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Rare rocks: Mount Holyoke astronomy professor part of local team that will study lunar rocks on eve of moon landing’s 50th anniversary
Darby Dyar, a Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor, holds a rock from the moon in her lab. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Darby Dyar, a Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor, in her lab. At top, Dyar holds a rock from the moon. STAFF PHOTOS/CAROL LOLLIS
Darby Dyar, a Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor, in her lab. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Darby Dyar, a Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor, with samples from the moon, in her lab. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
This July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA shows Buzz Aldrin's boot and bootprint during a test of the lunar soil during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. BUZZ ALDRIN/NASA via AP
In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface with temperatures ranging from 243 degrees above to 279 degrees below zero. Astronaut Michael Collins flew the command module. NEIL ARMSTRONG/NASA via AP
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
Published: 7/12/2019 3:13:46 PM
Modified: 7/12/2019 3:13:33 PM
SOUTH HADLEY — Darby Dyar still remembers the awe she experienced the first time she studied a sample of lunar rock.
The Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor said that when studying rocks from Earth’s surface, geologists are always working backward, understanding that the samples they are observing have been significantly altered by water and the elements. But that’s not the case with lunar rocks.
“They’re just beautiful to look at under the microscope,” Dyar said. “It just blows your mind. You’re like, ‘Wow.’ It’s so beautiful. The grains are just pristine.”
Dyar first started working with lunar samples when she was doing her PhD research in 1979, so moon rocks are nothing new for her. That is, until this year, when she and other local researchers are getting the chance to study specially preserved lunar rocks for the first time ever.
With the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaching on July 20, NASA selected Dyar to lead a research team from Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is studying moon samples that have never been exposed to Earth’s atmosphere. Kept under vacuum seal for close to 50 years since astronauts brought them back from the moon, Dyar called the pea-sized rocks a “national treasure.”
“These things are incredibly precious,” she said. “It makes my hands shake when I work with them. I have all these flashbacks of watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.”
NASA announced in March that Dyar’s team was one of nine that would gain access to the rare untouched samples from the Apollo missions — right in time for the 50th anniversary.
Dyar’s research interest in the rocks is to determine their hydrogen and oxygen content. That data can offer insights into what the interior of the moon is like.
The lunar rocks are formed from the occasional explosive eruptions of magma that happen on the moon. Under the cold and almost vacuum-like conditions of the moon, that magma immediately cools to form glass beads that collect on the moon’s surface.
“These are important because the magma is coming from the lunar interior,” Dyar said.
By analyzing those rocks — and by extension the composition of the moons interior — Dyar and her fellow researchers can glean insights into the bigger questions of how planets and moons form, and why some form with water and become habitable.
The lunar samples Dyar has previously studied have been exposed to, and contaminated by, Earth’s own atmosphere and water.
“As earthlings we forget that every rock we pick up … has seen water,” she said. That’s not the case for these rocks, however, because the moon has only trace amounts of water.
During the Apollo missions, NASA was forward-thinking enough to deliberately save some lunar samples so that they could wait until researchers had better technology to analyze them.
“That’s a pretty remarkable thing that they did,” Dyar said, particularly given the thought at the time that moon landings would become a frequent occurrence in the future. “Somebody in NASA was prescient and decided to set these samples aside.”
Dyar said that many people mistakenly think that the United States brought back “dump trucks of samples back from the moon.” In reality, she said, it is only a few refrigerators worth of rock samples.
Of around 2,000 samples that came back from the moon, only six are left unstudied, and only a few of those are pristine and untouched.
To study those samples, teams had to submit detailed proposals to NASA. The first part of the local team’s research will be done at a government lab outside of Chicago, and the second half will take place at UMass Amherst.
“I feel incredibly lucky that we got the money and our proposal was selected,” Dyar said.
The samples are just rocks, at the end of the day, Dyar said. But they also offer a rare research opportunity. And as the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, they are a reminder of a groundbreaking moment in human history.
“It’s the historical significance that adds the extra panache to it,” she said.
Dusty Christensen can be reached at dchristensen@gazettenet.com.
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Charting Indie Beauty’s Future
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Yvecar Momperousse is the founder and CEO of Kreyòl Essence, which displayed its eco-friendly skin and hair care brand at the latest Beauty & Money Summit in New York. The company is building a social enterprise around beauty products from Haiti that use many local ingredients.
Proven, represented by co-founder and CEO Ming Zhao, is founded on an immense AI platform that cross-references more than 20,000 ingredients with skin care research papers to generate product recommendations for a single sample or bi-monthly subscription based on consumer inputs, including skin type, ethnicity, age, weather, lifestyle and hormone levels. Recommendations can be refreshed every two months to account for changes in environmental or lifestyle factors.
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Indie beauty’s explosion and its repercussions for investors, brands and retailers was the focus of this year’s Beauty & Money Summit in New York. The event featured a range of brands focused on key consumer trends, including ethical commerce (Kreyòl Essence), inclusive beauty (Urban Skin Rx), natural formulations (Olive+M) and on-the-go lifestyles (Recess). It also offered insights from the key players that are shaping beauty’s most dynamic sector.
Protecting Your Time & Money
Youth to the People attracted attention early on with its strong Instagram engagement and its position as a plant-based and clean beauty brand that had a unique urban, gender-neutral feel, compared to many other players in the market. Brand co-founders Joe Cloyes and Greg Gonzalez found that their early success led to unexpected growth—and unexpected costs. Now on the other side of a successful minority investment from Strand Equity, the founders encouraged other brands to raise more money than they think they need in order to establish a financial cushion.
Cloyes and Gonzalez also stressed the importance of protecting one’s time by limiting commitments and projects as much as possible, noting “every yes takes up bandwidth.” This means learning to say no, even when presented with engaging ideas that are, nonetheless, out of the scope of the brand’s immediate needs and goals. They concluded by warning: “everything is always going to take more work than you think .”
Be Persistent & Go Bicoastal
Scentbird, a perfume subscription service, failed several times before perfecting its model. CEO and co-founder Mariya Nurislamova said that along the way she learned to stop focusing on getting yeses from prospective investors. She explained that she would push herself to reach out to 100 people and to understand that getting a “no” does not mean you are failing; it means you have to try again.
When selecting a partner, Nurislamova explained that the investor’s values are as or more important than the funding they represent because an alignment of vision between brand and partner is critical to success. She also encouraged the New York crowd to consider raising money in the West, particularly Silicon Valley, where there is ample money and engagement with startups.
Finally, the CEO urged small brands to be sure to always have a plan B, C and D. When brands enter potential investor meetings with alternate plans, they are empowered and therefore more comfortable sitting at the table simply because a backup plan is in place. She added that brands must never hide things from early stage investors. Those resources are precious and can pitch in during a crisis. Alienating key relationships through omission or dishonesty can harm brands long-term.
Know Your Retailers: Ulta and Cos Bar
During a retail panel discussion, moderator Ariel Ohana, managing partner of Ohana & Co. Inc., noted that it is critical for brands to invest behind their retail presence because sales don’t simply materialize on their own. She added that brands must learn the rules of each retail partner to ensure the partnerships are successful on both sides of the equation.
Heather Connelly, CosBar’s buying and merchandising manager, shared the retailer’s approach to assessing and working with new brands. She explained that, when reviewing new products or brands for the retailer, she focuses first on the packaging quality and design, then reviews the qualities of the formula(s) and, finally, considers the brand’s points of distribution. If these all meet the CosBar’s standards and fit within a strategic category it’s hoping to expand, Connelly will take the conversation to the next level.
Connelly expressed disappointment that some brands aren’t open to having a store carry only part of a product range. She said she often suggests that small brands start small, build their competency and then expand as they master each stage of growth. She added that slow growth across physical locations or even migration from online to in-store can teach brands valuable lessons before scale becomes an issue.
As for what CosBar is focused on now, Connelly noted that the retailer is dipping its toe in the supplement category, working with brands like Moon Juice, as well as developing its range of natural beauty, including brands like Kosas, and gender-neutral players like Aesop and Grown Alchemist. She added that while CBD products are on the radar, they aren’t yet an area of focus for the retailer.
Meanwhile, David Kimbell, chief merchandising and marketing officer at Ulta, explained that while the retailer hasn’t found a pricepoint—luxury or mass—that can’t work for its customers, there are still some key considerations for brands. For instance, Kimball suggested, like Connelly, that often it makes sense to start with a limited range of a brand’s SKUs to get a sense of what works for the Ulta shopper and what does not.
Critically, he explained that brands must be upfront with retailers about supply chain issues and never suggest that they can deliver more than is possible. He added that partnerships benefit when brands are clear and open with merchandising teams about what they are currently capable of, as well as the capacities they are building for the future. He warned that overpromising can significantly damage a relationship and get brands into trouble.
As for what’s next, Kimbell said that innovation is coming onto the market faster than ever. Current growth opportunities, he explained, include men’s brands and cruelty-free offerings.
The Future of Beauty Investments
The indie explosion has ushered in a new reality for the beauty industry, a panel of equity and strategic investment experts concluded during a closing panel. With the rules being written on the fly and the biggest deals primarily a thing of the past, the discussion turned toward what’s next.
The panel consensus appeared to be that more money seems to be chasing brands than vice versa. And, sometimes, indie brands may even shy away from certain types of investments, such as those from legacy brands. At the same time, some investors have shown a willingness will overpay for a what they perceive of as safe bets.
Carla Ruiz, VP of business development at Johnson & Johnson Consumer, said that having a strategic investor as an early supporter won’t necessarily hurt an indie brand’s chances of receiving later rounds of buy-in from other parties—particularly if the strategic investor holds a minority stake and the brand’s results have been positive.
She continued, saying that strategic minority investments are the new normal, but that she couldn’t point to an existing example of a strategic investor acquiring an up-and-coming brand that has already received an investment from a multinational competitor.
An audience member asked whether strategic investors/buyers would eventually begin launching their own “indie” brands under their existing umbrellas, thereby sidestepping external opportunities. Gillian Gorman-Round, general manager of the Revlon Incubator, suggested that, for legacy companies, it is simply easier and “more legitimate” to invest in and incubate external partners.
Gorman-Round also suggested that brands consider starting relationships with potential investors early on, gathering valuable advice and counsel well before any money is invested. She also warned brands not to start calling investors “five minutes before you run out of money.”
Regarding Amazon, she noted that brands “can’t fight the beast” and should instead put in the effort to understand where the e-commerce platform fits into their ecosystem.
Check out the November 2018 digital edition for the full version of this article.
This article appeared in the November 2018 issue. Find more on this topic in the digital magazine.
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The Best Digital Watch You’ll Find Under $20
I’ve already put a few hundred miles on it, and it’s still telling the time despite getting covered in mud and taking a few hits from tree branches at high speed.
By Bryan Campbell
I was on the hunt for an affordable watch I could beat the shit out of, still depend on it to tell me the time and not get heartbroken if it bit the dust. Between riding enduros and dual sport motorcycles hundreds of miles off-road and lapping open-top race cars, the elements, mud, rocks, grit and molar loosening engine vibrations had me in fear for my mechanical watch’s life. I know they’re tested to withstand water and a few knocks, but it’s my first and only mechanical watch — I’m a little over-protective. It was suggested I pick up a G-Shock, but I can’t bring myself to put that big of a chunk of rubber and plastic on my wrist; plus, I was aiming to invest even less. In my search, I came across the Casio AE1200WH World Multifunction. It’s above and beyond what I was looking for, but it’s exactly what I need. And for $18, how could I turn it down?
Originally, I had the F91W-1 Classic in my cart and was ready to check out. Again, all I wanted was something to tell the time, something a $7 digital watch can do that just fine. But, no matter the product or the price range, my online shopping habits take me to and from the cart a dozen times before I hit ‘Buy,’ all the while adding and deleting options, relentlessly cross-shopping and comparing.
The World Multifunction practically slapped me in the face. For less than $11 more than the other model, it adds an analog-style alarm clock, day-month-year readout and a world time zone map. It even has the soft-orange illumination I prefer; it’s easier on the eyes too — that blue-green Indiglo crap is obnoxious.
I’ve already put a few hundred miles on it, and it’s still telling the time despite getting covered in mud and taking a few hits from tree branches at high speed. At 18 bucks, it proved its worth the first time out, and the funny thing is, I’m now just as attached to it as I am my mechanical watch. (Which I want to upgrade, by the way. I’ve been on the lookout for a Nato Strap to customize it, but it turns out 21mm two-piece Natos are tough to come by. So I gave in and literally just bought the not-on-sale, olive green version that comes with the black strap I want, which I’m going to swap over as soon as it arrives.)
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Movado’s New Smartwatch Now Comes in a More Comfortable Size
Movado’s new Connect 2.0 smartwatches feature all the tech of Google’s Wear OS, cutting-edge hardware, and cases in smaller, thinner sizes.
By Zen Love
Movado’s Connect smartwatch aims to combine a wearable tech experience with the historic brand’s watchmaking expertise. The new Connect 2.0 is the second generation of Movado’s smartwatch, and it features the latest tech from Google’s Wear OS platform, but now in thinner cases and smaller diameters.
The new Movado Connect 2.0 comes in 42mm-wide cases, just like the previous generation, but also new 40mm cases. Anyone familiar with standard watch measurements knows that 40mm is considered a solid, all-around watch case size, and is usually quite wearable on a wide range of wrists. Stainless steel cases come multiple colored finishes and are water-resistant to 10m — so you don’t really want to get these things near water.
In everyday situations, however, the Connect 2.0 will deliver notifications and fitness tracking capabilities, and it’s compatible with both Android and Apple iOS. It offers Google Pay as well an array of impressive functionality including a heart rate monitor, accelerometer, altimeter, gyroscope, microphone and more.
There is further a large selection of customizable watch face options, many of which reference the brand’s signature “Museum Dial” collection with the large dot at 12 o’clock. The new Movado Connect 2.0 watches are available in stores now and range in price between $495 and $750.
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Macau govt open to discuss casino tax change: DICJ
Jan 16, 2017 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck
The Macau government is open to discussing a potential change in gaming tax rates ahead of any renewal of the concessions of the city’s six casino operators, said Paulo Martins Chan (pictured), the director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, also known as the DICJ.
Macau currently has one of the highest taxes on casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) of any major regulated market. The city levies an effective tax rate of 39 percent on casino GGR – 35 percent in direct government tax, and the remainder in a number of levies to pay for a range of community good causes.
Some industry voices have argued Macau’s gaming tax should be reduced, citing potential competition from emerging jurisdictions such as Japan. Others in the community have argued that gaming tax should be increased.
Mr Chan told public broadcaster TDM that the government would be willing to discuss a potential change “as long as it is beneficial to Macau’s gaming sector”.
“At the moment, we do not have any concrete plan [for a change in tax rates] but we are open to listen to the opinions of the sector,” Mr Chan added.
Speaking on the sidelines of a Saturday seminar on responsible gambling, Mr Chan said the regulator would “look into every possible aspect” regarding changes to the existing gaming law. “There’s still time until the [casino] licence renewal for us to listen to society,” he added.
The current casino licences expire on various dates between 2020 and 2022.
Macau’s Secretary for Economy and Finance, Lionel Leong Vai Tac, had mentioned to media in January 2015 that the government would only look into a potential change in gaming tax rates after the “mid-term review” of the gaming industry, the results of which were published in May 2016.
Direct taxes from gaming brought in approximately 78 percent of the Macau government’s total revenue in the first 11 months of 2016. The city collected MOP72.76 billion (US$9.11 billion) in fiscal revenues from direct taxes on gaming between January and November, according to official data.
Wang Changbin – a scholar at the Gaming Teaching and Research Centre, a unit of the Macao Polytechnic Institute – told GGRAsia earlier this month that the Macau government should consider lowering the overall gaming tax burden. He suggested in particular that the government should consider imposing different tax rates for, respectively, mass-market gaming revenue and VIP gaming revenue.
At another public event at the weekend, the DICJ’s deputy director, Leong Man Ion, told local media the regulator plans to tighten certain requirements for the city’s casino operators.
“We’re striving to finish reviewing the guidelines of the Minimum Internal Control Requirements by the end of this year,” Mr Leong said as quoted by TDM. He added that the enhanced guidelines would help better to tackle suspicious money transactions on casino floors.
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20 Companies That Create the Most American Jobs
These companies are driving American job growth.
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As the current economic boom continues, the unemployment rate in the United States remains persistently low as more and more Americans find new jobs. But which companies are the most responsible for the job growth in this red-hot labor market? Which companies are making investments in America’s future and helping provide job creation that’s benefitting the most Americans?
With an eye to providing some insight, GOBankingRates has compiled a list of the companies that have made major announcements about creating new American jobs in the last few years. Learn more about the companies that are expanding their North American workforces and how many new jobs in America they have announced as part of those plans.
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20. Whirlpool
When announced: January 2018
Jobs created: 200
Companies getting a specific boost from the swirling trade war with China are makers of washing machines, now benefitting from a hefty 50% tariff placed on devices from foreign competitors like Samsung and LG Electronics. And, while domestic manufacturer Whirlpool is likely facing higher costs for materials based on the aforementioned tariffs on imported metals, the tariffs on washing machines were still high enough for Whirpool to announce that it was adding 200 jobs to plants in Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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19. United States Steel Corporation
When announced: May 2018
Another company apparently bolstered by the new tariffs on imported steel, U.S. Steel announced plans to re-hire or recruit some 500 workers for a blast furnace that was previously idled in 2015. That should mean good things for the Illinois city of Granite City, from whose residents many of the jobs will likely be filled.
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18. Ford
When announced: February 2019
Ford is expanding its existing plants in the Chicago area, investing $1 billion and adding about 500 new positions at its assembly and stamping plants there. It’s part of plans to expand manufacturing of the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator, and the company is also planning on including new 3D-printing tools and robots, as well. But with that $1 billion price tag, here’s hoping the company can afford it.
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17. Android Industries
When announced: October 2017
Automotive module assembler Android Industries bucked the trend toward foreign manufacturing by expanding in Indiana and Michigan instead. The expansion of its facility in Allen County, Indiana (near Fort Wayne) — done in partnership with Avancez — announced on Halloween in 2017 included plans to hire some 313 workers by the end of 2018. Android’s plant in Flint, Michigan, also hired more workers, announcing in June of last year that it needed some 200 additional employees at the plant.
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16. Toyota
When announced: March 2019
Toyota is making some big investments in America. The Japanese carmaker initially made a pledge to invest $10 billion in the U.S. to expand operations back in 2017, but it recently revealed it was upping that promise to about $13 billion over the next five years. Included in that is the expected 600 new manufacturing jobs connected to expansion plans in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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15. JSW Steel USA
When announced: June 2018
Jobs created: 1,000
Domestic steel producers are in a considerably stronger position than they were before the additional levies on their foreign competitors. And JSW Steel — a Houston-based steel mill that produces hot-rolled plates and pipes — announced last year that a planned expansion would result in hiring 1,000 new workers for what CEO John Hritz calls “high-tech jobs.”
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14. Salesforce
When announced: November 2018
Salesforce is adding to its forces in Chicago. It announced plans to build a new skyscraper with 500,000 square feet of space to house 1,000 new employees at what will become the company’s new regional headquarters when it opens in 2023.
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13. Volkswagen
While the German automaker might have recently taken a major PR hit over its damaging emissions scandal, it is likely winning back hearts and minds in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the announcement that it would be spending $800 million to build a new electric vehicle plant there. The new plant — expected to be in operation by 2022 — should add 1,000 plant jobs to the area economy in addition to any of the positions created by its construction.
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12. Incentive Technology Group
When announced: April 2019
Arlington, Virginia, is expecting another 1,000 new jobs to come as a result of Incentive Technology Group investing over $5 million into a 50,000-square-foot headquarters in the city. The company is expecting to fill 128 positions this year, with the remainder getting added over the next three years, according to an announcement from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Find out why Virginia had one of the strongest economies in 2018.
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11. General Motors
When announced: February and March 2019
On balance, GM is shedding workers in an effort to streamline its businesses, announcing in November plans to halt production at five North American plants and cut its workforce by 14,000 back in November. However, part of the restructuring that’s costing many workers their jobs is also creating new ones elsewhere.
The company announced plans in March to invest a total of $1.8 billion dollars into their U.S. manufacturing operations, that will add a total of 700 jobs. About $300 million of that will support its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan — where the Chevy Bolt is manufactured — creating 400 jobs in the process. And that announcement came on the heels of a February reveal of plans to add 1,000 workers at its plant in Flint, where the company builds heavy-duty trucks.
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10. Intel
Tech firm Intel is planning on expanding its presence in Oregon. It submitted permitting documents earlier this year to grow its Hillsboro factory in the state. The current Oregon workforce of 22,000 employees will expand by about 9% with the 1,750 new jobs added. The new plant is expected to become a part of a facility dubbed D1X, along with the two existing factories already there.
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9. Lockheed Martin
While the initial hiring commitment came in January 2017, Lockheed Martin announced just a year later that it had fulfilled a promise to take on 1,800 new employees in support of its F-35 program. What’s more, the company has since revealed that it plans to add another 400 positions to its Fort Worth, Texas, facility in order to keep increasing production for the fighter jet.
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8. Deloitte
Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms, announced plans last year to open a new 100,000-square-foot delivery center in Gilbert, Arizona, that should create 2,500 new jobs. The new jobs are expected to have an average salary of $95,000, with Deloitte saying it expects to draw applicants largely from Arizona universities. Note that the company is getting as much as $3 million back from the city of Gilbert in the form of job incentive payments. Homes are selling especially quickly in Gilbert.
7. Infosys
Information technology outsourcer Infosys is ready to call Indianapolis home with a new 141-acre campus. The India-based company expects to kick off the $245 million project with a $35 million training center at the former site of the international terminal for the Indianapolis International Airport. The state and city are providing $101.8 million in incentives and subsidies to the company, but the project is expected to create 3,000 jobs when completed by 2023.
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6. Sprint
When announced: December 2016
The CEO of Japanese company SoftBank Group — Masayoshi Son — made waves in late 2016 when he announced plans to invest $50 billion in the United States and create some 50,000 jobs in the process. And while the exact details surrounding how much money and how many jobs have come through at this point are hazy, one place where the numbers are more concrete is with Sprint, which SoftBank owns 80% of. Sprint is moving 5,000 jobs to the U.S., mainly by bringing home call centers.
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5. Fiat-Chrysler
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Amazon might not have ended up following through on its New York City plans, but Google’s plans for a new Big Apple campus appear to be heading forward as planned. The facility — dubbed Google Hudson Square — is expected to create 7,000 new jobs to fill the 1.7 million square feet of space. Nationwide, Google employs just shy of 100,000 people.
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Synthetic Spider Silk Production: Finding the Eco-Friendly Biofactory
by Tyasning Kroemer, Ph.D.
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Nature provides us with many biodegradable and biocompatible materials waiting for their discovery, for example spider silk. The spider silk woven in large quantities can be as tough as steel, but also as flexible as a guitar string.
Although spider silk is useful for many applications, it is hard to produce silk in a large scale. Collecting spiders from nature or milking silk from a farm of spiders is inefficient because each spider can only make a small amount of silk—not enough for one dress.
To overcome the problem of spider silk production, researchers have recently explored a new idea: using a marine photosynthetic bacterium as a biofactory (Foong et al. 2020). This study will open a new door to produce materials in environmentally friendly and sustainable ways that could become a future trend.
What is Spider Silk?
Spider silk is composed of protein fibers secreted by glands in the abdominal (or rear) part of spiders. The raw material of silk is a liquid protein that passes through the spinnerets (silk-spinning organs). It becomes dry as it comes out from the abdomen of the spider’s body, and forms a thread.
If you want to learn more details about spider silk, watch this video below:
Female spiders can produce seven types of silk for many different functions (Tokavera et al. 2013):
Major ampullate (dragline silk): for escaping from a predator.
Minor ampullate: for stabilizing the platform during web construction.
Flagelliform silk: the capture spiral of an orb web.
Pyriform silk: for attaching individual major ampullate, minor ampullate, and flagelliform silk fibers to each other.
Aggregate silk: for preventing prey from escaping.
Cylindriform/tubiliform silk: for covering and protecting their eggs.
Aciniform silk: for lining the inside of egg cases, wrapping the prey, and attaching the pyriform silk.
Spider silk has an impressive combination of high strength (breaking stress) and extensibility (breaking strain), resulting in its superior toughness. It also has exceptional flexibility. In addition, it can focus light and shrink in response to humidity.
Spider silk contains multiple threads. Each thread consists of specific silk proteins, called spidroins.
Spider Silk Proteins (or Spidroins)
Spidroins are proteins that form the majority of spider silk fibers. The spidroins are usually large proteins, and they have repetitive sequences (Garb et al., 2010). The repetitive sequences build the toughness of the fibers. Different types of silk typically have different repetitive sequences.
Major Ampullate Spidroin Structure. The repetitive domains of major ampullate (dragline) silk consists of alternating regions of polyalanine and glycine-rich sequences. These repetitive domains are important for the strong and elastic features of the dragline silk fibers ( Xu and Lewis,1990).
These special features of spider silk provide attractive biomaterials for many potential applications in textile and biomedical industries.
Types of Products from Spider Silk
For centuries, native people have collected spiders and used spider silk to make fishing lines, fishnets, headgear and bags. Despite the problem of producing silk in large quantities, the potential use of spider silk is still attractive to explore worldwide. Below are some examples of the applications:
In the textile industry, silk from the mulberry silkworm is widely popular. However, it has some disadvantages, such as wrinkling, susceptible to degradation, low wet resiliency, and UV-induced yellowing (Lefèvre & Auger, 2016).
In 2009, the American Museum of National History revealed an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made entirely from spider silk. This tapestry needed silk from more than one million spiders. It was a laborious project that took 70 people to collect the spiders, and four years to finish.
Due to its superior strength, spider silk could overcome some disadvantages of silkworm silk. However, textile production from spider silk will definitely need more efficient and economical techniques.
Superlenses
Silks are protein fibers containing crystalline and non-crystalline regions (Lin et al. 2020). Due to its transparency and ability to focus light, spider silk fibers are useful for some imaging applications, including creating superlenses for optical instruments. When researchers shine a laser onto the superlenses, they can observe miniscule structures (such as viruses, germs, or structures inside cells). Recently, researchers have successfully used spider silk to create superlenses and produce high-resolution images inside human body. In the future, there is a potential to use this technology to view how a virus infiltrates and causes damages in the cell.
Robotic Muscles
Silk is sensitive to humidity. Spider dragline silk contracts and twists at the same time in response to moisture, providing a strong force. It is similar to the force that you apply when twisting something, such as a screwdriver.
One of the main spidroins in dragline silk, MaSp2, has proline that is crucial to the twisting reaction. The strength of this torsional force has convinced researchers that spider silk has a potential application for microactuators (or devices that can control or move a system), artificial muscles, and even biosensors.
How to Produce Spider Silk in a Large Scale
Though farming spiders for silk theoretically seems like a good idea, it caused big problems when implemented for initial spider silk production. Spiders are cannibalistic and territorial animals, so it’s tricky to rear and maintain them in large quantities. In captivity, they tend to produce less silk. It also takes a lot of time to harvest silk from spiders.
To overcome this problem, researchers have taken a different route, exploring artificial production to synthesize spider silk.
Artificial Production of Spider Silk
One way to produce silk proteins in large quantities is through the expression of natural spider silk genes in different host organisms, such as prokaryotes (such as Escherichia coli), eukaryotes, and even transgenic animals. However, using this approach can be expensive.
The cost of raw materials could easily add up during the production. Milking transgenic animals can be time-consuming. Another hurdle to overcome is the nature of repetitive spindroin sequences can reduce the production of a good quality silk.
Therefore, the next step is to find a way to produce spider silk on a large scale with eco-friendly, sustainable production processes, and low production costs.
Production of Spider Silk in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria
In order to develop an environmentally-friendly factory for spider silk production, researchers looked a little closer at a purple-colored marine bacterium (Rhodovulum sulfidophilum) (Foong et al. 2020). The reason why the researchers chose this microorganism as a biofactory is because it only requires seawater, a source of sunlight, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen to survive. Unlike E. coli that needs special growth medium to grow, this purple marine bacterium can use sterilized seawater for its culture medium.
To investigate if this marine microorganism could produce quality spider silk, researchers performed a study to synthesize MaSp1 (one of the main dragline silk spidroins).
Researchers introduced the plasmid carrying MaSp1 gene into the purple non-sulfur bacterium, then they confirmed the expression of MaSp1 protein. For the large-scale production, they chose the largest repeat of MaSp1 and harvested a good amount of intact silk. This study in the marine purple bacterium showed a promising preliminary result on using a microbial cell factory to produce a biomaterial, such as spider silk.
The findings of this study might one day pave the way for mass-produced spider silk, but the most important result from this study: It is possible for biofactories to adapt eco-friendly processes. In addition, perhaps, this study will inspire the development of products using more sustainable and renewable resources.
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Character References in Victoria
A character reference is a short statement made by a person close to you with a good reputation in the community. The statement will include details of your personality and character and give the court a better understanding of your personal life. No matter what type of offence you have been charged with, a character reference may give you the opportunity to show the court that you are an honest person, and ultimately, may lead to a lighter sentence.
The Victorian courts require that certain guidelines be met when writing a character reference. These have been set out in detail below.
Who can write my character reference?
A character reference can help show the court that the crime committed was a one off event and that you are usually not inclined to commit offences of that nature. As such, it is important that a person who knows you well enough to make this distinction clear to the court writes the reference.
A reference may be written by anybody in the community that you choose. It is not only friends or family that may act as a referee; teachers, current or past employers and other members of the community may also write the reference. If you are undertaking rehabilitation or counselling, you may wish to have the health practitioner overseeing your condition write a reference for you.
How to structure a character reference
As stated above, the court requires that all character references be set out in a formal fashion. This includes having the reference typed and printed on letterhead where possible. Written references will only be accepted if the court can clearly read and understand the contents of the reference. Other structural guidelines include dating and signing the reference, and addressing the reference to the appropriate person i.e. “To the Presiding Judge/Magistrate”. Other references to the Judge should be to “Your Honour”.
What to avoid when writing a character reference
The court will not accept any character references that include slanderous or aggressive language to either the offender or the court. Therefore, you must ensure that the character reference is written in a formal and respectful tone. This means that the character reference cannot include any legal opinions or suggestions as to the penalty that should be imposed. The court will also not allow any personal opinions of the referee regarding whether the charge laid on the offender is fair.
What a Character Reference should set out
The courts in Victoria require that a character reference cover the following points in specific detail;
The referee must first introduce themselves and provide their personal details, including full name and occupation.
The referee must explain how they are of good standing in society and explain their relationship to the offender.
The referee must explain that they are aware of the charge that has been laid against the offender and an acknowledgement that they are aware of how the offender wishes to plead.
The referee must provide a description of their opinion of the offender’s character, this will include examples of their past interactions with the offender.
The referee must explain to the court how the offender will be disadvantaged if convicted of the offence committed.
The referee must also state their opinion regarding whether or not the offence was a one-off incident or whether the offender is receiving medical treatment.
Different references for different charges
Despite the general guidelines set out above, there is no single way to write your character reference. Each offence carries a different set of elements that will require the referee to draw on different parts of the offender’s character to support the case.
Drink Driving Charges
If you have been charged with drink driving or a traffic infringement, the character reference will need to include specific details as to how the offender has rehabilitated himself or herself. The reference will also need to explain to the court that the offender has taken steps to ensure they will not drive after consuming alcohol and they are aware that their actions were incorrect.
Criminal Offences
If you have been charged with a criminal offence including assault, the character reference will need to focus more on the non-violent character of the offender. If the offence was a one-off incident, the reference will need to explain that the offender is not usually of a violent nature. If the offence is not a one-off incident, the reference will need to explain to the court that the offender is taking steps (counselling, medication) to correct their behaviour so that they are not a threat to the community.
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Home » News » New ethanol-gasoline blend to be sold in Midwest worries opponents
New ethanol-gasoline blend to be sold in Midwest worries opponents
Source: BY RICHIE BERNARDO, Columbia Missourian • Posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
COLUMBIA — Gasoline with a higher percentage of ethanol will hit Midwest markets this summer, and Missouri has begun taking steps to make the blend available for certain vehicles.
Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, whose regulations on ethanol in gasoline are less stringent than Missouri’s, will be first in the nation to offer E15, a blend of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline.
Before E15 is allowed for use in such vehicles in Missouri, however, a state rule must first be changed.
Today, nearly every gallon of fuel already contains 10 percent ethanol; the new rule would raise the permitted ethanol content to 15 percent.
On April 2, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would allow biofuels producers to register as suppliers of E15. Twenty ethanol producers, many based in Midwestern states, have registered with the agency.
But opponents of the EPA decision are concerned it poorly addressed two critical issues that could threaten consumers and gas station owners’ pockets by approving the E15 blend.
“Equipment compatibility”
Ronald Leone, executive director of Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, cited “equipment compatibility” as the first key issue.
Currently, gas pumps, tanks and piping equipment at fueling stations throughout Missouri are compatible with E10, the 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline blend that all auto manufacturers approve for their gasoline vehicles.
Most of the existing equipment at retail stations can handle only up to 10 percent ethanol because they were manufactured before the introduction of E15.
“We’re not going to put product into our tanks, into our pipes, out of our pump if it voids the warranty on our equipment and if it has the potential to let our equipment fail, which means gas will be leaking into the environment,” Leone said.
The EPA’s solution is to set a requirement that underground tanks and above-ground equipment be compatible with E15 blends before it can be sold.
That means most retailers will need to convert existing equipment to E15-safe facilities once the state gives its go-ahead. Simultaneously, equipment manufacturers will need to approve the higher ethanol blend in their warranties.
Leone said a gas station could dish out about $100,000 to install new storage and dispensing equipment to meet EPA standards.
Potential to “misfuel” at the pumps
Some auto manufacturers have also asserted that without adequate testing, E15 could damage the engines of non-flexible fuel vehicles.
The EPA announced recently that it has performed necessary testing and approved E15 for 2001 model year and newer non-flex-fuel cars and light-duty trucks.
Because the new blend may only be used in those vehicles, it’s possible that consumers driving pre-2001 models may mistakenly fill their tanks with the wrong fuel.
The agency, in response, has proposed that gas stations be required to label pumps, but Leone worries that labels and warnings at the pumps may not be enough to prevent misfueling. He wants a federal or state law that unburdens gas stations of liability if a customer misfuels.
Until the EPA resolves these issues, Leone said he doesn’t foresee his association’s members selling the new blend at their stations.
Ross Mutrux, owner of Mutrux Automotive Sinclair at the intersection of West Rollins Road and Stadium Boulevard, said he won’t sell E15 unless required by law.
“I think that we need a renewable fuel source, but E15, I don’t think is it,” he said. “I just don’t agree that it’s the way we should go.”
Missouri’s 10 percent ethanol standard
In 2007, Missouri passed a law, which took effect in 2008, that made E10 the state standard. The law, also known as the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard, requires retail stations to sell ethanol-blended fuel only when ethanol costs less than or the same as straight gasoline. The requirement exempts premium fuel.
Ronald Hayes, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s Weights, Measures & Consumer Protection Division, which regulates the state’s fuel supply, said it isn’t necessary to change this law but only modify a rule within the Code of State Regulations.
“Specifically, the regulation limiting total alcohol content at a 10 volume percent would need to be updated and standardized with new federal regulations,” said Becky Frankenbach, director of communications at Missouri Corn Growers Association, which has been closely involved with E15 legislation.
She said the department is moving forward with this process, which Hayes said could take up to six months.
“We are closely following the progression of E15 and gathering input from stakeholders … and others related to what is needed to implement E15 in Missouri,” he said. “The department plans to address E15 in the very near future with a rule modification based on stakeholder input.”
Until then, E15 won’t be available for non-flex-fuel vehicles in Missouri, but E10 will remain an option.
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Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Believes You Can Give Your Brain Whatever It Needs in Just Three Minutes
GQ’s Best Stuff visited with the self-care expert to learn about the best products to relax your pillow lines, the Wednesday ritual that keeps him from melting down, and the Fab Five’s matching Dopp kits.
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Jonathan Van Ness has a way of fixating on one's best—or at least one's most striking—feature. Where certain famous people can make you feel like you're the only person in a room, Van Ness has the ability to make one part of you feel singularly exalted—his gaze locks upon your hair, or beard, or eyes as if they were a domesticated unicorn's ivory horn. (To me, as soon as I opened the door to greet him: "Your eyebrows are amazing. Okay, I met you two seconds ago and already I'm sexualizing your eyebrows.")
This warp-speed positivity is Van Ness's superpower. Alas, to see in every hunk of rock or man meat the chiseled abs of Michelangelo's David can get pretty exhausting. "I like people too much, I really do. If their phone’s dead, I’ll be like, 'Let’s do a selfie on my camera,' and then it’s like, 'Oh, what’s your number?' and then it’s a whole thing. I gotta get, like, better at it."
But that X-ray vision for greatest potential, for a person's best self (the version that won't text him every day after scoring his number) explains why Van Ness is a natural fit for makeover television—especially makeover television in the crimson red South—where the Fab Five confront characters who don't all hold political views that, shall we say, demonstrate tolerance to under-eye creams and the men who use them.
"People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people," Van Ness says. "I can’t expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can’t put myself in their shoes, too. But then I also want to bash my head in dealing with it sometimes. We’re all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!"
That perspective and his off-the-charts likability—not to mention a knack for sloganeering—could make him a terrific political candidate. Would he ever consider running for office? He laughed. "I feel like people will say, 'You were such a slut, you did so many drugs,' and I wouldn’t even get out of the primary because I have too many skeletons in the closet."
"But who doesn’t have a skeleton in her closet?" Hopefully, we'll be hearing a lot more from this bright light.
Elevated Moments
"So much of our lives and what we experience as emotions is chemicals in our brain. We’re so powerful. We don’t know how powerful we are. So if you’re really, really busy and you just do not have any time for yourself, if you just turn your phone off and go away from everyone—whether it’s mindfulness practice or just breathing or, well, I don’t think having a cigarette would be exactly the same, but it’s really breathing. People think it’s the chemicals in cigarettes, but it’s just they’re addicted to going and just having a moment by themselves."
"I went to Nordstrom and I saw this boot and I was like, I’m on a Netflix show! I can afford Jimmy Choo boots! It was actually originally like $1,100, but then she was like, $799, so I would actually be losing money if I didn’t buy these. Especially after wearing them for a year. It’s a bit of an elevated moment. I just don’t wear them to the salon, so they don’t get hair color on them. When I went to my first Fashion Week, I forgot that everyone was gonna, like, ask what I was wearing. This is literally what I was wearing—ready? I was wearing an ASOS jacket with a Margiela button-up, Good American skin-tight black jeans. But I’m like, honey, my shoe’s Saint Laurent, so. All about the high and low! I had like a $47 pant on with my $2,000 shoe and my $37 jacket."
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"Netflix gave me this Dopp kit when we wrapped. We all have matching ones. We’re babies. We’re matching babies. It’s cute, right? This eye gel is really cool to the touch. It really de-puffs your bags. And that orange thing is like a travel pumpkin mask that I really like. It’s a really gentle resurfacer. It just kind of takes the shit off your face. After a flight, it’s nice. And the Kalahari face serum is really, really amazing. It really does make your lines relax. Your pillow lines in the morning. It does that naturally. There's no synthetic anything in it."
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"These sunglasses were the first free thing I got while doing Queer Eye, and I love them. I took a poll on my Insta story to see if I should get those ones or if I should get brown ones, but then I got the blue ones, and the poll said brown but I was like, ‘Go fuck yourselves.’ The blue’s so cute. Know what I mean? But I didn’t really tell my followers to go fuck themselves. I just…really wanted the blue ones, you know what I mean?"
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"There’s ground-up weed on my iPad, because I fall asleep watching Broad City on it every night. I love Fleabag, and just got re-obsessed with Downton Abbey. I’m rewatching season one and freaking out for it. I’m also in withdrawal from Great British Bake Off, so I’m really into Nailed It. Even if I didn’t work for Netflix, I’d be obsessed with them. But Nicole Byer—she’s my really good friend—is hosting this really cute baking show where they make really bad baked goods. Well, they're not really bad, but they’re really hard desserts. It would be like me trying to make it, like if Helen Keller got loose in the kitchen."
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Wednesday Fun Day
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The Queer Eye Magic
"I think you don’t have to go to that extreme of redoing your house or redoing your wardrobe. You can definitely break those verticals down into incremental things. There is a startling amount of change that you can do by committing three minutes of thought to it, whether that’s planning out your shopping list for that night at the grocery store or, like, 'OMG, I’m gonna AmazonFresh some groceries to try a different thing,' or 'I’m gonna Amazon Prime an eye cream that I read about.' One teeny thing can build you toward the right thing."
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Growing hay for heat
March 20, 2013 Features
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By Rebeca Kuropatwa
Using crops like switchgrass, or over-mature hay for energy can add profit to agriculture’s bottom line
Jonathan McClelland manages West Nova Agro Commodities (WNAC), a community-owned grain elevator. For the past four years, WNAC has been working on the concept of using over-mature hay for fuel.
“We’re using a model of going directly from producers to the end-consumers,” explained McClelland, adding, “The production, processing and use of hay-based fuel is intended to be mainly within a 30 to 40 km radius of WNAC.
There are several benefits to using over-mature hay for fuel, McClelland says. “It allows local farms to make good quality hay when the weather is good and the hay is at its peak quality. Later, in the summer and fall, the same equipment can be used to harvest poorer quality hay as a new cash crop.”
Farmers can use their existing equipment, and can harvest the crop at times that are traditionally less busy.
This WNAC pilot project is based on developing the whole value chain — from production to processing, to consumers.
Roger Sampson, the Executive Director of REAP (Resource Efficient Agriculture Production) Canada, has been on the forefront of sustainability solutions for the agricultural sector since his agency started in the mid-1980s.
Sampson recalled, “In 1991, we were concerned about the farm production surplus crisis, realizing we had to find non-food markets.”
This led REAP to consider ways of growing crops for energy and fibre uses, which uncovered the potential uses of native warm season grasses, like switchgrass and other perennials.
“This is an ideal way to capture solar energy on marginal farmlands and convert it into biomass,” explained Sampson.
Seeking the best way to get the biomass to market, make farmers money, and bring new economic activity, REAP turned its attention to fibre and energy markets.
Sampson says switchgrass is a very productive species in the southern Canadian Prairies and Eastern Canada. “In eastern Canada, we manage the harvest by mowing the crop, typically in mid-October, leaving it, and then baling it the next spring. We leave it so it can be harvested and stored in a reliable state without moisture (i.e. risk of rot), and about 90 percent of the chemicals in the grass are leached out (bringing it to a similar chemical composition as wood pellets, which are very low in chlorine and potassium [alkaline-forming compounds that can cause combustion problems]).
“Also, you need not apply potassium or phosphorus, with grass nutrients going back into the fields.”
Sampson says this method has not yet be tested in Western Canada, “and, with strong Prairie winds, there is a lot more wind row movement.
Sampson says, “Grass stems have outstanding fibre properties for fibre application and the rest of the grass can be used for thermal applications, like fuel pellets for heating or even livestock feeding. We need to fractionate them and find the best value for particular grass parts. With current fibre prices, stems are highly valuable in fibre-related markets and leaves would be most valuable for livestock feed markets and, secondly, for rural markets without much access to natural gas.”
According to the REAP website, of the North American farmland (i.e. 932 and 168 million acres in the U.S. and Canada, respectively), they estimate 150 million acres can be dedicated to energy farming without palpably affecting North America’s food supply.
REAP envisions a total production capacity of 424 million and 55 million tonnes being achieved by growing grasses on 130 million acres in the U.S. and 23.4 million acres in Canada.
The most promising regions REAP sees for developing a grass pellet fuel industry are those where hay production costs are low and heating costs are high (due to long winters and high fuel costs).
Based on hay prices, land costs, relative winter heat costs, and warm season grass performance data in North America, some of the best opportunities exist in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. †
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Why have university protests been so violent?
Factors that fuel male aggression are key to understanding this worrying phenomenon
21 October 2016 By Guy Lamb Analysis | South Africa
A student protester throws a rock towards security guards during a protest at Wits University.
Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
Why have the most recent waves of protest at South Africa’s tertiary institutions been so violent? Many of the protesting groups have pointed to pent-up pain, alienation and anguish that black people have had to endure as a consequence of centuries of structural violence as the obvious cause. Others, with more pejorative prejudices, have indignantly declared that it is akin to toddler tantrum, brought about by impatience, selfishness and an ingrained sense of self-entitlement. In very crude terms, it is probably a partial concoction of both, with added intricacy, and a great big portion of hyper-aggressive masculinity.
The recent acts of intimidation, physical violence, vandalism and destruction of property have propagated considerable fear throughout most campuses. The intensity of violence has varied between universities with many tertiary institutions having closed as a result. Critically, only a small number of individuals at each institution have committed such violence, most of which are young men. The journey of these students towards these acts of aggression more than likely began well before they entered the university system. Many other students and sympathisers have been involved in the protest actions, but most have not thrown punches, rocks and petrol bombs.
Robust theories of interpersonal violence tell us that the actual perpetration of interpersonal violence is typically the combination and sequencing of a series of risk factors a person will experience over time in their family life, the various communities in which they inhabit, and society in general.
Two of the prominent red flags are an unstable family life and being exposed to various forms of physical and emotional violence on a regular basis at home and/or in one’s neighbourhood and school. These factors are a current reality for many young South Africans. However, most people with such a background are unlikely to automatically resort to violence. Essential catalysts are required, which usually takes the form of the abuse of alcohol or drugs, and/or being socialised into forms of pro-violence masculinity.
Such masculinity embraces notions of manhood that reveres dominant men who are prone to express themselves through aggression, and see violence as a legitimate way of asserting their power and resolving conflict. Kopano Ratele, the foremost scholar on masculinity in South Africa, has aptly described this form of masculinity as “always ready for a fight, never show fear, ignore pain, and play it cool”. Its cuts across class and race divisions, and has deep historical roots. It is commonly observed in bar brawls and road rage incidents, and critically it is one of the key drivers of murder, serious assault and various forms of men’s violence against women.
