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Resident Evil 7 (2017) review
April 16, 2018 May 6, 2018 The Anomalous Host Video Game Review analysis, biohazard, capcom, evil, game, PC, reboot, resident, review, videogame, vii
Rated: 2.5-3 / 5 (depending on my mood)
Completely Tangent Intro
So I was playing through The Witcher 3, with all the DLC installed. And after, I don’t know, between 50-60 hours of playing, as good as that game is, all I could think was, “Goddamnit, isn’t this fucking game over yet? How fucking long is this thing?” I feel bad saying that, because it is a really good 5/5 game I plan on reviewing some time down the line so I can say I reviewed the entire trilogy. But I guess epically (I don’t give a fuck if that isn’t a real word) long games and me don’t always mix. I’m the kind of guy who prefers game lengths (as in from beginning to end of one play, not including replays) to be between 8-20 hours, maybe 30 hours if it’s good enough. And I knew what I was getting into, because I played it a long while back and I remember clocking in at just under 80 hours of playtime. Throw in a couple DLCs that each add an additional 6-8 hours of playtime, and you see why it is that game is so goddamn long. The Witcher 3 is one of those games that I just can’t power through like I normally do for most games, it’s too long for that. It’s more like one of those games where you just do 1 quest (either a main quest or a secondary quest, maybe throw in a few treasure/monster hunts for the hell of it), savor it and the details, and then stop. Rinse and repeat for another 50 sessions or so, and then there it is. Otherwise someone like me gets burned out. Granted, it didn’t start to happen until I was about 40 hours into it, but that’s 40 fucking hours! I thought about holding off on reviewing that game until I play it through again on New Game+ mode, but fuck that. That’s like doing a marathon of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the extended cuts, and then saying you’re going to do it twice in a row. Not me.
So what does this have to do with Resident Evil 7? Well, for starters, it’s an easier to digest game that clocks in at an acceptable 9-10 hours on a first playthrough on Normal difficulty, which gave me a sigh of relief compared to the daunting task of finishing a Witcher game. Snack time.
He chose foolishly.
The Actual Review
Ok, so first of all, I have played most of the previous Resident Evil games.
Ok, maybe not most. Just Resident Evil 0 (GCN), 1 (GCN remake, which is the best way to play it, minus the dumb fucking decision to throw in the crimson heads), 2 (my personal favorite out of all the games, but that’s another story), 3 (arguably the best one next to 2), Code: Vernoica (the first Resident Evil game I didn’t really care for all that much next to RE:0, plus I hated them bringing back Wesker and making him and the protagonists come straight out of The Matrix), 4 (the main reason people like this game is because of the updated third-person gameplay which is done well, and the self-awareness at how ridiculous it is; I thought it was just ok, albeit an entertaining time regardless), 5 (played it co-op with another real human being too; otherwise the only memorable thing about it is finally seeing Wesker die, though he should’ve stayed fucking dead in the first fucking game), and a couple of the spinoff games which aren’t memorable enough for me to even remember the titles. As for Resident Evil 6, I skipped out on that shit. As far as I’m concerned, it got over-the-top enough with Code Veronica and 5; the franchise needed to die rather than keep coming back to life (which I guess makes the Umbrella Corporation a metaphor for Capcom).
Seriously, this is some of the Matrix shit they’ve been doing since Code Veronica.
And then this game comes along. So it’s more or less a reboot for the franchise, moving away from the superhuman heroics (thank fucking Christ), and turning to a more immersive 1st-person horror-shooter (not on-the-rails like House of the Dead or those mediocre at best Wii games). And it didn’t star any of the leads we’ve become accustomed to. And I’ve heard positive reviews about the game. So I decided to snatch it up off of Steam while it was on sale, but didn’t start playing it until about a week ago, when I found out that about a couple months after purchasing it they released a Gold Edition of the game. Well fuck you too Capcom! You see why I’m hesitant to purchase any brand-spankin’ new game within the first year it comes out (patches for bugs aside)?
So how was it? Eh, it was ok. I don’t know man, I don’t know if its because I’m getting too old for most games, or because I’ve played so many that it becomes very difficult to please me outside of nostalgia-baiting. Or maybe it’s because the current state of the game industry makes me a little sick to my stomach, more so that all the gross-out moments this game shoved in my virtual face.
I will say that, by the end of it all, it did feel like a Resident Evil game. But at the same time, it also felt like it took as many steps forward as it did backward, which frustrated me. The main thing to discuss in that regard is the one thing I usually play games for nowadays, and that’s the story and/or characters. Because games nowadays focus more on the look/feel/flash than they do on the gameplay. And when it comes to first-person-shooters (FPS), that’s probably all that genre has left going for it. Gone are the days where you could just play something like Doom I and II (the newer one from 2016 does not count) or Duke Nukem 3D, or Painkiller: Black, or Descent I-III. You know, shooters with virtually no narrative or story outside the instruction manual (back when games came with those), where all you had to do was get weapons and blow shit up. Those are a-dime-a-dozen, and it’s not exactly a high bar to meet when it comes to crafting an FPS game. So we need to have story and characters to help stand out from the rest and get us gamers more easily immersed into the game.
So, story. You play as some random dude who’s wife has disappeared, and you receive a message from her to stay away and forget about her. So rather than forget about her and get another smoking hot wife to bang, he decides not to heed her advice and go out into the middle of “I buttfuck my daughter; redneck swamp land” nowhere, and decides to approach a house that looks like it’s been abandoned for a few years, if not a decade, crawls through swamp water and sewage and bugs and rotten food and other shit (maybe literally) until he finally finds a backdoor into the house where she is supposedly located. You know, it might be because I’m not the heroic type, but I would’ve decided that she’s not worth this, and drove out of “I buttfuck my daughter” land back to “I buttfuck any hot chick who isn’t related to me” land (though with this franchise there would probably be a twist to that). I mean, at least in the other Resident Evil games, the protagonists were thrust into these sorts of situations against their will, and usually due to extreme circumstances demanding extreme measures. Either that or the protagonists were so muscular and heroic and martial arts masters that it just seemed by-the-numbers by their standards.
“Give grandma the hammer!”
But I digress. Our protagonist eventually goes on to find his wife, who then goes berserk and kicks the crap out of you and saws your hand off, before you get captured by some redneck dad named Bubba who introduces you to the rest of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre family (seriously, the parallels are impossible to ignore unless you haven’t seen that movie; the original Tobe Hooper movie from the 70s, none of the remakes you smart-asses). Well, it got me a bit interested.
The thing is though, there’s something about these graphic styles for these games that put me off. Something about the 3D modelling, the way they talk, the way they act, how they can never smile right. And most important of all, how hard it tries to be realistic with the graphics. It’s just something about that sort of emphasis on realism in a videogame that just doesn’t suit me. I just can’t help but have the attitude of, “Who are you trying to fool? You could have the effects as bad as Goldeneye on the N64 or as good as, I don’t know, whatever game exists now that people consider to be top of the line in terms of graphics, and it would all be the same to me.” Bit of an exaggeration, but hopefully you see what I’m getting at. It might just be a personal thing, but I have a feeling I’m not alone in thinking this.
Side-tracked again; back to the story. So let’s just say that as the game goes on, the main villain/monster turns out to be some Ring/Grudge/Ju-On/F.E.A.R. chick. Alright, you know what? If this game is going to pull cliches like that out of its ass, it really should do so with a more tongue-in-cheek attitude. But it plays things straight. That trait is endearing in the first 3 Resident Evil games, but that doesn’t appeal to me here.
The last thing I’ll mention about the story, kind of. There’s this moment in the game where you have to “make a choice.” Whoah, a choice? Where your decision affects the events in the game as well as the ending? Do tell! There’s nothing to tell. Like most games that do this, it’s not really a choice. It doesn’t matter who you choose to save. Sure the choice does give you a different ending in the long-run, but it’s really stupid how saving one kills them both, saving the other gives you a happy ending with one of them living. Would’ve been more intriguing if saving one gets you that girl at the end, while saving the other gets you that girl. Not going to work that way, so the game just kinda beats you up for making a choice that seems more ethically wrong, I guess. So it ends up being a waste of time inserting this so half-assedly into the game. But it could’ve worked well if it had that tongue-in-(butt)cheek attitude. Hey, if this game is going to be immature about this shit, then so am I. On that note, when the decision came up, I chose the non-wife (Zoe). Why? Well because Zoe kept helping me in her own way with getting out of the place through a good portion of the game, while the wife (Mia) did nothing but do spouse abuse so extreme I’m surprised she didn’t resort to slicing my dick off.
There is a problem with this game, and I’m pretty sure I heard about it well-before ever purchasing it, but I think I chose to forget about it thinking, “No, that just can’t be.” But it’s definitely there (poor choice of words). So here’s the problem. There are no zombies. There’s not one foot-stepping, undead-moaning, dick-sucking zombie in this entire game. Nothing in this game qualifies as a zombie as far as I’m concerned (anyone who says otherwise is stretching the definition too far). Sure there are people who aren’t normal people, but they’re not normal in the same sense that all the regular enemies in Resident Evil 4 aren’t normal. You know, in Resident Evil 4, all those not-zombie people had a decent enough awareness, they could talk, they could run a bit, and they could weld weapons, and they could mutate and shoot black stuff out of their heads. Pretty much the same thing here, except the not-zombies in this game can pass off as normal people (at least as far as isolated hillbillies in a swamp can go for normalcy) . They walk and talk like normal people, but they’re just stronger than average and are almost impossible to kill by any regular means (but in a Resident Evil game, nothing is regular). And there’s only like 3, maybe 4, of them. The rest of the time you’ll either be against these black gooey man-alligator things, giant mosquitoes, fat blubbery fucks, and the lickers (when they show up). So boss fights aside (which are just mutations of the not-zombie people), there’s only like 4 different enemy types. And that’s it. Even the first Resident Evil game had more variety than that: zombies, zombie dogs, zombie spiders, hunters, zombie birds, zombie snakes, zombie wasps; and those aren’t even the bosses.
And speaking of bosses, yes, this game has enough variety in bosses to satisfy me. But Jesus Christ do they go over-the-top with these boss fights. Granted, they’ve been over-the-top ever since Resident Evil 2 (and it’s hard enough to resist a jumping the shark joke with the first game), but this game was aiming for more gritty realism goddamnit! The fights get more over-the-top as the game goes on, and so do the mutations and monster forms.
See what I mean?
There are some nice nods to the first Resident Evil game. Once you get involved in this “game” section where you go through some traps and such, some old-school Resident Evil music plays, and some nostalgic sound effects will go off when you press some buttons. I appreciated the nostalgia. Also didn’t hurt that it was one of the more memorable parts of the game, going through these Saw-like sections. And the game almost convinced me that it was tongue-in-cheek. But only for that section, the rest of the game thinks it’s too good for satire apparently.
At a few points in the game you get to watch some VHS tapes, which treats you to some lost footage films done in the same vane as The Blair Witch Project. Now, the first time this happened I was interested, and there’s one other time where it does serve a legitimate purpose. But for the most part I found them to be irritating distractions. These should be sections that are cutscenes, but instead the game has you play as the person shooting the video (which makes zero sense for the last “video”), which gets even more annoying when you realize you can still screw up and die and have to start over.
As the game went on though, once you’re finally able to grasp what exactly is going on and how things got to be the way they are (ie why there are monsters), the game actually wasn’t half bad. Plus I also became sympathetic to the swamp family, noting how they were before and after the incident, and how they’re crying out for their souls to be freed. A bit of a touching moment I wasn’t expecting from a game like this.
So, despite my gripes, I can say the game is fun enough to be worth a play.
Now, with that all being said, I’d like to take a moment to talk about gaming in general, my personal opinions on the matter. As I said earlier in the review, I fear my tastes in gaming have changed. I fear I may not really be all that much of a gamer anymore. Honestly, I try to do board games more than video games simply because I prefer playing against other human players, face-to-face. You know, for face-to-face social interaction, something I believe society is in dire need of, rather than isolating ourselves and using social media as an illusion for legitimate social interaction.
Gaming to me should be fun. And fun games for me personally, from what I’ve determined when looking back over the years, come in 3 categories:
1.) Short and sweet. Basically games from the Sega Genesis and SNES time period, where the games were short, the difficulty was high, and you had to play it multiple times to get good at it. There are plenty of games that are that old that I would still play to this day, like Contra (practically any of them, especially Hard Corps), Castlevania I III and Bloodlines, Starfox 64 (or the SNES version), among others.
2.) Games with an engrossing story and good characters. The first one to really pull this off for me, which I still maintain to be the best (even if this is predictable) is Final Fantasy VII. Memorable characters in storyline so fucking good I was willing to bear through the typical issues plaguing J-RPGs (random battles, some grinding, repetitive combat). I’m not sure how I’d feel about this one today, but Skies of Arcadia on the GCN wasn’t half-bad either. Tales of Symphonia had decent enough characters and story, and a pretty solid real-time 2D combat system to go along with it. Kane & Lynch (the first one) I consider to be underrated. And Spec Ops: The Line, whew, that whole game is designed to be a huge gut-punch to those who play third-person shooters regularly and don’t think much about the people they kill (look at you Uncharted). Silent Hill 2 is probably one of the best, if not the best, character study games of all time. And, of course, Metal Gear Solid 1-4 and The Witcher 2. Starcraft is arguably the best RTS game in terms of storylines (especially if you read the background story given in the game manual), though I do need to play Warcraft III. Mass Effect 1-3 (though less so for the first one just because the side missions make the game’s pacing suffer considerably). So, in other words, games that you talk about like they were movies when you’re done with them. But God help you if you play a game solely for this reason, and it ends on a cliffhanger with no sequel ever happening (fuck you Valve for not wrapping up Half Life 2).
3.) Games that are paced well and do something right with the overall design, especially level design; and maybe throw in some semblance of a story as a bonus. Super Mario World could arguably be the best designed out of all the traditional Super Mario games in regards to level/game design. Resident Evil 2 is the go-to horror game for me to this day, mainly because it absolutely nails the zombie sounds, both the moans and the footsteps; and how it gets under my skin during the portions where no music is playing; it’s paced pretty damn well too, and has tremendous replay with different bosses you can face; and it really knows how to time a couple of those jump-scares; plus I believe limiting the player’s view to fixed camera positions works to the game’s advantage when it comes to horror and creating tension with the player. Doom I is the best Doom game in terms of pacing and progression, both in terms of level design, the weapons you acquire, and the types of enemies that appear. Doom II isn’t half-bad either, especially with the level design, but the pacing isn’t quite as there, and exists more as a reason for you to just go insane with the shooting, to just unload all those bullets into all those hordes of enemies. It’s one of the reasons why I believe level design is the most important aspect when it comes to crafting an FPS, the second-most important aspect being pacing (types of enemies that show up on each level, which weapons you have each level). Usually the one genre I cut a bit of slack are RPG games, especially The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, mainly because of the mods. Valkyria Chronicles I think is pretty damn good too in terms of gameplay (plus I think the story and characters are so unintentionally hilarious it should be a case study; they have practically every anime cliche/stereotype in the book thrown into that game). And there’s the Dark Souls games; these are games that aren’t afraid to challenge you, and it’s the kind of challenge that I like. And then there’s Master of Orion (the first one, from 1993), which I firmly believe is the best 4X-civ game ever designed to this day, despite the dated graphics (at least it’s not Atari graphics and older, my tolerance for dated graphics doesn’t really extend further back than the 90s). Lastly, I’m terrified of getting into X-Com: UFO Defense again, not because it’s a scary game (though it is tense as hell), but because of how addicted it is; first time I played, I started at like 9am, and next thing I new it was dusk; that scares the shit out of me if a game can make me lose track of time like that.
But anyway, there are some game genres I’d rather not touch just out of personal preference, like sports games and racing games (Grand Theft Auto V I guess could be considered an exception). Aside from those, I’ve become quite picky when it comes to games. Probably because I’d rather use my free time doing something else now. Then again, it could be because the people I used to converse with about gaming in general are no longer around, giving me no one to talk to about this stuff once I’m done with it. And no, writing reviews about games and bitching about them and/or praising them isn’t enough. Or it could just be I’m going through a phase. But considering how much less frequently I’ve been playing videogames over the past couple years compared to how often I’ve played in the past, I doubt it. I guess it’s possible to reach a stage in your life where you’re gamed out, and are only willing to game on things you know for certain are of high quality (ie suited to your preference).
As for Resident Evil 7, it’s just going to be another one of those games that isn’t really all that special to me. Entertaining and fulfilling, sure, but so is a burger from Burger King or Jack in the Box or Carls Jr.; just because it’s fulfilling doesn’t mean it stands out compared to the other games/burgers that are out there. And at this point in my life, I’d rather indulge myself in games that do stand out. As far as I’m concerned, most of those games are in the past, not in the present or future (with some potential exceptions, like Cyberpunk 2077).
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Josh Turner Shares New Single, ‘Hometown Girl’ [LISTEN]
Amy McCarthy
(Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for ACM)
After a wait that many country fans feel was far too long, Josh Turner is finally headed back to the country airwaves. At last week’s Big Heart Bash, Turner debuted “Hometown Girl,” his first single in more than 18 months and the lead track from his forthcoming sixth studio album.
“Hometown Girl” is classic Josh Turner. “I need me a little homegrown, hometown girl,” he sings in the glossy baritone that made his early-2000s hit “Your Man” such a success. “I’ve been lookin’ all over the world for a pretty little hometown girl.”
Co-written by songwriter Marc Beeson, "Hometown Girl" is a sweet track that extolls the virtues of remembering where you come from. It's also likely a look at Turner's new album, for which no release date has yet been set.
“The first time I heard ‘Hometown Girl' I was excited,” Turner said in a statement. “First of all, it sounded like a hit to me. It just had that chorus and vibe that held your attention and didn’t lose you. Honestly, it was different for me and that was kind of what I was looking for.”
"Hometown Girl" will be released for official radio adds on Tuesday, May 31. In the meantime you can scope out video of Turner performing the track below, and purchase it via iTunes.
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Filed Under: Josh Turner
Categories: Country News, Songs
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‘No trains in KZN until after elections’
Durban – As KwaZulu-Natal enters its third week since the devastating floods of April 23, passenger trains remain at a standstill across the province, grounded by damage to rail infrastructure.
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) said it expected to resume services after the elections.
Regional manager Dumi Dube said the suspension of operations was because of fallen trees and mud slides on their rail network.
“It’s been 24/7 work by Prasa and engineers to make sure they speed up fixing the affected areas.
"Prasa KZN executive members hold meetings on a daily basis to discuss the mitigating factors and strategies to speed up the process of getting all the required resources to do the repairs in the areas affected,” he said.
Dube said the clearing and repairing of some corridors was about to be completed, and other corridors would be completed soon. “Where we do not finish on time, we will try to come up with other ways of assisting our commuters so we can ease the burden of travelling longer distances to get to work,” he said.
Dube said they had some concerns in some of the corridors where people dumped rubbish on railways. This made these areas inaccessible.
“Communities where residents live close to our lines – these include places like Zwelethu, KwaMashu, Burlington and Bottlebrush – are a big concern and safety hazard,” said Dube.
“This behaviour might lead to Prasa not being able to render services in some of the areas because of communities not respecting the rail, which puts commuters at risk as well,” he said.
In February this year it emerged that Prasa had spent more than R500 million on damage caused by arson attacks on its coaches by irate commuters. The agency also had to pay for damage caused by vandals.
While there were no figures available on Monday on the cost of the flood damage, Prasa spokesperson Zama Nomnganga said insurance inspectors had performed an assessment with Prasa engineers.
“Costs will be covered by our insurance. The damages caused include tracks that were eroded by mud slides,” he said.
“In the meantime, to manage the cost of human resources, those who work directly with customers are given some time off and controllers are also given time off. Only management is at work as they are part of the recovery plan group,” said Nomnganga.
“There are no alternative modes of transport planned for now as this was a disaster and not planned, but our commuters are kept in the loop,” he said.
Nomnganga said areas that were still being repaired included Crossmoor, Chatsworth and Zwelithini in Umlazi.
“The area which will take at least three more weeks to be fixed is the South Coast, which is still getting repairs due to floods after heavy rains in 2017.”
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From placenta to play centre
Examining the science behind child development from pre-conception to school
The rumble in the jungle: Single-sex vs. coeducational schooling
June 27, 2012 2.46pm EDT
Andrew Whitehouse, University of Western Australia
Andrew Whitehouse
Winthrop Professor, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia
I have a confession to make…I went to an all-boys private school.
Go on, admit it. You just judged me a little bit, didn’t you?
I can’t blame you. Looking back – and even at the time – the whole experience was a tad surreal.
At 12 years of age, I, along with 149 other fresh-faced chaps, entered a world in which socks were to be worn knee-high, hair was to be kept above the collar, and shirts were to remain tucked; a world in which the sole purpose of recess was to find the most inventive way to destroy each-others’ uniforms; a world in which teachers’ names were contorted in the most pleasing of ways to resemble selective parts of the male and female anatomy.
But, despite all of that – or, more likely, because of it - my second confession is this: I loved it!
Perhaps it was just that the all-boy environment was the right ‘fit’ for me. I loved playing sport, enjoyed the humour and hijinks, and thrived in the camaraderie of this atmosphere.
But I’m keenly aware that not everyone had the same experience as me. And for these boys-now-men, my bet is that the all-boy environment was a chief source of their woes.
Single-sex vs. coeducational schooling
Along with politics and religion, the debate about single-sex (boys and girls separate) versus co-educational (boys and girls together) schooling is a topic best kept away from polite dinner conversation. Everyone has an opinion on this, and you can almost bet that your conversational partner will have a different one to you.
From the very earliest stages of parenthood, schooling is an issue that sits in the back of parents’ minds, making them wince every time it creeps into their consciousness. It would be a rare mother- or father-to-be, who hasn’t, even for the most fleeting of moments, considered whether their impending child would spend 12 of their most formative years surrounded by one sex or two.
Most often, these choices are dictated by the experiences of the parents themselves. If they enjoyed their schooling, then their child will likely follow in their footsteps. If not, then you can be sure that the child will be ushered down a different path.
This approach makes perfect sense to me. A parent remembers their own experience, has a keen awareness of their child’s personality, and is able to combine the two to come out with a reasonable idea of what schooling model will suit best.
But, common sense aside (always a dangerous thing!), given the heated debate on this topic, I became intrigued as to what scientific research in this area has found. Prepare yourself.
School choice - parents are the experts. Flickr/TushyD
My first stop was a 2005 report commissioned by the US Department of Education, which reviewed all studies examining single-sex versus co-educational schools up until that date.
It’s a hefty-document – all 128 pages of it – and I wouldn’t recommend it for bedtime reading, unless, of course, you yearn for dreams about the finer points of quantitative and qualitative statistics. The researchers divided the findings of the 112 studies reviewed into those examining academic achievement and socio-emotional development during school, and in adult-life. What they found was quite interesting.
Academic achievement at school: One third of the studies in this area found that students from single-sex schools had better academic performance during the school years than students from co-educational schools. This was found for both males and females, for both primary and secondary schooling, and for all subjects.
However – and this is very important - the remaining two-thirds of the studies found no difference between the performance of students from the two types of schools.
Academic achievement after school: Only four studies to that date (2005) had examined indicators of post-school academic achievement, such as university scores, university graduation and career achievement. Generally speaking, no differences were found between students who had attended single-sex and co-educational.
Socioemotional development at school: There was a complicated mish-mash of results here. (Scientists like to categorize such results under the wonderfully euphemistic descriptor ‘mixed findings’ – which basically means ‘how in the world am I going to be able describe this mess?’).
For example, single-sex school students tended to have better ‘self-concept’ (knowledge of self), but co-educational students had higher-levels of self-esteem (feelings of self-worth). Oh, and I must add that close to half of the studies found no difference in these measures between students from the two types of schools.
Confused? Me too.
Socioemotional development after school: Again, very few studies have investigated this area. The few that have - and had a research design that passed muster - have found ‘mixed results’ (I’m not above using a good euphemism!).
Single-sex school graduates had reduced unemployment (males and females), a wider variety of occupations (females only), and increased political activism (females only). However, single-sex school students were more likely to have an eating disorder - though, please keep in mind that there was only one study in this area.
One thing of particular interest to me was the research investigating sex-role stereotyping (i.e., did they view men as the providers and women the home-makers?). Intriguingly, the results here were split: one study found these views were more common among ex-students of a single-sex school, and another which found these stereotypes more prevalent among ex-students of a co-educational school.
The one study that examined divorce-rates, found no difference between ex-students of single-sex and co-educational schools.
Two notes of caution
So, that’s a summary of the research to 2005. Has much happened since? Yes, research has continued to percolate into the literature. But from my analysis, there hasn’t been any ‘game-changing’ research that alters much in the above review.
Nevertheless, I would like to tack on two caveats to this summary.
The first stems from a recent article by Dianne Halpern and colleagues in Science, which trumpeted the deliberately provocative title, “The pseudoscience of single-sex schooling”.
This paper attacked the science around the one area for which there is evidence that single-sex schooling may be beneficial - academic achievement during school. Specifically, the authors argued that many of the “apparent advantages dissolve when outcomes are corrected for pre-existing differences”. In plain English, they are saying that children entering single-sex schools may already be more academically advanced than students entering co-educational schools.
My own reading of the situation is that, yes, certainly some studies have (quite stunningly!) failed to account for this possibility. However, there are also other studies which have examined this, and still found differences in academic achievement.
The second caveat is more of a reminder that educational systems differ between countries - often dramatically so. I wonder how much sense it makes to combine studies from Australia, Canada, the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Korea (to name only a few)? I can only imagine a few similarities between the school-yards of Seoul and those of downtown Chicago.
What’s the verdict?
So, after all of that science, I have to say that I’ve come back to my original assessment of the situation: trust your good sense.
Think back to your own schooling, and think about your child’s attributes. Which do you think they’ll prefer?
You have all of this knowledge, and are therefore the expert. No amount of science can change that.
But one thing that I think the science has crushed, is the old stereotypes for pupils of all-boys schools (silver-spooned, one-track minded, walking fart-jokes), all-girls schools (the collective noun once being described to me as a ‘cat-fight of private-school girls’), and co-educational schools (more likely to end up in a court room than a board room) should be dead and buried.
While these caricatures may apply to a minority of students, on the whole, they just aren’t true.
Trust me, I’m an ex-private schoolboy.
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Released on December 11 of 2009 in the USA, "The Lovely Bones" is a Drama/Horror/Thriller film.
What was the release date of "The Lovely Bones":
The Lovely Bones was initally released in the United States on Friday, December 11, 2009. Other films released on Friday, December 11, 2009 are The Princess and the Frog (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker), Invictus (dir. Clint Eastwood), Yesterday Was a Lie, and The Slammin' Salmon. This was nine (9) years ago.
It has been released on Friday, January 29, 2010 in Spain; Wednesday, January 27, 2010 in France; Thursday, February 11, 2010 in Germany and on Saturday, December 26, 2009 in Australia.
What is the Storyline of "The Lovely Bones":
In 1973, Susie Salmon (Ronan) is raped and murdered by a neighbor, George Harvey (Tucci), a serial killer of young girls. She finds herself in Heaven, observing her family on Earth. She watches her family grieve for her and watches her killer, having covered his tracks successfully, prepare to murder again. Susie struggles to balance her desire to find revenge on Harvey and to have her family recover from their loss.
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Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Werner Herzog, Robert Duvall, Jai Courtney and Richard Jenkins, "Jack Reacher" (also known as "One Shot") is a Thriller film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and written by Josh Olson (script), Christopher McQuarrie (script), and Lee Child (novel), released in the USA on December 21 of 2012.
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About "Jack Reacher":
Released on December 21 of 2012 in the USA, "Jack Reacher" (also known as "One Shot") is a Thriller film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and written by Josh Olson (script), Christopher McQuarrie (script), and Lee Child (novel) . Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher) and Rosamund Pike (Helen Rodin) are starring, alongside Werner Herzog (The Zec), Robert Duvall (Cash), Jai Courtney and Richard Jenkins (Alex Rodin).
As an actor, Werner Herzog has acted in movies such as Cave of Forgotten Dreams, released in 2010, Into the Abyss (2011), The Grand (2007) (The German), Incident at Loch Ness (2004) in which he plays Himself (Crew of Discovery IV), Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) (Father), and The Wind Rises (2013) portraying Castorp.
As an actor, Jai Courtney has worked on movies such as Divergent, released in 2014 in which he plays Eric, Suicide Squad (2016) as Captain Boomerang, I, Frankenstein (2013) in which he portrays Gideon, A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) (character: John McClane Jr.), Insurgent (2015) in which he plays Eric.
Information about Christopher McQuarrie (director of "Jack Reacher"):
Christopher McQuarrie is an American writer, screenwriter, actor, producer, and director. Christopher McQuarrie has directed Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, released in 2015.
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Global PC Market Trends
Chromebooks Help Drive PCs Upward in U.S. as Worldwide Computer Shipments Continue Slump
Declines seen in Asia/Pacific, and Brexit may negatively affect Europe. North American PC shipments increased for the first time in five quarters.
By Richard Chang
Worldwide PC shipments declined 5.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016 when compared to the second quarter of 2015, according to preliminary results from technology research firm Gartner. Shipments totaled 64.3 million units in Q2 2016, compared to 67.85 million shipments in Q2 2015. This was the seventh consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines; however, Gartner analysts said the global market is showing some signs of improvement.
“One of the ongoing problems in the PC market has been the price hike in selected regions due to the weakening local currency against the U.S. dollar,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner, in a prepared statement. “The price issue has impacted [Europe, the Middle East and Africa] and Latin America regions for the past year. However, PC shipment declines became rather modest in the second quarter compared with previous quarters, which suggests a fading currency impact.”
In the United States, PC shipments totaled 15.2 million units in Q2 2016, a 1.4 percent increase from Q2 2015. Like global trends, the U.S. PC market had experienced five consecutive quarters of shipment declines. Analysts observed that there are still opportunities and challenges ahead for the U.S. PC market.
“While vendors and channels generally have more optimistic expectations of PC sales compared with the past, there is still a chance to have a potential inventory built,” Kitagawa said. “The second and third quarters are typically PC buying season for the U.S. public sectors. Positive second-quarter results could suggest healthy PC sales activities among the public sectors. There is an opportunity for a Windows 10 refresh among businesses, which we expect to see more toward the end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017.”
In a separate study by the International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, worldwide PC shipments declined a more modest 4.5 percent, beating the minus 7.4 percent forecast by roughly 3 percent.
IDC described second quarter performance in the U.S. as “a healthy jump in growth,” with HP and Dell vying for leadership in the U.S. market. HP beat out Dell with 4.7 million units shipped in Q2 2016, compared to Dell’s 4.4 million units shipped in the U.S. Lenovo came in third with 2.4 million units shipped in Q2 2016, while Apple shipped 1.9 million units during the same period.
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker cited strong gains in Chrome shipments, and stated that the year-over-year growth for Q2 in the U.S. was a more robust 5 percent.
Both studies recognized Lenovo as the worldwide PC market leader, with approximately 13.2 million units shipped in Q2 2016. HP came in close behind, with 13 million (IDC study) or 12.3 million (Gartner) units shipped worldwide in Q2 2016.
Europe remains a conundrum for the PC market, and “even the best case scenario calls for PCs to face significant challenges,” said Jay Chou, research manager for IDC Worldwide PC Tracker, in a prepared statement. The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union is expected to affect the timing and scope of spending plans throughout Europe, Chou said.
Asia/Pacific is also uncertain territory; PC shipments totaled 22.7 million units in Q2 2016, a 6.3 percent decline from Q2 2015, according to Gartner. PC shipments in China, where business confidence is weak, declined 6.4 percent.
Gartner also cited a stagnant economy in the Asia/Pacific region, elections in Australia, the Philippines and South Korea — which created a lull in IT spending from the government sector — and smartphones seen as a higher purchase priority than PCs.
More information from both studies can be found on the Gartner and IDC press sites.
Richard Chang is associate editor of THE Journal. He can be reached at rchang@1105media.com.
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Erdogan’s Latest Coup
Güney Işıkara
Alp Kayserilioğlu
Max Zirngast
This week's decision to overturn the results of the Istanbul mayoral election is the latest sign that the Erdoğan regime has no intention to yield to democratic demands.
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On May 6th, Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) decided by a seven to four vote to annul and repeat Istanbul’s municipal election. The original election, on March 28, saw Ekrem Imamoğlu from the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), win the mayorship by a margin of 13,729 votes.
The redo election will be held on June 23rd. The YSK’s decision was substantiated by the claim that some ballot box officials were not civil servants. Considering all the irregularities that take place every election in Turkey (none of which have been annulled), this is a laughable rationale. Moreover, Istanbul voters simultaneously cast votes in three other elections: for district, city council, and mukhtar elections. These votes were collected in the exact same envelopes, and cast in the exact same ballot boxes, as the mayoral votes. Yet those three other elections were not annulled. Finally, previous elections also had ballot box officials who weren’t civil servants.
Why then was only the mayoral election annulled and not the other ones? The YSK’s decision, in short, has no “technical” or “juridical” justification. It should be named for what it is: a civil coup attempt by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies.
In our earlier analysis of the local elections, we drew attention to the fact that the results — particularly in Istanbul — were still contested. The elections saw the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its People’s Alliance lose control over most major cities, including Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Mersin, and Antalya. But particularly in Istanbul, the regime has refused to concede and is attempting to reverse the results. What is at stake is not just who gets to be the mayor of Istanbul. The future of the current regime, consisting of the official AKP–Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) alliance and others, is at stake. So is the future of Turkey itself.
The decision made by the YSK will probably lead the regime even deeper into crisis. The decision was made in an atmosphere already riddled with multiple crises, the most acute being the economic one. The official data, while unreliable, nonetheless shows the scale of desperation: the unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent in January, with youth unemployment over 26 percent. Depreciation of the lira has accelerated once again, and signs of recovery have failed to appear in manufacturing and other crucial industries.
There is also an ongoing struggle over the positioning of Turkey within the world system. Turkey’s decision to buy a stock of the Russian S-400 missile systems has, once again, severely strained its relationship with the US and NATO. This led to Mike Pence threatening that Turkey must choose between NATO and Russia. On top of it, Iran-style sanctions, from which Turkey has so far been exempted, now seem imminent.
The Kurdish crisis looms behind the others. On May 2nd, lawyers were granted permission to visit the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan. It was the first time in eight years he was afforded such a visit.
Öcalan and three other inmates issued a short written declaration, which was read out by his lawyers at a press conference on May 6 — by chance, only hours before the Istanbul election was annulled. Some interpreted Öcalan’s statement as a call for the Kurdish movement to return to negotiations with the government. The coincidence of the close timing between Öcalan’s declaration on the one hand, and the election annulment on the other, inspired widespread rumours. Many theorised that the PKK had made a deal with Erdoğan to partially withdraw Kurdish support for the opposition, allowing the regime’s candidate to retake Istanbul.
However, nothing of the sort was signalled in Öcalan’s message. In any case, peace between Kurdish forces and the ruling AKP seems impossible. Despite Öcalan’s request that PKK detainees end their hunger strike for his release, the inmates declared they would continue. For its part, the leftist Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) stated that their position had not changed since March 31st, and called for a “common struggle against fascism.”
Elite Divisions
What could be the real reasons for the annulation of the election?
Since the moment polls closed, a faction within the AKP has been contesting the results. In many Istanbul districts, it took almost three weeks for the votes to be recounted after the ruling party’s allegations of invalid and miscounted votes. This recount, however, did not change the results substantially. Thus, the AKP started to invent new excuses.
That said, the response by the AKP and the ruling bloc was not a unified one. Some within or close to the AKP called for the party to accept the results and engage in self-criticism, even as others launched into a campaign to delegitimise the elections.
In its panic over the results, the AKP fragmented internally about how to respond. Even Erdoğan, on election night and afterwards, vacillated between a self-conscious acceptance of the results and an aggressive push against the same results. It was not until May 4 that he made a clear call that the YSK should order a reelection due to massive “irregularities.”
A particularly active player after the elections was the employee association TÜSIAD, which represents big capital. On election night, it called for an extensive economic reform campaign (and Erdoğan repeated this rhetoric in his public statements the same night). In the following weeks, the association stressed that the electoral cycle was over and that now is the time to give all attention to economic questions. And it has called the YSK’s decision “troubling.” TÜSIAD’s position was echoed by the bourgeois Koç Group’s pointed decision to visit Imamoğlu on the day the YSK made its annulation decision.
Big capital, then, is worried that the AKP-MHP’s manoeuvres to maintain their fragmenting hegemony could exacerbate the economic crisis. But Istanbul is too important for the ruling bloc to sacrifice. For one thing, it is the heart of the economy, containing 20 percent of the country’s population.
Secondly, the AKP government in Istanbul has been extremely corrupt. If the opposition came to power, it could obtain municipal documents and data, exposing improper tender bids and resource transfers. That would damage the AKP’s reputation tremendously. Imamoğlu, for instance, took the opportunity of his election to order all municipal data from the AKP’s administration over Istanbul; almost immediately, a court blocked his order.
Last but not least, the AKP’s loss of control of one of Turkey’s biggest cities has produced a clear change in the popular state of mind. In recent years, the regime’s authoritarian tendencies have strengthened over its ability to co-opt dissenting forces. Especially in the context of an economic crisis, it will have little ability to accommodate a new wave of hope.
An Authoritarian Regime
The regime won’t just idly hope for different results in the new elections. They certainly have a plan for how to change the outcome. This is not to say that this plan will be successful. A lot will depend on the actions of the opposition and popular forces.
The country went through a similar process when the AKP was defeated in the June 2015 elections. The party responded by demanding another election in November of that year; in the interim, it drenched the country in war and blood. The terror they unleashed served to bring the AKP back to power in the re-done election.
Erdoğan himself pointed to this period in arguing for reelections, saying they would win again now as they did in 2015. It is very likely that the ruling bloc will try to divide the opposition into camps that cannot vote for the same candidate — and try to terrorise them into passivity. They will manipulate the Kurdish question and the so-called fight against terrorism to make parts of the opposition appear beyond the pale. And maybe we will see bombs going off again, as in 2015 and 2016.
A textbook example of the regime’s “election strategy” was demonstrated on April 22nd, when CHP chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was almost lynched at the funeral of a soldier in Ankara. Almost no security personnel intervened. Hulusi Akar, minister of national defence and former chief of general staff, addressed the mob at the scene, calling them his “esteemed friends” and telling them “that they had made their message clear enough.” The main protagonists of this well-organised assassination attempt were AKP members, and they were detained only for a short time before being released.
The message is clear: the regime can and will use its paramilitary forces within the context of elections. The ruling bloc is taking on authoritarian characteristics at a pace that is now irreversible. The more it uses force to defend its mandate, the more dependent it will become on violence, to the exclusion of other strategies.
The YSK’s decision was met with widespread protests in many quarters of Istanbul. Ekrem Imamoğlu delivered a speech that same night. In this speech he took on a more aggressive style than before, seeking to present himself as a leader of a popular movement. He will run again as the CHP’s candidate for Istanbul on June 23rd.
We can’t predict the events to come. But this move to repeat the elections is a high-risk gamble by Erdoğan and the regime. Depending on the actions and reactions of other actors, it could backfire and plunge the regime into an even deeper crisis.
The spontaneous protests, featuring slogans and symbolism similar to the Gezi Uprising in 2013, are a positive development that need to be deepened by popular and democratic forces. The outcome of the current struggles lies in the hands of the people. If they take the initiative and do not allow the regime to successfully execute their civil coup, then we might witness a process of genuine democratisation.
Güney Işıkara is a PhD student in economics at the New School for Social Research.
Alp Kayserilioğlu is an editor at re-volt magazine and is working on his PhD on political economy, hegemony, and popular dynamics in the AKP era in Turkey. He currently lives in Cologne, Germany.
Max Zirngast is an independent writer studying philosophy and political science in Vienna and Ankara.
On May 6th, Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) decided by a seven to four vote to annul and repeat Istanbul’s municipal election. The original election, on March 28, saw Ekrem Imamoğlu from the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), win the mayorship by a margin of 13,729 votes. The redo election will be […]
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New Mexico First-Degree Murder
In New Mexico, the most serious type of homicide is first-degree murder. It's defined as the killing of another human being through a willful, deliberate, and premeditated act. Under certain circumstances, an intentional killing may not be considered first-degree murder if there was a mitigating circumstance.
For example, a husband who comes home to find his wife cheating on him may become enraged and in that instant, decide to shoot and kill her. In this example, the husband committed the killing under the heat of passion and may be charged with second-degree murder rather than first degree murder due to the mitigating circumstance.
The crime of first-degree murder also includes killings which occurred while committing or attempting to commit a felony or while performing any act that is greatly dangerous to the lives of others and shows a depraved mind with no regard for human life. First-degree murder is a capital felony which means that it has the steepest penalties, including life imprisonment without parole. New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 2009. As such, a first-degree murder conviction may not be penalized by death. The following is a quick summary of New Mexico's first-degree murder laws.
New Mexico First-Degree Murder Laws
The following table outlines New Mexico's first-degree murder laws.
Code Sections NEW MEXICO STAT. ANN. § 30-2-1
What’s Prohibited?
First-degree murder consists of killing another person under any of the following circumstances:
A willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing
During the actual or attempted commission of any felony
By an act which is greatly dangerous to another's life and evidences a depraved mind which has no regard for human life
Penalties First-degree murder is a capital felony punishable by life imprisonment without parole.
Defenses to first-degree murder include acting in response to a sufficient provocation, in defense upon a sudden fight, or in the heat of passion. If these defenses are successful, the crime may be reduced to second-degree murder.
It is also a defense to first-degree murder if the person could not establish sufficient intent for the killing or the underlying felony or act such as a person who is mentally retarded or involuntarily intoxicated by drugs or alcohol.
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Private citizens may also have a defense if the death was necessary to defend against an unlawful action to one's life, family, or property, death to oneself or one's family, imminent physical injury or a felony to oneself or another person, or in order to apprehend a person committing a felony, suppress a riot, or to keep and preserve the peace.
New Mexico First-Degree Murder Laws: Related Resources
The crime of first-degree murder has serious consequences. If you or someone you know has been charged with murder, you may want to contact an experienced New Mexico criminal defense attorney for assistance. You may also want to read Findlaw's First Degree Murder Overview, First Degree Murder Defenses, and First Degree Murder Penalties and Sentencing for more articles and information on this topic.
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By Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi. Greek Reporter, Aug 20, 2016. Researchers working with stem cells at Stanford University look to create heart cells from stem cells. The project, led by cardiovascular medicine instructor and Greek native, Dr. Elena Matsa, PhD, along with Joseph C. Wu, the Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and a professor in the…
By Tanushri Sundar, The Stanford Daily, Aug 12, 2016. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the combinations of biological and chemical signals needed to rapidly generate human cell types from human embryonic stem cells, according to Stanford Medicine News. Pure populations of up to 12 cell types can now be created…
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Jim Bunch
How does a person become known as “The Ultimate Life Entrepreneur”, inspiring lifestyles of happiness, health, and wealth among hundreds of thousands of business owners, employees and individuals worldwide?
For Jim Bunch, it all began with what he calls his first “spiritual” experience at age 10… actually, just a moment in time where he lay down in a grassy clearing after a hard-charging day of bike riding and exploring the woods with his friends. As he closed his eyes and felt the heat of the sun on his face, the brightness coming through his eyelids, he felt a sense of complete and total happiness like he’d never known. Spiritual? Perhaps. Life-changing? Absolutely.
Over the years as his life took the usual ups and downs, he would close his eyes and revisit the experience often. He found he had a natural knack for sales, and excelled in several national sales organizations including being a leader for Tony Robbins, Bob Procter, Jack Canfield and others. He found he loved speaking and inspiring others, and was spotlighted on hundreds of stages across America and internationally.
In 1999 he co-founded the pioneering virtual tour program, Bamboo.com, with John Assaraf, later growing the company to $2.2 Billion. By this time he knew his mission was to coach and guide people to their own greatness, so in 2000 he created his first 90-day “Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Challenge.” He later turned these concepts into “The Ultimate Game of Life,” seamlessly integrating technology and transformation, Jim’s two greatest passions.
This attracted significant national interest and led to Jim being invited to serve — as their youngest member — on the influential Transformation Leadership Council (one of their many projects was the creation of the blockbuster movie “The Secret.”). In the time since Jim has given more than a thousand presentations on Business and Life transformation and launched a social mobile technology company to transform the way people interact on the planet, attracting over 1Million users in 250+ countries in 79 days.
Jim fundamentally believes the “Triple Bottom Line” of People, Planet and Profits is real, and as business people we can transform planet through sustainable, socially-conscious business practices, education and the political strength of our unified voices.
USGCC believes that business and business owners hold the solution to all of our issues — socially, environmentally and financially. Jim’s deepest gift is his ability to spearhead this vision in others, rally businesses and business owners to step into their greatness and power, and build teams that execute concepts and ideas that lead to positive change.
In 2012 Jim Bunch was asked to bring these talents to USGCC, to serve on the board of directors. The following year he was unanimously elected chairman. That day, he stood on his veranda looking out over the Pacific Ocean, feeling the warmth of the setting sun on his face and a sense that somehow the two moments were connected, that guiding this movement had been a part of his destiny and calling from his childhood.
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Request For Retroactive Medicaid Benefits Denied: Appeal of 3rd Medicaid Denial Does Not Reopen 2 Prior Medicaid Denials
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There were three Medicaid applications filed on behalf of E.M. The first was filed in 2012 by his daughter, after his admission to a subacute care center. At the time, E.M. was suffering from dementia and was on a ventilator and feeding tube. This Medicaid application was denied for failure to provide documents to Medicaid, and his daughter did not request a fair hearing to appeal the denial.
The second Medicaid application was filed in February 2014 by Future Care Consultants. This second application was also denied for failure to provide the necessary supporting documents. Future Care requested a fair hearing as to the denial, and Medicaid advised Future Care that the request could not be processed unless Future Care submitted an authorized representative form, showing that Future Care was authorized to act on E.M.’s behalf, within 30 days. Forty-five days later, Future Care notified Medicaid that E.M. was incapacitated and that its appeal was filed to “preserve E.M.’s eligibility” until a guardian was appointed.
E.M.’s daughter was appointed as his guardian in December 2014. She completed the form designating Future Care as E.M.’s authorized representative, and Future Care filed a third Medicaid application on his behalf on December 2, 2014. In July 2015, Medicaid granted the application and awarded benefits effective back to September 1, 2014. Future Care requested a fair hearing, arguing that eligibility should be retroactive to August 2012, when E.M. was admitted to Lakeview. Future Care claimed that the failure to provide information, which was the basis of the prior two Medicaid denials, resulted because E.M. was incapacitated but did not have a guardian.
At the fair hearing, Medicaid’s eligibility effective date was affirmed. The administrative law judge found that the first Medicaid denial was never appealed, and that Future Care had abandoned its appeal of the second Medicaid denial by failing to submit the authorized representative form until eight months after the fair hearing request. The court found that Future Care “used the current OAL hearing, not as an opportunity to address the merits of the third application, but to argue the merits of [the] first and second Medicaid applications.”
On further appeal to the Superior Court, Appellate Division, Future Care again argued that the documentation necessary to process the Medicaid application only became accessible after E.M.’s daughter was appointed as his guardian, and that this justified a retroactive award of Medicaid benefits. The Appellate Division rejected this argument, concluding that Medicaid’s decision was supported by sufficient credible evidence, and that the petitioner’s arguments to the contrary lacked sufficient merit to warrant further discussion.
A copy of E.M. v. DMAHS can be found here – E.M. v. Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services
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“Loving Pablo,” about Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, is a passion project for Javier Bardem. He clearly relishes the title role in which he plays opposite his wife Penelope Cruz, who plays Escobar’s lover. The pulpy biopic, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival before moving to the Toronto festival, is directed by Spain’s Fernando Leon de Aranoa, based on the book “Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar,” by Virginia Vallejo, the Colombian journalist with whom Escobar had an affair. Bardem spoke to Variety about the challenges of bringing “Pablo” to the screen and what it was like to work with Cruz for the first time since they’ve become a couple.
