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Does ASIC Want Lending to Become Personal?
On 14 February 2019, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued Consultation Paper 309 (CP 309) with its plans to consult on and amend Regulatory Guide 209 Credit Licensing: Responsible Lending Conduct (RG 209) to update its guidance on responsible lending. This follows the release of Commissioner Hayne's Final Report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry earlier in the month. Although the Final Report did not recommend any changes to the Responsible Lending Obligations, it was clear that greater compliance with existing obligations was expected and for the regulator to enforce it more readily.
The updates contemplated in CP 309 are clearly intended to offer a greater degree of certainty to licensees aiming to meet ASIC’s expectations for complying with the responsible lending obligations. The paper suggests a move towards a more prescriptive, as opposed to principles based framework for licensees in determining whether or not it will be 'suitable' to lend to customers.
CP 309 also appears to suggest a move beyond responsible lending as it is currently applied, to a framework that perhaps more closely aligns with the provision of personal financial product advice. Personal advice attracts the FOFA reforms such as a best interests duty (and the safe harbour steps) as well as detailed disclosure requirements in the form of a Statement of Advice (SOA). The guidance ASIC is heading towards or at least considering appears to carry across similar principles to the world of lending.
Safe harbour provisions?
In a similar manner as the safe-harbour steps for the best interest duty, ASIC suggests identifying and prescribing particular 'inquiries and verification steps' to provide certainty to licensees looking to comply with its responsible lending obligations to take such reasonable inquiries and steps as is required by the relevant circumstances. Advantages of a more prescriptive regime (as noted in a previous consultative process) include predictability and consistency for industry as well as a greater understanding of what to expect for consumers. During the earlier consultation it was concluded that minimum standards were too inflexible and could encourage lenders to only ever take the minimum steps. It would appear that ASIC is proposing to overcome this by requiring lenders to demonstrate why they considered the lower degree of inquiries or verification steps to be carried out.
Readily identifiable circumstances
In CP 309, ASIC also suggests that if information is held which may provide an indication as to whether a loan is suitable or whether the customer's responses require further investigation, this could be considered 'readily identifiable circumstances', and could comprise reasonable steps that a licensee is required to take to inquire or verify a customer's suitability. Although ASIC notes that this guidance was previously provided (ASICs previous guidance only related to the different levels required of a lender and assistance provider) this level of detail being suggested would potentially require a greater degree of individual attention by the lender and may even require a customised approach for each customer. Many online applications or 'one size fits all' processes may be inadequate to catch the nuances that are suggested as relevant to identify unsuitability (for example 'buy now pay later' customers being more likely to be operating at the margin of their disposable income).
This approach suggests raising the bar for the level of inquiries that are considered reasonable for a large bank with multiple customer relationships and various accounts held, and a complex set of rules to help determine what factors indicate suitability and which can be explained and dismissed.
ASIC also suggests that until such a time that this information is more widely accessible (i.e., with open banking), what is reasonable for one lender (with access to that information) will not be reasonable for other lenders or smaller lenders with no existing relationship. This possibly offers an unlevelled playing field with a lower (or higher) threshold to what will be considered by ASIC as sufficient responsible lending for the same customer to a different lender.
There was already uncertainty, in particular by Banks with potential access to large amounts of customer information, of the degree to which additional information should be investigated to form part of the reasonable inquiries or verification steps required for responsible lending. This paper appears to consider shifting the onus on those with more readily accessible information even further, on the basis that the more readily accessible, the more reasonable it is to expect the lender to take it into account in their considerations.
Reliance on Mortgage Brokers
The Final Report based its recommendations in relation to Mortgage Brokers in part on the failure of brokers to carry out appropriate responsible lending (as credit assistance providers). In CP 309, ASIC suggests that reliability of those providing customer information to lenders (as a broker would) should be questioned if:
the lender was aware that the broker was under investigation for fraud or was suspected of misconduct;
the loans from that broker had higher arrear rates; or
there were higher levels of complaints about that broker.
If so, it becomes reasonable to question the reliability of the information and for another source of information to be considered.
ASIC also suggests that blank responses should not be accepted, as they do not sufficiently indicate consideration of the question being asked and do not necessarily equate to a 'nil' or negative response.
Reliance on Benchmarks
The Final Report expressed its lack of confidence in the reliance on benchmarks as a measure of expenses. ASIC in CP 309 clarifies that benchmarks like the Household Expenditure Measure (HEM) are useful tools to gauge the reliability of a customer's responses, but that they in no manner represent reasonable steps, positive confirmation or verification of a customer's expenses. These comments clearly represent ASIC's view however the outcome of its case against Westpac's use of benchmarks remains outstanding and will likely play a factor in any final guidance issued on their use.
Importantly, ASIC also proposes a number of safeguarding measures for the use of benchmarks generally, including to make appropriate adjustments for variables that apply in its application (e.g., demographics etc.), adding a reasonable buffer, carrying out periodic reviews and to ensure relevancy to the customer.
Statement of Advice?
Restatement of the customer's requirements and objectives was also a topic raised, with ASIC proposing a process similar to the requirements of the safe harbour provisions for the best interests duty and the disclosure requirements of a statement of advice to demonstrate that a customer's needs were understood and also met. This may require identification of specific features and benefits that were required by the customer as well as describing the (multiple) credit products that were considered in order for them to be met. Of note, while this documented process may prove too onerous on lenders to immediately agree to, it would also provide some degree of protection from a later claim that reasonable steps were not taken to investigate the appropriateness of the credit provided.
When should responsible lending not apply?
ASIC has also proposed to introduce guidance of its view on where the responsible lending obligations should not apply. Although only minimal information is provided about this proposal and no substantive examples are given, ASIC states that it is seeking feedback on situations where licensees (or providers of unregulated credit?) consider that Responsible Lending is not legally required. It remains to be seen whether the proposed guidance will sufficiently clarify matters for those seeking to then rely on it (for example through a no-action letter from ASIC).
If you are a provider of credit and would like to discuss your current compliance with the responsible lending obligations, or require assistance in making a submission to ASIC, we encourage you to contact us to discuss.
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Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord
1 Now the word of the Lord came to (A)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to (B)Nineveh, that (C)great city, and call out against it, (D)for their evil[a] has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah (E)rose to flee to (F)Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to (G)Joppa and found a ship going to (H)Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to (I)Tarshish, (J)away from the presence of the Lord.
4 But (K)the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened (L)to break up. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and (M)each cried out to his god. And (N)they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (O)call out to your god! (P)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea
7 And they said to one another, “Come, let us (Q)cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?” 9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear (R)the Lord, the God of heaven, (S)who made the sea and the dry land.” 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that (T)he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12 He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, (U)for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard[b] to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 14 Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and (V)lay not on us innocent blood, (W)for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” 15 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, (X)and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, (Y)and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord (Z)and made vows.
A Great Fish Swallows Jonah
17 [c] And the Lord appointed[d] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. (AA)And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
Jonah 1:13 Hebrew the men dug in [their oars]
Jonah 1:17 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Jonah 1:17 Or had appointed
Jonah 1:1 : 2 Kgs. 14:25
Jonah 1:2 : Gen. 10:11, 12; 2 Kgs. 19:36; Nah. 1:1; Zeph. 2:13; Matt. 12:41; Luke 11:30, 32
Jonah 1:2 : ch. 3:3; 4:11
Jonah 1:2 : Rev. 18:5
Jonah 1:3 : ch. 4:2
Jonah 1:3 : See 1 Kgs. 10:22
Jonah 1:3 : See Josh. 19:46
Jonah 1:3 : Gen. 4:16; [Ps. 139:9, 10]
Jonah 1:4 : [Ps. 107:25]
Jonah 1:4 : 1 Kgs. 22:48; Ps. 48:7
Jonah 1:5 : [Acts 27:18, 19, 38]
Jonah 1:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; [Ps. 107:28]
Jonah 1:6 : [ch. 3:9]
Jonah 1:7 : [Judg. 20:9]
Jonah 1:9 : Rev. 11:13
Jonah 1:9 : Ps. 146:6
Jonah 1:10 : [See ver. 3 above]; Gen. 4:16; [Ps. 139:9, 10]
Jonah 1:12 : [Josh. 7:20]
Jonah 1:14 : Deut. 21:8
Jonah 1:14 : [Ps. 115:3]
Jonah 1:15 : Ps. 65:7; Luke 8:24
Jonah 1:16 : [Gen. 8:20; 31:54]
Jonah 1:16 : See ch. 2:9
Jonah 1:17 : Matt. 12:40; 16:4; [Luke 11:30]
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A Faithful Version
1For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God, Who met Abraham as he was returning from his slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, 2And to Whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all; on the one hand, being interpreted King of Righteousness; and on the other hand, King of Salem, which is King of Peace; 3Without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but having been made like the Son of God, remains a Priest forever.
4But consider how great this one was to Whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils. 5For on the one hand, those from among the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood are commanded by the law to collect tithes from the people--that is, from their brethren--even though they are all descended from Abraham; 6But on the other hand, He Who was not descended from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises. 7Now it is beyond all doubt that the inferior one is blessed by the superior one. 8And in the first case, men who die receive tithes; but in the other case, He received tithes of Whom it is witnessed that He lives forever. 9And in one sense, Levi, who receives tithes, also gave tithes through Abraham; 10For he was still in his forefather's loins when Melchisedec met him.
11Therefore, if perfection was indeed possible through the Levitical priesthood-- for the law that the people had received was based on it--what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not to be named after the order of Aaron? 12For since the priesthood has changed, it is obligatory that a change of the priestly law also take place; 13Because the One of Whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one was appointed to serve at the altar. 14For it is quite evident that our Lord has descended from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. 15And it is even more evident because a different Priest arises according to the order of Melchisedec; 16Who was not invested according to the priestly law of a fleshly commandment, but by the power of indestructible life.
17For He testifies, "You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec."
18For there is indeed an annulment of the earlier commandment delivered to Aaron because of its weakness and unprofitableness, 19Because the priestly law brought nothing to perfection; rather, perfection is brought about by a superior hope, through which we draw near to God. 20And according to this superior measure, it was not without the swearing of an oath that He was made a Priest. (For those who descend from Aaron are made priests without the swearing of an oath;
21But He was made a Priest with the swearing of an oath by Him Who says concerning Him, "The Lord swore and will not revoke His word, 'You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec. ' ")
22By such a greater measure then, Jesus was made the Guarantor of a superior covenant.
23Now in the one case, there were many priests because they were not able to continue to serve by reason of death; 24But in the other case, because He is living forever, His priesthood never changes. 25Therefore, He has the power throughout all time to save those who come to God through Him because He is ever living to intercede for them.
26For it is fitting that we should have such a High Priest Who is holy, blameless, undefiled, set apart from sinners and made higher than the heavens; 27Who has no need, as do the other high priests, to offer up sacrifices day by day, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people; for this He did once for all time when He offered up Himself. 28For the priestly law makes high priests of men who have weaknesses; but by the word of the swearing of the oath, which supersedes the priestly law, the Son, Who has been perfected forever, has been made High Priest.
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The Children’s Museum Jordan’s “I Am Change Exhibit” aims at raising children’s awareness about the important issues of energy and water conservation unique to Jordan; alternative energy sources; and environmental protection.
Tarek Atrissi Design was commissioned by the museum to create a set of English and Arabic information graphics to raise awareness regarding water, energy and solid waste facts, figures, issues and solutions in Jordan. These infographics are targeted towards both the children and their caretakers, available on the “I am Change” website and in print formats for possible use in the classroom and at home.
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First wave of Watford’s “transport revolution” launches
Rebecca Morley 5th March 2020 Landscape
Watford Council has launched Hertfordshire’s first bike share scheme and a digital travel app, in the first wave of its “transport revolution”.
The new and free travel app, named ‘Travel Watford’, is available on iOS and Android phones and already has over 600 individual downloads. It draws on large banks of data, providing information on potential modes of transport to local destinations, including trains, fixed-route buses, the new on-demand bus service and the recently announced electric car club.
The app aims to promote sustainable transport, helping Watford to become a greener, less congested and less car-dependent town.
The Beryl bike share scheme is the first of its kind in Hertfordshire and is comprised of 200 pedal bikes followed by 100 e-bikes to be rolled out later in the year.
The bikes are available 24/7 at 70 locations around the town and will link Watford’s Metropolitan Line Station with Watford Junction Station. The service can be accessed through the free Beryl App, which manages the process of paying for journeys around town.
Elected mayor of Watford Peter Taylor said: “This new bike share scheme will give people another option for travelling around our town, help to make our air cleaner and reduce congestion.
“This is part of a series of improvements which also includes introducing on-demand buses later this month and our new Travel Watford transport app. Everyone knows that our roads are busy and so it’s right that we take action to improve transport in Watford.”
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We review the new card game Sellswords from Level 99 Games. In this quick playing game, 2 players draft a hand of unique character cards and must use them to battle on the gaming table. With easy to learn rules and a unique feel, this one is worth a look.
Level 99 Games has made a name for itself with their really creative two player games. From BattleCON to Pixel Tactics, these games all have an intense head-to-head feel that really appeal to players who love conflict. In the past, we’ve reviewed a few of their Pixel Tactics games, which are tons of fun and a game that I’m always willing to play. Today, we are going to spend some time with their newest 2 player card game, Sellswords. Level 99 Games bills Sellswords as a game where you “Take to the field of battle in [an] intense head-to-head contest of wits and strategy”. Sellswords definitely has a lighter feel than their other 2 players games. The game feels unique, the rules are easy, but is it fun? Let’s find out!
Sellswords is a 2 player drafting and tile placement game that takes about 15-20 minutes to play.
Sellswords is a tile-placement game (although they are actually cards) where each player is trying to end the game with the most troops on the field. After drafting your team of characters, each turn you’ll be placing cards onto the field of battle, using their special powers and hopefully stealing troops from your enemy. At the end of each round, a scoring phase happens where you earn points based on where your troops are in the field of play. At the end of the second scoring phase, whoever has the most points wins.
Each character has a unique power and 4 strength numbers, one on each side.
The components that come with Sellswords are about on par with what I’ve come to expect from Level 99 Games. I rarely have complaints with the quality of their products and this one is no different.
The box is really small and literally fits in your pock (assuming you’re not wearing skinny jeans or something). Included is a deck of square cards with 50 character cards (dual sided) and 4 terrain cards. Each character has a name, special power, and a strength number on each side of the card. Each character is also illustrated in a style that should be familiar to anyone that’s played a Level 99 game before. I always enjoy the artwork on their games and am glad they seem to make good art a priority.
The rulebook is a two-sided, folded sheet of paper that explains the game really well. The front side has rules and game play examples while the back explains every characters power in further detail. I have to give props to Level 99 for doing a good job with the rules as we found it both useful and easy to learn from. My only issue is getting it back in the box. It reminded me of my days as a child when my father would give me a paper map (remember those?) to fold up and put away. I’m fairly certain those map makers are burning in a special place in hell right now for the torture they put us through.
To start the game, choose a terrain tile and deal 12 character cards to the table. Both players then take turns drafting characters into their hand. Once you each have 6, you’re ready to begin.
The game is played over 2 rounds with each player having 6 turns in a round. A turn is broken out into three steps:
At the end of each round, players earn points based on how many characters they have in each row of the grid.
1. Play a tile: Play a card from your hand onto the table next to an existing card (orthogonal placement only). You can rotate the card to have any facing you want. The only rule is that once 5 cards have been played into a line, no cards can be played past that. Essentially, at the end of the game there will be a 5×5 grid of cards.
2. Use special abilities: Every card has special abilities, some optional, some mandatory. There are four different types of abilities: Optional, Mandatory, Continuous and End of Round. The abilities range from moving tiles around the grid, to rotating tiles, to flipping enemy tiles, to scoring bonus points. All in all, there are 50 different powers in the game.
3. Compare Numbers: Each character has 4 numbers on their card (one per side). When you place a card, you compare its numbers to all tiles adjacent to it. If your played card has a higher number than your opponents card, you flip their card over, making it part of your army now. However, there are no chain reactions, so if you flip an opponent’s card, you don’t continue to compare numbers.
Once all 12 cards have been played, the round ends and a scoring phase beings. Each player checks how many cards they have in each row (going both directions) and score points based on a chart in the rulebook (from 0-7 points). After that, a second round begins with another drafting phase. The player with the most points at the end of the second scoring phase wins.
When the game ends, you will have formed a 5×5 grid of cards. The goal is to have the most number of characters in each line of the grid, the more characters, the more points you score.
I am a big fan of the Pixel Tactics series; it provides a great two player, head-to-head card game with a lot depth and strategy. But one of the drawbacks about it though is that it can be quite intimidate for new players because of the myriad of options available each turn. Its game play length also made it more than just a casual pickup game, despite its small size.
However with Sellswords, I think Level 99 Games has finally created a game that is both fully accessible to newbies, yet also plays quickly enough to fall into that filler role. As a filler game, I think Sellswords excels. More than once I’ve grabbed this game when the first player shows up to a game night and we have 15 minutes to kill. The rules in Sellswords take only minutes to explain to we can quickly get in a game before others begin to shows up.
There are 50 unique powers in the game and the rulebook helps explain all of them in more detail.
Looking at the game play, I think Level 99 did some really clever things here. The first that comes to mind is the card drafting. The first time we played Sellswords we skipped the drafting step and just randomly dealt out 6 cards to each player. Since we didn’t really know what we were doing, we didn’t want to spend time over-analyzing cards we wouldn’t understand. While the game works perfectly fine with this route, I’d encourage you to not do this other than your very first play of the game (and even then only if you really just want to jump right in).
The drafting phase is a critical (and fun) element of Sellswords. Without it, the game could quickly get unbalanced as some cards can be a lot more powerful than others. All are great in the right situations, but when you are drafting, you not only can make sure you get some of the cards you want, but also know what your opponent has in his hand. This adds a good layer of strategy to what is a really tactical game. It also provides you with some hard choices at the start of the game, such as “do I want the guy that provides end of round points in my hand or should I just try and flip him after my opponent plays him”.
One area where Sellswords different from Pixel Tactics is that this is really a tactical game, rather than strategic. The game state will change so much from turn to turn that it’s fairly hard to plan ahead. From what characters are on the grid to which are even yours, you’ll be doing a lot of reacting on your turn. You have to assess the current state of the game and try and figure the optimal card to play and where. If that sounds fun to you, then you will love Sellswords.
In addition to the standard starting tile, there are 3 other ones that will change the way the game is played somewhat.
The many questions running through your head is a big part of Sellswords. This is a game about outthinking your opponent. Where you play your cards can have a big impact on the game and since you are only playing six each round, placement can be critical. Maximizing the usefulness of your character’s ability is important, but so are the numbers on the sides of the cards. Leaving yourself too exposed with low numbers can have some pretty rough results when your opponent gets to go. There is almost a game of cat and mouse being played here as you and your opponent will constantly be trying to one up each other. I’ve had games where we’ve flipped the same card multiple times in succession.
I think Sellswords has a lot of staying power because each game feels just a little different. There are 50 character cards included and you only ever use 24 of them during a game. The variety of special powers is pretty fantastic and each one feels fairly unique. To go with that, the game also comes with 4 different terrain cards, each of which has a special effect on the way the game is played. For example, while the default terrain card has no effect on the game, the Niflheim terrain card causes chain reaction flipping.
I honestly don’t have a ton of negative things to say about Sellswords. Sometimes the powers aren’t completely clear on how they work and requires a trip to the rulebook (or on rarer cases, the internet) to figure out. But overall, I like the diverse characters, the easy to learn rules, and the quick playing time.
Sellswords, while probably not in the realm of gateway game, is easy enough to be learned by most anybody. The rules are intuitive and it’s really a different play experience than most other games out there. As a filler game, Sellswords probably rises near the top of the pile in the unique play it offers, the ability to jump right in the game, and its portability. If you are looking for a competitive game that’s both highly tactical and really unique, then give Sellswords a look.
If you’d like to try it out yourself, you can pick up a copy for about $20
Final Score: 4 Stars – A great filler game that both portable and a lot of fun to play. This one will have a home on my gaming shelf for a long time.
• Easy to learn rules
• Quick playing time
• Unique game play
• Lots of variety
• Some powers could be clearer
• No rounded corners on cards
2 Player Game
Battle Game
Filler Game
Non-Gamer Friendly
While he will play just about anything, Tony loves games that let him completely immerse himself in the theme. He also is a bit of a component addict.
jayahre Jan 27, 2015 At 1:48 pm
Thanks for writing this Tony! I’ve shared it on the Level 99 Games tumblr page. We really appreciate it!
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Has Facebook ruined the news?
“Our goal is to build the perfect personalised newspaper for every person in the world,” said Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2014. This newspaper would “show you the stuff that’s going to be most interesting to you”.
To many, that statement explains perfectly why Facebook is such a terrible source of news. A “fake news” story proclaiming that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump was, according to an analysis from BuzzFeed, the single most successful item of news on Facebook in the three months before the US election. If that’s what the site’s algorithms decide is interesting, it’s far from being a “perfect newspaper”.
It’s no wonder that Zuckerberg found himself on the back foot after Trump’s election. Shortly after his victory, Zuckerberg declared: “I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way . . . is a pretty crazy idea.” His comment was greeted with a scornful response.
I should confess my own biases here. I despise Facebook for all the reasons people usually despise Facebook (privacy, market power, distraction, fake-smile social interactions and the rest). And, as a loyal FT columnist, I need hardly point out that the perfect newspaper is the one you’re reading right now.
But, despite this, I’m going to stand up for Zuckerberg, who recently posted a 5,700-word essay defending social media. What he says in the essay feels like it must be wrong. But the data suggest that he’s right. Fake news can stoke isolated incidents of hatred and violence. But neither fake news nor the algorithmically driven “filter bubble” is a major force in the overall media landscape. Not yet.
“Fake news” is a phrase that has already been debased. A useful definition is that fake news is an entirely fabricated report presenting itself as a news story. This excludes biased reporting, satire and lies from politicians themselves.
At first glance, such hoaxes appear to be ubiquitous on Facebook. The BuzzFeed analysis finds that the five most popular hoax stories were more successful than the five most popular true stories. (This list of true stories includes the New York Post’s “Melania Trump’s Girl-on-Girl Photos From Racy Shoot Revealed”, a reminder that not all mainstream journalism is likely to win a Pulitzer.)
But hoax stories are less significant than this analysis suggests — partly because Facebook is not the main source of news for Americans (that’s still television news), and partly because true reports will generally be covered in some form by dozens of outlets, which will dilute the popularity of any one version. Each hoax, however, is unique. No wonder the most popular hoaxes outperform the most popular true reports.
In January 2017, two economists, Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow, published research studying exactly how prevalent fake news had been before the election. Their clever method tested people’s recall of fake news, as compared with true news stories and “placebo” stories — fake fake news, invented by the researchers. People didn’t remember many fake news stories, and claimed to remember quite a few placebos. Overall, there just didn’t seem to be enough fake news to swing the election result — unless it was potent stuff indeed, even in small doses.
“The average voter saw one fake news story before the election,” Gentzkow told me. “That number is a very different picture from what you might get from watching the public discussion.”
Of more concern is that Facebook — and its “most interesting to you” algorithm — simply supplies news that panders to each user’s ideological biases. It’s undoubtedly true that we surround ourselves with people who agree with us on social media. But it’s not clear that Facebook’s algorithm is the biggest problem here. Twitter was politically polarised even in the days when it used no algorithm at all. And newspapers have ideological biases too.
One recent study of online news reading was conducted by Seth Flaxman, Sharad Goel and Justin Rao, who had access to browser data from Microsoft, and used it to examine how people consumed news online. They found a mixed picture: social media did seem to push stories that were further from the centre of the political spectrum but they also exposed people to a greater variety of ideological viewpoints. That makes sense. Reading the same newspaper every day is a filter bubble too.
Gentzkow studied the contrast between online and offline news using data from 2004-2009, working with fellow economist Jesse Shapiro. They found little evidence then that online news consumption was more polarised than traditional media. But things are changing quickly. “My guess is that segregation is noticeably and meaningfully higher than in the past,” Gentzkow says, “but still quite modest.”
This feels like an important moment. Fake news is not prevalent, but it could become so. Filter bubbles are probably no worse than they have been for decades — but that could change rapidly too.
“A lot ultimately hinges on what the motivations of American voters are,” says Gentzkow. “Do people actually care at all about getting the truth and having accurate information?”
He’s hopeful that, deep down, people watch and read the news because they want to learn about the world. But if what voters really want is to be lied to, then Facebook is the least of our problems.
Written for and first published in the Financial Times.
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CNN Philippines – Marcos camp to file election protest, bares ‘secret server’
By Alex Ho | CNN Philippines
In three weeks’ time, the camp of Sen. Bongbong Marcos will file an election protest over what they called “massive rigging and manipulation of votes” in the May 9 polls.
This was bared on Tuesday by Jose Amor Amorado, head of Marcos’ legal team and Abakada Party-list Rep. Jonathan Dela Cruz, the senator’s political adviser. They intend to make the filing on June 28, a day before the deadline.
Amorado and Dela Cruz told reporters that there was a “secret fourth server” used during the elections — “which had been kept secret from the public by the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic,” a press release from the Marcos camp said.
He explained that based on their findings, election results were transmitted to this fourth or “queue server” instead of being transmitted directly to the Municipal Board of Canvassers, the Comelec and the transparency server.
Dela Cruz said that this additional server was not divulged to the public and was never subjected to a source code review as what was done with the other servers.
Amorado added that there were also no watchers allowed to oversee the extra server.
“The truth has to come out one way or another,” Amorado said earlier in the day after a preliminary investigation of the complaint for the violation of the cyber crime law, which they had previously filed against Comelec and Smartmatic personnel before the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office.
Over a week before, Marcos lawyer George Garcia had said the senator had been seriously mulling on filing an electoral protest — but it would cost somewhere between P30 million and P50 million to do so.
‘Suspicious’ change of script
Amorado said the protest would seek a recount of the votes in some areas — including the setting aside of the election results in areas where they said there were clear indications of fraud.
Marcos’ camp said that the results of their initial findings indicated that between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. of election day, results showed that the senator lost in 1,689 precincts.
They said many of these precincts were from areas considered bailiwicks of Marcos — Leyte, Samar, Pangasinan and other areas in Region II.
As they claimed in their criminal complaint, the downtrend in the Marcos’ votes began late evening of election day — after a change in the hash code or script of the system was made by Smartmatic’s Marlon Garcia without seeking first the permission of the poll body.
Dela Cruz said that they owed it to those who voted for Marcos and to the entire Filipino people to find out what really happened in the 2016 elections.
Comelec had previously said several times that the script change had just been “cosmetic” and had not affected the election results.
Meanwhile, during the preliminary investigation, Smartmatic asked for ten more days to file their answer to the complaint.
Amorado added that if found guilty, respondents faced possible imprisonment of 6 to 12 years.
Rappler – Marcos lawyer: ‘We will challenge every COC’
InterAksyon – Bongbong’s camp laments BI, Comelec’s failure to stop Smartmatic engineer from leaving PH
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Lars Sund
Thunder in the east
Issue 4/1991 | Archives online, Fiction, Prose
Extract from the novel Colorado Avenue (Söderström & Co, 1991). Introduction by Pia Ingström
Come. We are going to look at schoolmaster Johansson’s photographs.
It is true that Johansson himself died of TB back in 1922, and the collection of glass negatives he left behind – several dozen boxfuls – was destroyed in a peculiar manner. This, however, constitutes no hindrance to us. Where reality falls short, fantasy must intervene. By expanding realistic style beyond the scope of the possible we create a new reality.
To seek to grasp at Time and hold her fast is a dangerous and hopeless undertaking; Time wreaks a terrible revenge on those who seek to rise up against it. Thus, too, was schoolmaster Johansson’s dream of eternity with the help of silver nitrate and glass frustrated. In the spring of 1926 schoolmaster Johansson’s household effects were finally sold by auction. A certain Eskil Holm from Blaxnäs snapped up the glass negatives for a small sum.
The art of photography was not something that this Eskil Holm cared much about; it was the glass he was after.
Eskil Holm had been in America and had there become acquainted with the art of cultivating plants under glass. He fancied that it should be possible to grow tomatoes in greenhouses in Siklax, too. With the help of a brush and some gasolene he cleaned away thirty years of the Siklax district’s history from his newly acquired plates of glass. After that he cemented them together into a greenhouse. He also planted the tomato seeds he had ordered from America.
True to custom, the inhabitants of Siklax greeted his project with laughter and the shaking of heads. Since that day they have, however, stopped laughing and have built greenhouses of their own. Nowadays Eskil Holm is regarded as the pioneer of the greenhouse industry in southern Ostrobothnia.
As the glass negatives were several thousand in number Eskil Holm could not clean all of them particularly carefully. Consequently relics of the subjects remained on the greenhouse walls: whole and half people, black, freely floating faces, severed torsos, hinder parts of horses, faded landscapes. The greenhouse was an archive of local history, the contents of which lay higgledy-piggledy. Look here: Dollar Hanna’s country shop as it looked that November day in 1905, to think that precisely that plate survived almost unharmed! And there: the rear end of Nygårds-Elisa’s 1914 model T-Ford, brought home from America, the first automobile in the parish of Siklax as far as is known. The shore, with boathouses and jetties. A school class. The ceremonial opening of Siklax Hospital in 1911; posing in front of the hospital one can see the project’s chief promoters: the Chairman, Dr Norrmén, in a white coat, and Miss Rakel Thodén, the midwife, unfortunately half washed away….
Next to the greenhouse door a funeral. Snow; many people standing on both sides of the road. Six men are bearing a coffin. The bearers have white armbands (black on the negative, of course). So it must all be part of a hero’s funeral in the early spring of 1918.
On the greenhouse’s longitudinal wall, near the ground, there is a negative that is worth a closer examination. The narrator must however ask the patient reader to stand on his head – like so! Yes, the glass has in fact been cemented in upside down.
Standing on our heads we observe the following motif:
In the background the imposing historic building in Smeds’ courtyard. Close to the corner of the house a tall memorial tree, a bird-cherry. On the negative the birdcherry appears entirely in black, as though it were draped in an enormous piece of crape. But we must turn black into white! Then we discover that the bird-cherry has been attacked by spinning-moths and is shrouded in the white net of those noxious insects.
A coffee table has been set up out in the courtyard. The table is spread with a freshly laundered linen cloth. A solitary coffee cup is set, together with sugar bowl, creamjug and dish of rolls. Four people are grouped around this symbolic coffee table. On a high-backed chair the Chairman sits in state, next to him sits a woman in white festive apron, she is looking down into her lap but can nonetheless be identified as Smess-Bat. On a rattan sofa sits a young man with a broad, open face, he is cheerfully smiling; at his side he has a woman, he is holding her hand. The woman is Dollar Hanna.
But wait a moment!
Dollar Hanna in the company of a young man who is obviously in love on a sofa in Smeds’ courtyard! There is something wrong there, surely.
And true enough: if we look closer we see that it can scarcely be Hanna. The determined posture, the head held high, the lines of the face are reminiscent of Hanna, but the woman is quite a bit younger – really still a girl. There can hardly be any doubt: this is Hanna’s daughter Ida, who has grown up into a stylish young woman, strikingly like her mother. The young man at her side is the Chairman’s Gusta. They are engaged to be married.
But ought there not to be one more person in this family portrait? Where is Erik, the Chairman’s eldest son?
Schoolmaster Johansson took this photograph one Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1917. The Grand Duchy of Finland’s last summer; a summer of war, evil rumours and flies.
This Sunday when schoolmaster Johansson comes up to Smeds’ with his camera the sun is burning white and petrified as usual in a sky as hot and dry as a brickkiln – for the summer is shaping up to be unusually warm. The haymaking is already over and done with, its quality was only a little above average. The severe drought has already taken a heavy toll of the rye and corn harvest, which is showing yellow spots; the earth in the fields is grey-white and cracked, in the potato patches the haulm is drooping, scorched by the heat. There is a rumour that the inhabitants of Blaxnäs have already begun to take their cattle out to pasture in the skerries, and that is earlier than any living soul can remember, yes, these are strange times we are living in, no rain will come, it is as though everything were out of balance, and out in the big world men continue to wage war and no peace is in sight…
The peace of a holiday reigns. The inhabitants of Siklax have been to church to let Dean Roschier call down the blessing of the Lord upon them (and also enjoy the coolness under the medieval stone vaults), after which they have eaten dinner, and now Siklax is dozing, smothered by the heat and the food.
Only the buzzing of flies and the shrill cries of the swifts high up in the air can be heard.
In the shadow of the lilac hedge sit the Chairman and schoolmaster Johansson, talking things over after the photographs have been taken, they are brothers in the same party and longtime companions in local politics. Neither host nor guest can bring himself to make a move, so they remain sitting here in the heat. Smess-Bat has long ago gone in. Ida and Gustav too have disappeared, hand in hand, and cheerfully laughing.
The Chairman has lit his pipe, but there is no relish in smoking in the heat, it is as though one’s mouth were filled with the fumes of burning rubber. Schoolmaster Johansson coughs every now and then: he holds a handkerchief in front of his mouth and sometimes spits into a small brown bottle. At such times one looks away. TB should be acknowledged with reluctance: otherwise one may draw it upon oneself.
Buzzing of flies. The cries of swifts.
‘Well, and when is the wedding to be?’ asks schoolmaster Johansson.
‘Towards Christmas, we thought,’ replies the Chairman, distractedly.
‘Yes, Ida is certainly a sensible and reliable girl in every way, she was my pupil….’
The schoolmaster suddenly grows hesitant, the rest of what he was going to say remains hanging in the air.
The Chairman looks at him. And Johansson thinks with a kind of sudden horror: ‘But good Lord how he seems to have aged” The Chairman’s gaze is certainly tired – but it is sharp nonetheless. Johansson begins to shift uncomfortably as he sits in his chair. Calmly the Chairman says:
‘Yes, I know exactly what people are thinking. There should have been a real farmer’s daughter at Smeds’ and not the country shopkeeper’s lass. But you see, Johansson, I’m such an old man that I don’t give a damn about talk like that any more. It is definitely not social class that decides a person’s quality, but something else, that I have learned. When the time comes, Smeds’ cannot hope to acquire a better lady than Ida, she is worth more than a dozen farmers’ daughters, so she is, and so would she be even were she a crofter’s daughter”
‘It almost sounds as if you’d gone and become a socialist!’
Then the Chairman laughs.
‘No, see here, Johansson, the Social Democrats have never had any kind of a sympathiser in me and they never will, either, that’s one thing that is certain. But I seem to remember a certain young schoolmaster who in 1905 spoke warmly in support of social democracy….’
‘Well, there were many who did in connection with the General Strike,’ the schoolmaster said, cutting short the gibe. ‘I was still a young man then. And young men fall such easy prey to all kinds of aberrations, one has to rebel against the authority of one’s father….’
‘They do it,’ said the Chairman stiffly.
