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Texas Planned Parenthood staffers claim they were fired for attempting to unionize
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | April 13, 2020 , 04:11pm
Twenty Texas Planned Parenthood staffers were recently fired, and they claim it was in retaliation for speaking out about problems there over the past year and attempting to unionize. Planned Parenthood executives claim it was solely a business decision.
Ella Nonni, previously the senior medical assistant for Planned Parenthood’s North Austin facility, said she and 19 other employees were fired on Thursday after they had been trying to unionize to address problems with the affiliate. “Our suspicion is that it was motivated by our organizing activity,” she told KXAN. According to Nonni, there isn’t enough personal protective equipment (PPE), and staffers are being forced to do unnecessary work for patients in person — potentially putting them at risk for contracting COVID-19. She also said Planned Parenthood refused to give them paid sick leave if they did contract COVID-19.
“There’s this big disconnect between the people managing us and the work that is being done on the ground,” she explained. “The reality is that a lot of our services, while vital, are not urgent.” After expressing these concerns to the CEO last Monday, Nonni said they were all fired.
READ: Texas abortionist: Intact aborted baby skull ‘something to strive for,’ but delaying abortion is ‘cruel’
Yet Brian Lambrecht, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, said the decision was purely financial. Sarah Wheat, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman, likewise said the firings were not retaliation. Wheat also claimed that all procedures being committed were time-sensitive and essential, and that there was adequate PPE at all of their facilities.
Planned Parenthood staffers were recently fired in New York as well, with the abortion organization claiming it was due to COVID-19. Yet anonymous staffers claimed Planned Parenthood merely exploited the pandemic, saying “the crisis gave leadership cover to implement layoffs and closures it had already been planning.” Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) spokeswoman Jacquelyn Marrero blamed the firings on a financial downfall, which was due to a drop in “non-abortion visits.”
Regardless of what Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region has claimed, Nonni is holding firm.“For an organization whose motto is ‘care no matter what’ and has a progressive image, they really weren’t taking care of its workers,” she said. “Our aim is just to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for the way we were treated.”
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Judy Reich
Published: March 2, 2016, 1:33 pm
Tags: Call Christina, News, Consumer, Local
Local 10 News viewer claims guardian not acting in best interest of father
Professional guardianship booming business in South Florida
PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Florida ranks as one of the top states with a large elderly population and professional guardianship is a booming business, especially in the tri-county area.
Florida law designed guardianship to protect vulnerable seniors. However, some families accuse guardians and their attorneys of not working in the ward's best interest.
The Call Christina team explored the lightly regulated industry and efforts to reform it, beginning with a Century Village man who called Christina for help.
During the course of a months-long Call Christina investigation into a complaint about professional guardian Elizabeth Savitt, her husband, a Palm Beach County Judge, was reassigned.
In an email to Local 10 News, a spokesman for the Chief Judge stated, "Judge Martin Colin is now presiding in the Circuit Civil division at the main courthouse. This change took effect on Monday, February 15, 2016. In addition, the change is permanent as Judge Colin has indicated he does not intend to seek re-election. The Chief Judge is a proponent of transparency in government and wanted to be proactive in addressing concerns expressed by the media and the public. The move of Judge Colin to Circuit Civil division was one of the initiatives implemented by the court."
"We'd lock the doors. We'd get in his car. We'd go out; food shopping, doctors. My father lived here. I moved in 107 right next to each other," James Vassallo told Local 10 News investigative reporter Christina Vazquez.
Vassallo said he and his dad Albert did everything together.
Noting Albert's odd behavior over the years combined with a legal battle with his siblings over missing money from his father's bank account, Vassallo asked the Palm Beach County Court to intervene. His attorney urged him to hire a professional guardian, recommending Elizabeth Savitt.
"I said great," Vassallo said.
Now Vassallo said things are not so great, claiming the guardian fees and legal bills are out of control. In the six-month period from August 2014 to February 2015, the bills totaled $65,000, and they continue to grow.
"This is what you call a legal way of robbing people and they're getting away with it," Vassallo said.
Citing continual family discord, the court removed Vassallo as his father's trustee, making Savitt the sole decision-maker in all of Albert's affairs.
Now Vassallo is appealing the ruling, citing Savitt's personal financial worthiness in her guardianship application with Florida's Department of Elder Affairs.
"If I knew she had a lien, foreclosure, a judgment against her," Vassallo said during a court hearing in front of Judge David French.
Savitt's 2015 guardianship application with the Department of Elder Affairs revealed a pending home foreclosure case, and a FICO credit score below 600.
"Are you financially fit to be a guardian?" Local 10 asked Savitt after she emerged from another guardianship hearing.
Savitt did not answer the question, but in a response to the Department of Elder Affairs Savitt stated, "the loan was made under improper conditions and circumstances," and she said she hoped the court will negate the delinquent loan status. Records show the court issued a final judgment of foreclosure in November of 2014 and Savitt later paid off the loan.
Last fall at a different guardianship hearing, Savitt requested the judge to sign off on her invoice for payment.
"You took funds?" Judge Krista Marx asked while questioning Savitt's payday advance.
"It happens every single morning in here, that people come in and ask forgiveness instead of permission," Marx said.
The judge then signed off on Savitt's motion for payment, but opposing attorney Bruce Rosenwater questioned the practice.
"We have a motion to remove the guardian. We have a motion for sanctions. We have a motion for surcharge," Rosenwater said to the court. The ward in this case has since died and there are no more issues in court relating to the guardianship.
Exiting the courtroom after the hearing, Savitt slipped past Local 10 as she was escorted down a hallway reserved for judges by a Palm Beach County Sheriff. A judge she is not, although her husband, Judge Martin Colin, is.
At the time, Colin served in the Probate division, the same court division Savitt's clients are in and often heard arguments from attorneys representing Savitt in court.
Colin never presided over any of his wife's cases, however last month he was reassigned and now hears cases in the Civil division.
For Vassallo, who is appealing his removal as trustee, the odds may be stacked against removing Savitt as his father's guardian.
"Getting out of one of these guardianships is harder than going to the moon. It just doesn't happen," Sam Sugar said.
Sugar is a retired physician and founder of Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship. His organization wants laws changed protecting the elderly against abusive guardians. Sponsoring seminars nationwide, he hears from others with stories similar to James'.
"Litigate, medicate and take the estate. The cases are all the same," Sugar said. "They involve emergency temporary guardianships, favoritism by the judge toward certain guardians and lawyers and ultimately the rape of the estate."
Last February, Gov. Rick Scott signed HB-5 into law adding additional protections to make it difficult for guardians to seize control of their wards' assets.
This legislative session, state Sen. Nancy Detert was successful in getting SB 232 passed. Her bill establishes a "complaint department" for families and those in guardianships.
The bill also certifies and supervises court-appointed guardians. As of now those decisions are left to the individual courts and vary from county to county. The bill now goes to Scott for his signature to become law.
In an email to Local 10, a spokesman for the Chief Judge also said, "the information listed on the Court's web site is accurate, Judge Martin Colin is now presiding in the Circuit Civil division at the main courthouse. This change took effect on Monday, February 15, 2016. In addition, the change is permanent as Judge Colin has indicated he does not intend to seek re-election. Between now and the end of his term, the Chief Judge does anticipate the need to rotate Judge Colin."
"The Chief Judge is a proponent of transparency in government and wanted to be proactive in addressing concerns expressed by the media and the public. The move of Judge Colin to Circuit Civil division was one of the initiatives implemented by the court. Other initiatives include the following:
In-house training for probate Judges and court staff;
The establishment of a Guardianship Wheel which will provide for random assignment of professional guardians to cases;
Standardization of bill practices for Guardians and Attorneys; and
Recusal of the current South County Judges from Ms. Savitt's cases."
In a statement, Savitt told Local 10, "all concerns brought by James Vassallo were brought out in open court and are meritless." With respect to her credit report that accompanied her application for guardianship, she said, "all the years that I have been a professional guardian there has been no finding that I have not duly performed my duties to a Ward of mine as a result of my financial condition."
Savitt also said she is "debt free."
"You haven't seen your father?" Vazquez asked Vassallo.
"Haven't seen my father in six months," Vassallo said.
"You have to miss him?" Vazquez said.
"I do I miss him a lot," Vassallo said.
Copyright 2016 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
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Follow the spelling bee
Marketplace Staff May 30, 2006
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KAI RYSSDAL: It doesn’t have the cachet of the Olympics or the 200-miles-an-hour thrill of the Indy 500, but ABC is hoping we’ll watch anyway. The network is putting the National Spelling Bee in primetime Thursday night. Just the latest in spectator sports. Commentator and economist Marcellus Andrews says if we’re smart, we’ll make spelling something everyone can do, not just watch.
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MARCELLUS ANDREWS: I love spelling bees. I know that makes me a dweeb, but I can’t help it. I was the Powell Elementary School representative in the citywide spelling bee in Philadelphia 40 years ago.
I know that America’s future hinges on whether the nation is willing to turn lots of kids from hard neighborhoods into fighting dweebs like the skinny, bookish but brawling kid I used to be.
Soon after 2050, whites in this country will be in the minority. Kids born and raised in the US between now and then are going to be mainly black, brown, yellow and multiflavored; only about 15% of kids will be so-called “pure” white kids.
The only way this country is going to stay rich is by being and working smarter than other nations. That means our kids — all of our kids — had better be smarter than everybody else’s kids.
Here’s the bottom line: our country’s future depends on whether the current white majority is willing to invest in the minds, health and skills of non-white children.
We know what has to be done: Give up on our obsession with local control of schooling. Local control of schooling has meant that racial and economic segregation turn petty phobias into sturdy obstacles to equality.
President Bush’s “No-Child Left Behind” program is a mess. But this president has taken a first step toward breaking the link between race and educational opportunity. Bravo.
Still, we need to spend lots more and at the federal level on high quality schooling for kids of all colors and conditions.
If we do the right thing, then America will invest equally in all of our multicolored children, making them the core of a scandalously smart and competitive economy.
If we let our racial neuroses overwhelm our good sense, we will turn America into a country comprised of selfish old white people and ignorant young colored people.
I, for one, look forward to the day when the symbol of smartness in America is a future winner of the National Spelling Bee with green eyes, a brown face and dirty blond dreadlocks.
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Maldives: Paradise Found @ Ukulhas
Mention Maldives and dreamlike images of pure white sandy beaches, large schools of colourful fishes swimming in crystal clear water and luxurious water villas will invariably drift into mind.
I'd always wanted to visit the Maldives, but put off doing so because I'd always assumed it would cost an arm and a leg. Well, that was true until a few years ago when the government allowed locals to open up their islands to tourists. Before that, tourists could only stay on islands developed by foreigners into pricey resorts. After all, the Maldives was and still is a conservative Muslim nation.
When local islands opened up, Maldivians built their own vacation properties to host tourists and the prices of holiday accommodation became much more affordable. On those islands, tourists were free to wear skimpy bathing suits on the part of the beach designated for tourists only. Although the sale of alcohol continued to be prohibited on those islands, "party boats" laden with booze would be docked a distance from the islands and tourists could still make their purchases from those boats. That was how Maldives on a shoestring budget became possible.
Map of Ukulhas showing designated tourist only and locals only beaches
Maldives is made up of 1,192 coral islands. Tourists will fly into the capital city of Male, and make their way to various coral islands by speedboat or seaplane. Oftentimes, the cost of getting from Male to the coral island of choice exceeds that of the air ticket from one's home country to Male!
With so many islands to choose from, distilling the right island with the idyllic white sand beach, inviting house reef with an abundance of marine life, value for money accommodation and low cost of travel from Male became a gargantuan task. I started by searching for islands closer to Male. Any island too far from Male would only be accessible by seaplane and that would certainly cost much more than taking a speedboat. I crossed out islands which I felt were overbuilt or would be too crowded with tourists. I further narrowed down my search to islands with newly built accommodation at attractive prices. Once I did that, I only had a handful of choices and could zero in on other important aspects like presence of a white sandy beach, quality of the house reef, etc.
In a nutshell, I decided on The Beach Villa on Ukulhas.
The island is only one square kilometres in area with about 1,000 inhabitants. Located 72km from Male, it took about an hour and a half to get there by speedboat at the cost of USD50.00 per adult and USD25.00 per child (up to 12 yrs). Our return transfer was organized by our accommodation, so payment was not made on board, but I believe the actual price per ticket was actually much lower as many locals took the same boat.
A pair of Maldivian brothers named Zamicko and Chiko built The Beach Villa, a cluster of 3 huts directly opposite the powdery, white sandy beach of Ukulhas. They charged USD140.00 nett per night per hut on a twin-share basis, inclusive of breakfast. As we had 6 persons (4 adults and 2 kids) on that trip, we booked all 3 huts so we could have exclusive use of the whole place plus that stretch of the beach.
However, several months after our reservations were made, one of the brothers contacted us with some news. They had inadvertently double-booked one of the huts and they proposed a compromise. In exchange for us giving up one of the huts, they'd add 2 more beds into one hut, and throw in a bunch of free excursions for our group of 6. The free excursions were a trip to a nearby picnic island, a manta ray safari and a trip to a sandbank. Those excursions would have cost us more than USD800.00 in total. Too sweet a deal to refuse for just getting the 2 kids to squeeze into our hut!
Our hut with 2 additional beds
Even with 2 additional cots, there was still sufficient room to move around our hut. We had our meals outdoors all the time, and there was little reason to stay indoors when the dreamlike beach and beautiful house reef were just across from us.
Sunrise on Ukulhas
Fishing at daybreak
Canoeing into the Sunset at Ukulhas
The beach was a treasure trove of unique seashells, large and small. The girls couldn't get enough of picking shells, building sandcastles and burying each other in the hot sand. Stroll along the beach and one could see baby sharks swimming at the edge of the shore. I couldn't believe they were sharks at first until I was snorkeling one day and came within metres of 2 large sharks. I literally froze in the water till they moved away, and swam as quickly back to shore as I could afterwards. It was the single most frightening, yet exciting, moment of my life. We were later told that the locals in Ukulhas fed a school of large sharks. These sharks visited daily and had never harmed anyone.
Seashells on Ukulhas beach
Snorkeling at the House Reef
Aside from sharks, the house reef of Ukulhas was teeming with thousands of sea creatures. The corals might have been bleached by depletion of the ozone layer, but it was still like swimming in a gigantic aquarium once we entered the water with colourful fishes swimming in every direction. With our full face snorkeling masks and water booties from Decathlon, we spent hours in the water each day and never tired of the ever-changing seascape before us. The house reef went on and on until a sudden drop off. We always turned back as we neared the edge of the drop. The darkness beyond sent chills down our spines.
On our first day there, Chiko took us on our first excursion to a nearby picnic island called Ukulhas Fushi. The island was a mere 10-min speedboat ride away from our villas. It was very striking with 3 little trees resembling beach umbrellas. We laid out our picnic mats and, right away, they were invaded by little hermit crabs. We swam, snorkeled and relaxed on the beach till the sun went down. It was an enjoyable afternoon, but it couldn't rival the snorkeling off Ukulhas beach. The sea was calmer so we could snorkel for lengthy periods without feeling seasick, and the reef yielded much more marine life.
Hermit crab scrambling from our mat
Bright and early the next morning, we climbed back on board the speedboat for our manta ray safari, with Chiko accompanying us. His friend who drove the boat had the sharpest eyes ever. As we cut across the brilliant blue seas which went into eternity, he could spot turtles and manta rays from afar and alert us all. As we neared the rays, he turned off the engine and signaled to us to jump off.
We didn't get to go as close to the rays as we'd liked in the water, as they promptly swam away when we jumped in. We actually had a better view of them from the boat. Nevertheless, the safari was one of the most unforgettable experiences we had in the Maldives. Taking the plunge into the middle of the deep blue sea knowing there was a squadron of manta rays beneath us was a truly indescribable feeling. A mix of adrenaline, anxiety and fear rushed through our veins. The boat ride itself was magical, as we traversed sea so aqua blue we never imagined possible.
Another highlight of our trip to the Maldives was our excursion to the sandbank. Maldives in the lowest lying country in the world, and most sandbanks are submerged at high tide. Chiko timed our visit at low tide late one afternoon. The boat ride to the chosen sandbank took only 15 mins. We jumped off our boat to wade across the waist deep water to the sandbank, whilst the boatman returned to Ukulhas. Only Chiko's cousin ("the Cousin") stayed with us. The 7 of us were literally alone in the middle of nowhere, miles and miles from civilisation.
We laid out our picnic mat, planted our beach umbrella, and unloaded our belongings before racing into the crystal clear water with our snorkeling gear. The Cousin guided us to the best snorkeling spot in the area, and showed us sea cucumbers, giant clams and sea urchins. We went to the edge of the drop off before turning back to the sandbank.
Fresh fruit and drinks were passed round and we enjoyed the refreshments whilst we watched the ebb and flow of the tide. At sundown, much to our relief, our boatman returned for us.
When night fell on Ukulhas, stars filled the dark skies and the beach twinkled with millions of bio-luminescent phytoplankton. We ventured onto the beach in pitch darkness one night to watch the beach sparkle in green. It was a surreal experience. In the dead of night, we could almost hear the sound of thousands of hermit crabs scurrying across the sand as we walked slowly along the beach.
Those phytoplankton also made the seawater glow in green at night. We learnt this one evening when we chartered a boat to go night fishing. We paid USD70.00 per adult for the charter. Kids went free. The boat was an actual Maldivian fishing boat which the villagers used. It was huge, with 2 decks, and it came along with a crew of 5. To steer the boat, the captain actually had to use his foot to move the rudder! None of us had been on a boat like that before.
Maldivian fishing boat with a foot-controlled rudder
We didn't have to travel very far to go fishing. Barely 10 mins out of the harbour, the captain dropped anchor and the crew went about handing us the fishing line for us to catch our dinner. We were expecting fishing rods with bait etc, but no, they handed each of us a reel of fishing line and nothing more. We wandered aloud: "How on earth are we going to catch anything with no bait?"
No sooner did we voice our bewilderment than the first fish start biting our empty line. It was amazing. Fish after fish got plucked out of the water with barely any effort. In less than 45 mins, we had caught 5 large ones and were ready to call it a day. The crew were so disappointed when we said we wanted to head back. They were ready for a whole night of serious fishing, but we amateurs were terribly seasick from the boat yawing from side to side!
The fish we caught were brought back to The Beach Villa, grilled on a spit and a magnificent candlelight dinner was prepared for us. We invited the occupants of the third hut to share the scrumptious meal with us.
Maldivians love music, and the brothers and their cousin were no exception. They broke into song with their guitar, entertaining us as we feasted on our fresh catch. That was the most memorable meal we had in the Maldives.
Food in Ukulhas was generally very fish-centric. Yellowfin tuna was their staple. For breakfast, minced tuna with chopped onions and habanero would be served in a wrap at The Beach Villa. It was surprisingly delicious, and I preferred that to the western choice of egg, sausages and toast. For lunch and dinner, the menu revolved around tuna as well. Tuna would be battered and deep-fried for fish n chips, tuna would be grilled, there was tuna curry, tuna sandwich, tuna spaghetti, and even tuna fried rice!
If you're not a fan of fish like my younger daughter, meal times could be depressing. The Beach Villa did have some non-fish dishes like chicken and chips, and burgers, but to put it gently, fish was definitely their forte and chicken not. Fortunately, we had brought with us a travel pot, packets of noodles, instant congee and canned food. Those were her happiest meals.
Another advantage Ukulhas had over other islands was the existence of a Thai restaurant there. A Thai family relocated there some time back and they're behind SeaLaVie, a restaurant cum lodge. They served authentic Thai fare which was really yummy, and even had desserts like cakes and passionfruit sorbet on their menu. Food was not particularly cheap there (averaging around USD13.00 per person for a shared meal with rice and a few dishes), but the taste and variety of their food definitely played a key part in helping us maintain our sanity and was worth every penny!
When we were not at the beach or on an excursion, we relaxed at The Beach Villa by playing cards, board games (we had packed Travel Monopoly and Travel Cluedo), knitting and painting.
Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger Longirostris) we saw
...and painted
Time stood still on an island like Ukulhas and there was time to stop to smell the roses. The landscaped garden at The Beach Villa was lush and beautiful. The only problem was the scourge of mosquitoes which lived there. They attacked us whenever we were in the garden having our meals. By the end of our stay, the nectar-blooded amongst us were covered in itchy bites, despite using up all the repellent we'd brought.
We also took walks around the island to explore its nooks and cranny. Shopping was limited to one grocery store near the jetty, one sundry store selling brooms, toys and stationery, and one clothing store. There was no ATM on the island, so the grocer doubled as a moneychanger. However, there was really no necessity to change money because the accommodation and restaurant owners all accepted USD.
Main thoroughfare of Ukulhas
Our final excursion for the trip was to one last picnic island called Madivaru Finolhu. We paid under USD75.00 per adult, with lunch included, for the trip. It was about a 30-min speedboat ride away and we sailed past Rasdhoo to get there. Enroute, we cruised alongside flying fish and it was magical watching them fly above the surface of the water. As we neared the picnic island, we saw a large sea turtle swimming in shallow waters.
Aqua blue hues as we neared Madivaru Finolhu
Madivaru Finolhu
We brought along packed lunches and spent the next 5 to 6 hours snorkeling and relaxing on the beach. There was no guide with us, but we met a friendly Russian lady who shared with us her secret snorkeling spot. Her private mega yacht was moored nearby and she had spent the last 2 days exploring the area. We grabbed some bread and headed in the direction she pointed. Boy was she right! Schools of fish, some translucent, some silver, some black, etc surrounded us almost immediately. We had been on other snorkeling trips before in the Great Barrier Reef, islands in Thailand and Indonesia, but none could compare to the Maldives.
Most beautiful fish I swam with at Madivaru Finolhu
The wonderful people of Ukulhas were incredibly lucky to be born away from the stresses of the world. Four families with their descendants make up the bulk of the residents on the island. Theirs was a close-knit community where everyone knew and helped each other.
Chiko and his super cute baby girl
Before tourism came along, all the men were fishermen. Zamicko spent years on fishing trawlers, fishing at over a thousand islands of Maldives. The families never had to worry about putting food on the table, and he told the story of the abundance of yellowfin tuna at Ukulhas. When in season, fishermen would simply scoop them out of the sea and toss them over their shoulders, as if it were raining tuna. When thirsty, they only had to shimmy up a coconut tree to pluck what they needed.
Fresh air, clean water teeming with happy sea life, sensational sunrises and sunsets, and an unhurried lifestyle summed up our visit to Ukulhas. Truly a paradise found.
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McDonald’s manager gets involved in IR, Big Mac-stake – HRM
A manager at a McDonald’s franchise tried to ‘negotiate’ with disgruntled workers on Facebook, and his post went viral. Here’s a breakdown from an HR perspective.
A snapshot of a post from a McDonald’s franchise manager, in which he threatens workers with restricted water and toilet breaks, has gone viral. The post is a case study in what not to do when speaking to employees in your organisation during the middle of enterprise bargaining.
It was written at the same time as the Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) and the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association are seeking leverage with McDonald’s in a deal that’s expected to restore full penalty rates (paywall). The post was specifically a reaction to arguments from the RAFFWU that McDonald’s and its franchises are not giving staff their mandated breaks under the current EBA – ten minutes for shifts of four hours or more.
The franchise manager is from Tantex Holdings, a Queensland company that owns McDonald’s franchises. He posted into a private Facebook page and essentially warned his workers that if they wanted to access their legal entitlement of 10 minute breaks, then this break would be their only opportunity to drink water and go to the toilet.
“What this means is that if we implement this over our current situation, on your shift – this 10 minute break would be the only time you would ever be permitted to have a drink or go to the toilet. So I hope to god you don’t get thirsty on your next shift because we just wouldn’t be able to allow a drink. Fair is Fair right?
“Are we really such bad guys?” the post continues, “It actually works better in our favour to follow this legislation and keep you all working non-stop.”
Whether or not they really are bad guys, the RAFFWU denounced the manager’s words, and about 50 members protested outside the Tantex Holdings store the manager worked at. A McDonald’s spokeswoman (who also didn’t weigh in on whether they were bad guys) told the Sydney Morning Herald that everyone working at McDonald’s were given breaks as required by the law.
Referring to the ongoing negotiations, the spokeswoman said the franchisor intends to “create the best possible agreement”.
“This means we’re exploring a range of terms including penalty rates, guaranteed hours for part-time employees and additional leave entitlements.”
What the law says
Since the current EBA outlines a mandated break period, the manager can’t propose other arrangements in substitution of workers’ entitlements, says Alan McDonald, managing director of McDonald Murholme law firm. So this may have been a breach of section 50 of the Fair Work Act.
“Tantex may have also breached section 345(1) of the Fair Work Act 2009 by knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading representation about workers’ rights to a paid 10-minute break… [it] may also have breached section 340(1) if it can be established that the worker’s right to a paid 10-minute break, or exercise of that right, was a substantial or operative reason for the adverse action.”
Interestingly, says McDonald, if the manager had acted on his threat of preventingbreaks, he could have run afoul of health and safety legislation.
“State workplace health and safety laws typically require that employers provide workers with a working environment that is safe and without risks to health. Preventing employees from using the restroom or from drinking water outside of their paid break times creates a plethora of health risks… and therefore could breach both of the above obligations.”
With regards to franchisor responsibility, McDonald’s could potentially be liable if Tantex Holdings was found guilty of breaching section 50 but not the other alleged contraventions.
For that first breach “liability as franchisor will only be found if McDonald’s knew, or could reasonably be expected to have known, that Tantex may have breached the Enterprise Agreement and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent this from happening,” says McDonald.
When a manager speaks out
What should HR do if it’s faced with a manager potentially threatening workers and misrepresenting their rights in social media outbursts?
The immediate impulse might be to fire him on the spot. Aaron Goonrey, partner at Lander & Rogers’ Workplace Relations & Safety practice, has previously written about firing someone without notice for HRM.
He recommends that you ask yourself several questions before doing so; including was the misconduct wilful or deliberate? Did the misconduct cause a serious and imminent risk to the reputation, viability, or profitability of the business? And has the misconduct permanently destroyed the relationship of trust and confidence between the employer and employee?
You could make a solid argument that in this case the answer is a firm ‘yes’ to all three. “[But] as tempting as it might be to shortcut the dismissal process, it can ultimately lead to more time and money being expended if the dismissal is litigated,” says Goonrey.
So if dismissing the employee seems like the right move, it’s better to approach it in amore measured way.
It’s also worth making sure you have a robust social media policy, outlining what can and cannot be said online about your organisation – though you’d be forgiven for not having a provision specifically dealing with this situation in there. Before this month, who would think a manager inserting themselves into an industrial relations issue by threatening toilet rights was going to make national news?
Reference: ‘McDonald’s manager gets involved in IR, Big Mac-stake‘, HRM, Thursday 17th January 2019.
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2011 Grizzly Football Season Outlook
The University of Montana Grizzlies kick-off their 2011 season on September 3, at Tennessee (Grizzly Football Schedule). Whether he’s on the road or at home, Voice of the Griz, Mick Holien will be recapping games each Sunday afternoon (but if a road trip has him back at the MSO airport in the middle of the night–it could be a little later in the afternoon. We’ll cut him some slack!)
By MICK HOLIEN
Can you even believe it’s been nine months since the Grizzly football season ended on a sour note with a loss to Montana State and the news that Montana would spend Thanksgiving weekend looking at the FCS playoffs from the outside for the first time in 18 years?
Not being a big planner for such occasions, I was left scrambling for an invite for dinner and really, probably just like most of you, never have relived that feeling of surprise and disappointment.
It sure is true: All us Grizzly football fans have become extremely and pleasantly accustomed to success beyond what all but about five programs in the nation have enjoyed over the last decade.
Few teams at any level have won more games, maintained more conference dominance and home-field advantage, drawn more fans than the population of most of the state’s cities, and played in the chipper seven times since 1995.
But streaks are made to be broken – although, like you, I didn’t enjoy it much – and now it’s time to start anew with renewed energy and enthusiasm, and of course, some new Maroons who are intent on starting traditions of their own.
It won’t come easily of course.
Not only is the Big Sky Conference loaded with talent, the first month of the season features a quartet of match-ups that easily will have a lot to say about the direction of the 2011 edition of Griz football.
It is more than 2,100 miles to Knoxville and the haunts at the University of Tennessee. That means a middle of the night return and a short turnaround as Cal Poly ventures to Missoula, followed by defending FCS National Champion Eastern Washington University.
So what about this year’s edition of Grizzly football and that monstrous trip across the country to Rocky Top to face an SEC opponent for the first time?
Early-on the defense, headed by a strong corps of linebackers, will carry this team. There’s a ball hawking group in the secondary, paced of course by All American and Buck Buchanan candidate, Trumaine Johnson. And the defensive front is senior laden, while a bit thin especially on one side.
Senior Brody McKnight gives the offense a long-range scoring possibility and the offensive line is huge (averaging 6-6, 315), but with a pair of sophomores– and yet unproven — starters.
There’s an ongoing battle for playing time at running back between Peter Nguyen and Jordan Canada with Brett Kirschner pushing for time. The receiver corps, including tight end Greg Hardy, is surely sound and talented.
Of course Jordan Johnson is yet unproven at quarterback, and senior Gerald Kemp brings another threat to the offense, as does Nate Montana.
Because of the depth factor, the ambiance, the heat, and the humidity, travel and a plethora of intangibles, Montana has to play its best football Saturday in Knoxville to get the game reachable in the fourth quarter.
Tennessee isn’t Oregon — or even Iowa or Hawaii or other recent Grizzly FBS foes — but this also is not Washington State or Idaho.
Sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray (6-6) proved himself an able signal caller in winning the last four games of the regular season to get the Vols Bowl eligible last season and he has a talented tailback in Tauren (say Tor-in) Poole to bolster the offense.
But his sizable offensive line (averaging 6-5, 315) are all sophomores, and two of them either were not yet with the program or did not play last year.
About half of the defense is underclassman and the two-deep on the linebacker corps features a pair of true freshman.
Montana has to take care of the football, not give up special team plays, and do a far better job of controlling time of possession, not just in Tennessee, but to be successful against any 2011 opponent.
While the facilities and the ambiance are spectacular and the Vols won’t be looking past anybody, this game is a superb measuring stick of the season’s future.
While I’ve heard people say that all they care about is that no one is seriously injured, I’m of the other mind.
Let’s take Rocky Top by storm, keep score, and give the Volunteer faithful a measure of the way Grizzlies compete at Montana.
Now in his 27th year of broadcasting University of Montana football or basketball games, Award winning journalist Mick Holien has a unique and insightful perspective on collegiateathletics.
This entry was posted on Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
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Home > List of locations > Mafinga Mts
Location: Mafinga Mts
Quarter degree square: Mainly 0933C4 and some 1033A2
Habitat: Brachystegia woodland, montane grassland, montane evergreen forest, rocky outcrops and steep gorges.
Location (short): A mountain range in the Northwest of the country crossing the border into Zambia.
The Mafinga range lies 25-30 km SSW of the Misukus. From a plateau at 1400-1500 m the eastern scarp rises very steeply to the rocky crest at 2000-2250 m (which forms the boundary with Zambia). The aspect of the escarpment varies from north to south. In the southern half (west of Chisenga) where the gradient is steeper, Brachystegia woodland ascends to 1800 m and the forests lie in strips in narrow gorges; the upper altitudinal limit of forest is probably near 1900 m. Further north (near Chambo), the scarp slopes more gently, and broader forest patches lie between smooth ridges of montane grassland, mostly at 1600-1800 m. There are a few groves of Acacia abyssinica on tributary streams at 1650-1750 m. Altogether there are 10 main forest patches: the largest west of Chisenga (32 ha) was explored up to 1750 m, and the three largest in the north (24, 32 and 44 ha) were all seen.
The forests have a somewhat broken canopy and no emergents. The dominant large trees (in the north) are Albizia gummifera, Ficus sur, Macaranga capensis, Parinari excelsa and Prunus africana. At the bottom of Chisenga Gorge (1600 m), Harungana madagascariensis reaches the 25 m high canopy and Syzygium guineense subsp. afromontanum is dominant. Macaranga kilimandscharica appears higher up (1700 m) and overlaps with M. capensis. At that altitude, Canthium sp. (Ecol. 379, 10-12 m tall) is not uncommon in the understorey. The one Malawi record of Teclea simplicifolia comes from shrubby growth near the crest of the northern range, near 2000 m. The fern flora is rather poor, especially in epiphytes; but the epiphytic orchid Aerangis carnea occurs in numbers, and n° 512 perhaps a Diaphananthe, collected live in flower buds which later died), is not uncommon in the northern forest patches, flowering from December.
View a list of records for Mafinga Mts
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2021). Flora of Malawi: Location details: Mafinga Mts.
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The meticulous planning of the Oslo massacre
A timeline of Breivik's activities prior to the attack
By Erica Alini July 28, 2011
The 1,518-page manifesto posted online by Oslo mass killer Anders Behring Breivik isn’t just a prolix xenophobic screed. It is also a comprehensive how-to guide for the self-made homegrown terrorist. The last pages of “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” originally posted on a white supremacist website and discovered by American blogger Kevin I. Slaughter, describe how Breivik, 32, spent nine years plotting the massacre.
The handbook, written in sometimes tentative but overall clear English, details anything from how the Oslo shooter financed the attacks to the mental exercises he resorted to in order to preserve his karma. Interspersed with emoticons, his narrative reads like the diary of an amateur home renovator—filled with failed experiments, the occasional trip to IKEA, eBay shopping, and lots of unfruitful Google searches.
Below is a succinct account of what it allegedly took to devise Noway’s worst massacre in modern history:
2002: Breivik, who in the document calls himself Andrew Berwick, becomes a founding member of the Knights Templar group, formed at a meeting in London. The purpose of the organization, he says, is to prevent the supposed Islamization of Europe and annihilation of the continent’s cultural patrimony.
2005: Charged with drafting an ideological manifesto for the organization, Breivik says he is trying to raise 3 million euros by investing in stock market options—the money is intended to finance the mass distribution of his pamphlet. After failing to raise the desired amount, he decides to turn to an alternative marketing ploy he calls “plan B,” probably an allusion to the bombing and shooting spree he would carry out on July 22, 2011.
2006: In order to save money and increase his operational budget, Breivik moves from his bachelor’s apartment in Oslo to his mother’s basement. His accommodation expenditures, he says, drop from 1,250 to 450 euro a month.
2006-2008: Breivik focuses his energies on writing the pamphlet.
Fall 2009: He creates prospectuses, websites and business cards for two bogus ventures: a mining company and a small farm. Both, he says, will serve as a cover for the purchase of large amount of fertilizer needed to fabricate explosives.
January 2010: Breivik’s funds have reportedly been depleted to a mere 50,000 euro. He is counting on his 12 credit cards to provide an additional 30K. As a daily recreational activity, he plays Dragon Age Orgins, a fantasy videogame. “It’s important to have fun a few hours every day,” he writes.
July 2010: Breivik buries a Pelican case containing police armour and insignia in a remote location he says he randomly selected on Google Earth. Breivik is in all likelihood referring to the police uniform he would wear during the Utøya shooting rampage.
Fall 2010: After an impractical plan to cozy up to arms smuggler in Prague, Czech Republic fails miserably, Breivik manages to buy a Ruger Mini 14 semi-automatic rifle legally in Norway with a deer-hunter application. On his fourth steroid cycle, he relaxes every day by pumping iron.
January/February 2011: Breivik also obtains a Glock 17 pistol—again, legally. He also buys three cylinder-shaped metal containers he plans to stuff with explosives. One of them is an 80-euro IKEA toilet brush holder. He reluctantly sells his Breitling Crowsswing watch and Montblanc pen to raise an additional 2000 euro in funds.
April 2011: Breivik leases a small plot of land outside Oslo from a farm owner due to serve a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence supposedly for growing marijuana. At the end of the month, Breivik moves out of his mother’s house.
May/June 2011: Breivik successfully purchases three tons of ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer, ostensibly for farming purposes. He spends the next two months turning that fertilizer into powerful explosives he will later use to bomb a government building in Oslo.
July 9: Breivik successfully sets off a test-bomb. In his own words: “BOOM! The detonation was successful!!!:-)”
July 2: Breivik carefully plans travel routes for both the bombing and the shooting attack with a Garmin GPS device.
July 4: He unearths the Pelican case with the police armour he had buried a year before. “As for the content of the case,” he notes, “it was in perfect condition.”
July 5: He replaces his hollow-point ammunition with soft-point bullets that deform into a mushroom-like shape upon hitting a target–to inflict “maximum damage to the vermin,” he writes.
July 16: Breivik transports weapons, armour and explosives to an Oslo motel with an AVIS rental car.
July 22: On the day of the attack:
“I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51.
Sincere regards,
Andrew Berwick
Justiciar Knight Commander
Knights Templar Europe
Knights Templar Norway.”
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Apple Black Friday 2020: Best Deals on HomeKit-Supported TVs
Friday November 27, 2020 10:43 am PST by Mitchel Broussard
Solid deals on TVs are always expected on Black Friday, and today is no different. Below we've rounded up a few TV deals from Best Buy and B&H Photo, specifically for TV sets that support HomeKit and AirPlay 2.
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.
We've focused on the best deals from Best Buy and B&H Photo, but you can also find some TV deals at Target and Walmart. It's also worth noting that some of the TVs below may support Apple's TV app as well, although not every model does.
LG 43" Class UN7000 Series LED 4K UHD Smart TV - $249.99, down from $369.99
Sony 49" Class X800H Series LED 4K UHD Smart TV - $549.99, down from $649.99
Sony 65" Class X900H Series LED 4K UHD Smart TV - $969.99, down from $1,399.99
Sony 65" Class A8H Series OLED 4K UHD Smart TV - $1,799.99, down from $2,799.99
LG 65" Class CX Series OLED 4K UHD Smart TV - $1,849.99, down from $2,499.99
70+ inches
LG 75" Class NanoCell 80 Series LED 4K UHD Smart TV - $999.99, down from $1,499.99
LG 43" Class HDR 4K UHD Smart LED TV - $309.00, down from $339.00
LG 75" Class HDR 4K UHD Smart IPS LED TV - $696.99, down from $796.99
LG 86" Class HDR 4K UHD Smart IPS LED TV - $1,679.95, down from $2,479.95
To delve even deeper into Black Friday shopping, use the lists above to discover all of our Black Friday coverage in individual posts, spotlight posts, and in our full roundups. Lastly, be sure to keep an eye on the MacRumors homepage and Twitter feeds throughout the day (and of course for Cyber Monday) as more deals emerge.
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Apple TV+ Could Face Ban in Europe Unless It Meets Proposed Requirement of 30% European Content
Wednesday December 9, 2020 9:57 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Irish lawmakers implementing European Union directives are proposing new legislation that would require streaming services, including Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix, to host at least 30 percent European content or face being shut down across the EU.
These clauses of the "General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill" come in response to the overwhelming amount of U.S.-centric content on video streaming services. The law, if ratified, will require all streaming services to feature at least 30 percent content that may be classified as "European Work." A new Irish Media Commission would oversee the administration of the law for the entire EU and determine if streamers are meeting their obligations.
The proposal, and its potential threat to Apple TV+ in particular, was highlighted by journalist Adrian Weckler on Twitter, who pointed out that the Irish Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media Catherine Martin has specifically taken aim at Apple TV+:
Minister Catherine Martin says Apple TV+ has to have minimum 30pc European content or govt will shut it down across Europe. (— Same new legislative bill, implementing EU directive.) — Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) December 9, 2020
Other video streaming services, such as Netflix, produce a more balanced library of content in Europe, and would therefore find it much easier to meet the required quota. Out of the 42 movies and series on Apple TV+, there has only been one European show thus far, British comedy "Trying." Apple would need to add 17 more European programs simply to meet the required quota, without adding any further non-European shows.
Curiously, the Q&A published alongside the proposed legislation states that "European Work" is broader than strictly EU content, which may afford streamers some flexibility. This means that video content produced in the United Kingdom, for example, which has now left the EU, would still be counted as "European Work." Trying was a British Apple TV+ series produced by BBC Studios, so it would still be eligible towards Apple's "European Work" quota.
In spite of this, the vast majority of upcoming content for Apple TV+ continues to be U.S.-centric. If implemented, the legislation will force Apple to heavily invest in European content for Apple TV+ or pull the service out of the EU entirely.
Tags: European Union, Europe, Ireland, Apple TV Plus Guide
deannnnn
I mean of course a majority of content on steaming services is from the US since most media content is produced in the US. If anything they should be encouraging more European productions with tax credits and other incentives, not mandating the streaming services...
zorinlynx
Apple TV+ is a US-based streaming network; why should it be forced to carry European content? This makes no sense.
It's as if the BBC were to offer a streaming network in the US but then be forced to carry US content. It's a foreign network!
Mr. Awesome
Goodness the EU loves their tech restrictions.
BeefCake 15
As an American, I welcome more EU content! European shows have been consistently getting better than the US stuff.
MikhailT
Not sure I understand what they're trying to accomplish here.
What if European companies start a new streaming service or let's use BBC America for an example and then US mandates that 30% of content be made in US for BBC to stream in US? And then China has the same mandate and other countries and eventually, it just becomes impossible to have a global service because of these rules.
This smells like the silly "USA first" policy that is actually an isolationist policy and anti-globalism at best.
superlawyer15
So Europe putting Europe first is fine, but when America tries to put America first everyone loses it.
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Apple Launches New Nationwide Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Projects
Wednesday January 13, 2021 4:08 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple today announced a set of new projects as part of its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI) to help dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity and combat injustices faced by communities of color. Rendering of the Propel Center The projects include the Propel Center, a global innovation and learning hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), an Apple ...
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Apple tops PCWorld reliability, satisfaction surveys
Our colleagues across the hall at PCWorld have completed their latest reader survey on laptops, desktops, tablets, and smartphones, and one company walked away with a win in every category. Here’s a hint: It is not Dell. Rather, Apple scored top marks for all four product categories.
The survey included responses from approximately 63,000 PCWorld readers who were asked about the reliability, features, and service and support of their devices. (In addition to the aforementioned devices, PCWorld also asked after digital cameras, printers, and HDTVs.) Results for the companies were then compiled and compared to their peers to yield the ratings.
In the laptop category, Apple got the best overall marks for reliability, scoring a better-than-average rating on problems on arrival, significant problems encountered, failed components replaced, major component failures that resulted in a dead PC, and overall satisfaction with reliability. In terms of features, Apple received better-than-average ratings in every category except for performance for price and ports, where it got merely average ratings. And the company also beat the average in all four categories of service, including phone hold time, Web and phone support, incidents where problems were not resolved, and service experience. PCWorld notes that Apple’s approval rating for laptop reliability rose from 82.3 percent in 2008 to 90.6 percent in 2011.
In desktops, Apple received similar ratings, though it did score just an average rating on problems that resulted in dead PCs and a below average rating on expandability—as a trade trade, however, it picked up better-than-average scores for those performance for price and ports/connectivity categories.
For tablets, the iPad unsurprisingly walked away with the crown, though it picked up a perplexing average rating on Internet browsing, putting it alongside every other tablet manufacturer except for HP. (Apparently the TouchPad had great Web browsing! If only users had had the chance to find out.) Under features, the iPad did end up with a worse than average rating on “available ports.” What can we say: It seems folks like plugging things into their tablets.
Finally, the most contentious battlefield: smartphones. The iPhone aced reliability, with better-than-average scores across the board as well as perfect scores for its ease of setup, Internet browsing, data syncing, music/video location and playback, and overall ease of use. Likewise, iPhone owners were the happiest with the features of their handsets, with only call quality falling below the average.
Of course, as smart, charming, and—above all—good-looking Apple aficionados, this isn’t really news to us. But now, should someone decide to deride your choice in devices as the result of some mythical “reality distortion field,” you can back up your choices—with science.
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Hunting the Elusive Work-Life Balance in Nursing
— Adele A. Webb, PhD, RN, on safari
by Jennifer Thew RN, HealthLeaders Media February 25, 2018
Work-life balance is a hot concept in the nursing profession. We hear we need it. We want to achieve it. But does it really exist?
That question has piqued the interest of Adele A. Webb, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, senior academic director of workforce solutions at Capella University in Minneapolis.
"People think they need it," she said. "But do they? Can you ever have it? Or are people chronically dissatisfied because it's like a unicorn ... they're chasing something that doesn't exist."
Balance Vs Satisfaction
Webb plans to study and delve into the concept of work-life balance and nurses. She said recent conversations with nurse executives, including those at HealthLeaders Media 2017 CNO Exchange, left her realizing that the idea needs to be better defined.
"Years ago, I read an article called Balance is Bunk!, and [the point] was you never have 50% this and 50% that. Sometimes work takes more, sometimes family takes more," she recalled.
For example, if a nurse must take off from work to stay home with a sick child, on that day, family needs more focus than work. And there are times, especially for those who work weekends or holidays, where work will eclipse family.
Still, Webb said she understands the desire behind the idea of work-life balance.
"What does work-life balance really mean? It means you're happy. Well, what does happy mean? Happy means you're satisfied with what you're doing," she said. "I think what people really want is life satisfaction. They can be satisfied at home and satisfied at work even if it's not balanced."
Generational Differences
Another question Webb said she is pondering is, "How then do we address or encourage satisfaction and what does that mean?"
She said she has noticed, even among her own family, that different generations of nurses crave different things.
"I have a daughter and a granddaughter who are nurses. My granddaughter is definitely a Millennial. She's 24, new in her career, and what she wants is opportunity," Webb said. "She's always reading, trying to better her skills, and to learn something new."
This drive to further their skills and their careers is a trait often tied to the Millennial generation. However, it can also be a factor that contributes to their workplace turnover. According to the RN Work Project, almost 18% of newly licensed RNs leave their first employer within the first year.
"We have the job to educate these younger nurses on opportunities to find satisfaction in the job they're in. So when you want more, you can sign up for a committee. You can look at policy in your community or state. There are opportunities outside of leaving your unit that can meet your needs," Webb said.
"How exciting it would be for a young nurse to have the opportunity to be on the quality committee at a hospital. Or to have the opportunity to contribute to care algorithms or standards or care or policies?" she added. "They would learn [so much] from it [and] they could contribute so much."
While baby boomers are more likely to stay in their positions, they, too, have a need for life satisfaction and often value time and self-fulfillment, said Webb.
For example, offering tuition assistance to pursue a master's degree may give this generation a sense of satisfaction. Or they may find fulfillment in sharing the knowledge they've garnered over their years of experience.
"[Give them] the opportunity to be involved, and be on a budget committee at the hospital and understand the finances and the contributions they make," Webb suggested. "Train them to be preceptors. Let them share that knowledge with the younger generation."
Webb is in the early stages of reviewing published literature for existing information on work-life balance and satisfaction, and plans to interview nurses about their insights. Once she has a working thesis, she plans to connect with nursing professionals through presentations and conferences to see whether her definition and evaluation of work-life balance or work-life satisfaction rings true.
This report is brought to you by HealthLeaders Media.
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We recently contacted the Microbiology Department at Blackpool Victoria NHS Trust to ask them about their purchase of a new Whitley A45 Workstation. The hospital has been using Whitley Workstations for over 25 years, having previously had an MG1000 and a Mark3.
Mike Kershaw, Senior BMS, told us that they use the A45 to culture wound swabs, tissues, and blood cultures, etc, and are looking to grow any anaerobic bacteria. Whilst the new workstation still achieves the same optimal anaerobic growth conditions as previous models, there are quite a few different features on this latest chamber. “The speed of the airlock cycle is far superior to our old machine, the Whitley MG1000. It now takes one minute compared to nearly seven minutes, which was a long time to wait, and we are using significantly less gas now than previously.”
Mike’s cabinet has the new Instant Access Porthole system and he finds these much better to use than the oval ports with sleeves as they can enter the workstation much quicker. In terms of navigation and working inside the workstation, they find everything is easy to reach. Mike added, “We have a couple of people who are only 4’ 11” and they have no problems.” The team has also found that they have no humidity issues in the workstation.
We asked Mike about the Anaerobic and Catalyst Monitoring Systems, which were not available on the old MG1000, “We have the Anaerobic and Catalyst monitoring systems fitted, along with Data Downloading, and this has improved confidence in the performance of the chamber. We have always used controls in the workstation to monitor its effectiveness but these new systems are far more efficient. There is no paperwork and it is ideal for UKAS compliancy. Also, we find the actual touch screen display very easy to use.”
Blackpool Victoria were confident in the Whitley brand as they had had a Whitley Workstation before, as mentioned above. However, Mike did see an A45 when given a tour of Don Whitley Scientific’s head office in West Yorkshire by his DWS sales contact, Alex Simpson.
Alex also carried out the free training on use of the workstation. “When Alex came to give us our training, he carried this out for groups of about five people at a time to ensure everyone completely understood the workstation,” commented Mike.
In terms of the workstation being reliable and easy to maintain, Mike believes this is evidenced by the fact that they have had no problems at all since it was installed in April. He added that the technical support from DWS has been excellent and when their free first year warranty runs out, he will be taking out an annual service and maintenance contract.
And finally, when we asked why Mike’s lab decided to buy a Whitley Workstation, he told us: “We already had a Whitley Workstation and it has always been excellent but as it was so old (13 years), if it broke down parts would be harder to get so we decided to update to a new model.”
We would like to thank Mike Kershaw, Blackpool Victoria NHS Trust for his time in answering our questions for this article.
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Aston Martin AM-RB 001 won’t feature a single piece of steel
Viknesh Vijayenthiran December 6, 2016 Comment Now!
More details have emerged on the new hypercar being developed by Aston Martin in partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team.
The latest details come from Aston Martin design boss Marek Reichman who spoke recently with Motoring.
He revealed that the new car, code-named the AM-RB 001 and due for delivery in late 2018, won’t feature a single piece of steel in its construction, such is the focus on saving weight. He said the car will be constructed almost entirely from carbon fiber and titanium. Its wheels will be carbon and magnesium and its engine will be aluminum.
Speaking of the engine, Reichman said it will be a naturally-aspirated V-12 with a displacement somewhere between 6.0 and 7.0 liters and ability to rev to 9,500 rpm. The engine will also feature a flat-plane crank ensuring the AM-RB 001 will be the “most incredible sounding car out there.”
Aston Martin AM-RB 001
Drive will be to the rear wheels via a sequential transmission sourced from Xtrac. Reichman said Aston Martin picked this design because of its much lighter weight compared to a dual-clutch transmission.
In his interview with Motoring, Reichman also provided a few details on the oft-rumored hybrid component of the powertrain. He described the system as a capacitor-based KERS that can provide an 80-horsepower boost during high-load situations. The KERS also has the ability to start and power the car at low speeds.
Peak power for the AM-RB 001 is expected to be 1,000 horsepower, with this figure roughly equal the weight of the car in kilograms. Top speed, Reichman said, will be upwards of 250 mph. We've also heard that the car will produce over 4,000 pounds of downforce and over 4 g of cornering force.
Other tidbits revealed by Reichman include the possibility of traditional side mirrors being replaced by cameras, the concept unveiled in July being 95 percent representative of the final design, and powered gullwing doors being used to aid ingress and egress.
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Still no return for Russell as Scotland squad for the Calcutta squad is named.
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend (pictured) as persisted with leaving their star fly half Finn Russell out of his squad for Saturdays Calcutta Cup clash with England at Murrayfield.
Normal the sides first choice for the number ten shirt, he had left the squad prior to their opening six nations defeat to Ireland for what was described as ‘breaching team protocol’ during a drinking session.
Although Scottish defence coach Steve Tandy says Townsend is still in talks with the Racing 92 player he has no idea if Russell will feature in any of the sides Six Nations games this year.
“Throughout this period, we've been after cohesion with as many players doing as many training sessions as we can,” said Tandy. “We're looking for cohesion across these first two games.”
Russell was in good form and did play in his sides recent win over Castres however, Townsend was reluctant to give anything away when discussing the situation.
“Let's see what happens over the next few weeks. Every individual has to align himself to what's to the benefit of the team. If their actions are against that there will be consequences.
“Nothing is more important in sport than playing for your national team, even more than club level. To be with the team, to promote that team culture of togetherness, of high standards and responsibility for what you have when you're wearing that thistle.
“Every player is reminded of that every time when they come into camp. Every player works hard to be given that opportunity to play for Scotland and that will always be the case.”
Adam Hastings is expected to retain the number 10 shirt after scoring all his teams points in the 19-12 defeat as he kicked four out of five penalties for the Scots during the game.
Townsend will select from the following squad to name his side that will look at winning the Calcutta Cup at the weekend.
Forwards: Simon Berghan, Jamie Bhatti, Magnus Bradbury (all Edinburgh), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Alex Craig (Gloucester), Luke Crosbie (Edinburgh), Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors), Allan Dell (London Irish), Cornell du Preez (Worcester Warriors), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Tom Gordon, Jonny Gray (both Glasgow Warriors), Nick Haining, Stuart McInally, Willem Nel, Jamie Ritchie, Rory Sutherland, Ben Toolis (all Edinburgh), George Turner (Glasgow Warriors), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh)
Backs: Chris Harris (Gloucester), Adam Hastings (Glasgow Warriors), Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs), George Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Rory Hutchinson (Northampton Saints), Sam Johnson, Huw Jones (both Glasgow Warriors), Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh), Sean Maitland (Saracens), Byron McGuigan (Sale Sharks), Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors), Henry Pyrgos, Matt Scott (both Edinburgh), Kyle Steyn, Ratu Tagive (both Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Weir (Worcester Warriors)
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Fourteen-year-old Nora is spending the summer in the Berlin neighbourhood of Kreuzberg. She quietly observes the dramas of her peers, but she does not participate directly. She prefers sitting apart, shooting Instagram videos and living in her own world. But everything changes when she meets the free-spirited and charismatic Romy, a girl who turns her life upside down. Nora experiences her first love and broken heart. A girl starts growing into a woman; a butterfly emerges from the cocoon. There comes an unforgettable summer filled with sunshine as well as darkness. This tender yet dynamic coming-of-age film was directed by Leonie Krippendorff, whose work is closely bound not only to LGBTQ+ topics, but also to Berlin and its exceptional atmosphere.
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Cast: Jella Haase, Lena Klenke
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Easter Sunday 2020 was an unusual one in that many churches met remotely or worshiped in a drive-in format. That evening and into the following morning, storms ravaged the southeastern United States, spawning 140 tornadoes stretching from Monroe, Louisiana to Seneca, South Carolina. Thirty-two people died in the storm, which caused more than $3 billion in damage.
MNA Disaster Response staff members Mike Kennamer (Warehouse Manager and Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama Regional Specialist), Keith Perry (Florida Regional Specialist) and Marty Huddleston (Logistics Specialist) confer during a break in the action at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo Credit: Mark Casson)
Just before midnight on Easter Sunday, a tornado that grew in strength to EF3, and traveled just over 18 miles in 18 minutes, damaged 2,718 properties with monetary damage totaling approximately $225 million in the Chattanooga area. More than 250 structures were destroyed and 259 sustained major damage. Two people were killed; 18 were injured.
Local churches mobilized quickly, doing everything from providing food to those impacted to cutting fallen trees and tarping damaged roofs.
MNA Disaster Response staff came alongside churches to help them minister to their neighbors. At the MNA Disaster Response Warehouse, we were busy deploying supplies to locations all across the Southeast, including providing eight Sheds of Hope to Covenant Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga.
Months after the storm subsided, MNA Media Producer Don Baret traveled to Chattanooga to chronicle the relief efforts in the Chattanooga area. His first report is shown here.
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Help Blaze and the Monster Machines overcome the ultimate obstacle course as Blaze speeds over land, races across water, and zooms through the air! He’ll need your help to watch out for Crusher! The only way Crusher can beat Blaze’s time is by cheating, so he’s unleashing his trickiest contraptions! Help Blaze dodge the obstacles and Crusher’s contraptions to win! Blaze: Obstacle Course is fun and educational! This game exposes preschoolers to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) concepts and encourages exploration as they drive, swim, and fly through different locations. Children learn to overcome challenges and practice persistence through kid-friendly courses that invite them to collect flags, avoid obstacles and earn trophies with the help of their favorite Nick Jr. characters! GAMEPLAY OPTION 1: Jungle Trek Help Blaze navigate four environments: land, water surface, underwater, and air. Transform into awesome Monster Machines and use Blazing Speed to avoid Crusher’s contraptions on the way to the finish line! • Explore multiple pre-k STEM concepts, including magnetism, trajectory, acceleration, friction, combustion and force. • Experiment with 8 transformations, including a falcon, hang glider, rocket, hydrofoil, speedboat, shark, gorilla and laser. • Engage with 20 course levels that progress in difficulty. GAMEPLAY OPTION 2: Transformation Dash Choose your favorite Blaze transformation and drive, swim, and fly as far as possible on a course without running into 3 obstacles. • Learn about animal attributes and machines (e.g. fly in the air as a falcon or zoom through the air as a rocket)! • Track progress by collecting as many flags as you can. • Set new records and earn super power-ups to do even better in both gameplay options! Start playing the Blaze: Obstacle Course game on your iPhone & iPad today! Blaze: Obstacle Course collects personal user data as well as non-personal user data (including aggregated data). User data collection is in accordance with applicable law, such as COPPA. User data may be used, for example, to respond to user requests; enable users to take advantage of certain features and services; personalize content and advertising; and manage and improve Nickelodeon's services. For more information regarding Nickelodeon’s use of personal user data, please visit the Nickelodeon Group Privacy Policy below. Our Privacy Policy is in addition to any terms, conditions or policies agreed to between you and Apple, Inc., and Nickelodeon and its affiliated entities are not responsible for Apple's collection or use of your personal user data and information. Additionally, this App may use “local notifications.” Local notifications are sent directly from the App to your device (you don’t need to be connected to the Internet) and may be used to notify you of new content or events within your App, among other reasons. Use of this app is subject to the Nickelodeon End User License Agreement. End User License Agreement: http://www.nick.com/nick-eula/ Privacy Policy: http://www.nick.com/privacy-policy/ Privacy Policy for Nick Jr.: http://www.nickjr.com/privacy-policy/ The End User License Agreement for this app includes arbitration for disputes – see FAQs: http://www.nick.com/faqs/
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Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz plan to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration
Hays, Williamson and Travis counties surpass total 2016 voter turnout; Bastrop County surpasses 2016 early voting turnout
With three days of early voting still to go, Central Texas counties are setting turnout records.
