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Checking In with Susan David
Fear, boredom, grief, confusion—we're all feeling... a lot right now. How do we cope with our heightened emotions during this global pandemic? Susan David—a psychologist at Harvard Medical School—is here to offer us strategies. This show is an urgent response to an urgent moment—a support system, toolkit, and understanding voice during a time of great uncertainty.
Wisdom for the future
It’s possible to create extraordinary beauty in the face of stress, separation, and illness. Explore the value of music during this difficult time with Richard Kogan, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and noted concert pianist. Guided by the life story of Frédéric Chopin, one of the greatest composers in history, Susan and Richard reveal ways to move forward into an uncertain future.
Your past, present, future self
Join Susan for a guided exercise that can help you connect with how you want to move forward in the future. Ask yourself: What do I need to let go of? What parts of my life have not been working for me? What does the child in me need? And what does the future in me need?
What do you value?
The conditions we live in under COVID-19 have put many of our goals in conflict — parenting vs work, comforting our loved ones vs social distancing, and more. They can feel like impossible choices in chaotic times. But there's a way to feel more confident in making tough decisions: getting clear about what we value. What's more, our present circumstances might actually offer us the opportunity to make choices that move us closer to the values we want to live by.
How to tame burnout when your office is your bedroom
Even before COVID-19, many of us were teetering on the edge of burnout. With the pandemic ushering in changes to daily life, many of our stressors have only worsened. While we can’t change our situation, we can change the way we relate to it. Being intentional about when to grit and when to quit, and reassessing what goals are currently realistic can lead us on a path towards restoration.
Facing loneliness with Dr. Steven C. Hayes
The pandemic is putting a spotlight on our loneliness. But by confronting it, and understanding how meaningful connection works, we can take steps to mitigate this difficult feeling. In this episode, Susan is joined by Dr. Steven C. Hayes, Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada and one of the leading voices in modern psychology.
Bonus: A quick loneliness exercise with Dr. Steven C. Hayes
Dr. Steven C. Hayes, Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada and one of the leading voices in modern psychology, guides us in exercises that help us connect with our experiences of loneliness and loss.
What kids need during the pandemic
One of the best things that parents can do right now to help their children thrive is to teach them emotional skills. For parents, the most effective way to teach these skills is by practicing them yourself. Learn how to help your kids (and yourself) validate, label, and process difficult emotions.
Bonus: Self-soothing exercises with Dr. Kristin Neff
Practicing self-compassion is so vital right now that we consulted Dr. Kristin Neff on exercises for directing compassion inwards. Kristin is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research and a co-developer of the empirically supported training program "Mindful Self-Compassion." Here she guides us on some self-soothing exercises and unpacks the research on why this approach is one of the most powerful sources of strength, coping, and resilience.
Self-compassion for the self-critical
Showing yourself kindness becomes even more important during life's difficult moments, and the current pandemic certainly qualifies. Learn why it’s a misconception that you need to be tough on yourself to succeed, and how practicing self-compassion can make you even more resilient.
Keep your relationships healthy in quarantine with Dr. Julie Gottman
Many of us are separated from people we typically rely on. Others are sharing space in closer quarters than they're used to. How do we navigate our relationships under these tough new conditions? Susan is joined by Dr. Julie Gottman, the president and co-founder of the Gottman Institute and co-founder of Affective Software, Inc. As one of the world's foremost experts on relationships, Julie shares strategies for maintaining healthy relationships during this crisis.
Why bad emotions are good
Many of us are witnessing a tyranny of positivity right now — with calls to “find the silver lining” and “stay positive” amidst a global pandemic. But we are wired to feel negative at times. Contrary to what our culture tells us, accepting our negative emotions can have tangible and powerful benefits. Learn how to rethink happiness and positivity as paramount goals, and how to effectively cope with negative emotions.
Moving forward with grief
As life under COVID-19 tests our emotional bandwidth on a daily basis, we need strategies for managing grief now more than ever. Learn how putting your grief into language can help you gain a sense of organization and initiate a process of moving forward with it.
Bonus: The psychological role of habits with James Clear
A special coda to our last episode! Maintaining routines is so important right now that we decided to dive deeper. How do we maintain our stability when our routines are being challenged on a daily basis? Susan speaks with James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, to get some prescriptive, actionable advice.
Regain control in an unpredictable world
Many of us are feeling stuck right now, forced to adapt to a world that we have little control over. But if we focus too much on these uncontrollable aspects of our lives, we greatly increase our suffering. Learn why our routines and habits are so important to our wellbeing, and how there are ways we can exercise control even when every day feels unpredictable.
How to manage fear and panic in times of uncertainty
If you’re feeling consumed by fear, panic, worry, or any other difficult emotion during this global pandemic, you’re not alone. But pushing these feelings to the side, or passing them along, simply doesn't work. Instead of rejecting your difficult emotions, learn the steps that you can take today to boost your immunity to these social contagions.
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Pelosi says senator's comment 'disrespectful to women'
(CNN) -– House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that comments made by Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown about a Democratic rival showed a “disrespect for women.”
Brown made the remarks Thursday, when asked about candidate Elizabeth Warren’s statement that she had “kept her clothes on” while paying for college. Warren was making reference to a nearly nude 1982 Cosmopolitan magazine photo shoot that Brown did to earn money at age 22.
When asked about the comment during a radio interview with WZLX in Boston, Brown said only, "Thank God.”
Pelosi said Sunday on the ABC program “This Week” that the comment was disrespectful.
“The response you just gave, 'Thank God,' really, I thought spoke volumes about how clueless Senator Brown is,” Pelosi said. “It really spoke volumes about, really, disrespect for women that he may not even realize. I bet you he'd like to take that comment back.”
Pelosi acknowledged that the comment was likely meant to be a joke, but maintained that it was still revealing of Brown’s character.
“I hope it's joke-y. And if it is, then hopefully he will take that comment back. But women know. They hear a comment like that, it tells you a lot about somebody,” Pelosi said.
Filed under: Elizabeth Warren • Nancy Pelosi • Scott Brown
Nancy and the poor Dems – grasp at any straw to try and win – Elizabeth and Nancy need to put on their big girl panties and stop acting like cry babies – if you can't stand the heat, girls....
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fmjk
Generally, I would agree with Pelosi, but Warren started it with a little bit of a snarky comment that didn't become her. I love her and think she should stick to her issues.
moneygang
brown is right, thank god this ugly betty kept her clothes on. if u aint got it, dont flaunt it. nobody want to see extra baggages and undesireable curves.
Republicans can say or do ANYTHING and their defenders will be out in droves to defend them. Let us hope the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts send Scott Brown packing. He won his seat only because Martha Coakley was the poorest excuse for a candidate imaginable. Elizabeth Warren will trounce the smirking Brown.
I have to give it to Scott. Nice comeback. It's funny. It's an insult, but hey he has a right to insult back.
OK, let's just say for the sake of argument, that Brown had given the exact opposite answer: "I wish she had." Imagine the screetching THAT comment would have caused.
So, like everything else with the Pelosi crowd, there's no way to satisfy them. Unless we start a program to give free gubmint stuff for women who get their feelings hurt.
normajean
If you people weren't so busy hearing what you want to hear and not what you do hear, you would have heard Elizabeth Warren answering a question from the audience and NOT commenting on Browns snide remark!!!!! She was asked""How did you pay for your education???" She laughed and said "I kept my clothes on" !!... This guy thinks he is too cute for words anyway, he poses nude..{And he's no Burt Reynolds} and then during the campaign made a big point of the fact that he drove a pick-up truck!!!! Who doesn't??
racegirl1
I don't like what Brown said, however Warren opened the door. She could have just answered the question about how she paid for her education. She could have shown she didn't have a silver spoon in her mouth. Now Brown could have taken the high road and said nothing. I think they were both wrong so they are both even on this score. People need to look at what is said not who said it. The country will never move forward with everybody going to there corners whenever something happens.
Ancient Texan
And Pelosi weighs in on this? She's never had a respectful word for anybody, ever.
I say Pelosi's comment 'ignorant and politically motivated'.
If Senator Brown was the Democrat, and Elizabeth Brown was the Republican ,Pelosi would never had said a word about disrespect.
Richard J
Let me first of all disclose I am a Democrat. Now let me say, this is a silly statement by Rep Pelosi. The original statement by Elizabeth Warren implies there was something wrong with what Sen Scott Brown did without ever being specific as to what she thought was wrong. In other words, it was a low tactical response she thought she could get some mileage from. Sen Brown's response to that was about the same level. Rep Pelosi can't legitimately criticise Sen Brown without also being equally critical of Elizabeth Warren.
This whole episode is demonstrative of the general level of political discourse in this nation. And that goes for the original question asked at the debate which Elizabeth Warren gave her original quip. It is sad.
Look who's talkin'
"... spoke volumes about how clueless Senator Brown is,” Pelosi said." Clueless? Pelosi stands alone at the head of the "clueless" line.
How can it be an insult if its the truth..I guess the truth are called insults now..I tell you what insults me is that we have an elected official that passed one of the worse law in American history. Oh was that Nancy that said we have to pass it before we know whats in it.. Now that is in insult to the American people.
So Elizabeth Warren's prepared comment was somehow appropriate, and Scott Brown's quick response was not? For those not in the Massachusetts area, the Warren nomination is being railroaded through the primary process. The national Democrats have no use for democracy.
And the people of Massachusetts have no use for Elizabeth Warren.
Warren was disrespectful to Brown, and Brown was disrespectful back. Equality and respect for women doesn't mean that a man has to take everything a woman dishes out and be silent in response. Pelosi is being extremely insulting to women here by suggesting that we all believe that.
When a person insults you, you have every right to insult them back, no matter what they've got between their legs.
I dont get it. Hopefully the thank god comment is not what she is referring to. If it is that whats wrong with that he said thank god to her saying she wasnt taking her clothes off for money. What did you want him to say to be respectful, "darn, I wish she would have"? That comment would be distespectful. Otherwise all he was saying is that it is a good thing that she didnt.
Pelosi should shut her vicious pie hole. What a hypocrite.
So she was taking a shot at him and he gave it back in spades.
if you cant play with the big boys ( and Girls) stay home.
we know nancy is terrified of humor...if she ever laughed the 800 staples back might let lose...seriouly she has had as much work as MJ
I believe it was extremely disrespectful for Warren to start the whole thing by trying to belittle a US Senator for his attempt to pay for college. All he did was try to diffuse the situation with a bit of humor. It shows he is fast on his feet and that she is a little person. And Nancy Pelosi is simply vile.
A Massachusetts voter now intending to vote for Brown when he didn't last time.
Who cares what Nancy Pelosi thinks or says.....
I just wish she would keep her mouth shut.
DGFADFG
What Warren said was disrespectful to men.
Two can play at this game.
thank god she is not a good looking lady
Brown shows you need looks
Dixie Independent voter
Another pretty boy Republican running for office.
Warren made a stupid comment that had nothing to do with the politics at hand and Brown responded with a similarly non-political comeback.
She shouldn't open her mouth if she does want to risk having someone shove her foot back in it.
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Seedstars Asia Summit- Showcasing Promising Tech Startups and Convening Thought Leaders from Across Asia
November 29th, 2017, FYI Building, Bangkok, Thailand
Saturday, November 4, 2017 — Seedstars World (SSW), the global community and platform for entrepreneurs in technology in emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is hosting the Seedstars Asia Summit, the second edition of the annual Asian Regional Summit that connects the most relevant players in innovation and technology with the world and between each other. The event is invite only. Tickets can be requested at seedsta.rs/SSWASIA17.
After hosting competitions in 15 countries throughout 2017, identifying the most promising startups and analyzing the local ecosystems, Seedstars World is now bringing together the best and most promising entrepreneurs with ecosystem players, mentors, investors, corporates and other entrepreneurs across Asia. The event is supported by the National Innovation Agency of Thailand (NIA), Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Omidyar Network, Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), Ananda Development, and Merck.
The Regional Summit will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, the location which has been selected as this year's Seedstars hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia. "I am truly excited that Bangkok will have an opportunity to host the winning startups from Seedstars competitions from all over Asia as well as leading international and local investors and mentors. I trust that all invited participants will benefit from constructive discussions, knowledge sharing and networking at the event" says Nichapat Ark, Seedstars Ambassador for Thailand.
The Asia Regional Summit will last for 3 days and bring together 250 attendees commencing with a bootcamp for the participating startups, one on one mentoring sessions, an investor forum and culminating with a conference and pitch event on the 29th of November that will feature the startup pitches, keynotes, and panel discussions that will engage a range of topics and ideas pertinent to entrepreneurs in the region.
“We have been on a long and interesting journey when it comes to entrepreneurship and technology in emerging markets. As part of the Seedstars DNA we want to be on the ground working directly with startups, corporates and other stakeholders. This is exactly the reason why we are travelling to 80+ ecosystems globally this year and 15 countries in Asia. We are very excited to be able to bring the entire network together in Thailand later this year, and together look into some of the opportunities of the continent and explore how technologies can rapidly improve the current status quo in emerging markets worldwide.” says Rosie Keller, Associate for Asia.
THE CONFERENCE - The summit day kicks off with a number of workshops and roundtables addressing a wide range of emerging market specific challenges over a number of different industries. These sessions are part of Seedstars’ global initiative to bring together the most prominent experts, entrepreneurs and industry leaders in Asia, and facilitate meaningful discussions leading to tangible outcomes that can be implemented across the region.
During the final ceremony of the Seedstars Asia Summit, 15 of the most prominent entrepreneurs from the continent will be invited on stage to showcase their success stories and how they are using technology to solve local and regional issues. Other than the final pitches, top speakers will join us on the mainstage to provide valuable insights on their businesses, investments and will look into the success factors of the continent as well as the elements that still need to be improved in order to allow an Asian startup to scale and compete on a global stage.
THE BOOTCAMP - Prior to the the conference, Seedstars World will host a 2 day invite-only Bootcamp, where 15 Seedstars startups, along with two delegations of startups from Thailand and Myanmar will work with world-class local and international mentors on improving their business models, growth strategy and mastering the investor pitch. In addition to that, this year’s program will also give entrepreneurs the opportunity to be selected for the Seedstars Growth program, a seed investment that comes together with a 15 weeks acceleration program for early stage startups.
THE INVESTOR FORUM - The conference week also brings together the most prominent and active investors on the continent. Entrepreneurs will not only pitch in front of these investors, but also participate in one-on-one meetings that will allow them to get an in-depth feedback about their business models, as well as create potential future funding opportunities.
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!
The Summit is invite only. Request your ticket at asia@seedstars.com.
Globally, different summits will be organised in Mexico City for Latam, Kiev for CEE, Bahrain for MENA, and Maputo for Africa.
ABOUT SEEDSTARS
"They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds." - Mexican proverb
Seedstars is a Swiss based group of companies which has the goal of impacting people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Seedstars connects stakeholders within these ecosystems, builds companies from scratch with public and private partners and invests in high growth startups. Through different activities of startup scouting, company building and acceleration programs, the team has now access to entrepreneurs, investors, incubators, corporations and government officials from 80+ countries. The Seedstars group includes Seedstars World, a worldwide startup competition; Seedstars Growth, a four month virtual acceleration program; Seedspace, a network of coworking and co-living spaces and Seedstars Academy, a six months program to train aspiring local entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses.
Rosie Keller
rosie@seedstars.com
+41 79 448 3225 (whatsapp only)
Seedstars is a global organisation with a mission to impact people's lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.
We roam the globe to connect with the digital changemakers of the emerging world shaping a new wave of social change. Our teams tread on the entrepreneurial arena across five continents, breaking stories about startups set upon defying the status quo. Our target represents 85% of human population, the opportunities encompass billions of lives, the scope of impact is infinite.
We invest in people, we connect teams, we encourage risk. We empower entrepreneurial spirits to swim against the tide. Join us online or in person at our events anywhere around the globe. Join us as we seek to impact billions of lives in emerging markets.
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Reps. Bergman, Walberg, and McClain put Trump loyalty above democracy
MICHIGAN — This week, at least three of Michigan’s representatives in Congress say they will object to presidential electors, furthering baseless conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 election. As reported by the Detroit Free Press, newly sworn-in U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Bruce Township) said she’s ready to “vote accordingly” if Wednesday’s Electoral College vote “further confirms the concerns voiced to me by folks in the 10th District.” Rep. McClain will be joined by Reps. Tim Walberg and Jack Bergman, who released a joint statement earlier today. The following quote be attributed to Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan:
“Barely 24 hours into a new term, Reps. McClain, Walberg, and Bergman are already showing their contempt for the Constitution and the will of voters in Michigan. I am incredibly disappointed to see my own Congressman, Rep. Walberg, and other members of the Republican Party pandering to corrupt national leaders who seek to undermine our democracy. Michigan did its job and voted in November, and we’re ready to move forward to fight COVID-19 and bring relief to essential workers, small businesses, and struggling families. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president in nearly two weeks, and that’s not up for debate. If these representatives were really concerned about election integrity, they would have resisted being seated themselves, seeing as they were elected on the same ballots they now call fraudulent—but they didn’t. It’s clear that their concerns are more about currying favor with Trump loyalists than upholding the integrity of our elections.”
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A Game in the Sun by John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962-64)
Bob Buckley(Micronesia 68-70) Rides a Bucking Turtle
This story by John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962-64) was published several times in various magazines. While there were missionaries and missions in Ethiopia, mostly Sudan Interior, Seventh Day, and other protestant domination’s, they were always (well, almost always) helpful to PCVs. In no way did an incident like the following occur, though it would have made a great story to tell at the Close of Service Conference. A Game in the Sun Betsy was not allowed to play croquet with her husband and the Reverend, so she sat in the shade of the trees at the top of the mound. The mound overlooked a lush rain-forest which grew thick and dense to the edges of the Mission Compound. The view was compelling and frightening to Betsy. The close steamy jungle made her feel insignificant and as she half listened to Mrs. Shaw’s chatter, she watched the bush as if it were . . .
Bob Buckley, a Colorado cowboy, gets as close as he can to a wild free range horse– a bucking Micronesia turtle! Bob Buckley(Micronesia 1968-70)
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Britney Spears Quotes
Biography & Metadata
AKA: Britney Jean Spears, Britney Spears
Birthplace: McComb, Mississippi, United States
Occupations: Singer, Dancer, Actress, Television Actor, Film Actor
Spouse: Kevin Federline, Jason Allen Alexander
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“Who doesn't love to twirl all day??”
— Britney Spears
Tagged: CS-HP-TEST, Dancing, Celebrities
“Trust in my instincts
Trust that I know what's right
These are the reasons that keep you up at night”
— Britney Spears, Let Me Be
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Trust Your Insticts, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Resist Gaslighting
“Where are you now? What have you found?
Where is your heart, when I'm not around?
Where are you now, you gotta let me know?
Oh baby, so I can let you go.”
— Britney Spears, Where Are You Now
Tagged: heart, Moving On, Letting Go, goodbye
“Say hello to the girl that I am
You're going to have to see through my perspective
I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am
And I don't want to be so damn protected”
— Britney Spears, Overprotected- Radio Edit
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Say Hello To The Girl That I Am, Overprotected, Authenticity, Mistakes
“Yeah, the secret to happiness—no memory—right there. Live in the moment, baby.”
— Britney Spears, Britney Spears Has Unlocked the Secret to Happiness
Tagged: No Memory, The Power of Now
“I think of all the times you made me sick
I used to think I couldn't handle it
What you think, I'm just another chick?”
— Britney Spears, Lonely
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Not Just Another Chick, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Lyric Quotes, Survivor Songs
“Sometimes I run. Sometimes I hide. Sometimes I'm scared of you. But all I really want is to hold you tight. Treat you right, be with you day and night. Baby, all I need is time”
— Britney Spears, Sometimes
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Fear, Love, Relationships
“When you need someone you just turn around and I will be there. When you're feeling low baby let me know and I will be there.”
— Britney Spears, I Will Be There
Tagged: I'll Be There, It's Britney Bitch
“If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?”
— Britney Spears, Lucky
Tagged: Sad, depressed, Empty
“Open that soda pop, watch it fizz and pop
The clock is tickin' and we can't stop (Can't stop, no)
Open that soda pop, bop-a shu-bop shu-bop
The clock is tickin' and we can't stop.”
— Britney Spears, Soda Pop
Tagged: Britney Spears, 90s music
“Stronger than yesterday. Now it’s nothing but my way. My loneliness ain’t killing me no more. I’m stronger.”
— Britney Spears, Stronger
Tagged: Stronger, It's Britney Bitch, Women Power
“I must confess that my loneliness is killing me now. Don't you know I still believe, that you will be here. And give me a sign. Hit me, baby, one more time.”
— Britney Spears, ...Baby One More Time
Tagged: 90s music, It's Britney Bitch
“I used to think I had the answers to everything. But now I know, life doesn't always go my way, yeah...Feels like I'm caught in the middle.”
— Britney Spears, I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
Tagged: Confused, Life, middle
“Last night I took a walk in the snow.
Couples holding hands, places to go
Seems like everyone but me is in love.
Santa can you hear me”
— Britney Spears, My Only Wish(This Year)
Tagged: Christmas Lyrics
“I think I married for the wrong reasons...
Instead of following my heart and doing something that made me really happy, I just did it for the idea of everything.”
— Britney Spears, Britney: For The Record
Tagged: Celebrity Break Up, Divorce
“Notice me, take my hand. Why are we strangers when our love is strong. Why carry on without me?”
— Britney Spears, Everytime
Tagged: Songs, Song Lyrics, Missing You, Love
“Never look back, we said. How was I to know I'd miss you so?
And you didn't hear, all my joy through my tears. All my hopes through my fears. Did you know, still I miss you somehow?”
— Britney Spears, From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
Tagged: Miss you, It's Britney Bitch
“And every time I try to fly I fall without my wings. I feel so small. I guess I need you baby.”
Tagged: Love, Need, Want, falling
“Think that I might back down but I won't
Think that I might have doubts but I don't
No insecurities
Won't you just let me, let me be
Think that you know me now but you don't
Think that I can't stand on my own”
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, You Think You Know Me, No Insecurities, No Doubt, Self-Confidence
“Don't tell me how to feel
Or say that you're for real
My mind's made up, I'm cool without you
You got no more appeal
Now this girl don't need no man
Says what she can do what she can
Now I live for me
Boy, does that make you weep?”
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Lyric Quotes, Survivor Songs, Female Empowerment
“Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world.”
— Britney Spears, Pharrell Williams, The Neptunes, Boys- Co-Ed Remix
Tagged: It's Britney Bitch, Song Lyrics, Lyrics Quotes, Lyrics, boys, Dance Floor
“Show me how you want it to be
Tell me, baby,
'Cause I need to know now, oh, because...
My loneliness is killing me (and I)
I must confess, I still believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time.”
— Britney Spears, Baby One More Time
Tagged: Britney Spears, 90s songs
“Baby, I'm so into you. You got that somethin'. What can I do? Baby, you spin me around.
The earth is movin' but I can't feel the ground.
Every time you look at me, my heart is jumpin', it's easy to see. Lovin' you means so much more, more than anything I ever felt before.”
— Britney Spears, (You Drive Me) Crazy
Tagged: Baby One More Time, Crush, It's Britney Bitch
“I'm sitting here alone up in my room. I'm thinking about the times that we've been through. Oh, my love. I'm looking at a picture in my hand, trying my best to understand. I really want to know what we did wrong. With a love that felt so strong. If only you were here tonight I know that we could make it right.”
— Britney Spears, Born to Make You Happy
Tagged: Love, Relationships, It's Britney Bitch
“Jumped over drama and I landed on my feet.”
— Britney Spears, Outrageous Lyrics
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Drama
“I dare you to stand in my way.”
— Britney Spears, Showdown
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Selfie Captions
“Notice me
Why are we
Strangers when
Our love is strong
Why carry on without me?
Everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, it's haunting me
I guess I need you baby.”
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BY Radius Indiana
ElectriCom Expands Headquarters, Adds 22 Jobs in Paoli
Radius Indiana’s Regional Impact Fund and Indiana Economic Development Corporation Incentivize Expansion
Paoli, Ind. (Aug. 13, 2020) — ElectriCom celebrated its expanded headquarters and growing workforce with a ribbon cutting today at its office facility located on Hospital Road in Paoli. The project was supported by a Radius Indiana Regional Impact Fund grant of $88,739 and state IEDC incentives totaling $350,000.
ElectriCom provides utility construction services to power and communication clients in addition to gas distribution, right of way clearing and storm team response. Founded in 1960, the company has additional offices in South Carolina, Florida and Texas. With nearly 800 employees, including 300 in Indiana with 126 in Orange County and nearly 80 from Paoli, ElectriCom is the second largest employer in the area.
ElectriCom is rapidly growing and its new office space will accommodate 22 additional employees by 2022 in accounting, contract administration, human resources, IT and executive leadership. The company’s $800,000 investment includes multiple improvements at the now 13,230-square-foot headquarters, including a new executive office wing, new accounting and contract offices with 16 new workstations and a kitchen for employees as well as a 17,000-square-foot expanded parking area and upgraded site infrastructure.
“After 60 years of growing and being headquartered in Paoli, we are very pleased that the local and state officials and economic development organizations assisted to make staying in Paoli the most economical option from a business perspective. Our desire was always to stay headquartered in Paoli, but we looked at other options such as Louisville, Kentucky and possibly one of our other offices across the country. The incentives made the business decision match our heart-felt desire to stay in Paoli,” said Kevin Mason, president of ElectriCom.
The ElectriCom utility construction services also help to promote economic development through its work, which helped it secure the grant from Radius Indiana’s Regional Impact Fund. “ElectriCom provides critical infrastructure to new and established sites across our region and beyond that helps secure business development and create new jobs,” said Radius Indiana President and CEO Jeff Quyle. “We are pleased that the Regional Impact Fund could help with this important investment to grow a local company.”
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered ElectriCom up to $280,000 in conditional tax credits based on the company’s job creation plans. The IEDC also offered up to $70,000 in conditional tax credits from the Hoosier Business Investment (HBI) tax credit program based on the company’s planned capital investment in Indiana. These tax credits are performance-based, meaning the company is eligible to claim incentives once Hoosiers are hired.
“Thanks to homegrown Hoosier companies like ElectriCom, Indiana continues to build on its reputation as one of the best states in the nation to do business,” said Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger. “We’re grateful for ElectriCom’s continued investment in Orange County, and we remain confident that the state’s skilled workforce will contribute to the company’s growth and success for many years to come.”
Locally, the Orange County Economic Development Partnership and Town of Paoli have supported the expansion.
“As one of the largest employers in Orange County, ElectriCom is an example of a company that understands and values the community where they are headquartered. They have been great community partners both through the services they provide and through civic community involvement. We are proud to have been a part of this success story and look forward to continuing working with ElectriCom and value them as an asset to our community,” said Zach Brown, executive director of OCEDP.
“I am thrilled that ElectriCom decided to retain and expand their business in Paoli, and the fact that they are creating more jobs is greatly appreciated,” added Brian Shipman, president of the Paoli Town Council.
From left to right: Bob Breeden, Executive VP; Kevin Mason, President; Russ Breeden III, CFO; Craig Moore, Senior VP
About Radius Indiana: Radius Indiana is a regional economic development partnership representing eight counties in Southern Indiana: Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Washington. Formed in 2009, Radius Indiana also serves as a point of contact in Indiana for Naval Support Activity Crane and leads regional collaboration by leveraging the diverse assets of Southwest Central Indiana to drive attraction, retention and expansion of business, thereby increasing employment and investment opportunities and quality of life within the region.
About the Regional Impact Fund: The Regional Impact Fund is a sub-organization of Radius Indiana with the purpose of making investments in public and private organizations that advance regional economic development strategies. The Regional Impact Fund is a deal-closing fund that makes such investments in the form of grants, loans, equity investments, or other such vehicles deemed to be in the best interests of Southern Indiana. The Regional Impact Fund gives high priority to projects that include job creation, site development and expansion.
About ElectriCom: ElectriCom was founded in 1960 in Paoli, Indiana, by Phil Brown to provide construction services to Power and Communications clients. Since our inception, we have added divisions for Gas Distribution and Right-of-Way Clearing and have provisioned our resources and people to respond quickly in Storm Team situations. Its mission is to build utility infrastructure to improve the quality of life in communities.
Two Daviess County Locations Earn Site Certification
Radius Indiana Works to Bring Veterans to the Region’s Workforce
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Drag queens read stories for kids
Director and producer Petter Wallenberg‘s acclaimed show Bland drakar och dragqueens (Amongst Dragons and Drag Queens) features a cast of well known Swedish drag queens reading fairy tales to children.
“I wish there was something like this when I was little,” says Petter Wallenberg. ”This is a colorful way to show children that it’s okay to be different.”
The show premiered at the Stockholm Public Library and received coverage in some of Sweden’s biggest media, including the front page of newspaper DN and a feature on TV4. The opening season’s tickets were fully booked within hours, resulting in a tour across Sweden. We are currently looking at developing future seasons.
Visit the website here >>>
East Africa’s first LGBT Community Center
Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts.
RRR – Ep 9: Sydney’s dark gay history
RRR – Ep 8: A poem about a lesbian’s fear in Jamaica
RRR – Ep 7: Australia’s Aboriginal drag queens
RRR – Ep 6: Queer bondage in Berlin
RRR – Ep 5: Africa’s first openly gay reverend
RRR – Ep 4: The queer heroes of Uganda
RRR – Ep 3: The queer divinity of India
RRR – Ep 2: The Jamaican reggae artist who risks his life for gay rights
RRR – Ep 1: A lifetime of modern gay history in Sweden
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Identification of novel recognition motifs and regulatory targets for the yeast actin-regulating kinase Prk1p
Mol Biol Cell. 2003 Dec;14(12):4871-84. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e03-06-0362. Epub 2003 Sep 17.
Bo Huang 1 , Guisheng Zeng, Alvin Y J Ng, Mingjie Cai
1 Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117609, Republic of Singapore.
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-06-0362
Prk1p is a serine/threonine kinase involved in the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton organization in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Previously, we have identified LxxQxTG as the phosphorylation site of Prk1p. In this report, the recognition sequence for Prk1p is investigated more thoroughly. It is found that the presence of a hydrophobic residue at the position of P-5 is necessary for Prk1p phosphorylation and L, I, V, and M are all able to confer the phosphorylation at various efficiencies. The residue flexibility at P-2 has also been identified to include Q, N, T, and S. A homology-based three-dimensional model of the kinase domain of Prk1p provided some structural interpretations for these substrate specificities. The characterization of the [L/I/V/M]xx[Q/N/T/S]xTG motif led to the identification of a spectrum of potential targets for Prk1p from yeast genome. One of them, Scd5p, which contains three LxxTxTG motifs and is previously known to be important for endocytosis and actin organization, has been chosen to demonstrate its relationship with Prk1p. Phosphorylation of Scd5p by Prk1p at the three LxxTxTG motifs could be detected in vitro and in vivo, and deletion of PRK1 suppressed the defects in actin cytoskeleton and endocytosis in one of the scd5 mutants. These results allowed us to conclude that Scd5p is likely another regulatory target of Prk1p.
Actins / metabolism
Cell Polarity
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Cytoskeleton / metabolism*
Fungal Proteins / metabolism*
Protein Interaction Mapping
Protein Structure, Tertiary / genetics
Protein Structure, Tertiary / physiology
Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases / metabolism*
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / metabolism*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / metabolism*
Fungal Proteins
SCD5 protein, S cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
protein kinase N
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
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Multiple spots of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of severe chronic central serous chorioretinopathy
Clin Ophthalmol. 2012;6:1639-44. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S35733. Epub 2012 Oct 9.
George D Tsakonas 1 , Athanasios I Kotsolis, Chrysanthi Koutsandrea, Ilias Georgalas, Dimitrios Papaconstantinou, Ioannis D Ladas
1 First Department of Ophthalmology, Medical School of Athens University, Athens, Greece.
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S35733
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of fluorescein angiography (FA)-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) for the treatment of severe chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC).
Methods: Patients presenting with chronic CSC with multiple areas of retinal pigment epithelium decompensation, with or without focal leaks, were treated with FA-guided full-fluence PDT. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), optical coherence tomography (OCT), FA, indocyanine green angiography, and fundus autofluorescence were used to determine functional and anatomic outcomes.
Results: Twenty-one eyes (17 patients) were treated with PDT and followed for a median of 24 months (range, 12-73). In fourteen eyes (66.66%), two PDT spots were performed within the same session. In three eyes (14.28%), three PDT spots were performed, in two eyes (9.52%) four spots, and in two eyes (9.52%) five spots. In 17 eyes (80.95%), the leakage in FA and the subretinal fluid in OCT disappeared after only one session of PDT. In four eyes (19.05%), a second session - with only one spot - of PDT was required due to persistent or recurrent leakage and subfoveal SRF. Median BCVA improved significantly from 20/63 at baseline to 20/40 at 3 months (P = 0.0002) and 20/32 at 6 months (P < 0.0001), and remained improved until the last examination (20/25, P < 0.0001). Two patients complained of a transient central scotoma after the treatment.
Conclusion: FA-guided full-fluence PDT with multiple PDT spots within the same session seems to be effective and safe for the treatment of chronic CSC cases with multiple areas of retinal pigment epithelium decompensation.
Keywords: central serous chorioretinopathy; photodynamic therapy.
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Preschool vision screening: rationale, methodology and outcome
Surv Ophthalmol. Jul-Aug 1996;41(1):3-30. doi: 10.1016/s0039-6257(97)81990-x.
K Simons 1
1 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6257(97)81990-x
Although population outcome studies support the utility of preschool screening for reducing the prevalence of amblyopia, fundamental questions remain about how best to do such screening. Infant photoscreening to detect refractive risk factors prior to onset of esotropia and amblyopia seems promising, but our current understanding of the natural history of these conditions is limited, thus limiting the prophylactic potential of early screening. Screening for strabismic, refractive and ocular disease conditions directly associated with amblyopia is more clearly proven, but the diversity of equipment, methods and subject populations studied make it difficult to draw precise summary conclusions at this point about the efficacy of photoscreening. Sensory-based testing of preschool-age children exhibits a similar combination of promise and limitations. The visual acuity tests most widely used for this purpose are prone to problems of testability and false negatives. Moreover, the utility of random-dot stereograms has been confused by misapplication, and new small-target binocularity tests, while attractive, are as yet inadequately field-proven. The evaluation standard for any screening modality is treatment outcome. However, variables in amblyopia classification and quantitative definition differences, timing of presentation, nonequivalent treatment comparisons, and compliance variability have been uncontrolled in virtually all extant studies of amblyopia treatment outcome, making it difficult or impossible to evaluate either the relative efficacy of different treatment regimens for amblyopia or the effects of age on treatment outcome within the preschool age range. The latter issue is a central one, since existence of such an age effect is the primary rationale for screening at younger rather than older preschool ages. The relatively low prevalence of amblyopia makes it difficult to achieve a high screening yield in terms of predictive value, but functionally increasing prevalence by selective screening of high risk populations causes further problems. Unless a "supertest" can be devised, with very high sensitivity and specificity, health policy decisions will be required to determine which of these two characteristics should be emphasized in screening programs. Performance of screening tests can be optimized, however, with adequate training, perhaps via instructional videotapes.
Amblyopia / diagnosis*
Amblyopia / prevention & control
Strabismus / diagnosis*
Strabismus / prevention & control
Vision Screening* / methods
Vision Screening* / standards
Vision Tests / methods*
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Home / Auto Flowering Seeds / Jack Herer Auto Flowering Seeds
Highly resistant to diseases
Long-lasting energetic buzz
Jack Herer autoflower seeds grow a plant that offers a clear-headed high and plenty of happy feelings. This 55/45 sativa-dominant bud soothes you, making you feel calm and relaxed. Jack Herer is a popular cannabis strain for treating various physical and mental conditions, including chronic nausea caused by cancer-fighting treatments.
Taste & Smell Earthy | Fruity | Lemon | Pepper | Pine | Spicy | Woody
Effects Creative | Energetic | Euphoric | Happy | Uplifted
This marijuana was named after a great cannabis activist and author named Jack Herer. It’s a world-famous strain containing the perfect blend of sativa and indica. Growing it is easy, even for amateurs and those new to growing marijuana. THC levels are high, at 20%. These plants thrive will both indoors and outdoors in dry, Mediterranean climate.
Jack Herer Autoflower Origins
The marijuana strain known as Jack Herer earned its name as an homage to the best-selling, world-famous author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Mr. Herer was also a legendary cannabis activist of his time.
Jack Herer was originally bred and cultivated by Sensi Seeds as a medical cannabis strain. It features superior genetics designed to trigger soothing feelings and happy thoughts after consuming it. Created in the mid-1990s in Holland, it’s gained a lot of fan fair throughout the years, much like its namesake.
Jack Herer hybrid is a combination of the following other strains of cannabis:
Haze Sativa
Shiva Indica
Skunk Indica
Northern Lights #5 Indica
Its rich genetic background led to multiple variations of the strain. Today, it’s now widely recognized as a medical-grade of marijuana by Dutch Pharmacies. The strain has won multiple awards for its quality and potency.
What are Jack Herer Autoflowers
In the early ’80s a third species, Ruderalis, was brought to Amsterdam. This plant is a cannabis relative that was discovered in Siberia. Breeders found that this Ruderalis plant would flower after just a few weeks, regardless of light differences. These ruderalis genes were combined with existing indica and sativa strains and the autoflower type was born.
Nowadays you can find autoflowering variants of all sorts of popular strains. They grow smaller plants but they’re easier to grow and you can harvest much sooner than with photosensitive plants. Great for new growers, growing in a small space or if you want multiple harvests per season!
Growing Jack Herer Autoflower Seeds
Jack Herer is one of the most respected strains in the world. It’s also one of the most grown strains around the globe. According to savvy marijuana cultivators, it’s a “grower’s dream.”
Jack Herer Autoflower Plants
Jack Herer is available as an autoflowering strain. Therefore, it doesn’t require a certain amount of daylight each day to flourish. Instead, it automatically switches from vegetative to flowering stages on its own. So, the plants will flower and be ready for harvest very fast.
The buds are high-quality and extremely resistant to most of the diseases which commonly threaten crops. This is one reason why these compact plants are so easy to cultivate and is a “dream” to grow, both indoors and outdoors.
Feeding Jack Herer Plants
Indoor growers should expect this high-yielding plant to be ready for harvest in as little as 8-10 weeks. Yields will be about 5 ounces of cannabis per square meter of grow space. Outdoor cultivators of Jack Herer should be ready for harvesting between the end of September and the beginning of October. Your yields should be about 5 ounces of usable cannabis per plant.
Experiencing The Jack Herer Strain
If a mellow body high that kicks in immediately is what you‘re looking for, Jack Herer is the strain for you. Not only will you feel the euphoria immediately, but it’s also sure to last an extremely long time. You’ll experience bouts of silliness, as well as enhanced vision and creativity. A light-headed type of euphoria has also been reported by smokers of this strain.
With an 80% sativa level, this potent marijuana leaves you feeling vividly high and really happy. Prepare for an uplifted mood, a relaxed body and mind, and bouts of laughter and giggles, after just a couple tokes. Although the high is strong, it’s definitely not overpowering.
Wash away your fatigue and feelings of dreariness. Instead, you’ll; find yourself feeling energetic and ready to have a good time. The body high is mellow and light, so you’re not left stuck on the couch, or feeling “stuck” in your mind.
Users and smokers of this strain enjoy the cerebral sense of euphoria that kicks in almost instantly. This cannabis comes highly recommended to users who want to stimulate creativity. And, it’s energizing!. Use it to get you all pumped up for a meeting, social event or a night at on the town.
There are a limited number of side effects of Jack Herer. Dry mouth, also known as cottonmouth, is the most common adverse reaction. Drink plenty of liquids when using this strain to combat the issue. You may also experience dry, red eyes. If this becomes a problem, try using eye drops.
This strain has also been known to cause mild cases of anxiety. This is especially true for those already suffering from the condition before taking in the cannabis. Paranoia has also been reported, although in very rare cases. Those who aren’t used to using potent marijuana may experience slight dizzy sensations.
Jack Herer Smell & Taste
As soon as Jack Herer hits the air, you’ll detect an aroma reminiscent of pine and spice. Its scent is inviting and appealing to the palette. There’s an earthy base, along with hints of lemon juice and orange juice. You may even detect a whiff of cake, as well as a tiny whiff of pepper.
When smoking this cannabis strain, expect the flavors of earthy pine. You’ll also taste a bit of spice, accompanied by a hint of pepper. Its aftertaste is aromatic and naturally sweet. Some users report tasting tropical fruit salad flavors, that come with a sharp, saucy, spicy bite.
Uses For Jack Herer
Jack Herer was originally developed for medicinal purposes. To this day, it’s still highly recommended by cannabis clubs and medical marijuana dispensaries as a morning medication. Because of it tends to uplift your mood and create happy feelings, it’s recommended to medical cannabis patients suffering from:
Stress Disorders
This strain is also very effective at boosting energy levels. It gives the user an enjoyable high, with a mild numbing feeling. Because of this, it is an effective go-to-choice for patients suffering from:
With such a high THC level, (20%), this cannabis is a lot stronger than most others on the market. The release is cerebral, leaving you with a sense of creativity. This strain, which contains medium CBD levels, helps you become more at ease, making it an excellent pot strain for headaches and migraines.
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The Rough Beast Returns
Anti-Semitism is back, taking the place of intelligent criticism of Israel and its policies. And if that wasn’t bad enough, students are spreading the gibberish.
The email sent out last month by Laurie Zoloth, director of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, was chilling on its face.
“I cannot fully express what it feels like to have to walk across campus daily, past maps of the Middle East that do not include Israel, past posters of cans of soup with labels on them of drops of blood and dead babies, labeled ‘canned Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license,’ past poster after poster calling out Zionism=racism, and Jews=Nazis,” she wrote — and the details only became more shattering from then on.
I read Zoloth’s words with horror but not, alas, complete amazement, Eleven years ago, during the Gulf War, across San Francisco Bay, the head of a student splinter group at Berkeley addressed a room full of faculty and students opposed to the war, spitting out venomously, “You Jews, I know your names, I know where you live.”
The faculty and students in attendance sat stiffly and said nothing. Embarrassed? Frightened? Or worse — thinking that it wasn’t time to tackle this issue, that it was off the agenda, an inconvenience.
Far more recently, two students of mine at NYU wondered aloud whether it was actually true, as they had heard, that 4,000 Jews didn’t show up for work at the World Trade Center on September 11. They clearly thought this astoundingly crazy charge was plausible enough to warrant careful investigation, but it didn’t occur to them to look at the names of the dead.
Wicked anti-Semitism is back. The worst crackpot notions that circulate through the violent Middle East are also roaming around America, and if that wasn’t bad enough, students are spreading the gibberish. Students! As if the bloc to which we have long looked for intelligent dissent has decided to junk any pretense of standards.
A student movement is not just a student movement. It’s a student movement. Students, whether they are progressive or not, have the responsibility of knowing things, of thinking and discerning, of studying. A student movement should maintain the highest of standards, not ape the formulas of its elders or outdo them in virulence.
It should therefore trouble progressives everywhere that the students at San Francisco State are neither curious nor revolted by the anti-Semitic drivel they are regurgitating. The simple fact that a student movement — even a small one — has been reduced to reflecting the hatred spewed by others should profoundly trouble anyone whose moral principles aim higher than simple nationalism — as should be the case for anyone on the left.
It isn’t hard to discover the sources of the drivel being parroted by the students at San Francisco State. In the blood-soaked Middle East of Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, in the increasingly polarized Europe of Jean-Marie le Pen raw anti-Semitism has increasingly taken the place of intelligent criticism of Israel and its policies.
Even as Laurie Zoloth’s message flew around the world, even as several prominent European papers published scathing but warranted attacks on Israel’s stonewalling of an inquiry into the Jenin fighting, the great Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago was describing Israel’s invasion of Ramallah as “a crime comparable to Auschwitz.”
In one of his long, lapping sentences, Saramago wrote in Madrid’s El Pais (as translated by Paul Berman in The Forward, May 24):
“Intoxicated mentally by the messianic dream of a Greater Israel which will finally achieve the expansionist dreams of the most radical Zionism; contaminated by the monstrous and rooted ‘certitude’ that in this catastrophic and absurd world there exists a people chosen by God and that, consequently, all the actions of an obsessive, psychological and pathologically exclusivist racism are justified; educated and trained in the idea that any suffering that has been inflicted, or is being inflicted, or will be inflicted on everyone else, especially the Palestinians, will always be inferior to that which they themselves suffered in the Holocaust, the Jews endlessly scratch their own wound to keep it bleeding, to make it incurable, and they show it to the world as if it were a banner.”
Note well: the deliciously deferred subject of this sentence is: “the Jews.” Not the right-wing Jews, the militarist Israelis, but “the Jews.” Suddenly the Jews are reduced to a single stick-figure (or shall we say hook-nosed?) caricature and we are plunged into the brainless, ruinous, abysmal iconography that should make every last reasonable person shudder.
The German socialist August Bebel once said that anti-Semitism was “the socialism of fools.” What we witness now is the progressivism of fools. It is a recrudescence of everything that costs the left its moral edge. And, appallingly, it is this contemptible message the anti-Semitic students at San Francisco State chose to parrot.
We are not on the brink of “another Auschwitz,” and to think so, in fact, falsifies the danger. The danger is clear and present, though not apocalyptic. It’s no remote nightmare that synagogues are bombed, including the one on the Tunisian island of Djerba, famous for tolerance, an apparent al-Qaeda truck bomb attack. This happened. It is no remote nightmare that hundreds of Palestinian civilians died during Israeli incursions into the West Bank. This, too, happened. The nightmare is that the second is being allowed to excuse and justify the first.
Laurie Zoloth wrote: “Let me remind you that ours is arguably one of the Jewish Studies programs in the country most devoted to peace, justice and diversity since our inception.”
But anti-Semitism doesn’t care. Like every other lunacy that diminished human brains are capable of, anti-Semitism already knows what it hates.
This is no incidental issue, no negligible distraction. A Left that cares for the rights of humanity cannot cavalierly tolerate the systematic abuse of any people — whatever you think of Israel’s or any other country’s foreign policy. Any student movement worthy of the name must face the ugly history that long made anti-Semitism the acceptable racism, face it and break from it.
If fighting it unremittingly is not a “progressive” cause, then what kind of progress does progressivism have in mind?
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In Nevada, Dark Money Influences Redistricting Efforts
Even when a judge took the election redistricting process out of partisan hands, opaque groups funded by both parties managed to impact the outcome.
— By Lois Beckett, ProPublica
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkadog/4336478992/in/photostream">Beverly & Pack</a>/Flickr
This story first appeared on the ProPublica website.
As redistricting efforts continue across the country, money from unions, corporations, and other special interests is clearly having an impact—even when the redistricting process is taken out of partisan hands.
After Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, repeatedly vetoed redistricting maps created by the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, a Carson City judge appointed a three-member panel of experts to draw new district maps.
But as the Las Vegas Sun reported, that didn’t mean special interests were locked out of the process.
The Democratic legal efforts over redistricting were funded by a combination of state party money and funds from the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, the Sun reported. The trust, created by the national Democratic Party to fund redistricting suits, can accept unlimited money and does not have to disclose its donors.
Republican efforts were paid for, in part, by the Fund for Nevada’s Future, a nonprofit group that also has no limits or disclosure requirements on its fundraising.
As we detailed earlier this year in “The Hidden Hands in Redistricting,” such opaque groups can channel huge amounts of special-interest money into efforts to create districts that favor certain candidates—or convince others not to bother running.
While the final maps drawn by the court-appointed panel in Nevada were seen as largely favoring Democratic interests, the Republican legal team did persuade the judge overseeing the process to make a few tweaks in district lines. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, these changed the shape of one Republican state senator’s district and slightly reduced the proportion of registered Democratic versus Republican voters in several other state legislative districts.
Legal challenges against the maps must be filed in the next month. As the Las Vegas Sun noted, voters may never find out who paid for these redistricting efforts, or the lawsuits that may follow.
Because redistricting takes place only once a decade, a favorably drawn district can help a politician stay in office for 10 years, while a donation to a legislator’s campaign chest will only help for a single election cycle.
“Redistricting has far more impact than support of any one candidate, dollar for dollar,” Massachusetts redistricting expert Daniel Winslow told us.
But thanks to a 2010 Federal Election Commission ruling, the efforts of redistricting groups are not considered to be “in connection” with particular elections—a ruling, secured by the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, that gave members of Congress explicit permission to raise money for redistricting without being subject to campaign finance limits or disclosures.
Following this ruling, we’ve documented the rise of opaque redistricting groups in Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California. Nevada is another example.
While congressmen who raise money for the National Democratic Redistricting Trust and similar groups trust must seek permission from the House Ethics Committee to do so, these requests are confidential. Politico, reporting on the process this spring, identified two congressmen who had received this permission: California Rep. Mike Thompson and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
And while the Fund for Nevada’s Future, which actively solicits donations on its website, does not have to disclose its donors, consultant Mike Slanker, the Fund’s director and treasurer, told the Sun that the Fund also has an affiliated political action committee, which is subject to campaign disclosure rules.
Slanker did not respond to requests for comment. Matthew Griffin, a Nevada attorney involved with the Democratic redistricting efforts, said he could not comment at this point in the process.
In an interview with ProPublica, Mark Hutchison, a Nevada lawyer representing Republican interests, called his redistricting efforts “a labor of love” and said he was being compensated at a low rate.
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Siddhartha Mahanta
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Bjorn achieves one of Ragnar’s dreams. Ivar hatches a new plan while preparing for a divine arrival. In Iceland, a settler returns in a terrible state. King Alfred faces his greatest threat yet.
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Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Fellowship In the Epidemiology of Food Insecurity
Published on January 17, 2020 January 17, 2020 by PROOF Administrator
Dr. Valerie Tarasuk at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and Dr. Marcelo Urquia at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), University of Manitoba invite applications for two post-doctoral fellowships in the Epidemiology of Food Insecurity and Health. The successful applicants will join a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded multidisciplinary team of accomplished researchers in Manitoba, Ontario and the US, with an interest in studying the determinants of household food insecurity and its implications for health and well-being. The research approach involves the analysis of large and unique linked health and social administrative databases and dietary intake surveys housed at the Statistics Canada Research Data Centres. The postdoctoral fellows will be based in Toronto or Winnipeg and jointly supervised by Drs. Valerie Tarasuk and Marcelo Urquia.
