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Benefits/ MUSIC
Rock by the Sea
Ange AlexBenefits November 5, 2012
Musical artists Will Turpin and The Way and Amy Gerhartz are joining forces for a charity concert in support of pediatric cancer research and treatment.
Rock By The Sea, an organization that raises money for worthwhile causes through music, will present the star‐studded
holiday benefit concert at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Vinyl, 1374 Peachtree St., Atlanta.
A portion of the proceeds ($10 a ticket) will benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer
Hospital in Orlando, Fla.
Turpin, co‐founder of the multi‐platinum group Collective Soul, contributed the
William Dix Classic “What Child Is This?” to the October release of A Rock By The
Sea Christmas: Volume Three, a charity CD series of Christmas classics and original
tunes. He said the holiday season is best celebrated by finding ways to give back to
the community.
“I’m a very traditional person at heart. Celebrating Christmas was a time I looked
forward to as a kid, and even more so now that I have children of my own,” Turpin
said. “Lending my name and support to fighting pediatric cancer is simply my way of
giving back and showing gratitude.”
Gerhartz, who contributed a song to Rock By The Sea’s 2011 charity compilation, is an Atlanta‐based singer/songwriter
who has opened for several national acts. Her music blends acoustic pop, rock, folk and soul. The bill also includes
Lauren St. Jane and the Dead Westerns, Steve Everett, Echo Collection, Travis Denning and other musical guests. All of
the artists are available for interviews and appearances to promote the CD and show.
“Cancer happens to everyone. Parents, siblings, spouses, children, friends; cancer is ubiquitous and permeates the
fabric that binds us together as human beings. It’s personal,” said Tod Elmore, Rock By The Sea board member and CD
and show producer. “Coincidentally, cancer, or rather the fight against it, has the ability to unite us as one, as does
Rock By The Sea is dedicated to planning and producing music festivals, events and products that raise money to
financially assist deserving cancer charities that provide direct services to those in need. For more information visit
www.RockByTheSea.org.
Tickets for the concert are on sale now HERE.
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Signature Living's in-administration Shankly hotel owed bedroom investors around £1.3m
22 June 2020 by Katherine Price
Signature Living's Shankly hotel in Liverpool fell into administration owing bedroom investors arrears of around £1.3m, according to documents filed with Companies House.
A statement of administrator's proposals for Signature Living Hotel said if the group had successfully sold its 30 James Street and Shankly hotels for £57m as it had hoped, it would have been able to meet its liabilities.
The company, which owns the freehold for Signature Living's Shankly hotel and several other properties in Liverpool, fell into administration earlier this year.
The 125-bedroom property is managed by a separate company which is unaffected by the administration and it is anticipated that the hotel will recommence trading once government restrictions are lifted.
The group initially raised money to purchase and develop the hotel by inviting investors to buy one or more rooms in the hotel. Part of this agreement included a buy back and sell option period from three to 10 years including a return on investment (ROI).
However Signature Shankly, which owned the long leasehold on the hotel, had ROI arrears with a number of bedroom investors, believed to amount to approximately £1.3m.
As a result, a bedroom investor made an application at the High Court for an administration order against Signature Shankly. On receiving notice of this, secured lender Henslow Trading exercised its right to appoint administrators to both the leasehold and freehold companies.
The 172 employees who were employed by Signature Living Hotel are in the process of being transferred under TUPE to other trading companies.
Signature Living Hotel also had an interest in the cruise liner MV Funchal, currently moored in Lisbon, that Signature Living had hoped to transform into a floating party hotel.
Administrators said the vessel was still "a work in progress" and would require "considerable investment", and considering boat sales and cruise markets are "currently stagnant and unlikely to return in any significant capacity in 2020", they have been instructed to dispose of it.
Administrators added that, due to the complex nature of the group including inter-company loans, it is not anticipated the administration will be concluded within the next year.
Although other Signature Living hotels and trading companies do not come under the administration, the group's Coal Exchange hotel in Cardiff has also since separately fallen into administration, as has its George Best hotel in Belfast.
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THE CURIOUS LIFE
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Jana Firestone
Making Waves with Michael Klim
This was the first episode recorded in lockdown so the sound quality is going to be a little shaky unfortunately as we enter the new world of Zoom interviews! But in this episode, I had the distinct privilege of chatting with triple Olympian and world champion swimmer, Michael Klim.
It might be a surprise to learn that one of our greatest champions, considers himself to be quite a shy guy, despite what you may have seen on TV. Michael has spent his life in the water, taking in the life lessons and applying them to his life beyond the pool.
Michael shared his story from his early expat years, where his father’s work took the family across the globe countless times, learning to swim at the Breach Candy Club in India as a toddler and the resilience he built through his many years of adapting to a new environment.
The one constant throughout, was swimming.
Michael recounted some of his experiences as an Olympic swimmer, the challenges he faced and finding the drive to persevere through injuries and setbacks – and how he has learned to apply these skills to his life after swimming.
We also talked about his life as a parent to his three beautiful children, who he shares with ex-wife Lindy and how they worked through those sticky days of public separation and finding their groove as co-parents.
Michael is a warm and generous spirit who has remained humble throughout his success. He is very generously offering listeners 30% off his Milk & Co products until July 1st, using the code MILKTCLP.
I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I enjoyed talking with the wonderful Michael Klim.
Don’t forget to leave us a rating or review on iTunes and follow us on Instagram @thecuriouslifepodcast.
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The first 100 days of any presidential administration are always important. It is a tradition that dates back to FDR and the New Deal in the 1930s. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic devastating lives and livelihoods across America, President-Elect Joe Biden and VP-Elect Kamala Harris’s first 100 days might be the most important since those dark days of the Great Depression.
What do we need from the first 100 days? It is easy to come up with a policy agenda rooted in partisanship that does little for people who did not vote for you – or did not vote at all.
At Dream Corps, we believe that common pain should lead to common purpose.
Nisha Anand, Dream Corps CEO
That means we need to start with who is hurting the most in this moment, what they need, and how our leaders can help.
No one is immune from the pandemic and the economic fallout. But Black and Brown and low-income communities were hit first and worst. These communities make up the often-neglected base of both political parties — and they are crying out for urgent relief.
Dream Corps just dispatched two letters — one to the incoming administration and one to congressional leaders — laying out a broad policy agenda to deliver for hurting communities.
Stop the bleeding. Start with where the pain is most acute. We need immediate help to block evictions, protect public health, keep people behind bars safe, rein in pollution that worsens the pandemic, provide broadband to low-income communities, and end police violence and abuses of power:
Extend paid sick and family medical leave to protect public health.
Ensure a moratorium on evictions and utility shutoffs and incentives for utilities to forgive utility bill debt and negotiate reasonable payment plans for low-income households.
Boost funding for safe, reliable public transit that protects workers and riders, and provides essential and clean mobility options for millions of transit-dependent Americans.
Take steps to end the war on drugs, which has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color, by reforming harsh mandatory minimums for drug offenses, removing Marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, and ending the remaining disparity in sentencing for crack vs. powder cocaine.
End police violence and abuses of power, especially against Black and Brown communities, by holding law enforcement officers accountable and restoring faith and trust between communities and police.
Clean up passenger transportation and freight through stronger Clean Air Act rules that help people reach essential jobs and access goods more safely.
Get back to protecting historically marginalized communities from industrial pollution by enforcing environmental laws.
Stop the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable populations, especially in federal prisons by:
Ensuring that all incarcerated people, staff, and contractors have access to necessary PPE to prevent transmission and infection.
Requiring frequent testing and medical checkups of correctional staff and incarcerated people in order to mitigate additional outbreaks and protect public health.
Increasing the utilization of compassionate release, especially for immunocompromised and elderly incarcerated people, during and after the coronavirus crisis.
Fix the Bureau of Prisons by appointing competent leadership to handle the immense challenges of dealing with the spread of COVID-19, persistent staffing and safety issues, and discrimination against incarcerated people of color. Ensure that labor performed by incarcerated people at the federal level isn’t compulsory, results in a fair wage, and has necessary safety protections.
Depoliticize the pardon and clemency process by removing the Office of the Pardon Attorney from underneath the DOJ and moving it into an independent agency with non-political oversight.
Leverage the full weight of the White House both through executive order and by backing bipartisan federal legislation to reform qualified immunity for officers who violate citizens’ constitutional rights, ban chokeholds, and create a national police oversight commission to explore additional reforms.
Modernize the funding mechanism for the federal Universal Service Fund to ensure continued robust funding that provides connectivity to schools and low-income and under-served communities.