Author: Paul Livengood, Jenni Lee
Published: 10:49 AM CDT October 26, 2020
Updated: 9:11 AM CDT October 31, 2020
HAYS COUNTY, Texas — With just a few days left of early voting in Texas, Hays, Williamson, Bastrop and Travis counties are breaking records.
Early Sunday morning, a post on Austin's subreddit gained some traction: a tweet from Dave Wasserman, the U.S. House editor for CookPoliticalReport and an NBC News contributor.
The tweet claimed that Hays County became the first county in America to surpass its own total 2016 voter turnout. This is significant because there are still several days left in the early voting period in Texas.
According to the Texas Secretary of State's Office, Hays County reported 71,945 votes in the entire 2016 election. With five days left in the early voting period, the Secretary of State's Office has already reported 74,808 cumulative in-person and mail voters. So, as of Monday, Oct. 26, Hays County has, in fact, surpassed its 2016 election voter turnout.
It happened: Hays Co., TX just became the first county in America - to my knowledge - to surpass its total 2016 turnout.
Four years ago, it cast 72,164 total votes. With more than a week left, 73,277 people there have already early voted.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 25, 2020
Credit: KVUE
Wasserman also reported on Sunday Williamson County was among three other counties at 96% to 98% of its 2016 voter turnout.
As of Monday morning, Williamson County was on the verge of surpassing its 2016 election turnout in the early voting period of the 2020 election. According to the Williamson County elections website, 205,862 ballots were cast in 2016. After counting votes from Sunday, Oct. 25, 205,519 ballots had been cast in Williamson County, just 343 votes short of surpassing its 2016 total, according to county voting numbers.
But by Monday evening, Williamson County officially surpassed 2016 with more than 211,000 voters – or about 56%. As did Denton County in North Texas with 53%, according to KVUE's news partners at the Austin American-Statesman.
While Travis County had not yet surpassed overall turnout from 2016 at the time, on Monday, it surpassed early voter turnout from four years ago, with four days still left in the early voting period.
Then, on Wednesday, Travis County announced it has surpassed 2016 with 486,206 votes cast in person and by mail. That's compared to a total of 477,588 in 2016.
Also on Wednesday, Bastrop County confirmed it has surpassed its 2016 early voting turnout. The county said in 2016, the early voting turnout – including in-person and by-mail voting – was 21,335 (47.4%). As of Oct. 27, the county's turnout for this election was 26,504 (50.77%). The total number of ballots cast in 2016 in Bastrop County was 28,888, so with early voting not yet over, it's possible that the county's early voting turnout this year could also exceed the total turnout of the 2016 election.
Ross Ramsey, the executive editor of the Texas Tribune, credits the numbers to population explosions in the counties.
"Well, I think part of this is that those are really rapidly growing counties. There are more people there. And if there are more people, there are more voters. This is an election year where the people who are voters, who are registered voters, seem pretty excited about voting, either to vote for their side or against the other side, whatever that might be. But, you know, it's not completely surprising to see counties that are growing as quickly as Williamson and Hays has also seen really big growth in their electorates," Ramsey said.
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Williamson County Democratic Chair Kim Gilby said she has seen voters' excitement.
"It's incredible ... Just the energy with people coming in to get signs, people volunteering," Gilby said.
Gilby said this is the first time there are more than just a couple of Democratic candidates on the ballot in Williamson County, a historically Republican county.
It is also the first time her party has spent money on mailers – some $17,000 – sent out this past Saturday.
"One thing we love to say in Williamson County is Texas is the biggest battleground state and the road to turning Texas blue runs right through the middle of Williamson County. And we really do, you know, we see it happening. We feel it. And, you know, I'm just, I can't wait 'til the votes are counted. I think we're going to be very happy on election night and it's going to get our country back, moving back in the right direction," Gilby said.
The chair of the Williamson County Republican Party, Steve Armbruster, sent the following statement:
"Four years ago, the total number of registered voters in Williamson County was 306,811. This year there are 376,931. This growth is attributable to the massive growth of our population due to people fleeing high tax and high regulation states like California, New York, and Illinois and also those being priced out of their homes by the high tax policies of the City of Austin and Travis County. We had a huge effort last year to identify these new residents and get them registered to vote. Now those people who we have worked hard to register to vote are coming out to vote. Add to that, the absolute enthusiasm that the Republican voters have in wanting to go out to vote to re-elect President Donald Trump, it is a ready-made recipe for record-high turnout."
RELATED: 2020 Election: Voters going beyond their civic duty
When Hays County Democratic Chair Donna Haschke heard her county's voter turn out has already surpassed all of 2016, she was initially surprised.
"And the second reaction was total elation," Haschke said.
She said volunteers and staff have been hustling to get more voters from the new suburbs. Since spring, they've registered 10,000 new voters.
"A lot of people that move from Travis County and think they're registered to vote. And we have to re-register them because they have to vote in the county in which they reside. So, we've done a lot of work on the ground, work just registering voters," Haschke said.
Haschke also said turning Hays County blue did not happen overnight.
Since 2014, she said volunteers and staff have made a concerted effort with coordinated campaigns. She said it's something they have to continue to work on, improve on and build on.
Hays County Republican Chair Bob Parks said, "We just had a lot of people working really, really, really hard. The Republican vote is generally stronger in the few days of the election, including Election Day. An overwhelming number of people already voted, and we feel pretty good about it at this point in time."
RELATED: Daily early voting turnout slightly decreases in Travis County, but county clerk expects an increase
With 97% of its eligible voters registered to vote, Travis County has also made national headlines. In terms of voter turnout, Travis County saw a surge of turnout in the opening days of early voting, but the daily turnout has tailed off a bit.
"We may see 25,000 people vote per day instead of our initial estimate of 30,000 people voting," Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvior told KVUE on Oct. 24. "That won't make that much of a difference in the overall turnout though. We're still going to see 600,000 people vote early by the time this is over, and it's possible we could go higher."
Early voting in Texas ends on Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3.
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12-Lipoxygenase Regulates Cold Adaptation and Glucose Metabolism by Producing the Omega-3 Lipid 12-HEPE from Brown Fat.
Leiria, Luiz Osório1
Wang, Chih-Hao1
Lynes, Matthew D1
Yang, Kunyan1
Shamsi, Farnaz1
Sato, Mari1
Sugimoto, Satoru1
Chen, Emily Y2
Bussberg, Valerie2
Narain, Niven R2
Sansbury, Brian E3
Darcy, Justin1
Huang, Tian Lian1
Kodani, Sean D1
Sakaguchi, Masaji1
Rocha, Andréa L4
Schulz, Tim J5
Bartelt, Alexander6
Hotamisligil, Gökhan S7
Hirshman, Michael F1
van Leyen, Klaus8
Goodyear, Laurie J1
Blüher, Matthias9
Cypess, Aaron M10
Kiebish, Michael A2
Spite, Matthew3
Tseng, Yu-Hua11
1 Joslin Diabetes Center, Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
2 BERG, Framingham, MA, USA.
3 Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
4 Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. , (Brazil)
5 Joslin Diabetes Center, Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Adipocyte Development and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany. , (Germany)
6 Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases & Sabri Ülker Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 80336, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany. , (Germany)
7 Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases & Sabri Ülker Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
8 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Charlestown, MA, USA.
9 Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. , (Germany)
10 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
11 Joslin Diabetes Center, Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected]
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Distinct oxygenases and their oxylipin products have been shown to participate in thermogenesis by mediating physiological adaptations required to sustain body temperature. Since the role of the lipoxygenase (LOX) family in cold adaptation remains elusive, we aimed to investigate whether, and how, LOX activity is required for cold adaptation and to identify LOX-derived lipid mediators that could serve as putative cold mimetics with therapeutic potential to combat diabetes. By utilizing mass-spectrometry-based lipidomics in mice and humans, we demonstrated that cold and β3-adrenergic stimulation could promote the biosynthesis and release of 12-LOX metabolites from brown adipose tissue (BAT). Moreover, 12-LOX ablation in mouse brown adipocytes impaired glucose uptake and metabolism, resulting in blunted adaptation to the cold in vivo. The cold-induced 12-LOX product 12-HEPE was found to be a batokine that improves glucose metabolism by promoting glucose uptake into adipocytes and skeletal muscle through activation of an insulin-like intracellular signaling pathway. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Commenting on the Aqaba Summit, in an atmosphere of peace and reconciliation, a senior member of Israel’s ruling junta said it all. Major General Amos Gilad – the Government Coordinator in the [Occupied] Territories – told Yedioth Achronoth (5.6.03): “In Mid-Eastern terms, we have not inflicted any suffering on the Palestinians”.
Yes: Merely 2.500 Palestinians killed in two and a half years, only tens of thousands injured, just 12.000 made homeless by house demolitions, nothing but economic plight on the verge of starvation, continuous siege, regular orderly humiliation and countless “exceptional” abuses (from theft to murder) – and no suffering whatsoever. “In Mid-Eastern terms”, that is. All the colonialist arrogance, malicious gloating and bestial savageness of the Israeli junta in a single phrase.
How about the 700 Israelis killed by Palestinians in the same period? What are they “in Mid-Eastern terms”? A petty trifle? A token of love? Imagine a Palestinian official saying that at a peace conference.
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Journalist Meron Rapoport of Yedioth Achronoth (23.5) published an extensive, horrifying research on the Israeli Apartheid Wall (see http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/search.cgi for a copy of the report). My own column on the subject had underestimated the extent of the atrocity: not only for the Palestinians sealed off behind the Wall, but for those squeezed between the Wall and the Green Line, denied access to Israel and cut off from the Palestinians behind the fence – clearly a target to a “soft”, economic ethnic cleansing.
Moreover, Rapoport’s article – now available in a fairly complete English translation – shows that the Wall is identical to Sharon’s age-old “Cantons Plan”, aimed at annexing most of the West Bank to Israel while pushing the Palestinians into disconnected enclaves on about 40% of it. As Ron Nahman, mayor of the settlement of Ariel, says: “The map of the fence, the sketch of which you see here, is the same map I saw during every visit Arik [Sharon] made here since 1978. He told me he has been thinking about it since 1973.”
Describing how next month the town of Qalqilia, having lost 50% of its lands, will be fenced all around, Rapoport concludes: “One can call it cantons, or Bantustans, or simply a prison. A 10 metre narrow gate will be the only access to the outside world for 40.000 inhabitants.”
Mid-Eastern Virtuality
But no reality could confuse the main-stream Israeli columnists in the last weeks: they, like most of the Western media, live in virtuality. Israel endorsed the Road Map; almost unnoticed went its numerous reservations attached, which “turn the document from a diplomatic initiative into an Israeli diktat of a Palestinian surrender agreement” (Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz, 27.5). Sharon uttered the word “occupation”; unnoticed went his withdrawing the term the very next day. And then came the spectacle in Aqaba, and the columnists lost the little sanity they may have had.
The entire chorus – Yoel Marcus, Amir Oren and their ilk – now praise Sharon’s courage, moderateness and “potential for historic greatness” (Ari Shavit in Ha’aretz, 29.5). The latter – a loyal mouthpiece of any leader in power – was rewarded an interview with a “close political ally” of Sharon, MK Rivlin (Ha’aretz, 5.6), who explained “with great sorrow” that the PM intended to dismantle 17 settlements. Pay attention to Sharon’s cheap propaganda tricks: a junior ally is sent to do the work of cheating, too dirty for the leader himself; “sorrow” is expressed to increase credibility; a sharp number is used for the same purpose: “17” sounds much more reliable than any round number.
The far right plays its usual game of tears: Sharon behaves “as if he converted”, mourns Jewish-orthodox settler Israel Harel (Ha’aretz, 29.5). Settlers’ rallies follow, with massive incitement against the PM, including repulsive abuse of the Holocaust: the Road Map and Sharon allegedly push Israel into “Auschwitz borders”.
This miraculous change-of-heart is “supported” by baseless historical analogies: Sharon is compared to PM Rabin, who signed the Oslo accords, or to PM Begin, who returned Sinai to Egypt. Yizchak Shamir, the one Israeli PM truly similar to Sharon, is missing from the analogy list for obvious reasons: both he and Sharon are Likud hard-liners, both were summoned to a Peace Conference by a President Bush following a Gulf War. But Shamir later admitted that he had gone there determined to hold years and years of fruitless “peace talks”, while at the same time expanding the settlements.
Mid-Eastern Blindness
The media and the entire political arena, right and left, have thus joined the national project of turning Sharon into a newborn dove: the far right by attacking him, the left wing by embracing him. Within days, contrary to all tangible evidence, they all propagated the absurd idea that Sharon had experienced a spiritual conversion, turning from the blood-thirsty warrior he had been all his life into a peace-loving leader embraced by Peace Now.
When Jupiter wants to destroy a nation, he first makes it blind. Precisely like during the Oslo years, the entire Israeli main-stream, right and left alike, backs the Israeli government by propogating its alleged will to end the occupation, contrary to any fact on the ground. No lesson at all was learned from the great Oslo deceit, of which the only thing left – the Palestinian Authority having been virtually destroyed and its “autonomous” areas reoccupied – is the number of Israeli settlers, which doubled within less than a decade. The only existing discussion is whether Sharon is making peace because he himself wants to, or merely thanks to the great peace-maker (cf. Iraq, Afghanistan etc.) President G.W. Bush.
Mid-Eastern Gestures
Thus, Peace-Maker Sharon (banned from serving as Defence Minister for his role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians) started honestly (having cheated PM Begin during the Lebanon War) to dismantle illegal outposts (having urged settlers to “grab the hills” in 1999) – because he believes in the Rule of Law (while both he and his two sons are subject to criminal investigation).
More than 100 “illegal outposts” (illegal even under Israeli law; under international law all settlements are illegal) are spread throughout the West Bank. Sharon now changed the adjective from “illegal” to “unauthorised”, and reduced the number to 15, eleven of them unmanned: an empty container, a deserted caravan. Repeating the comedy of his predecessors, Sharon is indeed evicting this rubbish, probably under a confidential agreement with the settlers, just like PM Barak, who had left the infrastructure intact, authorising their return a year later. A totally insignificant measure, mourned by the far-right as the destruction of the Third Temple combined with a Second Holocaust, hailed by the “peace camp” as the end of 36 years of colonisation.
Sharon also set free 100 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Peace. No journalist bothered to remind the readers that many weeks before the Road Map was even launched, Defence Minister Mofaz had announced an intention to release “several hundred” Palestinian detainees – simply “to ease prison overcrowding” (Ha’aretz, 14.4).
And then came the promised “gestures” in easing living conditions for the Palestinians – as if basic human rights or freedom of movement were an act of grace. Here is Arnon Regular’s report (Ha’aretz, 3.6):
The picture that emerged yesterday after a day of driving up and down and back and forth across the West Bank is of tens of thousands of people who have seemingly been thrown back into the Middle Ages, when the only mode of transport was by foot. Nobody is allowed to take a vehicle from a village to a city. Instead, they must get off at checkpoints, walk the extra few hundred meters, and then, if they have the money, take a cab to the next checkpoint, where again they have to walk the few hundred meters – sometimes more – to the next point where they can get a taxi. The Palestinians might have heard about Israel’s easing conditions for travel, but they haven’t seen this on the ground. In fact, there are signs that nothing at all has changed.
Take the little checkpoint at Ein Ariq, west of Ramallah, used by hundreds of villagers from the area. It’s a relatively small checkpoint, consisting of a couple of jeeps that sometimes are there and sometimes not. On Friday, less than 24 hours after the summit of prime ministers in Jerusalem and announcements of abatements, an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer showed up for the first time in the intifada and dug a channel across the road, ending the possibility of using a car to get through the checkpoint, even if the jeeps aren’t there. Thus, the thousands of villagers in that area yesterday joined their brethren at checkpoints elsewhere in the West Bank, lined up at the blockade. A line of about 1,000 people lined up in front of the checkpoint, on their way by foot to Ramallah.
Mid-Eastern Surprise
…And then, in the midst of the Great Peace Festival, came the “surprising” assassination attempt of Hamas political leader Rantisi; as revenge, a terror attack on the Jerusalem bus the next day; and the growing escalation. Is it Sharon the Peace-Maker, or Sharon the Blood-Thirsty? The answer is simple: there is only one Sharon.
Ran HaCohen teaches in the Tel-Aviv University’s Department of Comparative Literature, and is currently working on his PhD thesis. He also works as a literary translator (from German, English and Dutch), and as a literary critic for the Israeli daily Yedioth Achronoth. HaCohen’s semi-regular “Letter from Israel” column can be found at AntiWar.com, where this article first appeared. Posted with author’s permission.
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In principle approval of the European Investment Bank to support Northvolt’s gigafactory for lithium-ion battery cells in Skellefteå, Sweden.
Pending finalisation of due diligence and negotiations, the EIB’s financing commitment is foreseen to be €350 million.
The European Investment Bank has given its in-principle agreement to support the financing of Europe’s first home-grown gigafactory for lithium-ion battery cells, Northvolt Ett, in Sweden. Upon conclusion of a loan agreement, the financing would be supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the main pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe.
The gigafactory will be established in Skellefteå in northern Sweden - a region home to a prominent raw material and mining cluster which has a long history of process manufacturing and recycling. Noting the region’s clean power base, building the factory in northern Sweden will enable Northvolt to utilise 100% renewable energy within its production processes.
Maroš Šefčovič, European Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union, said “The EIB and the Commission are strategic partners under the EU Battery Alliance. I welcome the significant support proposed by the EIB to Northvolt gigafactory as a stepping-stone towards building a competitive, sustainable and innovative value chain, with battery cells manufactured at scale, here, in Europe. Our two institutions are working closely with the industry and key Member States to put the EU on a firm path towards global leadership in this rapidly expanding sector”.
EIB Vice-President Andrew McDowell noted: “The development of a competitive and green battery value chain within Europe can not only cut greenhouse gas emissions by decarbonising power generation and transport, but can also help protect millions of well paid jobs in European industries in the face of increasing global competition. The EUR 350m loan to Northvolt approved in-principle today by our Board of Directors is the largest ever direct EIB financing approval for battery technology, and we look forward to working with Northvolt over the coming months to finalise contracts.”
Northvolt Ett will serve as Northvolt’s primary production site, hosting active material preparation, cell assembly, recycling and auxiliaries. The construction of the first quarter of the factory will be completed in 2020. Ramping up to full capacity, Northvolt Ett will produce 32 GWh of battery capacity per year.
“This EIB in principle approval is a key moment in the process of finalizing our capital raise to support the establishment of Northvolt Ett. Today, we are one step closer to our goal of building the greenest batteries in the world and enabling the European transition to a decarbonized future.” said Peter Carlsson, Co-founder and CEO of Northvolt.
The capital raise, in which this EIB loan would be included, will finance the establishment of the first 16 GWh of battery capacity production. The batteries from Northvolt Ett are targeted for use in automotive, grid storage, and industrial and portable applications.
“Today's decision by the EIB is very gratifying and a big step towards a large-scale battery production in the EU and a fossil free welfare society. The decision shows that there are prerequisites in Sweden for sustainable battery production, it is important for Sweden and the rest of the EU to produce battery materials and battery cells, based on green, Swedish electricity”, said Ibrahim Baylan, Swedish Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union, owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals. In 2018 alone, the Bank made available a record EUR 1.37 bln in loans for Swedish projects in various sectors, including research & development, industry, nearly-zero-energy-buildings and telecommunications.
The EIB is the European Union's bank; the only bank owned by and representing the interests of the European Union Member States. It works closely with other EU institutions to implement EU policy and is the world’s largest multilateral borrower and lender. The EIB provides finance and expertise for sustainable investment projects that contribute to EU policy objectives. More than 90% of its activity is in Europe.
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Sea lions, dolphins still fleet's underwater guardians
A marine mammal handler from the Navy Marine Mammal Program prepares to send Cody, a California sea lion, into the water during the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX). With a quarter of the world’s navies participating, including 6,500 Sailors from every region, IMCMEX is the largest international naval exercise promoting maritime security and the free-flow of trade through mine countermeasure operations, maritime security operations and maritime infrastructure protection in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility and throughout the world. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Kathleen Gorby/Released)
Sure, You probably know that explosive ordnance disposal divers can disarm a mine hundreds of feet underwater, but they're often preceded by a did you know about their slippery, flippered advance team.
Marine mammals have been giving the Navy an edge for more than 50 years, deploying in 2003 for the Iraq invasion and to Cam Rahn Bay during the Vietnam War, detecting mines and keeping swimmers from sabotaging ships, according to Mike Rothe, the marine mammal program director at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego.
Today, they play a key role with EOD units and port security teams, Rothe told Navy Times in an April 6 phone interview.
The animals' main missions are mine detection, mine recovery and swimmer interdiction, as part of a civilian and contractor-led group of trainers and handlers.
During the Iraq invasion, dolphins and sea lions swam along the bottom of the Persian Gulf, tagging mines so that divers could find and disable them.
The dolphins are trained to disable mines themselves, Rothe said, but they have never worked on live explosives.
In the MK 7 MMS, dolphins are trained to detect and/or mark the location of mines sitting on the ocean bottom or buried in sediment.
Using an MK 7 mine hunting system, a dolphin trains to detect and mark the location of mines sitting on the ocean bottom or buried in sediment.
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Back home, the animals help out at the underwater range in Southern California, finding mines that Navy and Air Force helicopter pilots drop to work on their qualifications.
"We have the latitudes and longitudes where the pilots thought they placed them... We go and find them all and we send the sea lion down and it hooks up with a line, and then they take a GPS fix and that's the score," he said.
At submarine bases in Kings Bay, Georgia, and Bangor, Washington, the animals help with port security.
The dolphins' sonar works as a back-up for electronic waterfront security, and the sea lions use their excellent eyesight and underwater directional hearing to distinguish other wildlife from human swimmers, who may be trying to spy on warships or plant mines.
"In Kings Bay, Georgia, that water's like coffee with cream in it," Rothe said. "It's nearly impossible to see anything, yet our sea lions are able to do a bang-up job in detecting swimmers."
If they find one, the sea lions return to the boat and are given a special cuff with a line attached, which they push onto the swimmer's thigh as a clamp. A security boat can then reels in the swimmer.
High speed, low drag
Today the animals help with operations, Rothe said, but the Navy originally got into the marine mammal business for a totally different reason.
Back in 1959, the Navy acquired a white-sided dolphin named Notty, hoping to study her design, as it were.
"Torpedoes did such a lousy performance in World War II, they wanted to see what they could learn from the animals [and] apply to torpedoes and submarines, to make them create less drag," Rothe saidtold Navy Times in an April 6 phone interview.
That didn't really go anywhere, he added. "But they did learn that these animals were pretty smart and could be trained to do a bunch of different things."
Today, there are 90 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and 50 California sea lions in the program. Most of the dolphins were bred by the Navy in San Diego, from some that were caught in the wild by contractors back in the '80s.
Sea lions are much more difficult to breed, Rothe said, so the Navy has bought them from SeaWorld or adopted them from organizations that take in injured sea lions, as some aren't suited to return to the wild.
And, a few years ago, the Navy got a permit to collect nine pups from San Nicolas Island off the coast of California. Rothe said they won't need more any time soon, though.
With the wars in the Middle East winding down, the animals are maintaining their training and regularly joining in on exercises around the world, including the annual Rim of the Pacific Exercise.
The program is going strong, Rothe said, but he knows that its time is limited.
"The Navy's posture toward its marine mammal program has always been, we're going to have it until there's other hardware or technology that can do what they do," he said.
While there are unmanned underwater vehicles that can detect and disable mines, he added, so far there's nothing that can catch a rogue swimmer like a California sea lion.
About Meghann Myers
Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
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UAB will wear names of Children's Harbor patients on jerseys for Homecoming
UAB will take on Louisiana Tech this weekend for their Homecoming game.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To honor and memorialize the children and their families served by Children's Harbor located one block off of UAB's campus, the Blazer football team will wear the names of patients on the back of their jerseys for UAB's Homecoming game vs. Louisiana Tech.
"Children's Harbor has absolutely become a part of the Blazer family," said head coach Bill Clark. "I intend for this relationship to grow with our program. As we build, there will be even more we can do to provide encouragement and a positive distraction to support the terrific work Children's Harbor does."
This is the name of the @ChildrensHarbor patient each UAB player will wear on the back of his jersey this Saturday https://t.co/tPxSyAZMRi pic.twitter.com/TeE4IGj89C
— UAB Football (@UAB_FB) October 5, 2017
The UAB football team adopted Children's Harbor as one of their community charities in 2016 and the Blazers make regularly scheduled trips to the hospital to build relations and encourage patients.
Children's Harbor serves seriously ill children and their families through unique, no-cost services at the Family Center inside the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in Birmingham, and at the camp facility at Lake Martin in Alexander City, Ala.
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"The joy and enthusiasm that Coach Clark and the UAB players bring to the Children's Harbor families is palpable and brings a level of healing that is truly beyond our ability alone," Children's Harbor CEO Myrle Grate said.
The 100 game jerseys will be presented to each child and their family after the game.
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A section of Legion Field will be filled with honored Children's Harbor families to cheer on the Blazers and the 100 players participating in this heartfelt project. For these families to be together in a joyful, carefree setting allows them to put aside – for a few hours – the everyday realities of doctor visits, stress and fatigue that comes with caring for a child who has serious chronic illness.
"Recognizing these children and their families is a way for UAB to show our support and to let them know they are not in this fight alone," said Director of Athletic Mark Ingram. "It is going to be a special day at Legion Field at our Homecoming game on Oct. 7 and we hope everyone will join us to take part in something truly unique."
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Home >> Eno River State Park >> Camping
Weekend delays: Due to increased visitation, several parks are reaching parking space capacity and are having to close temporarily on weekends to incoming traffic. As we move into fall leaf season, please be prepared by arriving early morning or late afternoon on weekends and having a backup plan in case the parking areas are full when you arrive. Weekdays are the best time to visit our parks if you want to avoid parking closures and crowds.
All accesses at Eno River State Park are operating under normal hours. Trails and restrooms are open. The restrooms close regularly throughout the day for cleaning and sanitizing; entry will be prohibited during this time.
The park office is open from Monday to Friday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. A properly worn mask or face covering, covering both the nose and the mouth, is required to enter the office.
Picnic shelters are not open at this time and cannot be reserved. All water fountains and hydrants are off; please be prepared and bring filled, reusable water bottles.
Tent campsites and group campsites are open. Reservations are required and can be made online or by calling Aspira at 1-877-722-6762.
Visitors should make their visits brief and focus on moving through the park without stopping any place where multiple people may be in one area. Please observe social distancing and bring a mask or face covering with you, so that you can use it when you are unable to be 6 feet from other people.
Last updated on: Friday, October 30, 2020
PEA CREEK TRAIL CLOSED
The Pea Creek Trail (trailhead located at the Cole Mill access) is closed until further notice. Due to recent storms, erosion has undercut steps, put deep holes into the trail, and significantly damaged the trail. Do Not Enter From Any Access.
Last updated on: Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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Fews Ford access
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4950 Howe St.
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4390 Old Cole Mill Road
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4770 Pleasant Green Road
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4023 Rivermont Road
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March to October:
8:30am to 4:30pm
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT AMENITIES:
Not all campsites have identical amenities. Read the campsite information on the reservations website to see photos of campsites; check availability and fees; find out whether a specific site is wheelchair accessible, has access to water, bathouses or pit toilets, or has electric hookup; and learn other important information.
Find solitude and peace among tall trees and a symphony of forest creatures camping at Eno River State Park. The park has backcountry camping available to families, individuals and groups at the Fews Ford and Cole Mill accesses. All sites require hiking in and supplies must be carried in. There is no potable water source at the sites.
Backpack camping
At Fews Ford Access, follow a secondary trail off the Fanny's Ford Trail to reach the Fanny's Ford Campground, 1 mile from the parking lot. There are five sites on a hill a short distance from the river.
At Cole Mill Access follow the Bobbitt Hole Trail to the Piper Creek Campground about 1.2 miles from the parking lot. Five sites are near Piper Creek and a short walk to the river. Each site has a pad for tents, fire ring, lantern hook and bench. A pit toilet serves each campground.
Group camping
The Cox Mountain Group Camp is a short distance from the Cox Mountain Trail and the suspension bridge across the river and is set on a wooded ridge near the river. The hike is 3/8 mile from the parking lot. Maximum accommodation is 26 people.
The Buckquarter Creek Group Camp has two sites near the junction of Buckquarter and Martin Cabin creeks, just off the Ridge Trail. The hike is 1.2 miles from the parking lot. Each site accommodates a maximum of 15 people.
All group sites have tent pads, picnic tables, fire rings with benches and a pit toilet. All tents must fit on the pads. Reservations are required.
NOTE – Gate access for campers:
Park gates are closed and locked at posted closing times for your protection. There will be no exiting or entering the gates after the closing time. All visitors who are not spending the night need to be out by closing time. If you leave the park and do not return before closing time, you will not be able to re-enter. Check with the park office during office hours for the after-hours emergency phone number.
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Surplus District lands that are not needed for conservation or water resource development projects, invest revenue back into the District’s natural systems programs.
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Home■2015 Class of National Distinguished Principals: Barnes
Christopher R. Barnes
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During his nineteen years as a principal, Christopher Barnes has earned three A+ School of Excellence Awards from the Arizona Educational Foundation, two of which were awarded to Corte Sierra Elementary. Since he opened Corte Sierra thirteen years ago, Barnes has helped the school to fulfill its vision to “Spearhead Through the 21st Century” by building successful relationships with all stakeholders. Barnes connects with students with genuine enthusiasm—for example, adapting the positive military chant, “HOOAH!” which students shout daily after the “Corte Creed.” He ensures that every learner excels by using programs like WIN (What I Need) in reading and math and instructional tools such as Thinking Maps. He regularly joins staff in meetings, lunches, and observations in order to monitor student progress. According to Barnes, however, support is mutual; without parents, local businesses, and community members, Corte Sierra wouldn't be the success that it is. One of his biggest accomplishments is organizing the first district-wide community fundraiser, raising over $50,000 for schools and local nonprofit organizations. Corte Sierra is a Title I School and the winner of three Golden Bell Awards from the Arizona School Boards Association. Barnes is a Certified Principal Mentor Coach for NAESP and a Certified Hearing Officer for the Arizona School Risk Retention Trust. He holds a B.A. in Secondary Education from Arizona State University and an M.A. in Vocational Education from Northern Arizona University.
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Beyond the Box – Season 1 – Episode 3 – Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community at Inman News
Beyond the Box – Season 1 – Episode 3 – Featuring the Global Head of Community at Inman News, Laura Monroe.
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This week, Mike McAra has the pleasure of sitting down with Laura Monroe, Global Head of Community with Inman News to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the #realestate industry and what the future may hold for it’s members.
“I think that first of all, one of the things about the real estate industry that I think we’ve always kind of known and definitely been able to witness is, you know, the adaptability of us as an industry.”
Full Transcript of the Show
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Alright, so. Laura
Monroe. Thank you so much for coming on the show today.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Thanks
for having me! Appreciate it.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah, absolutely! I’m so
excited to chat with you.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Me
too! This is so exciting.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: You know, it’s definitely
weird times out there right now, so you know the video conferences seem to be
the way we can connect, so it’s another opportunity for us to do that.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Well I
have just, I don’t know if you saw my Facebook post. I have just dawned a new
name. I am now called the high priestess of Zoom.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: So,
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I was wondering how long
it would take before people start putting that on LinkedIn, you know, as like a
skill, or….
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News:
Exactly. I’m a virtual event expert… guru.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Was that who wrote that?
The virtual event expert?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: I did!
Yeah, I think that it’s going to be…yeah… it’s going to be huge.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I saw that. So, okay, so
just so our audience gets a sense, you are the global head of community at
Inman right now.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yes!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: So, what does that
mean?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yeah,
exactly! Well, um, so… you know, Inman… Inman is a media publishing company.
We, but we also do events. We do live events, we do virtual events, but we also
do, we’re also know for our editorial industry news. So, think of us as the
Wall Street Journal of a real estate news and industry. Um, but our community
has had sort of a following. Both because once we meet each other in person at
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: What’s that?!
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Which
is a … Right, exactly. What is that? I’ve forgotten what that’s like!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: It
becomes a very big community. And a following. So, years ago, back when I was
at Inman before, we did a lot with ambassadors. We did a lot on the Facebook
groups and certainly social media played a big roll. But it shifted a bit with
this particular role, because Inman has never really had anybody in this
community driven role. So, it’s a leadership role. We’re pulling more people
together under the communication platforms that we use. The digital channels,
as well as our events. And it’s well into the thousands.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Wow.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: So, it
just creates an audience that is both online and offline. And it helps us to
really keep our um… it just brings people together in a really innovative
ways.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: So, the thousands. Are
those realtors, brokers, like who are those thousands of people?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Everything.
I mean, I think originally it was… we sort of used our segmentation as like
agents, brokers, um, CEO’s and founders, Technology CEO’s and founders,
entrepreneurs, vendors, providers, organized real estate leaders, associations,
state and local. I mean, anyone! The one amazing thing about Inman is that we
have a platform for conversation that is agnostic; meaning that it doesn’t
matter what brokerage you’re with, it doesn’t matter what association you’re
with, it doesn’t matter what leader you’re from, or which
company you’re with. We want to share that information out to everybody for the
benefit of all. So, we don’t get too caught up in brands and too much brand
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Which is interesting,
because your core background is a brand strategist, right?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: It is!
It’s really where I learned a lot of the tricks of the trade for brands,
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: It’s so, it’s so
interesting. I love the whole Inman concept. You know I’ve met Brad a couple
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yeah.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: But his whole philosophy
of essentially harmonizing, you know, innovation, real estate for the
betterment of the industry or the community. I always mix up exactly what it is
but it’s such an interesting philosophy, and clearly it’s resonating, so…
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yes,
yes. So, I think there’s been times where we’re a small strappy… We run like a
start-up. We actually have less than 50 people on the Inman team, so we’re
constantly working on big projects, editorials, events. But, you know, the
community is really where… it’s who our audience is. So, it’s good to have
recognize it. It’s good to put value behind it, it’s good as an organization
to… especially, especially during these times, how important it is for us to
play a role in keeping people connected. Um, it’s been an… it’s been an in…
we’ve grown literally almost 200% on social media just in the past two weeks.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I saw that post and I was
just blown away by it.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I think if anything, it’s
interesting because, my understanding within the Inman company is that, you are
all working from home anyway, already.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yes.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Like that was just, how
it is. So, you’ve been tasked with growing this community remotely, since the…
since the onset.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yep!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And now you’ve got this,
this essentially, um, captive audience of people that are looking for that
social connection. You know, the real estate industry is a social industry,
let’s be honest.
definitely is. And well now, we’ve got a lot of people that are having to stay
enclosed in their homes, and you know, make things work from home. But more
than anything, they need each other. They need… you know, the innovation that
is going to come from being in this moment in time; like, we have this
conversation at Inman. Like we are in a very special moment in time that once
we get past this pain, or get through the pain, I should say, not past it.
Because no one is getting past it. Um, it’s… we’re watching this in real time,
like, this is unfolding and innovating in such a rapid way, that it’s going to
be an incredible situation to look back on. Probably within a few short
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: You know, it’s going to
be written in the history books.
will be.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And you know this is
obviously a generational defining moment.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Mhm.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And you know, it’s
really… yeah, there’s that moment of self-reflection where…
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Exactly,
in everything!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah, so how do I take
what I’m doing, you know… First of all, how do I survive and stay healthy, right?
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: First and foremost.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: First
and foremost, yes.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And then after that,
okay. What does this look like going forward? Will the world continue to spin?
I’m going to take the view that it will, right?
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: So how do you position
yourself to… to maintain what you’ve got going on, and how, how do you
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Grow
into it!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And that new normal,
whatever it may be.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: I call
it…I read a really interesting book the other day. Well, I’ve actually had it on
my bookshelf, and I haven’t read it but all the way through yet…
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: But you’ve got time now,
you’ve got the time!
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: But
now I’ve got time! But you know what, I picked it up. It sits here on my
bookshelf in my office, directly right in front of me. It’s written by Sheryl
Sandberg and it’s called “Option B.”
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Okay.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: And
she wrote this book when her husband died suddenly of a heart attack, and it
was about how she navigated the sudden overwhelming grief of losing her spouse,
and then moving through that, and coming out of that on the other side
psychologically and emotionally. And I just thought, “I wonder if there’s any
of this that would pertain to this moment that we’re going through.” And
there’s a chapter in the book that’s actually called, “Bouncing forward.”
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Hmm…
Laura Monroe – Global
Head of Community, Inman News: And her therapist at the time told her,
“in any incredibly traumatic situation, there are people that fold under it,
there are people that are, um, that take a long time to heal, and then there
are the people that are resilient; that sort of seem to bounce back.” And they…
there is a thing that is called Post Traumatic Growth, where, it’s a mindset.
It’s a mental strength that is, “I’m going to get through this, and I’m going
to bounce forward.” And I brought it up last week in one of my videos, you
know, I just do a quick video, and I just said, “you know what if we can get to
this mindset of “I am where I am right now, but the resilience that I need is
going to bounce me forward into this next redone industry.”
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Very cool.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: I
think that, that was the really big chapter. It’s cool.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Well, and I think that
kind of Segway’s into where I wanted to take this next, was that you’ve
obviously been in the industry for quite some time now. Right,
almost 20 years, I think.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Wow, 20 years, a year or
two, yep.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Yeah!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: You’ve seen some things.
Um, and so, I guess one of the sort of interesting things that we’ve been
talking about now that I think of it, I would love to sort of chat a bit with
you about is, seeing that sort of that trend, and what’s emerged over those 20
years. And how that we’re at this point in time… kind of forward looking, what
does that look like, and more from a community perspective, more from what
you’re hearing from your conversations. So, if you could speak to that, you
know, how it’s sort of gone from say, the global financial crisis, where things
were really good and then they got really bad. And then it’s changed and now
we’re in this other part… I don’t know. Like, in your experience, what like,
how have you viewed that, and those sort of [flows]?
I think that first of all, one of the things about the real estate industry
that I think we’ve always kind of known and definitely been able to witness is,
you know, the adaptability of us as an industry. No matter how many rules and
regulations and different things that we have to sort of maneuver and navigate,
whether you’re an agent or broker or technologist, there’s always the consumer.
Those don’t change. There’s always data, and there’s always, you know, the
technology that supports all of it. But the thing that amazes me is that, is
the industry’s ability to adapt to the moment in time. And you know, certainly
during this cycle on the crash of you know, the mid 2000’s and above. You know,
we saw agents having to dive into actually working belly to belly with short
sales and having to help buyers and sellers out of amazingly overwhelming
complicated financial situations. So, I see our industry still as being the one
that will help to host people, not only into new homes, but through financial
situations because of mortgages, and rent, and property and home and shelter.
We just had this conversation yesterday. You know, with everyone in lock down,
that big questions is, “is real estate essential?” and it actually, for most of
us, barring the immediate, um, civic duty to keep as everyone as healthy as
possible. There still is this case of millions of people in the middle of
transactions, in the middle of one home to another, in the middle of moving of
moving out of one home getting into another. And, the agents and brokers today
have to manage how to “land” those transactions safely. So, what I’ve seen is
the amazing ingenuity no matter where they are at in technology, that… that’s what
it’s really about, is just the ingenuity.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: It’s so interesting too,
because you are almost going to see, or perhaps you are already seeing it, that
agents have an enhanced value proposition. Beyond the tools you are using,
beyond the conversations you are having.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Definitely.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: With you know, with a lot
of programs, a lot of different…
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: You know, there’s just so
many moving parts, that you know, algorithms are great. It’s going to
streamline more workflows, and I’m sure that there is more of this being done
via Zoom.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Or, you know, pick your
favourite web chat app, whatever that is.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: But the reality is that,
there is still that really core role for, um, that advisory service. Right?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Absolutely.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see many more, um, concierge
type roles, advisor… you know, just services that sort of pop up out of this.
In fact, I was watching a Facebook Live from a team in California, southern
California, earlier today. And they are this psychologist, they’re the
therapist, they’re the hand holders, they’re the service providers still.
They’re still trying to figure out how to service people that are at home. You
know, virtual tours —
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Mhm.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: –You
know, to show property. Sending them meals via Door Dash, or delivery service
or something to sort of help them, you know, feel a little bit better or to
provide some help. So, you’re seeing agents that are really stepping up to work
their relationship side, but then you’re also seeing them incredibly dive into
the technology side, which is the videos and the you know, all of the different
ways that they can connect both with clients and colleagues. You know to get it
done and —
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: — to
connect in different ways.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah. It’s interesting
because the question we’ve had come in internally is that, you know, there’s
already adoption or you know, this growth of technology being part of the
process. I think we all see that, and then you take it that step further, and
you know, with the ibuyers coming in and doing a lot of things without agents to
an extent. And then you get an event like this. And you know, we’ve seen
ibuying just stop completely.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Totally.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: So that’s wild, number
one. And then number two is that, you know, the question is, does an event like
this empower agents to adopt technology more? Or, does it accelerate trends
that are existent, or does it create new ones? And then, and then with each of
those, what does that look like from the agent’s perspective, from the
opportunity and a challenge? And same for a tech company, from an opportunity
and challenge? You know, from a strategist and a brand and marketing background
as well as building community, I’d love to get your take on that.
well… those are really big questions. And I think from… I mean we’re already
seeing agents talk about the technology that they need because the first thing
that happened out here in the States when some of the county’s started to close
down their services, their county services, it meant that a lot of these transactions
weren’t going to get the closing table, because they didn’t have the right
services. The legal services to get there. Um, mortgage and title wasn’t
necessarily considered an essential service. But very quickly, when the States
and the county’s realized that you know, real estate is still happening. There
are people that are misplaced without these closings, then they right away came
back in and said, “Okay, it’s an essential service. We know we’ve got to get
you, get you to be able to accomplish what you need to accomplish, to move
things in the direction they need to move then.” So that was like, the first
“Ah-ha” that all the States and counties went “Oh! I guess you do need to have
a county recorder’s office to close this deal.” And it didn’t happen
widespread, but from a technology standpoint, those companies that provide the
services: the notaries, the different things to be able to close these things
are the first technologies that are not working completely virtually the way
they need to.
right now, if you’re paying attention and you’re someone that works in
technology. The first thing that you need to do is we need to figure out how to
get more e-notarized type of things. Like, we can’t just have notaries coming
around to people’s homes and walking them through the paperwork. Like we
literally have to get them on some kind of platform. So, it wouldn’t surprise
me if technology wise, we definitely see the all in one solution in terms of
getting from end to end in a transaction, without having to go into a million
different places. And they will have to connect to the right state and local
authorities to be able to get those things done. And I think we’ll see a push
for those, which it’s not going to be “real estate agent mandate” to have them,
it’s actually going to be a requirement.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Well, it’s interesting
how, you know, what I hear a lot is that red tape, or there’s that Government
element that really stifles a bit of it.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And then you get an event
like this where it’s like, “Oh by the way, we need to do solute transactions
and so it is in fact, the service needs to be open.” And almost overnight, that
red tape is gone. And then now you’ve got “Okay, that’s there.” Now we have
this opportunity to build this company that we’ve always wanted to that, and
provide that service that agents wanted, consumers wanted. But for whatever
preconceived law, or what have you, it just wasn’t the case right?
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Right.
Well, and I think the NAR statistic that I heard, um, I think it was on one of
my virtual calls, was that there’s up to 60 small businesses or 60 businesses
that are attached to any transaction at any given time.
when you think about what an agent or a broker has to do carry in a transaction.
All of the puzzle pieces that they’re trying to put together. One agent… I did
something on Facebook where she said, “You know, we’re literally, not to
compare industries, but the analogy would be that, “Right now we’re the air
traffic controllers, and we have millions of flights in the air, and we’re just
trying to get them safely on the ground” in terms of what the transactions
are.” So, if you look at it like that, then it’s… the role of the agent is
incredibly important. Both for the technology driving side, as well as, you
know, getting the consumers what they need. They are the ones that are getting
the consumer what they need.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Well the reality is, and
the last number I saw was something like 5 million transactions in the U.S.
right up here I think we’re at a tenth of that, I think it’s 500 thousand up
here in Canada. You know, so there’s that demand to move and I guess the
question would be if you remove that underlying economic cycle with the people
being able to work, right? And that what’s come with this event here, does that
change things and how does that all go forward? But I think ultimately what it
comes back to is, you know, two key things that you’ve already highlighted.
Number one on the agent’s side is that you need to be more of that advisor,
full service, sort of, you know, spoke curator of all things like the air
traffic controller. But then on the technology side, there’s these
opportunities to come in here and to plug in these holes that you know, you’ve
identified.
If the technology companies are listening, they’re going to get a wealth of
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I hope they’re
listening!
yes! I, I think if I were … I would just be watching every Facebook live, I’d
be following what every agent is taking about because here’s what’s going to
happen. I think. Um, if we can get back to, you know, once we get past the
peak, it’s going to happen in different geographical areas. I mean, we’re
hoping that New York comes out of this first and reaches the peak and can get
back to some sense of opening things up a little bit. But we’re in California
and we’re already looking to see what’s going on in China and Italy and New
York.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Everyone
will be keeping their eye on how this unrolls, um. And, there’s going to be
some places that certainly reach business opportunities quicker than other
ones. And so, it’s going to be interesting to see but I think once we can
sort of all breath some sigh of relief on the other end of this, real
estate is going to make a fast, rubber band come back. Meaning, we’re going to
know how to do this virtually. Companies are going to be rearing to go to
provide more technology and services to make these things happen faster. People
based on their economic situations, based on their job situation, based on
where they need to be to be closer to loved ones or elderly; they’re going to
be making moves. They’re going to be making big moves. And our agent core,
regardless of what brand you’re with, are going to be the ones that are making
those… they’re going to be the ones that have those peoples lives literally in
their hands. So, they right now, are information sponges. From the governors,
in our states that are telling us when we can go out, when we can’t go out,
when we can have open houses, when we can’t. I mean, it’s been…
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: There’s a lot going on.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: There’s
a lot going on. Yeah. Yeah.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: But I
think it’s exciting when we can get past the pain. Yeah.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And again, I think that’s, that’s sort of that underlying core philosophy that
you have to have, is that things will continue to move after this is done. And…
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: We can
survive. 90 days.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Exactly. So, let’s
survive, first and foremost. Stay healthy, you know, do the socially
responsible thing. Take care of our families. And then kind of let’s see where
things can go moving forward from there.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: And so, you know, just to
wrap things up here. So, let’s say it’s 2021. It’s Inman Connect in Las Vegas,
okay? You’re speaking and what are you telling… What is the talk about? And…
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Wow…
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Yeah. Let’s just leave it
there. What’s the talk about? And maybe just speak to that a bit.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Okay,
so I’m going to take it a bit different, because here’s what I was
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: You’re cheating!
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: Well,
okay here’s what I was having. Okay, here’s my topic and I’m going to take it
from a leadership standpoint, not necessarily from an agent standpoint.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Okay!
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: My
audience is the leaders of real estate.
Laura Monroe – Global Head of Community, Inman News: And,
my… my thing to them is… is that it doesn’t matter who you have working for you
in your company, or in your brand. They’ve been through a huge psychological
shift, both business and emotionally. And if you’re not right now considering
ways to redefine how people are working in your company, both from an
emotional, mental, technological standpoint you will not have the right
culture. If you continue on with the culture you had before this happened, and
you do it with this, you know, after this event, you’re not going to have the
same company. So, it doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO, or if you’re an
entrepreneur. If you cannot look at the emotional intelligence that you’re
going to need to pull people together, I think community is going to be a huge
thing. If you have leaders that are tone deaf, who don’t understand what their
agent/agents or brokers have been through, if they can’t communicate with an
understanding about it, they just expect to go back to normal, and have the
same kind of communication. Then I think we’re going to see… we’re not going to
see the healing that we need. We’re going to be even more tone deaf because
we’re not going to understand all of the changes that is required to be and
show up the way we need to in this industry. So, that would be my talk, which
is “How are you going to redefine how you’re doing business as a leader in this
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I can’t wait to see it in
person!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: So, I will see you…
I’ll be putting my slide deck together!
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I hopefully see you
summer of 2021 at least.
hope, I would hope so! You better be there! It’d be great to have you.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: On that note, thank you
so much for your time Laura.
Laura: Thank you so much, I appreciate you for having me.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Stay safe, stay healthy.
too! Please do.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: I look forward to meeting
you in person when we’re finally allowed to do that.
And I will email you what we were talking about earlier.
Mike McAra – Beyond the Box Host: Perfect, perfect.
— End of Podcast —
Beyond the Box: Conversations with real estate executives, venture capital partners and technologists on what lays ahead for the real estate industry in a world after COVID-19.
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HSBC Philippines Appoints New CEO
By murthyvittala 31 May 2010
HSBC has appointed Tony Cripps, currently head of global banking and markets for HSBC Bank Australia, as CEO for operations in the Philippines, effective August 1, 2010.
Mr Cripps has been head of global banking and markets for HSBC Bank Australia since 2009, responsible for 260 employees working across the bank’s sales and trading (foreign exchange, rates, credit and structured derivatives), balance sheet management, debt finance and advisory, institutional wealth management as well as HSBC Securities Services and relationship management of the bank’s global corporate and institutional clients in Australia.
Mr Cripps has more than 20 years of experience working with HSBC in Australia, Hong Kong and in the UK. He began his career with HSBC as head of derivatives trading in Australia.
Relocating to Hong Kong, he became head of global markets strategy for Asia Pacific from 1997-2001. Following this, he moved to global banking and markets’ e-commerce unit overseeing Asia, before transferring to London to head this unit globally.
HSBC’s operations in the Philippines employ approximately 7,000 employees through its banking and group service center businesses and provide personal, commercial and corporate banking services through 24 branches around the country.
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Health Care is Just Too Hard to Use…and It’s Not Your Fault
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by Michael Booth, Photography by James Chance
Health Care is Just Too Hard to Use … and It’s Not Your Fault.
Health Elevations Spring 2014 Feature
By Michael Booth
Photography by James Chance
Walter Mossberg shook up the technology world by originating that phrasing in 1991. The computers he was talking about have gotten better – you could now run NASA from an iPhone – but health care has not.
Patients with little more than a sore throat or a panic attack show up at full-trauma emergency rooms because that’s what “health care” has always meant to them. Or because their doctor’s office was closed, and the nurse “help” line was a phone-tree thicket.
The young and the restless might rather pay a fine for bucking the new health insurance mandate because they have no time or patience for Byzantine insurance applications.
Hospital bills are often incomprehensible and a disillusionment to patients even if they’re not paying the bottom line.
Mental health care is now theoretically equal under the law to physical care, but patients struggle to connect with a provider.
And will the first person with a short, coherent explanation of “deductible-copay-coinsurance-out-of-pocket-maximum” please stand up?
The storm of criticism that descends on any major health system overhaul can be daunting and can discourage the best-intentioned from bold, public-oriented change. But the Colorado Health Foundation is encouraging health reformers – many mentioned in this issue – to step back and look at the system we are creating through clear eyes. Are we showing Colorado residents the simplest tools to guide their own health and wellness? If we agree on the goal of useful health insurance and accessible health care, have we made it clear how to find those? And are we offering Colorado the right care in the right places at the right time, so that good health is attainable and affordable to everyone?
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What happens when Colorado consumers don’t know how to acquire health insurance or how to use the health care system once they’ve got it? Billions of dollars are wasted, and worse, Coloradans miss the chance to be as healthy as they could be.
The growing complexity of health coverage and health care – not yet solved by an Affordable Care Act that is itself multi-layered – is not by “grand design,” as Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management professor Joel Shalowitz, MD, puts it. “It’s by incremental stupidity.”
The private sector, nongovernmental organizations and government agencies work furiously to untangle the mess for consumers. “Right care, right place, right time” is one mantra at Colorado’s Centura Health system, the largest hospital network in the region. “We spend a lot of money with people going to the wrong place for care,” said Pam Nicholson, senior vice president of strategic integration at Centura.
Yet hospital groups and other health institutions remain at the forefront of many complaints, from their billing practices to a recent “arms race” to build high-revenue emergency department space.
“The health care ‘system’ is not a system,” said Elbert Huang, MD, of the University of Chicago’s Center for Advanced Medicine. “It’s a hodgepodge of randomly occurring entities.” Huang likens the Affordable Care Act’s extension of insurance to most Americans to handing a person the keys to a car stocked with outdated road maps.
This year’s debate over the race to build emergency treatment space up and down the Front Range – a contest joined by nonprofits and for-profits alike – is a telling example of wider confusion over how to best use health insurance and health care.
The ER is the place that, when you have nowhere else to go, they have to take you in.
“People find emergency departments not only to be the safety net, but it’s preferred because it’s patient-centered,” said University of Colorado Hospital’s vice chair of emergency medicine Jennifer Wiler, MD. Patients walk in at any time, get diagnosed relatively quickly, and leave with the answers and medicine they need. “Patients like it,” Wiler said.
A recent flurry of studies nudged researchers toward learning why emergency space is a first resort, rather than a last, for many consumers, and what the rest of the health care system could learn from the results.
A Colorado Health Institute exam of ER use in 2012 found a majority of ER patients could not get an appointment at a primary care site or could not use the regular doctor or clinic hours.
Both newly insured and newly uninsured consumers use emergency departments at much higher rates than those who have been stably insured or uninsured for a long time, according to a study by Wiler and others published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Patients visit emergency departments because of “lack of timely options elsewhere,” according to a recent RAND Corp. study. That review also found the entire health system relying more on ER doctors as triage for inpatient admissions and other options.
What new ideas will help consumers, their insurers and their providers answer the call to simplify, simplify?
Denver Health, swelling with both paying, exchange-driven members of its managed insurance plan and expanded Medicaid patients, “has a SWAT team on this trying to figure it out,” said LeAnn Donovan, CEO of the Denver Health Medical Plan.
“I would venture it’s as high as 20 percent of people in the medical plan who go to the emergency department shouldn’t be there, given what they’ve got,” Donovan said. The most common misdirected complaints include low-acuity situations like coughs and colds, the flu, pink eye, earaches and urinary tract infections.
Many could be “caught” and helped by the existing nursing phone line, which translated nearly 200 different languages last year. But oddities arise that cry out for addressing: 60 percent of Denver Health’s Medicaid population is Hispanic, yet they make up only 6 percent of the nursing calls.
Nurses can diagnose a urinary tract infection by common symptoms right over the phone, Donovan noted, and send a prescription to the consumer’s nearest pharmacy. A taxi voucher is available to get those without cars to a pharmacy or clinic.
Another Denver Health goal is to establish more urgent care clinics within the year, by plotting ER usage from the consumer’s home ZIP code. The city-based health network also contracted recently with Walgreens retail clinics, authorizing payment for convenient consumer care at the widespread drugstore locations.
Centura is also deepening its relationship with Walgreens, locations that have proven popular for everything from high school sports physicals to strep tests.
The parent of St. Anthony, Penrose-St. Francis and other hospitals tries to use visits at affiliated Walgreens clinics to make “warm transfers” of patients who don’t yet have a primary care home. In a warm transfer, the Walgreens Take Care nurse practitioner puts the patient on the phone live with a virtual resource center run by Centura, as opposed to the “cold transfer” of just handing over a phone number and hoping the patient uses it later.
Patients who came through one of the Connect for Health Colorado exchange insurance plans using Centura as the exclusive medical provider are offered a free primary care visit, lab workup and risk assessment. They also get a loaded gift card to spend on future health care.
Centura signed an agreement with Walgreens to study the work flow between the retail clinic nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and the local primary care doctors. Even chronic-disease patients could use the convenient retail locations to manage their care. “An NP or a PA working to the full level of their license can do a lot,” Centura’s Nicholson said.
Meanwhile, the primary physician practices Centura has absorbed or affiliated with will be required to extend after-hours access, with office hours and doctor-staffed call centers, within two years, officials said.
“Getting a doctor” after signing up for insurance is, among some Colorado groups, a cultural assumption that not everyone follows.
Servicios de La Raza in Denver has seen a heavy caseload of consumers who have heard about the Affordable Care Act and want to take the next step. Some see a Medicaid health coverage guide, others see a guide tapped into Connect for Health’s private insurance offerings, as part of the “no wrong door” concept of health access. Often in the Latino community, the first step is integrating the very concept of health care for a family where “Mom was going to urgent care, Dad was going to Campesina clinics, and kids had access to Medicaid,” said Mirna Castro, CCARES program manager for Servicios.
Some learned they had access to private insurance through their employer, “and we’ll say, ‘You need to go to your HR department,'” Castro said. “And they’ll say, ‘No one speaks Spanish at my HR!'”
While focusing during the winter and spring on signing people in a health insurance plan of any kind, Servicios will be among the agencies changing focus over the summer to the “get a doctor” step. “We need to start talking about where is the right place to go for care,” Castro said.
The sprawling New West Physicians group, based in Golden, is redoubling efforts to get its patients out of the ER and to better, more responsible care.
New West, with 80 providers, 16 locations and 160,000 patients, launched its own urgent care office with extended hours two years ago. It is watching demand carefully, and plans another urgent care location.
A nurse practitioner reviews a daily report on all New West patients who went to an ER the day before, then follows up on their symptoms. If they went in for a migraine, for example, then an office visit and better medication could prevent the next “frequent flier” ER trip.
Feature 1 Image – Hive PracticeThe practice is also redesigning itself around a “hive” model of primary care, matching patients to a team including a physician, a midlevel practitioner and two medical assistants. The doctors concentrate on the complex cases, while other team members treat lesser complaints. “We’re hopeful that will improve waiting times and other frustrating aspects,” said Ken Cohen, MD, chief medical officer of New West.
Cohen is among those making the argument that government systems could influence ER use by charging copays for Medicaid users, or creating other incentives or small penalties. “A $10 copay makes big changes,” he said. “I firmly believe some financial responsibility results in a huge behavior shift.”
Physician and state Sen. Irene Aguilar, a Denver Democrat, agrees insurers and government planners might need to consider more sticks as well as carrots. The first proposals will be attacked, but inappropriate use costs the whole system, Aguilar said. A combination of patient education and firm redirection to different care could make such changes “socially acceptable,” she said.
Salud Family Health Centers, with nine clinics stretching from the northeast Denver suburbs toward the Nebraska border, is using a “patient portal project” with state Medicaid to give worried patients more options.
Salud is working to link every patient with an online sign-in, providing direct emailing to doctors and nurses, and access to labs and medical records, appointment calendars and prescription refill requests. If an online depression-screening questionnaire adds up to a cry for help, a mental health provider reaches out to the patient.