The ideal candidates will have the experience and expertise to take advantage of the opportunity to access novel and rich data to build a highly productive applied research portfolio. The fellows will be able to attend seminars, colloquia, and other regularly scheduled research activities at the partner institutions, and present in domestic and international conferences.
This full-time temporary position is for one (1) year, with the possibility of extension subject to satisfactory performance evaluations.
Competitive salary equalling or exceeding CIHR fellowship stipends, plus benefits. Actual salary will depend on the candidate’s experience, qualifications and progress.
PhD, ScD, DrPH, or an equivalent doctoral degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, nutritional sciences, public health, economics, or related fields, completed within the last 5 years
Experience conducting statistical analyses with large databases using SAS or Stata
Track record of research productivity
Track record of, or strong potential for, independent funding
Knowledge of food insecurity, social determinants of health, poverty and social policy
Conduct data analyses at the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre.
Lead and co-author manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
Critically contribute to the team efforts
Actively participate in knowledge-transfer activities
Perform limited administrative tasks
Apply to external funding sources as eligible
Please send your application to Dr. Valerie Tarasuk (Valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca) as a single PDF file. Application materials include i) a one-page cover letter describing career goals, research interests, and reasons for applying; ii) your CV and graduate degree transcripts; iii) a reprint of your most significant first-author publication; iv) contact information for three (3) references; and v) proof of proficiency in English for candidates whose original language is not English, if applicable.
Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2020. Expected start date is May 1 2020 or shortly thereafter, although this timing is flexible. The positions will remain open until suitable candidates are found.
All applications are welcome but only potential candidates will be contacted.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
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What's Measure Z?
Measure Z is a Monterey County citizen's initiative, placed on the ballot by volunteers who collected over 16,000 signatures. It bans fracking and limits other risky oil operations in the county. Measure Z passed on November 8, 2016 with 56% of the vote. Read more about the initiative at the "Measure Z" tab.
What is the oil industry’s response?
After the election, Chevron, Aera Energy (owned by ExxonMobil and Shell), and other oil interests filed 6 lawsuits challenging Measure Z. Phase 1 of the Measure Z trial begins on November 13, 2017 at Monterey County Superior Court.
What's Protect Monterey County's role?
After helping to pass Measure Z, Protect Monterey County (PMC) now works to ensure that the voters’ decision is honored. PMC has assembled a strong legal team to intervene in the lawsuits and assist the County with Measure Z legal defense. PMC will also work with the County to ensure that Measure Z is fully implemented.
WHEN WILL MEASURE Z Take effect?
Since the oil industry is challenging the legality of Measure Z, its full implementation has been delayed. (Only the Measure Z exemption procedures are currently allowed to be implemented.) We’ll know more after the judge renders a decision in the Measure Z trial.
WHAT’s the status of aquifer exemptions?
Local oil companies have applied to the state (DOGGR) for exemptions that allow them to continue injecting wastewater into our protected aquifers -- a practice which endangers Monterey County’s groundwater and our premier agricultural and tourism industries. Members of PMC submitted public comments objecting to these exemptions. We are awaiting a final decision by DOGGR and U.S. EPA.
Attend public hearings and rallies posted under "Events" and help keep our government officials accountable. Donate to the Measure Z legal defense fund. The oil industry has millions to spend, while we rely on supporters like you.
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Equipment & Bags
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TESTING THE WATER
THE COMPLETE COMPACT PACKAGE
A step into the future of inflatable paddle boarding…
When John Hibbard founded Red Paddle Co over a decade ago, inflatable paddle boards were almost non-existent and not great quality. John’s resolute mission to make the sport he loved more accessible led to a journey of innovation and discovery which has spanned over a decade driven forwards by a single focus – Never Compromise. It is a guiding principle that burns as bright today as it did back in 2008 and is at the core of everything we do as part of our ongoing commitment to only ever produce the very best, reliable and stiffest inflatable paddle boards on the planet.
Throughout this time, the Red design team have kept innovation at the heart of the brand and haven’t rested on their laurels. As forerunners of the field, they have released their trademarked MSL inflatable technology, the Titan pump, patented RSS stiffening systems and user-friendly details such as the wheeled carry bags. These innovations have established Red Paddle Co as the undisputed leader of the inflatable paddle boarding industry and they have expanded the potential of the sport as a whole. But the problem-solving doesn’t stop there.
“…this isn’t the first time a Red Paddle Co product has revolutionised paddle boarding..”
Phil Hawthorne, Head of Design at Red Paddle Co
The main benefits of high-quality inflatable boards are their transportability, storage and durability, not to mention their weight. But the Red Design Team saw room for improvement in all of those areas and after years of research and testing and many, many prototypes, the result of their hard work is finally on the market.
We caught up with Phil Hawthorne, Head of Design at Red Paddle Co, to find out why he and his team spent over a year designing the new 9’6″ and 11’0 Compact, and what this means for the sport as a whole.
SHOP THE COMPACT RANGE
“ The Compact is a step forward in what an inflatable board can be…It makes the sport more convenient and more accessible than ever before.”
PHIL, RED PADDLE CO BOARDS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST INFLATABLE BOARDS IN THE INDUSTRY AND REALISING THE COMPACT VISION HAS COST YOU YEARS OF RESEARCH; WHY DO IT?
PH: “I guess going against the grain must be in our blood! It’s true that the brand began by overturning the ‘inflatable equals inferior’ myth, and this isn’t the first time a Red Paddle Co product has revolutionised paddle boarding. But I wouldn’t be a designer if I accepted the standards of the present as the possible standards for the future. We have come a long way over the ten years of inflatable technology at Red, but what drives us is that we are constantly testing the water and improving on our own designs, so they perform better for our users.
There are obvious limits to where people would feel able to take a paddle board. The Compact is about making the sport more versatile, by expanding our range to include an inflatable board that can live happily in a city apartment, be easily carried on your back as you cycle, or fit in the tiny luggage compartment of a sports car. I’ll also admit that as it was always a design challenge for us- we wanted to see where we could take this great product, to make it perform in ways we never thought possible and solve problems no one has ever attempted before.
To do that, and create something that is genuinely ground-breaking, an industry first- for us there’s nothing more exciting”.
“The whole idea of the Compact board is to expand the horizons of paddle boarding ”
SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE COMPACT BOARD?
PH: “The Compact is a full-sized SUP that packs down to half the size of a conventional inflatable board. In real terms, the Compact is a step forward in what an inflatable board can be. Here is a board that can be stored in the smallest spaces: easily carried on your back, taken on trains, bikes and buses, stored in your apartment or on your yacht!
The full package is super light to carry, weighing only 13.8kg and the size of the bag is comparable to an 80 litre multi-day backpacking pack so you can get out there and explore with ease – It really does makes the sport more convenient and more accessible than ever before”.
The full package is super light to carry, weighing only 13.8kg and the size of the bag is comparable to an 80 litre multi-day backpacking pack so you can get out there and explore with ease. It really does makes the sport more convenient and more accessible than ever before”.
HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO CREATE A BOARD THAT PACKS DOWN SO SMALL?
PH: “We spent over a year trying to reduce the size of the packed board. Each prototype took us a step closer, but it wasn’t until we developed the new MSL PACTTM material that we were able to marry our two missions. Mission one was to produce the smallest packed board possible. Mission two was to maintain the performance, look and quality we expect from a Red Paddle Co board. MSL PACTTM material combined with our quad stringer system gave us the perfect mix of a malleable deflated board, which can be folded and rolled with a rigid and authentic on water performance. The result is an international patent-pending design”.
“We wanted to see where we could take this great product, to make it perform in ways we never thought possible and solve problems no one has ever attempted before – for us there’s nothing more exciting”.
THE COMPACT RANGE USES NEW MSL PACT™ TECHNOLOGY, WHAT IS THIS AND WHY DID YOU CREATE IT?
PH: “The MSL PACT™ technology is ten years in the making. It features a new weaving process which creates an extra-high-tensile thread matrix at the core of the board that combines with a super-strong but malleable outer layer. This is combined with a number of specific features including a quad stringer system, split deck pad, off set inflation valve and a duel off-set removable click fin system to name but a few. The result is a board which is as rigid as the rest of our range when inflated, but which packs down to an ultra-small size once deflated”.
FIND YOUR COMPACT BOARD
“The backpack is completely user focused and applies 53% less downforce on the carrier’s lower back, so you can travel for longer in comfort.”
THE BOARD ISN’T THE ONLY NEW PRODUCT YOU’RE LAUNCHING. WHY DID YOU REDESIGN THE BAG?
PH: “The Compact board was our first priority, but the bag is just as important to us in creating a complete compact package. The bag is of course smaller to fit the smaller packed board, but it is also packed with new features. The whole idea of the Compact is to expand the horizons of paddle boarding, so our mission for the Compact bag was to make it more convenient to store, easier to travel with and more comfortable to carry than any SUP bag before it.
We engineered a backpack which is completely user focused and applies 53% less downforce on the carrier’s lower back, so you can travel for longer in comfort. The bag is also fitted with customisable lumbar support and adjustable height features to make it suitable for almost any size of paddler.
We have also incorporated features which make it function better as a backpack: tubular closed cell padding on the handles, concentrated shoulder padding, brushed cotton shoulder and back cushioning and adjustable shoulder straps, all of which make it more comfortable to wear and carry”.
NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT HAS ANYONE ATTEMPTED A PADDLE AS COMPACT AS THE FIVE-PIECE WHICH COMES WITHIN THE NEW PACKAGE, WHY DID YOU DO IT?
PH: “Designing a paddle that is light, strong and compact was a challenge, but a must. Like everything we do, it started with our experience of the sport and from there we imagined what could be done differently to make that experience better. A transportable SUP isn’t just about the board, if you want to go anywhere you’re going to need a paddle! It has taken some serious research and testing, but the new five-piece paddle is the perfect solution. The paddle is made of high-modulus carbon for extra-rigidity, and it is assembled using push-pin technology.
This is how we managed to pack it down to such a small size whilst ensuring it performs without any compromise and can still be adjusted to fit every user. You can remove middle sections from the paddle, so it can reduce down to be a kids paddle or use with all the sections depending on the paddler’s height. The highly durable, laser-etched Nylon blade has also removed the need for inks and printing which gives a design that won’t fade away and removes aesthetic implications forever”.
SO, THE QUESTION ON EVERYONE’S LIPS….WILL ALL RED PADDLE CO BOARDS HAVE VARIANTS ON THE COMPACT ONE DAY?
“The introduction of the 11’0 Compact was a natural evolution of our most transportable board. Early on when developing MSL PACT technology we realised that it opened up so many more adventures and paddlers would want additional speed and glide to take them to the most remote corners of the planet.
The 9’6 Compact is perfect for those looking for the ultimate transportabilty and versatility but we wanted to improve the experience for all paddlers, which necessitates different designs to cater for different needs.
The 11’0 Compact is an ideal match for paddlers who regularly travel with their board or want to adventure further with the convenience of an all-in-one package. The increased length makes this board perfect for longer paddling adventures and those travelling the world with their SUP.”
WHICH COMPACT BOARD IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Each Compact board provides the perfect blend of stability and manoeuvrability allowing you to make the most of any location and any water conditions!
Ten years in the making, our mission to make paddle boarding even more accessible has been realised. Our revolutionary 9’6” Compact (patent-pending) is a step forward in what an inflatable board can be – a full-sized SUP which folds down to half the size of a conventional inflatable paddle board.
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18 Can’t-Miss Attractions at This Year’s Washington State Fair
Jeff Totey
Families in Washington have been “doing the Puyallup” for over 100 years, so it’s no surprise they know this fair inside and out. But the fairgrounds are huge and while everyone has their favorite events and attractions they want to do and experience, it’s easy to miss out on some of the fair’s newest and best. That’s why we put together a rundown of this year’s can’t-miss attractions and tips on how to save some serious money. Click through the gallery for the fair-tastic deets.
Get in for Free
It doesn’t take long for little expenses to add up in a hurry, so be sure to plan ahead and take advantage of the various free offers. The biggest savings come from free admission days. First of all, all kids ages 5 & under are always free, so that’s an easy one. Second, everyone can get into the fair for free on opening day, Fri., Sept. 1 by bringing in a non-perishable food item for the KOMO food drive and Fri., Sept. 8 by bringing in a school supply donation. However, you’ll need to enter the fairgrounds between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Plus, all kids up to the age of 18 get in free Sept. 1-4 and military families get in free on Sept. 4, 5, 12 and 19, 2017.
photo: Patrick Hagerty
Washington State Fair Events Center
110 9th Ave. S.W.
253-845-1771 or 253-841-5045 (24-hour hotline)
Online: thefair.com
Dates: Sept. 1-4, 2017
Fri., 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sat.-Sun., 9:30 a.m.- 10:30 p.m.
Mon., 9:30 a.m.- 9:30 p.m.
Dates: Sept. 7-24, 2017
Mon., Wed. & Thurs., 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
Fri. 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sat. 9:30 a.m-10:30 p.m.
Sun. 9:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
(Closed Tuesdays)
Pre-fair tickets can be purchased online through August 31, 2017: $11/Adults; $9/Students (6-18); $9/Seniors (62+); Free for 5 & under. Regular fair prices are $14/Adults; $10.50/Students (6-18); $10.50/Seniors (62+); 5 & under Free.
Parking: Check here for fair parking locations. Costs are $10/weekdays and $15/weekends.
What are your family’s Washington State Fair favorites? Share ’em with us in the comments below!
— Jeffrey Totey & Rachael Brandon
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Andrew Dumke
Mr Dumke is the founder and CEO of CloudBreak Capital, LLC; anentity focused on LBO and MBO transactions on the west coast ofthe United States in manufacturing, distribution, and services. In thiscapacity, he serves as the Chairman of Vortex Engineering, LLC, afull-service metal fabrication company and VCC Optoelectronics, apioneer in solid-state lighting and indication products. Previously, prior to their sale, Mr Dumke served on the on the boards of TCHOVentures, TMI, and other CloudBreak investments.
Prior to CloudBreak, Mr Dumke was chairman, CEO and co-founderof Avexus, a software 500 provider of SasS and enterprise softwarelifecycle management solutions to the global aerospace and defenseindustry. Avexus solutions were chosen by Boeing, GE, BBA, USN,Goodrich and other tier 1 A&D firms as core lifecycle and profitability management solutions.
Prior to Avexus, Mr. Dumke was a General Partner with PMF, aprivate investment firm specializing in acquiring, financing andbuilding companies. PMF successfully financed and sold (throughstrategic sale or an Initial Public Offering) several companies inthe software, telecommunications, and Web eCommerce markets.During his tenure, Mr. Dumke personally sourced, structured,negotiated and monitored investments in GA Express, BrainstormNetworks and Assist Cornerstone Technologies. In addition, he was jointly responsible for investments in Respond, LightOptronics andDataWorks/Epicor.
Before joining PMF, Mr. Dumke founded Wave Software, a companythat designed, programmed and successfully licensed a series offinancial applications for Windows. Prior to Wave Software, Mr.Dumke co-founded Sterling Pacific, a software company that portedUNIX typesetting tools to the desktop PC platform. Mr. Dumke has three children. He lives in La Jolla, California and enjoys skiing, golf, flying, cooking, art, and playing with his kids.
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Democrat Rep Wants To Make Making Fun Of Her Illegal: Prosecute Those Who Make Fun Of Me & Other Members Of Congress [Opinion]
Posted By: Dino Porrazzo July 3, 2020
By HJIC at ILLICIT INFO FLASHBACK
K Baish Opinion| Florida Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson claimed that Americans who mock Congressional members on the internet should “be prosecuted.”
“Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable [sic],” the Democrat said while speaking to the press outside of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children located in Homestead, Florida.
“We’re gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted,” Wilson continued. “You cannot intimidate members of Congress, frighten members of Congress. It is against the law, and it’s a shame in this United States of America.”
According to the Washington Examiner, “ProPublica on Monday publicized posts made by Border Patrol agents in a private Facebook group that disparaged migrants and some members of Congress, such as Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Wilson then went on to blame President Trump for causing people to lose respect for Congress, the media, and the White House. A May 2019 Gallup poll recorded a 20% approval rating for Congress, whose approval rating has not hit 30% in 10 years.”
In October of 2017, Wilson got into a major feud with the Trump White House after she was found to have listened in on a telephone call between the President and Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who the Examiner explains “was killed in the line of duty in Niger on Oct. 4, 2017. Wilson claimed that Trump told the Gold Star widow that her husband ‘knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.’”
The Trump administration denied Wilson’s description of the phone call.
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09.05.2012 Obituaries
Theresa Casano
Theresa Casano of Riverhead died Aug. 31 at the age of 52.
Born Jan. 19, 1960, in Queens to Ernest and Geraldine (Schmitt) Casano, she worked at SUNY/Stony Brook as a biotech engineer.
Ms. Casano is survived by her mother and her sisters, JoAnn Rietz of Riverhead and Angela Purificato of Calverton.
Arrangements were handled by Reginald H. Tuthill Funeral Home in Riverhead. Cremation was private.
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Ramsgate beach RNLI lifeguard unit broken into
Lifeguards News Release
Last night, in the third break-in of the season, the garage of the RNLI beach lifeguard unit was broken into with a crowbar; a helmet was stolen in the event.
RNLI/Lucy-Jane Macgowan
The garage unit where the quad bike is kept
The situation was reported by a local concessionaire, who noticed that the shutter doors were left open exposing the garage contents. Some garage padlocks were broken in the attempt, leaving the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) vulnerable.
Lucy-Jane Macgowan, RNLI Lead Lifeguard Supervisor for the Kent beaches, said: ‘Our purpose is to save lives at sea and ensure that the public can enjoy the beach in this good weather.
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Always feeling left out, not having any friends, and being the odd one out hasn’t stopped Alexis Wineman from being royalty.
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Wineman didn’t have any friends; she admits that she was the weird kid that sat by herself at the lunch table. She did, however, make one friend. It was a Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal she got as a present. She took it to show and tell one day, and he became a student, she said. The teacher asked if she could keep Winnie in the classroom, with his own desk and everything. He was a very good listener while she was telling him everything, and he never made fun of her once, she said.
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She finally made some friends and got more involved, including competeing in cross-country for seven years. She liked how it was about competing against herself and trying to improve her score. Even though she wasn’t the best, she said, she still enjoyed it. What she really liked about it is she finally had someone who had her back, after so many years of having to watch it herself.
“No one else had my back so I had my own,” Wineman said.
She also tried speech and drama. Even though she still had speech problems she tried it. She was a mime in one of her performances so she didn’t have to talk. She said she really enjoys performing and making people laugh, and she qualified for state every year.
Wineman tried out for cheerleading her freshman year; there were 14 girls on the squad and her mom was the coach. She wasn’t much of a girly-girl and hates to wear dresses, skirts, and heels. She admits that she would rather play video games. With all those girls on the cheerleading squad, Wineman said no one ever trusted one another and there was a lot of drama.
She didn’t try out her sophomore year; she said she was too lazy. But her junior year she decided to try it out again. This time there were only eight girls and there was a rule that there couldn’t be any drama. Anyone who started drama got kicked off the squad. She made captain her senior year and was in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as a cheerleader. Being in the parade was just like freshman year for her with captains from all over the country, she said.
Wineman didn’t think she would graduate because she had at least two F’s. She cried all the time because she would have been the first person not to graduate in her family. She has a twin sister who she said is so smart she even skipped a grade.
By her junior year, people started to back off from bullying her. And when people did tease her, it didn’t bother her.
Wineman said people will bully you,but she encourages students to not listen and tell someone. It won’t stop until you tell someone, Wineman said.
She made lots of friends and got more involved in school. She quickly got her grades up from D’s and F’s, to A’s and B’s. She was on student council and graduated 14th in her class, beating most of the people who had teased her.
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Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 10, 2020 15:25:01 GMT -6
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bricejchandler
Post by bricejchandler on Mar 11, 2020 14:29:45 GMT -6
I'm not sure how you guys are doing over there but the situation is catastrophic over here in the EU.
I'm working in France right now and the government has banned gatherings of 1000 people or more so all my friends working in the live industry are hit really hard.
All my upcoming gigs have been canceled , everything for the next 3 months canceled !
Trying to stay positive but man it's gonna be tough, was thinking about coming back stateside a bit but then I don't want to contaminate my family, I don't have the virus but living in Paris, with the amount of people I see everyday, I'm gonna err on the side of caution.
johneppstein
Post by johneppstein on Mar 11, 2020 14:55:44 GMT -6
Mar 11, 2020 14:29:45 GMT -6 bricejchandler said:
I dunno. My guess is that you're probably safer over there - at least governments in Europe are taking it seriously and making testing available to all that need it - unlike here where what passes for a federal government is trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug and are actually doing everything possible to block the availability of testing for the majority of the population, while cutting funding to the bone for all the health related agencies.
And the a-holes here dumped the first batch right in the town I live in and didn't tell anyone about it for several days, while not taking adequate precautions to prevent spread to the general populace. And today (or was it yesterday?) they're docking an infected cruise ship right in the densely populated city of Oakland, a relatively short distance away. One would almost suspect that they're intentionally trying to infect California. Now why would they want to do that?
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johneppstein may be right, and at least there you are further along the curve. If you come over here you're just going back to an earlier part of the curve. The same measures you're seeing there are coming here quickly. All my live event work for the spring has been canceled, something like 35 full booking days.
Last Edit: Mar 11, 2020 15:10:34 GMT -6 by EmRR
Mar 11, 2020 14:55:44 GMT -6 johneppstein said:
Yeah I was thinking of coming over not so much to escape Europe but to spend time with my family since I'm not gonna be working much.
France is not a perfect but the healthcare system here is amazing.
Tbone81
Post by Tbone81 on Mar 11, 2020 15:19:24 GMT -6
I work in healthcare, specifically critical care for adults, pediatrics and neonates. Let me assure you that the precautions being taken are above and beyond what is needed. Measles, Chicken Pox, TB, Bacterial Meningitis...all things that are way worse than COVID, yet handled with much less precautions. Even influenza is in many cases worse. What we're experiencing right now is nothing short of hysteria.
You're right that most people are not being tested, that's due to availability of the test kits and also due to the fact that most people experience mild symptoms and simply need to self quarantine for a time and then they're fine. It's part of triage for any disaster.
The overly cautious precautions that we're required to take has, in fact, caused a severe shortage of healthcare workers as we keep getting remanded to self quarantine for getting exposed. At this rate we'll be critically short of staff in a very short time.
To put the whole thing in perspective, this current flu season there were, I believe, 26 million people infected, and 25,000 deaths. We (as a society) didn't act this way with H1N1 (which was waaaayy worse), Swine Flu, Bird Flu, SARS etc.
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Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 11, 2020 15:25:13 GMT -6 swurveman likes this
Post by ragan on Mar 11, 2020 15:25:13 GMT -6
Mar 11, 2020 15:19:24 GMT -6 Tbone81 said:
So the epidemiologists are just being paranoid and crazy and going rogue from their data, that's the claim here?
Mar 11, 2020 15:25:13 GMT -6 ragan said:
Yeah, not buying it. You don't see exponential growth until it's past critical mass, and that looks to be coming soon if not already past. These reports out of the bad parts of Italy (not huge numbers), if to be believed, suggest pure triage with the healthcare system totally overwhelmed. Sure, give it 2 months, and it'll all be back to normal once the living have recovered from the wave. I can't say I have ever known anyone to die form the flu, and with the mortality estimate ranges on this, we will ALL know SOMEONE who dies in this. I know a hell of a lot of people over 70 and 80. I'm not too concerned for my own health, yet am glad the wife and I work from home and my studio location. We can electively self isolate very easily, and plan to be ready to do so.
I do see many of your points, but isn't overly cautious better than oblivious? Oblivious is what I'm seeing a lot of amongst acquaintances.
Not at all, don't know how you even inferred that. But the CDC reports are changing by the day, sometime by the hour. They won't have clear data sets for possibly another 18 months so there's a lot that's not yet known. Yes, this is a highly infectious disease. But simply not as catastrophic as the media and general public are making it out to be. The at risk population is manly elderly, and people who are already immune compromised. The same population that is at risk for pneumonia, influenza, CRE, VRE, MRSA, sepsis and a host of other diseases that will easily kill the older population.
As testing becomes more wide spread you'll see more and more confirmed cases, more testing = more cases. Plus its already in the community so you'll continue to see true person-person transmission reflected in the stats as well. That paints a very bleak picture, but if you step back from it all and compare it what we (as healthcare workers) deal with every single day, it all of sudden doesn't look scary at all.
BTW, here's what the epidemiologists at the CDC are saying right now: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
Those numbers will vary somewhat, for reasons I already covered.
Mar 11, 2020 15:37:03 GMT -6 EmRR said:
Yes better cautious than not, but cautious to the point of crippling the healthcare system results in more deaths, not fewer. There are actually some prelim reports that the mortality rate may now be coming down. That may just be a statistical anomaly as they confirm more cases, but also because we have a better handle on how to treat it.
I've seen people die from influenza quite often. It's very common. But since no one seems to believe me, here ya go: www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Between 12,000-60,000 influenza deaths each year, in the US alone, since 2010.
I guess I inferred it based on statements like "what we're experiencing right now is nothing short of hysteria" and your minimization of it by saying well, influenza is just as bad and we're much more cavalier about measles, chicken pox, etc and your assertion that the mandated procedural response will have us running out of medical staff very soon.
I am not an epidemiologist (obviously) so I wouldn't claim to have any real expertise here. But what I'm reading from epidemiologists does not suggest we're engaged in some purely hysterical response. It's a new virus that's highly infectious and it has a significant mortality rate (I don't care that I myself am not in one of the most vulnerable demographics). We have neither herd immunity nor a vaccine. Doesn't mean the sky is falling but it seems to me that it does mean it's something to be taken seriously and that sluggish responses and active disinformation from the highest ranks like we've seen in the US will make it worse than it would have been else-wise.
I am curious what your job in medicine is? I mean that absolutely non-argumentatively. You're expressing your views based on some authority (which is totally valid) and I'd just like to know more about where it's coming from. I mean hell, maybe I'm talking to an epidemiologist right now.
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Fair enough, I can see how some of my comments are somewhat vague and can be interpreted differently then I meant. I'm speaking out of frustration and am more than a little jadded so I probably wasn't specific enough and probably came off wrong. By "hysteria" I meant more that the public reaction, media reporting, hording of toilet paper, shortage of hospital masks (both n95 rated and normal surgical masks) due to theft and supply shortages, and even cancelling events like SXSW is just over kill. By daughter wasn't allowed to high-five her teammates at her volleyball tournament...but they're all touching the same ball...so...yeah...measures like that do nothing.
The response in the healthcare field has been overzealous. Up until, literally hours ago, we were required to undergo isolation measure that until now have only been used for Ebola. We're running out of negative pressure rooms because the CDC is recommending Airborne Precautions, but best guess at this point is that its spread through Aerosolized Droplets. If we are exposed to the virus (and many of us have been) its mandatory 14 day self-quarantine. We're running out of critical care hospital staff because of it.
The mortality rate seems to be coming down, not growing. Its was reported to be about 2.5% in China, but any numbers coming from China are suspect for a variety of reasons and not necessarily representative of the virus as a whole. The New England Journal of Medicine estimates the mortality at around 1.4%. Keeping in mind that in many countries, like the US, only the sickest people are even tested for the virus and the actual mortality rate is very likely much lower than that.
As to my profession, I'm a respiratory therapist. I'm a tier one healthcare worker, meaning I'm first in line to be exposed to COVID and to treat those with COVID in the Hospital setting. I work in Critical Care. I'm one of the few in my department cross trained in all areas, I work in CICU, ICU, NICU, PICU etc. I've worked in level one trauma centers, nationally recognized medical centers and small community hospitals. Most all of my patients are fighting for their lives. I've cared for countless people suffering from horrible diseases. I've watched more people die than I can count. I've done CPR more times than I can count. When someone is on life support, I'm there managing the ventilator. In fact I'm there for every Code Blue emergency in the hospital. I'm relied upon by Dr's to educate them to Pulmonary Disease processes and to help direct the care of critically ill people.
Thats not say that I know everything, I certainly dont. And critical care medicine is a team sport, we all help and rely on each other. So, I'm not an epidemiologist either, but I do get briefings directly from our Infectious Disease MD's. A lot of the precautions taken were great, and needed. Earlier screening of people traveling from Asia would have been great. Being concerned is well justified. But the general response, and fear, I see in the community, and in some areas the Hospital, is not justified. That's my experience. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
And I apologize if I come off argumentative, it's not my intention at all.
Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 11, 2020 18:20:43 GMT -6 via mobile keymod, EmRR, and 1 more like this
That is great, thank you. It lets me place your views in light of your (significant) experience and knowledge and adjust my own understanding accordingly as I consider your take on things.
Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 11, 2020 21:36:36 GMT -6 ragan and EmRR like this
Thank you for inquiring and for hearing me out. It says a lot that you take the time to understand where people are coming from before making a judgement for yourself.
Also, its one of the reasons I love RGO. Being able to challenge each other but still be respectful...its a lost art my friend.
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Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 11, 2020 22:30:39 GMT -6 mikec and M57 like this
Post by Blackdawg on Mar 11, 2020 22:30:39 GMT -6
The numbers just don't line up with the response people are having to this. Here are some:
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Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 12, 2020 4:28:59 GMT -6
Post by M57 on Mar 12, 2020 4:28:59 GMT -6
Lot's of info there. I found the link here if anyone is interested. I think the fact that it is so much more deadly for our elderly population, many of whom live in clusters, speaks to how important it is to try and contain it or at least slow it down. Hysteria is borne of lacking and/or misinformation. Knowledge transparency, and application of good practice by governments world-wide are the keys.
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Post by ragan on Mar 12, 2020 5:52:57 GMT -6
Some of those statistics, while true, are sort of irrelevant and/or miss the point in my view.
Of course covid 19 gets more mentions in the media. It’s new and it’s happening right now. It’s a rapidly changing situation with immediate global implications. There is going to be more reporting on it than something long studied and static like pneumonia. And figures like total deaths somewhat miss the point. You don’t need epidemiologists to study things and run data models to tell you what *has* happened. You need them to tell you what the probability of various *future* outcomes is so you can decide what to do about it.
Seems to me there are parallel truths. The covid 19 outbreak is serious and worth responding to AND some people are being crazy about it. Neither truth negates the other.
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Covid-19 industry update link at Pollstar Mar 12, 2020 15:02:29 GMT -6 Bob Olhsson and EmRR like this
Post by rowmat on Mar 12, 2020 15:02:29 GMT -6
The issue is that 10% - 15% will require ICU hospitalization.
Around 5% will require mechanical respiration.
The relatively mild symptoms many have is actually something to be extremely concerned about.
Those with little or no symptoms are very efficient at silently spreading the virus around infecting those who are far more vulnerable to becoming extremely ill.
Few understand the exponential function.
Expect to see massive spikes in infection rates in the US, UK, Australia etc over the next 7 - 14 days.
The other issue is permanent lung damage which is becoming apparent in the survivors.
This is NOT just another 'Flu'.
The only option is to avoid gatherings, enclosed spaces and maintain safe distances from others.
If not the infection rate will overwhelm the hospital system and the death toll will likely exceed 10% which is where Northern Italy is heading now.
Patients over 60 are not being treated in Northern Italy and are being left to die.
See attached graph.
Last Edit: Mar 12, 2020 15:03:21 GMT -6 by rowmat
nudwig
Post by nudwig on Mar 13, 2020 0:31:42 GMT -6
Thanks for all the info guys. The tour I'm currently on was just postponed, found out right before we went on stage for what became our last show tonite in Chicago. To be honest it was starting to become obvious it was going to happen after all the festival cancellations and seeing the crowd numbers become less than what the ticket sales were.
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 15, 2020 4:00:44 GMT -6
We just cancelled/postponed an upcoming Dylan cover gig. It was scheduled for two weeks from now at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC. It was going to be a killer show. I hope we can do it a few months later.
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 15, 2020 18:51:18 GMT -6
Mar 15, 2020 4:00:44 GMT -6 the other mark williams said:
A gabillion years ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, I played a gig at The Cave in Chapel Hill. Like 1984 or 85.
The Cat’s Cradle was around way back then too. I hope things get back normal soon.
Post by the other mark williams on Mar 15, 2020 19:05:24 GMT -6
Mar 15, 2020 18:51:18 GMT -6 gwlee7 said:
Ohhhhh yeah - I know The Cave. R.E.M. showed up and did an unannounced gig there when they were touring for Monster and played the Dean Dome, I think.
And yeah, Frank has had Cat's Cradle going for a good long while now. They've subsumed a few other places and have expanded a lot. Good scene.
What was/is your band, gwlee7 ?
Mar 15, 2020 19:05:24 GMT -6 the other mark williams said:
That little duo I played with at the Cave was called Nowhere Fast. It was me and the guy I grew up learning how to play the guitar with. I have been in a lot of other bands over the years that have all fizzled out due to not being willing to starve to death. My biggest success is being able to say I played in a band out of Greenville NC in the late 80s and early 90s called Old Habits that used to out draw Hootie and the Blowfish when first they started coming around town. I wonder whatever became of those guys. 🤔🤣.
Chapel Hill is a great place. I live in Dallas now and play and record mostly for fun. I am appreciative of all the time that those of you who still fight the good fight take up with me.
i honestly think corona virus is a bullsh*t (excuse my french) but people are panicking too much. seemed like an overhyped flu. even if i get it, i could care less, im sure id recover. now if i was was 60-80s, it maybe slight concerning.
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Home Something Special Café owner claims staff are 'broken' after 'excessive abuse' over colour of rice
Café owner claims staff are 'broken' after 'excessive abuse' over colour of rice
By: TEAM BEPINKU.COM | In: Something Special | Last updated: November 27, 2020 0
An Australian cafe owner was inundated with statements of support after explaining the heartbreaking reason why she closed her business for a day.
The woman, known only as Lisa, took to social media to share a message about the struggles the staff at Bob’s Your Uncle cafe had recently experienced.
She claimed that she and other employees had experienced “excessive abuse” since they reopened after lockdown and felt “broken” with a staff member who even burst into tears over the comments made this week.
In a message at the cafe On the Instagram page, Lisa shared how they had been criticized by customers for ridiculous things, such as the color of the rice they served, and the safety precautions they had taken due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She wrote, “Dear customers, due to excessive abuse of a customer today that has left the owner and a staff member in tears. We have decided to close for the rest of the day to support mental health.
“We’ve encountered this kind of abuse every day since reopening about little things like our rice being white and not butterfly pea color because we couldn’t get the ingredient and other examples like abuse related to our policy to protect you. this pandemic.
“Today’s situation has broken us and we need to rethink and rebuild today. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and we hope for your continued support.”
In addition, Lisa shared a photo of a sign she had put up in the cafe window, which read, “Dear customers, due to excessive abuse of a customer, we made the decision today to close down to protect the mental health of our team and the owner to support.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Kind regards, Lisa. ‘
People were quick to share their best wishes in the comments, and many were shocked that people had taken such abuse.
One person replied, “When I think of coming to your beautiful cafe I always think about happy surroundings and good times. Nobody goes to work to be abused.
“You all deserve so much better. You are an incredible bunch of people and make such a difference in bringing joy to the community.
“You do an exceptional job and shouldn’t tolerate any kind of abuse! We hope you and your staff are well,” said a second.
Another wrote: “Lisa, you and your staff are wonderful. You always make our family feel so welcome. Especially with a child with special needs. We love our chats and your delicious and creative food.
“This is incredibly sad to read, but glad you made the decision to be aware of the mental health of yourself and your staff.”
The business is said to have closed on Thursday (November 26) and reopened on Friday.
The message is clear people, always be nice to others, you never know what impact your words can have on them.
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Cabinet Secretary congratulates the Head of BSSN after inaugurated by President Jokowi, at the State Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (3/1) afternoon (Photo: PR/ Rahmat)
Head of National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN) Djoko Setiadi guarantees that the institution he led, which is a revitalization of National Encryption Agency (Lemsaneg), shall not take any partys side ahead of the Political Year that starts this year.
We are neutral. Our objective is to help the Government to protect the cyberspace, Djoko tells the journalists after inaugurated by President Joko Jokowi Widodo as the Head of BSSN, at the State Palace, Jakarta, on Wednesday (3/1) morning.<>
The focus of this institutions work in this political year, according to Djoko, is to maintaining tranquility and security in cyberspace so the fiesta of democracy runs smoothly to produce the best leaders. Therefore, the Head of BSSN reminds all parties that often spread hoax news to stop their actions.
The BSSN will cooperate with existing cyberbodies in other institutions, such as the Indonesian National Police (Polri) and National Intelligence Agency (BIN). Hopefully, this synergy will make this institution stronger.
Regarding terrorism, Djoko explains that his office will cooperate with Polri. The BSSN has also prepared facilities as well as technology to prevent and fight cyberattacks that happened a few times in 2017. He also hopes that BSSN can have the authority to take action, to arrest, and to impose sanctions.
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Don’t Cry for Me by Rachel Lacey
I seriously experienced so many feelings while reading this book. Don't Cry for Me is packed with emotion, lust, passion and struggle. Eve and Josie cross paths and both are changed for the better. Eve had suffered immense loss in her life which has caused her to have her guard up when it comes to love and because of this, she can never fully feel happy. Josie slowly peels those layers away and when she does, it is pure bliss. The buildup is emotionally driven and the fact that feelings are being denied instead of acted upon leads to an explosive climax (no pun intended). I love that Rachel Lacey delivers a story that has depth and engaging narrative as well as insanely intense passion !
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Eve swayed forward, hips bumping into Josie’s, breasts pressed together as they kissed. Josie’s hands slid up her back and into her hair, tugging gently as her tongue tangled with Eve’s. This woman. God, this woman…
he pressed her fingertips against her lips as she gazed out at the Manhattan skyline gleaming in the distance. Holy shit. That was one of the hottest kisses of her life, the kind of kiss she wanted to drown in forever and had every cell in her body screaming for more.
She gripped Eve’s ass, pressing her hips down to meet Josie’s, replacing her fingers with her body. They rocked together, separated only by the lace of Eve’s thong as Josie rode out the last waves of her release. At last, she went limp, arms flung wide against the sheets, eyes closed and mouth parted in silent relief.
A frosty television host, a bubbly bar owner, and a litter of abandoned kittens. The recipe for ratings gold…or heartbreak?
Eve Marlow has her eyes on the prize: a third season of her popular business makeover show, Do Over. But when her ratings take an unexpected dive, Eve needs a blockbuster new client, or she can kiss season three goodbye. She has her work cut out for her, and that’s before she discovers a litter of newborn kittens in a trash can. Now she’s desperate to find someone to take them so she can concentrate on reviving her career.
Josie Swanson had to put her kitten rescue on the back burner when she inherited her father’s bar two years ago. Since then, she’s invested all her time and energy into keeping it afloat, but despite her best efforts, Swanson’s is going under. When she gets a phone call from Eve Marlow, host of the television show Josie applied to earlier that year, the woman she’s convinced can save her bar, Josie hopes her luck has finally turned.
Eve knows what she needs to succeed, and it isn’t Josie—or her bar. There’s no denying the chemistry sizzling between them, though. Josie’s personality is as vibrant as her turquoise-tipped hair. She stirs things in Eve that haven’t been stirred in a long time, but there’s a reason she keeps her heart under lock and key. Eve stands to lose a lot more than her TV show if she lets her guard down, no matter how tempted she is to see if Josie’s love would be worth the risk.
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Response to Francis Report
After much publicity and media coverage Sir Robert Francis was commissioned a review into NHS whistleblowing
After three month delays Francis report into whistleblowing was finally published on 11 February 2015. There were numerous media coverage of the publication of the report.
What about the coverage after published report? Here are some of them:
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So what did NHS whistleblowers and their supporters think?
Eileen Chubb
Anon – “Although yesterday’s report will probably help me, I have spent time with some wonderfully kind professional and dedicated, doctors nurses and health professionals in the review who won’t receive the help they badly need because they have already lost jobs, homes and had their lives destroyed. In essence, how can I feel happy today? I feel like a survivor in a plane crash”
I am very upset guys. I wish it was me and not you!
It’s not right!
Minh Alexander:
I think the Speak Up review helps to advance understanding of what happens to NHS whistleblowers, but it does not reveal the full picture. I found it disappointing overall, as do a number of other whistleblowers.
The review was inherently and substantially flawed by the terms of reference, and the avoidance of any examination of whistleblowers’ concerns. The patient harm, including deaths, related to whistleblower suppression has hardly been referred to in the report.
There has been no acknowledgment of the gravity of what has been repeatedly covered up in many cases. It is therefore not valid for Robert Francis to argue the proportionality of his proposed measures. The matter has simply not been weighed in the balance in a way that gives the report authority.
My reading of the report is that Robert Francis has repeatedly pulled his punches throughout. The report consists largely of expectations. These types of expectations have existed for years. The last major NHS guidance on whistleblowing was published in 2010 ( http://www.pcaw.org.uk/files/SpeakupNHS.pdf ) .
The whole point is that the NHS has so far failed to deliver in the face of such guidance. NHS organisations, assisted by highly paid lawyers, are endlessly creative and determined in creating and misusing loopholes against whistleblowers. Without a different approach, strong enough proposals and enforcement of accountability, they will continue to play the system. I doubt that Robert Francis measures will prevent recidivism by the worst employers.
Robert Francis emphasised ignorance as a factor in NHS organisations failures to respond appropriately to whistleblowers. I think this somewhat misses the point, as much of the victimisation is carefully calculated, orchestrated and sanctioned at the top level of organisations. It is not a matter of educating hapless employers to do better, but recognising that these are immensely toxic organisations, which need a very firm hand.
Robert Francis’ description of what “good looks like” does not reflect reality. The notion that you can have a whistleblowing process in which no one gets blamed is unfeasible (page 91). Disclosures about misconduct and reckless endangerment of patients are hot potatoes, which is partly why there is sometimes extraordinary defensiveness by organisations. Airbrushing this very real tension out of the picture does not help resolution.
I was particularly disappointed by Robert Francis’s decision not to recommend any provision for independent investigation of whistleblower’s concerns. In the most serious cases, where there are attempts to cover up, I would have thought that independent investigation is essential.
Even the Government recognised this 5 years ago, when Mr Lansley spoke in Parliament of plans to consider an independent authority for NHS whistleblowers to turn to if employers were unresponsive. ( http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100609/debtext/100609-0004.htm ).
RF’s argument that it is appropriate to leave investigations in the hands of employers seems inconsistent with his views that complaints from patients about serious incidents should be independently investigated.
It is also inconsistent with general NHS policies, which mandate the external review of particularly serious incidents, and which recognise that it is important to eliminate conflicts of interest in these situations. I fear Robert Francis’ decision not to afford whistleblowers the protection of independent investigation will allow employers to continue with their well known techniques of undermining concerns, and discrediting whistleblowers.
There is also a relative absence of hard data in the report about the activities of the various organisations that submitted to the review. The review methodology stated at the outset that these organisations would be asked to provide the numbers and types of concerns that they handle. We must conclude that this data was either not provided, or that the review has failed to transparently disclose this vital information. Either option raises concern.
Furthermore, Robert Francis does not seem to have listened to whistleblowers’ concerns about the relationship between regulators and provider organisations, and the extent of regulatory independence.
I feel Robert Francis’ proposal of an “Independent National Officer” that has no binding powers and operates “under the combined aegis” of the three regulators and NHS England is unlikely to be workable or credible. NHS England has vested interests in the performance of the organisations that it commissions and oversees. No INO working under the DH or its arms length bodies can ever be truly independent.
By contrast, the US Office of Special Council, which has a remit to protect federal whistleblowers, has powers to litigate, and answers to the President. Even then the office is not perfect, but at least it is not designed to fail, which I feel is the case with the proposed INO.
However, an important clarification is that Robert Francis has stated that regulators have implied powers to protect whistleblowers. This is something that CQC has repeatedly denied to date, so we now have a very interesting situation. I hope CQC will re-evaluate their position and practice.
I also welcome the proposal to standardise process, as this opens the door to national audit and better measurement of performance.
The recognition by Robert Francis that whistleblower mistreatment is a form of discrimination is also useful. It is welcome that Robert Francis has acknowledged the need to make legislative provision to prohibit blacklisting. I feel he could have gone further and recommended other changes to the legislation, which is acknowledged by pretty much all to be inadequate.
The suffering that whistleblowers have endured could be leavened a little if it was felt that there had been effective learning from our experiences. However, I do not think that taken as a whole, the Speak Up review gives this consolation.
It is also very disappointing that no redress is recommended for whistleblowers whose lives have already been seriously damaged by victimisation. This seems to me deeply unjust and fails utterly to do justice to the enormity of these experiences.
I’ve heard of several whistleblowers in the most dire circumstances, with little hope of relief. It is simply uncivilised and immoral for the Government to turn its back on people who have been grievously injured for simply doing their duty.
Through its weakness, Robert Francis' report ultimately fails patients.
Fiona Bell:
Well the long awaited Francis report on whistle blowing , The review its self was finally an acknowledgement of the fact all is not well in our NHS . For years many of us having been highlighting these problems at great personal cost. It has taken many years to simply get the acknowledgement that something needed to be done.
Would we have had the Francis report without the persistent pressure ? Without the help of Social media , some straight talking ,open emails and of course the help of our national press highlighting our concerns? I suspect not .
The review team had to work within the terms of reference, That I accept , however I don't believe those in power can clap their hands in joy and claim to have addressed the issues raised and found us all a miracle solution . Why are those that bullied , harassed and hounded good staff out of their jobs still in post?
Who protects the guardians? And will we now have a new wave of unprotected naive whistle blowers that assume because of the review it is now safe to speak up?
Has anything really changed ? Has there been a culture change over night? was there at the very least a public apology from. Mr Hunt ? An apology may seem unimportant when there are much bigger issues, but let's face it, if a government/DH/nhs can't deliver a simple basic apology to all those that have lost so much, then what hope is there for the complete culture change?
In order for all to move forward the issues of the past need to have been addressed , Nothing has changed for those that sacrificed so much in order to protect patients . Friday 13th Canary Wharf I met yet again with a whistle blower , despite The Francis review, the trust in his case continue to persecute. Beware there is no overnight fix, those that bully, victimise, persecute have not been disciplined nor are they likely to be .
It is often said to me patient complainants suffer in the same way whistle blowers do , it's true. Being a Nhs whistle blower and complainant I have seen this time and time again , many patients themselves, their families are still afraid to complain , leaving issues unresolved . It is the same for whistle blowers .
Patient families still continue to knock on the door for help despite the other Francis Report , I don't expect my case load to decrease in the coming year . Whistle blowing & Complaining comes with a heavy price tag , The day you dare to speak up is the day your world is turned upside down and life is never ever the same again.
On the plus side through out the past 7 years I have had the privilege of meeting some incredibly brave people .
Jo Gilbert
The Francis report was not only 3 months late but could have easily been written without anyone ever meeting a live whistleblower. It is virtually a lit. review that contains readily available information about what employers do to whistleblowers, collated from existing reports and research.
Will it make one iota of difference to current whistleblowers? (“Current” is defined as those of us who are still asking and waiting for help four, five, ten years after we reported and were vindicated. There is no such thing as “historic” whistleblowing.)
The answer is “No”. It will make no difference whatsoever. Francis and the report editors intentionally neglected to include any suggestions about what will be done to right the wrongs that everyone acknowledges has been done to those of us still fighting for justice.
Will it make a difference to those who might have been “future whistleblowers”? Probably. It is likely to discourage them from making protected disclosures as they have now seen a written report which confirms that many are not protected, and have no recourse. The report confirms that whistleblowers are bullied, illegally sacked and blacklisted by the NHS, ESRs contain illegal and inaccurate data; they will probably see their careers terminated and are likely to lose their homes and families too.
The word “consequences” appears in the report 16 times. In 14 of those cases it refers to consequences of reporting that are experienced by whistleblowers. In one instance the report quickly and vaguely skims over a suggestion that NHS managers will receive “consequences” for doing what it recognises – 14 times – that they do. It simply says “there will be consequences” and does not even suggest what those should be or who will charge them with the offences (p.163, 7.5.8. The other case, p.105, 5.5.15, refers to the reference that will be made in 7.5.8).
We have proved that NHS staff, Board members, NEDs, failed to do their duty, ignored PIDA, committed misconduct in public office and received rewards for their co-operation: Promotions, contracts, payoffs, prestigious positions. Who would voluntarily discontinue this lucrative practice?
These are the facts. Until justice is done for those still struggling and fighting for it, who need nothing more than cash to buy it, this is never going to be over. This is not a life. It is a barely tolerable existence, we did nothing to deserve it and it gets progressively worse. It is not historic. It is daily.
There must be consequences for the many identified NHS staff and NEDs who have destroyed whistleblowers, ridden the Magic Roundabout and are still employed – either within or outside the NHS – before we will accept that our situations are sufficiently understood, are being taken seriously and are being corrected. So far there is no evidence that this is even being considered. There is no safe way to blow the whistle. We waited, tentatively hopeful, for months, for nothing.
Will Powell:
History has repeated itself, yet again, with regards to Sir Robert’s Report on whistleblowers as it would appear that there is no recommendation to address the injustices suffered by individual historic whistleblowers notwithstanding some have lost both their beloved careers and homes. I am told that some may have even lost their lives as a consequence of suicide.
I see whistleblowers and NHS complainants fighting the same cause and that is to improve patient safety issues within our NHS. However, the establishment see us as the enemy, not because we are wrong, but because we expose gross failures in the system and individuals, which is clearly detrimental to the wellbeing of our NHS. The establishment would rather cover up errors than address them for the better of all. There is conveniently no accountability when protocols, guidelines and laws are blatantly breached and that’s exactly how the establishment, in my view, want it to stay. I believe Sir Robert has failed again to ensure accountability when whistleblowers are vilified for speaking out.
It also frustrates me so very much when I hear arguments that healthcare professionals fear being open and honest about errors because of the alleged blame culture. All patients request is that doctors who make mistakes should be honest and accept responsibility for their actions – is that really too much to ask in a purported democratic country? It’s not the blame culture that healthcare professionals should fear but the consequences when they decide to lie and cover up their mistakes. The cover up culture in the NHS is like a very naughty child – it needs to receive appropriate punishment to make it stop.