Increase Coronavirus Relief Fund grants to state, local, and tribal governments to expand access to high speed broadband internet and ensure every student has access to the hardware and software needed to be successful in virtual learning.
Focus on those hurt first and worst. Black, Brown, and low-income communities bearing the brunt of the pandemic should be at the center of any response. We need to make sure people can return home from prison safely and with a chance at a good, green job, jumpstart the recovery by investing in transit and energy infrastructure in our communities, expand broadband access, invest in minority-owned businesses, accelerate electrification and expand efforts to reform the criminal justice system:
Take immediate legislative action to ensure that the 600,000 people returning home from prison in 2021 and the millions more impacted by a criminal record have access to jobs, housing, and meaningful federal assistance, including creating a pathway for the sealing of federal records, incentivizing a moratorium on the collection of criminal justice-related fees and fines, and prioritizing access to federal loans and benefits.
Foster a prison-to-green jobs pipeline by funding and expanding the Second Chance Act grant program to ensure that people returning home from incarceration in 2021 have a viable pathway to good green jobs.
Jumpstart the economic recovery with legislation that modernizes and upgrades our broken transportation and energy infrastructure, especially in communities hardest hit by COVID-19, many of whom have faced underinvestment and decaying infrastructure for decades.
Restore, update and expand the Lifeline program to ensure high speed broadband internet connectivity in addition to phone service. Increase broadband subsidies to provide meaningful financial relief, and increase promotion of Lifeline to eligible and newly-eligible households.
Boost investment in minority-owned businesses and hiring from underrepresented populations, including people of color, veterans, people with disabilities, and people who were formerly incarcerated.
Reinvigorate the Federal Interagency Reentry Task Force to ensure that the full weight of the federal government and its departments are protecting public safety and supporting people released from incarceration.
Accelerate transportation electrification by leveraging federal purchasing power and supporting state and local leaders to decrease emissions and prioritize deployment in communities overburdened by pollution.
Invest in community climate initiatives that provide locally controlled funding for clean mobility and energy projects with local hiring. Allocate funding directly to local communities to direct and use to best meet their mobility, economic, and health needs.
Commit to fully funding and implementing the First Step Act, and immediately create a plan to restart prison programming, which has been paused and has jeopardized the accrual of earned time credits under the FSA. Ensure that the BOP and DOJ stay on track with any reporting requirements related to the FSA – especially focused on racial impact assessment.
Emerge better than before. We don’t simply want to go back to “normal” after COVID-19 — we want something better. We can lay the groundwork now, with low-income weatherization programs, pollution-free transit and school buses, a new Clean Power plan, leveraging federal dollars for good, increased access to capital for green businesses, and more:
Expand low-income home weatherization assistance programs to cover at least 1 million households, including extending supplemental support to upgrade unsafe housing, which will create tens of thousands of jobs, save money, and improve health for households struggling to pay their utility bills.
Invest in pollution-free transit and school buses and medium and heavy duty trucks through grants and low and zero-interest loans, to improve health, reduce pollution and support domestic jobs in the innovative, clean tech economy.
Launch a new Clean Power Plan that improves efficiency and cuts emissions, especially in communities overburdened by pollution.
Prioritize rehabilitation over punishment in our prisons and across the justice system by leveraging federal grants to reduce state prison populations, increasing funding for alternatives to incarceration, and taking bold steps to prioritize rehabilitation in the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Leverage federal contracting dollars toward projects that improve racial and economic justice and reduce pollution. Prioritize grant and contract proposals that meet equity and pollution-reduction criteria.
Increase access to capital through a revolving fund “green bank” to provide low or zero-interest loans for local projects that reduce pollution, improve mobility options, or strengthen energy democracy.
Provide grants for state, local, and tribal communities to invest in high speed broadband infrastructure and access. Create a clear pathway for municipal broadband network development.
Build back trust, community participation and protection from pollution through the restoration of clean water guidelines, environmental review processes, and methane rules for oil and gas.
Analyze the existing implementation of the PATTERN risk assessment tool and ensure any adjustments prevent racial disparities in the assignment of risk categories or in the matching of services and programs required to lower one’s risk category, and incorporate dynamic factors into assessments.
America, in 2021, must choose between community or chaos. We don’t need more top-down bipartisanship that leaves hurting communities behind. We need to get those communities together and build bottom-up common ground that makes big demands of our leaders.
What our leaders do in the first 100 days could reshape America — which is why we need to make sure our voices are heard, so that we are the ones who decide the future.
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Medhane issues statement denying sexual assault allegation
A string of social media posts led to a response from the Brooklyn rapper.
By Jordan Darville
Medhane by Gabriel Rivera
Medhane has issued a response after posts on social media accusing the Brooklyn rapper of sexual assault began to circulate across the internet.
The accusations and Medhane's response were captured in a Reddit thread in r/hiphopheads. One post on Instagram accused Medhane of "forcing himself onto women + [being] manipulative" and a second post said "multiple people... have experienced sexual assault and manipulation from him." Other posts contain screenshots of text messages purportedly between Medhane and D.C. rapper Mavi, where Medhane asks Mavi for help diffusing an unnamed situation. Each of the accusations were shared by Instagram user @badwisdomfromtito.
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In a two-part statement, Medhane denied the assault, saying that he only "spoke poorly" of his accuser. "I did not rape anybody," Medhane said, and described what he calls "a consensual sexual relationship that went bad."
Read his full statement below:
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— Medhane (AFB) (@mehdonny) July 28, 2020
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Associates of Medhane have distanced themselves since the allegations got wider attention online. In a statement posted Tuesday afternoon on Instagram Stories, Mavi claimed that he had acted as a mediator between Medhane and his accuser, and alleged that Medhane's statement was insufficient based on the requests of his accuser: "Her wish was for him to apologize to her publicly and complete a transformative justice program she wanted organized by her Black femme friends."
Mavi apologized for "selfishly wanting to wash my hands of a situation I had been deeply affected by." He wrote: "with the release of his statement this morning, i realize that he never had any intention of fulfilling her request and see that my public silence has only enabled him to continue to deflect the actual allegations of sexual violence."
On Sunday, MIKE, another musical collaborator of Medhane's, posted an Instagram Story addressing the situation. "I don’t want to push people who may have been hurt by these people away," he wrote, "and I don’t want to be associated with these people and allow more abusers into whatever communities I am apart of... This is where I stand in life and want to let people know if they stand for something different than I, then I rather not be in any type of proximity to them, especially if they don’t have any concern in holding themselves accountable or realizing they did something wrong."
The FADER has reached out to Medhane's representative for comment.
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HomeBollywoodAyushman Khurana First Choice For "Dream Girl"
Ayushman Khurana First Choice For "Dream Girl"
Author July 21, 2019
Writer-turned-debutant director Raaj Shaandilyaa, who is setting the bar very high on expectation with his upcoming film, "Dream Girl", says that he just had Ayushmann Khurrana in mind for the role of his film, because no one else could be able to pull off a cross-dressed character.
The curiosity about the movie has increased ever since the first look of the film is released, showing Ayushman in a yellow sari and sitting on a scooter.
"of course Ayushman Khurana was the first name that came in my mind when I finished writing the story of "Dream Girl", I think Ayushman Khurana is one of the actors with the capability to pull off the character that deals with gender complexity, equality or a voice against the toxic masculinity Shaandilyaa told
The director further added "when I first met Ekta Kapoor with the story, she immediately liked it and asked me whom i planned to cast.
I shared my idea of offering Ayushman Khurana the role, and she agreed. He liked it, and everything fell in the place." Shared the director
In dream girl Nushrat Bharucha will be seen playing the leading lady, dream girl is slated to release in September.
Director Shaandilyaa who has also written the dialogues of the upcoming Siddharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra starring film 'Jabariya Jodi" that will release on 2 August this year.
Previously Siddharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra were seen together in Dharma Production's 'Hasee Toh Phasee.'
Ayushman Khurana who has made his mark in the Hindi film industry with his excellent performances in movies like 'Vicky Donor', 'Andhadhun", 'Bareily Ki Barfi' was last seen in the critically acclaimed hit film 'Article 15.'
Before making his debut in Bollywood actor has also worked as Radio Jockey and host in several tv shows.
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ululate
Definition: (verb) Emit long loud cries.
Synonyms: howl, wail, yaup, yawl, roar
Usage: The mourners began to ululate loudly, shattering the meditative silence of the cemetery with their cries of grief.
