6, 2018 at 6:51am PDT
In a study conducted by Plan International, nearly 10 percent of participants admitted they have had no choice but to use a “less than suitable sanitary product” because of the cost.
There are girls as young as 12-years-old struggling to buy pads once a month, something that shouldn’t be happening in 2018.
In recent years, the women of Ireland have proved that together we can make a difference. We no longer underestimate our power, our strength and determination to make this country a better place for women.
There are so many things you can do to help tackle period poverty in Ireland.
1: Normalise periods:
For years, women have been too ashamed to talk about their period, even though it’s a completely natural thing that nearly every woman will experience at some point in her life. We mutter phrases like, “I have my thing,” or “It’s just a girly problem,” as we avoid eye-contact and blush with embarrassment. It’s time for us to realise that simply saying: “I have my period,” is perfectly acceptable.
2: Make a donation to Homeless Period Ireland
The wonderful people at Homeless Period Ireland are trying their best to supply homeless women with sanitary products, however, they can’t do it without the public’s generosity. A packet of pads cost less than the iced white chocolate mocha you buy, so why not cut back on your daily jaunts to Starbucks and purchase some sanitary products with that money instead. There are numerous donation drop off points all around Ireland, including Cork, Limerick and Dublin. See below for the full list of drop off points and donate sanitary supplies to your fellow sisters today.
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3: Sign this petition to end period poverty in Ireland:
Too many women have to suffer through their time of the month without any sanitary products or a place to shower. Susan Colgan has launched a petition to introduce free sanitary products in Ireland.
She explained why we need free sanitary products: “Toilet paper is given out for free in almost every establishment nationwide. You wouldn't be expected to keep your own roll of toilet paper in your handbag when you go out to a nightclub, a restaurant or the cinema. It's always provided for you.”
She continued: “This is because it is considered a necessity, it would be morally wrong and unhygienic not to provide it, free of charge. This is the exact same thing when it comes to menstruation. It is not a choice.”
To sign the Free Sanitary Products in Ireland petition click here.
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Scottish government to fund free tampons for low-income women
by Clare Martin
Low-income women in Scotland will no longer have to worry about period poverty, thanks to a government-funded trial scheme in Aberdeen that is now being expanded throughout the country.
The pilot programme distributed free sanitary products to more than 1,000 people in Aberdeen.
Now, over £500,000 is being given to the charity FareShare, in the hopes that the products will reach more than 18,000 menstruating people.
During the summer, the charity's centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh will distribute pads and tampons to those in need.
As well, from August the products will be free for those at school, university, or college, making Scotland the first national government to do so.
Angela Constance, Scotland's equalities secretary, spoke frankly about the necessity of the ground-breaking scheme:
"It is unacceptable that anyone in Scotland should be unable to access sanitary products, and I am pleased that we are able to work with FareShare to make products available more widely through the services delivered by their partners."
Gillian Kynoch, the head of FareShare in Scotland, said on the matter, "We are excited to be working with the Scottish Government to use this network to make sanitary products available to people across Scotland.
"Our partners CFINE, Move On, Transform and Cyrenians will be supporting the distribution, working with low income and vulnerable people to break down taboos and stigma. This is an issue that has gone unheeded for too long."
We're happy to hear this scheme will ensure low-income women in Scotland receive basic necessities like pads and tampons.
Pesticides, chlorine and chemicals: What are tampons made of?
When it comes to the clothes on our backs, many of us are conscious of how they were made, and what fabrics, chemicals, dyes and labour force were behind our clothing's creation.
However, not all of us are so scrupulous when it comes to wondering what exactly make sus our sanitary products.
Pads and tampons have continued contact with one of the most finely balanced, sensitive areas of our bodies, but rarely is there ever a conversation happening around what ingredients could be found in the colourful boxes in the 'feminine hygiene' aisle.
Fashion Revolution is an innovative brand collective which encouraged fashion brands to be transparent and sustainable when it comes to their production.
Now, Freda, a sanitary brand has joined them for the first time ever, and they're exposing what trace elements can be found in other brands of tampon and pad.
From trace elements like chlorine and pesticides to synthetic fibres and artificial fragrances – there's a lot more than just pure organic cotton in some products.
Fashion Revolution is encouraging a discussion on the health of these ingredients, for both our bodies an the environment.
'Across fashion, beauty, and food, consumers are seeking greater transparency, but when it comes to femcare, many of us are still buying the same products on auto-pilot,' said Freda founder Affi Parvizi-Wayne.
'In being honest about the ingredients and manufacture of our products, we’re equipping women with the knowledge they need to make an informed choice about the products they buy and the companies they support.'
'Our ethos is completely in line with that of Fashion Revolution, and we feel incredibly honoured to be the world’s first non-fashion brand to commit to these values, which are crucially important across all industries.'
So, make sure you read the back of the box before you pick up your preferred brand this cycle.
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Possessing or Selling Ketamine in Nevada
A conviction for unlawfully possessing or selling ketamine in Nevada can result in a state prison sentence and a fine of thousands of dollars. Perhaps worse, having a felony drug conviction could keep you from getting a job or owning a firearm.
Our Las Vegas criminal defense lawyers have a proven track record of success in Nevada drug cases. Often we are able to negotiate a plea bargain involving reduction of the charges to a misdemeanor. Sometimes we get the evidence dismissed because it was discovered during an illegal search and seizure or unlawful arrest.
When necessary, however, we will fight your court case aggressively to convince a jury you were not guilty of the charges.
To help you understand more about Nevada ketamine crimes and how we may be able to help you beat the charges, our Nevada criminal defense lawyers discuss the following, below:
1. What is Ketamine?
2. Ketamine Possession — NRS 453.336
3. Ketamine Possession for Sale — NRS 453.338
4. Ketamine Sale, Manufacture or Transfer — NRS 453.321
Ketamine is a prescription drug used most commonly on animals as a veterinary anesthetic.
Because it can produce a detached, dreamlike state in humans, ketamine is often used recreationally or as a “date-rape” drug. At high doses, users may experience a “K-Hole” — an “out of body” or “near-death” experience.
Recreational ketamine is most commonly consumed as a powder that can be injected, stirred into drinks, snorted, or added to joints or cigarettes. Nicknames for the drug include K, Special K, jet, and cat valium.
Ketamine is a Schedule III controlled substance in Nevada. Schedule III substances have a lower potential for than those such as heroin, methamphetamine or cocaine, and an accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. Abuse of Schedule III substances may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.
Although it may seem like a harmless drug, it is a felony to possess ketamine in Las Vegas or elsewhere in Nevada. Don’t count on the cops to give you a break. Drug possession at Las Vegas nightclubs and concerts such as the Electric Daisy Carnival are actively policed.
Penalties depends on the amount and if the defendant has prior convictions. See our page on drug possession (NRS 453.336) to learn more.
For a first-or second offense involving less than 28 grams, it is a category E felony:
The court will grant eligible defendants who plead guilty or no contest a deferral of judgment, which means that the court will dismiss the case if the defendant completes certain court-ordered terms. Otherwise, category E felony convictions carry probation and a suspended sentence, which may include up to one year in jail. (But if the defendant has two or more prior felony convictions, the court may impose one to four years in Nevada State Prison and up to $5,000 in fines.)
Nevada law makes it a felony to possess ketamine with the intent to sell it. But prosecutors often have a hard time proving your intent. As a result, our Nevada drug lawyers are often able to get possession of ketamine for sale charges knocked down to charges of simple possession.
A first or second offense for possession of ketamine for sale can be punished by:
1-4 years in prison and maybe up to $5,000, and
maybe a further fine of not more than $10,000.
If you have two or more prior convictions for drug felonies, however, prison time increases to 1-5 years and the court may not sentence you to probation.
For more information on Las Vegas’ drug possession for sale law and defenses, please visit our page on the Nevada crime of possession of narcotics / controlled substances with intent to sell.
It is a felony to sell, manufacture or even give away ketamine in Nevada. A first offense can usually be punished by:
1-4 years in prison, and
maybe a fine of up to $5,000.
However, if it is your second or subsequent offense or you have any prior drug felony convictions, the penalties for sale of ketamine are more severe.
To learn more about Las Vegas drug sale laws and defenses, please see our article: the Nevada crime of selling narcotics / controlled substances.
For more information contact our Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys.
And to learn about the laws pertaining to Ketamine in California, please visit our page on California’s ketamine laws.
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Renault returns to old urban EV formula: Twingo minicar with tiny 22-kWh battery
Renault has sold nearly 4 million units of its gas-powered Twingo city car.
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© Electrek | Renault returns to old urban EV formula: Twingo minicar with a tiny 22-kWh battery
That experience over nearly two decades taught the French automaker what makes a winning Euro-chic city car. Renault will try to leverage those insights with the all-electric Twingo ZE. The formula is urban maneuverability and a 22-kilowatt-hour battery pack that can fill up in an hour at a Level 2 charging station.
Such a pipsqueak battery sounds so 2012, right? That’s unless you accept that the Twingo is designed for local use in cities. Taking a longer trip from a European urban center? Take the train. That’s the green solution.
Need to dart around the city, like city-dwellers do for nearly all of our driving? Then pound your Twingo ZE with its best-in-class turning radius and electric rear-wheel-drive.
The Twingo ZE is just 11 feet, 10 inches. Power is modest at 82 horsepower, although zipping to 30 miles-per-hour takes four seconds thanks to electric torque. The electric Twingo features a “B mode” for three levels of regen. The batteries, sourced from LG Chem, are managed by a liquid-cooled system. That’s a first for a Renault electric vehicle.
As far as range, Renault cleverly leads its press release with city distance on a single charge: 143 miles in WLTP. That equates to about 120 miles in EPA. (The total cycle range is probably under 100 miles EPA). Once again, the greenest choice is not to buy a resource-intensive big battery pack that gets lugged around but seldom used.
But things get more interesting with the charging-time specs provided by Renault’s adaptable “Caméléon” charging system that can handle between 2 kW and 22 kW:
63 minutes – 22 kW charging point (32A three-phase) (0-80%)
2 hours and 10 minutes – 11 kW charging point (16A three-phase) (0-80%)
4 hours – 7.4 kW Wallbox (32A three-phase) (0-100%)
8 hours – 3.7 kW Wallbox (16A single phase) (0-100%)
Connect to a public 22-kW charging station for 30 minutes and add 50 miles. Maybe that could work for apartment dwellers.
Still unconvinced? Consider that Inovev, a French industry analyst, forecasts that Renault will sell 25,000 Twingo ZE models annually. That would make it a bigger seller than any EV in the US other than the Model 3.
Decide for yourself if you like the style:
Stéphane Wiscart, Twingo Deputy Program Director:
“Twingo ZE is not only tailored to everyday uses but also designed to support urban transformation. It’s the most Twingo of the Twingos!”
Renault gets cute by giving drivers of a choice of three different external pedestrian sounds, with volume that varies based on speed.
Renault did not give a price for the Twingo ZE, but executives said it would be less than the ForFour EQ, which starts at just under 22,000 euros ($24,000), including incentives.
The Twingo ZE debuts at the Geneva auto show on March 3. It goes on sale in Europe in late 2020.
The Twingo ZE is an A-segment car, like the Fiat 500 or Smart ForTwo. In fact, the Twingo shares a platform with the ForFour EQ – and it will get built next to the Smart ForFour at Renault’s plant in Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
Americans might think the Twingo ZE’s cabin and battery are laughably small. But the A-segment has decent appeal in Europe. (Thank goodness, not everybody wants an SUV, which wipes out environmental gains from EVs.)
Some automakers stopped selling eco-friendly A-segment cars in Europe because the cost of improving their internal combustion engines to meet stricter EU CO2 reduction goals is too high, and the profit margins are too low. But EVs matter in this CO2-cutting world. So enter VW E-Up, Honda e, new Fiat 500e, and now the Twingo ZE.
Most of those diminutive EVs have batteries bigger than 32 or so kilowatt-hours. The Twingo ZE goes small at just 24 kWh. If that brings the cost down, enough to rack up 25,000 sales a year, then maybe it deserves at least a little respect.
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HomeCIE A Level Biology (9700) 2019-2021Revision Notes6. Nucleic Acids & Protein Synthesis6.1 Structure & Replication of DNA 6.1.3 Semi-Conservative DNA Replication
Semi-Conservative DNA Replication
DNA replication occurs in preparation for mitosis, when a parent cell divides to produce two genetically identical daughter cells – as each daughter cell contains the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell, the number of DNA molecules in the parent cell must be doubled before mitosis takes place
DNA replication occurs during the S phase of the cell cycle (which occurs during interphase, when a cell is not dividing)
The hydrogen bonds between the base pairs on the two antiparallel polynucleotide DNA strands are broken
This ‘unzips’ or unwinds the DNA double helix to form two single polynucleotide DNA strands
Each of these single polynucleotide DNA strands acts as a template for the formation of a new strand – the original strand and the new strand then join together to form a new DNA molecule
This method of replicating DNA is known as semi-conservative replication because half of the original DNA molecule is kept (conserved) in each of the two new DNA molecules
Semi-conservative replication was shown to be the method of replication by Meselson and Stahl in 1958. They used coli (a bacteria) and two nitrogen isotopes, a heavy form 15N and the ‘normal’ form 14N, to demonstrate how the density of DNA changes over generations as the 15N isotope was replaced with the 14N isotope
DNA Polymerase
In the nucleus, there are free nucleotides to which two extra phosphates have been added (these free nucleotides with three phosphate groups are known as nucleoside triphosphates or ‘activated nucleotides’)
The extra phosphates activate the nucleotides, enabling them to take part in DNA replication
The bases of the free nucleoside triphosphates align with their complementary bases on each of the template DNA strands
The enzyme DNA polymerase synthesises new DNA strands from the two template strands
It does this by catalysing condensation reactions between the deoxyribose sugar and phosphate groups of adjacent nucleotides within the new strands, creating the sugar-phosphate backbone of the new DNA strands
DNA polymerase cleaves (breaks off) the two extra phosphates and uses the energy released to create the phosphodiester bonds (between adjacent nucleotides)
Hydrogen bonds then form between the complementary base pairs of the template and new DNA strands
Leading & lagging strands
DNA polymerase can only build the new strand in one direction (5’ to 3’ direction)
As DNA is ‘unzipped’ from the 3’ towards the 5’ end, DNA polymerase will attach to the 3’ end of the original strand and move towards the replication fork (the point at which the DNA molecule is splitting into two template strands)
This means the DNA polymerase enzyme can synthesise the leading strand continuously
This template strand that the DNA polymerase attaches to is known as the leading strand
The other template strand created during DNA replication is known as the lagging strand
On this strand, DNA polymerase moves away from the replication fork (from the 5’ end to the 3’ end)
This means the DNA polymerase enzyme can only synthesise the lagging DNA strand in short segments (called Okazaki fragments)
A second enzyme known as DNA ligase is needed to join these lagging strand segments together to form a continuous complementary DNA strand
DNA ligase does this by catalysing the formation of phosphodiester bonds between the segments to create a continuous sugar-phosphate backbone
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Industrial revolution transportation effects on societyThe period among the finish of the War of 1812 and the Civil War was a time of swift improvement in transportation, rapid development of factories, and significant development of new technologies to improve agricultural production. Also in 1764, Richard Arkwright designed the “water frame” to generate yarn more quickly ( Haberman 48). The “Spinning-Frame,” its earlier name, was too huge to be operated by hand. Soon after experimenting with other sources of power, he decided to employ the energy of a water wheel, and his machine became recognized as the water frame ( Industrial Revolution: The Industrial Revolution in Wonderful Britain ). Rollers produced yarn of the right thickness, even though a set of spindles twisted fibers with each other. The machine was capable to make a thread far stronger than any other offered at the time ( Simkin ).
Each the turnpike and the canal contributed to the emerging national economy, but the most important development was the railroad. Railroads have been quicker and cheaper than canals to construct, and they did not freeze over in the winter. Because a lot of states had overextended by borrowing heavily to finance their canals, considerably of the early railroad development was developed by private investors.
Americans benefited from the new turnpikes nonetheless, it was not however economical to ship bulky goods by land across the excellent distances in America. Businessmen and inventors began concentrating on improving water transportation. In 1807, Robert Fulton sent the initial commercially productive steamboat, the Clermont, from New York City up the Hudson River to Albany. Skeptics initially believed the project would never work and nicknamed the boat Fulton’s Folly.” The Clermont made the run of 150 miles at about five miles an hour, proving that it was an effective vessel. Thereafter, use of the steamboat spread rapidly, with steamers making the run from New Orleans as far north as Ohio. By 1830, there were more than 200 steamers on the Mississippi.
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industrial revolution transportation effects on societyRoads, Railways and Canals. Britain was divided into a number of localities or parishes. Individuals living in every parish had been responsible for sustaining the roads. Six days every year parishioners helped repair roads. Most roads knowledgeable heavy usage. Six days of repair a year was not sufficient to fix the roads adequately. There was no signposting and roads had been difficult to navigate.
Early railroad pioneers faced many challenges: Tracks with steep grades and sharp curves needed far more potent locomotives, sparks from wood-burning engines brought on fires, brakes were ineffective, and wooden rails topped with iron straps wore out swiftly and broke loose, causing hazardous crashes. The intent of most early railroad builders had been to monopolize the trade of certain districts, not to establish connections with competing centers, so handful of of the tracks had been coordinated into railroad systems. Frequently, railroads went so far as to use tracks of different widths to avoid other lines from employing their tracks.
Railways created in the 1st half of the nineteenth century and, after a slow commence, boomed in two periods of railway mania. The industrial revolution was in a position to grow even far more, but a lot of of the important modifications had currently begun with no rail. Suddenly the reduced classes in society could travel significantly further, more easily, and the regional variations in Britain began to break down.
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industrial revolution transportation long term effectsThe period amongst the end of the War of 1812 and the Civil War was a time of swift improvement in transportation, rapid development of factories, and significant development of new technology to increase agricultural production. Is “race” a structure in American society? Plainly it possesses some of the crucial components identified above. The reality of race leads to an uneven distribution of possibilities and outcomes, so “race” is a social fact with distributive consequences. It has the element of coercion: racial prejudice and patterns of discrimination are imposed on people without an “opt-out” possibility. And we can identify several of the social mechanisms through which race and racial discrimination work so the category possesses microfoundations. Nowadays many of these mechanisms are “informal” rather than “formal” but of course the legal institutionalization of racial discrimination is a recent fact in American history. So “race” is a structural feature of American society.
This machine was extremely popular throughout the Industrial Revolution, but the majority of individuals who used this or owned one had to be higher class individuals or really wealthy. There was not alot of them produced but so alot of average people could not have one. Sometimes they would just have a single in a town in a specific creating and the townspeople would have to take turns using it, but in these days alot of people did not need to have to use the phone a lot of men and women would just go and tell the person in public, this was way less expensive back in the day.
Solar variations – The Sun is the source of energy for the Earth’s climate program. Some scientists suspect that a portion of the warming in the very first half of the 20th century was due to an enhance in the output of solar energy. As the sun is the fundamental source of energy that is instrumental in our climate technique it would be reasonable to assume that changes in the sun’s power output would cause the climate to change. For instance a decrease in solar activity was believed to have triggered the Small Ice Age amongst around 1650 and 1850, when Greenland was largely reduce off by ice from 1410 to the 1720s and glaciers sophisticated in the Alps.
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industrial revolution transportation primary sourceAmerican engineer and inventor Robert Fulton developed the very first commercially productive steamboat in America in 1807, becoming a main supply of transportation on rivers and resulting in a considerable reduction in inland shipping fees. The redevelopment commission approved a contract with Clark Dietz, Inc. to style plans to shave three feet from the hill near the Blackberry Ridge entrance off Grant Line Road. Where the entrance to the improvement is located creates a blind spot for drivers pulling out onto Grant Line Road. Plans are anticipated to be completed in July and there is no timetable when operate will commence.
Railroads changed the culture of the United States and made the country seam much smaller. Before railroads, it could take months to travel across the United States. California seemed like a different world from east coast cities like New York and Boston. By the 1870s, a particular person could travel from New York to California in just a few days. Letters, goods, and packages could also be transported a lot faster.
The very first, in the second half of the 1700’s gave birth to mechanized production in the textile and metal industries thanks to the steam engine. The second started in 1870 with the advent of electrical energy, chemical merchandise and the advent of the internal combustion engine. This consequently led to an improve in utilizing petrol as a new power supply. The third requires hold in 1970 with the birth of computing. This leads to the digital age made to improve the levels of automation by utilizing electronic and IT (Information Technology) systems. The third industrial revolution also contains all the transformation processes in the manufacturing structure. Much more usually, a transformation of the whole socio-financial fabric, beginning from the mid-20th century in developed countries and characterized by a sturdy drive towards technological innovation, closely linked to the rise of computer systems, robots, the 1st spacecraft and satellites.
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Bunty, Blossom, Buttercup and Betty. Sounds very My Little Pony circa 1980’s? These are in fact the adorable rescue hens of our very own Small City columnist Gill Murray. And despite the alphabetical theme, there’s nothing B grade about them….
Gill became interested in keeping hens after hearing of friends’ positive experiences but it was after discovering the hen rehoming charity Wing and a Prayer (see their Facebook Page here) that she decided to give beleaguered rescue hens a new lease of life earlier this year.
“It wasn’t the eggs I was interested in,” says Gill, from Bridge of Earn, “I’m an animal lover and hate the thought of the way these animals have lived their lives, being caged in. I wanted to give these hens the lives they deserved. Now that they’ve settled in, they’re actually laying eggs but that’s just been a bonus. They’re just really lovely creatures to keep!”
They said they had more hens then they’d anticipated so I decided to take more than I’d planned forWhether they’ve come from a caged, barn or free-range environment, most of the hens rehomed by Wing and a Prayer have reached their commercial egg producing limit and are destined for slaughter. Some have lived in cramped conditions with such a tight space to move around for so much of their lives, their limbs are actually bruised.
Entirely run by volunteers, the charity works to find new, free-range homes for these hens, providing lots of help to prospective owners on what to expect when keeping feathered friends alongside practical advice on what kind of equipment, space and feed is needed.
On ‘Rescue Day’ these same volunteers provide vehicles, collect hens or help at assigned collection points across Scotland to check and send hens off to their new homes.
For Gill, Rescue Day at a farm in Coupar Angus didn’t go quite as planned. She came home with more than she bargained for!
“I took my mum and youngest son up with me. We’d been assigned a pre-arranged time slot and it was great seeing so many other cars there – obviously there were a lot of people wanting to rehome hens.
“The hens were in a barn and the majority of them looked ok although there were a few which looked scrawny and lacking in feathers. I had a box and asked if I could just have a selection. They said they had more hens then they’d anticipated so I decided to take more than I’d planned for.”
Although the charity can’t give elaborate individual histories on the hens being rehomed, it quickly became clear to Gill that the hen they took home and named ‘Blossom’ was the odd one out of the group.
“She wouldn’t come out of the coop for the first five or six days. I don’t think she knew what to do as she maybe hadn’t ever been outside before. When she did venture out, she was getting bullied a bit as there was a pecking order to establish. Now she’s settled in and it’s lovely seeing her more relaxed – she loves being outside though she does still prefer her own company.”
Oooh! Sounds like this might be a favourite hen? Gill couldn’t possibly say of course. Blossom did become the recipient of an array of ‘hen jumpers’ (an actual thing…) from fans as her feathers were growing in.
One thing’s for sure, the satisfaction of giving these hens a new lease of life is something Gill's whole family are on board with.
“Hens are very loving animals and we all enjoy them. As soon as they see me, they run towards me. It’s like a race – a Chicken Race! They let you pick them up and they communicate in their own way. They’re very engaging to have,” she says.
But don’t you need to live on a farm or have a giant garden to keep rescue hens?
“I did a lot of research before getting these hens. There’s a lot of great advice on the Wing and a Prayer Facebook page and there’s also a Members page where owners can share stories and tips,” says Gill.
“McCash’s Country Store in Perth were also really helpful with advice on feed and bedding. If you’re interested in keeping hens, you just need a garden with enough space for a safe coop and a run.”
Gill’s feathered friends certainly look like they’re enjoying the good life – straight A’s all round for healthy, happy hens!
You can follow Gill and get a peek of her hens on Instagram: @gmmphotography
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Please note that these changes do not directly affect Universities in Scotland, which remain open until further notice.
People will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as essential shopping, exercise and caring responsibilities
No limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households (excluding children under 12)
Schools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until at least February
Everyone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the "shielding" category are advised not to go in to work at all
Places of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed
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From 20 December 2020, all of Wales is at Alert Level 4.
You must stay at home
Not meet with anyone indoors or outdoors other than those you live with
Avoid travel including international travel
Non-essential retail is closed including gyms, leisure centres and hospitality
You are permitted to mix with up to two other households on Christmas Day only (25 December 2020).
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Negative COVID-19 test result requirement for travel to the Republic of Ireland from Great Britain or South Africa
The Irish Government has introduced a requirement for all travellers arriving in the Republic of Ireland from Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) or South Africa to have a negative/’not detected’ result from a pre-departure COVID-19 PCR (polymerise chain reaction) test carried out no more than 72 hours prior to arrival.
This applies to both planes and passenger ferries. Airlines and other transport providers will be expected to enforce this rule. Passengers attempting to travel without a negative test may be potentially denied boarding.
The new rule is enforced by law; anyone attempting to enter the Republic of Ireland without a valid negative test result could face a fine of up to €2,500 or up to 6 months in prison.
The rule does not apply to passengers in transit. If you travel through a port or airport in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) on your way to the Republic of Ireland, you do not currently need to take a test. Also, if you pass through the Republic of Ireland on your way to another destination, you do not need to take the test in Ireland, although please note that you will need a negative test result to enter England.
If you arrive from Great Britain or South Africa you are advised to >self isolate (stay in your room) for a period of 14 days following your arrival into Ireland.
You can read full details on the Government website >here. Please check this page regularly as the rules may change at short notice.
‘Level 5’ COVID-19 precautions in Ireland
‘Level 5’ restrictions have been extended by the Irish government to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. These affect what you are able to do while in the Republic of Ireland.
What the measures mean:
You should stay at home.
You can only exercise within 5 km of your home.
There must be no visits to other people’s homes or gardens, including student accommodation other than your own.
You can meet with one other household in an outdoor setting which is not a home or garden, such as a park, including for exercise.
Most non-essential shops and hairdressers will be closed. Bars and restaurants will only be able to provide a takeaway service.
You should only travel for essential purposes, for example to attend medical appointments or collect medicines. There will be only limited public transport available.
You may not travel between counties.
No amateur sports events are allowed.
When taking exercise outdoors, it is important to maintain 2 metres distance from others and wash hands on returning home. Only shop during designated hours, while wearing a face covering, and avoid public transport.
There is a full list of the Level 5 restrictions >here.
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Negative COVID-19 test result requirements for travel to the Netherlands (Holland)
The Dutch Government has introduced a requirement for people travelling to the Netherlands by aircraft, ship, ferry, international train to present a negative COVID-19 test result if they are coming from a country not on the EU safe countries list.
For passengers from the Schengen zone countries, the negative test result requirement applies only to public transport, and not to private coaches or cars.
The test used must be a COVID-19 PCR (polymerise chain reaction) test. No other type of test will be valid. The test sample must have been made no more than 72 hours prior to arrival in the Netherlands. The test result must be written in Dutch, English, French, or Spanish. Full details of the test requirements are available here. You can see a copy of the declaration form here.
Passengers attempting to travel without a negative test may be potentially denied boarding. International train and coach passengers will be asked to provide a negative test result before boarding or before the first stop in the Netherlands.
The Government has made it very clear that a negative test result does not avoid the need for self-isolation upon arrival in the Netherlands. You should still self-quarantine for 10 days on arrival in the Netherlands even if you have a negative test result.
Lockdown in order to minimise contact between people | News item | Government.nl
With immediate effect
Only go outdoors alone, with members of your household or in a group of no more than 2 people.
You should receive no more than 2 visitors aged 13 or over to your home per day.
On 24, 25 and 26 December you may receive 3 visitors aged 13 or over at home.
Non-essential shops will be closed incl Locations where contact-based professions are carried out, such as hairdressers, and nail salons
Hotels will be open, but hotel restaurants will be closed and room service will be unavailable.
It will still be possible to borrow books from libraries.
You are strongly advised to work from home.
Adults may take part in sports activities on their own or with one other person, but only outdoors. Children aged 17 and under may take part in team sports and play matches against children at the same club, but only outdoors.
Public transport is for essential travel only.
Do not book any foreign travel until mid-March at the earliest and do not travel abroad.
The only contact-based professions that can continue are those of a medical and paramedical nature.
From 16 December to at least 17 January inclusive, educational institutions will mainly be providing remote teaching
With immediate effect from 14 October the following restrictions are in place:
The rule of 1.5 metre social distance is of paramount importance to prevent the spread of the corona virus (COVID-19) and must be respected by everyone in Holland ISC at all times.
Wearing face masks in classrooms is still encouraged but not required. You can remove your facemask once you reach your seat as long as you always keep a minimum of 1.5 metre distance from others.
In secondary and higher education institutions (VO, MBO and HO) everyone must wear a face mask outside lessons.
Indoors and outdoors a group must have no more than 4 people from different households.
If you are aged 13 or over, wear a face mask in indoor public spaces and on public transport.
All establishments that serve food and drinks must close. Take-away will still be possible.
Retail stores must close no later than 20.00. There will be no late-night shopping.
No alcohol will be sold or delivered between 20.00 and 07.00.
Between 20.00 and 07.00 you may not drink alcohol or have it on your person in public spaces.
People arriving in the Netherlands (Holland) from most countries should self-quarantine for 10 days. Travellers from a number of countries are exempt from the self-quarantine rules. The list of exempt countries can be seen here.
Key restrictions in the Netherlands include:
You should stay 1.5 metres apart from other people, and avoid crowds, when you are out and about
A non-medical face mask is required when you travel by public transport
Further information about local restrictions in place in each location can be found on the Latest COVID-19 Government advice websites.
Minister of State for Universities – Open letter to International Students
UK Government travel advice
Latest UK Government health advice
UK Government Covid alert levels
UK Government Liverpool restrictions
UK Government Scotland restrictions
Latest Netherland Government Lockdown news
Latest COVID-19 advice
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Government of Canada Makes $70M Investment in Agricultural Science
by Alberta Seed Guide | Sep 21, 2018 | Funding
A thriving and sustainable agriculture sector is made possible only by the investments made in science, research, and innovation. Canada has some of the world’s best scientists, and the breakthrough technologies they develop give farmers the tools they need to better manage their farms, while growing their businesses and creating good middle class jobs.
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food, Lawrence MacAulay, announced the details of the Government of Canada’s transformational $70M investment, over five years, to address significant environmental challenges and hire approximately 75 scientists and science professionals in emerging fields of agricultural science.
Of this $70M investment, $44M is dedicated to hiring the next generation of federal research scientists and science professionals and equipping them with the state-of-the-art tools they need to advance agricultural research, including environmental sampling equipment and analytical instruments.
“This investment allows us to hire the next generation of world-class scientists here in Harrow and across the country, and will help give our farmers the tools they need to grow their businesses for years to come,” said Minister MacAulay. “This transformational investment demonstrates our Government’s strong commitment to science and our focus on the agriculture sector as a primary economic driver for creating good jobs and growing the middle class.”
Minister MacAulay also announced a new Living Laboratories Initiative, which includes $10M to support collaborative research projects with external partners. Living Laboratories are an integrated approach to agricultural research that bring farmers, scientists and other stakeholders together to co-develop, test and monitor new practices and technologies on farms. The result will be more practical technologies and sustainable farming practices adopted more quickly by Canadian farmers.
The Living Laboratories Initiative led by Canada is a model to the world as other countries also try to improve the resilience and sustainability of their agricultural production. This Living Labs approach was presented by Minister MacAulay at the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting in Argentina in July and the initiative was endorsed by ministers in attendance.
“The science done at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada is vitally important for our food supply today and for our food security tomorrow,” said Dr. Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor of Canada. “Increasing the number of researchers who carry out this important work will support agricultural discovery and innovation. It is a good step towards ensuring that decision makers have access to the scientific evidence they need to help keep Canada’s food supply safe, healthy and sustainable.”
In the same spirit of collaboration, the remaining $16M of the $70Mis earmarked to fund collaborative federal research projects focused on priority areas affecting the agriculture sector, such as environmental issues. With these funds, researchers will have the support, for example, to find better nutrient management solutions to ensure the health of our waterways.
This $70M investment in research and development fulfills the Budget 2017 commitment to support discovery science and innovation.
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Doherty, McElduff and Omagh Educational Campus Group lobby Woodward on transfer of Lisanelly/St Lucia
West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty and Barry McElduff MLA will accompany members of the Omagh Educational Campus Group to a meeting with British Secretary of State Shaun Woodward today, Thursday 7th February, as part of the ongoing lobbying campaign to secure lands at the vacated Lisanelly/St Lucia military sites in Omagh for a state of the art education village campus.
Barry Mc Elduff said,
"The Omagh Educational Group which includes head teachers, WELB Chief Executive Barry Mulholland, Mgr Joseph Donnelly and the Rev Robert Herron has brought forward a visionary project which would see local secondary schools co-locating to an education village campus on lands at the vacated military sites in the town.
"While each school within the campus would have its own independent environment and retain its unique ethos, each school would nonetheless share common state of the art facilities and take part in common activities. This project represents a pioneering and inspirational example of how this community wants to forge a common future together while also ensuring that all campus students have access to the broadest curriculum possible.
"W we will be seeking a commitment from Shaun Woodward that he will go the extra mile in his efforts to ensure that this land is transferred."
Pat Doherty said,
"This meeting is a key part of the ongoing lobbying we have been undertaking to force the British Government to transfer lands at Lisanelly/St Lucia for the Education Village Campus. To date we have secured strong and active support for this project from within the Executive and Assembly; the British/Irish Parliamentary Conference; from the MPs from all the main political parties in Britain and particular support from an unlikely coalition of Labour Party left wing MPs and Conservative Shadow Secretary of State Owen Patterson.
"However British Secretary of Defence Des Browne in December stated that his intention to secure the maximum financial gain for the MoD from the sale of Lisa Nelly and St Lucia in Omagh. While Shaun Woodward described the proposal as an "extremely good and imaginative one" last month he also said that he did not want to raise expectations about what the British Government may be able to do. However, both have acknowledged that lobbying on the issue, including from the Office of First & Deputy First Minister, is still ongoing and that it is still under consideration by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown." ENDS
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Legislation required to criminalise dial-a-drink services – Ó Snodaigh
Speaking today as the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice prepared to launch proposals to tackle problems with rising alcohol consumption, Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD called on the Government to bring forward legislation to criminalise dial a drink services with payment on delivery. Deputy Ó Snodaigh said these services contribute hugely to underage drinking and related public order problems.
"I believe that dial-a-drink delivery services contribute hugely to under-age drinking and related public order problems. And I have proposed a bye-law to Dublin City Council in an effort to prohibit the practice.
"In response to a parliamentary question last week the Minister indicated that he has no intention of introducing legislation to prohibit the practice because in his view the service is already an offence under the existing Intoxicating Liqour Act 2003. If that was the case then why are so many businesses freely advertising dial-a-drink with payment on delivery services? If that was the case then why are these businesses not being prosecuted?
"It is impossible for the Gardaí to police the sale of alcohol where that sale occurs at a multiplicity of private residences. The upcoming Bill or Bills will be incomplete in the absence of an express provision criminalising dial-a-drink services with payment on delivery and without appropriately heavy penalties.
"The government must consider this issue further." ENDS
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Dooley to Leave GMA to Join Chemical Council
The Grocery Manufacturers Association said it is seeking a new president and chief executive officer following yesterday’s surprise announcement that Cal Dooley is resigning, effective in September.
Elliot Zwiebach | Jul 10, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Grocery Manufacturers Association here said it is seeking a new president and chief executive officer following yesterday’s surprise announcement that Cal Dooley is resigning, effective in September. Dooley said he will be taking a similar position at the American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Va. — a larger organization with more of a regulatory interest than GMA, which observers told SN is probably more in tune with Dooley’s background as a former Congressman with strong ties to Capitol Hill. “The ACC is primarily a public affairs group, and that’s Dooley’s world,” one industry consultant said. According to another observer, “Dooley was apparently contacted by a search firm for the ACC that offered a very good, lucrative opportunity, and he took it.” Dooley said he plans to remain with GMA though early September — before beginning work at the ACC on Sept. 8 — “to facilitate the transition in leadership.” A GMA spokesman said the association’s board has selected several directors to serve on a search committee, though he declined to identify any of them.
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Harvest Moon: One World Announced for Nintendo Switch
Lover of chocolate and admirer of video games, Alex is the chief writer/editor of Switchaboo.
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A new Harvest Moon game is in the works, and this one is showing a lot more promise. However, the verdict remains to be seen as we have yet to receive a trailer or screenshots about it.
Here is the press release that shares some details:
Natsume Inc., a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, and Rising Star Games, video game publisher and long-standing partner of Natsume, announced their latest title, Harvest Moon: One World for Nintendo Switch. Harvest Moon: One World will be launching later this year, distributed by Nintendo Australia in Australia and New Zealand.
Fledgling farmers will explore an entire world full of new and familiar faces, unique villages, and adventurous challenges while managing their growing farm. The new title is being developed with an all-new engine and graphics.
“Harvest Moon: One World features a brand-new way of exploring Harvest Moon that seasoned players and new generations will both enjoy,” said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume. “Over the decades, Harvest Moon has evolved but has always retained the traditional, family-friendly farming fun that the franchise is known for. The new engine and new graphics will upgrade this experience for 2020. We are so excited to share more about the features of Harvest Moon: One World in the coming months.”
Can you imagine a world without tomatoes, strawberries, or even cabbage? In the latest entry in the Harvest Moon series, that’s the situation players will find themselves in. Only an old book gives hints of what once was… Buoyed by a mysterious discovery, players will find themselves setting out on an adventure that spans not only their hometown but the whole world! What kind of people and places await? From the gorgeous beaches of Halo Halo to the snowy mountains of Salmiakki, there’s literally an entire world to explore.