Paul Cardin:
Following this whitewash, if Sir Robert Francis becomes further enriched or is elevated to the House of Commons, then his own personal journey will have been successful. As for the general public, patients, patients’ families, and the taxpayer, they’ve been betrayed by an establishment ‘shill’, who was selected by the powers that be, and who knew at the outset that whistleblowers would be offered a few crumbs and left to carry on fighting for justice.
Yet, despite strong sentiments from whistleblowers and supporters – only a handful have been mentioned here, Hunt has published the following message to staff
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Have we lost the meaning of Justice, what kind of society is being created, if power is greater than truth, then confidence will be lost
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Bulgaria pulls EU funding application for Strouma Motorway
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on January 15, 2020 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on Bulgaria pulls EU funding application for Strouma Motorway
Bulgaria’s road infrastructure agency API said on January 15 that it temporarily withdrew its application for European Union funding for the Strouma Motorway stretch in Kresna gorge.
API said that the decision to pull the application would not stop work on the project, which the agency described as one of its most important, but would allow state institutions to step up their efforts to update the application in order to meet “the new European Commission’s environmental priorities.”
Strouma Motorway’s section in the narrow Kresna gorge is the most difficult and expensive stretch, due in part to the terrain, but also because the area is a key part of Bulgaria’s natural biodiversity Natura 2000 protected areas.
API said that state institutions would draft specific conservation goals and measures. In the meantime, API would undertake a number of measures this year that would further reduce the impact on those protected areas.
The agency did not say when it envisioned re-submitting the funding application, but a lengthy delay could result in the funding being sought under the next EU multi-year budget, rather than the current 2014/2020 budget period. Last year, the Cabinet allocated 741.1 million leva for the Kresna gorge section of the motorway.
The motorway has seen increased traffic in recent years, as it is the preferred route for Bulgarian holidaymakers heading to and returning from Greece. It is also seen as one of the most dangerous roads in Bulgaria, more prone to traffic incidents due to its narrow and winding nature.
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» Saga Prefecture is in big trouble as “technology in the classroom” trial fails big time
Saga Prefecture is in big trouble as “technology in the classroom” trial fails big time
Audrey Akcasu Mar 2, 2015
Nowadays, with online resources, textbooks, and even virtual high schools, technology has been making a big impact in the education world. School computer labs have come a long way in recent years and some schools are even supplying tablets for their pupils to use in class! Oh, to be a student in the 21st century!
Unfortunately, many schools in Japan have yet to jump on the in-classroom technology bandwagon. Wanting to head-up a new trend, last year Saga Prefecture decided to do a trial run of personal computers for students, and so had all high school first years purchase tablets–only, the technology caused so many problems, the program has been sacked only a year in and now the board of education is in hot water.
▼ The tablet of choice: the ARROWS Tab Q584/H.
Something strange went down in the Saga Prefectural Board of Education last year, and although we’re not sure whether it was deeper than simple irresponsibility, they are now paying the price.
As a test run, the prefecture decided that each of the nearly 6,600 students entering high school last April would be required to buy a school-designated tablet, the Fujitsu ARROWS Tab Q584/H (many times, trial runs are done on a smaller scale, but apparently Saga was thinking a little bigger). The computers were priced at 85,000 yen (US$710), although students were only required to pay 50,000 yen (US$415) of it, leaving the rest for the prefecture to pay. The prefecture also foot the bill for the new security network, which ended up costing thousands of dollars.
▼ In addition to all of the money they had to spend on uniforms, the students also had to buy tablets.
As with many new large-scale projects, the first few weeks were riddled with problems. Some of the educational software wasn’t working, the teachers were not trained in teaching with technology and the operating system was not as user-friendly as it could be. Many teachers complained that when they used the tablets in class, due to technical issues, it could take up to 15 minutes to even start the lesson.
After a while things calmed down, that is, until after summer vacation. Suddenly in August, in addition to many of the problems faced at the beginning the year, the computers were breaking down left and right, causing delays in the IT department. On top of this, students were forgetting their tablets at home and teachers were finding that they were too cumbersome for the students to use easily. Some teachers began refusing to use the tablets in lessons, proclaiming that they caused more harm than good and took too much time away from learning.
▼ It’s back to the computer lab for most Saga high schoolers.
With the overwhelming number of IT and general usage issues, the school board decided to call it quits with the tablets, postponing the project until they actually have things sorted and ready. It seems that they’ve realized that they were getting a little ahead of themselves.
A representative from the school board spoke on the need to properly train teachers in using and teaching with technology, because a short overview lesson was clearly not enough. If they’ve been teaching with only a piece of chalk and a textbook for the past few decades, it’s very understandable that some teachers would be less than enthusiastic about the idea of using tablets. On the other hand, some teachers were able to utilize the computers to their potential, well, potential that was limited by the ARROWS’ numerous shortcomings.
Although postponed for now, maybe they will be prepared to restart the system in a year or two. They’ve clearly learned their lesson and next time will take into consideration the brand and model, the software, the sophistication of the network and, of course, whether or not they can trust high school kids to care for expensive technology. However, lesson learned or not, they still made parents pay for some bogus tablets and now are also in debt themselves, causing some unrest among the populace.
▼ On the other hand, similar programs in Thai elementary schools are going smoothly.
Netizens have also been voicing some strong opinions about Saga’s trial run and they have made some valid points along the way:
“Did they really not foresee this happening? Idiots.”
“Couldn’t they just have made the kids set up their tablets during the break time?”
“Why didn’t they test this on a smaller scale first?”
“They should have just bought iPads…”
“Of all the tablets they could have chosen, why the [beginner unfriendly] ARROWS?”
“The first mistake was making the students pay for the tablets themselves.”
Some people also saw the debacle as a bit fishy, asking, “I wonder who profited from this mess?” While we may never know if it’s true or not, there are those who believe that perhaps there was some bribery or clandestine deals going on between Fujitsu and someone in the board of education.
▼ Hopefully, this wasn’t all just a way for a couple of friends to make a few bucks.
For the sake of students all over Japan, we hope that instead of being scared away from the idea of tablets in the classroom, other schools learn from Saga’s mistakes and properly prepare before setting such an involved project into motion.
Sources: Itai News, Hunter
Images: Itai News, Fujitsu, Rakuten Auction, Wikimedia Commons (Darklanlan), Bangkok Post (Chanat Katanyu), Pixabay (Kaz)
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Oh my goodness! Again!
#GenCon14 FFG report. New expansion for Eldritch Horror. Giant expansion. Q4 release pic.twitter.com/raanIliPBo
— Dice Tower News (@dicetower_news) August 15, 2014
When this appeared, I was aghast. I think 2014 has been my favourite GenCon to date!
As you may remember, I’m a big fan of Eldritch Horror, and really enjoyed the small expansion that came out earlier this year. Pretty much since the game was announced, fans (including me!) have been speculating on how big-box expansions would be implemented, given how the base game’s board is, well, the world. I had made this comment on the official forums back in August last year, barely following the game’s announcement:
I have no idea how Powergrid works, but I’m assuming from this talk here that smaller boards are added around the main board, so that when you land on that spot you’re directed to have an encounter in the smaller board? Well, even if that isn’t the case, I could see something like that happening here no problem. Exactly how far you take it, though, could be interesting – how about a small board, say the same size as a Capital board in Warhammer: Invasion, for, say, London, which has specific locations within the city that you can investigate? Too far? Hm.
Additionally, the map does have these numbered locations at intervals, such as the number 14 (city?) space in Finland, which could easily have a mechanic that adds a ‘Helsinki’ location token to that space with future expansions, much as it appears R’lyeh is added to the number 3 (sea?) space in the video at 4’16. Unfortunately, Rome is such a big location that it obscures Marrakesh, so without a lot of fiddling, we probably won’t get to that place. Actually, looking at the map, Rome has taken over most of Western Europe. Another Hm. At least there are defined spaces in Central America, Indonesia and India to allow for a ‘Helsinki’-type future expansion.
Incidentally, how hilarious is it to be discussing expansions for a game that has barely been announced?!
But now, we have this! To see that we’re getting a “side board” in this expansion is very exciting, indeed!
I am very over-excited about this game. I didn’t actually get round to reading At the Mountains of Madness until last Christmas, but wasn’t all that impressed, if I’m completely honest:
'At the Mountains of Madness' could've been so much better, but still, at least it had giant albino penguins! #Lovecraft
— Mark Griffiths (@Marrrkusss) December 11, 2013
Largely, my complaint was with the fact that there is supposed to be a sense of urgency to the mission to the Antarctic, and yet a great deal of time is spent by the professors transcribing wall writings, completely ruining any suspense for me. But anyway.
I’m really excited about getting new investigators, as I think I’d’ve liked to have seen some in the small box. But yeah, eight more investigators will be really nice. The possibility of seeing gates open on locations where they previously didn’t intrigues me, I’m assuming some new sort of mechanic will open them on the unnamed spaces?
What I’m most curious about, however, is how on earth you travel between boards! I’m assuming there will be some twist on the rules that allows an investigator, when on the Antarctica expedition space, to travel to the side board, but there’s nothing concrete in the announcement. I have a sneaky feeling that, when travel between boards has been fully spoiled, that will inform speculation for further expansions down the line.
#GenCon14 FFG report. Eldritch horror expansions are being thought out so they don't overwhelm like Arkham Horror craziness.
Eldritch Horror expansion. With tools to help you manage how you use expansions so games don't spiral out of control. pic.twitter.com/niuw8ldXH6
— Watch It Played (@WatchItPlayed) August 15, 2014
I’m quite heartened by this news. I came to the Arkham party fairly late, so bought the entire game line pretty much in one sweep. I’ve never felt overwhelmed per se, but I think I can see how that might have been the case when they were new. I suppose I would like to see the game expanded with a small box and big box alternating every six months, that would be fine. I hope they can keep the high quality of theme in the expansions, though, as well. The jungle/Yig theme in Forsaken Lore was awesome, and the Antarctic theme in Mountains of Madness looks like it too will be amazing. What’s next? Hopefully something Oriental. Not that I can think of anything in that vein from the mythos, but I did enjoy the Curse of the Jade Emperor asylum pack for the LCG…
Anyway, Mountains of Madness is tremendously good news for Eldritch Horror, so I am really very pleased to see this. Bravo, FFG! Bravo!
Author spalanzPosted on August 15, 2014 August 30, 2014 Categories board gamesTags board games, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Lovecraft, Mountains of MadnessLeave a comment on Oh my goodness! Again!
So @FFGames have now posted the full preview of Imperial Assault, and I swoon with delight! http://t.co/BP6b2ei6N6 #StarWars #gaming
— Mark Griffiths (@Marrrkusss) August 15, 2014
There is so much goodness coming out of Gen Con today, I can barely contain my excitement, but Fantasy Flight Games’ annual In-Flight Report has, this year, got me frothing at the mouth with excitement! By far and away, though, the last game announced is definitely the strongest contender, to me, for best-in-show: Imperial Assault.
It’s a miniatures game based on the Descent mechanics, but I’m a bit surprised by this, as I was under the impression that FFG didn’t hold the licence for board games. While they may market it as a miniatures game, this does seem to push the envelope a bit, but anyway – I am far too excited about the possibilities to worry about the legalities! Plus, what with the Disney takeover, maybe FFG have got a better licence? Anyway.
I really enjoyed Descent when I played the co-op pack, so I’m really intrigued by this, but to be honest, I’ve just been so desperate for a land-based minis game from FFG that anything would have sated my hunger at this point!
Now that I’ve started to paint miniatures, too, I’m even more looking forward to this!
Back in the day, I spent a small fortune – no, a large fortune – on the WotC Star Wars Miniatures line – about 1400 miniatures, of which I have them all atop the wardrobe. It was a good skirmish game, but was very much a case of kill-kill-kill. The blurb for this game places much more emphasis on quests and RPG-esque elements that I am now very chuffed by this!
Some more Imperial Assault. pic.twitter.com/QMGu4Chpoq
I really like the idea of playing “new” heroes, as well, which adds even more to the RPG feel for me. While I have no real aversion to playing as Luke or Biggs, I feel that I can play as Jyn Odan or whoever, and tell my own story every time, rather than going through the prescribed motions. Having the Villain and Ally packs is a really nice move, I feel, though I get the impression that some might think of it as a cheap trick to get us to spend more money on getting the iconic movie characters. Meh, I’ll be getting them all, not least because of my Star Wars obsession, but because I like to support games that I enjoy, and I have the strong feeling that this will be hitting the table a lot!
Very much looking forward to this one, at any rate!
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Think Republicans will lose the House, Senate and presidency in 2020? Dream on
The Trump campaign is a well-oiled machine, and a large part of the lubricant comes with a dollar sign attached
Donald Trump at his rally in Dallas
https://spectator.us/topic/republicans-lose-house-senate-white-house-2020/
Politics, said Bismarck, is the art of the possible. Among other things, that apothegm pays homage to the pressure of the impossible, since deployment of the possible tacitly acknowledges the alternative.
Invocation of ‘the possible’ is what makes Bismarck’s mot memorable; but what gives it teeth (not to mention logical coherence) is the appeal to ‘art’. The statesman displays his skill by dancing gracefully among alternatives while avoiding the potholes of mere possibility that would topple him. In this sense, Bismarck’s observation is at odds with Jesus’s claim that ‘With God all things are possible’ (Matthew 19:26). For the statesman, at any rate, wisdom consists not only in negotiating the possible but also in the frank admission that plenty of things are impossible. Another way of putting this is to say that, outside the mystical frontiers of spiritual striving, possibility is cheap. To say that something is possible is to say very little, since the expanse of the merely possible is as wide as it is vacuous.
This exordium brings me to a curious column in Axios warning about ‘The GOP’s nightmare scenario.’ I say ‘warning’, but for many Axios readers something more celebratory would be in order. The eventuality that the column imagines — ‘a total wipeout in 2020: House, Senate, and White House’ — will be greeted as a consummation devoutly to be wished, not a nightmare, for those who regard the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a malicious and illegitimate mountebank.
Put on your wish-upon-a-star golden slippers. ‘A growing number of Republicans,’ and you can almost hear the hands rub together in glee, ‘are privately warning of increasing fears of a total wipeout in 2020.’ ‘Privately,’ you see, because anyone who warned about that in public would be laughed out of court.
But let’s play along. Let’s stick a toe into the empyrean of the possible and see what gives.
The House: ‘House Republicans in swing districts are retiring at a very fast pace, especially in the suburbs of Texas and elsewhere.’ (Parse that ‘and elsewhere’, will you?) ‘Rep. Greg Walden — the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the only Republican in Oregon’s congressional delegation — yesterday shocked the party by becoming the 19th GOP House member to not seek re-election.’ That’s ‘shocked’ as in ‘I’m shocked, shocked to discover that there is gambling going on here at Rick’s.’
The Senate: ‘The Republican Senate majority,’ we read. ‘once considered relatively safe, suddenly looks in serious jeopardy.’ Does it? According to Axios, ‘Democrats are raising more money, and polling better, than Republican incumbents in battleground after battleground.’ Oh, there. How about everywhere else?
Then is the presidency. ‘President Trump trails every major Democratic candidate nationally and in swing states — and his favorable ratings remain well under 50 percent.’ According to whom, Kemo Sabe? Trump vs. Warren. Trump vs. Sanders. Trump vs. Biden. Seriously?
Well, the column goes on to quote Scott Reed, ‘the US Chamber of Commerce senior political strategist’ and establishment shill, who says that ‘third-quarter fundraising reports showing three Republican senators being out-raised by Democratic challengers.’ This, he says, is ‘a three-alarm fire.’
The one alarm we need, though, is the one attached to the clock. It’s time to wake up and smell the bacon.
Donald Trump may have run a scrappy, low-budget campaign the first time around. This time it is a well-oiled machine, and a large part of the lubricant comes with a dollar sign attached. He is assembling, notes The Washington Post, an ‘historically large war chest.’ In the third-quarter, Trump blew away all the competition, raising some $125 million. The country is at peace. It is ostentatiously prosperous. Unemployment, especially minority unemployment, is at historic lows. Wages are rising. Manufacturing is flooding back to the the United States. Transgender bathrooms are no longer a priority of the federal government. The mood of the nation is upbeat. The president just presided over the very public liquidation of Isis bad-guy al-Baghdadi and a chief lieutenant. Everyone except The Washington Post and Mad Max Boot thought that was a good thing to rid the world of the chap whom the Post hilariously called ‘an austere religious scholar.’
I suppose one might describe that column in Axios as an exercise in political make believe or magical thinking. ‘If only we say something a hundred or a thousand times, maybe it will come true.’ Perhaps it is intended as a sort of softening-up gesture, addressed not to the public, really, but to vacillating senators who (the story goes) might somehow be induced to vote against Trump should the House actually get around to impeaching him as distinct from talking about getting around to impeaching him.
The only nightmare on offer in the political arena these days is one afflicting Democrats who are awake, not woke. Like King Belshazzar at that fancy supper, they can see the writing on the wall and, curiously enough, the message is the same for the Dems as it was for Belshazzar: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN: ‘You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.’
You cannot really blame Axios for publishing fairy tales like ‘The GOP’s Nightmare Scenario.’ What else do they have to offer their groundlings?
No, Conrad Black cut to the chase about the 2020 election: ‘Trump is unbeatable on his record and the Democrats don’t have anyone electable to nominate. The election will be an anti-climax, but the people will speak decisively, and perhaps this president will finally get a honeymoon and will display the convivial personality that those who knew him before his elevation remember.’ California will whine. The NeverTrumpers will stamp their little feet. Once-watched networks like CNN will slide even further towards oblivion, as will once-read newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post. But the sound you hear off in the distance is the sound of the gathering tsunami of Republican victory in 2020. Everyone knows, though it pleases some to pretend otherwise. It helps with fund-raising and makes it possible to talk about something at cocktail parties.
Sure, it is possible that Trump will lose. It is also possible that Elizabeth Warren knows something about American Indian cookery. That should offer the opponents of President Trump scant consolation, though. We live our political and social lives not in the realm of abstract possibility but in the realm of the actual, where probability, not naked possibility, is king. The editors of Axios probably understand this home truth, but acknowledging it is just too painful. I get that. T.S. Eliot put it well: ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality.’
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion, publisher of Encounter Books and a contributing editor of The Spectator.
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Interpreter Shortage in Hospitals Due to Pandemic Can Be Deadly
By Catalina Villegas Marina del Rey
UPDATED 4:50 PM ET May. 19, 2020 PUBLISHED 4:16 PM ET May. 19, 2020 PUBLISHED 4:16 PM EDT May. 19, 2020
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – Bell resident Griselda Ventura is glad to have her son, Jaime, home, after he spent most of March in the hospital. Jaime was recently diagnosed with Wegener's granulomatosis, a life-threatening disorder that causes inflammation of the blood vessels.
He has to take a medicine cabinet shelf's worth of pills, daily. Upon his release, he and his mother reviewed the discharge instructions carefully, or tried to, because they were in English.
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“Powerless, that’s now I feel not being able to understand,” said Griselda, in Spanish. “I feel even angry with myself.”
Griselda and Jaime moved to Southern California from El Salvador three years ago. They’re two of 2.5 million Los Angeles County residents who are limited English proficient. So during Jaime’s recent hospital stay, Griselda was largely in the dark.
“It’s difficult explaining the pain I felt, knowing that I wanted to understand what they were doing to him, what he has, what they’re going to put inside him,” said Griselda. “They have cut personnel in hospitals, because of the pandemic. So we had to go around asking if anyone in the area could help, sometimes there would be no one. So they would have to get tablets to video call an interpreter outside of the hospital.”
That’s been the reality for an increasing number of limited English speakers during the pandemic. Mireya Muñoz is the program director for Pals for Health, a non-profit that does language advocacy and serves as a vendor for hospitals and clinics that need interpreters.
She says by law health care institutions must have some sort of plan in place to provide access to limited-English speakers, but the pandemic has complicated workflows.
“As a language services agency we were kind of bothered by that and worried, because then again, how are the language needs of these patients going to be met?” Muñoz said.
Muñoz says the shortage of interpreters inside hospitals, is a perfect storm. First AB5 kneecapped the industry, because out of state translation services dropped many of their California interpreters in January. Two months later, the pandemic hit.
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“Interpreters [who] were now limited from going into the facility means that this patient no longer had access to a trained medical interpreter, also because of risk of infection family members were not allowed to go in as well, so what was happening is it was creating delays in the delivery of care,” said Muñoz.
That delay cost Jaime precious time, time during which he could have been getting treatment, according to Griselda:
“Because of one error, one word that a doctor doesn’t understand from you, or vice versa, it could mean someone’s life,” she said.
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Understanding what fluid power is and how it relates to modern industry is very important to keep your equipment running properly, profitably, and safely.
There are many similarities to Hydraulics and Pneumatics – but there are differences; however, the same laws of physics and formulas apply to most applications with two significant differences: The compressibility of the fluid and where that fluid can be exhausted.
The term “fluid power” applies to air, other gases, oil, water and other liquids. In this program, we show a side-by-side comparison and explain the similarities AND the differences between them so they may be appropriately applied.
Purpose of Training
Knowledge of fluid power characteristics will help the student appreciate the power of the fluid (air or oil) and how those fluids exert pressure – to support loads, and flow – to move loads. We also discuss what makes up a fluid power system, and explore and identify the conditions that cause fluids to flow and exert pressure. Attaining an understanding of Pascal’s Law and the relationship between fluid pressure and fluid flow will be but a few of the areas discussed.
Contents and Format
Pascal’s Law
Differences between Hydraulics & Pneumatics
The Compressibility of the fluid
Why is Fluid Power used?
Where is Fluid Power used?
How is Fluid Power is used?
What Fluid Power systems consist of
Basic Formulas
Basic Pneumatic system
Intermediate devices
Basic Hydraulic system
Side by Side comparison
A properly designed system requires three general areas of simple maintenance – such as a sufficient quantity of clean fluid (air or oil), a maintenance program for checking systems and changing filters in pneumatic systems, and reservoirs, filters and strainers in hydraulic systems, and a program for maintenance of connections and mounting hardware. These three areas support have the most significant effect on system performance – safety, profitability and longevity.
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49ers stomp the Browns
Home Sports News 49ers stomp the Browns
Monday Night the Sanfranciso 49ers stomped the Cleveland Browns beating them 31-3. The 49ers are on a 4-0 winning streak surprising the league. The 49ers took ahold of the game on the ground as Matt Breida and Tevin Coleman ran all over the Browns defense. The Browns couldn’t contain the 49ers rushing attack Monday night that controlled the game.
Matt Breida finished the day with 114 yards on 11 carries including a rushing and receiving touchdown. Tevin Coleman rushed for 97 yards on 16 carries and 1 touchdown as well. Jimmy Garoppolo looked like a general making good reads upon the pass and run. He ended the game with an sufficient performance passing 20 for 29 on 181 yards including 2 passing Touchdowns. Tight End George Kittle contributed hauling in a touchdown and 6 receptions for 60 yards.
The Browns struggled highly as Baker Mayfield struggled making throws. He completed a horrid 8 out of 22 passes for 100 yards and 2 interceptions. Mayfield struggled making reads and getting the ball to playmakers. There were also dropped passes that resulted in those interceptions as well.
The Browns struggled and it showed as they never took chances in the redzone to get Beckham or Landry the ball. Repeatedly they resumed to take chances on other options who did not answer. Most would suggest you put your chances on your Elite Pro Bowl Receivers but it didn’t seem to be the choice Baker Mayfield took on critical downs. It made it much easier that night with no production from the Browns receiving threat duo.
Defensively the 49ers gave the Browns a headache. Nick Bosa recorded 2 sacks and Richard Sherman had an interception. They held the Browns to a field Goal the whole night. The 49ers are looking Good as they ran over the Browns. The Browns need to clean up a lot of play calling and decision making by Baker Mayfield. It was a solid victory for the 49ers.
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F.A.Q.s about the STOP Transource Movement
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What is electrical congestion?
PJM manages the wholesale electric market. As part of this market structure, electricity is priced by location by time. The price of electricity at given locations in the grid at a specific time is called the Location Marginal Price (LMP). In places where there is great demand, but little supply, electricity is priced higher (a higher LMP) than places where supply is plentiful and demand is low. To help meet the market demands, electricity is distributed from locations of low LMP to high LMP. If there is insufficient capacity to move the least expensive power to a load, more expensive local electricity generation supply may be called upon. Because that electrical generator may be more expensive, the LMP rises in that load area, and PJM records the event as being caused by “congestion.” It is important to understand that congestion does not mean that the destination market is suffering a reliability problem; rather they are paying more for their power than locations that have more supply and/or less demand.
Transource says existing lines are insufficient. Is this true?
No, it is not true. OCA expert witness Peter Lanzoletta wrote 23 pages of testimony describing alternate routes. It is true that the IEC-East line is proposed to be a double circuit line. Each circuit involves 3 lines, one for each phase. Thus, the entire line would consist of 6 power cables, plus a ground. PPL and BGE jointly operate a line on the east and west of the proposed IEC-East, known as Conastone-Otter Creek (COC), and Manor-Graceton (MG). Both lines pass less than 10,000ft from the proposed Furnace Run substation where the IEC-East would originate. The COC goes all the way to the IEC-East destination, Conastone. The MG goes to Graceton, which is connected to Conastone by several newly upgraded high voltage lines. The COC has been completely reconstructed within the last five years to have new conductors and monopoles identical to the proposed IEC. The MG has been completely reconstructed in Pennsylvania with the same technology, and only requires approximately half a mile of reconstruction in Maryland to be complete.
Discovery documents show that neither PJM nor Transource studied this use of these lines. PJM told Stop Transource representatives and local legislative representatives in the fall of 2017 that the PJM process did not include a study of alternatives, and that it was up to the states to require that analysis in their approval process. Transource has no interest in using those lines because if they don’t build anything, they can’t make any money.
Is the project needed for reliability?
No. From the very outset, Transource was clear that the project was intended as a market efficiency project. This is documented in their filing with both states. It is also clear from the fact that the project was selected by PJM solely on the merits of its congestion relief. Recent statements from PJM indicate that they are trying to find a way to frame the project in terms of increased reliability; however, FERC requires a different analysis process (see NERC) for any project that is intended to improve reliability. The only argument PJM can make is that any new powerline by definition increases reliability because it provides an alternative pathway for power.
How much preserved land would be affected?
In Harford County, MD, eight of the ten affected properties, and the vast majority of the acreage, are preserved farms. There are many preserved farms in the path in Pennsylvania. In both states, the preserving entities presented their easements as a chance to ensure that the property would remain unspoiled by development. In fact, the preservation easement is making these properties a target because they are large blocks of property owned by farmers who may not have the resources to fight Transource.
Is it true Transource will make a profit even if the project is defeated?
Yes. The Federal Energy Resource Commission (FERC) granted Transource a 10.4% margin, and provided them with an “abandoned plant incentive.” There is also no cost cap on their expenses. This means that for every dollar they spend on the project, even the money they are spending now, they will be reimbursed in full, and be provided with a 10.4% profit. The more they spend, the more they make.
Where do both states stand on the project?
Almost every local representative at the local, state, and federal level has sided with those opposed to the project. This includes Maryland Governor Hogan, his secretary of Agriculture Joe Bartensfelder, PA State Rep Kristin Phillips-Hill, PA State Rep Stan Saylor, the entire Harford County Council, Barry Glasman the Harford County Executive, all Harford County state representatives, and all the municipalities touched by the IEC-East. Of note, there is not a single politician, nor candidate, who has expressed support for the project. Not one.
The PA Office of the Consumer Advocate (OCA) has entered testimony into the case that indicates they are strongly opposed to the project. The Maryland Office of Peoples Council (OPC) and the Maryland Power Plant Research Program (PPRP) are still unannounced.
Is it true that Maryland only generates half its own power, and that power consumption is forecasted to be flat?
Yes. The full statistics can be found on PJM’s own website: https://www.pjm.com/-/media/library/reports-notices/state-specific-reports/2017/2017-maryland-and-dc-state-infrastructure-report.ashx?la=en
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Home News Leading payments provider DPO acquired by Network International in African Expansion
Leading payments provider DPO acquired by Network International in African Expansion
DPO Group, a leading African payment service provider (PSP) which has developed the technology to enable businesses and individuals across the continent to make payments online and offline with all currencies and payment methods, is being acquired by Network International (NI). NI comprises of a group of companies describing itself as a leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. NI is acquiring 100% of DPO who are present in 19 African countries currently. However, DPO will continue to operate under their known brand name.
NI is Headquartered in Dubai and us listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company has said that the acquisition of DPO Group will support Network International’s capabilities in Africa across online, mobile and alternative payments as well as providing merchant and MNO relationships and increasing the cross-selling opportunities to both DPO and Network International’s customers.
DPO Group is already a high growth business, with revenue CAGR of c.40% from 2017-2019. This transaction enables DPO to add point of sale payment solutions to its product portfolio, connecting DPO to acquirers and issuers across the African continent and enabling DPO to penetrate the Middle East market for the first time.
Eran Feinstein, CEO of DPO Group commented: “This deal represents a significant milestone for the pan-African payments landscape and the customers and businesses we serve. Combining the two companies will allow us to broaden our offering for new and existing customers, significantly improving capacity for Africa’s merchants to do business not only across the continent but in the Middle East as well as globally.”
Simon Haslam, Network International’s Chief Executive Officer said: “We are excited by this acquisition which will strengthen our strategic framework by combining both of our businesses’ activities across the African market. This deal will also enhance our offering in the payments value chain by presence on both sides of the transaction, acquiring and issuing, and accelerate our future growth. Together, we have a powerful combination to accelerate digital payments across our regions and offer a one-stop shop solution for merchants, with multiple payment acceptance methods.”
Offer Gat, DPO Group Co-Founder and Chairman added: “We are delighted to have worked with Apis Partners in growing DPO Group into one of the leading pan-African payments companies. We have found Apis’ financial services sector expertise invaluable as we scaled DPO from a regional player to a truly pan-African platform present in 19 countries and serving both blue chip and local merchants. Apis supported DPO throughout as we made five major acquisitions in four years, entered new markets, and launched innovative new products across the continent. We are looking forward to working with our new shareholder, Network International, to achieve similar success over the coming years.”
Matteo Stefanel, Managing Partner and Apis Co-Founder said: “Eran and Offer are outstanding and visionary entrepreneurs who have built DPO into a truly world class business in a very short period of time. They exemplify the type of dynamic management teams Apis looks to invest in, and we are very proud to have worked with them and to have been part of the DPO journey. As they embark on the next phase of their journey as part of Network International, I am confident that Eran, Offer and the rest of the DPO team will continue leading the way in the African payments sector.”
Udayan Goyal, Managing Partner and Apis Co-Founder said: “Africa represents one of the fastest growing and most under-penetrated markets for online payments in the world. Our investment in DPO Group was recognition of this fact and the company’s subsequent rapid growth and ultimate acquisition by Network International speaks to the enormous opportunity within payments across Africa. We believe the combination of DPO Group with Network International will create tremendous value for both businesses as they continue to deliver world-class solutions across African markets.”
DPO Group will retain its executive team and employees, as it continues to expand and will drive the payments agenda of the larger group within the African continent and the Middle East. The acquisition will also see DPO Group’s shareholders and executives become key stakeholders in Network International.
Morgan Stanley acted as the financial advisor to DPO and ENS Africa acted as the legal advisor. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2020, subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory and anti-trust.
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First look at the new smaller iPad Pro
Felicia Shivakumar 5 years
Today was a pretty small news day for Apple. In part, because the announcements were largely iterations on existing products. But, also because the rumors about Apple’s hardware getting smaller were indeed true. The most notable downsized-device was the iPhone SE (watch our hands on here) but for designers, artist, or just fans of the Apple Pencil, the new smaller iPad Pro was a happy addition to the Apple family.
While at the event today, TechCrunch Editor-In-Chief, Matthew Panzarino, got some hands on time with new iPad Pro. Here’s what you need to know about it:
The new iPad Pro has 9.7” screen compared to the previous 12.9” version.
It has comparable insides to the larger Pro with a few additions.
A True Tone screen uses four sensors to adjust the color of the screen to the ambient light.
The new iPad Pro has the lowest reflectivity and brightest display of any iPad.
It supports ‘Hey Siri’ and is compatible with the new Apple Pencil.
The smart connector adds power and data connectivity to its new keyboard.
Apple anticipates that this smaller, more portable option will be the future of computing.
The new iPad Pro comes in four colors: silver, gold, space gray and rose gold.
Price starts at $599 and goes up to $899 for the new 256gb version.
Watch the video above for a rundown of the new small-in-size, but power-packed features of the 9.7” iPad Pro.
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Liverpool claim first away win since February as Mohamed Salah double seals 3-1 victory at Brighton
By Joe Moore
Updated: 8th July 2020, 10:53 pm
Liverpool ended their dreadful run of away form, but were made to work for it, as Mohamed Salah’s double led the champions to a 3-1 victory at Brighton.
The Reds enjoyed a brilliant start, taking advantage of two mistakes at the back to score through Salah and captain Jordan Henderson inside the first ten minutes.
Henderson and Salah were on target for Liverpool, but it wasn’t a comfortable victory for the champions
But Brighton didn’t throw in the towel. In fact, towards the end of the first-half they were having the greater joy and better chances.
And they were rewarded in fine style as Leandro Trossard pulled a goal back the for the hosts with a really lovely half-volley finish from inside the box.
Liverpool maintained their lead in the second-half but weren’t in control, as Brighton continue to threaten.
They came closest to an equaliser when Dan Burn incredibly failed to covert despite being completely unmarked at the back post.
And that inexplicable miss proved costly, as Salah wrapped up Liverpool’s 30th win of an unforgettable season and first away from home for FOUR MONTHS by nodding in from Andy Robertson’s corner.
There was some concern for the Reds, though, as Henderson limped off in the closing stages with a suspected knee injury.
The Reds may have clinched their first Premier League title with a record seven games to spare, but all the talk ahead of this game was dominated by their poor recent record on the road.
Klopp has had plenty to celebrate over the last few weeks, but Liverpool’s away form has not been one of them
Jurgen Klopp’s side had failed to win any of their previous five away matches, losing four and drawing one, and had also failed to score in each outing.
In fact, the last time Liverpool found the net away from Anfield was February 15, when the scraped to a 1-0 win over basement side Norwich City.
However, it didn’t take long for them to end their rut against Brighton as they were 2-0 up with just eight minutes on the clock, and they were both gifts.
The Seagulls were were undone by the sort of ruthless counter-pressing that Crystal Palace star Andros Townsend told talkSPORT frightened the life out of him.
The hosts attempted to play it out from the back and paid the price, as Naby Keita won the ball on the edge of the area and laid it off to Salah, who made no mistake as he slid the ball into the left bottom corner with just six minutes gone.
Skipper Henderson then doubled their lead two minutes later with a superb curling strike from outside the box, after Brighton were again dispossessed in their own half.
Salah mustered a clinical finish when he was presented with Liverpool’s first chance of the game
And there was another trademark celebration from passionate Henderson when his fine strike make it 2-0
But to their credit, Brighton heads didn’t drop and they piled pressure on the champions, with 19-year-old right-back Tariq Lamptey proving a real handful.
Trossard had a goal disallowed for offside on 25 minutes, and it served as a warning for the Reds, a warning they did not heed, as the Belgian forward did find the net just before the break with a fine finish, thumping the ball past a wrong-footed Alisson from Lamptey’s cross.
Brighton continued to push after the break, with Trossard the primary threat.
The lively Belgian winger was twice denied by last-ditch blocks, while his marauding run down the left flank led to Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker being forced to deny Neal Maupay.
But the tide turned in Liverpool’s favour thanks to a number of substitutions.
Neco Williams, the 19-year-old full-back, was given his first Premier League start by Klopp, but he was replaced at the break by Andy Robertson, while Sadio Mane and Fabinho were introduced on the hour-mark, and with their help Liverpool began to control the game.
Trossard scored a brilliant half-volley to pull Brighton back into the match
Trossard celebrates after his fine strike, but it wasn’t enough for Brighton as they were thwarted by Liverpool’s defenders
But they had to wait until the 76th minute to really make the three points certain, with Salah doing really well to head in Robertson’s corner.
That make it Premier League goal number 19 for the season for Salah, just three behind Leicester striker Jamie Vardy’s tally as the Egyptian aims for a late march on what would be a third straight Golden Boot.
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It’s not the only record being chased either, with Liverpool now three more wins away from beating Manchester City’s record 100 points tally.
While their away form has been questionable in recent weeks and months, their home form has been imperious, and they are also just two victories away from winning all their home matches in a Premier League season – something that’s never been done before.
But there will be fears in Merseyside over Henderson’s fitness, after he limped off with an apparent injury ten minutes from time, being replaced by James Milner for his 536th Premier League outing, climb to fifth in the all-time appearance rankings.
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Chloe Coscarelli, the chef, cookbook author, and co-founder of by CHLOE., a restaurant chain famous for its plant-based versions of fast-food staples, announced that after a lengthy legal battle with her former co-partner, the judge has ruled in her favor, restoring her with 50% ownership of the company.
Coscarelli shared the details of her legal battle in an Instagram post. She explains the saga: “Less than a year after we opened, I was viciously pushed out of the company I founded by my business partner and have been involved in a brutal legal battle ever since. While your Guac Burger may have been served in packaging that bore my name throughout the years, “By Chloe" hasn't been by Chloe since nearly its inception. But after more than four years of fighting for what I knew was right earlier this month, I finally won. A judge issued an 87-page ruling in my favor, and I regained my membership in the company I created—proof that passion, truth, and perseverance will always be ingredients for success.”
Before co-founding by CHLOE., Coscarelli starred on the reality show "Cupcake Wars," where she made history as the first vegan chef to win a culinary competition. After leaving By Chloe, she opened The Vegan Cafe, a vegan bakery, allowing her to return to her first passion: Creating delicious desserts that just happened to be plant-based. She hasn’t only been making sweet treats during her time away from By Chloe but has been cooking up savory creations as well. Coscarelli shared her talent for making plant-based versions of non-vegan classics teaming up with Whole Foods to offer a prepared Thanksgiving meal for two at their stores.
Despite the success of her legal victory, Coscarelli’s battle for her restaurant isn’t over yet. She recently learned that by CHLOE. filed for bankruptcy and said she’s “exploring options with others to make a bid for the company in the bankruptcy proceedings.” If you just so happen to be an investor looking for the chance to break into the booming plant-based market, now’s your opportunity to help secure the brand’s future and everybody’s favorite Guac Burger.
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Ontario places Toronto and Peel Region under lockdown. Here's what you need to know
Katherine DeClerq Multi-Platform Writer, CTV News Toronto
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TORONTO -- The Ontario government will shutter most non-essential businesses, including gyms and personal care services, and will prohibit sit-down service in restaurants in two of the province’s COVID-19 hot spots as they grapple with a rise in infections.
Toronto and Peel Region have been placed in a lockdown, which is the province’s final category of the COVID-19 tiered framework that guides restrictions.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement late Friday afternoon on the same day the province’s total number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections surpassed 100,000.
“I know these past few months have been extremely difficult,” Ford said. “COVID fatigue is setting in on all of us. But I've seen
the strength of our people and it's up to each and every one of us to determine our future to write the next chapter of our history.”
As well, the regions of Durham and Waterloo have been moved to the fourth category, the “red zone,” of the province’s five-tier framework.
MORE: Where does your region stand in Ontario's colour-coded COVID-19 framework?
The new measures come into effect on Monday.
Officials have said that regions will remain in their zone for a minimum of 28 days. This means that Toronto and Peel will be under lockdown until at least Dec. 21.
"The situation is extremely serious and further action is required to avoid the worst case scenario,” the premier said.
“We cannot put in-class learning at risk, we can’t risk widespread outbreaks in our long-term care homes, we cannot risk overwhelming our hospitals. To protect our most vulnerable and protect what matters most we have to get the community spread under control.”
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said that while there is no order mandating residents not travel between coloured-region, residents should really limit travel to essential purposes.
“We are all in this together,” he said. “You're responsible in your area, but also for the areas outside yours, because we know it affects the whole system.”
“We are going to be trusting and confidence that the public will do the right thing.”
Here’s what you need to know about the new lockdown measures:
Public events and social gatherings
All indoor organized public events and social gatherings are prohibited, with the exception of gatherings with members of the same household.
Outdoor gatherings have been restricted to 10 people, as long as physical distancing can be maintained.
Places of worship will be restricted to 10 people indoors and 10 people outdoors. This applies to religious services, weddings and funerals.
The restrictions would effectively mean worshipers in those regions would be prevented from praying inside and would instead have to travel to another region or attend services virtually.
Publicly-funded schools in Ontario and child-care centres will remain open under the lockdown, however post-secondary institutions will be open for virtual instruction only.
There will be exemptions for clinical training and trades, where in-person instruction is required.
Restaurants, bars and clubs
Indoor and outdoor service is prohibited at food establishments in lockdown regions. Takeout, drive through service, and delivery is permitted. This includes the sale of alcohol.
Retail and other businesses
Non-essential retail stores and some retail outlets have been restricted to curbside pick-up or delivery. This includes retail stores in malls.
Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Square One Shopping Centre and Scarborough Town Centre say they are extending their operating hours this weekend to "safely manage an anticipated increase in visitors." The malls will now be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Square One and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Yorkdale and Scarborough Town Centre on Saturday and Sunday.
Essential businesses such as grocery stores, convenience stores, hardware stores, supply stores, alcohol stores, pharmacies will remain open and be limited to 50 per cent capacity.
Gardening centres and motor vehicle establishments will be open by appointment only.
Customers are required to stand two metres away from each other while in line at any of the businesses listed above.
Personal care services, such as hair salons, are closed. Casinos, bingo halls and gaming establishments, cinemas (except drive-ins), and performing arts facilities are also closed.
Sports and fitness centres
All indoor sports facilities and fitness centres will close, including indoor courts, pools and rinks. Outdoor sports and fitness classes will be limited to 10 people.
Indoor sports, including training, has been prohibited.
Community centres and other multi-purpose facilities will be allowed to open for certain activities such as child care.
All meeting spaces and event spaces will be closed with the exceptions of court services, government services, and mental health and addiction support services (with a maximum of 10 people).
When would a region go into lockdown?
The government also provided information on what officials will be looking for before deciding if a region should be moved into a lockdown, although the thresholds are admittedly vague.
As of Nov. 20, regions will be moved into a lockdown if they see “adverse trends” after entering the “red” zone. This includes:
• Increasing weekly case incidents and/or test positivity
• Increasing case incidence and/or test positivity among people over the age of 70.
• Increasing outbreaks among vulnerable populations or congregate settings
• Hospital and ICU capacity at risk of being overwhelmed
• Public health unit capacity for case and contact management at risk or overwhelmed
This information was previously left blank from the government’s tiered framework.
Changes to the red zone rules
The province also announced some changes to the red zone restrictions.
Indoor public gathering restrictions have been reduced to five people, while 25 people can still get together outdoors as long as physical distancing is maintained.
What supports are in place for businesses?
The province also said it will be doubling the funding available for businesses struggling amid the pandemic to $600 million. According to officials, the money would help support eligible businesses that are “required to close or significantly restrict services due to enhanced public health measures.”
Eligible businesses will be able to apply for a grant to help purchase personal protective equipment, as well as property taxes and energy rebates.
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Organizations Join to Address Safety of UVC Germicidal Devices
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NORTHBROOK, ILL.—With a shared commitment to the safety and performance of electrical lighting, UL, a leading global safety science company, the American Lighting Assn. (ALA) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Assn. (NEMA) have released a new position paper due to an increased demand for sanitizing and germicidal capabilities in the face of COVID-19. The position paper has two goals: to bring attention to ultraviolet light device safety risks; and to help manufacturers, retailers and consumers understand which devices are safe and under what conditions they can be operated safely.
The paper, “Ultraviolet-C (UVC) Germicidal Devices: What Consumers Need To Know,” provides a deeper look at the UVC germicidal devices available to consumers and their potential to cause severe injuries to humans and pets, as well as damage to plants and materials.
“We are all extremely concerned about the impacts and elimination of COVID-19 and what can be done to mitigate the spread of the virus. In this current global situation, the growing interest around sanitation and germicidal properties is putting UVC devices in greater focus than ever before,” said Todd Straka, Global Industry Director of UL’s Lighting division.
‘A Major Safety Issue’
“There has been an alarming rise in the availability of consumer-facing ultraviolet germicidal devices that don’t effectively contain UVC light and carry very serious risks, including permanent eye, skin and lung damage. This is a major safety issue that urgently needs to be communicated to consumers and potential users of these devices. By teaming up with ALA and NEMA, who also share these concerns, we are aiming to educate consumers and manufacturers regarding the potential safety risk implications of using UVC light,” Straka said.
Ultraviolet (UV) naturally occurs in three types: UVA, UVB and UVC, all of which have certain benefits and pose certain hazards. While UVC is the type that has proven to have the most germicidal benefits, including killing bacteria and inactivating viruses, any uncontained UVC exposure that is strong enough to kill germs is a risk to people, pets and plants.
“Uncontained UVC germicidal products used in a healthcare setting do have benefits to help stop the spread of COVID-19. However, unlike those being marketed to consumers, they are used by trained professionals who have taken appropriate safety training and use the appropriate protective equipment to take precautions against UVC overexposure,” said Terry K. McGowan, Director, Engineering and Technology, American Lighting Assn.
‘Without Risk to Human Health’
“As the leading residential lighting industry trade association, it is our duty to promote the proper, safe application of lighting products, while also communicating to our members and the public lighting safety risks. By collaborating on the UVC position paper with safety expert UL and NEMA, ALA wants to help communicate to the lighting industry the importance of developing and marketing products that can be safely operated without risk to human health,” McGowan said.
“We know that UVC is a proven way to help eliminate dangerous bacteria and viruses in water, air and on surfaces. Nevertheless, in the midst of COVID-19, we are concerned about proliferation of UVC disinfecting devices being sold with uncertain safety features and incomplete operating instructions,” said Karen Willis, Industry Director, Lighting Systems, National Electrical Manufacturers Assn.
“Establishing and maintaining the safety of UVC devices is a priority for NEMA and across the lighting industry in all sectors, including consumer, commercial and healthcare applications. We are proud to be a part of this important educational effort,” Willis said.
The “Ultraviolet-C (UVC) Germicidal Devices: What Consumers Need to Know” position paper, a detailed chart of UVC products for consumer, commercial, healthcare and UVC germicidal device components and information about their path to certification can be found at UL.com/uvlighting.
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Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don’t. From finding a market for overpriced Playboy magazines among his junior high classmates, to buying real estate on the cheap after a market crash, to investing in often unglamorous industries with long-term value, Zell acts boldly on supply and demand trends to grab the first-mover advantage. And he can find opportunity virtually anywhere—from an arcane piece of legislation to a desert meeting in Abu Dhabi.
“If everyone is going left, look right,” Zell often says. To him, conventional wisdom is nothing but a reference point. Year after year, deal after deal, he shuts out the noise of the crowd, gathers as much information as possible, then trusts his own instincts. He credits much of his independent thinking to his parents, who were Jewish refugees from World War II.
Talk to any two people and you might get wild swings in their descriptions of Zell. A media firestorm ensued when the Tribune Company went into bankruptcy a year after he agreed to steward the enterprise. At the same time, his razor-sharp instincts are legendary on Wall Street, and he has sponsored over a dozen IPOs. He’s known as the Grave Dancer for his strategy of targeting troubled assets, yet he’s created thousands of jobs. Within his own organization, he has an inordinate number of employees at every level who are fiercely loyal and have worked for him for decades.
Zell’s got a big personality; he is often contrarian, blunt, and irreverent, and always curious and hardworking. This is the guy who started wearing jeans to work in the 1960s, when offices were a sea of gray suits. He’s the guy who told The Wall Street Journal in 1985, “If it ain’t fun, we don’t do it.” He rides motorcycles with his friends, the Zell’s Angels, around the world and he keeps ducks on the deck outside his office.
As he writes: “I simply don’t buy into many of the made-up rules of social convention. The bottom line is: If you’re really good at what you do, you have the freedom to be who you really are.”
Am I Being Too Subtle?—a reference to Zell’s favorite way to underscore a point—takes readers on a ride across his business terrain, sharing with honesty and humor stories of the times he got it right, when he didn’t, and most important, what he learned in the process.
This is an indispensable guide for the next generation of disrupters, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Author: Zell Sam
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publish Year: 2017
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Deepika Padukone launches the “You Are Not Alone” campaign
Deepika Padukone launches campaign for depression awareness
The Bollywood actress starts a campaign to spread awareness about depression
by Manali Gharat (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video)
Deepika Padukone has been one Bollywood actress who has inspired a million others with her work and her dedication towards her art. It is known that Deepika the bubbly Bollywood actress who is loved for her dimples has gone through the darkness of depression in her past.
Deepika has been vocal about the phase of depression which she once went through and how she struggled to come out of it. The Bollywood actress also started a foundation named “Live Love Laugh” for people suffering from depression. Through the foundation she is working endlessly to spread awareness about depression and end all the stereotypes associated with it.
She has now launched the “You Are Not Alone” campaign under the foundation which will aim at making people suffering from depression speak out and bring them together, starting with students in schools. Reports suggest that the campaign will raise the information levels about the condition and help students and teachers know more about it by understating each other better. Schools have been chosen as schools are the primary communication medium for students and teachers in the school can prove to be an important supporter and adviser for the Youth which on and off suffers from the said condition at some or the other point of their lives.
The campaign will include on ground activities like training GPs, creation of national database of mental healthcare doctors and professionals and other initiatives for fundraising and creating partnerships with NGOs and institutes like TISS and NIMHANS.
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Deepika Padukone launched the campaign at her own school where she had studied i.e. Sophia’s High School in Bengaluru. Deepika plans to spread the campaign to 200 schools very soon, post which the campaign shall be extended to colleges and corporate offices.
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'Small, compact, easy to use' vacuum weighs less than 5 pounds - and it's on sale for just $70
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The iwoly v600 vacuum is on sale on Amazon Canada for just $70 (originally $90).
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Last spring, I was on the hunt for a new vacuum that I could easily carry from floor to floor without feeling like it was arm day at the gym. With most stores closed due to COVID-19, I hopped on Amazon in search of a powerful but affordable vacuum. In the past I’ve had Dysons and Bissells but without being able to test or lift the vacuum in-store, I wanted to keep my risk of investment low — so I set a personal budget of under $100.
