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Beautypedia > Neutrogena > Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum
Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum
Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum definitely makes skin feel smoother thanks to the silky silicone ingredients it contains. Because of the aluminum starch ingredient, this leaves a slightly dry finish that won’t hydrate, at least not enough for dry areas to improve. As an anti-aging powerhouse, it’s a bit on the weak side but not terribly so. Yes, this contains retinol and retinol is an excellent ingredient to fight multiple signs of aging (though it’s not the absolute best or the only ingredient to look for). What this could use more of are antioxidants and repairing ingredients to rebuild skin’s surface, fight inflammation, and enhance healthy collagen production. This contains the salt form of hyaluronic acid (an ingredient known as sodium hyaluronate) but so do lots of other serums. The mica in here adds shine to skin and that can help boost radiance, but it’s a cosmetic effect, not a skin care miracle. You’ll find superior anti-aging serums on our Best Serums list, but this one has enough going for it that it’s worth considering.
Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum instantly smoothes skin and delivers visible results in just one week! By combining a unique combination of Retinol SA, Glucose Complex, and Hyaluronic Acid, the lightweight, silky serum moisturizes and renews the look of skin throughout the day, and helps to reduce fine fines and wrinkles and diminish the look of age spots. Skin is left feeling smooth and looking younger.
Water, Dimethicone, Trisiloxane, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Nylon-12, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Ascorbyl Glycoside, Retinol, Glycerin, Hydrolyzed Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract, BHT, Sodium Hyaluronate, Polysorbate 20, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium PCA, Sorbitol, Poly-Acrylamide, Laureth-7, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Sodium Lactate, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, Proline, Hinokitiol, Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Fragrance
Neutrogena At-A-Glance
Strengths: Inexpensive; several recommended cleansers; retinol options, in stable packaging; vast selection of sunscreens, most of which offer excellent UVA protection; several fragrance-free options; many of the Healthy Skin products are state-of-the-art; the foundations with sunscreen provide sufficient UVA protection; some praiseworthy makeup items.
Weaknesses: An overabundance of overlapping anti-aging products that is perennially confusing for consumers; irritating bar soaps; lackluster to downright bad toners; a handful of bland moisturizers and eye creams; some sunscreens too much alcohol or problematic preservatives; most of the Deep Clean products are terrible; mostly disappointing concealers; the lip balms with sunscreen provide inadequate UVA protection.
Johnson & Johnsonowned Neutrogena has been around for over 50 years, and they've come a long way since they launched their first transparent, bronze, detergent-based bar soap (it also contains tallow). The bars are still sold, and while we still don't recommend them (they are too drying for all skin types), the good news is that Neutrogena has come a very long way from where they started. In fact, several of their products represent truly state-of-the-art options.
Strolling the skin-care aisles of any drugstore or mass-market store reveals that Neutrogena vies for shelf space and prominence with only one other brand, Procter & Gamble's Olay. For the most part, both companies offer a similar assortment of products, with Olay being slightly more focused on anti-aging products and Neutrogena going for broader appeal, offering a nearly equal amount of antiwrinkle and anti-acne products. Regrettably the latter category presents few viable options.
Where Neutrogena really excels (and has for years) is with water-soluble cleansers, AHAs, retinol, and sunscreen products. Their Healthy Skin lineup offers some beautifully formulated moisturizers with glycolic acid, and the sunscreens offer something for everyone, including some ingenious options for those with oily skin (or anyone who finds the texture of high-SPF products as unappealing as slathering your skin with Crisco).
A recent self-proclaimed advance in sun protection came with Neutrogena's Helioplex complex. It is not the superior breakthrough Neutrogena makes it out to be. It's a good system to keep avobenzone stable for longer, but Helioplex isn't the only way to get the most out of this important UVA sunscreen. If it were, why didn't Neutrogena scrap all of their other sunscreens that don't use Helioplex technology? And why do they still offer a handful of SPF-rated products that leave skin vulnerable to UVA damage? Although they offer a proportionately greater number of sunscreens that provide excellent UVA protection, it's hard to unequivocally deem them a sun-care leader when they still sell inadequate sunscreens.
It's common to see commercials and magazine ads for Neutrogena's plethora of products designed to combat breakouts and blackheads. It's nothing short of amazing that, after all these years, the majority of these products, while well intentioned, still don't get it right. Far too many of them contain irritating ingredients such as alcohol, witch hazel, and menthol, none of which are the least bit helpful for someone struggling with breakouts. If your dermatologist recommends these products for acne without reservation, definitely consider a second opinion! Even Neutrogena's on-the-spot benzoyl peroxide product contains some potentially problematic thickening agents. Despite this, if you choose carefully, there are some great products (including a BHA lotion) that can make a positive difference.
What's most frustrating and, frankly, surprising, is that Neutrogena's enormous assortment of products represents both the best and the worst the cosmetics industry has to offer. Given their worldwide distribution and research capabilities, they really should be offering a consistent range of effective, irritant-free products to address a variety of skin types and conditions. As things stand now, healthy, protected skin is only assured if you know which Neutrogena products to look for and which ones to never put in your shopping cart.
For more information about Neutrogena, owned by Johnson & Johnson, call (800) 582-4048 or visit www.neutrogena.com.
Neutrogena Makeup
Neutrogena's "beautiful and beneficial" pronouncement is a great tag line, but most of their makeup doesn't live up to that assertion. This line was lacking in several key areas when it first hit store shelves in 1999, and although some things have improved, the number of problematic products is a bit startling. (We are not aware of any cosmetic line that uses menthol or its derivatives as often as Neutrogena.) Each product carries on about the vitamins it contains, yet compared to the leading roles played by cosmetic staples like silicones and thickening agents, the vitamins have mere cameo roles, and as such have little to no impact.
There are a few key items to seek out, especially if you're looking for makeup with excellent sun protection. We also found their lip gloss to be one of the best at any price, and a few of their foundations successfully bridge the gap between skin care and makeup.
The most frustrating aspect of this line is that almost all of it is packaged so you cannot see the color. Even worse, the color swatch on the box is a poor representation, not only of how the color looks in the compact, but also how it looks on your skin. What would truly be beneficial is for Neutrogena to offer more revealing packaging or provide testers or offer trial sizes. Their overall collection and in-store displays aren't nearly as tempting as most other drugstore makeup lines, so in most cases they're relying on their constant magazine and television ads to drive shoppers to explore the world of Neutrogena makeup, or they're relying solely on those who don't mind guessing what color they are really buying. It's obviously working, because despite the problematic elements, this is a line that has survived and is very well distributed.
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BirdWatching • Photo Contests • Photography Awards 2021
Photography Awards 2021
BirdWatching is proud to present...
The 2021 BirdWatching Photography Awards
For more than three decades, BirdWatching has published extraordinary photos taken by the world’s best bird photographers. After holding two successful photo contests in 2019, we’re happy to announce a new photo contest — the 2020 BirdWatching Photography Awards. Submit your best photos of birds for a chance to win!
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The contest judges reserve the right to disqualify images that, in their sole discretion, appear to be the result of questionable practices, as defined by, but not limited to, those described in our FAQ and Contest Rules.
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For questions about our contests, email [email protected]
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$500 cash prize
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Judged by birding experts and photographers alike!
Matt Mendenhall
Matt Mendenhall joined the editorial staff of BirdWatching in 2000 and has been the editor since 2017. One of the most enjoyable parts of his job is reviewing photos from professional bird photographers as well as readers. He oversaw BirdWatching’s past Photo of the Week contest and is a judge for the UK-based Bird Photographer of the Year competition.
Wes Pitts
Guest Judge
As the editor of Outdoor Photographer, a publication dedicated to the art of nature photography, Wes Pitts collaborates with many of the world’s most notable bird and wildlife photographers. Visit outdoorphotographer.com to be inspired and learn the techniques professional bird photographers use.
Laura Erickson
Laura Erickson is the 2014 recipient of the American Birding Association’s highest honor, the Roger Tory Peterson Award. She has written many books about birds, hosts the long-running radio program and podcast “For the Birds,” and is a talented bird photographer. Her column “Attracting Birds,” about attracting, feeding, sheltering, and understanding the birds in your backyard, appears in every issue of BirdWatching. Learn more about her work at www.lauraerickson.com and view her photography on her Flickr page.
Alan Murphy
Alan Murphy is an award-winning professional bird photographer who has been photographing birds for over 30 years. Alan leads more than 20 bird-photography workshops each year nationally and internationally. He has produced numerous ebooks and videos that teach bird photography and post processing, and his work has been published in BirdWatching many times over the years, including several covers. Visit his website to learn more about his work and sign up for his newsletter, and follow him on Instagram @alanmurphyphotography.
Need some tips brushing up on your photography technique? Check out our section on photographing birds to get up to speed and put together your best work for this contest!
Check out the finalists & honorable mentions from the 2019 Bird Portrait photography contest!
We’ve compiled a list of frequently asked questions. If your question isn’t answered here, please send us an email at [email protected] with the following details:
The name of the contest (2021 Birdwatching Photography Awards Photo Contest)
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Q: Who may enter?
Contest is open to individuals over the age of 18 and residents of the U.S. and Canada, excluding Quebec.
Q: How do I enter?
Click “Submit Your Images.” You’ll need to be logged in to your BirdWatching account to enter. If you don’t have an account, click here to register for your free account.
Q: Can I submit pictures of captive birds, i.e. in zoos, aviaries, parks (i.e. Disney), pets, or do they have to be of wild birds only?
We will only consider submissions of wild birds. Please do not enter photos of captive birds.
Q: In what format should I submit my photos?
Each photograph must be submitted in .JPG format and cannot exceed 4 MB in size. Also, make sure your photo is in the sRGB color space, or else your image may look discolored.
Q: How many photos may I enter?
You may enter as many photos as you like. Pricing is one (1) photo for a $25 entry fee, or two (2) photos for a discounted fee of $35. You can purchase either of these packages as many times as you like.
Pricing For Submissions
Regular Entry Period
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Simply visit the entry page at https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/photo-contests/photography-awards and the system will determine your order status.
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Absolutely! The payment form is hosted on our secure payment processor’s site and your credit card information (including your physical address) is submitted directly to the applicable credit card company through 256-bit encrypted pages. The header graphic is the only non-secure item on the payment page and only your email and the success/failure message of the transaction are submitted back to our site.
Q: Can I pass the word on this competition to my friends, classmates, Facebook/Twitter followers, etc.?
Yes, please! The link to the contest portal is https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/photo-contests/photography-awards
Q: Do I have to print or mail in my photos?
No. Please upload entries using the online entry form. Mailed submissions will not be accepted.
Q: Can I process my photos using Photoshop or another image-processing program?
Yes, but keep digital processing to a minimum. Acceptable adjustments include color balance, contrast, dust spotting, and sharpening. Do not digitally retouch your images to alter reality. Do not remove distracting elements such as foreground branches or clean up cluttered backgrounds. Do not add to the foreground or background. We are assuming that your digital image reflects what your camera recorded at the moment you made the picture.
Q: Can I watermark my photos?
While we prefer you do not use watermarks on your submitted images because they can muddle the judging process, we understand that you want to protect your work. You may use a small watermark in the corner of your image, but we ask that you refrain from using a substantial watermark that covers a large portion of your photograph.
Q: When will the winners be notified?
By the end of July 2021.
Q: When will the winners be announced?
The winners’ photos will be published in a special multi-spread feature in a future issue of BirdWatching magazine. Exact issue month and year will be communicated to the winners. All winners will be announced online by the end of July 2021.
Q: What are the prizes?
See the contest landing page or the official rules for a complete list of contest prizes.
Q: When I try to enter online, I get an error message. What's going on?
If your attempts at entering online aren’t successful, our system might be struggling. Try waiting a few minutes, then clear your browser’s cache and cookies—you might even try restarting your computer—and go to the online entry page again.
Additionally, title your photos with alphanumeric characters only. Please don’t use apostrophes, ampersands or any other character symbol, as doing so may cause errors during uploading.
Q: I've tried clearing my cache and cookies, and I even bought a new computer. The online entry form just isn't working for me.
Double-check that the size of your images meets our requirements. If all else fails, send us an email at [email protected]. In your email, please indicate:
BirdWatching Photography Awards 2021 Official Rules
BirdWatching’s 2021 BirdWatching Bird Portrait Photo Contest (“Contest”) is open only to individuals who are over 18 years of age and who are residents of the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec). Employees of Madavor Media, LLC, (“Sponsors”), and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child and sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and/or those living in same household of each, whether or not related, are not eligible to participate or win. Sponsors reserve the right to verify all eligibility requirements. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
The Contest will begin on January 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM PDT, and end on April 15, 2021 at 11:59 PM PDT (the “Contest Period”). After April 15, users can still submit photos from April 16, 2021 at 12:00 AM PDT until April 20, 2021 at 11:59 PM PDT (the “Extension Period”) at an increased price.
Click the submit your images button above to submit. All entries must be received by April 20, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PDT to be eligible. Each photograph must be submitted in .JPG and cannot exceed 4 MB in size. Entry fees during the Contest Period are $25 for one submission and $35 for two submissions. Entry fees during the Extension Period may increase.
Please note: Entries submitted online will be eligible for (i) the Grand Place Prize (as described below), (ii) Second Place Prize (as described below), (iii) Third Place Prize (as described below), and (iv) Finalist Prize (as described below).
Entry must be the original work of the entrant and entrant must be the sole owner of the copyright of such entry. Entry must be in keeping with the Sponsors’ image and may not be inappropriate or offensive, as determined by the Sponsors in their sole discretion, nor can it defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person’s personal or property rights or any other third-party rights. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entry they deem to be offensive, inappropriate, that is not in keeping with Sponsors’ image or that is otherwise not in compliance with the terms of these Official Rules. Entrant must have obtained express written consent to submit any entry that contains persons other than entrant or third-party elements not owned by entrant and, if requested to do so, produce such written consent from appropriate parties in a form and manner acceptable to the Sponsors.
By submitting an Entry, entrant acknowledges and agrees that Sponsors may obtain many Entries in connection with this Contest and/or other contests staged and/or promoted by the Sponsors, and that such Entries may be similar or identical in theme, idea, format or other respects to other Entries submitted in connection with this Contest and/or other contests sponsored by the Sponsors or submitted for other reasons or other materials developed by the Sponsors. Entrant waives any and all claims entrant may have had, may have, and/or may have in the future, that any Entry and/or other works accepted, reviewed and/or used by the entrant may be similar to his/her Entry, or that any compensation is due to entrant in connection with such Entry or other works used by Sponsors.
GRAND PLACE PRIZE JUDGING:
One (1) potential Grand Place Prize winner, one (1) potential Second Place winner, one (1) potential Third Place winner, and up to twenty-five (25) potential Finalists will be determined from among all eligible entries received by a panel of qualified judges, based equally on the following criteria: Adherence to Theme, Composition and Creativity/Originality (“Judging Criteria”). The entrants who submitted the entry receiving the highest scores, as determined by the Sponsors in their sole discretion, will be the potential winners and finalists respectively.
In the event of a tie for any prize, an additional “tie-breaking” judge will determine the applicable winner or finalists from among those tied using the Criteria. The Sponsors reserve the right to not award any prize if, in their sole discretion, an insufficient number of eligible and qualified entries are received. Decisions of the Sponsors and judges are final and binding.
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Potential winners will be notified by telephone, mail and/or e-mail by the end of July, 2021 and will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and, unless prohibited, a Publicity Release, a W-9 Form and any additional documents that may be required by prize provider within fourteen (14) days of date of issuance. If any potential winner is an eligible minor in his or her jurisdiction of residence, prize may, at the Sponsors’ discretion, be awarded in the name of the parent or legal guardian, and such parent or legal guardian will be required to fulfill all requirements imposed on winners set forth herein. Noncompliance with this time period or with these Official Rules, or the return of any prize notification as undeliverable, may result in disqualification and, at the Sponsors’ discretion, the prize will be awarded to an applicable runner-up.
Grand Place Prize: $1,000 (U$D) cash prize;
One (1) Gura Gear 45 Kiboko v2.0 22L backpack (ARV $329.95); One (1) Gura Gear 45 Et Cetera 2L case (ARV $29.95); One (1) One-year BirdWatching VIP Membership (ARV $95.88); Placement as BirdWatching’s Facebook Cover Photo (ARV priceless); publication in a special multi-spread feature in an issue of BirdWatching (ARV priceless); Publication in the BirdWatching online Winners’ gallery.
Total First Place ARV: Approximately $
Second Place Prize: $500 (U$D) cash prize;
One (1) Gura Gear 45 Kiboko v2.0 22L backpack (ARV $329.95); One (1) Gura Gear 45 Et Cetera 2L case (ARV $29.95); One (1) One-year BirdWatching VIP Membership (ARV $95.88); One (1) Inclusion in Bayphoto Finalists and Winners Book; publication in a special multi-spread feature in an issue of BirdWatching (ARV priceless); Publication in the BirdWatching online Winners’ gallery.
Total Second Place ARV: approximately $
Third Place Prize: $250 (U$D) cash prize;
Total Third Place ARV: Approximately $
Current total ARV of all prizes: approximately $
If, for any reason, the Sponsors do not feature any of the winning entries in BirdWatching Magazine, no compensation or substitution will be provided; however, the remainder of prize package will be awarded and the Sponsors will have no further obligation to winners. All prize details are at the sole discretion of the Sponsors. No substitution, cash equivalent or transfer of prizes permitted by winners. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, in their sole discretion. All federal, state and local taxes as well as any costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being awarded are sole responsibility of each winner. Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by the Sponsors. Limit one (1) prize per household.
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By submitting an entry, entrant grants the Sponsors and their designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use the entry and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes in Sponsors’ online galleries, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law. In addition, each winner grants to the Sponsors and their designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use and distribute the entry (as submitted, or as cropped by the Sponsors), and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes, in any and all media now or hereafter known, including without limitation in BirdWatching and any Madavor Media magazines for purposes of promotion of this Contest except as otherwise stated herein, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law.
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Your personal information collected in connection with this Contest will be used in accordance with Madavor Media’s Privacy Policy (available at http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/privacy-policy) including, without limitation, for marketing and promotional purposes.
MISCELLANEOUS: Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for late, lost, garbled, damaged, incomplete, delayed, undelivered, or misdirected entries or photographs or for computer, technical, printing, typographical, human or other errors relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, inability to access any website associated with the Contest, errors which may occur in the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of entries, the announcement of the prizes or in any Contest-related materials. If for any reason the Contest (or any portion thereof) is not capable of running as planned, including infection by tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest and, if terminated, at its discretion, determine winners from among all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to time of such action using judging procedure described above. By participating, entrant agrees (i) to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsors and judges, which are final and binding in all respects, and (ii) to hold the Sponsors and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, prize suppliers and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing (collectively, the “Released Parties”), harmless against any and all claims and liability arising, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, out of or in connection with participation in this Contest, acceptance and use of any prize or Released Parties’ use of any of the rights granted herein. Sponsors may disqualify (and void all associated entries) anyone from participating in the Contest or winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that such person is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception or other unfair practices, or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrant or Sponsors’ representatives or who is otherwise not in compliance with the terms of these rules. ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
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Home MMA News Dana White Dana White explains why Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou won’t happen right...
Dana White explains why Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou won’t happen right now
Jon Jones is not going to fight Francis Ngannou anytime soon according to UFC President Dana White.
Ever since Ngannou knocked out Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 20 seconds at UFC 249, Jones has been on social media expressing his interest in a superfight with ‘The Predator’.
Although the proposed bout spawned a ton of fan interest, Ngannou said to BJPENN.com he wasn’t sure the fight would happen.
Still, Jones and the promotion began negotiations, but those quickly fell apart. Now, Dana White has revealed to ESPN why the superfight isn’t happening anytime soon.
“Listen, it’s one thing if you come out and say yeah listen I want a little more money. The amount of money that Jon Jones wanted [is a lot]. First of all, in the light heavyweight division, the Dominick Reyes fight is a fight that makes sense,” White explained. “So, is Jon Jones going to fight Francis Ngannou then try and take a run at the heavyweight title? I don’t believe that. He’s never wanted to move to heavyweight before. For the amount of money he is asking for, it’s not going to happen. You couldn’t be asking for a more absurd amount of money at a worse time.”
If the UFC and Jon Jones can’t reach an agreement on what he would be paid to fight Francis Ngannou, ‘Bones’ would opt you stay at light heavyweight. If he does, White says he will either fight Jan Blachowicz or rematch Reyes next.
“He’s got guys lined up at light heavyweight, whether it’s Jan Blachowicz or Dominick Reyes,” he said.
For now, it seems unlikely we will get to see Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou anytime soon unless something drastic happens. So, what will be next for the heavyweight contender is a major question that needs to be answered.
What do you make of Dana White’s reason as to why Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou isn’t happening?
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Trans Christianity
Queerly Christian
Disabled & Blessed
Binary Breakers Podcast
New Testament: Christ's Queer Good News
Click on one of the below sections to be taken to it lower on this webpage.
Mary's transgressive "yes" in Luke 1:26-55
Assigned male at incarnation: An intersex and transgender Jesus
A simple jar of water - Matthew 26:17-19
Eunuchs for the Kingdom - Matthew 19 and Acts 8
Rewind 500 years: a trans prophet - Acts 17:28 and Titus 1:12
Sources and further resources
Page Contents:
The events of the New Testament -- also called the Second Testament -- begin some nine months before an impoverished Palestinian Jewish teen gives birth to a child whom she believes will usher in God's Kingdom -- a realm in which society's norms are turned upside down and justice prevails for all who have been oppressed.
Scholars believe Jesus was born around 4 BCE, that his preaching began c.27-29 CE, and his death around 30 CE. This strange, homeless teacher left a little group of believers behind, who would go on to write the Gospels that tell his story, the book of Acts and the letters that tell some of their stories, and to spread Christ's Good News as far as they could.
That Good News is a message that trans people can appreciate, for it speaks of liberation and abundant life -- the kind of wholeness that trans persons get a taste of when we stop trying to conform to what the world says we are and start embracing the wonderful, gender-diverse beings God made us to be. Let's see what specific examples of that Good News are offered to trans and nonbinary persons in the Second Testament.
MARY'S TRANSGRESSIVE "YES"
in Luke 1:26-55
While I do not make the argument that Mary, the teenage girl who would give birth to God, would identify as trans in our own day and culture, her "fiat" ("let it be unto me according to your word") can resonate with trans and nonbinary persons today.
When the angel Gabriel comes to Mary and tells her what God plans for her -- that she who is without a man will become pregnant with the Son of God -- she assents to these plans, despite the social consequences. Out in Scripture articulates the similarities between Mary's "yes" and the "yes" that trans people make when coming out as themselves:
"This is a story of Mary consenting to enter into a disreputable condition, trusting that despite all appearances she is entering into holiness" (1).
Like Mary, trans persons who come out risk a loss of reputation, a loss of safety, a loss of friends and family; but we do it with fierce joy, a joy that only grows as we become more and more ourselves.
Mary's Magnificat looks forward to a future wherein the low are raised up, and the mighty cast down; the hungry filled up, and the rich sent away empty. Trans persons likewise look to such a future, where the binaries that pit powerful vs. powerless crumble away, and those whom the world looks upon as dishonored and worthless are shown to be infinitely valued by our diversity-loving God.
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The following is an excerpt from my own poem on the topic of Mary as Mother of all trans and nonbinary persons.
Mary, teenage girl with the unplumbed brown eyes
Mary, hailed full of grace by a heavenly being
you said Yes to disgrace, to excommunication,
to childhood friends abandoning you, to the isolation
of no “decent person” daring to associate with you.
and as your body transformed in wondrous ways —
God’s feet forming, kicking, making
a rich round hill of your stomach,
God dependent, sustained by nothing but a flimsy cord
connecting Them to you,
God! growing, becoming in the darkness of your womb!
— most did not celebrate with you.
Your joy grew as your body changed
and their snide comments, repulsed stares
could not pierce your euphoria
— except for sometimes, when they did...
Mary's husband Joseph also has a special place in my heart as someone I consider a good model for allies of transgender people. Though it took him a little bit (and an angelic dream) to get on board, Joseph took Mary in despite her "outcast" status, when his society would have expected him to divorce her (Matthew 1:18-25). He did not always understand his queer little family (as when Jesus got lost and turned up in "his father's house," the Temple), but he recognized his calling to support them.
< [Image description: detail of "José y María" by Everett Patterson that shows a young Latino couple outside a convenient store in the rain; José is using a payphone while Maria, in a hoodie and visibly pregnant, sits on a toy horse.]
In 1983, Edward Kessel published an article titled "A Proposed Biological Interpretation of the Virgin Birth" wherein he argued that Mary's pregnancy was a parthenogenetic one: being conceived from an embryo without a sperm, Jesus must share the sex chromosomes of that embryo -- presumably XX (2). However, we know that Jesus was assigned male at birth and had a penis (Luke 2:21 notes that he was circumcised on his 8th day).
If Jesus had XX chromosomes but the phenotype that his and our cultures associate with maleness (a penis, the onset of facial hair and lowering of the voice at puberty, etc.), then he would have been intersex, of the "XX male syndrome" variety.
Jennifer Anne Cox is careful to stress that Jesus does not have to be intersex "in order to give credence or value to" intersex persons (3); they are worthy persons made in the image of God regardless, as we all are.
{Image description: a mosaic in Jerusalem that depicts a mother hen with chicks under her wings.]
Moving on from Jesus' potential status as intersex, I and others also argue for his transness.
God, a genderless and genderfull being, folded Their infinity up into a tiny human infant and was subsequently assigned male at birth.
While Jesus is never recorded in the Gospels stating that he is not a man (though, sidebar, God is recorded saying thus, in Hosea 11:9!), he does transgress many of the roles and rules expected of a man in his culture. As Justin Tanis writes,
"Clearly, Jesus broke through barriers of gender many times during the course of his ministry. He spoke with women, he washed the feet of his disciples (an act usually performed by women or slaves), and he included women among his followers. …One of the controversies of Jesus’ life was his willingness to act in ways counter to societal convention in order to live out his spiritual truth. He defied gender norms in order to transform the lives of both women and men" (4).
Bruce L. Gerig discusses further ways in which Jesus failed to fit into the construct of manhood, and called his followers to do the same:
"In not having a household Jesus did not behave like a 'real man.' He was ‘out of place.’ He rejected marriage (or at least the Bible does not mention him being married at all), and he abandoned his family name, power and status. He also called his disciples to abandon their households (Luke 9:59-62, 14:26), removing them from their normal gender roles in society."
Tanis also records the comments of Michelle Dee on how Jesus' experiences are similar to those of trans people today:
"We face harassment not only on the streets, but in our homes; Jesus talked about situations in which families were separate. Trans people...are very often unable to find meaningful employment in our fields; Jesus said that even he had no place to lay his head. Trans people are even killed because of who we are as Jesus was killed" (5).
Jesus also made use of feminine language to describe himself several times throughout the Gospels, including in John 16:21-22 & 17:1, when he connects his "hour" of suffering on the cross with the "hour" of labor pangs; and in Matthew 23:37, when he compares himself to a mother hen. In his language and in his actions, Jesus was gender nonconforming.
I further discuss Jesus' gender "transgressions," and link them to his identity as perceived by himself and by others ("who do you say that I am?") in a short sermon available as video and transcript here.
As stated before about Jesus and intersex persons, it is not necessary that Jesus himself be transgender in order for trans persons' lives to have value. Even so, many intersex persons and trans persons may be encouraged to know that Jesus may have been like them -- not only in sharing in their humanity, but in very particular and marginalized ways. As Tanis puts it, "Being able to identify with Jesus in the midst of suffering and hardship is one way that people through the centuries have found comfort and hope” (6).
A SIMPLE JAR OF WATER
in Matthew 26:17-19
On Passover at noon, Jesus sends Peter and John into town on a strange errand. He promises them that they will find someone carrying a water jar who can bring them to a place to celebrate Passover.
So what's so strange about this water-bearing figure? As Peter Toscano explains in his performance of this scene, collecting water at the well was women's work. B. P. Morton agrees: "A man who is carrying a jar of water - in public – in ancient Jerusalem, is a man who either 1) doesn’t give a hot damn about local gender conventions, or 2) is actively doing their best to live publicly as a woman."
Indeed, the Greek word for "man," aner/andros, is not used in any of the Gospels to describe this figure! Masculine endings are used, yes, but for human beings masculine is the neutral option in Greek. Instead of aner, Luke 22 and Mark 14 use anthropos, "human;" and Matthew 26 uses the even more vague term deina, "a certain one" (which actually is a term using neuter endings).
Transchristians.org refers to this water carrier as one of our "trans-cestors," a person who would likely identify as transgender in our culture. This person must already have some sort of relationship with Jesus before the Passover, as the disciples need only tell them that "the Teacher" needs a place to stay in order to get this person's help.
What a beautiful figure, tucked in among the verses of three Gospels! We tend to overlook this key character, just as gender nonconforming persons are invisibilized in our own day. But Jesus knew this person. Even better, Jesus did not look at his relationship with the water carrier as one wherein Jesus did all the giving, and the water carrier was just lucky to count Jesus as a friend -- no! Jesus knew he could count on this water bearer in his time of need to offer him and his disciples a place to celebrate passover. Trans persons have been seen and loved by Jesus, have had gifts to share with the Body of Christ, since the very beginning. And the relationships between cis and trans persons are reciprocal ones, supporting and being supported by one another.
[Image description: a painting by Tissot of the water carrier, who carries the water over one shoulder as two disciples watch in the painting's foreground.]
EUNUCHS FOR THE KINGDOM
in Matthew 19 and Acts 8
Jesus is known for offering his disciples some difficult-to-decipher wisdom throughout the Gospels; one such instance is in Matthew 19:11-12:
“Not everybody can accept this teaching, but only those who have received the ability to accept it. For there are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from birth. And there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by other people. And there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs because of the kingdom of heaven. Those who can accept it should accept it.”
It is possible that Jesus might have considered himself a member of that third category of eunuch, the ones who have "made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven." Victoria Kolakowski asserts that Jesus might have been derisively called a eunuch because of his gender nonconforming celibacy, and "it was this charge to which Jesus was responding in this statement. … The notion that Jesus placed himself into the third category...would place Jesus in direct solidarity with the eunuch” (7).
Either way, Tanis notes how this passage is yet another example of Jesus defying the norms of his culture; here, Jesus challenges the concepts of shame and honor, wherein the eunuch's "imperfect" body is accepted by Jesus as whole (8). In our own day, trans bodies are placed under a microscope, with any and all changes we make to them judged and considered mutilation by some. Jesus accepted the bodies of eunuchs, whether they were thus "from birth" (as intersex people's are), made thus "by others" (as too often occurs to intersex newborns and youth who are subjected to medically unnecessary surgeries), or made thus by themselves (as with trans persons who transition via surgeries and/or hormone therapy, or simply by changes in outward presentation).
A more literal eunuch appears in Acts 8, after Jesus has already ascended into heaven and his apostles are doing their best to spread his message. On a desert road, Philip encounters a eunuch reading from Isaiah, who invites Philip to join him. After they explore the text together, Philip responds to the eunuch's question "What is to prevent me from being baptized?" by baptizing him on the spot.
Rev. Nicole Garcia speaks to the importance of this event: “As a transgender Latina, a person of color whose gender identity does not fit neatly into a binary, this passage tells me I can be baptized for I am a child of God.”
The eunuch was marginalized at least three times over: by class (enslaved), nationality (Ethiopian and therefore a foreigner in Jerusalem), and gender identity (eunuch). Regarding the latter, J. David Hester asserts that in the Roman Empire, where there was social and legal pressure for men to fit a certain masculine ideal, "eunuchs were the nightmare embodiment of men’s worst fears. Eunuchs were a monstrous identity formation, a source of sex-gender confusion” (9).
Trans persons and others who cannot or will not conform to gender norms in our own day face similar ostracization; we too are regarded as "unnatural" by some and "monstrous" by those who see in us a threat to their own gender identities. But like the Ethiopian eunuch, nothing can stop us from being baptized! God welcomes us just as we are into the Body of Christ; through baptism, the male/female binary falls away.
Of course, baptism does not immediately solve all of this eunuch's problems; he still lives in a world that shuns him for his class as a slave and his gender identity as a eunuch. Thus it is for trans persons today: forming a relationship with the divine or finding a faith community may transform us from the inside out, but we continue to face violence and stigma.
With the eunuch we rejoice that God does not see our gender identity as something that has to be "fixed" in order to join the Body of Christ; but with the eunuch we also have to keep waiting for that coming Kin(g)dom wherein God's justice and grace will liberate us from oppression once and for all.
< [Image description: a painting of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch seated together in the chariot, studying scripture together.]
REWIND 500 YEARS: A TRANS PROPHET
Acts 17:28 and Titus 1:12
In his letters, Paul makes use of various classical authors to make his points. One such author is Epimenides, whom Paul quotes in Acts 17:28 and in Titus 1:12. (You know the famous "In him we live, and move, and have our being" verse? That's Paul quoting Epimenides!)
In Transgender Journeys, Virginia Mollenkott describes her discovery of Epimenides and the wonder it brought her. I quote a large passage of it here, as it is such a powerful testimony to what it can mean to find oneself in scripture:
"When I was young, it would have given me enormous courage had I known that not just once but twice the New Testament honors a transgender and homoerotic prophet by quoting him in a positive context. …I am referring to Epimenides, a poet and prophet who lived in Knossos, Crete, in the sixth century B.C.E. ...
According to Greek sources, Epimenides was the shaman who successfully helped to rid Athens of a plague and who assisted the Athenian statesman Solon in his famous reforms, including the institutionalization of homoerotic love as it was practiced in Crete. In his book Greek Divination (1913), William R. Holiday compares Epimenides to the transgender shaman Tiresias, who changed sex several times and whose clothing was simultaneously ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine.’
Knowing all this, and knowing his learned audience would know all this, the apostle Paul twice quotes Epimenides to buttress his own argument. In fact, in the epistle to Titus, Paul goes so far as to call Epimenides a prophet!
[Image description: an altar in Athens dedicated "to an unknown God," such as the one Paul describes in Acts 17 before quoting Epimenides.]
I was told all my life that the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures are unanimously negative about gay, lesbian, and bisexual experience, and I was profoundly shamed because of my transgender characteristics. How stunned, and then how liberated I would have felt to be told that one of my kind had been featured favorably in the canon of sacred Scripture! …That knowledge alone would have been enough of a ray of hope to prevent my suicide attempt" (10).
It is my fervent prayer that trans and questioning persons like Mollenkott will have access to pieces of history like this one -- knowledge of our "trans-cestors" that remind us that we are not alone, that we have always existed, and that God made us with purpose.
(1) Out in Scripture, p. 15 (you can read it here)
(2) Intersex in Christ, pp. 97-99
(3) ibid., p. 99
(4) Transgendered by Justin Tanis, pp. 138-139
(5) ibid., p. 140
(6) ibid.
(7) Transgendered, p. 75
(9) Transforming by Austen Hartke, p. 107
(10) Omnigender by Virginia Mollenkott, pp. 50-51
For more on Acts 8 and the Ethiopian Eunuch see this web article, and this web article, and this web article too.
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What Is A Preference Share?
Dun & Bradstreet India@DNB_India
Nov 27 2020, 5:13 PM Dec 28 2020, 11:05 PM November 27 2020, 5:13 PM December 28 2020, 11:05 PM
This is a series of explainers to educate and inform new investors. In association with Dun & Bradstreet India as knowledge partner.
Preference Shares: Definition, Meaning & Basics
According to the Companies Act, 2013, Indian firms can issue two types of shares—equity shares and preference shares. Preference shares are those shares which get preferential rights to dividend announced by a company.
This means that a company has to pay dividend to preference shareholders first and then to equity shareholders. In case a company is winding up, the final payment will be made to preference shareholders first and then equity shareholders.
Preference shares are similar to debt instruments in a way that they mostly receive a fixed rate of dividend every year.
Preference shares which can convert into equity shares of a company are called as convertible preferential shares. Some preference shares can also receive arrears of dividend. These are called cumulative preference shares.
In India, preference shares have to be redeemed within 20 years of issuance, and such preference shares are called redeemable preference shares. According to Companies Act, 2013, companies in India cannot issue irredeemable preference shares.
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BOMA Lawsuit Challenges Chicago's Fair Workweek Ordinance
Rachel Bossard
Christopher Kentra
The Building Owners & Managers Association of Chicago ("BOMA") recently filed a federal lawsuit fighting Chicago's broad labor ordinance that limits some employers' ability to set and change workers' schedules.
BOMA claims that the Fair Workweek Ordinance, a new Chicago ordinance that mandates employers give qualifying employees early notice of their schedules or face penalties is unconstitutional. According to BOMA, the Ordinance will have the effect of forcing employers to agree to overly generous collective bargaining agreements. BOMA's suit demands that building owners and other industries covered by collective bargaining agreements be exempted from the Ordinance. BOMA claims that the Ordinance violates federal labor law in that it inconsistently applies to only certain businesses and attempts to regulate conduct that the federal government intentionally leaves unregulated.
The Ordinance, which takes effect July 1, 2020, applies to employees making less than $26 an hour and salaried employees making $50,000 or less. It also applies to restaurants and hospitals with more than 250 workers, as well as to companies with more than 100 workers in sectors like building services, hotels, manufacturing, retail and warehouse services. It is recognized as one of the broadest laws in the country addressing work schedules.
Since BOMA members frequently employ union workers, the teeth of its suit is the claim that the Ordinance will put employers in an unfair position when negotiating future bargaining agreements. According to BOMA, if employers want unions to agree to a waiver to the Fair Workweek Ordinance, BOMA argues, such employers will have to make other unnecessarily generous concessions to obtain such waivers.
Many business and industry groups were initially opposed to the Ordinance, but much of that opposition changed after the City made certain concessions. Currently, there is no indication that the City plans to make any additional changes to the Ordinance any time soon.
If you need assistance assessing how this Ordinance will affect your company and how to best comply with its requirements, please contact Rachel Yarch at (312) 840-7029 / Ryarch@burkelaw.com or Chris Kentra at (312) 840-7112 / Ckentra@burkelaw.com.
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Judge, Jury and...Shareholder?
Craig McCrohon
Frederic Mendelsohn
Craig McCrohon, Fred Mendelsohn
When Shareholders Fight, Courts Can Take Control
Judges have the power to control companies and manage disputes such that they can override traditional shareholder agreements and corporate rules. Courts are far more reluctant to intrude upon large widely-held companies, but for the closely held firm, beware the judge bearing good intentions! Closely-held companies must recognize the risks and manage their affairs to ensure predictability and control.
Traditionally, companies are governed by statutes and by their own governing documents, such as articles of incorporation, bylaws and shareholder agreements. These laws and documents can establish a clear route for owners managing companies and anticipating procedures, should ownership disputes arise.
The problem is that in many states, including Illinois, judges ruling on ownership disputes may override traditional laws and documents. This can create uncertainty for the owners and require attorneys to anticipate judicial criticism or overriding of governance structures for entities. Similar to a divorce, when owners go to war with one another, the disputing parties fight over the custody of their prized corporate baby. As with divorce cases, judges in ownership disputes will use extraordinary discretion to decide which party is more honorable, trustworthy, and worthy of controlling the entity. Judges can also be inconsistent. Some will follow the letter of the law and an agreement — to a fault. Others, sensing inequity in the documents or procedures, will cast them aside and casually re-write the rules of engagement. Business owners may hope for a judge who will faithfully follow the rules — but prepare for one who will not.
The problem begins with the nature of ownership disputes, which tend to become he-said / she-said matters. Judges must sift through varying facts and accusations, often presented with a side order of financial and business crisis. In some states and counties, such cases are automatically routed to judges responsible for ruling on “equitable” matters such as injunctions. In such “equity” cases, judges focus on “fairness” and “efficiency,” with much less regard for the niceties of legal formality.
Shock 1: Company Procedures Ignored
The first rude awakening for the scrupulous owner is that corporate formalities are often ignored. Details concerning shareholder or director meeting notices, waivers, quorums, and resolutions may fall victim to “the bigger picture.” Procedural errors (for example, whether a company provided ten day notice, instead of twenty) are rarely fatal to an argument — to your loss or gain. Judges often ignore failure to comply with procedural deadlines, and more seriously consider the actions taken by the parties.
Shock 2: Majority May Not Be Controlling
The second surprise is that majority holders of shares may not actually control the company. Judges can rule that the majority abused its control, squeezed out the minority holders, and/or oppressed shareholder-employees. Judges can overrule corporate actions, grant minority shareholders rights to damages, or, in extreme cases, appoint a receiver to operate the company. Effectively, the closely-held firm becomes a ward of the state.
Shock 3: Buy-Sell Prices Ignored
Often closely-held firms are governed by buy-sell agreements establishing buyout prices — whether fixed or set according to a formula. However, when bickering shareholders come before a judge, at least one of the parties may be shocked to learn that the judge deems the formula or price unfair. The judge may ignore the price and set a hearing for the parties to present arguments on the company’s value. So much for the pre-existing buy-sell agreement.
Shock 4: In Some States, the Law Allows Judges to Do Nearly Anything
In some states (including Illinois), the law provides judges with a 10- to 12-point list of options for resolving ownership disputes and managing a company from the bench. These include cancelling or altering bylaws or articles of incorporation, removing any director or officer from office, appointing directors, mandating dividends, dissolving the company, or overruling any act of the company or its owners, directors or officers.
Shock 5: LLCs – The All or Nothing Entities
Unlike corporations, courts tend to approach limited liability companies from either of two extremes. On the one hand, they can honor and uphold the detailed and professionally drafted operating agreement as if it were sacred text. On the other hand, they can completely manufacture new rules, especially for entities using thin or poorly drafted agreements. If the limited liability company operating agreement is detailed and tailored for the situation before the court, judges often respect it. But if it’s a long but ill-suited document or a short, vague skeleton, the judge will rule the day.
Craig McCrohon is a corporate and securities attorney specializing in equity offerings, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions. You may contact him at cmccrohon@burkelaw.com or 312-840-7006.
Fred Mendelsohn is a litigation attorney specializing in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes and fiduciary litigation. You may contact him at fmendelsohn@burkelaw.com or 312-840-7004.
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Best Miami Beach Spots For Groups
Adam Lague
Got that Will Smith song stuck in your head? Can’t stop watching Miami Vice reruns? You’ve got Magic City fever! This glamorous American hub is home to the East Coast’s best beach scene, and its list of seaside spots to hit is pretty abundant. One major reason to hit the beach is that all Miami beaches are public, so whether you’re headed to the water to just soak up the rays with some friends, class trip, or a family beach day, all we can say is Welcome to Miami. Now, without further ado…
To the east of the famed Ocean Drive, between 5th St and 15th St, Lummus Park is an energetic beach stretch you may recognize from the classic late-1980s TV show, Miami Vice. A promenade separates the grass and Miami’s Art Deco district from the beach, and restaurants line the boardwalk. People-watching, volleyball, and sunbathing are the favourite activities here, which after a redesign in the 1980s also includes pull-up bars and palm trees. While you’re sneaking in a workout, the kids can play on the jungle gym.
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North of Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach is more than a stretch of sand — it’s its own city. Bound to the west by South Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, this former low-rent beach community is now a luxury resort town. Groups head to Sunny Isles for its restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, museums, corporate conferences, and more. And, of course, they go to its two-mile stretch of beach for snorkelling, fishing, and spotting sea turtles.
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Roughly a half-hour drive north from Miami, Fort Lauderdale’s 7-mile beach is worth it for the people-watching alone. Formerly a college party beach, it’s transformed itself into a chic, destination hub. Luxury properties dot the coastline, as do tall coconut palms. You can watch the action pass you by, or you can be a part of it. Stroll the promenade, ducking in and out of shops and restaurants, or zoom by on wheels with the rest of the cyclists, roller skaters, and joggers.
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Matheson Hammock Park
Within the Coral Gables community south of Miami, Matheson Hammock Park is another quiet, family-friendly option. Its biggest draw is a man-made circular atoll pool for swimming. Also enticing: the park’s palm trees, old oak trees, and a picturesque marina. You can get active here too — there are several nature trails for hiking, great kiteboarding and paddle boarding, and even a boating and sailing school for nautical beginners. When you’ve worked up an appetite, grab a bite at Red Fish Grill, nicely positioned at the water’s edge.
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If you’re beach-hopping Miami in hopes of spotting celebs, cut right to the chase and head to South Beach. The glamorous neighbourhood is loaded with celebrity chef-run restos, trendy nightclubs, and iconic Art Deco architecture, and it’s a favourite hangout of the rich and famous. Its two-mile stretch of sand lines the east border of and sets the tone for the whole neighbourhood. It’s not nicknamed The Sun and Fun Capital of the World for nothing.
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Looking for a beach town vibe? You’ll find it in a small oceanfront community at North Beach called Surfside. The less-than-a-mile-long beach regularly attracts locals that all seem to know each other, but visitors are welcome too. Surfside Community Center has a waterpark with a lap pool, slides, and a children’s activity pool. If your trip allows for it: on the first Friday of each month, the beach hosts a communal picnic with live music.
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South Pointe Park Pier
If it’s views you seek, this is one of the most scenic spots you’ll find in Miami. South Pointe Park Pier is part of a 17-acre park with a playground, fishing pier, and picnic areas. It’s the southernmost point of Miami Beach with the pier feeding out right into the Atlantic Ocean. Make sure to head to the observation deck for views of the exclusive Fisher Island, which with residents like Oprah Winfrey and Andre Agassi, has the highest per capita income in the U.S. From South Pointe, you’ll also see plenty of cruise ships. After all, the Port of Miami is the Cruise Capital of the World, welcoming more ships than any other port.
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Hollywood Beach is a long stretch nestled between Broward and Miami, a 35- or 40-minute drive from downtown. There, you’ll find a bit of an older crowd, many of whom may be guests of nearby Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort. Stroll the beach’s wide, walkable boardwalk before ducking into one of the delicious restaurants on North Ocean Drive, like The Le Tub Saloon, GG’s Waterfront, or Billy’s Stone Crab Hollywood.
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21st—45th Street Beach
The 21st—45th Street Beach is in the Mid-Beach neighbourhood north of South Beach — and we don’t have to tell you which streets are its borders. Close to luxury hotels and other beach clubs, this one doesn’t get overcrowded with visitors. Use that to your advantage. Escape the South Beach chaos for a minute and mingle with the locals, or jog on one of the nearby trails. Enjoy a relaxing afternoon here, because once you leave, it’s back to the glamour of South Beach Miami.
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Let’s put it this way: Miami is one of the most beautiful – but busiest – cities in North America, with festivals and large events bringing tons of people and cars to the streets year round. Who would want to drive through that? Let an expert driver take the wheel while you gaze out the bus window and take in the sights.
And if you’re traveling in a group, all the more reason to rent a charter bus bus in Miami. When everyone stays together, no one gets lost and plans run smoothly. Your local bus driver will know the best routes to these beaches too, so you’ll save time and worry on that front.
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Fire-Safer Homes
Douglas Brown’s interest in designing homes with improved bushfire protection is both professional and deeply personal.
Defend or Evacuate? "I'll Decide Later"
It is a critical choice that could have devastating repercussions for residents in bushfire-prone areas. Yet it’s a decision that many will delay until the day of a fire. Why do residents delay their decision to defend or evacuate, and what can be done to help them make more timely, appropriate choices?
Justifying Investments into the Future
The ability to rationalise decisions economically, and to understand how future bushfires will affect communities, the environment and the economy are necessities in fire and land management.
Residents intentions and reasons in the face of bushfire
Different psychological processes between individuals drives decision making. What does this mean for residents who are threatened by bushfire? Why do they decide to evacuate, stay and defend or wait and see?
Showcase event postponed
The Bushfire CRC special event – ‘Putting Research to Good Use’ – has been postponed to early 2014. This major event to showcase the end of the Bushfire CRC was planned for late October 2013, but will now be held on a date to be determined after the summer bushfire season has concluded in 2014.
Largest conference yet draws 1900 delegates
The final Bushfire CRC conference, held in conjunction with the AFAC annual conference, was full of highlights in Melbourne last week. Key aspects of the week included the full day Research Forum, as well as both the research utilisation and outstanding contribution awards.
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A short new video highlights the exciting developments the Fire DST proof of concept software program has made, and how it builds on existing fire mapping products.
Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2013-2014
Large areas of southern Australia, especially along the east and west coasts extending inland, face above normal fire potential for the 2013-2014 fire season, despite the extensive fires in some parts of the country over the last 12 months. View the full outlook in Fire Note 116.
Survey of Perth hills bushfire-affected communities starting
Residents of the Perth hills areas affected by the recent bushfires will be invited to take part in a study of how communities deal with fire.
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Lloyd Bergquist, the second ‘B’ in BWBR, passes
By James Lockwood, BWBR
A gentle soul always with a smile on his face.
More than a physical description, those words captured the essence of Lloyd Bergquist. A person who valued the lives he touched more than the projects on which he worked, his friendly and approachable demeanor was a hallmark of his personality at BWBR, one that continues to be felt through those he mentored and one that will be missed even by those who had brief interactions with him.
Lloyd passed away on Nov. 14 at the age of 91. The legacy he leaves behind goes far beyond his name in the firm’s moniker, BWBR (Bergstedt Wahlberg Bergquist Rohkohl).
Lloyd’s name sitting next to Chuck Wahlberg’s seemed rather apropos given that it was Chuck’s recommendation to Milt Bergstedt in 1957 to hire Lloyd. Still relatively fresh out of the University of Minnesota’s architecture school, a time that was interrupted by service in the Army, Lloyd had impressed Chuck while the two worked together at a previous firm. Upon hiring him, the firm gave Lloyd the task of opening at office in Menomonie, Wis., in pursuit of work. While not a fruitful endeavor for the firm, it proved advantageous for Lloyd, who met his wife while singing in a choir before moving back to the Twin Cities and continuing to build BWBR.
Lloyd’s warm and affable nature not only benefitted the firm through the projects he earned with the relationships he made but it also attracted the talent during his time as hiring director, some who would later become leaders, themselves. Among those include Greg Fenton, one of six current directors, and Pete Smith, current president and CEO of the firm, whose family moved next door to Lloyd when Pete was 5 years old. While Pete may not have known then he wanted to be an architect as an adult, Pete credits the mentorship and friendship Lloyd provided for his path in the profession and the firm.
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Lloyd’s name was added to the firm’s moniker in the mid-1960s, and through the 70s and 80s, his position as vice president helped shape the course of the firm that it remains on today, both in the world of design and the profession, itself. Like Milt, he believed in the power of diversity and social justice to build better communities, and his eye for art and design allowed him to see how people could benefit from great architecture. That appeared in his work for churches like St. Anthony Village Lutheran, Normadale Lutheran, and St. Bartholomew Catholic to the renowned Arrowwood Resort.
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Design of Inver Hills Community College earned the firm its first design award from the Minnesota Society of American Institute of Architects in 1973. Lloyd’s work on 111 Washington Square still holds prominently in downtown Minneapolis’ Gateway District. His talent and professional success earned him an appointment to the College of Fellows with the American Institute of Architects in 1980.
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Lloyd retired in 1995, playing choral director at the company holiday parties until his last as an employee. While no longer coming to the office on a daily basis, he never really left the firm, visiting often and still providing the mentorship that those he mentored practice now. And with each visit, he brought his gentle and warm nature which even young employees associated with his smile.
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U.S. Boxer Explains Floyd’s Modus Operandi
The truth is like a breath of fresh air after all the pollution we have endured from the disgraceful Mayweather team for the last four years. To read or hear the truth is a beautiful, wonderful thing, after having to suffer through all the ugly lies and deceptions from Al Haymon, Floyd Mayweather, Ellerbe, Schaefer and Oscar.
Here is the truth about Floyd Mayweather from a not-yet famous American boxer who I will tell you about later…
“I feel Mayweather’s whole game is off mental intimidation, kind of like Muhammad Ali,” says the American boxer. “And what he was doing was he was actually trying to bully a fight with Manny Pacquiao. But he’s waited too long. And the longer he waited, he got to see what Pacquiao is able to do. He watched Pacquiao fight fighters he didn’t want to get in the ring with – and fight fighters he did get in the ring with but he destroyed them in a way that Floyd didn’t. Mayweather took De La Hoya to a split decision. De La Hoya wasn’t in shape for that fight. And if you YouTube their 24/7, De La Hoya says right there on the 24/7, he’s doing something for his wife to get brownie points. And all men know what thats means – he’s having sex during training. So he fought a De La Hoya who just got in the ring for the money. And fought him to a split decision. An old De La Hoya.”
“So Pacquiao gets in the ring – they can say De La Hoya was dehydrated or whatever – De La Hoya is one of the smartest boxers – he knew what he was doing. He got in the ring and right there in that ring, Freddie Roach told Pacquiao, Change the gameplan, go straight at him. We’re gonna get him. And he stopped him. Then he goes out there and just crushes Ricky Hatton. And lays him out on the Rock Star sign. Ricky Hatton had Mayweather moving around for, what, 10 rounds? Mayweather didn’t want to fight Ricky Hatton, he kept waiting till he got exposed. Once he got exposed by the same fighter who beat Andre Berto and they robbed him (Luis Collazo). He always got robbed. He beat Ricky Hatton, he buckled Ricky Hatton. That’s when Mayweather said, I’ll take that fight.”
“I feel as though Mayweather will not fight nobody unless he has the advantage. He knows Pacquiao is a small guy but he’s stronger. He knows Pacquiao has power. So what he did was do what he did to all those other fighters – get in their head, make them wait. And actually, I think he was hoping somebody like Miguel Cotto would beat him – so the public wouldn’t want to see that fight any more. It put more fear into Mayweather’s heart because Mayweather has to see that. Like Freddie Roach said, I let everybody see our sparring sessions because we want to put fear in whoever Manny fights. When they’re sparring, they’re training for knockouts.”
When Mayweather saw – not only what Manny Pacquiao did to Miguel Cotto, but he took a tough Miguel Cotto left hook – he buckled off that left hook and he tapped them gloves together and told that boy, Come on. And beat him up. Beat him up.”
(Color pencil drawing of “Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto” is by Artist John Paul Raloto.)
“Now you got Pacquiao looking at Margarito. Why is that gonna happen? And that’s gonna put more fear in Mayweather’s heart. Margarito starts slow, has no speed, no defense. That lil boy gonna stop that man.”
I ask our obviously well-schooled and intelligent boxer what does he think is next for Mayweather? Maybe Berto or Williams?
“He might fight Berto because he’ll beat Berto,” he says with a tone of certainty. “Berto has no feet, he stands like a duck. He has no feet. Of course he’ll take that fight. I say Berto is a C + almost B fighter. I seen him lose to Collazo. I seen him get dropped. I don’t think he should go past three round with Mayweather, that should be a sparring session.”
I ask our friend if he can imagine any way that Mayweather can beat Pacquiao?
“Yeah,” he answers before pausing. “If Mayweather trains as hard as – and Pacquiao breaks both his hands before the fight [smiles]. That’s how I see him beating him. Other than that, no. If they both train at their A game, Pacquiao’s gonna stop him. Mayweather’s style of fighting is to beat right-handed fighters. He had problems with Sharmba Mitchell but he beat him – (Mitchell was) washed up. He had problems with Chop Chop – Chop Chop hurt him in the fight. Zab dropped Mayweather, Zab gave Mayweather hell for the first four rounds. His style is not really for southpaw fighters. I believe if Zab was a disciplined fighter, trains at his hardest, did what he’s supposed to do, he’d a beat Mayweather that night. But he ran out of gas like Mayweather said weeks before: ‘We all know what’s gonna happen. Zab is a front-runner. We all know that front-runners eat you up in the beginning of the fight.’ I don’t even believe Mayweather is beating these fighters down – he’s training a lot harder. So he’s able to last longer.”
The boxer who has shared this fascinatingly blunt analysis is Richard Pierson, a 29-year-old middleweight prospect from Paterson, NJ. Pierson was the former sparring partner of Tomasz Adamek and Kelly Pavlik before each of his Jermain Taylor fights. At the time, Pavlik stated to the “Herald News” newspaper that Pierson had the qualities to become middleweight champion. But Pierson has had problems with his management and securing fights and has lost two short-notice fights to Don Mouton and Derrick Findley since turning pro in 2005.
Pierson, an intelligent, disciplined, 6-ft, 1-in tall, speedy and physically strong middleweight fighter, has gotten his career back on track to some degree – his last fight was a TKO 1 win over unbeaten 5-0 prospect Reynaldo Rodriguez on ESPN earlier this year, though he still is without a promoter or manager and struggling to get fights. He was scheduled to be on the Adamek-Grant undercard but his undefeated opponent has pulled out.
Richard Pierson at the Global Boxing Gym in North Bergen, NJ.
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Andre Ward crushes Sergey Kovalev and shows he is King
By: Kirk Jackson
Silencing the opinions of fans and critics amongst the media, Andre “SOG” Ward 32-0 (16 KO’s) defended his WBA, IBF and WBO light heavyweight titles defeating Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev 31-2-1 (26 KO’s) via eighth-round technical knockout in their highly anticipated rematch.
Ward picked up where he left off in their first encounter; using lateral movement and angles to navigate inside the Kovalev’s dungeon of danger. Ward avoided the full brunt force of the hazardous, powerful 1-2 combinations (straight right hands, left jabs) of Kovalev while unleashing his own devastating attack.
As menacing as Kovalev’s punches can be, Ward proved again his will and fistic sophistication is even more demoralizing.
“I think it was plain to see that I broke him mentally and physically,” said Ward in a post-fight interview.
“I’m not a person that demands respect or none of that. You don’t have to respect me and I don’t demand anything, but at a certain point and time, you got to give a person their just do. I’m 13 years in and I’ve been doing it against the best.”
In crushing Kovalev from a physical standpoint, the emphasis of Ward’s attack was towards the body. A successful strategy utilized in their initial encounter.
After taking command during the first half of the first fight, Kovalev slowly succumbed to the constant pressure applied from Ward; squandering his lead and losing his titles in the process.
As the bigger man and the fighter thought of as the more threatening figure based off his destructive punching power, Kovalev looked worn for wear heading into the later rounds. The “Krusher” looked deflated after a hard fought highly competitive battle.
The same strategy proved successful the second time around.
“When I saw him react to the body shots that were borderline, I knew I had him,” Ward said. “Go back down there. Why get away from it?”
“Then I hurt him with a head shot and I just had to get the right shots in there to get it over with. That one’s probably borderline – he was hurt, I went right back there again, he wasn’t reacting, right back there again and the referee stopped it.”
And as with the first fight, the second fight also appears boiled in controversy. In which HBO, the network responsible for broadcasting the event contributed to regarding confusion the first time around.
Whether it’s the dubious scorecards from longtime HBO judge Harold Lederman, or the questionable calls of analysis from play-by-play commentator Jim Lampley, more times than not, the casual fan is misinformed regarding the content and story of the fight.
The controversy regarding the results of the rematch stems from the interpretation of what is perceived as effective body punches or illegal low blows.
Critics, most notably Kovalev’s promoter, Main Events CEO Kathy Duva, points to low blows from Ward as a reason Kovalev lost yet another fight to Bay Area boxer. HBO analyst and boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. suggests otherwise.
“We saw earlier that he [Kovalev] was complaining from a borderline body shot and anytime someone fakes that much from a borderline body shot it makes it hard for you not to go back down there if you a seasoned veteran,” said Jones.
“It was borderline but when your cup is above your navel, the ref usually tells you I’m not gonna call these shots low right below the belt, because your belt is above your navel.”