You are one of the producers on “Loving Pablo,” which has had a long gestation. How tough was it to bring to the screen?
I had long been been intrigued by Pablo Escobar. When I started to dig into this character almost 10 years ago, he wasn’t as much in the public eye. And during that period I was offered [projects with me playing] him several times, but I never felt a human link to any of those roles. I wanted to make a movie about what was on his mind; about his personal side. And I really wanted to make this movie in Spanish. But we tried and tried, and just couldn’t find the financing. Then, to move things forward, we decided we would do it in English, with Spanish accents, and we were able to mount the production.
So “Pablo” will be dubbed in Spanish for Spanish audiences?
Yes. But in Spanish-language territories it will also be going out in English.
Are you going to dub yourself in Spanish?
No. I have tried to dub myself in Spanish several times for my American movies. But at this point [in my career] my dubber is better than I am at capturing the nuances in Spanish of how my voice sounds in English. Also, Spanish audiences by now are used to his voice. So If I dubbed myself in Spanish, it would throw them off.
How did you prepare for the part, besides your prosthetic belly?
I tried to learn where his monstrous behavior came from. I was very interested in diving into Pablo’s inner self. What was going on inside Escobar’s mind that made him capable of so much harm, while at the same time he was very loving, and took care of his family and his lover. He was not somebody who appeared outwardly threatening. He moved at a slow place, like a hippopotamus. That is the physical aspect of his energy, but he could very quickly become a monster.
This is the first time you and Penelope Cruz work together since you’ve become a couple. Did this help, especially in the erotically charged [albeit devoid of nudity] sex scene?
It was easy working with Penelope. She is a great actress and we can always challenge one another to go farther, deeper, bigger and smaller. She can immediately tell what I’m doing; where I’m going. We know how to play with each other and try different things. All it takes is a little look, or a word here and there. So we pushed each other to be more daring. Like in the climactic scene [towards the end] where Virginia confronts Escobar and asks him for $80,000 to leave the country and make a new life, and he responds by threatening her physically. That confidence that we have in each other is a great thing.
Had the two of you done sex scenes on screen before?
Yes, in Bigas Luna’s “Jamon Jamon.” which won the Silver Lion at the Venice festival in 1992 and launched both of our careers.
Since then, both of your careers have flourished in Hollywood. To the point where you are dubbed by a regular Spanish dubbing actor, just like Tom Cruise. Would you like to work more with Spanish directors, besides Fernando Leon de Aranoa? What is your rapport with the Spanish film industry?
I want to work more with the Spanish industry, but they think I’m too expensive. What I want to tell them is: I’m expensive; but I can also be less expensive, if I like the project.
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On Tuesday, Aug. 16, 1977, Rose Phillips was one of the first people in Memphis to learn firsthand of Elvis Presley’s death.
On that day, she had gone to a late lunch with her friend Arlene Cogan, who was former president of the Chicago Elvis Presley Fan Club and a regular visitor at Graceland, at the Piccadilly Restaurant, in a shopping center just a block from Elvis’ mansion.
“We had finished,” Phillips recalls, “and we were walking through the parking lot and we heard this ambulance go by. I remember Arlene joking, ‘They’re coming after us.’ It was just a joke. Right after that we saw [Elvis’ security chief] Sam Thompson and his dad just flying through the parking lot.
“We got back to her house, which was only a block away from there. We’re only a quarter of a mile from Graceland. We just got settled in the room, and the phone rang. Arlene went to answer the phone, and it was Pauline, one of the cooks up at Graceland. And she said, ‘Arlene, Elvis is dead.’ And I heard Arlene yell, ‘No! I knew it! I knew it!’ I knew what had happened without her telling me. I saw the grief on her, and I just knew. Somehow or another, Elvis was gone. And my thought was, it’s over.”
For Phillips – who had known the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll from the age of 10, when the aspiring singer visited his cousin Gene Smith in her neighborhood – Elvis Presley’s sudden death at 42 from a lethal combination of prescription drugs was a personal loss. Others around the country shared that loss on a less intimate level.
For three days, the abrupt and tragically premature exit of Memphis’ best-known native son dominated the media and roiled emotions among the singer’s legion of hometown fans in the Tennessee city of roughly 624,000. Many of them continue to pay homage to this day.
For both the local and national press, it was an unexpected and enormous story that required immediate and intense attention.
Larry Buser, who covered Elvis’ death for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the city’s morning paper, says, “My managing editor said, ‘Buser, you will never cover a bigger story in your life. You might cover something more important, but you will never cover a bigger story.’ And he’s always been right.”
Buser was a 28-year-old general assignment reporter, and it fell to him to write the paper’s lead story from other writers’ takes. “It was mayhem,” he remembers. “It was chaotic in the newsroom. This was before electronic journalism, so we’re talking physical notes being dropped on my desk…. We had multiple deadlines back at that time. I recall working all the way up to midnight and then some, updating until the very last moment we could get something into press.”
The reporter wrote several other Presley-related stories in the weeks following his death; an interview with Ginger Alden, the star’s last girlfriend, prompted an offer from the tabloid National Enquirer, which was closely covering the event with a large platoon of writers.
“They wanted me to do a follow-up story,” Buser says with a laugh. “They said, ‘We’re prepared to offer you a substantial amount of money to do a story about Elvis having a premonition of his death.’ Since I was a newspaper writer and not a creative writer, I had to decline.”
Robert Hilburn, then the Los Angeles Times’ pop music critic and an avowed Elvis fan, raced into the paper from home and penned a 5,000-word personal appreciation of Presley on a short deadline for the Sunday edition, then hopped on a plane to cover reaction on the ground in Memphis. He was unprepared for the massive, mourning crowds that were lining the city’s streets.
“It was just overwhelming, the turnout,” Hilburn says. “It was like a member of the family died… That’s what struck me, the depth of the emotion. It was a local boy – he didn’t move to New York or L.A. He had a house out here, but he lived in Graceland, he lived in Memphis, he stayed in his hometown.”
Hilburn discovered that anywhere you went, there was a story to be heard: “My God, you couldn’t walk five feet without getting another anecdote or another angle. It was there, you didn’t have to dig for it. I went across the street to the café, just to talk to some people, but I noticed the jukebox was unplugged. The guy said it was too painful – people were crying. Wherever you stepped, it just came at you. You had to push people away who wanted to talk.
“For Memphis, this was it. This was like the President of the United States for them.”
Pat Rainer was then a 28-year-old Memphis State graduate student working for Jim Blake’s eccentric indie label Barbarian Records and Televista Projects, a video company operated by artist-musician Tav Falco and Memphis music fixture Randall Lyon. She recalls the first word of Elvis’ death as “a tremendous shock.”
She adds, “I can remember driving to Baptist Hospital and sitting there staring at the emergency room and thinking, ‘He’s in there dead? I just can’t even comprehend it.’”
On Aug. 17, Rainer and Lyon took an early Portapak video unit to Graceland, where Elvis’ body was laid out for a public viewing, to document the near-hysterical scene.
“I remember throngs and throngs of people lined up and down Elvis Presley Boulevard as far as you could see,” she says. “This was in flippin’ August – it was so hot. People passing out, people having to be put on stretchers, ambulances and EMT workers trying to get up the street through the crowd to where people had passed out and carrying ‘em out, Memphis police officers in uniform with bullhorns on either side of the gates of Graceland trying to control the crowd and telling people to not push and shove…It was insane, and that went on for hours, hours.”
Rainer and Lyon ferried pop critic Robert Palmer of the New York Times, a former Memphian, and a Washington Post reporter to the Aug. 18 funeral, and walked their video equipment into the private ceremony as if they belonged there.
“Here’s one thing that is a very vivid memory to me: There were more helicopters overhead than I have ever seen,” she says. “There was this long line of white limousines that made a procession from Graceland up to Forest Hill Cemetery. You could hear helicopters overhead with those rotors beating, like a million mechanical angels following those people.”
Though he would go on to write two books about Elvis (and is now better known as co-director of the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentary “Best of Enemies”), Robert Gordon was then a self-described “punky 16-year-old” considerably less interested in the uproar surrounding Presley’s death.
“I considered Elvis a joke at the time, I’m somewhat embarrassed to say,” Gordon confesses. “The things I remember that really made an impact on me at the time were, one, the phone lines went down because everybody was calling in and out in disbelief. Two, you couldn’t get a flower in town — all the florists were bought out by the Elvis fans who were arriving. That hipped me at that moment to the notion that this was bigger than I understood.”
He continues, “Probably what was more impactful in my life at the time than Elvis was his fans. I had sold buttons at an Elvis concert in Memphis – me and my friend had a bootleg button business. I wasn’t into any sort of cultural analysis or awareness at the time, but the world of the fans struck me as really unusual and odd. When he died, me and some friends got a picnic blanket and a picnic lunch and went down to Forest Hill Cemetery and laid under a tree and watched the people in line….We went there to gawk.”
The unprecedented outpouring of affection that materialized at Elvis’ death abides in August of every year in Memphis’ annual Elvis Week, a citywide celebration that includes a fan reunion, concerts, symposia and even a 5K run. One of this year’s guest speakers will be Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two-volume Presley biography.
Guralnick says of the event’s import, “I’ve seen people come together from the far-flung corners of the country and the world, and recognize each other, see each other for the first time since last year, recognize in these people that they’ve seen someone with whom they share a common bond. People have denigrated this by saying it’s like a religion, but I don’t think that’s what it is at all. It’s a community — and it’s a community in a world in which we’ve seen the disintegration of community — that sticks together and that continues to have real meaning for them.”
Rose Phillips – who, decades after her first encounter with Elvis, married the nephew of Sam Phillips, who produced the singer’s first records – recounts a story from that fateful summer suggesting that the fans’ intense identification and adoration has always spanned the globe, and in fact predated their idol’s death.
“The first song I heard after he died was ‘The Wonder of You,’ and it just broke me apart,” she says, momentarily choking back tears. “It reminded me: When I was in Rome [during the summer of 1977], we were sitting outside the Catacombs, and there were people from different countries there, and they’d heard us talking.
“And one Asian girl said, ‘America?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ She said, ‘U.S.A.?’ The next word she said was ‘Memphis.’ I said, ‘Oh, yes.’ She said, ‘Elvis?’ And I said, ‘Oh, yes.’ And the Japanese people in her little delegation started singing ‘The Wonder of You.’ Every word in flawless English. I thought, they are really connected to this man. A world away, and they’re connected to him.”
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Zulia Regional Police Accused of Kidnappings and Collaboration with Paramilitaries
The Mayor of Maracaibo, Gian Carlo Di Martino, called for a national government takeover of the Regional Police Force of Zulia state. Di Martino’s call comes in the context of a surge of kidnappings, murder and extortion in the frontier state, which borders Colombia.
By Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
Aug 4th 2007 at 11.39am
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Caracas, August 6, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— The Mayor of Maracaibo, GianCarlo DiMartino, in an open letter published the Venezuelan daily Últimas Noticias and addressed to Minister of Justice and Interior Relations, Pedro Carreño, and to president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Cilia Flores, called for a national government takeover of the Regional Police Force of Zulia state. DiMartino’s call comes in the context of a surge of kidnappings, murder and extortion in the frontier state, which borders Colombia.
Of the 176 kidnappings in Venezuela this year, 29 have occurred in the state of Zulia. On July 27, the Maracaibo newspaper Panorama reported five kidnappings in Zulia for failure to pay the vacuna, or “vaccine” protection money to the paramilitaries that operate in the region.
DiMartino described as "cynical" a public campaign by Zulia state governor and former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales to offer millions of bolivars in exchange for information about kidnappers.
“This public strategy is a carbon copy applied in the neighboring country [of Colombia], following the directives of foreign imperialists of offering recompense for the capture of guerrillas and narco-traffickers” DiMartino argued, “This is an irresponsible action that has no other effect than to stimulate the network of organized crime. The informants are often people who are in connivance with the crime and this puts the life of the person kidnapped in danger.”
Minister Carreño also criticized Rosales's campaign, saying it would create, “a new field of operations for the kidnapping industry.”
Rosales responded by taking out a full page advertisement in Últimas Noticias, arguing that the national government has used a similar method of offering a reward in exchange for information on the whereabouts of a number of opposition generals who openly called for Chavez' overthrow in a months long occupation of Plaza Altamira.
Accusing Rosales of having connections with far right Colombian paramilitary groups that operate on the frontier zone between Venezuela and Colombia, DiMartino also stated, “The governor of Zulia, from the beginning of his mandate, established links, through his security advisor Henry Lopez Sisco, today a fugitive from Venezuelan justice, with terrorist groups constituted by supposedly demobilized Colombian paramilitaries.”
Lopez Sisco, security advisor to Rosales since 2000 was charged on June 13 last year, with, among other things, participating in the Cantaura massacre in 1982, in which 23 people were killed, ordering the Yumare massacre of a left wing student group in 1986, and the El Amparo massacre of 1988, in which 14 fishermen were murdered.”
Lopez Sisco has since gone into hiding and was reported to be in Costa Rica applying for political asylum in September last year.
During his presidential campaign last year, Rosales—the founder of the party Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Era), to which Lopez Sisco also belongs and who is widely associated with the El Amparo massacre when he was charged and acquitted over it in 1999—claimed that he new nothing of Lopez Sisco's past and simply took him on as security advisor on the advice of his predecessor.
However, in June former Vice-President José Vicente Rangel alleged, “There is a close relationship between Manuel Rosales and the Self-Defense Units of Columbia [the right-wing paramilitary group of Colombia]” and warned earlier this June of Colombian paramilitaries operating in Venezuelan territory, particularly in the state of Zulia.
DiMartino also said intelligence information from June indicates that “there are 9,078 new paramilitaries operating in Colombia, of which 2,585 are located in strategic corridors of the frontier with Venezuela.”
“The armed wing of governor Rosales is the regional police, with 10,000 active [members] it is obvious that a group of these have a connection with the network of paramilitaries that are integrated into a network of crime, contraband, extortion and narco-trafficking.”
Deputy Freddy Lopez, a member of the National Assembly’s commission for the Interior Policies, said that the problems would not be resolved “until we deal with the internal problems of the police.”
“The people investigating the kidnappings are often the kidnappers themselves,” he said, adding, “So much evidence exists against the Regional Police [of Zulia], yet the authorities do nothing.”
The allegations of the complicity of the police in kidnappings, murder, and extortion “could be applied to any town or region of the country,” he said. “The kidnappers don't distinguish; they kidnap women, children, and the infirm,” he continued.
“In the name of the people of Zulia, we ask for the intervention of the National Government and the National Assembly in the Regional Police of Zulia and a rigorous investigation of the nexus between the regional government and the paramilitary structure that operates on the frontier with Colombia,” concluded Mayor DiMartino.
Minister Carreño has not responded specifically to DiMartino's call, but said that the new Law for the National Police would be approved shortly. Currently Venezuela has numerous state and municipal police forces. A new unified national police force would be “functioning 100%” within two years, the minister assured.
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Playsino aims to publish third-party social casino games
Dean Takahashi@deantak July 20, 2012 12:00 PM
Social casino games are hot. Santa Monica, Calif.-based Playsino is taking advantage of that by launching its Playsino Publishing Network which it will aim at helping social casino game developers get new users and monetize them on Facebook and mobile platforms.
Playsino will publish casino games built by other developers and spend a minimum of $100,000 per title to market them. Playsino uses a dedicated media buying team and offers game production support as well.
“Playsino is the only publisher focused exclusively on the hot social casino space. Our focus will give our partners access to gamers who are specifically interested in casino style games and monetize better than all other social gamers,” says John Maffei, head of Playsino Publishing.
In 2012, social casino game players now account for 13 percent of all of the players on Facebook, compared to just 8 percent in 2011 and 6 percent in 2010, according to Kontagent. The analytics firm says that social casino games have higher-than-average revenue per user: at least 40 percent higher than a typical casual social game.
Playsino is headed by chief executive Brock Pierce, who is also a managing director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. He has started, bought or invested in more than 30 game companies and secured more than $200 million on behalf of his companies. He has helped startups pioneer business models built around virtual goods and microtransactions.
Playsino is creating its own free-to-play casino games for mobile and social platforms. Playsino was founded in 2012. The company’s first game is Solitaire and Prizes. Maffei said in an interview with GamesBeat that the company plans to build out a suite of internally produced games, but it will also publish a number of titles from outside developers who create social casino games.
Pierce is also CEO of Titan Gaming. He also founded ZAM Network, a gaming media property with 15 million hardcore PC gamers. He sold that to Tencent in January. And he founded GamesTV, a joint venture with Shanghai Media Group.
Although he has a lot of experience, Pierce has a small company among a lot of big ones. Rivals include Double Down Interactive, owned by slot machine giant WGT, social game giant Zynga, and a number of other social casino game startups.
“The difference is we are 100 percent focused on the social casino game market,” Maffei said.
Maffei said that the company has a good understanding of the ins and outs of user acquisition, and it also has good experience with game production in the social casino genre. The team has 15 employees, most of them developers. Playsino has raised $1.5 million in funding from IDM Venture Capital, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, Pacific Capital Group, Siemer Ventures, and a number of angel investors.
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Delta to offer direct flights from Omaha to L.A.
Posted: Thu 11:19 AM, May 16, 2019 |
Updated: Thu 5:23 PM, May 16, 2019
Starting in November, Delta will be offering direct flights between Omaha and Los Angeles.
According to a release from Delta, the service will begin on Nov. 10.
The times of the flights are as follows:
Los Angeles (LAX) at 5:40 p.m. Omaha (OMA) at 10:55 p.m.
Omaha (OMA) at 7 a.m.* Los Angeles (LAX) at 8:45 a.m.
“Los Angeles is one of the most popular destinations in the world and we are excited that this fall, Delta Air Lines is adding a new route between the Midwest and Southern California,” said Samson Mengistu, Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles World Airports.
The Los Angeles-Omaha flight will operate on Delta Connection carrier Compass Airlines using a 76-seat E-175 aircraft with seating for 12 in First Class, 20 in Delta Comfort+ and 44 in Main Cabin.
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BlackBerry Maker RIM Posts $518 Million Loss - NYTimes.com
#RIM announced Thursday that its new line of #BlackBerry phones will be delayed until next year.
Also announced a $518 million loss in the company’s first quarter and that it would cut about 5,000 of its 16,500 employees
Research in Motion unexpectedly announced on Thursday that a new line of phones that it still hopes will revive its BlackBerry brand will be delayed until next year.
David Manning/Reuters
Research in Motion has effectively staked its future on the BlackBerry 10 line of phones, which are slated to be released next year.
It is a critical setback for RIM, which is struggling to compete with old phone technology in a highly competitive market. After losing dominance of the smartphone market to Apple’s iPhone and phones using Google’s Android operating system, RIM has staked its future on the BlackBerry 10 line of phones. But they had previously encountered delays in its release date, which along with other issues resulted in its co-chief executives giving up management of the company in January.
The latest setback, which was announced along with a $518 million loss in the company’s first quarter, increased doubts among analysts and investors about RIM’s future.
The company also announced that it would cut about 5,000 of its 16,500 employees, raising additional concerns that a drop in morale and defections by employees working on BlackBerry 10 could lead to further delays.
“I don’t know if they can turn it around,” Ehud Gelblum, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, said in an interview on Thursday. “I’d love to see it but there are some cases that are lost causes.”
Charles Golvin, an analyst with Forrester Research, said that the delay meant that the BlackBerry 10 phones would arrive after the anticipated release of a new iPhone, more phones based on the Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft as well as updated Android phones.
That, he said, will make it extremely difficult for RIM to generate interest in its new line.
RIM’s stock plummeted more than 14.5 percent in after-hours trading after the release of its quarterly results. The stock had closed at $9.13 a share in earlier regular trading.
At several recent public events, Thorsten Heins, who became RIM’s chief executive in January, said that the development of the new phones was on schedule and they would be available for the important holiday shopping season.
During a conference call with analysts Thursday, Mr. Heins said that the delay was not related to any problems with the technology of the new phones. Instead, he said that the company was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of software code it was now handling.
He did not explain why that management issue was not apparent earlier this year. RIM has a long history of missing deadlines and releasing products before they are fully finished.
“I will not deliver a product to market that will not meet the needs of our customers,” Mr. Heins said. He said that the new phones would still be competitive against coming models from other companies.
“There’s a lot of competition coming, that’s the nature of the consumer electronics business,” he said. “We’re not afraid of it.”
RIM’s loss, of about 99 cents a share, compares with a profit of $695 million, or $1.33 a share, in the same quarter a year ago.
Revenue fell by 43 percent to $2.8 billion from $4.9 billion in its first quarter last year.
While the delay in the new phones was a surprise, the weak financial results were expected. Although RIM has stopped issuing predictions for its financial results, it warned investors in late May that it was likely to report an operating loss for the quarter.
For several months, some financial analysts have been privately skeptical about RIM’s ability to survive or even to find a buyer for its assets. Several of them began openly expressing their concerns in advance of the quarterly earnings statement.
RIM is currently conducting a strategic review which includes everything from licensing the BlackBerry 10 software to selling all or part of the company. Mr. Heins has repeatedly said, however, that the company’s best hope remains cutting costs and successfully introducing the BlackBerry 10 phones.
There is little to indicate that anyone is seriously interested in buying RIM. Facebook and Amazon are interested in making phones, and it is unclear what attraction a phone maker with software problems would hold. As Google and, more recently, Microsoft have shown, those companies do not necessarily need to buy a hardware maker to enter the market.
RIM’s loss included a $326 million write-down of good will, the value assigned to intangibles such as its trademarks and customers’ perception of its products. With that write-down, the company now assigns no value for good will. The company will not discuss the value of its patents.
Sales of BlackBerry smartphones have slowed significantly. RIM said it shipped 7.8 million BlackBerry smartphones in the quarter, a third less than the 11.2 million smartphones it shipped in the first quarter a year ago. Adding to that problem, the company said that it was selling more lower-priced phones than in the past and that it has been forced to give wireless carriers and other sellers payments to sell BlackBerrys at a discount.
Despite the large loss and the rapid decline of its business, RIM is not in imminent financial danger. The company had about $2.2 billion in cash at the end of the quarter and expects to be able to maintain that level in the current quarter through spending cuts. It also has no debt and unused lines of credit that it said were currently being renegotiated.
A version of this article appeared in print on June 29, 2012, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: In Setback, RIM Delays BlackBerry’s Next Version.
See the article online here:
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The Top Ten Xbox 360 Games for Teens
When the Xbox 360 was first released there were a large number of individuals who waited for hours in hopes of being able to purchase one. In fact, Xbox 360s are so popular that is likely that you have one inside your home right now. No matter how old you are it is always fun to play video games on an Xbox 360.
Despite the fact that individuals of all ages play Xbox 360 games, the majority of players are teenagers. Teenagers love video games and the Xbox 360 is one of the most popular ways to play those games. Many teens and parents of teenagers wonder which Xbox games they should purchase.
Below is a list and summary of ten of the most popular Xbox 360 games for teens.
1. The Elder Scrolls: IV Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls: IV Oblivion is the sequel to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The third game in the series won multiple awards and it is apparent with Oblivion’s popularity that the fourth installment is just as good, if not better. The Elder Scrolls is role playing at its best. This one player game allows players to choose exactly who they want to be, whether it be good or evil.
2. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Set in the future, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced allows teen players to use new weapons to avoid the traps that are set for soldiers. Standard Xbox 360 setup allows one to four players, but Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighters is also compatible with Xbox Live. Xbox Live makes it possible for up to sixteen players to play a game together, even when they are located on opposite sides of the world.
3. Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 2, the sequel to the original Call of Duty, is an amazing war game with outstanding visuals. The game is based around World War II and players must overcome enemies and other obstacles. Due to a split screen feature, Call of Duty 2 can be a multiplayer game. Up to eight players can play together via Xbox Live.
4. EA Sports: Fight Night Round 3
Sports fans will enjoy playing the popular game from EA Sports that is titled Fight Night Round 3. Fight Night Round 3 allows players to become their favorite boxer. Boxers can be customized and fights from the past can be reenacted with changed outcomes. EA Sports: Fight Night Round 3 is designed for one or two players; however, it is also compatible with Xbox Live.
5. Project Gotham Racing 3
Unlike the above mentioned Xbox 360 games, Project Gotham Racing 3 is not rated T for Teen. The game is rated E for Everyone, but it still has teenagers in mind and is a great alternative for those who dislike fighting games. Players are able to select and customize their own cars to race around the world in multiple race settings. Project Gotham Racing 3 is a one or two player game, but it also works with Xbox Live. In addition to more players, Xbox Live also introduces new racing challenges that are not available offline.
6. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
In Battlefield 2 Modern Combat players are literally dropped into the middle of disaster. Players must decide which side they want to be on and then fight to win. The game is designed for one player, but additional players can be added with the use of Xbox Live. In fact, up to twenty-four players can compete with or against each other online.
7. Burnout Revenge
A large number of teenagers are unable to drive, but even if they were there are some things that you just can’t do in a car that is unless you are playing Burnout Revenge. In Burnout Revenge players select the car of their choice and set up car crashes. With Xbox Live four drivers can pit their cars against each other and with offline play up to two players can compete. Burnout Revenge is rated E for Everyone.
8. Kameo: Elements of Power
Kameo: Elements of Power is a game that combines action, adventure, and fantasy all into one. Players become Kameo. The goal of the game is to help save her family from an evil troll king. Players can change their character in to multiple monsters to defeat enemies. Kameo: Elements of Power is a one or two player game that can be played on or offline.
9. NBA 2K6
NBA 2K6 is rated E for Everyone, but it is a game that is highly popular among teenagers. At first glance, NBA 2K6 appears to be another sports game, but the reality is that it is so much more. In addition to playing basketball, it is the player’s responsibility to generate extra income through product endorsements. Once money is made players can use to it purchase new items for their homes. NBA 2K6 can be played with one or two players.
10. Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Players, whether they enjoyed the King Kong movie or not, are sure to love playing Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie. When playing the game, players are able to be the human character, Jack, or the gorilla, Kong. Whichever player a character chooses to be there is excitement, battles, and enemies waiting on the other side. Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a one player Xbox 360 game.
All of the above mentioned Xbox 360 games are highly rated among teenage gamers.
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Science Made possible by
Mike Joy of Massey University
Why is NZ’s environmental regulator trying to muzzle scientist Mike Joy?
Shaun Hendy | Guest writer
The Environmental Protection Authority CEO’s complaint to Massey University about the freshwater ecologist sparked a disciplinary process, yet the agency seems strangely disinclined to speak out on climate change denial, writes Shaun Hendy.
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), New Zealand’s statutory environmental regulator, says that it is worried about science denial in New Zealand. “Debate the decisions, but don’t deny the science,” wrote its chief executive, Dr Allan Freeth, in an op-ed last December. “What we find difficult are objections and criticisms of decisions not based on scientific evidence, but rather on alternative truths or theories,” he said.
What about alternative truths such as the claim that the globe hadn’t warmed for “17 or 18 years” made by Dr Doug Edmeades during a radio appearance last April? The EPA was so concerned that its Chief Scientist, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, who was also being interviewed, responded with a nervous chuckle.
To be fair, Rowarth had been caught on the hop. She hadn’t come on the radio to debate climate science, she had come to discuss whether Massey University freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy was abusing his academic freedom (“Is Dr Mike Joy an extremist, or does he have a point?”). The interview was a follow up to a column Edmeades had written (“Is Mike Joy a Biased Scientist?”) in NZ Farmer a few weeks before.
What are the limits of academic freedom in New Zealand? According to Rowarth, “a whole PhD was written on that [sic] the Holocaust didn’t exist and it was then revoked”. (I can find no evidence for this claim.*)
Doubling down on Rowarth’s reference to the Holocaust, Edmeades later dismissed the interviewer’s attempt at balance (Joy is “passionate about water”) by noting that Adolf Hitler had been a rather passionate individual too.
As documented in the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, this sort of attack is one of the tactics used in science denial. By labelling scientists as extremists, it is much easier to dismiss them and it discourages other scientists from speaking publicly on issues.
So maybe Freeth has a point – maybe New Zealand needs to pay more attention to science denial. But what did Freeth do after his chief scientist’s participation in this extraordinary radio interview?** He wrote to Massey University’s vice chancellor to complain about Mike Joy.
Joy is no snowflake. He has been a strong critic of the impact the dairy industry has had on our waterways, and in return he cops a fair deal of criticism. When prime minister, John Key once famously compared Joy to a lawyer.
But this time Freeth’s complaint hit Joy hard, because in response, Massey University initiated a formal disciplinary process***.
What were Freeth’s beefs? He said that Joy’s media appearances and Facebook posts had become “increasingly personal” and “close to libelous” (a copy of the letter, which Joy has shared with me, is here.)
He first objects to Joy raising Rowarth’s financial stake in a dairy farm and the bias this may bring. But the public sector code of conduct says that public officials must avoid situations where there could be an appearance of a conflict of interest. Rowarth’s potential conflicts were a matter of legitimate public interest.
Freeth then complains that Joy had mistakenly called Rowarth the leader of the EPA. Yet before she quit in late February, she was listed as #2 on the EPA website. I’m not a lawyer, but I’d be very surprised if this is grounds for libel.
Finally, Freeth complains about Joy’s claim that Rowarth’s appointment had been political. But he was not alone in asking the question. When the Greens put it to then Minister for the Environment Nick Smith, he denied it.
Freeth finishes by suggesting that Joy should raise any concerns he had directly with him.
I wanted to find out whether the EPA had extended Joy the same courtesy, so I asked the organisation whether it had contacted Joy directly with its concerns.
“No, this is just what we do,” said Diane Robinson, its Group Manager of Communications and Strategy. “We wanted his vice chancellor to know what was going on.”
I also asked whether the EPA should have made an effort to challenge some of Edmeades’ alternative truths. “We can’t control what others say,” Robinson said. “We live in a free country.”
What about Edmeades’ statement that world hadn’t warmed for the last 20 years? Should that have gone unchallenged given the EPA’s role in protecting the environment? “Climate change is one of those things where half the people say one thing, the other half say another”, said Robinson. “We can’t correct everyone.”
So there you have it. The Environmental Protection Authority is not fussed if you want to deny climate science, but will write to your boss if you get the name of its CE muddled. Good to know what it considers worth protecting.
* Rowarth may have mixed up a couple of different incidents here – while there have been several controversies at New Zealand universities concerning studies of the Holocaust, a check with the Jewish Council did not turn up any that had involved revocation of a PhD.
** The interview was so concerning that the New Zealand Association of Scientists sent an email to its members reminding them of the Royal Society’s Code of Professional Standards and Ethics.
*** I found out about this when Joy invited me to come along to the disciplinary meeting as a supporter. I was not able to make the meeting, but I wrote to Massey in support of Joy. I understand that although a formal disciplinary meeting between Joy and his Dean took place, Massey University took no further action.
Shaun Hendy is Director of the Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence, and a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland.
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Governor Baker Declares that Massachusetts Will Become “Age-Friendly State”
By Westfield NewsRoom
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker announced during his State of the Commonwealth speech that Massachusetts has joined the network of AARP Age-Friendly States and the World Health Organization Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities. AARP praised Governor Baker for his leadership on this issue of importance to Bay State residents of all ages.
Massachusetts is only the second state in the nation to take such action after New York enrolled with AARP to become an age friendly state in 2017.
AARP’s Age-Friendly Network asks for commitment from state elected leadership to work actively toward making the state a great place to live for people of all ages.
In a letter to AARP Massachusetts, Governor Baker wrote “Many of our older adults have the time, energy and talent available to start a second or third career, volunteer in their community, become a mentor or pursue an unfulfilled passion. By enrolling in the network of Age-Friendly States, Massachusetts embraces the opportunity to promote and celebrate aging.”
Last year, Governor Baker established the Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts, which focuses on promoting healthy aging in Massachusetts and achieving the goal of making the Commonwealth the most age-friendly state for people of all ages. The Governor’s Council brings together leaders from the aging, business, government, nonprofit, technology, education, transportation, housing and health care sectors to advise the Baker Administration on innovative policies and best practices to support and engage older residents.
Adults aged 60 and over are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population and will make up 23% of the Commonwealth’s population by 2035.
“AARP’s age friendly network encourages states, counties, cities, towns and rural areas to prepare for the rapid aging of the U.S. population. The network encourages states and communities to take action and pay increased attention to the environmental, economic and social features that encourage greater age integration and diversity and create a community that supports residents from the cradle through retirement,” said Nancy LeaMond, Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer for AARP.
“AARP enthusiastically supports Governor Baker’s initiative to make Massachusetts an Age-Friendly state,” said AARP Massachusetts State Director Mike Festa. “We thank Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders, Secretary of Elder Affairs Alice Bonner, and the Governor’s Council to Address Aging for their efforts in embracing the age-friendly movement in Massachusetts. We also thank our partners James Fuccione, Senior Director of the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative, Nora Moreno Cargie of the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, and Dave Stevens of the Massachusetts Councils on Aging.”
The AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities helps participating states become great places to live by adopting such features as walkable streets, better housing and transportation options, access to key services and opportunities for residents to participate in community activities. Well-designed, livable communities help sustain economic growth and make for happier, healthier residents — of all ages. The AARP Age-Friendly Network is an affiliate of the World Health Organization’s Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for their own and the world’s growing population of older adults and the parallel trend of urbanization.
The eight Age-Friendly/Livable Community domains outlined by WHO and AARP are:
Outdoor spaces and buildings
Respect and social inclusion
Work and civic engagement
Communication and information, and
Community and health services.
AARP’s participation in the age-friendly network advances the Association’s efforts to help people live easily and comfortably in their homes and communities as they age. AARP surveys show that nearly 90% of the 50+ population want to stay in their homes and communities as they age, where they have strong social networks and a sense of familiarity.
AARP encourages older adults to take an active role in their communities’ plans and ensures that their voices are heard. Related initiatives focus on areas such as housing, caregiving, community engagement, volunteering, social inclusion and combating isolation among older people.
For more information, visit aarp.org/livable
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Lots of stuff happening over at the paper these days…
Wow… it’s hard to keep up with what’s going on over at the Lincoln Journal Star these days.
I’m told eight veteran newsroom workers recently agreed to voluntary buyouts that were less than generous — putting the newsroom on edge about whether that’s enough cutting to stave off layoffs.
The buyout was offered to employees with at least 15 years of experience — and if those positions are left empty, the difference will definitely be felt in a newsroom of about 50 employees. That’s a 16 percent reduction in staffing, if my math serves me. But perhaps they will fill some of those positions with cheap, young workers.
And then today comes news that a new publisher has been named: Julie Bechtel, who worked at the Journal Star as circulation and operations manager before leaving in 2002 to become publisher of the Bismarck Tribune in Bismarck, N.D., and then moving to the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, in 2005.
Yes, I worked for Julie in Bismarck. I found her to be an unorthodox publisher — she is definitely not a boring, stuffy suit. Far from it. I could tell you some stories.
As with most publishers, the bottom line was paramount with Julie. I remember one morning at the daily reporters’ meeting, a reporter was all excited about doing a story about a person who’d found a tiny, live lizard in her head of lettuce bought at the local grocery store. They’d even gotten a produce employee to talk about it, and they’d rather wisely said it’s not that big of a deal when you’re buying lettuce from South America, for example.
I just laughed though, because I knew there was no way in hell that story would get in the paper. Grocery stores, you see, are newspapers’ bread and butter, so to speak.
Sure enough, by day’s end, Julie had spiked the story. She said she’d consulted other Lee publishers before making her decision. Something about how the story lacked news value…
Of course, it was a rarity for Julie to get involved in such a decision. But I love unorthodox managers and found her to be a barrel of fun and fair on other important matters, so it should be interesting to see what she does with Lincoln’s newspaper.
However, with buyouts underway and layoffs looming (?), becoming publisher in Lincoln may not be that fun right now.
BN trains may have to be rerouted from Lincoln to Kansas
The Wendy's and a hotel near the intersection of highway 2 and Interstate 29 are closed and surrounded by a dirt dike. The sign on the hotel said "Lakefront property for sale."
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway spokesman said flooding along the Missouri River may cause trains to be rerouted between Lincoln and Kansas.
BN spokesman Andy Williams said today that about 40 trains — most of them carrying coal from Wyoming — travel daily from Lincoln to Napier, Kan., but that route may change.
“We’re hoping not to have to reroute them,” he said.
If that happens, the trains would likely go from Wyoming south down the Front Range.
BNSF rebuttal sheds light on arena situation
Construction workers near the site of a diesel spill that's being removed from the area where a new arena will be built west of the Haymarket.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has been largely silent during the past several years, as Lincoln has embarked on its plan to convert its
dusty downtown railyard into a $340 million arena and shops.
But now, BN has spoken up.
Don’t know if you saw it, but BN spokesman Andy Williams wrote a letter to the paper trying to set the record straight on what is going on with that extra $3.4 million BN wants from the city in order to get relocated as fast as the city wants it to. BN has been taking a beating in the blogosphere for requesting an extra $3.4 million to move out of the city’s way.
Williams laid out all the delays that have occurred — saying the city was eight months behind schedule in executing agreements and acquiring property for excavated material, six months behind schedule in providing environmental reports to BN and buying the Union Pacific property and two months behind schedule in awarding sanitary sewer work. Williams says “these are just some of the examples of delays” that prevented BN from beginning construction in June 2010. He says construction did not actually begin until March 2011. Which is funny, because all along the taxpayers have been assured that everything is on time, and on budget. Doesn’t sound to me like this train is on time at all, my friends.
“That is much later than the dates even specified in the agreements, yet the completion date of September 2012 has not changed,” he wrote.
Again, I think the city ought to explain to taxpayers — you know, those people footing the bill for this project — what has caused the delays. I’ve asked city officials, and they won’t say. I’ve asked Williams, and he won’t say either. But his letter seems to imply that the city is behind the curve, not BN.
Williams did assure me that BN has a good relationship with the city, despite this little delay problem.
“I would characterize our relationship as very good,” he told me.
Let’s hope between the two of them, they can bring this train in on time.
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Engineering News> Why Are Screws Right Handed, and Why do Left-Hand Screws Exist?
Why Are Screws Right Handed, and Why do Left-Hand Screws Exist?
Most fasteners are right handed, so why do we need left-handed screws?
What is Screw Handedness?
The handedness of a screw refers to the direction in which the helical thread wraps around the screw shaft - right-hand threads run in a clockwise direction, whereas left-hand threads run in a anti-clockwise direction.
It may seem obvious that the ‘handedness’ of a screw originates from human physiology. The majority of the human race is right handed, and the right hand rotates (or more specifically ‘pronates’) in a clockwise direction, which makes right-handed screw installation ergonomically inclined towards the use of the right hand.
Are All Screws Right Handed?
The vast, vast majority of screws in use today feature a standardised, right-hand thread. So great is the bias against the left-hand thread, that the chance of encountering a left-hand thread in any regular fastening application is almost an impossibility. The prevalence of right-hand threads is the result of a range of factors, from the ergonomic considerations mentioned previously, to the simple fact that the manufacturing standards which dictate component manufacture favor a right-hand thread. Left-handed screws are rare, and almost only occur when they are deliberately chosen for special applications.
Why do Left-Handed Screws Exist?
Despite the origin of right-hand threads, it should come as no surprise that left-handed screws are not designed for left-handed humans. Fasteners are consumed at a staggering rate by the manufacturing industry, which relies on the universality and cross-compatibility of its interchangeable components. The creation of special screws for a small portion of the population would be counter-intuitive, and would cause no end of compatibility problems on production lines.
Sometimes, left-handed screws are implemented for the mechanical advantage of reverse threading. For example, some cars utilise left-handed threads on their left-hand wheels, which, unlike the wheels on the right, rotate anti-clockwise. This use of reverse-threaded fasteners prevents them from loosening gradually under the torque of the wheels. This particular use of left-handed screws is probably the most common, and is commonplace in products such as bicycle pedals, turnbuckles, or many types of machinery with a rotary blade.
Other times, left-handed threads are used to create deliberate incompatibility as a safety indicator. Gas lines, for instance, are often tapped with a left-handed thread. This safety feature distinguishes gas lines from water lines, and is the amateur plumber’s best defence against aquatic ovens and flammable faucets.
Occasionally, a left-handed thread can also be used in actuation to counteract the rotational forces of a right-hand screw in motion. An example of this would be on a piece of machinery with a sliding section such as a lathe or vice, which can use two identical lead screws of opposing handedness. When the two lead screws are made to rotate in opposite directions with a reverse idler gear, they transmit matching amounts of linear motion, but negate the residual rotational forces that would be a byproduct of a single screw design.
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Pennsylvania Imposes Permanent Solitary on Prisoners Facing Death
By Witold Walczak, Legal Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania
Prisoners' Rights
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Imagine an ordinary parking space. Now add walls and a ceiling made of thick concrete, closed off by a solid steel door. The lights are always on, so it’s never dark. You eat there, you sleep there. You are alone. Three times a day an officer slides a food tray through a slot. There is a toilet. A few times a week, if you’re lucky, you’re taken to a small cage where you can “exercise,” alone. If you are visited by family or clergy, you are not allowed to touch them. You cannot participate in any vocational, recreational, or educational programs or any form of communal religious worship or prayer.
This is life for a prisoner on Pennsylvania’s death row.
The policy of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is to house all prisoners with death sentences in solitary confinement until they are executed or released. One prisoner has been in solitary for over 35 years. Of the 156 men currently sentenced to death in the commonwealth, almost 80 percent have been held in solitary confinement for more than a decade.
National and international human rights organizations have rightly condemned such long-term solitary confinement as inhumane — a practice amounting to torture.
Under the DOC’s policy, these prisoners remain in solitary confinement until “death do us part” — via execution or natural causes — or the sentence is overturned or they are exonerated. There is no way to escape the isolation for exemplary conduct, demonstrated self-improvement, or aging beyond the point that criminality commonly occurs.
Today, the ACLU’s National Prison Project, ACLU of Pennsylvania, Abolitionist Law Center, and cooperating counsel from law firms Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of five named plaintiffs, men held in solitary confinement for between 16 and 27 years, against the Pennsylvania DOC to end the policy. The long-term isolation — and its extreme physical, emotional, and psychological consequences — are an unnecessary, cruel, and inhumane punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The devastating effects of prolonged isolation are well known among mental health professionals and human rights experts in the United States and around the world. Prolonged solitary confinement causes painful, severe, and, sometimes, irreversible harm. A substantial body of literature over the last 200 years documents distinctive patterns of physiological and psychological harm when individuals are placed in long-term solitary confinement. The risk of self-harm, self-mutilation, and suicide is much higher for individuals in solitary confinement. Even healthy adults, if subjected to very short periods of isolation, display impaired neurological functioning.
We understand the cruelty of solitary confinement, which is why we must fight to end it.
Corrections experts also agree that there is no reason to automatically and permanently hold all prisoners facing death sentences in solitary confinement. Two states, Missouri and North Carolina, have allowed these prisoners into general population for years, without disciplinary or other serious problems. According to The Marshall Project, corrections officials in North Carolina found that those sentenced to death have better behavioral records than average inmates and rarely commit violence, in part because they are not isolated in their cells all day.
Isolation does not make prisoners or prison staff safe. It just inflicts cruelty. Other states, including Virginia, Colorado and Arizona, have significantly reduced the isolation of prisoners facing the death penalty.
The tide is turning across the nation on solitary confinement, in part because there is no valid penological reason to isolate prisoners sentenced to death. There is nothing unique about Pennsylvania’s prisons or its death-sentenced prisoners to prevent humane treatment. Any prisoner, regardless of sentence, may “earn” time in isolation for severe or persistent misconduct, but experts uniformly agree that such isolation must be finite and brief.
While U.S. constitutional law is still evolving, respected American jurists have joined the chorus challenging the use of prolonged solitary confinement. Justice Anthony Kennedy noted, “[R]esearch still confirms what this Court suggested over a century ago: Years on end of near-total isolation exact a terrible price.” In describing a case in which a death-sentenced prisoner had been held in isolation for 25years, Justice Kennedy told a House Appropriations Subcommittee that, “This idea of total incarceration just isn’t working. And it’s not humane. . . . Solitary confinement literally drives men mad.”
Pennsylvania's DOC should see the writing on the wall and end mandatory and permanent solitary confinement for state prisoners on death row. Pennsylvania needs to join Missouri, North Carolina, and other states in abolishing this inhumane policy. If the DOC refuses, we and a few federal judges should be able to help them along.
Unbelievable!!! How barbaric!!! May the powers that be...never have to live through even 20 days with someone they love in isolation. It mentally affects the loved ones of the inmate just knowing the circumstances. Have mercy on them at the very least. They have mother's,children,and wives that have committed no crime.
Eat or be eaten is the code the people who are in this situation live by. I don’t blame them, their parents, or even society. Nature is nature and some beings are born good or bad. Choices are given by allah, god, jahovah, or whatever name you know the supreme being by, then the being on earth is set free to make choices. This is ultimately built up into karma, scales of justice, gates of peter judgment, or however you believe the balance of justice to be.
So I feel pity on the guards, jail wardens, LEOs, corrupt politicians that fund it all, and the complacent citizen that doesn’t give a shit.
We shall all rot in hell.
It is a crime against humanity to forbid human contact.
They deserve this punishment until their execution. Their punishment is death. Slow or fast it still death. If they were men they would sue like mcveigh
zoltan vamos
If 'all death' is the same to you, you would allow the state to roast them slowly on fire, right? How about the Chinese method of 'death by a thousand cuts,' carefully slicing their flesh piece by piece over a long time? Fuck the US constitution! Right? You are either an idiot or a sadist (or both). Shame on you!
C mccudden
If they were real men they would accept it like Tim McVeigh
Man let me guess u behind a desk making this judgement. I am a correctional officer in nc 5 of my people died already cause of these inmates and your stupid rules . We only got a raise cause it happen.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. What are these men locked up for? Murder, rape, sodomy? Are they child molesters? If so, then so be it! Extended solitary confinement is nothing compared to the life long pain and suffering that the friends and loved ones of crime victims must endure.
Not necessarily! We still have people who areno doubt but because of technical issues they cannot get DNA retesting done to prove. One man spent 26 years in solitary confinement and was found innocent after DNA testing proved. Now the man has Cancer. He will never get those years back. What do you say tough shit.
It is interesting in W Europe they have much shorter sentences where hardly anyone spends life in jail and when most get out they dont commit crimes again. They also have much less crime then we do.
Fight for prisoners' rights - support the ACLU.
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Winners of WealthTech: Lori Hardwick
January 13, 2018 February 5, 2018 Craig Iskowitz
This is the fifth article in a series we are calling Winners of WealthTech, where I interview people who have made a name for themselves in wealth management technology and have a track record of innovation and success.
My previous four interviews were wildly successful in terms of views and traffic, so there will be no stopping this series in 2018!
Aaron Klein, CEO of Riskalyze
Bill Crager, President of Envestnet
Stuart DePina, President of Tamarac
Cheryl Nash, President of Fiserv Investment Services
I’m happy to announce that for this installment, I was fortunate to be able to speak with industry veteran Lori Hardwick. Lori was one of the founders of Envestnet and was instrumental in guiding them from a minor player to the largest TAMP and technology provider in the wealth management space. After 15 years at Envestnet, she left to become Chief Operating Officer of custodian Pershing, but left after just 11 months and took off the end of 2017 to spend time with her family and refocus.
Lori has since resurfaced in style. She is now the founder and president of Advisor Innovation Labs (AI Labs), which is developing systems of engagement apps and smart products to improve the real-time workflows between advisors, clients and partners.
In 2016, Lori was named to the “Women to Watch” list by InvestmentNews and also, made the 2016 Investment Advisor’s list of the 25 most influential people in the financial industry. Also, Lori was named one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Private Wealth” by Private Asset Management magazine in 2015 and one of the “50 Top Women in Wealth” by AdvisorOne in 2011.
In this interview, we talk about what makes Lori’s work so rewarding, what has become more important to her recently, and what some of her habits are that help her to be more productive.
What was your motivation for launching a startup?