A patient with an earache recently used the portal to explain symptoms to her doctor. The provider advised to keep using an antibiotic for 24 hours before going to the ER, and the symptoms resolved.
Salud has about 13,000 of its 73,000 patients connected to the portal and plans to reach half in 2014, officials said.
University’s Wiler has worked with the Aurora-based hotspotting program, Bridges to Care, on a set of frequent ER patients separate from those discovered by the Triage program. Patients with four or more ER visits in six months can get a mental health consult and home visits from a nurse practitioner to sort out underlying problems.
The coordinated care has cut emergency use by 50 percent in the group, successful enough that Wiler would like to see the threshold reduced to three ER visits in six months. “Our early results are very promising,” she said.
But a key attitude, she added, is to not just look around a busy ER and sound like a scold.
“It’s unfair to blame patients for their choice of site of service,” Wiler said. “It’s the responsibility of the health community to educate people and cross that disconnect, to remove the barriers so patients want to go where it’s best for them.”
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In the same format as Adventure Time: A Totally Math Poster Collection, this sturdy paperback houses 20 removable, frameable prints of the very best artwork from across the entire George Lucas–curated Star Wars Art series. Sixteen selections from Visions, Comics, Illustration, Concept, and Posters—including art by Jeffrey Brown, Philippe Druillet, Mike Mignola, Ralph McQuarrie, and Olly Moss—are joined by four newly commissioned artworks created specifically for this book by Max Dalton, Phantom City Creative, Tiny Kitten Teeth, and Jon Vermilyea. These high-quality, large-format, crease-free prints will be sure to transport Star Wars fans of all ages to a galaxy far, far away. . . .
Drew Struzan's art is some of the most iconic in modern movies, with more than 150 movie posters to his credit, including every "Star Wars ""and Indiana Jones" film. He lives in Pasadena, California. Roger Kastel's posters for "Jaws" and "The Empire Strikes Back" are considered among the most influential ever produced. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators. Kastel lives in White Plains, New York.
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Meet Communities Where They Are: COVID-19 Testing for Vulnerable Populations
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A recent federal report on COVID-19 infections and deaths by race showed that Black and Latinx populations in the US are three times more likely to contract COVID-19 and nearly twice as likely to die from it as compared with whites. Strategic partnerships and innovative approaches are necessary to reverse these trends. Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and NRHI research partner and member, Qualidigm, are working with leaders of off-site COVID-19 testing centers (OSCTCs) to identify and share which partnerships and innovations have worked so far.
Reaching and testing vulnerable population groups is a central topic that the participants in the Off-site COVID-19 Testing Project are raising as a core component of their approaches. Considerations on how to engage vulnerable populations when setting up and running an OSCTCs are summarized below.
Reaching Out to Vulnerable Populations
Using Data to Guide Prioritization
Utilizing a combination of data sources, including hospitalization and death rates data, the American Community Survey, social vulnerability indexes, and geospatially based information helped the OSCTCs decide where to set up their sites. This data-driven approach leverages information about major social determinants of health (access to transportation, housing conditions, etc.) as well as an understanding of the communities and where needs are greatest when setting up a testing site. “Sure enough one [site] is in the middle of where 40% of our cases are showing up,” concluded a respondent.
Identifying Partnerships
1. National Guard
Previous discussion on OSCTC partnerships uncovered the significance of working with the National Guard — not only in setting up a test center but also running it. The National Guard was called an “absolute lifesaver” to get things done efficiently and effectively based on what is available. One respondent described their role in making their site “quite tight,” cutting wait time to an average of fifteen minutes.
However, when it came to testing vulnerable populations, the value of this relationship changed – the Guard would be perceived as an obstacle to testing in communities, which not only did not trust but feared people in military uniforms. For example, in one community, a member commented, “it broke that the governor is sending Army people in uniform to predominantly African American public housing structures to test them, so you can imagine the challenge that arose, right?” To counter this, the OSCTC leader increased the presence of civilian testers at the National Guard sites.
2. Social Justice Groups and Community Organizations
For our respondents, building trusting relationships with the communities they were testing was of a critical importance. They wanted to test as many people as possible and be able to do further contact tracing of anyone who tested positive.
Social justice groups and community health workers were the identified partners that had already built strong relationships and earned trust with vulnerable communities. As one respondent put it, “Use local health clinics, and other associations like the National Association of Community Health Centers to help you get the word out and create awareness among those underserved populations. The thing is there are local community organizers, local associations that spend a lot of time on a regular basis thinking about how to communicate to those populations. I think that an important piece is identifying those partners that can help you get the word out [on the importance of COVID-19 testing].”
Education went both ways. For one respondent, this partnership helped them learn what they were doing wrong in communicating with the local Latinx population and what they had to improve in their OSCTC. One of the important things they learned was that “…a lot of folks in our Latinx community don’t go to our county website and they don’t listen to our local radio station. They have their own networks and things that they listen to,” and the OSCTCs had to utilize communication channels that the communities were accessing. This was not the only barrier that OSCTC leaders brought up: “all kinds of cultural barriers, not only language, but the belief that they are immune to the infection…. and fear getting tested because they will get locked up for 14 days and they can’t work, and they can’t feed their kids…so lots and lots of barriers in the testing rates are pretty low right now in those communities, even while the infection rates are high.”
Providing Access within Communities
In addition to cultural, economic, and language barriers, lack of transportation to an established COVID-19 testing site has been perceived as one of the major reasons members of underserved communities do not get tested as much as the general population. To overcome the barrier presented by lack of transportation, many OSCTCs developed innovative approaches to reach out to areas with vulnerable populations.
1. Community pop-ups
Community “pop-up” sites are set up temporarily with the goal of testing specific clusters or a community. One respondent explained “…we have set up purposefully several community-based testing sites that are point-of-care testing sites in underserved communities where the prevalence rates of been quite high, and these are more inner-city locations that don’t necessarily have easy access to testing. Where people don’t have to have a car, they can come by public transportation to get tested…”
These “pop-up” testing sites can rotate locations to broaden access across a region. In one community, each town within the region was visited consistently on a specific day, which eased logistics and staffing, and helped community members keep track of testing schedules. Unfortunately, we also heard that not every community welcomed an OSCTC (temporary or not) and some of them directly said they did not want “COVID in their backyard.”
2. Mobile testing sites
Mobile testing is becoming more common as it offers flexibility and ease to change locations and reach vulnerable population in different settings – from housing projects in the inner cities and homeless shelters to long-term care facilities, correctional facilities, and meat-processing plants.
Mobile testing sites often use vans that are either purchased for the task, or re-purposed from prior uses. Some vans offer point-of-care rapid testing, which provides real-time results for potential clusters. These vans help with making informed decisions about contact tracing and patient quarantines.
Meet Your Community Where They Are
Some partnerships and strategies help speed up the testing process and reach to diverse populations, while others help with building rapport with the communities the OSCTCs are trying to reach. When it comes to testing vulnerable populations, the idea of meeting the community where they are is not only about going to where they are located, but also about creating the means to build trust and inform them about the importance of testing in a way that they will understand. As one respondent said, “we are seeing a lot of environmental anxiety now.” A lack of cultural understanding, language barriers, economic disparities, and legal concerns all contribute to why “the most medically vulnerable” population are not COVID-19 tested. Raising awareness both among OSCTC staff about these barriers and among vulnerable population groups about the importance of testing in a way that is accessible to them is a key to continuing tracking positive cases of COVID-19. Additionally, including community members in development of solutions is of critical importance for engagement and sustainability.
Beyond COVID-19 Testing: Exploring a Broader Role for the OSCTCs
One of our respondents commented that “one of the biggest challenges is communitywide apathy. How do you get the population to re-engage around COVID testing and helping them understand it is not just one-time testing; that repeated testing and communitywide surveillance is a big component of why ongoing testing is needed?” A solution their OSCTC sought was adding the “wrap-around” health and social services such as screening for other diseases, setting up telehealth visits, and helping with registration for state medical programs. Introducing hope in such a dire situation, the respondent offered the vision that the testing sites that can easily reach vulnerable populations will be able to grow “much beyond the scope of COVID testing… we see this as really important to build up the resiliency of the community, not just by virtue of COVID testing, but by addressing all the fundamental other issues that really contribute to adverse outcomes.”
To learn more about COVID-19 testing for vulnerable population, watch the NRHI webinar Innovative Approaches to COVID-19 Testing for Vulnerable Populations.
Bistra Nikiforova
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Georgia Secretary of State in quarantine amid presidential vote recount
By KATE BRUMBACK | November 12, 2020 at 12:56 PM CST - Updated November 12 at 4:53 PM
ATLANTA (AP) — As Georgia counties prepare for a hand tally of the presidential race, the state’s top elections official plans to quarantine after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Thursday.
The count stems from an audit required by a new state law, not because there are any questions about the integrity of the election in Georgia or the results. Democrat Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump by 14,000 votes. There are no examples of similar recounts that have overturned leads of that magnitude.
“The point of the audit is to show the machines counted the ballots fairly,” said Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the state’s new voting system for the secretary of state’s office.
County election officials must begin the hand tally by 9 a.m. Friday and complete it by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, state officials said. The state certification deadline is Nov. 20.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s wife, Tricia, tested positive on Thursday, the deputy secretary of state, Jordan Fuchs, told The Associated Press. Brad Raffensperger was going to get tested and plans to self-quarantine as a precaution even if his test is negative, Fuchs said, adding that the secretary’s quarantine will not affect the audit.
Raffensperger has been under fire from fellow Republicans since results tipped in Biden’s favor.
U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler on Monday called for his resignation, claiming he ran the election poorly but citing no specific incidents of wrongdoing. Both senators face Jan. 5 runoffs that will determine which party controls the Senate.
Raffensperger said he would not step down and defended his office’s handling of the election.
U.S. Rep Doug Collins, who’s leading Trump’s recount team in Georgia, and state Republican Party Chairman David Shafer on Tuesday sent a letter to Raffensperger requesting that he order a hand recount of Georgia’s nearly 5 million ballots before certifying the results, among other demands.
That has led to criticism accusing Raffensperger of caving to Trump. An audit of one race is required by law but it’s up to the secretary of state to choose the race. Sterling emphatically denied that the selection of the presidential race and subsequent decision to do a full hand count was the result of pressure from the president.
“Even before the Trump campaign was talking about the possibility of a recount or recanvassing, we knew that there was a specific purpose for an audit in the law. That specific purpose was to instill confidence in the outcome of that election,” Sterling said at a news conference Thursday.
The audit is a new requirement that was included in a 2019 law that also provided guidelines that the state used to purchase a new election system from Dominion Voting Systems for more than $100 million. Doing a hand count of the nearly 5 million votes cast in Georgia during the Nov. 3 election is a massive task.
“It’s a tremendously bold undertaking, to hand count every ballot cast in a presidential contest, on basically an entirely new voting system, in the middle of a pandemic. It’s not a small enterprise,” said Mark Lindeman, the interim co-director of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group that tracks voting technology and is providing technical support for Georgia’s audit.
Chris Harvey, elections director for the secretary of state’s office, sought during a training call Thursday to assuage any apprehension county election officials might be feeling.
“Keep in mind through all this stuff what we’re doing is relatively simple,” he said. “We’re identifying votes and counting pieces of paper.”
For the audit, county election staffers will work with the paper ballots in batches, dividing them into piles for each candidate. Then they will count each pile by hand, Fuchs said. Sterling had said Wednesday that the ballots would be counted by machine.
During the training call, county election officials were shown a video with children demonstrating how it would work.
For the tally, ballots are distributed in batches to teams of two auditors. The first auditor picks up the ballot, reads the selection for the presidential race out loud and passes it to the second auditor who also reads the name out loud before putting it in a pile corresponding to that candidate, according to the video.
Some ballots are set aside to be checked by a bipartisan review panel, including those where the auditors can’t agree on the voter’s intent and those with write-in candidates.
Once the auditors finish sorting the ballots into piles, the first auditor picks up a ballot and counts it out loud before passing it to the second auditor who does the same as they sort the ballots for each candidate into piles of 10 for easy tallying, according to the video.
After they’ve counted all the votes, they record the total for each candidate and return the ballots to their box.
The process of deliberately saying the candidate name and count out loud is meant to help avoid mistakes, said Ginny Roest with VotingWorks, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that focuses on building a voting and auditing system and is helping the secretary of state’s office.
Sterling said the final numbers found in the audit count will almost definitely be slightly different than the numbers previously reported by the counties but that the overall outcome should remain the same. The results will not be released piecemeal as the counties finish counting but instead will be announced once the full tally is complete, he said. The results of the new count from the audit is what will be certified.
There is no mandatory recount law in Georgia, but state law provides that option to a trailing candidate if the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points. Biden’s lead stood at 0.28 percentage points as of Thursday afternoon.
Once the results from the audit are certified, the losing campaign can request that recount, which will be done using scanners that read and tally the votes, Raffensperger said.
Associated Press writer Ben Nadler in Atlanta contributed reporting.
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I would make this 3.5 stars if I could, but I rounded up to 4. The main factor that attracts parents to enroll their children is the academics. While it is true that the academics are extremely proficient at prepping students for college, this does not mean that the school is without fault. My main issue is the lack of diversity. There have been multiple racist incidents at the Junior High as well as the High School, and in my opinion there was not enough action on the staff's part to combat these occurrences. However, in general, the staff is very helpful with problems that aren't too serious. I have been very lucky in getting teachers who truly care about kids. There are countless sports and club opportunities which positively impacts the school culture. However, if you are not in the right social group, you can feel left out. The music program is declining, but I personally loved it. The academic work is extremely vigorous, so choose your classes wisely to stay emotionally stable.
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As a well-known college prep school, it appears to be an excellent school. Having attended Lake Oswego Senior High School as an honors and AP student, I can attest to the fact that there is an abundance of open-minded and thoughtful students who work hard to make sure the school is a welcoming and safe environment. That being said, as soon as you take classes that are required for all students, the difference between students who excel in school and those who don't is overwhelming. It's a great school for students who come in with a level of privilege and competitive spirit, although it's not an easy place to fall behind. Overall, academics and sports are among the best programs in the area, although if you're looking for a great performing arts program (specifically drama and choir), I would look at Lakeridge.
The school does a good job preparing you for college and has incredible staff, administrators, and teachers. You never really hear of anyone being bullied or getting into a fights, which is a testament to the school's safety. Great sports teams and coaches, incredible overall academics, and a largely appealing student culture make this a great school. Only downside is a lack of diversity but that is more of a factor of the neighborhoods from which it draws its students. The lack of diversity of the city of Lake Oswego makes the public school lack diversity as well.
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Staci Repp
Staci Repp of Caddo Kiowa Technology Center recently received the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Equity Council. Pictured are, from left, Marcie Mack, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education executive director; Kermit McMurry, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education vice chancellor for student affairs; Repp; Patrick Klein, Oklahoma Department of Human Services chief officer and division director of adult and family services; and Tony Hancock, CKTC superintendent.
Staci Repp of Caddo Kiowa Technology Center recently received the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Equity Council.
Repp was one of 15 Oklahomans and eight Oklahoma businesses and nonprofit organizations honored at the 24th annual Making It Work Day at the Capitol on March 29. Making It Work Day recognizes individuals who are committed to removing barriers to success for single-parent families by providing educational experiences for students beyond the classroom. The ceremony also recognized nontraditional students and members who received national honors for their efforts.
Nine students were recognized from the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and award presentations to individuals, businesses and organizations were made at a luncheon at the Oklahoma History Center.
As director of student services, Repp supervises adult basic education and the ADVANCE/Work Prep program at CKTC. She is an advocate for CKTC students, identifying resources and helping with student placement in programs, said Ronda Weaver, Work Prep coordinator, who nominated her for the award.
Repp began her career at CKTC as an administrative assistant in maintenance, then moved into clerical work in student services. When CKTC assumed the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Literacy Program, Weaver said, “Staci seemed a natural for the instructional position.”
She also assumed the ASCOG Youth (WIA) program before moving into recruitment, where she revamped the sophomore recruitment effort and developed a hands-on career exploration field trip for sixth-grade students in CKTC partner schools, Weaver said.
“Staci has a heart for students who choose Caddo Kiowa as a pathway to a successful career,” Weaver said.
OkCTEEC is affiliated with the administrative division of the Oklahoma Association of Career and Technology Education. The council advocates for students pursuing nontraditional careers and for resources for educating single parents.
“OkCTEEC believes in the phrase, “It takes a village,” and wants to recognize all those who have helped nontraditional students find success. OkCTEEC serves as a unifying council for all personnel serving displaced homemakers, single parents and pregnant women, nontraditional students, at-risk students, teen parents and pregnant teens. The Making It Work Day award ceremony is an event that recognizes and honors all the dedicated and hardworking students, programs and community or business partners that have worked so hard throughout the year to see students’ dreams come to fruition,” said KayTee Niquette, Work Prep and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families coordinator at the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
She serves as an adviser for OkCTEEC, along with Lisa French of the Department of Human Services and Gina McPherson of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
“Making It Work Day at the Capitol is an opportunity to recognize the success of outstanding students from colleges and career technology centers who contribute to making it work in Oklahoma, as well as those administrators, instructors and community partners who have worked to expand opportunities and improve outcomes through their dedicated and invaluable services,” said Angela Barnes, OkCTEEC president and coordinator of the REACH and REACH4Work program at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. “It is a great day to let our state leaders, legislators and Oklahomans see the faces of those who go over and beyond at making a difference in our state.
“Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Equity Council is an organization devoted to equity in education and employment for disadvantaged groups. It is about providing real-life experiences for our students, developing leaders and maintaining relationships within communities.”
OkCTEEC’s purposes include promoting and supporting career and technology education, increasing its effectiveness, promoting research in the field and in educational equity, developing leadership and advocating for equity and diversity.
For more information about OkCTEEC, visit www.cteec.org/. For more information about the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, visit www.okcareertech.org.
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Jim caught the surfing bug at a very young age. Born to windsurfing parents on the stunningly beautiful Isle of Purbeck, he soon discovered Dorset’s premium reef break, Kimmeridge Bay, and the sail and rig became obsolete.
Over the years Jim has migrated further and further south along Europe’s Atlantic coastline pursuing the perfect life/surf equilibrium. His family now resides 50Km north of Lisbon, Portugal, in farmer country. What Jim describes is what many of his peers would consider to be the Shangri-La of surfing. “The people in my village have little idea that the coastline is littered with some of the best (secret) surf spots in Europe!” he boasts.
In Portugal, Jim and his family enjoy an almost subsistence living, growing their own vegetables, bartering with the locals and brewing their own beer, which allows him to spend less time chasing the coin and more time with his family and surfing, when the waves dictate. He seems to have an enviable balance between homelife and his passion, and he knows it, happy to give credit to his wife and son:
“How can surfing, life and family go together? They can’t. The simple fact is that I am surrounded by amazing humans that understand me and my addiction. My son and wife both surf which helps, but they know when the isobars dictate that I must get in the water. The same is true for work, it has to fit around surf, on a normal 9-5 in the office or factory, we would nip out for a two-hour session and make the time up later after my son has gone to bed. I feel life is about making time for yourself and your hobbies but making sure you balance the work and family in there.”
Jim earns a modest income on the fringes of the surf industry, testing equipment, contributing articles and assisting local surfboard shapers when they need a second pair of hands. Annie, Jim’s long-suffering wife teaches English part-time too. His plan is to take Surf Bunker, an online surf magazine and board-swapping community with a growing readership, to the big-time.
“I’ve started a company called Surf Bunker, an online mag which will go on to ‘dominate the world’. Only total domination is acceptable. I literally love everything about that I do, it’s what consumes me on a daily (and nightly) basis. The thirst to learn more is insatiable.”
Asked about how he spends his downtime; Jim is unquestionably British in his tastes: “Walking my dogs through the countryside, finding a pub I have never been into before, starting a conversation and making some new mates. Meeting new people and getting different perspectives on life is one of the coolest things. Put down the phone and talk to people next to you on the train/bus/pub, you never know, they might not be weird.”
Quizzed about his definition of adventure, Jim responds, “I’ve lived in various countries and immersed myself in different cultures… life is the adventure. A day does not go by that is boring or the same, challenges and experiences present themselves, always teaching me something new.” Jim overflows with positivity and he’s content with his lot in life. Sure, he still dreams of one day riding Japanese waves and powder, and experience the madness of Tokyo, but he cherishes every moment of his day-to-day.
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In 1962, during a speech at Rice University, US President John F. Kennedy captured the world’s imagination proclaiming that: “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” This was to become enshrined in history as the first “moonshot goal”.
He continued to add: “We choose this goal not because they are easy, but because it is hard. Because this goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.”
Shortly after, the term moonshot entered the dictionary, defined as a difficult or expensive task, the outcome of which is expected to have great significance.
Thanks in part to Google, moonshots or moonshot goals have seen a recent surge in the corporate world.
Why you need a moonshot goal
In a 2013 interview with WIRED, Larry Page, Google’s Cofounder and CEO, said: “I live by the gospel of 10x. A 10% improvement means that you’re doing the same thing as everybody else. You probably won’t fail spectacularly, but you are guaranteed not to succeed wildly.”.
This mentality is at the heart of Google X, which is responsible for ‘moonshot projects’ like the driverless car. Page explains that 1,000% improvement requires a completely different approach towards problems, exploring the limits of what’s technically possible, and guaranteeing everyone will have a lot more fun in the process.
Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) share a similar ideology.
Moonshots, if ambitious, also have the ability to attract and retain great talent. Think of Kennedy’s speech again, who wouldn’t want to work on landing a man on the moon? Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working on enabling people to live on other planets.
Talented people want to be part of an exciting journey. With millennials taking up an increasingly bigger share of the workforce (75% by 2025), this becomes all the more relevant as they care more about purpose than pay.
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You don’t need moonshot goals all over the organization. You only need one (unless you’re more of a conglomerate, like Google is these days).
Moonshot goals are part of a future-back approach to strategy, where most strategic-planning processes take a present-forward approach. A good future-back strategy can go well beyond the typical 3 year planning horizons. Therefore, the best place to put it is in your mission and vision. This is also where Google, Amazon and SpaceX hide their moonshots.
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The latest model in Leica’s ‘T’ interchangeable-lens camera series offers improvements in speed, ease of handling and flexibility.
The Leica TL2 sits squarely at the top end of the ‘prestige’ market, with a high build quality, distinctive design, and an array of colourful accessories.
It’s likely to appeal to snapshooters who want the flexibility of an interchangeable-lens system but the familiarity of a smartphone-like icon-based interface.
The Leica TL2 is the third model in a series of interchangeable-lens cameras based upon a compact ‘unibody’ machined from a single block of aluminium. We reviewed the original Leica T (Typ 701) back in May 2014, but not its successor, the Leica TL. The new model provides further improvements, with an increase in resolution from 16 megapixels in the T and TL to 24 megapixels in the TL2. The new Maestro II image processor adds 4K/30p video capabilities and an electronic shutter with a top speed of 1/40,000 second, with the latter boosting continuous shooting from seven to 20 frames/second.
Angled front view of the Leica TL2, silver version, fitted with the Vario-Elmar-TL 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. zoom lens, one of the options available with the camera body. (Source: Leica Camera.)
Like the original T, the TL2 will be offered in silver and black versions, with the camera body carrying an RRP of AU$2750, which is $450 more than the original model at its launch. It will be sold through Leica-approved re-sellers and Leica boutique stores. Accessories designed for the T and TL ““ including adapters for Leica M and R lenses, the Visoflex (Typ 020) EVF and SF26 flash ““ can be used with the new camera.
Angled front and rear views of the Leica TL2 showing the two colour options plus two different lenses. (Source: Leica Camera.)
Built and priced like a professional camera but operating like a consumer camera, the TL2 is targeted at the same folk as its predecessors: ‘New customers who want state-of-art technology, modern lifestyle products and are lovers of premium brands’ (to quote Leica’s summary at the launch of the LeicaT). We’d summarise the typical buyers as snapshooters who want the flexibility of an interchangeable-lens system but the familiarity of a smartphone-like icon-based interface. Whichever assessment you prefer, the TL2 sits squarely at the top end of the ‘prestige’ market.
As a snapshooter’s camera, the TL2 is rather large. It’s similar in size to the larger, more feature-rich models in Fujifilm’s range and heavier than most entry-level DSLR bodies. Like its predecessors, the TL2 also plugs a gap between the X-system and the M-system, providing the interchangeable-lens option missing from the former and the AF and AE facilities the latter lacks.
It also makes an emphatic style statement, not only for its distinctive design but also for the array of colourful accessories, some of which come in eye-catching colours like red and yellow. You can get leather protectors for the camera body plus complementing coloured straps, coloured rope straps, a leather holster and a smart ‘system bag’ that can hold the camera plus a couple of lenses, a flashgun and the Visoflex EVF.
When the original Leica T was launched in 2014, there were only two dedicated lenses on offer: a standard 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ‘kit’ lens and a compact 23mm f/2 prime. Now there are six covering the following focal lengths (35mm equivalent focal lengths shown in brackets):
– Vario-Elmar-TL 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. (27-84mm)
– Super-Vario-Elmar-TL 11-23mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH. (16.5-34.5mm)
– APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH. (82.5-202.5mm)
– Summicron-TL 23mm f/2 ASPH. (34.5mm)
– Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. (52.5mm)
– APO-Macro-Elmarit-TL 60mm f/2.8 ASPH. (90mm)
The TL2 can also accept all L-mount lenses as well as lenses from the Leica M and R through Leica-branded adapters. While the TL2 lacks built-in stabilisation, it can take advantage of the stabilisation function in Leica’s SL lenses with OIS. A special setting is provided in the Still Image sub-menu.
While there isn’t a huge choice of focal lengths for photographers, the lens range certainly covers popular focal lengths. To extend capabilities, users of the TL2 can also fit lenses from Leica’s more extensive L-mount range for its ‘full frame’ cameras as well as Leica M- and R-mount lenses via an appropriate adapter. Naturally, the 1.5x crop factor will apply.
There have been a few modifications to the body, the most noteworthy being the elimination of the pop-up flash provided in the previous models. A hot-shoe embedded in the top panel accepts compatible flashguns and the camera supports flash synch at shutter speeds up to 1/180 second.
The remaining changes are internal, with the upgraded sensor and image processor being responsible for most of the performance improvements. Resolution has increased from 16.3 megapixels to 24.3 megapixels and the new Maestro II image processor increases ISO sensitivity from 12500 to 50000.
The shutter mechanism has been modified to add an electronic shutter with a top speed of 1/40,000 second. Continuous shooting speeds have risen from five frames/second (fps) to seven fps with the mechanical shutter or 20 fps with the electronic shutter.
The buffer capacity has more than doubled from 12 frames in the Leica TL to 29 frames at full speed in the TL2 and possibly more, depending on the memory card properties. The TL2 supports the latest UHS II cards, whereas the TL didn’t even provide UHS I compatibility. Its internal memory has also doubled since the original Leica T and is 32GB, the same as the TL’s.
The ability to record movie clips with 4K resolution at 100Mbps is another feature that lifts the TL2 above its predecessors. The T and TL were limited to Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel movies at 30 fps or HD at 1280 x 720 pixels, also at 30 fps.
Although the user-adjustable external controls haven’t changed, the menu system has undergone a re-design, which relies even more on the touch-screen operations. Leica claims to have improved the responsiveness of the screen to make it easier to navigate functions, although you still have to know which icons to tap and where sub-menus can be found.
The icon-based menu is split into nine categories: Still Image, Exposure, Focus, Motion Image, Connectivity, Monitor/EVF, Play, General and Flash. This array covers the entire monitor screen and provides the gateway to all camera functions.
Tapping on an icon opens sub-menus that allow functions to be selected. Any of these functions can be dragged to the customisable My Camera menu, indicated by an icon in the vertical panel to the right of the screen. Once you’ve set up your own arrangement of camera settings they will be displayed in the array when the camera is switched on and you tap on the camera icon.
Some sub-menus contain only one or two items; others (such as the white balance and ISO sub-menus) have a list of multiple settings. A number of functions (such as ISO and white balance) are pre-set to auto by default in the My Camera menu but any item’s position can be changed and new items can be dragged into the menu or deleted from it. Individual settings can be selected via either the camera’s setting dials or gesture control.
The new menu system also addresses one of the irritating features of the Leica T’s controls: the automatic re-setting of the self-timer to off after each shot. In the new menu, functions engaged via the menu remain engaged when the camera is switched off so if you’ve left the self-timer activated, it will operate the next time you use the camera.
In the aperture priority, shutter priority and auto program modes, the right setting dial adjusts the aperture, shutter speed and program shift functions respectively, while the default setting for the left dial is ISO, although this can be changed. Each dial can be locked to a function by holding a finger on the related function display until the camera indicates it’s locked. Users can also choose whether they want particular operations or a full memory card to be indicated by audible tones, or if they prefer near-silent operation of the camera.
An additional scene preset, digiscoping, has been added to the original array that consisted of the following options: fully automatic, sport, portrait, landscape, night portrait, snow/beach, fireworks, candlelight, sunset. This allows the camera to be connected to a spotting scope or telescope for telephoto shooting. These settings disable the two setting dials and the program shift function.
Although the AF system still uses contrast detection, autofocusing has been improved to provide a claimed threefold increase in lock-on speed over the Leica TL. For focusing, however, the touchscreen interface still defaults to Multi-point AF, which over-rides touch focus control. If you want touch AF with or without shutter release, it must be selected in the menu.
The key USB and HDMI interfaces have been ungraded, with USB Type C 3.0 and HDMI 1.4 ports, respectively and USB charging is supported. There have also been improvements to the built-in Wi-Fi system plus a new app that works with both Android and iOS devices to provide a remote viewfinder and remote control.
However, battery capacity has fallen from 400 shots/charge in the Leica TL to 250 shots/charge in the TL2, which is reasonably accurate if you activate the Wi-Fi and fit the Visoflex EVF. (You would probably get more in warmer weather and without the EVF and Wi-Fi.) The new camera is also marginally heavier, at 399 grams with battery included, compared with 384 grams for the original T.
The Film Mode settings carry over unchanged to the TL2 with the Standard mode producing a very slight boost to contrast and saturation, the Natural slightly reducing both and the Vivid setting boosting both noticeably. The two monochrome settings, B&W Natural and B&W High Contrast provide the anticipated results and are easy to use.
The TL2 provides the same adjustments for contrast, sharpness and saturation as its predecessors, each parameter adjustable by sliding a fingertip along a scale. An asterisk is displayed beside each scale to indicate adjustments have been carried out.
Build and Ergonomics
Changes to the body design are mostly small and subtle and the new camera is physically very similar to its predecessors, including the original Leica T, which we reviewed in May 2014. Machined from a single block of aluminium, the camera body has a solid feel, with a subtle grip moulding and a smooth finish to the anodised surface. Sadly, it isn’t weather-sealed ““ and neither are the lenses.
The front panel of the Leica TL2 with the Vario-Elmar-TL 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. zoom lens. (Source: Leica Camera.)
Aside from the removal of the built-in flash, the top panel layout is largely unchanged, with the shutter button sitting proud of the flat surface and surrounded by the on/off lever switch. The customisable function button lies to its right. By default it starts and stops movie recording.
The top panel of the Leica TL2 with no lens fitted. (Source: Leica Camera.)
Behind are two setting dials, which are used in conjunction with the on-screen menus for selecting camera functions. By default, the right dial controls aperture, shutter speed and program-shift adjustments while the left dial adjusts ISO settings.
The only other items on the top panel are the accessory shoe, which accepts compatible flashguns or the optional Visoflex (Typ 020) electronic viewfinder. Astride the accessory shoe are four-hole microphones for recording movie soundtracks in stereo.
Rear view of the Leica TL2. (Source: Leica Camera.)
The rear panel is almost entirely covered by the 3.7-inch monitor, which has a resolution of 1,229,760 dots and is non-adjustable. It’s the same monitor as used on previous models with a capacitative touch-screen covered with low-sheen Gorilla Glass.
To the right of the monitor, a lift-up panel covers the memory card slot plus USB and HDMI interface sockets. LED indicators between the monitor and panel show the status of data transfer and battery charge.
The battery is located in the usual place below the grip moulding. It has a permanently-attached metal cover that lies flush with the base plate and is locked in place by a lever.
The battery comes out in two steps when the lever is turned. The first step lifts its cover above the base plate, while a second catch releases it completely. The only other item on the base plate is a standard tripod socket, which is positioned in the centre of the plate, off the lens axis.
The side panels feature Leica’s Easy-Click system for attaching straps to the camera, which require a special pin that is inserted into a socket on each side of the camera body. The result looks nice and keeps the strap from tangling. But the pin is easy to mislay and, not surprisingly, relatively costly to replace.
What’s Missing?
Our main gripe with the Leica TL2 is the same as for the original Leica T: the lack of a built-in EVF. We requested (and received) the optional Visoflex (Typ 020) EVF when we were offered the camera to review. More information on the Visoflex can be found below.
We’re uncertain about whether removing the flash was a good move; in most cases, these cameras work better with available light and the flash in the previous models was pretty feeble. However, photographers who plan to fit accessory flashguns should be aware they can’t do so when the EVF is in place because both devices use the same accessory shoe.
Another issue we identified with the original Leica T that still hasn’t been addressed is the lack of proper image stabilisation. It’s not built into the camera body and absent from the current range of TL lenses. Nor is dust removal, a surprising omission in the current marketplace, particularly when some manufacturers combine dust removal with sensor-shift stabilisation, which surely would be possible in the T-series cameras.
Like its predecessors, the TL2 only supports the sRGB colour space. That will probably matter little to snapshooters but could be another deal breaker for serious landscape photographers.
Image and Movie Sizes
Unlike the Leica T, which couldn’t record raw files on their own, the TL2 is able to record DNG files independently, as well as JPEGs and RAW+JPEG pairs. DNG.RAW files can be uncompressed or losslessly compressed and are always at a resolution of 6016 x 4014 pixels. However, whereas the Leica T provided five image sizes and two compression ratios, the TL2 has only three JPEG sizes to choose from: 24 megapixels (6000 x 4000), 12 megapixels (4272 x 2856) and 6 megapixels (3024 x 2016). RAW+JPEG pairs are always captured at maximum resolution.
Including 4K video in the TL2 improves its capabilities over the previous T-series cameras, which were limited to Full HD (1080p) and HD (720p) and a frame rate of 30 fps. However, compared with the Leica SL, the TL2’s 4K mode is pretty basic, with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and a frame rate of 30 fps. The TL2 also includes a SLOMO (slow motion) setting which records 702p clips at 120 fps.
This illustration shows how much the image frame is cropped when the camera is in movie mode. The inner rectangle shows the movie frame.
As in previous models, only part of the sensor area is used in movie mode, leading to a reduction in the field of view. The camera manual provides no information about how much the frame is cropped but, going by our tests (shown above) we estimate the effective focal length of the lens is increased by about 30%. According to the user manual: When using video stabilization, the trimming is slightly reduced compared to operation without stabilization.
Clips can be up to seven minutes long with 4K resolution or 29 minutes with 1080p and 720p, up to a maximum file size of 4GB. In movie mode aperture, shutter speed and ISO adjustments are determined automatically by default, although manual over-ride is possible for all three functions. The automatic exposure control will adjust for fluctuations in brightness when clips are recorded.
Soundtracks are recorded in stereo with the built-in microphones and a wind filter is available for suppressing wind noise when recording are made out of doors. Leica warns that both AF and zooming noises can be picked up by the microphones, although the camera operates relatively quietly on the whole.
The Visoflex (Typ 020) EVF
The Visoflex (Typ 020) electronic viewfinder clips into the hot-shoe on the TL2’s top panel after you’ve removed the covers that protect the contacts on both devices. Once in place, it draws power from the camera’s battery when the camera is switched on. It sports a rotating knob that allows dioptre settings to be adjusted from -3 to +3 dpt as well as an eye sensor that automatically switches from the monitor to the EVF when you raise the camera to your eye.
Although the monitor on the TL2 is bright enough for outdoor use, it can’t provide an accurate representation of the scene so you must cope with some degree of point-and-guess shooting, particularly when recording movies. The Visoflex overcomes this by providing a display of the scene with the levels of brightness, contrast and colour saturation the sensor will capture.
The Visoflex electronic viewfinder angled to show the eyepiece and tilted slightly upwards. (Source: Leica Camera.)
The Visoflex The eyepiece can be tilted up through 90 degrees and, while it isn’t ratcheted, the hinge is strong enough to hold the eyepiece in any position between horizontal and vertical. It’s also easy to use while wearing glasses, although it really needs a rubber eyecup to keep out stray light, which tends to intrude, particularly when the sun is at a low angle.
Front view of the Leica TL2, silver version, with the Visoflex fitted. (Source: Leica Camera.)
The Visoflex has some real advantages.
1. It provides more comfortable viewing in sunny conditions.
2.The high resolution (3.7 million dots) of the screen and the size of the display ensures excellent viewing quality The image appears brighter than most EVFs as well as sharper.
3. The screen displays the main camera settings, which can vary depending on the shooting mode you select. It also provides a battery status icon.
4. It adds GPS capability to the camera, a useful feature for both landscape and wildlife shooters.
However, it also has a few downsides. It’s expensive (RRP AU$720) and, unfortunately if you’re wearing glasses it can be REALLY slow to respond, although without glasses it would often react quickly when the eye sensor was triggered.
In the worst case scenario, we found it could take 15 seconds or more before the screen displayed a picture. We missed a number of shots as a result and finally gave up using the Visoflex for street shooting because it simply wasn’t fast enough.
The GPS function also takes a few minutes to engage because it has to acquire signals from at least three satellites. This is excusable and relatively easy to deal with because the satellite link should persist while you’re shooting at a particular site with the camera switched on. A ‘satellite’ symbol is displayed on the screen to show the camera can add location data to image files.
Finally, anyone who purchased the TL2 when it was first released should be aware of a problem with using the Visoflex EVF, which received quite a lot of publicity online. Leica has fixed this problem with new Firmware (v. 1.1) which is available to download from Leica’s website and is installed in all cameras that are currently offered for sale.
Connectivity, Playback and Software
Very little has changed in all three areas, although the Wi-Fi function in the camera is now compatible with both iOS and Android devices (instead of just iOS as it was with the Leica T). The Leica TL app is available through the Apple App Store as well as the Google Play Store.
Selecting the Wi-Fi icon in the camera menu lets you establish a connection to either a smart device or a router. Once connected, you can use the Web Gallery function to browse images in the camera.
The Wi-Fi function draws power from the camera battery and will quickly deplete it if it’s left on. Consequently, it will be automatically disabled if an active USB connection between the camera and a computer is detected.
The Playback mode on the TL2 is similar to the original T’s and essentially touch-based. It’s somewhat limited compared with most compact cameras but supports functions like slideshow playback with user-adjustable duration settings, zoom and image tagging.
No software was supplied with the review camera and, interestingly, there’s no offer of a free download of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom when owners register their camera on the Leica Camera AG website as there was for the original Leica T. Fortunately, the DNG.RAW files from the camera can be converted into editable TIFF format with any image editor that includes raw file support, including older versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Since we only received one lens with the review camera, all testing was carried out with the Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens. Test shots taken with the Standard, Vivid and Natural Film Modes had lower levels of saturation and were roughly 1/3 of a stop brighter than their equivalents from the Leica T. Contrast levels were also slightly higher, which could be inconvenient in contrasty outdoor lighting. Fortunately, DNG.RAW files provided plenty of scope for adjustment across all parameters and tended to yield excellent results.
Our Imatest tests, which were conducted with the default Standard Film Mode reflected the reduced saturation levels and showed the camera to be capable of the expected resolution in the centre of the frame with JPEG files and reaching acceptable levels near the periphery. With raw files, resolution comfortable exceeded expectations in the central third of the frame and came close to expectations near the edges and corners.
We found the expected decline in resolution as sensitivity was increased, although raw files retained a relatively high resolution right up to ISO 6400. The decline in resolution at higher ISO settings was less than occurs in most cameras that offer ISO settings of 25,000 or higher. The graph below shows the results of our tests.
Low-light performance was generally excellent. Long exposures at night showed little noise at most ISO settings, although some was visible above ISO12500. We also saw slight softening in images at the highest ISO settings although overall performance at high sensitivities was better than we’re accustomed to seeing with most cameras we test. Shots taken at ISO 50000 would be usable at small output sizes and for some screen-based applications.
Autofocusing was quite variable and depended in the focus area setting and subject type. With the AFs (single) mode plus spot focusing and centrally-positioned subjects, the camera could lock-on almost instantly. The same was true for landscape and cityscape shots when multi-point AF was selected.
Focusing was a little slower in the AF-C mode, which is the default setting for movie capture. Once focus is found, it appears to lock-on while the shutter is half-pressed and but we found the system was relatively slow to re-adjust to moving subjects while shooting a movie clip. The Face Detection mode was relatively quick to find human subjects within the frame and locked-on in less than one second.
If you select the Touch focus setting in the focus mode sub-menu, you can tap on the screen to set the active focus point, which is retained until another area is selected. This can be combined with triggering the shutter to capture a frame.
In theory, you should be able to select or move a focus point while viewing the scene through the Visoflex EVF and it’s certainly possible. But we found the design of the camera body made it a little more difficult than it is in other cameras with this option.
Auto white balance performance was similar to that of the Leica SL, although the TL2 provides fewer settings and less control. With the default Auto setting, the camera failed to completely remove the warm cast produced by incandescent lighting but produced slightly better correction with LED lights and close to neutral colours under fluorescent light.
Like its predecessors, the TL2 has no pre-set for either fluorescent or LED lighting. The Tungsten pre-set over-corrected slightly, introducing a slight blue cast. Manual measurement delivered neutral colours with all three lighting types and the Custom settings were easy to use.
Video quality was mostly acceptable, given the camera’s limitations, although clips tended to have inherently elevated contrast. There are only three resolution settings with no control over frame rates and you can’t fit an external microphone. Bit rate also varies from 100Mbps for 4K through about 30Mbps for 1080p to 20Mbps at 720p, ending up with 10Mbps in the slow motion mode.
We found the SLOMO setting raised the exposure level by roughly two thirds of a stop, compared with the other settings, where the auto exposure function quickly adjusted to changes in scene brightness. The digital stabilisation system produced only a slight degree of steadying when the camera was hand-held in the normal modes and none in the slow-motion mode.
The quality of the soundtracks was quite good for internal microphones. But not up to professional standards, even with 4K footage.
For our timing tests we used a Lexar Professional 64GB SDXC UHS-II memory card, which claims a transfer speed of 300 MB/second and is fast enough for recording 4K movies and fast bursts of high-resolution stills. The review camera took just over a second to power-up and the Visoflex EVF viewfinder took a further second to display the scene when the eye sensor was tripped ““ provided we weren’t wearing glasses.
An average capture lag of 0.25 seconds was eliminated by pre-focusing. Shot-to-shot times in the single-shot mode averaged 1.25 seconds. It’s difficult to estimate processing times because, although the tiny indicator LED on the rear panel switched off within roughly 0.5 seconds, the display on the monitor screen took an average of 5.6 seconds to refresh. This was true regardless of the file format (JPEG or DNG.RAW) and also with RAW+JPEG pairs.
Using the mechanical shutter in the high-speed continuous shooting mode, the camera recorded 36 JPEG frames with maximum quality in 4.8 seconds before pausing, which equates to a frame rate of 7.5 fps. It took 5.9 seconds to refresh the screen display after this burst.
Losslessly compressed DNG.RAW files filled the buffer memory at 33 frames, which were recorded in 4.4 seconds, which is the same frame rate as we measured for the JPEGs. It took 6.7 seconds to refresh the screen display after this burst.
Swapping to RAW+JPEG capture, we recorded 37 frames in 4.9 seconds, which is a marginally faster frame rate. It took 5.4 seconds to refresh the screen display. The fast memory card probably accounts for the speed and buffer capacity discrepancies from the specifications list.
There’s nothing in either the user manual or the camera’s menu system to show how to select the electronic shutter so we were unable to run any tests. We can only assume it clicks in automatically when you’re shooting movie clips and when exposure times less than 1/4000 second are required.
As we indicated in our review of the Leica T, it’s difficult to write up reviews of Leica’s products without including comments on price, which has always been a factor associated with the brand. Put briefly, Leica makes premium products and prices them accordingly. The prestige of owning a Leica product is factored into the price and the build, handling and presentation of the camera and lenses reinforce that message.
Whether this camera and its associated lenses justify their price tags is up to each individual purchaser. If high build quality, image quality, style and the Leica red dot are important to you, you’ll probably find the TL2 meets your needs.
While we weren’t enamoured of the touch-based menu, we can see its appeal to people who enjoy using their smartphones. It’s certainly functional enough once you’ve learned to use it (which is try of other manufacturers’ more conventional menu systems), although it’s quite limited in scope. Again, however, potential purchasers will likely find it ‘good enough’.
As far as image quality is concerned, if you shoot DNG.RAW files, the TL2 should live up to your expectations of a Leica camera. JPEG shooters should also be content, particularly if they use the Vivid Film Mode and share their photos on-screen. We’re more ambivalent about video quality, although the 4K movies looked pretty good and had acceptable soundtracks.
The best local price we found was AU$2695. B&H has it listed at US$1950 (= AU$2459.15 on 21/8/17), which when you add AU$65.59 for shipping and $302.23 for ‘duties and tax’, adds up to almost AU$2827. So it’s cheaper to buy locally, even for such a pricey bit of gear!
For the money we’d prefer the Leica Q, which has a fixed lens and is a bit more expensive than the combo we reviewed but comes with an excellent built-in EVF plus lens-shift stabilisation. These features in an interchangeable-lens camera could be a winner for Leica in today’s market.
Image sensor: 23.6 x 15.7 mm APS-C CMOS sensor with 25 million photosites (24.3 megapixels effective)
Image processor: Leica developed Maestro II
Lens mount: Leica L bayonet fitting (accepts Leica TL and SL lenses plus lenses with Leica L-Mount, Leica M/R lenses using the Leica M-Adapter L/R-Adapter L)
Focal length crop factor: 1.5x
Image formats: Stills ““ DNG.RAW, JPEG, RAW+JPEG; Movies ““ MP4
Image Sizes: Stills ““ 6016 x 4014 (DNG.RAW only), 6000 x 4000, 4272 x 2856, 3024 x 2016; Movies: 3840 x 2160 p (4K) 30fps, 1920 x 1080 p (FHD) 50 fps or 1280 x 720 p (HD) fps or 1280 x 720 p (HD) 120 fps (SLOMO)
Image Stabilisation: Lens based (no dedicated stabilised lenses available yet)
Dust removal: No
Shutter speed range: 30 to 1/4000 seconds with mechanical shutter plus electronic shutter to 1/40000 second; flash synch at 1/180 second
Exposure Compensation: +/- 3EV in 1/3EV increments
Exposure bracketing: Three pictures in graduations up to +/- 3 EV, adjustable in 1/3 EV increments
Self-timer: Selectable delay time 2 or 12 seconds
Focus system: 49-point contrast detection AF plus manual focusing
Focus modes: Single point, multi-zone, spot, face detection, touch AF
Exposure metering: Multi-zone, centre-weighted and spot patterns
Shooting modes: Fully automatic, program AE, aperture priority, shutter speed priority, manual setting.
Scene presets: Sport, portrait, landscape, night portrait, snow/beach, fireworks, candlelight, sunset, digiscoping
Film Modes: Standard, Vivid, Natural, B&W Natural, B&W High Contrast
Colour space options: sRGB only
ISO range: Automatic, ISO 100 to ISO 50000
White balance: Automatic, presets for daylight, cloud, halogen lighting, shadow, electronic flash, two Custom settings, manual colour temperature setting
Flash: Optional system compatible flash
Flash modes: Automatic, automatic/red eye reduction, always on, always on/red eye reduction, slow sync, slow sync/red eye reduction
Flash exposure adjustment: +/-3 EV in 1/3EV increments
Sequence shooting: Approx. 7 fps with mechanical shutter or 20 fps with electronic shutter
Buffer capacity: 29 frames at full speed, then depending on memory card properties
Storage Media: 32 GB internal memory plus single slot for SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards; UHS II-standard is supported
Viewfinder: Optional Leica Visoflex Electronic Viewfinder
LCD monitor: 3.7-inch touch-screen TFT LCD with 1,229,760 dots (854 x 480 pixel per colour channel)
Interface terminals: Micro HDMI (type D), USB type C (3.0 Super Speed), Leica flash interface with integrated connection for optional accessories; battery charging via USB connection possible with max. 1 A.
Wi-Fi function: Complies with IEEE 802.11b/g/n standard (standard WLAN protocol), channel 1-11, encryption method: Wi-Fi compatible WPA/WPA2, access method: Infrastructure operation
Power supply: Leica BP-DC 13 rechargeable lithium-ion battery; CIPA rated for approx. 250 shots/charge
Dimensions (wxhxd): Approx. 134 x 69 x 33 mm
Weight: Approx. 355 grams (body only); 399 grams with battery
Distributor: Leica Camera Australia, (03) 9248 4444, http://en.leica-camera.com/
Based on JPEG files.
Based on DNG.RAW files converted into 16-bit TIFFs with Adobe Camera Raw.
All test shots were taken with the Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens.
Auto white balance with incandescent lighting.
Auto white balance with fluorescent lighting.
Auto white balance with LED lighting.
30-second exposure at ISO 100, f/1.6.
30-second exposure at ISO 400, f/4.
15-second exposure at ISO 1600, f/5.6.
10-second exposure at ISO 6400, f/9.
5-second exposure at ISO 12500, f/8.
3.2-second exposure at ISO 25000, f/5.6.
2-second exposure at ISO 50000, f/5.6.
Standard film mode, ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/5.6.
Vivid film mode: ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/5.6.
Natural film mode: ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/5.6.
B&W Natural film mode: ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/5.6.
B&W High Contrast film mode: ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/5.6.
ISO 16000, 1/100 second at f/5.6.
ISO 4000, 1/125 second at f/5.
ISO 50000, 1/100 second at f/8.
ISO 100, 1/100 second at f/7.1.
ISO 200, 1/100 second at f/8.
ISO 1600, 1/100 second at f/6.3.
Still frame from 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) video clip.
Still frame from Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) video clip.
Still frame from HD (1280 x 720 pixels) video clip.
Still frame from slow-motion video clip at 120 fps in HD resolution.
Additional image samples can be found in our review of the Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens.
RRP: AU$2750; US$1950 (body only)
Build: 9.0
Ease of use: 8.5
Autofocusing: 8.4
Still image quality JPEG: 8.9
Still image quality RAW: 9.0
Video quality: 8.5
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New build homes in Plymouth turned down because of risk to oak tree
The mature oak stood next to a proposed new access road to 14 houses at Tamerton Foliot
Edward Oldfield
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A mini housing estate which risked harming an oak tree has been blocked by Plymouth planners.
The mature tree stood next to a proposed new access road to 14 houses on open land at Cann Lodge in Tamerton Foliot.
Plans to reach the homes from the end of Cheshire Drive were opposed by residents, and other objectors argued the scheme went against policies to protect the environment.
Highways officers had earlier raised concerns including the potential harm to the roots of the tree from the proposed new access road.
The reasons for refusal published in a decision letter on the city council’s planning portal outlined a series of conflicts with planning policies including:
failure to show safe vehicle and pedestrian access;
failure to justify building on a Neighbourhood Green Space or replace it with other leisure land;
causing harm to the landscape character by damage to the Tamerton Foliot Conservation Area through the loss of open grassland “affecting the tranquility of the area”, and reducing the separation between Whitleigh and Southway;
causing harm to the historic environment by the effect on the Tamerton Foliot Village Conservation Area and Cann House, and important views towards the listed St Mary's church;
unacceptable and harmful impact on protected trees;
failure to show how there would be a minimum 10 per cent improvement in biodiversity.
Southway councillor Mark Deacon, who objected to the application, welcomed the refusal because he said the scheme went against policies in the Plymouth and South West Devon Local Plan.
Cllr Deacon said: “I was against it because it connected Tamerton Foliot with Southway, and for me Tamerton Foliot is a village on the outskirts of Southway, and it would be nice to keep it with a village feel.
“Also it was on green land, and I am in favour of houses being built on brown land, rather than green.
“The news that the houses have been rejected will be a massive relief to all of those in Tamerton Foliot who didn’t want them, and also those in Cheshire Drive in Southway.”
The outline application for 14 detached homes on the site at Cann Lodge, with all the details to be decided later except for the access, was submitted by property consultants Savills on behalf of the PD Tuckett Will Trust.
Masterplan of the proposed site for new homes at Tamerton Foliot (Image: Pad Design Ltd)
A statement on behalf of the applicant said the scheme would create “high quality” homes with public green space, and would respect “the existing heritage, surrounding Conservation Area, woodlands and mature trees.”
The 1.63hectare (4.02acre) site described as semi-agricultural land is south-east of the village centre in the Tamerton Foliot Conservation Area, and has views through trees towards the tower of the listed St Mary’s parish church.
The plot is currently private land with no public access but is part of the Cann Wood Local Nature Reserve Neighbourhood Green Space.
Objectors said that the green space should be protected from development and more homes would put too much pressure on local services including schools and the village GP surgery.
They also argued that the proposed access route from Cheshire Drive was too narrow to cope with extra traffic during construction and from the development.
The developer said the views and ecological benefit of the green space would not be harmed by the scheme, and many of the mature trees on the site would be kept.
It said the site had good transport links in an established residential area with good access to the village, shops, schools, jobs and leisure.
A proposed estate with 38 homes was revised after public consultation in 2019 with a lower-density development which was described as a “softer, more landscape-led proposal”.
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A design and access statement by consultants Pad Design Ltd, submitted with the planning application, said: “The site is currently in semi-agricultural use. Despite being designated as a Neighbourhood Green Space and being crossed by several informal paths, there is currently no designated public access to the site.
“Its development would open up access to the site, providing new accessible open space and improving foot links to Cann Wood and local bus stops.
“The proposals would safeguard the privacy and amenity of surrounding properties and represent sustainable development in social, economic and environmental terms."
It said the development would provide "a mix of much needed new housing".
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The consultation response from the city council highways authority said the expected traffic from the homes would be relatively low and acceptable.
But it said the application should be refused because it failed to show how access could be achieved to a safe and satisfactory planning standard for vehicles and pedestrians at the access from Cheshire Drive and to the bus stops on Tamerton Foliot Road.
Cllr Deacon’s objection was one of 26 submitted during public consultation.
He said the 14 extra homes would put too much pressure on the “already poor infrastructure and amenities in the area”, arguing there were not enough places in schools or GP surgeries.
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Construction traffic and extra vehicles would make narrow Cheshire Drive “impassable” and lorries using the pavement to get past would cause damage and be a danger to pedestrians.
Cllr Deacon warned building on the open land would increase the risk of flooding in the area and said the plan conflicted with council policies to promote biodiversity.
An objection from the Tamerton Foliot Village Conservation Society said the scheme in a neighbourhood green space and conservation area went against local planning policies to protect the land.
It said: “The Conservation Area was designated to preserve the separation and identity of Tamerton Foliot as a village within the City and this has been recognised by the general protections in the JLP (Joint Local Plan). Who would not wish to signpost and protect this legacy and this remarkable view over neglected parkland to Cann House and St Mary's Church?”
Janet Clarke commented: “There are few greenfield sites remaining in the area and this field is in a conservation area next to woodland with all sorts of habitat. Any development will impact this.”
Margaret Nicholson wrote that wildlife seen in the Andy Stevens Nature Reserve included deer, foxes, buzzards, herons, egrets and woodpeckers.
She said the environment would be lost if the scheme went ahead, and approval would “make a mockery” of the protection for the green space in the Joint Local Plan.
She wrote: “If this application is granted the village of Tamerton Foliot will have been swallowed up by housing development.”
Martin Palmer said the road was struggling to cope with the current use, and argued there were other more suitable sites.
He said: “At a time when we all seem to be more aware of the benefit of nature and our obligation to maintaining it, I find it incredible that we are even discussing a proposal to permanently destroy an oasis of natural British land, particularly because it is patently unsuitable.”
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'Republican governors’ record of accomplishment is unparalleled,' Christie said.
RGA zooms past DGA in money race
By BYRON TAU
The Republican Governors Association significantly outpaced its Democratic counterpart in 2013 fundraising.
According to totals released Thursday, the Democratic Governors Association announced that it raised about $28 million in 2013 across its three committees. The RGA announced earlier this week that it raised $50.3 million in 2013 through its 527 committee.
The RGA — which normally does not release additional fundraising numbers — told POLITICO Thursday that it raised another $2.2 million through an affiliated nonprofit. That brings its total cash haul to $52.5 million in 2013 — close to double what the Democrats raised.
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Both organizations consist of a super PAC, a nonprofit and a 527 group. Most of the funds for both groups are spent through the 527 organizations.
“Republican governors’ record of accomplishment is unparalleled, and with twice the cash on hand compared to four years ago, the RGA is in strong position to support our candidates and governors this year,” said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is also serving as chairman of the RGA. He added: “We enter 2014 with the resources we need to win.”
The DGA’s chairman also expressed the view that his organization would be able to compete in 2014.
“Our success in 2013 ensures that we will have the resources necessary to help reelect Democratic governors who are working in a bipartisan way to create jobs, improve schools and strengthen the middle class while adding to our ranks,” Vermont Gov. Pete Shumlin said.
Both organizations — which are tasked with supporting their party’s gubernatorial candidates across the country — are permitted to take unlimited corporate and individual contributions.
The RGA typically outraises the DGA. At midyear, the RGA had raised $24 million to the DGA’s $13.4 million.
In 2014, 36 states will elect governors in what are likely to be heated and expensive battles.
Democrats announced last year that they wanted to nationalize all 2014 gubernatorial races — tying the Republican incumbents to the agenda of congressional Republicans.
Top targets for Democrats include GOP incumbents in states that President Barack Obama carried in 2012. Maine Gov. Paul LePage, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are key targets for the organization.
On the other side, the RGA will likely target Pat Quinn in Illinois and the open seats in Massachusetts and Arkansas. Other possible targets for Republicans include Democratic incumbents in Colorado, Connecticut and New Hampshire — though all three are uphill battles for the GOP.
In the only competitive gubernatorial race of 2013, the RGA edged the DGA in spending, but the Democrats’ candidate won. The DGA’s investment in Virginia behind Terry McAuliffe was about $6.5 million, compared with the RGA’s $8 million for Ken Cuccinelli’s bid. McAuliffe was also boosted by outside groups funded by billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.