Bob Bennett is the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. The bout between Ward and Kovalev took place in Las Vegas, NV.
Bennett talked to the referee in charge of the fight, Tony Weeks. Bennett also expressed his confidence and belief that Weeks made the correct decision regarding the bout between Kovalev and Ward.
“I felt we had it right the first time. And I thought Tony did a great job this time,” Bennett said to USA Today.
“I’ve reviewed the fight this morning. I looked at those punches that were allegedly low, and even spoke to (HBO’s) Tom Hauser, who sent me a video, saying one of those punches was low but it was very hard to determine because Kovalev’s arm was by his waist, and the punch looks like it comes up underneath and hits on the belt line.”
Bennett continued, “It’s rather interesting at the end that when Ward hits him in the stomach at the end, he sat on the ropes. And the punch looked good. Weeks was in good position to see where those blows landed and they’re right on the belt line.”
“Are they close? Sure. But do they look good? Yeah. Did he have one or two low blows where Tony told him to keep them up? You could argue that he did. But at the same time you could argue that Kovalev put Ward in numerous headlocks and Tony had to reprimand both of them. I think the stoppage was good.”
Bennett’s assessment, along with Weeks’ assessment of where Ward’s punches landed regarding Kovalev’s belt line, reiterates the observation and analysis from HBO analyst Roy Jones Jr.
What we have from Duva and Team Kovalev is a litany of excuses. Ironic as the theme for this particular event is “No Excuses.”
“Excuses” correlates to the main reason Kovalev suffered defeat against Ward not only once, but twice.
This isn’t just the physical element at play. Yes this is a sport, this is boxing, the highest form of competition, one on one battle, where physicality matters. But there was a psychological war waging as well.
Kovalev’s foundation and mental makeup is constructed as a carefully crafted portrait of a cerebral, cold blooded killer. What was left out is the mountain of lies and excuses shadowing this illustration.
There are two types of people.
The first type makes excuses for their shortcomings and lacks accountability.
The second type recognizes and accepts their flaws and weaknesses, while making necessary adjustments to correct mistakes and progress forward.
Excuses can be regarded as a sign of mental weakness.
As great of a fighter Kovalev is, rising to the top of the sport bullying fighters and relying on intimidation; mainly predicated from his punching prowess, he lacks accountability regarding his deficiencies.
He mocked fighters, singled out and disrespected groups of people varying in sex and background en route to his rise of success.
Whether it’s suggesting to the two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields, that women should be at home making family life comfortable, or addressing Haitian-Canadian, light heavyweight rival Adonis Stevenson as a monkey, referring to Ismail Sillakh and African-American fighters as “negros,” along with other references aimed at “dark-skinned people,” is uncalled for.
Referring to Grover Young as a “thoroughbred nigga” further implies ignorance and immaturity.
Utilizing memes and videos, attributing idiotic stereotypes based on someone’s skin complexion and background is another red flag.
Former light heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov of Kazakhstan, expressed his belief in Kovalev’s narrow-minded bigotry in an interview with Ring Magazine.
“I was shocked when I heard about his racist comments that he said in reference about African-Americans. There was no misinterpretation or lost in Russian-to-English translation of what he said,” Shumenov said.
“He will have to live with the derogatory words that he said in print and video. A lot of my team are African-Americans, and they are more than members of my team, they are family to me. They have my back and I have theirs, and I have zero respect for racist views of any kind.”
Do you notice a pattern here?
Whether its disrespectful remarks hurled towards peers, distasteful comments and tweets, or thoughtless posts across various social media outlets, character is often revealed through particular actions.
The “Krusher’s” character is on full display.
But what happens to the bully once he’s confronted? The bully usually folds. The case with Kovalev and Ward is a classic example. Ward stood up to Kovalev.
Regarding their fights, it’s why entering the jaws of death (fighting in range of Kovalev’s punching power) was imperative for the success of Ward.
It leaves a psychological effect; telling the bully I’m still here regardless of your tactics.
The “Krusher” openly and adamantly discussed his desire to end Ward’s career. Time and time again, his tag line for the rematch and this was directed at Ward, “I’m going to end your career motherfucker!!”
Perhaps it was just for promotion for their fight, although there appears to be genuine dislike between camps.
After suffering consecutive defeats and the last by TKO to Ward, it now appears Kovalev’s career is heading down the drain.
The question is who will fight Kovalev now? He is still a great fighter and arguably still one of the best fighters pound-for-pound.
But that’s the underlying issue; he’s still a great fighter, possessing terrorizing power, but lacks leverage or incentive to garner fights.
So which upcoming challenger is going to take the risk of fighting him? The question beckoning for that challenger is the financial compensation worth the risk of potentially losing?
It’s unlikely he and Ward will mix it up for a third time. The option of WBC and Lineal light heavyweight champion Stevenson appears improbable due to failed negotiations of the past.
As far as figuring Kovalev’s next step, these duties fall under the promoter and management team correct? The same promoter responsible for paying Kovalev.
This is the sheet from the commission with the purses and officials for Ward vs…. https://t.co/AQokYxtGvr pic.twitter.com/fWAwvOWNag
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) June 15, 2017
Or not paying him, depending on the live gate and pay-per-view success of this past event.
Duva is clearly frustrated, displaying emotional discomfort during a trying time for her fighter who is short on options.
It’s also fitting the fighter and promoter in this instance is paired together.
Now this isn’t an obituary for Kovalev or his promoter Duva.
The 34-year-old former champion can work his way back to title contention, it’s just a matter of how he decides to do so and if he decided to remain in the light heavyweight division.
Regarding the winner of last weekend’s festivities, Ward proved yet again, he is the best fighter pound-for-pound.
Speaking to HBO after the fight Ward said, “Let me ask you the question, can I get on the pound-for-pound list now? At the top?”
Five time world champion, winner of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, unified champion at super middleweight and light heavyweight.
He overcomes every test and every adversity placed in front of him; whether it’s nagging injuries, criticism from fans and the media, or physical and psychological challenges of his opponents. No excuses, he rises to the occasion.
After conquering the super middleweight division, he moved up to a loaded light heavyweight division and just knocked out the biggest bully in boxing.
Enough said, crown him.
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Section 132 When no incriminating material is shown by the Ld. AO therefore disallowance made only on ad-hoc basis is not permissible under the Income Tax Act. SHARUK PASSI & ANR. vs.DCIT ITAT Delhi order on Mar 19, 2020. IT-CASES-213-2020
B.P.Mundra > Income Tax > Cases Income tax > 132 > Section 132 When no incriminating material is shown by the Ld. AO therefore disallowance made only on ad-hoc basis is not permissible under the Income Tax Act. SHARUK PASSI & ANR. vs.DCIT ITAT Delhi order on Mar 19, 2020. IT-CASES-213-2020
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Order in brief
Section 143 assessment completed without giving any adverse finding on issue categorically inquired. Now merely creating a doubt of the same issue does not suffice the Assessing Officer to reopen the case u/s 148 of the Act and the reopening itself is bad and hence the assessment is bad in law
Full Decision
SHARUK PASSI & ANR. vs. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX & ANR.
IN THE ITAT DELHI BENCH ‘G’
K. BILLAIYA, AM & SUCHITRA KAMBLE, JM.
ITA No. 1105 & 4292/Del/2016 Mar 19, 2020
Section 132(1), 143, 148 AY 2005-06, 2012-13
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Vs. DCIT 356 ITR 209
Honda Seil Power Products Ltd. vs. DCIT 340 ITR 64 (SC)
Counsel appeared:
Salil Agrawal, Adv for the Appellant.: H. K. Choudhary, CIT(DR) for the Respondent
SUCHITRA KAMBLE, JM.
These two appeals are filed by the assessee and the Revenue against the order dated 16/1/2015 & 5/5/2016 passed by CIT(A)-24, New Delhi for Assessment Years 2005-06 & 2012-13 respectively.
The grounds of appeal are as under:-
(ITA No. 1105/Del/2015 A.Y. 2005-06)
“1.1. The order of the learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) is arbitrary, against law and facts on record.
1.2 The learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has erred in not considering the fact that the assessment was reopened u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, on the basis of general allegation without any incriminating material against the assessee and was reopened after the expiry of the time limit prescribed under the Income Tax Act, 1961 and as such the assessment order so framed is bad in law
1.3 The learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has not considered the fact that the Assessing officer has erred in not passing the speaking order on the objection filed by the assessee against the reason recorded for reopening of the cases before making the additions and has completed the assessment in haste without appreciating the facts, material and submission placed on record.
1.4 The learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has erred in passing the order without providing the copy of the incrementing document on the basis of which the case have been reopened u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961
1.5 The learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has erred in making the disallowance of rebate and discount given by the assessee to the customer amounting to Rs. 87,17,271/- ignoring the facts, practice prevalent in the trade, documentary evidence and the provisions of Income Tax Act.
1.6 The learned Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has erred in sustaining the addition on the basis of assumption and presumption and has also erred in mentioning that the fresh argument have been taken by the assessee which is clearly against the facts on record
1.7 That the appellant craves leave to add, appeal before or at the time of hearing.”
The order of Ld. CIT(A) is not correct in law and facts.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the addition for bogus claim of rebate/incentive/discount amounting to Rs. 98,12,000/ –
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the addition for inflated claim of transportation expense amounting to Rs.28,57,378/-.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the addition regarding bogus/ inflated claim of new vehicle expense amounting to Rs.41,69,303/-.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the disallowance of travelling expenses amounting to Rs.48,19,079/-.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in holding that the regular books of account seized during search do not form ‘incriminating document’ even if its entries are found false on investigation.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the disallowance of personal expenses amounting to Rs. 10,00,000/-.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in relying on the order of Hon’ble High Court Delhi in case of Kabul Chawla, when the addition was based on investigation of seized documents.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in holding that the regular books of account seized during search do not form ‘incriminating document.’
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in deleting the disallowance u/ s 14A amounting to Rs. 9,77,686/-.
Onthe facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in not appreciating the fact that giving the opportunity to the assessee before disallowance tantamount to recording satisfaction.
On the facts and circumstances of the case, the CIT(A) has erred in relying on the order of Hon’ble High Court Delhi in case of Kabul Chawla.”
We are taking up the Assessment Year 2005-06 first. The brief facts are that the return of income for Assessment Year 2005-06 was filed on 26/10/2005 showing income of Rs. 18,30,19,501/- which was assessed at Rs. 18,35,27,104/- u/s 143(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Thereafter, the case was reopened u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 on the basis that the assessee made false claim of discount passed on the customers through self- made vouchers and bearer cheques which was against the facts on record. Subsequently, the Assessing Officer made addition of Rs. 87,17,271/- on this account to the return of income.
Being aggrieved by the assessment order, the assessee filed appeal before the CIT(A). The CIT(A) dismissed the appeal of the assessee.
The Ld. AR submitted that in this case a search and seizure action u/s 132(1) of the Act took place in February, 2012. The assessee’s case was reopened u/s 148 on the pretext that the assessee was making false claim of discounts passed of the customers through self-made vouchers and bearer cheques. On examination of the bank statement in respect of Bank Account No. 012700210006722, PNB, New Delhi for Financial Year 2004-05 & 2005-06 belonging to PASCOS, Proprietor through Sharuk Passi, it was noticed by the Assessing Officer that there are number of withdrawals in cash from this account. Summons u/s 131 of the Act was issued to the assessee to explain the nature of business and also the entries for withdrawals in the above bank account. In assessee’s statement recorded on 16/3/2012, the assessee explained that these withdrawal entries are in respect of rebate/discount given to buyers of vehicles through banker cheques. The Ld. AR submitted that the assessment in the case was completed u/s 143(3) at income of Rs.18,35,27,104/-. During the course of original assessment all the details relating to rebate and discount was filed. There was specific query raised by the Assessing Officer in respect of these transactions. Further, the details of bank account from which payment was made, was also filed during the course of original assessment. In the original assessment, the Assessing Officer was satisfied about the genuineness of the rebate and discount and completed the assessment without any adverse inference. The Ld. AR relied upon the decision of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in case of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Vs. DCIT 356 ITR 209. The Ld. AR submitted that the assessee is engaged in the trading of Tata Vehicles as such the assessee offers rebate and discount to the customers for sales promotions. Documentary evidence in respect of the transaction being sample copy of invoice, delivery order, transfer voucher was filed during the original assessment proceedings as well as Sec. 148 proceedings by the assessee. The Ld. AR further submitted that the observation at the time of re-opening relating to cheques in cash by few persons are not tenable as these persons were neither the employee of the assessee nor related to the assessee. The Assessing Officer did not make any adverse inference regarding the fact that expenses are neither in the nature of personal expense nor in the nature of capital expenditure. Thus, the Ld. AR submitted that the additions sustained by the CIT (A) is not correct and may be quashed.
The Ld. DR submitted that the reasons had categorically mentioned that the assessee did not disclose the amount of income earned by way of claim of genuine discount and failed to disclose fully and truly all material fact in that respect. The Ld. DR further submitted that there is no change of opinion as the original assessment lacks proper adjudication of the material available on record. The Ld. DR relied upon the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in case of Honda Seil Power Products Ltd. vs. DCIT 340 ITR 64 (SC) and the decision of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in case of NDTV vs. DCIT (2017) 84 Taxman.com 136.
We have heard both the parties and perused the material available on record. It is pertinent to note that Section 143 assessment was completed in respect of discount and rebate which was categorically inquired by the Assessing Officer during the original assessment. All the details were before the Assessing Officer and after verification only the Assessing Officer passed original assessment without giving any adverse finding to that effect. It is pertinent to mention that the bank statement called for and the information given by the bank to the Assessing Officer itself reveals that the transaction and the payments were the genuine payments in respect of discount and rebate. There is no doubt or suspicious arise from the perusal of these documents. Merely creating a doubt of the transaction does not suffice the Assessing Officer to reopen the case u/s 148 of the Act. The Assessing Officer has to give proper reasons in case those documents are not at all produced in the original assessment itself. The reasons recorded by the Assessing Officer u/s 148 are not complete reasons and lack in the context of invocation of Section 148 itself. Therefore, the reopening itself is bad and hence the assessment is bad in law. The appeal of the assessee is allowed.
In result, appeal being ITA No. 1105/Del/2015 filed by the assessee is allowed.
As regards ITA No. 4292/Del/2016 for A.Y. 2012-13, the brief facts are that the search and seizure action u/s 132 of the Act was conducted on PASCO Group of cases on 17/2/2012. In response to return filed u/s 153A of the Act, the detail questionnaire was issued calling for the various information and explanation by the Assessing Officer. The Assessing Officer while passing the order disallowed the expenses of Rs. 98,12,000/- under the head rebate and discount, also disallowed Rs. 28,57,378/- under the head transportation expense, Rs. 41,69,303/- under the head new vehicle expenses, Rs.48,19,079/- under the head travelling expenses, Rs. 10 lakhs under the head personal expenses and Rs. 9,77,686/- u/s 14A of the Income Tax Act, as well as addition of Rs. 4,21,665/- was also made in respect of interest income.
Being aggrieved by the assessment order, the assessee filed appeal before the CIT(A). The CIT(A) partly allowed the appeal of the assessee.
The Ld. DR relied upon the assessment order as well as the order of the CIT(A). The Ld. DR further submitted that the CIT(A) erred in deleing the addition for bogus claim of rebate/incentive/discount amount to Rs. 98, 12,000/-. The details were not given by the assessee during the assessment proceedings and from the perusal of the evidence called for from the banks, as it is found that the discount and rebate has not been properly proved by the assessee during the assessment proceedings. Thus, the Ld. DR submitted that reliance of Hon’ble High Court in case of Kabul Chawla is not correct on part of the CIT(A). Therefore, the Ld. DR submitted that the Revenue’s appeal may be allowed and the addition may be sustained.
The Ld. AR submitted that since this is a regular assessment and the search year which took place on 17/2/2012, it is relevant to mention that there is no incriminating document found by the Assessing Officer during the search and the additions in all that respect does not sustain.
We have heard both the parties and perused the material available on record. It is pertinent to note that there is no incriminating material shown by the Assessing Officer upon which the addition was made. In fact, the seized ledger accounts pertains to A.Y. 2011-12 only and therefore the said material cannot be held against the assessee for A.Y. 2012-13 and also cannot be termed as incriminating material. While making the additions on these documents, the Assessing Officer has not specifically pointed out that these expense but has disallowed all these expenses only on ad-hoc basis which is not permissible under the Income Tax Act. Therefore, the additions made itself does not have any foundation as such. Thus, the appeal of the Revenue does not sustain. In result, appeal being ITA No. 4292/Del/2016 filed by the Revenue is dismissed.
In result, appeal of the assessee is allowed and appeal of the Revenue is dismissed.
Order pronounced in the Open Court on 18 March, 2020.
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Reopening the coronavirus-closed economy — Principles and tradeoffs
Webinar: Reopening the coronavirus-closed economy — Principles and tradeoffs
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After COVID-19 peaks, the U.S. will face another extraordinary challenge: reopening the economy. “Decisions about how and when to reopen the economy are tough ones,” said Glenn Hutchins, co-chair of the Brookings Board of Trustees, in introducing a May 12 virtual event hosted by the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. “We want to get out of the shutdown mode as quickly as possible, but we don’t want to endanger the lives of our colleagues, friends, and neighbors—and in particular, we don’t want to start a second phase of the pandemic.”
The White House perspective
An economic shock of this size brings many uncertainties, said Kevin Hassett, White House senior economic advisor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He emphasized one: When states reopen, will their economies restart?
“We’re taking an active role in informing people, both about the science and about what’s going on on the ground,” he said, “and I think with that, then people in the towns and states are going to make the judgments about exactly what they can do.”
Hassett described the U.S. as in “the build–a–bridge–to–the–other–side phase,” assisting households and businesses while the shutdown persists. As economic activity revives, focus will turn to longer-run policies to nurture the post-COVID recovery—but, he said, “if you were to go into … call it maybe the final phase … this week, then you might be putting the cart ahead of the horse.”
Weighing benefits and risks
James Stock, a Harvard economist, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, and author of a Hutchins Center background paper assessing strategies for reopening the economy, emphasized that the purpose of reopening is to get people back to work. To do so while managing the risks to public health means selective relaxation of restrictions.
Weighing activities’ economic benefits against their risks will be important, Stock explained. He suggested that low-value, high-risk activities like professional sporting events might be suspended indefinitely. For many low-contact industries, Stock argued that there isn’t much benefit in waiting to reopen—and that includes brick-and-mortar shopping with protections to thwart the spread of the virus. He noted, though, that consumers and workers need to be confident that measures will work.
An optimistic outcome is possible, but the conditions for optimism are dark, Stock warned. “If people go back to even a near normal social life, the virus can rekindle, and deaths will rise, no matter what protections there are at the workplace … so it’s super important in my view that we prioritize the economic activities and keep a laser-like focus on what’s going to allow people to get back to work while restraining non-work social activities. It doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, but I think it’s better than the alternative.”
COVID-19 and inequalities
Sir Angus Deaton, a Nobel laureate and senior scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, highlighted inequalities of the pandemic, including the much-publicized racial and ethnic disparities.
Many Americans with college degrees can go on working at home, but those without college degrees are likely to face dire alternatives: “The essential workers risk their lives, and the nonessential workers risk their livelihoods.” The pandemic will heighten the earnings differential between these groups, as well as the difference in mortality rates that Deaton and co-author Anne Case highlighted in a new book, “Deaths of Despair.”
The political inequalities of the pandemic will soon shift, Deaton predicted. Because the virus has caused more deaths in blue states, he said, “A red state governor is losing his business in exchange for blue state lives, so for him, opening up is a no-brainer, which is sort of why it’s happening.” But that balance will likely change: “[I]t’s clear that as deaths move into red states, there will be less political difficulty about helping states in trouble, and there will be a greater consensus for a smart opening.”
Ross Hammond, senior fellow and director of the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy at Brookings, said models from epidemiology are useful both in forecasting and in evaluating different policy interventions. “For models to be useful and to do more good than harm, it’s essential that they are built and applied appropriately,” Hammond said. Models need to capture three features of the coronavirus: heterogeneity, spatial structure, and uncertainty.
Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard University’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health, emphasized differences in how the virus is playing out across the country. “It’s not one big epidemic; it’s multiple small epidemics,” she said. “We have hyperlocal epidemics that we think result from the distribution of populations of varying socioeconomic status who can or cannot afford to do physical distancing interventions.” Buckee called for hyperlocal decisions that account for inequalities and the relationships between neighborhoods.
Buckee also outlined epidemiological considerations for reopening: How will we monitor the epidemic while reopening? What will the decision rule be for adapting policies? Because the epidemic is hyperlocal and staggered, what spatial scale is appropriate for policymaking? What are we willing to tolerate?
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Facility students participate in all aspects of the college program, for example: the Leadership Program, SRC representatives, sports teams, theatre production. Past students have been elected School Captains, voted for by their peers and staff.
The Facility staff at Charles La Trobe College have a range of qualifications, skills and experience including Primary and Secondary training, LOTE training, ESL training, Mathematics and Science specialists. Staff also teach subjects in the mainstream college. This enables them to keep up to date with current educational practice. Our Interpreters attend Professional Development Training specific to their work and are constantly updating their skills.
Regular meetings with students, parents and staff are held where individual goals are set. These goals are communicated to mainstream staff and evaluated at the end of an agreed period of time. Facility staff and parents are in regular contact with each other through phone calls, emails and visits. Family social nights are held at least twice a year.
Graduates from the Facility have gone on to a wide range of work and further studies including Illustration, Sports Medicine, Architecture, Environmental Science, Child Care and Visual Merchandising.
Australian Hearing visits the school once a month to check student’s equipment. Charles La Trobe College Deaf Facility works closely with outside agencies as the need arises. These may include but are not exclusive to Deaf Children Australia, Educational Psychologists and Speech Pathologists.
Deaf Visitors – Regular visits from a deaf guests provide support and encouragement to interested Facility students. Example: Deaf chaplain, Deaf peers and Deaf role models.
Australian Hearing Service – Regular visits from AHS enable students to have their hearing aids checked and ear mould impressions taken.
Speech Pathologist – Sessions with a Speech Pathologist are optional.
Extra Curricular activities – Students have the opportunity to participate in camps, sports days and activities with other secondary Deaf Facilities.
DVD Library -The Facility offers a DVD borrowing library with captioned DVDs to extend students’ literacy skills.
Auslan (Australian Sign Language) – Auslan is taught at the college as a LOTE from Years 7-12. Students consistently achieve excellent VCE results in Auslan.
Further information about enrolment may be obtained by contacting the school on (03) 9223 1400 and speaking to the Deaf Facility Manager.
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UK revenge porn victims could get better protection in sexual abuse laws overhaul
By Ryan Hooper, Press Association Chief Reporter
Victims of revenge porn could be granted better protection as part of a possible overhaul of image-based sexual abuse laws, the Government has announced.
Moves to bring revenge porn - the sharing of non-consensual explicit images without the subject's permission - in line with other sexual offences has been long called for by campaigners.
The offence is currently dealt with under communications legislation, meaning victims are not automatically granted anonymity in the same way victims of other sexual abuse are.
The Government said it has asked the independent legal reform watchdog the Law Commission to examine existing legislation to ensure it is keeping pace with advancements in technology.
But campaigners said they were disappointed that a lengthy review would not see a swift solution to the issues surrounding "outdated" laws.
Justice Minister Paul Maynard and Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright have intervened amid concerns it has become easier to create and distribute sexual images of people online without their permission.
The review, which the Government said "will be launched shortly", will consider a range of digital trends such as cyber-flashing - when people receive unsolicited sexual images of someone over the phone - and "deepfake" pornography - the practice of superimposing an individual's face on to pornographic photos or videos without consent.
The move comes two months after a specific upskirting law was introduced for England and Wales, following a high-profile campaign that complained victims were left without access to justice through existing legislation.
The Government said the review will also consider the case for granting automatic anonymity to revenge porn victims, so they cannot be named publicly, as is the case for victims of sexual offences.
Mr Maynard said: "No-one should have to suffer the immense distress of having intimate images taken or shared without consent.
"We are acting to make sure our laws keep pace with emerging technology and trends in these disturbing and humiliating crimes.
"This review will build on our recent work to make 'upskirting' and revenge porn illegal to protect victims and ensure perpetrators feel the full weight of the law."
The Government said existing voyeurism laws present a legal avenue for victims of image-based sexual abuse such as fakeporn.
However, such prosecutions are extremely rare.
Conservative MP Maria Miller, chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, told the Press Association the announcement would be welcomed by victims and campaigners after years of calls for updates to the law.
She said: "I'm really glad - we need a specific image-based sexual abuse law to get rid of the fragmented approach to dealing with these offences which is currently in place.
"This patchwork law at the moment is difficult both for victims to understand and for police to implement
Professor David Ormerod QC, criminal law commissioner at the Law Commission, said: "Behaviours such as taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent, or co-ordinated online harassment, causes distress and can ruin lives.
"If the criminal laws are not up to scratch, we will propose reforms that simplify the current patchwork of offences to provide more effective protection for victims."
Rachel Krys, co-director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said victims needed access to justice at an earlier stage than any Law Commission review could guarantee.
She said: "While ministers claim tackling this sort of abuse is a priority, they launch a review which will take two years to report. Any new laws and protection are years away.
"Given the speed of technological change, how quickly online abuse evolves and how harmful it is right now, this is completely unacceptable."
Clare McGlynn, professor in law at Durham University and an expert on image-based sexual abuse, said: "While I welcome the Government's acknowledgement of the need for comprehensive law reform, we need to act now before more people's lives are shattered.
"We don't need further consultation to understand how urgent this is.
"Law reform is only the start; the Government must act now to increase resources to support victims."
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Tennessee Sports Betting Draft Rules Draw Remarks on Parlay, Payout Cap Issues
Posted on: January 13, 2020, 01:56h.
Last updated on: January 13, 2020, 10:05h.
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The Tennessee State Lottery received more than 580 comments on its draft regulations for sports betting. That’s according to a document posted on the lottery’s web site.
Critics have questioned a proposal by the Tennessee Lottery that would require licensed sportsbooks to cap payouts at 85 percent. A study released last week indicates it could cost The Volunteer State $11 million annually. (Image:Sixflashphoto/Wikimedia Commons)
Per the law state legislators passed last year, the Lottery is responsible for regulating sports betting. In November, it released the draft sports betting rules. The deadline for comments was Jan. 6.
Of the comments, the two issues that received the most responses were a rule that requires sportsbooks to score a parlay bet that includes a tie as a loss and a proposal that would force sportsbooks to limit payouts to 85 percent.
The parlay regulation received 60 comments, and the payout cap garnered 37.
The exact comments were not available on the web site, although the lottery said it expects them to be posted by Wednesday. In addition, the lottery’s Sports Wagering Advisory Council will meet on Tuesday afternoon in Nashville.
Other proposed rules that drew multiple comments were a call for a 30-day review period for advertising, which critics called unrealistic, and a regulation against betting on personal performances that some fear could prohibit bets on individual sports, such as tennis and golf.
Report Claims Payout Cap Harmful
The summary of comments comes after Eilers and Krejcik, a global gaming consulting firm, released a study last week that indicates if the state moves forward with a proposed 15 percent hold requirement for sportsbooks, it stands to lose $11 million annually in revenue and attract far fewer customers from illegal offshore sports betting sites.
The $11 million decrease is a 19.8 percent decrease in the amount of revenue state officials expect to receive from sports betting. The lost revenue would come from a combination of decreased wagering and fewer operators who would pay a $750,000 annual fee for a license.
Eilers and Krejcik polled 12 unnamed operators, and eight said the hold requirement is making them reconsider operating a sports betting application in Tennessee.
The firm’s report was commissioned by the iDevelopment and Economic Association (iDEA), a nonprofit group seeking to expand opportunities for online gaming across the United States.
Worse Odds, Fewer Customers
When Tennessee lawmakers passed a sports betting law last year, it was initially heralded for its innovative approach. It became the first state to allow only online sports betting applications, eschewing brick-and-mortar retail sportsbooks.
However, after the lottery unveiled the draft regulations, bettors and gaming industry officials expressed concerns on social media about the parlay and payout cap proposals. Some questioned the legality of a regulatory body setting a payout cap, saying the rule exceeds its authority.
If enacted, the 15 percent requirement would likely lead to bettors in Tennessee seeing worse odds for sporting events than their counterparts in other states where sports betting is legal, or from those betting illegally, either from local bookies or offshore sportsbooks.
The firm forecasts that Tennessee could attract as many as 60 percent of those who bet on sports illegally in the state without the payout restriction. If it’s in place, that number is reduced to about 12 percent.
Cap Stunts French Market Growth
The study cites that the only market with a minimum hold requirement is France, which also mandates sportsbooks withhold 15 percent of the handle.
According to Global Market Advisors, another gaming industry consulting firm, the average hold for sportsbooks elsewhere is about 5 percent.
Eilers and Krejcik tracked the development of the French market alongside the market in Great Britain, which has a similar population, and Denmark, a country whose population is far smaller.
France, despite a population of 67 million, has just 13 licensed sportsbooks. That’s five fewer than Denmark, which is home to only about 5.6 million people. Britain, meanwhile, has 40 licensed operators.
More telling was the average spend per customer. In France, the average bettor spent slightly more than €300 in 2018. In Denmark, the average bettor spent nearly €400, while the average Brit exceeded €500.
To put it another way: Even though sports betting operators in France are making more on each individual bet than operators in the UK or Denmark, French operators are still making less overall per player than operators in those markets,” the report stated.
Not only are bettors wagering less in France, there are also fewer of them registered. Less than 4 percent of the French population is registered on a sportsbook, compared to 10 percent in Britain and about 8 percent in Denmark.
Eilers and Krejcik also note that France’s enrollment rate is smaller than New Jersey’s. That’s even though France allowed sports betting in June 2010, eight years before the Garden State did.
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Alamo, The (2004) - Details
In a small Texas town in the spring of 1836, roughly 200 men lost their lives defending a small mission building, the Alamo, from several thousand Mexican soldiers under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The Alamo will retell the events surrounding that battle from multiple perspectives on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) directs a cast that includes Patrick Wilson (Lt. Col. William Travis), Jason Patric (James Bowie), Billy Bob Thornton (David Crockett), Dennis Quaid (Gen. Sam Houston), and others.
Action / Adventure / Drama
9th April 2004 - US Release
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Psych Pays Homage To Clue With Its 100th Episode, Viewers To Pick The Ending Live
Published: Mar. 21. 2013 1:58 AM
Clue fans won't want to miss Psych's 100th episode, which airs March 27 at 10/9c on USA. The mystery solving dramedy will pay homage to the 1985 murder mystery comedy film based on the beloved board game. And as the trailer for the episode indicates, not only will the episode, titled "100 Clues" feature guest stars from the film, but viewers will have the opportunity to choose the ending.
If you're familiar with the movie, then you know that the hilarious comedy has the board game characters brought into a house for a dinner party where they soon learn that they all share something in common with one another. When a body (or Boddy) shows up, they must scramble to figure out who did it, in fear that they may be next on the list or blamed for the crime. The film wraps up with three different endings laying out who did the crime and explaining it in elaborate detail. When the movie was originally released, theater goers got one of the three endings, but those of us who grew up watching it when it air on repeat on HBO after its theatrical run (or later, other channels) are probably more familiar with the three-ending conclusion. Either way, the unique way of closing out the story appears to have inspired Psych's big episode.
Psych's "100 Clues" episode will have Shawn and Gus invited to a mysterious party at a fancy mansion in Santa Barbara. In this case, the party is thrown by Billy Lipps, a guy Shawn and the cops had put away five years back. And of course, a new crime takes place and new suspects emerge, the Butler, the Groupie, the Manager, the Author and the Host. Fans watching on both coasts will have the opportunity to help identify the true murderer by casting votes through Psych.usanetwork.com and Twitter.
This may be one of the most fun and interactive 100th episodes in TV history. Not only does it bring the fans into the story, but it does so using a movie that seems perfect for a show like Psych. Much like Clue, Psych takes a lighter and often humorous approach to darker subjects like murder and other crimes. The humor is similar enough, in fact, that references to the movie look like they fit in seamlessly with the tone of the series. Shawn's "He's planning to take us out one-by-one-by-one-by-one-by-one" is a nod to one of my favorite moments in Clue:
Psych's 100th episode "100 Clues" airs Wednesday, March 27 at 10/9c on USA.
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ACR to host 2014 Shrine Bowl combine
For the third consecutive year, Reynolds will host Western North Carolina's only Shrine Bowl combine.
The combine is scheduled for May 31 and the cost to participate is $20 for players from the Class of 2015.
There is no pre-registration and only cash will be accepted as a payment. Kickers, punters and long snappers may register starting at 9:30 a.m., while the registration for position players is at 10.
Avery County coach Darrell Brewer is an assistant on this year's North Carolina staff. The annual game between North Carolina and South Carolina seniors will take place Dec. 20 in Spartanburg, S.C.
The Shrine Bowl has posted its full combine schedule here.
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Mozart - Symphony No. 41 in C (‘Jupiter’)
First of all, the nickname. Unlike the Eine Kleine Nachtmusik epithet, which stems from Mozart’s own description in his personal notebook, the word ‘Jupiter’ probably has nothing to do with Mozart. Unfortunately, it appears to be marketing hype, coined by the same chap who promoted Haydn concerts in England, one Johann Peter Salomon. If true, then the name came from London, first used in a concert programme for the Philharmonic Society of London (now the Royal Philharmonic society) and that was a full twenty-six years after Mozart died.
Staggeringly, this very popular symphony was written within days of both Mozart’s Symphony No.39 and Symphony No.40 in a prolific seven-week spell during the summer of 1788. It could be that Mozart had at least a couple of symphonies buzzing around in his head before committing them almost whole to paper. But to have three fully formed works committed to memory is truly astonishing. More proof, if it were needed, of the correct use of the word ‘genius’ when applied to Mozart.
No.41 in C is probably his brightest and most complex symphony.
Karl Böhm was the first to record all Mozart’s symphonies. His award-winning 1960s recordings with the Berlin Phil are poetic and perfectly measured. By contrast, Leonard Bernstein’s account with the Vienna Phil is more adventurous and dynamic; take, for example, the final movements of both symphonies where there is greater drive and excitement. There is also plenty of light and shade in the darker moments, making the tense atmosphere created almost unbearable.
Charles Mackerras and the Prague Chamber Orchestra offer period performances with modern instruments. Mackerras observes all the repeats and at times rattles along at break-neck speed. Although it’s Mozart in the fast lane, it’s a very enjoyable ride nonetheless.
Recommended Recording
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras (conductor). Linn: CKD 308.
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Interstate Border Closures: How it Affects Your Employees
As of midnight, on Friday 3rd April 2020 the border to Queensland was closed. This decision follows similar moves by South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. This means that anyone travelling from another state has to undertake a 14-day period of self-quarantine upon arrival.
The Queensland border closure does include fly in fly out(FIFO) workers, but with two exemptions:
If your FIFO work is critical to a projects operation such as being responsible for Health and Safety, or
If your FIFO or drive in drive out (DIDO) worker is already travelling within Queensland.
Employers of large amounts of FIFO/DIDO workers have been advised to increase the length of the shifts to minimise the number of days travelling to and from work.
Claymore Thistle spoke with one DIDO worker who has had his shift changed from a five on, two off rotation to a ten on four off, but they said they had no intention of leaving the area on their off days as they didn’t want to risk getting stuck off-site and not being able to get to work when their shift recommenced.
Other employers have chosen to relocate workers before the restrictions came into effect.
Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said Queensland had no known cases in remote regional communities, and restricting these workers from entering the state will remove a possible transmission route.
Mining has been classed as an essential activity as it is a key part of the Australian economy and therefore there has been no decrease in the work going on around Australia and in Queensland concerning active mine sites and it is hoped that the border closures will reduce the risk to those rural populations.
Currently there is no national framework in place, although this is expected soon. This means that each State can manage its workers how they see fit, and each employer for each industry can also have their own rules.
South Australia has advised people who work on critical infrastructure, agriculture, or mining and resources are exempt to the current travel restrictions.
The Northern Territory is working on a case-by-case basis and authorities aim to minimise contact with remote and isolated communities.
According to the Australian Government Department of Health, “As at 6:00am on 7 April 2020, there have been 5,844 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 100 new cases since 6:00am yesterday“.
The Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said “a welcome downward trend in new coronavirus cases was continuing, while testing for community transmissions will be expanded’. No relaxation of any of the current measures in place was mentioned. The advice is still to stay within your suburb.
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Banro Corporation Ltd. is a Central African gold producer and an ardent promoter of sustainability by building enduring relationships with our local communities, expanding our Congolese workforce and providing a safe and secure work environment for our people.
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‘Bitcoin Price Will Cross $11,500 Soon,’ Says Crypto Analyst Bill Baruch
Apr 25 2018 · 07:33 UTC | Updated Apr 26 2018 · 09:10
Bill Baruch, together with a number of other reputed analysts, has expressed a bullish view regarding short-term Bitcoin price movements.
It looks like the early glory is returning back to the crypto markets as more and more analysts and financial institutions are turning positive on the future of Bitcoin together with the overall cryptocurrency markets. Yesterday, Bitcoin convincingly crossed the $9000 level at which it was seen trading for a long time owing to the selling pressure before the U.S tax deadline last week. Currently, bitcoin is trading at $9425.91 with a market cap of $160 billion, according to the data on CoinMarketCap.
Now, crypto analyst Bill Baruch has set a short-term target of $11,500 to $11,800 for Bitcoin. Baruch is the president of Blue Line Futures and holds a pretty good track record for the accurate predictions of the Bitcoin price. Back in February 2018, when the overall crypto market was in bad shape and bitcoin had slipped the sub $7000 levels, Baruch confidently said that it is poised to surge back to $10000 levels.
In the very next month of March 2018, Bitcoin surged to above $12,900 levels while averaging its month’s price at around $10,500 levels. Now, that the tax deadlines in the United States have passed, Baruch is confident that cryptocurrency prices will continue to rally.
While talking to CNBC, Baruch said:
“After fighting regulation headwinds and tax selling, the path of least resistance is higher, and I believe the sector still has much more upside in the long run. The ultimate upside is $11,500 to $11,800.”
Baruch also states that the recent growth looks quite a healthy one, as it is not centric only to surge in the Bitcoin price – many altcoins are seen making significant moves as well. Baruch sees this as a bullish catalyst for the entire crypto markets and his views are backed by a lot of analysts.
Long-time Bitcoin proponent and Fundstrat analyst Tom Lee recently said:
“We believe the ‘winter’ is ending for Bitcoin, as the crypto to fiat pressures from tax day subside, and as headline risks seem to be fading.”
Considering the CoinsharesCrypto ETF, which is a major indicator of BTC price movements, he stated:
“We believe large institutional investors globally use this ETF as a way to quickly gain exposure to Bitcoin. Hence when shares rise, big money is buying bitcoin.”
Another billionaire tech investor Tim Draper has made some bold predictions with the long-term perspective saying Bitcoin could probably reach $2,50,000 by the end of 2022 i.e. in the next four years. He said:
“I’m thinking $250,000 a bitcoin by 2022. Believe it. They’re going to think you’re crazy, but believe it. It’s happening and it’s going to be awesome!”
In a CNBC video, Draper further appreciates the blockchain technology stating:
“This is bigger than the internet! It’s bigger than the Iron Age and the Renaissance. It’s bigger than the Industrial Revolution! This affects the entire world and it’s going to be affected in a faster and more prevalent way than you ever imagined.”
“It sounds crazy, but think about it this way: that’s four years from now. That’s a 3,000 percent return from here. But over the last two year,s bitcoin has had a 4,000 percent return. It would be a continuation of that trend,” told CNBC another analyst Brian Kelly, founder and CEO of BKCM, an investment firm focused in digital currencies.
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Sexism Sells T-shirts at Roger David and City Beach
Posted by Collective Shout 827sc on August 25, 2010
Local Collective Shout group takes action [UPDATED]
Members of the Collective Shout Group in Toowoomba have been actively opposing sexualised clothing items currently stocked in their local Roger David and City Beach stores.
Roger David
Letters were sent to various members within the City Beach Head Office, outlining disappointment that this retail chain was contributing to the prevalence of sexual messages in society. The purpose of these letters was not merely to communicate disapproval, but also to highlight the consequences of contributing to the early sexualisation of children and the objectification of women. A request was also made to discontinue the sale of this particular line of clothing.
The Collective Shout Toowoomba Group received a reply from Chris Somerville, City Beach Marketing Department. An excerpt from the letter:
We thank-you for bringing the concerns of Collective Shout to our attention and have engaged the City Beach buying teams in discussion regarding the points raised in your letter to ensure they are aware of your opinions on this matter.
We’d like to thank you for your feedback. As a retailer the feedback of our customers is extremely important to us as it provides valuable insight into what our customers do and do not like.
Unfortunately the shirts are still available for purchase.
While City Beach had the courtesy to reply to their correspondence, Roger David did not. Similar communication was sent to their head office, regarding their “Annie Hollywood” and “Blood is the New Black”, yet no reply was received.
Concerned that both stores were continuing to stock disturbing clothing lines, the Toowoomba group developed a new strategy – a boycott of both stores.
Posters were sent to each store, featuring the signatures and photographs of 50 young people who were unwilling to shop at either store until the offensive items were removed. Included on the posters (this one to Roger David):
Dear Roger David,
As young people of Toowoomba, we are deeply concerned by the highly sexualised clothing that is currently being sold in your store at the Grand Central Shopping Centre. We believe many of the men’s T-shirts sold in your store are demeaning to women and we don’t understand why you would choose to stock such a clothing style. Objectifying women is not art and it should not be labelled ‘trendy’. It is disgusting.
We’re in our teens. We are in our twenties and thirties – We’re not old prudes. We simply want something better for ourselves, our friends and our city.
We ask you to removed items such as the “Anne Hollywood” T-shirts and similar styles made by brands such as “Blood is the New Black” from your stores. We do not want to buy them, nor do we want to see them for sale in your shop. We’ve created this poster as a ‘protest’ against these items. We won’t be shopping in your store until these products are removed.
We ask that you carefully consider this matter and would greatly appreciate your response within 10 days.
The Undersigned.
The 10 days have well and truly come and gone and the group has not received a response from Roger David. The poster sent to City Beach did not receive response, either.
Collective Shout would like to know why Roger David and City Beach feel comfortable in ignoring the concern of consumers. Perhaps they can afford to disregard the loss of 50 customers… but what if the boycott of their stores became more widespread? Would the loss of thousands of customers cause them to question the wisdom of stocking sexualised products?
Are you willing to shop elsewhere until these stores remove inappropriate items from their stores? Write to your local store and include a picture of yourself, advising them why you will no longer purchase from their store. Better yet, you could create a similar poster with a group of concerned friends. The greater the response, the greater the chance to move forward in cleaning up culture.
If you want to leave a comment at the City Beach or Roger David websites, please visit the links below:
City Beach Online Feedback Form
Roger David Online – visit contact us section
As always, if you do send either City Beach or Roger David a message, please also post in the comments below.
UPDATE 15/10/10
Collective Shout's Toowoomba group have been working hard to get the message through to City Beach and Roger David, who don't seem to have a problem with selling porn on a t-shirt to teenage boys. Today, this story appeared in The Chronicle.
T-SHIRTS featuring naked women, some bound and gagged with rope, have prompted a group of young people to boycott popular retail stores in Toowoomba.
Members of the Toowoomba branch of Collective Shout say they will not shop at Roger David or City Beach stores while they sold “highly sexualised clothing items”.
Collective Shout member Mark McErvale said the T-shirts objectified and sexualised women as well as promoted the pornography industry.
“Sexualisation in culture is a significant issue,” the 23-year-old said.
“It degrades women and girls and creates a false expectations in men and boys.
“The Collective Shout group is seeking to raise awareness and momentum among the community. We hope the community will join the push to see corporations cease stocking pornographic images on clothing.”
The range of clothing deemed offensive by the group includes a T-shirt with a women dressed in lingerie and high heels, behind an ironing board, as well as topless women in a bathtub full of breakfast cereal.
Fellow Collective Shout member Natasha Ballinger said T-shirts that showed gagged women had the potential to further traumatise rape or sexual assault victims. Read more at The Chronicle.
Later, the story goes national with Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Liszewski quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald.
An internet group opposed to the sexualisation of children has vowed to boycott stores in the Queensland rural city of Toowoomba over some of the T-shirts they are selling.
The shirts depict naked women, some bound and gagged with rope, and have prompted local members of Collective Shout to declare they will not shop at Roger David or City Beach stores while they sold highly sexualised clothing items.
Collective Shout spokeswoman Melinda Liszewski said the artwork on some of the clothes aimed at teenagers borrowed themes from pornography.
"City Beach's main customer base would be teenagers or maybe early 20s, and they're marketing these shirts which are just borrowing images from pornography and objectifying women," Ms Liszewski told AAP on Friday. Read more at SMH.
As always there will be those who say 'it's just a t-shirt.' We disagree, these t-shirts are a statement about women and girls. But it's not just a t-shirt, not just a billboard, not just a music video or a magazine. It is the cumulative effect of the imagery and message that women's bodies are there for men's use that is detrimental to women and girls.
Naturally, this message is also harmful to boys and men as Collective Shout member Mark McErvale articulated so well:
"It degrades women and girls and creates a false expectations in men and boys."
To deny the impact of this imagery in our culture, is to deny the effect of advertising itself. Advertisers don't spend billions of dollars a year on something that has no effect.
We invite City Beach and Roger David to pull sexist and degrading items from their stores and to make better decisions with their clothing range.
City Beach Corporate Offenders Roger David sexualisation objectification porn t-shirts say no to porn t shirts
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Home Comics Graphic Novels Remember ANIMORPHS? They’re back in graphic novel form!
Remember ANIMORPHS? They’re back in graphic novel form!
Arriving this October from Scholastic Graphix
Taimur Dar
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. If you grew up in the ’90s, you probably recall author K.A. Applegate‘s delightful YA series Animorphs about a group of teenagers fighting off a secret alien invasion through the use powers gifted to them by a dying alien that allowed them to transform into any animal. Eat your heart out Beast Boy. Whether or not you read the books, you’ll likely remember the striking visual covers.
Spanning 54 books over the course of five years, the Animorphs franchise spawned a short-lived Nickelodeon television series and even a toy line. Sure, Animorphs may have gone the way of the dinosaur just as Harry Potter was making the scene, but millennials will always have a soft spot for this franchise.
It’s not an understatement to say that companies have been tapping into that sweet millennial market with ’90s nostalgia. Just look at some of the properties resurrected from that halcyon era in the past decade such as Power Rangers and Goosebumps. After relaunching the original books with new lenticular covers nearly ten years ago, today it was announced courtesy of AV Club that a graphic novel adaptation from the Scholastic Graphix imprint would be released this October. Titled Animorphs: The Invasion, the graphic novel is written by Applegate as well as her husband Michael Grant and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Chris Grine. “We are very excited by this opportunity to bring Animorphs to a new readership,” say K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant. “Morph to your favorite battling beast and join the resistance to Yeerk domination!”
“It’s a huge relief to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on over the last year,” Grines said. “I love this series and I can’t wait to share it with the fans who have been wanting this to happen for so long. Having never adapted a book into a graphic novel before, let alone a series so deeply ingrained in pop culture, it was both super exciting and panic-inducing at times.”
Animorphs: The Invasion arrives later this year on October 6. Check out preview pages below. It’s definitely channeling that ’90s vibe with kids in an arcade.
K.A. Applegate
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Glen "Fireball" Roberts wins the 1963 Daytona 500. After disappointment in his previous 3 Daytona 500's, his legendary crewchief Smokey Yunick builds a car that Fireball is unable to break during the race. Fireball would go on to defeat Richard Petty by 27 seconds. This was Fireball's biggest victory in a racing career that was tragically cut short in 1964.
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I didn’t know Friday the 13th could be a week, but this one has been unfortunate – I’m positive you don’t want to know the details because I’m certainly in no mood to write them – and I needed something to raise my spirits.
Going to see Ford v. Ferrari wasn’t a bad choice.
What has that to do with NASCAR, you ask? Not much. Holman-Moody participates in the Ford effort to win Le Mans. It’s harder for Carroll Shelby, Ken Miles and unmentioned co-driver Lloyd Ruby to win because the legendary stock-car partnership brings a NASCAR pit crew to pit its Ford GT in Daytona Beach, Fla., a familiar place for such crews. What few NASCAR mentions there are seem a bit condescending, left turns only and all that.
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In 1985, Elliott made history by winning the first-ever Winston Million: A million-dollar bonus to any driver that could win three out of the four crown jewel races of NASCAR: The Daytona 500 at Daytona, the Winston 500 at Talladega, the World 600 at Charlotte, and the Southern 500 at Darlington. In a year dominated by Elliott, Bill went on to win 11 races (with 4 "season sweeps": Atlanta, Pocono, Michigan, and Darlington) and 11 poles, with three of those 11 wins being in the Daytona 500, the Winston 500, and the Southern 500, earning Bill the "Winston Million Dollar Bonus" and earning him the nickname "Million Dollar Bill"
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In recognition of four decades of dedicated service to Speedway Motorsports, officials have named Atlanta Motor Speedway President Ed Clark as the O. Bruton Smith Award recipient for 2019.
“It is an honor to recognize the invaluable efforts of those who blaze a trail at Speedway Motorsports’ eight world-class motorsports entertainment facilities,” said Marcus Smith, President and CEO of Speedway Motorsports. “It has been a privilege to have Ed Clark’s vision and leadership enhance our company in the vital roles he’s served since he joined the Speedway Motorsports family nearly 40 years ago.
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DOMINIC SCELZI EARNS CAREER-BEST EIGHT WINS IN 2019
Dominic Scelzi topped his career-best campaign in 2018 by recording two more victories this year.
Scelzi scored an impressive eight triumphs, including five during King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Series competition - setting personal bests for overall wins and victories in a single season with the premier sprint car series in his home state of California.
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MONTE DUTTON - THE ROOTS OF MY RACIN’ RAISIN’
Many years have passed. Some of the details have escaped my memory, but some are as vivid as a sunset or a waterfall. Apparently, I was four or five because Glenn “Fireball” Roberts perished after a crash in 1964, when I was six.
I remember that the race was on dirt, a quarter-mile track at the Greenwood Fairgrounds, about 25 miles from where I lived then and now. I don’t remember who won. It was a Modified race, which is to say that the cars looked like full-sized versions of what are called Legends cars now. Roberts’ car was black and gold, emblazoned with No. 22. He drove a similarly decorated Pontiac in 1962 at NASCAR’s premier level, which suggests I was four years old. I can’t find a photo of the Modified. It may have been fielded by a local owner who painted it to mimic the colors. I expect Roberts was there because the promoter made it worth his time.
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MONTE DUTTON – THANKSGIVING ON THE ROAD
It’s Thanksgiving, and I might order a pizza. Generations have passed, the family has wings and my nephew is having the feast at his house on Saturday evening so that he and Jessica can show off their young’uns at another wing.
This is the second time in my life this has happened. The first was in 2001 when a race in Loudon, N.H., was postponed on account of 9/11 and run on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I couldn’t care less about Black Friday if it was puke green, but the rest of the gypsy troupe and I flew up to brave the elements, which didn’t really require much bravery. The race was run on Friday because, allegedly, NASCAR president Mike Helton had a wedding to attend on Saturday, and he was in a position to make such arrangements work.
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Just when you’re ready to settle in for some egg and nog and whatever may accompany, Windows starts throwing poison frog darts. This month, a fairly boring patching regiment has turned topsy turvey with an unexplained emergency patch for Internet Explorer (you know, the browser nobody uses), combined with an Outlook 2013 patch that doesn’t pass the smell test.
Mysterious bug fix for IE
Microsoft set off the shower of firecrackers on Dec. 19 when it released a bevy of patches for Internet Explorer:
Win10 1809 – KB 4483235 – build 17763.195
IE 11 on Win7 and 8.1 – KB 4483187
As Gregg Keizer explains in his Computerworld analysis:
Microsoft issued a rare emergency security update to plug a critical vulnerability in the still-supported IE9, IE10 and IE11. The flaw was reported to Microsoft by Google security engineer Clement Lecigne. According to Microsoft, attackers are already exploiting the vulnerability, making it a classic "zero-day" bug.
That’s what Microsoft claimed; from the description it sounds like a drive-by hole, where you can get infected by merely looking at a bad website. But in spite of dire warnings from many corners, there’s exactly no information about the vulnerability making the rounds. In a situation like this, one would expect some sort of detailed explanation from Microsoft, Google or Lecigne. As of early Friday morning, we’ve seen nothing.
Perhaps all the explainers are already beset with visions of sugarplums, but it’s mighty odd for an emergency patch to hit the offal fan with nary a hint of what’s wrong, or why it needs to be fixed with such abandon. This isn’t a garden variety “C” or “D” week non-security patch. It’s a full 10-claxon call to arms at a time when most people are taking an early vacation. Or at least a languid liquid lunch.
To add to the urgency, Microsoft Thursday night issued a similar tiny IE patch for the latest beta test round of the next version of Win10 – KB 4483187 brings the “19H1” beta build up to 18305.1003. So something’s afoot, but we don’t know what.
As most of you know, patching IE isn’t just for people who actually use IE. Microsoft has woven IE into the fabric of Windows – and it’s still there despite a decade-or-so of extraction effort. An IE patch is an important event because a hole in IE can manifest itself in many ways. But in this case, with no clear explanation, we don’t know what ways, or whether you’re only at risk if you actually use IE.
I’m seeing reports that the Win7 patch, KB 4483187, triggers random crashes. Removing the update restores the machines. But with the holidays about to go into full swing, it’s hard to say if that’s an isolated incident or a lump of cantankerous coal.
Outlook 2013 patch Three Card Monty
Also on Thursday, Microsoft released yet another mysterious patch, KB 4011029, the “December 20, 2018, update for Outlook 2013.” According to the KB article, it fixes a bug where Mail delivery rules stop working. When you try to open the "Manage Rules & Alerts" dialog box in Outlook 2013, you receive the following error message:
The operation failed because of a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, reinstall.
Nice little holiday bug for anyone using rules in Outlook 2013. But, again, there’s more to the story.
Three days ago, Microsoft acknowledged a bug in Outlook that’s identical to the one described in the KB 4011029 article, but it affects three different “perpetual” (which is to say, bought and installed) versions of Outlook – Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016 -- plus bugs in four different subscription (which is to say, rented versions) releases of Office 365:
Version 1810 build 11001.20108
Version 1803 build 9126.2315
Apparently, the bug was introduced in the November security patches, but hadn’t been acknowledged until three days ago.
I’ve found no explanation for why Outlook 2013 has been patched, but the other six versions have not. It’s possible that there are five more patches waiting in the wings. It’s possible that this one patch is actually intended for other versions of Office. All we know for sure is that somebody’s left us hanging out to dry – no explanation, no release plan.
Sounds like a pretty common state of affairs, eh?
The 1809-pound elephant in the room
All of this is happening against a backdrop of Microsoft’s newly restored zeal in pushing Win10 version 1809 on all Win10 users. Reports on 1809 have been good, in general – although the new feature set won’t wow anyone but the most diehard Windows (and Notepad) fans – but Microsoft itself hasn’t yet declared version 1809 as fit for businesses.
Those who click “Check for updates” are most likely to get the new version, but it’ll get pushed on non-seekers soon enough.
I’ve seen exactly zero reports of machines being taken over by the Internet Explorer bug, zero detailed descriptions of the problem (or its solution), zero bonafide cause for alarm, but the “Sky is Falling – Patch Right Now!” cry continues to ring throughout the blogosphere. That could mean one of two things:
The problem is so bad that people in the know don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, or,
It’s a typical zero-day that’ll have to be patched eventually unless you’re the target of well-heeled nation state scoundrels and the people who do the explaining are taking the weekend off
I’m convinced the latter is far more likely. But your level of paranoia may well differ. Hey, you may actually enjoy putting your PC through the wringer while the world’s taking a well-deserved break.
We’ll keep a watchful eye through the holidays on the AskWoody Lounge.
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Number of Ethereum Whales Jumps as ETH Search Interest Hits New All-Time High
In #Altcoins, #Ethereum
Ethereum addresses with at least 10,000 ETH ($10.7 million) in them have recently jumped, even as the price of the cryptocurrency remains above $1,000 and threatens to move to its previous all-time high near $1,400. Its price and whale accumulation comes as search interest hit a new high.
According to data from Santiment, the number of existing Ethereum whales has increased over the last two weeks from 1,171 to 1,220, which shows large holders are not only keeping their positions, they are confident the price of ether could soon test its previous all-time high.
🐳📈 Are #Ethereum's whales exiting their positions in droves now with many assuming the top is in? The answer is a resounding NO. The number of addresses with at least 10,000 $ETH held has jumped from 1,171 to now 1,220 in the past 2 weeks, a +4.2% rise. https://t.co/62LO3iPh5I pic.twitter.com/8S2bvnqlSI
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 11, 2021
Ethereum’s price was late last year lagging compared to bitcoin, which started its bull run after PayPal announced it was allowing its users to buy, sell, and hold BTC, ETH, LTC, and BCH on its platform and as corporations started buying BTC to hedge against inflation.
The price of ETH surge at the beginning of the year to get close to its all-time high, at one point trading above $1,300. As the price of BTC dropped from its new high near $42,000, Ethereum’s price corrected as well, briefly dropping below $1,000 before recovering.
ETHUSD Chart via TradingView
The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization recovered at a time in which search interest for it hit a new all-time high. It’s worth noting that the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization is already at a new all-time high. In January 2018, when it was trading near $1,400, there were about 97.1 million ETH in circulation, while now there are about 114.2 million ETH in circulation.
The market capitalization of the cryptocurrency has been surging as demand for it keeps rising both among institutional and retail investors. Retail investor interest is often measured using data from Google Trends, as it shows the interest users have in a specific currency or network over time.
Search interest for #Ethereum is at a new all-time high $ETH https://t.co/zCMV3yiz3H
— Francisco Memoria (@FranciscoMemor) January 13, 2021
Crypto enthusiasts on social media have been showing they are bullish on ether as well as bitcoin. Cameron Winklevoss, one of the Winklevoss twins and co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, said BTC and ETH “have the potential to be timeless,” comparing the cryptocurrencies to Amazon stock.
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Community calls for discipline after Stratford police officer allegedly called BLM a terrorist group
Ethan Fry Sep. 15, 2020 Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 4:02 p.m.
Stratford Police Sgt. Jamie Rivera talks to a reporter in Stratford Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. A town police officer shot a suspect while serving a search warrant at a home at 25 Yarwood St. early Friday morning.
Photo: Autumn Driscoll / Hearst Connecticut Media
STRATFORD — During a town council meeting Monday, residents and community leaders called on the town to discipline a police sergeant who allegedly called the Black Lives Matter movement a terrorist group in a Facebook post.
Speaking during the meeting’s public forum, Rev. D. Stanley Lord, president of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP, said the council should act swiftly to discipline Sgt. Jamie Rivera and condemn his remarks.
“There must be some consequences,” Lord said.
Rivera allegedly called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization” in a Facebook post announcing his support for President Donald Trump. A picture of the post was widely shared on community Facebook pages.
While no administrative action has been taken against Rivera, the incident remains under investigation, according to a prepared statement from Mayor Laura Hoydick, who said she couldn’t discuss it publicly.
In the Facebook post, the officer also said that Sept. 10 was National Suicide Day, adding “Do any of you know how many cops KILL themselves everyday cause they deal with s--- you see in the movies? This is our real life!!”