Envestnet was a fun run. It was 15 years of riding the wave from when advisors were working primarily with Excel spreadsheets to building a wealth management platform that really helped scale their business. That was transformational, what I felt in a positive way, to the investment industry.
And then I went to Pershing, which was a much larger firm. There were many different divisions. I was COO at the parent company level so I was trying to learn their business, get up to speed in this big behemoth of a company and I just didn’t feel like I could move fast enough. I felt like there were a lot of areas where I wanted to see movement but I just couldn’t. We couldn’t get there with me there or with anyone there I don’t think. It’s just a much larger company with a lot of moving pieces and a lot of underlying reasons why they’ve built things the way they have.
So I decided it was time to just take a step back and I didn’t want to prolong everything, I was there for 11 months. I took a step back and was talking with everyone in the industry (and I mean these were other very, very large companies and then there were some very small RIA companies I spoke to). There was at least 80 or 90 different companies that I was speaking with and getting wooed by to come work for.
Those conversations can always be interesting because someone’s trusting you enough to think about hiring you and having you come into a leadership position, so they’re usually pretty honest about which issues they’re struggling with. Upon reflection, 85% of them had the exact same issue, which was having all these different app stacks, none of which were talking to each other. They couldn’t figure out a way to really leverage their sunk costs in their current technology and therefore, they needed someone like me to come in and show them how to weave them all together so they can build in some scalable ways for both advisors and firms. It depended on the way that that company was structured and who their clients were. But, regardless, it was all the same problem. Everyone was on an old code base and none of these silo applications were talking to each other.
So, I was looking at the industry thinking, well someone’s got to be doing this – where are they, what are they doing? Come to find out, everyone coming into the industry is selling a new product or selling a new piece. They are talking a lot about their open API functionality, but everyone wants to be the anchoring technology. They don’t really want to be fully open to just work the way the firm wants to work with their own voice, with their own ecosystem. So I joined forces with Mike Zebrowski and talked to him about these concerns. If you look at all the statistics in the industry right now, there’s fewer and fewer advisors. Certainly in the next five or ten years there will be more consolidation and more advisors are retiring then we are recruiting into our industry. So we have to build more scalable ways for advisors and clients to interact. Otherwise, we will not be a thriving industry with vitality.
So, I decided I want to make an impact. My goal is that every client who wants financial advice can get it from a human being, from an advisor who knows what they’re doing. So how can we really help those advisors do more in their day? I believe it’s in building connective tissues that allow for all these disparate app stacks to work together in a more seamless way so that advisors don’t have to login to five or ten different, separate apps every single time they talk to a client and try to get the information they need.
We’re bubbling up the top 5-10% of the information advisors need and bringing it front and center so they can get their work done. We’re also sending that information out to end clients in a way that’s intuitive and feels like a great experience.
Are you building a platform?
Yes, we’ve built a platform for lots of other platforms. I saw you spoke with Aaron Klein at Riskalyze, you’ve talked to Bill Crager at Envestnet, and you’ve talked to Cheryl Nash at Fiserv. These firms all provide elements that can be worked into our platform. Most people choose a CRM, a financial planning system, a turnkey asset management system and a custodian to begin with. So that’s what we’re doing. We’re not displacing anything that the client already has, we’re just making their technology work better for them.
CI: You’ve had an interesting career. You’ve had the experience of being a company founder and taking it public, you’ve got the experience of coming into a new company, and you’ve got the experience of a startup. Do you have any rules of thumb you can share with other people who might be where you were three years ago, trying to decide which way to go in their career?
Yes. As Steve Jobs said, “You can only be great at something if you love what you do”. I am a strong believer in that. I think that people who give the advice of ‘fake it till you make it’ is one of the worst advice quotes that I know of. I just don’t like it.
I feel like authenticity is important and I think it’s one of my best attributes and what has allowed me to build a really broad and diverse network in this industry. So if I were giving advice I’d say be who you are and be truthful with yourself about what you really love to do. I think that if you are honest with yourself and you’re authentic about what you know, what you don’t know, and what motivates you every day, that mindset will set the course for your career and and for your success.
What has become more important to you in your personal life over the past few years?
I am really hell bent on making an impact. I know that there is an impact you can make in your professional life and one in your personal life. As I’ve gotten older and certainly more recently, I’ve searched for where I’m spending my time in the most meaningful ways. I’m an action oriented person, I do not like complacency in any part of my life.
My husband and I just moved to Philadelphia after 25 years in Chicago and I was reading through your questions before this interview and it was talking about the morning routine. And it made me realize I’m being forced to redevelop all of those routines because I was never on a train before, but now I’m on a train and what do I do with that time now. I’m just loving feeling this new creativity, where I can be flexible and change things around in a way that makes sense for me.
For example, having this new time on a train has allowed me to make lists of my goals for each day, and figure out what is actually going to move the needle, both in my personal and professional life. And I feel like those are still interconnected for me because I just love what I do and I love my work. So there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about both. My life is inclusive of both, I don’t have a broad stroke between the two and I never have. So making an impact and figuring out where you’re spending your time most meaningfully is really important to me, and I think that’s something that’s become more important to me now that I’ve gotten older.
Have you always made a list of goals or is that a new habit?
Well, I think that I always have been very goal driven. I’m a list maker and I always have been, but having a new routine where I am not driving to work, and where I can actually have a moment to think about my schedule for the day and how I’m going to plow through it, makes the day’s activities more meaningful. And more than that, it’s not just getting things done, it’s what the outcome is and how that outcome is going to drive some level of impact. And where is it moving the needle towards a destination or a goal that needs to be achieved.
That’s a difference in the way that I’ve been thinking in the last five years than how I used to think. I used to think okay, this is my job, I’m getting through the day… it’s hard to think more globally sometimes. But if you think about your activities and if they’re actually meaningful, I think it does change how you prioritize your day and what you’re going to work on.
Do you make long-term goals: month, year, five-year career goals?
I certainly have a destination in place or at least a journey I am hoping for. But I will say I typically think in hundred day goals. I do think a year, certainly I know a year out, I know three years out, five years out. But when it comes to really being able to figure out if you’re moving the needle in a productive way, I’ve found that hundred day goals really help. Especially when running a business and building a culture from scratch. Almost everything you do becomes more meaningful because nothing is taken for granted in a startup. At a startup, everything becomes more highlighted.
CI: Right, more exposed?
Yes, more exposed, absolutely. And how people are thinking about what you did and why you made that decision and where it’s taking us. It’s much more transparent throughout the organization then it would be in a larger organization.
What is some advice you have for other startups trying to build their culture from scratch and how to do it right?
Right now there’s a lot of emphasis around what the Millennials want to do, and how we can appeal to the talent among the Millennial segment. I think that some of the things that are coming across are a little disingenuous. Meaning they’ll put in a ping pong table, but no one’s really allowed to play ping pong. Or they’ll allow you to bring your dogs to work, but no one’s allowed to bark. It’s disingenuous, I really do believe it.
I think at the end of the day you have to look at what kind of environment you’re actually trying to build. And what you’re actually willing to handle. If you don’t really believe it, I don’t think you should do it. And because it’s so obvious to everybody that it’s just kind of window dressing.
Culture is a tough thing. It’s built on relationships and a lot of it is also built on things that happen to you as an organization and how you work as a team to get through it. I think that every single day can be a culture building moment to identify how you’re going to work through those things and how you’re going to react to certain things.
A lot of culture is built around stories so it’s important to ask yourself what stories are actually being created, and I think that it’s important for leaders to really think through that. If not, you just go through your normal day-to-day work without a thought to it, and you could actually be building a culture that’s very different than what you intended. So it’s a very intentional exercise, especially in the early days of building a new company.
What are some time management tips that enable you to do everything you want to do?
Well, I don’t do everything I want to do. I would love to manage, I would certainly love to have more time, but it does come back to prioritization. You have to think through what is meaningful, what is actually going to move the needle against your hundred day plan, one year, three or five year plan. If it doesn’t move the needle, you need to reconsider if it’s important.
I have a lot of people who call me on a pretty consistent basis from my old firms. And it’s hard to say no because there are relationships there and I always want to be there for people who been there for me in the past. But, I am getting much better at, not exactly saying no, but saying I have 15 minutes two weeks out, how about that? And making it on a time that works for me versus trying to push it into a day where I do not have the time. Then it just becomes more of an annoyance. The person you’re making the meeting with certainly can feel that and then you’re destroying your relationship anyway.
So I am trying to segment my day in more 10 and 15 minute chunks versus looking at things from an hour long or a half hour long. I think it’s important to start to think of things more condensed in order to get so many things done in a day.
CI: Right, you don’t have to say no, but you have to maintain your limits?
On Sunday nights, I go through my whole schedule. For example, if I know I’m going to prepare for an interview with Craig, I mark out that time. People know I am not available for that hour. And then I realize I am not pushing people off, this is a meaningful thing in my world that I want to set time aside for and I don’t feel guilty about it. Nor do I get pushed around and end up not doing it, which is worse in most cases.
A.I. Labs is a different type of firm than you have worked with in the past. How do you identify people that would be a good fit to work there?
In all my time (all the way back to Nuveen and then Envestnet and Pershing), whenever you’re hiring someone, it’s hard to tell if they’re going to do well. I would say that’s way more true at a startup. A lot of people feel like they want to give it a shot and I think people feel like that because they see money behind it. Their thought process is “if I take this risk and we go public, there will be all this money behind it”.
When I can identify that mindset early, that’s a red flag for me because most startups end up having to start over again versus having it go straight to money in the bank. I am particularly good at inspiring and motivating those around me, but only if we share a common mission and a common goal.
Once we get to the point where we really believe that making sure all clients have access to human financial advisors when and where they want to, and the advisors have a better way of scaling their business so they can do that, and they feel passionate about that, that is how we hire. And I can tell if people light up and start to add more conjecture, such as adding on life coaching and that helps an advisor and a client. You know you can tell if they care or not and it really does come down to that.
I will go back to what I said before – if you don’t love what you do, you’re not going to be great at it. And I believe that through and through. I’ve lived it and I know that if you hire people who believe in your mission, it will be much easier to motivate and inspire them through the hard parts.
Who was your biggest influence when you were growing up?
Well, for sure I know everyone says their father, but he was my biggest influence. There is no way it can be any other answer for me. We lived in a small town, he was a furniture store owner and still is. He was the one who taught me to always put the client’s interests ahead of your own. I think that’s a really critical piece to my success. And understanding that you always do the right thing for your clients and it will come back to you in some way. And sometimes that means giving more than what you made and that’s okay. Sometimes you have to do that in order to show the client that you want to do the right thing on their behalf. I think that a lot of people don’t understand that.
I feel like so much of business school teaches you about the profitability of a company and how to organize the revenues around reinvestment in the company or else what the shareholder value is, but there’s not a lot of emphasis on how to do the right thing for your clients and how to put their interests ahead of your own. And how to really build a relationship that way. And truly, at the end of the day, that’s who’s paying the bills. That is exactly why you will succeed or not succeed. You can spend a ton on advertising, but if everybody is out there saying you are horrible to work with, you’re not going to have a successful business. So, my father is the one who really taught me those very critical values early on and I have really benefited from his wisdom.
Who do you think of when you hear the word successful?
This is hard for me. A lot of people come to mind. I think that the word that would first come to mind is “fearlessness”. Being a leader that people want to follow and that people trust is so important. A few people come to mind. Certainly Bill Crager (President of Envestnet), Sallie Krawcheck (CEO of Ellevest), and Shirl Penney (CEO of Dynasty Financial Partners). I think they’ve all followed their passion, and they’re leaders that people want to follow and that have established trust. There is certainly a long list behind that, but those are the first three that come to mind.
How do you stay motivated with your startup and keep the entrepreneurial spirit going?
I really believe in what I’m doing. I believe in our mission, I know that advisors will be better served by having a solution like ours. And it’s not a self-serving event that I’m going through other than the fact that I am really enjoying making an impact in our industry. That is what gets me up every day. I am dead set on making sure that our advisory industry does not die and in all honesty, I’m concerned about it. I worry about how our industry and advisors will continue to thrive over the next three to five years.
I want to make sure that advisors are giving clients the experience they need and that they deserve so that they can continue to thrive. And that is totally what drives me. I love it. I think there is nothing else that I want to do. 100% of me is passionate about this and so staying motivated is not something I worry about. Having enough of a platform to get it done is more of what I’m worried about and that it’s not coming to the market as quick as it should or as fully as it should to really make the impact that I know it can.
What is the number one reason that the advisory business could go away?
I feel like it’s going to potentially go away because end clients will not be able to receive the experience that they expect and deserve. Our industry has been very slow to adopt intuitive technologies that build the experience with the end client. And we were already way behind and then DOL came along and froze us for another 18 months. Now that’s finally lifting.
Everyone’s thinking about how to add that next new app that will allow them to have more things they can give to their clients. I think that’s entirely the wrong way to think about it. I think that people have the ecosystem they have, mostly because they felt like those were the right solutions for their practice at the time.
And, unfortunately, because they don’t talk to each other, everyone spends way too much time on back office tasks and dealing with administrative issues instead of being in front of their clients. Until we can widen advisors’ bandwidth for spending time with their clients doing meaningful things, we’re going to get stuck in the mud, and I am deeply concerned about this because the experience won’t be what the client wants.
CI: Because clients don’t get the service they expect and they’re going to leave?
Right, exactly. They have great technology at home, and even advisors have better technology at home than they do at work. Somewhere there is a tipping point where technology that once helped advisors scale their business is now hindering their productivity. And that’s really the premise behind A.I. Labs.
What is your morning routine? What do you do the first 60 to 90 minutes of your day?
It is all changing right now, I used to get up and take the kids to school and deal with being a good parent and setting the right tone for the day, and now everything is getting recreated. It’s the first time in my life that I’m able to really just think about my own day and how that’s going to productive and what needs to get done that day. So the first sixty minutes I’m up, I take my dog for a walk.
I’m still learning. I take a walk to the coffee shop and get usually a fancy coffee on my way to the train station and then once I sit down on the train (which is the first civilized train I’ve been able to take for a very long time. I was always on the Chicago L where you’re standing and jostling all your things and hoping for the best) for a full twnety minutes, I make my list, starting with what I’d like to do and that list hits my desk. I set it right beside my phone so that I stay on task and I stay focused on what’s going to be meaningful today.
What would your close friends say that you are exceptionally good at?
They would say I’m exceptionally good at motivating and inspiring those around me. I love to do that anyway, but when they’re down or they need advice on how to deal with a situation, whether that’s a spousal situation or someone’s mother-in-law is driving them crazy or, you know, certainly work, they call me. I have a tendency to look at things with the glass half full and I’m pretty good, very creative when it comes to make things harmonious in people’s lives. So helping them through kind of those difficult things that they can’t think about and even today I get calls from people I used to work with at my ex-firms and they say I was trying to channel what would Lori do in this situation, what would Lori do. And so I love that.
CI: Sounds like a book title, “What Would Lori Do?”
Yeah, what would Lori do. But I get told that, I mean I’m not kidding, Craig, probably at least I don’t know, two to three times a month people say that I was trying to channel ‘what you would do’ in this situation because they feel that I handle sticky situations really well, especially interpersonal situations. So that’s what I think I’m really good at.
What is something that you believe that other people might think is crazy?
I’m sure that other people do think this is nuts, but I think that you should always ask for more than what you expect to get. I’ll tell you a story. When I was at Nuveen, I was young. I was 27 years old and I was getting ready to build the first RIA program they ever had. I remember feeling like I don’t want to make this super expensive program because I don’t want people to feel like it’s going to be all that much. I know I can do it in a scrappy way.
And I realized that when I went to present it to the senior folks, and was kicking this around with some other people, they told me to ask for more, and I was hesitant. I was nervous it was going to get dismissed if it cost too much. Instead, what I found out is if they spend a lot of money on it, they have more interest in making it work. They’re totally invested. So it’s kind of counter to what people might think especially when they are trying to go out and sell a new idea to an established organization and say, oh it won’t cost much. But what happens is it gets more dismissed if it doesn’t cost much and that is one of the things that I think I learned really early on thankfully. And it served me well.
CI: Would you say that your belief that human advisors are not going away or shouldn’t go away is something that other people might think is crazy considering the rise of robo-advisors and digital advice?
Absolutely, yes. I absolutely believe in human advice. I believe how important it is for a client, a person, to look at another person and have that feeling of trust and understanding of goals, and someone that they can lean on. I don’t think that technology is easy to lean on in times of strife, and that is what I think a big part of the advisor’s role is. Certainly it’s to look after the financial well-being of their client as well.
But being that person someone can lean on is critically important and I am dead set on that idea, although many people may not agree with me. That is something that I feel extremely strong about, mostly because when I’m building technology, I think about what I would want, what the experience I want, how I would want to interact, and how I want to receive the information. It’s really not that hard when you think about what you want. You learn all these things and don’t always put yourself first, but that’s the time when you put yourself first and ask yourself how you want your experience to be.
CI: Well I think a lot of people who design software probably do the same. But it only helps if they are able to understand how potential users want to experience things.
That’s exactly right. Although, I think you’d be surprised at how few actually do think about it from that lens. I think that we get skewed. I know even at Pershing and Envestnet, we got skewed by getting back to the system of record. It’s almost like you know too much.
And because you know you have to get back into the system of record, well, then it has to be built like this and this and this. And by the time you get to the front end, it’s all watered down. And it doesn’t make a lot of sense to the end consumer.
But, if you think about it from a design-first approach and a system that’s going to be engaging for the client, that’s what builds really beautiful technologies. But so many people know too much and make it more complicated than it needs to be.
CI: Sure, especially engineers.
Absolutely, yes. I’ve seen it a hundred times.
CI: I was listening to a podcast about entrepreneur and investor, Chris Sacca. He was talking about when he started at Google back in 2003, computer science degrees were different. They were not the same as they are now where everyone wants to be a computer science major and people just focus on coding, and they don’t have a life on the outside.
When you went to college 20 years ago, you had to have a job and you could do a semester abroad and you had a much more well-rounded experience. So when you’re building software for people you don’t know, you have some basis for putting yourself in their shoes.
But now, we have people coming out with computer science degrees but all they know how to do is code. They never had a real job, they got a full ride to Stanford. When they go to build software they often don’t have a clue what someone else would want from a software interface.
LH: Totally agree. I see it over and over again.
We just talked about what your good advice is, what bad advice do you hear being given out most often?
The first piece of bad advice is that ‘fake it till you make it’. I cannot stand that saying because I think authenticity is so very important in really finding a career that will make you successful. I don’t like that saying, I think its bad advice.
The other one is, ‘if you want to be in business, get a business degree first and then get an MBA’. One of my best friends is a professor at Notre Dame and she’s thinks there is way too much redundancy between the two, both business and MBA. It’s important to work in between whatever kind of graduate school you choose. I think that will also help young aspiring talent understand what they like and what they don’t like.
What is one of your favorite phone apps that help you be more efficient?
I love Glassdoor. I think Glassdoor is such a great way to get the truth about what your employees’ experience is at your firm. I think it helps me as a leader to really get an unfettered view of the culture, too. I think that the higher you go up at any organization, the less transparency you have to what it actually is like to work at your firm because everybody makes it seem so great when you talk to them. People will say things worked out great, but, you know, but maybe it didn’t, maybe it did. I’m constantly trying to search for the truth, and I think Glassdoor has a great way of letting you see what the truth is about your company.
I get Glassdoor updates on a regular basis. It’s not a read only in my opinion. You have to read it and respond and figure out, not obviously within the app because you can’t. But, respond to issues that you see that are being brought up as to why you would want to work here or why you wouldn’t want to work here. If you look at the Millennials, they nearly never make a decision about anything without checking with others first and that on Glassdoor they’re looking to see if it’s a good place to work from their peer group. So I think you have to read it and react and continue to fine tune.
Do you encourage your employees to post there?
Yes, absolutely. Not so much that they know (I don’t want them to feel like, ugh, she just told me to post there so now she’s going to know it’s mine). But I do encourage them. I did at Pershing and Envestnet as well. I think that is important.
What book have you gifted most often?
I gift wine most often.
CI: Is that a book?
LH: I don’t gift books. I get books, and I’ve gotten a few really good ones.
CI: What are some good books you’ve received as gifts?
LH: Let’s see, Good to Great (by Jim Collins) is a book I’ve received. There’s another one that I read, that was based on the Navy Seals and how the military works from a leadership perspective. It goes through how they build their trust and the organization.
CI: Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink.
LH: Yes, that’s exactly right. I love that book, I think that’s an awesome book.
CI: What kind of wine do you give?
LH: I usually give a red and a white because you just never know.
CI: What brand, is it a certain wine that you give out?
LH: I usually go to wine.com and pick the two that have the highest ratings for the price range I’m looking for. And so, I always am interested in seeing what people think. I always feel like it’s a good fun gift and they know I’m thinking of them.
If you could send a message to your 25-year-old self, what would you say?
Recently, I have felt that it is so important to find the strength within yourself, not within an organization. So many people look at the organization they’re joining and are trying to put the weight of their career and the trust of that in the organization they’re in versus their confidence in themselves. One of my favorite quotes that is so meaningful to me for so many reasons is, “A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch but in her own wings.”
For me that means you go to Pershing and if it doesn’t work out, you know what, I can still fly. I’ve got a whole sky of flight plans and opportunities available to me right now. And I think that people get too worried about getting laid off or not making it and therefore it creates this point where they search for safety. And in that regard they don’t stretch themselves like they really would like to, and I believe they would like to in many cases. So that is what I would say I wish someone had told me earlier.
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Category Archives: COMAC
Boeing and China finalize agreements for 300 China orders and commitments, Boeing and COMAC to partner on 737 completion and delivery center in China
Boeing (Chicago, Seattle and Charleston) yesterday (September 23) welcomed China President Xi Jinping to its widebody commercial airplane factory and announced several significant agreements that will broaden and deepen cooperation between Boeing and China.
The company issued this statement:
The agreements include orders and commitments for 300 Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircraft and expanded collaboration between Boeing and China’s commercial aviation industry.
Together, Boeing and China committed to further advance development of China’s commercial aviation industry and meet strategic business objectives for Boeing in the world’s largest airplane market going forward.
President Xi, accompanied by Boeing executives, viewed final assembly lines for the 787 Dreamliner, 777 and 747-8, as well as aircraft components made by Chinese aviation suppliers. The president also spoke with Boeing employees and the 787 chief pilot about their work on airplanes built for Chinese carriers.
Agreements announced include:
Boeing and National Development Reform Commission (NDRC)
Boeing and NDRC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will advance their long-term strategic cooperation through several “Pillars of Partnership.” These pillars include:
Industrial cooperation
Continued development of a world-class aviation transportation system through deliveries to China of Boeing airplanes and services
Development of technologies to reduce aviation’s environmental impact and enhance sustainability
Leadership development and training for the next generation of leaders in China’s aviation industry
Continued cooperation to support the safety, efficiency and capacity of China’s air transport system
Orders and Commitments for Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Boeing and China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CASC) have signed a General Terms Agreement related to the purchase of 300 airplanes. The package has a value of approximately $38 billion at list prices.
Aircraft orders and commitments include:
(240) airplanes for Chinese airlines, including (190) 737s and 50 widebody aircraft
(60) 737s for leasing companies ICBC and CDB Leasing
Orders are posted on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website after all contingencies are cleared.
737 Completion and Delivery Center in China
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd., (COMAC) will partner to open a facility in China for the interiors completion, paint and delivery of Boeing 737 aircraft to Chinese customers. The joint venture facility will significantly expand Boeing’s collaboration with China’s aviation industry while also enabling future production rate increases at Boeing’s 737 final assembly factory in Renton, Wash. This China-based facility will not reduce 737 Program employment in Washington State.
Boeing, COMAC and Chinese government officials are working toward a final business agreement and will announce the facility’s location and timing of first deliveries at a later date.
Boeing, now building a record 42 737s per month, will increase production to 47 airplanes per month in 2017 and 52 airplanes per month in 2018 to meet strong demand for the 737, the world’s most fuel-efficient single-aisle airplane.
Boeing and Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC)
Boeing and Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC) will broaden their long-term collaboration to support Boeing’s commercial airplane programs. In a framework agreement, the companies said they intend to further advance AVIC’s manufacturing capabilities by adding major component and assembly work packages; strengthening leadership; and developing AVIC’s broad aviation infrastructure and business practices, including supply chain management.
Further development of sustainable aviation biofuel
Under the framework of the MOU between Boeing and NDRC, Boeing and NDRC announced a new initiative to turn agricultural waste in China into sustainable aviation biofuel. Boeing will partner with NDRC to turn items from farms, such as corn cobs and wheat stalks, into sustainable jet fuel as a way to reduce aviation’s carbon emissions.
When produced sustainably, aviation biofuel reduces carbon emissions by 50 to 80 percent on a lifecycle basis compared to conventional petroleum jet fuel, according to studies by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Boeing has partnered with Chinese stakeholders to support development of China’s air transport system since President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing on Air Force One, a Boeing 707, in 1972. Today, more than 50 percent of commercial jetliners operating in China are Boeing airplanes. Over the next 20 years, China will be Boeing’s largest commercial airplane market with a projected need for 6,330 new airplanes, worth an estimated $950 billion.
Image: Boeing.
This entry was posted in Boeing, COMAC and tagged Boeing, COMAC on September 24, 2015 by Bruce Drum.
Boeing and COMAC open a Chinese facility to transform “gutter oil” into aviation biofuel
Boeing (Chicago and Seattle) and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) today (October 22) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. The two companies estimate that 500 million gallons (1.8 billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil.
Boeing and COMAC are sponsoring the facility, which is called the China-U.S. Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project. It will use a technology developed by Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (HEET) to clean contaminants from waste oils and convert it into jet fuel at a rate of 160 gallons (650 liters) per day. The project’s goal is to assess the technical feasibility and cost of producing higher volumes of biofuel.
Sustainably produced biofuel, which reduces carbon emissions by 50 to 80 percent compared to petroleum through its lifecycle, is expected to play a key role in supporting aviation’s growth while meeting environmental goals. The Boeing Current Market Outlook has forecast that China will require more than 6,000 new airplanes by 2033 to meet fast-growing passenger demand for domestic and international air travel.
Boeing and COMAC have been collaborating since 2012 to support the growth of China’s commercial aviation industry. Their Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center in Beijing works with Chinese universities and research institutions to expand knowledge in areas that improve aviation’s efficiency, such as aviation biofuel and air traffic management.
Biofuel produced by the China-U.S. Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project will meet international specifications approved in 2011 for jet fuel made from plant oils and animal fats. This type of biofuel has already been used for more than 1,600 commercial flights.
COMAC is also the builder of the new C919 jetliner.
In other news, Boeing yesterday (October 21) celebrated the groundbreaking of its new 777X Composite Wing Center at the Everett, Washington, campus. Permitting for the new 1-million-square-foot facility was completed approximately seven weeks earlier than anticipated, allowing for an accelerated start to construction.
Boeing is investing more than $1 billion in the Everett site for construction and outfitting of the new building.
Once completed, the facility located on the north side of the main final assembly building will help usher in composite wing fabrication for the company’s newest commercial jetliner and sustain thousands of local jobs for decades to come.
Completion of the new building, which is expected in May 2016, will require approximately 3.5 million hours of work. At its peak, there will be approximately 1,200 contract employees working on the project. By the numbers, the new building will require:
31,000 tons (28,000 metric tons) of steel
480 miles (770 kilometers) of electrical cable
80,000 linear feet (24,384 meters ) of process piping
530,000 cubic yards (405,210 cubic meters) of fill material
170,000 tons (154,000 metric tons) of concrete
To date, the 777X has accumulated 300 orders and commitments. Two models will comprise the 777X family – the 777-8X, with approximately 350 seats and a range capability of more than 9,300 nautical miles; and the 777-9X, with approximately 400 seats and a range of more than 8,200 nautical miles. The 777-8X competes directly with the Airbus A350-1000, while the 777-9X is in a class by itself, serving a market segment that no other airplane can. First delivery of the 777X is targeted for 2020.
This entry was posted in Boeing, COMAC and tagged Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project, Biofuel, Boeing, COMAC on October 22, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
COMAC and Bombardier sign a strategic definitive agreement on Phase II of Long-Term Collaboration
Bombardier (Montreal) today issued this statement:
Further to the Definitive Agreement (DA) signed on March 21, 2012 covering program commonalities between the C919 and CSeries aircraft and the Letter of Intent (LOI) signed on November 13, 2012 signaling the beginning of Phase II of their strategic collaboration, Bombardier and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) wish to announce the signing of a DA covering four distinctive projects. The DA is to be executed as part of the second phase of the parties’ long-term collaboration on leveraging commonalities between theC919 and CSeries airliners.
The four initiatives COMAC and Bombardier will collaborate on are: 1) specific areas of the CSeries aircraft flight test activities pertaining to non-flying tasks, 2) implementing and maintaining the common items that were achieved as part of Phase I, 3) sales and marketing, and 4) certain areas of customer services related to training, technical publications and parts distribution.
The second phase of COMAC and Bombardier’s cooperation is expected to contribute further to enhancing the competitiveness of not only the C919 and CSeries aircraft programs, but also of both COMAC and Bombardier’s overall businesses, and will help with maximizing both parties’ cost savings and market shares, while allowing customers of the C919 and the CSeriescommercial airliners to realize cost benefits from the operation of both aircraft families.
Image: Bombardier.
This entry was posted in Bombardier, COMAC and tagged Bombardier, C919, COMAC, CSeries on June 17, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
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Manuel Negrete (Mexico v Bulgaria) voted the Greatest World Cup Goal ever
Manuel Negrete's spectacular strike for Mexico against Bulgaria in 1986 has been voted the Greatest World Cup Goal of all time.
We know from experience that picking even a selection of the greatest World Cup goals is tricky, let alone narrowing it down to a single strike. The official FIFA World Cup Facebook page has put the matter to a public vote.
After a knockout competition in which two great goals were pitted against each other in a vote, Negrete's spectacular mid-air volley was named the Greatest World Cup Goal ever.
It saw off competition from Diego Maradona's mazy solo goal for Argentina against England, which was also in the 1986 World Cup.
It is a massive relief to be able to report that Negrete's goal is included in our book, World At Your Feet, which presents 16 of the most iconic goals ever scored on the world's biggest stage in the form of vivid illustrations and colourful rhyming commentary.
Here is out take on the Negrete goal...
To get your copy of the Negrete goal and the rest of the World At Your Feet, please click here.
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2026 FIFA World Cup: FIFA Council designates bids for final voting by the FIFA Congress
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-Moroccan bid and United bid both ratified and put forward to be voted for on 13 June
-New formula to calculate the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking approved
-Amended version of the FIFA Code of Ethics to come into force on 1 August
As it gears up for the opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup™, Moscow hosted meeting number 7 of the FIFA Council this Sunday, 10 June. FIFA’s strategic body decided on a number of important competition matters, chief of which was another key step in the bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™.
Following the publication of the Bid Evaluation Report by the 2026 Bid Evaluation Task Force, the FIFA Council designated the two bids – the one jointly submitted by the Canadian Soccer Association, the Mexican Football Association and the United States Soccer Federation, as well as the one submitted by the Moroccan Football Association – to be voted on by the 68th FIFA Congress.
On Wednesday, 13 June, the FIFA Congress will determine whether to award the right to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup to one of the two candidates. In the event that the 68th FIFA Congress decides not to choose either of the candidates, FIFA will then launch a new procedure by inviting all member associations – except the four that are taking part in the current process – to submit a bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. More details on Wednesday’s procedure are available here.
The FIFA Council also took some other significant decisions, including:
New formula for the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking
Following over two years of reviews and studies of different alternatives and a comprehensive consultation process with all confederations, the FIFA administration put forward to the FIFA Council an overhauled formula to calculate the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking – a system that was today approved and will thus be inaugurated with the first official ranking following the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™.
Under the guiding principles of making the formula more intuitive and accurate; eliminating the potential for ranking manipulation; and providing equal opportunities to ascend for all teams, a group of sports specialists and statisticians developed a formula based on the Elo method of calculation. This formula works not by averaging points for each individual match, but by adding them to or subtracting them from a team’s existing points total – a calculation in which weights are determined by the relative strength of the two opponents and the importance of each match. This means that the annual average point calculation, which is currently used in the World Ranking formula, will no longer be factored.
Furthermore, the approved formula allows for a smooth transition from the current ranking, without displacement of teams in the existing ranking table. A complete explanation of the new system is available here .
Proposal submitted by the CONMEBOL member associations to the 68th FIFA Congress
The FIFA Council unanimously agreed that the matter raised by the member associations of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela – i.e. the proposal of a feasibility study to increase the number of teams from 32 to 48 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ – will first be discussed by FIFA with the host country, Qatar, and therefore it would be premature to put it forward to the FIFA Congress.
Electoral process for the position of FIFA President
In accordance with article 45 of the FIFA Governance Regulations, the FIFA Council formally called for the FIFA presidential election, which is scheduled to take place during the 69th FIFA Congress in Paris on 5 June 2019. FIFA’s strategic body ratified the official electoral period – from the 68th FIFA Congress to election day – and the milestones of the electoral calendar:
– 10 June 2018: Call for election
– 13 June 2018: Start of electoral period
– 5 February 2019: Deadline for submission of candidatures for the office of FIFA President by FIFA member association
– 5 May 2019: Deadline for notifying the FIFA member associations of the names of the proposed and admitted candidates – 5 June 2019: FIFA presidential election at the 69th FIFA Congress
Amendments to the FIFA Code of Ethics
Following an express request from the chairpersons of the investigatory and adjudicatory chambers of the Ethics Committee, the current FIFA Code of Ethics – issued in 2012 – has gone through a thorough review process, in which the six confederations were involved.
The result is an amended version, which was approved by the FIFA Council. Among other things, the new version implements a more efficient procedure; specifies sanctions and the roles of each of the two chambers; and gives more responsibilities to the confederations. The new version of the Code of Ethics will come into force on 1 August 2018.
Dates of 2019 youth tournaments defined
The FIFA Council approved the proposed dates for the two FIFA youth tournaments scheduled for next year:
– FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019: 23 May-15 June
– FIFA U-17 World Cup Peru 2019: 5-27 October
The next FIFA Council meeting is set to be held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 25 to 26 October 2018.
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What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust
Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called "Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has, thus far, been erratic and unpredictable, his administration’s "vision" in Israel and Palestine is systematic and unswerving. This consistency seems to be part of a larger vision aimed at liberating the "conflict" from the confines of international law and even the old U.S.-sponsored "peace process."
Indeed, the new strategy has, so far, targeted the status of East Jerusalem as an Occupied Palestinian city, and the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees. It aims to create a new reality in which Israel achieves its strategic goals while the rights of Palestinians are limited to mere humanitarian issues.
Unsurprisingly, Israel and the United States are using the division between Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, to their advantage. Fatah dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah while Hamas controls besieged Gaza.
A carrot and a stick scenario is being applied in earnest. While, for years, Fatah received numerous financial and political perks from Washington, Hamas subsisted in isolation under a permanent siege and protracted state of war. It seems that the Trump Administration -- under the auspices of Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner -- are turning the tables.
The reason that the PA is no longer the "moderate" Palestinian leadership it used to be in Washington’s ever self-serving agenda is that Mahmoud Abbas has decided to boycott Washington in response to the latter’s recognition of all of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. True, Abbas’ subservience has been successfully tested in the past but, under the new administration, the U.S. demands complete "respect," thus total obedience.
Hamas, which is locked in Gaza between sealed borders from every direction, has been engaging Israel indirectly through Egyptian and Qatari mediation. That engagement has, so far, resulted in a short-term truce, while a long-term truce is still being discussed.
The latest development on that front was the visit by Kushner, accompanied with Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, to Qatar on Aug. 22. There, Gaza was the main topic on the agenda.
So, why is Gaza, which has been isolated (even by the PA itself) suddenly the new gate through which top U.S., Israeli and regional officials are using to reactivate Middle East diplomacy?
Ironically, Gaza is being particularly suffocated these days. The entire Gaza Strip is sinking deeper in its burgeoning humanitarian crisis, with August being one of the most grueling months.
A series of U.S. financial aid cuts has targeted the very socio-economic infrastructure that allowed Gaza to carry on, despite extreme poverty and the ongoing economic blockade.
On Aug. 31, Foreign Policy magazine reported that the U.S. administration is in the process of denying the UN Palestinian refugees agency, UNRWA -- which has already suffered massive U.S. cuts since January -- of all funds. Now the organization’s future is in serious peril.
The worrying news came only one week after another announcement, in which the United States decided to cut nearly all aid allocated to Palestinians this year --$200 million -- mostly funds spent on development projects in the West Bank and humanitarian aid to Gaza.
So why would the United States manufacture a major humanitarian crisis in Gaza -- which suits the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu well -- while, simultaneously, engaging in discussions regarding the urgent need to end Gaza’s humanitarian woes?
The answer lies in the need for the United States to manipulate aid to Palestinians in order to exact political concessions for Israel’s sake.
Months before rounds of Egyptian-sponsored indirect talks began between Israel and Hamas, there has been an unmistakable shift in Israeli and U.S. attitudes regarding the future of Gaza:
On Jan. 31, Israel presented to a high-level conference in Brussels "humanitarian assistance plans" for Gaza at a proposed cost of $1 billion. The plan focuses mostly on water distillation, electricity, gas infrastructure and upgrading the joint industrial zone at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel. In essence, the Israeli plan is now the core discussion pertaining to the proposed long-term ceasefire.
The meeting was attended by Greenblatt, along with Kushner who is entrusted with implementing Trump’s unclear vision, inappropriately termed "the deal of the century."
Two months later, Kushner hosted top officials from 19 countries to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Clearly, there is a common thread between all of these activities.
Since the United States decided to defy international law and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last December, it has been in search of a new strategy that will circumvent the PA in Ramallah.
PA President, Abbas, whose political apparatus is largely reliant on "security coordination" with Israel, U.S. political validation and financial handouts, has little with which to bargain.
Hamas has relatively greater political capital -- as it has operated with less dependency on the Israeli-U.S.-western camp. But years of relentless siege, interrupted by massive deadly Israeli wars, have propelled Gaza into a permanent humanitarian crisis.
While a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian groups in Gaza went into effect on Aug. 15, a long-term truce is still being negotiated. According to the Israeli daily "Haaretz," citing Israeli officials, the truce would include a comprehensive ceasefire, opening all border crossings, expansion of the permitted fishing area off the Gaza coast, and the overhauling of Gaza’s destroyed economic infrastructure -- among other stipulations.
Concurrently, Palestinian officials in Ramallah are fuming. "Chief negotiator," Saeb Erekat, accused Hamas of trying to “destroy the Palestinian national project,” by negotiating a separate agreement with Israel. The irony is that the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and PA have done just that for over 25 years.
However, delinking the future of Gaza from the future of all Palestinians can, indeed, lead to dangerous consequences.
Regardless of whether a permanent truce is achieved between Israel and the Hamas-led Gaza factions, the sad truth is that, whatever grand illusion is harbored by Washington and Tel Aviv at the moment, is almost entirely based on exploiting Palestinian divisions, for which the Palestinian leadership is to be wholly blamed.
- Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB.
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Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym
Career (Soviet Union)
Name: Krasny Krym
Builder: Russo-Baltic Shipyard, Tallinn
Acquired: November 1917
Commissioned: 1 July 1928
Renamed: 31 October 1939 from Profintern
Reclassified: November 1954 as training ship
Struck: July 1959
Honors and
Awarded Guards title 18 June 1942
Fate: scrapped July 1959
General characteristics (1928)
Type: Light cruiser
Displacement: 6,839 tonnes (6,731 long tons; 7,539 short tons) (standard)
7,999 tonnes (7,873 long tons; 8,817 short tons) (full load)
Beam: 15.35 m (50 ft 4 in)
Draught: 6.65 m (21 ft 10 in)
Propulsion: 4 shafts, Curtis-AEG geared steam turbines
13 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range: 3,350 nmi (6,200 km; 3,860 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Armament: 15 × 1 - 130 mm (5.1 in)/55 B7 Pattern 1913 guns9 × 1 - 76 mm (3.0 in) AA guns
2 × 3 - 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 100 mines
Armor: Upper and lower armored decks: 20 mm (0.79 in) each
Gun shields: 25 mm (0.98 in) Lower armor belt: 76 mm (3.0 in) Upper armor belt: 25 mm (0.98 in) Conning tower: 76 mm (3.0 in)
Krasnyi Krym (Russian: Красный Крым - Red Crimea) was a light cruiser of the Soviet Navy. She was laid down in 1913 as Svetlana for the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the Svetlana class. She was built by the Russo-Baltic Yard in Tallinn, Estonia and launched in 1915. Her hull was evacuated to Petrograd when the Germans approached the port in late 1917 and laid up incomplete during the Russian Revolution. The ship was completed by the Soviets in 1926. During World War II she supported Soviet troops during the Siege of Odessa, Siege of Sevastopol, and the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation in the winter of 1941—42. Krasnyi Krym was awarded the Guards title on 18 June 1942. The ship was reclassified as a training ship in November 1954 before being scrapped in July 1959.
3 Post-war career
Service history Edit
When Svetlana was towed from Tallinn to St. Petersburg in November 1917 she was about 90% complete and the Soviets expected to commission her in 1919, but she was laid up incomplete due to the disruptions of the Russian Civil War.[1] It wasn't until November 1924 that work recommenced on her and she was renamed Profintern (Russian: Профинтерн) on 5 February 1925. She was completed in October 1926, but she had to return to the dockyard to remedy numerous problems and wasn't commissioned until 1 July 1928.[2]
Profintern was completed to nearly her original design, but was modified to handle aircraft by adding cranes on either side of the middle funnel and a parking area was built for them between the central and rear funnels, although no catapult was ever fitted. Her original internal torpedo tubes were replaced by two triple 450-millimetre (18 in) torpedo tubes mounted on the deck abaft the rear funnel.[3] And her original four 38-caliber 2.5-inch (64 mm) anti-aircraft guns were replaced by nine 30-caliber 3-inch (76 mm) Lender AA guns.[1]
Initially based in the Baltic she was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet in 1929, arriving on 18 January 1930, together with the battleship Parizhskaya Kommunna. She was extensively overhauled in the late 1930s where her aircraft equipment was removed and she was fitted with new fire control equipment. The ship was given three Italian Minizini twin-gun 50-caliber 100-millimetre (3.9 in) anti-aircraft mounts, one was placed on the forecastle, in front of the forward 130 mm (5.1 in)/55 B7 Pattern 1913 gun and the other two on each side of the quarterdeck. Four single mounts for the semi-automatic 45-millimetre (1.8 in) 21-K gun were fitted as well as seven 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) AA machine guns. At some point she exchanged her 21-K AA guns for ten single mounts for the naval version of the 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K). Profintern was renamed Krasnyi Krym on 31 October 1939[4]
Krasnyi Krym provided gunfire support to Soviet forces defending Odessa and escorted convoys bringing the 157th Rifle Division into Odessa during the month of September 1941. She also transported two battalions of the 3rd Marine Regiment from Sevastopol in a successful amphibious assault behind Romanian lines to destroy Romanian coastal batteries near Fontanka and Dofinovka.[5] She escorted convoys from 3—6 October that evacuated the 157th Rifle Division from Odessa to Sevastopol.[6] During the Siege of Sevastopol, the ship provided gunfire support and evacuated cut-off troops from elsewhere in the Crimea into Sevastopol and brought in reinforcements from Caucasian ports.[7] She helped to transport the 388th Rifle Division from Novorossisk and Tuapse to Sevastopol between 7 and 13 December and the 354th Rifle Division between 21 and 22 December, bombarding German position in the interim.[8]
During the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation, Krasnyi Krym sailed into the harbor of Feodosiya on 29 December 1941 and disembarked reinforcements and provided gunfire support for Soviet troops already ashore. She was hit eleven times by Axis artillery and mortar fire in retaliation. Between 15 and 21 January 1942 she landed the bulk of the 266th Mountain Regiment at Sudak and reinforced them with 1576 troops of the 544th Rifle Regiment between 23 and 26 January.[9] During the following months Krasnyi Krym brought in reinforcements for the garrison of Sevastopol and evacuated the wounded, sometimes bombarding German positions enroute, her last such mission being on 3 June 1942, after the Germans had already launched the attack that would force the city to surrender in July.[10] She was awarded the Guards title on 18 June in recognition of her performance.[11]
Krasnyi Krym and the destroyer Nezamozhnik evacuated 2000 men from Novorossisk to Batumi between 9—12 August, a regiment of the 32nd Guards Rifle Division on 12—13 August and a further 1850 men and 60 tons of supplies on 16—17 August 1942.[12] Between 8—11 September Krasnyi Krym and several destroyers ferried the 137th and 145th Rifle Regiments along with the 3rd Naval Rifle Brigade from Poti to Tuapse and Gelendzhik. Between 20 and 23 October Krasnyi Krym, her half-sister Krasny Kavkaz, and three destroyers ferried 12,600 men of the 8th, 9th and 10th Guards Infantry Brigades from Poti to Tuapse to reinforce the defenses there. Krasnyi Krym, two destroyers and a number of minesweepers transported the 9th Mountain Rifle Division from Batumi to Tuapse from 1—10 December 1942.[13] On the night of 4 February 1943 the Soviets made a series of amphibious landings to the west of Novorossisk, behind German lines. Krasnyi Krym, Krasny Kavkaz, and three destroyers provided fire support for the main landing, but the Soviet troops there were wiped out by 6 February, although one secondary landing was successful.[14] The loss of three destroyers attempting to interdict the German evacuation of the Taman Bridgehead on 6 October 1943 caused Stalin to forbid the deployment of large naval units without his express permission and this meant the end of Krasnyi Krym's active participation in the war.[15]
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The ship was reclassified as a training ship in 1954. On 7 May 1957 she was redesignated as Experimental Ship OS-20 and then reclassified on 18 March 1959 as Floating Barracks PKZ-144 before being scrapped in July 1959.[1]
^ a b c "Cruiser Krasnyi Krim" (in Russian). http://flot.sevastopol.info/ship/cruiser/krasniy_krim.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
^ Conway's, p. 208
^ Breyer, pp. 117, 165
^ Breyer, p. 165
^ Rohwer, pp. 97, 100, 102
^ Rohwer, p. 105
^ Rohwer, pp. 111-2, 114-5, 120
^ Rohwer, p. 122, 128
^ Rohwer, p. 129, 136, 138
^ Rohwer, pp. 143, 146, 149-50, 161, 164, 166, 169-70
^ Rohwer, pp. 186, 188-9
^ Rohwer, pp. 194, 204, 216
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Home » Fashion » YouTube star Nikkie de Jager, 25, reveals how sharing a ‘horrible’ video of herself makeup-free made her a millionaire – The Sun
YouTube star Nikkie de Jager, 25, reveals how sharing a ‘horrible’ video of herself makeup-free made her a millionaire – The Sun
A BEAUTY blogger whose viral makeup tutorials have earned her millions, has revealed that she almost didn’t share the video that made her famous.
In May 2015 Nikkie de Jager, now 25, shared a seven-minute clip called “The Power of Makeup” which saw her reveal the stark contrast between her with and without cosmetics.
The video quickly went viral catapulting the Dutch national, known to her fans as Nikkie Tutorials, to fame.
But the YouTube star has revealed that she almost didn’t share her most famous vid.
She told News.com.au: “I filmed it and I almost never uploaded it because I hated it. It just didn’t feel right. I thought, ‘Nobody is going to get this’.”
However her boyfriend at the time convinced her to post the footage, saying he thought people would “resonate” with it.
“I remember uploading it and it did so bad, I said to him, ‘See, I never should have uploaded this, it’s horrible’.”
But two weeks later she woke up one morning to find her subscriber count and video views “going nuts”.
“I thought I must be dreaming, this can’t be real. It was such a whirlwind, but I’m really proud that it happened, especially with that video,” she explained.
As a result of the video — which to date has been viewed over 40 million times — Nikkie has become a hugely influential face in the beauty industry, boasting over 12 million Instagram followers with a YouTube subscriber count to match.
Nikkie first began posting make-up tutorials that she filmed secretly inside her bedroom when she was just 14, managing to amass a following of 700,000 subscribers by the time she was just 21.