This form of masculinity is highly carcinogenic and contagious, especially when young men that have similar risk profiles and common value systems are frequently in close proximity to each other. The classic example is the high levels of violence associated with cowboys in the ‘Old West’ frontier towns in the USA, which saw young, belligerent men band together, with the outcome often being lethal confrontations.
Similar violence, albeit less deadly, has been associated with the ill-famed football hooliganism in the UK, which has involved supporters of opposing football clubs staging, or actively provoking mass fights. Comparable circumstances have played themselves out in South African hostels, the densely populated housing complexes that were constructed under apartheid to house black migrant labourers. That is, the conditions and dynamics within these hostels have spawned fatal forms of masculinity, which were on display in last year’s xenophobic attacks.
Across universities in South Africa the recent protests have been comprised of a broad church of student activists and outsourced workers, but have also seen the convergence of individuals with strong pro-violence masculinities into coherent and goal-oriented groups that have embraced a type of ‘protest masculinity’. This variety of masculinity, as suggested by scholars of gender relations such as Raewyn Connell and Gregory Walker, entails aggressive and destructive challenges to ‘hegemonic’ masculinity, and is characterised by a type of narcissism that emerges from a sense of powerlessness and insecurity. It has characteristically been observed among poor, working class men who have displayed hyper-macho behaviour due to their lowly socioeconomic status in society.
In the South African university context this hegemonic masculinity has often been interpreted as that masculinity displayed by privileged white men, which student activists claim has become embedded in the character, practices and leadership of the tertiary institutions. Student protest spokespersons have frequently articulated that they are agitating for institutional transformation, as black students and staff are purportedly victimised, disempowered and subjugated by South African universities. A few protestors have crassly expressed their loathing of this form of hegemonic masculinity through “fuck white people” graffiti and t-shirts. In some universities, such as the University of Cape Town, “kill white people” has recently been scrawled on chalkboards.
Recent events have shown us that this combined antipathy towards the status quo in universities has been converted into physical violence in circumstances when tightknit groups of those more prone to violence dictate the direction of the protest without any moderating factors being in place. Furthermore, violence is almost inevitable when groups displaying protest masculinity collide with opposing groups that also embrace pro-violence masculinity, such as battle-hardened private security, militarised Public Order Police, and infuriated rugby fans (as was the case at University of the Free State earlier this year).
Pro-violence masculinity has essentially become a type of battering ram of a number student protest movements to compel universities to prioritise more meaningful institutional transformation, both in terms of race and class, as well as a fee-free education. However, such an approach is a double-edged sword, as this form of masculinity, by its very nature, closes down the space for open debate. This is highly problematic as dialogue and discussion are the life-blood of any reputable university, and the only realistic way that universities will be able to navigate a pathway towards meaningful transformation.
Lamb is the Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town.
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Any research done on possible provocation?
Dear Editor
I would be interested to know if anyone has done any investigation into whether the violence has been fuelled by agents provocateurs? It mighf suit some people to have an excuse for declaring a state of emergency and suppressing all opposition, not only on campuses.
Amanda Hayes
One-sided story
I feel the need to express my concern with this article and the one-sided story it tells, or rather, the one-sided question it asks. While I feel that the author makes an important point regarding why some students have used violence as a means of protest, it doesn't even touch on the gratuitous violence that is being used by police across the country at the moment.
I feel strongly about the issues of masculinity and power that are touched upon, but I can't believe that Mr Lamb does not think it important to address how this manifests itself within the police force as well. Many of the men who go on to become policemen come from the exact same poverty-stricken, unstable homes that the author claims may have shaped the students. A sense of mob-mentality combined with a need to "be a man" is the reason many police have opened fire unnecessarily on students (most recently Shaeera Kalla) and will continue to do so.
In short, I feel that this article is extremely lacking in nuance by not acknowledging the role the police have played in the violence of these protests. It paints a dangerous narrative of the students as more violent than the police, and doesn't convey the fact that there is a serious issue of police brutality in South Africa.
I'd really advise a follow up article looking at why our police force retaliate to unarmed student protesters in the violent way that they do, and an acknowledgment that the same factors that have caused students to be violent have also contributed to how the police react to violence (with violence, as opposed to trying to diffuse the situation).
Julia Norrish
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ONE Apus lost or damaged containers ‘could exceed 1,900’
Container ship en route to Port of Long Beach reportedly encountered violent storm Monday night
Kim Link-Wills, Senior EditorWednesday, December 2, 2020Last Updated: Thursday, December 3, 2020
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More than 1,900 containers aboard the ONE Apus were lost or damaged en route to Long Beach on Monday. (Photo: Flickr/kees torn)
Ocean Network Express said Wednesday the number of lost or damaged containers from a vessel en route to the Port of Long Beach, California, “could exceed 1,900.”
It’s a jaw-dropping sum — more than the average number of containers lost in an entire year from all vessels around the globe. And the accident comes during the last rush to get Chinese exports into U.S. consumers’ hands before Christmas.
It’s too early to know the contents of the lost containers. But Henry Byers, FreightWaves’ maritime market expert, said the top importers using ONE as their ocean carrier into Long Beach the past 30 days were Flexport International, MOL Consolidation, Topocean Consolidation, UPS Ocean Freight Services, DHL Global Forwarding, Kuehne + Nagel and C.H. Robinson. Other ONE customers through Long Beach include Penguin Random House, Wilson Sporting Goods and Hasbro.
According to a “container incident” online information center, the ONE Apus was en route from Yantian, China, to Long Beach at about 11:15 p.m. Monday when it “encountered a violet storm cell producing gale-force winds and large swells, which caused the ONE Apus to roll heavily, resulting in the dislodging of the lost containers” approximately 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii.
Nick Austin, FreightWaves’ director of weather analytics and senior meteorologist, said he could find no National Weather Service reports on the storm.
Austin said a storm cell “is usually very localized, not covering a large area like a typhoon or hurricane.”
An update from ONE on Wednesday said that “early investigations on board the ONE Apus have determined that the impacted container bays remain unsafe for close-quarter inspections. However, it is estimated that the number of lost or damaged units could exceed 1,900, of which some 40 are believed to be [dangerous goods] containers.”
The U.S.-bound containers that survived the accident are now headed back to Asia. ONE said Wednesday the Apus is sailing toward Japan, “with plans to seek a suitable port to right unstable containers, assess any damages and determine the exact numbers of containers lost.”
On Thursday, ONE confirmed the Apus was sailing for the Port of Kobe, Japan, with an estimated arrival of Tuesday.
“Once berthed, it’s expected to take some time to offload the dislodged containers that remain on board. Then a thorough assessment will be made on the exact number and type of containers that have been lost or damaged,” ONE said.
The Apus is 364 meters long and 51 meters wide and has a carrying capacity of 14,052 twenty-foot equivalent units. The registered owner of the Apus is Chidori Ship Holding LLC, and the listed manager is NYK Shipmanagement. ONE is the charterer of the vessel, which was built in only 2019.
According to the World Shipping Council, container losses actually are few and far between. In fact, a WSC report issued in July said an average of only 1,382 containers were lost at sea per year between 2008 and 2019.
One of the highest-profile cases this year was the loss of 50 containers from the APL England off the coast of Australia in late May. The master of the container ship was charged in Australia for not ensuring the vessel was operated in a manner to prevent pollution of the marine environment.
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Sorry to Interrupt This Peace Conference, but a Rocket Siren's Sounding
Should we have been talking about peace while the Gaza front was burning?
Rabbi Gideon D. Sylvester
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Conference goers evacuate the plenum of the Israel Conference for Peace during a rocket alert siren, Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014. Only former head of the Shin Bet Yuval Diskin remains seated.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum
It could not have been more ironic. Thousands of people crammed into a Tel Aviv hotel to hear uplifting presentations from priests of peace; politicians and journalists who dedicate their lives to the search for a path to coexistence all in the middle of heightened fighting between Hamas and Israel. It was day one of Operation Protective Edge.
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But talking peace proved harder than expected; so many of the "partners for peace" refused to play ball. At the last minute, Palestinian speakers withdrew, refusing to talk peace days after a Palestinian youth had been murdered; Economy Minister Naftali Bennett came, baited the audience and then berated the people for responding with "uncultured heckling;" and one of the most prominent and successful Israeli Arabs, Sayed Kashua, bitterly declared that, "Life in Israel has become unbearable, so I am emigrating." If the conference was meant to be his swan song, it turned out to be an unfinished symphony when he walked out in protest at some of the most extreme and offensive comments.
Our conference was looking decidedly bloody. Then came the announcement: Don't panic, but a missile is heading toward Tel Aviv, please evacuate the peace conference plenum immediately, and head to the safe zone.
The path to peace was being overwhelmed by the realities of war and the pessimism of the warriors.
For decades, extreme religious-Zionists have dominated the agenda with their obsessive messianism. They used quasi-religious language to claim divine sanction for everything they did and to assert nationalist agendas at the expense of any other peoples' rights or narratives. In his new biography of Rav Kook (p.231), Yehuda Mirsky points out that in recent years, they have quietly dropped the extreme messianic language; "one hears much less talk of imminent redemption." With good reason. They are discovering that their messianic belief that they could hold on to a whole land of Israel is illusory. These "messianists" have now turned "messianic" into a dirty word, taunting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with it as he labored valiantly to make a better world.
Despite everything, the conference was an incredible success because, if only for a few hours, it enabled Jewish people to do what we are meant to do. It allowed us to dream and to affirm the importance of a vision. It helped us put aside our poisonous discourse about enemies, war and the impossibility of reaching a settlement, replacing it with a celebration of the security, tranquility and financial boons of ending conflict and making peace. It was almost messianic.
Messianism may been turned into a dangerous, delusional idea, but it stands at the peak of the Jewish vision because when used appropriately, it offers us ideals for which to strive. The stunning images offered by the prophets Isaiah and Micah enable us to conceive a world of justice and loving kindness for all. Images of wolves and lambs, leopards and goats lying down together are all allegories for Israel and her neighbors living in harmony side by side. These are worthy goals and they are the goals of peace.
Former British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks puts it beautifully:
". . . as this century unfolds, we're going to need not just military strength, but also spiritual courage to reach out hand of friendship across boundaries, to recognize the integrity of ways of life unlike our own, to listen to other people's stories and to see the trace of God in the face of a stranger". (From Optimism to Hope p.46)
My teacher Rabbi Shlomo Riskin points out that Jews celebrate the spring festival of Tu Bishvat midway through the winter, when it is still dark, cold and gloomy and the only traces of spring are the first buds of almond blossom. Likewise, we light candles at Hanukkah in the middle of winter when the days are so dark and so short that, according to tradition, Adam feared the newly-created world was heading to destruction. (Talmud, Avoda Zara 8a)
To be a Jew means never to stop looking forward to better times. This idea is celebrated in the Jerusalem Talmud which describes two rabbis walking through the night in the Arbel Valley. When they saw the very first rays of dawn, one turned to the other and said: "This is how Israel’s redemption will be. First, it will come very slowly and as it progresses its light increases” (Yerushalmi, Brachot 1:1 and Yoma 3:2).
The rabbis spoke in darkness, but they knew that eventually the world would be bathed in the light of goodness, justice and loving kindness.
When our enemies start wars, we have no choice but to fight them and win. But we are the people who developed the concept of pushing away with one hand, while beckoning with the other. While fighting hard, we must never stop searching for peace.
Rabbi Gideon Sylvester is the British United Synagogue's Israel Rabbi and the Senior Rabbinic Educator for T'ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. He writes in a personal capacity.
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Welcome to America’s Coolest Food City
Best Restaurants 2013
50 Restaurants That Define Houston Dining
The best of the best in America’s coolest food city
By Robb Walsh and Katharine Shilcutt 9/30/2013 at 11:59pm Published in the October 2013 issue of Houstonia
So, what is this new Houston cuisine all about? We visited restaurants all over town, sampled dishes, and talked to dozens of chefs and diners. Out of this culinary odyssey came a list of restaurants that define the Houston food scene now. It’s a smorgasbord of dining destinations with lots of nationalities, neighborhoods, and price ranges represented.
Here’s the story of Houston’s dining scene in 50 restaurant listings, organized not by rank or alphabetical order, but in the order they came up in the conversation. Click each restaurant’s name for locations, hours, and contact information.
The Provisions dining room, which once housed Antone's Imports
Image: Shannon O'Hara
Ham of the day at Provisions
The 30-ounce, Gunderson Farm ribeye served family-style at Provisions, pictured on the cover of Houstonia, is the one of the biggest steaks in town, and it doesn’t take much culinary education to enjoy. After all, it’s just meat and potatoes—if you ignore the arugula salad with bone marrow dressing and the amazing condiments like rye aioli and pickled black garlic that come with it. Chef Seth Siegel-Gardner splits executive chef duties with partner Terrence Gallivan at Pass & Provisions, the intriguing dual-restaurant experiment on the edge of Montrose. Siegel-Gardner doesn’t worry about confusing customers with arcane food terminology on dishes like striped bass with romesco sauce and smoked dashi. “We’re dealing with the most educated diner that has ever existed right now,” he says. “They maybe sometimes know more than you do.”
Pass & Provisions chefs Seth Siegel-Gardner and Terrence Gallivan
Over at The Pass, says Gallivan, “It’s about establishing a trust.” Guests are encouraged to sit back, relax, and let the chef’s 12-course tasting menu wash over them in waves of carefully selected wines and intricate, postmodern dishes with names like “Ham & Eggs” (caviar served on a giant chicharrón) and “Bread” (onion soup-soaked French toast with five onion preparations). “They’re two different restaurants with the same idea,” Siegel-Gardner explains. So what’s that idea, exactly? “That’s been the stumper from day one,” Siegel-Gardner admits. “I think the fast answer is contemporary American, modern American, whatever. It’s not Italian, it’s not French, it’s just cherry-picking the things we love and putting our spin on them.”
There was much discussion about what to call the food at Triniti when it first opened on Shepherd just south of Westheimer. But chef Ryan Hildebrand prefers “progressive American.” It’s an intentionally vague way to describe his keenly modern platings of otherwise old-school Texas ingredients—purple hull peas, beets, peppers, tomatoes, steak, and Gulf fish. You never know what clever creation you’ll find next on Triniti’s wild ride of a menu, whether it’s Gulf oysters with a green papaya nuoc mam mignonette, or poutine made with chorizo, corn gravy, and okra. Keeping us guessing is clearly Hildebrand’s favorite game.
On a recent visit to Montrose bistro Roost, the bread service featured two hot pretzel-bread loaves with a scoop of old-fashioned pimento cheese, pungent French truffle butter, spicy kimchi butter, and a cup of sweet Vietnamese-coffee butter with a hint of chicory. No wonder this unpretentious neighborhood eatery has been called a culinary United Nations. Chef Kevin Naderi, who grew up in Houston, says he doesn’t think about combining ethnic ingredients, except to avoid using too many from any one cuisine. The Persian-American chef put Japanese fish flakes (bonito) on top of his signature roasted cauliflower to keep the dish from tasting Middle Eastern. “I don’t want to get put in a box,” he says. “I call my style of cooking ‘the ADD cuisine.’”
Liberty Kitchen & Oyster Bar in the Heights was originally supposed to be a hamburger joint, but at the last minute, owner Lance Fegen decided to turn it into a full-blown restaurant. The idea behind the eccentric “coastal cuisine” menu is simple: “It’s food that I like to eat,” says Fegen, “but I’m a Texas chef and a surfer.” Hence the Spam, egg, and burger patty dish known in Hawaii as a loco moco. Friday’s special is fishermen’s stew with seafood from three coasts. Thursday’s is babi guling, a roast pig cooked over coconut shells that Fegen discovered while surfing in Indonesia. Then there’s Wednesday’s popular fried chicken special—the birds are brined and soaked in buttermilk first—which is accompanied by a tempting combo of bacon cream gravy and hot sauce syrup. More locations are on the way.
Your inner traditionalist will love Danton’s, the old-fashioned oyster bar and upscale Cajun/Creole restaurant between the Museum District and Montrose. The mahogany-paneled dining room has a pleasant, throwback vibe that’s echoed in the old-school service. Classic Louisiana dishes include a rich, dark gumbo, shrimp étouffée, and stuffed flounder. Owner Danton Nix is from Houston, however—and it shows in his Bayou City–inspired dishes, like the Baked Crab Balinese and Oysters Kyle, served in a spicy lemon-butter sauce.
A view into the kitchen at Brennan's.
Pecan-crusted Gulf fish at Brennan’s.
Brennan’s of Houston, a sister restaurant to Commander’s Palace and distant cousin to the recently closed Brennan’s of New Orleans, first brought Crescent City Creole to the Space City in 1967. The Midtown restaurant is one of the last places in town to serve turtle soup—and it was the first in town to serve soft-shell crab and grits. Chef Danny Trace calls the cooking “haute Creole,” a deftly performed balancing act that keeps the food at Brennan’s both nostalgic and cutting-edge. But that’s nothing new. Brennan’s chefs have always been well-versed in the classics, even as they were out in front of every trend: famous alumni include chefs Randy Evans of Haven and Chris Shepherd of Underbelly.
The top of the menu at Underbelly reads in part: “We hope you will enjoy Chris Shepherd’s refined take on Houston’s New American Creole Cuisine.” The menu at the Montrose hotspot defines Creole cuisine as “the merging of diverse cultures with local ingredients.” Which means you might find an Italian-Asian combo like Wagyu carpaccio with sesame brittle and pickled nori, or a vegetarian’s dream dish of roasted squash in tahini vinaigrette with boiled-peanut hummus. But there are also straight southern favorites like East Texas “biscuits and gravy” served in a black cast-iron skillet, and you can always get a family-style whole Gulf bycatch fish cooked crispy and served over local vegetable masala.
At Midtown’s crown jewel, Reef, there’s Indian lime pickle in the baked oysters, Sriracha in the remoulade, and extra-virgin Vietnamese fish sauce in the noodle salad. Little-known Gulf fish like Almaco Jack are served with Caribbean-style fried plantains and Chinese long beans. The whole fish is seasoned with lemongrass, galangal, and Thai spices. Chef Bryan Caswell brags that his seafood-and-Andouille-sausage gumbo is the best in the city. “I tried calling our food ‘new American Creole,’ but when you say ‘Creole,’ people around here think you’re talking about Louisiana,” he says. “So I’m just calling it ‘Houston food.’ Maybe someday, if we can get the fishing industry on board, we can call it the ‘new Gulf Coast cuisine.’”
Shrimp and grits at Haven
Chefs Randy Evans of Haven and Jean-Philippe Gaston of Cove.
Haven and Cove share one roof on Upper Kirby. Chef Randy Evans of Haven is largely responsible for the local-foods movement gaining such traction in Houston—first as executive chef at Brennan’s and now at farm-to-table mainstay Haven. Head-on Gulf shrimp and grits, and roasted chicken with bacon spaetzle showcase Evans’s East Texas roots. Meanwhile, over at Cove, Jean-Philippe Gaston, a widely traveled chef, serves multicultural raw-bar items like ika mata from the Cook Islands and oktapodi krasato from Greece. The common bond between the restaurants is a dedication to local ingredients, from the hoja santa in the cured salmon at Cove to the Texas rice in Haven’s gumbo.
Beaver’s, the gastro-icehouse on Decatur Street off Washington Avenue where barman Bobby Heugel and chef Jonathan Jones jumpstarted their careers, was founded by chef Monica Pope, among others. Pope, Texas’s answer to Alice Waters, has been a seminal figure in the Houston restaurant scene for several decades, single-handedly starting Houston’s farmers market movement. Considering that she’s run four fine-dining restaurants over the years, it’s odd that her enduring legacy might turn out to be this hip icehouse with creative bar snacks—try the duck and chicken taquitos, the tempura pickles, a great burger, excellent mac n’ cheese, or grilled watermelon salad.
Left, Eatsie Boys Café; Right, Eatsie Boys’ Matzo Ball Pho.
Image: Katharine Shilcutt
Nothing sums up the Eatsie Boys Cafe like matzoh ball pho—what do you expect from Jewish kids who grew up eating Vietnamese food in Houston? Eatsie Boys is the favorite restaurant of Houston rap superstar Bun B and home to an inimitable Shipley’s Do-Nut ice cream, made with real bits of glazed donut. The inviting Montrose cafe is an intentionally low-key retreat where chef Matt Marcus—a veteran of The Fat Duck, a Michelin three-star restaurant in England—can serve the sort of sandwiches, soups, and salads that form the basis of Houston’s casual, everyday cuisine. Watch for sneaky twists like white miso vinaigrette in the kale salad and “Srirancha” (that’s Eatsie Boys lingo for “Sriracha ranch dressing”) on the fried chicken sandwich.
Ziggy Gruber says that his Galleria deli on Post Oak, Kenny & Ziggy’s, is “the best New York deli in America,” and he isn’t kidding. The once-proud fixtures of Gotham, he says, are little more than tourist traps these days. “All the third-generation deli guys in New York are doctors and lawyers,” jokes the third-generation deli man. Gruber’s grandfather, Max Gruber, opened the Rialto, the first Jewish deli on Broadway in Manhattan, before Ziggy was born. Today, as he carries on his family’s Hungarian traditions in the Galleria area, Ziggy is hands-on in the kitchen, curing his own corned beef and chopping extra roasted chicken skins into his stupendous chopped liver. His new Reuben burger, with house-made corned beef and Pat LaFrieda premium ground meat, is incredible. Don’t miss his grandfather’s goulash either.
Max’s Wine Dive is a driving force behind the “classy comfort food” movement in Texas. The fried-chicken-liver poor boy is brilliant, and if you want to know what kind of wine to pair with a “haute” dog—a beef frankfurter slathered with chili and topped with cotija cheese—this is the place that will help you figure it out. The original restaurant on Washington Ave., which still serves the champagne and fried chicken it became famous for when it opened in 2006, is still packed at every meal. There are now locations in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas, with more on the way (including a second in Houston).
The Heights cafe called Down House (named for Charles Darwin’s English estate) epitomizes the welcome Houston trend of the “useful restaurant,” a reasonably-priced hang-out where one can find breakfast, lunch, and dinner fare with barista-made coffee and craft cocktails. Chef Benjy Mason's kimchi burgers, shrimp tacos, and casually elegant dishes like Gulf shrimp and grits with pho broth are available at nearly any hour of the day, and in a comfortable space that welcomes breakfast meetings and afternoon couch-surfing. Owner Chris Cusak is busy looking for more Heights locations.
The crab tostadas and red chile beef nachos at RDG+Bar Annie are holdovers from the restaurant’s predecessor, the late, great Cafe Annie. Of course, those dishes remind us of the 1980s, when the new Southwestern cooking style overthrew European haute-cuisine snobbishness. Some critics dismissed the food then as glorified Tex-Mex, but it shifted the focus from Europe to our own backyard, where we discovered our deep Latino roots. Modern locavores tend to forget that chefs like Robert Del Grande were sourcing their ingredients from local farmers and ranchers 20 years ago.
Thali platter at Pondicheri
Chef Anita Jaisinghani of Pondicheri
Indian-born Anita Jaisinghani was once the pastry chef at Cafe Annie. Asked what kind of food she serves at Pondicheri on Upper Kirby and her fine-dining restaurant, Indika on Westheimer, she demurs: “It’s my interpretation of regional Indian food using local and seasonal ingredients.” Asked how foie gras with fig chutney is regional Indian food, she responds, “Well—it’s really my personal journey in Indian cooking.” You can start your day with a breakfast of stoneground grits and cauliflower topped with yogurt and chopped peanuts or a saag paneer omelet at Jaisinghani’s modern “chaat shop” Pondicheri. Or you can have a bowl of masala-spiked borscht and a dish of quail tandoori stuffed with pine nuts and caramelized onion masala at her fine-dining restaurant, Indika. Despite the chef’s modesty, these are two of the most innovative Indian restaurants in the nation.
Bakery counter at Pondicheri
At The Queen Vic, chef/owner Shiva Patel serves Indian pub grub with a Gulf Coast bent—try the masala lamb burger with Texas blue cheese made from goat’s milk, or Goan curry with Gulf seafood and fried okra. If you order the chutney sampler, you’ll find standard tamarind and mint chutneys alongside a ramekin filled with what is more like Indian guacamole, which is perfect with The Queen Vic’s fresh-baked garlic naan. Along with many an American craft beer, there are plenty of British ales and bitters on tap at the Upper Kirby pub.
After he first crossed the border from Mexico, a homeless Hugo Ortega slept under bushes just a few blocks from where his eponymous restaurant, Hugo’s, now stands in the heart of Montrose. When the eatery first opened in 2002, some Mexican ingredients were hard to find, so Ortega hired a Thai gardener named Pat Rapesak to grow squash blossoms, fresh Mexican oregano, epazote, hoja santa, and bay leaves on her Needville farm. Hugo roasts his own cacao beans for the mole poblano and hot chocolate. “I am an ambassador of Mexican cuisine,” says Ortega. “Houstonians and I have a love affair.”
One of the main attractions at Backstreet Cafe on Shepherd near West Gray—also helmed by chef Ortega of Hugo’s, along with his wife, Tracy Vaught—is the patio seating in the big backyard of the restored River Oaks manse that houses the restaurant. The other is Backstreet’s pioneering seasonal American menu—which also includes thoughtful vegetarian and gluten-free dishes—as well as smart beer-and-wine list that, like the food, features a little something for everyone.
Ethiopian combo platter at Lucy
Owner Ana Beaven has brought a taste of her native Mexico City to Houston with Cuchara. The food and decor—especially the colorful murals from Beaven’s sister, Cecilia—are both vibrantly modern and deeply rooted in the culinary traditions of interior Mexico. The aguas frescas are complimentary at lunch, and the all-female line cooks whip out updated renditions of mole verdes, chilatole, and salsas that would delight any abuelita.
Peruvian causitas at Latin Bites
When he opened Latin Bites in the small, 30-seat restaurant that now houses Oxheart, Peruvian-born Roberto Castre figured his modern Peruvian cooking would be a tough sell in Houston, but he was wrong. “You can find a lot of different cultures here,” he says, “and that helps a lot because people are more open to trying different types of foods.” In fact, the city has been so receptive to Castre’s causas, tiraditos, and Peruvian ceviches that Latin Bites relocated to a swanky new space in Tanglewood. Castre has developed such confidence in Houston’s palate, he has plans to open a standalone cevichería next.
At La Fisheria, chef Aquiles Chavez—best known for his appearances on Latin American cooking shows and reality programs—focuses on coastal Veracruz cuisine with a dazzling variety of ceviches, seafood cocktails, and modern Mexican entrees like achiote-rubbed red snapper with mashed sweet potatoes and xnipec. Try the shrimp cocktail served in a michelada. The crowded Heights-area restaurant has a bubbly, fun atmosphere, a perfect fit with both Chavez’s personality and his food.
At the Original Ninfa’s on Navigation, chef Alex Padilla and an ownership group including Anvil’s Bobby Heugel preserve the Tex-Mex restaurant’s fajita and green sauce legacy while upgrading the menu with new specials like rabbit in red chile sauce, a tasty fajita burger, and exciting agave cocktails. But Mama Ninfa Laurenzo’s old place is facing competition from a new next-door neighbor—her son and grandson have built a new El Tiempo alongside her old place in the Second Ward.
Though El Tiempo is run by Ninfa Laurenzo’s family members, they are legally barred from using the Ninfa’s name. (The family sold the chain and the trademark many years ago.) And judging by the scale of the newly built palatial location in the Second Ward, it would seem the family is intent on squashing their grandmother’s landmark. A taste test reveals very little difference in the tacos al carbon, salsa, and frijoles served at the two restaurants, so you don’t have to choose sides in a family feud. Go to whichever establishment has a shorter wait—or visit one of the other El Tiempo locations.
Chef Michael Cordúa launched the Latin American steakhouse trend in Houston with Churrascos in 1988, popularizing grilled, thin-cut tenderloin and the luscious South American steak sauce called chimichurri. Instead of tortilla chips, the restaurant puts a basket of plantain chips on the table. The steakhouse was modeled on the popular El Churrasco steakhouse in Cordúa’s hometown of Managua, Nicaragua. The chef and his family went on to build several more Houston restaurants including the temple of Latin fusion called Américas, with locations in River Oaks and The Woodlands.
One of the city’s preeminent steakhouses isn’t actually in the city; it’s in Pearland, at Killen’s Steakhouse. “I’m not just a steakhouse chef,” brags Ronnie Killen, who’s worked with everyone from barbecue pitmasters to cutting-edge New York chef Wylie Dufresne. On Killen’s menu are steaks to satisfy a Texan’s beef-loving soul, but there’s also Kurobuta pork belly with a tamarind-cherry glaze and a Southern black-eyed pea gumbo. “My cooking style is: I like steaks, but whatever we do, we try to do it the best we can—and you’re only as good as you were yesterday.”
Vic & Anthony’s—downtown’s two-story temple to surf and turf—is the city’s signature steakhouse, but chef Carlos Rodriguez isn’t content to let Houston have all the fun. There are now three other Vic & Anthony’s, in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and New York City. “The Houston clientele’s so tough,” he says. “If something doesn’t work, you know about it right away.” His new menu—from Szechuan-crusted tuna to bone marrow with okra jam—reflects the evolving Houston cuisine that Rodriguez says has encouraged him to “modernize, think outside the box.”
Lucy owner Suzani Grant
Owner Suzani Grant thoughtfully includes tacos and burgers on her menu at Lucy, which otherwise specializes in traditional Ethiopian fare served in a chic, upscale setting. Those who have come to Lucy in search of doro wat and injera can enjoy them on the low wicker tables called mesobs or in the main dining room, which turns into an informal dance club on the weekends. Either way, they’ll enjoy the thoroughly modern vibe and well-stocked bar.
Oxheart
When Justin Yu came back to Houston from Copenhagen and opened Oxheart early last year, detractors claimed that a multicultural, vegetable-focused, tasting menu–only restaurant in the rundown Warehouse District just wasn’t going to cut it. But those who’d tasted Justin Yu’s startlingly modern, clear-headed cooking at pop-up dinners—or followed him on his blog as he “staged” his way through Europe—knew the naysayers would be proved wrong. Yu’s intensely focused cooking style coaxes out the best and brightest flavors from Gulf Coast bycatch fish, as well as fruits and vegetables from local farms. With a nearly three-month waiting list for a table, it’s safe to say Oxheart is going to make it.
At chef Philippe Schmit’stwo-story flagship restaurant Philippe, he blends his two favorite cuisines: French and Texan. His former restaurant, Bistro Moderne in the Hotel Derek, was once the best French restaurant in the city, but sadly, its sophisticated French-cuisine “inside jokes” (like the avocado and crabmeat bombe) failed to win the city over. Regardless, by the time the bistro closed, the chef known as the “French Cowboy” had fallen in love with his new hometown, so now he’s back in the saddle in the Galleria area, serving amazing creations like duck confit tamales and foie gras po’ boys.
The relaxed elegance of Houston’s best French restaurant, Étoile, reflects the cool confidence of chef/owner Philippe Verpiand, a native of Provence. After visiting the Bayou City in 2009, he closed his restaurant in San Diego and opened Étoile in Uptown Park. “There was so much more energy in Houston than in San Diego,” he says. Verpiand combines the farm-to-market trend with classical cooking, serving updated French-American fare like lemon sole meunière with purple fingerling potatoes. What does he do differently since coming to Houston? “I make a really great burger patty with fatty choice brisket, top round, and ribeye trimmings, and I serve it on a fresh-baked brioche bun.”
Cold seafood dishes are a specialty of French brasseries, and the elegant Brasserie 19 is no exception.There’s a great oyster-bar selection and a wonderful seafood salad with shrimp and lobster, complemented by an excellent wine list that’s long on French whites. But this is Texas, so there’s also a zesty ceviche, and the plateau de fromages features French—and Texan—cheeses. The country club–chic dining room and pricey plateaux de fruits de mer have made the River Oaks restaurant a preferred destination for the city’s rich and pretty.
Que Huong, the city’s best Vietnamese restaurant, recently moved from cramped quarters on Wilcrest to a nicely furnished location in Hong Kong City Mall on Bellaire in Chinatown. Tempura soft-shell crab salad is a standout on a 300-plus-item menu that also includes what some claim is the best bun bo Hue in the city, as well as ten goi (cold salad) dishes—including a surf-and-turf combo of shrimp and steak over raw water-spinach leaves. The com tam (crushed rice) plate, with your choice of grilled or shredded pork, a stuffed tofu skin roll, Vietnamese quiche, or a fried egg, makes a great brunch. The owner’s son runs Le Viet on Westheimer near Wilcrest, an excellent Vietnamese restaurant with a shorter menu of greatest hits.
Bright red furniture and gold-painted dragons decorate the dining room of Fung’s Kitchen on the Southwest Freeway near Bellaire, and the walls are lined with aquariums containing live lobster, crab, prawns, scallops, turbot, and ling cod. “We serve Hong Kong-style Chinese food,” says chef/owner Hoi Fung, who comes from a family of chefs in the region. What’s the difference between Hong Kong and Houston ingredients? “Live seafood is our specialty,” chef Fung says. “In Hong Kong they get farm-raised fish—here we get wild. Wild seafood tastes better.” Fung’s Kitchen is a favorite for dim sumon weekends, weddings receptions, and other celebrations, including a wonderful Chinese New Year’s feast. And guess where the emperor of Japan’s daughter and her entourage ate when she visited Houston a few years ago?
Garlic bacon rolls at Mala Sichuan
Mala Sichuan owner Cori Xiong
Born in China and educated at the University of Texas at Austin, Cori Xiong, the young co-owner of Mala Sichuan on Bellaire in Chinatown, played it safe when the restaurant first opened, offering such standbys as sweet-and-sour chicken on the menu. But it was cutting-edge items like “garlic bacon” rolls, part of the Chinese charcuterie trend, and “funky chicken sticks,” shredded chicken and green onions tossed in the spicy orange mala dressing, that she really wanted the restaurant to be known for. The marriage of ma (the numbing tingle of Sichuan peppercorns) and la (the fire of chile peppers) is the signature flavor of Sichuan cooking. As more customers came looking for mala, the sweet-and-sour chicken went south, replaced by some of the most exciting Chinese food in America.
Kata Robata on Upper Kirby still has that electric hum of a brand-new restaurant. That’s because every visit is an encounter with the unexpected, be it a species of fish at the sushi bar you’ve never heard of or an innovative presentation like fish and chips served in a basket made of fish bones. The spicy ramen with ground pork is the best in the city. For the ultimate thrill, put yourself entirely in the hands of chef Manabu Horiuchi and order chef Hori-san’s nightly omakase dinner—the elaborate multi-course extravaganza will forever alter your perceptions of Japanese food in Texas.
Uchi, the inspired Japanese restaurant in the old Felix location at Westheimer near Montrose, is part of Austin chef Tyson Cole’s Texan-Japanese restaurant empire. Small plates like oysters garnished with melon, and ribeye steak and shrimp in coconut milk with fennel, are offered alongside Latino sushi bar creations like “uchivichi,”the restaurant’s take on ceviche. Director of culinary operations Philip Speer still insists that the company’s plan is to create outstanding neighborhood restaurants—and eclectic Montrose has welcomed the equally eclectic “Japanese farmhouse” as if it were homegrown.
Chef Gabe Medina brings his Filipino traditions to the Asian food fest at the five-year-old Soma Sushi, which was first opened by celebrity chef Robert Gadsby. Medina has pulled the restaurant out of its Washington Ave. torpor by kicking the sushi bar into high gear and creating the city’s most exciting ramen menu. There are several traditional ramen presentations and some unusual variations like seafood ramen with shellfish and black bean ramen garnished with the scrambled egg sushi called tamago; all the ramens are outstanding. A recent well-received weekly special was Texas ramen, featuring juicy slices of brisket and smoked pork belly with kimchi.
Spaghetti carbonara at Coppa
At Korea Garden, located on the western stretch of Long Point known as Koreatown, a generation of Houstonians learned about bibimbap, seafood pancakes, and Korean barbecue delicacies like grilled short ribs and grilled squid. Kimchi cabbage, kimchi cucumbers, and spiced potato chunks were close enough to coleslaw, pickles, and potato salad to pass. And if barbecuing the marinated rib-eye steak called bulgogi on a grill in the middle of the table wasn’t already Texan, well, it is now.
Benjy’s two ambitious young chefs have brought the restaurant out of its former “Pacific Rim fusion” funk and into some new and exciting territory. Chef Joseph Stayshich, formerly of *17, works at the newly-remodeled original location in Rice Village, turning out Houston-centric fare like Dr Pepper-braised short ribs with taquería-style local vegetables and saffron risotto with Gulf shrimp and house-made chorizo. Meanwhile, at the Washington Ave. location, Japanese-Lithuanian chef Mike Potowski, formerly of Noe, serves dishes like kimchi potstickers, sake-cured grilled salmon with sour plum yogurt, and Japanese fried chicken with Texas okra.
At Coppa on Washington Avenue, chef Brandi Key has created a menu that represents the evolution of Italian dining in Houston. You’ll find everything from old-school meatballs al forno to gleefully modern octopus carpaccio with mizuna and pickled Fresno chiles. The “Italian mixed grill” includes saba-marinated quail, Gulf shrimp, and a Parmesan polenta pudding. The restaurant is well known for its carefully curated list of interesting Italian wines.
The Italian food in Texas and Louisiana has long taken its cues from old-fashioned Sicilian. Chef Marco Wiles bucked tradition when he opened Da Marco, a cozy Montrose trattoria that serves food that might remind you of the modern Italian cooking style of Mario Batali in New York. Da Marco and its two sister restaurants, upscale pizzeria Dolce Vita and salumeria Poscol, are havens for Houstonians who love risottos, salumi, thin-crust pizza, and all the other delicacies of Northern Italian cuisines. Da Marco’s seasonal celebrations are highly recommended; this year for the holidays, he’s teaming up with Italian chefs to recreate the menu of a Venetian restaurant.
Damian’s has navigated Houston’s tumultuous waters for over 30 years while remaining a vanguard of classic Italian-Gulf Coast cooking, making it the Mandola family’s oldest surviving restaurant. Chef Napoleon Palacios serves red-tablecloth standards such as veal piccata and spaghetti Bolognese alongside dishes such as grilled snapper Butera and “asparagus Mike Wells”—it’s an honor to get a dish named after you here—both crowned with that most Houston of toppings: jumbo lump crab meat.
Paulie’s
Second-generation restaurant owner Paul Petronella has lately taken Paulie’s on Westheimer near Shepherd from a pleasant Italian cafe to a highly recommended dining destination by keeping it fresh and local. His sensational house-made pastas are found in restaurants all over town. The house-baked cookies are great too, especially with Greenway Coffee and Eatsie Boys gelato, and there’s also a smart wine list (not to mention a new adjoining wine bar, Camerata).
The over-the-top decor and seating by social status at the old Tony’s on Post Oak might remind you of Patric Kuh’s The Last Days of Haute Cuisine. At the new Tony’s in Greenway Plaza, the dining room is impeccably done in earth tones with lovely woodwork and flower arrangements. The seating is more democratic, and the servers much better informed, even as the prices still aren’t cheap (except for the $21 three-course “Greenway Express Lunch”). Talented young chef Grant Gordon performs a brilliant balancing act, offering a new American tasting menu with sous vide wild game and foie gras dishes on one side of the menu, and an inspired collection of classic Italian dishes and house-made pastas on the other. Gordon describes his cooking style as “always evolving.”
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La Fin Du Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Pete Vonder Haar
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Pete Vonder Haar | March 6, 2020 | 7:19am
We're revisiting the highs and lows of Eon's James Bond movies in the lead-up to No Time to Die. This week, Bond gets married ... briefly.
The first James Bond movie not starting Sean Connery, On Her Majesty's Secret Service desperately wants you to remember it still is a James Bond movie. Instead of an actual song during the opening titles, we get a kind of greatest hits reel of the previous five movies (also, plenty of nipples. Wouldn't want to forget those).
The movie opens with new Bond (George Lazenby) saving someone we'll come to know as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg), or "Tracy" to her future husband. If there's ever any overt mention made of why she was trying to drown herself in the pre-title sequence, I must have missed it. Their courtship starts in earnest in the Casino Estoril, where Bond has to bail Tracy out after she loses at baccarat.
Speaking from my own casino experiences, I don't recommend trying the "I don't have any money" gambit.
What begins as a typical Bond one-night stand evolves after M (Bernard Lee) takes the secret agent off "Operation Bedlam" (MI6's investigation of SPECTRE), who subsequently agrees to romance Tracy if her father, the Italian gangster Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), helps him track down Blofeld. This in spite of the fact the guy's name is "Draco."
I know what you're thinking: this Draco guy has some radical views on parenthood. But also: romance? Yes, a huge portion of this movie is given over to Bond wooing Tracy as Louis Armstrong's "All the Time in the World" playing in the background. As foreshadowing goes, Tracy might as well have told Bond she was two weeks from retirement. We don't get our first real spy action until over 40 minutes in, when Bond snoops in the office of a Swiss lawyer with ties to Blofeld.
As it turns out, Blofeld (Telly Savalas) isn't just interested in [checks notes] training hot babes to release his "Virus Omega" to destroy the world's crops and livestock, but also becoming the "'Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp." Which all leads to a very silly second act where Bond impersonates a genealogist (poorly) to infiltrate Blofeld's mountaintop "allergy center." The time sensitive nature of the case doesn't prevent him from bedding two of the so-called "Angels of Death," at least. Maybe he thought it was an extended bachelor party.
Lazenby's 007 becomes more assured as the film progresses, but is never really at ease in the role. His lack of experience is especially apparent in scenes opposite Rigg and Savalas (whose Blofeld seemingly doesn't recognize Bond, despite having met him in person in You Only Live Twice). And it's easy to argue that Tracy is the best so-called "Bond girl," being 007's equal in fighting, driving, and sabotaging her own life.
OHMSS may also be the first movie we ever see Bond show fear (when not facing laser castration, that is), which happens while he's fleeing SPECTRE henchmen at a winter carnival (in fairness, that polar bear was pretty creepy). His escape from Blofelds lair is some top-notch skiing, however, though I'm not sure which is more hilarious: Telly Savalas as a downhill champion or the Wile E. Coyote-length fall one of his henchman takes off a cliff. I laughed harder at that than the last John Mulaney special.
"I can see the end of my career from here."
Anyway, Bond proposes marriage. Tracy accepts. SPECTRE captures Tracy, and M won't sanction a rescue mission, so Bond goes to Draco and together they get her back. And after a sumptuous wedding, Tracy is killed in a drive-by by Blofeld henchperson Irma Bunt (the shot of Blofeld driving in a neck brace is almost as hilarious as the skier falling).
Director Peter Hunt had worked as an editor or second unit director on the previous Bond movies, and convinced the Broccolis to let him take the lead on this one. The quick cuts that were his early trademark take even more of a front seat in OHMSS, not always to great success. The fight scenes — while showcasing Lazenby's hilarious penchant for wild uppercuts — are more invigorating than any since From Russia with Love, and the action is undeniably engaging.
Likewise, John Barry's score is much more forceful this time around. To hear him tell it, this was by design, as everyone was trying to make Connery's absence not so noticeable. Turns out, he needn't have worried. Lazenby's agent convinced him to turn down a seven-film deal on the assumption that secret agents wouldn't fit in with the "liberated" '70s, man. Talk about misreading an industry. And a decade.
As Bond, Lazenby gets horned up easily enough, but lacks the Connery's indifferent cruelty (slapping Tracy notwithstanding). Eon took a big risk making their longest 007 movie to date a love story starring an actor that had never made a movie before, and Lazenby — thanks for the aforementioned bad advice and his own ego — never returned to the role. Connery would make his last (official) appearance as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, but the horse had left the barn: other people could officially play James Bond.
Well, other white, male people.
Stray Bullets:
> M is both A) an admiral in the British Navy, and B) a butterfly aficionado.
> James Bond was apparently the inspiration for Better Off Dead's "he's skiing on one ski."
> Lazenby remains the only 007 to go down on one knee during the opening gun barrel sequence. Connery does this kind of awkward side hop they never bothered to change until Thunderball, Roger Moore is the only one who attempts a proper firing position, adopting a Weaver stance by The Spy Who Loved Me. Pierce Brosnan's is literally laid-back, while Daniel Craig has done a different one each film.
Unfortunately, in light of MGM's decision to push the release of No Time To Die back to November, La Fin Du Bond will be going on hiatus. See you in a few months.
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Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book. The first three novels in the "Clarke & Clarke Mysteries" - Lucky Town, Point Blank, and Empty Sky - are out now.
Twitter: @PeterVonderHaar
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Phaedra Cook | February 24, 2016 | 3:08pm
Three chefs — Brandon Soverall of Triniti, Rocco Nankervis of The Oceanaire Seafood Room and Keisha Bocage of Bocage Catering — represented Houston on Food Network’s Chopped last night. Their competitor was Jamaican chef Andre Fowles of Miss Lily’s in New York. The theme was “Cooking Carribean,” so naturally using ingredients such as goat, sweet potatoes, shrimp and fresh coconut was part of the challenges.
It’s the third time in two months that the show has featured competitors from Houston. Unfortunately, the show was extremely reminiscent of the “Knife Strife” episode, in which three Houston chefs competed and all ultimately lost to the sole New York competitor, Fowles. In the “Chinese New Year” episode, Brennan’s of Houston chef Martin Weaver (who was chef de cuisine at KUU at the time) also made it to the final round and lost.
Bocage was cut in the first round, and Nankervis in the second, which left Soverall to do battle in the dessert round. Competitors are under strict contract not to reveal the outcome to anyone, so not even Soverall’s boss at Triniti, chef Ryan Hildebrand, knew exactly how it would turn out. When Soverall opted to make panna cotta for the dessert round, it sounded promising.
“Panna cotta? He’s got this. Nobody makes panna cotta like a Triniti chef!” exclaimed Hildebrand during a viewing party at Sanctuari Bar inside the restaurant. Unfortunately, the judges deemed Soverall’s grainy.