Harvest Moon: One World is looking to launch on Nintendo Switch in 2020.
Source: Nintendo AU/NZ PR
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Pitzer College president rejects 'prejudiced' vote to drop study-abroad program in Israel
Valerie Richardson
President Melvin L. Oliver refuses to implement Pitzer College Council's recommendation
Pitzer College President Melvin L. Oliver refused Thursday to drop the school’s study-abroad program in Israel, rejecting a recommendation by the college council within hours of its vote.
“By singling out Israel, the recommendation itself is prejudiced,” Mr. Oliver said in a statement. “We do not solve one injustice by committing another. If implemented, the recommendation would unnecessarily alienate a large cross-section of the College’s constituencies. The reputational harm to the College would be irreparable and as president of this institution, I cannot permit that to happen.”
His statement came shortly after the Pitzer College Council, a governing body of faculty and student senators, voted 67-28, with eight abstaining, to suspend the program at the left-tilting University of Haifa, located atop Mount Carmel, according to the Claremont Independent.
.@pitzercollege’s president will go against the College Council’s recommendation to suspend study abroad in Israel with @HaifaUniversity. Claremont’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter is already protesting and circulating a petition. #Israel https://t.co/JwEBRKYiSU
— ClaremontIndependent (@CmontInd) March 15, 2019
@RashidaTlaib is in with #SuspendPitzerHaifa. @pitzercollege @caliactivist @sareemakdisi @YousefMunayyer @jjz1600 @RepJudyChu @jvplive @theIMEU pic.twitter.com/5NUQoQk6c7
— Daniel A. Segal (@DanSegal14) March 11, 2019
The response was swift. Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine, which had called for ending the study-abroad program, posted a petition on Facebook signed by students and faculty calling for Mr. Oliver to “honor shared governance.”
“Students, faculty, and staff alike should be outraged at this flagrant disregard for Pitzer’s values and democratic process,” the petition said. “We will continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.”
In his statement, Mr. Oliver said the recommendation would cause Pitzer “to take an unavoidably political position on one of the most controversial issues of our time.”
“The College’s mission is first and foremost to educate our students,” Mr. Oliver said. “Social responsibility is a core value of the College and we hope social justice becomes the life’s mission of many of our graduates and a guiding principle for all our students and alumni. But social justice is not, and in itself cannot be, the mission of the College, or our mission would become political and not educational.”
Max Samarov, executive director of research & strategy at the pro-Israel group StandWithUs, praised Mr. Oliver’s decision for ensuring that “Pitzer will not fall on the wrong side of history.”
“If this motion were truly about ethical standards for study abroad, they would have started with Pitzer programs in Lebanon and China rather than targeting one of the most diverse universities in the only functioning democracy in the Middle East,” Mr. Samarov said. “In reality, this vote was designed to push a narrow anti-Israel agenda that harms students, violates academic freedom, and fuels more conflict and injustice in the Middle East.”
AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin said Pitzer, located in Claremont, California, would have been the first U.S. college to end its Israel study-abroad program as part of an academic boycott.
“What happened today at Pitzer is an academic abomination,” AMCHA said in a statement after the vote. “Prioritizing politics over students is reprehensible, but sadly, the Pitzer College Council did just that. Academic boycotts violate the rights of students and faculty on U.S. campuses, and this precedent-setting vote is frightening.”
Supporting the boycott was Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, who posed with a #SuspendPitzerHaifa message in a tweet posted Monday by Pitzer anthropology and history professor Daniel A. Segal, a leader of the campaign to suspend the study-abroad program.
The council approved Mr. Segal’s amendment to the proposed policy stating that the suspension would remain in effect until “the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel based on ancestry and/or political speech,” and “the Israeli state adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities.”
The American Jewish Committee blasted the faculty-student recommendation as “an outrageous attack on academic freedom.”
“The decision threatens to allow a dangerous precedent — that it is acceptable for outside political influence to limit student experiences,” the AJC said in a statement. “The responsibilities of a leading university include providing as many opportunities for education and research as possible — not politicizing academia. We urge President Oliver to overturn this misguided action by the College Council.”
The move to suspend the University of Haifa program came after the college’s board of trustees voted last year to nullify a student government resolution to adopt the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Pitzer belongs to the five-college Claremont consortium, the others being Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Harvey Mudd.
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Cruises to Fiji canceled as South Pacific country braces for tropical cyclone this week
Anne Majumdar
CruiseCritic.com contributor
Fiji is bracing for a tropical cyclone that could strike this week, with some cruises already impacted by the forecast.
Captain Cook Cruises Fiji is monitoring the weather system, as heavy rains are expected to develop into a cyclone late on Wednesday, January 15, which could last until Saturday.
Fiji’s Mamanuca and Yasawa island chains will likely be affected by high winds and rough seas as a result of the tropical depression. The operator, therefore, confirmed Reef Endeavour will not set sail on Jan. 14 for its four-night cruise through the region, although the Jan. 18 departure is expected to go ahead.
Free amendments are available for existing bookings that will be affected during this period.
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“Please be assured that our captains will be conservative and our passengers and crew are our highest concern,” managing director Jackie Haworth-Charlton said. “We will continue to update as the system develops. Our thoughts are with the people of Fiji and her islands.”
Blue Lagoon Cruises told Cruise Critic that it has not yet canceled any departures but will update customers tomorrow following an update from authorities on the status of the weather system.
Day cruise operators South Sea Cruises and Awesome Adventures have advised customers to prepare for disruptions to services after Tuesday.
This is the second system to threaten the country this year after Tropical Cyclone Sarai passed two weeks ago. The Category 2 storm damaged a number of farms and forced more than 2,000 people to seek shelter in evacuation centers around the country.
In February 2016, Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston became the strongest storm to make landfall in Fiji, causing widespread damage and taking 44 lives.
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Tobacco sales in France 2005-2015, by type
Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 12, 2020
This statistic shows the sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2016, by type and in tons. It reveals that in ten years, the sales of cigarettes decreased from almost 55 to 45 thousand tons, while the sales of hand-rolling tobacco were on the rise.
Sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by type (in tons)
Hand-rolling tobacco
Expenditure on tobacco in the United Kingdom 2005-2019
Number of tobacco wholesalers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2018
Wholesale turnover of tobacco in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2018
Number of specialized retail stores for tobacco in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2018
Statistics on "Tobacco in the UK"
Tobacco purchase trend in the United Kingdom 2005-2019
Untaxed cigarette consumption share in the UK in 2020, by region
Tobacco imports value into the United Kingdom 2008-2018
Tobacco exports value in the United Kingdom 2008-2019
United Kingdom: Leading 5 tobacco export destinations 2019, by value
United Kingdom tobacco imports: Leading 5 countries ranked by value 2019
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes: UK export value 2001-2019
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes: UK import value 2001-2019
Tobacco clearances: total tobacco cleared for consumption in the UK 2002-2020
Tobacco clearances: Cigarettes cleared for consumption in the UK 2002-2020
United Kingdom: revenue in the e-cigarette market 2012-2023
Leading cigarette brands in c-stores and independent grocers in the UK in 2020
Leading ROY cigarette brands in c-stores and independent grocers in the UK in 2020
Leading e-cigarette brands in c-stores and independent grocers in the UK in 2020
Share of population by country that were current smokers in the UK 2019
Share of population by age that were current smokers in the UK 2019
Share of population by gender that were current smokers in the UK 2019
Share of population by occupation that were current smokers in the UK 2019
Share of population that were current smokers in the UK 2019, by education
Share of population that were current smokers in the UK 2019, by country of birth
Share of population that were current smokers in the UK 2018, by sexuality
Tobacco sales distribution in France 2005-2019, by type
Tobacco product usage in South Africa 2020
Tobacco product usage in South Korea 2020
Tobacco product usage in Brazil 2020
Share of regular smokers in Japan 2020
Share of regular smokers in Austria 2020
Tobacco product usage in Sweden 2020
Tobacco product usage in Colombia 2020
Tobacco product usage in Indonesia 2020
Share of regular smokers in India 2020
Number of cigarette smokers globally among youth 2007-2014, by region
Tobacco product usage in Poland 2020
Share of regular smokers in Germany 2020
Tobacco product usage in Nigeria 2020
Share of regular smokers in France 2020
Share of regular smokers in the Netherlands 2020
Penetration rate of cigarettes brands in India 2012-2013
Penetration rate of cigarette brands in Mexico 2013
U.S. supermarkets: cigarette unit sales 2014-2015
Sales value index for alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2019
Cigarettes in the U.S. Imperial Brands Plc Tobacco Industry Electronic Cigarettes (E-cigarettes) Recreational Marijuana
OFDT. (March 9, 2017). Sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by type (in tons) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 16, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/436044/total-tobacco-sales-in-france-by-type/
OFDT. "Sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by type (in tons)." Chart. March 9, 2017. Statista. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/436044/total-tobacco-sales-in-france-by-type/
OFDT. (2017). Sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by type (in tons). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 16, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/436044/total-tobacco-sales-in-france-by-type/
OFDT. "Sales of Tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by Type (in Tons)." Statista, Statista Inc., 9 Mar 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/436044/total-tobacco-sales-in-france-by-type/
OFDT, Sales of tobacco in France from 2005 to 2015, by type (in tons) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/436044/total-tobacco-sales-in-france-by-type/ (last visited January 16, 2021)
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Sideswiped
Have you ever been sideswiped; led to believe one thing and then, as you’re looking ahead with the excitement and expectation of a child who on their birthday has just been told “and one final surprise”, something beyond your peripheral vision slams into your side, sending you into an uncontrollable spin? This is my story of being sideswiped. The time someone said, “Hey, what’s that on your shirt?” then, as I looked down, stole my wallet, my job, my hobbies, my carefree sense of fun, my dream of one day driving a car that demonstrated my success and status. They made off with my entire world view.
I share this with you so that you might avoid finding yourself in a similar fix. Always check your blind spots!
My ordeal happened six years ago. I was 26, a great age. I had literally no fears or concerns. My wife, Ruth, and I were living in central London and had a close circle of friends who we saw most evenings. We ate out and frequented the cinema and theatre, hung out in parks at weekends and occasionally took in an odd art exhibition that always went over our heads, hit the wall behind us and clattered to the ground disturbing all the quiet, cultured folk. But we didn’t mind, we were loving life. We had sufficient income to support the occasional skiing trip or holiday to South Africa and I was fit; I ran a couple of half-marathons a week and thought nothing of it. Life was good and we had the enthusiasm to know that it would only get better.
We had plans to ‘travel’, which when used as an unattached verb means we were going to see the world, or at least the bits that most appealed to our sense of adventure and we considered sophistication as having eaten McDonald’s in many different cultures. Do you know that in Malaysia they serve chicken strips in porridge? We had discussed ‘doing’ China then venturing down to Thailand and New Zealand, up and over the Pacific to Canada before working down through Central and South America: Cuba, Colombia and Peru, then finally stopping off in Kenya for safari. They were our A-list spots; we also had B and C lists. You’re right, it was going to be awesome; the adventure of our lifetimes after which, under Ruth’s guidance, we planned to settle down, buy a house and have children. The dream.
Just as our schemes were nearing completion, Ruth decided that she wanted to retrain as a dietitian. The only snag was that this required a year of evening school studying sciences, followed by four years at university. Sideswipe #1.
Travelling is quite a different proposition for two people living in London on one salary who are restricted to term-time breaks. We were determined to see the world, though our timeframe, budget and list of destinations all felt the squeeze. Our new itinerary was Uganda and Kenya. The thing we had most looked forward to was safari in the Maasai Mara and I’d rather prematurely invested in the latest Panasonic Lumix with 16x optical zoom (I had no idea).
Off we went and, with the exception of a senile safari guide who almost fed us to wild lions, and a bout of what can only be described as free-flowing food poisoning inspired by Nile-washed salad leaves (it’s not the white water that will get you!), we were having a fantastic time.
But first rewind a few weeks. Shortly before setting off we mentioned to a friend that we were heading to Kenya for safari and then on to the idyllic hideaway, Sand Island, in Mombasa. As it turned out, he had lived in Kenya and suggested that we spent a couple of days with a friend of his called George. The cost of our guest lodging? One box of shortbread biscuits and a local football tournament. Again, check your blind spots. This was an unusual proposition and we should have looked further into the suggested transaction.
Having narrowly avoided becoming steak tartare, it was time to meet George. We followed our friend’s directions and were surprised to find our safari-beach retreat had a rather unexpected intruder: a slum. We stepped out of our taxi and into more Nile food poisoning. Sideswipe #2. What were we doing in a slum? It was one of the few occasions I have felt entirely lost.
George, a towering Kenyan pastor, showed us to his house, which was one of the better ones; it had concrete walls and a drop toilet. He and his wife, Jackie, shared their home with 13 once-homeless children who they had adopted and now loved as their own. We presented our biscuits, which not only felt like, but actually were, the most ridiculous gift in the history of passing things from one person to another. Never has there been a less likely setting for tea and Scottish shortbread. But there, in the middle of a corrugated iron maze, with 13 orphans, George the giant and Jackie, we drank Kenyan tea (one part tea, two parts milk, five parts sugar) and nibbled our butter fingers.
The next day I woke with a stiff neck and, after a church service, we headed to a clearing where preparations had been made for the football tournament. En route, I was assaulted by a smell that burned my nostrils and made my eyes water.
“What is that?” I spluttered.
George turned to me with a confused look on his face. “What’s what?”
“The smell!”
He continued to look blank. He was like a Londoner so familiar with their city they no longer heard the buses and the sirens. He inhaled deeply, letting the smell swirl around as though he were tasting a new wine. “Ah,” he said with the disapproving look of a parent who had found a stray coat on the floor. “They smash a sewage pipe and use it to fertilise crops.”
“They what!”
First shortbread in a slum and now goalposts beside people growing their food in raw sewage. You’re right, there are no words. Take a break and come back.
World’s worst footballer
The clearing was packed with 300 boys and girls. I was told that they had been practising every day since the tournament was announced. One of the teams tentatively approached the only white(ish) guy and who they mistook as probably a semi-pro. They pushed forward one of their players who could speak English. “Do you juggle?” he asked as he began bouncing the ball off his various appendages. He completed a textbook Baggio seven and then flicked the ball to me. I instinctively went for a cushioned header but my neck seized, and rather than gently controlling the ball, it slapped me in the face and dropped to the ground. Never have you seen disappointment like it. I was ashamed. They were sideswiped.
The tournament lasted into the evening and it was explained to me that the children have no earthly positions. And by that, I mean 80% played barefoot, the others played with a single flip-flop or trainer; half had a right, a teammate the matching left. George told me that during the holidays the children sat around and were drawn into gangs who gave them a taste of alcohol or drugs. Without money to pay back their older peers or to get the next hit, they turned to petty crime. But football gave them a focus. They practised all day and went to bed exhausted. Parents and teachers reported that the children were happier and more engaged and it provided a platform to talk to them about issues like sanitation, hygiene and nutrition.
We left with our senses ringing, like in the movies when the protagonist escapes an exploding car bomb. All background noise had gone and we floated our way home, disorientated by tinnitus. A few days later I found myself in a café thinking about the polarity and absurdity of our globe that can accommodate such vastly different worlds. Whilst I sat sipping coffee in a chair designed to keep me comfortable for the duration of my drink, surrounded by rustic pictures of coffee growers picking, roasting and grinding beans adding to my authentic experience, I couldn’t help but think about the community I had visited in Kenya growing their crops in the worst kind of waste. How could these two experiences coexist? And what could I do about it?
After many sleepless nights, I had the answer. Nothing. There was nothing that I could do. The issues were simply too numerous, too big and too complexly interlinked. I had to somehow absorb what I had witnessed and move on. And that is what I set about doing. Only I couldn’t shift the tinnitus.
I had spoken with George at length about some of the issues he was working to combat. There were no jobs, there was poor sanitation and a lack of access to clean water. None of the children could afford secondary school, which meant few bothered with free primary education. There was a lack of basic healthcare and nutritional knowledge. Anaemic pregnant women dug stones from the dirt and ground them with their teeth, their iron deficiency temporarily satisfied by the metallic taste.
What can anyone do about all that? Where do you begin? What can make it better? Education doesn’t mean jobs; it would mean frustration. Clean water and an understanding of its importance doesn’t mean better health if you’re growing your food in sewage.
But one day, whilst delivering a presentation, I realised something. I know some smart people – people who know about water. I know lots of teachers who know about education. I know doctors and entrepreneurs. I looked around and in that one room, there must have been all the skills and resources required to work alongside and completely transform entire communities. And so there it was, sideswipe #3.
It is only through working together that we can do what we must. It requires us to make our unique contribution, whether our resource be a skill, material or finance. And that is why I founded People. I was sideswiped. It has changed my world view, caused me to change the way I work, put my wallet on a diet and given me a new perspective of what success looks like.
Dehumanising poverty
I think that combating dehumanising poverty is the most important and profound test that faces us today and People aims to do that though pooling the skills and resources of individuals and organisations. We now work in Kenya and Liberia alongside remarkable people. Together we identify and respond to the challenges to, and opportunities for, development and change. In the community I visited six years ago we now have a scholarship programme that supports young people through secondary school and into further study or full-time employment.
But there is so much more that must and can be done. We need to work with IT companies to develop computer training centres and coding schools, we need to develop roads and infrastructure that will improve trade and we need businesses to use their might to empower. We need entrepreneurs to support start-ups, farmers to provide agricultural training and we need more generous people to help expand our scholarship programme. With the right people using what they have at their disposal, this can all be done.
So, to sideswipe you, what is it that only you can do? What is it that you can help make happen?
We are a global community, that’s what makes us People.
Check out people.org.uk and help us support a young person through school and into employment.
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'Personal attacks weakening ANC' - Mantashe pushes for unity
By Neo Goba - 08 April 2019 - 12:41
Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe says strip mining will provide jobs and development.
Image: Moeletsi Mabe
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe has appealed to party members to refrain from taking jabs at each other in public.
This, according to him, gives opposition parties ammunition to capitalise on the ANC's mistakes.
"There's nothing that is actually hurting the ANC like being torn and pulled down in full glare of the enemy.
"If I stand up on a podium and say 'the ANC is dead' or I say, 'the ANC is weak', the impact of that message is far heavier than the enemy attacking us put together," he said.
Although Mantashe did not mention anybody by name, it appears that he was calling out former president Jacob Zuma who in recent weeks has been taking jabs at ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa through subtle tweets in Zulu.
Mantashe was speaking at an ANC Youth League event on Saturday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Solomon Mahlangu's hanging.
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He appealed to ANC members and leaders to stop pulling the ANC down and to put their energy, resources and intellectual capacity into strengthening the party and to unite to ensure a decisive win in the May 8 general elections.
"If we enjoy tearing each other's character apart, we are killing the ANC, we are destroying the trust of society of the leadership of the ANC," Mantashe said.
Turning to the work of the commission of inquiry looking into state capture, Mantashe said if he is found guilty by the commission, then he too should be prosecuted.
"Let's allow it to continue because it is the beginning of the ANC self-correcting and self-cleansing," he said.
"You do not self-cleanse by saying when the commission begins to roar and say everybody must be fired. For the enemy, it is about weakening the capacity of the ANC, so let that commission continue and if I am found guilty, I must actually be punished."
He, however, cautioned against calls to remove names from the ANC election list based on untested allegations.
Last week, state capture investigator Patrick Mlambo gave details of his investigation into the security upgrades at Mantashe's houses in the Eastern Cape, including cameras allegedly installed by a Bosasa subsidiary.
Also present at the event were ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, ANC NEC members S'dumo Dlamini and Joe Maswanganyi and Tshwane regional chairperson Dr Kgosi Maepa, among others.
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Dubois is a friendly little town southeast of Table Rock. It sprang up as a railroad town when the Rock Island line came through. The railroad is gone but the town lives on, with nicely-mowed yards and tree-lined streets. And it even has a tavern. But that's another story.
We have Dubois pictures and stories peppered in our collection and shared by others. Here are a random few. If you have some to share, you can email them to TableRockHistory@gmail.com and we will be glad to post.
Murder of the Young Laundress
Most people have heard that there was a lynching in Pawnee City many years ago, but no one knows when or why. There was, indeed, a lynching -- although one newspaper article referred to it tongue-in-cheek as suicide, based on his choice of alternatives -- jump or we'll push you.... Almost no one remembers the victim of crimes. One hears the name Charles Starkweather -- but whose life did he cut short? In the case of the lynching, the young woman in question was from Dubois. From all accounts, she had done nothing but refuse a proposal of marriage. That, and her sudden and violent death, are all that we know. But at least remember her name rather than his: It was Bertha Schultz. You will note that in one variation of the story, the vigilante crowd was supposed to have come from Dubois....
the railroad
photo 1504 -- train 330 at the dubois station
Posted on the Facebook page "Rails of Southeast Nebraska"
photo 2076, train 353 at dubois
Posted at PawneeCountyNebrHistory.com
Posted on the Facebook page Rails of Southeast Nebraska with a comment that it was probably taken in the 1920s
photo 2077, a recommendation to board at the fletcher hotel
ray musil's photo of the dubois band, photo 1271
The photo unretouched, uncropped
The Historical Society had a poor copy but Ray Musil of Dubois shared a good-quality scan of his original, along with some comments.
Ray said when sending the photo, “Ludwig Shin is my grandmother's brother and the Rakosniks are her cousins. There is also a Table Rock connection as the Rakosniks had a sister Bessie that married Bohman Wenzbauer. That would make the Wenzbauer siblings my third cousins.”
Ray added, referring to the note at the top, “ I did find a 160 owned by Rudy Habrich in a past plat book that is now owned by Marc Hunzeker but I never found a Hubka owning it in all of my old plat books." He also noted, "That is Albert Panec. That is Frank Jaros, brother of Amos. And it is Andy Daniel. Another set of brothers on there are the Rakosniks. Albin Hubka had a brother Joe, also a cousin Joe, and there are other Joe Hubkas. Probably his brother on there, but can't be sure.”
Below is the copy of the photo that was in the Argus Museum, as mounted on a card along with a name tag. It was tacked to the wall with hundreds of other pictures. The only difference in names is that one man is identified on the back of Ray's photo as Andy Daniel and on the Historical Society photo as Bowman Daniel. Bowman probably went by Andy....
Photo 4474, ZCBJ Lodge dancers, shared by Steve Staley
photo 1630 -- a stereoptican card of kenner's ford near dubois
A stereoptican
Laura Turnbull of Pawnee City shared this stereoptican card, made by her father Archer King, a local photographer of note, more famous for his then-innovative novelty postcards.
Right side of the stereoptican card
bridge at cincinnati, by archer king
Shared by Laura Turnbull, the photographer's daughter
Robert Turner, shared by descendant George Turner. He was one of the four men who came to Nebraska together and became the first settlers in Pawnee County.
Photo taken by a Table Rock Historical Society volunteer who helped move the cabin to Table Rock. It had been built onto and around and was basically within an abandoned house. This is how it looked on arrival at the site.
George Turner in front of cabin built by Robert Turner in 1854. The cabin was donated to the Table Rock Historical Society by Walter & Lena Hecht. The cabin was moved to Table Rock, where it sits as a museum. A number of Dubois items are in the museum.
More about the Turner Cabin Museum
A tiny newspaper clipping at the Turner cabin
a family story from cincinnati - dealing with horse thieves
William Steiner has roots in old Cincinnati, and his father told him the following story, which he shared on the Historical Society's Facebook page in September 2018. He says that Willis Shuey, also with roots in old Cincinnati, related the same story. These oral histories (now called "personal histories" by historians) are important sources of information. In this case, it does not seem to have been written down, making them especially valuable.
The "Lynching" at Cincinnati, Nebraska
In the mid 1800's there was a small village on the Nemaha River by the name of Cincinnati. It was located south of DuBois. The Nemaha was damned up there with a small grist mill operating on the the damned up river. There remains a concrete slab in the river where it once resided.
During that time, it was reported to the citizens of Cincinnati there were two horse thieves coming north from Bern, Kansas. In fact the two did arrive in Cincinnati during winter after the pond was frozen over.
The residents of Cincinnati took them into custody, chopped a hole in the ice and the two were "asked" to take a brief swim through the hole in ice.
The residents were asked about the exact whereabouts of the two and no one could remember but all knew.
Photo 4460, the mill at Cincinnati
memories of cincinnati
Historical Society member Luella Hinrichsen grew up in Dubois. In September 2018, she shared some memories:
My mom always said that Cincinnati Lake was "bottomless" and a family in a covered wagon tried to cross it and just disappeared and were never found. In my mind I thought maybe there was an underground waterway that went to the river.
The lake would get mighty dry at times, but I never did see it ALL dry.
Our school went to the lake and Mabel Ord told us about the mill there, it was dry enough to see the remains of the foundation at that time on the south end.
Photo 4465, last house at Cincinnati
Plat map of the south fork area
Shared by Mike Hendricksen, who said this is from about 1919. The little red squares represent country schools, with the red number being the school district number.
a play at dubois
Photo 6496.
This photo of the play is from Mildred Buethe's Stepan family collection. She says that on the back of the card, this is written:
A Big Drama - took place at the DuBois K of P hall, Feb. 20, 1911.
Photo by Henry R. Rakosnik
First row: Ferdinand Hubka and Frank Jaros
Second row: Mr and Mrs Frank Stepan, Ed Hubka, Agnes Horalek, Bessie Stepan, Blanclhe Hubka, and Rose Mae Stepan (Herink)
Seated : Albin Hubka, Rose L. Stepan (cousin) , Frank Mares, Anna S. Slama, and manager Frank Dobrovolny
The Knights of Pythias, Dubois, in 1944
shared by steve staley
Photo 4456, 1890 Dubois from Steve Staley
Dubois main street looking west. Photo 4463.
Dubois main street looking east. Photo 4463b
Photo 4461, Dubois main street circa 1907-1910
Photo 4459, highway bridge. This was originally labeled on this page as being at old Cincinnati, but one of our Dubois experts, Steve Staley, says that it is not. He says that some who have seen it say it is a road bridge that was about a mile east of Dubois.
Photo 4464, Dubois Fire Department in 1963
Names with the Dubois Fire Department picture
Millie Buethe shared this wedding picture of her parents, Joseph Herink and Rose Stepan. He was from a county west of here, and she was from Dubois. They were married in Pawnee City on October 12, 1912. Their attendants were Amos Hubka, a cousin of Joe's, and Bessie Stepan, who was Rose's sister. Millie says of the wedding:
Photo 6678, shared by Millie Buethe
Amos drove them to the new Pawnee courthouse. The story goes that Rose had her handmade floral bouquet in a box in the car. Before they left, her father, thinking he was helping, took the box out so they would have more room. When they got to Pawnee City they realized they had no flowers for the photos so they had to go to a shop to purchase them. So the flowers in the photo were not hand made.
They had a wedding supper at the bride's home near DuBois consisting of noodle soup, pies, kolaches, and many other goodies, all made by Rose's mother and sisters.
After they ate, everything was cleared away and they danced to accordion music provided by Frank and Henry, Rose's brothers. It was not mentioned in Rose's memoirs but I have a feeling they may have had some beer to drink.
henry stepan & his accordion
taken in 1912
he & brother frank provided the music for their sister rose's wedding
Photo 6680, Henry Stepan shared by Millie Buethe
the stepan home
Stepans: Frank , Bessie, Rose, Mary, and Henry. They moved into this house near Dubois in 1906; the picture is undated. Photo 4647, shared by Rose's daughter Mildred Herink Buethe.
the boston home
This is Photo 7729, and it comes from Richard Boston. It is of the James & Caroline Boston family in front of their home in rural Dubois. The home sat one mile south of Prairie Star Cemetery, where they are buried.
Caroline & James Boston, Photo 7730, shared by Rich Boston. They came here after the Civil War, bringing James' parents with them. James had been wounded in battle, and Carolina had left their children behind to go care for him, and eventually for hundreds of other soldiers. In 1894, they moved to Smith Center, Kansas where they lived out their lives. James received a pension, as a wounded veteran, and Caroline received a pension for her work as a nurse.
Above: Taken in 1911,. Back row: Rose Mach, Fannie Sibl, & Rose Mae Stepan. Front row: Rose Sibl, Emma Dvorak, and Molly Jaros Kunz. All six area girls worked in Pawnee City at the time. Photo 4604, shared by Rose Stepan Herink's daughter Mildred Herink Buethe.
Rose Stepan Herink's country school teacher from near Dubois. No name. Shared by Rose's daughter Mildred Buethe.
Millie Herink Buethe's collection of family photos includes many taken in Dubois. They also include many Dubois people elsewhere for visits and even a camping trips.
See many other Dubois family pictures from Millie
DUBOIS in the news
These are just some random articles that are interesting.
February 14, 1901 Argus
January 1965 Argus
August 18, 1916 Argus
September 23, 1901 Argus
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Antigoddess (The Goddess War #1) (Paperback)
By Kendare Blake
The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of a beautiful and dark new series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns and Anna Dressed in Blood
Old Gods never die…
Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.
Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god.
These days, Cassandra doesn't involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn't even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning.
Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don't just flicker out.
Every one of them dies in their own way. Some choke on feathers. Others become monsters. All of them rage against their last breath.
The Goddess War is about to begin.
Kendare Blake holds an MA in creative writing from Middlesex University in northern London. She is the critically acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares, and Antigoddess. She lives and writes in Lynnwood, Washington.
“Blake presents a gory, thrilling vision of the twilight of the gods, in all their pettiness and power, while letting readers draw their own messages and conclusions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“This new series from one of the best up-and-coming horror/suspense writers around updates Greek mythology but offers far more than a Percy Jackson retread. Blake's spunky and imaginative narrative illuminates the personalities of the gods, especially Athena, who's gone a bit punk and is endowed with wry humor.... This edgy first installment maneuvers forces into position; readers will want to stay tuned.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The gods' world, while contemporary, is violent and laced with bizarre circumstances and powers, but Cassandra's is a normal adolescence in spite of her clairvoyance. It is Cassandra's visions that align their two worlds, creating the series debut's ultimate drama and tension, which promises to play out in subsequent Goddess War adventures.” —Booklist
“This is Kendare Blake we're talking about, so people die, and there are terrible sacrifices. It's a great start and, of course, the cliffhanger ensures that I will be impatiently waiting for the sequel.” —USA Today
Series: The Goddess War
Young Adult Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Greek & Roman
Young Adult Fiction / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural
Kobo eBook (September 9th, 2013): $11.99
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Static Shift set to charge up Tri-Region
The pair and their indie rock sound will be the next Summer Sessions act Wednesday.
Evan J. Pretzer
Jul 10, 2020 • November 27, 2020 • 2 minute read
Static Shift. The band will be making their appearance for Stony Plain's latest Summer Sessions concert Wednesday after a setback with a former member last month. Photo by Facebook
The Static Shift is a Calgary-area musical duo that is the living epitome of perseverance after a dramatic upset.
“As of June 2020, Keone Friesen is no longer a member,” a press release on Mitchell Brady and Isaiah Stonehouse’s website reads. “We would like to thank fans for your ongoing support during this time of change [after his arrest in connection with charges of child exploitation].”
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The pair and their indie-rock sound will be the next act to stop in for the Town of Stony Plain’s virtual Summer Sessions concert series with Leo Martinez Wednesday. They have been in the industry since they were teenagers and have managed to get to where they are today partly because of relatives they grew up alongside who have had both production and performing experiences of their own to share with the pair.
“We can thank our families for introducing us to a wide variety of music,” Stonehouse wrote in an email. “My dad is in audio engineering and producing while Mitchell’s dad is a drummer. They have supported us on our journey every step of the way and we are very grateful.”
They released their first album in 2014 and in the time since have maintained a healthy touring schedule in addition to making some appearances on television. When on stage, the pair said they typically exude high energy and aim to appeal to everyone present. The imminent concert will lose some of that lustre, but Brady added they have a good deal of format experience and are ready for it.
“We have done streaming shows in the past and always have fun with them,” he said. “Music will be back live and in-person eventually.”
They are moving to record new material in August and are trying to stay positive as they move through the COVID-19 pandemic and on from the legal issues surrounding their former bandmate. Stonehouse and Brady said that you have to get up after the bad, and creating and performing music — in whatever form that may take in the coming weeks, months and years — is one of the best ways for a person to do so.
“That is what we are excited for right now,” they wrote in a text. “We are excited to try some new things and love seeing the happiness music can bring to everyone. Our attitude is to stay forward-looking so when some normalcy returns, we are ready and able to be a part of it.”
Concerts are streamed on the Town Facebook page and YouTube channel. Guest performances start at 6:30 p.m. before the main at 7 p.m.
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The Free Library > Science and Technology > Science and technology, general > Science News > March 21, 1998
The Free Library > Date > 1998 > March > 21 > Science News
All age groups lack vitamin D in blood.
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While calcium is a hot seller these days, its partner in physiology, vitamin D, has been largely neglected. The body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium, but since people can get the vitamin from sunlight and various foods fortified with it, most of them assume they get enough.
Unfortunately, they're often wrong -- and the consequences can affect them right down to the bone.
Previous research on vitamin D has focused primarily on elderly people, who face a serious risk from a deficiency. Now, a Massachusetts team reports that younger people often lack sufficient amounts as well. This deficiency has been linked to osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease, because the body extracts calcium from bone when it doesn't have enough vitamin D on hand to absorb adequate calcium from food.
Researchers tested blood samples taken from a total of 290 consecutive patients arriving at Massachusetts General Hospital during March and September 1994. Fifty-seven percent had insufficient vitamin D, report Joel S. Finkelstein of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and his colleagues in the March 19 New England Journal of Medicine.
Most housebound people and people over age 65 were found deficient, a result that mirrors past studies. Elderly people tend to lack vitamin D in their diets and get outside less often than younger people.
Surprisingly, 42 percent of the 77 healthy, nonelderly people tested also showed a deficiency. These people, whose age averaged 44, had come to the hospital with complaints, such as chest pains, that turned out not to stem from medical problems.
Since thinning bone isn't apparent until a fracture occurs, these younger people wouldn't notice any effects of vitamin D deficiency, says Michael Parfitt of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
The researchers took blood samples at two times of year in order to explore the effect of sunlight. In March, nearly two-thirds of the people tested were deficient in vitamin D. In September, half lacked a proper amount.
The Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board recommends 200 International Units (IUs) of vitamin D daily for people age 19 to 50 and more for older folks. Multivitamin pills typically contain at least 400 IUs, yet nearly half of the 54 people in the study who reported taking multivitamins daily were deficient in vitamin D, as determined by measurements of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a hormone derived from the vitamin. "We can't tell you why so many people are deficient," says Finkelstein.
The study raises the possibility that recommended intakes of vitamin D are too low, even though they were raised just last year, says endocrinologist Robert D. Utiger in an editorial accompanying the report. Milk infant formula, and some margarines and cereals are fortified with vitamin D, but the amounts are inconsistent. "Fortification of other foods should be considered," Utiger suggests.
Whether people should be screened for vitamin D deficiency or advised to take more vitamin D is still an open question, says Harvard endocrinologist and study coauthor Melissa K. Thomas.
The researchers used a conservative measure of vitamin D deficiency, says Bess Dawson-Hughes, an endocrinologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrition Center at Tufts University in Boston. They chose as a minimum safe concentration 15 nanograms of 25-hydroxyvitamin D per milliliter of blood serum. Even people with 25 to 30 nanograms per milliliter could be mildly deficient, Dawson-Hughes says. "The magnitude of the problem is substantial."
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Shevchenko has the last word as Crouch sees red
David Hytner at Stamford Bridge
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In his youth, Peter Crouch would dream of pulling on the blue shirt of his heroes Chelsea and taking centre stage at Stamford Bridge. When the Liverpool striker returned to the club last night, he claimed the headlines for the wrong reasons.
As Frank Lampard and Andriy Shevchenko conjured the goals that sent Chelsea through to the Carling Cup semi-finals and a two-legged meeting with Everton, Crouch was dragged down by a costly rush of blood.
The Londoner had battled on his own up front and squandered two presentable chances when he lashed out by the touchline in a challenge with Mikel John Obi. Crouch leapt in with both feet off the ground and although he made little damaging contact with the Chelsea midfielder, the referee, Martin Atkinson, had seen enough intent to reach for the red card.
Mikel was sent into the advertising boards and Crouch, rather than exit immediately, went back to offer him a less than polite pointer. When he did leave the field, it was with a volley of abuse for the Chelsea fans who had goaded him all evening.
Rafael Benítez, the Liverpool manager, argued that Mikel had fouled Crouch twice in the build-up and if Atkinson had intervened then, the ugliness could have been prevented. Yet even he could not excuse Crouch's assault. Chelsea's manager Avram Grant did not pull his punches. "He didn't need to do it," he said. "It was on the line and in the middle of the pitch. It was far away [from anywhere meaningful].
"I respect Rafa Benítez a lot but firstly, it was a bad tackle and secondly, there were so many fouls made on Mikel, I think there were seven or eight in the first half. The priority of the game is to protect people from bad tackles. You saw what happened to John Terry [who was injured at Arsenal], he is out for six weeks."
This was the 17th meeting of the Benítez era and spite has crackled throughout most of them. Another staple of the matches has been their tightness and even with a weakened Liverpool line-up, it appeared that something abnormal, something freakish, would be required to prise the teams apart. So it proved. Lampard's goal was the pivotal moment and it went in thanks to a cruel deflection off Jamie Carragher.
Lampard had burst on to a flick from Shevchenko; Carragher seemed to have him tracked. But when Lampard shot, the ball looped up off Carragher's outstretched boot, deceived Charles Itandje, the stand-in Liverpool goalkeeper, and landed in the far corner.
Shevchenko wrapped up the victory when he rammed home a low shot in injury time, beating the otherwise impressive Itandje at his near post, following good work by Michael Ballack. Shevchenko's delight at his fifth goal of the season was matched by Ballack. The Germany captain had not played since April and two ankle operations, a dark period during which he feared he might never play again. "Sometimes I thought, 'I'm 31, I've had 14 good years as a pro, maybe it's over'," he said on the eve of the game. "There have been moments of real despair." A weight was lifted when he appeared as a substitute.