The schoolmaster could have bitten off his tongue: now he had touched the open and infected sore! How could he have been so thoughtless! He resorts to coughing in order to get over his embarrassment, pulls up the handkerchief and the brown bottle even though it is not necessary. But this time the Chairman does not turn away his gaze. It is almost as though he wants Johansson to see the gleam of naked pain in his eyes, it glints like a pike-hook just beneath the surface of the water. It only lasts a moment, then the Chairman snaps shut the watch-case of everyday reality around the clockwork of his inner life; a shared sense of relief makes them both shift in their chairs and reach for their emptied coffee-cups, the Chairman rattles matchbox and lights his pipe again.
‘The young folk can’t be set on the right rails the way they used to be,’ said the Chairman. ‘As my father did with me. Nowadays the young people make their own way in life. They burn for what they think is right and proper, that is the strength of youth. But that someone might get burnt by the flames, that they never think of. Perhaps that is right and proper.’
He draws on his pipe and blows out a mouthful of smoke.
‘It’s really rather strange,’ says the Chairman. ‘When one is young one knows exactly how everything must be done. The way is clearly marked out. But the older one gets, the less one knows….’
Then the clatter of horses’ hooves is heard down on the road. The Chairman falls silent. Uneasily he and the schoolmaster watch a patrol of Russian dragoons ride by. The soldiers are sweaty and dusty, their rifles thump against their backs, the harness jingles. The NCO who is leading the patrol wears a red armband. Here in Siklax, too, the revolutionaries have taken control of the army.
The dragoons vanish up towards Ackerbacken where they are stationed, the dust of the road hangs like powder smoke in the air after them.
‘One more reminder of the order of things…’ sighs the schoolmaster.
Yes, the Russians’ regular patrols are a sign of the state of war that now exists. Troops are stationed in several Ostrobothnian municipalities, in Siklax, too, why it is not so easy to discover; is the Russian High Command perhaps afraid of a German or Swedish invasion here? The presence of the Russian soldiers is burdensome in more way than one. It falls to the lot of the municipality to supply the troops with provisions, hay and firewood. The municipal committee fulfils its contractual obligations with reluctance and limits the official contacts to those that are absolutely essential. In general the inhabitants of Siklax keep themselves to themselves. But even here there are ryssbrudar, women who do not consider themselves above fraternising with the Russians. And the handful of social democrats with tanner Juoppi at their head that exists here in the municipality has since the March revolution begun to run all kinds of errands up to Ackerbacken – who knows what sort of get-togethers they have with the Russians….
‘Well, I suppose I’d better start moving along,’ says the schoolmaster, but makes no attempt to get up.
The air above the plain is quivering with the heat; the barns seem to float slightly above the ground, the distant forest edge is wrapped in a duty blue haze. Far away in the east thunder is rumbling.
‘Thunder,’ says the Chairman reflectively. ‘Soon the storm will break out over us, you’ll see.’
‘Oh, we need a bit of rain,’ says the schoolmaster. Then he realises that the Chairman is talking about a different kind of storm. The Chairman pretends not to notice the remark.
‘We must be glad for each day we pass in peace and quiet.’
‘Oh, does one have to be quite so pessimistic?’ says Johansson. ‘After all, up till now Finland has kept to one side of the great conflagration.’
‘But that is scarcely any guarantee that things will go on that way. The general strike in Åbo this spring was ominous. The food shortages and unrest are growing in Southern Finland. There is total political confusion in Helsingfors. And God alone knows what is going to happen in Russia, the Bolsheviks are gaining ground and attacking Kerensky, there is discontent and mutiny in the army.’
‘Oh, in a little while there will be peace, I mean, there are rumours of negotiations….’
‘No, I don’t think the war will be over at once. And now the Americans have joined in, just wait until they’ve got their troops and aeroplanes across the Atlantic, in the end the Germans will probably bite the dust after all. Then it will be important for Finland to know which is the right horse to back….’
The Chairman swiped at a stubbornly buzzing fly. He resumed:
‘Before the war has been fought to an end we will probably end up being sorry too, one way or the other, here in our small corner of the world. And nothing will be the same afterwards. We must only hope that little Finland and all of us are not mown down when History’s harvester comes rolling over us…. ‘
The thunder rumbled far away in the east.
Pia Ingström: Between cultures (Archives online)
Soila Lehtonen: Praise and prize for theatre on the edge of Europe (In the news)
Pentti Haanpää: The Schoolmaster’s bicycle trip (Archives online)
Also by Lars Sund
Dead calm - 31 December 2007
One hell of a time - 31 December 1997
Lars Sund (born 1953) is a journalist and author. The two first novels of his trilogy set in Ostrobothnia, Colorado Avenue (1991) and Lanthandlerskans son (’The country shopkeeper’s son’,1997) were made into a film entitled Colorado Avenue in 2007 (directed by Claes Olsson). Sund lives in Uppsala, Sweden.
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BANTAMS BATTLE THE ELEMENTS TO CLAIM ALDERSHOT REPLAY
David Hopkin's Bantams battled against extremely difficult pitch conditions and stubborn home resistance to claim a 1-1 draw at Aldershot Town and a place in Monday's Emirates FA Cup second round draw.
With persistent and heavy rain showers making the playing surface a serious challenge for the most part in the first round encounter, Aldershot took a twelfth-minute lead when George Fowler's effort from a corner deflected in off Ryan McGowan.
Despite the on-going downpours meaning that the ball wasn't able to roll properly in large sections of the pitch, though, City showed commendable resolve to hit back strongly following Fowler's opener.
After Eoin Doyle and Connor Wood had seen first half efforts well saved by home 'keeper Will Mannion, the Bantams finally broke through just under twenty minutes from the end when Nathaniel Knight-Percival headed home from a Jack Payne corner.
City's FA Cup replay with Aldershot is now scheduled for Tuesday 20 November 2018 - kick off 7:45pm - at the Northern Commercials Stadium.
With Adam Chicksen suspended, Wood was one of two players brought back into Hopkin's starting XI for the cup tie at the EBB Stadium.
Payne was the other player recalled by Hopkin, with Josh Wright moving down to the bench.
He was joined there by the duo of fit-again fellow midfielders Jim O'Brien and Daniel Devine.
Following heavy showers throughout the day, including an absolute deluge an hour or so before kick off, the pitch was already beginning to hold water as the two teams began their warm-ups.
Ahead of kick off, and with Remembrance Sunday just around the corner, a number of former service men joined the Bantams and Aldershot pre-match as they made their way out the tunnel.
There was also a touching rendition of the 'Last Post' by an army bugler as those within the stadium fell silent to pay their respects to the fallen.
Once the action got underway, it quickly became clear that the sodden pitch was going to cause problems.
As early as the third minute Adam McDonnell looked to burst forward into City's penalty area, but his progress was halted as the ball held up in the water on the pitch.
During a strong opening to the contest, Aldershot nearly took the lead in the eighth minute through Matt McClure.
McClure turned away from two City defenders in the box to leave him with only Richard O'Donnell to beat, but his close range strike whistled just past the far post.
The Shots did find an opening goal four minutes later, however, when McClure's deflected drive won the hosts a corner.
Josh Barrett's delivery found Fowler in space over by the far post and the defender's effort deflected in off McGowan past a helpless O'Donnell.
The goal was understandably a blow to the Bantams but, to their credit, their response was almost instant.
The hard-working Lewis O'Brien saw a drive held by Mannion soon after, with Doyle also denied by the home custodian in the Bantams' next attack.
A drive from just outside the box from Hope Akpan deflected into the path of Doyle in space inside the area.
The Irishman shot first time but his effort was repelled by the legs of Mannion.
At the other end, McDonnell warmed O'Donnell's hands with a strike from outside the box, but it was City who were creating virtually all the main chances as the half progressed.
Attacking up the noticeable slope at the EBB Stadium, Hopkin's side had an effort from outside the box from Wood pushed away by Mannion.
Seconds later, Payne's ball to the far post picked out Anthony O'Connor but his effort across goal was blocked away by Marvin McCoy.
With the rain continuing to fall consistently throughout the game, playing with the ball at your feet was proving difficult, but it didn't stop David Ball driving into the box with purpose midway through the half.
The attacker forced his way into the area but his drive for goal was deflected up off Fowler and into the gloves of a grateful Mannion.
As the game moved towards the break, McClure forced O'Donnell into a competent save following a shot on the turn from the edge of the box by the attacker.
The Bantams finished the half in positive fashion, and Wood saw a cross-come-shot from the left tipped behind by Mannion.
The rain showed no signs of slowing down as the second period got underway, but match official Paul Marsden was seemingly happy to allow the match to carry on.
The Bantams were now attacking down the slope, though, and into the half with the worst of the wet conditions.
With the water presuambly running down the hill at the ground, the bottom half of the pitch - the end City were attacking into - had a large number of areas in it where it was becoming virtually impossible to play on the floor as the ball was holding up.
Attempts to run with the ball were proving tricky to say the least, and any passes made certainly had to be given a little extra oomph to make sure they got through the water.
Despite the troubling weather, however, City engineered a couple of bright early opportunites after the restart.
Doyle fired low at Mannion following a George Miller lay-off eight minutes into the second period.
Miller was then on the end of City's next meaningful attack when he beat the offside trap to latch onto a Payne through-ball, but the striker could only drag a shot wide of the far post.
As the tie reached the hour mark, O'Donnell was increasingly becoming a spectator - dealing mainly with just the occasion back pass - as City soldiered on against a soaking pitch and hard-working hosts.
Payne's lofted ball over the top found Doyle in the box but his looping header landed wide.
Ball then had another run into the box, as he did in the first period, but again his effort for goal was blocked away.
The strike would be Ball's last action of the game; the attacker replaced by the returning Jim O'Brien following six weeks out for the midfielder.
After his couple of efforts in the first period, Wood nearly found an equaliser for the Bantams just over twenty minutes from the end.
The defender's right-footed effort from outside the box was spilled by Mannion and the goalkeeper had to reach back to crawl the loose ball off the goal-line.
City's pressure did eventually tell, however, minutes later when the Bantams won a corner after Mannion had tipped over an impressive drive from distance by Lewis O'Brien.
From the resulting Payne corner, Knight-Percival got himself free and the defender powered home a header past a rooted Mannion.
In reply, McDonnell saw a free-kick from roughly twenty-five yards out sail narrowly over soon after.
As the game moved into the final stages, City introduced Daniel Devine and Josh Wright for Akpan and Payne later in the half.
Sadly for the likes of Ball and Payne - both replaced in the second period - conditions just simply weren't suited to their creative style of play.
For Devine, the appearance from the bench for the young midfielder was his first action of the season following a troublesome foot injury.
Devine could have actually been involved in a winning goal for the Bantams five minutes from the end.
Lewis O'Brien's cross from the left was flicked goalwards by Devine but Mannion was able to cling on ahead of a lurking Miller.
Despite being under pressure for large parts of the game, especially in the second period, plucky Aldershot did have one final moment in the game as the match headed into injury time.
McDonnell's cross towards the far post found Scott Rendell in a threatening position but his header was blocked behind by Wood.
From the following home corner, the ball eventually deflected down into the path of Gabriel Osho but the home defender hooked over from a decent position inside the box.
City came back at Aldershot in the three minutes of added on time that followed, with Lewis O'Brien heading at Mannion from a Wright cross.
The young midfielder was then over the ball for the Bantams when they won one last free-kick in the final seconds of the tie.
O'Brien's near post delivery into the box from the right was punched out by Mannion. City kept the ball alive but McGowan saw a effort blocked from inside the box and the final whistle blew moments later.
Following this Saturday's draw, Hopkin's Bantams and Aldershot will now share ball number ten in Monday evening's second round draw.
Match line ups, stats and updates from the Aldershot FA Cup tie can be found via our Match Centre - HERE.
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Surveillance and Molecular Characterization on Dengue Viruses in Taiwan, 2013
Cheng-Fen Yang, Chien-Ling Su, Tung-Chien Hsu, Li-Yu Chen, Pei-Yun Shu
Correspondence Author： Pei-Yun Shu
Center for Research, Diagnostics and Vaccine Development, Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan
We present our surveillance results on imported and indigenous dengue cases in Taiwan in 2013. A total of 264 imported dengue patients were identified. Among them, 113 (42.8%) cases were identified by fever screening at airports. The travelers were infected in 16 countries, including India, China, Brazil, and those located in Southeast Asia and South Pacific islands. Most of these imported cases were infected in Indonesia, next in Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The main dengue virus serotype was DENV-1 in all countries, with the exception of the Philippines and India in which DENV-4 and DENV-2 were the main serotypes, respectively. Molecular epidemiologic study showed that six different strains of DENV were co-circulated in southern Taiwan.
The first dengue outbreak occurred in Chunri Township, Pingtung County and was caused by a strain of DENV-1 which was also responsible for epidemics in Tainan City in 2011 and 2012. The second outbreak occurred in Xinyuan Township, Pingtung County and was caused by a strain of DENV-3 imported from Indonesia. The third outbreak which caused by a strain of DENV-2 imported from Indonesia began in Chaozhou Township, Pingtung County and later some sporadic cases were reported in Xinpi Township and Zhutian Township. The forth outbreak caused by a different strain of DENV-2 also imported from Indonesia. This large-scale outbreak began in Pingtung City and later spread to Pingtung County, Kaohsiung City, and Tainan City. In addition, a different strain of DENV-1 which likely introduced from Malaysia caused few sporadic cases in Xinpi Township, Pingtung County, Taipei City, and New Taipei City. Finally, a DENV-2 strain most closely related to Singapore strain caused only one case in North District, Tainan City. These results provide an updated view of geographic distributions and dynamic transmission of DENV strains circulating in Taiwan and in Southeast Asian countries.
Keywords：Dengue virus, imported, epidemic, phylogenetic analysis
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In the day-to-day work of building new software and maintaining old software, we can easily lose sight of the bigger picture. I think we can find perspective when we step back and walk through the evolution of a single piece of software.
For example: first, you are asked for a simple slideshow to showcase a few images handed to you. Just five images and the images won't change.
An easy request! It only takes you a short time to build with some simple jQuery. You show the client, they approve it. You deploy it to production and call it a day.
This example, and all the examples in this blog post, are interactive. Try it out!
The next week, your client comes back with a new request. They don't think the users notice the slideshow can be navigated. They ask for previews of the next and last image, to use for navigation:
So you jump in. It’s an easy enough addition to the pretty simple slideshow widget you've already built. You slap in two images, position them just so, and add a few more lines of jQuery to bind navigation to them. Once again, it’s a quick review with the client and you ship it off to production.
But the next day, there's a bug report from a user. The slideshow works, the thumbnails show the right image, and the new previous/next preview images navigate correctly. However, the features don't work together, because the thumbnail navigation doesn’t change the new left and right preview images you added.
The client also wants the new navigation to act like a carousel and animate.
Now they want to add more photos.
And they want to be able to add, reorder, and change the photos on their own. That will break all the assumptions you made based on a fixed number of photos.
Every step along the way you added one more layer. One small request at a time, the overall complexity increased as those small requests added up. You took each step with the most efficient option you could find, but somehow you ended up with costly bloat. How does this keep happening?
At each step, you took the next best step. Ultimately, this didn't take you where you needed to go.
We don't subscribe to waterfall development practices at Caktus. Agile is a good choice, but as we work through iterations how do we bridge across those sprints to get a larger picture of our path, and how do we make those larger decisions about technical debt and decisions that impact on a larger scale than a single sprint?
Some of the code we write is there to get us somewhere else. Maybe you need to build a prototype to understand the original problem before you can tackle it with a final solution. Sometimes you need to stub out one area of code because your current task is another focus, and you'll come back to finish it or replace it in a future ticket. Many disciplines have these kinds of temporary artifacts, from the scaffolding built by construction crews to sketches artists make before paintings.
Maybe it is harder for software developers because we often don't know what code is temporary ahead of time. A construction crew would never say, "Now that we've built the roof, we really don't need those walls anymore!" but this is what it can often feel like when we refactor or tear down pieces of a project we worked hard on, even if it really is for the best.
My suggestion: become comfortable with tearing down code as part of the iterative process! Extreme Programming calls this rule "Relentlessly Refactor".
We need to think about some of the features we implement as prototypes, even if they've been shipped to end users. We won't always know when new code or features are stop-gaps or prototypes when we're building them, but we may realize later they had been so all along when more information comes to light about where those features need to go next.
Falling into the trap of thinking the work done in sprints is inherently additive is common, but destructive.
If each sprint is about "adding value", we tend to develop a bias towards the addition of artifacts. We consider modification to happen as part of bug fixes, seeing it as correcting a mistake in earlier requirements or code, or as changes stemming from evolving or misunderstood requirements. We may hold a bias against removing artifacts previously added, either within a given sprint or in a later sprint.
Going back to the construction analogy, when you construct a building you create a lot of things that don't end up in the final construction. You build scaffolding for your workers to stand on while the walls are being built up. You build wooden forms to shape concrete, removing them when the foundations and structures are solid.
You fill the building-in-progress with temporary lighting and wiring for equipment until the project is near completion and the permanent electrical and plumbing are hooked up and usable. A construction crew creates a lot of temporary artifacts in the path to creating a permanent structure, and we can learn from this when building software iteratively. We're going to have cases where work that supports what we're completing this sprint isn't necessary or may even be a hindrance in a future sprint. Not everything is permanent, and removing those temporary artifacts isn't a step backward or correcting a mistake. It is just a form of progress.
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School event covered students' research and ideas about real-world social and scientific issues
Eleven Rolling Hills Middle School students, pictured here with their teachers, launched the school’s first TED-Ed Student Talks this week as family, friends, teachers and administrators watched from the audience.
The TED Student Talks Program supports students as they discover, explore and present their big ideas in the form of short, TED-style talks. The middle schoolers’ presentation topics covered their research and ideas about a range of real-world social and scientific issues.
The student presenters and their topics were:
Yaoci Gamboa, How does Vegetarian/Veganism Affects Animals and the Environment?
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Details about when and where to view the RHMS TED talks online will be available soon.
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EVENTO DE CAPOEIRA 2019
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ANCESTRAIS CAPOEIRA INTERNATIONAL
The headquarters of A.C.I are right here in PERTH W.A with Mestre Leo Santos - 'Gringo' at the helm. The Ancestrais Capoeira way is simple & honest promoting the importance of healthy mind-healthy body, to maintain our professional & ethical identity, to work with integrity & fairness.
Our goal is to encourage students who show initiative and dedication in these areas.
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Origins of Capoeira
Capoeira, meaning “wild grass cut short” in the Tupi-guarani language of the Brazilian Native Indian.
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian slave ritual that has been developing in Brazil since the 1500’s when African people were first brought to Brazil and forced into slavery. As slaves they were unable to train their traditional fighting style and were suffering under the oppressive rule of the 'Slave Lords" in their daily lives; so the Africans developed and used Capoeira as their outlet. Within the roda of Capoeira they could tone their bodies, train their fighting skills and liberate their spirits through song and dance. Capoeira developed in the cultural melting pot that is Brazil. Africans, Portugues, native Indians and other cultures combined to create the unique ritual of Capoeira. Dance, Fighting, Theatre, Music.
The quilombos were the outlawed villages of escaped slaves, they were hidden within the jungles of Brazil. It was in these villages that Capoeira started to incorporate more deadly moves and weapons, the cutthroat razor (navalha) and the machete (facao). Malicia (cunning) was a large part of the game with players trying to trick each other into giving away an advantage. Eventually slavery was abolished and it was after this that Capoeira was known as the dance of liberation because the slaves used it to stay strong and survive, to become free.
Capoeira was illegal in Brazil until the 1930’s and had, and to some extent still carries, a bad reputation. Black people were, and still are, the most financially and socially disadvantaged demographic group. They were the poorer elements of society who made up the greater part of capoeiristas (practitioners of Capoeira). It was said that all people who played Capoeira were criminals and con men. To protect their identities, and evade the authorities, capoeiristas were known to each other only by nicknames or Apelidos.
In the early 1900’s, in Salvador, Bahia, a great fighter called Emmanuel dos Reis Machado, or Mestre Bimba, was well known and highly respected. In the 1930's he continued to develop Capoeira and incorporated certain elements from different fighting techniques, he added kicks and moves and developed a series of training sequences, transforming Capoeira into a more overt fight, less of a dance, and removing certain traditional aspects of the art, which were not effective in a fight. He also added more expression to his movements and called this style Luta Regional Baiana. Mestre Bimba challenged all comers to fight him and test his method. Such was his fame and reputation that both he and Capoeira were finally recognized by the Brazilian government and Capoeira was legalized.
Capoeira that descends from Mestre Bimba is now known as Capoeira Regional.
Traditional Capoeira with its old customs and malandragem (cunning) is now known as Capoeira Angola.One of the great names within Capoeira de Angola is Mestre Pastinha who was of the same epoch as Mestre Bimba. Mestre Joao Pequeno and Mestre Joao Grande were his most senior students.
With the evolution of this art form since the end of the 1980's we now see Contemporanea - modern day Capoeira.
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Photo: Andrew Reed/EdSourceUnder West Contra Costa Unified’s reopening plan, as soon as conditions allow, the district will start to bring high-needs students to campuses in order to access instructional aides and other resources.Photo: Andrew Reed/EdSourceUnder West Contra Costa Unified’s reopening plan, as soon as conditions allow, the district will start to bring high-needs students to campuses in order to access instructional aides and other resources.The West Contra Costa Unified school district in the San Francisco Bay Area will resume online classes for almost all students on Aug. 17, followed by an unusual plan to slowly get students back into school buildings — starting with those who are most in need of services.
Under its “student support hubs” plan, the district will bring small groups of students back onto campuses when it is safe to do so with instructional aides, child care staff, teachers and others to help the students with distance learning, officials said at a virtual town hall meeting Friday. District officials did not say when the student support hubs would go into effect.
Along with providing academic tutoring and special education, the support hub staff would make sure students and their families have access to food and health services, technology and other resources
Over the past week, a growing number of districts have decided to offer mostly remote learning this fall, and the plan offered by the West Contra Costa Unified underscored the many permutations a distance learning program can take. Among districts contacted by EdSource, West Contra Costa, which includes Richmond, appears to be a leader on the notion of “student support hubs” to help students learn how to better use distance learning tools for when they return home.
West Contra Costa Unified’s Student support hubs would address students’ needs beyond academic tutoring (courtesy of West Contra Costa Unified)Other districts that are continuing distance learning in the fall also plan to invite small groups of students onto campus for targeted services. Palo Alto Unified plans to offer in-person mental health and support services for students in middle school and high school. Oakland Unified wants to bring their most vulnerable students (such as special education, homeless, foster youth and those two or more grade levels behind academically) in first for one to three days per week. That plan has yet to be negotiated with the district’s teachers’ union.
The plan is based on input the district has received from parent, teacher and community surveys, and seeks to balance safety concerns with providing resources that families say they need, Superintendent Matthew Duffy said in a news release Thursday.
“We hope this is an opportunity to serve the students who need the most support while following the health and safety guidelines issued by local, state and federal health officials,” Duffy said. “From the feedback we’ve received, it is clear that safety and equity are the two main priorities for this community.”
One of the district’s surveys found that around 25% of parents were struggling to facilitate distance learning for their children, and felt as though they needed outside help to prevent their students from falling behind, said Tom DeLapp, a district spokesman.
“What we’re doing is taking the homeschooling process out of the living rooms and dining rooms of some of those 25%, and providing them a place with qualified people who can facilitate and help them if they’ve got issues with wellness or technology or nutrition or attendance or English language or academics,” DeLapp said at the virtual meeting, which more than 1,000 people tuned in to.
District officials won’t call the hubs “classrooms,” since it is up to the teacher whether they want to hold live instruction on campuses. Instead, education professionals will manage the hubs to help students who are struggling with distance learning.
Since social distancing and safety precautions would be in place for those students who return to campus, the district can allow only small groups of students at a time. How many students can access the hubs and when they can be brought in will depend on schools’ capacity as well as conditions to ensure safety, Duffy said.
The plan prioritizes serving “high-needs” students based on three tiers. Students who fall under the first tier are the first priority for student support hubs; they include students with high numbers of absences, students from underserved populations, students in special education, foster youth and homeless children. The second tier includes students who have had little participation in distance learning, as well as students who are learning English as a second language and students with mental health concerns. The third tier includes students whose parents have expressed the need for out-of-home support for distance learning.
Under West Contra Costa Unified’s plan for student support hubs, students would be invited back to campuses for in-person assistance based on their level of need. (Courtesy of West Contra Costa Unified)Eventually, the district plans to phase in 100%
in-person instruction, but DeLapp said that likely won’t be possible until there’s a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. He said spikes in coronavirus infection throughout the upcoming school year could push back the plan’s implementation.
The roles of teachers and other staff in this plan are also up for negotiation with the district’s labor unions, DeLapp said. Those negotiations will go on in the coming weeks, after the district submits its plan to the Contra Costa Office of Education July 20 for approval.
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A touch can take many forms. It can be hard, soft, cold, hot, pleasurable, sadistic…much like kink. In Touch, several kinks take their turn in the spotlight, exhibited by men and women trying to find their way in life.
Meet Nicholas Ford, club owner and Dominant, and explore the world of Daddy Doms and Littles when he meets Kayla, a little submissive he’s inexplicably drawn to but isn’t allowed to touch. Mark Cooper works the bar in his friend’s fetish club, and one night he gets the challenge he’s been waiting for served up on a mouthwatering platter. He’s to introduce newbies Brayden and Evangeline to BDSM, quickly discovering they’re both submissive—quickly getting himself attached, too. Only a couple issues: he’s a tad emotionally jaded from his recent divorce, and Brayden struggles with his sexuality.
Rio Kelly all but abandoned the lifestyle when a brief encounter with a runaway girl changed everything. Ten years later, he sees Chelsea again, and the high-protocol sub is looking for a strict Owner. While navigating unchartered waters with a Master who’s grown cynical and resigned, Chelsea befriends Dylan, a young guy going through his own relationship problems. Dylan’s Daddy Dom isn’t like most others. Cade Kingsley is rough around the edges but wears his heart on his sleeve. Together with Dylan and Gabriella, they try to patch something together that’s just for them. By any means necessary, a few kinky hearts need to be mended.
The Touch Series originally consisted of six novellas and novels. Look but Don’t Touch, Twice the Touch, A Touch to Surrender, Touch of Trouble, Comforting Touch, and Touching Ink have now been reworked and prettied up for the relaunch, but not without some brand spankin’ new material. Along with the original stories, a dozen outtakes, future takes, and epilogue have been added, including demos, a new novella, and more kinky fun. All to make the complete Touch your not-so-little black book of kink.
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Look but Don't Touch, Book 1
(Available on Kindle Unlimited)
Nicholas Ford, a successful club owner in his mid-thirties, decided a while back to deny his Daddy nature in order to follow his family’s advice and settle down. The day before he is to attend his girlfriend’s sister’s wedding, he makes an appearance at his BDSM club and runs into Kayla, a bubbly Little Girl who captures his undivided attention.
Look but don’t touch, Nicholas tells himself. What he doesn’t know is that Kayla’s in town to go to her cousin’s wedding…
Twice the Touch, Book 2
Mark Cooper is living the life of a carefree bartender, putting his failed marriage behind him and vowing to spend the rest of his thirties free of permanent attachments. But on what he thought was just another night at the BDSM club where he works, his friend Nicholas asks him to assist in a scene, a challenge he eagerly accepts. He doesn’t expect that Evangeline and Brayden, two subs in need, will make him want more.
What he also doesn’t expect is that a routine family meal the next day will come complete with a surprise guest…
Touch to Surrender, Book 3
Brayden Zeagler accepted his bisexuality a long time ago and he has his girlfriend’s full support and understanding, but that doesn’t mean he has plans to act on it. With his strict father’s words going on a loop in his head, he tells himself he’s more than happy to keep his scenes with Master Cooper non-sexual.
Brayden already has his beloved Evangeline; surely he doesn’t need a second partner. Then again, when deeper feelings get involved, it’s pretty difficult to stick to the plan.
Touch of Trouble, Book 4
After finding her perfect match both in life and in the lifestyle, Kayla Brandon feels like she’s finally ready for her future to begin. First, however, Nicholas insists she make peace with the ghosts of her past: namely, her family. Ugh.
But give a Little a big task and she can pull it off. Whether it’s redesigning Switch, Nicholas’s BDSM club, or playing matchmaker for their friends, Kayla’s up to the challenge.
Kayla tries really, really hard to stay out of trouble. But sometimes it just finds her!
Comforting Touch, Book 5
One encounter changed them both. She discovered the lifestyle. He left it.
Ten years later, they meet again.
Chelsea Dunn is excited to start over in San Francisco. Her best friend Kayla lives there, and Chelsea gets a warm welcome into a new BDSM community. If only the man she's been infatuated with for so long was as welcoming. It's just her luck, really. She's never been able to connect with anyone enough to let her guard down fully, and it looks like that won't change.
Rio Kelly has only recently returned to the scene, and he steers clear of emotional attachments. He's grown jaded and cynical over the years, and he's resigned himself to be alone. Even when he sees a ghost from his past. Even when that ghost is the very same girl who changed everything for him a decade ago.
Touching Ink, Book 6
Cade Kingsley uses sandpaper to smooth the rough edges of the custom furniture he makes for his fellow kinksters. Unfortunately, no amount of manual labor can file away the splinters in his heart. His friends are all settling down into blissful permanence with the submissives who complement their dominance. So by day, Cade tries to move forward too, with the sweet girl who’s slowly but surely worming her way into his heart. But by night, his dreams are filled with the boy he can’t forget. Sometimes Daddy doesn’t know best. He needs his Littles to show him the way to an ending that’s happier than he ever imagined.
The family that plays together, stays together.
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Gibraltar Celebrates Christmas with two BRAND NEW coins
By Alexandra Siddons | November 27, 2020 | 2
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Because a brand new Gibraltar 50p and £2 coin have just been released featuring none other than Father Christmas himself!
Secure your Christmas 50p and £2 pair by clicking here >>
These very festive coins have been released by the Government of Gibraltar, making them particularly sought-after by collectors given the low mintage figures typical from the country!
You can secure this magical Christmas coin pair (the very best way to own these coins!) here for just £13.50 (+p&p).
Secure the 2020 Gibraltar Christmas 50p by clicking here >>
Or, you can secure the single 50p to your collection for JUST £4.50 (+p&p) by clicking here.
Your brand new Gibraltar Christmas 50p & £2 Pair will come in Official Change Checker Packaging, ready to slot into your Change Checker Album!
With previous Gibraltar issues proving immensely popular with collectors, I expect these coins will be snapped up quickly by collectors (especially as we have just a small allocation for Change Checkers!)
A history of popular coins
Gibraltar has released some truly beautiful coins in recent years, and as their mintage figures are typically much lower than UK coins, they are often highly sought-after by collectors…
Coins from Crown dependencies, such as Gibraltar and overseas British territories can sometimes make an unexpected appearance in our change.
They are identical in size, shape and weight to UK denominations which means they often find their way into tills and vending machines undetected.
Whilst these coins aren’t technically legal tender in the UK, finding new and interesting designs is always a bonus!
So, whilst it may be tricky to find one in your change, Change Checker has listed our Top 10 Coins from Gibraltar that are worth trying to hunt down!
2019 Breast Cancer £2
Last year the Government of Gibraltar issued a new £2 coin in partnership with Breast Cancer Support Gibraltar.
However, only a limited number were released into circulation on the Isle of Gibraltar, making it one of the most popular coins of the year, but also one of the most difficult to source.
But not many collectors were aware of the secret this coin was hiding…
The Gibraltar Breast Cancer £2 features a special portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. It was originally drawn by Raphael Maklouf for the Gibraltar 90th Birthday £5 coin issue but has also been used on a small selection of Gibraltar coinage.
This portrait is currently not in use by any other country in the world, making any Gibraltar coin with this portrait on extremely collectable!
A limited number of coins were available at The Westminster Collection, and they sold out within hours! Collectors were quick to search on the secondary market to find them and some prices reached over £40!
Gibraltar Candytuft Flowers 50p
1988 Gibraltar Candytuft Flowers 50p
This 50p features the denomination surrounded by a crown of Gibraltar Candytuft flowers, known as ‘Iberis Gibraltarica’.
Iberis Gibraltarica is the national flower of Gibraltar and is the symbol of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve which covers 40% of the country’s land area. Gibraltar is the only place in Europe where it is found growing in the wild!
In 1988, JUST 30,000 of these 50ps were issued for circulation, making it 7 times rarer than the UK’s rarest 50p and particularly scarce and sought after amongst collectors. Another key feature which makes this coin so collectable is that it was issued in the pre-1997 specifications, meaning it’s significantly larger than the current 50ps we find in our change!
Rock of Gibraltar £1
1995 Rock of Gibraltar £1
This £1 coin was issued for the 1995 National Day and for the 50th Anniversary of the UN.
National Day is celebrated annually on September 10th and is the official national day of Gibraltar.
The reverse features the iconic Rock of Gibraltar with birds and sun rays above, and the obverse features the Raphael David Maklouf engraving of Queen Elizabeth II.
This £1 is in the older round pound specifications, meaning they won’t appear in your UK change as the round pound lost its legal tender status in the UK in 2016, after the introduction of the 12-sided £1. This means it’s even harder to get your hands on this coin!
Neanderthal Skull £1
2010 Neanderthal Skull £1
This £1 coin from Gibraltar was issued to celebrate the discovery of a Neanderthal skull in a quarry near the Rock of Gibraltar in 1848.
The Neanderthals in Gibraltar were some of the very first to ever be found and this particular skull is one of the oldest specimens known.
Designed by Philip Nathan, the reverse features the Neanderthal skull and lettering, “Discovery of Neanderthal skull in Gibraltar 1848”. The obverse was designed by Raphael Maklouf and features the crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth I.
Capture of Gibraltar 50p
Credit: Numista
This 50p was issued in Gibraltar in 2005 to commemorate the Capture of Gibraltar in 1704, during the war of the Spanish Succession.
As part of the Allied strategy, Sir George Rooke had been sent with an Anglo-Dutch force into the Mediterranean to attack the French in Toulon. However, when his objectives proved impracticable, Rooke decided to justify his command by attacking Gibraltar.
The coin features a design on the reverse of ancient ships at sea with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background, paying tribute to the Anglo-Dutch fleet that sailed into Gibraltar. The obverse features the third portrait of Her Majesty by Royal Mint engraver Raphael D. Maklouf.
So will Santa be visiting you this Christmas in the form of the Gibraltar 50p and £2 pair? Comment below!
Don’t miss your opportunity of owning this magical Christmas coin pair!
Secure your 2020 Gibraltar Christmas 50p and £2 Pair by clicking here >>
Due to the limited circulating mintages of these coins, we have just a small allocation for Change Checkers, so don’t miss the opportunity to secure yours this Christmas!
Secure the 2020 Gibraltar Christmas £2 and 50p pair today for JUST £13.50 (+p&p) by clicking here >>
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Whilst Shepherds watched their flock by night… FIVE Guernsey Christmas Carol 50ps have been issued!
By Alexandra Siddons | November 25, 2020
It’s time to dust off your stockings and light the fire because Christmas is officially round the corner!
And, there’s nothing like a carol service to get you in the Christmas spirit. So, to celebrate this very festive tradition, FIVE brand new coins have been authorised for release by Guernsey Treasury!
The Christmas Carol 50p Coin Collection
The Christmas Carol 50p BU Set
Each coin features a specially commissioned design of some of the most renowned Christmas carols including; Away in a Manger, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, While Shepherds watched their flocks, and We Three Kings.