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With it being the third time in two months that a Houston chef has fallen to one from New York, it’s enough to make a red-blooded Houstonian kick the ground and cry “Foul!” However, in an interview after the show, Soverall agreed with the judges' assessment. “It was, honestly,” he admitted. “When we do panna cottas [at Triniti], we blend it really smooth in a Vita-Prep [commercial food blender] and pass it through a chinois so no solids pass through. I couldn’t find a blender. All I saw was a stick blender. I thought it was smooth and I just needed to get it into a bowl to set.”
It was a tough call on Soverall’s part, because without sufficient time to set, the other possibility was that the panna cotta would be too soupy.
Soverall is from Trinidad, and there was a substantial contingent from his native land to support him at Triniti’s viewing party in addition to friends and coworkers.
It might not be Soverall’s last time on Chopped. He said he’s not allowed to talk about it, but the Houston Press has been previously informed that chefs who make it to the final round but don't win are eligible to be invited back for a "redemption" episode.
After all of the effort, would Soverall return if he were invited back? “I would," he said immediately. "I know what to expect. It’s one thing to cook in a restaurant in your comfort zone, but when you’re on a stage, the camera is looking at you and you’re timed. The pressure of making your employees proud, your country proud — there’s a lot of stress, actually. But now that I’m used to that stress and anxiety, I think it will be a lot easier [next time]."
Either way, this isn’t the last Food Network show that will feature Houston chefs. On Sunday, March 6, chef Mary Eisenhour Bass, who was recently named Chef of the Year by Galveston.com, will appear on Cutthroat Kitchen, hosted by Alton Brown. Her competitors hail from Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. There’s a viewing party scheduled at S.I.N. Lounge at 1828 Strand in Galveston starting at 8:30 p.m.
Shannen Tune, the former executive chef of Hotel Derek, has struck out on his own with the Craft Burger food truck and will appear on Chopped on March 8.
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Scooby-Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion
Step into the roles of Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang as you work to solve the mystery in Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Work together to decode over 50 clues and find your way out of the haunted mansion in this cooperative Coded Chronicles game, an officially licensed escape room board game great for Scooby-Doo fans.
More than 50 individual clues are hidden in this game’s interactive game board and pieces to help you discover what happened in Lady Fairmont’s Haunted Mansion! Players will share five narrative booklets, to be read as everyone works together to fill in the story’s missing details. Different parts are kept in secret envelopes to be opened as the crew unlocks the answers, keeping everyone on the edge of their seat. Scooby Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion is made for one or more players, ages 12 and up.
About Coded Chronicles: Coded Chronicles is an at-home escape room style game where players work together to unlock clues and solve puzzles by using a unique code revealing mechanic. Each game offers a unique storyline and objective to provide a one-of-a-kind game-play experience.
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The American Meme (2018)
A spot for declining influencers
ganzierozzi15 December 2018
This documentary Is somehow an Inception thing. There are a bunch of influencers complaining about the struggle to became famous on Instagram and Vine, and then the fear to Lost popolarity. There Is Paris Hilton crying cause this Life Is hard... Come on, SRSLY?! There Is a a guy that It has calling himself the fat jews that literally live to lick Paris Hilton butt, Just in the Hope to stay on the rich's train, eventually. The documentary itself Is nothing special, automatic pilot and some Easy rethotical skit, in order to try ti make things emotional and Deep, but well, not even a nice try.
The American dream rebranded the American Desperation
iainoconnor14 December 2018
This film encapsulates the mindset of fame in the modern age by letting 4 figures speak on how they conceptualize it. A sickness spreading through all of us. Sad but this is the new normal.
Fame costs, and right here's where you start paying.
noeroa22 December 2018
"The American Meme" explores social media fame under different lights, through various celebrities who have relied on these outlets to gain recognition. The documentary examines the lives of Vine comedians, party animals, models, TV personalities and everything in between, with Paris Hilton as the standout focal point, due to the fact that she embodies American celebrity culture in its purest form and pretty much paved the way for all those who jumped on the fame wagon in more recent times. Many opportunities were missed in the way, where vapid and irrelevant screen time takes away from the more substantial storytelling, who are these people? What drives them?, and is the cost of fame really worth paying?. "The American Meme" has its shining moments, but you will have to navigate through the dull ones in order to appreciate the more meaningful moments.
legend-hribar6 January 2019
The movie is just celebrities that whine how famous they are and that they feel like they have no privacy, becouse they upload EVERYTHING they do, completly ignoring that they choose this and nobody us forcing them too. How can I feel sympathy for them if the do this to themselves
Pure Narcissism
grahamvandyke12 December 2018
I could not make it past 20 minutes of this documentary. I know, it's not good to review anything unless you've seen the entirety of it. But this is one of those rare exceptions.
First of all, I doubt there's anything really wrong with how the documentary is made. The problem I have with this was the soul crushing feeling I had watching these pure narcissists at work. It started with American Idol and people wanting to get-famous-quick without putting in any legwork, and has mutated itself into the social media landscape.
Quite a few years ago I started to remove myself from mainstream media. I started watching the Joe Rogan Podcast, and eventually went on to take in most of my information from what would later be described as the "Intellectual Dark Web". What I found was, the longer and further removed from mainstream media I was, the more ridiculous and outlandishly egotistical it was revealed to be. Everything was dripping with self-absorption and the need to sell-sell-sell, no matter the depravity of the message.
I'm not willing to make a thorough review for people so detestable, so if you can actually sit through 98 minutes of watching these kinds of people, I hope you see the light at the end of Dante's Fourth Circle of Hell. Remove yourself from this idiocy.
4/10- P.S. These people are not memes.
Sad reality
aurumogold9 December 2018
I do not like the concept of this movie, do not like when people trying to pretend "look how hard I work". Obviously they are really enjoying their life style and the entertainment industry, what they are doing - just leaving in their reality, they are an attention seeking people.
This made the aliens turn around
micheleklassy13 December 2018
I just hope that it doesn't inspire. Really needs to stop
Great Film
katehot12230 April 2018
I saw this film last night at Hot Docs in Toronto and had little expectations going in. I use social media, but I am certainly not immersed in the world. I was truly entertained, captivated and in awe of the subjects of THE AMERICAN MEME from start to finish. I laughed the entire way through, while learning a great deal, and felt deeply for the characters. One thing that surprised me about the movie was that it was a lot deeper and a lot more serious than I thought it would be. I was scared and sad when it ended and I am still thinking about the film and my own personal interactions with social media today. I was also surprised about how diverse the audience was, which was pretty crazy. There was an 80 year old with a walker laughing her head off and a 12 years old sitting next to me (although probably not appropriate for a 12 year old...).
Anyways, go see it. It's pretty amazing.
Profile in lowest common denominator profiteers of the social media era
jjdausey11 January 2019
This is nothing more than an irritating look at the lives of the most spiritually empty profiteers of the social media moment. Just watching this made my IQ drop a few points. Paris Hilton has fans? For doing what? Slipping into some beta sex kitten disassociative personality at will? Come on, people. Wake up and "like" the real heroes in the world.
Totally surprising
tonyavellia4 May 2018
I was very surprised about how I felt after the film ended. I can't stop thinking about the film and I am still thinking about it now, which is why I am writing a review. It comes off as being fun and entertaining to start, but then you realize that there is a ton at stake for the characters and the themes and stories are much more significant than you realize. I feel like I needed to reexamine my own relationship with social media....
A Reality Revolution
sarahthompson-3400315 December 2018
Okay here me out. All I ever thought of Paris Hilton was her and her daddy's money. I never considered that she marketed herself so well from a reality tv show to perfume to clothing to becoming a DJ. I always thought she got these opportunities because of her last name and not because she is a marketing revolution. For sure her family name helped, but even her own intern, now known as Kim Kardashian, saw what she did and was like "damn I need to do this..." they learn from the best. The only thing about Paris is that she is both Kim and Kris. Kim was lucky to have her mother to support and more sisters to market. I'm not going to lie sex sells and then know how to sell it and I'm actually thanking Paris she did it her own way. I really only ever thought of her as that dumb rich blonde but in this documentary you realize the persona is just a business tactic and it worked so well for exposure and as a business tactic. A little bit of a coincidence that both private videos of sexual acts of Paris and Kim are released publicly. But which woman already maybe a name for herself before that incident and even bounced back hard to the haters? Paris. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on Kim either. Her and her family are geniuses for marketing, media, and as socialites. But they wouldn't be here without Paris's doing.
Now that is done. I want to get to the main course of this documentary. Social media is a not reality. It is a persona just like those so called scripted reality tv shows. Just like anything based in media: it has a goal and an audience to aim it at to make an income or support. I've even tried so hard to post a photo every single day with every hashtag possible on Instagram and the day I hit 1k followers I was over the moon! Grant it, it took me like five days to do but as soon as I stopped to post two or thre days I lost them all and then some. It hit hard but it makes you realize what people want to see and that it takes damn dedication to work your way up. So hats off to you influencers and social media celebrities.
These documentary as shows the real world behind the 'gram. And that's their relationships, mental health, and overall outlook on life. Once your flame of fame burns out what will you leave behind? Well they all definitely hope more than a selfie with rose champagne and lip injections.
Stolen content.
wtfsnacks6 January 2019
The fat Jewish just steals and reposts other people's content. Don't know why people give him the time of day.
What those celebrities want?
mohanadalkhouli22 December 2018
All started fame journey either by coincidence or by incidence. Some tries to regret others to promote another others to evolve, what the point of this movie other than money and sharing tears? Now, what benefit should I get from this mixed victorious tragic biography? I will go with money, and cry a little once a long while later.
steveforrest64330 April 2018
I was lucky enough to attend the premiere of this film with all of the cast and it was so cool. The movie itself was so good and the people in the film were so different on screen than I thought. There was a Q+A after the film with the cast and I was totally engrossed with these people afterwards. They are all so different, but make so much sense. Just wow!
WTH did I just watch?
cre042014 December 2018
Paris should NEVER be compared to Jesus or any high power. This nothing more than attention seekers disgracing themselves for more attention. Complete waste of time.
Great doc
theguytypingthis7 December 2018
This documentary showed the internet influencer landscape from all angles without being preachy or subversive, all in a cohesive storyline. Definitely worth a rewatch.
akilianetc-232773 July 2018
I like how the filmmaker follows 4 notable social media icons, especially Paris Hilton, as they use their online presence to create something bigger than themselves. I think Bert Marcus does a splendid job approaching industry notables to share the rollercoaster ride that follows when deciding to share your life for millions to watch - also get a glimpse of their life and insight. This documentary is a 'must watch' as it helps the viewer better understand that there's more than meets the eye.
fredtrims17 May 2018
This title is excellent. I recommend this film to both young and more mature audiences, as the perspectives of the viewer will be quite different, but the enjoyment that you will feel is universal. Young people will hopefully be warned and for older audiences, there is so much to learn...
Kinda hated, Kinda enjoyed it
Golightly67812 December 2018
While the 'the real life' of celebrities isn't new, much less for internet famous, this documentary attempts to approach it with at least some kind of refreshing take. The celebs they featured through sheer effort and determination, have found niches that they built on and each found incredible rise in stardom, truly an amazing feat. This doc is about what comes at the cost of that.
The secrets they harber isn't new, nor is the experience when Kirill shared he 'wanted to kill' himself on social media, then finding his followers less than sincere in their empathy. I still found the candid conversation refreshing. The reality, while somewhat cliché, is still very sadly true. The question of 'how much?' is ever present with the weight of novelty in social media in the modern age. These people are famous in a world of ever present competition.
The reason i gave this only 6 stars.... and merely my biased opinion...
It's a Paris Hilton plug. Yes, she is listed as producer. To put it bluntly, I'm not a huge fan of hers. It urks me that: When someone whose family is worth billions upon billions says that they built an empire, it's hard to take them seriously. If someone like her fails what has she really lost?
Unlike her, the internet celebs will lose pretty much everything if they didn't do this right and bank on their fame quickly. She didn't add to the convo except the narrator points out that she was likely the originator of the '100 day to celebrity' track during her 'Simple Life' days ('00-'05).
So, yes, I watched it all. It was a bit of a train wreck situation, but also a lot of heart. These people are real at the end of the day, no matter where their lives have ended up. They didn't plan on it going this way until it did. That I find interesting. Paris, not so much. Less of her and it would have improved the content.
Ridiculous and Not What I Expected
northernlad10 February 2019
So I went into this thinking that it was going to actually be about memes. You know those things that constantly circulate on social media that people use over and over again. Nope! This was about a handful of no-talent "stars" that have never had to work for anything in there life. All this documentary did was give these people a platform to discuss their narcissistic lives. Completely revolting and a waste of time.
Total Package
wyatt-francesca7 May 2018
I loved this movie! I laughed hysterically throughout, but also felt so sad and disturbed all at the same time. It's one of the most original documentaries I have seen and I loved the way that the movie takes you behind-the-scenes with such public figures in such a private way.
Interesting documentary
ropa-6248917 December 2018
I saw this film that is more than a documentary. I was surprised about the words from Paris on which she explain that her fan are like her family and she feel better with them because not judge but love as she is. My surprise was because most of people think that Paris life is the best, she is rich and can do and go where she want with no problem but in reality is not so and this make me confused. At the end of this film, that explain the real life and situation on which we live, my reflection are that I and major ordinary population would like to be famous, rich and get money with less work. We prefer to spent time for our free time and not spent time to work and in our mind we think that the only way to obtain it is with social networks. More like, more follow means money and opportunities. But I also understand that to obtain more follow you should have a new great idea or to do stupid thinks, the real life could be interesting but only related to famous people. For ordinary people is hard and you should have a good idea to follow to believe and hope that also milion of people are attract to it.
So much to learn so little time
stevenrexfernandez2 July 2018
The American Meme is a MUST see. It explores very universal themes, super informative AND entertaining.
Fascinating, Upsetting, Inspiring
lesliekerrigan21 December 2018
I definitely didn't expect to be so moved by this film. I felt a range of emotions while watching each character's journey but was most surprised and impressed with Paris. I really appreciated her willingness to just be real, to be vulnerable and to tell such an honest story. I definitely view her in a completely different light now and am really inspired by her tenacity and strength. Really great film.
The dark side of influencers & social media.
beaemjie10 January 2019
A must-seen documentary, interesting and straight to the point. I didn't know any of the celebrities except for Dh Khaled and Paris Hilton, still it was worty to watch.
The American Meme
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THE TURKISH ARMY IN THE SINAI AND PALESTINE CAMPAIGN, 1915-1918
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Dasquian – Claimed by the Black Dragon
A Fantasy Romance
A chosen dragon.
A human female.
An invincible creature that wants to possess her.
Shor Dasquian is a man who has a fearless dragon’s heart beating inside his chest. When he prepares to fight for the woman from Earth, he does not know what events he will set in motion. She is the one – the woman whom fate has chosen to bring into his life, only to separate them from each other all over again.
His love for the woman changes him.
The brave man turns into a fearless one.
The loyal dragon-shifter turns into a relentless lover.
The strong dragon turns into an invincible being, who teaches even the most dangerous creatures from his home planet to fear him. Even an enraged king and a vengeful goddess cannot picture the black creature they have awakened inside Dasquian, and how far he is willing to go for the one woman he loves.
Dark, wonderful, and mesmerizing. Accompany Dasquian on his fantastic journey and experience vindictive goddesses from ancient times, a merciless creature born of fire, and a love story that remains unforgettable.
Warning: Intended for mature audiences. Can be read as standalone.
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“I was hooked from page one.” –Amazon Reviewer
“WOW!! This is an absolutely captivating story. The storyline is intense, gritty and a bit dark. The characters are incredibly fascinating. It has a bit of everything- dramatic suspense, betrayals, apocalyptic action and undying love.” –Amazon Reviewer
“This was one of the best romances I have read in a while…” –Amazon Reviewer
“Engaging from the first line!” –VINE VOICE
“Wow! What a heartfelt and wonderful love story between Dasquian and Jora and all their challenges along the way to find each other.” –Amazon Reviewer
“The Prologue is truly amazing…the birth of a dragon shifter that comes with a curse. So it begins a story of a dragon and a human entwined by fate, curses, dark haunting romance, intrigue wrapped up in mysterious twists that will keep you on that edge we love so much.” –Amazon Reviewer
“Entertainment excellence.” –Amazon Reviewer
“I’m not sure if I can express how amazing the book is, I just know I fell in love with a book, with Dasquian, with Jora.” –Amazon Reviewer
“A DARK AND DELICIOUS READ!!!” –Top 1000 Reviewer
“Jenny Foster knows how to weave words that bring life to the page.” –Amazon Reviewer
“Wow! I love, love, love this incredible soul searing tale with all the drama and intrigue.” –Amazon Reviewer
“I fell in love with this story and it is now one of my favorite books. This story is about a Dragon shifter and an earth woman who dreams of the person they love and when they meet sparks fly.” –Amazon Reviewer
“I didn’t want to stop reading this book. Well, to be honest, I couldn’t stop reading this book. I just had to know what was going to happen to Jora and Dasquian. The author had me on the edge of my seat more than once.” –Amazon Reviewer
“In romance stories, you know the guy always gets the girl. This story, however, makes one wonder. Will he get the girl? Will he be able to keep the girl? I loved the flow of this story. I loved the twists. I constantly felt the need to continue reading.” –Amazon Reviewer
“This is a 10 star story, a must read.” –Amazon Reviewer
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Just Missed a Call From Aliens: Radio Astronomers Close to Breakthrough Moment in Alien Contact?
At the center of the new speculation is the radio wave assessed to be received from Proxima Centauri.
By Poulami Nag
January 4, 2021 09:12 +08
New mysterious radio signals detected coming from a star 11 million light years away
A beam of radio waves, which was supposedly received from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri has baffled radio astronomers. Whether any extraterrestrial life has made a communication through such radio wave or it's just a friction of our own technology is the debate of the hour.
Breakthrough Listen
Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million project funded by Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire investor, who has been dedicated on finding alien radio waves for years. This project is working on to decrypt the alleged alien radio wave. So far, it has only been reportedly concluded that the radio wave is a technological wave which can be potentially alien or our own. But nothing yet to be confirmed. After years of research this is believed to be the real 'break through' moment for Breakthrough Listen.
A screenshot from the trailer of the movie Arrival YouTube
The radio wave has been assessed to be received from Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the sun. Its distance from Earth is only 4.24 light-years. Proxima Centauri is a part of a triple-star system known as Alpha Centauri. It is known to have two planets out of which, one is slightly bigger in shape and size than our home planet and said to be positioned in the habitable zone of the star having favorable temperature for presence of water even habitation of life.
According to Sofia Sheikh, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University leading a team of Breakthrough Listen, studying the signal and trying to decipher its origin, stated that the signal appears to only show up in their data when they are looking in the direction of Proxima Centauri. According to the New York Times, Sheikh also mentions that the star's threshold has never been passed by any signal in their previous experiences but there are a lot of caveats. Yet this radio signal has stirred a lot of excitement within her team.
First Detected in 2019
This alleged alien radio signal was first detected in 2019, which was a narrow-band signal with a frequency of 982.02 megahertz as recorded at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Interestingly any natural event like an exploding star or a geomagnetic storm can broadcast a similar nature of frequencies.
Unfortunately, according to several experts, more often than not these types of signals have turned out to be nothing but RFI — radio frequency interference. So basically, the excitement surrounding this discovery could prove to be nothing more than some radio bursts in the night sky.
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Many a time before, SETI has experienced false alarms. For example, reportedly, Frank Drake, then at Cornell and now retired from the University of California, Santa Cruz once pointed a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, in 1960 at a pair of stars. He thought to use it to hear aliens' radio waves. But what seemed to be an alien signal to him, turned out to be a secret military experiment making it a fallacious apprehension in the history of inception of SETI.
Breakthrough Listen was announced with much fanfare by Milner and Stephen Hawking in 2015.
Excited New Inning
April 29, 2019, marked an excited new innings in the field of study when Breakthrough Listen scientists turned the Parkes radio telescope on Proxima Centauri to monitor the star for violent flares. Such outbursts are very common for theses stars and they have the ability to strip down the atmosphere from a planet and render it uninhabitable.
This surprising alien signal appeared five times April 29 during a series of 30-minute windows in which the SETI telescope was pointed in the direction of Proxima Centauri. Though after that it has never seemed to appear again. The signal never seemed to bear any message. It was always a monotonic tone just registering its existence. It also showed a sign that the source of the signal is not on the surface of Earth but often correlates with a rotating or orbiting object. This can be ascertained when the signal drifts slightly in frequency during the 30-minute intervals but such the drift does not match the motions of any known planets in Proxima Centauri.
Are Signals Coming From Proxima?
Sheikh categorically stated that they are not nearly done yet and a lot of analysis is yet to done to be confident that the signal is not an interference. The Break Through Listen project leader states that they will try to reproduce the results and copy the exact movements of the Parkes telescope again on April 29, 2021. Sheikh expects if the signal is coming from Proxima, then the sender of the signal might feel free to communicate again. But as of now it seems to be some sort of yearly event that happens at the visitor center, that causes an environmental effect that doesn't happen the rest of the year.
There is ample possibility of this Proxima Signal to make its place with the legend like the Ohio State University's 'Wow! Signal'. Even then this is undoubtedly an extremely exciting breakthrough no matter what the final result shows.
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Carolina aims to end streak
When Carolina hosts Berea, the Trojans will have a lot on the line.
Carolina has lost 38 straight games dating back to the 2015 season, but after falling to Liberty, 24-14, in its first game of the season, Berea looks beatable.
Westside, Greer try to turn things around
Neither Greer nor Westside have had the start to the season that they were expecting. Greer has dropped its first two games, while Westside lost its season-opener last week on the road.
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The area is in the path of Hurricane Dorian and according to Hanna AD John Cann it's a day-to-day situation as to if the game will be played. Inlet Grove is currently 1-0 this season.
Eagles' offense on a roll
It's been a good start for the 2-0 Eagles, especially on offense. Eastside has averaged 43.5 points per game in a 38-21 win over Southside and a 49-7 win over Riverside.
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BHP will be tested on road
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IPL returns to Chennai, Super Kings ready to resume love affair with Chepauk
Chennai Super Kings are gearing up to play only their second match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in nearly four years. The MS Dhoni-led side will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in the opening match of Indian Premier League 2019 at Chepauk on Saturday
Akshay Ramesh
UPDATED: March 23, 2019 14:55 IST
Cricket fans in Chennai are gearing up to Chennai Super Kings' home game against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday (Twitter Photo)
The whistles are set to be back as a carnival-like atmosphere is expected in Chennai on Saturday. Indian Premier League (IPL) returns to the cricket-loving coastal city and Chennai Super Kings fans showed signs of what is to come when they filled the stands at MA Chidambaram Stadium during a training session of the home team on Sunday, leaving the cricket fraternity in awe.
The buildup to the much-anticipated return of CSK to their fortress has been grand, to say the least. Thousands of fans forwent a night's sleep and queued up in numbers to get their tickets for the IPL 2019 opener -- a big-ticket clash between CSK and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
It's hard to believe that the MA Chidambaram Stadium, also known as Chepauk, hosted only one IPL match in the last four years. It's even harder to describe what the fans had to go through when CSK were suspended over corruption for two years between 2016 and 2017.
The iconic narrow lanes in Chepauk, including the Victoria Hostel Road, hadn't hosted a sea of yellow during match days and ticket sales over the last three years. The roadside vendors, selling jerseys, and the ones who are ever-ready to paint your faces yellow outside the MA Chidambaram Stadium were deprived of seasonal income.
As I'm suffering from #Yellove! #WhistlePodu #CSKvRCB ???? pic.twitter.com/N3Q2lHi3jP
Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) March 23, 2019
The #Yellove on the faces of all the kids out there defines #Thala and the #AnbuDen! #WhistlePodu ???? pic.twitter.com/u1ZLwk9lSR
Nonetheless, CSK's loyal fans made sure the buzz around the franchise was kept alive even during their absence. In fact, CSK's official fan club -- Chennai Super Kings Fan Club -- was formed in 2016. The fan club, also known as Whistle Podu Army on social media, grew in numbers before CSK returned in 2018.
CSK's homecoming in IPL 2018 though ended in heartbreak as Dhoni's men were forced to shift their home games out of Chennai due to protests over long-standing Cauvery water issue. Only one match -- CSK's five-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders -- was played in Chennai before Dhoni's men found home in Pune.
There was a similar buzz around CSK's return to Chennai last year. Fans had turned up in huge numbers to watch a practice session last year as well. In fact, Dhoni and his men had taken an open bus journey from the team hotel to the stadium and thousands lined up along the streets to greet their superstars.
Not just all roads, but even the tracks lead to #Chepauk to fill the stadium #YelloveAgain. #WhistlePodu @ChennaiIPL #CSKvRCB #DhoniVsKohli pic.twitter.com/jWyEaCMVYR
Whistle Podu Army ® - CSK Fan Club (@CSKFansOfficial) March 23, 2019
After waiting two years for the team's return, CSK fans were left distraught but that didn't stop them from travelling to Pune in specially-arranged trains to support their team at its new home.
One of the most-recognised cricket fans in the country, Super Fan Saravanan Hari was more relieved than happy when he got to know CSK will be playing their full-quota of home matches in Chennai in IPL 2019.
Hari, who couldn't wait to paint himself yellow and cheer for MS Dhoni in Chepauk on Saturday, said CSK fans are gearing up for a "family reunion".
"For me, it's like a reunion of family members after almost a year. For three years, we haven't been able to witness this at home. Very happy that matches are being played at home. We just want to create a carnival-like atmosphere," Hari told indiatoday.in.
It's not surprising that most of the CSK players also felt the disappointment of not playing at home over the last three years. They managed to adapt to Pune and find quick success at their new base last year. But nothing comes close to playing at home in front of their fans and the whistles.
It's easy for away teams to get overawed by the love affair between CSK and their fans. Virat Kohli's RCB are first in the line to face the test on Saturday!
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Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India
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According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the total sales in domestic market stood at 11,14,157 units, against 7,68,698 units in the year-ago period, a jump of 44.94 per cent.
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Champions League Round of 16: Asensio, Benzema strike as Real Madrid edge Ajax 2-1
Real went into the match brimming with confidence from a run of six wins and one draw in its last seven matches, but were given a run for their money by a spirited Ajax team.
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Asensio, Benzema on strike as Real Madrid edge Ajax 2-1
With a little help from the video assistant referee, defending champion Real Madrid overcame a spirited Ajax to win the first leg of its Champions League round-of-16 match 2-1 on Wednesday and take a big step toward the quarterfinals.
Substitute Marco Asensio scored a late winner to put Madrid in a strong position going into the second leg on March 5.
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Real, winner of the last three Champions Leagues, recovered in the second half after being outplayed by underdog Ajax before the break at a packed Johan Cruyff Arena, when the hosts had a goal disallowed by VAR - the first time the video referee had overturned a Champions League goal.
Asensio, a 73rd-minute substitute, was unmarked at the far post as he tapped in a cross from the right by Dani Cavajal with just three minutes of regulation time to go.
"He's shown his development as a player," Madrid coach Santiago Solari said. "He did everything he had to do from the moment he came into the pitch. Not only the goal, which of course was very important for us."
Ajax had looked on course for a draw when Hakim Ziyech shot under Thibaut Courtois in the 75th minute to cancel out Karim Benzema's opener 15 minutes earlier.
The Amsterdam team went into Wednesday's match in something of a form crisis since the Dutch league's winter break. Their previously solid defense crumbled late last month in a 6-2 defeat to archrival Feyenoord and Erik ten Hag's team slumped to a 1-0 defeat on Saturday to Heracles Almelo.
But Ajax shook off its winter form dip before the break, pressing Madrid high up the pitch, combining well with slick, short passes and looking like the team that qualified second in its group behind Bayern Munich rather than the one that struggled in recent weeks.
"We have to improve," Ten Hag said. "Normally you don't create so many chances against a top team like Madrid. We did, but you have to be more ruthless. There we can learn from Madrid — they created less chances but scored more goals."
Real went into the match brimming with confidence from a run of six wins and one draw in its last seven matches. But it only really hit its stride in the second half, proving more clinical in front of goal.
Ajax, a four-time European champion that last won the title in 1995, looked to have taken the lead only to have VAR rule out Nicolas Tagliafico's 37th minute header because Dusan Tadic was in an offside position and impeding Courtois.
Ten Hag was not convinced by the video images he saw.
"I did not see offside and couldn't see a foul on the keeper," he said.
Solari said he had not seen the images.
Kasper Dolberg came close to levelling again in stoppage time, but Courtois stuck out a hand to block his effort as Madrid captain Sergio Ramos was made to work hard for the win in his 600th match for the club.
In the night's other round-of-16 match, Tottenham beat Dortmund 3-0, with all the goals coming in the second half at Wembley.
In Amsterdam, Benzema struck a powerful shot past Andre Onana on the hour after a strong run from the left by Vinicius Junior to put the 13-time European champion ahead.
Madrid's lead lasted 15 minutes before David Neres crossed from the left and substitute Dolberg let the ball run to Ziyech, who shot low under Courtois.
Ajax, in the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2006, had lost its last six matches against Madrid. But it started confidently and Tadic nearly gave Ajax the lead, his 26th-minute shot hitting the post after beating Courtois.
Real created little in the first half. Vinicius Junior came closest for Madrid when he cut in from the left wing and shot on target only for Onana to palm the ball over the bar.
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Home / Automotive / Business & Economy / China / Mexico / B&E | Ford's China move casts new cloud on Mexican carmaking
B&E | Ford's China move casts new cloud on Mexican carmaking
IndraStra Global Monday, June 26, 2017 Automotive , Business & Economy , China , Mexico Edit
By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Dave Graham
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Ford is pictured at the 38th Bangkok International Motor Show in Bangkok, Thailand March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo - RTS18CA7
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A second U-turn this year by Ford Motor Co. in Mexico has raised the specter of Chinese competition for local carmaking, adding to pressure on the industry after repeated threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to saddle it with punitive tariffs.
Ford announced on Tuesday it would move some production of its Focus small car to China instead of Mexico, a step that follows the U.S. automaker's January cancellation of a planned $1.8 billion plant in the central state of San Luis Potosi.
The scrapping of the Ford plant was a bitter blow, coming after U.S. President Donald Trump had blamed the country for hollowing out U.S manufacturing on the campaign trail, and threatened to impose hefty tariffs on cars made in Mexico.
Since then, rhetoric from the Trump administration has become more conciliatory, and Mexico and the United States have expressed confidence that the renegotiation of the NAFTA trade deal, expected to begin in August, could benefit both nations.
But the loss of the Focus business is an unwelcome reminder of competition Mexico faces from Asia at a time China's auto exports and the quality of its cars are rising.
"For a long time, the quality of vehicles coming out of China was not to global standards. There was a gap in quality that (favored) Mexico - but that is closing," said Philippe Houchois, an analyst covering the auto industry at investment bank Jefferies. "That is probably a threat to Mexico."
In the past decade, global automakers have invested heavily in Chinese factories to make them capable of building cars at quality levels that make the grade in developed markets.
Ford's decision to shift Focus production for the United States market to China from Mexico shows automakers have increasing flexibility to choose between the two countries to supply niche vehicles to American consumers or other markets.
'VERY TROUBLING'
Demand for small cars in the United States is waning and General Motors Co. faces a similar situation to Ford's with its Chevrolet Cruze compact.
Were GM to go down the same path with the Cruze and shift its production out of U.S. factories, it could give more work to its Mexican plants - but might also bring its Chinese operations in Shenyang or Yantai into play.
"The Cruze is a global product that is built in multiple GM plants around the world, including the U.S.," said GM spokesman Pat Morrissey. "Our general philosophy is that we like to build where we sell."
Studies show Mexican manufacturing is competitive, and business leaders believe that NAFTA talks between Mexico, the United States, and Canada could ultimately yield tougher regional content rules for the region that benefit local investment.
Ford said its decision balanced cheaper Chinese labor rates against pricier shipping, but that in the end, an already-planned refit of its Chinese factory saved it some $500 million over retooling both that facility and its Hermosillo plant in Mexico.
The volatile state of U.S.-Mexican trade relations also carries big risks if Trump renews his threats to impose 35-percent tariffs on cars made in Mexico.
To be sure, Trump has also threatened to levy 45-percent tariffs on Chinese goods and his Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he found Ford's China move "very troubling."
Trump's threats have battered the peso, ironically making Mexico's goods cheaper. Uncertainty over the future of NAFTA pushed the currency to a record low in January, although it has since rebounded.
That same month, the Boston Consulting Group published an assessment of manufacturing competitiveness that gave Mexico an 11-percent lead over China.
That advantage has prompted global firms to plow billions of dollars into the Mexican auto industry, pushing output to record highs. Some officials in the automotive sector painted Ford's move as a one-off decision.
"There's still a very dynamic investment and growth in plants," said Alfredo Arzola, director of the automotive cluster in Guanajuato state, one of Mexico's top carmaking hubs.
Still, there have been "significant quality improvements" in Chinese cars, consultancy J.D. Power said in a 2016 study.
Chinese car manufacturing could catch up with international standards in China by 2018 or 2019, said Jacob George, general manager of J.D. Power's Asia Pacific Operations, citing the consultancy's gauge of "hard quality", or failures.
However, when measured in terms of "perceptual" quality, China was probably still some 4 to 6 years behind, he added.
(Additional reporting by Joe White and Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Christian Plumb and Nick Zieminski)
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Anywhere But Home
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After the Ball Pacifica runs away from her family. She finds herself at the Mystery Shack. Witches, a psychotic dorito, a mystery writer and strange creatures that call her name out in the woods. Help
Mystery / Adventure
Krazy_KySta_Hatter
One By One They Went Away
Pacifica smiled as she looked over the room. It was so full and lively, and everyone seemed to be pretty happy. For once she didn't actually find this thing boring. And despite what she had feared, everyone was getting along. The rich and the poor, all laughing together and having a good time. None of the wealthy people seemed to be holding any animosity... well, except her parents.
She saw them standing not too far off, scowling and looking at the towns people in contempt. They hadn't spoken to her since she'd let everyone in. She bit her lip anxiously, thinking about what they would say when they finally got the chance. Of course, they wouldn't dare make a scene in front of everyone.
That feeling of dread swelled up within her. It formed into a tense ball that sat in her chest, making it feel hard to breathe. Her gut clenched, and she clasped her hands together to stop herself from nervously fidgeting. It would be fine. They'd just yell at her again. And she would go back to her room and pretend like nothing ever happened. The true way of the Northwests.
Gathering her composure before anyone noticed, she looked away from her parents and out at the dance floor. Lots of people were dancing away, some with partners, some by themselves, or in a group. The most noticeable couple was Grenda and Marius. The larger girl was practically dragging him as she swept around the floor. But the both of them had huge smiles on their faces. It was actually quite entertaining to watch, and even made her giggle a little.
Not far away from herself, Dipper, Mabel, and Candy were dancing in a small group. They were doing a lot of weird moves, and not all of them matched up with the music. Mabel looked ridiculous most of the time, but sometimes she would grab her brother's hand and they would do a small dance together. It was fascinating to watch. They didn't seem to have anything planned, and they didn't communicate with each other. They just instantly started doing the dance, as if knowing exactly what the other wanted. It was interesting the way the moved together... It must have been a twin thing.
She felt a little left out and began looking around for her friends, Tiffany and Aubrey. They were nowhere to be seen. Maybe they'd gone home early... She felt herself deflate a little, disappointment welling up in her. She swore those two had some sort of animal instinct. They sensed a storm coming, and decided to get the hell out of dodge. It was a good idea... If only she could actually do it.
Once again she looked out at everyone dancing. It was strange to think that only a few hours ago, a fair amount of these people had been turned into wood. It was almost shudder inducing remembering watching Dipper be changed. His flesh turning to wood, slowly creeping from his legs, up his body, till he was completely lifeless. Fear and agony plain on his face. That was why she had done it. He had believed in her, he saw that she wasn't like her family. And he had given her the strength to defy them. It had been horrible to see it happen... It must have been so much worse for him to have seen it happen to his sister.
“What are you looking for?” a voice said behind her. The sound itself had her panicking for a moment. She whipped around, thankfully only finding Dipper.
“Oh, it's just you,” she said, her sigh of relief sounding slightly bitter out of habit. She saw the look of annoyance on his face and grimaced slightly. “Sorry. I was looking for Tiffany and Aubrey... but I guess they've gone home already.”
“But, aren't they like, your best friends or something?” he asked. “I mean, they follow you around all the time, so... Shouldn't they be here for the ball.”
“There's a bit of a storm coming. They don't like storms.”
“But the weather's meant to be clear all week,” he said in confusion.
She shook her head. “Never mind.”
Dipper looked at her a moment. She seemed downcast, and more quiet than usual. He knew they hadn't always gotten along, but things had changed tonight. He had seen an entirely new side to her, and seeing her like this was actually making him feel bad. “Hey, want to dance?” He held his hand out to her.
Pacifica quirked an eyebrow when she heard what song was playing. Don't Know Why, by Norah Jones. It was more of a slow song. “Can you even dance to something like this?” she teased. Still she placed her hand in his.
“Of course I can,” he said, instantly leading her off on a slow waltz. His arm came up so he was holding her waist, and her other arm automatically found his shoulder. His feet moved and hers followed, perfectly matching it, though she was barely aware of doing so. For a moment she was nonplussed by the movement. He was good... Really good.
“Wh-where did you even learn to dance like this?” she asked, slightly awed. She certainly hadn't expected this out of Dipper Pines.
He just shrugged. “When we were younger Mabel wanted to do ballroom dancing. So naturally I went with her.”
“Do you two just do everything together?”
“Pretty much. We're twins. She's my best friend. Most things we wanted to do together anyway, and the rest our parents made us go with each other. Mabel wanted to dance, I wanted to do boxing. They thought it was a fair trade.”
“So you can both box and dance?”
“Well...” he said, drawing the word out. She got the impression that if his hands were free, he'd be scratching the back of his head nervously. “Not exactly. I can dance, and Mabel can box... Not the other way around.” He gave her a sheepish grin. She smiled back.
She never realised how nice he really was... She probably never knew because she was too busy being horrible to them. She started to feel the guilt slide down her throat like an unpleasant tar. She realised that she didn't want to be that person. The Pine twins were so nice to her, and she wanted to be nice back... they deserved it. But not only that, she didn't want to be who she was. She didn't want to be like her family. She'd always had her doubts about them, always knew that at least part of what they were doing was wrong. But she'd never had the courage to do anything about it. Never been able to stand up to them, but Dipper had showed her that she could do it. She just had to be brave enough.
She looked back to where her parents were, only to see them glaring at her. The lack of air to her lungs happened astoundingly fast, and her head felt a little light. She was going to have to be very brave. Settling with distraction for now, she looked back up at Dipper. At seventeen he was over a head taller than her... not something hard to achieve these days. He had a light little bit of stubble on his chin, and his brown eyes were sparking under the ball lights. He looked nice in the suit she'd lent him, but he did look a little odd without his hat. She was just so used to him wearing it. He was looking over her shoulder, his facial expressions changing a bit every few seconds and she realised he was pulling faces at Mabel. Some sort of silent communication. He looked back down at her and grinned again, albeit a little nervously. As he did, his hair moved about she saw something red on his forehead.
“Hang on, what was that?” she asked curiously.
“What was what?” He seemed a little confused, and tried to follow her eyeline upwards.
“That red mark on your head.”
Hastily he took his hand away from her waist to flatten the hair over his forehead. For a moment he reached upwards, as if to pull the brim of his hat down, only to find nothing. He looked a little dejected at that. It almost made her laugh. “It's nothing,” he said, placing his hand back on her waist. “Just a birthmark. I tend to keep it hidden.”
“Yikes, fair enough. I'm glad that mine is somewhere easy to hide. No wonder you're always wearing that hat.”
“You don't know the half of it.”
The chorus of the music grew louder, then. And the two of them just continued to waltz, listening to the smooth lyrics.
'My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come
I feel as empty as a drum
I don't know why I didn't come...'
Slowly the music faded out, and their movements slowed to a stop. Dipper stood back from her and gave and awkward chuckle, scratching at the back of his neck.
“Yeah, so... now you know my secret.”
“Secret?” she said, a little confused. What secret? Did he mean about the journal and all the weird stuff that went on in this town? His birthmark?
“Yeah, that I can dance.”
She smirked. “Out of everything, that's your secret?”
“Well, not one of my biggest ones, but yes. I usually just tell people I don't really dance.”
“Well, you're not horrible at it.”
“Yeah, well, neither are you.”
“Of course I'm not. I used to compete!”
“Really?” he said, sounding delighted and surprised. “Me too!” He seemed to realise what he'd said. “I – I mean...”
She just giggled at him. He seemed so uncomfortable about... well, everything. It was actually kind of endearing... She did not just think that.
Looking about, her face drained of colour. When had the room gotten so empty?! What had once been a full ball room not too long ago, had now dwindled down to the dregs of people. She watched as another couple left, waving a goodbye to the hosts. Since they weren't the towns folk, her parents gave a half hearted wave back. They still didn't look very happy. This wasn't good.
“What's wrong?” She looked up to see Dipper looking at her in concern.
“Everyone's leaving.”
He looked at his watch. “Well, yeah, it's actually past midnight. Some people walked here, so they left a bit early. You really don't want to be out alone at night in this town.”
“Because of all the crazy things here?”
“Yep. Not even I know everything that goes on here. I only have one journal.” She looked at him questioningly. “There's three of them. I have the third one. Gideon Gleeful had the second, but I have no idea where that went. We've never seen the first. And we have no idea who the author is. That's my main priority at the moment. Just... well, the town is so over run by all these creatures I keep getting distracted.”
“I wonder why they suddenly started to show themselves now?” she mused.
“Oh, they've been out and about for years. It's just that no one remembers. Turns out that Old Man McGucket was this brilliant scientist who worked with the author. But he couldn't handle what was going on and built a memory ray. He used it on himself so much that it drove him insane. But he also founded this secret society called The Blind Eye, who basically went around kidnapping people who'd seen something and erasing their memories of it... wonder why they never got me, Mabel, and Grunkle Stan...”
“...This town is messed up,” was all she said in response.
“Hey, Dipper!” Maybel's harsh voice called out. “Grunkle Stan's here to pick us up. He doesn't want us walking home so he came to get all of us.”
“Yeah, okay,” he called back. “Just give me a minute, I need to grab my clothes. You go on ahead.”
“Okay!” She was pretty close by, but that didn't stop the eccentric girl from shouting. She gave her brother a wave before heading out the door with her two equally strange friends.
Dipper turned back to Pacifica. “Um, would you mind telling me where I got changed again.”
She sighed and rolled her eyes. “This way.”
She led him out of the main hall and into the corridor. Even though she didn't dare look, she could practically feel her father's glare follow her till she was out of sight. Once she was in the corridor, she visibly relaxed. She knew that being out of his site would do nothing to ease what awaited her, but it made her fell a little better... Well, until she thought about what awaited her, that is.
Her house was huge, but she knew it so well that it wasn't long till they were at the guest room where he'd changed. A butler had neatly folded his clothes and placed them at the end of the bed, his hat sitting atop the pile.
“Um... what should I do with the suit?” he said uncertainly.
“Just throw it in the hamper.” She shrugged. “Or keep it. I don't know, your choice.”
“Okay, thanks. Ah, I think I know my way back from here if you want to go back to the party.”
“Right... Yeah. I should do that...” She paused at the door, then turned back slightly. “Um, Dipper? Thanks. For everything.” She shot him a small, but sincere smile.
“N-no problem,” he stuttered. Okay, maybe it was still a little strange seeing her be this sincere. It was a nice change, but still a little odd. “I'll, um- I'll see you later.”
“Yeah, later...” She forced another smile, then left to let him get changed in privacy.
Since the party was technically still going, she had no choice but to go back to it. It was the polite thing to do, and to be honest, she would only make it worse for herself if she didn't. Walking back she felt like she had a rock sitting in her stomach. It weighed her down, making her moments slow. Her hands were so jittery that she screwed them up in the purple fabric of her dress.
When she reached the ballroom, her heart almost stopped. There were only seven guests left! The room looked fuller than that of course, considering all the staff who were still working away. But she had been trained to look past them, and she knew her parents thought of them as practically non-existent until they wanted something. She saw their head butler, Murphy, standing not far from her parents. Seeing her enter he gave her a sympathetic smile.
Since there weren’t many people left, there was no reason for her to mingle. Instead she stood politely at the edge of the room, making sure she was close to the door. It wasn’t long till Dipper ran out past her, waving a goodbye.
Marius left almost immediately after him. And not long after that the two policemen left, saying that they should patrol the roads and make sure everyone got home safely. Barron Applegate was still talking to her father, but two others walked out the door. Two more. There were only two guests left.
The thought made her stomach churn, and she started to feel sick. Her nerves grew more and more tense as every moment passed. The woman in the fuchsia dress received a call to say her ride was there, then bid them a goodnight, and left. It was getting hard to breathe. She was – she was… she couldn’t breathe. Was she hyperventilating? She was most certainly becoming light headed and things started to spin slightly. She was watching her parents talk to Barron Applegate as if she were staring down a long tunnel.
He gave them a low bow and swept out the door. She flexed her shaking fingers, trying to get rid of the feeling of pins and needles that had crept into them. That was it. He was the last guest. Gone.
Her father walked over to the door and shut it behind the man. Then he went to the side and placed his hand on the lever that she had pulled only a few hours ago.
She couldn’t breathe.
He pushed the lever up. The main gates closed with a resounding thud.
She couldn’t…
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Sometimes destiny chooses us, and takes us in directions we would never imagine. This story is continued in "Our Gracious Queen"
Romance / Drama
Queen of the May
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Winter had a way of gripping the Turon Valley, turning it into a blindingly white wasteland. Bitter, vicious cold took hold of every surface and hung on as a miser might cling to his coins, and from mid-October until early April, life ground to a halt. Everything and everyone seemed to shrink, absorbed into the darkness and silence of the season. Storms slammed into the valley throughout the winter, with drifts of snow that often covered the trees. The Turon River froze solid, so that when the storms broke, villages held Frost Fairs. But those celebrations were frequently brief, as another storm would suddenly pour into the valley and send everyone scurrying back to their hearths to wait for the sun to return.