Liverpool have still to score in seven matches under Benítez at Stamford Bridge but they had the chances here. Crouch was played in early on by Lucas Leiva but he dragged his shot well wide and, shortly after, a slick move had Chelsea chasing shadows and Lucas bearing down on Petr Cech. This time the shot speared towards the far corner, but Cech's reflexes stood the test. Lucas wheeled away in frustration.
Chelsea had several excellent chances. Salomon Kalou forced Itandje to tip over his bar and Lampard, clean through after a defensive mix-up, could not lift the ball over the keeper.
Benítez left a host of star names at home but his hopes surged in the 56th minute when Crouch seized on an awful back-header by Ricardo Carvalho, back after six weeks out with a back injury. Yet Crouch could not find a way past the alert Cech. Moments later, Lampard's goal was followed by Crouch's red mist. Game over.
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TechRadar's Hottest at CES 2021 Awards
By TechRadar Staff 13 January 2021
The best tech from CES 2021... that we saw from a safe distance
The first-ever virtual CES wasn’t without its trials and tribulations, but we have to say we’re impressed with how the industry handled an event the size and scale of CES 2021 without renting out a convention center. It wasn’t perfect, but it was, if anything, pretty memorable.
While the lack of an in-person experience stopped our editors from getting as much hands-on time as they usually would with new products, it didn’t stop us from meeting with the biggest names in tech like Samsung, LG, Sony and more to hear what they had to say about their latest and greatest gadgets.
From drones and robot vacuums, to new mobile processors, laptops and TVs, the first virtual CES provided us plenty of new tech to keep our eyes on over the coming year.
Which gadgets and gizmos won the hearts of our editors this week? Here’s our editors’ picks of the hottest tech of CES 2021.
(Editor’s note: the picks below are listed in alphabetical order, not by how impressed our editors are with them. It’s also worth noting that some products are still in their conceptual prototype phase, so some specs or features may change before release.)
AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile Processor
AMD’s CEO, Dr Lisa Su, delivered a triumphant keynote at CES 2021, where she showed off the much-anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 series of mobile processors.
The new processors are based on the same Zen 3 architecture as the desktop Ryzen 5000 CPUs that launched at the end of 2020 (to much critical and commercial acclaim), and look like they could seriously trouble Intel, threatening its current market-leading position in laptops.
When it comes to battery life, AMD claims the Ryzen 7 5800U can last up to 17.5 hours in general usage, and up to 21 hours when playing back movies. We’ll need to verify these claims ourselves, but if they're even remotely accurate these new processors could be a real game-changer for laptops.
If you want more performance, and battery life isn’t so important, then the AMD HX processors could be for you. These are unlocked for overclocking with some OEM systems, and with a TDP of 45W+ they're designed to really push the boundaries of what a gaming laptop is capable of.
To say that we’re excited about them is an understatement.
Read more: AMD Ryzen 5000 release date, price, benchmarks and specs
Lenovo LaVie Mini
The Lenovo LaVie Mini is what happens when a netbook meets a Nintendo Switch - it’s a hybrid low-power laptop that can transform into a gaming handheld. It’d be the perfect solution for emulators and game streaming services on the go (paging Google Stadia) and yet remain versatile enough for browsing the web and streaming music in between gaming sessions.
In terms of specs, you’re looking at an 8-inch, 1900x1200 touchscreen backed up with a Tiger Lake Intel Core i7 processor with Iris Xe graphics, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB m.2 SSD and an optical touch sensor instead of a trackpad. It uses a tiny keyboard and can, perhaps best of all, plug into a dock for 4K60 output to your monitor or big screen TV.
The bad news? This one’s still just a concept at this point. It’s not something Lenovo - and its sub-brand NEC that came up with the concept - have any plans to manufacture at this point. That could very well change after Lenovo sees how much interest there is around it, but we wouldn’t toss out your Nintendo Switch just yet.
The other bad news? Lenovo has already said that both the Gaming Controller and the HDMI-connected Dock are deemed as "optional" accessories, which means you'd need to shell out extra cash for the accessories that would make the LaVie Mini a compelling product. Bummer.
Read more: Lenovo has an answer to the Nintendo Switch and Dell Concept UFO
We’ve been hearing rumors of the LG Rollable for a while now, but at CES 2021, LG officially confirmed the name of the phone, while also providing a brief glimpse of it in a teaser.
From the teaser you can see something that starts out looking much like a conventional smartphone, but with edges that extend to create a small tablet. This makes it very different in design to a foldable phone then, but the end result is somewhat similar, giving you the option of either a large screen or a smaller one at any given time.
We don’t know anything else about the LG Rollable yet, including when you’ll be able to buy it, but sources familiar with LG's plans told CNET that the LG Rollable will be coming in 2021, and an LG spokesperson just confirmed to Nikkei that it will be "launched this year."
Hopefully you’ve been saving though, because a recent leak suggested that the LG Rollable might cost as much as $2,359 (roughly £1,775, AU$3,130).
Read more: LG Rollable finally shown off as a foldable phone alternative at CES 2021
LG Transparent Smart Bed
LG is taking the luxury of watching TV in bed to the next level with its 55-inch Transparent OLED Smart Bed concept that smuggles a transparent OLED TV inside the foot of your bed.
The concept combines two of LG’s previous prototypes - the LG Transparent OLED that we saw at CES a year ago and the LG Rollable OLED we saw two years ago - into a single product.
According to LG, the OLED takes about 25 seconds to fully extend from the foot of the bed, but LG says that you can change how much of the TV rolls up at one time, allowing you to change the aspect ratio of the TV on the fly. This, LG says, can be useful if you only need a small window to check the weather or activate LG’s ThinQ IQ assistant, and is faster than unfurling the whole screen.
On top of the transparent OLED, the OLED Smart Bed also houses a speaker system which means you don’t have to worry about hooking up an external soundbar - though we’re hoping LG figures out a way to make it a Dolby Atmos system if this ever gets made into a real product.
For now, however, this one’s just a dream.
Read more: LG TV 2021: every OLED, MiniLED, and NanoCell TV coming this year
Moflin Pet Robot
Created by Vanguard Industries with a successful Kickstarter campaign , Moflin is an AI pet robot with "emotional capabilities", and it looks like a fluffy gray guinea pig, with black beady eyes and soft fur.
Its creators say that their unique algorithm allows Moflin to learn and grow, using built-in sensors to evaluate its surroundings. These sensors include accelerometers with gyroscopes, touch sensors, and microphones. That means it's capable of distinguishing between different people depending on how they interact with it, and can express its 'feelings' accordingly, through movements and unbearably cute sounds that were inspired by real animal noises.
According to the company, each Moflin will develop an individual personality over time, depending on the environment and "how their owners treat them", with possible emotions including anxious, calm, happy, excited, and more – just like a real pet.
Unfortunately, robot pets rarely come cheap. Vanguard Industries says that it aims to successfully deliver its first Moflin in March, and you can get your hands on one by pledging $400 (about £290 / AU$500), with delivery expected by June 2021.
Read more: Meet Moflin, the adorable AI pet robot that will learn to love you
Razer has revealed a seriously smart face mask at CES 2021, and with everything that's going on in the world, it’s the exact combination of technological audacity and safety we need.
While the aesthetics won't be a hit for everyone, before you make any rash judgments on this RGB-injected medical wear, you should know that every part of the design has an important part to play - even the funky lighting.
The RGB lighting on the mask will indicate low power levels or let you know when your filter needs replacing, though you can turn off the lighting if you prefer. The mask is also waterproof, scratchproof, and face-fitting thanks to a silicone liner that forms a seal to prevent rogue airflow.
As a way to help out the hearing impaired, the clear face-panel design was purposely included for better socialization and to help those who require lip reading for assisted communication and Razer is also currently patenting its 'Razer Voiceamp Technology', which prevents the tight seal of the mask from muffling your voice by using a built-in mic and amplifier to give your speech crystal clear clarity.
While there are working prototypes, Razer has made it clear that Project Hazel is a work in progress and will continue to be optimized with the help of community feedback. There isn't currently any mention of when we can expect to see the mask hitting shelves or an estimated retail price, but if feedback on social media is anything to go by, the world is ready for it now.
Read more: Razer's Project Hazel has us genuinely excited to wear a smart face mask
Razer Project Brooklyn
Of course, Hazel isn’t the only project Razer announced at CES 2021: Project Brooklyn is a first-of-its-kind gaming chair that offers haptic feedback, customizable RGB lighting and a 60-inch OLED rollout display mounted to the seatback providing the immersive, panoramic visuals – which is deployable at the push of a button.
If ever there was a reason to turn up at the Las Vegas Convention Center in early January, this chair would be it.
Since it's a concept build, the odds of seeing a Project Brooklyn chair available for sale are slim, but elements of it could be implemented in other products. The company said that it plans on continuing development of the concept and plans on testing it out with top eSports players and influencers to assess the project's feasibility with an eye towards taking that feedback and integrating it into Razer's future gaming chair lineup.
Given the prevalence of the technologies Razer is incorporating into this concept – rollout screens are going to be big this year, for instance – it's almost certain that we will eventually see something like Project Brooklyn sooner rather than later. That's what we keep telling ourselves, anyway.
Read more: Razer's Project Brooklyn gaming cockpit makes us wish CES 2021 was in-person
Samsung JetBot AI 90+ Smart Robot Vacuum
While we saw a number of robot helpers at this year’s CES, there’s only one that hit the right combination of usefulness, intelligence and eventual availability: the Samsung JetBot AI 90+.
Samsung JetBot patrols your home using object recognition technology to decide the best cleaning path. It also uses LiDAR sensors (the lasers used in autonomous vehicles to determine depth and distance) to get up close to objects like toys while avoiding more fragile items like vases – and smellier numbers like pet poop (sorry, “wet messes”). Although we’ve seen smartvacs before, the JetBot 90 AI Plus aims to be the first to never, ever get stuck.
While having LIDAR should, on paper, help the JetBot AI 90+ from getting stuck, we won't believe it until we see it.
Read more: The coolest robots of CES 2021
Samsung HW-Q950A 11.1.4 Dolby Atmos Soundbar
There’s no shortage of soundbars at CES but the Samsung HW-Q950A wins the award for the most impressive, as it can work as an 11.1.4 system when you attach the two wireless rears.
Unlike most soundbar setups, the included wireless rear speakers each have a corresponding side-firing channel, blasting your music or TV audio at you from every angle in conjunction with the bar's upfiring tweeters. The Samsung HW-Q950A also comes with a wireless subwoofer that features a built-in microphone. This mic allows the subwoofer to scan the room and calibrate the sound accordingly, so it should sound great wherever you place it.
For gamers, the new soundbar also comes with a gaming mode to introduce "more dynamics to your game experience", as well as a Active Voice Amplifier feature to boost the dialogue in films and TV shows when it detects noise disturbances.
There's no word yet on how much the Samsung HW-Q950A will cost, but if its predecessor is anything to go by, it'll be pricey. The 9.1.4-channel Samsung HW-Q950T cost $1,399 / £1,499 / AU$1949 when it launched last year, and you can expect the latest model to be at least as expensive.
Read more: Samsung's new Dolby Atmos soundbar could be its most immersive yet
Sony Airpeak Drone
The mysterious Sony Airpeak drone has been shown off for the first time at CES 2021 – and it's not quite the DJI rival we'd been hoping for.
Sony first announced the Airpeak drone project in November 2020, but didn't reveal any images or details about the kind of flying machine it had in store. Well, we've now seen some short videos of Airpeak in action at CES 2021 – and it's fair to say it's aimed at the high-end professional market. In fact, in its short announcement, Sony said that it would be launching a new business targeted at "professional photography and video production" in the first half of 2021.
Starting with a professional drone makes a lot of sense for Sony – that's the market that its biggest land-based cameras, like the Sony A7S III and Sony A7R IV, reside in. Also, not only are the margins in high-end drones much bigger than their hobbyist equivalents, Airpeak fits neatly into Sony's position as a high-end entertainment brand for both professional filmmakers and aspiring creators.
Bluntly speaking, that’s a sneaky way of saying that it’s going to be expensive.
For now, it looks like the likes of DJI and Skydio will continue to reign in the affordable drone space – but Sony Airpeak is certainly shaping up to be a hugely impressive new contender at higher altitudes.
Read more: Sony shows off its Airpeak drone for the first time – and it's no DJI rival
TCL 6-Series QLED 8K TVs
While it’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of flagship OLEDs from LG or cutting-edge QLEDs from Samsung, most of the flagship TVs shown at CES aren’t exactly affordable for the average joe. But that’s not the case with TCL - its flagship 6-Series TVs are always affordable and jam-packed with cutting-edge features like full array local dimming, quantum dot and MiniLED.
But, in 2021, you can add 8K resolution to the list, too.
At CES 2021, TCL announced that its affordable mid-range sets would be getting a bump up in resolution this year, bringing 8K resolution to the masses.
With that said, though TCL hasn’t announced the pricing of the new 2021 R648 models, if past years' models like the TCL 6-Series R635 are anything to go by, we’re about to see a sub-$1,000 8K TV sometime in the next 12 months.
Read more: The TCL 6-Series could feature the most affordable 8K TV ever made
TCL NXTPAPER
The TCL NXTPAPER is what would happen if you mixed traditional tablets and E Ink ereaders: its ‘paper-like’ 8-inch Full HD display emits no blue light, making it conceivably easier on the eyes.
Because it ‘reuses’ natural light, the NXTPAPER is 65% more battery efficient than a conventional tablet and yet, because of the colored screen, has better contrast than a traditional ereader - i.e. it’s looking like the best of both worlds.
In terms of specs, the TCL NXTPAPER packs a 5MP front-facing camera, 8MP rear camera, a 5,500mAh battery, and an octa-core processor allowing users to watch videos and other media.
None of that will make traditional tablets like the Apple iPad Pro or Microsoft Surface run for the hills, but considering that TCL plans on selling the NXTPAPER for just €349 in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, Microsoft and Apple are free to hold onto the high-end of the tablet market... for now.
Read more: TCL's color electronic ink tablet unveiled, could be a Kindle alternative
TCL Scrolling Screen Concept and Vertical Rollable Phone Concept
At CES 2021, TCL showed us that the future of phones are rollable. Not only did the company affirm that its rollable phone is still in development – but during its CES 2021 presentation, the brand showed off two new rollable concepts: one that rolls upward to make the phone taller and a wide scroll-like display that unfurled to a 17-inch display, which would reach laptop-size screen dimensions.
TCL showed off working tech demos of the vertical rollable and the scrolling display in tweets, demonstrating that, while they aren’t implemented in market-ready phones yet, they’re certainly on the way.
We’re putting these in the category of prototypes for now, but we’re hoping they make the transition into real products before CES 2022 comes around next year.
Read more: Phones at CES 2021: Rollable phones, Moto G series and more ahead of Samsung S21
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£168,000 boost for disability sport in Rotherham
Disabled people in Rotherham will have more opportunities to get involved in sport after Rotherham United Community Sports Trust received £168,000 of funding from Sport England’s Inclusive Sport fund.
The club is one of 44 projects across England that will benefit from £8.06 million of National Lottery investment from Sport England to open up more opportunities for disabled people to play sport.
The project targets adults with mental health issues who have limited access to sport. The specific groups which will be targeted are:
• Adults diagnosed with psychosis (chronic depression, bi-polar and schizophrenia)
• Adults who have experienced brain injury, triggering psychotic disorder
• Adults with early dementia diagnosis that is leading to cognitive and mental deterioration.
The project will build the capacity of community organisations working with these groups by training support staff, carers and service users to deliver sport provisions to ensure sustainability and improve the long term access to sporting activity after the end of this funding.
Jamie Noble, Head of Community at Rotherham United said “This is an unbelievable achievement to get this funding. We are only one of 44 projects in the country and I think one of only a hand full doing work around mental health. As a football club, we are committed to supporting all communities in Rotherham and this is an area of work which we have seen a growing need for in the past couple of years.” He went on to add “We have had some fantastic support from the Rotherham Public Health & Sports Development Team as well as the partner organisation who will be involved in this project. We can’t wait to get going now!”
Sport England Director of Insight, Lisa O’Keefe, said: “We are delighted to be able to help Rotherham United Community Sports Trust provide more opportunities for disabled people to give sport a go. Record numbers of disabled people now play sport and it’s thanks to clubs like this that we can continue to improve opportunities and make a real difference in communities.”
The number of disabled people playing sport regularly is on the rise. In December 2013, Sport England’s Active People Survey - an annual, in-depth measure of the nation’s sporting habits – revealed that a record number of disabled people in England now play sport each week. However, non-disabled people are still twice as likely to play sport as disabled people (39.2 per cent compared to 18.5 per cent) which is why Sport England continues to focus attention and investment to address this imbalance.
Sport England’s Inclusive Sport Fund supports programmes that aim to increase the number of disabled people playing sport. Since the fund launched, £17.1 million has been invested in 88 projects that make sport a viable lifestyle choice for disabled people.
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Islington’s reputation as a vibrant, creative, and inclusive community is under threat from the inexorable rise in house prices, which has put increasing pressure on cultural, social, and community land use.
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discussing inspiring examples of how new developments can deliver a full range of creative and community uses, health and care services, and genuinely affordable housing; and
focusing on how to make the best use of an important local site: Holloway Prison. Find out more about the Holloway Prison project here.
Come and join us to find out how we can all help influence the nature of our communities by taking an active interest in our local built environment.
Leading the discussion will be Ken Dytor, Founder of Urban Catalyst, and Roger Grimshaw, Research Director of Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Report, Jan.15, 2021: CDC Provides Vaccine Allergy Recommendations - 01/15/2021
The latest COVID-19 vaccine news as of Jan. 15, 2021
Talk to Patients About: What Is ImmTrac2? - 01/14/2021
ImmTrac2, Texas’ revised immunization registry, is designed to help people keep their vaccine records in order. Texas residents who sign up can have their immunization records stored for free, allowing physicians, schools, and other authorized people to see which shots a person has received and which ones they’ve missed.
Medicine’s Superheroes to be Celebrated During TMA Foundation’s First Virtual Gala - 01/11/2021
Medicine’s trusted leadership has truly shined during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a celebration of that leadership will be the focus of Texas Medical Association Foundation’s 2021 gala, Superheroes: Meeting the Challenge. The gala is set for May 14 during TMA’s annual meeting, TexMed 2021, in Austin.
Be Aware of Sodium Cyanide Capsules Used on Texas Ranches - 01/07/2021
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sent out an announcement last month informing the medical community that sodium cyanide capsules "may, at times, be used on ranches in your area to control predation of livestock and spread of disease caused by certain wild animals."
Talk to Patients About: Flu Shot Myths - 01/05/2021
It’s no secret that many patients don’t take the annual vaccine for influenza as seriously as their physicians would like. During the 2019-20 flu season, just over half of Americans 6 months or older – 51.8% – got their flu shots, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That was up 2.6% from the previous season.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy - 01/04/2021
Physicians have proven ways to respond to patients’ reluctance on vaccines.
Governor’s First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine a Confidence Boost for Texas - 12/22/2020
Please attribute this statement to Texas Public Health Coalition Chair Jason V. Terk, MD, in response to Gov. Abbott receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. “Every dose of COVID-19 vaccine administered brings Texas one step closer to the end of the pandemic. The Texas Public Health Coalition celebrates the news Gov. Greg Abbott received his first dose today and expresses appreciation for his personal leadership by example..."
TMA Applauds Governor Abbott for Getting COVID-19 Vaccine - 12/21/2020
“TMA thanks Governor Abbott for rolling up his sleeve to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. People need to see we can make Texas strong against the coronavirus if we all take these preventive measures to protect ourselves and others. The governor is leading by example by getting the shot..."
Improve Access to Immunizations - 12/17/2020
Vaccinations are important, safe, and effective. They defend our families, our community, and our economy from infectious diseases. The COVID 19 pandemic clearly illustrates what can happen when a vaccine does not exist to ward off a deadly infectious disease.
Texas Physicians Get First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine - 12/17/2020
Fast, smooth, relatively painless. That’s the way Texas Medical Association President Diana L. Fite, MD, described her experience as part of the state’s first batch of essential health care workers to receive initial doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Division of Population Health and Medical Education - 12/14/2020
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New TMA Ads Remind Texans of the Importance of Vaccines - 12/03/2020
In a new ad campaign that debuted during the Democratic National Convention, TMA reminds Texans of the many ways vaccinations protect us. A second ad will run Thursday, Aug. 27, during the closing night of the Republican National Convention.
Operation Distribution: Physicians Key in COVID-19 Vaccines Distribution - 12/02/2020
Even though COVID-19 vaccines are closer than ever to use by the general public, many questions remain about how they will be distributed to Texas physicians – and how they’ll be received by Texans. That’s why TMA in October weighed in on the state’s distribution plan with recommendations to help ensure COVID-19 vaccines are not only distributed effectively and efficiently, but also seen as trusted tools in the fight against the illness.
Use It or Lose It: Texas’ New Behavioral Health Program Can Help Only If Physicians Use It - 12/02/2020
What if Texas lawmakers created a mental health service that physicians asked for but then not many physicians used it? So far, that is what’s happening with the Child Psychiatric Access Network (CPAN), which gives pediatricians and family physicians across Texas free telemedicine-based consultation and training on community psychiatry.
TMA COVID-19 Experts Urge Testing for Schoolchildren - 12/01/2020
Texas physicians recommend schools use rapid antigen testing along with other on-campus safety measures to detect early signs of coronavirus infection among students and staff. The recommendation comes from the Texas Medical Association (TMA) School Reopening Workgroup, which includes physician members of the TMA COVID-19 Task Force, Committee on Infectious Diseases, and Committee on Child and Adolescent Health, and local health authorities from throughout the state.
Talk to Patients About: Why COVID-19 “Parties” Are a Bad Idea - 11/30/2020
Most people have gradually adjusted to the day-to-day changes caused by COVID-19, such as washing hands frequently, wearing masks, and social distancing. But others have looked for strategies to get around the hassles caused by the pandemic. In some cases, this has included deliberately trying to contract the potentially deadly illness through “COVID parties,” events designed to expose people to someone with COVID-19.
State Board Finalizes Medically Accurate Health Education Standards - 11/23/2020
Thanks to an organized push by the Texas Medical Association and its physician members, the State Board of Education last week approved new Texas curriculum standards that include more comprehensive and medically accurate instruction on multiple health-related topics.
Know Outstanding Science Teachers? Nominate Them for a TMA Award - 11/23/2020
If you know an outstanding educator, nominate him or her for the Texas Medical Association’s Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching.
Effectively Counseling Patients Amid the Anti-Vaccination Movement - 11/20/2020
Primary care physicians are at the frontline of the annual battle against influenza. Many patients arrive at their clinician’s office with erroneous information about the vaccine and have already decided to refuse their flu shot before they walk through the clinic doors. In response, practices and providers across the country have amplified their efforts.
Talk to Patients About: ACIP - 11/20/2020
Two federal agencies oversee the way vaccines reach the U.S. public. But only one of them guides physicians on the best way to use those vaccines. That agency is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates the way private companies develop and produce vaccines.)
AMA Policy Calls on Medicine to Oppose Racism, Recognize It as a Public Health Threat - 11/18/2020
At a Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, the nation’s physicians confronted racism nationwide by adopting several policies that recognize racism as a public health threat.
State Board Could Remove Vaccine Education From Public Schools - 11/17/2020
There is still time to tell your state education board member to reject any amendments to the immunization language in the draft Health Education TEKS, and to ensure future generations of Texas children are informed on the importance of vaccines to overall health.
New TMA Chart, Podcast Assess the COVID Risks of Various Holiday Activities - 11/17/2020
How risky is traveling over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house during a pandemic? Physicians of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) COVID-19 Task Force and TMA Committee on Infectious Diseases announce two new tools to help Texans enjoy holiday activities while avoiding things that pose the greatest risk of spreading COVID-19: A new infographic and podcast.
Texas Physicians: Expanding Broadband Access Will Help Patients - 11/04/2020
Statement by Texas Medical Association (TMA) President Diana L. Fite, MD, about the Texas Governor’s Broadband Development Council’s recommendations to create a state broadband plan and develop a funding program to support broadband expansion to unserved areas in Texas.
Talk to Patients About: Vaccine Testing - 10/30/2020
The COVID-19 vaccines currently under production are expected to reach the public faster than any previous vaccine. But no matter how quickly a vaccine is produced, it still must pass a series of rigorous scientific tests before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will license it for public use.
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June 11, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 4:52 pm Finance Tagged with: Amerigo Vespucci, Ashanti, blues, Columbus, Confederacy, indians, John Wayne, Kente cloth, literature, movies, negroes, Pelosi, slavery, slavetraders, statues, Washington 18 Responses »
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Virtue signaling in the US of A has already reached new heights, and there’s little reason to believe it won’t reach even much higher as we happily signal along. In the process, we will find that applying logic to the undertaking will take us to unanticipated, and highly undesirable (for most protesters), places. But by then a lot of damage, whether we think that’s a good thing or not, will have been done.
HBO opened a Pandora’s Box all of its own when it pulled Gone With the Wind, despite that fact that Hattie McDaniel was the first black American Oscar nominee AND winner. Let’s erase that too. Along with ALL other films that depict slavery in the “wrong” light, or, better yet, that depict slavery at all.
Let’s ban all links to slavery, let’s pretend it never existed, because if we don’t we will find it’s impossible to decide between what we do and do not want to last. not all people have the same preferences or opinions, and neither do all black people.
And while we’re talking movies, and Columbus statues are toppled across the nation because Christopher (before there were any “Americans”) treated indigenous Americans poorly, do let’s ban all Hollywood westerns in which “Indians” are depicted as cannon fodder. No more John Wayne for you. Gone even the few non-westerns Wayne appeared in, because his name and face are forever linked to killing “Indians”. No more Duke.
And why stop there? Just to name an example, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, arguably a great book and a good movie, depicts a white man “being compassionate” to a black man oppressed by other white men. Can’t have that, the oppression is obviously racist and so is the good(!) white(!) man who’s the protagonist of the story, written by a white woman(!).
Let’s leaf through all American and other world literature of the past half millennium that describes slavery, including that which talks about “good white” men. There are no good white men!
Anything to do with native Americans must go. Because they were badly treated throughout the 500 years of history they share with white people (Europeans). They still are, just like African Americans. Same difference. Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison? Don’t think so. They were all talking about slavery. And we’re toppling statues in order to stop that talk.
Frederick Douglass? You got to be kidding. His autobiography is called “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave“. Isn’t that enough to topple him? James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, they all remind us of a period we don’t want to be reminded of anymore. It’s enough! No more slavery!
Martin Luther King? Get serious, he talks about nothing but oppression. He even claims black people in his lifetime were still slaves. Muhammad Ali is obviously not welcome anymore, he spoke just about exclusively from the viewpoint of an oppressed man.
Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States of America. George Washington was a slaveholder, he’s obviously out. D.C. stands for District of Columbia, named after Columbus, so that needs a new name. The country gets its name from a Columbus contemporary and fellow explorer who was a slave holder and treated indigenous populations of the countries he “visited” no better than Columbus did. Wikipedia:
Amerigo Vespucci wrote his will in April 1511. He left most of his modest estate, including five household slaves, to his wife.
[..] After Hispaniola they made a brief slave raid in the Bahamas, capturing 232 natives and then returned to Spain.
There once was a time when Washington, D.C. was the capital of the United States of America. But those days must soon be gone. How can you hold on to a name for your capital city that belongs to a man who was a brazen slave holder? Or the district the capital is in? And how can you breathe in a country named after a despicable Italian slaveholder and slave trader?
The US constitution was largely written by slave holders. We’re going to need a new one.
There are 1747 “symbols of the Confederacy” in the US. I’m guessing Pelosi, once those 11 statues at the Capitol have been toppled, will start work on getting rid of the other 1736 too. And mind you, this doesn’t yet include Columbus, Vespucci, or anyone else who’s “mistreated”, enslaved, murdered, native Americans. We will easily have twice the 1747 number once we include those.
For that matter, if you’re Nancy Pelosi, how and why do you dress up in the “kente cloth” fabrics that originate with the Asanthi people that ruled in present-day Ghana from mid-1600s to mid-1900s, and were themselves … slaveholders and slave traders? Who sold god knows how many African slaves to European slave traders? How can you dress up in the garb of slave traders to protest the mistreatment of the grandchildren of slaves? Short circuit? Temporary?
For all the protesters other than Pelosi, who herself obviously joined in only for political reasons, here’s a question: Do you oppose slavery, or only slavery on US soil? Because, you know, the Romans had slaves, many African tribes had slaves, present day Chinese people did. Australia? Slave country if I ever saw one. The deeper you dig into history, the more you will find. I don’t want to bore you with an extensive list, because it would be too extensive.
“There was no slavery in Australia.” Scott Morrison, 11.06.2020.
What would you call this, then ? pic.twitter.com/gUfFnQbskj
— Mike Carlton (@MikeCarlton01) June 11, 2020
Or maybe a second question, though it has mostly already been answered: Is this protest only about slavery, or about the oppression of people(s) in general? It’s already been answered in toppling the Columbus statues, since Christopher was not a slavetrader as far as we know, so, see above, we’re talking about both “indians” and “negroes”.
I use both derogatory terms on purpose, precisely because they paint the picture of what things used to be like. That they are no longer tolerated tells a story all by itself. And yes, much more is needed, but can that be achieved by toppling statues and banning books and movies? Is that how those two terms were banned?
We cannot escape our past and probably that’s the reason we shouldn’t try. What we need to do, what our role in the story is, is to not follow in the “footsteps of wrong”, and to do better. Do we have a better chance at doing better and escaping “wrong” if and when we ban all symbols of it, so we can no longer see it?
Or is our best chance to let all these things last so we can point at them to say: that is wrong!? If all the statues and books and movies are gone, how will our children know?
And I haven’t even mentioned the music yet, the unique melting pot of European melodies and African beats that gave the world blues and jazz and rock, all born from the plantation life that so many stories depict, and the music itself, growing under the statuesque eyes of the likes of Jefferson Davis or George Washington.
Maybe if you like your blues and jazz and rock and rap, you should call for the statues and books to remain standing, because without the narratives they bear witness to, there would be no blues, or anything that came after. Maybe you should celebrate your ancestors’ genius that gave America (or whatever you wind up calling it soon) its music, which, accidentally, has conquered all the countries of all the slavetraders of the past.
Maybe the music, the books, represent your ancestors’ victory over their oppressors, and maybe you risk tainting that hard-fought victory by trying to erase the memories of those they fought against to attain it.
And no, you can’t just pick the books and statues and music you would like and dump everything else. It doesn’t work that way. Your neighbor might have slightly different criteria and pick other favorites, and so on.
You can’t say we’ll hold on to Toni Morrison and throw out Harper Lee, you can’t dump Gone With the Wind but keep Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, because each of these are part of the exact same story.
It’s a package deal, called history. And you’re not going to get the best end of that deal by pretending history doesn’t exist.
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2020: Crisis and Connections
posted by Colleen Lynch
As COVID-19 chases us inside and shuts the door behind us, it also shines a bright light on the cracks in our society. People struggle to meet their families’ needs and care for loved ones who are ill, immunocompromised or disabled. They face isolation and uncertainty. Groups of people, including migrant workers and precarious workers, the homeless and low-income renters are especially vulnerable. Health care workers raise the alarm about inadequate supplies and resources.
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From our place of anxiety-tinged isolation, many of us are trying to put the threads of potential change together. Networks of care are forming across communities. Activist groups set up online forums and meeting spaces. Parents stockpile books and games to share with their children. We hope that, as a poem by Kitty O’Meara puts it, “when the danger passe[s], and the people [join] together again, they [grieve] their losses, and [make] new choices, and [dream] new images, and [create] new ways to live and heal the earth fully….” (And the People Stayed Home)
COVID-19 is an immediate threat, and action to flatten the curve of disease and protect the vulnerable is critical. Health protocol, including social distancing and self-isolation, is essential to safeguard our families and communities. Our governments must also continue to shift resources to support the health and wellbeing of all. (Please see resources and petition links at the end of this article)
2020 has been a tough year so far, and the pandemic isn’t the first grave threat the world has faced. I see some parallels and some clues for filling the cracks COVID-19 reveals. With a stronger society, we could better withstand future health emergencies, including those created by climate change, which the Lancet health and climate change reports show, poses a serious and ever-mounting health threat.
To recount some of the crises of 2020, Australia was on fire with over a billion animals lost and hundreds of smoke-related deaths. At the same time, Jakarta flooded with 409K people affected.
Within our own borders, it is often poor, Indigenous and racialized communities who experience the greatest impacts of extractive capitalism that link directly with environmental crisis. For example, Aamjiwnaang (near Sarnia) in Anishnawbe territory, is a chemical valley with toxic leaks, air and water pollution. My own community, York South-Weston, is one of the poorest in the GTA and has one of the highest levels of health-threatening air-pollution. It is long past time for justice for such communities.
Moving along the calendar year, in February, Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia was invaded by RCMP on behalf of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline (CGL). As of now, CGL continues construction without the agreement of hereditary chiefs, operating man-camps of up to 1000 workers, exempted from the rules about social-distancing and putting local communities at huge risk. See Unist’ot’en Camp for updates.
In response to the Wet’suwet’en crisis, the text below was written but went un-posted. I share it now with the thought that we might see synergies in the ongoing inter-related crisis and their potential solutions.
“What is going on is wrong from whatever angle you look at the situation. It demonstrates a violence that harms in the name of an industry that has already destroyed so much and left still mounting toxic damages behind. It defends a system in which only a few prosper greatly and many suffer.
This at a time when, more than ever, we need practices that prioritize care for animals and nature. Ones that build a system in which all is fairly shared and enough is left intact for all. Practices that are upheld by Indigenous land and water defenders….
Alberta matters! But there are ways to help workers without propping up a sunset industry while committing genocide and placing everyone in the path of oncoming climate chaos. For example, Canada could look to a Just Transition for oil and gas workers and their communities. Societal changes must be quick and comprehensive, so pairing a Just Transition with a Green New Deal that makes sure good jobs in clean energy and low-carbon fields replace those lost, and that no-one is left behind, is imperative.…
Our leaders must start making choices that honour Indigenous rights and protect the health of future generations. As a wealthy nation, Canada has the power and resources to make these choices. Surely our leaders must summon the imagination and the will to do so!” Read the full blog here.
Late February, in another potential crisis for climate justice, the decision about whether to approve the Teck Frontier, an open pit tar sands mine that would have infringed on Indigenous rights, decimated climate goals, boreal forest and wetlands, loomed. The company unexpectedly withdrew their application, citing the need for the resolve of “[q]uestions about the societal implications of energy development, climate change and Indigenous rights.” (Teck Frontier News Release) Here are excerpts from a second unpublished blog.
“Our government and energy reviewers are asking the wrong questions. They ask: How much fossil fuel infrastructure do we need to supply the world with oil? How can we ensure it gets built?
Better questions would be: How much more oil will new tar sands infrastructure enable? What can we build instead, that ensures more jobs, healthier communities and a stronger long-term economy?….
Canadian government could use its wealth and privilege to transition, to seize the better world inherent in a Green New Deal and provide greater aid to the vulnerable both within Canada and globally….
The Pact for a Green New Deal for Canada is in the works. This workshopped vision of a better world includes:
Decolonization: Implementing UNDRIP, FPIC and the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Transforming transit, energy, housing, agriculture and public services in a way that creates good jobs: a million green jobs plan
Creating a more just and equitable society by centering communities that are currently marginalized
Full access to public services for all: healthcare, education, childcare
Freezing all new fossil fuel projects; redirecting all subsidies to programs and projects that truly serve the good of all
Ensuring right of all people to clean air, water, healthy food, safe environment built on connection and community
And a few additions from the M-1 motion that is in parliament right now and needs our support:
Guaranteeing jobs with family-supporting wages, enough family and medical leave, retirement security
Strengthening and safeguarding workers’ rights: unionization, health and safety, wage standards, antidiscrimination
Ensuring affordable and adequate housing as well as economic security
With a vision of a better world, we can stop the current destructive, extractive mandate that rewards the few at the expense of the many. We can make choices for healing, restoration and reparation. We can implement the deep and lasting system changes needed to protect and lift each other up.”
As of March 2020, we face a pandemic. The recent $82 billion dollar emergency response package, while it still needs to be strengthened, shows that when our world is in upheaval, swift and large-scale change is possible. Concurrently though, the Ontario government continues its plans to ramp up natural gas use and push a pipeline through Hamilton wetlands while the federal government quietly throws more money at the TransMountain Pipeline expansion. These actions perpetuate inequities and colonialism, all the while increasing future health threats, including the spread of viruses that are related to the degradation of the climate and the natural world.
In this volatile time, oil prices have collapsed. I’m struck by a phrase Kenney used in reference to Alberta’s fossil fuel industry - “we’re in uncharted territory.” It’s the same one used by meteorologists about three years ago, in response to the changing climate. And the same one used by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Alternative Federal Budget Proposal, with respect to the combination of the coronavirus and the global oil sell-off.
We now await the federal 2020 budget announcement. We hold our breath, hoping that the political agenda might do an about face, turning toward a more equitable, climate-stabilizing and caring future. If our political leaders respond to this current crisis with a corporation focused oil and gas bailout, our futures are in jeopardy. Instead, we need choices that empower our communities, ensure people are supported through the COVID-19 crisis and lay down a strong, long-term foundation for the future health and wellbeing of all peoples.
To quote Naomi Klein, “In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become possible. But who’s ideas? Sensible, fair ones designed to keep as many possible safe, secure and healthy, or predatory ideas, designed to further enrich the already unimaginably wealthy while leaving the most vulnerable further exposed?” https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/
Let’s work to make sure that the federal budget ensures:
Enough supplies are made or acquired, to safeguard the health of the greatest number of people. i.e. tests, ventilators, protection for frontline workers. Here is a Letter template to send to MPs.