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What I love about performance storytelling
‘This story is set a very, very long time ago…’
That’s how my story Alice and the Snap Dragon begins. After that…away we go! We can twist, we can shout, we can shake it all about and even make up a song if we want to.
That’s what I love about the art of performance storytelling; there’s so much room for improvisation. No live experience is the same. Every audience and venue are different so, in turn, every storytelling is different too.
Since the release of my debut children’s book, The Norfolk Story Book, I have had the pleasure of touring schools, book shops and museums as an author and performance storyteller for family audiences and children in primary schools. For me, the live storytelling very much goes hand in hand with the book, but is an entirely different experience. The wonderful thing about reading is that it can be your own, individual, magical experience. But in a room full of people, we can all join in together to create a unique, collective adventure. We don’t need props, fancy costumes or time machines…just lots of imagination!
My favourite part of performance storytelling is that the audience all become part of the story and we can discover things together, in the moment; it’s what keeps the narrative fun and fresh!
In A Mammoth Journey we go on a journey though prehistoric Norfolk, meet lots of animals along the way and make some noise! I always enjoy inviting the audience to help me create characters for the animals. They always come up with something different – so far we have encountered sneaky snakes, mischievous monkeys, kind mice and inquisitive hedgehogs….never a dull moment!
In Alice and the Snap Dragon there is an opportunity for the audience to create their own dragon, inspired by the dragon from the story. One of the best things about this job is that it gives me the chance to meet so many fantastically talented young writers and artists. Whether you read The Norfolk Story Book or see it in performance at one of my events, I hope it continues to encourage you to make up your own story; it could be about something in the book: snap dragons, mammoths, mustard or indeed, smelly feet, or something of your own creation. If your imagination is sparked that’s all you need to get started then…away we go!
Isabelle with the Snap Dragon that inspired one of her stories
Drawings from Isabelle's dragon-themed creative workshops
Isabelle during a storytelling performance at a venue at Gressenhall (image courtesy of Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse)
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Primary Residency and Parental Rights and Responsibilities in Maine (Previously Known as Child Custody and Visitation)
For couples with children, whom they will live with, who will make decisions for them, and who will pay for their expenses become the most critical issues within their divorce. Many states use the terms child custody and visitation to describe where the kids live, the plan for them seeing the parent they don’t live with, and who will be their decision-maker. In Maine, this is simply called Primary Residency (custody) and Parental Rights and Responsibilities. If you are like most divorcing parents, you want the best for your child, especially during and after a life-changing divorce. Your Maine family law attorney can explain in detail the state’s laws addressing considerations for children and advise you as to what your realistic goals could be.
What is Primary Residency (Custody)?
While many people think of custody as who has physical possession of the children or their living arrangements, it can mean a few things. In addition to physical custody, there are parental rights and responsibilities, which relates to the right to make significant decisions for the child, such as their religious upbringing, education, and medical care that is not emergent.
Custody can be sole or joint. If there is sole legal custody, one parent has decision-making authority over the children; if it is joint, both parents have the authority. In sole physical custody arrangements, the children live with the sole custodian and usually have visitation with their other parent. If joint physical custody is granted, the children live with each parent for a set time period on a set schedule. These time periods can vary between a few days a week or even months at a time, such as over summer break. If one parent is granted visitation in the divorce, the court determines where and when they will see the children if both spouses cannot reach a mutually agreeable solution.
In most divorces, the court will grant allocated parental rights and responsibilities. These rights are divided between the parents. For example, one parent might have decision making authority over their child’s religious upbringing while another will have control over their education.
How do Courts Determine Primary Residency and Parental Rights and Responsibilities?
Keep in mind that the job of a family court judge is to protect and do what is in the best interest of the children. The judge will keep these factors and more in mind when making decisions about parental responsibility:
Age of the child
The child’s relationship with either parent or others who significantly impact their life such as grandparents
The desirability of maintaining continuity in the child’s life
The stability of the living arrangements either parent is asking for
The history of any domestic abuse or sex crimes on the part of either parent
Each parent’s ability to provide guidance, love, and affection to the child
If the judge does not believe that a proposal submitted by a parent will be in the best interest of the child, it will not be granted.
Contact a Parental Responsibility Attorney at The Maine Divorce Group Today
Aspects of a divorce that involve children can be especially difficult emotionally and also confusing. At The Maine Divorce Group, our compassionate lawyers can help you understand the possibilities and help you create realistic goals for establishing primary residence and parental rights and responsibilities. We can facilitate negotiations and settlements as well as draft a plan and submit it to the court. You can take control by contacting our office today and scheduling a consultation to discuss the parental responsibilities you desire.
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The vape that caught fire
FIRE chiefs have issued a warning always to buy electrical products from reputable outlets and never to smoke in bed.
It comes after a 21-year-old man suffered serious burns when the vape he was holding as he slept overheated, melted onto his skin and caught light to his duvet.
He suffered second degree burns to part of his face, scalp, ear, shoulder, arm and hand, as well as first degree burns to his torso.
The man woke up because of the heat and his parents raised the alarm before paramedics took him to Wythenshawe Hospital, which has a specialist burns unit. His injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
The incident happened at an address in the Ramsbottom area of Bury, on Tuesday, January 12, at around 1.30pm.
The vape was being charged when it overheated. The photograph shows the vape’s battery pack, which is all that remained because the remainder of the unit melted and burned.
It comes as Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has been urging people to take extra care during the national lockdown. Because more people are at home there is a greater risk of accidental fires starting in the home.
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CBO: Obamacare will cost two million jobs.
Brian in Oregon
Unless you're a brain dead liberal, it's obvious Obamacare would result in the loss of a staggering number of jobs. The Congressional Budget Office now pegs that number at two million.
"Liberals can't tell you if something is right or wrong until they know the color/gender/politics of the people involved."
darr
Something tells me those cancelations will happen after Nov.
CharlieAMA
More people on unemployment and food stamps. Like it has been said on here before, 'It's funny that Social Security is fixing to run out of money, but welfare doesn't or never will.' This is one way they will secure the votes.
"He was so hen pecked, he molted twice a year."---Jed Clampett
"If you are going to act like a turd, go lay in the yard."---P.D.
"It's better to be a smart feller, than a fart smeller." P. D.
Waiting for resident liberal mudpuddle to come on and defend his socialist buffoon president...
likes-to-shoot
This estimates 2.5 million jobs lost
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Carney has been in the Kool-Aid again. People are going to have to work more to pay the high deductibles. They won't have time to get sick, let alone go to the doctor. They are betting the younger crowd to join up to pay for the older people. The young can't afford it right now. So, the older ones will have to be subsidized by the govt. But, I guess the 'death squads' will take care of that.
Why should the young bother to get Obamacare? They're covered by their parents plan until they're 26.
Our daughter is fixing to be 29, living with us and working two part time jobs, and she can't afford the insurance. She said fxxx Hussein, I'll pay the penalties. The one plan she looked at, that she thought she could afford, had a $5,000 deductible. The whole system is crazy. Hello NSA.
Good post Charlie.
Still waiting to hear from the resident liberal's mudpuddle and 548.
hussein says 30 million were without healthcare. The CBO says after husseincare implementation, 31 million WILL NOT have healthcare.
What say you, resident liberals??? Answer the question....
shannon391
The penalty is not so bad the first year, wait till you see the third !
The silence from our resident liberals, socialists and trolls speaks volumes about how bad this is. They can't lie their way out of it.
Carney is short for Carnival, which is where he belongs.
Setterman
And in the meantime, subtle changes are occuring in Medicare. Cancer and other treatments for the elderly are being put off due to new systematic pre-approval requirements. Heard this right from the doctors mouth Thursday.
Doctors are opting out of the MC programs in droves. Specialist even more.
It's going to get ugly in short order.
I really think the whole system is designed to get people out of work and on the government dole, and then they can control all of us. The strong survive and the weak die. The old saying that 'the meek shall inherit the earth' is out the window.
stokinpls
Carney actually said, "the conversion to these part time jobs will encourage people to become entrepreneurs, with all of the extra time they'll have." The moron actually said that today.
My question is, "What are they supposed to use, to buy food?".
Bob Falfa
Carney figures they can move to Calirado or Washedupinton then raise and sell pot.
Stl Flyn
If I don't respond to your threads, or posts, it may be because it is warranted.
dirt stirrer
I question why you or anyone would take this stuff at face value. The CBO; non-partisan???? Is anything in government non-partisan? Spouses in two worker households can quit now, many are covered under their spouses insurance and could have quit years ago, and had much better and cheaper insurance than they are about to get. At these ACA prices, it will take a second income just to pay the insurance premiums for a family policy. This is a BS piece by a supposedly non-partisan source that is doing nothing but covering for zero and the dems. And the CBO prolly never read the damn bill either.