Sounds seemed to expand, becoming louder and sharper, so that people spoke in whispers, and even the forest became eerily silent. People in the valley always tried to be as quiet as possible, fearing avalanches from the mountains. As winter finally would begin loosening her grip, the frozen river would begin to thaw, and the sound of the ice cracking would reverberate through the valley, and it was then that the avalanches did occur, with huge banks of snow roaring down the mountainsides. Villagers had learned, over time, to build sturdy, thick-walled stone houses that could withstand such force.
Prince Constantine of Morvenia listened to the stillness, straining for any sound, and he thought of the cold and the sharpness of silence in winter, and he wondered if he spoke, his words would crack and shatter like thin icicles and fall to the earth. Being a boy of thirteen, he already knew that pouring water–or anything else—often resulted in it freezing before it even hit the ground, and bitter past experience had taught him to keep his clothes dry, lest ice form and the cold to seep into his skin and down to his bones.
He and several knights rode through the snow-covered valley, making their way north, where the climate was even colder and the spring thaw didn’t come until the middle of May. He looked up at the white sky and knew it would snow again soon, and he hoped they would find shelter before dark and the wolves came hunting.
Not that he would ever admit to being afraid of the dark.
Even though he was.
The sound of the horses’ feet stomping on the frozen ground, the clanking of metal armor and the rattle of chainmail all seemed amplified and jarring to his ears. Aside from the sound of the column of soldiers riding through the forest of the Turon Valley, Constantine could only hear the wind and the occasional fitful cawing of crows high in the trees. He hardly felt the cold, however, as he was wearing thick padding beneath his light armor, and his hands were encased in mail-covered gauntlets. Only his cheeks were cold from the biting wind, but he made no complaint—a knight never complained.
He and the knights were on their way to the kingdom of Havor, where he was to spend the summer and fall training for his future as a knight. Constantine had just become a page, and he was looking forward to being officially knighted next spring, by King Francis of Havor. His sixteen-year-old brother had remained at home, training for his own future role as King, having already earned his own spurs in battle against the Lacovians last year at Stoneleigh. Constantine was eager for the day he could ride into battle, however much Philip told him that battle was terrible and bloody and frightening. “You won’t like seeing your friends being carried home on their shields,” Philip had told him. “A Spartan who dies in battle is still dead, and what glory is in that?”
He shook these gloomy thoughts from his mind. He could foresee glory and honors in his future, and as much as he loved his older brother, Constantine knew he was stronger and more hardy. He would survive whatever came his way.
The young prince was under the care and guardianship of Captain Leopold DeForet, a forty-five year-old nobleman of some means. The Captain would deliver the boy to the royal court at Dastur, and would remain to assist in his training and education in the art of war. Constantine already knew plenty about war, having read all the available books on the subject. He had devoured the books, reveling in the strategies of Caesar and Alexander the Great. Meanwhile, to his bewilderment, Philip enjoyed reading poetry and playing the lute, of all things.
Constantine would never learn to play something so useless as a bloody lute.
DeForet suddenly raised his fist, and all the knights reined their horses, stopping and listening warily. Constantine’s own senses began prickling, his ears tuning to any sound, and he breathed in the air. The acrid smell of burning wood and something else… something unfamiliar, and extremely unpleasant, filled the air. One of the Captain’s men whispered something, but Constantine did not hear. He moved forward a little, hoping to catch whatever was being discussed. That smell… he could not place it, but it made his chest tighten and his toes curl inward.
He finally placed the scent--it was the smell of death.
“It’s Teslo straight ahead, is it not?” DeForet asked.
“Yes, sir. A very small town,” one of the younger knights informed him. “I was… I was born there.” He cast his anxious gaze in the direction of the village.
DeForet frowned. “I’ve heard reports of Lacovians raiding the valley in the winter.” He glanced back at the men, his gaze settling on the young prince. “Let’s go.”
The village of Teslo was advantageously placed alongside the Turon River, and was well known for its timber mill and its iron works. The local blacksmith, a man named Reeve, was an excellent swordmaker, with armies from as far away as Havor ordering weapons from him yearly. The town, though small, was prosperous, and surrounding farms produced excellent crops of wheat, oats and hopps, and vineyards to the north of the village cultivated some of the finest wine to be found. Further north, near the larger town of Turon, was the rich lands of Count Frederick von Hesse, one of the richest and most powerful men in Livonia. His castle could be seen from Teslo, perched like a massive, glittering stone dragon on the high cliff overlooking the valley, its vast turrets, battlements and fifteen-foot-thick walls defying and defeating all attackers.
DeForet frowned as he led his group of knights out of the forest and into the sparsely-wooded lands west of the village, and his frown deepened as he saw smoke rising from the horizon to the east. The scent of burning wood and flesh was even more nauseating, and one he had never become immune to, even after years of warfare. He looked back at the young knight who had been born in the village and silently commanded him to wait behind while the rest went on.
As they rode over the ridge, the knights pulled their horses to a stop, gasping in horror at the sight before them.
“My God,” DeForet whispered, removing his helmet and making the sign of the Cross.
The village lay in ruins, with even the outer walls flattened. Every structure had been razed and burned, with even the pretty stone church near the walls charred, its roof caved in and its beautiful stained glass windows shattered. Little remained of most of the houses, save smoldering ash. DeForet kicked his horse into a fast trot, the others following close behind, and they rode through what had once been the village gates. He could only make out what had been the huge iron hinges of the gates—nothing else was left.
“Try to find survivors,” DeForet ordered quickly, dismounting. The others got off their horses and began cautiously walking through the ruined streets. They began finding bodies in the snow, most preserved by the cold, and each sight was more sickening and heartbreaking than the last. Women and children had even been cut down, many of them run through with swords or shot through with tar-tipped burning arrows. DeForet was horrified when he came upon a pile of headless corpses, stacked in the village square, not far from a makeshift chopping block. He stepped back away from the pile when he found a child among the bodies.
He looked back at his young charge. Prince Constantine had a way of walking without making a sound, like a leopard, and it was unnerving to DeForet, how the boy could sneak up on him.
Frankly, he had been considering getting the boy a bell.
He had trained his older brother Philip, and that young man showed considerable talent, but even now, at just thirteen, this dark-haired, green-eyed boy had uncanny abilities. He was already fearsome with a sword and with his longbow and could throw a dagger with remarkable accuracy. The Prince walked past DeForet, edging around the pile of bodies, and examined the ax the village’s destroyers had left behind, its blade still stuck in the blood-soaked chopping block. “Lacovians. I know the pattern on the handle. See?”
“I’m hardly surprised at that,” DeForet nodded. “They are indeed monsters.”
“Women and children!” Constantine snapped, looking around the ruined village square. “They murdered women and children! They are without conscience or honor. They should be destroyed!”
“There’s time enough for that, Highness. Right now we must… we must clean up and see these people are all… buried properly.” The stench was making the man gag, and he had to turn away, breathing deeply to calm his lurching stomach.
A knight strode up to them, looking furious. “They even killed the priests and nuns in the church!” he spat.
“Forbid it Almighty God!” Constantine whispered. “Blasphemy!”
DeForet remembered Constantine’s mother had said something, rather absently, about the boy’s devotion to God. For a young man so eager for warfare, his faith was deep and sincere.
Yet another reason to keep an eye on this one, DeForet thought as he studied the boy. A warrior who humbled himself before God was something to see and would be doubly formidable on the battlefield.
“First things first, Constantine,” he finally said, struggling to keep his composure. He gave the boy’s shoulder a comforting squeeze and turned to the enraged young knight who had reported the desecration of the church. “Keep searching for survivors, Gerald, and… Highness, we ought to search the countryside, too, to see if local farms were attacked.”
Training, indeed, DeForet thought as Constantine walked away. I’m training this boy in the business of death. God help us all if he ever gets used to it.
Constantine and DeForet searched the village for the remainder of the morning, finding not a single living soul. DeForet was not at all displeased to see the young Prince becoming more and more upset as they searched each destroyed house and building. They only found bodies—old, young, rich, poor, man, woman, child—and signs of wholesale brutality. The few remaining walls of buildings were smeared with blood and cruel, lewd graffiti that indicated that more than just murder had taken place in the village.
The captain told Constantine to search around outside the village, to see if anyone had managed to escape into the woods. Silently grateful to be spared further scenes of horror, the prince walked out of the town square and made his way to what had been the blacksmith shop of John Reeve—the man’s name was even written on the lentil. He stopped at the destroyed smithy, which was next door to the house where the Reeve family had lived. Captain DeForet had mentioned that Reeve had been married with a child… a daughter, perhaps? The prince frowned—he wasn’t sure he could cope with the sight of another butchered woman and child, and avoided the burned-out shell of the house entirely, walking over the stone threshold of the smithy instead.
He was not prepared to see the body of a man, lying on the floor near the anvil. Constantine guessed the man was John Reeve, but he would have been hard to identify even by his closest friends—his face was scorched and slashed, and a dagger protruded from his chest, but it didn’t escape the boy’s notice that the man was surrounded by the bodies of at least six Lacovian knights: he had gone down fighting like a devil.
The prince felt bile rising into his throat and turned away, but the sight that greeted him was no better—he saw a once-beautiful young woman lying on her side near the ruined forge, the front of her dress pulled up, her thighs bloody. That proved too much for the boy—he dashed out of the ravaged building and into the yard, where he almost stumbled over the gutted body of a horse. He dropped to his knees at the yard gate, retching up his breakfast and wanting so much to weep and curl up in a ball.
Wiping his mouth, he sat up, looking up at the nearly white sky. Snow was beginning to fall in large, heavy flakes. He closed his eyes, feeling the snow on his face, and prayed. “Dear God, have mercy on their souls, and give them comfort and peace.”
He struggled back to his feet and started to turn back, intending to begin searching elsewhere, when he noticed the footprints.
The prince frowned, puzzling as he examined the tracks. The prints were a few hours old, and clearly those of a woman—a barefoot woman. He glanced back at the destroyed blacksmiths’ forge—the feet of the woman in there had been bare and covered with mud. Behind the prints were wagon tracks—she had been pulling a small cart, and from the depth of those tracks, it contained something rather heavy. Immediately, he began following the marks, using the skills DeForet had taught him, noticing occasional footmarks of the same feminine prints heading back to the village along the same path, obviously at a flat run. It wasn’t long before he was in the thick woods outside the village, and he was frustrated to be delayed by the brush and debris on the forest floor, but he finally found the tracks again. Using his small sword, he cut through the low branches and shrubs, fighting his way through the thick, snow-covered brush.
Distressed, he began calling out. “Hello! Hello, is anyone here? Can you hear me?”
Nothing. Only the mournful sound of the wind, and the soft, almost imperceptible pattering sound of snow falling. Constantine pushed on, determined to find just one survivor. Just one, and it would mean the Lacovians had failed in their quest to eradicate all life from this town. He began calling again, desperately, until he caught a glimpse of color in the gray, stark woods—light blue! He rushed toward the color, frantically cutting through the branches with his sword, and finally came upon its source.
The child was enveloped in blue blankets, and he saw the wagon nearby, and in it he saw numerous fine swords and daggers. A small stack of thick books was stacked behind her as a makeshift pillow. Rushing toward her, Constantine saw she was curled up in a ball, sleeping in the tightly-wound blankets. Sleeping, in such bitter cold and snow! Forcing himself to calm down, so as not to frighten her, he dropped to his knees in front of her, and tried to speak gently—something he wasn’t exactly good at, he knew.
“Child… little girl, are you all right?”
Her eyes opened, and she stared up at him, frozen with fear. Her eyes were the bluest he’d ever seen on any living being, and her hair was a raven-black mass of silky curls. He guessed she was perhaps three or four years old.
“Don’t be frightened. I will not hurt you.” He held out his hand to her, but she shrank away from him. She pulled her blankets around herself and shivered.
“Mama said to wait here,” she told him, with no trace of a childish lisp. “She said to wait.”
“Did she?” Constantine looked back at toward the village. The poor woman had at least saved her daughter’s life, God bless her, he thought sadly.
“She said she would come back when the bad people left. Where is my Mama?” For one so young, she spoke with remarkable clarity. There was something very quality about her, he recognized. She was no ordinary little peasant child.
Constantine looked back toward the ruined village again, forming his words carefully. “She… she isn’t here. But I’ve found you and you’re very safe, I can… I can assure you.”
“I want my Mama!” She tugged the blankets more tightly around herself and shook her head.
“I know you do. But would you come with me now? Uh… we can help you. We… uh… you look very cold, child. What is your name?”
“Eleanor.”
“That’s a pretty name.”
Constantine jumped when he heard someone coming up behind him, and looked back to see Captain DeForet and two other knights coming. He stood up and gestured toward the little girl.
“I found her… she must be John Reeves’ daughter. Eleanor.”
DeForet stared down at the girl, momentarily bewildered, but he soon regained his poise.
“Eleanor Reeve,” the captain said. “She looks like her mother.” DeForet studied the child, then took in the swords and daggers and the stack of books. “Margaret… she was very skilled at healing, or so I always heard.”
“Where is my Mama?” the little girl demanded to know. “I want my Mama!”
DeForet had no knack for softening facts, even to children. “She has gone away, child. To be with Jesus and the angels.”
“No.” Eleanor shook her head. “No, I want my Mama! Tell me where she is!” With that, she began to cry, tears streaming down her face, and she balled her fists to rub them away, sobbing until she began to hiccough. Only then did she allow Constantine to pick her up, and she promptly buried her face into his neck and cried, her wails making the other knights utterly miserable for her sake. DeForet caught Constantine’s exasperated look but could think of nothing to say in his own defense. What, was he to lie to this little snow sprite?
“I’m sorry,” Constantine said, finding it surprising less difficult now to speak gently to her. “Your Mama and Papa are gone now, Eleanor, but we’ll take care of you. I promise. I…we won’t let anyone hurt you.”
The little girl pointed at the remains of the house next door to the smithy. “My house is gone. Where is my house?” She sniffed the acrid air and she looked increasingly frightened.
“Can you tell me when the bad people came here, Eleanor?” Captain DeForet asked her
“It was still dark. Mama put me in the dogcart and took me into the woods and said not to move or make a sound,” she said and resumed chewing on the edge of her blanket, indicating growing stress.
DeForet decided she had had quite enough and picked her up, plonking her rather roughly on the back of his horse. “We must take her with us. God knows if she has kin around here, but we can take her… we’ll take her to Count von Hesse.”
The child grabbed hold of the horse’s reins without being prompted and seemed comfortable enough. DeForet mounted quickly and gestured for his men to mount up and prepare to leave. “There is nothing else we can do here. The outlying farms were not touched—only the village was destroyed. We must be cautious as we travel—the Lacovians might still be patrolling.”
“They wouldn’t dare stay around very long. von Hesse has a large number of knights, and I’m sure they’ve been alerted to what happened,” one of DeForet’s lieutenants said.
“If they haven’t yet, they will be soon,” the captain answered, and after checking to see that the tiny child sitting on his warhorse’s withers was comfortable, he urged the giant black gelding into a quick trot. DeForet glanced back at Prince Constantine, whose expression was hard—an unsettling thing to see in one so young, he thought as he turned his attention back to the child. However much the boy thought he was covering his feelings, he was a terrible actor and could not hide anything.
The young man was angry.
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Our favourite Welshie, Ellis Lloyd Jones, sees enormous success on TikTok and quits Gregg’s
TikTok has became a huge part of many people’s lives thanks to the first lockdown, however when other users are seen replicating popular dance moves, then Ellis Lloyd Jones has taken this as an opportunity to represent Wales with pride.
Even thought Ellis has used the app since 2019, when most people hadn’t even heard about it yet, he first shot to fame in 2020 March with a video “Celebrities you probably didn’t know were Welsh”, which has now gained about 49k likes and thousands of comments. After this video, the Welshie started to produce all kinds of content ranging from how to pronounce the longest train station name in Welsh to funny situations in Greggs, where he used to work. As TikTok has allowed Ellis to build up such a big following, plus with royalties from every million views (as a perk for being a part of TikTok creator fund), he has been able to quit his job now to focus more on university work and TikTok.
Ellis’ TikTok journey has given him opportunities to work together with S4C and BBC and many other companies, which has been crazy as The Tab reported. Currently, he has 4.9 million likes and more than 122k followers. Climax Live wishes Ellis good luck for the future and we sure can’t wait to see some more awesome content!
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App Development, Apple, Siri, Voice Assistants, Voice Recognition
Siri Shortcuts, available with the release of iOS 12, are Apple’s next advance in the quest to create a more robust product assistant across all of their product line.
Most of us are familiar with Siri, Apple’s voice assistant that utilizes voice queries and a natural-language user interface to answer questions and perform any variety of actions. Siri is built into every device they sell, and with iOS 12 she’s about to get a lot more capable, thanks to Siri Shortcuts.
In a nutshell, Siri Shortcuts are designed to help consumers streamline the things they do often. They will transform how many people utilize their smart devices, and businesses that are prepared can also reap benefits from this feature.
For example, if someone loves your pizza, they can create a shortcut to do a series of actions like launch your app, order a large Veggie Delight, pay for it, and alert them when the delivery driver is 5 minutes away. The shortcut can even be designed to be activated by a custom voice command (e.g. “Hey Siri, order me a pizza”) — and then started by using Siri on their iPhone, their Watch, their kitchen Homepod, their Apple TV remote while sitting on the couch, or by talking to their CarPlay dash while driving home!
With iOS 12, there will be two types of Siri Shortcuts: automatically generated “suggestions” and custom shortcuts. Suggestions will be based on actual app usage, and the custom shortcuts the user creates themselves via a new Shortcuts app from Apple, or more simply, via buttons the developer builds within the app.
Siri Shortcuts: Suggestions
When someone performs a task with an app in a consistent pattern, and that app has been developed to inform Siri of those actions, Siri will take note of the pattern and generate a suggestion. If the activity occurs at the same time every day, say for example, starting a yoga routine, or searching a recipes app, a shortcut will appear on the home screen at that time with the activity ready to go. iPhone users will be delighted that their favorite apps are so thoughtful, or in the case of a newly installed app, it may quickly become their favorite. Siri suggestions are a wide open new beachhead upon which a business can differentiate itself from the rest.
Custom Siri Shortcuts: Simple
Apps can also be built or updated to display an “Add to Siri” button that will add the action just taken to a user’s custom Siri Shortcuts list. From there they can assign a voice command to repeat that action.
Imagine two workout apps: one that is not Add-to-Siri enabled, and one that is. Contrast how these apps will be used every day: In the first app, the person must find that app on their home screen and launch it. Then they have to navigate to the screen that starts the workout, possibly first navigating through the types of workouts the app offers. Finally they can tap the Start button.
In the second app (once the person agrees to the shortcut), the person says into their iPhone or even AirPods, “Hey Siri, start my workout.” That’s it. The app launches and the shortcut starts the pre-defined workout.
Which of these two apps is likely to be more successful? Assuming comparable features, the one that makes it easier for a consumer to get right into their workout. Such ease is valued by users in professional as well as personal settings, so it’s a win-win if you develop your app in a way that makes it simple for users to create a Siri shortcut.
Custom Siri Shortcuts: Advanced
While a shortcut to access features of one app is exciting, Apple also intends to make it possible for people to automate tasks within and between apps, allowing for extended multi-app workflows, launched with one voice command. Consumers will be able to create these more advanced automations via a new app from Apple, called Shortcuts, that will be available from the app store when iOS 12 is released.
Here’s how such a shortcut might work. Let’s say your company offers an app that adds fun effects to your customer’s pictures and allows them to order full size posters of them. The app has a “Glam” mode that identifies a face in the image and adds glitter, a backlight, and a tiara to the snapped photo.
Let’s say a user (“Sally”) has your app and is out having fun with her friends. Then boom, there’s a perfect scene to glam up. So she quickly takes a picture with the camera app, fully intending to create a poster to give her friend for her room. But adding the effects and creating the poster would take time away from the fun, so she saves it for later, and then forgets.
Now if the app had been created in a way that enabled her to create a workflow shortcut, she could have created one (we’ll call it “Glam time!”), to automate a whole series of actions. When she tells Siri “Hey Siri, Glam time!”, the following could then happen:
Camera app opens
Sally snaps her friend in the perfect pose
The newly saved photo is sent to your app
Your app applies the glam effects and shows Sally the preview
Sally loves it, and taps the “Create Poster” option
Your app creates and sends the order
Done — with just a quick voice command and two taps
As creating a custom workflow will require a certain amount of savvyness, we anticipate Apple’s Shortcuts app will have a gallery of pre-built workflows. Developers and business owners will want to work together to ensure their apps are well represented in this gallery to enable greater usage of their apps/tools.
We’re excited to think about the opportunities that Siri Shortcuts can offer to businesses. Apps that take advantage of this new functionality will have the chance to become the default choice for users in any of a variety of business and personal arenas. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss how to add this functionality to your app.
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Managing money can be very complicated and difficult for adults. But what people with kids may not realize is that the decisions they make can have a big impact on their children’s relationship with finances.
“Children observe and soak up everything, including how you use and talk about money,” said money and budgeting expert Andrea Woroch. “In fact, family attitudes toward spending and saving and mom and dad’s financial habits directly shape how children will value their own money in the future. It’s critical that parents understand how their own habits will influence their children and that they need to model the behavior they want their children to adopt.”
While kids can absorb many beneficial financial lessons from their parents, they also tend to take in less helpful ones as well. HuffPost asked Woroch and other financial experts to break down the kinds of harmful money messages kids learn from their caregivers ― and to share the types of approaches parents should try instead. Read on for their insights.
1. Money is a taboo topic.
“There’s a taboo out there that talking about money is bad, especially if you’re in debt, and that it’s shameful,” said Woroch. “When you don’t talk about money in your own household because you don’t want your kids to worry or because you don’t think it’s important that they are involved, you’re teaching your kids not to talk about money, and you restrict the opportunity for learning valuable money lessons early on.”
Tim Sheehan, co-founder and CEO of the family-focused financial literacy app Greenlight, echoed this sentiment. He believes that not discussing money at all with children leaves them in the dark when it comes to understanding what money means, how to get it and the right ways to manage it.
“Parents can start by helping their kids learn the ropes of decision-making,” Sheehan said. “Start small by explaining why you choose to spend money on groceries instead of takeout.”
Because so much of money management today happens on cellphone apps, children don’t observe things like bill-paying the way they did in the past. So parents need to “perform” money a bit to make sure their kids see them engage with finances and feel empowered to develop opinions about it, rather than simply getting lectured on the topic.
“I ask my children questions about money, which establishes that money is a thing we talk about,” said financial therapist Amanda Clayman. “These talks also demonstrate that people have questions without easy answers when it comes to money, that this is something you don’t have to be ashamed of, and that I’m a trusted source you can come to for help making decisions.”
2. Money is always around, no matter what.
The experts who spoke to HuffPost emphasized the importance of helping kids understand that people earn money from work and that it doesn’t simply “grow on trees.”
“It can start with something as simple as a chore,” Sheehan said. “This helps kids make the connection that, ‘If I do this work, then I’ll earn money.’ Then, kids can set a saving goal and work towards it. It teaches them about making real-world trade-off decisions instead of giving in to instant gratification.”
In addition to teaching kids about earning money, Sheehan believes that chores like hosing down the car or taking out the trash can help kids become generally more responsible and prepared for adulthood. As for families that don’t pay for household chores, they can look to neighborhood jobs or other ways to demonstrate that money is earned, not given.
3. Financial literacy is just a grown-up thing.
In addition to not talking about money, many parents don’t let their children gain experience managing money. But there are countless age-appropriate ways for kids to learn financial literacy and practice these skills.
“Start a small business,” suggested financial expert Kim Kiyosaki. “It’s key to learn the language of money. Kids can learn things such as income and expenses, profit and loss, cash flow, inventory, marketing, and the value of their time. This is hands-on, and it’s fun. And the learning is tremendous.”
She recommended businesses like mowing neighbors’ lawns, selling a product online, opening a lemonade stand, shining shoes, or even finding lost golf balls on local courses, cleaning them and selling them to golfers.
Kiyosaki shared other ways to teach kids about money, like buying a few shares of a company familiar to your children (like Disney) and letting them watch the price fluctuations and learn about the stock. Another approach is buying a 1-ounce silver coin. Or, you can leave it up to your kids.
“If your child wants a new toy or gadget, ask them, ‘How could you earn the money to buy it?’” she said. “Let them get creative.”
“You can’t teach your child the difference between needs and wants, or even the value of saving, if you are continually swiping a credit card for everything.”
– Kumiko Love, financial counselor and creator of The Budget Mom
4. Money talk only evokes negative emotions.
“Children are wired to be attuned to the emotions of their caregivers, so they start to notice associations,” Clayman explained. “They might notice if conversations about money seem to be tense or if their parents get upset and start talking about money when they ask for something. These form an emotional context that kids tend to grow with and bring into their financial lives as adults.”
While money is understandably a source of anxiety for many people, it’s important to be aware of how it affects you emotionally and make purchases with that knowledge in mind. For parents, acknowledging and managing your emotions around finances can help you pass on healthier attitudes to your children.
“A lot of bad spending behavior is related to a need to emotionally self-regulate,” Clayman said. “You’re feeling stressed, and your brain is like, ‘I need this thing!’ It becomes an obsessive thought. But you can recognize that you’re having a feeling, which is triggering you to want to buy the thing. So ask, ‘How can I come back to my intention for my money and soothe myself through this feeling in a way that doesn’t involve shopping?’”
5. Impulse buying is the norm.
Woroch believes a big mistake parents make is giving in to their children’s desires for shiny new objects while running errands such as buying groceries together.
“If you’re constantly buying your child a toy, you’re passing on the habit of impulse shopping,” she said. “Instead, think of this as a teaching moment. When my daughter asks for something new, I talk to her about why we went to the store in the first place and that toys were not on our shopping list. If there’s something she really wants, we talk about how that can be a Christmas or birthday gift and that we will keep a list of her wants to consider in the future. The occasional splurge is OK, just don’t make it a habit.”
Jim DeGaetano, president of Diamond Wealth Advisors and author of the “Larry the Bunny Saves His Money,” emphasized the importance of establishing solid money habits early by teaching kids self-control in “an ‘I want it now’ world.”
“As parents, we want to provide the best for our kids and give them the world, but there must be a balance in our approach, or otherwise they will grow up with unrealistic expectations that they can and should be able to afford whatever they desire,” he said. “It is OK to tell your kids that you cannot afford something and that you need to save up for a particular purchase.”
6. Wants and needs are the same thing.
Another big part of financial literacy is teaching children the difference between needs and wants ― things like shelter and healthy food versus new toys and candy. In addition to talking about the difference, parents can model it.
“You can’t teach your child the difference between needs and wants, or even the value of saving, if you are continually swiping a credit card for everything,” said Kumiko Love, a financial counselor and creator of The Budget Mom. “One of the biggest mistakes we can make as parents is not improving our own habits and skills around financial management.”
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There are many opportunities for parents to model or talk about money management with their children.
Although it’s important to separate wants and needs, Clayman cautioned against shaming children for their wants.
“What often happens is a child says, ‘I want this $100 sweatshirt,’ and a parent is like, ‘That’s so selfish of you to want that. That’s a waste of money’ ― as opposed to just, ‘That doesn’t fit in our budget,’ or, ‘We put our money toward other things,’” she explained.
“One is an empowering message about your power to make decisions about money as an adult, and the other is making the child feel wrong for desiring something,” Clayman added. “That leads to a lot of $200 sweatshirts in your child’s future.”
7. Looking for cheaper alternatives isn’t worth the time.
Whether something is a want or a need, odds are there are ways to get it for a lower price. At the very least, it’s worth checking. This is a lesson Woroch believes many parents are missing the opportunity to teach.
“Guide your children to make savvier shopping decisions, such as shopping at a local consignment store for a coveted pair of jeans to make them more affordable,” she advised, adding that kids and teens can also learn to look for coupons or discount codes online.
“You can even turn shopping into a game, having them look for cheaper options and then use a cash-back app like Fetch Rewards and have your kids take pictures of your shopping receipts to earn points good towards free gift cards to stores like Amazon or Target,” Woroch suggested. “Then let your kids redeem those gift cards to get something they really want.”
8. Your financial situation is fixed.
“Families who are on a tight budget may talk about what they can’t afford often instead of trying to figure out how they can afford it,” Woroch said. “This limiting view gets passed down to children who may feel like they too are stuck in the income they earn and never break the rut. There are so many opportunities to earn more money, like taking on a side hustle.”
Kids can understand the dynamic nature of finances by gaining hands-on experience managing their own money. Teens might learn the consequence of spending decisions, like how a night out at the movies might delay the purchase of a game they’re saving for. Younger kids can get similar lessons from playtime.
“When I would play ‘kitchen’ with my daughter, she would be the restaurant owner, and I would have play money to purchase the wonderful food she was ‘making,’ but sometimes Daddy did not have enough money to pay for it,” DeGaetano explained. “My 4-year-old son loves his cars and trucks, and sometimes the trucks had to go over a toll bridge, and I was the operator. The ticket to pass through the bridge cost money.”
“This may sound simple, but kids learn sequentially through observation,” he added. “The absence of any dialogue or involvement about money with your children will lead them to make their own views and suggestions, which will come from outside sources such as online advertising, which very rarely promotes saving money first.”
“Battling around who’s correct or incorrect reinforces rigidity and that there can’t be compromise, that both people can’t have a legitimate point of view. This a destructive misunderstanding to have about money and how it works.”
– Amanda Clayman, financial therapist
9. Money is about secrets and lies.
“When kids see parents engaging in behavior that they’re keeping secret, that is an expression of shame,” Clayman noted.
She pointed to people who hide certain types of spending from their partners, or even tell their children, “It’s our little secret.” While they may say they don’t want to upset their partner or know their partner wouldn’t agree with the purchases, the bad message they send is that they don’t think their partner could understand that part of them, so there’s a limit on intimacy and the ability to openly own who they are.
Another issue stems from when children ask questions about money that trigger their parents or make them feel uncomfortable, so they shut it down ― like, “How much money do we have?” or, “How much money do we make?”
“There’s nothing inappropriate about that question. It’s a natural thing to be curious about,” Clayman said. “It doesn’t mean a parent is under gunpoint, compelled to answer. But just take a moment and say, ‘I hear your question, I want to answer it, I have some concerns about how we talk about that and why you want to know.’ Or even just asking, ‘Why do you want to know that?’”
These clarifying questions give parents more context, and they do not have to respond right away. Instead, they can say, “This is something that’s important, so I’m going to take some time to handle this one.”
10. Credit cards are bad.
Woroch said a money mistake many parents make is “telling [their] high school or soon-to-be college students that credit cards are evil.” Instead, she recommended parents teach their children how to use credit cards wisely to build credit.
“In fact, you can get your child a card with a small balance and have them help you manage the account every month so they understand why paying the bill in full and on time is important and that you don’t charge things you can’t afford,” she explained. “Otherwise, they may fall into the trap of getting a card when they’re living on their own and dig themselves into debt, afraid to tell you about it since you cautioned them against it.”
Financial adviser Nicola Smith Jackson believes teens can also understand the meaning of a credit score and the importance of maintaining a good one.
“A credit score of 740 or above can be a powerful tool to build wealth when used responsibly,” she advised parents to explain to their adolescents. “A great credit score makes life less expensive by reducing interest rates on purchases like cars, homes, lines of credit and credit cards.”
11. Saving is everything.
While the importance of saving, rather than constantly spending, is a good lesson for kids, parent shouldn’t drill it in as the only thing to do with one’s funds.
“The average interest rate today for a savings account is 0.05%. In my parents’ time they could save their way to retirement. Not today,” said Kiyosaki. “Instead of saving money, why not teach our kids how to grow the money they make by investing their money? Having their money work for them.”
She advised teaching kids about stocks and mutual funds, but also other ways to grow their money like starting a small business. Investing a small amount of money also offers kids the opportunity to learn by trial and error.
“The problem with avoiding mistakes is that kids come out of school scared to death of making a mistake. In reality, the way human beings are designed to learn is by making mistakes — and learning from those mistakes,” Kiyosaki explained. “So, reading and studying is part of learning, but it’s been proven that the best way to learn and to retain what you learn is by doing the real thing.”
12. Money rules are rigid and universal.
Every family and individual is different when it comes to financial planning. The rules and guidelines that are helpful for some won’t work for others, so it’s best not to act like one particular approach is sacrosanct.
“Battling around who’s correct or incorrect reinforces rigidity and that there can’t be compromise, that both people can’t have a legitimate point of view. This a destructive misunderstanding to have about money and how it works,” Clayman said.
She advised parents to figure out what’s helpful for their children ― whether that’s giving an allowance for household chores or keeping chores separate from money management. The important thing is simply being transparent about what your decision is and why.
“I think it’s really helpful for parents to help children see that they can hold space for those kinds of dilemmas and identify their values and what’s important to them and how money is helping them live those values or getting in the way,” she said. “Rigid ideas of right and wrong things to do with money is an unhelpful framework. We face money dilemmas and take on risk in our financial choices all the time. We take on student loan debt or move to an expensive city on an entry-level salary. But that’s an investment in your future and the kind of life you want to live.”
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UK Revenue and Customs to Upgrade Barbados’ Tax Transparency Status
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Date : 06 Mai, 2011
British Government believes OECD Global Forum should review Barbados tax information-exchange finding as soon as possible
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS (May 6, 2011)–The British Government has advised the Government of Barbados that it will upgrade that country’s status with respect to the UK’s legislation on offshore non-compliance by U.K taxpayers.
Barbados has been notified that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will promote Barbados to Category 2 status when a revised UK Statutory Instrument is made in a few months’ time.
This significant upgrade of Barbados from Category 3 status was a direct result of its 2011 Income Tax (Exchange of Information) Regulations which provides for the unilateral exchange of tax information according to the 2008 OECD standard with Barbados’ new and existing tax treaty partners, including the UK, who are now unable to exchange tax information consistent with international standards.
The British Government has also signaled its support for a revised OECD Global Forum Phase I report on Barbados’ transparency and tax information exchange credentials based on the 2011 regulations noting that “there is a strong case for a supplementary report to be presented [by Barbados] to the Peer Review Group of the Global Forum on the Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes as soon as possible”.
The Global Forum is the multilateral framework for dealing with issues of transparency and exchange of information by both OECD and non-OECD economies. In order to carry out in-depth monitoring and review of implementation of OECD tax standards, the Global Forum has established a Peer Review Group (PRG).
« This swift and decisive response by the British Government is most welcome, and underscores the long history of tax cooperation our countries have enjoyed since 1970 when the Barbados-UK tax treaty came into force. » said Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.
The Prime Minister noted that like the OECD Global Forum, Barbados believes information exchange should be grounded in the provisions of a bilateral agreement and is pleased that during the week of May 16, this year, a protocol to our tax treaty with the UK will be negotiated to update, among other things, the existing provision on exchange of information.
In its Phase I report, the PRG cited Barbados’ inability to exchange tax information with relevant partners because existing treaties, although providing for information exchange, did not contain the 2008 standard and new treaties reflecting the standard had not yet been ratified. The PRG did however acknowledge that Barbados had done all within its power to update existing treaties and to bring its new treaties into force but nonetheless determined that Barbados would not be eligible for a Phase II evaluation of its administrative policies and practices supporting tax information for 12 months.
« Barbados has already informed the OECD Global Forum of the 2011 Income Tax Regulations and our intention to request a supplementary report on our legal and regulatory transparency and tax information exchange regime based on these regulations once the Forum adopts its draft revised methodology to provide for supplementary reporting” said Prime Minister Stuart.
The Prime Minister reiterated his Government’s disappointment with the Global Forum’s Phase I findings noting the highly prejudicial consequences of the PRG’s determination that Barbados was not eligible for advancement to a Phase II evaluation. “The assessment was particularly egregious given that the OECD itself has since 2002 endorsed Barbados as a transparent jurisdiction that has never relied on secrecy to attract investment. A policy demonstrated by our long history of codifying international transparency and information exchange norms through our aggressive and longstanding policy of tax treaty negotiation. This settled policy again received endorsement in 2009 by the G-20 and the OECD when Barbados found itself the only independent Caribbean country on their “white-list” of jurisdictions found to be in substantial compliance with international standard on transparency and tax information exchange. Indeed, this explains the currency of our standing despite the Phase I conclusion”, stated Prime Minister Stuart.
“We look forward, now, to working with our partners in the Global Forum and the United National Expert Committee on International Tax and call for the speedy adoption of the OECD Global Forum’s revised methodology to secure an outcome that serves the best interests of the people of Barbados and the wider international community.”
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 22:17
Hamas deputy political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
With Thursday’s indictment of Hussam Hassan Kawasme as the Hamas mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in June, government officials called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to do what he and senior PA officials said then that they would: rethink the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation process.
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Weʼve raised £485 to raise money for vital medical supplies to take out to Kenya with Patchworking Against Poverty.
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In March 2019, we are travelling to remote areas in Kenya, east Africa to volunteer for one of three medical camps with the charity Patchworking Against Poverty. Over 9 days we will provide treatment, care, medical attention and support to those who desperately need it. The locals of Kenya (roughly around 3000-4000 people) will travel far and wide and will queue up and wait to see us from sunrise to sunset.
These local people have no access to medical attention whether that be dentists, doctors, first aiders or sexual health workers. It will be our job to provide them with what they need, ranging from injections to wound care to pain relief, minor illness and injury treatment, sexual health care and everything else in between.
We are raising money for medical supplies, medicine, clothes, toys and books for the children (also for those in the surrounding orphanage, Grace’s Care Centre.)
The medical supplies we will be taking with us will cost us around £7000 and the money raised will be solely spent on this.
*Please note, none of the monies raised goes towards any expenses for ourselves to go out to Kenya.* We will be camping and living very basically for the whole time we are providing treatment.
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Mr. Adamo graduated cum laude from Florida A&M College of Law and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Mr. Adamo also attended Rutgers State University as part of his undergraduate studies.
Mr. Adamo worked for nearly twenty years as a computer analyst, programmer, and software trainer before becoming an attorney. Mr. Adamo approaches all of his cases...
David Thomas Bonfiglio
(480) 970-0974 4356 N Civic Center Plaza
Landlord Tenant, Collections, Probate and Real Estate
University of Wyoming College of Law
Martin R. Galbut
Scottsdale, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer with 49 years of experience
Martin R. Galbut is the co-founder and managing partner of Galbut Beabeau, P.C., located in Phoenix, Arizona. Devoting his practice exclusively to business litigation, mediation and arbitration in many areas of commerce, he represents clients throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area in matters involving securities law, shareholder and owner disputes, antitrust violations, intellectual property protection, insurance, employment law, real estate transactions, defense of claimed lawyer malpractice and health care issues. His reputation among his peers has earned Mr. Galbut much recognition, including an AV Preeminent* rating for over 30 years from Martindale-Hubbell and numerous listings in Best Lawyers in America**, local...
Larry Dean Langley
(480) 609-9616 8170 N 86th Pl
Landlord Tenant, Asbestos, Insurance Claims and Nursing Home
Mr. Langley has been a coverage attorney and insurance defense litigator since 1973, having attained his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Francisco Law School. He is actively licensed in Arizona and California and has tried in excess of seventy jury trial in federal and state courts including several first party bad faith, serious injury, wrongful death, professional liability, and punitive damages cases. His most recent trial in Arizona involved a False Light Invasion of Privacy and Intentional Interference of Business Relationships case. He has diversified expertise in construction defect, property, fraud, arson and coverage matters including examinations...
Ronald Thomas
(602) 788-1395 11811 N. Tatum Blvd.
Landlord Tenant, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Family
Southwestern University School of Law
Mr. Thomas has been practicing law for almost a quarter century, virtually all of it in the practice areas of divorce, child custody, and bankruptcy. Mr. Thomas has a particular passion for defending husbands and fathers in divorce and custody cases, although he does not limit his clientele to men only. He also enjoys setting people free of debt through the use of federal bankruptcy laws. Mr. Thomas is skillful, knowledgeable, and dedicated to achieving the best possible results for his clients. Meet with Mr. Thomas for a consultation; you will find that he is straightforward and eager to help....
Michaile J. Berg
Landlord Tenant, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Michaile J. Berg has extensive experience in negotiating and completing complex corporate and real estate transactions, including corporate formation and governance documents, contracts, employment agreements, leases, purchase & sale, and licensing agreements.
Ms. Berg has served as counsel in arbitrations before the AAA and FINRA, mediations, and civil litigation matters in the Maricopa County Superior Court, the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Arizona.
Ms. Berg is a Phoenix native and received her B.S., summa cum laude, from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in 2005 and J.D. from...
John Eric York
Glendale, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer with 16 years of experience
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Brian Locker
Mesa, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer
(480) 788-9911 1201 S. Alma School Rd.
Liberty University School of Law
Some of my experiences include working at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, where I assisted in depositions, discovery matters and trial preparation. While in law school, I competed in the Federal Bar Association Moot Court Tournament. Also, my skills in negotiation were recognized by the American Bar Association as Negotiations Competition Regional Champion and was ranked as one of the top 20 student negotiators, two years in a row. Credentials In addition to my active student body life on the negotiations front, I received my bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Arizona State University in 2007 and went on...
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The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
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(602) 274-4400 3300 N Central Ave
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(480) 710-5079 7150 E. 2nd Street, Suite 200
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(480) 626-2783 60 East Rio Salado Pkwy
Tempe, AZ 85281
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Phoenix, AZ Landlord Tenant Attorney
2916 N 7th Ave
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(602) 845-0152 1747 E. Morten Avenue
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(480) 427-2800 1400 E. Southern Ave.
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Queen Creek, AZ Landlord Tenant Attorney with 28 years of experience
(248) 789-0382 2055 W Jasper Butte Dr
Queen Creek, AZ 85142
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Lorenz Schuerch
Lakeside, AZ Landlord Tenant Attorney with 5 years of experience
Lakeside, AZ 85901
Landlord Tenant, Consumer, Criminal and Personal Injury
Lorenz earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In law school, he worked as the vice president of the Indian Law Society and helped develop programs for economic development on tribal land. He also received the school’s Pro Bono honors for volunteering as a tax consultant for indigent individuals in his community. One summer, during law school, Lorenz worked in Washington, D.C. with one of the top law firms in the country. There, he developed his litigation and legislative skills while he focused his efforts on Indian Gaming administration, tribal recognition, and legislative advocacy.
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Anne Margaret Borowiec
Sierra Vista, AZ Landlord Tenant Attorney with 19 years of experience
(520) 417-0221 1723 S. HWY 92
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
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Joseph James Valenti
Tucson, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(520) 628-7777 177 N Church Ave. Suite 200
Tucson, AZ 85701
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John F Kennedy Univ School of Law
Michael J Gordon
Cottonwood, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer
(928) 649-8609 850 Cove Pkwy
Cottonwood, AZ 86326
Michael J. Gordon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Gordon grew up in Camp Verde, Arizona. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University. Michael Gordon graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark School of Law in 2002. Prior to forming Gordon & Gordon, PLLC Attorney’s at Law, Michael Gordon worked for the law firm of Aspey, Watkins & Diesel, PLLC in Flagstaff, Arizona. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Construction Law; Tribal Law; Contracts; Collections; Trust & Estate Planning; Wills; Zoning Admitted: 2002 Arizona and U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; Navajo Nation Law School: Brigham Young University College of Law, JD 2002 College:...
Kenneth Moyer
Lake Havasu City, AZ Landlord Tenant Lawyer
(928) 505-4906 1845 McCulloch Blvd., Suite A-10
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
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Sacoil buys majority stake in Afric Oil
By Siobhan Cassidy Mar 6, 2017
Cape Town – Sacoil, the South African based independent African oil and gas company, said on Monday that it had acquired a 71 percent interest in Afric Oil Group, one of the largest independent fuel distributors in South Africa.
Following completion, Sacoil’s portfolio will consist of operated production activities in Egypt, exploration in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Botswana, a crude trading allocation with Nigerian National Petroleum Company and fuel distribution operations in Southern Africa.
Afric Oil distributes more than 30 million litres of fuel product (diesel, petrol and paraffin) monthly to a diversified client base that includes local and national government, parastatals, blue chip mining and industrial customers and other non-refinery wholesalers of fuel products. A recent acquisition is expected to contribute an additional 16 million litres per month of fuel products.
Dr Thabo Kgogo, Sacoil’s chief executive, said the “truly transformational” deal was in line with Sacoil’s strategy of diversifying operations into the downstream segments of the African oil and gas value chain and underpinning the business with low volatility and predictable revenue streams. The statement added that the acquisition was in line with Sacoil’s strategy to become a fully integrated, pan-African industry player across the oil and gas value chain in Africa.
Sacoil said it remained focused on delivering energy for Africa using the continent’s own resources to meet the significant growth in demand expected over the next decade.
The statement added that the acquisition of its first operational footprint in South Africa would also enable it “to play a meaningful role in the socio-economic development of the country”.
Sacoil is acquiring Phembani Oil, which owns the 71 percent interest in Afric Oil, from Gentacure and its holding company, Moopong Investments Holdings, for a total of up to R200 million in cash and shares. This consists of an initial consideration of R147.3 million and another up to R52.7 million depending on Afric Oil’s performance this year. The remaining 29 percent of Afric Oil is held by the Compensation Fund, a fund managed by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC).
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Afric Oil, which was established in 1995 as South Africa’s first 100 percent black-owned oil company, reported turnover for the year to the end of December 2015 of more than R3 billion. Its operations are predominantly in South Africa, but it has an operating presence in the wider region including Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia.
The acquisition in February of this year of certain operating assets of Big Red Investments, Redlex Investments, Turquoise Moon Trading 477 (collectively know as the Big Red acquisition) and the fuel distribution business Forever Fuels will expand Afric Oil’s regional footprint and provide access to a stable higher margin business. The Big Red acquisition will further enhance Afric Oil’s distribution capabilities with ownership of a fleet of 32 product distribution vehicles and a fuels depot facility, including on land in Randfontein, Gauteng.
The Big Red acquisition is expected to contribute an additional 16 million litres per month of fuel products and approximately R1.8 billion of revenue per annum.