Since then her impressive talents with a make-up brush have seen her named Marc Jacobs’ first artistry adviser and is reported to be worth over $US6 million (£4.7 million).
She was even listed among Forbes “Top Influencers” in 2017.
“I never ever imagined that this is where I would end up. I started when I was 14 years old, I was insecure, I got bullied and life was not that great” she said.
“I just started my channel for the love of makeup, and now I’m in Sydney talking about it, which is really weird but really special too.”
I never ever imagined that this is where I would end up. I started when I was 14 years old, I was insecure, I got bullied and life was not that grea
But with the success comes criticism, with Nikkie admitting to being on the receiving end of nasty remarks online, something she shrugs off as “part of the job”.
“It’s never nice but it’s part of the job which was really hard for me to accept when I was younger,” she said.
Describing mean and cruel comments as “devastating”, Nikkie said Kim Kardashian helped her to let go of the cyberbullies.
“She said, ‘Listen, that person writes that comment, it took that person maybe two seconds of emotion. Don’t let their two seconds of emotion drain your entire day, it’s not worth it’,” Nikkie explained.
“And she goes through the wringer on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, so I knew it was such good advice.”
The pair worked together when Nikkie gave Kim a “power of makeup” makeover, applying products to just one half of the famous reality star’s face.
She’s also done the same to Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore and has more famous faces in the pipeline.
“It’s funny, as it’s not the sort of thing you do to an elite person. But it’s proof that the video resonated with so many,” Nikkie said.
As well as having some of the most recognisable women in the world let her do their make-up, Nikkie’s also been travelling the world hosting Marc Jacobs masterclasses, her most recent in Sydney.
The most common question the guru is asked about is longevity, with fans desperate to know how to make their make-up stay put.
“It’s the sandwich technique. You have to layer and set and then apply some new and then set again, and it’s like this whole process,” she said.
Nikkie also has plenty of good advice for beauty novices.
“Take it one step at a time when you’re just starting off. Start with a tinted moisturiser or with a highlighter. Start with things that give you that boost of confidence and then build it up,” she said.
“Never ever feel like you have to do the whole shebang in one go because it can be quite overwhelming.”
Another top tip from the queen of make-up is to use a natural lip gloss that you can dress up easily.
“My favourite Marc Jacobs product, a definite must is the Cream and Sugar gloss,” she said. “It is sparkle city, but it’s incredibly beautiful on natural lips but also on those days where you’re going full make-up too.”
This article was originally published in News.com.au and was republished with permission.
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Story The economy in the First World War
High mark and decline of the economic war effort
Iron and steel production in Austria-Hungary, 1913-1918 (in 1,000 t)
Copyright: Derek Weber
The economic strengths of the Great Powers involved in the First World War (1913)
Despite all the problems, the production of armaments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire reached its peak in 1916 and 1917. The decline in production in the last year of the war was all the more dramatic. At the same time, social disputes intensified.
Economic war output reached its peak in Austria in 1916 and 1917. This was followed by a sudden decline in the output of arms, which accelerated in 1918, accompanied by increasing supply and transport problems. As Kurt W. Rothschild described, the Empire had long ceased to be a “solvent enterprise” before it collapsed at the end of 1918.
The high production figures for the armaments sector – with 7,700 cannons being produced in 1917 as compared with 1,700 in 1915, 15,400 machine guns as compared with 1,200 (1914), and 7.7 million shells as compared with 0.3 million (1914) – should not disguise the progressing ‘dematerialisation’ of the economy, which was becoming increasingly apparent, expressed above all in the lack of raw materials and completely insufficient investments in the non-armaments sector. Overall, the state of the industrial structure of the Empire at the end of the war was considerably worse than in 1914, since in the civilian sectors worn-out production plant had not been replaced. The enormous loss of human life – 1 million out of 8 million soldiers died – must also be included in the phenomenon of ‘dematerialisation’, even if these losses cannot be directly expressed in figures.
Overall, the Empire’s entire war costs probably corresponded to Austria-Hungary’s national income in 1914. It is estimated that they accounted for one quarter to one third of ongoing national income between 1914 and 1918. The economic growth of an entire year was in the true sense of the word ‘blown away’. In economic terms, the Central Powers were far inferior to the allies (see the table). In addition, the naval blockade cut them off increasingly from supplies of raw materials.
The excessive demands made of resources by the battle of materials led in 1915 to shortages in the supplies to the Austro-Hungarian (and the German) army, which in the German Reich was countered by what was known as the Hindenburg Programme. 1916 and 1917 saw the peak of the Central Powers’ armaments efforts. Production increased considerably in Austria Hungary in 1916 too, but by 1917 it was becoming apparent that the programme’s ambitious targets could not be achieved in the longer term. The reasons were both the exhaustion of human resources and the never-ending bottlenecks above all in the food sector and in transport. By 1917, the production in the militarily important fields of iron and steel had begun to fall again. In 1918, symptoms of disorganisation (reinforced by social unrest in industry) were becoming increasingly apparent.
Translation: David Wright
Derek Weber
Clark, Christopher: Die Schlafwandler. Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog, München 2013
Janz, Oliver: Der Große Krieg, Frankfurt am Main 2013
Rauchensteiner, Manfried: Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonarchie, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2013
Schulze, Max-Stephan: Austria-Hungary´s economy in World War I, in: Schulze, Max-Stephan/Harrison, Mark: The Economics of World War I, Cambridge 2005, 77-111
Wegs, Robert J.: Die österr. Kriegswirtschaft 1914 – 1918, Wien 1979
The underlying causes of the First World War
The folly of the erstwhile rulers
Schumpeter’s imperialism theory: Did big business press for war?
A state living beyond its means
Problems of the war economy
Shifts in the production structure
The change in the social balance of power in the course of the war
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The industrialised war
The First World War called for an enormous amount of material. The armies had to be equipped and fed. The battles would not have been possible without the manufacture on an industrial scale of arms and other strategic products. Only through the total mobilisation of all available resources was it possible to keep the huge war machinery going.
Economy and war
Mechanical warfare
In the years and decades before the First World War there were many innovations in arms technology with the result that the entire war machinery and with it the strategic and tactical considerations had to be fundamentally rethought. The artillery, with its powerful arsenal of guns, mortars and howitzers, epitomised the dominance of “fire power”. It was the prototype of industrialised mechanical and mass warfare and responsible for a larger number of casualties than any other type of weapon.
Shortages and poverty
When the population reacted to shortages of bread and flour in January 1915with panic buying, the Kriegs-Getreide-Vekehrsanstalt [Wartime Grain Trade Department] introduced ration cards. Individual quotas were determined and handed out on presentation of bread and flour ration cards. But even the allocated rations became more and more difficult to supply, and the cards became worthless.
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Music of Henry Purcell [Box Set]
Music of Henry Purcell [Box Set] (2008)
performed by A.R. Shuttleworth (cello), Alan Taylor (tympani [timpani]), Alfred Deller (counter tenor), April Cantelo (soprano), Deller Consort, Deller Consort, Denis Vaughan (harpsichord), Dennis Clift (trumpet), Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba), Edward Selwyn (oboe)
composed by Henry Purcell, John Blow
Fantasia upon a ground, for 3 violins (or recorders) & continuo in D major/F major, Z. 731
Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
I love and I must, song, Z. 382
Let the dreadful engines (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/3
Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium from "The Fairy Queen"), aria for soprano, Z. 629/39bc
If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
Great God and just, sacred song for soprano, chorus & continuo, Z. 186
Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
Close thine eyes and sleep secure, sacred song for soprano, bass & continuo, Z. 184
Fairest Isle (from "King Arthur"), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1
The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421
Celebrate this festival (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), ode for 5 soloists, double chorus, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets & continuo, Z. 321: Crown the Altar
I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from "The Indian Queen"), Z630/17h
O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from "Bonduca"), song, Z. 574/17
Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: What Shall I Do to Show All Much I Love Her?
From rosie bow'rs (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/9
The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Secrecie's Song
The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Mystery's Song
If ever I more riches did desire, song for 2 sopranos, tenor, bass, 2 violins & continuo, Z. 544: Here let my life
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the Deities approve
Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from "Prophetess"), aria for soprano, Z. 627/App2
O let me weep ("The Plaint" from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/40
Sonata in 4 parts for two violins, bass viol & continuo No. 9 in F major ("The Golden Sonata"), Z. 810
Song tune for harpsichord in C major (from "The Second Part of Musick's Handmaid"), ZT 694
March for harpsichord in C major, Z. 647
A New Minuet for harpsichord in D minor, ZT 689
Minuet for harpsichord in A minor, Z. 649
A New Scotch Tune, for harpsichord in G major, Z. 655
A New Ground (from "Welcome to All the Pleasures"), for harpsichord in E minor, ZT 682
A New Irish Tune ("Lilliburlero"), for harpsichord in G major, Z. 646
Rigadoon for harpsichord in C major, Z. 653
Sefauchi's Farewell, for harpsichord in D minor, Z. 656
Minuet (from "Ye Tuneful Muses") for harpsichord in D minor, ZT 688
Sonata for violin & continuo (Trio Sonata) in G minor, Z. 780
Suite for harpsichord No. 6 in D major (from "A Choice Collection of Lessons"), Z. 667
Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626
Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Ouverture
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Welcome to All the Pleasures
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: While joys celestial
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Then lift up your voices
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Adagio
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Beauty thou scene of love
Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: In a consort of voices
The Masque in Dioclesian (Act 5 from "Prophetess"), semi-opera, Z. 627/26-39
Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z.
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BLOOD BROTHERS FROM TWO SEPARATE MOTHERS
The Works of Mark Edgemon from All-Creatures.org
Mark Edgemon has been writing for 30 years. He writes and publishes short stories, articles, poetry and scripts, as well as, produces audio comedy productions for over 700 radio stations nationwide.
Contact Mark through his website, Creator and the Catalyst.
The first brother Mark, was born on May 19, 1959 in the state of Tennessee to a respectable family. The second brother Jim, was born September 10, 1959 in the state of California to a different family, who nurtured his many gifts and encouraged his creative endeavors.
Mark was afraid to use his gifts and was not well encouraged by his father, who made a living at a factory and intended his son to follow in his footsteps. Mark always knew he had something great stirring inside of him, but he couldn't for the life of him get past the unknown barrier that caused him to keep his abilities hidden.
Jim developed his many talents and continued to flourish, making a name for himself.
Mark grew up and lived a normal life, with the exception of the pain that was in his bones, which was attributed to the personal vision he saw, but would not allow himself to fulfill.
When the brothers had grown older and were in their forties, Mark, one day, while on the internet, came across a website that was originated by the brother he had never known. Something instantly connected for him as he reviewed the website of his unknown brother, who he had never met. Mark left a message for Jim and in a few days received a response back. They corresponded for over a year, until something amazing happened...Jim began to give Mark the one thing he had needed all of his life...encouragement.
Mark began to write and Jim illustrated his stories. Jim wrote to Mark and told him that he could create worlds and move situations by words alone.
With the faith of his spiritual brother firmly transfused into him, Mark moved into new areas of talents and took his rightful place as a creator in a world that needed inspiration. And the best was yet to come!
Moral: A family bond is forged in faith with acts of kindness and encouragement!
Copyright © 2008 Mark Edgemon
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1928 - In the year that Angela Gabriele was born, Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.
1939 - By the time she was just 11 years old, on the 1st of September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On September 17th, the Soviet Union invaded Poland as well. Poland expected help from France and the United Kingdom, since they had a pact with both. But no help came. By October 6th, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany held full control of the previously Polish lands. Eventually, the invasion of Poland lead to World War II.
1947 - By the time she was 19 years old, on November 25th, the Hollywood "Black List" was created by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Ten Hollywood writers and directors had refused to testify to the Committee regarding "Communists" or "Reds" in the movie industry. The next day, the blacklist was created and they were fired.
1992 - She was 64 years old when in April, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The newly created Bosnian Serb army then began a campaign against Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats - killing, raping, torturing, beating and robbing - and resulting in the deaths of over 100,000.
1995 - In the year of Angela Gabriele's passing, on October 16th, the Million Man March took place on the National Mall in Washington DC. The March was organized to address "the ills of black communities and call for unity and revitalization of African American communities". An estimated 850,000 people attended.
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Angela Gabriele passed away on December 18, 1995 at 67 years old. No cause of death has been entered. She was born on September 12, 1928. We are unaware of information about Angela's immediate family. We know that Angela Gabriele had been residing in Selden, Suffolk County, New York.
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The Thing I Kept: Brooklyn Decker Tells AD Why She's Had Her Campaign Sofa Forever
"It's incredibly versatile and timeless; it could be used as a daybed, or worked into an old library, and it's perfect in our Texas house in the woods"
Katherine McGrath
Courtesy of Brooklyn Decker.
It's no secret that Brooklyn Decker has a thing for interior design—just look at her Instagram page, where she routinely shares photos of the home she shares with former tennis star Andy Roddick and their two children. When she's not acting alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on Netflix's Grace and Frankie or spending time with her family, Decker stays busy scouring Austin's vintage furniture shops, designing custom pieces for her home, and working on renovation projects. She's also the cofounder of Finery, a wardrobe planning platform for which she has recently secured $5 million in funding. In this installment of The Thing I Kept, the actress and design aficionado tells us about one Campaign sofa that has seen a lot of love.
Actress and Finery cofounder Brooklyn Decker at the Met gala.
Image courtesy Brooklyn Decker.
AD PRO: Tell us about the piece. How long have you had it?
Brooklyn Decker: I've had it for about 5 years. It has served many purposes; it was originally a sofa in our office, but once we moved, there was really no place for it, so I put it at the end of our bed. These days, it serves as a sort of catchall. And the more beat-up it gets, the better it looks.
AD PRO: Love that. Where did you find it?
BD: I found it at Hammer and Spear in Los Angeles. It's a beautiful store downtown that has a healthy mix of antiques, custom pieces, and little knickknacks. I was out there filming (a now failed TV show), and on my days off I would scour antique stores trying to find anything cool to send back to Austin. One day I found this sofa. I didn't need one at the time, and had no idea how I would use it, but liked it because I thought it would work with any style interior for years to come.
AD PRO: Sounds like you made the right choice. What do you love most about it?
BD: I love that it's midcentury, but works in an industrial space. It's incredibly versatile and timeless; it could be used as a daybed or worked into an old library, and it's perfect in our Texas house in the woods. It has a very masculine feel, and even though it's a midcentury piece, it's still quite stout and has a nice weight to it. Plus there are drawers, so it works as a nice storage piece.
AD PRO: What do you like to keep in there?
BD: When we used it in our office, I would keep files in all the drawers; they were stuffed full of papers, records, etc. Then when we put it at the end of the bed, I thought there might be a better use for it…so…I stuffed it full of snacks. On any given day if you open up one of those drawers, you're likely to find Sour Patch Kids, Skittles, or whatever your heart desires. Some say it's gross—I say it's functional!
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Haym: Complete Sonatas
Haym: Complete Sonatas, Part 1
This volume is part of the set Haym: Complete Sonatas
Nicola Francesco Haym
Complete Sonatas, Part 1
Dodeci sonate a tre, Op. 1; Sonatas 1–4 Sonate da camera
Edited by Lowell E. Lindgren
9x12, xxvi + 87 pp.
Haym: Complete Sonatas, Part 1 (PARTS)
Set of 3 parts (treble 1, treble 2, b.c.)
Nicola Francesco Haym (Rome 1678–London 1729) was a cellist and disciple of Corelli who emigrated to London in 1701. His patrons included the dukes of Bedford and Chandos. Later, he established himself as an adaptor of opera librettos (for Handel and others) and produced volumes of historical and literary scholarship. Haym composed the op. 1 trio sonatas in Rome in 1698–99 and they were published in Amsterdam in 1703, with a dedication to the duke of Bedford. The four solo sonatas (for transverse flute, oboe, or violin) were likely composed for Bedford’s private concerts and published in 1710. The solo sonatas and the first six trio sonatas of op. 1 are sonate da chiesa, which demonstrate Haym’s mastery of imitative counterpoint and his favor toward the minor keys of D, A, and especially C. The other six trio sonatas are sonate da camera, in which the fast movements are a pair of dance airs, either corrente and gavotta or allemanda and giga.
Dodeci sonate a tre, Op. 1, for Two Violins and a Violoncello, Lute, or Cembalo
Sonata No. 1 in D Minor
Sonata No. 2 in F Major
Sonata No. 3 in A Minor
Sonata No. 4 in C Minor
Sonata No. 5 in G Major
Sonata No. 6 in C Major
Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major
Sonata No. 8 in D Major
Sonata No. 9 in G Minor
Sonata No. 10 in E Minor
Sonata No. 11 in A Major
Sonata No. 12 in G Major
From VI Sonate da camera, for Transverse Flute, Oboe, or Violin Solo and Basso continuo
Peter Holman, Early Music, May 2003
B116: Haym: Complete Sonatas, Part 1
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Schroeter: Six Keyboard Concertos, Op. 3
Series: Classical Era Publisher: A-R Editions
Johann Samuel Schroeter
Six Keyboard Concertos, Op. 3
Edited by Evan Cortens
9x12, xvi + 180 pp.
C092P1
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in F Major, Op. 3, No. 1 (PART)
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Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2 (PART)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in C Major, Op. 3, No. 3 (PART)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 4 (PART)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in G Major, Op. 3, No. 5 (PART)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 6 (PART)
C092R1
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in F Major, Op. 3, No. 1 (RENTAL)
Rental Parts (2015)
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Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2 (RENTAL)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in C Major, Op. 3, No. 3 (RENTAL)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 4 (RENTAL)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in G Major, Op. 3, No. 5 (RENTAL)
Schroeter: Keyboard Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 6 (RENTAL)
Johann Samuel Schroeter (ca. 1752–88) was one of the foremost pianists of his generation. Born in Germany, he toured the continent as a child prodigy, alongside his sister Corona, until settling in London in 1772, where he was mentored by J. C. Bach and then became music master to Queen Charlotte. Charles Burney praised him for his “neat and exquisite performance” and Charlotte Papendiek, a court attendant, said he “was truly an enchanting player.” His six keyboard concertos, op. 3 (London, 1774), were his most popular works, circulating in more than seven editions across Europe. Mozart thought very highly of them, recommending them to his father and sister. This first critical edition of Schroeter’s opus 3 includes twenty-three cadenzas, five by Mozart and eighteen by anonymous authors preserved in three libraries, giving a deeper sense of the importance of the keyboard concerto both at home (with a simple cadenza in an English musical commonplace book) and at court (with a beautiful set of cadenzas prepared for the electoral court at Dresden).
Concerto No. 1 in F Major
I. Allegro
II. Rondo: Tempo di minuetto
Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
II. Rondo
Concerto No. 3 in C Major
II. Grazioso
III. Rondeau
Concerto No. 4 in D Major
Concerto No. 5 in G Major
II. Rondo: Grazioso
Concerto No. 6 in E-flat Major
I. Allegro spiritoso
II. Larghetto
III. Rondo: Presto
Appendix: Cadenzas
C092: Schroeter: Six Keyboard Concertos, Op. 3
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MORE RONAN DETAILS
March 3, 2011 by auspOp
Universal Music has today revealed more details about the forthcoming album from Ronan Keating, including the cover image (above). Entitled ‘When Ronan Met Burt’, the LP contains ten tracks – all cover versions of classic songs from legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach – and is aimed squarely at the lucrative Mothers Day market.
Of recording with Burt, Ronan said, “I grew up listening to his songs and the tracks we’ve chosen to record for the album are simply some of the greatest pop masterpieces ever written, so it was an honour to sing them alongside the man himself.”
The LP was recorded with a full live orchestra and features classics like ‘The Look Of Love’, ‘What The World Needs Now’ and ‘Walk On By’.
It’s due to drop at Australian retail on Friday April 08.
01. The Look Of Love
02. Walk On By
03. I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
04. Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)
05. My Little Red Book
06. What The World Needs Now
07. Something Big
08. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
09. This House Is Empty Now
10. Make It Easy On Yourself
Filed Under: Uncategorised Featuring: Ronan Keating
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10 Bentley Speed 8 to make UK racing debut
Promoted: The harness that is changing motorsport safety
Accidents registering in excess of 70G are now increasingly survivable, thanks to more stringent harness standards
By SCHROTH
Published on Thursday August 31st 2017
Back in 1998, the Prime Minister was a fresh-faced Tony Blair, the Spice Girls were in their pomp and Jacques Villeneuve was the reigning Formula 1 World Champion. It was also the year that the last generation of harness standards, expiring this year, was put into place, with the stated requirement of withstanding a 28G impact.
At four times the force generated during the re-entry of Apollo 16, this is certainly not an insignificant feat, but it pales next to the latest standard of safety harnesses, which came into effect in December last year.
Extensive analysis of accidents across many championships has shown that impacts in excess of 70G can now be survivable if good vehicle crashworthiness and safe cockpit environments are combined with cutting-edge safety equipment, leaving plenty of room for improvement on standard 8853/98.
This research prompted the FIA, in collaboration with the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety (GIMSS) and manufacturers of FIA-approved safety harnesses, to develop standard 8853-2016 to "ensure improved strength during frontal and angled frontal impacts". It was rolled out with immediate effect in Formula 1, the World Endurance Championship and World Rally Championship, and will be compulsory in all international and national series by 2023.
The chief gains from the 8853/98 to 8853-2016 standard have been made in five key areas, the most significant being the dynamic impact speeds. These were increased from 50 km/h (28g) to 67 km/h (around 60g), with the test dummy fixed to the seat in a reclined position at 30° to simulate an angled impact.
Further improvements have been made to the sub-straps, more than doubling the breaking load from 11.3kN to 25kN - equivalent to an increase of almost 1400 kg - while the testing loads and requirements on other components such as the buckle (diagonal pull and oblique load), adjusters and sub-strap attachments have also been re-defined, making for a vastly more durable product that drivers can rely upon.
Additional modifications to the new standard include the allowance of >44mm webbing for all straps (lap and sub) and shoulder belts when used in conjunction with a frontal head-restraint device (FHR). This replaces the current 2-inch/3-inch shoulder belts under the 8853/98 standard. The possibility of homologating a "Z" seventh-point sub-strap has also been added to the new standard, and is intended to aid in controlling occupant positioning in roll-over accidents.
SCHROTH is an industry leader in the safety harness market and has introduced five new safety harness models conforming to the latest standard, with a further 16 models in the pipeline for 2018. With "V-Strap" and five-point harness systems no longer eligible for homologation under 8853-2016, the Profi XLT (initially for WRC), PROFI, Flexi, Enduro and FORMULA models are each available in six-point configurations, and are among the first models that fulfil the more stringent requirements of the 8853-2016 standard.
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Michael Barnathan
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by Michelle Monaghan, Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Chris Columbus, Peter Dinklage, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Various Others
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl / Bicentennial Man / RV: Runaway Vacation / Zathura / Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (OMG! 5 Movies)
by Embeth Davidtz, Courtney Cox, Josh Hutcherson, Taylor Dooley, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Avellan, Chris Columbus, Cheryl Hines, Barry Sonnenfeld, Robin Williams, Jonah Bobo, Various Others, Jon Favreau, Robert Rodriguez, Taylor Lautner, Michael Barnathan, Michael De Luca, Tim Allen, Lucy Fisher, Todd Garner and Peter Hewitt
by Jessica Chastain, Tate Taylor, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Michael Barnathan, Brunson Green, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Chris Columbus and Allison Janney
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by Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Julia Roberts, Chris Columbus, Susan Sarandon and Michael Barnathan
by Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rosario Dawson, Michael Barnathan and Chris Columbus
Night at the Museum Collection (Night at the Museum/Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian/Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb)
by Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Ben Stiller, Michael Barnathan, Ricky Gervais, Chris Columbus, Shawn Levy and Various Others
Night at the Museum: 3-Movie Collection (Night at the Museum/Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian/Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb)
by Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Various Others and Shawn Levy
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Blu-ray/Digital HD UV)
by Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Brandon T. Jackson, Thor Freudenthal, Michael Barnathan, Karen Rosenfelt and Logan Lerman
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief / Eragon
by Wyck Godfrey, Jeremy Irons, Ed Speleers, Brandon T. Jackson, Stefen Fangmeier, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Logan Lerman, Chris Columbus, John Davis and Various Others
Steel Magnolias / Stepmom / Georgia Rule (3 Movie Collection)
by Sally Field, Herbert Ross, Felicity Huffman, Garry Marshall, Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda and Michael Barnathan
Family Fun (5 Movies)
by Angie Harmon, David Glasser, Roddy McDowall, Chris Columbus, Robert Simonds, Dylan Sellers, Harald Zwart, Tom Guiry, Frankie Muniz, David M. Evans, Ralph Dietrich, John Hughes, Harold D. Schuster, Joe Pesci, Andreas Klein, Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Michael Barnathan, James Bell, Steve Martin, Mike Vitar, Bonnie Hunt, Macaulay Culkin, Shawn Levy and Preston Foster
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
by Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Karen Rosenfelt, Logan Lerman, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe
Night at the Museum 2
by Owen Wilson, Christopher Guest, Hank Azaria, Ben Stiller, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Shawn Levy, Shawn Levy and Amy Adams
by Owen Wilson, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, Ben Stiller, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Shawn Levy, Amy Adams and Shawn Levy
by Rami Malek, Jake Cherry, Owen Wilson, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Stiller, Mickey Rooney, Michael Barnathan, Bill Cobbs, Mizuo Peck, Patrick Gallagher, Robin Williams, Pierfrancesco Favino, Steve Coogan, Carla Gugino, Kim Raver, Ricky Gervais, Brad Garrett, Shawn Levy and Shawn Levy
by Steve Coogan, Dick Van Dyke, Shawn Levy, Rami Malek, Shawn Levy, Brad Garrett, Pierfrancesco Favino, Kim Raver, Michael Barnathan, Ben Stiller, Mickey Rooney, Owen Wilson, Jake Cherry, Patrick Gallagher, Carla Gugino, Mizuo Peck, Ricky Gervais, Bill Cobbs and Robin Williams
by Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Brian Levant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Jim Belushi
I Love You, Beth Cooper
by Jack Carpenter, Hayden Panettiere, Michael Barnathan, Lauren London, Paul Rust, Chris Columbus, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe
Deck the Halls / Jingle All the Way (1996)
by Kristin Chenoweth, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, John Whitesell, Brian Levant, Michael Costigan, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Danny DeVito, Arnon Milchan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, James Belushi, John Whitesell and Mark Radcliffe
by Jake Cherry, Owen Wilson, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Stiller, Mickey Rooney, Michael Barnathan, Bill Cobbs, Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Shawn Levy and Shawn Levy
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Yuki Yuna is a Hero Franchise Launches New Spinoff Novel
posted on 2017-07-13 15:30 EDT by Karen Ressler
"Kusanoki Mebuki is a Hero" novels star new team of heroes
Kadokawa 's Dengeki G's Magazine launched a serialized illustrated novel titled Kusanoki Mebuki wa Yūsha de Aru (Kusanoki Mebuki is a Hero) in the August issue on June 30. The novel, a spinoff of the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero franchise , is included in the magazine's "Dengeki G's Novel" pamphlet, and will have new chapters every month.
Aoi Akashiro ( Nogi Wakaba wa Yusha de Aru novels, Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru : Han Yui no Kirameki smartphone game) is writing the new series, and franchise character designer BUNBUN is providing the illustrations. Takahiro is credited with the original project. The story takes place two years after the events of the Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru novel and its anime adaptations, making it concurrent with the first Yuki Yuna Is a Hero anime's story.
The new team of heroes includes (clockwise from top in image below): Mebuki Kusunoki, Shizuku Yamabushi, Yumiko Miroku, Suzume Kagajō, and Aya Kokudo.
The 12-episode Yuki Yuna Is a Hero anime series premiered in October 2014, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Ponycan USA released the anime on home video.
A second television anime season will premiere in October, and Pony Canyon will stream the series with English subtitles. The second season consists of two parts: the first six episodes, Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shō , will adapt Takahiro 's prequel novel Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru , while the rest of the series, Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru: Yūsha no Shō , will be a direct sequel to the first season. Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shō first debuted as three theatrical films in Japan in March, April, and July, and will be recut for the television anime version.
The first anime's story takes place in the era of the gods, year 300. Yūna Yūki lives an ordinary life as a second year middle school student, but she's also a member of the "Hero Club," where club activities involve dealing with a mysterious being called "Vertex."
Akashiro's two-volume Nogi Wakaba wa Yusha de Aru novel spinoff takes place 300 years before the events of Yuki Yuna Is a Hero , and covers the transition between the modern era (A.D.) and the era of the gods. The novels received a manga adaptation beginning last June.
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Catholicism History of England Christianity Religion & Spirituality All Topics
Was Archbishop Romero a martyr?
Is Oscar Romero gay?
Oscar Romero was an archbishop, a martyr and currently is a candidate for sainthood but he was not gay.
How did Archbishop Oscar Romero become a martyr?
He was assassinated in March 1980 while celebrating Mass.
Is Archbishop Oscar Romero a martyr or a political activist or both?
I would say he was both. Romero died for publicly speaking out for the poor in his nation.
When did Oscar Romero become an archbishop?
Oscar Romero was elevated to archbishop on February 23, 1977.
How does Oscar Romero being compared with a Martyr?
Romero died as a martyr while serving God and his people.
When was Archbishop Oscar Romero High School created?
Archbishop Oscar Romero High School was created in 2004.
How are Jesus Christ and Oscar Romero alike?
Roman Catholic Answer Archbishop Romero spent his whole life trying to model Christ's life in his own. He is currently being considered for canonization. He ended his life as a martyr, as did Jesus, and they both gave their entire lives to the kingdom of God.
How old was Oscar Romero when he became archbishop?
Oscar Romero was 59 years old when appointed archbishop on February 23, 1977.
What is Archbishop Oscar Romero High School's motto?
Archbishop Oscar Romero High School's motto is 'We plant the seed that one day will grow'.
Who is Oscar Romero?
Oscar Romero was a Catholic bishop who was declared a martyr by Pope Francis.
What is a murdered archbishop called?
a murdered archbishop. there is no technical name. however, such a bishop would be a martyr
Where did Oscar Romero come from?
Archbishop Romero was from the country of El Salvador in Central America.
What country did Oscar romero live in?
Oscar Romero was from El Salvador. Archbishop Oscar Romero lived in saint Tropez.
What did Oscar Romero do?
He was the Archbishop of San Salvador.
Was Archbishop Romero from Mexico?
No he was from El Salvador
What did Oscar Romero do for a living?
Oscar Romero was a Catholic Archbishop in El Salvador who worked for human rights.
What country was Archbishop Oscar Romero from?
Bishop Romero was born and lived most of his life in El Salvador.
Who killed Archbishop Oscar Romero?
he got killed
What is the feast date of Archbishop Oscar Romero?
Oscar Romero has not yet been beatified so does not have a feast day.
Where did Oscar Romero work?
In a Church as an archbishop in El Salvador.
What was Oscar Romero's religion?
Oscar Romero was a Catholic archbishop.
How long did Oscar Romero live?
Oscar Romero lived from 1917 until 1980. He was a christian and Archbishop of San Salvador.
How was Archbishop Oscar Romero martyred?
Oscar Romero was shot during the consecration at a Mass he was saying on March 24, 1980.
What was Oscar Romero job?
He was the archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.
What does Oscar Romero do today?
Oscar Romero was Archbishop of San Salvador up until his assassination in 1980 while saying mass.
What impact did Oscar Romero have on modern society?
he became a martyr for the modern world
Did Archbishop Oscar Romero have a disease?
Oscar Romero was never in great health. However, I do not know if they attributed this to any one particular cause.
How was Oscar romero involved in religion in his life?
Oscar Romero was an ArchBishop in South America. He opposed the Government's treatment of poor people, & was assassinated for it.
Why Archbishop Romero die?
because he took a stand against the governemnt and the military.
How is Oscar Romero important?
Fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez (15 Aug 1917 - 24 Mar 1980) was declared a martyr by Pope Francis on 03 Feb 2015. Assassinated while offering mass, he spoke out about poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. The magazine, A Different View (2008), included him among its 15 Champions of World Democracy.
What sacrifices did Oscar Romero make?
some one help me with this please. i need to do an essay on archbishop Oscar romero. and this is one of the questions they've asked.
What work did Oscar Romero do?
He was the archbishop in San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America.
When was Oscar Romero elected to be the archbishop of El Salvador?
On February 23, 1977, he was appointed Archbishop of El Salvador by Pope Paul VI. Bishops are not elected.
Archbishop of Canterbury by thomas becket?
Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
When was Oscar Romero appointed bishop?
Well, he was archbishop for three years and died while still in office in 1980, therefore, Oscar Romero was appointed archbishop in 1977, but he was an auxiliary bishop of San Salvador since 1970 and was appointed bishop of Santiago de Maria in 1974.
What personal risks did Oscar Romero take?
Archbishop Romero knew that if he spoke out against the oppression of the poor by the government of El Salvador he would become the target of assassination.
How did Archbishop Oscar Romero help others?
Oscar Romero was archbishop of San Salvador during one of the most violent periods of El Salvadorian political histsory. He spoke out for basic human rights. He also spoke out for the poor and those whose lives had been adversely affected by the San Salvadorian civil war. He spoke out against Marxism and capitalism. Despite repeated warnings by those closest to him, who advised him to leave the country, he was murdered by an unknown… Read More
What made Oscar Romero so great?
He went from being a conservative, non-political Archbishop to becoming a hero and martyr for trying to save the lives of people that were being murdered by the tens of thousands by U.S. funded death squads in El Salvador. He spoke out forcefully for human rights and denounced the powers that allowed people to be tortured, raped and murdered.
When is the feast day of Oscar Romeo?
Oscar Romero has a cause for sainthood opened but has not been declared as blessed so has no feast day. Pope Francis has recently approved a declaration certifying Romero as a martyr.
Why is Oscar Romero described as a martyr?
The Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints have recently approved a declaration of martyrdom for Oscar Romero. He publicly preached against the government's treatment of the poor. This upset the right wing death squads who assassinated him. He is now on his way to beatification and eventual canonization.
What was Oscar Romero famous for?
Oscar Romero was an Archbishop of the Catholic Church who was killed as he was saying Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador. This occurred on March 24, 1980 because he criticized the Revolutionary Government Junta.
What was Oscar Romero's main aim?
When Oscar Romero was elevated to Archbishop, his country of El Salvador was in the midst of a civil war between the wealthy, priviledged upper class and the poor who made up the majority of the population. Archbishop Romero tried to bring peace, reconciliation and justice to his homeland and was murdered by an extreme right-wing death squad as he said Mass.
What did Archbishop Oscar Romeo die for?
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was shot during Mass because he preached nonviolence and the end to government cruelty and torturing of citizens. He preached against the government and therefore was shot for it.
Why is Oscar Romero considered a martyr and how did he die for his faith?
Romero was shot while he celebrated Mass by a right-wing death squad member because he was working to get the government to stop its oppresive way of running the country and persecution of the poor.
Why was Oscar Romero killed?
Archbishop Romero frequently spoke out against the cruelty and oppression of the government of El Salvador. This angered the government at its supporters. A member of the extreme right-wing death squad shot him while he was saying Mass.
Why was Oscar Romero murdered?
The government of El Salvador was extremely oppressive to the poor of the country who made up 99 percent of the population. Archbishop Romero publicly spoke out against the government and became a target of extreme right-wing death squads.
How can you claim damages against public official?
Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr bythe Catholic Church.
Why was Oscar Romero's life at risk?
What is Archbishop Oscar Romero best known for?
Oscar Romero is best known as a priest who fought against injustice in both the church and the government of El Salvador. He struggled on behalf of the poor who had no voice or power. He was martyred while presiding over Holy Communion on March 24, 1980
How did Oscar Romero die?
Archbishop Oscar Romero held the see of San Salvador in El Salvador. He was assassinated on March 24th, 1980 while saying Mass when an assassin's bullet penetrated his heart. A right-wing militant group headed by former Major Roberto D'Aubuisson was implicated in the murder, having chosen the Archbishop as a target due to his denouncing of the civil war raging in the country. The Archbishop was also known for his popular work among the poor… Read More
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Monitor Top Refrigerators
History of the General Electric Monitor Top Refrigerator
The most recognized of vintage refrigerators
The GE Monitor top refrigerator is perhaps the most recognized of vintage refrigerators. Built on the principal of a French industrialist concept for a hermetically sealed refrigeration system, the first models available to the general public, for residential use, were introduced in 1927. General Electric committed $18 million dollars to the manufacturing of these units and another million dollars to advertise them to the public.
The first affordable refrigerators
With a price tag of only $300, these first models were considered “the first affordable refrigeration units” for the average family. Many utility companies offered the GE Monitor Top refrigerator to their customers for as little as $10 a month, simply added to their monthly utility bill.
Although a few minor features were added along the way, such as enclosed condenser coils and slide out shelves, the basic design of the Monitor Top remained the same from 1927 until 1936. All of these models were cooled with one of two refrigerants used during this time, sulfur dioxide or methyl formate.
The single and multi-door Monitor Tops
The most popular model of the Monitor Top was the standard single door unit, offering the customer 5 to 7 cubic feet of food storage. In addition, GE did produce a larger two door and an even bigger three door unit.
The “Globe Top” Monitor Top
In the early 1930’s, an altered version of the typical Monitor Top was introduced, known as a “Globe Top”. These units featured a round, “basketball like” top that housed the completely enclosed mechanical assembly. The idea was to offer the house keeper an easier to clean refrigerator. The unit was available in three sizes, the X-3, X-4, and X-5.
In late 1936, the new 1937 Monitor Top was unveiled. Known as the “Flat Top”, this new model featured a new smaller compressor with a condenser fan motor all mounted in the bottom of the cabinet. After World War II, General Electric “discontinued” the use of sulfur dioxide and methal formate and began using R-12, freon, a refrigerant that was widely accepted and used in most every refrigerator manufactured until 1993.
So how much is my Monitor Top worth?
Single door Monitor Tops, in good, working condition, are worth an average of $250 to $400 in “as is” condition. The rarer two door and three door units are worth what you are willing to pay for them. Completely restored single door models sell for $3400 to $3900, and (you guessed it!) restored two and three door models sell for what ever the buyer is willing to pay!
Hermetically sealed and permanently lubricated, the GE Monitor Top refrigerator remains the most recognized and most dependable refrigerator ever built. Hundreds, if not thousands, of these units remain in service today, offering their owners “quiet”, “dependable” and “service free” refrigeration.
Many of the Monitor Top cabinets were fitted with a foot pedal that would let you open the door with a touch of the foot. This came in really handy when you had just come from the hen house with your arms loaded with fresh eggs! Just a touch of your foot and the door popped open (usually busting your knee in the process). For this reason, we refer to this nifty contraption as a “knee buster”.
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Applebee's(R) Announces America's 'Real Hero'
LENEXA, KS -- Applebee's recently asked Americans to do the near impossible: select one National Real Hero from a select group of 10 amazing hero finalists. After receiving more than 34,500 votes in the Realburgers™ for Real Heroes contest, Applebee's today announced that Emily Schaller from Trenton, Mich., is the Grand Prize Winner. In addition to some much-deserved recognition, Emily also will receive $5,000 and a year's worth of Applebee's Realburgers.(1)
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at 18 months, Emily's parents were told she would not live to see high school. Now in her 20s, Emily has made it her life's mission to bring awareness to this disease. She founded the Rock CF Foundation (www.letsrockcf.org) in 2007. Since then, Emily has raised $150,000 for cystic fibrosis research. Through the Rock CF Foundation, she teaches patients and parents about the effects of cystic fibrosis and advancements in CF treatment.
"Emily is the absolute definition of a real hero," wrote Julie McCafferty, who nominated Emily. "She is an inspiration, a lifesaver. My life and my daughter's life (a four-year-old CF patient) are forever blessed because Emily has been introduced into them. She is amazing and will continue to touch lives every single day."
Emily also organizes the annual "Just Let Me Breathe" rock benefit concert. This event has raised more than $60,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In addition, Emily organizes the annual City to City Ride, a 300-mile run and 700-mile bike ride from Detroit to Chicago every year that raises money for cystic fibrosis research. This year's ride starts next week.
"The more people who know about me, the more people who will learn about cystic fibrosis," said Emily. "Thank you Applebee's for allowing me to spread my message while eating really yummy food."
Upon hearing the news that she was selected as the Grand Prize Winner, Emily said she immediately went for a victory run.
Applebee's Real Hero contest is the latest in the Company's efforts to support its neighbors. Applebee's and its franchisees are committed to making an impact by giving back to neighborhoods across the country. The Company estimates that in 2008, through donations, donations in kind, and facilitation of fundraisers, Applebee's Services, Inc., and its franchisees raised in excess of $10 million for non-profit organizations across the country.
To learn more about Emily, visit www.applebees.com/realheroes. The other nine finalists were:
David Adamiec, Westbrook, Conn. David founded "Kidpacks of America, Inc." to fill "Kidpacks" with a five-day supply of clothing, toiletries, blankets and stuffed animals for children transitioning into state-funded care and foster care.
Stephanie Brehm, Julian, Calif. Stephanie founded "Leg Up Ranch" to offer therapeutic horseback riding to families dealing with a life-threatening illness. Stephanie's motivation is her son, who was diagnosed with leukemia and then a brain tumor just before she herself was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Robin Ferst, Atlanta, Ga. After losing her hearing, Robin turned to books as her lifeline. She founded Ferst Foundation for Childhood literacy to supply books to children under the age of five in Georgia.
Joseph Gill, Severna Park, Md. Gill works tirelessly to build a homeless shelter-resource center to serve the 1,500 homeless men and women in the Annapolis area.
Kaye Hansen, Boring, Ore. Kaye is the coordinator of the Oregon chapter of Home of the Brave Quilt Project. She personally delivers home-made quilts to mothers and fathers of fallen soldiers.
Clayton Lillard, Austin, Texas. Clayton started "Clayton's Backyard Crew" when he was just 10 years old by repairing discarded bikes to give to children whose parents are incarcerated.
Anthony Varnell, Madison, Tenn. Anthony started a mentoring program which pairs a young boy with a male role model. Through his organization, Boyz to Men, Anthony reaches out to youth in the community and gives them an opportunity to have a positive role model.
Solomon Volen, Philadelphia, Pa. Solomon, 82-years-old, spends his retirement volunteering at the VA Hospital, the Red Cross Disaster Service and the USO, among other organizations. He helps rebuild computers for disadvantaged children and works at a food bank. Recently, he has started making goodie bags to send overseas.
Amber Mitchell, Saint Louis, Mo. When Amber's father needed a bone marrow transplant, Amber organized a bone marrow drive at her university. She has helped recruit new donors and raised awareness of the shortage of African-American donors.
About Applebee's Services, Inc.
Applebee's Services Inc., and its affiliates, franchise and operate restaurants under Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar and is a DineEquity, Inc. (NYSE: DIN) brand. As of June 30, 2009, there were 1,993 Applebee's restaurants operating system-wide in 49 states, 16 international countries and one U.S. territory, of which 403 were company-owned. Additional information on Applebee's can be found at the company's website (www.applebees.com).
(1) Awarded in the form of one $500 Applebee's gift card
Contact: Nancy Mays Applebee's 818-859-3879
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134 total incidents tagged with Blocking Free Movement
640(d)(4) PC, 369(I) PC Arrest
Powell St. - 1902-0894
Nathaniel Ascherman (37 San Francisco) was arrested for 640(d)(4) PC, 369(I) PC, 602.1 PC and a San Francisco H&S warrant for $15k. He was booked into the San Francisco Jail for said charges.
General Blocking Free Movement
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7:34 AM
640(d)(4)PC, 369(i)(b)PC, 602.1(b)PC Arrest
Alazzar Diressie (23, San Francisco) was arrested for the above listed charges. He was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
Friday, Dec. 14, 6:11 AM
Frank Bunnell (10/28/56, San Francisco) was arrested at the Powell St. Station for the above listed charges. He was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 6:06 AM
640(d)(4)PC, 11364 H&S Arrest
Alizzar Dirissie (8/8/95, San Francisco) was arrested on the above listed charges at the Powell St. Station. He was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
640(d)(4)PC, 602.1(b)PC Arrest
Todd Meshekey (5/11/73, San Francisco) was arrested at the Powell St. Station for the above listed charges. He was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
Friday, Dec. 07, 2:09 PM
640(d)(4) PC/ 369(i)(b) PB / 602.1 PC
A male subject, Anthony PEEKS (64 years old, San Francisco) was taken into custody and booked into San Francisco County jail.
Trespassing Blocking Free Movement
Thursday, Dec. 06, 6:34 AM
A male subject, Diressie ALAZAR (33 years old, San Francisco), was taken into custody and booked into San Francisco County jail.
Alazar Diressie (23, San Francisco) was arrested and booked into the SF Jail on the above listed charges.
General Trespassing Blocking Free Movement
Thursday, Dec. 06, 12:08 AM
166(a)(4)PC, 369(i)(b), 11364 H&S Arrest
Civic Center/UN Plaza - 1812-0188
Iaiszu Morikawa (7-19-68, San Francisco) was arrested for the above listed charges and booked into San Francisco County Jail.
Wednesday, Dec. 05, 1:44 PM
640(d)(4)PC, 369(i)PC, 602.1(b)PC
Diressie Alazar (08/08/95, San Francisco) was arrested for the above listed offenses at the Powell St. Station. He was booked into San Francisco County Jail.
640(d)(4) P.C., Warrant Arrest
Montgomery St. - 1811-0914
Ashley Embrey (25 years old, San Francisco) was arrested for three warrants with a total bail of $20,000 at the Montgomery Station. Embrey was warned for 640(d)(4) P.C. and booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Warrant Arrest General Blocking Free Movement
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 6:35 AM
369i(b) P.C., 602.1(b) P.C., 640(d)(4) P.C., Warrant Arrest
Frank Bunnell (62 years old, Los Angeles) was arrested for 369i(b) P.C., 602.1(b) P.C., 640(d)(4) P.C. and a $10,000 warrant at the Powell Street Station. Bunnell was booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Warrant Arrest General Trespassing Blocking Free Movement
640(d)(4) P.C., 369i(b) P.C., 602.1(b) P.C.
Alazar Diressie (23 years old, Union City) was arrested for 640(d)(4) P.C., 369i(b) P.C. and 602.1(b) P.C. at the Powell Street Station. Diressie was booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 9:06 AM
369i(b), 602.1(b), 640(d)(4) P.C. Arrest
Alazar Diressie (23 years old, San Francisco) was arrested for the listed charges and booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Monday, Nov. 19, 10:27 AM
640(d)(4)P.C./369i(b)P.C./602.1(b)P.C./647(f)P.C./485P.C.
Todd Meshekey (45 years, San Francisco) was arrested for the above violations and booked at San Francisco jail.
Public Intoxication Trespassing Blocking Free Movement
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1:50 PM
640(d)(4)P.C./369i(b)P.C./602.1(b)P.C (Arrest)
Alazar Diressie (23 years, Ethiopia) was arrested for 640(d)(4)P.C., 369i(b)P.C., and 602.1(b)P.C and booked at the San Francisco jail.
Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:07 AM
640(d)(4)PC/Warrant Arrest
Aaron Jacaway (39, San Francisco) was arrested for the listed charge and an outside agency warrant and booked at San Francisco CJ #1.
640(d)(4), 369i(b), 602.1(b) P.C. Arrest
Alazar Diressie (23 years old, San Francisco) was arrested for willfully blocking free movement, interfering with transit operations and trespassing. He was booked at San Francisco County Jail.
Monday, Nov. 12, 8:50 AM
640(d)(4) PC, 369i(b) PC, 602.1(b) PC
A male subject, Frank BUNNELL (62 years old, transient), was taken into custody for 640(d)(4) PC, 369i(b) PC, and 602.1(b) PC. BUNNELL was booked into San Francisco County jail.
Blocking Free Movement
Thursday, Nov. 01, 5:58 AM
A male subject, Anthony PEEKS (64 years old, transient), was taken into custody for 640(d)(4) PC, 369i(b) PC, and 602.1(b) PC. PEEKS was booked into San Francisco County jail.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 6:40 AM
640(d)(4) PC/11364 H&S
A male subject, William TAYLOR (42 years old, San Francisco), was taken into custody for 640(d)(4) PC and 11364 H&S. TAYLOR was booked in San Francisco County jail.