So 2.3 million workers are simply quitting their jobs? bffffttttt
So when you say these jobs are being lost, where are they going? Are these positions being eliminated?
Brian in Oregon Feb 7, 2014
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WEEK 13 - SAE Reflection
Prefice: For our final blog this Trimester at SAE we were asked to address the following five questions, to which I have done indirectly through the blog below.
What have you created this trimester? Talk about live sound, music production, post production and the podcast. if you have any freelance projects then talk about those and give me active links so that I can see/hear them.
What have you learnt this trimester?
What have you learnt about your own practice during this trimester?
What areas are you planning onn improving next trimester?
Where do you think you fit on the grade scale? Take a look at Campus Online for the AUS220 rubric.
Our first Trimester of 2018 (Tri 4 for my Bachelor of Audio) at SAE Melbourne has been an outstanding success, having completed four major projects of which myself and fellow team members are deservingly proud.
The projects were broken down into three four-week intensive assignments and one trimester-long group Podcast. The intensives (in chronological order for my team) were:
Live Sound: Learning how to set-up and EQ a stage as well as source and promote artists which culminated in us throwing a live gig on Campus.
Studio Production - Given an independant track which we had to recreate from scratch - using just the core lyrics from the original, in our case resulting in a modern Southern-Blues tune.
Post-Production - Taking a scene from a movie and stripping all the audio, with us again rebuilding the entire soundtrack from scratch. From character voices, foley/sound effects and musical score with the finished product being a scene that could be dropped straight back into the original.
The Podcast - A minimum-fifteen minute podcast about Melbourne’s influence as an Internationally leading music city; compiled through interviews, narration and archival audio that delves deeper into Melbourne’s music culture.
The live sound gig was a roaring success according to feedback from all parties at the time (ie: teaching staff, audience, our performing artists aka ‘the band & DJ’ and fellow students). It was great to be first cab off the rank when it came to putting on the live event as I feel we set the standard and that each ensuing group used our blueprint for success (eg Posters promoting FREE Drinks & Music to lure in the people, Decorative stage design) and built their events from there (eg: with Video screens and livestreams).
Studio Production was also a great experience but our sheer group size was a detriment to my individual development. Whilst having a group of 8+ was a handy benefit in the leg work that went in to setting up our live gig and making that go smoothly, this was a hindrance in the tight confines of a production studio. Whilst extremely pleased with our final product, “Straight Out The Door”, I feel we could’ve reach greater potential had this not been a ‘song-by-committee’, diversifying our thoughts to meet approval of the group and that smaller groups would have allowed us to be more adventurous creatively.
Saturday Morning spent Helping Griffin Jennings out during the vocal recording for "Staight Out The Door"
Personally, I wasn’t satisfied with my progression both in the recording process and on the desk, as I found it hard to juggle trying to get the most of this individually whilst also giving all team members “a fair-go”. That being said I relished every opportunity and loved discussions at the core of the creative process and absorbed as much from other team members as possible during recording sessions (eg with Griffin Jennings when recording his father’s vocals) and in the mix sessions (with Julien Le Pape in Pro Tools). I just wish more emphasis was put on our individual development during our in-class sessions.
[I could not speak more highly of our teachers and their methods throughout this entire trimester, they’re knowledge has been “to infinity” & beyond”]
I feel similarly when it came to the size of the group limiting our individual potential in our Post-Production project. This is in no means a slight on the course, each intensive was absolutely fantastic but again I did not want to be too demanding of desk time, or controlling of the group by putting me ahead of anyone else on the team. Toy Story 3 was an amazing challenge to re-create and I feel our project surpasses the original (I am biased and we no doubt had more time than the deadlines Pixar would’ve worked to, plus we have an extra 10 years of technology on our side).
When the opportunity did come to run the desk and get involved with mixing I relished these opportunities and made the most out of them. I just need more to time on the desks-if nothing else then to fail or come across obstacles that the experience and leadership of teachers in the room can help-not that I will learn on my own.
A quick example from each where I wish we had more individual time with tutor:
Live Sound - Running the mixing desk in a live environment (only 1-2 team members got to perform this for a realistica period of time as we each managed roles, working to our strengths to make the night succeed best as possible).
Studio Prod - On the desk during the live recordings and also when using the patch bay to build familiarity and confidence when problems arise.
Post Production - More time mixing, editing and syncing to time on the desk rather than just in Pro-Tools.
Corey mixing Toy Story 3
What I’m doing to improve in these areas: For starters I completed Pro Tools 101 in the break last year and will be doing the next leg of this accreditation in May which will help with my confidence and knowledge in Tools itself.
I plan to spend more time in studio when others students have bookings or recordings, to allow myself more practice through absorbing what works for others and gaining myself more time on the desk.
Continue to challenge myself creatively through reading, research and trial error. Again this only comes with more hours in the box, behind the desk and around those in established roles of what I aspire to be.
Onto my a summary of the Podcast. I couldn’t be prouder with the work and final product but wish I was more involved in the initial creative process. I commend Tim Knowles for his excellent work on the script and sourcing a lot of the audio, but this is an area I have extremely high interest in too (the history of Melbourne music, plus wanting to create a podcast soon myself). I respect his creative methods and he did an excellent work on the script (he likes to get in the zone and write-much like I do as you can tell by the length of these blog posts- but I would’ve liked to have been in the room or consulted more during this core of the creative process). When I would reach out with ideas they often fell on deaf ears.
Scheduling wasn’t ideal either, with half the team members having their intensive on alternate days, meaning that half of the group booked studio time when they were free on Wednesday’s without really giving us an alternative to do it later in the week when we all could've attended, therefore I feel I missed a chunk of the early work as I Susan and I were in class. When I did get a chance to participate I loved it, especially during the editing process which restored a lot of my confidence in my efficiency behind the desk when working in front of a room full of people.
I feel a solution to this would be to allow in-class time to work on the podcast. Whereas we would sit through a 3-hour class each Tuesday getting updates on where each group was at with their individual group projects-which was interesting and a great gauge for our group’s progression- I feel giving us this time to work on the pods together, then coming in as a group individually updating the staff of our status would’ve been more beneficial use of everyone’s time.
As much as I love him I I felt at times this was a bit of the Tim Knowles Show - for one it was just a given that he would narrate, without consulting other team members if they would like any speaking or featured roles within the piece and his father was our main featured guest. I am not taking anything away from our finished product, it is absolutely excellent and should be featured in the Melbourne Music Hall of Fame at the National Art Gallery due to it’s accurate reflection of how the Melbourne music scene has grown.
So, in summary for my Trimester, as much as it seems I have complained above this is all just a natural means of reflection on myself and to give myself motivation (That I can ALWAYS DO BETTER, NO MATTER HOW SUCCESSFUL I AM) and what I need to improve to limit these potential shortcomings happening again. Forcing myself to be more involved and a bully(for lack of a better term) for time in the creative process and around the desk, make myself more engaged in tasks from the get-go despite how uncomfortable it may be in the tiny rooms, don’t put up with, or indulge in as much nonsense talk from fellow group members and continue to try at making us all better by being more focused.
I’ve discussed many shortcomings and how I am going to improve, but perhaps I should do myself the justice of at least pumping up where I feel I went well. As mentioned numerous times during our in class reflections I feel we really did work to one another's strengths quite well which is why each project resulted in such excellent. We only had so much time to work with which is why we couldn't all get more of a go to increase our shortcomings. I felt I was key cog in helping us clearly defining roles which got the best out of our team.
For the Live Sound gig I was overall Project Manager, not singularly delegated to one task but assuring everyone was taking care of theirs smoothly, and I leaned on my 5+ Years marketing (and even more in sales) experience to help promote the event week’s before plus on the day. I also feel our time management was exceptional here, allowing plenty of time for any obstacles we may have faced. Another strength was my people skills in managing our team and the artists; and having proper communication between all artists, Front of House, Stage hands, bar staff and the audience was crucial into a drama free event running so successfully. After all it looked like an Atomic Kitten Gig, smelt like a Beastie Boys gig and felt like a gig that went as smooth as some bandpipes being played atop the Brooklyn Bridge (does this video actually exist on the internet Mr Dalton? A link I could not find).
In studio prod I loved the initial creative process, bandying around ideas and seeing the end goal come to fruition. I absorbed as much as possible in this time, particularly from Griffin in regards to chord progressions and Corey with recording brass.