The statement added that the “experienced, stable and highly credible executive team” of chief executive officer Tseke Nkadimeng and chief financial officer Isaiah Mutandiwa would continue to manage the Afric Oil business after the acquisition. Sacoil’s Kgogo added: “We see great potential to scale up the Afric Oil business and we are excited by the growth opportunities.
“Furthermore, as a South African-based business, we are pleased to be establishing a meaningful operational footprint in our country, and look forward to playing an important role in distributing fuel products that drive the key industries that are at the heart of our nation’s economy.”
The deal is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions including approval from the competition authorities of South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is expected to complete before the end of May.
AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY
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Concrete Dam Characteristics
1.6. Concrete dam types and characteristics:
Concrete dams are constructed of mass concrete. Face slopes are dissimilar, generally steep downstream and near vertical upstream, and dams have relatively slender profiles dependent upon the type. This group includes all types of concrete dams as,
1-Gravity Dams: The concrete gravity dam is made of roller compacted concrete (RCC) or masonry building and adopted to sites having sound rock foundation. Gravity dams depend on their weight in stability. However, low structures may be founded on alluvial foundations provided with adequate cutoffs. Spillway is a monolithic part of the dam as seen in Figure (2-3) .
Figure (2-5) Gravity Dams
2- Arch Dam: A concrete arch dam is built at sites where the…show more content…
Flat slab damns and multiple arch dams are the two common types of buttressed concrete dams Figure (2-5) . Figure (2-5) Buttress Dams
A comparison of the general characteristics of concrete dams with those of the embankment dam suggests the following inherent disadvantages for the former.
1. Concrete dams are relatively demanding with respect to foundation conditions, requiring sound and stable rock.
2. Concrete dams require processed natural materials of suitable quality and quantity for aggregate, and the importation to site and storage of bulk cement and other materials.
3. Traditional mass concrete construction is relatively slow, being labor intensive and discontinuous, and requires certain skills, e.g. for formwork, concreting, etc.
4. Completed unit costs for mass concrete, i.e. cost per cubic meter, and are very much higher than for embankment fills, typically by an order of magnitude or more. This is seldom counterbalanced by the much lower volumes of concrete required in a dam of given height.
1.7. Design and Construction of New embankment Dams:
The design and construction of embankment dams is complex because of the nature of the varying foundation conditions and range of properties of the materials available for…show more content…
(e) Design safety factors : The designing engineer shall use the following minimum safety factors: 1.75 for horizontal shear at base of fill; 1.5 for horizontal shear within the fill due to seepage through the outer face; 1.5 for bearing capacity of foundation soils; 1.5 for protection against shear failure of any circular arc in either inside or outside slope. It is imperative that water pressure distribution be included in the analyses.
Construction phase:
This phase includes preparation of subsequent construction contracts, review of selected construction contracts, site visits, support for claims and modifications, development of operation and maintenance (O&M) manuals, and preparation and maintenance of as-built drawings. Site visits must be made to verify that conditions match the assumptions used in designing the project features.
Essay On Lightweight Concrete
(Newman and Choo, 2003) 2.1.3.2.1.1 Lightweight aggregate concrete: Lightweight aggregates are used to produce lightweight concrete when the weight of aggregates is lower than 1120 kg/m3 (Mehta and Monteiro, 2006). Lightweight aggregates have many sources: a)
Disadvantages Of Conformal Materials
Polymer Impregnated Concrete (PIC)- Improved damping capacity (High damping at lower frequency range Hollow Composites Sphere- It consists of hollow spheres as filler and epoxy resin as matrix material. Reduced weight. Higher thermal coefficient of expansion than steel. Hollow sphere consists of a mixture of metal oxides or plastic and size ranges from 10µm to 2mm. Cementitious Composite Materials- Cement as binders.
What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Self-Compacting Concrete
Concrete, a strong, durable material composed of cement, aggregate, and water, is the most used building material in the world. The improvement of concrete is needed and essential in order to increase the performance and sustainability. Good quality concrete requires adequate compaction during casting by skilled labours, which have numerous disadvantages. Self-compacting concrete (SCC), with self-compacting ability enables the concrete to self-levelled and compacted under its own weight without internal or external compaction. The highly fluid nature of SCC makes it suitable for placing in difficult conditions and in sections with congested reinforcement.
Aggregate Crushing Test
Aggregate grading is very important in relation to the properties of concrete. This does not directly measure the size of the aggregates but instead the aggregates are put through a sieve and the mass retained is measured. (Owens, 2013) 3.1.1) Coarse aggregates A coarse aggregate is the portion of aggregates that does not pass through the 4.5mm sieve because they are to big. These aggregates are known as stone (Owens, 2013). As can be seen in the graph below, there is a relationship between corase aggregate and sieve size, the bigger the sieve size the more corase aggregates are present.
Essay On Bridge Bridges
The H-shaped beams will be more preferable in this case since; the beams will be able to with stand the shear forces and stress exerted by bending and through shear loads. Due to its shape, it is able to provide efficient support at the top and at the bottom. Its however disadvantaged in that, it is not efficient in carrying torsion as there is preference of hollow structures in this case. The beams are made of steel, which is the most ideal material for use. The load exerted on the beams will be caused by; the load from the self weight caused by the deck, loads resulted to by the live loads, weight exerted due to car skidding as well as effect of braking and horizontal loads as a result of temperature and movements such as wind.
Pypropylene Fiber Research Paper
CHAPTER 3 Project Description 3.1 THEORITICAL CONCEPTS ABOUT FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE Concrete being a brittle building material and having low tensile strength is unfit to resist tension until duly reinforced. The concept of using fibers to reinforce building materials is not a nascent concept this method has been old and been run by intuition. Hoarse hairs and straws had been used in old times to prevent plaster material from cracking. More recently when Portland cement started evolving, attempts were made to enhance the properties of the cement by adding fibers. The concept of adding fibers to overcome the inherent behavior of concrete of showing brittle failure under tensile load.
Glass Fibre Lab Report
This method need minimum capital outlay. However, the strength level is in modest state as high fibre concentration is difficult and the fibre are oriented in three dimension. The premixed material is usually placed into a mould and vibrated but it can alternatively be applied by using trowel or spray. Thus, the glass fibre added at the end of concrete mix cycle in order to avoid glass fibre strength from decreasing. (Neal et, al, 1978) Figure 2.7: Premixed Method.
Essay About Dams
INTRODUCTION ABOUT DAMS WHAT ARE DAMS? A dam is a hydraulic structure of fairly impervious material built across a river to create a reservoir on its upstream side for impounding water for various purposes. A dam and a reservoir are complements of each other. Dams are generally constructed in the mountainous reach of the river where the valley is narrow and the foundation is good. Generally, a hydropower station is also constructed at or near the dam site to develop hydropower.
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Conc
and steel, both of which have entirely different mechanical properties. Steel can be considered a homogeneous material and its ft and ductility are very high. Conc.. is, non-homogenous making from different materials. The evaluation of mechanics of RC members made of two materials is very difficult because one of the materials, which is Conc., behaves differently in tension than in compression and may be considered to be inelastic. And the second one is steel whose properties define well.
Disadvantages Of Concrete Design
The most common applications are pavements, tunnel linings, pavements and slabs, shotcrete and now shotcrete also containing silica fume, airport pavements, bridge deck slab repairs, and so on. There has also been some recent experimental work on roller-compacted concrete (RCC) reinforced with steel fibers. The list is endless, apparently limited only by the ingenuity of the engineers involved. The fibers themselves are, unfortunately, relatively expensive; a 1% steel fiber addition will approximately double the material costs of the concrete, and this has tended to limit the use of SFRC to special applications. The largest application for steel fiber reinforced concrete is floor slab construction, although it’s use as a replacement for or complement to structural reinforcement in other applications is growing fast.
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Katie Holmes will spend Christmas with Suri Cruise and her own family
The 'Dead Accounts' Broadway star - who split from 'Mission Impossible' actor Tom Cruise in June after six years of marriage and has sole custody of their six-year-old daughter - is said to have agreed that Suri will spend the festive season with her after she spent Thanksgiving with him in London last week.
A source told the MailOnline: "Katie and Tom are focused on Suri and as part of their divorce agreement, Suri will spend Christmas with Katie.
"They are trying to be amicable and Tom will see Suri over the holidays - but on Christmas, Suri will be with Katie and her family."
The little girl was spotted back at her New York school on Monday after spending last week in England with Tom, who has been shooting a movie there and prior to last week's visit hadn't seen her for three months.
A source told the Daily Mirror that Tom hired four guards to protect Suri and treated her to a day at the Harry Potter World theme park in Hertfordshire on Friday.
Katie, 33, spent the holiday with her own family in her native Ohio.
She previously opened up about her plans, saying: "We have Thursday off, so I'm going to have a chance to go home with my family.
"My sister makes a really good sausage stuffing and my mom makes a great turkey. Many years ago, my dad started this tradition where we all do this run in the local park.
"It's a three mile run called the Turkey Trot. There's even a prize, which I haven't won yet. But it's really fun."
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Container to be placed in Dublin city to cut down on delivery vans
Cyclists and walkers to collect parcels from container to be placed on Wolfe Tone Street
Thu, May 18, 2017, 17:00 Updated: Mon, May 22, 2017, 11:37
Dan Griffin
A container (featuring a design by Dearbhla ní Fhaoilleacháin Ryan from NCAD) will be placed at a fenced off area on Wolfe Tone Street each day. Photograph: UPS
Electronically assisted tricycles, as well as individuals on foot, will be used to deliver packages to and from the container. Photograph: UPS
UPS currently operates the system in Hamburg, Germany, using four storage containers. Photograph: Dublin City Council presentation slide
A new plan to reduce the number of delivery vans on Dublin’s streets will see goods being distributed by cyclists and walkers taking parcels from a special container in the city centre.
The new system, modelled on a scheme in Germany, will be run by UPS in conjunction with Dublin City Council.
Dublin City Council hopes the scheme will lead to a reduction of 150-200 vehicle movements within the trial area on the city’s northside.
It involves a storage container being placed on Wolfe Tone Street from which walkers and cyclists operating electrically assisted tricycles - or ebikes - will take packages and deliver them to local businesses and houses.
UPS operates four such containers in Hamburg, Germany, and first suggested the idea for Dublin in 2015.
The pilot, initially applying to UPS customers, will begin on June 1st and will last for six months. If it is successful the council said it would consider introducing it across the city on a permanent basis.
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Council senior executive engineer Mary Hussey said she hoped the plan would help to reduce vehicles dispatched to the city centre daily, increase capacity for the movement of people and goods and facilitate efficient goods deliveries.
She said there are 314 deliveries and pick up stops within a 1.5km radius of Church Street (264 commercial, 27 residential and 22 pickup stops).
Under the new plan many of these would be served by ebikes and individuals on foot instead of vehicles.
The trailer will be filled with cargo each day and driven into the city where it will be placed at a specially fenced-off location on Wolfe Tone Street.
Walkers and cyclists will take packages to and from it during the day, and in the evening it will be driven away again.
Ms Hussey said a location usually used for coach parking had been selected. “We would hope to rescind that coach parking [AND]get a permit for the trailer,” she said.
Councillors at a meeting this month expressed support for the idea in principle but some voiced concern about the location.
“The fish market would be much more appropriate,” said Mannix Flynn, adding that residents around Wolfe Tone park would be disappointed with the increase of bike traffic and the loss of parking.
Ms Hussey said the plan could be scrapped if it does not work.
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Eight tips on how IT folk should deal with finicky users
Lisa Schmeiser
@itbusinessca
Those damned users. They’re always whining about how people in IT don’t get them, don’t know how to communicate, and need to “align” to their interests. As if only IT pros have to do the work in the relationship.
But we all know that this unfair situation is common, and IT suffers as a result. And IT pros particularly suffer when it’s time for cutbacks. Fortunately, IT pros can get the upper hand by thinking of users as a problem to be solved through a rational plan, as if it were any other vexing issue that gums up the works.
Here are some of the more unusual stories from help desk professionals
To help IT get the upper hand, InfoWorld has put together an eight-part plan for dealing with users, which we call the “Users for Dummies” plan, after the famous line of books that teaches everything from Windows Vista to sex for the novice, um, user.
HR people and hiring managers, bless their hearts, would call this “soft skills,” a squishy term that often insinuates that IT pros will never get it. Herewith is InfoWorld’s guide to mastering those soft skills in a way that anyone with a disciplined, engineering mind can use.
Here are seven great techniques that will help you get promoted
By the time you’ve worked through this eight-step guide, you’ll have a working arsenal of soft skills — and the advantage of being able to work with users at their level while remaining fully in command of your right brain.
1. Your company doesn’t exist just to employ you.
Find out why it’s employing everyone else, tooConsider the breadth and depth of the tasks the IT department is routinely asked to perform: Keep our systems secure! Build us internal tools for updating the Web site! Craft arcane queries for our database! Cut back IT spending by 20 per cent by implementing green technology!
It’s no wonder that it’s tempting to simply focus on the demands of the job. However, it’s important to be able to look at how IT department serves the company as a whole. This way you can explain to other departments, in their native tongues, why they should pay you proper homage in the form of appropriate budgets and personnel.
Why should you do this? “If you can figure out how to apply technology skills to what your company does and its specific business models, you can help it save money. You can help it run more efficiently,” says Tom Silver, a senior vice president at tech job-search site Dice.com.
But why should you care about your company’s bottom line? Because companies that run efficiently tend to be more successful in the long run. Some of that will rub off on you — or, at least, you’ll remain employed.
How do you do this? Your first step may be to figure out what your company makes and how it makes it. It’s very easy for a Web developer to get lost in the AJAX underbrush, but look up and start seeing where your work fits into a bigger picture. If your organization has business analysts who move between the tech and business development departments, start hanging out with those folks. They’ll be your emissaries to the brand-new world beyond the server room.
What’s the likely payoff? Not only will you be able to see where the ax falls during the next round of layoffs, you’ll be able to ensure that you’re nowhere near the whistling blade.
2. Money talks, so learn to speak the language
Look — we know it’s important for you to invest in technologies that will let you improve network security, provide up-to-the-minute backups, and optimize the performance of all your servers. But nobody else in the office is going to care unless you can drop the best-practices lingo and speak to them in their language. No, we’re not sugesting you talk slowly and use small words (although that may help). We’re telling you to always present your demands in terms of how they’ll benefit everyone’s bottom line. And when people ask you for something? Learn to say yes or no in a way that implies the alternative is much more expensive or much less profitable.
Why should you do this? Ian Anderson, who heads up the Independent Oracle Users Group, says, “IT can no longer hide and operate as a separate entity from the rest of the company, especially in light of the poor economy and the resultant conservative stance of many in senior leadership.” Roughly translated: Every conversation you have outside your department needs to remind the bean counters that IT’s an investment against future earnings.
How do you do this? Make friends with someone who’s fluent in speaking money. This person can help you present your IT goals and projects in terms of “value propositions” — that is, the bottom line for the company bean counters. Your ultimate goal, says Silver, is to show how your technical to-dos translate into dollars and cents.
What’s the likely payoff? By speaking the language of the money people in your company, you’re increasing the chances that they’ll understand what you want to do and why you want to do it. And that will make them more likely to say yes.
3. Stick to your vision of IT and ignore the focus groups
The reason you work in IT is because you know what technical solutions best meet your company’s needs and which ones help your users or customers do their jobs to the best of their abilities. However, sometimes, you’ll run across people who are under the impression that you work in IT because you secretly yearn to indulge the counterproductive whimsies of everyone else. Your job is to deprogram these people and help them see the light.
Why should you do this? Because if you do not, you could end up explaining to a C-level executive why a user brought down the company’s servers when he began forwarding an e-mail promising untold wealth from deposed Nigerian princes.
How do you do this? Illinois Institute of Technology systems specialist Valeria Scarlata says it starts with e-mail: “Write a clear, friendly e-mail and send out updates and notifications of IT interruptions and maintenance and changes well ahead of time.” Once you’ve mastered that, move on to using that friendly communications style to explain why IT does what it does.
A lot of users automatically put their wants ahead of company priorities — and, of course, IT’s priorities. So they need a little reminder from time to time that their wants could have repercussions beyond their desktop. And maybe, their me-me-me attitude could use a little adjustment.
What’s the likely payoff? If everyone in the company understands where you’re coming from and why, they’re either going to have to support you or they will be the ones explaining to that C-level executive why they’re making the oh-so-diligent IT department’s job that much harder.
4. Idiot-proof all your hardware
A sys admin who asked to remain anonymous shares his secret for managing everyone else in the office: “If a user needs to use a machine or use a service like an internal database server, then bulletproof the thing such that if it’s rebooted, then everything comes up without hand-tending intervention.”
Why should you do this? Says the sys admin: “I would far rather spend five minutes tweaking an init script than to be called at home when someone kicked the power cord out accidentally. Just this extra little bit of work goes a long way in keeping people out of your face.”
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How do you do this? It’s a matter of figuring out which user errors are most likely to command your attention, then finding a way to either circumvent them or have the error appear to fix itself. Our anonymous sys admin says that one of the most basic idiot-proof jobs he ever did involved tweaking the company servers so that all the necessary data and security services auto-started.
What’s the likely payoff? You’ll have fewer interruptions from people who have inadvertently dimmed their monitor to black. Unless, of course, you rely on those incidents for cheap entertainment every day.
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5. Teach your users to fish, so you don’t have to hit them with the fish once a week
IIT’s Scarlata offers this hands-on advice: “The worst thing IT staff can do is just grab the mouse and do everything for the user.” We know, we know — the temptation to just do it in two minutes yourself to spare yourself the agony of watching someone else do something wrong for ten is overwhelming. But it’s essential for the user to learn why something works. Otherwise, they’ll never learn to do anything correctly themselves.
Why should you do this? If your users are prevailing on you to help them with tasks you know they’ll be doing all the time, they’re really wasting your time. By teaching them, you’re taking back your time.
How do you do this? Jump ahead in the article to Tip No. 6 [8]: It helps to have good documentation to leave with your users. But don’t just fling down a few pages of instructions and walk off. Sit down and show the user the process — then have them walk through it using your instructions.
This requires you to listen and talk to the user. We’re sorry about that, but them’s the breaks. “Tech support has to listen for clues to determine at what level the customer is and be sure to approach the situation that way,” says Krista Cizzozzi, director of technical support for PracticeWorks, a dental-office IT support subsidiary of Eastman Kodak.
What’s the likely payoff? Not only will you spend less time fixing the same problems over and over again, you’ll also gain a reputation as someone who can help decode the mysteries of the tech infrastructure. This kind of profile will only burnish your reputation throughout the entire company.
6. RTFM is a valid user management tactic. But you have to WTFM first
Documentation is the ultimate source code — it tells everyone how something’s put together, how it works, and what you can do with it. It is also a handy way to keep people off your back: Refer them to the documentation and let them learn to help themselves.
Why should you do this? Let’s put aside the “Because then people will stop bothering me!” argument and think about this from a career-strategy perspective. According to consultant and product developer Johanna Rothman, being comfortable enough to teach other people how to do things marks you as a team player. For reasons beyond our ken, team players are typically more trusted in the workplace (possibly because they don’t hold companies hostage by refusing to disclose how they do their jobs).
Trusted employees get more interesting and lucrative work assignments. And if all it takes to earn that trust is a Word doc, why haven’t you started typing?
How do you do this? Rothman suggests trying this first: “Put yourself in the role of someone who’s new to the application, new to the system, and possibly new to the company. That person doesn’t know the details you know, and those details are key to great documentation.”
Once you’ve finished this exercise in empathy, think of how the process or code you’re documenting fits into the IT system or the company as a whole. In other words, start by looking at the details that trip up users, then move back so everyone gets a clear look at the big picture.
What’s the likely payoff? Writing documentation typically helps you master your subject inside and out — so this provides a valuable opportunity to find a system’s weaknesses and start working to eliminate them.
7. Schedule time for the care and feeding of users
PracticeWorks’ Cizzozzi says, “The technical support world is one of relationships.” You don’t ever want to be in a situation where your boss is telling you that this relationship just isn’t working out.
Why should you do this? Because nobody wants their job — or their client — to break up with them. Not doing sufficient relationship maintenance now could lead to drastic financial triage later.
How do you do this? Cizzozzi admits this is tricky, since you have to strike a balance between the quality of your interactions with your users and how much time and money such relationship maintenance eats up. Like all good relationships, this one starts when both parties understand what’s expected of them, so ask how your users want you to spend your time, then work back from that. Their job is to dream beautiful dreams and your job is to say, “So, if you’d like me to support 100 users and upgrade 1,000 machines to a new OS, you will be paying more, right? Or shall we prioritize?”
All the subsequent maintenance goes into helping the customer get back to what they told you they wanted, leavened with a healthy dose of reality. It’s the equivalent of ending an awkward conversation with “Please don’t let me detain you. Good-bye.”
What’s the likely payoff? Your customers — be they internal or external — will start thinking of you as the person who’s respectful of their time. And they won’t notice that the time you’re most respecting is your own.
8. Designate a departmental scapegoat
Think “Lord of the Flies” meets “Hackers.” Designate one or two people as your IT department’s public faces. They’ll be the ones who are dispatched to handle external customer demands and troubleshoot for panicky users. This way, the people in your department who shouldn’t be exposed to users can be kept safely away from them.
Why should you do this? Because you personally don’t want to deal with someone having a hissy over their e-mail. But you’ve got to find a good excuse for making someone else do your dirty work, so try this one: Dealing with the users enhances professional development. Or, as Cizzozzi says, “Using a person’s strengths benefits them personally and the department as a whole.”
How do you do this? Pay attention to which team members have a knack for soothing the savage. Once you’ve done the preliminary scouting among your IT team, find a way to reorganize the department so that your designated troubleshooters know what their duties include. Then be sure to pass the word around the company as to who the new IT heroes are.
What’s the likely payoff? For you, it keeps the users out of your hair. For the unlucky scapegoat, they get a chance to polish their instructional skills, find out what decisions within the company will affect them and their department, and generally become well-known — so much so that they might be layoff-proof. We’ll leave it to you to decide who in the department got the better end of the deal.
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RIM gives a voice to handheld computers
Rebecca Reid
Published: January 23rd, 2003
Research in Motion Ltd. last month released its latest voice-enabled handheld – the BlackBerry 6750 – and announced that it will run on Bell Canada’s 1X CDMA network.
The 6750 features wireless e-mail, dual-band phone, short messaging service (SMS), browser and organizer applications, as well as support for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).
“It’s fantastic,” said Nigel Chubb, IT manager at Fujitsu in Ottawa. “Having been a user for quite a while of the older editions – I had an 857 – this is a whole different product. It’s got the act together that was missing before – the cell phone part added to the existing BlackBerry is a fantastic thing. It’s very difficult to do without, actually.”
Fujitsu is beta-testing both the BlackBerry 6750 and the 6710, RIM’s voice-enabled handheld released last fall that runs on Rogers Communications Inc. GSM GPRS network. Currently, only senior executives at Fujitsu are using the new handheld, but Chubb said the firm would be slowly deploying it to its other employees.
“It was slow to take off because there was no cell phone originally,” Chubb said. “Now that the cell phone is attached to them I think [adoption] is going to accelerate somewhat.”
However, Chubb also pointed out that the BlackBerry is not an intuitive device. That means that to understand how the device works, users would need to read the manual, especially individuals who don’t have a lot of experience with computers.
In tandem with the release of the 6750, RIM also released its new BlackBerry Web Client. This allows users to access their Internet Service Provider (ISP)-hosted e-mail accounts. Users already have the capability to access their corporate accounts through the BlackBerry server software if their company uses Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange, Novell Inc.’s GroupWise or IBM’s Lotus Domino. However, devices can be configured to use both the server software and the Web client so that users can access both their corporate and ISP-hosted accounts.
A new capability was added to version 3.5 of the server software last fall called the Mobile Data Service (MDS). It allows developers to connect to the BlackBerry enterprise servers using standard HTTP connectivity.
“That allows developers to push data from other types of applications to BlackBerry handhelds, while still leveraging the secure connection,” said Mark Guibert, vice-president, brand management at RIM in Waterloo, Ont. This means that files from programs such as Microsoft Excel, for example, can be pushed out to the handhelds. Guibert said RIM provides triple DES encryption between the server and the device.
Alex Slawsby, a research analyst for the smart handheld devices group at International Data Corp. in Boston, said that RIM’s new strategy of licensing its technology coupled with its new voice-enabled handhelds not only widens its market but also marks a new era in its marketing strategy. He said RIM’s heritage lies in data-only paging products with a relatively limited feature set. The ability to operate on multiple types of wireless networks is also an upside for RIM, he added.
“It’s an important strategy, making a device available that works on a number of networks and licensing their technology,” Slawsby said. RIM recently licensed its technology to Nokia.
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In this letter, temperance worker Ansley Gray brings Kansas Governor St. John up to date on concerns about prohibition amendment opposition in Jewell County. He suggests a visit by the Governor to this area.
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This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Tipton, Kansas. The depot still stands and has been moved to the Tipton Oaks Golf Course in Tipton, Kansas. The wooden structure serves as the golf course's club house.
Atlas of Mitchell County, Kansas
Creator: Gillen & Davy
The atlas contains a plat book of the villages, cities, and townships of the county, and a map of the state, a railroad state map, United States and World.
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Creator: Graham Studio
This is a photograph of the 1920 Beloit Leaguers baseball team.
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Creator: St. Louis Art Co.
This photograph shows the Simpson, Kansas baseball team dressed in their uniforms with some of the players holding gloves. The coach of the team stands in the back row in a suit with players surrounding him. One player is dressed in an inverted color uniform.
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Bert Floyd Rathbun documented a trip he and his family made by covered wagon to Wyoming to visit his brother Martin Oliver Rathbun. Rathbun's father, John Russell Rathbun, suffered from asthma, and his doctor suggested he try living in a drier climate. The Rathbuns left Simpson, Kansas, on August 14, 1909, and traveled to St. Francis, Kansas, where they wintered. On May 5, 1910, they started their trip west. He kept the journal in a "Farmers Pocket Ledger" provided by the Deere & Mansur Company of Moline, Illinois. There is information about the company's products and agricultural information in the ledger.
Bert Hart of the Beloit, Kansas baseball team
William Bert Hart is pictured here as a member of the 1920 Beloit Leaguers baseball team. With Hart as its regular shortstop and occasional pitcher, the Leaguers claimed the "independent state championship of Kansas" that year. Bert Hart was a well-known semi-professional baseball player in northern Kansas during the 1910s and early 1920s. He played not only for Beloit, but also for semi-pro teams in Green and Clay Center, as well as the Westmoreland town team. Hart spent most of his work career employed at the post office in Westmoreland; he and his wife Margaret also operated a hotel and restaurant there for several years during the 1940s.
Billings family
This is a photograph of the Billings family, who settled near Simpson, Kansas. People in the photograph are identified as: back row (left to right) Frederick, Flora and Livingston, and front row Ornille, Benjamin and Eliza Wares Billings. The family came from Massachusetts and settled near Simpson, Mitchell County, Kansas.
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This photograph represents members of the Blue Hill Band from Mitchell County, Kansas. The members played for local functions such as ballgames and holiday celebrations. The men are identified by their respected rows. Top row: Herman Koch, Fred Ahlvers, Adolph Maurer, Frank Wiens, Harve Nusbaum; Second row: Bill Ahlvers, Ben Gaston, Jude Gaston, Bert Gaston; 3rd row: Mayo Shurbandy, Luther Day, Ash Henderson, Adolph Ahlvers, Leo Ahlvers; Bottom row: Dave Gaston, Ray Shurbandy, n.d.
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Blue, white and pink cotton quilt in Broken Star pattern, with close and fine quilting overall. The binding is marked with the initials "M E T" on the back. According to the donor, the quilt belonged to her uncle's parents, Eugene and Annie Elizabeth Carmichael Metzger. They were married in Missouri in 1880 and moved to Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas and then later to Lane, Franklin County, Kansas. The quilt may have been part of Annie Metzger's hope chest.
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In this telegram, business men and property owners from several Kansas communities plead with the governor to issue a proclamation to resume traffic on all rail lines operated by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company during the railroad strike of 1886.
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These photographs are part of the Kansas State Historical Society's online exhibit, "Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest." This exhibit focuses on the people who have built Kansas' agricultural reputation. In June 1998, the KSHS staff followed harvesters from the Oklahoma border to far northwestern Kansas. They photographed and interviewed families from the top twenty wheat-producing counties in Kansas. The photographs featured here are of the Carrico Implement Company in Beloit, Kansas.
These photographs are part of the Kansas State Historical Society's online exhibit, "Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest." This exhibit focuses on the people who have built Kansas's agricultural reputation. In June 1998, the KSHS staff followed harvesters from the Oklahoma border to far northwestern Kansas. They photographed and interviewed families from the top twenty wheat-producing counties in Kansas. The photographs featured here are of the Carrico Implement Company in Beloit, Kansas. They sold, primarily, John Deere and New Holland machinery.
Cawker City fair, Cawker City, Kansas
Creator: Cawker City District Fair Association
Date: September 24 - 27, 1889
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This poster announces a fair to be held in Cawker City, Kansas. The poster includes a color image of cattle grazing by a water hole.
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This stereograph shows a view of main street in Cawker City, Kansas. The town was incorporated in 1874 in Mitchell County and named after Colonel E. H. Cawker.
This stereograph shows a view of main street in Cawker City, Kansas. The town was incorporated in 1874, in Mitchell County and named after Colonel E. H. Cawker.
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This celt was recovered from a Mitchell County archeological site in 1975. This woodworking tool would have been made by grinding or pecking the stone into a general shape, followed by polishing. It would have been hafted onto a handle and required periodic resharpening.
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This collection consists of correspondence between individuals and committee members to the state chair of the Woman's Committee of the Kansas Council of National Defense. The Council of National Defense was established at the federal level in 1916 as an emergency agency under the Army Appropriation Act and abolished in 1921. It was created in reaction to World War I to coordinate resources and industries for national defense and improve civilian morale. The Woman's Committee of the Kansas Council of National Defense performed the same functions at the state and local levels, coordinating women's activities for national defense. The materials are organized alphabetically by county. The digitization of this collection was paid for through the Margot R. Swovelan Endowment Fund.
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A letter from the Commissioners, Sheriff, District Court, and Register of Deeds for the County of Mitchell writes to Kansas Governor St. John to recommend a person they believe would be suitable to fill the Office of County Surveyor. The following is a resignation letter for County Surveyor, in this letter is a recommendation for a certain person to fill said position. A separate letter informs the Governor that the people of Mitchell County are concerned about not getting enough rain for their crops and provides a petition for an extension of time to pay the annual interest to the state.
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Switching to an electric vehicle can pencil out
The switch to EV can be a money saver, but for those working in rideshare, finding someone to finance that can be hard. Forth hopes to change that.
Author: Chris McGinness
Updated: 11:02 AM PST November 3, 2020
PORTLAND, Oregon — The pace with which electric vehicles (E-Vs) are purchased in Oregon continues to quicken. And there’s a huge upside to them. They’re better for the environment, the costs of driving and maintaining are far lower than those of a traditional gas-powered vehicle.
Lyft driver Courtney Mcrae-Alston bought her used Chevy Bolt 2 years ago. She, like other drivers, sees the values of going electric – she’s spending 25 dollars a month on electricity through a Portland General Electric program, versus $250-$350 a week on on gas.
But financing, even a used one, can be challenging when you work in the “gig economy,”– think rideshares like Lyft and Uber.
"Financial institutions generally don't look favorably upon a vehicle that will be used specifically for rideshare," says Barret Brown of Forth.
“A lot of (rideshare drivers) come from lower-income areas that are historically underserved, and themselves are often underbanked."
And, usually, they don't drive for just one of the ride-sharing apps. A lot of times they also deliver for food-delivery apps as well, Brown said.
Forth aims to level the road with its Fair Financing Pilot Program. They’ll help drivers document income streams, look at ways to find better rates and help them secure a down payment if needed. They’re partnering with Point West Credit Union and Prosper Portland.
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“We're going really try and keep those interest rates below 10% to the best of our ability and kind of help out with any down payment or anything like that” says Barrett.
Courtney knows what it takes to get road-ready and believes the new program from Forth will fuel an increase in more rideshare drivers going electric. She says, "Having a credit union, that's going to, you know, look at say your situation and work with you. It's phenomenal. I hope they expand it.”
Forth launched the new program in September – so if you’re a rideshare driver – looking to go electric- contact them through their website
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Rwanda Lobbies CSOs Engagement in 2050 Development Goals
byDaniel Sabiiti November 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm 0
Usta Kayitesi(2nd right), RGB CEO launching the CSOs report
Rwanda Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have launched the first report on their contribution to the country’s transformation which indicates that from 2018-2019, the organizations contributed a record $196million to Rwanda’s development.
The report dubbed “Delivering to Rwanda’s Transformative Agenda” was published November 27, 2020 in Kigali by the Network of International Non-Governmental Organizations (NINGO) and Rwanda Civil Society Platform and endorsed by Rwanda Governance Board (RGB).
The launch was presided over by RGB CEO, Usta Kaitesi, One United Nations- Rwanda Resident Coordinator, Fode Ndiaye and the Chairperson of Board of Director of Rwanda Civil Society Platform (RCSP) Dr. Joseph Nkurunziza and Sean Kerrigan, Chairperson of Rwanda NINGO.
The report shows that the contribution of CSO to the overall development of Rwanda towards the country’s achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was huge and over eleven yeas the organizations have injected over Rwf255billion ($428m) in support to country’s program.
Sean Kerrigan said these achievements have been because Rwanda government has provided a favorable working environment for CSOs and stated that by working together and aligning efforts they will significantly improve ability to positively impact lives in the new transformative agenda.
Usta Kayitesi used the opportunity to appeal to the CSOs to shift their focus on ensuring Rwandans achieve the 2050 development goals after attaining remarkable results in the vision 2020.
“We (Rwanda) have not yet achieved what we need and the journey is still long, thus the need to have more partners in areas of development, governance and justice, and all these activities should be aimed at improving citizen’s welfare,” she said.
The One UN Boss, Ndiaye said that since this was the first time the CSOs have presented a financial report on their contributions, it was also important that the next one should also consider evaluating the impact on their activities.
“We need to see the area of accountability to show what was done, but also ask the people how they see our intervention, how they see us, if we are doing well since they are the judges of these activities,” Ndiaye said.
He also stated that CSOs have to enhance the aspect of capacity building which he said is the measure of their success when the community starts owning and do things by itself.
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And Then There Were Six
So I finished the first draft of Book 4 of Daughter of the Wildings and was planning Book 5, when one night it came to me, as I was brushing my teeth, that there needs to be a sixth book in the series.
I panicked, wondering if there was enough story left to make up a whole other book. But as I thought about it that night (I usually lay awake late at night working out plots and story problems in my mind) and sat down and did a bunch of scene brainstorming and story development the next day, I realized that yes, there does have to be a sixth book, and there's plenty of story for two books instead of one. So a Book 6 there will be.
I think I've known, way deep down, for a long time that it would take another book to finish off the series properly. For a long time I had envisioned the events of Book 5, which moves the story from the frontier - the Wildings - into the civilized land of Granadaia, as being the climactic events of the series. But that just didn't seem right. The series is called Daughter of the Wildings, and it's about that uncivilized frontier land, its unique magic, and the connection between Lainie Banfrey (the Daughter in the series) and the land and its magic. Finishing it off in Granadaia without coming back to what is the heart of the series would be an unsatisfactory ending that doesn't fit with what the series is about. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the events in Granadaia are the leadup to the climactic events, and not the actual climax themselves. The story has to come back to the Wildings, to the threats to the land and the people that have been building up through all the other books, and to the real significance of Lainie's unique power and her relationship to the land, and also integrate Silas fully into that relationship, in order to tie everything together and bring the story to a meaningful and satisfying conclusion.
As I thought this through, I thought that maybe the Granadaia part and the return to the Wildings part could just be two halves of the same book. But the more I developed the storyline, the more it became clear that the two halves of the book are also two totally different story lines, each with its own central story problem, instigating events, development, and conclusion. I aso realized that if the book was going to be an equivalent length with the previous books in the series, I was going to have to skim over or leave out a lot of important stuff, or else the book was going to be twice as long as the other books.
Therefore, the obvious answer, which waited for that brainless and bored moment of brushing my teeth to hit me upside the head, is to split "Book 5" into two books.
I think I'm about ready to start writing the last two books. As with the other books so far in the series, there's this feeling of jumping into the deep end without really knowing how deep the water is or what's waiting in there. I know where the books start, and where they end, and have a general idea of what happens in between, but very few of the details are clear. But so far it's worked out well, so I just have to make that leap of faith two more times. I think I'll just write straight through, without stopping between books 5 and 6, since I'd already been planning them as a single unit. With hard work and a minimum of interruptions, I hope to finish the drafts of both books by October.
So, yay! More time with Silas and Lainie! And none of this is even taking into consideration my idea for a possible follow-up series.
Note on the story blurbs for Daughter of the Wildings: All six are up. I apologize for any cheesiness, especially in the last few. Writing blurbs is hard, especially if you're trying not to give away any spoilers. And I want to stipulate that in my books, suggesting that the hero and heroine end up together is not a spoiler. In addition to being fantasy, my books are also romance, and to be a proper romance (as opposed to more general love story), you have to have the Happily (even if things aren't easy) Ever After. It's expected, as a hallmark of the genre. (Plus I hate unhappy endings.) The question isn't if they end up together, but how.
In the meantime, edits on The Lost Book of Anggird are progressing apace (I'm planning a blog post on the worst writing advice ever and how it nearly killed Lost Book), along with the first major revision of Sarya's Song. Maybe I'll do a post on that too, how I struggled with it for years, then applied some very helpful story-planning techniques, and now have the least-broken first draft I think I've ever written.
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Protecting Public Spaces
Letter to Lambeth Council: Closure of Brockwell Park
Streatham Hill Consultation
Save Children's Centres
Legalise Cannabis
We are taking action on climate change
Control the virus
From the 1st June 2020, the UK Government has issued an update.
Everyone must maintain the social distancing recommendation of 2m with anyone outside of their household.
1) Gatherings of up to 6 (including children) are permitted
These gatherings can be from across different households.
You must meet outside in parks, commons or private gardens.
You may only enter a household to access a private garden or to use the toilet.
Please ensure any internal surfaces are cleaned thoroughly.
2) Shopping
Please buy responsibly and avoid stockpiling.
Many shops have restricted access to limit the number of individuals in the stores.
Respect the shopping hours reserved for the elderly, vulnerable and key workers.
3) Unlimited outdoor exercise
Please maintain the social distancing recommendation of 2m.
4) Go to work if you are unable to work from home
Employees should be working at home, if possible.
Try and avoid using public transport, instead cycle and walk, where possible.
You can find the the latest guidance from the UK Government here.
The UK Government recovery strategy can be found here.
Enjoying the outdoors - please be responsible!
We understand that not everyone is lucky enough to have private outdoor space in Lambeth. The UK government has now opened parks and commons to relax but always adhere to the social distancing recommendations.
BBQs and picnics are now permitted with groups up to 6 people (including children) but hand washing and hygiene should remain a priority!
Chair of Lambeth Liberal Democrats, Doug Buist, recently wrote to Lambeth Council raising concerns about the closure of Brockwell Park on Sunday 5th April 2020, as part of our commitment to protecting public spaces. You can read further details here.
Many of us would like to be able do more during these difficult times. There are many ways in which you can volunteer or support the local community.
Volunteer with Lambeth Council to deliver food and supplies to vulnerable individuals across the borough: sign up.
Volunteer with The Black Prince Trust (BPT), a local charity working with Lambeth Council to deliver essential medical items and food parcels (stored and packaged at the Black Prince Community Hub) to those in need. The operation commenced on Monday 6th April 2020 and there is activity at the Hub every day, between 8am to 6pm. Register to volunteer here.
Volunteer with Lambeth Liberal Democrats, Calling with Kindness, a phone bank established to check on residents across the borough: find out more here.
Find your local Mutual Aid group connecting members of the community here.
Donations to Lambeth Foodbank
On 12th May 2020, we received an update a member volunteering at one of the foodbanks in Lambeth: demand has over doubled compared to this time last year due to the pandemic. Over 3,000 people are being fed and that this level of demand is not predicted to drop soon. The main local foodbanks are closely collaborating to deal with the sudden surge in demand due to the coronavirus, however, they need more financial support. If you feel able to help please see the links below.
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What do I do if I need assistance?
Lambeth Council Helpline for vulnerable people
Lambeth Council have established a helpline for people in Lambeth who are vulnerable, don’t have support, and urgently need help. Anyone can call 0207 926 2999 on behalf of a vulnerable person and lines are open every day from 8am-8pm.
Age UK Lambeth Shopping Service
Age UK Lambeth are providing a shopping service for people in Lambeth who are unable to shop for themselves. There is no charge for delivery and payment is collected for the food once purchased against a receipt. For those struggling financially, Age UK are able to offer a Food Bank parcel. To access the service please call 0333 360 3700, open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm.
Are you experiencing domestic abuse?
Refuge: Survivors of domestic abuse may feel particularly alone and at risk during self-isolation. If you’re in Lambeth the Gaia Centre can help. Confidential advice & support by phone, text or email – whatever’s safest. Please telephone 0207 733 8724 or email: lambethvawg@refuge.org.uk.
BrightSky App: The free app provides help for those facing abuse and for those who wish to help. The Bright Sky mobile app is free to download from the App Store or Google Play and provides support and information to anyone who may be experiencing domestic abuse or is concerned about someone they know.
National Domestic Abuse Helpline: Free and in confidence, available 24-hours a day, please call 0808 2000 247.
Essential emergency housing repairs
The Housing Services teams are now following Government guidance and are only providing essential emergency repairs. If you require assistance with any of the following, then please call: 0207 926 6000 (weekdays 9am-5pm) or 0207 926 6666 (out of hours).
Uncontainable leaks leading to flooding
Back surging drains leading to flooding
Blocked toilets when it is the only toilet in your home
Total loss of electrics
Total loss of heating
Sounding carbon monoxide alarms
Lift breakdowns
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Other repairs where serious health and safety problems or severe damage could be caused
Lambeth Police Notice about Scams
Not everyone out there is trustworthy and some people will take advantage of these unique circumstances affecting our society. Please see below for how to access support and safeguard yourself against scams. Here are just some of the scams we are aware of, but please note that criminals come in all shapes and sizes and can contact you at the door, by phone, post or online:
People offering to do your shopping or collecting medication and asking for money upfront and then disappearing.
Be aware of people offering miracle cures or vaccines for coronavirus – there is no specific treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19). Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms until you recover.
There are lots of fake products available to buy online that say they can protect you or cure coronavirus. These will not help and are designed to take your money.
People impersonating healthcare workers, claiming to be offering ‘home-testing’ for coronavirus – this is a scam and these kits are not currently available to buy.
Emails saying that you can get a refund on taxes, utilities or similar are usually bogus and they are just after your personal and bank details.
There are new mobile phone applications that claim to give you updates on the virus but instead, they lock your phone and demand a ransom.
Your bank or the police will never ask for your bank details over the phone.
Tips to avoid being scammed:
Be cautious and listen to your instincts. Don’t be afraid to hang up, bin it, delete it or shut the door.
Take your time. Don’t be rushed.
If someone claims to represent a charity, ask for ID. Be suspicious of requests for money up front. If someone attempts you into accepting a service they are unlikely to be genuine. Check with family and friends before accepting offers of helps if you are unsure.
If you are online, be aware of fake news and use trusted sources such as .gov.uk or NHS.uk websites. Make sure you type the addresses in and don’t click on links in emails or text messages! You can hover over links to check if they are legitimate before clicking!
Only purchase goods from legitimate retailers and take a moment to think before parting with money or personal information.
Know who you’re dealing with - if you need help, talk to someone you know or get in touch with your local councillor.
Protect your financial information, especially from people you don’t know. Never give your bankcard or PIN to a stranger.
If you think you’ve been scammed, report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 and contact your bank.
If you need advice, call the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline on 0808 223 1133.
If you are in immediate danger, contact the police on 999.
Positive news!
From virtual yoga classes to choirs practicing online, Lambeth is doing its best to maintain good spirits. Our members are sharing their insights with the community through our new blog section! From tips on keeping children entertained over the Easter holidays to understanding the government support available to freelancers - check it all out here.
Check out these local websites sharing guidance on financial aid for local businesses and how residents can support by ordering Click & Collect from across the borough!
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NFL teams quiz Michigan State prospects, want facts about 3-9 season
Chris Solari
EAST LANSING – The process of going from college to the NFL is filled with questions.
Pro teams want to know all the details, large and small, about players who want to continue their career. They ask insightful questions, silly questions, offensive questions, completely irrelevant questions. Sometimes just to gauge how a prospect reacts.
The toughest question during the process for quarterback Tyler O’Connor has been about Michigan State.
“Explain your 3-9 record,” he said Wednesday after the Spartans’ pro day.
Linebacker Riley Bullough, one of three MSU players to participate in the NFL combine, said the Spartans’ disastrous 2016 season was a topic he was asked about a number of times during his interviews with NFL teams.
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“They just want to pick at me a little bit, ask what happened,” said Bullough, one of three captains in the fall. “It’s a combination of things. That’s behind me now. The guys that are here now will take care of that, and I think they’ll have a great year next year.”
MSU reportedly had 20 players participate in its pro day, which was closed to the media. Six players were made available for interviews afterward: Bullough, O’Connor, safety Montae Nicholson, tight end Josiah Price, wide receiver R.J. Shelton and fullback Prescott Line.
Bullough revealed he played through a broken shoulder blade, which also cost him three games last season. Bullough said he “did everything (Wednesday), and I felt great. That’s kind of a breath of fresh air to come out of all of this healthy and now be able to focus on football and the draft coming up.”
Nicholson said he had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder two days after participating along with Bullough and Malik McDowell at the combine in Indianapolis. Nicholson said it was treated as an AC joint issue during the season and was not identified as a torn labrum until February.
After entering the draft a year early, Nicholson also faced questions from NFL teams about how and why the Spartans went from the College Football Playoff in 2015 to one of the worst teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision a year ago.