Blocking Free Movement Possession of Paraphernalia
William J. Taylor (42, San Francisco) was arrested for willfully blocking free movement, interfering with transit operations and trespassing on transit property. He was booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Friday, Oct. 26, 5:51 AM
Frank T. Bunnell (62, San Francisco) was arrested for willfully blocking free movement, interfering with transit operations and trespassing on transit property. He was booked at the San Francisco County Jail.
Thursday, Oct. 25, 6:06 AM
640(d)(4)PC, 369i(b)PC, 602.1b PC
A male subject, Christopher WAGNER (35 years old, Transient) was arrested and booked into San Francisco County jail.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 1:33 PM
Jeremy Brown (43 years old, San Francisco) was arrested and booked into the SF County Jail for the listed offenses.
Saturday, Oct. 20, 1:33 PM
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Ex-priest Laurence Soper guilty of sexually abusing boys
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42257548
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Image caption Laurence Soper was found guilty of 19 counts of sexual assault against boys at St Benedict's School in Ealing, where he taught
An ex-Roman Catholic priest has been found guilty of abusing boys at a London school during the 1970s and 80s.
Laurence Soper, 74, was extradited to face 19 charges of indecent and serious sexual assault against 10 former pupils at the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, where he taught.
Soper fled to Kosovo with £182,000 from the Vatican bank in a bid to avoid prosecution for molesting boys.
An Old Bailey jury took 14 hours to find him guilty of all charges.
Prosecutor Gillian Etherton QC told how the victims were subjected to sadistic beatings by Soper for "fake reasons" and on many occasions "with what can only have been a sexual motive".
They included kicking a football "in the wrong direction", "failing to use double margins", and "using the (wrong) staircase", leading to a caning and a sexual assault, she said.
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Image caption Laurence Soper was a senior priest at St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London
Ms Etherton said at least one of Soper's alleged victims suffered serious mental health problems, while another was too afraid to speak out because the abusers "were like saints to me".
The court heard Soper quit as an abbot in 2000 and moved to Rome. He then skipped bail and spent six years living in Kosovo, with a European Arrest Warrant issued for his extradition.
Soper denied using the cane as a ruse to abuse boys who were given the choice of six lashes with trousers on, or three with them off.
He told jurors he went on the run out of "stupidity and cowardice", fearing that his life's work would be wrecked.
St Benedict's: A history of abuse
Image copyright PA
Soper is the latest in a string of men to face allegations relating to their work at St Benedict's.
In 2009, Father David Pearce, 75, nicknamed the "devil in a dog collar", was jailed after he admitted 11 charges of indecent assault dating back to 1972
Between 2003 and 2009, "master of discipline" John Maestri, 78, of Chatham in Kent, admitted five indecent assaults against children at St Benedict's in the 1980s and was jailed
In 2010, John Skelton was convicted of indecent assaults against two complainants said to have occurred in 1983
Father Anthony Gee faced accusations of abuse, but no further action was taken although civil action was brought against him
In 2010, Abbot Shipperlee announced an independent review of safeguarding arrangements, policies and procedures.
The following year, Lord Carlile produced a damning report calling for tougher rules to protect all faith pupils and stripped monks of control at the school.
In a statement issued by Lord Carlile QC, the school apologised for the "serious wrongs of the past".
He said: "The school regrets that Soper did not have the courage to plead guilty. The result has been that innocent victims, whom he abused when they were boys in the school, were compelled to give evidence.
"The tough lessons of the past have been learned, and the errors and crimes of the past are in the daily consciousness and conscience of the school management."
Soper was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 19 December.
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Storm Chris threatens to end heatwave with heavy rain and gales possible
Group Reporter
Published: 12:14 Wednesday 11 July 2018
Storm Chris is set to hit the UK with gales, cooler temperatures and damper weather, threatening to end Britain’s heatwave.
Tropical Storm Chris is currently tracking the East Coast of the US and is set to cross the Atlantic to the UK.
Tropical Storm Chris is currently tracking the East Coast of the US and is set to cross the Atlantic to the UK
Nicola Maxey, Senior Press Officer for the Met Office, explains that this sort of weather activity is typical for this time of year and that although the Storm is expected to turn into a hurricane by later today, by the time it reaches the UK it will be an ex-hurricane.
This is due to the Storm crossing the large body of water that is the Atlantic, where its energy is sucked out and it loses its strength.
However, this doesn’t mean that the weather conditions in the UK won’t be impacted by Storm Chris, as wet and windy weather conditions are now expected.
As Ms Maxey explains, this Storm has to go through “lots of stages” before reaching the UK and the exact track it will take is “still in doubt”.
Although Storm Chris is expected to make its way towards the UK, there is a possibility it could miss it out completely and head towards central Europe instead.
However, at the moment it looks set to make its way to the UK and have an impact on the North of England and Scotland, bringing wet and windy conditions.
Although there has been a dip in temperatures today, with cooler temperatures of around 20C, this is set to build again towards the end of the week, bringing higher temperatures of around 25 to 27C just in time for the weekend.
Emergency night-time help for rough sleepers in Bedfordshire
Kempston angler fined over illegal fishing in River Great Ouse
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No need to cry as popular musical visits Milton Keynes
Steve Mills
Published: 06:00 Monday 15 May 2017
A story which starts with humble beginnings but ends with her being adored by a cheering nation can be seen at Milton Keynes Theatre next week.
The ever popular musical Evita can be seen from Tuesday May 23 to Saturday May 27.
It tells the story of Eva Perón, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Perón,
Evita follows Eva’s journey which gave her extraordinary wealth, power and iconic status.
Her journey sees her start impoverished and later is christened as the ‘spiritual leader of the nation’ by the Argentine people.
With more than 20 major awards to its credit, and an Oscar winning film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita is iconic.
The musical features some of the best loved songs in musical theatre, including Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, You Must Love Me, and Another Suitcase in Another Hall, this spectacular production promises once again to be the theatrical event of the year.
Taking on the iconic role of Eva Perón is Emma Hatton. She recently finished wowing audiences in the lead role of Elphaba in the West End’s production of Wicked. Prior to this she performed the principle roles of Scaramouche and Meatloaf in We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre, and Donna in the West End production of Dreamboats and Petticoats.
Joining her will be Kevin Stephen-Jones, set to play Argentine President Juan Perón.
He has performed extensively across the UK and Europe in over 20 different operas.
His musical theatre credits include Cats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Love Beyond.
Tickets for the show are available from £15.
For further information or to book tickets in advance call the box office on 0844 871 7652 or visit www.atgtickets.co.uk/miltonkeynes.
From Avenue Q to Jimmy Carr, Jason Manford, Michael Parkinson and Madagascar The Musical: All the shows coming to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre this summer
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New York Halloween Parade canceled due to Hurricane Sandy
New York Mayor’s Office and the NYPD shut down the Halloween Greenwich Village parade which normally weaves its route through the West Side neighborhood.
But it remains in complete darkness this evening, more than 24 hours after power was cut off to most of lower Manhattan during fierce winds and widespread flooding.
However, New Jersey Mayor Chris Christie today made good on his promise to make sure the Garden State was able to have Halloween and moved the holiday to November 5.
Chris Christie promised on Tuesday: “If conditions are not safe on Wednesday for trick-or-treating, I will sign an executive order rescheduling.”
“I’ve taken this action to minimize additional risks to lives and the public safety as we begin the process of rebuilding and recovering from Hurricane Sandy,” said Governor Chris Christie.
“In too many communities in our state, the damage and losses from this storm are still being sorted out, and dangerous conditions abound even as our emergency management and response officials continue their work.
“As Governor, it is my responsibility to use all available resources of the state government to protect against the emergency created by Hurricane Sandy – postponing Halloween celebrations by five days is a common sense and necessary step to accomplish that.”
New York Mayor’s Office and the NYPD shut down the Halloween Greenwich Village parade
Meanwhile, New York City all out cancelled their annual event.
Organizers of the parade said: “We hope that everyone who would have come to the Parade is safe and that those who can volunteer to help out at one of the Emergency Outreach Centers near you. We will surely miss all of you!”
The parade, which would have begun at 6:30 p.m. on 6th Avenue, usually attracts up to 60,000 Halloween lovers in the most outrageous costumes.
More than 50 bands playing an eclectic range of music take part along with hundreds of dancers, artists and giant puppets.
The theme of this year’s parade was “Tick Tock”, tying in with the final year of the Mayan calendar which predicts the apocalypse.
Halloween looked likely to be an uncharacteristically somber affair as up and down the East Coast people come to terms with Sandy’s aftermath.
Across New York and Westchester, around 811,000 people were without power – with that number reaching a staggering eight million along the Eastern Seaboard.
The outages in Manhattan have been attributed to a huge explosion at an electrical substation, which blew up when it was apparently overwhelmed by floodwater.
Traveling around the city remains difficult as it would still be four to five days before limited operation could begin on the New York subway, according to Bloomberg, with some reports estimating it might take as long as 21 days for service to become fully functioning.
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Zondervan Exegetical Commentary (ZECOT, ZECNT) | Reviews, Theology
Zondervan’s Exegetical Commentary series is a broadly evangelical, reader-friendly, biblical resource that helps pastors and teachers interpret and apply the biblical text. Since the series began in the early 2000’s, many books of the bible have yet to be covered. The New Testament commentaries are original. Some of the first Old Testament volumes were re-branded editions from Zondervan’s now-defunct Hearing the Message of Scripture commentary series. One of the unique features of ZECOT and ZECNT volumes is the Graphic Layout feature, which visually displays exegesis. [1]
Zondervan Exegetical Commentaries divide every biblical passage into seven components:
New Testament volumes have a white background
The Literary Context: In this section, the author discusses the passage in light of what comes before and after it in the text.
Main Idea: Here, the passage is synthesized into two to three sentences, which preachers should find especially helpful.
The Translation and Graphic Layout: This feature visually organizes words and phrases in the English-language biblical text.
Structure: Next, the author describes the “flow of thought” that leads to interpretation.
Exegetical Outline: Here, the overall structure of the passage is displayed in outline form.
Explanation of the Text: In this section, the author discusses the meaning of the text, which includes discussion on the original languages, though the explanations are not overly technical.
Theology in Application: This is another component preachers will find helpful because it offers suggestions on how to apply the passage today. [2]
Please see how the ZECNT and ZECOT series compares to dozens of other commentary series on the Bible Commentaries Comparison Chart.
Eckhard Schnabel on his Acts volume in the ZECNT series
Zondervan Exegetical Commentaries (ZECOT, ZECNT): Reviews
Many of the best biblical scholars today are contributing to this well-reviewed series. Clinton E. Arnold, Dean of Talbot School of Theology, is the General Editor of New Testament volumes, as well as author of the Ephesians commentary. Daniel I. Block, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College, is the General Editor of Old Testament volumes, as well as the author of the Ruth commentary. Associate editors include George Guthrie, who is well-known for the Hebrews commentary in the NIVAC series, and Thomas Schreiner, who is well-known for his 1-2 Peter commentary in the NAC series.
Among the New Testament volumes that have been highly praised are Mark Strauss’ Mark commentary, Clint E. Arnold’s Ephesians commentary, and Thomas Schreiner’s Galatians commentary. [3]
Interviews with Authors in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary Series
I am grateful to have conducted question-and-answer interviews with multiple authors in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary series. Links to these interviews are below.
Old Testament volumes have a gray background
Jonah: Q & A with author Joel Youngblood
Mark: Q & A with author Mark Strauss
John: Q & A with author Edward W. Klink
Romans: Q & A with author Frank Thielman
Ephesians: Q & A with author Clint E. Arnold
1-2 Thessalonians: Q & A with author Gary Shogren
James: Q & A with author Mariam Kovalishyn (co-author with Craig Blomberg)
Volumes in the ZECOT and ZECNT Series
Links go to Amazon.
New Testament Volumes (so far)
Matthew – Grant R. Osborne | Published: 2010
In this volume of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series, Grant Osborne offers pastors, students, and teachers a focused resource for reading the Gospel of Matthew. Through the use of graphic representations of translations, succinct summaries of main ideas, exegetical outlines, and other features, Osborne presents the Gospel of Matthew with precision and accuracy.
Mark – Mark L. Strauss | Published: 2014
In this commentary on Mark written for pastors and Bible teachers, Mark L. Straus exegetes each passage of Scripture succinctly in its grammatical and historical context. He argues that Mark is indeed energetic and forceful, yet at the same time presents a well-structured and powerful theological drama.
Luke – David E. Garland | Published: 2013
The commentary presents a translation through a diagram that helps visualize the flow of thought, provides a summary of the central message of the passages, reveals how they function within the gospel, and offers an exegetical outline with a verse-by-verse commentary that takes notice of Jewish and Greco-Roman background evidence that sheds light on the text.
John – Mickey Klink | Published: 2018
Klink received a B.A. from Trinity International University, M.Div. and Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. After serving for nearly a decade as a professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in southern California, he was led to transition from teaching and the professorate to preaching and the pastorate.
Acts – Eckhard J. Schnabel | Published: 2013
This volume won the Christian Book Award for best Bible Reference of 2013 for its valuable insights and thorough commentary.
Romans – Frank Theilman | Published: 2018
Frank Thielman has taught at Beeson Divinity School faculty since in 1989, teaching courses in Greek exegesis. He is a noted New Testament scholar, concentrating primarily in the Pauline epistles.
1 Corinthians – Paul Gardner | Published: 2015
Dr. Paul D. Gardner was senior pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian in Atlanta, Georgia.
Galatians – Thomas R. Schreiner | Published: 2010
In his commentary on Galatians, Thomas R. Schreiner presents a brief and lucid commentary for pastors, students, and laypeople, while also attending to questions that have arisen in light of the New Perspective on Paul. Schreiner, endorsing a Reformation reading of the text, reminds readers of Paul’s chief concerns in writing the letter: justification by faith, the full divinity of Christ, freedom from the power of sin through the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and dependence on the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life.
Ephesians – Clinton E. Arnold | Published: 2010
In this volume, Clinton Arnold highlights four themes that emerge in Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians: The superior power of God over spiritual powers, The unity of Jews and Gentiles through Jesus Christ, The encouragement for Gentile believers to live holy lives before God, The need for believers to be rooted in the knowledge of their new identity in Christ Jesus, Woven into Paul’s theology is a refrain of praise and adoration to the glory of God that insists that such praise should also be our response.
Colossians, Philemon – David W. Pao | Published: 2012
In Colossians and Philemon, David W. Pao continues providing the powerful exegetical commentary this series has offered on other books of the Bible. Written primarily for the pastor and Bible teacher, the text succinctly exegetes each passage of Scripture in its grammatical and historical context. Each passage of Colossians and Philemon is interpreted in the light of its biblical setting, with a view of grammatical detail, literary context, flow of biblical argument, and historical setting.
1 and 2 Thessalonians – Gary Shogren | Published: 2012
1 and 2 Thessalonians treats the literary context and structure of the passage in its original Greek, as well as an original translation based on the literary structure. Critical scholarship informs each step but doesn’t dominate the commentary, allowing readers to concentrate on Paul’s message to the Thessalonians as it unfolds. While primarily designed for those with a basic knowledge of biblical Greek, all who strive to understand and teach the New Testament will find this book beneficial.
James – Craig L. Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell | Published: 2008
Authors Craig Blomberg and Mariam Kamell use the historical, theological, and literary elements of James to guide their interpretation of this often-overlooked early Christian text. Their concise discussion of how the book delivers consistent, challenging instruction will help pastors and church leaders teach the message of James to today’s readers.
1, 2, and 3 John – Karen H. Jobes | Published: 2014
In her commentary on John’s letters, Karen H. Jobes writes to bridge the distance between academic biblical studies and pastors, students, and laypeople who are looking for an in-depth treatment of the issues raised by these New Testament books. She approaches the three letters of John as part of the corpus that includes John’s Gospel, while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that Gospel that implicates the letters. Jobes treats three major themes of the letters under the larger rubric of who has the authority to interpret the true significance of Jesus—an issue that is pressing in our religiously pluralistic society today with its many voices claiming truth about God.
Old Testament Volumes (so far)
Ruth – Daniel I. Block | Published: 2015
Daniel I. Block is Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College.
Obadiah – Daniel I. Block | Published: 2015
Jonah – Kevin J. Youngblood | Published: 2015
Kevin Youngblood is associate Professor of Bible & Religion at Harding University.
https://www.academia.edu/28817650/Review_of_first_three_Zondervan_Exegetical_Commentary_on_the_Old_Testament
http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/review/colossians-and-philemon-zondervan-exegetical-commentary-on-the-new-testament
http://www.reformation21.org/shelf-life/review-galatians-zondervan-exegetical-commentary-on-the-nt.php
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Passive Houses redefine meaning of green
By Ella Karapetyan
BUILDING BLOCKS: Experts say that energy conscious living should be taught starting in kindergarten.
TALLINN - The earth is considered one of the most beautiful planets in the Universe. Unfortunately, our planet is suffering due to many problems, which should be solved before it is too late. Of course, Estonia is not an exception in all this. The major problems that Estonia is facing today are air and water pollution and recycling problems.
A few short years ago the notion of a zero energy home was beyond the imagination of most people. Experts, however, say that energy efficient homes cost much less to heat, cool and light, compared to a typical home.
The Passive House concept represents today’s highest energy standard with the promise of slashing the heating energy consumption of buildings by an amazing 90 percent. Today, many in the building sector have applied this concept to design, and build towards a carbon-neutral future. Over the last 10 years more than 15,000 buildings in Europe - from single and multifamily residences, to schools, factories and office buildings - have been designed and built or remodeled to the passive house standard.
Green building practices aim to reduce the environmental impact of new buildings. Buildings account for a large amount of land use, energy and water consumption, and air and atmosphere alteration. Considering the statistics, reducing the amount of natural resources buildings consume and the amount of pollution given off is seen as crucial for future sustainability.
The building industry alone accounts for 30-40 percent of global energy use. Over 80 percent of the environmentally harmful emissions from buildings are due to energy consumption during the times when the buildings are in use.
Green building brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the impact of new buildings on the environment and human health. It often emphasizes taking advantage of renewable resources, e.g., using sunlight through passive solar, active solar, and photovoltaic techniques and using plants and trees through green roofs, rain gardens, and for reduction of rainwater run-off. Many other techniques, such as using packed gravel or permeable concrete instead of conventional concrete or asphalt to enhance replenishment of ground water, are used as well.
On the aesthetic side of green architecture or sustainable design is the philosophy of designing a building that is in harmony with the natural features and resources surrounding the site. There are several key steps in designing sustainable buildings: specify ‘green’ building materials from local sources, reduce loads, optimize systems, and generate on-site renewable energy.
According to Estonian Statistics, public awareness of energy saving issues is low in Estonia; therefore, environmentally friendly behavior is not so evident. Role models are lacking, high level politicians and other opinion leaders do not set a good personal example in their thinking and acting against energy wasting and over-consumption patterns. People seem to not care what will happen after 10 years, their radius of thinking is very short term. Prejudices among the political and economical elite that energy saving is not cost-efficient are obstacles for energy saving. In addition, the awareness of local self governments regarding energy saving issues is low as well.
Some Estonian experts believe that education on energy saving issues should start from the kindergarten level. According to the new rules agreed in Brussels in 2009, by the end of 2020, EU member states must ensure that all newly-constructed buildings have a “very high energy performance level.” Member states must therefore encourage owners to renovate, by installing smart meters and replacing existing heating, hot-water plumbing and air-conditioning with high-efficiency alternatives such as heat pumps or renewable based systems.
Tartu University Institute of Technology is participating in an Estonian-Latvian joint project which aims to promote energy-efficient construction. The main goal of the two countries’ joint project, entitled “Active Through Passive,” is to increase the population’s awareness of energy efficiency and to promote the use of low-energy technologies in the construction of buildings.
The parties will create an Estonian-Latvian cooperation network for energy-efficient construction and will undertake several activities to promote energy-efficient solutions. The activities include the creation of a dedicated information portal, the organization of seminars and training courses, and the publication of training materials and instruction manuals that are intended for companies, the general public and local governments. The parties will also define the requirements for low-energy houses and prepare basic solutions for the improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings.
The program was launched at the beginning of June at the University of Tartu Institute of Technology with a presentation by Swedish architect Hans Eek. He shared his experience, gathered over 30 years and rewarded with the Goteburg Award for Sustainable Development, in sustainable urban planning and in the research and development of ultra energy-efficient houses. His experience proves that despite the difficult Nordic climate, it is possible and practical to build high-quality houses that meet the Passive House standard.
In addition to Eek, Latvian architect Ervins Krauklis made a presentation at the project launch. He discussed the construction of the single-family home that he designed, which utilizes Passive House technologies. Afterwards, the specialists visited the Kaseke day-care center in Valga, which is the first kindergarten in Estonia built to Passive House standards.
The project partners include Valga’s city government, the University of Tartu, the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Passive House Latvia, MTU Zalas Majas, and the Strenci county government. The project started on Feb. 1, 2010 and will end on July 31, 2011.
According to Urmas Luure, an architect who specializes in building passive houses, in order to build energy efficient houses, the client and the architect, as well as the later user of the building (if by a chance it is not the client) must be aware of what the energy efficient house brings about.
“Insulation and efficient technology devices (such as reheat ventilation, airtight caps) are not enough to decrease utility costs. In the case of designing, everything starts from determining the site plan, the typology of the building, and the room program,” he says.
Luure considers that over time energy efficient houses will become more and more popular. He noted that it is difficult to make good architecture in an energy efficient manner at a reasonable cost. He says that clients and the builders in Estonia are mainly interested in as low costs as possible. He believes that the relationship between the cost and quality is the biggest issue in architecture these days.
“The builders and construction companies need training on passive house and energy efficient building technologies. The air tightness of construction seems to be the biggest bottleneck at the moment. The building materials, such as air tight tapes, mastics, and other equipment are not easily available on the Estonian market,” Eric Tamm, an architect in Estonia told The Baltic Times. “The economy of saving energy in housing should be one of the branches of the economy but that is often ignored in Estonia today,” he says.
“Eighty percent of people in the European Union now live in cities. A significant way forward
in controlling energy consumption is to manage and control cities through spatial planning. By doing so, energy consumption can be reduced with the aim to achieve zero carbon emissions in cities. This will entail cities needing to be more aware of how the physical structure impacts on energy use and how the location of functions have a material effect spatially within a city region,” Tamm explains.
“The design of green housing includes using solar thermal panels on the roof and storing the heat in tanks, which allows the support of heating in other ways than supplying air preheating. The non-central ventilation concept should allow maximum flexibility in considering different users demands. Passive design is not the attachment or supplement of architectural design, but an integrated design process with the architectural design. Although it is mostly applied to new buildings, it has also been used for refurbishments. The vast majority of Passive structures have been built in German-speaking countries and Scandinavia. Estonia still has much to learn from Scandinavian countries in building passive houses,” added Tamm.
“A house with zero energy requirements means that the house will not consume any more energy than the building is able to produce... A passive house will have heating costs ten times lower, on average, than a regular house,” says Rene Valner, an architect with ultraKUB, the first company in Estonia which developed an innovative energy-efficient modular home solution, called Elumaja, which transforms the current understanding of construction and the general way of life for all people. This is the first zero energy modular home concept in Estonia, and also in Europe so far.
“The new modular home allows the use of autonomous renewable energy solutions and by means of this enables its occupants to live (if necessary) independently of a central infrastructure, that is, with zero CO2 emissions. In this case, the house will meet the zero energy criteria. A wider use of such buildings will increase the country’s energy independence,” Valner explains.
Zero dependence on existing utilities, the mobility of the module and the small area of land occupied by the house mean that the house can be built without having to apply for a building permit; only the written approval of the local governmental authority is required.
Valner says that one of the starting points for the development of a modular home, in accordance with the passive house standard, is to make sure that the concept could be developed further to create an energy-plus-house. The owner of the latter type of house can sell the excess energy produced by the building to the supply network. In Estonia, this is unfortunately not yet possible for residential customers.
According to Valner, Passive House buildings are designed carefully and built with modern insulation and building materials and techniques and controlled with a program called PHPP (passive house planning package). PHPP is a verification procedure for the building specific values. “For example, the average annual energy consumption per square meter in old houses in Estonia is 200 kWh/m2. This value is around 130 kWh/m2 in new buildings, and this is only 15 kWh/m2 in a passive house.”
Designing a passive house, using the passive house elements, such as triple-pane windows with krypton as gas with insulated frames, and double-sized insulation materials makes a passive house more expensive than a regular house, but the cumulative cost of any annual expenses makes it more feasible in the long-term.”
Bears, Black Balzam and Beijing: two years as an Englishman in Riga
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Neringa Rekasiute: My goal is never to create a scandal, but to contribute to the betterment of society
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Visa Suspends ePassporte Cards
Says Suspension is to Address 'Program Deficiencies' Linda McGlasson • September 8, 2010
At the beginning of the holiday weekend in the United States, Visa suspended the services of a third-party agent, ePassporte.com.
"At the request of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank (SKNA)," Visa said in a Sept. 7 statement, "Visa blocked network access for prepaid cards issued by SKNA and operated by ePassporte.com to address certain program deficiencies."
Visa says prepaid cardholders are still able to access their funds through SKNA or ePassporte.com. "Visa is committed to maintaining the integrity of its global payment network and routinely conducts due diligence to ensure Visa prepaid programs adhere to the company's stringent program requirements and controls."
ePassporte (www.epassporte.com) offers two consumer services: a physical debit card that can be used at ATMs and retail shops, as well as an internet payment facility. Businesses use ePassporte on their online retail sites, where they accept a Visa-branded card supplied by ePassporte.
Visa hasn't said for how long the suspension will be, but Debra Geister, senior director of AML and compliance services at LexisNexis' risk solutions, says there is buzz on the blogs "that this action is based on the recently released credit card guidelines."
Gwenn Bezard, co-founder and research director at Aite Group, says he's not so sure that this move by Visa is necessarily related to the new pre-paid card guidelines. "I don't see them related," Bezard says. "Visa does take action against its members at different times, imposing fines or even shutting various members down," he says.
Institutions should be on top of this issue and carefully review their programs, says Geister. Any prepaid programs that a financial institution is underwriting (especially in light of the new CARD ACT regulation) should be viewed as an extension of their AML program. Institutions should make sure they understand the programs, systems and detection capabilities that are in place in any third-party programs such as ePassporte. "Making sure that the financial institution has review of programs, identified risks and performed audits of those programs is a good idea in these situations," she says.
If a financial institution or merchants were to receive a transaction through ePassporte.com or the ePassporte Visa, given Visa's statement, they would be blocked through Visa, Geister says. The purchaser should be directed back to SKNA or ePassporte to get their funds back, "But it sounds like these cards will not be accepted on the Visa network."
New Vishing Spree Strikes U.S.
Outsourcing Identity Protection, Fraud Detection
Linda McGlasson
Linda McGlasson is a seasoned writer and editor with 20 years of experience in writing for corporations, business publications and newspapers. She has worked in the Financial Services industry for more than 12 years. Most recently Linda headed information security awareness and training and the Computer Incident Response Team for Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), a subsidiary of the NYSE Group (NYX). As part of her role she developed infosec policy, developed new awareness testing and led the company's incident response team. In the last two years she's been involved with the Financial Services Information Sharing Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), editing its quarterly member newsletter and identifying speakers for member meetings.
'Sea Turtle' DNS Hijackers Expand Reach
https://www.bankinfosecurity.eu/visa-suspends-epassporte-cards-a-2900
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Bioriginal Wins the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership Award for Exporter of the Year
Saskatoon, Canada – September 25, 2014
Bioriginal won the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership (STEP) Exporter of the Year Award at the STEP Trade Conference held in Saskatoon on September 24.
Bioriginal was founded over 21 years ago in Saskatchewan, Canada, and has since become a global leader in omega solutions, supplying the Food and Nutraceutical industries by exporting both locally grown and globally sourced ingredients such as flaxseeds, coconut oil and krill oil. They have been recognized for their growth and expansion in international business, winning the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership (STEP) Award for Exporter of the Year at the STEP Trade Conference held in Saskatoon on Wednesday September 25, 2014. “It is a real honour to have our hard work recognized by such a reputable organization as STEP. Our company has been built on exports, and it is great to know that our efforts are valued by Saskatchewan’s business leaders“, said Joe Vidal, CEO of Bioriginal.
The 2014 STEP Exporter of the Year Award was presented to Bioriginal in recognition of these significant contributions to Saskatchewan’s export industry. “Bioriginal has successfully developed and executed a unique export business model, which combines scientific, business and industry expertise to successfully create market-focused omega products,” said Chad Fleck, President & CEO of STEP. “STEP is proud to profile their achievements knowing they are a strong testament to the success of our members through their innovation and commitment toward quality science-based products.”
“The market for omegas continues to see significant global growth, and Bioriginal is well-postioned to meet that demand”, said Mr. Vidal. “We have seen remarkable growth in over two decades that we have been in business, and we look forward to providing omega solutions to established and emerging global markets for many years to come.”
To view the STEP Exporter of the Year video click here.
ABOUT BIORIGINAL
Bioriginal is a global leader in delivering complete omega solutions to the Food and Nutraceutical industries. With over 20 years of global expertise in plant and marine-based omegas, Bioriginal has carved out a niche by scientifically combining ingredients from all over the world, directly from the source, to create unique and efficacious solutions. Bioriginal has developed proprietary methods and systems to provide customized turnkey solutions for our customers that help them compete and win in a highly competitive space. Bioriginal is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada, with facilities in Europe, Asia and North America, and is a subsidiary of Omega Protein. For more information, please visit http://www.bioriginal.nl.
Kelly Shone
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp
Email: marketing@bioriginal.nl
Download press release in pdf format: Press Release – Bioriginal Wins the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership Award for Exporter of the Year.
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‘Black Men in White Coats’ Are Inspiring Black Boys to Become Doctors Too!
Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit
Dallas, TX — Dr. Dale Okorodudu, an African-American doctor and the founder of Black Men in White Coats, aims to make an impact on the world by helping develop future leaders in medicine. He recently organized a youth summit with a goal to inspire Black boys to pursue the career of becoming a doctor as well.
“Some alarming data came out that the number of Black men applying to the field of medicine was decreasing. There were actually less in 2011 than there was in 1978,” Dr. Okorodudu shared via the organization’s YouTube channel. “Our mission is to inspire the next generation of physician leaders and to diversify the field of medicine with a special emphasis on Black males.”
In hopes to do that, Dr. Okorodudu organized the first ever Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit at UT Southwestern last Sunday. It was attended by hundreds of students from third-grade level to middle and high school. They got to connect with educators, clinicians, and community leaders as well as discovered resources that would help them as they take on the path of becoming doctors.
African-American youth who attended the summit got to better understand the science behind the career. They experienced CPR training, demonstrations on how to make a splint, anatomy exploration, among others.
Parents, who were required to attend with elementary students, also benefited from the tips on how to help their children on that career path.
“I think it’s good to see the representation, to see someone that looks like them who has gone through the career pathway, so that way, they know that it’s very feasible. That it’s very possible for them,” Brittany Drake, one of the parents who attended the summit with her sons, told Fox 4 News.
Most importantly, the summit encouraged Black youth that they can be anything they put their mind into. It directly showed them what they can achieve in the future, like becoming a doctor.
“Medicine is a long road but it’s a road that many people who perhaps look like them have gone through and been successful. Medicine is a rewarding and exciting and interesting field. I hardly saw any Black males when I was coming up as a resident,” Dr. Emeka Etufugh shared. “I think it’s something to see somebody that looks like you, to inspire you, to help you know that it’s possible to come through this process and be a physician.”
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Trump’s DHS Nominee: Europe Should Not Block Third-World Migration
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
John Binder
6 Nov 2017 Washington, DC
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security led a business-dominated committee at the World Economic Forum which insisted that Europe had no choice but to accept a huge wave of unskilled migrants from poor, conflict-wracked countries.
“The key policy issue confronting Europe is not whether to accept forced migrants but rather how to turn the associated challenges into opportunities,” said the 2016 report by Kirstjen Nielsen’s committee, titled “Global Agenda Council on Risk & Resilience.”
The business leaders, political advocates, and bureaucrats in Nielsen’s group recommended that security risks and economic turmoil be pushed aside to focus primarily on the benefits of cheap labor.
“Reframing the discourse surrounding refugees from one of risk to one that recognizes the substantial social and economic contribution they can make to their host societies is increasingly important in light of the current largescale influx of migrants into Europe,” the report urged.
Nielsen’s background and her role on the committee give no indication that she supports Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economic-nationalist and civic agenda.
“Why would she be put in charge of Homeland Security,” NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks asked Breitbart News.
“A lot of Kirstjen Nielsen’s background, including her position in this report, indicates clearly she doesn’t support Trump’s immigration agenda,” Jenks said.
The members of Nielsen’s committee is a long list of globalist executives, all of whom gain from the continued flow of cheap, foreign workers and welfare-aided, consumer migrants into the U.S. and Europe. They include:
Paul Nicholas, Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation
Victor Meyer, Global Head, Corporate Security and Business Continuity, Deutsche Bank
Nick Wildgoose, Global Corporate Leader, Supply Chain Product, Zurich Insurance Group
Alexander Wolfson, Managing Director, Global Country Risk Management, Citigroup
Michael Berkowitz, President, 100 Resilient Cities, The Rockefeller Foundation
This week Senator Hatch had the opportunity to meet Kirstjen Nielsen, @POTUS’ nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security. #utpol pic.twitter.com/cPStxm5Vqv
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) November 4, 2017
Met with nominee for secretary of @DHSgov, Kirstjen Nielsen, to discuss transportation, cyber, and border security challenges. pic.twitter.com/ovArhBivqk
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) November 1, 2017
The report recommended that Western governments resign themselves to mass immigration, and resolve to spend a huge amount of taxpayer funds to mitigate the resulting conflict, to help migrants compete against citizens for jobs and training slots, to help migrants buy products from companies, and to shift social status from citizens to the migrants:
Change the narrative on refugees’ impact in host countries: Active steps should be taken to reframe the discourse on refugees from one of risk to one that also recognizes the substantial social and economic contribution they can make to their host societies. The importance of increasing resilience by conceptualizing support for refugees, particularly support for integration, as an investment for tomorrow, rather than as a cost for today (or, for that matter, a form of charity), cannot be overemphasized, as citizens, confronted by conflict and persecution, will continue to flee their homes, and the unprecedented rate at which they are doing so poses critical challenges and risks to even the most socially and economically stable host countries.
Invest early in facilitating social and economic integration: Host countries should reform social policies and make financial investments to make it easier for refugees and asylum-seekers to seek employment and access training and education. Positive resilience outcomes for refugees are inevitably linked to conducive institutional frameworks and investment in the resources required to support the integration of refugees and address and minimize the initial barriers they face. Strategies need to focus on ensuring that sufficient financial, social and policy/political support are available to facilitate refugees’ safe and dignified arrival and integration, enabling them to harness their skills and potential and become contributing members of the countries in which they seek asylum.
Foster public–private partnerships to support refugees’ integration into society: Public-private partnerships are critical to facilitate refugees’ entry into the labour market and help mitigate risks related to job shortages, unemployment and social tensions. This includes developing initiatives to cut the time refugees and asylum-seekers must wait before becoming employed; increasing access to vocational training, internships and educational grants; and providing tailored support to ensure that children and adolescents receive sufficient educational and vocational training to facilitate their integration and ultimate entry into work.
The report by Nielsen’s group pushed the supposed economic benefits that foreign refugees have brought to Europe and the U.S., without mentioning the social, criminal, and economic costs imposed by mass immigration and civic diversity onto lower-status European and American communities.
“numerous brawls and disputes"… “three women were sexually harassed” https://t.co/RofZjBdkyw
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 2, 2017
In Berlin, Germany, for instance, nearly half of crimes are committed by foreign migrants, with Breitbart London reporting:
The proportion of crimes carried out by immigrants rose to 45 per cent last year, a five per cent increase from 2015, when they comprised 40 per cent of crimes committed in the German capital.
According to Berliner Morgenpost, which reported on the data before a longer version of the city’s crime statistics is published, the figure includes tourists, and “traveling gangs” who specialise in burglaries and pickpocketing.
Foreigners were particularly overrepresented in the figures for certain crimes, according to the statistics, which showed non-German suspects in 91 per cent of pickpocketing offences, 85 per cent of crimes related to heroin trafficking, and 80 per cent of car thefts.
Shocking figures https://t.co/BALGG3UQWj
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 25, 2017
Economically, the mass migration into Western Europe has strained the pockets of Europeans. For example, in Germany, more than 500,000 migrants now receive some form of taxpayer-funded welfare, while in neighboring Austria, the migrant unemployment rate is nearly 25 percent.
In Sweden, economic elites have even suggested that the country lower wages and job requirements, just so that foreign migrants can get jobs, despite the negative impact the move would have on Swedish workers, Breitbart London reported.
Number of Violent Jihadists in Germany up 64 Per Cent to over 1,800https://t.co/wsE5FmB975
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 6, 2017
The report claimed economic benefits from importing unskilled, unproductive, welfare-dependent people, even though government normally spends a huge amount of taxpayer dollars trying to teach young people skills so they can be productive workers who do not need welfare.
But companies do gain extra consumers and extra revenues whenever new people—including unskilled migrants—are moved into a local community.
“Economic analysis from Cleveland in the United States indicates that in 2012 the economic impact of resettled refugees was approximately $48 million, about 10 times greater than what refugee services agencies spent on refugee services ($4.8 million),” the report claimed.
Foreign refugee resettlement to the U.S. continues to be costly for American taxpayers. Refugees are estimated to cost taxpayers $4.1 billion in 2017, most of which is spent on businesses serving the new migrants. Even if Trump were to shut down all refugee flow to the U.S., the refugees already living in the country would spend billions of taxpayer dollars at their local retailers, rental units, and gas stations.
Breitbart News reported:
Even if the Trump administration were to entirely shut down the flow of refugees into the United States in FY 2018 and beyond, the refugees who have already arrived in the country will cost at least another $3.5 billion in 2018, and about $2 billion to $3 billion annually thereafter until FY 2022 and beyond.
For Germany, which has accepted the largest number of migrants, Nielsen’s group claimed mass migration to the European Union (EU) powerhouse was absolutely necessary for economic growth, an argument most commonly made by multinational corporations and the cheap, foreign labor lobby.
“For example, new analysis pertaining to Germany illustrates that, without immigration, labour scarcity and an ageing population will more than halve the country’s economic growth over the next 10 years, potentially jeopardizing social security systems,” the report stated.
“Estimates indicate that Germany will have received over 800,000 asylum seekers in 2015, although numbers are considered uncertain,” the report stated. “If this continues, based on current trends (and assuming related factors do not change), it could potentially halt the decline in economic growth, raise employment levels and stabilize social security systems.”
Not exactly in control of the situation… https://t.co/Dy7I9q3j7i
Nielsen’s group report, though, did not mention that Germany’s open door immigration policy for foreign refugees could potentially cost the country’s taxpayers €30 billion a year, with the cost of teachers, schools, language courses and housing all being greatly impacted due to the migration crisis.
In 2017, the World Economic Forum also listed the attributes that Europeans need to prosper in the highly competitive economy amid the growing population of unskilled migrants. In comparison to the 2015 list, the 2020 list of attributes dropped “quality control” but included “emotional intelligence” and “cognitive flexibility.”
Top 10 skills 2020 vs 2015#skills2020 #skills #worldeconomicforum pic.twitter.com/QoLpcsF5IX
— AA Kurumsal Gelişim (@aagelisim) September 6, 2017
As Breitbart News reported, Nielsen’s nomination to head DHS has been praised by the cheap foreign labor lobby, open borders advocates, and the Washington, D.C. national security establishment which allied itself with the failed “Never Trump” movement during the 2016 presidential election.
Also, Breitbart News reported on Nielsen’s involvement with the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when more than 30,000 illegal aliens and foreign workers were able to come to the U.S. to take American blue-collar jobs that those devastated by the natural disaster had hoped to get.
Following Hurricane Katrina, 1.5 million Americans were displaced by the storm, and easing of labor laws by the Bush administration left many looking for work outside of the Gulf Coast since illegal aliens and foreign workers quickly dominated the paid clean-up effort.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties
University of Nebraska Press, 2016
Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game
Flatiron Books, 2016
The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
Filip Bondy
Scribner, 2015
Michael R. Stevens
Baseball Review 2016, Part 1
Three books fans shouldn't miss.
This review has been a study in devolution—what was once a Spring Training Report concocted in early March, and what had become something of an Opening Day report for the end of March and beginning of April, now appears as an Opening Month Report. In fact, it was opening day this past weekend … for Northeastern Little League of Grand Rapids, Michigan. And the second game of my son's double-header was played in a steady, chilly rain, with a breeze turning into what the British call a "freshening wind," as I stood in a roofless dugout thick with mud and shivering 13- and 14-year-olds, trying to keep the scorebook dry under my feckless jacket, shouting hoarsely, "Quick hands, kid" as parents wrapped in a variety of blankets, parkas, and rain tarps bore grim witness from beneath the concession stand overhang. We slogged our way to a sweep.
And that's been the story during the first month of the season in many of the northern Major League Baseball cities: cold, snow, rain, wind, but the ball games going on, sometimes stoically, as the players regain their strokes and the pitchers seek the grip of the slider and splitter. We entered the double-digit days of April here in Michigan with heavy snowfall. In fact, it snowed every day for the first two weeks of the month—including blizzard conditions a few weeks back that froze the door of my minivan shut. Yet, earlier that same afternoon, I'd sat in the parking lot listening to Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers drive an opposite field home run off a Yankees reliever, through an icy wind. There were snow-outs in Cleveland for the nth season in a row. AL Central fans scoffed upon the hearing that the Washington Nationals called a game due to cold with the temperature in the 40s. The 40s—that's short-sleeve weather! And the warmth has returned a bit in the past few weeks of the season, both meteorologically and psychologically.
Speaking of the Tigers, my adopted team after two decades in Michigan (though the Yankees of 1977-1978 remain the talismanic presence of my Upstate New York boyhood—Thurman Munson, why did you leave us so soon?), two new books have surfaced that survey the landscape of the Old English 'D', offering two very different perspectives on the glory days of the late 1960s. The first volume, Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2016) is by noted baseball anthropologist George Gmelch, who teaches at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in New York, and who has produced a surprisingly intimate look at his years in the Tigers' minor league system in the mid-1960s, alongside such figures as Jim Leyland and Gene Lamont, and amidst the nation's, and his own, rising social consciousness. Had all gone ideally, baseball-wise, he might have arrived at the big-league club just in time for the 1968 World Series run, but alas, his career stalled, to some extent due to his activism, and he moved toward academia, one of the 95 percent or so of minor-leaguers who never make the big show. Gmelch edited the fine volume Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime (Nebraska, 2006), which offered a global span, but this present book is very personal.
As Gmelch was doing fieldwork with his test group of the Birmingham Barons, which ended up as Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball, someone suggested he write about his own minor-league experience. And when he finally chose to do so, he rediscovered not just his athletic glory days but also the tenuous context of mid- and late-1960s America, a place of transition and of polarization. Gmelch's youth was a story of Golden Age baseball boyhood, with a suburban California setting wealthy enough and enterprising enough for a backyard batting cage, and an idiosyncratic, idyllic field in his hometown of San Mateo, with "a stand of redwoods in right field, forcing the outfielders to chase down extra base hits in the trees." While in junior college, Gmelch would have a titanic double-header, "as I drove in eleven runs with seven hits, including two triples and three home runs. The last home run cleared the redwood trees in right-center and four lanes of El Camino Real before hitting a building on the far side. It was a monster shot." The departure of the local Tigers' scout after the first inning was the only downside, but that same scout arrived a few days later to sign him (the bonus of $2,500 was on the low side, but Gmelch mentions that it "would cover the cost of two years at Stanford University, where I had just been accepted"—nowadays, that amount would cover about two days!). And so the minor-league odyssey began.
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Amazon Announces $545 Million Acquisition Of Diapers.com
Jay Yarow
Nov. 8, 2010, 9:11 AM
It's official: Amazon just announced the acquisition of Quidsi, the parent of Diapers.com and Soap.com. Amazon will pay $500 million in cash, and assume $45 million in debt and other obligations.
Here's the release:
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Quidsi, Inc., which operates Diapers.com, an online baby care specialty site, and Soap.com, an online site for everyday essentials.
"I'm not sure which is more unpleasant—changing diapers, paying too much for them, or running out of them," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "This acquisition brings together two companies who are committed to providing great prices and fast delivery to parents, making one of the chores of being a parent a little easier and less expensive."
"Amazon shares our commitment to the customer," said Marc Lore, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Quidsi. "We are excited to be part of a company that will help us to serve an even larger audience, and we will continue delivering unexpectedly great service that makes life a little easier - that is our mission."
"Amazon is a pioneer," said Vinit Bharara, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Quidsi. "Amazon is built on a culture of innovation and long-term vision. Quidsi is driven by these same core values, and we look forward to joining forces."
Following the acquisition, Quidsi will continue to operate independently under its current leadership team.
In addition to Diapers.com and Soap.com, Quidsi recently launched BeautyBar.com, a prestige beauty boutique.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by Quidsi's stockholders, Amazon will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Quidsi for approximately $500 million in cash, as adjusted for the assumption of options and warrants, and also assume approximately $45 million in debt and similar obligations. Subject to various closing conditions, the acquisition is expected to close in December 2010.
More: Amazon Diapers.com Mergers/Buyouts Big Tech
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Google Pays Tribute To Prince With Touching Doodle & It's Totally Perfect
Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
It has been a difficult day for music lovers everywhere. On Thursday, Prince's publicist confirmed that the singer had died in his home in Minnesota, after being hospitalized for the flu only one week prior. The loss of the "When Doves Cry" singer has hit fans of the artist hard, including some famous ones, like Lorde, Shonda Rhimes, and Olivia Wilde, who all paid their respects to the music icon via Twitter. Now, it's more than just individuals paying tribute to the artist — Google has taken a big step to honor Prince. The search engine has changed its famous logo to honor the "Purple Rain" singer, and it's just one more reminder of how much this musical icon will be missed.
Instead of creating a design that incorporated the singer's image, Google decided to have their logo remind fans of one of his most iconic songs. The theme for the Google logo — often referred to as the "Google doodle" — is, quite literally, "purple rain," and is clearly inspired by Prince's art. "Purple Rain" is the title of one of Prince's most well-known tracks and albums, and is also the title of the rock musical film that is inspired by said album. The Google logo interpreted this by having literal purple rain fall over the "Google" lettering, which, as of Thursday, is also purple.
Google isn't the only company paying tribute to the late music icon. Snapchat has added a Prince-inspired filter into their collection, which also embodies the purple rain theme. It's a simple, but effective way to show respect for an artist whom so many fans are mourning. Though Twitter and Instagram have not yet released their own individual tributes to the singer, fans have taken to posting many self-made tribute photos and videos that honor the artist.
Google's Prince-inspired doodle is just one way to show that the world is mourning the loss of this great talent, and in the weeks that follow his death, it can only be assumed that more tributes to Prince will pop off on and offline.
Image: Kaitlin Reilly/Google
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Joan Didion's Favorite Books Of All-Time Are Handwritten On A Piece of Paper, And This Is The Best Find Basically Ever
By Caitlin White
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Throw away every other best-of list, because Joan Didion has made her own handwritten list of her favorite books of all time. Didion's favorite books list comes courtesy of her nephew Griffin Dunne and his directing partner Susanne Rostock, who are behind the Kickstarter-funded Didion documentary, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live . And of course this list is handwritten; Didion herself told us how crucial it was to use the written word in her essay "On Keeping a Notebook" in Slouching Toward Bethlehem.