In Post Production I loved doing the character voices and as I have had some experience in voicing radio commercials and doing interviews in the past, by being the first in the group to record I feel my leadership here helped calm the nerves of others in the booth which got the best out of their performances. With our main dinosaur roar not being as full as we would've liked from just a trombone sound-and with deadline rapidly approaching- I came up with the idea of warping the car engine revs and layering it with the trombone which worked a treat. All foley and SFX in general I felt I was a key part of most of our out-of-the-box ideas which also proved to be some of our most efficient. (Eg something simple like a brick dropped against carpet to be Woody falling and bumping against the train; rustling a doritos bag to be an earthquake cracking the hard, rocky, ground; and the aforementioned T-Rex.)
I am so proud of all the team members I worked with throughout this Trimester, as well as seeing the other projects submitted by fellow classmates. Evidence of our final products and feedback from staff and peers proves we are most definitely at the top end (HD’s) of the grade scale. I feel my consistemnt engagement, and contributions to in-class discussion as well as feedback to others during and out of classtime was in the elite few again this Trimester.
I mentioned in our final in class reflective and would like to reiterate here just how inspiring my level of classmates has been in making me wanting to continue to get better; not because of fear that in a world after uni that we will be fighting one another for jobs, but in the fact together our excellence is what will help CREATE JOBS for one another.
Personally, this course is already helping boost my career more rapidly than ever imagined. Whilst not ‘official’ freelance work, I’ve been getting real on the job opportunities in the real world with those doing what I want to do. Making Tunes, throwing parties, hosting internationals and Playing said created tunes and marquee events. From being part of the Crew at the “Paradigm” trance festival at Hisense Arena in MaRch, interviewing artists backstage and also assisting friends managing a stage at Babylon festival in February, special party and event promotion and in studio experiences with some of Melbourne’s biggest & hottest names in Techno (Steve Ward, Handsdown & Leighboy, Alegra). Getting a weekly gig DJing at Somewhere Bar on Chapel St and recently the far-too humbling experience of playing my first ‘real’ Melbourne club set Pawn & Co Day Spa a fortnight ago. Putting real thought into projects that the audience gets positive feeling from. Plus some of my own individual ventures (the podcast and more special one-off events to be revealed later), I definitely feel my career is on the cusp and opportunities are naturally creating themselves.
Thank you also for Mr Tim Dalton, Michael Clarke, Tristan Meredith, Trinski Liwanag and of course Dr Leon Marvell for their wonderful time, insight and guidance through the year thus far at SAE. Without your patience, knowledge and thought we would not be getting THIS good, this fast.
Now what better way to finish and keep us focused throughout the break, than with some simple advice from the absolute pro's at the top of our game. The mecca when it comes to career goals but this is from when they, themselves were on the rise. They also happened to produce many of my favourite songs of all time.
P.S I appreciate you allowing me to repeated blow well-over the word count each week, but to me these blogs have become more than just a short school required reflective, and more of a commentary on my thinking and deeper mindset throughout these times that I did not wish to over-edit.
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Share this Story: LILLEY: Carbon tax fight gets real
LILLEY: Carbon tax fight gets real
Brian Lilley
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) and Premier Doug Ford
“This carbon tax is making us uncompetitive, no one can deny that,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Monday morning.
Ford was standing in a service bay at a Ford dealership not far from his Etobicoke home. The official reason for his appearance and his decision to take time to talk to the media was the end of Ontario’s Drive Clean program. The real reason was the federal carbon tax.
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“Drive Clean was a bureaucratic mess that outlived its purpose and now it’s history – it’s done, it’s gone” Ford said.
The program, introduced by the Harris government in 1999, was meant to get older, dirty cars off the road. It was successful; it stopped people from driving smog-belching vehicles, but report after report said it was no longer effective.
Emissions from vehicles were down, most drivers were no longer keeping dirty vehicles on the road. Even if the Liberals had won the last election, they likely would have killed off the program, as well. There was not support left for it.
It’s ironic that a successful Conservative program to reduce emissions came to an end the same day the Trudeau Liberals imposed their carbon tax on Ontario as well as similar taxes in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick.
Ford used his time before the media to hammer away at Trudeau’s carbon tax.
“Everything is going up no matter if it’s your food, your clothes, driving little Johnny to hockey – everything is going up,” Ford said.
Anything that moves by truck, rail or ship will go up in price, if the fuel to move those products is purchased in Canada.
Ontario Environment Minister Rod Phillips said that the Ford government was elected to make life more affordable for citizens, something he says they are trying to do while fighting the feds.
(Jack Boland,Toronto Sun)
“So, I think the federal government has an uphill battle to convince Ontarians and other people that this tax is going to put more money in their pockets,” Phillips said.
Ford declared that the carbon tax is nothing more than a tax grab with the word carbon in front of it.
“It hurts businesses. It hurts the people that work there, that hurts communities, hurts Ontario. It’s just a terrible, terrible tax,” Ford said.
Trudeau has maintained that “on average,” families will get back more than they pay “directly.”
That isn’t a line that should be believed.
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The income tax form grants anyone that applies for the rebate, and not everyone will know to do this, with a basic tax rebate of $154 for an Ontario resident.
You get an extra $77 for your spouse and $38 for each dependent child. It doesn’t matter how far you drive, how much you spend, that is the formula.
For an Ontario family of four, the rebate is worth $307.
And yet, those are only for direct costs.
If you are above average, as in your family is larger or you commute a longer distance, then you will pay more.
If you live in the suburbs and drive to work, you will pay more.
Trudeau’s claim that you get back more than you pay is nothing short of a lie. He won’t reimburse for indirect costs like your groceries, clothing or anything else going up.
We haven’t even mentioned that the GST will be charged on the carbon tax.
The new carbon tax is nothing short of a cash grab that will do nothing for the environment. Trudeau knows this, but he just wants you to ignore it and think of those tax breaks he will give you, using your own money for a rebate.
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by Rachel Ralte
5 July 2017, at 12:00am
MALAYSIA - Countries that had imposed a temporary freeze on the import of Malaysian poultry products may now consider rescinding it, as the World Organisation for Animal Health (OiE) is about to declare the country free of the H5N1 bird flu.
The Star Online reports that according to Veterinary Services Department (VSD) director-general Datuk Dr Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam, a full report was sent to OiE to enable it to declare Malaysia H5N1-free, given that no new cases were detected for 90 days from the last culling.
With this, countries such as Japan, China, Indonesia and Sri Lanka are expected to lift the temporary import ban on chicken, duck and bird’s nest from Malaysia, he said.
“The Veterinary Services Department declared Malaysia free of the highly pathogenic avian influenza effective 1 July, as no new case was detected for 90 days following the last disinfection activity (in Kelantan) on 1 April,” Dr Quaza said in a statement yesterday.
Prior to this, Malaysia had remained free of the highly pathogenic avian influenza for 10 years, with the last case recorded in 2007.
The record was broken when H5N1 involving free ranging chicken was detected in Kampung Pulau Tebu, Kelantan, on 28 February.
Following the outbreak, VSD took measures to quickly contain the outbreak within 24 days by culling poultry within a 1km radius from the infection sites.
Nearly 57,000 birds were culled, while 17,531 eggs were destroyed at 36 locations in six districts – Kota Baru (15 locations), Pasir Mas (six), Tumpat (five), Tanah Merah (one), Bachok (six) and Pasir Puteh (three).
Police erected roadblocks in Jeli, Bukit Yong, Gua Musang and Besut to stem attempts to transport poultry out of Kelantan.
Authorities also tightened border controls to curb the smuggling of poultry and implemented the e-permit system to control the movement of poultry within the respective districts.
VSD wants to exercise more oversight over small-time poultry breeders by asking farmers to provide information on their farms and animals.
“Biosecurity measures are being enhanced for healthy and hygienic poultry breeding,” he said.
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Things are heating up between Derrick and Hanna on "The Haves and the Have Nots."
“HAHN” Recap: ‘The Black Man’
HOLLYWOOD—Last week’s episode of Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots” ended on a climatic note with Jim interrupting Officer Justin and his attempts to have Wyatt perform sexual favors for him. Yeah, Justin is busted, and the repercussions were felt in epic proportions in this week’s episode, ‘The Black Man.’ Jim flipped out on Justin and a fist fight erupted, before the big fight was broken up. Good luck on getting yourself out of this pickle Justin because I don’t see it happening buddy.