Youth, injuries and transfers, he told them, were major reasons. Nicholson said those outside the program have no idea how banged-up the Spartans really were as a team last year and how many played hurt throughout the year.
“They don’t really see what goes on in the (indoor practice facility) and behind those walls for practice,” Nicholson said. “We kind of like it that way. What’s in house needs to stay in house, it doesn’t need to go out. It really wasn’t for outside people. Our guys playing with injuries – that was for our younger guys, to instill that mental toughness.”
Bullough also said he has been in touch with linebacker Jon Reschke, who announced he was leaving MSU’s football program last month after he “made an insensitive and totally regrettable comment involving a former teammate.”
“I’ve talked to him a little bit,” Bullough said. “Obviously he’s upset, but he’ll pull through. Jon’s a tough guy.”
Contact Chris Solari:csolari@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @chrissolari. Download our Spartans Xtra app for free on Appleand Androiddevices!
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Crazy Bear Hotel
The Crazy Bear Beaconsfield opened in 2008 to spectacular international reviews including Conde Nast's Red Hot List for best new hotels in the world. The oldest documented building in Beaconsfield, a fifteenth century coaching inn, has been meticulously restored and elaborately designed to provide dramatic architecutre and uncompromised luxury. The Crazy Bear Beaconsfield is a unique oasis in quintessential England and the antithesis to bland hotels.
Who'd A Thought It
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Who’d A Thought it restaurant with rooms offers a range of delicious, home-made food including meat, fish and pasta, hearty and traditional pub fare as well as some lighter options, whilst the A'la Carte menu offers something a little extra special. With one of the most comprehensive champagne selections outside of London, boasting over 60 varieties, we pride ourselves on the quality and uniqueness of our champagne selection. Combine this with our renowned oyster’s it is, in our opinion the perfect way to start your stay or enjoy your evening.
Limited Hours Room Service
The Grand Burstin Hotel – A Grand Entertainment Hotel
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Superbly located by the seaside, this hotel overlooks Folkestone's picturesque harbour. Choose Grand Burstin Hotel for your gateway to the continent, with easy access to the Port of Dover & Eurotunnel, combined with unparalleled evening entertainment. The hotel is conveniently situated only a 10 minutes' walk from the main town and 3 minutes' from the beach.
Smoking allowed in bedrooms
Strand Palace Hotel
The Strand Palace Hotel is an independent hotel that has a unique heritage and a unique look and feel. Set in an architecturally iconic building, The Strand Palace hotel is located right in the heart of the capital on the Strand, a short stroll to many theatres, vibrant Covent Garden and excellent shopping. The location is ideal for business travellers, with the City, London’s Financial Centre, being very close, along with offices for many international and local companies and organisations.
The Grand Brighton
The Grand Brighton is located just under an hour from London and 25 minutes from Gatwick Airport. Brighton Train Station is less than one mile and is easily accessible from M25 and M23 motorways. With its sumptuous Italian Renaissance style, The Grand Brighton is a masterpiece of Victorian splendour and has been lovingly restored following a multi-million-pound investment including refurbishment of all lounge areas, cocktail bar, and restaurant and guest bedrooms.
Britannia International Hotel, Canary Wharf
The International Hotel, Canary Wharf is situated on the water’s edge next to Canary Wharf, London’s Docklands internationally famous office development and home of many multi-national companies. The hotel is a modern glass building with fantastic panoramic views overlooking the London skyline. It is easy walking distance to South Quay DLR & Canary Wharf Underground Stations taking you to major sightseeing spots around London.
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The riverside InterContinental® London - The O2 hotel stands out in the buzzing Greenwich Peninsula, with 453 luxury rooms, a beauty spa and a ballroom for up to 3,000. Spectacular Canary Wharf views are best enjoyed over cocktails in Eighteen Sky Bar, one of several dining destinations in the new hotel. The O2 arena is steps away and the Emirates Air Line zips over the Thames to ExCel London.
What a location. If you’re planning to be the ultimate “London tourist”, then this my friend is going to get you excited. Look out of your window and you’ll be greeted with Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and a whole lot more.
Travelodge London Kings Cross Royal Scot
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Where will I be staying? Get slap bang in the heart of the action without forking out extortionate prices. Tucked away on Kings Cross Road, you’re moments from St Pancras International stations and one of London’s most exciting areas. Unsurprisingly, you won't get heaps of space for your money, but you do get all the essentials and the location is second to none.
Tea/Coffee making facilities in each room
Pontins - Camber Sands Holiday Park
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Camber Sands has a unique combination of miles and miles of unspoilt sand dunes with loads to do in the day as well as the evenings. The Blue Flag beach is a venue in itself, ideal for picnicking, playing or just lazing around. Away from the beach the beautiful old port town of Rye deserves exploring, along with the old smugglers hideouts dotted along the coast and of course the iconic White Cliffs – the traditional greeting for anyone sailing back to England Pontins at Camber Sands is a great place to be!
Childrens Facilities - Indoor
De Vere Cotswold Water Park
An oasis surrounded by heavenly lakes – the De Vere Cotswold Water Park hotel has been designed to flawlessly fit into its natural surroundings. It needs to be something special to compete with the 152 lakes that flow across the Cotswolds Water Park – and it’s most definitely succeeded. .
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Docklands Riverside
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Welcome to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Docklands Riverside, located along the River Thames with stunning views of Canary Wharf â perfect for travelers looking to make the most out of London. This former 17th century Wharf Building boasts exposed brickwork and Londonâs last dry dock for shipbuilding. The hotelâs complimentary ferry provides access to Canary Wharf and a connection to the Thames Clippers for an unforgettable voyage into central London.
Wi-Fi Available In Public Areas
Novotel London West
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Discover the contemporary elegance of Novotel London West. Whether you choose this 4-star hotel for business or leisure, you are sure to be tempted by the international cuisine. Just minutes from three of London's main tube lines, it is the perfect location for successful meetings (up to 2,000 people).
Hilton Brighton Metropole
Set on Brightonâs seafront, the Hilton Brighton Metropole hotel offers charming Victorian elegance alongside modern convenience. This large South of England conference hotel has 28 meeting rooms, 9 exhibition halls, and 340 bedrooms. Enjoy the convenient location of this Brighton hotel, within easy reach of major travel links just off the A23 and only 5 minutes from Brighton station.
The Hydro Hotel
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Set in award-winning gardens, Hydro Hotel features an outdoor pool, elegant restaurant and superb sea views across the English Channel. The hotel is a few metres from Eastbourne Seafront, just a 10-minute walk from Eastbourne Pier. All bedrooms at Hydro have LCD flat screen TV with Freeview, Wi-Fi access and a seating area.
London Bridge Hotel
The independently owned, 4-star London Bridge Hotel, which opened in autumn '98, is in an ideal location on the edge of the City of London. The hotel has 138 air-conditioned bedrooms with a range of facilities including complimentary high speed internet access and flat screen televisions, which make this an attractive choice for business as well as leisure guests. The hotel facilities also include a Fitness First Gym open Monday to Friday.
Royal Albion Hotel
Built in 1826 this beautifully, Royal Albion Hotel is situated overlooking Brighton Pier. Traditionally decorated and furnished throughout, it offers character and style. Wi-Fi is free to all guests and available in all public areas of the hotel.
The Cavendish London - Piccadilly
In the heart of Piccadilly, perfect for business and leisure within walking distance to Theatreland, Leicester Square, Buckingham Palace and Mayfair. Situated in the heart of Piccadilly & Mayfair London, the Cavendish Hotel offers the ultimate in luxury and convenience for visitors to the UK's Capital, whether for business or for pleasure. Within walking distance of Green Park and Piccadilly Circus underground stations, ensuring easy access to the mainline stations and Heathrow Airport.
Bicester Hotel, Golf & Spa
Bicester Hotel, Golf & Spa boasts 52 deluxe ensuite rooms. Some ground and first floor rooms with private patio areas and juliet balconies overlook the designer courtyard garden, while other bedrooms overlook the golf course. As residents you become members of our Health club allowing you the use of our Gymnasium, Tennis Court and all poolside facilities.
stadhampton
Crazy Bear Stadhampton is the original - the Bear that lead the way for the small and exclusive collection of luxurious boutique hotels. Discreetly tucked away on 80 acres of working farmland in the green and pleasant Oxfordshire countryside, the hotel is full of surprises from the moment you step inside. From the oversized wooden sea admiral at the entrance to the double decker red bus reception, glorious Great British eccentricity and all-out luxury is the name of the game here.
Travelodge London Central Kings Cross
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If you’re looking for accommodation in the vibrant area of Kings Cross then this hotel is an ideal option. Kings Cross is a thriving business and transport hub and, with a wide variety of stylish bars and restaurants, you’ll be spoilt for choice. The British Library and British Museum are within walking distance, and if you want to venture further, Kings Cross provides excellent transport links to all areas of London, other major UK cities and Europe.
De Vere Devonport House
Having the almighty honour of sitting within Greenwich’s prestigious World Heritage site - is the De Vere Devonport House. The Georgian building is stunningly beautiful and soaked in naval history. And it’s not just a pretty face, the inside lives up to the same high standard.
Hythe Imperial Hotel, Spa & Golf
Enjoy stunning Victorian grandeur on the seafront in Hythe. Soak up the spectacular views of the Kent coastline and English Channel. The Hythe Imperial's enviable position puts it in close proximity to Dover Ferry Port, Eurostar, Ashford International and Canterbury.
Croydon Park Hotel - Clarion Collection
Croydon Park Hotel is ideal for guests visiting London for business or pleasure. Situated on a quiet, leafy road close to the centre of Croydon, we’re just 3 minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station where direct trains will transport you to the two main stations servicing both central London and the City, in under 15 minutes; London Victoria or London Bridge. Alternatively, a short 7 minute walk will take you into centre of Croydon, where guests can enjoy the Whitgift and Centrale shopping centres for retail therapy with some top brands.
London Hilton on Park Lane
Stay at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel and enjoy stunning views of London from all guest rooms. Set in the heart of Mayfair overlooking Hyde Park, this award-winning hotel offers a Michelin-starred restaurant and bar with panoramic city views. The hotel was awarded Best Business Hotel in the UK 2011 by Business Traveller Magazine, Best Hotel in Europe 2010 by German Business Traveller Magazine and England's Leading Business Hotel 2009 by World Travel Awards Europe.
Eynsham Hall
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In 3,000 acres of beautiful parkland in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside, this impressive Jacobean-style mansion boasts a state of the art gym, indoor pool, sauna and outdoor tennis courts. On the edge of the Cotswolds, the grade II listed manor house is a 10-minute drive from Witney and 20 minutes from the historic Oxford City Centre with its shops, restaurants, Bars and colleges. The tourist attraction Blenheim Palace is 15 minutes away and you will find The Cotswold Wildlife Park 25 minutes away, Bicester Outlet Village known for its Designer brands is also within easy reach.
The Waldorf Hilton, London
The Waldorf Hilton, an iconic hotel, is located in Londonâs West End in the Theatreland district. Take a 5-minute drive to the exclusive boutiques of Covent Garden and find plenty to explore. Situated 2 miles from Londonâs financial center, this central London hotel is ideal for a corporate visit â host a meeting in one of the seven WiFi-enabled function rooms, or keep in touch via the 24-hour business center.
Travelodge London Excel
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Our London Excel hotel offers a first-hand look at the Royal Victoria Dock area's spectacular regeneration, with its waterside bars and restaurants. ExCel London is at the forefront of the exciting changes - just a few moments walk away. The location's excellent for the City of London, with the DLR moments away.
Richmond Hill Hotel
Situated in the charming town of Richmond-upon-Thames on Richmond Hill, just seven miles from London's West End, Richmond Hill Hotel has magnificent views across the River Thames and the 2,500-acre Royal Park, home to herds of red and fallow deer. Incorporating an impressive Georgian manor, the oldest part of the hotel dates back to 1726. Much of the original character in this Grade II listed building has been retained to present an interior of grandeur, elegance and comfort, making it one of the finest Richmond hotels.
Crowne Plaza London - Kings Cross
Enjoy the Crowne Plaza London - Kings Cross's central location, 15 minutes' walk from King's Cross St Pancras Rail Station. Friendly staff greets you as you enter the marble-floored Lobby of the modern Crowne Plaza London - Kings Cross. Settle into an air-conditioned Family room for 4 and head down to chic Ozone Health & Fitness Club for an invigorating workout and relaxing swim, sauna and steam.
Ashford International Hotel - QHotels
Situated in the heart of Kent, close to junction 9 of the M20, the Eurostar terminal for France, 37 minutes by high speed train to London, close to the port of Dover and all the sites that Kent has to offer, Ashford International Hotel is the perfect location for business or leisure. The hotel epitomises style. The 179 spacious bedrooms have stunning decor and all include flat screen TVs, air conditioning and the plump pillows and comfy duvets ensure a good nights sleep will be had.
Cotswold House Hotel & Spa-a Bespoke Hotel
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WINNER OF LATEROOMS. COM SPA OF THE YEAR Set in the heart of Chipping Campden, the prettiest town in the Cotswolds, and with two acres of landscaped townhouse gardens behind it, Cotswold House Hotel & Spa blends traditional Regency architecture with contemporary design and superb comfort. This fine townhouse has overlooked the Square for more than 200 years, and for the last ten has been one of the most prestigious hotels in the Cotswolds.
Located in 32 acres of exquisite parkland, New Place effortlessly combines a Grade 1 listed manor house with a modern conference centre. Located close to Southampton and is only 8 miles from Marwell Zoo, the hotel has easy access to the M3 and M27 along with fast rail links to London and is close to Southampton Airport, making it ideally placed for events and breaks to Southampton. New Place offers an extensive range of bedroom accommodation located in a delightful mews quarter a short walk from the manor house along with a gym, a swimming pool*, a cricket pitch and croquet lawn.
Cooden Beach Hotel
Situated directly on the beach in the peaceful village of Cooden, Bexhill, this privately owned hotel offers free WI-FI and parking, sumptuous dining, extensive leisure facilities, spectacular views and scenic gardens. Originally built in 1928, the Hotel has been refurbished to the highest standards and promises a warm welcome as well as private access to the beautiful beachfront where gently lapping waves stretch as far as the eye can see. What’s more, there’s two acres of award-winning gardens overlooking the beach and a fantastic leisure club with an indoor pool and spa, guests are sure to nourish their every self-indulgent desire.
Alan Doble Sanderson bought what is now De Vere Selsdon Estate in 1924 and transformed the mansion into a luxury country house hotel; however the estate predates this by hundreds of years. Traced back to as early as 861AD, an Anglo-Saxon hall, a medieval estate of the Knights Templar and a Victorian country seat are just some of its former lives. .
Charingworth Manor
The perfect manor house hotel in warm Cotswold stone, Charingworth has commanded views over idyllic rural Gloucestershire countryside for 700 years. Now we are proud to announce that every one of the 26 bedrooms has been carefully refurbished to the highest standard offering contemporary style, all-new beds and duvets, plasma TVs, tea and coffee facilities and, most importantly, fabulous bathrooms. Choose from standard or luxury rooms, all with their own character and some with private terraces and views over five counties.
Limited room service for hot food
Burnham Beeches Hotel
Burnham Beeches Hotel, built in 1727, is a four star hotel nestling in 10 acres of beautiful gardens and manicured lawns in a peaceful setting yet only minutes from the M4/M40 and Burnham railway station, which has a direct line to central London. The hotel has undergone extensive refurbishment in 2007 with over £1. 5 million pounds spent to date.
Champneys Tring
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Set in the idyllic Hertfordshire countryside, Champneys Tring Health Resort has modern rooms in a classic English stately home. Opened as a health spa in 1925, rooms are surrounded by history and character but all contain comfortable modern features. Many bedrooms also have a private terrace or balcony looking out across the 170 acres of beautiful parkland.
Hairdryer in each room
Roslin Beach Hotel
The Roslin Beach Hotel typifies all the elements you expect of a luxury Boutique Seaside Hotel. Fantastic sea side views of an award winning Beach, beautifully decorated contemporary bedrooms, and luxury bathrooms with thick fluffy towels and White Company Toiletries. And we must not forget the complimentary homemade shortbread starfish carefully packaged and placed on the pillow.
Haddon Hall Hotel
Situated at the seafront end of Devonshire Place, ideally positioned between the promenades, town centre and theatres. Traditional holiday hotel, offering comfortable accommodation, 2 bars, nightly entertainment, spacious lounge areas and attentive long serving team members. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Breakfast is served between 8.
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Awarded Great Britain’s Most Excellent Inn 2010 by Condé Nast Johansens and 5 Stars Highly Commended by the AA, The Crown Inn, Chiddingfold is a stunning 600 year old Coaching Inn, positioned on the Green of one of Surrey’s most beautiful villages. Less than an hour from London, 20 minutes from Guildford but far enough away to appreciate the joys of the country. Accommodation includes 3 four poster bedrooms, 1 suite, 3 superior doubles and 1 single – recently refurbished to an exceptionally high standard.
Botany Bay Hotel
The Botany Bay is situated right on the cliff above Kents best beach. Superb views out over the sea and wind farm. Perfect for a business location close to the Kent coast, ideal for a stress free weekend break and a superb base for a golfing holiday.
The Kings Arms Hotel may date from the Tudor period but its interior reflects the very best in modern sumptuous design. As the famous ‘The Boatman’ in Four Weddings and a Funeral the hotel is perfect for a romantic getaway. You may also recognise us from the ever popular ‘Midsomer Murders’.
Cotswolds Hotel & Spa
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We are a brand new hotel situated alongside our established, award winning golf course at Cotswolds Club Chipping Norton, with its beautifully kept greens and tree lined fairways, surrounded by the rolling Cotswolds hills. We have 34 bedrooms set over 2 storeys, suitable for families, individuals, couples and friends, with luxury rooms, some overlooking the golf course including 2 spacious suites and interconnecting rooms for families. All ground floor rooms have their own private terrace and many first floor rooms have private balconies to sit and enjoy wonderful views of the Cotswolds hills.
Grand Royale London Hyde Park
Grand Royale London Hyde Park is a rising success of the Shaftesbury Hotel collection brand and part of the Shaftesbury Hotel Complex Hyde Park - Bayswater. The property is fully non-smoking and newly refurbished with contemporary medium and compact bedrooms. Breakfast is served in the hotel, whilst there are a number of popular eateries in the local area for lunch or dinner.
With an unrivalled location on the iconic seafront and just moments from the bustling Lanes, our Brighton Harbour Hotel & Spa is set to be the hottest new destination in buzzy Brighton. The 79 bedroom hotel embodies Harbour Hotels’ signature relaxed style, with tasteful interiors providing a modern contrast to the exquisite 19th century period exterior. With panoramic views across Brighton Pier, dine in our award-winning Jetty restaurant and enjoy innovative cocktails in ‘HarBAR’, Brighton’s ultimate destination bar.
East Sussex National Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa
The 4-Star AA Accredited East Sussex National Hotel is set in 1100 acres of Beautiful Sussex countryside, combining excellent facilities with luxury accommodation. Each room has Queen Sized double bed, superb bathroom with walk in power shower and separate bath, stunning views of the two Championship Golf Courses, free internet access and LCD TV with satellite. Guests can enjoy food from a variety of menu’s in one of three outstanding restaurants from fine dining to the lighter bar menu.
The Danubius Hotel - London Regents Park
Where will I be staying? Modern and stylish, The Danubius Regents Park is everything you would expect from a London hotel. From chandeliers to marble-effect flooring, its elegant interior is dreamy yet unintimidating. The hotel is not just a pretty face though.
Crowne Plaza LONDON - THE CITY
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Crowne Plaza London-The City offers both business and leisure travellers deluxe accommodation and convenient access to the city’s major business districts and landmarks. Located in London’s historic Square Mile and on Blackfriars stations’ doorstep, the hotel is minutes from some of London’s most famous attractions such as The London Eye and St Paul's Cathedral. The 205 elegantly decorated guest rooms and suites have recently undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Milton Keynes
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One of the most unique hotels in Milton Keynes, the contemporary Doubletree by Hilton Milton Keynes hotel offers luxury accommodation integrated into the west stand of the new 22,000 seat stadiummk. Only a few minutes from Milton Keynes city center, the hotel is just 45 minutes north of London by train. This Milton Keynes hotel is the ideal venue for your wedding party or conference, with 27 meeting spaces and the largest ballroom in the area.
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Legit Reviews Motherboards GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH Intel Z87 Thunderbolt Motherboard Review
GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH Intel Z87 Thunderbolt Motherboard Review
Posted by Dan Stoltz | Fri, Jan 31, 2014 - 7:07 AM
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Final Thoughts and Conclusion
The GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH was a great board to play around with. I’ve come to expect a lot from GIGABYTE boards over the years and the Z87X-UD5 TH lived up my expectations throughout the testing. To top it off, the Z87X-UD5 TH carries a street price of only $254.99 which is a great deal for all the features that you get! Since the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH is part of the Ultra Durable 5 Plus you can be sure that there was quite a bit of testing and engineering that went into the board, and throughout the day the performance paid off.
It’s not surprising that the Z87X-UD5 TH was at the top of the charts in most of the benchmarks that were run today, at least when it comes to graphics and CPU benchmarks. Of all of the games that I ran today, the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH was the dominating force in all of them in at least one of the resolutions. When the Z87X-UD5 TH wasn’t at the top it wasn’t far from the top.
While the Z87X-UD5 TH was sitting pretty at the top of the charts in the games and CPU test, it wasn’t as strong of a contender in the SATA III 6Gbps and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 testing. To be fair though, it wasn’t exactly a night and day difference in the performances.
The GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH was right on par with most of the Intel Z87 chipset boards that we have tested so far. ECS seems to have nailed down the average read performance as they are a full head above the rest of the group. These are similar to the results that I saw in all of the USB 3.0 testing and SATA III 6Gbps testing. The Z87X-UD5 TH was right on par with our otherboards, it may not be breaking any records but the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH is easily holding its own.
Despite not being part of the Z87 OC or G1.Killer series of motherboards, overclocking was a breeze on the Z87X-Ud5 TH. In no time at all I was able to bring the Intel Core i7-4770K to a rock solid 4.8GHz. I’ll admit I wasn’t exactly surprised by this result though. We have had a number of Intel Z87 motherboards able to take the 4770K to 4.8GHz at right around 1.28-1.3 Volts. Nor was I surprised to see the voltage increase when I used the CPU Performance Upgrade, I’ve seen that range in most of the motherboards that have come across my bench.
I wouldn’t expect the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH to ever have any issues with reliability or need to be sent back to GIGABYTE. If however it does need to be warrantied, GIGABYTE has backed the Z87X-UD5 TH with a three year warranty for a little peace of mind with your investment.
Legit Bottom Line: The GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH offers a whole lot of bang for the buck. The performance I saw in the gaming and CPU testing alone is worth the $254.99 to me. Add in the features like Thunderbolt and WiFi 802.11ac and it’s just the icing on the cake!
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Bradley Richlin, et al. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Won summary judgment for MGM Pictures in Bradley Richlin, et al v. MGM Pictures Inc., dismissing the plaintiffs' claims seeking a declaration that they owned an interest in the renewal term copyright in the motion picture The Pink Panther, and successfully defended judgment in appeal to the 9th Circuit.
Awarded summary judgment on behalf of MGM in a case that involved claims made by alleged statutory successors to Maurice Richlin, co-writer of the screenplay for the original motion picture, "The Pink Panther". Plaintiffs claimed they owned a 50% interest in the renewal term copyright to a "treatment" on which the screenplay for the film was allegedly based. The Court determined that a treatment of the firm was not separately copyrighted apart form the film, and the screenwriter was not a joint author of the work.
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Phishing Airmiles?
By jeremy | October 29, 2004
As long as people think of phishing as stealing financial data, no one’s safe. Take this email I just received from Virgin Atlantic after signing up for their Flying Club frequent flier program. It’s a great example of how a user could be duped into giving up personal information (including, but not necessarily, financial data) via a socially… Read More »
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Sad News For The Review
Sad news: As of today, the Far Eastern Economic Review, primary home to the Loose Wire column for the past few years, has ceased publishing as a weekly magazine. That means that the column will move elseswhere, although WSJ.com readers will continue to be able to read it online. For FEER and other readers, please do drop me… Read More »
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How To Phish Google
I’ve long believed that phishing emails are just the beginning of a new kind of fraud which is likely to be sophisticated and fast moving. Here’s an example of what they might look like, courtesty of a British computer scientist called Jim Ley, written up at the security website Netcraft. Ley, Netcraft says, “has demonstrated that opportunities exist… Read More »
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Dialer Scams And Heads In The Sand
I can’t help feeling that telephone companies and Internet Service Providers are in real danger of legal action if they don’t tackle the problem of modem dialing. This NBC5 story from Chicago quotes a local woman as complaining about a series of weird calls to her phone company, SBC. The answer: “They didn’t know too much about it.… Read More »
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Yahoo! has bought Stata Labs, the guys behind Bloomba an excellent email program that is more of a database. In a statement the company said they “intend to continue supporting Stata Labs’ existing customers for one year from the date of product purchase”. They said that while there is no word on what Yahoo! will do with Bloomba,… Read More »
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Five police vehicles rush to Lincoln High Street pub as two men are seen covered in blood
Two police vans and three cars were sent to the scene
Elaine Davies
11:29, 7 MAY 2018
Five police vehicles rushed to a Lincolnshire pub at the weekend after two men were seen 'covered in blood'.
Three police cars and two vans turned up to the incident outside the Ritz Wetherspoons pub on Lincoln High Street on Saturday, May 5, around 8pm.
An eyewitness said they were walking past when they saw the blue flashing lights outside the pub.
Is this one of the most pathetic excuses for drink driving in 2018?
He said: "There were two police cars and a police van there.
"Another car and van turned up soon afterwards with their lights going.
Police said the man did not wish to make a complaint
"There must have been about 10 people standing outside talking to the police with at least a couple of them having blood all over their tops.
"There was a member of staff outside too and the police were trying to find out what had happened but nobody appeared to be wanting to tell them anything."
Schoolboy caught drink driving ahead of exams
The eyewitness said they were surprised to see so many police officers on the street.
Police were called to an incident at a Lincoln pub
A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said a man was assaulted but did not wish to make a complaint.
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Debenhams cleared to shut 22 stores and cut 1,200 jobs after court win
The department store is pushing ahead with its CVA
Thousands of jobs are at risk (Image: Getty Images)
Department store retailer Debenhams has won a high court ruling to allow it to shut 22 of its stores and cut thousands of jobs.
After the ruling, the chain can now press ahead with plans for a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to allow it to close some of its least profitable stores and slash rents at 100 outlets.
The plans will put 1,200 jobs at risk across the company but Lincoln looks safe from closure as it was not on the initial list of planned closures.
Debenhams chief executive Stefaan Vansteenkiste welcomed the judgement that the retailer's CVA plans were valid.
He said: "We are delighted that the court has today confirmed that our CVA is effective and will continue to be implemented as planned. We note that the only aspect that the judge required to be adjusted was a technical provision of the CVA relating to landlord forfeiture provisions.
Debenhams in Lincoln looks to be safe from the chop (Image: Chris Vaughan/Lincolnshire Echo)
"Our proposals had unprecedented levels of support from our landlords and today's outcome is good news for our 25,000 employees, our pensioners and suppliers. We retain the support of our lenders, and everyone at Debenhams can continue to focus on trading ahead of the important Christmas period."
Debenhams won approval from 80 per cent of its landlords for its restructuring plans after it was taken over by the people it owed money to.
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But not quite everyone agreed, with some of of the department store's landlords - including Mike Ashley's Sports Direct - objecting to the rent reductions the CVA included.
Sports Direct withdrew its objection in July, but others continued with theirs - resulting in the court case.
A high court ruling means that a chain can plough on with plans for a CVA (Image: Daily Post Wales)
But Mr Justice Norris at the High Court said four of the five grounds for the case had failed, but that with the offending part removed, the CVA is valid.
He said that "the CVA is valid and remains enforceable", but gave Discovery Limited the right to appeal.
These are the 22 stores Debenhams said it planned to close as part of the CVA in April:
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Senior huntsman tells court he killed two fox cubs with the blunt end of an axe
He is on trial with his partner and another man
Peter Hennessy
Paul Oliver, a senior huntsman accused of animal cruelty offences (Image: PA)
A senior huntsman accused of animal cruelty offences has told a court he decided to kill two fox cubs with the blunt end of an axe due to an impending Defra inspection.
Paul Oliver, 40, from Spalding, denies claims that he "fed" live foxes to his hounds in May 2016 after keeping them in a cage.
Giving evidence in the second week of his trial, the the former master of hounds with the South Herefordshire Hunt said he had rehomed two cubs in a wooded area, and seen the bodies of two others picked up by a dog after he had destroyed them in a "flesh house" at the hunt's premises.
Prosecutors allege that Oliver used the cubs to "blood" hounds after they were taken to the site by others.
Court told covert mission 'caught hunt members cruelty to fox cubs'
Oliver told Birmingham Magistrates Court that he intended to care for and then relocate all four foxes after they were taken to the South Herefordshire's site in Wormelow.
Answering questions about two foxes which he claims he destroyed, the former gamekeeper said: "We had a Defra inspection that morning and I didn't think it was right to have them on the property.
"I decided to get rid of them and kill them. I didn't think they would survive if they were just left alone."
Asked by defence lawyer Clive Rees if there would have been any "training benefit" from keeping the cubs at the hunt's premises, Oliver added: "No, none at all. We were training (the hounds) off a fox scent.
"I had gone completely away from that - I didn't want them to associate the fox smell with any sort of hunting."
Telling the court that the hunt was using an aniseed-based scent, Oliver said the two foxes he struck on the head with an axe both appeared to be dead when they were picked up by a single hound.
Oliver is standing trial alongside his partner, Hannah Rose, also from Spalding, and terrierman Nathan Parry, who both deny causing unnecessary suffering to the cubs.
Hannah Rose and Paul Oliver leaving Birmingham Magistrates’ Court during a previous hearing (Image: PA)
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Simon Davis, Oliver was asked what purpose would be served by relocating the foxes.
Man and woman appear in court accused of feeding live fox cubs to their dogs
Oliver answered: "Why not? They don't need to die unnecessarily if there is an opportunity to rehome them."
The court has been told that Oliver was recorded by a covert camera - placed at his hunt's kennels by an anti-bloodsports group - as he dumped fox carcasses in a waste bin.
Pointing out that one of the dead foxes was found to have 14 broken ribs and no head injury, Mr Davis asked Oliver: "Either you missed with your axe or something more sinister occurred?"
Oliver replied: "I can't comment on that because I don't know."
Pressed as to what his hound had done to another fox which suffered 23 broken ribs, Oliver responded: "I would say she probably gave it a bite.
"The hounds there had no idea what a fox was."
Defendant Nathan Parry enters Birmingham Magistrates' Court (Image: PA)
Girl, 7, scarred for life after vicious dog attack
During his evidence, Oliver said he had access to a pistol but shooting the foxes would have been extremely dangerous due to the risk of a round passing through a cub.
Parry, 40, of Brynarw Estate, near Abergavenny, denies four charges of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Oliver and Rose, 30, both of Sutton Crosses, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, also deny four counts of animal cruelty.
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The C-band repack – and subsequent relocation of all C-band users in the Mid-band frequency to 4.0-4.2 Mhz – means LinkUp is gearing up to spend A LOT of time on the road. We’ll be literally working coast to coast, assisting our customers and the satellite owners with the installation of filters, upgrades, repoints –…
SES LAUNCHES FACT-FINDING QUESTIONNAIRE BEFORE THE MUCH ANTICIPATED C-BAND REPACK
By Karen Johnson | September 25, 2020 | Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
SES continues to do outreach for information to those of you who receive content from one of their birds and have registered C-band downlinks. Currently, if you receive a call or email from Superior Satellite or SES, please respond as quickly and accurately as is feasible. As SES moves closer to installations of 5G filters…
THE C-BAND LUMP SUM OPTION: FOUR TIMELY RESOURCES TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION
By Karen Johnson | August 27, 2020 | Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
It’s been a crazy month. US operators of registered C-Band earth stations, directly impacted by the Mid-band spectrum repack, are being asked by the FCC to make a choice: Do they want to be reimbursed for the steps that must be taken to be compliant with the FCC’s C-band “co-share” mandate? The C-band lump sum…
Lump Sum Option May Not Be Best for All
By LinkUp | August 24, 2020 | News, Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
This article was re-published from Radio World. Many U.S. radio engineers are asking questions about whether to take a lump sum reimbursement from the FCC’s C-Band migration program. As you’ll recall, the FCC recently published a “cost category schedule” that describes potential expenses and costs that users of earth stations may incur as a result…
THE C-BAND TRANSITION: HERE’S ONE BIG MISTAKE YOU WON’T WANT TO MAKE
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We’ve updated this blog entry to reflect the FCC’s deadline for deciding whether or not to pursue a the lump sum allocation. Previously August 31, the FCC agreed to give registered earth stations additional time to explore the option. The new deadline is September 14, 2020. We’ve also included the FCC timelines regarding the repack…
Help! I’m Getting Calls About My C-band Downlinks! (AKA: Why Are They Asking ME To Do Their Job?)
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The Internet has been abuzz, with many broadcast techs asking the same question. “Why is one of the major satellite companies calling me, asking questions about my downlink?” It’s a little disconcerting, is it not? You spent hours registering your downlinks with the FCC, but now you’re being asked questions that you’ve already answered, by…
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By LinkUp | May 20, 2020 | News, Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
You’ve probably already seen them; targeted ads on the Internet urging you to protect your network by allowing said company, for a fee, to install a 5G filter for you. These types of ads ramped up in earnest in January 2020, after the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an Order of Proposed Modification to…
The FCC’s 5G Mandate: What’s the Plan?
By LinkUp | April 16, 2020 | News, Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
The die is cast. And not even a global pandemic will likely delay the clearing of the Mid-band spectrum for broadband use. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an Order of Proposed Modification to share the mid-band or C-band spectrum with broadcasters. Over the next five years, US earth stations utilizing C-band will be…
SNOW, ICE AND YOUR ANTENNA: ESSENTIAL ADVICE ON KEEPING YOUR SIGNAL FROM GOING INTO DEEP FREEZE
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By Karen Johnson | June 26, 2019 | Satellite broadcasting, Satellite technology | 0
Several of our friends and customers in the satellite world have experienced close calls lately. Late last year one of our customers on the west coast found themselves and their facilities along the track of the Ventura fires. In Mississippi, another network has TWICE spotted tornadoes in the horizon from their studio location. We also…
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Small Farms Sprout in Economic Drought
By Christopher Wanjek 10 February 2009
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When the economy gets tough, it seems that the tough get farming. Tens of thousands of small farms were created since 2002, according to new data from the Census of Agriculture.
The farming forecast isn't entirely sunny. But packed with a cornucopia of surprise findings — such as large increases in the number and percentage of Asian, Hispanic, Black and female farmers, and a coup staged by the frigid state of Wisconsin to become the second-leading vegetable producer, behind California — the census brings promising news to those interested in reducing obesity and improving the environment.
What's the connection? More small farms brings greater diversity of crops, more fresh and local foods, less dependency on chemical fertilizers, less concentration of manure, and less emphasis on cheap corn to make unhealthy, industrially produced beef, pork and chicken.
And if Wisconsin can grow vegetables with its yearly average temperature of 43 degrees, nearly every state can become self-sufficient vegetable producers; only seven states are colder.
"I find it hopeful that the number of farms in this country has increased," said newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at the Feb. 4 debut of agricultural census data, held in Washington. "I don't think it is a statistical anomaly that small farms have increased in number... a result of farm programs we have instituted at the USDA to encourage organic farming" and other environmentally benign practices, he said.
Vilsack's comment came nearly a year to the day after the death of Earl Butz, the boisterous Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford whose mantra "get big or get out" killed the family farm and gave free reign to agribusiness to stuff Americans full of corn, corn syrup and corn-fed animals.
During Butz's reign, farmers began to take on debt by buying more land and expensive machines. The bubble burst in the 1980s with a saturation of corn and soy that couldn't even be unloaded overseas, resulting in massive numbers of farm foreclosures. The number of farms dropped steadily from the 1970s until, the census has revealed, this decade.
Butz resigned in shame in 1976 after making an astonishingly crude racial remark, but his policies have lived on, with corn production (and obesity) still on the rise. Butz was no doubt enthused in recent years to see agribusiness capitalize on fears of oil dependency to push the idea of feeding corn to cars in the form of biofuels.
The farm next door
In Japan, were obesity is negligible and the population lives on average about five years longer than Americans do, most cities and their surroundings are filled with small farms. Farmers south of Tokyo, which has a climate similar to Washington, work year round, planting winter crops such as broccoli and hearty greens, which are then picked and delivered to local stores within a day or two. The system is called chisan, chishou, "produce local, consume local."
Earl would have been knocked on his Butz if he had tried to change the Japanese system. During my visit to Fukuoka in January, I ate tomatoes and strawberries picked the day prior and grown in greenhouses, which were in effect simple plastic tents. Fukuoka's climate is identical to Virginia's.
While the new agricultural census, which covers data collected up through 2007, offers promising results, much work lies ahead. About 5 percent of farmers produce 75 percent of our food, a system dependent on heavy chemical fertilizer and pesticide use and vulnerable to massive food-born-illness outbreaks both natural and intentional.
Worse, most of these new, small farms brought in only a few tens of thousands of dollars. The number of working-class family farms with sales between $100,000 and $250,000 continues to decrease. Mega-farms continue to dominate.
Vilsack called the trend of lost family farms "disturbing" and vowed to improve the situation. Could the new mantra be "family farm values?"
Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books "Bad Medicine" and "Food At Work." His column, Bad Medicine, appears each Tuesday on LiveScience.
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Apple Debuts Second-Generation iPad Mini with Retina Display
Tuesday October 22, 2013 12:04 pm PDT by Juli Clover
As part of its iPad lineup update announced today, Apple introduced the second-generation iPad mini, which as expected is equipped with a 7.9-inch Retina display with a resolution of 2048x1536, matching the resolution of the full-sized Retina iPad. The Retina iPad mini is slightly thicker than the original iPad mini, measuring in at 7.5 mm thick and 0.73 pounds (0.75 pounds for cellular-capable models) compared to 7.2 millimeters and 0.68 pounds for the original generation. The new iPad mini will launch on an unspecified date in November and will be available in both white/silver and black/space gray options.
Internally, the Retina iPad mini includes a 64-bit A7 processor, M7 motion co-processor, and an upgraded 5-megapixel rear iSight camera with a backside illumination sensor and 1080p HD video capability. Meanwhile, the front of the device now features a new FaceTime HD camera with larger pixels that is also accompanied by dual microphones. The new iPad mini also now features multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology that offers up to 2x faster Wi-Fi, with both 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and LTE cellular models that available with up to 10 hours of battery life.
Apple has raised the price of the iPad with the inclusion of a Retina screen, and will offer it in 16, 32, 64, and new 128 GB models, beginning at $399 in the United States.
In addition to offering the Retina iPad mini, Apple will continue to sell the existing iPad mini at a lower price, offering only the low-end 16 GB model at $299 for Wi-Fi and $429 for Wi-Fi + Cellular. The first-generation black models will also see a shift from the previous slate shell to Apple's new space gray color.
The new iPad mini will be available next month, while the first-generation models at $299/$429 are available immediately.
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[ 293 comments ]
karlwig
So the updated iPad mini gets a price increase of 21 percent compared to the last one. That was pretty unexpected.
When the full sized iPad got retina display, the price stayed the same.
KeepCalmPeople
The only thing I think is weird is keeping the iPad 2 for $399. Who's going to buy that when they can get a retina Mini with all the upgrades for the same price?
dgree03
What makes this tablet $170 dollars more expensive than a 16gb Nexus 7? :confused:
No thanks! The price of tablets are going down not up. Typical bad Apple move.
sanjuvarma
400 bucks for a 7 inch?
500 for a 9 inch?
And Apple still producing iPad 2 for 400 bucks?
Is Apple back in 2010?
LordVic
This logo
:apple:
I understand why Apple products often carry a premium price over Nexus devices. or many competition device.
But $399 for essentially an 8" tablet is a tough pill to swallow, EVEN if it's a really damn nice looking tablet.
people were iffy at $329 for the mini. this is another $70. if you're not someone tied to iOS system and are looking with price as a major factor, the Nexus 7 (2013) just became that much more appealing.
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Why Kate Middleton was reportedly ‘in tears’ before her wedding
Jadie Troy-Pryde January 7, 2021 2:18 pm
Credit: Mark Cuthbert / Getty
Prince William and Kate Middleton may have tied the knot almost ten years ago, but many royal fans are still interested in the tiny details and anecdotes from their big day – whether it’s how the couple broke royal tradition on their wedding night, to the fact that William helped Kate with her hair and the future royal shocked the Queen by doing something very unusual.
It was a day to remember, and watched by millions across the globe. One of the biggest talking points when it came to the Cambridge’s wedding was Kate’s beautiful dress. Designed by Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton, the ivory gown was classic and elegant, with hand-cut Chantilly lace sleeves and a satin bodice with lace roses, thistles, daffodils and shamrocks embroidered onto the silk tulle.
It also included a 2.7 metre train, and the dress is estimated to have cost around £250,000.
However, the Duchess was reportedly ‘in tears’ before she said ‘I do’ as details of her gown were leaked to the press before the ceremony.
Although the royal couple attempted to keep all details of their big day private, it was revealed that Sarah Burton had designed Kate’s dress.
At the time, The Sunday Times wrote: ‘A fashion source said that the dress will be a combination of Middleton’s own design ideas and Burton’s deep knowledge and understanding of high fashion.’
The designer denied that she was behind the Duchess’ gown until it was officially announced on the day.
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She claimed: ‘Behind the scenes I think that caused tears at the Palace because Kate had done everything she could to keep the wedding dress a secret.’
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Syria regime attacked hospitals 92 times since beginning of 2018
May 18, 2018 at 12:25 pm | Published in: Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Iran, Middle East, News, Russia, Syria, Turkey, UN
A man inspects a damaged hospital after the Assad Regime carried out air strikes in Eastern Ghouta Syria on 21 February 2018 [Diaa Al-Din Samout/Anadolu Agency]
The Syrian regime and its Russian allies have attacked hospitals 92 times since January, a record high less than six months into 2018, the UN announced yesterday.
"The bombing over hospitals in Syria has killed 89 people and wounded 135 since the beginning of 2018," the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq said, a significant increase from the 73 civilians killed and 149 injured of last year.
President Bashar Al-Assad's government has been accused of targeting hospitals amid a spate of increased attacks since the beginning of this year, particularly in the northwest; the last attack to date took place in Idlib last weekend.
"Civilian areas – specifically healthcare facilities – are being hit in north-western Syria," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mission head Omar Ahmed Abenza said earlier this year. "The strikes, despite their regularity during the seven years long conflict, are currently at an intensity that should be a landmark, another wake-up call."
Reports from the ground also claim that several hospitals were targeted after drones followed ambulances from the site of a previous bombing in order to establish its location. Numerous NGOs, including Amnesty International, have stated that the systematic targeting of hospitals by Russia and the Syrian regime amounts to war crimes.
Read: Syria regime bombards Homs destroying only hospital
Idlib and its surrounding areas have been under control of opposition groups since 2015, forming a strategic stronghold for numerous factions. Despite being a designated de-escalation zone as per the Astana agreement between Russia, Iran and Turkey, the region faces regular shelling and has been subject to an intensified assault by regime forces in recent months.
The bombardment comes as Syrian refugees continue to arrive in the province after being evacuated from former opposition strongholds by the regime. Earlier this week, some 3,500 displaced people from the Homs countryside arrived in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
On Wednesday, at the ninth round of the Astana talks, Russian presidential envoy Alexander Lavrentyev threatened to eliminate Syrian opposition factions that resist being deported to the northern stronghold of Idlib.
#WarInSyria
The mass evacuation of fighters and civilians has prompted fear of a regime assault on the northern opposition territory, with special envoy to Syria warning that such action would be "six times" more destructive than the battle to recapture Ghouta, which fell last month after years of siege.
"If we see a Ghouta scenario in Idlib, this could be six times worse, affecting 2.3 million people," Staffan de Mistura told the UN Security Council's monthly meeting on the Syria conflict.
Despite Russia agreeing that the de-escalation status of Idlib must be protected, the governorate has continued to be bombarded by warplanes. Air strikes on the residential area of Ariha city killed two girls this week, with the White Helmets defence unit reporting that Syrian regime strikes left at least eight civilians dead yesterday.