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White House cellphone ban set to take effect Jan. 16
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA
White House chief of staff John Kelly sent a memo to staff on Wednesday detailing the upcoming ban on personal cellphones in the West Wing — and cautioning that violators could be subject to “disciplinary action.”
The ban, according to a copy of the memo obtained by POLITICO and confirmed by two White House officials, goes into effect on Jan. 16. It bans “all portable electronic devices” not issued or authorized by the White House from “being carried into or otherwise possessed” in the West Wing from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
“Such portable electronic devices may be carried into or otherwise possessed in the West Wing at other times,” the memo says.
Credentialed reporters may carry personal devices in areas of the White House to which they have access, including the Lower Press Office and the Upper Press Office. But they may carry their devices into the rest of the West Wing only if they are entering the area in a “professional capacity and are escorted by a member of the White House staff.”
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Staff members are encouraged to leave their personal devices in their cars, at home, in offices outside the West Wing or in lockers that have been installed in White House lobby areas, according to the memo.
“Violations of this policy by [Executive Office of the President] staff are security incidents that may indicate knowing, willful, and negligent conduct in violation of security policy and may therefore result in disciplinary action and, for other Federal employees and visitors, may include being indefinitely prohibited from entering the White House complex,” the memo says.
The White House announced the personal cellphone ban last week, amid the furor surrounding the publication of excerpts from Michael Wolff’s White House tell-all, “Fire and Fury.” Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the new policy was being implemented for security reasons, not to prevent leaks.
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The memo says the purpose of the policy is to “protect White House information technology infrastructure from compromise and sensitive or classified information from unauthorized access or dissemination.”
The ban comes after POLITICO reported in October that the White House believed Kelly’s personal phone had been compromised, potentially during the transition in 2016.
Emily Stephenson contributed to this report.
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Posted on Tue, Jun 7th, 2016 by Jason Easley
Iowa State Senator Becomes The First Elected Republican To Leave GOP Over Trump Racism
Iowa state Senator David Johnson has become the first elected Republican to leave the party over Donald Trump’s racism.
The Guardian reported:
Johnson announced that he was changing his registration to No Party after Trump leveled accusations of bias at Judge Gonzalo Curiel, an American judge of Mexican heritage who allowed the release of some unflattering documents from a case against Trump University.
“I haven’t supported Mr. Trump at any point along the way but what I am calling his racist remarks and judicial jihad is the last straw,” Johnson told the Guardian.
Johnson compared Trump’s run for the Republican nomination to the rise of Hitler and said Trump won “by reducing his campaign to reality tv and large crowds and divisive language and all the trappings of a good show for those who like that kind of approach and that’s what happened in the 1930s in Germany.”
He added: “I think that’s all I need to say, but certainly the fascists took control of Germany under the same types of strategies.”
Sen. Johnson won’t support Hillary Clinton either, but he said that he will not sit by while his party, “buckles under the racial bias of a bigot.”
Johnson’s decision makes the weak behavior of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell look spineless in comparison. Ryan, McConnell, and other national Republicans have taken the tone of, “Aw, cmon, Donald, play nice,” as their nominee launches one racist tirade after another. At some point, the few remaining Republicans with backbones have to take a stand.
At least one elected Republican had the guts to leave his party, instead of sticking with a racist, because taking a stand might harm his political future. Republicans don’t have to support Trump. They can take Nancy Reagan’s advice and just say no.
Trump is a character test for Republicans, and those who fail by supporting him do not belong in public office.
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Is this the engine that is in the main front hall of the Science Museum in London? If so, I've looked at it several times. It's really quite amazing, especially when you consider that it was built during the American Revolution...I think it is the second Watt engine erected - the first having been lost long ago. But, there is also a Newcomen engine believed to have been built around 1725 extant which would make it 50 years older than the Smethwick engine.
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Around the turn of the century - between BC and AD, that is!
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I'm pretty sure the world's oldest steam engine was designed by Hero of Alexandria. It was a kind of turbine.
Mark Rand
It's in Birmingham's Science Museum, not far from where it was built.
In contrast to Hero's Aerophile, this engine still exists in it's original condition.
If you want to see the oldest steam engine that's still working in it's original installation, you need to go to the Kennet and Avon canal and visit the Crofton pumping station, That one's quite young, being in use since 1812.
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L Vanice
"The worlds oldest steam engine" that is in working condition is the more accurate title.
The Henry ford has some very early engines, brought from England around 1929-32 and placed in the museum. The very early ones are not operating, but have replacement parts sufficient to make them look complete.
Circa 1750 Newcomen atmospheric engine that pumped out a coal mine. Ford was told it was the oldest surviving steam engine in the world, so he brought it to Dearborn.
Circa 1788 Watt rotative engine (replica made in 1932 to satisfy Ford's desire for filling in the gaps in the supply of original artifacts.)
Circa 1796 Watt canal pumping engine, probably much like the Smethwick engine.
The Ford archives are available online and searchable. The digital collection search finds a number of pictures of the engines taken both in situ and later, in the museum.
The Newcomen pictures.
Open the photograph album explaining Henry Morton's efforts in excavating and crating the remains of the engine. There is a nice picture of an LMS steam wagon ready to haul off a big crate to the railway. Henry Morton says Mr. Ford overcame difficulties in recovering the engine, but it is clear that Mr. Ford had a very talented group of men to actually plan and do the work. They carefully saved and shipped back the replacement boiler that last powered the engine, but the museum actually installed a period correct haystack boiler next to the engine. There is a very deep hole that still contains some very historic iron.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/search-results#tab=artifact-results&terms=Newcomen%20engine&years=0-0&perPage=10&pageNum=1&sortBy=relevance
Newcomen Engine, circa 1750 - The Henry Ford
The Watt pictures.
Watt Canal Pumping Engine, 1796 - The Henry Ford
I have been visiting the Henry Ford since around 1954 and remember that many of the steam engines in Greenfield Village were actually run on steam and the rest probably could run. But an operator died in the Armington and Sims shop in 1988 and now the train is the only live steam.
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TedinNorfolk
Been to Crofton for the day,many years ago. Well worth a trip-very impressive for an engine made in 1812.
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Prior to 1962,In the works of Williams Wire Works, (Makers of cut nails & joiners round nails , was an ancient Watt beam engine of about 200 horse power, It had a heavy wooden connecting rod, and drove the plate rolling mill by heavy herring bone gears , This engine was older than the Crofton engines, Which gladly are still running, Sadly the old rolling mill engine was scrapped by the new owners Thos W.Ward. When they electrified the factory in the 1962 period, they made an absolute fist of the whole venture, from an economical viewpoint, Loads of early computerisation but no production worth talking about!
The old engine was not saved due to nobody being one bit interested, Jimmy Mackay the works manager of Williams (who tried hard to save it,) Was heartbroken, This old engine was second hand to Williams & Co from its original use as a pumping engine at Ocker Hill in the English Black Country..
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Scottl
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Likely that is the oldest steam engine that can actually do work but as I recall Hero of Alexandria created a spinning kettle that amazed onlookers.
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Mark Rand:
Your remarks about the Crofton Engine, reminded me of an engine I inspected in 1969 that was of the same circa, located in Dublin,
Ireland It was located at the old Jameson Distillery in Bow Lane. The late Irish model engineer, E.K.Meehan and I decided to make a Sunday foray over to Bow Lane in search of industrial artifacts. The production had been moved to Cork a few years earlier, but we found a man in the office who was a steam enthusiast and he took us into the engine room. There was a lovely Watt Beam Engine in its original location, disused for many years. We were told that it was built in 1811 by James Watt and ran the distillery until fairly recently, no date was given. I noticed that there had been some changes to the original condenser and I asked when the retrofit was done. He said that it were done in the late 1870s or early 1880s and wondered if I could guess who made them. When nothing came to mind, he told me the Coates Brothers in Belfast had done the work. They were known for supplying engines and parts for both the shipbuilding trade and industrial sites, such as Guinness brewery. We were told that the engine was going to be preserved and possibly reerected in Cork, but over the years I have lost track of this engine and no idea of its final deposition.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019 4:35 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 12 June 2019 4:41 AM ]
Flames and smoke coming from Grenfell Tower in west London after a fire broke out there on June 14, 2017. (File photo)
American companies have been sued over the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 that left 72 people dead.
A lawsuit, which was lodged in Philadelphia on Tuesday on behalf of injured victims and families of those killed, alleges that defects in products made by some US companies ignited and fueled the inferno.
According to the 420-page lawsuit, flammable plastic parts in a refrigerator from American appliance maker Whirlpool Corp., in Benton Harbor, Michigan, caused the fire.
The flames were then swiftly spread by highly combustible materials in the US-designed insulation and exterior cladding that encased the structure, it added.
In addition to Whirlpool Corp., cladding supplier Arconic Inc, headquartered in Pittsburgh, and insulation maker Celotex Corp, a US subsidiary of French multinational Saint-Gobain, based outside Philadelphia, were named in the suit as defendants too.
Jeffrey Goodman, an attorney for one of two law firms that brought the case, told a news conference in Philadelphia that those materials “turned the Grenfell Tower into a cylinder of fire.”
“This case is filed in America to hold the American corporations responsible for the devastation and tragedy that they caused,” said Goodman.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they represent the estates of 69 of the 72 people, who were killed, as well as 177 survivors who suffered life-altering injuries.
They also said the case is one of the highest number of individual wrongful death and personal injury claims ever brought in a single product liability suit resulting from one incident.
The lawsuit demands a jury trial but the amount of compensation it was seeking remains unclear.
Meanwhile, Whirlpool and Arconic issued separate statements, expressing their “deepest sympathy” to the fire’s victims. They both said they were cooperating with British authorities who are investigating the tragedy.
Whirlpool said that its products “are safe,” assuring that they can be used “as normal.” It also said that a probe by British regulators and its own internal investigation “found no evidence of any fault” with the refrigerator model in question.
Arconic said it would “respond to this litigation in court.”
Celotex did not comment, but it said last month that it was “cooperating fully with the public inquiry regarding Grenfell Tower.”
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Commenting on the award, Vicci Tatton, Human Resource Director of Prinovis UK, said: “We are very pleased to be accredited as an Investor in People and delighted to be awarded the additional Bronze level of recognition. It is particularly pleasing the assessment recognised the passion and pride demonstrated by our workforce together with our standing as a good neighbour in the local business community”.
The report also praised Prinovis UK’s well-developed vision and strategy, its well-developed strategic approach to Organisational learning and development and saw good evidence of the implementation of leadership opportunities within the business. Vicci added: “This accreditation is testament to our ‘People Matter’ approach and recognition of the progress we continue to make in this area”.
Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, said: “Achieving the Investors in People Bronze standard is something that any organisation should be truly proud of. It is the sign of a company which is truly committed to good people management practice and we’d like to congratulate Prinovis UK on their achievement.”
Steve Burrows, Managing Director of Investors in People North of England said: “This is a fantastic achievement for Prinovis UK and I would like to congratulate the team on their success. We believe that good people make a great business and as a proven organisational development framework, Investors in People is designed to help organisations and their people to realise potential, enhance performance and meet goals. With their Bronze accreditation, Prinovis UK is certainly working to realise their people potential.
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Why people are less keen on Christmas ads this year
24th November 2020 PR Research 3 minute read
This year, advertisers could have gone one of two ways with their Christmas ads.
Ignore the ‘year like no other’ and sock the Christmas spirit to us in the usual fare of snow, Santa and sentimentality. Or, acknowledge a difficult year and jump on some the resonant themes of benevolence, community, giving back etc. Now in week two of the festive ads season, we’re seeing something of a mixed bag.
We know that advertising plays a key role in getting people in the mood, and that some ads have become part of the cultural fabric of Christmas. Kantar’s 2019 research into which TV ad campaigns worked best with viewers highlighted that festive ads earn attention by taking us on emotional rollercoasters.
We summarise the degree to which ads evoke an emotional reaction on people’s faces while watching an ad, in a measure called "expressiveness". On average, the expressiveness of 2019’s very diverse set of ads was in the top 20% of all UK ads.
However, this year we found that only 30% of people were looking forward to watching the Christmas ads compared with 46% last year. There are those who have been financially affected by the crisis and don’t want the added pressure to buy things they cannot afford; 39% predict they will cut back on their Christmas spending.
To what extent do you agree with the statement 'I am looking forward to watching the Christmas ads on TV this year'?
Yes, brands need to be aware of the reality we’re facing, but any attempt to reference the Covid situation must be authentic and not a forced fit. So have Christmas ads so far hit the sweet spot in terms of tone of voice and authenticity?
Amazon has changed its tone of voice this year and decided to tread a much tougher more personal path. Gone are the joyful ‘singing boxes’ that have become iconic for the brand and in comes the story of a talented, determined young ballet dancer in ‘the show must go on’. The sentiment is powerful and brings to life a spirit and determination that is inspiring and aspirational, but that's all it is.
But there’s always Kevin the Carrot. In a year where the world has been turned upside down, it’s great to see Aldi’s loveable vegetable back. In a tale of hardship, as Kevin and hedgehog try to find their way back home, it’s got a lot of the right ingredients – empathy, tension, resolution, branding. It’s cliché free, well-branded and makes a hero out of a carrot.
When it comes to humour, so powerful in advertising, yet sadly in decline, the biggest shout out goes to Walkers for featuring sausage roll crisps, a LadBaby cameo, and a charity link. It’s sure to bring a cheesy grin to the nation’s faces. Damned close to genius.
Written by Lynne Deason, head of creative excellence, UK at research firm Kantar
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Forage First Families First initiative launched by La Crosse Seed
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There are instances daily of people coming together to support those in need. While there are a multitude of challenges facing us today, La Crosse Seed recently began collecting stories of communities coming together to help struggling farm families across the country.
To help spotlight these stories and provide financial support to these families, La Crosse Seed is launching its Forage First Families First initiative.
To help introduce the initiative, the company created this tornado relief video, highlighting the Cook family dairy farm near Balltown, Iowa, which was recently devastated by a tornado. La Crosse Seed partnered with Skip Breitbach Feeds, a local Forage First seed dealer, to donate essential seed to help repair the Cooks’ fields.
The Forage First Families First initiative aims to collect and commend similar examples of communities helping growers in need, as well as connect La Crosse Seed with dairy and beef farms that would most benefit from donated forage seed for use next spring. The company plans to donate seed to a select number of families in 2020.
“Forage First fields, from alfalfa to pasture mixes, have long been a staple on farms across the countryside. As are family ties that bind and inspire us,” said Ben Addington, marketing and customer experience manager at La Crosse Seed. “Hard times, like many are experiencing, call for families and communities to come together. There are countless examples of this, and the La Crosse Seed family would like to celebrate them.”
More details on the program, including information on how to submit a Forage First Families First story, can be found at the La Crosse Seed website.
—From a La Crosse Seed news release
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Podcast Stardust #185: More Mandalorian Music, Disney Gallery, and B-Wings
More music from The Mandalorian is available, season two of Disney Gallery is announced, and new ships come to Star Wars: Squadrons in this week’s news.
While The Mandalorian continues to capture the attention of Star Wars fans everywhere on Disney+, there are more ways to enjoy the show coming with the recent release of music from season two and the upcoming second season of Disney Gallery. In addition, the Doctor Aphra audio drama is getting the hard back script treatment, John Williams is nominated for another award, and new content is coming for Star Wars: Squadrons.
On this fully armed and operational episode, we discuss;
John Williams receiving a Grammy nomination for The Rise of Skywalker,
The release of Volume One of Season Two’s soundtrack for The Mandalorian,
Another season of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian is announced,
A hardcover edition of the script for the Doctor Aphra audiodrama, and
New content for Star Wars: Squadrons.
Don’t forget to check out our discussion of Chapter 12 of The Mandalorian in episode 184.
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UN Envoy Says Iraq Has 'Window Of Opportunity'
The top UN official in Iraq has said the drop in violence offers the country a "window of opportunity."
Staffan de Mistura said that so-called awakening councils -- groups composed of former Sunni fighters who are funded by the United States to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- have played an important role in stopping violence.
His comments on March 15 came as a report from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq said there have been less insurgent attacks in Baghdad since the deployment of additional U.S. troops, but more elsewhere, including Diyala Governorate and Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Al-Qaeda.
The report cautioned it is unclear how long the drop in insurgent attacks would continue.
Violent attacks have grown more frequent in recent weeks with 13 U.S. soldiers killed in the last week alone.
The UN report also raised questions about human rights violations at detainment facilities in Kurdistan, and the conduct of private security firms.
based on agency reports
Iraq, Turkey Vow To Boost Ties, Act Against PKK Rebels
Iraq: Sunnis Say Iran Working To Solidify Economic Control
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Richter Advisory Group Inc. (Richter) acted as exclusive financial advisor to Alliance Pour La Santé Étudiante Au Québec Inc. (“ASEQ”), in the sale of the business to People Corporation. Established in 1996, ASEQ is a leading provider of student health and dental plans in Canada, providing plans for approximately 650,000 students through approximately 100 student associations and post-secondary institutions in six provinces across Canada. People Corporation is a national provider of group benefits, group retirement, wellness and human resource solutions.
The transaction was led by Richter’s Alon Wexler and Ben Campagnale and supported by Mitch Stein, Andreea Norocel and Jean-Éric Laniel. The transaction highlights Richter’s ability to navigate the complex transaction process, particularly in the current environment, and find the right partners for each client and mandate.
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2020-W Burnished American Eagle 1 oz Palladium Coin with Box & CoA
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The fourth installment of the American Eagle Palladium Coin arrives in 2020 with a burnished version to complete the impressive array of visuals the United States Mint offers on its coins. While the US Mint waited years to offer Reverse Proof and Burnished specimens in its leading gold and silver collections, in the first four years of issue the palladium coin has showcased BU, Proof, Reverse Proof, and now Burnished options. Right now, you can purchase 2020 Burnished American Eagle 1 oz Palladium Coins online at Provident Metals.
Arrives with a plastic capsule inside of a presentation case and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity!
4th available coin in the American Eagle 1 oz Palladium Coin Series!
Limited mintage of just 10,000 palladium coins!
Contains 1 Troy oz of .9995 pure palladium.
Bears a face value of $25 (USD) fully backed by the American government.
Winged Liberty features on the obverse of the coin.
An American bald eagle is depicted on the reverse of the coin.
Issued a W mint mark by the West Point Mint.
With your purchase of the 2020 Burnished American Eagle 1 oz Palladium Coin from Provident Metals, you will receive a coin in presentation packaging from the West Point Mint. The coins are individually encapsulated and set within grey leatherette cases by the mint. The lid of the case has the heraldic eagle of the United States and the coins come with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Winged Liberty features on the obverse side of the 2020 Burnished American Eagle 1 oz Palladium Coins. This design was created by Adolph A. Weinman and originally used on the US dime from 1916 to 1945. The design is officially known as Winged Liberty as it depicts Liberty in left-profile relief with a winged Phrygian cap on her head. The coin the design originally featured on was known as the Winged Liberty Dime, but became known colloquially by Americans as the Mercury Dime because Libertys bust appeared similar to images of the Roman messenger god Mercury. Inscriptions include Liberty, In God We Trust, 2020, AW initials for Weinman, and a W mint mark from the West Point Mint.
An American bald eagle is depicted in the reverse field of 2020 Burnished American Eagle Palladium Coins. This design was also created by Weinman, but nearly a decade before Winged Liberty. Weinman created this image of the bald eagle on a cliff edge with a sapling in its talon in 1907 for use on the American Institute of Architects gold medal. The inscriptions on this side of the coin include United States of America, $25, E Pluribus Unum, and 1 oz. Pd .9995 Fine.
American Eagle Palladium Coins have very limited mintage figures compared to any of the other three versions of the coin. The 2017 BU coin had a cap of 15,000 coins, as did the 2018 Proof. The 2019 Reverse Proof had a mintage cap of 30,000 coins, and all three previous versions have sold out at the US Mint.
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Home Latest Could WPP Sell Its PR Firms? M&A Specialists Weigh In
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Could WPP Sell Its PR Firms? M&A Specialists Weigh In
At least one analyst believes that WPP's PR operations are ripe for acquisition, after the exit of Martin Sorrell triggered suggestions the holding group might break up.
Arun Sudhaman 19 Apr 2018 // 5:48AM GMT
LONDON — An analyst note earlier this week has suggested that WPP's PR operations are a likely contender for a sale should the holding group break up after the dramatic exit of longtime CEO Sir Martin Sorrell.
Liberum's Ian Whittaker believes that PR is the most obvious asset to sell after WPP's market research business, which is categorised as data investment by the holding group.
"If the new management wanted to go further, then we suspect WPP's PR assets could also be put up for sale although this is less likely than a sale of the data investment unit," writes Whittaker in his note. "As with data investment management, its margins are sub-group level (at 8.1% vs 14.9%) and there are few revenue synergies between it and the other WPP assets."
The 8.1% margin, presumably on revenue rather than fee income, will raise eyebrows among holding group rivals that are accustomed to generating higher returns for their shareholders.
Whittaker goes on to note that at a 10x EBITA multiple, an exit would raise £1.8bn, and could involve a private equity buyer, management buyouts, or a mixture of both. WPP's PR and public affairs firms reported revenue of £1.17bn in 2017.
Speaking on an Echo Chamber podcast recording today, though, former H+K Strategies EMEA CEO Sally Costerton noted that a private equity buyer would likely be unable to improve those margins by cost-cutting, given the famous cost controls already in place at WPP. "There's not a lot of fat there...they don't do fat," said Costerton.
Update: In an note to WPP's 200,000 employees, issued after this story went live and obtained by the Holmes Report, new WPP chief operating officer Mark Read dismisses the prospect of a breakup. "There’s been speculation about breaking up the Group. We don’t believe this makes sense. In a world where clients need faster, more agile, integrated solutions, we need to get closer together, not further apart."
However, R3 principal Greg Paull, whose company produces influential analysis of agency M&A activity, said that a PE investor, or a network buyer, would not be a surprise for WPP's PR firms. "The public relations brands haven’t driven the synergies with the rest of the businesses that everyone might have hoped," said Paull.
"With that in mind, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see either a strategic investor using PE funds come in and try and drive margin improvement — or a fledgling network such as Bluefocus, Next Fifteen or Dentsu emerge as a potential acquirer."
Other industry M&A specialists were less convinced, with one noting that the big PR agencies would prove far less attractive to potential buyers, including big consulting firms.
"For one of the big consulting firms like Deloitte, it would be natural for them to move into adjacent spaces, but I would look for them to cherry pick," said Prosper Group founder Larry Kamer. "They are not going to want a model that is dependent on big clients spending several million dollars per year for those kind of services. There aren’t that many of those kind of clients left."
Kamer pointed out that specialty firms — for example, Washington lobbying firms (of which WPP has several) and crisis management firms — remain "pretty tempting for a prospective buyer," given that their margins are often upwards of 40%.
"Unfortunately for the bigger firms, for whatever reason they tolerate much lower margins," said Kamer. "It’s hard to see, unless the brand is powerful enough, how those firms wouldn’t be shattered and reorganized somehow."
WPP's largest PR firm is now, of course, Burson Cohn & Wolfe — which will clock in at around $700m once the merger is complete. After that comes H+K Strategies and Ogilvy PR, both in the $350-$400m range. Finsbury is the only other WPP PR firm above $100m; the rest of its holdings in the sector — including such names as Blanc & Otus, Buchanan, Clarion and Glover Park, are considerably smaller.
"Out of all the subsidiaries, WPP is taking higher margins from Kantar and Group M, so you can see it might end up with shareholders forcing a sell-off of those more profitable pieces and leaving advertising and PR," added agency growth consultant Richard Houghton.
Private equity has emerged as a major buyer of PR firms in recent years, often helping to fund acquisition drives from such consultancies as Teneo Holdings, W2O Group and Finn Partners.
"The PR assets would be much better if they were privately-held," said the CEO of a major rival agency. "The group never appreciated or understood how to manage PR firms. The expectations for PR to deliver margins of that nature consistently is unrealistic in the current, media fragmented environment."
"A bright private equity business would give minority shares to the management, empower them to get on with it," added a publicly-owned PR agency CEO. "Don’t forget any company buying would look at the real profit margin before they pay a management fee to the holding company. This will vary but effectively would add back around 5% to the operating margin."
Additional reporting by Diana Marszalek and Maja Pawinska Sims.
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Flack on Friday: join the PRWeek running club, hot blogs, email disfunction
December 01, 2017 by Flack
In Flack this week: PRWeek launches running club, viagra PR woes, Vuelio awards on fire, and a festive comms treat.
On your marks, get set, go... to the new PRWeek running club
PRWeek UK's resident plodder Sam Burne James is looking to set up an informal running group for the industry, giving PR pros a chance to meet friends and contacts new and old, and providing a bit of get-fit motivation in the new year.
The inaugural meeting of what will be an inclusive, supportive group is the evening of Thursday 11 January - get the date in your diary. WE Communications has kindly agreed to provide a place to store bags while we're pounding the pavements, and some post-run refreshments. Hopefully we'll find other agencies to host future events, which are likely to be once a month or every other month.
Please email Sam to be put on the mailing list, or with any questions.
Email disfunction
Frustrating times for Cohn & Wolfe this week, despite landmark news that its client Pfizer had managed to get its Viagra Connect reclassified to a lower-regulation product.
It seems some journalist emails sent to the agency about the news have been diverted into spam filters, seemingly because they include the word ‘viagra’. Flack imagines Cohn & Wolfe’s IT teams will have been looking into getting that problem, which is nobody’s fault and is nothing to be embarrassed about, diagnosed and cured.
(You'll note that Flack has kept the 'v' word out of the headline for his weekly column, to avoid any spam accidents.)
Flack gets a first from Cambridge
Christmas always comes early for journalists, as Christmas cards from PR agencies begin to arrive in the first week of December.
This year, Ebenezer Flack's spirits were raised by the receipt this week of an advent calendar from Cambridge agency BioStrata; congrats to them on being the first off the mark on this front. Business is evidently good for the science specialist - the chocolate inside was Lindt, none the less.
Bloggers on fire
Flack was delighted to be among the crème de la crème of the UK’s blogger and vlogger community at the Vuelio Blog Awards last Friday evening, held inside the Bloomsbury Big Top in central London.
Particular congratulations to the PR industry’s very own Marcel Klebba, junior account executive at M&C Saatchi PR, who picked up the Best PR, Media & Communications Blog award for his site MK.
Speechless. So, I’ve won #vuelioblogAwards in the PR category. So humbled. Thanks! ?? pic.twitter.com/5Ck5X3EdfY
— Marcel Klebba (@marcelkl) November 24, 2017
Of particular note were the striking pre-awards performances from fire breathers and fire-focused acrobats, who, considering the event took place inside a big tent, were remarkably brave. Gives a new meaning to the term ‘hot new influencer’, Flack believes.
That's Scot to be freezing
Hats off to the hardy folk from five agencies north of the border, who have agreed to sleep rough for one evening to raise money to help end homelessness in Scotland.
They have pledged to raise more than £15,000 as part of Social Bite's Sleep in the Park scheme on 9 December.
Organised by Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn, it will see 9,000 people take to Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens to spend a night out in the cold. By funding social projects, such as The Social Bite Academy, the charitable organisation aims to provide housing for Scotland's 11,000 homeless, within the next five years.
Creative agencies Represent, The Leith Agency, Taste Design, Whitespace and Stripe will join forces and brave the elements.
Funds raised will be invested into housing projects, a nationwide jobs program, addiction rehabilitation facilities, and outreach and engagement with the homeless community.
Littlejohn said: "Sleep in the Park is about bringing the people of Scotland together for one night to support a single cause, and it's great to see all of these companies coming together for the greater good."
Liam Gallagher, Amy Macdonald, Deacon Blue and Frightened Rabbit will provide the music, and, fabulously, participants who raise over £5,000 will receive a bedtime story read to them by ex-Monty Python John Cleese.
And to stress the point: this will take place in Scotland. In December. Brrr. Click here to donate.
Flack on Friday: Panto time at Weber (oh yes it is!), Laps land, Halpern's starry night, Meghan Markle
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Star Wars Battlefront II: Celebration Edition
Third and first person action shooter followup to the Battlefront reboot of 2015 that has you fighting on the ground and among the stars across a variety of maps in the Star Wars universe, with both the multiplayer Battlefield-style gameplay we’re used to in the series as well as a single-player campaign
The Celebration Edition bundles it along with a large collection of aesthetic customization content that was available through in-game purchase, all the way from launch up to and including The Rise of Skywalker
CES 2021 highlights
Razer showed off Project Hazel, clear futuristic face masks that qualify as N95 respirators, have a good silicone liner to prevent leakage or foggy glasses, and amplify your voice to help keep speech from sounding muffled
They also have the Project Brooklyn gaming chair, a bucket seat with an integrated keyboard tray and 60” curved display for more immersion
Panasonic has an AR HUD system for vehicles that use eye tracking and projected images on the windshield to show an intelligent overlay including alerts and directions lined up with real-world objects
LG showcased their new rollable display tech, leading to scroll-like devices with a thick rounded edge and an adjustable display size
Brink Bionics has the Impulse Neuro-Controller, a glove that can detect your intention to click your mouse 80ms before your finger moves
ColdSnap wants to be the Keurig of ice cream, aiming to provide pod-based soft-serve made to order in under 120 seconds
Petpuls is an AI driven smart dog collar that will decipher up to five different emotions (happy, anxious, angry, sad, relaxed) and track your pet’s activity and sleep
And Vuzix has some microLED smart glasses that actually look like something humans would wear, with the added benefit of cellular connectivity, noise-cancelling microphones, stereo audio, and a 3D HUD shown across both lenses
Lucasfilm Games is shifting their entire development strategy, opening the doors to more studios and ending EA’s monopoly on the Star Wars IP
The first big news to come from this is that they’re collaborating with Ubisoft on a story-driven open-world Star Wars game, which will be led by Massive Entertainment
You might have seen their name on things like Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Far Cry 3, and Tom Clancy’s The Division 1/2
They went on to say that their relationship with EA isn’t completely ending though, which makes sense after the great success of Star Wars: Squadrons, and the middling success of Fallen Order
This is some good news for Reddit commenters who brought up a great point- why hasn’t Respawn taken their Titanfall chops and made a Republic Commando title?
Though that just reminds me how the Clone Wars TV show put a hard stop on the Republic Commando / Imperial Commando books, and makes me a little sad
But on to more hope- apparently Lucasfilm Games will also be working with Todd Howard, MachineGames (the team behind the new Wolfenstein titles), and Bethesda on an upcoming Indiana Jones title as well!
I’m really looking forward to what Lucasfilm kicking their gaming division into gear will mean for the next few years of releases
CD Projekt’s co-founder released an explanation this week of exactly what happened with Cyberpunk 2077’s development and release
In the video statement he defended the development teams and said that the decisions lay solely on his and the board’s shoulders, and promised they would work to regain the trust of gamers
Apparently the game was initially developed for PC and then ported to consoles, which led to many of the issues running on PS4 and Xbox One as they underestimated the difficulty of the port
And the big reason why review keys for console weren’t sent out until right before release was just because they were still working hard trying to iron out all the issues that they had found
More updates are coming with bug fixes, updates and improvements
Once the biggest fixes are out they’ll be releasing free DLC packs aimed at the first half of the year, and the PS5 and Xbox Series optimization updates in the second half
So all told we should have the Cyberpunk we were hoping for before the end of 2021, which is something at least. Whether people will start trusting the developers again will remain to be seen
Citing concerns over censorship, a North Idaho internet provider blocked Facebook and Twitter this week
For anyone who isn’t aware, Twitter and Facebook banned Trump from their platforms due to violations of their terms of service after he incited a riot that invaded the US capitol building in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results
Keep in mind that this is completely legal, and that the First Amendment only protects speech from being limited by the government
According to emails sent by “Your T1 WIFI” to its customers the ISP determined that this was censorship of their customers and information, so they decided to block access to the sites as of Wednesday
Your T1 WIFI stated that about 2/3 of its customers had called in asking the sites to be blocked because of these concerns, so the next logical step was to censor block the sites from all customers
They’ve since walked back the decision and made it an opt-in process instead, but the damage may already be done- a spokesperson for the Washington Governor’s office said that the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division would be looking in to the matter because of Net Neutrality violations, which forbid broadband internet providers from blocking lawful content and services
In related news, the right-wing social media site Parler has gone dark after being pulled from not only the Apple and Google app stores but also the Amazon web hosting services that the site was running on
Apparently Parler was basically chock full of nazis, radical extremists, and terrorists, with much of the content focused on inciting and coordinating violence or other illegal activity
Daring Fireball described it as “4chan with rightwing celebrity endorsements”
For example Parler investor Dan Bongino, a Fox News commentator and former NYPD police officer, said in a Parler post that the company was “not done with Apple and Google” and encouraged users to “Stay tuned to hear what’s coming.” One user replied: “It would be a pity if someone with explosives training were to pay a visit to some AWS Data Centers – the location of which are public knowledge.”
All of this went against the terms of service of the various platforms it was connected to, so therefore it was kicked out even after being given warnings and deadlines in which to implement some kind of moderation plan
As it turns out, Parler was actually even in direct violation of its own terms of service
Some have taken to screaming first amendment and censorship, but I cannot stress this enough- freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences
And those consequences will be coming- apparently in the wake of the US Capitol riot a researcher began archiving every Parler post to create a lasting public record for future researchers to sift through
Hacker @donk_enby pulled dozens of terabytes of content, including raw unprocessed photos and videos that include metadata like the exact GPS coordinates at which they were recorded
January 9 – 2000 – Mario Party 2 – N64 (North America)
Mario and a range of well known Nintendo characters, including Yoshi, Bowser, Luigi, and Wario return for some more party action.
The second edition includes 5 new boards, each with a specific theme, such as Space Land, Western Land, Horror Land, and Mystery Land.
Each board includes unique attributes in relation to the theme, but the main goal is the same: complete the board game over a certain amount of moves and be the player to have the most coins and/or stars at the end.
The single player story mode allows one person and 3 CPU controlled players to play each board.
Once you play a specific mini-game (64 in all), they become available to purchase using the coins you collected in your games to play anytime.
Multiplayer allows 2 to 4 people to play the game.
January 10 – 1997 – Obsidian – Windows
The plot of this Myst-influenced 5 CD adventure game involves issues such as nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
Fortunately, the bundled strategy guide explains the basics of these subjects.
Gameplay is linear and largely based around puzzles.
Obsidian’s had an imaginative advertisement campaign.
Combining both printed ads as well as television spots, the campaign was unusual as it portrayed several common situations twisted in a way that defied all laws of physics, nature and logic followed by the tagline “Your rules do not apply here”.
For example: a printed ad showing an empty room lit by an overhead lamp, only the lamp produces darkness instead of light.
Yet the most impressive ad was the famed “egg” TV spot, which featured a guy dropping an egg to the floor with unexpected results.
This commercial became a particular object of cult among publicity buffs and won 3 Gold Clio awards and became a permanent feature on the New York Museum of Modern Art, as well as being a regular on TV commercial specials, and a runner-up for a Cannes Golden Lion award.
January 11 – 2005 – Resident Evil 4 – GameCube
Plot:m
Picking up six years after Resident Evil 2, the fourth game in the series follows former cop (now US agent) Leon S. Kennedy to Europe on a top secret mission to investigate the disappearance of the president’s daughter Ashley.
As Leon encounters unimaginable horrors, he must find out who or what is behind everything.
Old friends…and enemies…lurk around every corner as Leon attempts to find out who is truly behind the kidnapping of the president’s daughter.
Resident Evil 4 is a major change from the previous installments.
Instead of a fixed third person perspective, the game features a new “behind the back” movement camera angle and an “over the shoulder” aiming feature that allows players to control their gun movement for specific body part hits.
It features a brand new AI system and more open environments that allow enemies to work together to capture and corner Leon.
Enemies are now humans, which allows them to climb up ladders, open doors, and use weapons throughout the game.
The entire item system has also been revamped, so that smaller items no longer require an entire item space to hold.
Instead, items take up blocks of space in a briefcase according to their real life size, to allow for many more items and weapons.
Leon can collect treasure from enemies or from the surrounding area, and visit the infamous “merchant” to purchase bigger briefcases, treasure maps, weapons upgrades, and powerful weapons such as the one-shot RPG.
There is also the Mercenaries from Resident Evil 3, which allows the player to play survival scenarios as character such as Hunk and even Albert Wesker himself.
The earliest version of the game was announced for the PS2 under Resident Evil 2 with director Hideki Kamiya.
This build was eventually cancelled as a Resident Evil installment and became the title known as Devil May Cry.
Eventually, development was moved to the Gamecube console and another build emerged.
This was the first version to feature Leon from RE2. The game’s main menace was to sport a hook on one of its hands, and the logo for the game reflected this (this can still be seen in the final logo).
More versions were created and cancelled before Shinji Mikami took over and transformed the title into what it is today.
Of all the builds developed, only one of them was never unveiled to the public (it was the one that was being worked on right before Mikami took over).
Early in the development stages the game’s setting was Japan, not Europe.
January 12 – 2016 – That Dragon, Cancer – Windows, Mac, Ouya
That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical and crowd-funded game created with a small team and based on the experience of the couple Ryan Green and Amy Green, who lost their son Joel Evan Green to cancer.
The game consists of fourteen interactive sequences that chronicle their time with Joel, incorporating their thoughts and experiences, and voiced by themselves and their other children.
It represents a love letter to their son and a way to immortalize him.
Joel was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor when he was twelve months old, leading to terminal cancer, but he went on to live for four more years until he passed away in 2014.
Each scene shows a different moment of their time together with Joel, both the highs and the lows.
Scenes are often abstract or involve metaphorical interpretations of situations and are played from a first-person or a third-person perspective with small amounts of interaction and exploration.
Sometimes there are choices for the player or optional parts that can be explored or examined.
There are scenes at the pond, playing with a duck, in the playground, the hospital and so on.
Scenes show both the positive moments such as Joel playing or the conversations with the other children, but also the couple when they argue, the moment of the first diagnosis, the conflict between science and faith and so on.
A part of the crowd-funded contributions also involves messages and art incorporated in the game.
Along with the game, a documentary called Thank You for Playing was filmed, documenting the game’s development and the last years of Joel’s life.
It was released in 2016. The game was released on what would have been Joel’s seventh birthday.
January 13 – 2004 – Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel – Xbox, PS2
In a post-apocalyptic future, a society known as the Brotherhood of Steel is born, wielding powerful weapons and armor from the time before the war, they seek to bring some form of order to the wastelands of what used to be the United States.
As a new member(s) to the Brotherhood, you’ll soon find yourself separated from your comrades and forced to contend with a variety of missions and challenges alone.
Radscorpions, Super-Mutants and Deathclaws are all in the Brotherhood’s way, and bringing an end to their tyranny will certainly make the wasteland a safer place.
Brotherhood of Steel is an action game set in the Fallout universe.
The Brotherhood members are well armed and carry full clips of ammo (which does run out).
New weapons of various nature can be found and equipped to bring new tactics.
Shooting down enemies earns experience points and these points are used to improve the attributes of various individual skills.
Additionally, your character will have to contend with finding keys and other objects, protecting NPCs and jumping over bottomless pits.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel features a product placement for the real life Bawls energy drink.
This may be jarring to fans of the Fallout series, who are used to having Nuka-Cola as the post-apocalyptic drink of choice.
Fan response to this game was so overwhelmingly negative that Interplay actually shut down the official Brotherhood of Steel message board.
It is so hated by the Fallout fanbase, the game’s section on the No Mutants Allowed forums (one of the biggest Fallout forum) is called: “Fallout: Piece of Shit (PS2, XBOX, My Lower Intestine)”.
January 14 – 1999 – EA pulls Tiger Woods 99 on Playstation for bootlegging South Park
Company recalls PSX version of Tiger Woods 99.
A bootleg episode of Southpark was found on the CD in normally unused space.
The file was only readable via a PC, and was invisible to the PSX console.
Recall was issued since Southpark is offensive to some people.
Roughly 100,000 copies were affected.
January 15 – 2002 – Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front – PS2
Based on the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series.
Ride with the bad guys as you battle Earth Federation forces for independence.
Take control of three mobile suit teams. Use strategy tactics to infiltrate federation bases.
Use a wide variety of Mobile suits equipped to kill.
Strategically set your route to carry out mission objectives successfully
Samsung unveiled their new Galaxy S21 series of phones with edge-to-edge display, 120hz refresh rate, and 8K video recording
The Ultra model also brings a larger display and S Pen functionality for people that miss the Note series
Unfortunately it looks like not even Samsung staff are that into their hardware, with tweets promoting the release being marked from “Twitter for iPhone”
WhatsApp is now in a rush to reassure people that some of their data is still safe after changing its terms and privacy policy to include significant data sharing with Facebook
Backlash from those changes saw Signal and Telegram hitting the top of the free app charts on iPhone as people found other options for messaging
They went out of their way to list the things they don’t share like private messages, call logs, and your location, but doesn’t mention what they do share like device usage, IP address, and unspecified “other information”
Apple announced a set of new major projects this week as part of its $100M Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, to help dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity and combat injustices faced by communities of colour
This includes an innovation and learning hub both in Atlanta and online, an Apple Developer Academy in Detroit, and venture capital funding for entrepreneur POC’s
Roku has purchased Quibi’s old content library of about 75 shows and documentaries for well under $100M according to the Wall Street Journal, giving them exclusive rights through to the end of the year and shared streaming rights through 2027
Roku will be offering the content for free with ads, which likely means that a lot more people will see these shows now than would have otherwise
Thank you so much to Dalton. Our longest Patron, we love ya bud, and I hope you are like OMG me? When and if you eventually read this.
PS2J 320 News – Gritty Humans and Pretty Anime Folk
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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
A comedy point and click adventure game that has you switching between four different protagonists that has you working against a magical force that’s turning beasts into puppies and castles into dollhouses
Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut
A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.
Sphinx & the Cursed Mummy
Third person action adventure game inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt where you play both the demi-god Sphinx and the undead mummy Tutankhamen in a combination of combat and puzzle-solving
Need for Speed: Payback
Racing game set in an open-world fictional version of Las Vegas, focused on action driving with three different playable characters working together to pull of action movie like sequences and heists
Action RPG set in Spanish Flu era London where you play Jonathan Reid, a doctor turned vampire torn between the Hippocratic Oath and his newfound bloodthirsty nature
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
A first-person speedrunning parkour game that plays like a combination Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy with a focus on quick action and reflexes
Dead Age
A zombie apocalypse RPG with turn-based combat and permadeath that has you managing survivors, crafting materials, and making tough choices to defend your camp against the undead
Surf World Series
A single or multiplayer surfing trick game that looks like Tony Hawk on the water
A psychological horror game where you control a disturbed painter trying to complete his magnum opus as he navigates through a victorian mansion, with disturbing secrets about the painter being discovered
First-person horror game with a focus on story and exploration, where you search for clues in an abandoned manor to unravel the truth about the terrible events that occurred
Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl
Retro 8-bit sidescrolling brawler that has Jay and Silent Bob battling their way out of the mall and back to the Quickstop
Darkside Detective
Point and click mystery game that has you solving the dangerous and confusing cases of Twin Lakes, with everything from flesh-hungry tentacles to mafioso zombies in the mix
Puzzle adventure game that has you getting through levels and solving puzzles by kicking and pushing objects, swinging from your legs, or curling up and rolling around. The game is focused on single player but also has local co-op specific levels
Epic Games vs Apple updates
During a hearing this week with both companies, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers criticized Epic’s decision to breach their contract with Apple in the first place by offering their custom payment system in an attempt to avoid App Store fees
Apparently Epic claimed that it didn’t pose a security threat to Apple because they’re a well-established company and partner
Judge Gonzalez Rogers reportedly told Epic “You did something, you lied about it by omission, by not being forthcoming. That’s the security issue. That’s the security issue!” and “There are a lot of people in the public who consider you guys heroes for what you guys did, but it’s still not honest.”
She was also not particularly persuaded by Epic’s arguments that Apple was violating antitrust law, or that they harmed Epic’s ability to distribute Fortnite through the App Store
“Walled gardens have existed for decades,” said the judge. “Nintendo has had a walled garden. Sony has had a walled garden. Microsoft has had a walled garden. What Apple’s doing is not much different… It’s hard to ignore the economics of the industry, which is what you’re asking me to do.”
“The 30% of what you complain seems to be the industry rate, right? Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% … If you go to consoles: PlayStation, Xbox Nintendo all charged 30%. Physical stores: GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart all charge 30%. Apple and Google charged 30%. It’s all 30%, and you just want to gloss over it. You don’t want to address it,”
Epic’s Bornstein says alternatives to the smartphone have their own constraints. “For example you can’t play an Xbox when you are, you know, on a bus.”
YGR: “You can’t play, but you can play on a Switch.”
We’re still waiting for a decision on whether Fortnite will be allowed back on the App Store temporarily, but Judge Gonzalez Rogers did recommend that the case be taken to a jury trial in July to settle the issues permanently
iOS security recommendations
Settings > Passwords > Security Recommendations
Breaks down all your saved passwords that may need to be changed based on priority, and includes info on whether they’re easily guessed, reused, or if they’ve been included in a previous data breach
It also gives you a link right to the affected site if you want to go ahead and change the password
Thanks to that I’ve tightened up my password security on a lot of different sites
One thing to note here is that the current conspiracy theory going around on Facebook, saying that iOS 14 widgets are acting as key loggers and stealing passwords, is completely false
Apparently part of the fuel for this is that people are getting notifications after upgrading that their passwords were involved in a breach- this is just because the notifications are new. The breaches are old.
Google announced a bunch of new stuff this week at their hardware event, including a new streaming service client
Not a streaming service itself, but Google TV is a client for Chromecast that shows content from services like Netflix and Disney+, alongside Google Play and YouTube videos
They also announced
a new standalone Chromecast model that comes with a remote control for $50USD, so you can use Google TV without streaming content from your phone
Unfortunately Stadia was left out in the cold here- you can get it going with a bit of fiddling, but there’s no native support
a 5G enabled Pixel 5 with somewhat underwhelming specs but a 90hz screen and IPX8 waterproofing that will set you back $700USD
another 5G phone, the Pixel 4A 5G, that’s basically an upgraded Pixel 4A XL and working as a budget version of the Pixel 5 without the fancy display and waterproofing and a $500USD pricetag
and a new Nest Audio speaker that we don’t have a lot of details on yet, but looks like a Google Home and a Google Home Max had a child and is apparently 75% louder than the Google Home it’s replacing
The new Spider-Man: Miles Morales game for the PS5 exists in a weird spot for a sequel, working almost like reverse DLC
You can get the game on the PS5, and if you want to play the remastered version of the PS4 Spider-Man you can either get the Miles Morales Ultimate Edition or buy the remaster from within the Miles Morales game
It’s apparently a full next-gen remaster with overhauled environments, ray-traced reflections and shadows, new skies and weather, a brand new face model for Peter Parker, 3D audio, instant loading, and a more powerful photo mode
Unfortunately all of this comes at a price- the trophy list will be separate from the original PS4 release, so trophy hunters are stuck starting from scratch
September 26 – 1995 – Command & Conquer – DOS
Command & Conquer develops ideas from Westwood’s previous game Dune 2, forming a real-time strategy (RTS) game.
The control system involves selecting units with the mouse and then directing them, while the opponents make their moves without waiting for a “turn” to end.
The game focuses on a war between two organizations, The Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative.
The player can take control of either side for more than 15 missions. Both have different units and structures, including artillery, tanks and light infantry.
In most missions, a base needs to be built first in order to build new units and structures.
Most important are the harvesters, which collect Tiberium and deliver it to a refinery, where it’s converted into money, thus funding the construction of a base and an army.
The game also features FMV mission briefings and victory cutscenes.
September 27 – 2004 – Dream Works’ Shark Tale – GameCube, PS2, Xbox
Shark Tale is inspired by the movie of the same name and follows the adventures of Oscar, a blue-streaked cleaner wrasse fish.
Oscar seems to have got himself into a bit of trouble as he needs to earn money to pay off a loan shark.
The game consists of over 25 chapters with each chapter having three missions to perform.
The three missions are broken into a regular one, a bonus one, and an elite one.
Completing missions earn Oscar fame points which affect his fame rating.
Also, depending on how well Oscar performs missions will determine how much money he earns to pay off his debt.
Missions are varied including things like escaping a shark, erasing graffiti, and a dancing segment.
September 28 – 1995 – Mario Clash – Virtual Boy – Japan
This game is essentially a single-player sequel to Mario Bros.
While the Super Mario Advance games would later contain a graphically-enhanced version of Mario Bros., Mario Clash contains many more additions and changes to gameplay.
As before, the goal is to clear a screen of enemies and move on to the next level.
However, rather than doing this by flipping an enemy upside-down from underneath and kicking them away, you throw shells at them.
Also, taking advantage of Virtual Boy’s added depth, there is a front area and a back area which can be traveled to and from using pipes.
Shells can also be thrown at enemies on the other depth area.
September 29 – 1996 – Super Mario 64 – N64 – North America
Mario is invited to Peach’s castle, but when he arrives Peach is nowhere to be seen.
He soon learns from Toad that Bowser has once again kidnapped her.
The Koopa King has also put a spell on her castle, imprisoning her subjects.
So it is up to Mario to break the spell and rescue Peach.
Super Mario 64 is the first Mario game done entirely with 3D graphics.
The core gameplay is similar to previous platform installments, focusing on jumping, avoiding obstacles and defeating enemies.
Levels can be explored without time limits.
Stars must be collected in order to unlock new areas, eventually gaining access to various parts of Bowser’s castle.
Defeating Bowser on each floor procures keys necessary to unlock big doors and enter other floors, which contain more areas.
Mario has more moves at his disposal in this installment.
Besides running and jumping, he can now walk, crouch, crawl, climb, and punch enemies.
Double and triple jumps, long jumps, wall jumps and backflips can be executed as well.
Swimming underwater now depletes Mario’s oxygen level.
Items must be picked up and carried in some instances in order to solve puzzles.
Power-ups include the Wing Cap, which allows Mario to fly; the Metal Cap, which protects him from damage (including environmental hazards such as poisonous gas); and the Vanish Cap, which makes Mario ethereal, allowing him to walk through certain obstacles (such as wire mesh). Mario can also enter cannons and be shot from them; combining this with the flying ability grants access to high areas.
September 30 – 1997 – Postal – Windows/Mac
You’ve just gone off the deep end, and in your deeply demented mind, you’ve decided that this little peaceful town no longer needs peace and quiet.
You gather your arsenal as you plan your next move…
Postal is best described as a three-quarter view isometric shooter with a disturbing theme.
Instead of shooting at demons, monsters, bad guys and terrorists, your targets are typical citizens like a high school marching band, ordinary pedestrians, and even Santa Claus!
You are provided with an arsenal of diverse weapons to choose from, ranging from good old fashioned guns to flame throwers.
October 1 – 2015 – The Beginner’s Guide – Windows, Mac, Linux
Probably a first, The Beginner’s Guide is presented as a guided tour through the work of another developer, named Coda.
This developer is real and created numerous experimental small games using the Source engine from 2008 to 2011, the year in which he stopped developing games altogether.
The player is guided through this list of small games by the voice of Davey Wreden, the actual director of the game and co-designer and co-writer of The Stanley Parable.
Similar to that game, The Beginner’s Guide can be considered a game about game design and about how players interact with games and, in a way, communicate with game developers.
October 2 – 1997 – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night – PlayStation – North America
Symphony of the Night is a direct sequel to Rondo of Blood.
Unlike the previous installments of the series, the game is set in a castle which the player can explore freely with many different paths, although often items in certain areas need to be found that will allow passage to others.
The action-based gameplay incorporates now strong RPG elements.
The hero receives experience points for defeating enemies, gains levels and becomes more powerful.
There is also money to be found in the game, and various accessories to buy. In a separate screen, players need to equip attack weapons, shields and other items.
Magic plays an important role, as well as secondary weapons and a large amount of “special moves” that are executed similar to advanced one-on-one fighting games.
After 11 years in operation, FarmVille is officially shutting down at the end of the year
The developer cited the end of support for Adobe Flash and an unwillingness to migrate to a new platform as the main causes
Los Angeles Comic-Con is moving forward with an in-person event in December, making it one of the first Southern California festivals to do so since the March shutdown
Precautions they’ll be taking include doubling their floorspace, spreading out activities across their own halls, splitting each day into five-hour sessions with deep cleaning between, cutting ticket sales, and live-streaming all guests and main panels for an optional virtual experience
It sounds like they’re trying, but I’d still be really hesitant to buy tickets
Apple and Microsoft are working together a bit more than usual now, with the Apple TV app soon becoming available on the Xbox
Content will include Apple TV+ subscriptions, which could save some money for people that have been eyeing up an Apple TV 4k box
This could also be a good sign for Game Pass, if the two companies can improve their collaboration and get eachother’s streaming services on their hardware
As part of Amazon’s announcements last week that flew under the radar, they also introduced a drone camera for inside your home
The Always Home Cam will set you back $250 and is a fully autonomous drone that can fly around and show your any room in your house
CD Projekt Red is drawing fire this week after doubling back on their commitment to avoiding mandatory crunch time for Cyberpunk 2077
Studio Head Adam Badowski released a statement lamenting this decision and how necessary it is, and promising 10% of the company’s 2020 profit to the team, but this will likely make people think twice before taking him at his word again
Star Wars Squadrons has launched to a lot of praise, especially for its multiplayer, including the fact that a day-one patch has implemented full support for flight stick, throttle, and pedal assemblies. Combined with VR, the immersion sounds awesome
PS2J 297 News – Soylent Strikes Back
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Third-person action-adventure sandbox that throws you into the world with a wingsuit, grappling hook, hot air balloons, rocket boosters, and all kinds of weaponry, then asks you to liberate the land from its oppressive government
A visual novel / adventure game that takes you on a road trip through the gritty western coast of Italy during the 1970’s. Playing as Lella, a bold, spunky woman, experience the sights and sounds of a tumultuous time in Italy’s history while uncovering events from Lella’s past through branching dialogue and multiple endings.
PS4 (without Plus!) until May 5th as part of Sony’s Play At Home initiative
Free for PSPlus members in January, remastered port of the first three Uncharted games from the PS3 era: Drake’s Fortune, Among Thieves, and Drake’s Deception
Uncharted is known for its Tomb Raider style third-person action adventure gameplay including shooting, combat, and puzzle solving
German and Chinese gamers will get Knack 2 instead of Uncharted
Action platforming game that has you punching, kicking, and changing size to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and find upgrades. It also has local drop-in-drop-out multiplayer co-op
A lovely indie adventure game that originally hit the PS3 in 2012, you control a robed figure in a vast desert, travelling toward a mountain in the distance. Along the way you may encounter another player and assist each other for a while, but there’s no chat or communication other than a musical chime you use to activate strange pieces of cloth and affect the world. You don’t even see each other’s names until after the credits
Thanks to an indirect data breach, there are over 500K Zoom accounts being sold on the dark web and in hacker forums
Cybersecurity firm Cyble was able to purchase 530K zoom credentials for about 1/5 of a cent each this month, verifying the legitimacy of the leak
With the credentials, hackers can access your account information like your name, email address, password, personal meeting URL, and your account’s HostKey
The twist here is that Zoom didn’t actually have a data breach themselves- I said ‘indirect’ because from the sounds of it these login details were the results of “credential stuffing attacks”, where hackers attempt to log in to a service using accounts previously leaked
That means that if you’ve re-used a password that has been compromised, especially if you’re using the same email address, there’s a good chance that you may be affected.
Apple and Google announced a joint effort this week that will see them using Bluetooth to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 around the world
Starting in May, both Apple and Google will release functionality that will let Android and iOS devices help track potential exposure using apps from public health authorities (like the Canadian government COVID-19 app)
Then in the coming months they’ll work to enable broader Bluetooth-based tracing built directly into their platforms, allowing interaction with a wider variety of apps and government health authorities
The initial idea for this piece is that everyone who opts in will get a random, rotating identifier that changes every 15 minutes
The list of identifiers you’ve been in contact with doesn’t leave your phone unless you explicitly share it
This ID will get transmitted to other nearby devices via Bluetooth automatically
The idea is that, locally on your device, you can see a 14 day window of whether your phone has been near the device of someone self-identifying that they’ve tested positive for COVID-19
The trick here being that users testing positive aren’t identified to Apple, Google, or other users. It’s all anonymized.
Of course, this is going to need some major security, as privacy and consent are going to be very important to this kind of endeavour
Having both Apple and Google working on it will be good, as they can keep each other in check (thought I feel like Apple will have to be the main privacy watchdog here)
The tool isn’t meant to track locations, but rather personal contact, so it’s not as bad as it could be. But it’s going to have to be locked down airtight or a lot of information could potentially be reverse-engineered from this
Telus’s Babylon Health app is being promoted in Alberta via a deal with Premier Kenney and could be dangerous to women’s health
The Babylon app is meant to allow people to check symptoms and contact doctors remotely through text or video chats, which you’d think was a great idea in the current situation
It’s even currently covered by BC’s provincial health care, and Alberta’s premier Jason Kenny and our minister of health Tyler Shandro made a deal with Telus to distribute it in Alberta
Unfortunately they didn’t consult a single doctor before-hand to verify the app’s effectiveness
Doctors have found that the built in symptom checker is deeply flawed- with the exact same symptoms and history (60 years old, 20/day smoker, sudden chest pain and nausea), a male is diagnosed with a heart attack and told to visit emergency services, but a woman is told it’s a panic attack and that some symptoms may need to be checked out by a GP within 6 hours
This is another great example of not only health care’s gender-bias, which is appalling, but also our government’s messed up priorities
The president of the Alberta Medical Association has gone on record saying that the way the app and its physicians are put together, the fact that they don’t actually have access to your medical records, and how they don’t coordinate your care at all beyond faxing your family doctor if you specifically request it, leads to fragmented and potentially dangerous medical care
At this point we have our government effectively advertising a handicapped, pseudo-privatized health care
But then again, we also live in the province that spent between $14-20K buying Facebook ads to promote Kenney donating PPE and ventilators to BC, Ontario, and Quebec
Apple announced their new iPhone SE this week, and though the name hasn’t changed everything else has
The new device is using the iPhone 8 body and comes in three colours- white, black, and Product(Red) that has proceeds going toward COVID-19 aid instead of HIV/AIDS this time around
Specs-wise it has a 4.7” LCD display, the same processor as the flagship iPhone 11, TouchID 2 and Haptic Touch, the same camera as the XR and XS, and dual/eSIM support
So with this device replacing the iPhone 8, 3D Touch is officially dead and Haptic Touch (aka press and hold) unfortunately is the victor
That means you’ll see some fantastic performance for years to come as long as you don’t mind not having FaceID and using a slightly more basic screen
All that starts at $399 USD ($599 CAD) for the 64GB, up to $549 USD ($809 CAD) for the 256GB version
Final Fantasy VII Remake mini-review
Really good, a ton of fun for fans of both the old and new styles of Final Fantasy game
I really like the world they’ve built out of the first chunk of the original, and I’m looking forward to more
Soylent is back baby!