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Each vacuum purchase comes with an adjustable extension tube and several attachments: brush nozzle, floor head, upholstery tool, crevice nozzle and a wall bracket for storage.
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A post-vacuum photo.
A pass around my house (including carpeted stairs and rugs) resulted in enough dust, hair and debris to make me feel unclean. My other vacuum was only a few years old, had a HEPA filtration system like the iwoly and a washable filter that I had just cleaned - but the iwoly had far more power and suction.
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“This is an awesome vacuum for floors (tiles and hardwood). Very light weight and smooth,” another wrote. “Good for under furniture. The attachments have helped with dusting fabric sofas and hard to reach corners. I wish the cord was a bit larger. I only use is sparingly on carpet, for light quick pickup.”
I’m a fan of the iwoly V600 vacuum and have been reaching for it over my other vacuum for the past week since it arrived. The only thing I wish was different is the length of the cord — at 5 metres, it’s a little shorter than I’m used to, but not a deal breaker for me considering how light and powerful it is (iwoly does make a model V600 with a 7 metre cord available for $100, although it’s currently out of stock).
I was skeptical to purchase a vacuum sight unseen and from a brand I was unfamiliar with, but I’m really happy with my affordable purchase and am even contemplating getting another and putting my older vacuum out to pasture.
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They Welcomed Dozens for Thanksgiving. Now What?
GRANGER, Ind. — Dr. Jan Sanders was the first Black pediatrician to have her own practice here. Her husband, Leo McWilliams, is an assistant dean in the University of Notre Dame engineering department and a “quadruple Domer,” a title bestowed on the rare graduate with four degrees from the school.
But what’s truly impressive is the amount of food they cook for Thanksgiving.
One turkey comes off Leo’s grill, and another out of a smoker. He’s from Memphis, so there are ribs, chicken and brisket, too. Jan makes at least four styles of dressing, and simmers 35 bunches of turnip and mustard greens. She builds pans of macaroni and cheese, and bakes her mother’s brown sugar poundcake. Their sons, Cheyney, 28, and Quinlan, 25, boil pounds of sweet potatoes to make the pies.
Ever since the sons were in elementary school, the couple have hosted Thanksgiving in their cozy two-story house on a cul-de-sac in this suburb of South Bend. The guest list has included almost every lonely Black freshman enrolled at Notre Dame, a school where only about 3 percent of the 8,600 or so undergraduates are African-American.
There are Dreamers, too, those young adult immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. International students show up, along with scholarship kids from small towns who need to be convinced that they really do belong at an elite university.
“We try to give them a space to vent things they perhaps couldn’t vent in other spaces, and to get a friendly ear and friendly advice,” Leo said.
More than 60 people packed into the house last year to share nearly 50 dishes, each of which Jan documented in a handwritten list. But this year, the house will be mostly empty, save for the immediate family. The menu is down to 12 dishes and dessert.
Social scientists use the term collective effervescence to describe the heightened sense of belonging and well-being that comes with a shared ritual. It’s what makes going to a concert or a baseball game feel so good. The spirit of the group is bigger than what anyone could experience individually. It’s one of the building blocks of culture.
Kelly Alexander, a food studies professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote about collective effervescence in her doctoral dissertation. She and other anthropologists are taking note of what happens when a nation is deprived of in-person gathering on Thanksgiving.
“Is the one year we have to sit it out that big of a deal?” she asked. “Maybe not. But we have to acknowledge it, because it will have an effect.”
For the kindred souls who have come to rely on Thanksgiving at Jan and Leo’s, the void will be particularly gaping. Most will be left to celebrate alone or in small groups, contemplating a year that delivered a series of national crises that hit them particularly hard: the killings of Black people at the hands of police officers and the resulting uproar over systemic racism; the coronavirus, which is still raging through communities of color at disproportionate rates; the bruised economy; the exhausting election and its aftermath.
“If there was ever a year when we needed to all be together, this is it,” said Richard G. Jones, the director of the Gallivan Journalism Program at Notre Dame and a former New York Times editor who usually gets extra helpings of Leo’s smoked salmon every Thanksgiving.
Shaquille Johnson, 25, could have really used a Thanksgiving meal at Jan and Leo’s, too. After graduating from Notre Dame, he landed a job as a software engineer for Google. When Covid-19 closed the company’s California campus, he and other young tech workers who could work from anywhere left the Bay Area in search of cheaper rent or a change of scenery.
He is in Austin now, but most of his family is in Chicago. His grandmother is a health aide whose hours have been drastically cut, so he sends her money. He worries about his uncle, who lost so much business in the pandemic that he had to close his chicken-and-burger restaurant in Chicago. His aunt folded her halal food business in Wisconsin for the same reasons.
“It’s tough times, and it sucks,” Mr. Johnson said.
This Thanksgiving he’ll probably make his way to Chicago, but his heart will be at Jan and Leo’s, where he met some of his best friends and found a family who understood how it felt when white students told him he was the first Black person they’d ever met, or asked if it was all right to use the N-word.
“It was the one time you could get together and know for sure there wouldn’t be any racism there,” he said. “You could relax.”
The scene was the same every year. All the young people would crowd into the basement to play Jenga or Mario Kart before heading upstairs to share a meal with Jan and Leo’s neighbors and family friends. Once dessert was over and at least some of the dishes had been washed, everyone jumped in line to do the Cupid Shuffle or the Wobble, with Jan leading the way.
Deborah Bineza could really use a party like that this year. She graduated in 2019, and works as a program coordinator at the university’s gender relations center. She feels lucky to be employed. Many of her friends have lost their jobs because of the pandemic.
She fell into Jan and Leo’s orbit when she was a freshman, and met their son Quinlan at an interfaith choir practice. She didn’t have the money to go home to Nashville for Thanksgiving, and figured she would spend the holiday on campus, alone. Then Quinlan invited her to his parents’.
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Ms. Bineza was a vegetarian at the time, and just like the Muslim Thanksgiving guests who don’t eat pork, she found plenty of dishes prepared with people like her in mind. Jan and Leo quickly became her champions, meeting with her and other students at a Starbucks every Sunday to talk over life and solve problems.
“They made that space where you can go be around other Black people and not have to explain what is going on or how you are feeling, and just be able to experience joy,” she said. “It’s difficult to not have that this year.”
Instead, she’ll check in with her family online — her parents had mild cases of Covid over the summer — but stay in South Bend for a small dinner with her partner and her roommate.
Michael Sills, 25, and his brother, Wiett Sills, 23, who are white, found a different kind of solace at those Thanksgiving gatherings. They came to Notre Dame from San Diego, but had to think twice before spending money on a plane ticket home for the holiday. They were homesick, and feeling for the first time in their lives what it meant to not be as wealthy as others.
“I never realized other people had yachts and went on skiing trips on the weekend until I went to Notre Dame,” Michael said.
They became regulars at Jan and Leo’s, bringing their grandmother’s banana pudding and leaving with pans of macaroni and cheese that Jan made especially for them.
Thanksgiving at the couple’s house would have been a nice reprieve this year, Michael said. He is in South Bend, trying to start his own banking analytics business, but it’s slow going. He and his girlfriend have had some rocky times. And like many young people, he is struggling with his mental health during the pandemic.
He hasn’t seen his family since February. The brothers hope to get to San Diego if everyone can agree on Covid protocols.
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How will I know when the turkey is cooked? Take its temperature. A digital thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh should read 165 degrees.
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Breaking Ground on the Player Development Center
By Joe Stapleton
Earlier today at Crisler John Beilein, women’s hoops coach Kevin Borseth, Athletic Director Dave Brandon and many others were on hand to be a part of the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the new Player Development Center.
Obviously, building a practice facility is a huge step for the basketball program. Brandon said not having one has “had to have had a detrimental effect on our ability to compete for recruits.” He also mentioned that anyone who knows what 18-year-olds want in a college would know a facility like this is really important factor in their decision on where to go. The facility is scheduled to open in fall of 2011 which means the current recruiting class, 2011, would be able to use the facility when they start their fall classes.
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But it’s not just going to be a boon to recruiting. Beilein mentioned that the new facility will open up players’ schedules so they can be whatever major they want. Right now, the men’s and women’s programs have to split their time at Crisler, which of course gets hectic. With another facility, the practice times can be more flexible and free up players to take whatever classes they want. A good example of who this could have helped would be Eric Puls, probably. One of his main problems was scheduling practice and being an Engineering major, and having this facility will most likely eliminate that problem.
Beilein: “We can tell a kid, ‘All right, you can be an engineering major, or you can be a business major, or you can take that professor you want to take.'”
Beilein also talked about looking forward to being able to be in his office and have a player just drop by to shoot around, or have some guys come over and play pick-up.
“I cannot wait til I’m sitting in my office and a player comes by to shoot and just drops in and says ‘Hey coach, how you doing?'”
Overall, definitely a giant leap for the basketball program. I think recruiting is where the new facility will have the most effect, but if it makes it any easier for Zack Novak to be a business major, that’s fine too.
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Labor says fix Indon sooner not later
News National Labor says fix Indon sooner not later
4:46pm, Nov 24, 2013
Labor is calling for direct discussion and negotiation to resolve the diplomatic row with Indonesia, as it enters its second week with no sign of easing.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the exchange of letters between Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a good start but the stand-off over spying allegations needs to be fixed.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann says the government is dealing with it in an Australian way, not how US President Barack Obama handled similar allegations of US phone taps on German chancellor Angela Merkel.
This is only Australia’s most recent argument with Indonesia and former coalition foreign minister Alexander Downer says it’s nothing like the freeze following the 1999 East Timor crisis.
With careful diplomacy, he says, it could be resolved in a few weeks.
Mr Abbott confirmed on Saturday that he had replied to a letter from President Yudhoyono demanding an official apology and full explanation as to why Australian spies targeted his mobile phone and those of his inner circle in 2009.
But the prime minister is refusing to disclose the contents of his letter.
Mr Shorten says the row has to be resolved sooner rather than later.
“I do think it requires direct discussion and negotiation. We have seen that through letter to letter. That’s a start. We just want the government to get this right,” he told reporters in Melbourne.
Mr Shorten and Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek said all now depended on whether Mr Abbott’s letter was sufficient to ease tensions.
“We have our fingers crossed that the coalition government is able to fix up this problem,” Mr Shorten said.
Ms Plibersek said the proof would be in the pudding.
“If co-operation is restored to its normal settings, then we will know that the letter has been successful,” she told ABC television.
Senator Cormann said it was one of the more challenging periods of Australia’s relationship with Indonesia.
“The prime minister has handled this in the absolutely appropriate way, completely focused on our national interests,” he told Network Ten.
The saga started last Monday when the Guardian Australia and the ABC reported that documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden showed Australian spies monitored the phones of President Yudhoyono, his wife and other top Indonesian officials.
Indonesia took immediate offence and, as the row escalated, cancelled joint defence activities, with other joint activities against terrorism and people smuggling in jeopardy.
The phone monitoring occurred in 2009 and Ms Plibersek suggested Kevin Rudd, who was prime minister at the time and later foreign minister, could use his personal contacts to help ease tensions.
In one area at least, the crisis has reached new depths, with an Indonesian newspaper cartoon depicting a heavy-breathing Mr Abbott peering though a door marked Indonesia and masturbating.
In 2006 the same cartoonist in the same newspaper depicted two dingoes copulating – one John Howard and the other Mr Downer. That related to Australia’s granting of protection visas to 43 West Papuan activists.
Mr Downer said there was no doubt President Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s elite and its people were not pleased with Australia but they too needed to be careful.
He said he sensed growing negativity towards Indonesia in the Australian community.
“The reaction from Indonesia has ramped up day by day and a lot of the rhetoric has been very fiery,” he said.
“That has made Australians recoil a little bit. Now this concerns me because I, like Tony Abbott, think this relationship is hugely important but it’s not very popular with the Australian public.”
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Major sites and platforms experiencing outages today, including Dropbox and Google App Engine
by Emil Protalinski — in Insider
Following the Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week, major sites and platforms are experiencing outages today, including at least Dropbox and Google App Engine. At the time of writing it’s unclear how the two downtimes are related, but Tumblr’s performance issues earlier today point to a clue.
The blogging company told us in a statement: “Tumblr is experiencing network problems following an issue with one of our uplink providers. Recovery is moving quickly and we will return to full service shortly.” Internet Traffic Report is reporting major packet loss in North America as well as issues in Asia (the problem is large enough that it’s spilling into the rest of the world):
At the time of writing, Dropbox is giving the following error (although it does seem to go back and forth every once in a while):
Google App Engine is meanwhile timing out, and actually the Google Developers domain as a whole is having trouble loading. This is affecting Google’s own properties, such as Android Developers, as well as many other third-party Web sites that rely on App Engine. They are showing errors like this one (ironically, this is for BreakingNews.com):
Even YouTube is experiencing issues; Downrightnow is calling it a “Likely Service Disruption,” although it’s working fine for us:
We have contacted both Dropbox and Google about these issues. We will update this article when we hear back.
Update at 12:05PM EST: Dropbox appears to be coming back. Google App Engine is still down and out, and the search giant has classified the issue as an “Anomaly” (talk about understatement) over at Google App Engine’s System Status page. “App Engine is currently experiencing serving issues. The team is actively working on restoring the service to full strength.” We are told to keep an eye on this Google Groups thread for more information.
Update at 12:35PM EST: Cedexis has posted Google App Engine traffic details for today, which show things may be starting to return to normal:
Update at 1:15PM EST: Google has posted an explanation.
At approximately 7:30am Pacific time this morning, Google began experiencing slow performance and dropped connections from one of the components of App Engine. The symptoms that service users would experience include slow response and an inability to connect to services. We currently show that a majority of App Engine users and services are affected. Google engineering teams are investigating a number of options for restoring service as quickly as possible, and we will provide another update as information changes, or within 60 minutes.
Update at 1:50PM EST: Google App Engine is starting to come back.
Update at 2:10PM EST: It’s down again. Google has more.
We are continuing work to correct the ongoing issues with App Engine. Operation has been restored for some services, while others continue to see slow response times and elevated error rates. The malfunction appears to be limited to a single component which routes requests from users to the application instance they are using, and does not affect the application instances themselves. We’ll post another status update as more information becomes available, and/or no later than one hour from now.
Update at 3:45PM EST: All systems are go.
At this point, we have stabilized service to App Engine applications. App Engine is now successfully serving at our normal daily traffic level, and we are closely monitoring the situation and working to prevent recurrence of this incident.
This morning around 7:30AM US/Pacific time, a large percentage of App Engine’s load balancing infrastructure began failing. As the system recovered, individual jobs became overloaded with backed-up traffic, resulting in cascading failures. Affected applications experienced increased latencies and error rates. Once we confirmed this cycle, we temporarily shut down all traffic and then slowly ramped it back up to avoid overloading the load balancing infrastructure as it recovered. This restored normal serving behavior for all applications.
We’ll be posting a more detailed analysis of this incident once we have fully investigated and analyzed the root cause.
Google has sent over an apologetic statement.
Google App Engine has now been restored and users should see service returning to normal. Our team is still continuing to investigate and determine the root cause of the issue. We know that many of our customers rely on App Engine for their mission critical applications. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this outage and we appreciate our customers’ patience.
Update at 4:15PM EST: Now it’s Facebook’s turn.
Update at 9:00PM EST: Google has more information on the outage today over on its App Engine blog.
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The steady-state environment delusion
Posted by Pointman on February 25, 2011 · 30 Comments
Cosmologists have calculated that our particular universe is 13.7 billion years old. It came into existence with the big bang, as did space and time. It’s big. It consists of lots of matter, especially hydrogen, which has aggregated into different objects. The ones we see in the night sky are the stars. We call our star the Sun. When enough matter coalesces in a certain way, it ignites into a star, which is nothing more than a vast nuclear fusion reactor which cooks hydrogen down progressively to heavier elements such as iron, before it either becomes dormant, implodes or explodes in an event called a nova or in the case of a big one, a supernova. Any one of these three ways a star ends is worthy of an article in itself.
Around a star, other aggregations of matter called planets form and are captured by the star’s gravitational field. We call this arrangement of a star with planets revolving around it a solar system and it seems to be pretty common. We live on the third planet in our solar system and we call it the Earth. Over the last two decades we’ve become better at being able to detect extremely large planets revolving around distant stars. I’ve no doubt that as our detection methods improve, we’ll start to detect more Earth-sized planets as well.
Solar systems tend to aggregate into collections of solar systems called galaxies. Our solar system is located in a galaxy we call the Milky Way. It’s a spiral galaxy and we’re located far out in it, near the end of one of its swirly arms which is why, when we look towards the centre of our galaxy, we see that broad strip of stars in the night sky we call the Milky Way. Essentially, we’re near the edge of a disc of stars looking in. How many stars are in our galaxy? Well, nobody knows exactly but estimates range from 100 billion to 400 billion, so if we take the mid-point then a workable number is 250 billion. Let’s pay that number some respect. That’s 250 with nine zeroes after it or 250,000,000,000 or 30 Suns for each one of the 7 billion people on the Earth. Spiral galaxies are quite common and there’s nothing particularly distinguished about our one. It’s approximately 100,000 light years in diameter and our solar system revolves once around the galactic centre every 250 million Earth years or so.
How many planets are there in our particular galaxy? For that number we have to do what’s known in the parlance as a “swag” or Scientific Wild-Assed Guess. The alternative word, denoting an even rougher guess, substitutes half-assed for wild-assed but it can be misinterpreted. Assuming our solar system is somehow an average one in that it contains ten planets, then it gives a swag of 2.5 trillion planets but Lord knows how many of them have moons, which do seem the best bet for finding extraterrestrial life, of whatever humble form, in our own solar system. Although some planets may be more desirable than others, it’s still 300 planets with their moons for each and every one of us.
The nearest star in the Milky Way to our solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is just over four light-years distant. The light from it takes four years to reach us. Light from our Sun takes four years to reach Proxima Centauri. What this means is when you look at that star, what you’re actually seeing is what it looked like four years ago. Some stars are light-millenia or more distant from us. The night sky is a time machine, a view into not just the past but the past at several different time points depending on the distance of the particular object you’re looking at. It’s almost certain that some of those stars we admire in our night sky no longer exist and that there are new ones that have been burning brightly for millenia whose light has yet to reach us.
Now that you’ve got the beginning of an impression of how big our own particular galaxy is, the next question is how many galaxies are there in the universe? The answer is difficult for a number of reasons but we do know it’s a very large number. To give you an idea of it, the Hubble telescope examined a postage stamp sized piece of the visible universe for over a year. The area under observation was a tenth of one millionth of the sky. In that area alone, 3,000 galaxies were counted. Like I said, it’s big. So big that the distances and numbers involved are quite simply beyond human comprehension. They’re not even swagable.
We get into the realms of what’s termed the “observable universe” too, which has very little to do with how good our telescope technology is. Galaxies can be so far away from us that light from them simply hasn’t had time to reach us yet. It’s that big and it’s a tumultuous and violent place too. Everywhere we look, we see remnants of novas and supernovas, galaxies colliding, galaxies forming, neutron stars, black holes and other even more esoteric and dangerous objects and materials. There’s a lot of interesting stuff out there which I won’t be going into but feel free to dive into it yourself; you won’t be disappointed. The energies involved are simply titanic.
Our own planet was hit very early on in its life by a smaller planet, the remnant of which, with some very large chunks of our planet, went on to form our very own satellite, the Moon. To this day, we still have a souvenir of that crust-shattering impact in the form of moving plate tectonics. Over geological timescales, the plates have come together to form new continents and then split asunder at regular intervals. Where they crash into one another, vast mountain ranges like the Himalayas are created. The borders between them give us our volcanic and earthquake zones. The continent we call the Antarctic used to be a green and verdant place till it split off and drifted to the cold south polar region to be encased in ice. Everything on it died.
Our planet Earth is approximately 4.3 billion years old and a product of a violent universe. How do I know this? Dig into it and you’ll find iron and other heavy elements which can only be made in the nuclear heart of a star. The only way such material can be released into the cosmos is if a star blows up in a nova or some other catastrophic event, distributing matter across the universe. We, our planet and everything on it are quite literally made from the star-dust of long ago exploded stars.
It’s only in the last billion years that multicellular life appeared on Earth. Simple creatures appeared about 600 million years ago and mammals about 200 million years ago. Several species of proto-humans and I’m being very generous here with the “humans” bit, came along contemporaneously about 2.5 million years ago and our particular species, Homo Sapiens (that’s you and I by the way), only appeared about 200 thousand years ago. As a species, we’ve come far and fast and in a very short period of time.
One very hard figure to find is the average lifespan of a species or even any agreed consensus on any number; we simply don’t know. Various studies come up with various figures, the most optimistic by a very long chalk being 2 million years. Allowing for that, 99.9% of all species that have ever existed on the face of the Earth are extinct and the overwhelming majority of them left no offspring species behind. No species has ever survived forever and extinction rather than speciation, seems to be the general rule.
The Dinosaurs were knocking about for 150 million years and died off about 65 million years ago. They got hit by a mass extinction but mass extinctions were old news by that time. It had all happened before and several times. There was one before theirs called the Great Extinction. That baby took out 95% of the species on our planet, even most of the insects, and we still don’t really know what caused it. About 2.4 billion years ago, another one of the extinction events was caused by new organisms releasing massive amounts of a poisonous gas into the atmosphere. It wiped out zillions of other organisms but a handful of them managed to adapt to it and thrive. The world recovered. The poisonous gas was called oxygen.
Even in our relatively short time as a species, we’ve had a few brushes with extinction. The Black Death swept across Europe in the Middle Ages and killed one-third of the population. There wasn’t enough people to bury all the dead; in the end, the closest they could come to doing a Christian burial was to fill up the cellars of the churches with the bodies. In many cathedrals in Europe, the bones are still there. In two years, the flu epidemic that followed the end of World War I killed more people than had died in the entire war; estimates range between 50 and a 100 million people. Since it appeared to favour killing young adults of child rearing age, the very real spectre of the end of us as a species was widely contemplated in government circles across the world, though that fear was never made public. It stopped suddenly and we’re still not entirely sure why it did.
If you’ve ever been at sea in a big storm or caught out in open country when some extreme weather arrives, you’ll know on a personal level what every creature on the face of the Earth knows. Anytime Mother Nature decides to do so, she can reach out and snatch the life right out of you. As in individuals, so in species, planets, stars and galaxies. The forces ranged against us and all other species are massive beyond any real meaningful comprehension and our climate is just another one of them. Nature is indifferent to our very existence. The idea that we’ve any effect on forces like these and can also somehow conserve things in some supposed ideal balanced state, is not just childish but simply ignorant beyond all belief.
If we have one survival trait in the face of these forces, it’s not our intelligence. It’s our ability to adapt to what’s coming at us. Our unique specialisation as a species is – we are born with no specialisations at all. We come into the world as a blank canvas on which is gradually painted over a decade or more, the knowledge of how to survive in the particular habitat we’ve happened to be born into. It may be a metropolis, a desert, arctic tundra, equatorial Africa, the Andes or perhaps one day, off world somewhere in outer space. We pay the price for it too. A human being has the longest and most vulnerable childhood of any species by a huge margin.
We don’t have fangs or talons but we can make sophisticated weapons. We don’t have a pelt to protect us from extreme cold but we can make clothes. We can’t run particularly fast but we can make machines that can go faster than any other animal. We can augment our capabilities in these ways, again not because of our much vaunted intelligence but because of the other unique thing we do as a species; we work together and cooperate to a degree that is unprecedented. We pool our newly learned specialisations to create artifacts for all that no single one of us could make.
This synergy between initial non-specialisation and then highly integrated cooperation is what has made us an extraordinarily successful species. Nothing else.
We look at our world and the universe with human eyes and more importantly, with a human lifespan. In terms of the latter, we see an apparently ageless and unchanging view but it’s a false impression. When looked at through the eyes of “deep” time, it is dynamic, violent and forever changing. There is no ideal static harmonious state which must be maintained. There never was and there never will be either.
As a species, that suits us fine. Other species die out because they’ve become hard-wired specialists in an environment which has changed, as it always will, but we’re different. We’re not built to handle a particular environment but just to handle change. Any one generation may not be able to handle the next big change but their offspring will and what’s more, it’ll be normality for them too.
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30 Responses to “The steady-state environment delusion”
I had been reading a little on the connection between fascists Nazis and environmentalists at
http://www.glebedigital.co.uk/blog/?p=1744&cpage=1#comment-21735
Where I found the following link…
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html
“Hitler and Himmler were both strict vegetarians and animal lovers, attracted to nature mysticism and homeopathic cures, and staunchly opposed to vivisection and cruelty to animals. Himmler even established experimental organic farms to grow herbs for SS medicinal purposes. And Hitler, at times, could sound like a veritable Green utopian, discussing authoritatively and in detail various renewable energy sources (including environmentally appropriate hydropower and producing natural gas from sludge) as alternatives to coal, and declaring “water, winds and tides” as the energy path of the future…
This is the true legacy of ecofascism in power: “genocide developed into a necessity under the cloak of environment protection.”
I had started on a poem provoked by that piece when I read this fascinating take at Pointmans. This inspired me a little more.
The gibbering of the prattle fish
Stale the buzz words naively stated
No recognition of the instigated hatred
Homeopathic psychopathic natural cures
Green utopia genocidal humanistic laws
The flocking of the masses to the mental
Guided by a twisted cerebellum central
An ancient cabal of filthy bloody freaks
Gibbering on now as techno babble geeks
The root dream remains the same
With the dogmatic mantra of the insane
Left and right march hand in hand
Onwards towards the Promised Land
Our Mother Earth defiled by rank breathers
Cancerous humanity now smeared seamless
Greens planning for the cataclysmic cleansed Utopia
A cull killing conflagration cult of pure dystopia
Searching for a mythical harmonious state
An ideal stasis fulfilled through hate
Destined to keep repeating the same mistakes
Historically ignorant is all it takes
Nature is death with change and chaos
The universe is always trying to slay us
Aided by bigots alongside zealots and fools
The ignorant lead by the useful tools
So let us battle against the environ fascist Nazi
The lapdog common purpose communist party
We must smash the middle melancholic greens
And all those who will never learn, or so it seems
Fiddling the flames of deception with lies
Fanning the fears of the gullible, no surprise
Desperately ignoring the truth in front of their eyes
They hate themselves and then this they deny
Deviant delusions and violent solutions
Deigned needed for overwhelming human pollutions
The stale dry sly genocidal tale must fail
Mankind will adapt and shall prevail!
I began reading this post as ‘Astronomy for Dummies’ (which this dummy appreciated), and wondered where you were going with it. It soon became apparent that you had folded it all into another intriguing shape, like a piece of fine origami.
Our arrogance and bloated sense of self-importance needs cutting down to size. Thanks for another ‘fine’ perception of just where we fit in the scheme of things.
The Prattle Fish have invented their own language, the jargon bandied about by ‘those in the know’.
For example – “anthropocentric humanism” – what the hell does that mean? Mankind focusing on mankind? Well I’ll be………. now that’s a ripper. Their mantra is “learn our invented language and you’ll sound as if you know what you’re talking about”. Poppycock.
From the Glebe’s link – ‘In 1980, “Man and Earth” (written in 1913) was republished as an esteemed and seminal treatise to accompany the birth of the German Greens.’
Good grief – the GanGrenes haven’t got an original thought in their heads, just thoroughly recycled musings from old men in the past – but then that’s what drives most religious doctrines – Blind Faith.
A great ode to the Gibberers NI.
LOL Do you prefer ‘navel gazing’ ?
Like Blackswan I too got half-way through before I began to have an inkling where you were going.
I’m very ignorant and didn’t realise that it was oxygen that all those early species couldn’t cope with.
It’s amazing how adaptable we can be – given the chance!!
‘Now is Not the Time to Give Up’ as our friend would say,
Any idea where he is?
I was asking on JD’s blog if anyone knew why Joe Bastardi left Accuweather and where he’s gone.
I hope he keeps us informed of what he’s doing.
He’s set up a new site http://www.weatherbell.com/jb/
A very interesting thought provoking piece
I liked the section about infant humans starting with a blank slate and then adding knowledge, the combination of which is more powerful that the individual parts, leading to significant achievements.
// This synergy between initial non-specialisation and then highly integrated cooperation is what has made us an extraordinarily successful species. Nothing else.//
This applies of course not just in modern times, but examples such as the Pyramids or Stonehenge are obvious examples.
I wonder though is this process one way? Is human life a one way street?
How many of us would survive a Stone Age lifestyle, or even the life of a commoner in 1800?
Our modern life has changed us, our dependence on technology, fossil fuels and electricity may have changed us all. Even in the most backward countries in the four corners of the world, humans have access to the internet and mobile phones.
If we truly face AGW or Peak Oil how many of us could adjust to the change, living off the land, providing shelter and food for our families?
No doubt there will be survivors of our human race, but do we face a new extinction period?
We live in interesting times
G’day MOTM
An interesting question and history provides a precedent. In 1800 many impoverished commoners (and a few toffs as well) found themselves, courtesy of King George, on ships bound for the often-Fatal Shore of the Great South Land.
In a coincidentally odd juxtaposition, they were sent to dwell among the last of the truly Stone Age hunter/gatherer nomadic tribes on the planet. So many of the transportees were from city slums, ravaged by diseases from poor diet, no health care and few skills, and many of them succumbed, but others who were more enterprising learned from their hardier agricultural brothers, and were canny enough to know an opportunity when they saw one. Their children grew strong and healthy and forged a new nation.
And here we are, a couple of hundred years later, where we have an epidemic of chronic disease from inert lifestyles, poor diets (often contaminated by toxins), pumped full of medications by Big Pharma to deal with any ache or pain, often impoverished by loss of work or rendered incapable by the Welfare state and it looks as though we’ll have to start all over again.
Many will fall by the wayside but the enterprising among us will prevail and learn/teach the skills necessary to live full and productive lives in the new world. I don’t think AGW or Peak Oil will bring us down – it’s the Banksters, Hucksters and Fraudsters who have rendered our Global Economy, Energy and Industries to be in such a parlous state.
We need to reclaim our respective birthrights and start over again, and it will be Pointman’s “highly integrated cooperation” that will be the difference, NOT the bloated parasitic “Elite” who have preyed upon and fed off the hard work of the ordinary citizenry and who think they give us ‘permission’ to live.
The strong will survive, but it will be strength of character and moral integrity that prevails.
“Nature is indifferent to our very existence.”
The ultimate extinction event: Somewhere within a few thousand light years a very large star dies, the resulting gamma (Ginormous Awesome Mega Monster Annihilation) ray burst is inconveniently aimed at this particular solar system. And that GRB is a tiny little firecracker compared to what lurks in the cores or many/most galaxies, though that particular thing isn’t a danger.
I think the “Precautionary Principle” is very clear here. We need to devote resources to developing warp drive ASAP. The more we can spread out among the stars the better we can, as a species, survive. We’ll still be tiny, insignificant little things, likely keeping our Hubris, but we’ll be out there,
I loved your points about adaptability. A looong time ago I was in a class where the professor was an advocate of some form of intelligent design concept, because he did not believe that the puny human form could have survived. As I understand it, we were a lot less fragile before agriculture. Thicker, stronger bones, tougher bodies (and minds,) etc.
An awesome post, Sir. 🙂
G’day Greg,
We need to develop “warp drive” eh? I can’t see it. To imagine the societies that space voyagers/immigrants would need to be in order to survive the journey and the destination, is to imagine a group of people so controlled in every facet of their existence, that it would be an anathema to me.
Besides, I’d rather ‘fix’ the world we have than cut and run to some other place for us to mess up … LOL
If we can’t survive on this planet, to which we are so perfectly adapted as the Pointman says, what are our chances of survival in the unknown especially as the one unavoidable thing that will board that warp speed ship is ‘human nature’, unless of course we are all rendered as automatons, mere functionaries that perform their allotted tasks.
Some interesting ideas.
First off, I think we’d adapt quite well, as Pointman says, to whatever the situation is.
The thing about Warp Drive is that you don’t need the extreme length of time to go from here to there. I’m also quite aware that it’s not going to happen for a very long time, if ever.
Want something a little more practical and likely? Ok, we need to develop enough of a space capability that in the even a very large asteroid come wandering by we can send it safely on its way.
Cut and run? Hmm… maybe we should have stayed in Africa, way back when, instead of cutting and running from the place? Expanding outward is hardly cutting and running.
Fix the world? Comrade Clyde, Anarchist Andy, Mullah Max, and many others want to “fix” the world.” While I might agree with some of the fixes some have suggested, I think many of them are very bad. I’m kindof uncomfortable with that phrase. Sorry. 🙂
I think it’s obvious that we can survive on this planet, and do very well. It’d pretty much take that giant asteroid to wipe us all out. Wiping out our civilization would be easier. A few dozen well placed EMPs would do that. We’d survive and rebuild and hope that another Tamerlane doesn’t rise up to take advantage of the situation.
“…some other place for us to mess up?” We haven’t made any messes that can’t be cleaned up. If we disappeared today it wouldn’t be so long before nature reclaimed everything. I’ll agree that we’ve left “plenty” of poop on the ground, though. But we’re making some pretty good cleanup efforts, too.
Pointman, as usual, has a point. Given half a chance we’ll survive, here, there, wherever. We may not care for who’s running the place, but that’s the way it’s been since day one, and it’s a different question.
On the other point, no, it’s not a static world. We evolved during an ice age and then adapted to the disastrous (tongue in cheek,here) Global Warming that raised World temps by 10-15 degrees and raised sea levels by 400 feet. Then the ice age came back for many tens of thousands of years and then it all happened again. Twice in a few thousand years (last ice age to younger dryas.) Now we’re building empires in this disastrously warmed world. Oh, wait. We were born in this world, so we think it’s just right.
If Yellowstone blows up then America will be pretty much wiped out, but humans will survive. Heck, there will probably be a massive recolonization of this place when things cool down.
Static environmental states? No, I don’t see any, not on the long term. We will adapt to the new conditions, whatever they are. It’s what we do. And the Earth will pretty much ignore us, just like it always has.
Rereke Whakaaro says:
The central idea of the topic was to debunk the notion that there was some static and ideal state in the real world but on the way to it, I touched on some other themes I’ve thought about for a long time. Evolution and species extinction are two of them.
All species have their own ecological niche. Species go extinct because of changes to their niche whether that is glaciation, geological activity, a meteor strike or simply a better adapted species appearing to fill their niche. The older a species is, the better adapted for the particular niche it becomes and therein is the central problem; it’s now totally dependent on that niche. Change will eventually come and because they can’t move to another niche and can’t change fast enough to fit into another niche, they become extinct. Evolution works too slowly to save them.
Human beings are fundamentally different. We don’t have a specific ecological niche and indeed our spread over the entire world into radically different climates, attests to this simple fact.
The other thing about us is that we don’t have to rely on evolution to help us address a changing environment. We can learn, within a generation, to adapt ourselves to radically changed situations. If, as some people think, we’re heading into a cooling climate then a lot of species are going to become extinct and some new ones will appear to fill the niches being emptied. We won’t disappear, we’ll simply build warmer housing and start knitting thicker jumpers.
If, for some reason, we were knocked back into a Stone Age environment, our children and grandchildren would learn how to survive in that world. We have a unique capacity to cope with change.
We have this idea that we are ‘alone’ on this planet. You don’t need to subscribe to the idea that we have our own G’ould variant in the Hohenzollerns to realize that the Rockefeller extinction project is rolling right along.
Mankind has wonderful adaptability…but there have been eras of sterility before and may be again.
It’s not really my blogging specialty – though I think my Perception Alteration files are eye opening – but if you like to surf SF you might take a look at Dad2059’s SF Webzine : he collects various wild ideas the way I do more general – for alternative media,anyway – ‘news.’ Couple of friends to look up,anyway
my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog
He put me on to SoTT and the Cassiopaeia Project, among others. When I started looking at AGW as a geopolitical energy control device ( the NPT TRAP ) more tips were forthcoming – and blogposts.
The next fellow is also a Friend on Facebook. Years ago when I was oldephartteintraining on WordPress I covered WP blog posts and we started with the back and forth – mostly at his place as he too has a drop in crowd. From Search :
Dad2059’s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica
When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘ Mirage Men ‘ author, Mark Pilkington …
dad2059.wordpress.com
“The alternative word can be misinterpreted.” Now that’s anthropomorphic.
No Idea seems to have some. History doesn’t need revision, though. ‘Media’ reports were b.s. from the get-go.
Have you run into Whitley Streiber ? His Communion series seems to put a different angle on Spielberg’s ideas. When you put enough SF out there in the programming machine ( telly) you can bet some foreshadowing is going on.
richard clenney says:
Even if we dodge the big asteroid, our sun will not last forever. We will leave this
planet or become extinct. No other option.
An interesting talk in itself but it illustrates beautifully how effectively we do work together. It appears to be impossible to paste youtube links without embedding them so can I suggest we all adopt the convention of prefixing the link with a quote. To use the link, copy and paste what’s after the quote into a new tab or browser window.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHh9E5ilZ4
thojak says:
Matt Ridly IS truly a SOMEONE! Geeh, if there ‘only’ were a couple of ‘Matts’ around – especially in the EU and most of all here in Sweden.
Well, I think (hope) dreaming is still free of charge, or… is it? 😉
I think it’d be nice to post the odd music from Youtube so I’ll kick off with a bit of John Frusciante.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQhLtq6wL8
Great post P!
Our friend OL bought to my attention a couple of months back an alternative theory of the universe to the one you eloquently paint.
In a nutshell, traditional thinking states that gravity is the primary force that binds and forms the amazing, varied and colossal structures that we see through our telescopes. Trouble is though, we know that gravity (as experienced here on Earth) is nowhere near powerful enough to explain for instance, our own Milky Way.
As you say…the next nearest star to Earth is over 4 light years away, meaning that there must be some other, far more powerful force at work that keeps the structure of our own and every other galaxy intact.
Mainstream cosmology attempts to explain the problem by suggesting that there is ‘dark’ matter, or ‘dark’ energy, or supra-massive bodies such as black holes and neutron stars which make up the ‘missing’ mass needed to provide all that structure creating gravity….trouble is, we’ve never seen a black hole or detected dark matter / energy and according to followers of the ‘Electric Cosmos theory’ we never will….and it’s not because ‘even light cannot escape!’
Electric Cosmos theory reckons that every star within a galaxy is connected by interstellar electric currents and that it is these currents that generate electro-magnetic fields that are powerful enough to create our observable wonders and indeed power the stars themselves.
I know…sounds bloody cooky, but then if you go into more detail of what these blokes are saying it starts to make sense.
Our Sun for example. EC theory thinks that the energy is coming from space and not the Sun’s interior…this neatly explains why the corona is anything up to 4m K and the surface a mere 6000K and explains why sunspots are dark as opposed to what we might expect if the energy were a core based fusion reaction.
Planets and moons often sport almost perfectly circular ‘impact’ craters. EC theory reckons that the reason why they are circular is because they are not caused by impact but rather by means of ‘electric arc machining’ …reasonable if you consider the chances of impact being at 90 degrees to the surface, every time, being somewhat unlikely.
Comet tails are traditionally explained as debris and ice breaking off the surface. EC theory thinks that this is rubbish since the tails can be millions of miles long and the thing would wear itself out in a matter of minutes rather than re-appearing over millennia with each elliptical orbit. EC theory says that the tails are ‘electrically charged plasma’ that occurs as a comet approaches the Sun, changing its voltage and potential difference with its immediate surroundings.
All very interesting but quite frightening too as the theory also suggests that our Sun is capable of very rapid and profound change…something quite apart from mainstream belief of gradual expansion over the course of billions of years to ‘red giant’ and ending in super nova. It seems that the ‘ancients’ of only 3000 years ago lived under a sky that looked very different from what we witness today, theorised by the similarity of artefacts from cultures that could not possibly have interacted, but all depicting the same thing.
I dunno…I’m not an electrician, but if this were to be correct then surely this would be a pretty safe bet on explaining Earth’s sudden and mass extinctions.
I highly recommend this film…(apart from the shit, mystical narration)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374#
Oh yeah…one more thing to suggest that these guys are right…all mention of it has been deleted from Wikipedia!!
Hi Scud. I’m aware of the electric cosmos idea and it’s an interesting conjecture. There are always competing ideas in cosmology and the currently prevailing one has over history, went ass over tit on several occasions; witness the Earth-centred system described by Ptolemy and used successfully for nearly fifteen centuries before the heliocentric system supplanted it. In the same way, Einstein’s theories put paid to the Newtonian view of the heavens.
Since the topic was about change in the cosmos rather than cosmology, I omitted some contentious ideas from it but couldn’t help leave in a few references. Eg “our particular universe” is a reference to the idea that there might be an infinite number of universes coexisting and “esoteric and dangerous objects and materials” is a reference to the more exotic bodies you mentioned and dark matter/energy. Until someone can add enough meat on to a conjecture to advance it as a theory, it’s just a neat idea.
you are right…sorry P for straying off top’…it’s just any mention of the Universe and and I’m off on one…’cause you see cabinet makers know all about it!
Hope to see you in chat soon bud…
Hi Scud, you weren’t off topic and it’s such an interesting area it’s hard to stay on topic anyway! When I finished the topic, I had to hacksaw off a a couple of hundred words. Interesting but not relevant stuff.
An interesting article. We are innately experiential. Even though we expend vast amounts of time and effort on education, we are to an extent disbelieving of others or their experience relative to our own experience.
This was brought starkly to my attention when I asked a Professor who researches trees etc why the tree in my front yard seemed to be dying. He asked me a few questions about the size of the tree and promptly stated that it was old and had reached the end of its life. I was extremely surprised as I had not thought about trees dying of old age, but why would I. Most large trees can outlive us, even if we gaze at them often enough to experience their “life”. This is even more the case with so many people living in cities/urban environments.
This is also why we struggle with accepting that the climate will change irrespective of what we may or may not do to it and that the cosmos will ultimately determine our fate as we know it.
Hello and welcome Neil. I had exactly the same experience with a blossom tree in my garden. Like you, it had simply never occured to me that trees have a lifespan, just like everything else. On reflection, I thought I was fortunate to see such a rare thing in my lifetime.
I agree, it is interesting to have seen something like that happen, as it broadens our perception of what is normal beyond the limit of our own experience and should reinforce our desire to ask why is something happening and is it really that unusually.
I come from a city that is built on more than 30 dormant volcanoes. Will I be surprised if one explodes or a new one appears? Heck yes, but is it that unusual? Depends upon my timeframe. In my lifetime yes, in the last 1000 years, no. Time matters!
Our own planet was hit very early on in its life by a smaller planet, the remnant of which, with some very large chunks of our planet, went on to form our very own satellite, the Moon. To this day, we still have a souvenir of that crust-shattering impact in the form of moving plate tectonics.
I haven’t heard this before, but I can see the sense in it. Conversely, then, if the Earth had not been struck, would the continents and oceans have remained unmoving all this time?
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I’d advise steering away from Godwin’s Law. It ruins an argument.
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Waynesboro Company Shifting Production to Make PPE for First Responders
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WAYNESBORO, Va. (WHSV) — Bloomaker, a hydroponically grown florist in Waynesboro, has slowed floral production. Instead, employees are now working to make face shields for local first responders. Click here to read full article.
Joep Paternostre, the local Bloomaker owner, said he wants local first responders to be well-prepared with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which has been hard to come by for many people in need of it these days.
Paternostre said they began making face masks on Saturday and have already made thousands to donate.
David Nichols, Augusta County Fire and Rescue chief, said protective gear like that which Bloomaker is making is important to slow the spread of coronavirus because of how short healthcare and emergency responders are on PPE.
Nichols said ACFR ordered masks through their regular distributor, but their order was canceled.
He said their distributor was instructed to send PPE to the federal government, who are distributing supplies to areas hit the hardest by coronavirus, like NYC.
Nichols said ACFR put an order in for 2,500 face masks, which he said would last their crew 2-3 weeks. But he said the entire region received only 16 masks total, which wouldn’t have been enough for a team in a single day.
ACFR has been asking local businesses with PPE equipment to donate to the first responders. They’ve received donations from dentist offices, contractors, and Augusta County schools.
Asher Brand, with ACFR, said he thanks Dr. Dan Lagrua, Dr. Dan Roller, Dr. Deirdre Terlip, and the VA Dental Association Foundation for donating thousands of masks to their first responders.
Healthcare professionals with a stockpile of PPE are urged to call The Central Shenandoah EMS Council at (540) 866-3676.
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Ivacy VPN Review: A Good VPN for Skiers
July 31, 2020 April 29, 2020 by Christine Wang
Skiers travel a lot, especially when winter comes you may go abroad to visit different snow mountains. At the end of the day, you’ll probably connect to your hotel’s Wi-Fi to check out emails or watch your favorite Netflix shows. Or you are working from home these days, you want some privacy on the Internet.
That’s when you need a VPN. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, it is a technology that encrypts your Internet data thus makes your network connection more secure. Best of all, by choosing a VPN lane that’s in your home country (or even in your city), you can access all your favorite web services just like at home.
But, which VPN services are the best for skiers? In the last few days, I had the chance to test out Ivacy VPN and in this review, I’ll share what I like and dislike about this VPN.
Disclaimer: the Ivacy team is kind to offer me one-month access to their VPN service for testing purposes, however, they have no editorial input on the content of this Ivacy VPN review.
Ivacy VPN FAQs
Ivacy VPN Review: Test-based Findings
Ivacy VPN is a reliable VPN that is easy to use by downloading the app onto your computer, phone, or other connected devices. It is a fully functional VPN service that works well to provide secure downloads, unrestricted streaming services, and other security and privacy needs.
Due to its easy interface and affordable price, Ivacy makes for a good entry-level option for those who are using a VPN for the first time and looking for basic needs that this type of service provides. It does not offer a vast amount of servers and can take a while to connect to some locations so is not the best option for those with high-level VPN needs.
Before we get into an in-depth look at these test-based findings, here is a quick look at both the good and the bad of Ivacy VPN:
Intuitive and really easy to use
Works on a variety of devices
A wide selection of servers
Smart purpose selection for customized control
Internet kill switch that prevents browsing when VPN connection drops
Split tunneling to allow local and international browsing and streaming
Secure downloading to scan and remove suspicious malware and viruses
Won’t always connect to every server
Limited worldwide server options compared to other VPNs
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Is Ivacy VPN Free?
The full version is not free and is only available with a monthly subscription plan. Ivacy Lite is free and offers limited VPN services for everyone, anywhere.
How much does Ivacy VPN cost?
A one month plan costs $9.95/month. A 2-year plan is $2.25/month and a 1-year plan is $3.50/month.
How does Ivacy VPN work?
Ivacy works like any other VPN by establishing a secure connection through encryption routes to block your IP address. This allows for secure and anonymous browsing, streaming, and downloading.
Where is Ivacy VPN Based?
Ivacy is based in Singapore but has over 2,000 servers scattered across more than 100 worldwide locations.
In order to establish an in-depth review of Ivacy VPN, time was spent exploring all of the features the app had to provide both on a mobile device and on a computer. Ivacy performed well overall across the board and earns high marks for its intuitive interface that is really easy to set up and use – especially for those who have never used a VPN before. It is also really affordable if you sign up for a yearly plan.
Once the app is installed on your device, using this VPN is a breeze. You simply turn it on with the click of a button and can choose which location you want your IP address to connect from or use the automatic function to connect to the fastest nearby server to your current location. Once connected, you have access to all the benefits that Ivacy provides from secure encryption to buffer-free streaming and much more.
Now let’s dive a little deeper and take a look at a breakdown of our test of Ivacy VPN:
A key element to any quality VPN is the number of servers it has. Ivacy will give you access to over 2000 servers in 100 or more countries. This is a decent amount, no doubt, but far from other VPN options that can have 5000 or more servers. This makes Ivacy a middle-of-the-road option when it comes to speed and reliable server connection.
This test was conducted in the US and because of the high number of servers in this region, there was a reliable connection and solid speed when broadcasting from an IP address here. When connected to other locations, there were some problems with slowdowns and dropped connections. Some locations are simply not available all of the time but the app will automatically connect you to a new one if this happens.
This variation in server speed based on locations means that there were some connection issues when attempting to access overseas streaming services. It was possible to access these services but speeds can be slow or variable depending on which location you are trying to access. The app did produce a noticeable reduction of ISP throttling with streaming speeds increased while connected to a server in the current location.
You can also select your intended purpose of use from the left-hand side of the app’s screen (see image below). While the company doesn’t explain how this works exactly, it did seem to increase speeds slightly.
Ivacy gets good marks when it comes to the privacy and security features the VPN provides. The app utilizes up to 256-bit encryption which provides peace of mind that it will work well to keep your browsing location safe and secure. It also gives you the opportunity to switch encryption protocols based on your needs.
The company seems to really care about your privacy and has a ‘no logs policy’ which means they don’t log or monitor your online activity when using the service. Ivacy does collect some data for its own internal use when you sign up for the service such as your name, email address, and payment method. According to their privacy policy, this is only to collect statistics and provide correspondence to registered users.
The app also allows various forms of payment, including cryptocurrency through Bitpay and a range of other crypto-payment portals as an additional level of privacy and security.
One of the best features of Ivacy is its ease of use. Once you have downloaded the app onto your computer or mobile device, you simply open it up and can connect your VPN with the touch of a button. As you can see in the image below, the app is really easy to navigate and is straightforward in both function and feel.
The Smart Connect feature allows you to quickly get started with all of the features and functions the VPN provides. By simply clicking the large button on the main screen of this section of the app, your device will connect to the nearest VPN and you can begin browsing or streaming securely. You can also easily choose your location from the drop-down menu on this main screen as well.
Ivacy VPN is also very affordable which makes it a great option for those who don’t want to spend a lot of money on the service or are trying a VPN out for the first time and want a cheap way to get a feel for it.
The service is available in several monthly subscription plans. A standard monthly subscription will cost users $9.95/month. A one-year plan costs $3.50 a month but is billed yearly for a total of $42/year. A two-year plan costs $2.25/month and is billed biannually which breaks down to $27/year. The yearly plans offer the best deal for customers and can save them up to 77% off of the regular monthly rate.