Read: Rights group: Syria regime committed 50 sectarian massacres
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Books by Mike Marqusee
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – fifty years on
The Guardian, 22 February, 2014 Fifty years ago this month, the 22 year old Bob Dylan released his third album, The Times They Are A-Changin, the acme and as it turned out the end of his “protest” period. Dylan renounced this genre so quickly, and took his fans on such a giddy journey afterwards, that… Read more
Poem: This morning’s surprise
‘This morning’s surprise’, a poem by Mike Marqusee, was a short-listed finalist for the 2011 Wells Literary Festival Poetry Prize. This morning’s surprise This morning’s surprise is how much I’ll miss rail travel. The green fields looming up and falling behind, the milky tea wobbling in a plastic cup, the engine’s steady vibration. This afternoon’s… Read more
Streets of the imagination
CONTENDING FOR THE LIVING Red Pepper, October-November 2011 Events over the summer brought to mind William Blake’s uncompromisingly angry poem “London”, written in the early 1790s under the impact of revolution in France and repression at home. The poet wanders “through the charter’d streets / near where the charter’d Thames does flow” where he encounters… Read more
“Life is possible on this earth”: the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
CONTENDING FOR THE LIVING Red Pepper, April-May 2011 On a bright winter morning we made a pilgrimage to the hill of Al Rabweh, on the outskirts of Ramallah, where the poet Mahmoud Darwish is buried. An ambitious memorial garden is planned, but at the moment it’s a construction site littered with diggers and cement mixers…. Read more
Bible bashing (lessons for the rich)
CONTENDING FOR THE LIVING Red Pepper, February-March 2011 A body of antiquated dogma and myth, a source of repression, paean to patriarchy, bulwark of hierarchy. That’s how many would summarise the Bible, and there are more than enough juicily quotable Biblical passages to justify that view. But there’s much more to this book – or… Read more
New poem
A new poem by Mike Marqusee published in the Norwich Writers’ Circle Annual Anthology The urbs on the hill The urbs on the hill is primitive: a density of angles, shadow slicing shadow, rooftops stilled in the dance of unplanned geometry, denizens safeguarded, except from each other. It’s a compact masterpiece. The sculpture of generations,… Read more
Not pop as we know it: flamenco and the quest for authenticity
CONTENDING FOR THE LIVING Red Pepper, Feb-March 2010 This article has appeared in a revised form on The Guardian’s Comment is free website. Flamenco is a name widely known but a music little understood, at least beyond its Andalusian heartland. Forget about Hollywood images of flounces and castanets. Even the bravura solo guitarists and dance… Read more
Saved by a wandering mind
Published by Level Playing Field, August 2009. A collection of poems written over the past twelve years. Here are two poems from Saved by a wandering mind: Privatising the underground Riding the thronged tube at dusk he sought above the heads of passengers an emptiness in which he could think simple, impersonal thoughts. This grasping… Read more
His will is only iron
A poem by Mike Marqusee published in Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, poems in aid of the Red Cross, edited by Todd Swift His will is only iron The hosepipe snakes through lawns, green on green. The tank churns its dust- penumbra. At leisure, under licence, indecently arrayed in the cat-suit of decency, striding… Read more
Poem published in Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology 10 edited by Todd Swift Heeding the call In the night-wind the house quakes. Its arthritic timbers mutter sarcastically, and chase me pyjama-clad into the empty, watchful garden. Agricultural vehicles like steel-limbed insects ply the lanes, igniting the hedgerows. Nettles probe the air. On patrol in the… Read more
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Posted on March 10, 2020 by morrowcountysentinel
MG’s Shipman signs with Ohio Christian
By Rob Hamilton - roberthamilton@aimmediamidwest.com
Mount Gilead senior Dakota Shipman signed her letter of intent to play basketball for Ohio Christian University. Pictured above are, top row (l-r): MG head basketball coach Bob Scott, OCU head basketball coach Brenda Baker and MG assistant basketball coach Gary Miller. Front row, mother Melissa, Shipman and father Jeremy.
Rob Hamilton | Morrow County Sentinel
While her basketball career with the Mount Gilead Indians has come to an end, Dakota Shipman will be able to continue playing that sport at the next level after signing a letter of intent to compete for Circleville’s Ohio Christian University.
For Shipman, the process of finding the right college did not take particularly long.
“About three or four months,” she said. “This was the first college I visited.”
It didn’t take long to be convinced Ohio Christian University was the place for her to attend.
“Because it feels like home,” she said. “I love the small campus and I felt really welcome when I went down there.”
While playing basketball for the NAIA school, Shipman will major in early childhood education, while also minoring in coaching.
“Mainly being around it the whole time,” said Shipman of her desire to potentially coach down the road. “My dad was a big factor. He thinks I could be a good coach.”
At Ohio Christian, she’ll be looked upon to play at shooting guard, which will be an adjustment. Due to Mount Gilead not having a lot of size, she’s likely spent more time in the paint than on the perimeter while with the Indians.
“It’ll be a harder transition for me,” she said. “Getting my outside shot back will be the biggest thing, but if I work hard in the summer, I can do that.”
She added that her time in the post for MG could be of benefit to her in getting used to the more physical college game.
“I think it’ll help a lot,” she said. “I found myself get stronger this year because it was the first time I played post since middle school.”
Shipman said that one thing that impressed Ohio Christian about her was her hustle.
“My hustle mainly and going for a lot of loose balls,” she said.
Off the court, she’s mainly looking forward to the independence that college will provide.
“Being on my own and getting to experience things on my own,” she said, responding to what aspects of college she was most looking forward to.
She’ll also have a lot of good memories about her team at Mount Gilead.
“Probably my best memories would be around the locker room before games and coach (Gary) Miller hyping us up,” she said. “I’ll miss the team the most. They’ve been around for years and I’m going to miss it a lot.”
https://www.morrowcountysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2020/03/web1_dakotashipman.jpgMount Gilead senior Dakota Shipman signed her letter of intent to play basketball for Ohio Christian University. Pictured above are, top row (l-r): MG head basketball coach Bob Scott, OCU head basketball coach Brenda Baker and MG assistant basketball coach Gary Miller. Front row, mother Melissa, Shipman and father Jeremy. Rob Hamilton | Morrow County Sentinel
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Long-Term Antibiotic Use May Up Women's Odds for Heart Trouble
Antibiotics can be lifesaving, but using them over a long period might raise the odds of heart disease and stroke in older women, a new study suggests.
Researchers tracked the health of nearly 36,500 U.S. women over an average follow-up of nearly eight years. During that time, more than a thousand developed heart disease.
The study found that women aged 60 and older who used antibiotics for two months or longer were 32% percent more likely to develop heart disease than those who did not use antibiotics.
Women aged 40 to 59 who took antibiotics for longer than two months had a 28% higher risk than those who did not take the drugs, said a team led by Lu Qi. He directs the Tulane University Obesity Research Center in New Orleans.
Said another way, the results mean that for older women who take antibiotics for two months or more, 6 per 1,000 would go on to develop heart disease, compared with 3 in 1,000 among those who did not take the drugs.
There was no increased risk of heart disease among women aged 20 to 39 who took antibiotics, according to the study published April 24 in the European Heart Journal.
"This is an observational study and so it cannot show that antibiotics cause heart disease and stroke, only that there is a link between them," Qi said in a journal news release. "It's possible that women who reported more antibiotic use might be sicker in other ways that we were unable to measure, or there may be other factors that could affect the results that we have not been able take account of."
However, the researchers did take into account other factors, including age, race, sex, diet and lifestyle, reasons for antibiotic use, overweight or obesity, other diseases and medication use.
The most common reasons for antibiotic use among women in the study were respiratory infections, urinary tract infections and dental problems.
So what could be the link between antibiotics and heart risk?
One possible reason could lie in the fact that antibiotics do alter the balance of gut microbes, destroying good bacteria and increasing the proportion of viruses, bacteria or other microbes that can cause disease, Qi suggested.
"Antibiotic use is the most critical factor in altering the balance of microorganisms in the gut," he said, and "previous studies have shown a link between alterations in the microbiotic environment of the gut and inflammation and narrowing of the blood vessels, stroke and heart disease."
Study first author Yoriko Heianza is a research fellow at Tulane University. She noted that, as the women in the study aged, "they were more likely to need more antibiotics, and sometimes for longer periods of time, which suggests a cumulative effect may be the reason for the stronger link in older age between antibiotic use and cardiovascular disease."
According to Qi, the take-home message from the new study is that "antibiotics should be used only when they are absolutely needed. Considering the potentially cumulative adverse effects, the shorter time of antibiotic use, the better."
Dr. Eugenia Gianos directs Women's Heart Health at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She wasn't involved in the new research, but said the findings are "interesting and warrant further analysis."
Gianos agreed that the study couldn't prove cause and effect. "It is very possible that patients who require antibiotics for an infection have a worse underlying infectious or inflammatory process, and that the systemic effects of these diseases are what cause cardiovascular disease," she reasoned.
But the interplay between antibiotics, the gut's "microbiome" and the cardiovascular system could be important as well, Gianos said.
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Gov. Rick Snyder in Tokyo: Michigan retooled for trade
Updated Apr 03, 2019; Posted Sep 27, 2011
AP PhotoMichigan state Gov. Rick Snyder, right, and Tokyo University President Kanju Osawa during their meeting at a Tokyo Hotel Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has told a Tokyo audience of Midwestern and Japanese business and political leaders that Michigan is "a very different place" than when he took office in January.
Snyder's office says the Republican governor told the annual meeting of the Japan Midwest U.S. Association that legislative and policy changes should "open new doors for trade" between Michigan and Japan.
Snyder cites repealing the Michigan Business Tax and adopting a two-year balanced budget.
Monday's stops included a meeting with officials of Michigan-based Graceland Fruit Inc. and Japan's Otsuka Foods Ltd., collaborators on a dried fruit product initiative.
Snyder's eight-day, three country trade mission began Sunday and includes stops in Japan, China and South Korea.
The international trade trip is the ex-Gateway computer executive's first as governor.
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Aston Martin 2021 V12 Speedster-No Top, No Screen, No Prob
by Thom Taylor on March 4, 2020
No windshield, no top, no problem. This Aston Martin 2021 V12 Speedster is the work of Aston’s “Q by Aston Martin.” It is the customizing arm of Aston for “very discerning, enthusiastic customers.” You’ll want to get yours at the rock bottom price of $950,000. Deliveries start in 2021. Only 88 will be produced.
This special-edition follows the Speedster mania we just saw with the Bentley Mulliner Bacalar that debuted yesterday. However, this Speedster goes a step farther with the elimination of any windshield protection as with the McLaren Elva.
Aston Martin took a production Vantage and hacked off the roof and windshield
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Aston took a production Vantage, sliced the roof and windshield off, then fashioned the body around what was left. The headrests tie in nicely with the rear of the car. You get the competition vibe from those and the roll bars that flair into them.
A unique bonded aluminum platform was created using elements from both Aston’s DBS Superleggera and Vantage models. It’s taken the best pieces to create what it is calling a “true driver’s car.” The construction took a full year to complete. You can see the 2013 Aston Martin CC100 Speedster concept cues in this newest Speedster.
The Speedster has adaptive dampers with Sport, Sport+, and Track modes
Independent double-wishbone front suspension, multi-link rear suspension with coil springs are the basics. Adaptive dampers with Sport, Sport+, and Track modes provide the right feel and grip, with 21-inch forged center-lock alloy wheels rolling out the bling. Carbon ceramic disc brakes at 410 mm front and 360 mm rear stops the Speedster quickly. Most of the chassis and body are created in carbon fiber.
The highlight of the car beside the unique styling is the V12 engine. It is a 5.2-liter twin-turbo setup with 700 hp and 555 lb-ft of torque. If you’ve been waiting for the V12 to land in a Vantage model since its debut in 2017 wait no longer. In fact, we expect now that the Speedster has been revealed a production V12 Vantage should be in the works as you read this.
This is the first V12 offered in this generation of Vantage
An eight-speed automatic transmission transfers power to the limited-slip differential. Aston says 0-62 mph is in 3.5 seconds, and the top speed is 182 mph. The exhaust is dumped through the stainless steel exhaust system. It’s worth noting that this is the first V12 offered in this generation of Vantage variant.
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Aston describes the interior as a combination of exotic materials like structural satin carbon fiber, hand-crafted saddle leather, chrome, aluminum, and 3D-printed rubber. The seating was bisected by a console running through the middle. There’s no glovebox, but instead, Aston includes a leather bag plus added storage behind the roll bars under the head bumps.
Aviation cues come from the F/A 18 fighter jets
With this premier Speedster, the factory took a nod from aviation. Cues from the F/A 18 fighter jet were used for inspiration on finishes. The paint is Skyfall Silver with satin black exhaust tips. The vent grilles and vanes are also finished in satin black. Your own Speedster can be ordered in this configuration if you so desire.
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On October 5, 2016, when the agreement reached enough signatures to cross the threshold, U.S. President Barack Obama said, „Even if we achieve all the goals… we will only get to part of where we need to go. He also said that „this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change.“ It will help other nations reduce their emissions over time and set bolder goals as technology progresses, all under a strong transparency system that will allow each nation to assess the progress of all other nations. [27] [28] [28] At the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference, the Durban Platform (and the ad hoc working group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action) was established to negotiate a legal instrument for climate action from 2020. The resulting agreement is expected to be adopted in 2015. [62] 18 id. art. 21. In the United States, President Obama`s administration considers the Paris Agreement to be a presidential agreement for the implementation of the convention and does not need to be ratified by the Senate. Negotiators of the agreement stated that the INDCs presented at the time of the Paris conference were insufficient and found that „the estimates of aggregate greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 and 2030 resulting from the planned contributions at the national level are not covered by the least expensive scenarios of 2oC, but lead to a projected level of 55 gigatons in 2030.“ and acknowledges that „much greater efforts to reduce emissions will be needed to keep the global average temperature increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius, reducing emissions to 40 gigatonnes or 1.5 degrees Celsius.“ [25] [Clarification needed] The agreement stated that it would only come into force (and therefore fully effective) if 55 countries responsible for at least 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions (according to a 2015 list) would ratify , approve, approve or adhere to the agreement.
[66] [67] On April 1, 2016, the United States and China, which together account for nearly 40% of global emissions, issued a joint statement confirming that the two countries would sign the Paris climate agreement. [69] 175 contracting parties (174 states and the European Union) signed the agreement on the first day of its signing. [59] [70] On the same day, more than 20 countries announced plans to join the accession as soon as possible in 2016. The ratification by the European Union has achieved a sufficient number of contracting parties to enter into force on 4 November 2016. The EU and its member states are individually responsible for ratifying the Paris Agreement. There was a strong preference for the EU and its 28 Member States to simultaneously table their ratification instruments to ensure that neither the EU nor its Member States commit to commitments that belong exclusively to the other[71] and there was concern that there was a disagreement on each Member State`s share of the EU-wide reduction target. just as Britain`s vote to leave the EU could delay the Paris pact. [72] However, on 4 October 2016, the European Parliament approved the ratification of the Paris Agreement[60] and the EU tabled its ratification instruments on 5 October 2016 with several EU Member States. [72] The main international agreements on climate change are linked below. The full text of the treaty is linked and the UN treaty website contains details on participants and important data.
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Less than a week after Collier County commissioners were hit with a wave of criticism about a proposed stormwater fee and put off the plan, commissioners on Tuesday rejected a proposed tax on some rural residents to fix remote roads.
A proposed ordinance championed by Commissioner Bill McDaniel, whose district includes Golden Gate Estates and Immokalee, would have created a municipal services taxing unit to fund repairs of private rural roads that have become inaccessible to ambulances, firetrucks and patrol cars.
But after an outpouring of opposition Thursday evening — especially from residents in Golden Gate Estates — with respect to a proposed stormwater fee that county officials said was needed to help fund an ailing stormwater system, commissioners wary of adding a new tax on Tuesday voted 3-2 against McDaniel’s roads proposal. (Commissioner Burt Saunders joined McDaniel in favor of the measure.)
Commissioners cite stormwater fee lesson
“Especially in light of the lesson we learned with the stormwater utility, I … can’t support it,” Commissioner Andy Solis said. “And I understand the concern, but right now we have a system for going in and, if there is a public safety issue, repairing a road that needs to be repaired.”
Currently, first responders alert county officials to an impassable road, which the county, following board approval, fixes. It later recoups costs from residents along the road with an after-the-fact taxing unit.
Previous coverage:Stormwater fee plan put off a year after Collier residents oppose it at hearing
More:Stormwater fee in Collier revised, but foes still expected at hearing Thursday
McDaniel had argued his proposal would save the county money by fixing impassable roads on a proactive basis and would address what he said is a public safety issue in some rural areas where first responders have trouble reaching homes.
“We have immeasurable health, safety and welfare issues for residents,” he said before Tuesday's vote.
McDaniel said the average cost per mile to repair the roads would be less than $2,000 under his program. Under the current model, costs can be more than $10,000 per mile, he said.
“This is a way, with a relatively speaking low impact, to secure revenue from everybody that lives on these roads,” McDaniel said of his proposal.
Though the original proposal would have authorized a levy not to exceed one mill of property taxes per year, or $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, McDaniel on Tuesday suggested capping it at 0.3 mills, or 30 cents per $1,000 of taxable value.
County staff had suggested setting the rate at 0.5 mills for the first year, which would bring in $146,500. About 97 miles of roads would have been affected by the ordinance.
But fellow commissioners said they were concerned about creating a new tax for residents who perhaps are content with the conditions of their roads.
Brent Batten:Stormwater tax passes easily — in Texas. In Collier, maybe not so much
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“We’re going to be taxing people to have a fund to improve privately owned roads, which I have a fundamental issue with,” Solis said. “And I think if there’s anything that I learned from the stormwater issue is that there are certainly people that are going to be impacted by this that have chosen to live on private roads because they didn’t want to live on public roads.”
At previous hearings a handful of residents and local emergency officials spoke in favor of the proposed tax, but there were no public speakers Tuesday.
Housing to replace retail in shopping center
In another vote Tuesday, commissioners approved a plan to allow for up to 325 apartments on a 31-acre property at the northeast corner of Pine Ridge and Goodlette-Frank roads. Commissioner Penny Taylor cast the lone dissenting vote, saying she was concerned about the potential density of the project.
Mike Bosi, planning director for the county, said the potential development could help Collier address its longstanding need for more housing options.
Brent Batten:Affordable housing could pop up in spaces formerly used for retail
“It’s supply and demand,” he said. “As we add to the supply, we start satiating that demand.”
Representatives for the developer said Tuesday leases would start at $1,200 for one-bedroom apartments.
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Clean Label is Here to Stay
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<p>If you think the clean-label movement is just a passing fad, you better pull your head out of the sand and take notice. According to a new report from Packaged Facts, eight-seven percent of Americans look at the Nutrition Facts panel on packaged foods and beverages at least sometimes, while 56 percent actively seek out nutritional information and guidelines.</p>
If you think the clean-label movement is just a passing fad, you better pull your head out of the sand and take notice. According to a new report from Packaged Facts, eight-seven percent of Americans look at the Nutrition Facts panel on packaged foods and beverages at least sometimes, while 56 percent actively seek out nutritional information and guidelines.
According to the “Nutritional Labeling and Clean Labels in the U.S.: Future of Food Retailing" report 67 percent of consumers prefer groceries with fewer and simpler ingredients, while roughly the same percentage take nutritional content statements, ingredient-free statements, and statements about health benefits into consideration when buying packaged foods and beverages. What’s more, these consumers are becoming more vocal—through social media, focus groups, consumer surveys, and even petitions—about what they want and do not want in their food and beverages.
As consumers begin to look more closely at what goes into their food and beverages, the industry is reformulating and repositioning mainstream products and lines to have cleaner labels. Aware of what consumers want, major retailers are adding their weight to pushing food and beverage producers to make sweeping changes in their products. Many retailers have developed their own brands of clean-label products, and foodservice providers also are making the shift toward more transparency and cleaner ingredients statements.
Need proof that clean label isn’t just a passing fad? Just take a look at some of the major brands that have begun eliminating artificial coloring and flavorings, replacing artificial preservatives with natural ones, reducing added sugars, switching to GMO-free ingredients, and reducing or eliminating routine antibiotics given to animals.
Kraft Foods recently announced plans to remove artificial colors and preservatives from its flagship Original Macaroni & Cheese boxed dinner mixes beginning in January 2016. The Hershey Co. announced it will begin reformulating its products with simpler and easier-to-understand ingredients, following a three-prong strategy: simpler, more natural ingredients, transparency and ingredient information shared with consumers, and sourcing responsible and sustainable ingredients. Hershey’s announcement came just one day after Nestlé USA announced it would stop using artificial colors and flavors in all its chocolate candy products by the end of 2015.
In April, Tyson Foods, the country’s biggest poultry producer, promised that by September 2017, it expects to eliminate the use of giving its chickens antibiotics that are also used in human medicine. Tyson is a major chicken supplier to McDonald’s, which in March announced that its 14,000 U.S. units will stop selling chicken raised with human antibiotics within the next two years.
Following Subway, McDonald’ and Chipotle’s lead, Panera said it would remove artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners and preservatives from its food products. Just today, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (owned by Yum Brands) announced plans to phase out artificial flavors, colors and other ingredients such as unsustainable palm oil from its foods by the end of this year.
David Sprinkle, research director for Packaged Facts, said while the federal government mandates Nutrition Facts panels and ingredients labels on packaged foods and beverages, some marketers, retailers, and foodservice providers are ahead of the pack when it comes to labeling trends. These companies are acting proactively as they feel the winds of change—whether from potential government legislation, nutritional recommendations, or consumer demands—and are willing to overhaul their products and even their most iconic brands.
Want to find out more about clean labels? Food Product Design’s new digital issue, “Clean-Label Bars," explores consumers’ desire to live healthier and how that is shaping how nutritional bars are made. A lot takes place from concept to the final product, and formulators are tasked with finding clean-label ingredients, such as sweeteners, proteins, fibers and inclusions, which not only look good on a label but also yield a bar in perfect form with piece integrity, shelf longevity and palatability.
Still thirsty for more info on clean labels? Check out “The Clean-Label Beverage Issue" that examines the top-three considerations when formulating clean-label beverages—sweeteners, flavors and colors.
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FEMA, National Guard to aid three states hit hardest by coronavirus
Posted: Mar 22, 2020 / 04:29 PM EDT / Updated: Mar 22, 2020 / 07:45 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ship mobile hospital centers to the hard-hit states of Washington, California and New York amid the coronavirus pandemic. For New York, that would mean another 1,000 hospital beds.
Trump is also revealing for the first time the number of respirators and other personal protective equipment sent to the hard-hit states by the federal government. It comes as state and local leaders have appealed on the federal government to provide far more, and as Trump has held off on using his fully authorities under the Defense Production Act to marshal the private sector’s capabilities.
Trump says it’s up to states to try to get the materials first. He says: “We’re sort of a backup for states.”
Trump says he’s also giving governors in those three states in calling up their national guard, keeping it under local control but providing federal funding.
The White House is also urging commercial labs to prioritize the testing of hospital patients as they work to clear a backlog of tests for the coronavirus.
Vice President Mike Pence says the Department of Health and Human Services will issue formal guidance Monday, but that the federal government is encouraging all labs to “prioritize inpatient testing.”
Pence says the government hopes to have the backlog of existing tests — a milestone the White House hoped to reach on Monday — cleared by the middle of the week.
The White House is encouraging those without symptoms against seeking testing, warning it depletes already scarce supplies of personal protective equipment for healthcare providers.
The Senate has refused to advance the coronavirus rescue package in a procedural vote with Democrats rejecting a draft from Republicans and pushing for more aid for workers.
Negotiations are expected to continue into the evening Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has urged senators to “signal to the public that we’re ready to get this job done.” He wants passage by Monday.
But Democrats have resisted, arguing the nearly $1.4 trillion measure needs to bolster aid and put limits on how businesses can use the emergency dollars.
More voting is possible.
The full White House briefing appears below.
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Is it legal to use cones and bins to stop people parking outside your house?
Can you legally protect a parking space for yourself?
Caroline Hemmingham
Cones outside a house
It can be very frustrating when people park on the road directly outside your house.
True, you might not own that particular piece of road, but it feels like it's more yours than anybody else's.
And if parking is at a premium on your street, then you might be tempted to take matters into your own hands.
The Post reported earlier this year how some residents in Beeston have taken to putting bins outside their homes because of frustrations over tram users parking in their streets.
Traffic cones, too, are also often seen outside houses where home owners try keep their spot locked down.
Man lashed out at security guard after being asked for ID
But is it legal to do this?
Unfortunately, reserving a parking space outside your home can mean you are breaking the rules of the road, the Hull Daily Mail reports.
Under the Highways Act 1980 it is an offence to obstruct the highway.
Specifically, Section 137 of the Act says: "If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale."
A level 3 fine goes up to a maximum £1,000. There may also be fixed penalty notices in play, depending where you live.
Neither of which might be worth protecting that space.
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Oh, and you're looking for somewhere else to park because other motorists have clogged up the road, bear in mind that the Highway Code says you must not park:
On a pedestrian crossing, including the area marked by the zig-zag lines
In marked taxi bays
In a cycle lane
On red lines
In spaces reserved for Blue Badge holders, residents or motorbikes (unless entitled to do so)
Near a school entrance
Anywhere that would prevent access for Emergency Services
At or near a bus/tram stop
Opposite or within 10 metres of a junction
Over a dropped kerb
In front of the entrance to a property
EMSEO
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Novaston Asset Management
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WILL SPORTS WIN THIS BATTLE?
By: Danijela Babić, mountaineering coach
Ever since the news of the new virus outbreak in China first came out earlier this year and the return of athletes, coaches, and other sports professionals from China, the first hints of the biggest crisis in sports since World War II started to appear. At that time, no one could have anticipated that — only two months later — a global quarantine would be introduced, and sports would come to a nearly complete halt.
The first to take the hit was high-level soccer. Elite European club competitions are canceled, and now it is almost certain that EURO 2020 — scheduled to take place in June and July in as many as 12 European cities — will have to wait for a healthier time. On April 1, UEFA suspended all Champions League and Europa League matches “until further notice.” All national team matches scheduled for June have also been postponed. FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation have agreed to postpone the World Cup qualifiers in March and June. The new seasons in Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean professional leagues have been stood over.
According to LearnBonds’ estimates, all of this will cost European soccer EUR 4.1 BILLION. The grimmest consequences will be felt by England’s Premier League, which is set to lose more than 1.2 billion euros. The Spanish Primera Liga will lose around EUR 970 million, followed by the German Bundesliga with about EUR 800 million, the Italian Serie A with EUR 700 million, and the French Ligue 1 with EUR 400 million. Manchester City are on track to see a EUR 412 million drop in player values, with Barcelona right behind with a potential loss of EUR 366 million. Following suit are Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Paris Saint-Germain (EUR 353 million, EUR 350 million, EUR 302 million in losses, respectively).
Miloš Velebit, Director of the Academy of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan and Main Coordinator of Azerbaijan’s junior national teams, concurs with these numbers, pointing out that the situation will definitely affect the downsizing of the already staggering multi-million contracts and budgets of professional players and teams. “This will result in narrowing the wide gap between the super wealthy Western European clubs and those coming from Eastern Europe. This scenario could have a positive effect. It was getting a bit boring to watch the same teams in the finals of European competitions. Evidently, professional teams will suffer some financial losses, but in a year or two they will recover everything they lost through revenues from broadcasting rights, viewers, sponsorships... However, the consequences in amateur teams could turn out to be much more drastic. In essence, even after corona, it will not matter who is playing and what is the result — in the end the soccer wins.... And as Liverpool's famous coach Bill Shankly would say, ‘Some people think football is a matter of life and death I assure you, it's much more serious than that,’” Velebit notes.
Almost simultaneously, the drama kicked off across the Atlantic in the most popular basketball league in the world — the NBA. After the Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for Covid-19, the NBA became the first professional league to cancel all competitions indefinitely. Soon after, the NCAA championships were also canceled. Losses are numbering in millions of dollars (some say around 916 million).
For every game that is not played, the average NBA player loses around EUR 366,000. The NBA announced on its website that as part of the coronavirus pandemic countermeasures, player salaries will be reduced by 25 percent as of May 15.
The fastest circus in the world, Formula One, canceled races mid-April when the McLaren team leaders announced that some of their members tested positive for coronavirus. This will lead to Group F1 losing about 45% of its market value on the stock market.
Other mass sporting events have also suffered the same fate, with the London Marathon postponed for October 4 and the Boston Marathon possibly to be held on September 14. Marathons in Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona have also been put off. Wimbledon 2020 will be canceled, which will be the first cancellation since World War II. Roland-Garros is moved to the end of September. The Tour de France, the biggest event in the cycling calendar, is held over by two months.
The biggest event is most certainly the postponement of the Olympics for next year. This has never happened in the history of the Olympic Games during peacetime. Since the first Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896, the world’s largest sporting event was held every four years with the exception of 1916 on account of World War I, as well as 1940 and 1944 because of World War II. Outside of the breaks due to war, to date nothing has ever prevented the world’s best athletes from crossing swords in myriad disciplines, but the uninterrupted Olympic years have now been brought to a halt by coronavirus.
Sport climbing was also supposed to be a new discipline at the Olympics this year. However, this was postponed too, of course, and the sport, as well as all those related (alpinism, dry tooling), has been hit by the pandemic’s negative consequences. According to Katarina Manovski, sport climber, mountaineer, and professor of physical education and sports, the coronavirus pandemic is affecting every segment of a professional athlete's life. “These events are affecting not only the athletes but also all the adjacent staff who make up the sports system — doctors, physical therapists, coaches, selectors, the media, event organizers... Athletes are prevented from doing what they do best, training and winning medals. Most athletes and recreationalists quickly adapted and continued their workouts at home. For athletes, now is the time to work on some things that there is never time for otherwise because of the high volume of competitions,” Katarina Manovski notes.
Still, not everything is so bleak. At the moment, the gaming industry is turning a good profit amidst all this, with virtual matches being held in boxing and other sports played by well-known athletes from across the world from their homes with #stayhome. Formula One streamed its first ever Virtual Grand Prix, complete with a team of commentators and guests. Celebrities — including singer Liam Payne and racing driver and former track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy — raced against each other and in teams from their own homes, in isolation.
For what is sport if not fighting and winning? Even in situations like the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
The importance of Facility Management in the time of crisis
PEPCO in Serbia, cooperation with NPM
NOVASTON is a friend of the SOS Children's Villages Serbia Foundation
We are not giving up on projects through which we are transforming the real estate market
Let’s win with knowledge and new skills
Is it good to encourage children to be leaders?
Happiness is in being
Workplace skills – before, during and after the corona pandemic
What leaders must know during a crisis?
What will the post-Covid 19 office work look like?
Has this unusual situation "working from home" make us more productive?
Who drives change in society?
Leadership and COVID -19 Pandemic
Renaissance Leadership of New World
Does new circumstances require a new way of thinking?
The impact of the current crisis on the digital industry
Will the new trend be pajamas or will fashion still survive?
Did the film industry already anticipate this? And what after?
The real estate market in Slovenia during corona time
How is Covid-19 reshaping e-commerce?
How coronavirus changed Slovenia
CHALLENGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
When you wake up in a new world of communications
What about advertising and marketing?
FRAJLE IN "THE TIME OF CORONA"
What’s in store for the global economy?
Will we be flying carefree again?
Shopping centers and Coronavirus – are we going back to the beginning?
Is IT industry in the lead or in trouble?
How the #coronavirus situation had an impact on influencers?
Why internal communication is vital
Relationships and communication in time of crises
What it's like to be an influencer during a pandemic
CORONA AND AUTISM: Will we emerge from a pandemic in more solidarity?
Ah, those social media!
Communication during the corona crisis in Croatia or how to avoid a corona party
THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IN CROATIA BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19
Corporate Social Responsibility in the time of coronavirus
Will marketing survive
How the "corona situation" changed us, Part I
How the "corona situation" changed us, Part II
How the "corona situation" changed us, Part III
Without solidarity there is no trust, cooperation without solidarity actually means interest
#STAYHOME, LISTEN TO THE RADIO
CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND COVID - 19
THE BOOK IS OUR BEST FRIEND
It is important to maintain physical fitness during the isolation period
INNOVATIONS AS MEANS AGAINST COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Serbia: Measures to preserve jobs and support the economy
Fear and its offspring
Meditation and prayer in the time of corona
HOW TO SURVIVE ISOLATION WITH THE HELP OF CULTURE
Think about your parents and grandparents
REAL ESTATE MARKET IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
FACILITY MANAGEMENT IS MORE THAN MERE FACILITY MAINTENANCE
Actor Zlatko Rakonjac suggests what to watch in time of coronavirus
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS
How to survive coronavirus and stay normal?
HOW TO KEEP CHILDREN ENTERTAINED WHILE IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY
HAND AND BODY CARE AND PROTECTION FROM CORONA VIRUS
Children in the time of state of emergency parents, or parents in the time of state of emergency children?
Pets do not transmit the virus
Let`s keep INTERNAL PEACE and BALANCE
Work on yourself, but also love everything you are
Further development of the construction sector requires quality management
We are venturing into commercial property and logistics
KBF 2020: NOVASTON on the growth of the construction industry in Serbia
Shopping malls as places for purchasing, entertainment and new experiences
Novaston cooperation with BELhospice
Belgrade is booming with DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Greatest potential in region on lower-level developed markets
10TH STOP SHOP RETAIL PARK OPENED
Cooperation between Electric Arrow and Novaston
Novaston donates inventory for Clinical Center of Serbia
NPM in charge of tenant coordination in the future IKEA Retail Park
Trends of real estate market development
NMC becomes the member of "The Friends of UNICEF" Club
Novaston behind fit-out works in Ada Mall
Engaging asset and property management companies is a key factor in the development of each project
Novaston brought The Body Shop in Ada Mall, cosmetic brand for the first time in Serbia!
Novaston operates in Croatia
Novaston Project Management become the member of Serbia Green Building Council
Partners from the start - Vivo Shopping park and Novaston
The importance of the conflict of interest
NPM completes the store for Maison group in Rajićeva SC
Three ladies of Novaston
NMC and Rajićeva Shopping Center become partners
Novaston and Rajićeva expand cooperation in the commercialization segment
Key Trends in Facility Management
NMC zvanična marketinška agencija za CCC shoes&bags
NOVASTON EXCLUSIVE PARTNER WITH IKEA SERBIA
NPM in charge of tenant coordination for STOP SHOP Sremska Mitrovica
NEW CONCEPT OF RETAIL PARKS
THE IMPORTANCY OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Mia Zečević - the best business women in XXI
GIGATRON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN STOP SHOP RETAIL PARK
NPM AND NFM TEAM VISITED BAU FAIR
NMC new cooperation with Promenada Novi Sad
Kragujevac Plaza Shopping Center continues cooperation with NMC
NMC in charge for STOP SHOP retail parks marketing
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Alpha Packaging Extends PET Line
The company has added a 15-cc version that it says is lighter weight than its predecessor and made with 50% less plastic.
Alpha Packaging has extended its line of large PET packer bottles, adding a 15-cc version that the company says is lighterweight than its predecessor and made with 50% less plastic. The bottles are designed with an indented area for labeling. In addition, the company has also added a larger 3785-cc size. Alpha Packaging (St. Louis), 314/ 427-4300, www.alphap.com.
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World Trademark Review Ranks Nutter Among Top Trademark Firms in 2020 WTR 1000
02.19.2020 | Announcement
Nutter was ranked in the 2020 WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals, the definitive guide to trademark professionals published by the World Trademark Review (WTR). The guide stated that “Nutter recently beefed up its IP group…its new lawyers focus primarily on patent law but have trademark chops, too, giving the firm increased bandwidth on the brands side of the practice.”
Pat Concannon and Rory P. Pheiffer, partners in Nutter’s Intellectual Property Department, were recognized as leading practitioners “who have been knocking it out of the park recently.” According to the guide, Pat “is an authority on the protection of brand value and reputation in the digital realm. He likes to be hands on with his work and clients and does not pass work off to inexperienced attorneys – something which characterizes Nutter’s approach more broadly.” Sources lauded Rory’s patent and trademark experience, noting, “It is all too easy for a brand to get caught up in over-submitting trademarks, debating countless questions regarding contesting other brands or managing multiple timelines. Sifting through the how, when and where to act is of critical business importance; Rory provides the insight that a local boat captain might provide first-time sailors and has the ability to distil multiple trademark strategies into single cohesive game plans for your brand.” Another reference commented, “without Rory we would most certainly have left ourselves vulnerable and possibly stopped the process of protecting our rights altogether out of sheer frustration – he would not let that happen and we are the better for it.”
The WTR 1000 analyzes the local trademark legal services markets in more than 70 jurisdictions worldwide, profiling the firms and individuals singled out as leaders in their respective fields. To arrive at the rankings, researchers evaluated factors such as depth of expertise, market presence, and the level of work, alongside positive peer and client feedback.
Nutter Ranked in the 2019 WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals
Patrick Concannon
Rory Pheiffer
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Covid-19 Roundup | Grants and evictions
Battling to access grants and funding, high TB and HIV infections, illegal evictions and a shortage of protective equipment are among the daily struggles now facing the impoverished.
By: New Frame
Photographer: Oupa Nkosi
8 June 2020: A grade 12 pupil at Thulani Secondary School in Snake Park, Soweto, on the matrics’ first day back during the Covid-19 lockdown. Some pupils chose to stay away and continue their schooling from home.
Special Covid-19 Grant
Fewer than one in every four of the 13 million people who have applied for the Department of Social Security’s Special Covid-19 Grant have been approved. Only 3.1 million applications were approved after being processed to ensure that nobody was receiving other forms of government assistance.
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) chief officer Busisiwe Memela-Khambula told a 4 June 2020 meeting of the National Assembly’s Portfolio Committee on Social Development that a budget of R3.5 billion has been set aside for the grant. Paying all of the approved applications for the R350 grant for six months, however, will cost the department over R6 billion.
SASSA had paid 116 867 grant recipients at the end of May. Memela-Khambula did not clarify how many recipients have been paid to date. Some grants will be processed through bank services such as e-wallets. This payment infrastructure will only be operational after 15 June.
The fallout from SA’s Covid-19 lockdown
HIV, TB and Covid-19
On 9 June, the Western Cape’s health department released new findings that looked at Covid-19 outcomes for people with HIV and tuberculosis (TB). The department reviewed data from the province’s public sector, which revealed that those with HIV have a 2.75 times increased risk of dying of Covid-19, while those with active TB have an increased risk of 2.58 times. Those who have had TB in the past have a 1.41 times risk of dying from the novel coronavirus.
The data also showed there is not any difference in the increased risk of death between HIV patients who are virally suppressed and those who aren’t. “This is not what we expected, because we thought that if there was any increased risk of death associated with HIV that it would be driven by people not being on treatment and having poor immune function,” said public health medicine specialist Mary-Ann Davies, who suggested a study to analyse the data on these two types of HIV patients to give further clarity.
The data showed the overwhelming majority of deaths in the Western Cape were from diabetes, followed by high blood pressure.
SA to trial controversial drug chloroquine
Two more years
Tertiary education students are asking for changes to be made in the N+2 rule, which gives students two extra years to complete their degrees after which NSFAS will stop funding. NSFAS recipients say the disruption posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has interrupted their studies and will mean many will take longer than two extra years to finish.
But, during a media briefing on 9 June, Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande declined the request: “We are not going to change the stipulated number of years within which NSFAS beneficiaries are expected to finish their studies, both in terms of the pre- and post-2018 NSFAS requirements.”
Nzimande added that the application of the rule has become more efficient in 2020. It was found that a significant number of students had already exceeded the N+2 rule.
In Pictures | Back to school, back to reality
Continued evictions
Violent evictions of shack dwellers are ongoing and must be stopped immediately, says Church Land Programme director Graham Philpott.
Philpott says during the course of the past two months, over 900 shacks have been illegally demolished in the Durban area.
A new, independently researched report from the Church Land Programme shows how shack settlements in eThekwini have been targeted in a sustained campaign during the Covid-19 crisis.
City of Cape Town against human rights
Activists have accused the City of Cape Town of engaging in a number of court proceedings against marginalised people during the lockdown. On 10 June, the City brought an application to the high court to seek an interdict against the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) accessing the Strandfontein Emergency Shelter. The shelter was meant to house the homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Legal Resources Centre, representing SAHRC, told the court that the interdict would have a devastating effect on the constitutional and statutory mandate of the SAHRC. The Women’s Legal Centre together with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies were admitted as friends of the court. They told the court that the application by the City against a Chapter Nine institution was nothing short of a violation of the Constitution. The City, they argued, wanted to circumvent accountability in terms of its obligations to safeguard human rights, by silencing the work of human rights monitors.
The City persisted in its application for costs against the respondents, mainly human rights organisations. This was criticised heavily by the Legal Resources Centre as an abuse of court processes to discourage human rights groups from fighting for justice.
Judgment was reserved.
Marginalised must lead fight against Covid-19 spread
Danger pay
In the Eastern Cape, the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (Demawusa) has condemned delays by municipal bosses in providing danger allowances to workers who are exposed to Covid-19. “We want to get a comprehensive Covid-19 plan for workers from the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality. This municipality is not yet ready to receive more workers as it has failed to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to the current group of workers,” said provincial coordinator Siphiwo Ndunyana, speaking at a march by the union on 11 June at the Port Elizabeth City Hall.
If workers were forced to expose themselves to the coronavirus, they should be compensated, the union said. “The employer acknowledged that as a genuine demand but it is more than a month now since we have placed the demand and nothing has been placed on the table…. Workers are demanding to receive their danger allowance, not tomorrow, but as of yesterday,” said Ndunyana at the march.
Reliving Tshabalala’s magical moment
Transgender rights activists champion telemedicine
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Dyson Black Friday sales 2020: Score $250 off V10 stick vacuums
From big savings on coveted Dyson cordless vacuums, to deals on its hair tools, these are the brand’s best Black Friday bagains.
Edwina Carr Barraclough
news.com.auNovember 28, 202010:37am
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Fancy a Dyson product? The Black Friday sales will have you sorted.Source:Supplied
When it comes to brands synonymous with innovation and quality, Dyson sits at the top of the list.
Founded by engineer James Dyson, the brand is famous for inventing the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner but in recent years it has added plenty of other appliances to our most-wanted lists.
No, Dyson products aren’t cheap by anyone’s standards but plenty of the brand’s bestselling items are marked down steeply in the Black Friday sales.
Keen to score yourself a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner or state-of-the-art hair tool at a huge discount? Here’s what’s on offer from 2020’s Black Friday sales.
BEST BLACK FRIDAY DYSON DEALS
Catch.com.au is slashing $250 off the Dyson V10 Absolute+ Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. It’s now $849 (down from $1099).
Dyson V10 Absolute+ Cordless Vacuum CleanerSource:Supplied
Shaver Shop have shaved $83 off the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer, now $466 (down from $549).
From Tuesday November 24, The Good Guys is offering the Dyson V7 Motorhead Cordless Vacuum at $379 (down from $599 - a saving of $220). You can buy it here. The offer ends December 1. Plus, it’s discounting the Dyson V11 Outsize Cordless Vacuum, which is now $1248 (down from $1297) and you can also score a bonus $100 The Good Guys eGift Card via redemption.
Bing Lee is also offering the Dyson V7 Motorhead Cordless Vacuum at $379 (down from $599 - a saving of $220). Snap it up here.
Harvey Norman is offering shoppers the Dyson V7 Motorhead Cordless Vacuum for $379, that’s a saving of $211.
Myer is offering a $205 saving on the Dyson V7 Motorhead Cordless Vacuum, now $394.
Plus, the retailer has slashed $205 off the Dyson V10 Animal+ Cordless Vacuum, now $794
From November 23 – December 2, Dyson will be offering some eye-watering vacuum sales. The brand is slashing $250 off the Dyson V10™ Absolute+ cord-free vacuum cleaner, $250 off the Dyson V8™ Absolute cord-free vacuum cleaner and $200 off the Dyson V7™ Motorhead Origin vacuum.
Plus, receive a $250 discount on the Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link™ air purifier.
When it comes to the brand’s hair tools, its offering two gift with purchase offers. You can add to cart a Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer (in Fuchsia, Black, Purple/Black or Red) and choose two bonus gifts (a magnetic Dyson designed display stand valued at $99 and a selection of brushes valued at up to $49).
You can also snag yourself a Dyson Airwrap™ styler (in Fuchsia or Purple/Black) and receive a free gift of the Dyson Airwrap™ Travel Pouch valued at $79 and a selection of brushes valued at up to $49.
To see news.com.au’s extensive list of Black Friday deals across tech, beauty, fashion, home and more, head here.
Don’t have the budget for a Dyson but want to score yourself a discountent vacuum? Here are all the Black Friday vacuum offers to be across.
WHEN IS BLACK FRIDAY?
Marked in bold in every savvy shopper’s diary, Black Friday will be taking place on November 27 (with its sister sale Cyber Monday set for November 30).
Black Friday originated in the US as a post-thanksgiving, pre-Christmas spending event but has since spread voraciously around the world, cementing its place as a major global shopping event.
Dyson invented the cordless vacuum.Source:Supplied
WHAT DEALS SHOULD YOU LOOK OUT FOR?
It’s worth following retailers like Adore Beauty, Amazon, Harvey Norman, The Iconic, The Good Guys and Bing Lee during the sales period as they’re all Dyson stockists (don’t stress, we’ll keep you up to date on their deals). While there’s no denying vacuum cleaners are Dyson’s bread and butter product, their hair products are also worth keeping an eye out for on Black Friday. If you’re someone who blow dries your hair regularly, the Supersonic hair dryer is a worthy investment thanks to its quiet but incredibly powerful motor. The Corrale straightener is the only option that features copper flexing plates that gather hair for a more streamlined experience and the AirWrap cleverly blow dries your hair while giving bouncy volume.
WHY ARE DYSON’S STICK VACUUMS SO GOOD?
Considered the gold standard in stick vacuums, Dyson’s range is coveted and for good reason. You’ll never need to worry about pesky electrical sockets, manoeuvring easily around the home. Plus their incredibly powerful suction and commitment to technology and innovation makes them a premium option. Would you expect anything less from the company that invented cordless vacuums?
Dyson Supersonic hair dryer boasts a powerful motor.Source:Supplied
HOW IS DYSON’S SUPERSONIC HAIR DRYER DIFFERENT TO OTHERS?
If you want your hair dried quickly, the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is an unmissable option. Its incredibly fast digital motor boasts airflow of 105 miles per hour and no, that speed doesn’t translate to more noise - it’s a supremely quiet hair dryer compared to many. It comes complete with some brilliant attachments for whatever style you’re hoping to achieve and it measures the current output air temperature 40 times every second to ensure your hair doesn’t endure heat damage.
WHY IS THE SHOPPING EVENT CALLED BLACK FRIDAY?
There are a few reasons the post-thanksgiving sale is called “Black Friday”. Firstly, it’s said that it began in 1869, when Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, two Wall Street financiers, bought a significant amount of gold in the hope of its price surging. Instead, the opposite occurred and in turn, many Wall Street barons were left bankrupt. All of this took place on Friday September 24 1869, making it “Black Friday”.
It wasn’t until the ‘50s that the phrase connected itself to the shopping event. In Philadelphia in the 1950s, many tourists and shoppers came to the city the Friday following thanksgiving to watch a major football game. It’s said the ensuing mix of shoplifters, violent crowds and huge traffic jams caused the police department to dub the day Black Friday.
Black Friday is also said to represent a company’s revenue moving out of the red and into the black - or profit.