These coins have been authorised for release by Guernsey Treasury and fully approved by Her Majesty the Queen.
Available in Brilliant Uncirculated quality, all five coins are housed in a festive presentation pack and importantly, this is one of the only ways to own all five of these coins as a complete set!
Secure the Christmas Carol 50p BU Set for JUST £30 (+p&p) by clicking here >>
Don’t miss out on adding these festive coins to your collection, or securing them as a gift for your loved ones, for JUST £30. Click here to find out more >>
The Christmas Carol 50p Silver Proof Set
Or, for those collectors looking for a little more Christmas sparkle, these coins are also available in stunning .925 Solid Silver.
What’s more, they feature stunning coloured illustrations by Jo Goodberry (you may remember she designed the immensely popular Pantomime 50ps last year) and have been struck to a pristine Proof finish.
Secure the 2020 Christmas Carol 50p .925 Silver Set here >>
These 50ps are only available as a set and if you don’t want to miss the chance to own them, you’ll need to act fast, as they have been issued with some incredibly low edition limits…
An extremely limited worldwide mintage of JUST 2,020 has been set for the incredible .925 Silver set.
The coins will arrive ready to display in a deluxe presentation case with a numbered certificate of authenticity.
Hark the Herald 50p Christmas Card
Secure the Hark the Herald 50p Christmas Card to your collection by clicking here >>
Struck to a superior Brilliant Uncirculated quality, the ‘Hark the Herald’ 50p from the Brand New Christmas Carol 50p collection has been presented in a beautiful Christmas card which has been left blank inside to write your own personalised message to someone special.
This specially commissioned design by Jo Goodberry features a silhouette of an angel with the title of the carol ‘Hark the Herold’ to the right of the coin. What’s more, the ‘Hark the Herold’ Christmas 50p is the only coin from the collection to be available individually within this stunning Christmas card.
The 50p has firmly established itself as the collector’s favourite, and as such demand for this BRAND NEW Christmas 50p is bound to be incredibly high, especially when you consider the popularity of last year’s Christmas Pantomime 50ps.
You can secure the Hark the Herald 50p Christmas card today for JUST £7.99 (+p&p) by clicking here >>
The Christmas Carol 50p BU Complete Cover
Secure the Christmas Carol 50p BU Complete Cover here >>
For the creme-de-la-creme, and by far the most limited way to own these coins, the Christmas Carol 50p BU Complete Cover has been issued.
Each coin has been struck to a Brilliant Uncirculated finish, and is one of just 750 that have been allocated for use in your cover. Almost certainly, this is the smallest edition presentation of the new BU 50p coins that you’re likely to see.
Paired alongside your coins is the complete set of elusive 1984 Official Royal Mail Christmas Carol Stamps. Featuring classic carols such as While Shepherds Watch and We Three Kings, these stamps are without a doubt the perfect pairing to your coins.
Each stamp has also been officially postmarked on the first day of Advent, 1st December 2020”.
Click here to secure one to your collection or to guarantee it as a gift for a loved one this Christmas >>
Sought-after Guernsey coins
Last year, Guernsey Treasury released their FIRST-EVER Christmas coins, the Pantomime 50p collection and these were incredibly popular with collectors both in Guernsey and the UK!
Guernsey mintage figures are known for being much smaller than the UK, which is down to their much smaller population of just over 63,000, which makes their coinage incredibly sought-after!
But it’s fair to say that Christmas themed coins make a particularly envious addition to anyone’s collection, with the numerous festive 50ps from the Isle of Man proving to be incredibly popular.
Recent sold prices for IOM Christmas 50ps on eBay
Collectors have been known to pay over £20 for a festive 50p from the British Isles and Channel Islands, so we expect these brand new Christmas Carol 50ps to be incredibly sought-after!
We love these brand new coins and we’re sure collectors everywhere will too!
Which 2020 Christmas Carol 50p is your favourite? Let us know in the comments below!
Secure the 2020 Christmas Carol 50p BU Set for JUST £30!
Secure the 2020 Christmas Carol 50p BU Set for JUST £30
Bring the magic of Christmas home this year, with the brand new Christmas Carol 50p BU Set.
Secure yours for £30 (+p&p) by clicking here >>
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It’s all change for the 50ps! Your Scarcity Index…
By Alexandra Siddons | November 9, 2020 | 27
It’s time for your latest Scarcity Index update, where we’ll reveal the UK’s most sought-after circulation coins of the last three months! And it’s all change again for the 50ps this quarter, as one coin drops a huge 15 places!
With less cash being used because of the current climate, it’s likely this is affecting collecting and it seems this has exposed some new trends on the indexes!
You can use the updated A-Z 10p, 50p and £2 indexes below to discover how sought-after the coins in your collection really are.
This information has been compiled using data from the Change Checker Swap Centre and presented in the easy to use indexes below, with arrows to signify how many places up or down a coin has moved since the last Scarcity Index.
A-Z 10p Scarcity Index
Well we’ve seen another big mix up for the latest A-Z 10p Scarcity Index update, with our biggest climber, M for Mackintosh, jumping up a huge 12 places!
In our last Scarcity Index, we saw the Tea 10p take the top spot for the first time and it’s retained its title this quarter, closely followed by Y for Yeoman Warder.
Other big movers include the H for Houses of Parliament and F for Fish and Chips, both moving down 16 places towards the bottom of the index.
Regardless of where they feature on the above index, if you have any of the A-Z 10ps in your collection you should consider yourself lucky, as they are particularly hard to come by in circulation and each design has a relatively low mintage (just 220,000 of each design released in 2018 and 2.1 million overall in 2019).
50p Scarcity Index
Previously the Football 50p had held second spot behind the most sought-after 50p in circulation, the Kew Gardens, but we saw it drop last quarter, and this Index, it’s similar story! The Judo, Triathlon and Wrestling 50ps have now all bumped the Football 50p to fifth spot.
This update sees a huge jump for Taekwondo, jumping up 11 places and landing it in our top 10. There are big changes for the Wheelchair Rugby and Athletics 50ps too, dropping 15 and 11 respectively.
Since our last Scarcity Index update, we’ve seen the 2018 Peter Rabbit drop 3 places but the 2018 Flopsy Bunny 50p has jumped up 2 spots. As the two rarest Beatrix Potter 50ps in circulation, it’s interesting to see them shuffle once more. These coins are definitely the ones to watch…
£2 Scarcity Index
For the first time in recent updates, the Commonwealth Games coins have been disrupted at the top of the index. The Olympic Handover has bumped the Commonwealth Games Wales £2 out of the top 4, moving up a place.
As for the rest of the index, there’s been a substantial amount of reshuffling. The Shakespeare Tragedies has dropped 11 places, whilst the First World War (Navy) is up 3!
After the announcement that there are no plans to issue any £2 coins into circulation for the next 10 years, it’s likely we’ll see a further shuffle to the £2 Index over the next few quarters.
How your Scarcity Index works
Generally collectors have had to rely upon mintage figures to identify the scarcest coins. But they only tell part of the story. Trying to find a good quality coin from 15 – 20 years ago, even for a higher mintage issue, is much more challenging than a more recent issue, as coins become damaged over time and are ultimately removed from circulation.
Additionally, some designs are more hoarded than others by people who might not normally collect coins – the poignant First World War £2 Coin series being an example. Finally, it can be up to a couple of years before the Royal Mint eventually confirms the actual mintage for an issue.
That’s why we have combined the mintage information with two other key pieces of information.
How many of each design are listed as “collected” by Change Checkers, indicating the relative ease of finding a particular coin.
The number of times a design has been requested as a swap over the previous 3 months, showing the current level of collector demand.
Importantly, as new coins are released and popularity rises and falls across different designs the Scarcity Index will be updated quarterly allowing Change Checkers to track the relative performance of the UK’s circulation coins.
How much are my coins worth?
The Scarcity Index does not necessarily equate to value but it is certainly an effective indicator. For example, the Kew Gardens 50p coin commands a premium of up to 200 times face value on eBay.
You can use the 6 point guide to help you determine a more realistic value for your coins.
What about £1 Coins?
The £1 Scarcity Index has already been published for the Round £1 coins and, because they are no longer being issued, this is now set in stone.
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Some hospital staff suffer brain injury from patient attacks
On behalf of Chera Law Professional Corporation | Dec 11, 2017 | Brain Injury |
The majority of people who work in hospitals want to help people. But there are times when the very people they are trying to help lash out at them. In certain instances in hospitals in Canada, the attacks have been violent enough to cause brain injury.
A major study, Assaulted and Unheard: Violence Against Healthcare Staff, showed that many health care workers suffered serious injuries, including concussions, fractures, broken bones, bites and sexual assaults at the hands of patients. In addition to highlighting what injuries some of these workers suffered , the study also painted a picture of how the injuries affected workers physically, emotionally, financially and interpersonally. Researchers found that many health care employees bear the brunt of patient aggression in the form of chronic pain, and many who work in various departments — like psychiatric units, long-term care or emergency departments — start their shifts in fear that they might be physically assaulted by some patients.
Many of these incidents go unreported because staff members say they fear reprisal. Those who took part in the in-depth interview process said they needed to seek psychological counselling for the trauma they suffered. They also had to seek financial support for time off work to deal with the trauma.
Anyone who suffers an injury, especially a debilitating one like a brain injury, because of the actions of another person has the right to consult with a lawyer about pursuing compensation for their pain and suffering. As indicated in this study, those workers who were injured also suffered financially because of loss of work due to the physical and emotional ramifications of the injuries they suffered. A lawyer in Canada could offer guidance to his or her injured clients on how to best proceed in these cases.
Source: marketwired.com, “New study reveals toxic environment of physical and sexual violence against staff in Ontario hospitals“, Nov. 30, 2017
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After almost a decade of litigation, victims of Colombian paramilitary death squads funded by Chiquita are moving forward in a U.S. lawsuit against the banana giant...[F]ederal judge Kenneth Marra rejected Chiquita’s argument that the case should be heard in Colombia rather than the United States...In 2007, EarthRights International and other co-counsel, filed a class action suit against Chiquita Brands International on behalf of the families of thousands of villagers, labor leaders and community organizers murdered by the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, a paramilitary terrorist organization. The suit alleges that Chiquita made illegal, concealed payments to the AUC...The lawsuit also alleges that the AUC shipped arms and drugs through Chiquita’s ports and on Chiquita boats...Chiquita has pulled out of Colombia and now has no operations or assets there. Still, Chiquita argued that it was more “convenient” to litigate in Colombia than the United States. The court rejected this claim, finding Colombia to be an inadequate forum in light of serious security risks for plaintiffs and their lawyers...
US judge allows lawsuit against Chiquita for allegedly funding Colombian paramilitaries to move forward
What Happens In Colombia Doesn’t Stay In Colombia
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Colombian Victims Take on Chiquita for Funding Death Squads
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4.16.19 3:55 PM People
Buzzfeed rising: Hiring is up 208% at the embattled media company since layoffs
Job listing data suggests that Buzzfeed is on a path to expansion again after a protracted period of realignment and layoffs.
Joshua Fruhlinger
Job Listings Data
Linkedin Profile Data
Buzzfeed ($PRIVATE:BUZZFEED) made the news at the beginning of 2019, but not by breaking a news story or releasing a viral video. Instead, it caught our attention when it laid off 15% of its workforce. The aftermath was ugly: a shrinking workforce and tumbling employee morale. Meanwhile, remaining Buzzfeed employees are struggling to get an editorial union recognized by higher ups who don't appear interested in a unionized future.
But those same higher ups appear to be plodding forward now that layoffs and other executive shuffles are behind them. Since February 13, job openings at Buzzfeed have skyrocketed from a low of 25 to 77 as of this week.
That's a headcount growth of 208%, and it's the first sign that Buzzfeed has its new move-forward strategy in place after having shucked the employees that were no longer part of its future.
The new job listing run the gamut of company hierarchy, from project-based editors and Business-Operations interns to a VP of Strategic Business and Corporate Development. In all, the new listings paint a more sober future for Buzzfeed, one that relies on quantitative measurement and planning along with a focused eye on revenue.
That doesn't mean Buzzfeed isn't hiring creatives. Of the 77 openings, 12 are tagged as "Editorial", behind only "Sales" with 16 open headcounts.
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This breakdown by category shows that the company is busy hiring across the board, from legal and operations positions to marketing and editorial. That's a good sign for the company's future.
But Buzzfeed isn't out of the woods just yet. Union issues aside, the company's workforce size appears to still be contracting in the shadow of layoffs and likely unreported attrition via resignations and quiet layoffs.
Data tracked via LinkedIn shows that the number of people who list Buzzfeed as an employer has continued to drop since the January layoffs. It's likely this trend will reverse as long as the company continues to hire.
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People: Joshua Lefkowitz has joined Cohen & Co. as a partner leading the valuation services practice; he’s formerly with BDO and is in Cohen’s Pittsburgh office … Carli D. Lehrhas been promoted to a partner at RLH CPAs & Business Advisors; she joined the firm as an intern in 2004; RLH has offices in Pennsylvania and Maryland … Kansas firm Sink, Gordon & Associates promoted Seth Gordon to the senior manager level; he manages the firm’s business valuation division … The Alliance of M&A Advisors has named Terrel “Terry” Bressler, managing director at Prairie Capital Advisors, as a finalist for the 2017 Middle Market Thought Leader of the Year Award … The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Mark Kronforst, chief accountant of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, plans to leave the agency in early January 2018 after 13 years of public service there … Kentucky firm Dean Dorton has named Jim Tencza as market leader in Louisville, directing the strategy and operations of that office … Alan Fox of Fox and Fiorino (Reisterstown, Md.) is joining Maryland firm Glass Jacobson Financial Group … Mark Emrich has joined Murray Devine Valuation Advisors as a managing director in the firm’s New York City office on alternative investment firms and financial service intermediaries; he’s formerly with Anagenesis Capital Partners.
Firms: CliftonLarsonAllen LLP expands its presence in the Los Angeles area with the acquisition of NSBN LLP, effective Jan. 1, 2018; the deal adds 19 partners and more than 90 total staff members to CLA … South Florida firm Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos & Co. (KSDT) has acquired JL Hofmann & Associates of Coral Gables … After 58 years in downtown Baltimore, Gross Mendelsohn will move to the city’s McHenry Row complex; it signed a lease for 23,000 square feet in a new building scheduled to be completed October 2018 … BizEquity has partnered with Envestnet, a wealth technology platform for advisors, to offer its cloud-based business valuation platform to Envestnet’s 60,000 wealth advisors … The $1.75 billion acquisition of Duff & Phelps by the Permira Funds implies a 2.5x valuation multiple on FY16 revenue according to Equitec; the transaction is expected to close during the first quarter of 2018 … Gettry Marcus, based in Woodbury, N.Y., has acquired Manhattan-based JM CPA,bringing on board 15 people including three new partners … Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith continues its trek across Alabama by announcing a merger with Hindsman PC, a Gadsden-based CPA firm; the combined entity will have about 170 employees … Wipfli has acquired Sattell, Johnson, Appel & Co. of Milwaukee, adding 33 professionals to its ranks; this is the fifth firm to join Wipfli in 2017 … The Bonadio Group of upstate New York has acquired Vincent J. Muffoletto, a western New York CPA firm; it’ll join Bonadio’s Buffalo office.
Please send your professional and firm news to us at editor@bvresources.com.
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CMA expands program to cultivate equity in the medical profession
Area(s) of Interest: Cultural Competency Patient Care
The California Medical Association (CMA) has long believed that diversity and inclusion strengthens the health of our profession and California’s communities.
To that end, CMA launched a Diversity and Inclusion Technical Advisory Committee (D&I TAC) in 2014 to usher in a new generation of policies and initiatives focused on:
Developing resources and programs that demonstrate why diversity and inclusion is a business imperative.
Implementing policies and practices that make diversity and inclusion goals a permanent strategic focus.
Designing a strategic plan to achieve diversity and inclusion within CMA, including the Board of Trustees, component medical societies, CMA staff and leadership.
Supporting efforts to achieve diversity and inclusion within the physician workforce and in California medical schools.
CMA’s diversity and inclusion mission statement reinforces our dedication to “ensure that the work we do, how we carry out our work and the issues we address all reflect the rich diversity of the patients and the physicians we serve and represent.”
Donaldo Hernandez, M.D., chairs the D&I TAC and is joined by C. Freeman, M.D.; Dexter Louie, M.D.; Margaret Juarez, M.D.; Rafael Silva, M.D.; Vito Imbasciani, M.D.; Andrea Rudominer, M.D.; and medical students Pooja Desai and Allen Rodriguez.
“Diversity is the who and inclusion is the how – the behaviors and policies that welcome and embrace diversity,” said Dr. Hernandez. “One supports the other, and the D&I Tac is pursuing comprehensive external and internal strategies to cultivate equity in the medical profession.”
“Our research highlights current demographics and realities to explain why diversity and inclusion is imperative for advancing CMA’s mission, economic sustainability and membership growth,” said Dr. Juarez. “Implementing strong policy and procedural changes will keep CMA at the forefront of California’s evolving patient population and provider demographics.”
Ongoing D&I TAC activities include:
Publishing demographic and educational resources.
Expanding the pipeline for entry into medical schools for underrepresented populations.
Sharing best practices that physicians can utilize in their employment practices.
Identifying pathways to increase member engagement through the Network of Ethnic Physician Organization (NEPO) and Ethnic Medical Organization Section (EMOS).
Reviewing policies and procedures on leadership development, staff hiring and promotion practices for CMA and the county medical societies.
“California is facing a physician shortage and our current workforce doesn’t reflect the state’s patient population,” said Dr. Silva. “The D&I TAC is examining various strategies to support or expand mentoring programs and outreach to middle and high school students who show an interest in science and medicine. And we’re pursuing proactive ways to tackle the barriers to enter medical school, including financial aid assistance and promoting implicit bias training.”
“Our initial research has also discovered the need to support our physician colleagues serving ethnic and historically underrepresented communities,” said Desai. “From financial assistance programs and trained translators to culturally responsive care and succession planning support for retiring physicians, we’re exploring strategies to ensure California’s physician workforce can respond to the needs of its patient population.”
The D&I TAC will present research at the July 2018 Board of Trustees meeting highlighting the benefits of diversity and inclusion efforts towards clinical outcomes and demonstrating why it is a business imperative, as well as recommendations for new CMA policy and procedures and joint engagement between NEPO and EMOS.
This article is the first of an ongoing series to provide regular updates on D&I TAC’s mission and objectives. All interested physician members who want to learn more or get involved are encouraged to email CMA Communications.
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Affordable Berlin
Our guide to making your Euros go further in Europe’s avant-garde cultural capital
Priya Khanchandani
Published: Aug 13, 2012 | 11:33:40 IST
Europe may not be the most obvious holiday destination in these times, but Berlin is one city where you won’t feel short changed. A city ravaged by a world war and once divided by a 45km long wall of concrete, its rebirth is still a work in progress. However, it is fast becoming Europe’s avant-garde cultural capital. What were once communist streets shattered by bombs are now lined with newly renovated museums and shiny contemporary architecture. Just over two decades from the day the wall came tumbling down, artists, writers and thinkers throughout Europe flock to Berlin, where anything seems possible.
Berlin’s rich history has left an indelible mark that is embodied by its very edifice. The Reichstag, the key parliamentary building, became a major visitor attraction when it was transformed by Norman Foster’s glazed cupola. A stark contrast to the 19th century neoclassical façade, the glass structure is a symbolic manifesto for the clarity and transparency of democracy in the Germany of today. The dome is open to the public; and for the politically minded, there are regular lectures held at the visitors’ gallery, where you can catch a glimpse of parliamentary proceedings unfolding below.
Reichstag, Platz der Republik 1, 10557, Berlin. Open daily 8am-11pm. Free entry
Many of Berlin’s most arresting historical sites pay homage to the violent atrocities the city has witnessed. The Jewish Museum in Kreuzberg is an experience and not just a home for exhibits. The zigzagging pathways of Daniel Libeskind’s impressive post-modern design take you on a figurative journey though the Holocaust where you’ll confront the belongings left behind by its victims. You’ll read poignant stories told quietly, which fill you with terror. The exhibits are powerful as are the spaces left deliberately vacant, marking the void left behind by thousands of Jews who were murdered in Europe.
Judisches Museum, Lindenstrasse 9-14, 10969, Berlin (+49 030 2599 3300; www.jmberlin.de) Open 10am-8pm Tue-Sun; 10am-10pm Mon. Tickets from Rs 350 (€ 5)
Also known as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, this shrine of sorts challenges our detachment from history even further. Far from a sculpture on a plinth, it comprises thousands of plain concrete blocks that vary in height, set on a deliberately uneven ground over four and a half vast acres. If you wander alone among its labyrinth of gravestone-like towers, it promises to disturb your sense of place, perturb you with silence and convey a sense of the loss and isolation inflicted on the casualties of the Nazi regime. Peter Eisenman’s creation is well located for a short visit: a few hundred metres from Hitler’s bunker and not far from one of Berlin’s main landmarks—the Brandenburg Gate.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117, Berlin (+49 030 2639 4336) Open at all times. Free entry
A stroll down the east bank of the river Spree, opposite the massive commercial events hall known as O2 World, will bring you to a fragment of the Berlin Wall: probably the most ubiquitous relic of post-war Berlin. Just over a kilometre of what remains of the 160km long barrier has been converted into the East Side Gallery, a place where hundreds of artists from both sides of the divide have plastered gritty, iconic graffiti art. Their politically charged images shout peace and freedom using as a canvas a concrete sheet which, at one time, prevented Berliners crossing the two halves of the city without the risk of being shot. An ironic twist on the original function of the impenetrable walls and towers that were erected to cut off West Germany from East overnight in 1961, the graffiti wall speaks of the neoliberal euphoria of the city today.
East Side Gallery, Mühlenstrasse 1, 10243, Berlin. Open at all times. Free Entry
Pergamon Museum
Berlin has a whole set of historical museums on an island along the river Spree in central Mitte. The complex of five museums—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—could occupy you for an eternity. However, on a whistle-stop trip it’s worth spending a few hours at the Pergamon Museum, which is famous for its excavations, including the Pergamon Alter—an impressive Greek temple from the second century BC. Pergamon Museum, Am Kupfergraben 5, 10117, Berlin(+49 030 26642 4242) Open 10am-6pm Monday to Sunday and 10am-9pm on Thursday. Tickets from Rs 886 (€13) including temporary exhibitions
Bauhaus Museum
A more modern art connoisseur might prefer the Bauhaus Museum in Tiergarten. Home to the most influential Western design movement of the 20th century, it was a place where everyday things—from lamps to pots—took on lives as subjects for exploring new ideas of modern living. Their elegant simplicity combines principles of sculpture with functionality. The more recently designed objects in the gift shop are worth checking out too.
Bauhaus Museum, Klingelhöferstrasse 13-14, 10785, Berlin (+49 030 2540 020; www.bauhaus.de) Open 10am-5pm Wednesday to Monday; closed on Tueday. Tickets from Rs 477 (€7)
You would pass it by in the street, since Nansen is a place where unadorned tables and chairs sit between plain white walls. The food, though, is top-notch and its beauty lies in its unpretentious vibe. The menu too is far from banal: from lentil soup with smoked eel to tender fillets of meat with wild mushrooms, the choice changes regularly to blend with seasonal ingredients. The service is excellent, the ambience unaffected and you will be pleasantly surprised by the much-maligned cuisine that is German food. An average meal for two costs Rs 4,100 (€60) including wine.
Nansen, Maybachufer 39, 12047, Berlin (+49 030 6630 1438)
Panoramastrasse
No city break is complete without an aerial perspective, and you can actually dine at the top of Berlin’s tallest building, the Television Tower, erected in the 1960s. The revolving Telecafé, at over a thousand feet above Alexanderplatz, offers a breath taking 360-degree panorama of the city. Incidentally, Alexanderplatz is also perfect for an after dinner stroll. An average meal for two costs Rs 6,139 (€90) including wine.
Panoramastrasse, 1A at Alexanderplatz, 10178, Berlin (+49 030 247 5750)
Soho House Berlin
Located in an iconic restored Bauhaus building, you can find basic rooms at surprisingly affordable rates here. It is as trendy as its London branch and aside from being a hotel, it serves as a private members’ club for Berlin’s creative elite. The heated rooftop pool is certainly a hot spot and is open to visitors who stay at the luxury hotel.
Soho House Berlin, Torstrasse 1, 10119 Berlin (+49 030 4050 4400; www.sohohouseberlin.com) Doubles from Rs 18,432
Casa Camper
A modern design hotel, Casa Camper is conveniently located and houses a very handy 24-hour lounge serving free drinks and snacks.
Casa Camper, Weinmeisterstrasse 1, 10178, Berlin (+49 030 2000 3410; www.casacamper.com) Doubles from Rs 16,733
Ellington Hotel Berlin
This heritage building from the 1920’s has 285 elegantly designed rooms.
Ellington Hotel Berlin, Nurnberger St 50-55, Berlin, Germany(+49 030 6831 50; www.ellington-hotel.com) Doubles from Rs.6080
Swissôtel Berlin
A modern business hotel with 316 rooms, 10 conference rooms and a ballroom overlooking Kurfurstendamm
Swissotel Berlin, Augsburger Straße, Berlin, Germany (+49 030 220 100; www.swissotel.com) Doubles from Rs.8475
Lux Eleven
With 72 apartments, this swanky hotel is located in the pulsating cultural district of Mitte. Lux 11 Berlin-Mitte
Lux 11, Berlin-Mitte, Rosa-Luxemburg, st 9-13, Berlin, Germany(+49 030 936 2800; www.lux-eleven.com) Doubles from Rs.9000
A number of major airlines fly from India to Europe and connecting flights to Berlin are available from international airports across Europe including Frankfurt, London and Paris.
The most direct route, offered by German airline Lufthansa (www.lufthansa.com) is from Mumbai or Delhi to Berlin via Frankfurt or Munich. Berlin’s two international airports are easily accessible to central Berlin by public transport and taxis are cheap relative to other continental cities.
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"2011 was a really strong season with unusually high water for the first three or four weeks of the season. So far this season does kind of remind me of 2011. People were scared of the fast conditions then and some people did cancel their trips, but that isn't happening so far this year," said Bob Klein, manager of A Wanderlust Adventure. "There have been a few (calls) but we've re-assured people that our guides are used to running these sections of rivers."
Klein said his company is running only the lower sections of the Poudre — common for A Wanderlust this time of year, during a season with high snowpack.
"We're focused on Class II and III water right now. We're staying away from the Class IV for the first three or four weeks of the season," Klein said.
Xplore reporter Stephen Meyers covers the outdoors and recreation for the Coloradoan. Follow him on Twitter @stemeyer or Facebook.com/meyersreports.
If you take a swim
Look for a rescue rope if in a raft.
Try to position yourself on your back looking downstream. The life vest will buoy your body up and keep your head out of the water.
Keep your legs near the surface and watch for areas where you might be able to safely access the shore.
Look downstream for hazards, especially low-hanging limbs, bridges and large rocks.
Backstroke with your arms to work your way to shore.
Resist the urge to walk on the bottom until you get to calm water about knee-deep.
Source: American Whitewater
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Home > Get Involved > Internships & Volunteer Opportunites
Interested in how a poetry manuscript becomes a book? Apply for a Poetry Publishing Internship with Copper Canyon Press!
Hands-on, independent, and collaborative projects will give you professional experience in marketing, fundraising, production, acquisitions, reader engagement, and publicity. You’ll also be giving back to the literary arts community by supporting Copper Canyon’s nonprofit mission: to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers with extraordinary poetry from around the world.
All interns experience the full scope of operations within a nonprofit press, including fundraising, marketing, book production, editing, publicity, and reader engagement. Internship responsibilities depend on current needs at the Press. General administrative support is shared among all interns.
In light of the ongoing pandemic, and out of an abundance of caution, Spring 2021 internships will take place remotely. Spring 2021 interns will use a variety of online tools—videoconferencing, email, telephone—to participate in Press operations from home.
Applicants must be passionate about poetry or literature, have strong writing and proofreading skills, have experience doing independent research, be comfortable working on solo and collaborative projects, and have coursework or experience working with language in various voices. Prior experience preparing a manuscript for publication or working with campus literary journals or other publications is a plus.
For Spring 2021 remote internships, applicants must have access to reliable internet and access to a personal computer.
Though internships are unpaid, Copper Canyon Press offers a generous sampling of books and broadsides and participation in special events and author readings. Above all else, interns gain valuable insight into the world of nonprofit publishing and earn our deep gratitude for their time and service to the press.
Based in Port Townsend, Washington, our 3–5 month internships are on a trimester schedule from January–May, June–August, and September–December. End dates are flexible. Interns spend 3 days/week in the office during regular Monday–Friday, 9–5 office hours. Those interested in an intensive experience spend 4 days/week at the Press.
College students are welcome to apply for summer positions. Applicants not currently enrolled in school are encouraged to apply for Fall or Winter/Spring internships.
Summer (June–August) Application deadline: March 15
Fall (September–December) Application deadline: July 1
Winter/Spring (January–May) Application deadline: November 1
Location and Housing
Copper Canyon Press is located in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington. Port Townsend is a historic Victorian seaport known for the arts. Voted one of the top ten “America’s Coolest Small Towns” by Budget Travel Magazine, the town is surrounded by beaches, and is only fifty miles from the Olympic Mountains. Copper Canyon Press does not provide housing in Port Townsend. We recommend searching the Port Townsend/Jefferson County Leader, the local weekly newspaper, or Craiglist for listings. Past interns have often shared rental housing during their stay.
Where Do Interns Work Within the Press?
Interns gain experience in all departments at Copper Canyon.
Some examples of intern projects are in the areas below.
Publicity and Marketing: researching author information for forthcoming titles, copyediting and proofreading promotional materials, social media, and website updates, and preparing book catalog drafts.
Acquisitions: researching and seeking permissions, reading manuscript submissions, and assisting the editors in research.
Production: preparing manuscripts for design, entering corrections, reviewing galleys, and archiving.
Development: drafting and producing print and digital materials for crowdfunding campaigns and donor appeals, assisting in the preparation of grant reports, logistical support for events, and maintaining contact records.
Finance: compiling materials for the annual audit, maintaining contract and royalty records, and managing inventory.
Community Engagement: assisting with event planning and outreach, and communicating with poetry readers.
Do Internships Lead to Jobs at Copper Canyon?
Rarely. Over the past five years, two former interns have been hired by Copper Canyon and a few interns have been hired on a project basis. Past interns have gone on to work with other presses, including the University of Arizona Press, Milkweed Editions, Graywolf Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mountaineers Books, Bepress, and BOA Editions.
Other past interns now write, teach English and creative writing, work in grant writing and fundraising for nonprofits, manage (and own!) independent bookstores, and work for a variety of print and online publications as writers, editors, and copyeditors.
I’m a Writer…
Internships at publishing houses offer excellent exposure for writers. You will learn firsthand how a manuscript transforms from an idea into a published book, which then seeks a larger place in the marketplace.
Many of our past interns have been in their junior and senior years of their undergraduate education or are pursuing a graduate degree. Students have interned over the summer or for credit during the academic year as part of their degree program. Some colleges provide stipends or credit for internships. Check with your college or departmental internship adviser.
To apply for an internship at Copper Canyon Press, please submit your resume, a cover letter, and contact information for three references.
Copper Canyon Press believes diverse representation is vital to the vision and operations of publishing. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive, and equitable working environment, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, or sexual orientation. We welcome applications from people in all stages of their careers interested in a working experience with a poetry publishing press.
Email resumes to:
Janeen Armstrong, Reader Services Coordinator
janeen@coppercanyonpress.org
Port Townsend WA 98368
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EDITORIAL: Bar set high on new police tools to find the missing
August 8, 2019 Editor Opinion 0
SDSG MPP Jim McDonell. (MPP Office/File)
When a loved one goes missing, swift action is critical. That’s why our government is providing police with more tools to quickly respond to adult missing persons investigations across the province.
The Missing Persons Act came into force on July 1st with strong support from the policing community, families and advocates. In 2018, almost 7,500 adults were reported missing to police in Ontario. Police and family members tell us that the first hours after a loved one goes missing are the most critical. With this new legislation in force, police across the province will have additional tools to find adult missing persons during time-sensitive investigations.
This legislation provides police with three new tools to use in cases where there is no evidence a crime has been committed. The first tool allows police to obtain a court order to access certain information that may assist in a search. This could include personal health information, such as hospital records, or telephone and other electronic communications. The second tool allows police to obtain a court order to allow entry into a premises to search for a missing person and the third tool enables police to make an urgent demand for records without a court order in certain urgent circumstances. Each of these tools will help police find our loved ones.
While these tools will assist police in missing persons investigations, our government also understands that not every person who goes missing wants to be found. To strike this delicate balance, the legislation has built in safeguards to protect individual privacy. These safeguards include setting a high bar for accessing records or search warrants. Furthermore, police and the courts must also consider carefully any privacy issues that may arise. This includes evidence that a person does not wish to be found and guidelines on what information police may disclose about a missing person after they have been located.
In Ontario, there is a different process for police investigations into missing children. One of police officers’ essential tools is an AMBER Alert, which can be issued in certain urgent instances to reach Ontarians across the province in an effort to help police find missing children. Recently, we have heard reports that the public is using 9-1-1 as a platform to complain about Amber Alert notifications. Complaining about receiving an Amber Alert is more than just insensitive – it’s dangerous. People who use 9-1-1 as a complaint’s hotline are taking up critical emergency resources. When a child goes missing, we all have a role to play. Many children have been located as a direct result of Amber Alerts – but it only works if everyone receives these alerts. The bottom line is simple: a missing child is an emergency. That’s why I continue to urge individuals not to waste our emergency resources to complain about this essential tool.
If you have any questions about the new Missing Persons legislation, please contact the Solicitor-General’s office at 1-866-517-0571 or visit the website.
Jim McDonell
MPP, Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry
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PANORAMIC PORTO
Culture, Shopping
Description A tour exploring Porto, the 'Granite City', with its imposing historic buildings, including the Clérigos Tower, and modern structures, such as the railway station.
Porto city centre
Cordoaria: Clérigos Tower
Cathedral and Aliados Avenue
São Bento railway station
This excursion will take us into the heart of Porto, which is not only Portugals second city and second most important port, but also the country's university and industrial centre and an Episcopal seat. Porto is also known as the 'Granite City' as the material was used for many of its majestic and elegant buildings, creating a contrast between the city, its lush green surroundings and the golden sparkle of the river Douro.
Our coach takes us to Cordoaria for a photo stop outside the Clérigos Tower designed by architect Nicolau Nasoni at one time the tallest building in Portugal.
We then stop at Aliados Avenue to reach our next stop - the São Bento railway station, one of the city's most imposing buildings. Here, we will have some free time to admire the azulejos the hand-painted ceramic tiles that cover the station and for some shopping.
We return to the ship at the end of the excursion.
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Luke Combs Debuts New Song ‘What Do You Do When It’s Raining’ During Live Stream
by Lauren Jo Black and Andrew Wendowski
Luke Combs is one of many artists who have turned to live streaming while practicing social distancing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Giving fans a 30-minute acoustic performance live from his garage on Tuesday (March 17), Combs performed four songs, including a brand new track.