So what are Didion's favorite novels of all time? It must be said that they are primarily written by men, but it would be difficult to fault the 80-year-old writer who grew up in the 1940s and 1950s began her own career in the male-dominated 1960s.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Novels of Henry James: Washington Square, Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
And here the list is in her own handwriting:
First of all, Didion clearly has taken sides in the whole Best Brontë sister debate, choosing Emily (and I have to say, I'm totally on your side, Joan). Second of all, No. 12 is kind of a cheat, but we'll let her get away with it because she's Joan Didion. And third, she has already shown her love of Conrad's Victory, a psychological and (I'll say it) depressing island story, when she filled out the Proust Questionnaire. The questionnaire asks the respondent's favorite character of fiction, and Didion wrote:
Axel Heyst in Joseph Conrad’s Victory has always attracted me as a character. Standing out on that dock in, I think (I may be wrong, because I have no memory), Sumatra. His great venture, the Tropical Belt Coal Company, gone to ruin behind him. And then he does something so impossibly brave that he can only be doing it because he has passed entirely beyond concern for himself.
So can we see the We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live documentary yet? Its Kickstarter raked in more than triple of its $80,000 goal, and the money will be used to conduct research and interviews (from people like Patti Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, and Anna Wintour) to complete the film. It's still in the early stages, so for now we're going to have to hold over on these incredible tidbits the directors release as they come across them.
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Here Is Mike Pence’s Questionable 2000 Proposal On HIV/AIDS Funding
"Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."
By Andrew Kaczynski
Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on July 14, 2016, at 5:34 p.m. ET
Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images
During his first successful run for Congress in 2000, now-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence wrote on his website in a section on LGBT issues that money from a program to help those with HIV/AIDS should go to organizations "which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."
Pence is reportedly a finalist to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
Pence also wrote that he opposed same-sex marriage and extending minority protections to LGBT individuals. BuzzFeed News first tweeted about the section last year.
Here's how the section read:
• Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage.
• Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a "discreet and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.
• Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program according to its federal page "works with cities, states and local community-based organizations to provide HIV care and treatment services to more than 512,000 each year, reaching approximately 52% of all those diagnosed with HIV in the United States."
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Andrew Kaczynski at andrew.kaczynski@buzzfeed.com.
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Photography Germany Culture
Ostalgie: a glimpse inside the places where East Germany survives
Berlin-based photographer Elena Khovanskaya goes looking for traces of GDR
Image Elena Khovanskaya
Text Liza Premiyak
The Berlin Wall came down exactly 28 years today. Yet even now, it’s not unusual to hear the question: “Which part of Berlin are you from?” Originally from St Petersburg, documentary photographer Elena Khovanskaya has been living in eastern Berlin for the last 10 years, and has met many people who miss the quality of life in the GDR (in German, DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik), when there were job security, free kindergartens, free public services, high-quality goods and low-cost transport. “In their eyes, they not only lost their former country but their faith in the future,” says Khovanskaya, whose latest photo series explores the phenomena of “ostalgie” — nostalgia for old East (“ost”) Germany. The project has taken her beyond official places such as crossing points, prisons, factories and administrative buildings, and inside more intimate spaces like cafés, hotels and homes which remain unchanged by time. Moreover, she discovered there are more than 900 GDR brands still in existence today, and specialised shops even sell GDR produce like Spreewald pickles, Bautzner mustard and the cult GDR soft drink, Club Cola. Compared to her native country, there are a lot more museums in East Germany that deal directly with this recent history, the photographer says: “In eastern Germany, the history of the GDR is documented in plenty of public as well as private museums. There is also the so-called Stasi Record Agency that was founded in 1990 and working to this day. I have found only few, and mostly rather small, Russian museums dedicated to its communist past and life back then. Though of course there are still plenty of communist monuments and architecture in Russia, and you’re bound to meet people who tell you life was better in those days.”
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A Comparative History
2 Volume Hardback Set
Author: Steven T. Katz, Boston University
Date Published: May 2019
format: Multiple copy pack
This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.
The first in depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery
A fundamental re-examination of Jewish slave labor during World War II
Fully examines the unique treatment of women and children in the contexts of both new world slavery and the Holocaust
1. Understanding black slavery in the New World
2. The middle passage
3. Considering slave demography in the New World
4. Reproduction and miscegenation
5. Breeding
6. The conditions of bondage
7. The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities
8. Manumission
9. American slave law
10. Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children
11. German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women
12. Devaluing Jewish labor
13. Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust
14. Murdering Jewish children.
Steven T. Katz, Boston University
Steven T. Katz received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and now holds the Slater Chair in Holocaust Studies at Boston University. He is on the academic committee of the United States Holocaust Museum and served for seven years as Academic Advisor to the 31 countries belonging to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Katz writes on the Holocaust, Jewish history, philosophy, and comparative mysticism and edits the award-winning journal Modern Judaism. His books include the prize-winning Holocaust in Historical Context (1994).
The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Jews and Leftist Politics
Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender
Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945
History of the United Netherlands
From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce – 1609
A History of Modern Culture
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust
French Railwaymen and the Second World War
Contemporary European History
Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from…
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (English edition)
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (French edition)
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West
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American Journal of International Law
AJIL Unbound
The African Growth and Opportun...
Simo, Regis 2018. The AGOA as stepping stone for USA–Africa free trade agreements. Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, Vol. 17, Issue. 3, p. 115.
2017 , pp. 377-383
The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the African Continental Free Trade Area
Africa and the Future of International Trade Regimes
William Davis (a1)
* Macroeconomic Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.92
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2017
This essay assesses and evaluates the extent to which the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) increased imports from AGOA eligible countries to the United States from 2001 to 2015. The essay then examines how African countries can make the most of the preferences granted under AGOA, arguing that AGOA national utilization strategies have proven successful. In the final part, the essay explores options for future U.S.-Africa trade relations after the AGOA expires in 2025, proposing approaches that would best support African development. In this regard, this essay argues that, since Congress is unlikely to renew AGOA in its current form and since AGOA will likely be replaced with an arrangement requiring some degree of reciprocity, it will be very important for (1) the African Union's Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) to be implemented before any new U.S.-Africa trading arrangement comes into force and (2) for negotiations for any future U.S.-Africa trading arrangement not to mimic the negotiations conducted for the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union.
COPYRIGHT: © 2017 by The American Society of International Law and William Davis
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
1 See Figure 2 infra for recent trends in fuel prices.
2 See United States International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade Data Web.
3 Based on ECA calculations based on United States International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade Data Web. Cited from Simon Mevel, Session 3a: AGOA and the CFTA (Nov. 28–30, 2016).
4 Cited in Simon Mevel, Session 6: Africa's Trade Structure and Composition (Past Trends and Current) (Feb. 13 – Mar. 3, 2017).
5 For this calculation, in order to avoid data attrition and fluctuations due to the change in eligible countries, the entire list of countries that were eligible for AGOA at any point is used.
6 For this calculation, in order to avoid data attrition and fluctuations due to the change in eligible countries, the entire list of countries that were eligible for AGOA at any point is used. See UNCTADStat Database, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and AGOA.info.
7 Cited in Mevel, supra note 1.
8 Based on information from International Trade Centre Market Access Map and UN Comtrade Database.
9 Agoa.info.
10 These are Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Nigeria. See Mevel, supra note 1.
11 These figures are based on the 2017 AGOA eligible list of African countries.
12 See data for all import commodities (customs value by customs value for AGOA (excluding GSP) for AGOA2017) at United States International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade Data Web.
13 Id.
14 One problem with this approach is that it might violate World Trade Organization rules forbidding subsidies. When a country decides not to collect taxes otherwise due on exports, this violates WTO antisubsidy rules. See Appellate Body Report, United States—Tax Treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations”, WT/DS108/AB/R (Adopted Jan. 29, 2002). One way to address this impediment might be to demonstrate that forgoing such revenue would result in more revenue being raised overall, if the current tax rate were not revenue-maximizing. This argument might work particularly if the impact on tax revenues to African governments were to be taken into account, especially as it would reduce the incentive for American companies to shift profits from African companies elsewhere through transfer pricing. In such a case, revenue would not be forgone but rather effectively would be transferred from the U.S. Government to African governments.
15 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Beyond AGOA: Looking to the Future of U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment (Sept. 2018).
16 Donald Trump, cited in Njiraini Muchira Agoa Treaty Facing Possible Repeal in Trump Administration, East African (Jan. 23, 2017).
17 See, e.g., Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings & Econ. Comm'n for Africa, The African Growth and Opportunity Act: An Empirical Analysis of the Possibilities Post-2015 (July 2013).
18 Such a status may for example be attained when a U.S. investor sets up a subsidiary in a CFTA member country or other requirements that may be adopted in a final CFTA.
19 See, e.g., Econ. Comm'n for Africa et al., Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V: Towards an African Continental Free Trade Area (2012).
20 Simon Mevel & Morgane Mathieu, Emergence of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements and the Imperative for African Economies to Strategically Enhance Trade-Related South-South Cooperation (Mar. 24, 2016).
23 See, e.g., Econ. Comm'n for Africa, Policy Brief: Economic Partnership Agreements and the African Continental Free Trade Area (July 1, 2016): “Studies show that the [Economic Partnership Agreements] may have adverse affects on intra-African trade and could generate significant trade revenue losses for African countries.”
24 Econ. Comm'n for Africa, Economic Report on Africa 2015 (2015). See also Econ. Comm'n for Africa & African Union Comm'n, Update on AGOA Utilization and Recommendations for Options on the Post-2025 Trade and Investment Relationship Between Africa and the United States (Nov. 29, 2016).
Most of the work for this essay was done while the author was working with ECA's African Trade Policy Centre. This essay draws heavily on a presentation given by Simon Mevel at the first Africa Trade Week in December 2016, which was itself based on work by ECA and the African Union Commission (2016). Thanks to Simon Mevel, David Luke, and James Gathii for very helpful comments on the essay. The views expressed in this essay are the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect those of the ECA.
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Grey matter correlates of syndromes in schizophrenia: A semi-automated analysis of structural magnetic resonance images
S. E. Chua, I. C. Wright, J.-B. Poline, P. F. Liddle, R. M. Murray, R. S. J. Frackowiak, K. J. Friston, P. K. McGuire
Symptoms in schizophrenia duster into syndromes, each of which may be associated with a particular pattern of cerebral blood flow. We sought to investigate whether these syndromes are also related to neuroanatomical changes.
A semi-automated method was used to examine structural magnetic resonance images in 12 patients with schizophrenia. The relationship between the relative regional grey matter volume and ratings of the syndromes of psychomotor poverty, disorganisation and reality distortion was investigated.
There was a significant negative correlation between psychomotor poverty score and the relative volume of the left ventro-medial prefrontal grey matter, and a significant positive correlation between disorganisation and the relative volumes of the hippocampus, and the parahippocampal/fusiform gyrus bilaterally.
The correlation between psychomotor poverty and left prefrontal grey matter volume resembles that previously seen with prefrontal blood flow in the same patients, suggesting that this functional abnormality is related to an underlying anatomical change.
The Neural Correlates of Inner Speech and Auditory Verbal Imagery in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
P. K. McGuire, D. A. Silbersweig, I. Wright, R. M. Murray, R. S. J. Frackowiak, C. D. Frith
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 169 / Issue 2 / August 1996
Auditory verbal hallucinations are thought to arise from the disordered monitoring of inner speech (thinking in words). We tested the hypothesis that a predisposition to verbal auditory hallucinations would be associated with an abnormal pattern of brain activation during tasks which involved the generation and monitoring of inner speech.
The neural correlates of tasks which engaged inner speech and auditory verbal imagery were examined using positron emission tomography in (a) schizophrenic patients with a strong predisposition to auditory verbal hallucinations (hallucinators), (b) schizophrenic patients with no history of hallucinations (nonhallucinators), and (c) normal controls.
There were few between-group differences in activation during the inner speech task. However, when imagining sentences spoken in another person's voice, which entails the monitoring of inner speech, hallucinators showed reduced activation in the left middle temporal gyrus and the rostral supplementary motor area, regions which were strongly activated by both normal subjects and nonhallucinators (P<0.001). Conversely, when nonhallucinators imagined speech, they differed from both hallucinators and controls in showing reduced activation in the right parietal operculum.
A predisposition to verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia is associated with a failure to activate areas implicated in the normal monitoring of inner speech, whereas the absence of a history of hallucinations may be linked to reduced activation in an area concerned with verbal prosody.
Functional anatomy of inner speech and auditory verbal imagery
P. K. McGuire, D. A. Silbersweig, R. M. Murray, A. S. David, R. S. J. Frackowiak, C. D. Frith
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / January 1996
The neural correlates of inner speech and of auditory verbal imagery were examined in normal volunteers, using positron emission tomography (PET). Subjects were shown single words which they used to generate short, stereotyped sentences without speaking. In an inner speech task, sentences were silently articulated, while in an auditory verbal imagery condition, subjects imagined sentences being spoken to them in an another person's voice. Inner speech was associated with increased activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus. Auditory verbal imagery was associated with increases in the same region, and in the left premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area and the left temporal cortex. The data suggest that the silent articulation of sentences involves activity in an area concerned with speech generation, while imagining speech is associated with additional activity in regions associated with speech perception.
Regional Brain Activity in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients during the Performance of a Verbal Fluency Task
C. D. Frith, K. J. Friston, S. Herold, D. Silbersweig, P. Fletcher, C. Cahill, R. J. Dolan, R. S. J. Frackowiak, P. F. Liddle
This study examined the pattern of cerebral blood flow observed in chronic schizophrenic patients while they performed a paced verbal fluency task. Such tasks engage a distributed brain system associated with willed action. Since willed action is impaired in many chronic schizophrenic patients we hypothesised that task performance would be associated with an abnormal pattern of blood flow.
Positron emission tomography (PET) was applied to 18 chronic schizophrenic patients stratified into three groups on the basis of verbal fluency performance and current symptoms. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured while the patients performed (a) verbal fluency, (b) word categorisation, and (c) word repetition. Results were compared with six normal controls matched for age, sex and premorbid IQ. Analysis was restricted to six brain regions previously identified in studies of normal volunteers.
In five brain areas, including the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the patients showed the same pattern of activation as control subjects. However, in the left superior temporal cortex, all patient groups failed to show the normal decrease in blood flow when verbal fluency was compared with word repetition.
These observations suggest that (a) chronic schizophrenic patients can show a normal magnitude of frontal activation when matched for performance with controls, and (b) they fail to show the expected reductions of activity in the superior temporal cortex. This latter result may reflect abnormal functional connectivity between frontal and temporal cortex.
Changes in regional cerebral blood flow on recovery from depression
C. J. Bench, R. S. J. Frackowiak, R. J. Dolan
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 25 / Issue 2 / March 1995
We have previously described focal abnormalities of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), anterior cingulate cortex and angular gyrus in 40 patients with major depression. We now report on the patterns of change in rCBF in a subgroup of 25 of the same patients who were rescanned following clinical remission of depression. Fifteen patients were scanned when optimally matched for drug treatment (4) or drug free on both occasions (11). The other 10 patients were fully recovered but could not be matched for drug status for clinical and ethical reasons. In a paired comparison of the same patients when ill and following recovery it was evident that remission was associated with a significant increase in rCBF in the left DLPFC and medial prefrontal cortex including anterior cingulate. Increases in rCBF in the angular gyrus were not seen when the comparison of depressed and recovered scans was matched for medication. The previously described relationship between clinical symptoms and brain perfusion in the depressed state was no longer present in the recovered state; this supports the hypothesis of state relatedness. Thus, recovery from depression is associated with increases in rCBF in the same areas in which focal decreases in rCBF are described in the depressed state in comparison with normal controls.
Neuropsychological dysfunction in depression: the relationship to regional cerebral blood flow
R. J. Dolan, C. J. Bench, R. G. Brown, L. C. Scott, R. S. J. Frackowiak
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 24 / Issue 4 / November 1994
The relationship between neuropsychological test performance and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was examined in 29 patients meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for major depression. Following a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment two subsets of tests, comprising tests that discriminated between patients and controls or between patients with varying degrees of global cognitive impairment, were selected. These subtests were entered into a principal components analysis (PCA) which generated a two-factor solution, accounting for 50% of the overall variance in test scores. Individual patient loadings on each of these factors were subsequently correlated with regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), as measured by positron emission tomography (PET). Both factors demonstrated significant correlations with rCBF in the medial prefrontal cortex and frontal polar cortex while for each factor there were also unique patterns of correlations with posterior brain regions. The findings provide additional evidence that neuropsychological deficits in depression are associated with abnormalities in regional brain function and in particular with the function of the medial prefrontal cortex.
Depression in Parkinson's Disease: A Positron Emission Study
H. A. Ring, C. J. Bench, M. R. Trimble, D. J. Brooks, R. S. J. Frackowiak, R. J. Dolan
This study investigated biological correlates of depression in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). We tested the hypothesis that in patients with PD and depression, there was regional dysfunction involving brain areas previously implicated in functional imaging studies of patients with primary depression.
Using positron emission tomographic measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), patterns of resting rCBF were measured in ten patiens with PD and major depression, and ten patients with PD alone. The results were compared with findings from ten patients with primary depression and ten normal controls, scanned using identical methods as part of an earlier study. Groups were matched for age, sex and symptom severity.
Bilateral decreases in rCBF were observed in anteromedial regions of the medial frontal cortex and the cingulate cortex (Brodmann's areas (BA) 9 and 32) in the depressed PD group, compared with those with PD alone and compared with normal controls. This regional disturbance overlapped that observed in patients with primary depression.
The findings indicate that the medial prefrontal cortex is a common area of neural dysfunction in the manifestation of both primary depression and depression in PD.
Functional Anatomy of Obsessive–Compulsive Phenomena
P. K. McGuire, C. J. Bench, C. D. Frith, I. M. Marks, R. S. J. Frackowiak, R. J. Dolan
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 164 / Issue 4 / April 1994
Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with H2 15O positron emission tomography in four patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder. Patients were scanned on 12 occasions in the same session, with each scan paired with brief exposure to one of a hierarchy of contaminants that elicited increasingly intense urges to ritualise. The relationship between symptom intensity and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF; an index of neural activity) was subsequently examined in the group and in individual patients. The group showed significant positive correlations between symptom intensity and blood flow in the right inferior frontal gyrus, caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus and thalamus, and the left hippocampus and posterior cingulate gyrus. Negative correlations were evident in the right superior prefrontal cortex, and the temporoparietal junction, particularly on the right side. The pattern in single subjects was broadly similar, although individual differences in neural response were also observed. A graded relationship between symptom intensity and regional brain activity can thus be identified in obsessive–compulsive disorder. It is hypothesised that the increases in rCBF in the orbitofrontal cortex, neostriatum, global pallidus and thalamus were related to urges to perform compulsive movements, while those in the hippocampus and posterior cingulate cortex corresponded to the anxiety that accompanied them.
Regional cerebral blood flow in depression measured by positron emission tomography: the relationship with clinical dimensions
C. J. Bench, K. J. Friston, R. G. Brown, R. S. J. Frackowiak, R. J. Dolan
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 23 / Issue 3 / August 1993
We have previously reported focal abnormalities of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in a group of 33 patients with major depression. This report, on an extended sample of 40 patients who demonstrated identical regional deficits to those previously described, examines the relationships between depressive symptoms and patterns of rCBF. Patients' symptom ratings were subjected to factor analysis, producing a three-factor solution. The scores for these three factors, which corresponded to recognizable dimensions of depressive illness, were then correlated with rCBF. The first factor had high loadings for anxiety and correlated positively with rCBF in the posterior cingulate cortex and inferior parietal lobule bilaterally. The second factor had high loadings for psychomotor retardation and depressed mood and correlated negatively with rCBF in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left angular gyrus. The third factor had a high loading for cognitive performance and correlated positively with rCBF in the left medial prefrontal cortex. These data indicate that symptomatic specificity may be ascribed to regional functional deficits in major depressive illness.
The effect of the dopamine agonist, apomorphine, on regional cerebral blood flow in normal volunteers
P. M. Grasby, K. J. Friston, C. J. Bench, P. J. Cowen, C. D. Frith, P. F. Liddle, R. S. J. Frackowiak, R. J. Dolan
Apomorphine, a non-selective dopamine agonist, has been used as a pharmacological probe for investigating central dopaminergic neurotransmission in psychiatric illness. In this study repeated measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were made in normal volunteers before, and after, the administration of apomorphine (5 or 10 μg/kg), or placebo. The difference in rCBF, before and after drug (apomorphine versus placebo), was used to identify brain areas affected by apomorphine. Compared to placebo, both doses of apomorphine increased blood flow in the anterior cingulate cortex. Apomorphine 10 μg/kg also increased prefrontal rCBF (right > left). No decreases in rCBF were noted following either dose of apomorphine. Apomorphine-induced increases of anterior cingulate blood flow might serve as an in vivo index of central dopamine function. Such an approach would complement established neuroendocrine challenge paradigms for investigating central dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric illness.
Patterns of Cerebral Blood Flow in Schizophrenia
P. F. Liddle, K. J. Friston, C. D. Frith, S. R. Hirsch, T. Jones, R. S. J. Frackowiak
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 160 / Issue 2 / February 1992
Positron emission tomography was used to study the relationship between rCBF and symptom profiles in 30 schizophrenic patients. Factor analysis confirmed that the symptoms segregated into three syndromes – psychomotor poverty, disorganisation, and reality distortion – described previously. Analysis of the correlations between syndrome scores and rCBF revealed that each syndrome was associated with a specific pattern of perfusion in paralimbic and association cortex, and in related subcortical nuclei. The study confirmed predictions that psychomotor poverty and disorganisation are associated with altered perfusion at different loci in the pre-frontal cortex, and reality distortion with altered perfusion in the medial temporal lobe. The perfusion patterns suggest that the abnormalities of brain function underlying each of the three syndromes are not confined to single loci, but involve distributed neuronal networks.
New Perspectives on Alzheimer's Disease: Studies with Positron Emission Tomography
P. J. Tyrrell, R. S. J. Frackowiak
Journal: International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 3 / Issue S1 / March 1991
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2005, pp. 61-67
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a quantitative technique which can be used to measure regional values of cerebral metabolism, or uptake of radio-labeled tracers, in the living human. While structural scans (CT or MRI) may be normal in the degenerative dementias, or show generalized atrophy, functional imaging techniques allow differentiation of subtypes of dementias according to patterns of abnormal metabolism. This paper describes some of the variety of alterations in patterns of energy metabolism that may be observed in degenerative cognitive disorders and their correlations with clinical subtypes, together with an in vivo study of the dopaminergic system in subtypes of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT).
Positron Emission Tomography in the Study of Brain Metabolism in Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
C. J. Bench, R. J. Dolan, K. J. Friston, R. S. J. Frackowiak
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 157 / Issue S9 / December 1990
Positron emission tomography (PET) differs fundamentally from computerised tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in that it is a method for measuring function as opposed to structure. It is the most powerful tool available for the measurement of in-vivo brain function. This review describes the basic principles of the technique and its application to the study of brain metabolism in neurological and psychiatric disorder. The development of resting-state metabolic studies by the application of specific activation paradigms, a major current focus of the technique, is discussed.
Cerebral blood flow and metabolism of oxygen and glucose in young autistic adults
Sigrid Herold, R. S. J. Frackowiak, A. Le Couteur, M. Rutter, P. Howlin
Regional cerebral blood flow, oxygen consumption and glucose consumption were measured by positron emission tomography in six young autistic men. No significant differences were found between patients and normal controls for any of the physiological variables. The results do not substantiate the previous finding of glucose hypermetabolism in autism; the likely reasons for the variance in findings are discussed.
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Who's been named People's "Most Beautiful"?
Sandra Bullock has been named "Most Beautiful" by People magazine for 2015.
Click on to see other stars who have topped the magazine's list over the years.
Lupita Nyong'o was chosen as People's "Most Beautiful" woman in 2014.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow was named People magazine's "Most Beautiful" woman of 2013.
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Sixteen-time Grammy award winner Beyonce was been named People magazine's "Most Beautiful" person of 2012.
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Singer, actress and "American Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez was named People magazine's "Most Beautiful" person of 2011.
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Angelina Jolie was pregnant with daughter Shiloh when she appeared on the 2006 cover of People's annual "Most Beautiful" issue.
Julia Roberts, who launched her career in "Pretty Woman," received the top honor the most and has appeared on the cover a total of four times, in 2010, 2005, 2000 and 1991.
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Tom Cruise is one of only three men to grace the cover of People's "Most Beautiful" issue. On the heels of the release of "Mission Impossible," Cruise was 34 and still married to actress Nicole Kidman when he appeared on the 1997 cover.
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The year before she and Brad Pitt split, Jennifer Aniston, then 35, was People's 2004 "Most Beautiful" cover girl.
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Aniston's "Friends" costar Courteney Cox also appeared on the cover. At 30, Cox was crowned the "Most Beautiful" person in 1995.
Halle Berry, at 36, scored the issues coveted cover in 2003, a year after she won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Monsters Ball."
In 2008, Kate Hudson headed People's "Most Beautiful" list. Then 29, Hudson, the daughter of Goldie Hawn, appeared on the cover alongside Halle Berry and Patrick Dempsey.
Breast cancer survivor and actress Christina Applegate landed on the 2009 cover, a year after she had a double mastectomy.
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Since receiving People's "Most Beautiful" person honor in 2002, Nicole Kidman married country star Keith Urban in 2006 and gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose in 2008. The two welcomed another daughter, Faith Margaret, via surrogate this past January.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was only 23 when he appeared on the cover of the "Most Beautiful" issue in 1998, which was a year after the release of the mega-blockbuster "Titanic."
A year after she and actor Michael Douglas tied the knot, Catherine Zeta-Jones topped People's "Most Beautiful" list in 2001.
Drew Barrymore, who launched her career first as a child star, earned top honors in 2007. "I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period," the actress, then 32, told People in the issue. "Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness."
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Former supermodel Cindy Crawford was 26 and married to actor Richard Gere when she appeared on the 1993 cover.
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Before all his legal troubles, Mel Gibson was People's first male "Most Beautiful" person. The actor appeared on the special issue in 1996, right around the time he won a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar for "Braveheart."
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Meg Ryan, who was labeled "America's Sweetheart," landed on the issues 1994 cover. She was then 32 and still married to actor Dennis Quaid.
Jodie Foster, a Yale University grad, appeared on the cover in 1992, the same year she won a Best Actress Oscar for "Silence of the Lambs."
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Michelle Pfeiffer graced the cover of People's first "Most Beautiful" issue when it launched in 1990. She earned the top honor again in 1999.
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RateSetter signs $100m deal with the CEFC for South Australian Home Battery Scheme
Ratesetter media release
Australia's leading peer-to-peer lender, RateSetter, has signed a $100 million funding deal with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to deliver the benefits of the South Australian Government’s Home Battery Scheme – one of the world’s most ambitious Government-funded home battery schemes – to South Australian householders and investors.
Under the arrangement announced today, the CEFC has committed up to $100 million to finance loans where the upfront costs of the home battery system installations are not met by the South Australia government subsidies. The CEFC finance will be delivered through RateSetter’s new South Australia-specific renewable energy lending market.
At the same time RateSetter will enable South Australian retail investors – as well as institutional investors such as banks, credit unions and superannuation funds – to also invest in the program through the new lending market.
This funding agreement between RateSetter and the CEFC will operate in conjunction with an agreement between RateSetter and the Government of South Australia, in which RateSetter will be the exclusive administrator of the Government’s $100 million Home Battery Scheme.
Under the State Government’s Home Battery Scheme program, 40,000 South Australian households have access to up to $6000 in government subsidies to put toward the cost of the battery component of solar and battery installations. In addition, subject to credit approval, households will be provided with an option to finance the unsubsidised portion of the battery system and rooftop solar if required
The Marshall Liberal Government welcomed the involvement of RateSetter and the CEFC in the home battery storage scheme. The scheme was created to encourage South Australians to install battery storage products in their homes to help reduce the cost of energy, improve the resilience of South Australia’s energy supply, and support the environment by lowering carbon emissions.
“The Marshall Government’s home battery scheme puts South Australia way out in front on making batteries accessible for households, delivering cheaper and more reliable power for all,” said Minister for Energy and Mining Dan van Holst Pellekaan.
“RateSetter’s plans to bring in even more investment from retail and institutional investors will play a vital role in reducing the upfront cost of batteries.”
RateSetter CEO Daniel Foggo said the program is great news for SA households, helping to ease the burden of high energy bills and overcome upfront financial barriers that households often faced when accessing the installation of renewable energy products.
“RateSetter wants to make clean energy products more accessible and cost-effective for Australians. The Government of South Australia’s subsidy, CEFC’s cost-competitive finance and RateSetter’s streamlined customer offering will together provide a simple and fast way for homeowners to reduce their power bills and contribute to a reduced carbon footprint,” Mr Foggo says.
CEFC CEO Ian Learmonth said: “We are delighted to work with RateSetter and the South Australian Government on this program to deliver the benefits of solar and battery storage to householders.
“It makes good economic and environmental sense for home owners to capture even more benefits from their rooftop solar PV with the addition of home battery storage. This investment has the twin benefits of cutting household energy costs, as well as reducing their carbon emissions.
“It is also an important way to reduce customer demand on the electricity network, especially at peak periods, by allowing householders to get the most out of their home solar systems.”
RateSetter has relationships with hundreds of renewable energy installers nationally, including most of Australia’s largest home solar and battery original equipment manufacturers and retailers.
RateSetter and the CEFC have been working together since May 2017, when the CEFC made a $20 million commitment to kick-start RateSetter’s Green Loan Marketplace for borrowers looking to buy or install energy efficient and solar products.
Nationwide, RateSetter has now facilitated more than $370 million in loans to over 27,000 borrowers, with the amount funded each month growing by ~100 per cent year-on-year. The South Australian Home Battery Scheme will support a further step-change in RateSetter’s growth.
Mr Foggo added: “With a 237 per cent monthly increase in the number of renewable energy loans financed between January and August 2018, this is one of RateSetter’s fastest growing business areas and firmly positions the business as a market leader for renewable energy finance.
“Loans are currently funded from over 12,000 everyday Australian investors on RateSetter’s platform, as well as several institutional investors including the CEFC, fixed income funds, SMSFs, banks and credit unions.
“For investors, we are providing a simple way to invest directly in loans for renewable energy products, while allowing them to earn attractive, stable returns.
“RateSetter is very excited about this new agreement and the value it brings for South Australian households. It also shows that the Government of South Australia is embracing new ways of working with businesses that can provide technology-enabled solutions to help improve the lives of Australians.
“We look forward to progressing a number of similar opportunities with the CEFC and other State Governments, so we can continue to open up simple, fast and affordable finance for renewable energy products and improve energy security for all Australians,” Mr Foggo said.
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CWWeekly »News »Features »Sponsors Need Vendors’ Metrics to Select the Best
Sponsors Need Vendors’ Metrics to Select the Best
An issue causing growing frustration among clinical trial executives are vendors unable or unwilling to share metrics with sponsors.
While careful vendor selection is more critical than ever because of ICH E6, sponsors are increasingly frustrated with a lack of metrics to help gauge how likely it is that an operational problem may arise with a vendor.
“You need information to be able to help you understand what has happened in the past, how often has it happened, how bad the impact is when it does happen,” says Linda Sullivan, co-founder and executive director of Metrics Champion Consortium (MCC).
Many vendors have standard reports to measure what they consider key performance indicators, and sponsors should review those reports and determine if they meet the trial’s needs. But sponsors and CROs need to share information with vendors too.
“I think where people run into problems is when they don’t share enough information with the vendors about what’s going to happen in their program,” says Sullivan. “Often, problems in the design of the study could be avoided if vendors were brought in earlier.”
Problems with certain types of vendors can be more critical than others, according to Jill Petro, a trial manager at Janssen R&D.
Although translation, laboratory and interactive voice/web response vendors comprise a small portion of the overall clinical research enterprise, mistakes in those areas can cause critical delays, Petro says, so it’s important to be particularly vigilant.
“It’s easy to say you’re trying to pick for the best quality,” she says, “but there are a lot of things that feed into quality.” Petro recommends using a checklist to make sure all considerations are covered.
For translation vendors specifically, Petro advises asking what portion of the staff is full-time (to gauge the likelihood of high turnover), and about the minimum training requirements for staff (to gauge the likelihood of errors).
Another important component is the vendor’s internal quality standards, such as requiring double-checks for each document, and whether those additional quality checks come at an extra charge. Finally, it’s best to ask about the vendor’s policy on a rush turnaround, in case of a protocol change later down the line.
For central laboratories, Petro recommends asking about such factors as the lab’s ability to perform all of the tests the trial requires, how long it takes to ship kits to sites and how quickly it can deliver results. She also advises asking about the company’s ability to transfer data to the sponsor and whether there is an additional charge for doing do.
Finally, for interactive voice services, sponsors should be aware of the vendor’s experience with the type of trial being conducted, such as a randomization v. stratification trial design. Like the other vendors, the vendor should be able to transfer data and should be comfortable with the various countries/languages included in the study.
“It all comes back to that risk base and oversight” outlined in ICH E6, Petro says. “Every company is looking for technology solutions [to] be able to tell FDA inspectors that they are doing their oversight.”
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Chinese Leader Xi Jinping: Release Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo and Wife Liu Xia
This petition had 452,432 supporters
Archbishop Desmond Tutu started this petition to Chinese Consulate to France Zhang Guobin and 10 others
Liu Xiaobo is a prominent Chinese intellectual, democracy activist, and the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. As a fellow Nobel laureate, I am asking you to stand with me and more than 134 other Nobel Laureates in demanding Chinese leader Xi Jinping release Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who is under house arrest.
Dr. Liu, a long-time rights activist, received an 11-year prison sentence in 2009 after he helped write Charter ’08, a political manifesto, which promoted peaceful democratic reform and called for greater respect for fundamental human rights in China and an end to one party rule. After arresting Dr. Liu, police held him without charge or access to an attorney for six months. At trial, the government prevented Dr. Liu’s wife, foreign diplomats, and the press from attending.
On October 8, 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee took the bold step of awarding Dr. Liu its Peace Prize in recognition of his “long and non-violent struggle for fundamental rights in China.”
Instead of celebrating a great award bestowed on one of its citizens, Chinese police placed Dr. Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest without any charges or legal due process, and they prevented diplomats and journalists from meeting with her.
Two years later, both Dr. Liu and Liu Xia remain in detention. Despite the United Nations saying Dr. Liu’s imprisonment and Liu Xia’s house arrest violate international law, the government continues to close them off from the outside world.
This flagrant violation of the basic right to due process and free expression must be publicly and forcefully confronted by the international community. That is why I and 134 of my fellow Nobel Laureates joined together to call for their immediate and unconditional release.
Join us by signing this petition to incoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping. We are confident that your participation will send a clear message to the Chinese government that the continued detention of the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and his wife—in clear violation of their rights to freedom of expression and due process of law—will not be tolerated by the international community. Join us in letting China’s new leadership know that fundamental human rights must be respected everywhere.
It’s time to release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town
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Putting Green On City Roof 1925
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People play on a putting green which has been built on a roof in the middle of London.
Item title reads - Putting green on city roof. High above the Thames and 'neath the shadow of St. Paul's - is an 18 hole course in full swing. London.
L/S as a boat sails under a bridge over the Thames, the camera pans across it to the putting green on the roof of a high building, ladies and men play various shots. M/S of a tall tower, the camera pans down to them playing, a lady gets her ball in the hole. Various shots as they play, St Paul's Cathedral is visible in the background.
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Great Scientist And Statesmen
Funeral procession for French politician and mathematician Paul Painleve.
The Verdict Of Paris
The new longer length frock is modelled.
In The Shadow Of St. Paul's
Sports events and a Dog Show take place in the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
St Paul's Cathedral Filmed
Footage of the interior of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Save 'empire's Parish Church'
Footage showing the parts of St. Paul's Cathedral which have been declared unsafe.
Save 'empire's Parish Church' Cuts
Cuts (rushes, out takes) for SAVE 'EMPIRE'S PARISH CHURCH' in G 1154.
St. Paul's Exterior
Exterior of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
The Other World Of Winston Churchill Reel 2
A documentary about Winston Churchill as a painter.
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3RD SUNDAY OF ADVENT (A) / Gaudete
PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
This Sunday 11th December, after Vespers at 4.00pm there will be the annual Procession in honour of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, followed by Solemn Benediction.
COLLECTION FOR ECUADOR – HEARTFELT THANKS
Earlier this year a collection for the victims of the earthquake in Ecuador on 16th April raised £1,800, which was sent to the Archdiocese of Portoviejo, the region most affected by the disaster. We have just received a letter from Archbishop Lorenzo Voltolini, who sends his heartfelt thanks to our parishioners for their generosity.
LECTURE SERIES ON CREATION IN NATURE, ART & FAITH
The series of public lectures, based on the theme of Creation, which is organised by Benedictus Trust in conjunction with the Order of Malta and the London Oratory, continues on Tuesday 13th December. Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Director of the Vatican Observatory, will speak on “The Heavens Proclaim: Astronomy as Worship”. 7pm to 8.30pm (including time for discussion) in St Wilfrid’s Hall at the Oratory. All lectures are free & everyone is welcome. More information here and here.
A GERMAN BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
In collaboration with Benedictus Trust, the ensemble Scherzo, led by Matthew O’Keefe, will perform works by Praetorius, Buxtehude and Bach, as well as German Christmas carols, specially arranged for the event, with poetry readings. Friday 16th December, 7.30pm to 9.30pm in St Wilfrid’s Hall. Tickets £15, £10 (concession), £7 (students) available on the door, or reserve from scherzoensemble@outlook.com.
CAROL SERVICE
The annual Carol Service with the choirs of the London Oratory will be on Thursday 22nd December at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7.00pm.
Saturday 24th December: Christmas Eve
Church open 6.30am till 7.00pm.
6.00pm Vigil Mass of Christmas.
Church closes at 7.00pm and re-opens at 11.15pm.
11.30pm Christmas Carols, followed by Solemn Midnight Mass (Latin), with Choir and Orchestra.
Sunday 25th December: Christmas Day
Mass: 8.00am, 9.00am (1962 Missal), 10.00am, 11.00am (Solemn Latin),
12.30pm, 4.30pm. Solemn Vespers & Solemn Benediction 3.30pm.
No 7.00pm Mass.
Monday 26th December: Saint Stephen
Church open 9.00am to 1.00pm.
Mass: 10.00am, 11.00am (1962 Missal), 12.30pm.
Click here for the times of Masses & and other services from Christmas to the Epiphany.
THE V&A CHRISTMAS TRAIL
The Victoria and Albert Museum, next door to the Oratory, has a display of a traditional Neapolitan presepe (Nativity scene) in the magnificent surroundings of the Santa Chiara chapel. Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, Room 50b. Admission free. For more information click here.
Until 5th February 2017 the temporary exhibition Opus Anglicanum shows the most outstanding examples of English ecclesiastical embroidery in the Middle Ages. Featuring surviving examples of exquisite craftsmanship, this exhibition reveals the artistic skill of the makers and the world in which they were created. For more information click here.
Night Shelter on Wednesday: Once again we are taking part in the night shelter at St Augustine’s, Queen’s Gate, SW7 5LP (near South Kensington tube station). We are needed on Wednesdays from about 7.30pm to help serve food and chat with the guests. Email youngadultsgroup@bromptonoratory.co.uk for more details.
Restart: Also on Saturday afternoons at St Augustine’s there is a drop-in centre organised by the charity Restart (http://restartlives.org/). These drop-ins run throughout the year. They are looking to start a two-tier mentoring initiative. This is what they told us: “We are initially looking for volunteers who are interested in becoming either a mentor or a befriender. Both will have very similar training and supervision, although mentoring will be a six-month commitment and the onus on meeting the mentee would be very much up to both parties. For the ‘befriending’ option, the commitment would look more like one or two months, with meetings with mentee restricted to Saturdays at the Drop-in. At this stage, we are interested in getting an idea of numbers, anyone that is keen on finding out more. We will be writing to everyone that registers an interest in the New Year. Please email directly (mentioning that you have come through the Oratory) at jude@restartlives.org.”
The SPN Circle will meet again on Wednesday 14th December at 8pm. We are going to discuss St Augustine’s Letter 130 (to Proba), which is a concise and profound introduction to prayer. Come anytime from 7.30pm to pray in the Little Oratory (ask at the House to be directed). The Circle is open to men only. For further information contact Fr Michael Lang at the Oratory House.
During the 10am, 11am and 12:30pm Masses, St Gregory’s Library is available for parents with small children who become restless. There are books and some toys. Entrance is through the Sacred Heart Chapel at the back of the church. Children must be supervised by their parents at all times. We need more help to maintain this service, especially during the 11am and 12:30pm Masses. If you can spare a few hours on a Sunday occasionally, please tell Farah, Giulietta or David (call 07768 176 848).
STILL A FEW PLACES AVAILABLE FOR THE PILGRIMAGE TO SPAIN IN 2017
The Oratory Parish pilgrimage to the cathedrals of southern Spain from Saturday 22nd April to Friday 28th April 2017, led by Fr Michael Lang, is filling up, but there are still a few places available. The pilgrimage will begin in Toledo and include Jaén, Cordoba, Granada and Seville. The total cost, including flights from Heathrow to Madrid and from Seville to Gatwick with British Airways, coach travel, hotels (half-board), will be £899 (twin or double share; supplement for single room). More information and booking forms from Pax Travel (phone 020 7485 3003, email info@paxtravel.co.uk), or from Fr Michael on 020 7808 0900 or michaellang@rcdow.org.uk. See also here.
If you are struggling to come to terms with a recent – or not so recent – bereavement and would like to talk to someone, please get in touch with the Friends of the Oratory (friends@oratoryfriends.org), where professional support is available.
Young Catholic Australian helicopter mechanic works in a startup business is seeking accommodation in London. Would suit someone homebound or looking for help around the house and some company. Please contact David on dvg_88@hotmail.com or 07743 979868 if interested.
Basement flat for rent: 15A Fernshaw Road, SW 10, a quiet road between Fulham Road & Kings Road near World’s End. Recently refurbished with one bedroom, large sitting room, kitchen/diner and WC/shower, with small outside concreted area at the rear. Electric heating. Unfortunately, no pets. £375 per week plus bills. Contact Dr M. Remnant on 020 7352 5181.
If you would like to be married at the Oratory, we will need at least 6 months notice. For the initial enquiry please come to the Oratory House in person and ask to speak to the priest on duty (see Hours of Duty below). All subsequent meeting, bookings and arrangements will be done through him, so please make a note of his name! No wedding books will be taken over the telephone or by email.
According to canon law, “Parents are obliged to see that their infants are baptised within the first few weeks. As soon as possible after the birth, indeed even before it, they are to approach the parish priest to ask for the sacrament for their child, and to be themselves duly prepared for it” (CIC can. 867 §1).
The choice of godparents (sponsors), who are to help the baptised to live a good Christian life and faithfully to fulfil the duties inherent in baptism, is an important one. One godparent, male or female, is sufficient; but there may be no more than two godparents, one of each sex. A godparent must be a Catholic of not less than sixteen years of age, who has been confirmed and who lives a life of faith that befits the role to be undertaken. A baptised person who belongs to a non-Catholic ecclesial community may be admitted in company with a Catholic sponsor as a Christian witness. See also here.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Helpers are needed for the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes from Sunday 24th July to Saturday 30th July 2017. If you are between 16 and 18, you can serve as a “Red Cap”, helping people in wheelchairs and taking part in the processions and many other tasks. Contact Katrina Lavery at katrina.lavery@clovershipping.com if you would like to learn more. If you are over 18, your help would be very much appreciated as a helper in the Accueil St Frai, where sick pilgrims in most need of support and medical care stay. The role of a St Frai helper is to support the nurses and provide the sort of care for which you don’t need a medical qualification. If you’re interested in helping in the St Frai, email chief helper Nick Leonard and team at westminsterstfrai@gmail.com.
Advent 2016: "Unto Us a Child is Born" (Isaiah 9:6): The Joyful Mysteries in the Life of Our Lord.
Monday 12th December: "Recognising the Redeemer; Sharing Jesus' Journey Home: The Presentation in the Temple" by Fr. Richard Conrad OP. Fr Richard will explain the two Old Testament rituals that shaped the life of the Holy Family
Time: 7.00pm to 8.30pm. Place: Vaughan House, 46 Francis St, SW1P 1QN. Booking is required as places are limited. Register at livingfaith@rcdow.org.uk or, if you have no access to the internet, call at 020 7931 6078 to leave your details. Suggested donation is £4.50 per talk.
St Mark’s Gospel: A basic handbook for discipleship, with Fr John Hemer, MHM. This series of talks consist of six self-contained lectures at Vaughan House, 46 Francis Street, SW1P 1QN, Mondays 7.00-8.30pm. Participants are very welcome to attend all the series or some of the lectures. All the lectures will be audio recorded and available here. Dates: 23rd January 2017, 20th February 2017, 13th March 2017, 15th May 2017. Registration required. Email at livingfaith@rcdow.org.uk and indicate your name and the date of the event. If you do not have access to the internet, please leave a voice message at 020 7931 6078. Suggested donation £4.
Matrimony: A calling to forgive! Retrouvaille offers a welcoming and loving space to couples who have been living with the misery of a failing marriage. Retrouvaille offers hope: hope that it is not too late, hope of a different and better marriage. Retrouvaille helps couples to show each other mercy through the opportunities it provides to listen, to forgive, to be reconciled and to move into their futures believing that God loves them and with His help and their effort, their marriages can be healed and restored. Retrouvaille provides help for marriage problems, difficulties and crises. www.retrouvaille.org.uk Phone or text 07887 296 983 or 07973 380 443.
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Georgia Must Act on Promises to End Displacement Crisis
Walter Kälin Wednesday, May 31, 2006
In December 2005, I undertook an official mission to the Caucasus republic of Georgia. In addition to Tbilisi, I visited the Samegrelo region and the de facto autonomous regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
I was shocked by the misery in which thousands of IDPs are still living, more than a decade after the violent fighting that caused them to flee their homes. At the same time, I received firm assurances from the Government that plans are under way to develop and implement a new IDP policy to end their plight through recourse to durable solutions. The main obstacles are the absence of political solutions to regional conflicts and the ensuing widespread feelings of insecurity. As a consequence, return movements are slow – and almost non-existent in some areas. International support for rehabilitation and development investment is hampered.
The sustainable return of persons to the Gali region of Abkhazia is obstructed by administrative measures directed against returnees, by attacks and harassment, as well as by widespread impunity for perpetrators. Eve nif it has no international significance, the so-called “Law of the Republic of Abkhazia on Citizenship of the Republic of Abkhazia” of 2005 discriminates against persons of non-Abkhaz origin and may thus create difficulties for returnees. Reportedly, Abkhaz authorities have restricted the use of the Georgian language in schools, with detrimental effects on the provision of education.
In South Ossetia, some IDPs have returned and integrated locally, although many live under deplorable conditions with insufficient international assistance. I was informed that most prefer not to return to their original homes for fear of discrimination and harassment. A property restitution mechanism for Osset IDPs is sorely lacking, a situation which I urged the Government to remedy without further delay.
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Edited by Sasha Toperich, Heidi Obermeyer, and Tea Ivanovic
Walter Kälin
Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
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Burleson residents earn higher education diplomas and academic recognition
Fri, 08/03/2018 - 8:52am
Paul Gnadt
paul@burlesonstar.net
Burleson residents have received higher education diplomas and academic recognition.
Erika Kirstin Pope of Burleson has received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Alabama. She was one of 5,436 degrees awarded by UA during spring 2018 commencement May 4-6.
The University of Alabama, the state’s oldest and largest public institution of higher education, is a student-centered research university that draws the best and brightest to an academic community committed to providing a premier undergraduate and graduate education.
Taonga Lise Nyirenda and Jacob Andrew Sherrill, both of Burleson, graduated from Midwestern State University in May. Nyirenda earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing while Sherrill earned a Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Care with magna cum laude honors.
Midwestern State University had 702 undergraduate and graduate students who were awarded degrees. Honor graduates receiving bachelor’s degrees included 52 summa cum laude, 71 magna cum laude, and 87 cum laude. Honor requirements are a grade point average of 3.7-3.89 for magna cum laude.