Soylent.ca is where to get it
Not following our Soylent coverage and you’re confused why we’re ecxited
Here is their copy
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What can we buy in Canada right now?
Soylent Drinks
A ready-to-drink meal offering 400 kcal, 28 vitamins and minerals, and 20g of plant-based protein.
Ordering is at a case at a time
12 Bottles a case
One time purchase at $4.75 a bottle
$57 a case
Subscription rate is $4.28 a bottle
Frequency at 15, 30, 45 and 60 days
The flavor that started it all
Light, sweet, and velvety smooth
Rich, chocolatey flavor with real cacao powder.
The chocolatey, robust coffee drink of your dreams.
Same ready-to-drink meal with an added caffeine boost to start your day.
When I had the drink back when it was called Coffiest, it tasted like black coffee in Soylent, which was good in my opinion
Soylent Powder
450 grams in a bag
20g of protein and 28 vitamins and minerals per serving.
Recommended serving is 60 grams of powder
And each case has 35 meals worth of pwder
One time purchase at $2.51 per meal
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Subscription at $2.09 a meal
The complete-meal powder that started it all.
A light, sweet taste.
Mix Original into your favorite smoothie to create your own flavor profile or enjoy it on its own for a velvety-smooth meal.
Ideal for smoothies
First subscription gives you a pitcher and scoop
Which I no longer have
And there is a Soylent branded blender bottle
Our 20oz Soylent Blender Bottles are perfect for all your meal replacement powder needs.
Shake up 200 kcal or 400 kcal servings on the go, wherever you go.
For a limited time only, Soylent Blender Bottles ship with a 200 kcal scoop — perfect for easy measuring.
Now this looks like a lot
I am very grateful they put a foot back into Canada
However, we are missing some products that are available to the United States
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These are little snack bars
100 calorie mini meal serves up 5g of plant protein, 36 essential nutrients and probiotics.
They come in boxes of 30 squares
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Apple’s introduced a Mac Pro Wheels kit for everyone that bought a Mac Pro and were disappointed when it didn’t roll around wildly with no way to lock it down
The kit goes for $700 USD, compared to the $300 static feet option, leading many to wonder- why are my computer’s wheels more expensive than my car’s tires?
With physical distancing expected to be in effect for the foreseeable future, Polygon’s gathered a bunch of really sweet stories from people going on blind island dates
Animal Crossing has apparently become the latest great Tinder first date destination
Nintendo’s latest Switch system update has brought a bunch of quality-of-life improvements this week
Changes include the ability to transfer games and DLC from the system’s memory to and from an SD card (though you still can’t move save data over), and the option to remap controller buttons at a global level (a big win for accessibility)
Nevada Gaming Control has approved gambling on three eSports events, so with physical sports being cancelled you can now bet on the 2020 League of Legends European Championship, the North American League of Legends Championship Series, and the Overwatch League
The official Star Wars website has announced that Episode I: Racer will be released on the Switch and PS4 on May 12th
Thank you to Zane, he’s great and we want to make him and the rest of our fanily proud!
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Earthlock is a turn-based adventure RPG inspired by the classic 3D JRPGs of the late 90’s, with a fresh take on turn based combat and character progression. Embark on a journey to save the beautiful world of Umbra, a harsh planet that stopped spinning thousands of cycles ago.
Set in the 90’s, Kathy Rain is a point-and-click adventure that tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her own troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather. Armed with her motorcycle, a pack of cigs, and a notepad, Kathy begins to delve into a local mystery surrounding her hometown that will take her on a harrowing journey full of emotional and personal turmoil.
Visually enhanced version of the 1997 release
First-person dinosaur hunting teeming with cunning enemies, traps, puzzles and deadly weapons all within a vast 3D environment ready to explore.
Etherborn
Third-person environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Lightmatter
An atmospheric first person puzzle game where you use lateral thinking to solve mind-bending puzzles with lights, shadows, beams, platforms, and lightmatter.
Delivery Attempted. That’s the Totally Reliable Delivery Service guarantee! T.R.D.S. is a ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers. Work together using odd machinery, useful gadgets, and the wonders of physics to reliably deliver packages to their destination.
A streamable party game for 3-8 plus an audience of thousands, it gets players to draw pictures based on ridiculous prompts on their smartphones and tablets and then everyone votes on what they think the prompt was
A first-person exploration game that has you arriving home after a year abroad to find your house completely empty. You’ll have to solve puzzles and look for clues to unravel the mystery
Action adventure game from the makers of Torchlight that tells a story without any text or dialogue and has you solving puzzles and repairing the planet
Motorsport racing simulator featuring dynamic tracks with temperature and weather variations between laps, 60 locations, and 189 cars to race
Knights of Pen & Paper Bundle
Includes 1 (2012) and 2 (2015) as well as all their DLC
Turn-based RPG’s that have you taking on the roles of in-game players taking on the roles of their characters in a traditional pen and paper RPG session in a meta roleplaying experience.
2014 remaster of the 2004 title
Choice-based action RPG that lets you follow whatever path, hero or villain, you choose, with fully remastered audio and video as well as a new Heroic difficulty setting
Micro-machines style combat racing with a single-player career mode, 35 different vehicles, and split-screen multiplayer races
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
A continuation of the Uncharted trilogy that was free under the Nathan Drake collection back in January, the series is known for its Tomb Raider style third-person action adventure gameplay including shooting, combat, and puzzle solving
Racing game focused on rally and rallycross races that has you competing in timed stage events on tarmac and off-road terrain in varying weather all around the world
It sounds like devices that have been updated to iOS 13.4 and macOS 10.15.4 are currently unable to make FaceTime audio and video calls with older devices running iOS 9.3.5 or 9.3.6, so if you need FaceTime to stay in touch with people stuck on those versions with older, unsupported devices while staying at home you may not want to upgrade until a fix is found
In light of the current situation many chose to skip April Fools this year, so we ended up with mainly fun little digital offerings rather than the usual tricks and “damn, I wish that was real” products
Blizzard gave all of the Overwatch heroes googly eyes, and I kind of wish that was a setting we could have all year round
GTA Online and RDR2 got some snow this year, letting players break into impromptu snowball fights
Guild Wars 2 brought players a message from the King of All Cats, along with a potion that has cats appear around you
The makers of Superhot released Picohot- a playable Pico-8-based demake that brings the excellent Superhot gameplay to a virtual 1980’s style game console
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator introduced their new Bug DLC, adding 11 new bugs to the game
With the massive spike in people working from home, we’re discovering more and more shady practices from the unfortunately “best in breed” video conferencing app Zoom
Without including any disclosure in their privacy policy, the Zoom iOS app was sending data to Facebook whether or not you linked it to your account
The info included the model of your device, your time-zone, city, phone carrier, and unique advertising identifiers
They removed it, blaming the ‘Login with Facebook’ feature, but to use something like that without understanding the impact to your users is at the very least negligent
Keep in mind that this same company last summer was found to be secretly installing a web server with the Mac version of their software, which remained installed and running even if you removed the app from your machine – we originally talked about it back in episode 261
They called this a feature, not a bug, to allow users to automatically reinstall things when joining a conference
This one was nasty enough, allowing hackers to take control of your computers camera, that Apple used their macOS security features to silently remove it for all users
Another piece that’s come to light recently is the fact that, when installing Zoom on a Mac nowadays they’ve snuck the entire installation process into the preinstall checks
Normally when an app uses an installer it runs a check to see if it can be installed and, if so, lets you follow the prompts to choose what’s being installed and where, and follow through the process
With Zoom, inside the preflight check script they’ve bundled in code that just throws the app into your system without user intervention- it goes right from checking if it can be done to being done
And Zoom’s claims of end-to-end encryption have been proven laughably false, as they’re using their own definition of “end-to-end”
Normally, end-to-end means that the company offering the service can’t see what goes on- data is encrypted on your end and decrypted on the recipient’s with keys that the host doesn’t have access to
What Zoom actually does is use transport-security, similar to secure websites, where data is encrypted between your device and their server but then it could be decrypted, processed, read, or modified before being encrypted again and sent to the recipient
They say that they’re referencing the connection being encrypted from Zoom endpoint to Zoom endpoint, but that doesn’t offer anything like actual end-to-end encryption for users
In addition to all that, another poorly thought out feature of the service is exposing people’s email addresses and photos to complete strangers
There’s a Company Directory setting in the app that is supposed to automatically group people and add them to eachother’s contact lists if they sign up with an email address in the same domain
In theory this would let people using their corporate accounts easily find eachother, and they’ve disabled it for super common email providers like Gmail or Hotmail, but there are thousands of people seeing the issue with email addresses from their internet provider
Several Dutch ISP’s in particular have been identified as having users appear for eachother in the Company Directory list
Apparently Zoom needs to manually blacklist specific domains, but really that kind of manual gruntwork means the feature should be opt-in, not opt-out
And finally, there’s a vulnerability in Zoom chat links and how the URLs are converted that hackers can use to collect your Windows login credentials and potentially access your computer remotely
Basically if someone drops a link in the chat that uses a file path instead of a web URL, Zoom converts it into a clickable link anyway
If you click on it Windows will try to access the remote files by sending your computer’s username and encrypted password. If it’s a malicious link, then all they have to do is decrypt your password and they have everything they need to log in to your computer remotely
There’s no word on if Zoom is working to fix this one at all, and the only workaround is pretty technical and involves editing your PC’s registry, so you’ll need to be very careful about the links you click in Zoom’s chat
If you do need to use Zoom, they have a web version that you should run in a private browser window without an account to try and keep some semblance of privacy
The Internet Archive is hitting some interesting legal waters this week and are now offering 1.4M copyrighted books for free online
The Internet Archive has hosted something called the Open Library for about a decade now, offering people the ability to check out digital scans of physical books held by the archive
Until this week they only allowed people to check out as many copies as the library owned, just like a physical library and very similar to how libraries generally handle e-books
With public libraries closing down due to COVID-19 they announced a major change- no more restrictions or waiting lists. If you want to read a book, you get a copy for the full two week borrowing period regardless of how many are currently checked out
Generally this has gotten some positive reactions, with The New Yorker declaring it a “gift to readers everywhere”, but authors and publishers aren’t quite as keen
Some authors are calling it a “tarted-up piracy site”, and saying that there’s no author, bookseller, or publisher bailout available so this is literally taking dollars away from the people who own that content
The Association of American Publishers called the move an “aggressive, unlawful, and opportunistic attack on the rights of authors and publishers”
The director of the archive’s emergency library project, Chris Freeland, defended the idea, saying that there are 650M books that tax-paying citizens in the US have paid to access but can’t because the libraries are closed
What he didn’t address is the real legality of distributing copies of copyrighted works
Not to mention, Freeland seems to be positioning himself as a digital saviour lending books out to the masses with no other way to get them, when in reality many libraries and publishers already have or are setting up e-book that lines up more with traditional library use
Sure they’re all digital files that could just be copied, but authors deserve to be paid for their work and if that means I have to wait a few weeks to read The Steel Crow Saga then so be it
Mario’s 35th Anniversary celebration with rereleases
Mario games are getting the spotlight this year as the franchise hits 35 years old
Where the 30th year celebration coincided with the release of Mario Maker
And 2 pixel amiibo in both retro and modern Mario colours
The 35th anniversary on the Switch includes remasters
And I am really excited to play these on Switch as I’m sure many other fans also felt like Nintendo forgot about these games
Games like:
Mario Galaxy from 2007
Mario Sunshine from 2002
And Super Mario 64 from 1997
Which we may get a rerelease of the DS remake from 2004
Which would be fine, because it added Luigi, Yoshi and Wario as unique playable characters
I may be even more excited to see a continuation of the Paper Mario series, which have been one of the few RPGs I play and enjoy
And the only one I’ve missed is Colour Splash on WiiU which is still $65 and came out 2016
And the rumor is we will see one for the Switch sometime in 2020
Announcements for the celebration were going to be paired with other big Mario announcements this year
Like the Super Nintendo World theme park and an animated Mario movie
And with the cancellation of E3, it did change the way Nintendo would be releasing information on this event
We have already seen Nintendo partnering with companies which many have felt have been a long time coming
Like the new Lego sets where we get to build Mario style side scrolling environments with Goombas and Koopas to jump on
And now licenced Mario clothing through clothing makers Uniqlo and Levi’s
And it may have taken this long to see these kinds of partnerships because of Nintendo’s tight control on thier intellectual properties.
But it’s taken time to do it in a way Nintendo is comfortable, and has been made clear in a quote from Shigeru Miyamoto.
“We want to expand our video game characters to a variety of settings – not just in games, all while keeping their value,” Miyamoto said. “In other words, we’ll be collaborating with various other companies. If we’re able to accomplish that, we can create more opportunities for people to make contact with our characters on a much larger scale than usual.”
We can all look forward to revisiting our favorite adventures with Mario this year
And more importantly sharing what we’ve loved with people who missed it the first time around
Then we can all explore Mario’s new adventures together this year and for many more to come
Fallout 76 Wastelanders update finally coming
Fallout 76 Wastelanders expansion will release April 14th, bringing much needed fun content to the game that isn’t freemium cosmetics for your character and camp
Also, anyone who owns the game on Bethesda.net can get a Steam version for free
Also From April 14-28, anyone who purchases the game from Steam will also receive the Fallout Classic Collection with the original two games and Fallout Tactics for free
This applies to those who claim the free Steam version via their Bethesda.net account, as well.
iPhone 9 cases have been arriving at Best Buy this week with a street date of April 5th, leading many to theorize that the new phones are due to be announced before Easter
Apple has expanded the free trials of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro from 30 days to 90, and even if you’re already using a trial copy you can download and install the new version for an extended deadline
Apple has also set up a program to ship iMacs to their retail employees and offer virtual training to expand their online and phone sales and tech support advisors
Final Fantasy VII Remake is shipping early in many parts of the world, in some cases arriving over a week before its April 10 release date, so Square has released streaming guidelines and is asking players not to spoil it for others
They’re saying that while it will have many familiar beats, the remake introduces a lot of new content and surprises that they want people to be able to experience fresh for the first time
Thank you to Renee, hoping our techy tidbits hit the tech itch!
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Look and Find on the Farm
Kirsteen Robson;Illus. Gareth Lucas
Which plant pot is the odd one out, and where is piglet’s twin? The double-page illustrations in this book are filled with prompts and questions about details to spot, match and count, encouraging a closer look at the colourful images. Answers are given at the back. Age 5+
Look and Find Bugs
Which butterfly is tapping a tambourine, and how many spiders are hanging by threads? The double-page illustrations in this book are filled with prompts and questions about details to spot, match and count, encouraging a closer look at the colourful images. Answers are given at the back. Age 5+
Look and Find Night Time
Who’s having a bedtime story, and which cat as climbed the highest? The double-page illustrations in this book are filled with prompts and questions about details to spot, match and count, encouraging a closer look at the colourful images. Answers are given at the back. Age 5+
Look and Find In the Forest
Which squirrel has green eyes, and how many birds have something to eat? The double-page illustrations in this book are filled with prompts and questions about details to spot, match and count, encouraging a closer look at the colourful images. Answers are given at the back. Age 5+
Look and Find Cats and Dogs
Which dog won the fourth prize, and where is the tap-dancing cat? The double-page illustrations in this book are filled with prompts and questions about details to spot, match and count, encouraging a closer look at the colourful images. Answers are given at the back. Age 5+
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As Covid-19 restrictions play havoc on Puerto Rico economy, Gov. Vázquez weighs options amid spread – Caribbean Business
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Economic Development Secretary Manuel Laboy, right, looks on as Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced answers questions. (Juan J. Rodríguez / CB)
21-day extension, stricter enforcement considered, as official warns of business closures, jobs lost
SAN JUAN – Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced administration officials are weighing options to face an ever-growing number of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, as the island’s economy reels under emergency restrictions to control the spread of the potentially deadly virus.
Puerto Rico Economic Development & Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) Manuel Laboy warned Thursday that if the spread of Covid-19 is not checked soon and the government is forced to continue or add on to current restrictions on business activity, the economic collapse that was spurred by curfew-lockdown measures implemented at the start of the crisis in March will worsen.
After coming out of a meeting at La Fortaleza governor's mansion, Laboy said that the administration is considering ramping up an education campaign targeted at island residents and toughening enforcement of coronavirus emergency restrictions to control the spread of the virus and bring down the number of infections.
While some medical experts, including Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons President Dr. Víctor Ramos, are advising the governor to reinstate Phase 1 lockdown measures such as those in place between March and May, Laboy ruled this out, saying such an action would devastate the island's economy.
Economy in ‘serious condition’
Laboy said that Puerto Rico’s economy is already in “serious condition,” noting that between March and June of this year, the island has lost about 80,000 jobs, according to federal statistics. He said that between 20 percent and 30 percent of local small and medium-sized businesses are at risk of closing permanently, as tourism, retail sales and services have taken a hit.
“We will have to make an even greater effort, not only with the citizenry but obviously at the level of government and the private sector, to enforce the executive order, so that people have to use face masks and must follow all protocol measures. If this is not addressed, it's clear that we will continue to lose jobs and the economy will be more affected than it is, ”the DDEC chief told reporters after coming out of the meeting with the governor and her Covid-19 medical and economic task forces. "She will be making this announcement in due time, that compliance efforts will be redoubled."
Laboy said that he urged the governor to accelerate the disbursement of federal and local aid, saying that there is still funding from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (Cares) Act that is available for local businesses. He said that the government should also speed up the use of incoming federal aid assigned for reconstruction after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the island nearly three years ago, particularly Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.
Laboy stressed that while these sources of aid "will not solve the problem, they could mitigate this situation."
Unemployment still critical
While the unemployment situation on the island has improved somewhat since the severest of curfew-lockdown measures were lifted between May and June, it is still critical when compared to when the virus crisis erupted in mid-March .
There were 2,253 initial jobless claims the week ending Aug. 1, down from the year high of 66,555 claims the week ending April 4, but still twice as many as the 1,172 claims filed the week ending March 14, according to the most recent US Department of Labor statistics report published by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute.
Continued unemployment claims in Puerto Rico stood at 165,500 the week ending July 25, down from the year high of 229,039 claims the week ending June 27, but still about nine times higher than the year low of 18,704 continued unemployment claims the week ending March 7.
Initial jobless claims are how many new people file for unemployment benefits in a week, while continuing claims measure the total number of people on unemployment.
The local insured unemployment rate – continued claims divided by covered employment – stood at 19.13 percent the week ending July 25, down from the year high of 26.8 percent the week ending June 27. Still, the most recent rate is many times higher than the year low of 2.19 percent the week ending March 7.
21-day extension of restrictions being mulled
For his part, Puerto Rico Health Secretary Lorenzo González Feliciano, who was also at Thursday's La Fortaleza hearing, said that medical experts are recommending the governor extend current Covid-19 restrictions for an additional 21 days instead of the typical 15 days.
The Health secretary said that the new executive order would consider more restrictions on activities in enclosed spaces, including indoor recreational activities and shopping malls. He said that the scheduled Sept. 17 date for the resumption of in-person classes in the island's public and private schools will likely be pushed back due to spiking Covid-19 cases.
Both González and Laboy said that the governor will have an additional meeting on the matter on Friday before making an announcement over the new Covid-19 executive order that would be implemented starting on Sunday.
On July 31, Vázquez announced the extension of restrictions and prohibitions on social, recreational, and entertainment activities that went into effect on July 17, after medical experts alerted to the most serious spike in cases since the beginning of the crisis and occurring after the lifting of the most severe curfew-lockdown restrictions in June.
González said that there was “much concern” over the continuing upward trend in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. I have assured that the “balance that the governor wants is health over the economy, let's be clear about this. She will not give in on this [executive] order and in others to follow. "
“Whatever the economic task force presents has to be revised in the context of the recommendations made by the group of scientists and must be accepted by them,” he said.
As of Thursday, the Health Department reported that there were 10,279 confirmed positive cases of the novel coronavirus. González said that medical experts are projecting that this figure could almost triple by Sept. 1, reaching 30,000 positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the novel coronavirus disease Covid-19.
So far, there have been 306 deaths attributed to the virus. The number of Covid-19 patients in local hospitals stood at 466. González said that hospitals in Puerto Rico were at 55 percent of capacity.
“That is the concern, of the significant changes in coming days,” the Health secretary said, pointing out that people under 50 years of age are responsible for most of the spread of the virus, even though they may not get sick or have symptoms.
“These people are infecting our older population, people over 60 years of age, among which 75 percent of deaths are located,” he said. "People with comorbidities are going out, being undisciplined in certain measure, not following the rules and exposing other older people."
In fact, González insisted that the spread of the virus is mainly local and not being brought in by people arriving from overseas.
“The infection at this moment is being spread by the community; it is not coming through the airport. We want to make that clear. Let's stop putting up excuses that this is coming through the airport. No, we Puerto Ricans are being undisciplined, ”he said.
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There’s more than one path to IT modernization. Join us for a mix of educational sessions, interactive case studies, and hands-on labs that will help you understand your options and choose the best path for your organization.
Location: Red Hat Annex, 190 E Davie St, Raleigh, NC 27601
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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How to optimize existing technologies and roll out new ones faster.
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5060 W Alabama St, Houston TX - 77056
Covered Parking, An Outdoor Pool And A Location Within Reach Of Several Attractions Make The Non-Smoking Westin Galleria Houston A Sure Bet For Our Guests. Westin Galleria Houston Has 24 Floors And 487 Newly Updated And Rejuvenated Rooms With Cable Tvs, Plush Pillowtop Mattresses, Down Duvets, Down Pillows And 200-Thread-Count Sheets. Guests Also Reach The Ultimate Form Of Relaxation With In-Room Spa Servicse. The Hotel Restaurant, Specializing In Grilled American Cuisine, Is Open For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner. Those Who Want To Get In A Good Workout Head To The Fitness Center Or Dive Into The Seasonal Outdoor Pool. The Westin Galleria Houston Is Connected To The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Shopping Complex. Memorial Park Golf Course Is Three-And-A-Half Miles From The Hotel. Minute Maid Park, Home Of The Houston Astros Baseball Team, Is A 20-Minute Drive. William P. Hobby Airport Is 32 Miles Away, And Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 40 Miles From The Property. Our Guests Praise The "Great Location," "Large Rooms" With "Comfortable Beds" And "Very Efficient, Friendly" Staff At The Westin Galleria Houston.
5011 Westheimer Road, Houston TX - 77056
A Great Location And Decked-Out Rooms Make The Westin Oaks Houston At The Galleria A Must-Stay For Our Guests In Houston. The 21-Story Westin Has 406 Non-Smoking Rooms With Numerous Features, From Signature Beds And Bedding And Deluxe Toiletries To Flat-Panel Tvs, Work Desks And Deluxe Bath Amenities. Wi-Fi Is Available For An Extra Charge. The Award-Winning Restaurant, White Oak Kitchen Drinks, Offers American Cuisine; The Street Level Bar Is The Perfect Place To End The Day With A Signature Cocktail, Premium Wine And Light Bar Fare. An Outdoor Pool Invites Guests To Unwind After A Long Day In The Texas Heat. Guests Can Work In The Business Center Or Work Out In The Fitness Room. Valet Parking And Airport Shuttle Service Are Both Available For A Fee. The Westin Is Connected To The Galleria, Houston'S Destination Mega-Mall. Memorial Park And Its 18-Hole Golf Course Are Three-And-A-Half Miles Away. You Can Drive 20 Minutes To Downtown Houston And Catch A Baseball Game At Minute Maid Park, Home Of The Houston Astros. The Hotel Is Located 17 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 26 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport. "Spacious Rooms" And "A Great Location" At The Westin Oaks Houston At The Galleria Get The Value Thumbs-Up From Our Guests.
Hotel Indigo At The Galleria
5160 Hidalgo St, Houston TX - 77056
Our Guests Shopping For Complimentary Parking, A Prime Uptown Hotel Locale And Lively And Irreverent Style Find The Non-Smoking Hotel Indigo Houston At The Galleria The Place To Be. Reminiscent Of An Upscale Seashore Retreat, This Six-Floor, 131-Room Property Is Bathed In Refreshingly Bold Splashes Of Blues And Vibrant Accents, Softened By Plush Furnishings That Create A Fun, Vacation-Like Urbane Escape. Rooms Are Fresh And Eclectic With Unusual Features Such As Bold Photographic Morals On Walls, Hardwood Floors And Snuggly Area Rugs Under Foot. Dreamy Beds With Pillowtop Mattresses, 400 Thread-Count Sheets, Hypoallergenic Down Pillows, Coffeemakers, Satellite Cable Tvs And Free Newspapers Top Off The Comforts. Refrigerators Are Also Included In Most Accommodations. Guests Can Cure Their Caffeine Addiction At The On-Site Cafe Serving Starbucks, Breakfast, Dinner And Cocktails. The 24-Hour Fitness Center Is Worth Getting Pumped About As Is The Fact That Well-Behaved Pets Are Welcome. Parking Is Free Of Charge. Across The Road From Uptown'S Upscale Galleria Mall, Hotel Indigo Couldn'T Be Any Closer To Prime Shopping And Dining. It'S Also A Savvy Spot For Those Visiting Rice University Or Attractions Such As Hermann Park, Houston Zoo And Houston Museum Of National Science, All About A 15-Minute Trip. In 10 Minutes' Time Guests Can Be On I-10 And Headed For The Energy Corridor, A 20-Minute Ride West, Or Into Downtown, 20 Minutes East. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Minutes North.
Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria - Westheimer
4701 Westheimer Rd, Houston TX - 77027
Fully Equipped Kitchens, Free Wi-Fi And A Location Within Minutes Of Shops And Restaurants Make The Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria A Convenient Choice For Our Guests In The Area. This Four-Story Hotel Has 110 Spacious, Non-Smoking Studios With Separate Living And Sleeping Areas. Large Work Desks And Free Wi-Fi Keep You Productive While On The Road, And Flat-Panel Cable Tvs With Premium Channels Keeps You Entertained. The Well-Stocked Kitchens Have Stovetop Ovens, Microwaves, Refrigerators And Dishwashers Plus Cookware And Tableware — Everything You Need For Home-Cooked Meals. The Hotel Serves A Free Grab-And-Go Breakfast Each Morning That Includes A Variety Of Breakfast Bars And Muffins, Hot Cereal, Coffee And Tea. Pets Stay For An Extra Charge, And Parking Is Free. Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria Is A Half-Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Shopping Complex, Where Shopaholics Can Whip Out The Plastic At High-End Outlets Like Armani, Chanel And Dior. The Museum District, Home To 18 Different Museums, Is Four Miles Away. The Hotel Is 16 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 25 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport. Guests Can Grab An Airport Shuttle For A Fee.
Hotel Derek
2525 West Loop S, Houston TX - 77027
Plush Beds, Modern Decor And Free Internet Access, Plus A Location Next To I-610 And The Galleria, Have Our Guests Raving About The Hotel Derek. The Hotel Derek Has 15 Floors And 314 Rooms With Flat-Panel Tvs, Cd Players, Minibars, Work Desks And Free Internet Access. You Can Relax On The Outdoor Terrace Before Plunging Into The Outdoor Pool (Open Seasonally), Enjoy Italian-Inspired Cuisine At The On-Site Restaurant, Burn Off The Carbs In The 24-Hour Fitness Center And Get Work Done In The Business Center. The Hotel Provides A Complimentary Overnight Shoeshine Service And Free Daily Newspapers. Valet Parking Is Available For A Fee, And Pets Are Permitted, Also For A Fee. The Hotel Derek Is Located Off I-610, One Block From The Galleria, Houston'S Destination Mega-Shopping Complex. Memorial Park And Its 18-Hole Municipal Golf Course Are Three Miles From The Hotel. The Campus Of Rice University Is Five Miles Away, And The Downtown Houston Aquarium Is A 15-Minute Drive. It'S 17 Miles To William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles To George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Embassy Suites Houston-Near The Galleria
2911 Sage Road, Houston TX - 77056
Free Full Breakfasts, Free Evening Receptions And A Shop-Worthy Location Get Grins From Our Guests At The Embassy Suites Hotel Houston - Near The Galleria. This Six-Story, All-Suite Hotel Has 150 Spacious Rooms With Microwaves, Refrigerators And Two Hdtvs. For An Additional Fee, Guests Can Get Connected With Wired Internet Access. Start The Day With A Free Hot Breakfast That Features Eggs, Sausages And Potatoes. Come Back In The Evening For Free Drinks And Light Snacks At The Complimentary Reception. An On-Site Fitness Center Helps Guests Stay Fit, And A 24-Hour Business Center Ensures That They Can Finish Any Last-Minute Projects That May Arise. For Those Who Prefer Water To Land, Dive Right Into The Indoor Pool Or Just Soak In The Hot Tub, Open Year-Round. The Hotel Offers A Complimentary Local Shuttle To Any Destination Within Three Miles Of The Property, And Parking Is Available For An Additional Fee. The Embassy Suites Is A Half-Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S Uber-Large Shopping Complex. Three And A Half Miles Away, Guests Can Play 18 Holes At Memorial Park Golf Course. To See The Houston Astros Baseball Team Play At Minute Maid Park Is A 30-Minute Drive. The Hotel Is Located 32 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 21 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria
An Outdoor Pool, Lavish Fitness Facilities And Free Wi-Fi Beckon At The Non-Smoking Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria. The 325 Non-Smoking Rooms At The High-Rise Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria Have Flat-Panel Tvs, Coffeemakers And Free Wi-Fi. Start The Day With Breakfast At The Restaurant, Or Order Up Any Meal From Room Service, Available 24 Hours A Day. Get Work Done In The Business Center And Then Go For A Swim In The Outdoor Pool Or Work Up A Sweat In The Fitness Room On Free Weights And Kettle Bells. Wind Down The Evening With Cocktails At The Bar. Valet Parking Is Available For An Extra Charge. The Hotel Is A Few Minutes' Walk From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Shopping Complex. Minute Maid Park, Home Of The Houston Astros Baseball Team, Is A 20-Minute Drive. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 40 Miles From The Property. Priceline Guests Like This Hotel'S Location Near The Galleria And Get Lots Of On-Site Perks, Including Free Wi-Fi.
Sheraton Suites Houston Near The Galleria
Roomy Suites, Free Local Shuttle Service And A Location Near The Galleria Make Sheraton Suites Houston Near The Galleria A Choice Stop. This 15-Story All-Suite Hotel Has 283 Rooms Boasting Panoramic Views Of The City And Signature Beds Topped With Plush Mattresses And Down Pillows. Coffeemakers, Mini-Fridges, Hairdryers And Free Toiletries Are Also On Hand. Wi-Fi Is Available In Rooms For A Fee And Is Free In Public Areas. The On-Site Fitness Center Lets Guests Maintain Their Fitness Regimens, Or They Can Just Relax On The Outdoor Sundeck And Cool Off In The Outdoor Pool, Open Seasonally. Enjoy A Soak In The Soothing Hot Tub As Well Before Heading To The Hotel Steakhouse For Savory Steaks And Mouthwatering Sides. Room Service Is Also An Option. Self- And Valet Parking Are Both Available For A Fee. The Sheraton Suites Is A Half-Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S Beacon Of Retail Delight And The Fourth-Largest Shopping Complex In The World. The Hotel Offers A Free Local Shuttle To Destinations Within Three Miles. Minute Maid Park, Home Of The Houston Astros Baseball Team, Is A 20-Minute Drive From The Hotel. If Football'S Your Game, Then Drive 30 Minutes To Reliant Stadium, Home Of The Nfl'S Houston Texans. The Hotel Is Located 24 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport And 24 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport. An Airport Shuttle Service Is Available For A Fee.
Sonesta ES Suites Houston Galleria
A Fabulous Location One Block Away Means Our Guests Can Shop Until They Drop At The Galleria Mall, Then Head Home To Relax In Spacious Accommodations Or By The Sparkling Pool At Sonesta Es Suites Houston Galleria. The All-Suite Hotel Has Four Floors And 93 Rooms That Come With Full Kitchens, Tableware And Cookware. Accommodations Feature Cable Tvs, Work Desks And Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access (For A Fee). Savor Eggs, Sausage, Bacon And More At The Free Hot Breakfast Or Barbeque Something Of Your Own On The Hotel'S Gas Grills. An Inviting Outdoor Pool Is Open Seasonally. Get Some Work Done In The Business Center And Unwind Afterwards At The Free Evening Reception. Self-Parking Is Available For A Fee, And Pets Are Permitted, Also For An Additional Fee. This Hotel Is Located One Block From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Mall And Mecca For Shopaholics. Memorial Park And Its 18-Hole Golf Course Are Four Miles Away, And Numerous Restaurants Are Within Walking Distance. The Downtown Aquarium Is A 20-Minute Drive Away. The Hotel Is Located 20 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 25 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Residence Inn by Marriott Houston by The Galleria
2500 Mccue Rd, Houston TX - 77056
Our Guests Like The Location At Residence Inn Houston Galleria And Enjoy Wi-Fi, Free Hot Breakfast And An Outdoor Pool. This Three-Story Hotel Has 146 Rooms, All With Comfy Beds, Work Desks And Full Kitchens With Cookware And Tableware. When You'Re Not Shopping At The Galleria—A Mere Block Away—You Can Flip On The Flat-Panel Tv To Enjoy In-Room Entertainment. Wi-Fi Is Available For Guests. In The Mornings, Scramble Down And Savor Eggs, Muffins, Bagels, Yogurt Parfaits And More At The Free Hot Breakfast. Guests Can Enjoy Free Beer, Wine, Soft Drinks And Appetizers At The Manager'S Reception. The Hotel Has An On-Site Fitness Center, Or You Can Splash Around In The Seasonal Outdoor Pool And Enjoy The Waterfall Or Just Soak In The Hot Tub. Self-Parking Is Available For A Fee (Free For Guests Staying More Than 30 Days). Located One Block From The Galleria On Mccue Road, Residence Inn Houston Galleria Is 20 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 28 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport. For A Fee, Guests Can Use The Airport Shuttle Service. Shopaholics Can Punish Their Credit Cards At The Galleria, Houston'S High-End Retail Mecca And One Of The World'S Best Shopping Malls. Football Fans Can Travel 20 Minutes Southeast To Reliant Stadium, Home Of The Houston Texans. If Baseball'S Your Bag, Then Go 20 Minutes East To Minute Maid Park, Home Of The Houston Astros.
Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston Near the Galleria
2950 Sage Rd, Houston TX - 77056
Fully Equipped Kitchens, Free Wired Internet Access And Free Hot Breakfast Make It Happen At Homewood Suites Houston Near The Galleria. This 14-Story Hotel Has 162 Rooms, All With Two Flat-Panel Tvs; Full Kitchens, Microwaves, Refrigerators; And Soft, Cushy Beds. Plug In With Free Wired Internet Access (Free Wi-Fi Is Available In The Lobby And Meeting Rooms). You Can Savor A Free Hot Breakfast Of Eggs, Sausages, Coffee And More. A Manager'S Reception With Complimentary Light Snacks, Beer And Wine Is Held Every Monday Through Thursday. You Can Crunch Your Abs In The Fitness Center Or Crunch Some Numbers In The Business Center. A Year-Round Indoor Pool And Hot Tub Is Available For A Dip Or A Soak. Pets Are Welcome At This Hotel As Well. Located On Sage Road, Homewood Suites Is 23 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 25 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport. A Shuttle Service To And From The Airport Is Available For A Fee. The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Shopping Mall, With Some 375 Stores And Restaurants, Is An Eight-Minute Walk North. You Can Be Above Par At The Memorial Park Golf Course, An 18-Hole Municipal Course About Four Miles North.
Galleria Garden
Offering Spacious Suites Featuring Full Kitchens And A Sparkling Outdoor Swimming Pool, The Galleria Garden Hotel Appeals To Our Guests Seeking Both A Prime Location By The Mall And A Little Elbow Room During Their Stay. The All-Suite Hotel Has Two Floors And 30 One- And Two-Bedroom Suites With Granite Countertops In The Full Kitchens Plus Separate Living And Dining Areas, Complete With Cable Tvs. Stay Connected With Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access. An On-Site Business Center Is Available For Guests Who Need To Take Care Of Last-Minute Work. Relax In The Outdoor Pool (Open Seasonally). The Galleria Garden Hotel Is Located Two Blocks From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Shopping Complex. If You'Re All Shopped Out, Head To Memorial Park And Play Its 18-Hole Golf Course (Four Miles From The Hotel). Reliant Stadium, Home Of The Houston Texans Football Team, Is A 20-Minute Drive. The Hotel Is Located 16 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 36 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria - Uptown
The Nice Location, Full Kitchens And Free Parking Put Smiles On Our Guests' Faces At The Non-Smoking Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria - Uptown. This Property Has Three Floors And 136 Spacious Studio Suites With Free Wi-Fi, Work Desks And Full Kitchens (Microwave, Refrigerator, Stovetop, Oven, Cooking Utensils And Cutlery). Jump-Start Your Day With A Free Grab-And-Go Breakfast That Includes A Variety Of Breakfast Bars And Muffins, Hot Cereal, Coffee, And Tea. The Hotel Offers Guests A Laundry Facility And Photocopy Center And Welcomes Pets For A Fee. Parking Is Complimentary. The Extended Stay America Houston Is Located A Half-Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S High-End Retail Mecca. Just 10 Minutes Away Is Houston'S Museum District, Complete With 18 Museums, Most Of Which Have Free Admission. Memorial Park, A 1,466-Acre Urban Park, Is A 20-Minute Drive From The Hotel. It'S 24 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport And 17 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport.
JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria
Luxury Bedding, An Indoor/Outdoor Pool And A Great Location In The Heart Of The Galleria Make The Non-Smoking Jw Marriott Houston A Prime Choice For Our Guests Headed To Houston. The 23-Story Hotel Has 516 Rooms, All Of Which Contain Plush Bedding, 32-Inch, Flat-Panel Hdtvs And Work Desks. Boot Up The Laptop And Get Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access For An Additional Fee. Dine In The Hotel Restaurant, Which Specializes In American Fare, Or Sip Cocktails In The Lounge While Noshing On A Small Appetizer. The Hotel Has An Indoor/Outdoor Pool, A Hot Tub And A Fitness Center. Park On-Site And Hop The Airport Shuttle, Both For An Additional Fee. Note: The Lobby Will Be Undergoing Renovations From May 31 To September 24, 2019. Front-Desk Service Will Be Relocated During This Time. The Hotel Is On Westheimer Road In The Heart Of The Galleria, A Three-Minute Walk From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Mall And High-End Shopping Mecca. Guests Can Play The 18-Hole Municipal Golf Course At Memorial Park, Three-And-A-Half Miles Away. It'S 16 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hilton Garden Inn Houston/Galleria Area
Free Wi-Fi, An Outdoor Pool And A Convenient Location Near The Galleria Mall Make The Non-Smoking Hilton Garden Inn/Houston Galleria Area A Good Choice For Guests. This Eight-Story Hotel Has 182 Rooms, All With Signature Sleep System Beds, Microwaves, Mini-Fridges, Work Desks And Ergonomic Chairs. Power Up And Plug In The Laptop Because There'S Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access. Rooms Also Come With 26-Inch Hdtvs. Casual Dining Awaits In The On-Site Restaurant Which Is Open For Breakfast And Dinner. Splash In The Outdoor Pool Or Soak In The Soothing Hot Tub. Guests Can Remotely Print Needed Documents, While Parking Is Available For An Additional Fee. The Hilton Garden Inn Houston/Galleria Area Is Located On Sage Road Near The Galleria, Houston'S Premier Mega Mall And Major Shopping Destination. Memorial Park And Its 18-Hole Golf Course Are Three Miles Away. Williams Tower, The Largest Building In Houston, Is Just Under A Mile Away. The Hotel Is Located 25 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 40 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hyatt Place Houston/Galleria
5252 W. Alabama, Houston TX - 77056
The Non-Smoking Hyatt Place Houston Galleria Offers Value-Added Perks Like Free Wi-Fi And Hot Breakfast Along With A Heated Pool And Galleria Shopping Next Door. The High-Rise Hyatt Place Houston Galleria Opened In 2016 And Has Free Wi-Fi Hotel-Wide As Well As Flat-Panel Tvs And Coffeemakers In All 157 Rooms. Enjoy A Delicious Free Breakfast Of Eggs, Sausage Or Other Hot Treats After A Wake-Up Swim In The Open-Air Covered Pool. Dine On-Site After A Workout In The Spacious Fitness Room Or A Stint In The Business Center. Valet Parking Is Available For An Extra Charge, And Area Shuttle Service Is Free. The Hotel Is Next Door To Houston'S Upscale Galleria Shopping Complex. The Houston Astros Play At Minute Maid Park, 20 Minutes Away By Car. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 40 Miles From The Property. Priceline Guests Are Ideally Located For Shopping At The Galleria Mall When They Stay At This Hotel, Where Wi-Fi And Breakfast Are Included.
Courtyard by Marriott Houston by the Galleria
Free Wi-Fi, An Indoor Pool, A Hot Tub And A Stellar Location Make The Non-Smoking Courtyard By Marriott Houston By The Galleria One Of The Most Popular Hotel Picks For Our Guests. This 15-Story Hotel Has 200 Rooms Featuring Plush Bedding, Microwaves, Refrigerators And Cable Tvs. Free Wi-Fi Is Available In All Accommodations. In The Morning, Guests Can Savor Eggs, Sausage, Bacon And Belgian Waffles In The On-Site Cafe. Later On, They Can Devour Burgers, Paninis And Salad In The On-Site Lounge. Both Options Are Available For An Additional Fee. There'S A Year-Round Indoor Pool And Soothing Hot Tub Plus An On-Site Fitness Center. There Is An Additional Fee For Both Parking And Airport Shuttle Service. The Courtyard By Marriott Is Located On Sage Road A Half-Mile South Of The Galleria. The Galleria Is One Of The Largest Shopping Malls In The World And A Mecca For High-End Retail Lovers. Guests Can Play The 18-Hole Golf Course At Memorial Park, Four And A Half Miles Away. The Hotel Is 16 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria
2222 West Loop South, Houston TX - 77027
A Great Location, A Solid On-Site Restaurant And A Rooftop Pool Make The Non-Smoking Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston A Four-Star Value For Our Guests. The 23-Story Hotel Has 485 Rooms With Double-Glazed Windows. You Can Relax On Soft Mattresses And Plush Bedding While Watching Movies On The Flat-Panel Tv. Rooms Come With Spacious Private Bathrooms And Work Desks. High-Speed Internet Access Is Available. An On-Site Fitness Center Lets Guests Work Up A Sweat While They Overlook (And Look Forward To) The Outdoor Rooftop Pool And Hot Tub. You Can Dine At The Hotel Restaurant And Finish With A Nightcap At The Hotel Bar. The Royal Sonesta Is A Half-Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S Upscale Shopping Destination. You Can Play 18 Holes At Memorial Park, Home To The Top-Rated Municipal Golf Course In Texas, Three-And-A-Half Miles Away. The Houston Arboretum And Nature Center, Two-And-A-Half Miles Away, Has Over Five Miles Of Nature Trails. The Hotel Is Located 25 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport And 17 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport. A Complimentary Shuttle Service Provides Transportation To Destinations Within A Three-Mile Radius.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Houston by the Galleria
Super-Soft Bedding, An Outdoor Pool And A Great Location Near The Galleria Make The Pet-Friendly Doubletree Suites By Hilton Hotel Houston By The Galleria A Good Choice For Our Guests. This 26-Story Doubletree Suites By Hilton Hotel Houston By The Galleria Has 380 Rooms, All With Microwaves, Mini-Fridges And 32-Inch Flat-Panel Tvs. One-Bedroom Suites Feature Separate Kitchens And Living Room Areas. Guests Can Plunge Into The Plushtop Mattress And Rest Comfortably On Down Pillows And 300-Thread-Count Sheets. Wired Internet Access Is Available For An Additional Fee. Work Horses Head To The Business Center To Put In Some Extra Office Time And Exercise Fanatics Make A Beeline For The Fitness Center. There'S A Seasonal Outdoor Pool, A Free Local Shuttle To Destinations Within Three Miles Of The Hotel And An Airport Shuttle (For An Additional Fee). Self-Parking Is Available For An Additional Fee, As Well. The Hotel Is On Westheimer Road, A Block From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Mall And High-End Retail Mecca. Play One Of The Country'S Top-Rated Municipal Golf Courses At Memorial Park, Three-And-A-Half Miles North. The Hotel Is 17 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 23 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria
2001 Post Oak Blvd, Houston TX - 77056
The Stellar Location One Block From The Galleria Mall Appeals To Our Guests Who Love Lazing By The Rooftop Pool After A Hard Day Of Shopping At The Hilton Houston Post Oak. The 14-Floor Hilton Houston Post Oak Has 448 Rooms That Feature Pillowtop Mattresses And Luxury Bedding, Cable Tvs, Mp3 Clock/Radios And Granite Countertops. Wi-Fi Is Available For A Fee. Quaff A Pint In The British-Style Pub, Or Enjoy American Fare In The On-Site Restaurant. Work Up A Sweat In The Fitness Center, Or Head Up To The Outdoor Rooftop Pool And Sundeck To Catch Some Rays. A 24-Hour Business Center Guarantees That Last-Minute Reports Get Done. Valet Parking Is Available For An Extra Charge, And The Hotel Provides Complimentary Shuttle Service Within A Three-Mile Radius. The Hilton Houston Post Oak Is Located On Post Oak Boulevard, Just One Block From The Galleria Mall, Houston'S Mecca For High-End Shopping. Memorial Park And Its 18-Hole Golf Course Are Three Miles Away. Downtown Houston Is A 15-Minute Drive, Where You Can Visit Attractions Like Bayou Place, A 130,000 Square-Foot Entertainment Complex. The Hotel Is Located 17 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 28 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Aloft Houston by the Galleria
Ultra-Chic Decor, Free Wi-Fi, Amenities To Sigh For And A Great Location Near The Galleria Have Our Guests Checking In To The Non-Smoking Aloft Houston By The Galleria. This Hip, 10-Story Hotel Has 152 Rooms, All With Nine-Foot Ceilings, Plush Platform Beds, 300-Thread-Count Sheets And Bathrooms Stocked With Top-Notch Bath Amenities. Touch Terminals Are Available For Guests To Check In And Get Their Room Assignments And Access Cards. Fire Up The Ipad, And Enjoy Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access While Sipping Complimentary Bottled Water. You Can Splash In The Year-Round Indoor Pool, Or Work Out Anytime Day Or Night In The Fitness Center. The Hotel Also Has A Lounge With Cool Cocktails And An On-Site Restaurant With Grab-And-Go Sandwiches And Snacks. Bring Rover Right Over Because Pets Are Welcome. The Hotel Offers A Complimentary Shuttle Within A Three-Mile Radius. An Airport Shuttle Service And On-Site Parking Are Available For A Fee. Aloft Is 18 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Hotel'S Free Shuttle Will Get You To The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Mall (One Of The World'S Largest Shopping Extravaganzas), Which Offers Multiple Opportunities To Spend Your Hard-Earned Cash With Designers Like Chanel, Dior And Versace. For The Sports-Minded, The Astrodome And Reliant Park Are Eight Miles Away.
HYATT house Houston/Galleria
With Free Breakfast And Wi-Fi In A Central Location, The Non-Smoking Hyatt House Houston Galleria Provides Our Guests With One Sweet Deal. This Four-Floor Hotel Has 147 Non-Smoking Suites With Fully Equipped Kitchens. Recline On Plush Pillowtop Mattresses While Watching 32-Inch Hdtvs Or Surfing The 'Net With Free Wi-Fi. In The Morning, Fuel Up For The Day With A Free Hot Breakfast Buffet That Includes A Made-To-Order Omelet Station. Wind Down In The Evening With A Cocktail In The Bar, Which Also Serves As A Restaurant For Dinner. The Hotel Offers Seasonal Outdoor Swimming, A Poolside Fire Pit And Outdoor Grills. There Are Fitness And Business Facilities On-Site, And The Seasonal Outdoor Swimming Pool Is Great For A Bit Of Sun. Gated Self-Parking And Area Shuttle Service Within A Three-Mile Radius Are Both Available For An Additional Fee. The Hyatt Is One Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S Mega Shopping Complex. Memorial Park Golf Course, Is Four Miles Away, And The Houston Zoo Is A 14-Minute Drive. It'S 17 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hampton Inn by Hilton Houston-Near The Galleria
4500 Post Oak Pkwy, Houston TX - 77027
Free Hot Breakfast, A Seasonal Outdoor Pool, Free Internet And A Prime Location Are Highly Rated By Our Guests At Hampton Inn Houston Near The Galleria. This Six-Story Hampton Inn Has 176 Rooms That Come With A Handy Touch Of Home: Microwaves And Refrigerators. Relax On Your Plush Bed While Flipping Through Channels On The 42-Inch Flat-Panel Tv. Munch On Muffins And Bite On Bacon At The Complimentary Hot Breakfast, Which Includes Eggs, Sausage Patties, Toast, Coffee, Juice And More. Breakfast Bags—Which Include Fruit, Muffin, Cereal Bar And Water—Are Also Available Free. Dive Into The Seasonal Outdoor Pool When It'S Time To Relax Or Recharge. Internet Is Wireless And Free In Rooms And Public Space. For A Fee, A Shuttle Service Can Be Booked To Take Guests To/From Either Airport. Located On Post Oak Parkway, Hampton Inn Houston Is 17 Miles Northwest From William P. Hobby Airport And 26 Miles South Of Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Galleria, Houston'S Shopping Mecca And One Of The Largest Shopping Malls In The World, Is One-And-A-Half Miles Northeast Of The Hotel. Play The 18-Hole Golf Course At Memorial Park Golf Course, Two-And-A-Half Miles North.
Houston Marriott West Loop by The Galleria
A Fully Equipped Fitness Center, A Heated Outdoor Pool And A Location Near The Galleria Have Guests Smiling At The Non-Smoking Marriott Houston West Loop By Galleria. This 13-Story Hotel Has 301 Rooms With Plush Mattresses, Cotton-Rich Linens And Down Pillows And Comforters. Rooms Include Work Desks And Flat-Panel Tvs. Guests Get Connected Courtesy Of In-Room Wi-Fi, Available For A Fee. Start Your Day With Breakfast At The Hotel'S Southwestern Restaurant (Also Open For Lunch) And End The Evening At The Hotel'S Lounge With Dinner And Cocktails. You Can Get Your Heart Rate Up In The Extensive Fitness Center Or Play In The Heated Indoor Atrium Pool (Open Year-Round). Kiddies Get To Splash In Their Own Indoor Children'S Pool. Valet And Self-Parking Are Available For A Fee. The Hotel Is A Little Over A Mile From The Galleria, Houston'S World-Class Shopping Mall. Guests Can Shop High-End Retailers Like Chanel, Dior And Armani. Memorial Park'S Golf Course, Texas' Top-Rated Municipal Course, Is Just Three Miles Away. The Hotel Is 20 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 24 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Candlewood Suites Houston By The Galleria
4900 Loop Central Drive, Houston TX - 77081
Full Kitchens And A 24-Hour Guest Market Provide Economical Convenience For Our Guests At Candlewood Suites Houston By The Galleria. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Four Floors And 80 Rooms With Plush Triple-Sheeted Bedding. You Can Flip On A 32-Inch Flat-Panel Tv And Watch A Movie From The Complimentary Dvd Library. Pull Up A Chair At A Spacious Work Desk And Google Away With High-Speed Internet Access. Guests Can Fry Up A Feast In Full Kitchens With Stovetops, Microwaves, Refrigerators, Cookware And Tableware. Suites Also Feature Cd Players, Coffeemakers, Sofa Beds And Double-Glazed Windows. You Can Get All The Ingredients For A Quick Snack At The 24-Hour Guest Market. Guests Can Get In Some Cardio Early Or Late In The 24-Hour Fitness Center. Copy, Fax Or Print In The On-Site Business Center. Grill Up Burgers, Brats And Veggies In The Barbeque Area. Parking Is Free. Candlewood Suites Houston By The Galleria Is A Half-Mile From The Intersection Of I-59 And The 610 Loop, Giving Guests Easy Access To The Greater Houston Area. Shopaholics Can Pay Homage At The Galleria, Houston'S Mega-Mall, Just Two Miles Away. Swing Like The Pros At Memorial Park Golf Course, An 18-Hole Municipal Course Just Five Miles Away. The Hotel Is 16 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 28 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The St. Regis Houston
1919 Briar Oaks Ln, Houston TX - 77027
Rich On Style And Amenities, Including Gourmet Dining, An On-Site Spa, World-Class Pool And Afternoon Tea, The St. Regis Houston Seems To Be Our Guests' Cup Of Tea. For Those Prepared To Go All Out, The 12-Story, 232-Room St. Regis, Regarded As One Of The City’S Finest Crash Pads, Fits The Bill. The Ultimate Private Sanctuaries, Rooms Include Sumptuous Comforts And Sleek High-Tech Gadgets: Everything From Cloud-Like Pillowtop Beds With Rich Leather Headboards And Luxe Linens To 37-Inch, Flat-Panel Lg Hdtvs And Bose Wave Cd Radios. Wi-Fi And Wired High-Speed Internet Access Are Available For An Additional Fee. Guests Can Soak In The Glorious Outdoor Pool Said To Be Houston’S Finest, Or Have Their Stresses Rubbed And Scrubbed Away At The Full-Service Spa. Later, They Can Feed Their Senses At The Hotel’S Gourmet Restaurant Or Indulge In Petit Fours, Dainty Sandwiches, Scones And Devonshire Cream At Formal Tea. Valet Parking Is Available For An Additional. There’S Complimentary Area Shuttle Service, Too. Less Than A Five-Minute Drive To River Oaks, The City'S Most Exclusive Neighborhood, And The Galleria, An International Mecca For Luxury Shopping, The St. Regis Offers A Setting That Measures Up To Its Amenities. High Art, History And Family Outings Are Within A 10-Minute Drive At Museum Of Fine Arts, Holocaust Museum And Houston Zoo. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 27 Miles Away.
La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Houston Galleria Area
Free Continental Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access And Free Parking Are Some Of The Amenities Our Guests Enjoy At The Pet-Friendly La Quinta Inn & Suites Houston Galleria. Newly Renovated, This Six-Story Hotel Has 191 Rooms, All With Comfy Beds And Cable Tv. Power Up The Laptop And Enjoy Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access. You Can Carb Up With Waffles, Toast, Fruit, Coffee, Juice And More At The Free Continental Breakfast, Which Also Includes Rotating Hot Items Like Sausage. The Hotel'S Beautifully Landscaped Seasonal Outdoor Heated Pool And Hot Tub Might Tempt You To Stay Around All Day. Guests Can Work Out In The Fitness Center Or Work In The Business Center. Parking Is Free For Guests. Bring Rover Right Over Because Pets Are Welcome. Located On West Loop South, La Quinta Inn & Suites Is 18 Miles Northwest Of William P. Hobby Airport And 24 Miles South Of George Bush Intercontinental Airport. There Is An Airport Shuttle Service To Both Bush And Hobby For A Fee. The Galleria—Houston'S Mecca Of High-End Retail Such As Chanel, Dior And Versace—Is One And A Half Miles South. Visit Memorial Park And Play Texas' Top-Rated Municipal 18-Hole Golf Course, Two Miles North.
Towneplace Suites by Marriott Houston Galleria Area
5315 South Rice Avenue, Houston TX - 77081
Freebies Include The Daily Breakfast Buffet, Wi-Fi And Parking At The Non-Smoking Towneplace Suites By Marriott Houston Galleria Area, Which Features Full Kitchens In All The Rooms. The Non-Smoking Towneplace Suites Consists Of Four Floors With 120 Rooms, All Boasting Fully Equipped Kitchens, Free Wi-Fi, Flat-Panel Tvs, Seating Areas, Work Desks And Modern Bathrooms With Hairdryers. Guests Fuel Up At The Complimentary Buffet Each Morning And Get Work Done In The Fitness Room Or Business Center. Other Perks Include An Outdoor Barbeque Area, A Convenience Store And An Outdoor Pool. Pets Are Allowed For An Extra Charge, And Parking Is Free. The Townplace Is Iff The Intersection Of I-610 And I-69, 15 Minutes West Of Downtown Houston. Within Two Miles, The Galleria Supplies Plenty Of Shopping And Dining Options. Family-Friendly Spots Within 20 Minutes Include The Children'S Museum Of Houston, The Houston Zoo And The Cockrell Butterfly Center. Venues Such As Minute Maid Park, Nrg Stadium And The Toyota Center Are Each Less Than 15 Minutes From The Hotel. Spend Some Time At The Space Center Houston, 40 Minutes Away. Guests Reach William P. Hobby Airport In 18 Miles And George Bush Intercontinental Airport In 28 Miles. Trains Stop At Houston Station, Nine Miles Away. Towneplace Suites Impresses Priceline Guests With Its Convenient Location Close To The Mall, Its Friendly Staff And The Relaxing Outdoor Pool.
The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston
The 1-Star The Post Oak Hotel At Uptown Houston Offers Comfort And Convenience Whether You'Re On Business Or Holiday In Houston (Tx). The Property Offers A Wide Range Of Amenities And Perks To Ensure You Have A Great Time. Service-Minded Staff Will Welcome And Guide You At The Post Oak Hotel At Uptown Houston. Each Guestroom Is Elegantly Furnished And Equipped With Handy Amenities. The Property Offers Various Recreational Opportunities. A Welcoming Atmosphere And Excellent Service Are What You Can Expect During Your Stay At The Post Oak Hotel At Uptown Houston.