“First off, hope you guys are doing good, crazy times. I’m here in my garage in the middle of Tennessee somewhere and just felt like playing some music. We cancelled a bunch of shows as I’m sure you guys probably know. I hope you guys like I said are all staying safe out there.” Combs told thousands of viewers watching from home. “It’s awesome that we have stuff like this to be able to see each other. I want to play couple songs for you tonight, just try and take your mind off things for a little bit and have a little fun for myself.”
The superstar kicked off his acoustic performance with a cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” which fans raved about following the live stream.
He went on to debut a brand new song called “What Do You Do When It’s Raining.” Explaining that the tune was inspired by his soon-to-be-wife, Combs shared that it was written with James McNair and Reid Isbell while on a writing retreat in Florida.
“We were sitting around down there a couple months ago at the beach and it was raining outside and it never rains at the beach,” explaining the inspiration behind the song. “Nicole was like, ‘man what do you do when it’s raining,’ so I just kind of took that line and ran with it and this is what we came up with.”
Though the song was inspired by a rainy day on the beach, it serves as a metaphor for the hard times in life. (The new song begins at about 5:41 in the live stream.)
“What do you do when it’s raining/ What do you do when the clouds come rolling in/ Grab you some Whiskey and some place to ride it out/ Just enjoy the great and hold on for better days/ Until the sunshine shines again.” Combs sings throughout the chorus of the song.
He also gave a shout-out to the World Health Organization (WHO) and suggested that fans stay up to date on the current global health crisis via their website and social accounts. “The World Health Organization is doing a great job of keeping everybody up to date,” he said. “Check their website, who.int, or on their socials @WHO.”
“I’ll do one every week we’re quarantined,” Combs promised at the conclusion of his live stream. “We’ll do another one of these real soon, thanks for watching.”
Like most concerts and major events right now, Combs‘ tour has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Fans can stay tuned to his website for updates.
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Cake Calamity Proves Canity’s Value in a World of Crummy Customer Service
by Liz McGrath
May was a great month for entrepreneur and photographer Kym Illman. He was trackside as Perth-born Daniel Ricciardo dominated the Monaco Grand Prix, capturing some super sharp images of the drivers and the celebrities in the huge and colourful crowd.
Daniel Ricciardo dominated the Monaco Grand Prix
As Illman, and anyone following the F1 calendar knows only too well, Monaco at GP time epitomises everything that’s great about Formula 1 racing – speed, glamour, passion, noise and more than a hint of danger as cars drive perilously close to barriers lining the narrow streets.
Even after suffering a loss of power in the early stages of the race, affable West Australian Ricciardo, whose parents are friends with the Illmans, managed to hold onto his lead ahead of Sebastian Vettel despite being 20km/h slower on the straights.
Jubilant Daniel Ricciardo with his team mates
As someone who looks for parallels between the cut and thrust of Formula One – where a split second decision can mean success or failure – and real life, Ricciardo’s grit in overcoming a serious race setback and coming through for a win wasn’t lost on Illman.
The former disc jockey who has grown his Messages On Hold audio marketing company from a one-man operation in his spare bedroom to a global marketing success has circumnavigated his own share of hair-raising bends and turns and understands how small the margin separating winners from losers can be.
During this particular stop on the busy F1 calendar it was another incident, one almost comedic as it unravelled in the day following the race, that was to bring home Illman’s biggest learning of that weekend. Bizarrely, as he explains, it was all to do with a birthday cake.
“On the Saturday of the Monaco race it was my birthday and Daniel Bois from Grand Prix Events dropped off a cake to boat we’re staying on,” Illman recounts. (The boat, Quid Pro Quo, holds one of the prime positions in Monte Carlo’s Hercule Harbour during the four-day grand prix event.)
Monte Carlo’s Hercule Harbour
“I asked one of the kitchen staff if they’d put it in the fridge so that we could all enjoy a piece the next day. The time duly came around and as we were sitting up on the deck, I asked one of hostesses to bring it out. She seemed confused so I asked the captain to help arrange for it to be served.”
Illman says it was some time later that the captain returned to say unequivocally the cake had vanished, ‘it is lost; these things happen’ he explained majestically.
“Then 10 minutes later,” Illman grimaces, “They were back. They’d found the cake, well rather part of the cake. Some of it was missing they said, but what they’d found would be served immediately.”
There, one would suppose, the tale might end, in a glorious late afternoon of birthday sponge indulgence. But no.
The only captured shot of the cake!
“More time followed and the ship’s chef arrived to tell us that unfortunately there was no cake,” an exasperated Illman says. “When we asked what had happened, he said he couldn’t be 100 percent sure (in actual fact he couldn’t be 10 percent sure) but he felt there probably wasn’t enough room in the ship’s fridges to store it and it was thrown out.
“A little while later we were surprised to see the captain return again and ask if we enjoyed the cake. ‘What?!’ we replied. ‘Didn’t you like it?’ he asked again and one of our very funny British friends chimed in with ‘we never had it!’
Drowning in Excuses
“It was at this point we suggested he go and get the chef so that between the six of us, we could get to the bottom of where the disappearing cake might be.
“Caption Clueless and Chef No Idea presented a few minutes later to explain themselves and their final version of the fate of the cake? ‘We can’t serve food that is more than 24 hours old as it is a health issue,’ Chef proclaimed. This, despite the fact that we were having this bizarre discussion less than 24 hours after the cake was brought on board the vessel!”
For Illman, who built an entire second business – Canity.com – following his continued frustration at the lack of customer service he experienced both at home and while travelling, it was further evidence the message the customer is always king still hasn’t hit home in many places of the world.
“If any business ever needed Canity.com staff training, it was this one,” he says of the hapless boat crew. “Why is it we’re still shocked when we actually do receive excellent customer service? There’s been so much research to prove the value of looking after the people doing business with you.
The Cost of Losing Customers
“Research shows it costs up to 10 times as much to attract a new customer as it does to keep an existing one,” he says.
“A 2017 study showed that 62 million families in the US report at least one service problem a year, which left 56 per cent of them in a rage or extremely upset. According to the same study only 25 per cent of them were able to resolve their problem in one go with the company.
“In fact 19 per cent of them had to contact the company more than seven times! And after all of this, 80 per cent of customers remained unhappy, even after the matter was sorted,” Illman says.
In Australia, the cost of below par customer service is estimated at around $40 billion per year, or $720 for every negative customer experience.
“Yet so many companies continue to ignore the message,” Illman says. “Getting the customer experience wrong is an expensive business and once you’ve lost a customer, as the statistics show, it’s very hard to win them back.”
Which is where his online training platform, Canity.com, comes in. Designed to tackle the problem at the actual workplace through a series of modules made up of short, entertaining and easy-to-digest animated video lessons they are delivered directly to a participant’s email inbox.
Canity Can Do
Usually running less than a minute the videos cover all the fundamentals of customer interaction – ranging from presentation skills to phone and social media skills, to dealing with disappointed clients and everything in between – to help service businesses manage their all-important interactions.
“There’s also a Master Series, with modules for business owners and managers looking to change the way they work. At the completion of each module, the viewer completes an interactive online quiz and can download further training content,” Illman says.
“I have absolute confidence that this product is a winner and we are seeing that in interest from around the globe.
“It all happens online and just when it’s convenient for the staff member so we’re not impacting on productivity. The back end of the product allows the boss to see who’s done the training, how they’ve scored and what areas they might be falling down in. For managers, Canity does all the work for them.”
For the hapless boat crew some timely instruction on, perhaps, ‘Acting on a problem’, ‘Handling complaints’ or even ‘Letting angry customers vent’ may have meant the difference between hours of frustration for an amused and ultimately annoyed Illman and his friends, and for a happier birthday!
“I’ve always had that personality of wanting to please someone. In business I think you have to think ‘what’s the extra, what can I give people that will really get their attention and make them come back? That surely is what customer service is all about,” he says.
As well as Canity, Kym Illman has also launched The Groove Gallery, tourism website Lancelin.com.au, marketing endeavours MessageVision and VideoUpdateMe and is renowned for his spectacular ambush marketing techniques across Australia. His entertaining and informative Formula 1 Blog can be found at https://www.kymillman.com/f1-diaries/
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About Chronic Absenteeism and School Discipline
What are the nature and extent of chronic absenteeism and school discipline in California?
During the 2018-19 school year, nearly 12 percent of all California public school students—more than 650,000—were chronically absent, meaning that they missed more than ten percent of the total school instruction days. Just under 220,000 students accounted for more than 350,000 suspensions. African American and Native American students were disproportionately likely to be chronically absent or suspended. (Source: California Department of Education)
For more statistics and research on the nature and prevalence of truancy and school discipline, including county-level and district-level data, see:
California Department of Education DataQuest system – includes data on suspensions, expulsions, and truancy
kidsdata.org: Truancy, Suspensions & Expulsions (California)
UCLA Civil Rights Project – school discipline research
What are the problems associated with truancy and school discipline?
Truancy and school discipline are associated with a host of negative consequences, including a decline in academic achievement, a greater likelihood of dropping out of school, poor health and well-being outcomes, and an increased risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.
For more information on the impact of truancy and school discipline on children, families, and communities, see:
Breaking Schools' Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students' Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement
Fix School Discipline - research on the problems with out of school suspensions and more effective solutions for school discipline
Following are links to research reports, program evaluations, policy papers, and data sources that may be useful to courts and justice partners interested in addressing truancy and school discipline issues in their communities.
Court-Involved Responses to Truancy and School Discipline
Bench Card for the Trauma-Informed Judge
The Court's Role in Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
National Center for School Engagement – reports on truancy interventions
POSITIVE POWER: Exercising Judicial Leadership to Prevent Court Involvement and Incarceration of Non-Delinquent Youth
Truancy and School Discipline: An Overview of the Literature and Statistics
National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges School Justice Partnership National Resource Center - National resources on ways courts can partner with other stakeholders to keep kids in school and out of court
Data Sources on Truancy and School Discipline in California
Educational Issues Among Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
The Invisible Achievement Gap: Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in California's Public Schools
The Invisible Achievement Gap: Part Two
Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Educational Outcomes for Court-Dependent Youth in San Mateo County
Educational Outcomes 2014-15 Foster Youth
Research on Truancy and Chronic Absenteeism
Attendance Works
In School + On Track: Attorney General's Reports on California's Elementary School Truancy & Absenteeism Crisis
National Center for Children in Poverty – reports on chronic absenteeism
School Discipline Research and Training
Fix School Discipline
National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments
Trauma-Informed Practice
Childhood Trauma: Changing Minds
Identifying Polyvictimization and Trauma Among Court-Involved Children and Youth: A Checklist and Resource Guide for Attorneys and Other Court-Appointed Advocates
Briefing: The Effects of Complex Trauma on Youth
Youth Courts and Restorative Justice
School-Based Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Zero-Tolerance Policies: Lessons from West Oakland
"In Teen Courts, A Second Chance"
California’s 75 teen courts let youth face a jury of their peers – and steer cases away from the juvenile justice system.
Restorative Practices: A Guide for Educators
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On July 3 at approximately 2:00 a.m., a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputy conducted a stop on a vehicle on L’Auberge Ave for a traffic violation.
When the deputy approached the vehicle and spoke with the driver, Katlyn L. Caswell, 21, 5797 Fabacher Rd., Sulphur, he detected an odor of alcohol emitting from his breath. Caswell also had slurred speech and an unsteady balance.
After Caswell performed poorly on a standard field sobriety test, he was transferred to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office where a breath intoxilyzer test revealed he was over the legal limit.
Caswell, who has two prior DWI arrests, was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with DWI 3rd; careless operation; and driving under suspension for prior DWI.
Judge Robert Wyatt set his bond at $18,000.
CPSO Sr. Cpl. Travis Lavergne was the arresting deputy on this case.
On July 4 at approximately 5:00 p.m., a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputy conducted a stop on a vehicle on Old Spanish Trail for a traffic violation. When the deputy approached the vehicle and spoke with the driver, Christopher Lemelle, 45, 2216 Evergreen Road, Westlake, he showed signs of impairment. After Lemelle performed poorly on a standard field sobriety test, he was transferred to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office, where a breath intoxilyzer test revealed he was over the legal limit.
Lemelle, who has three prior DWI arrests, was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with DWI 4th ; careless operation; and driving under suspension for prior offenses.
Judge Robert Wyatt set his bond at $103,500.
CPSO Deputy Brayden Cruze was the arresting deputy on this case.
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Australia to host Pakistan for three T20Is, two Tests this year
Pakistan tour of Australia
By Shahid Rasool
Australia will host Pakistan for three T20 internationals and two Test matches including a day night encounter later this year.
Pakistan will play T20Is at Sydney, Canberra and Perth before the first Test will be played at the Gabba. The second match of the series will be a day-night encounter, played at the Adelaide Oval.
Australia then play a day-night Test match with New Zealand at the Perth stadium following a Boxing Day Test match at the MCG and finally SCG.
The games will be the first on Australian soil that count towards the inaugural ICC Test Championship, where points are awarded to the nine countries taking part.
Ordinarily, one-day internationals are played at home in January, but Australia will instead be in India to fulfil an obligation under the Future Tours Program.
Cricket Australia wanted to find an alternative date for the series, but India reportedly refused to budge, meaning three one-dayers against New Zealand will instead start in March, extending the season to its latest finish in 41 years.
The last time the season ended so late was in 1979 when Australia hosted Pakistan for a Test in Perth.
"Scheduling international cricket is challenging in that nine of the 10 major cricketing countries have seasons similar to ours," said Cricket Australia's head of operations Peter Roach.
"So working with them to find space in the calendar to fulfil our obligations to the ICC Future Tours Program is a juggling act.
"Cricket Australia took the position that while January was our preference for these ODI matches, there are times we need to honour our commitments to work in the greater context of international cricket scheduling."
The southern-hemisphere summer action opens on October 27 with the first of three T20s against Sri Lanka before three more T20s against Pakistan.
Australia's women host Sri Lanka in a T20 and one-day series, before a tri-series against England and India ahead of the T20 World Cup on home soil in February.
Australia vs Pakistan
November 3 - 1st T20, Sydney
November 5 - 2nd T20, Canberra
November 8 - 3rd T20, Perth
November 21-25 - 1st Test, Brisbane
November 29-December 3 - 2nd Test. Adelaide (day/night)
Australia vs Sri Lanka
October 27 - 1st T20, Adelaide
October 30 - 2nd T20, Brisbane
November 1 - 3rd T20, Melbourne
Australia vs New Zealand
December 12-16 - 1st Test, Perth (day/night)
December 26-30 - 2nd Test, Melbourne
January 3-7 - 3rd Test, Sydney
March 13 - 1st ODI, Sydney
March 15 - 2nd ODI, Sydney
March 20 - 3rd ODI, Hobart
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Correctional officers stop remand person in custody from self-harm
Correctional Services officers stopped a female remand person in custody from hurting herself in Lo Wu Correctional Institution today (July 22).
At 12.35pm, the 46-year-old remand person in custody suddenly turned emotional inside a cell. She used a hair clip to slash her wrist and neck and banged her head against the wall. Officers at the scene immediately stopped her from further hurting herself. After examination and treatment by the medical officer of the centre hospital, she was transferred to a public hospital for further examination.
A clinical psychologist of the department will follow up the case.
A spokesman for the Correctional Services Department said, "The department uses all possible measures to prevent people in its custody from attempting suicide or self-harm. These measures include administrative arrangements, the improvement of institution facilities, staff training and first aid services."
The person in custody was remanded for the offence of trafficking in dangerous drugs.
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The Black Keys Rocked Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, But Tastefully
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Preston Jones | November 15, 2019 | 1:54pm
Dan Auerbach, an electric guitar slung around his neck, stood just to the side of center stage. “Let’s go back to Akron right now, down in the basement, and play some basement music,” he said to the howling audience arrayed before him, glowing phones and overpriced plastic cups of beer held aloft. With that, one half of the duo known as the Black Keys tore into “10 A.M. Automatic,” a bruising slab of sound that’s 15 years old — hailing from the pair’s 2004 LP Rubber Factory — but kicks as hard as the day it was cut.
The room in which Auerbach, drummer Patrick Carney and the three touring members of the Black Keys (guitarists Andrew Gabbard and Steve Marion, aka “Delicate Steve,” and bassist Zachary Gabbard) ripped through their satisfying 90-minute set Thursday was Fort Worth’s recently opened Dickies Arena. (Thursday’s performance marked the band’s first trip through town in five years, following a 2014 stop at Dallas’ American Airlines Center.)
The Black Keys put on a tasteful rocking show on Thursday night at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth.
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The polished space — indeed, at one point Auerbach remarked, seemingly without irony, “This is the cleanest arena in the world” — is a far cry from the dingy, cramped Akron basement Auerbach invoked, but a room the Black Keys, through the sheer force of songcraft and execution, effectively transformed into a cruddy rehearsal space, bursting with possibility and exhilaration.
Indeed, the Black Keys, returning from a five-year hiatus to support the release of the superb Let’s Rock, their latest full-length, have never really left the basement. It’s simply become a bigger and better outfitted space, one providing Auerbach and Carney the literal and metaphorical room to indulge in an endangered species: 21st-century arena rock, unfiltered and shorn of any pretense.
The quintet easily moved from raucous hits like “Gold on the Ceiling,” a faintly scuzzed-up detour into mutant jazz-disco rhythms, to greasy blues riffs like “Howlin’ for You” to psychedelia-tinged odysseys like “Little Black Submarines.”
That’s not to say the Black Keys don’t make room for left turns and peculiar filigrees, a tasteful application of artful tendencies. The quintet easily moved from raucous hits like “Gold on the Ceiling,” a faintly scuzzed-up detour into mutant jazz-disco rhythms, to greasy blues riffs like “Howlin’ for You” to psychedelia-tinged odysseys like “Little Black Submarines.”
Through it all, Auerbach and Carney retain their visceral alchemy: Auerbach, his hair flying as he works the whammy bar on his multitude of electric guitars, fingers dancing along the fretboard, jerking and tearing out jagged solos, as his supple tenor carves out a place of its own, while Carney, taciturn and steady, perches on a stool as his hands and arms work a modest drum kit producing a massive sound.
“A prison shank turned into a ginsu blade” is how Auerbach characterizes the band’s Grammy-winning style in the press notes for Let’s Rock, and it’s not hard to see what he means.
The stage design wasn’t overly showy, until it was: The night began with a simple curtain draped behind the five musicians and a few racks of lights flashing, until “Gold on the Ceiling” roared to life, the curtains fell away and the sort of spendy, splashy display commonly glimpsed in arena settings burst to life, full of rear projections, trippy visuals and splashes of retina-searing light.
The same could be said for the songs — while it was the heavy-rotation radio hits eliciting the most cheers from the crowd all night, the lesser known but no less lovingly rendered tracks, such as Let’s Rock highlight “Walk Across the Water” or the stuttering stunner “Next Girl,” cut just as deep as “Lonely Boy” or new single “Lo/Hi.”
Surely, whatever Auerbach and Carney dared dream in the earliest days of the Black Keys, entertaining each other in that Akron basement before finding themselves headlining enormous rooms the world over, has been surpassed by this stage of the game. All that’s left now is to continue wielding that wonderful shank, deftly piercing the mainstream and letting a little red-blooded rock ‘n’ roll leak in.
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Ready, set, *bang*, the gun goes off, you can feel the air fly past you as the crowd screams and you round the last turn in the race. The Davis High Indoor track team has just started the 2019-2020 season and is very excited about what is store.
Indoor track is actually a club not and actually team sanctioned sport. Most of its members belong to the track team and use it as an opportunity to stay in shape and help condition for the upcoming track season this spring. The Indoor track team size varies from season to season. This season’s team size is still being determined but it’s estimated to have anywhere from 50-75 team members.
While not all events are included in Indoor Track they do have some events from each category. In the sprints category, you will see the 60m, 200m, and 400m races. For distance, they have the 800m, 1600m and the 3200m races. The field category includes the high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and shot put. They also have the 200m relay (4x), 400 (4x), and 800m (4x).
“This season is going to be full of excitement and close races. Davis will represent well as we always do. we have a lot of young athleticism, talent, and potential on this year’s team.” says Devan Gwynn a senior on the track team this year.
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Breakthrough’s new HQ should boost inclusion
By John Pring on 9th November 2013 Category: News Archive
A leading disabled people’s organisation is hoping that its move to a new council-run “community hub” will help it deliver a boost to inclusion in local schools and services.
Breakthrough UK has moved its head office from Ardwick, east Manchester, where it was based through its first 16 years, to a smaller suite of offices in the Abraham Moss centre in Crumpsall, north Manchester.
The new head office has been named The Kevin Hyett Suite, in memory of one of Breakthrough’s founders.
Community and voluntary sector facilities at the Abraham Moss centre have been given a £12 million makeover by Manchester City Council, as part of a £62 million regeneration scheme.
The centre also houses a primary school, with a secondary school located next door. It even has its own dedicated stop on Manchester’s Metrolink tram system, which Peter Jackson, Breakthrough’s deputy chief executive, described as “the most inclusive and accessible public transport system in the UK”.
Breakthrough hopes that being co-located on the site with the two schools – with a reception class soon to be opened – will allow it to work with pupils on inclusion and disability issues.
Jackson said: “One of the added value benefits of re-locating to here is that rather than being in our own building, which was pretty much isolated from any other services, we are co-located with a whole bunch of other public and community services, including schools.
“The opportunity to network and work in partnership with those other services, particularly from an inclusion perspective… is obviously easier to do when you are co-located.
“We are looking forward to developing these partnership opportunities [and]… to work with the primary and secondary school on inclusion issues.”
Breakthrough decided to move to the new premises because its existing offices needed major investment to refurbish them and make them “fit for purpose”.
The organisation also wanted to align its work more closely with the city council’s new model of creating community hubs as a focus for services.
Jackson added: “It does fit with our philosophy and allows us to engage with those providers and help them with any barriers they face and work with them to remove those barriers, so those mainstream services progressively become more accessible.”
Breakthrough is also moving towards a new way of delivering its frontline services – which are mostly around employment support – with outreach workers based at different locations across the city, where they are more accessible to service-users.
Breakthrough delivers 70 per cent of its frontline services in Greater Manchester and the rest on Merseyside, where it is following a similar model of service-delivery and is again relocating to a council-run community hub.
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Jury convicts Becker County woman on two first-degree criminal sex charges
Written By: News Staff | Oct 5th 2020 - 5pm.
A jury has convicted a young Frazee woman on two counts of felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct. She was acquitted on a third felony charge.
Monika Jeanmarie Demarrias, 18, of rural Frazee, was found guilty in Becker County District Court of sexually assaulting three children under the age of 8 multiple times from Jan. 1 to Aug. 5, according to court records.
The charges were filed after a forensic interview with the oldest victim by the Red River Child Advocacy Center.
The assaults occurred in a residence in Becker County, and the oldest victim said she was afraid to tell sooner because Demarrias frightened her with a knife and threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone, according to the juvenile court complaint.
The oldest victim said she witnessed some of the assaults on the younger two victims. The victims were often tied up and gagged during the sexual assaults. Physical assaults included choking, beating and holding the younger ones out a high window by their legs as if planning to drop them, according to court records.
The trial started Sept. 30 and ended Oct. 1. Demarrias was charged under Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction and will be sentenced under that jurisdiction. A petition by the prosecution to try her as an adult was denied April 27 by District Judge Gretchen Thilmony, who on Oct. 1 ordered a predisposition investigation and set a disposition (sentencing) date for 3 p.m. Nov. 5. Demarrias, who came to Becker County from Yankton, S.D., was ordered to remain at the West Central Minnesota Regional Juvenile Center in Moorhead until sentencing.
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Embracing its urban origins and agricultural ties, Irving Farm has been serving New York since 1996.
Roaster Features
by Team Trade | May 02, 2019
When Irving Farm Co-Founders David Elwell and Steve Leven first started, specialty coffee was just getting going. Twenty years later, this New York roaster is showing no signs of slowing down.
How did Irving Farm get started roasting?
Our founders Steve and David wanted our company to be more involved in the process. This was a time when New York City’s only roasters were big family establishments who had been roasting for years. Steve and David converted a carriage house on a farm upstate into a space to roast and learned, yielding our first roasts.
What is the biggest change in coffee since you started?
The biggest change we have seen in specialty coffee is the huge increase in consumers drinking it. According to the SCA, the number of people drinking specialty has seen double digit growth in just the last five years. This has led to a huge leap in the quality of the coffee you can drink on any corner now. Because there has been an increase in the transparency practiced around sourcing strategy, farmers have been enabled and empowered to deliver superior quality from their harvests. In turn, we have been challenged to step up our roasting to match them in creating our best possible product.
How do you approach sustainability?
We compost and recycle at our cafés, using corn straws and biodegradable cups. We also roast on a Diedrich roaster which uses 30 percent less gas than other roasters, for 30 percent less emissions. We strive to work with producers who use sustainable farming practices.
Tell us about your roasting facility.
Our Roastery is a state-of-the-art facility in Millerton, New York, two hours outside NYC. It’s optimized for efficient workflow and was built to green building specifications. It offers the most efficient roasting technology on the market and is a great platform for our program of roast-to-order coffee.
What makes your cold brew special?
Our cold brew facility within our Roastery has specially built Corson distilling tanks and a reverse-osmosis engineered water system to optimize the flavor profile of the coffees we use.
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Words That Use Veni-
veni-
variant of veno- before a vowel: venipuncture.
Words nearby veni-
Venezuelan, venge, vengeance, vengeful, V-engine, veni-, venial, venial sin, Venice, venin, venipuncture
What does veni- mean?
Veni- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “vein.” A vein, in contrast to an artery, is one of the systems of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
Veni- is occasionally used in medical terms, especially in anatomy and pathology.
Veni- comes from the Latin vēna, meaning “blood vessel, vein.” The Latin word vēna is also ultimately the source of such vein-based words as venous.
Veni– is a variant of veno-.
Want to know more? Read our Words That Use veno- article. Also see our Words That Use ven- and Words That Use vene- for even more forms.
Examples of veni-
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An example of a word you may have encountered that features veni- is venipuncture (also called venepuncture), the piercing of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes as well as to collect blood specimens for analysis.
The first part of the word, veni- refers to “vein,” as we’ve seen. The second part of the word, –puncture, ultimately comes from a Latin word for “a pricking.” That means venipuncture breaks down to “a pricking of the vein.”
What are some other forms that veni- may be commonly confused with?
vivi-
vini-
Many other words begin with the letters veni-, from venial to Venice, but do not use veni- as a combining form to mean “vein.”
Nor does veni have anything to do with the Latin phrase Veni, vidi, vici! This oft-quoted saying, legendarily declared by Julius Caesar, means “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Break it down!
The word section ultimately comes from a Latin word meaning “a cutting.” With the meaning of veni- and its variants in mind, what is a venisection?
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Amazfit GTR 2 smartwatch with SpO2 monitor confirmed to launch on December 17 in India
By Digit NewsDesk | Published on 04 Dec 2020
Amazfit planning to launch GTR 2 series in India
Amazfit GTR 2 to launch on Decmeber 17 in India
Amazfit GTS2 and GTS 2 mini to launch two weeks after GTR 2
Amazfit GT 2 series to soon launch in India
Amazfit GTR 2 flagship smartwatch by Huami is confirmed to launch on December 17 in India. It is a part of the company’s GT 2 lineup with the GTS2 and GTS 2 mini set to launch at a later date. The Amazfit GTR 2 features a SpO2 monitor that lets users measure their blood-oxygen saturation levels and offers a long battery life.
Amazfit has officially confirmed that it is preparing to bring the GT 2 series to India in December starting with the GTR 2 on December 17. After the launch of GT 2, the company is expected to launch the GTS2 and GTS 2 mini in the following weeks. Moreover, the company has revealed that it will announce the exact date of the launch on Amazfit India website and Flipkart soon.
GTR 2 from Amazfit flagship GT 2 series #smartwatch will launch on 17th Dec. Unique technology includes BioTracker™, OxygenBeats™ & PAI™ & Always-on Display. More details https://t.co/Q5b83SFpF8
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The Amazfit GTR 2 was launched back in October and went on sale globally in the UK and the US. The Amazfit GTR 2 follows the previous generation that was launched at Rs 10,000 in India. We expect the company to sell the GTR 2 at around the same price point when it launches in India.
Amazfit GTR 2 features
The GTR 2 is offered in two styles, Sport and Classic model that feature aluminium alloy and stainless steel builds respectively. The Sport variant weighs 31.5 grams while the classic model weighs 39 grams and measures 10.7 millimetres in thickness. The smartwatch has a round dial that is covered in tempered glass with anti-fingerprint coating for added protection.
Amazfit GTR 2 features a 1.39-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 454x454 pixels and it curves on the edges seamlessly. The watch has two buttons and is 5ATM certified meaning that the GTR 2 can survive upto a depth of 50 meters in water. The straps are made of silicon or leather depending on the variant you choose and are replaceable with third-party straps with the pin buckle.
The GTR 2 uses a magnetic charging stand to fill its 471mAh battery that offers around 14 days worth of battery life on efficient use and upto 38 days on basic use. Moreover, the smartwatch takes close to 2.5 hours to fully charge from 0-100%.
The Amazfit GTR features a proprietary BioTracker 2 PPG data sensor that is capable of measuring the wearer’s SpO2 levels, heart rate and more. It connects to an Android or iOS phone over Bluetooth 5.0 and Zepp App.
More details about the Amazfit GTR 2 and its pricing will be revealed on December 17 when the smartwatch is officially launched in India.
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What’s Next: Disruptors will not kill off banking incumbents
By Benjamin Cher September 30, 2015
Mobile payments and wallets creating a new industry
Malaysia has one of the most progressive payments space
BANKS are often thought of as dinosaurs, with adjectives such as ‘slow’ and ‘lumbering’ used to describe them. However, unlike dinosaurs, banks seem unlikely to go away any time soon.
Despite fintech (financial services technology) startups being the sexy new kids on the block, and a host of new digital-fuelled payment initiatives and platforms, such disruption will not kill off the incumbents, argued MOL Inc founder and chairman Ganesh Kumar Bangah (pic above).
“There is still room for current channels – while new channels grow, the current channels will still be there,” he told Digital News Asia’s inaugural What’s Next conference in Cyberjaya yesterday (Sept 29).
Despite their dinosaur label, banks have actually kept up with technology, implementing upgrades to their backend systems, and introducing self-service and online self-service options, Ganesh noted.
“In essence, banks are the biggest users of technology – they are the ones who spend the most on ICT (information and communication technology),” he said.
“You don’t hear of online independent banks today being even a close competitor to an incumbent bank,” he added.
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Instead, companies like Ali Baba and Tencent are just on the starting point of the financial services game, Ganesh argued.
Progressive Malaysia, new disruptions
Malaysia is actually one of the most progressive nations when it comes to payment systems according to Ganesh (pic), having put in place its Payment Systems Act (PDF) in 2003, while other countries only enacted similar legislation after 2007.
“That’s why we have a number of successful payment system companies from Malaysia which are innovating across the region, and around the world,” he said.
But there is disruption lurking in many areas within the financial services space, with Ganesh noting that the ubiquitous credit card terminal is being displaced by startups such as Square, where a smart device can process credit card payments.
MOL itself has formed a joint venture with Soft Space International, a Malaysian startup which developed technology that converts devices into credit card terminals.
Indeed, the mobile wallet is going to bring about another wave of disruption, affecting credit card systems and even traditional cash systems, according to Ganesh.
“If you combine the mobile wallet with an online payment gateway, you can replace traditional cash systems and even credit cards.
“This is the next area of disruption we will see in Malaysia – before any other disruption in the United States,” he declared.
Still, Ganesh was cautious, noting that despite all the hype about disruption, not all new digital technologies would turn this into reality in the near future.
However, today’s incumbents still need to know about these developments in order to prepare, he argued.
Underserved and unbanked
There is one area though, in which the incumbents are struggling to address, and which seems to be inviting digital disruptors to make a play.
That would be the underserved and/ or unbanked population. Bringing a brick-and-mortar branch to remote or inaccessible regions costs too much, Ganesh pointed out.
He cited India as an example, where the underserved are getting banking services through their mobile phones, which explains why 46% of adults in the country now have bank accounts, up from 32%.
While this still involves banks in one form or another, another potential disruption completely removes the need for such an institution.
“Peer-to-peer (P2P) services are the biggest disruption in technology today,” Ganesh said.
“This disruption is also extending into banking and financial services, with services like P2P lending, where you can loan your friend money,” he added.
P2P lending will be one of the biggest disruptions in banking in the next five to 10 years, he predicted.
One unique feature of the What’s Next conference is the role of the Provocateur, who challenged the arguments or assumptions of the speakers.
For Ganesh’s talk, this role was taken up by Hong Leong Islamic Bank Bhd chief executive officer Teh Maimunah (pic above), who said that while banks may have been slumbering in a way, there has been a wake-up call.
“Banks kind of woke up overnight because we are true dinosaurs, and realised that there were so many people in our space doing payments and all sorts of stuff,” she said.
But banks face stiffer challenges than the new digital disruptors, Maimunah argued, saying that they are at the mercy of regulators like central banks, which can raise or drop the fees for handling transactions “as and when they want.”
And while banks will not disappear overnight, she noted that they can perish if they become unprofitable, faced with challenges from telcos, OTT players and P2P services.
“I’m not fearful of other banks because we’re all in the same sinking boat,” Mainmunah added.
The What’s Next: The Business Impact of Disruptive Technology conference (#WhatsNextDNA) was organised by Digital News Asia (DNA).
It was sponsored by Malaysia’s national ICT custodian Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC), which oversees the MSC Malaysia and Digital Malaysia national programmes, and big data analytics company Fusionex International.
All pictures by Choo Choy May, courtesy of The Malay Mail Online.
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Everett Wood Jr., 77 of Morristown, TN., passed away at Morristown-Hamblen Hospital on Saturday, October 10, 2020. Everett, the oldest of 13, was born to the late Everett Wood Sr. and Helen (Cardwell) Wood on May 9, 1943 in Luttrell, TN.
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Everett graduated from Clinton Central High School and retired from Delco in 2005. He was an avid fisherman and loved the outdoors.
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Everett was passionate about putting family first. He was a stranger to no one. He loved the Lord Jesus and displayed it through his love for people.
He was preceded in death by his wife Linda and son Warren. Surviving are his daughters Cindy Wood and Melissa Huff, sons Tim and Michael Wood, and step-sons Chris and Greg Liston. He had 16 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral Services for Everett will be held at Ellers Mortuary & Cremation Center Webster Chapel on Tuesday October 27, 2020 at 12pm with visiting prior from 10:30am to noon. There will be military honors presented at the Galveston cemetery with the Kokomo VFW Post 1152 and the United States Army.
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March 2017 - Michael Chavez
Rosanna Ramos-Velita is a new kind of financial leader using her industry expertise to empower women and develop communities.
In spite of pop culture images of greedy bankers, more and more leaders in the financial industry are using their positions to give back. In my global travels I encounter ever more financial services chiefs who have not only recognized the life-changing effect their decisions can have, they are actively targeting those positive changes as a guiding principle.