Shelters and drop-in spaces are considerably expanded.
Guaranteed support for those close to insolvency, living hand to mouth or who don’t qualify for adequate benefits and tax breaks. A longer-term strategy to counter precarious, low-wage work, unwaged work and the abuse and marginalization of disabled workers and to fix or replace degraded or privatized social infrastructure.
Appropriate climate emergency actions, to reduce the threat of increased viral spread due to global warming and biodiversity loss. Also air pollution, which contributes significantly to death rates.
A shift in economic focus from extractive industries to a circular economy of care, a green new deal.
A system that does not perpetuate dispossession and violence against Indigenous peoples and the destruction of their lands and culture. A system that centres Indigenous rights and sovereignty. Read about the Red Deal for a deeper analysis.
In a few months time, when we’ve regrouped and recovered as best we can, we could have the safeguards and protections in place to handle future and ongoing emergencies, including the climate emergency. With a Green New Deal, care-based communities and a deepened respect for nature, we could remake our world!
Information and Resources:
For COVID-19 information in Toronto see: https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/
Under the Social Support page there is a place for volunteers
Federal Information Portal
Check the CaremongeringTO Facebook group and see this spreadsheet for more: Local Groups
Petitions and advocacy for adequate COLVID-19 Responses:
Here is a Letter template to send to MPs to ask for an adequate health-related response to COVID-19
For a list of ongoing advocacy efforts see Broadbent Insitutute
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Jomon Sugi
by touristinjapanupdated on April 30, 2020 December 28, 2020 Leave a Comment on Jomon Sugi
Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉), an enormous and several thousand years old cedar tree, is one of the main attractions on Yakushima. The tree, which is located deep in the mountain forest of Yakushima, is considered to be the oldest tree in Japan, and one of the oldest in the world. The actual age is unknown, but it is estimated to be between 2000 and 7000 years old.
Jomon Sugi has been given it’s name because it is thought to date from the Jomon period of Japanese history (14’000–300 BCE). It was likely first discovered during the edo-period, when the area was used for logging. The tree survived and was rediscovered in the 1960’s. During the same period Yakushima National Park was established to protect the unique nature of the island. Later, a part of the forest has been designated a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site.
Despite being located far out in the forest, you shouldn’t expect to take a photo of yourself hugging the massive tree. It is forbidden to go near Jomon Sugi, which can only be observed from a platform built nearby. Even though it is a long hike out there, many hikers should be expected on the trails – especially around weekends and Japanese national holidays like “golden week”.
Jomon Sugi can only be reached by hiking trails. The shortest path there takes 10 hours round-trip and requires some planning ahead. There are also two huts for overnight stays within a 1km distance of the tree – the Takatsuka Hut (高塚小屋) being the nearest and the Shin-Takatsuka hut a bit further away. Yakushima’s mountains are crisscrossed by hiking trails, but there are generally two primary routes used to reach Jomon Sugi; the shortest route starting at the Arakawa Trail Head and the slightly longer path starting at Shiratani Unsuikyo Ravine park entrance. The two paths eventually merge and lead to the Ohkabu Trail which passes the tree.
Jomon Sugi Hiking Map. Map copyright openstreetmap-contributors. Overlay by touristinjapan.com
Hiking trails to Jomon Sugi
From Arakawa Trail
Length: 21.2km roundtrip / 13.2mi roundtrip Time: 10-12 hours roundtrip Difficulty: medium.
Using the Arakawa Trail Entrance is the preferred route for most hikers heading to Jomon Sugi. This is because this route is both shorter and less tough. The first 8km of the trail is on the Anbo Trail which is an old railway line. The path is therefore relatively flat and not overgrown, making it possible to cover the first 8km in just 2.5 hours. The second section is the Ohkabu Trail which is a steep, mountain trail requiring proper footwear. These last 2.8km on the Ohkabu take around 3 hours (uphill).
It is absolutely necessary to leave before sunrise to be able to make a return trip. Otherwise, you must plan for camping.
From Shiratani Unsuikyo (via Kusugawa trail)
Length: 23km roundtrip / 14.3mi roundtrip Time: 12-14 hours roundtrip Difficulty: medium-hard.
Using the Kusugawa trail to approach Jomon Sugi is less common because the trail is longer and tougher. While the Arakawa Trail follows the flat old railroad for much of the distance, the Kusugawa Trail is primarily mountain trails. If using this approach, it would be wise to plan for camping or an overnight stay in one of the huts near Jomon Sugi. The Kusugawa trail has some advantages as it will be less crowded on the first section, and you won’t need to take the bus to get started. You can park your car near the Shiratani Unsuikyo Park entrance.
If time permits, then it’s worth making a short detour to see the Taikoiwa rock, which provides a magnificent view over the valleys and mountains.
Taking the Kusugawa route is risky if you plan on making a return trip on the same day. It is absolutely necessary to leave before sunrise to be able to make a return trip. It is recommended to plan spending a night at one of the huts instead.
Arakawa Mountain Bus
Access to the road leading to the Arakawa Trail Head is restricted from March 1st to November 30th every year. That means no private vehicles can drive on the road. The only way to get to the trail head is to take a special Arakawa Mountain Bus. The bus departs from the Yakusugi Museum front parking lot in Anbo and costs ¥870 each way (2016).
? Show bus stop on google maps.
The Arakawa Mountain Bus departs 4-5 times in the early morning between 4:40 and 6:00 and returns 5-7 times in the afternoon between 15:00 and 18:00. Check the current schedule when you buy your tickets. There is no reservation system for tickets. Tickets should be purchased in advance at one of the following locations:
Tourist Information Center (airport)
Tourist Information Center (Anbo)
Tourist Information Center (Miyanoura)
You can reach the bus stop by local busses, taxis or shuttle services provided by hotels and accomodations.
There are multiple huts for overnight stays around the forest. There are two huts near the Jomon Sugi cedar. The Takatsuka Hut (高塚小屋) is very near, and the Shin-Takatsuka Hut (新高塚小屋) about 1km (1 hour) down the trail. The huts are simple and without electricity and running water. There are simple toilets available. Be prepared to share the hut with other hikers.
The huts don’t require reservation, but check current conditions with one of the three Tourist Information Centers on the island before planning to stay overnight.
? Yakushima National Park official website
? General Hiking Map of Yakushima
Cover photo by Σ64. CC BY 3.0. Photo modified.
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I can’t promise that this list of train depots is totally accurate and up to date, especially where freight depots are concerned, but it should be somewhere very close. A few I’m not sure about have a question mark against them (corrections welcome). Pay rates are the latest to hand, but these are always changing and some are bound to be out of date. London Weighting is not included in these figures. You can read more about company-specific conditions on the ASLEF website – go > ‘TOCs & FOCs’ > ‘Company Information’.
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Pay: £56,544 for a 35 hour, four day week, committed Sundays extra (two years after gaining core routes and traction).
Company: A new Cross-Country franchise started in November 2007 with Arriva replacing Virgin. Most XC services are operated with Voyager trains but the new company has re-introduced HSTs on the busier North-East to South-West services. Cross-Country also absorbed the former Central Trains routes from Nottingham to Cardiff and Birmingham to Stansted Airport which are operated by class 170s.
Depots: Birmingham New Street, Bournemouth, Bristol Temple Meads, Cambridge, Derby (Drivers only), Edinburgh Waverley, Leeds, Leicester, Longsight (Manchester), Nottingham and Plymouth. Surprisingly there is no depot at the main Central Rivers maintenance base near Burton-on-Trent. Must live within one hour of your depot.
Applying: The company’s general contact number is 0870 010 0084, which may put you through to the Human Resources Department. Their e-mail address is [email protected]
I understand this company does not expect to recruit trainee train drivers during the rest of the franchise period.
Arriva Trains Wales
Pay: £43,869 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra. (Note: Cardiff Canton depot works a five day week with every fifth week off)
Company: This business moved from NEG to Arriva at the end of 2003 on a long let and, despite finding it a bit of a struggle early on, has now become a reliable operator. Although pay rates are a bit behind a lot of companies they can still look very good from the perspective of outside pay rates in rural areas. Staff morale has improved although some drivers drift away when better opportunities arise elsewhere. In the past this firm mostly recruited drivers internally but recent indications are that there is now an unspoken preference for recruiting trainee drivers externally so as to avoid creating vacancies for conductors by promoting them. They seem to recruit fairly regularly, so this could be a good place to look. Seem to require you live within one hour of your depot.
Depots: Cardiff, Carmarthen, Chester, Crewe, Holyhead, Llandudno Junction, Machynlleth, Pwllheli, Rhymney, Shrewsbury and Treherbert.
Applying: Recruitment Department, Arriva Trains Wales, St. Mary’s House, 47 Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF10 5DJ. Call the recruitment line (24-hour answer machine) on 02920 720 692. You can also apply online through the website.
Pay: £45,206 for a 35 hour, four day week including Sundays.
Company: A small, self-contained operator which has come on greatly since its days as the south-east’s notorious ‘misery line’. It has now re-equipped with electrostar EMUs and gone DOO, so there are no guards positions anymore. The training school is at Pitsea.
Depots: London (East Ham), Shoeburyness and Tilbury.
Applying: Download an application form from their website and send it to The Human Resources Dept, 10th Floor, 207 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NR. The company’s general contact number is 08456 014 873, which may put you through to the Human Resources Department.
This is a new franchise which took over the London to Scotland sleeper services in April
2015. It is let to Serco. I am unclear as to whether they employ their own train crew or contract in.
Chiltern Railways
Pay: £49,357 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra.
Company: A company (now owned by Arriva / Deutsch Bahn) with clean, punctual trains and a good reputation; this firm has excellent staff morale and is so popular to work for that hardly anyone ever leaves. The management is also unusually forward thinking and keen to develop new services, such as London to Oxford via Bicester.
Depots: Aylesbury, Banbury, Birmingham Moor Street, London Marylebone and Stourbridge Junction (a sub-depot of Birmingham).
Applying: You should download an application form from the website and send it to the Personnel Department, Chiltern Railways, Great Central House, Marylebone Station, Melcombe Place, London, NW1 6JJ. The Personnel Department contact number is 0207 922 9520.
Pay: £45,757, rising to £55,000 in May 2016 (£26,577 when training). 35 hour week with Sundays included.
Company: This concession has been won by MTR Laing (which operates the London Overground) and will take over the running of the Shenfield to Liverpool Street service in May 2015. Once the Crossrail tunnel itself opens it will run through to Reading and Heathrow by 2019.
Depots: Ilford (Maybe Old Oak and Reading later?)
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Company: This new franchise started in November 2007, Stagecoach replacing National Express. It is formed out of the East Midlands elements of the defunct Central Trains and the St. Pancras to Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield routes of Midland Mainline. Pay rates are competitive and conditions of service are seen as better than at many operators. Given the closeness of the pay and conditions of the two constituent parts of the new company I expect that it will be easy to harmonise these. Whether there will be any cross-over of work content is much more doubtful. Many drivers are promoted internally from conductors or station staff, but there is usually a seasoning of external recruits. Training takes place at a purpose built academy at Derby.
Depots: Boston, Lincoln, Norwich, Nottingham (all former CT) and Derby, London St. Pancras and Sheffield (all former MML).
Applying: All interested applicants should apply via their online system at www.careers.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
Company: Working for this company is regarded as the pinnacle of British train driving and it is hard to get into. Definitely not a job for new entrants, you will need at least five years experience of driving high-speed trains to be considered. Eurostar drivers have to learn French as well as continental operating rules for working trains through to Paris and Brussels. Some lodging in Paris and Brussels is involved. Eurostar has the highest pay rate in the country, although this is somewhat undermined by the fact that drivers are required to live within an hour of St. Pancras where housing is almost unaffordable!
Depots:The only depot is at London St. Pancras.
Applying: Fill in an online application form at their website. You can also e-mail the recruitment team at [email protected]
Eurotunnel
Pay: £34,200 for a 37 hour week, Sunday working inclusive.
Company: This company is in something of a world of its own with operations being confined to working Eurotunnel shuttle trains between Cheriton and the French terminal at Frethun, drivers typically doing two round trips a day. Being so specialised, its drivers cannot readily transfer to work for other British train operators. There is a requirement to live within 30 minutes of the depot for call-out purposes but, surprisingly enough, being able to speak French is said to be desirable rather than mandatory. A driving licence is also necessary. It is probably only worth thinking about working for this company if you are local.
Depots: The only depot is at Cheriton Terminal near Folkestone.
Applying: I know nothing of this company’s recruitment arrangements. Their address is PO Box 2000, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 8X4 and their general contact number is 08705 35 35 35, which may put you through to the Human Resources Department.
Their initial e-mail contact is [email protected]
Pay: £48,640 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra (£44,866 former GW Link, £44,784 former Wessex).
Company: Great Western had been well run by First Group and was a popular company to work for but, since re-franchising in 2006, things have been a good deal grimmer as a result of First over-bidding the franchise. This has led to a lot of late running and overcrowding for which the front line staff have often unfairly taken the flak. Mostly recruits from within the industry but also takes on outsiders pretty frequently.
Depots: Inter-City Depots are at: Bristol Temple Meads, Exeter St. David’s, London Paddington, Penzance and Swansea. Thames Valley suburban depots are at: Paddington, Reading and Oxford. Former Wessex depots are at: Bristol Temple Meads, Bristol Parkway, Exeter St. David’s, Gloucester, Par, Penzance, Portsmouth (Fratton), Westbury and Weymouth. It is doubtful that there will be any merger between those depots which share locations.
Applying: CVs are not accepted. You must download an application form from the fGW website and send it to Human Resources, 3rd Floor, Milford House, 1 Milford Street, Swindon, SN1 1HL. The company’s general contact number is 08457 000 125, which may put you through to the Human Resources Department.
First Hull Trains
Pay: £47,354 for a 35 hour, five day week including Sundays. £30 lodge.
Company: An open-access firm set up by GB Railways (itself now a subsidiary of First Group), Hull Trains is a small outfit with a family feel to it. It has established an excellent reputation with a loyal band of regular passengers and seems to be very popular with its staff. Train crew were initially provided under an arrangement with Anglia Railways, however HT has since moved over to employing its own crews at its only depot, Hull. It may expand services to Lincoln in due course. This is a tough company to get into and, as it now has a policy of normally promoting to driver from within, you may need to start as a Train Manager first.
Depots: The only train crew depot is at Hull.
Applying: Write to The Operations Manager, Hull Trains, Premier House, Ferensway, Hull, HU1 3UF or e-mail [email protected] The company’s general contact number is 08450 710 222, which may put you through.
First Trans-Pennine Express
Pay: £47,439 for a 35 hour five day week, Sundays included.
Company: A new operator for inter-urban services in the north of England which was spun out of Arriva Trains Northern and First North Western. Its longer term future may be to be amalgamated with Cross Country. From 12/07 it took over responsibility for operating services between Manchester and Glasgow, although Freightliner Heavy Haul Drivers are being contracted to handle some of this work.
Depots: Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool North, Cleethorpes, Hull, Manchester Airport (Conductors only), Manchester Piccadilly, (the former VXC Preston depot?) Scarborough, Sheffield and York.
Applying: You should download an application form from their website and post it to The First TransPennine Express Recruitment Team, 7th Floor, Bridgewater House, 60 Whitworth Street, Manchester, M1 6LT.
Pay: £48,425 for 35 hours, Sundays inside the working week. The working week and rest day patter is highly variable. Sunderland-based crews lodge in London.
Company: A new operator which has introduced an open-access service between Sunderland and London using HSTs, and more recently between Bradford and London using Adelantes. I doubt GC will have a safety case to train drivers internally and so it is likely only to recruit existing qualified drivers. The company was sold to Arriva DB in late 2011.
Depots: The only depots are at Sunderland and Bradford.
Applying: You can download an application form from the company website and send it to Grand Central Railway Company Ltd., Human Resources, River House, 17 Museum Street, York, YO1 7DJ. Otherwise, all contact with this firm currently seems to be through their website.
Pay: £42,425 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra (c£43,744 former Great Eastern, Sundays extra; £41,739 former WAGN, Sundays
extra).
Company: This is an amalgamation of three former franchises, Anglia, Great Eastern and the West Anglia part of WAGN. It is now part of the Abellio Group, which runs train operations in Britain, Germany, Finland and the Czech Republic. It now seems unlikely that the depots of the constituent companies will merge or that terms & conditions will be harmonised; it’s all just too difficult and expensive. Recruits external trainees very frequently, especially in the London area. Definitely worth an approach.
Depots: The former Anglia depots are at London Liverpool Street, Ipswich and Norwich; the Great Eastern depots are at Clacton, Colchester, Gidea Park, Ilford and Southend Victoria; the West Anglia depots are at Bishop’s Stortford, Cambridge, Chingford.
Applying: Greater Anglia Recruitment Team, Floor 2, East Anglia House, 12-34 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3EH.
Pay: Around £45,725 for a 35 hour week, including Sundays. The roster is on a 6 on, 4 off basis.
Company: Heathrow Express is not a franchise but an unsubsidised open-access operator owned by Heathrow Airport Holdings. Although HEx has taken on a few trainee drivers directly, the normal route to becoming a driver is to start within the company in a customer service/sales position.
Although it may appear monotonous driving the Heathrow Express, you also get to drive Heathrow Connect (the Paddington – Heathrow stopper) and there is an Inter-Terminal-Transit at Heathrow, so diagrams do allow for a bit of variety. It used to be the case that HEx drivers were also required to carry out customer service and train dispatch functions at times, but this has now ceased.
Although Hex has had a reputation as a good company to work for in the past, cost cutting measures and workforce restructuring have made it somewhat less so now. Some drivers spread their wings after a while and go on successfully to join other companies. I would say that if you live west of London and fancy having a go at train driving then Hex is probably a great way to start out.
Depots: Depots are at London Paddington and Old Oak Common. You will need to be able to get to OOC, Terminal 4 and Paddington as turns start at all three places.
Applying: Apply online through their website. The company’s general contact number is 0845 600 15 15, which may put you through to the Human Resources Department. Their general e-mail contact is [email protected]
Pay: £36,494 for a 35 hour week over four days but amounting to 39 hours including Sunday working.
Company: Operating as an autonomous part of Stagecoach’s South West Trains franchise, Island Line is a very small company at which vacancies seldom occur. You would work for Island Line more for living on the Isle of Wight than for driving trains!
Depots: The only depot is at Ryde St John’s.
Applying: Write to the Island Line Area Office, Ryde St Johns Road Station, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2BA. The general phone number is 01983 812 591 and the general e-mail contact is [email protected]
London Midland
Pay: £48,750 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra. (£50,000 from 4/16)
Company: This new franchise started in November 2007 and is run by Govia. It was formed out of the West Midlands elements of the defunct Central Trains and the Euston to Northampton part of the former Silverlink. The work is all fairly unglamorous urban and inter-urban multiple unit operations. Pay rates are competitive and conditions of service are seen as better than at many operators. It is proving rather difficult to harmonise the pay and conditions of the constituent parts of the company and there must be some doubt as to whether it will happen. Most drivers are promoted internally from conductors or station staff, but there is always a seasoning of external recruits. Accepts speculative applications only from qualified Train Drivers and Conductors and will keep them on file.
Depots: Birmingham New Street, Birmingham Snow Hill (sub-depot of BNS), Bletchley, Coventry (sub-depot of BNS), Crewe, Leamington, Northampton, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton (sub-depot of BNS) and Worcester Shrub Hill.
Applying: Call 0121 654 1147 between 10:00 and 16:00 to request an application pack or e-mail [email protected] Write to: Human Resources, London Midland, PO Box 4323, Birmingham, B2 4JB.
Pay: £54,071 hours including Sundays
(Trainee c£27,000 and first year c£42,000 for the first year). Former Anglia depots are on £50,000, Sundays excluded. No London Weighting.
Company: London Overground is not a franchise but a concession let by Transport for London to Laing / MTR, which is in turn now owned by Deutsche Bahn. It operates the Watford d.c. line between Watford and Euston; the West London Line; the North London Line from Richmond to Stratford; the Gospel Oak – Barking line and the new East London Line services. For all that TfL try to make LO look like an extension of the London Underground with bullseye nameboards and the like it really it isn’t. All LO trains run on Network Rail infrastructure and so LO has the same training procedures as the TOCs and its drivers are licenced to drive on NR lines. This means their qualification is valid for all TOCs and you could apply to transfer to another firm later, subject to any golden handcuffs clause in your contract which may tie you to LO for a period. London Overground has recruited around 120 trainee drivers, mainly in connection with the East London Line, and there may be more to come as it expands services. Their training centre is at Swiss Cottage. Often promotes internally from customer facing roles. Must live within 30 minutes travel of the depot.
Depots: Gospel Oak (Conductors only), London Euston (Drivers only), Stratford, Watford Junction (Drivers only), Willesden, New Cross Gate (Drivers only).
Applying: Write to the HR Department, LOROL, Overground House, 125 Finchley Road, London, NW3 6HY. E-mail: [email protected]
Merseyrail
Company: This company got off to a shaky start under its original franchisee with frequent industrial relations problems but things have improved greatly under Serco/Abellio. Un-glamorous, overlooked and with an almost totally self-contained system, Merseyrail quietly operates one of the most punctual train services in the country. Given that the nature of its work is rather monotonous, I suspect that a lot of its drivers move on to other TOCs and this may mean that if you start here as a conductor you might well progress to driving fairly quickly – and housing is pretty cheap too. One to start with perhaps.
Depots: Birkenhead North, Kirkdale and Southport.
Applying: Write to Human Resources, Merseyrail Electrics 2002 Ltd., 9th Floor, Rail House, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, L1 1JF or call 0151 955 2050 or email: [email protected]erseyrail.org
Northern Rail
Pay: £41,625 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays extra at former fNW depots (£15,625 while training). £44,197 for 35 hour, four day week including Sundays at former ATN depots.
Company: This franchise was formed in December 2004 from a merger of First North Western and Arriva Trains Northern. It operates local trains throughout the north of England, including those for the various PTEs in its area. Before the merger took place the inter-urban express services migrated to the new Trans-Pennine Express franchise. Neither of the constituent companies were very popular firms to work for and they regularly lost drivers to Virgin, DRS and Freightliner. Part of the problem was that they had trouble competing with them on pay rates. Morale in the two franchises was also damaged by a succession of poor franchisees. Northern is now held by a new outfit, Serco/Abellio, under whose stewardship things have improved despite the current management’s desire to keep pay & conditions for drivers from the two constituent outfits separate. ATN regularly recruits externally so this is a good company for beginners in the north to find their first train driving job with, but you must live withing 30 minutes of your depot to be considered.
Depots: Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool North, Buxton, Darlington, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Hull, Ilkley, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Newcastle, Sheffield, Skipton, Wigan, Workington and York.
Applying: You should normally apply online through their website. Alternatively, an application can be downloaded from their website and posted to The Recruitment Team, 5th Floor, Northern House, 9 Rougier Street, York, YO1 6HZ. The e-mail contact is [email protected] Northern’s general contact number is 0870 000 5151, which might put you through to the Recruitment Team.
ScotRail
Company: This is a stable TOC with a strong national identity and has been run by Abellio since April 2015. Scotrail is seldom in the news with industrial relations problems, which probably points to good morale, and is almost the only choice of employer if you want to become a train driver north of the border. They seem to advertise fairly frequently for trainee drivers. All the same, you may be able to start as a conductor and progress, most likely getting your first driving job at one of the Glasgow area suburban depots before moving out to one of the more popular towns.
Depots: Aberdeen, Airdrie, Ayr, Bathgate, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Glasgow Central, Glasgow Queen Street, Helensburgh, Inverness, Kyle of Lochalsh, Mallaig, Perth, Oban, Stranraer, Tweedbank, Wick and Yoker.
Applying: You should apply online at Scotrail’s website.
Pay: £43,999 for a 35 hour, 4.5 day week, Sundays inside the week. High-speed drivers, £44,491.
Company: This firm suffered under the dreadful Connex for some years before spending some time being run by the now defunct SRA after Connex was sacked. It has now been let to Govia as a new Integrated Kent franchise which now includes high-speed express services between London St Pancras and east Kent via High Speed 1. The new high-speed Javelin trains are based at a purpose built depot in Ramsgate with a smaller one at Ashford and are operated by specialist crews. High speed and conventional unit workings are not mixed. As with South Central, progression from conductor to driver should be fairly rapid, although this firm also recruits Trainee Drivers directly.
Depots: Ashford, Dover, Faversham, Gillingham, Grove Park, Hastings, London Charing Cross, London Victoria (Eastern), Orpington, Ramsgate, Slade Green and Tonbridge. Javelin depots at Dover, Faversham and Ramsgate. Staff are expected to live within 15 miles of their depot.
Applying: In the first instance you should e-mail this firm at [email protected] and ask for an information pack and application form. Their general address is Friars Bridge Court, 41-45 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8PG.
South West Trains
Pay: £45,417 for a 35 hour, including Sundays. (around £20-27,000 while training). Depot Drivers, c£33,000
Company: Run from the start of privatisation by Brian Souter’s Stagecoach, the new managers initially embarrassed themselves by giving a large number of drivers early retirement, only to find they didn’t then have enough to cover the service. Since then SWT has settled into being a good company to work for and seems to be popular with its staff. It also has about as good a reputation as a London commuter train operator as public opinion is ever likely to allow. SWT trains drivers in-house and promotion from conductor shouldn’t take too long, especially if you are prepared to go to one of the inner-suburban depots for your first driving job. It does take in some new entrants as trainee drivers but the fact that you need to live within thirty minutes of one of its depots just to get an interview makes it pointless applying unless you already live in its area. Maximum age at entry is 58 and this firm has made a point of recruiting quite a lot of ‘mid-lifers’ coming to train driving as a second career.
I understand that SWT have introduced a ‘roll playing’ element into the recruitment process.
Depots: Basingstoke, Bournemouth, Farnham, Fratton, Guildford, London Waterloo, Salisbury, Staines, Strawberry Hill, Weymouth, Woking and Wimbledon.
Applying: Look out for job ads on their website.
Company: This TOC is now owned by Go-via and has now recovered from several years at the hands of the appalling Connex. The sheer scale of its operations are such that if you join as a conductor you should get onto a driving course fairly quickly. It also recruits Trainee Drivers directly, especially in the London suburban area (which is DOO), but you must already live within thirty minutes of a depot and have your own transport even to be considered. The main training base is at Selhurst and simulators are used extensively.
Depots: Barnham, Brighton, Caterham, Eastbourne, Epsom, Horsham, London Bridge, London Victoria (Central), Redhill, Selhurst, Norwood and Three Bridges. First Great Western contracts SCT crews from Redhill depot to work over its North Downs line.
Applying: You need to download an Application form and Supplementary Application form from their Jobs page and e-mail them to [email protected] You can also send forms to Southern Railway, Resourcing & Assessment Department, 5th Floor, Knollys House, 17 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR0 6SR. Call 020 7023 4305 in the event of problems.
Thameslink Great Northern
Pay: £47,133 for a 35 hour, four day week, Sundays optional.
Company: Another operator of Driver-Only trains, so it’s as well to have the confidence to deal with the public as well as being a ‘machine operator’. Seems to prefer recruiting existing drivers when it can get them, but also takes on external trainees regularly enough for it to be worth making a speculative approach to them. Appears to have quite a low staff turnover despite the very intensive work. Formerly ran as Thameslink (under First Group) the franchise was re-let to Govia in September 2014. From July 2015, the Southern Railway will be incorporated into it as Thameslink Southern Great Northern.
Depots: Bedford, Blackfriars, Brighton, Cambridge, Hitchin, King’s Cross, King’s Lynn and Peterborough.
Applying: You can apply for jobs through their website, though you have to register with the site first.
Pay: £53,724 for a 35 hour, four day week, committed Sundays extra.
Company: Hardly anyone ever leaves Virgin to work for another TOC which says a lot for them as an employer. Their rate of pay and quality of work is such that VT can realistically expect to get all the drivers they need by transfers of qualified drivers from other companies and so they never recruit trainees. I understand that speculative applications are not kept on file. When the Virgin Cross-Country franchise expired in November 2007 VWC took over responsibility only for the operation of Voyager services between London Euston, Chester and North Wales; the rest passed to Cross-Country.
Depots: Edinburgh Waverley, Holyhead, Liverpool Lime Street, London Euston, Longsight (Manchester), Polmadie (Glasgow), Preston and Wolverhampton.
Applying: You should download an application form relevant to the job you are applying for and send it to the address on the form. The recruitment team e-mail is [email protected]
Virgin East Coast Trains
Pay: £55,850 for 35 hour, 4.25 day week including compulsory Sundays.
Company: Under the ownership of Jim Sherwood’s Sea Containers the original GNER established an enviable reputation as Britain’s best TOC during its franchise period despite often mediocre punctuality. The second franchise was seriously over-bid and led the TOC into financial trouble which resulted in it going to re-tender and being won by National Express. That too has now collapsed and East Coast was taken over by the state for a while but has now been let to Virgin. A very popular firm to work for, you would probably be expected to start on the stations and work your way up via on-board staff. Has the second highest pay rates after Eurostar. This company sometimes takes on trainee drivers from outside the industry but, as I have never seen these jobs advertised on their website or anywhere else, a speculative application might be a good idea.s
Depots: Doncaster, Edinburgh Waverley, Leeds, London King’s Cross and Newcastle.
Applying: No information as yet
Freight Train Operating Companies…
Colas Rail
Pay: ‘Contracted hours’ drivers are paid £40,193 + company van & fuel (for work only). 160 averaged over four weeks (including working Saturdays or Sundays), then time & a quarter. ‘Zero hours contract’ drivers are paid about £20 per hour for whatever they work with no petrol allowance. These latter may work anything from 0 to 6 days a week but three days is about typical. Zero hours contract work might be attractive as partial retirement. As Colas is descended from one of the original companies at privatisation, safeguarded staff retain their priv travel. Lodging away will be required.
Company: Amec-Spie was a new entrant to the rail freight business in October 2006 but has now been taken over by Colas Rail, the rail arm of SECO. The initial business was the transport of wood between Crianlarich in Scotland and the Kronospan works at Chirk in north Wales but has since expanded to other flows. It has also carried out rail head treatment and p-way services in the west of England and possibly intermodal work from Grangemouth and Thornaby. Hires in Virgin class 57s and also owns some class 66s and a couple of refurbished ex-RES 47s. Emphasis is placed on recruiting flexible, reliable, experienced Drivers who get on with the job unsupervised. Locomotive experience would be a distinct advantage if not already freight qualified (and may be essential). Some lodging away is involved. In 2012 Colas Rail acquired the Cardiff-based Pullman Rail train maintenance facility.
Depots: Drivers book on from home all over the country.
Applying: Send your full CV, stating your current remuneration package, to The Personnel Manager, Floor 2, Dacre House, 19 Dacre Street, London, SW1H 0DJ, or e-mail to [email protected] General contact number is 020 7593 5353.
Company: Privatised as EWS, this firm got off to a flying start under the inspiring leadership of Wisconsin Central’s Ed Burkhardt. After he was ousted by corporate bureaucrats it became a less happy place to work and seems to have quite a high turnover of staff. Many go to other and better paying FOCs which seem to regard EWS as a free training school for drivers. To be fair, this is probably aggravated by the high incidence of night and Sunday working. At the end of 2007 EWS was taken over by Deutsche Bahn as part of their program to create a pan-European freight operation and since then have been actively expanding into the continent, even recruiting new drivers in France. At the beginning of 2009 the company was renamed DB Schenker. They might be your best way of getting into freight driving as they have occasionally recruited externally and train drivers in-house.
Depots: Acton, Barking (Ripple Lane), Barrow-in-Furness, Bescot, Bristol Barton Hill, Carlisle, Dolland’s Moor (for the Channel Tunnel, ability to speak French required), Doncaster, Eastleigh, Ellesmere Port, Fort William, Garston, Gloucester, Great Rocks (Buxton), Healey Mills (Wakefield), Hereford, Hither Green, Hoo Junction, Hunterston, Immingham, Inverness, Ipswich, Knottingley, Leicester, Margam, Millerhill (Edinburgh), Motherwell, Newport, Peak Forest, Peterborough, Perth, Polmadie (Glasgow), Rugby, Rotherham, St. Blazey, Stratford, Thornaby (Middlesborough), Toton, Tyne Yard, Warrington, Woking and Worksop.
Applying: Write, including a full CV and notice period for your current job, to The HR Recruitment Team, DB Schenker, Lakeside Business Park, Carolina Way, Doncaster, DN4 5PN. Alternatively, email your CV or enquiry to [email protected] Telephone: 01870 140 5000.
DC Rail (Devon & Cornwall Railways)
Pay: Pays on a ‘zero hours contract’ basis at around £20 an hour.
Company: British American Railway Services Limited (BARS) is British railway rolling stock hire & maintenance company, and minor railway owner. It was formed to acquire the assets of ECT Rail Holdings in 2008.
Subsidiaries include RMS Locotec, Weardale Railway, Dartmoor Railway, and Devon and Cornwall Railway. British American was formed by Iowa Pacific Holdings, an American shortline railroad holding company.
This is an open access operation with a licence to operate freight and excursion trains (including steam) over Network Rail lines. It is mainly staffed by semi-retired drivers who have come back to work for DCR on an ad-hoc ‘zero hours contract’ basis. I don’t believe they have any full-time drivers at all. The short notice nature of much of the work means that you will need to be very flexible in your approach and you will need to be a car driver to get out to pick up trains.
The lack of guaranteed work probably means that this company will mainly be of interest to retiring drivers or those with reduced commitments. Also, I doubt they have a safety case to train staff from scratch so are best regarded only as being of interest to currently qualified train crew.
Depots: Train crew book on and work from home nationally. However, the main work at the moment seems to be scrap from Skipton and Shipley to Cardiff which centres on Washwood Heath.
Applying: Devon and Cornwall Railways Ltd., Stanhope Station, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, DL13 2YS. Tel: 01388 526203. E-mail: [email protected]
This company never advertises for staff; you’re expected to approach them if you’re interested.
Direct Rail Services
Pay: c£55,000 for a 35 hour, four day week including Sundays, + 5% bonus dependant on targets. £27,894 when training.
Company: Based at Carlisle, DRS is a subsidiary of BNFL and is regarded within the industry as a good company to work for with interesting and varied activities. Although a large part of DRS carryings are nuclear traffic, it also runs container trains between Grangemouth and Daventry for WH Malcolm, Asda and Tesco. There are no travel facilities as they are not part of ATOC but the pension is the BNFL final salary one with contributions still only 5% – much cheaper than some RPS contributions in other companies. A generous relocation package is available. Some night and lodge working is involved and you are expected to be very flexible in your approach. DRS seems to have recruited qualified drivers slowly & regularly at all of its depots over the years – best to enquire if you are a qualified driver. They normally consider trainees, though they did take a few at Crewe in 2007 and are doing so again in mid-2013. You must live within 45 minutes travelling time of the depot.
Depots: Bristol, Carlisle (Kingmoor), Crewe, Daventry, Grangemouth, Inverness, London (Willesden), Sellafield, Stowmarket and York. Depots may be opened at Daventry and Bicester in due course, subject to contracts.
Applying: Write to The Recruitment Section, Direct Rail Services Limited, Kingmoor Depot, Etterby Road, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 9NZ or phone them on 01228 40 66 82. You can enquire about vacancies at [email protected]
Pay: Intermodal is £41,400 for a 35 hour, four day week including Sundays. Heavy Haul is £47,792 for 1820 annualised hours (average 35 hour week) including Sundays. As Freightliner was one of the original companies at privatisation, safeguarded staff retain their priv travel.
Company: Regarded within the industry as a good firm to work for, Freightliner is actually two companies, Freightliner Intermodal and Freightliner Heavy Haul. The former deals with the traditional container business while the latter company was set up to win conventional block-train and infrastructure work. Drivers work for one or the other with little operational overlap.
Run by experienced and well-respected railway people, Freightliner expanded rapidly. It has posted healthy profits and spent a considerable sum on an impressive new HQ building at Basford Hall, Crewe. It has now bought much of its own rolling stock and a large new Class 66 & 70 locomotive fleet in preference to leasing.
For a long time Freightliner did not train its own drivers but recruited solely from within the industry, something it had no trouble doing because of its attractive pay rates. However, this began to change in 2008 when FL took on new entrants in Birmingham. As these vacancies were only advertised in the local press it looks as if speculative applications might be worthwhile in future. Heavy Haul drivers are paid significantly more than Intermodal but have much more onerous conditions of service and work a lot of weekends on engineering trains. Intermodal drivers tend to be off most weekends as much of the container business is confined to weekday operation. It’s certainly a better than average firm to work for.
For qualified drivers freight experience within the last five years is pretty much essential, otherwise you will have to complete 150 hours practical freight handling to regain your competency, which FL is naturally keen to avoid! Any loco experience at all may just get you in the door, though, as could a good portfolio of relevant route knowledge. It can be a good idea to ask HQ at Crewe for the Ops Manager’s number for the area you would like to work in. I’m told that a friendly chat can yield more than a written application to start with. Working for both firms involves a lot of night work and some lodge turns. As you will often have to drive to jobs a car driving licence is essential to work for Heavy Haul.
Depots: Intermodal has depots at: Birmingham (Lawley Street), Crewe, Eastleigh, Ipswich, Leeds, Mossend and Tilbury. Heavy Haul has depots at Bedford, Bristol, Carlisle, Crewe, Dagenham, Doncaster, Dunbar, Earles Sidings (Hope), Eastleigh, Ferrybridge & Aire Valley, Garston, Guide Bridge, Humber, Immingham, Kiverton & Rother Valley, Leeds (Midland Road – now a Freightliner Maintenance site), Mossend, Peterborough, Reading, Rugby, Taunton, Tees Valley and Troon. There are some small sub-depots, such as Earles Sidings, only have two or three drivers to handle a specific flow.