Rivera has not made any public statements since the community’s response to his Facebook post, nor has he responded to requests for comment from Hearst Connecticut Media.
In her statement the mayor said Rivera and Police Chief Joe McNeil met with NAACP leaders Saturday for an hour and a half to “to work together on a way forward that promotes mutual understanding and tolerance.”
Lord and others who spoke during Monday’s meeting said Rivera’s post misrepresented the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Rev. Stanley Lord, president of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP addresses Bridgeport Board of Education Jan. 13, 2020
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“The idea is not to be against the police, it is more that our lives matter as Black people because our lives haven’t mattered,” Lord said.
In a press release the Greater Bridgeport NAACP said it initially asked for Rivera to be fired, and that the group’s leaders had been invited to address roll calls at the police department to “give personal accounts of how statements like Sgt. Rivera’s hurt communities of color … and to have a greater presence at the Stratford Police Department, i.e. trainings and programs.”
All nine people who spoke during the town council meeting’s public forum Monday condemned Rivera’s post.
Tina Manus, a former town council member, said she supported a resolution to declare that Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organization, which Kaitlyn Shake of District 2 said she would propose for the council’s discussion next month.
“There is no middle road here,” Manus said. “You either believe Black lives matter or you don’t.”
Yolanda Mitchell said she disagreed with Hoydick, who said in a statement that Rivera’s comments were disappointing and “showed terrible judgment.”
“I think this is exactly how he feels, and that’s exactly why he voiced it, which is concerning to me as a minority in the South End,” she said.
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During her moment to speak, Kim Rice brought up the town honoring founding father and slave owner William Samuel Johnson last year.
“This whole situation kind of highlights the issues of racism within the town of Stratford, including the mayor and the Republican legislators’ desire to celebrate a slave owner and the history of a slave owner,” she said.
At a Feb. 5, 2019 meeting, the Stratford Town Council’s seven Republicans and three Democrats unanimously voted for a resolution recognizing Johnson’s Oct. 7 birthday as a “day of remembrance.”
“That’s a problem in and of itself,” Rice said, calling for more police accountability in response to Rivera’s remarks, including a civilian review board.
Another former member of the council, Stephanie Philips, said the meeting with the NAACP was a good first step, but called on Rivera to be suspended immediately pending the outcome of the investigation.
While giving her monthly update to council members during Monday’s meeting, Hoydick said she couldn’t give them much information.
“As I’m sure all of you know, we had a social media issue with Sgt. Rivera,” she said. “The NAACP had a meeting with Chief McNeil and Sgt. Rivera. We are working through the processes of addressing this issue, and there will be more to come I’m sure later if you have questions.”
“I just want to reiterate this is a personnel matter as we’re moving forward listening to the community, hearing their concerns, addressing their concerns as best we can, and I will brief you and we can talk about it more in exec session if you need to,” the mayor said.
In response to a question from Paul Tavaras of District 3, Town Attorney Christopher Hodgson said in order to discuss the issue, it would have had to have been put on the meeting’s agenda, with Rivera given the chance to opt for the discussion to occur behind closed doors in executive session.
Shake said the mayor’s statement should have said Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organization.
“You’re asking me to respond based on the officer’s comments and I didn’t make those comments and no one on this town council or in the administration said that they concur with the officer’s comments,” Hoydick said.
“Of course Black lives matter,” Hoydick said, pointing out earlier rallies and vigils she has attended.
“This administration does not believe it is a terrorist organization,” Hoydick said later in response to a direct question from Shake.
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No lateral talks with Militants, Die fighting or surrender”, says Deputy Security Advisor R N Ravi
Citizens' News Service December 21, 2018 conflict resolution, Manipur, National
By Pradip Deka
GUWAHATI: In an event held in Pune, Deputy National Security Advisor of India R N Ravi (IPS) said that the government would not compromise with militants in the name of conditional or unconditional talks. He made a bold stand saying that there will be no more new talks with militant outfits of North-Eastern states and that those groups have to either keep fighting or surrender.
The event, General Lachit Barphukan Memorial Lecture, an intense lecture concerning critical aspects of conflict resolution, development and security aspects of North East India was held in Pune on December 14. R N Ravi, Deputy National Security advisor and an IPS cadre of 1976 batch, was the Chief Guest of the event. The event was organized jointly by Asomi, an organization of the Assamese diaspora in Pune and SEIL (Students’ Experience in Interstate Living).
The key highlight of the whole event was the firebrand speech by R N Ravi, who spoke about several key aspects of Conflict resolution and learnings for the North-East region. Starting his speech with praise for Lachit Barphukan’s military tactics such as Naval warfare, deception and ability to build confidence in his troops, he spoke about the root causes of the complex ethnic diversities of the North-Eastern communities.
Mr. Ravi reminded that the British used to depute graduates from universities to study individual villages, ethnicities, etc and these officials focused on the uniqueness and differences of the different groups and tribes, rather than focusing on the similarities. This was done with good documentation and this was the root of the rather complex ethnic diversity of North-East, where every group claimed difference and unique status.
Criticizing the previous governments for not taking right steps for resolving the insurgency issues the Deputy National Security Adviser stated that creating temporary peace through lateral talks with militant outfits was not a long-term solution but more of a liability. In Assam alone, more than 20,000 surrendered members of militant outfits were being supported by the government in last two decades at a staggering cost of close to 3000 crores as they had been part of groups engaging in lateral talks. Ravi stated that the current government was clear in its policy, – there will be no more talks with any more militant outfit and that the message was clear to those groups wither to fight or surrender. Talking about the Naga framework agreement signed between Government of India and NSCN (IM), Ravi stated that the framework was within the constitution of India and the final settlement would be done considering all groups and neighboring states, not just the Naga group alone.
Talking about the recent NRC updating process, which had created much hue and cry in the region, – Ravi appealed everyone to support the process with sensitivity so that the real migrants can be identified and deported as illegal migration has been a long-term issue of the region. He pointed out that while migration of economic reasons is a threat and would not be tolerated, the migration of minorities from countries such as Bangladesh due to religious suppression may not be looked upon with the same approach. While he did not provide an opinion yet on the subject as this was a sensitive and controversial issue, Mr. Ravi criticized the ULFA severely for their dual stand on the migration issue. He pointed out that while ULFA was formed out of the movement to deport illegal Bangladeshis, the ULFA leadership had changed their stand when they took shelter in Bangladesh in 1991 by publishing a white paper which welcomes the Bengali migrants as workers to improve agriculture and infrastructure of the state.
The event had started with a welcome speech by Samiran Phukan, President of Asomi – a community of Assamese diaspora in Pune. Another speaker, Atul Kulkarni, Chairman of SEIL (Students’ Experience in Interstate Living), lamented that people of the country still have a large misconception that people of the North Region wants to be separate and this was probably fuelled because of the region was probably ignored in early days of Independence after its partition. He appealed to the youth not to look up at government jobs alone for employment, but to foster entrepreneurship in the region which itself would lead to more and more job creation.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is woken up every 15 minutes in jail to check she's alive, lawyer says
Larry Neumeister
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Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:17PM EST
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured in 2003, faces a lengthy jail sentence if found guilty on charges linked to Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes. (AFP)
NEW YORK -- A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite charged with finding girls in the 1990s for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, said Tuesday that her client is awakened every 15 minutes in jail while she sleeps to ensure she's breathing.
Attorney Bobbi Sternheim told a Manhattan judge that Maxwell faces more restrictive conditions than inmates convicted of terrorism or murder. Maxwell has no history of mental health issues or suicidal ideation and no criminal history, either, she said.
She asked a judge to intervene on her client's behalf to improve her conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. In her request, Sternheim made no direct reference to Epstein taking his life in August 2019 in his cell at another federal lockup, in Manhattan.
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan instructed defence lawyers and prosecutors to confer over the next week over Sternheim's request that the Brooklyn facility's warden directly address the concerns.
A spokesperson for prosecutors declined comment. A message for comment was sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons spokespeople.
Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she procured three girls for Epstein to abuse in the mid-1990s. She has been held without bail while she prepares for a July trial.
On Monday, prosecutors notified the judge that Maxwell was put in quarantine last week for 14 days after someone who works in her area of the jail tested positive for the coronavirus. She may not meet with her defence team during that period.
In their letter, prosecutors said the 13 hours a day Maxwell gets to review trial materials on a laptop computer is more time than any other prisoner is allotted.
The reference bothered Sternheim, who said Maxwell faces burdens unmatched by other inmates and has been mistreated. She noted that the latest production of evidence by prosecutors was over one million documents and Maxwell lacked enough time to study the material.
She said Maxwell was initially quarantined without soap or a toothbrush and that medical and psychology staff stopped checking on her, failing to tell her the results of her COVID-19 tests or what to do if she becomes symptomatic. Prosecutors said Monday that her test result for the coronavirus was negative, and she will be tested again at the conclusion of her quarantine.
The lawyer said Maxwell is kept in what is, in effect, solitary confinement and she is excessively and invasively searched and monitored 24 hours a day, including camera surveillance in her cell and a camera following her movement whenever she is permitted to leave her cell.
"And despite non-stop in-cell camera surveillance, Ms. Maxwell's sleep is disrupted every 15 minutes when she is awakened by a flashlight to ascertain whether she is breathing," she wrote.
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Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time
In this new contribution to Yale University Press’s Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.
Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published thirty previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Count of Concord, Spring and Fall, The Countess of Stanlein Restored, and The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life.
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Jeff MacSwan
The “Research Summary and Bibliography for Structured English Immersion Programs” of the Arizona English Language Learners Task Force purports to present a scholarly and balanced review of current scientific knowledge regarding effective programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) in general and Structured English Immersion (SEI) in particular. However, we find that the review neglects to reference significant research bearing on the questions raised, and frequently draws inappropriate conclusions from the research presented. Perhaps most disappointing is the tendency in the review to neglect important conceptual distinctions which could have usefully guided the research summary. Below we address each area of literature review in turn, pointing out significant limitations and incorrect interpretations as they arise.
1. What is the current state of scientific research in the area of effective instruction for English Learners?
The review cites references to make the point that there are relatively few high quality studies regarding program effectiveness for English Language Learners, with estimates ranging from five (Gersten & Baker, 2000) to fifty (Genesee, Lindholm-Leary, Saunders & Christian, 2004). While any empirical question of significance might benefit from additional research, experts widely believe that adequately many program effectiveness studies have been carried out to provide solid guidance to policy makers.
Several recent research syntheses have been conducted which the Task Force document fails to reference and which bear directly on the question of program effectiveness. In a recent narrative synthesis of research, funded by the U.S....
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Britain Preparing For 48 Million Romanians and Bulgarians
LONDON - England - Britain's pleasant and green countryside is being prepared for the massive influx of immigrants from Europe's poorest countries in 2013, Tory ministers have revealed.
Dave Holobone
No more rolling English countryside
The EU’s policy of open borders will lift the restriction for working in the UK on December 31st when Romania and Bulgaria’s temporary work limits end.
“See that oak tree over there? Well we’re going to bulldoze it in an hour’s time. It’s been there for 250 years. It’s going to be gone in a minutes. We’re then going to build box houses and sink estates all over this area and concrete over everything. These are the new EU directives. No more rolling green fields, no more ancient forests, no more rivers, brooks or streams, no more castles. It’s all got to be bulldozed over,” a construction worker in the Cotswolds told gathered reporters at the scene of the crime.
Unfortunately because of the massive population increase from Romania and
Bulgaria, Green Belt land and the English countryside will be built over soon with social housing
The British countryside used to be a beautiful patchwork of rolling azure fields, connected with meandering old roads, quaint stone walls dotted with ancient villages. This is now all going to go when the massive influx will destroy everything.
“It’s not just the fields and forests that will be ploughed up and concreted over, the whole ecosystem that has survived for thousands of years will be completely destroyed. Once this goes, it never comes back. It is forever destroyed and lost in the grey concrete hell that will come; spreading like a cancer across the land, infiltrating every burrow, every blade of grass. No one is going to say anything about this are they? Just watch it on your telly, then switch on to X Factor afterwards. Don’t even bat an eyelid about it, there are more important things to think about like which celeb is coming out of the jungle next,” Jane Featherstone, a countryside activist told the BBC.
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Formal prayer (salat) is the second pillar of Islam, and the most important of a Muslim’s acts of worship. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “The first of one’s actions for which a slave of Allah will be held accountable on the Day of Judgment will be one’s prayers. If they are correct and accounted for, then he (or she) will have succeeded (gained paradise); and if they are lacking, then he (or she) will have failed (lost paradise). If there is something defective in his (or her) obligatory prayers, the Lord will say: ‘See if my slave has any supererogatory prayers with which that which was defective in his (or her) obligatory prayers may be completed. Then the rest of his (or her) deeds will be judged in like manner.” (At-Tirmidhi and others) Shaykh Mashhur Hasan Salman has compiled a list of the most common errors that we make when we pray, discussing and explaining each one. This book is a valuable aid to Muslims hoping to perfect their prayers, so that their prayers may be free of defects and acceptable to Allah. This new and revised edition of the English translation of his work presents the text in a fluent, highly readable style.
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Saum (Fast) is a third Pillar of Islam. Allah’s Messenger said, Allah says: “Every deed of the son of Adam is for him, except Saum (fasting). It is for Me and I shall reward for it.”
As the status of this act of worship is so high it is essential to learn the pilings pertaining to this month of fasting so that Muslims will know what is obligatory in order to do it, what is forbidden to avoid it, and what is permissible so that they do not unnecessarily subject themselves to any hardship by depriving themselves from it.
This book consists of all the main issues of Fast. The main objective of this work is to serve an easy and authentic reference to the reader.
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University of Colorado Regent District 2…
University of Colorado Regent District 2 candidate Q&A
The race features Republican Dick R. Murphy, Democrat Callie Rennison and Libertarian Christian Vernaza
By The Denver Post | newsroom@denverpost.com
PUBLISHED: October 7, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. | UPDATED: October 13, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.
Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Election Guide
Callie Rennison
Professor in the School of Public Affairs at UCD
Husband Dave Vaughan, cat Pente, and four parrots
First generation college student, and community college graduate. Have served on the non-tenure track role, and am now a tenured full professor. Have held multiple leadership roles as well.
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Why are you seeking public office?
I have personal and professional skills and experience that will serve me well as a Regent. I am proud that I’ve come from very modest means as a first gen student, that I have served in non-tenure track roles, and am now a tenured professor at the University of Colorado Denver. I am proud that my research as a criminologist has helped to minimize violence against college students, and others.
In all the roles that I’ve served in, I’ve seen that CU has much to be proud of. But I’ve also seen that CU is not working for everyone. We can and must do better.
As Regent, I want to be a part of the team that makes CU work for everyone!
What will your top three priorities be if elected?
Affordability and accessibility; diversity and inclusion; transparency and making decisions that prioritize students, staff and faculty as well as academics.
The pandemic has created even more financial pressure on Colorado’s already squeezed universities. If elected, would your highest priority be minimizing layoffs, keeping tuition as low as possible or providing financial help to low-income students? Explain your answer.
Yes – because affordability and accessibility is a key reason I am running, I want to ensure the system focuses on the people in the system, as well as academics. I want to ensure the burden of costs are not shouldered by students, staff and faculty, but rather higher admin. Every Regent decision should be made with an eye of ‘people first’ and protecting our most vulnerable — including those who have been priced out from attending CU. We must do better.
Did the University of Colorado system make the right decision in returning to in-person learning this fall? Why or why not?
The degree of in-person differs greatly campus to campus. As a professor I am thankful to be teaching online only because I believe that is the safest course of action. I feel that the degree to which the Boulder campus went in-person was too great, and we are seeing that play out now with rising cases. I understand that finances are a challenge, but we have to make sure the people of CU, and those in the community are safe.
The CU Board of Regents is one of the few university governing boards selected via partisan elections. If elected, would you feel beholden to represent the views of the constituents who elected you or to do what’s in the best interest of the CU campus community?
If elected Regent, I would represent the people of the CU community and the larger community at large — regardless of anyone’s partisan position. Decisions I would make would serve those in CU (students, staff and faculty) as well as all people in the broader community, and not just those who supported me during the campaign.
The University of Colorado Boulder’s enrollment was just 2.5% Black students and 12% Latino students in 2019. A student group is calling out the administration for not doing enough for students of color. Should the system do more to help them succeed? If so, what? If not, why not?
Yes. We have had a focus on diversity and inclusion in our mission statement/ guiding principles for some time. What we have lacked is real action to make real change. The time for talk is over, and the time for action and accountability is here. This is a goal of these active groups whom I support. CU can do better and must do better, and it begins with priority of increasing diversity and inclusion being made clear from the very top leadership of CU. As a Regent, I will focus on exactly that.
Dick R. Murphy and Christian Vernaza have not returned the questionnaire.
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Man in hospital after crash involving car in Derby's Harvey Road - recap
Several witnesses reported seeing the air ambulance and numerous emergency service vehicles at the scene
Martin NaylorCourt Reporter
A man has been taken to hospital after he was involved in a collision with a car in Derby's Harvey Road this afternoon.
Several witnesses reported seeing the air ambulance and numerous emergency service vehicles at the scene after the incident, which happened at the junction of Hutton Street.
The road was cordoned off for some time between Spider Island and Cokayne Street North. Police Sergeant Scott Riley, of Derbyshire police, said: “We received a call at 4.42pm to reports that a man has been involved in a collision with a car on the eastbound section of Harvey Road at its junction with Hutton Street.
What we know so far about crash in Derby's Harvey Road
“The air ambulance was called and a 48-year-old man was airlifted to the Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, having suffered injuries. It is not yet known how serious those injuries might be.”
These were our updates on this incident, as they emerged:
BREAKING: All lanes have been reopened 20:00
What we know so far about the incident 19:18
BREAKING: Man taken to hospital after collision with car 18:54
20:11 Caroline Jones
That concludes our updates on this incident
Our latest updates service on this incident have now concluded but continue to check back with the Derby Telegraph website for further developments on this story as they emerge.
In the meantime, read our full report here on everything we know so far.
BREAKING: All lanes have been reopened
Traffic company Inrix has confirmed that all lanes have reopened on Harvey Road following the earlier accident.
Police are at the scene of the incident in Derby's Harvey Road (Image: Martin Naylor / Derby Telegraph)
19:47 Martin Naylor
'I got to my mum’s and there were police and an ambulance here'
Chloe Whelan was coming to see her mother who also lives in Harvey Road.
The 20-year-old said: “I was on the bus and it came to a stop just before Spider Island and I got out to walk the rest of the way because the police had blocked the road.
“I got to my mum’s and there were police and an ambulance here. People were crowded around this man on the floor and they were told to back off and move away from the scene. I could not see how badly (injured) the man on the ground was.”
The cordon in Harvey Road, Derby, following a crash (Image: Martin Naylor / Derby Telegraph)
'There was a man lying in the road'
Mariana Vetrano lives in Harvey Road, right by the scene of the collision.
She said: “I looked out of the window and could see a black car and a white car. There was a man lying in the road and people were crowding around him, lots of people were out of their houses.
“The police came, then an ambulance and then the air ambulance but I didn’t see where it landed. People told me the man on the ground had head injuries and the man in the car was sat down and had a head injury as well.”
The police cordon in Derby's Harvey Road (Image: Martin Naylor / Derby Telegraph)
What we know so far about the incident
A section of Derby’s Harvey Road has been taped off by the police after a crash this afternoon.
Read our full report here.
Our video from the scene
This footage from Harvey Road shows the extent of the cordon - which is causing delays for drivers heading both to and from Spider Island.
BREAKING: Man taken to hospital after collision with car
Our reporter Martin Naylor has been speaking to Police Sergeant Scott Riley, of Derbyshire police, about the incident.
He said: “We received a call at 4.42pm to reports that a man has been involved in a collision with a car on the eastbound section of Harvey Road at its junction with Hutton Street.
Whereabouts has the accident happened?
Our reporter Martin Naylor is at the scene and said the eastbound section of Harvey Road is cordoned off between Spider Island and Cokayne Street North.
Here’s what we know so far about the incident
There are reports of a “massive police presence” on a busy Derby road tonight following an accident.
Details are limited at this stage but witnesses have reported seeing the air ambulance and numerous emergency service vehicles in the area after an incident in Harvey Road.
According to traffic information company Inrix, the accident has happened along the eastbound carriageway between Spider Island and Stanley Road / Coleman Street, with congestion on the A514 Osmaston Road to Abingdon Street and on the A5111 Osmaston Park Road to Portland Street.
The Derby Telegraph has contacted Derbyshire police for comment and is waiting for a response.
There are reports of a 'massive police presence' in Harvey Road, Derby (Image: Victoria Wilcox) (Image: Victoria Wilcox)
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Frank Lampard issues rallying call ahead of Derby County's promotion run-in
The Rams have nine league games remaining to secure a place in the play-offs
Derby County boss Frank Lampard during the Millwall clash (Image: Getty Images)
Derby County are refreshed after the international break and ready for the Championship promotion run-in, says manager Frank Lampard.
Lampard has outlined the strengths he wants his team to reproduce in the final nine league games, strengths he believes make his side, at its best, one of the top teams in the division.
"At our best, we are very good off the ball - teams don't like to play against us when we energy to win the ball back," the manager said ahead of today's home game against Rotherham United at Pride Park Stadium.
Lampard added: "We have shown that countless times, and then we have talent to hurt teams.
"We haven't shown it enough in the final third in recent games and that, for me, has been a deciding factor in not picking up enough points recently."
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Derby have scored only three goals in their last six games.
They beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 and drew 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday, but they failed to score in defeats by Millwall and Nottingham Forest, and in the goalless draw against Stoke City last time out.
"We need to reproduce that now," said Lampard.
"I am positive and the players are, too.
"It has been a nice time for reflection to remember what makes us what I feel is one of the top teams in this league.
"I feel with the break we have had and where we are, a small reboot and we are ready to go."
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The Rotherham fixture is the first of Derby's nine remaining league games.
They are eighth, just one point outside of the top six but with a game in hand on Aston Villa, who are sixth.
Villa are at home to Blackburn Rovers this afternoon.
Preston North End, who are seventh and have a point more than Derby, are away at Reading.
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Sky Sports announce latest round of live Championship fixtures
Some of the games to be televised are Barnsley's match against Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers' clash with Brentford
Sky Sports have announced their latest round of live Championship game which will be broadcast over November and December.
None of Derby County's have been moved so far, but their games against Nottingham Forest (1.15pm Sunday, October 15) and Fulham (5.30pm Saturday, November 18) remain televised.
Some of the games to be televised are Barnsley's match against Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers' clash with Brentford.
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The full list of fixtures to be changed are as follows:
Preston North End v Aston Villa - Wednesday, November 1 (kick-off 7:45pm)
Ipswich Town v Sheffield Wednesday - Wednesday, November 22 (kick-off 7:45pm)
Barnsley v Leeds United - Saturday, November 25 (kick-off 12:30pm)
Sheffield United v Birmingham City - Saturday, November 25 (kick-off 5:30pm)
QPR v Brentford - Monday, November 27 (kick-off 7:45pm)
Norwich v Sheffield Wednesday - Saturday, December 9 (kick-off 5:30pm)
Reading v Cardiff - Monday, December 11 (kick-off 8pm)
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Bridge Connects a Wealth of PCI Express Technology-Based Systems and Peripherals to AMBA 2.0 AHB Protocol-Based Designs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Oct. 25, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced the availability of the DesignWare® Bridge for PCI Express to AMBA 2 AHB intellectual property (IP) linking between the PCI Express standard to the AMBA® 2.0 AHB(TM) protocol. The bridge to AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol is used in conjunction with Synopsys' DesignWare digital IP portfolio for the PCI Express standard, including Endpoint, Root Complex and Dual Mode Cores. The DesignWare Bridge core enables designers who are using the AMBA 2.0 AHB system-on-chip (SoC) interconnect in their designs for networking, embedded, storage and computer applications to easily add PCI Express external connectivity to their SoCs in order to connect to a wealth of available PCI Express technology-based systems and peripherals.
"Synopsys' continues to show industry leadership and support for standards-based technologies like PCI Express," said Al Yanes, chairman of the PCI-SIG. "We are pleased to see the development of a new connectivity IP that provides easy integration of these standards and will ultimately expand the PCI Express market."
The AMBA specification and the PCI Express standard are the leading on-chip and off-chip interconnect specifications, respectively, and bridging these two standards enables connectivity for key application areas. However, creating a bridge between these two bus protocols is challenging because not all aspects of the buses' protocol map directly from one to the other. The difficulty increases when developing a configurable bridge that supports multiple system performance objectives at both ends of the bridge. Synopsys is the first to map the complete PCI Express protocol across the bridge to the AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol, while providing multiple configuration options to enable designers to select an optimal solution for their specific applications.
"Synopsys continues to be the leader in PCI Express IP and was the first to release a complete PCI Express solution for Gen II, the AMBA 3 AXI(TM) specification and the AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol," said Guri Stark, vice president of Marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "We've responded to our customers' requests for PCI Express IP with standards-based interfaces. By working with key customers to develop our PCI Express standard to AMBA 2.0 AHB Bridge, we've ensured that designers can quickly add a PCI Express interface to their AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol-based SoCs to meet critical market windows."
The DesignWare Bridge for PCI Express standard to AMBA 2 AHB protocol is currently in use by early adopters and is now available for general use. The bridge is part of the complete DesignWare IP solution for PCI Express standard, including digital cores, mixed-signal PHY IP and Verification IP.
The DesignWare Bridge for PCI Express standard to AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol can be used in conjunction with the DesignWare IP solutions for AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol, including the synthesizable IP, Verification IP and automated assembly with the Synopsys coreAssembler tool. The DesignWare IP solutions for AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol are available today for no additional charge to DesignWare Library licensees. The DesignWare AMBA 2.0 AHB protocol synthesizable IP is also available as RTL source code on a fee-per-project basis.
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Synopsys DesignWare Cores provide system designers with silicon-proven, digital, and mixed-signal connectivity IP for some of the world's most recognized products, including communications processors, routers, switches, game consoles, digital cameras, computers and computer peripherals. Provided as synthesizable RTL source code or in GDS format, these cores enable designers to create innovative, cost-effective system-on-chips and embedded systems. Synopsys provides flexible licensing options for the DesignWare Cores. Each core can be licensed individually, on a fee-per-project basis, or users can opt for a Purchase Agreement, which enables them to license all the cores as part of one simple agreement. For more information on DesignWare IP, visit: http://www.designware.com .
Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in EDA software for semiconductor design. The company delivers technology-leading semiconductor design and verification platforms and IC manufacturing software products to the global electronics market, enabling the development and production of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synopsys also provides intellectual property and design services to simplify the design process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices in more than 60 locations throughout North America, Europe, Japan and Asia. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com .
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"Like farming" on Facebook: scammers never give up
What harm can there be in clicking "like"? More than you think
Jennifer Abel
If you're an ordinary everyday computer-and-Internet user (as opposed to a brilliant IT computer-security genius-type), maybe sometimes you read tech news and feel a certain exasperation that, if put into words, sounds something like this: “So no matter what I do online, I'll come to a bad end. If the NSA isn't reading my emails then the Russian Hacker Mafia (or who-knows who else) is using them to plant malware on my computer, my perceived creditworthiness takes a ding anytime one of my Facebook friends has a financial setback and, speaking of Facebook, turns out that merely clicking 'like' on a Facebook post might be all it takes to enrich scammers and catch the computer-virus equivalent of ebola and … I dunno, maybe the Amish have the right idea.”
Yes, scammy Facebook “like farming” is the latest scam du jour making the Internet more dangerous than it already is. And it's easy to fly undetected beneath most people's anti-scam radar because, after all, what harm can there be in clicking “like?” It's not as though you're giving out your account numbers, passwords and other personal information best kept secret, right?
Well, about that — CNN's tech blogger spoke to Tim Senft, the founder of Facecrooks.com, a website dedicated to rooting out scam attempts on Facebook. Senft confirmed that the “What can it hurt to click 'like'?” idea makes it esier for certain scammers to proliferate.
For example: if you've been active on Facebook within the past few years, you may have seen posts urging you to “like” a photo of a little girl in a cheerleading uniform, her head bald from chemotherapy treatments. Clicking “like” would allegedly show support for the little girl and her fight against cancer, let her know she's still beautiful and — gee, who wouldn't spend a half-second clicking “like” to cheer up a poor, sick, brave little girl?
Except that photo is currently six years old, and neither the child nor her mother have anything to do with its frequent appearances on Facebook.
Assuming you're one of these Facebook scammers: what possible benefit do you get from tricking people into simply “liking” a page, as opposed to sending donations or similar things? As Senft told CNN:
Facebook pages are created with the sole purpose of spreading viral content that will get lots of likes and shares.
Once the page creators have piled up hundreds of thousands of likes and shares, they'll strip the page and promote something else, like products that they get a commission for selling. Or, they may turn around and sell the page through black-market websites to someone who does the same.
It's a way to trick Facebook's algorithm, which is designed to give more value to popular pages than the ones, like scams and spam, that pop up overnight.
"The more likes and shares and comments and that sort of thing you have, the more likely it is to be seen by other people," Senft said. "If they're looking to sell the page in a black-hat forum somewhere, that's what the value of the page is."
Even worse, the page might even be used to directly place malware or viruses on your computer, access your personal profile information, even sign you up for automatic (paid) subscriptions without your consent.
So what do you do? Facebook already offers users the opportunity to report potentially spammy or scammy sites, but of course your best bet is to not “like” or visit a scam site in the first place. Senft's advice is to identify and ignore the obvious attempts to manipulate your emotions.
“If it sounds too good to be true, don't click on it," he said. "If it's something that's obviously geared toward tugging on the heartstrings, check it out first."
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Published: October 15, 2014 | Updated: September 27, 2019
Definition - What does Hardener mean?
A hardener is a component of certain types of mixtures. In some mixtures a hardener is used simply to increase the resilience of the mixture once it sets. In other mixtures a hardener is used as a curing component. A hardener can be either a reactant or a catalyst in the chemical reaction that occurs during the mixing process.
A hardener may also be known as an accelerator.
Corrosionpedia explains Hardener
Hardeners are almost always necessary to make an epoxy resin useful for its intended purpose. Without a hardener, epoxies do not achieve anywhere near the impressive mechanical and chemical properties that they would with the hardener. The correct type of hardener must be selected to ensure the epoxy mixture will meet the requirements of the application. Research should always be done on both the resin and the hardener to make sure the final epoxy mixture will perform satisfactorily. Common examples of epoxy hardeners are anhydride-based, amine-based, polyamide, aliphatic and cycloaliphatic.
Hardeners are used to cure epoxy resins. However, simply adding a hardener to an epoxy resin may not cause the epoxy mixture to cure quickly enough. If this is the case a different hardener may be required. Also, hardeners with certain additives can be used. These hardener additives serve as catalysts that speed up the curing process.
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Special Challenge: Cover Anything
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Featured Challenge: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
(Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons)
This challenge is now closed. However, if you have an amazing version and you missed the deadline, please contact us at info@coverinaweek.com
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You’re just too good to be true
Can’t take my eyes off of you
You’d be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I’m alive
Pardon the way that I stare
There’s nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
But if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it’s real
I love you baby
And if it’s quite all right
To warm the lonely night
Trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby
Don’t bring me down I pray
Now that I’ve found you stay
And let me love you, baby
When will you come my way
Songwriters: BOB CREWE, BOB GAUDIO
© EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Please find below a summary of the high level Terms & Conditions the full Option Agreement. • Your version must be a unique and original arrangement – no “sound-a-likes”. • It must not be contentious, offensive or contain samples of other copyrighted recordings. Parodies and adaptations not allowed. • It must not contain samples of other copyrighted recordings. • If you submit a cover/video to CIAW, you CANNOT upload the same video or recording to ANY other site for a minimum of 60 days after you submit your entry. • If accepted, your video will be uploaded to our CIAW YouTube channel. We reserve the right to refuse or remove any submitted video at any time. • If your video appears on the CIAW YouTube channel, you may freely copy and post the link to that video anywhere you like, including your own website, any social media site etc, and share as much as you want. The idea is to get as many views and likes of your video as possible. • By submitting your video/cover you grant Coverinaweek the option, within 60 days of the completion of each week, to accept your recording or video for distribution on our Coverinaweek streaming playlists, download compilations, CD compilations or synch licensing site. Such distribution rights will be exclusive to CIAW for a period of 3 years from release, whereafter it can be terminated by giving CIAW 90 days written notice. Any licenses granted by CIAW prior to such termination shall remain in force until expiration of the term of that license. • You will receive the following license royalties: Fifty percent (50%) of CIAW Net Receipts (as defined below) • If your cover has been accepted for licensing, we will email you with confirmation. See below for the full Option Agreement. OPTION AGREEMENT INTRODUCTION Congratulations on wishing to enter the song challenge (the Challenge) being conducted by Split Sounds Pty Limited trading as Cover-In-A-Week (“CIAW”). We are pleased now to have this opportunity to set out the terms upon which CIAW is willing to enter into an Option Agreement with you (jointly and severally “you” or the “Artist”). What makes up this Option Agreement? The Option Agreement comprises the following parts, which together constitute a single legally binding document (“Option Agreement”): • Your registration information; • The Option Terms and Conditions (“Option Terms and Conditions”); • The licence annexed to the Option Terms and Conditions and marked Annexure A (“Licence”). By clicking “I Agree” on the Site, you accept the terms of this Option Agreement, current as at the time you click “I Agree.” Those terms supersede any other agreement, whether verbal or written, by any person, agent, or representative of CIAW. Acceptance binds you to the terms and conditions of the Option Agreement. If you do not accept those terms and conditions then do not upload your Cover Video or Master Recording to CIAW. Unless otherwise stated, all capitalised terms in the Option Terms and Conditions below have the same meaning as they are given in the Licence. THE OPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1. INTERPRETATION 1.1 “Convention Country” means a country, which has signed, ratified any one of the following multilateral international agreements: (a) Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; (b) Universal Copyright Convention; or (c) WIPO Copyright Treaty. 1.2 “Cover Recording” means any sound recording of a Composition embodying the performances by an artist other than the original recording artist. 1.3 “Cover Video” means a cinematograph film made by the Artist, the audio track of which primarily consists of the Artist’s performance of the Composition. 1.4 “Master Recording” means the Cover Recording by the Artist that is either embodied in the soundtrack of the Cover Video or an audio-only recording. 1.5 “Record Company Consent” means the form of approval set forth in Annexure B hereto. 1.6 “Sound-alike” means a sound recording of a performance by an artist where that artist imitates the style of the original recording artist’s performance of the applicable composition. 2. CHALLENGE 2.1 The Challenge involves skill, and chance plays no part in determining the outcome of the Challenge. The decision of CIAW in relation to all matters relating to the Challenge is final and no correspondence will be entered into with the Artist. 2.2 If requested to do so by CIAW, the Artist must: (a) sign a copy of this Option; (b) execute the Licence; (c) execute a release and indemnity in the form prescribed by CIAW releasing and indemnifying CIAW and its representatives from all liability in connection with the Challenge and any liability in connection with: (i) any claim that the Cover Video or Other Attributes (as defined in paragraph 3.1(b)) caused damage to a third party; (ii) any breach of this Option; or (iv) the breach of any third party rights, including without limitation any copyright or privacy laws. (d) if the Artist or any member of the Artist is under 18 years of age, provide a copy of the Guardian’s Consent Form attached hereto as Annexure C signed by the guardian of the Artist or applicable member of the Artist. 3. ENTRY AND ELIGIBILITY 3.1 To be eligible to enter the Challenge, the Artist must: (a) subject to paragraph (f), not have entered into any agreement with a third party for rendering the Artist's recording services or performances in any manner inconsistent with this Option and is entirely free to enter into and to perform the Artist's obligations under this Option Agreement (“Unencumbered Status”); (b) have the right to exclusively license all rights in the Cover Video and Master Recording and have the use of their name, bibliographical details, image, actions, voice and likeness (“Other Attributes”) in order grant such rights to CIAW for the purposes specified in the Licence; (c) ensure that the Artist’s legal guardian accepts and agrees to the Artist’s obligations under this Option on the terms set forth in Guardian’s Approval Form, if the Artist is under the age of 18 years at the time the Cover Video is created; (d) be a citizen, national or resident of a Convention Country; and (e) ensure the Master Recording is a unique and original arrangement and not a Sound-alike. (f) if you are a party to a contract with another person, company or organisation (the "Record Company"), which owns or controls any rights, including copyright, in the Uploaded Material, you must arrange for the appropriate execution by the Record Company of the Record Company Consent in Annexure B. 3.2 If there is a change in the Artist’s Unencumbered Status that would prevent the Artist from executing the documents referred to in paragraph 2.2 at any time after the Artist enters the Challenge, the Artist must notify CIAW immediately. In such circumstances, CIAW reserves the right to disqualify the Artist and/or terminate the Option and/or take down the Cover Video in CIAW’s sole discretion. 3.3 To submit a valid entry to the Challenge, the Artist must first register their details on the CIAW Site located at www.coverinaweek.com (“CIAW Site”) in accordance with the instructions on the CIAW Site. Upon registration or log-in, the Artist may upload the Cover Video, and other materials, which may include without limitation text and audio in a format acceptable to YouTube, or Master Recording in stereo WAV format (44100 Hz sample rate, 16-bit sample format), ("Uploaded Material") to the CIAW Site in accordance with the steps set out on the CIAW Site. If the Artist does not follow the steps set out above, the Artist’s entry will be invalid and may be removed by CIAW in its sole discretion. 4. TERRITORY AND TERM 4.1 The territory of this Option is the Universe ("Territory"). 4.2 The term of this Option ("Option Term") will commence on the date of the Artist’s uploading of the Uploaded Material pursuant to paragraph 3.3. and will continue for sixty (60) days thereafter or the date CIAW exercises the Option, whichever is the earlier date. 5. GRANT OF RIGHTS 5.1 The Artist hereby grants to CIAW throughout the Territory and during the Option Term the non-exclusive right, and the right to authorise others, for the duration of copyright in the Uploaded Material to broadcast, re-broadcast, distribute to users of any digital website or platform including YouTube, transmit, and publicly perform the Uploaded Material whether by means of Internet, satellite, radio broadcast, wire or fibre, television broadcast, film, or other media (whether or not now known). 5.2 The Artist warrants to CIAW that the Artist will have no right, interest or claim in or over the Composition, which is reproduced in the Uploaded Material. 6. USE OF UPLOADED MATERIAL 6.1 The Artist acknowledges and agrees that the Uploaded Material may be accessed, viewed and listened to by users of the CIAW channel on YouTube or any other medium we choose. 6.2 Whilst CIAW aims to ensure users use the Uploaded Material in a manner which is authorised by CIAW, the Artist: (a) acknowledges that CIAW is not able to prevent unauthorised use of the Uploaded Material; and (b) releases CIAW and its representatives from all liability. 7. ARTIST'S OBLIGATIONS 7.1 During the Option Period the Artist must not use or Exploit or authorise others to use or Exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 7.2 If the Artist’s Cover Video is available on CIAW’s YouTube channel, then the Artist may copy and post the link to the Cover Video on such social media and websites as determined by the Artist, in order to promote the Artist’s performance on the Cover Video. 8. OPTION 8.1 In consideration of the payment to the Artist of one ($1), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Artist grants to CIAW the exclusive and irrevocable option to enter the Licence. Such option is exercisable by CIAW in writing at any time before the expiry of sixty (60) days of the date upon which the Artist uploads the Uploaded Material pursuant to paragraph 3.3. 9. EFFECT OF EXERCISE OF OPTION 9.1 If CIAW: (a) exercises the option (but not otherwise) then: (i) the Licence shall be deemed to be effective and the Licence shall constitute a valid and binding agreement effective as of the date of exercise of such option; (ii) the Artist will, if so requested by CIAW, execute and deliver to CIAW additional copies of the Licence; or (b) does not exercise the option, then: (i) the Licence shall be void and of no further force or effect whatever; (ii) CIAW shall be deemed not to have acquired any rights in or property other than the rights provided for in this Option. 10. TERMINATION OR EXPIRY OF THE OPTION PERIOD 10.1 CIAW may at any time in its sole discretion terminate this Option by giving written notice. 10.2 Upon expiry or termination of the Option Period other than in accordance with paragraph 10.1, CIAW may continue to reproduce the Cover Video on CIAW’s YouTube channel and otherwise Exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording until the Artist serves thirty (30) days prior written notice to CIAW to take down or procure the taking down of the Cover Video from the channel and cease or cause the cessation of all other Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 11. NOTICES 11.1 All notices, statements, approvals or consents required under this Option ("notices") are to be in writing addressed to the receiving party at the address specified below, or such other address as designated in writing in the manner described in this Clause. 11.2 Any and all notices must be delivered by email and confirmed by return receipt of email from the recipient, on date of receipt. 11.3 All notices for CIAW must be sent to legal@splitsounds.com. 11.4 All notices for the Artist must be sent to the person and email address specified in the registration information completed by the Artist. 11.5 A party may change its address for service of notices under this clause by giving written notification of the new address to the other party. 12. MISCELLANEOUS 12.1 The Artist warrants that he/she has read the terms of this Option and the Licence (attached) and is free to grant the rights contained therein. The Artist warrants that he/she will notify CIAW immediately if circumstances arise that may alter this position. 12.2 The Option Agreement, including the Licence (attached), contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and may only be varied in writing signed by both parties. 12.3 The laws of New South Wales, Australia shall govern this Agreement. ANNEXURE A LICENCE AGREEMENT BETWEEN: THE PARTY DESCRIBED AS THE “ARTIST” ON THE REGISTRATION OR UPLOAD PAGE OF THE CIAW WEBSITE (“Licensor”); AND: SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LIMITED (ABN 13621652533), dba COVERINAWEEK.COM, PO Box 1451, Bondi Junction, NSW 1355 Australia (“CIAW”). INTRODUCTION A. The Licensor owns or controls in the Territory the copyright to the Uploaded Material. B. CIAW is in the business of promoting, distributing and Exploiting Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings by various artists. C. The Licensor wishes to have its Cover Video and/or Master Recording Exploited by CIAW. D. Upon CIAW’s exercise of its Option in respect of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, the Licensor agrees to grant, and CIAW agrees to accept, an exclusive licence on the terms contained in this Licence, in order that CIAW may Exploit or cause others to Exploit the applicable Cover Video and/or Master Recording. TERMS: 1. LICENSOR’S ACCEPTANCE 1.1 By clicking “I Agree” on the CIAW Website, the Licensor accepts the terms of this Licence, current as at the time the Licensor clicked “I Agree.” Those terms supersede any other agreement, whether verbal or written, by any person, agent, or representative of CIAW. 2. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION In this Licence: 2.1 “CIAW Net Receipts” means all moneys CIAW actually receives from Licensees or agents or societies as compensation for the Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording and shall be calculated net of any applicable taxes, shipping and insurance charges, advertising sales commissions, fulfillment fees paid to third parties, and amounts paid to or deducted by sub-publishers, Licensees, agents, collection agencies and performing and mechanical rights societies; 2.2 “CIAW Website” means the website operated by CIAW with the URL www.coverinaweek.com or any other website of CIAW. 2.3 “Composition” means a single musical composition featured as the “Song of the Week” on CIAW’s Website, irrespective of length, including but not limited to all spoken words and bridging passages. 2.4 “Contract Period” means the Initial Period and any optional or Subsequent Periods unless terminated in accordance with this Licence. 2.5 “Electronic Transmission” means any transmission to the consumer, whether of sound alone, sound coupled with an image, or sound coupled with data, in any form now known or later developed including, without limitation, permanent downloads, streams, mobiletones, ringtones, ringbacks, other mobile device signals, webcasts, direct broadcast satellite, cable and/or telephone system transmissions whether or not such transmission is made on-demand or near on-demand and whether or not a direct or indirect charge is made to receive the transmission and whether or not such transmission, and whether or not the consumer may save the transmission for later viewing and/or listening. All references in this Licence to the “distribution” and/or Net Sales of Records shall be understood to include the distribution of Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings by way of Electronic Transmissions. 2.6 “Exploit” means to exploit Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings commercially, by way of licence, sale or other forms of distribution of recordings, and by transmission or communication to the public by wire or wireless means, including making available to the public in such a way that members of the public may access the Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings from a place and at a time individually chosen by them; and "Exploitation" has the corresponding meaning. 2.7 “Licensed Use” means the particular use or form of Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording by a third party pursuant to a licence granted by CIAW. 2.8 “Licensee” means any person licensed or otherwise authorised by CIAW to do any of the acts which CIAW is itself entitled to do, or cause to be done, under this Licence; 2.9 “Option” means the option exercisable by CIAW pursuant to Clause 8 of the Option Terms and Conditions accepted by the Licensor. 2.10 “Person” and “Party” means any individual, corporation or partnership association or other organised group of persons or legal successors or representatives of the foregoing. 2.11 “Recording Costs” means all amounts paid or incurred or caused to be paid in connection with the Licensor’s making of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 2.12 “Records” means all forms of reproductions now or hereafter known (including, without limitation, audio-only records, audio-visual devices, interactive media and Electronic Transmissions) manufactured and/or distributed primarily for personal use, home use, school use, juke box use, use in means of transportation and/or use in means of playback devices of any kind whether now or hereafter known. 2.13 “Term” means the term of this Licence pursuant to Clause 6. 2.14 “Territory” means the Universe. 2.15 “Video” means a cinematograph film produced for the primary purpose of promoting or visually representing: (a) an artist; and/or (b) an artist’s recording, embodied in the soundtrack of that cinematograph film. 2.16 (a) Headings to clauses are included for the sake of convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of the clauses to which they relate. (b) All words, definitions and phrases in this definitions and interpretations clause shall form part of the substantive agreement. (c) References to any statute or statutory provision include that statute or statutory provision as amended, extended, consolidated or replaced by subsequent legislation and any orders, regulations, instruments or other subordinate legislation made under the relevant statute. (d) Words used in this Licence that are not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them as set out in the Copyright Act 1968 (as amended from time to time). (e) Unless otherwise stated, all capitalised terms in this Licence have the same meaning as they are given in the Option Terms and Conditions. (f) The singular includes the plural and vice versa. (g) A reference to one gender includes a reference to all other genders. 3. CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT 3.1 This Licence is conditional upon CIAW exercising the Option. 4. GRANT OF RIGHTS 4.1 Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to convey to CIAW or to any designee, assignee or licensee of CIAW any ownership interest in the copyright in or to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, and the Cover Video and/or Master Recording shall be the sole property of Licensor or members of Licensor. 4.2 Licensor hereby grants to CIAW the exclusive licence of the copyright in the Cover Video and/or Master Recording and all other reproductions therefrom for the Territory, including without limitation the right: (a) to Exploit the Master Recording through synchronization and master use licences for the use thereof in connection with motion pictures, television productions, commercial advertisements and other audio-visual or audio-only uses (including advertisements relating to the exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording); (b) to manufacture, distribute, transmit and sell Records derived from the Cover Video and/or Master Recordings through so-called normal retail sales channels, record club sales, mail order sales, or Electronic Transmission; (c) to market such Records under such trademarks as CIAW and its licensees and designees shall determine and to use the Cover Video and/or Master Recordings in connection with so-called compilations; (d) to communicate to the public and publicly perform the Cover Video and/or Master Recording by means of radio and television broadcast, Internet, websites or by methods hereafter developed, including Exploitation in association with the serving of advertisements ; (e) to provide copies of the Cover Video and Master Recordings via digital transmission or other prerecorded format, or any other medium now known or hereafter devised; (f) to edit, alter, mix or remix the Cover Video and/or Master Recording in any manner, and to exploit such altered versions in all means listed in this Licence; (g) to refrain from doing any or all of the foregoing in CIAW’s discretion. (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to grant exclusive rights to a Licensee subject to CIAW receiving the express written approval of Licensor. Such approval is not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. 5. ADMINISTRATION Upon execution of this Licence, with respect only to Licensed Uses of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, CIAW shall have the right but not obligation for the entire duration of the Term, to: 5.1 assign and/or license and authorise others to license the use of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording; 5.2 administer and grant rights in the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, including without limitation the right: (i) to grant in perpetuity synchronisation licences in respect of short and full length cinematograph films, including television productions, and/or advertisement for commercial products and any use of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording for product endorsement purposes (including advertisements relating to the exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording); (ii) to grant in perpetuity licences for the manufacture, distribution and, transmission of Records derived from the Cover Video and/or Master Recording; (iii) to broadcast, re-broadcast, distribute to subscribers to a diffusion service, transmit, and publicly perform the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, whether by means of television broadcast, radio broadcast, wire or fibre, film, Internet, satellite or other (whether or not now known) either alone or in association with the serving of advertisements and in perpetuity; (iv) to communicate to the public either alone or in association with the serving of advertisements and in perpetuity; 5.3 collect all moneys payable with respect to Licensed Uses in perpetuity, including without limitation, all performance royalties payable to with respect to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 6. TERM 6.1 If CIAW exercises the Option, the initial term of this Licence shall be for a period of three (3) years from the date CIAW exercises such Option (“Initial Period”) and will be renewed automatically for successive periods of one (1) year (“Subsequent Period”). The Licensor may give CIAW notice in writing not later than ninety (90) days before the end of the applicable Contract Period of its intention to terminate this Licence. Following such notice this Licence will terminate on the expiry of the relevant Contract Period. CIAW may terminate this Licence with or without cause at any time by giving the Licensor ninety (90) days prior written notice. 6.2 Upon termination of this Licence, CIAW shall no longer have the right to grant a new licence with respect to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. However, termination of this Licence does not affect any rights granted to Licensees prior to termination, including perpetual rights, nor does it affect the administration and collection rights granted to CIAW with respect to Licensed Uses. The term of any Licensed Use shall be as set forth in the respective licence governing the Licensed Use, and is separate and apart from the Term. 7. NAME AND LIKENESS 7.1 CIAW and any Licensee or designee of CIAW will have the right and may grant to others the non-exclusive right to reproduce, print, publish or disseminate in any medium the Licensor’s name(s), portraits, pictures and likenesses in connection with the exploitation of the Cover Video, and biographical material concerning the Licensor, as news or information for advertising purposes. Licensor grants to CIAW the same rights on a non-exclusive basis with respect to all other individuals the Licensor has engaged to provide goods or services in connection with the making of such Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 7.2 CIAW will use its reasonable efforts to cause any Licensee, to the extent possible, to include a credit identifying the performers of the relevant Cover Video and/or Master Recording; provided, however, that each member of Licensor and each signatory hereto accepts and agrees that they may not receive credit in connection with each Licensed Use and that such credit is not a condition of the licence granted herein. 8. PRODUCTION ELEMENTS 8.1 With respect to the Cover Video and Master Recording, the Licensor must within forty eight (48) hours of CIAW’s exercise of the Option deliver free of charge to CIAW in format(s) reasonably requested by CIAW the fully recorded, edited and mixed video version of the Cover Video and WAV version of the Master Recording. 8.2 Licensor warrants and represents that the Cover Video and/or Master Recording does not contain any unauthorised “samples.” 8.3 Licensor warrants and represents that the Licensor has paid any and all Recording Costs associated with the Licensor’s making of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. 9. COMPENSATION 9.1 CIAW agrees to pay to Licensor royalties with respect to CIAW or its Licensees Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording throughout the Territory as follows: Fifty percent (50%) of CIAW Net Receipts. 9.2 CIAW shall not be responsible for the payment of any third party payments, including but not limited to the producer, arranger or musician royalties, with respect to any Licensed Uses. 10. ACCOUNTING 10.1 CIAW shall compute and pay royalties due to Licensor hereunder within sixty (60) days following June 30 and December 31, respectively, in each case with respect to CIAW Net Receipts actually received by CIAW during the immediately preceding six (6) month period. Such payments shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the source of such royalties. CIAW shall be under no obligation to render any statement or make any payment until such time as the royalties due Licensor hereunder equal or exceed One Hundred and Fifity Dollars ($150.00). CIAW shall have the right to deduct or withhold income or other similar tax from sums payable to Licensor hereunder pursuant to the laws of the relevant territory of a Licensed Use, provided that CIAW shall, where readily available, furnish to Licensor, with each statement, any necessary information which shall enable Licensor, upon presentation of such, to endeavor to obtain income tax credit from the local revenue service for tax so withheld 10.2 CIAW will maintain books of account concerning compensation payable to Licensor hereunder. Licensor may appoint a representative, at its sole expense, no more than once each year to examine such books during CIAW's normal business hours and upon reasonable written notice. Such books relating to any particular accounting statement will be conclusive and not subject to objection unless examined as aforesaid and objected to within two (2) years after the date rendered. Licensor will be foreclosed from maintaining any action, claim, or proceeding against CIAW in any form or tribunal with respect to any statement or accounting rendered hereunder unless such action, claim, or proceeding is commenced against CIAW in a court of competent jurisdiction within three (3) years after the date such statement or accounting was rendered. Licensor acknowledges that CIAW's books and records contain confidential trade information. Licensor warrants and represents that neither it nor its auditors or representative(s) will communicate to others or use on behalf of any other entity any facts or information obtained as a result of any examination except as is necessary in court proceedings to enforce collection of sums due. 11. WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, WAIVERS AND INDEMNITIES 11.1 The Licensor warrants and represents: (a) The Master Recording is a unique and original arrangement of the Composition and all rights and copyrights in the Cover Video and Master Recording are the Licensor’s sole and exclusive property, free from any claims whatsoever by any other person. (b) The Licensor has the right and power to enter into and fully perform this Licence. (c) CIAW shall not be required to make any payments of any nature for, or in connection with, the acquisition, exercise or exploitation of rights by CIAW pursuant to this Licence except as specifically provided in this Licence. (d) With respect to any producer and all others who shall have rendered services in connection therewith and the production of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, Licensor has the right to use their performances and/or other contributions the right to use their professional names, and have the right to use and allow others to use said names and any other names used by such entities, and photographs and likenesses thereof, and biographical materials relating to them, in connection with the Exploitation and promotion of such Cover Video and/or Master Recordings and derivatives thereof. (e) Neither the Uploaded Material, nor the performances embodied thereon, nor any trademarks, shall violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party. The Uploaded Material does not contain any samples of other copyrighted recordings and the Licensor has not significantly changed the lyrics or the melody of the original Composition. (f) All warranties and representations made by Licensor herein shall survive the execution of this Licence and shall continue to be enforceable for the full period of time for which CIAW, its successor and/or assigns, or Licensees have the right to exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. (g) During the Term, neither Licensor nor any member of Licensor shall enter into any Licence which would interfere with or prohibit the exercise by CIAW of the rights granted hereunder. (h) Neither Licensor nor any member of Licensor shall communicate with any Licensee or any of its agents, including advertising agencies, in connection with the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. (i) No producer or any other person who shall have rendered services in connection with and the production of the Cover Video or Master Recording, shall any right, interest or claim in or over the Composition, which is reproduced on the Master Recording. 11.2 (a) CIAW warrants and represents that it has the right and power to enter into and fully perform this Licence. (b) CIAW makes no representation or guarantee as to the number of uses, if any, of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, or the amount of compensation, if any, that will become payable to Licensor as the result of Licensor entering into this Licence. 12. INDEMNITY 12.1 Each party agrees to and does hereby indemnify, save and hold harmless the other of and from any and all loss and damage (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with any claim by any one or more third parties which is inconsistent with any of the warranties or representations made by that party herein, and agrees to reimburse the other party, on demand, for any payment made by it at any time after the date hereof with respect to any liability or claim to which the foregoing indemnity applies, provided that such claim results in a final adverse judgment against the indemnified or the indemnifying party, or is settled with the prior written approval of the indemnifying party, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. 12.2 The indemnified party in any instance shall give the indemnified party in any instance notice of any claim to which the terms of this Clause 11 might apply, and the indemnifying party in such instance shall have the right to participate in the defense of any such claim with counsel of its own choice and at its own expense. 13. ASSIGNMENT Licensor may not assign this Licence in whole or in part without CIAW’s prior written consent, nor may Licensor delegate its duties under this Agreement. CIAW may assign any of its rights under this Licence in whole or in part provided that no such assignment shall relieve CIAW of primary liability for the performance of its obligations under this Licence except in the event the assignee assumes responsibility for performing CIAW’s obligations. 14. MISCELLANEOUS 14.1 The amount to be charged for any Licensed Use is to be determined by CIAW in its sole discretion 14.2.1 All notices, statements, approvals or consents required under this Licence ("notices") are to be in writing addressed to the receiving party at the address specified below, or such other address as designated in writing in the manner described in this Clause 14.2. 14.2.2 Any and all notices must be delivered by email and confirmed by return receipt of email from the recipient, on date of receipt. 14.2.3 All notices for CIAW must be sent to legal@splitsounds.com. 14.2.4 All notices for the Artist must be sent to the person and email address specified in the registration information completed by the Artist. 14.2.5 A party may change its address for service of notices under this clause by giving written notification of the new address to the other party. 14.3 This Licence has been entered into in New South Wales, Australia, and the validity, interpretation and legal effects of this Licence shall be governed by the laws of Australia applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within Australia. The Courts of Australia only, will have jurisdiction of any controversies regarding this Agreement; any action or other proceeding which involves such a controversy will be brought in Australian Courts, and not elsewhere. 14.4 This Licence contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof. 14.5 In the performance of this Agreement, Licensor is acting as an independent contractor and shall not be, act or represent itself as the employee, agent or representative of CIAW. Nothing contained in this Licence shall be construed so as to create a joint venture between the parties. ANNEXURE B [Ref. Clause 3.1(d) of the Option] TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LTD AND [ARTIST NAME] DATED [DATE] RECORD COMPANY CONSENT Where you are a party to a contract with another person, company or organisation (the "Record Company"), which owns or controls any rights, including copyright, in the Cover Video, the Record Company also consents to the provisions contained in the Option Agreement and warrants its right and power to ratify the Option Agreement. Signed: __________________________________________________ Name of Person Signing: ______________________________________ Name of Record Company: ______________________________________ Position of Person Signing: ______________________________________ Witness: __________________________________________________ Date: __________________________________________________ ANNEXURE C [Ref. clause 2.2(d) of the Option] GUARDIAN’S CONSENT FORM As a material inducement to SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LTD (ABN 13621652533) entering into the Option Agreement with [INSERT THE NAME(S) OF THE ARTIST] and dated [DATE], we, [PARENT/GUARDIAN] and [PARENT/GUARDIAN] being the parents and/or guardians of [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR], consent to [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR] entering into this Option Agreement, which we consider to be to the benefit of [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR]. We further confirm that we have sought independent expert legal advice to enable us to fully understand the obligations entered into by [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR]. Signed by [Parent/Guardian] Signed by [Parent Guardian] Date: Date:
I agree and understand that I am entering into an Option Agreement.
Are you over 18 years old?*
YesNo (you may still upload, but will be required to complete the Guardian's Consent Form)
Are you submitting a video file or an audio file?*
SelectVideoAudio
Your video should be less than 500mb and be one of the file formats listed on YouTube’s Recommended Formats page.
Tick this box when your upload is finished to submit your entry.
Your audio file must be under 500mb and in stereo WAV format (44100 Hz sample rate, 16-bit sample format).
If you are having difficulties using our upload form, please follow the instructions below. If your upload arrives slightly after the closing time, we will be sure to make accommodations. Apologies for any inconvenience!