For once, Wyatt did not argue with his father, but that was until Jim demanded answers. Wyatt admitted he was about to perform a sexual act on Officer Justin for drugs. Wow, Wyatt is willing to admit that he has serious drug issues. Jim got all the information from Wyatt to nail Justin for his antics. When Jim confronted Justin, he rebuffed, but his decision to not empty his pockets spoke wonders. Justin was suspended, and Wyatt got a taste of freedom even though he murdered a man. Candace caught up with Leslie who informed her that he has a con in play with Veronica to take down Jeffery. Leslie attempted to reason with Candace letting her know that his mother was a crack addict, yet he still loves her. Wow, could Leslie be the key to breaking the ice between Candace and Hanna. The flirting between these two is hilarious.
David’s condition has improved to some degree, as he was able to sit up, as he received a visit from the FBI looking for information about Veronica Harrington and her role in the car explosion. Yes, David didn’t protect Veronica and he sold her to the wolves. Oh, this is good; the Ice Queen might finally pay the price for her wicked crimes. Jim brought Wyatt back to Katheryn’s abode and warned him he would not be going anywhere anytime soon. He has bodyguards watching his every move 24/7.
His detest for his parents is amazing; this ungrateful brat has killed not once, but twice, and he still doesn’t appreciate what his parents have done to save his life. Jim was not rattled the least bit when Katheryn warned him he is being investigated for a prostitution ring. It looks like Katheryn might utilize Eddie to make Jim jealous.
Oh, the confrontations just keep on coming. Jeffery was stunned to learn that Justin got suspended (FYI, he followed Jeffery). However, Justin was being coy with his lover about what transpired. Justin is a good liar, too bad Jeffery didn’t believe that Wyatt was willing to trade sexual favors for drugs. Well, Jeffery’s day got worse as he came face-to-face with Veronica in David’s home. Mother and son have a contentious relationship; but I’ve never seen Jeffery calm with his mother, who wielded threats back at her son. Very interesting conversation between Veronica and Jeffery where she preached, and he preached back before she warned her son that she would kill him if he pushed too far, before warning him that she is onto Justin and his antics.
Derrick and Hanna shared a few more kisses, and he continued to push even though she made it crystal clear marriage is the only way that she is willing to give her body to him. Like I said I’m dying to know what other skeletons await in Derrick’s closet because I’m certain they are juicy ones. Their make-out session was interrupted by the arrival of Candace. Oh, this is about to get good. Candace showed a bit of empathy, but the audience was well aware it was just a ruse. Candace weaved a tale, but it was apparent Hanna was not buying anything her daughter was selling. Hanna called Candace out on her antics, which forced daughter to reveal her true intentions. Man the confrontations this week are epic; the tension is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
When Hanna refused to deliver that money, Candace revealed that she was responsible for the attack that took place. Wow, Candace smiled with glee, as it became apparent that Hanna was livid with her daughter’s latest stunt. The final moments of the episode saw Katheryn getting hot and heavy with Eddie. So the audience now knows season 6 only has 4 episodes left which means the chaos is about to amplify to great lengths now. Until next ‘Temptation Tuesday’ “Haves and Have Nots” die-hards!
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MediEvil demo briefly appears on the Japanese PlayStation Store
The Japanese PlayStation Store had briefly posted and quickly removed a demo of the upcoming MediEvil remake. The demo was around 11gb and contains Dan’s Crypt and The Graveyard. It looks like they posted it a little early and the demo may be officially be released during tonight’s State of Play broadcast.
In other State of Play rumours it looks like we may get more information on the bonkers game Wattam as well.
Developers Other Ocean have full access to the original MediEvil source code allowing the team to faithfully recreate the 1998 action game with only a few adjustments where needed.
“Our credo was ‘Do what they did, and don’t change anything unless you have a good reason to change it’,” explains Jeff Nachbauer, Executive Producer on the project.
“Often times you’d go in the code, see a strange design decision and think ‘Why did they do that? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.’ And then you go on the journey of trying to solve challenges further in the game and ultimately release – ‘That’s exactly why they did it. I get it now.’”
This source code also makes reference to parts of MediEvil that didn’t make the final cut when the game shipped. One example is a stage in a particular boss fight that was removed.
Other Ocean didn’t specifically state how much content was left on the cutting room floor. However, with full access to the source code and designer’s notes left by the team at SCE Cambridge Studio, it’s able to built MediEvil from scratch again, knowing exactly what those original developers had envisioned.
To celebrate the launch of the upcoming MediEvil PS4 remake, there’s a new comic being written by the game’s original co-creators.
Chris Sorrell and Jay Gunn have collaborated on a new story titled “Fate’s Arrow”. This takes place after the events of MediEvil 2 and will reportedly have Sir Daniel Fortesque travelling back in time where he’ll meet a much younger, less dead version of himself.
According to the blurb, he must (re)experience the events leading up to the legendary battle in which he first lost his life. This means rekindling old friendships and no doubt going toe to toe with a cavalcade of villains he’s already vanquished, all in a bid to save the kingdom and become the Hero of Gallowmere.
‘MediEvil: Fate’s Arrow.’ @Trepan (Chris Sorrell) and I are delighted to announce that our prequel/sequel story to the original MediEvil will be released as a hardback book by @ComicsTitan with @playstation this Halloween! Here’s a peak at the art. #medievil pic.twitter.com/TNWA9CiEPM
— Jay Gunn (@GunnComics) August 16, 2019
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Tension as Itsekiris Renew Claim of Ownership of Maritime University Site
Gives 14-day ultimatum to IOCs, FG to change name of site
Sylvester Idowu in Warri
Tension is gradually building up in Gbaramatu kingdom as the Itsekiris thursday renewed their claim of the ownership of the Nigerian Maritime University at Okerenkoko in Warri South West Local Government Srea of Delta State.
The establishment of the university is one of the conditions given for peace to reign in the region by the Niger Delta militants as presented to the federal government through the pan-Niger Delta Elders’ Forum led by Chief Edwin Clark.
In heeding the condition, the Senate penultimate week passed a bill for the establishment of the university while the people of the region are awaiting the same action from the House of Representatives.
The state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa had last Wednesday, at a press briefing in Asaba, assured the people of the state that the university would take off by October this year.
But the Itsekiri youths under the aegis of Niger Delta Omega (NIDO) yesterday issued a 14-day ultimatum to the federal and state governments and all international oil companies (IOCs) operating in their land to rename the location of the university, Okerenkoko as Okerenghigho as allegedly recognised by the laws of the country.
The group also demanded the immediate provision of licences to Itsekiris to own and operate oil blocks and modular refineries in their land, completion of the Koko-Ogheye-Lagos road project, pilling of all Itsekiri riverine communities, employment of Itsekiri indigenes by the IOCs, provision of light, potable water, hospitals as well as motorable roads with bridges to connect Itsekiri areas in the Niger Delta.
NIDO in a statement signed by its spokesman, Agbogunyo Oliriogun, warned that failure to meet their demands within 14 days would attract the wrath on all assets of the federal government and that of the IOCs.
It advised that it would be better for the IOCs to move all their personnel, equipments and installations before the end of the 14 days if they (IOCs) know that they won’t be able to meet up with the demands within the stipulated days.
The group lamented that Itsekiris cannot continue to sit and watch the wickedness, underdevelopment and oppression of their people by the government at all levels and the IOCs.
“Though the Itsekiri nation produces about 30 per cent of the national oil production, it is sad to note that most Itsekiris from oil producing communities have not seen a tarred road, television, an hospital, electrical powered light, fan or a car as a result of the stealth wickedness by both the government and the IOCs in under developing our land,†it said.
NIDO lambasted some Itaekiri youths who allegedly connived with the government and multinational oil companies in the underdevelopment of the communities for alleged selfish reasons.
“We note with dismay how both factions of the Itsekiri National Youth Council are using the present situation in Itsekiri to do their private self-centred business to the detriment of the tribe. The youth leadership of the Itsekiri people that is suppose to provide leadership have ended up been hijacked by politicians who now use it at will to satisfy their interest
“It is most shocking that both factions of the INYC don’t care about how the tribe is fairing, neither do they think of what their actions may cause the tribe in the long run rather they are only concern in power tussle and how to use the tribe to hustle for political relevance,†it added.
The statement warned that “in line with the foregoing we call on all Nigerians at large and Itsekiri in particular not to take any action from both factions of the Itsekiri National Youths Council (INYC) serious because they are both hustlers and jobbers who are not to be taken serious, hence all their threat and ultimatum should be ignored as it is merely a tool to gain government patronage. We warn the two factions of the INYC to keep clear from all activities for the survival of Itsekiri by NIDO or they should be ready to face our wrath.â€
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NMA: We Must Test COVID-19 Vaccines Before Administering on Nigerians
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) yesterday said COVID-19 vaccines being imported into the country must undergo a quick clinical trial before it they are administered to citizens.