Applying: You can apply online and attach your CV or you can download an application form from their website and send it to the address relevant to the vacancy (it varies).
GB Railfreight
Pay: £52,691 for a 35 hour, four day week including Sundays. Groundstaff c£26,000
Company: This company now has around 80-100 drivers – called Train Managers – and seems to be popular with those who work for it. The company recruits both qualified drivers externally and trains in-house with people starting out as Assistant Train Managers under a five year apprenticeship scheme. Drivers sometimes book on from home and make their way to wherever they are required. More usually they book on at their depot and either pick up their working from there or else drive themselves to their required pick-up point in a company van. The driver they relieve then drives back to the depot in the van, thus avoiding a lot of expensive taxi fares. This makes it essential that you have a car driving licence to work for this firm. There is some night and lodge working involved. In June 2010 this company was acquired by Eurotunnel.
Depots: Birmingham, Bristol, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff, Doncaster, Eastleigh, Felixstowe, Ferme Park, Fort William, Glasgow, Lackenby, Liverpool, March, Mountsorrel, Motherwell, Peterborough, Port-of-Tyne, Shieldmore, Southampton, Stratford, Temple Mills, Tonbridge, Warrington, Wellingborough, Whitemoor, Wigan and Willesden.
Applying: You can download an application form from the GBRf website (plus a safety-of-line form if you are a qualified driver) and send them to The Personnel Manager, First GBRf, 15-25 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7HA. The information for each vacancy lists a name and contact number for the line manager concerned so that you can have a chat before applying. For more general recruitment information call 020 7983 5188.
DB Schenker Infrastructure Monitoring (Serco)
Pay: £46,532 for a 35 hour five day week, Sundays outside, 33 days holiday.
Company: Not a freight train operator as such, this company is based at Derby and runs various track testing trains around the country. The work is based on a five-day week of seven hour days, Monday to Friday, with little weekend work. As many days will turn out to be longer than this there is a lot of opportunity for overtime and I am told that it is commonplace to gross £4,000 a month. Management is very light, you book on from home with all your books and notices on a laptop (which you have at work with you) and you are very much trusted to get on with the job. The nature of the work is such that you range all over the network, having a massive route card, and much lodging away from home (at decent hotels!) is involved. As you will often have to drive to jobs a car driving licence is essential. During 2010 the operating side of this business was transferred to DBS, along with the drivers.
Depots: Derby, London Marylebone, Crewe and Shrewsbury; there could be depots at Leeds and Bristol in due course. There is a separate rail grinding division based in Cumbernauld.
Applying: Recruitment is presumably now through DBS (see above).
Train crew vacancies: None known. A fair bit of recruitment here is by word of mouth among qualified drivers and it might be as well to make a speculative application. Won’t take trainees though.
Excursion Train Operator…
West Coast Railway Company
Pay: Pays on a ‘zero hours contract’ hourly basis at around £120 a day.
Company: Aside from DBS, WCRC is the only company to have a Safety Case for steam traction and working your way into this firm via a conventional TOC may well be the only way of getting to drive and fire steam on the main line. Based in Carnforth, WCRC operates the regular steam services on the West Highland and Cambrian lines in the summer and various excursions and charters around the country, also RHTT work.
This operation seems to be mainly staffed by qualified drivers from regular TOCs ‘moonlighting’ for them on their days off. There are also a number of retired drivers who have come back to work for WCRC on an ad-hoc ‘zero hours contract’ basis; I’m not sure they even have any full-time drivers at all. Therefore, this outfit is not really a regular employer and working for them is best viewed as akin to volunteering to work on a heritage line, save that it runs on Network Rail and you get paid. The short notice nature of much of the work means that you will need to be very flexible in your approach and you will need to be a car driver to get out to pick up trains – you book on from home. Its good, varied, old-fashioned loco work – if you are prepared to be mucked about. I doubt they have a safety case to train staff from scratch so are best regarded only as being of interest to already qualified train crew.
Depots: Train crew book on and work from home.
Applying: The general contact address is West Coast Railway Company Ltd, Jesson Way, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA5 9UR, and their number is 01524 732 100.
This company never advertises for staff; you’re expected to have the gumption to approach them if you’re interested.
Irish Train Operators…
Iarnron Eireann
Pay:, hours and Sunday working unknown – information please.
Company: It is not possible to apply for a train driving job externally in Ireland. Instead, you have to start as a station operative and so this is the job you will need to apply for. Even so, you will face the full battery of psychometrics, medical and interviews before you start. Once you’re in you can apply for the train driving course straight away, but how long it takes for your number to come up is another matter! All employees start on €26,000 p.a and then advance one step each year. If you get into driving early on your rate will increase faster to enable you to catch up to the full driver’s rate
Depots: Unsure… There are certainly depots at Dublin Heuston, Dublin Connolly, Dublin Abercorn Road, Claremorris, Cork, Dundalk, Longford, Limerick and Galway. Possibly also at Rosslare, Waterford, Kerry, Westport and Sligo?
Applying: I have no contact information for IE other than their website.
Train crew vacancies: I have seldom seen this firm advertise so a speculative application might be worthwhile.
Pay: Hours and Sunday working unknown – information please.
Company: NIR is part of Translink, which operates trains and buses throughout Northern Ireland. Believed to promote drivers internally.
Depots: Unknown. Probably Belfast Central, Larne and Londonderry.
Applying: The recruitment contact number is 028 90 899 400
Underground & Metro Train Operators…
Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway
Pay: Pay, hours and Sunday working unknown – information please.
Company: Blackpool Transport do not recruit tram drivers externally. You normally have to start as a bus driver, then do overtime as a conductor on the trams before having any chance of becoming a full-time tram driver.
A car driving licence is required due to the on-street running.
Depots: Thought to be only the one central Blackpool location.
Applying: For an application form contact the Human Resources Department on 01253 473 082 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]
Train crew vacancies: I have never seen this firm advertise so a speculative application might be worthwhile.
Pay: £35,555 for 35 hours, which include Sundays.
Company: As the trains are normally worked on automatic the ‘Train Captains’, as the operators are called, pass through the train checking tickets, so in a sense they aren’t really train drivers at all. This firm has a good team spirit but assaults on staff are said to be commonplace, so it’s best if you’re confident and good with the public. Vacancies are often filled by personal recommendation and a lot of ex-bus and ex-military are employed.
Depots: Poplar & Beckton.
Applying: You can apply online or contact the Resourcing Administration Team on 0800 0155 072.
Pay: c£25,593 for a 39 hour week.
Company: Keen on recruiting women but the work must be dreadfully tedious. I believe there is a possibility of these trains being automated in the future.
Depots: The only depot is at Broomloan.
Applying: The general contact address is Customer Services Manager, SPT Subway, Broomloan Depot, Robert Street, Glasgow, G51 2BY. Their telephone number is 0141 333 3159 and e-mail contact is [email protected]
Pay: £49,790 for 35 hours including Sundays (Trainee c£24,000 and first year c£38,000).
Company: Train drivers are not normally recruited directly. Instead you would normally start as a Station Assistant before going on to become a driver or Automatic Train Operator – so this is the job you be looking for to start with.
Depots: As my knowledge of the Underground is limited and there is no point in my duplicating someone else’s work please refer to District Dave’s London Underground Site which has a good deal about the recruitment and training of London Underground train drivers. Sadly the owner of this site has died and the site may no longer be updated.
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Pay: c£23,000 for 37½ hour, five day week.
Company: Now managed by RAPT Dev. Recruitment is mainly from speculative applicants, mostly bus drivers. The training period is three months and pay during training is around £16,000 (pro-rata) over a six month probationary period. A car driving licence is required due to the on-street running.
Depots: Currently the only depot as at Queen’s Road although a second depot will open at Trafford Bar when Phase 3 of the Metro is built.
Applying: Use their online enquiry form or telephone 0161 205 8665 and ask for the recruitment section.
Company: A car driving licence is required due to the on-street running.
Depots: The only depot is at Wednesbury.
Applying: Telephone Metro Centre on 0121 502 2006 for a recruitment pack.
Pay: £18,271 for 38 hours, 20 mins. Sunday position unknown.
Company: Driving is actually a mixed role, driving and conducting. I believe driver/conductors work a ratio of two-thirds driving to one-third conducting, supplemented by part-time conductors. A car driving licence is required due to the on-street running.
Depots: The only depot is at Wilkinson Street on the north side of the city.
Applying: Write to the Nottingham Tram Consortium, NET Depot, Wilkinson Street, Nottingham, NG7 7NW. The general contact number and e-mail addresses are 0115 942 7777 and [email protected]
Stagecoach Supertram (Sheffield)
Depots: The only depot is at Sheffield Nunnery Square.
Applying: Fill in the online application form and post it to The Traffic Manager, Stagecoach Supertram, Nunnery Depot, Woodbourn Road, Sheffield, S9 3LS. The general contact number is 0114 275 9888.
Tramlink (Croydon)
Pay: £34,030. Hours and Sunday working unknown – information please.
Company: This company is under franchise to First Group. A car driving licence is required due to the on-street running and all drivers must live within 40 minutes travel of the depot.
Depots: The only depot is at Beddington.
Applying: Croydon Tram Depot, Coomber Way, Croydon, CR0 4T. You can apply online or contact the Resourcing Administration Team on 0800 0155 072.
Tyne & Wear Metro
Pay: £32,800 + benefits for a 36 hour, four day week including Sundays (£16,400 for first six months). Discounted UK rail travel.
Company: The T&W Metro is a fully recognised TOC and has been so since 2002. It’s no longer classed as Metro light rail, but is more a commuter rail network offering urban and inter-urban train services throughout the North East. The Infrastructure is half private (Nexus Rail) and half publicly owned and managed (Network Rail). This makes it is a bit like the London Underground in that trains run over Network Rail Infrastructure on certain routes. There is driver-only train operation throughout. Nexus have had a number of recruitment campaigns in local press to train new drivers. However, they regularly recruit new drivers from within the company structure, such as from platform staff, revenue etc, so this is probably the best way to get in, rather than waiting for newspaper advertisements.
Depots: Just the one depot at South Gosforth.
Applying: Contact The Human Resources Dept., Metro Control Centre, South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1YT. The general contact number for Nexus is 0191 203 3199, which might put you in touch with the HR department at Gosforth.
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Lowe’s Is Latest To Announce Reductions
Alan Wolf ⋅ Published: January 19, 2017
“These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.” — Peter Clemenza, “The Godfather”
Better buckle your seatbelts. The impact of an overstored landscape and the shopping-habit shift to digital is about to bring about the greatest retail consolidation since the Great Recession.
So far this month at least five national chains have announced store closures and/or layoffs, including Walmart, Macy’s, JCPenney, Sears and Lowe’s.
The latter was the latest to join the retail retrenchment, informing employees this week of a 2,400-person layoff affecting store-level staff, warehouse and customer support managers, and about 10 percent of the VPs at its Mooresville, N.C., headquarters.
According to a notice from CEO Robert Niblock obtained by nearby Charlotte station WSOC-TV, the moves are intended to “shift resources from back-of-the-store activities to customer-facing ones” and to further the home improvement chain’s omni-channel strategy.
“We are all aware of how quickly the retail industry is changing,” Niblock wrote. “Advances in technology and the competitive landscape continue to transform how customers are shopping and their expectations of us. In this environment, it is imperative that Lowe’s continue to evolve …”
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Prepare the grade. For this project, Custom Concrete’s crews used crushed rock, spread across the hillside underneath the location of the steps. Concrete steps require the installation of rebar to reinforce the project, so the subgrade isn’t as critical as it is in other concrete applications. However, it’s important to remember that the distance between the subgrade and the lowest portion of each step (the section where the top of each step, or tread, meets the face of the step above it, or riser) must be at least 6 inches. This is to ensure that the concrete remains sufficiently strong, even at its weakest point.
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This is the first in-depth empirical and historical study of the use of law clerks by American judges. Although possessing a hundred-year heritage, the institution has been ignored as an important component of the process of judicial decision-making. Law clerks are, in the authors' words, "subordinate, anonymous, but often quite powerful lawyers who function as the non-commissioned officers in the army of the judiciary." American courts are currently altering the traditional use of law clerks through the introduction of important innovations that enhance the ability of judges to dispose of cases rapidly but detract from personal judicial control over individual decisions. The authors investigate the clash of tradition and innovation through interviews with sixty-three judges of federal courts and appellate courts in California. They find distinctly different models of law clerk usage in the state and federal systems, which they analyze on the basis of the judges' own perceptions of the qualitative and quantitive impact on their decision of variations in the character, tenure, and duties of staff assistants. They offer suggestions on how modern courts can cope with the "crisis of volume" without unduly sacrificing traditional standards of judicial autonomy. Because of the confidential nature of judicial deliberations, judges are rarely willing to discuss publicly their use of law clerks. This study employs unconventional techniques for penetrating the secrecy of judicial chambers while respecting the confidentiality and the individuality of its sources. It presents important new information on the internal operating procedures of the courts studies, collating interview data with facts abstracted from pre-existing but often obscure sources, and providing a particularly close look at the inner workings of the Supreme Court of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Revealing the significance of public funding of judicial staff in determining patterns of law clerk usage, it should promote further investigation and debate regarding the proper structure and role of staff assistance in the judicial process. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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Ceramic building materials in the Roman North: production, distribution and (re)use
In the wake of the Roman legions, ceramic building materials conquered the Roman North. The tradition of producing building elements out of clay and petrifying them by firing was largely unknown to the indigenous communities and was an important innovation. The adaptation of this technique provided furthermore the necessary means to construct typical Roman buildings and their specific building components (like hypocaust systems) and aided to the ‘(visual) romanization’ of the Roman provinces.
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Cell Phone Industry
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The purpose of this study is to explain the innovation and evaluate the innovations’ benefits in a particular industry. The subject of my assignment is the company of Research In Motion (RIM) and RIM’s product which is called Blackberry in cell phones industry. All industries need to creative new products or improve their products to satisfy the costumers. By this reason innovation is very important issue in today’s competitive business world.
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The RIM produce innovate the e-mail wireless system and in this point Blackberries are one of the best smart phones in cell phones sector. This assignment also makes some estimates about Blackberry and its position in the cell phones sector.
THE HİSTORY OF CELL PHONES INDUSTRY
In the past centuries, nowadays’ communication technology was only a dream. Cell phones, internet chat, e-mail were very extreme machines or system for the people. However depend on the improving of communication technology all these dreams has been becoming real. (M. Woods – 2005).
During the 1940’s, the radio technology was developed and this was constituted the first step of cell phones’ history. The beginning of cell phones was based on the innovation of radio communication which was used especially in taxi caps, police cars and other means of transportations to provide two ways communicate one to another or communicate only the central base. And also individual radios help to improving cell phone communication technology with patching into a phone line via live operator to make a phone call. Swedish police used the first official mobile phone in 1946. There was a link between telephone network and the new technology and the new system was very different from two way radio system. But it was not sufficient enough, only 6 phone calls were done before the battery was finished.
The modern cell phones technology was created by the same time with creation of hexagonal cells in 1947. Moreover the development of cell phone technologies naturally has been following the improving of technologies and first electronics cell phone developed during the 1960’s. The problem of these cell phones is; the user had to stay one cell area because cell areas which were serviced by a base station were unable to hand off cellular phone calls from one base station to another. While you could make a phone call, you weren’t able to continue the call after you reached a set range. This problem was solved by A. E. Joel in 1970, call handoff system was built up and this system provides the user carrying on the phone call from one place to another without switching off the phone. Following decades the cell phones technologies continue the improving. The cell phones can be classified with three groups; first, second and third generations.
First Generation Cell Phones: In 1983, the first portable cell phone was presented to world by Motorola and the name of this product was Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The cost of research to improve the cell phone was over 100 million dollars and it took about 15 years to prepare it for market. It looked like brick and it weighed about 28 ounces. Until the beginning of the 1990’s the popularity of cell phones increase due to innovations in cellular networks. However, most common style of using was in car like a car phone because of its dimension.
Second Generation Cell Phones: During the 1990’s, due to new system such as GSM,IS-136 and IS-95 cell phones skipped the second generation (2G). The new digital mobile phones started to use in the United State in 1990 and in Europe by 1991. 2G mobile phones enabled to get network signal faster, the quality of calls was better and the amount of dropped calls decrease by the digital system. The size of 2G phones absolutely smaller than the “brick” phones which were produced former decade. 2G phones were usually in the range of 100 to 200 grams; in addition, most of them did not need large batteries. With these innovations also provided remarkable increase the amount of cell phone user.
Third Generation Cell Phones: The most common name of third generation is 3G and these phones available today. Only few years after 2G, 3G phones were improved. Due to many innovations in technology and services, standards for 3G are usually different depending on the network. Today’s cell phones are not only using for handle text messages and such contacts book. The new cell phones include GPS, Wi-Fi connectivity and motion sensors. These phones are able to get the e-mails, connect the computers and provide the videophone. According to Andy Jones, head of information security research at British Telecommunications, “Mobile phones are becoming a bigger part of our lives”.
“RESEARCH IN MOTION” AND BLACKBERRY
The History of Research in Motion: In 1984, a pair of engineering students, one each from the Universities of Waterloo and of Windsor found the Research in Motion. The technology of RIM created the most common Blackberry mobile communication tool. RIM was the first wireless data technology developer in North America and created several wireless products, including wireless Point-of-Sale devices, radio modems, and the first two-way messaging pager. In 1998, the small portable wireless handheld was produced by RIM and the name of the machine was RIM 950. RIM 950 handled e-mails contacts and calendaring with a fitted QWERTY keyboard. The first Blackberry two-way was produced in 1999 but the opportunity of pushing e-mail and SMS was allowed on the world in 2002 with 5810. Businesses soon saw the power of the QWERTY keypad handsets as an office tool, and haven’t looked back since, with the first colour models in 2003 and first packing Wi-Fi in 2004.
Today, the Blackberry phone is one of the leading cell phones in the market and the popularity of the Blackberry has been increasing day by day. The user of Blackberry phones take significantly advantages, especially business who needs an advanced phone to communicate with their office when staying outside. The blackberry earned the many professionals’ confidence by the way of answering their needs. Also business world not only one market which Blackberry sold, many people interest in using smart phones to connect internet or GPS, take and share photos with the phone.
According to management expert Peter Drucker, innovation is change that creates a new dimension of performance. One of the most important things is creativity for innovation. The foundation of innovation is new ideas and new criteria and also personal success. The source of creativity is statement of new ideas and new solutions. In addition, innovation get agreement from the others to be successful and the idea of innovation influence the other people ideas’. All industries need innovation every time to improve their influence areas and to reach their target. Customers always have some future expectations and organizations want to answer these demands with new innovations. To make a successful innovation, recognize and estimate the new opportunities is playing significant role. Creativity involves transformation such as dramatic change in form, structure, process, appearance or character of a person, a product, or an environment. In other words, creativity involves the making change from present situation to future for greater returns. Form creativity new life begins in business world. (Marci Segal – 2003).
The results of innovation are hard to measure. It is so complicated to understand. There are many sorts of dimension that include a diversity of activities. The main point of innovation is about product, it should be new. Moreover it may also be a new process of production, alternatives of a cheaper material, include improvement for this issue and uncovered product, open for the improvement and have a easy way to developed more innovations. The transformation process to provide technological and economic consideration from innovation is also complex. (R. Landau, N. Rosenberg – 1986).
INNOVATION OF BLACKBERRY
The innovation of Blackberry maybe creates a question about is it radical innovation or a step-change innovation. Although the e-mails are sent by computer, it is significant to note that blackberry provide an opportunity to send and receive e-mails while moving or out of office. Also the size of blackberry is very small it is exactly a smart phone and obtains important advantages to users. As a result, blackberry is a radical innovation for those corporate executives, government officials and emergency driven professionals for whom doing business has changed.
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO state an opinion about importance of time. If the blackberry had represented earlier, it may not have been very popular because e-mails did not use very common. “It was the right time for us to do that because the offering and the market opportunity and the value proposition and uniqueness stood on its own merit. We did it at the time and we certainly have no regrets. It appears, in hindsight, to have been a very wise strategy,” he says.
The benefits of blackberry against laptop and the mobile phone are a little bit complicated. The position of Blackberry lie between laptop and mobile phone in other words the value of Blackberry is in the middle of these two devices. However the security of data being directly erasable if the Blackberry is lost and the management of sophisticated images are more than for the laptop and mobile phone. Moreover, time is very important in today’s competitive business world. Blackberry considers using time more efficiently with providing business to check e-mails and complete their transaction out of the office without computer. (Swastik Nigam – 2007).
It is certain that Blackberry is one of the most powerful devices which bring the wireless technology to daily life use. The person who is carrying this extreme machine will never become out of contact. The Research In Motion (RIM), the producer of Blackberry, after the first device which called Interactive Pagers hit the market in the summer of 1998 has been becoming of a phenomena in market.
THE REPORT OF RIM AND FUTURE EXPECTATİONS
As I mentioned before the first RIM product hit the market at 1998. After that producing Blackberries models was followed this improvement. In a short time, Blackberry have came a popular and also RIM sales have increased sharply. The RIM started to sell the Blackberry firstly in USA and after a time period the Blackberry spread all over the world.
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The table above indicates that the smart phone sales increased from first quarter of 2008 to first quarter of 2009. Garther analysts illustrate the significant success in Research in
Motion and Apple sales. “Much of the smart phone growth during the first quarter of 2009 was driven by touch screen products, both in midtier and high-end devices,” said Roberta Cozza, principal analyst at Gartner, based in Egham, UK. Touch screen is not only one reason for this increasing, people all over the world wants mobile e-mail, music service and also internet from their phone with depending on the technological development in smart phone industry. (Stamford, Conn., May 20, 2009)
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Comparison with Apple: The major competitor of Research in Motion is Apple iPhone. The cost of latest version Blackberry smart phone, which is called Blackberry Storm, has a higher production cost than iPhone 3G. According to iSuppli, a research firm in electronics market, one unit of Blackberry Storm cost is $ 202.89 although an iPhone cost is $174.33.
Despite the cost difference and popularity of Apple’s best-selling device, RIM still tops the league of smart phone sales. RIM said that it shipped 4.4 million Blackberry handsets in the fourth quarter alone, bumping up total numbers to about 14 million for the 2008 fiscal year, and more than doubling sales of 6.4 million for fiscal 2007. By comparison, Apple has said that it sold 2.3 million iPhones in the three months to December 29, and a total of about 4 million in the six months since the device’s US launch. Blackberry accounted for 41 per cent of all smart phones sold in the US in the fourth quarter, compared with the iPhone’s 28 per cent share, according to the Reading-based researcher Canalys. With this successful year RIM recently started targeting to become a leader in consumer market. The RIM’s chief executive Jim Balsilie added that despite of the global credit crunch they goals the increase the revenue and they will make more profit from the Blackberry sells. (Times Online, April 03, 2008).
The Blackberry producer Research in Motion declared that they beat the analysts’ expectations in forth quarter of 2009. RIM made a $ 518.3 million profit in the forth quarter and a 26 percent increase from the same period last year. The revenue for the forth quarter of 2009 was $ 3.46bn, up 84 percent from a year ago. According to co-chief executive at RIM Jim Balsillie, the company is very happy about their success of Blackberry products’ sales in forth quarter of 2009. (Tom Young Computing, 03 April 2009).
Future Plans of Research in Motion: Additionally, RIM also has some future plans to improve their products and reach their target. The company wants to add some new facilities to Blackberry. The company will add application of Java and Adobe Reader to provide the costumer better smart phone especially in internet world. With these applications consumers, who are using the Blackberry could access all information easily. The format of data will not be a problem for the Blackberry’s owners. The most effective innovation might be occur in the future is; RIM thinking to do a deal with T-mobile to provide costumers better service. Although the credit crunch, according to co-chief of RIM they will try to not lose their market position and continue the improvement of their products.
Today, Research In Motion Limited’s Blackberry is the leading product of representing wireless e-mail for the smart phone. The Blackberry are sold across North America and Europe and nowadays it is taken root the Asia Pacific. The Blackberry is a big innovation for the cell phone industry by provides the easiest way to connect e-mail with wireless to the costumers.
As far I am concerned that innovation should include some new ideas and creativity. Although wireless technology was being used by computers, the RIM’s Blackberry meets the wireless to the smart phones at first time. Now, all smart phones’ user expects from the phones to connect internet and want to check their e-mail while buying a new one.
RIM was founded in 1984 by two engineering student. The firm started to produce Blackberry in 1998 and sharply became popular in the smart phones’ market. Also RIM’s Blackberry has some competitor in today’s rivalry market such as Nokia and iPhone but the target of company is to become a leader in this sector.
These days, the RIM is looking for new innovations to improve the Blackberry. All industries need to develop and create new innovation to answer costumers’ expectations. Following the improvement in technology products has been becoming more and better and if an organization wants to reach top or to increase the sales, they innovate new products.
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Maryborough, Credit:dl.id.au
A trip to Maryborough allows visitors to catch a glimpse of Australia’s past. Its abundant examples of colonial and Queenslander architecture, majestic public buildings retain its early character through the use of local timber with is size and design. The city’s beautiful gardens set it apart.
A free guided tour is available at 9 in the morning Monday through Saturdays. Peek inside at Brennan and Geraghty’s Store, a time-capsule corner store, preserved by the National Trust and catch a glimpse of earlier days. Discover the fascinating port history of Maryborough at the Bond Store Museum and Customs House in the Wharf Street precinct.
Favorite activities to do in Maryborough are golfing, shopping, fishing and boating in the Mary River. Maryborough is near the Fraser Coast & South Burnett adding to the activities a tourist may engage in. For AU$20 – 35, you can take a River Cruise which includes a barbeque lunch and a commentary entertaining guest with tales of the past.
Maryborough’s industrial base established over one hundred years ago still has the original base industries of engineering, sugar and timber. Olds Engine House displays a collection of famous models by Australia’s foremost model engineer, William Olds. The engineering works and foundry, which are still operating, have a reputation for variety and quality and are fascinating for all visitors.
A visit to the Maryborough Family Heritage Institute assists visitors in researching their family trees. It is also there to provide the history of buildings, war veterans or railway constructions, or to help organize family or immigrant ship reunions. Visitors to Maryborough can choose where to sleep including self- contained units, cozy bed and breakfasts, quality motels, caravan and camping parks.
Once a favorite spot for aboriginal corroborees, the area is now a beautiful park, centered on the Ululah Lagoon. The citizenry used horse-drawn scoops to clear the lagoon to form Maryborough’s first water supply in 1859. Surrounded by a walk and cycle path, the lagoon is frequently used by the abundant wildlife who make the lagoon home.
Anzac Park being Maryborough’s major playground contains a skate bowl, children’s fort, flying fox and other play equipment, barbecues, picnic facilities and toilet blocks. The park also has facilities for visitors with a disability including a liberty swing. Bird watching and cycling are favorite pastimes here.
Events that tourists can enjoy are the Country Music Stampede and the World’s Greatest Pub Fest during June; The Mary Poppin’s Festival in the Park on July 3; the RACQ Technology Challenge Maryborough, a speed race for teenagers occurs in September 10 and 11; and Australian Modified Production Open, the biggest car race in the country occurs New Year’s weekend.
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Richard Osman at the Cheltenham Literature Festival Review
TOPICS:CelebrityCheltenham FestivalsCheltenham Literature FestivalEntertainmentFeatureLiteratureNewsReviewRichard Osman
Known for his extensive knowledge, ‘Pointless’ friend and 6 ft 7-ness Richard Osman returns to Cheltenham Literature Festival. This year he has gone solo and is accompanied by only his book of The World Cup of Everything.
I saw Richard and Alexander last year at the festival and I loved listening to the two of them be interviewed about their “Pointless Book” and life working on the show. But I’m sad to say this year I was a little disappointed. Despite a promising start of a bit of stand up talking about his book tour and the places he had been, the rest of the event seemed to lack a certain something…
We first debated on the best chocolate bar, cheering for our favourite as all the bars were put head to head in knockout rounds. Each time a bar was held up the audience “ooohed” and “ahhed” as if we were at the pantomime. This was admittedly fun to begin with but quickly lost its novelty. Then we moved on to other topics such as sitcoms and animals as volunteers went and stood next to our towering host to represent the audience as they voted for their. No pressure on them as they moved across the stage deciding whether bunnies were better than hippos and knocking out The Royle Family in the very early stages. There is nothing like putting the Toblerone up against a Double Decker or proposing that Red Dwarf is better than Father Ted to get people really riled up.
The description of the event does state we will be debating but I just expected a little more than only that. It was still an entertaining event, but after a while got a little repetitive and dull due to the lack of substance. I felt a little scrooge-like sat with my notebook as everyone cheered around me, but it wasn’t till about three quarters of the way through when the audience started to leave early that I realised I wasn’t the only one finding it a little dry and tiring.
Maltesers won by the way, rightfully so.
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'I feel I let my country down' in vaccine race, says Prof Salim Abdool Karim
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Prof Salim Abdool Karim says SA should have joined other countries in the race to create a vaccine.
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“I feel like I let my country down.”
These were the words of Prof Salim Abdool Karim, chairperson of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee.
Speaking on SAfm on Tuesday, the professor said he should have joined other global scientists and helped create a Covid-19 vaccine that would have also benefited SA.
Abdool Karim said when the virus hit SA in 2019, he had had discussions with Prof Lynn Morris, who at the time was the interim director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases where he said he was willing to attempt to formulate a vaccine.
But Abdool Karim said he was deterred by a lack of facilities to create a vaccine in SA and the funds needed.
“We should have joined the race,” he said. “I should have been more forceful and raised the funds.”
Abdool Karim was positive about the vaccine which is expected to arrive in SA soon.
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He said careful planning was needed ahead of its distribution.
The professor advised that the vaccine should be first distributed to health workers, followed by the elderly, those with comorbidities and then essential workers.
He suggested that distributing the vaccine in this order would eliminate a lot of people who are now battling with the virus and this would therefore ease the burden on the health-care system.
“We could find ourselves in a better situation in 2022. That is doable,” he added.
Another of Abdool Karim’s regrets was not joining the call for a standard international vaccine.
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“We at this stage cannot tell for sure, based on what we know from the first wave, how the second wave is going to play out,” he added.
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Tel Aviv University aims to launch shoebox-size satellite next year
The nanosatellite, developed and built by students and researchers, will hitch a ride on a NASA spacecraft and collect data on cosmic radiation in space
By Shoshanna Solomon 1 November 2020, 3:11 pm 0 Edit
Shoshanna Solomon is The Times of Israel's Startups and Business reporter
An illustrative image of Earth, as viewed from space (YouTube screenshot)
Tel Aviv University is planning to launch a research nanosatellite, the size of a shoebox, hitching a ride on a spacecraft sent by NASA and US aerospace firm Northrop Grumman to resupply the International Space Station in the first quarter of 2021.
Once it’s at the ISS, a robotic arm will release the TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite into low-earth orbit (LEO). The satellite will conduct several experiments while in orbit, including measuring cosmic radiation in space.
The TAU-SAT1 is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). From Japan, the satellite will be sent to the United States, where it will “hitch a ride” on the resupply spacecraft, the university said in a statement on Sunday.
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“This is a nanosatellite, or miniature satellite, of the ‘CubeSat’ variety,” said Ofer Amrani, head of Tel Aviv University’s miniature satellite lab, in the statement. “The satellite’s dimensions are 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters, (4 x 4 by 12 inch) the size of a shoebox, and it weighs less than 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds). TAU-SAT1 is the first nanosatellite designed, built and tested independently in academia in Israel.”
Researchers at Tel Aviv University working on the nanosatellite they hope to launch in 2021 (Courtesy)
The TAU-SAT1 was created, developed, assembled, and tested at the new Nanosatellite Center in Tel Aviv, an interdisciplinary venture of the Faculties of Engineering and Exact Sciences and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences of the university.
Approximately 400 kilometers (249 miles) above sea level, the nanosatellite will orbit the earth at a speed of 27,600 kilometers (17,150 miles) per hour, or 7.6 kilometers (4.72 miles) per second, completing an orbit around the Earth every 90 minutes, the statement said.
“We know that that there are high-energy particles moving through space that originate from cosmic radiation,” said Meir Ariel, director of the university’s Nanosatellite Center. “Our scientific task is to monitor this radiation, and to measure the flux of these particles and their products.”
Space is a hostile environment, not only for humans but for electronic systems as well, Ariel explained. When these particles hit astronauts or electronic equipment in space, they can cause significant damage.
“The scientific information collected by our satellite will make it possible to design means of protection for astronauts and space systems,” Ariel said.
One of the challenges is how to extract the data collected by the TAU-SAT1 satellite, and for that purpose the researchers set up a satellite station on the roof of the engineering building at the university.
The nanosatellite developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University (Courtesy)
“Our station, which also serves as an amateur radio station, includes a number of antennas and an automated control system,” said Amrani. “When TAU-SAT1 passes over the State of Israel, that is, within a few thousand-kilometer radius from the ground station’s receiving range, the antennas will track the satellite’s orbit and a process of data transmission will occur between the satellite and the station. Such transmissions will take place about four times a day, with each one lasting less than 10 minutes.”
In addition to its scientific mission, the satellite will also serve as a space relay station for amateur radio communities around the world. In total, the satellite is expected to be active for several months. Because it has no engine, its trajectory will sag over time as the result of atmospheric drag. It will burn up in the atmosphere and come back to earth as stardust, the university said.
Dr. Ofer Amrani, head of Tel Aviv University’s miniature satellite lab (YouTube screenshot)
The launch of the TAU-SAT1 is Tel Aviv University’s first step in joining the global space revolution in which research is opening up to civilian institutions and companies.
“We are seeing a revolution in the field of civilian space,” said Colin Price, one of the academic heads of the new center. “We call this new space, as opposed to the old space where only giant companies with huge budgets and large teams of engineers could build satellites. As a result of miniaturization and modulation of many technologies, today universities are building small satellites that can be developed and launched in less than two years, and at a fraction of the budget in the old space.”
The Tel Aviv University nanosatellite was built and tested with the help of a team of students and researchers, which built all of the infrastructure including cleanrooms, various testing facilities such as the thermal vacuum chamber, and the rooftop receiving and transmission station.
In 2017, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) launched a nanosatellite into space to conduct scientific missions for researchers, the result of a five-year project developed by BGU, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space.
NSLComm, an Israel-based aerospace tech startup that developed a nanosatellite that expands in space to boost connectivity capacity, launched its first satellite, the NSLSat-1, in 2019, as part of the payload of a Soyuz rocket. In September, the Dido-3 nanosatellite, weighing just 2.3 kilograms (five pounds), was launched into space as a product of Israeli-Italian collaboration, to perform experiments and gather medical, biological and chemical data.
And in April 2019, Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed into the moon’s surface, shattering the dreams of the nation of putting a craft on to the Earth’s satellite.
Now that the infrastructure has been created, researchers at Tel Aviv University can already start to develop TAU-SAT2, the statement said.
“The idea is that any researcher and any student, from any faculty at Tel Aviv University, or outside of it, will be able to plan and launch experiments into space in the future – even without being an expert in the field,” the statement said.
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Ancelotti pleased to see Everton recover from 'terrible start'
Lyndon Lloyd Saturday, 5 December, 2020 39comments | Jump to last
Carlo Ancelotti appeared satisfied with his team's performance at Burnley this afternoon even if he was disappointed with the end result.
Everton had to be content with a point from their latest trip to Turf Moor after after Dominic Calvert-Lewin had scored his 16th goal of the season for club and country to bring them level in first-half stoppage time and the Blues failed to produce enough quality to win the game in the second half.
Nick Pope made three important saves to keep out Calvert-Lewin, James Rodriguez and, crucially, Gylfi Sigurdsson at the death but Jordan Pickford had to be just as alert at the other end to twice deny Chris Wood.
“We have to accept the result because, above all, the start was not good and we had difficulties to come back into the game," Ancelotti said afterwards.
"After 30 minutes, we were back. After that we had good control, we tried to win in the second-half, we had opportunities.
"Of course, we conceded some. We had some problems on the counter-attack and from set-pieces, but this is absolutely normal against Burnley. We have to accept the result because the performance was quite good.
“The start was terrible but up front we were good. We created some good chances in the first half and mostly in the second.”
The manager had praise for Ben Godfrey, however, after the defender put in an admirable shift at left back after Fabian Delph had succumbed to a hamstring injury with just 26 minutes on the clock.
The young centre-half had already impressed in his more natural role and helped prevent Burnley from doubling their lead in the 12th minute with an important intervention front of his own goal and he was solid at full-back for the remainder of the contest.
“We are in a little bit of an emergency [at full-back],” Ancelotti acknowledged. "But to see the performance today, Iwobi did really well, Ben Godfrey did really well on the left so, in this moment, we have to adapt some players.
“We have to be positive and we hope to recover soon, above all, Seamus. He will recover soon and we have to find a solution there [on the left] for sure."
Reader Comments (39)
Stephen Brown
I don’t think Iwobi did well! His crossing was abysmal! He tried hard but he had 5-6 chances to cross under no pressure and missed the targets each time! Criminal !
I thought he played well! A few decent crosses, some good runs and not bad defensively. Yes, his crossing can improve but there were plenty today who were a lot worse!
Stephen 1
I thought Iwobi looked good. Put in crosses, decent runs. And made from a position that isn’t his normal one. No world class player, but he put in a shift and put the ball into dangerous areas.
There’s no logic or clarity to the managers team selections in the last couple of weeks. It’s as simple as that. He’s a top manager, a very successful manager, we are lucky to have him and compared to Silva, Koeman, Allardyce, Martinez etc he’s a brilliant winner and a jolly nice chap. None of which changes my view that even tho us no legged one armed chaps in a powerchair have never kicked a ball in anger on a bit of grass somewhere in our great city, leaving your reserve full backs at home when your two top class full backs are injured is beyond daft. Worse, not even having one of them on the bench to account for when one of your out-of-position full backs crocks himself is inexcusable.