1) Go to www.wetransfer.com
2) In the ‘Email to’ box type info@coverinaweek.com
3) In the ‘Your email’ box type your own email address
4) In the ‘Message’ box include the following information:
Your Artist Name
The Song Name
Let us know if you are over 18 years of age
Please type “I agree and understand that I am entering into an Option Agreement.” (this is the same as the checkbox in step 2 of the upload process)
At Cover In A Week we have one simple goal: To uncover the best unsigned artists and producers in the world. We’re run by longtime music industry executives, and have partnered with major and independent music companies to find new artists and reinvigorate their catalogues. We see Cover In A Week as a win/win/win: Musicians get noticed, publishers get to reinvigorate their songs and labels find great artists.
Each week, we feature a new song and invite you to create and upload your unique version. You always retain 100% ownership of your recording, and all we ask is for the right to license your recording for distribution on downloading and streaming services, and to do our best to get it placed in a film, or TV show or commercial.
Any revenue we generate from any source will be split with you 50/50, and we’ll manage all the administration, finance, legal and marketing.
Only upload a version if you are unsigned and have full control of your recording rights
Make sure your cover is not a direct copy of any previously released recordings, is not contentious or offensive, that it doesn’t include any samples or other recordings, and does not significantly change the lyrics or the vocal melody of the original composition.
Do not upload your recording/video anywhere else for a minimum 60 days. During this time, we have the right to sign your recording to a 3 year exclusive license (remember, you still keep 100% ownership and we share any generated revenue with you)
Most importantly, try and have a bit of fun!
Please feel free to contact us anytime at info@coverinaweek.com with questions, thoughts, comments or concerns, and we look forward to hearing your take on some of the best, weirdest and most popular songs ever written.
– The CIAW Team
General Site User Terms
General Terms & Conditions applying to the use of the CIAW Website (“User Terms”)
1.1 The internet website (the “Website”) and the Wireless Application Protocol site (the “WAP site”) (each “CIAW Site”), located at https://www.coverinaweek.com, is owned and operated by Split Sounds Pty Limited (“CIAW”, “us” or “our” or any other grammatical form of those words). Use of the CIAW Site is subject to these User Terms, which are accepted by any person using the CIAW Site. These User Terms may be updated or revised by CIAW from time to time and at any time without notice to you. The current version is always available on the CIAW Site at User Terms
1.2 Parts of the CIAW Site are accessible to all persons (“you” or “Users” or any other grammatical form of these words) and other parts of the CIAW Site are restricted to Users who upload with CIAW through the CIAW Site (“Active Users”). Active Users must be over the age of eighteen (18) years of age or ensure that the Artist’s legal guardian accepts and agrees to the Artist’s obligations under the Option Terms and Conditions on the terms set forth in the Guardian Consent Form. At the time of uploading, all Active Users must accept and agree to these User Terms and the terms and conditions applicable to entrants in the Option Terms and Conditions, which are located at Option Terms & Conditions.
1.3 Unless otherwise stated, the User Terms apply to all Users, including unregistered and Active Users. CIAW may, in its sole discretion, decline to register anyone as an Active User or terminate the account of an Active User without giving any reason(s).
1.4 Unless otherwise stated, all capitalised terms in these User Terms have the same meaning as they are given in the Option Agreement.
2. CIAW SITE OWNERSHIP
2.1 All rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in and to the CIAW Site are owned by CIAW. Users may not use, copy, adapt, modify, sell, license, distribute, transmit, display, publish or create works derived from the CIAW Site except as provided for in the User Terms. The CIAW Site contains trade marks, names and logos which belong to CIAW. Users do not have any licence or right to use any of them.
3. CONTENT OF THE CIAW SITE
3.1 Users are advised that the CIAW Site may contain material, uploaded to the CIAW Site by Active Users, (the “Uploaded Material”) which could be considered offensive to some people. CIAW does not necessarily endorse the Uploaded Material which is provided solely for the purpose of the Challenge. CIAW accepts no liability for the Uploaded Material. Nothing in these Terms or Conditions will transfer any right, title or interest in any Uploaded Material to Users.
5. USE OF UPLOADED MATERIAL
5.1 Uploaded Material is protected by copyright and other laws.
5.2 Users may only view or listen to Uploaded Material from the CIAW Site for the purposes of listening or entering the Challenge, and must not otherwise copy, reproduce, publish, communicate, play in public, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display or adapt the Uploaded Material, or otherwise engage in any act comprised in the copyright applying to the Uploaded Material, unless authorised by CIAW.
6. CIAW’s LIABILITY
6.1 The CIAW Site is made available by CIAW without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law. CIAW makes no representation or warranty that the CIAW Site or its content is accurate, up-to-date or complete or that any expressions of opinion or statements of intention are reasonable or honest. CIAW makes no warranty that the CIAW Site (or the server that makes it available) will be:
(a) timely or available on an uninterrupted basis;
(b) error-free or that defects will be corrected; or
(c) free of viruses or other harmful material.
6.2 CIAW and all of its officers, agents, employees and any other person acting pursuant to instructions or permissions from CIAW (“Representatives”) are not liable for any loss, cost or damage of any kind which any User may suffer when using the CIAW Site, or attempting to use it, and by accessing the CIAW Site, each User releases CIAW and its representatives from all such liability.
6.3 Notwithstanding its right to supervise Uploaded Material, or its actual supervision of Uploaded Material, CIAW has no obligation to monitor Uploaded Material and accepts no responsibility or liability for Uploaded Material including but not limited to any defamatory material, or for any errors or omissions in any Uploaded Material, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Uploaded Material posted or transmitted on the CIAW Site.
6.4 Under no circumstances will CIAW or its Representatives be liable to Users for any claims, liability, direct or indirect loss, cost or damage (including loss of profits, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damages (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) that the User may suffer in connection with use of, or gaining access to the CIAW Site, and by using or accessing the CIAW Site, each User releases CIAW and its Representatives from any liability for such damages.
6.5 In consideration of your use of the CIAW Site, you agree to:
(a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself when prompted by our upload form or any other form CIAW asks you to complete at any time; and
(b) maintain and update promptly any personal information which you are able to update on the CIAW Site so as to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
6.6 During the upload process, or at any preceding or subsequent time, when you answer questions on the CIAW Site or when cookies are used, CIAW may collect, process, use and disclose the personal information you have provided in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
7.1 CIAW may terminate or suspend the account or permissions of any Active User at will and without notice, in whole or part at any time.
8.1 CIAW may provide links to other web sites from the CIAW Site. If a User accesses these links, they will leave the CIAW Site. CIAW has not reviewed any of these other web sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of them or their content. CIAW does not endorse or make any representations about external web sites, or any information or product or materials a User may find there. If a User decides to access any site linked to the CIAW Site, the User does so entirely at their own risk.
9.1 The CIAW Site uses “cookie” information collection technology. If a User does not wish to receive cookies, it is the User’s responsibility to use a browser which does not (or is configured not to) accept cookies (which may then limit the functionality of the CIAW Site).
10.1 These User Terms and any claim relating to the use of the CIAW Site are governed by the law as it applies in New South Wales, Australia, and Users consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia in relation to any dispute.
Option Terms: (This should appear under “Terms & Conditions” as well as on the upload page before clicking “I Agree”)
Summary of the main legal points contained in the CIAW agreement:
• Your version must be a unique and original arrangement – no “sound-a-likes”.
• It must not be contentious, offensive or contain samples of other copyrighted recordings. Parodies and adaptations not allowed.
• It must not contain samples of other copyrighted recordings.
• If you submit a cover/video to CIAW, you CANNOT upload the same video or recording to ANY other site for a minimum of 60 days after you submit your entry.
• If accepted, your video will be uploaded to our CIAW YouTube channel. We reserve the right to refuse or remove any submitted video at any time.
• If your video appears on the CIAW YouTube channel, you may freely copy and post the link to that video anywhere you like, including your own website, any social media site etc, and share as much as you want. The idea is to get as many views and likes of your video as possible.
• By submitting your video/cover you grant Coverinaweek the option, within 60 days of the completion of each week, to accept your recording or video for distribution on our Coverinaweek streaming playlists, download compilations, CD compilations or synch licensing site. Such distribution rights will be exclusive to CIAW for a period of 3 years from release, whereafter it can be terminated by giving CIAW 90 days written notice. Any licenses granted by CIAW prior to such termination shall remain in force until expiration of the term of that license.
• You will receive the following license royalties:
• Fifty percent (50%) of CIAW Net Receipts (as defined below)
• If your cover has been accepted for licensing, we will email you with confirmation.
Option Agreement:
See separate document
COVER IN A WEEK (“CIAW”) – PRIVACY POLICY
Our website (the “CIAW Site”) is owned by Split Sounds Pty Ltd (“SSPL”), a company based in Australia. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). We at CIAW respect the privacy concerns of the users of the CIAW Site and have created this privacy policy to explain:
(1) what information we gather from you when you visit our site;
(2) how we may use such information;
(3) your choices and our rights concerning how we may use such information;
(4) the security measures we take to protect such information; and
(5) your rights of access and correction to this information.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit this site, certain non-personally identifying information is recorded automatically by the standard operation of our Internet servers. This includes information such as the type of browser being used by you, the operating system you are using, and your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number that your Internet service provider assigns to your computer whenever you surf the Internet), is collected in order to facilitate our online operations and to assure an efficient online experience for you. We may also use or share this information for security purposes, to generate group statistics about our user community, or as required under Australian law.
We may use your IP address or other automatically recorded information, in cooperation with your Internet provider, to identify you if it is necessary to contact you or to bring legal action against you because you are violating the User Terms, the Option Agreement or the Licence Agreement applicable to the CIAW Site (located at www.coverinaweek.com) or because you are causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with CIAW’s rights or property, other users of this site, or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities.
2. PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
We may request personally identifying information from you when you complete the online form to register as an Artist or upload your entry (“Personal Information”).
In such instances, the personally identifying information we request may include your name, email address, mailing address and postal code, mobile phone number and other phone number(s). In addition, we may collect other non-personally identifying information such as your country of residence and your language preference. Of course, you never have to answer any of the questions we ask you (nor choose to take advantages of the services offered on the CIAW Site), but refusal to do so will limit your ability to upload content.
3. HOW CAN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE USED?
When you upload content to the CIAW Site, we will use your Personal Information to fulfill your request and for customer service. We will not share your information with any other person (individual or company) unless that person is involved in the distribution of your Cover Video or Master Recording or as otherwise provided in paragraph 4. We do not rent, sell or share your information with promotional partners or other third parties.
Furthermore, without any specific approval from you, we may develop general aggregate data (i.e., data that cannot be used to identify specific individuals) about our user community that is partly based on information about you and your interaction with CIAW. We may share such aggregate statistics with our licensors without your consent.
If CIAW uses your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, including updates and additional information regarding new opportunities available to you, all correspondence sent to you by CIAW will give you the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving any further direct marketing correspondence.
4. WILL CIAW GIVE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANYONE ELSE?
In providing you the information, goods or services you request, CIAW may be required to disclose your Personal Information to:
• CIAW’s related companies (including those located in Australia and elsewhere); and
• CIAW’s consultants, contractors and service providers performing services including but not limited to legal and accounting services, credit reporting, mail-house, transport and printing services.
CIAW may from time to time need to disclose your Personal Information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.
If there is a change of control in our business or sale or transfer of business assets, CIAW reserves the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law its user database, together with any Personal Information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. CIAW would seek only to disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.
Other than those third parties referred to above, CIAW will not disclose your Personal Information to any other third party unless it has reasonable grounds to believe:
• you have authorised CIAW to do so;
• your safety, or the safety of others in the community, is at risk; or
• CIAW is required or permitted by law to do so.
If CIAW provides your Personal Information to a third party, CIAW generally requires the third party to protect your Personal Information in the same way CIAW does.
5. OUTSIDE THE CIAW SITE
When you give Personal Information to CIAW via the CIAW Site, we may ask you to allow us to share that data (together with non-personally identifying information you may provide) with our promotional or distribution partners. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy no Personal Information or data shall be shared with third-parties without your consent.
6. OUR RIGHTS TO USE YOUR INFORMATION
We reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information, as required by law or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against you if you are violating the User Terms, the Option Agreement or the Licence Agreement applicable to this site or may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with CIAW’s rights or property, other users of this site or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities.
7. SAFEGUARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
CIAW cares about the security of your Personal Information. We follow generally accepted industry and internet security standards to safeguard and help prevent unauthorised access to your data, to maintain data security and to correctly use such Personal Information.
However, unfortunately, despite many advances in information security technology and procedures, no commercially deployed method of information transfer over the Internet or electronic data storage is known to be 100% secure. As a result, while we do strive to use modern and commercially reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage in our systems.
A “cookie” is a small text file that an Internet site can place on your computer’s hard disk drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make using the CIAW Site easier by, among other things, saving your passwords and preferences for you, or for other similar purposes, and to help identify you whenever you return to our site, so you do not need to reenter your identification information.
Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. However, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being sent (note: you may need to consult your browser’s “Help” area for instructions on how to do this). If you choose to disable your cookies setting or refuse to accept a cookie, some parts of this site will not function properly or may perform considerably slower.
The CIAW site may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on the website or other websites you visit.
9. LINKS TO OTHER SITES
We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content or practices of web sites operated by companies that may be linked to this site. You should not assume that their privacy policies or practices are the same as those followed by CIAW. Visitors to any non-CIAW operated web sites should refer to each web site’s respective privacy policies and practices.
10. YOUR RIGHTS OF ACCESS AND CORRECTION
The accuracy of your Personal Information is important. CIAW takes reasonable steps to ensure Personal Information it holds about you is accurate, complete, up-to-date, relevant and not misleading. If you believe that any Personal Information CIAW holds about you is incorrect, please contact CIAW’s Privacy Officer by email to legal@coverinaweek.com with details of the relevant updated information.
You have a general right to access the Personal Information CIAW holds about you. You may contact CIAW’s Privacy Officer to request details of your Personal Information by email to legal@coverinaweek.com. CIAW can deny your request in some circumstances and if it does so, will provide you with written reasons for that denial.
While there is no fee for requesting access to the Personal Information CIAW holds about you, CIAW reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee for the preparation and provision of that information to you.
You also have the right to request the correction of Personal Information which CIAW holds about you. You may do so at any time by contacting CIAW’s Privacy Officer by email to legal@coverinaweek.com. CIAW does however reserve the right to refuse to correct your information in some circumstances. If CIAW refuses to correct any Personal Information about you, and subsequent agreement cannot be reached between the parties on this issue, you may request that a note or statement regarding the correction requested be attached to your Personal Information.
• require further information regarding this Privacy Policy or any other steps CIAW has taken to protect your Personal Information or privacy; or
• have any concerns or a complaint regarding CIAW’s privacy practices or its management of your Personal Information.
please contact CIAW’s Privacy Officer by email to legal@coverinaweek.com. When we receive such inquiries about our Privacy Policy, we will use the Personal Information (such as your email address) only to respond to your question or comment. However, if your question raises one or more issues that affect our promotional partners, we may also share your question with them in order to provide a response.
12. CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes which we consider material in our privacy practices, we will notify you in this space. We may also attempt to notify you of any such material changes to our privacy practices via email or by placing a notice on our home page.
13. ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
By using this CIAW Site, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information by CIAW in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 26th September 2017.
OPTION AGREEMENT
Congratulations on wishing to enter the song challenge (the Challenge) being conducted by Split Sounds Pty Limited trading as Cover-In-A-Week (“CIAW”).
We are pleased now to have this opportunity to set out the terms upon which CIAW is willing to enter into an Option Agreement with you (jointly and severally “you” or the “Artist”).
What makes up this Option Agreement?
The Option Agreement comprises the following parts, which together constitute a single legally binding document (“Option Agreement”):
• Your registration information;
• The Option Terms and Conditions (“Option Terms and Conditions”);
• The licence annexed to the Option Terms and Conditions and marked Annexure A (“Licence”).
By clicking “I Agree” on the Site, you accept the terms of this Option Agreement, current as at the time you click “I Agree.” Those terms supersede any other agreement, whether verbal or written, by any person, agent, or representative of CIAW.
Acceptance binds you to the terms and conditions of the Option Agreement. If you do not accept those terms and conditions then do not upload your Cover Video or Master Recording to CIAW.
Unless otherwise stated, all capitalised terms in the Option Terms and Conditions below have the same meaning as they are given in the Licence.
THE OPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.1 “Convention Country” means a country, which has signed, ratified any one of the following multilateral international agreements:
(a) Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works;
(b) Universal Copyright Convention; or
(c) WIPO Copyright Treaty.
1.2 “Cover Recording” means any sound recording of a Composition embodying the performances by an artist other than the original recording artist.
1.3 “Cover Video” means a cinematograph film made by the Artist, the audio track of which primarily consists of the Artist’s performance of the Composition.
1.4 “Master Recording” means the Cover Recording by the Artist that is either embodied in the soundtrack of the Cover Video or an audio-only recording.
1.5 “Record Company Consent” means the form of approval set forth in Annexure B hereto.
1.6 “Sound-alike” means a sound recording of a performance by an artist where that artist imitates the style of the original recording artist’s performance of the applicable composition.
2. CHALLENGE
2.1 The Challenge involves skill, and chance plays no part in determining the outcome of the Challenge. The decision of CIAW in relation to all matters relating to the Challenge is final and no correspondence will be entered into with the Artist.
2.2 If requested to do so by CIAW, the Artist must:
(a) sign a copy of this Option;
(b) execute the Licence;
(c) execute a release and indemnity in the form prescribed by CIAW releasing and indemnifying CIAW and its representatives from all liability in connection with the Challenge and any liability in connection with:
(i) any claim that the Cover Video or Other Attributes (as defined in paragraph 3.1(b)) caused damage to a third party;
(ii) any breach of this Option; or
(iv) the breach of any third party rights, including without limitation any copyright or privacy laws.
(d) if the Artist or any member of the Artist is under 18 years of age, provide a copy of the Guardian’s Consent Form attached hereto as Annexure C signed by the guardian of the Artist or applicable member of the Artist.
3. ENTRY AND ELIGIBILITY
3.1 To be eligible to enter the Challenge, the Artist must:
(a) subject to paragraph (f), not have entered into any agreement with a third party for rendering the Artist’s recording services or performances in any manner inconsistent with this Option and is entirely free to enter into and to perform the Artist’s obligations under this Option Agreement (“Unencumbered Status”);
(b) have the right to exclusively license all rights in the Cover Video and Master Recording and have the use of their name, bibliographical details, image, actions, voice and likeness (“Other Attributes”) in order grant such rights to CIAW for the purposes specified in the Licence;
(c) ensure that the Artist’s legal guardian accepts and agrees to the Artist’s obligations under this Option on the terms set forth in Guardian’s Approval Form, if the Artist is under the age of 18 years at the time the Cover Video is created;
(d) be a citizen, national or resident of a Convention Country; and
(e) ensure the Master Recording is a unique and original arrangement and not a Sound-alike.
(f) if you are a party to a contract with another person, company or organisation (the “Record Company”), which owns or controls any rights, including copyright, in the Uploaded Material, you must arrange for the appropriate execution by the Record Company of the Record Company Consent in Annexure B.
3.2 If there is a change in the Artist’s Unencumbered Status that would prevent the Artist from executing the documents referred to in paragraph 2.2 at any time after the Artist enters the Challenge, the Artist must notify CIAW immediately. In such circumstances, CIAW reserves the right to disqualify the Artist and/or terminate the Option and/or take down the Cover Video in CIAW’s sole discretion.
3.3 To submit a valid entry to the Challenge, the Artist must first register their details on the CIAW Site located at www.coverinaweek.com (“CIAW Site”) in accordance with the instructions on the CIAW Site. Upon registration or log-in, the Artist may upload the Cover Video, and other materials, which may include without limitation text and audio in a format acceptable to YouTube, or Master Recording in stereo WAV format (44100 Hz sample rate, 16-bit sample format), (“Uploaded Material”) to the CIAW Site in accordance with the steps set out on the CIAW Site. If the Artist does not follow the steps set out above, the Artist’s entry will be invalid and may be removed by CIAW in its sole discretion.
4. TERRITORY AND TERM
4.1 The territory of this Option is the Universe (“Territory”).
4.2 The term of this Option (“Option Term”) will commence on the date of the Artist’s uploading of the Uploaded Material pursuant to paragraph 3.3. and will continue for sixty (60) days thereafter or the date CIAW exercises the Option, whichever is the earlier date.
5. GRANT OF RIGHTS
5.1 The Artist hereby grants to CIAW throughout the Territory and during the Option Term the non-exclusive right, and the right to authorise others, for the duration of copyright in the Uploaded Material to broadcast, re-broadcast, distribute to users of any digital website or platform including YouTube, transmit, and publicly perform the Uploaded Material whether by means of Internet, satellite, radio broadcast, wire or fibre, television broadcast, film, or other media (whether or not now known).
5.2 The Artist warrants to CIAW that the Artist will have no right, interest or claim in or over the Composition, which is reproduced in the Uploaded Material.
6.1 The Artist acknowledges and agrees that the Uploaded Material may be accessed, viewed and listened to by users of the CIAW channel on YouTube or any other medium we choose.
6.2 Whilst CIAW aims to ensure users use the Uploaded Material in a manner which is authorised by CIAW, the Artist:
(a) acknowledges that CIAW is not able to prevent unauthorised use of the Uploaded Material; and
(b) releases CIAW and its representatives from all liability.
7. ARTIST’S OBLIGATIONS
7.1 During the Option Period the Artist must not use or Exploit or authorise others to use or Exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
7.2 If the Artist’s Cover Video is available on CIAW’s YouTube channel, then the Artist may copy and post the link to the Cover Video on such social media and websites as determined by the Artist, in order to promote the Artist’s performance on the Cover Video.
8. OPTION
8.1 In consideration of the payment to the Artist of one ($1), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Artist grants to CIAW the exclusive and irrevocable option to enter the Licence. Such option is exercisable by CIAW in writing at any time before the expiry of sixty (60) days of the date upon which the Artist uploads the Uploaded Material pursuant to paragraph 3.3.
9. EFFECT OF EXERCISE OF OPTION
9.1 If CIAW:
(a) exercises the option (but not otherwise) then:
(i) the Licence shall be deemed to be effective and the Licence shall constitute a valid and binding agreement effective as of the date of exercise of such option;
(ii) the Artist will, if so requested by CIAW, execute and deliver to CIAW additional copies of the Licence; or
(b) does not exercise the option, then:
(i) the Licence shall be void and of no further force or effect whatever;
(ii) CIAW shall be deemed not to have acquired any rights in or property other than the rights provided for in this Option.
10. TERMINATION OR EXPIRY OF THE OPTION PERIOD
10.1 CIAW may at any time in its sole discretion terminate this Option by giving written notice.
10.2 Upon expiry or termination of the Option Period other than in accordance with paragraph 10.1, CIAW may continue to reproduce the Cover Video on CIAW’s YouTube channel and otherwise Exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording until the Artist serves thirty (30) days prior written notice to CIAW to take down or procure the taking down of the Cover Video from the channel and cease or cause the cessation of all other Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
11.1 All notices, statements, approvals or consents required under this Option (“notices”) are to be in writing addressed to the receiving party at the address specified below, or such other address as designated in writing in the manner described in this Clause.
11.2 Any and all notices must be delivered by email and confirmed by return receipt of email from the recipient, on date of receipt.
11.3 All notices for CIAW must be sent to legal@splitsounds.com.
11.4 All notices for the Artist must be sent to the person and email address specified in the registration information completed by the Artist.
11.5 A party may change its address for service of notices under this clause by giving written notification of the new address to the other party.
12.1 The Artist warrants that he/she has read the terms of this Option and the Licence (attached) and is free to grant the rights contained therein. The Artist warrants that he/she will notify CIAW immediately if circumstances arise that may alter this position.
12.2 The Option Agreement, including the Licence (attached), contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and may only be varied in writing signed by both parties.
12.3 The laws of New South Wales, Australia shall govern this Agreement.
ANNEXURE A
BETWEEN: THE PARTY DESCRIBED AS THE “ARTIST” ON THE REGISTRATION OR UPLOAD PAGE OF THE CIAW WEBSITE (“Licensor”);
AND: SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LIMITED (ABN 13621652533), dba COVERINAWEEK.COM, PO Box 1451, Bondi Junction, NSW 1355 Australia (“CIAW”).
A. The Licensor owns or controls in the Territory the copyright to the Uploaded Material.
B. CIAW is in the business of promoting, distributing and Exploiting Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings by various artists.
C. The Licensor wishes to have its Cover Video and/or Master Recording Exploited by CIAW.
D. Upon CIAW’s exercise of its Option in respect of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, the Licensor agrees to grant, and CIAW agrees to accept, an exclusive licence on the terms contained in this Licence, in order that CIAW may Exploit or cause others to Exploit the applicable Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
1. LICENSOR’S ACCEPTANCE
1.1 By clicking “I Agree” on the CIAW Website, the Licensor accepts the terms of this Licence, current as at the time the Licensor clicked “I Agree.” Those terms supersede any other agreement, whether verbal or written, by any person, agent, or representative of CIAW.
In this Licence:
2.1 “CIAW Net Receipts” means all moneys CIAW actually receives from Licensees or agents or societies as compensation for the Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording and shall be calculated net of any applicable taxes, shipping and insurance charges, advertising sales commissions, fulfillment fees paid to third parties, and amounts paid to or deducted by sub-publishers, Licensees, agents, collection agencies and performing and mechanical rights societies;
2.2 “CIAW Website” means the website operated by CIAW with the URL www.coverinaweek.com or any other website of CIAW.
2.3 “Composition” means a single musical composition featured as the “Song of the Week” on CIAW’s Website, irrespective of length, including but not limited to all spoken words and bridging passages.
2.4 “Contract Period” means the Initial Period and any optional or Subsequent Periods unless terminated in accordance with this Licence.
2.5 “Electronic Transmission” means any transmission to the consumer, whether of sound alone, sound coupled with an image, or sound coupled with data, in any form now known or later developed including, without limitation, permanent downloads, streams, mobiletones, ringtones, ringbacks, other mobile device signals, webcasts, direct broadcast satellite, cable and/or telephone system transmissions whether or not such transmission is made on-demand or near on-demand and whether or not a direct or indirect charge is made to receive the transmission and whether or not such transmission, and whether or not the consumer may save the transmission for later viewing and/or listening. All references in this Licence to the “distribution” and/or Net Sales of Records shall be understood to include the distribution of Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings by way of Electronic Transmissions.
2.6 “Exploit” means to exploit Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings commercially, by way of licence, sale or other forms of distribution of recordings, and by transmission or communication to the public by wire or wireless means, including making available to the public in such a way that members of the public may access the Cover Videos and/or Master Recordings from a place and at a time individually chosen by them; and “Exploitation” has the corresponding meaning.
2.7 “Licensed Use” means the particular use or form of Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording by a third party pursuant to a licence granted by CIAW.
2.8 “Licensee” means any person licensed or otherwise authorised by CIAW to do any of the acts which CIAW is itself entitled to do, or cause to be done, under this Licence;
2.9 “Option” means the option exercisable by CIAW pursuant to Clause 8 of the Option Terms and Conditions accepted by the Licensor.
2.10 “Person” and “Party” means any individual, corporation or partnership association or other organised group of persons or legal successors or representatives of the foregoing.
2.11 “Recording Costs” means all amounts paid or incurred or caused to be paid in connection with the Licensor’s making of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
2.12 “Records” means all forms of reproductions now or hereafter known (including, without limitation, audio-only records, audio-visual devices, interactive media and Electronic Transmissions) manufactured and/or distributed primarily for personal use, home use, school use, juke box use, use in means of transportation and/or use in means of playback devices of any kind whether now or hereafter known.
2.13 “Term” means the term of this Licence pursuant to Clause 6.
2.14 “Territory” means the Universe.
2.15 “Video” means a cinematograph film produced for the primary purpose of promoting or visually representing:
(a) an artist; and/or
(b) an artist’s recording, embodied in the soundtrack of that cinematograph film.
2.16 (a) Headings to clauses are included for the sake of convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of the clauses to which they relate.
(b) All words, definitions and phrases in this definitions and interpretations clause shall
form part of the substantive agreement.
(c) References to any statute or statutory provision include that statute or statutory provision as amended, extended, consolidated or replaced by subsequent legislation and any orders, regulations, instruments or other subordinate legislation made under the relevant statute.
(d) Words used in this Licence that are not defined herein shall have the meaning
ascribed to them as set out in the Copyright Act 1968 (as amended from time to time).
(e) Unless otherwise stated, all capitalised terms in this Licence have the same meaning as they are given in the Option Terms and Conditions.
(f) The singular includes the plural and vice versa.
(g) A reference to one gender includes a reference to all other genders.
3. CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT
3.1 This Licence is conditional upon CIAW exercising the Option.
4.1 Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to convey to CIAW or to any designee, assignee or licensee of CIAW any ownership interest in the copyright in or to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, and the Cover Video and/or Master Recording shall be the sole property of Licensor or members of Licensor.
4.2 Licensor hereby grants to CIAW the exclusive licence of the copyright in the Cover Video and/or Master Recording and all other reproductions therefrom for the Territory, including without limitation the right:
(a) to Exploit the Master Recording through synchronization and master use licences for the use thereof in connection with motion pictures, television productions, commercial advertisements and other audio-visual or audio-only uses (including advertisements relating to the exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording);
(b) to manufacture, distribute, transmit and sell Records derived from the Cover Video and/or Master Recordings through so-called normal retail sales channels, record club sales, mail order sales, or Electronic Transmission;
(c) to market such Records under such trademarks as CIAW and its licensees and designees shall determine and to use the Cover Video and/or Master Recordings in connection with so-called compilations;
(d) to communicate to the public and publicly perform the Cover Video and/or Master Recording by means of radio and television broadcast, Internet, websites or by methods hereafter developed, including Exploitation in association with the serving of advertisements ;
(e) to provide copies of the Cover Video and Master Recordings via digital transmission or other prerecorded format, or any other medium now known or hereafter devised;
(f) to edit, alter, mix or remix the Cover Video and/or Master Recording in any manner, and to exploit such altered versions in all means listed in this Licence;
(g) to refrain from doing any or all of the foregoing in CIAW’s discretion.
(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to grant exclusive rights to a Licensee subject to CIAW receiving the express written approval of Licensor. Such approval is not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
5. ADMINISTRATION
Upon execution of this Licence, with respect only to Licensed Uses of the Cover Video, CIAW shall have the right but not obligation for the entire duration of the Term, to:
5.1 assign and/or license and authorise others to license the use of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording;
5.2 administer and grant rights in the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, including without limitation the right:
(i) to grant in perpetuity synchronisation licences in respect of short and full length cinematograph films, including television productions, and/or advertisement for commercial products and any use of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording for product endorsement purposes (including advertisements relating to the exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording);
(ii) to grant in perpetuity licences for the manufacture, distribution and, transmission of Records derived from the Cover Video and/or Master Recording;
(iii) to broadcast, re-broadcast, distribute to subscribers to a diffusion service, transmit, and publicly perform the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, whether by means of television broadcast, radio broadcast, wire or fibre, film, Internet, satellite or other (whether or not now known) either alone or in association with the serving of advertisements and in perpetuity;
(iv) to communicate to the public either alone or in association with the serving of advertisements and in perpetuity;
5.3 collect all moneys payable with respect to Licensed Uses in perpetuity, including without limitation, all performance royalties payable to with respect to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
6.1 If CIAW exercises the Option, the initial term of this Licence shall be for a period of three (3) years from the date CIAW exercises such Option (“Initial Period”) and will be renewed automatically for successive periods of one (1) year (“Subsequent Period”). The Licensor may give CIAW notice in writing not later than ninety (90) days before the end of the applicable Contract Period of its intention to terminate this Licence. Following such notice this Licence will terminate on the expiry of the relevant Contract Period. CIAW may terminate this Licence with or without cause at any time by giving the Licensor ninety (90) days prior written notice.
6.2 Upon termination of this Licence, CIAW shall no longer have the right to grant a new licence with respect to the Cover Video and/or Master Recording. However, termination of this Licence does not affect any rights granted to Licensees prior to termination, including perpetual rights, nor does it affect the administration and collection rights granted to CIAW with respect to Licensed Uses. The term of any Licensed Use shall be as set forth in the respective licence governing the Licensed Use, and is separate and apart from the Term.
7. NAME AND LIKENESS
7.1 CIAW and any Licensee or designee of CIAW will have the right and may grant to others the non-exclusive right to reproduce, print, publish or disseminate in any medium the Licensor’s name(s), portraits, pictures and likenesses in connection with the exploitation of the Cover Video, and biographical material concerning the Licensor, as news or information for advertising purposes. Licensor grants to CIAW the same rights on a non-exclusive basis with respect to all other individuals the Licensor has engaged to provide goods or services in connection with the making of such Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
7.2 CIAW will use its reasonable efforts to cause any Licensee, to the extent possible, to include a credit identifying the performers of the relevant Cover Video and/or Master Recording; provided, however, that each member of Licensor and each signatory hereto accepts and agrees that they may not receive credit in connection with each Licensed Use and that such credit is not a condition of the licence granted herein.
8. PRODUCTION ELEMENTS
8.1 With respect to the Cover Video and Master Recording, the Licensor must within forty eight (48) hours of CIAW’s exercise of the Option deliver free of charge to CIAW in format(s) reasonably requested by CIAW the fully recorded, edited and mixed video version of the Cover Video and WAV version of the Master Recording.
8.2 Licensor warrants and represents that the Cover Video and/or Master Recording does not contain any unauthorised “samples.”
8.3 Licensor warrants and represents that the Licensor has paid any and all Recording Costs associated with the Licensor’s making of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
9. COMPENSATION
9.1 CIAW agrees to pay to Licensor royalties with respect to CIAW or its Licensees Exploitation of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording throughout the Territory as follows:
Fifty percent (50%) of CIAW Net Receipts.
9.2 CIAW shall not be responsible for the payment of any third party payments, including but not limited to the producer, arranger or musician royalties, with respect to any Licensed Uses.
10. ACCOUNTING
10.1 CIAW shall compute and pay royalties due to Licensor hereunder within sixty (60) days following June 30 and December 31, respectively, in each case with respect to CIAW Net Receipts actually received by CIAW during the immediately preceding six (6) month period. Such payments shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the source of such royalties. CIAW shall be under no obligation to render any statement or make any payment until such time as the royalties due Licensor hereunder equal or exceed One Hundred and Fifity Dollars ($150.00). CIAW shall have the right to deduct or withhold income or other similar tax from sums payable to Licensor hereunder pursuant to the laws of the relevant territory of a Licensed Use, provided that CIAW shall, where readily available, furnish to Licensor, with each statement, any necessary information which shall enable Licensor, upon presentation of such, to endeavor to obtain income tax credit from the local revenue service for tax so withheld
10.2 CIAW will maintain books of account concerning compensation payable to Licensor hereunder. Licensor may appoint a representative, at its sole expense, no more than once each year to examine such books during CIAW’s normal business hours and upon reasonable written notice. Such books relating to any particular accounting statement will be conclusive and not subject to objection unless examined as aforesaid and objected to within two (2) years after the date rendered. Licensor will be foreclosed from maintaining any action, claim, or proceeding against CIAW in any form or tribunal with respect to any statement or accounting rendered hereunder unless such action, claim, or proceeding is commenced against CIAW in a court of competent jurisdiction within three (3) years after the date such statement or accounting was rendered. Licensor acknowledges that CIAW’s books and records contain confidential trade information. Licensor warrants and represents that neither it nor its auditors or representative(s) will communicate to others or use on behalf of any other entity any facts or information obtained as a result of any examination except as is necessary in court proceedings to enforce collection of sums due.
11. WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, WAIVERS AND INDEMNITIES
11.1 The Licensor warrants and represents:
(a) The Master Recording is a unique and original arrangement of the Composition and all rights and copyrights in the Cover Video and Master Recording are the Licensor’s sole and exclusive property, free from any claims whatsoever by any other person.
(b) The Licensor has the right and power to enter into and fully perform this Licence.
(c) CIAW shall not be required to make any payments of any nature for, or in connection with, the acquisition, exercise or exploitation of rights by CIAW pursuant to this Licence except as specifically provided in this Licence.
(d) With respect to any producer and all others who shall have rendered services in connection therewith and the production of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, Licensor has the right to use their performances and/or other contributions the right to use their professional names, and have the right to use and allow others to use said names and any other names used by such entities, and photographs and likenesses thereof, and biographical materials relating to them, in connection with the Exploitation and promotion of such Cover Video and/or Master Recordings and derivatives thereof.
(e) Neither the Uploaded Material, nor the performances embodied thereon, nor any trademarks, shall violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party. The Uploaded Material does not contain any samples of other copyrighted recordings and the Licensor has not significantly changed the lyrics or the melody of the original Composition.
(f) All warranties and representations made by Licensor herein shall survive the execution of this Licence and shall continue to be enforceable for the full period of time for which CIAW, its successor and/or assigns, or Licensees have the right to exploit the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
(g) During the Term, neither Licensor nor any member of Licensor shall enter into any Licence which would interfere with or prohibit the exercise by CIAW of the rights granted hereunder.
(h) Neither Licensor nor any member of Licensor shall communicate with any Licensee or any of its agents, including advertising agencies, in connection with the Cover Video and/or Master Recording.
(i) No producer or any other person who shall have rendered services in connection with and the production of the Cover Video or Master Recording, shall any right, interest or claim in or over the Composition, which is reproduced on the Master Recording.
11.2 (a) CIAW warrants and represents that it has the right and power to enter into and
fully perform this Licence.
(b) CIAW makes no representation or guarantee as to the number of uses, if any, of the Cover Video and/or Master Recording, or the amount of compensation, if any, that will become payable to Licensor as the result of Licensor entering into this Licence.
12.1 Each party agrees to and does hereby indemnify, save and hold harmless the other of and from any and all loss and damage (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with any claim by any one or more third parties which is inconsistent with any of the warranties or representations made by that party herein, and agrees to reimburse the other party, on demand, for any payment made by it at any time after the date hereof with respect to any liability or claim to which the foregoing indemnity applies, provided that such claim results in a final adverse judgment against the indemnified or the indemnifying party, or is settled with the prior written approval of the indemnifying party, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
12.2 The indemnified party in any instance shall give the indemnified party in any instance notice of any claim to which the terms of this Clause 11 might apply, and the indemnifying party in such instance shall have the right to participate in the defense of any such claim with counsel of its own choice and at its own expense.
Licensor may not assign this Licence in whole or in part without CIAW’s prior written consent, nor may Licensor delegate its duties under this Agreement. CIAW may assign any of its rights under this Licence in whole or in part provided that no such assignment shall relieve CIAW of primary liability for the performance of its obligations under this Licence except in the event the assignee assumes responsibility for performing CIAW’s obligations.
14.1 The amount to be charged for any Licensed Use is to be determined by CIAW in its sole discretion
14.2.1 All notices, statements, approvals or consents required under this Licence (“notices”) are to be in writing addressed to the receiving party at the address specified below, or such other address as designated in writing in the manner described in this Clause 14.2.
14.2.2 Any and all notices must be delivered by email and confirmed by return receipt of email from the recipient, on date of receipt.
14.2.3 All notices for CIAW must be sent to legal@splitsounds.com.
14.2.4 All notices for the Artist must be sent to the person and email address specified in the registration information completed by the Artist.
14.2.5 A party may change its address for service of notices under this clause by giving written notification of the new address to the other party.
14.3 This Licence has been entered into in New South Wales, Australia, and the validity, interpretation and legal effects of this Licence shall be governed by the laws of Australia applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within Australia. The Courts of Australia only, will have jurisdiction of any controversies regarding this Agreement; any action or other proceeding which involves such a controversy will be brought in Australian Courts, and not elsewhere.
14.4 This Licence contains the entire understanding of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof.
14.5 In the performance of this Agreement, Licensor is acting as an independent contractor and shall not be, act or represent itself as the employee, agent or representative of CIAW. Nothing contained in this Licence shall be construed so as to create a joint venture between the parties.
ANNEXURE B
[Ref. Clause 3.1(d) of the Option]
TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LTD AND [ARTIST NAME] DATED [DATE]
RECORD COMPANY CONSENT
Where you are a party to a contract with another person, company or organisation (the “Record Company”), which owns or controls any rights, including copyright, in the Cover Video, the Record Company also consents to the provisions contained in the Option Agreement and warrants its right and power to ratify the Option Agreement.
Signed: __________________________________________________
Name of Person Signing: ______________________________________
Name of Record Company: ______________________________________
Position of Person Signing: ______________________________________
Witness: __________________________________________________
Date: __________________________________________________
ANNEXURE C
GUARDIAN’S CONSENT FORM
As a material inducement to SPLIT SOUNDS PTY LTD (ABN 13621652533) entering into the Option Agreement with [INSERT THE NAME(S) OF THE ARTIST] and dated [DATE], we, [PARENT/GUARDIAN] and [PARENT/GUARDIAN] being the parents and/or guardians of [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR], consent to [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR] entering into this Option Agreement, which we consider to be to the benefit of [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR]. We further confirm that we have sought independent expert legal advice to enable us to fully understand the obligations entered into by [INSERT NAME OF MINOR/PREPARE A SEPARATE FORM IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MINOR].
Signed by [Parent/Guardian] Signed by [Parent Guardian]
Date: Date:
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Coverville 484: It gets me to your cover requests on time
Here’s on what’s on the show tonight:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) Original Artist
Holiday Road Latex Generation Boysrock (Special Edition) Lindsay Buckingham
Lovesick Blues Frank Ifield Best of Frank Ifield Hank Williams
Modern Love The Last Town Chorus Wire Waltz David Bowie
What Makes You Think You’re The One The Twilight Singers She Loves You Fleetwood Mac
Umbrella Mechanical Bride mySpace Rihanna
Mr. Brightside Room For Type Room For Type The Killers
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Ian on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
"Ich Kann Nix Darfur" is, I think, a lost in pronunciation title, something like "Don't Cry for me Marg and Tina". The song lyric is actually "aber ich kann nichts dafür" which roughly translated means "but I can't help it" or "but I am not resposible for it"
rideforever on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Ya ! This is awesome. Especially the dark Heroes cover and Young Folks.
Enriching my life, I thank you.
bibbott17851 on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Alright – I think Comments are finally working!
Tool of the Conspira on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Does "Helden" count as a translation? Bowie recorded "Helden" in the same recording sessions (in Berlin) where he recorded "Heroes".
That's a good point. I think that since the familiar version (at least for American audiences) is the english version, then it qualifies. But I do plan a show where I play artists re-doing their own songs in a different language (for example, The Beatles' German version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand")
michael on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Alright! Glad to hear it!
roger_gree20621 on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Birthdays in May, besides Bono and Billy Joel; Donovan; Eric Burdon (Animals, War); Frankie Valli – have you ever heard Four Seasons' Don't Think Twice It's All Right? OMG; David Byrne; Janet Jackson, and of course, Bob Dylan.
toyotaboy20761 on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
I thought that last song sounded like the dude from rammstein!
Frank on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Still, Brian's translation (I can mix Darfur) was a great example of the capability of Google Translate (or any other web translation widget). It's almost impossible to trust them. "Probably a protest album". Ha!
Allison on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
This is great! I've been listening to the soundtrack from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which has a few great Hawaiian covers by the Coconutz.
Bryan on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Ye Gods, you did it again. That transition between Shaft and Helden was pure artistry.
Amanda on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
My birthday is in may too! 🙂
John Whiteside on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
I got such a chuckle out of the Nena mistranslation! Totally understandable, though, if you don't speak a language you can't recognize common words like "nichts" and "dafür." But I loved how much more meaningful your take on it was…
Well, it was a two part transformation. The original title was "Ich Kann Nix Dafür" and "nix" is common slang, German and 1940's NY American, for "nichts" or "not". DIIK at what point "Dafür" was misheard as "Darfur".
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Ellie's Pregnancy Announcement
Hello, blog readers! It's Ellie, blog creator, primary author, and friend of the Duggars.
As someone who has blogged about the Duggar family for almost nine years, I have had the pleasure of announcing a lot of pregnancies. Today I have another pregnancy announcement to make, but the expectant mother is not one of the Duggars...it's me!
My husband and I are expecting our first baby in four months, and we couldn't be happier. For more details, visit our lifestyle blog, NashvilleWife.com.
Lauren's College Experience
"I think [college] was really good for me. It's something I can look at and say, and tell my kids, 'Hey look what I did.'"
-Lauren (Swanson) Duggar
You're not going to want to miss this web exclusive video. During his time in Lauren's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, Josiah is treated to a tour of the college that Lauren and her sister Lilly attended.
Through a dual enrollment program, they both earned an associate degree--Lauren in nursing and Lilly in early childhood education--by the time they graduated high school. Lilly is planning to further her education with a bachelor's in teaching and a master's in speech pathology, while Lauren says she is done with school.
Photo/video courtesy TLC
Labels: Duggar kids college plans, Lauren Duggar
Ellie's Review: "Josiah Pops the Question"
If you missed this week's new episode of Counting On, "Josiah Pops the Question," or are unable to watch it due to your geographical location, check out my review video below.
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When in Greece...
For those who were unable to view the video of Joe and Kendra Duggar on their honeymoon, it has been uploaded to YouTube, and we have embedded it below. Enjoy!
Labels: honeymoon, Joe and Kendra Duggar
Duggar #8 Turns 22
Today is Josiah Duggar's 22nd birthday! It has been a big year for him, as he and Lauren have gone from friends to married couple.
To provide for his wife of two months, Josiah flips cars, works in the family real estate business, and does construction. His middle name is Matthew, and on last night's episode, we learned that he has the same middle name as Lauren's six-month-old brother, Duke--pictured below with Gideon Forsyth. According to Dwain Swanson, the name decision was partly because of Josiah.
Photos courtesy duggarfamily.com, TLC/DCL, Joy and Austin Forsyth, Josiah Duggar
Labels: Dwain Swanson, Gideon Forsyth, Josiah Duggar, Joy and Austin Forsyth
Vuolos Give Parenthood a Test Drive
Jeremy: "How did your mom do it with 19 kids?"
Jinger: "She's amazing."
Jeremy: "She really is."
After watching Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo babysit their friends' children on tonight's new episode of Counting On, do you think they are ready for parenthood?
If you missed the episode, you can sign in with your TV provider and watch it on the TLC website. And be sure to read our written recap.
Labels: Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo, new episode of Counting On
'Josiah Pops the Question' Recap
Counting On "Josiah Pops the Question"
In Laredo, Jinger and Jeremy are visited by Luis and Cara Robles and their three kids, Eli, Olivia, and Emily. Luis and Jeremy were teammates on the New York Red Bulls professional soccer team. "Back in the day, I was the single guy," says Jeremy. "They were the settled down, married couple. It was just a good relationship we had."
During the visit, Jinger and Jeremy volunteer to watch the kids so Luis and Cara can go out for dinner. When jokingly asked what qualifies them to watch the kids, Jeremy responds. "I used to be a kid. She has 36 siblings that she watched."
Jeremy admits that he has never changed a diaper. When asked how many diapers they have each changed, the Duggars sisters' responses are:
Jinger: "I've changed hundreds, if not thousands, of diapers in my lifetime."
Jana: "Hundreds? Thousands?"
Jessa: "My mom and dad changed the bulk of the diapers, but all of us kids definitely got our share."
After Luis and Cara leave, Jinger and Jeremy and the kids enjoy playtime in the backyard before ordering pizza. "How did your mom do it with 19 kids?" Jeremy asks Jinger. "She's amazing," responds Jinger. "She really is," agrees Jeremy.
Jinger and Jeremy's babysitting experience ends up going very well. "I think we're ready for our own," says Jeremy.
Lauren and her family, who have recently moved to Northwest Arkansas, are preparing to travel back to Milledgeville, Georgia, where their family has lived for more than 100 years, so mom Lana can give birth to her ninth child. It's a boy, and his name will be Duke. Dwain and Lana Swanson give their daughters "L" names and their sons "D" names. Lauren tears up as she piles into a big bus with her family and waves goodbye to Josiah.
At this point, Josiah and Lauren have been courting for a couple months. "We've really become just best friends," says Lauren.
Lauren's parents approve of the relationship. "I think Josiah is a great match for Lauren," says Lana. "He's so thoughtful and kind. I just think he's wonderful."
"[Josiah] and Lauren are just kind of a natural fit for each other," adds Dwain.
A short while later, Josiah flies commercial to Georgia to meet the new baby and propose to Lauren. "I think I may be more nervous about losing the ring than the proposal," he admits.
Josiah is thrilled to meet Duke Matthew Swanson, who weighs just over 7 lbs. Random fact: Lana's longest labor (around eight hours) was with Lauren. Duke shares a middle name with Josiah, a decision that Dwain says was partly because of Josiah.
The following day, Dwain and David (Lauren's brother) help Josiah set up the proposal site in a field where Dwain proposed to Lana. Using a stack of hay bales, the guys string flours, place picture frames, and scatter flower petals.
After a family lunch of Chick-fil-A, Dwain suggests that he, Josiah, and Lauren go on a walk. As they arrive at the proposal site, Dwain walks away, and Josiah gets down on one knee. "I'm so grateful for you," he tells Lauren. "There's nobody I'd rather spend, nowhere else I'd spend the rest of my life with, than you. God has been the one bringing us together in this. He is the one making our story. I see how perfect we are for each other. Lauren, I love you. I want to spend the rest of my days growing old with you. Will you marry me?" And Lauren, completely surprised, says, "I'd love to, Si." Bring on the hand holding and the "I love yous."
Back in Arkansas, as Joy nears her due date, she and Jessa go on a walk at an indoor track. Jessa tells Joy that her labor pains were "agony" and also that the most important thing is to not get discouraged.
Study Break/Date Night
Have you heard Derick Dillard's exciting news? He is now a law school student, and tomorrow marks the start of his third week. For those who have pursued a postgraduate education, you know how time consuming it is. This weekend, he and Jill enjoyed a much needed date night at a sushi restaurant, while Derick's mom watched Israel and Samuel.
Jill and Derick Dillard
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Jinger's Competitive Streak
"We got a dart board soon after moving into the house, and [I] realized Jinger has quite the affinity for, and she's quite good."
-Jeremy Vuolo
Apparently Jinger (Duggar) Vuolo has a competitive streak! Would you have guessed that, based on seeing her on the show over the years? She and Jeremy have started playing darts, and they enjoy competing against each other.
Labels: Jeremy Vuolo, Jinger Duggar, Vuolo
Father-Son Camp at Fort Rock
Earlier this month, Jim Bob Duggar and some of the Duggar guys attended father-son camp at Fort Rock, owned by Joy-Anna (Duggar) Forsyth's in-laws. They were joined by Anna Duggar's brother-in-law, David Waller, and nephew Paul. Meanwhile, Anna bonded with her sister, Priscilla Waller, and David and Priscilla's other children, Davia and Phillip.
Jackson Duggar
Jim Bob Duggar and Tyler
Paul Waller and Marcus Duggar
Labels: Anna Duggar, David Waller, Fort Rock, Jackson Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar, Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth, Marcus Duggar, Paul Waller
The 'M' Grand-Duggars
It's not often that we are able to post photos of Josh and Anna Duggar's five children, so we know it's a treat for our loyal readers whenever we do. These little Duggars are growing quickly, with Mackynzie approaching her ninth birthday. Last night, they made strawberry ladybugs for dessert.
Mackynzie Duggar, Michael Duggar, Marcus Duggar, Meredith Duggar
Mason Duggar
Labels: Duggars, Josh and Anna Duggar, Mackynzie Duggar, Marcus Duggar, Mason Duggar, Meredith Duggar, michael duggar
'An Explosive Reveal' Recap
Counting On "An Explosive Reveal"
In Laredo, Jinger and Jeremy are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary. They reminisce about their first year as husband and wife during dinner at a restaurant. "You never make me feel like I have to measure up to some standard," Jinger tells Jeremy. "You are the standard," replies Jeremy.
"One thing that surprised me about Jinger specifically was she really opened up a lot in her sense of humor, and she can crack some jokes, and she can play some pranks," shares Jeremy.
At the restaurant, Jeremy presents Jinger with a book of sheet music to "Come Thou Fount," a song that was played during their proposal and wedding.
Meanwhile, John-David flies Jim Bob, Michelle, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, and Tyler to Laredo to surprise Jinger. They arrive at Jinger and Jeremy's house just before the piano (another surprise from Jeremy) is delivered. "Our one-year anniversary is the perfect time for the family to surprise Jinger with a visit because she has been feeling homesick, and so she'll be very excited to see them," says Jeremy.
When Jinger and Jeremy arrive home from dinner, Jinger is shocked to see a beautiful black standup piano in their living room. "Jeremy, how is this possible?!" she exclaims. "I love it! I can't believe I have my own piano."
After the big piano reveal, the family busts out into the living room. Jinger is floored and gives her mom and dad a long hug, accompanied by tears of joy.
The following day, Jinger and Michelle spend time together at the house while the guys go grocery shopping. "It definitely can be hard living far from family, especially now that I'm expecting," says Jinger. She is looking forward to having her mom at the birth for comfort.
Later, the guys prepare two Duggar favorites (which Jinger loves) that Jeremy has not yet tried: canned tuna fish with barbecue sauce and tater tot casserole. Jeremy ends up liking both dishes.
"It's been wonderful," says Jinger of the family's visit. "I just don't want you guys to leave now."
Back in Arkansas, Joy and Austin put the crib together and set up the baby's room. The Forsyths still haven't found out the gender. Austin wants to, but Joy does not.
Joe and Kendra, on the other hand, are for sure going to find out. John comes with them to the 17-week ultrasound. At the gender reveal party that the Duggars throw at their house, both sides of the family gather around to watch John shoot a box of colored explosives, which will produce either a pink or blue cloud. "...I have been in law enforcement for the past six years and have extensive firearms training," explains John. It's a boy! "I'm so excited!" says Kendra. She had guessed girl, as had both of her parents.
After having only courted Lauren for several weeks, Josiah asks Lauren's dad for his blessing to propose. "I just really know in my heart that Lauren is the one," Josiah tells Dwain Swanson.
Before saying yes, Dwain asks Josiah three questions: Do you know Lauren's love language? It is words of affirmation. Will you be diligent to not go to bed until you have worked through things? Josiah says yes. What are your plans as far as your life's work? Flipping cars, real estate, construction, and "as much as I can to provide"
"I know that, as we have raised Lauren, that she is ready," says Dwain.
Labels: Counting On, Dwain Swanson
A Big Surprise for Jinger
An all-new, 60-minute episode of Counting On airs tonight at 9pm ET/8pm CT on TLC. Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary, and Jeremy has two huge surprises for his wife. Find out what they are and see Jinger's reactions in the promo video below.
Also tonight, Joseph and Kendra Duggar reveal the gender of their child to both families, and Josiah Duggar seeks the blessing of Lauren Swanson's father to propose.
If you enjoy this blog, be sure to visit Ellie's other blogs (NashvilleWife.com and BatesFamilyBlog.com).
Labels: Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo, Joseph and Kendra Duggar, Josiah Duggar, Lauren Swanson, new episode of Counting On
Felicity Turns 1 Month Old
Felicity Vuolo was born on July 19th, which makes her one month old.
Speaking of Duggar milestones, we know that many of you are wondering when we are going to update the banner at the top of the blog. After all, multiple new family members have been added since we made the last change. A new one is in the works, but they take quite a bit of time, so we thank you for your patience. Our top priority is providing our readers with the latest Duggar content, so updating the banner always comes second.
Felicity Nicole Vuolo, one month old
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John Announces the Gender
"Nothing you can do is going to work to pull that information out of me, except for maybe we could talk a price. This is world changing stuff right here. I mean, this is information that dictates whether the room is going to be painted pink or whether it is going to be painted blue."
-John-David Duggar
Tomorrow on an all-new episode of Counting On, Joseph and Kendra Duggar reveal the gender of their baby to the family! They want to be surprised along with everyone else, so they invite John-David Duggar to accompany them to the ultrasound (see video below) so he can be the one to share the news in an exciting way.
Labels: Counting On, John-David Duggar, Joseph and Kendra Duggar, new episode of Counting On
Jinger and Felicity
Felicity Vuolo is already four weeks old! This photo of mom and baby shows a closeup of Felicity's sweet little newborn face. Which parent do you see most in her, Jinger or Jeremy?
Jinger Vuolo and Felicity Vuolo
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Singing with the Duggar Littles
Jordyn Duggar, Mackynzie Duggar, Josie Duggar, Johannah Duggar, Jennifer Duggar
Have you heard about the album that the four youngest Duggar siblings, plus Mackynzie, just released? It's called "Happy Heart," and it's available for purchase. In the Counting On video clip below, the girls practice their songs with Aunt Deanna Duggar and Mom Michelle Duggar.
As far as appearance goes, which of the older Duggars do you think each of the younger girls looks most like?
Labels: Aunt Deanna Duggar, Counting On, Happy Heart, Jennifer Duggar, Johannah Duggar, Jordyn Duggar, Josie Duggar, Mackynzie Duggar, michelle Duggar
Custom Sandals for the Duggars
When in Athens, buying custom sandals is the thing to do. During their honeymoon in Greece, Joe and Kendra Duggar visit a third generation sandal maker, who fits them each with a pair of leather sandals (video below). Apparently "Kendra has perfect feet, but Joe, not so perfect."
Labels: Greece, honeymoon, Joe and Kendra Duggar
Watch 'Jinger and Jeremy's Little Secret'
For those who haven't yet seen Monday's new episode of Counting On, "Jinger and Jeremy's Little Secret," it is available on TLC.com, although you must sign in with a TV provider in order to watch.
Jinger and Jeremy's Little Secret
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The Forsyths' Babymoon
"Being on a boat in water can be romantic. I don’t know if, necessarily, fishing is."
-Austin Forsyth
Five weeks before their due date, Joy and Austin Forsyth spend time together in a yurt cabin in Wesley, Arkansas (video below). Did you catch our recap of last night's show?
Labels: babymoon, Joy and Austin Forsyth
'Jinger and Jeremy's Little Secret' Recap
Counting On "Jinger and Jeremy's Little Secret"
Jessa and Ben take their kids to a nearby creamery to pet goats and pick up some goat cheese. “Ben is always looking for local, organic things to add into our regular diet,” says Jessa. Ben’s family is health conscious, and they try to eat plenty of whole grains and veggies.
Later, Jinger and Jeremy arrive in Arkansas so Jinger can take photos for the little girls’ CD. They are also going to tell the family that Jinger is six weeks pregnant.
Jinger joins the sisters in helping the little girls get ready. “Being up there in the girls’ room, it definitely made me miss being there,” says Jinger. “I just remember, we would stay up late pretty much every single night and just talk for hours, and I loved that…Being so far away, that’s hard.”
Several family members come to watch the shoot, including Jim Bob, Michelle, and Jana. “If you’re going to do a photo shoot with a bunch of kids for about an hour, it’s going to get chaotic, and sure enough, it was,” says Jeremy. The five girls (Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn, Josie, and Mackynzie) are full of energy.
Jim Bob makes sure to snap a group photo of everyone. “Any time that there’s a camera around, my dad always likes to get whoever is there together for a group picture,” says Jessa. “…My dad is really into capturing these moments.”
Jinger and Jeremy ask Jim Bob to take a photo of the two of them. At the last minute, Jinger pulls out a “We’re expecting” sign, and the family is absolutely thrilled, especially Jim Bob and Michelle. “We had no idea, not a clue!” exclaims Michelle.
Later, the Vuolos break the news to the rest of the clan during a family meal. Jeremy says the prayer, and he thanks God for “the little one that You have given to me and Jinger.” All the siblings are excited.