Rosanna Ramos-Velita is a leading light in microfinance. Her institution, Caja Rural Los Andes, provides working capital loans to rural Andean communities in Peru. The bank is highly profitable – the typical internal rate of return on its products is 30% – but the dividends go far beyond the commercial. This is a bank that not only delivers social good, it is driven by it.
Ramos-Velita is clear that the purpose of her bank is to eradicate poverty. That might seem too grand an ambition for a bank. Yet to Ramos-Velita it is perfectly natural. When still with Citibank, as a senior chief financial officer, she became interested in Citi’s consumer finance business, which was a highly profitable operation. The client base comprised relatively poor people taking out small loans, yet repayment rates were better than other market segments. Ramos-Velita went to Mexico to investigate, ending up in a shantytown where Citi operated some branches under a different name. The branch manager told her that most of their clients were women. “This was a good thing,” Ramos-Velita told me, “because they didn’t use the loans for consumption; rather, they used it to fund small businesses.”
Outside the branch was a small taco kiosk run by a woman busily catering to the lunchtime rush. Ramos-Velita struck up a conversation with the taco vendor and told her that she worked for the bank just behind her. The taco seller stopped what she was doing and gave Ramos-Velita a big hug. It transpired that the vendor had gained a loan from the bank for $800 that allowed her to grow her business and provide for her family. “Before the loan, she was selling tacos out of a basket,” Ramos-Velita told me. “In business terms, we’d say she had a scale problem. With the loan, she worked out in her head that she could repay the loan in a year because she could sell a lot more.” The woman got a second loan and now operates two kiosks, one run by her husband, a former cab driver. Ramos-Velita recalled: “The woman said that with this business she was able – literally – to put a roof over her head, eat better and pay to send her kids to school.”
Following her ‘hug moment’, Ramos-Velita left Citibank, put together a business plan, did some serious fundraising and got investors to help her buy an existing microfinance bank in Peru that was underperforming, both in terms of profitability and its impact on society.
Ramos-Velita’s overriding purpose to eradicate poverty became the ultimate motivator for her new employees – what more inspiring mission could a company have? Her staff now celebrate with clients when their loans help make a step-change in their lives. “We had a team that was demotivated and de-energized and we turned that around with purpose,” says Ramos-Velita. “Not only that, but we are turning around families and whole communities.”
What I took from Ramos-Velita was that a simple, clear, human-centred mission – in this case eradicating poverty – can be used to motivate employees and, thus, foster business success. She is a great mind with a winning idea.
Michael Chavez is chief executive of Duke Corporate Education.
An adapted version of this article also appeared on the Dialogue Review website.
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Gaskiya Diagnostics Raises Total of $625K in Closing Seed Financing Round
Gaskiya Diagnostics surpasses original fundraising goal of $500K to accelerate
development of its low-cost diagnostic test to detect disease in aquaculture
September 25, 2020, Baltimore, MD – Gaskiya Diagnostics, LLC, a technology company that develops and markets rapid, low-cost and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for aquaculture, announced today that it has closed its first round of seed financing, raising a total of $625,000 while surpassing the company’s original $500,000 fundraising goal.
Gaskiya Diagnostics’ final investment came from Delaware Innovation Space, a multi-dimensional, non-profit incubator and accelerator for start-up companies, via its First Fund program for science and technology-focused startup companies.
Gaskiya Diagnostics serves the $250 billion/year aquaculture industry by enabling farmers to quickly diagnose disease in their stock and take immediate action to mitigate its impact. No specialized training or equipment are needed to perform the tests, making them broadly accessible to farmers of all skill sets. Rapid diagnosis leads to faster treatment, fewer losses and more quality food to meet global demand.
"Aquafarmers in the US and across the globe are looking for a way to rapidly detect disease in their crops,” said Elan Lowenstein, Director of Business Development with Gaskiya Diagnostics. "In closing our first round of seed financing, we’re positioned to accelerate development of our core product and get our easy-to-use diagnostic tests in the hands of aquafarmers."
About Gaskiya Diagnostics:
Gaskiya Diagnostics, LLC is a technology company that develops rapid, low-cost and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for aquaculture. Gaskiya Diagnostics is a portfolio company with Early Charm Ventures. Learn more: www.gaskiyadiagnostics.com
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New app to spotlight Army exhibits, forums at AUSA
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A new app for smartphones will allow Soldiers worldwide to visit Army exhibits and watch presentations taking place at the Washington Convention Center Oct. 10-12.
The Army Exhibit Mobile App will help visitors find what they’re looking for at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting and symposium, and allow those who can’t be there to take a virtual tour.
The app will also allow users to watch Secretary of the Army John McHugh, Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno and other senior leaders discuss leading-edge issues facing the Army, such as advancing the network, cyber security, future training, leader development and more. They will be able to hear Soldiers ask questions and get frank answers from their senior leaders.
“We want to expand the reach beyond the building and beyond the calendar,” said Lt. Col. Thomas Smedley, who explained the presentations and exhibits will be available for viewing on the app not just during the three days of the conference, but for months to come.
“You can watch it during halftime at the football game,” Smedley said. “You can watch it at an airport while waiting for a plane,” he added.
“We don’t encourage watching it while driving in traffic,” he joked.
Smedley, military deputy for Community Relations and Outreach at Army Public Affairs, has been working on the app since May. He said it will be available for downloading next week for iPhones, Droids, and iPads and his team has also been working on a version for BlackBerrys.
The www.Army.mil/mobile site will have a link to the iTunes App Store, the Android Marketplace, and the HTML5 Blackberry site where the app can be downloaded.
Apple has already reviewed the app and sent back its technical approval, Smedley said.
The smartphone application will link to video of the 14 Institute of Land Warfare panels from the convention center. The symposium’s opening ceremony Oct. 10 featuring Secretary of the Army John McHugh will be available for viewing. So will the Eisenhower Luncheon Oct. 11 featuring Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno.
“You can sit and watch the chief talk about the way ahead,” Smedley said, adding that the presentations would also be good to play back for unit professional-development sessions, such as NCOPDs.
“It’s all about avoiding that white piece of paper,” he said, explaining that an interactive application and video are much more exciting than reading a handout.
The app is a partner to the Professional Development web page on www.army.mil which will have the links for viewing livestreaming and archived video on the smartphone, he said.
The four Family Forums at AUSA will be available on the app, as will presentations at the Warrior’s Corner. Warrior’s Corner presentations are part of the Department of the Army exhibit at booth 1775 in the center of the Convention Center’s exhibit hall.
Next to Warrior’s Corner will be a theater, playing two films also available on the app: “The Army Profession” and “The Squad: Foundation of the Decisive Force.”
The third zone of the Army exhibit will be an interactive look back over the past 10 years of war and the communications campaigns.
“We’re nested with the communications campaigns,” Smedley said, explaining that one of his jobs has been to ensure that the Army’s eight communication priorities resonate throughout the app and the Army’s exhibit.
Those communications priorities are color-coded on the app for the convenience of users, Smedley said.
“We’re pretty excited,” he said. “The app is permeating with our force.”
Young Soldiers are used to receiving information digitally through mobile devices, Smedley said, explaining that they read books on their iPad or Kindle and download technical manuals from the Internet. He predicted that they will be very comfortable with the new app.
“The convenience and portability is very good,” he emphasized.
The app will also include feedback mechanisms, Smedley said. In-app analytics will measure usage and allow Soldiers to rate the exhibits. The app will also allow users to provide both quantitative and qualitative feedback on the communications campaigns.
And Soldiers with ideas for making the app even better are invited to submit their suggestions, Smedley said.
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The mixing, kneading, flouring – it represents how humans have evolved from hunting and gathering, she says.
Too bad she could never eat the fruits of her labor. A bite of a typical homemade loaf left her doubled over in pain and she never knew why.
After a 18-year career in the food industry and years of being fluffed off at the doctor's office, Berzins was finally diagnosed in 2005 with celiac disease, a genetic autoimmune disease that wreaks havoc on the small intestine. It makes people unable to digest food with gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley.
The public awareness of eating gluten-free has exploded over the years both as a fad diet and as more and more people are being diagnosed with celiac disease or a more common, less serious gluten intolerance.
Berzins was relieved – and empowered when she was diagnosed. Now, some call her the gluten-free bartender.
In the three years since she opened The Birch Tree Bakery and Cafe, a gluten-free restaurant in Ocean View, she's heard it all: from empathizing with bad stomach problems to bread lust and restaurant frustration.
It's become a rest stop for those who are unable to eat gluten and those who just want to cut gluten out of their diet.
"I want to feed my people," Berzins said.
Gluten is found in foods that are heart-healthy and rich in fiber, such as whole wheat pasta and bread, explained Emily Rubin, a dietician with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Celiac Center.
But the protein, which contains sugar, is also found in many processed cereals, soups and dressings, like soy sauce.
"You don't necessarily need those foods," Rubin said.
For someone with celiac disease, however, erasing gluten from the diet is the best medicine. But it can be difficult to do.
Though restaurants, even some chains such as Applebee's and Bertucci's, offer gluten-free menus, cross contamination is possible, even if it's innocent.
"The restaurants are too busy," Rubin said. "Everything is touching something."
Toasters, spatulas, bowls, pots and pans can all breed contamination.
Berzins has done it to herself. Five years after her diagnosis she opened another restaurant in Ocean View, The Cafe on 26, which had a gluten-free menu except for certain artisan breads for non gluten-free guests. Spare bread crumbs in the kitchen were enough to make her unintentionally sick, she said.
Rubin said Jefferson Hospital is undergoing clinical trials for a new gluten blocking enzyme medication that would help people specifically for restaurant and food cross contamination. The pill would block a small amount of gluten that you'd get in your diet by accident, Rubin said. The person would still need to actively cut gluten entirely.
Left untreated, celiac disease can lead to infertility issues, damage to the small intestine, osteoporosis and cancer, according to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. Symptoms include gastrointestinal issues as well as chronic fatigue and anemia.
It's estimated that 1 in 133 people suffer from the disease and it can develop at any age. Twenty years ago, it was difficult to test for, Rubin said, but now a blood test and intestinal biopsy can confirm the results.
A gluten intolerance, on the other hand, has overlapping symptoms, but cannot be tested for and does not lead to long-term consequences.
"It is not causing any damage. I compare it to lactose intolerance," Rubin said.
People are six times as likely to be diagnosed with a gluten intolerance than with celiac disease, Rubin saiys, partly because they are becoming more aware of how they feel after they eat a piece of bread or pasta. The sugar in gluten can cause bloating, constipation and diarrhea.
Berzins says her customer base doubled last summer, chowing deown on her chocolate chip and apple walnut muffins, loafs of multi-grain flax bread and key lime pie. Many of her walk-ins are repeat customers, like Jerry Gargiulo of Fairfax, Virginia.
"I come because I feel great after I eat here," Gargiulo said two Wednesdays ago as she started her Delaware vacation. She was debating e debating ordering a chicken salad or chickpea sandwich. She's made a point to stop in Ocean View for lunch for the past three years.
"You don't get that stuffed feeling," she said.
While Gargiulo can eat all the gluten-filled bread she wants, her friend of 25 years Suzy McIntyre, also of Fairfax, needs to be a bit more vigilant.
McIntyre has had to reform her entire diet after being diagnosed with celiac disease 12 years ago.
"I was a new person when I was diagnosed," she said.
Since the rest of her family is does not need to eat gluten-free, McIntyre said sometimes she'll sneak a piece of bread in here or there.
"I'll pay for it," she said.
Learning to cut out gluten often turns into a game of eat this, not that.
As long as you fill your diet with other fiber-rich food such as dairy, fruits and vegetables, you should be able to keep your energy level up. If you are baking, trade wheat flour for rice flour or flaxseed.
"If you take out gluten you still want to consume carbohydrates which you consume for energy," Rubin said.
You may lose weight because you are cutting out carbs, but portion control for the foods you do eat is key. You still should watch your calorie or fat intake. Some gluten-free labeled breads and cereals have no fiber, Rubin said, and gluten-free deserts tend to have more fat to it to add taste.
Healthier options include quinoa pasta that contains protein and fiber or gluten-free cereal with a sprinkling of flax seeds (an antioxidant that is good for your heart and helps cut excess sugar production) and fruit.
"We enjoy fabulous meals you just have to adapt them," Berzins said.
Jen Rini can be reached at (302) 324-2386 or jrini@delawareonline.com. Follow @JenRini on Twitter.
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Matt Damon Jokes He 'Roughed Himself Up' During Sex Scene With Julianne Moore (Exclusive)
By Desiree Murphy 1:28 PM PDT, October 23, 2017
Matt Damon's latest sex scene was more pain than pleasure.
ET caught up with the actor and his co-star, Julianne Moore, during a press junket for their new film, Suburbicon, where they opened up about the hilarious way they made their onscreen hookup look believable.
"We had a good ping pong scene together. That was not dull at all," he told ET's Carly Steel. "I actually bruised myself. Like, we realized the way the shot was, it looked like I was hitting her if I hit myself. And so I really let myself have it. I was spanking myself."
Moore confirmed this, explaining that Damon would hit, while she'd "yell."
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"I like it rough," Damon joked. "I didn't realize how rough I like it. Then I got home and I was like, 'Wow.' I had one cheek that was completely discolored. Thank God I wasn't hitting Julianne..."
"The things you discover about yourself while acting, you know?" added Moore.
Damon continued on, explaining to ET that he and his wife, Luciana Barroso, actually have a ping pong table at home, so of course there were plenty of jokes about what happened on set.
"She was laughing," he recalled. "When she saw my butt, my cheek, she was alarmed. And then I obviously looked and I'm like, 'Oh, God. Oh God. Oh, that's from -- that was just from work, honey.'"
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November 25, 2020 2:39 pm by EUP News Staff
Doris M. Lamoreaux, age 92, of Strongs, Michigan passed away Sunday evening, November 22, 2020, at her daughter’s home.
Doris was born on March 4, 1928, in Newberry, Michigan to the late William and Sadie (Palmer) Johnson. She graduated from Brimley High School in 1946. Of the eight children in her family, Doris was the only one to graduate. She married Melvin Lamoreaux on December 14, 1946. Together they raised three children.
Doris served on the Chippewa Township Board as Treasurer then Clerk for over 25 years. She most enjoyed sewing, canning, playing scrabble, and dancing.
Doris is survived by her children: Kenny (Linda) Lamoreaux, Valdosta, GA; Lois (Kevin) Kenney of Sault Ste. Marie; grandchildren: Pete (Shelley) Scott, Pittsburgh, PA; Jeremy Scott, Eckerman; Michael Scott, Brimley; Jason (Andrea) Lamoreaux, Houston, TX; Tiffany (Joe) Kean, Wichita, KS; Keenan (Laura) Young, Edmond, OK; Nathan Young, Edmond, OK; and Randy (Symantha) Young, Edmond, OK. Great Grandchildren: Rose, McKenzie, Jarrett, Lily and Wiley Scott, Skyler Bennett, Christian Lawless, Kaleb and Jude Kean; Holly and Kayle Young. Doris is also survived by her sister-in-law, Arlene Johnson, and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Melvin Lamoreaux, in 1977, a daughter, Susan Scott, in 2016, and her grandson, David Scott, in 2008. Doris was also preceded in death by her siblings. Morley Johnson, Russell Johnson, Ethel Histed, Ike Johnson, Roy Johnson, Raymond Johnson, and Ellen Lamoreaux; and her many in-laws.
A celebration of Doris’s life will be held on July 24, 2021. Burial will take place at Coburn Cemetery on Nov. 27, 2020.
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2007-08Regular SeasonRound 6
Alba Berlin 65
DKV Joventut Badalona 80
Local time: 19:30 MAX SCHMELING HALLE
Demond Mallet made himself comfortable in Germany on Tuesday, scoring a ULEB Cup career-high 27 points to keep DKV Joventut undefeated with a 65-80 road win at Alba Berlin. Mallet, a three-time German-League all-star, who played his entire professional career in Germany before this year, drilled 7 three-pointers and matched his best with 5 steals to help Joventut improve to 6-0 and keep infront of second place Turk Telekom. Meanwhile Berlin, coming off an already classic five-overtime victory over KK Bosna last week, falls to 3-3, but remains in third place. Mallet was hot from the onset, pushing Joventut to an early 14-21 lead. The advantage was only 10 at halftime, but Joventut stormed out to a 36-54 lead early in the third quarter to basically wrap things up. Rudy Fernandez finished with 12 points and 6 assists for Joventut and Lubos Barton and Jan-Hendrick Jagla added 11 points apiece. Bobby Brown paced Berlin with 23, Dijon Thompson posted 14 points and 9 rebounds and Goran Nikolic added 12.
Barton and Mallet hit from outside to give Joventut an early 2-6 lead. Brown answered with a drive, then dished to Patrick Femerling and soon added a triple to put his team ahead 12-10, but a red-hot Mallet hit two more triples and set up Ferran Lavina, who made it 14-21. Thompson and Barton made it 16-23 at the end of the first quarter. Joventut established its inside game in the second period as Lonny Baxter and Jerome Moiso extended the lead to 20-30. When Goran Nikolic and Aleksandar Rasic cut the score to 26-30, Joventut head coach Aito Garcia Reneses decided to go to Demond Mallet again, who instantly with two triples, a steal and a fast break took the game under his control again, as the visitors finished the half ahead 32-42. Berlin still struggled after the break, while Joventut again used the superiority of its frontcourt to find easy points and take a 36-54 lead. Brown and Mladen Pantic finished the drought for Alba, but Joventut with Fernandez, Mallet and Petar Popovic, had several answers to maintain a 46-62 at the end of the third quarter. Mallet’s sixth triple early in the fourth quarter marked Joventut's biggest lead, 48-67. Thompson and Brown were able to make the result a little more comfortable for the hosts, but the game was never again in doubt.
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Alba Berlin 16 16 14 19
DKV Joventut Badalona 23 19 20 18
6 BROWN, BOBBY 36:32 23 6/10 2/6 5/6 3 1 1 3 6 20
7 ZWIENER, PHILLIP 9:32 2 1/1 1 1 2 2
8 DOJCIN, DRAGAN 15:24 0/1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
9 SUBOTIC, VUJADIN 20:57 0/2 2 2 2 3 4 1 -4
10 RASIC, ALEKSANDAR 18:09 2 1/2 0/2 2 2 1 4 4 2 -4
12 NIKOLIC, GORAN 29:29 12 5/11 0/2 2/2 1 5 6 1 3 2 2 8
13 FEMERLING, PATRICK 27:16 8 4/6 0/1 2 3 5 2 4 1 2 2 4 19
17 HEYDEN, PHILLIPP DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21 THOMPSON, DIJON 34:52 14 6/12 0/3 2/2 6 3 9 2 4 3 2 11
51 PANTIC, MLADEN 7:49 4 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 4
Totals 200:00 65 24/44 2/17 11/12 11 18 29 11 10 16 2 0 22 19 62
Head coach: PAVICEVIC, LUKA
DKV Joventut Badalona
00 MALLET, DEMOND 33:25 27 3/4 7/11 1 2 3 2 5 5 2 3 28
4 RIBAS, PAU 16:15 0/2 1 1 1 1 -1
5 FERNANDEZ, RUDY 28:06 12 4/4 0/4 4/4 1 2 3 6 1 4 2 6 18
6 BAXTER, LONNY 15:05 2 1/3 1 1 -2
11 BARTON, LUBOS 13:54 11 2/2 1/3 4/4 1 1 1 1 1 3 12
14 JAGLA, JAN 24:55 11 5/6 0/2 1/2 5 5 1 2 2 1 14
15 POPOVIC, PETAR 9:49 6 3/4 3 1 4 1 4 3 7
16 HERNANDEZ-SONSECA, EDU 11:31 0/3 1 4 5 1 2 1
18 LAVINA, FERRAN 26:51 4 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 4
19 TOMAS, PERE 1:29
22 MOISO, JEROME 18:40 7 3/5 1/2 1 5 6 1 2 1 4 2 10
Head coach: GARCIA RENESES, AITO
PAVICEVIC, LUKA
"This game is easy to comment. Joventut is the better team and today they played a better game and they won in a very clear way. Our goal is to play against better teams and win these games. But in this game my team did not show up in the right way. We did not have enough aggressiveness and energy. I won't say that even with this attitude we would have won, but we have to be with them on every occasion and especially when we play an excellent team like Joventut."
GARCIA RENESES, AITO
"This was supposed to be a difficult game for us, because Alba played well so far in the ULEB Cup. We came here without Ricky Rubio and we did not know that Alba was going to play without Julius Jenkins. Obviously Alba had more problems without Jenkins than we did without Ricky. The main difference was in the 3-point percentage. Our better shooting allowed us to end the game without difficulties."
BROWN, BOBBY
"Julius is a big part of our team and we needed him tonight, we needed his scoring and his defense. But we had to play without him and we started off flat, not hitting our shots and not playing defense. When they hit their big shots, it was hard to come back. We fought hard and tried to win, but the game got out of our hands."
MALLET, DEMOND
"This was a good win for us and it was the result of a total team effort. We needed this win to get a good standing for the next round. We knew that Berlin was missing, without Julius Jenkins, a big part of their scoring attack and we took advantage of that a lot, but overall we won because of our big team effort."
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French composer, performer and producer Jean Michel Jarre, who is widely regarded as one of the original pioneers of experimental electronic pop and who is well-known for his spectacular live displays which often involve lasers, visuals and fireworks.
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Tata Nexon could be a winner despite being a late comer in the compact SUV segment, here’s why
In the popular segment of compact SUVs and compact crossovers in the country, the Nexon is late to the party. However, there are some features that might help it win the heart of consumers. Here is list of them
By:FE OnlineJuly 24, 2017 5:22 PM
Indian carmaker, Tata Motors is all set to introduce the Nexon, a compact crossover in India by the festive season. Although, it is a late comer in the compact crossover or compact SUV segment is already over crowded with a number of options like the Honda WR-V, the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza and the likes, will Tata Motors’ Nexon offer something better and if so what would it be? There are a number of segment first features that the new model from the Indian carmaker would be offering. But, before we get to that, the Nexon’s power figures from the 1.2-litre Revotron petrol engine and the 1.5-litre Revotorq diesel unit that generate 108 hp of power. Both engines are mated to a 6-speed manual transmission and an automatic gearbox option will not be currently offered. That’s considering the fact that its competitors have at best 100 hp of power. However, this is not the only fact that the Tata Nexon has, but, there would a number of segment-first features which may work in favour of the compact crossover’s late entry into the segment. Here is the list of first-in-segment features in the Tata Nexon that the company has officially announced.
Touchscreen infotainment system: Other carmakers offer touchscreen infotainment systems in the higher variants of their respective models, so what is different in the Tata Nexon’s unit? The new compact crossover’s infotainment is an HD or High Definition display which should be more comfortable to read against the competitors. According to the company, the position of the infotainment unit adds to the safety as it is placed right next to the instrument cluster in the centre of the dashboard. This enables lesser time spent in looking at the infotainment system reducing ‘eye-off road time’. Like most other competitors, this system supports Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Bluetooth connectivity as well as has steering mounted audio and phone controls. That said, cruise control is not expected to be offered most likely in order to keep a competitive price tag, which may be a let down for some as some of the competitors have it.
Multiple Driving Modes: Like the earlier versions based on the new technological and design philosophy, the Tata Nexon will be available with different drive modes, City, Eco and Sport. Although other cars from the Indian carmaker’s stable have this restricted only to the petrol trim, both engine options would get this feature. Essentially, it manipulates the throttle response in order to offer a better driving experience based on the conditions one is in. City and Eco modes favour fuel efficiency while Sport mode is biased towards performance.
Centre Console with hideaway storage space: Unlike any other competitor, the centre console termed as ‘Grand Central Console with Sliding Tambour Door Mechanism’ hides away an open storage space when not in use. According to the image, this feature offers a neater look to the centre console.
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All trade deals must be negotiated transparently and create fair trade conditions.
The European Union is currently (October 2020) negotiating more than two dozen Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The ones of particular interest to foodwatch are the so-called “new generation” FTAs like the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. CETA has already been adopted by the European Parliament and the heads of government in the European Council, and is being provisionally applied while the ratification process of by each of the 27 EU Member States is underway.
The new generation FTAs differ from a more standard trade agreement as they focus primarily on the elimination of “non-tariff barriers” and less on the reduction/removal of custom duties or subsidies. These “non-tariff trade barriers” include standards of consumer, health and environmental protection. The basic thought is that if consumer, health or environmental standards are different in one of the trading partners than the other, this will be a barrier to the free movement of these products.
These standards are threatened under CETA, and in the USA equivalent – TTIP. For example standards from each treaty party can be recognized as ‘equivalent’. If this happens, it would no longer be possible for the EU or Canada to improve on their standards without the prior approval of the other party – the standards are frozen as they are. If a lower and a higher standard from the two parties, for example regarding hygienic controls or pesticide use, are recognised as ‘equivalent’, this can lead to an overall reduction in health and safety standards for citizens, as again improvements on standards for protection of health will be difficult to make.
Decisions on standards can be made by “Treaty Committees” which operate without necessary transparency and without sufficient democratic control. The European Parliament is side-lined from the decisions-making process. CETA like TTIP are considered as “living agreements”. This means that the committees can even add or change annexes to the treaty and by doing so change it over time. Investment courts have been put in place to grant investors special rights to sue governments over domestic laws which may limit trade.
We need trade agreements that do not pose a threat to democracy. We need trade to strengthen consumer, environmental and social rights. foodwatch is not against international trade or free trade agreements, however, we firmly believe that all trade deals must be negotiated transparently, create fair trade conditions and serve the prosperity of all citizens instead of simply increasing the profits of large companies. CETA does not satisfy these criteria and must therefore be stopped immediately!
What is foodwatch doing?
foodwatch is educating the public about the threats that these new trade deals pose to democracy, especially to consumer rights. In 2015 the book “Die Freihandelslüge” (The Free Trade Lie) by foodwatch founder Thilo Bode spent several weeks on the bestseller lists in Germany. Together with other organisations, foodwatch organised protests against TTIP and CETA in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam. foodwatch has lodged a constitutional complaint against CETA to the German Federal Constitutional Court, and is awaiting a decision.
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3 Biotech Stocks That Could Double in 12 Months
Why Celldex, Inovio, and Geron could be huge biotech stock winners in the coming months.
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Can you double your money in just 12 months? It's possible with several biotech stocks. Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CLDX), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO), and Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN) stand out as three small biotechs that could see their shares double by next November. Here's why.
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Celldex shareholders had hoped to be riding high on success of the biotech's once-promising lead candidate, Rintega. However, those hopes were dashed in March, when a late-stage study found that Rintega wasn't effective in treating patients with newly diagnosed EGFRvIII-positive glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor. That news caused Celldex's stock to plunge. However, it also set up a scenario in which the biotech, like the mythical phoenix, could potentially rise from the ashes.
While the Rintega failure hurt Celldex badly, the company has several other pipeline candidates that hold the potential to make this biotech stock a winner again. Glembatumumab vedotin ("glemba") stands at the top of the list. Four mid-stage clinical studies are underway for the monoclonal-antibody-drug conjugate, and another early-stage study is also in progress. The most important of those studies is a registrational mid-stage clinical trial targeting treatment of triple-negative breast cancer.
Anther important pipeline candidate is varlilumab ("varli"). A mid-stage study is underway with varli in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo in treating several types of cancer. A mid-stage study of a glemba-varli combo targeting treatment of metastatic melanoma is also in progress, along with three early-stage clinical trials featuring varli in combination with other drugs.
In addition, Celldex claims three other products in its pipeline. A combo regimen of CDX-1401 and CDX-301 is being evaluated in a mid-stage study for treating metastatic melanoma. Both drugs are also in early-stage testing for other indications. Another conjugate of a monoclonal antibody and a drug, CDX-014, is in an early-stage study for treatment of kidney cancer.
Despite the loss of Rintega, Wall Street analysts still think Celldex could come back. The average analyst one-year price target for the stock represents an increase of 120% over the current share price.
All bets on one horse
Unlike Celldex, Geron doesn't have a stable of pipeline candidates to turn to if something goes wrong. All of the biotech's bets are on one drug -- imetelstat.
Geron's stock has dropped over 60% so far in 2016, primarily because of some disappointments related to imetelstat. Most recently, Geron announced that its development partner, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), was discontinuing a low-dosage arm its mid-stage study of imetelstat in treating relapsed/refractory myelofibrosis. J&J also extended the analysis period of the higher-dosage arm of the study.
Geron and J&J are also evaluating imetelstat in a two-part study targeting treatment of relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The first part of that study is in progress now. An initial internal review of efficacy and safety in a subset of patients conducted by J&J didn't raise any concerns, so for now everything is moving along.
Next year could be make-or-break for Geron. J&J plans to review data of the myelofibrosis study in the second quarter of 2017 to determine next steps. A decision about whether to move forward to the second part of the MDS study of imetelstat also will be made in the second quarter.
If those crucial decisions are positive, Geron's shares will likely soar. I suspect the stock could double should imetelstat's results for both myelofibrosis and MDS prove to be promising.
Vaccine machine
Few clinical-stage biotechs can boast of a pipeline as deep as Inovio's. While Geron has only one development program and Celldex has five, Inovio can count 15 different clinical studies in its pipeline, including trials sponsored by third parties. Granted, nearly all of those are in early stage. It's still an impressive lineup for a company with no approved products yet, though.
Inovio's shares surged earlier this year based largely on great news from the company's Zika vaccine program. In June, Inovio and partner GeneOne Life Science received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin an early-stage clinical study in humans for experimental Zika vaccine GLS-5700.
However, Inovio's stock was slammed recently by the FDA's decision to place a clinical hold on a planned late-stage study of experimental cervical dysplasia vaccine VGX-3100. Clinical holds are never good news, but I think this shouldn't be a huge setback for Inovio. The FDA requested more information about the delivery device for the vaccine. Inovio still hopes to begin the late-stage study in the first half of 2017.
The primary catalysts that could help Inovio's stock rebound include a green light from the FDA to move forward with testing VGX-3100 and positive news from the early-stage study of the company's Zika vaccine. I won't be surprised if both catalysts combine to help the biotech's stock double by this time next year.
Double, trouble
Wall Street thinks that Celldex, Geron, and Inovio could double in the next 12 months. So do I. But there is a big risk that the stocks could also perform poorly.
The reason these biotech stocks have the potential to double is the level of uncertainty surrounding them. Their fates depend entirely on outcomes that could be fantastic or horrible. Any investor considering buying shares of these stocks should be aware of the significant risks: The potential to double comes hitched with the potential for trouble.
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Dino Zoff coaches youngster Donnarumma
Top storiesxfcediJune 2, 2017
Italian legend Dino Zoff is ready to give in demand goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma some advice to serve him on his career path.
Dino Zoff may well be football’s most famous goalkeeper. Zoff played for the Italian national side 112 times, broke many records and won most trophies available in the game. Now many see Gianluigi Donnarumma as his natural successor.
Donnarumma is only 18-years-old and already sparking the interest of Europe’s best clubs. The goalkeeper plays for AC Milian, which by his own admission represents his childhood dream. However, his contract is set to expire in less than a year. The player’s agent has made it clear he intends to choose the best financial option for his client. But Zoff thinks this is the wrong way to go about things.
The former Italian captain advises Donnarumma not to think about the money, but rather concentrate on fulfilling his potential. “Donnarumma is so young and strong that he should relax and not already be thinking about where to go with a bit more or a bit less money,” Zoff tells reporters at Rai Radio 1. “The important thing is that he gets some experience now, because his prospects look very positive.”
It is unclear what Donnarumma himself thinks, although his agent’s opinion has been well documented in recent months. The Italian goalie got his start at Milan at only 16 years of age. In the current season he has played every single game of the Serie A campaign. Milan has certainly been in a down-cycle in the last few years, but with expected investments there is hope that the team could return to its former glory.
The player’s agent, Mino Raiola, says that there are plenty of offers, 11 in fact, for Donnarumma. Raiola even compared his young client to Maradona.“Gigio is the Maradona of goalkeepers,” Raiola told Corriere dello Sport. “He can only grow and he has to be left alone to grow in peace. He is not a slave, nor a robot.”
“There are 11 top clubs which are interested in him. The concept is clear. Donnarumma’s contract will expire on June 30, 2018. I’ve never said to Milan, ‘He will sign now or not at all’.”
“I understand the stress and the expectations of the fans, Gigio is already a symbol for the club and for the new owners it would be ideal to seal a renewal today. Yesterday, in fact.”
Raiola says that chances for Donnarumma to sign an extension on his contract with Milan ar even to those of him leaving. The agent believes that wages will not be the only factor contributing to his choice.
“We are talking about an 18-year-old lad, a phenomenon who is already being called to make a fundamental decision in his life. It’s a decision which will be weighed-up and, certainly, won’t depend only on wages.”
“People say Donnarumma should be grateful to Milan. It is true, but Milan should also be grateful to Donnarumma. And to Sinisa Mihajlovic [for giving him his debut].”
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Oldham squash Ched Evans rumours
Despite the fact that over the weekend newspaper reports had linked the former Sheffield United and Manchester City striker, Ched Evans with a move to Oldham the club have squashed the idea.
It was reported that convicted rapist Ched Evans was to train with them with a view to playing. But the League One club said: "Oldham Athletic are aware of newspaper reports linking the club to Ched Evans."
They added the club "will not be extending an invitation for Ched Evans to train with Oldham Athletic nor will we be offering him a contract".
Sheffield United had agreed to allow Evans use their training facilities after his release from prison in October.
But the Bramall Lane club were heavily criticised for the move and retracted their offer in November.
TV presenter Charlie Webster, sixties pop star Dave Berry and Sheffield businesswoman Lindsay Graham all resigned as patrons of the club after Evans was invited to return to training with the Blades.
Musician Paul Heaton also stood down as a patron of the club's community foundation, while Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill stated that she would want her name removed from one of the Bramall Lane stands should Evans play for the club again.
Shirt sponsor DBL Logistics also threatened to end its backing of Sheffield United should Evans sign a contract to play.
Oldham courted controversy back in 2007 when they offered convicted killer, Lee Hughes a contract, after he was released from jail after causing death by dangerous driving. Hughes went onto play for Notts County, Port Vale and Forest Green Rovers after becoming a crowd pleaser at Boundary Park.
When Oldham signed him the club asked supporters "not to pass moral judgement". His reported salary of £1,800-a-week at Boundary Park was less than a 10th of what he earned at the peak of his career with West Bromwich Albion.
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Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl insists penalty decision was correct
(Image credit: Gareth Fuller)
Ralph Hasenhuttl insisted that the foul leading to Danny Ings’ decisive and controversial penalty was inside the area as Southampton came from behind to secure a 2-1 win at Brighton.
The 2,000 Seagulls fans in attendance witnessed Saints fight back from a goal down to secure all three points in a Premier League game which included two penalties.
Pascal Gross fired Brighton into the lead from the spot after the ball hit James Ward-Prowse’s arm in the area, before Jannik Vestergaard headed in the equaliser.
Then, with 10 minutes remaining, substitute Ings fired home on his return from injury after Southampton were awarded a controversial spot-kick.
Kyle Walker-Peters was brought down by Solly March and referee David Coote initially awarded a free-kick outside the area.