Customer support on Ivacy was found to be mediocre and a need for improvement with the VPN, overall. The company claims to offer 24/7 customer service via chat to troubleshoot any problems you may run in to. In reality, the chat service doesn’t appear to be very functional and cannot be accessed through the app itself. This can be frustrating if you are dealing with problems and seek an immediate solution.
Although the 24/7 chat function may be overhyped, Ivacy does offer the ability to write a support ticket through the app that will put your inquiries in front of a customer service representative. The response time for this feature was not immediate, but someone should respond to your questions or issues pretty quickly via email (usually within a day or two).
To access the customer service window from the app, click on the question mark (?) icon from the main window as seen in the image below. You can then submit your question or inquiry in the dialogue box here.
Ivacy VPN is a good overall option for common security and privacy needs. It’s very easy to use which makes it appealing for anyone who is unfamiliar with using a VPN or intimidated by its function. Once the app is downloaded and installed, all you need to do is click a button to turn it on and enjoy all of the features Ivacy provides. It is a very affordable VPN service which makes it enticing as well.
The downsides of the app include a smaller server selection than more expensive VPN providers which can lead to sometimes slower streams and downloads as well as customer service that could be improved. These problems are easily outweighed by the benefits and functions that Ivacy provides, however, and is a good and affordable VPN option that will meet the needs of the average user.
Christine Wang is the ski girl behind this website, which was originally written after her experiences learning how to ski. She wanted to share her passion and excitement for skiing with others who feel the same way.
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Limited edition vinyl box set containing all 15 hit studio albums by the British band pressed on 180 gram heavyweight colored vinyl. The masters were sourced from the original tapes; half-speed lacquers cut at abbey Road Studios. Queen formed in 1970 and consisted of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock, into their music. They eventually became one of the most famous rock bands in the world and still command much respect long after Mercury's 1991 death.
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Queen (1LP): Side A Keep Yourself Alive , Doing All Right , Great King Rat , My Fairy King , Liar , The Night Comes Down , Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll , Son and Daughter , Jesus , Seven Seas of Rhye 1 Queen II (2LP): (White Side) Procession 1, Father to Son 1, White Queen (As It Begins) 1, Some Day One Day 1, The Loser in the End 1, Etching 1, (Black Side) Ogre Battle 1, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke 1, Nevermore , The March of the Black Queen 2 Funny How Love Is 2, The Seven Seas of Rhye 2, Etching 2, Sheer Heart Attack (1LP): Brighton Rock 2, Killer Queen 2, Tenement Funster 2, Flick of the Wrist 2, Lily of the Valley 2, Now I'm Here , In the Lap of the Gods 3 Stone Cold Crazy 3, Dear Friends 3, Misfire 3, Bring Back That Leroy Brown 3, She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes) 3, In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited 3, A Night at the Opera (1LP): Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) 3, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon 3, I'm in Love with My Car , You're My Best Friend 4 '39 4, Sweet Lady 4, Seaside Rendezvous 4, The Prophet's Song 4, Love of My Life 4, Good Company 4, Bohemian Rhapsody 4, God Save the Queen 4, A Day at the Races (1LP): Tie Your Mother Down 50. You Take My Breath Away 5 Long Away 5, The Millionaire Waltz 5, You and I 5, Somebody to Love 5, White Man 5, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy 5, Drowse 5, Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) 5, News of the World (1LP): We Will Rock You 60. We Are the Champions 6 Sheer Heart Attack 6, All Dead, All Dead 6, Spread Your Wings 6, Fight from the Inside 6, Get Down, Make Love 6, Sleeping on the Sidewalk 6, Who Needs You 6, It's Late 6, My Melancholy Blues 70. Jazz (1LP): Mustapha 7 Fat Bottomed Girls 7, Jealousy 7, Bicycle Race 7, If You Can't Beat Them 7, Let Me Entertain You 7, Dead on Time 7, In Only Seven Days 7, Dreamers Ball 7, Fun It 80. Leaving Home Ain't Easy 8 Don't Stop Me Now 8, More of That Jazz 8, The Game (1LP): Play the Game 8, Dragon Attack 8, Another One Bites the Dust 8, Need Your Loving Tonight 8, Crazy Little Thing Called Love 8, Rock It (Prime Jive) 8, Don't Try Suicide 90. Sail Away Sweet Sister 9 Coming Soon 9, Save Me 9, Flash Gordon (1LP): Flash's Theme 9, In the Space Capsule (The Love Theme) 9, Ming's Theme (In the Court of Ming the Merciless) 9, The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale) 9, Football Fight 9, In the Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise) 9, Execution of Flash 100. The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash) 10 Arboria (Planet of the Tree Men) 10, Escape from the Swamp 10, Flash to the Rescue 10, Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men) 10, Battle Theme 10, The Wedding March 10, Marriage of Dale and Ming (And Flash Approaching) 10, Crash Dive on Mingo City 10, Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations) 1, The Hero 11 Hot Space (1LP): Staying Power 11, Dancer 11, Back Chat 11, Body Language 11, Action This Day 11, Put Out the Fire 11, Life Is Real (Song for Lennon) 11, Calling All Girls 11, Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love) 1, Cool Cat 12 Under Pressure 12, The Works (1LP) : Radio Gaga 12, Tear It Up 12, It's a Hard Life 12, Man on the Prowl 12, Machines (Or Back to Humans) 12, I Want to Break Free 12, Keep Passing the Open Windows 12, Hammer to Fall 1, Is This the World We Created? 13 A Kind of Magic (1LP): One Vision 13, A Kind of Magic 13, One Year of Love 13, Pain Is So Close to Pleasure 13, Friends Will Be Friends 13, Who Wants to Live Forever 13, Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme) 13, Don't Lose Your Head 13, Princes of the Universe 1, The Miracle (1LP): Party 14 Khashoggi's Ship 14, The Miracle 14, I Want It All 14, The Invisible Man 14, Breakthru 14, Rain Must Fall 14, Scandal 14, My Baby Does Me 14, Was It Worth It 150. Innuendo (2LP): Innuendo 15 I'm Going Slightly Mad 15, Headlong 15, These Are the Days of Our Lives 15, Don't Try So Hard 15, Ride the Wild Wind 15, All God's People 15, I Can't Live Without You 15, Delilah 15, The Hitman 160. Bijou 16 The Show Must Go on 16, Made in Heaven (2LP): It's a Beautiful Day 16, Made in Heaven 16, Let Me Live 16, Mother Love 16, My Life Has Been Saved 16, I Was Born to Love You 16, Heaven for Everyone 16, Too Much Love Will Kill You 170. You Don't Fool Me 17 A Winter's Tale 17, It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise) 17, 13
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This is the home of the Cake & Sugar Artist
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Why Shop At The Sweet Chalet?
We're in constant contact with the industry's top professional cake designers, sugar artist, industry innovators, and trendsetters. We're on a mission to become the leading experts in cake and sugar art design.
Why are we unique? We do not hold back, and want to share our passion and knowledge with you. From conception and product recommendation to execution, we will help you bring life to your designs.
We seek and set trends — a reputation we've worked hard to earn and continually strive to maintain.
The Sweet Chalet isn't simply a store, we're you best friend in the pastry and sugar art world.
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I started my catering business 29 years ago, and enjoyed every minute of it. But my biggest passion was the pastry side of the business. Back then, I saw how many of my friends and people that I knew struggled in being able to purchase many of the professional products and bakeware that I was privileged to use. I wanted to find a way to not only sell professional products, but also teach the customers on how to use them and show them new trends within the sugar art world.
in 1995, my family and I relocated to Cleveland Ohio. We spent several years there while my frustration on finding good products and ingredients continued until my husband was relocated again. This time, we moved to central Florida in 2000. It was here where I learned that there was such a thing as the "Cottage Law", which gave me an opportunity to jump start a pastry business from home while taking care of my kids.
Inspired by the new trends in this industry, the need to share my latin flavors and my passion to teach people on how to do their own masterpieces, The Sweet Chalet was established and opened it's doors in the spring of 2016.
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National: Future of online voting | WLFI
National, Verified Voting in the NewsBy admin May 5, 2016
As voting wrapped up Tuesday on one of the most significant primaries in Indiana history, some people walked away after standing in line for a few minutes but other places had long delays. That in turn, had some people asking: why online voting isn’t an option? … Eugene Spafford is a computer science professor at…
National: Petition urges investigation into EAC Executive Director | Associated Press
NationalBy admin May 5, 2016
More than 116,000 people have signed an online petition urging the inspector general to investigate what it calls voter suppression at a federal government agency entrusted with making voting more accessible. The progressive advocacy group CREDO Action said it planned to deliver petition signatures Wednesday to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Inspector General Patricia Layfield.
Arizona: Nonprofit Sues Arizona for Voting Records | CNS
ArizonaBy admin May 5, 2016
Arizona asked a nonprofit watchdog for $50,000 for election registration records, but provides the information to political parties for free, Project Vote claims in court. Project Vote, a nonpartisan nonprofit advocate for voter registration, claims the state violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. It sued Secretary of State Michele Reagan, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez on April 27 in Federal Court. Purcell’s office has been lambasted since many Maricopa County voters had to wait five hours in line to vote in the state’s March 22 Presidential Preference Election.
Arkansas: Secretary of state says new voting equipment in the works | Pine Bluff Commercial
ArkansasBy admin May 5, 2016
Arkansas’ voting equipment is out of date and Secretary of State Mark Martin said Tuesday his office is trying to improve it. Speaking at the Pine Bluff Rotary Club meeting at the Pine Bluff Country Club, Martin, who is in his second term, said that currently there are five counties in the state that have updated voting machines, paid for by reductions in his office’s budget. “We’ve cut $2 to $3 million from my budget and been able to buy machines without any appropriations from the Legislature,” he said.
Colorado: ‘Folks Are Angry’ About Colorado’s Caucus System. But Is A Primary The Answer? | CPR
ColoradoBy admin May 5, 2016
This year might have been your last chance to participate in a presidential caucus in Colorado. State lawmakers are considering switching to a primary after widespread frustration with how the process went this time around. For Democrats, record turnout meant overcrowded precincts, with some voters facing long waits and meetings that moved outside into the frosty March night. For Republicans, the party’s decision to drop their caucus straw poll left many members disappointed and disenchanted — especially supporters of Donald Trump, who felt the change was made specifically to disadvantage their candidate. “Folks are angry,” said state Rep. Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City. “And if we want to show them we heard them, then we should do something this legislative session.”
Editorials: ‘Fair is fair’: A sensible path for D.C. statehood | The Washington Post
EditorialsBy admin May 5, 2016
District Officials will in the coming months spend a lot of time and energy on a quest that even they realize is the longest of long shots: D.C. statehood. That doesn’t mean they are wrong to undertake the effort. It is important to keep reminding the American public and its leaders about the unjust treatment of people who live in the nation’s capital. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has announced a new front in the District’s long-running fight for equal rights. She proposed a three-part process that would allow the District to directly petition Congress for admission as a state. Statehood would give the District voting representation in the House and Senate as well as legislative and budget autonomy. The petition would be preceded by a November referendum and, if city voters favored statehood, a convention to draft and ratify a constitution. The new state would exclude a small federal enclave, thus making a constitutional amendment unnecessary.
Florida: The South Florida voter-fraud case that went nowhere | Miami Herald
FloridaBy admin May 5, 2016
It seemed like the rare, slam-dunk case of voter fraud. Two men stood accused of unlawfully handling four other people’s mail-in ballots in the 2013 Homestead mayoral election, filling at least one of them for precisely the candidates the voter didn’t want to vote for. Miami-Dade County investigators had a palm print and fingerprints, phone records, and suspicious stories from the defendants. What they didn’t count on: lack of cooperation from the voters who were victims of the purported fraud — even though the voters themselves were the ones who initially alerted authorities they had been duped.
Illinois: McHenry County clerk: Election Day communication issues are being addressed | Daily Herald
IllinoisBy admin May 5, 2016
McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan promised to improve future elections after a State Board of Elections review concluded some eligible voters may not have been able to cast their ballots on Election Day in March. In a memo released last month, Kenneth Menzel, general counsel for the board of elections, detailed two main issues with the general primary in McHenry County: Communication problems and glitches in the electronic poll books that allow election officials to review voter data. “Neither of these issues impacted the ballot tabulation operations, and we have not found anything that calls into question the accuracy of the vote totals processed and reported,” Menzel said. “The issues may, however, have resulted in some eligible or potentially eligible voters not casting ballots.”
Minnesota: Push to convert from caucuses to primaries cools at Capitol | Minnesota Public Radio
MinnesotaBy admin May 5, 2016
It was a hot issue a couple months ago. But with less than three weeks left in the 2016 session, Minnesota lawmakers have yet to pass a bill to establish a statewide presidential primary. Supporters of the proposed switch were hoping to strike quickly, while memories of packed March 1 precinct caucuses were still fresh. But a state Senate hearing Tuesday showed many questions remain about how a presidential primary would work. State Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, told members of the Senate Finance Committee that a new primary would allow more voters to participate in the presidential nomination process, either in-person or by absentee ballot. But Rest noted that the two major parties insisted on a key requirement.
Missouri: Photo voter ID law passes General Assembly | The Missouri Times
MissouriBy admin May 5, 2016
By a 112-38 vote, the House truly agreed to and finally passed HB 1631, which would provide the framework to implement photo voter ID. The Senate amended the legislation earlier this week as part of a compromise to allow it to come to a vote after several attempts to pass the legislation were filibustered. The compromise allows voters who do not have photo voter ID to sign an affidavit saying that they do not possess an ID as required by the law. They would then be able to vote using a regular ballot. If they do not sign the affidavit, they would cast a provisional ballot. “What this bill is, is actually the most generous photo voter id bill that this country has seen, especially the way this bill has been amended by the Senate,” said Rep. Shamed Dogan, R-Ballwin. “We are helping people who are marginalized, people who are not able to do things right now, by giving them a free ID.”
Ohio: Ohioans could register to vote online, but not until 2017 | The Columbus Dispatch
OhioBy admin May 5, 2016
The ability to register to vote online won’t be available to Ohio voters until next year, after House Republicans altered a bill that supporters hoped would provide the option immediately. Secretary of State Jon Husted, a key supporter of the bill, would operate the online registration system and has said repeatedly that his office is ready to implement it now, as soon as lawmakers pass the bill. But with a presidential race in November, House Republicans decided to wait until 2017 before giving Ohioans the option of online registration, as is already available in 31 states. “We want to ensure the experience is safe, smooth and accurate,” said Rep. Dorothy Pelanda, R-Marysville. Democrats on the House Government Accountability and Oversight Committee, including Rep. Mike Curtin, D-Marble Cliff, objected to the change.
US Virgin Islands: Territorial Litigants Respond To Federal Opposition To Voting Rights Challenge | Virgin Islands Consortium
US Virgin IslandsBy admin May 5, 2016
As Democratic presidential primaries approach in Guam (May 7), U.S. Virgin Islands (June 4), and Puerto Rico (June 5), and as the Republican and Democratic National Conventions draw near, voting rights advocates in U.S. territories are taking action both inside and outside the courtroom to bring an end to the disenfranchisement of the more than 4 million Americans living in U.S. territories. Yesterday, plaintiffs from Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a response in the Northern District of Illinois to the federal government’s opposition to a voting rights lawsuit seeking expanded voting rights in U.S. territories. At the same time, We the People Project – a nonprofit advocacy organization that fights for voting rights in U.S. territories and the District of Columbia – is releasing a proposal for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would provide full enjoyment of the right to vote for U.S. citizens who call these areas home.
Virginia: Small Virginia Town Holds Election With Zero Candidates on the Ballot | ABC
VirginiaBy admin May 5, 2016
In a small Virginia town with a population of 200, there are few aspiring politicians. In fact, there are so few that Newsoms, Virginia, found itself with a unique problem on Election Day Tuesday: No one ran for office, and the ballot was blank.
Haiti: No end in sight to election mess in struggling Haiti | Associated Press
HaitiBy admin May 5, 2016
Senate leader Jocelerme Privert took office as Haiti’s caretaker president with one real task: Quickly untangle a political stalemate blocking presidential and legislative runoff elections. Three months on, yet another voting date has fallen by the wayside as political infighting continues to snarl election efforts. Privert, meanwhile, seems increasingly comfortable as Haiti’s leader, traveling through the capital in horn-blaring motorcades and recently attending a U.N. climate change meeting in New York. Welcome to Haiti’s dysfunctional democracy, where few people think there will be voting anytime soon. Under the accord that helped put him in office, Privert was supposed to make way for a voter-approved president May 14 following a late April election. But his provisional administration got off to a sluggish start, and only recently appointed a commission to verify contested elections held last year that many Haitians believe were rigged to benefit Tet Kale, the party of previous President Michel Martelly.
Editorials: Smartmatic all set, Comelec unready | Jarius Bondoc/The Philippine Star
Smartmatic says it’s 100 percent ready for Election Day. Ready to what, rig the results? Election automation experts cannot but be suspicious. The Venezuelan voting-machine seller has pulled off too many shady deals with the Comelec. It is tainting the credibility of Election 2016. The backdrops for the balloting on Monday are worrisome, to say the least. The Comelec official website has just been hacked. Sensitive personal data of 55 million voters, which the Comelec negligently included, have been dumped on the Internet. Cybercriminals likely have copied the fingerprints, photographs and signatures. Voters will fall prey to blackmail, extortion and cyber-fraud. Smartmatic is striving to dissociate itself from the Comelec fiasco. It claims that its automated election system is hack-proof. Experts have never disputed that. What they’ve been saying all this time is that Smartmatic’s machines are prone to internal manipulation.
Serbia: Prime Minister Loses Ground In Repeat Elections | RFE/RL
SerbiaBy admin May 5, 2016
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic appears to have lost ground in a repeat election held at a small number of polling stations on May 4. Preliminary results suggest the Dveri coalition will have 13 members in the 250-seat parliament, with coalition partners successfully surpassing the minimum 5 percent of votes needed for representation in the legislation. That outcome would be a setback for Vucic’s conservative Progressive Party, which now appears to be on track to control 131 parliamentary seats — 27 fewer than before the elections Vucic called halfway through his term.
United Kingdom: In London Mayoral Election, More Than City Hall Is at Stake | Wall Street Journal
United KingdomBy admin May 5, 2016
Londoners will elect a new mayor on Thursday in a race that pits the son of a billionaire against the son of a bus driver and presents an electoral test for the Conservative Party ahead of a referendum on whether the U.K. should leave the European Union. A loss for the Conservative candidate, Zac Goldsmith, would be a setback for the party of Prime Minister David Cameron. But it could also help Mr. Cameron in his campaign to keep Britain in the EU, less than two months before the June 23 referendum: Mr. Goldsmith, one of the U.K.’s richest politicians, backs a British exit from the bloc and says it would benefit London.
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National: We have the first documented case of Russian hacking in the 2018 election | Vox
NationalBy admin July 27, 2018
Russia is already trying to hack the 2018 midterm elections, going after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection this year. That’s the key takeaway from a piece published Thursday afternoon by the Daily Beast. Reporters Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen used a combination of court records and internet sleuthing to identify that malicious emails to a McCaskill aide were sent from a server that likely belongs to Fancy Bear, the same Russian intelligence group that did the 2016 hacks. The attack, launched in the second half of last year, seems to have failed. The evidence in the Daily Beast piece that this attack was launched by Russians is reasonably compelling. If it’s correct, then this is the first publicly identified case of Russian interference in a specific 2018 election campaign.
National: Devin Nunes calls for ban on electronic voting systems | The Washington Examiner
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes wants to ban electronic voting systems, calling them “really dangerous.” “The one thing we’ve been warning about for many, many years on the intelligence committee is about the electronic voting systems,” Nunes, R-Calif., told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton. “Those are really dangerous in my opinion, and should not be used. In California … at least in the counties that I represent, they do not use an electronic system,” he added.
National: Russian Hackers’ New Target: a Vulnerable Democratic Senator | Daily Beast
The Russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyberattacks targeted Sen. Claire McCaskill as she began her 2018 re-election campaign in earnest, a Daily Beast forensic analysis reveals. That makes the Missouri Democrat the first identified target of the Kremlin’s 2018 election interference. McCaskill, who has been highly critical of Russia over the years, is widely considered to be among the most vulnerable Senate Democrats facing re-election this year as Republicans hope to hold their slim majority in the Senate. In 2016, President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by almost 20 points in the senator’s home state of Missouri.
National: Partisan clash over election system security looming in Senate | The Virginian Pilot
A partisan clash over Russian hacking of state elections systems appears to be coming to a head in the Senate, where a provision to add $250 million to a four-bill spending package for states to beef up election system security may be headed for a floor vote. Democrats are using an announcement from the Election Assistance Commission and President Donald Trump’s comments in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16 to pressure Republicans to allow a floor vote on Sen. Patrick J. Leahy’s amendment to provide $250 million in grant aid to states to secure election systems. “Our states are under attack,” Leahy, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on the floor Thursday. His amendment would provide the $250 million as part of the four-bill fiscal 2019 spending package that is expected to get a floor vote next week.
National: McCaskill introduces bill to prohibit and penalize voter disinformation | St. Louis American
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced legislation that would prohibit and penalize the knowing spreading of misinformation, such as incorrect polling locations, times, or the necessary forms of identification in order to suppress voter turnout, on Thursday, July 26. “At a time when voting rights are being attacked and chipped away – from state legislatures to the Supreme Court – we’ve got to redouble our efforts to protect every Missourian’s right to vote,” McCaskill said. “Misinformation campaigns intended only to suppress the vote and disenfranchise Missourians are crimes that run counter to our democratic values, and the punishment for those actions should fit the crime.”
National: Democrats demand administration officials testify on election security | The Hill
House Democrats are prodding their Republican colleagues to examine foreign threats to upcoming U.S. elections, raising concerns that the Trump administration is not adequately tackling the threat. The top Democrats on four House committees demanded Thursday that their Republican counterparts hold a joint hearing on election security featuring top Trump administration officials. “Election security is a national security issue, and it is time this Congress treated it like one,” the Democrats wrote in Thursday’s letter. “We are concerned that the Trump administration is not doing enough to address vulnerabilities to our election systems.”
National: Judge allows lawsuit against citizenship question on the 2020 census to proceed | ABC
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had the authority to reintroduce the citizenship question on the 2020 census but, in exercising that authority, may have violated the rights of plaintiffs who are now suing, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman for the Southern District of New York rejected the government’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, which is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to add the question to the census. Furman stated that the plaintiffs “plausibly allege that Secretary Ross’ decision to reinstate the citizenship question on the 2020 census was motivated by discriminatory animus and that its application will result in a discriminatory effect.”
Alaska: Prepping for 2018 election, state looks at 2020 | Juneau Empire
AlaskaBy admin July 27, 2018
The Alaska Division of Elections is in the middle of preparations for this fall’s statewide primary and general elections, but in a meeting Wednesday, the division showed it also has its eyes on 2020. In a meeting of the statewide election policy task force, division officials said they are preparing to acquire new voting equipment even as they consider whether the state should change the way it conducts elections. “It’s kind of two separate projects. It’s equipment replacement and it’s expanding options for ballot access in the future,” Josie Bahnke, the division’s director, said by phone after the meeting. Nothing will change before this year’s Aug. 21 primary or the Nov. 6 general election. Voters will still go to polling stations across the state, they’ll still pick up pens, and they’ll still fill in ovals on paper ballots, then feed those ballots into 20-year-old scanners.
Florida: A day after judge blasts state, counties act fast to hold early voting on campus | Tampa Bay Times
FloridaBy admin July 27, 2018
A day after a judge struck down Florida’s ban on early voting on college and university campuses, the Gainesville-area supervisor of elections asked the University of Florida to make its student union available for early voting in the November general election — including on a day when the Gators have a home football game. In addition, Tampa’s chief elections official, Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer, said he has begun talks with USF leaders about holding early voting at the Marshall Student Center on the campus. The developments come as both parties prepare to mount aggressive get-out-the-vote efforts in a year when Floridians will elect a governor, U.S. senator and other top elected officials and decide whether to restore the right to vote to most convicted felons and ban offshore drilling off the Florida coast.
Illinois: Russian Hacking Points To Need For Cybersecurity Specialists | WGLT
IllinoisBy admin July 27, 2018
The Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE) faced scrutiny after Illinois became one of 39 states hacked by the Russians in the 2016 election. ISBE said only voter rolls were hacked, and no ballots were tampered with. The board’s IT Director Matt Emmons said Tuesday that’s why cybersecurity specialists are imperative. “There’s always a threat,” Emmons said. “Threat is an outside factor, an outside force. So we’re operating under the assumption that there will be a threat 100 percent of the time.” Emmons spoke Tuesday in Normal to the Central Illinois chapter of BDPA, an organization for African-Americans and other minorities in the information technology (IT) and STEM fields. He was joined by McLean County Clerk Kathy Michael and the county’s chief information officer, Craig Nelson.
Iowa: Voting Rights Advocates Score a Temporary Victory in Iowa | Cedar Rapids Gazette
IowaBy admin July 27, 2018
An Iowa judge Wednesday issued a temporary injunction barring the state from implementing some provisions of Iowa’s new voter ID law. The ruling, for now, restores the absentee early voting period from 29 days to 40 days and blocks certain ID requirements of the law, passed by the GOP-led Legislature and signed into law by former Gov. Terry Branstad in May 2017. Polk County District Judge Karen Romano ruled that elements of the state’s new system requiring state-issued voter identification numbers on absentee ballots could harm the rights of voters to participate in elections, “in contravention” of Iowa’s Constitution.
North Carolina: Judges hear arguments over state elections board for third time | WRAL
North CarolinaBy admin July 27, 2018
For the third time in a little more than a year, a panel of three Superior Court judges was asked Thursday to weigh the legality of a revamped State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement. The elections board has been at the center of a power struggle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican legislative leaders since before Cooper took office, and each side has claimed victories in the ongoing dispute. Traditionally, the five-member elections board was controlled by the party of the governor, but after Cooper defeated Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016, lawmakers merged the board with the eight-member Ethics Commission and said the new panel would be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Cambodia: ‘Clean finger’ campaign urges voters to boycott ‘sham’ election | Global Voices
CambodiaBy admin July 27, 2018
Cambodia’s exiled opposition leaders have launched the ‘clean finger’ campaign which calls for a boycott of the general election scheduled on July 29, 2018. Typically, an indelible ink is placed on the finger of voters on election day which means those who fail to vote, have a clean finger. Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the main opposition party, was disbanded by the Supreme Court on November 2017 after the ruling party accused it of conspiring with foreign powers in an attempt to topple the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Congo: UN: Right Conditions Needed for Credible Elections in Congo | VoA News
CongoBy admin July 27, 2018
The head of the U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo warned Thursday that the right conditions are not yet in place for presidential elections this December, and without progress, the credibility of the vote could be compromised. “As violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms continue to impact negatively on democratic space, some peaceful demonstrations are suppressed,” U.N. envoy Leila Zerrougui told Security Council members. “Civil society actors and political opponents continue to be arbitrarily arrested and media workers threatened.” Zerrougui said the parties have not implemented confidence-building measures, and the security situation, particularly in the eastern part of the country, remains volatile and is deteriorating in some areas.
Mali: Mali holds key polls overshadowed by jihadist violence | AFP
MaliBy admin July 27, 2018
Mali holds crucial polls on Sunday with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita seeking re-election in a country reeling from jihadist violence and ethnic attacks. The international community hopes the poll will strengthen a 2015 accord that Mali, a linchpin state in the troubled Sahel region, sees as its cornerstone for peace. But violence has peppered the election, with the final days of campaigning marred by an attack on a candidate’s convoy and renewed killings of civilians.
Uganda: Court validates law allowing President to seek re-election | Reuters
UgandaBy admin July 27, 2018
Uganda’s constitutional court yesterday approved removing the presidential age limit of 75 years, a ruling that would potentially allow President Yoweri Museveni to extend his three-decade rule. It endorsed parliament’s decision to scrap the cap in December that drew accusations from opposition parties that the 73-year-old Museveni wanted to be president for life and brought protesters onto the streets. “The removal of age limit may encourage an incumbent to wish to keep himself in office perpetually but the citizens still retain the power to either return the same president or elect a different one,” said Elizabeth Musoke, one of three judges who endorsed the amendment. One of the five judges said no, another had yet to deliver his verdict.
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Bringing Musical Stars Back Via Hologram
On CBS Sunday Morning:
“For those of us of a certain age, those artists are all passing. So, the idea that we can relive and recapture some of our youth, I think that’s what’s really drawing people to it,” said Todd Richmond, the director of the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Southern California.
Richmond spends a lot of time thinking about technology and art, and using a device to digitally scan actors for movies, video games, and even holograms.
“Pretty soon, you’ll be able to have performances for the songs you don’t have footage for, and you can have them singing songs that they never sang before,” Richmond said.
“So, someday not only could you have Tupac singing opera, but you could have Maria Callas singing hip-hop?” Pogue asked.
Scientists Launch Global Effort to Find the Next Diabetes Drug
Have Holograms Made The Concept Of ‘Live Performance’ Different?
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Theresa May’s secretive plans to replace NHS in England with private US healthcare system Kaiser Permanente
May, NHS, privatisation
UPDATE: We now have no less than Professor Stephen Hawking expressing public concern about the threat to the NHS by Kaiser Permanente – see here.
Kaiser Permanente is a private healthcare organisation based in California.
But unlike many other private healthcare companies in the US, Kaiser provides a complete model of integrated pre-paid insurance along with healthcare which is supposedly provided free at the point of need.
This is a system much like our own NHS but with three major differences – Kaiser’s healthcare provision is much more expensive than the NHS, the healthcare provision side is run for profit and unlike the NHS its cover isn’t comprehensive – it only covers those people who are in work.
Despite that, Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt seems to love Kaiser. He and other ministers have personally visited the company at its California headquarters – several times in fact:
And Kaiser’s own website lists other recent visitors from the UK, including many NHS hospitals and NHS trusts as well as HM Treasury and the Ministry of Health itself (click to enlarge):
We have already seen that US firms are looking to capitalise as the NHS becomes increasingly privatised, including Kaiser Permanente Foundation‘s senior vice president Hal Wolf who has openly called for the NHS to become “more like Kaiser Permanente“.
Alarmingly, Theresa May has specifically refused to guarantee she will not open up the NHS to US firms in a post-Brexit trade deal across the Atlantic.
Understanding the plans to replace the NHS with the Kaiser Permanente system explains why there has been a recent speeding up of the ongoing marketisation and privatisation of the NHS.
It also explains why the Tories were so desperate to push through their disastrous NHS reforms in the first place. A central plank of the NHS reforms was the formation of Clinical Commissioning Groups – which were openly based on Kaiser’s Permanente Medical Groups and which also happen to be a central plank of Kaiser’s healthcare system.
And understanding the plans to replace the NHS across England with the Kaiser Permanente system goes a long way to explaining why Theresa May has done nothing to resolve the worsening NHS crisis, which she is gambling will only make the public more keen to see changes to a system that is being deliberately broken.
If we don’t spread the word about what the Tories are doing, we can say goodbye to the NHS in England and hello to Kaiser Permanente. Permanently.
So please share …
116 thoughts on “Theresa May’s secretive plans to replace NHS in England with private US healthcare system Kaiser Permanente”
You are such a Pratt.
Stephen Slator said:
Hit the nail on the head there for sure. And don’t forget the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens’, previous role as big cheese at US conglomerate United Health
Tog said:
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snaithmagmailcom said:
Reblogged this on michaelsnaith.
jeffrey davies said:
vote may end of nhs but thats only part of it norman law will rule
Hello From GCHQ said:
Two questions: 1. Was the source of this story the voices in your head? 2.Are you another sock puppet account like @rachael_swindon, @namechangegirl and @skwawkbox Steve? Anyhow we’ll know soon enough who the person behind those accounts is. Cheerio Mr.Walker :3
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mikey mikey said:
@Hello from Tory pretending to be GCHQ
Thanks for letting me know about rachel swindon and namechangegirl
Well could only find Ms Swindon’s twitter account, but it is really good. Thanks again, Tory boy pretending to be GCHQ.
Pamela stepp said:
Sooner the Conservative party are out of power the better I like it .I know that health care is expensive so we need to raise taxes and most fair minded people agree and cut tax loop holes for the rich and famous if I was the Chancellor I would be taxing those with the highest earnings at 60% and if the didn’t like it go elsewhere I’d also want far greater accountability on MP’S salary and how many directorships they have and that should be taxed separately.
maurene said:
a private health company in a country where literally millions of men women and children have no health cover whatsoever……and the UK is considering big time to bring such a company over here…… I feel sick……. such politicians and the like should be ashamed……
tophattingson said:
That’s a fun conspiracy theory you have there. What if…
John Reid visited Kaiser Permanente in 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3207027.stm
jcobyn4jadams4eva said:
Rachael’s a bloke, just so you know poppet. Remember on the 9th of June it’s down not across, the doc’s find it awfully tricky to stitch to repair the injury when it’s done that way or you could do the NHS a favour and just take a running jump from Beachy Head. And take that awful woman abbott with you thankies ❤
Paolo said:
People who don’t realise that this is happening are blind or stupid.
“Remember on the 9th of June it’s down not across,”
Bullying and encouragement to commit suicide. Reminds me of this story:
“Ben Harris-Quinney, chair of rightwing thinktank the Bow Group, who gave evidence to the inquiry, said: “It would appear from the report that CCHQ officials were happy to overlook Mark Clarke’s track record and behaviour because he was able to deliver positive campaigning results using nefarious tactics.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/17/inquiry-into-tory-bullying-scandal-finds-13-alleged-victims-of-mark-clarke
concernedkev said:
This needs to be spread far and wide. Treachery and corruption of the worst kind. All individuals who have been on this fact finding jolly, if proven. should be drummed out and investigated for misconduct in public office. It is a collective conspiracy to defraud all UK citizens.
Well done Tom
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mohandeer said:
Reblogged this on wgrovedotnet.
vondreassen said:
Amazing ain’t it, we are a European country- Russia is nearer to America than we are ; YET we – our leaders are obsessed with copying a way of life that has little relevance to our own;
Why are ‘they’ NOT looking at er – Scandinavia etc;
George Orwell thought it was to do with language – we are too lazy to learn – though the Scandivavians all learn English !;
Switch on the radio – LBC especiallty- and it’s yak yak about Trump – Wots going on ?
sheila jenkins said:
If this happens.go back to what Niel Kinock said don’t be old or sick if the Tories win this election.
NHS employee said:
https://centerfortotalhealth.org/tag/jeremy-hunt/
Not evidence of any privatisation. Do a bit of googling before you post!
Martin Ritchie said:
Surely such a proposal must be more expensive that the current NHS funding system as they have to add profit onto their costs and I expect their profit requirement will be significant so where will they add value?
MM said:
Or alternatively they are looking at comparable services to see if the NHS can learn from best practices much like all organisations should do.
Google words – Liam Fox Atlantic Bridge. Read a bit.
Cara Tarini said:
They could do worse than implementation of a Kaiser model.it is a not for profit HMO begun in Ca to care fore employees of various kaiser companies and they have provided me with very good medical care !
Ron Hod said:
The reasons for the majority of privatisations is to reduce the wages and conditions of the workers while increasing the money the company directors and chif execs get. At no point is it improving the lot of the general public who are just the tools to give the rich more money. The UK health system is one of the cheapest in the world, the evidence for this can be seen in the basic fact thet travel and holiday insurance including the USA is more than anywhere else in the world!
Beryl Foster said:
It is disgusting that immigration to this level has been allowed thanks to Mr.T.Blair.Some have paid into system all their lives and immigration has helped to drain us.I will support Mrs T.May as I do like her but I knew what Iwas voting for Out of EU and single market if with free movement. I do not know enough about the so called new system that may replace NHS but like me some have paid all their lives..not for foreign countries to take advantage of us.
Beryl Fosterk said:
David Williams said:
This is typical of a government that has done nothing but betray the general public which it claims to represent. Hopefully, the people of the UK will be wise enough to vote them out this time.
With the internet and mobile network it would seem to me that it is time to consider a different method of debate and passing of legislation that would involve active public opinion so that the people of the UK are truly represented and not subjected to any elected parties corrupt control. In other words a new type of government that can’t go against public opinion.
Paul Williams said:
You do realise the article you linked to when claiming they are for profit, clearly says they are non-profit?….
anubeon said:
We should never forget the Liberal Democrats role in the Health and Social Care Bill. They didn’t merely enable the Tories, if memory serves the CCGs were there contribution to the proceedings. We should remember this when they try to pass themselves off as ‘progressives’. The only progress they genuinely care about is the unending ‘progress’ of the market, public be damned. Now they are mobilising to cut Labour off at the knees, ably assisted by many a narcisistic New Labour grandee and a gaggle of useful idiots too blinded by the trauma of loosing the referendum. They’ll let the Tories in the back door, they might even hand the LibDems their favourite roll as king makers. Then the bastards will unite in shafting us all and selling off our NHS.
Pheobe jacques said:
They did the same with the tax and it all went wrong. Now it’s our health they want to gamble with.
Dirk Minter Lee said:
@Beryl Fosterk – you do understand that immigration rose massively under the Tories. Far above the levels it was at under the previous Labour administration don’t you?
If you vote Tory it means you hate my wife and every other disabled person in the country. You will be voting to have them systematically attacked in a attempt to kill them off. You will be making this choice freely and cannot deny knowledge of the consequences of your actions, because you have been informed of them before the fact. If you vote for them I, along with tens of thousands more, will hate you eternally and ultimately hope that one day you too will become disabled through a misfortunate accident and suffer at the hands of the people you helped to install, just so that you can experience the full horror of a life-limiting condition under a Tory government.
tagster01 said:
So that’s why, when May is questioned on the future of the NHS, that she says healthcare will remain free at the point of issue. Half truths and bloody minded deceit.
lallygag26 said:
If you think Tom’s blog sounds like fantasy, here is think tank Health Foundation’s blog on the same subject talking about politicians’ and senior Whitehall mandarins’ love affair with Kaiser from the point of view of the establishment. Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, has already introduced the first Kaiser-style Accountable Care systems, designed to be turned into Accountable Care Organisations. This change isn’t the future. It is now.
http://www.health.org.uk/blog/meeting-challenge-population-health-what-we-can-learn-kaiser-permanente
Larraine said:
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Spencer-Davis said:
Will treatment leave me facing a Kaiser Bill? Sorry. J
anyvoices said:
Really enjoyed good facts well thought out. Would you consider sharing your blogs on a free website written by the public for the public. http://www.anyvoice.co.uk
Sybil Gowans said:
What about Scotland?
Kitty S Jones said:
Reblogged this on Politics and Insights.
loobitzh said:
Reblogged this on Lindas Blog.
Martin Rudland said:
Some Tory Troll comments, but do note the comments from
anubeon at 9:54 pm on April 24, 2017
Dirk Minter Lee at 3:40 am on April 25, 2017
tagster01 at 5:48 am on April 25, 2017
lallygag26 at 6:20 am on April 25, 2017
The Lib Dems must be repeatedly, publicly, very loudly and very often indicted for enabling this destruction of OUR NHS .
What mind-set do the politicians have when they say ‘free at the point of delivery’?
Do they think we’re idiots? They might be right!
Search for what Mark Britnell said to an APAC conference in New York in Oct 2010, ie he spoke of the private sector opportunities presented by the UK’s health reforms:
“The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years,” he advised the attending companies.
Britnell was speaking a year into his job at KPMG, which he joined from the Dept of Health where he was DG i/c Commissioning. Britnell was the architect of what we see today: the privatisation of commissioning. This courtesy of http://www.spinwatch.org . AND “In future, The NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer” – c/o The Observer, 15 May 2011, “David Cameron’s adviser says health reform is a chance to make big profits”
Our future in the UK under the Tories is utterly dire!
A thought came to me that a Tory MP will set up a cloth-cap manufacturing company. Cloth-caps will be free at point of delivery and will enable regular exercise when your masters go by.
But seriously, everybody must spread the word as to how grim the future will be under Tories – it could be for ever if they win this one !
Green__Jenny said:
It was also New Labour’s plan to replace the NHS with the Kaiser Permanente system – they set up Kaiser Permanente pilots in various parts of England, including Torbay where the resulting S Devon Integrated Care Organisation recently went belly up. The Coalition and now Tory governments just continued the New Labour direction of travel. http://www.energyroyd.org.uk/archives/12788
abigdoob (@abigdoob) said:
Sybil Gowans.
There are no plans to follow this route in Scotland.
However. The amount of our own money that WM deigns to return to us in the form of Barnett, including that used to fund our NHS, is calculated as a percentage of spending in England. If England’s NHS goes…
Terry Davies said:
I predicted this would happen years ago. NHS was a convenient Quango to do the tories dirty. Its a very basic managerial technique. Shifting blame is one of the benefits but the primary reason for NHS England is to be the voicepiece for government policies minus the expectation of answering the questions. This has been the role of NHS England. Likewise the other quangos , effectively voice pieces and sources of blame at which the public can direct their anger. Hunt is the next to go after the NHS england who will each blame each other. This leaves May untouched so that the USA can cherry pick the NHS and public sector services. Remember that there is a way to avoid accountability. Avoid answering Questions and you can fool the public and horsethief minded tories have used this as a means of controlling the supply of services to UK people and supply of public services for private companies to compete for during franchise bids.
When a public service is privatised or partially privatised a ‘ gravy train’ is created and those on this train will never want to leave it.
Stupid or greedy politicians fail to see the link between these and violence and wars.
So expect the spanish cold war after the next election. Gibraltar will be blamed but spanish politicians will be in competition for sovereignty with UK. This will now be supported by other EU countries and tories be the cause of it all.
Sharon said:
Nothing better than the American system so that those dieing from cancer etc like my mum, can worry about how they will pay for treatment. Hey it takes their mind off of dying, right. I wonder how many people in the UK realise that in the US you don’t jus t book in for your appointment, you have to sit in front of a stranger while they ask you how much you can pay. My mum put $50.00 on her credit card every time the doctors or hospital asked her how much she could pay. She was poor, only had a pension and her last months of life were worrying how my dad (with dementia) would be able to pay the credit card debt. Shameful system, we don’t want this in the U.K. however I am afraid that it is probably too late…
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poglejones said:
I too am terrified at the prospect of a new TTIP opening up the UK health service to these large companies. However what I would say is that the Kaiser model is a good model of integrated care and that many of the visitors will have been looking for opportunities to use the Kaiser approach to improve NHS organisations and approaches to integration around stuff like care navigation, patient advocacy and care coordination.
revdianphamilton said:
A friend from the U.S.A. wrote, ” I used to work for KP, from 2002 – 10. Up till the mid-2000s, a point of pride that was useful to us researchers was the equal access to care across membership. Around 2004, competition of cheap plans caused KP to promote plans with deductibles, and that ended it. People were offered cheap plans with high deductibles, and went into heavy debt like anywhere else when catastrophe struck. The wishful thinking was that healthy people, young people, would go for the high deductible plans, but in fact most of them were simply poor people – who weren’t health to begin with, and of course became even poorer. All this did great things for KP’s bottom line (including the non-profit side – non-profit in the US is nothing more than a tax scam anymore), and the execs took it even further with staff reductions and automation. This was once an institution to be proud of; now it’s no more than a reflection of the broken US medical care system.”
Deus Vult said:
The stupidity here is very strong.
You do realise that your own gullibility in believing this sort of rubbish is what drives these idiots on.
For God’s own sake … take a step back and THINK, then be embarrassed, and then feel anger at these people who are trying to feed you this dross for their own purposes.
Inga said:
Just watch the Great British Public declare they would pay any tax to keep the NHS, and then vote Tory in full knowledge that this will kill it off. This has been the pattern since Thatcher. Nothing better illustrates the hypocrisy, selfishness and callousness of the British voter – as does their assumption that a real leader would use nuclear weapons pre-emptively. And their hostility to overseas aid. And to refugees. And to immigrants. The list is endless.
Bryan Lee said:
So what about those not in work, disabled pensioners etc.
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Valerie Hall said:
So my husband , 22 years post heart transplant and with multiple related health problems, will be offered affordable health care? If only!
I don’t know where you are Valerie but in the UK if the NHS gets the funding it needs you will. Don’t vote Tory that’s all. In terms of an integrated model of care he should get better healthcare. What we’re being sold at the moment is an underfunded service carrying the burden of austerity in other services. They are hiding the cuts within integrated health and social care programmes which are doomed to failure because they are unrealistic and underfunded. But the principles of integration in the model are good.
So to clarify I am just suggesting there are other reasons people can be interested in this other than replicating the financial model.
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Fran said:
The NHS is the jewel in our crown. It protects the most vulnerable, working class and middle class providing a non discriminate service. To vote Tory in effect means you don’t care about people in need. Imagine turning up in need of serious medical intervention for a loved family member only to be refused because your credit card is at its limit or you have been made redundant and are jobless. Is that what we really want. Be very careful what you vote for what goes around comes around. One day you might be that person in need
Stephen Barber said:
This is not new. Kaiser is a “not for profit ” organisation. This is irresponsible scare-mongering in my view. See this BBC report crom way back in 2010: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8688101.stm
Pam Peterson said:
Just confirms what we already know
Neither Theresa May nor her add ons .., including Hunt give a monkeys about us, the British people, or our healthcare
“not for profit” – is it a charity then ?
Alan Taylor said:
I’m not a fan of the current Tory leadership. However, I think there is a mixture of fact and fantasy in this report. Drawing conclusions based on fantasy! Public sector should be encouraged to learn from private enterprise for ideas on improving efficiency and services. They don’t have to adopt profiteering. I don’t see the issue here.
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Sam said:
This is such a pile of rubbish!
Owen jones said:
Unless it’s changed a lot Kaiser were crap when i was in the states.
Charlie said:
@vondreassen
These kind of organisations are what’s commonly known as charitable corporations. They get the tax status, they get the profits. The payout method differs, that’s all. There’s no charitable root to their operations anymore.
One of those things spent ten years destroying a friend’s charity (an actual small local one). Had 130 employees, in social, children’s and home care area. Judge returned the case three times, then got pressured by politicians. Ended up finding for the other side on a technicality, said it was incomprehensible that a national charity should embark upon a hostile takeover of a local charity, called the other side despicable. Media was on their side.
Now five years later, all profits they make locally are siphoned off to national headquarters. My friend’s charity invested all profits back into the charity – kids got new play grounds, care home got a new garden and more staff etc. Whole town is suffering as the corporate charity – still legally a charity – is closing down everything that isn’t profitable enough and charging for all their services at a premium. Now the media is waking up to this, but it’s too late, of course. Bankrupted my friend, cost 100 people their jobs, but the other side, that national charity is still going strong…
So don’t be fooled by a “not for profits” statement on their web page and look at what they actually do – cost the taxpayer more money, pay their management huge salaries and deliver less value.
David said:
A number of points.
The U.S was 43 in the world when last the World Health Organisation did a survey.
The UK was number 18. The US pay twice as much for healthcare as other leading nations and the health of US citizens keep getting worse !!! Definitely the way to go if you want to follow in their footsteps all the way to hell while paying through the nose for the privilege.
What should be the measure of a good healthcare system? Surely people’s health should be improving not getting worse and the cost of the service should be reducing? What a revolutionary idea? Then where would there be the need for
locums at £4000 per day ? Or massively overpriced drugs ? or the PFI where changing a lightbulb costs £300?
Face it the NHS is about making money out of making people sicker and sicker !!!.
And the government facilitates corporates who feed off the NHS. Think Pharma..
Pharma and more Pharma.
Privatisation won’t stop people from getting major chronic diseases like Heart disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Dementia ,Lung, Disease , etc. Those figures will still keep rising.
Why because healthcare is about “managing” health conditions not curing people of them. So not matter what you pay you won’t get better if you rely on imported doctors or PFI financed hospitals. The NHS is there to facilitate the aims of Pharma and there is nothing you can do about it unless you are prepared to take more care of you and yours. Better nutrition, exercise, clean water, better air quality.
And no matter who you vote for you will still pay taxes to maintain the NHS even if you take the time and effort to look after health of yourself and your family.
Catherine mearns said:
If this is true then Theresa May is taking a giant backward leap into the past. The people of Britain will never accept this . By all means make the rich pay more in taxes as the poor is paying enough. The total misuse of funds by the jobs for boys brigade, their wages are enhanced by backhanders from other companies who want the contracts for providing supplies and medical instruments ” in which most are disposable” how did we ever manage before. I have recently been told that soap and disinfectant is no longer used in hospitals as it is against health and safety. One wonders how we have all managed onto old age. The NHS should recruit nurses from school leavers and train them on the floor as you would a apprentice, that is what makes a nurse , not a piece of paper from a university. How easy it is to collect a certificate but can they do practical, with a commonsense approach. People fight for what is your right.
Rosalind Dodd said:
How appalling
fergusmason said:
“Understanding the plans to replace the NHS with the Kaiser Permanente system”
Except there is no plan. You just invented it.
Capitalism innit – just wot the tories love…
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Gillian Reay said:
DThe NHS is an amazing healthcare system which has been left open to much abuse. Least of all by those who are in a position to either mend it or break it permanently. Don’t let this happen. Let’s fix our NHS for the good of the people who are citizens of Great Britain.
How do you know its an amazing system ? . A couple of years ago the NHS were
killing people at the rate of 130,000 a year on the Liverpool Pathway and giving bonuses to hospitals for the number of beds they freed up. Then they were caught out
and had to stop the practice which involved depriving the elderly of food and water,
which is not a nice way to die. Called NIL BY MOUTH. A good hospital system would be improving the nations health not “managing it for Pharmaceutical Co’s benefit.
This week in the Times the head of the IBPI Ms Anson said” that Pharma would move out of Britain unless they received £20 billion more a year”. That taxes should be increased to fund their innovative research”. And that lots of other countries would welcome research being done in their country.
Funny but the lead researcher of Glaxo Smith Kline said ” Our drugs don’t work on most people” what a surprise(not).
David have you read/heard communications by Public Health Specialists? Eg Prof Allyson Pollock (Inst of Health & Society Newcastle Univ; previously Prof of Public Health Research & Policy, Qu.Mary, UoL; set up & directed the Centre for International Public Health Policy, Univ.E’boro; & prior to that Head of the Public Health Policy Unit, UCL, Dir. Research & Development at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust); & by Prof.Colin Leys (with 20+ experts of Centre for Health and the Public Interest, CHPI – see https://chpi.org.uk/about-us/); & by Prof Colin Pritchard (see http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10583606.The_problem_with_our_NHS/ ) .