"I cannot wait to talk to my mom," says Jinger. "She has a lot of experience in this field and so [do my] sisters."
Meanwhile, Joy and Austin are heading out on a babymoon just five weeks before Gideon’s due date. They stay in a beautiful yurt cabin and attempt to fish (on a small boat, in the ice). “Being on a boat in water can be romantic,” says Austin. “I don’t know if, necessarily, fishing is.”
“But in the ice, it’s not as romantic,” adds Joy.
After dinner that night, the Forsyths put together a baby book scrapbook.
"Growing up, my mom was really good at taking pictures, and so we have tons of pictures," says Jessa. "And she would record all of our milestones...in our family calendars."
One month into the courtship, Lauren trims Josiah’s hair and beard. “Josiah is very talkative, but when he gets nervous, it goes to another level,” says Lauren. “He’s not breathing, it’s just talking, talking, talking, talking.”
Derick Starts Law School
Earlier today, we announced Derick Dillard's graduation from the Cross Church School of Ministry, and we promised that we would soon share further details about the Dillards' next step. We can finally reveal that next step. Are you ready? Derick is going to law school!
Derick has been accepted into the University of Arkansas School of Law. Orientation begins today, and classes kick off next Monday.
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Derick's Graduation
Big news from the Dillards. Derick has just graduated from the Cross Church School of Ministry, a one-year residency program that he has been a part of since last August. In addition to serving at Cross Church, doing local missions projects, working with college students, and participating in multiple mission trips, Derick also took some seminary classes. Stay tuned for more news on what the Dillards will be doing next.
Derick Dillard, Jill Dillard, Samuel Dillard Israel Dillard
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Kendra Turns 20
It has been a crazy day, but we wanted to jump on and wish Kendra Duggar a very happy birthday! One year ago today, she was choosing her wedding dress in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, with fiance Joseph Duggar showing up to surprise her for cake and pizza. Today, she's been a wife for eleven months and a mother for two. Happy 20th, Kendra!
Kendra Duggar, Joseph Duggar, Garrett Duggar
Nathan Bates, John-David Duggar, Joseph Duggar, Kendra Duggar, Lauren Duggar, Josiah Duggar
Kendra Duggar and Joy-Anna (Duggar) Forsyth
Sisters Lauren Caldwell and Kendra (Caldwell) Duggar
Photos courtesy joeandkendra.com; Josiah Duggar; duggarfamily.com; TLC
Labels: Joseph Duggar, Josiah Duggar, Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth, Kendra Duggar, Lauren Caldwell, Lauren Duggar, Nathan Bates
Felicity's Smile
Three-week-old Felicity Vuolo is living up to her name, which means happiness. Look at that smile!
Felicity Vuolo
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Joe and Kendra's House
This week on Counting On (check out our recap), we watched Joe and Kendra Duggar put the finishing touches on their house and move in, with help from the Duggar siblings.
In the video clip below, the Duggars and Caldwells arrive for a tour. You'll see the transformation that the house underwent, and you'll hear Jim Bob Duggar share a little bit about what the house was like when he lived in it as a teenager.
Labels: Duggar siblings, Duggars, Jim Bob Duggar, Joe and Kendra Duggar
Jeremy Vuolo Takes Online Classes
Jeremy Vuolo and Felicity Vuolo
The fall semester at The Master's Seminary, founded by John MacArthur, begins today, and Jeremy Vuolo is a student. The school is located in Los Angeles, California, but Jeremy is taking online classes.
In addition to being president of The Master's University and Seminary, John MacArthur is also the pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. Coincidentally, Jeremy's church in Laredo, Texas, is also called Grace Community.
As you can see in the photo above, one of the many perks of online classes is being able to cuddle your newborn while listening to lectures.
Labels: California, Felicity Vuolo, Grace Community, Jeremy Vuolo, John MacArthur, Laredo Texas, Los Angeles California
'Happy Heart' Duggar Album
This evening on Counting On, we watched Johannah Duggar, Jennifer Duggar, Jordyn Duggar, Josie Duggar, and Mackynzie Duggar record a children's music album, with help from Aunt Deanna Duggar and a Nashville producer. Since filming, the album has been completed and is available for purchase.
The project is a dream come true for Deanna, Jim Bob's only sibling. As a vocalist, she has helped teach her nieces and nephews how to sing and has always desired to record an album. Below are the album purchase links.
Duggar Website ($9.49 download; $14.98 CD)
Spotify (log in to listen for free)
CD Baby ($9.99 download)
Amazon ($9.49 download)
iTunes ($9.90 download)
Album cover is courtesy duggarfamily.com
Labels: Deanna Duggar, Happy Heart Duggar album, Jennifer Duggar, Johannah Duggar, Jordyn Duggar, Josie Duggar, Mackynzie Duggar
'Make Room for Baby' Recap
Counting On "Make Room for Baby"
First Hour…
The show kicks off with a look at Joseph and Kendra’s house, a project that has taken about seven months. Joe has done much of the work, including hardwood floors, cabinets, and countertops, on his own.
Previously owned by Grandma Duggar, the house was home to teenage Jim Bob when he met Michelle, and it now sits on Jim Bob and Michelle’s property, about 600 yards from the “big house.”
When asked by the producer what some of the drawbacks of living on the Duggar property would be, Jinger replies: “The drawbacks? Just kids looking in the windows 24/7.” Joe and Kendra trust that Joe’s parents will be supportive of their boundaries.
While giving Jana and Jessa a tour of the house, Joe and Kendra announce that they are expecting. “This is definitely a honeymoon baby,” says Kendra. “We weren’t expecting to be expecting this soon…”
In Laredo, Jinger and Jeremy go piano shopping. “[Jinger] is playing on a little keyboard in the house, and as beautiful as that sounds when she plays all day, I just wanted to see what options there might be to get her a proper piano,” says Jeremy. The Duggar siblings agree that Jinger is the most musically talented in their family.
At the big house, Josiah makes fajitas for Lauren. “At this point, I’m still trying to impress Lauren with all my skills and everything I’ve got, outside and in the kitchen, so I think this will turn out right,” says Josiah. Lauren has a gluten sensitivity, which makes the task a bit challenging.
Josiah adds some leftover rice and beans to the meal. He finds some guacamole in the fridge, but Lauren tries it and says it tastes awful.
Lauren is touched by the meal. “I though it was sweet of him to do it,” says Lauren. “He was trying to make it authentic because I am [Salvadoran], so I like that food.” Apparently, food is Josiah’s love language.
During the lunch conversation, we learn that courtship was a new concept to Lauren and her parents but that they were on-board.
Thirty weeks into their pregnancy, Joy and Austin have an appointment with their midwife, Lucy. After a finger prick, which Joy does not enjoy, they find out that Joy’s glucose level is a little high but that her iron is good. She is told by the midwife that her diet needs to improve, especially with more greens. Joy is trying to stay away from sugar.
“We want a home birth,” says Austin. “We’re going to try, but we’re not going to risk Mom and Baby’s life.” They will set up a birthing pool to have that as an option.
“You kind of continue on with your life,” says Austin of the births that he has seen as an EMT. “But it is a lot different because she is my life and this is our life. I don’t know how I’m going to handle myself.
Moving day for Joe and Kendra finally arrives. Some of the siblings lend a hand. Jana and the boys work on landscaping. “[Jana] can do a little bit of everything,” says Jessa. “She can wire an outlet. She can run the big machinery. She can do it all. That may be why some of the guys are scared away. Don’t let that be a deterrent. She says it’s okay if the guy’s not as smart as her. Just kidding.”
“There’s things that I’m not very good at,” Jana assures viewers. “Sports is one of them.
“Having 18 additional siblings is a lot, but at the same time, when the whole clan is able to come and help, things can get done really fast,” says Kendra. Later, the Duggars and Caldwells arrive for a tour. “The kids have done such a great job on putting this house together,” says Jim Bob.
In addition to all the regular rooms, Joe and Kendra also have a game room with a ping pong table. The outside of the house is a cabin, but the inside is modern, with lots of grays and whites.
At the end of the tour, the newlyweds open the door to the nursery, decorated by Jana and Jessa. (The furniture was purchased from consignment shops and repurposed by Jessa.) “You’re pregnant?” asks Michelle, giving both of them big hugs.
“We were super excited to hear that they were expecting, and we weren’t expecting that they would be expecting so soon!” says Christina Caldwell, Kendra’s mom. She and Paul say they need to come up with cute grandparent names. When Paul suggests Meemaw, Christina laughs and says, “No, that’s awful.”
“It seems like we’re having grandbabies faster than we had babies,” says Jim bob.
Second Hour…
At 13 weeks, Joe and Kendra have their first obstetrician appointment. Kendra has chosen to deliver in a hospital with Dr. Hannah, recommended by her mom. Kendra has an ultrasound, but the doctor isn’t able to see the gender just yet. “I think it just makes your heart skip a beat when you see the baby in there,” she says.
In Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Jinger and Jeremy, who have recently found out that they are expecting, are visiting with Chuck and Diana. During breakfast, Jinger and Jeremy announce their pregnancy with a pair of booties and a note addressed to "Grandma and Grandpa." It takes a moment for Diana to process the news, but she and Chuck are elated. At this point, the only other people who know about the baby are Jessa and Ben.
That evening, the Vuolos all attend a gala for Diana’s charity, SWAN, which is a music mentoring program for children whose parents are incarcerated. One of the students sings “Wayfaring Stranger,” and Jinger accompanies on piano.
Meanwhile, Joy and Austin are hard at work on their house. They are planning on putting this house on the market a couple months after the baby arrives. At least that’s what Austin is planning. Joy votes for waiting a little longer, but it doesn’t sound like Austin will go for that. “…Since Joy’s been pregnant, that hasn’t really slowed us down,” says Austin.
Now in her third trimester, Joy has improved her diet and shares that her health has also improved.
John flies Michelle, Jim Bob, Jana, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn, Josie, and Mackynzie to Nashville so the little girls can record a CD at Oak Tree Studio. They meet up with Grandma, Aunt Deanna, Amy, and a producer.
“The little girls’ CD project I think has been something that my aunt Deanna has always really wanted to do,” says Jana. The project is called Happy Heart and features songs written by Deanna (details coming soon).
Josiah takes Lauren and seven of her eight siblings (Lily, 16; David, 14; Lydia, 11; Daniel, 8; Dustin, 6; Drew, 4; Luci, 2) out for ice cream. She also has a newborn brother, Duke, who is two days apart in age from Gideon Forsyth.
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Human goodness and the feelgood factor
Being compassionate isn’t an act of heroism: it’s an act of humanity.
Written by Matty Paroz
Helping hand. Image by Ivanatman. Source: Flickr.
A few years a go, I came across a homeless man on the street, his face covered in small cuts. He had difficulty walking so, at his behest, I helped him cross the road. Seizing the opportunity, he pressed me to take him ever further—through a park and then into the CBD.
What started out as charitable assistance quickly escalated into an expedition: two unlikely companions shuffling through the city making small talk as he clutched the sleeve of my blazer. The quest diverted me from where I was originally headed and took far longer than I had bargained for, but I reasoned that it was the right thing to do. Reaching our destination, he let go of my arm, propped himself on a wall and began rifling around in the tote he was carrying. Without lifting his gaze from the inside of the bag, he mumbled “thanks mate”.
And that was it.
In that moment I was taken aback. It wasn’t so much the casual, almost flippant expression of gratitude as the awareness that I had somehow expected, nay, deserved more. I felt like some kind of hero and, apparently, I believed I was entitled to be acknowledged as such.
On reflection, I realised that being thoughtful, considerate or compassionate aren’t acts of heroism: they’re actually acts of humanity. And yet that visceral feeling of being a saviour—a heady mix of righteousness, selflessness and being useful to someone—was very real. I realised that this sensation itself was my reward. The small-scale glory I was seeking came from within.
Whether as donor or recipient, everyday acts of kindness provide a rush of satisfaction, fleeting moments of connectedness to others that take us out of our own heads. Whether we’re consumed by work or worries, a helping hand and smile of appreciation wake us from our internalised slumbers. I’ve felt it in the times I’ve been accosted with random compliments over my particular selection of tiepin or shoe that day. It’s sensed when you hold a bunch of shopping bags so an elderly person can alight from a tram. It’s intoxicating in the most beautiful way.
Curiously, and somewhat shamefully, I’m far more inclined to be aware of that flutter of bliss when dealing with a stranger than with a friend or lover. A chance interaction that is unexpectedly elevated is more likely to stop me in my tracks than knowing that the people who are there for me are, well, there for me. Are feelings of wellbeing heightened the less an act of generosity is anticipated? Perhaps kindness adheres to the law of diminishing returns: the more we get it, the less it’s appreciated—maybe there’s a danger one could turn into a benevolence junkie, strung out, unmoved and needing a bigger hit of kindness just to feel the high.
The feelgood factor emanating from flashes of human goodness doesn’t need to be earth-shattering. A gentle reminder that we’re all in this together is sufficient, the cumulative effect being much bigger than the effort expended in the moment itself.
Kindness, I have learned, is a commodity, a transaction of value. We can think of it as small, everyday investments that reap big returns, as compound interest for the soul. Indeed, kindness is in part self-serving and it’s all the better because of it. Spread it around.
Introducing Issue 54: How We Love
Matty Paroz
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On 20 October the Ministry of Development and Finance published a draft act on the rules for supporting new investments. The proposed regulations address problems faced by investors: complex, lengthy procedure for including new sites in special economic zones, no territorial cohesion, and the approaching end of the period set for zones to operate, i.e. the end of 2026.
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silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
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Be good if you can!
Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Reply #5425 on: November 07, 2017, 07:36 AM »
Why do women have cleaner minds than men?
They change theirs more often.
Arizona Hot
« Reply #5426 on: November 12, 2017, 08:24 PM »
What was Cookie Monster like before he joined Cookies Anonymous?
What was Cookie Monster called before that?
« Last Edit: November 13, 2017, 09:43 AM by Arizona Hot »
Deozaan
-dantheman (November 07, 2017, 07:36 AM)
I liked this one and have shared it with a few people already. But I modified it slightly:
"Why do men have dirtier minds than women? Because women change theirs more often."
I feel this version of it makes it more evident that it's an equal opportunity offender of both genders and not just a dig at women.
silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content] silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
3048 best Science Humor images
What Do Chemists Call A Benzene Ring With Iron Atoms Replacing The Carbon Atoms
A pastor was busy tidying up in his private room on the second floor of the rectory of small country parish one day...
The phone rang loudly in his office on the first floor (no cell phones or portable ones in those days).
Mrs. Ouimet, the native French speaking house cleaning lady quickly ran over to answer the phone.
"Allo!"
"May i have a word with Father Bob?" -asked the caller.
"Juste un instant, he's busy, he's up on top of me!" -she replied in her best English.
« Last Edit: November 14, 2017, 01:35 PM by dantheman »
The perfect shirt for geeks. And well, all busy parents, everywhere
Anyone want a career as a serial killer's victim? It pays well and is a long-term job if you have the talent for it. You get your first month's pay beforehand.
-Arizona Hot (October 28, 2017, 01:19 PM)
Oh I know this one!
With intense training beforehand, you can survive one of Saw's traps! (Sometimes).
Maze Images.png:
-Deozaan (October 24, 2017, 05:46 PM)
I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code?
-ConstanceJill (October 28, 2017, 05:36 AM)
I felt bad about my last response. I didn't want to explain the joke for fear of ruining it, but in hindsight, I suppose the joke can't be appreciated if it can't be found. So I updated my original post so that now the QR Code is a link which should be more helpful in explaining why I found it amusing to stumble across a QR code image named "Maze Images" seemingly randomly.
-Deozaan (November 01, 2017, 12:20 AM)
Shaka, when the walls fell!
Re: silly humor - Nomination for Darwin Award - Thomas Millward.
Trigger Warning! - macabre/black humour follows, with some very real and potential risk of danger from falling irony and thinking twice.
Congratulations on earning a Darwin Award nomination, and R.I.P. (6th March 2016), Thomas Millward (19) - a 1st-year Cambridge engineering student.
Commiserations on a near miss to earning a simultaneous Darwin Award nomination, to his girlfriend Daniella Mieloszyk (21) - a Cambridge human, social and political sciences student.
Theirs is a happy little tale about two bright young Cambridge undergrads cheerfully risking wrecking their brains and lives because they thought it "would be such fun", or something. He was studying engineering, it seems, but presumably neither he nor she had any proper knowledge/understanding of science - chemistry or biology - and where the cardinal rule for scientific repeatability/success is: Never run an experiment with yourself as the lab test animal.
Depressingly moronic. Airheads both. Parents' worst nightmare and saddest realisation. He earns the nomination for the Darwin Award (for cretinously and self-destructively removing himself from the gene pool) and his attractive, but apparently equally idiotic girlfriend is left with a salutary lesson for herself - and for the rest of us too - and the grim reminder that she collaboratively assisted in the creation of his death-defying (NOT) act. Bet she's grateful she didn't go the same way. It's a bad trip that ends in a fall/dive to the death rather than swimming at a sunny beach in Spain. Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
A contact at Cambridge informs that there is a rumour (unconfirmed) that Cambridge university are asking students for suggestions for re-naming the staircase/stairwell/landing involved in memory and recognition of Tom Millward's death/achievement, or something, and some of the enthusiastic contributions so far apparently include, for example: (They'll only make sense if you read the article from the UK Telegraph News, copied in part, below.)
"Millward's End",
"Millward's Trip",
"Millward's Dive",
"Millward's Flight",
"Millward's Leap",
"Millwards' Landing",
"No Man's Landing",
"Foresight End",
"Navigational Error",
"Pilot Error",
"Genes End",
"Engineer's Folly",
"Oops Stairs",
"Flight of Fancy",
"Gravity Rules",
"Gravity Well",
"Well, Well, Well",
"Newton's Apple",
"Tom's Apple",
"Not Adam's Apple",
"Where's me shirt?",
"Where's me undies?",
"Who Needs Clothes?",
"Bad Risers",
"Dead Man Risers",
"Mind The Step",
"Who needs steps?",
"Look! I can fl...",
"Far Out Man",
"Falling Man Stairs",
"Dead Man Flying",
"Dead Man's Stairs",
"Dead End Stairs",
"Daniella's Despair",
"The Mieloszyk Principle",
"Acidic Outcome",
"1P LSD",
"Gewürztraminer Is Better",
"Ow! That hurt!",
"Descent Into Idiocy",
"Wheeeeeeee Stairs",
"Parachute Stairs",
"Skydivers' Stairs",
"Periodic Stairs".
(Looks like typical, variously clever/obscure, gruesome and callous undergraduate humour.)
Informative post below from the UK Telegraph News. Very revealing towards the end.
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Cambridge student died after taking legal high two months before it was outlawed
Harry Yorke
ACambridge University student died after he and his girlfriend bought a legal high from the internet months before it was outlawed, an inquest heard on Monday.
Thomas Millward, a first-year engineer, suffered an “unsurvivable” head injury after falling down several flight of steps at Girton College, Cambridge, on 6 March last year.
Mr Millward, 19, had been intoxicated on the legal-high “1P LSD” , which is a copycat version of the psychedelic drug LSD or “acid”.
He was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital shortly after 9.30pm, where doctors declared him brain dead.
New psychoactive substances such as 1-Propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide, nicknamed 1P LSD, have grown in popularity in recent years due to their price and availability on the dark web.
While it was outlawed in May 2016 along with thousands of new synthetic drugs under the Psychoactive Substances Act, dozens of outlets operating outside of the UK continue to sell it online.
Cambridge student Thomas Millward
Giving evidence at Huntingdon Law Courts yesterday, Mr Millward’s girlfriend Daniella Mieloszyk said the pair had been “overwhelmed” by the substance and had “naively” underestimated its effects.
The 21-year-old, a human, social and political sciences student at Cambridge, added: "[We] didn't realise what it would be like and had expectations that it would be something that was a fun and positive experience which would be interesting to have. We knew it was kind of like of a legal equivalent to LSD.”
Ms Mieloszyk said the pair had taken two tabs of the then legal substance at 3pm that afternoon and had been attempting to fall asleep in Mr Millward’s bedroom.
She added that she had woken up and walked out to the landing to find him lying at the bottom of the stairwell, next to two vending machines.
"Everything just felt quite overwhelming. The next thing I remember was waking up... regaining a sense of awareness and in the room on my own," she said.
"As soon as I opened the door I saw another student called Hamish standing at the bottom of the stairs and then when I walked forward I saw that Tom was lying next to him.
"I thought it was like a dream and I just kept saying to him we thought it was a dream. I kept thinking to Tom would just walk down the stairs and be like 'oh here I am'."
The inquest also heard that Mr Millward, a keen rugby player, had suffered a concussion in a match three days before his death, and had experienced symptoms including “dizziness”.
A toxicology report found that Mr Millward had traces of the drug in his blood five hours after taking it.
Ms Mieloszyk claimed that she had been given the drugs by a friend who had purchased them online three weeks before his death.
Police officers called to the incident found the substance in a “metallic silvery bag” in a blue pouch under Mr Millward’s bed.
Detective Constable Alice Draper told the inquest that the it had been suggested “all along” that Mr Millward had taken LSD, adding that there was no suggestion of “anything sinister” in his death.
His father, Brian Millward, said: "We suspect.. only half an hour before the air ambulance (arrived) that he went to the top floor and removed his clothes on the F Block.
"Then ran back through the other corridor below back to his room and that's when he fell."
The inquest will resume on Tuesday.
- Students
- Legal highs
- Huntingdon Police
Copied from: Cambridge student died after taking legal high two months before it was outlawed - <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/cambridge-student-died-taking-legal-high-two-months-outlawed/>
"Some mothers do 'ave 'em." (After the title of the BBC TV comedy series of the same name.)
« Last Edit: November 20, 2017, 06:48 PM by IainB »
I lifted this from @dantheman's post:
Fight back email scams with Rescam - DonationCoder.com - <https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=44583.msg414564#msg414564>
The maker of Pringles-style 'Prongles' chips is finally revealed
You know those web sites where they hit you with a Flash animation or two on every page? There's a word for that:
Flashulence.
« Reply #5438 on: December 04, 2017, 11:45 AM »
Playing Star Wars in public:
« Reply #5439 on: December 04, 2017, 01:55 PM »
^ classic
I photoshopped Hermione with Steve Buscemi’s eyes
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@panzer - Thank you, I really needed a laugh this morning. I'm about to be forced into a job change and haven't even smiled in over a week ... That actually made me laugh out loud.
Receivers feeling festive! 🎄❄️🎅 😂
Re: silly humor - post 'em here! Windows 10 Facial Recognition is a bust!
Brilliant!...or should that be some other word...?
Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo
By Catalin Cimpanu
December 20, 2017 04:41 AM 1
Microsoft has released updates earlier this month to patch a vulnerability in the Windows 10 Hello facial recognition system that allows an attacker to bypass the facial scan with a printed photo.
Windows Hello is a Windows 10-only feature that uses near infrared (IR) imaging to authenticate and unlock Windows devices, such as desktops, laptops, and tablets that use compatible cameras equipped with a near IR sensor.
The feature is not that widespread since not many devices with the necessary hardware, yet when present, it is often used since it's quite useful at unlocking computers without having users type in long passwords.
You can bypass Windows Hello with a low-res printed photo
In a report published yesterday, German pen-testing company SySS GmbH says it discovered that Windows Hello is vulnerable to the simplest and most common attack against facial recognition biometrics software — the doomsday scenario of using a printed photo of the device's owner.
Researchers say that by using a laser color printout of a low-resolution (340x340 pixels) photo of the device owner's face, modified to the near IR spectrum, they were able to unlock several Windows devices where Windows Hello had been previously activated.
The attack worked even if the "enhanced anti-spoofing" feature had been enabled in the Windows Hello settings panel, albeit for these attacks SySS researchers said they needed a photo of a higher resolution of 480x480 pixels (which in reality is still a low-resolution photo).
Updates are available
According to SySS researchers, Microsoft delivered updates to patch this attack only for Windows 10 branches 1703 and 1709, but not earlier 16** releases.
"SySS recommends to update to the latest revision of Windows 10 version 1709, to enable the 'enhanced anti-spoofing' feature, and to reconfigure Windows Hello Face Authentication afterwards," researchers say.
The last step of reconfiguring Windows Hello is necessary because the attack would still work even after the update and also if the user was already using the "enhanced anti-spoofing" feature before the update, as per the third proof-of-concept video released by SySS and embedded below.
BIOMETRICS FACIAL RECOGNITION MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10
Copied from: Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo - <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-facial-recognition-feature-can-be-bypassed-with-a-photo/>
Re: silly humor - post 'em here! How a Fluorescent Lamp Turns On
This LiveLeak video had me larfing. The guy is very good.
How a Fluorescent Lamp Turns On
:Prolly the best noninstructonal I've seen in a mort of years .
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Commencement Address to John Robert’s son’s ninth grade class
‘I wish you bad luck,” said the chief justice of the United States.
He meant for those words, delivered last spring, to express encouragement and optimism.
The year now ending has been filled with a ceaseless cascade of ugly, angry verbiage aimed in every possible direction.
Yet as 2017 concludes and men and women make hopeful resolutions for 2018, at least one set of words this year offered a universal lesson about the value to be found in generosity of spirit. It came from Chief Justice John Roberts. It wasn’t a Supreme Court ruling or a dissenting opinion, but a quiet message that, amid the cacophony of each day’s seemingly urgent news, deserves to endure.
The chief justice had been invited to present the commencement address at his son’s ninth-grade graduation. The ceremony was, by design, modestly attended.
He told his audience that commencement speakers will typically “wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why.
“From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.
“I hope that you will suffer betrayal, because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
“Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted.
“I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life, and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
“And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
“I hope you’ll be ignored so that you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.
“Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.”
It is difficult to imagine that a person who rises to the position of chief justice of the United States has had a lot of bad luck and betrayal in his life. But those words had to have come from somewhere; through the court, I asked Chief Justice Roberts if he’d care to share the genesis of his speech. Were these thoughts that he’d been carrying around for a long time? Phrases that he had been taught by a parent or grandparent?
He responded that he had prepared the advice specifically for that commencement address, as he set out to reflect upon “some of the harsh realities that everyone will face in the course of a full life,” and how to anticipate them and learn from them.
There was something else that he proposed in the speech, something seemingly simple that bears consideration as 2018 waits just ahead:
“Once a week, you should write a note to someone. Not an email. A note on a piece of paper. It will take you exactly 10 minutes.” Then, he urged, put the note in an envelope and send it off the old way: via U.S. mail.
The handwritten note, he said, might express appreciation for someone who has helped you out or treated you with kindness, and who may not know how grateful you are.
If you do that once a week for, say, 10 months, “40 people will feel a little more special because you did, and they will think you are very special because of what you did.”
Not a bad suggestion, for any of us. I wondered if Chief Justice Roberts manages to write those weekly letters of thanks. He replied that he tries to follow his own advice, “mindful that advice is one of those things that is easier to give than receive.”
So, as the year draws to a close, here’s a toast to bad luck, and to its hidden gifts. First, though, the corner mailbox awaits. Gratitude is priceless, but conveying it costs no more than a postage stamp.
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It's the Volunteer Firefighter that Reads the Panel
When describing what is setting off the alarms, the words used are read by volunteer firefighters and building owners. The words have to be common language words because the firefighters and building owners don't have time to look them up in the maintenance manual.
These are words used for "Insider-Speak"; those working in the fire alarm industry are going to understand most of the words. During a fire, the people reading the descriptions on the fire alarm panel don't know Insider-Speak. Make sure the words used on the fire panel descriptions are words that are understood by the "Common Person".
By Douglas Krantz
I suppose it was used because the technician programming the fire alarm system was totally familiar with the acronym AFA and what it means. But still, in an elementary school the acronym AFA (Automatic Fire Alarm) shouldn't have been programmed into the zone descriptions for fire alarm system.
The trouble is that even after seeing that description on the panel for years, the head custodian at the school still asked me what "AFA 1st Floor West Corridor" meant. He had no idea what an AFA was supposed to be. The term "AFA" wasn't relevant to him.
Automatic Fire Alarm (AFA) Devices
First though, just a as a refresher, let's look at the difference between an Automatic Fire Alarm (AFA) Device and a Manual Fire Alarm Device.
With an automatic fire alarm device, no one is needed to activate the fire alarm system; it's automatic.
People can be asleep
People can be working in another part of the building
People don't even have to be present at all
Without anyone, the fire alarm system will still activate if, using an Automatic Fire Alarm Device, it detects the presence of fire, or at least what the AFA Device interprets as the presence of fire.
The AFA device can be:
Smoke detectors that detect smoke from a fire and sound the alarm
Heat detectors that detect heat from a fire and sound the alarm
Flame detectors that detect the flickering light from a fire and sound the alarm
Waterflow switches that detect that water is suppressing a fire and sound the alarm
Automatic Fire Alarm (AFA) Devices are devices that activate the fire alarm system without human intervention.
Manual Fire Alarm Devices
Unlike Automatic Fire Alarm Devices, Manual Fire Alarm Devices don't do anything until a person activates it. In other words, someone has to manually activate the fire alarm system. Running down the hall, banging on doors, and shouting "fire" is a form of a manual fire alarm system.
For the fire alarm system, Pull Stations are a common form of manual fire alarm devices.
Single Action -- The fire alarm system is activated when the glass is broken and the button pops out, or when the lever is pulled.
Double Action -- Before the actual manual station is able to be pulled a glass cover has to be broken or a door has to be pushed out of the way.
Pre-signal -- To reduce false alarms, once the lever has been pulled but before the fire alarm system sounds the alarm, some manual pull stations only activate a light or a sounder somewhere else so a person with a key can investigate first.
Manual Fire Alarm Devices are devices that require human activation.
AFA and Manual are technical words that, to those working in the fire alarm industry, carry specific meaning.
The thing is, though, the descriptions used in a fire alarm panel aren't for those in the fire alarm industry. The descriptions are for:
Fire Fighters -- They put out fires
Custodians and Caretakers -- They clean buildings
Building Engineers -- They maintain buildings
Building Management or Office Personnel -- They run businesses, schools, hospitals, etc.
Relevant Descriptions
These are all examples of people who have to deal with the fire alarm system but have not been trained in the technical aspects of a fire alarm system. Let's keep our descriptions relevant to those who are required to deal with the fire alarm system.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3.10: “Yippie Kayak” Review
NOTE: Full spoilers for this episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine are present in this review
It was bound to happen eventually. With all of the mentions and adoration by Peralta, he finally gets to live out a real-life Die Hard situation, as he, Boyle and Gina become trapped in a Goodwin’s during a robbery and hostage-taking! The Die Hard parody in this midseason finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is more than a goofy homage though. It makes for another all-around winning episode to close out the show’s 2015 run on, as well as its final Sunday, before it moves back to Tuesdays in 2016.
Almost all of the episode revolves entirely around this main plot at Goodwin’s, after Peralta discovers that he’s accidentally forgotten to get a Christmas gift for Boyle. Gina suggests going to Goodwin’s, but after Peralta is forced to lie to Boyle by claiming that he actually forgot Santiago’s gift, Boyle forces himself along. Gina however agrees to distract Boyle, if Peralta gets her a shower pic of Jeffords in exchange. Gina’s priorities are always the best priorities.
When the two sneak into the store, right before the criminals show up, they find themselves trapped, though with the advantage of the criminals not knowing that they’re there. As Peralta geeks out about living Die Hard on Christmas Eve, the two must nonetheless form a plan, which Gina immediately thinks should be rushing the bad guys with improvised hairspray flamethrowers. Again, Gina’s priorities are the best priorities.
From here, the episode really fires on all cylinders with the comedy. Satirizing Die Hard is not uncommon amongst all sorts of media, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Die Hard parody felt especially fitting, and a cut above many of the other attempts since the movie first hit theatres in 1988. The other reason why it worked very well is because Peralta has allies in the form of Gina and Boyle, and not only that, but their plans don’t always go perfectly. In fact, Gina is captured almost immediately, when she ignores Peralta’s orders, and runs for a handful of hairspray bottles.
This story arc also set up more interesting development for Jeffords, who is yet again making a futile effort to relax and unwind, getting two personal days to spend with his family for the Christmas season. After Peralta tips him off to the hostage situation however, Jeffords must once again leave his family to look after his squad at the Nine-Nine, yet again getting flak from his brother-in-law, Zeke. Surprisingly though, Jeffords actually stands up to Zeke for the first time, and brings up an interesting fact that the show never mentioned until now; Zeke is actually chronically unemployed! It’s fitting in a way, and it helps to explain why Zeke seems to bully Jeffords so much, since Zeke no doubt envies his successful brother-in-law.
The Die Hard parody is also enhanced further when Jeffords learns that The Vulture is actually in charge of the hostage negotiations, which is about as sensible an idea as you’d imagine. The Vulture is immediately difficult, and Jeffords has to desperately try and talk him down from sending a squad of cops into Goodwin’s, which The Vulture just mocks. Eventually though, Jeffords’ stress level once again gets the better of him, and he physically picks up The Vulture and drops him in a dumpster, in front of all of the nearby officers! I can’t say the guy didn’t deserve it.
After Peralta and Boyle take out some crooks together meanwhile, the two decide to try and crawl through the vents to take out the rest, further completing the Die Hard homage. Peralta however accidentally alerts two criminals, insisting that Boyle hide in the vents instead, as he’s taken hostage, and deduces with Gina that the bad guys are going to escape from the sewers, bypassing the police barrier outside. This allows Jeffords to capture them, after Boyle takes out the one credible bad guy amongst the robbers, whom Peralta is disappointed in as criminals, since they’re Canadian, not German. As you can expect, Peralta is not a very good fake Canadian on the walkie-talkie either.
When all is said and done, Boyle forgives Peralta for forgetting his gift after he fesses up, since Peralta gave him the gift of letting Boyle have his moment, even if it meant horribly mangling John McClane’s catchphrase, since this is still a syndicated FOX series, after all. Holt then comes on to the scene to commend Jeffords for maintaining a high-pressure situation with no fatalities, and all of the criminals successfully arrested. He suggests that Jeffords should take an upcoming exam to be promoted to lieutenant, which is the next step to him becoming a captain. Jeffords brushes off the idea for now, but it’s an intriguing one for the show’s return in 2016, and could suggest that someone like Diaz could become a sergeant in Jeffords’ stead. Even with that commendation however, Jeffords is still suspended for a week, due to putting The Vulture in the garbage. Well, I guess he’ll get that personal time he always wanted, at the very least.
Outside of all of these satirical Die Hard shenanigans, there was a brief subplot involving Santiago, which had strong laughs, even if it felt a little excessively disconnected from the big events at Goodwin’s. The subplot involves Santiago trying to go along with Holt and Diaz to a Polar Swim event to prove that she’s not a wimp. Predictably, Santiago doesn’t do well with the icy water (this is a great double whammy reference, not only to her competitive identifier from the pilot, but for Jeffords’ botched strategy for Santiago to quit smoking with ice water), but is forced to come in anyway, when she has to alert Diaz and Holt to the hostage situation towards the end of the episode. This was little more than a funny aside, but Santiago had some of her best jokes in a while in this episode to compensate, particularly a hilarious cold open for the episode, where she tries to get around Holt’s policy of no Christmas gifts by leaving an unmarked box with a vague message scrawled by her weak hand, which Holt mistakes for a bomb, and evacuates the precinct over. Very funny stuff!
“Yippie Kayak” continues to have Brooklyn Nine-Nine on a roll, capping off 2015 on a hot streak. The episode was a clever and funny Christmas-themed offering, and a midseason finale that set up some good promise for 2016, at least for Jeffords, who might be getting a sweet promotion soon! It feels odd to know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine will be vacating Sundays in 2016, since it felt like such a good fit for FOX’s Sunday night comedy bloc, but I suppose that the show started on Tuesdays, so it won’t be impossible to get used to. As long as this great quality keeps on coming, I’ll be happy, regardless of which day of the week we check in with the Nine-Nine!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3.10: "Yippie Kayak" Review
Brooklyn Nine-Nine closed out 2015, and its Sunday run, with a strong, clever and very funny Die Hard parody for the Christmas season, with almost every character getting plenty of big laughs to enjoy, along with the promise of big things to come for Jeffords!
Clever and often hilarious Die Hard satire
Jeffords taking charge, and being recognized for more
Standout Santiago humour all around
Santiago subplot feels a bit disconnected
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The Last Man on Earth 2.14: “Skidmark” Review
NOTE: Full spoilers for this episode of “The Last Man on Earth” are present in this review
At last, Mike Miller has reunited with his brother, as we saw with that punch to the genitals at the end of last week’s episode. “Skidmark” was all about tapping into the complicated relationship between Phil and Mike this week, though unfortunately, this also led to one of the first stumbling blocks that The Last Man on Earth has encountered in a little while.
On the bright side, Sudeikis is fun and cool as ever in the role of Mike. Now that he actually has other personalities to play off of, excluding that other survivor he met in the midseason premiere, Sudeikis is allowed to expand and develop his performance, and it’s not long before the group gets a new angle; Mike is the perfect little brother that was always outclassing Phil in terms of achievements and appeal. Of course, Phil takes to his brother’s presence with initial anger to this effect, as Mike apparently hooked up with some girl that Phil was interested in in the past (hence, the genital punch), though the two tearfully hug it out and welcome each other back into their lives afterward… Until Phil perceives Mike as stealing his non-existent thunder with the group.
Despite Phil’s struggles to be liked and appreciated, especially in his attempts to redeem himself around the start of this season, Mike immediately fits in with everyone, and makes fast friends of the group. Phil even gets jealous for the first time when Carol responds well to Mike, leading to Phil going to increasing lengths to get the group’s attention back on him.
Unfortunately, this leads to a return from Phil’s more annoying and immature side, as his buffoonery yet again reaches astronomical proportions. Some of the awkward jokes with Phil’s attempts to stay cool in the presence of Mike still worked, but things like Phil trying to throw a party simply to outclass a bonfire that Mike arranged, only to start calling out all of Mike’s apparent bad deeds in front of everyone, is more tacky than truly funny. At the very least though, it did make Phil’s just desserts all the more amusing, when he wakes up at the very end of the episode to see that half of his hair and beard have been shaved off by Mike while he slept. Game on!
Still, the rivalry between Phil and Mike so far feels childish and forced. It feels like the show is trying to find an excuse to give Phil a replacement rival, after the other Phil died in the midseason finale. As much as that ending prank was hilarious, it might have made for a funnier episode if Mike didn’t even notice Phil’s attempts to get one over on him, and simply remained likable and supportive, in sort of an unintentionally condescending way. Sure, you get that sense in the earlier parts of the episode, but eventually, it feels like Mike starts stooping to Phil’s level, and that works to mixed effect.
Todd’s arc fortunately ended up being done a bit better, as the women take turns chewing him out for his rather embarrassing display on the beach during the previous episode. This also made for a funnier moment in this episode, especially as Todd takes the backlash on the nose, and simply accepts the fact that he messed up. After a heart-to-heart between Gail and Melissa however, the two eventually decide to share Todd, presumably with Erica remaining solo, and Todd ends up over the moon. It was very funny when Todd tries to make sure he fully understands the arrangement too, including whether or not it entails Gail and Melissa hooking up with each other. If anyone deserves this kind of luck, it probably is Todd, lovable teddy bear that he is.
Ultimately though, there’s not all that much to say about, “Skidmark”, which feels like a bit of a one-note episode, despite establishing Mike as a new member of the group fairly well, if not excellently yet. It feels like The Last Man on Earth is slowly putting together a new status quo for the season’s final four episodes, and that’s fair enough, I suppose, even if we haven’t yet cracked the real depth of Phil and Mike’s complicated bond. Even if the rivalry is immature and superficial so far though, it should carry the rest of the season pretty effectively, particularly as it’s also balanced by Todd getting luckier than he could have ever imagined in the meantime.
The Last Man on Earth 2.14: "Skidmark" Review
Mike's proper induction into the group led to a good, though not standout episode of The Last Man on Earth this week, as the Phil/Mike rivalry quickly spins out of control
Sudeikis' cool performance as Mike
Todd convincing Gail and Melissa to share
Mike's big prank on Phil at the end
Phil's out-of-control buffoonery returns
Phil/Mike rivalry quickly grows tiresome
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Gold Could Be Ready For Its Next Big Move According To One Expert
Ian Young March 26, 2020
While gold couldn’t avoid the turmoil that surrounded financial markets earlier this month, though its losses were likely also the result of a combination of short-covering and concerns about industrial metal demand amid the coronavirus contagion, the shiny metals has now risen once again.
Gold started the year fiercely, but after being hammered in mid-March, dropping from the mid-high $1600’s to around $1450 per ounce, it has almost fully recovered and seems ready to knock-out new highs above $1,700, benefitting from a negative real-interest-rate environment as inflation continues to outpace interest rates, say analysts.
With interest rates near zero after successive emergency rate cuts by the Federal Reserve over concerns that the coronavirus contagion will pose a dire threat to the economy, gold has now become one of the few options many see investors see for asset appreciation.
“Gold is attracting more volume from existing gold investors—[But] times like these also always bring new people in,” Kevin Rich of The Perth Mint global gold market advisor told Kitco News on Wednesday.
While many investors may be concerned that the rally is already over and there is not much more upside for the lustrous metal, Rich and others believe this is not the case.
“Some investors might say: ‘I am late to the party and should have bought gold six months ago.’ But experienced investors know that these cycles come and go. It reinforces the safe haven and diversification benefits that savvy gold investors have seen over the years,” Rich said.
Fortunate, gold is also available in a variety of options such as bars and coins, and according to gold.org, “The best estimates currently available suggest that around 190,040 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. And since gold is virtually indestructible, this means that almost all of this metal is still around in one form or another. If every single ounce of this gold were placed next to each other, the resulting cube of pure gold would only measure around 21 metres on each side.”
“For now, there is enough [gold]to go around,” he said. “Plenty of gold in different formats available.”
The massive worldwide demand for physical gold can also be seen through The Perth Mint’s own business. In March, the mint’s depository business topped $5 billion in value of the precious metals it has sold and is holding for people.
“That’s a record level for them. They are seeing strong demand from investors. A lot of it is coming from Europe, especially Germany. There is demand from U.S. as well,” Rich said.
For ETF investors looking at getting on the gold train, the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and the SPDR Gold MiniShares (GLDM) are solid choices. Precious metals like gold offer investors an alternative to diversify their holdings, and like other commodities, gold will march to the beat of its own drum compared to the broader market.
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Timor Government denies militarisation of the National Police Diario Nacional 26 February 2010 Language source: Tetun - The Secretary of State for Security Francisco Guterres said Thursday (25/2) that the Timorese National Police is not militarising the institution though he admitted that a special unit is being trained in a quasi-military way to deal with criminals.
“Their training has to be different from regular police but it does not mean that we are militarising the police,” he said.
Mr. Guterres added that PNTL also trained Community Police who will bear revolvers instead of automatic guns in order to get the trust from the people.
He also said that in March the PNTL is going to train our Maritime Unit with trainers from the United States.
Asked about direct command of Longinhos Monteiro in leading the operation against Ninja, Mr Guterres said his presence is only for the supervision of the PNTL members’ adherence to rule of law in the field.
He asked me to go there so I let him, said Guterres.
Concerned about professionalism of PNTL, MP called Guterres for hearing Diario Nacional 26 February 2010 Language source: Tetun Amidst the mounting public concerns about the professionalism of the Timorese National Police, Committee B of the National Parliament held hearing with the Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Guterres, Thursday (25/2).
“During the hearing the Parliamentarians expressed their concerns about the PNTL,” he said.
He added that there are many things to be fixed within the institution as part of the security sector reforms, which has started in 2007.
He said that the meeting was important to inform the MPs about the reform and how Parliamentarians could help with the process of budget approval.
Govt will ask technicians from Portuguese, Singapore and Thailand to asses the National Police training Radio Timor Leste, February 26, 2010 language source: Tetun - The Alliance Government will ask technicians from Portugal, Singapore and Thailand to asses training procsses for the Timorese National Police officers.
The State Secretary for the Council of Ministries, Hermenegildo Pereira, has said that the technicians will join with the country’s assessment team to asses training promotion for the national police.
Mr. Pereira said that the assessment of the technicians will benefit to the police institution for a better future.
Portuguese Commander, Lieutenant General Santos meets with Timorese Police Counterpart Timor Post, February 26, 2010 language source: Tetun - The Portuguese Police Commander for Timor-Leste, Lieutenant General Nelson Santo, met with his Timorese counterpart, Commissioner Police Longuinhos Monteiro to discuss training programs earlier this week.
The objective of the meeting was to talk about the possibility that the Portuguese police could offer some training to the national police officers in the near future.
Commissioner Monteiro, said that the visit held by the Portuguese commander was a great honor to the national police, adding that the visit will better strengthen the relationship of the Timorese and Portuguese police officers.
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JIMMY NEVER DISAPPOINTS
The continued silence of former President Jimmy Carter in light of the ongoing repression of those who seek freedom in the Arab world is disgraceful but not surprising. As previously noted, the former president, who is seemingly everywhere touting human rights, has been bought and paid for by Arab tyrants. So, while he manages to be critical of governments around the globe, and particularly of Israel, he remains silent on some of the absolute worst regimes imaginable.
I might have some sympathy for him if he just shut up or fessed up to his dilemna: he cannot bite the hand that fed him. But, instead, he adopts a transparent diversionary tactic of flying off to Cuba for a few days and requests the release of an unfairly jailed American. Good mission, very questionable motives.
And, of course, just to let us know that he continues to campaign for the title of tackiest ex-president around, he criticizes American policy toward Cuba while in Cuba. One has to work at being an outsider even amongst one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, the ex-U.S. presidents club, but Jimmy Carter works very hard at it.
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Fleeing Ethiopians Tell of Ethnic Massacres in Tigray War – The New York Times
HAMDAYET, Sudan — The armed men who stopped Ashenafi Hailu along the dirt road dragged him by a noose so they could save bullets.
Mr. Ashenafi, 24, was racing on his motorcycle to the aid of a childhood friend trapped by the Ethiopian government’s military offensive in the northern region of Tigray when a group of men on foot confronted him. They identified themselves as militia members of a rival ethnic group, he said, and they took his cash and began beating him, laughing ominously.
“Finish him!” Mr. Ashenafi remembered one of the men saying.
As they tightened the noose around his neck and began pulling him along the road, Mr. Ashenafi was sure he was going to die, and he eventually passed out. But he said he awoke alone near a pile of bodies, children among them. His motorcycle was gone.
Mr. Ashenafi and dozens of other Tigrayan refugees fled the violence and settled outside the remote and dusty town of Hamdayet, a community of just a few thousand people near the border, where I spoke to them. Their firsthand accounts, shared a month after Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, declared war on the Tigray region, detail a devastating conflict that has become a grisly wellspring of looting, ethnic antagonism and killings.
Many of the refugees have lingered here rather than moving on to the more established refugee camps farther into Sudan, staying closer to home so they can get any news about their towns or missing loved ones. But little information is getting out, with mobile networks and the internet blocked for weeks by the Ethiopian government.
Nearly 50,000 have fled to Sudan so far, in what the United Nations has called the worst exodus of refugees Ethiopia has seen in more than two decades. And their accounts stand at stark odds with the repeated claims from Mr. Abiy, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for ending the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea, that no civilians are being hurt.
The Tigrayans describe being caught between indiscriminate military shelling and a campaign of killing, rape and looting by government-allied ethnic militias. Several told me that they saw dozens of bodies along the route as they fled their shops, homes and farms and took to the long road to the border with Sudan, in stifling heat.
As the fighting in Tigray continues, it is degenerating into a guerrilla war that could unravel both Ethiopia’s national fabric and the stability of the entire Horn of Africa region. That includes Eritrea, which is allied with Ethiopia against the Tigray and has been shelled by the rebel forces; and Sudan, which has heavily deployed its army along its restive border with Ethiopia even as it has allowed refugees to cross.
The Tigray make up about 6 percent of Ethiopia’s 110 million people, and they were the arbiters of power and money in the country from 1991, when they helped dismantle a military dictatorship, until 2018, when anti-government protests catapulted Mr. Abiy to power.
Mr. Abiy had sought to emphasize national unity and diversity in a multiethnic Ethiopia, even as he began methodically excluding Tigrayan figures from public life and condemning their abuses while they were in power. Now, the conflict stands at stark odds with the legacy he was seeking, and with the stability of the entire country.
If Mr. Abiy’s aim was to unite an increasingly divided country, then “this conflict has made that harder to achieve, and so increased the likelihood of serious ongoing political instability,” said William Davison, a senior Ethiopia analyst with the International Crisis Group who was recently expelled from the country.
Adding to the deadly mix are the involvement of rival ethnic militia groups. One of them is the Fano, a militia from the Amhara ethnic group. Along with Amhara regional government security forces, Fano took part in the intervention in Tigray, Mr. Davison said.
While Fano is a term loosely used to refer to young Amhara militias or protesters, Mr. Davison added that it is also “the name given to youthful Amhara vigilante groups that become more active during times when there is perceived to be insecurity that is not being managed by the authorities.”
Tigrayan refugees in Sudan said that Fano fighters attacked and maimed them, ransacked their properties and extorted them as they sought to flee. Many of the Tigrayans, including Mr. Ashenafi, said that they were afraid of going back and that the experience had left them sleepless and scarred.
After Mr. Ashenafi awoke and saw the bodies around him, he trudged through a nearby forest to reach the home of his friend, Haftamu Berhanu, who took him in. Photos taken by Mr. Haftamu and seen by The New York Times showed Mr. Ashenafi lying on his back, white skin peeled away around his neck from the noose.
For days afterward, Mr. Ashenafi could not talk or swallow anything and communicated with his friend through pointing or writing things down.
“It was heartbreaking,” Mr. Haftamu said of the days caring for his friend.
“I didn’t expect in our life that our government would kill us,” Mr. Ashenafi said. “I am frightened so much. I am not sleeping at night.”
Many of the refugees who made it to Sudan have been resettled to the Um Rakuba camp about 43 miles away from the border. But many are also staying around a refugee transit point in Hamdayet, hoping to return home or reunite with their families once it is safe.
In this dusty outpost, the refugees convene every morning at the Tekeze River, a natural border between Ethiopia and Sudan, to shower, collect water and clean whatever clothes they brought with them. On a recent afternoon, as children dived into the flowing river and Ethiopian music played from a nearby phone, the refugees recounted scenes of horror that they witnessed.
Many told me that they came from Humera, an agricultural town of about 30,000 people near both the Sudanese and Eritrean borders. Thousands suddenly fled the town with whatever they could carry when shelling began around midnight from what the refugees said was the direction of Eritrea.
Some gathered first at nearby churches, but after hearing that other churches had been shelled, they started the hourslong journey on foot to Sudan. They said that militia fighters began streaming in.
“The Amhara militia cut people’s heads,” said a Humera resident named Meles, who wanted to be identified by only his first name out of fear of retribution.
Meles, who owned a small cafe, said that the Fano’s reputation preceded them and that just as he feared, he encountered many dead bodies along the way to Sudan. As he spoke to me, a crowd gathered near him on the banks of the river, many nodding and verbally affirming his account as he told it.
At least 139 children are among those who arrived in Sudan unaccompanied, many of whom are now at risk of abuse and discrimination, according to the organization Save the Children.
With the Tigray region sandwiched between the Amhara region and Eritrea, which is aligned with the Ethiopian national government, Meles said he was glad that refugees like him had another outlet for escape.
“Thank God there’s Sudan for us to turn to,” he said.
“I had to speak my fluent Amharic to survive,” said Filimon Shishay, a 21-year-old Tigrayan who said he encountered the Fano and had to part with the $5 he had with him. “They hate us,” he said.
There has long been enmity between the Tigray and Amhara. When Tigrayan rebels seized power in 1991, Amharas claimed that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which governed the region, occupied land that historically belonged to them.
“The widespread assumption is T.P.L.F. wanted to annex these areas in order to have a border with Sudan and to tap into the fertile land for economic development,” Hone Mandefro, an Ethiopian analyst and a doctoral candidate in sociology and anthropology at Concordia University in Canada, said in an email.
Mr. Davison of the International Crisis Group said that with Amhara security and militia forces active in Tigray in recent weeks, and with some Amhara administrators put in place there, “it appears to be a de facto Amhara occupation of territory they claim the T.P.L.F. annexed.”
The move is likely to lead to violent Tigrayan reprisals, he said, as may have already occurred in the town of Mai Kadra, where human rights groups have said forces loyal to the liberation front massacred as many as 600 people, most of them Amhara.
Many refugees in Hamdayet blamed politicians, and particularly Mr. Abiy, for pitting civilians against one another. “The Amhara and the Tigray are one,” Negese Berhe Hailu, a 25-year-old engineer, said.
Hadas Hagos, 67, fled her home in Humera — which is part of the larger West Tigray area the Amharas claim — and worried she wouldn’t be able to go back or see the family members she left behind. Other refugees who arrived after informed her that her home was looted.
“We fought for freedom and democracy,” said Ms. Hadas, breaking into tears as she recounted how she and her family fought against the Marxist regime in the 1980s, and how she lost her brother to the war. “We don’t deserve this kind of life.”
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DJI may have quietly bought (most of) Hasselblad
At least according to anonymous sources.
Daniel Cooper, @danielwcooper
Okay, here's a weird one: Chinese drone manufacturer DJI has reportedly bought a majority stake in famed camera brand Hasselblad. The news comes from TechCrunch and photography website Luminous Landscape, both of which claim that inside sources have confirmed the as-yet-unannounced deal.
Details are beyond sketchy, since neither company has thus far spoken to journalists to confirm or deny the transaction. The story, as Luminous Landscape tells it, is that Hasselblad was finally coming out of its death slide with the launch of the new X1D mirrorless compact camera.
But producing the device was too costly for the cash-strapped business, and the venture firm that bought it in 2011 was unwilling to put in more capital. So executives sought out DJI to buy a minority stake and pump in much-needed money to get the production lines running. The partnership also began working on souped-up photography drones.
At some point in the recent past, it's reported, the venture firm Ventizz wanted out of Hasselblad, and so apparently sold its holdings to DJI. As a consequence, the drone firm gets a brand name that, while tarnished, still carries some weight in the ultra-premium camera market.
DJI also, naturally, gets high-end camera expertise that could prove handy in producing photography drones for the professional market. And Hasselblad gets the money and production know-how it needs to mass-produce the gear it needs to sell in order to stay afloat.
Back in the day, Hasselblad was the iconic camera brand that was used to shoot the Apollo moon landings and other NASA missions to space. But a series of bad business decisions around the time digital photography arrived threatened to doom the company, and it's remained in limbo ever since. If all of this is true, then hopefully we'll still be able to aspire to owning a Hasselblad once we've won the Powerball.
In this article: business, Buyout, DJI, Drones, gear, Hasselblad, Photography, Rumor
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Hayden Panettiere Spotted Holding Hands With Her Ex-Boyfriend Brian Hickerson's Brother
A source shares they were ''laughing and smiling'' during their afternoon stroll
By Alyssa Morin Sep 11, 2019 11:51 PMTags
New YorkHayden PanettiereLife/StyleNew York CityCouplesCelebritiesCeleb Drama
Moving on?
Hayden Panettiere appears to be in good spirits after a chaotic few months with her ex-boyfriend, Brian Hickerson. In fact, the Nashville star was recently spotted holding hands with her ex's brother, Zach Hickerson, in New York City.
According to an insider, the two walked arm-in-arm on Sept. 4 in the SoHo neighborhood. And even as photographers captured their every move, the source said they "continued holding hands, laughing and smiling."
"They looked very comfortable. Like a real couple," the insider shared of their afternoon stroll. "They looked playful, happy and also very close and affectionate."
This news comes nearly four months after Brian was arrested for domestic violence for allegedly getting into a violent alteration with the 30-year-old actress. Additionally, he was ordered by a judge to stay away from Hayden and was prohibited from owning firearms. Following the court's rules, the Nashville star separated herself from her boyfriend.
Hayden Panettiere Is "Trying to Heal" After Brian Hickerson Legal Drama
With so much going on in the actress' life, a separate source told E! News that she "has been leaning on Zach with the hopes of getting over Brian." However, those in Hayden's inner circle aren't too happy about it, according to our source.
"Many of those closest to her feel hurt by Hayden's decision to spend time with Zach after they supported her move to NYC with the hopes that it would bring a fresh start to her life," the source explained. "A month ago everyone was feeling very optimistic about her situation, but the consensus now is that Hayden simply doesn't want to get her life back on track."
But despite how close the 30-year-old actress and Zach have become, In Touch Weekly (who first broke the news) reports there is nothing "romantic" going on between them. A source close to the Hickerson family told the publication, "Hayden and Zach are just friends. They have been friends for as long as she's been dating Brian."
It appears Hayden is simply trying to moving on after her split with Hickerson.
Back in June, an insider told E! News she was "focused on herself" and it looks like she's in better spirits.
"It's been really hard for her, but her family has advised she take time for herself right now and get her priorities straight," the source shared at the time. "Hayden knows she needs to focus on herself and had to split with Brian for now in order to make huge positive strides in her life. She is taking it day by day trying to heal. Hayden is trying to stay low-key and process what's next for her."
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How Mike Caussin Made Jana Kramer Feel the ''Most Loved'' After Topless Photo Drama
''It's the little things that make me feel the most loved so waking up to this meant the world,'' she shares on social media
By Alyssa Morin Oct 19, 2019 8:57 PMTags
Life/StyleScandalCouplesCelebritiesJana Kramer
Jana Kramer is feeling the love.
After sharing the recent drama with her husband, Mike Caussin, it looks like the couple is ready to move on from it. Taking to Instagram on Saturday, the One Tree Hill alum showed off a romantic letter that her husband wrote to her. If anything, this "little thing" tugged at her heartstrings and made her feel the "most loved."
"Well this was a way nice way to wake up," she began her caption, alongside a photo of the handwritten note. "It's the little things that make me feel the most loved so waking up to this meant the world."
She continued, "I also wanted to share this because I feel so often all we do is complain about our partners to our friends etc instead of saying how amazing our partners are. So here's a shout out to my husband for making me feel loved this morning. It's the little things like this that goes the long way for me."
Jana Kramer Reacts to Finding Woman's Topless Photo on Mike Caussin's Phone
As for the sweet letter Mike wrote his wife? It read, "You inspire me and I am so incredibly proud to be your husband!" He signed it, "forever yours, Michael."
Cue the waterworks!
The heartfelt gesture comes nearly two weeks after Jana discovered a topless photo of a woman on his Apple Watch. She found the image after searching through her husband's device, and after trying to contact the sender, she wondered if it was a real person. It turned out it wasn't... it was a bot!
The 35-year-old star opened up about the incident with her listeners on her Whine Down podcast earlier this month and said her "heart just fell" when she saw the picture.
"When I looked, I was like God damnit. I saw it and my heart just fell. It's here. It's happened again," she revealed, trying to hold back the tears. "I'm such a f--king idiot and I immediately called my best friend and I was just shaking crying outside and then I called the number and then I texted it and it was like, ‘Sorry hun, can't talk on the phone. Do you want me to come over?' and I was just like, ‘You texted my husband. I would love to know your correspondence. Please from one woman to another.'"
She later explained that even though the image of the woman was just a bot, she felt deeply hurt by it.
"I need him to understand how deep that wound is for me when I discover something, whether he did something or not," she expressed. "That is just like—it's painful. And I just can't physically hold that anymore."
However, it looks like the couple is stronger than ever. Earlier this week, Jana took to Instagram to share her thoughts on the incident and said she and Mike "learned a big lesson."