A lengthy VAR review eventually overruled the on-field decision and a penalty was given, and the Southampton manager feels it was correct.
“The longer it (the VAR review) took, the more I was convinced that it was inside the box because otherwise they wouldn’t have looked so long,” Hasenhuttl said.
“But it was the right decision I think because it was clear inside the box and this is what we have VAR for and I can absolutely understand and I’m very happy.
“This situation is very tough to see for a referee but with VAR it is easy to see because they have the review all the time, it’s not about if it was a foul or not, it was a foul and then you have to decide if it’s inside or not and I think it was clear inside.
“It was important that (Ings) scores in that moment and it’s important to have subs like him and Reddy (Nathan Redmond) in that moment because that gives us definitely more opportunities.
“And in such a tight game, if you want to turn the table, you need quality from the bench and today I think it was the winning part that we can bring players on like these two.”
Brighton boss Graham Potter admitted he had to accept the decision and the process.
“It felt like longer than two minutes (for the VAR review) but I haven’t seen it back closely,” he said.
“I think the general feeling was that it was going to be given outside the box but if VAR have deemed that it’s inside, I suppose we have to accept that.
“That’s what they’re there for in terms of making sure factually inside or outside the box and, if they deem it inside, then we have to accept it.
“Apparently they don’t look if it’s a factual one, when I spoke to the referee, so in terms of inside or outside the box there’s nothing for him to look at, that’s when VAR intervenes, if it’s a contact then maybe you can look at it.”
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By Anonymous - United States - Milwaukee
Today, I received a text from my girlfriend's female best friend that they have been dating for the last month. This was the week of our one year anniversary, and my birthday. We just moved into a duplex with my name on the lease. FML
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Broken vibrator
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One law for me…
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Karaoke Dinner Disaster
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#7530365 - Wednesday 16 August 2017 6:49
Better find out if it's true before you do anything irrational. Her girlfriend might not like you very much and wanted to break you guys up.
By inappropes | 31
If its just your name on the lease, guess who's cheating ass would be gone. Hope that is the case op. sorry man
By XxXBadAshXxX | 27
Maybe it's a joke? hopefully she wouldn't do you that dirty.
By really_dad? | 13
Kick her out. But before you do that, make a nice dinner and then get on one knee. Have her open the box and put a note inside saying "You slut I hope you get Aids from your little buddy. Your things are scattered in the dump. Have a nice day." and when she's gone send a message saying "p.s, I changed the locks."
By Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 | 20
Just ask if you can watch them making out. Or even join them.
By Mungolikecandy | 19
Firstly, as others have said, check the situation, as someone saying something does not automatically mean it is true.
By rety1 | 13
If it's your name on the lease, what's the problem? throw your (ex?) GF a bag party. buy a roll of garbage bags, bag up all her crap, change the locks and text her saying that she's homeless now.
By alucard724 | 9
tell her it's all good the more the merrier
By jttorkildson | 21
I assume the issue with the lease is that, if she is cheating, she will leave and you'll be responsible for paying the rent by yourself. Hopefully, the apartment's not a one bedroom and you can get a kickass roommate.
By amarie2009 | 22
#7530459 - Wednesday 16 August 2017 12:56
So? Kick her ass out and find a roommate!
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Dominates
Frasi con dominate (in inglese)
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As with stock options, the increase in the forward price will tend to dominate.
Today African countries dominate the cocoa trade, as you can see in Table 19-2.
The Galaxy was just too big, far too big for even the Veiled to dominate it all.
In terms of physiology, this involvement starts to gradually dominate the whole.
It seems to me that in a racing family, the sport comes to dominate all else.
Your primary nature will be the center of your life and will dominate the others.
Anything we cannot assimilate, digest, understand, dominate or control; we fear.
I wanted a few select corals (acropora coral and montipora) to dominate the tank.
Dollop looked round with the air of a landlady accustomed to dominate her company.
According to Lepage"s thesis, oil won"t dominate the next century, fresh water will.
By giving up violence and the will to dominate, which she is born with, the mother.
Hold the strings in your dominate hand and use your other hand to stop the ring if.
The ISI will dominate the world intelligence community for the next half century.
Bodies, where the particles of the type "Spirit" dominate, we should call as the Spirit.
Then insects came: and spread out and tried to dominate plants by being on top of them.
Man would dominate nature and glorify himself to the letter; but no power has he to.
They never cease talking, careful not to dominate with their own points, their own tales.
It's about letting go of the fears that dominate your thoughts in the present and about.
The reason for this is because in human society: tool-values dominate over human-values.
If we are dominate, not easily moved by the emotions of others, then that peace resides.
Only then, when they found a way to dominate grazing animals did they invade their lands.
Indeed, relative reversal patterns dominate in country allocation among long-dated bonds.
The messages from the original texts match Old Testament symbolism meaning to dominate or.
Would she fight to dominate him physically as well as mentally? How perfect that would be.
Wall Street institutions and Hedge Funds dominate trading and flow of funds in the market.
They tried by the use of checks and balances to prevent one being dominate over the other.
All of them have long wanted to dominate the entire Pugilistic Fraternity and potentially.
And therefore Roosevelt will lose the war of wills and I will dominate in the history books.
He said: in the world, they lord over and dominate one another, and boss one another around.
Historically, they came to dominate the Puebla Valley and remained independent of the Aztecs.
Demons that roamed the other realm and together they would dominate the world, obliterating it.
A primary purpose of the Babylonian conquest was to dominate and reshape the viewpoints of the.
The Western sector won’t dominate just yet, but becomes just as strong as the Eastern sector.
These sorts of things cause trauma or inspire awe, and they tend to dominate the men and women.
The five underlying contracts will tend to dominate the position, resulting in a positive delta.
Their only alternative was war, or the abandonment of their objectives to dominate the Far East.
Yet the latter is dominating.
Dominating yes! Only in names.
He was the most dominating in.
These were much faster and dominating.
Tholomyes followed, dominating the group.
A company that is dominating a favored.
She is afraid, she is not being dominating.
Dominating Christian, it all becomes clear.
No one could be more dominating than stout Mrs.
William followed with the same dominating pose.
In Practice: identify the dominating interference.
It loomed over the landscape, dominating every view.
Disappointment was now dominating his joyful thoughts.
Europe’s days of dominating the world were numbered.
On Twitter, it’s easy to tell who is dominating it.
But for a soul dominating in the mind, it is very simple.
There was no grand imperial city dominating the mainland.
One dominating lesson it taught me is the value of freedom.
Reversed: Money or thoughts of money are dominating factors.
Revenge began dominating her mind; she needed to be made whole.
The voice opposite droned on, engrossing, dominating, hypnotic.
Google is dominating the search and online-advertising business.
Dominating the wall behind his desk was a framed print of a tall.
The principles of taking into account the factor of dominating ANS.
We did so to sidestep the HFTs who were dominating these strategies.
Her dominating force, however, was reserved for strangers and animals.
Creating thus a dominating electric circuit, which consumes all the.
The competitions in Tae Kwon Do is what makes the art so very dominating.
Dominating the landscape, of course, were the island’s famous statues.
Death was a dominating issue in Roger’s life; consequently, he never.
You may be imagining that, through all, Anita had been dominating my mind.
Adams, Branton High oozed the potential to be a dominating force this year.
Before competitors noticed, Wal-Mart was dominating the small-town market.
The forces of the Kravenas were dominating, in spite of their smaller number.
It didn’t take long for her body to break under the fervent dominating kiss.
Fear is the force behind failure, constantly dominating the choices of the many.
Like Modi, Joshi, too, was an RSS pracharak but with a less dominating presence.
It was the whisper of the soul, deep, continuous, dominating that of their voices.
He caught her hand and looked down at her, something suddenly dominating in his eyes.
This growing trend of money-earning potential is gradually dominating in elderly people.
Gabriel stood several feet away, his shadow taller and more dominating that I recalled.
Then she will be withdrawn or outgoing depending on which of the elements is more dominating.
When he popped back up, he fired lasers like a madman! Chuck was killing it! He was dominating!.
Suffice to say here that by mid-2002 it had become a very visible and dominating investment crowd.
The swollen current was road level, rapid and angry and dominating the void where the bridge had stood.
Shapiro’s problems at home mirrored his problems with the two cases that were dominating his work life.
The line 1-2 has been selected as the dominating line, and an assortment of radiating ones drawn about it.
But Bryan was also the best hope the US had to avoid becoming a colonial empire, dominating other nations.
The real problem in my estimation stems from the rise of relativist attitudes dominating our school environments.
It may be one alternative dominating over all the rest, several best alternatives, or even the whole initial set.
During the dark ages, when superstition and tyranny reigned over the better judgments of men, dominating every.
There aren’t as many people dominating Pinterest for your niche as there are people dominating Twitter for your niche.
Once on top, she quickly embraced the decks and bridge of the yacht, which she was now dominating from her new position.
A distinction should be made between the rays dominating in a solar system and those dominating in a scheme, or a chain.
The side dominating the trend usually loses, so in this case, buyers had lost momentum and sellers were set to take over.
The country was never colonised by the Europeans, but they controlled it nonetheless, mainly by dominating the Siamese king.
Ganesh’s father also had a fierce visage, dominating eyes, and a knack for rubbing others the wrong way, including his son.
Excuse me, prince, excuse me, but now that will not do, shouted Lebedeff’s nephew, his voice dominating all the others.
I suggest, Pine moved toward him again showing his authority and power, dominating to prove he was not to be trifled with.
So saying Grindel stomped from the chamber, leaving behind the dead thing that up to now had been such a dominating force in his life.
Someone such as Betty? Someone younger than herself, and without a dominating personality? Hmm… now that made an interesting thought.
Only one narrow street, paved with marble and guarded by heavy iron gates, led up to it, where it crowned the hill dominating the city.
R: I don’t guess I have to know how, but I know that I would request that greed not be the dominating force in the economies of Earth.
With credit cards dominating the market world today, even college students are already prospective clients of most credit card companies.
Without a word, Sarah took her passport out of an internal pocket of her jacket and handed it to the big policeman dominating her by a head.
While he was a man of medium height and built, he was in top physical shape for his age and his manners denoted a strong, dominating character.
To terrify men with the prospect of the wicked dominating the good is impossible, for that is just what has always been, and is now, and cannot but be.
It was huge, one of the biggest she had ever seen, yet fitted in without dominating, as the rest of the furniture was built on an impressive scale as well.
He was gasping for breath, however; he felt so oppressed — so oppressed; he felt that all those eyes fastened upon him were oppressing and dominating him.
For example, I had never traded against algorithms for most of my trading career, and then they just appeared without warning dominating a new trading reality.
At the time of the first book it was the ascendant city in the valley, dominating its neighboring cities and intruding itself westward into the Valley of Mexico.
We will thus be dropped by helicopter on a number of selected hills dominating the access road to Masan and will establish defensive positions on those hilltops.
If we find an element dominating over the selected one, we pass on to the next alternative because the selected element certainly does not belong to the Pareto set.
Through mud-encrusted eyes, the man looked up at the dominating female, focusing on the sabre that flicked his sword away and then extended down to touch his throat.
And as for dominating the vote, you know as well as I that The Assembly of The Just Alliance is a body that decides by consensus, and not by a vote of the majority.
It was date night, and because I had been dominating our choice of activities since taking on the murder case, I told Kelly I would take her wherever she wanted to go.
Tatania dragged him from one VIP to another, introducing him before dominating the conversation with amusing epithets about speculative inappropriate behaviour from Sam.
In one fashion or another (shown by the particular planet) angular planets maintain the upper hand: their POSITION is DOMINATING, whereas that of cadent planets is REACTIVE.
What about the Pre-history of these bands and tribes coming out of Africa to find huge massive Neanderthals; populating and dominating the two continents of Asia and Europe?
A green-blue serene lake similar to an ocean in rest was dominating the geography, and in its crystalline waters there were little tiny creatures swimming with big emulation.
He knew the busy mountain town of Monaki lay beyond it, dominating the plateau and overlooking the rock face beyond it, several of the roofs were visible marking its position.
The men of the higher dominating classes whose conscience is naturally not sensitive or has become blunted, if they don't suffer through conscience, suffer from fear and hatred.
The Earth by its standard and dominating its sphere of which it can control with influence is the hottest centre in the space of its domain and it holds the moon centred to the Earth.
To have an opinion with research and experience behind you is to be applauded, but closing one’s mind as well as dominating the conversation may not be in everyone’s best interest.
It then takes over as the dominating belief; until, that is, anomalies arise that this new model cannot account for, and another shift is triggered (as happened when ‗Newton‘s Laws‘.
Everyone in the dominating group strictly adheres to that meaning perspective because of the inherent threat of the inner prejudice that the dominating click uses to control those within it.
It was only a matter of time before this growing sense of powerlessness turned into a blind, uncontrollable rage that would only be satisfied by turning against the women and dominating them.
It would not have been the first time that Wickland had observed a weaker business partner who was slightly frightened by a more dominating figure—perhaps the role that Cartwright had assumed.
As a rule, there is a bullish anticipation of the IPO of any company in the technology or computer sector, especially one as successful as Google had been in dominating the online search market.
By the 1990s the Asian countries seemed to be dominating the world economy, particularly as they specialised in producing the sort of hi-tech equipment on which the modern world has come to depend.
Turning away from his grisly discovery, Grindel hastily entered the inner chamber, all thoughts of rebellion vanishing once he stood before the bent and twisted old figure dominating the small space.
The situation is analogous to a ProAm golf event: Even if all of the amateurs are hopeless duffers, the team's best-ball score will be respectable because of the dominating skills of the professional.
Problems arising when the Pareto set consists of the insufficient number of elements can be solved by applying the specific method that allows increasing the number of dominating elements (see section 7.
Or perhaps Self’s personal sense of belief to be arrogant, dominating, self-obsessed and selfish emanating from the personal belief in one’s self-importance, sense of superiority and over inflated ego.
Over the next hundred years the Company extended control over most of India, dominating the highly profitable sub-continent and considerable China trade, and bringing a huge population into the British fold.
It's easily stopped, so if I've got noisy, noise in my mind, and distracting, dominating thoughts, I have to literally aggressively cast them, push them out of the way, otherwise I'm not going to hear from God.
She wondered if he'd be offended that she used him as her inspiration? Reuben was quite a character, a hopeless womaniser who enjoyed dominating in the bedroom, but he wasn't all bad and had a lot of good qualities too.
The Almighty never enables the enchanter and the devil to cooperate and support one another in harming a person and dominating them, unless this is due to the mean deeds that have previously been committed by their victim.
But if Apple stock is dominating your portfolio (remember, it has grown 44%, and it’s put you out of balance, likely significantly), the rules of rebalancing say that you have to sell some Apple to get your ratio right.
What is more, even in the acutest paroxysm of this cowardly fever, I dreamed of getting the upper hand, of dominating them, carrying them away, making them like me—if only for my elevation of thought and unmistakable wit.
The man in the shaft dominated.
He was totally dominated by her.
The pink dominated Fritz’s face.
On its home planet it dominated.
The girl dominated her thoroughly.
One is dominated by the ego-driven.
Enjolras, who was grave, dominated.
Our lives are dominated by the masses.
His booming voice dominated the room.
As usual he dominated the conversation.
The Cerrillos Hills dominated the view.
They had completely dominated Minnesota.
An extreme close-up dominated the room.
Rather, they are wholly dominated by it.
A deep-set frown dominated his features.
That triumph dominated her life for the.
The evil Ottomans dominated it at moment.
Sex and drinks dominated and consumed me.
Down the prison hallway, silence dominated.
Pain ripped into my body and dominated me.
She dominated my thoughts and I could not.
I have a friend who is completely dominated.
The Bridge dominated the whole scene.
The two dominated much of the conversation.
The African continent was dominated by the.
However, Vidya's thoughts dominated them all.
Gambino’s face is dominated by a hugh beak.
Those invaders eventually dominated England.
Parker’s desk completely dominated the area.
Dinosaurs dominated the land, and reached their.
The merchant class soon dominated all the isthmus.
He was not the man to be dominated by a relative.
The stalls are dominated by beautiful, brightly.
Kurukshetr when it is dominated by devilish forces.
Dominated by desire and fear, they can do nothing.
Church spires dominated the skyline, with the col-.
It pervaded every sense and dominated every thought.
Life changes is dominated by spirit and soul in full.
Across from the library was the game room, dominated.
You work in a business that has been dominated by men.
Africa was dominated by hoofed animals, and primates.
I said the simple truth that dominated my thoughts:.
It’s a very competitive field, dominated by men.
This built the bear market crowd that dominated the U.
Until they dominated the true hunters by storytelling.
Which morality makes the society to be male dominated.
The 1970s and 80s were dominated by computer hardware.
A huge custom-made bed dominated the vast wooden floor.
Normally, my mental clatter dominated the whole screen.
I feel guilty that I have dominated so much of his time.
The city heart is dominated by the Id Kah Mosque, which.
The western world was now dominated by Nordic barbarians.
He was always there, and he dominated the conversations.
Isaac quickly dominated the conversation with Tsarevich.
Macarena" and "The Electric Slide" have dominated dances.
The land outside was dominated by intricate water bodies.
The north is dominated by the vast lowlands of the Danube.
The middle of the room was dominated by a large oak table.
So long as a man lives within nature, he is dominated by.
We are so dominated by the needs of the self that we view.
A proud sun dominated a cloudless sky and the invigorating.
Today, the field of Primatology is statistically dominated.
There were once three great peoples that dominated Assoria.
But the meeting was dominated by the Tibetan government-.
And you can be as dominated with soft words as with the whip.
God Boy had noticed the rather large ant hill that dominated.
But its head space was dominated not by brain but by eyeball.
Television news that evening was dominated by reports from St.
The meal times and sleeping routines dominated this jail life.
This judicial oligarchy, dominated by a majority of five non-.
A picture begins to emerge of a government dominated and con-.
I had not achieved any of my jobs all weekend as you dominated.
The taunts and yells of the ern, by then, dominated the evening.
Large windows dominated just about every space in the building.
Not only is truth scarce, our lives are dominated by propoganda.
She dominated everything and wanted to be in control right away.
His face was dominated by an irritated expression he rarely used.
In 1900, the world was still dominated by the continent of Europe.
A large underground lake dominated the ground plane of the cavern.
Nemedia, dominated by the Aesir mercenaries, resists all invasions.
All beings are dominated by their governing property and act under.
Instead it was political and military news that dominated the media.
In short, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him.
It is a shame that this Plane is dominated by such aggressive rulers.
If you think mine is sex dominated you’d better not go visit her.
A black cloud of oppressive silence suddenly dominated the conversation.
The R Project organization is dominated by academia, and of companies.
Internet was dominated by the free sharing of scientific data from one.
Mostly it was the indirect experiences that dominated the conversation.
They stood in the middle of a bedroom that was dominated by a large bed.
She was in a room dominated by a roaring fire in the hearth next to her.
If there is the alternative al that is dominated by ak, al is discarded.
An ornate fireplace dominated the end of the room where they were seated.
The stark lonely spire called Shiprock dominated the view in front of us.
Our society is dominated by fear and greed, which is constantly rewarded.
It existed in an age dominated by the Female Spirit, by the Mother Goddess.
But there was another consideration that dominated his thinking these days.
Narrow paths led out into what were suburbs dominated by immigrants from.
A cathedral and a castle, the former still being built, dominated the city.
A male dominated society finds it easy to typecast women as beautiful/ugly.
But what dominates the room is a bed.
But the mother dominates these photos.
It dominates this whole area with its.
When it becomes vacant, peace of mind dominates.
States to have currency that dominates in the world.
Open, grassy country dominates most of the landscape.
Steng skepticism still dominates, This is fascinating.
So the Empire dominates and controls the trade routes.
Pride dominates the race in arrogance standing victoriously.
Usually you are lost into that identity when it dominates your.
Now that the relationship has been inverted and culture dominates over.
Medtronic’s bone-graft product, for example, dominates the spinal market.
The great Aryan race which, though not yet at its prime, dominates the world.
During the early months of pregnancy, the hormone progesterone dominates the body.
At the euphoria stage, speculation dominates and any value concerns are dismissed.
If none of the elements dominates over ak, the latter is included in the Pareto set.
In an industry of firms that have been around for decades, Advisors Excel dominates.
The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.
If none of the elements dominates over the selected one, it is included in the Pareto set.
It is obvious that the strategy selected by the criterion dominates over the rejected one.
Intel currently dominates the high-performance market with its flagship i7 2600k processor.
China dominates steel production, with generous subsidies in place for its steel manufacturers.
None of the solutions belonging to the Pareto set dominates over other solutions included in it.
He dominates whole sectors of Mexico’s economy, including stakes in banking, airlines and mining.
Hypocrisy dominates the Christian faith, and faith is the primary message delivered by Christianity.
Sometimes one or the other dominates through the story but both are essential for a satisfying narrative.
It governs the life of individuals and of nations, and it dominates the activities of the commercial world.
The United States dominates the soybean market, accounting for more than 50 percent of total global production.
With a broad distribution of companies in the index, there is no industry that dominates the index's performance.
The lower half of the Horoscope no longer dominates; the upper and lower halves are about equal in power right now.
Unexpected news dominates returns in the short run but the effects of such news tend to cancel out in the long run.
Even so, to see the human population today it is obvious that the progressive will of God dominates through the ages.
Today, America still dominates the international food aid system, providing more than half of all global food assistance.
A unified field produce by termites dominates and orders them to behave as a single organism, without contact between them.
Fear vibrations dominates at the thought of speaking, but no place to escape to as the freedom is brought into conclusion.
I catch my reflection in the windows just beyond the main corridor—my hair is stringy and limp, and the bandage dominates my forehead.
What else gives our souls a fighting chance against the ego? But money and indulgence, along with self-importance, dominates our lives.
We are working individually to purify our souls, and it must be done in the material world where magnetism and negative charge dominates.
On the other hand, jealousy that dominates the emotions causes us to lose sight of right and wrong, and could produce disastrous results.
While the particles Yin - "Matter", because the process of destruction of the Spirit and returning to the original state dominates in them.
There are few sights as gripping and soul wrenching as the heroically time-defying remains of the Parthenon which dominates the Acropolis.
From then on, most of East Africa is under the control of various Islamic regimes, and China dominates much of sub-Saharan Africa further west.
The former dominates the latter when the averaging period is small (less than 200 days) and vice versa when the period is large (more than 200 days).
South Africa dominates the platinum supply, but Russia, which contributes 52 percent of the global mine supply, is the hammer in palladium production.
It’s two in the afternoon, the time of day the erstwhile ex-owner of my shop and man who dominates the top of my lengthy shit-list never comes around.
ISIS is actually claiming to follow the teachings of Wahabism, the official, state-sanctioned hard-line variant of Islam that dominates in Saudi Arabia.
The Dark cabal which currently dominates Earth is like an octopus hanging onto a rock for dear life in pounding surf, and eventually it will be dislodged.
This element dominates over the two previous ones and it is the human innate inclination to do the biggest possible evil to animate beings or inanimate things.
Rows of glowing crystal balls line the upper level, a huge glowing crystal onion ringed with six ornate thrones dominates the sunken central portion of the room.
As long as the need to make a selfish profit dominates the soul of every human in the Nation… we will have the greedy selfishness of corruption in our politics.
It would appear that brief encounters with the right-cognitive style shows that another reality can exist in which an entirely different type of thinking dominates.
When you refuse to give yourself over to any state that ordinarily dominates you, for the first time you are conscious of the state and the ground it is rolling over.
The frequency of values that are close to the average (somewhat greater than 1) dominates substantially over the frequency of the same values of normal distribution.
Because it has been spoiled by both parents, and allowed to grow unsupervised and unregulated by both parents: it now has become a monster that dominates both parents.
This spirit of the Father partakes of the love of the Father, and as it dominates man, it unfailingly leads in the directions of divine worship and loving regard for one's fellows.
Although this best value does not fall into the interval of the desired values of this particular characteristic, it still dominates over all other variants selected at the first stage.
The moon was full and low like a wagon wheel, no doubt flanked by the two identical towers on Lafayette Street where the head of Picasso’s girl with a ponytail dominates a small square.
The one that dominates the market is Aweber There is a reason for that they deliver more than any of their competitors and have over twenty years experience of what works when it comes to email.
There is a color differential with altitude; at high altitude oxygen red dominates, then oxygen green and nitrogen blue/red, then finally nitrogen blue/red when collisions prevent oxygen from emitting anything.
One of the most interesting new companies of the first decade of the new millennium is Google, whose search engine technology dominates the market today and has been used as a device for selling online advertising.
If you have believed in Al’lah who dominates the heaven with its constellation and steers all this universe, remember then the Doomsday when you will stand between the Hands of this Grand Creator who observes everything.
It is possible to face a situation when only one single element dominates over the remaining alternatives (in this case the Pareto set consists of one element) or even the situation when no dominating alternatives exist at all.
Nations are built up and moved by another force which sways and dominates them, the origin of which is unknown and inexplicable: that force is the force of an insatiable desire to go on to the end, though at the same time it denies that end.
Passing on the left of the entrance the superb, large bronze of “Theseus battling with the Centaur,” one is fronted by the great cast of the “Lion and Serpent,” which from the centre of the gallery dominates the surrounding exhibits.
You may have the world's most robust, most profitable trend-trading system at hand, but if fear, anxiety, panic, laziness, greed, or some other unhelpful mental state dominates your frame of thinking, you are much less likely to make that system work for you.
Thus, the TEC, even of the most undeveloped human personality manifested by a LLUU-VVU-Form, is structured by Stereo-Type Configurations in which the creativity characteristic of a higher-quality UU-VVU (that is, synthesized to a greater degree) dominates over the destructive tendencies of parrgs, mmuunds, argorrs, alls, mimms or ogguls.
What flaw of character is it that makes a man so vulnerable to the existence of a single woman? That ties him to her for life and dominates his being? Is it her indifference? The occasional crumb she will throw his way? Will our scientists solving the puzzle of the human genome not discover the aberrant gene that brings on this illness and eliminate it from the human race? It will make for a happier humanity.
Here the meaning of life no longer presents itself to the author in the experiences of all kinds of debauched persons,—here the contents, as the title says, are formed by the description of a ruined, innocent, sweet woman, who is prepared for anything beautiful, a woman who is ruined by that very gross, animal sensuality which in the former stories presented itself to the author as the central phenomenon of life, which dominates everything, and the author's whole sympathy is on the side of the good.
Sinonimi per dominate
dominate predominate prevail reign rule master eclipse overshadow command overlook overtop
Dominate definizioni
1. Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
2. Be in control
3. Have dominance or the power to defeat over
4. Be greater in significance than
5. Look down on
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Sprawling Mediterranean-style resorts of generally 200 to 400 rooms dominate the coastline of Los Cabos, especially on the 29-km-long (18-mile-long) Corridor, but also on the beaches in Cabo San Lucas and San José (the town of San José is not on the coast, but inland just a bit). Near the marina in San José del Cabo, the area of Puerto Los Cabos has become a hot spot of development, with the 2014 Grand Opening of Secrets Puerto Los Cabos and a 2015 unveiling of JW Marriott. This upscale community is also home to Hotel El Ganzo, Wirikuta Cactus Gardens, Dolphin Discovery, and the Puerto Los Cabos Golf Course. There are rumors that a Ritz Carlton and Montage will follow suit along the coast.
Los Cabos resorts are known for their lavish pools and lush grounds in addition to their beachfront access, although the majority of beaches on the densely developed coastline, with the notable exception of Playa Médano in Cabo San Lucas, can have an oddly deserted appearance because of the dangerous currents in the water and the predominance of luxurious pools.
Many of the resorts along the Corridor offer all-inclusive plans if you want to check into your hotel and stay put for the duration of your stay. Choosing that option means you'll have little reason to venture out and taste some of the diverse and remarkable food available in this region. These huge resorts offer high-quality facilities and pleasant service, to be sure, but guests looking to get a feel for the local culture may find the generic, chain-hotel atmosphere frustrating. For those wanting less Westernized slickness, and a more intimate experience of Mexican hospitality, checking into one of the many excellent smaller properties is the way to go.
If you're inclined to go beyond the beach-and-party vibe of Cabo San Lucas, it's well worth spending time in Todos Santos and San José del Cabo. Both towns offer exceptional independent hotels and inns, as well as burgeoning art scenes, great restaurants, and ambience you won't find elsewhere.
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Trump says he’s nixing plan for early vaccine at White House
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was reversing an administration directive to vaccinate top government officials against COVID-19, while public distribution of the shot is limited to front-line health workers and people in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Trump made the announcement hours after his administration confirmed that senior U.S. officials, including some White House aides who work in close proximity to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, would be offered coronavirus vaccines as soon as this week under federal continuity of government plans.
“People working in the White House should receive the vaccine somewhat later in the program, unless specifically necessary,” Trump said in a tweet. “I have asked that this adjustment be made. I am not scheduled to take the vaccine, but look forward to doing so at the appropriate time.”
It was not immediately clear what the scale of the vaccination program was supposed to be, according to two people briefed on the matter, or what effect Trump’s tweet would have on the government’s efforts to protect top leadership.
News that White House staff would receive the vaccine early drew criticism on social media. Trump and his aides have consistently flouted the COVID-19 guidelines issued by his own administration, including hosting large holiday parties with maskless attendees this December.
Viral videos showing packed bar with no masks stuns NC health officials
Officials said earlier Sunday that doses of the newly approved vaccine from Pfizer would be made available to those who work in close quarters with the nation’s top leaders. They said the move was meant to prevent more COVID-19 spread in the White House and other critical facilities. Trump was hospitalized with the virus for three days in October.
“Senior officials across all three branches of government will receive vaccinations pursuant to continuity of government protocols established in executive policy,” National Security Council spokesperson John Ulyot had said. “The American people should have confidence that they are receiving the same safe and effective vaccine as senior officials of the United States government on the advice of public health professionals and national security leadership.”
The two people briefed on the matter spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The New York Times first reported that top U.S. officials would get early access to the vaccine.
The move to vaccinate top U.S. officials would be consistent with the rollout of rapid testing machines for the coronavirus, which were similarly controlled by the federal government with kits reserved to protect the White House complex and other critical facilities.
According to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is not yet enough information to determine whether those who have had COVID-19 should also get the vaccine.
Pence has not come down with the virus, and his aides have been discussing when and how he should receive the vaccine as the administration looks to boost public confidence in the shot.
The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses administered three weeks apart, meaning Trump administration officials would receive the final shot just weeks before leaving office.
Aides to President-elect Joe Biden have been discussing when and how he should receive the vaccine and have been working to establish plans to boost virus safeguards in the West Wing to keep the 78-year-old Democrat healthy.
According to a Capitol Hill official, lawmakers have not been informed how many doses would be made available to them, adding it would be premature to speculate who might receive them. The official was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Date from the Arkansas Department of Health released Saturday shows that 131,390 total doses of the COVID-19 have been given in the state, which is 40.5 percent of the 324,400 vaccine doses available thus far.
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A different type of ‘smart’ window with a new solar cell technology
I always like a ‘smart’ window story. Given my issues with summer (I don’t like the heat), anything which promises to help reduce the heat in my home at that time of year, has my vote. Unfortunately, solutions don’t seem to have made a serious impact on the marketplace. Nonetheless, there’s always hope and perhaps this development at Princeton University will be the one to break through the impasse. From a June 30, 2017 news item on ScienceDaily,
Smart windows equipped with controllable glazing can augment lighting, cooling and heating systems by varying their tint, saving up to 40 percent in an average building’s energy costs.
These smart windows require power for operation, so they are relatively complicated to install in existing buildings. But by applying a new solar cell technology, researchers at Princeton University have developed a different type of smart window: a self-powered version that promises to be inexpensive and easy to apply to existing windows. This system features solar cells that selectively absorb near-ultraviolet (near-UV) light, so the new windows are completely self-powered.
A June 30, 2017 Princeton University news release, which originated the news item, expands on the theme,
“Sunlight is a mixture of electromagnetic radiation made up of near-UV rays, visible light, and infrared energy, or heat,” said Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering. “We wanted the smart window to dynamically control the amount of natural light and heat that can come inside, saving on energy cost and making the space more comfortable.”
The smart window controls the transmission of visible light and infrared heat into the building, while the new type of solar cell uses near-UV light to power the system.
“This new technology is actually smart management of the entire spectrum of sunlight,” said Loo, who is a professor of chemical and biological engineering. Loo is one of the authors of a paper, published June 30, that describes this technology, which was developed in her lab.
Because near-UV light is invisible to the human eye, the researchers set out to harness it for the electrical energy needed to activate the tinting technology.
“Using near-UV light to power these windows means that the solar cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,” Loo added. “Typical solar cells made of silicon are black because they absorb all visible light and some infrared heat – so those would be unsuitable for this application.”
In the paper published in Nature Energy, the researchers described how they used organic semiconductors – contorted hexabenzocoronene (cHBC) derivatives – for constructing the solar cells. The researchers chose the material because its chemical structure could be modified to absorb a narrow range of wavelengths – in this case, near-UV light. To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light-emitting diode manufacturers. When the solar cell is operational, sunlight excites the cHBC semiconductors to produce electricity.
At the same time, the researchers constructed a smart window consisting of electrochromic polymers, which control the tint, and can be operated solely using power produced by the solar cell. When near-UV light from the sun generates an electrical charge in the solar cell, the charge triggers a reaction in the electrochromic window, causing it to change from clear to dark blue. When darkened, the window can block more than 80 percent of light.
Nicholas Davy, a doctoral student in the chemical and biological engineering department and the paper’s lead author, said other researchers have already developed transparent solar cells, but those target infrared energy. However, infrared energy carries heat, so using it to generate electricity can conflict with a smart window’s function of controlling the flow of heat in or out of a building. Transparent near-UV solar cells, on the other hand, don’t generate as much power as the infrared version, but don’t impede the transmission of infrared radiation, so they complement the smart window’s task.
Davy said that the Princeton team’s aim is to create a flexible version of the solar-powered smart window system that can be applied to existing windows via lamination.
“Someone in their house or apartment could take these wireless smart window laminates – which could have a sticky backing that is peeled off – and install them on the interior of their windows,” said Davy. “Then you could control the sunlight passing into your home using an app on your phone, thereby instantly improving energy efficiency, comfort, and privacy.”
Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.
“Integrating the solar cells into the smart windows makes them more attractive for retrofits and you don’t have to deal with wiring power,” said Berry. “And the voltage performance is quite good. The voltage they have been able to produce can drive electronic devices directly, which is technologically quite interesting.”
Davy and Loo have started a new company, called Andluca Technologies, based on the technology described in the paper, and are already exploring other applications for the transparent solar cells. They explained that the near-UV solar cell technology can also power internet-of-things sensors and other low-power consumer products.
“It does not generate enough power for a car, but it can provide auxiliary power for smaller devices, for example, a fan to cool the car while it’s parked in the hot sun,” Loo said.
Here’s a link to and a citation for the paper,
Pairing of near-ultraviolet solar cells with electrochromic windows for smart management of the solar spectrum by Nicholas C. Davy, Melda Sezen-Edmonds, Jia Gao, Xin Lin, Amy Liu, Nan Yao, Antoine Kahn, & Yueh-Lin Loo. Nature Energy 2, Article number: 17104 (2017 doi:10.1038/nenergy.2017.104 Published online: 30 June 2017
This paper is behind a paywall.