You are of course aware of how long was spent by the Tories in preparing the Health & Social Care Bill which became an Act in Mar’12 & its contents, eg it opened up OUR NHS for Private Health Industry to get in there, & it led to £4.5bn to £10bn having to be spent by the NHS in tendering for work it used to do automatically in house! Worth finding the exact wording of Mark Britnell’s ‘talk’ to a Private Health confeence in N.York in late 2010 – basically the NHS is up for grabs in the next 2 years & have no mercy on the NHS. Britnell moved from very high up in the Civil Service Health Dept to KPMG in 2009-ish!
Do read those links & search for more detailed info.
The NHS IS AMAZING, & the people who work in it for us all leave Tory politicians looking very very sad – the Tory attitude to OUR NHS is sick .
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To Martin Rudland
The Times April 27th 2017
Drug Giants threaten to Leave Britain.
Unless the NHS is given £20 billion a year for research for new treatments.
Apparently the 9.9 % we spend on research is less than other countries who spend
11.3%.
So when articles appear in the newspapers insisting the NHS needs more money
was that for Doctors and Nurses? No …now we know where the money is going.
and how Pharma goes about its business threats ,bribery, fear so that the population rush out to buy toxic vaccinations, while doctors don’t? Now why might that be?
In the US they are mandating certain vaccines like Flu, using the herd immunity
nonsense. And what do these vaccines contain and are they safe? ethyl mercury, polysorbate 80, and aluminium.? Are all highly toxic . See Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies , 400 important scientific papers on vaccines.
Similarly in Australia mandating vaccines and no benefits for those families who don’t vaccinate!!.
The Flu vaccine 2 years ago had a success rate of 3%. and it appears that the usual
success of that vaccine is around 50%.
Returning to the £20 billion demand, do they make the same demands of every country? Pitching them the same story as here and threatening to leave otherwise.
Is that how Glaxo made “2 billion in the first quarter on sales of 7.4 billion. Better returns that the arms business and the banking sector, by a long shot.
lyndajanepurcell said:
Hello Tom – I’ve reblogged this post. Am shocked at how we seem to be sleepwalking into the US system of ‘healthcare’.
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Mr Kenneth Best said:
Theresa May wants to have this evidence removed, it shows the future of OUR NHS youtu.be/qOI7-XIbkq8 PLEASE SHARE TO ALL!
dinajpadillagmailcom said:
As a U.S. & CA.citizen. I’m all too well familiar with the “non profit” because there are far too many more of us who were fired and lost all in lieu health care as well any care for the many disabilities and illnesses it so deliberately caused and yes there are those who have died because of no care for their illnesses and its done with U.S. govt impunity as the targets ARE, older, female & minorities including children of these groups. It’s worth many billions of dollars, a year and its all tax free, All on states, federal & patient monies.. It’s only goal is to make money at any cost. AT ANY COST for its other non medical care activities. It’s own idea of making money is to “manage” care, it decides how much care to give which is little to none and one is far more likely to die sooner than one thinks because there is too little care for your medical condition that is needed or tell you need a treatment that you really do not need and will greatly increase your demise while you as a patient will be paying high cost premiums, one way or another. This is one of Americans biggest cons going since the 60’s, Integrated care is based on false data that IT, the managed care system created, all to deny real medical care for real illnesses such as asthma, heart disease, arthritis, back or spine injuries, pretty much everything that touches peoples lives on a daily basis. this all started TO deny injuries and illnesses that it caused it’s own employees but it’s gone further though out the U.S., Canada, & Australia. France didn’t go for it’s B.S.
Our veterans too are patients that have unnecessarily suffered because OF it’s path of the “managed” care premise, all the while pretending to be healthcare organization. Either May is totally ignorant to the “managed” care B.S. or there’s something in it for her to want to send particular classes of the working people off to get sick and die sooner.
Stay with NIH to stay alive and well..
Sam Beeton said:
Where will the Conservative party find the money to pay for very sick people unable to work and pay for private health care if Teresa May privatises the NHS? Is Teresa May intending to take us back to a time where we had no NHS and children and adults could not afford to pay for a Doctor. Back in that time children died in the arms of emotionally pained parents that couldn’t afford a Doctor for their child. Parents back then couldn’t even afford to pay the Doctor to pain relief their child while they were dying. Conservatives have and are going to damage the NHS that I believe can be the best of the Conservatives stop privatising and stop bringing in the private health to cover our lack of NHS staff. We should have enough NHS staff and relief staff if the conservatives put our money into the NHS and the NHS will be a better service for everyone that is in need of it.
The previous president wanted to help the American people by building a NHS system in America. What happened to that very good idea. There must be people in America suffering greatly from illness and can’t pay. It makes me wonder if children in America are dying without health care that they need. Why is Teresa May going to follow in the American footsteps. I thought the previous president wanted a NHS system as good as ours in the U.K. Used to be.
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JEPH said:
Hardly a balanced piece of commentary and somewhat propagandist.
Sue Walsh RGN (retired) said:
Vote for Corbyn, he is our only hope for the NHS
More than likely written by the CEO of kaiser. IT’S integrated care is one big lie, there is no such thing, just another label to deny real care., as it was started, kaiser sold the idea make more money with less care and that money is their main goal as told to President Nixon in 1972, Sadly much of the health care on the U.S. models kaiser’s business model. This too, is so it can sell more tea in China. ( no joke either) among other non medical care industries. All of it snake oil salesmanship ripping off billions of tax payer& patient money for many decades as well as their many disabled workers benefits, ALL of their benefits, even the disabled workers paid into govt benefits.. like SSA/Medicare. It’s a bottomless pit of money for a false health care organization and those govt agencies & legislator’s are involved. How many ways can you steal maim and kill? Kaiser is a very profitable foundation only for those who run it. RUN, don’t walk from this boondoggle called “health care” organization. Medical care in general doesn’t exist anymore. this is all about making money while limiting necessary medical care, to complete the offing of those who have been working and living for the last 90 or so years. Kaiser is the elite’s choice all after they stole from us working class. that’s been the plan all along.
An a Harvey said:
If you vote Conservative in the election then unless you have money, you can kiss goodbgood by to the NHS.
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GeaVox said:
They’d best not even THINK about it… protests will cost them MILLIONS and in the end people will boycott and set up OUR OWN Healthcare Co-op and SINK THEM!
This is Britain, it is NOT the property of Coporations and soon Theresarse Mayhem will be a hasbeen looking for a job!
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emmashillam said:
Can say with certainty that there is at least one ‘recent visitor’ that hasn’t existed since about 3 years ago. For this reason in particular I feel this blog post is unreliable and invalid.
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Hilary Temple said:
This is terrifying. I can see it mobilising the population into mass demonstrations, if not general strike mode.
DEIRDRE CARDEN said:
My dad died in 2008 in a NHS hospital aged 96 He fought for this country and he would turned in his grave if the tories get in again Their greedy and minipulaters of even the voting system it sholud be one man one vote . However they will only need 24% to get in lets all make sure it never happened
Richard Kelly said:
Interesting but speculation. NHS visits etc to other countries us common, the idea is to find new ideas of management, productivity, medicine etc. I have worked within companies that interact with perceived competitors in order to gain insight.
If there were tangible facts I would react differently but this is just adding 2+2=5.
Before anyone says it….I’m not a Tory, I’m a proud Brit that wants electoral reform and a Republic.
Are you nuts?
Fact! Private healthcare is just that!
Fact! Dorset is already being managed by Virgin instead of the NHS … if their patients cant pay exhorbitent fees up front to see their GP … they have a four week wait for an NHS appointment … and there is a dramatic reduction in A&E services … so where do sick people without a large bank account go?
Then there is their paediatric services …Fact! also gone over to private healthcare … children with long term incurable conditions have been discharged and have no healthcare options amongst them there are children with chronic conditions … previously cared for by Consultant Paediatricians … children who suffered oxygen starvation either in utero or at birth … a spectrum of disorders that if not supported throws them on the rubbish heap for their short life … Autism … ADHD … cerebal palsy … special needs … Downs Syndrom … the list is long
As it is … care is disjounted in the areas of the NHS that are being privatised … there is no exchange if information … waiting times are horendous and if these operators are not paid up front … you dont get seen or treated … the NHS is a not for profit service that keeps many people alive who will not survive without it …Fact! many people have already needlessly lost their lives … the for profit organisations do not have patient safety or dignity as their guide … no profit … no treatment … and even if there is a profit the care can be non existent
By the time you finish waiting to see what happens … you will have no options left … healthcare will be private only and the NHS will be a brand name only
This is common-knowledge in the rest of the world do you not have friends who are British ex pats living overseas and informed?
We are allegedly a sovereign democracy … democracy ifs largely out the window we are heading full tilt towards becomng a tax haven for the filthy rich where unless you are one of their number … you will be left with little or nothing
If you want a Republic as your home … Iteland is the closest
K Fishburn said:
Over in Holland people have a private insurance. You pay different prices for different levels of cover. I lived there years ago & was impressed by my basic cover. The hospitals were brilliant & the dentists were more advanced than the dentists in the uk.
It was a better system. The waiting list to see a Doctor or specialist was fantastic.
The only problem is that people that don’t want to work , get away with it all yet again & pay nothing.
It’s cheaper than national insurance
That all sounds wonderful but the Government here is not looking at the Dutch System but the American which Virgin are already operating in Dorset and quietly being rolking out into various UK areas … but no reduction in the funds deducted at source from NI and tax … which if actually used to pay for healthcare … would provide the best and by far superior service worldwide
As for people who are disabled, aged, chronically ill and unable to work
What hapoens to them … in America … they are left to die having been physically removed from hospitals and dumped outside
There is no tenable alternative to the NHS offered to the British public who continue to pay for the Service … yet our healthcare is quietly and consistently privatised without disclosure consultation
We have no contribution to the decisions already made behind closed doors, much less discussion for the future
The British public really does need to wake up and inform themselves on what is happening now, at tgeir expense, and the suffering this is already delivering
stefan kursa said:
the NHS was originally brought in as a safety net; an immediate free point of care for emergencies , accidents and general illness, It was not designed for sex changes , fat removal, depression , anxiety gastric bands and other surgeries that people feel the need to have these treatment/ procedures.
if you strip all that back then the NHS would be in fine shape .
Some of the comments above are complete bollocks and people need to stop reading/believing everything they see in a redtop newspaper or in the local pub.
You tealky need to check your facts
Sadly … you are the one with no idea of what you speak
The NHS was put in place in 1948 to meet ALL our heakthcare needs includind dental, and whikst free at point of use, is to br paid for through our tax deductions
By the time you wake up and understand what is actually going on … it will be too late
Like it or not NHS services have been sold off ti Virgin who are operating in the West Country
Pippa said:
The US already has private American owned companies running parts of the NHS in the UK and they are called HCA so it’s unfortunately already happening. There already here covering what the NHS cannot do because of short staffing and charging the UK taxpayer a fortune. It’s Ridicuolous
liz said:
2 questions, no magic money pot) 1.-does the 1 perscent for nurses etc come out of tax payer money if not where 2- where does it come from for ,mps, peers etc
Laura Cook said:
this MUST be shared EVERYWHERE
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Karen said:
The first reason the lying tories should be ousted. Imagine how their tactics will effect over FIVE YEARS!?
Today’s health care is not about necessary medical care. It is about offing people for CEO & govt profit and it’s being done on, especially those that need real medical care, like the created poor, disabled, minorities, women & those that are retired, the new elderly, all making room for the newer ones who will be next. It’s all nazi & commie “health care”, profit or no profit. It’s all one big lie, now that so many need it, those who came after the last generation during the WW11 generation . It worked in WW11 AND those involved in the murdering machine laughed then too, all the way to the bank, which of course include corporate and govt execs. Kaiser goes way way back with its foulness.
Hywel Thomas said:
False news. This article is cobblers dressed up as facts.
The reason dozens of NHS Trusts have been visiting Kaiser Permanente over the past 15 years is their structural model: “Underpinning the Kaiser model is not just an integrated model of care…but “a critical cultural change − the physicians lead in population care”
Nothing to do with health insurance, nothing to do with charging at the point of delivery, instead getting rid of layers of management and letting the doctors get on with the job.
I would have thought that was something we all wanted.
kaiser permamente is false news. it’s doctors are trained NOT to give you medical care and their retirement depend on this false health care org. It’s not about medical at all, it’s about profit for itself to even more harm in other areas. Unfortunately some in US.CONGRESS bought this so employers would NOT have to pay for REAL medical care needed by their employees. It was sold to make employers even richer including itself. Kiaser is the biggest leech of American tax payer money & health care premiums and it then in the 90’s went full throttle on older, more experience and higher paid employers to cause work place injuries and illnesses and NOT pay for the medical care the employees needed and then bring in lesser educated and illegal employees ALL FOR CORPORATE PROFIT.. Our current President knows what the employers are doing but he needs to step up to the plate, stop this scourge of inhumanity and give those who disabled the benefits they were promised and get back what the employers illegally and criminally stole away. The AFL-CIO wrote up the contract and the non profit human resources was created to carry out and cover up the theft and harm that employees have faced since the latter 80’s. Kaiser created all of it at the behest of Congress for self-insured employers profit. The whole universal health care scheme generated by kaiser to cut employer cost for it’s own profit. The U.S.Congress OWES the American workers the truth of the pain and theft that kaiser was employed to do via” integrated” health care, that started in 1960 by a crackpot PH’d with others from Harvard that like Kiaser doesn’t believe in anything but making money at human costs. It’s all built on a false premise and I cannot emphasize more that the UK folks are going to be treated the same shoddy and callous way and suffice it to say, that this is just another way to deny care and let people die however that occurs with out real medical care. I swear to this GOD is my witness , to Congress and the people of the U.S.A.! That the fashcists and commies in our country are at it again, been at it, all to our govt for allowing kaiser and some who’ve been in our govt to tear it all and another way to killing American, Canadian, Australian , African and other populations off and one of the best and especially secret ways is through the MEDICAL arena. Kiaser starts from Caesar, the head of the roman empire and it’s attitudes and acts are the same.
The people of the UK NEED to research as we did for many years and we were employees who did our research on who and what kaiser really is and IT IS NOT ABOUT REAL MEDICAL CARE. IT’S A CON PERPETRATED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, thanks to past president Nixon in 1971 (tapes) and that this heinous corporation is all about making disabled workers, and then killing off these AMERICAN older men & women, minorities and many who were unions members
The AFL-CIO wrote up the contract for this to happen with the SSA/Medicare, NAFTA sealed the deal,, again to save self insured employers INCLUDING employers like the SSA/MEDICARE, local, state & federal govt agencies that go into other counties to do the same and use the money for other egregious acts like war, terrorists acts, drugs and gangs all for the perpetrator’s and traitors pockets. The seditious acts should lead to charges of outright treason. Not all corporations do this but they’ve all been indoctrinated with the premise of integrated care and that employees ARE the problem and NOT the employers, who have and are causing decades of heinous acts on their own workers and there is no accountability or responsibility taken by our own govt that ignores complaints no matter whether it is the legislators, justices or agencies. ZERO response form those we pay to protect us, their constituents.
One day soon the truth will come out and I sure hope President Trump is with us to shine the vicious and ugly truth about what’s been happening for at least 57 years to the American people, those who are paying for it all. WE’VE BEEN SCAMMED, CONNED, MAIMED, INJURED, MADE ILL AND KILLED ALL FOR corporate and govt profit. A large order indeed but a crucial and necessary one to save our country and it’s people. AND we have kaiser’s own bragging rights to evidence it all.
MAY too, is a sham for factions like the faschists and communists corporations and why going global should have never happened. It did spread faschism and communism and yes mideast beliefs, that are totally contrary to what most of us believe, what is right and wrong and just. Atheists are easily fooled or are a part of this cause the Romans on down were Atheists too. Tech companies too are involved with their so called aggorythms to indoctrinate our minds on what is right wrong and just, with compassion, empathy and other positive human traits, everything to make us think that money is all what life and celebrity is really about but never reaches the workers who make our countries what they are.. Don’t be fooled anymore!
GOD bless us all because we need HIS Divine Intervention, Blessings and Miracles for and on our survival.
I didn’t mean for this comment to go on for so long but it needs to be said, The Truth and that is God given.
I apologize for my errors. It’s hard for me sometimes to think and express while typing, one, who’s been disabled by kaiser since the last day I worked in 6/92.along with hundreds of others (then) 35, years long. This is too for those who were killed, workers and patients who have no voice and who others as well as myself doing what we can to give them a voice and to stop the theft, maiming and killings.
Dina J.Padilla
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THE BUG April 2, 2020 Australia, Australian politics, China, Coronavirus, Politics
‘Heat treatment’ set to go global
WUHAN: Chinese authorities have boasted of their nation’s ability to swiftly respond to the coronavirus and have demonstrated techniques they have used to rapidly “flatten the curve” of infection growth.
At a market in Wuhan, the acknowledged source of the virus, Chinese health officials showed international media the special “high temperature treatment” developed by the Red Army for tackling the virus and those suspected of having contracted or spread it (main picture).
A Chinese government official on hand for the inspection said the Red Army was preparing to export the heat-treatment technology to Western nations if invited to do so, or even if not asked.
OKLAHOMA CITY: US President Donald Trump has defied his own government’s public health instructions by staging a large rally for supporters in a state that will be key to his re-election plans.
Mr Trump left the White House and flew on Air Force One to the Republican stronghold state of Oklahoma where he attended a rally at a stadium in the capital Oklahoma City.
After hugging several fans as he walked on stage, Mr Trump delivered a rambling 30-minute speech denouncing the Democratic Party, its presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, and the party’s left-wing banner carrier Senator Bernie Sanders.
The President then turned to the current coronavirus crisis and sparked wild applause when he told the crowd that America was set to lead the world in covid-19 deaths, exceeding the total recorded by Italy.
He then left the stage to chants of “U-S-A!, U-S-A!, U-S-A!” but not before stopping to shake the hands of dozens of people in front of the stage.
A poll taken after the event showed a 5% jump in Mr Trump’s support in Oklahoma, suggesting he would hold the state with more than the 65% vote he received in 2016.
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UK tourism body shuts
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Class Action PodcastsMatthew D. Berkowitz2020-06-18T15:43:58-04:00
Collegiate Sports Are Not Immune to COVID-19
By Matthew D. Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea and Samantha Lewis|2020-10-16T11:06:09-04:00October 15th, 2020|Class Action, Podcast|
College sports have not been immune to the repercussions of COVID-19 and therefore we are seeing a rise of class action lawsuits across the country that many universities will have to address in these coming months. Many claims have been from players themselves with lack of PPE equipment and exposure to the virus, but is there a way to safely play a contact sport with proper precautions to prevent a viral outbreak, and by playing are you assuming the risk of injury?
Listen along as attorneys Matthew D. Berkowitz, Samantha Lewis, and Brian O’Shea tackle potential class action issues associated with college sports.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/COVID-castEpisode-6.mp3
Universities and Colleges Face Class Action Lawsuits Amid Reopening
By Matthew D. Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea and Samantha Lewis|2020-10-15T10:45:10-04:00September 17th, 2020|Class Action, General, Podcast|
With students returning back to school, there has been a large number of reported outbreaks of COVID-19. Many students and parents are filing suits for breach of contracts as it relates to remote learning and the impact that social distancing and campus closures have on students and their learning experience. University staff has also been filing suits saying that schools have not been taking the appropriate measures to protect staff from exposure to the virus.
Attorneys, Matthew D. Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea, and Samantha Lewis dive deep into possible causations and significant hurdles for class certification.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/COVID-cast-Episode-6.mp3
Students Seek Tuition and Fee Reimbursement in Light of COVID-19
By Matthew D. Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea and Samantha Lewis|2020-06-18T14:08:47-04:00June 16th, 2020|Class Action, Podcast|
There are several class actions being filed against major universities across the country in light of COVID-19. Attorneys Matthew Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea, and Samantha Lewis discuss the major types of claims students are filing. For example, students are claiming they are not receiving the same college experience that they are paying for while the universities are trying to follow state guidelines in response to coronavirus. They also dive into class certifications issues that might come up like different expectations of what a college experience is, different majors, and financial aid status with their education.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/COVID-cast-5.mp3
Long-Term Care Facilities Being Hit With Class Action Lawsuits
By Matthew D. Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea and Samantha Lewis|2020-06-02T18:50:20-04:00June 2nd, 2020|Podcast|
Americans over the age of 65 have become more at risk with the spread of COVID-19 than any other age group. As a result, COVID-19 has been going through nursing homes in many states that have been the hotbed to this disease like New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Many of them will be facing class actions in the upcoming months for not following CDC guidelines and supplying employees with proper equipment to protect them from COVID-19. Listen to this episode as attorneys Matthew Berkowitz, Brian O’Shea, and Samantha Lewis discuss this trending class action topic and different causations in negligence.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/COVIDcast-4.mp3
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
By Matthew D. Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea|2020-05-23T13:28:07-04:00May 22nd, 2020|Podcast|
Attorneys Matthew D. Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea discuss the many class action lawsuits that have the potential to arise out of professional sports during COVID-19. Both the NFL and MLB are planning to reopen soon in certain states and with that comes many legal concerns they need to consider. Many class actions will come out of this with exposure to the players and stadium workers as well as employment issues. Matt and Brian discuss the defenses that these teams can take as they head into their seasons.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVIDcast3.mp3
Reopening The Workplace During COVID-19
By Matthew D. Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea|2020-05-15T14:16:25-04:00May 15th, 2020|Class Action, Labor & Employment, Podcast|
Following up on COVID-cast’s first episode, “Navigating The Class Action Legal Landscape During COVID-19” where attorney’s Matthew D. Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea dove into existing lawsuits and potential lawsuits filed by employees against employers.
In this episode, they discuss important things for essential and non-essential business to keep in mind as they start to reopen like PPE, following CDC guidelines, monitoring how many employees are in the workplace, and if considering if work from home is a viable option in the months ahead.
Navigating The Class Action Legal Landscape During COVID-19
By Matthew D. Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea|2020-06-16T17:17:35-04:00May 8th, 2020|Class Action, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment, Podcast|
As we gear up to enter back into our new normal, industries of all types will be facing legal issues due to COVID-19 related claims. During this pandemic, grocers and essential businesses are facing class action lawsuits in spite of attempting to mitigate the risk. Employees and shoppers are filing against retailers and grocers alleging that employers took inadequate steps to protect employees and shoppers from COVID-19.
Matt Berkowitz and Brian O’Shea discuss many types of scenarios and positions that the defense and plaintiff might take during a class action lawsuit due to COVID-19 exposure.
https://theclassactionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVIDcast-1-1.mp3
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Posted inSchools
Kennedy HS whistleblower sues charter group
by Marta Jewson March 27, 2020 March 27, 2020
Runell King pleads with the charter board of New Beginnings Schools Foundation to investigate his allegations of grade inflation at a board meeting March 28, 2019.
A former charter school network administrator who was fired last year after alerting superiors to suspicious grade changes at John F. Kennedy High School, is suing the school’s charter operator — the New Beginnings Schools Foundation — citing the state’s whistleblower law.
In the suit, the former administrator, Runell King, alleges he was fired immediately after threatening to go to the media when the charter group dismissed his concerns.
The timing, the suit charges, suggests that his refusal to participate in apparent grade inflation, telling his bosses about it and then threatening to go public were why he was fired.
King ultimately did go public with his concerns last year, shortly after his firing. In March 2019, he told The Lens that higher-ups at the New Beginnings Schools Foundation initially failed to conduct a thorough investigation into about a dozen instances of students’ grades being inflated at the Gentilly high school. Shortly after the story was published, the network’s board authorized a new investigation, which eventually uncovered much deeper problems at the school.
The network’s internal investigation — along with work by a contractor hired to help manage the network and probes by the state and NOLA Public Schools district — uncovered widespread mismanagement, special education problems and student transcripts that were incomplete or could not be verified. Dozens of seniors from the class of 2019 learned nearly a month after graduation last summer they hadn’t actually been eligible to receive diplomas.
After then-Chief Executive Officer Michelle Blouin-Williams resigned and several employees were dismissed, and as troubling details continued to mount over the summer, the charter group voted to surrender both Kennedy and its other charter school, Pierre A. Capdau Charter School, at the end of this school year.
The group’s final year of managing the schools — including helping some of last year’s seniors get their diplomas — has been upended by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ statewide month-long school shutdown in response to the spread of the coronavirus.
King’s lawsuit was filed the day that order was given, about one year after he was fired.
“It is pretty clear that Dr. King did advise all the powers that be of the grade changing that appears to be taking place,” his lawyer Galen Hair said in an interview Thursday. “And it’s curious to Dr. King, and frankly anyone else that knows about the situation, that he was later told he didn’t provide enough information to substantiate his allegations.”
At the time of our first story, Blouin-Williams wouldn’t say why King was fired and simply that New Beginnings was “an at-will agency.”
“I think there’s a rational conclusion that one could make that had he not said anything about the grade changes that he wouldn’t be in this situation today,” Hair said.
Hair said King has suffered economic loss and wants his reputation to be publicly restored.
“He was not the boy who cried wolf,” Hair said. “He was an educated individual who thoroughly investigated the situation and sought the truth until the very end.”
With courts and other agencies temporarily closed and operating at reduced capacities due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hair said he was unsure of a timeline for the lawsuit.
“We have a job to do, we had to file that suit to protect Dr. King and his interests,” he said. “But right now the larger concern is everyone stays safe.”
Former Kennedy HS principal sues charter group, whistleblower
Kennedy HS has not provided school district required information on grade-fixing, transcript errors, according to warning letter
Newly hired Kennedy HS Principal out six weeks into school year
Tagged: New Beginnings Schools Foundation
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Marta Jewson covers education in New Orleans for The Lens. She began her reporting career covering charter schools for The Lens and helped found the hyperlocal news site Mid-City Messenger. Jewson returned... More by Marta Jewson
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In struggle to land a blow on Biden, Trump toys with nickname change
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, who has used belittling nicknames to describe his opponents throughout his political career, toyed with a name change on Friday for his Democratic rival in the Nov. 3 election, Joe Biden.
Unable to hold his signature large campaign rallies because of the pandemic, Trump brought about 300 police officers who support his re-election bid to the open area outside the clubhouse at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
Trump polled the crowd on whether he should stick with “Sleepy Joe” or change his nickname to “Slow Joe.”
Trump, 74, has frequently sought to sow doubts about Biden’s competence due to his age, 77, a strategy that appears to have had little effect as Biden has held a consistent lead in the polls nationally and in many battleground states.
“What’s better, Sleepy Joe or Slow Joe?” Trump asked the crowd. “I go back and forth.”
He polled the crowd on which name the audience liked better. Sleepy Joe got louder cheers.
“That’s what I thought,” said Trump.
He added: “I got all these guys telling me… ‘we don’t like ‘sleepy’ because it’s rude, we’re talking about the president of the United States.’ I’ll tell you one thing, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un and President Xi (Jinping) of China, they’re not sleepy…. We can’t have slow, sleepy people dealing with them.”
Trump has struggled to find a consistent line of attack against Biden, who is well known to Americans after a career in the U.S. Senate and eight years as vice president.
Also read: U.S. allies greet Biden as next president despite Trump refusal to concede
Trump used his speech to promote a law-and-order theme in the wake of racial justice protests that erupted in the wake of the death in police custody of an African-American man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Trump is to make a campaign stop in Minnesota on Monday, where the topic is likely to come up again.
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Facebook collected device data on 187,000 users using banned snooping app
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app, which Apple banned earlier this year after the app violated its rules.
The social media giant said in a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office — which TechCrunch obtained — that it collected data on 31,000 users in the U.S., including 4,300 teenagers. The rest of the collected data came from users in India.
Earlier this year, a TechCrunch investigation found both Facebook and Google were abusing their Apple-issued enterprise developer certificates, designed to only allow employees to run iPhone and iPad apps used only inside the company. The investigation found the companies were building and providing apps for consumers outside Apple’s App Store, in violation of Apple’s rules. The apps paid users in return for collecting data on how participants used their devices and to understand app habits by gaining access to all of the network data in and out of their device.
Apple banned the apps by revoking Facebook’s enterprise developer certificate — and later Google’s enterprise certificate . In doing so, the revocation knocked offline both companies’ fleet of internal iPhone or iPad apps that relied on the same certificates.
But in response to lawmakers’ questions, Apple said it didn’t know how many devices installed Facebook’s rule-violating app.
“We know that the provisioning profile for the Facebook Research app was created on April 19, 2017, but this does not necessarily correlate to the date that Facebook distributed the provisioning profile to end users,” said Timothy Powderly, Apple’s director of federal affairs, in his letter.
Facebook said the app dated back to 2016.
A portion of Apple’s letter to lawmakers. (Image: TechCrunch)
TechCrunch also obtained the letters sent by Apple and Google to lawmakers in early March, but were never made public.
These “research” apps relied on willing participants to download the app from outside the app store and use the Apple-issued developer certificates to install the apps. Then, the apps would install a root network certificate, allowing the app to collect all the data out of the device — like web browsing histories, encrypted messages and mobile app activity — potentially also including data from their friends — for competitive analysis.
A response by Facebook about the number of users involved in Project Atlas (Image: TechCrunch)
In Facebook’s case, the research app — dubbed Project Atlas — was a repackaged version of its Onavo VPN app , which Facebook was forced to remove from Apple’s App Store last year for gathering too much device data .
Just this week, Facebook relaunched its research app as Study, only available on Google Play and for users who have been approved through Facebook’s research partner, Applause. Facebook said it would be more transparent about how it collects user data.
Facebook’s vice president of public policy Kevin Martin defended the company’s use of enterprise certificates, saying it “was a relatively well-known industry practice.” When asked, a Facebook spokesperson didn’t quantify this further. Later, TechCrunch found dozens of apps that used enterprise certificates to evade the app store.
Facebook previously said it “specifically ignores information shared via financial or health apps.” In its letter to lawmakers, Facebook stuck to its guns, saying its data collection was focused on “analytics,” but confirmed “in some isolated circumstances the app received some limited non-targeted content.”
“We did not review all of the data to determine whether it contained health or financial data,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We have deleted all user-level market insights data that was collected from the Facebook Research app, which would include any health or financial data that may have existed.”
But Facebook didn’t say what kind of data, only that the app didn’t decrypt “the vast majority” of data sent by a device.
Facebook describing the type of data it collected — including “limited, non-targeted content” (Image: TechCrunch)
Google’s letter, penned by public policy vice president Karan Bhatia, did not provide a number of devices or users, saying only that its app was a “small scale” program. When reached, a Google spokesperson did not comment by our deadline.
Google also said it found “no other apps that were distributed to consumer end users,” but confirmed several other apps used by the company’s partners and contractors, which no longer rely on enterprise certificates.
Google explaining which of its apps were improperly using Apple-issued enterprise certificates (Image: TechCrunch)
Apple told TechCrunch that both Facebook and Google “are in compliance” with its rules as of the time of publication. At its annual developer conference last week, the company said it now “reserves the right to review and approve or reject any internal use application.”
Facebook’s willingness to collect this data from teenagers — despite constant scrutiny from press and regulators — demonstrates how valuable the company sees market research on its competitors. With its restarted paid research program but with greater transparency, the company continues to leverage its data collection to keep ahead of its rivals.
“After its previous app was rightly taken down and blocked from operating, Facebook moved more quickly to reintroduce a market research product than it has to provide any substantial consumer privacy protections or resolve the significant abuse on its platform,” Sen. Blumenthal told TechCrunch. “At a time when the company is under investigation for its data practices and anticompetitive actions, the Facebook Study app is at best tone-deaf and ill-considered.”
Facebook and Google came off worse in the enterprise app abuse scandal, but critics said in revoking enterprise certificates Apple retains too much control over what content customers have on their devices.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are said to be examining the big four tech giants — Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google-owner Alphabet — for potentially falling afoul of U.S. antitrust laws.
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Director, Training Program in Urological Research
Bachelor of Science: Agra University, India
Graduate School: Peshawar University, Pakistan
Ph.D.: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: University of Adelaide, South Australia
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stone Disease
2016 Honorary Award , 13th International Symposium and International Urolithiasis Society, Chiba, Japan
2016 UF COM Faculty Council Life Time Achievement Awards, Gainesville, Florida
2016 Life Time Achievement Award, AUA and ROCK Society, New York
2012 MARQUIS Who’s Who in America, 66th Edition
2010 Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
2001 University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
1997 University of Florida College of Medicine, Award for Excellence in Research, Faculty Research Prize in Basic Science
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Vintage Toys & Collectibles Live Auction- Feb 28-March 1(#240) 02/28/2019 10:00 AM PST CLOSED!
Lot 17 of 784: Lot # 17 - Darth Vader Switcheroo Light Switch Cover [Kazanjian Collection]
KENNER (1980)
Punched cardback torn at top. This is one of 3 different switcheroo plates that were made, the other two being C-3PO and R2-D2. From the collection of Return of the Jedi producer Howard Kazanjian.
Condition: Poor; wear along the edges of the cardback; curving of bottom of the cardback; cardback torn at top.
Dimensions: 12'' x 7'' x 3'' (30cm x 17.5cm x 7.5cm)
Estimate: $80-120 *A buyer's premium of 23% will be added to the hammer price on all lots
*This Lot Will Be Sold Day 1 - February 28th11:00AM PST
The auction is being held live in Valencia, CA with lots 1-382 running on Thursday February 28th and lots 383-783 running on Friday March 1st. Absentee bidding is now open and bidders may place bids online leading up to the live auction dates. Live bidding for the auction will start at 11am PST February 28th and March 1st. Bidding can be done in person, via Prop Store's online auction platform, or telephone.
For general inquiries about the auction and how to participate, please email us or call us at 818-727-7829
All bidders must be registered for the auction and approved for bidding in order to place bids. Register for online bidding here. It may take 24-48 hours for Prop Store to review and approve bidder registrations. If your approval has taken longer than this or you have any questions about your online bidder status, Please email us or call us at 818-727-7829 for an update.
Bidders can begin placing online absentee bids from Friday February 1st until the live auction begins on February 28th. Bidders may also bid in real-time during the auction on February 28th and March 1st. A live stream of the auction will be embedded on all auction pages so that users can follow the action in the room as they bid.
All online bidders must be registered for the auction and approved for bidding in order to place bids. Register for online bidding here. It may take 24-48 hours for Prop Store to review and approve bidder registrations. If your approval has taken longer than this or you have any questions about your online bidder status, Please email us or call us at 818-727-7829 for an update.
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Customers outside California will not be charged the 9.5% Sales Tax.
The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping, handling, and delivery costs. Prop Store can help you arrange packing and shipping through FedEx for smaller items or PackAir Airfreight, Inc. for larger items, or you can use your own licensed carrier, approved by Prop Store. Customers are strongly advised to request a shipping quote prior to bidding. Email our shipping department and we will aim to provide you with a comprehensive shipping quote within 2-3 working days, though freight quotes for oversized items may take longer. Please be advised that certain Lots are highly fragile and should be handled with caution. Prop Store recommends that the Buyer collect such Lots locally from Prop Store if possible.
By participating in this auction you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. The full terms and conditions can be found in the "Terms and Conditions" window (to the right on desktop and below on mobile).
A commission of twenty-three percent (25%) of the Hammer Price charged to the Buyer for each Lot of Property purchased at Auction
2. Catalog Descriptions and Conditions of Lots
2.1. All Lots are sold subject to their condition at the date of the Auction. The nature and age of the Lots mean they are often unique and are likely to have wear and tear, damage and other imperfections. By making a bid, the Bidder accepts the actual condition of the Lot and acknowledges that if a bid is successful, the Buyer will buy the Lot “as is.”
2.2. Prop Store’s staff are not professional restorers. Accordingly, the descriptions of, and images and statements of condition of the Lots contained in Prop Store’s catalog or on its website are for illustrative purposes only. Prop Store cannot guarantee that colors are properly shown. All Lots are sold “as is”. Bidders are encouraged to inspect the Lots and satisfy themselves as to the Lots’ condition before bidding. Where necessary, Bidders should seekand obtain independent professional advice.
3. Before the Auction
3.1. Bidder Registration
3.1.1. Every person or Company wishing to make a bid in the Auction is required to register with Prop Store before participating at an Auction.
3.1.2. To register, each person or Company must complete and return a bidder registration form available in this Buyer’s Guide or online at www.propstore. com, which must include a valid Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit card details to be held on file.
3.1.3. Each Company registering to bid must provide a certified copy or original articles of incorporation, articles of organization, or other documents satisfactory to Prop Store – contact Prop Store at +1 818 727 7829 for confirmation of what will be acceptable.
3.1.5. Any person seeking to participate in the Auction as an agent on behalf of a registered principal must complete and submit an Agent Information Form, and provide an up-to-date, valid, government-issued photo identification (e.g., passport, driver’s license), as well as a written authorization from the principal confirming the agent’s authority to participate in the Auction on the principal’s behalf.
3.1.6. The Bidder agrees and consents that all personal information provided by the Bidder at registration may be used by Prop Store to:
3.1.6.1. Ship Lots purchased at Auction to the Buyer;
3.1.7. By participating in and/or attending the Auction and signing the registration form, each Bidder consents to be filmed and/or photographed and agrees and authorizes Prop Store to use and publish such film and/or photographs and likeness for use in (1) providing online access to the Auction,
(2) recording the results of the Auction, (3) print, digital, online and all other media for marketing purposes (including without limitation, on Prop Store’s website, YouTube and other online platforms), and (4) in any other Prop Store publications of whatever nature. The Bidder releases Prop Store and holds it harmless from any reasonable expectation of confidentiality or privacy associated with such images and releases Prop Store and any third parties involved in the making, creation or publication of the images, or any marketing or other materials derived therefrom from all and any liability for claims made in respect of such publication. Publication of the images in whatever format confers no right of ownership on the individual or right to royalties or payment.
3.2. Pre-Auction Viewing
3.2.1. During the Pre-Auction Viewing period, as set forth in the Auction catalog, any Bidder may preview the Lots free of charge by appointment with Prop Store.
3.3. Delivery Costs
3.3.1. At Bidder’s request, without any liability therefor, Prop Store can provide shipping estimates before the Auction. Any Bidder requesting such estimates should email support@propstore.com with the Lot number and shipping address at least three (3) days before the start of the Auction. Real-time shipping estimates are also available on many Lots through the online bidding platform.
3.4. Bidders Outside the US.
3.4.1. If the Bidder is located outside the United States, it is the Bidder’s sole responsibility and obligation to ensure in advance of the Auction that any Lot purchased in the Auction can be exported from the United States and imported into the country of destination. No sale will be canceled because the Lot may not be imported into the country of destination. PackAir Airfreight, Inc., a third-party, independent freight vendor, can advise Bidders on relevant export licensing regulations and can submit export license applications upon request. Neither Prop Store nor PackAir Airfreight, Inc. can guarantee that any licenses, permits, or consents will be granted, and shall have no liability arising out of or relating thereto.
4. At the Auction
4.1 No Reserve Auction
4.1.1. Certain Lots in this auction are sold without a Reserve Price; the majority of Lots in this auction are sold with a Reserve Price. The Reserve Price is the minimum price the Seller will accept for a Lot. The Reserve Price will not be more than the lowest estimate given by Prop Store. Prop Store may disclose or keep confidential the Reserve Price at its entire discretion.
4.2 Bidding Process
4.2.1. Prop Store reserves the right to refuse admission and/or participation at the Auction and to reject any bid.
4.2.2. Bids may not be accepted from unregistered bidders and all Bidders must be eighteen (18) years or older. All bids must be made in US dollars.
4.2.4. All bids are by individual Lot unless the auctioneer states to the contrary during the live Auction. Lots will usually be sold in their numbered sequence, unless the auctioneer announces otherwise at the Auction.
4.2.5. The auctioneer may accept bids from Bidders present in the sale room, via telephone, or via online at the time of the Auction. The auctioneer may also accept proxy or absentee bids delivered to Prop Store before the start of the Auction. Proxy or absentee bids must be submitted either by using the form in the Buyer’s Guide or the online form at www.propstore.com. Proxy or absentee bids will be executed at the lowest possible price. If Prop Store receives proxy or absentee bids on a particular Lot for identical maximum bids, and at the Auction these proxy bids are the highest bids on the Lot, the Lot will be sold to the Bidder whose written bid was first received by Prop Store.
4.2.6. Any Bidder wishing to place bids at the time of the Auction via telephone must provide to Prop Store a list of Lots on which they intend to bid at least twenty-four (24) hours before the start of the Auction.
4.2.7. In addition to Prop Store’s Conditions, any Bidder placing bids online must comply with the terms for use of the online auction platform access provider.
4.2.8. Except as expressly stated in the Buyer’s Guide or the Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability arising out of or related to any errors or omission
4.3 Auctioneer's Authority
4.3.1. The auctioneer has the right to exercise reasonable discretion in refusing any bid, advancing the bidding in such a manner as he or she may decide, dividing any Lot, combining any two or more Lots, and whether during or after the sale, in the case of error or dispute, determining the successful Buyer, continuing the bidding, cancelling the sale, or reoffering and reselling the Lot in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, then, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the sale record maintained by the auctioneer will be conclusive.
4.3.2. The auctioneer shall have sole discretion to accept or decline any bid.
5. After the Auction
5.1. Payment by Buyer
5.1.1. When making a bid, every Bidder acknowledges that such bid is a binding offer to buy the Property at that price (plus the Buyer’s Premium, all applicable taxes, and any and all shipping charges). All sales are final.
5.1.2. A Buyer’s Premium at a rate of twenty-three percent (23%) will be applied to all winning bids. The Purchase Price of the Property shall consist of the Bidder’s winning bid on the Property plus the Buyer’s Premium. The Purchase Price does not include any duties, taxes, sales tax, VAT, and/or customs fees (where applicable), and shipping and handling charges.
5.1.3. Prop Store will notify the Buyer and send (by email unless requested otherwise) a payment invoice setting out the Purchase Price and itemizing the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium, plus any applicable sales tax, within seven (7) business days of the end of the Auction.
5.1.3.1. For all sales within California, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 9.50%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.2. For all sales within Washington state, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 6.50%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.3. For all sales within Illinois, sales tax at the prevailing rate (currently 6.25%) will be applied to the Purchase Price.
5.1.3.4. Delivery addresses outside the states listed above will be exempt from sales tax.
5.1.3. Payment plans may be available in increments of up to three (3) months. Buyers wishing to utilize the payment plan service, if approved by Prop Store, shall be required to pay a deposit of twenty percent (20%) of the Purchase Price (the “Deposit”), within seven (7) business days of being invoiced. The balance of the Purchase Price shall then be split over up to three (3) months, at the Buyer’s option. The payments of the remaining balance shall be made as follows:
5.1.3.1. If the one-month payment plan is selected, the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.3.2. If the two-month payment plan is selected, forty percent (40%) of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction and the remaining forty percent (40%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within sixty (60) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.3.3. If the three-month payment plan is selected: twenty-six and sixty-six percent (26.66%) of the Purchase Price shall be due within thirty (30) days of the close of the Auction; twenty-six and sixty-six percent (26.66%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within sixty (60) days of the close of the Auction; and the remaining twenty-six and sixty-eight percent (26.68%) of the balance of the Purchase Price shall be due within ninety (90) days of the close of the Auction.
5.1.4. Prop Store offers no grace period on payment plan deadlines. If the Buyer does not adhere to the payment deadline as set forth above, the Buyer shall be deemed to be in default. In the event of default, all funds already paid to Prop Store shall be retained by Prop Store as liquidated damages. Moreover, Prop Store and/or the Seller shall also be entitled to any other remedies available, whether in law or equity.
5.1.5. No title to any Property shall pass to the Buyer except upon payment in full of the Purchase Price, and any and all other sums due to Prop Store and/or the Seller, even in circumstances where Prop Store has released the Lot to the Buyer. Among other remedies available to Prop Store and the Seller for failure to render full payment of the Purchase Price, Prop Store and/or the Seller shall be entitled to immediate possession of the Lot purchased by the Buyer, if delivered to the Buyer. The Bidder shall return the Property to Prop Store within 3 business days of written demand by Prop Store of the return of the Property.
5.1.6. Prop Store vouchers and other discount codes are not valid as payment for Auction items.
5.1.8. The Buyer agrees that Prop Store will charge the credit card provided at registration for all items purchased at auction, and any future Prop Store auctions in which the Buyer participates if not paid within seven (7) business days after invoicing.
5.1.9. Payment must be in US dollars and may be made by electronic transfer, debit card, credit card (up to a maximum of $25,000), bankers draft or check (drawn on a US bank account – note check clearance can take between five (5) to ten (10) working days), or cash (up to a maximum of $5,000). Please note the Lot number, invoice number, and Bidder registration number when making payment to ensure it can be processed as efficiently as possible.
5.1.10. If payment is made by credit card, the Buyer expressly agrees that such payment is nonrefundable nor may be credited to any other purchase, and that the Buyer will not undertake any action or effort to stop payment, seek a refund, or attempt a charge back of such amounts by the issuer of the credit card.
5.2 Default by Buyer
5.2.1. Failure to timely make payment of any amounts due to Prop Store and/or the Seller shall constitute an event of Default by the Buyer. In the event of Default for nonpayment, Prop Store may charge interest on the unpaid amount at the rate of five percent (5%) a year above the base lending rate of Bank of America from time to time. The base lending rate shall be the average lending rate of Bank of America for the six (6) months preceding the date of default. If such interest rate exceeds the legal rate permitted by law, then the maximum legal rate permitted by law shall apply. This interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount. The Buyer must pay Prop Store interest together with any overdue amount.
5.2.2. If any applicable conditions herein are not complied with (to a material extent), the Buyer will be in Default and in addition to any and all other remedies available to Prop Store by law, including, without limitation, the right to hold the Buyer liable for the total Purchase Price, including all fees, charges and expenses more fully set forth herein, Prop Store, at its option and to the extent permitted by law, may (i) cancel the sale of that, or any other items sold to the defaulting Buyer, retaining as liquidated damages all payments made by the Buyer, (ii) resell the purchased item, or (iii) effect any combination thereof. In any case, the Buyer shall be liable for any deficiency, any and all costs, handling charges, late charges, expenses of both sales, legal fees and expenses, collection fees and incidental damages.
5.2.4. Prop Store may further reject at any future auction any bids made by or on behalf of the Buyer or require a deposit from the Buyer before accepting any further bids.
5.2.5. Prop Store may take such other action as Prop Store deems necessary or appropriate.
5.2.6. At its option, Prop Store may pay the Seller the entirety of the balance due from the Buyer. If Prop Store pays such amount to the Seller, the Buyer acknowledges and agrees that Prop Store shall have all of the rights of the Seller against the Buyer.
5.2.7. Prop Store shall be entitled to retain the Lots sold until all amounts due have been received in full in good cleared funds or until the Buyer has performed any other outstanding obligations as Prop Store shall reasonably require.
5.3 Shipping and Storage
5.3.1. The Buyer is solely responsible for all shipping, handling, and delivery costs. Prop Store can help you arrange packing and shipping through FedEx for smaller items or PackAir AirFreight, Inc. for larger items, or you can use your own licensed carrier, approved by Prop Store. Please contact Prop Store at +1 818-727-7829 or supportLA@propstore.com for further details. Prop Store does not warranty the Lots against, and shall have no liability for, any damage that any Lot may incur or suffer during the shipping or delivery process.
5.3.2. If within fourteen (14) calendar days after the close of Auction, the Buyer has not made arrangements for and paid the shipping cost of the Lots purchased, or has otherwise failed to collect the Lots, a storage fee of three percent (3%) of the Hammer Price per month shall be charged to the Buyer. If the Buyer has failed to pay the Purchase Price and the cost of shipping and handling within fourteen (14) calendar days after the close of Auction, Prop Store, at its option, may cancel the sale.
5.3.3. It is the Buyer’s sole obligation and responsibility to be aware of, to comply with, and to pay for all relevant import duties, taxes, VAT, customs and other fees charged in the area of delivery. Prop Store will ship all packages with the full value of the Lot declared. The Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for any import duties, taxes, VAT, customs, shipping or other charges for the Lots shipped. Failure by the Buyer to pay all necessary amounts may result in the relevant authorities returning the Lot to Prop Store and in those circumstances the Buyer will be charged and will pay storage cost and Prop Store’s additional reasonable costs and expenses.
5.3.4. It is further the Buyer’s sole obligation and responsibility to ensure that any Lot purchased from Prop Store enters the shipping location lawfully, that all duties and taxes have been paid and that all required export procedures, regulations, and laws were properly complied with. The Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store shall have no obligation or responsibility for complying with any export procedures, regulations, or laws applicable to the Lot.
5.3.5. Unless otherwise agreed by Prop Store in writing, the fact that the Buyer wishes to apply for an export license does not affect or postpone the Buyer’s obligation to make payment in accordance with Prop Store’s payment terms nor Prop Store’s right to charge interest or storage charges on late payment. Prop Store shall not be obligated to rescind or cancel a sale or to refund any monies paid by the Buyer to Prop Store as a result of or related to the Buyer’s failure or inability to obtain an export license.
5.3.6. In the event that the Bidder refuses to accept a shipment due to import duty charges, and the item is returned to Prop Store, the Bidder shall be subject to a charge of twenty percent (20%) of the Purchase Price of the returned item, plus all shipping charges incurred in the shipment and return shipment of the Property. The balance of the price paid for the Property will be issued only as a store credit to be used against future purchases. Store credits are proprietary to each office of Prop Store and may not be transferred to another office.
5.3.7. Should the Buyer make own arrangements with third parties for shipping, handling, or delivery of any Lots, Prop Store shall not have and accepts no liability or responsibility for the acts or omissions of any such third parties. Similarly, where Prop Store suggests other handlers, packers or carriers, its suggestions are made on the basis of its general experience of such parties in the past. Although Prop Store shall use reasonable efforts to take care when selecting third parties for shipping and delivery, the Buyer understands and agrees that Prop Store is not responsible to any person to whom it has made a recommendation for the acts or omissions of the third party concerned.
5.4 Prop Store's Liability
5.4.1. Except where expressly stated to the contrary above, under no circumstance will Prop Store incur liability to any Bidder or Buyer in excess of the purchase price actually paid.
5.4.2. Prop Store will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of its obligations under these Conditions that is caused by an event outside its control, that being any act or event beyond Prop Store’s reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lockouts or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks. Prop Store’s obligations shall be suspended and time for performance extended until such time as the event outside its control is over, following which a new collection or shipping date can be agreed.