"Sometimes it's better to share when it's a scar and not a wound," she wrote. "Nonetheless we are glad we helped others not feel alone in the great fight of love;)."
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December 11, 2020 - Claws of Veeshan's Updates in progress
Hail and well met all trade skillers across Norrath!
Many of the Claws of Veeshan recipes are already in the EQTC database. The tradeskill combines for Baking, Brewing, Fishing, Fletching, Jewelcraft, Pottery, Smithing, Spell Research, Tailoring and Tinkering should be complete. You can follow the main recipes link from the menu on the left for quick access.
The final "no skill" combines to make the final pieces of armor, gear, weapons are still in progress.
If you find any corrections, please feel free to let us know in the Database Update Forum.
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Last Modified on: 2020-12-11 06:58:01
December 08, 2020 - Claws of Veeshan is here!
From the Daybreak Games Forum:
Hail Norrath! It's time to confront the forces that have been tormenting Velious and take the fight to those behind the attacks on the Continent. Your new adventure begins right now! Claws of Veeshan is open!
Check out the trailer today and we can't wait to hear all the stories you'll be ready to tell.
December 08, 2020 - Server Downtime: Tuesday, December 8th @ 6:00 AM
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 6 hours.
Patch notes for this update will be found in the Game Update Notes section of the forums once they are available.
November 18, 2020 - Server Downtime - November 18th
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, November 18 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 8 hours.
November 12, 2020 - Login/Patcher Issues
By now, most of you are probably aware that there is a problem with some people logging into the game. This is not a problem with Daybreak, specifically, but with their CDN provider, and they continue to work on the issue.
To semi-translate this if my understanding is correct: if you did NOT have your game fully patched, you cannot log into the game right now (this applies to beta as well). Making an end run around the patcher by any sort of "back door" will not solve the problem because you will still need the patch. The patch cannot be handled because a third party is having issues preventing the patcher from communicating properly with the internet and those issues are affecting much more than just Daybreak titles. Until the provider gets their issues sorted out, all Daybreak can do is scream along with us.
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Eupedia Forum > Population Genetics > Paleogenetics > Neolithic & Chalcolithic > Ancient DNA and the first herders and farmers into East Africa
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"Researchers from North American, European and African institutions analyzed ancient DNA from 41 human skeletons curated in the National Museums of Kenya and Tanzania, and the Livingstone Museum in Zambia."
"Previous archaeological research shows that the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania was a key site for the transition from foraging to herding. Herders of livestock first appeared in northern Kenya around 5000 years ago, associated with elaborate monumental cemeteries, and then spread south into the Rift Valley, where Pastoral Neolithic cultures developed.The new genetic results reveal that this spread of herding into Kenya and Tanzania involved groups with ancestry derived from northeast Africa, who appeared in East Africa and mixed with local foragers there between about 4500-3500 years ago. Previously, the origins and timing of these population shifts were unclear, and some archaeologists hypothesized that domestic animals spread through exchange networks, rather than by movement of people.
After around 3500 years ago, herders and foragers became genetically isolated in East Africa, even though they continued to live side by side. Archaeologists have hypothesized substantial interaction among foraging and herding groups, but the new results reveal that there were strong and persistent social barriers that lasted long after the initial encounters.
Another major genetic shift occurred during the Iron Age around 1200 years ago, with movement into the region of additional peoples from both northeastern and western Africa. These groups contributed to ancient ancestry profiles similar to those of many East Africans today. This genetic shift parallels two major cultural changes: farming and iron-working.
The study provided insight into the history of East Africa as an independent center of evolution of lactase persistence, which enables people to digest milk into adulthood. This genetic adaptation is found in high proportions among Kenyan and Tanzanian herders today."
It's behind a paywall, but since it's a Reich Lab Harvard paper, they provide access at their website.
See: Mary Prendergast et al
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2019_PrendergastLipsonSawchuk_Science_PastoralNeol ithic_2.pdf
"How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people movedwith livestock is unclear. We present genome-wide data from 41 individuals associated with Later StoneAge, Pastoral Neolithic (PN), and Iron Age contexts in what are now Kenya and Tanzania to examine thegenetic impacts of the spreads of herding and farming. Our results support a multi-phase model in whichadmixture between northeastern African-related peoples and eastern African foragers formed multiplepastoralist groups, including a genetically homogeneous PN cluster. Additional admixture withnortheastern and western African-related groups occurred by the Iron Age. These findings support severalmovements of food producers, while rejecting models of minimal admixture with foragers and of geneticdifferentiation between makers of distinct PN artifacts."
markod
The pastoralists resemble Cushites a lot. It looks like they came from an intermediate location in Sudan where a Taforalt/Natufian population acquired admixture related to present day Nilotes.
There is in any case nothing particularly (recent) Eurasian about the uniparentals, so I think this might support an (North-East) African homeland of Afro-Asiatic.
Coriolan
Lots of E1b1b and no other Y-DNA from the Middle East. But the mtDNA has K1a, HV1b and T2 from the Middle East.
it confirms what was known from the archeological record and present distribution of languages and DNA
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/africa-ancient-herders-spread-pastoralism-mating-foragers
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14 'covidiots' caught throwing house parties and breaking rules in Yorkshire's worst area for coronavirus
Four house parties were broken up in one weekend
Jess Grieveson-Smith
Faye Preston
Scarborough now has the highest infection rate in Yorkshire
Covidiots have been caught throwing house parties in a Yorkshire coronavirus hot spot.
Scarborough saw 14 coronavirus fines issued this past weekend after North Yorkshire Police were forced to break up multiple gatherings - including four parties.
Only 17 fines were given out across all of North Yorkshire, meaning the town received 82 per cent of the fixed penalty notices.
On Monday, Scarborough became the county's highest rate of confirmed new cases of Covid-19, with 163 per 100,000 people.
Scarborough Police issued the fines as people blatantly flouted Tier 2 regulations, and even had to break up house parties.
Chief Inspector Rachel Wood, operational commander for Scarborough and Rydedale, said: “It’s really concerning to see the number of fixed penalty notices we have had to issue this weekend, especially considering that it was only a few weeks ago that Scarborough had some of the highest infection rates in the UK.
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"So to see people having parties and jeopardising that progress is really quite shocking."
While Chief Insp acknowledged people want to get back to normality and see friends and family, she issued words of caution.
"If we all rush out and ignore the regulations, we are going to end up back at square one," she said.
"The Government have made it clear that tiers are to be reviewed on a regular basis, so the threat of being placed into higher restrictions is real."
Scarborough and North Yorkshire police both expressed serious concern that the closer we come to Christmas, the more likely people are to flout the rules.
Chief Insp Wood added: “Our neighbourhood teams are patrolling and will be ready to take action against any breaches of the regulations and we will use enforcement if we have to.
"If the thought of putting vulnerable people at risk doesn’t make people think twice, perhaps the prospect of a £200 fine right before Christmas will.”
The whole of the county is currently in Tier 2, meaning no mixing of households should take place indoors and no more than six people should meet outdoors.
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The 15 poshest Yorkshire towns and villages and the reason why
It's not just about wealth
Dave Himelfield
Bettys tearooms, Harrogate. You know you're in posh Yorkshire when there's a Bettys
According to legend the word "posh" originates from the days of the British Empire.
Richer passengers travelling between Britain and India would pay extra to travel in cabins on the port side of the ship for the outbound journey and on the starboard for the journey home.
The cabins on these sides would be shaded from the afternoon sun and wouldn't become intolerably hot. So the story goes, tickets to travel in this manner were stamped POSH, an acronym of 'port over, starboard home'.
There is no evidence for this but it makes a convenient tale.
So what do we mean by posh? It's clearly got something to do with wealth but it's not all about money. "Posh" carries notions of social class, established wealth and refinement.
There's a big difference between rich and posh. Donald Trump is rich but even his greatest admirers would struggle to describe the vulgar, soon-to-be ex-US President as posh.
Adhering to these definitions we picked Yorkshire's poshest towns and villages though we've chucked in a few which you might consider 'nouveau riche'.
Stats come from the ONS 'Income Estimates for Small Areas, England and Wales: financial year ending 2018' report.
Alwoodley
Alwoodley Gates, Alwoodley
This Leeds suburb had an average annual household income (AAHI) of around £38k which is towards the top end of the scale. While there's an element of new wealth it's fairly established with its interwar and postwar mansions. There are several private golf courses and a grammar school which charges £10k to £14k a year.
Ampleforth Abbey (Image: geograph.org.uk)
While the AAHI of Ampleforth and its surrounding area wasn't that high (around £30k), this tidy, traditional village, near York, is considered sort-of-posh. Nearby Ampleforth College charges £25,374 a year for day pupils and £36,486 for boarders.
Bawtry
Bawtry high street (Image: Richard Croft/Geograph)
This market town, south of Doncaster, had an AAHI of around £31k which is average for England and Wales, but high for the North. It is one of the most desirable places to live in South Yorkshire with its high street full of upmarket shops, pubs and restaurants.
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One of East Yorkshire's poshest places Beverley has many of the things you'd consider posh including a smart market square with neat bistros and pubs together with (ever the sign of an upmarket place) a Fatface clothing shop. AAHI was around £34k although it's lower northeast of the town centre.
A garden in Bishop Monkton (Image: Ian Gratton/Flickr)
It's only a small village but Bishop Monkton, near Ripon, packs in a large number of large old houses, including one which was used for the ITV detective drama A Touch of Frost. AAHI was around £35K.
Dore, Sheffield (Image: Tom/Flickr)
Sheffield's poshest suburb had an AAHI of around £39k. It has a smart, traditional Yorkshire stone centre with some bigger interwar and postwar houses further out.
Harrogate (Image: Flickr/PhilipBeard)
A no-brainer. If someone uses the words 'posh' and 'Yorkshire' in a sentence they're probably talking about Harrogate. Income-wise it was well within the £30k area and often above £36k. But it's not just about that.
This spa town is packed with immaculately maintained and spectacular Georgian and Victorian buildings and upmarket independent businesses, including the surefire sign you're in posh Yorkshire – a Bettys tearoom.
Helmsley (Image: Helmsley Yorkshire/Flickr)
AAHI here was pretty average for Yorkshire (£30k) but many consider this small market town on the edge of the North York Moors a little posh.
It has a beautiful town square, smart independent businesses and a wealth of well maintained Georgian (and older) houses. No wonder it's a hit with the tourists.
The Old Church, Linton, Wetherby (Image: Tim Green/Flickr)
Some may dismiss it as nouveau riche, but this village near Wetherby has an old, established centre, albeit without much in the way of facilities.
The historic and luxurious Wood Hall Hotel and Spa is on the edge of Linton.
AAHI was around £37k.
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Ramsgill, Nidderdale (Image: Allan Harris/Flickr)
This Nidderdale village is about as picture-postcard as it gets. As well as generously sized traditional houses the village has a number of greens which we doubt are often overgrown. AAHI in the Ramsgill area was around £33k.
One of Roundhay's Victorian villas (Image: Manning Stainton)
Leeds has quite a few upscale areas but with its Victorian villas and large, mature trees, Roundhay probably fits the definition of posh.
Roundhay had an AAHI of around £36,000 placing it in the second-highest income group.
South Cave
South Cave, East Yorkshire (Image: Mtaylor848)
This East Riding village had an AAHI of £36k, detached postwar houses galore and a country club in a 'castle'. Now that's posh.
Swanland
Swanland, East Yorkshire (Image: David Wright/Flickr)
This Hull suburb has plenty of £1m-plus mansions which some might describe as 'new money'. It does, however, also have an old village with a large pond in front of the village hall.
AAHI here was around £38k mark.
Thornton-le-Dale (Image: Peter K Burian)
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The 24-year-old scrum half yesterday passed a fitness test on the calf muscle he tore at Wigan last month and has immediately been added to the Huddersfield squad as they look to strengthen their top-six play-off challenge.
March will return at the same time as prop Mick Slicker, who head coach Jon Sharp confirmed earlier in the week would play following a hernia operation.
And Sharp believes March's return could not have come at a better time.
"With Stanley Gene out for a month with a dislocated foot, Paul's timing is perfect," said Sharp.
"He was itching to get back against Widnes on Sunday, but it was just too soon.
"But he's already shown this week that he's ready to play again, and I'm looking forward to seeing him out there on Sunday.
"He's very enthusiastic and always has bundles of energy.
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"He will add an extra dimension to our play, and with Paul and Mick both returning at the same time we have two very valuable players back in the fold."
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Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
Inicio Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica Low antimicrobial resistance rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex between...
Hoy está universalmente reconocida la renovada y creciente importancia de la patología infecciosa: aparición de nuevos agentes patógenos, de cepas resistentes, de procesos con expresión clínica hasta ahora desconocida, de cuadros de una gran complejidad. Paralelamente, la Microbiología y la Infectología Clínicas han experimentado un gran desarrollo como respuesta al reto planteado por la actual patología infecciosa. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica es la Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad Española SEIMC. Cumple con la garantía científica de esta Sociedad, la doble función de difundir trabajos de investigación, tanto clínicos como microbiológicos, referidos a la patología infecciosa, y contribuye a la formación continuada de los interesados en aquella patología mediante artículos orientados a ese fin y elaborados por autores de la mayor calificación invitados por la revista.
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Páginas 574-579 (Noviembre 2019)
Tuberculosis surveillance in gipuzkoa
Tb drug resistance analysis
M. tuberculosis complex species identification and genotyping
Drug resistance analysis
Compliance with ethical standards
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2019.01.016
Low antimicrobial resistance rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex between 2000 and 2015 in Gipuzkoa, northern Spain
Baja tasa de resistencia antibiótica de Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex en Gipuzkoa, norte de España, entre 2000 y 2015
Diego Vicentea,b,c,
diego.vicenteanza@osakidetza.eus
, Mikel Basterretxead,e, Idoia de la Cabaa, Rosa Sanchod, Maddi López-Olaizolaa, Gustavo Cillaa,b
a Departmento de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
b Biomedical Research Center Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain
c Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
d Departmento de Salud del Gobierno Vasco, Subdirección de Salud Pública de Gipuzkoa, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
e Biomedical Research Center Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
Table 1. Antimicrobial susceptibility of 1855 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Table 2. Factors associated with resistance to tuberculous drugs in 1855 episodes of TB in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Table 3. Resistance to tuberculosis drugs by geographical area among the population resident in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Table 4. Characteristics of nine multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases detected in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain between 2000 and 2015.
Although the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has declined, TB drug resistance remains a major problem. The TB rate in Gipuzkoa (northern Spain) is higher than the European average. The objective of this study was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of 1855 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates (94.5% of confirmed cases between 2000 and 2015).
Susceptibility testing was performed using the agar proportion method and a commercial broth system (MGIT 960). In isoniazid- or rifampicin-resistant strains, we studied genetic determinants of drug resistance and genotype (MIRU-VNTR).
The annual mean incidence of TB was 24.5 cases per 100,000 population on average, and tended to decrease. The multidrug-resistant TB rate was 0.5% (9/1855), and no extensively drug-resistant TB strains were detected. Rates of resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin were 3.9% (range, 3.4–4.3%) and 0.6% (range, 0.4–1.4%), respectively. TB resistance was more common among foreign-born individuals and those who had received previous TB treatment. Genotyping of 102 resistant strains showed predominance of the Euro-American lineage, although 4/9 multidrug-resistant strains had Eastern lineages (2 East African-Indian, and 2 East Asian [Beijing]).
In Gipuzkoa, with a moderate incidence of TB, resistance was very low, mostly being detected among individuals who were born abroad or who had a history of TB treatment.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis
Microbial sensitivity test
Aunque la incidencia de tuberculosis (TB) está descendiendo, la resistencia a fármacos antituberculosos continúa siendo un grave problema. Gipuzkoa, norte de España, tiene una tasa de TB superior a la media europea. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar la sensibilidad a los antibióticos de 1.855 aislamientos de Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (94,5% de los casos confirmados entre 2000 y 2015).
El estudio de susceptibilidad se realizó mediante el método de las proporciones en agar, y mediante dilución en caldo (sistema MGIT 960). En las cepas resistentes a isoniacida o rifampicina se analizaron determinantes genéticos de resistencia y el genotipo (MIRU-VNTR).
La incidencia media anual de TB fue de 24,5 casos por 100.000 habitantes, con una tendencia decreciente. La tasa de multirresistencia fue del 0,5% (9/1.855), y no se detectaron cepas con resistencia extrema. Las tasas de resistencia a isoniacida y rifampicina fueron del 3,9% (rango: 3,4-4,3%) y 0,6% (rango: 0,4-1,4%), respectivamente. La TB resistente fue más frecuente entre las personas nacidas en el extranjero y entre los que recibieron tratamiento antituberculoso previo. El genotipado de 102 cepas resistentes mostró predominio del linaje Euro-Americano, aunque 4/9 cepas multirresistentes pertenecieron a linajes orientales (2 East African-Indian, y 2 East Asian [Beijing]).
En Gipuzkoa, con una incidencia moderada de TB, la resistencia fue muy baja, y asociada especialmente a personas nacidas en el extranjero o que recibieron tratamiento antituberculoso previo.
Tuberculosis resistente
Tuberculosis multirresistente
Susceptibilidad antibiótica
1Introduction
Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem worldwide, exacerbated by a growing resistance to TB drugs. It has been estimated that in 2016, 4.1% of new cases of TB and 19% of previously treated cases were resistant to rifampicin (RR-TB) or multidrug-resistant (simultaneous resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, MDR-TB).1 In 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) started the End TB Strategy, with the objective of ending the global TB epidemic by 2035. One of the cornerstones of this programme is early diagnosis of TB including universal drug-susceptibility testing (DST).2
Spain is among the countries in the European Union with the highest incidence of TB (10.8 cases per 100,000 people in 2014),3,4 and, historically, the Basque Country has been one of the most affected regions, with a higher incidence than Spain as whole.4 The objective of this study was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of the strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex causing episodes of TB between 2000 and 2015 in Gipuzkoa, a province of the Basque Country. We also examined demographic factors and genetic determinants of the microorganisms associated with resistance, as well as the genotypes of the resistant strains.
2Materials and methods2.1Tuberculosis surveillance in Gipuzkoa
Between 2000 and 2015, the mean total population of Gipuzkoa was 694,857 (range, 673,563–702,897), of whom 89,091 were under 15 years old and 32,608 under 5 years old. The mean foreign-born population was 4.8% (1.4% at the start of the study, rising to 6.8% in 2015).5
The TB registry was managed by the Gipuzkoa Epidemiology Unit, under the Programme for the Control and Surveillance of Tuberculosis in the Basque Country.6 This is an active surveillance programme that has covered Basque public and private health care since 1995. It uses the definitions of possible, probable and confirmed cases approved by the European Union Member States.7
The following demographic and epidemiological data were collected for all the patients: age, sex, country of origin, current place of residence, TB treatment for 1 month or more in the past, and date of initiation of TB treatment for the current episode. The registry also includes cases of people living in Gipuzkoa who had their disease diagnosed and microbiologically confirmed in other Spanish regions.
2.2TB drug resistance analysis
The study was conducted by the Microbiology Department of Donostia University Hospital (Gipuzkoa's TB Reference Laboratory). This laboratory receives all the isolates of M. tuberculosis from hospitals of the public health network in Gipuzkoa, which receive more than 95% of cases of TB in this province, and the few isolates obtained in private hospitals.
To analyse M. tuberculosis susceptibility, we considered the results from only one strain per patient, except in cases in which there were isolates obtained at least 1 year apart, or when the different isolates showed a distinct susceptibility pattern. To assess susceptibility to first-line drugs (isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin and ethambutol), we used the proportion method8 and, from 2009 onwards, complemented this with a commercial broth method, the BACTEC MGIT 960 system (BD; Becton, Dickinson and Company, Sparks, MD, USA). Briefly, the antibiogram was obtained with the proportion method using Middlebrook 7H11 culture medium plates, with antibiotic test discs (BD BBL; Becton, Dickinson and Company, Sparks, MD, USA) embedded in the culture medium onto which we inoculated two dilutions (10−2 and 10−4) of a suspension of a pure culture of the microorganism (McFarland 0.5–1). The final concentrations of the drugs in the medium were as follows: isoniazid, 0.2μg/mL and 1μg/mL; rifampin, 1μg/mL; streptomycin, 2μg/mL and 10μg/mL; and ethambutol, 5μg/mL. The plates were incubated for 21 days at 35°C in a CO2-enriched atmosphere (5% CO2).
The growth of colonies in the presence of an antibiotic, greater than 1% respect the inoculum control was considered to indicate resistance to the antibiotic. The BACTEC MGIT 960 system for testing susceptibility was used following the manufacturer's instructions, including pyrazinamide as well as the four aforementioned drugs. The final concentrations of the drugs in the medium were: isoniazid, 0.1μg/mL; rifampicin, 1μg/mL; streptomycin, 1μg/mL; ethambutol, 5μg/mL; and pyrazinamide, 100μg/mL. The TB H37Rv strain, that is susceptible to all the antibiotics tested, was used as a reference. Susceptibility of MDR-TB strains to second-line drugs (kanamycin, amikacin, capreomycin, ofloxacin, ethionamide and cycloserine) was assessed in the National Microbiology Centre (Madrid, Spain).
In the case of isoniazid-resistant or rifampincin-resistant strains, we investigated possible genetic determinants of this drug resistance. For this purpose, we used the GenoType MTBDRplus VER 2.0 line probe assay system (Hain Lifescience GmbH, Nehren, Germany), according to the manufacturer's instructions. This system analysed mutations in the rpoB gene (associated with resistance to rifampicin) and in the katG gene and the promoter region of the inhA gene (associated with resistance to isoniazid).
2.3M. tuberculosis complex species identification and genotyping
From 2009 onwards, systematic genetic testing was carried out to identify the M. tuberculosis complex species, using the GenoType MTBC line probe assay system (Hain Lifescience GmbH, Nehren, Germany), according to the manufacturer's instructions. Identification was also carried out on selected isolated strains during the first period, either in our laboratory or in the National Microbiology Centre. We analysed the genotypes of the resistant strains using 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing.9 Genotypic lineages (clades or families) were obtained from the MIRU-VNTRplus web application.10
2.4Statistical analysis
The incidence of TB was calculated based on the number of TB cases recorded in Gipuzkoa divided by the number of people living in this region according to the official census records 2000–2015.5 We analysed the relationship of isoniazid resistance and multi-resistance with the demographic and epidemiological data collected for the cases, using the chi-squared test. The variables which obtained a p<0.05 in the univariate analysis were entered into a multivariate analysis with a logistic regression model (enter method), and we calculated adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals to identify the variables that predicted resistance. We examined changes in the rate of resistance during the period with a Chi-square test for linear trend. All the statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS, Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0.
3Results3.1Tuberculosis surveillance in Gipuzkoa
A total of 2724 cases of TB were registered between 2000 and 2015, of which 1697 were in men. Overall, 762 cases were classified as possible or probable (28%) and 1962 were microbiologically confirmed (72%). The average annual incidence of TB during the study period was 24.5 cases per 100,000 people, with the highest incidence being registered in 2000 (36.1 cases per 100,000), and a progressive decline to 2015 (13.7 cases per 100,000). The median age of patients was 41 years old, with a range of 0–99. During the study period, there were 66 cases in under-15-year-olds, 27 of these being in children under 5 years of age (incidence rates of 4.3 and 6 cases per 100,000 people, respectively).
3.2Drug resistance analysis
Antimicrobial susceptibility was tested in 94.5% (1855/1962) of the confirmed cases (1147 men, 61.8%, and 708 women, 38.2%). This testing was performed in the laboratory of Donostia University Hospital in 1710 cases (92.2%), and in other regions in the other 145 cases (strains from these laboratories not being available for additional testing). A total of 99 patients (5.3%) had received previous TB treatment and 250 (13.5%) had been born outside Spain.
Identification of M. tuberculosis complex species led to the identification of M. tuberculosis (670 strains), Mycobacterium bovis ssp. bovis (31 strains), M. bovis ssp. caprae (2 strains) and Mycobacterium africanum (2 strains). The other 1150 strains were classified as M. tuberculosis complex.
We detected resistance to at least one of the aforementioned TB drugs in 6.4% (118/1855) of cases (Table 1). In order to establish some tendencies, the 16 years the study lasts were divided in four four-year periods. The rate of resistance to isoniazid was 3.9% (73/1855), with hardly any variation over the study period. Overall, 0.6% of strains (12/1855) were RR-TB. This type of resistance increased over the last 4 years of the study, in which we detected 1.4% RR-TB strains. As in the cases of rifampicin resistance, there were more cases of MDR-TB during the 2012–2015 period, when 5 of the 9 MDR-TB cases were detected (4 in 2015 alone), but the differences were not statistically significant compared to the first period in either case. None of the MDR-TB strains were extensively drug resistant.
Antimicrobial susceptibility of 1855 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Total TB cases 856 746 642 480 2724
TB culture confirmed cases 569 557 463 373 1962
Cases with susceptibility testing performed 505 524 457 369 1855
Resistant cases 23 (4.6%)a 30 (5.7%) 30 (6.6%) 35 (9.5%) 118 (6.4%)
Isoniazid resistant 21 (4.2%)a 18 (3.4%) 18 (3.9%) 16 (4.3%) 73 (3.9%)
Rifampin resistant 2 (0.4%)a 3 (0.6%) 2 (0.4%) 5 (1.4%) 12 (0.6%)
MDR-TB 2 (0.4%)a 1 (0.2%) 1 (0.2%) 5 (1.4%) 9 (0.5%)
Resistance phenotype
H 19 15 9 9 52
R 0 2 0 0 2
E 0 0 0 1 1
Z ND 6 10 13 29b
S 2 4 1 5 12
HR 1 1 0 0 2
HRZ 0 0 1 1 2
HRS 0 0 0 1 1
HRSE 1 0 0 0 1
HRSZ 0 0 0 2 2
HRSEZ 0 0 0 1 1
HZ 0 0 1 0 1b
HS 0 2 7 2 11
RZ 0 0 1 0 1b
TB: tuberculosis; MDR-TB: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; H: isoniazid; R: rifampin; S: streptomycin; E: ethambutol; Z: pyrazinamide; ND: not done.
The figure in parentheses is a percentage with respect to the total number of cases with susceptibility testing performed.
Mycobacterium bovis ssp. bovis.
The prevalence of TB drug resistance was greater among the foreign-born population and among those who had received these drugs before the current episode of TB (Table 2). Moreover, 7 of the 9 MDR-TB cases occurred in people of foreign origin. These two factors were independently associated with both isoniazid and multi-resistance. Among foreign-born individuals and those with a history of TB treatment, the risk of isoniazid resistance was 2- and 3-fold higher, respectively, and the risk of multi-resistance was 18- and 9-fold higher, respectively, than in the general population. The highest rates of incidence in foreign-born individuals were found among those from Asia and Eastern Europe (Table 3).
Factors associated with resistance to tuberculous drugs in 1855 episodes of TB in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Isoniazid resistant
Chi-squarep
Adjusted ORa
Logistic regression analysisp
Sex 0.973
Male 1.147 45 (3.9%)
Female 708 28 (4.0%)
Age 0.031 0.121
0–30 years 500 28 (5.6%) 1.95 (1.02–3.72)
31–50 years 694 28 (4.0%) 1.37 (0.73–2.56)
>50 years 661 17 (2.6%) 1
Period 0.903
2000–2003 505 21 (4.2%)
Previous TB treatmentb 0.004 0.002
No 1.753 62 (3.5%) 1
Yes 99 10 (10.1%) 3.18 (1.54–6.54)
Origin <0.001 0.017
Native 1.605 53 (3.3%) 1
Foreign born 250 20 (8.0%) 1.99 (1.13–3.51)
Multidrug resistant
Male 1.147 5 (0.4%)
Female 708 4 (0.6%)
Age 0.171
0–50 years 1.194 8 (0.7%)
>50 years 661 1 (0.2%)
2000–2007 1.019 3 (0.3%)
2008–2015 826 6 (0.7%)
No 1.753 5 (0.3%) 1
Yes 99 3 (3.0%) 9.29 (2.10–41.06)
Origin <0.001 <0.001
Native 1.605 2 (0.1%) 1
Foreign 250 7 (2.8%) 18.24 (3.63–91.80)
Adjusted for age, previous TB treatment and origin.
In three cases, it is unknown whether the patient had a history of tuberculosis treatment.
Resistance to tuberculosis drugs by geographical area among the population resident in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain, between 2000 and 2015.
Geographical origin
Total TB episodes
Total resistance
Africa 84 1 (1.2%) 0 5 (6.0%)
North Africa 60 1 (1.7%) 0 5 (8.3%)
Sub-Saharan area 24 0 0 0
South and Central America 66 7 (10.6%) 2 (3.0%) 10 (15.1%)
Central America 13 3 (23.1%) 1 (7.7%) 5 (38.5%)
South America 53 4 (7.5%) 1 (1.9%) 5 (9.4%)
Asia 42 6 (14.3%) 3 (7.1%) 7 (16.7%)
Pakistan 36 3 (8.3%) 1 (2.8%) 4 (11.1%)
Other 6 3 (50.0%) 2 (33.3%) 3 (50.0%)
Eastern Europe 42 6 (14.3%) 2 (4.8%) 6 (14.3%)
Romania 34 4 (11.8%) 1 (2.9%) 4 (11.8%)
Othera 16 0 0 0
Foreign born Total 250 20 (8.0%) 7 (2.8) 28 (11.2%)
Native origin 1605 53 (3.3%) 2 (0.1%) 90 (5.6%)
Total 1855 73 (3.9%) 9 (0.5%) 118 (6.4%)
Italy: 1; USA: 1; Portugal: 10; The Netherlands: 1; United Kingdom: 1: Germany: 2.
Resistance to pyrazimamide was detected in 36 (1.9%) cases (29 of which were only resistant to this antibiotic), and the related species was M. bovis spp. bovis in 31 of them.
The genetic analysis identified mutations associated with resistance in 73.2% (41/56) of the isoniazid-resistant strains analysed. We found a mutation in the katG gene in 24 strains (22 being the S315T1 mutation) and in the promoter region of the inhA gene (the C15T mutation) in 17 strains. The strains that underwent mutation in the katG gene showed associated resistance to other antibiotics with high frequency (8 isoniazid-resistant and streptomycin-resistant strains; 3 MDR-TB-resistant strains). Strains that underwent mutation in the inhA gene were only isoniazid-resistant. Notably, we detected mutations in the rpoB gene in all (9/9) of the rifampicin-resistant strains analysed.
The genotype was assessed in 86% (102/118) of the resistant strains, revealing a predominance of the Euro-American lineage with 67 strains (67.1%), distributed amongst the following clades: 34 LAM strains, 14 Haarlem strains; 8 Cameroon strains, 7 S strains; and 4 Uganda I strains. In addition, there were six strains belonging to the East African-Indian lineage and two to the East-Asian (Beijing) lineage, all of which were isolated in foreign-born individuals, and the remaining 27 were M. bovis ssp. bovis. We identified 5 clusters (identical MIRU pattern) grouping a total of 18 strains, all belonging to the Euro-American lineage; the largest cluster included 7 strains. We did not find any epidemiological relationships between patients infected with the strains from these clusters.
Table 4 provides details concerning the nine cases of MDR-TB. No secondary cases linked to patients with MDR-TB were reported.
Characteristics of nine multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases detected in Gipuzkoa, north of Spain between 2000 and 2015.
Sex-age
Site of disease
Stay in Spain
Previous TB treatment
Bacilloscopy result
Male-26 Pulmonary 2000 Russia 1 month No Positive HRSE Beijing East Asian (Beijing)
Female-24 Pulmonary 2001 Spain – Yes Positive HR – –
Male-45 Pulmonary 2006 Spain – Yes Positive HR Uganda I Euro-American
Male-39 Pulmonary 2010 Ukraine 5 years Yes Positive HRZ Delhi/CAS East African-Indian
Female-32 Pulmonary 2012 Colombia 6 years No Positive HRSEZ LAM Euro-American
Female-43 Pulmonary-lymph node 2015 Cuba 7 years No Negative HRZ – –
Male-54 Pulmonary 2015 China 8 years No Negative HRSZ Beijing East-Asian (Beijing)
Female-26 Pulmonary 2015 Romania 4 years No Positive HRSZ – –
Female-23 Lymph node 2015 Pakistan 6 months No Positive HRS Delhi/CAS East-African Indian
H: isoniazid; R: rifampin; S: streptomycin; E: ethambutol; Z: pyrazinamide.
4Discussion
Gipuzkoa is a region with a moderate incidence of TB. The mean incidence between 2000 and 2015 was 24.5 cases per 100,000 people. This is higher than the values for Spain as a whole for the same period (mean: 13.5 cases per 100,000), and makes our region one of the areas with the highest incidence of TB in the European Union, where there were 765,000 cases between 2007 and 2016 (mean: 12.6 cases per 100,000).3 As observed across Europe and in the rest of the world,1,3,4 in our setting, the incidence of TB is decreasing. In Gipuzkoa, the cumulative reduction of incidence was 62% in 16 years. This being attributable to current active control programmes such as that implemented in our region over the last 20 years.
The current study analysed the susceptibility of 1855 strains causing TB over the last 16 years. The susceptibility testing included almost 95% of the strains causing TB episodes, meeting one of the objectives stated in the WHO programme for the control of the disease across the world.2
Our data show a low rate of resistance to TB drugs in Gipuzkoa. Resistance to one of the first-line drugs was found in only 6.4% of the episodes studied, MDR/RR-TB strains being exceptional, with a prevalence of 0.6%. The rates of resistance were found to be higher from 2009 onwards, although this is attributable to the fact that in that year we started to systematically assess susceptibility to pyrazinamide. The majority of the pyrazinamide-resistant strains belonged to the specie M. bovis spp. bovis, which has intrinsic resistance. Excluding pyrazinamide, the rate of resistance to first-line drugs in Gipuzkoa did not change over the study period, with a mean of 4.8%. It has been estimated that worldwide, in 2016, 4.1% of new cases and 19% of previously treated cases were MDR/RR-TB.1 In the European Union, 11% of the strains analysed in 2015 were resistant to some of the first-line drugs (not including pyrazinamide) and 4.1% corresponded to MDR-TB.11 In Spain, the subnational data collected in 2014–2015 showed that 7.4% of cases were resistant to first-line drugs and 4.7% corresponded to MDR-TB strains.4,11 In the rest of the Basque Country, 6.9% of the strains analysed between 2008 and 2015 were resistant to some of the first-line drugs and 0.3% corresponded to MDR-TB.12 Our results indicate that Gipuzkoa maintains a favourable situation regarding antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis, which is probably closely linked to both main associated factors to this study. Treatment adherence was good in Gipuzkoa. In 2015, 94% of patients with TB completed their treatment, with only 6% being lost to follow-up, moving away from the region or withdrawing from the treatment. Further, in our region, there are relatively few foreign-born individuals from areas with a high prevalence of MDR-TB, such as China, Russia or India, representing less than 2% of the overall population. In Gipuzkoa, these two factors were independently associated with isoniazid resistance and drug multi-resistance. Notably, however, the foreign-born population living in Gipuzkoa is growing, which may explain the small increase in the number of multi-resistant strains detected in Gipuzkoa at the end of the study period.
The genotyping of resistant strains reveals two scenarios. On the one hand, there are strains resistant to some drug but which are not multi-resistant, most belonging to the Euro-American lineage, endemic to Europe13–16; they are highly diverse, with only 18 strains in the present study grouped into 5 clusters with no clear epidemiological relationship. On the other hand, there are the MDR strains, belonging to non-endemic lineages and found in foreign-born individuals. The only two cases of MDR-TB in non-foreign-born patients were detected after failure of previous treatment. Results of genotyping must be carefully interpreted, as not only were the sensitive strains not analysed, but genotyping was also not carried out on all the resistant strains.
The results of this study support the policy of, in the event of a case of TB in Gipuzkoa, administering an empirical treatment with the three first-line drugs until the susceptibility report is available. The use of four drugs could be reserved for when there is a higher risk of MDR-TB, that is, for foreign-born individuals or those who have received a previous TB treatment. Even in these individuals, in our routine diagnostic procedures, this treatment regimen is partially avoided by using methods for detecting the M. tuberculosis genome in our centres, which also allows us to detect genomic changes associated with resistance.
The main limitation of this study is that, due to the small local area analysed, extrapolation of the results to even nearby zones is limited. Moreover, methodological improvements in 16 years are important and unavoidable, like the introduction of a complementary antibiotic susceptibility method in 2009, which included pyrazinamide-susceptibility. Excluding this agent, results were presumably almost unaffected, due to the high methodological concordance. Eventually, some facts related to the health as well as the habits of the patients (VIH, smoking, drinking alcohol and diabetes), which were not analysed owing to the lack of systematic data collection, could have some influence in the results.
In conclusion, in our setting, the incidence of TB continues to fall. Antibiotic resistance currently has a relatively small impact, mostly associated to individuals who were foreign born or had a history of TB treatment, and multidrug-resistant TB is unusual. Nevertheless, this favourable situation could change with the geographical spread of resistant strains, underlining the importance of an active surveillance programme.
5Compliance with ethical standards
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of Gipuzkoa Health Area.
6Funding
This study was supported in part by grant PI 2016111036 from the Office of Health Research and Innovation, Department of Health, Government of the Basque Country, Spain, and by grants from the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0056), an initiative of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
7Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
The authors thank Professor Emilio Pérez-Trallero for his valuable support in conceiving and developing the intellectual framework of the study.
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Informe epidemiológico sobre la situación de la tuberculosis en España.
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Gobierno Vasco. Departamento de Salud. Programa de Tuberculosis de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. Available from: http://www.osakidetza.euskadi.eus/contenidos/informacion/vigilancia_protocolos/es_def/adjuntos/protocolos_epidem_tuberculosis_c.pdf.
The Commission of the European Communities. Commission decision of 28/4/2008. Amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No. 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Available from: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_threats/com/docs/1589_2008_en.pdf.
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.
Susceptibility testing of Mycobacteria, Nocardia, and other aerobic actinomycetes; approved standard. CLSI document M24-A2.
2nd ed., (2011),
P. Supply, C. Allix, S. Lesjean, M. Cardoso-Oelemann, S. Rüsch-Gerdes, E. Willery, et al.
Proposal for standardization of optimized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
J Clin Microbiol, 44 (2006), pp. 4498-4510
MIRU_VNTRplus Web Application. Available from: https://www.miru-vntrplus.org/MIRU/index.faces.
Departamento de Salud, Dirección de Salud Pública y Adicciones. Gobierno Vasco. Tuberculosis en la CAPV 2016. Available from: http://www.euskadi.eus/contenidos/informacion/informes_vigilancia_epidem/es_def/adjuntos/TB_INFORME-CAPV-2016_cast.pdf.
S. Gagneux, K. Deriemer, T. Van, M. Kato-Maeda, B.C. de Jong, S. Narayanan, et al.
Variable host–pathogen compatibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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A snapshot of genetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ireland over a two-year period, 2010 and 2011.
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D. García de Viedma, E. Bouza, N. Rastogi, C. Sola.
Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in Madrid and identification of two new families specific to Spain-related settings.
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Tiger kills man at China zoo as horrified visitors watch
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Published Tuesday, January 31, 2017
A tiger killed a visitor to a wildlife park in eastern China on Sunday after the man apparently entered its enclosure, the second such attack in just six months, media reports said.
The incident occurred at the Youngor Wildlife Park in the city of Ningbo, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Shanghai, according to media reports which added that one tiger in the enclosure was shot dead as a result.
Video emerged online showing a tiger mauling a man in black clothing as visitors screamed in horror and two other tigers stood close by watching.
The tigers were eventually driven away by park staff using with firecrackers and water cannon, said a report in the Beijing Youth Daily, which added that the man was rushed to hospital but later died.
The reports said it was not clear how or why the man, whose wife and child had come to the park with him, had gotten into the tiger enclosure.
In July last year a woman who got out of her car at Badaling Wildlife World in Beijing was attacked and dragged away by a tiger.
Her husband leapt out of the car in pursuit, as did her mother. The mother tried to hit the beast but was attacked by two other tigers and mauled to death.
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THE REALLY EARLY STUFF
This section contains all sources that date prior to 1800. Documents from this early period are understandably much rarer than from later periods, yet there are a surprising number of sources available. Enjoy!
Early French Marriage Certificate dated June 19th, 1725. It names a Nicolla, daughter of Charles Jaulne, and a Jacques Mannoury. It relates to Harcourt, in Normandy.
Letters of Abraham Newland, Chief cashier of the Bank of England. The Letters date from 1799 to 1803 and are to William Simpson, the Chief Cashier for the Royal bank of Scotland.
Document from 1660 related to a William and John Martyn Living in Derby County
Early Document related to a William Major of Buckinghamshire County, Husbandman, and others, 1638
Copy of the London Chronicle Newspaper for October 6th, 1759
Copy of the London Chronicle, June 29th 1758
The County Magazine, May 1786
The County Magazine, March 1786
Lloyd’s Evening Post and British Chronicle, October 13th 1760
The London Chronicle, April 22nd 1758
Affidavit of Mr James Austen Regarding the Settlement of His Marriage to Miss Cresswell, 1796
A Letter of 1797 Discussing a Financial Disagreement
4 Letters Related to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, 1783-1797
Early Depiction Microscopes, done for the Universal Magazine, 1749
Pamphlet on “Rates for Hackney Coaches” in London, 18th Century
Cover page of the “Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure”
Excerpt from the Universal Magazine, 1771, entitled “An Account of a Monstrous Birth”
Letter related to Property in Surrey, 1799
Document related to the Manor of Carshalton in Surrey, 1779
Civil War Period Document Regarding a Payment, 1646.
Short Note Related to the Payment of Interest, 1710.
The Oath of Every Freeman of the City of London
Indenture Related to the Apprenticeship of Joseph Palmer to Ann Stroud, to Learn to be a Butcher, 1794
Document related to the Manor of Aldeburgh and the Marquis of Salisbury, 1799
Documents related to the Will of Mr. William Rose
Three Pages of an Antiquarians Research Notes, 1723
Page from a German Bible, 1534
Articles of Agreement Relating to The Campions of West Sussex, 1792
Document related to Mr. Robert Walpole and a Tenant’s Agreement, 1786
Letter regarding land in Bury St. Edmunds, 1788
Two Letters related to Legal Matters over estates, 1783 and 1785
Case on a Deed sent herewith: Thomas Taylor wants to raise money by Making a mortgage, 1780
Page from an Incunabula (Pre-1500 book) Circa 1490
Page from a Bonaventura Incunabula with Rubrication, 1496
Page from a French Agricultural Magazine Depicting a Plough, 1754
Page from a French Agricultural Magazine Depicting a Seed Drill, 1754
18th Century letter by a J. Keeble to his niece. The writer was a servant in Englefield House. Circa 1770s
Communion Cert. 1767
Vellum Indenture related to the Manor of Mildenhatt, 1766
Invoice for expenses, William Nevinson of Wakefield, 1766
18th Century music sheet for the Scottish song ‘The Nut Brown Maid’
18th Century music sheet for the song ‘Matchless Clarinda’ by Handel
Latin document in vellum related to a Thomas Hayward of Gloucester, 1724
18th Century Sheet Music, ‘Windsor Shades’
Late 18th Century print titled ‘Opposition Telegraphs’ 1798
Pamphlet produced in London in 1775 in support of the American Revolution
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> The Expendables 3 (2014) Film Review
Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray
"You get what you pay for with a little bit of humour to lubricate the violence"
Sly Stallone's latest franchise goes from strength to strength. One of its qualities is that it doesn't pretend to be smarter than it is. You get what you pay for with a little bit of humour to lubricate the violence.
The format remains the same with a useful addition aimed at attracting a younger audience. Instead of continuing the old farts forever theme, Stallone introduces a fresh intake of athletic techno whizzbangers when The Expendables are found wanting on the killing fields.
Essentially a wrinkled group of over qualified mercenaries, Barney Ross's (Stallone) crew represent the old fashioned way of doing things - big guns, big machines, big noise. Having snatched Doc (Wesley Snipes) from jail in one of those Bond-U-Like police states where everyone looks Baltic and bad, they go after Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), co-founder of The Expendables, who chose the dark side and became a ruthless international arms dealer.
After their first attempt at taking him out fails, Barney tells The Expendables they are now The Deletables and slips away with Bonaparte (Kelsey Grammer) to pick a younger team, which includes Luna (Donda Ronsey), a martial artiste with ball breaking powers.
When a battalion of the Bulgarian army is destroying a massive building with tanks and helicopter gunships in the ultimate shoot out, the old boys and the new kids, Uncle Arnie, Antonio Banderas and all, come together for the explosive finale. It's a stunt man's dream.
Ross is their rock and Stallone learns how to impersonate granite. No one does any acting except Banderas. They are having too good a time being themselves. This is the equivalent of the Seniors golf circuit and long may it last. Their only competitors are the Red films which have an edge in the script dept.
As one of the young turks points out, "They're just a bunch of has-beens trying to be hard." They'll be saying that about 007 soon.
Reviewed on: 08 Aug 2014
Action packed fire fight for these sell-by-dated mercenaries as they take on a ruthless international arms dealer
Director: Patrick Hughes
Writer: Sylvester Stallone, Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, Dolph Lundgren, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Victor Ortiz, Ronda Rousey, Kellan Lutz, Randy Couture, Kelsey Grammer, Jet Li
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Christina Wolfgram
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Comedian and writer who has gained fame as the creator of the popular Facebook Watch original series Christina Tried Her Best. She has worked as a creative director and comedic writer for the popular HelloGiggles brand.
She graduated with her honors bachelor's degree in 2012 from The Catholic University of America. She later obtained her master's degree from the University of Southern California.
She has worked as a contributor for Refinery29 and BuzzFeed. She has also amassed more than 50,000 followers to her itsthecwolf Instagram account.
She was born and raised in the United States.
Her original musical parody "Les Mis in 3 Minutes" was retweeted by Russell Crowe.
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Steven Scoville, Superintendent
399 E. Michigan Street
Farwell, MI 48622
Phone: (989) 588-9917 / Fax: (989) 588-6440
Superintendent: Steven Scoville
Steve and his wife Amy, lived in Delton, Michigan, for 27 years, where they raised two children who are now both in college. Steve served as elementary principal for Delton Kellogg schools, where he worked for 11 years. There Steve was actively involved in many enrichment activities, including Odyssey of the Mind, Chess Club, and Little League.
Steve was born and raised in Hillsdale, Michigan and attended Western Michigan University for both graduate and undergraduate school. He has a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, with an Elementary and Secondary Administration Certification (K-12) from the State of Michigan. Steve also has a Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Elementary Education, English, Math and Science.
Steve retired as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Michigan National Guard, where he served as Battalion Commander for an aviation unit. As Task Force Commander and a helicopter pilot, Steve participated in a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. Steve had an incredible opportunity to watch Kosovo become a sovereign nation after his time there. While in Kosovo, his battalion helped rebuild a school that fostered principles of democracy and acceptance across cultural boundaries.
Steve has more than 27 years of educational experience. This includes time as Elementary and Intermediate Principal as well as Technology Director at Galesburg-Augusta Schools. While at G-A, he took a leading role as a coordinator and team leader in the bond project.
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On October 1, 2018, Mr. Scoville started serving as the Superintendent for the Farwell Area Schools. His family has now relocated to Crooked Lake in Lake, Michigan. They love the area and community, from the lake to the biking on the Pere Marquette Rails to Trail.
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Alienware M11X review: Alienware M11X
Gaming laptops are a conundrum for many: with costs and sizes that are higher and larger than most mainstream users are willing to accept, they exist in a specialized upper echelon of the computer universe, a niche usually avoided by most. An affordable, small laptop that also plays games well is a rarity, and most people looking for a travel-friendly notebook simply leave off such hopes in exchange for a few more bucks in their pocket, and buy a gaming console or desktop gaming PC instead.
At this year’s CES, we were surprised and excited to see an Alienware laptop that not only cost less than $1,000, but was compact enough to slide into a messenger bag. Dubbed by many as a “gaming Netbook,” the M11x is actually a hybrid 11.6-inch ultraportable that has an ultralow-voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor married with a Nvidia graphics card that can be switched on or off to save battery life. The end result is a dense but very portable laptop that has the ability to play any mainstream game. For a student or a PC gamer looking for a truly portable system, the M11x could be a perfect product. Arguably, at a starting cost of $799, the M11x could be justified as the cost of a game console plus the cost of a Netbook/small laptop, while providing the benefits of both (but upgrading the configurable system can quickly drive up the price past the $1K mark).
It should be noted, however, that the gaming capabilities of the M11x are good, but not great. It’s a far cry from the blazing speed of its full-fledged and more expensive big brother, the Alienware M15x, and the main processor’s general ability to multitask is considerably slower than even the lowest-end versions of Intel’s affordable new Core i3/i5 laptop processors. That’s not to say there isn’t something impressive about a gaming-capable laptop as small as the Alienware M11x, but we want to at least let you know that compromises were made to get to the price tag offered. There’s nothing on the market right now that’s quite like it in terms of its size/graphics/price combination. Though it’s a hybrid that might not be for everyone, it has moments where it shines.
Price as reviewed / starting price $1,149/$799
Processor 1.3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 ULV
Memory 4GB; 1,066MHz DDR3
Hard drive 500GB 7,200rpm
Chipset Mobile Intel GM45 Express
Graphics Nvidia GeForce GT 335M + Intel GMA 4500MHD
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Dimensions (WD) 11.3 inches x 9.2 inches
Screen size (diagonal) 11.6 inches
System weight / Weight with AC adapter 4.5 / 5.3 pounds
Category Ultraportable
The compactness, especially in terms of width and depth, struck us upon removing the M11x from its box. The Alienware M11x is still a relatively thick ultraportable, especially considering that it lacks an optical drive, but its look is a lot cleaner and more streamlined than the M15x. Our silvery-gray unit (the M11x also comes in black) really only gives away its Alienware pedigree via a subtle black alien head logo on the back lid and its trademark angled-front profile with somewhat silly LED “headlights.” To some degree, the squared-off bottom-heavy look of the M11x resembles an old-school portable DVD player. Its all-around smooth and clean lines make it an easy laptop to slide into a bag.
Opening up smoothly on a plastic hinge that protrudes from an otherwise flush backside, the M11x interior is all black with a very familiar Alienware LED-backlit multicolor keyboard and an edge-to-edge glossy 11.6-inch screen. The sturdy-feeling chassis and slightly compressed but otherwise Alienware-quality keyboard are much better than average, as is the comfortable, large touch pad. Much like other Alienware laptops, the bold colored keyboard, grille, and Alienware logo lights can be customized in any of a rainbow of colors, or even set to strobe if you prefer. These effects are set using a set of Alienware apps.
The M11x’s 11.6-inch, 1,366×768 screen looked good behind its edge-to-edge glossy veneer, but there was quite a bit of glare, too, and colors weren’t as bright or rich as we expected under bright lights. With its screen size, the M11x seems made to be plugged into an external monitor. The audio, however, is astounding for the M11x’s size; built-in 5.1 speakers are crisp, loud, and good enough to enhance the gaming experience on their own. At maximum volume, the M11x can rock a room.
We have to note that the M11x lacks an optical drive, an obvious decision made to enable this laptop to be so small, but we couldn’t help notice the M11x’s conspicuously port-free stretch on its right side that looks about the same size as, well, an optical drive. We’ll let you draw your own conclusions. The ability to install games off disc without having to plug in a USB-connected external optical drive would be nice, but most modern gamers using Steam (preinstalled on the Alienware) or other downloadable software probably never touch discs most of the time anyway.
Alienware M11x Average for category [Thin-and-light]
Video VGA-out, HDMI, DisplayPort VGA plus HDMI or DisplayPort
Audio Stereo speakers, dual headphone jacks, microphone jack Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
Data 3 USB 2.0, dual SD/Memory Stick card reader, mini-Firewire 3 USB 2.0, SD card reader
Expansion None ExpressCard/54
Networking Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional WWAN
Optical drive None DVD burner
The most impressive feature on this tiny laptop is its triumvirate of video-out ports: HDMI, VGA, and DisplayPort. Though we don’t often use DisplayPort, it can’t hurt to have it. No ExpressCard slot is provided, but at least the M11x includes Bluetooth (though you can optionally save $20 and leave it out when ordering on Dell’s Web site). The 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive we had in our configuration is an add-on that costs an extra $150; the base hard drive is only 160GB and 5,400rpm. If you really wanted to blow out the M11x, a 256GB SSD upgrade costs $570. The 4GB of included RAM can be upgraded up to 8GB.
The 1.3GHz SU7300 Core 2 ULV is a processor we’ve seen on thin-and-lights and ultraportables. It offers a close-to-Core-2-Duo experience, but in the wake of faster Core i3 and i5 processors, it’s a little less impressive. In our benchmark tests, the M11x falls far behind a Core i7 M15x at multimedia multitasking, but stays close to similar laptops such as the Asus UL50VT. On the M11x the SU7300 processor is overclockable to 1.73GHz in the BIOS menu, which isn’t intuitive for the uninitiated, but that’s still nowhere near what even a Core i3 processor provides.
Multimedia multitasking test (in seconds)
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test (in seconds)
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A powerful but not top-of-the-line Nvidia GeForce GT 335M graphics card with 1GB of RAM is the M11x’s real secret weapon, giving it enough gaming power to handle most mainstream titles. The M11x also has “hybrid graphics,” meaning that with the press of a Function key the laptop will switch between its GT 335M GPU and less powerful but more battery-friendly integrated graphics, letting the M11x either be battery-conservative or a gaming workhorse. The switch causes the screen to black out for a few seconds, but otherwise is painless and doesn’t require logging out or quitting programs. Still, you have to remember to switch, and the hybrid-graphics indictor icon isn’t exactly prominent. Sadly, the M11x lacks newer on-the-fly Optimus graphics-switching technology recently announced by Nvidia, which would have been perfect on the M11x, but we have to admit that once you know how to do it, graphics-switching is easy.
The M11x ran Unreal Tournament 3’s benchmark test at 69.5 frames per second in native 1,366×768-pixel resolution, which is great compared with any other mainstream laptop with dedicated graphics, and even bested the far more expensive Sony Vaio Z. On the other hand, it can’t hold a candle to a “dedicated” gaming laptop such as the M15x, which ran about double the frame rate. We’d best call the M11x a machine that’s built to handle most games pretty well, but you shouldn’t expect this to be a shrunken-down version of a super-powered rig. At its price, however, it’s a pretty good setup.
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Learn more about On/off valves and soft-start valves
Shut off valves and soft-start dump valves
MS seriesThe MS series has the most comprehensive range of manually, pneumatically and electrically actuated on/off valves and soft start valves in four sizes. The valves of the MS series are characterised by a high flow rate performance, integrable sensors and certified safety valves for safe exhausting of pneumatic systems. They are ideal for every application. The pneumatically and electrically actuated valves can be configured with and without an integrated soft-start function. There are also pneumatically and electrically actuated soft start valves as individual devices.Thanks to the modular system of the MS series, these valves are easy to install in service units.Depending on the configuration, they are also suitable for use in the potentially explosive areas of zones 1, 2, 21 and 22 as well as with UL approval.
D series, metalThe D series has a basic range of manually, pneumatically and electrically actuated on/off valves and soft start valves. They are available in three sizes.Soft start valves are available as individual devices. These can be integrated in service units using the tie rod connection system of the D series.
D series, polymerThe D series with polymer housing has a manual spool valve for selective pressurisation and exhausting. It is available as an individual device, but also in combination with filter regulators of the D series in polymer.
Individual devicesThe PVEL series offers pneumatically and manually operated pressurisation and exhaust valves with a pressure range of up to 50 bar.In addition, with the HE-LO series, Festo provides shut-off valves in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 147 "Control of Hazardous Energy" of the US Department of Labor.
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Picardy /
Oise /
Abancourt /
Abancourt tourism and travel guide
Photo is of Gerberoy at 19 km from Abancourt
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Visit Abancourt: highlights and tourist information
Abancourt is situated in the Oise department and Hauts-de-France region.
Popular places to visit nearby include Gerberoy at 19 km and Parc Saint-Paul at 35 km. For more sites to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Abancourt, France: places to visit and attractions
Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Abancourt in Hauts-de-France.
Most Beautiful Village at 19 km (direction south-south-east)
The 18th century cottages and pretty gardens, and a radical transformation during...
See Gerberoy guide
Parc Saint-Paul
Theme Park at 35 km (direction south-east)
Parc Saint Paul is one of the most popular theme parks in...
See Parc Saint-Paul guide
at 38 km (direction south-east)
In Beauvais you can see the important (if often rebuilt and renovated)...
See Beauvais guide
Lyons-la-Foret
Most Beautiful Village at 40 km (direction south-west), in the Eure department
The half-timbered buildings in the village of Lyons-la-Foret make it one of...
See Lyons-la-Foret guide
Cathedral at 44 km (direction east-north-east), in the Somme department
The 13th century cathedral in Amiens is a fabulous example of gothic...
See Amiens Cathedral guide
at 45 km (direction east-north-east), in the Somme department
As well as the remarkabe gothic style cathedral which attracts most visitors,...
See Amiens guide
Abbeville makes a pleasant detour when you are exploring the Baie de...
See Abbeville guide
at 46 km (direction north-west), in the Seine-Maritime department
The red-brick castle, built in the 16th century, is the main attraction...
See Eu guide
at 49 km (direction north-west), in the Somme department
Attractive seaside town with lots of Belle-Epoque villas...
See Mers-les-Bains guide
Le Treport
The highlight of a visit to the active port town of Le...
See Le Treport guide
Ault is a small seaside town near the chalk cliffs of the...
See Ault guide
Saint-Riquier
at 50 km (direction north-north-east), in the Somme department
The small Picardy village of Saint-Riquier includes an attractive benedictine abbey church,...
See Saint-Riquier guide
at 55 km (direction west-north-west), in the Seine-Maritime department
Explore the port area then head to the castle and the Museum...
See Dieppe guide
at 55 km (direction west-south-west), in the Seine-Maritime department
The cathedral and cobbled streets in the old town are just two...
See Rouen guide
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Oise
Map of places to visit near Abancourt
Markets in and near Abancourt
Formerie: market Wednesday (6km)
Aumale: market Saturday (8km)
Poix-de-Picardie: market Sunday (18km)
Forges-les-Eaux: market Thursday & Sunday (19km)
Neufchatel-en-Bray: market Saturday (23km)
Gournay-en-Bray: market Tuesday & Friday (24km)
Blangy-sur-Bresle: market Sunday (27km)
Buchy: market Monday (32km)
Beauvais: market Wednesday all day & Saturday all day (38km)
Bosc-le-Hard: market Wednesday (43km)
Hotels near Abancourt
More information about Abancourt, Picardy
Picardy region travel guide
Oise travel guide
Oise places and attractions
Tourist attractions near Abancourt, France
What to do at Abancourt? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Abancourt.
Folleville église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (43km)
Amiens Cathedral (44km)
Beffroi d'Amiens (Belfries of Belgium and France) (45km)
Gerberoy (19km)
Lyons-la-Foret (40km)
Forges-les-Eaux (18km)
Eu (46km)
Abbaye Saint Germer de Fly (Saint-Germer-de-Fly) (28km)
Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Beauvais) (37km)
Parc du château de Digeon (10km)
Parc et roseraie du château de Rambures (30km)
Jardin de Bellevue (39km)
Jardin Plume (43km)
Le clos Alexandre (45km)
Clos du Coudray (45km)
Jardins du château de Vandrimare (47km)
Mers-les-Bains (48km)
Montagne de Montenoy (22km)
Réserve naturelle régionale des Larris et Tourbières de Saint-Pierre-es-Champs (30km)
Forêt du Parc de Saint-Quentin (33km)
Plan d'eau du Canada (35km)
Hortillonnages d'Amiens (37km)
Réserve naturelle de l'Étang Saint-Ladre (48km)
Forêt de Hez-Froidmont (54km)
Parc Saint Paul (35km)
Amiens (48km)
Mureaumont (8km)
Beauvais (38km)
Remerangles (47km)
Abancourt is in the north of France at 38 kilometres from Beauvais, the department capital (general information: Abancourt is 103 kilometres from Paris).