According to the NMA President, Professor Innocent Ujah, reactions to vaccines differ among different races.
“If the vaccines come to Nigeria, we need to quickly do our own evaluation of that vaccine,” he said, during an appearance on a live television programme.
“Recall that when we were using chloroquine, the southern part was not responding to chloroquine, some parts of the north were. But in totality it was thought that chloroquine were no longer effective and we changed.”
The NMA is also seeking additional funding from the federal government as doctors continue to suffer from the deadly pandemic.
At least 20 doctors died in the past week after contracting COVID-19, according to the chairman of the NMA in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Enema Amodu.
The doctors died in the course of treating infected patients who failed to disclose their true health status, Amodu said.
“We don’t want anybody to die in the service of their country,” Ujah said. “That’s why we talk about infection prevention and control. And we believe that working with the federal government, the PTF, and the Ministry of Health, we need to continually train our health workers – doctors, nurses – and anyone who has anything to do with patients on infection prevention and control.
Meanwhile, Amodu has said the accuracy of the testing for the Coronavirus should be improved upon.
He said: “The turnaround time and accuracy of the testing for the Coronavirus should be improved upon.
“There should be comprehensive life insurance in place for doctors and other health personnel that risk their lives in the line of duty.
“Isolation centres should be properly equipped with drugs and personnel to manage cases as they come.
“This is a clarion call by the Nigerian doctors on behalf of her members and other colleagues in the frontline to protect us while we discharge our duties.
“The NMA wishes to appreciate the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari who has reacted to our cry and has promised to improve on the welfare packages of doctors; and also the Honourable Minister of FCT, Mallam Mohammed Musa Bello, who ensured the prompt payment of hazard allowance to FCT doctors.
“Once again, we mourn with our colleague’s family that have died. While we pray for their gallant souls to rest in peace, we also pray for those of us alive to remain so in good health.”
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When is Misconduct Professional?
Disputes often arise under both general liability and professional liability policies as to whether certain types of misconduct are professional. Typically, under Texas law, conduct is considered professional if it requires specialized skills, knowledge, or expertise.
Courts have classified “professional” services as those that are primarily intellectual, rather than primarily manual. Courts have also acknowledged, however, that it is the actual injury causing conduct, and not the title or position of the actor, that determines whether the service is professional. In some instances, both professional and non-professional conduct can be concurrent, independent causes of injury, triggering coverage under more than one policy. Thus, the Fifth Circuit has held that a suicide death of a patient who jumped from a window was caused by both ordinary negligence (based upon the failure to secure the window) and professional negligence (in placing the patient in a non-secure ward). Courts have refused to find ordinary negligence, however, where a patient was given an overdose of medicine, and a non-professional receptionist later refused to refer a call from the patient's parents to a treating physician. Solicitation letters from lawyers, although seeking professional employment, are not in and of themselves professional.
These issues are once again brought into play in a recent unpublished opinion from the Austin Court of Appeals, Utica Nat'l Ins. Co. of Texas v. Texas Prop. & Cas. Ins. Guaranty Ass'n, 2001 WL 1298891 (Tex. App.-Austin, October 15, 2001). In that case, both general liability and professional liability insurance was in effect. The claims arose from 44 patients who were exposed to hepatitis-C as a result of contaminated anesthesia administered to them during out patient surgeries. Apparently, an employee of the hospital had been stealing drugs for his personal use by breaking open sealed glass ampules and extracting drugs using a contaminated syringe.
Not surprisingly, the insurers disagreed as to who should provide coverage. Ultimately, the court concluded that both policies were responsible. The failure to properly secure the drugs to prevent access and contamination was considered non-professional negligence. No professional judgment, education or training was required to properly store the drugs and grant access. On the other hand, the application of the contaminated anesthesia was considered professional. Accordingly, both insurers were required to defend.
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Tokyo Unveils Transparent Public Toilets in Parks
The brainchild behind this stroke of genius is Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban.
Ifah SakinahAug 19th, 2020
Image credit: Tokyo Toilet.jp
Tokyo’s popular district is now home to an unconventional attraction: transparent public toilets.
Two new sets of entirely see-through toilets, with three cubicles, have been plonked in the city’s Shibuya neighbourhood at the Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park. They are not far off from the world’s busiest pedestrian crossing.
Design of the transparent public toilets
While the facade of the transparent public toilet is outrageous, it is made with a special “smart” glass that serves a functional purpose. Upon engaging the lock, it offers users privacy by instantly switching the surface from transparent to opaque. That way, one can do his business in peace – without worrying about the prying eyes of curious passersby.
But, the question as to the need of a transparent tinted glass for a public amenity certainly arises. Well, public toilets are notorious for being dirty and unsanitary. Even in Japan, where it is reputable for its cleanliness.
Many harbour a phobia of using a restroom in public, or find it an altogether gross experience. This innovation takes the edge off a common type of fear. The clear exterior allows users to have a peek inside to determine the cleanliness of the toilet without even coming into contact with it.
“There are two things we worry about when entering a public restroom, especially those located at a park,” says a statement on the project’s official website, Tokyo Toilet.jp. “The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside.”
“This allows users to check the cleanliness and whether anyone is using the toilet from the outside,” it said.
Over and above that, the facility lights up the park like a beautiful lantern at night.
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Tokyo Toilet Project
These transparent public toilets are part of Nippon Foundation’s ‘THE TOKYO TOILET’ project. It aims to incorporate advanced designs to make public toilets more accessible for everyone. As such, 17 public toilets located in Shibuya have been renovated.
It comes as no surprise that the glass rendition of Shigeru Ban is the spotlight amongst other designs. Who is ready to relieve himself at this transparent public toilet in Tokyo?
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as he heard from a number of Leiden researchers, this is contingent upon a firm disciplinary basis. A novelty of this year’s celebration was a joint dies lecture given by two professors.
In his speech, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said that universities all around the world are thinking about their positioning, and that this involves questioning who you are as a university, to whom you belong, for whom you exist, in what you want to excel and who your most important partners are. Reflecting further on the last question, Stolker looked more closely at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) alliance. Because reflecting on your own position is also about how you want to shape your relationship with the world around you, at all levels, from local to global. LDE began as a partnership in the field of medicine, but now even offers joint interdisciplinary programmes.
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker: 'How do we want to relate to the world around us, both locally and globally?'
Stolker asked ten researchers from Leiden who collaborate with others for their opinions on this. The question inspired some nice metaphors, such as by physicist Carlo Beenakker: collaboration is like playing in an orchestra; everyone needs to have mastered their own instrument. Migration specialist Marlou Schrover came with a familiar but popular metaphor of the salad bowl: all the distinct components determine the quality of the whole. Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Professor of Biomedical Imaging, suggested a Formula 1 car: all sorts of different specialisms are needed to build this and the specialists don’t even need to trouble one another.
10,000 hours of practice
The researchers emphasized that collaboration can only be successful if there is a firm grounding in the individual disciplines. The 10,000 hours of practice required to master a musical instrument also apply to academia, was the message. Or, as legal scholar Simone van der Hof put it: to work together well, you have to have a firm footing in your own discipline.
Joint dies lecture on cybersecurity
In their joint dies lecture – a first at this annual ceremony – Professors Bibi van den Berg (Cybersecurity Governance) and Aske Plaat (Artificial Intelligence) discussed the phenomenon of cybersecurity, a theme that has only become more relevant since the recent ransomware attack on the University of Maastricht and the problems with Citrix software. These kinds of cyberattacks actually serve to undermine society, said the professors, because a safe internet has become a basic need.
First every joint dies lecture: professors Bibi van den Berg and Aske Plaat.
Strong government
These developments call for strong government, which should enforce rules like a health and safety authority to keep the worldwide web healthy. A good example of this is the European GDPR legislation, which has caused media giants such as Google and Facebook to take more responsibility for the privacy of their users outside of Europe too. Universities with a wide range of research fields such as Leiden University also play an important part, said Plaat: ‘It is only if we look at the problem from a multidisciplinary perspective that we will be able to fully understand it.’