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Krone Seeking Breeders' Cup Breakthrough
Friday, October 24th 2003, 12:00 am
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) _ It's been seven years since Julie Krone last climbed aboard a Breeders' Cup starter.
The wait is just about over, but there's an even longer wait the jockey would like to end _ winning her first Breeders' Cup race.
``It would skyrocket my joy and my feelings would be off the scale,'' Krone said. ``It would probably be the happiest I've ever been in my whole life.''
As her successful comeback continues, Krone will be sitting on three pretty strong horses Saturday at the World Thoroughbred Championships at Santa Anita.
Krone will ride Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide in the $4 million BC Classic; 7-5 favorite Halfbridled in the $1 million BC Juvenile Fillies and 12-1 choice Siphonizer in the $1.5 million BC Juvenile. Halfbridled and Siphonizer are trained by Richard Mandella.
``I'm so happy and humbled to have so many live horses after my layoff,'' Krone said. ``The Breeders' Cup people have given me another jump start.''
And so has Funny Cide's trainer Barclay Tagg.
Tagg may be based in New York, but when he needed to replace Jose Santos he reached out to California and called Krone.
``Barclay knew she'd be a really good fit,'' Tagg's assistant trainer Robin Smullen said. ``She knows how to get a horse to relax, and that's exactly what Funny Cide needs.''
Krone's return has been just short of sensational. Coming off a 3 1/2-year retirement, she finished second in the jockey standings at Del Mar's summer meeting and won nine stakes races, including the $1 million Pacific Classic aboard Candy Ride while filling in for an injured Gary Stevens.
Not only is Krone looking for her first win in the Breeders' Cup _ she's 0-for-14 _ but no female has ever won a BC race.
Firsts are nothing new for Krone. She was the first female jockey inducted into racing's Hall of Fame in 2000, the first to win a Triple Crown race _ the 1993 Belmont Stakes _ and ranks first in wins with more than 3,600.
Even though she will be riding Funny Cide for the first time, and the 3-year-old gelding will be running for the first time in nearly three months, Krone brings a home-course advantage along for the ride.
``She knows this track, and that can't hurt,'' said Dave Mahan, one of Funny Cide's owners. ``There's nothing like having a jockey that's familiar with the surface that you're racing on. And she's one of the top jocks at this place.''
Funny Cide may be 8-1, but the pairing of America's most popular horse with one of racing's most popular riders could drop the final odds.
``That's hard to tell, but anything is possible,'' said Jack Knowlton, managing partner for Sackatoga Stable, the group of 10 upstate New Yorkers that owns Funny Cide.
Medaglia d'Oro, runner-up to Volponi in last year's Classic, is the 3-1 favorite, followed by Perfect Drift at 7-2 and Ten Most Wanted at 4-1.
Just the fact Krone is riding at all is testament to her desire to stay in the sport she grew up loving so much. Krone was one of the top riders on the East Coast in the 1990s, but retired in April 1999 after several horrifying spills.
Krone tried TV and radio for a while. Not the same. Then she fell in love with Daily Racing Form columnist Jay Hovdey, moved to California, and got married.
By 2001, Krone was itching to ride again. She went to the track, exercised horses in the morning for Mandella and others, and a year later was ready to return.
Just before the 2002 Breeders' Cup, the comeback announcement came. ``Time heals all wounds,'' Krone said at the time.
Last Nov. 7, Krone returned to the winner's circle for the first time in four years after a victory aboard Jade Hunter in the eighth race at Hollywood Park.
After gaining confidence and mounts, Krone fractured her back in a spill in March and was out four more months.
Having been away from the Breeders' Cup so long, Krone can't wait to watch the international stars perform.
``This is so fun,'' she said. ``Everything is coming together, it's the cornucopia of racing. It's so much fun to see the young horses and older horses and the turf and the short and the long and the sprint is so exciting ... I even become a fan if I don't ride the race.''
News On 6 ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) _ It's been seven years since Julie Krone last climbed aboard a Breeders' Cup starter.
The wait is just about over, but there's an even longer wait the jockey would
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US Department of Justice threatens Tulsa-based Rx Depot, orders them to close its stores
Tuesday, September 9th 2003, 12:00 am
MIAMI (AP) _ The Justice Department ordered Rx Depot, which is based in Tulsa, to close up shop, as the Bush administration for the first time moved to shut down one of the numerous chains of Internet stores that promise to sell senior citizens cheaper drugs from Canada.
In a letter Tuesday to Rx Depot's president Carl Moore that was obtained by The Associated Press, the DOJ said it would sue Moore unless he agrees by Thursday to shut down the company's 85 storefronts. The Justice Department said the stores violate federal law by helping U.S. consumers import drugs from Canada; only manufacturers are allowed to bring medicines into the country.
Moore said in an interview that he had no intention of signing the agreement.
``Just because this is the federal government, this does not scare me,'' he said. ``I look forward to my day in court.''
Charles Miller, spokesman for the Justice Department's civil division, called the letter ``an attempt to have them stop their illegal activity and settle this matter.''
``We have not heard directly from Rx Depot, and if they are interested in a settlement, then we will pursue a settlement,'' Miller said. ``If they are not interested, we will pursue litigation.''
Moore has raised the ire of the pharmaceutical industry and regulators by helping seniors get prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies, which are often priced 50 percent below U.S. drugstore prices because of Canadian government regulations.
The Food and Drug Administration warned Rx Depot in March that it was illegally importing drugs from Canada, and to quit or risk being shut down. Rx Depot not only refused, it actually expanded operations into more states, said FDA Associate Commissioner William Hubbard.
The FDA said it asked the Justice Department to seek an injunction against Rx Depot ``to stop them from importing drugs that pose a serious threat to the public health.''
Rx Depot is far from the only offender, Hubbard said: The FDA is preparing warning letters for seven Web sites that purport to sell cheaper Canadian drugs to Americans.
The FDA said the companies aren't just violating the law, but also endangering the health of customers.
``FDA has uncovered a disturbing pattern of actions by these companies resulting in potentially hazardous errors,'' the agency said in a statement posted on its Web site later Tuesday.
For example, in the Rx Depot case, FDA agents posed as customers and ordered Serzone, a powerful antidepressant, from Rx Depot. The company promised that it would ship a U.S.-made, FDA-approved bottle of the drug. Instead, Rx Depot shipped to FDA what appeared to be a counterfeit copy of Serzone, made in some country other than the United States or Canada, Hubbard said.
``It is not Serzone. It's not an approved drug in any way,'' he said.
In the cases pending against the Web site operators, FDA officials bought Accutane, the acne drug that can cause serious birth defects. U.S. women of childbearing age can only get Accutane after they are tested to ensure they're not pregnant.
None of the seven Web sites that shipped FDA Accutane even warned customers about birth defects, much less asked about pregnancy, Hubbard said. And some of the mailed drug appeared counterfeit, he added, saying testing to verify that is under way.
``Those are the real-world examples we see with these drugs, as opposed to what we hear about advocates saying, 'It's a good drug, just cheaper.' We see the safety not being there,'' Hubbard said.
Rx Depot, based in Tulsa, Okla., operates storefront businesses in half a dozen states including Florida, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Pharmacy regulators from four states have attempted to close Moore's stores in their states. Only Montana has succeeded.
Since the beginning of the year, four drug companies have started to limit the amount of drugs they ship to Canada in hopes of choking off supplies to companies that sell the drugs back to Americans.
Also this week, the FDA alerted health regulators in Canada that some of their pharmacies were shipping foreign-made drugs that purport to be Canadian-made, Hubbard said.
News On 6 MIAMI (AP) _ The Justice Department ordered Rx Depot, which is based in Tulsa, to close up shop, as the Bush administration for the first time moved to shut down one of the numerous chains of Internet
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Judge throws out United's deal with pilots
Friday, January 7th 2005, 11:42 am
CHICAGO (AP) _ A federal bankruptcy judge threw out a disputed new five-year contract between United Airlines and its pilots Friday, dealing the bankrupt carrier a significant setback in its efforts to lock in lower labor costs without a court order.
The contract, which called for 15 percent pay cuts, drew opposition from labor groups and others who complained that it would pave the way for United to eliminate traditional pension plans.
Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff said several aspects of the proposed agreement would ``unduly tilt the bankruptcy process,'' including the requirement that other unions' pension plans also be terminated.
Wedoff said he hopes the company and pilots can craft a contract based on the previous one, but he warned that he would also reject any future agreement that was tied to the elimination of other unions' pensions, saying those should be considered on their own merits.
``I come to this decision with extraordinary reluctance,'' Wedoff said, citing the pilots' efforts to craft an agreement and the sacrifices they have already made.
The decision was a disappointment for United, spokeswoman Jean Medina said.
``We think we had an agreement that was fair and equitable,'' Medina said. ``But as the judge indicated, we're going to sit back down at the table.''
United, a unit of Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based UAL Corp., has said it needs $725 million in annual labor cost reductions in place by mid-January in order to be able to line up the financing needed for it to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The pilots' proposed contract would have allowed the union to terminate the deal if United allowed any other employee group to keep its pension program. If United broke its agreement with the pilots, it could have cost the company $28 million a month _ $14 million in forgone cost savings and $14 million in penalties _ under terms of the deal.
United attorney James Sprayregen contended the pilots' agreement would not dictate future collective bargaining with its other unions.
``I don't see in any way, shape or form that this impinges our ability to negotiate with each individual union,'' Sprayregen said.
Some creditors also were critical of the pilots' deal, including the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which estimates it would be responsible for about $1.4 billion of the plan's $2.9 billion in underfunded assets if the proposed agreement is approved.
Outside the courtroom, contract negotiations continued Friday between United and unions representing its flight attendants and mechanics.
Barring last-minute agreements with all three unions whose contracts remain unresolved, a bankruptcy court trial was set to begin later Friday on United's motion to toss out existing labor contracts and have its own terms imposed. That hearing could continue all next week before the judge issues his verdict.
Thursday, Wedoff approved United's emergency motion to temporarily cut wages by 11.5 percent for baggage handlers, ramp workers and public-contact workers represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
IAM said it welcomed the short-term contract, which lasts through April 11, as a way to give it ``the additional time to achieve an agreement that preserves our pensions.''
United planned to have CEO Glenn Tilton testify Friday on the need to slash wages and benefits further and eliminate defined-benefit pensions after nearly five years of steep losses. The company says it was forced to do so by record jet fuel costs, a glut of industry capacity and air fares at a 12-year low.
News On 6 CHICAGO (AP) _ A federal bankruptcy judge threw out a disputed new five-year contract between United Airlines and its pilots Friday, dealing the bankrupt carrier a significant setback in its efforts to
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Halfway House Escapee In Custody
Wednesday, March 14th 2007, 6:22 am
A convict remains in custody after police say he fled a halfway house near Oklahoma City, hitchhiked to eastern Oklahoma and abducted a Rogers County woman. 36-year-old Lloyd Williams was arrested in west Tulsa Wednesday morning, 51-year-old Karen Chamberlin was found with him.
The News On 6’s Chris Wright reports according to authorities Williams had become infatuated with Chamberlin after meeting her while she was visiting her son in prison.
Police say Williams disappeared from his halfway house in Union City, west of Oklahoma City, sometime Monday night. After apparently hitchhiking to Rogers County, he showed up at a house east of Owasso, determined to see Chamberlin, a prison mate's mother he had spoken with several times.
"They would speak, say hi, bye coming in, that type of thing, apparently he took it as a lot more than that,†said Rogers County Undersheriff Barry Lamb.
Police say he broke in, then waited until Chamberlin's fiancé came home. Authorities believe Williams held him hostage with a box cutter until Chamberlin came home several hours later. After talking with Chamberlin, police say Williams agreed to go back to the halfway house, as long as she came with him.
"Apparently, through some conversation, he was convinced that the best thing to do would be to turn himself in, and she would take him there," said Lamb.
Before returning to the halfway house, authorities say Williams wanted to visit his mother in west Tulsa, but after leaving Rogers County, Chamberlin's fiancé alerted Tulsa Police, and they were waiting for him.
"From what we were told from Rogers County, we had every belief that he was going to kill her, hurt her, harm her after he visited his mother,†said Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Captain Michelle Robinette.
He didn't get that chance. Deputies say Williams took off from his car, but was caught by a Tulsa Police K9 officer an hour later. Williams has a laundry list of drugs, weapons and arson convictions, and given his history, Rogers County authorities say they were fortunate no one was hurt.
"Could have turned out a lot worse,†said Lamb. “I looked at the criminal history on this gentleman, it's nothing you want to write home about."
The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office says Williams had told Chamberlin he was not going back to prison and threatened to kill himself. He is being held in the Tulsa County jail, but authorities say he will likely face burglary, breaking and entering and kidnapping charges in Rogers County.
News On 6 A convict remains in custody after police say he fled a halfway house near Oklahoma City, hitchhiked to eastern Oklahoma and abducted a Rogers County woman. 36-year-old Lloyd Williams was arrested in west
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Candidates pitch to GOP faithful in Michigan, Missouri, California
Saturday, February 10th 2007, 10:30 pm
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) _ Republicans Mitt Romney and Sen. Sam Brownback promoted their presidential campaigns before nearly 3,000 party activists at the Michigan GOP convention Saturday.
Romney reminded the crowd that he grew up sharing the Automotive News each morning with his father, George, who headed American Motors Corp. before serving as Michigan's governor from 1963 to 1969.
The younger Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, said his father brought many of the lessons he learned from business to the governorship.
``He got Michigan moving again,'' Romney said, before running through his stands in opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage and in favor of tight controls on illegal immigration. ``It's time for Republican principles to come back to Michigan again.''
Brownback, of Kansas, running as the conservative heart of the party, earned a warm reception with his pledges to protect life and the traditional family.
He also called for wiping out cancer in 10 years and for putting more resources into alternative energy.
``Michigan is going to be a key state in getting that done,'' he said, noting its efforts to encourage the production of ethanol and biodiesel.
ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney evoked the principles of President Reagan in front of an appreciative crowd of Missouri Republicans Saturday night.
Delivering the keynote speech at the GOP's annual Missouri Lincoln Days conference, the 2008 presidential candidate claimed the leading Democratic contenders would push bigger government, higher taxes and more regulation.
Romney countered that he supports ``the Ronald Reagan way.''
``Ronald Reagan came in in 1982 and he said, you know what, if we want America to get going, we've got to lower taxes, we've got to lower regulations, we've got to make it easier to do business and for businesses to grow and thrive, we've got to make sure that we can complete globally,'' Romney said.
``The history of the last half-century has proven to us that Republican principles work,'' he added.
Romney also spoke briefly about the need to control rising health insurance premiums, compete economically with Asia and deal with radical Muslims intent on ``ultimately conquering the world.''
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) _ Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani received a warm welcome Saturday from California GOP activists.
Being mayor, he said at the California Republican Party convention, ``prepares you as best you can be prepared to be the president of the United States.''
Giuliani spoke for nearly 45 minutes, touching on health care, crime, terrorism and Iraq. He mocked inaction in Washington, saying he would be a decisive leader.
``Presidents make decisions and move things forward,'' he said. ``That's the kind of president I would like to be.''
On a day when a leading Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, announced his presidential bid by invoking Abraham Lincoln, Giuliani said Lincoln's legacy, holding the nation together through the Civil War, really belonged to Republicans.
``As Republicans, we're the party of freedom,'' he said. ``We're the party of Abraham Lincoln.''
Giuliani met for about an hour Friday night with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also a Republican. Schwarzenegger urged him to help bring about a national debate on health care reform and the country's dependence on fossil fuel.
Giuliani's California visit continues with an address Monday in Silicon Valley and an appearance Tuesday at an agricultural fair in the Central Valley.
News On 6 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) _ Republicans Mitt Romney and Sen. Sam Brownback promoted their presidential campaigns before nearly 3,000 party activists at the Michigan GOP convention Saturday.
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PreEminent Charter School is a tuition-free public charter school open to all students in North Carolina. Our program not only follows state standards, but offers a great college-prep education and custom-created moral focus program. Founded in 2000 by members of your community, we work tirelessly to give parents a better choice.
A charter school is a tuition-free public school that offers parents a choice. Like district public schools, charter schools are required to adhere to all federal, state, and local education, health, and safety rules and regulations.
Who can attend a charter school?
Any student who meets the proper age and residency requirements can apply to attend. Please be aware it is customary for charter schools to hold random, public lotteries to accept students if they receive more applications than they have seats available.
How are charter schools different from public schools?
Charter schools are held to the same standards as other district schools. Charter schools also report to an authorizer who determines if the school is meeting the goals in its charter.
What are authorizers?
An authorizer is an entity that monitors the performance, finances, and organizational stability of charter schools, and has the authority to close schools that don’t meet required standards. Charter schools can be authorized by a state board of education, a state university, community college or local district.
How are charter schools created?
When individuals want to provide an alternative to district public schools, they may opt to propose a charter to their state authorizing agency. These community leaders, parents, teachers, principals or businesses create a charter that outlines the following:
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They then submit this charter to the state authorizing agency who either approves or denies their application.
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Charter schools can operate alone or be run by a management organization. In the case of those operated by management organizations -- like National Heritage Academies -- the management firm often provides central support to a number of schools, so each individual school can focus their energy on teaching and learning.
On a local level, individual schools can be managed by their own Board of Directors who provide guidance and oversight to the principal.
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Charter schools are tuition-free. They receive public funding based on their number of students, and receive grants to help with some start-up costs. Many charter schools raise funds to help with other expenses. Charter schools are also eligible for federal funding for programs like Title 1 and Special Education.
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Individual states have different requirements. National Heritage Academies recruits certified and highly qualified teachers.
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HBO is synonymous with premium entertainment all around the world.
HBO series are the pinnacle of entertainment in 2020, and have been for the past few years. Some of the highest rated TV series on HBO have been the most successful new series in the past decade. Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, Chernobyl, Westworld, Entourage, True Detective, Ballers, The Newsroom, The Wire, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sex and the City are all highly successful and top-rated TV series from HBO, still watched today.
In fact, Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of HBO’s longest running series – which premiered in the year 2000!
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Amongst the new HBO series, Watchmen, Avenue 5, My Brilliant Friend, Barry, Succession, His Dark Materials and The Outsider have rapidly picked up steam and is tremendously received by audiences from around the world.
In a world where video content is plentiful and easily available, HBO creates stellar, gripping series that hook you on and reel you in, episode after episode. As mentioned earlier, HBO is synonymous with premium entertainment. It’s not TV, it’s HBO.
Since most of us are now working from home, we have lined up a spectacular display of the latest HBO hits you absolutely cannot miss.
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I mean, who hasn’t heard of Westworld by now? It ticks all the boxes and is set to be one of the best shows on TV, ever. It’s brilliantly written, casts an almost-perfect crew of actors and editors, and does not fail to impress and entertain. Westworld is set in a futuristic western-themed amusement park. However, all hell breaks loose when the automaton robots start malfunctioning. Will they help humanity or wage war on us all?
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Set in an alternate universe where Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1940 United States presidential election, and slowly turns the national towards fascism. This gripping six-part mini-series is based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name.
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A dealer from Brooklyn who’s only mission is to bring happiness to his stressed-out clients around New York City. But does the get too comfortable in other people’s life? Yes, he does. Does he overstay his visit? Yes, he does.
This show is a breath of fresh air and breaks away from the regular formula of 20-minute comedy series. A fun, new way of storytelling and it’s definitely one of the shows you don’t want to miss.
After Truth: Disinformation and The Cost of Fake News
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A documentary that’s relevant – and oh boy, is it relevant at a time like this!
This documentary explores at the ongoing threat caused by the (global) phenomenon of fake news in the United States, focusing on real-life consequences that false information or fake stories have on the average citizen.
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Election
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This thrilling documentary explains everything from voter registration to counting ballots and how hackers can easily influence and disrupt the U.S election system. Security expert Harri Hursti examines and takes us through his findings.
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Dumped - and no one wants to know
The challenge of getting this abandoned car removed from Inland Rd at Lake Ohia is proving a headache for resident Ian Burke. Picture / Supplied
By: Peter Jackson
If there's one thing that Lake Ohia man Ian Burke does not appreciate when he looks across the road from his home it's the sight of an abandoned car.
And if there's one thing that frustrates him more than the attitude that some people display when it comes to getting rid of whatever it is that they no longer want, it's the roundabout he embarked upon when he tried to interest the police and the Far North District Council in doing something about it.
"This heap of rubbish was dumped on a layby opposite my driveway last Friday, partially blocking access to it," Mr Burke said. "I called the police, who said it was of no interest to them, despite having no current wof or rego, and in my eyes should not have even been on the road.
"So I called the FNDC after-hours number. After explaining the situation, and assuring the council spokesperson that Inland Rd is not a state highway and Lake Ohia is not in Kaitaia, but 25km away, she suggested it was a matter for the police. And so the conversation went on, around and around, going nowhere.
"After I expressed my main concern, that some hoon with little brain matter could quite feasibly torch the car, she said then it would become a police matter. After suggesting that in that eventuality, half of the tinder-dry conservation area would create a horrendous fire that could put my property and others under threat, she said someone would contact me."
They hadn't, so Mr Burke dragged the car clear of his drive and into a less "intrusive" position, something he was becoming quite practised at.
"This is the third I've been through this process with abandoned vehicles, and had the same response," he said.
"Does this mean anyone can dump their defunct cars on the side of the road and absolve themselves of responsibility for removal? Do the police and/or the council not have the power to remove such cars and fine and seek retribution from the perpetrators? It would be helpful if there was some clear policy so people like me don't have to spend time chasing rainbows."
Senior Sergeant Russell Richards said the police would not tow an abandoned vehicle unless it had been stolen, was involved in a criminal matter or was causing a real risk to life.
"The district council needs to be informed, but that said, they have to wait for a period of time before they can tow it," he added.
The police were well aware that abandoned cars were often set alight, and had had discussions with the local Fire Service about that.
The Kaitaia Fire Brigade has expressed concern in the past regarding the fact that 'dead' cars often remain where they are dumped for long periods of time, inevitably attracting arsonists.
The Far North District Council has said that cars abandoned on state highways are the NZTA's responsibility, while those on local roads are the council's.
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Google Has Changed Its Flu Prediction Tool After Getting It Really Wrong Last Year
Julie Bort
Flu season has arrived and all eyes will be turning to Google's Flu prediction tool, which warns where the flu will hit next by watching people's internet searches.
Google Flu was hailed as the shining example of how big data could be put to use for the public good when Google first launched it in 2008.
And it worked well back then. Google compared its predictions against the cases that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed and its predictions were pretty darn close.
But something went horribly wrong over the past two years, with Google over predicting the number of flu cases by 75% to 95%, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The flu season was bad last year, but nearly not as bad as Google thought it would be.
Essentially what happened was this, Google admitted in a blog post on Friday:
When the flu hit, the media wrote stories about the flu and then people to jumped on Google and start searching about the flu. That caused Google Flu to predict huge outbreaks of the flu which caused the media to write even more stories about the flu, using the Google Flu prediction engine as a source ... and so on.
Google also made another mistake with the tool. It only looked at the year-earlier CDC data once. As the CDC started reporting actual cases, Google didn't keep using the CDC data to check the accuracy of its predictions.
Google says it has updated the tool and will now be using actual CDC data all season long.
The good news is that both Google and the CDC say that flu cases are low so far this season. But it's early days yet and there are signs that the flu is starting to hit, the CDC says. Last year, the flu hit epidemic levels in some places in January.
The CDC recommends getting a flu vaccine and if you are thinking about getting one, now would be a pretty good time.
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Tomorrow's cities: Are your shoes giving away data?
23rd March 2017 mustyzod
Shops and retailers are taking over where street cameras left off, watching shoppers’ every move.
According to a 2015 survey of 150 retail executives from IT services firm Computer Services Corporation, a quarter of all British shops and 59% of fashion retailers use facial recognition software.
Such technology is vital as offline stores attempt to keep up with online retailers, said Duncan Mann, chief operating officer at retail analysis firm Hoxton Analytics.
“Online retailers gather all kinds of information about shoppers and physical stores also want to understand how people behave in a shop,” he said.
But, he admits: “A lot of these technologies are kind of invasive.”
Hoxton has come up with a novel way of measuring footfall – literally by filming people’s shoes.
Sherlock Holmes-like, its system can deduce a remarkable amount of information such as age, gender and social class of shoppers from their footwear.
“We have cameras at about 50cm off the ground and it points down so it is less invasive than facial recognition,” he explains.
It is surprisingly accurate. It spots the correct gender 80% of the time, better than some facial recognition technologies, according to Mr Mann.
Urban efficiency
Cities are getting fuller – 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050 – but don’t think for a minute that means you will be able to get lost in the crowd.
Because those cities are most likely watching you. Plugged into the network – via smart CCTV cameras that feed into central operation centres or smart street lights that turn brighter when someone walks beneath them – cities are increasingly collecting data on their inhabitants.
The purpose is to keep people safe, provide more efficient services and prevent overcrowding or other disasters but has anyone ever asked its citizens whether they want to be part of the urban efficiency experiment or offered them ways to opt out of the networked city?
“Very few of us have any real concept of what data smart cities are gathering,” said Renate Samson of privacy watchdog Big Brother Watch.
“Some of it may be completely anodyne and simply a reaction to a physical movement, but with the increase of devices connected to the internet, the chances are that street lamp, CCTV camera, wi-fi connection, electronic keypad, touch and go payment device, is capturing data on you, your movements, device data and personal information.”
You begin leaking data as soon as you wake up. Maybe you check Twitter before you leave the house to find out if your train is running – that tweet immediately becomes public property – or perhaps you are signed up to navigation apps such as Waze, that crowdsource real-time information about problems on the roads.
Apps collect and share lots of personal information and, in its privacy guide, Waze states that it will collect periodically “all of the phone numbers which are stored on your device’s phonebook”, as part of a feature to connect you to your friends.
And once you enter the transport system you are giving away even more details about yourself. The ticket gate is waiting to swallow your data, via the swipe of a smart card, mobile phone or credit card.
Transport for London (TfL) now has a bird’s eye view of the estimated 4.1 million journeys taken on its network each day.
It knows where people get on and off and it can start to see patterns in the data – for instance, someone who uses the system during the day but not at peak times is likely to be a student or a retired person, someone who has one day a week when they don’t use the network may work from home that day, someone who takes a brief diversion along their usual route may be dropping off a child at nursery.
“The data can be used to inform future expansion, whether we need to add a bus route or increase the frequency of trains, to alleviate capacity issues by informing people about the most crowded times and places and generally helps us to understand customers better,” said Gabriel Goulet Langlois, a data scientist at TfL.
It can offer automatic refunds if people accidentally tap out with their Oyster card and could be used to alert customers when stations are closed or overcrowded.
TFL data was instrumental in solving one of the most notorious crimes of the decade – the Hatton Garden jewellery robbery – when an Oyster pass was found in one of the suspect’s wallet, throwing light on how the heist was planned.
Mr Langlois is keen to point out that, while the police might want to track individual journeys, TFL does not.
“We only want to see aggregated patterns,” he said.
He has been working on a project that can classify travellers, spotting commuters, visitors and even students by their travel patterns.
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Big data in cities has to be handled increasingly sensitively, thinks Nick Millman, managing director at consultancy firm Accenture.
He cites the example of Google which is currently using Google Map data to assess the traffic flow in Stockholm as part of its Better Cities programme.
“It is using what is known as differential privacy,” he explained. “It is basically adding privacy controls to statistics so that you only see the data you need to know about.
In the case of Stockholm, that means sufficient data to improve traffic but not so much that it reveals individual journey patterns.
CCTV cameras are a much more obvious city spy and they now dominate the urban landscape. Numbers from security firm IHS suggest that there were 245 million professionally installed video surveillance cameras active and operational globally in 2014 as more cities turn to monitoring technology to help reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
Security firm Thales has installed 15,000 security cameras in Mexico City since 2009, which feed into operation centres around the city, including pop-up mobile surveillance centres for big events. Thales boast that it is the world’s “most ambitious urban security project ” and claims that since installation, it has seen
Crime rates reduced by 48.9%
Average response times down from 12 to 2:09 minutes
Insurance premiums down by 30%
50% of stolen cars recovered within 72 hours (thanks to number plate reading technology)
But in the UK, some local authorities are scaling back on their CCTV usage, according to a recent report from Big Brother Watch.
“More and more councils are scrapping their CCTV systems due to budgetary constraints. In some cases councils have removed CCTV because the systems have no longer been necessary, crime has either moved to another area or the cameras have been of such poor quality they haven’t provided any substantial benefit,” said Ms Samson.
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America’s Kristallnacht
"Trump is a failed leader."
James Joyner · Sunday, January 10, 2021 · 26 comments
Arnold Schwarzenegger offers an immigrant’s view on what he calls “America’s Night of Broken Glass.” He doesn’t hold back any punches at President Trump or the spineless leaders of his party.
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021
It’s quite powerful.
FILED UNDER: Society, US Politics
Well done Arnie.
He is Exhibit A for why I try not to trash Republicans as a class. Also a reminder that California isn’t quite as liberal as it seems to people who don’t live here – there’s just certain things that the R primary voters seem to want that don’t fly here.
Probably the most stirring and needed political statement that I’ve heard in decades.
Slugger says:
Thank you, Mr. Schwarzenegger, thank you very much. Your clarity, your vision, and your ideals move all of our hearts.
Not the IT Dept. says:
Bravo to him for saying it but I would suggest he’s wrong; this was the 21st century Beer Hall Putsch, the attack that failed. This time.
Good on Arnold for calling out his political enablers as well. Maybe some of those Trump supporters drawn to The Donald due to his celebrity will hear this message from someone with superior star power. Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep wouldn’t be able to reach the same audience as Schwarzenegger.
Paine says:
That was good. Way better than the last Terminator film.
Arnie was never eligible to run, but this may be as close as he ever gets to a Presidential moment. Well said*, and much needed. Now, to get Sly Stallone to retweet it…
*Regular watchers of Forged in Fire will have cringed at the sword analogy, though. Swords don’t get stronger if you heat and quench them repeatedly; they get harder and more brittle.
Pylon says:
@DrDaveT: Not to mention a movie prop sword is probably not the best example to use.
Schwarzenegger was a Republican, but I always regarded him as a naif and an opportunist and not a true believer. His heart’s in the right place.
@DrDaveT: I’d assume there were more than one Conan sword and that most were aluminum, or rubber.
@Pylon:
Not to mention a movie prop sword is probably not the best example to use.
Not unless David Baker made it 🙂
@gVOR08: Arnold’s politics endorse things like lower taxes, less regulation, and opposition to unions. He is what I would call a “main-street” Republican. On issues of identity – race, gender, sexual preference, and, of course, immigration – he tracks as a “liberal”. However, many other “main street” Republicans, and “big business” Republicans do as well. They just get shut out by the primary process.
Personally, I think fiscal matters and regulatory matters are fair game – they are negotiable. Someone’s basic human worth, on the other hand, is not.
@Jay L Gischer:
“Opposition to unions” is more in the latter category than the former. Even Adam Smith knew that.
Just nutha ignint cracker says:
Expect Arnold to be denounced as a RINO in 4… 3… 2… 1…
flat earth luddite says:
@Just nutha ignint cracker:
Of course he’s, at best, a RINO. After all, he’s just another carpetbagging foreigner, coming here to steal the jobs of “hard workin’ Merikans™”, right? Proud boyz are no doubt burying us in copies of his movies they’re throwing out their windows.
Gustopher says:
Sure, but he should have named names.
@Gustopher: I’m afraid bothsides is too deeply embedded. We’ll see a lot of “We must come together”, “We must seek truth”, “Comity”, “Bipartisan, moderate” crap from people who won’t name names.
@DrDaveT: I dunno. Unions exist to negotiate wages and benefits and working conditions. Negotiating over these things is acceptable – we don’t have an oracle that tells us what the correct wage is, after all. When I say he’s anti-union, I just mean he negotiates hard against unions, and says crappy things about nurses and their union in public.
P.S. Given a nurse live in our house, and it’s not me, this did not play well at the Gischer residence, but he never said “unions are evil and should be destroyed”. Nevertheless, this still struck me as politics as usual – the old way.
When I say he’s anti-union, I just mean he negotiates hard against unions, and says crappy things about nurses and their union in public.
OK. I wouldn’t call that “anti-union”. Anti-union is passing “right to work” legislation that in effect makes it impossible for unions to organize or collectively bargain. Anti-union is firing all of the air traffic controllers and replacing them with scabs. Anti-union is making it illegal for workers to collude against management. These are all default GOP positions.
I do not reflexively support the union position in every negotiation*, and I am vehemently against union corruption. But I also believe that labor unions are absolutely vital to the long-term viability of labor markets, and to ethical society. The GOP… does not. They would outlaw labor unions if they could. I assumed that’s what you meant about The Governator.
*Don’t get me started about Moonlight Mushrooms, or GM, or some of the things teachers’ unions have backed in the past.
dazedandconfused says:
Tangential:
Arnie’s Blueprint: https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/8420216
A hilarious story about Arnies beginning. The guy went AWOL from boot camp to compete in the Junior Mr. Universe competition in neighboring Austria. Tried to sneak back into boot when he returned, as if nobody would notice he’d been gone! What is really funny is how the German army reacted to this…AFTER they found out he had won. The blueprint? “Do your own thinking.”
Someone sent this to me earlier. I don’t know if it might be effective, but it gave Trump supporters a way out by comparing them to (former) Nazis who had felt bad and suffered about their role. I suspect it’s too early for most Trump cult members to accept that message, but hopefully some people are truly asking what they have done.
@DrDaveT:
I do not reflexively support the union position in every negotiation*, and I am vehemently against union corruption. But I also believe that labor unions are absolutely vital to the long-term viability of labor markets, and to ethical society.
Is there any human structure that has no corruption? You might as well be opposed to gravity.
Unions are simply held to a higher standard because people want to tear down the good they do. All things being equal, I’d rather not have someone pilfering a little here and there, of course, but if that’s the cost of a living wage, affordable healthcare, a process of redress against employer abuses, and overtime pay… seems like even in the worst cases they are doing more good than harm.
@gVOR08: A couple scalps could buy a whole lot of comity.
If Hawley and Cruz were widely condemned by their own party for enabling Trump, I really think that would help unify the nation.
@Gustopher:
Exactly. You never hear the people who whine about corrupt union bosses whining equally loudly about corrupt CEOs or corporate lobbyists.
owen says:
@dazedandconfused: The link appears to be down, but as I recall the competition was in Munich (Germany), Arnie was AWOL from the Austrian “Heer” (Army). It sounds like more of a deal in the US, but my experience working with conscripted forces in Europe for a number of years was that most of them sent conscripts home on the weekends so they didn’t have to care for and feed them.
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Pandemic Threatens African Staple Crop
Alex Knapp · Monday, May 31, 2010 · 2 comments
The New York Times reports that Africa is currently experiencing a pandemic of a mutated virus affecting the cassava crop. Cassava is Africa’s main staple crop, and is right behind wheat and rice as the number one staple crop in the world.
That newcomer, brown streak, is now ravaging cassava crops in a great swath around Lake Victoria, threatening millions of East Africans who grow the tuber as their staple food.
Although it has been seen on coastal farms for 70 years, a mutant version emerged in Africa’s interior in 2004, “and there has been explosive, pandemic-style spread since then,” said Claude M. Fauquet, director of cassava research at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. “The speed is just unprecedented, and the farmers are really desperate.”
The threat could become global. After rice and wheat, cassava is the world’s third-largest source of calories. Under many names, including manioc, tapioca and yuca, it is eaten by 800 million people in Africa, South America and Asia.
The danger has been likened to that of Phytophthora infestans, the blight that struck European potatoes in the 1840s, setting off a famine that killed perhaps a million people in Ireland and forced even more to emigrate.
Several other crop pandemics have been successfully contained in Africa over the past few decades, but none affecting a crop as widely used as cassava. Here’s hoping that the attempts at containment are successful.
Image Credit: Angela Sevin
FILED UNDER: Africa, Environment, Natural Disasters, casava, pandemic
About Alex Knapp
Alex Knapp is Associate Editor at Forbes for science and games. He was a longtime blogger elsewhere before joining the OTB team in June 2005 and contributed some 700 posts through January 2013. Follow him on Twitter @TheAlexKnapp.
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 21:47
That is very bad news, indeed. So many African countries are terribly fragile without a pandemic affecting the cassava.
The larger problem, however, is monoculture. Our species is dependent on fewer crops now that at any time in our history, just 50 or so IIRC. If the strain of Ug99 going around isn’t dealt with soon, the wheat crop could have severe problems, too. Again, the underlying problem is monoculture.
Large scale especially corporate farming favors monoculture. I’m not really sure what the remedy might be. It’s a problem similar to the big bank problem. I suspect that policy encourages size rather than efficiencies of scale but I couldn’t lay out the detailed mechanism for you.
Wow. The world just can’t catch a break lately. From earthquakes to economic meltdowns to crop viruses, it’s not an easy time to be on this planet.
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Mum who ordered PlayStation 5 from Amazon says it never turned up
Mum who ordered PS5 from Amazon says it never turned up
By Indya Clayton @OxMailIndyaC Reporter
A MUM has said she is 'livid' that the PlayStation 5 which she ordered from online retailer Amazon for her son's 16th birthday was never delivered to her home.
Jenni Walker, from Launton, near Bicester, said she was due to receive the games console on Thursday - but it has gone missing.
She received some packages, but not the PlayStation, from a delivery driver working for an independent delivery company on behalf of Amazon.
The online retailer has said in a statement that the driver is no longer working on behalf of Amazon.
Mrs Walker was offered a £5 voucher as compensation, which she said was 'an insult'.
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She said: "I had checked Amazon and it said out for delivery from Banbury. I was upstairs and saw a van arrive and the driver walking in the other direction with a small parcel in hand.
"I called out to ask who he was looking for. He said our house number. I saw him walk towards the front door and carried on with what I was doing upstairs. Later I came down and found three small parcels on the step.
"I went off on the school run, then my husband called me and said he had checked Amazon to see where the PS5 was, and it was marked 'handed to resident'."
Her husband Richard then checked CCTV footage which showed the driver first deliver a small package, then return to the van to collect two more small packages before going to the back of the van where a big package was put on the floor.
CCTV image of big package which Mrs Walker claims was the PlayStation 5 that was scanned but not delivered
Mrs Walker said: "We contacted Amazon immediately and if they had acted quickly they may have been able to intercept the driver. However they did nothing - asking us to wait 24 to 48 hours.
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"They eventually offered us £5 gift credit for the inconvenience, which is frankly, an insult.
"Unfortunately, it seems these consoles are highly sought-after, so getting a replacement is extremely unlikely. My son is very disappointed."
The Launton family's case comes after reports across the country in recent days of PlayStation 5 consoles not being delivered or allegedly stolen in transit, with customers complaining of missing deliveries as well as other goods being delivered instead.
The Guardian has reported that Amazon acknowledged the wave of complaints and that it was investigating what had happened.
A statement from the online retailer says: “We’re all about making our customers happy, and that hasn’t happened for a small proportion of these orders. We’re really sorry about that and are investigating exactly what’s happened.
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"We’re reaching out to every customer who’s had a problem and made us aware so we can put it right. Anyone who has had an issue with any order can contact our customer services team for help.”
Ms Walker said: "I am livid beyond words. I fully appreciate this is a first world problem and considering we are in a global pandemic not the most important ordeal faced, but for it to happen on my son’s birthday seems incredibly cruel."
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ON THIS DAY: John Aldridge hits hat-trick as Oxford United sink Leeds United
John Aldridge scored three as Oxford United fought back to hit five past Leeds United
November 24, 1984: Oxford United 5, Leeds United 2
JOHN Aldridge hit a hat-trick as Oxford United fought back from 2-0 down to thrash Leeds United at the Manor Ground.
The match came a year and a day after the U’s shocked the Yorkshire giants 4-1 in the Milk Cup, during a run to the fifth round that also included a triumph over Manchester United in a tie that required two replays.
But in November 1984 United were the favourites, sitting top of Division 2 with Eddie Gray’s side four places and five points behind them.
This time, though, it was Leeds who looked to be cruising to a comfortable win after Tommy Wright and Peter Lorimer put the visitors 2-0 up midway through the first half.
But a U’s side full of confidence would not be deterred and the advantage had soon disappeared.
Gary Briggs halved the deficit with a header, before Billy Hamilton levelled the scores two minutes later.
The contest was held up when United goalkeeper Steve Hardwick was struck by a coin thrown from the away section, while Leeds fans also tore down a television gantry.
The trouble “absolutely sickened” watching FA secretary Ted Roker, while United’s stopper was genuinely scared.
Hardwick said: “I was frightened for my life.
“It is a tragedy that headlines are going to be about the crowd trouble and not the fact it was a fantastic game.”
With the game finely poised at 2-2, Aldridge took centre stage.
The striker bagged a treble to continue his prolific form, while he was also booked for his part in an incident that saw Lorimer sent off.
U’s boss Jim Smith suggested the Leeds man received a second booking for “industrial language”, but the pair appeared to have made up at full-time.
“I can’t believe it, Lorimer’s signed it.” gushed Aldridge, as he clutched the match ball which had been autographed by Lorimer.
United: Hardwick, Langan, McDonald, Trewick, Briggs, Shotton, Rhoades-Brown, Aldridge, Hamilton, Hebberd, Brock.
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Absolutely brilliant show. Excellently written and acted.
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Elijha on 04/11/2020 - 08:38
Just watching this series again now… so good. Love the Gimp.
doogiechap on 04/11/2020 - 08:39
Such a good series. The movie didn't work for me though.
LoungeLizard on 04/11/2020 - 09:52
Have to agree, great ratings/reviews but to me it felt contrived & just a "milk the franchise" exercise
Brilliant show, I highly recommend 'Justified' as well, two amazing shows.
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Give 'Hell on Wheels' a try also.
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Wild Bill Hickock was a great character
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Is this on Netflix AU anyone?
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It is on Stan though
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Since it's a HBO show, the licensing is quite limited. In Australia, it's restricted to Foxtel et al - same as Game of Thrones
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Japan speaks out on ‘unfair’ US proposal and its wish to continue to fish in Palau
Honolulu- Japan said that the United States proposal to that the Tuna Commission increase its catch-quota on for bigeye tuna is “unfair.”
“I think the US is picking up only limited factors which are in favor of their operations. So, I think it is unfair,” Head of Delegation for Japan Shingo Ota told reporters here.
Pacific nations and other members of the WCPFC are locked in tense discussions over the future of the tropical tuna fishery which includes bigeye tuna as well as skipjack and yellowfin.
Longline fishing vessels at Palau's harbor. Photo by Richard W. Brooks
WCPFC's current members are Japan, Australia, China, Canada, Cook Islands, the European Community, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, France, Japan, Kiribati, Korea, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Tonga, Tuvalu, the United States of America, and Vanuatu.
Ota was quick to criticize the US proposal, joining other Pacific nations in resisting any increase in the quota.
“We don’t like it. “
“Their proposal is if a country has better observer coverage and does not conduct transshipment they can receive more allocation,” Ota said.
The US is seeking a higher catch limit for bigeye tuna by its Hawaii-based longline fishing fleet.
In its proposal, Washington highlights the significant levels of monitoring and control it maintains in the fishery, outperforming other members of the Commission.
The US points out that while the large longline fleets maintained by Japan, Korea and Taiwan have failed to meet the Commission’s minimum requirement of placing independent fisheries observers on 5 per cent of their vessels the Hawaii-based US fleet does better.
Figures included in the proposal show the US fleet has achieved observer coverage of about 20 per cent in its deep-set fishery and 100% in its shallow-set fishery.
But Japan said the figures cited in the U.S proposal that suggest observer coverage on the Japanese fleet has gone down in the past year are “misleading.”
“Actually, the U.S figures is not correct and we are actually implementing 5% coverage. In some of the fleets a little bit less than 5% but some of the fleets are more than 5%,” Ota stated.
The future of Japan’s fishing in Palau
Japan stressed the importance relationship with the Pacific, with most of the big scale fishing by the Japanese are centered in Pacific nations water but it is also concerned about the 20 small-scale longliners from Okinawa prefecture that are operating in the Palau exclusive economic zone.
Mr Ota said those boats fear losing their livelihood once the island nation transition 80 percent of its waters to a no-fishing zone.
He said Japan is currently in talks with Palau to allow Okinawa fishermen to continue to fish in Palau after 2020- or the implementation of the Palau Marine Sanctuary.
“We are very much concerned because this is the main fishing ground for those 20 small-scale longliners. If Palau is going to close the area those vessels have nowhere to go, “ Ota said.
He said Japan is requesting Palau to find a way, maybe through research, to allow the fishermen from Okinawa to continue fishing.
Ota however declined to give further details on the request.
Japan is one of Palau’s top foreign donors and the aid provided by Tokyo allowed the island nation to build roads and infrastructure.
By 2020, Palau is set to designate 80 percent of the nation's maritime territory as a fully protected marine reserve in which no fishing or mining, can take place.
Twenty percent of Palau's waters will become a domestic fishing zone reserved for local fishermen and small-scale commercial fisheries with limited exports.
The marine sanctuary is President Tommy Remenegsau’s signature policy saying, Palau wants to lead the way in restoring the health of the ocean for future generations.
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This Batman/Harley Quinn Battle Will Probably Be The Most F*cked Up Thing You See Today
By Kristy Puchko | DC Movies | June 11, 2015 |
What if Batman: The Animated Series were rebooted by HBO? The result would probably look like Justice League: Gods and Monsters.
With “Twisted,” Machinima (via io9) has delivered the first chapter of a three-part prequel for the straight-to-DVD animated movie, and it is next-level bonkers. This is not the cute and chipper Harley we knew in the ’90s. It’s not even Bruce Wayne’s Batman. Instead, it’s like those DC characters got put in a blender with box sets of Dexter or True Blood.
Enjoy?
Gods and Monsters Chronicles will hit Youtube weekly ahead of Justice League: Gods and Monsters’s July 28th release.
Kristy Puchko has mixed feelings about all this.
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Kristy Puchko is the managing editor of Pajiba. You can follow her on Twitter.
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