Commune: Abancourt
Canton: Formerie
Arrondissement: Beauvais
Department: Oise
Region: Picardy
New region: Hauts-de-France
Distance to Abancourt
from Beauvais (prefecture): 38 km
For driving distances to Abancourt from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 16 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Blargies, Bouvresse, Broquiers, Criquiers, Escles-Saint-Pierre, Feuquieres, Formerie, Fouilloy, Gourchelles, Haudricourt, Lannoy-Cuillere, Moliens, Monceaux-l'Abbaye, Quincampoix-Fleuzy, Romescamps and Saint-Valery.
This page in French: Visiter Abancourt
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Lions to make Ricky Wagner highest-paid RT; he's 'living his dream'
Dave Birkett
Scott Otto had just returned to his office Wednesday when he checked his phone to find he had a missed text message from Ricky Wagner.
"It's Detroit," read the text, and Otto knew exactly what his former star football player was talking about.
Wagner agreed to a free-agent deal with the Detroit Lions on Wednesday, making him the highest-paid pure right tackle in the NFL.
Players cannot officially sign contracts until the 2017 league year opens at 4 p.m. Thursday, but NFL Network reported Wagner's deal will eclipse $9 million per season.
• Live: NFL rumor mill
Lane Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles signed an extension last year worth $11.2 million annually, but that was in anticipation of his eventual move to left tackle. Other top right tackles, such as Bryan Bulaga of the Green Bay Packers and Mitchell Schwartz of the Kansas City Chiefs, average less than $7 million annually on their recently signed deals.
The Lions, looking to both upgrade their running game and better protect quarterback Matthew Stafford, targeted Wagner as a replacement for Riley Reiff on their young but emerging offensive line.
Wagner, a three-year starter with the Baltimore Ravens who doesn't turn 28 until October, was considered the top right tackle on the market, and the Wisconsin native found allure in returning to the Midwest and reuniting with Lions coach Jim Caldwell, his offensive coordinator his rookie season.
Detroit Lions agree to terms with LB Paul Worrilow
"Detroit fits in so many ways," said Otto, Wagner's coach at Hale High in West Allis, Wis. "It is close to home. I think they’re obviously a very good up-and-coming team, one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. He loves Caldwell. I know that. I believe Caldwell was his O.C. at Baltimore his first year, and so he said he always got along with Coach Caldwell and said, he goes, 'I have not met a nicer, better, human being than Coach Caldwell,' so I know he’s really very fired up about that. But if you know Ricky, I still think in his mind this is all surreal. He’s just a kid from West Allis, Wis., that is kind of living his dream."
Wagner was a top offensive-line target of a handful teams when the free-agent negotiating period opened Tuesday.
The Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Carolina Panthers were among the teams that showed interest in Wagner, and Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh expressed confidence that his team would re-sign a player that Pro Football Focus graded as the league's best pass-protecting right tackle in 2014.
"We do have an edge," Harbaugh said of Wagner and his other top free agents. "They want to be Ravens. They love it in Baltimore, and they love what we’re doing as an organization and as a team, and they want to be a part of it. We’ve offered them -- we’re very competitive, I can tell you that, with what we’re offering, and we’re negotiating with them right now. We want them back. And Ricky definitely is a guy we want back."
In Detroit, Wagner is the newest addition to an offensive line that's undergone major changes since Bob Quinn took over as general manager last year.
The Lions took left tackle Taylor Decker in the first round of last spring's draft — Decker's arrival pushed Reiff, a three-year starter on the left side, to right tackle — and added two more linemen in the next four rounds who could play starting roles this fall.
Graham Glasgow started 11 games between left guard and center last year and projects as the team's left guard in 2017, and Joe Dahl should compete for time at right guard if pending free agent Larry Warford finds a new home as expected. Travis Swanson returns as the Lions' starting center, and Laken Tomlinson, a first-round pick in 2015, also will contend for playing time.
Backup tackle Corey Robinson also is under contract for 2017, though he's coming off a season-ending foot injury, and No. 4 tackle Cornelius Lucas is a restricted free agent.
Swanson, at 26 years old, is the oldest member of that group, and Quinn said last week it was important for the Lions to keep a veteran presence on their offensive line.
"You can’t have all rookies and second-year players on your offensive line," Quinn said. "I think that’s something that is a philosophy of mine. You can’t go too young."
The Lions, who ranked 30th in the NFL in rushing last year and tied for the 11th-most sacks allowed, made a big splash at the start of free agency for the second straight season and still have room for impact defensive addition if they so choose.
Last year, the Lions signed Marvin Jones to the top wide receiver contract given out in free agency (five years, $40 million). Jones had 55 catches for 930 yards and four touchdowns, but struggled after a hot start.
This year, the team still is in need of help on the defensive line, at cornerback, linebacker, wide receiver and tight end, but with Wagner in the fold seems to be set for now up front.
On Wednesday, after speaking with Otto, Wagner traded text messages and eventually talked with his old basketball coach from Hale, too.
Scott Pritzl, who also was a football assistant during Wagner's days at Hale, said the usually low-key Wagner was fired up about his next stop.
“I just sat in my office and, not that it had anything to do with me but I just came to tears because it was so cool to see a kid that you had coached and came from this little high school in this little old town and now he’s the highest-paid right tackle in the league," Pritzl said. "It’s really neat because the kid deserves everything he got. Things didn’t always come easy for him. It was really cool."
Lions sign defensive tackle Khyri Thornton to two-year deal
Contact Dave Birkett: dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett.
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Meet Ricky Wagner
Position: Right tackle.
Vitals: 6-6, 310 pounts.
Age: 27.
From: West Allis, Wis.
College: Wisconsin.
Drafted: In 5th round of 2013 draft (No. 168 overall) by Ravens.
In the NFL: Wagner has started 47 of the Ravens’ 48 regular-season games over the past three seasons.
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Drager - Oxy K 30 S (Training Unit)
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Please note: this product is no obsolete. See the Drager Oxy 6000 range as a potential alternative.
Drager Training Unit (Oxy K 30 S).
The Drager Oxy K 30 S is an oxygen self-rescuer. This particular version of the Oxy K 30 is a training unit. The unit also features a handy shoulder strap.
This particular self-rescuer also provides users with chemically bound oxygen for up to 30 minutes.
One of the main advantages of having a training unit is preparation. The Oxy K 30 ST will allow wearers to practice donning and doffing the self-rescuer and allow them to become familiarised with the unit. The Oxy K 30 is relatively compact (size 210 x 260 x 95mm) and can be placed comfortably over the head and shoulders. The weight of a standard Oxy K 30 S with shoulder strap is approximately 2.5 kg when unopened – this may be similar to the weight of a training unit.
The Oxy K 30 S features a nose clip and mouthpiece. There is an additional version of the Oxy K 30 available with a special hood. This is also a training unit. View this product here.
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Taco, burrito emojis part of new set to be released in iOS 9.1
New emojis, including a taco and burrito, were unveiled Wednesday after the Apple product release event.
The emojis will be part of an update to iOS 9.1, which could roll out with the release of the new iPad Pro in November.
Developers were able to see the new emojis with the release of a beta version of iOS 9.1 on Wednesday.
The Next Web reported nearly every category had new emojis.
Texans will be excited to know a taco emoji and burrito emoji are amongst the new additions. Other notables include a block of cheese, a turkey, a lion, a unicorn and a bottle of champagne.
Bedroom furniture, new faces and new landscape squares are also included.
17-year-old accused of killing his father in Dallas
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Art Smith reveals his tips and tricks for making your Christmas super Southern
By Carey Reilly, | Fox News
Chef Art Smith shows off the fried chicken and macaroni and cheese dishes planned for his new Orlando restaurant, Homecoming: Florida Kitchen and Southern Shine at Disney Springs. (Tom Burton for Homecoming Florida Kitchen)
Oprah Winfrey's former personal chef and restaurateur Art Smith is known around the world for his succulent southern cuisine.
From crispy fried chicken to shrimp and grits and collard greens, Smith's dishes have been pleasing the rich
The James Beard Award recipient recently returned home to Florida to open his latest restaurant, Homecoming in Disney Springs at Walt Disney World in Orlando. The jovial chef dishes to FoxNews.com about some of Oprah's favorite things plus some of his signature tips and tricks behind cooking a proper southern meal for the holidays.
FoxNews.com: Why is food so important when it comes to family time?
Art Smith: I wrote my first cookbook because I wanted to write a book about bringing families back to the table. We created the book using stories and food and how they both connect people. A story makes food taste better. Food doesn’t taste good unless it connects people.
The recipes we use at Homecoming Florida Kitchen are based on my mother's cooking. That tells our guests a little something about me and my family with every bite. In the restaurant, there’s a picture of the two of us holding a platter of the chicken at my home in Jasper. My now world famous fried chicken doesn't re-invent the concept but it's how my mother made it. I am sharing a part of me on our menu.
10 CREATIVE CHRISTMAS DESSERTS
FoxNews.com: What is the first thing you ever cooked for Oprah?
I got a message from Andre who was Oprah’s hairdresser asking me to come cook for them. “I want you to come make lunch for us at the studio tomorrow," he said. The next day I flew up to Chicago. I made Oprah paella salad with fresh vegetable and poached seafood in it, [and] I made itsy bitsy key lime pies.
I did that for 2 months before I became Oprah’s chef, it was like a very long audition.
FoxNews.com: Can you share some tips on putting together a great Southern Christmas meal?
To make your Christmas Southern is really a state of mind. A "Southern state of mind" requires slowing down the pace of the cooking and the meal. That's why good barbecue is cooked low and slow. That's why beans and greens are simmered to soak up flavor. Whether they are herbs or produce, an ingredient you have nurtured in the garden brings robust flavor to the table.
FoxNews.com: What dishes would you bring to Christmas dinner?
Cornbread dressing is one of my favorite dishes to make and I also love to serve a turkey for Christmas. Corn bread salad is good too because you don’t need to heat things up. Try to only have one hot dish. I always make sure I have a lot of mac and cheese for the children. I’d rather have happy children than screaming children. I’m also all about dessert and fresh bread. My favorite dessert is hummingbird cake or my great grandmother’s 12-layer chocolate cake.
FoxNews.com: What is the greatest lesson Oprah taught you?
Know your audience and the greatest gifts are those that help and uplift others. Food is peace. I did a Ted Talk about that. Never forget: Fried chicken takes no sides. Success is not determined by our bank accounts, it is what we do for one another.
FoxNews.com: What are some important things to keep in mind when entertaining for the holidays?
Keep it simple. A lot of fluff and real simple food. I’m a big believer in making things that you’ve had. At the holidays keep it traditional don’t try to make the latest recipe out of the newest magazine. That’s all good but don’t make it on the day you are stressed, don’t put yourself through that! Your family doesn’t care, they just want something beautiful.
With Oprah, we never did plated food, never! Why? Because just saying to someone that’s all you get, so eat it and be happy. She didn’t like that. Oprah thought food should be plentiful and wonderful. So, don’t do a plated thing.
BEST WINTER BEERS TO BRING ON THE HOLIDAY CHEER
FoxNews.com: Are there any childhood memories that influence your Christmas today?
I can't stress enough the importance of bringing people together through food at any holiday. My childhood memories are of family gatherings, music, laughter and a sense of peace and hope. The world spins so fast. Cherish that time when all can gather for a meal. Engage and listen to your children. Hold hands. Hug. Make it a human experience. We all need to be kind to one another.
Carey Reilly is a lifestyle blogger, TV host, comedian and lover of cocktails. She is the editor of www.notsoskinnymom.com. Follow her on Twitter @careycomic and Instagram @careyreilly.
Fun stories about food, relationships, the great outdoors and more.
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Fallout 4 Performance Analysis
Written by WorstUsernameEver on November 12th, 2015
The folks at Digital Foundry have taken a good hard look at Fallout 4's technical make-up for Eurogamer and came up with two articles. In the first, they ask themselves whether Fallout 4 qualifies as a "next-gen game" in terms of graphical fidelity. Unsurprisingly, they conclude that it does, even though it looks a bit dated and behind the curve:
All told, Fallout 4 does feel like a step forward in technological terms, if not the giant leap we had hoped for. The physically-based lighting, its interplay with weather conditions, and a suite of new effects make it stand apart from Fallout 3 on the surface. Aspects of its presentation fall behind the curve though, and the world overall appears a touch flat, plus we still see lengthy loading screens when fast-travelling between major areas. On PS4 and Xbox One, we also stick to the 30fps target of its last-gen games too, with variable delivery in hitting that number as we've discussed in our performance analysis.
It's disappointing on these points, and we suspect Bethesda's tools could have used a more thorough refresh for its first PS4 and Xbox One project. The team recently revealed the game's development began with porting Skyrim to Microsoft's new machine, and Fallout 4's inheritance is often clear to see in playing the game. But there's a legacy to Bethesda's underlying tech that it clearly feels at home with - a method that has helped realise a huge apocalyptic playground few other developers are able to match for scope.
The end product in Fallout 4 is an unusual mixture of old and new. It undoubtedly follows a familiar template underneath, but the new lighting model layered over the top gives it an often-times beautiful, current-gen veneer. Certain new effects already look dated, but regardless, it has a flexibility most games don't offer, with its wide scope for exploration, and a freedom granted by its dialogue options. It's not a knockout blow in technical terms, but it still impresses in its own way - and hopefully this marks the first step of many, as Bethesda continues to develop for PS4 and Xbox One.
The second article is the performance analysis proper. The PC version gets Digital Foundry's recommendation and seems very solid, but the console versions suffer. On the Xbox One, Fallout 4 apparently stutters so heavily that Digital Foundry's framerate tool even registered 0 fps at one point:
All things put into perspective, Fallout 4 does hold 30fps as a general rule, but drops are noticeable. For example, moving between major city areas is a particular strain on the engine, causing PS4 and Xbox One to drop to 20fps in matching spots on the map. Like clockwork, each platform lurches downward for a spell when passing a threshold in the environment - suggesting assets are being decompressed on the fly for the next location. 30fps is restored relatively quickly on arriving at the next spot, and it's business as usual from there. However it's not an ideal setup when these connecting areas are filled with enemies, and controller response suddenly takes a hit - though PS4 holds a frame-rate advantage in matching runs.
But that's not the whole story. On top of this, Xbox One is unique in its suffering of a stuttering issue, halting the game experience for up to a second during play. It's a glaring hitch downward, and matching runs to the gates of Diamond City shows Xbox One dropping to a record 0fps (zero) while PS4 turns the same corner at 28fps. Each has their blips, but having tested two separate Xbox One and PS4 consoles, the results are always the same across the world at large; we get sizeable stutters on Microsoft's console that aren't present on PS4.
For now though, evidence so far suggests those buying Fallout 4 on console should get an overall smoother experience from PS4. It's far from perfect, and we have a suspicion re-tests will be due once each machine receives new patches down the line. As ever, we'll update as new information comes in. Meanwhile, for those with PC as their platform of choice, all the signs look good for a smooth experience even on budget kit.
Related Games: Fallout 4
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Shovel Knight, FUCK YEAH!
*Modern Gaming
Retro Island Gaming - The Immortal Review
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NFP leader Biman Prasad: Who should decide how much should be paid to US; it should be decided by a Parliamentary Committee!
On 4 July 2014, Frank Bainimarama announced he receives a total income of $278,750. On 3 October, he brought in the Parliamentary Remuneration Decree 2014, giving himself a pay increase of $328,750, two days before the sitting of the first Parliament since his 2006 coup
Opposition parliamentarian, Biman Prasad said the salaries of the President, the Prime Minister, the Leader of Opposition and MP’s should be set by a parliamentary committee. Prasad has raised concern on the difference in the salaries of the Ministers and the Leader of Opposition. The NFP Leader also said comparisons will also be made now by the opposition and they will await the appointment of the Parliamentary Committee to look into all these matters. Under the Parliamentary Remunerations Decree, parliament may, by resolution appoint a committee to make a determination on the salaries. Source: Fijivillage News
Leading the way on parliamentary salaries. Mr and Mrs Biman Prasad
Fijivillage News:
The flat base salaries inclusive of all allowances of the President, the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers and parliamentarians have been set and gazetted under the Parliamentary Remunerations Decree.
According to the decree which came into effect last Friday, the President gets a non-taxable salary of $130,000.
The Prime Minister has a total package of $328,750; the Minister for Finance gets $235,000, while the Ministers for Health, Education, Infrastructure and Transport get $200,000.
The salaries of other Ministers is $185,000 while Assistant Ministers receive $90,000.
The decree states that the Speaker of Parliament has a total salary of $150,000.
It has also been confirmed that the Leader of Opposition will get $120,000.
Other members of parliament will get $50,000.
Voreqe Bainimarama
The allowances and benefits for the President and the Prime Minister include free furnished residence with all services and staff, an official car with driver, free telephone services, free internet connection at their residence, FNPF contribution, 4 weeks leave which must be compensated if not utilised, free accommodation and meals for all local travel, first class overseas travel and may be accompanied by spouse, overseas travelling allowance calculated at UNDP subsistence allowance plus 50% together with $300 per day incidental allowance and all costs to be reimbursed for local or overseas medical treatment as required.
The Leader of Opposition gets an official car with a driver, an official mobile phone, internet connection at home, 4 weeks leave which must be compensated if not utilised, free accommodation and meals for all official local travel, business class travel for official meetings and overseas travelling allowance calculated at UNDP subsistence allowance plus 50% together with $150 per day incidental allowance.
These salaries are set until such time parliament by resolution determines any remuneration under the decree.
Opposition Leader
Ro Teimumu Kepa
The decree said when setting the salaries, parliament must regard the need to achieve and maintain fair relativity with the levels of salaries received by persons in the private sector, the salaries must be competitive so that persons of the right calibre are not deterred from stepping forward to lead the country, the salaries must be transparent with no hidden components or perks and the need to be fair to the persons whose salary is being prescribed and to the taxpayer.
A section in the decree also said that when setting the salaries, parliament must take into account any prevailing economic conditions based on evidence from an authoritative source.
It also said that parliament may set the salaries at a rate lower than it would otherwise have set.
Parliament may amend a determination at any time while it is in force to deal with any new matter that was not dealt with at the time at which the determination was made. Story by Vijay Narayan
COUPS PAY IN FIJI: FROM COMMANDER, COUPSTER, TO
PRIME MINISTER - SALARY CHART
The President hosts reception at Government House for Opening of Parliament, October 2014 . In September 2005 the Qarase government had chided Bainimarama when an intruder had sneaked into Government House and was found doing press ups
Agenda of the Day
"Letz Line Up Our Pockets - like there's no tomorrow"
Biman Prasad , instead of taking a principled stand boycotting the Parliament over RIGGED elections - as his own signature alleges -Here is the MAN, motivated by MONEY, money... money... More money...
It is greed which is shinning in your eyes, Biman, in the picture, look, it is the greed, you sell-out politician.
oolala
@ soldout - you're blinded by hate, fool. Now re-read the thread slowly.
Well said Biman Prasad re revisiting their decree... and so you must all "Beware the Greeks bearing gifts"..
Parting-Shot
How fitting that the last DEED (Parliamentary Remuneration Decree) of the DICTATOR is one dictated by GREED. Let history record this!
Fiji's First
The Government of the Ali Baba and Thirty One Thieves
the dictator rules link
The dictatorship is still alive and well in Fiji - the farcial elections and the restoration of parliamentary democracy notwithstanding. the dictator decides how much he can put in his pocket. fullstop. the rest of you gang get what HE wants you to get. the rest of you gang can continue to act the ostrich and go on with the pretense of engagement in "parliamentary democracy". it's not a bad deal for YOUS!
nah link
Nah it won't happen. Nothing will be decided by any parliamentary committee. Everything will be decided by the dictator and his adviser in chief Khaiyum and the rest of you will go through the motions of "debating and deliberating" on things that have been decided already!
Canada Boy
Good on you Biman
What do they still think, that they can keep on issuing decree after decree and not go through the peoples representatives to pass new laws, rules and legislations
So much for a true and genuine FB democracy
rajend naidu link
The President of Uruguay Jose Mujica continues to live in his ramshackled one bedroom farm home; drive his trusty old Beetle and gives away 90 percent of his salary to charity (SBS Dateline The Poorest President 24/09). Now that is what you call a True Man of the People. Any like that amongst our mob?
Yep link
We have Mahendra Pal Chaudhry who gave into his own pocket the $1 million that was given to him to give to the poor people of Fiji by Indians in India.
Then we have Hon. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama whose first action after grabbing power was to give himself a "backpay" of $184,000.
Then of course we have a whole list of our political leaders who helped themselves with free money from the National Bank of Fiji rendering the NBF bankrupt.
We have our Heroes - the thieving kind!
a truism link
Coups Pay in Fiji. Of course it pays. It pays very well. It's a truism. That's why coups have been carried out . So that coup leaders can enrich themselves - FAST.
Tell me if anyone who was part of the Bainimarama coup have become poor since his takeover?
He has quite literally become fat and so has his right hand man Khaiyum.
Victor, what will be the salary of a Minister with multiple portfolios ? For instance, Hon Khaiyum has about 5 Ministries? Will he be the highest paid Minister in the Land?
too right link
Tinpot dictators don't cling to power ( through fake elections etc) to live poor. They want to live like royalty surrounded by opulence and crystal chandeliers and off shore bank accounts.
Taveta
check out Helipro has gone into receivership another Blacktop broke in NZ yet allowed to work in Fiji
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/10592384/Helipro-put-into-receivership
Victor, I fail to understand why there are still decrees issued when there is an elected parliament in place. Didn't we elect people to got into parliament to be our voices? If this decree had been tabled, it would have been unanimously agreed to. Hell, with this kind of pay-packets, they can sleep in parliament & laugh all the way to the bank.
Victor, the failed Helipro was quickly established in Fiji by one of Frank's closest friend and big question mark on FDB's involvement. Now that it has gone belly up the taxpayers are again holding the can. We never learn and this is the price of no governance which continues unabated. For example the renumeration should have been presented to the House in a form of Bill and debated before being passed. Typical FFP MO!
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Origins - websterhamster
Deep beneath the primeval Everfree Forest, unimaginable things can happen... This story begins several thousand years before Hearth's Warming.
Origins written by websterhamster
Chapter One - Research2,746 words
Chapter Two - The Adventure (and the danger) Begins!1,204 words
Chapter Three - Into the Darkness2,729 words
Chapter Four - Questions, Questions8,214 words
Chapter Five - A New Quest Begins6,254 words
Chapter Six - The Company of Six4,436 words
Chapter Seven - Recondite Ruminations and Scrumptious Sandwitches6,563 words
Chapter Four - Questions, Questions
Chapter Four – Questions, Questions
The tunnel was dark, with spectral shadows filling the gulf between each red torch burning on the walls. The rough grey basalt bricks that graced the floor and walls seemed to magnify the gloom of the passage, making Midnight feel almost as if he were walking through somepony's nightmare. The creature he followed definitely added to that vibe, his strange loping stride and glowing eyes combining to make it a convincing replica of a monstrous demon from the dark recesses of a young pony's mind.
However, Midnight Shadow was immune to such horrors. Ever since he was a foal, he had never been afraid of the dark; in fact, he always seemed to be happier at night. The first time he used magic, when he was only two years old, he had been watching a meteor shower with his parents. While lying on his back, idly waiting for the next star to go shooting by, he had almost unconsciously grabbed the shadows cast by the moon, and made them mirror his thoughts. Nopony noticed until the shadows moved into the moonlight in front of them.
He had gotten his Cutie Mark when he was fourteen years old. In the village where he grew up, there were a bunch of young fillies and colts always playing around, and, as in all groups of young creatures, there were bullies. Midnight never received the benefit of their attention, but he couldn't stand the sight of ponies being ridiculed and harassed, so he decided to use his shadow-magic to protect them. When he realized that there was an immense good that magic could do for the world, he knew that he wanted to study and learn all he could about it, to discover and record new spells. And thus he earned his Cutie Mark.
A cold draft of air came blowing in from under the metal door, catching Midnight momentarily unawares. His shadows billowed in the breeze before he enthralled them again. The lizard lifted his head and sniffed, no doubt noticing the scent of morning dew in the air. Midnight hoped he could get Forest out before dawn, but was afraid such a feat would be beyond his ability. He was used to scholarly pursuits, not deeds of subterfuge and rescue.
The rest of the journey to the interior of the dungeon was uneventful. About a thousand meters from the door, he began to see short passages coming off the main one, with barred doors on either side. These appeared to be prison cells where criminals and enemies could be kept locked away; however, these all seemed to be empty.
They walked for another fifteen minutes before arriving at a small circular room at the end of the hallway. It was much like the throne room, although without any pillars; at the back was a wooden door, and to its right, a barred gate. In front of these portals was a desk, behind which sat another lizard, dark green in color, with a slightly lighter shade of green on her belly. She was adorned with golden armor, a crested helm upon her head. Leaning against the wall behind her, between the two doors, was a sword-belt, shield, and spear. She looked up at the approach of the black lizard.
The guard who Midnight had been following stood to attention and saluted by placing his right fist over his chest. “Private Brex reporting for duty ma'am!” He said.
The martial-looking lizard behind the desk stood and returned the salute. “At ease, Private. I don't know how much Sergeant Cathka told you, but our scout team has captured a young pony, a unicorn, on the surface near the north entrance. I believe this one, although too young to use magic yet, may someday be our means of finding the lost tribe.” She suddenly looked sharply at the shadows behind Brex, no doubt seeing a movement when Midnight shifted his hooves to be more comfortable.
She continued. “It’s highly possible that the scouts were pursued, as they noticed another unicorn, a stallion, accompanying the prisoner. They observed him acting as a mentor to the prisoner, so he may have attempted to “rescue” her. The perimeter guards at the edge of the Great Shadow heard a noise earlier, but haven't reported seeing anything yet.”
Private Brex had shifted to a less stiff position while he listened to the briefing. Midnight was interested to hear all this, as it was obvious Forest Treasure was their prisoner, and he was the pursuer. They didn't know who they were dealing with, did they? He thought, smugly. So far he had escaped detection, although apparently some of the guards had heard him teleport over the gorge.
“Commander, permission to make a suggestion?” Brex asked.
“Granted,” replied the other lizard, who was apparently a commander.
“It may be faster and simpler to use the prisoner as bait for the older unicorn. Instead of waiting for her to learn magic on her own, we could have the stallion do the work now. We could shave years off the wait that way,” the Private said.
The Commander looked thoughtful for a moment, then shook her head. “That's actually a good idea, but for now there's a more pressing matter. As you know, the lorions of the Southern Shadow have been gearing for war for a year. Also, I'm sure you know that their army was spotted at our southern border a week ago, with an escort of unicorn battle-mages from High Gate. They intend to attack soon, and we need to know their plans. If this unicorn was part of a scouting party, we could get some important intel from her.”
“And Sergeant Cathka said you needed me to interrogate her?” Brex asked.
“Yes. While your methods are... unorthodox, I can't argue with the results. I've spent the last hour trying to get her to talk to me, but she insists she was on an adventure with her teacher, 'searching for knowledge' I believe her words were.” The Commander leaned forward. “I need you to get at least some numbers from her. We need to know what we're dealing with.”
Private Brex straightened and saluted again. “Yes Ma'am!”
The Commander stood and took a large black key from a drawer in the desk. She then walked over to the gate, inserted the key, and unlocked it, pushing it inwards with a creak. Motioning for Brex to follow, she entered, with a lizard and shadow-cloaked pony following closely behind.
The gateway opened into another corridor, only about twenty meters long. On each side were large doors of a golden metal alloy that looked similar to the doors Midnight had seen earlier, although these doors had a slight reddish tint to them. Complicated lock mechanisms surrounded the doorways, with strange triangular keyholes in the center of each door. Above the doorways were two gas lamps, although only one was lit on each cell. With the exception of the door at the end of the corridor, the lamps all burned green, while the last door had a lamp burning red, the glow of which cast the cell door in a menacing and evil shade of crimson.
Between the doors were racks, full of equipment that was either for torture, or meant for the restraint of various different creatures.
“You haven't been enlisted long enough to know how this works, but when we captured a magical being, we always keep them locked up in this cell block, behind doors made of Adamantium. The locks are also shielded with Adamantium, so they can't use magic to escape. Under no circumstances will you interrogate a prisoner here or open any of these cells unless the door to the cellblock is closed; it locks automatically to prevent escape.” The Commander said.
“Yes Commander,” Brex replied.
They had traversed half the distance to the end of the corridor when Midnight stubbed his hoof against an irregularity in the paving of the floor, tripped, and hit his head against one of the doors with a loud clang! Both of the military lizards froze, then wheeled about to see a cloud of shadows disintegrate to reveal a dizzy and reeling unicorn trying to get up without falling over again.
“So much for sneaking around,” Midnight thought, as he began to charge up his horn to defend himself. But before he could regain his concentration to form a spell, the Commander had swiftly capped his horn with a conical sheath of the same metal the cell doors were made of. Straining, he found that all of his magic was contained, making him basically defenseless; he was a scholar, not a warrior, and he knew he wouldn't stand a chance in a physical fight against these trained guards.
“So, you made it this far, did you? Well, no worries, we'll double the watch to make sure none of your friends can follow!” The Commander said, leering at him. “Private! Open cell one of the Adamantium cells and introduce our ‘guest’ to his new accommodations. After seeing to the filly, we'll interrogate him; he may be more useful at any rate.”
“Yes Ma'am!” Brex took a harness off the wall and quickly latched it about Midnight's withers. After attaching a long leather leash to the harness, he led the dark blue stallion to a cell adjacent to what Midnight assumed was Forest's. Inside, the guard lizard attached Adamantine shoes to Midnight's hooves, which were then chained to prevent him from moving.
The whole while, Midnight was silent, and didn’t resist. He was a scholar of magic, and as such knew that with his horn capped there was no way he could defend himself; there was no use getting beat up when he would likely need his strength later. He hoped that the lizards had been more gentle with Forest Treasure.
Brex closed the door with a clang, leaving Midnight in utter silence and darkness.
Brex was excited. He had only been in King Narmon's Elite Guard for two months, and had already made a good impression on his superiors. Now, he had the honor of not only interrogating two enemy spies, but he also got to do it in front of Commander Shaktas after she herself had failed in the same endeavor! Rubbing his palms together gleefully, he stood watch at the end of the corridor, while Shaktas made a call to General Drakol to inform him of the capture of another enemy unicorn.
“Guardsman, this is Commander Shaktas, connect me to the War Room immediately!” Shaktas ordered through the handset she had taken off the wall.
After a moment, she said, “General, may the darkness shield you from light. We have captured another unicorn scout, which was probably following the one we caught earlier. He made it right into the Adamantine cellblock before we noticed him; he seemed to be wearing a cloak of shadows.” The last few words she spat out in disgust. Brex understood the sentiment; having an enemy use the Darkness against them was depraved beyond description.
“Yes sir, we're also increasing the guard in all wards. I don't want to go into lock-down yet, but I want to be ready at a moment's notice. We'll be interrogating the prisoners to find out what they know.” Commander Shaktas continued her conversation with the General. Brex could only hear on side of it, of course.
“Yes sir, that's fine. I think you should let Private Brex try it first, though. He's always had a knack for getting information from prisoners. No sir. Yes sir, I understand. Very good sir. May the darkness be with you.” She flicked the lever next to the communicator, then asked to be connected to Sergeant Cathka.
“Sergeant, may the darkness shield you from light. I need additional guards in all wards, and especially at the old north entrance. We've had an infiltration, and we need to contain the damage. Also, you should reinforce the guard at the Throne Room, I think the spy we caught may have walked right through there. I'm also giving you authority to command the ordinary guard, as I'm going to be occupied with the interrogations for a while. Don't bother sending more guards here, by the way, General Drakol's sending some of his marines over.” Shaktas was obviously in her element, making things happen quickly and efficiently.
“That'll be fine, Sergeant. Make sure you're ready, we may have to initiate a lock-down at a moment's notice. Yes. Thank you, may the darkness be with you.” She hung the receiver on the wall and turned back to Brex, who was now starting to feel the pump of adrenaline through his veins.
“The war is starting, isn't it Commander?” He asked.
Smiling grimly, the warrior responded, “Yes Private, the war is starting. This is our hour of reckoning, when the lorions of the Great Shadow shall be seen as either weak or strong. And although we don't have a horde like those of High Gate and Southern Shadow, we shall prevail, as our minds are sharp, and in our blood is the magic of the lost tribe.”
The two lorions looked at each other solemnly, pondering the paths they might tread in the days to come. Being soldiers, they both knew that sacrifices would have to be made, and blood would be spilt before the war was over. They also knew that decisions they made could turn the course of history at this critical time. If victory was to be theirs, they would need every ounce of valor, every precious drop of courage, and all the strength, both mental and physical, they could summon.
“Well, the war isn't going to stop for us, so we should do our part. Private, are you prepared to interrogate the filly?”
Brex responded, “Yes ma'am, let's do this.” His face was set with determination. As a member of the Elite Royal Guard Regiment, he would only be on the front lines if the king went there, or if his regiment and the king were the only remaining soldiers of the Great Shadow. But he could do just as much good by gathering intel as he could by slaying enemies, so he was resolved to do as much as he could.
The Commander took her Adamantine key and opened the door to the filly's cell. Inside, the young unicorn lay asleep, tears slowly trekking down her cheeks and falling to the floor. Brex didn't think she was a spy, and if she was, High Gate must be very desperate to field such young ponies for military duty.
The Commander stood back, by the door, and motioned to Brex to go ahead. “She's all yours, Private. I'll stay silent and let you do your thing. If anyone can get the truth out of her, it's you.”
Blushing with the compliment, Brex stepped up to the filly, and gently shook her awake. She started, and seeing his fearsome (to her eyes) countenance, began to sob and shake with fright.
“Let me go! Leave me alone, I haven't done anything!” She cried.
“Shhh, little one, I'm not here to harm you. I just want you to answer some questions I have. The quicker you answer my questions, the sooner I can let you go,” Brex said.
“I can't answer any of your stupid questions! I don't know any of the answers. She already asked me, and tortured me, but I don't know the answers,” the little filly said, pointing a hoof towards Commander Shaktas.
“Well, she's letting me ask the questions now, and she's letting me decide whether or not you're lying. I think you'll tell the truth; I have a knack for judging liars from those who are sincere. I don't think you're a liar, are you?” Brex knelt down to get to the same level as the filly, looking at her calmly.
She looked into his eyes and without wavering said, “I never lie. I am always proud of myself, and never need to hide anything I do from anyone.” Her cold look and steadfast demeanor only helped validate her statement.
Brex settled himself comfortable on the cold metal floor, and asked the first question. “What is your name?”
The filly stammered, “F-Forest Tr-Treasure.”
“Forest, why were you so close to the northern entrance to the Great Shadow?” Brex asked.
Now Forest looked confused. “What's the Great Shadow? She asked, puzzled.
Brex gestured around. “This, all of this. You are in the Great Shadow, the domain of King Narmon, High King of the lorions. This city, and the entire cave system we're in, is the Great Shadow.”
Forest seemed to understand now, and replied to the question. “I was camping with my mentor, near the forest road, when a bunch of things like you grabbed me, tied my muzzle shut, and carried me here. We were on an adventure to learn about ma-ma-magiiic!” And she started sobbing again.
“I don't want to make you cry, but I have one more question for you. Have you ever heard of High Gate?”Brex said gently, watching the filly closely. Her answer to this inquiry would tell him whether she was a spy or not.
“High Ga-ate? I-isn’t that where the unico-orns live?” She seemed to have calmed down a bit, but her voice was still hitching.
“Yes, that’s right. What do you know about High Gate?” Brex continued.
The young filly’s eyes rolled up to the ceiling, as they did every time she thought about what to say. “I just know tha-at the traders tell stories about it to Midnight whene-hever they come by our hhh-house…” Her voice trailed off and she sniffed loudly, probably thinking sadly about the old cottage that was alone and empty right now.
“And one more question, Forest Treasure. What's your mentor's name?”
“Midnight Shadow,” was her response.
Brex and Shaktas looked at each other uneasily. It was very unusual for a pony to have an affinity with the darkness like the lorions, but the stallion Midnight Shadow seemed to be the very embodiment of shadow and night.
Brex turned to his commander and motioned that they should leave the cell. Taking a breath, he said, “Commander, this pony is telling the truth. She is not a spy, nor is she from High Gate. The other one, her mentor, may have more useful information for us, however.”
Shaktas thought for a moment, then apparently made a decision. “Have her taken to one of the holding rooms and unshackled. Place a guard by her door to keep her safe.” She didn't need to elaborate on why she thought a guard was needed. As the reality of the war fell upon the rest of the lorions, they would want a witch-hunt for anyone who could have aided High Gate and the Southern Shadow.
Brex left the room and relayed the order to one of the marines stationed just outside the Adamantine cellblock. As the marine led Forest Treasure away, Shaktas and Brex met in her office to plan the interrogation of Midnight Shadow.
While the two lorions had been preparing for war and questioning Forest, Midnight was running his brain in overdrive, trying to figure out how to get away so he could free his apprentice.
He thought aloud. “These lizard-people are very martial, think and react quickly, and seem to prepare for all eventualities. This cell is magic-proof.” Even if the cell weren't made of Adamantine Brass, the sheath locked on his horn prevented all but the most basic mind spells to work, none of which could help him escape.
He sighed despondently. Midnight was the most educated unicorn mage in the land, yet he couldn't rescue his own student from foal-nappers! The indignity and hopelessness of his situation frustrated the midnight stallion, making him feel anger towards his captors, something that was decidedly unhealthy for a pony. Taking slow, measured breaths, he tried to calm down.
Doing nothing, while it was difficult, was the only action he could take. He just prayed that the lizards weren't hurting Forest Treasure.
“So, first we ask him what his name is. If he tells us, then he'll feel like he has control when we call him by name.”
Commander Shaktas looked at Brex skeptically. “You obviously know what you're doing, but these methods are highly irregular,” she said, unsure of what to make of the young rising star of the guard force. While he was sharp and eager, showing great talent for interrogations, the black lorion Guard was very, well, boyish at times, and it made Shaktas uneasy to be putting such great responsibility on such a freshskin.
I don't know what's wrong with me, he's never done anything to make me doubt his abilities! I should give him a chance, she thought. He's likely the most prime candidate for promotion of the whole guard; after this prisoner issue is dealt with, I'll recommend him to Sergeant Cathka.
Brex continued, “After we've established a dialogue, we'll ask him, politely, what was his purpose in camping near an entrance to the Great Shadow during wartime.”
“You're very direct. What if he refuses to answer? Wouldn't it be better to get answers in a more roundabout way, so he doesn't know he's giving himself away?” Shaktas wasn't at all sure of Brex's plan.
“That should be a last resort. He'll know if he's being manipulated; if there's a chance he'll cooperate, we shouldn't ruin it, because this way we'll likely get more and better information,” Brex responded.
Commander Shaktas was ready for action now. “Well, enough talk! There's a war on, and we need to find out if there's an army knocking at our back door. Let's go speak with the unicorn.”
Midnight looked up as the large door in front of him ground open, revealing the same two lizard-guards that had captured him. The one who had been identified as ‘Commander’ took a position behind him, while the other one, Private Brex, knelt in front of him, and began to speak.
“I'm Private Brex of the Royal Elite Guard. I'd like to begin by asking your name,” the young guard said.
“My name is Midnight Shadow. It's not a pleasure at all to meet you, seeing as you've locked up me and my student in this most unfair and uncivilized manner!” Midnight responded angrily.
“Your student, you say? Would you please describe her, and tell me her name?”
Midnight locked eyes with the lizard. “Her name is Forest Treasure, and I am her mentor. She's a young unicorn filly, light green, with a brown mane and tail. If she's been harmed in any way, I will imprint your image upon my soul, and hunt you until the day the world passes out of time!” He said this last sentence very forcefully, wanting to be very clear. He was serious, too; if Forest was injured, either physically or mentally, he would make these lizard-people feel as if their very essence was pain. When it came to his student, he would hold nothing back to protect her.
“You needn't worry, your student is well and safe. We have taken her to a holding room, and she's been unbound for her comfort. She has been deemed innocent of all crime against the Great Shadow, and it is my wish to exonerate you as well,” Brex said, as sincerely as one telling the truth was able to do. It was obvious enough to Midnight, and went a good way to relieving him of his fears.
Brex continued, “What do you know about High Gate and the Southern Shadow?”
“High Gate? Why in the world would he be asking me about High Gate? That's hundreds of miles away!” This was indeed surprising to Midnight, since most unicorns knew all about High Gate; it was the seat of their empire. While the Empire didn't extend this far into the Wilds, most of the unicorns living out here would be within two generations of being born there – Midnight had been born in High Gate himself.
“I was born in High Gate; it’s the principle city of the Aetheric Empire. I’ve never heard of the ‘Southern Shadow’,” he responded to Brex.
“When was the last time you spoke with a leader of the Aetherian military?”
Of all outrageous things! He must think I’m a spy, he thought. The indignity of the situation was now fully impressed upon Midnight’s mind; these strange lizards seemed to be highly militaristic; their custom must be to assume all trespassers were hostiles intent on harming their citizenry.
Midnight replied, “I can’t recall the last time I spoke with anypony in the Aetherian army. I departed when I was barely a stallion, to explore the world. It’s been thirty years since I was last in High Gate, and that was when I left.”
The male lizard gave a significant glance to his superior, the meaning of which was lost to Midnight. All he could think about was Forest’s safety.
“Please, may I see Forest Treasure? I must see that she is alright for myself,” He asked, anxiety apparent in his voice.
Brex seemed about to speak, but the Commander beat him to it. “I’m afraid that won’t be permitted. Until we’ve reviewed the evidence, you’re to be treated as a prisoner of war.” She leaned forward, until her snout was almost brushing Midnight’s muzzle. “Let me be very clear. If you are determined to have been in league with the combined forces of Aetheria and the Southern Shadow, you will be executed as soon as we have time. You may be shown leniency if you share whatever you know about their army with us.”
Brex looked uncomfortably between the Commander and Midnight, then continued his questioning.
“Are you a member of the Aetherian Royal Army, or any division of military thereof?”
“Are you under orders to infiltrate the Great Shadow and provide intel to the combined forces of High Gate and the Southern Shadow to aid their cause in the impending battle?”
This one threw Midnight for a loop. “No. And I don’t know what the ‘Southern Shadow’ is, as I said before. And what battle? If there’s going to be a battle, I would like to be free to escape it with my student, if you don’t mind.”
Brex leaned close to the Commander’s ear, whispering something to her. She nodded. “Very well, let’s go. The other matter is even more pressing, and I’d like to get a report to the Council of Elders as quickly as possible.”
With that, they left, Brex giving Midnight a hopeful smile on the way out.
The cell once again filled with stifling darkness, made even more oppressive to Midnight by the fact that he couldn’t banish the shadows; although, after the amount of magic he had used searching for Forest, very likely he wouldn’t be able to power the spell anyway.
Having nothing else to do, he fell into a troubled sleep, waiting for the inevitable to come.
It had been four hours since they’d interrogated the dark unicorn. All Brex wanted to do was go to his apartment and rest, but they were at war, and there was no time to lose; even now, patrols were bringing in scouts from the enemy army. Unlike Midnight Shadow and his apprentice, these ponies and lorions bore armor emblazoned with their respective armies’ insignia. Brex, having been highly recommended by Commander Shaktas, had been ordered to oversee all the interrogations.
The second interrogation of the young filly had produced very different results, but it had been with a different purpose as well. Where Shaktas had been trying to determine if Forest Treasure was an infiltrator, Brex was asking questions from a very specific list that had been provided by the Council of Elders. He wasn’t sure what exactly they were looking for, just that it had something to do with the legend of the Lost Tribe, a group of lorions that had supposedly left the Great Shadow in its golden age, for the deep underground labyrinth known as the Forge. They had left hundreds of years ago, after a pony philosopher had suggested they could be the beginning of a new form of magic, one that could rival the power of Chaos magic while actually being beneficial to everything around them.
To Brex, it sounded like so much nonsense, but the Council believed in the story, and so he must as well. He wasn’t the most faithful citizen, but he paid his tithes and visited the Temple of Darkness once a month to pay his respects. The Council believed the Lost Tribe could somehow save the Great Shadow, and they had convinced General Drakol that it should be investigated as a supplement to defending the city with more conventional means.
A prophecy had cropped up around the time the Tribe left, stating that the Lost Ones would return after experiencing the essence of love, and becoming a new kind of shadow. Ever since, it had been taught to hatchlings as an important part of the history and legacy of the Great Shadow..
In the Darkness and deep Fire
When power will fail
Through hatred, love’s defiler
Bloodshed without scale
The Shadow misplaced
By deed of great thought
When happiness mattered
Were miracles wrought
For springing aloft, A
Standard unfurled
For Harmony’s bliss
They searched the world
In Era of battle
When Shadow shall bleed
The Dark will be compelled
Descendant shall concede
Tasting Love to complete
New Shadow reveal’d
Young child shall discover
Power not in wealth
Power six fold, power galore
Love shall conquer evermore
Chaos unbalanced, feeling pain
Shadows combin’d, nev’rmore twain
It had been interpreted to mean that one day, in the darkest hour of the Great Shadow, when all would seem lost, a young descendant of the pony who had led the Tribe away would journey into the bowels of the earth, into the Forge itself, and bring them back to their brothers and sisters, to force the enemies of the Great Shadow to bend the knee and never again rise against their rightful king. Brex had no opinion on the validity of this claim. Maybe it was true, maybe not; prophecies had come true before, but there simply weren’t enough facts to prove or disprove this one.
Brex was no idiot, so he guessed right away that the Council suspected Forest was the pony of legend, destined to bring unity and dominance to the Great Shadow and King Narmon. They were meeting now, probably arguing over the likelihood of the filly being the actual one that was foretold; Brex had observed a few of their meetings before, and knew that ‘discuss’ and ‘brainstorm’ were terms alien to them. They argued, fought, shouted, screamed, and otherwise behaved chaotically when they were trying to decide something.
Brex winced as a loud thump came from the door to the Council Chambers, followed by a muffled shout. He sighed; apparently they had passed the ‘build up a rage’ part of the meeting, and were progressing into the ‘beat the others into submission’ stage. This was usually a free-for-all, since none of them were ever willing to compromise if they had a differing opinion.
Finally, the young girl who had been assigned as page to the Council for the day opened the door, beckoning to Brex to enter. The Council had his orders, at last!
Rising from her place at the head of the table, the aged and wise Grand Matron of the Council of Elders addressed Brex.
“Private, it is the will of the Council that you bring the filly Forest Treasure to this Council immediately, that we may interview her ourselves and determine a course of action. The Secretary shall record this as our latest action,” she rumbled; her deep voice was legendary in the Great Shadow.
Brex saluted, saying, “It shall be done, Grand Matron. May the darkness be with you.”
Forest Treasure was very scared. She hadn’t been away from Midnight for this long since she had become his apprentice, and it was very frightening. She missed his warmth, the comforting words she knew he would say, the firm yet gentle reassurance of his presence. Without him, all manner of horrible things might happen!
With this frame of mind, Forest was brought before a group of mostly old lorions which were seated around a broad, oval table of grey carved stone. In the center of the table was a gas lamp, and in the background could be heard the dull whump-whump-whump of a fan circulating the warm air in the room. The soldier that had brought her here, the lorion named Brex, stood behind her as she faced the table from the foot of the room.
At the head of the table was a large, high-backed wooden chair, almost a throne. The aged lorion who was seated there began to speak.
“I would like to begin this interview with a few questions for young Forest Treasure, which should provide the most insight while causing the least amount of anxiety for those of us eager to express diverse opinions,” she said, shooting pointed glances at more than a few lorions at the table.
“Forest Treasure, we are the Council of Elders of the Great Shadow, the spiritual leaders of our people. We guide them in matters of the heart and soul, and in things that are believed, not seen. We have cause to believe that you may be a fulfillment of a prophecy hundreds of years old, in this, our time of need. For the benefit of those reading the transcript and our remote audience-” here she gestured at a device in the table before her “-I shall read the prophecy of the Lost Tribe.”
As she read from a scroll, Forest idly watched a moderately sized beetle crawl up the leg of a chair, its occupant, a dark brown lorion of many years, oblivious to his danger (at least Forest assumed it was dangerous, the only beetles she had ever seen that size were flesh-eaters).
The old lorion finally stopped reading and put down her scroll. “Forest, we believe you to be the young child prophesied in the Legend of the Lost Tribe.”
Forest was, of course, speechless that anypony would write a prophecy about her; she didn’t know enough to say for sure if really was the one, but the old lorion sure seemed to think so.
The lorion spoke again. “We must first determine if your lineage is eligible. Eltnek! Fetch the genealogy tome by Twisted Roots, it’s the large green one with a big tree on the cover..” Looking up, she said, “Before the hostilities began, we received a book that will help us determine if this filly is in fact the child who will restore order to King Narmon’s realm by bringing the Lost Tribe back to the Great Shadow.”
The page-girl walked to the back of the room, past Forest, and began searching through the huge bookcases there.
At this point the beetle had begun to crawl across the Elder’s lap, and he noticed it; he picked it up and threw it in his mouth, munching as if it were a delicacy. Needless to say, Forest was disgusted.
One of the council members, a very fat grey lizard with a sour disposition (if you could even tell his disposition through his thick, leathery hide), interrupted sarcastically. “Just lovely! Another wondrous example of unicorn ingenuity. Maybe this time our twice-respected Grand Matron will present to us something real for a change!”
The Grand Matron narrowed her eyes at him. “And, Elder Gahok, what help have you shared with the Council? Nothing but criticism and dissent! I suggest you keep you dirty snout shut until you can use it for something useful,”she said, venomously.
He snorted and leaned back in his chair, muttering.
Forest was sweating lightly now. Conflict and contention invariably made her feel ill at ease, and the tension in this room, the unfriendly glances the elders shared amongst themselves, all combined with the stressful situation she was in had her feeling quite uncomfortable.
Little Eltnek brought back an enormous green tome, with a shimmery golden tree embossed on the cover. Placing it in front of the Grand Matron, she backed away and sat once more in the shadows.
The Grand Matron pulled the book to her, and asked the simple question, “Forest Treasure, what are the names of your parents?”
Instantly, an emotional wound that was but thinly bandaged was ripped open viciously, as Forest felt her heart stabbed with a combination of great longing, sorrow, and fear. She had never known her parents, and had grown up with Midnight since almost as long as she could remember. One of her greatest sorrows was not knowing anything about them, or if she had a family. If Midnight had been there, she might have been able to overcome this, but his absence drove home her orphaned state cruelly, and she began to cry quietly.
Brex, behind her, was very observant, and noticed this right away. But before he could say anything, another old codger, an Elder named Nedoni, raised her voice at Forest.
“Speak up, child, we haven’t got all night! Who are your parents? What are their names?”
And that was the proverbial straw that broke the pony’s back. Forest completly broke down, sobbing with sadness and fear. “I do-on’t ha-ave any pa-re-he-he-hents!” She screamed. “I’m an orphan!”
Brex, ever the big softy, went up to her and kneeling, held her close. “Shhhh, it’s alright, little one. I’m not your mentor, but you needn’t worry when Brex is with you. There is no need to fear,” he said gently. Looking up, he glared at Nedoni.
Said lorion huffed, and folded her arms, while Gahok snorted and said, “I expect she’s the daughter of some Aetherian whore. Maybe some noblecolt’s daughter. There’s no way in Tartarus she could be descended from the Shepherd!”
And at that invocation, an outside observer would have thought Tartarus itself had come to defend its honor, as all semblance of order and decorum in the council chambers vanished. Elders stood and shouted at each other, raising their voices to be heard. Forest caught bits and snatches of what was said, each one a nail being hammered through her heart.
“...or even think of it, you must be absolutely insane!”
“What if she’s actually that handler that followed her, what was his name? What if she’s his spawn? Maybe they…”
“...going to the Forge? You imbecilic nincompoop…”
“...probably just a toy for that dark stallion’s pleasure…”
Finally the Grand Matron shouted, “ENOUGH!” The room quieted down.
Lowering her voice to a conversational level, the old lorion spoke to the Council. “Brothers and sisters in shadow, these are the most treacherous times in the history of the Great Shadow. Never before have so many threatened our borders, even our fair city itself! I know the size of the army we face, and I know the size of the army we can muster - we cannot hope to win by ordinary means. We must recover the Lost Tribe, or at least whatever secrets the Shepherd may have had that could aid us in our efforts.
“I propose to the Council that we send a party to the Forge, to attempt to recover the Lost Tribe, and bring them home to the Great Shadow.”
There was utter silence for a moment, then one of the younger Elders asked, “Who would you send?”
The answer rang with the voice of Doom. “We shall send Forest Treasure, accompanied by Sergeant Brex, and young Eltnek here. They shall bring hope with them when they return.”
“Have I leave from the Royal Guard for this quest?” Brex asked.
“While my greatly respected colleagues were.. discussing… our options, I contacted General Drakol and obtained leave for you. And a promotion, you will observe.” The Grand Matron replied.
Nedoni started chuckling. “Once again, you’ve beaten us, Karoth! Ha, we can’t even argue against your plan because we’re so desperate that we might as well go along with it. So be it! I call the question.”
Grand Matron Karoth spoke to the Council, “All those in favor…”
Midnight awoke from his sleep when a guard began unshackling him. His eyes opened slowly, the temporary binding of his magic making him very drowsy. The guard unlocked the collar around his neck, and led him out into the hallway. There was a squad of heavily armored soldiers waiting.
One of the soldiers stepped forward. “Midnight Shadow, under the Law of the Great Shadow, Articles of War, section J, verse 22998, you are being ordered to attend to the Commanding Officers of King Narmon’s Royal Army. You will cease any aggressive intentions toward any citizen of the Great Shadow, and allow us to lead you to the War Room.”
The lorion nodded to the guard, who removed the Adamantium cone from Midnight’s horn. The instant his horn was exposed to air once more, sparks of magic flashed around him, as he experience a magical surge from the sudden return of his power. The soldiers raised their pikes, but otherwise remained still.
After the surge died down, and Midnight showed no signs of attacking his captors, the soldiers surrounded him in a box formation and began to march him back toward the city.
Ten minutes later, Midnight was ushered into the “War Room”, a very interesting place indeed. In the center of the room was a table, that appeared to have been alchemically saturated with a magical formula, showing a holographic representation of the state of the Royal Army. Midnight had experimented heavily with alchemical enchantments before deciding to study the idea of enchanting objects with pure magic. That quest was what had led him here in the first place.
The soldiers around him suddenly kneeled, and one of them whispered furiously, “Kneel! The King is here!” Midnight kneeled, looked around, and spotted the lorion that must be the King. It was the same one he had noticed on the throne on his way in, and he was conversing eagerly with a group of very martial-looking lorions wearing heavy bronze armor.
The king looked up, and noticed the group that had just entered. “Please, step forward Midnight Shadow. I would request of you your services.”
Midnight stood and walked slowly to the king, nervous.
My services? Why in Tartarus would he want my services? And why would he think I would help him, after all he’s done?!
The king introduced himself and his generals. “I am King Narmon, ruler of the Ever-Reaching Shadows. These are my generals, Drakol, Jartok, Raekii, Pilin, and Fortosh.”
He clasped his claws behind his back, and paced back and forth. “As I’m sure you have deduced, we are at war. An entire city of my people, the Southern Shadow, have forsaken their eternal vows to the Crown, and seek to dominate the world. They are allied with High Gate, and have fielded an enormous army of lorions and unicorns to occupy the Great Shadow and subject its people to bondage. I have little hope of repelling them through force of arms or conventional battle-magic - the most I can muster against them barely comes to a quarter of their full strength. I also have only a handful of trained unicorn mages, and very few lorion battle-mages at my command.
“Frankly, our situation is hopeless. High Gate no doubt wishes to double-cross the Southern Shadow as soon as they win the Central Forest, for we’ve been hearing rumors of sacrilege and heresy from the kingdom of the unicorns for a couple of years now, and even whispers that the Pony Alliance is in danger of collapsing. You are scholar, surely you must realize what this means, not just for my city, or your acquaintances to the east, but for the entire world! If the ponies don’t work together, the world will be overtaken by windigos, and worse, chaos. Balance is hard to achieve, but only little children don’t know the consequences of living without it.
“Which is why I need your help. I need you to help in upcoming battle, to bolster the strength of my battle-mages. We do have a last-effort plan in action at this moment that may save the day, but it requires time. We have no other options. Will you help me?”
Midnight thought for a moment. If what Narmon said was true, the world was indeed in danger. The traders had been hinting at contention between the tribes to the west, but in the Central Forest very little of that mattered. The forest was a wild place, and the ponies that lived there all worked together. They didn’t have cities or kingdoms, and knew that if they didn’t help each other, they would surely die.
In fact, if the situation had been different, and he had come here with Forest, and the two of them had not been captured and imprisoned, he would have been completely willing, even eager, to aid the Great Shadow in their fight. And the fact the the King was being honest with him up front did a little to help Midnight forgive them.
But, he had a significant concern. “What about my apprentice, Forest Treasure? Will she be freed and kept safe from the danger? I am responsible for her,” he said.
“Your student will indeed be kept safe from the dangers of the war, however, she will have her own dangers to face. The Council of Elders has seen fit to send her on a quest to an area known as the Forge. This is the contingency plan I mentioned; your student will, if an ancient prophecy is to be trusted, bring a powerful Lost Tribe of my people to the city, to wipe out the enemy or make them bend to their oaths, and my rule. It is our last hope.”
Now that was unexpected. How dare they send a young filly, not barely ten winters old, on a quest by herself?
“I cannot accept this. If she is to go on such a quest, I must accompany her; she is my responsibility!” Midnight’s voice was raised at the end of this statement.
“I’m sorry, there’s nothing I can do about that. The Council was adamant, and in their decision they voted to not deviate from that course of action. You may not accompany your student; however, she will not be alone. She will have one of my finest guards and an apprentice battle-mage as companions. I have utter confidence in their abilities.”
“No, I will not permit this! You must return her to me at once, and then we’ll leave! I will not abandon my apprentice, not if the Dark and Light combine and make Nothingness!” Midnight charged his horn, and the shadows in the room began to coalesce.
The king noticed this, and growled at Midnight. “You overstep your bounds, pony. I am king here, and will NOT be gainsaid! If you will not help us of your own accord, then we will be forced to imprison you for the duration of the war, and if we lose the battle, then you may find yourself under the spell of the Aetherian Emperor. You would lose your precious student forever!”
Midnight gave a roar of blind rage and began flinging his shadows around, battering the soldiers and generals mercilessly. The room filled with a low hum as the air charged with magic.
King Narmon snarled, and jumped at Midnight, throwing him to the stone floor. Midnight, being in the mental stupor that came of releasing too much magic at once while out of shape, was unable to respond quickly enough to stop the king from bashing his head against the cold floor. The last thing he saw before darkness overcame him was the sorrowful visage of the king.