6. Terms of Guarantee.
6.1 Prop Store guarantees the following: (i) that each lot of Property is what is stated in the title block of that lot of Property in the Auction catalog, subject to any revisions (which may be given in writing or online before or during the Auction at which the lot of Property is offered for sale); and (ii) that each lot of Property is genuine and authentic, and not a counterfeit or reproduction. Certain lots of Property have been assigned a “grade” by an independent, third-party. Prop Store does not guarantee the accuracy, veracity, or quality of the grades assigned to the Property, and shall have no liability or responsibility therefor. Prior to the Auction, it is the Bidder’s sole responsibility and obligation to inspect each lot of Property on which the Bidder wishes to place any bid to determine its condition.
6.2 If a Bidder demonstrates, to Prop Store’s reasonable satisfaction, that the guarantees as set forth in paragraph 6.1 made by Prop Store are materially incorrect, the sale will be rescinded if the Property is returned to Prop Store in the same condition in which it was at the time of sale. In order to satisfy Prop Store that the guarantees are materially incorrect, Prop Store reserves the right to require the Bidder to obtain, at the Bidder’s expense, the opinions of two experts in the field, mutually acceptable to Prop Store and the Bidder.
6.3 In the event a sale is rescinded in accordance with clause 6.2 herein, Prop Store shall repay to the Buyer the Purchase Price. Repayment of the Purchase Price shall be the Buyer’s sole remedy for an incorrect guarantee, to the exclusion of all other remedies to the extent permissible at law. It is specifically understood that this will be considered the Buyer’s sole remedy under this clause 6. The Buyer expressly agrees that Prop Store shall not be liable in whole or in part, for, and the Buyer shall not be entitled to recover, any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages including loss of profits or value of investment or opportunity cost.
6.4 Bidders are aware that description revisions may occur on some Lots, and should inquire before the Auction whether any description revisions have occurred on a given Lot and/or examine a Lot before bidding on it. Prop Store will make all commercially reasonable efforts to make description revisions readily available during the Auction. While Prop Store uses commercially reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in this auction, Prop Store makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Prop Store assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Auction. Any reference images appearing within Prop Store’s auction listings are solely for reference purposes and are not intended or deemed to be a representation or warranty of the item depicted within the image. Except as expressly provided in these Conditions, Prop Store shall have no liability to the Bidder in respect of any Property and all and any implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
7. Warranties and Representations
7.1. The copyright in all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Prop Store relating to this Auction (the “Images”), is and shall remain at all times the property of Prop Store. The purchase of any Lot of Property does not include ownership in or to the trademarks registrations, copyrights and/or any other intangible intellectual properties associated with the Property. Therefore, purchase of the Property does not permit the Buyer to replicate or to otherwise exploit the Property. The Buyer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Prop Store and its directors, employees, affiliates, contractors and agents from any third-party claims, actions, suits, judgments, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) asserted against or incurred by Prop Store that arise out of or result from any act or omission by the Buyer arising out of or relating to the Buyer’s infringement of any copyrights, trademarks, or intellectual property in or to the Property or Images.
7.7. Except as expressly provided herein, Prop Store shall have no liability to any Bidder or Buyer with respect to any Lot and all and any implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
7.8. The Property does not constitute children’s products or childcare articles, as those terms are defined in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act and should be kept out of the reach of children.
7.9. Except as otherwise specifically set forth herein, the Bidder assumes all risks of loss and/or injury, including, but not limited to, personal injury or property damage, arising from or related to any other use of any Property purchased at Auction. The Bidder understands and agrees that Prop Store and its shareholders, directors, officers, employees, parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, contractors, employees, representatives, and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) shall have no liability for any such loss or injury and the Bidder does hereby release, acquit and forever discharge the Released Parties of and from any and all rights, claims, demands, liabilities, judgments, suits, expenses, actions, causes of action, damages, costs, losses, compensation, contracts, agreements and debts (including, without limitation, attorneys’ and consultants’ fees and costs) (collectively “Claims”) which Bidder now has or may hereafter have against Releasees whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected including, but not limited to, those arising out of or related to Bidder’s purchase, use, shipment, alteration and/or modification of any Property purchased at Auction.
7.10.Each Bidder and Buyer expressly agrees that Prop Store shall not be liable in whole or in part, for, and no Bidder or Buyer shall be entitled to recover, any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages including loss of profits or value of investment or opportunity cost, for any breach of any warranty, representation, or guarantee set forth herein.
8. Other Important Terms
8.1. Bids will not be accepted from those persons under the age of eighteen (18) without the written consent of said person’s parent or legal guardian. Written consent must acknowledge the Conditions. The written consent constitutes an agreement by the parent or legal guardian to be bound thereby on behalf of the bidder.
8.2. If any part of these Conditions is found by any arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part shall be discounted and the rest of the Conditions shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
8.3. The contract is between the Seller, the Buyer and Prop Store and no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
8.4. These Conditions shall be enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its choice of law provisions.
Lot # 16 - C-3PO Switcheroo Light Switch Cover [Kazanjian Collection]17
Lot # 17 - Darth Vader Switcheroo Light Switch Cover [Kazanjian Collection]18
Lot # 18 - R2-D2 Switcheroo Light Switch Cover [Kazanjian Collection]19
Lot # 19 - ESB Give-A-Show Projector With Slides - Sealed
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Edge Returns to the App Store
Andy Chalk
1 POSTED: 8 Oct 2009 12:03
After months of legal wrangling interspersed with the odd bit of name-calling, Mobigame's hit iPhone game Edge is once again available at the App Store and this time it looks like it's there to say.
The story should be familiar by now: Mobigame developed and released a game for the iPhone Edge that was popular enough to draw the attention of Dr. Tim Langdell, he of Edge Games fame, who has a reputation for threatening litigation against anyone who might be infringing upon one of his many "Edge" trademarks. Langdell filed a complaint with Apple, which responded by pulling the game from the App Store pending a proper licensing arrangement; unlike Langdell's previous encounters, however, Mobigame was having none of it. The studio chose first to ignore him and then to fight, and in the end the whole thing pretty much blew up in Langdell's face.
Now, as the dust is settling, it looks like we're right back to where we started, with one rather big change: Edge is back on the App Store but Langdell appears to be entirely out of the picture. "Mobigame is pleased to announce that the award winning game Edge By Mobigame is to be rereleased on the App Store after several months spent dealing with the unmerited and unjustifiable claims of the now discredited Tim Langdell and his related companies," Mobigame's David Papazian said in a statement.
Mobigame has maintained from day one that it was in the right regarding Langdell's allegations but it may be emboldened to crow about it a bit more by the fact that heavy hitter Electronic Arts has now waded into the fray, filing petitions in September to have several of Edge Games' trademarks voided. EA's timing, however, left the rather ironic appearance that its sudden willingness to take action was spurred largely by tiny Mobigame's success in fighting off Edge's threats.
"We remain convinced that we are and at all times were entitled to use the name 'Edge' and we are determined to continue our efforts to fight for that right and to support those who have been similarly affected," Papazian continued. "We would stress that we have not reached any settlement or compromised our position in any way and would like to say a big thank you to all those who have supported us."
Papazian also said that Mobigame's next release, Cross Fingers, will be officially announced soon.
Dogstile
good for mobigames i say, they did nothing wrong and its nice to see them come out on top
Booze Zombie
Score one for the nice guys!
cleverlymadeup
that's pretty cool it's coming back
i don't even see how he can claim trademark over the name Edge at all, i was under the impression that it had to be in a certain font or logo format, if it was a common word
scotth266
Good. I don't have an Iphone, and don't intend to get one, but Edge strikes me as being a great game. I'm glad to see it back where it belongs.
Booze Zombie:
Indeed, the courts seem to be letting Good and Justice prevail now. What happened? Jack Thompson gets disbarred, Activison effectively lose their battle against Double-Fine's Brutal Legend, and now this?
Mr.Pandah
Looks like its there to "stay". Not say =)
Woem
I wonder what all the attention the previous couple of months will do to the game's sale rates. Is there a way to see how many people are buying it?
TsunamiWombat
And Cross Fingers will be injuncted for violating the trademark of Edge.
HE'LL FIND A REASON.
Amnestic
10 POSTED: 9 Oct 2009 03:17
TsunamiWombat:
He can find a reason all he likes. He resigned, didn't he? He's like an impotent man shouting about how we should pay attention to his dangly bits.
DigitalSushi
yeah, that he had his fingers crossed he'd get his name plastered over the game and 20percent share.
Anyway, http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/mobigame-langdells-lawyers-have-fled
"In the end, Langdell never sued us for past sales and all his lawyers fled, which is enough to prove that he has absolutely no legal grounds and everyone knows that now," said Papazian.
Courtesy of Eurogamer, cheers guys!
Teh_Doomage
Amnestic:
It's good to see the small guy win, and I think his trademark, is quite stupid. Also, good comparison.
TwistedBishop
How are Mobigames "the nice guys"? They broke the law and got away with it through manipulating the kangaroo court of public opinion. Pretty sure that makes them the definition of "the bad guys". In this case the Jack Thompsons have won.
jebbo
14 POSTED: 10 Oct 2009 00:37
TwistedBishop:
You sir, are a total penis of the largest, dangliest, most shameful posted next to a child in a failblog image, douche of the highest degree
2012 Wont Happen
He resigned from the international game developers legue or whatever its called. Not edge games
LeonLethality
YEAH in your face Tim you can't be a troll and keep on winning! good job mobigames
cuddly_tomato
Here is a pretty halarious youtube video that deals with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=46Tz3jwKeaM
WARNING: Contains bad language.
Mekado
"They broke the law" So you think the "edge" trademark is a valid one ?
...seriously ?
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11.1 Virginia Public School Construction Grants Program And Fund
§ 22.1-175.2 Virginia Public School Construction Grants Fund . . .
§ 22.1-175.2
Virginia Public School Construction Grants Fund created
A. From such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose and from such gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds as may be received on its behalf, there is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a special nonreverting fund known as the Virginia Public School Construction Grants Fund. The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller, and any moneys remaining in such Fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Interest earned on such funds shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Funds may be disbursed to any school division that is eligible for financial assistance pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
B. The State Treasurer shall manage the Virginia Public School Construction Grants Fund, subject to the authority of the Board of Education to provide for its disbursement. The Fund shall be disbursed to award grants as provided in § 22.1-175.4. The amount of each grant awarded to a qualifying school division in any fiscal year shall not exceed 100 percent of the school division’s aggregate annual expenditures for school construction, additions, infrastructure, site acquisition for public school buildings and facilities, renovations, including the costs of retrofitting or enlarging public school buildings, and debt service payments on such school projects which have been completed during the last ten years.Local governing bodies may establish a separate escrow fund for the deposit of such funds as provided in § 22.1-175.5.
C. The amount of such public school construction grants shall be matched by funds of the qualifying school division based on the locality’s composite index of ability to pay. In awarding such grants, the Board shall take into consideration any Literary Fund loan which may have been applied for or awarded for the same projects.
1995, c. 762; 1998, Sp. Sess. I, c. 2; 1999, cc. 354, 391.
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UPDATED : Wednesday, 28 February, 2018, 12:55pm
Thanks to a movie where popular Chinese actress Liu Yifei plays a goddess embroiled in a complicated love story spanning hundreds of years, Alibaba Pictures has for the first time posted a profit for its content production segment after consecutive years of heavy losses.
Once Upon a Time, based on bestselling fantasy novel Three Lifetimes, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, made 534 million yuan (US$84.5 million) at the Chinese box office, helping Alibaba Pictures’ content production segment earn a profit of 4.1 million yuan in 2017, up from losses of 243.5 million the previous year.
However, the company as a whole recorded a net loss of 950 million yuan, primarily due to high marketing expenses incurred in promoting its Tao Piao Piao online ticketing platform, the company said in its earnings statement.
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2020 has definitely been the year that never was. It began with terrible winter weather, which consisted of a different storm almost every weekend, leading to the cancellation of all events scheduled to take place in the north west during the first three months of the year. We had to take the difficult decision to cancel our own event, Head of the Mersey, in February due to storms which seemed more commonplace in the middle of the Atlantic than on the banks of the Mersey in the heart of Warrington.
Then as march rolled in, fears of a global pandemic grew ever greater as the spread of Coronavirus had reached our shores. A national lockdown was imposed, British rowing cancelled all events for the next three months and we had to shut the doors of our rowing club to all members. Life changed in a way no one could have ever envisaged….
But that didn’t stop us!
We distributed the club ergs among our squads so they could use them at home and swapped training in person at the club to training from the comfort of our own homes with the help of Zoom. Club circuits, squad training and socials were all held virtually and proved to be a massive success in helping to keep the club running in a remote form.
However, we came up with another idea…..
WARRINGTON ROWING CLUB ROWS EUROPE!
Since the end of April, the members of WRC have been quietly rowing, running, cycling and walking their way around Europe, virtually of course. in order to raise money for NHS Charities Together, St Rocco’s Hospice and the Warrington branch of Citizens advice, as well as our rowing club. With the cancellation of our two biggest fundraisers this year, we had to get creative with how we could still raise funds for the rowing club while all confined to our homes, but we also wanted to raise money for vital charities that are doing incredible work in the midst of a global pandemic and also aren’t able to raise much needed funds through their usual methods as a result of the virus.
The concept is simple: members go for a walk, run, bike ride or a row on the erg and record whatever distance they cover. Everyone’s distances are added together to produce a total that increases every time a member records a new distance. Below you can find how we’ve been getting on over the past few months and how much money we’ve raised so far. Lockdown might have eased slightly and we might be back training on the water in a limited capacity, but we a by no means back to business as usual, so our row around Europe continues until we virtually make our way back to the club.
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In the first few days of the fundraiser going live at the end of April, we got off to a flying start and steamed our way straight to Paris, a distance of over 800 KM. By this point, we had quickly raised £240 which was an excellent start. From there, we headed north, up through Belgium and the Netherlands and then across into Germany. Then we headed up towards Denmark.
By the time we reached Denmark and were close to reaching Copenhagen, we were on a total of 2,839,024 metres! A huge distance achieved in just a matter of days. By this point we had raised £396.00 which was fantastic!
After Denmark, we headed to the very top of Europe, crossing over into Sweden and heading up the south west coast towards the capital of Norway, Oslo. Once in Norway, we headed to the west coast and made our way up to the top of the country. Once we reached the very top of Europe, we had covered a total distance of 6472 KM and over halfway to our target of raising £1000.
We had someone on our Facebook page suggest we go to Stockholm, so that’s where we headed next. We traveled down through Finland towards Helsinki before heading back up the west coast of Finland towards the Sweden border. Once we were back in Sweden again, we headed down to Stockholm by which point we had covered a HUGE 9,466,344 metres (approx. 9466 KM). We had raised £816.00 which put us just 19% away from our target.
Since Stockholm, we have traveled a further 4,515 KM into Eastern Europe. We have traveled through Berlin, Warsaw, Vilnius (capital of Lithuania), Riga and Tallinn before heading down the west of Europe to Minsk and Kiev, finally landing in the capital of Moldova, Chisinau! We are on a grand total of 13,980,086 metres (13,981 km approx.) which is amazing and we’ve raised a total of £861.00! We’re not finished yet though!
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China vs US: Beijing promises ‘firm counterattack’ after Washington intervention in Taiwan
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The belligerent comments from Beijing came after the Trump administration on Saturday abandoned the restrictions that the US had committed to in its relations with Taiwan. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said the US had imposed the restrictions on itself “in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing”. He then declared that he was now lifting them all.
The restrictions were to appease Beijing’s demand that foreign nations should not treat Taiwan as an independent state.
Today the BBC’s China Correspondent Stephen McDonell tweeted: “China’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the move by the US Government to allow all government interactions with Taiwan from now on.
“’Any actions which harm China’s core interests will be met with a firm counterattack’ Zhao Lijian said.”
The Chinese state-run propaganda tabloid, the Global Times, issued a warning to US secretary of state Mr Pompeo, who sanctioned the closer ties between Washington and Taipei.
The editor-in-chief of the Global Times, Hu Xijin, stated China’s Weibo social media platform that Beijing had a “precious window of opportunity for mainland China to teach a heavy lesson to the ‘Taiwan independence’ forces”.
Hinting that Beijing should take advantage of the current coronavirus fallout and political instability in the US, the firebrand editor declared that China should re-establish “strategic leverage” in the Taiwan Strait.
He added: “While Pompeo tries to cross Beijing’s red line on national sovereignty and territorial integrity, he should not expect that China will sit back and do nothing.
“Those political clowns will be punished for what they have done to harm China’s core interests.”
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“Owing to reasons known to all, Taiwan has since 1949 been separated from the mainland.
“To bring about the complete reunification of China is the common aspiration of all the Chinese, both in the country and overseas.
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Brightline Trains plans to connect a high speed train between Orlando International Airport and Disney Springs at Walt Disney World as part of a new train that will run from Southern to Central Florida.
Construction time is expected to take 30-36 months and begin in the coming months. The project is expected to be complete in the second half of 2023.
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December 23, 2020:BizJournals.com is reporting that Brightline trains is anticipating completion in the second half of 2023.
November 23, 2020: The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Brightline trains will have a station at Disney Springs.
January 16, 2020: WFTV.com is reporting that the first set of tracks for the new Virgin Brightline train have been laid between Orlando International Airport and West Palm Beach.
December 17, 2019: The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Disney and Brightline are in advanced discussions over a station on or near Disney World property.
May 21, 2019: The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that construction has begun on the train project.
April 4, 2019: Virgin America has announced plans to connect a high speed train between Orlando International Airport and Walt Disney World as part of a new train that will run from Southern to Central Florida.
Construction time is expected to take 30-36 months and begin in the coming months. The project will take place under the Virgin Trains banner.
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Writers must hone their artistic and communicative intentions and abilities to push language beyond its formals limits. The second item is the growth of small publishers, combined with the presence of more writers.
The problem, though, is that these are almost impossible to find. Authors who are or have been influential in my writing: In September of a new collection of my fantasy and short stories will tinienlas, Trece Monos, published by Random House.
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And you see it in other genres too, josw confirmed by my experience as a judge for various young adult and historical novel awards. There are a lot of great writers and some masters. Tell a friend, share this on: They even published Russian stories! In the 90s a new generation appeared, better equipped with literary technique, and that was visible in the quality of the texts. The third part, Hijos de las Estrellas, will be published at the end of March.
Yes, one hundred volumes of a collection primarily dedicated to American science fiction. Pulp covers, after all, would show BEMs tiniebas beautiful girls who were scantily clad, rather than hot semi-naked young joes. What was your involvement in that Golden Age, as writers and readers?
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Another powerful lever was the literary prizes, the only way to obtain some money writing science fiction and fantasy for us at the time. Juan Miguel Aguilera is the award-winning co-author, along with Javier Redal, of Mundos en el Abismo and Hijos de la Eternidad, two canonical Spanish space operas; he is also a prolific illustrator, screenplay writer, and soon-to-be director.
Midlist authors have practically vanished. He was a writer, translator, and director of various collections throughout the 70s and 80s.
I would say that our Golden Age started in the mids, then there was a brief parenthesis at the start of the 90s, and it resumed from the early 90s through to the mids. And, of course, if I do say so myself, my trilogy Anima Mundi might be a candidate for translation. In any case, was the moment when, for the first time, I got together with other Spanish science fiction writers tinkeblas Barcelona, at a short event organized by BEM the fanzine that allowed us to meet Joe Haldeman and gave us three days to natonio about our favorite literary genre.
The crisis has returned us to the place where we started. That influenced our style. No existen los finales felices. Ideas are important and plot is important, as are all elements in a story or novel, but in literature the core is language: But apparently not in fiction or in the mixture of both. Some of these folks became loyal readers, and some went further and became writers.
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Stephen King, Robert Howard. I am too old to have been hose affected by this collection, excellent though it was. Due to their larger-than-normal size, many buyers are put off by their appearance at first.
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Capturing a Complete Portfolio of Alternative Fuel Systems, Expected Accretive Sales and Operations Synergies in 2015 and Beyond
VANCOUVER, BC – Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT / NASDAQ:WPRT), engineering the world's most advanced natural gas engines and vehicles, today announced that it has acquired Netherlands based Prins Autogassystemen Holding B.V. (Prins) for Euro 12.2 million (approximately U.S.$15.1 million) through a combination of Euro 6.6 million (approximately U.S.$8.2 million) in assumed liabilities and Euro 5.6 million (approximately U.S.$6.9 million) in cash.
Founded in 1986, Prins is a leading developer of high quality alternative fuel systems powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or propane), compressed natural gas (CNG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty applications. Prins operations in Europe will be combined under the Westport Applied Technologies business unit.
"Prins' globally respected product line, their strong track record in continuous innovation and new product introductions combined with its Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) relationships complement our products and OEM coverage to provide us with a great position as the go-to partner for alternative fuels solutions," said Mehran Rahbar, Executive Vice President, On-Road Systems & Applied Technologies of Westport. "Westport has a great deal of experience with natural gas direct injection and believes that the combination of Prins' and Westport's team and technologies will further strengthen Westport's dominant technology portfolio."
"I have been in the automotive industry for more than 20 years with companies like Continental and Siemens VDO, and most recently focussed on our Italian businesses," added Rahbar. "Based on my experience, this acquisition is a significant opportunity for Westport to scale, innovate, and derive sales and operations synergies from the combined business."
"Westport is the leader in natural gas technologies and well-respected by engine and vehicle OEMs in the industry," said Bart van Aerle, CEO of Prins. "Together, we can create the best-in-class alternative fuel systems across multiple fuel platforms and deliver on superior technology and performance characteristics."
Prins Highlights
Euro 19.7 million (approximately U.S.$26.8 million) in revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 compared with Euro 15.1 million (approximately U.S.$20.1 million) for same period last year
Euro 23.2 million (approximately U.S.$30.9 million) in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2013 compared with Euro 29.2 million (approximately U.S.$37.7 million) for year ended December 31, 2012
Reported EBITDA was Euro 1.5 million (approximately U.S.$2.0 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 compared with Euro 0.4 million (approximately U.S.$0.5 million) for same period last year
Reported EBITDA was Euro 0.7 million (approximately U.S.$0.9 million) for the year ended December 31, 2013 compared with Euro 5.3 million (approximately U.S.$6.8 million) for the year ended December 31, 2012
Comprehensive product offering – a full suite of alternative fuel systems for bi-fuel, mono-fuel, and dual-fuel applications using LPG, CNG, and LNG
Global distribution network – sells to end customers in over 50 countries through OEMs, country importers, and distributors
Systems available for top six European OEM truck brands – as well as global OEMs such as Hyundai and Kia
Longstanding relationship with top quality suppliers such as Keihin and Bosch
Current supplier of Westport Volvo Car business
Strong direct injection LPG technology – LPG has a broad application of uses and is a popular alternative fuel in Europe, Asia, and North America
A well-developed dual-fuel system – an add-on system for diesel engines with over 100 calibrations for LPG, CNG, and LNG to optimize the diesel replacement rate
Unique position with a joint venture in Nigeria with a large industrial customer, operating one of the largest truck fleets in Africa – moving to natural gas trucks built by one of China's largest truck manufacturers with Prins' dual fuel systems
Deep engineering and research and development capabilities – extensive multidisciplinary knowledge of systems, software, engineering, electronics, testing, calibration, and certification
Proprietary fuel control software – developed in-house, Prins' fuel controller software is an integral part of its product platforms that drives exceptional performance
Testing and certification capabilities – the majority of components are tested in-house and comply with European and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations
Synergies Expected with Acquisition
Products – Prins' alternative fuel systems will expand Westport's product portfolio to include direct injection technology for LPG and CNG systems, and a well developed portfolio of diesel dual fuel aftermarket systems
Sales – Prins' relationships with global OEMs complement Westport's existing strength in Europe, Asia, and North America and will allow for increased cross-channel sales
Geographies – Prins' established footprint in large emerging markets for alternative fuels including Turkey and Africa opens access to new markets for Westport's products
Operations – Larger scale allows Westport and Prins to capture cost efficiencies
LPG Market Opportunity
As a vehicle fuel, LPG—otherwise known as propane or autogas—is relatively clean burning, easy to store and transport, has high energy content, and is widely available in many countries. LPG has a broad application of uses including home heating, agriculture, petrochemicals, and industrial as well as automotive. According to Navigant Research, approximately 9% of the global consumption of LPG in 2012 was used as an automotive transport fuel. Navigant Research indicates that in 2012, there were 1 million light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles converted to run on LPG in the world, including 449,000 vehicles in Europe. This is forecasted to grow to 1.4 million in new vehicle sales and conversions in 2020. While global sales of light duty LPG vehicles are projected to grow by 2.6% annually from 2014 to 2035, the Middle East and Africa will show faster growth at 4.7% CAGR. In North America, the annual growth rate of all LPG vehicle sales and conversions will average 4.7% between 2014 and 2035.
Westport does not expect material influence on 2014 revenue or earnings as a result of this transaction due to the timing of closing. Westport expects strong synergies and accretive earnings performance in 2015. Westport will provide 2015 consolidated revenue guidance at the 2014 fiscal year-end conference call.
The foregoing financial outlook information for Westport is being provided for the purposes of updating prior revenue disclosure and may not be appropriate for, and should not be relied upon for, other purposes.
About Westport Fuel Systems
At Westport Fuel Systems, we are driving innovation to power a cleaner tomorrow. We are a leading supplier of advanced fuel delivery components and systems for clean, low-carbon fuels such as natural gas, renewable natural gas, propane, and hydrogen to the global automotive industry. Our technology delivers the performance and fuel efficiency required by transportation applications and the environmental benefits that address climate change and urban air quality challenges. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with operations in Europe, Asia, North America and South America, we serve our customers in more than 70 countries with leading global transportation brands. At Westport Fuel Systems, we think ahead. For more information, visit www.wfsinc.com.
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Westport Fuel Systems Appoints New Director
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Swedish truck maker Volvo said it’s seeing hauliers and transport buyers moving towards refrigerated liquefied gas as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to diesel.
Published: September 30
India: Maruti Suzuki sells 300,000 units of the WagonR S-CNG
The Maruti Suzuki WagonR S-CNG has emerged as the highest selling natural gas vehicle in the country, as this greener and safer factory-fitted CNG model has surpassed 300,000 units in sales.
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While much attention has shifted to the potential for battery-electric or hydrogen vehicles, another technology with a vast infrastructure — renewable natural gas — is gaining traction among fleet managers.
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Egypt has launched an ambitious plan to shift the primary fuel for vehicles in its jurisdiction from petrol and diesel to compressed natural gas.
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Natural gas vehicles (NGV) may get a boost as power markets and renewable equipment production are seen as potential casualties.
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05/03/2009 11/01/2019 What is the meaning of people
Conservative means retaining
Conservative: Persistent with existing social states; Conservative. The notion of conservatism derives from the Latin conservare, which means "to protect, preserve in an unblemished state". It often implies that a person who is conservative is doing everything according to tradition, that which one is accustomed to maintaining.
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New Study: “A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History”
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March 2013. A fascinating new study whose online component has an interactive DNA map has provided a dramatic visual overview of the racial history of selected groups around the world—and has confirmed the essential thesis of March of the Titans.
The new study, titled “A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History,” published in Science 14 February 2014: Vol. 343 no. 6172 pp. 747-751 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1243518) says the following in its abstract summary:
“Modern genetic data combined with appropriate statistical methods have the potential to contribute substantially to our understanding of human history.
“We have developed an approach that exploits the genomic structure of admixed populations to date and characterize historical mixture events at fine scales.
“We used this to produce an atlas of worldwide human admixture history, constructed by using genetic data alone and encompassing over 100 events occurring over the past 4000 years.
“We identified events whose dates and participants suggest they describe genetic impacts of the Mongol empire, Arab slave trade, Bantu expansion, first millennium CE migrations in Eastern Europe, and European colonialism, as well as unrecorded events, revealing admixture to be an almost universal force shaping human populations.”
This remarkable study’s online element can be found here.
By clicking on a population group on the map, an automatic display comes up showing the broad genetic compositions of each sample group.
It is important to note that the results are, of course, only based on the returns provided by each sample group, and should not automatically be presumed to be representative of every single individual in that particular group.
Nonetheless, the map essentially proves once again the accuracy of the historical account of racial demographic population shifts, as outlined in March of the Titans.
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Quiz! Every player Sachin Tendulkar has dismissed in ODI cricket
by Wisden Staff November 1, 2020 - 6:40am 20-minute play
This is a big one – can you name every player dismissed by India legend Sachin Tendulkar in ODI cricket and ace this quiz?
Tendulkar has one of the longest careers in cricket, spanning nearly two-and-a-half decades, and in which he played against many different generations of cricketers. He dismissed quite a few of them too, in his 154 ODI wickets.
Quiz! Name the batsmen fastest to reach 5,000 Test runs
Quiz! Highest scores by England batsmen in overseas Tests
Quiz! Every Indian bowler to take a five-wicket haul in away Tests since 2000
Quiz! Name the wicketkeepers with the double of 2,000 runs and 100 dismissals in Tests
Quiz! Name the players with a double of 1,000 runs and 20 wickets in men's T20Is
Quiz! Name every England men's Test half-centurion on debut this century
Tendulkar has had particular success against a few Pakistan players, including a former captain who he dismissed as many as seven times. But this list gets harder the deeper you go into it, although that is where half the fun is. The chances of you acing this quiz are very slim, if at all. But think of it as a trip back in time, and you’ll take away a lot more.
In all, you have 20 minutes to figure out the 111 names. We’ve revealed the number of times each player has been dismissed by Tendulkar, the team they represented, and the span of their contest with the Indian legend.
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Book 1: A Different Shade of Fifty
ADSOF Chapters 1-10
ADSOF Chapter 01
ADSOF Chapters 11-20
ADSOF Outtakes:
ADSOF Christian POV: First Contact
ADSOF Christian POV: When Worlds Collide
ADSOF Christian POV: Welcome to Cambridge
ADSOF Christian POV: Obsession and Bourbon
ADSOF Christian POV: These Are My Confessions…
ADSOF Christian POV: Change of Heart
ADSOF Elena POV: Please Leave a Message…
ADSOF Christian: I Won’t Say I’m In…
ADSOF Christian POV: Vegas
ADSOF Linc/Carrick/Grace POV: Come Again?
ADSOF Christian POV: The Lie Heard ‘Round the World
ADSOF Christian POV: The Trial
ADSOF Christian POV: Empire State of Mind
Book 2: A Broken Shade of Fifty
ABSOF Chapters 1-10
ABSOF Chapter 01
ABSOF Chapters 11-20
ABSOF Outtakes:
ABSOF Christian POV: The Fallout
ABSOF Luke POV: The Before Ana
ABSOF Christian POV: The Submissives
ABSOF Elena POV: Lunch with Christian
ABSOF Carrick POV: Birthday Dinner
ABSOF Christian POV: This is Carter Reed
ABSOF Elliot POV: A Last Ditch Effort
ABSOF Christian POV: Cambridge or Bust
ABSOF Christian POV: Hello?
ABSOF Christian POV: The First Time (Again)
ABSOF Carrick POV: Father’s Day
ABSOF Christian POV: Hawaii
Book Three: A Stronger Shade of Fifty
ASSOF Chapters 1-10
ASSOF Chapter 01
ASSOF Chapters 11-20
ASSOF Chapter 41-50
ASSOF Outtakes:
ASSOF Elena PoV: Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen…
ASSOF Kate PoV: Big Girls Don’t Cry
ASSOF Elliot PoV: They Said Move On, Where Do I Go?
ASSOF Christian PoV: Oh, baby…
ASSOF Leila PoV: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You… Who Are You Kidding? This is Going to Kill You.
ASSOF Christian PoV: Dear Captain Steele…
ASSOF Chrisitan PoV: …’Til it’s Gone
ASSOF Elliot PoV: They’d Never Believe We’re Just Friends…
ASSOF Kate PoV: Commencement – A Beginning, Not an End.
ASSOF: Hold On… For This is Gonna Hurt Like Hell
ASSOF Christian PoV: In the Case of Raymond Steele vs. Christian Grey
ASSOF Elliot PoV: This Is It. You and Me.
ASSOF Christian PoV: The Wedding Night
ASSOF Carrick PoV: Election Day
Book Four: The Final Shade of Fifty
TFSOF Chapters 1-10
TFSOF Chapter 01
TFSOF Chapters 11-20
TFSOF Chapter 21-30
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My body is in full out mutiny. A few days after I arrived back in Cambridge, I was hit hard by what I thought was just allergies until I was forced to go to the doctor to get a stronger dose of Claritin and I found out that my hayfever had turned into a severe sinus infection. As a result, I’ve spent days struggling to breathe and feeling as though my head’s in the clouds. It’s been absolutely miserable, and now, as I drag myself out of the library after I’ve finished with work, I feel like I’d prefer to curl up in a ball right here on the sidewalk and let death have me, rather than continue the 30 more feet I have to go to where Luke is waiting for me behind the wheel of my brand new Lexus RX.
Thankfully, I think he realizes I’m struggling because once he sees me, he darts out of the driver’s seat, opens the passenger door for me, and helps me inside.
“You good?” He asks, probably wondering if I’m going to pass out in the passenger’s seat. I nod as I pull the seatbelt down over me and he gives me a sympathetic look before closing the door. While I wait for him to get back in the car and then to pull out on the street, I lean my head against the cool window next to me, and try to take some pleasure in the fact that at least I’m not upright anymore. Not being able to breathe means I haven’t slept much in days and I am completely and utterly exhausted. With any luck, I’ll be able to get a few seconds of sleep on the way home.
“You shouldn’t have gone to work today,” Luke says disapprovingly as we make the loop back around to Bryant Street.
“I had to,” I mumble. “The new library aide is awful and we’re already so behind on everything…” There’s more to my argument, but talking seems to take more energy than I have to give, so I let my sentence trail off and relax deeper into my seat. I can see Luke shaking his head out of the corner of my eye, but he doesn’t press the issue further. As we pull up to a stop light, I close my eyes and begin drifting in and out for the rest of the drive home.
When we get back to my house, I reluctantly slump out of the car and through the sliding glass door to the kitchen where I find Kate standing over the stove stirring a steaming pot that fills the room with the comforting smell of chicken soup.
“Hey!” She greets me. “Happy almost birthday!”
I groan and collapse into a chair at the table. “Don’t remind me.”
“It’s a little soon to be dreading birthdays, isn’t it?” She asks. “You’re only twenty-two for Christ sake.”
“It’s not that I’m getting older. It’s that I’m going to see Christian for the first time in eleven days tomorrow and we’re going to end up spending my birthday in bed watching Netflix with a box of tissues and a bottle of Mucinex rather than… well, you know.”
“The travesty,” Kate says dramatically, placing a bowl of soup in front of me. I try to laugh, but that quickly devolves into a coughing fit. She reaches over to rub my back, looking worried, while Luke moves across the kitchen to get me a glass of orange juice from the fridge.
“So when does Christian get here?” Kate asks when I’ve finally regained control of my breathing again.
“Tomorrow night,” I croak, and while I attempt to swallow a spoonful of soup, she raises an eyebrow at me.
“Tomorrow night? You mean, he’s not going to spend the day with you?”
I shake my head. “Elena’s sentencing is tomorrow morning, so he’s not flying out here until it’s over.”
“You mean, he’s missing most of your birthday just so he can sit in a courtroom and watch Elena Lincoln get sentenced to prison?” She asks, clearly disapproving. “You’re okay with that?”
“Are you kidding? That’s my birthday present. He’s going to record the whole thing on his phone and we’re going to watch it together over a bowl of popcorn.” Kate looks back at me, not buying my cavalier attitude, and I sigh. The truth is, it was at my insistence that he’s staying. The date had originally been set for this last Tuesday, but it got pushed back due to a scheduling error in the courts. When Christian found out it was going to be on my birthday, he said he was going to skip it but I told him he should go.
“I think… I think he needs to be there,” I tell Kate. “He needs to see it happen in order for him to feel like it’s real, and I get that. I’d feel better if I could be there too, and maybe I would have been if I literally didn’t feel like I was about to die, but here we are… He’s going to be here the whole weekend anyway. I’m fine.”
I take a deep breath and massage the dip between my eye and the bridge of my nose, trying to relieve some of the sinus pressure, and I hear Kate sigh and then drop her spoon into her bowl.
“You know what? You’re not going to be sans-boyfriend AND sick on your birthday.” She says. “That’s not how twenty-two starts for you. Come with me.”
“Wha-” I begin, but my words are cut off as she yanks me out of my chair and pulls me towards the stairs.
“Luke!” I complain. “Stop her! You’re supposed to be protecting me.”
“Sorry, I’m off the clock,” He calls after me. “See you tomorrow, Ana.”
I’m just able to glare at him and his overly amused smile as Kate pulls me up the stairs, then through her bedroom and into the bathroom. The second the door is closed behind me, she turns the water on in the shower all the way to hot and then begins rummaging in the cabinets beneath her sink. The room fills with steam as she hands me first a bottle of vitamin C tablets, and then some fish oil capsules. I take both of them with some water from the bathroom sink while she sets a large, needleless syringe on the counter.
“What’s that for?” I ask dubiously.
“Your sinuses. I’m going to go make you some tea, get in the shower and breathe in the steam,” She tells me. I hesitate for a minute but she doesn’t wait around to convince me. I really just want to go to bed but… if whatever she’s going to do makes it so that I feel even a fraction better tomorrow when Christian arrives, I suppose I’m willing to try anything. I miss him, a lot, and I want to be healthy and alert while he’s here. We’ve only been apart for ten days and it’s been harder than I thought it would be. I’ve been counting down the days for his return almost from the moment he left, and now that it’s nearly here, I’m sick. All I want is to enjoy my birthday with him and, if this is going to make me feel better so that can be a possibility, I’ll do it. With a sigh of defeat, I strip down, put my hair in a bun on top of my head, and step into the too hot water.
A few minutes later, Kate returns, and I listen to her moving things around on the bathroom counter for a moment, but it’s too hard to focus on the sounds to try and figure out what she’s doing.
“Cover your boobs,” She says, but before I can even react to that, she pulls the shower curtain open and I stumble backwards in surprise.
“Jesus, Kate,” I say indignantly as I fold my arms over my chest. She ignores me and holds out the syringe which is now filled with murky water.
“What is that?” I ask, suspiciously.
“Just put it in your nose and force the water through. It’ll clean everything out.”
“Gross,” I protest.
“Just do it,” She says, shoving the syringe into my hand and harshly yanking the curtain closed. I stare down at it warily, drops of water dripping from the tip of my nose onto the plastic resting in my palm as I work up the nerve to do it.
“Ana…” Kate cajoles me. Pushing my reluctance aside, I lift the tube to my right nostril and push the plunger upward. It feels like fire at first and leaves the taste of salt and something astringent in my mouth. I gag as the water pours through my other nostril and then start coughing and choking. Once I’ve regained control of my breathing though, I take a deep breath through my nose and, for the first time in days, find it unobstructed.
“Oh my god,” I say, actually shocked as I take another deep breath.
“I told you,” Kate says. “Now hand it back so you can do the other one.”
I do, and once I’ve finished with the flush and Kate feels I’ve stood under the hot water long enough, she lets me out of the shower and hands me a cup of tea. I take it and head back to my room to get dressed, and a few minutes later, Kate comes in with the humidifier. I crawl into bed, feeling an immediate sense of relief, and while she adds a few drops of peppermint oil into the filter, I take a sip of my tea.
It’s terrible.
“Kate,” I cough, as my mouth is filled with something spicy, bitter, and sour all at the same time. “What did you put in this?”
“A lot of stuff,” She shrugs as she turns on the switch and the humidifier hums to life. “Cayenne pepper, ginger, apple cider vinegar… I know it’s gross, but it’s my mom’s secret cure. Drink it and I promise you’ll feel better.”
“I can’t drink this!” I argue.
“Suit yourself,” She says as she gets to her feet. “I just thought you didn’t want to be sick when Christian got here tomorrow.”
I frown down at it and then reach up to plug my nose and throw it back. It’s worse than when I used to take shots of bottom shelf tequila and burns just as much. I cough again once I get it all down, and then thrust the mug onto the bedside table, as far away from me as possible. Kate picks it up, and then hands me a glass of water and the bottle of antibiotics I’d got from the doctor.
“I’m sorry you’re sick, but, trust me, you’re going to feel better tomorrow,” She says, leaning over to kiss me on the forehead. “Happy birthday, Annie”
“Thanks, Katie,” I reply. She smiles down at me and then turns to leave the room. The moment the light is off, I immediately feel myself begin to drift off into much need sleep, but I’m jerked back awake by the sound of my phone vibrating on the nightstand. I don’t even look at the screen before I reach over and put the phone to my ear.
“Late?” Christian responds. “It’s only five o’clock. I haven’t even left my office yet.”
“It’s five o’clock in Seattle, but it’s eight o’clock here and I’m already in bed.”
“Already, huh? Still not feeling well?”
“Not yet, but Kate did some kind of voodoo witchcraft on me that’s supposed to make me feel better overnight. She said I shouldn’t be alone AND sick on my birthday.”
There’s a pause. “I should be there when you wake up. I can still fly out tonight…”
“No, it’s okay. You need to be there,” I yawn. “What time do you have to be at the courthouse in the morning?”
“Nine. And, I’ll get on a plane as soon as it’s finished, promise.”
“Okay,” I reply. My eyes are beginning to droop as the overwhelming exhaustion begins to catch up to me again.
“I do have plans for you tomorrow though,” He tells me. “Do you think you’ll be well enough to do anything, or should I re-evaluate?”
“Depends. What do you have planned?” I ask, and he laughs as he picks up on the suggestion in my voice.
“Plenty of that…” He says, “But a few other things you can do with your clothes on, too.”
“Seems like a waste…” I reply airily.
“You have a one track mind, Anastasia.”
“I wonder why that is?” I ask pointedly, but when he replies, his tone is overtly innocent.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“It couldn’t possibly be because of a series of rather explicit text messages and about a dozen or so picture requests from a certain Seattle billionaire…”
“I have a beautiful girlfriend who is currently living 3000 miles away from me. Can you blame me?”
“No, and that’s why I think you should keep your plans focused. Unless for some weird reason, you’re not into sick girls or something…”
“You have a sinus infection, Anastasia. You’re not contagious and I haven’t seen you in almost two weeks. There is no scenario that doesn’t end with me making love to you as long as we can both physically handle tomorrow night.”
“Mmm,” I moan appreciatively. “Well, in that case, plan what you will. I’m open for anything, sick or ‘s my birthday and I want to enjoy it.”
“Healthy plans it is then. Now, get some sleep. You won’t get much tomorrow night…”
“Promises, promises,” I tell him. “I can’t wait to see you. I love you, Christian.”
“I love you too. Happy birthday, baby.”
“Thank you. Goodnight.”
I hang up the phone and then stare sadly at the still illuminated screen for a moment before putting it back on the nightstand and rolling over to cuddle into my blankets and drift off into a surprisingly restful night of sleep.
The next morning though, I’m very suddenly jerked awake by Kate jumping onto my bed.
“Happy Birthday!” She screams.
“Oh my god!” I gasp as I shoot bolt upright. The second I’m off the pillow she envelops me in a tight hug.
“I let you sleep in, but you’ve got to get up and get ready to go. We’re on a tight schedule.”
“A schedule for what?” I groan, struggling out of her arms so that I can collapse back into my pillows.
“I’m not going to ruin Christian’s surprise, just get out of bed and get ready,” She says, and although I want to tell her to leave me alone and let me sleep some more, Christian’s name peaks my interest.
“What do you mean Christian’s surprise?” I ask. “Wait! Is he here?”
“Well, no…” She says. “But you didn’t really think he was going to ignore your birthday until he got here tonight, did you? He just called and gave me all the details, so let’s go!”
I sit there, looking at her blankly for a moment as I try and sort through both the last dregs of the drowsiness I feel from being awoken so suddenly and what she’s actually telling me. Christian did say he had plans, but I thought he meant plans with him. I hadn’t thought much about what I was going to do before he got here. I’d mostly planned on staying in bed to take this last opportunity to recover. But now, as I become more and more alert and take a moment to assess how I’m actually feeling this morning, I realize that I feel… better. Nearly completely better, in fact. I can breathe, my head doesn’t feel clogged, there’s no lingering pain in my sinuses… Kate’s mom’s tea really must be some kind of miracle brew and this realization, coupled with the prospect of Christian’s secret birthday plans, causes a smile to begin slowly creeping across my lips.
I quickly pull back the covers, lean over to wrap Kate in a hug while I thank her profusely and kiss her on the cheek, and then scramble out of bed for my bathroom so that I can get ready for the day. I’m not sure what Christian has planned, so I take more time on my hair and makeup than I have since I’ve been back to Cambridge, just in case he plans on making any surprise appearances, and once I’m finished, I get dressed and hurry out of my bedroom.
The excitement builds as I make my way down the stairs, taking the steps two at a time, and then peaks when I make it far enough down so that I can see the living room. The entire room is filled with what must be hundreds of red roses covering every flat surface. I stare at them for a moment, feeling completely shocked. It’s beautiful and completely over the top. How did he set this up from Seattle?
Kate is bouncing with giddy excitement in the corner holding something in her hands so I walk towards her and take the card she hands me.
There are 997 roses here. One for every day I’ve loved you. I can’t wait to fill the room with a million more.
I love you, Anastasia Steele. I’ll see you tonight.
-Christian
Ps. There will be a car arriving to pick you up at 8:30.
My teeth sink into my bottom lip as I read his sweet words, but then frown when I remember the time. It’s nearly 8:30 now…
“There’s breakfast in here, if you want it,” Kate tells me. “Luke’s already helped himself.”
I follow her into the kitchen where I find Luke seated at the dining room table digging into a stack of blueberry pancakes and bacon. He looks up when we come around the corner though and immediately bolts out of his chair to wrap me in a hug.
“You look better,” He tells me and I smile back at him.
“I feel better. A lot better.”
“That’s awesome, and hey… Happy birthday!”
“Thanks. I see you’ve wasted no time getting to the food.”
“Are you kidding me? We’re in for such a long day, you should eat something too.”
“You know what we’re doing?” I ask.
“Of course I do. I’m your security, Ana. I received a very long briefing last night from Mr. Grey himself.”
“What is it?” I press him, knowing he isn’t as good at keeping secrets as Kate is because he doesn’t take pleasure in knowing things other people don’t, but he shakes his head.
“I’m not telling you anything except that you need to eat some breakfast…. And that you have something on your shirt.”
“On my shirt?” I ask, looking down to where he’s pointing, but the second I tilt my head down, he flicks his finger up into my nose and then laughs.
“I hate you,” I say, though the words lose all meaning as I can’t stop myself from laughing.
At exactly 8:30, a long stretch limo pulls up in front of the house and Kate practically yanks me out of my seat to pull me out the front door. Luke has to lock up while Kate and I sprint across the yard and I let out an elated shriek when we open the door of the limo and balloons begin pouring out and float up into the sky.
“This is ridiculous,” Luke says, glancing up at the balloons that have gotten away as we climb into the back of the car.
“Ridiculous?” I ask, indignantly. “Tell me, is it all happiness that bothers you, or just mine?” He rolls his eyes.
“That’s not happiness, that’s just long distance littering.”
“Kate, did we bring umbrellas?” I ask, turning away from Luke.
“No, why?”
“Because Luke over here is trying to rain on my parade,” Luke shoves me as Kate giggles and then wraps me under her arm, holding up her phone to take pictures of the three of us as we pull out into the street.
The limo takes us into downtown Boston and to a new place called Trapped. We’re met on the sidewalk by the manager who leads us inside and allows us to pick a theme for the game we’re going to play. We choose a 1920s mob scenario and then are locked in a room where we have to solve a series of clues and puzzles in order to escape. It’s really intricate, with several staff members playing characters that try to throw us off and sometimes just scare us. There’s climbing, and running, and all kinds of obstacles we have to work our way through, and it takes hours for us to finally solve the mystery and escape the room, but it’s one of the funnest things I’ve ever done.
When we leave Trapped, the limo takes us to a fancy restaurant downtown where we’re led to a private table and brought a bottle of a 2003 Brut Rose Cristal, which the waiter makes sure to tell us is compliments of Mr. Grey. After we’ve placed our orders, I pull out my phone to text Christian a quick thank you.
We had so much fun at Trapped! Thank you for the champagne, everything has been perfect so far.
His response is almost immediate.
I’m glad. I’m on my way to the airport now, see you in a few hours. I love you.
I love you too!
After lunch, our driver takes us down to Newbury Street, where all of the best shopping in Boston is located. I can tell Luke feels uncomfortable as we pull up in front of our first stop, Agent Provocateur, and I can understand why. This isn’t exactly the place I’d most like to go shopping with him, but my hesitation is pushed aside when the doors open and a man in a pristine suit greets us with a single red rose and a card.
“Miss Steele?” He asks.
“Yes,” I say, walking quickly up to him. He smiles and hands me the rose and the card, which I read as we’re led inside.
I’ve taken the liberty of picking out a few things I want you to have, but please feel free to buy anything, and I truly mean anything, your heart desires.
“These are the things Mr. Grey has already set aside for you Miss Steele,” The salesman tells me, and as I look up from the note, I don’t know whether to shake my head, or laugh. The counter is completely covered in dozens of light pink boxes and bags, tied up in stain black ribbon, all with the slanted script that spells the store name over the front.
“Is there anything he didn’t buy?” I ask, as I look into the first few gift bags and see a lot of black, see-through lace.
“Most of Mr. Grey’s purchases were from our Naughty line,” The salesman tells me. “But I’d be happy to show you some of our everyday wear, or perhaps some select pieces from our nightwear collection?”
“I think we can handle it,” Kate says, kindly. I shoot her a grateful glance. I’m not sure how comfortable I am having a salesman help me pick out underwear…
Since Christian has me more than stocked up on lingerie, I pick out a few bras and a silk robe and give in on the far too expensive bikini Kate says I have to buy. I frown as the salesman rings it up and I look at the price reflected on the credit card machine in front of me. The top and the bottoms of the swimsuit alone are $215 each! That’s nearly five hundred dollars for an amount of fabric I could ball up into one fist. Kate continues to gush though as we leave the store, so I pacify my concerns by telling myself that Christian will probably like it. It did make my cleavage look really great…
After Agent Provocateur, we head down the street to Chanel, where Christian has picked out a black, quilted handbag with the double C logo sewn into the front, and a gorgeous gray tweed jacket that fits me like a glove. It’s harder to get Kate out of that store than it was Agent Provocateur, and as we leave, I wonder who has more bags between us…
“I think you might have missed a pair of boots, Kate,” Luke teases her as he places our bags in the back of the car. I laugh but Kate’s eyes widen with something close to panic.