Richele Walker of Crowley was among the largest graduating class in University of Massachusetts in the university’s history in Lowell, Mass.
Walker received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.
The university held two Commencement ceremonies on May 19 at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell for the Class of 2018, 4,358 strong. The record number of graduates for the 11th consecutive year is the result of UMass Lowell’s 57 percent increase in enrollment since 2007 and climbing student success rates.
Both ceremonies were presided over by UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, who is a two-time UMass Lowell graduate. The Commencement addresses were delivered by award-winning author and historian Jon Meacham, whose latest book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels” debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, who has represented Massachusetts’ 3rd District, which includes the university, for more than a decade and received a Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Service. Meacham was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters.
Curtis Alfonzo Fisher of Crowley was one of 28 graduates to receive a bachelor’s degree from Park University’s Minot Air Force Base Campus in North Dakota. Fisher earned a degree in Criminal Justice Administration/Security.
Brooklyne Nicole Oliveira of Godley, a member of the Class of 21 at Washington and Lee University, has earned President’s List status for the recently ended academic year.
Washington and Lee is located in Lexington, Va.
The President’s List comprises the top echelon of students among full-time, degree-seeking undergraduates, as determined from those with at least 24 W&L-graded credits contributing to the GPA.
Washington and Lee University, the nation’s ninth oldest institution of higher education, is among the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges and universities. Washington and Lee University provides a liberal arts education that develops students’ capacity to think freely, critically and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity and civility. Graduates are prepared for life-long learning, personal achievement, responsible leadership, service to others and engaged citizenship in a global and diverse society.
Weston Hunter, Boston McNair and Aeryana Romero, all of Burleson, have been accepted to McMurry University in Abilene for entrance in fall 2018.
McMurry University was founded in 1923 as a United Methodist institution, and is a vibrant and comprehensive center of higher education. McMurry has a national reputation for excellence and value through the achievements of its faculty, students and graduates. The University enrolls more than 1,000 students and has an average class size of 16.
McMurry is guided by our core values: Christian Faith as the foundation of life, Personal Relationships as the catalyst for life, Learning as the journey of life, Excellence as the goal of life, and Service as the measure of life. Our students are equipped to exceed expectations and go on to make their mark in the world, through scholarship, leadership and service.
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More teams secure spots at Scotties in Sydney
Published: Jan 29 at 8:05 a.m.
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SYDNEY, N.S. —
Five more teams secured spots on Sunday for the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts next month in Sydney.
Andrea Crawford will represent New Brunswick at the women's national curling championship, after defeating Sarah Mallais 6-3. Crawford last played in the Scotties in 2014.
Chelsea Carey took home the Alberta provincial title, beating Kelsey Rocque 8-3 to advance to the Scotties. Carey last played at the Scotties in 2016.
Robyn Silvernagle will represent Saskatchewan, after she knocked off Sherry Anderson 6-5. Silvernagle unsuccessfully played in the provincial finals the past two years. The win marks her first provincial title.
Tracy Fleury captured the Manitoba provincial championship, defeating Kerri Einarson 13-7 in comeback fashion. Einarson could still play in the Scotties tournament as she will participate in the wild card game Feb. 15 in Sydney. Her opponent has not yet been determined.
Jill Brothers secured her spot as the host, representing Nova Scotia, knocking off defending champion Mary-Anne Arsenault 6-5. Brothers last skipped at the Scotties in 2016.
Scotties organizers call for repeat performance of successful Sydney event
Published Jun 10, 2019 at 7:57 a.m.
Junior curling champs at Sydney Curling Club
Updated Apr 30, 2019 at 10:20 p.m.
'So much more fun': Curling in Canada the peak for international teams
Updated Apr 29, 2019 at 7:24 a.m.
Canada rolls into world curling semifinal with nail-biting win over Scotland
Updated Apr 06, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.
Curling Canada accepting applications for Love of Curling scholarship program
Published May 07, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.
Sydney Curling Club receives loan from Curling Canada to improve facility
Canadians cut through Swiss to stay in mix for playoff bye at men's curling worlds
Published Apr 05, 2019 at 6:45 p.m.
Curler Rachel Homan, husband welcome tiny addition to rink
Updated Jun 05, 2019 at 1:27 p.m.
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Carrier Convenes International Green Building Experts to Support Sustainable Development in China and India
NEW DELHI, India - Sep. 19, 2013
Two of the most rapidly expanding construction markets in the world are leveraging Carrier’s natural leadership to support their growing commitment to green building. Through its prestigious Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series, Carrier, the world’s leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions, has assembled some of the world’s most respected green building thought leaders to inform building owners and designers in China and India. Carrier is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).
With green building gaining momentum in both countries, the lecture series provided timely insight as China and India strive to meet ambitious sustainability goals. According to the Indian Green Building Council, India has registered more than 1.63 billion square feet of green building space, up from 20,000 square feet in 2003, and is now working to position itself as a global green building leader by 2025. Meanwhile, a McGraw-Hill Construction report notes China, which increased its number of green projects tenfold in just three years, is working to achieve a 16 percent reduction in energy use and a 17 percent reduction in carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 2015.
Carrier’s Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series, held in Shanghai on Sept. 17 and in New Delhi on Sept. 19, connected more than 300 building professionals with international industry experts sharing the business case for green building, from economic and health benefits, as well as future sustainable building trends. Launched in the Middle East in 2011, the lecture series has reached 1,800 professionals through 17 lectures in emerging markets around the world.
“Green building is increasingly seen as a long-term business opportunity, with countries around the world realizing its benefits extend beyond energy savings to include improved health and productivity,” said John Mandyck, chief sustainability officer, UTC Climate, Controls & Security. “Carrier’s Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series is providing the opportunity for leaders who are building the cities of tomorrow to connect with experts on the forefront of the green building movement.”
During the event, Mahesh Ramanujam, U.S. Green Building Council® (USGBC) Chief Operating Officer spoke to both audiences about the next generation of green building. In addition, Valentine Lehr, founder and principal of Lehr Consultants International, shared messages tailored to the audiences, speaking about embracing sustainable technology in China and the application of innovative new approaches to advance sustainability in India.
For more information on Carrier and its sustainability initiatives, visit www.NaturalLeader.com or follow Carrier on Twitter: @CarrierGreen.
Carrier is the world’s leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Carrier experts provide sustainable solutions, integrating energy efficient products, building controls, and energy services for residential, commercial, retail, transport and food service customers. Founded by the inventor of modern air conditioning, Carrier improves the world around us through engineered innovation and environmental stewardship. Carrier is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp., a leading provider to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide. Visit www.carrier.com for more information.
UTC Climate, Controls & Security
VP, Communications & Marketing
Mary Milmoe
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Jody Clare Pevey Perroni
Jody Clare Pevey Perroni, passed away on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 in Texas City, Texas at the age of 57. She was born on November 2, 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Dr. Willard and JoRhea Pevey. She graduated from Nacogdoches High School in 1974 and voted her class’s Most Beautiful. Jody received her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Louisiana State University in 1978. She worked as an Archaeologist for the Texas Historical Commission, acted as a State Historic Preservation Office staff member and consultant with the University of Alabama State Museum of Natural History, and was director on the Executive Board of Alabama Archaeological Society. She also served as a Sheffield city Councilwoman, past president of the Alabama Archaeological Society Huntsville chapter, past vice president of C.M. Brewster Elementary P.T.O., former chairman of the board of directors of a Montessori school in Huntsville, Alabama, a member of the Alabama Archaeological Society, and involved in the Sheffield city schools and Odyssey of the Mind programs. She authored the published work titled Elko Switch Cemetery: An Archaeological Perspective, wrote for local newspapers, and later worked in public relations for Friendswood and Clear Creek Independent School Districts. Jody’s passions included horticulture, golf, tennis, sewing, traveling, the LSU Tigers, fishing, being by the water, good seafood, good movies, laughing hard, and her grand dog Coco. Jody left us much too soon, and will be greatly missed, but continually loved and remembered. Jody would want us to continue living the good life with laughter, love, kindness, and generosity. She was preceded in death by her parents Willard and JoRhea. Jody is survived by her daughter Jessica Perroni and Jessica’s longtime boyfriend, Felipe Garza III; sister April Stanaland and husband, Alan; sister Lisa Rodrigues and husband, Tim; brother Scott Pevey and wife, Sandra; former husband Anthony Perroni; grand dog Coco; nieces and nephews, Summer Jurrells and husband, Jason; Clayton Stanaland and wife, Amy; Laura Dean; Tanner Dean; Jace Pevey; and many other loving family and friends. A Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held on Monday, January 27, 2014 at 3 o¹clock at Crowder Funeral Home, 1645 East Main Street, League City, Texas 77573 with Pastor Brad Heintz officiating. A grave side service will take place at Lee¹s Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, 1803 Lee’s Creek Church Road, Bogalusa, Louisiana 70427 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 11 o’clock in the morning with Josh Smith officiating. In lieu of flowers, you may send memorials to Friends of the Texas Historical Commission, P.O. Box 13497, Austin, Texas 78711 (www.thcfriends.org), the American Heart Association, the American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association (www.afsafund.org), or a charity of your choice.
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Track and Field Concludes Season at ECAC Championships
NORTHAMPTON, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team had a few solid performances on the second and final day of the two-day, Eastern College Athletic Championships at the Smith College Fieldhouse Saturday.
Junior Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) finished seventh in the 55 meter hurdles in 8.57. She missed the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time by five-hundredths of a second, and improved on Friday's time by two-hundredths of a second.
In the long jump, freshman Kaylin Miranda (Brighton, MA/O'Bryant HS) finished 19th at 20 feet, 4 ½ inches. Junior Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) was 24th at 1000 meters in 2:40.43, and sophomore Caitlin McGarigal (Shutesbury, MA/Amherst-Pelham Regional HS), returning after being ill last week, did not finish her race at 3000 meters.
"Linee really capped off a very successful indoor season," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. She ran her best two times of the year this weekend, now owns six or seven of the fastest times we've ever ran in the 55 meter hurdles. It was great to be able to have six people compete in this meet. Some of our people probably peaked a week or two ago."
The meet marked the final action of the indoor track season for the Corsairs.
UMASS DARTMOUTH TRACK AND FIELD
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Why a New Train Hall Won't Fix Penn Station
Alon Levy
The $1.6-billion Moynihan Station will be a bright, spacious improvement on Penn Station’s depressing environs—but it will leave many problems unsolved.
New York’s Pennsylvania Station is among the most unpopular places anyone in the Northeast United States has to visit. Today’s station structure, shared with Madison Square Garden, is an urban renewal project from 1963 that replaced a majestic Beaux-Arts building, whose demolition provoked outrage and sparked the historic preservation movement. The late architectural historian Vincent Scully said of the original station, “Through it one entered the city like a god. … One scuttles in now like a rat.” In the current station, passengers have to endure narrow passageways, confusing wayfinding, and a scramble through overcrowded staircases and escalators to reach the tracks.
Passengers wait for track announcements inside New York’s Penn Station, the country’s busiest train hub. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
But now a major overhaul is under way, at a cost of $1.6 billion: Moynihan Station. This project, developed as a public-private partnership and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, began construction last year. It is rehabilitating the James A. Farley Post Office adjacent to Penn Station to turn it into a new station facility for passengers of Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter trains. Facilities for another commuter system, New Jersey Transit (NJT), will stay where they are.
External view of Moynihan Train Hall (Empire State Development)
Cross-section view (Empire State Development)
Moynihan Station will feature a a vast, skylit courtyard lined by shops and restaurants. A bright and attractive new train hall will be somewhere to stride through, not scuttle. But is this investment really going to fix Penn’s problems? There are reasons for skepticism. Most of the project’s budget prioritizes the station’s form while not addressing the problems with its function.
A train station’s primary function, certainly in New York, is to get passengers between the train and the subway as fast as possible. A station’s form should follow this function. The grandeur of old stations often responded to the functional needs of the steam era and was not just artistic: For example, soaring waiting rooms separate from the station tracks made sense when steam locomotives were belching smoke. In the modern era, the concerns are different.
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is a venerable institution in and around New York. For almost a century, it has studied and recommended region-wide investment projects, including highways in the 1920s (such as the George Washington Bridge) and more recently, mass transit. In its just-released Fourth Regional Plan, the RPA calls for “a fully integrated, regional transit system” that would “combine three commuter rail systems into one network.”
Today, the situation is the exact opposite. Penn Station’s worst design problem above the track level is that each of the station’s three users—Amtrak, the LIRR, and NJT—treats its part of the station as its own fief. The LIRR has the lower concourse, where ticket machines sell only LIRR tickets and the information screens show no information about Amtrak or NJT trains. Amtrak and NJT use the upper concourse, each with its own ticket offices and information screens.
The result of this inability to share is that the station is confusing. Passengers who arrive at Penn Station often enter the wrong concourse, or the wrong part of the upper concourse, and have to walk down narrow, labyrinthine passages just to find information about their train. Seasoned Amtrak travelers sometimes prefer to go to their train via the lower concourse, but cannot find information about what track their train is on.
Moynihan Station makes this problem worse by moving Amtrak and LIRR to a completely separate headhouse, even farther from NJT.
On the track level, the biggest problem is that the platforms are narrow. Besides leading to crowding, the platforms are only wide enough for single-direction escalators—contributing to the sense of confusion, since the passengers on the platform may need to walk a long distance to the nearest up escalator. None of the recent proposals for improving Penn Station directly fixes the problems at the track level.
Passengers crowd to catch New Jersey Transit commuter trains in Penn Station (Mike Segar/Reuters)
Still, the situation has been improving. Foster Nichols, a former LIRR manager, is now a consultant and a member of the Moynihan Station design team. In the 1990s, under his direction, the LIRR added passageways on the lower concourse. These increased the number of access points to the platforms the railroad uses. (No such provision was made for the platforms used by Amtrak or NJT.) Nichols told CityLab that before the LIRR added these access points, passengers might take 12 to 15 minutes to clear the platform at rush hour; today, it usually takes less than two minutes.
Recent plans for Penn Station seem to assume that function should follow form, rather than the reverse.
Adding access points to more tracks would allow passengers to clear the platforms faster. Moynihan Station’s Phase 1 just extended one passageway as far as it could go, covering Amtrak and some NJT tracks. Nichols proposed extending another LIRR passageway to make egress from Amtrak and NJT easier; however, this extension did not become part of the plan. The more functional Phase 1 has just finished at a cost of $315 million, a fraction of Phase 2’s estimated cost of $1.6 billion. (Phase 2 is expected to open in 2020.)
The problems on the track level and on the concourses combine to produce another much-hated feature of Penn Station: the scramble. Whereas German and Japanese railroads announce track numbers at stations months in advance, American ones do not announce them until just before the train is scheduled to depart. At Penn Station, as soon as Amtrak, the LIRR, or NJT announces the track of a train, a tidal wave of passengers rushes to the platform, crowding the access points. Fixing this requires both a change in priorities and more punctual trains, so that the railroads using Penn could schedule track numbers in advance and stick to the timetable.
Top: Boarding the Shinkansen in Tokyo
Bottom: Boarding Amtrak at Penn Station, NYC pic.twitter.com/RXMHNNPxdz
— Matthew Salter (@MSalt69) May 11, 2017
The project’s Phase 2 will even make it harder for Amtrak passengers to reach their final destination in New York City. Penn Station today is between 7th and 8th Avenues; Moynihan’s Farley Post Office site is between 8th and 9th. Subway lines run under 7th and 8th but not 9th, and subway ridership is higher at 7th Avenue. Amtrak is building a nice train hall, but not at the best location.
Then there’s the capacity problem with the tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station, which Moynihan Station can’t resolve. Last decade, there was a project to double capacity by adding a new set of tunnels, called ARC; this was canceled by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. This decade there has been another project, called Gateway, but the Trump administration just rejected an Obama-era plan to give federal funding to the new effort.
There are alternative proposals to Moynihan Station. The RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan endorses the Moynihan project but also calls for future investment in a plan by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti, profiled positively in the New York Times last year. Chakrabarti would use the existing Madison Square Garden structure to enlarge Penn Station proper, creating high ceilings with plenty of light and open space. The problem with this plan is that it would still do nothing about the track level and the scramble. It would improve the station for everyone, but would only address part of the problem with functionality.
All the recent plans for Penn Station seem to assume that function should follow form, rather than the reverse. Moynihan Station is no exception: By moving Amtrak’s facilities a block away from where many passengers want to go, Phase 2 actually makes Penn Station’s transportation functions worse in some ways.
Investments that emphasize function are still possible. Integrating the ticket machines and information screens would make the station less confusing, at almost no cost. Nichols’ proposal to extend one of the LIRR’s concourses to cover the Amtrak and NJT tracks would improve circulation. Making the trains run on time would allow railroads to schedule them on specific tracks in advance and eliminate the scramble, among many other benefits for passengers.
None of these investments would create a monumental train hall like Phase 2 of Moynihan Station, but they’d have tangible benefits. If form follows function, then these, and not a new building, should have the most positive effect for users of Penn Station.
@alon_levy
Based in Paris, Alon Levy has written about public transit and urbanism at Pedestrian Observations since 2011.
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Finding of Appropriateness Granted for Seventh Avenue South Development
Landmarks Preservation Commission • Certificate of Appropriateness • Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Following criticism of earlier design from preservationists and the local Council member, applicants revised design to better integrate with district and reconcile two distinct facades. On October 7, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve an application to demolish an existing one-story building and construct a new five-story development at 192 Seventh Avenue South in the Greenwich Village Historic District at the corner of 11th Street. The building will be residential, with ground-floor retail.
The Landmarks Commission first heard a proposal for the development of the site in April of 2014. The April proposal, with a masonry facade facing 11th Street that would reflect historic brownstone architecture in “an abstracted fashion,” would have a contemporary glass-and-metal curtain wall facing the avenue. The proposal was criticized by Council Member Corey Johnson, as well as preservationist organizations. Commissioners found the proposed architecture to read as too commercial, especially along Seventh Avenue, and recommended that the two distinct facades be better woven together so the new structure would be perceived as one building. Commissioners did not object to the existing building’s demolition.
At the October meeting, Edward Carroll of SRA Architecture and Engineering presented the revised plan. The 11th Street facade would have more articulation after the introduction of lintels, coursing, and sills. It would be clad in brick with a granite base, and a glass-faced studio at the upper level. Masonry bands would be added to the glass portion of the building, aligning with those on 11th Street. Metal on the curtain wall would be changed from black to white, and the base on the avenue would be lowered to better match the district’s historic storefronts. The curtain wall would wrap around the corner onto 11th Street for the width of one bay. Carroll said the revisions would serve to make the new structure more “sympathetic” and “subtle,” though still with two distinct facades that would reflect the cutting through of the block by the extension of Seventh Avenue.
Higgins & Quasebarth’s Cas Stachelberg further testified that the proposal was as-of-right under the lot’s zoning. Stachelberg noted that the existing building on the site, constructed in 1920 and reclad in 1946, was in poor condition and not a contributing building to the district.
Commissioners suggested ways in which the design could be improved, but ultimately determined it was appropriate for the site and the historic district as presented. Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan found there were a wide variety of buildings along Seventh Avenue South, and that the revised proposal responded well to its context. Commissioner Michael Goldblum opined that the schism between the two facades was not completely resolved, and the design would be more successful with more masonry added to the base at Seventh Avenue. Goldblum said the proposal “could be a better building,” but still fell within the parameters of appropriateness. Commissioner Adi Shamir-Baron, alternately, wished to see the two facades rendered more distinct to better reflect the cut-through of the extension of Seventh Avenue. Commissioner John Gustafsson commented “I don’t think any of it is inappropriate,” and the Commissioners unanimously concurred.
LPC: 192 Seventh Avenue South, Manhattan (14-7382) (Oct. 7, 2014) (Architects: SRA Architecture and Engineering).
Tags : Cas Stachelberg, Council Member Corey Johnson, Edward Carroll, Higgins and Quasebarth, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, SRA Architecture and Engineering
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Tempo Launches In Aberdeen With All Proceeds Going to CLAN Cancer Support
It’s time to relax. It’s time for something special. It’s time…for Tempo.
Tempo, which has popped up in Bon Accord, is something completely unique to Aberdeen. It’s a space for everyone, your home away from home, where your most valuable gift is time.
For everything you’ll find inside Tempo is free to enjoy, the only cost is your time – and at 10 pence a minute with 100% of proceeds going to CLAN Cancer Support, it’s time and money well spent. Equipped with a fantastic kitchen where you can help yourself to refreshments including tea, coffee and cakes make yourself a bowl of cereal and toast. There are charging points, high-speed wifi, children’s toys, comfortable chairs and tables – the space has something for everyone to enjoy. So whether you’re looking for a space to meet with friends where your children can also play, somewhere to work or have a meeting away from the office, or even somewhere to read a book with a cup of coffee – Tempo, and it’s friendly staff of CLAN workers and volunteers, can help.
Craig Stevenson, centre manager, Bon Accord, said: “Tempo is something very special.
“In the short time it’s been open it’s been incredible to see the kinds of people who have come through the door, and see how much they have loved it. The concept is unique and those who have experienced it have thought it was amazing. We are really excited to be able to bring this to the city. It’s designed to be a space for everyone, where people can relax and refuel, and at this time of year, when it can feel like you’re constantly rushing, we hope Tempo will be a sanctuary.”
The ethos of Tempo is that people treat it like their home. They can help themselves to refreshments and take a well-earned break for as long as they like – then simply tidy up and load the dishwasher when they’re done.
A number of partners worked together to bring the magic Tempo to life. Bon Accord donated the unit, the kitchen was donated and fitted by local firm, Alaris, while some of the children’s’ toys have been donated by IKEA in Aberdeen.
“Using and supporting local businesses is important to us at Bon Accord, “ Mr Stevenson added. “We’re delighted to have had their support to help us realise this original idea and bring something completely new to the heart of Aberdeen as well as supporting a vital charity.”
Dr Colette Backwell, CLAN Chief Executive, added: “We are thrilled to be part of this unique pop-up concept and look forward to welcoming people to Tempo over the coming weeks.
“Not only is it special in its own right, capturing people’s imagination, guests have the added reassurance of knowing they are making a difference, supporting CLAN in our provision of wellbeing and support services for those affected by cancer in north-east Scotland, Moray, Orkney and Shetland.”
Kenny Anderson, CLAN chairman, said: "We're delighted to be part of such an exciting pop-up initiative and are incredibly grateful to Bon Accord & St Nicholas for offering us the opportunity to be involved in Tempo.
"It’s a unique venture which has already proved very popular with the local community. We feel very fortunate at CLAN to have such strong support in communities throughout North-East, Orkney and Shetland, the people who have visited Tempo so far have really embraced the concept and philosophy behind it and seem delighted to helping a local charity.
"Tempo has already welcomed more than 1,000 guests since opening only a matter of weeks ago and we expect this to grow throughout December as people visit the centre for their Christmas shopping and to enjoy the entertainment in the city. People can drop in for a well-earned break and enjoy a relaxing family atmosphere with access to free wi-fi and phone chargers as well as hot and cold refreshments, snacks and even breakfast.
“The current climate is challenging for everyone. The team at Bon Accord and St Nicholas has been a great support for some time now and to be able to work with them to raise funds and awareness of CLAN in such a different way is very exciting. All of the money raised by Tempo will help CLAN to continue to provide our free wellbeing and support services for those who have been affected by cancer across the north-east of Scotland, as well as Moray, Orkney and Shetland."
So come and experience Tempo for yourself. To see it is to understand it.
Tempo will be open seven days a week. From 8.30am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 9.30am to 5pm on Sundays.
Photos courtesy of Newline Media.
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Where will Ohio State play if it's the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff?
Updated Jul 31, 2015 ; Posted Jul 31, 2015
By Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com
Could Ohio State as a No. 1 seed return to AT&T Stadium, site of last year's national title game, for a College Football Playoff semifinal this season?
(Tony Gutierrez, Associated Press)
CHICAGO -- Say you want to go ahead and assume that Ohio State is going to win the Big Ten. Say you want to go ahead and give the Buckeyes an undefeated regular season and a win over the Big Ten West champion in Indianapolis on Dec. 5. Say you want to book a flight for the College Football Playoff.
You heading to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl in AT&T Stadium (home of last year's title game) on Dec. 31? Or you flying to Miami for the Orange Bowl (where the Buckeyes played Clemson after the 2013 season) on Dec. 31?
If the Buckeyes are No. 1, and they are an overwhelming No. 1 right now, they get the preference on the site. Look at the protocol for the College Football Playoff Committee.
"When assigning teams to sites, the committee will place the top two seeds at the most advantageous sites, weighing criteria such as convenience of travel for its fans, home-crowd advantage or disadvantage and general familiarity with the host city and its stadium. Preference will go to the No. 1 seed."
Which site is that for Ohio State?
Sun Life Stadium, home of the Orange Bowl, is 1,142 miles from Ohio Stadium.
AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is 1,060 miles from Ohio Stadium.
What's more convenient? What's more familiar?
"It's a good question," Reid Sigmon, the CFO of the College Football Playoff, told Northeast Ohio Media Group on Friday at the Big Ten Media Days. "It will be determined by the committee on that day."
Sigmon said the committee probably wouldn't ask the Buckeyes what they preferred. The committee didn't do that last year. It determined the top four seeds and assigned the games. And the site selection was incredibly easy.
No. 1 Alabama went to the SEC's home in the Sugar Bowl, while No. 2 seed Oregon was sent to the Pac-12's home in the Rose Bowl. No. 3 Florida State was dragged out West and the No. 4 Buckeyes shipped down South. Simple.
Not so for Ohio State. Certainly, geography aside, sending Ohio State to the Rose Bowl as a No. 1 seed in a semifinal would make total sense. Big Ten commish Jim Delany would be thrilled. That fits into those code words about "general familiarity with the host city and its stadium," which is a way to explain that the Big Ten's history with the Rose Bowl would matter.
But the Rose Bowl isn't a semifinal site this year. The Big Ten does have a limited arrangement with the Orange Bowl, but would that be enough to swing things? So what always matters, but may matter most if the Buckeyes are a No. 1 seed, is their opponent and home crowd disadvantage.
As Sigmon explained, if Ohio State is No. 1 and a team like Miami (or say Florida State or Florida) is No. 4, the committee wouldn't want to send the Buckeyes to the Orange Bowl. That scenario would send them to the Cotton Bowl.
Or consider this more likely scenario - Ohio State is No. 1 and either TCU or Baylor, two legit playoff contenders, is No. 4. That would send that matchup to the Orange Bowl.
"You don't want to disadvantage the higher seed. But there are other factors," Sigmon said. "You could have other quirks. We try to avoid hypotheticals just because you could drive yourself crazy."
So Sigmon said simply that the first criteria, really, for the determining the 1-4 game is "where would it make the most sense."
But that's not clear with Ohio State and these choices.
"So you can't absolutely say it's going to be one or the other," Sigmon said.
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Echo Kellum Talks ‘Arrow,’ Crossovers, and More
by Ashley Bulayo Sunday, March 19, 2017
With a name like Echo, it’s no question why it clings to your memory with a resounding effect. Luckily for actor Echo Kellum, you won’t have to ask for his name twice. Kellum stars in The CW’s hit superhero show Arrow and also may be best known as Tommy from FOX’s former show Ben and Kate. He’s come a long way from portraying a lead character’s best friend to now a superhero known as Mr. Terrific. Check out our interview below as Echo Kellum talks ‘Arrow,’ Crossovers, and more. Kellum, you have not failed anything.
Cliché: When you were younger, did you know the entertainment industry is where you wanted to be?
Echo Kellum: Well, I started my career as an actor. I started acting in church plays when I was younger and then school plays. When I was 13, I was fortunate enough to join a theater troupe that did live theater and professional shows. We got paid doing shows throughout Chicago and we performed for thousands of kids. That was kind of where I got my start. Some of my heroes that I look up to, that influenced me to get into acting, are Jim Carrey and Will Smith. Then, as I got older, I started doing stand-up and just really delved into comedy with improv and sketch. I always knew comedic acting was where my heart was, so I moved out to LA and really started getting into the comedy scene, and tried to figure out where I wanted to go with my career. I was fortunate enough to start booking commercials and then television shows.
If you could tell your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?
It would be to keep your head up and that no matter what obstacles life throws at you, know that everything is going to be okay. And know that you will get to do what you love one day.
Season 5 ofArrow has so many things happening. Before you started shooting, what were you anticipating the most this season?
Really coming into the fold as a part of Team Arrow in the vigilante sense was the most exciting part for me and it’s been a whirlwind journey.
What is the dynamic like having huge superhero shows in the same vicinity when you do crossovers?
The dynamic’s really interesting and I think it adds a lot of different energy, a lot of positive energy, that comes with it because I grew up loving these heroes and these characters and seeing the actors that really bring them to life. I love the energy and spirit they bring when we get to crossover and it’s really nice to get to work with different people that you admire.
It’s a given that if you were in The Flash, Curtis would hit it off with Cisco. Who do you think would be Curtis’ confidant in Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow?
I think Curtis would confide in Supergirl. I feel like she’s a nerd and they would have some connection with that. On Legends, I feel like him and Ray Palmer would have a deep connection because of their love of science and technology. Curtis would probably just want to fanboy over how he shrinks into The Atom. I think they would really have a lot of fun science and technological banter back and forth.
If you could have any DC superhero guest star on your show that hasn’t been on yet, who would it be?
Batman! I love Batman. I would love for Batman to show up on one episode.
Arrow and the DC TV Universe has a MASSIVE following now. Have you felt pressure of perfecting Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific’s character?
There’s definitely pressure there, but I think the fans are so awesome, passionate, and willing to go on the journey with you, so they really help in that aspect.
The fandom has a huge liking to Curtis, but what do YOU love most about him?
I love his resilience. You know, that he can take a punch, get up, and keep going. I think that’s a huge thing for people to know: when you get knocked down, get up, and keep persevering. Life will be okay and you will make it through whatever struggles you’re dealing with.
Steering away from television and into music… I also hear you’re working on a hip-hop album! Can you tell us anything about that?
The one thing I can say is that my brother was a rapper from Chicago in this group called LEP, so I’m kind of making an album as an homage to him. I hope for it to be completed by the summer of 2017, but it’s something I’m definitely taking my time with. I have a really busy schedule, so it’s something I’m trying to work on here and there, and put some time into. I’m not really expecting anything from it, but it’s a labor of love because it’s something I’ve always been really passionate about and I’m really doing it for my brother because he passed away.
What do you hope to accomplish in the new year?
Definitely that album; that’s one of my biggest goals. The second goal is my screenplay; I would love to shoot this feature that I’m working on right now about something that happened in my life. And I would love to get picked up for another season of Arrow. That would be great!
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Three factors will determine whether Democrats retake Congress in the November midterm elections
Published Tue, Sep 18 2018 7:00 AM EDT Updated Tue, Sep 18 2018 7:42 AM EDT
John Harwood@johnjharwood
Elections for Congress in November will have a huge impact on the next two years of Donald Trump's presidency.
The results will influence economic and regulatory policies, investigations into administration scandals, and the possibility that Trump will be impeached.
Trump warned of a siege by "violent people" if Democrats recapture Congress. Given the stakes, the rhetoric will only get hotter as Election Day approaches.
Three factors will determine if Democrats will take back Congress
Do Democrats have enough political momentum to seize control of the House and Senate from Republicans in November? Three major factors will shape the outcome.
The first is history. Midterm elections always let voters express discontent with the president.
So the incumbent's party has lost House seats in all but three of the midterm elections of the last century. In each of the last three — 2006, 2010 and 2014 — the opposition party captured control of one or both chambers of Congress.
A second variable is geography.
For the House, where Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to take control, they find targets of opportunity in urban and suburban areas across the country. But the Senate poses a much tougher challenge.
Democrats only need to gain two seats for a Senate majority. But five incumbent Senate Democrats face highly competitive races in states Trump won in 2016 — in some cases by a lot. Of the Democrats' top four prospects for winning Republican seats, three are in states Trump won.
The third factor is the political climate. The classic determinants of political success favor Republicans.
America is not bogged down in a major war. Unemployment has fallen below 4 percent. Stock values have risen. The economy grew at more than 4 percent in the second quarter of the year.
"We have a choice between economic policies that are working and economic policies that didn't work," Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio, who chairs the House GOP campaign, told me recently. "We have a clear choice between safety and security at home and abroad, and a worldview that would eliminate ICE, cut the military, make us less safe. We're selling peace, and we're selling prosperity."
But the president's volatile, divisive style has rallied Democrats to turn out strongly in recent special elections. In particular, it has rallied college-educated women who have favored Republicans in past elections.
Trump's hardcore Republican base among blue-collar voters hasn't been nearly as excited. Increased growth hasn't yet fattened their paychecks, which has become a central Democratic campaign theme.
"Let's start with Donald Trump," Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential prospect, told me. "He made big promises to a lot of people who've just gotten the short end of the stick over and over and over.
"And he not only hasn't delivered on those promises, he's literally turned in exactly the opposite direction," Warren added. "He delivered huge tax cuts to billionaires, he has helped deregulate for big corporations. He has made it easy for the rich and the powerful to get richer and more powerful."
Each party and its candidates have raised more than $1 billion for the battle. But money won't decide who wins.
History shows fewer than half of eligible voters turn out for midterm elections. In 2014, just 36 percent of those eligible showed up.
That makes motivation decisive. And it's why Republicans, including the Republican in the Oval Office, are worried.
"There's a real question as to whether people are going to vote if I'm not on the ballot," Trump told a recent gathering of conservative Christians at the White House. "I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote. If they don't vote, we're going to have a miserable two years."
To alarm his religious audience, Trump warned of a siege by "violent people" if Democrats recapture Congress. Given the stakes, the rhetoric will only get hotter as Election Day approaches.
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Home » Actors on Acting » At 17, Tye Sheridan Already has a Career Many Veteran Actors Would Envy
At 17, Tye Sheridan Already has a Career Many Veteran Actors Would Envy
By Kristyn Burtt April 21, 2014 No Comments
Tye Sheridan is one fortunate 17-year-old kid. He’s worked with directors Terrence Malick on The Tree of Life, Jeff Nichols in Mud and David Gordon Green in Joe. That’s pretty significant list for someone who kicked off his career with such respected talent.
He talked to Indiewire recently about his incredible success in the industry.
Sheridan explained to the Indiewire about what he learned from working with Malick.
He said, “Well I feel like it was a learning experience for me, and he taught me to just be natural in front of the camera. He didn’t give me a script to read. He wanted my dialogue to just feel natural. If I was gonna have dialogue in the scene, he didn’t want it to be written, he didn’t want me to prepare, he just wanted me to say it and improvise. He basically just cast me as the character he wanted me to be in the movie. I was just being myself in front of the camera. But you know, it was a great experience working with him because he is a genius. And it was just such an interesting process.”
The teen was able to take his experience working with the veteran filmmaker to the set of Joe where director Green cast many non-actors. It was a surprising opportunity for Sheridan who understood what he was up against.
“It was great, and if you weren’t careful, some of those non-actors could really show you up. I’m serious, they’re really talented and they have all the confidence in the world because they’re not aware of what could go wrong on a film set, they’re just thinking, ‘Oh man I’m being treated like a prince, and I’m in a movie with Nicolas Cage, and life is great,’ so really they have all the confidence in the world,” he said. “And it’s great to have someone like that to work with, because really they keep you on your toes, and sometimes you don’t know what they’re gonna say, and sometimes what they say is gold, and you just kinda have to roll with whatever they’re doing.”
It’s obvious Sheridan knows what he’s doing. His follow-up films include The Forger with John Travolta, Last Days in the Desert with Ewan McGregor and Dark Places with Charlize Theron.
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Home/From The Paper/Dan Rattiner's Stories/The Pelican: Montauk Fishing Disaster Changes the Rules
Dan Rattiner's Stories
The Pelican: Montauk Fishing Disaster Changes the Rules
Dan Rattiner October 10, 2014
The ill-fated Pelican fishing boat leaves Montauk, destined for disaster in 1951, Photo: Courtesy of the East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection
On the afternoon of September 1, 1951, a boating accident took place off Montauk Point so terrible that for nearly a half-century, the people of that town didn’t want to talk about it. The reason was that the town had only a few years earlier begun to become a tourist town. The first motel had been opened in 1950 by Sam Cox. Forty more were to get built during the 1950s and 1960s. And so there was this tourist economy. The last thing that anybody wanted the tourists to know about were the details of this tragedy. It was all best left unsaid.
The situation in Montauk that year was complicated, to say the least. A fishing village had formed up on Lake Montauk where none had been before. Nearly 30 years earlier, millionaire Carl Fisher had dynamited a waterway between the lake and Long Island Sound as part of a resort he had planned to build but never completed. The result, as far as the fishermen in town were concerned, was that there now was a harbor where fishing boats could safely dock, sheltered from the elements. In 1951, up in the harbor, several restaurants, bait-and-tackle shops and marinas for the boats had opened.
There was another place in Montauk, however, open to the sea, where fishing boats could also dock, and this was at a big pier in Fort Pond Bay. Just a few years earlier, during the war, the government had built a large military facility on the bay to test torpedoes they would use to sink German U-boats. These torpedoes were built in factories in Brooklyn and Queens, put in boxcars on the Long Island Rail Road, and shipped out to the very end of the railroad line to this Navy base on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk.
There, just 100 yards from the beach, the torpedoes could be rolled into the backs of trucks and transported to small motorboats docked at this big pier. The testing of them was quite primitive. They’d be taken, unarmed, out into the bay aboard the motorboats, dropped in the water and switched on so as to head off to a particular buoy. With a seaplane circling around above to monitor their progress, the Navy could tell if the torpedoes hit the buoy or not. Those that failed would be returned to the factory to be adjusted. Those that succeeded would return on railroad cars to be handed over to the Navy in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Of course, when the war was won, there was no need for any torpedo testing station. The Navy moved out but left the buildings and pier standing. If someone else wanted to find a use for this newly built facility, all they had to do was ask. And someone did.
In 1950 some entrepreneurs converted the building at the end of the pier into a facility they called “Fishangri-La.” It was named for a mythical island in the Pacific. The Navy had, during the war, bombed Tokyo from some unknown runway in the Pacific. President Roosevelt said it was the Island of Shangri-La. Fishangri-La consisted of a bar, a restaurant, a marina with boat slips, a boathouse repair shop and a nautical souvenir shop. With marketing to the city, this facility was an instant success. Avid fishermen in Queens, Brooklyn and western Long Island would get up at 4 o’clock in the morning, put on their fishing gear, drive down to Jamaica or Bay Shore and board what the railroad promoted as the Fishermen’s Special, a high-speed cannonball train that took everyone directly to Montauk.
There are famous photos of these fishermen, in the dark at seven in the morning, racing across the railroad tracks to the charter and open fishing boats that now had begun to dock at the pier to accommodate this new business. There were about 20 of them by the summer of 1951. Each could hold 30 or 40 fishermen. There were thus on some occasions 800 fishermen, many of them already full of beer and whiskey, rushing to find their spot on a boat. Nobody wanted to be disappointed in the race to the boats for a spot at a railing to go out to sea to bring in the bluefish, porgies and cod that could be had by the bagful only a half-hour off the Montauk Lighthouse.
The children and grandchildren of many sport-fishing captains today in Montauk mark 1950 as the beginning of popular sport fishing at Montauk. But there is no more Fishshangri-La, and there is more use of the old abandoned pier that juts out into Fort Pond Bay today. The fishing captains anchor their boats today at the fishing village by the jetties to Lake Montauk. What happened on September 1, 1951 ended that time on Fort Pond Bay.
Early on that morning, a Saturday, the Fishermen’s Special arrived at Montauk, and the men, cheering and running, headed over to the pier to climb aboard the boats as they always did.
There are photographs of the boats leaving the pier on that morning. Nearest to the camera is the ship Pelican, a 42-foot charter boat. It is jammed all along the railings on both sides with fishermen—you have a hind view of this ship as it heads out to sea, the rest of the fleet heading off ahead of it—and nobody is giving a second thought that there might be trouble.
The Pelican was the last one out that morning, because one of its two 100-horsepower Chrysler engines was not working. Captain Eddie Carroll could get along with just one. But he’d have to go slower. It was important to him, as it was to every other captain, that all the fishermen on that pier have a good time out at sea aboard the boats. Think about it. They’d come all the way out on the Fishermen’s Special. Would it be possible there were not enough boats? On that morning, there were almost not enough, though the captains could thank Captain Carroll for going out when he should likely not have.
The sun had risen by the time the Pelican had limped out as far as the Montauk Lighthouse. Carroll had known before he left that he’d be staying behind, close to shore, where the others would be headed 10 and 20 miles out into Block Island Sound. You would think he would have told that information to all the fishermen when they boarded his boat. But by the accounts of those who survived what soon happened, he did not.
They were underway 20 minutes when they passed all the sport fishermen in front of their camper busses on the beach at Shagwong Point, already casting their lines, when Captain Carroll told them about his bum engine and how they’d be sticking close to shore and not venture far out to sea. There were collective groans. But hey, they were fishing and there was lots to be caught off the lighthouse.
The trouble came all of a sudden. It started as a small summer shower. There had been no prediction of bad weather that morning. This was a small thing. It would pass soon. Some of the fishermen went into the cabin to get out of the rain for those few minutes. Others remained where they were.
And then, as the sky began to clear and the summer shower began to give way, a great rogue wave appeared further out offshore, off on the starboard side. It was coming right at them and it was clear to everyone that it would hit the boat broadside. There was nothing Captain Carroll could do; no way he could turn to face the wave so it safely could lift them up from the bow and over the top. They’d have to take it as it came. Captain Carroll shouted to everyone to hang on. And they did. The wave arrived 15 feet high, slammed into the boat broadside, and then continued on, leaving them, remarkably, still afloat, though terrified. This wave had rolled the boat way over to the port side. It had righted itself. They were okay. But now, off in the distance, they could see there was another one coming.
Carroll went to the radio in the wheelhouse and shouted out on an emergency channel what was going on. But no one was anywhere near his ship.
As for the passengers, they now all ran to the port side of the ship, away from the approaching wave, desperate to be on that side of the boat when the wave came. The boat tipped to port just from the weight of all the men rushing to that side. And then the second rogue wave hit and they were upside down, the men, screaming and shouting, thrown into the water. Only a few had time to strap on life vests. The rest just went in with their fishing gear. It was chaos.
There was no third rogue wave, by the testimony of the survivors. But there was blood in the water and people splashing around or lying facedown, drowning or drowned already. The ship remained upside down, partially sinking at the stern. Men were in the cabin and could not get out. Men were in the wheelhouse and could not get out.
It would be nearly an hour before the upside-down hull of the Pelican was first observed by other boatmen who had heard the brief cry for help. And it was by accident that they found the Pelican. The captain, who did not survive, had not had time to give out his coordinates. The hull was found floating just offshore the Montauk Lighthouse. Only a few people, alive, were still hanging onto its floating bottom.
In the end, 45 of the known 62 people on board the Pelican that morning died. Many of the bodies, found floating, were fished out of the water and taken to Fishangri-La only 10 miles away, to be laid out on the dock or in the bar for identification.
With that tragedy, the railroad stopped running the Fishermen’s Special to Fishangri-La. And after Labor Day, Fishangri-La closed for the season. The next summer it reopened again but was not the same. After that, it closed for good.
All the fishing boats that had set out from there now moved over to the Lake Montauk fishing village. And the buildings of Fishangri-La became abandoned. An inquest was held, and the Coast Guard said that, had Carroll survived, he could have been found negligent in not directing the fishermen to balance the boat and in not radioing for help in time.
Before the year was out, the Coast Guard was considering strict new rules about how many passengers could be taken out on a fishing boat. There had been no rules about vessels under 15 tons before this.
Montauk went into a mourning period that lasted half a year, and after that, another half-century when nobody wanted to talk about it.
In 1960, just nine years after the Pelican catastrophe, I started Dan’s Papers and The Montauk Pioneer and began publishing some of the remarkable stories about historical events in that town. When it came to the Pelican, however, I was told just one thing.
“Stay away from that story,” people said.
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Our company is managed by an executive group of visionary professionals, supported by a diverse team providing technical, research and development, environmental, operational, financial and marketing excellence. The Darling Ingredients team is led by:
Randall C. Stuewe
Randall Stuewe has served as Darling Ingredient Inc.'s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since February 2003. He brings the company over 25 years of experience at various agriculture processing businesses. From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Stuewe was Executive Vice President at ConAgra Foods, Inc. More recently he was President of Gilroy Foods. Prior to 1996, he spent twelve years in management, sales and trading positions at Cargill, Incorporated.
John O. Muse
Executive Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer
John O. Muse has served as Executive Vice President – Chief Administrative Officer since January 2018. Prior to that, he served as Darling's Chief Financial Officer from December 2014 to March 2017; Chief Synergy Officer, from January 2014 to December 2014; Executive Vice President – Chief Administrative Officer, from September 2012 to December 2013; Executive Vice President – Finance and Administration, from February 2000 to September 2012; and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, from October 1997 to February 2000. Prior to coming to Darling Ingredients, Mr. Muse was Vice President and General Manager at Consolidated Nutrition, L.C. from 1994 to 1997. He also held the position of Vice President of Premiere Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Archer-Daniels Midland Company from 1992 to 1994. From 1971 to 1992, Mr. Muse was Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary at Central Soya Company, Inc.
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BIG, MVRDV, James Corner and more to tackle Bay Area climate change
Dan Howarth | 19 September 2017 17 comments
Ten teams of architects and engineers have been chosen to design solutions that will help San Francisco and the surrounding region combat the effects of climate change.
Resilient by Design's Bay Area Challenge asked entrants to come up with ideas to protect coastal areas from rising sea levels, flooding and earthquakes.
As the global climate warms and these kinds of events appear to be getting more frequent, the region doesn't want to take any chances.
"Rather than wait for a natural disaster, the San Francisco Bay Area is proactively reimagining a better future by creating a blueprint for resilience that harnesses Bay Area innovation and serves as a model for communities around the world," said the challenge's website.
After issuing a design brief at the end of May 2017, the jury announced 10 teams that will embark on a year-long research project earlier this month.
These comprise combinations of architecture, landscape architecture and engineering firms. The 10 are led by Aecom, BIG, Bionic, TLS, James Corner Field Operations, Hassell, Mithun, Base Landscape, Scape and Gensler.
Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
Over the course of the next few months, the design teams will tour areas around the Bay, including the city of San Francisco, to learn about the specific needs of communities and ecosystems.
The teams will present three to five "design opportunities", giving the public the chance to input, before a Research Advisory Committee matches one Design Opportunity to each team.
Site-specific conceptual solutions will then be developed in collaboration with Bay Area experts and community members, with opportunities for public consultations along the way.
Many firms in the chosen teams have experience with designing for climate change and protection against natural disasters. For example, BIG was awarded $335 million to improve Lower Manhattan's storm defences following Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
A similar initiative to Resilient by Design's competition was recently launched by What Design Can Do, Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation, which are asking designers to come up with general proposals in response to the changing climate.
Big U storm defences "will secretly protect Manhattan from flooding" says Bjarke Ingels
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How Design Thinking Helped Create the Light Bulb and Tesla
Written by Digital Surgeons in Design Thinking
on March 22nd, 2017
The design thinking process has been a playbook for innovation strategy for a long time. Even before design thinking was articulated as a well defined process in the second half of the 20th century, its principles have produced remarkable inventions. From Thomas Edison to Tesla motors, human centered design has been the driving force behind innovations that have revolutionized businesses.
1) As pointed out in a Harvard Business Review article, when Edison created the electric light bulb, he thought not in terms of a single device but a whole marketplace. He focused on his customers’ needs (in other words, human centered design):
“Edison’s approach was an early example of what is now called ‘design thinking’—a methodology that imbues the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centered ethos. By this I mean that innovation is powered by a thorough understanding, through direct observation, or what people want and need in their lives and what they like or dislike about the way particular products are made, packaged, marketed, sold, and supported. His approach was intended not to validate preconceived hypotheses but to help experimenters learn something new from each iterative stab [“make it real fast”]. Innovation is hard work; Edison made it a profession that blended art, craft, science, business savvy, and an astute understanding of customers and markets.”