La Quinta Inn by Wyndham Houston Greenway Plaza Medical Area
4015 Southwest Fwy, Houston TX - 77027
A Convenient Location, Free Wi-Fi And Complimentary Parking Add Up To Good Value For Our Guests At La Quinta Inn & Suites Houston Greenway Plaza Medical Area. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Three Floors And 151 Rooms, Which Feature Cable Tvs, Coffeemakers, Free Local Calls And Complimentary Wi-Fi. The Free Continental Breakfast Boasts With Waffles, Pastries And Bagels. Make A Splash In The Outdoor Pool, Open Seasonally. There Are Also Guest Laundry Facilities On-Site. Parking Is On The House. The La Quinta Inn Is On Southwest Freeway Four Miles From Houston'S Museum District, A Zone With 18 Museums, Including The Museum Of Fine Arts And The Houston Museum Of Natural Science. The Hotel Is 19 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 27 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hotel Granduca Houston
1080 Uptown Park Blvd, Houston TX - 77056
Hotel Granduca In The Galleria Area Offers Grand Comforts, Including Personal Kitchens, A Complimentary Shuttle And Free Wi-Fi, Say Our Guests Who Have Enjoyed A Firsthand Experience There. The Six-Story Hotel Granduca, A Luxury Hotel Decked Out In Old World Elegance, Offers 122 Suites And A Wide Range Of Space Options. All Accommodations Feature Tuscan-Inspired Decor With Original Italian Art, Opulent Italian Linens, Individual Kitchens, Plasma Hdtvs And Twice-Daily Housekeeping. The Hotel'S Theme Of Escaping To An Italian Villa Can Be Experienced Everywhere, From The Northern Italian Cuisine Served At The On-Site Restaurant, Open For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner (Buon Appetito) To The Gorgeous Outdoor Heated Pool Sheltered By Palms And Private Cabanas. As Guests Would Expect, The Fitness Room And Business Center Meet High Standards. The Richly Appointed Bar, Which Hosts Live Music, And Tea Room Add A Touch Of Class. Free Internet Is Available In Rooms And Public Spaces. A Complimentary Shuttle Is Also Available Within A Three-Mile Radius Of The Property. No Need To Shop Around For A Better Locale. Hotel Granduca, Close To The I-610 Loop And Less Than A 15-Minute Drive West Of Downtown, Is A Five-Minute Drive To The Galleria. Pooch-Friendly Buffalo Bayou Park, Just A 10-Minute Trip, Is Yet Another Prized Urban Oasis. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 17 Miles Away.
Days Inn by Wyndham Houston-Galleria TX
3333 Fountain View Dr, Houston TX - 77057
For Our Guests Fixin' To Be In Prime Territory With Free Internet And Breakfast, But Don'T Want The Premium Price Tag, Days Inn By Wyndham Houston Galleria Is A Good Place To Spend The Night. Generously Sized, That'S For Sure, The 40 Rooms Of This Two-Floor, Exterior-Corridor Lodging Include Separate Seating Areas To Give Guests Much-Needed Personal Space. Along With Free Wi-Fi, Rooms Are Equipped With Expanded Cable With Hbo, Refrigerators And Spacious Work Areas. For Those Who Have Been To A Days Inn By Wyndham, They Know To Expect A Free Daybreak Breakfast With Fresh Coffee And Fruit, Along With Muffins, Pastries, Bagels And Cereals, Too. Exercise Enthusiasts Can Also Indulge In Some Workout Time In The Fitness Room On-Site. Parking Is Complimentary. Southwest Of Downtown Houston, Right Outside Of The I-610 Loop, Days Inn By Wyndham Is Within A Five-Minute Drive To Houston Galleria And All The Dance Clubs, Bars And Restaurants Along The Richmond Strip. For Guests With A Different Wild Side In Mind, Houston Zoo Is Within A 15-Minute-Ride. Golf Addicts Might Opt To Sharpen Their Skills At Sharpstown Park Golf Course, Only A 10-Minute Drive Away. Texas Medical Center Is About Seven Miles From The Hotel, And George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 28 Miles.
Omni Houston Hotel
4 Riverway, Houston TX - 77056
A Location Near Memorial Park, Amenities That Include A Luxury Spa, Fine Dining And Two Decadent Pools Makes The Chic Omni Houston Hotel A Top Pick With Our Guests. An 11-Floor, 378-Room Property On Beautifully Manicured, Park-Like Grounds, The Omni Houston Offers No Shortage Of Allure. Sink Right Into The Swank Accommodations, Where High-End Touches Include Luxe Bedding, Marble Baths, Plush Robes, 24-Hour Room Service And Evening Turndown. Guests Can Indulge Their Senses At The On-Site Full-Service Spa With A Multitude Of Treatments And Sauna. They Can Also Soak And Sun By The Two Outdoor Pools, One Of Which Is Heated, Or Dine At The On-Site Gourmet Restaurant. Parking Is Available, And Pets Are Welcome, Both For An Additional Charge. The Omni Is A Five-Minute Drive To Two Of The Area’'S Finest Shopping Districts, The Galleria And Uptown Park. It'S Also Adjacent To Memorial Park, Ideal For A Morning Jog Or Stroll. Guests May Feel Tucked Away, But They'Re Within A 15-Minute Drive To City Central Attractions, Including Houston’'S Downtown Theater Scene And Museum Park, Home To Museum Of Fine Arts, Museum Of Natural Science And Holocaust Museum. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Miles Away.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Houston - Greenway Plaza
6 Greenway Plaza East, Houston TX - 77046
Elegant Rooms And Topnotch Amenities, Including A Chic Lobby Lounge With 20 Kinds Of Scotch, Get Solid Ratings From Our Guests For The Doubletree By Hilton Houston Greenway Plaza. Floor-To-Ceiling Windows Throughout This 20-Story Tower Add A Touch Of Drama To The 388 Rooms, Beautifully Appointed With Custom Duvets, Granite Vanities, Flat-Panel Tvs, Plush Armchairs, Work Desks, Coffeemakers And Walk-In Closets. Enjoy The Newspaper Delivered To Your Room, Or Purchase High-Speed Internet Access If You Prefer To Stay Connected Via Your Laptop. The Spacious And Modern Lobby Features A Starbucks, As Well As A Stylish Lounge Where You Can Choose From 15 Kinds Of Tequila, 20 Scotches And Specialty Cocktails, Including A Texas Mojito. Afterwards, Enjoy Some Authentic Texas Cuisine At The On-Site Bistro. If You Overindulge, Visit The State-Of-The-Art Fitness Center With Personal Tvs, Or Take A Water Aerobics Class At The Heated Outdoor Pool. Other Amenities Include A Full-Service Business Center, Shoeshine Service, Dry Sauna And Free Transportation Within Three Miles. Self-Parking And Valet Parking Are Available For A Fee. The Hotel Is Located Two-And-A-Half Miles From The Exclusive Houston Galleria, The Fourth-Largest Mall In The Country, With 375 Stores, More Than A Dozen Sit-Down Restaurants And An Ice Rink. The Museum District Is Just Three Miles Away, While Downtown Houston Is Six Miles From The Property. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Miles Away.
Comfort Suites - Near The Galleria
6221 Richmond Ave, Houston TX - 77057
Freebies Include Wi-Fi And Breakfast At The Non-Smoking Comfort Suites - Near The Galleria, And Our Guests Also Have Access To An Outdoor Pool And Hot Tub. A Yellow, Three-Story Building Houses The 62 Rooms Of This All-Suite Property. Accommodations Have Traditional Decor And Are Equipped With A Microwave, A Refrigerator, Cable Tv, A Hairdryer And An Iron. A Seating Area With A Sofa Bed And Ceiling Fan Provides Extra Space. Enjoy Free Wi-Fi And Local Calls In Your Room. In The Lobby, Pick Up A Free Copy Of Usa Today To Read While You Enjoy A Complimentary Breakfast. If Your Plans Have You Leaving The Hotel Before Breakfast, Grab A To-Go Bag From The Front Desk. There'S An Outdoor Pool And Hot Tub, A Fitness Center And A 24-Hour Business Center. Outdoor Parking Is Free. Comfort Suites Is Located Two Miles From The Interstate And Highway 59. Guests Are Less Than 10 Minutes From The Galleria Mall, The Country'S Fourth Largest Mall With Over 375 Shops And Restaurants. Minute Maid Park Is 25 Minutes Away, And Reliant Park Is 15 Minutes From The Hotel. The George R. Brown Convention Center Is A 20-Minute Drive. Golf Lovers Are 20 Minutes From Memorial Park Golf Course And 10 Minutes From The Houston Country Club. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 30 Miles.
Best Western Galleria Inn & Suites
Free Wi-Fi, Free Continental Breakfast And A Convenient Location Generate Positive Buzz From Our Guests At Best Western Fountainview Inn And Suites. This Three-Story Hotel Has 69 Rooms That Feature Restful King- Or Queen-Size Beds And Spacious Work Desks. Microwaves And Refrigerators Are Also Available For Guests. Leave The Wires At Home Because Wi-Fi Is Free; And Feel Free To Print, Copy Or Fax To Your Heart'S Content In The Hotel'S Business Center. Guests Can Chow Down At The Continental Breakfast Of Muffins, Bagels And Pastries. Slip Into The Inviting Outdoor Pool For A Refreshing Dip Or Head To The Fitness Center, Equipped With Step Machines And Treadmills For Your Exercising Pleasure. Parking Is Free. Best Western Fountainview Inn And Suites Is Two And A Half Miles From The Galleria, Houston'S Destination For High-End Retail Lovers. You Can Play 18 Holes At Memorial Park'S Golf Course, Texas' Top-Rated Municipal Course, A 15-Minute Drive. The Museum Of Fine Arts, The Largest Museum In The State, Is Just A 12-Minute Drive. The Hotel Is 29 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport And 20 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport. An Airport Shuttle Service Ferries Guests To The Hotel For A Fee.
The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa
111 N Post Oak Ln, Houston TX - 77024
With Everything From A Breathtaking Gym And Complimentary Internet Access To Acres Of Tranquility In A Tony Part Of Town, The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa Shows Our Guests How It'S Done. This Four-Story, 289-Room Property, Situated On 18 Wooded Acres, Is Home To A Full-Service Spa. The Lovely Accommodations Include Floor-To-Ceiling Windows With Wooded Views, Decadent Bedding, Plush Furnishings And Niceties Such As Free Wi-Fi, Flat-Panel Cable Tvs And Ipod Docking Stations. The Property'S Rustic Tuscan Decor Is As Warm And Homey As It Is Elegant. Amenities Sweeping Guests Off Their Feet Include A Resort-Style Pool With Stonework, Gentle Waterfalls, A Grownup-Style Slide, Business Center And One Heck Of An Amazing Gym With Miles Of Free Weights, Cardio Equipment, Sports Court And Even An Indoor Track. Parking Is Available For An Additional Fee. A Free Shuttle Service To Galleria Mall Is Also Provided. Tucked On The Western Edge Of Memorial Park In Uptown, The Property Feels Secluded, Yet It'S So Close To Everything Including The I-610 Loop. For Fashion Slaves, Galleria Mall, Two-And-A-Half Miles Away, Is A Must-See. Guests Can Hit The Links Of Memorial Golf Course Or Visit Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, Both Only A Five-Minute Ride. Tack On Another Five Minutes To See Museum Of Fine Arts Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens On The Other Side Of The Park. Downtown Houston Is Five Miles From The Property, And George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 24 Miles North.
Courtyard by Marriott Houston West University
2929 Westpark Dr, Houston TX - 77005
Free Wi-Fi, Easy Freeway Access And Free Parking Equal Happy Guests At The Non-Smoking Courtyard By Marriott Houston West University. This Hotel Has Three Floors And 100 Rooms That Feature Cushy King-Size Or Double Beds, Microwaves, Mini-Fridges And Work Desks. You Can Google Away Contentedly With Free Wi-Fi In The Room. Start And End Your Day At The On-Site Restaurant Which Serves Yummy Breakfast And Delicious Dinner Fare. If You Feel The Need To Stretch Your Arms, Then Head Down To The On-Site Fitness Center Or The Sports Court To Limber Up. You Can Jump Into The Outdoor Swimming Pool Or Ease Into The Soothing Hot Tub. Free Parking Is Also Available. Located One Block From A Major Freeway, The Courtyard By Marriott Is Two And A Half Miles From Rice University, A Private Research University In Houston. The Hotel Offers A Free Local Shuttle To Destinations Within Three Miles. For Outdoor Fun, Hermann Park And The Houston Zoo Are Just Three Miles Away. In A Two-And-A-Half-Mile Drive, You Can Visit The Houston Museum Of Natural Science And Come Up Close To Fossils. The Hotel Is Located 24 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport And 14 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport. An Airport Shuttle Service Is Available For A Fee.
Residence Inn by Marriott Houston West University
Roomy Suites, Full Kitchens And Free Breakfast Have Guests Grinning At The Non-Smoking Residence Inn Houston West University. The All-Suite Hotel Has Four Floors And 120 Rooms, All With Luxe Bedding, Soft Mattresses, Fireplaces, Pull-Out Sofa Beds, Cable Tvs And Full Kitchens With Cookware And Tableware. Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access Are Available (For A Fee). Guests Love The Free Full Breakfast With Eggs, Bacon, Coffee And More. In The Evening, The Hotel Hosts A Free Manager'S Reception With Beer, Wine And Light Appetizers. Work Up A Sweat In The Fitness Center Or On The Sports Court. Cool Off In The Outdoor Pool And Soak In The Hot Tub. Parking Is Free, And Pets Are Welcome For An Extra Charge. Note: The Pool And Hot Tub Are Closed For Renovation Until Further Notice. The Residence Inn Is One Block From Southwest Freeway And Three Miles From Rice University. A Complimentary Shuttle Brings Guests To And From Texas Medical Center, The Largest Medical Center In The World. Hermann Park And The Houston Zoo Are Just Four Miles Away. The Hotel Is Located 14 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 25 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Suites With Full Kitchens And Easy-Living Amenities Like A Swimming Pool And Fitness Center Make The Residence Inn Houston West University A Hit.
Four Points by Sheraton Houston Greenway Plaza
The Recently Renovated, Non-Smoking And Dressed-To-Impress Four Points By Sheraton Houston Greenway Plaza Offers Primo Amenities And A Prime Parkside Locale That Have Our Guests Heading Its Way. This Nine-Floor, 216-Room Property Is Prepared To Wow With Contemporary Decor And Ultra-Sophisticated Living Spaces. Rooms Are Well-Equipped With Oversized Work Desks, Signature Beds And Luxe Marble Bath Vanities. High-Speed Internet Access Is Available. The Tempting Assortment Of Amenities Range From An On-Site Bakery And A Full-Service Restaurant And Lounge To An Outdoor Pool And Top-Notch Fitness Room. Count On The Services Of A 24-Hour Business Center, Too. Note: The Hotel Will Be Undergoing Renovations Through December 2019. Well Inside The I-610 Loop, Four Points By Sheraton Houston Greenway Plaza Is Located In The City'S Prime University West District. Guests Are A 10-Minute Ride From Rice University And Texas Medical Center. They Can Also Drive To Great Golf At Hermann Park, Home Of Houston Zoo, And Memorial Park, Both Less Than 15 Minutes Away. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 18 Miles Away.
Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks
Complimentary Shuttle Service, Free Wi-Fi And In-Room Microwaves And Refrigerators Make Travel A Little Easier For Guests At The Non-Smoking Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks Hotel. The 18-Story Hotel Offers 354 Traditionally Furnished Rooms With The Crowne Plaza'S Signature "Seven Layers Of Comfort Bedding," Coddling Guests With Pillowtop Mattresses And Triple-Sheeting, And Pampering With Soft Eye Masks And Lavender Aromatherapy Spray. You'Ll Enjoy Free Wi-Fi And Premium Cable Tv With Pay-Per-View Movies During Your Stay And Find The Other Necessities For Hassle-Free Travel Like A Hairdryer, Coffeemaker And Ironing Equipment As Well. Rooms Also Come Equipped With Microwaves And Refrigerators — Handy Amenities For Folks On The Road. There'S A Full-Service Restaurant On The Premises Serving Three Meals A Day; Room Service Is Also Available. Additional Hotel Amenities Include Fitness And Business Centers, Meeting Space And A Coin Laundry. Guests Are Entitled To Complimentary Shuttle Service Within A Three-Mile Radius. On-Site Parking Is Available For An Additional Fee. The Hotel Is Conveniently Located To The Sites And Attractions Of Downtown, Including The George R. Brown Convention Center And The Houston Zoo, Five Miles Away. It'S Six Miles To Minute Maid Park And Seven Miles To The Downtown Aquarium. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 27 Miles From The Hotel.
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Comfort Inn & Suites Southwest Fwy at Westpark
A Downtown Location, Free Hot Breakfast And Complimentary Wi-Fi Are Much Appreciated By Our Guests At Comfort Inn & Suites Near The Galleria. This 111-Room, Five-Story Property Is In The Thick Of Shopping, Dining And The Sights. Each Accommodation Has The Necessities Of Travel, Including A Hairdryer, Coffeemaker And Ironing Equipment. You'Ll Also Have Premium Cable Tvs With Pay-Per-View Movies. The Hotel Also Has An Exercise Room And A Business Center. The Hotel Is Three Miles From The Houston Galleria, The Nation'S Fourth Largest Mall, With More Than 350 Retailers. It'S Less Than Nine Miles From The Hotel To Reliant Park And The Houston Museum Of Natural Science. It'S 15 Minutes By Car To The Downtown Aquarium And 30 Minutes To Battleship Texas. It'S 19 Miles To William P. Hobby Airport And 29 Miles To George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Extended Stay America - Houston - Greenway Plaza
Full Kitchens, Free Wi-Fi And Convenient Highway Access Make Extended Stay America - Houston - Med. Ctr. - Greenway Plaza A Good Stop For Guests. This Non-Smoking Hotel Has Three Floors And 122 Rooms Well-Equipped With Spacious Work Desks, Free Wi-Fi And Full Kitchens With Stovetops, Microwaves, Refrigerators, Cookware And Tableware. Jumpstart Your Day With A Free Grab-And-Go Breakfast That Includes A Variety Of Breakfast Bars And Muffins, Hot Cereal, Coffee And Tea. You Can Copy, Fax Or Mail Important Documents At The Front Desk And Freshen Up Your Wardrobe At The Guest Laundry. Local Calls And Parking Are Free, And Pets Are Allowed For A Fee. Extended Stay America Is On I-59 (Southwest Freeway) About Three Miles From Houston'S Museum District, Which Has 18 Museums Including The Museum Of Fine Arts, One Of The Largest In The Nation. Guests Can Stroll Leisurely Through Hermann Park Or Walk On The Wild Side At Houston Zoo, Both Less Than Four Miles From The Hotel. Texas Medical Center, The Largest Medical Center In The World, Is Three Miles Away. The Hotel Is 14 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 26 Miles From Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Hilton Houston Galleria Area
6780 Southwest Freeway, Houston TX - 77074
Located Directly On Highway 59 And Offering Free Parking And Wi-Fi, The Non-Smoking Hilton Houston Galleria Area Makes Getting Around Town Easy For Our Guests. The 13-Floor Hilton Offers 292 Rooms With Complimentary Wi-Fi, Coffeemakers And 37-Inch, Flat-Panel Cable Tvs With Nintendo Games. With A Business Center, A Car-Rental Desk, A Restaurant And A Bar, Every Need Is Answered. There Is Also A Fitness Center With Ample Free Weights And Personal Tvs On The Cardio Equipment, As Well As An Outdoor Pool. Parking Is Free. The Hilton Is Right Outside The I-610 Loop On Southwest Freeway/Highway 59, Offering Easy Access To Area Attractions. Downtown Houston And Major Venues Such As George R. Brown Convention Center, Toyota Center And Aminute Maid Park Are A 20-Minute Drive. Guests Visiting Sugar Land, A 15-Minute Commute, Are In A Sweet Spot, Too. For Those With A Weakness For The Latest Fashions, A Trip To The Houston Galleria, A 10-Minute Drive. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Miles From The Property.
La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Houston Southwest
Free Internet Access, Free Continental Breakfast And Free Parking Are Some Freebies Our Guests Enjoy At La Quinta Inn And Suites Houston Southwest. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Four Floors And 120 Rooms, All With Cable Tvs, Coffeemakers And Work Desks. Free Wired Internet Access Is Available. Enjoy Waffles And Hard-Boiled Eggs At The Free Continental Breakfast. Work Out On The Road At The On-Site Fitness Center Or Take A Plunge In The Outdoor Pool (Open Seasonally). You Can Park Your Ride For Free. La Quinta Inn And Suites Houston Southwest Is Located On The Southwest Freeway Within Easy Access Of Many Attractions. The Museum District, Home To 18 Different Museums, Is A 20-Minute Drive Away. You Can Catch Football Action At Reliant Stadium, A 25-Minute Drive. The Hotel Is Located 19 Miles From William P. Hobby Airport And 28 Miles From George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area
7611 Katy Fwy, Houston TX - 77024
The Non-Smoking Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area Wows Our Guests With Its Free Shuttle Service, Upscale Decor, An Outdoor Pool And A Restaurant On-Site. The Six-Story Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area Offers 177 Rooms In A Non-Smoking Environment. Bold Colors, Dark-Wood Furnishings And Leather-Upholstered Headboards Are Part Of The Modern Style Found In Each Room. In-Room Amenities Include A Mini-Fridge, Coffeemaker, Hairdryer, Iron And Bathrobe. Premium Cable Tv Is Provided, And Wi-Fi Is Available For A Fee. Begin Your Day With A Workout In The Fitness Center Or A Swim In The Outdoor Pool. Enjoy Breakfast In The On-Site, Full-Service Restaurant And Take Advantage Of The Free Shuttle Services To Visit Attractions Within Three Miles Of The Hotel. In The Evening, Gather With Friends For Drinks Around The Fire Pit In The Outdoor Courtyard. Stop By The Business Center To Print Boarding Passes. Valet Parking Is Available. The Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area Is Located Off I-10, Five Miles From The Houston Galleria, The Fourth Largest Mall In The Country. Drive 10 Minutes To Hit The Links At The Memorial Park Golf Course And 15 Minutes To Visit The Houston Zoo. The George Brown Convention Center Is 15 Minutes Away In Downtown Houston. Guests Are Also 15 Minutes From Rice University And Minute Maid Park. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Miles Away.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston - Memorial Park Area
Hitting The Spot With A Complimentary Breakfast And Internet, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Houston - Memorial Park Area Makes Its Mark With Our Guests For Its Non-Smoking Accommodations And Speedy I-10 Access. Offering 82 Rooms, This Seven-Floor, Pet-Friendly Property Is Where Guests Score Solid Comforts That Include Nicely Styled Rooms With Free High-Speed Internet Access, Triple-Sheeted Beds, 27-Inch, Flat-Panel Tvs, Microwaves And Refrigerators. Mornings Are A Little Sweeter Too, With Those Signature Cinnamon Rolls Dished Out At The Daily Hot Complimentary Buffet Breakfast. Rain Or Shine, The Heated Indoor Pool And Hot Tub Are A Hot Attraction, As Is The Fitness Center With Cardio Equipment For Working Up A Healthy Sweat. Thanks To Help From The Business Center, Guests Don'T Have To Sweat It Workwise. Parking Is Also Free Of Charge. Conveniently Located Off I-10, Holiday Inn Strikes A Smart Compromise Between Downtown Houston And The Energy Corridor. Exxonmobil Is A 10-Minute Commute, While Westlake/Energy Park Residents Including Bp America, Conocophillips And Citgo Are A 15-Minute Ride. Better Yet, Guests Are A 10-Minute Escape To Memorial Park, Home To An 18-Hole Course And Plenty Of Serenity. For High-End Shopping, Dining And People-Watching, Galleria Mall Is A 10-Minute Shot South. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 25 Miles North.
Modern B & B
4003 Hazard St, Houston TX - 77098
Clean Lines And An Urban Feel Meet Warmth And Comfort In The Outstanding Modern B & B, Where The Gourmet Breakfast Is Made With Organic Ingredients, Espresso Is Always Available And The Neighborhood Is Lively And Fun. Choose From Eight Rooms, Each With A Personality Of Welcoming Minimalism, Ipod Docks, Cable Tvs And Wi-Fi Access. While Some Rooms Share A Bathroom, Others Have Private Baths With Jetted Tubs, Kitchenettes, Balconies And Fantastic Views. Use The Espresso Bar In The Guest Kitchen For A Shot Of Espresso Any Time And Absolutely Don'T Miss The Complimentary Breakfast, Which Often Consists Of Fresh Fruit, Caramel Pecan Rolls, Smoothies And Local, Organic Eggs. Take A Cappuccino To The Shaded Veranda And Enjoy The View Of The City. Ask About Borrowing Dvds From The Library, Using The Photocopier, Wedding Services, Conference Facilities And How To Work The Espresso Machine. Off-Street Parking Is Available And Free. Guests Should Note That The Hosts Have A Cat That Lives On The Property. Almost Exactly The Midpoint Between Downtown Houston, Four Miles East, And The Galleria, Four-And-A-Half Miles West, The Modern B & B Enjoys A Spectacular Location. Walk To The Menil Collection, A Free Modern Art Gallery, Six Blocks Away. Rice University Is Less Than Two Miles South. The George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 24 Miles Away.
Hampton Inn & Suites Houston I-10 / Central
Convenient Interstate Access, Free Breakfast And Free Wi-Fi Are Some Of The Perks At The Non-Smoking Hampton Inn And Suites Houston I-10/Central, Where There'S Also An Indoor Pool. The Non-Smoking Hampton Inn And Suites Houston I-10/Central Has Five Floors With 90 Well-Equipped Rooms With Free Wi-Fi And Flat-Panel Hdtvs, Mini-Fridges, Coffeemakers And Microwaves, As Well As Work Desks. Start The Day With A Free Newspaper To Read With Your Complimentary Breakfast Before Getting Down To Work In The Business Center Or The Fitness Room. There Is Also In An Indoor Heated Pool Where Guests Can Unwind. On-Site Laundry Facilities, A Small Convenience Market And Free Parking Are Other Pluses. Just Off I-10, The Hampton Inn Is Five Miles West Of Downtown Houston. Across The Highway, There Is A Park Where Guests Can Wander Trails, Play Golf Or Peruse The Houston Arboretum. Book Tickets At Area Venues, Like Minute Maid Park Or The Toyota Center, Each Within 15 Minutes, And Don'T Miss The Intriguing Space Center Houston, A 40-Minute Drive. History And Art Lovers Appreciate The Houston Museum Of Natural Science, The Museum Of Fine Arts And The Menil Collection, Each Within 20 Minutes Of The Hotel, And A Fun Spot For Families Is The Houston Zoo, A 15-Minute Drive. The Two Are Airports Are William P Hobby Airport, 17 Miles Away, And George Bush Intercontinental Airport, A 24-Mile Trip.
FairBridge Inn & Suites Houston Medical Center/NRG Park
6712 Morningside Dr, Houston TX - 77030
Easing Life On The Road With Complimentary Breakfast And Free Wi-Fi, Rodeway Inn & Suites Medical Center Is Especially Convenient For Our Guests Headed To Rice University, Texas Medical Center And Houston'S Westside Attractions. A Two-Floor, Exterior-Corridor Lodging With 33 Smoking And Non-Smoking Accommodations, Rodeway Inn & Suites Is Where All Guests Can Enjoy The Comfort Of Free Wi-Fi, Refrigerators And Cable Tvs. Guests Can Start The Day With A Free Continental Breakfast Buffet, And Tap Into The Free Coffee Brewing Any Time They Like. The On-Site Laundry Facilities Are A Welcome, Sight, Too. Parking Is Complimentary. A Five-Minute Drive To Rice University, Rodeway Inn & Suites Puts Guests Equally Close To The Myriad Of Hospitals That Comprise Texas Medical Center, Including Baylor College Of Medicine And Shriners Hospital. The Hotel Is One Block To Holcombe, A Mecca For Good Eateries And Retail Shops And The Main Thoroughfare To Hospital Central. Houston Zoo At Hermann Park Is Within A Five-Minute Trip, Too. William P. Hobby Airport Is 10 Miles From The Property, While George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 23 Miles Away.
OYO Hotel Houston Galleria West
Property Location Located in Houston (Woodlake - Briar Meadow), OYO Hotel Houston Galleria West is within a 10-minute drive of CityCentre and Memorial City Mall. This hotel is 8.6 mi (13.9 km) from Memorial Park and 8.8 mi (14.1 km) from Houston Museum District. Rooms Stay in one of 74 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks, and housekeeping is provided daily. Dining Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include express check-in and express check-out. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hilton Houston Plaza / Medical Center
6633 Travis St, Houston TX - 77030
A Heated Outdoor Pool And Private Jogging Track Make It Easy To Stay In Shape While Visiting The Non-Smoking Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center In The Heart Of Houston'S Medical Corridor. Whether You Choose One Of The 42 Rooms Or 141 Suites In This 19-Story Hotel, You Can Get A Drink From The Wet Bar, Grab A Snack From The Fridge, Nestle Into The Overstuffed Armchair And Enjoy An Hbo Movie Before Crawling Into Your Signature Bed With Pillowtop Mattress And Down Duvet. You'Ll Also Have A Cordless Speakerphone, Mp3 Clock Radio, Work Desk, Coffeemaker And Wi-Fi (For A Fee). Staying Fit On The Road Is No Problem Here, Thanks To A State-Of-The-Art Fitness Center, Year-Round Pool And Outdoor Jogging Track. If You'Re Feeling More Low-Key, Enjoy A Drink At The Garden Terrace That Overlooks The Pool. A Full Meal Is Available Any Time Of Day At The Restaurant, Which Includes Heart-Healthy Options And Serves A Daily Breakfast Buffet. There'S Also A Business Center With Complimentary Printing And Valet Parking For A Fee. If You'Re On Medical Business, You'Re Perfectly Located Within A 10-Minute Walk Of All The Major Houston Hospitals. Rice University Is Two Blocks Away. The Houston Zoo Is A Mile Away, The Museum District A Half-Mile Further And Downtown Three Miles Past That. George Bush Intercontinental Airport Is 24 Miles From The Hotel.
5060 W Alabama St, Houston, TX - 77056
Covered Parking, An Outdoor Pool And A Location Within Reach Of Several Attractions Make The Non-Smoking Westin Galleria Houston A Sure Bet For Our Guests. Westin Galleria Houston Has 24 Floors And 48...
5011 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX - 77056
A Great Location And Decked-Out Rooms Make The Westin Oaks Houston At The Galleria A Must-Stay For Our Guests In Houston. The 21-Story Westin Has 406 Non-Smoking Rooms With Numerous Features, From Sig...
5160 Hidalgo St, Houston, TX - 77056
Our Guests Shopping For Complimentary Parking, A Prime Uptown Hotel Locale And Lively And Irreverent Style Find The Non-Smoking Hotel Indigo Houston At The Galleria The Place To Be. Reminiscent Of An ...
4701 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX - 77027
Fully Equipped Kitchens, Free Wi-Fi And A Location Within Minutes Of Shops And Restaurants Make The Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria A Convenient Choice For Our Guests In The Area. This Four-S...
2525 West Loop S, Houston, TX - 77027
Plush Beds, Modern Decor And Free Internet Access, Plus A Location Next To I-610 And The Galleria, Have Our Guests Raving About The Hotel Derek. The Hotel Derek Has 15 Floors And 314 Rooms With Flat-P...
2911 Sage Road, Houston, TX - 77056
Free Full Breakfasts, Free Evening Receptions And A Shop-Worthy Location Get Grins From Our Guests At The Embassy Suites Hotel Houston - Near The Galleria. This Six-Story, All-Suite Hotel Has 150 Spac...
An Outdoor Pool, Lavish Fitness Facilities And Free Wi-Fi Beckon At The Non-Smoking Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria. The 325 Non-Smoking Rooms At The High-Rise Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria Have Flat-...
Roomy Suites, Free Local Shuttle Service And A Location Near The Galleria Make Sheraton Suites Houston Near The Galleria A Choice Stop. This 15-Story All-Suite Hotel Has 283 Rooms Boasting Panoramic V...
A Fabulous Location One Block Away Means Our Guests Can Shop Until They Drop At The Galleria Mall, Then Head Home To Relax In Spacious Accommodations Or By The Sparkling Pool At Sonesta Es Suites Hous...
2500 Mccue Rd, Houston, TX - 77056
Our Guests Like The Location At Residence Inn Houston Galleria And Enjoy Wi-Fi, Free Hot Breakfast And An Outdoor Pool. This Three-Story Hotel Has 146 Rooms, All With Comfy Beds, Work Desks And Full K...
2950 Sage Rd, Houston, TX - 77056
Fully Equipped Kitchens, Free Wired Internet Access And Free Hot Breakfast Make It Happen At Homewood Suites Houston Near The Galleria. This 14-Story Hotel Has 162 Rooms, All With Two Flat-Panel Tvs; ...
Offering Spacious Suites Featuring Full Kitchens And A Sparkling Outdoor Swimming Pool, The Galleria Garden Hotel Appeals To Our Guests Seeking Both A Prime Location By The Mall And A Little Elbow Roo...
The Nice Location, Full Kitchens And Free Parking Put Smiles On Our Guests' Faces At The Non-Smoking Extended Stay America Houston - Galleria - Uptown. This Property Has Three Floors And 136 Spacious ...
Luxury Bedding, An Indoor/Outdoor Pool And A Great Location In The Heart Of The Galleria Make The Non-Smoking Jw Marriott Houston A Prime Choice For Our Guests Headed To Houston. The 23-Story Hotel Ha...
Free Wi-Fi, An Outdoor Pool And A Convenient Location Near The Galleria Mall Make The Non-Smoking Hilton Garden Inn/Houston Galleria Area A Good Choice For Guests. This Eight-Story Hotel Has 182 Rooms...
5252 W. Alabama, Houston, TX - 77056
The Non-Smoking Hyatt Place Houston Galleria Offers Value-Added Perks Like Free Wi-Fi And Hot Breakfast Along With A Heated Pool And Galleria Shopping Next Door. The High-Rise Hyatt Place Houston Gall...
Free Wi-Fi, An Indoor Pool, A Hot Tub And A Stellar Location Make The Non-Smoking Courtyard By Marriott Houston By The Galleria One Of The Most Popular Hotel Picks For Our Guests. This 15-Story Hotel ...
2222 West Loop South, Houston, TX - 77027
A Great Location, A Solid On-Site Restaurant And A Rooftop Pool Make The Non-Smoking Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston A Four-Star Value For Our Guests. The 23-Story Hotel Has 485 Rooms With Double-Glazed W...
Super-Soft Bedding, An Outdoor Pool And A Great Location Near The Galleria Make The Pet-Friendly Doubletree Suites By Hilton Hotel Houston By The Galleria A Good Choice For Our Guests. This 26-Story D...
2001 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX - 77056
The Stellar Location One Block From The Galleria Mall Appeals To Our Guests Who Love Lazing By The Rooftop Pool After A Hard Day Of Shopping At The Hilton Houston Post Oak. The 14-Floor Hilton Houston...
Ultra-Chic Decor, Free Wi-Fi, Amenities To Sigh For And A Great Location Near The Galleria Have Our Guests Checking In To The Non-Smoking Aloft Houston By The Galleria. This Hip, 10-Story Hotel Has 15...
With Free Breakfast And Wi-Fi In A Central Location, The Non-Smoking Hyatt House Houston Galleria Provides Our Guests With One Sweet Deal. This Four-Floor Hotel Has 147 Non-Smoking Suites With Fully E...
4500 Post Oak Pkwy, Houston, TX - 77027
Free Hot Breakfast, A Seasonal Outdoor Pool, Free Internet And A Prime Location Are Highly Rated By Our Guests At Hampton Inn Houston Near The Galleria. This Six-Story Hampton Inn Has 176 Rooms That C...
A Fully Equipped Fitness Center, A Heated Outdoor Pool And A Location Near The Galleria Have Guests Smiling At The Non-Smoking Marriott Houston West Loop By Galleria. This 13-Story Hotel Has 301 Rooms...
4900 Loop Central Drive, Houston, TX - 77081
Full Kitchens And A 24-Hour Guest Market Provide Economical Convenience For Our Guests At Candlewood Suites Houston By The Galleria. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Four Floors And 80 Rooms With Plush Tri...
1919 Briar Oaks Ln, Houston, TX - 77027
Rich On Style And Amenities, Including Gourmet Dining, An On-Site Spa, World-Class Pool And Afternoon Tea, The St. Regis Houston Seems To Be Our Guests' Cup Of Tea. For Those Prepared To Go All Out, T...
Free Continental Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi And Wired Internet Access And Free Parking Are Some Of The Amenities Our Guests Enjoy At The Pet-Friendly La Quinta Inn & Suites Houston Galleria. Newly Renovate...
5315 South Rice Avenue, Houston, TX - 77081
Freebies Include The Daily Breakfast Buffet, Wi-Fi And Parking At The Non-Smoking Towneplace Suites By Marriott Houston Galleria Area, Which Features Full Kitchens In All The Rooms. The Non-Smoking To...
The 1-Star The Post Oak Hotel At Uptown Houston Offers Comfort And Convenience Whether You'Re On Business Or Holiday In Houston (Tx). The Property Offers A Wide Range Of Amenities And Perks To Ensure ...
4015 Southwest Fwy, Houston, TX - 77027
A Convenient Location, Free Wi-Fi And Complimentary Parking Add Up To Good Value For Our Guests At La Quinta Inn & Suites Houston Greenway Plaza Medical Area. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Three Floors ...
1080 Uptown Park Blvd, Houston, TX - 77056
Hotel Granduca In The Galleria Area Offers Grand Comforts, Including Personal Kitchens, A Complimentary Shuttle And Free Wi-Fi, Say Our Guests Who Have Enjoyed A Firsthand Experience There. The Six-St...
3333 Fountain View Dr, Houston, TX - 77057
For Our Guests Fixin' To Be In Prime Territory With Free Internet And Breakfast, But Don'T Want The Premium Price Tag, Days Inn By Wyndham Houston Galleria Is A Good Place To Spend The Night. Generous...
4 Riverway, Houston, TX - 77056
A Location Near Memorial Park, Amenities That Include A Luxury Spa, Fine Dining And Two Decadent Pools Makes The Chic Omni Houston Hotel A Top Pick With Our Guests. An 11-Floor, 378-Room Property On B...
6 Greenway Plaza East, Houston, TX - 77046
Elegant Rooms And Topnotch Amenities, Including A Chic Lobby Lounge With 20 Kinds Of Scotch, Get Solid Ratings From Our Guests For The Doubletree By Hilton Houston Greenway Plaza. Floor-To-Ceiling Win...
6221 Richmond Ave, Houston, TX - 77057
Freebies Include Wi-Fi And Breakfast At The Non-Smoking Comfort Suites - Near The Galleria, And Our Guests Also Have Access To An Outdoor Pool And Hot Tub. A Yellow, Three-Story Building Houses The 62...
Free Wi-Fi, Free Continental Breakfast And A Convenient Location Generate Positive Buzz From Our Guests At Best Western Fountainview Inn And Suites. This Three-Story Hotel Has 69 Rooms That Feature Re...
111 N Post Oak Ln, Houston, TX - 77024
With Everything From A Breathtaking Gym And Complimentary Internet Access To Acres Of Tranquility In A Tony Part Of Town, The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa Shows Our Guests How It'S Done. This Four-Sto...
2929 Westpark Dr, Houston, TX - 77005
Free Wi-Fi, Easy Freeway Access And Free Parking Equal Happy Guests At The Non-Smoking Courtyard By Marriott Houston West University. This Hotel Has Three Floors And 100 Rooms That Feature Cushy King-...
Roomy Suites, Full Kitchens And Free Breakfast Have Guests Grinning At The Non-Smoking Residence Inn Houston West University. The All-Suite Hotel Has Four Floors And 120 Rooms, All With Luxe Bedding, ...
The Recently Renovated, Non-Smoking And Dressed-To-Impress Four Points By Sheraton Houston Greenway Plaza Offers Primo Amenities And A Prime Parkside Locale That Have Our Guests Heading Its Way. This ...
Complimentary Shuttle Service, Free Wi-Fi And In-Room Microwaves And Refrigerators Make Travel A Little Easier For Guests At The Non-Smoking Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks Hotel. The 18-Story Hotel O...
A Downtown Location, Free Hot Breakfast And Complimentary Wi-Fi Are Much Appreciated By Our Guests At Comfort Inn & Suites Near The Galleria. This 111-Room, Five-Story Property Is In The Thick Of Shop...
Full Kitchens, Free Wi-Fi And Convenient Highway Access Make Extended Stay America - Houston - Med. Ctr. - Greenway Plaza A Good Stop For Guests. This Non-Smoking Hotel Has Three Floors And 122 Rooms ...
6780 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX - 77074
Located Directly On Highway 59 And Offering Free Parking And Wi-Fi, The Non-Smoking Hilton Houston Galleria Area Makes Getting Around Town Easy For Our Guests. The 13-Floor Hilton Offers 292 Rooms Wit...
Free Internet Access, Free Continental Breakfast And Free Parking Are Some Freebies Our Guests Enjoy At La Quinta Inn And Suites Houston Southwest. This Pet-Friendly Hotel Has Four Floors And 120 Room...
7611 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX - 77024
The Non-Smoking Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area Wows Our Guests With Its Free Shuttle Service, Upscale Decor, An Outdoor Pool And A Restaurant On-Site. The Six-Story Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria A...
Hitting The Spot With A Complimentary Breakfast And Internet, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Houston - Memorial Park Area Makes Its Mark With Our Guests For Its Non-Smoking Accommodations And Spee...
4003 Hazard St, Houston, TX - 77098
Clean Lines And An Urban Feel Meet Warmth And Comfort In The Outstanding Modern B & B, Where The Gourmet Breakfast Is Made With Organic Ingredients, Espresso Is Always Available And The Neighborhood I...
Convenient Interstate Access, Free Breakfast And Free Wi-Fi Are Some Of The Perks At The Non-Smoking Hampton Inn And Suites Houston I-10/Central, Where There'S Also An Indoor Pool. The Non-Smoking Ham...
6712 Morningside Dr, Houston, TX - 77030
Easing Life On The Road With Complimentary Breakfast And Free Wi-Fi, Rodeway Inn & Suites Medical Center Is Especially Convenient For Our Guests Headed To Rice University, Texas Medical Center And Hou...
Property Location Located in Houston (Woodlake - Briar Meadow), OYO Hotel Houston Galleria West is within a 10-minute drive of CityCentre and Memorial City Mall. This hotel is 8.6 mi (13.9 km) from Me...
6633 Travis St, Houston, TX - 77030
A Heated Outdoor Pool And Private Jogging Track Make It Easy To Stay In Shape While Visiting The Non-Smoking Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center In The Heart Of Houston'S Medical Corridor. Whether You...
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Take yourself off on the ultimate train ride as you read an informative tale by responsible traveller Matt Scott and find out what it’s really like to undertake the Trans Siberian railway journey, dried noodles and all.
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Trans Siberian Railway
A tale of the ultimate train ride
The Tran Siberian Railway is the ultimate rail journey, the longest in the world, possibly the coldest if you go at the wrong time of year and the only journey that travels in two continents in a single journey, while staying in the same country. Without leaving your seat you can clatter your way along almost a third of the globe; the Trans Siberian is a journey of almost mythical proportions. Matt Scott tells the story of his journey on this legendary train.
There are three routes that travellers can take to explore the expanse that is Siberia: The Moscow to Vladivostok route at over 9,650km and two routes that leave Moscow heading to Beijing, one going through Mongolia, taking six days and travelling almost 8,000km or one that travels via Manchuria, which takes almost a week to complete. I was intrigued by the country that was home of Genghis Khan and… well, I didn't know what else, which was part of the reason I was intrigued.
My journey started on a Tuesday night at Yaroslav Station in Moscow. Platform three was packed with traders loading up the train with rugs, stereos, clothes, underwear and a host of other good that I assumed they were going to sell on the way. I expected to see many world wise travellers on the station, waiting to take this epic journey; I saw none. I was the only person who had not brought at least half a carriage worth of goods to sell on the way.
I pushed my way past bags, of what smelt like horse blankets, to find my carriage. The compartment was about as big as the bathroom at my Moscow hotel. There were about eight compartments to a carriage. Each compartment consisted of a small table next to the window and two beds on either side, with a further two that suspended from the sides of the carriage, but stowed in an upright position giving the illusion of some space.There was no one else in the carriage as I went through my ritual of taking of my hat, gloves, coat and the several other layers I was wearing to keep out the Russian winter. It was early January and below -20°C outside. I went into the corridor and looked out the window at the remaining passengers loading their wares. Until I reached Ulaanbaatar in five days' time, this was going to be the way I would see the world. I was torn from my thoughts as I saw several people walk into the compartment behind me. Confusion started as seven people tried to lay claim to the four beds in the carriage. There had been an obvious case of overbooking and we chatted politely as we waited for the ticket collector to see who would be thrown off the train. Luckily no one was thrown off, and three of us were moved to other carriages in the train. I was moved into first class. Still with a toilet at the end of the carriage and no shower, but the compartment had only two beds and I was alone. Not bad for a $200 ticket.
I spent the evening alone in my carriage, sipping strong Russian tea from the Samovar at the end of the carriage. The high rise flats of Moscow turned into countryside dotted with small towns. Russian churches appeared in almost every town, lit up against the surrounding hills covered in snow. Yet there was not enough time to appreciate the beauty before it past by and something else would appear to spark my interest. It was how much of the journey was taken up, looking out the window admiring the scenery. Every morning I would open my curtains to wonder what kind of scenery would greet me as the train moved through the Urals into snow covered forest to step and the large expanses of snowy nothingness. It was hard to get bored of the view and the anticipation of another beautiful sunset; knowing you've travelled almost a thousand miles, and crossed another time zone, since the night before.
The train makes frequent stops to pick up new passengers and let other alight. Ekaterinberg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Ulan Ude, near Lake Bikal, are just some of the great cities the train passes through. With the train stopping for only an hour so at each stop there is little time to sightsee except at the station. If you miss the train leaving it can be a week before another one is able to take you to Mongolia to catch up with your luggage.
I chose to stay close to the train and settle with admiring the stations we stopped in as well as trying to avoid the hustle that always met us at stations as traders tried to sell their carriage full of goods.
Old women often came up to the doors of the train offering hot meals of chicken and vegetable or meat and potato, as well as soup and biscuits. A three-course meal could be enjoyed form your window if you didn't want to visit the dining cart that day. Other people would approach the doors and windows of the train, decorated glasses and crystal, paintings, fur hats or whatever was a speciality of the region could found. Many workers in the local factories were paid part of their wages in what they actually produced and the passing trains would be a good source of income in the struggling economy. I often swapped some of my own possessions for snacks; a pair of warm socks got me a huge bag of berries that I could enjoy for the rest of the journey and my book of 2001; a Space Odyssey got me a new pair of gloves.
It was at the end of the first day that someone joined me in the carriage. Elenor was a young mother from Perm who was on her way to visit her sick mother in Ulan Ude. She spoke terrible English, and I terrible Russian; we got along well. We spent the day talking about her children and what I was doing in Russia. She would often tell me how I reminded her of her ten-year-old son, and when I fell asleep on my bed she would often drape her shawl on me and gently sing Russian songs.
Elenor had a supply of shopping bags that she was selling at stations to try and pay for her journey. As the train pulled into another station we would both lean out of the windows waving the colourful plastic bags and yelling "sumki sumki", "bags bags". I never sold many, but then neither did Elenor.
Visitors would often pop into our compartment to talk, bringing gifts of vodka or chocolate. While I only understood part of the conversation, the talks were always animated and very enjoyable. I often moved between carriages to meet other travellers. I would take along my bag of berries as a guest offering. I was keen to experience Russian cuisine and eat the food I found on the stations or in the restaurant car, but I'd also bring my packs of dehydrated meals that I had brought along just in case.
It was a continual source of amusement as we poured hot water into the foil packs and a full meal was ready in minutes. Before leaving the UK I was worried that my Russian would not be enough to help me mix with the other travellers. My language was bad but I was warmly welcomed anywhere I went on the train. I never did meet another Western traveller; I can't say that I minded.
The days passed quickly, too quickly, and the boredom that I had feared never set in. I was hoping to finish my second book and swap it for something at the last station, but I'd hardly read a page or so before my eyes would drift towards the window and I became lost in what lay outside. I had been waiting eagerly to see Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world, and Elenor awoke me as we passed it. This huge lake was covered in ice and stretched to the mountains on the horizon, but it disappeared within minutes as the train turned a corner and we headed back into the forest.
We soon arrived at the station in Ulan Ude; this was Elenor's stop. We said our goodbyes and she left me one of her shopping bags to remember her by. I promised to write but after she'd left I realised I never took her address. Sara, the only female doctor in Mongolia (or so she told me) now occupied the other bed in my compartment. A gentleman from Lake Baikal, Valery, also joined us. He talked passionately about the lake and how 'you can catch fish with just your arms' he brought with him food from the region: Caviar, black bread, cured fish, biscuits and other delights that we tucked into eagerly.
The three of us shared stories and swapped English and Russian lessons until we reached the Mongolian border late that evening. The border crossing took almost six hours; we ate and drank numerous bottles of vodka. The border guards were cheery and shared our vodka as they checked our passports. They chatted to us in three languages: English if they were talking to me, Russian when they talked to Valery and Mongolian at all other times. I understood perfectly, or maybe that was just the vodka.
The last night on the train passed quickly and I slept until we reached Ulaanbaatar the next morning. I was hoping to enjoy a last breakfast in the restaurant car and get the chance to say goodbye to many of the people I had met during the journey, but as we got into the station there was just enough time to gather up my belongings before were ushered off the train.
While the Trans Mongolian Route of the railway continued for another 1,600km to Beijing I would not join it for another four days; in that time I would have the chance to look around the capital city of Mongolia. I would then join another train and spend just one more day to complete one of the longest journeys on the planet and get to Beijing. But now I have to swap another pre-packed meal for some proper food. I wonder what it will be like here.
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One year of waste classification in Shanghai: how can the front-end efforts not be wasted? What about the back end?
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Original title: News survey Shanghai garbage classification, how can the front-end efforts not be wasted? What about the back end?
CCTV News reported on October 11 that on July 1, 2019, Shanghai municipal solid waste management regulations were formally implemented, which has been rated as the “strictest” garbage classification legislation in history for a year. In the past year, Shanghai’s garbage sorting front-end has made remarkable achievements. What will be done with these different wastes that have been sorted hard at the back end? Where is the wet garbage after the broken bag? How to form an effective closed-loop collection and transportation of recyclable materials? How to find a stable sales path? Compulsory garbage classification forces the front-end people to produce garbage, but what is the situation of the back-end? How to connect the front and back ends so that the front-end efforts are not wasted? “News survey” continues to focus on the classification and treatment of garbage in Shanghai.
Wet waste has always been the number one problem of urban garbage in China. China’s wet waste was the first to mix with other wastes, and landfill was used for disposal. Leachate will pollute groundwater resources. Incineration is faced with the problems of high cost and low cost. Therefore, in Chinese cities, the key of front-end domestic waste classification is dry wet separation, and the key point of end disposal is how to utilize resources.
At present, eight large-scale wet waste recycling facilities with a daily treatment capacity of more than 200 tons have been built in Shanghai, and two projects are under construction. After the completion of the project, all the wet garbage in Shanghai will be recycled.
Closed loop construction, wet garbage does not come out of Hongmei
The largest garbage disposal base in Shanghai has been sent to Meihong for disposal. Until the beginning of the implementation of the local regulations on waste classification in Shanghai, Hongmei Street boldly proposed the management goal of “no wet waste out of Hongmei” in order to relieve the pressure of wet waste disposal at the end of Shanghai. Since then, Hongmei Street wet waste disposal has become one of the pilot sites in Shanghai to explore the localization of wet waste disposal.
Huayue home, with nearly 10000 residents, is the largest living community in Hongmei street. Prior to the installation of wet waste disposal equipment, Huayue home’s current garbage warehouse site often encountered complaints from nearby residents. At the beginning, even though the environmental sanitation department increased the frequency of garbage removal and transportation, Huayue home, which has nearly 10000 people, inevitably faces the odor of garbage fermentation in the summer.
In order to eliminate the secondary pollution problems such as fermentation odor and breeding pests of wet garbage in large residential areas, Hongmei Street introduced the garbage disposal equipment of Tianwei environmental protection by the way of government purchasing services from enterprises after the start of garbage classification.
Wu Wenwei, director of Shanghai Hongmei street greening and city appearance management office: This machine can deal with a bucket of garbage every 15 minutes, so the garbage of this community can be treated in 8 hours a day in this machine, and the wet garbage will not ferment, and the complaints of people about the odor of garbage are basically gone.
Since then, Huayue home has become one of the pilot sites to explore the localization of wet waste disposal in Hongmei street. At the four garbage disposal sites in Huayue home, four volunteers like this are waiting by the garbage cans during rush hours every morning and evening. Every day, 28 cleaners of Huayue home need to take turns to inspect more than 70 barrels of wet garbage, which is about 3 tons, in the community. Because only the higher the purity of the wet waste, the longer the service life of the machine.
Pu Yapeng, Secretary of the Party Working Committee, Hongmei street, Xuhui District, Shanghai: the local utilization of wet waste resources is of great benefit to our local people, that is, it reduces the link of cleaning and transportation, and closely connects the classification and disposal.
The first experience of environmental protection, the “Museum” of wet garbage around the citizens
With the completion of the environmental protection experience center covering an area of 350 square meters, the pilot project of localization of wet garbage in Hongmei street has officially formed a new mode of “one district, three points”. The environmental protection experience center of Xuhui District is not only the only small-scale Science Museum for wet waste disposal in Shanghai, which is open to the public in the central urban area, but also the centralized treatment station for all wet garbage in Hongmei street.
Pu Yapeng, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Hongmei street, Xuhui District, Shanghai: you can’t look at the future with your inherent ideas. Garbage stations can be very tall, garbage stations can also appear in the city center. If we reverse thinking, we will force the development of technology and establish very strong constraints to force technological innovation.
Another more important function of Xuhui District citizen environmental protection experience center is “the wet garbage museum around the public”. On June 1 last year, after the public experience center of Xuhui District was officially opened to the public, a number of community residents were welcomed. Let them most intuitively see how the wet garbage they throw can be turned into treasure through technology and how to make the best use of it.
Wu Wenwei, director of Hongmei street greening and city appearance management office, Shanghai: the garbage will be fed back to the community in the end, because it will become fertilizer. Chemical fertilizer is not used for greening the community, which is also a kind of resource saving.
Every day, 40-50 tons of fresh wet garbage will be sent to Hongmei street in time. After being crushed, dehydrated and deoiled, the waste residue will be mixed into biological bacteria compost, then bagged and sent to specific places for composting with agricultural waste. In this way, the front-end wet garbage is treated in time to avoid environmental pollution and reduce the secondary fermentation in the transportation process; secondly, the front-end reduction is realized after dehydration, and the transportation cost is greatly saved. Once the wet garbage in Hongmei Street turns into organic fertilizer, it can be directly used in small-scale farms around Shanghai.
From the city people’s table, back to the city people’s table
In China, another dilemma of wet waste recycling is that the product outlet after disposal of wet waste is very narrow. Through nearly one year’s exploration, the pilot project of wet garbage in Hongmei street has formed a recycling mode of “from the city people’s table to the city people’s table”. In order to ensure the quality of agricultural products, the agricultural departments of the government will also conduct soil sampling tests on the pilot farms from time to time.
In an interview with the farm, villagers said that organic fertilizer with high purity on the market is not only difficult to buy, but also much more expensive than chemical fertilizer. Once the land is not used with pesticides and chemical fertilizers, it is necessary to invest higher labor costs for daily maintenance such as weeding.
In today’s cities, organic agriculture means high input and slow output. In one year since the implementation of the local regulations on garbage classification in Shanghai, the purity and total amount of wet garbage in Hongmei street have changed qualitatively. From March 2020, the daily wet waste tends to be stable. Since Hongmei Street tried to use wet waste composting, with the increase of the amount of wet waste, 3000 mu of farmland around Shanghai has been free to use organic fertilizer from Hongmei street.
Is “closed loop mode” replicable?
Although the pilot project of Hongmei street has begun to take shape, as a new form, it is different from the large-scale wet waste treatment plant invested by the government. At present, the state has not issued corresponding overall environmental assessment standards for such small-scale wet waste disposal points. How to supervise the operation of the environmental protection center of Xuhui District?
As a pilot project, the Environmental Protection Bureau and the waste management department of Xuhui District have carried out individual environmental impact assessment (EIA) in accordance with the regulatory standards of local enterprises in the park since it was put into use.
After more than two years of running in, the pilot project of local disposal of wet waste in Hongmei street has basically taken shape, which not only establishes a small-scale “closed-loop mode” of wet waste, but also brings more intuitive experience of wet waste science popularization to the public. But can such a pilot model be replicated in Shanghai and other cities in China? It will take time to give us an answer.
“Two network integration” collaborative collection and transportation, “point, station, field” three-level network
Hangtian Xinyuan is a medium-sized community with 550 households in Hongmei street. In July 2019, Hongmei Street upgraded its recyclable materials requirements to ten categories on the basis of Shanghai’s five categories. It is hoped that a more forward-looking pilot exploration of recyclables can be made in this community. At present, the new aerospace park is in the initial stage of the pilot project, and only 10 categories of recyclables are required for cleaners.
At the beginning of garbage classification in Shanghai last year, the government effectively linked the front-end domestic waste sorting and transportation system with the terminal renewable resources recovery system, forming a collection and transportation mode of “two network integration” cooperative operation. Relying on the recycling enterprises, it established a three-level recycling network of “point, station and field”, and created a huge recyclable system under the supervision of the government from collection, transportation to disposal.
Shanghai Jilin Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is responsible for the door-to-door recycling of Hongmei street. Jilin environmental protection Co., Ltd., established at the end of 2016, is the “regular army” of the government recycling system. At present, there are 64 “regular forces” like them in Shanghai’s “two networks integration” system. In the districts of Hongmei street, Shanghai’s “two networks integration” system will be twice a week. Like this, special vehicles will be sent to each district to purchase the recycled items collected by cleaners. At the same time, it will be adjusted at any time according to the size of the community and the amount of recyclable objects. In view of the fact that Hangtian Xinyuan is a pilot area of ten categories of recyclables in Hongmei street, the on-site recycling staff will check ten different types of recyclables one by one before weighing and registering.
In order to encourage the cleaners to classify the recyclables in the front end, Hongmei Street requires each community to provide temporary storage sites for recyclables according to local conditions as far as possible, negotiate with the properties of each community, retain the basic salary of cleaners, and encourage cleaners to sell the recyclables to the “two networks integration” system for additional income generation. In order to help the pilot exploration of ten categories in aerospace new park, the street invested money to provide hardware facilities such as shelves and sorting boxes for cleaners.