Sorry, I’m at a loss to understand what’s going on but far more serious than my confusion is the fact that the team and the squad are yet again coming up massively short. Yes it’s only 11 games in, which actually is a bit more than a quarter of the season already gone and yes we started well but even in a couple of those games there were spells when we looked shaky at the back. But for the most part this season the defence has been aweful, the midfield a massive disappointment after the hype of Allan and Doucoures arrival, a hype I willingly got caught up in, and only DCL has consistently surprised and pleased in equal measure with his new found brilliant touch in front of the net. We are crap and have been for several months. What the hell has gone wrong, again ?
Honestly didn’t see this coming, thought Carlo was above such nonsense as this full back rubbish. Thought Allan would control the area in front of the centre backs like a man in total control of his “sector” and defo thought Doucoure would not have four or five pretty miserable games in a row. Oh and yes I thought Rodriguez was the genuine superstar signing that would set us alight and keep burning. All wrong. Tho Rodriguez was ok at Turf Moor.
As I said, what the hell has gone wrong?
John Raftery
I suggest the opinions of Iwobi’s performance are skewed by the memory of two poor crosses near the end of the game. Before then he had a decent game, worked hard up and down the line and might have had an assist from his cross for DCL in the first half.
It would seem Allan and Doucouré are still trying to build an understanding in central midfield but there could be no excuse for their poor play which set up Burnley’s goal after only two minutes.
"in this moment, we have to adapt some players."
I think he meant adopt.
Billy Dawber
A draw at lowly Burnley is not going to convince anyone that we are going to do anything other than have another mediocre festive season yet again. A truly awful start and first half followed by a not too bad second half.
My concern is why do we turn an attack into defence everytime we are going forward? Why do we give the ball away far too easily and not even find our player with the intended pass?
Truly baffling at times not to mention playing the donkey Delph instead of one of the younger members of the squad. Sigurdsson comes on as a sub and misses his chance of getting back in the team next week – or as he? Tosun on with his new hair trying to disguise himself as a good player. Truly laughable really Carlo.
At this rate the taxis will be queuing up for this lot to take them to the nearest airport and send them all back to Disneyland where they belong. Mickey Mouse outfit being run by Dumbo. Onwards and downwards we go.
Steavey Buckley
Iwobi is neither a winger or a full back but someone who can burst forward from midfield. Crossing a ball is a specialist position, that is why Digne has the highest number of assists at the club with 4.
Walcott was another who was stuck wide on the right without any effect; nor was Bernard, Gordon, Gomes, Davies or Sigurdsson. I am not sure if Ancelotti understands what a winger or a fullback is really all about.
David Connor
I'm starting to have serious doubts about Carlo. Is he up to the job? At this moment, it's very questionable.
If that kind of performance is acceptable to him, I think we are well and truly fucked. Because, to me, it was poor... and that's being kind. Every team he has managed was a good team before he took over. Now, he's with a squad who are basically crap, he is struggling to find solutions.
Yes, he needs another two transfer windows to see how he shapes the team. But, for me at the moment, I don't think he will do anything with us. I hope to god I'm wrong.
Jerome Shields
10 Posted 05/12/2020 at 23:02:45
Ancelotti knows that Everton have to master different formations and have adaptable players who can play in them.
Of course, it would be great if Everton had the top player in their team for every position on the pitch, but that is not going to happen. If it did, other teams in the Premier League would soon work out how to play against such a traditional formation.
To become adaptable, players have to play in different positions, should it be required by the manager, so as not to be a predictable team. Under previous managers, Everton where predictable.
What has happened is that teams caught on to the approach of Everton early In the season and, when it was required to counter this, players were not able to adaptable enough.
Ancelotti has now had to give players game time in different positions to increase and push the players to adapt. In some cases, this was forced on him. They are gradually getting better at doing this. It is noticeable that player performances have improved.
It is often posted on ToffeeWeb that football is a simple game. It is not. In the modern game, teams need to be adaptable, as individuals and as a team, changing positions and formations, throughout a game.
I still think that Ancelotti will achieve a top-6 finish at the end of the season.
I agree, Jerome, and I'm really hoping that that is the plan. But I'd really really really like to see Nkounkou and Gordon be included in that plan.
To be fair, even though Godfrey did well at left-back, if Digne had been on the pitch yesterday, we'd have won that. We looked decent 2nd half (shocking the first).
I'm keeping the faith.
Scott McKirkcaldy
For me, all the good teams press the opposition, we don't!!! And there is a big gap between our forwards and defence which gets exploited all the time the other team attack. Yesterday, they knocked long balls and every time they picked up something.
Joe Bibb
No vocal Captain, no commander on the field, no aggression, we lack all those qualities.
Gomes continually gives petty fouls away, others stand off their man and don't tackle.
We need Carlo to get this sorted out. The only reason we got the draw at Burnley was that they were even worse than us.
Mark #11,
I agree regarding Nkounkou and Gordon, but I think Ancelotti wants to bring them into the team when they are ready, not because of necessity.
Digne would have definitely improved the side. He is one of the few players who can achieve a consistent standard of performance and Everton would have won had he played.
I was not surprised that Mina was selected instead of Holgate. He was more suited to playing Burnley, though Holgate was the right choice against Leeds. I did predict Mina would be selected prior to the game. Burnley are a traditional set-up.
I have no answer to the selection of Delph, unless Ancelotti thought that Davies wasn't suited to playing Burnley or he is injured.
Surprisingly, I also think that Everton will play better against the top six clubs. They will not be up against such rigid formations as much, as long as the top teams have not copped on this is the way to play against Everton. But, maybe Ancelotti will have the team up to speed on adaptability by then.
Everton do have some players that only play to the level they have to, and seem to up their game against top 6 opposition.
Paul Birmingham
Iwobi has upped his game, is less timid and is taking players on, but his final delivery yesterday bar one either hit the first defender or were over hit to the back post.
Gomes, as much as I want him to succeed, for me doesn't deserve a place in the starting line-up. He can't tackle and gives too many soft fouls away in dangerous areas.
The lack of pace from central defence permeates to midfield. God help Everton versus Chelsea as, bar a miracle, we'll be chasing shadows.
Gonna be a long tough Chrimbo fixture schedule, as usual, but concerning with the team's current tempo and awareness.
But typically Everton often raise their game to the better teams.
A few slices of luck next week is needed, let's hope so.
Looking at the table, it's bloody frustrating and concerning as yesterday was a great chance to keep tabs at the top.
As expected, Everton's sense of opportunity and maximising no effort in the game was spurned.
Not enough focus and killer instinct. Surely next week Nkounkou or Kenny will be brought ino the squad..
Let's hope the spirit of Chelsea last season is there, as we will need every ounce of effort and belief that these players can muster.
4-4-2, or 4-3-3, versus Chelsea?
Jim Bennings
Chelsea is a huge game, imagine a full house under the floodlights, Saturday night great atmosphere, but sadly I can see Chelsea having a field day against us next week.
We need to get some form back soon; otherwise, we are going into the New Year in a dire state, probably ensconced in the bottom half.
Chelsea, Leicester, Arsenal the next three games, whereas we'll make Leicester and Arsenal look more difficult than they actually should at the minute.
If we aren't absolutely on the number in these games, then I honestly think it's heading towards another underwhelming bleak season.
Jason Wilkinson
If Ancelotti thinks we put a satisfactory display in yesterday, then I would suggest he is happy for a mid-table finish. Spurs away has been our best performance this season.
Pickford has improved. I still think we need a better keeper.
Allan and Doucouré are inconsistent. Gomes is not fit. Sigurdsson, Davies, Rodriguez, Delph and Iwobi should not be seen as the future of the club. All are too slow for the Premier League.
I don't expect us to be challenging for the title but I do expect 100% from every player on the pitch. If that was 100%, then we are in trouble. I include the coaching staff in that too.
Liverpool pissed the league last season. Do they have superior individuals? I would say Allison is a better keeper but, man for man, we have as good if not more talented players. The effort and teamwork isn't there.
Robert Tressell
Jason, totally agree with the comments about effort. As regards player quality, we are miles behind Liverpool. Of our current squad, I can't see anyone getting a game if Liverpool have everyone fit. Maybe Holgate? Maybe Calvert-Lewin?
Pickford or Alisson?
Coleman or Arnold?
Digne or Robertson?
Holgate or Gomez?
Keane or Van Dijk?
Allan or Fabinho?
Doucouré or Henderson?
Gomes or Wijnaldum?
Rodriguez or Salah?
Richarlison or Mane?
Calvert-Lewin or Firminho?
And you'll cry when you see the subs bench...
Barry Rathbone
Carlo has aged 10 years in that pic... the reality of the task is clearly hitting home.
Tommy Carter
The first half performance was of some concern. A very slow start and the shape didn't suit the midfield players at all.
After the tactical change was forced upon us, there was an improvement and some positives to be taken.
Godfrey did his best in a completely alien position. I've said this since he joined, he deserves a start at centre-back. He's the most aggressive defender we have. It is also his best position.
Keane and Mina, I thought, had good games. It was heartening to know that, during a scrap, we have players there who can stand and be counted. However, when we play teams with more guile and who have players who are more clever, Keane and Mina will struggle.
My suggestion of conversion of Iwobi to right-back was ridiculed by everyone on this website. Well, now it is happening and, whilst he wasn't brilliant, he offered a threat down the flank and worked hard all game. His hard work is often misguided but there is effort there. Better end product required.
Certainly not a great result but we could have easily lost that game and we didn't.
Jay Harris
Iwobi and Godfrey were OK, Iwobi from an attacking perspective, Godfrey from a defensive perspective but were talking about Burnley here.
Against a good side with proper wingers/wingbacks they will be torn apart. Imagine Iwobi up against Pulisic and Werner.
Or Godfrey against Reece James and Ziyech or Havertz.
"We have to adapt a little bit outside but I am positive because Iwobi did really well and Ben Godfrey, also, did really well as a left-back. "
Ancelotti
As Jay says it depends on how well they have actually adapted. Which looks as if it will be tested in the coming games.
Jon Wit
Disappointing result and the second goal we've conceded from somebody just outside the area in as many games.
On another day we would have won and we are missing our full-backs.
Not sure how to manage my expectations now - we'll have to up our game to get Europe and I hope we can find an edge for the cup games.
Sean O´Hanlon
Let's be honest: Carlo Ancelotti was a good coach. Why did Everton manage to secure him as manager? Because none of the big English & European clubs wanted him. He's past it.
Everton have been doing similar only with players for years. Buying other teams' dross: Iwobi, Delph, Walcott, Sigurdsson, etc – to name but a few of the current crop of wasters.
Jeffrey Hughes
We have no creative midfield. Again and again, long balls sent upfield to the forwards is poor play and not worthy of us. The forwards will not be happy with this yet it has been an age-old fault at Goodison Park for many a year.
We are also a yard slower than the opposition far too often. The one thing that David Moyes did was to have a very fit team with few injuries, if and only because they were a squad. Please learn from this, Mr Ancelotti!!
Jeff. What’s so disappointing and shocking in all this is we as fans on a friggin forum have to point these basic things out like fitness and the right players and formations that they are comfortable with for a manager who’s not just starting out in the game. I’m still clinging to the hope that me and many others are way off the mark and we are on the cusp of glory. If we are well they are hiding it well.
John Kavanagh
What really mystifies me is how a manager of Carlo's experience can still believe that Delph deserves to start and that the likes of Sigurdsson and Tosun are capable of turning a match around despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Why repeat failures when circumstances demand that risks should be taken using youngsters who are desperate to be given the chance to prove themselves.
If Tosun had been available and fit, I suspect that DCL would still be languishing in the under 23s and getting an occasional spot on the bench.
Graeme Beresford
Being negative towards Carlo is not the answer. He has already proved he is a winner since he has joined us. Being able to attract players such as Allan and James. We have lost 11 games in 35 under him and 5 of them have come in the last month ironically when we have had to play without some of our best players Richy, James, Digne and Coleman.
I do agree the five at the back system isn’t working so he needs to scrap that ASAP, however we can’t blame the guy for trying a new formation and sticking with it. To play five at the back leaves too many spaces in the number 10 area of the pitch as centre backs will always be centre backs and not want to venture too far foward, hence we have been sucker punched by two bottom corner 25 yard strike’s in two games.
Everyone cries out for the new left back and Gordon however if they have a poor game we will get on their backs like we all do with Davies. We expect a lot. I do to however I think we need to go back to the formation which worked at the start of the season and ultimately play the best available players in the available positions. Massive performance needed against a quality Chelsea side. Here’s me hoping it’s like the 4-0 United game the other year. Everyone is up for it and we get the first goal. Something we have struggled to do recently.
Mike Berry
Rapidly losing my faith in Carlo. The defending is increasingly getting on my nerves. You build from the back in football - not the front. Very un Italian like
Grant Rorrison
It's since we started worrying about our defensive problems that we've become shit. No-one gave two hoots about letting in goals when we beat West Brom 5-2 and Brighton 4-2 earlier in the season. We went defensive against Newcastle... lost, and have played terrible ever since with a variety of shocking team selections and accompanying clueless performances.
Play to your strengths... which for us means attacking and hurting the opposition and never mind screwing about with things. It's not a coincidence that the only win in the last 7 games came from playing nice attacking football, albeit briefly, against Fulham. Not from searching for but ultimately failing to find this defensively solidity that Ancellotti keeps harping on about in every press conference for the last 5 or 6 weeks.
Graeme#30
What you say would happen if Gordon and Nkounkou played. They would get taken apart on ToffeeWeb. The problem is not in defence, but still in defensive or offensive midfield area as you say also.
Ian Horan
" We as fans are disappointed " wow !!! Guys Everton have been a inconsistent underpreforming club since Martinez first season.
Ancelotti has a mixed bag of other managers players and yet we all expect a top 4 or top 6 team. My mind boggles on our perception of how good Everton really are, if we truely had a top 4 to top 6 team or squad would we truely of had 5 different manages in the past few years...
We criticise the RS as deluded until last season, have we now inherited their dillusional mindset. I am beginning to think reality no longer exists in the minds of Evertonians
Graeme and Ian good points.
We can all be critical of any decisions based on our opinions but being patient is not jumping on the backs of the club, manager and the players after 12 months and a string of injuries/ suspension of our star players.
I actually think the lights go out at Finch Farm every November as we always seem to have horrific pre xmas form but I do believe the player we miss the most who is exactly what we need now is Gana Gueye.
He is not getting a game for PSG and might be worth a tilt in January subject to how well Gbamin recovers.
Jay, I actually think Allan does the Gana role pretty well. What we seem to be lacking in now the central creative midfielder who we all thought and hoped Gomes was going to be. Someone who gets the ball. Turns, see’s a pass, spreads the ball forward and also scored 8-10 goals a season himself. Unfortunately Sigurdsson and Gomes haven’t been able to become this in recent times and we are now left with 2 good midfielders in Allan and Dacoure however the other position just doesn’t seem to be a good fit for anyone from Sig to Gomes, Davies, Bernard.
However what we all have to remember is Gomes was playing in that midfield at the start of the season when we started great, so what’s happened their who knows.
I think Carlo has got some thinking to do. Especially in defence. If it were me I would of already decided on my back 4, not 5, against Chelsea and I would be playing them in training together all week. Working on their communication as they are in for a tough time, especially against Werner and potentially Pulisic.
If it was me I would be playing the new left back, Holgate, Keane and Kenny. However, I think we will probably see the back 5 again.
Graeme,
I think he does OK but we need more of an aggressive sitting DM to protect the back 4. Allan is very mobile and gets about be he does not protect the back 4. He is more of a troubleshooter putting fires out all over the pitch and covering for others.
My feeling is we need a Gbamin/ Gana type to complement Allan and Doucoure so they can advance up the pitch.
I also think it a mistake to play a back 3 as it leaves gaps on the flank behind the wingbacks for the opposition to play into..
Lets see what another weeks thinking does for us against Chelsea.
Jay #35, Our "Horrific pre-Xmas form" actually began on the 17th October, when we were very lucky to scavenge a point against Liverpool.
From that date to now, 5 points from a possible 21.
Extrapolating from those stats, would give us a total of between of between 25 and 30 points for the remainder of the season. Luckily we have the initial 4 wins - so we're looking at between 37 and 42 points total for the whole season, if the current form continues.
Those of you who would've preferred another young up-and-coming manager, there might be one at a loose end down the East Lancs Road very soon. Won a title in Mold, so no contest!
Graeme #36,
What happens is that opposition teams work out what tactics to adopt and which players can be pressurised off their games. Gomes, Sigurdsson and Bernard are all one-dimensional and easily pressurised and Everton's tactics collapse with this weak often non-existent centre in the second half of most games.
Gomes is pushed deeper, loses possession, and commits fouls. Sigurdsson will pass sideways on any hint of pressure, then becomes anonymous when a confident defence pushes up. Bernard will continually draw back giving up beating his marker; he can also become anonymous on the wing.
I agree Allan does the Gueye job. He's better than Gueye going forward.
Who has been our best player in this Premier League season so far?
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Japan’s asteroid probe shot a bullet at a space rock, and it’s a major bargain
February 23, 2019 by Dennis Golden in Science
Japan’s space program JAXA has had an astounding 24 hours. The group’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe, which landed at its objective Ryugu a year ago, played out its most challenging maneuver yet by leaving its orbit around the rock and contacting down on its surface for one minute. In any case, that is not everything it did.
The plan all along has been for Hayabusa2 to recover samples of the diamond-shaped asteroid so as to take them back to Earth, however snatching a sample isn’t as simple as it sounds. So as to effectively gather dust from the rock amid its concise touchdown the rocket needed to shoot a bullet into Ryugu, and it needed to do the majority of this without direct control from its handlers on Earth more than 180 million miles away.
JAXA engineers trusted that the probe will send back data on its move, with signs taking around 20 minutes to go forward and backward among Earth and the rocket.
Be that as it may, in spite of the extraordinary challenge presented by the rocky surface of Ryugu, JAXA says its probe pulled off the accomplishment, effectively firing the projectile into the asteroid’s surface and after that grabbing a sample of its dust before boosting itself over into a holding position in orbit around the rock.
“We made a successful touchdown, including firing a bullet. We made the ideal touchdown in the best conditions,” Yuichi Tsuda, project manager of the Hayabusa2 mission, told reporters. “I’m really relieved now. It felt very long until the moment the touchdown happened.”
That feeling of relief probably won’t keep going extremely long, as Hayabusa2 still has a lot of work in front of it before it can call its main goal genuinely complete. The probe will perform two additional moves like this one, gathering dust samples and afterward at last withdrawing for Earth where it will convey the asteroid material. It will touch base back on our planet in 2020 if all goes as arranged.
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VFW Salutes Spouse Relicensing Costs Reimbursement
The Army and Air Force announced new programs this week that will reimburse military spouse relicensing and recertification costs if a permanent change of station moves them across state lines. Both services will reimburse qualifying fees of up to $500 if authenticated on or after Dec. 12, 2017.
“This is a tremendous quality of life initiative,” said VFW National Commander B.J. Lawrence. Citing Defense Department data that puts the military spouse unemployment rate at 24 percent and underemployed rate at 31 percent, Lawrence said that any initiative that helps ease the stress of rotating assignments every few years is going to have a tremendous impact not only on military recruiting but on retention, as well.
“The old adage that you recruit individuals but retain families is entirely true,” he said. “Our military has been actively engaged since the beginning of Operation Desert Shield in 1990, and with still no end in sight. The services must explore all avenues to keep the troops and their families happy, and this great initiative is something I hope the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard quickly emulate.”
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Expanding news coverage of the cancer-spread risks posed by power morcellators is helping show why women are right to seek compensation from the makers of the surgical devices, Weitz & Luxenberg said.
The most recent reports of injuries to women appeared in The Wall Street Journal, which in late November ran two major stories on power morcellator dangers.
These stories preceded by days the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s issuance of a severe black box warning and specific contraindications against the use of power morcellators.
In one of The Wall Street Journal articles, readers learned of the death of Boston resident Erica Kaitz.
Ms. Kaitz was just 52 when she succumbed in late 2013 to leiomyosarcoma, an extremely rare and difficult-to-detect cancer, the Journal reported.
Ms. Kaitz in 2012 had been admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a scheduled hysterectomy due to suspected benign fibroids, the Journal said.
The surgeon who performed the procedure did so with the aid of a power morcellator, the newspaper added.
According to the Journal, the leiomyosarcoma then became much worse, upstaged and spread to her abdomen.
The Journal quoted a sarcoma expert at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who later treated Ms. Kaitz as saying that the morcellation literally “seeded her abdomen” with the deadly cancer.
Ironically, just as Ms. Kaitz was nearing death, Brigham and Women’s announced that the results of its own research into power morcellator risks had convinced the hospital to curb its use of the devices, the Journal said.
Earlier this year, Brigham and Women’s stopped using power morcellators entirely, the Journal reported, noting that the hospital was the nation’s first to do so.
Morcellation Labeling Recommendations Issued
Other hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, have followed in these footsteps and are no longer using power morcellators during gynecologic surgery.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is monitoring the situation and will keep the public updated as developments unfold.
The FDA’s current thinking on morcellators is reflected in newly issued recommendations to manufacturers.
In those recommendations, the FDA suggested a black-box warning and specific contraindications be added to the labeling of power morcellators.
The FDA’s most severe alerts come in the form of black-box warning labels.
The FDA’s recommendations also included adding to those labels two contraindications for power morcellation. Importantly, these contraindications apply to almost every woman. Specifically, power morcellation should be contraindicated for peri- or post-menopausal women, and for any woman who is a candidate for en bloc tissue removal.
In issuing these recommendations, the FDA stressed this labeling does not seek to discourage minimally invasive surgery for women, just the use of power morcellators during minimally invasive surgery.
The FDA emphasized that women still have many other options for gynecologic surgery.
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Travel The World Virtually As Pitt’s Nationality Rooms Celebrate Traditions
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The University of Pittsburgh’s 31 nationality rooms are decorated for their respective holidays and just a click away.
Pitt Researchers Say Antibody Blocks Coronavirus Infection
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University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers plan to start human trials early next year for an antibody therapy that might both prevent and treat COVID-19.
Pitt Introduces New Black Studies Course For First-Year Students
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On today's program: The University of Pittsburgh implemented a mandatory Black studies course to help students learn anti-racism; despite orders from the police chief, videos from some Pittsburgh protests have shown officers working without masks; and apprenticeships and technical schools welcome students back amid the pandemic.
Pitt Researchers Develop Scale To Measure Harmful Beliefs About Masculinity
By Sarah Boden • Aug 10, 2020
"A man shouldn't have to do household chores."
"Men should use violence to get respect if necessary."
These are two of five beliefs about “harmful masculinity” that University of Pittsburgh researchers identified as correlating with violence, sexual harassment and poor mental health outcomes.
To achieve these findings, researchers survey more than 3,600 men between the ages of 18 and 30 in the U.S., .U.K. and Mexico about their beliefs around masculinity.
A+ Schools: PPS Students Should Expect Masks, Online-Learning Options
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On today's program: As families get ready for school to begin this fall, A+ Schools is releasing classroom and operations suggestions for Pittsburgh Public Schools during the pandemic; the University of Pittsburgh plans to use more solar power; and the invasive spotted lanternfly descends on southwestern PA.
'City Game' Between Pitt/Duquesne Won't Return In 2020
By Associated Press • May 14, 2020
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The annual “City Game” between Pitt’s and Duquesne’s basketball teams will remain on hiatus for a second straight year.
Pitt Researchers Tout Potential Vaccine Against Coronavirus
By Chris Potter • Apr 2, 2020
The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine says it has developed a promising potential vaccine against the virus driving the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Price Of Brand-Name Drugs Has Increased 3X Faster Than Inflation
By Sarah Boden • Mar 25, 2020
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh shows that over the past decade, brand-name drug prices rose three times faster than the rate of inflation, even after factoring in discounts.
Local Professors Sign On To Right To Repair Movement, As Rep. Davis Prepares To Introduce Bill
By Liz Reid • Mar 16, 2020
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University of Pittsburgh professor Juan Taboas grew up in Cuba, where he said fixing things is part of the culture. When he was a kid, his grandma had a transistor radio that seemed like it was always breaking.
“I remember being in the … kitchen with my dad and we'd open it up, and were trying to figure out how this circuit board is working and what went wrong,” he said. “That really got me into the whole idea that by fixing you learn.”
After Week Long Student Sit-In, Pitt Commits To Carbon Neutrality By 2037
By Kathleen J. Davis, Maggie Young & Jacob Paul • Feb 28, 2020
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University of Pittsburgh's Board of Trustees Friday voted to become a carbon neutral campus by 2037, the school's 250th anniversary. The meeting was disrupted by more than 50 students demanding the university pull fossil fuel stocks from the school's endowment fund.
A Pittsburgh Music Festival Celebrates 'The Notes Between The Notes'
By Bill O'Driscoll • Feb 27, 2020
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Preview of a festival for music with alternate tunings
In the West, it’s called “microtonal music.” Elsewhere in the world, it’s just called “music.”
CMU, Pitt and UPMC Restrict Official Travel To China
By Sarah Boden • Feb 3, 2020
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As concerns of a global pandemic amplify, some Pittsburgh institutions are taking precautions against the new coronavirus by restricting travel to China.
Pitt Research Could Mark A Path Forward For Nerve Regeneration
By Kathleen J. Davis • Feb 3, 2020
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University of Pittsburgh reseachers studying nerve regeneration are seeing promising results in monkey test subjects. Kacey Marra, a professor of plastic surgery and faculty member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, hopes to try the method in humans soon.
Africana Studies Can 'Correct The Lens' Through Which We Study History
By Megan Harris, Kiley Koscinski & Kevin Gavin • Jan 27, 2020
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90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Monday, Jan. 27, 2020
On today's program: GOP leadership is changing in Harrisburg; some U.S. waterways might lose federal protection; a new report reveals companies did not report hospitalizations of those with intellectual disabilities; and Pitt’s Department of Africana Studies celebrates 50 years.
Freshman Democratic Sen. Katie Muth On The 'Transactional Morality' Of Harrisburg
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90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2019
On today's program: Efforts to crack down on sexual harassment in state government have stalled; a local incubator is supporting Hispanic businesses; student reporters investigate barriers to unionization at Pitt; rural hospitals are at risk of closing; and with the rules finalized, the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is set to begin.
Pitt Student Struck, Killed By Bus In Oakland
By Associated Press • Jan 21, 2020
A college senior who aspired to be a research psychologist was struck and killed by a bus in Pittsburgh over the weekend, authorities said.
Barbara Como, 20, of Chester Springs was struck by the Port Authority bus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh shortly after noon Saturday, the Allegheny County medical examiner's office said. She was taken to UPMC Presbyterian, where she was pronounced dead.
Belt System Aims To Help Swim Coaches Train Better
By Kathleen J. Davis • Nov 5, 2019
Coaches are tasked with helping their athletes improve, but when those athletes are underwater, in the case of competitive swimmers, it can be hard to actually see if what they're doing is right. A University of Pittsburgh invention, called Impulse, helps coaches visualize a swimmer's form under water.
Medicare Patients Aren't Getting The Emergency Injury Treatment They Need, Says New Study
By Sarah Boden • Oct 29, 2019
A majority of medicare patients' injuries aren't being properly assessed in emergency rooms, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh.
Pitt CEC Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary In Homewood
By Sean Spencer • Oct 28, 2019
The University of Pittsburgh's Community Engagement Center (CEC) in Homewood celebrates its one-year anniversary this month.
Food Delivery Robots Pulled From Pitt Campus After Backlash About Mobility
By Kathleen J. Davis • Oct 22, 2019
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The University of Pittsburgh has pulled experimental food delivery robots off its campus after just a few weeks of use on Oakland’s streets.
Pitt Tries To Block Grad Student Unionization Re-Vote
By Megan Harris • Oct 9, 2019
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The University of Pittsburgh is moving to block a new election seeking to unionize graduate student workers that was proposed in September by a state labor board official.
Researchers Create Mini Livers To Test Disease Progression
By Kathleen J. Davis • Aug 19, 2019
Scientists have bioengineered miniature human livers – possibly for the first time. The livers were created by University of Pittsburgh researchers in an effort to move away from less reliable experiments on mouse livers.
The livers will be used to study non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition connected to obesity that can lead to liver failure.
"We can use these systems to capture the progression of the disease to evaluate new drugs before we move into actual patients," said the study's lead author Dr. Alejandro Soto.
Woodland Hills Suspended Fewer Students By Using A Restorative Model
By Sarah Schneider • Jul 29, 2019
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Suspensions among 4th-6th graders are down at Woodland Hills School District. That can be attributed, in part, to a restorative practice program created by the University of Pittsburgh, according to school district administrators.
Study: Statewide Sepsis Protocols May Save Lives
By Kathleen J. Davis • Jul 18, 2019
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Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals, killing about a quarter of a million Americans each year. New research from the University of Pittsburgh shows statewide protocols to fight the infection appear to reduce the number of deaths it causes.
Pitt Study Finds Many Sexually Active Teen Girls Are Coerced To Become Pregnant
By Sarah Boden • Jul 15, 2019
Approximately one in eight sexually active high school girls have experienced reproductive coercion in the last three months, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh.
Report Finds Today's Senior Citizens Are Happier Than Previous Generations
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Seniors today are happier than previous generations, according to new findings from the University of Pittsburgh.
Study: Kids Of Obese Mothers Have A Higher Risk Of Early Leukemia
Children born to obese mothers are significantly more likely to develop cancer while they're young, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.
The study found that cancer was more prevalent in the kids of mothers with a body mass index, or BMI, of 40 or higher -- defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the highest level of obesity. These children have a 57 percent higher risk of developing leukemia before the age of five compared to other kids.
Study: VA Could Prevent Hundreds Of Unintended Pregnancies By Adjusting Birth Control Supplies
By Kathleen J. Davis • Jul 8, 2019
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could prevent nearly 600 unintended pregnancies a year by adjusting how it dispense oral contraceptives, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh.
The VA is the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S., and provides about 24,000 female veterans with oral contraceptives. Like most insurance systems in the country, the VA distributes three-month supplies of birth control pills, which must be refilled.
State Representatives Question Pitt Fetal Tissue Research Amid Appropriations Discussions
By Sarah Schneider • Jun 26, 2019
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Pennsylvania House Republicans say language was added to appropriation legislation for the University of Pittsburgh to safeguard against using state dollars for abortion procedures.
Michael Silverstein Brings A Taste Of The Strip District To Fox's 'MasterChef'
By Megan Harris, Kiley Koscinski & Kevin Gavin • Jun 21, 2019
COURTESY OF ENDEMOL SHINE NORTH AMERICA
90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Friday, June 21, 2019
On today's program: The man accused of plotting to attack a church on the North Side is due in court; MasterChef contestant and Pittsburgher Michael Silverstein draws culinary inspiration from the Strip District; East Pittsburgh has undergone a number of changes in the year since the death of Antwon Rose; Why are a number of Pittsburgh's roads referred to as runs?; plus a look inside Pitt’s newest nationality room celebrating Philippine culture.
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What's on Netflix > What's New on Netflix > What's New on Netflix Australia (AU) > New Releases on Netflix Australia (6th February 2018)
New Releases on Netflix Australia (6th February 2018)
by Alex Hirlam @AlexanderHirlam on February 6, 2018, 11:16 am EST
The first week of February 2018 is here and it’s brought plenty of new titles to Netflix Australia. 25 new movies, 4 documentaries, 12 TV series and finally 1 Standup show is what makes up this past week’s additions. Often it can be a task picking out something to watch specifically, especially on Netflix where there is so much to choose from. That’s why we’ve made an effort in selecting three titles over the past week and briefly highlighting them below.
Our first pick for this week is the highly anticipated Netflix Original ‘Altered Carbon‘. This brand-new series is set in the distant future where the human consciousness can be compressed and stored in a hard drive. An Envoy soldier by the name Takeshi Kovacs is revived in a new body and is tasked with solving the murder of an incredibly wealthy aristocrat Bancroft. Even though the police have ruled it a suicide, Bancroft is convinced it was murder. The Sci-fi, Thriller has been received well so far and many can’t wait to see what Netflix has in store for the series.
The first three seasons of the popular BBC show ‘Sherlock‘ has just been welcomed to Australian Netflix. Staring both Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as the modernized Sherlock and Watson. The three seasons include greatly crafted mysteries that are set on and solved by the brilliant Sherlock Holmes. The show has been nominated for a Golden Globe and has over the years picked up a worldwide audience.
Our final highlight for this week is the Horror, Sci-Fi film ‘The Cloverfield Paradox‘. This Netflix original follows a crew of a space station orbiting the planet. While testing a device that is supposedly meant to solve the energy crisis, something goes deadly wrong and they end up releasing a whole alternate reality darker than their own. The film is linked to the 2008 horror film ‘Cloverfield’ where a mysterious monster tears up a large part of New York City.
Feel free to take a look through the list below, and if you spot something that you think we should have pointed out individually. Please let us know in the comments below.
Here is the full list of 42 titles added to Netflix Australia this week:
25 New Movies Streaming to Netflix Australia
The Witches Of Eastwick (1987)
American Fable (2016)
Black Beauty (1994)
78/52 (2017)
Road House (1989)
At First Sight (1999)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Addicted To Love (1997)
Robo-Dog (2015)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Nightcrawler (2014)
National Parks Adventure (2016)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Gun Shy (2017)
Altered States (1980)
The Bros (2017)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The Final Girls (2015)
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) Netflix Original
Princess Cyd (2017)
4 New Documentaries Streaming to Netflix Australia
Mortified Nation (2013)
42 Grams (2017)
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken (2017)
FBI: Criminal Pursuit: Season 2 (2011)
12 New TV Series Streaming to Netflix Australia
Babylon Berlin: Season 1 (2017) Netflix Original
Baby Ballroom: Season 1 (2017)
Hyori’s Bed & Breakfast: Season 1 (2017)
Kakegurui: Season 1 (2017)
Damnation: Season 1 (2017) Netflix Original
Luna Petunia: Return To Amazia: Season 1 (2018) Netflix Original
Altered Carbon: Season 1 (2018) Netflix Original
Ollie & Moon: Season 1 (2018)
Coach Snoop: Season 1 (2018) Netflix Original
Sherlock: Series 1-3 (2010-12)
The Adventures Of Puss In Boots: Season 6 (2015) Netflix Original
OCTB: Season 1 (2017)
1 New Standup Shows Streaming to Netflix Australia
Kavin Jay: Everybody Calm Down! (2018) Netflix Original
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#TBT Section.80 - @KendrickLamar
In: #TBT, Ab-Soul, Ab-Soul's Outro By: Jonathan C. Ramsey
Let me tell a story, It's 2011. My ex-gf had a twin sister who was super into the hip-hop scene like I was. I'm tuned into her podcast because she was always listening to mine when it was that time of the week. We went to institutions separated by 300 or so miles. Anyways, her show is winding down and she rants and raves about a song that just so happened to be produced by J. Cole. It was titled Hiiipower. This is how I was introduced to Kendrick Lamar and Section.80.
I never would have imagined what Kendrick would grow into. After listening to this eclectic collection of sounds that would create this LP I figured here's another guy who's clearly conscious and not afraid to tackles issues like institutional racism and generational differences. Just another conscious rapper who would eventually sign to Interscope where they don't dabble in the sounds of their artists. One would make comparisons to Joe Budden. Clearly a clever guy with a lot to say. Boy was I wrong.
Section.80 was the beginning of K. Dot's takeover of hip-hop. Songs like Blow My High, No Make Up (Her Vice), and Hol' Up are jams, all easy to listen to.
The aforementioned Hiiipower is preceded by Ab-Soul's Outro where Soulo takes complete control of the verses. Terrance Mart laces the song with elements of jazz via alto-saxophone solos. Kendrick enters the end of the song with a spoken word poem leading into the next song. Deep stuff. Earlier in the album he does the same with Poe Mans Dreams where GLC finishes it off with words of wisdom. Kush and Corinthians also gets deep. The song features BJ the Chicago Kid who is probably one of the most underrated singers in today's industry.
Section.80 in all complexity is one of Kendrick's best bodies of work. Perhaps not the best but it's even worth the argument.
Labels: #TBT, Ab-Soul, Ab-Soul's Outro, BJ the Chicago Kid, Blow My High, GLC, Hiiipower, Hol' Up, Kendrick Lamar, Section 80, TDE
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Mekanisa (Old Airport)
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Addis Contemporary in Nairobi
Exhibitions 23 Jun, 2015
Eleven contemporary Ethiopian artists are showing their work at the Circle Art gallery in Nairobi in an exhibition curated by Mifta Zikele. Most of the artists were born and live in Addis Ababa and...
Addis Documentary Film Festival
Festivals and Films 07 Jun, 2015
The festival, founded by Initiative Africa, is now in its ninth year and is one of the most information documentary festivals in Africa. Some of the 60 documentaries this year, selected from all ov...
Slave Routes and Commemorations
Exhibitions 31 May, 2015
A round table on the causes, the operations and the consequences of slavery, focusing in particular on the Horn of Africa. There is also the opening of the exhibition Lest We Forget: the Triumph ov...
International Jazz Day in Addis
Music 26 Apr, 2015
The Alliance Française celebrates International Jazz Day, and the centenary of the birthday of Billie Holiday with a concert by Munit Mesfin (voice) Abegazu K Shiota (keys), Girum Mezmur (guita...
The Earth from Above
Exhibitions 13 Apr, 2015
Aerial photos of planet Earth towards a sustainable development. Photos are by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French environmental photographer and activist, taken from his millennium project The Earth from...
Women's Day in Addis Ababa
Festivals and Films 02 Mar, 2015
Embassies and cultural institutes present a programme for international women's day of exhibitions, films, discussion groups, a concert and a bazaar all based on the theme of women. An exhibition b...
Addis Photo Festival
Festivals and Films 02 Dec, 2014
The director of the third Addis photo festival announced at the beginning of this year that the focus on the festival would be on image through a global framework. The idea is to attract new audien...
City Spirits: Addis Ababa
Opening of the exhibition by French artist Patrick Singh who has just spent a four-month residency in Addis Ababa hosted by the Alliance Ethio-Française and Total Ethiopia. The works, mainly...