2) Elon Musk and Tesla Motors are reimagining the car, both in regards to its energy source (electric) and its driver (AI). Tesla has also embraced the principles of design thinking. It participated in the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Customer-Focused Innovation program in 2009.
Tesla was featured in a week long project “to immerse participating executives in the practice of corporate innovation and ‘design thinking’."
Like Edison’s focus on not just one invention but how the light bulb could change civilization, Musk and Tesla understand that the car is about more than transportation. It’s about creating a sustainable future for our planet. Don’t just think about a product in isolation from a larger ecosystem. Think about how it functions within and can possibly even transform that ecosystem.
What Edison and Tesla understand is that by designing products quickly, you’ll make mistakes that you will learn from. This is a critical insight of the design thinking process. But I think Woody Allen said it best, “if you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”
Right on, Woody.
Let’s have a chat about how design thinking can drive innovation in your company.
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Grants aim to get more people hunting and fishing: Application deadline is April 4
By News Staff on Mar 9, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.
Groups that help people become hunters or anglers — or keep on hunting or fishing — can apply for grants from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
"Minnesota's hunting and fishing tradition is still strong but we're seeking to address a steady decline in the percentage of people who hunt or fish," said Jeff Ledermann, DNR education and skills supervisor.
Priority in awarding grants will go to programs for new and diverse audiences and those with an ongoing impact rather than one-time events. Types of activities could include fishing or hunting educational programs, clinics, workshops, camps, or funding for fishing and hunting equipment and transportation.
"Potential applicants should know that this has been a very competitive grant process, so we're advising groups to consider how their programs provide ongoing support for people who want to hunt or fish," Ledermann said.
Groups may apply for this round of grants through Thursday, April 4. The grant program began in 2015 and this is the fifth round of grants. In this round, awards will range from $5,000 to $49,999. A total of $300,000 in grant funds is available in this fifth-round cycle. Funded projects must be located in Minnesota and completed by June 30, 2020.
As in the last round, there is no required funding match. Organizations are nonetheless encouraged to include a cash or in-kind match in their project proposal. In-kind contributions can be in the form of labor, materials, or services. Match amounts will be considered in the selection process.
To learn more about the DNR's work in recruitment, retention and reactivation (R3), and to find grant application requirements, visit mndnr.gov/r3.
Details about the grant and a list of award winners can be found at the link under "Help others discover."
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by Mark Greig
“They’re watching Snow White. And they love it.”
Directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg, Gremlins is a Christmas horror movie for children. What is not to love about that?
I first saw Gremlins at just the right age, when was I still young enough to find a lot of it scary, but also old enough to get many of the jokes. The film manages to find a comfortable balance between laughs and scares. It's because of this mixture of comedy and horror that Gremlins has long been one of my favourite festive movies.
The Christmas setting is crucial to the film's appeal. This isn't just a convenient backdrop for the action to take place, but an integral part of the film's DNA. From the moment we arrive in Kingston Falls, Christmas is everywhere. You simply can't escape it. The town is a picture postcard American small town right out of Frank Capra's imagination. It is easy to imagine George Bailey living just a few doors down from Billy. It even has its own Mr. Porter in the form of mean old Mrs. Deagle. The film celebrates this romanticised view of the festive period, before turning it into the war zone.
It is when the Gremlins are unleashed on the town that Dante puts horror aside and goes for all out comedy. There's an almost a Looney Toons quality to the chaos they bring to Kingston Falls. One minute they're firing Mrs. Deagle out the window like a rocket, the next they're taking over the local and doing Flashdance parodies. The film reaches its comedic apex when the Gremlins gather in the movie theatre and start singing along to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This is what makes Gremlins great and stand out from all other little 'monsters on the loose' films like Critters. If the Gremlins had just been a group of murderous little monsters who go around killing people, I doubt the film would've worked as well as it does. These are creatures of pure mischief who revel in the destruction they cause.
As fun as they are, the film never makes the mistake of letting the comedy undermine the threat the Gremlins pose. The attack on Billy's mother and the final showdown with Stripe are played mainly for horror than comedy. But the film never goes too far, just managing to keep on the right side of family friendly. There is violence and gore, but they are kept to a minimum. Well, human gore is. Throughout the film various Gremlins get sliced, diced, stabbed, decapitated, microwaved and I don't even know how to describe what happens to Stripe. All I can say is that it is spectacularly yucky.
Columbus's early script was actually much darker and horrific than the finished film. Billy's mother was decapitated, they also ate his dog, and Gizmo was supposed to transform into a gremlin. We have Spielberg to thank for that being exercised. Billy might be the traditional official human hero, but Gizmo is the true heart and soul of the film. He's just the cutest little movie critter that has ever been. Even the Terminator couldn't look at those puppy-dog eyes without going “Awwww”. And let's not forget, he's the one who ultimately saves the day and defeats the bad guy in his little pink toy car. He may be cute, but this little Mogwai will still kick your ass.
— I credit this film, rather than Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as the reason I had have such a crush on Phoebe Cates.
— Speaking of which, Kate's tale about how she found out there was no Santa Claus has to the bleakest, most depressing Christmas story ever told. Even having your home town invaded by destructive green monsters doesn't compare to that.
— Admit it, some of you are humming Jerry Goldsmith's Gremlins theme right now, ain't ya?
— This film has a nice take on Chekhov's gun. If in the first act you have hung a sword on the wall, then in the following one it should be used to slice off a Gremlin's head.
— Mrs Peltzer is pretty badass. She takes down three Gremlins in less than a minute, whereas Billy struggles with just one.
— So much death and destruction because Corey Feldman was the klutz. I can't believe they later let that kid join the Goonies.
— Gremlins and Back To The Future were both shot on the same Universal Studios back lot, meaning Hill Valley and Kingston Falls are one and the same.
— The Sheriff's deputy is played by Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks. I like to think this the real reason why Mike Ehrmantraut left the force.
— Like most of Joe Dante's films, Gremlins has in-jokes and cameos galore. Keep your eyes peeled for the likes of Steven Spielberg, Chuck Jones and even Robbie The Robot.
Gizmo: "Bright light! Bright light!"
Deagle: "I want your dog."
Billy: "Barney?"
Deagle: "Give him to me. I'll take him to the kennel, they'll put him to sleep. It will be quick and painless compared to what I would do to him."
Billy: "What could you do?"
Deagle: "I'll catch the beast myself. He'll get what he deserves, a slow painful death. Maybe I'll put him in my spin-drier on high heat."
Mr. Anderson: "That would do it all right!"
Randall: "Well, that's the story. So if your air conditioner goes on the fritz or your washing machine blows up or your video recorder conks out; before you call the repairman turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, 'cause you never can tell there just might be a gremlin in your house."
Four out of four bathroom buddies.
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J.D. Balthazar said...
I sort of liked the original Gremlins when I was a kid. I think it was a little too gross for me at the time. Of course my ick tolerance has increased exponentially since then, and the jokes aren't lost on me anymore. In other words it has grown on me over the years.
I love the score, and some of the death scenes were very well done. The kitchen scene in particular was awesome, and totally gross.
However, for me the sequel is my favorite of the two. It went to stranger places, kept up some of the horror, but made it campy fun. Plus it had John Glover as a egomanicial television network CEO.
I still whistle Gizmo's little diddy ever so often when I'm standing in line. I actually spooked one guy out a little several years back. He started to look around in a panic, then spotted me and took a deep breath. I waved at him, while trying not to lose it.
The original Gremlins is one of a kind, and I can tell how much you love it Mark, so thank you for the great review.
Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 9:52:00 AM PST
CrazyCris said...
Excellent! It's been so long since I saw Gremlins... fond scary memories!!!
Hmmm... I totally forgot it was set around Christmas! Never thought of it as a Christmas film! :p
Mark Greig said...
J,D., there's a lot of things I love about Gremlins 2 (John Glover being one of them), but in terms of story I've always thought of it as the weaker film.
Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 4:12:00 PM PST
PlatinumRosebud said...
I fell in love with Gizmo after watching this in the theater.
Then named our family dog after him as soon as we got one that year. :)
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 3:58:00 AM PST
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Communications Minister Alex White promotes digital inclusion at British Irish Council
Douglas, Isle of Man 28 November 2014
Attending the British Irish Council (BIC) in Douglas, Isle of Man, today (Friday) Minister for Communications, Alex White T.D., outlined measures being taken by Ireland to ensure that citizens have internet skills and access to high quality broadband. He outlined the Government's National Digital Strategy (NDS), which includes a range of initiatives to encourage internet use and help people develop digital skills. He also outlined progress being made under the Government's National Broadband Plan, which aims to bring at least 30mbps connectivity to every home and business in the country.
The summit focussed on increasing digital inclusion as technology becomes more prevalent in everyday life and the provision of public services.
Speaking after the BIC summit, Minister White said: "I am determined that people get both the infrastructure and the knowledge they need to cross the digital divide and access the information, ideas and opportunities that come with internet connectivity. That's why I recently expanded the BenefIT programme, and that's why I'm determined that every home, school and business in Ireland will have high-speed broadband access, with the Government intervening to provide the infrastructure in areas where the market will not."
The latest phase of the National Broadband Plan was implemented earlier this week with the publication of an online map, which allows the public to identify their own home or business to see whether their high-speed broadband will be provided by a commercial operator or through State intervention.
Minister White also told the Council that the Republic of Ireland's BenefIT scheme was providing digital training to over 550 people a week. Over 28,800 people have been trained in six hundred locations across Ireland in the past 12 months. Over 109,000 – 20% of them unemployed – have been trained since the programme began.
The British Irish Council was established under the 1998 Multi-Party Agreement (the 'Good Friday Agreement') to promote links between the Northern Ireland Executive and the governments of the Republic of Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. Today's Isle of Man Summit was the 23rd to be held since the inaugural meeting of the BIC in 1999.
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Why does the audience cheer in the middle of a ...
Why does the audience cheer in the middle of a song and ruin it?
Author: Christen, 1 month ago
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If you ever watch any of those shows like Voice Kids, American Idol, and America's Got Talent, you will know what I am talking about. Basically you will have the little girl or whatever, singing on the stage, and it's great and beautiful and all, but then the audience gets noisy for no reason, thus ruining the song.
It's like going to a restaurant to order some amazingly cooked food, but having it spat on by a couple dozen people, thus ruining the cook's hard work. When I listen to someone sing, I want to hear them and them only, not the audience. The audience should be cheering before or after the singing, but not right in the middle of it. How do you all feel about this?
Here's a few examples of covers ruined by the audience making noise. I can't even download the song and listen to it offline because I will hear the part where the audience cheers and it is just so annoying! Sometimes, this results in the singer having to sing louder and harder so that she can still even be heard over the noisy audience.
https://youtu.be/Wmnut7mYNKM?t=8 This one isn't too bad, but the audience cheers loudly for a bit, then goes silent.
https://youtu.be/f6XmSBW2O3s?t=53 Here when the little reaches the "I am titaniummm" part, the audience claps like crazy, even though she isn't done yet.
https://youtu.be/b1NVOsatpF0?t=183 Here it gets even worse. Just a few seconds after the girl starts, the audience act like fanatical banshees on steroids.
https://youtu.be/mskOhEyVARQ?t=42 In this one, the idiot in the green shirt slams a red button for no reason, thus making unnecessary noise, and as if that wasn't enough, it is followed by the audience going wild, making even more unnecessary noise.
https://youtu.be/PgXTzOkCUI8?t=128 Somehow this habit of making unnecessary noise in the middle of performance has found it's way into one of my favorite cartoons...
https://youtu.be/Lm3rheXZiYw?t=48 Again, the audience is clapping and making noise, thus screwing up the otherwise amazing song.
https://youtu.be/Zg3RS-m0_3k?t=66 Doesn't matter whether it's actually a girl or just a talking stuffed animal, the audience still makes noise in the middle of the song.
If they're going to have a girl sing on stage with audience making noise, the least they could do is have an alternate version of that song where there is no background noise from the audience, so that I can just hear the girl and nothing else that I do not want to hear. Do you get frustrated about this stuff too, or am I just making a big deal out of it?
K_Michael
Added: 05.31.19 11:05PM
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I also find that really annoying. I don't have the slightest clue as to why people feel they should do that.
Stronn
They do it because it's a contest. Cheering a good part of a performance is like cheering a 3-pointer.
SupaDudz
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I think its only in music videos, but dont quote me
In Greek Music, the crowd noise in the beginning is VERY COMMON in the 80s and 90s
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"In Greek Music, the crowd noise in the beginning is VERY COMMON in the 80s and 90s".
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WaterPhoenix
Well in classical concerts a lot of the audience aggravatingly claps in between the movements of a symphony even though you're supposed to clap after the symphony is finished. This really isn't there fault it's mostly because they don't know the piece and don't know whether it's finished or not or is just, ya' know plain annoying.
Outplayz
First of all.. i'm going to assume you've never preformed for people. Real quick though, most of your videos are from those contest shows so idk if they cue the audience to cheer... you never know with tv shows of that nature. In real shows, people cheer on their favorite parts. It could be a line in the lyrics everyone likes, it could be a high / low note everyone likes, it could be a solo or just riff everyone likes... i imagine if the contest shows aren't staged, that's why they are cheering... the person is either good so they're impressed, or a high note or vocal tone people are impressed with...
But... most importantly, as a musician, getting that crowd feedback is everything. It pumps you up like no other bc you know the crowd is into it. That makes you play more passionately and energizes you. You have to realize... musicians are playing the same song over and over and over and over again... if the crowd never got into it and stayed silent.... that would be a miserable gig. So... if you're seeing a band... don't just stand there like a dead zombie... get into it and get others into it... and the music will be all the better.
I'm surprised everyone commenting so far is agreeing with the zombie side (minus stronn i think). If you are going to stand there like a zombie and not cheer... that's just weird, maybe go see someone you're more into... idk. Trust me, the musicians know how to get you to a zombie point too... Just as a musician gets energy from hearing the cheers, they know when they drop something hard on you that sounds deep... it should shut the crowd up. It's an amazing feeling all around as a musician feeling the crowd be under your musical control. It reminds the musician of the first time they made the song, and takes the feeling of playing that song a hundred times away.
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I agree that getting the feedback is great. I'm not saying the audience should never cheer. I'm not saying the people should act like zombies. I'm just saying they should wait until the music is finished before giving the feedback and cheering. Imagine if you were giving a speech or a TED Talk and the audience started cheering and making noise, even though you weren't done yet. That would be rude. How do you expect people like me to focus on the song when it is being interrupted by something that isn't part of the song?
I'm surprised everyone commenting so far is agreeing with the zombie side (minus stronn i think). If you are going to stand there like a zombie and not cheer... that's just weird, maybe go see someone you're more into... idk. Trust me, the musicians know how to get you to a zombie point too... Just as a musician gets energy from hearing the cheers, they know when they drop something hard on you that sounds deep... it should shut the crowd up. It's an amazing feeling all around as a musician feeling the crowd be under your musical control.
I'm not entirely sure if musicians getting energy from cheers is worth all the disruptive noise. If anything it would probably make the musician lose his/her concentration, because they could be trying to focus on singing or playing the instrument to the best of their ability since it could be something very difficult for them.
I don't want anyone else reading my post and then getting the wrong idea that I want the audience to never cheer or get excited. I apologize if it seems like that's what I wanted.
I'm just saying they should wait until the music is finished before giving the feedback and cheering.
You're one of the very few minority that gets annoyed when people cheer. Most people like it bc it pumps them up, and the band likes it. It energizes them. I am a musician and have preformed in front of people... trust me, it's not distracting. I've never heard of a musician that messed up bc the audience cheered. When the audience only cheers in the end... it feels fake. When they are with you and cheer on their favorite parts, you know you're doing good. Audience feedback is every and every musician expects it... hopefully. There are songs i created specifically with the intent that "hopefully" people would start jumping up and down and make noise on the riff. When it happened, i knew we nailed it... when it didn't, i felt we were sucking or the crowd wasn't into it. Like i said, you're in the minority of people that find this to be annoying or distracting. But hey, you do you. Just don't go to a concert expecting people to be like you bc they will likely not do what you like... you always have the cd or audio to listen to if you don't want to hear cheers.
a speech or a TED Talk
I forget which fallacy this is... red herring? Anyways, we're talking about music which is totally different. Now, on some things i agree with you. But even then, i just understand some people are different than me. The cheer bc they get hyper excited... i really can't say i dislike that bc those people are happy... but i agree when people do it in "certain" movies it's annoying. But, i found a way around that... i don't watch movies when they just come out bc the more extroverted people do... they're usually the cheery type. So, i wait 3 or 4 weeks to see the movie with introverts and i usually don't get the whole cheer during a movie thing. But see... that's a whole different topic. When it comes to music, cheering is expected in my opinion. It pumps me up as an audience member and i know it pumps the band up too. Now... i've never been to a classical music thing... maybe they're different, i don't know they're etiquette. But, most live "bands" or "singers" ... you're on the opposite side of what's expected. Doesn't make you wrong, you are just one of the few that annoys in those situations/places.
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'Crazy Rich Asians' sparkles at box office
Monday 20 August 2018 - 6:54am
LOS ANGELES - Highly anticipated rom-com "Crazy Rich Asians" -- the first Hollywood film with a mainly Asian cast in a generation -- dazzled the North American box office in its debut weekend, claiming the top spot.
The Warner Bros. adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel of the same name raked in $34-million since hitting theatres on Wednesday, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said. Of the total, the film took in $25.2-million at the weekend.
Starring veteran actress Michelle Yeoh, British-Malaysian former BBC host Henry Golding and American sitcom star Constance Wu, the film tells the story of an American economics professor who meets her super-wealthy boyfriend's family in Singapore -- and all the drama that ensues.
It is the first Tinseltown film with a predominantly Asian cast since "The Joy Luck Club" in 1993.
Shark thriller "The Meg" tumbled to second place in its second week, taking in $21.2-million. It stars action movie regular Jason Statham as a rescue diver who tries to save scientists in a submarine from an attack by a huge, prehistoric shark.
"Mile 22" -- a new spy thriller-action flick starring Mark Wahlberg -- opened in third place at $13.6-million.
Another debut film, prehistoric adventure tale "Alpha," shared fourth place at $10.5-million with summer blockbuster "Mission: Impossible - Fallout."
The latest instalment in the "M:I" franchise has now taken in $180.7-million overall.
Army deployed in Cape Town's crime-riddled townships
Two behind bars in Australia in SA-linked cocaine bust
The picture of the couple next to a lion they have just killed caused outrage on social media.
Johnny Clegg opened up about his music and South Africa's strengths and shortcomings.
Most South Africans are broke by mid-month
Women are the hardest hit because they take care of their children and families.
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Board index Talking Point Talking Point Homework
The Army
For use with Talking Point worksheets
Post by TalkingPoint » Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:45 pm
The Cavalry
Soldiers in the cavalry were trained to fight on horseback – in fact the word ‘cavalry’ originates in the French word for horse: cheval. The use of horses meant that these troops could move quickly, carry out surprise attacks on the enemy and retreat at speed if necessary.
In the distant past chariots were used as well as horses, but as time passed, the chariots disappeared and were replaced by warriors on horseback. This took time because horses were smaller in those days and had difficulty carrying a warrior in full armour. In addition to this, it was easier to fight from a chariot than from horseback as early warriors had no saddles, stirrups etc with which to steady themselves during a battle. The use of chariots in battles died out in Roman times – the exceptions being for ceremonial duties and chariot-racing. Eventually the use of armour died out, but not until the 17th century.
After the end of World War I cavalry units had to be modernised – horses were often replaced with tanks. Exceptions do exist but carry out ceremonial roles – royal or state duties, for example.
The Artillery
The word ‘artillery’ has a disputed origin. Some believe it comes from the French word ‘artillier’. An artillier, from the 1200s on, was someone who built war weaponry. Others believe that the word may come from the Italian ‘arte de tirare’ which means ‘the art of shooting’.
Once upon a time the word artillery was used to describe soldiers who used projectile weapons, such as guns and cannons but now it has also come to mean the weapons themselves.
The role of the artillery was originally to break down castle walls and the like. Of course, it has come a long way since then and now has a range of highly flexible weapons at its disposal, such as machine-guns and missiles.
Artillery has been used since Roman times but the adoption of gunpowder (discovered in China in the 9th century) in weaponry in the Middle Ages meant that artillery equipment no longer needed to be limited by the use of mechanical devices (e.g. catapults) to launch ammunition at the enemy.
Artillery units are not used for combat at close quarters - for that the army uses the infantry.
The Infantry
Soldiers in the infantry are trained to fight on foot, face-to-face with the enemy. They must be extremely fit and are trained to be more aggressive than other army units. Their job is traditonally to attack the enemy, kill him in close combat (or capture him) and hold the ground. Nowadays they also carry out patrols, raids, escort duties and the collecting of intelligence. History tells us the infantry are the oldest type of fighting force, existing before either the artillery or the cavalry. In the past they would have fought with clubs and lances, nowadays they use guns and hand-grenades, etc. The infantry used to fight in formation, rank after rank marching into battle but modern infantry tends to work in smaller units which are able to keep in touch thanks to the advanced made in communications in more recent times. Since the end of World War II however, the infantry has not expanded at the same rate as the artillery in modern armies. This is due to the fact that the technology required by the military has become more and more advanced and because the role of logistics in modern warfare has been recognised and expanded.
Se also: Women and homosexuals should not be allowed to join the army
Quick Quiz: Read the clues below and write the solutions on a piece of paper. Then take the first letter of each answer and rearrange them to find the hidden word connected with this Talking Point.
1. The word ‘cavalry’ __________ in the French word for horse: cheval.
2. It was easier to fight from a chariot than from horseback as early warriors had no __________, stirrups etc with which to steady themselves during a battle.
3. The use of chariots in battles died out in __________ times.
4. The word ‘artillery’ has a __________ origin.
5. Soldiers in the __________ are trained to fight on foot, face-to-face with the enemy.
6. Nowadays the infantry also carry out patrols, raids, __________ duties and the collecting of intelligence.
7. The role of __________ in modern warfare has been recognised and expanded.
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Top Entrepreneurs To Look For in 2018
Image credit: Courtesy of Stankevicius MGM
Our list of some of the most interesting and notable entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2018 highlights CEOs and founders making waves. Venture capital investment in startups has surged to its highest level ever — $148 billion last year alone. What’s more, in the last 12 months, more than 40 VC-backed companies achieved billion-dollar valuations and joined the unicorn club. At the same time, though, deal count and the number of VC-backed IPOs are down, suggesting that some of the froth in the tech market is falling away and startups are increasingly being required to earn into their valuations. Combine this with solid expansion of the economy, steady job growth, adjustment of the business tax code, and a booming stock market, and you’ve got the most fertile soil for entrepreneurial companies to grow in that we’ve seen in years. Take a look at some of these top millennials, growth hackers, and flat out rockstars that are making strides in 2018:
1. Zachary Dempsey, 19 — CEO of Slogan Social
As CEO of Slogan Social, an influencer marketing and social media management company, Zachary Dempsey and his team oversee the management of hundreds of the most influential accounts on Twitter and Instagram. With a combined following of over 250 million, Slogan Social achieves over 2.5 billion organic impressions per month.
"In today's age of digital marketing, brands are struggling to keep the attention of their consumers, in order to stay relevant brands need to embrace new mediums and leave behind old strategies."
2. Alain Meier, 23 — CEO & Co-Founder, Cognito
Founded when Alain was a student at Stanford University; Cognito (formerly Blockscore) launched with a vision to solve global compliance and identity issues. Today, Cognito powers compliance and KYC services for companies like Nextdoor, Coinbase, and AngelList.
Cognito focuses on simplifying identity verification through cutting-edge technology, seamless integrations, and partnerships. Their technology is a full spectrum verification solution, built to optimize the customer signup experience, complete with a developer-first infrastructure.
"User verification shouldn't come at the expense of user experience. It's crucial to ensure the first stage of the customer journey is as seamless and secure as possible," says Meier. "Cognito adapts to our customers' existing signup flow rather than defining it."
3. Stefan Furlan, 35 — Director of View.ly
Stefan is a serial entrepreneur with a PhD in computer science from the University of Ljubljana. Stefan is a founder, partner or director of several startups in data science, analytics and blockchain space, including Dodona Analytics, Unblock Technology, Behaviour Exchange and Optilab.
Most recently, major video sharing platforms have announced changes to monetization programs, which has stifled the content creators ability to monetize - particularly smaller channels. Sensing the opportunity, Stefan founded View.ly - a decentralized video platform which eliminates the need for ads by utilizing the patronage model, allowing creators to use fan support, micro-payments, sponsorships, memberships, premium content and more to monetize their content. Viewly aims to provide sustainable revenue for all creators, not just mainstream content producers.
“We are opening up opportunities for creators who have loyal
audiences that don’t function well within the current ad-based model,” says Furlan.“Viewly allows them to build a profitable channel without having to build an entire business.”
4. Jesse Leimgruber, 23 — Co-Founder and CEO, NeoReach
Jesse studied computer science at Stanford University, serves as an advisor to The Alchemist Accelerator, a Thiel Fellow, and a mentor at the European Innovation Academy. He’s served as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, The University of Southern California, DePaul, among others. Jesse founded an enterprise analytics software, NeoReach while a student at Stanford alongside his brother, P.J.
NeoReach provides analytics for Fortune 500 brands including Microsoft, Citrix, Walmart, among others. They’re currently collecting and analyzing data on social media influencers audience across all major social channels to help brands make the most informed decisions when using channels like influencer marketing to reach new audiences.
5. Joshua Cartagenova, MBA — CEO, Therapy Source Staffing Solutions
Josh hails from a background in marketing and leadership in the technology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and financial industries. It's no wonder that after co-founding Therapy Source Staffing Solutions with his wife Stacey, he has focused his efforts on providing the company with leadership, operational management, and strategic insight. Through his hard work -- and that of his team, Therapy Source has made the Inc. 5000 list for 9 years in a row -- a feat most companies never achieve even once. For those that don't know Therapy Source (www.txsource.com), the company is focused on providing comprehensive in-person and online staffing services and solutions to educational institutions nationwide. As a leading provider of special education services, Therapy Source is literally changing lives. According to Josh, "the code we operate under is being an ethical business, and striving to provide the highest quality therapists. Our clients entrust us with their children, so we always ask ourselves who is the best, most-qualified person to help?" That entrepreneurial spirit, combined with his desire to help others, has certainly earned him -- and his company -- a place on our list.
6. Denis Globa, Konstantin Ivanov, Andrew Kirillov and Stan Bokov — Founders of TradingView
TradingView is the largest social network for retail traders and investors with over 7,000,000 monthly active users worldwide.The company recently broke into the top 500 websites in the world on Alexa. Users get trading ideas, a free web-based trading platform to analyze stocks, futures, indexes, Forex and crypto, while discussing in real-time. TradingView's free charting widgets are used on over 40,000 sites worldwide, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Investopedia, SeekingAlpha, Zacks, Crunchbase, and many others.
“We're democratizing finance by empowering regular people to talk about the markets in a safe and transparent way. The community enables a learning cycle, where users can message tens of thousands of other people, ask their opinion, get trading ideas, do market research and analysis - and all of it for free. Anyone should have access to top-notch tools that used to be reserved only for the pros. It's all about leveling the playing field! The next step is being able to manage your portfolio with E*TRADE, Robinhood and other top brokers around the world.
7. Mark Stephen Meadows — CEO & Founder, Botanic Technologies, Inc
Meadows began his AI career in 2000 at Xerox-PARC where he focused on AI and interactive narrative. Founding Botanic in 2011 he approached AI from the user perspective. Today Botanic provides the tools to deploy multi-modal, trusted bots to Fortune-100s, government agencies, and startups around the globe. These AI characters converse via text chat, video chat, and even VR/AR in which the system is able to speak, see, and measure user emotion.
"We all know that industries as broad as healthcare, finance, education and other industries will be impacted by AI. What we don't know is how. Once upon a time, the computer and calculator were desk jobs: now they are automated tools. What will happen to clinicians, CPAs, teachers and other knowledge workers? All we can see is that conversational AI needs to be humane, and democratic. We're now exploring uses of Blockchain so that AI does not eliminate jobs, but creates them."
8. Gabriel Rene — Founder of VERSES
VERSES is a location-based, virtual asset management protocol that enables developers to create applications that allow users to securely interact and collaborate with virtual objects across platforms, devices, and locations and allows them to be purchased and transferred between virtual spaces and the real world.
“We are powering the largest potential asset class in the blockchain space.
We think that provenance and persistence of 3D virtual objects is the key to a multi-trillion dollar Virtual and Augmented Reality market that is predicted to revolutionize nearly every major industry over the next decade. VERSES utilizes next generation blockchain technologies to provide virtual objects the missing proof of existence, ownership, and location-awareness necessary for cross-platform interoperability in the virtual and real world.”
9. Yuval Samson — Co-Founder and CEO, Eyecon Global, Ltd
www.eyecon-app.com
Yuval Samson comes from a background in telecommunications and has a track record leading software and mobile service companies. After realizing that our current communication methods needed to evolve, he created Eyecon with his co-founder, Erez Dado. The Eyecon App, available on google Play and iTunes, is rapidly changing the way we communicate -- from across the street to across the globe. "It is so important for people to connect on a much more intimate level, even through smartphones," says Yuval. "When we engage our brains in the communication process through visual stimuli, we respond much faster and much more intimately to our calls and texts, than when we simply see numbers and letters on our screens." The app, which is both fee and ad free, pulls pictures and inserts them automatically into contact lists. In fact, his app is the only dialer available today that not only works in your caller id, but also across multiple messaging platforms. For his commitment to enhancing our communication -- and our relationships -- Yuval Samson is one of the top entrepreneurs to watch in 2018.
10. Shannon Travis, 46 — Founder, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Higher Glyphs Content Group
www.higherglyphs.com
Travis has earned a spot on our list for what he’s doing — and for what he’s done. He’s a former CNN journalist who shares an EMMY win and has traveled to nearly all 50 U.S. states covering all manner of personal, political and national stories - even covering and traveling with Vice President Joe Biden. Now, he puts his experience to work running the communications, content and branding startup he founded. His company, the Washington D.C.-based Higher Glyphs Content Group, has a unique communications approach: it relies on Travis’ storytelling expertise to create marketing and communications that are heavy on powerful narratives. Higher Glyphs clients who’ve praised this approach come from sports, entertainment, finance, corporate real estate, health and beauty and government organizations. In under two short years, Travis is projected to take Higher Glyphs to $600,000 in revenue. “We recognize that in today’s cluttered communications environment, it’s hard to breakthrough to new audiences,” Travis said. “So we aim for disruption. Our unique narrative approach helps clients gain traction. We have been blessed with a terrific response and we’re executing an aggressive growth plan for the company.”
11. Marvin Coles, 50 — President and CEO, The Coles Group
www.thecolesgroupdc.com
Coles is on our list for having one of those classic, self-made American success stories. In 2015 he founded The Coles Group, an SBA 8A company based in Washington, D.C. and specializing in Temporary Help Services, Consulting Services, as well as Technical and Grant Writing Services. The Coles Group is unlike competitors in that it’s CEO is extremely hands-on in all client projects, allowing customers to take advantage of his 25-years of sales and client management experience. And the company has been highly noted for finding, developing and deploying pools of talented candidates. The efforts and reputation are paying off. Since 2015, The Coles Group has grown to $2 million in revenue; it’s won a key 2017 Small Business of The Year Award from the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development and The D.C. Chamber of Commerce; and Coles Group clients come from over 25 local and federal government agencies. “We are ecstatic at the client response and loyalty we’ve seen,” Coles said. “Now we are aggressively expanding the company into new growth sectors, including international markets.”
"Consumer attention is shifting. Children and millennials today are not watching TV. They're not listening to radio. We've seen what happens when brands fail to adapt, RadioShack, Toys R Us... brands that are not able to pivot their marketing strategies will fall victim to a changing media environment. At NeoReach, we focus on building the future of marketing and data, allowing marketers to comfortably allocate budget and spend to influencers and new media,” says Jesse Leimgruber.
12. Andrew McCarthy, 19
Andrew has earned a spot on this list due to success in the ecommerce and dropshipping space. At the age of 19, McCarthy has driven $100,000+ revenues on a monthly basis to his stores. He uses a combination of marketing from social platforms such as facebook, instagram, and twitter. These platforms allow Andrew to place his advertisements in front of millions users daily in hopes of sending them to his stores.
Along with owning many different ecommerce stores, McCarthy has begun teaching others how to take advantage of the space by offering help to other people who are interested in the ecommerce space. Andrew plans to continue to grow his stores and teachings in 2018, while investing into other ventures on the side. If you’d like to get into the ecommerce space, you can follow @andrewmccarthy_ or go to www.zmentors.org for more information.
“Right now we are living in a time where you can make five figures in one day off your laptop from anywhere in the world,” McCarthy told me. “With the opportunity to reach millions of people from an instagram influencer, facebook ad, or twitter impressions, ecommerce stores are thriving. I aim to continue to take advantage of this digital gold rush and help others in doing so as well.”
13. Gregory Meade, 23 — Novlte, The King Brand, CROSSNET
Greg has earned a spot on the list because of his entrepreneurial ventures. At age 23, he has been successful at creating brands from scratch and turning them into million-dollar companies. Greg's social media skills paired with connections made along the way has allowed him to efficiently scale all three brands while eliminating common startup mistakes.
Greg has been successful in building personal relationships with some of the most popular social media influencers in the world. His two companies, Glunt and The King, have grown into household names due to the power of influencer marketing on both Twitter and Instagram. As his companies evolve, he plans to bring these strategies and tactics to his newest project,
CROSSNET, the world's first four-way volleyball game.
“Dominating a social media platform is the key to eCommerce success,” Meade told me. “My goal is to keep building an empire and to continue to bring innovative products to market. I want my family and friends to be set. If I slow down now, none of that will be possible. This is only the beginning.”
You can keep up with Greg and his latest moves on Instagram @woeismeade.
14. Davante Rowe, 26 — Novlte, The King Brand, Vegi
Davante has validated his spot on the list after spearheading the success of Novlte, a 420 eCommerce company, grossing over a million in sales within 12 months of launch. At age 19, Davante started his first company, The King Brand, and he admits the mission of getting people to gravitate toward your product was certainly more challenging than he anticipated. He quickly learned that developing a strong brand is vital to the success of an eCommerce company. A lot of Davante's triumph with online marketing is attributed to his skillful abilities in branding products and convincing the market that his products offers something truly unique and transformative.
In addition to Davante’s mastery of online branding, he has also been able to build a strong network of influencers and publishers with a combined reach of over 10 million people in a single day. These affiliates help develop content and communicate to their audiences what about Davante's products makes it worth purchasing.
“A fundamental understanding of human nature should be at the forefront of any marketing strategy," Davante told me. "We are all impacted by the convictions of the individuals we come in contact with everyday, whether that be a sibling, parent or a social media icon we've never met. So as an entrepreneur, if I can convince the most popular icons on social media that my product is what's hot, I stand a good chance at getting their audience to adopt a similar sentiment.”
Davante is now looking to apply his knowledge and skillset to the beauty industry, leading the launch of Vegi, the first natural edible beauty brand. You can keep up with Davante and his latest ventures by connecting with him on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davanterowe
15. Dusty Varpness, 23 — Founder of Cryptoinsiders.io
Serial entrepreneur (ranked #2 millennial to watch out for in 2018) has found himself continuously identifying and executing new cryptocurrency trends. Pairing his past experience as a certified financial advisor, along with his passion for blockchain technology he has quickly grabbed the attention of many cryptocurrency investors and advocates. In a little less than a year he has gained thousands of loyal cryptocurrency and blockchain technology followers.
Varpness has many documented 5 figure profit trades along with his most recent grossing him $50k (1,600%) profit on a single $3k investment. His latest venture, Cryptoinsiders.io offers everything from introductory level education about what bitcoin/blockchain technology is, to daily swing trades for more advanced crypto experts. The goal of Cryptoinsiders.io is to help members make sense of this mysterious new world of blockchain technology and take their cryptocurrency experience to the next level. Varpness firmly believes blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are the way of the future and will have a lasting impact on our world.
16. Jithin V G
Jithin started Accubits Technologies (www.accubits.com), an AI & Blockchain focused solutions company, with a seed investment of 30,000 USD in 2016 and over a period of 18 months, he grew it into a multi-million dollar business. He believes that AI & Blockchain have the capability to augment our abilities to innovate and push this world forward for good. Accubits currently have their presence in 12 countries and work mostly with Governments and Fortune 500 companies. He has also co-founded Accubits ventures, a seed stage PE fund focusing on AI & Blockchain startups through which he has invested in 8 companies over the period of 6 months. He also started a Blockchain & AI research lab in Trivandrum, Kerala, to push the frontiers of these technologies. One of his companies - Coinfactory(www.icoplatform.tech) has hosted 13 ICOs and raised over $120 million USD for their customers so far. He has also served as the advisor for several major ICOs.
17. Pavel Osokin, 32 — Founder and CEO of Como Capital
Pavel Osokin got on the list, thanks to an innovation that raises the status of the entire cryptocurrency industry. His company Como Capital developed a platform for conducting ICOs, which started the DAICO story in 2017, before Vitalik Buterin introduced this concept of distributed enterprises. The main link of the platform was the smart contract Smart Escrow, which protects investors' funds and enhances the status of any ICO by making it safer.
Como Capital is also a member of Blockchain Residence, the Russian headquarters of blockchain technologies, organized by the initiative of the adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on Internet Development Herman Klimenko. Along with the largest companies in the industry, this organization includes the International Decentralized Association for Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (IDACB).
“To be honest, I came into the blockchain industry for money - in a broad sense: I saw an increasing crisis of confidence and wanted to withdraw the cryptocurrency business from a nose dip, once again making ICO a worthy way to build companies and invest. Smart Escrow was in the right place at the right time. When the number of scams exceeded all conceivable limits, the platform offered a way out. Those who wanted to use it were found immediately, and DAICO's presentation by Buterin showed that the direction was chosen with surgical precision. Over the past two years, Como Capital has advised dozens of companies on the implementation of blockchain, since May 2017 started to help projects conduct ICOs, about a dozen clients have received support in promoting their blockchain products. Today, Como is focused on the one major project, which fully corresponds to Paul's philosophy. Secrecy allows us to say only that this project will stir up the global market of cryptoexchanges. As they say, stay with us.”
18. Trac Stephenson — Founder of BUILD1x, Inc
BUILD1x is revolutionizing construction through the introduction of the world’s first digital currency built specifically for the construction industry, BUILDCoin. BUILDCoin will be utilized within the BUILD1x mobile application, set to launch Q2 2018. One of the biggest challenges the industry has is the extended payment cycle for materials and labor, which inflates project costs, and the purchase price of homes. BUILD1x will empower the construction industry with blockchain technology and smart contracts eliminating some of the inflated costs associated with delayed payments.
“An $8+ trillion global industry that supports approximately 100 million people, needed a mobile platform that was made for them, by one of them. By combining known mobile app features like project management and networking, with blockchain, BUILD1x will positively impact everyone from the sub-contractors to the home buyer.” – Trac Stephenson
19. James (JJ) Sowers — Investor
James earned a spot on the list because of his influential investments (17 ICO Unicorns ). His equity investments include Deep Science, Numina. Doorstat, strypes , Shearshare, Numundo, Elyse28, Marlo’s Bakeshop ,Voodoo Manufacturing, Jetpack ,Chirps Chips and Mycroft. James is advisor to Edoopad Healthnexus, SafeCrypt, Stayawhile, butterfly ,squeezer, IOT coins, coinexio Labs , brightcoin.us. and Collective Wisdom Technologies James is a blockchain futurist speaking on May 11th at MIT. He also is starring in “New To The Street exploring the Block series “airing on the Fox Business Network in May 2017.
One startup advised by James is bubbloapp an AI-powered discovery platform that gives users a real-time recommendations on restaurants, bars, or other venues based on a constant flow of user-generated data.
“Blockchain, AI and Quantum computing will bring about exponential technical breakthroughs in Genomics, Space exploration and Urban tech,” James told me. “It is an honor and a privilege to work with the best and brightest founders in the world creating the future in the the new digital revolution.”
20. Greg Frisoli, 24 — Owner/Founder of Vulcan Bags & Social Talent Mgmt
Frisoli was able to earn a spot on this list due to his ability to bring an unknown product to the masses and make it well known. Frisoli had his first success when he co-founded the well known brand Vulcan Bags in April of 2017. Frisoli quickly scaled Vulcan Bags to over one million dollars in sales in the first 3 months by using the power of social media. Vulcan Bags is most known for their USB charging backpacks.
Frisoli is continuing to develop new marketing campaigns in order to expand Vulcan in hopes of making it one of the premiere backpack brands. In addition to Vulcan Bags, Frisoli is focused on growing other e-commerce stores in different niches.
“Social media is such a prominent part in everyone’s day to day life, like it or not. Today, everyone is affected by social media one way or another.” Frisoli told me “Social media is such a powerful tool that everyone has the ability to use, however very few people really know how to use it. I want to share with everyone the power social media has. Social media helped me grow my first 7 figure business. The opportunities are endless if you properly know how to use social media to your advantage.”
21. Billy Howell, 25 — Owner/Founder of Vulcan Bags & Social Talent Mgmt
Howell earned a spot on the list because of his unrivaled ability to find the next big trend before anyone else. He founded the well known charging backpack brand Vulcan Bags in April of 2017, and grew it to over one million dollars in sales in under 3 months. He is widely known as one of the best in the business at running profitable Facebook ad campaigns and creating viral growth for his clients, and for his own companies.
Outside of e-commerce, Howell also founded Social Talent Mgmt, a company that manages Instagram influencers and helps them grow and monetize their accounts. He sometimes shares his growth secrets on his Instagram account @administrator.
“Whether you like it or not, social media is the driving force of almost every trend out there in today’s world," Howell told me. "We have so much potential at our fingertips, but way too many people have no idea how to properly take advantage of it. My goal is to help everyone I come in contact with learn how.”
22. Nick Filchy, 20 — CEO, Bangerbuddy LLC
Filchy has earned a spot on the list because of his rapidly growing social media empire. As the brains of the operation, Filchy administrates a multitude of massive Instagram pages which he uses to do sponsored posts for brands, market his personally owned online stores, and throw large 18+ events.
In total, Filchy owns over 1.2 million followers worth of pages that are growing incredibly fast. Filchy showed me a female modeling Instagram page he started from scratch a week before we spoke, and the page already had 50,000 followers! Most people will never get 50K followers in a lifetime, or spend years building that large of an audience, while Filchy built that fan base in one week with what he claims was "Minimal effort" for him.
“In today’s digital economy, social media is so crucial, yet so many businesses still lack a strong social media audience and some do not even have a presence at all." Filchy told me. "The time to step up your social media game is now. The longer you wait the farther behind you will be. Although the time to ride this wave was years ago, it is much better to be late than never start."
23. Alan Cheung, (Alan King), 21
Alan earned his spot on this list for several reasons. His agency, CLOUTX, handles manufacturing and marketing of many private clients. His client list includes Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneurs and private aviation companies. His portfolio also lists ownership and management of Fashion Week Online HK and AKINGSNY.
"This is over half a decade of hustle and just the beginning." Alan told me. "We are here to revitalize traditional manufacturing, branding, and social media companies to help them grow continuously through evolving markets.”
24. Justin Woll, 22 — CEO & Mentor, BeyondSixFigures
Woll earned a spot on the list due to the astounding success of his growing E-Commerce Marketing Mentoring Company. As the CEO & Head Mentor of BeyondSixFigures; Woll works with countless aspiring & highly successful entrepreneurs from all over the globe as he walks them through the road map to Multi-Six-Figure online Income. Woll first gained recognition in the field during the launch & success of one of his many online apparel brands that generated well over multiple six figures in less than a year from conception; ultimately leading to the creation of “BeyondSixFigures: The E-Commerce Profit University w/ Justin Woll”.
Woll has now helped generate over $4,500,000 in student entrepreneur sales over the course of the last few months, which is a staggering number towering over almost all competitors in the space, which speaks volumes about the quality of Woll’s BeyondSixFigures Program offerings. Some of Woll’s students are now generating over $100,000 a month due to training provided by Justin Woll. BeyondSixFigures arm’s each and every student with the necessary knowledge, tactics, strategies & guidance needed to be able to utilize the online marketplace to generate multi six-figure income online and build massive brands that yield values surpassing millions of dollars. One of Woll’s recent BeyondSixFigures Students has been able to build an online empire that generates over $1,500,000 annually.
25. Matt Schroeder — Shelly Cove
Shelly Cove is a charitable apparel brand established in 2015 that sells preppy shirts and accessories. Shelly Cove donates 10% of net profits to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail Island, NC, and has had the privilege of donating 6-figures to the organization.
"It seems as though a lot of apparel companies do not genuinely care about the customer - the group of individuals who pay the bills. We aim to change that fault in our industry by putting our customer, as well as our mission to help Save The Turtles, on the forefront of our business model. This focus has led to success to our business so far, and hope it will continue to do so in the future."
26. Andy Hinrichs, 46 — Founder and CEO, AutoGravity
Hinrichs earned a spot by founding an award-winning digital platform that integrates state-of-the-art technology to transform the way that people buy and finance cars. AutoGravity has provided more than 1.7 million car shoppers with a convenient, transparent mobile app that streamlines the auto-financing process. The FinTech pioneer, which continues to gain roughly 150,000 new users per month, recently surpassed $2 billion in financing requested.
By connecting prospective car-buyers with the world’s leading financial institutions, as well as a comprehensive dealer network containing more than 2,200 franchise car dealerships nationwide, AutoGravity unifies variables such as vehicle and dealership preference and credit worthiness to intelligently match consumers with lenders and financing offers that create the most value — all in a matter of minutes.
27. Parker J. Russo, 25 — Founder, PJR Designs | Co- Founder, The Geofilter Guys
Russo earned his spot on Entrepreneur for his well rounded talent and experience within the social media marketing and advertising field as well as graphic design. Russo strives to create innovative ways for companies to brand themselves and stand out amongst thousands of other local businesses.
At the age of 18, Russo began his journey of entrepreneurship by starting PJR Designs, which focuses on top quality Graphic Design work for businesses. This has grown to build a relationship with over 250 clients and growing.
“I believe my team offers a larger amount not only because of our knowledge in the social world, but we also bring great value in helping with the visual branding for our clients.” He added. Russo is currently in the process of growing his business into a larger Branding/Social Media Marketing company across several platforms.”
28. Rex Chen — Ecoinmerce.io
"Blockchain-powered e-commerce marketplaces will completely transform online shopping as we know it today. ECoinmerce will lead this sector by providing transparency and fairer rules for retailers, more incentive for influencers to spread the word, as well as better prices and options for consumers. Plus, stores can launch their own ICOs directly on the ECoinmerce platform to turn their loyal customers into early investors."
29. Charles Nader — Docademic.io
Docademic is a company founded in Mexico by former Med Students who created a method of offering Free Basic Medical Health Services to the public. This may seem simple to grasp but it’s quite complicated and it is why their company is now on a path to change the world as we know it.
Docademic CEO, Charles Nader, explained the dynamics powering the company in a public telegram group chat where he personally responds to questions from participants.
“Docademic has clients in government and private healthcare industry. We provide governments real time data analytics products where they can monitor their population in real time and send targeted messages to certain patients.”
30. Joey Dilliha, 18 — CEO/Founder Rockwood
Joey has earned his spot on the list because of his expertise within the social media influencer community, as well as his most recent project, Rockwood. Starting his career with social at a mere age of 15, this millennial has not only left his mark on the field of social, but paved the way for others.
After running his collection of large Twitter accounts for a number of years, he made a few changes to how he would use his social presence. Joey founded Rockwood (an e-commerce store) in late 2017, as a personal project where every purchase plants a tree.
"In today's marketing economy, social media is paramount, yet so many businesses do not know how to successfully utilize this tool," Joey told me. "Sometimes it just takes a young kid like myself to bring this valuable tool to the eyes of these business executives.”
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