The front end makes achievements and the end bears losses
Since the implementation of waste classification in Shanghai, as of June this year, the amount of recyclable materials recovered in Shanghai has reached 6813.7 tons per day, an increase of 71.1% over the previous year. For the garbage sorting front-end, this is a very good result, but for the end of the two network convergence of enterprises, the front-end of these rapid growth of the number behind the increasingly anxious enterprise loss report.
For the enterprises in the integration system of Shanghai’s two networks, the biggest difficulty at present is that the transportation cost is too high. They not only need to send their tentacles into the front-end communities for collection and transportation, but also send the recyclable materials to different factories at the end of the line for disposal. For most of the low value-added recyclables, most of their disposal plants are not located in Shanghai, cross provincial transportation belt The high cost makes it more difficult to break even the low value recyclables.
Formulate reasonable subsidy and cultivate high and new technology
As early as March 21, 2018, the general office of Shanghai Municipal People’s government issued the implementation opinions on establishing and improving the recycling system of municipal domestic waste recyclables, which clearly stated that all districts should formulate subsidy measures for low value-added recyclables to ensure that recyclable enterprises can obtain subsidies for low-value-added recyclables.
In view of the fact that enterprises are constantly losing money in the current two network integration system, Shanghai greening and city appearance administration bureau also said that while calculating the reasonable subsidy for low value-added recyclables, the government is optimizing the urban layout of “points, stations and yards” in the “two networks integration” system and issuing relevant standards; on the other hand, it is accelerating the establishment of the “two networks integration” system and terminal The docking system of disposal enterprises.
The Shanghai municipal government also expressed the hope that more high-tech and environmental protection enterprises will settle in Shanghai in the future, cultivate a number of functional resource utilization projects, ensure the stable outlet of low value-added recyclables, and realize full coverage recovery, full category utilization and full caliber statistics.
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By Kat Tancock, Reader's Digest CanadaUpdated: Aug. 06, 2019
Where can you find the best beaches in Canada? Well, that depends on what kind of a beach you’re looking for! We’ve rounded up some of our favourite Canadian shores based on five different beach-ranking criteria.
The best beaches in Canada for swimming
What makes a good beach one of the best beaches in Canada? The swimming, of course! Saskatchewan’s Manitou Beach has kid-friendly sandy expanses, but it’s the mineral-rich water that keeps bathers pleasantly buoyant. For extended submersions, Parlee Beach, N.B., has this country’s warmest salt water, and the shallow aquamarine Pine Lake in the Northwest Territories heats up to about 20°C under summer’s almost-endless sun.
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For a country with a reputation for harsh winters, it’s easy to forget that there’s plenty of sand to go around on Canada’s beaches. Prince Edward Island’s Cavendish Beach, Manitoba’s Grand Beach and Alberta’s Devonshire Beach host annual sand-sculpture contests, but they’ve also got, respectively, a live-lobster touch tank, three kilometres of dunes and hundreds of campsites.
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A mudstone drill site called Mojave on Mars was one of two yielding organic molecules resembling kerogen.
NASA rover hits organic pay dirt on Mars
By Paul Voosen Jun. 7, 2018 , 2:00 PM
In its quest to find molecules that could point to life on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has struck a gusher. Since Curiosity landed in 2012, it has sifted samples of soil and ground-up rock for signs of organic molecules—the complex carbon chains that on Earth form the building blocks of life. Past detections have been so faint that they could be just contamination. Now, samples taken from two different drill sites on an ancient lakebed have yielded complex organic macromolecules that look strikingly similar to the goopy fossilized building blocks of oil and gas on Earth. At a few dozen parts per million, the detected levels are 100 times higher than previous finds.
Although the team cannot yet say whether these molecules stem from life or a more mundane geological process, they demonstrate that organics can be preserved for billions of years in the harsh martian surface environment, says Jennifer Eigenbrode, a biogeochemist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who led a study in this week’s Science . "We're in a really good position to move forward looking for signs of life."
Ever since it reached its primary target, Aeolis Mons, a 5000-meter-tall mountain rising from the floor of Gale crater, Curiosity has spent much of its time driving on a mudstone formed by sediments that settled to the bottom of a lake some 3 billion years ago, when Mars was a more clement place. Mudstones are ideal for trapping and preserving organic molecules. Because ultraviolet radiation and oxidizing compounds in the martian soil would destroy any compounds exposed at the surface, Curiosity's scientists used a robotic drill to penetrate several centimeters into the mudstone. They delivered the fresh grit to an oven inside the rover's belly.
To unlock organic molecules from the samples, the oven baked them to temperatures of between 600°C and 860°C—the range where a known contaminant disappeared—and fed the resulting fumes to a mass spectrometer, which can identify molecules by weight. The team picked up a welter of closely related organic signals reflecting dozens or hundreds of types of small carbon molecules, probably short rings and strands called aromatics and aliphatics, respectively. Only a few of the organic molecules, sulfur-bearing carbon rings called thiophenes, were abundant enough to be detected directly, Eigenbrode says.
The mass patterns looked like those generated on Earth by kerogen, a goopy fossil fuel building block that is found in rocks such as oil shale—a result the team tested by baking and breaking organic molecules in identical instruments on Earth, at Goddard. Kerogen is sometimes found with sulfur, which helps preserve it across billions of years; the Curiosity scientists think the sulfur compounds in their samples also explain the longevity of the Mars compounds.
The path to carbon
Since landing in Gale crater in 2012, the Curiosity rover has reached the base of a 5000-meter-tall mountain. Samples drilled from an ancient lakebed have yielded organic molecules that could stem from biology or geology.
0 0 2 40 Km Km Curiosity landing site Aeolis Mons(Mount Sharp) 5000 m Equator Gale crater Dunes Curiosity Drill sites yieldingcomplex organics Rover path Landing site
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Earth's kerogen was formed when geologic forces compressed the ancient remains of algae and similar critters. It's impossible to say whether ancient life explains the martian organics, however. Carbon-rich meteorites contain kerogenlike compounds, and constantly rain down on Mars. Or reactions driven by Mars's ancient volcanoes could have formed the compounds from primordial carbon dioxide. Monica Grady, a planetary scientist at The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., believes the compounds somehow formed on Mars because she thinks it's highly unlikely that the rover dug into a site where an ancient meteorite fell. She also notes that the signal was found at the base of an ancient lake, a potential catchment for life's remains. "I suspect it's geological. I hope it's biological," she says.
Curiosity has one last tool to help the team find out: nine small cups containing a solvent that frees organic compounds bonded in rock, eliminating the need to break them apart—and potentially destroy them—at high temperatures. In December 2016, rover scientists were finally prepared to use one of the cups, but just then the mechanism to extend the rover's drill stopped working reliably. The rover began exploring an iron-rich ridge, leaving the mudstone behind. In April, after engineers found a way to fix the drill problem, the team made the rare call to go backward, driving back down the ridge to the mudstone to drill its first sample in a year and half. If the oven and mass spectrometer reveal signs of organics in the sample, the team is likely to use a cup. "It's getting so close I can taste it," says Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The discovery could give a boost to future Mars exploration plans. Europe's ExoMars rover, due for launch in 2020, will drill deeper than Curiosity, to soil depths better protected from radiation. But detection of past life may ultimately take the precision analysis of labs on Earth, Grady says. "We've got to bring a sample back." In such labs, technicians can dissolve away nonorganic molecules and take a full index of the remaining organic ones, including, say, fatty acids with an even number of carbon atoms—a hallmark of life. Another clue has added to the incentive: In a separate study in this week’s Science , Curiosity scientists report that traces of methane in the martian atmosphere rise and fall with the seasons. Nonbiological processes could explain the signal—but so could seasonally varying microbes. Fortunately, NASA's next rover, Mars 2020, is set to collect some 30 rock cores for return to Earth in subsequent missions. Plans to retrieve those rocks are far from finalized—or financed—but NASA's case has gotten much stronger with the organics discovery, says George Cody, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. "If somebody asks me to go to Congress and defend a sample return mission, this paper makes that job much easier."
That the rover team found anything at all speaks well to their planning and execution, Cody adds. Imagine drilling in Chile's Atacama Desert, which is often used as a Mars analog. "You'd be damn lucky to detect an ancient kerogen." But the Curiosity team managed it—on Mars. "They lucked out. We lucked out."
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Your Stories - Ben horrod
I am 32 years old, married with 3 girls who are 10, 6 and 3. I am originally from the West Coast of Cumbria and moved down to Portsmouth in 2010 once I finished at my degree at Staffordshire Uni. I am also a type 1 diabetic and a Design & Technology teacher at a school in Portsmouth.
After several months of my wife telling me to make an appointment to see the GP I finally did towards the end of August 2019, the reason for my visit was that one of my testicles was slightly larger and felt denser than the other. I think it was anything too serious which is why I didn’t rush to make an appointment to see the GP.
At the GPs appointment she wasn’t 100% sure what was wrong with it, she thought that it could just been twisted and swollen so referred me up to QA to see a specialist, this appointment was about a week after my GP one.
I went along to the specialist appointment one afternoon after I finished work and within seconds of him seeing and feeling it, he knew that it was more serious. I then had an ultrasound a couple of days later, a CT scan a couple of days after that and then an operation the next day to have the tumour removed. All this happened within 6 days of my initial specialist appointment at QA which included a weekend!
I can not thank all the staff at QA who I met enough for the speed and efficiency that they worked. After the operation they had to carry out test on the testicle to find out what type and stage of cancer it was, I got these results a couple of weeks after my operation which was towards the end of September.
The tests on the testicle revealed that I had stage 1 seminoma cancer, the tumour that I had was large which meant that if I had waited any longer it could have been more difficult for me.
Following my operation and then recovery I went back to work whilst I waited to see my consultant in oncology. At this appointment my consultant explained to me that I had two options; the first was to not do anything and the second was to have one dose of chemotherapy to reduce the likelihood of the cancer returning in the future. I opted for the chemotherapy option and in late October I was in QA having my chemotherapy treatment. I was then off work for a couple of weeks whilst my body recovered, and my immune system go back to full strength. My school where very supportive of me throughout my diagnosis and treatment as well as close friends who helped my wife with looking after our girls during this period.
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Portsmouth and Charlton ticket update
PORTSMOUTH V OXFORD UNITED
Skybet League 2, Saturday 3rd August, kick-off 3.00pm
Fratton Park, Frogmore Road, Portsmouth PO4 8RA
All tickets for this game have now been sold. Due to the high demand a waiting list has been put in place. Supporters wishing to register on this list should call the ticket office on 01865 337533 or call in person during normal office hours.
TRAVEL (By car, 86 miles from Oxford)
Continue along the M27 eastbound (ignoring the M275 turn off for Portsmouth city centre) on to the A27. At the junction with the A2030 turn right towards Southsea/Fratton. Continue along the A2030 and eventually you will see the ground in front of you.
Once at Fratton Station, exit via the footbridge and turn left onto Goldsmith Avenue. Continue along for approximately half a mile and Frogmore Road is on your left. Fratton Park is situated at the bottom.
Parking spaces are very limited; but the club does offer free spaces to wheelchair users provided they hold a valid ticket for the wheelchair section and a blue badge. The postcode for parking is PO4 8SX
Travel information supplied by www.portsmouthfc.co.uk
LONDON ROAD CLUB COACHES:
Departure Times: Stadium 11.15am - Ice Rink 11.30am
Fares: Adult Member £14.00, Adult Non-Member £16.00
Junior Member £12.00, Junior Non-Member £14.00
CHARLTON ATHLETIC V OXFORD UNITED
Capital One Cup 1st Round
The Valley, Floyd Road, London SE7 8BL, Tuesday 6th August, kick-off 7.45pm
Oxford United fans have been allocated 3000 places in the Jimmy Seed Stand behind the goal. Please be aware that entry into The Valley will be by CASH ONLY ON THE NIGHT and prices have been reduced for this fixture:
Over 60 £5.00
Under 21 £5.00
There are 7 wheelchair spaces available priced at £5.00 (includes free carer)
Entry for Ambulant disabled supporters is also £5.00 (including free carer) but supporters must take documentation stating they receive medium to high disability living allowance.
TRAVEL (By car 95 miles from Oxford)
The easiest way to get to The Valley by car is to use the A2, accessed from junction two of the M25 (those heading south via the M1, A1 or M11 should head clockwise on the M25, signposted 'Dartford Crossing').
Heading into London along the A2, the dual carriageway becomes the A102M - the approach road to the Blackwall Tunnel. Leave at the junction after the A2 exit and take the right-hand exit at the roundabout - the A206 Woolwich Road.
After the major set of traffic lights at Anchor and Hope Lane and Charlton Church Lane, travel around second roundabout and take the last exit to drive back on yourself. Then take the first left into Charlton Lane. Cross the railway line and continue up the road, then right into Harvey Gardens. The stadium is on the left.
Access to Floyd Road and Harvey Gardens is restricted on matchdays.
Parking at the ground
Free parking is usually available at the ground but access on matchdays is restricted to permit holders.
In many roads around The Valley there are restrictions in force.
Yellow lines apply at weekends, as well as weekdays, and most parking bays are free - except around the railway station. The use of some of the bays, however, is suspended on matchdays.
Restrictions are vigorously enforced, and local retail car parks operate a clamping policy.
The club recommends using public transport whenever practical.
Train and Tube services
Southeastern runs train services to the railway station at Charlton, from central London in the west and north Kent to the east. The station is a short walk from the ground.
Frequent services depart from Charing Cross, Waterloo East and London Bridge, with limited departures Cannon Street. Some services come through Dartford continue to Charlton, while connections for others can be made at Blackheath, Lewisham and London Bridge.
A previous limited service from Victoria no longer operates and fans heading to The Valley from Victoria need to change at either Lewisham or Blackheath.
The Docklands Light Railway from East London connects with rail services from Greenwich and Lewisham to Charlton, while the Jubilee Line underground station at North Greenwich is a short bus ride from The Valley.
Check train times with National Rail Enquiries.
Travel information supplied by www.cafc.co.uk
Departure Times: Ice Rink 3.15pm - Stadium 3.30pm
HOME MATCHES:
Tickets are on general sale for our opening three home league fixtures.
Bury – Saturday 10th August, kick-off 3.00pm
Wycombe Wanderers – Saturday 24th August, kick-off 3.00pm
Rochdale – Saturday 31st August, kick-off 3.00pm
To purchase tickets please visit www.oufctickets.co.uk (24/7) telephone 01865 337533 or call in person at the ticket office during normal office hours.
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Spolia in medieval art and architecture
Dale Kinney
In its most general sense, spolia (pl., from Lat. spolium: ‘plunder’) denotes all artifacts re-employed in secondary contexts, from building blocks reused in a wall to pagan gems mounted on a Christian reliquary. It is a matter of debate whether this broad application of the term is justified, or whether it should be restricted to the relatively small subset of reused objects that were taken or ‘stripped’ (like spoils) from their original context, rather than found, purchased, inherited or otherwise acquired by non-violent means. It is likewise debated when the use of spolia should be considered meaningful, if at all. Arnold Esch defined five possible motives for using spolia: convenience, profanation, Christianization, political legitimation and aesthetic attraction. Michael Greenhalgh has argued for reducing the motives to three (at least with regard to marble): pragmatism, aesthetics and ideology; while Finbarr Barry Flood cautioned against reductive interpretations generated by any taxonomy, insisting that reused objects are mutable in meaning and capable of multiple interpretations during their life cycle....
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Marriage and Sexual Relations in the World of the Hebrew Bible
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender
Edited by Adrian Thatcher
Religion, Religious Identity, Judaism, Religion and Society, Ethics, History of Religion
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.020
Language, ‘Marriage’, and Patriarchal Economy
Gendered Hierarchy
Polygyny, Concubinage, and Status
Adultery and Whoring
Purity and Promiscuity
Prohibited Unions
Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World
Same-Sex Relations in the Biblical World
The Construction of Gender in the New Testament
Abstract and Keywords
The Hebrew Bible is sometimes understood as the source of a ‘traditional’ Judaeo-Christian approach to marriage and sexual practice. A comprehensive examination reveals, however, that biblical assumptions about sex, gender, and kinship are complex and internally diverse. Some of these assumptions stand in tension with traditional Jewish and Christian norms for marriage and sexual activity. This essay reviews such matters as the biblical vocabulary for, and representations of, marital relations; the status of women in households organized around fathers; the role of polygyny; differing standards for the sexual conduct of husbands, wives, and concubines; intermarriage and inter-ethnic sexual relations; prostitution; the use of sex and marriage within male contests for power and honour; the use of sexual and marital images in representations of Israel’s relationship to God; and the attitudes towards sex and gender found in less frequently read books of the Bible such as the Song of Songs.
Keywords: Hebrew Bible, polygyny, concubine, prostitution, incest, intermarriage, honour, gender, sex
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.
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Screw French Wine. Benvenuto, Vino Naturale.
By Wesley Tomaselli
SourceCourtesy of Arianna Occhipinti
Because this might be a whole new way to swish, swirl and drop pretentious adjectives.
It was 2003, and a young Italian student named Arianna Occhipinti was growing frustrated with the man.
The machine she was raging against wasn’t a big, bad corporation. Sitting in a classroom at the University of Milan, learning the ins and outs of acid titration and yeast, she grew hungry — shall we say thirsty? — to disrupt the winemaking world. Her objection: the Francophile conformity adopted by so many enologists. She’d witnessed many winemakers adopt a factory-style production process geared toward reproducing safe, boring wines instead of going interesting or natural. “I couldn’t help think that young winemakers were being shaped with only one mindset,” she reflects.
In short, she chose not to be a winemaker but rather a wine farmer.
Which is how she became, at 22, a hyperambitious entrepreneur whose focus on an earthy — dare we say crunchy? — au naturel wine zeitgeist is earning her accolades. Arianna has developed a cult following in the U.S., after a prominent New York importer discovered her just two years into her career. It doesn’t hurt that she’s the niece of a popular Sicilian winemaker named Justo Occhipinti, whose methods of winemaking seeped into her at an early age.
“We usually think of the winemaker as the most important part of the system. But I think nature is the most important,” says Arianna, now 31, from her home/vineyard in Vittoria, Sicily. Blame the 1970s, when the stainless steel fermenting tank became the hot commodity for wine production. Makers in Napa Valley like Robert Mondavi started toying with wine chemistry rather than trusting the grape, aiming for specific flavor profiles that were most trusted on the market. The new kids from California wanted to beat the French, and that meant fudging the American West’s terroir. Wine was veering toward industrial processing — and away from farming.
Arianna laid out all these concerns in a letter to Italy’s famed late artisanal wine advocate and journalist Gino Veronelli, who wrote back, providing his kingly blessing. Yes, he said, she should go against the grain. It was OK to undo wine’s scientific revolution. In short, she chose not to be a winemaker but rather a wine farmer. With a loan of 150,000 euros in hand, she started farming one hectare of grapes — which today has her producing 120,000 bottles of wine per year, at around $35 per bottle retail.
Her process is fit for a nostalgist, sharing as it does similarities with the drink’s agricultural origins in the Dionysian and bacchanal times of Rome and Greece: no pesticides, no chemicals, no artificially jump-started fermentations and no additives. Arianna has chosen to make wine the way it has always been made, professor of enology at the University of Milan Attilio Scienza tells OZY. “She’s never felt she has to correct what nature knows better than man.” Indeed, her tastes make her zeitgeisty-chic; between organic crazies and farm-to-table lovers, foodies want more of the “back to basics” in their wine, says Megan Krigbaum, deputy wine editor of Food & Wine magazine, who knows Arianna’s wine well. That comes through in both flavor and method — people want less steel and more amphora.
Arianna’s jet-black hair spills rebelliously over her shoulders from a green wool cap sitting atop her head. Her round, dark-featured face lights up with “a domanis” and “arrivedercis” shouted to her Sicilian farmhands. They leave the cellar, done for the day, but Arianna sticks around late. Olive trees dot the perimeter of her vineyards. Her grandmother Margherita’s family has been making olive oil there since the 1600s. Arianna says she takes after her grandmother’s “revolutionary spirit,” admiring her daringness to defy Sicily’s traditional social values during her youth. The two often sit and chat about Italian history and politics. And like her grandmother, Arianna makes olive oil as well.
The wines Arianna makes in the province of Vittoria in southern Sicily are indigenous varieties that have been grown on the Italian island for centuries. She has a penchant for the grapes Frappato and Nero d’Avola. Los Angeles-based sommelier Rachel Kerswell says the latter could turn out “heavy-handed, dark-fruited, oftentimes cloying.” But Arianna, she says, turned it into something with a “beautiful, elegant, pure, clean expression.”
The thing is, the natural-wine obsession could be a soon-to-fade trend. Arianna seems aware of that: Organic is out there and might dissipate. Plus, she’s ironically unhip in her home of Sicily, where farming is “something lower. Not a profession.” To be fair, it’s certainly not glamorous. She works until midnight during the harvest, she says. “And then we get up at 6:30 a.m. and go back at it.” Naturally.
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Lanford Wilson's Women: Three One Acts
With Tanya Berezin, Conchata Ferrell, Stephanie Gordon, Trish Hawkins
and Judith Ivey; Directed by Marshall W. Mason
Lanford Wilson wrote some of the best roles for women in the last quarter of the 20th century. Like his mentor and friend, Tennessee Williams, the female characters in his work reach depths of complexity that make them memorable people we cherish.
In this collection of one-act plays written in the 70s and 80s, Lanford’s masterful portraits range from a resonant two-hander called The Great Nebula in Orion, through a youthful comedy of character in a tale of two roommates in Ludlow Fair, to the harrowing narrative of a short story writer reliving the traumatic events of her childhood in The Moonshot Tape.
The Great Nebula in Orion centers on the accidental reunion of two mature women who went to college together. Louise (Stephanie Gordon) is a successful New York fashion designer who lives in an apartment overlooking the Hayden Planetarium. She has run into Carrie (Tanya Berezin) in Bergdorf’s on a shopping trip from her home in Boston. Carey has married into the upper 2%, firmly entrenched in a life of social perquisites; but the site of the planetarium takes her back to an almost forgotten romance with a young dreamer who introduced her to the majestic mysteries of the constellations in the night sky. As these two catch up on the intervening years, secrets are revealed that shake the complacency of the present, with tumultuous passions buried in the past.
In a turn of comedic mastery, Ludlow Fair treats us to the tribulations of two mismatched young women sharing an apartment. Rachel (Trish Hawkins) has turned in her recent boyfriend, Joe, for making off with her savings, and now wonders if she’s done the right thing. Her contrasting roommate is cynical Agnes (Conchata Ferrell) who reminds Rachel of the dizzying history of young men the pretty girl has run through before falling prey to a hunk who’s ripped her off. While Rachel stews over her moral dilemma, Agnes is preparing for bed, fighting off a cold, and hoping for a threadbare romantic lunch with her boss’ skinny son. All Rachel wants is to be assured things will be better tomorrow, but Agnes shoots that down: it will be exactly the same tomorrow. The bittersweet contrast between these young ladies is heartbreakingly funny.
The Moonshot Tape lets us listen to Diane (Judith Ivey), a famous short-story writer revisiting her Midwestern hometown. She is being interviewed by a local girl writing for the high school paper. Diane is staying in a motel near a hospital, where her mother is waiting to transfer to a nursing home. The young journalist’s questions, although naïve, pierce Diane’s sophisticated style and with the aid of a little vodka, unleash memories that are at the foundations of her identity. She decides to answer the girl’s questions as honestly as possible. The result is a reliving of experiences that shock and devastate the listener, as we journey into a tormented past.
Introduction to The Great Nebula
in Orion
Conchata Ferrell
Lanford Wilson
Released: July 5 2017
Introduction to Ludlow Fair
Tanya Berezin
Marshall W. Mason, Lanford Wilson, Trish Hawkins
Track 1. The Great Nebula in Orion
Louise….Stephanie Gordon
Carey…..Tanya Berezin
The American premiere of the play was in May 1972 at the Circle Theater Company with this cast and directed and designed by Marshall W. Mason.
Track 2.Ludlow Fair
Rachel….Trish Hawkins
Agnes…..Conchata Farrell
The play premiered at the Caffe Cino in New York City in February 1965. It was directed and designed by Neil Flanagan and lighting design by Dennis Parichy. The cast starred Martha Galphin (Rachel) and Jennie Ventriss (Agnes).
Track 3. The Moonshot Tape
Diane…Judith Ivey
The play was first presented at the Humboldt State University in August 1990 with Roxanne Biggs and the New York premiere was at Circle Repertory Company in March 1994 with Judith Ivey winning an Obie Award for this performance. It was directed by Marshall W. Mason.
All directed by Marshall W. Mason
Recording Produced by Glen Roven and Jeffrey Sweet
Introduction to
The Moonshot Tape
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Secrets of the Ice: How Glaciers Reveal the Story of the Earth
The first time Alison Criscitiello saw glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park as a middle school student, she was hooked. “I had learned about glaciers in a geology unit in class — but they didn’t seem real,” Criscitiello says. But that summer she “became fanatical” about ice.
At first Criscitiello was attracted to the frozen terrain as a climber, and she worked as a park ranger and big mountain guide in the Andes, Alaska, and the Himalaya. But as her interest in science developed, it was a desire to understand the role ice plays in regulating and recording the global climate that led her to earn the first Ph.D. in glaciology ever conferred by MIT.
“Our Earth records its history in ice. It’s this huge story that’s already been written, and it’s just lying there, waiting to be pulled out,” says Criscitiello, who’s gone on to become a University of Calgary adjunct assistant professor and the technical director of the Canadian Ice Core Archive.
Core competence: Samples must be drilled in regions cold enough so that deep layers remain undisturbed. (Courtesy Alison Criscitiello)
The capability to extract the planet’s climate story from a chunk of frozen water is found in a branch of earth science called ice core science — a discipline that has its roots in the post-World War II era when researchers were plunging into jungles, scaling mountains, probing the sea, and preparing to go to space. In the 1950s, French glaciologist Claude Lorius was studying Antarctica. It was there that a well-timed glass of whiskey led to a profound theory.
Lorius recounts in the 2015 documentary Antarctica: Ice and the Sky that he took some ice from a core sample and dropped it in a glass of his favorite whiskey. Savouring his drink, he noticed bubbles rising out of the ice as it melted. It suddenly struck him that the bubbles must be tiny bits of air from that long-ago time when they were frozen into the ice.
Library of ice: Glacier core samples from all over are preserved for study. (Courtesy Alison Criscitiello)
Falling snow contains small air pockets that trap atmospheric gases. The snow also collects anything blown in by the wind, including volcanic ash, pollution, and sea salt. In the coldest places on Earth, such as at the poles and in the high mountains, this snow never melts. Instead, it is buried under each subsequent layer of snow, gradually compressing the layers into ice and saving a record of the day it fell.
Once Lorius realized there could be information locked in the ice, scientists began developing the knowledge, skills, and technical equipment necessary to decode what it had to say. First they discovered a mechanism by which past temperatures could be deduced from ice crystals — by deciphering this, Lorius realized that scientists could begin to reconstruct part of the Earth’s past climate.
“The climate of the earth and how it’s changing impacts every being on the planet.”
By the 1970s, the Earth’s general climate models were starting to show a new and puzzling pattern. It appeared that carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions were changing the weather, and that the planet was becoming warmer. Glaciologists realized those tiny air bubbles in the planet’s glacial ice could contain the information needed to measure whether CO₂ levels had risen since preindustrial times. What followed was a collaborative international effort to extract deep ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, along with many shorter cores from mountain glaciers around the world.
In 1984, Lorius obtained a sample of the Vostok core, which had been drilled to over 2,000 meters deep (about 6,560 feet) and revealed information about the planet going back 420,000 years. As the cores were studied, scientists discovered that CO₂ and global temperature were linked through time. When CO₂ levels have been high, the planet has been warm; when the levels were especially low, glaciers covered the Earth.
Go with the floe: Mt. Brown South, Antarctica. (Courtesy Alison Criscitiello)
Published in 1999 in Nature magazine, Lorius’s research changed our understanding of the planet’s climate. The research also showed something deeply alarming: Historically, variations in atmospheric CO₂ levels have made only gradual rises and drops in the planet’s temperature, but since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO₂ levels have risen at an unprecedented rate.
Science has been described as a cooperative endeavor in which many scientists work on small parts of a puzzle and together try to produce the most accurate possible image of how things are now, or once were, or will be. This is why a scientific theory is never really finished. In the case of climate change, the broad concept of warming that was first put forward by Lorius and his peers is still being refined and expanded on every day by younger scientists like Criscitiello.
“With the development of ground-penetrating radar and other technological advances, it is no longer best practice to just pick a place and drill,” Criscitiello explains. “We now know there’s lots of information to gather first to assist in locating ideal ice core drill sites.”
By working in places as ruggedly far-flung as Mt. Brown in Antarctica, the Agassiz Ice Cap on northern Ellesmere Island, and Mt. Logan in Canada — Criscitiello literally travels to the ends of the Earth in search of ice and information. Relying on both high-tech transport — planes, icebreakers, high-altitude helicopters, snowcats — and lower-tech options like skis and fat-wheeled bicycles, the scientific teams seek out ice sheets that meet very specific criteria. For example, outside the polar regions, it is essential to locate a cold-enough place with lots of snow, ideally with as close to zero movement as possible so the layers remain undisturbed. “Some things to look for in the data are clear layers and near-zero horizontal ice flow velocity,” says Criscitiello. Basically they look for ice that’s still where it was when the snow first fell, only deeper. When ice moves, it can shear and fold much like rock can, distorting the records it contains.
After first digging a trench in the snow and readying the drill site, the scientists extract hockey-puck-width cores in one-meter lengths, which are labelled and carefully stored in special insulated shipping boxes for transport to the lab. In some places, 100 meters (328 feet) of core covers about 1,000 years.
Back at the lab, samples from the cores are dated and tested. In the shallow part of the core, scientists can count years according to layers of snow. Criscitiello says it’s exciting when she locates something specific in the record, like the ash from a known volcanic explosion. She explains that volcanic events each have unique “fingerprints,” and the findings can corroborate other dating techniques.
The big picture: Studying the planet’s past is key to determining how to adapt to changes that may take place in the future, say glaciologists. (Shutterstock)
From there, more detailed research is possible. Each core contains enormous information, including air temperature history, atmospheric conditions, trade wind patterns, and sea ice composition. Each new set of tests gives scientists another piece of the puzzle detailing what mechanisms drive natural climate change and how human activity has altered this process.
While research is ongoing, the bulk of the ice is entered into the archives. In Alberta, this huge frozen library is kept at –40 degrees Fahrenheit, and the “books” amount to 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) of ice that have been preserved from such sites as the Devon Ice Cap, Agassiz Ice Cap, Penny Ice Cap, Prince of Wales Icefield, and Mt. Logan.
Scientists say the importance of this type of archive can’t be overstated. Even as ice core science technology improves, and we understand more and more of what the ice can tell us, glaciers in many locations on Earth are melting at an unprecedented rate. Criscitiello says there are places in the Canadian high Arctic that are now experiencing temperatures above 0° Celsius (32°F). “When these smaller ice caps experience surface melt, it can alter the chemistry within the snowpack.” She explains that for such places that have never been drilled, the climate records are already lost.
The risk now is that “the glaciers, the raw material for the ideas of tomorrow, will disappear,” Ice Memory project coordinator Jérôme Chappellaz told Wired magazine in December 2016. In a collaborative effort with UNESCO, scientists with the project are assembling ice cores from around the world. Chappellaz said that in the future, these heritage ice cores will be studied using new ideas and capabilities and will hopefully better show us how human activity is reshaping our world.
Uplifting experience: Glacier National Park in British Columbia was one of the first stops for the young glaciologists of the Girls on Ice Canada expedition. Shown here is the “great tongue” of the Illecillewaet Glacier. (Shutterstock)
In a race against the melting, scientists like Criscitiello are heading to the most remote frozen places of the world to build up our library of ice cores. Difficult trips that in the past weren’t possible, like her upcoming one to Canada’s Mt. Logan scheduled over 2019 and 2020, take on even more importance as scientists seek out new cores that may contain subtle regional information not available anywhere else.
The other challenge Criscitiello and scientists face is finding grants and funding for complex research, which may only add fragments of information to the existing body of scientific knowledge. Criscitiello explains that while her own work is often focused on one timeframe and on one pinpoint on the Earth, when it’s combined with other work, the patterns emerge. “When you step back, you see the planet as a whole,” she says.
Glaciologists explain that deciphering the most complete version possible of our planet’s recorded story is essential. Not only could this ease our transition into a future that scientists are just beginning to predict, but learning more about how the planet works is one of the only tools we have for determining how we adapt to climate change in the future. “The climate of the Earth and how it’s changing impacts every being on the planet,” Criscitiello says.
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Girls on Ice
(Courtesy Canadian Mountain Network)
For Alison Criscitiello, being at the forefront of climate research is only a part of her commitment to the future. A passionate believer in the power of raw mountain environments to inspire and educate, she and Jocelyn Hirose, a resource conservation scientist with Parks Canada; Eleanor Bash, a glaciology Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary; and Cecelia Mortenson, an internationally certified mountain guide, spent three years creating Girls on Ice Canada.
Modeled on Girls on Ice U.S., the first annual expedition to the Illecillewaet and Asulkan glaciers of British Columbia in August 2018 was a tuition-free program that gave teens access to the kind of mentors and role models they’d otherwise never meet. For 12 days, 10 young women from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds used newly learned mountaineering skills to climb to the ice. There they learned about glaciers and mountain ecosystems — while working as a team and exploring the terrain.
Criscitiello explains that, through Girls on Ice, she is able to share more than the facts and figures of climate science and can instead instill something even more profound in the next generation. The most intimidating part? “Creating a compelling lesson plan for the girls was stressful! I’d never taught teens before,” she says.
With Criscitiello’s support, the high school girls designed their own experiments on topics of their own choosing and then presented their discoveries at the University of Calgary’s Biogeoscience Institute in Kananaskis Country.
Criscitiello says the trip was a huge success, and that the girls, most of whom had never seen a glacier before or experienced an adventure of this magnitude, developed skills and confidence that went beyond her expectations.
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March 25, 2001 Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 12:17 p.m.
Paul Kitagaki Jr./Seattle Post-IntelligencerWWII Veteran Frank T. Matsuda of Company "H" salutes with fellow Washington Nisei who served as the Honor Guard for a Medal of Honor ceremony for Pfc. William K. Nakamura and Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo at the Mercer Center.
Paul Kitagaki Jr./Seattle Post-IntelligencerHisakoi Funai, widow of Pfc. William Nakamura, listens with her grandson, Evan Spong, 13, as Eric Saul describes the heroics of her husband during World War II. Nakamura was awarded the Medal of Honor today at the Mercer Arena.
Paul Kitagaki Jr./Seattle Post-IntelligencerAnne Okubo and her mother, Nobi Okubo, receive the Medal of Honor certificate for James K. Okubo.
Renee C. Byer/Seattle Post-IntelligencerSome of the "King Donut Boys," a group of Filipino men who go to the King Donut shop in Rainier Beach every morning, are, from left to right, Al Sanchez, Romeo Aquino and Benjie Santos.
Renee C. Byer/Seattle Post-IntelligencerRobert Brown, 82, lives near the King Donut shop and goes there most afternoons for coffee and doughnuts. The shop is such a beloved local hangout that when a fire recently shut it down for eight months, patrons were devastated.
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DISNEY WORLD VISIT
On May 31, the Seminole “Pride of the Tribe” Band took a group of students to perform at Disney World as part of the Disney “You’re Instrumental” Music Experience. Students
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Philipp Awarded Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship
Jamie Philipp, daughter of Perry and Dee Philipp of Seminole, has been selected as the recipient of a $1000 scholarship from the Seminole Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Philipp, a 2018 graduate of Seminole High School, will be attending Texas A&M University in College Station this fall.
According to Auxiliary president Thresa Lamb, Philipp was unanimously selected over four other candidates. Philipp plans to pursue a degree in Biomedical Science and eventually attend either veterinary or medical school.
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‘Slip! Slop! Slap! Wrap!’
During the 1960’s and 70’s, little was known about Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC), Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), and Melanoma, three different types of skin cancer.
As a result, sun worshippers took little precaution from exposure to ultraviolet light and now, many years later, are experiencing its damaging effects.
Seminole physician Dr.Timothy Gloyd said that there has been a rise in the number of carcinoma cases he has seen and many of the patients are those in their 60s, often farmers, who continue to work outdoors without protection from the sun.
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Woman in the Mirror -- How Do You Handle Aging?
When I first started wearing flip flops this summer, I noticed that the heels of my feet had become drastically dry and were cracking. Some people said it was from the lack of moisture in the air here which made perfect sense to me. I moved to Seminole from a part of the country where humidity was seldom less than 100 percent.
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Deaths of Despair
With news of the recent deaths, by their own hands, of former fashion designer Kate Spade and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, suicide returned to the public consciousness, at least for awhile. Americans were reminded once again that wealth and fame are no guarantee of a happy existence, or one that is free of mental illness.
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The Dan Cobb House: Seminole's Oldest Family Home
The big red-brick home that sits at 503 NW 3rd street has long been known as the Dan Cobb House because it was built by Dan Cobb in 1906, the same Dan Cobb who built the first Gaines County Courthouse that year and many other homes and buildings in the next years in and around Gaines County, including the second courthouse which lies beneath the limestone facade of our modern courthouse. The lumber for these buildings was freighted from Stanton.
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Imagination Runs Wild at Yard of the Week
Seminole Garden Club members Juanita Guzman and Susie Wiebe selected an enchanted garden complete with fairy doors and gnomes for their June 28-July 4 Yard of the Week. The whimsical creation, which also features a “Grandma’s Garden” with personalized rocks, is located at the home of Billy and Joy Driver at 103 N.W. Avenue H.
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From 'Just a Lot of Dirt' to 'Yard of the Week'
The home of Seminole residents Mike and Terry Elder has been named as the Seminole’s Garden Club’s most recent Yard of the Week. Located at 211 NW Avenue I, the Elder’s home was originally a beauty shop on 11th Street but was moved to its newest location by the local couple.
The Elder’s manicured front yard is only a year old and was “just a lot of dirt” when they first moved onto the property. Mike and Terry both selected the plants, Terry planted them in pots, and Mike’s job is to water, fertilize, and remove the dead heads from old blooms.
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Young 'Recruits' Complete Junior Police Academy
was never cheerleader material. I am extremely uncoordinated and gymnastics was not my forte. I was a booster in junior high school, but all I had to do was wave my hands, repeat whatever the captain said, and wear cute two-toned saddle oxfords. I was a much better Girl Scout. Sports wasn’t my cup of tea either, but telling scary stories around a campfi re, walking in the woods with a group of silly girls, and making crafts was right up my alley. Even though I did not realize it at the time, it was often more than just hanging with my peers and roasting marshmallows.
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Reports of Sinn Féin’s Westminster expenses surface again
7 December, 2011 - by Gerry Adams
The stories about expenses claimed by Sinn Féin’s absentionist MPs, elected to the Westminster parliament, are old stories rehashed regularly and especially at election time in the North.
These reports only succeed in drawing attention to the fact that our elected representatives draw down only the average industrial wage and that Sinn Féin uses these expenses to deliver a first class constituency service.
We are abstentionist MPs. We are proud that we do not take an oath of allegiance to the English queen. We are elected on that basis.
Our Westminster vote has risen consistently and we are the largest nationalist party in the North because we deliver for citizens in our constituencies.
We do not attend Westminster and we do not receive MPs salaries.
As Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and ministers and as TDs, we receive only the average industrial wage, unlike the Taoiseach who earns over €200,000 and other government ministers who earn over €150,000 or TDs who take home almost €100,000.
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China on Screen: Cinema and Nation (Film and Culture Series)
by Christopher Berry Ph.D.
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema... Read more
and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation?as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner?all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis.
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Expect Soon VAS Explosion
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It was chilling cold outside. But it could not deter the enthusiasm of mobile phone technology experts and learning aspirants who attended Momo Monsoon, held at IIM Bangalore on 30th August, conducted by Mobile Monday Bangalore, the city chapter of the Finland based Mobile Monday, a global community of mobile industry professionals, which promotes mobile industry by fostering cooperation and networking among interest groups and industry.
This edition of Momo Monsoon aimed to promote discussion on issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities in the Mobile VAS ecosystem, the event threw light on several issues related to mobile value added services (VAS) and its opportunities.
In the inaugural keynote, Prof. Dr. Sridhar Varadarajan, Professor in Information Management at the Management Development Institute, said that though the mobile calling minutes in the country was increasing, average revenue per user (ARPU) is on a decline, thanks to a fierce competition among the players to offer customers the lowest possible call charges. But VAS could be a solution for this.
Last month, 9.2 million new subscribers were added to the mobile subscriber base in India. Though growth numbers are exciting, mobile VAS is still in an infancy stage due to the low adoption rate and lack of a promotion-conducive ecosystem. There is a wide gap between the urban and rural sectors in mobile adoption. Out of the total of 320 million urban population of India 240 million people are mobile phone users and the urban teledensity is 85 percent. Almost 80 million of them have access to cable TV DTH and Internet, while 70 percent of India is rural and still remains underconnected.
Considering the low PC penetration and still lower Internet and broadband penetration, the mobile has the potential to emerge as the content and communication platform for rural India, which has a population of around 850 million with 63 million mobile users, where current teledensity is about 8.5 percent.
VAS: A New Hope?
VAS players could also look at disadvantaged segment of life. In India there are 116.11 million visually impaired people, while 280 million people have varying levels of hearing loss disability. These people are affected by severe loss of connectivity, mobility, and community contacts. Mobile firms can offer the technology platform or services pertaining to them, Varadarajan says.
VAS also acts as enablers that boost the plummeting ARPU of operators, says Kiran Anandam Pillai, Head, Consumer Products, OnMobile. Apart from sending SMSes, which have become a major source of income for TV channels, people now widely use their handsets to play games, download ring tones, read news alerts, access the Internet, listen to music, access information from banks, check exam results, book tickets for movies, trains, and flights, participate in contests, and view one touch ads, he adds.
Further, local language content adds to the prospects of VAS' growth in rural India. For example, a farmer would be interested to know the 'mandi' price in his own area, rather than quotes from remote cities. Also, he can get answers for his farm related queries via SMS from experts from an institute, which provides such services. The challenge for an operator is to aggregate content that is as locally relevant as possible.
It is clear that there is a huge scope for innovation in VAS. Location based services, car pooling, GPS, TV serial updates, SMS for public services, mobile dating, remotely controlled applications, voice morphing services targeting children, and mobile-search are some of the really hot prospects under VAS. The major factors that increase the potential of VAS are the advent of new networks, high bandwidth availability, transition from circuit-switched to packet networks, and upgrades in handset standards and technologies that support new formats (3G, SIP).
According to Prakash Sayini from Forum Nokia, the one good thing that happened in India is the mobile penetration and innovations in the data space. Now mobiles have lots of converged devices like maps and multimedia. Since one can now access Internet via mobile phones, it creates a lot of opportunities to innovate.
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The Upper West Side is home to notable media companies including Time Warner, ABC, and Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street); two music licensing organizations, ASCAP and BMI; and the headquarters of The College Board. Smaller companies in the technology, advertising, media, and information sector that rent Upper West Side office space include RedSquare, Harmonia Holdings, Silicon Alley Media, Tough Guppy Productions, RLD Group, and Indigo Productions. Consulting firms in educational, financial, technology, and business fields are also common commercial tenants in the Upper West Side.
The Upper West Side experienced a .5 percent increase in the job market in the past year and can expect to see an increase in job growth of nearly 31 percent over the next decade. The industries that employ the most people in the Upper West Side are financial institutions, legal services, and elementary and secondary schools. The industries that pay workers the most in the UWS include beverage manufacturing, financial institutions, and software publishing. The neighborhood is home to several colleges and universities, including Columbia University, Barnard College, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, and the Juilliard School. Local businesses trying to find interns or recent hires will have plenty of fine institutions from which to select candidates.
However, the Upper West Side isn’t all business. It’s a great place to live that features beautiful architecture, plenty of opportunities for recreation, and endless shopping, dining, and cultural opportunities.
The Upper West Side is an architecturally distinguished neighborhood, marked by several apartment buildings, such as the Eldorado, San Remo, Majestic, and Century apartments. The neoclassical Shearith Israel Synagogue, beaux-arts First Church of Christ, and the American Museum of Natural History are all known for their architectural beauty, not to mention the history and culture they contain.
Those who need to work amid the opportunities the big city has to offer but don’t want to miss out on the great outdoors will feel right at home in the Upper West Side. The neighborhood rests between Riverside Park and Central Park, two of NYC’s best-known parks. Riverside Park includes a long network of parks and paths along the Hudson River, while Central Park features a 55-acre law, the Shakespeare Garden, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. Employees working in the UWS can easily slip out of the office and take a stroll through one of the parks for a break and some fresh air.
The assortment of cultural activities makes the Upper West Side an ideal location for hosting clients and business guests. There’s always something to do in the Upper West Side, whether it’s shopping at Columbus Circle or the GreenFlea Market, exploring the parks, visiting one of the many museums in the area, or seeing a show at one of the 11 performing arts organizations within the Lincoln Center. For example, the New York City Ballet and The New York Philharmonic Orchestra perform at the Lincoln Center.
The neighborhood is also full of relaxed bars and restaurants. Impress guests by taking them to a business lunch at renowned restaurants like RedFarm, Jean-Georges, Ouest, or Dovetail, or treat them to a local favorite like Zabar’s, PeaceFood Café, Épicerie Boulud, or Pier I Cafe. The Upper West Side is also home to a significant Jewish community, including the oldest Jewish congregation in the U.S. and some of New York’s oldest synagogues, which means many of NYC’s finest Jewish delis and kosher dining are in the neighborhood. Yeshiva University, the nation’s oldest university, is also located in the Upper West Side.
Upper West Side Commercial Space For Lease | By the numbers
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Class A $75
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Similar to the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side is an affluent and primarily residential neighborhood. However, office rental prices are slightly lower in the Upper West Side—an average of just under $71 per square foot. That’s pretty good for Midtown, where office space rents for an average of just over $76.50 per square foot. With low prices and an intimate community atmosphere, it’s no surprise that young companies are seeking out Upper West Side office space to make their mark on NYC.
Companies seeking New York City office space that is removed from the hustle of Midtown or Downtown Manhattan but still within a concentrated hub of NYC culture should consider office space in the Upper West Side. The Upper West Side houses 30.9 million square feet of office space in total. As of Q2 of 2019, 13.6 million square feet of office space were under construction in the neighborhood.
Getting Around the Upper West Side
Like most areas of New York City, public transportation is the best way to get around, while traveling by car often results in encountering a lot of traffic. The average commute time in UWS is 28.9 minutes. Many office workers in the Upper West Side enjoy a convenient commute to work due to the two subway lines that run along Broadway (the IRT Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line—and Central Park West (the IND Eighth Avenue Line). The 1, 2, and 3 trains have regular and express stops along Broadway, and the A, B, C, and D trains reach various stops along Central Park West. Five bus lines—M5, M7, M10, M11, and M104—run north and south through the Upper West Side. Six bus lines—M66, M72, M79 SBS, M86 SBS, M96, and M106 run east to west. In addition, the M20 bus line terminating at Lincoln Center.
The neighborhood is located within 30 minutes of many popular destinations in NYC. For example, by train, UWS is 18 minutes from Columbus Circle, 26 minutes from Grand Central, and 30 minutes from Union Square. Each destination can be reached about 10 minutes faster by car, depending on traffic.
The Upper West Side has a high Walk Score of 98, and the neighborhood is also very bike-friendly. Citi Bike has numerous stations in the area, and bicycle lanes are present on Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue.
LaGuardia Airport is only 10 minutes away from the Upper West Side for those who need to travel by air. The Newark Airport and JFK area are also close by, 18 miles and 21 miles away, respectively.
The Upper West Side is bordered by the Hudson River and Riverside Park to the west and Central Park to the east. Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, and Columbus Avenue are the main thoroughfares of the Upper West Side, running north to south between West 59th Street and West 110th Street. Nearby neighborhoods include: Midtown, Columbus Circle, Morningside Heights, and Harlem.
Top Commercial Properties For Lease In Upper West Side
To learn more about available office space listings in the Upper West Side, contact one of our experienced brokers. Or, look up these three SquareFoot recommended properties in the neighborhood:
– 252 West 79th Street: 252 West 79th Street is an office building between Broadway and West End in the Upper West Side. Currently, the building has one 550 square foot unit available for rent. Contact us for pricing, details, or a tour. The building has a Walk Score of 98 and is in close proximity to two parking garages and the 79th Street train station. Grab coffee at FIKA Apthorp, Starbucks, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, or Bagel Talk. Nearby lunch spots include Hummus Kitchen, Nice matin, and Planet Sushi.
– 2565 Broadway: 2565 is an office building located at the corner of Broadway and West 96th Street. Right now the property has one vacant space, a 1,104 square foot unit. Contact us for pricing or for a tour. The building is located within easy walking distance of stations 103rd Street and 96th Street. Lots of parks and playgrounds are nearby. Employees working at 2565 Broadway can take a lunchtime stroll through Saint Gregory’s Park, Joan of Arc Park, or Riverside-West End Historic District. Plenty of lunch options await just steps from the office, such as Green Cafe, Malecon Restaurant, Opai Thai, Texas Rotisserie Grill, or La Nueva Victoria Restaurant.
– 26 West 74 Street: 26 West 74 Street is an office building located between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Built in 1910, this five-story building currently has two units available for rent. Both are 1,620 square feet in size. The building has two nearby parking garages and two nearby subway stations—72nd Street and 81st Street—Museum of Natural History. Trains 1, 2, 3, B, and C delivery passengers to the area. Employees working at 26 West 74 Street have access to many coffee shops and lunch restaurants just down the street from the office. For coffee, visit Le Pain Quotidien, Juice Generation, or Arte Around the Corner. For lunch, check out Arte Cafe, Cafe Ronda, Caffe Storico, or Tenzan.
Upper West Side Neighborhood History
The Lenape Indians are the first known inhabitants of the NYC district now called the Upper West Side. Colonial settlers built suburban villas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As the area started to develop in the late 19th century, it was primarily used for shipping, transportation, and manufacturing. In the 1850s and ‘60s, developers added Central Park, which was originally a haven for squatters.
During this time, people began referring to the street formerly called “Bloomingdale Road” as “The Boulevard” instead. Eventually, it came to be called “Broadway,” which is, of course, what we call it today. A few years after the turn of the century, in 1904, the city’s first subway line opened, spurring an increase in the construction and development of the area. The first line included stations 59th, 72nd, 79th, 86th, 91st, 103rd, 110th, 116th, and 125th. Additional transportation options and an increase in immigration boosted the neighborhood’s economy.
Today, the Upper West Side is home to a variety of cultural institutions, including the Lincoln Center, the Juilliard School for Music, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Symphony Space.
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Stan Lee: A Life of Immeasurable Influence
Influence is a funny thing. It bears an almost amorphous, intangible quality, weaving its way in and out of the lives of ourselves and everyone with whom we meet or interact. Just by reading my articles, even by an infinitesimal amount, I am influencing you to some degree. For all I know, I may change someone’s life just because I wrote an article on diet or fixing shoulder problems. Influence is like a tree whose roots and branches spiral off in many directions, one branch growing out of another, sprouting leaves or fruit or more branches. With every interaction, influence spreads to some degree.
Thought of in the way I detailed above; Stan Lee is one of the most influential people to ever live on this planet. You may think that to be an overstatement, but as I think you will see, his influence is not only immense but quite incalculable.
Before Stan Lee and partner Jack Kirby, comic book heroes were hyper-idealized and overpowered, offering the reader no way to identify with the characters. Silver Age Superman, for example, was notoriously overpowered, being able to quite literally solve any problem just by trying a bit harder and manifesting new skills on a whim. Stan Lee changed all of that, with Marvel and his characters. For the first time, heroes had flaws and were real people. Sure, they were still overpowered relative to us, so they still retained a sort of wish fulfillment and power fantasy aspect, but now they actually dealt with societal problems, such as bullying, racial injustice, and relationships the heroes of old never had to bother with, adding a new layer of complexity to comics.
America in the last 40-50 years has undergone radical changes, not the least of which is the declining in religious identification. Far fewer people today identify with any religion than did 50 years ago, and also, the family structure is far less stable than it used to be. What this means is that children are far less likely to have any sort of paragon role model in their life, such as a father figure or religious icon. For many children, these comic characters became that figure. For these kids, the characters that Stan Lee created and Marvel itself, became a sort of pantheon of gods for kids to worship and look up to. I’m sure my religious readers mourn that fact but think of it this way: how much better of a role model could a kid choose than Captain America, the Black Panther, or Spider-Man? Stan Lee called them True Believers, and these characters and stories meant as much to them as the Biblical stories of years past, filling not only the hero vacuum but the life lesson vacuum as well.
Think of it this way regarding influence in the number of lives touched. How many kids survived bullying or racial injustice because they had Peter Parker to identify with? How many kids who grew up reading Captain America or the Avengers ended up joining the military or public service as a result? How many kids learned discrimination is terrible because of the X-Men? How many learned to beat alcoholism and addiction because Tony Stark showed that it could be beaten? Decades before Barack Obama, T’Challa the Black Panther showed black kids that a black man could be a king. These are just a tiny sample of the lessons taught by these heroes, which is why we can’t ever truly calculate the influence of Stan Lee. Even more profound now is that quite literally billions of people have seen these characters in the movies, with each viewer’s life impacted to some degree. Between the comics, books, tv shows, and films, it is not an overstatement in the least to say that Stan Lee has influenced billions. Then, those people, in turn, influenced others in some measure. Thus, his influence radiates out like a tree with infinite branches spiraling and splitting in every direction.
How many people that have ever existed on the face of the earth can even begin to claim to have positively influenced not only millions but potentially billions of people? I cannot name many, but I can name one: Stan Lee. Bear in mind that hundreds of years from now, when we have all left this world, these characters will endure, extending his influence into a future we cannot as yet comprehend. Like the gods of Olympus before them, they will live forever, albeit wielding more positive influence than even Zeus ever did. Which character of the Stan Lee pantheon is your favorite? Myself. I’d have to go with Hulk. Let me know yours!
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What is a low-cost QROPS pension?
For someone who wants to retire abroad as an expat, they should decide on what to do with their pensions.
Many people often leave their cash tied up in the UK but get their benefits paid from local banks wherever they are. Another option is investing in Qualifying Recognized Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS).
QROPS is a pension scheme that is recognized by HM Revenue & Customs and allows investors to receive tax-free transfers from different jurisdictions. But just because this solution is sort for by many people, it doesn’t automatically mean that it is right for you.
One thing individuals are always looking for is a low-cost QROPS pension scheme. To help you make informed choices, we have written this guide to explain all the necessary information about low costs QROPS.
When did they start?
When consumers of a particular product increase, it creates a competitive environment for companies supplying that product. And that is what happened with QROPS. When this scheme was first introduced in 2006, many people couldn’t afford the yearly fees associated with it. However, as its popularity began to increase, it led to an increase in its demand. And this led to the advent of low-cost QROPS.
Benefits of a low-cost pension
Many experts believe that these low costs pensions are worth it. With these schemes, individuals pay fewer fees when transferring their pensions and less yearly fees. Increase in demand for low-cost pensions made many businesses to start offering these services.
This, therefore, created an innovative environment where companies offer very affordable solutions. Investors are now offered as low as three hundred pounds on initial transfers and five hundred yearly fees.
But these low costs versions come with some drawbacks as well. For instance, most companies have a limit on how much one should transfer pensions. These maximum limits vary in different companies.
What is a qualified QROPS, and who is eligible for it?
If one invests in unqualified QROPS, should anything happen, they’ll receive less or no compensation at all. It’s therefore essential that before you start investing, you ensure that you’re investing in the right jurisdiction.
A qualified QROPS is a country recognized by the government of UK and is eligible to transfer pensions. These counties provide similar or better protection to their investors than the UK. But there are other countries which offer less protection. It’s thus wise that you have an expert financial advisor recommending which jurisdictions provide excellent protection.
Personal pensions can be transferred to QROPS by personnel inside or outside the UK. But, once the annuity has been purchased, it can’t be transferred. Also, if one’s pension is a final salary, one can only transfer it once payments have begun. Again individuals who haven’t lived in the UK for more than five years may be considered non-residents. Therefore, tax regulations may change.
Low costs pensions offer an excellent investment opportunity to most pensioners. One can benefit from reduced currency risks, reduced tax fees, as well as circumventing charges. But to secure these benefits, you should have an expert financial advisor helping you out.
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Older adults are among the rapidly growing number of those diagnosed with lung cancer. The good news is that today people age 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery. Researchers recently found that, on average, people who had surgery for early stage lung cancer lived about 6.7 years. That's almost two years longer than the noted 5-year survival rate for lung cancer. The same research showed a greater-than-expected survival for older patients who had surgery for advanced lung cancer.
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The first Monday of each September brings us Labor Day and the glorious three-day weekend that goes with it. We suggest you use the extra time to catch up on these highly addictive shows, before their fall premieres. They’re all available for instant viewing on Netflix.com!
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Army Wives (return date TBD)
Here’s the thing — as of right now, we’re not even sure Army Wives will be back for a seventh season this fall. The most successful series in Lifetime’s history is currently in the midst of airing a ten-episode run, which we can only hope won’t be the hit show’s last hurrah. In a gesture of solidarity with these military mamas and their drama, tune in and keep your fingers crossed that the show lives to see another season.
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Glee (returns Sept. 13)
There’s singing, there’s dancing, there’s drama … what’s not to love? Not only does this show offer an excuse for us to belt out show tunes, it manages to convince us all that our inner nerd is not just acceptable but actually cool as well. Yep, “gleeks” are totally in the in crowd now.
Bones (returns Sept. 17)
With Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and David Boreanaz as Special Agent Seeley Booth, this show seemed destined for greatness from the start. What she lacks in social graces, he makes up for in sheer hotness … and it makes for some super-funny, highly watchable TV, filled with witty banter and sexual innuendo.
The Office (returns Sept. 20)
Admittedly, our dedication wavered slightly when Steve Carell said his final sayonara to this seriously hilarious series. But, as they say, the show must go on, and — happily — The Office still perfectly captures the angst, awkwardness, and interpersonal politics of the average American worker drone.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (returns Sept. 26)
Oh, Elliot … we were so sad to see you leave this hard-hitting, emotional crime drama! While it was hard to imagine Olivia kicking perp a** with anyone else, we’ll admit we’ve warmed up to your “replacements” — Danny Pino as Detective Nick Amaro, and Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins. Still, we look forward to lingering over you during a marathon watching sesh.