Colours of the Nile film festival
Festivals and Films 26 Nov, 2014
Screenings of Adamt (best short film) and President Dia (best documentary). Adamt (2013), an Ethiopian film is about a young Ethiopian composer and drummer whose life is changed when a deaf spirit...
European film festival in Addis Ababa
Festivals and Films 06 Oct, 2014
The annual European film festival takes place this year with showings as usual at the Alliance Française, the Goethe Institute and the Italian Cultural Centre. Fifteen countries are taking p...
Yohannes Bayou
Exhibitions 11 Sep, 2014
This exhibition entitled Identity displays work by the young Ethiopian artist who examines the destruction of the historic neighbourhoods and buildings of Addis Ababa in an attempt to understand the n...
Mexican Month in Addis Ababa
Exhibitions 31 Aug, 2014
The complicities of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo 1914-1955. Organised by the Mexican embassy in Addis Ababa as part of the 65th anniversary of bilateral relations between Ethiopia and Mexico. Th...
Mulugeta Tafesse
Mulugeta Tafesse graduated from the Fine Arts School in Addis Ababa but has spent much of his life in Europe, particularly in Belgium. His mainly figurative works are in soft greys, greens, browns...
Les Manuscrits de Tombouctou
Exhibitions 16 Mar, 2014
Part of the celebrations of French language week this exhibition is based on the book The Timbuktu Manuscripts by French journalist Jean-Michel Djian. The Timbuktu Manuscripts, some dating back to...
Status of women in Ethiopia and Africa today
Culture 06 Mar, 2014
8 March To mark international women’s day the Alliance Ethio-Française is organising a series of talks and discussions, as well as music and drama. Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Wavel Street,...
Destino Dance Company
Drama and Dance 02 Mar, 2014
The launch of the new contemporary dance company Destino. Dancers Addisu Demissie and Junaid Jemul Sendi present Dance for Change, which includes three recent choreographies. Demissie and Sendi use da...
Listro and Kure-Yalew
The showing of the brief documentaries Supporting Spaces by Bisrat Kifle and Recycling Spaces by Felix Heisel are followed by an open discussion on the themes of the role of listros (shoe shiners) and...
Wendimagegn Gashaw
Exhibitions 12 Jan, 2014
Opening of the exhibition by the Addis artist, Wendimagegn Gashaw who had his first solo show at the Alliance Ethio-Française in 2011. Born in 1985 Gashaw is a realist painter who works with...
The churches of Lalibela. History and meaning
Literature 08 Dec, 2013
The presentation of this book by anthropologist Jacques Mercier and Claude Lepage. Mercier has been specialising in Ethiopia since 1972 when he studied Ethiopian esoteric and traditional medicine....
Exhibitions 04 Dec, 2013
Kidist Berhane displays her work in this group show by 15 women artists on the theme of coffee at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Coffee is grown mainly in Kaffe, a western region of Ethiopia, an...
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Hunt on for $2 million lotto winner
Australia's biggest lotto winners ever
by Jack Paynter
3rd Nov 2020 10:47 AM
The hunt is on in northern Brisbane to find someone who could be waking up $2 million richer.
The mystery winner holds one of the 10 division one winning entries nationally in last Saturday's Gold Lotto $20 Million superdraw.
The multimillion-dollar winning entry was purchased at Redcliffe Discount Drug Store at 65 Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe in Brisbane's northeast.
Officials from The Lott said the ticket was unregistered and they had no way of contacting the winner and have to wait for them to come forward to claim their prize.
Redcliffe residents and visitors to the region are being urged to check their Saturday Gold Lotto tickets to see if they were $2 million richer.
Redcliffe Discount Drug Store manager Jodie Schuler said it was the first division one winning entry the outlet had sold.
"We were absolutely delighted and so excited when we first heard the news," she said.
"We're celebrating the milestone in store and asking all of our customers to check their tickets. We hope they come forward soon."
The Lott spokeswoman Lauren Cooney urged people to check their wallet, handbag, fridge door or anywhere else they may have stored their tickets.
"If you discover you're holding the winning ticket, hold on tight to it and phone 131 868 as soon as possible so we can start the prize claim process," she said.
"Someone in Redcliffe could have gone to work this morning with no idea they've woken up $2 million richer."
Across Australia there were 10 division one winning entries in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 4099 - four from New South Wales, three from Queensland, two from Victoria, and one from Western Australia.
The winning numbers in Saturday Gold Lotto draw 4099 on Saturday, October 31 were 19, 4, 26, 27, 34 and 13, while the supplementary numbers were 6 and 15.
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National Pastime
My Five - Questions and answers
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By Jay LeBlanc The Washington Times - September 9, 2008, 01:24AM
By SEAN RAPOSA
The last two weeks I examined fun topics, reaching outside of the box to bridge My Five through the dog days of summer. This is my 16th column for National Pastime and I must say my appreciation for the grind of the baseball season we always hear about has grown exponentially. I’ve poured my share of blood, sweat and tears into this season and now that the stretch run is finally upon us, it’s time to dive back into the on-field action and get down to it. This week’s action is heavy with playoff implications and, much like that moment when the arena lights go dark, the crowd grows silent and the music blares through the loudspeakers, the anticipation and excitement are tangible. What follows is My Five answers to the most pressing questions as we barrel towards October.
No. 5: Who wins the A.L. East?
The excitement began yesterday as the Boston Red Sox beat the Rays 3-0 behind Jon Lester to kick off a string of six meetings between the teams over the next 10 days. The Tampa Bay Rays‘ lead has been cut to a half a game and the Sox will trot Daisuke Matsuzaka and his 16-2 record to the hill tonight and the resurgent Josh Beckett tomorrow. All year I have said that Beckett is the key to the Sox’ chances, and last week he made a victorious return to the mound at Texas after a brief stint on the disabled list. Optimism was scarce in Boston when the Sox brass sent the right-handed ace to see the dreaded Dr. James Andrews, but the clean bill of health he received after inspection of his pitching elbow may turn out to be yet another stroke of brilliance by general manager Theo Epstein. Beckett looked confident and determined last time out, throwing five shutout innings with seven strikeouts, and his well documented big-game experience will be much needed down the stretch.
The Rays will counter with Scott Kazmir and Andy Sonnanstine tonight and tomorrow, which, by this year’s numbers, is a formidable match. However, these games represent a journey into previously uncharted waters for the feisty youngsters and their Rays teammates, and playing in the hostile confines of Fenway Park followed by a trip into Yankee Stadium will have them looking up at the No. 1 spot by week’s end. The beauty of the situation for the Rays is that they will still finish the year as the A.L. Wild Card winners regardless, and these late-season games under tough conditions should provide some trial by fire in preparation for October.
No. 4: Can the Twins catch the White Sox?
Unlike the A.L. West, where the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have enjoyed the pleasure of counting magic numbers for weeks, and the A.L. East, which seems destined to provide two playoff teams, the A.L. Central looks like a winner-takes-all affair. The Minnesota Twins - fresh off a brutal 14-game road trip in which they went 5-9 - just dropped two of three to the Detroit Tigers, and after a quick three-game series against the Kansas City Royals they’re back on the bus for another 10-game trip. Needless to say, it’s going to be a tough uphill climb.
However, the Chicago White Sox went 7-8 over that same span and were only able to extend their lead to two and a half games. After hosting two potentially tough teams in the Toronto Blue Jays and the Tigers, the ChiSox will hit the road for 10 in a row themselves, culminating with three in Minnesota that could be the deciding series if the Twinkies can hang around. Despite the long odds, I see the gritty Gardenhires persevering to pass the aging big-namers of the South Side on the final weekend.
No. 3: Who takes the N.L. coastal crowns?
For a while it seemed as though the answer to this question was irrelevant, as the Chicago Cubs were “destined” to erase their 100-year drought and take home the World Series Trophy a la the ‘04 Red Sox. That perception is long gone, and the N.L. is wide open yet again. This paragraph will mark my official renouncement of the Philadelphia Phillies as my World Series favorites - which was a ridiculous shot in the dark to begin with - and at this point I see the New York Mets holding on to win the East. The aura surrounding the Phils has deteriorated considerably since Jimmy Rollins‘ “front-runner” comments about Philly fans burst onto the front pages in the City of Brotherly Love. The team responded early, going 9-2 after the public defacing, but has since lost its steam. They have gone 5-5 over their last 10, including two losses to the lowly Washington Nationals. Both teams have equally favorable schedules remaining, but while the Mets have gotten lifts from unlikely sources like Carlos Delgado and Mike Pelfrey, the Phils just continue to stockpile scapegoats.
The eventual winner of the NL West seems equally apparent. All year I have been reluctant to count out the Arizona Diamondbacks because of the strength of their staring pitching and the decrepit status of their division. The recent demise of ace and previous Cy Young front-runner Brandon Webb is of great concern and has swung my vote. Over his last three starts Webb is 0-3 with a 12.51 ERA. Ouch! That line reeks of injury to me and despite the 10-game roady the Los Angeles Dodgers started on Monday and their penchant for streaking like Frank the Tank - five-game and eight-game losing streaks and an eight-game winning streak since August 11 alone - they get my nod. Closing the season with six versus the San Francisco Giants and three versus the San Diego Padres helps, too.
No. 2: Did the Cubs peak too early?
This has become a very popular topic following the rash of injuries and recent swoon to hit the National League leaders. They are 1-5 so far in September, including a sweep (and two shutouts) at the hands of the Houston Astros at Wrigley. Ace Carlos Zambrano has one win since August 3 and mid-season acquisition Rich Harden has required extra rest lately. As one of my favorite movie quotes - courtesy of Jack Nicholson’s joker - goes, “Ever dance with the devil at the pale of moonlight?” Batman of course responded with some nasty kung fu, but the Cubs took on a certain reliance on luck when they brought in Harden and his checkered health history, which seemed like a ticking time bomb for such a cursed franchise. The truth is that you can’t win without pitching, and the third wheel of Chicago’s potential postseason rotation, Ryan Dempster, has been worked like crazy. He has been absolutely spectacular this year but he is on pace for 209 regular season innings. The former closer had not previously logged more than 100 innings pitched since the 2003 season. Combine these facts with the “What can happen next?” mantra sure to be floating amist the ivy, and you have yet another disappointing season for the North Siders.
No. 1: Who wins it all, really?
As I stated above, my reach to make a splash by picking the Phillies in the My Five Contenders article from last month was a big mistake. Of course, even my impeccable foresight could not predict the sheer stupidity that spouted from Rollins’ mouth, essentially dooming any chance of success. However, I’ve discovered one of the greatest things about being your own boss; I can change my mind as I please. So, in that light I’m going to use a mulligan and resort back to my original pick, the Angels. This team simply has it all, and my assessment of the Mark Teixeira acquisition in my Rounders column has proven to be dead-on. Big Tex has been mashing as an Angel and his presence between Vlad Guerrerro and Torii Hunter in the order will be huge when those close-and-late situations assuredly arise come playoff time. Most importantly, if things stay true to form and the Halos secure home field advantage and the rival Red Sox come to town to battle yet again for A.L. supremacy, the Angels can feel confident in the knowledge that earlier this year, they busted out the brooms on the Beantown bombers at home.
Sean Raposa’s My Five column runs every Tuesday here on National Pastime. He can be reached at sraposa33@gmail.com.
Photos by The Associated Press
Be sure to check out our previous My Five columns: Starting rotations, The power alleys, MLB’s best bullpens, The table setters, Young guns, Burgeoning bats, Favorite first-half storylines, X-Factors, Financial blunders, Superbad Awards, Rounders, Contenders, Spoilers, What if?, Ways to make MLB better.
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You are cordially invited to bring home Downton Abbey! Viking is a proud partner of Focus Features’ hit film and we are excited to announce its upcoming release this holiday season, on digital November 27 and Blu-ray™ & DVD December 17. This partnership continues our long history with Downton Abbey and our expanded programs with Highclere Castle and the Carnarvon family.
Flavors of the Mekong
History, culture and friends—all rolled into one delicious and creative feast. Explore the floating markets along the Mekong Delta and master the culinary art of rolling your very own Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Karine.
Viking Longships Naming Ceremony 2019
During a festive naming ceremony in Basel, Switzerland, Viking welcomed seven new Europe river ships to its award-winning fleet, including six innovative Viking Longships. Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen is pictured with the ships’ honorary godmothers at the Picasso exhibition at Basel’s Foundation Beyeler museum.
Romantic Middle Rhine
Experience the majestic stretch of the Rhine River known affectionately as the “Romantic Middle Rhine.” Winding past quaint villages and medieval castles, this idyllic waterway offers a window into the past and unmatched vistas.
Viking Proudly Presents: The Chaperone
One was reaching for the stars. The other was reaching for her past.
From the writer and director of Downton Abbey comes the first theatrical release from MASTERPIECE FILMS | PBS. Based on Laura Moriarty’s beloved New York Times best-selling novel, The Chaperone reunites the writer (Oscar-winner Julian Fellowes), director (Michael Engler) and star (Elizabeth McGovern) of Downton Abbey for an immersive and richly emotional period piece featuring the story of Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen sensation who epitomized the restless spirit of the Jazz Age. In theaters March 29, 2019.
Marvel at the ingenuity and ethereal quality of Gothic architecture, a style inspired by a period when religion governed life and epitomized by Europe’s soaring cathedrals from the 12th to 16th centuries.
The Impressionists
Learn the story of how impressionist paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Degas forever changed the face of the art world and became a symbol of modern French life. Follow these iconic artists’ footsteps on a France river cruise with Viking.
Top 10 Reasons to Reserve a Viking Longship Suite
Our elegant, award-winning Viking Longships are recognized for their innovative design allowing for river cruising’s first-ever true (two-room) suites. Complete with a full-size veranda, these Viking Suites offer more space and comfort, early check-in, a welcome bottle of champagne and more. Learn more about what the Viking Suite Collection has to offer.
Top 10 Reasons to Reserve a Viking Suite
Whether you choose to travel with Viking by river or by sea, we bring you closer to your destinations on state-of-the-art ships. In addition to our refined onboard ambience and understated elegance, we are known for our graceful staterooms, including the first-ever true (two-room) suites. From more space and comfort to additional features and amenities, discover the benefits of reserving a Viking Suite.
Genius: Picasso
Viking is proud to continue as a presenting sponsor of Genius: Picasso, building on our ongoing commitment to providing enriching cultural programming. Executive produced by Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Genius: Picasso costars Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Antonio Banderas as Picasso and True Detective/Glow’s Alex Rich as the younger Pablo.
Highclere Behind the Scenes: Mike the Beekeeper
Join Karine and Finse as they explore the world of bees with Mike Withers, a thirty-year member of the Highclere staff, whose passion for these hard-working, misunderstood insects spans 60 years.
Highclere Behind the Scenes: Pat the Painter
Meet Pat Withers, one of the castle’s favorite, most colorful characters, who came to Highclere as a teenager and never left. As the longest serving staff member at Highclere, she’s worked for three generations of the Carnarvon family.
At Home at Highclere
Join Karine as she speaks with the Countess of Carnarvon about her new book, At Home at Highclere. Learn about what it is like to live in this stately castle, and its history, delicious food and dedicated staff.
Koblenz Jewish Cemetery
Join Karine for the moving story of the Koblenz Jewish Cemetery, a sanctuary of reflection and a window into the history of a community and culture that were once nearly lost.
Iconic Marksburg Castle
Painstakingly chiseled into the slate bedrock of a mountain peak, Marksburg has long stood as one of Germany’s most formidable castles. Step back into the Middle Ages with Karine as she explores the heart of this legendary stronghold.
Schloss Mespelbrunn
Tucked away in the midst of a verdant forest is the exquisite Schloss Mespelbrunn. Take a peek inside as Gräfin (Countess) Hedwig Margarete shares her home, and learn more about the castle’s legendary past.
Modern Aristocracy
The Löwenstein family is one of Germany’s cultural treasures. Step behind the scenes to meet Fürst (Prince) Alois-Konstantin and his daughter-in-law Princess Stephanie as they share family history and the secret behind the renowned Fürst Löwenstein wines.
The Viking Experience
Journey through the world’s most exciting destinations with The World’s Leading River Cruise Line.
Austria’s Hotel Sacher and Torte
Join Karine (and her beloved dog Finse) and step into the spirit of old Europe at Vienna’s iconic Hotel Sacher to learn the story behind the Sachertorte, its legendary handmade cake.
Gothic Cologne Cathedral
Explore the history of this ornate architectural masterpiece. Towering over the Rhine, the majestic Cologne cathedral has been a beacon for pilgrims from around the world for centuries.
Austria’s Göttweig Abbey
Journey to a living abbey where Benedictine monks have worked and worshipped for more than 900 years on a hilltop overlooking the Wachau Valley. You may even dance the waltz with one!
Learn the Iconic Viennese Waltz
Learn the iconic Viennese waltz at Vienna’s oldest and most famous dance school, Tanzschule Elmayer. Watch Professor Elmayer teach Karine the basic steps in just a few minutes.
Viking Onboard Experience
Tour our stylish ships, designed with understated elegance and comfort in mind. Spacious staterooms, indoor and outdoor dining venues and panoramic views enrich your travel experience.
With Viking, there are no hidden fees. One price covers most everything—port charges, Wi-Fi, meals, lectures, activities and shore excursions—plus hotel accommodations on cruisetours.
Longship Staterooms
The streamlined Scandinavian design and generous amenities of the staterooms on board Viking Longships create a lovely place to call home while exploring the waterways of Europe. Find out why.
Sailing Southeast Asia with Viking
Explore Southeast Asia in comfort on board elegant Viking ships. Relax as you enjoy breathtaking, upper-deck views from your stateroom and savor local cuisine in the intimate restaurant.
Viking Astrild and Viking Beyla
Viking Astrild and Viking Beyla were custom built for the Elbe River. These sister ships include deluxe accommodations, streamlined interiors and many features of our Viking Longships.
Viking Hemming and Viking Torgil
Custom built for Portugal’s Douro River, the intimate, state-of-the-art Viking Hemming and Viking Torgil feature several stateroom categories and lounges with floor-to-ceiling windows.
Viking Ships of Russia
Our refurbished, elegant Russian fleet sets new standards of excellence in this region. Enjoy spacious staterooms and suites, an inviting restaurant and beautiful public spaces.
The World of Viking
Immerse yourself in intriguing cultures and awaken your senses. Discover new horizons as you spend more time in port, giving you more opportunities to explore. This is the World of Viking.
Viking Longships Christening 2016
During a festive waterfront Christening Ceremony in Amsterdam, Viking was proud to welcome six of its new Viking Longships to the award-winning and innovative fleet.
Designed by New York architect Daniel Libeskind, Berlin’s compelling Jewish Museum provides an unforgettable journey through Jewish culture and a rich chronicle of memory and hope.
The Berlin Airlift
Go behind the scenes at Tempelhof Airport, long closed to visitors, and learn about the famed “Raisin Bombers” and their role during the historic Berlin Airlift, the largest in history.
Join Karine in Bordeaux, France as she learns how dogs are trained to sniff out and unearth a treasured French delicacy, the rare and delicious truffle.
Blaye Citadel
Step inside the historic Blaye Citadel with Karine. Louis XIV built this mighty fortress in the 17th century on the banks of the Gironde River to protect Bordeaux from the British.
Bordeaux’s Clairet & Rosé Wines
Introduce yourself to some hidden gems of Bordeaux’s world-renowned viniculture. You will learn subtle differences in wine profiles and why the French treasure their bounty each summer.
Camus Cognac: A Bordeaux Favorite
Go behind this famous brand to meet the head of the house of Camus. Hear the story of its logo and learn the family philosophy that has guided the company for five generations.
Bordeaux’s Prestigious Wines
Venture into the fascinating world of Bordeaux winemaking with Karine. Meet a renowned Master of Wine and learn about regional favorites from local experts.
Bordeaux’s Sublime Wines
Join Karine as she delves into the essence of Bordeaux’s most popular red and white wines with a local expert, learning some secrets of summoning a wine’s character along the way.
Cooking with Karine: Steak Bordelaise
Join Karine as she learns the secrets of preparing Steak Bordelaise, Bordeaux’s celebrated and classic dish, with local gourmand, chef Georges Gotrand.
The Wine Regions of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France’s celebrated vineyard-laden province, is home to some of the world’s most prized wines. Learn about its different regions and appellations with Karine.
Beijing Hutongs
To experience an authentic slice of real Chinese life, step into the hidden corners of the hutong alleyways, an ancient maze of traditional courtyard houses linked by narrow corridors.
For millennia, the Chinese have balanced their energy with tai chi, acupuncture, herbal medicine and more. Join Karine and learn more about their approach to healthy living.
Join Karine as she learns about the history of Chinese porcelain, an art form created during the Han Dynasty and shaped by artisans from the Song, Ming and other dynasties.
Chinese Superstitions
Why do many Chinese office buildings lack a fourth floor? What color attracts prosperity? Join Karine and learn about some of China’s time-honored beliefs.
Cooking with Karine: Noodles
Watch as onboard Viking Chef Fong gives Karine a hands-on lesson that reveals some traditional culinary secrets that go into preparing the world’s finest noodles.
Food in China
Venture into a Chinese night market to sample some of China’s most beloved delicacies. Join Karine and discover the secrets of hot pot, Peking duck, homemade noodles and more.
Karine helps reveal the heart of China’s greatest mystery. Once closed to all but royalty, now this legendary “treasure box” is open to guests like us.
Secrets of Chinese Tea
Legend has it that tea was discovered 5,000 years ago. Learn about the beloved beverage’s place in Chinese culture, lore and medicine.
Shanghai Acrobats
Dexterity and strength, passion and focus. Join Karine backstage as she watches some of the world’s most courageous artists perfect their gravity-defying acrobatics.
Shibaozhai
Learn about mysterious Shibaozhai and the Bridge of Luck, beautifully situated in the middle of the mighty Yangtze. Join Karine as she unveils the secrets of this twelve-story temple.
The Art of Calligraphy
In China, calligraphy is not just a form of writing but it is a revered form of art that dates back millennia. Join Karine and learn its timeless secrets from an expert calligrapher.
The Story of Silk
From humble silkworms to beautiful custom silk jackets, learn how the most famous fabric of China is made as Karine takes you on a fascinating visit to a silk factory.
The Three Gorges
Enjoy a scenic journey with Karine through China’s most dramatic region, the Yangtze River’s Three Gorges, and learn about some of the area’s residents, past and present.
What to Do in China?
Have a little extra time on your own while exploring China with Viking? Karine has a few recommendations for you, from tai chi in Beijing to exploring Taikan Lane in historic Shanghai.
Chosen by the wealthy Pan family as the location of their retirement home, the Yuyuan Garden is a serene example of a traditional Chinese garden—juxtaposed against the backdrop of Shanghai.
Croatian Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Croatian words and phrases with Ivana, your Viking tutor. Živjeli!
Explore the ornate halls of Britain’s Blenheim Palace with Karine. This grand English estate, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, has close ties to the American Vanderbilts and is the seat of the Duke of Marlborough.
Finse Comes Home to Highclere
This is a reunion unlike any other as Karine’s golden Labrador Finse returns home to Highclere Castle, the "real Downton Abbey,” and gets reacquainted with her brothers and sisters.
Join Karine at the “real Downton Abbey,” the historic and renowned Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, home to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
Visit Oxford & Highclere Castle
Travel with Viking to the hallowed halls of the University of Oxford, historic Highclere Castle, the “real Downton Abbey,” grand Blenheim Palace and the fabled villages of the Cotswolds.
Visit the University of Oxford
Join Karine as she goes behind the scenes at the University of Oxford, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions and alma mater to kings and presidents.
Explore Europe with Viking
Sail Europe’s picturesque waterways in elegant comfort with Viking. Ranging from 7 to 23 days, our itineraries offer a wealth of unforgettable journeys across the continent.
Bacalhau: Portuguese or Norwegian?
Watch as chef Rui Paula shows Karine his unique nouvelle cuisine twist on bacalhau, the beloved Portuguese national dish that is based on cod, one of Norway’s national fish.
French Language Lesson
Learn a few useful French words and phrases with Maaike, your Viking tutor. À votre Santé!
Thanksgiving in Europe
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Viking on November sailings. There is no better way to complement your succulent turkey dinner than with a stroll through one of Europe’s cultural capitals.
The Holidays on Danube Waltz
Celebrate the holidays in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Enjoy splendid art, architecture, history and the festive Christmas market tradition in Europe’s most beloved cities.
The Holidays on Paris & the Heart of Normandy
Unwrap the romance of France at Christmastime. Experience the elegance of Paris and explore the tranquil countryside, picturesque Les Andelys, medieval Rouen and the D-Day sites of Normandy.
The Holidays on Rhine Getaway
Explore the timeless wonders of Amsterdam, Cologne, Heidelberg, Strasbourg, the Black Forest and Basel. From The Netherlands to Switzerland, this is an unforgettable holiday season experience.
The Holidays on Romantic Danube
Discover the Danube’s delights in Hungary, Austria and Germany. From historic Budapest and stunning Vienna to medieval Regensburg, experience the holiday season like never before.
Farmers’ Market in Libourne, France
Walk through Libourne’s bustling market with Karine and Chef Magalie of Viking as they shop for fresh fruits and vegetables to be served in the ship’s dining room.
Listen to “The Traveler”
The National Symphony Orchestra of London records Viking’s beautiful new music score at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios. Written by Debbie Wiseman, Classic FM Composer in Residence, “The Traveler” was created to celebrate the company’s 20th Anniversary, its spirited theme reflecting the exploration and discovery found on Viking voyages.
“The Traveler”: Meet the Composer
Join Karine and meet Debbie Wiseman, London’s Classic FM Composer in Residence. Learn how Debbie’s voyages with Viking inspired this beautiful piece of music, written to celebrate our 20th Anniversary.
“The Traveler”: Behind the Scenes
Step inside the hallowed halls of London’s Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded nearly all their hits. Join Karine as she shares the process of transforming an original composition into a powerful piece of recorded music.
Explorer Leif Eriksson
Join Viking as we chronicle the story of Leif Eriksson, the Norse navigator who set out to explore the seas west of Greenland and discovered America, 500 years before Columbus.
The World of Finse with Suzy-Jane Tanner
In this short documentary, we visit Suzy-Jane Tanner who illustrates the World of Finse books produced by Viking. We talk about her life and experiences, while talking through how she produces the beautiful illustrations.
Viking is proud to showcase our newest national television commercial, “Time,” featuring Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen.
Join Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen as he shares his insights on travel and the benefits of engaging with new cultures.
Viking Guest Reviews
There are countless reasons to explore the world with Viking, from our exemplary service and cultural enrichment to our unmatched value. Listen as our guests share their experiences.
Moscow by Night
Moscow by night is a dazzling spectacle of illumination. Join Karine on a short tour of the city’s light show, proving this is one of those cities that never sleeps.
D-Day at Normandy
Meet Robert Allen, a World War II veteran who bravely came ashore at Normandy . . . then returned with Viking, sharing some of his memories with us.
The Normandy Beaches
There are few more pivotal moments in history than the D-Day landings that ushered in the end of World War II. Visit the sacred beaches with Karine and recall the day’s monumental sacrifices.
Cooking with Karine: Bratwurst
Taste a variety of German delicacies with Karine in Nuremberg’s medieval district, and learn some of the best side dishes to go with them, perhaps paired with a local brew.
Learn about the war crimes tribunals that took place in Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice as the entire world watched with rapt attention, and consider seeing Courtroom 600 for yourself.
Cooking with Karine: Bread
Dona Manuela’s family has been making its famous Portuguese bread for centuries. Join Karine as Dona Manuela teaches her how to prepare this beloved delicacy celebrated the world over.
Fado, Music of Portugal
Learn about the dramatic songs of fado, born along Portugal’s waterfront. This music of passion often depicted the longing of women waiting for their men to return from sea.
History of Port Wines
Take a journey with Karine as she explores Portugal’s history of wine and gains insight into its production and the various types of port, with a local expert on hand.
Portugal’s Wine Country
In 1756, Portugal’s Douro River Valley became the world’s first protected wine-producing region, and today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Learn more about the region’s famous port wine.
Portuguese Crème Brûlée
Go behind the scenes with Karine to see how easy it is to make this local variation of everyone’s favorite dessert. You may want to take notes during this hands-on demonstration!
Portuguese Language Lesson
Learn a few useful Portuguese words and phrases with Maria, your Viking tutor. Saúde!
Prague Microbrewery
In 1466, just off Prague’s Old Town Square, a tiny microbrewery first opened its doors. Today, on the same spot, Ladislav Vesely continues the tradition of making the finest Czech beer.
Prague Synagogue
When in Prague, be sure to visit the Old New Synagogue in Josefov, the Jewish Quarter. This is the oldest synagogue in Europe, where generations have been worshipping since 1270.
A Russian Hero
Meet Mikhail Bobrov, the “Most Honored Citizen of St. Petersburg.” The legendary Russian adventurer stopped Nazi warplanes and saved countless lives during the siege of Leningrad by putting his own life on the line.
Karine talks with Vladlen Kuzin, former head of propaganda and director of the Leningrad Documentary Studio, about the part he has played in documenting the culture and history of the former Soviet Union.
Karine Welcomes You to Her Russia
Karine has spent much of her adult life in Russia and remains captivated and entertained by the country and its culture. Come along as she shares her deep love and fascination for this charming country and its people.
Kommunalka Home Visit
Come inside for a private tour of a typical Soviet Russian home, a kommunalka, a communal apartment like those shared by many Russian families for generations in the post-revolutionary years of the 20th century.
Red Flag Factory
Visit a former Soviet icon soon to be reborn as a business, arts and cultural center. See fascinating footage of this architectural gem’s past as a factory where uniforms were made.
Russian Food: Soups
No Russian meal is complete without homemade soup, a central element of culinary culture. Karine samples two types of borscht, the nationally renowned beet soup, and other tasty dishes.
Russian Food: Starters
Here are some specialties Russians might enjoy as a starter to their main meal. From pickled mushrooms to the Salad Olivier, a traditional New Year’s dish, try some for yourself!
Russian Food: Sweets
Russian meals are often topped off with something sweet. Sample some favorite desserts with Karine, from kisel, a red berry soup, to oladi, a thick pancake served with cream and jam.
Russian Superstitions
Why do Russians avoid shaking hands over a doorway’s threshold? Or sit on their luggage before departing on a journey? See some of the unusual ways good fortune is ensured in Russia.
Travel to Russia with Viking
With Viking, you will visit Russia’s great cities; sail the Volga, Svir and Neva Rivers and through Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga; and explore charming Golden Ring cities.
River Cruising: Russia & Ukraine
Moscow. St. Petersburg. Kiev. Odessa. Learn what it is really like to journey through Russia or Ukraine with Viking.
Are You a First-Time River Cruiser?
There is no more enriching and convenient way to travel than on a Viking river cruise. If you are new to river cruising and would like to know what you can expect, watch this video.
Christening Highlights 2014
Learn how Viking earned the Guinness World Records title for “Most Ships Inaugurated in One Day by One Company,” an event that unfolded in Amsterdam, Rostock and Avignon.
Cooking with Karine: In the Galley
Ever wonder what goes on in your river ship’s galley? Take a look inside the kitchen at the peak of mealtime as Karine dons an apron and joins the ranks of our talented crew.
Exploring in Comfort
See what sets Viking apart: daily cultural immersion, opportunities for leisure and relaxation, and events that engage your mind and enliven your spirit. Learn more here.
Making a Viking Longship
Witness the intricate craftsmanship and herculean efforts that go into building a Viking Longship as you pay a fascinating visit to Rostock’s Neptun Yard along Germany’s northern coast.
Learn about the past and future of Viking and the innovations behind our Viking Longships. Then come explore the great rivers of the world in unprecedented comfort.
The Original Longships
Delve into the past for a look into the art of building a Viking longship. Meet a master boatbuilder and learn about the role these vessels played in Viking society centuries ago.
Viking Longships: Explorer Suite
The exceptional Explorer Suites on board Viking Longships feature separate sleeping and sitting rooms, a wraparound veranda with 270° views, a French balcony and hotel-style amenities.
During simultaneous christenings in Amsterdam and Rostock, Germany, Viking welcomed 10 award-winning Viking Longships and two custom vessels for the Elbe River to its European fleet.
Viking Longships Tour
With their innovative patented design, al fresco Aquavit Terrace and understated elegance, Viking Longships provide the most rewarding way to explore Europe. Find out more on this short tour.
Viking Longships: Innovative Elegance
Our innovative Viking Longships offer full-size verandas and the largest suites on Europe’s rivers. Dine in the restaurant or al fresco on our Aquavit Terrace, all with panoramic views.
Viking Prestige and Viking Legend
The sleek, award-winning Viking Prestige and Viking Legend feature elegant decor, inviting restaurants, panoramic windows, and spacious suites and staterooms. On Viking Prestige, you may dine al fresco on the innovative Aquavit Terrace, a delightful outdoor seating area with panoramic views.
Viking Ships of Eastern Europe
Our elegant, completely refurbished Russian fleet and Ukraine ship set a new standard for river cruising excellence in this region, offering the ambience and comforts of a fine hotel.
Canals of St. Petersburg
Join Karine and discover why majestic St. Petersburg is known as the “Venice of the North” during a tour of the city’s vast network of canals and bridges.
Hermitage Access
Experience St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, the unrivaled art collection of Catherine the Great, as you never imagined: with personalized, after-hours tours by expert curators.
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Asia Law Network
Asia Law Network Presents a Clear Case for Using Vonage Voice and SMS APIs
With the help of Vonage Voice and SMS APIs, Asia Law Network provides access to high-quality legal help in a region where legal services previously were available to only 10% of the population.
Vonage SMS API Vonage Voice API
When Asia Law Network began to expand outside of Singapore, the company needed a high-quality, stable means of communication for voice and SMS exchanges across multiple countries and regions.
Vonage SMS and Voice APIs
Significantly fewer dropped calls and improved cross-border communications.
Until recently, searching for legal help in Singapore was not an easy task. And, for a majority of law firms, having the level of visibility necessary to attract clients was equally as challenging. Since 85% of Singapore’s legal market is comprised of firms with only 5 partners or fewer, most of these small establishments did not have the wherewithal to market themselves to potential clients.
However, within the past decade, the need for legal help has risen dramatically in Singapore and throughout Asia. As more and more businesses form alliances and as partnerships and agreements become much more sophisticated and detailed, lawyers are in high demand, and information about available legal options needs to be accessible.
Asia Law Network was born from this necessity. In 2014, Cherilyn Tan, founder and CEO of Asia Law Network, was looking for a lawyer to help her restructure a business in which she had been previously involved. “I found that, despite the fact that I had lawyer friends and acquaintances, it was hard for me to get an objective assessment and quote,” said Tan. “That was when I realized there was a niche in the market that needed to be filled.”
Tan created Asia Law Network, not just for users to and lawyers, but also to help equip lawyers with the tools they need to increase internal productivity and heighten external visibility so that they can attract new clients.
Today, Asia Law Network is a trusted, go-to marketplace where people can easily, securely and affordably consult lawyers with the expertise they require. It is the only marketing platform partner of the Law Society of Singapore.
Asia Law Network is now the largest network of lawyers in Singapore (more than 30% of Singapore lawyers are members) and its extended network includes lawyers from various other parts of Asia Pacific and the world.
Finding Vonage
Asia Law Network was originally launched for people to request quotes from lawyers for a variety of legal issues. The company created a preliminary screening service called Quick Consult, for a nominal flat-fee.
If a potential client pays for a Quick Consult, it is a reliable indication that the person is serious in seeking legal advice, rather than just “browsing.” That strategy proved to be very successful.
However, as Tan recalls, “What we didn’t expect was the number of international calls we received. Quite a few inquiries were people who were out of Singapore seeking legal advice in Singapore, and those calls were not working well. There were issues with call fidelity and the connections often dropped—which is not acceptable for discussions about confidential matters and legal advice. We knew we needed a solution for this problem, and that’s where Vonage played an important role.”
“Since we revamped our system using Vonage APIs, we are able to scale our business much faster than we had imagined. Vonage is definitely an enabling solution."
CHERILYN TAN, Founder and CEO of Asia Law Network
Enter Consistent, Reliable Voice and SMS APIs from Vonage
To remedy the problem of unstable calls between clients and lawyers, Asia Law Network built a new system based on the government-sponsored Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) infrastructure, which required integration with APIs.
After reviewing and testing Voice and SMS APIs from a variety of vendors, Asia Law Network chose Vonage APIs to enable clients to connect with lawyers from geographical regions outside of Singapore without any compromise to their communications.
Now that the system is in place, more and more people across Asia are turning to Asia Law Network for legal help. “Currently, we have calls coming into Singapore law firms from over 15 countries,” said Tan. “Since we revamped our system using Vonage APIs, we are able to scale our business much faster than we had imagined. Vonage is definitely an enabling solution.”
Vonage: With Communication and Justice for All
Today, the process of finding a lawyer via the Asia Law Network is simple and quick. A person seeking help can easily access Asia Law Network’s site to call in personal information and facts about their case.
They review information about available lawyers and assess the best option for their needs. The next step is to select several convenient times that they are able to talk and submit the information. They receive an SMS, powered by Vonage, that thanks the client for their order, informs them that the lawyer will respond within 48 hours, and provides the exact time of the consultation and further details.
The lawyer also receives an SMS that provides him or her with the consultation order information and allows them to accept or decline the appointment. When the lawyer accepts a particular time slot, they receive confirmation through another SMS that confirms the time and date of the appointment. The lawyer also receives an SMS reminder before the scheduled call.
At the time of the call, the Asia Law Network platform uses a Long Virtual Number to bridge the two parties so they can confer. The connection is made through Vonage's Voice API and it uses the Voice Proxy feature to mask the actual phone numbers of both parties, protecting their privacy.