Here’s what a sample of the special glass looks like,
Graduate student Nicholas Davy holds a sample of the special window glass. (Photos by David Kelly Crow)
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Brushing your way to nanofibres
The scientists are using what looks like a hairbrush to create nanofibres ,
Figure 2: Brush-spinning of nanofibers. (Reprinted with permission by Wiley-VCH Verlag)) [downloaded from http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=41398.php]
A Sept. 23, 2015 Nanowerk Spotlight article by Michael Berger provides an in depth look at this technique (developed by a joint research team of scientists from the University of Georgia, Princeton University, and Oxford University) which could make producing nanofibers for use in scaffolds (tissue engineering and other applications) more easily and cheaply,
Polymer nanofibers are used in a wide range of applications such as the design of new composite materials, the fabrication of nanostructured biomimetic scaffolds for artificial bones and organs, biosensors, fuel cells or water purification systems.
“The simplest method of nanofiber fabrication is direct drawing from a polymer solution using a glass micropipette,” Alexander Tokarev, Ph.D., a Research Associate in the Nanostructured Materials Laboratory at the University of Georgia, tells Nanowerk. “This method however does not scale up and thus did not find practical applications. In our new work, we introduce a scalable method of nanofiber spinning named touch-spinning.”
James Cook in a Sept. 23, 2015 article for Materials Views provides a description of the technology,
A glass rod is glued to a rotating stage, whose diameter can be chosen over a wide range of a few centimeters to more than 1 m. A polymer solution is supplied, for example, from a needle of a syringe pump that faces the glass rod. The distance between the droplet of polymer solution and the tip of the glass rod is adjusted so that the glass rod contacts the polymer droplet as it rotates.
Following the initial “touch”, the polymer droplet forms a liquid bridge. As the stage rotates the bridge stretches and fiber length increases, with the diameter decreasing due to mass conservation. It was shown that the diameter of the fiber can be precisely controlled down to 40 nm by the speed of the stage rotation.
The method can be easily scaled-up by using a round hairbrush composed of 600 filaments.
When the rotating brush touches the surface of a polymer solution, the brush filaments draw many fibers simultaneously producing hundred kilometers of fibers in minutes.
The drawn fibers are uniform since the fiber diameter depends on only two parameters: polymer concentration and speed of drawing.
Returning to Berger’s Spotlight article, there is an important benefit with this technique,
As the team points out, one important aspect of the method is the drawing of single filament fibers.
These single filament fibers can be easily wound onto spools of different shapes and dimensions so that well aligned one-directional, orthogonal or randomly oriented fiber meshes with a well-controlled average mesh size can be fabricated using this very simple method.
“Owing to simplicity of the method, our set-up could be used in any biomedical lab and facility,” notes Tokarev. “For example, a customized scaffold by size, dimensions and othermorphologic characteristics can be fabricated using donor biomaterials.”
Berger’s and Cook’s articles offer more illustrations and details.
Touch- and Brush-Spinning of Nanofibers by Alexander Tokarev, Darya Asheghal, Ian M. Griffiths, Oleksandr Trotsenko, Alexey Gruzd, Xin Lin, Howard A. Stone, and Sergiy Minko. Advanced Materials DOI: 10.1002/adma.201502768ViewFirst published: 23 September 2015
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Toyota GT86 new car review
If you thought involving affordable sportscars belonged back in history, then you'll find Toyota's GT86 a welcome breath of fresh air. Developed and desired by enthusiasts, it remains a benchmark in the compact coupe sector, a masterclass in driving dynamics. These days, it's even better.
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The GT86 formula is simply classic: a snarly, high-revving four-cylinder engine in the nose, rear-wheel-drive, 2+2 seating, a swoopy body, a stubby gearlever and a cosy cabin with low-slung sports seats. Subaru's version of this design, the BRZ, is mechanically identical but looks a little different, plus there is a third version for the American market called the Scion FR-S which has been subtly altered again.
Common to all the variants however, is a 197bhp, 151lb ft flat four engine that uses a Subaru block and Toyota-designed cylinder heads that's been designed to spin to 7000rpm and direct its output to the road via a six-speed manual gearbox - though auto transmission is an option. So it's Old School with a modern execution - and has remained so with the various improvements that Toyota has made over the years.
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CO2 (g/km) 164 192
Urban mpg 25.9 29.4
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Combined mpg 34.9 39.8
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This is pretty much the same car that Toyota launched back in 2012, but updates since then have included revised suspension that improves corner turn-in and a selectable 'track' mode that lets the driver tap into the GT86's full potential by adjusting the level of stability and traction control, including a 'fully off' option. Under the skin, the body structure is a little stiffer than it once was, and the Showa shock absorbers have been retuned in recent years for better handling and ride comfort. Plus there's a range of more focused 'Club Series' models - which is what we tried.
The 2.0-litre Boxer engine beneath the bonnet remains, as does the relatively light 1,180 kg kerb weight which might lead you to expect the GT86 to make rather more of its 197bhp and 151lb of torque than the estimated headline performance stats of 140mph and 0-62mph in 7.6s suggest. But this car isn't just about raw power. Its lean kerb weight plays just as big a role in the way it handles and rides. A limited slip differential is also fitted as standard, reaffirming GT86's essential 'driver's car' character.
And, in this respect, all the ingredients look especially promising: quick steering and relatively low-grip tyres ensure that outright traction never overwhelms the desire to play the angles, should the driver so wish. Back-to-basics fun was always at the heart of the brief for this car. Disappointments? A short-throw gearchange that's a tad notchy and a six-speed auto option that, while smooth, lacks the snappy alacrity of the best double-clutchers. But that's about it.
This remains a very good looking car indeed. Little touches help; the stylised 'teeth' along the bottom edge of the lower grille, the piercing LED headlamps, the smart, deep rear bumper design, the aero-stabilising side fins. If the styling still isn't daring enough for you, then optional side, roof and bonnet decals are available in black or silver to add an extra dimension to GT86's sporting appearance. You can order your car with or without a rear spoiler. And there are more eye-catching 'Blue Edition' 'Club Series' models available for those wanting to rediscover their inner track hero.
Inside, the driving environment should certainly help get you in the mood, with its low-slung bucket seats and driver-centric control layout, not to mention the drilled pedals and footrest. You'll like the grippy three-spoke steering wheel, the smallest yet deigned for a production Toyota (diameter 362mm). A 4.2-inch TFT multi-information display is included in the instrument binnacle's triple-dial arrangement, with a switchable menu that provides performance-focused data, such as power and torque curves, stopwatch and a G-force monitor. As before, there are usable rear seats and a reasonably-sized 243-litre boot.
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There's now no stripped-out entry-level variant, so prices start up at around £28,000 for the standard model - or you can find another £1,150 more to get the plusher 'Pro' version with its leather/alcantara heated seats, rear spoiler and sporting suede-effect finish for the dashboard and door trims. Pro trim offers the £1,800 option of paddleshift automatic transmission. And even the standard GT86 is well-equipped, featuring 10-spoke 17-inch alloys with a machined finish, adaptive LED headlights, cruise control, powered heated door mirrors with a folding function, aluminium sport pedals, high-performance brake discs and pads, hill start assist and smart entry with push-button start. If you've a £30,000 baudget, there's also a 'Club Series Blue Edition' model, available in standard or 'Performance' guises, with or without auto transmission.
All GT86 models feature the Toyota Touch 2 multimedia system with Bluetooth, 6.1-inch touchscreen and a DAB tuner. As an option, the system can be upgraded to Toyota Touch 2 with Go, adding satellite navigation, connectivity giving access to on-line services and social media channels, and three years' inclusive map updates. Active safety provisions include a switchable VSC stability control system, which can be adjusted through three driving modes to suit driver preference, and a torque-sensing limited slip differential. Seven airbags are provided, including a driver's knee airbag.
You might be tempted by this car and then wonder if the GT86 is going to cost an arm and a leg in depreciation compared to something with a premium badge, say an Audi TT Coupe. A car with four rings on its bonnet has to be a safer home for your money right? Wrong, as it happens. Buy an entry-level TT and it'll be worth 49 per cent of its new price three years down the road. BMW's 220i Coupe? That retains around 43 per cent. The GT86? Try 58 per cent for size.
And the news keeps on getting better when you come to examine day-to-day running costs. The GT86 is reasonably economical. Yes, we know that the published figures are usually a bit of a farce that you'll never get near, but Toyota quotes 33.2mpg on the WLTP combined cycle for the manual (or 32.8mpg for the auto) and every person we know who's run one has reported averages of over 30mpg. Emissions aren't quite so clever at 191g/km (NEDC) for the manual car (or 193g/km for the auto). Finally, all this is backed up by Toyota's excellent aftermarket care package that includes a five year 100,000 mile warranty. What's not to like?
Could this car be any better? Of course, it could be faster, grippier, quieter and of better quality inside. But personally, we wouldn't really want it to be. All of those things would dilute the very qualities that make this GT86 what it is. Sportscars always used to be this way, light, low powered and modestly rubbered. We had fun in them then and we can have fun in this one now. The chassis is excellent, the controls are brilliant, the driving position nigh-on perfect and the engine, if not aurally exciting, is revvy and fun.
So, what we have here is something to savour; one of those rare machines that involves you so much that you don't need to be travelling at three figure speeds to have fantastic fun. Factor in the affordable running costs and high residuals and this becomes a very tempting proposition indeed, especially in this current guise. In years to come, it'll be a landmark car for Toyota. Get one and you won't regret it.
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7 top trips for Kayaking with the Kids
Take to the water and try something new on your next family adventure. Here are seven top destinations to go kayaking with the kids.
Based on the island of Lopud, just under an hour by ferry from Dubrovnik, this week-long active family holiday is ideal for water lovers. Spend the week exploring inlets, bays and neighbouring islands by kayak. Learn how to SUP (stand up paddle board), cycle on Sipan Island and venture into Dubrovnik to explore its winding limestone streets and grand baroque buildings. It's a great place for all the family to discover.
Discover the protected marine park of Isole Ciclopi (so called for the the mythical Cyclopes who, according to Homer's Odyssey, once inhabited Sicily). Sea kayaking around these basalt stacks, it's not hard to see how they inspired such stories; on a guided sea kayaking tour, you can circumnavigate the ancient towering sea rocks of the Faraglioni di Actirezza and hear more of their stories and history before returning back to Acicastello, the site of a Norman castle for further exploration.
Sea kayak along the coast from Central Beach towards Plettenberg Bay and discover its magical seascape. Gliding across sparkling water, take in views of the majestic Tsitsikamma Mountains, Robberg Nature Reserve and encounter incredible marine life, such as Cape Fur seals, Bottlenose and Humpback Dolphins and a whole host of sea birds.
Cabana Amarilla lies just six kilometres from Granada, making it an ideal destination to head to on bikes before taking to the waters of Lake Nicaragua in kayaks. Spend the morning paddling through some of the myriad of islands and inlets that pepper its coastline with its beautifully lush, tropical islets that occupy this vast expanse of water. The greenery is a magnet for the local bird life and there's always time to linger and enjoy this tranquil setting before having lunch on one of the islands.
Take to the waters of the beautiful Lake Gramolazzo in either double seated kayaks or stand up paddle boards to explore this lovely setting. There is ample time to paddle, kayak, swim or relax on the grassy banks of the water's edge where blue herons and an abundance of other bird life can be spotted. Kayaking gives the whole family the chance to make this experience as adventurous or tranquil as they'd like and take in all the best of this area from the water.
Head to the Gulf of Tonkin and the breathtaking scenery of Ha Long Bay.Within the bay there are many areas to be explored; visit a Vung Vieng fishing village by rowing boat or kayak, then spend the rest of the day exploring the bay. The spectacular limestone scenery means that after kayaking around the floating village, you can explore further afield and discover some of the hundreds of islands or caves scattering the bay and venture through magnificent rock arches.
Sea kayak in the calm, protected waters of the bay of Kekova. After a quick breakfast with coffee en route, paddle in the tranquil waters before any other boats or kayakers take to the water. It's one of the most scenic areas in Lycia with picturesque islands, bays and small ancient cities surrounding the famous sunken city of Kekova. The result of various earthquakes, there are partly submerged streets and buildings in the crystal-clear waters below, and even steps leading down into the depths of the bay. It's a great place for an adventurous exploration by water.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Salyut-7 (2017) Film Review
Reviewed by: Amber Wilkinson
"It's fascinating to see the usual Ground Control US politics switched out for Russian concerns."
We get so used to the dominance of English-language and, particularly, American cinema in the mainstream that it's easy to forget that it isn't just the language that has the upper hand - but also the stories. Get off the planet and - outside the arena of genre science-fiction - the dominance is even more great. This is one of the reasons why Klim Shipenko's Salyut-7 is such a treat.
Not only does it view an Apollo 13-style mission from an entirely Russian cosmonaut perspective - even going so far as to briefly feature a couple of US astronauts waving nonchalantly from a distance to the heroes of the drama - Shipenko's film is a match for US output in terms of its look and technical skill.
The plot elements feel familiar - the space station that has lost touch with ground control, the forcibly retired cosmonaut (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who is called back for one last mission to rescue it, the inexperienced co-pilot (Pavel Derevyanko) who finally gets his shot at going into space because he has the engineering skills to get the station working again. But despite the familiarity, there is a genuine sense of the unknown for non-Russian audiences, who are likely to be unfamiliar with the Salyut-7 story - it must be said that the tale has also been 'beefed' up with some additional incident, although Schipenko says that all the events here occurred in one Soviet mission or another.
It's fascinating to see the usual Ground Control US politics switched out for Russian concerns, including the fear that a foreign power will get hold of the stricken station and, with it, Soviet technology. There's also a real sense of cultural difference in some of the motifs used, such as the recurring appearance of the 1980 Olympic mascot bear Mishka (the action is set in 1985). It's also hard to imagine a US filmmaker having the nerve to include one of the best moments here - the sight of one cosmonaut sparking up a ciggie in space. The cinematography by Sergey Astakhov and Ivan Burlakov, approaches Gravity accomplishment, on a fraction of the budget.
The one element that let's the film down from a non-Russian audience is the constantly surging score, which is the aural equivalent of your gran grabbing your arm at key moments and telling you how you should be feeling. The composer changed around three months before the release of the film and you can't help but wonder if the original choice refused to amp up the music in the way test audiences wanted.
Reviewed on: 13 Dec 2017
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Cosmonauts try to dock with a rogue space station and bring it back to earth.
Director: Klim Shipenko
Writer: Aleksey Chupov, Jeffrey Hylton, Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Samolyotov, Klim Shipenko
Starring: Lyubov Aksyonova, Ilya Andryukov, Pavel Derevyanko, Oksana Fandera, Vasiliy Ignatich, Vitaliy Khaev, Sergey Korenkov, Natalya Kudryashova, Vladimir Matveev, Mariya Mironova, Nikita Panfilov, Leonid Paranin, Stepan Patnikov, Roman Perelygin, Polina Rudenko
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4WD ADVENTURE IN SHARK BAY’S OCEAN PARK WEST AUSTRALIA
3rd April 2011 No Comments
Ocean Park Aquarium in Shark Bay, Western Australia is now offering 4WD Adventure Tours to Steep Point, the most westerly point of Australian mainland.
“Steep Point is one of Australia’s true hidden treasures and an area that many travellers don’t even know about,” Mr Fenny said.
“Our expert marine guides will take you through the rich biology of the area, pointing out the “Big 5” – dugongs, sharks, turtles, dolphins and sting rays,” he said.
Mr Fenny said the Steep Point tour includes some extreme off-road four wheel driving and takes passengers to:
· The famous Zuytdorp cliffs
· Blowholes
· South Passage
· Thunder Bay
Mr Fenny says the tour also includes a guided tour of Ocean Park Aquarium, bushwalking and snorkelling in season.
“And a delicious lunch!” He said.
“We will be launching an extended 4WD tour from Shark Bay to Exmouth very soon, mostly due to increased demand from tourists and backpackers,” he said.
“With flights now operating between Shark Bay and Exmouth it’s a great opportunity for us to showcase this incredible region,” he said.
Steep Point tours run daily from Monkey Mia Resort and Denham Discovery Centre. For bookings or more information visit www.oceanpark.com.au
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Home NEWS Plans lodged for 51 apartments in Doughiska
Plans lodged for 51 apartments in Doughiska
Plans have been lodged for a residential development of 51 apartments and 2 houses across Doughiska and Merlin Park.
JLH Property Holding Company are seeking planning permission 51 one, two, and three bedroom apartments and 2 one bedroom townhouses across six blocks ranging from one to four storeys tall.
The four taller blocks, a mix of three and four storeys high, will be located along the boundary with the Dublin and Coast roads, while the smaller blocks will be at the north end facing residential sites.
The majority of three bed apartments included in the plans will be located on the ground floor of the larger blocks, with rear gardens.
“This is both congenial to family living and leaves potential for these units to be extended in the future if there ever might be a requirement.”
The main entrance and exit to the development would be off the old coast road to Oranmore.
Cyclists will also benefit from the greenway link through the site connecting to the coast road once it is constructed, one of several planned greenway routes linking Oranmore and Galway city centre.
The proposed site is also adjacent to the Dublin Bus Corridor, and the developer says that residents will have easy access to the 404 and 409 routes.
For cars, planning documents state that this development will include 50 carparking spaces, as well as space for at least 35 bicycles.
Galway city council is due to make a decision on this planning application by May 26.
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Verstappen: With Honda dedication we have everything to challenge
Max Verstappen carries the hopes of many neutrals fans as he begins his 2020 Formula 1 World Championship campaign, Red Bull and Honda have hopefully found the sweetspot with their package and the young Dutch superstar can deliver as he is capable of doing.
While Ferrari are expected to shoot themselves in the foot at some point, their drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc still have a feud to settle, thus the onus is on Verstappen to take the fight to Lewis Hamilton and, if the Reds are in the mix and they should be, we have the stage set for a great season.
All the ‘noises’ coming out of Red Bull and Honda are positive and their driver’s poker face throughout testing in Barcelona is a sure indication that all is well in the blue camp.
On the eve of the Melbourne opener, Verstappen said in the Red Bull driver preview: “I feel good and we are pushing hard as a team. Everybody here knows that to be successful you need to fully understand the car, do a lot of laps and we were pleased with our testing in Barcelona.
“We got good mileage, things ran pretty smoothly and that’s exactly what we wanted. Honda are also pushing flat out. You always want improvements and they have made a lot since last year. The real bonus is that what they say they will deliver development-wise always happens and I’m confident that will be the case again this year.
“My contract talks were pretty simple and I trust the team. I believe we can move forward and get back to challenging like we did in the past. We have the right people in the team and I think we have everything we need to challenge, especially with the dedication from Honda.
“I’d like to start the season strong because then it’s really on but we won’t know where we stand until Q2 and Q3 on Saturday in Melbourne, that’s where all the hard work over the winter really counts.”
At 22 years of age, with eight Grand Prix race wins and 31 F1 podiums, Verstappen represents the cream of the next generation of drivers and his goal is to dethrone Hamilton and Mercedes, but he can’t do it alone.
“It’s not only me … the package needs to be quick so let’s see,” explained Verstappen to reporters in Melbourne when asked if he will be champion this year.
“Lewis has been winning a lot, Mercedes has been winning a lot … as a team we try to make it difficult for them. Lewis and the team both do a great job so it’s now up to us to try to give them a harder time,” added the Dutchman.
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What Is FoodTribe And How Can You Sign Up?
by Alex Harrington October 10, 2019, 4:24 pm
After the success The Grand Tour and Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s dive into the digital world with DriveTribe, they trio have decided to take another step. This time, it’s into the world of food and cooking with a new website called FoodTribe.
What Is FoodTribe?
Like DriveTribe, which Jeremy Clarkson explains as “YouPorn but for cars,” the idea revolves around a community who can talk about food. It’s run by the same people as DriveTribe and allows anyone to discuss cooking from interested foodies to budding chefs and professionals.
There’s a constant feed of engaging content such as poles where you can vote for your favourite dishes and recipes, and articles that professionals have written, for example, why you should buy a gas BBQ over coal. It’s really quite interesting.
As a tribe leader, just like DriveTribe, you can create your own collection of content on anything food. Only like smoked meats? Then that’s all you need to talk about – if you want to talk at all.
Signing Up For FoodTribe
By clicking the menu at the top left and then sign up, you can continue with either your Facebook profile or an email address. A quick confirmation later, you’re in and ready to explore.
Scroll down to find the hottest new articles and start your adventure of following tribes, people, and creating your own content. There are already plenty of different tribes to follow, so you won’t find it difficult to find something you love.
I’m going to step back and just watch for now, I need some more recipes especially with Christmas already feeling so close. If you’ve got your own tribe, let us know, we’ll be sure to follow you!
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Indian firms most optimistic about economic recovery in 2016: Grant Thornton report
Indian business leaders have emerged as the most optimistic lot globally about economic recovery in 2016, largely owing to a pro-reforms government, recent policy announcements and regulatory changes, a Grant Thornton report says.
According to the Grant Thornton International Business Report ( IBR), a quarterly global survey of 2,580 business leaders across 36 economies, 89 per cent of the respondents in India expressed confidence in the stable government and expect economic recovery.
The survey was conducted in the October-December quarter of 2015 and participants were asked how optimistic they are for the economy in the next 12 months.
India was ranked on top, with 89 per cent respondents confident of economic recovery in 2016, followed by Ireland (88 per cent) and Philippines (84 per cent).
"We have a refreshed political will, stretched but resolute businesses, a buzzing start-up space, easing foreign capital policy and some significant legislative reforms in the pipeline -- these are all positive indicators which could not have been imagined two years ago," Grant Thornton India National Managing Partner Vishesh C Chandiok said.
While there is expectation of a recovery, corporate India cited regulations and red tape as constraints on growth. A total of 74 per cent of the respondents said bureaucratic hurdles are impediments in growth.
"The geopolitical tensions and the structural stress building up in the developed and emerging economies would continue to present both opportunities and inherent threats," Chandiok added.
Globally, business optimism heading into 2016 stood at net 36 per cent.
"The global economy continues to change and evolve, with shifting landscapes in major economies creating new challenges but also new opportunities.
"Those businesses with an instinct for growth will be best placed to spot these emerging pockets of opportunity, build new trade links, and make the most of the brighter outlook being reported for 2016," Grant Thornton Global CEO Ed Nusbaum said.
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Home Our services Consultant profiles Cardiovascular consultants Cardiovascular Surgeons profiles Bijan Modarai
Modarai, Bijan – professor of vascular surgery
Consultant profiles
Secretary: Veronica Akinpelumi
Secretary tel: 020 7188 4304
Please send referrals to: gst-tr.Vascular-Referrals@nhs.net
Languages spoke: English, Farsi and French
Areas of expertise: vascular and endovascular surgery
Bijan Modarai qualified from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1998 and trained on the London south east Thames rotation.
He obtained a PhD in 2006 and completed his higher surgical training as an NIHR academic clinical lecturer, spending a year as an endovascular fellow at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
Since his appointment as consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' in 2011, Mr Modarai has co-managed the largest UK practice in complex (branched and fenestrated) endovascular aortic repairs.
Bijan is a council member of The British Society for Endovascular Therapy and The Society of Academic and Research Surgery. He is also a member of the London Vascular Specialist Training Committee.
Specialist interests
Complex endovascular intervention, including repair of the thoracic, abdominal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.
Bijan is currently funded by the British Heart Foundation to direct a programme of research aimed at developing novel therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative strategies for patients with critical limb ischaemia.
His research programme, in partnership with national and international collaborators, focuses on:
angiogenesis in tissue remodeling
angiogenic cell therapies
the use of biomaterials to enhance cell therapy
novel imaging techniques applied to vascular disease.
International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Young Investigator Award (2005)
The Patey Prize (2007)
British Heart Foundation Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship (2011)
British Heart Foundation postgraduate symposium prize (2012)
Presidents Early Career Award (Circulation Foundation, 2013).
Find a list of Bijan Modarai's publications on KCL PURE.
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Initial Call of Duty Elite DLC Offering Starts January 24th
Activision and Infinity Ward have announced the first DLC content for Modern Warfare 3 as part of Call of Duty ELITE's premium service to multiplayer shooters the world over. Two new multiplayer maps will join the retail release's rotation on January 24th via Xbox Live and later on PS3 and PC.
The trailer above details the first two pieces of content. Liberation is a large map set in New York while Piazza is an Italian seaside map. Both of these will also be playable in Survival mode. The next piece of ELITE content will be available in February, with two more following that in March.
For those not signed up for Call of Duty ELITE's Premium service, these five pieces of DLC will be collected for purchase together in March. All of this will debut on Xbox 360 first as per Microsoft's agreement with publishing giant Activision.
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Apex Legends Season 5 trailer highlights Loba’s backstory
Robert N. Adams Tuesday, May 05, 2020
The Apex Legends Season 5 launch trailer has arrived and it gives us an exciting first look at Loba Andrade, the new Legend that’s all set to arrive with the next big Apex Legends update.
The trailer kicks off showing a battle between Mirage and Pathfinder taking place on the surface. Then, the camera pans underground and shows Loba teleporting into an underground facility. We then see a horrifying army of Revenant-style robots revealed as she continues to explore this facility.
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Loba’s father was killed by Revenant and she tries to get her revenge by shooting at a man in a stasis chamber. Unfortunately, a security system kicks in and she’s forced to retreat as an army of security robots attacks her.
Our protagonist is knocked into a deep pit, but she just barely managed to escape by teleporting to the surface. It is then that we see her surrounded by the other Legends; Revenant taunts her, and she takes a shot at him to close out the trailer.
Loba is shaping up to be a pretty cool new addition to the roster! You can see her thrilling new cinematic in the Apex Legends Season 5 launch trailer below.
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Lynn Miles on the road to support Black Flowers
Canadian singer-songwriter Lynn Miles is on the road to support Black Flowers Vol. 1-2, her double-disc album that includes both new and old songs. She has won multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards and a Juno award.
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“There are so many songs I have written over the years that have never made it on my previous albums. This is a chance for all my songs (new and old” to come to life and be heard. I choose to record this album with the simplicity of my voice, piano and guitar so that the melody and lyrics are the forefront of each song,” Miles said.
Miles’ upcoming U.S. tour dates, cities and locations are:
March 8: Austin, Texas, Artz Rib House
March 17: Austin Texas, SXSW Victoria Ballroom, Driscoll Hotel
March 18: Austin, Texas, Music Fog, SXSW Threadgills Inside Stages
March 19: Austin, Texas, SXSW Continental Club
March 22: Austin, Texas, Artz Rib House
April 23: Narrowsburg, N.Y., Tuston Town Hall
April 24: Roxbury, N.Y., Hilt Kelly Hall
April 25: Stony Brook, N.Y., The University Café
May 1: Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Maennerchor
To download a free MP3 track from the album, visit http://www.truenorthrecords.com
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Considering "A Pair of Silk Stockings," which critic, if any, do you agree with?A feminist critic might say that this story is about a woman…
It is clear that each of these philosophical approaches to the story has its own individual merits. In one sense, this story is a tale of a woman trying desperately to carve out her own identity as a woman rather than a mother who is constantly thinking of her children. Note the way that she has already meticulously planned how she will spend the money on her children before she gives in to temptation:The question of investment was one that occupied her greatly. For a day or two she walked about apparently in a dreamy state, but really absorbed in speculation and calculation. She did not wish to act hastily, to do anything she might afterward regret.Thus some would applaud Mrs. Sommers’ decision to spend the money on herself to help her define herself apart from her role as wife and mother.However, equally it is clear that Mrs. Sommers in part spends the money because she wants to be thought of as belonging to a different, higher class from the class that she belongs to at present. Note her immense satisfaction and relief as she enters the restaurant that nobody identifies her as “not belonging”:When she entered, her appearance created no surprise, no consternation, as she had herself feared it might.Finally, it is undoubtedly true that the fantasy of Mrs. Sommers allows her to gain self-esteem and confidence in society that before she lacked. Consider what the text tells us about the impact of the new clothes that Mrs. Sommers wears:Her stockings and boots and well-fitting gloves had worked marvels in her bearing–had given her the feeling of assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed multitude.This is an excellent example of how it is possible to take a myriad of different views on one text and for all of them to be correct. The real question, though, is a personal one: which view do you think to me most correct and why?
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Woman charged over Gympie stabbing done for drink driving
MORE TROUBLES: Cindy Chiquita Gram leaves Gympie Magistrates Court after her third appearance in a week.
Arthur Gorrie
CINDY Chiquita Gram, 53, of Curra, appeared in the court for the third time this week, having already been remanded after two appearances on charges linked to the alleged stabbing of a man at Two Mile.
She was fined a total of $500 this morning for driving with a reading of .126 per cent in an unregistered and uninsured car on November 3.
GYMPIE drink driver Kevin James Flenady was fined $1500 and disqualified from driving for 11 months in Gympie Magistrates Court this morning.
The 52-year-old timber worker pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol content of .249 per cent in Reef Street, Gympie on November 17.
Cooloola Cove woman Janice Lyn Grantham was fined $1000 and disqualified for six months, with no conviction recorded, after crashing her car in her own street on November 9.
She pleaded guilty to driving with a BAC of .173 per cent.
Jack Nicholas Cheers 25, was fined $700 and disqualified for six months after pleading guilty to driving in Inskip Point Road on October 6 with a BAC of .16 per cent.
At the low end of the scale, Kristofer Ian Wood had about half a drink too many and blew .054 per cent on the Bruce Highway through Gympie on November 6.
He was fined $150 and disqualified for one month, with no conviction recorded.
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I Funny: School of Laughs
Illustrated by Jomike Tejido
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Price: $9.99 / $12.99 (CAD)
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Genre: Children's Books / Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories
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To save his school library, Jamie Grimm teaches other kids how to tell jokes in a comedy class — but it’s tougher than he expects in this funny book for kids of all ages.
Teaching other kids how to be funny is the toughest gig that Jamie Grimm has ever had, and with the highest stakes. If he fails, his school library will be shut down for good!
Even though he has a national contest trophy and a TV show under his belt, Jamie Grimm isn’t one to sit back and relax. When his school has a major funding crisis, Jamie hits on a bright idea to save the day — a comedy class for the other students. Little does he know that making jokes and teaching jokes are two very different things . . . and he’s only good at one of them. With the fate of his school’s library on his shoulders, Jamie has to dig deep to see if he has what it takes to succeed at his most difficult challenge yet.
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In Heritage Properties
Downtown Halifax Historic Neighbourhoods
Grants and funding for heritage properties
Heritage Properties Frequently Asked Questions
The purpose of the Heritage Property Program is to conserve significant heritage resources including buildings, streetscapes, sites, areas, and districts that reflect the rich heritage throughout the municipality.
The principal aims of the Heritage Property Program are to:
Recognize significant heritage resources and support their inclusion in the Registry of Heritage Property for the Halifax Regional Municipality and the designation of Heritage Conservation Districts
Provide conservation advice and information to heritage property owners
Facilitate the ongoing maintenance, preservation, restoration, and the reuse/rehabilitation of heritage properties through financial incentives and the administration of provincial and municipal regulations
Work with community organizations and educational institutions to research and identify potential new heritage resources and initiatives
The Registry of Heritage Properties in Halifax Regional Municipality serves as a complete list of registered heritage properties in HRM.
Benefits to Registered Heritage Properties
The conservation of built heritage is an important part of creating a liveable, sustainable and human-scale communities in HRM. Heritage buildings provide a link to our past, while providing interesting and unique streetscapes and neighbourhoods through their varied architecture and the stories they tell about the evolution of our communities.
We conserve our heritage properties to:
Enhance our quality of life and sense of history, community and identity
Improve our economic well-being by employing local craftspeople and trades people in conservation work
Add diversity and character to new development
Contribute to sustainability by reducing landfill waste, and lessening the demand for energy and resources needed for new construction
There are also a number of benefits associated with owning a registered Municipal Heritage Property:
Recognition - a plaque is installed to officially recognize the property as an important asset to the rich cultural heritage of the community and region
Advice - Heritage staff can provide free conservation advice and on-site consultation. They can also provide valuable information on heritage properties and guidance in their ongoing management and maintenance.
Support - the municipality and the Province provide funding programs aimed at assisting heritage property owners in the maintenance of their buildings
Flexibility - the municipality provides a measure of creative flexibility in the adaptive reuse/rehabilitation of heritage properties and in new development on heritage properties
Protection - significant changes to the exterior of a heritage property require review by the Heritage Advisory Committee and approval by Regional Council. This measure of protection applies even after ownership of the property is transferred. Heritage properties are also protected from demolition by the Heritage Property Act of Nova Scotia.
In several plan areas, registered heritage property owners can also apply for uses and structures that may not be permitted in zoning regulations through the development agreement process.
Registering a Heritage Property
The municipality follows the Heritage Property Act’s standard process for heritage registration.
On May 14, 2019, Halifax Regional Council initiated a process to evaluate 61 historic buildings in downtown Halifax for their potential inclusion in the Registry of Heritage Properties. Property Owners have been notified by mail that their property is being evaluated for potential heritage registration and may have questions.
Maintaining a Heritage Property
If you are thinking of doing renovations to your heritage property, we recommend that you contact Heritage staff who can provide you with free expert advice including technical information and support as well as on-site consultation. They can also help to determine if official heritage approvals are required.
Non-Substantial Alterations
Registration as a heritage property means that the heritage value of the property will be considered when a building or development permit application is submitted for modifications to the structure or use of the property.
Registration as a Municipal Heritage Property will have little effect on most property owners. Typically, most alterations fall under the category of maintenance and repair and are approved by heritage staff with little delay.
Substantial Alterations
Those alterations which are considered substantial require review by the Heritage Advisory Committee and approval by Regional Council. The term substantial alteration is defined in the Heritage Property Act. It usually applies to significant changes to the exterior appearance of the property such as modifications to character defining elements or changes to the form or volume of the building. Heritage staff are always available to discuss projects.
Owners of registered heritage properties must request approval from the municipality for substantial alterations to their heritage property. HRM follows the Heritage Property Act’s standard process for the evaluation and approval of substantial alteration applications.
The following items are required for staff to review your request:
• cover letter describing the project;
• drawings to scale – including proposed materials;
• site plan – including the civic address and property boundaries.
Insuring a Heritage Property
The official heritage registration of a home should not have any effect on the insurance policy but you may need to shop around. A registered heritage home is insured with the same type of policy as any other older home. Repairs will be made and items replaced in the same manner. Remember, the insurer is interested in the whole house not just the exterior appearance.
Jesse Morton
Planner II - Heritage
mortonj@halifax.ca
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Fresh-Water Pool
Spa*
Babysitting*
In-Room Wireless Internet*
Dry Cleaning Service*
2 Tennis Courts
Golf (Nearby)*
Children’s Facilities
Reception Garden
Parking*
* denotes activities/services available for an additional cost. Amenities and inclusions are subject to change at any time.
Room amenities include Sheraton "Sweet Sleeper" Beds, coffee/coffee maker, cable channels, in-room safe, iron/ironing board, bath robes (Kona Wing rooms), data port. Roll-aways can be requested for a fee. Cribs are complimentary.