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Grey’s Anatomy (returns Sept. 27)
Gauze? Check. Scalpel? Check. Enough drama to spontaneously materialize a ton of angsty teen girls? Check. Few shows on television pack as much punch into their allotted time slot as Grey’s Anatomy. Following last season’s jaw-dropping finale, the show promises to be more salacious than ever come fall.
Jersey Shore (returns Oct. 4)
OMG, the days of GTL are drawing to an end … and not the BRB kind. The sixth season, set to start airing in early October, will mark the last fist-pumping, hair-product-fueled foray on national television for the infamous Guidos/Guidettes. So slather on some self-tanner, tease your poof, and settle in for some QT with the gang.
Gossip Girl (returns Oct. 8)
Packed with unrealistically attractive people and fabulous fashion, each week of Gossip Girl brings a tantalizing taste of life in the high-society fast lane. What hijinks will Manhattan’s elite indulge in while facing their final season? Ahh, to be young and privileged — or to pretend to be while watching every scandalous season.
The Vampire Diaries (returns Oct. 11)
Fight it as you may, chances are you will eventually get bitten by the vampire craze. The CW Television Network series The Vampire Diaries does its due diligence, sucking in fans by offering up love, lust, and yummy Ian Somerhalder in the fictional small town of Mystic Falls, Viriginia.
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Pretty Little Liars (returns Oct. 31)
If you watched Pretty Little Liars last week when yet another “A”-ntagonist was revealed, you’re no doubt drowning your oh-no-he-didn’t sorrows in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s with the rest of us. Luckily, a steady stream of reruns and Pretty Dirty Secrets webisodes means we won’t have to wait until Halloween for the next disturbing revelation.
Get your holiday boob-tube bingefest underway by heading over to Netflix.com — all of the shows listed above can be viewed via the site’s “Watch Instantly” feature!
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Why is being homosexual a sin in Islam?
By Guest anonymous,
November 15, 2020 in Atheism/Other Religions
Hello. I'm an atheist from Florida, and a question that I have is why being LGBT+ is sinful in Islam. Specifically, I am curious as to why being homosexual is sinful. Like, what is so intrinsically wrong about it? As a homosexual myself, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong by being a homosexual. Like, I don't feel like there is an intrinsic moral obligation to not be homosexual. Is the commandment just arbitrary? Like, there is no reason for it? And please don't answer my question with an argentum ad verecundiam fallacy, I've got enough of those.
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I don’t see the point in asking why certain things are sins in Islam - considering where you’re at (as an atheist) - you should be more concerned with our justifications that posit the existence of a
Committing homosexuality is a sin in Islam. As this particularly act introduces corruption in society. Now, what is corruption. Infiltrating something with something in order to make that particular e
Nightclaw
Hello. I am glad you decided to ask a question. Firstly, I will say that anything unnatural in Islam is considered forbidden, especially if it is harmful. It is a disgusting, vile act for an innumerou
55 minutes ago, Guest anonymous said:
Committing homosexuality is a sin in Islam. As this particularly act introduces corruption in society. Now, what is corruption. Infiltrating something with something in order to make that particular entity loose it's purity, essence and it's characterstics is called as corruption. So, from a social prospect, a society in which homosexuality is practiced is corrupted and cannot progress. Why? Because society as a whole is formed by an entity called as family and family has it's essence in relationship. So, relationship is one of the basic elements that is needed to form a society. Because it leads to the formation of a family which will either lay the foundation of a society or another stepping stone in the progress of a society.
Now, homosexuality or same sex relationships cannot prosper because same sexes cannot reproduce and cannot form a unit in order to carry on with the society. True that they are doing it by their will and making love. You can love someone from your own gender or any other gender or even anything possible. Love is something independent of any kind of relationship. It is a phenomenon. But once a relationship is established it has to have a meaning. A homosexual relationship will not lead to anything and in fact cause the society to corrupt because those two individuals who will undergo such a relation have the capability to form a family by setting up a relationship with opposite gender.
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7 hours ago, Guest anonymous said:
You do not have the free will to become what you are it is the will of God. Being a homosexual is just a sign that you are far far away from the truth and reality. The homosexuality is only a desire belong to this body, real You is faultless sinless desireless and fearless.
The purpose of life is to know your real self but you stick to the idea that you are nothing but the body.
When you witness that your desire of homosexuality start to fade away, that will be the sign of start of self realization.
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4 minutes ago, Shahrukh K said:
Can you please explain a bit more?
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Idk about all the deep religious laws, but i think homosexuality comes under a group of sins called "zina". Having intercourse outside of marriage is considered the worst form of zina, and since people of the same gender cannot marry in isalm, homosexuality automatically becomes a sin.
Homosexuality is a hormonal abnormality that is also accompanied by several mental diseases like depression, anxiety etc and most homosexuals suffer from one or more of these diseases. It is sad that it is being promoted in society today as a normal and good thing, which is stopping homosexuals from getting the care and help they need.
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I don’t see the point in asking why certain things are sins in Islam - considering where you’re at (as an atheist) - you should be more concerned with our justifications that posit the existence of a creator, afterwards you need to entertain the belief that this established creator has ordained a religious way of life for his creation.
You need to go from atheism to agnosticism, and then from agnosticism explore the logical beliefs of each religion pertaining to their doctrine. It would make sense for you to ask questions that address the kernel and root of belief, by establishing the source of such belief to be an omniscient and omnipotent creator, you realize that whatever He ordains - that which you can conceptualize and that which you can’t is absolute justice and good.
You’ve already created an identity for yourself with the sexual inclination that you have, so the one who is committing a fallacy from the start is you. Once you are able to bring the bigger pieces together you won’t be too burdened with matters of jurisprudence and sexual morality. It doesn’t make sense to rummage through the principles that occupy the belief of others rationally/logically, because it comes after deliberate ratiocination of an all merciful, all knowing, fully encompassing creator.
As an atheist I presume your worldview is Utilitarianism, where to the contrary as Muslims our worldview is submitting to the will of Allah - opposing our vain desires and selves, no justification will appeal to you because it fundamentally opposes your own worldview and if you were to concede to it, you would be opposing the edicts of your foundation.
Where you are now currently, you’re asking the wrong questions and if you are adamant on the position of non-belief, no answer will suffice your flawed presuppositions.
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16 hours ago, Guest anonymous said:
Hello. I am glad you decided to ask a question. Firstly, I will say that anything unnatural in Islam is considered forbidden, especially if it is harmful. It is a disgusting, vile act for an innumerous amount of reasons. One of them being is that if you accept homosexuality, then you have to accept incest. Why? Allow me to demonstrate why you have no other option.
If you accept that being homosexual is fine and acceptable, then surely a consenting father and son or two consenting brothers could bed one another - all of age and mature. You have no real argument other than it is incest, unless you take the psychological route. From there, you will encounter the same reasons we find being homosexual disdainful.
Moreover, many scientists who are experts in this field [gynecologists] state that this practice of anal intercourse is not only unnatural, but harmful on a widespread amount. For instance, let us take Lauren Streicher Ph.D, a gynecologist who states:
“Let’s face it, the anus was not made for intercourse. It’s supposed to be a one-way passage,” Dr. Streicher points out. The vagina, on the other hand, “has a thick, elastic, accordion-like lining designed to stretch to accommodate a penis, or a baby.” - Her website
Furthermore, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDCP) states that anal sex is the primary cause and highest risk factor of intercourse behavior for HIV infections.
Having anal sex can cause you to get HPV, which more than half of men in the U.S. today have currently. HPV is incurable and it is a deadly disease that can lead to cancer and weaken the body. This weakening of the body is not the case with just the disease, but the anus in itself. It will render one unable to fully control themselves and raise the risk of having an accident on themselves by a landslide.
Anything harmful in Islam is designated as forbidden. It is that simple. It is not based off of blind reasoning. Homosexuality is unnatural, harmful and without use - therefore wrong. Just so you know, anal sex with a woman is also prohibited. Allah curses those who enters a man or woman via the anus.
Edited November 16, 2020 by Nightclaw
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When did you notice you were “homosexual”? Please, be brutally honest... I am genuinely interested in knowing.
Edited November 16, 2020 by eThErEaL
As this particularly act introduces corruption in society. Now, what is corruption. Infiltrating something with something in order to make that particular entity loose it's purity, essence and it's characterstics is called as corruption.
Why are homosexual relations corrupt and heterosexual relations not though? That doesn't make sense to me. It seems like an arbitrary marginalization.
Now, homosexuality or same sex relationships cannot prosper because same sexes cannot reproduce and cannot form a unit in order to carry on with the society.
You are correct; in a homosexual relationship there can be no reproduction. What I don't understand is why this matters? Really what I was asking with this question was what made it wrong. Like, for example, it is totally evident and blatant to me why something like lying or murder could be a sin. But homosexual relations aren't harming anyone. I do not see why having children is such a necessity. There are enough kids on earth that are in foster homes and orphanages. I would rather adopt, even if I was heterosexual.
10 hours ago, Shahrukh K said:
Okay, well, it is in fact my person belief that being homosexual is not a choice that I make or that most homosexuals make, but that is not what I wanted to debate. See, I can understand why something such as lying and murder could be sins. That is just going out of your way to harm someone else. But I don't get what is wrong with a homosexual relationship, other than your argument that it is the will of God. That kind of argument is fundamentally illogical and flawed. It is referred to as an "appeal to authority fallacy."
10 hours ago, Justsomeone said:
Like what? I guess I can elaborate I bit, but I don't see why context is necessary. I didn't really want this to be about me personally. Anyway, just because I am comfortable with doing so, I shall elaborate. I'm a 14 y/o male from Florida, and that may seem young to be so certain about my sexuality, but I've been gay since I was 10 y/o. Before that I was not heterosexual, I just was too young to have any interest in relationships.
10 hours ago, smma said:
Okay, but I am not debating whether it is a sin or not. That is blatantly evident. I am just confused about 'why' it is a sin. Now, about the marriage part. You're correct, but again, I want to know 'why' it is articulated as such in the Quaran that two people of the same gender should not be allowed to marry. Like, I can understand why lying or murder is a sin. That is just going out of your way to harm someone. But I do not feel that I am harming society or anyone by being gay. True, I cannot have offspring of my own. But that doesn't matter to me. When I am ready to have kids I will just adopt. There are enough kids in foster homes and orphanages.
About the mental illness and hormonal abnormality part: you're right, but I think it is for the wrong reason. Many homosexuals are depressed and anxious because of their social situations. In many places homosexuals are treated unfairly or poorly, and that causes them to develop these disorders such as dysphoria, depression, and anxiety. I suppose I cannot claim that I am highly educated on the topic of links between hormonal abnormalities and homosexuality, but I do not see how this makes a difference.
7 hours ago, Mohammad313Ali said:
Okay, so you're argument is still basically just 'it is wrong because God says it is wrong'. I was just curious if any person of Islamic faith on this website could give me a genuine reason that being a homosexual was morally incorrect. I understand you're point about me already being atheistic, and that no answer will suffice me, but I think you are incorrect. I might be willing to consider an alternative if I was given logical answers to my questions.
And, I do not understand how I am fallacious for supposing that I am homosexual. I don't know how to tackle this accusation because you never really elaborate on it.
2 hours ago, Nightclaw said:
So, first I would like to talk about your argument that homosexuality is a common causing agent of numerous diseases: you're correct. It is. But, this can also be the case for heterosexual relations. So, if anything that can cause harm is forbidden, why is heterosexual intercourse allowed? You can also get numerous diseases from heterosexual relations.
And let me further explain my initial inquiry: I'm not asking if it is considered a sin, but why. And, you then reply with 'it is unnatural'. Well, why is something being unnatural a sin? Like, if having homosexual relations was bound to absolutely cause harm to me or someone else, I might understand it. But it is not. There is of course a chance of some injury or disease, but that is also true of heterosexual relationships. So it is my perspective that homosexual relations are being unnecessarily and arbitrarily marginalized as sinful.
And the last rebuttal I have is about incest. You claim, that as a homosexual, I have to endorse incest. Well, here is my take on it: Incest is wrong if there is a chance for a reproductive process to take place, purposefully or accidentally. There is no doubt that having offspring from related parents can cause numerous genetic diseases. I think that intercourse between two related people should never take place if there is a risk of conception. But, it just so happens that in a homosexual relationship there is no chance for conception to take place. Then, your rebuttal to this is that it is unnatural. Well for that refer back to my previous rebuttal.
54 minutes ago, eThErEaL said:
So, I did not want this conversation to be about me on a personal level. But, just because I feel comfortable with it, I will elaborate on my situation: I'm a 14 y/o male from Florida, and that may seem young to be so certain about my sexuality, but I've been gay since I was 10 y/o. Before that I was not heterosexual, I just was too young to have any interest in relationships.
I wasn't quoting you I was interested in what Sharukh K said...
Sorry but I didn't focus upon heterosexual relations because it was out of scope. Any kind of relation which promotes corruption in society is haraam. Either heterosexual or homosexual. Primary reason is corruption in the society.
I already concluded that it promotes corruption in society. Because this form of relationship has no future. What is the motive of a relationship? Is it only sex? No, it has many reasons. And what is the purpose of sex itself? Basically, what is the upside of a homosexual relationship? None. While I pointed out the downsides which are critical. How can an act with no benefits but plenty of downsides be acceptable?
Regarding children: Having children is not necessary but important for the human race to propagate. Just like food is a need for survival of humanity. Sex is a need for propagation of human race. And I don't want to get into the analytical part, as I don't have time for that. But maybe any one on the forum can prove it that the population of youth in many european countries and Japan is decreasing. So, when you will look into it individually, you won't see a problem. But as a whole, not having children can cause problems for a society. Like it is happening right now in countries like Japan.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/10/10/how-will-we-cope-when-there-are-too-few-young-people-in-the-world/amp/
This article above might be of help. And also you see that how fast the trends regarding population can change. Because when you are worried about population and see a lot of children, many people think like you and take the measures.
Like when someone have fever, fever is not a disease it is a symptom that there is something wrong with the body.
Similarly if someone says that he is homosexual than it is only a symptom that his spiritual journey is not yet started.
That is the reason why it is considered a sin in Islam.
Well, why is something being unnatural a sin?
Becsuse , It's a procedure from Shaitan/Satan to defeat & corrupt humans by themselves by encouraging humans to stop creating new generations & rebeling against Allah/God command .
Ok but how so? Because it's not natural?
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1) Religions are propagated by members of that Religion having children, thus creating more members of that Religion. Homosexuals can't do this.
2) Religions are often propagated by (winning) wars conducted by armies of men. In war, homosexual men have the ability to form couples, and thus not be as focused on winning wars. Many militaries of various states ban gays in the military for this reason.
3) Many religions rely on gender segregation in order to prevent sexual desires interfering with certain objectives (e.g. religious schooling, sport, health care etc.). Homosexuality allows this gender segregation to become ineffective.
4) Most Religions are generally patriarchal. The people in charge of the Religion are men. Many men are in fear of Homosexual men, since they have the ability to raped by a more physically capable male. Most fully grown men have no fear of getting raped by women.
5) Homosexual sex can be more physically harmful, and propagate certain diseases more efficiently. This is also the reason why religious often are against multiple sexual partners.
That's all I could come up with off the top off my head.
As you can tell, most of these are no longer relevant in more sophisticated cultures.
As such, for me homosexuality isn't really that big of a sin anymore. The more dogmatic religious people here, who believe in following the religion in it's original medieval form will disagree with me.
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1 hour ago, Justsomeone said:
Oh yes the state we are in is unnatural.
Everybody is born with his own desires and fears.
The story where Adam (mankind : me, you everyone) went near the cursed tree (desires) and ate from it (fruit of the tree: fear) soon afterwards he started to identify himself with his body.
Spiritual journey means that i have to go back to my natural state where i do not associate myself with a body. What is my natural state ? In my original state i am desireless and fearless.
Whatever is the desire even homosexuality by itself is not right or wrong. It is nothing but striving for happiness. Having identified yourself with a speck of a body you feel lost and search desperately for the sense of fullness and completeness you call happiness. Remove the speck and your eyes will be flooded with light. The light is there -- waiting. The eyes are there -- ready. The darkness you see is but the shadow of the tiny speck. Get rid of it and come back to your natural state.
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So, is it right if I say that when I stop associating myself with this body. The desire disappears and therefore the act of homosexuality (which is solely based on desire) becomes meaningless...?
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On 11/15/2020 at 11:30 AM, Guest anonymous said:
Hello. I'm an atheist from Florida, and a question that I have is why being LGBT+ is sinful in Islam.
You are asking how to run before you can walk. Being homosexual is minor compared to your lack of beleif in Allah. The only thing you could do worse is idol worship.
First question you need to answer is the cosmos/ reality created or uncreated. And if there is a creator what are the attributes of this creator.
If you don't believe in a divine creator then we can't give you a "rational" reason as society and the human mind for most part in the west excepts LGBT.
We can give a few social/scientific answers but they are limited and not the real truth of why it's forbidden.
Edited November 16, 2020 by Warilla
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If you had read carefully, you would have seen that I said it is harmful. You focused on one aspect so as to prove yourself right instead of actually looking into what I had said and it answers your question. My whole thing was indicative and referring to it's negative effects.
Homosexuality is unnatural, harmful and without use - therefore wrong.
It is considered a sin because it is harmful, primarily. Most unnatural things are harmful. The anus was not made for intercourse. Doing anal sex will cause an innumerable amount of problems to one's body and wellbeing.
I have to say that I find this entirely interesting. It shows that you are completely fine with two male members of a household having intercourse, which shows that you are an acceptor of incest, regardless of how you put it - because that is exactly what it is, and your statements have alluded to such. You cannot accept one part and reject the other unless you are a hypocrite - in which you should then be subject to examination because nobody should trust a hypocrite.
There is of course a chance of some injury or disease, but that is also true of heterosexual relationships. So it is my perspective that homosexual relations are being unnecessarily and arbitrarily marginalized as sinful.
The chance of injury is little to not even present in heterosexual relationships. As per what I have said above, the vagina was literally designed to take in a penis. The chances of injury are unlikely.
As per disease in heterosexual relationships - that is why it is a sin to have sex outside of marriage. One can hop from partner to partner, which ultimately causes diseases. That is why one must shower and be hygienic [when married to your spouse], as it is half of our faith. Your view that homosexual relations are being dubbed sinful shows that you just want to find reasons to make it acceptable - which is understandable, as you are a homosexual. However, the fact of the matter is that the anus was not made for intercourse and the vagina was. There is significantly more damage done to the body done during anal intercourse than any other method of having intercourse. It is destructive, dehumanizing and filthy. Do not make the equivocation fallacy that "since heterosexual relationships can get diseases and homosexuality can too, they are both the same". They are not. Everyone knows that anal intercourse is harmful and intercourse through the vagina is natural. It was literally designed for the penis, as aforementioned.
5 hours ago, Justsomeone said:
Exactly,
As a shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self-awareness is obstructed by the 'I-am-the-body' idea. And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose according to the pattern of destiny. When the body is no more, the person disappears completely without return, only the witness remains and the Great Unknown.
Right. But how did you notice you were gay?
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On 11/15/2020 at 7:49 PM, smma said:
That’s... yes, of course if gay people suffer abuse or homophobia they’re more likely to be depressed.
On 11/15/2020 at 12:24 PM, Zainuu said:
Gay couples can still have kids. And they have the more important job cause they have to take in the children who have been abandoned or last their parents/guardians. And not even all straight relationships involve kids. Love is an important part of relationships.
On 11/16/2020 at 4:13 AM, Nightclaw said:
anything unnatural in Islam is considered forbidden
No it’s not. Last I checked, medicine isn’t haram.
On 11/16/2020 at 9:52 AM, Zainuu said:
Basically, what is the upside of a homosexual relationship? None.
How? You just said heterosexual relationships have lots of upsides, so homosexual relationships would have the same upsides except for reproduction.
On 11/16/2020 at 10:10 AM, Ashvazdanghe said:
by encouraging humans to stop creating new generations
I see you’ve never heard of adoption.
On 11/16/2020 at 3:26 PM, Nightclaw said:
It is considered a sin because it is harmful, primarily.
That means you have nothing against non-sexual gay relationships, right?
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On 11/16/2020 at 1:31 AM, Guest anonymous said:
Homosexuals/Gays/LGBTQ have a much higher chance of contracting an STD than straight people. Homosexuality is not allowed in Islam, and is considered a sin, as can be evidently seen by the example of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Even if you disregard Islam, all major world religions do not except homosexuality/LGBTQ. Now even if one were to not know the exact reasoning, you must acknowledge, that if ALL major world religions say that something is wrong, then it is surely ought to be wrong.
That being said, as muslims, we don't hate LGBTQ, we simply believe that you are misguided. I am trying not to be personal, but 10-14 is a bit young to be identifying your god given sex, so you might want to reflect.
In modern times, there has been an uptick in LGBTQ issues to to the recent need to be "different", as emphasized in so many places. Therefore, people have come out as "LGBTQ", in order to be different. However there is really no need for that, as all what matters is your inner peace, which can be attained by a close relationship with god.
Homosexuals should NOT be marginalized, because they deserve respect as our brothers in humanity. But, they are commiting a sin by indulging in homosexuality, which God will hold them accountable to. Personally, I believe that people in this society tend to steer away from Homosexuals as they can prove to be a bad influence on them and their children. The recent whole LGBTQ culture has had a negative effect on the youth of today, and this has never been normal in the history of the world. I hope this didn't come off as too abrasive. May you, I, and all of us be guided.
God knows best
2 hours ago, gayboyanon said:
If their source is permissible, we are allowed to take it. If it contains things that are harmful and unnatural - then it is impermissible. I do not know where you get this from.
Do you need a homosexual relationship to adopt a kid?
Being a heterosexual too you can do it. In fact you can open another orphanage to take many many orphans and take care of them. Taking care of Orphans has great rewards in Islam.
And reproduction is important and required, I have already mentioned it:
On 11/16/2020 at 3:22 PM, Zainuu said:
But maybe any one on the forum can prove it that the population of youth in many european countries and Japan is decreasing. So, when you will look into it individually, you won't see a problem. But as a whole, not having children can cause problems for a society. Like it is happening right now in countries like Japan.
Heterosexual relationships (I am talking about marital) are an important unit which propagate the human race and creates order in the society. They have a future.
What future is their for a homosexual relationship? How the generations will proceed? How a homosexual relationship can be a healthy contribution to the society. In fact, it will take away two individuals at a time (and if this increases, then two people adopting such relation means two people leaving heterosexual world).
If you put these calculations on a binary tree, you will automatically understand that it will rather be a factor to reduce the birth count by drastic rates which will cause the society to break.
Already, the statistics are their which show the youth population graph going upside down. And you know, in this case adoption will not effect.
Hi. Not sure if you are still around...
Identifying yourself as HOMOSEXUAL is as much a SIN as identifying yourself as a HETEROSEXUAL.
Because both are identities. In the past people never bothered to create a label or an identity for themselves saying "I am heterosexual" or "I am homosexual". Yes, there were males who behaved like females, there were males who were attracted to other males. They did what we would call are homosexual activities... but there wasn't such an investment in having the identity or in saying something like, "I am a homosexual" or "I am gay", or "I am heterosexual". At least there wasn't an emphasis placed on it as an identity that one would invest himself or herself in (and therefore attach himself or herself to in such a deep way). The real crime here is to believe that it as a fundamental part of your identity. It creates a scar and is damaging (it leads to an unhealthy personality). So this is why I say, Heterosexual identification is as much a sin as homosexual identification. To invest so much of your self in the belief that you are this or that is a sin, because you are limiting yourself to it! It JUST SO HAPPENS however, that people who say "I am heterosexual" don't care so much when they say it.. in other words, they say it without a deep sense of attachment and association, they are not heavily invested in it as compared to people who identity themselves as homosexual.
So now that we have done away with homosexuals and heterosexuals we are now left with homosexual activities and heterosexual activities.
Is it is bad for a guy to love another guy? NO! I love my dad, my guy friends, my brother... etc etc.. What is the problem? Not a problem.
Is it allowed for a guy to have sex with another guy? It doesn't appear to be natural! So it makes sense if sexual activities between the same sex are
not allowed in religions.
Is there anything else left for people to argue about now?
Can guys behave life females? What is wrong with that? Just be yourself. If a guy likes to dress in a colorful way... fine! So long as he dresses modestly!
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Iran nuclear architect assassinated
By smma,
November 27, 2020 in Politics/Current Events
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On 11/29/2020 at 12:20 AM, Reza said:
Reminds me of the media coverage of UBL and AQ back in the day, where the media simultaneously characterized them as uneducated primitive cavemen from an inferior civilization but somehow also the most sophisticated and crafty criminal masterminds of our 21st century technological age. Somehow these notions could co-exist.
No one has ever quite explained how they could co-exist.
There are lots and lots of documentaries and docu-dramas produced these days, but not one about how you organise 9/11 from a cave.
More interestingly no one has performed the obvious experiment of seeing whether it is possible to fly an airliner with the precision needed for 9/11 having only previously trained on a simulator or small plane.
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The media portrays Iran as an all encompassing totalitarian dystopian police state that has total control over everyone’s life and a genuine threat to the whole world. Now the narrative is also incomp
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-nuclear-top-scientist-assassinated-reports
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Can someone explain to me how the security establishment in Iran is so fragile that people can infiltrate networks and just carry out these assassinations whenever they wish? Someone better have Ayato
Mark Fitzpatrick, an associate fellow with London's International Institute for Strategic Studies who follows Iran's nuclear programme closely, also tweeted: "Iran's nuclear program is long past the point when it is dependent on a single individual".
So, the motive for the assassination would appear to have been political, rather than relating to Iran's nuclear activities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55118140
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From my position it seems like Iran has been really embarrassed to have its senior figures targeted, and they haven't killed anyone in response because they are afraid of a war, when Soleimani was assassinated, they bombed an empty base and then made it a point to say this was the response, and they were so terrified of a response, they shot down a civilian airline, highlighting just more of their incompetence. They didn't respond to an attack on Natanz in the summer, where it was quite clearly an Israeli cyber attack. Now with this attack, it looks like there will be no response either.
I don't want a war, so I'm glad there is restraint, but I think Iran needs to stop its bombastic language, and supporting proxies whose victims are primarily defenseless Sunni Arabs and even Shia Iraqi Arabs, because when it comes to confronting the US and Israel directly, they hunker down and suffer blow after blow, without retaliating. It seems like if this is the case, the Islamic Republic should abandon its regional policies of "Resistance" (only resistance in name) and focus on getting sanctions lifted and developing the lives of its own people. It would serve its people well, and who knows maybe it will become powerful enough one day to actually be able to confront its adversaries, rather than terrorizing defenseless populations with false assertions of targeting big and little satan.
Edited November 29, 2020 by Mohamed1993
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On 11/27/2020 at 10:52 PM, Mohamed1993 said:
how Mossad is able to infiltrate the Iranian security establishment this easily.
Through MEK.
On 11/27/2020 at 9:52 PM, Mohamed1993 said:
Can someone explain to me how the security establishment in Iran is so fragile that people can infiltrate networks and just carry out these assassinations whenever they wish?
I found something yesterday. Just g OK through this thread:
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1332744899767246850?s=20
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What I don't get is why Iran has to plan a reprisal attack after it has been attacked? It is the same scenario as always. Iran gets attacked, then it waits for few weeks to plan a reprisal. You have to have plans for every scenario, where to defend and what to attack. Even a third-grad student plans what to do when he fails his exams.
It also seems that Shias are too busy becoming doctors, engineers or politicians, instead of strategists, philosophers, commanders etc. There seem to be no socio-political thinkers outside of the minbars/pulpits. That's how everyone can attack and kill Shias and get away with it.
Edited December 1, 2020 by lover
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the only ones who technically make serious revenge attacks is hezbolah it seems.
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7 minutes ago, Allah Seeker said:
Maybe that is why general Sulaimani (رضي الله عنه) daughter looked towards Sayid Hassan Nasrallah for her holy revenge, and even married into a Hezbolah family if my memory serves me correct.
How is Iran expected to answer the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh?
By Elijah J. Magnier:
US President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided that Iran was their worst enemy and that the nuclear and missile programs should be disrupted or destroyed by all means. It seems that Trump considers Iran to be one of the reasons behind his failure to be re-elected- or it is a “non-mission accomplished” to see Iran increasing its nuclear enrichment and developing the ballistic missile programs? There is little doubt that Trump wanted to add these two “achievements” to the list of gifts he offered to Israel: the Syrian-occupied Golan heights, the Palestinian Capital of Jerusalem, the illegal reconstruction of settlements and the normalisation of Arab and Muslim countries with Israel. Hence the motive for dragging Iran into a war or at least making sure he burns the ground under the JCPOA if the President-elect wants to reinstall it after the 20th of January 2021. The assassination of the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhri Zadeh was not explicitly, rather implicitly, announced by Netanyahu. What are Iran’s options? Who supported Israel in this assassination? How did Netanyahu drag Saudi Arabia onto Iran’s plate of objectives? On which platform is the next battlefield is expected to be?
Prime Minister Netanyahu faces the court of justice at home, accused of bribery and corruption. He is trying everything to remain in power and to gather more allies around him. He has not hesitated to drag his new ally, Saudi Arabia, with him in the play against Iran. One result is that Iran has a wider choice of objectives to target in response to the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh.
In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister has few valid options for engaging in a wider war, alone, for many reasons. In Lebanon, the deterrence imposed by Hezbollah forces the Israeli army to stay away from the borders. Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah vowed to hit and kill an Israeli soldier at the first opportunity. The Israeli government ordered all Israeli troops to stand down and take their distance, leaving the borders unattended for several months now. Moreover, Hezbollah is transporting weapons from Syria to Lebanon under the impotent eyes of the Israelis, who fear hitting an Hezbollah operative and suffering the consequences. Hezbollah has imposed its rules of engagement on Israel on a Front where Netanyahu feels weak and vulnerable.
In Israel, the army is not ready for a war and its internal front is very far from ready. Israel’s harbours and airports are within the easy reach of Iran and its allies’ precision missiles if fired from Syria or Lebanon or even Iraq. The Israeli economy has suffered dearly due to the Corona Virus. Therefore, Netanyahu needs other states to fight on his side or on his behalf. His revelation of the secretive visit he took to Saudi Arabia to meet crown prince Mohamad Bin Salman makes more sense following the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh. Netanyahu wanted to offer to Iran the information that he was not alone in the assassination and that Saudi Arabia is also involved in one way or another: but this means that the Iranian choice of “revenge objectives” is not limited to Israel alone. Netanyahu’s hit is clearly below the belt, but is not unusual in terms of his character and strategies.
There was no real need to reveal the date of his visit, nor to keep civilians monitoring his flight from Israel to the city of Neom on the Red Sea. Nothing is really new in the Saudi-Israel relationship. Saudi Arabia has already been financing wars carried out by Israel, mainly against Lebanon (in 2006). Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo visited Riyadh in 2014. A retired Saudi General Anwar Eshki met with Israeli officials at King David Hotel in 2016 and a year later Saudi spy chief Khalid Bin Ali al-Humaidan made a secret visit to Israel.
For the first time since the assassination of four Iranian nuclear scientists in the last years, the international community has condemned the target-killing of a civilian in Iran, defining it as “state -sponsored terrorism”.Israel is once more accused of violating of international law by carrying out an assassination that is barely useful to its objective to halt the Iranian nuclear program.
In fact, Israel has carried out dozens of assassinations against non-combatant militants and civilians without any world accountability, under the rule that “what is not permitted to any other state is permitted to Israel” .
The Israeli Foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, is far from being outstanding and its mediocrity has already been publicly exposed: it is far from having a“long arm,” which is actually dependent on outside international support. Mossad agents were rarely executed, unlike in Syria, when Daqmascus refused any negotiation. Not only does it have a huge budgetan a liberal supply of fake passports, but enjoys the support of the international community and US military facilities everywhere in the world, according to the particular clandestine operation and its objectives. The Israeli intelligence service can also rely on US and Europeansupport in most countries to release or smuggle out Mossad agents. These resources are the source of strength of Israel, in addition to the unlimited US support when a President like Donald Trump is in office. Following the Israeli normalisation with Gulf countries, Israel can now count on the Arab support, more than before, to coordinate its clandestine activities in the countries where the mutual enemies of the Arab and Israel reside: Iran and the “Axis of the Resistance” (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen).
“The assassination of the Iranian scientist was carried out by a highly trained team of executors who did not prepare for the attack in just a few days. The team had explosives, weapons, financial means and safe houses to meet in and train as a team for the operation. That scale of activity requires a state-sponsored operation,” according to Iranian security sources in Tehran.
Israel, unlike President Trump when he assassinated Brigadier general Qassem Soleimani, did not officially announce its responsibility for the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh, even if Netanyahu hinted to it in his own style. However, the US B-52s were ordered back to the Middle East a few days before and the Pentagon ordered USS Nimitz back to the Persian Gulf and the US administration vowed to hit hard if any US soldier was attacked in Iraq. All these indications are collected by Iran as clear signals of the US-Israel complicity and responsibility for this unlawful assassination.
What are Iran’s choices?
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Hossein Salameh, said "Iran will respond," and he therefore committed himself, and is not expected to risk his credibility by not responding. The leader of the revolution Sayed Ali Khamenei instructed his military commanders to "take the necessary revenge for the martyr Mohsen Fakhri Zadeh." The IRGC–Quds Brigade commander, General Ismail Qaani, who represents the arm of Iranian strikes abroad, indicated: "there are targets that have been identified regionally and Iran's allies will participate in the response."
According to the sources, Iran has begun to work on several levels: 1) Uncovering the assassination team responsible for the assassination. 2) Asking all embassies abroad to sollicit the international community’s condemnation of this unlawful target-killing of a civilian. 3)Identifying the absolute supporters of any Israeli action: deterrence is done in response by striking targets set by Iran in the Middle East. 3) Searching for any team (s) ready to carry out any other potential attack that Israel could execute during the remaining fifty days of Trump's term. 4) Identifying the most urgent targets to hit in the Middle East. 5) Increasing the level of uranium enrichments, with little regard to the JCPOA, and increasing the level of stockpile beyond 2,442.9 kg.
The sources understand that there is nothing to stop Israel from carrying out further attacks against Iranian targets if deterrence is not imposed, similar to the Hezbollah actions in Lebanon. Moreover, any possible hit to Israel and US allies in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and Yemen as examples, would send signals to Israel to stop, when the US interests in the region are put in jeopardy.
As long as Trump (“ a bull in a China shop,” as described by the source) is in power, Iran has decided not to go to war and in the meantime won’t be dragged into situations and arguments imposed by its enemies.. Therefore, all-out-war is not yet on the table even if further cyber, sabotage or assassination attacks are likely in the weeks to come. “The account is open with Netanyahu, no need to rush, there will be other opportunities”, concluded the source.
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From my position it seems like Iran has been really embarrassed to have its senior figures targeted, and they haven't killed anyone in response because they are afraid of a war, when Soleimani was assassinated, they bombed an empty base and then made it a point to say this was the response, and they were so terrified of a response, they shot down a civilian airline, highlighting just more of their incompetence.
They have been warned 6 hours before the strike on 'Ain Al-Assad by Iraqi Prime Minister, 'leaked' from Iran. They want to avoid needless bloodshed because inside the base there weren't only US troops stationed there, but also innocent bystanders--soldiers from other countries. Iranian Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, the retaliatory attack is not for inflicting as many human casualties as possible, but to cripple main US infrastructure inside that base and give warning to Pentagon. Seems that they don't heed the warning though.. such is the morals of the corrupt tyrants.
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A person interviewed by the BBC on Monday, the 30th, opined that this murder shows weakness in the lRl Ieadership --especialIy since the lRI gov't said they knew about the plot.
l disagree with that. Even when l was littIe, and we see on TV or read about assassinations, failed assassination attempts on Hitler (most notably the time bomb in the ceiling of an auditorium), in the colonies of Europe(now, 3rd World), and so forth; we all had it said to us, "there is no such thing as not getting to someone."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-iraq-syria-strike-kills-irgc-commander
Anothwr airstrike killied a senior commander. Zions are trying very hard to push Iran. It must balance between retaining its international respect and not provoking war
I don't see any reason for Iran to not respond and acquire self-restraint in this case.
I don't see it as a provocation to push Iran for war. I believe it is a new rule of engagement. Assassinating and attacking the loop-holes. Biden is not much different than Trump. He will never restore JCPOA. he will secretly give the green light to Israel and will try to guarantee that Iran stays at it's place. He will keep them engaged in diplomacy while Israel along with it's 'normalized team' will do the dirty work.
What you say?
@hasanhh@Haji 2003 @Allah Seeker @smma @Ashvazdanghe
Or anyone else.
smma, Ashvazdanghe, hasanhh and 1 other
58 minutes ago, smma said:
This is fake news.
Professor Marandi of Tehran University has denied it.
Psychological warfare at it's best.
Ashvazdanghe and smma
5 hours ago, Zainuu said:
lRl is "in the victim position". A commentary l heard yesterday -sorry, l forget who/where- said the most "powerful person in the Middle East" is the Maqam mo'azzom rabari.
There is so much condemnation over this, irrationally based murder on a nuclear program that was shelved nearly twenty years ago, that any recriminations will be used against lRl. So, they will have to think of something real subtle that delivers some kind of fait accompli in the future. The primary caution, lMH0, is with everything against lRI "in the starting blocks" is not to do anything macho.
Diaz 1,252
10 hours ago, Allah Seeker said:
She married the man who is viewed by most as sayid nasrallah’s future replacement.
I think - and I could be wrong - that the Iranian government is genuine in the whole liberation of Quds thing and the handing over their standard to the Mahdi etc. Of course we can't generalise, but let us say that I believe the majority of the people in power, as well as the population share these sentiments. They follow prophecies much like the zionist, but seem to do so more in the halal, without supporting sufiani or dajjal like most Israelis do today.
So what i think is that they are waiting for the right time to push for the liberation of Quds when they chose to do it. In military strategies it is for your benefit to set the pace yourself, and rhythm, as well as find the element of surprise. In the 6th of October /yom kipur war, Egypt took advantage of attacking in secret while the Israelis who had been occupying the Sinai up till Suez were most off-guard. It was one of their main feasts of the year, and most soldiers were home or not focused. The crossing of the suez took place using Russian equipment in a very quick and sudden operation.
So i am sure that the Iranian top leadership has the exact scenario planned out into detail, taking all alternative outcomes into consideration, with plans A , B , C , .. Z. It is all as if t happened already, but they are probablh waiting for something, and I dont know what. Maybe it is for the arrival of the Mahdi, or most likely it is the sufiani emergence they are holding their horses for. They are following prophecy, and one thing is clear: sufiani comes first, and then the good players like Khurasani and Yamani, etc. The reason for this is also because in islam we must be in clear self defence to take drastic lethal actions. And that operation that is planned will cost a lot of lives and collateral damage most probably. They don't want to go to hell for that, so better be safe than sorry. They probably feel that they have one shot, so they are sharpening their swords now and clearing out roads to make the movement smooth and fast. But the timing is everything, and God will make it clear.
Khurasani is a character who is prophesied in both suni and shia schools of thought. There is a chance that imam Khamenei, or his successor could be that Khurasani, and to me they lack the competition not to be it. There is no military force anywhere near Khurasan (usually seen as eastern Iran, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan), who is even close to being capable of liberating itself from foreign influence, let alone a nuclear super-modern and rich army base like the occupied Palestine. They are the only ones with the logistics necessary to even try, masha Allah. In the late 90's an early '00s, many of us thought that maybe the Taliban gang of Mullah Omar or so could be it, as Afghanistan is the heart of Khurasan, but they though is totally unrealistic now.
So if Iran is truly serious about this whole Islam thing, and even the prophesies relating to the roles of the people of salman el Farsi (عليه السلام), then they are just avoiding falling into a trap. At the same time we are all praying for martyrdom among any true believer, so the nuclear scientist simply got a 1st class back-stage pass to paradise. People don't understand that they make us a favor when they kill us! Anyway, that is my hope, and my heart tells me it is true. They practice self restraint for the sake of not blowing all the work done the past 40 years for the sake of avenging a person hastily, when he can be avenged much better in a short while in sha Allah.
This whole nuclear deal I feel is just a screen for something much deeper. I feel they are simply negotiating all kinds of things unrelated to nuclear science or rocket science. I dont know exactly what is going on behind the scenes, but I think that it has to do with each negotiating for power, safety and trying to self benefit in whatever way they can before the inevitable showdown comes.
Diplomacy is a form of soft power that people like to use in order to fight wars on a more spiritual level and mental sphere. Anyway , prayer guys. Let's pray. Its the only thing that works.
Zainuu, Ashvazdanghe, TheAnticipator12 and 1 other
4 hours ago, Diaz said:
Clever lady! Masha Allah
I know Tehran region is a contrasting place for the otherwise religious Iran, a bubbling cesspool with the stench of devil worshiping blowing out of it, but this is alarming. Iran should take the gloves off, scan for viruses now, at maximum heuristics settings, and clean extensively.
They knew this, told this, planned this, weeks ago.
14 hours ago, Diaz said:
This reminds me of what Imam al Khamenei said, "The future belongs to the Muslim Ummah".
I see the foundations are really really strong.
23 minutes ago, The Green Knight said:
They plan many things brother.
It's psychological warfare.
People don't understand that they make us a favor when they kill us! Anyway, that is my hope, and my heart tells me it is true. They practice self restraint for the sake of not blowing all the work done the past 40 years for the sake of avenging a person hastily, when he can be avenged much better in a short while in sha Allah
My point was just that Israel is threatened right now. Seeing hezbollah on the border. Syria has resolved itself quite well now.
Attacking the fountain head of Axis (Iran) is a great way to cope up, increase the deterence and get back into the game. In the past decades, Iran and Axis has clearly cornered the imperialists.
Maybe they are trying to impose a new rule of engagement. Maybe they already know that Iran will not fight back and this would destroy the confudence of Axis.
Anyways, the strongest and invincible weapon of Iran is patience and I still believe that Israel and US don't realize this.
I hope they will be humiliated and cornered and their plans will all fall to the ground.
I feel bad that I can't do something as a valuable contribution in all this.
These martyrs make me realize that I am literally nothing.
May Allah give us an opportunity to play a role.
Allah Seeker and Ashvazdanghe
Also, some pschological warfare from Iran as well. Enriching Uranium, rejecting NPT.
Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's contributions during COVID-19:
Read the 2 tweets in the thread.
25 minutes ago, Zainuu said:
The way I've seen it since 2006 , is that they already lost the war, and they know it. They know that it is over for them and nuking is not an option for infinite reasons. But even if they nuked, they'd still lose. In 2006 it is over for them, and day by day it is simply more and more over. They are just trying to annoy and provoke, while saving some face. It does not take a military strategist to see that it is game-over for the hezbulshaytan. It is just a matter of time, and they are enjoying a little for now. We don't need to do anything ourselves, because everything is ready and mobilised. Everything is in the Hands of God. The best we can do is pray for ourselves, our families, loved ones, the iranians, the allies of Allah, etc.
Ashvazdanghe and Zainuu
They lost in 2000, 2006 and then came the era of humiliation.
They got humiliated completely in Syria, in Palestine. Worst is still remaining which they will suffer inshallah in Yemen.
Just now, Zainuu said:
I think 2006 broke their back. 2000 was maybe a broken hand, leg and arm. Now they are in intensive care of a terminal coma.
It seems that the Yemenis only really flexed their muscles once during the Aramco attack. Probably indirect negotiations and unwritten rules prevents them from flattening Ryad and all the sufiani palaces.
Even mainstream Israeli youth (may God guide them) are willing to consider that their fake pseudo-religious government lost:
from Iran as well. Enriching Uranium,
The BBC reported that IRl Foreign Ministry characterized this legislation "as unnecessary and not useful."
The Guardian Council till has to review this.
I am innocent of this assassination, like the children of Jacob about Joseph !!
https://fa.abna24.com/news/کاریکاتور/کاریکاتور-نتانیاهو-متهم-اصلی-ترور-شهید-فخری-زاده_1083414.html
Zainuu and hasanhh
https://en.mehrnews.com/amp/166687/?__twitter_impression=true
Thoughtful piece in the Independent newspaper:
This latest assassination was not justified primarily as an attempt to disrupt Iran’s nuclear programme, but as a legitimate and successful display of state power. The New York Times said approvingly that “Mr Fakhrizadeh has become the latest casualty in a campaign of audacious covert attacks seemingly designed to torment Iranian leaders with reminders of their weakness.” It added that the operation confronted Iran with an agonising choice between retaliation and seeking to re-engage with the US when Joe Biden becomes president, replacing the viscerally anti-Iranian Donald Trump.
Any description of this or other “targeted killing” by Israel or anybody else should carry a health warning. Everybody involved has a reason for lying, just as they once did about Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMD in 2003. Anything leaked by intelligence agencies to a credulous media should only be consumed with a large measure of salt.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/mohsen-fakhrizadeh-assassination-iran-us-relations-b1766298.html
A debate on "What about JCPOA". should Iran still cooperate.
Nice to see they tolerate different opinions. That's a good sign mashallah.
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THOUSAND OAKS, California, May 7, 2015 — While they’re in very different industries, BJ’s Restaurants and commercial integrator JAVI A/V LLC both believe that atmosphere is critical. It’s the first thing on JAVI’s website, and BJ’s strives to infuse on-brand ambience at all of its locations. Part of achieving that ambiance is SunBriteDS’s weatherproof outdoor displays, which JAVI and BJ’s trust implicitly to transform outdoor patios into inviting and intimate retreats.
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Beitz’s relationship with BJ’s dates back to the late 1990s, when he got into the commercial integration business. Today, JAVI specializes in atmospheric installations, doing 80 percent of its business in the hospitality and retail sectors. He estimates his firm has installed SunBriteDS units in around 50 BJ’s locations, including BJ’s Mission Valley San Diego location, where Beitz’s team recently installed four units.
“It was a custom-designed location tailored specifically for the warm and sunny San Diegan weather,” said Beitz. “We usually install one SunBriteDS per location but the Mission Valley project was different. The patio was massive and called for four units. The end result was an inviting environment with a fire pit and plenty of outdoor seating for year-round entertainment.”
Beitz’s team is responsible only for the A/V implementation but he explains that atmosphere is taken into consideration from the earliest stages of development and construction of every BJ’s Restaurant. When designing each space, the goal is to make sure that every patron has a clear view of at least one television no matter where he or she is in the restaurant.
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Until now, Proterra has focused on producing electric buses for municipal, federal and commercial transit agencies. The company has developed a line of electric buses that can travel 350 miles on a single charge, enough range to last entire day. Proterra has sold hundreds of its all-electric buses as cities try to reduce tailpipe emissions.
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The watch, limited to a run of 33 pieces, shows the time on a small forward-facing face in one of the cones. The other two cones contain dual balance wheels. The balance wheel is what causes the watch to tick and controls the energy released by the main spring. Interestingly, MB&F added two to this watch in an effort to ensure accuracy. “The twin balance wheels of the HM9 engine feed two sets of chronometric data to a central differential for an averaged reading,” they wrote. “The balances are individually impulsed and spatially separated to ensure that they beat at their own independent cadences of 2.5Hz (18,000bph) each. This is important to ensure a meaningful average, just as how a statistically robust mathematical average should be derived from discrete points of information.”
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While you may think your personal information is actually personal, you'd be surprised how much information about you winds up online. Just do a search for yourself on Pipl, a people search directory, to see the personal details out there. (Go on, we'll wait.) Chances are the search came up with your name, social media profiles and possibly even your parents’ names, address and telephone number too.
Pipl isn't some secret hacker database. It's just a repository of publicly available online data about individuals, all of which businesses and advertisers are eager to get their hands on. That's right: this sort of data collection is completely legitimate, and a lot of it is pulled from information you put online.
Whether you're worried about identity theft or you just don't like the idea of other people tracking your every move, there are steps you can take to keep your private data private.
1. Password-protect everything.
You may not think it's necessary to password-protect your home computer, but all your digital devices should be password-protected. That includes your computers, tablets, smartphones and anything other gadgets with personal data on them. If it's unsecured by a password, a lost or stolen gadget is a source of personal information for whoever has it, which can lead to identity theft and worse.
The same advice goes for online accounts. Since most of these need a password to set up, the challenge is making strong passwords. Use our tips for strong passwords to be sure yours is a good one. Don't use the same password for more than one site, because one hacked account could result in all your accounts being compromised. To help you remember all of these passwords, use a password manager.
Turn on two-factor authentication for any site that supports it, which protects your account even if a hacker does get your password. And those security questions designed to help you recover a lost password or forgotten user name? They aren't very secure, because some of them are very easy for hackers to find out. We recommend making up answers instead and keeping that information in your password manager.
Change the default passwords for anything connected to your home network. Your router is the most important device to secure because your router could give a hacker complete access to your home network. Don't forget other connected devices like baby monitors.
2. Keep your computer virus-free.
Digital security has a lot to do with digital privacy. If your computer is infected by a virus or malware, not only can hackers dig through your data to steal your identity, but they may lock up your files and ask for a ransom to get them back. The solution? Run an antivirus program to watch for viruses, and keep your other software up to date to close security holes. This applies not only to your computer but your mobile devices as well.
Our favorite antivirus is Kaspersky, which offers protection for Windows, Apple and Android devices. You can buy a license for three devices for $39.99 (check price on Amazon), or protect a household's worth of devices with a license for five devices for $44.99. If you'd rather use a free app, try Avast. It doesn't have as many features as Kaspersky, but it's a solid antivirus scanner, and the price is certainly right.
Make sure your operating system is up to date with the latest security patches. To make that process easier, we recommend turning on auto-update features. Here's how:
Turn on automatic updates for Windows.
MacOS automatically checks for updates by default, but you can check manually with these instructions.
Android typically notifies you of updates, but you'll need to install them manually. Instructions will vary depending on your device and the version of Android you're currently running; check with your device manufacturer for details.
iOS will nag you incessantly about updates, so there's no chance you'll miss them. Here's a walk-through of how to update.
3. Secure your browser.
Your browser is how you interact with the digital world, and if you aren't careful, you could be leaving a trail of footprints behind you as you browse. Whether it's websites and marketers tracking you or a hacker spying on what you're doing, there are ways to keep your browsing habits private.
The first step for keeping advertisers out of your browser is turning off third-party cookies. Advertisers use cookies to see where you've been and tailor the ads they show you appropriately. Here's how to block cookies in Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
To go a step farther, you can disable JavaScript. This cuts off another common way advertisers (or hackers) track you, but it can render some web pages nonfunctional. If you want to turn JavaScript off anyway, here's how to do it in Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
Don't want to worry about any of this? Try the Privacy Badger browser plug-in for Chrome, Firefox and Opera, which shuts down many potential trackers automatically. HTTPS Everywhere is another good browser plug-in that forces your browser to use secure, encrypted sites when they're available, which helps keep snoops out of your data.
Private browsing mode deletes your cookies, browsing history and other temporary files whenever you close the window. Here's how to use private browsing mode on Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. If you're serious about discreet browsing, though, read our article on browsing the web anonymously.
4. Switch search engines.
Most search engines keep tabs on what you're looking for so they can target ads to your tastes. If you don't like the idea of your search history being used to sell you things, DuckDuckGo is the search engine for you. The site doesn't track any of your personal data, so you can search without anyone watching over your shoulder.
5. Be careful what you share on social media.
Social media can feel like a conversation with your closest friends — except it may be a conversation the whole world can see. If you post enough on social media, the information can be used to track where you are and what you're up to.
The first line of defense is to lock down your social media accounts. Share only with the people you want to see the information you're sharing, like your friends and family. On Twitter, your account is either completely open or locked down to people you invite to follow you; changing that setting is as easy as clicking a checkbox. Facebook allows more granular control over who sees what you post. Read our guide to Facebook's privacy settings to configure your profile.
Don't want to lock down your account? Then be choosy about what you share. Take special care with personal information that could be used to identify you or track your location. Don't fill out your complete profile in order to prevent being easily identified or to give someone enough personal details to steal your identity. Consider dialing down what you share. Do you really need to check in to every business you visit, making yourself easy to track? Maybe not.
6. Ask why others need your information.
Whenever you're asked to provide personal information, whether in person, on the phone or online, consider whether you really need to give it out. Sometimes information like your email address and ZIP code is used purely for marketing purposes; in that case, expect your real and virtual mailboxes to be packed with junk mail.
To maintain your privacy, never give away more information than you have to. This is doubly true of sensitive personal information like your social security number — even just the last four digits. Unless it’s your bank, a credit bureau, a company that wants to do a background check on you or some other entity that has to report to the IRS, chances are they don't really need it.
7. Don't fall for scams.
Beware of websites, phone calls and emails that try to part you from your personal information. Scammers are getting better at mimicking legitimate businesses, so be on your guard. A common tactic with scammers is to pressure you into giving up your personal information by presenting dire consequences if you don't. For example, a scammer may tell you that you're being audited by the IRS or that your computer has a dangerous virus they can fix if you hand over your personal information.
These high-pressure tactics can spook you into giving up plenty of personal details, but don't be fooled. Legitimate businesses don't make unsolicited calls to ask for your social security number or computer password. If you've received a call or email like this you think may be legitimate, contact the business it claims to be from. Don't use the link or phone number provided by whoever contacted you; instead, contact the company directly using contact information you personally look up on the company's website. If the matter is legitimate, the company will confirm so and help you resolve the issue while making sure your personal information stays safe.
8. Only use software you trust.
Whether you're installing new software on your phone or your computer, make sure you're getting it from a source you trust. Legitimate-looking software can sometimes turn out to be a complete scam, like the scandal over the Meitu photo app, which collects a mountain of data on its users. Make sure anything you download comes from a trusted developer and a trusted source.
If you don't know where your software comes from, you don't know what it's really doing — and that means there's no telling where your information is going.
9. Only use secure Wi-Fi connections.
Sure, it's convenient to use the free Wi-Fi service at your local Starbucks, but there's no telling who is watching that internet traffic. If you use public Wi-Fi, don't use it to convey private information. Browsing your favorite website is fine, but take extra security measures if you're logging into an account. Use a VPN service to encrypt all of the data you send. There are many services that can do this, including NordVPN (affiliate link) and Buffered VPN. VPN services charge a fee to use, from day passes to year-round protection.
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From Emilie Hill on February 03, 2017 :: 9:01 am
Would have been much more helpful had you included Firefox. Do people really still use Internet Explorer!?!
From UNC 71 on July 26, 2018 :: 3:20 pm
I am responding with IE at this time. There are a number of reasons - security is certainly at the top. However, it takes someone who is very familiar with computer forensics to deal with all of the settings. Frankly, Firefox is one of the later choices on the list, although Quantum is an improvement. Within the past two years, every system I have had to clean for someone had Chrome installed and forensics often led to it being the ingress point. Most of the time though, a little common sense is the best protection available after a good anti-malware. Ad blockers are almost as valuable as Restricted Sites in Internet Explorer. For those that suffer chronic infections, MVPs Hosts Files are a definite advantage. I could go on but, unlike Suzanne, I do not get paid on this site and I am competing with her, in a sense by writing this.
From Roger D. on March 12, 2019 :: 9:35 am
So, per the new Wells Bradford book, I use Tor as my secure browser - no need to worry about plugins or making sure settings are right. I like StartPage as the anonymous search engine, since it tells me which sites I can visit anonymously, and I use ProtonMail for email.
I've added links for Firefox
From Suzanne Kantra on February 03, 2017 :: 4:24 pm
I’ve added links for Firefox users within the browser section. Hope they help.
And yes, there are a lot of people still using IE .
From Emilie Hill on February 06, 2017 :: 9:00 pm
Appreciate the update.
About to lose the love of my life
From Benny hamilton on April 07, 2018 :: 11:40 pm
My phone was hacked they made it look like I did some pretty shade stuff and now I am on the verge of losing my wife i love my wife with every part of my being and do not want to lose her i need to know how to prove it was the hacker and not me she does not believe me when I tell her it wasnt me please help i can give you more info if you need desperatly need awnsers please
Using a private search engine is important!
From Liz McIntyre on February 06, 2017 :: 8:41 pm
Hi Elizabeth. Good points. Private search is so important and it’s a free “no-brainer”. Some other good options can be found at privacytools.io.
Wifi compromised
From Suzi on March 21, 2018 :: 5:48 pm
How can you prove my BT wifi is compromised ?
Why do you think it is compromised?
From Josh Kirschner on March 22, 2018 :: 8:51 am
If you go into the admin panel of your router, you should be able to see what devices are connected to your Wi-Fi network. If there are any you don’t recognize, you can disconnect them. If you want o get more complex, there are various software tools you can use to log router activity.
But why do you think your Wi-Fi is compromised? Most recent routers default to encryption and (somewhat) complex passwords. So it’s not easy to get access to your Wi-Fi network unless someone knows that password or it’s easy to guess.
From Suzi on March 22, 2018 :: 11:00 am
Lots of reason’s why I think it’s compromised, it does not surprise me they know my password, a few times I have come home my door is unlocked or even open.
I’ve checked devices connected, I can’t see anything suspicious. Would a fake cell tower show up ??
From Josh Kirschner on March 22, 2018 :: 12:36 pm
I’m still not clear on why you think you’re Wi-Fi is compromised. But if you’re concerned, just change your Wi-Fi password.
Anything connected to your Wi-Fi network should show up, but 1) a fake cell tower wouldn’t be connected to your home Wi-Fi network, 2) No one is going to put a fake cell tower in your home where it could be found and 3) No one is going to go through the expense and difficulty of targeting you with a fake cell tower unless your home is the Russian Embassy or another high-profile target, or you’re being investigated by law enforcement for a major crime.
Identity Protection Online & VPNs
From Baron Stephen on August 01, 2018 :: 10:35 am
We share every information including name, email, phone, address on yellow pages, communities, social sites and etc and we expect to believe that we are safe online and then blame government is the responsible for the loss.
Using a VPN will only benefit you as you also mentioned when we’re connected to some open hotspots and wifi. I don’t think there is any alternate of VPN.
BTW, I haven’t used bufferedVPN yet since I am using PureVPN right now.
Interesting read. If you want
From Samuel Martin on February 18, 2019 :: 6:41 am
Interesting read. If you want to take the next step in getting better privacy, try using a browser such as Tor that routes your IP through a Virtual Private Network (VPN). A virtual private network like Ivacy routes all of your data through a proxy server so your IP address and in many cases your user data is protected. Thanks for sharing.
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