Asia Law Network is today operating with a staff of seven, providing the Quick Consult service in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Australia, with over 3,000 lawyers in the Network. With the help of Vonage's APIs, having this system in place makes access to high-quality legal help possible in a region where, until now, legal services were available to only 10% of the population. “We wanted one company with which we can continue to work well for a long time to come. We chose Vonage and we are very satisfied with the results,” said Tan.
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Georgia GOP Officials Aim To Rebuild Public's Trust In Voting Process
Georgia Public Broadcasting | By Stephen Fowler
The state of Georgia is feeling the consequences of President Trump's election lies. Officials there say the November and January elections were some of the most secure and transparent in state history, with record turnout and few reported problems. But the state was also ground zero for misinformation and attacks on election integrity led by President Trump and a number of top Republicans. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Stephen Fowler reports on efforts to rebuild public trust in the voting process.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: One.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Two.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Three.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Four.
STEPHEN FOWLER, BYLINE: In the Bartow County Senior Center, a dozen teams of two are hand-counting more than 43,000 ballots cast in the January 5 runoff. All the races were outside the recount margin, so it's not required. And the voters in the county an hour northwest of Atlanta are 75% Republican, so the margin isn't even close. So why spend two days doing a voluntary audit at the end of an exhausting election cycle?
Elections director Joseph Kirk.
JOSEPH KIRK: A lot of my voters, a lot of my citizens do not trust the voting system after November after a lot of misinformation went out about this specific system.
FOWLER: From local lawmakers to the president of the United States, Republicans have cast doubt on Georgia's voting machines and absentee ballots - filing lawsuits, holding hearings and claiming without evidence the election was rigged. That's frustrating to state election board member Matt Mashburn, who's spent time in recent months debunking conspiracies from fellow Republicans.
MATT MASHBURN: And the paradox is that we have these tools that we've never had before so that we can have a fair count and be confident with the tabulation and the results, but the public has the least amount of confidence.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Ossoff. Ossoff. Perdue.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: Perdue.
FOWLER: In deep-red Bartow County, many Republicans expressed concerns with 24/7 absentee drop boxes, vote counting and the machines picked by the GOP Legislature. One voter even called the police to investigate a mysterious connection to China - it was just a power cord. Republican monitor Judy Kilgore says it helps to see things with your own eyes and to know that your friends and neighbors that you trust are the ones doing the counting.
JUDY KILGORE: I can personally hear them. I can walk around the tables. I can observe what they're doing.
FOWLER: Observing how the electoral sausage gets made isn't just something for skeptical Republicans. Democratic monitor Karen Tindall threw herself into volunteering this year at the age of 71, in part because she wanted to help take partisan politics out of the way our votes are counted.
KAREN TINDALL: I think we just need to talk about the process and explain it to people because our elections are safe, and they are fair.
FOWLER: As Georgia's Legislature gets back to action, some Republican lawmakers have promised to crack down on absentee ballots, after spending weeks spreading misinformation and false claims of fraud. There are signs changes might not be so extreme. Three senators who backed lawsuits trying to overturn Georgia's election results have been silently removed from committee chairmanships, and the House will appoint a bipartisan commission to look at what might come next.
For NPR News, I'm Stephen Fowler in Cartersville, Ga. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Sunday Puzzle: Word Sandwiches
By Will Shortz
Sunday Puzzle
On-air Challenge: Every answer today is an eight-letter word that consists of a three-letter word inserted inside a five-letter word. I'll give you a clue to the three-letter word as well as the five-letter word itself. You tell me the eight-letter word.
Example: Wrigley's product + AREN'T --> ARGUMENT
1. Tennis court divider + MAGIC
2. Oil installation + IRATE
3. What a hot dog goes in + TRIAL
4. Everything + BROOM
5. Have dinner + ENTRY
6. Opposite of young + DRUMS
7. To employ + CAROL
8. Health resort + DITCH
9. Fruit preserves + BENIN
10. Outdoor children's game + SHORE
11. Cry of disgust + LATER
12. Be successful at bat + GRAPE
13. Affirmative response + EIGHT
Last week's challenge: This challenge came from listener Dan Pitt, of Palo Alto, Calif. Take the name BUENOS AIRES. Remove one letter. The remaining letters can be rearranged to name two things that many people wish for around this time of year. What are they?
Challenge answer: Bonus, Raise
Winner:Steven Marsey from Virginia Beach, Va.
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener David Curren of Arlington, Mass. Think of a familiar two-word phrase (5, 2). Replace the last letter with the next letter of the alphabet. The result will be a palindrome (the seven letters will read backward and forward the same). What phrase is it?
Submit Your Answer
If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here by Thursday, Dec. 31st, at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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The annuities sweetener explained
The 60 per cent sweetener with annuities and your pension
Many people are unaware that the ways annuities are assessed changed last year.
Ben Hocking Digital Editor
Many people are unaware that the ways annuities are assessed changed last year, and it is particularly important information if you are considering a lifetime income stream.
The new rules, which came into effect from 1 July 2019, mean that any lifetime income stream purchased on or after that day is subject to the new assessment rules.
Annuities that were purchased before that date are still assessed using the old rules.
Under the means test rules, 60 per cent of all payments from lifetime income stream will be assessed as income.
For example, if a person receives an annual payment of $5000 from a lifetime income stream, 60 per cent ($3000) is assessed as income under the income test. As the payments increase due to indexation, 60 per cent of the payments will continue to be assessed under the income test for the Age Pension.
The income assessed from the lifetime income stream will be added to a person’s other assessable income. The person’s total income will then be assessed under the income test for the Age Pension.
Assets test
The changes that came in from 1 July 2019 also had implications for the assets test.
Under the changed rules, 60 per cent of the purchase amount of a lifetime income stream is assessed as an asset from a person’s assessment day for the income stream until they reach the life expectancy for a 65-year-old male (currently 84 years old), or a minimum of five years.
After that date, 30 per cent of the purchase amount will be assessed for the rest of the duration of the lifetime income stream.
For products purchased with superannuation monies, the assessment day is the later date of:
the day the person purchased or acquired the income stream, or
the day the person satisfied a relevant condition of release.
For products purchased with non-superannuation monies, the assessment day is the day the product starts making payments, or the later of:
the day the income stream was purchased or acquired, or
the day the person reaches Age Pension age.
For example, if a person purchased a lifetime income stream at age 65 for $200,000, they would be expected to live for a further 19 years. Initially, 60 per cent of the purchase amount ($120,000) is assessed as an asset under the assets test.
That 60 per cent continues to be assessed as an asset for 19 years, but after that point only 30 per cent ($60,000) will be assessed for the duration of the lifetime income stream.
If instead a person was to purchase the same lifetime income stream product for the same value at age 83, 60 per cent of the purchase amount ($120,000) would be assessed as an asset for the first five years, then after five years only 30 per cent of the purchase amount ($60,000) would be assessed after that.
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There are innumerable classic examples in the literature of maternal dominance contributing to secondary impotence. Thirteen such instances reflecting maternal dominance have been referred to the Foundation for therapy. Since the picture is so classic, a composite history can be provided to protect anonymity without destroying categorical effectiveness.
Maternal dominance primarily depreciates the young male’s security in his masculinity and destroys confidence in his socio cultural role-playing by eliminating or at least delimiting the possibility of a strong male image.
When the father is relegated to the role of second-class citizen within family structuring, the teenage boy has no male example with which to identify other than that of a devalued, shadowy, sometimes even ludicrous male allowed access to the home but obviously subject to control of the dominant maternal figure.
Mr. B, 34 years old
was referred with his wife for treatment of secondary impotence. He could remember little in family structuring other than a totally dominant mother making all decisions, large or small, controlling family pursestrings, and dictating, directing, and destroying his father with harsh sarcasm.
He remembered the paternal role only as that of an insufficient paycheck, and of a man sitting quietly in the corner of the living room reading the evening newspaper.
When he reached midteens, the parental representative at school functions was always the maternal figure, for both the young male and his younger sister (two siblings only). The same situation applied to church attendance and, eventually, to all social functions. The family matured with the concept that only three people mattered.
Masturbatory onset was in the early teens with a frequency of two or three times a week during the teenage years. As would be expected in a maternally dominated environment, dating opportunity for the boy was delayed, in this case until the senior year in high school.
Through college there were rare commitments to female interchange, all of them of a purely social vein. The young man was insecure in most social relationships, particularly those having orientation to the male sex.
He had been forbidden participation in athletics by his mother for fear of injury. He rarely pursued male companionship, feeling himself alternatively totally insecure in, or intellectually superior to, the male peer group.
Premarital sex in youth
Finishing college, the young man, particularly interested in actuarial work, joined an insurance firm. Although mainly withdrawn from social relationships, at age 28 he met and within three months married a 27 year old divorcee with a 2 year old daughter.
The divorcee, a dominant personality in her own right, was the mirror image of his mother. The two women were, of course, instant, bitter, and irrevocable enemies. The marriage, accomplished in spite of his mother’s vehement objections, was a weekend justice-of-the-peace affair.
The sexual experience of the courtship had been overwhelming to the physiologically and psychologically virginal male. The uninitiated man literally was seduced by the experienced woman, who manipulated, fellated, and coitally ejaculated him within three weeks of their initial meeting.
The hectic pace of the premarital sexual experience continued for the first 18 months of the marriage, with Mr. B awed by and made increasingly anxious by his wife’s sexual demands.
Intercourse occurred at least once a day. Following the pattern established during the courtship, opportunities, techniques, positions, procedures, durations, and recurrences, in fact, all sexual expression in the marriage, was at his wife’s able direction.
For the first year of the marriage the wife thoroughly enjoyed overwhelming her fully cooperative but naive and insecure husband with the force and frequency of her sexual demands. As the marriage continued unwavering in the intensity of her insistence upon sexual and social dominance, his confidence in his facility for sexual functioning began to wane.
He sought excuses to avoid coital connection, yet when cornered tried valiantly to respond to her demands. Finally, there were three occasions when sudden demand for coital connection forced failure of erection for the satiated male. Her comments were harsh and destructive, and the sarcasm struck a familiar chord.
The fourth time he failed to satisfy her immediate sexual needs, his wife’s denunciations reminded him specifically of his mother and of her verbal attacks on his father. For the first time in his life he identified with the man sitting in a corner of the living room reading the newspaper, and within a month’s time he had withdrawn to a similarly recessive behavioral patterning within his own home.
Successful erection
There is only one subsequent recorded episode of erection sufficiently successful for intromission with his wife. Aside from this, the man was totally impotent and had been so for three years when seen in therapy.
On an occasion when his wife was out of town, he followed the time-honored response pattern of the secondarily impotent man. There was attempted sex with a prostitute to see whether he could function effectively with any other woman.
For the first time in several months there was a full erection, but when he attempted to mount, the concept of his mother’s disapproval of his behavior disturbed his fantasy of female conquest. He immediately lost and could not recover the erection. This was his only attempt at extramarital sexual functioning.
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Discus and support New Microsoft Teams Calling features in Windows 10 News to solve the problem; Earlier this year, IT leaders around the globe were forced to reprioritize their roadmaps, resources, and budgets to equip employees for remote work... Discussion in 'Windows 10 News' started by Brink, Dec 1, 2020.
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New Microsoft Teams Calling features
Earlier this year, IT leaders around the globe were forced to reprioritize their roadmaps, resources, and budgets to equip employees for remote work practically overnight. Suddenly, the use of video communications skyrocketed. People adjusted quickly to moving meetings online, but one of the most notable challenges driven by the shift to remote work has been to maintain the personal connections that come from the ad hoc and serendipitous conversations that happen in the physical office.
In fact, studies show that a person’s voice is the signal that builds personal connections and creates clarity, which is why actually speaking with colleagues and customers is more important now than ever. The use of Teams Calling has skyrocketed as well, with Teams users making over 650 million calls in October, up 11 fold over March of this year. And on average, calls are just one-fourth the length of a typical meeting, making calling a quick and efficient way to reconnect and collaborate.
Today, we’re announcing several enhancements to Teams Calling that make it easier for organizations and their employees to strengthen connections and create new ones with just a quick call.
Get more out of every call, with a rich calling experience
Calling alone is a great way to reconnect and quickly share information. However, when you integrate calls with different modes of communication, they can act as a productivity force multiplier. We’re introducing several ways to create a more powerful and streamlined calling experience.
Streamlined calling experience: Teams is the hub for chat, collaboration, meetings, apps, and workflows, and the enhanced Calls app brings the most important calling elements—the dial pad, call history, voicemail, contacts, and settings—into a single location, making it easier to stay connected in the flow of your work.
Save call recordings in OneDrive and SharePoint: Call recordings are a great way to keep track of the ad hoc brainstorming that often happens on a call. Now, Teams Admins can take advantage of the tight Teams and OneDrive or SharePoint integration and elect to make OneDrive or SharePoint the default recording storage location, in lieu of Stream. This new capability provides powerful capabilities such as sharing with external guests, quicker access to transcripts, and greater storage capacity. Learn more.
CarPlay support: Placing and receiving calls in the car will soon be easier than ever, thanks to CarPlay support for Teams Calling. With CarPlay, you can use your vehicle’s built-in controls to operate Teams, including using Siri to place and answer calls.
Spam identification: Spam calls are frustrating, disturb the flow of work, and make you less likely to answer calls from unfamiliar phone numbers. Using advanced industry techniques, Teams will identify potential spam calls so you can feel confident answering incoming calls. Additionally, Teams will digitally attest outgoing calls to prevent these calls from being rejected by external recipients.
Transfer calls between mobile and desktop: Teams makes it easy to place and receive calls from several different endpoints, including desktop and mobile devices, but sometimes you need to move locations or devices to finish your call. Starting in early 2021, you will be able to shift your calls between your mobile and desktop endpoints with an easy-to-use interface on the Teams app.
Call merge: Calling users can bring multiple different one to one calls together to combine conversations and simplify multiple conversations. Call merge is now available for both PSTN calls and VoIP calls.
Low-data mode: Whether you want to preserve data or are just in a location with a poor or limited network connection, sometimes it’s helpful to limit the amount of data you’re using during a video call or meeting. Starting in early 2021, users will be able to adjust their settings in Teams to cap the amount of data that will be used during video calls and establish different settings based on network availability (cellular, wifi, or always).
Enhanced reverse number look-up: With automatic reverse number look-up, you’ll see the name of the caller at the time they’re calling and in your activity feed and voicemail.
Provide advanced calling needs for your business
Some parts of the business require additional calling capabilities and workflows. Whether that’s keeping mission-critical operations running or resolving key customer issues, Teams supports a broad range of needs across your business with help from these new capabilities.
Voice enabled channels: A new collaborative calling capability enables teams to integrate call queues into a specific channel, allowing for collaboration and information sharing before, during, and after the call. For example, IT or HR help desks can now be managed from a channel so available team members can answer the call, and easily share information about service tickets. Starting in early 2021, Teams users will have the option to create new channels that are voice-enabled, to start using this feature in preview.
Certified Contact Center solutions: Resolving a customer call in contact centers is often a team sport, so it’s important to quickly identify and reach the right colleague. Contact center solutions can use presence and user APIs to seamlessly integrate with Teams, allowing agents to find the right colleagues to assist. Now, contact center providers can apply for Microsoft certification of their solutions, to provide customers with the confidence needed to manage important customer interactions. Learn more about the certification program and specific solutions that are undergoing certification, many of which will be complete in early 2021.
Resilient calling: To support the most critical conversations in the event of an outage, the new Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) allows users to place and receive PSTN calls even in the event of a network outage. This SBA will be available in preview this month to certified Session Border Controllers (SBC) vendors, allowing SBCs to link with the Teams client in the event the client cannot reach the Microsoft Calling network.
Call transfer ring-back: While call transfers can be useful to connect the right people, making sure that calls remain connected during the process is critical for a great caller experience. Now Teams users can rest assured that when you transfer an important call, it will not disconnect just because someone on the other end is unavailable. If the transfer recipient does not answer the call, the call will ring back to the person making the transfer.
Stay connected with a portfolio of high-quality devices
Teams provides a great integrated softphone experience on both mobile and desktop, and a robust lineup of hardware options allow you to choose the right physical endpoints for your needs. From low-cost phones, to traditional desk and video phones, to Teams displays, there are options to fit every user and calling need. We’re excited to share a few new ways this device ecosystem can help you stay connected, no matter where you’re working.
Teams displays: Whether you are working remotely or returning to the office, adding an intelligent companion device like the Teams display can revolutionize the way you work. A new experience now available on the Lenovo Thinksmart view, Teams displays integrate Cortana for hands-free productivity, use AI to help you stay productive and organized, and provide a dedicated device for your Teams collaboration needs. Learn more.
Low-cost phones: To empower organizations to bring the best of Teams Calling to as many users as possible, we’re excited to bring low-cost phones to market with trusted partners Yealink and AudioCodes in early 2021. These devices integrate natively with the Teams phone app, bringing core Teams capabilities to life.
Device as a Service: The new Teams Device as a Service offering provides flexible monthly payments, making it easier and more affordable than ever to get your users the devices they need. Simply navigate to the Device as a Service site where you can add devices to your cart and place an order in a matter of minutes. This service is currently available in the U.S., and availability for additional regions will be coming in 2021.
Do more with the power of partners
We have seen strong growth across our Teams partner ecosystem and have more than 300 specialized partners with calling solutions for Microsoft Teams, a 100% increase over the last year. These partners assist our customers with a wide variety of services and solutions including Direct Routing as a Service, deployment, adoption, devices, managed services, and network monitoring and reporting. Examples include our Partner of the Year award winner Continuant, and finalists Enabling Technologies, Communicativ, and Orange Business Services.
Continued commitment to Calling
These innovations are examples of our ongoing commitment to support spontaneous collaboration and personal connections that voice enables. We are honored and humbled to be recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Unified Communications as a Service Magic Quadrant. We will continue working hard to make Teams the most trusted and reliable voice solution available. Now more than ever, we all need a seamless way to stay connected with colleagues and customers, and with these capabilities, you can restore personal connections and manage the most critical calls for every part of your organization. Learn more about how Accenture, Australia Catholic University, ENGIE, and Tony’s Chocolonely are using Teams Calling to stay connected.
Lastly, with all these great capabilities coming to Teams Calling, it’s important to keep in mind that Teams Calling can be rolled out in weeks—not months or years—as Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) showed by rolling out Calling globally to over 40,000 users in 4 weeks. You can always reach out to your account team for more information, and the links below provide additional information and guidance.
Learn more about Teams Calling on the Microsoft Teams Calling webpage.
Get started with Teams for free.
Get guidance and resources to get up and running quickly on Teams Calling with FastTrack.
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Endangered sea turtles arrive in Gulfport for rescue, rehabilitation effort
By Andrés Fuentes | December 15, 2020 at 7:42 AM CST - Updated December 15 at 4:54 PM
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - You may have heard the expression, “When turtles fly.” Well, it turns out that they do.
It was a welcome sight Monday in Gulfport as a plane carrying 45 Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles arrived all the way from the Northeast.
The turtles flew into Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport through the organization Turtles Fly Too, which pairs up volunteer pilots with missions to deliver endangered animals to safer areas.
And in the turtle world, there are no others who are more at risk than the Kemp’s Ridley turtles.
“These are the most endangered sea turtles in the world,” said Moby Solangi, Director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies.
This is one of 45 sea turtles that were flown to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to be rehabilitated in a joint effort by the Mississippi Aquarium and IMMS. (Source: Andres Fuentes)
Gulfport’s newest aquatic reptiles are now safe after enduring dangerously cold waters in the northeast.
“It’s a yearly event, these cold stun events,” said Theresa Madrigal, the Stranding Coordinator at IMMS. “We do typically see a couple hundred or so animals that will come washing up onshore.”
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Crews with the @MS_aquarium and the Institute For Marine Mammal Studies received rescued Kemp’s Ridleys sea turtles from New England.
The facilities will rehabilitate them and then eventually release them into the wild @WLOX pic.twitter.com/P4wtTdwu2s
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An assembly line of eager helpers carefully took the boxes of turtles off the plane. Their next stop? The Mississippi Aquarium or IMMS.
“We are going to take each individual animal and assess its health,” said Alexa Delaune, the Vice President of Veterinary Service at Mississippi Aquarium.
Such an event gives the Coast’s newest facility a first-time experience. “We are super, super excited because this is one of our pillars - our conservation pillars,” said Delaune.
It also givers an older facility a shot at continuing their work. “We are very experienced in doing this and we are glad to help,” said Solangi.
The rescue effort was organized in less than a week - from the flight, to the ride, and to the crews.
“Everyone worked together really, really well and super quickly,” Delaune said.
Over the next few weeks, 25 turtles will settle in at the aquarium while the other 20 will go to IMMS. However, animal experts say the goal isn’t to keep them here permanently, but to release them into the wild once they are ready.
“Every animal that we can save helps in the restoration of the species,” Solangi said.
It’s check up time for 20 Kemp’s Ridley turtles at the Institute for Marine Mammals.
The group was rescued from New England and brought down to Gulfport for rehabilitation and eventual release into the wild @WLOX pic.twitter.com/tH1jKVXGQg
And while the veteran conservationists get a chance at leading the rehab projects, the next generation is also getting hands-on experience.
“The aquatic opportunities we have at Mississippi State are really phenomenal,” said Mississippi State University student Amanda Rowe said.
Rowe is a second-year student at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, joining a handful of other students and residents who pitched in to help the turtles.
“We got an email very early Sunday morning about this opportunity, and I emailed them back as soon as I woke up and here I am the next day,” said Rowe.
Regardless of whether it’s the first time or just one of countless efforts, both the aquarium and IMMS understand how important a project like this is.
“It’s amazing anytime we can help an animal,” said Delaune. “I think it makes it extra special that this is an endangered species.”
The turtles will not be on display for guests at either facility. Staff say that they are wild animals and are just being treated before being released.
Turtles Fly Too partners with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to educate students and other non-profit organizations about the importance of general aviation to our society, and specifically, endangered sea turtle rescue operations.
NOAA and other organizations call on Turtles Fly Too to provide air transportation when endangered species are threatened, either through a cold stun event, entanglement, or when an endangered animal is injured. These transports are made possible by the donation of time, equipment, and fuel from our “Turtle Fliers,” the dedicated, generous pilots associated with Turtles Fly Too. Using flights instead of ground transport shortens travel time and therefore reduces stress on these turtles and other endangered species.
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Andrés Fuentes is a New Orleans native and a 2020 graduate of Loyola University. He joined the WLOX News Team in July 2020 as a Multimedia Journalist.
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Airlines are looking to capitalize on wider opportunities as they enter their fourth consecutive year of sustainable profits
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Airlines can stay competitive by harnessing the power of biometrics, robotics, artificial intelligence and internet of things
" If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. "
- Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group
Who can sum up the inherently challenging nature of the airline business better than the maverick founder of Virgin Atlantic? However, in the last few years, airlines seem to have reined in the challenges to some extent. They continue to expand their top-line and bottom-line at a healthy pace, by overcoming the barriers posed by growing competition, rising fuel prices, changing regulatory norms and rapidly evolving passenger expectations.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA)1 forecasts the sector's net profit to rise to USD 38.4 Billion in 2018 making this the fourth consecutive year of sustainable profits. As airlines pursue wider market share, and adopt new technologies to re-imagine their offerings and operations, here are six technology trends that will have a significant impact on their business outcomes.
Trend 1: Enabling Frictionless Travel With Biometrics
The adoption of biometrics is still at a nascent stage in the industry. But a few airlines have already begun investing in fingerprint and facial recognition technology. Currently, the technology is being tested in areas such as check-in, security, lounge access and boarding.
Long queues for security check or at the baggage carousel continue to be the foremost pain point for passengers. Also, having to constantly show their passports, identity cards or boarding passes for verification add to their frustrations. Airlines are increasingly experimenting with biometrics to address these issues and make the journey as frictionless as possible for passengers.
In the long run, paper and mobile boarding passes will become obsolete as airlines use facial, iris or fingerprint scans to identify passengers. A European airline has already piloted facial-recognition programs to reduce check-in and boarding time. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has unveiled an initiative across 30 domestic airports to use passengers' fingerprints for identification and issuing boarding passes.
If the associated privacy concerns around data are addressed by airlines, biometrics will deliver multiple benefits including shorter waiting time for passengers.
Trend 2: Humanizing the Experience Through Artificial Intelligence
Globally, the market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in airlines is expected to touch USD 2.2 Billion by 2025.2 Different use cases for AI adoption across the industry are gradually taking shape. The most common one, of course, are chatbots that are becoming increasingly sophisticated in resolving passenger queries.
Some airlines are looking beyond chatbots to leverage the true potential of AI. For example, a leading Asian airline is using AI to estimate the average lifespan of the parts on its planes. The airline has been able to quicken inspections, optimize the inventory for parts and improve operational efficiency. Airlines are also using AI and predictive analytics to create personalized promotional campaigns to improve upsell / cross-sell opportunities. Airline revenue management is another area where AI and machine learning are expected to drive transformation in the long term.
Trend 3: Robotic Revolution and Automation
Over the next decade, the global robotics and automation market is expected to touch USD 1.2 Trillion.3 The airline industry is expected to make up a significant chunk of this rapidly growing market. Automation of workflows has been a major focus area for the industry in recent years. And, this focus is only accelerating with the early-stage adoption of robots.
For instance, a Korean airport has tied up with a leading electronics company to test two prototype robots that will deliver boarding information and directions to passengers. A global IT company that offers services to the air transport industry has designed an intelligent check-in kiosk that can autonomously move to congested areas of the airport to reduce the waiting time for passengers.4 Robots at a Japanese airport, meanwhile, are automating several tasks including flagging security risks and transporting luggage.
Trend 4: Seamless Data Sharing Via Blockchain
The airline industry is characterized by data sharing among multiple players across the entire value chain. At every touchpoint of the passengers' journeys, complex data reconciliations happen in the background. However, given airlines' siloed systems for storing data, this data exchange is rarely seamless. This is one area where blockchain — often referred to as the 'Internet of Trust' — can enable airlines to conduct smoother data sharing and eliminate multiple transaction costs.
Often, in the event of flight delays, passengers get inaccurate status updates. Blockchain's inherent ability to provide a single source of truth can help airlines provide accurate flight updates in real time across multiple channels during delays.
A prominent German airline has formed an alliance with many companies to explore blockchain-centric distribution, while other airlines are figuring out use cases for retail, distribution and baggage handling. A leading South Asian airline has launched a blockchain-based loyalty wallet that allows members to redeem airline miles at point-of-sale.
Trend 5: Traveling in Augmented / Virtual Reality
The excitement around Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) cuts across industries — market research firm IDC pegs the worldwide revenue from AR / VR at USD 162 Billion by 2020.5 Airlines are also exploring different implementation scenarios for AR and VR ranging from airport wayfinding to remote airport operational control centers to immersive in-flight entertainment.
Gatwick airport in the U.K., for instance, has launched a beacon-based AR wayfinding tool that shows direction to passengers through their mobile phone cameras.6 The AR tool makes it easier for passengers to navigate within the terminal and locate check-in desks, departure gates and baggage carousels.
Passengers aboard Airbus A380 flights are using the AR-led iOS app iflyA3807 to take 360-degree virtual tours of the cabin, have a closer look inside the cockpit or to know more about landmarks they are flying over. At New York's JFK airport, passengers waiting for budget flights are given VR headsets by a European airline to 'show' them its competing offerings for upselling opportunities.
With increasing adoption, airline mechanics will most likely use AR to carry out quick, accurate repairs and maintenance that can be signed off remotely by supervisors. This improvement in efficiency and accuracy will translate into faster repairs, minimal equipment breakdowns and fewer delayed flights for airlines.
Trend 6: Passenger Experience and the Internet of Things
Though airlines are still struggling to bring their legacy systems up-to-speed, many have rolled out Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives to re-define the passenger experience. Airlines are looking at leveraging IoT for operational areas ranging from baggage management to in-flight entertainment.
A leading U.S. airline has invested millions of dollars for the deployment of IoT to track baggage in real time thereby improving both reliability and transparency. Airlines are also offering personalized navigation at airports by integrating their native mobile apps with airports' beacons. As passengers move across terminals, their locations can be used to guide them toward departure gates, push customized offers, or direct them to lounges at discounted rates.
IoT combined with advanced analytics can also open up several upsell / cross-sell opportunities for airlines. Historical data around passengers' preferences can be used to make personalized in-flight offers such as upgrades. Curated entertainment content can also be made available with all charges seamlessly debited from digital payment accounts.
As digital technologies continue to transform the industry and re-shape consumer expectations, airlines will have to regularly re-visit their core operating assumptions to stay relevant. They will have to re-imagine key operations and functions to deliver compelling and differentiated passenger experience. With the 'consumerization' wave transforming many service sectors including media, transportation and retail, airlines too will have to harness cutting-edge technologies in a 'smart' way. They will have to aggressively experiment with different use cases to address pressing passenger pain points and use the learnings to continuously refine their approach.
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1. http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2017-12-05-01.aspx
2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/
3. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-rise-of-the-robot-investing-in-disruptive-automation-682534451.html
4. https://www.tnooz.com/article/SITA-Labs-introduces-moveable-robotic-check-in-kiosks/
5. https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/signals-for-strategists/augmented-and-virtual-reality-enterprise-applications.html
6. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/future-travel-airport-technology-hi-tech-chatbots-robots-augmented-reality-ai-a7961171.html
7. http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/01/airbus-launches-iflya380-augmented-reality-ios-app-taking-passen.html
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EU Ambassador to ZA Marcus Cornaro has confirmed to ZA Confidential that a €15m EU fund for supporting the South African wine industry should soon be available.
ZA Confidential understands the payment, equivalent to over R225m, was part of an earlier Wines and Spirits Agreement between Brussels and Pretoria, which also included the condition that ZA should cease using the terms “port” and “sherry” for its fortified wines.
The Ambassador confirmed that this earlier agreement on alcohol was not ratified, but has now been incorporated into the EU’s new Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which was recently signed with ZA and its SADC neighbours.
“We have re-committed the €15m,” he said.
“It is a refreshment of an older commitment.
“The earlier agreement was never ratified.”
The Ambassador said that EU officials are in talks with the Trade and Industry Department (dti) and with the Department of Agriculture on details of how the money will be allocated.
Two thirds of the fund will go to boosting employment and BEE, with the aim of securing a genuine impact on transformation and job creation in the wine industry.
The other third would go to supporting the marketing and promotion efforts of the ZA wine industry. “We are about to finalise the modalities and detailed objectives,” said Cornaro.
The EPA itself is also expected to bring additional benefits to the ZA wine industry, allowing greater access for exports to the European market.
In another development, the Ambassador suggested that with the EPA negotiations having recently been concluded, ZA is in a far more comfortable position in facing the challenges which will arise from the UK’s Brexit vote.
“With the EPA, SA is not a big demander in the equation,” he stated. “Myself and the U.K. High Commissioner will argue that once the landing zone is clearer, and if SA is happy to preserve the EPA, they are starting it from the most comfortable position of the three.” (The three parties he referred to are South Africa, the EU and the UK.)
The Ambassador said that the EU was a massive supporter of ZA’s transformation to a democracy “spending €1bn per decade for first two decades.
“I still get credit over a lot of the support which was received,” he noted.
He said that although EU support for ZA has been reduced to around €250m over 4-5 years, ‘we are in a very healthy partnership relationship, using the money to further leverage reforms.”
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When you register with us on xtmmo.net, you first complete the on-line registration form, which requires you to create a username and password. During registration, you are also required to provide Personal Information, which may include name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, and credit card expiration date. We use this information so that we may contact you about the services and products on the site(s) in which you have expressed interest or requested and to facilitate the completion of an order.
Promotions, Contests and Sweepstakes
From time-to-time, xtmmo may provide you the opportunity to participate in promotions, contests or sweepstakes on its web site(s). Such promotions, contests and sweepstakes will also be governed by the rules and regulations posted with such promotions, contests and sweepstakes. If you participate, you will be required to register with xtmmo, which will require you to provide certain Personal Information. Participation in these promotions, contests and sweepstakes is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to register and provide your Personal Information. The requested information typically includes contact information, such as name, shipping address, e-mail address, and telephone number. We will use this information to notify winners and award prizes. Additionally, during your registration process you may opt-in to receiving additional related communications from us. If you decide to opt-in, we will use the information provided to send you communications described throughout this Privacy Policy.
Other Information Collected
Some information may be collected automatically every time you visit xtmmo's web sites, such as cookies and computer information. In addition, information may be collected from other independent, third-party sources. We also collect information about which pages you visit within xtmmo.net. xtmmo.net visitation data is identified only by a unique URL.
xtmmo uses both session ID cookies and persistent cookies as part of its interaction with your browser. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier (a file) that xtmmo's web sites transfer to your computer's hard drive through a web browser to enable its systems to recognize your browser for record-keeping purposes. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser, while a persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
We use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate xtmmo.net. We use persistent cookies to identify and track which sections of its web site you most often visit. We also use persistent cookies in areas of its web site where you must register, and where you are able to customize the information you see, so that you don't have to enter your preferences more than once.
By configuring the options in your browser, you may control how cookies are processed by your system. However, if you decline the use of cookies you may not be able to use certain features on xtmmo.net and you may be required to re-enter the information required to complete an order during new or interrupted browser sessions.
Some of xtmmo's business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on the site. We have no access or control over these cookies (see "Third Party Advertising" and "Third Party Cookies" below). Accordingly, this Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by xtmmo only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
As is true of most web sites, xtmmo gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet services provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date / time stamp, and click stream data. xtmmo uses this information to analyze trends, to screen for fraud, to administer xtmmo's sites, to track users' movements around the web sites and to gather demographic information about xtmmo's user base as a whole.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
xtmmo employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that helps it better manage content on its web sites by informing xtmmo what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
xtmmo uses clear gifs in its HTML-based e-mails to inform itself of which e-mails have been opened by you. This allows xtmmo to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of xtmmo's marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these e-mails, please see "Choice and Opt-Out" section of this Privacy Policy.
Information from Third Party Sources
To improve services and enhance personalization, xtmmo may periodically obtain information about you from other independent third party sources and add it to our account information. For example, when you visit a site on which xtmmo advertises, and click through such advertisement, xtmmo may place cookies on your computer.
The ads that appear from time to time on xtmmo's web sites are delivered to you by a third party. Information about your visits to the sites, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address or other Personal Information), is used to serve ads to you.
Verification, Billing, and Order Status
xtmmo collects Personal Information to verify the accuracy of your name, billing address, shipping address, credit card number, and credit card expiration date provided, to screen for fraud, to bill you for products and services purchased and to pay you for products and services sold. xtmmo uses your e-mail address to contact you regarding the status of your order when necessary and to send you a Receipt Purchase/Sale Confirmation and Order Shipping Notification.
Special Offers and Updates
xtmmo collects information about which sections of its web site you visit most often, so that it can send you our newsletter and information about relevant offers, promotions, contests, and sweepstakes which may interest you. Accordingly, xtmmo will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, promotions and sweepstakes.
Service-related Announcements
xtmmo may, but is not obligated, to send you strictly service-related announcements or rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For example, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an e-mail.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications since they are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you may have the option to deactivate your account.
We also collect information for research purposes and to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. xtmmo uses the information collected for its own internal marketing and demographic studies to improve customer service and product offerings.
We will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the products and services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by e-mail, live chat or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
xtmmo stores information that it collects through cookies, log files, and third party sources to create a profile of your preferences, in order to improve the content of xtmmo's web site for you.
xtmmo does not sell or rent any of the information collected to third parties for any purposes, but it shares information with third parties as described below.
xtmmo discloses the information collected to external service providers necessary to facilitate the following outsourced operations: address verification, credit card processing, fraud screening and order shipping.
xtmmo shares information, including Personal Information, with trusted third-party partners so that customers can receive information about third-party offers and promotions that may interest them. These third-party partners do not have independent rights to share the information provided to them by us.
Compliance with Legal Authorities
As required by law, and to enforce customers or xtmmo's legal rights, and to comply with local, state, federal and international law, xtmmo may disclose information to law enforcement agencies.
Choice and Opt-Out
If you no longer wish to receive xtmmo's promotional communications, you may "opt-out" of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by e-mailing xtmmo at customer [email protected]
There are several places throughout xtmmo's web sites that may link you to other web sites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. When you click through to these web sites, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. xtmmo recommends that you examine the privacy statements for all third party web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your Personal Information.
Storage and Security of Personal Information Storage
xtmmo stores the information it collects on computers located in a controlled, secure facility protected from physical or electronic unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
xtmmo protects the privacy and integrity of the information it collects by employing appropriate administrative protocols, technical safeguards, and physical security controls designed to limit access, detect and prevent the unauthorized access, improper disclosure, alteration, or destruction of the information under its control. xtmmo transmits the information used by its external service providers for the specific outsourced operations listed above across public and private networks via recognized encryption technologies, such as by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information you input.
Although xtmmo follows the procedures set forth above to protect the Personal Information submitted to xtmmo, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Thus, while xtmmo strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, xtmmo cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about xtmmo's security, please feel free to send us an e-mail at [email protected]
Internet Fraud
xtmmo has a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for Internet fraud or any attempt to access or acquire customer or other information on its web sites via illegal or surreptitious means. xtmmo works with local, national, and international fraud investigation agencies and employs a variety of electronic and other means to discourage, detect, and intercept fraudulent activities. xtmmo aggressively prosecutes, to the fullest extent of the law, those perpetrators apprehended conducting fraudulent activities on its web site.
Agencies with which xtmmo cooperates are: state and local police authorities, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, US and International Customs Agencies, and Interpol.
Personal Information collected by xtmmo may be stored and processed in Canada or any other country in which xtmmo or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using xtmmo's web sites, you consent to any such transfer of Personal Information outside of your country.
xtmmo's sites are not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 13. xtmmo does not buy or sell products or services from or to children. Any person who provides their information to xtmmo through xtmmo's web sites represents to xtmmo that they are 13 years of age or older.
xtmmo will from time-to-time update this Privacy Policy, each time revising the last updated date at the top of the Privacy Policy and indicate the nature of the revisions within the statement. xtmmo will notify customers of material changes to this statement by e-mail or by placing prominent notice on its website.
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