As his consciousness faded, he thought, Why do I keep getting knocked out like this? And I hope Forest is alright, because I don’t think I’ll be able to protect her...
Legion222 #1 · Oct 1st, 2013 · · ·
Almost the entire chapter is italicized...
You might want to go over this chapter again, there were a few issues. For instance, you left some numbers in the prophecy that I don't think were meant to be there...
Quite the 180 here. Last chapter, they were the evil lizard-men who foalnapped Forest, and now they're a peaceful kingdom forced into war. Interesting perspective change...
websterhamster
websterhamster #2 · Oct 1st, 2013 · · ·
3284554 Yeeaaahhh... For some reason when I imported the Google doc it gave me a closing italic tag like this: [/]. Fimfiction derped me
And don't count on those lorions being all fuzzy and cuddly... they can kick serious flank when they want to. They just didn't want to tick off Midnight after they figured that his student was their "promised one"
And thanks for commenting! Keeps me on my toes.
Trust me, I know how dangerous an angry lizard-man can be...
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In case you don't recognize him, this is Renekton from League of Legends. As a sentient bipedal alligator with anger issues, let's just say he's called "The Butcher of the Sands" for a very good reason... He also happens to be what I keep seeing whenever I try to get a mental picture of the Lorions.
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Equestria Girls: Digital Destiny - EquestrianTwist
Sunset Shimmer
Flash Sentry
Sci-Twi
Main 7 (EqG)
When the girls of Canterlot High are pulled into a strange new world, what awaits them on the other side? Are these new children the heroes this world seeks? Do they have what its takes to save the Digital World?
Equestria Girls: Digital Destiny written by EquestrianTwist
Somebody Order Eggs4,722 words
Eight Teens and a "Fresh" Baby7,849 words
Living Life with Dorumon8,549 words
Let's go to the Digital World9,532 words
The Fighter4,916 words
The Friend3,936 words
The Sage9,807 words
The Gentlemon7,614 words
The Scholar9,027 words
The Hunter11,880 words
The Leader8,672 words
Leaving the Island7,403 words
Obligatory Beach Chapter9,684 words
Living Life with Dorumon
The teens were lead back into Sunset's apartment as soon as the crushed garbage cans were taken off the street and place back where they once sat. Dorumon lead the them through the door back into the destroyed apartment, but at the moment not one of them gave a single iota about that.
Dorumon noticed their uneasy expressions, and quickly turned around to address them. "I'd assume, now that we're no longer in mortal danger, you all will want me to explain what is going on and who exactly I am. Am I not correct?" He said stoically.
The teens timidly glanced at each other for a moment, before turning back to give him their answer. "I mean... it would be nice." Sunset stated jokingly. Her friends gave a few nods in agreement.
Dorumon stared at them contemplatively for a moment, before releasing a quick irrated sigh. "I suppose it would be for the best. You do deserve an explanation after what you've all been through. Though, I do wish you hadn't needed to get involved."
Rainbow Dash cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
"Come." He commanded, then began leading the girls, Flash and Spike over to the living room couch. Once they arrived, Flash and Applejack went about placing the cushions back on the coach's frame. They swept off most of the sharp debris that had been left behind after their earlier skirmish, before allowed Fluttershy, Twilight and Rarity to take their seats. They themselves decided to sit on the floor along with the rest of their friends.
Dorumon hopped off the floor and onto Sunset's coffee table, before turning around to look at the teens who had gathered beneath him. "I do not recall much, but I think I can tell you enough to explain the events that have taken place tonight." He stated reticently. "As you can probably tell, I am not a creature of your world. I am what is called, a Digimon... though I am unsure what this title fully means."
Pinkie Pie smiled. "You know, Digimon would make a great name from a neat-o video game series or an awesome TV show!" She stated giddily. "I can hear the theme song now! Hey Digimon, Hey Digimon, monster friends to the boys and girls~" She sang.
Deciding to ignore Pinkie Pie's nonsensical ramblings, Sunset was the first to voice a question. "And that thing we fought outside, was that also..?"
"Yes." Dorumon replied without hesitation. "His name is Devimon, and he is extremely dangerous, as you have seen. I believe he has come to eliminate me for something I did in the past. I am not completely certain why, but I believe I may have been some form of protector before I met all of you."
"Past?" Applejack said ruefully. "How's that possible? Sunset and Flash only saw you hatch more then an hour ago."
"I'll admit I don't understand the science of the situation either. But I clearly have some form of memory telling me all that I know now." He glanced down at the coffee table curiously. "Yet interestingly this knowledge didn't start returning to me in such volume until after my digivolution."
"Digivoultion?" Fluttershy asked.
"It's the process that you witnessed when I transformed from Dodomon..." Pinkie giggled at the silly sounding name. "...To the form you currently see now. It is what resurfaced all these memories of my past life, as well as reminded me of my name and the name of my prior form."
"Fascinating!" Twilight said excitedly. She clutched Spike closer to her chest. "A rapid evolutionary chain directly connected to an interlocking memory bank! Instantaneous maturing and metamorphosis! If I didn't see you standing before me right now, I would say that would only be possible in computer modeling programs."
Dorumon started at her blankly, following her comment. "I must apologize madam, but I do not understand this comparison your making? What is this 'computer program' you speak of?"
A long swath of awkward silence filled the room for a few minutes, before anyone else was brave enough to continue talking. Flash cleared his throat.
"You say your from another world. It wouldn't happen to be one we be familiar with would it?" He shot a brief glance towards Sunset, who shot him a sly knowing smirk back. Dorumon only blinked at this exchange.
"I do not believe so." He explained dourly. "Truthfully, I don't even recall the name of my homeworld. All I know is that it is populated by creatures similar to me and Devimon."
Sunset grimaced. "I guess that means you're not from Equestria. Nothing we have there even matches Devimon's appearance."
"I wouldn't say that." Rainbow Dash stated confidently as she rubbed her knuckle against her shirt. "After dragging his face against asphalt, I'd think he'd looks more like roadkill then anything." She smirked at Sunset. "You have that back in Equestria, right?" The teens all giggle slightly at Rainbow Dash's joke. Dorumon however, didn't seem to understand.
"But even after you dragged him across multiple miles of rough ground, he still resembled how he usually appears? He didn't look anything like a killed road?" Dorumon's ears suddenly perked up curiously. "What would a dead road even resemble anyways? I do not believe it is possible to kill the ground."
Rainbow Dash chuckling slowly turned awkward. "Don't worry about it man, it isn't important. The joke just went over your head, okay?"
Dorumon looked even more confused. "But I am not a man, I am a digimon like I just told you. And nothing can go over my head, because I would catch it before it did so!" He exclaimed heatedly.
Another awkward silence filled the room. The group of tfriends didn't know how to respond... well, except for Pinkie Pie.
"Oh yeah, what if an airplane was up really high in the air, higher then you could jump, then it would go over your head." She smirked, feeling proud of the argument she had against the digimon's previous comment.
Dorumon was beginning to feel challenged. He didn't like it. "I don't know what an airplane is, but I wouldn't simply allow it to fly over my head! I would move away from it before it had the chance, and then I would climb up to a high enough point to catch it!"
The two continued to argue as the rest of the group slowly melted into their own conversation.
"Yeah, I don't think he understands metaphors..." Flash whispered bluntly.
"It could just be a result of his memory loss." Twilight explained. "Maybe that information will come along with rest of his memory after his next evolutionary cycle."
"Sure... and how long exactly will that take, Dr. Egghead?" Rainbow Dash said sarcastically. Twilight furrowed her brows in an angry pout. "I'm just saying, the sooner he gets back his memory the sooner we can figure out how to send him home.
"I think we should try to help him adjust for the time he's going to be staying in our world." Fluttershy said, voicing her own opinion. "He may look different now, but he's still technically a baby, we should offer him a place to stay until he remembers how to get himself home."
Applejack nodded in agreement. "Doin' that probably will help us keep track of that flyin' devil thing too. Considerin' he's more then likely goin' to try an' attack us again. The little fella's going to need all the help he can get!"
Sunset nodded as well. "He can stay with me until we can figure all this out. I'm the only one who lives here, and no one besides you guys normally stops by, which will make him a lot easier to hide. I'll text the rest of you if he tells me anything new he remembers." The others nodded in agreement.
Rarity smiled. "Well I guess everything is settled then. Well... mostly everything." She stood up and turned her attention towards Pinkie and Dorumon. "Pinkie dear, would you mind halting your conversation for the moment? We need your's and Dorumon's help to get Sunset apartment picked up before we leave."
Pinkie only smiled cheerfully back. "Oki-Doki-Loki!!!~"
"...But are you absolutely sure this is the best course of action? We can't monitor Alphamon's digivolution properly while he's being absconded to this alien world. We don't even have visual on his whereabouts!" A blue screen with a blurred silhouette flickered dimly in the shade of a darkened room comprised of stone and ruin.
"It's a calculated risk to be sure, but if Wisemon's theory proves to be true, then Alphamon's Digi-Egg should have landed in the same place the power that's affecting the Digital World came from. With any luck that same power, might incite a faster digivolution then is expected here!" Voiced a second screen with an equally blurred visage.
The room was hexagonal in shape, with six screen adorning each wall. A large stone table sat in it's center with six large wooden thrones surrounding it, of which only one was in use. Five screens barely flickered with enough electricity to remain powered, while the room's single occupant contemplated the first screen's worlds.
"But we haven't fully tested this theory! Nor have we actually explored this other world!" The first screen shouted again. "We don't know what dangers exist there, and in Alphamon's current state he is in no place to protect himself."
"Enough!" The room's occupant exclaimed. "We all unanimously made the decision to have Jijimon open the gateway, because we all agreed we had no other options left. I understand your concern, but we need to stay hopeful and at least have some faith in the legends of old. If for nothing else, then to at least have our friend return to us safely."
"I agree with the boss." A third screen voiced. "The Digital World is a mess right now, and it's only going to get messier if we don't find some help fast! Besides, I already sense Alphamon's presence, even despite the dimensional gap. He's alive, but I don't know for how much longer..."
"Master..?" A fourth screen, this one directly in front of the occupant, asked with a concerned tone.
The third screen continued. "There's another presence there, a champion-level I think... I could be wrong, but Demon Lords might be getting wise to our intentions."
"The Devimon from before..?" A fifth screen asked.
"Possibly... I can't really make anything out besides power-levels and vital signs."
"We need to incite an extraction and forgo this experiment! Whatever knowledge we can obtain means nothing if Alphamon can't be returned to us! The first screen demanded.
"I agree. I'll set out immediately..." The second screen replied.
"Now hold on a minute, the situation might not be as bad as you guys think. He's surrounded by other vital signs. They're faint, like really really faint, but they're definitely there. Oh, and he's a rookie-level now... so that's a thing too." The third screen chuckled slightly at the serendipity of the situation.
"You didn't think to tell us this earlier!" The first screen fumed. "How long have you been withholding this information?!"
"First off, you didn't ask, and secondly, about twenty minutes..." The third screen joked. The first screen noticeably growled.
"In any case, I believe we should continue with the extraction... if he is a rookie-level digimon as you say, then he may already remember some information that could prove useful. If not, then we can still begin his training and bring him backs into our ranks again." The occupant turned towards the second screen. "You are to be as discreet as possible, and no one is to be harmed. Is that understood?"
"Perfectly my lord..." The image was still fuzzy, but the occupant could tell the creature in the screen was giving him a respectful bow.
"Good... you are all dismissed." The screens all flashed a bright white before vanishing a millisecond later. The room returned to a notably darker state as the occupant was left alone with his thoughts.
Working together, Sunset and her friends were able to clean up the apartment in almost record time. Trash was picked up and placed in bags, the gunk was clean up off the walls, and generally everything was just put back in its proper place... though the carpet was still going to require a good shampooing.
With most of the work done, the girls hastily said their goodbyes and piled back into Applejack's truck, each of them adamant on getting back to their respective homes quickly before the rest of their families woke up. Sunset waved to her friends as they drove away and as Flash wandered down the street back to his own house. Beside her, Dorumon stood with a pleasant smile strewn across his muzzle.
"They are good people. I can see why you like them so much." He said happily as he led her back inside.
"They're my best friends, and we've been through a lot together. I don't like to imagine what my life would be like if I didn't have them." Sunset crossed the living room and into her kitchen. She opened her refrigerator looking for something to eat.
"You want something for breakfast?" She asked pulling out a carton of eggs, ironically one of the few things that survived her and Dorumon's initial meeting. "We don't have a lot, but I'd assume your hungry after the morning we've had."
Dorumon seemed to perk up at her question. "You wouldn't happen to have more of that foodstuff you fed me earlier, would you? Try as I might, I can't get that substance's intoxicating flavor out of my mind."
Sunset chuckled slightly. "Sorry, but I don't own a dog. You're going to need to ask Twilight if you want more. But don't worry I can make you something else." She placed a frying pan on the top of her stove, and turned it's settings to high. She dabbed a pat of butter in the pan's center then allowed it time to melt.
Dorumon wandered curiously around Sunset apartment as she began to cook. He found it oddly charming now that it didn't look like the aftermath of a hurricane. The memory however still made him wince with guilt. "I feel I must apologize to you again, concerning my previous behavior. You really do have a lovely abode, it's a shame I so thoroughly destroyed it before."
Sunset found herself laughing again, this time more genuinely. "It's alright, really." She said between giggles. "You don't have to be so formal." She began scooping some scrambled eggs onto two separate plates. "After all, for the time being, we are going to be living together."
"Something else I feel I should thank you for. I'm not certain, but I'd assume not many would do this for an alien creature they just met."
"Don't sweat it." Sunset said as she placed Dorumon's plate on the floor, before taking a seat on her couch.
"Actually, I think it feels quite chilly at this moment." He replied honestly.
Sunset stopped the small bit of egg on the end of her fork from entering her mouth as she remembered the digimon's understanding of metaphors. Quickly, she rethought her previous statement. "What I mean is, it's not a problem. You can stay here as long as you need to."
Dorumon nodded, then looked at the whitish-yellow substance that sat before him. He sniffed it slightly, "What do you call this delicacy?" He asked absent-mindedly as he lap up some eggs with his tongue.
"Scrambled egg—" Sunset held her fork in her mouth as a realization suddenly struck her. She looked over her shoulder to see Dorumon giving her an incredulous look.
"You do recall I came from an egg, don't you Ms. Shimmer?" He asked her bluntly.
She giggled awkwardly. "Sorry, it must have slipped my mind..."
Dorumon only continued his deadpanned stare. "Your lubricated cranial lobes aside... this is still quite delicious, and I appreciate the kindness." He said lapping up the rest of his eggs. "I would ask you think more before you cook again however, to avoid anymore insults against my honor."
Sunset nodded. "Yeah... I' ll do that." She quickly went back to her plate of eggs, when she suddenly felt a pressure being placed down on her lap. She looked down to see Dorumon laying his head on her legs, like an affectionate puppy looking for attention. "Uh... what are you doing?" If it wasn't for Dorumon's thick fur, then she would have noticed the digimon was blushing.
"Like I said earlier... the room feels quite chilly to me, and as also previously stated, you are doing a lot for me in giving me shelter and meals. I feel I need to reciprocate this kindness. My body heat should help you keep warm."
At first surprised, Sunset now found herself smiling. She placed her eggs on the coffee table before her, and began to scratch Dorumon behind the ear, like she knew Spike enjoyed her doing. She found humor in the fact that the digimon's tail was waging slightly at the scratches she was giving him. "That is very nice of you, Dorumon."
"It is my pleasure, Ms. Shimmer."
"You can just call me, Sunset."
"Very well, I will try to make a habit of it."
A couple hours later, Sunset found herself waking up from a nap, and noticed Dorumon curled up beside her on the couch. She looked towards her TV and saw a large "Game Over" screen on it with Tirek's laughing face taunting her. She noticed that her game controller had fallen to floor while she was asleep, and the controller she had given to Dorumon was still resting in the same place on the couch where he had last dropped it. She couldn't help but giggle when she remembered what he said to her when the two of them tried to play multiplayer earlier in the day:
"I'm sorry Sunset, but I don't appear to have the appendages necessary to play this game with you."
Yet even despite his embarrassing lack of thumbs, the digimon found he greatly enjoyed watching Sunset play her game, and cheered her on every step of the way as she trounced her way through the unholy armies of the Dark Lord Tirek in her favorite game series. Surprisingly, she found it quite easy to live with her new roommate, even despite only knowing him for a few short hours. He was extremely polite and courteous, and interestingly found enjoyment in a lot of the same activities she found fun.
Sunset looked to her side and watched Dorumon's chest rise and fall as he slumbered, his position reminding her of a dog curled up before the fireplace at Christmas time. She couldn't help but admit, "You really are the cutest thing." She whispered, as she scratched Dorumon behind his ear again, earning a pleased groan from the sleeping digimon.
Her phone suddenly began to ring with a familiar ringtone, and she quickly rushed to her room to pick it up.
"Rainbow Dash?" The person on the other end of the line replied. "Oh hey.."
"Yeah me and Dorumon have just been hanging out since you guys left. He's been pretty cool, he really enjoys watching me play video games. How have you been doing?"
"Drills? Like what?"
"100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run?"
"Well I've never met your dad, so I don't know what a usual Dash family punishment would be like."
"Because you refuse to introduce me, nor the rest of our friends for that matter. In fact, I don't think I've ever even been over to your house."
"The mall? I don't know Rainbow. I'd have to leave Dorumon home alone, and I don't feel comfortable doing that just yet."
"We'll maybe I am like his mom! Lets not forget who's house he hatched at."
"Flash is not my husband, Rainbow Dash! Why don't you and the girls just come over here!"
"You want to go shopping to help me replace what's been broken?"
"Alright fine, but for no more then a couple hours. I don't want to leave Dorumon alone with Devimon still out and about, okay?"
"Yeah, I'll see you at three. Bye."
Sunset sighed as she placed down her phone, and walked towards her closet to pick out some cloths for later. Her PJs might have been fine for lying around the house, but they weren't anywhere suited for a day at the mall. Whatever she pulled out of the closet would probably work fine, she thought. Sunset suddenly heard claws scratching against the carpet.
"Sunset, is something the matter?" Sunset looked to see Dorumon standing in her bedroom doorway, a more then perplexed look on his face. "I heard bits of your conversation, and grew concerned."
Sunset smiled at him warmly. "It's nothing. I was just going to the mall to do some shopping, I'll be back in a couple hours alright?"
Dorumon looked even more concerned. "But Devimon is still out there! Aren't you the least bit concerned about his whereabouts?"
Sunset knelt down, and rubbed her hand atop his head. "As long as you stay inside, I don't think he'll try to attack. There are too many people around to see him at this time of day. If he's smart, he wouldn't want to cause a panic."
"It isn't me I'm worried about." He stated clearly. "You and your friends bested him before. There isn't a doubt in my mind that he may hold a grudge against you because of it. At least allow me to come with you."
Sunset stifled some laughter. "Yeah, I can see that going down without a panic." She stated sarcastically. She began to mimic some fake passerby's reaction. "Hey Sunset, cute dog you got there. Oh wait, that's not a dog! It's a dinosaur with fur! Everybody run for your lives, it's Jurrassic Park, but real this time!" Dorumon was unamused by her joke.
"Regardless of this other person's opinion, I still feel it would be safer if I accompanied you." He stated sternly. "I remember more about Devimon, then you have experienced when facing him the first time. He could easily surprise you with a new tactic you haven't seen, then just as quickly end you on the spot!" Sunset didn't like the fact that Dorumon's warning was making her feel uneasy. It truth, she hadn't face anything like Devimon before. He wasn't something magically created, he was something completely alien, and simply trying to befriend him like she did so many other villains before didn't seem like a liable option here, given their group's first encounter with him.
Sunset shook her head, clearing her mind of worry as she turned her attention back to Dorumon. The little digimon seemed to be pouting as he turned away from her, his bushy tail wrapping around his legs. He clearly didn't want her to go.
Concernedly, Sunset lifted her hand and slowly began to rub Dorumon's back. She spoke calmly, "Listen Dorumon, it not that I don't want you to come with me, or that I'm not worried enough about Devimon. I don't know if you understand this, but I can't just let you wander around outside with me. Your like nothing this world has ever seen, and if people see you they might try to take you away." Upon hearing this Dorumon turned to look Sunset in the eyes. Sunset continued, "If that happens, I don't know if I'll be able to follow you... and what's worse is that we won't be able to get you back home." Dorumon could clearly note the sounds of sadness present in her voice, and it made him frustrated that he was the one causing her to sound this way. Even still, he wasn't going to just let her walk away because she said a few touching words.
"You are a very caring and logic person, Sunset Shimmer, and you have my appreciation for the words of concern. But I will not simply stand idly by while a threat on your life, as well as the lives your friends, still exists out there!" He narrowed his gaze at Sunset. "I am going with you to act as protection, and their is nothing you can say or do that is going to stop me!"
Sunset blinked at the digimon in surprise. No where in the amount of time they had spent with each other had he ever spoken to her so harshly. She supposed this was more his past self revealing itself, and she wasn't going to lie, his wanting need to protect her and her friends' well-being was incredibly sweet, if only somewhat scary. She wanted to argue with him more, but truthfully she knew that it wouldn't do any good. He was dead set on coming with her, and nothing short of the apocalypse was going to stop him.
Reluctantly, she sighed. "Alright, clearly I'm not gonna be able to talk you out of this. And simply locking you in the house isn't an option, because you'll just knock down my door."
"Or jump through your window. Whichever will conserve more of my energy if we manage to get into combat on this venture." Dorumon stated bluntly.
"Right..." Sunset sighed again. "I guess, I'll have to figure out something to make it so you can go around unseen." She looked at her clock. "...and it's nearly half an hour to three already—wonderful." She groaned.
"That seem like a poor choice of words actually, considering your apparent mood."
Sunset facepalmed. "Dorumon..." She paused exasperatedly. "...would mind leaving the room for a minute. I need to get changed."
Dorumon nodded. "Of course, Sunset." He left the room through Sunset's doorway, before she gently closed it behind him.
She turned back to her bed and once again noticed the clothes she had chosen from her mall trip. With another groan she began to strip off her pajamas and walk towards the bed. "...And here I thought he was going to be easy to live with."
"This is degrading..." Dorumon grumbled as Sunset carried him down the sidewalk. Her right hand was holding his bottom and the other was gently placed on his back. For all intents and purposes, he perfectly resembled an infant being carried by its mother.
"Stop complaining. You think this is any better for me?" Sunset replied. She groaned as she lugged the surprisingly heavy digimon towards their destination. "I'm a seventeen-year-old girl carrying around what looks like an oversized plush toy down the street. People are looking at me right now either thinking I'm immature or I'm crazy... neither of which I going live down anytime soon." She didn't look at him directly, but he could tell her cold frustrated gaze was now on him. "So the least you could do is be quite and act like a doll, okay?"
Dorumon didn't move, but he did whisper in reply. "Understood, my apologizes Sunset."
Sunset and Dorumon and soon stopped at a crosswalk just a few blocks away from the Canterlot mall. Luckily, Sunset didn't happen to live to far from the mall, so a walk there was never usually out of the question. Having to carry a creature the size of your average Germane Shepard however made the experience somewhat more unbearable, as the growing ache in her lower back would gladly attest to.
Dorumon continued to remain motionless, feeling quite bored with his role in the situation, when suddenly he felt something tugging at his tail. It was a wet, greasy something with multiple fingers, from what he could tell, roughly five. The sensation made his skin crawl in discomfort, he quickly darted eyes his over Sunset's back until he caught the sight of a tiny humon pulling at the tip of his appendage.
She was little, very little, he'd assume a toddler if his blurry memory of what toddler's look like severed him correctly. She was wearing little blue jeans with a white t-shirt that was covered in drool marks and colorful stains. On her head, a large amount of curly orange hair that climbed upwards until it reached a peak like a mountain, a little blue bow situated at the top to identify where it ended. She absent-mindedly sucked on the fingers of her other hand as she played with his fur.
"Sunset... Um, Sunset..." He whispered in her ear.
She glanced towards him. "Yeah?"
"We have a stranger in our midst." He voiced concernedly. "She's right by your leg."
Staring at him in confusion for a minute, Sunset then turned her head towards the sidewalk and saw a tiny baby pulling at Dorumon's tail. She immediately began to smile. "Pumpkin Cake? What are you doing here sweetie?" She cued in delight.
The second youngest of the Cakes looked up at her for a minute before going back to pulling on Dorumon's tail. "Where's your mommy and daddy, Pumpkin? Are they somewhere nearby?"
Pumpkin only replied with some incoherent babbling before she placed the tip of Dorumon's tail in her mouth and began to suck. Sunset actually felt Dorumon shiver in disgust, at the sudden sensation.
A sudden cry soon rang out from up the road. "Pumpkin, there you are!" Sunset turned her attention to her left, down road opposite to the one she was following. She saw a heavyset, blue-skinned woman running towards her. Her breath was clearly labored after the brief amount of exercise she had just experienced.
"Thank goodness I found you." She said through several wheezes. She bent down and picked up her second born twin and cradled her affectionately. "Don't you ever wonder away from mommy again, do you understand me?" Pumpkin didn't reply, and only seemed to reach out for Dorumon with want in her eyes.
It was at this point that Mrs. Cake recognized the teenager currently staring at her, and immediately blushed in embarrassment. "Sunset, Hi!" She replied awkwardly. "I'm sorry I didn't recognize you for a minute there. I was sort of stuck in mom-mode."
Sunset only chuckled in reply. "It's alright. It gives me more time to enjoy having my favorite little friend around." She lifted her hand off Dorumon's back and gently ran it through Pumpkin Cake's hair. "Isn't that right Pumpkin?~" The baby giggled happily in reply.
Sunset looked back up at Mrs. Cake. "What's she doing all the way out here anyway?" Sunset asked. "By the looks of it, you've been running a mile just to catch her?" Mrs. Cake blushed slightly.
"It was only a few blocks actually." She explained. "I really need to start cutting out the sweets, and get some more exercise." She then turned her attention to Pumpkin. "This one however has energy to spare." She stated happily. "She and her brother must be picking something up from Pinkie Pie, because I keep tending to find them in the darndest of places."
A joking grin grew on Sunset's face. "There growing to be just like Pinkie? Jeez, now that's a scary thought."
"Your telling me." Mrs. Cake agreed. "Your not the one watching them on a daily basis." Her attention was soon pulled to the large thing Sunset was holding in her arms. "My word Sunset, what is that your carrying? Some kind of stuffed animal?"
Sunset blinked, suddenly realizing she was still holding Dorumon, quickly she replied. "Uh, yeah! It's my new stuffed animal, I won it in a contest!" She said clearly lying through her teeth. Luckily, Mrs. Cake seemed to buy it.
"Really? What kind of contest? Because Pumpkin seems to be quiet smitten with it." The baby continued to stretch her arms out in an attempt to grab Dorumon again, and much to the digimon's relief, she was not succeeding.
"It was a one time offer... a radio contest from... Neighpon." Sunset groaned inwardly, knowing for sure that her awkward pauses would no doubt give her away.
Again luckily, Mrs. Cake didn't seem to notice. "That's to bad. Well then maybe you could let me borrow it sometime, I'm sure Pound would appreciate it just as much Pumpkin seems to."
Sunset felt Dorumon's front claws dig into her shoulder, making her wince slightly. "Actually, I've become quiet attached to it myself recently. It's one of a kind, nothing else like it, I don't know if I could ever part with it?" Dorumon seemed to become less tense as his claws retracted from her body.
"Well alright then, I don't want to push you to do anything you don't want." There was a brief 'ding', they heard coming from off to their sides and upon turning they noticed the crosswalk sign had just changed.
Sunset sighed contently. "Thank Celestia, I thought I'd never be able to leave." She whispered silently to herself. She turned towards Mrs. Cake. "I'm sorry Mrs. Cake, but I'm going to have to cut this conversation short. I'm meeting the girls at the mall, and I don't want to keep them waiting."
Mrs. Cake only smiled in reply. "I understand completely. Run along, go have fun!"
Sunset nodded before bolting across the street to her next destination, Mrs. Cake waving at her all the while. Dorumon whispered testily in her ear. "You are never to give me over to that child again!" He demanded.
Sunset smirked knowingly. "What's the matter? She really seemed to like you. Don't you like her back?" Dorumon only glowered at her in response.
"There is a difference between 'liking something' and 'wanting to violate something'! If I am not allowed to move while in public, you are not allowed to leave me in situations where things like what happened that can occur! Is that understood?!" He growled at her, he clearly was trying to make this a point.
Sunset giggled goodheartedly. "Alright, alright, I get it. I promise I won't ever leave you around children again. Ya happy?"
He only continued to glower. "Get me some more of that food Ms. Twilight fed me, and then we can negotiate." He stated seriously. Sunset couldn't help but break out into full blown laughter.
It didn't take long for Sunset to arrive at the mall after her brief conversation with the Cakes. She ran across the mall parking lot until she noticed her friends standing near the entrance. Like her, they appeared to be dressed in outfits comparatively different to the ones she usually saw them wear.
Rainbow Dash was dressed in a sky blue sleeved vest and skirt with a brown studded belt cinched around her waist. She wore a thick collared blue shirt under her vest that was an almost similar tone to her skin, and under her skirt was a pair of leggings that resembled the color of a dark pair of blue jeans. For some reason, she also had a pair of brown leather straps wrapped around her left thigh, and she seemed to stand more confidently once she noticed Sunset had saw them.
Pinkie Pie was dressed in a pair of higher-then-knee-high white socks and a pair of fashionable hot pink boots. She wore a large light blue hoop skirt with a small red T-shirt that had a large star on it and white collar. Sunset remembered the shirt as merchandise from a TV show Pinkie like watching... something about gemstones? Anyway, she wore darker pink thin jacket over her top with a similarly colored pair of fingerless gloves. She looked rather excited to see her, more so then usual. Sunset assumed if must have been because she carrying Dorumon.
Rarity, as fashionable as ever, was dressed in a fetching icy blue blouse and royal purple skirt and boots to match her hair. Like Pinkie, she wore a thin lighter purple jacket with a hood over her blouse. Unlike Pinkie and Rainbow Dash however, she was eyeing Sunset more concernedly then invitingly, probably for the same reason Pinkie was excited.
Applejack was dressed more western then Sunset had ever seen her been dressed before. Everything she wore, from her shirt to her skirt to her cowboy boots, was a different shade of thick earthy brown. If what she learned from Rarity was to be believed, then these were good strong colors that really looked attractive the farm girl. But what really caught her attention was the strange poncho-like thing around her neck, and the fringes on it and her skirt. Sunset didn't know what it was called but she assumed Rarity did, and if it wasn't openly explained to her once she met up with her friends, then she would make it her mission to ask later. Like Rarity, Applejack looked confused and was raising an eyebrow.
Fluttershy was dressed much less extravagantly, and of everyone, looked the most similar to her usual attire. She wore a simple pink top with a green skirt that was similar to the one she usually wore. Her boots and socks looked the same as any other day, and like usual old Fluttershy, her expression showed no overexcitement or major concern. She just looked complacent and happy to see her friend finally arriving.
Twilight wore a long purple vest that stretched down to her hips with a pristine white long-sleeve underneath. Above it and under her vest, was some kind of grape colored corset that didn't look too cinch up against her body, like Sunset would image corset's did, but instead hugged her figure comfortably. Below it she wore a large dark purple skirt with an image of Princess Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark placed over it's majority. Upon seeing it, Sunset momentarily began to wonder what the other Twilight would look like in the same outfit, and the thought made Sunset momentarily debate asking the human Twilight to start wearing contacts and leave her hair down. Like her other friends, Twilight was also giving her a look of concern.
Sunset stopped running when she had reached her friends. She was breathing heavily and was gasping greedily for air. She leaned forward slightly as she held Dorumon, "Hey girls... sorry... I'm... late." She wheezed.
Before anyone could reply, Pinkie broke out from the group and shot towards Sunset. "DORUMON!" She exclaimed making Sunset jump back in surprise.
"Greetings Pinkie." The admirably motionless digimon exclaimed. "I am sorry, but I cannot turn to address you right now. Sunset has asked me to remain motionless and quite while we are moving about outside. A task I believe I am currently failing, so I will only continue to converse in whispers from here on forward." His volume significantly lowered as he began to whisper. "I hope this doesn't become of any inconvenience to you."
If Applejack could raise more then one eyebrow and still looked confused, she would have. "Uh... Sunset? Ya care to explain what's goin' on here?"
Sunset sighed. "Dorumon refused to let me leave the house because he was afraid that Devimon was going to attack us again."
Dorumon began to whisper heatedly. "I am trying to be cautious! I am not afraid! If I am to protect you all properly, then we need to be on guard at all times!"
Sunset furrowed her brows in annoyance. "This was basically the argument we had back at my place." She stated gruffly.
"So you decided to carry him with you because you couldn't leave him at home?" Rarity asked curiously.
"We agreed that if he could hold still and act like a doll, then I would take him with me." Sunset began to groan. "A decision I am really beginning to regret, because my back is killing me."
"Sacrifices must be made in order to make sure you and your friends are under the upmost protection." Dorumon explained.
Sunset shot him a frustrated look over her shoulder before looking back at Pinkie Pie with a smirk. "Pinkie would you care to hold him for a little while?~" She asked ruefully.
Pinkie gasped. "Would I?!" She exclaimed happily.
Sunset felt Dorumon sinking his claws into her shoulder, probably out of an immediate sense of danger. "I must ask you refrain from this course of action!" He bellowed at her pleadingly.
She whispered back. "Consider it your way of making it up to me for braking my things..." Without a second though she lifted Dorumon off her shoulder and placed him Pinkie's hands, like one would carefully hand off a baby.
Immediately after being handed to Pinkie, Dorumon found his midsection being squeezed by the party girl in an excited bone-crushing hug. "Huggies!!!~" She sang in delight.
Dorumon could swear he felt his eyes beginning to pop out of his head. He gasped for air. "I think... I'm internally bleeding..." He whispered, this time not out of his own volition.
Sunset clapped her hands together drawing everyone's attention away from the poor struggling digimon. "Anyways, now that I'm here. Let's get to shopping, shall we?" The others looked at each other warily for a moment before nodding at Sunset in agreement. They had not been part of the arguments Sunset and Dorumon may have had earlier in the day, so they had no place to judge the punishment she deemed worthy for his actions... no matter how severe it seemed.
Sunset lead her friends into the mall with Pinkie trailing behind them, her grip on the small digimon never faltering as they made their inside.
Little did they know, above from the mall's rooftop edge, a dark figure watched them. He had been following them for a while now, ever since the pink-skinned one was dropped off at her home. He knew they'd reconvene, he knew he'd have a second chance of eliminating the knight before his masters learned of his failure. All he needed to do now was wait, and look for his chance when they were separated. He swore he would not fail in his mission a second time... and he was a digimon that always kept his word.
He bolted from the malls edge and began to peer through the skylights for the group of humons he had been tagging. He saw them walking his direction, and silently he whispered his intentions clearly. "Soon... I will slaughter the knight."
"So the outfits you're all wearing are all designs Rarity made?" Sunset asked curiously as she and her friends left yet another store, this one a home and supply shop where they had just bought plates.
"Well... mostly made by me." The fashionista explained. "The girls did add a few of their own personal touches to the designs to make them a tad more unique, but no less magnifique~"
Sunset looked to both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Rainbow was carrying plastic bags filled with bought items like the rest of her friends, while Pinkie still had her arms tightly wrapped around Dorumon's midsection. She politely asked them her next question, "...And I'm assuming by personal touches, she means your shirt and that strap around your leg, right?" Both smiled and nodded. Sunset turned to Rainbow Dash specifically. "What is that thing anyways?"
Rainbow Dash began to smirk. "It's about time you asked!" She stated confidently. She pointed to the strap wrapped around her thigh. "This is a little trophy I plucked off Devimon after I finished dragging him across the pavement. When we tangle with him next time, I want that jerk to remember who in particular kicked his ass!"
Sunset gave the cocky girl a somewhat worried look before shaking the expression off. She didn't say it out loud, but the idea of running into Devimon again frightened her immensely. Dorumon said he had different tactics he could use on them, tactics that he could probably use to ambush them now that he had seen what they could do. She didn't like that Rainbow wanted to taunt the creature that almost killed both them and Dorumon. However, now was not the time for worry, now was the time to relax and forget about the worry they experienced just this morning. So to help her forget, she decided to focus on other matters, specifically the matters she had been wondering about prior.
"So you just decided to give out these brand new outfits? Just like that? Without any reason?" Sunset continued her questioning of Rarity with a smirk. "You're very generous Rarity, but even you wouldn't do something so out-of-the-blue as this without an excuse."
Rarity huffed indignantly, and gave a rather frustrated pout. "If you must know, as punishment for sneaking out earlier this morning, my parents forced me to give out some of latest creations out for free." Rarity smirked cattily. "Of course, they never said of whom I was supposed to give them too, and what designs to give out."
Sunset addressed her high-class friend with a hint of skepticism. "That doesn't seem like a very effective punishment? Forcing their daughter to give out gifts, like she would normally do?"
Rarity suddenly began to blush. "Well... I may have goaded them into believing it was the worst possible thing with some method acting, but this was merely out of sheer necessity, I assure you. Mother and Father's punishments can be quite severe, I'll have you know."
Rainbow Dash cocked a brow. "Yeah right, what do they do usually? Take your needles and sewing machine away?~" She laughed, causing some of her other friends to laugh.
Rarity began to grow a bit more frustrated. "Those needles and that sewing machine are paramount to my work as a fashionista, Rainbow Dash! If I don't constantly practice my craft and create stunning designs on the daily, then I may begin to lose my touch, and if that were to happen, I wouldn't be able to create any fabulous outfits for the community anymore! All my dreams of become the world's next top fashion icon would be in shambles, and I, the always fashion forward Rarity, would fade into obscurity before I even began my career!" Everyone paused as she fell melodramatically backwards into Sunset's arms acting out a faint. "Now that truly would be, The! Worst! Possible! Thing!"
She brought the back of her hand to forehead and released a forlorn sigh like actress during her death scene as rested her head against Sunset's shoulder. Everybody stared at her perplexedly. Sunset wanted to clap her hands together slowly, but with her hands currently holding bags, as well as Rarity, she decided her sarcastic comments would have to do without. "And the academy award for most hammy in an independent piece goes to..."
Her friends started to laugh out loud again as Rarity picked herself up, another slight blush warming her cheeks.
"Sunset!" A new voiced called out to the group, gaining their attention. The group turned and noticed Flash Sentry walking towards them. Unlike his usual attire, the teen was dressed in a black collared work shirt with a white beater underneath. The shirt had a horizontal red stripe running down it's side and a two small stitched-in words near the left shoulder that read: "Nightjar Guitars". Flash sauntered up to the girls and greeted them with a pleasent smile.
"Hey Sunset," Flash turned his attention to the other girls in her group. "Ladies..." He greeted them as well. "What are you all doing here today?" He asked while casually folding his arms.
"We're helping Sunset pick out some new supplies to redecorate her home with." Fluttershy stated joyfully. "We thought it would be the least we could do after what happened this morning."
Flash nodded in agreement. "Fair enough. Kinda makes me wish you called me over as well. I could have called in sick for this sucky shift I been having at work. Would've been there in a flash." Sudden realization hit him seconds later, and he groaned in embarrassment.
"Pardon the pun."
The girls giggled goodheartedly. "It's cool dude." Rainbow replied.
Flash nodded in thanks before turning his attention back to Sunset. He looked her over for a brief moment, then asked, "That a new outfit? Looks good."
Sunset blushed slightly at the compliment before looking herself over again. She recognized her usual orange, yellow, and magenta skirt and the purple top she didn't usually wear over it. She also wore a thin black jacket, similar to the leather one she used to wear, but different enough that she thought it wouldn't bring back too many bad memories. Underneath her skirt were her blue leggings and black boots that her new look was known for. She knew she didn't look to different from the way she usually dressed, so she answered him back just as casually. "Nah, this is just something I threw together from the clothes I had in my closet."
Again, Flash nodded. "Even still, you look good." She blushed again.
Rarity cleared her throat, gaining Flash's attention. He soon noticed they all had new outfits on, causing the teen stutter in embarrassment. "O-oh! Sorry, y-you all look good today..." He whispered his few words so no one else would hear. "...I guess."
Rarity huffed and turned her back towards Flash. "Figures you would notice something your girlfriend pulled out of the closet, and completely ignore six new strokes of genius placed right before your eyes."
Flash groaned and cupped his face in his hands. "We aren't dating anymore Rarity..."
Applejack chuckled. "Could've fooled me, partner."
A loud grumble echoed loudly from within Pinkie Pie's arms, causing everyone to turn their attention towards Dorumon. He blinked slightly in embarrassed, then turned his head slightly and whispered in Pinkie Pie's ear. "I believe those meals from before have finally caught up with me. Could you please escort me to the nearest facility where I can... relieve myself."
Flash meanwhile whispered at Sunset. "Is that Dorumon?"
She nodded. "It's a long story. I'll tell you later." Flash nodded in return.
Pinkie pie smiled at Dorumon's request, and quickly went about addressing his issue to her friends. "Dorumon has to go potty!" She stated bluntly, before skipping away.
Everyone was struck silent, except for Rainbow Dash who was laughing. Underneath his fur, Dorumon blushed.
"Should... should we follow her?" Twilight asked hesitantly, she not really wanting to hear 'yes' as an answer.
"I think we can let Pinkie handle this one." Sunset said without hesitation. "Let's just wait here until she gets back." The others nodded in agreement.
A shadow suddenly crossed over the skylight above them, blanking out the sunlight for a brief few seconds. The teens looked up, but saw nothing but open sky above them. Sunset blinked, she didn't want to believe her suspicions, but she knew what had just passed by was all to real. She looked towards her friends, based on their expressions they were thinking the same thing.
"May-Maybe it was a bird?" Fluttershy squeaked nervously.
"There ain't no bird that big in Canterlot!" Applejack shouted. "Come on we need to find Pinkie Pie and fast!"
The group began to rush towards the nearest restroom exit, hoping to all higher powers above that where they were going wouldn't be the last place they'd ever see Pinkie Pie again.
Here and back again after a too long hiatus! Hope you guy and girls enjoy the newest chapter, and I hope to have more out as soon as I can.
The designs used for the Humane 7 do not belong to me, and are based off the artworks created by Pyrus-Leonidas. Look him up, his work is pretty good.
Saiyan of the North Star
Saiyan of the North Star #1 · Dec 26th, 2017 · · ·
KO awesome chapter, well it seems everyone is now getting use to a monster like friend around as they’ll get themselves into dangerous and epic adventures! And perhaps little romance scene with Flash and Sunset.
Haseo55
Haseo55 #2 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·
I wonder if all 8(human 7 and Flash) would get Digimon partners. If you want sugestions i would say balance with Royal Knights, 7 great Demon Lords Celestials and the olympus 12.(2 of each groups)
EquestrianTwist
EquestrianTwist #3 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·
I thank you for the suggestion, but I'm afraid I already have an idea of which digimon partners I want the Humane 7 to have. The pictures that are linked to this chapter have no connection to this idea, I want that to be a surprise. One I hope to reveal in the next chapter.
Foxhelm
Foxhelm #4 · Dec 27th, 2017 · · ·
I can see those partnerships, even if you elect to not use any of them.
So flash won't have a parter?
You'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out.
Noctis Prism
Noctis Prism #7 · Apr 6th, 2018 · · ·
Oh man I'm loving this! I'm eager to see what he rest get partnered with since Sunset seems to be Dorumn. Dash...I'm thinking Ulforceveedramon for speed or Beelzemon for rebel vibe. Pinkie, Dianamon or be weird with her making Leviamon nice or fit her crazy with Piedmon. Rarity, go for Minervamon or Crusadermon. Applejack, perhaps Jesmon? Twilight screams Leopardmon. Fluttershy, that's actually tough....hmm, come back to that. Flash, Craniamon or Gallantmon?
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Indeed. My copy is ordered!! (Or, as the youth insist on saying these days, “pre-ordered”).
Forgive my ignorance, but does “Netflix UK is the UK’s channel for the final season ….” mean that episodes 9 thru 16 will not be available on DVD in UK?
Not at all. It will be just like part 1, where it is available on Netflix first and on DVD in due course
Thanks Andrew, I was worried there for a mo because, personally, I prefer to enjoy this and similar great TV by devouring an entire series DVD in a single weekend’s session. Now my only problem is to try to ensure I don’t get to know any plot details before the DVD’s out! Thanks again – Peter
..,or half a series in this case!
It’s entirely possible. I do it every year with Game of Thrones (DVD almost a year after broadcast on a satellite-exclusive channel). And I’m in the same boat as you with breaking bad.
Some people think it is impossible to avoid spoilers (and that somehow justifies some stealing online), but those folks clearly spend too long at their computers and have no willpower!
Enjoy the suspense, and you’re not alone!
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Gioacchino Natoli (Humanitas University, Italy)
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14:20-14:55 Vitamin D receptor regulates microbiome in inflammation and cancer: a story beyond bone
Jun Sun (University of Illinois, USA)
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Habitats that watch wildlife on show at London Design Festival
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Published on 9 Sep 2019
Sculptural ‘stage sets’ for urban wildlife, which incorporate hidden cameras to capture video of visiting animals, will go on display at this year’s London Design Festival.
The habitats were created by researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London’s Interaction Research Studio as part of the My Naturewatch project, which encourages the public to document animals in their neighbourhood.
Built with wood, gourds, stones and other natural and human-made materials, the ‘Nature Scenes’ act as shelters, climbing frames and feeding stations for small mammals, insects and birds, while also concealing low-cost recording equipment.
Designed to also be attractive to the human eye, the small-scale sets or ‘still lifes’ use materials which are often considered waste by humans, and acknowledge that the animal and human worlds are intertwined.
The 2019 London Design Festival runs from 14 – 22 September, with Nature Scenes installed outdoors in Brompton with other animal habitats, all selected for exhibition as examples of innovative material research, architecture and technology.
Across the week, Nature Scenes will hang from trees or nestle in undergrowth, capturing footage of small visitors to Brompton’s Alexander Square Gardens East.
The concealed cameras are an open-source design, meaning that anyone can construct and use one to collect their own footage, while Nature Scenes frames are also designed to inspire similar DIY projects.
Coinciding with the installation, the My Naturewatch team have created a wildlife themed ‘occupation’ of the Hour Glass Pub, Brompton Road. Reinterpreting pub paraphernalia with an animal twist, the premise is a role reversal for humans and animals.
Goldsmiths design researcher Naho Matsuda says: “The capture of footage enabled by My Naturewatch cameras allows a human audience to tune in to the intimate and often unseen lives of local wildlife. Witnessing animals going about their daily lives, feeding, washing, resting, unencumbered by human presence creates a deeper sense of empathy for our local wildfire and blurs the boundaries between us and them.”
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Jim Chapman puts sheet face masks to the test
By Jim Chapman 31 October 2018
This month our GQ Test Pilot, Jim Chapman, tests out the best sheet face masks. Here's how he got on...
I terrified my wife a lot this month. As it turns out, if you want to enjoy a sheet face mask and avoid a divorce, it’s best to warn your other half before they wander into the dimly lit room you’re sitting in and see you wearing a face that isn’t yours. It’s fair to say that for this month’s Test Pilot, I pushed her jump-scare tolerance to its limit.
Sheet face masks come in a plethora of shapes and sizes and there was all manner of oddities to get through. I had a monkey’s face, a pink gimp mask-type thing, a panda head and one that apparently made me look like the lead role in Shrek The Musical. But what kind of test pilot would I be if I wasn’t willing to put my relationship on the line in order to best inform you which are worth investing in?
A particularly fun example came in the shape of the Dr Jart Firm Lover Rubber Mask (£10. At Selfridges. selfridges.com). It is certainly an odd one to look at. If you find pink bondage rubber odd, that is. But it’s also one of the most comfortable and most effective. It consists of two steps, the first of which is an intensive gel-like serum made of salicylic acid and red seaweed that promises firmer skin. To prevent said serum from evaporating before it’s reached optimal penetration, step two is to apply the rubber mask. I recently turned 30 and over the past few years I’ve started to become aware of the beginnings of my future wrinkles. However, upon removing this mask, I noticed that my skin felt significantly firmer, more plump and hydrated. Also, as a side note, where most of the others I tried are papery, this is thicker and more robust and I’m not entirely sure why, but there is something strangely satisfying about that.
I used the mud mask at the office before a big meeting
Another mask looks like something you’d dredge from the bottom of a swamp during a police search, but it did such a good job that I’ll let it off. Star Skin’s Anti-Aging Liftaway Mud Face Sheet Mask goes on wet and stays on until it dries. Simple. It’s much less messy than traditional mud face masks of the same ilk and also promises a deep clean. Just pop it on your face, relax and peel off 20 minutes later. No need to smear it on or scrub it off. I was short of time so had to use this one in my management’s office (much to the amusement of my team, who weren’t wearing face masks during working hours) just before heading into a meeting. There were one or two spots of residue left around my nose and in my beard, but after a quick splash I was good to take my meeting, confident that my face wasn’t red from furiously scrubbing away dry mud. The mask is saturated in kaolin clay which softens, draws out impurities and unblocks pores. Usually, after a mud mask, my skin feels thirsty, but this one also has tremella mushroom, which did a very good job at keeping me hydrated.
Knitwear is no longer limited to your torso now that Neogen has invented the Pink Cactus Liftmax Knit Mask. It’s made from a knitted mesh that’s so soaked in its special formula it oozes out when you press it onto your face. I could feel my skin drinking up the serum as it went to work hydrating, nourishing and conditioning. And there was plenty left over (particularly in my eyebrows) to be massaged in once I lifted the sheet away. As with every other mask I tried this month, it wouldn’t adhere to a beard and instead just hung limply from my nose and cheekbones. That said, when in contact with skin, it settled on nicely and felt the most therapeutic of them all. Though the other masks provided various and useful services, this one seemed like it was actually feeding my skin something vital and my face thanked me for it. Totally worth shocking my wife into an early grave for.
Best for hydration
If you've started to notice smile lines, don't call your surgeon. Instead, hydrate.
Sheet mask by Dr Jart, £5.50. At Selfridges. selfridges.com
Best for Instagrammers
For those who don't care much about their skin but want to take lots of selfies.
Animal mask by Skin 79, £5. At Selfridges. selfridges.com
Best for neat freaks
Most mud masks are messy, but this one keeps its kaolin clay beneath ultra-fine gauze.
Mud mask by Starskin, £8.50. At asos.com
Best for novelty thrill
A knitted face mask? Sounnds and looks odd but then - guess what? - it works.
Knit mask by Neogen, £6.50. At Selfridges. selfridges.com
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Friday 5/3/2019 & the Weekend: New Moon in Taurus; Jupiter Makes It BIG
The me-me-me Aries Moon went void with a long sigh at 4:47 AM ET. Meanwhile, it’s a “dead” Moon — at the end of the cycle. Stick to routine concerns; wrap up projects from last month. Roll with any twists or flakes that may disrupt your efforts to move forward in a straight line. Once the Moon enters Taurus at 4:18 PM ET, you may sense a buzz in the air, adding to the dead Moon’s restlessness. That buzz is Uranus, planet of disruption. It meets up with the Taurus Moon at 10:15 PM ET, jolting the Collective’s need for material comfort and security, for better or for worse. Watch the headlines.
Also of note: Mars, planet of action, is nearing its exact opposition to Jupiter, planet of BIG. Mars is activating one of the dominant patterns of 2019: the Jupiter-Neptune square, discussed in January:
Another dominant pattern for 2019 in this New Moon is the first of three squares between Jupiter and Neptune (exact on January 13th, June 9th and September 21st). Pushing the limits of faith? In Sagittarius, Jupiter refers to expansion and/or excess in matters including, but not limited to: opinion, dogma, horses, liver, pancreas, optimism, bombast, foreigners, media, law. In Pisces, Neptune refers to fish, oceans, drugs, spirits, lies, fog, refugees, victims, gurus, viruses, chemicals, toxins, suicide, etc. Here’s one of many headlines reflecting this pattern: “Japan’s Sushi King Pays $3 Million for Giant BlueFin Tuna.” That’s one BIG (Jup iter) FISH (Neptune), and it wouldn’t command such a high price if it weren’t so SCARCE (Saturn-Sun-Pluto conjunct in Capricorn)
Add sports and academia to that list of Jupiter matters and scandals, fantasy, film and scams to the Neptune column. Last week, Mars activated Neptune (by square). As it makes its way to Jupiter, now do you understand why we’ve been seeing so many BIG headlines on Jupiter-Neptune concerns?
“Towering actor who played Chewbacca in five Star Wars films dies at 74,” reads this WaPo homepage headline. Big. Movie. Fantasy hero.
“Ferraris, Bentleys and a $6.5 million path to Stanford” — Academia. Scandal. Foreigner. Drugs. Sports. Mars refers to cars. The student in the scandal — Yusi Zhao — is from China. Her family made its fortune in Chinese medicinal herbs. She was falsely presented as star recruit for Stanford’s sailing team. Coincidence or conspiracy?
Scientology cruise ship quarantined in St. Lucia after measles outbreak.
“End to AIDS in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission.” HUGE!!!
The only exact aspect ET on SATURDAY is the New Moon in Taurus. Make a list and set your intentions for what you’d like to accomplish when the new cycle begins at 6:46 PM ET. A New Moon in Taurus needs to build material stability and security. So what do you need to have? No really, what? That’s the mantra for Taurus: I HAVE. How creative can you get when it comes to acquiring what you need? If Aries is the spark that generates an idea, Taurus takes that idea and gives it form.
Wherever 14 degrees of Taurus falls in your horoscope is the area of your life that is primed for planting those seeds. I challenge you to do the work required to make those seeds grow. Sure, you can spend this time rolling in the meadow, smelling the flowers. But if that’s all you do this month, you could be missing out on a prime opportunity. Don’t know where 14 Taurus falls in your horoscope? That’s what your astrologer is here to tell you — in a personal consultation or a written report. Here’s the 411.
The Sabian Symbol for this New Moon is “a man muffled up, with a rakish hat.” “Muffled up,” is he? Can’t get the words clearly out of his mouth? And his hat — another part of his cover — is “rakish?” And made of silk — so smooth and rich — and comes from China? Sounds like an intriguing character. How will this image play out in the headlines this month, hmm? As always, we consult Blain Bovee’s wonderful book on Sabian Symbols for details:
“…consider muffled voices, mumbled words; inclined postures; dropping the ball and getting away with it; a playful knack for apparel and appearance; openness to new ideas, new worlds; creating happy sensations; detachment from disintegrating worlds, from social perception, from transient perception.”
In the New Moon chart set in Washington DC, it is interesting to see the Ascendant at 29 Libra — same as last month’s Libra Full Moon. We’re at the end of something for sure. Venus in Aries rules the chart; this is a “warrior woman” expression which is traditionally not well-received: fiery and strident, less concerned with social graces and charm. The values of Venus in Aries have a steely, ruthless focus — for better or worse. In its effort to champion the cause, it may feel as if it’s between a rock and a hard place. Why do I say this? Venus is squaring Saturn, the North/South Node and Pluto. Its steely ambition, added to the Mars-Jupiter-Neptune Big Thing is reflected here:
“Facebook is working on the secret plan — codenamed ‘Project Libra’ — to create its own cryptocurrency” Project Libra? Fair and balanced — in matters of Venus-ruled money? Hmmm.
With respect to the United States, the New Moon horoscope suggests revelations, shocks and other disruptions of the status quo. Uranus is hitting all angles of this Washington DC chart. The New Moon is in the 7th House — a hopeful sign, perhaps — since this is the house related to the public, and what happens here is usually seen, not hidden. And what will be seen is likely to be BIG, suggested by that aforementioned Mars-Jupiter opposition at 22 Gemini/Sagittarius, activating the U.S. Mars-Neptune square (guns, cowboys, the American Dream, drugs, Hollywood, etc.) and the horoscope of P45 — and scores of public figures associated with U.S. politics/government. Check out that post from 2017 and you’ll find excellent tidbits on the horoscopes of Russia and Adolf Hitler. The latter’s horoscope has been quite active in recent years — which should surprise no one, given what’s going on in the headlines. The horoscope lives forever, doncha know.
And now, more news.
Mars (weapons) in Gemini (words) — blown up by Jupiter in Sagittarius (publishing, opinion) and fogged up by Neptune (scandal, deception). Add this week’s hyperactive Mercury (words) in Aries (fast, furious, pioneering, out of sync) — and it sums up the latest on the Mueller investigation.
On Tuesday it was revealed that Mueller sent a letter to AG William Barr, challenging the accuracy of Barr’s “summary” of Mueller’s report.
Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he continued to lie — here’s the recap from late-night hosts around the country.
Kamala Harris was hailed as the smartest kid in the room, no doubt fulfilling the need of her intensely clever Gemini Ascendant (currently being boosted by transiting Jupiter’s expansion). Watch, as she gets Barr to admit that he didn’t bother to personally review all of the underlying evidence referenced in the Mueller Report — because really, why would Barr need evidence when his stubborn Mercury in Taurus is square to ruthless Pluto — and already made up?
Today another letter was published — this one from White House counsel Emmett Flood — also to Barr — trashing the Mueller Report. It was written on the Full Moon of April 19th — the one at 29 Libra.
Still more words as weapons: “Watergate had the Nixon tapes. Mueller had Annie Donaldson’s notes.” We don’t even have a birth date for Annie Donaldson (Don McGahn’s then chief of staff), but the reporter feels a need to tell us that she drove a red Corvette, a reflection of the current Mars transit — and a significant Aries signature in Ms. Donaldson’s presumed horoscope (along with a lot of precise and detailed Mercury/Virgo/Gemini).
“South Dakota’s largest tribe tells governor she is not welcome on their reservation” (they’re fighting about oil, a Neptune affair)
“Cyclone Fani hits India; biggest storm in decades”
“Unemployment Report Caps Longest Streak of Job Creation Modern Times”
“Baltimore mayor resigns amid growing children’s book scandal”
“Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other “dangerous voices” banned on Facebook and Instagram”
“Study: Major media outlets’ Twitter accounts amplify false P45 claims on average 19 times a day”
“How the news took over reality.”
In honor of World Press Freedom Day, the NYT is taking down its paywall for three days. Don’t miss this big giveaway!
Random upbeat news: “Maine becomes first state to ban styrofoam.” Huzzah! And as Maine goes, so goes the nation. So they say.
UPDATE: Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) announced his presidential run, bringing the total of Democratic contenders to 7, 243. Bennet’s announcement is no surprise to anyone reading this forecast back in January.
UPDATE: Rod Rosenstein resigned this week, effective May 11th. Pluto was alllllmost-but-not-quite sitting on his 23 Capricorn Sun, suggesting a dynamic power play/transformation. Something is being held back. Let’s note that his Sun will be eclipsed on July 19th….and triggered in November (by Mars) and in January 2020, by transiting Pluto and Saturn. The fat lady has not yet sung.
UPDATE: Nicolas Maduro, last written about in January, in which April and May were declared months to watch. Some have been tempted to say that Maduro is going to get thrown out any minute now — and millions have taken to the streets, as transiting Saturn squared his Midheaven a few weeks ago. Today, what was supposed to be the “largest” protest march in Venezuela, called by opposition leader Juan Guaido, appears to have petered out. During a nearly all-day Moon void? Dead, no less? No surprise here. Saturn will hit the Midheaven again on May 11th — but there’s more bang for the bucks in July, when transiting Uranus shakes up Maduro’s Saturn (structure/authority) and transiting Pluto opposes his Ascendant for the second time.
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