“Where?” She asks. Both Luke and I roll our eyes, and hook our arms through hers to pull her back into the limo, where she pouts the entire way down the street.
Our final stop is at Tiffany’s where I’m immediately handed an iconic blue box wrapped up in a white ribbon. He’s left me another card telling me to pick something out for myself and for Kate which sends Kate into a flurry of excitement as she begins combing through the cases. While she’s distracted, I place the gift from Christian on the counter, untie the bow, and gently ease off the lid. I gasp as I see the diamond encrusted watch inside, with the Tiffany blue face and the thin platinum links that make up the bracelet.
“It’s beautiful,” The woman standing behind the counter tells me. “Your boyfriend has excellent taste.”
“Yeah, he’s pretty incredible,” I say, looking up and smiling at her. She helps me fasten the watch around my wrist and then places the box in a bag for me so that I can look through the rest of the inventory with Kate.
It feels a little weird buying jewelry for myself, especially diamonds which seem to dominate the displays, but apparently the staff have been instructed not to let me leave without something so I decide to follow Kate around, knowing she’ll have plenty of opinions anyway. When I catch up with her though, I find her staring sadly down at a case of engagement rings. We haven’t talked much about the fact that Elliot didn’t end up proposing in Hawaii, but looking at her now, I think it’s getting to her more than I thought…
“Everything okay?” I ask and she takes a deep breath and then gives me a tight lipped smile.
“Yeah. Do you want to look at necklaces?”
“Uh… sure,” I say awkwardly. She nods and then looks forlornly down at the engagement rings one last time before pushing off from the case and walking across the store.
Ultimately, I decide on a necklace with an infinity pendant that the store clerk adds mine and Christian’s birthstones to. Luke takes our bags out to the car, placing them with the rest of our purchases, while Kate gushes over my watch and we climb into the back of the limo. As we pull down the street and make our way towards what Luke tells us is our last stop of the day, I look anxiously down at the clock on my cell phone. It’s 3:30 and I know that Christian is in the air, but I’m ready for him to get here. I’ve had a perfect morning and afternoon with Kate and Luke, but at the end of the day, Christian is the person I want to spend my birthday with.
The limo takes us to a spa where Kate and I get 90 minute massages. It’s hard to enjoy though, as I keep checking my new watch every few minutes. Time seems to have slowed down and even while we’re getting facials and are literally forced to lie still while the esthetician attacks our faces with product and a weird suction wand, I still feel keyed up.
I’m practically bouncing in my seat as we climb into the limo and make our way further into downtown Boston. I look anxiously out the windows as we weave through the streets, almost as though I expect to see Christian standing on the sidewalk waiting for me. By the time we pull into the drop off lane at the Four Seasons, the built up anticipation has me ready to explode. I look up at the gold letters mounted on the tall brick face of the building, smiling broadly, but when the door opens, Luke pulls me back to prevent me from getting out.
“Miss Kavanagh,” The driver says, gesturing for her to get out of the limo. “Mr. Grey has asked me to inform you that his brother is waiting for you upstairs and that he wishes you both a wonderful weekend.”
“In other words,” Luke interjects. “Don’t come home.”
Kate looks a little shocked, but I just shrug when she turns to face me. I’m not sure why Christian has put Kate and Elliot up in a fancy hotel for a weekend, but right now the only thing I can focus on are the words, “his brother is waiting for you upstairs”. Is, not will be. Elliot’s here. And if Elliot is here, that means Christian is too.
“Have a good weekend,” I say quickly, hoping she doesn’t feel like I’m pushing her out the door even though that’s really exactly what I’m doing.
“You too,” She tells me, leaning over to hug me good-bye. A tight smile crosses her lips as she pulls away and then she waves to Luke before stepping out of the limo and closing the door behind her.
Once we’re back in Cambridge, the limo stops at Luke’s apartment and he gives me a sly, knowing smile as he exits, which I try to ignore but am quickly betrayed by the growing blush in my cheeks.
“Happy Birthday, Ana,” He tells me.
“Thanks, Luke,” I reply and as he begins to smile again, making it awkward once more because I know he knows what I’m about to go do. I shake my head and reach out for the handle on the door.
“See you later, buddy,” I tell him and he laughs as the door closes and the limo begins to pull away from the curb.
The lights are on in the house when I get back and as the car comes to a stop, I peer through the windows, already looking for him. There’s a movement in the dining room, someone walking in from the kitchen, and while it’s hard to make out who it is through the darkly tinted glass, I know it’s Christian.
He’s here.
The car stops and I bolt out of the back door, but am called back by the driver who reminds me I’ve left all my bags from the day of shopping in the trunk. Reluctantly, I walk back down to the curb, refuse his offer of help to carry everything inside, and instead hold out my arms for him to load me up. Once the last bag is hooked over my wrist, he wishes me a happy birthday, so I thank him for helping us get around and then reach into my wallet for the cash I have stashed inside so that I can tip him. I only have $100 bill, but at this point I’m more concerned about getting inside than over tipping the driver. When I hand it to him, he thanks me profusely until I turn around and hurry up the walk, struggling slightly with the door as it’s difficult to open while I’m so ladened down with bags. Eventually though, I’m able to twist the handle and ease it open so that I can step inside.
“Ow, fuck!” I hear Christian hiss from the dining room. I watch him quickly pull his hand away from the candle he’s lighting on the table, the charred match falling onto the wood surface below as he lifts the tip of the finger to his mouth. His attention is caught when the door closes behind me and when he looks up, he seems surprised to see me.
“Hi, baby,” He says. “You’re early.”
I don’t respond. Instead, I let the bags fall to the floor at my feet and I bolt across the room and leap into his open arms. While I press myself as firmly into him as possible, my lips find his and I pour nearly two weeks of longing into him.
“I missed you,” I whisper, breaking the kiss only long enough to speak the words. He moans into me and deepens our kiss again, showing me, instead of telling me, how much he’s missed me too. I think for a moment that we’re going to progress beyond the kiss, that we’re only seconds away from ripping each other’s clothes away and making love right here on the dining room floor, but as I reach down for the top button on his shirt, he pulls away from my lips and gives me a disapproving look.
“All in good time, Ana,” He chides me. “I’ve made you dinner.”
“You cooked?” I ask, raising a disbelieving eyebrow at him.
He smiles and nods, and then loosens his grip around my legs so that I slide down his body. Once I’m firmly back on the ground, he pulls out a chair for me to sit and then disappears back into the kitchen. When he returns, he’s holding a pot in his hand, looking a little sheepish as he makes his way back to me.
“I’ve never cooked before….” He says, almost as if he’s warning me.
“Okay,” I nod, now looking down at the pot with trepidation. He nods and then reaches into the pot with a serving spoon and scoops some kind of gray, gloopy mush onto my plate. I’m slightly taken aback as I look down at it… I’m not even sure what it is.
“It’s mushroom risotto,” He explains, answering my unasked question. “Gail tried to teach me, she said it was easy…”
“Oh, right,” I reply, forcing a smile as I look up at him. “It looks… great.”
He lets out a short breath and then takes the seat next to me, dishing out his own helping and then waiting for me to start. I bite nervously down on my bottom lip as I scoop some of the mush onto my fork and take a bite. It somehow tastes raw and burnt at the same time, while still managing to taste like nothing at all. The consistency is bad, like glue, and I worry as I attempt to chew it, that I’m not going to be able to swallow. After a few failed attempts I am able to get it down though, and while I’m desperate to take a sip of wine to get this taste out of my mouth, I force myself to look up and smile at him.
“It’s good,” I tell him, but my voice is not very convincing. He gives me an unreadable look for a moment and then picks up his own fork to take a bite. The second the mush touches his tongue his face immediately goes blank, like he’s shocked by how bad it tastes. I watch him chew through the paste and when he too has to force himself to swallow, a fit of giggles bursts out of me.
“I definitely should have had something catered.” He says, reaching out for his own glass of wine.
“No, I love it,” I say, grateful that I’m finally able to take a drink now that he has.
“You don’t have to placate me, Anastasia…”
“I’m not. I mean, it’s not good and I’m not going to eat it, but I love that you made it for me. And, I love you.”
He smiles and passes me a bowl of salad, which thankfully is perfectly edible.
“You look like you feel better,” He notes as we fill our plates with the salad.
“Yeah, Kate really did work some magic. I’ve been on antibiotics for days but it turns out all I needed was a salt water flush and a disgusting mug of tea. So you’ll have her to thank for everything that happens later tonight.”
He laughs. “I’ll have Andrea send her a thank you card.”
“I’m sure she’ll appreciate that. Kate does love to get credit for things,” I giggle. “How’s work going?”
His expression shifts and I notice some of the good humor in his eyes fades a little as he decides how to answer that. “It could be better. I’m experiencing a little more fallout from the trial than I had anticipated and Ros has been busy with the audit the judge ordered, trying to track the illegal revenue stream through the company. There have been a few red flags and it’s caused some discourse within the executive management team.”
“What does that mean?” I ask, but he shakes his head.
“I’m handling it,” He assures me, though it’s hard to be reassured when I can see the uncertainty just below the surface of the façade he’s trying to put on for me. I feel like I should move on, think of something to lighten the mood again, but his mention of the trial has brought up another question…
“How did court go this morning?” I ask him, and he frowns.
“It’s your birthday, Ana,” He says, shaking his head. “We don’t have to talk about Elena Lincoln.”
“No, I want to know,” I press him. “I didn’t get to see it go down like you did.”
He takes a deep breath and a drink of wine before he continues. “Fifteen years.” He says at last. “Parole after five.”
“What?” I gasp, my mouth actually opening in shock. “How…?”
“She took a plea deal,” He explains. “She plead guilty to the money laundering and seven counts of prostitution. The prosecution dropped the other fourteen…” He swallows. “And the underage sex trafficking.”
I’m dumbfounded. After everything that woman has done, she gets fifteen years. Fifteen? She’ll barely be more than retirement age at that time. Christian and I will only be in our thirties… Hell, parole could mean she’s out in only five.
“So, you’re saying that if she just doesn’t fuck up again, she goes free in five years?” I ask. He nods and it lights an angry, incredulous fire inside of me. “How the fuck is that even…”
My voice cuts off as I become angrier and angrier to the point where I can’t even speak.
“My dad told me it was the deal he would have gotten me,” Christian says.
“You didn’t do anything,” I say coldly.
“I know,” He agrees, and as I sit there, so infuriated that I’m physically shaking, he leans over and takes me into his arms. “She can’t contact us and when she is released, she’ll be under strict supervision. We’re done with her. She’s out of our lives. I don’t want to talk about her, or think about her anymore. I want to move on.”
I take a deep breath and nod. There isn’t anything I can do anyway and I suppose if she’s out of our lives, that’s all I can really ask for anyway.
He leans into me and kisses me again. I close my eyes and relax under his touch, letting all of the tension and reservation inside of me slip away as I lose myself in the contact between his lips and mine.
“We should clean up so that I can take you upstairs,” He says softly, but I reach up into his hair, tugging gently as I move out of my chair and climb onto his lap so that I’m kneeling over him.
“Fuck the dishes,” I say. He head tilts back as I lean down and kiss him and I feel his hands run up the back of my legs. It sends a warm shiver up my spine and suddenly, I’m aching for him. I’m on top of him, pressed into him, our tongues are dancing together, but still, I don’t feel close enough to him.
“I’ve been thinking about this all day,” I tell him. “I can’t wait anymore.”
“Then let’s go to bed,” He says.
He shifts me back onto the floor so that he can stand and then takes both of my hands to lead me, blindly, towards the stairs. I take the steps first and it puts me even with him in height so I take advantage to kiss him again. Suddenly, I’m pushed back into the wall, his left hand pulling against my hips so that I’m pressed flush against him, while his right hand reaches to the back of my neck to hold me in the kiss. I moan into his mouth, parting my lips further as his tongue finds mine.
For a moment, it feels like we might never make it to the bed, that he’s just going to rip into me right here on the stairs, but when my teeth scrape against his bottom lip, he lets out a low, feral growl and pulls away.
“Get upstairs,” He pants, and I scramble forward to obey his command. A high yelp and then giggle bubbles out of my lips as I take the next two steps and then feel him slap my ass. The sound he makes in response resonates inside of me, sending tremors of desire through my entire body, and by the time I make it to my bedroom, it feels as though my skin is singing with my need for him.
“I love you, Christian,” I tell him, stepping forward to kiss him again as my fingers begin tugging at the buttons on his shirt until I can pull it away from him and let it pool carelessly on the floor. In the next second, he’s stripped me down to my bra and lifted me from the ground so that I can wrap my legs around his waist and we’re pressed together, skin to skin, while he takes me back to the bed. Once he’s laid me out over the comforter, his lips part from mine and he moves down to unfasten the buttons on my jeans.
“You’re so beautiful, baby,” He whispers as he slowly eases them down my legs. His lips make contact with me over and over again, exploring each new inch of skin he exposes. “God, I love your body.”
Once I’m naked from the waist down, he moves up my body, his tongue tracing the lines of my hips to my stomach and then up to my cleavage, which is still deep and defined under the constraints of my bra.
“Mmm,” He hums, pushing my breasts together more as he buries his face between them. “So fucking sexy.”
I look down as his lips create suction against the swell of my breast and feel the heat between my legs intensify as I see the bright, liquid steel in his eyes, burning with his desire. My hearts begins to pound in my chest as our eyes meet and for a moment, I’m so lost in him, I have to remind myself to breathe.
“Christian, kiss me,” I beg, twisting my fingers in his hair as I attempt to pull him up to me. He moves up to my lips without a fight, lifting his hips off of me for a moment so that I can work the buttons and zipper on his pants and begin to ease them down his hips. I shift down a little, moving my lips to his neck while we work together to completely remove his pants and boxers, and as I suck gently on the sensitive spot just below his ear, I feel him shudder. The unconscious movement brings goosebumps to my skin as I bask in the thought of his pleasure, that it’s me and my body that makes him feel this way.
“I’m ready, Christian.” I tell him, “Please…”
“Not yet,” He says. “I want to make you come with my mouth.”
I whimper as he shifts, moving down my body again until his lips make contact with my center. A long moan pours from my lips and I tilt my pelvis up to his mouth, silently, but greedily, begging for more. He complies, slipping his tongue into me while his lips move around my clitoris. Soon, my legs begin to tremble and my breath comes out in hitched and broken gasps. I tighten my legs around his head, fighting against the urge to pull away as the pleasure begins to overwhelm me. His hands reach under my ass, gripping tightly to me as he pushes deeper into me, doubling his efforts with his tongue and his lips, and soon the tightly coiled pressure growing in my belly explodes, flooding my veins with intense, fiery euphoria.
“Holy fuck, Christian!” I scream, attempting to thrash away from him, but his strong hands hold me in place, forcing me to lie there while my orgasm rattles me to my core.
When I come down, I lie there, panting, unable to speak, while Christian leaves soft kisses against me. “I’ll never get tired of watching you come for me, Ana,” He whispers, sending intense aftershocks up my legs as his lips brush softly against my clitoris. “I love that I can do this to you.”
“Only you,” I tell him. He finally releases me and I reach down to tug on his arms, trying to pull him up on top of me again. He shifts onto his knees and moves so that he’s level with me, the muscles in his arms showing in an unbelievably captivating way as he holds himself up over me.
“I love you, Christian,” I whisper.
“I love you, too,” He leans down and kisses me again, easing himself down on top of me so that I can feel his weight. Soon, I can feel a desperate kind of tightness in his lips, in the way he’s holding me, and in the way he’s grinding his erection into me.
“I need to feel you,” He says, reaching behind me to unhook my bra and then tossing it across the room. His hand slides up my body to grip my breast so that my nipples are peaking through his index and middle fingers. I feel his erection brush against me again as his fingers close around my nipple and I have to bite down on my lip to hold back my cries.
“I want you, Christian. Please.”
He moans and then reaches down between my legs, gripping firmly to his erection while he swirls the head around my clitoris, teasing me as he lubricates himself.
“Do you know what you do to me?” He asks.
“No.” I reply, incoherently.
“You make me come alive, Anastasia,” He tells me. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” I moan and then, with one fluid motion, he’s inside of me. I throw my head backwards, my mouth falling open as I revel in the connection between us. It’s more than the satisfaction of our hunger and lust for one another. More than the pleasure. It encompasses everything I want to share with Christian. It’s trust and our commitment to each other. It’s vulnerability, a promise, the thing that makes me his, and what makes him mine. It’s the greatest expression of our love and it’s almost a tragedy that, eventually, it will come to an end, no matter how pleasurable that end may be.
“Hold me tighter, Christian,” I beg, and his arms wrap around me as he thrusts forward, eliciting a cry from deep inside of me. Our mouths come together again, and the kiss somehow works in synchronization with his movements inside of me. I push against him, taking everything from him I can and reaping the benefits ten times over.
Soon, I’m building again. Climbing higher and higher, soaring, my back rising off the bed as I chase the orgasm just out of the reach of my fingertips. His hands grip tightly to me, pulling me into him as his thrusts become more purposeful. He directs all of his focus into the one place inside of me that brings every nerve ending in my body to life, and while I devolve into a panting, gasping mess, screaming his name over and over again, I surrender myself to the pleasure, leaving myself entirely at his mercy, until I explode.
“Oh Jesus, Ana!” He cries, his face screwing up tighter as my vaginal walls clamp down around him. “Fuck, baby. Christ, you feel good,” His mouth opens and his breathing harshens and just as he reaches the precipice of his climax, I dig my fingernails into him, dragging them down his back, and he tumbles over the edge with me, confessing his love once more as he pours his release into me.
We lie there for a moment, pressing against each other while our breathing slowly returns to normal. Every muscle in my body feels relaxed, comfortable, even though his weight is still pressing me into the mattress.
“Happy birthday, Ana,” He whispers.
“Thank you,” I reply, turning my head so that I can look at him again. As we lay there, neither of us willing to move, we stare into each other’s eyes and, again, I’m nearly overwhelmed by the love I see reflected there. I wonder if he can see that in the way I look at him? If he can look into my eyes and know that he is what makes me whole.
“What are you thinking about?” He asks, brushing the tendrils of hair on my forehead away from my face.
“You,” I reply. “How much I love you. How much you mean to me. How happy I am that you’re here and that I can hold you again.”
“Me too,” He says. “I’ve missed you so much, Anastasia. You’re my best friend and I hate it when you’re away from me. It feels like part of me is missing.”
“Kiss me,” I whisper, and he leans down to press his lips to mine. There’s so much that words could never say in this kiss, an enormity that no language on earth could define. We’ve made love together countless times, in nearly every way I can imagine, and yet, something about tonight feels momentous. Maybe that we’ve finally crossed over the threshold of the pain and darkness in the past and are finally moving forward together into the light. I can’t be sure. The only thing I can be sure of is the complete devotion I feel for the the man wrapped around me and the utter certainty that he is the one person on this planet who I’m meant to be with.
“Make love to me, again,” I mutter against his lips. “I don’t want you to stop.”
“I never want to stop,” He assures me, and while his tongue claims mine and his hands take possession of my body, he eases himself inside of me, and once again, I’m home.
34 Reasons I Love Jamie Dornan
May 1, 2016 January 20, 2017 ~ wishingmrgreywashere ~ 2 Comments
Today is Jamie Dornan’s 34th birthday! So, in honor of this beautiful, perfect man, I’ve compiled a list of the 34 reasons I love him.
1. He’s seriously GORGEOUS!
It’s not really what I would call fair… There is a level to this kind of hotness that makes me believe in a higher power, and that sometimes, they like to show off.
2. This picture of him holding a football.
Do I need to say anything else?
3. He’s a dork.
He doesn’t take himself very seriously, which makes him irresistible. Nothing brightens my day more than seeing pictures of him on set doing weird things or goofing around, except maybe this video of him reading catalogues- but sexy.
4. His walk.
He’s very self conscious about this apparently but I think it’s adorable. The strange thing is that I didn’t even notice it until he pointed it out.
5. He’s a loving and devoted father.
Who’s heart doesn’t melt when they see a man absolutely infatuated with their children? Seriously, almost too much for me to handle.
Be Still My Heart
6. His accent.
I’m not going to lie… I’ve never been one to swoon for accents. Australian… okay. British… meh. But with Jamie, his deep timber and smooth Northern Irish accent is just icing an already delectable double chocolate fudge brownie cake.
7. This Calvin Klein ad.
Golden Torso? Golden…
8. His beard.
I’ve written about it before, but that’s because this love is real. I know the realities of facial hair… it’s sharp, it’s scratchy, it collects things… Overall, I’m not interested. But on Jamie… yes, please.
9. This .gif
I can’t really tell you what it is about it… but it’s my favorite .gif of all time, which is saying something because Britney Spears isn’t even in it.
10. He’s adorable
He’s humble and he’s sweet and, just like a puppy in a pet store, I want to take him home and keep him forever.
11. His hot bod.
Warning, gratuitous eye candy below:
12. This interview:
13. The Fall.
This is quite possibly my favorite show on the air today (hint: get your shit together BBC and release season 3). Sexy Jamie Dornan as a serial killer who strangles women in their beds and gets up to sexual mischief in all kinds of different ways? Umm yes please.
14. His love for his wife.
Okay, so 99.9% of the time, I like to pretend that he isn’t married so that I don’t feel weird about my obsession with him. But the other .01% of the time, I totally find his devotion to his wife outrageously, soul-crushingly, fantastic. I mean, he took his wife to a Rihanna concert. That’s love. Amelia Warner, you are one lucky lady.
15. Fairytale by Sons of Jim.
Did you know that Jamie Dornan was in a band? Did you know that that band was really good? This is my favorite song.
16. This .gif:
17. This time that he got really excited by this picture name card of himself at a table.
18. He used to be a model
Now this may just sound like a repeat of #1, but in fact it is entirely different. Whereas most celebrities, you’re limited to paparazzi pictures, photos from premiers or award shows, publicity stills, and the occasional Instagram post, we have amazing pictures of Jamie that are seemingly endless.
19. He doesn’t post much on social media but when he does, it’s gold.
Did I mention he’s hilarious?
20. After much contention, he’s my perfect Christian Grey.
I was not team Jamie when it was announced he was taking over for Charlie Hunnam, not because I was attached to Charlie, but because of my reservations with Jamie which probably have a lot to do with the fact I didn’t believe anyone could live up to Christian Grey… I wrote several twitter rants ending with #NotMyChristian but here, in front of the world, I would now like to redact that statement. You Jamie, are #MyChristian.
21. He loves FRIENDS
So, this was part of the whole #askjamiedornan thing that happened while he was promoting Fifty Shades of Grey in 2015. Someone asks, “What’s your favorite TV Show?” and wouldn’t you know it, we have this in common.
I’m a Monica… Jamie, please be my Chandler.
22. He makes fun of Dakota Johnson in a completely adorable way.
I hate when people say these two hate each other. I don’t know where that comes from. They’re so cute, I can’t handle it.
23. His tongue.
And his enjoyment of showing it off.
24. This .gif
Mhmmm
25. He likes puppies.
Seriously solidifying heartthrob status right now.
26. He plays sports and is kind of a trickster.
27. He makes golf interesting.
Part of me believes that watching the US Open should be outlawed under the provisions of the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution… but then again, when Jamie does it, I suddenly find this sport fascinating.
28. He’s a method actor.
For Fifty Shades of Grey he visited a real BDSM sex dungeon and for The Fall, he actually stalked a woman around London for an afternoon. Mostly I appreciate this because I like to think that one day, I could be that woman…
29. He’s really good at kissing scenes.
Like, really good…
Excuse me for a minute.
30. He gets embarrassed.
Dakota has a problem controlling her mouth sometimes, and Jamie’s reaction is priceless…
31. He’s a gentleman.
It’s not always easy walking around a multi-million dollar yacht in a ball gown, but Jamie is always willing to led a helping hand.
Even if it’s just climbing out of a limo in heels.
32. He likes cheesecake.
Which is excellent because I love cheesecake and I feel like this is something we could bond over.
33. This .gif.
**And Last But Not Least**
34. His smile
It’s a whole new level of adorable hotness…
Happy Birthday Jamie!
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Supreme Court to stick with arguments via telephone, for now
By: Associated Press September 16, 2020 10:39 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will start its new term next month the way it ended the last one, with arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic and live audio available to the public.
With 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being treated for cancer and five of her colleagues also age 65 or older, the court is taking no chances that putting the justices in close proximity to each other might make them more vulnerable to catching the virus.
“In keeping with public health guidance in response to COVID-19, the Justices and counsel will all participate remotely,” the court said in a statement. The court will decide at a later date how to hold arguments in November and December.
The court held arguments by telephone in May for the first time, and made the audio available live, also a first for the tradition-bound court.
All the justices asked questions during 10 arguments, even the normally taciturn Clarence Thomas. Ginsburg took part from a hospital room one day when she was being treated for possible infection.
She withheld her latest cancer diagnosis until after the term ended in mid-July, when she said she was undergoing chemotherapy for lesions on her liver, but planned to continue serving on the court.
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Message from Len: Chaos and confusion – but your safety, jobs and pay come first
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Dear Unite activist
Firstly, thank you for everything that you are doing to support our members and represent our union during these very testing times. Our members and their families will not forget that we are here for them when they need us most.
More than six weeks into lockdown, the government at Westminster now wants to set out a path to unlocking the economy. This process has got off to an unfortunate start, however, with the confusing and chaotic communications around the next steps.
We heard from the prime minister last night, when he said that the message in England would now switch to `stay alert’ while in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales it remains ‘stay home’. It has also only now been clarified that the government wants manufacturing and construction to begin to open further in England from Wednesday and not today as was initially inferred by the prime minister.
Then there is question of the yet-to-be published government guidance on safe working and safe travel to work. We would have preferred for this guidance to be termed as instruction to prevent employers from differing in their interpretation of the advice, and it would have been far more sensible and helpful for this guidance to have been seen by and agreed with unions and employers before the government announced the loosening of lockdown. The government guidance will emerge later today, we are told.
These are points I made when I spoke with the BBC this morning where I also called for the government to turn to our `army’ of health and safety workers to get this country working in a safe and confident manner.
Unite’s approach to the government’s proposals and guidance remains as before: do these protect your safety, your jobs and your income? If they do not then we will not hesitate to say so and we will be voluble in our demands for a better deal for you and your colleagues. We will not permit anything that dilutes or diverts from the health and safety provisions that this movement fought hard to secure.
The first duty of a government is to keep its people safe. Of course, we have tens of thousands of members who have been at work throughout this crisis and through your efforts, we have been working to keep them safe. We want those not at work to be able to go back to their workplaces as soon as possible but it has to also be in as safe a manner as possible.
We will not allow this to become a choice between lives and livelihoods, especially when there is practical assistance that we can provide and a raft of expertise across our movement about how to ensure safe workplaces.
Over the course of today and tomorrow, we will hear more of the government’s plan for the workers in England. We will analyse these and provide briefing to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, our guide to safe workplaces can be found on our website (https://resources.unitetheunion.org/unite-at-work-bargaining-support/health-and-safety) and I advise that you use this as the basis of your conversations with your employers.
We continue to be in discussions with all the governments of the UK and to speak with force and good sense about what is needed to re-open this country safely, with the long-term, strategic investment and partnership programme needed to recover our economy.
These are changed times but the role of unions in protecting working people has never been more evident. It is vital that we encourage workers to join our union as we fight to secure their safety and their futures.
As ever, our solidarity will see us through.
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American eyes cuts as bailout ends
File image of an AA tail (Source: American Airlines).
American Airlines is reportedly considering cutting flights to up to 30 US cities once “strings-attached” federal funding expires at the end of next month.
Speaking to CNBC on condition of anonymity, an AA insider revealed that the airline may scrap service to a number of destinations it has been required to serve as a condition of accepting $5.8 billion in CARES funding.
While American’s plans were first reported by the outlet on Thursday, they have since been confirmed by the Associated Press and The Dallas Morning News.
Though the source didn’t point to particular cities set to lose service, they told CNBC the changes “could appear in schedules as early as next week”.
The US Department of Transportation (DoT) was required to inform airlines by 1 August if the government planned to extend the minimum service requirements.
“The department did not propose to extend the obligations, but will use the authority in the CARES Act to monitor ongoing access by the travelling public to the national air transportation system,” a DOT spokesman said.
“The department is also prepared to implement any new provisions of law in this area if enacted by Congress.”
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Best Cryptocurrency to Invest in 2020
Best Cryptocurrency to Invest in 2020 :
A wise man once said - "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful". A quote from one of the greatest investment geniuses of our time. Bitcoins dominance has been exploding, but soon the real winners will be altcoins. Decentralized, scale-able and most importantly Fundamentally strong. We're going to be looking in best cryptocuurency to invest in 2020.
Before Coming to our topic , If you are new learner here we recommend you to first read about What is Cryptocurrency ? Moving forward 2017 gave birth to one of the biggest cryptocurrency rallies of all time. Cryptocurrency was running wild. From Ethereum to Dogecoin. It seemed like every single altcoin in existence was seeing 100x returns. It was like shooting fish in a barrel, until the bear market came and stopped the gains in their tracks.
Here are some of these projects :
1-BAT :
BAT could genuinely be one of the most revolutionary crypto projects out there as it aims to redesign the future of online advertising by rewarding your attention. Similar to how bitcoin was born out of the global financial crisis. BAT was born out of the online advertising crisis. With Facebook and Google user privacy has become a casualty in an ever increasing consumer surveillance ad model that relies on tracking and profiling users. If you're seeing this article, you're probably using a web browser. Heck you might be even using the "Brave Browser". It's led by tech pioneer Brendan Eich the co-founder of Mozilla and Firefox and creator of JavaScript. The Brave browser is one of the few success stories of this crypto market cycle. BAT tokens are the native currency that are used by the system, users will be rewarded for their attention and will no longer have to sacrifice their data privacy or web experience. With millions of users that ad blocking, wallet enabled browser has only gotten better as time passes and it's now able to rival major players like Chrome and Firefox. Brave browser is likely to be one of the first to introduce crypto to the mainstream via its built-in ads reward platform. Users get rewarded for browsing the Internet while earning BAT based on their attention. It's one of the few altcoins that actually solves a problem and has long term viability.
2-Chainlinnk :
This is where Chainlinnk comes in. In the blockchain world. We call a universally trusted source an Oracle It's an agent who finds and verifies real-world information and submits it to a blockchain for a smart contract to use. Chainlink is a decentralized Oracle platform which connects to real world applications and data. It aims to bridge the gap between blockchain and legacy systems. Basically, Chainlink takes information that is external to blockchain applications and puts it on-chain. If you think that smart contracts are going to be a big deal then the tool that chainlink is building is going to be a core part of that. LINK is solving a problem faced by Every smart contract platform. It doesn't matter if it's Ethereum, Cardano or Tron every smart contract platform will need an Oracle solution to connect to the real-world and LINK might just be the endgame solution for this. Hyundai, LG Samsung. What do you get when you combine one of the world's most technologically innovative countries and blockchain? You get ICON. Your physical ID card could be a thing of the past as ICONLOOPS, MyID Alliance is aiming to make this a reality,
3- Energi NRG :
Energy have taken the idea of a self-funding Treasury to the next level with one of the largest percentage allocations to the Treasury of any master node blockchain. A full 40 percent of the released NRG goes to the Treasury. These funds are used every month for marketing and development of the project This is meant to ensure longevity for the project providing funds to improve technology, grow the community and to compensate developers. This alone makes them a real standout. For Energy 2020 will be a year of adoption with campaigns to build energy merchants acceptance worldwide.
4- Apollo :
Apollo is an all-in-one digital currency which combines the features of mainstream cryptocurrencies into one platform Apollo has made history by becoming the first project to utilize sharing on an active blockchain. In 2020 the foundation will focus on achieving true mass adoption by its national currency initiative the initial target is the continent of Africa where the foundation has partnered with a ADF group to pitch to all 54 nations on the continent of 1.2 billion people. This is big. The foundation is also developing tools for mass adoption, including a light wallet app The mobile app will have a QR code as well as merchant features This will help Apollo to gain merchant adoption globally. Apollo's aims are pretty ambitious to say the least it aims to become the all-in-one crypto for all use cases. If it manages to achieve these goals It could be on its way to become one of the top cryptocurrencies in the future. Definitely one to keep your eye on. The role of blockchain and finance is ever-growing. In fact, It's a 300 trillion dollar market.
5-Fusion FSN :
Fusion is a project that aims to tap into just that. It's making waves in the decentralized finance space having signed more than 40 partnerships over the last 12 months. Fusion released their main net in June. Today, there are more than three hundred nodes validating transactions on the network earning close to 40 percent annualized staking rewards. Fusion boasts a rich feature set that includes tools for peer-to-peer exchange time locking, asset digitization and more. However, the most exciting piece of technology will be launched by the very end of 2019. It's called distributed control rights management, and it solves the problem of interoperability between blockchains. To put it simply DCRM works by sharding private keys and distributing them between network nodes. This allows for a custodial account to be controlled and managed by a blockchain. This is called distributed custody. DCRM will be used by banks, exchanges, custody providers and more to improve their connectivity operations and enhance their security modules. I expect 2020 to be a huge year for Fusion as they continue to build on exciting tech and push forward with adoption. Another South Korean project that aims to impress.
6-Fantom FTM :
Fantom is a cryptocurrency that does not use blockchain. Instead it uses an innovative approach called DAG. Without dwelling on the technical details to put it simply unlike blockchains. It's Infinitely scale-able with the capacity to do virtually anything that's done today on the Internet. For example, it could be used as the nervous system for smart cities. It could be the infrastructure backbone for a complex network of devices connected via the Internet of Things. A key innovation Fantom has pioneered is the Lachesis Consensus. This enables Fantom to settle transactions instantly and run smart contracts at high speeds. In recent testing it achieved 25,000 transactions per second. Once launched it could reach speeds exceeding 100,000 transactions per second. Other DAG based cryptocurrencies have similar aspirations but Fantom can also run smart contracts. Most recently, they have launched a white labeled stable coin issuance solution.
7-Stable coin:
stablecoins, which is already being adopted by several companies. Be greedy when others are fearful. When everyone else is running scared that's the time to be an optimist. This is where the real money is made.
We hope you had get clear picture of best crptocurrency to invest in 2020.
1- What is Cryptocurrency ?
Its a digital currency , without having any physical existence. Its allow every user's to make transaction from worldwide , faster and eaiser. We already had detailed discussion on what is cryptocurrency
2- What crypto will explode in 2020?
The altcoin Ripple XRP , Which is been centralized by banking sectors. Xrp already shown its growth in the past years. Even its expected seeing the graph upward in 2020.
3-Should i buy Ripple XRP ?
Currently ripple is being in top 10 coin. And currently being tested under around 100 banking sectors. In future its expected that ripple shake-hands with many other companies.
4-What's the cheapest Cryptocurrency to buy?
Here are some cheapest with high quality of potential to grow in upcoming months :
1-IOTA (MIOTA)
2-Nem (XEM)
3-Stellar Lumens
4-BitTorrent
5-Stellar Lumens (XLM)
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Perpetual Calendar 5550P-001 | platinum
Default Title - Sold Regular price
This 5550P Advanced Research is a fine example of how Patek Philippe, despite its long-standing historic legacy, aims to push forwards watchmaking through ingenuity, technological advances and bold aesthetic styling. Limited to 300 pieces, which are rumoured to all have been very quickly spoken for, the 5550P is as rare as it is unusual.
Pushing The Boundaries
Patek Philippe’s Advanced Research Program stems from the development of silicon components, for use in watchmaking. Despite technical advances, horology has traditionally relied on the same, basic materials for the last few centuries, with little evolution over the years. Alongside their more classic approach to horology, Patek Philippe has also attempted to innovate in the realm of material science and engineering. This is a long-standing approach from the manufacture, which has always sought to push the boundaries of accuracy and timekeeping, from early chronometer pocket watches to having an entire department dedicated to electronic timekeepers as early as the mid-20th century.
The Advanced Research Program is one of the most recent steps in this journey. Following years of extensive research work at the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et Microtechnique (CSEM), Patek Philippe announced their first silicon component in 2005 – an escape wheel in a proprietary silicon dioxide formulation, known as Silinvar. This new material was used to rework the balance spring and the escape wheel, with Patek Philippe gradually implementing these innovations into three, successive annual calendar references: the 5250G, the 5350R and the 5450P.
The advantages of using silicon are well documented, despite the material’s reliance on technology. Through a combination of surface hardness and overall smoothness, mechanical components are able to interact without the use of oils, and can be fabricated with extreme precision. Though the material remains sensitive to temperature changes, it’s possible to produce formulations, such as Silinvar, which negate these effects. In fact, the Silinvar name is based on a contraction of silicon and invariable.
This Perpetual Calendar 5550P was intended to mark the culmination of this journey into silicon, integrating many of these innovations. The individual components tested with the preceding annual calendar references were integrated into the perpetual calendar, alongside further developments. In April 2011, former Patek Philippe president Philippe Stern announced that silicon balance springs would henceforth become the new standard for the brand, and gradually be added to future calibers.
The design of this 5550P is distinctly different to that of any other Patek Philippe perpetual calendar. The rose gold index markers and luminous-filled feuille hands create a visually striking contrast against the silvered, vertically brushed central section of the dial. The varied colours, indications, and luminous dots marking the hours gives the dial a bold appearance, while the vertical brushing plays with the light in appealing ways. In combination, the silvered colour and pronounced brushing give a distinctly modern appearance to one of Patek Philippe’s most traditional complications.
The dial has three registers, with the various functions neatly balanced out. The sub-dial at three o’clock shows the leap-year counter and the months, in a slightly concave sub-register, giving depth to the sharply-brushed, silvered dial. In a similar fashion, the months and day/night indicators are placed at nine o’clock. The gold moon and stars for the moon-phase are placed at six o’clock, with the days of the month around it, reminiscent of Patek Philippe’s earliest reference 3940 examples, where the moon and stars were also gold in colour.
This Patek Philippe 5550P features a nicely preserved 37.2 mm platinum case, with crisp hallmarks on the reverse side of the lugs. Like earlier examples from the Advanced Research series, it features a sapphire display caseback, with the addition of a cyclops magnifier to highlight the balance modifications.
Powered by the caliber 240 Q Si movement, the 5550P features a Silicium escape wheel, anchor, hairspring and silicon balance wheel, forming the “Oscillomax” assembly. According to Patek Philippe, the increased efficiency of the 240 Q Si allows the calibre to have an increased power reserve of 70 hours, over the 48 hours found on the preceding calibre 240.
The movement is excellently finished, with chamfering on all angles, countersinks, polishing and decoration, in the form of Geneva striping. As with all contemporary Patek Philippe watches, it has the Patek Philippe seal. The calibre 240 Q Si beats at a frequency of 3 Hz (21,600 A/h), with the power reserve at a maximum of 70 hours.
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Brand: Patek Philippe
Model: Perpetual Calendar Advanced Research Ref. 5550P-001
Movement: mechanical automatic micro-rotor 240 Q Si
Year: c. 2011
Functions: perpetual calendar: leap year indicator, month, date, day; moonphase, day/night indicators, hours, minutes
Features: Silicium escape wheel, anchor, hairspring and silicon balance wheel; display caseback (with magnifier), brushed silvered dial, rose gold baton index markers, luminous leaf-shaped hands
Case: 37.2 mm platinum
Bracelet: Patek Philippe black alligator strap, Tokyo grained leather strap original platinum deployant
Box & papers: full-set: original outer box, inner winding box, Certificate of Origin, manuals, leather folio, spare solid caseback and setting pin (sealed), hangtag
Condition, servicing & provenance
This platinum, Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Advanced Research 5550P is preserved in excellent condition. The case shows light superficial marks throughout, with nicely defined hallmarks on the reverse of the lugs. The dial shows no visible signs of imperfection. The watch comes complete with its original boxes, stamped Certificate of Origin, product literature and Patek Philippe leather folio, along with the original (sealed) solid caseback and setting pin. The watch is guaranteed for authenticity and comes with a two-year mechanical warranty from A Collected Man.
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Democrats holding House majority, but lose several incumbents
Billy House
Bloomberg News/Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON — Democrats are projected to keep control of the U.S. House in the Nov. 3 elections, but with at least six incumbents losing their seats the party is falling far short of preelection expectations of an expanded majority.
Among the Democrats defeated were several first elected in the 2018 “blue wave” that swept them into majority, as well as House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, who has represented his Minnesota district since 1991. While Republicans aren’t threatening to take back control of the House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have less room to maneuver.
With Democrats also on the verge of failing in their quest for a Senate majority and the presidential race too close to call, House Democrats might have to shelve their most ambitious plans for health care, fighting climate change and responding to the coronavirus epidemic.
“It’s not over until every vote is counted,” Pelosi told supporters, pointing to races in her home state of California and elsewhere in the western U.S. that haven’t yet been called.
In addition, Pelosi will be facing more pressure from the left. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez easily won reelection and will be joined by several more self-described progressive members, including Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres in New York, and Missouri’s Cori Bush, who are replacing more centrist Democrats.
Democrats took over the House after they netted 41 seats in the 2018 midterms, the largest single-year pick-up since the post-Watergate midterm elections in 1974.
The 435-seat chamber currently has 232 Democrats, 197 Republicans, one Libertarian and five vacancies. Independent analysts forecast heading into the Nov. 3 vote that Democrats would gain 10 to 15 seats. Instead they may face a net loss.
In Florida, Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell was defeated by Republican Carlos Gimenez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County. Democrat Donna Shalala, former Health and Human Services secretary, lost to Republican Maria Elvira Salazar, a broadcast journalist.
Three other first-term Democrats lost as well. Oklahoma Democratic Rep. Kendra Horn conceded in her contest against Stephanie Bice, though the race had not been officially called. And South Carolina Democrat Joe Cunningham lost to Republican challenger Nancy Mace. New Mexico’s Xochitl Torres Small lost to Republican Yvette Herrell.
Democrats picked up two formerly GOP-held seats that had been redistricted in North Carolina.
Part of House Democrats’ preelection optimism came from the number of GOP retirements and the defeat of some Republican incumbents in primaries.
But Republicans held the seat opened up by the retirement of GOP Rep. Francis Rooney in Florida. The winner of that contest, Byron Donalds, will be the only Black Republican in the House.
Another open race in Texas for a Waco-area seat now held by retiring Republican Bill Flores was won by former House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, who had been defeated in his former Dallas area district in 2018.
Pelosi, the only woman ever to hold the speaker’s gavel, has already said she plans to run for reelection as speaker in the next Congress. House Democrats return Nov. 18 and 19 to Washington, along with their members-elect, to elect their leaders for the new session in January. That includes nominating a speaker who must then be elected by the full House of Representatives.
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News|ISIL/ISIS
Saudi Arabia blames ISIL for killing police officers
Interior ministry says one suspect has confessed to killings and a warrant is issued for the arrest of another.
Authorities said Yazid bin Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan had confessed to carrying out the shooting [Saudi Interior Ministry]
Saudi Arabia has blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group for the killing of two policemen in Riyadh earlier this month.
A statement released by the country’s interior ministry on Friday said one Saudi man had been arrested and a warrant had been issued for another.
Authorities said 23-year-old Yazid bin Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan had confessed to carrying out the shooting.
Abu Niyan told investigators he was following orders received from ISIL in Syria, the interior ministry said.
Three bomb-laden vehicles were also uncovered during the investigation, said the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
They also discovered machine guns, ammunition, money and several mobile telephones which revealed an exchange between the attackers and contacts in Syria, it said.
Authorities are offering a $267,000 reward for a second suspect, a Saudi named as Nawaf bin Sharif Samir al-Anzi.
The two Saudi policemen were killed in an April 8 drive-by shooting in an eastern district of the capital.
The ministry said that Abu Niyan had allegedly carried out the shooting while his partner, Anzi, drove the car and filmed the attack.
ISIL supplied them with the weapons, ammunition, and money to carry out the shooting through a “third party whom they did not meet,” the interior ministry said.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Jizan in Saudi Arabia, said authorities believe Anzi went by the alias ‘Berjis’, and had disguised himself by speaking with a North African accent of Arabic .
The Sunni-dominated kingdom is part of a US-led coalition taking part in an air war against ISIL, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
In March two police officers were injured in a similar attack, also in Riyadh.
Source : AFP, Al Jazeera
Saudi police officers killed in Riyadh shooting
Incident in capital’s eastern district is the second attack on police force in in the kingdom in as many months.
Police kill suspects in northern Saudi Arabia
Interior Ministry says four men shot in eastern Awamiya region were behind the killing of a member of security forces.
ISIL kills dozens of opponents in Iraq
Pictures purport to show massacre of Shia prisoners, as 24 Sunni critics of group are reported killed near Kirkuk.
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Pro Zone
The international editorial team of all4shooters.com
A Lady Shooter from Scotland
Carrie Smith loves her shooting and her gundogs. She is sponsored by Krieghoff and travels the UK to shoot clay competitions. In 2017, she won the Ladies British Open DTL Championship, Home International High Gun, Scottish Open DTL Ladies High Gun, silver at the British Open Single Barrel, bronze at the English Open Single Barrel. She is the Captain of the Scottish Ladies Clay shooting team.
The Team of all4shooters.com / Text: Linda Mellor 12/18/2017
Carrie Smith shooting with Beretta 682 Gold E
Carrie, who lives on a Scottish Highland estate with her daughter, took her first shot with a semi-auto when she was 12 years old. “I’d got out with my dad, Willie, a gamekeeper, and help to feed the pheasants then we’d go shooting pigeons and crows.”
Willie shot DTL for the Scotland team in the 1990s, and encouraged his daughter to shoot more. Every opportunity Carrie had, she would be out shooting, and from the age of seventeen, Carrie has shot on the Scottish team.
She is very committed to her shooting, and consistently adds to her list of achievements and spends a great deal of her time travelling with her dad to shoot competitions around the UK.
Carrie Smith with her trophies.
A strong wowan with such determination
Living remotely in the Highlands means it takes a couple of hours to get to her nearest shoot ground so, around three years ago, her Dad made a DTL layout at home. During the clay season she will shoot a minimum of two to three times per week at home. “When it’s really full on I am out shooting every day. Sometimes, when dad and I are shooting, we get carried away, and end up shooting 100” said Carrie.
Carrie being presented with a over/under shotgun by her sponsor, Krieghoff.
“People have always told me I could shoot well but I have never had a lesson. My determination is a big thing for me, and it is responsible for making me want to constantly improve. Every time I shoot, I want to get better, to keep focused on winning, and enjoy the success.” Carrie’s determination paid off, she is now sponsored by Krieghoff and shoots with a K80 Pro Rib.
Carrie’s mental attitude when shooting changed after she had her daughter, Lily. She had more concentration, felt better, and as she says, “more mature”.
Her shooting style changed, her performance improved, and she was no longer called ‘Carrie bang-bang’ by her dad; she would get so excited, never take any advice, and shoot in quick succession.
Click here to read the story of other lady shooters on all4shooters.com: Faye Wills, Mhairi-Ann Troup.
Who is our author Linda Mellor?
Linda Mellor is one of Scotland’s foremost shooting, fishing and hunting female writers and photographers. She is the product Ambassador for Venator Pro, a premier hunting company and stockist of the European brand Hillman. With a lifetime of countryside experience, Linda’s passion, enthusiasm and respect for the outdoors and hunting is explored and shared across her writing and photography.
For more information on Linda Mellor, please visit Linda Mellor's website, Twitter (LindaMellor) and instagram (linda_mellor).
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Northwords
Five Canadian authors journey to Torngat Mountains National Park, attempting to capture the “idea of the north.”
Reviewed by: Julie Bélanger
Categories: Art - Culture - Travel
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Northwords \ Geoff Morrison
Award-winning journalist Shelagh Rogers returns to Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador, known in Inuktitut as the “place of spirits” to lead a literary expedition. Director Geoff Morrison follows Rogers and contemporary Canadian authors, Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Alissa York, Noah Richler and Rabindranath Maharaj, as they attempt to capture the “idea of the north” that has inspired many artists before them, including Glenn Gould and the Group of Seven.
The Torngats are among the oldest mountains in the world, formed billions of years ago by tectonic forces and glaciation. The authors immerse themselves in Inuit culture by exploring the rugged terrain, fishing and hunting for subsistence with the help of locals. While most would feel incredibly removed from their daily lives, it becomes clear that the Torngats are not only wilderness, but a homeland.
The fjord is seemingly untouched by human hands, yet the landscape is dotted with relics of human settlements. All that is left behind are the buildings of Moravian missionaries, as the Inuit leave “very little footprint.” One of the guides, Sophie Keelan, shows the group her childhood home further south in Hebron, which she and 300 families were forced to leave in 1959, provincial services cuts driving them further south.
The group finally gets a chance to reflect on their experiences during a heavy rain and windstorm as they take shelter in their tents. The authors are inspired by the beauty and profundity of their experiences, but are bewildered by trying to capture it all by pen. Rogers declares that the Torngats are “a place that’s almost impossible to capture in words, but compels you to try.”
The week-long adventure is filled with emotional moments and personal revelations. Maharaj suggests, “Maybe these are the places we come to resolve issues.” For his contribution, Maharaj resolves a conflict of one of his characters from a previous work. The five authors all approach their assignment differently, but they are all clearly overwhelmed and changed by the experience. York expresses, “My eyes aren’t big enough, my heart isn’t big enough to hold it all.”
Northwords offers a captivating look at how the unfamiliar affects the creative process. It also initiates a cultural exchange with hopes of mending relationships and building new friendships. It is certainly worth a watch for the stunning vistas of one of Canada’s newest National Parks alone.
Read CBC Books’ article for Rogers’ reflections one year after their Northwords journey. Experience the journey on the interactive website.
Northwords, directed by Geoff Morrison, Canada: filmCAN, 2012, 52 minutes
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Julie Bélanger
Julie is an urban planning graduate student at the University of Waterloo, focusing on sustainable transportation.
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