Maximum Occupancy: 4 Guests.
Requests for a specific bedding arrangement or room location are fulfilled by the hotel based on availability.
[1] Garden / Mountain View
One king bed or two double beds. Mountain view. Balcony. 420 sq ft / 38 sq m.
[2] Partial Ocean View
One king bed or two double beds. Partial ocean view. Balcony. 420 sq ft / 38 sq m.
[3] Ocean View
One king bed or two double beds. Ocean view. Balcony. 420 sq ft / 38 sq m.
[4] Ocean Front
One king bed or two double beds. Ocean front. Balcony. 420 sq ft / 38 sq m.
[5] Garden / Mountain View Club
One king bed. Balcony with a mountain view. Kaiulu Club Lounge access.
[6] Ocean View Club
One king bed or two double beds. Private balcony with an ocean view. Kaiulu Club Lounge access.
[7] Ocean Front Club
One king bed or two double beds. Private balcony. Kaiulu Club Lounge access.
[8] Ohana Suite
One king bed. Two room suite. Ocean view. Balcony. This room features Club lounge access. 840 sq ft / 76 sq m.
[9] Deluxe Executive Suite
One king bed. Two room suite. Ocean front. Balcony. This room features Club lounge access. 950 sq ft / 86 sq m.
Rooms with Club lounge access include:
- Open: 24 hours 7 days a week
- Continental breakfast
- Midday snack
- Hors d'oeuvres
- Grab & Go snacks available all day
- High-Speed Wi-Fi
- Cocktails, for a fee
- Complimentary non-alcoholic beverages
- Business services, for a fee
Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay offers the following restaurants:
Manta Ray Bar & Grill - Guests will find freshly prepared light meals and salads, along with a host of frosty tropical drinks at the pool-side Manta Ray Bar & Grill.
Kai - This is the place for start-your-day-right breakfasts with stunning bay views. In the evening, the restaurant is transformed for its elegant offerings of dynamic Hawaiian Regional fare prepared with island flair.
Kamaha'o - For a unique Hawaiian cultural and dining experience, you will want to reserve your place at the table for Kamaha'o on the Hawaii Lawn at Sheraton Keauhou for a culinary and cultural experience that is truly something to write home about. (Held each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening beginning June 19, dates subject to change).
Caffe Hahalua - This coffee house tempts you with fragrant freshly roasted coffee selections in the morning and irresistible, refreshing Italian gelato in the afternoons.
Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay offers the following bar:
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Brad Pitt addresses going to the Golden Globes alone
He didn't want any press attention
By Jessica Davis
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Brad Pitt joked about the pressures of dating during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes last night.
Pitt, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, explained that he chose to attend the awards alone because of the inevitable media attention.
“I wanted to bring my mum but I couldn’t because any woman I stand next to, they say I’m dating and it’d just be awkward,” he said on stage.
Brad Pitt called Jennifer Aniston a good friend
As well as referencing his mother, he also mentioned Leonardo DiCaprio, who he starred alongside in Quentin Tarantino’s summer blockbuster.
Reffering to him by his nickname "LDC", Pitt said: “He’s an all star, he’s a gent, and I wouldn’t be here without you, man.”
He then went on to joke about DiCaprio's career-launching Titanic role: “I thank you. Still, I would’ve shared the raft.”
DiCaprio was also given another shout out on stage during the evening, as host Ricky Gervais roasted him for excessively dating younger women.
The comedian, who presented the awards, didn't hold back, also making a joke about Prince Andrew.
“[It’s] almost three hours long – it’s an epic” Gervais said of Tarantino's film, adding: “Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end his date was too old for him.”
Gervais continued: "Even Prince Andrew was like, 'Come on mate.'"
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A note on “End Meeting for All” by Tim Etchells
This project – in the form of three short improvised video pieces, linked or connected as chapters – had its informal beginnings in the early days of the lockdown in the UK. In early March we had abandoned physical rehearsals in Sheffield for a new theatre work, “Under Bright Light”, which was due to open in Germany on 23rd April. Instead of working, everyone was home alone dealing, in different circumstances, with the unfolding reality and stresses of the pandemic. In the weeks that followed, like everyone else, we met up online, discussing the situation, health and fears for the future, our now-cancelled-or-postponed plans, the survival of the company, doom from the newspaper, frustrations with the UK government. Although we weren’t working on anything creative, and had no particular impulse to do so at that point, I realised we were slowly starting to understand the Zoom grid as a kind of stage – a space we shared but in which we were nonetheless both connected and disconnected. As theatre makers who’ve long had an interest in collage as a methodology, something chimed with this, and with the way that the grid of screens brought together different partially connected realities in different cities, the screen a kind of membrane or imperfect portal between worlds.
Preparations for “End Meeting For All” began with the kinds of improvisation (fooling around) that characterise work in Forced Entertainment’s studio – experiments without clear goal, in which the ‘situation’ at hand and materials of different kinds are tested, manipulated, undermined, their problems or limits embraced and subverted. We were drawn to content that came directly from the context – from the experience and introspection of lockdown, concerns about health and family, the very particular problems of communicating online and the collision of theatrical ambitions with crowded and cluttered domestic situations.
We’re no strangers to working online; meetings with some people present only remotely have long been part of the mix and we did our first live stream – of the durational performance “Speak Bitterness” – back in 2008. Since then, thanks to presentations of 24-Hour “Quizoola!”, “And on the Thousandth Night”, “12am: Awake & Looking Down“ and “Complete Works: Tabletop Shakespeare” via internet, it’s often felt that particular works have made their rightful place in that kind of broadcast, where the improvised onscreen action can be paralleled by exchange from audience on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.
This new work we’re presenting now – “End Meeting For All” – is a strange hybrid object though; recorded live in a single take, each episode is streamed as a recording – a fixed trace of past time. The work itself has gone from conception to rehearsal / preparation and recording in a rapid process that’s been (like human interaction for so many people at the moment) entirely remote. In working quickly, we’ve developed a rough and ready approach that embraces the jagged edges inherent in the medium, relishing the mistakes, technical limits, unruly energies and chaotic possibilities of our six-screen Zoom grid, learning on our feet to compose and make comical and poetic moves inside a dramaturgy that weaves between the different screens.
The end result – cross-cutting people in different locations, contradictory impulses played out over one another – comes in three episodes that share a mediated theatricality whilst proposing their own quite distinct flavours and atmospheres. There are dysfunctional conversations, private rituals and dressing up games, melodramas alongside everyday banter, poignancy wrapped in absurdity, irreverence masking fear, intimacy held in tension by distance. It’s a work that’s arisen from the fraught context we’re all in, marked by our finding ways to support each other and our wider communities, made in the frame of our sheltering from the horror, meanwhile devouring news, counting and waiting out the days, while our government stumbles around. It's a fragment of ‘now’ falling into place via improvisation, a notebook sketch in three parts, non-scenes for an impossible theatre, a kind of echo-location, a reaching for something.
We hope you enjoy the work.
Stay safe. Hold politicians to account. Support those who are vulnerable.
Tim Etchells, for Forced Entertainment, April 28, 2020.
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Big Red Lounge: Official BS Forum
By suh_fan93,
March 11, 2020 in Big Red Lounge: Official BS Forum
Moiraine 17,435
Moiraine
Thinking about this stuff on a state level makes it easier to grasp:
"Again, if we were to do nothing, nearly 67,500 Utahns would get sick and require hospitalization by next month — roughly 17 times the number of available hospital beds in the entire state and more than 100 times the number of ventilators there are in the state.
Unable to care for all of the sick, an estimated 64,000 would die in Utah alone."
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/03/23/robert-gehrke-will-utah/?fbclid=IwAR1xAsHi11DpRklAPTcW93NIU66ayS9gvVZFkyIcD-biQvj-OuWMyB9csOw
Created Mar 11
knapplc 146 posts
Mavric 124 posts
RedDenver 111 posts
BigRedBuster 105 posts
some people just dont f#&%ing get it Whether or not your symptoms are as sucky as the flu has nothing to do with the severity of the situation.
Decoy73
March — major PPE shortage, virtually all experts agree in saving masks for front line workers. Present — no mask shortage. Experts (except Trumpers) say wear a friggin mask in public. Situat
funhusker 3,615
funhusker
5 hours ago, knapplc said:
Right-wing media is pushing the idea of "panic" over this virus. It's pretty clear where you're getting this from, and it doesn't belong here.
Wal-Mart in Fremont is not, in fact, emptied out. Not sure where you're making that claim (I presume it's a joke) but your friendly local Fremont Tribune has nothing on this.
There is commerce. The highways are not, in fact, empty. I'm looking out my window at I-80 right now and I can see dozens of trucks driving past Lincoln. So, again presuming this is a joke, but it's not funny. This whole schtick is not funny.
There is no such thing as the "Wuhan virus." The CDC has warned, repeatedly, about using ethno-centric terms to describe this virus. But right-wing media continues to use it, as does Trump.
I was at Menard's in Elkhorn yesterday casually buying garden seeds...
Some may say I'm a survivalist rummaging through minimal resources to feed my family...
lo country 5,542
lo country
Talked to a neighbor the other day.....Coronavirus came up. Happens he is a research scientist that studies respiratory virus. Works at our local (prominent hospital). Says we are not doing much to flatten the curve. Thinks things are worse off than they appear to "prevent panic". Thinks we should do a nationwide lockdown. Says hand washing and social distancing are the key. Doesn't see a lot of that save for the cities going into lockdown........Had a neighbor just lose both parents in CT in a matter of days to Covid. It is a MFer....Plain and simple.
People need to listen to the CDC. Gas, grocery and doctors and that's it.....NC Gov just cancelled school (K-12) until May 15....All colleges/universities on line only.....Bars/Restaurants already closed. Weds tattoo parlors, sweepstakes, movie theatres , nail salons, hair salons etc.....
Stay well Huskerboard. Help those who need it. Be human...
And if I am wrong, who cares. I spend more quality time with the fam, get back to basics, be a better human......
drfish 290
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Three-Star Recruit
I am gratified to see that many are starting to take this seriously. It is important that we do what we can to "flatten the curve" so that we do not overwhelm the medical system. The fact of that matter is that we don't really know what the attack rate for this virus will be (i.e., how many will catch it. We don't know what the final case fatality rate will be, 3% has been postulated, but we won't know for some time. One thing to remember is that, at least locally, we are not very many people with mild symptoms, so the actual number of cases is likely much higher than the reported case numbers. I do not know if that is the case for New York. We are still on target for 50,000 cases by Wednesday, but it looks like it will not be 90,000. The last 3 days or so have seen a slight slowing in the overall rate of increase of new cases, but it is not enough to say it is a trend. The danger in positions like Thurston's is that if we under-react, by the time we figure that out, it is too late to try to put the genie back in the bottle. Distancing is the only tool that we can be confident in at the moment. It is important to use it.
We should all please remember that we are all in this together. If you have friends or neighbors in a high risk group, offer to pick up groceries for them if you are going. Also, we need to be cognizant of the fact that those with little means are likely to be most affected by the economic impact of this thing. Don't forget your local food bank.
Stay home if you can. Go out if you must, but keep your distance from others (about 6') and wash your hands. 'There is a difference between panic and being smart.
Again, if you have a fever and cough, please call your medical office before coming in. They can tell you if you need to be evaluated , or if you can care for yourself at home. Everyone with a cough that comes in burns up a mask that is hard to replace most people with have mild symptoms that do not require special medical care.
Be Safe. will check in on Wed.
knapplc 39,775
knapplc
All we gotta do is what South Korea did. En masse. It'll take some time, but we can get it under control.
48 minutes ago, knapplc said:
Not an alarmist, but I HOPE we do not lift the travel restrictions or whatever POTUS wants to do as early as one week from now.....Let's keep to closures, hope the stimulus passes and we can truly mitigate this. IMHO, non-expert opinion, looking at the incredibly mobile and fluid population we have, I do not think trying to only regulate "hot spots" will work. But that's just me.
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10 hours ago, lo country said:
This made me realize a strange phenomenon I'm experiencing right now, but it's sort of hard to describe.
I've essentially gone into a full lockdown since last Tuesday, and I consider myself very blessed/fortunate to be able to do so with my line of work and overall life situation. But, it also wasn't that hard. I've definitely had to make some sacrifices to make it work. The inside of my home office is beginning to feel like a prison. However, it's the right thing to do.
So, when I see things about people choosing to NOT social distance, and that pockets of the country are not doing what they're supposed to be doing, it's almost hard to believe. I've only seen my wife the last four days. I've left the house to go on dog walks, exercise outside and the grocery store; nothing more. And if me being an effective hermit for the foreseeable future has even the smallest chance of helping to save lives... that feels pretty worth it.
BigRedBuster 23,937
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31 minutes ago, Enhance said:
It truly is extremely selfish of people who think they can just do whatever they want because a) they don't believe the hype or, b) the rules don't apply to them.
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Shields announced earlier this week that he was donating 96,000 meals to Harvesters, as well as the Food Pantry at Jewish Family Services. Both organizations are well-known to the Kansas City Chiefs community. LINK
7 minutes ago, NUance said:
One year when Bill Callahan was coach (I think) we were volunteering at the Matt Talbot kitchen. Just as we're starting to prep for dinner one Saturday, these guys come in and say that Will Shields threw a tailgate for some of the 1990s players (so it must have been Homecoming?) and they had a TON of leftover food, and did we want it. So we put the food we were going to make into the fridge and served what they donated.
It was amazing Southern comfort food. I believe there were collard greens, and I'm not really sure what else, but there were for sure red beans and rice that were just absolutely amazing. Shields' mom made it, and everyone loved it.
But there was SO MUCH food. We fed everyone who came to the kitchen that night, then took a couple of huge containers to the Mission on 1st street, and we still had enough leftover that each of the volunteers took home a container. And that was after they'd all eaten at the tailgate.
Best beans & rice ever. Would love to have that recipe.
This is interesting. I recently held a hospitality event in Salt Lake City. We had a ton of food left over and someone mentioned there was a mission around the corner and I said I wanted to send the food over there. I was told I couldn't because it wasn't in sealed containers and already cooked. It still pisses me off. I wish I would have just loaded up the food, drove it over there and made them tell me they didn't want it. I'm guessing they would have LOVED to have it.
28 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:
Different local health codes, maybe? I can see why they would balk at open food like that. It's too bad, though. Was there a bunch of waste then?
Big amount that I'm sure just went in the trash.
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The NCAA has suffered a major decrease in revenue for the current fiscal year due to the coronavirus pandemic forcing a shutdown on spring sprints, including the cancellation of the always lucrative NCAA Tournament, according to a major credit-rating firm in a report from USA Today. The NCAA faces decreases of $475 million in revenues and $380 million in expenses for its current fiscal year, a 42 percent decline in revenue and a 36 percent slash in expenses from 2019, according to figures observed by Moody’s Investors Service.
I miss sports so much right now that I would love to be thumbing through the channels and come across a Manchester United vs. Liverpool game and just sit and watch.
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Malaysian equity crowdfunder Crowdo became the first licensed peer-to-peer (P2P) lender in Singapore in July.
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AAMT - 2013 (Volume 1 - Issue 03)
Paradise Mobility Aids
V.Vinitha, R.Soundarya, N.Divya, R.Bagyalakshmi, 2013, Paradise Mobility Aids, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (IJERT) AAMT – 2013 (Volume 1 – Issue 03),
Authors : V.Vinitha, R.Soundarya, N.Divya, R.Bagyalakshmi
Volume & Issue : AAMT – 2013 (Volume 1 – Issue 03)
1.V.Vinitha 2.R.Soundarya 3.N.Divya 4.R.Bagyalakshmi 1.U.G.Scholar 2.U.G.Scholar 3.Assistant professor 4.Associate professor Department of EEE
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Disability and impairment are two different concepts. The distinction in definitions has gradually come about with the advance of the social model of disability. Impairment is the physical or mental limitation a person has, so the purely factual absence of or loss of function in a body parts .Disability, on the other hand, is the limitation to a person with an impairment caused by societys attitudes, physical environment, institutional and legal barriers. If a child cannot go
to school because the steps are too high, the books are not available in Braille, the teacher and other pupils will not accept the child, or the transport to school is impossible, then that is called a disability. Impairments can be medically classified, or treated, or provided technical aids for; disabilities cannot. To most people with a disability, the impairment is not the main problem; but disability is. Therefore, disability is what we must focus on.
Keywords: Mainstreaming disability, twin track approach, mainstream development
NEED TO MAINSTREAM DISABILITY IN DEVELOPMENT
There are people with disabilities in all target groups. In a medical model and disability-specific approach, the needs of people with a disability are often not understood. People themselves see economic survival and social participation as more essential than medical treatment or rehabilitation. People with a disability are more likely to be poor, because of the costs associated with treatment, loss of income and strain on caregivers. Disability works as a magnifier of problems, leading vulnerability to sudden shocks. Charity cannot scope with this structural problem. Inclusion is cheaper than special services. The United Nations Convention on the Rights on Persons with Disabilities must be implemented. It is essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).A key strength of mainstreaming is that it helps decrease attitudinal barriers against impairment
.When people with a disability are allowed to take part in and co- decide over regular development programmes, they become more visible to the rest of society.
Is disability always a result poverty:
A key strength of mainstreaming is that it helps decrease attitudinal barriers against impairment. When people with a disability are allowed to take part in and co-decide over regular development programmes, they become more visible to the rest of the society.
SITUATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Approx. 10% of the world population has a disability, of which 90% lives in developing countries. In general disabled people belong to the most vulnerable groups of society. The EFA (Education for All) Global Monitoring Report 2007 estimated that one third of the 77 million children still out of school are disabled, and that fewer than 10 percent of disabled children in Sub- Saharan Africa attend school (UNESCO, 2006). Disabled people often do not have access to the labour market and are depending on family members .They are more vulnerable for sexual abuse and are more likely to get infected with HIV/Aids. They have poor access to information on HIV-Aids and have less access to health care and HIV-Aids services.
2.5 PROCESS TO ACCESS BASIC SERVICE PROGRAMS
The process towards inclusion of all people in the Access to basic services programs can be split up into different steps. The steps are:
Questionnaire to partner organisations
Assessment of partner organisations
Workshop on mainstreaming disability
Development of capacity building plan
Capacity building of partner organizations
Inclusion of disabled people in the programs (evaluation)
Strengths of mainstreaming disability:
SOCIAL INCLUSION:
Mainstreaming disability also creates a range of opportunities for people who formerly were hidden away in shelters and institutions. Instead of being dependent inmates, they are gradually allowed to go into the real world and do the things that all people do: working, learning, socializing and having fun. Not only societys attitudinal barriers are broken down, but most of all their own. Social inclusion generates self-esteem, and self- esteem is what powers action for equal rights.
Participation (institutional barriers):
Institutional barriers are lifted when policies, laws and basic services become inclusive of people with a disability. In many countries, laws exist that discriminate against disabled people. Even if there are not such laws, disability discrimination is enshrined in daily governance practice. Also, schools tend not to accept children with a disability, because they think they cannot provide for such a child. Sometimes, children are accepted, but no assistance or materials are provided, so the children cannot participate.
Access for all (environmental barriers):
A big problem is access to transport and buildings. Without accessible transport, disabled people cannot get anywhere outside their home, block or village. Without buildings being accessible, they cannot enter or move around within. This really impedes their possibility to participate in daily activities, go to school, work and social meetings. A solution to this is called Universal Design: a set of guidelines and rules that help architects and local government plan building works ahead of time to make buildings, roads and means of transport accessible to all people within society.
Cost benefits and other practical advantages :
One of the great strengths of mainstreaming disability in development is that it is much cheaper and more sustainable than ad hoc project-based, disability-specific interventions. Firstly, building new special schools and institutions, hiring medical and educational professionals, importing technical equipment from abroad and providing for people on a daily basis cost a lot of money.
opportunities for mainstreaming disability are:
The new emerging legislative and policy frameworks; (Self-) advocacy; Learning from other mainstreaming efforts, such as gender mainstreaming;The increasing numbers of freely available tools and manuals online; Networks and platforms in which NGOs and DPOs discuss and coordinate their strategy.
constraints to mainstreaming disability are:
A (perceived) lack of money, time and/ or capacity, especially for local NGOs . That disability is not mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals, and is therefore not on the global agenda; Attitudes among professional (development) staff, who do not understand the need to make special provisions for disability or are afraid to lose their technical/ medical job;
A lack of (academic) research on disability-related development issues in general and on disability statistics in particular. A lack of formal accountability mechanisms and of disability-specific indicators for monitoring and evaluation. Though the concept of disability mainstreaming is strong in theory and ideology, the practical implementation is a little more complicated.
Media influence o attitudes towards disability:
In trying to remove disabling practices, a major obstacle that must not be overlooked is bureaucracy. Putting files on a desk can be done easily, but actually having them read, discussed and implemented is another. Mainstreaming of disability overall suffers from disregard and half-hearted implementation.
strengths of mainstreaming disability are:
It enables people with a disability to participate in daily society. It helps decrease attitudinal, institutional and environmental barriers; It is more cost-effective and capable of servicing many more people than charity approaches; It allows for people with a disability to be independent and make their own decisions for life.
weaknesses of mainstreaming disability:
The sheer scope and size of the project, as well as the effort that has to be put in to achieving sustainable improvement, is often grossly underestimated. That, due to a variety of different (half-hearted) approaches, views and interests mainstreaming efforts are fragmented and uncoordinated. There needs to be more clarity on the concept that disability as a concept and disabled people as a group are often generalised yet every group requires a different approach.
The new emerging legislative and policy frameworks; (Self-) advocacy; Learning from other mainstreaming efforts, such as gender mainstreaming; The increasing numbers of freely available tools and manuals online; Networks and platforms in which NGOs and DPOs discuss and coordinate their strategy.
A (perceived) lack of money, time and/ or capacity, especially for local NGOs. That disability is not mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals, and is therefore not on the global agenda; Attitudes among professional (development) staff, who do not understand the need to make special provisions for disability or are afraid to lose their technical/ medical job;
A lack of (academic) research on disability-related development issues in general and on disability statistics in particular; A lack of formal accountability mechanisms and of disability-specific indicators for monitoring and evaluation.
How does this all balance out? On the one hand mainstreaming disability has a vast potential and increasing opportunities to realize it; yet on the other hand, it remains low on the agenda of many countries and (influential) development actors, for whom survival of the fittest is not merely a catchphrase. The movement with the most supporters, the loudest voice and the largest financial resources will be most likely to attract significant worldwide attention but, in fear of sounding gloomy, that will not be the mainstreaming disability campaign.
But lets not be disappointed. Globalization and new aid modalities have provided civil society with communication technology and with alliances between all sorts of organisations from the top to the very grassroots of society.
People with disabilities themselves should be empowered and stand up for their rights. If they do, they again can raise awareness with others and lead them to education, employment and a dignified life.
www.inclusivesector,http://www.inclusive – development.org/cbmtools/part3/4/UrbanDevelopment/ DisabilitysensitiveindicatorsUrbanDevelopmentsector.p df
CBM (2006-8), Disability sensitive indicators for the Water and Sanitation sector, www.inclusive- development.org/cbmtools/part3/4/WaterandSanitation/ DisabilitysensitiveindicatorsWaterandSanitationsector.p df
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Cloud Computing for Visually Challenged Persons
A design of digital image sensor based on UWB
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Wireless Communication With Wibree
Radhika K, Ramya K, V V Karthik, 2013, Wireless Communication With Wibree, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (IJERT) NCRTICE – 2013 (Volume 1 – Issue 04),
Authors : Radhika K, Ramya K, V V Karthik
Radhika k, Ramya K, V V Karthik Dept. Of ISE,City Engineering College radhikakrishna.krishna1@gmail.com
ramyakr592@gmail.com, vvkarthik.alien@gmail.com
The number of computing and telecommunications devices is increasing and consequently the focus on how to connect them to each other. The usual solution is to connect the devices with a cable or sometimes using infrared light to make file transfer and synchronization possible. The infrared solution eliminates the cable but requires line of sight. To solve these problems a new technology, Wibree radio technology complements other local connectivity technologies, consuming only a fraction of the power compared to other such radio technologies, enabling smaller and less costly implementations and being easy to integrate with Bluetooth solutions to connect a wide range of computing and telecommunications devices easily and simply without the need for connecting cables. Furthermore it can also be used to enable communication between several units, such as small radio LANs. This results in a multitude of possible future user scenarios. This article focuses on why this technology has got a large attention although it is in development, pros and cons with respect to other technologies and lots more.
KeywordsWireless Technology, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, HID (Human interface device), LAN, WiMax, Wireless USB, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
: Basics for choosing a Short Range Wireless Technology:
Wireless has already transformed the things we carry and the way we work in the wider area, most notably with our eager acceptance of the mobile phone, both as an extension of our personal communication and also as an object of desire. The question is which wireless technologies will appear in the plethora of electronics devices we currently buy. There is no easy answer despite the claims that their marketing machines may make no one wireless technology is the universal panacea each has its specific niche within the brave new wireless world.Most have specific areas of excellence and many overlap. To
choose which suits your need, you need to consider carefully what you want toachieve and the environment in which youwish to deploy it. Every application has its own, unique requirements, but the general list of these remains constant across most wireless applications:Range, Data Rate, Battery Life, Security, Cost, Quality of Service, Interoperability, Qualification and Approval.
The first two, range and data rate generally provide the first selection points regarding which are the likely contenders. Although most radio standards are capable of transmitting small amounts of data, those that are designed for higher data rates are usually inefficient if you only need to transfer a small number of bits of information. However, if you already have an infrastructure for a higher data rate standard, it may be more cost effective to continue to use that for your local M2M connections.
:The Wireless Zoo Apart from the well-known Bluetooth format, which operates at a distance of up to 10 m (and the less common Bluetooth Class 1, which can broadcast up to 100 m) and can transmit up to 3.0 Mb/s, there are currently a host of other wireless technologies more planned for the next few years. The following is a list of some of the main technologies
Initially conceived in the 1990's, this wireless protocol was developed for wireless local area networks (LANs) and is used to connect computers, mobile phones, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phones, game consoles, and even TVs and cameras. The range of Wi-Fi is also considerable and can exceed 100 m in some outdoor conditions. One of the main problems with Wi-Fi is its high power consumption, which is the result of the relatively long range and high data transfer rate of the technology. Wi-Fi is also relatively expensive and has higher latency than some of the other wireless technologies.
ZigBee is the name of an alliance of companies formed around a standard approved in 2003 called
802.15.4. The ZigBee protocol promises to provide a long battery life (months or even years on a single battery charge) and to be a lower-cost alternative to Bluetooth for wireless sensing and control applications. The ZigBee alliance consists of a group of companies that includes Invensys, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, and Philips, to name a few. Its name comes from the zig-zag flight path of bees, forming mesh networks between flowers. Members of the ZigBee alliance believe that mesh networking is the key to unattended wireless systems for smart homes as well as wirelessly-controlled sensors for medical uses and industry. ZigBee also displays very low latency (much lower than Bluetooth, for example), which is critical for certain applications such as heart sensors. Many other technologies like WiMaX, Wireless USB, Radio Frequency Identification etc. are also in race with Wibree.
Wibree
Introduction will become the worlds fastest growing technology
The recent announcement of the Wibree standard by Nokia seems to have caught the industry unawares. The initial response of many analysts and much of the media has been to categories it as yet another competitor in the 2.4 GHz space. One of the most important aspects of Wibree is that it envisages dual-
mode chips that can support both Bluetooth and Wibree. This symbiotic existence is key to Wibrees success. There will also be single-mode Wibree chips that offer low power operation, which will enable a wide range of devices to talk to these dual mode chips. The bulk of Bluetooth chips shipped by 2008 will include Wibree dual-mode functionality, effectively for free; it means that by the end of 2009 there could be over 100 million Wibree enabled handsets in existence. It is a strategy that means Wibree will redefine the speed at which a new wireless technology can be rolled out into the market. All existing records, both in consumer goods and wireless technologies are set to be overturned when Wibreeleaves the starting blocks. Because of the fact that it will be integrated inside Bluetooth chips, it is likely to reach that one million shipment milestone in just one week. That combination of Wibree within a Bluetooth chip is vitally important in understanding its place and the role that it can fulfill. Because low power, personal Wibree devices will be able to communicate with handsets, it means that in time every mobile phone becomes a Wibree gateway to the mobile network. So every Wibree device can communicate with the internet, allowing information to be sent backwards and forwards. And because the data rates are low, the cost of this data transfer will be a negligible portion of the users monthly phone contract. That paradigm change will enable a wide range of additional services that today are just too expensive for widespread deployment.
Where Wibree came from
In 2001 two industry groups put forward proposals for the form of this radio. Nokia headed one of the groups and proposed a development that was handset centric. A major tenet of their design was that it can be deployed with minor effort into devices already having Bluetooth, e.g. cellphones with the added requirement that a common RF section with Bluetooth must be possible. Their vision was also broader than that of the competing camp in that it envisaged a world of a trillion wireless, web connected devices. Key slideshows millions of connected laptops, billions of mobile phones and trillions of what could be interpreted as Wibree enabled devices. In the event, the IEEE committee
chose to adopt the alternative proposal for the
802.15.4 standard. However, Nokia didnt stop work on their proposal. Over the intervening years it has developed and matured into what has now been announced to the world as Wibree. The original proposals are still available for public viewing on the IEEE site .The name has also raised eyebrows. Like Bluetooth, it is a new word that tells us little of the technology. The Wi is the now obligatory prefix for wireless, with Nokia claiming that the bree comes from the Old English word for a crossroad. So we have Wireless at the Crossroad, whichever takes your fancy; one thing is certain – Wibree will certainly herald a new era of personal wireless connectivity. And the engagement of the major Bluetooth silicon vendors will ensure that it will quickly appear in hundreds of millions of handsets.
Wibree Technology
Wibree is the first wireless technology to solve the needs in a single solution.
Ultra low peak and average power consumption in both active and idle modes. Ultra low cost & small size for accessories & human interface devices (HID)
Minimal cost & size addition to mobile phones & PCs. Global, intuitive & secure multi-vendor interoperability
Wibree device architecture
Wibree specification has been created by having two equally important implementation alternatives in mind, namely dual-mode and stand-alone. In the dual mode implementation the Wibree functionality is an add-on feature inside Bluetooth circuitry sharing a great deal of existing functionality resulting in a minimal cost increase compared to existing products. The dual modes are targeted at mobile phones, multimedia computers and PCs. The standalone implementations are power and cost optimized designs targeted at, for example, sport, wellness, and human HID product categories.
Examples for dual mode implementation and device which is standalone application
Wibree radio specification
Band with physical layer bit rate of 1 Mbps and provides link distance of 5-10 meters. Wibree radio specification enables dual-mode implementations to reuse Bluetooth RF part but also to guarantee ultra- low power consumption for devices with embedded stand-alone implementation of the Wibree specification. Wibree operates in 2.4 GHz ISM. Wibree link layer specification Wibree link layer provides ultra-low power idle mode operation, simple device discovery and reliable point-to-multipoint data transfer with advanced power-save and encryption functionalities. The link layer provides means to schedule Wibree traffic in between Bluetooth transmissions.
Wibree host & profile specifications Wibree is adopting the principle of profiles to define its most common application areas. In its initial release, these cover the watch, sensors and Human Interface Devices (HID). The receiving device doesnt need to be static for this scenario. A feature of the short time required to complete a data transfer means this profile can be used with moving receivers. If we consider a transmitter with a 100 meter range, a vehicle moving at 100 km/hr will be within range of the transmitter for around 4 seconds more than enough time to pick up traffic information from a beacon. An increasing number of vehicles already have a driver display that is Bluetooth enabled its called their satellite navigation system. Theres only a minimal incremental cost to Wibree enable it to receive additional messages from roadside transmitters. It makes Wibree a very interesting proposition to those developing ITS (Integrated Traffic System) applications.
Applications 9.1.Sports
Many of us enjoy an active lifestyle. Wibree enabled
products can provide a multitude of appealing
applications, ranging from the measurement and consequent optimization of a professional athletes performance during a workout session to the automatic selection of suitable music from your mp3 player to match your heart rate while bicycling to work.
A healthy living is important to all of us. Whether monitoring your heart rate and blood pressure at home to improve your personal diet or being connected over-the-air to your physician while rehabilitating out of hospital, Wibree makes being healthy easier.
Kids love toys, and so do many of their parents. Steer your little racing car clear of obstacles with your mobile phone; watch your little robot interact with that of your friend when they come close and tune up the volume to your favorite beat with your tiny mp3 player remote control. Wibree enabled toys and gadgets take play to the next level.
A growing number of us use a personal computer in our daily work or at home, and expect the best performance and ergonomics from the devices we use to interact with the computer. Moreover, work often travels with us and so it is important that we can set up a convenient working environment while on the move. Wibree ensures that your wireless keyboard, mouse and digital pen will work when you work.
Pros and Cons with other technologies:
Pros:Integrate with Bluetooth Chips, operates on 2.4Gh Band, low power consumption, Less cost, packets are transmitted with differential length, (M)Any device can contact with any device Cons:Confined to 10m range, Not suitable for large file sharing, Data transmit rate is 1Mb/s Although there are cons present with first phase of Wibree Technology. More Research work is going on it to reduce the cons and to produce best Wireless Technology to the world
Taking all of these factors together, Wibree has the potential to transform consumer devices. It will solve the technology and monitoring issues that are currently hindering the adoption of wireless healthcare services and enable a whole new generation of lifestyle, monitoring and safety products. By making the mobile handset the gateway, it brings the network operators into the equation. And they have the resources to aggregate andenable service provision. Today Wibree is a Nokia solution. However, it is being supported by the major Bluetooth chip vendors including Cambridge Silicon Radio and Broadcom. That means it will reside within the chips in almost every brand of handset. It is unlikely that other phone vendors will not take advantage of its presence, not least because it offers the network operators an additional revenue stream. Its presence will make it very difficult for any other short range, low power wireless technology to gain traction in the handset, ensuring that Wibree is placed to own the wireless healthcare market. Wibree will enable C2M – Consumer to Machine or Consumer to Middleware applications at a price point that makes them mass market. M2M is only just beginning to deliver against its promises. Wibree may result in C2M delivering an even larger promise in a shorter timescale. By the end of 2007 wireless industry expects to be able to provide the first modular products to allow developers to start work on Wibree designs for wireless healthcare. In the meantime we also expect to see networks engage in investigating the infrastructure requirements to
provide the data services to support these applications.
[1 ]http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/2001/Jul01/ Original proposals to the IEEE 802.15.4 working group. The most interesting documents reflecting the of Wibree are:
01230r1P802-15_TG4-Nokia-MAC-Proposal1.ppt 01231r1P802-15_TG4-Nokia-PHY-Proposal1.ppt
http://www.isa.org/MSTemplate.cfm?MicrosisiteI D=1134&CommitteeID=6891
ISA Working group SP100 Wireless Systems for Automation
htp://www.wibree.com Official Wibree website
http://www.ezurio.com/dl/open/?id=19 Understanding Range a white paper from EZURiO explaining wireless range
http://www.iet.tv/channels/news/index.html 2006 IET Presidential Address by Sir Robin Saxby
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