No disruptions so far
How can it be, the professors asked, that until now we haven’t witnessed widespread disruptive incidents, and our critical infrastructures are still operational? There are three reasons for this. The first is that if one system fails this rarely causes a chain reaction with other systems failing in turn because these systems are often only loosely linked. The second reason is that governments and institutions are worried, and are taking preventive measures, which helps. The third is that criminals and terrorists seek to cause the greatest possible impact with the least effort possible. In that case, it seems logical to avoid well-secured infrastructures that would require extensive technical knowledge to disrupt or damage.
The new Practicum Musicae Orchestra, composed of Leiden students who also follow classes at the Royal Conservatory, provided two musical interludes.
Honorary doctorate for Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza
After the lecture, it was time for a special ritual: Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza from South Africa was awarded an honorary doctorate. Ntsebeza is Professor of Sociology and African Studies at the University of Capetown. Honorary supervisor Jan Bart Gewald, Professor of African History at Leiden University, mentioned Ntsebeza’s eventful personal history; during apartheid, Ntsebeza spent over five years in prison because of his battle against the repressive regime. After the regime fell, Ntsebeza could have rested on his laurels and work for the new government, Gewald remarked. ‘But you stayed true to your calling as a teacher, scientist and liberator of people, regardless of their race or beliefs.’ Ntsebeza’s research into the meaning of democracy for South Africans in rural areas, history of land reforms and social movements offers a better understanding of South Africa, said Gewald.
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza (middle) with honorary supervisor Jan-Bart Gewald (left) and Professor of Development Sociology Marja Spierenburg in the Academy Building, prior to the ceremony.
Failed land reforms
Ntsebeza was visibly moved. He thanked Gewald and addressed the land reforms. He called them ‘a colossal failure’, as to this day white South Africans have transferred less than 10% of agricultural land. He also mentioned some positive developments. In 2019, President Ramaphosa signed a new law giving Khoisan communities more rights to shape their own government in the Western Cape and Northern Cape. This has also had an effect on his own research. ‘I’ll be focusing more on the land issues in this area, which date back to the 17th century when Dutch colonists took land from the indigenous inhabitants. A lot of archive documents will be in Dutch, so I see a lot of opportunities for collaboration with my Dutch colleagues at Leiden University.’
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza receives his honorary doctorate from honorary supervisor Jan-Bart Gewald.
The brand-new honorary doctor enthusiastically pointed out the presence of a special guest in the Pieterskerk: South African Professor John Dugard, who is also a former Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University. In 1977, Dugard defended Ntsebeza when he and others were arrested for studying ‘inflammatory literature’. Ntsebeza: ‘I am thrilled to meet Professor Dugard 43 years later, under totally different circumstances!’
Protest in the procession
Before the traditional procession of professors to the Pieterskerk, there was a short protest by Leiden University students from Extinction Rebellion. This group protests for action to deal with climate change. Beadle Erick van Zuylen welcomed the students in front of the Academy Building, after which they joined in the procession – dressed in their own robes.
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Carel Stolker Rector Magnificus & Chairman of the Executive Board
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RAF Barnham
In the early l950s, the WW2 mustard gas weapons storage depot at Barnham, on the south side of the 94 Maintenance Unit Air Ammunition Park (serving RAF Honington and other airfields), was selected for development as a dedicated storage and maintenance facility for nuclear weapons, in particular for Blue Danube, Britain’s first nuclear bomb.
The 10000lb Blue Danube, was delivered to the Bomber Command Armaments School at RAF Wittering in 1953. It was 24ft 2in long and 5ft 2in in diameter. Blue Danube’s fins extended after dropping so that it could be carried inside the bomb bays of Valiants, Vulcans and Victors.
This huge bomb was, in reality, obsolete before it was delivered which resulted in a limited production run.
Blue Danube was supplemented with US Mk-5 atomic bombs in 1958, pending the introduction of smaller tactical atomic bombs and strategic megaton weapons.
A second similar facility was built at Faldingworth in Lincolnshire. Barnham was completed by 1957 and was able to supply the squadrons at Honnington, Marham, Watton, Wyton, Upwood and Bassingbourn.Barnham came under the control of No. 94 Maintenance Unit and covers 23 acres with a roughly five sided pattern with projecting bastions that allowed the whole of the perimeter to be seen from the internal patrols. Added security was achieved in 1959 by building watch towers at the corners. Inside the perimeter mesh fence which was topped with barbed wire, there was an inner concrete panel wall, also topped with barbed wire. The guardroom and many of the domestic and other buildings were located in a compound between the two wire mesh fences with an electric sliding gate mounted on rails giving access to this area and a second sliding gate into the inner sanctum.
Several new buildings were added a few years after the depot opened, a new maintenance facility close to the entrance gate to the inner compound was added in 1959 and the southern boundary wall was pushed upwards with a second mesh fence erected creating a sterile area where dogs were allowed to run loose.
RAF Barnham closed in the early 1960’s and the site was sold by the MOD in 1966 and it now forms the Gorse Industrial Estate. Most of the original buildings are still extant and are let out to various tenants who put them to a variety of light industrial uses. The inner compound has been densely planted with conifers supplementing the lime and poplar trees which were part of the original tree planting programme; it is now difficult to get an overall view of the layout of the buildings.
The weapon storage area consisted of three different types of buildings, 3 large protected blockhouses for the storage of the non-nuclear components, these being the outer bomb casings and the high explosive parts of the bomb. The three stores were arranged around an internal loop road with grassed earth banks along three sides of each building. At the entrance to each store there is an overall roof supported on concrete pillars with a gantry crane for lifting the heavy Blue Danube bombs from the large delivery trucks. Rooms to either side of the entrance housed ventilation plant for the blockhouse. Each rectangular storage blockhouse was 58 metres x 18 metres divided into 11 bays long by 3 bays wide with two internal lines of supporting concrete pillars
Two of the three storage buildings are still standing, the third was demolished after it was gutted by a fire in the mid 1980’s; at the time it was being used by a plastic company. The building immediately opposite the entrance gate faces straight onto the internal loop road while those to the west (now demolished) and east were angled with a cranked concrete canopy. The remaining two canopies have had their metal roof sheets removed as they were beginning to rot and the remaining concrete beams have been wrapped in chicken wire. One of the gantries still retains a hoist although it is unclear if this is original or a later replacement. At Faldingworth the three buildings all face straight on to the loop road.
Internally, the buildings have been altered with new walls being built between the supporting pillars creating a number of individual rooms. Each of the two remaining buildings has a number of different tenants.
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At least 170 homes destroyed so far by Australia wildfires
Firefighters battle a blaze Tuesday north of Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia. Photo by Darren Pateman/EPA-EFE
Fire crews wash chemical fire retardant off their truck after it was dropped to protect houses near Sydney, Australia, Tuesday. Photo by Dan Himbrechts/EPA-EFE
Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Fire crews fought more than 100 wildfires across eastern Australia on Tuesday, a day officials expected to be one of the most dangerous the country has ever seen.
Brush fires in the states of New South Wales and Queensland have activated emergency conditions and destroyed at least 170 homes so far, authorities said. Officials expected Tuesday to be potentially "catastrophic," with especially dangerous wildfire conditions.
Officials said as of Tuesday night there were 75 fires burning in New South Wales, 10 of which were listed at the emergency level. Temperatures fell along the coast, which crews say should help, but a change in wind direction could increase the danger elsewhere.
So far, three people have died as a result of the fires -- two as they tried to outrun fast-moving flames in their vehicles. Officials said they plan to deploy the army, including reservists, to back up crews and clean up areas. Hundreds of schools closed as temperatures climbed and wind gusts fanned flames.
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New South Wales was under an unprecedented "catastrophic" warning for Sydney and surrounding regions in New South Wales. Rural fire service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said no houses are built to withstand the flames, urging residents in fire-prone areas to evacuate.
"We cannot guarantee a fire truck at every home," he said. "We cannot guarantee that someone will knock on your door and give you a warning."
Despite the warnings, many residents have decided to stay home due to a threat of looters.
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Firefighters battled a spot fire Tuesday at a property in Nana Glen that belongs to actor Russell Crowe.
Australian officials have banned all fires nationwide, and at least four people have been fined for ignoring the order.
Wildfires are common in Australia but it's still early in the fire season, leading to concerns things could grow worse. The extra hot, dry conditions that have fed the fires have drawn attention to climate change.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to answer questions about whether the fires are related to climate change, and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said any attempt to link the two is a "disgrace."
"They don't need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies at this time," he said.
RELATED Australia wildfires: Three dead, seven missing, 150 homes destroyed
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Energy FC’s full schedule has been released!
The United Soccer League announced today the revised schedule for the 2020 USL Championship season. The league’s clubs are set to play 263 games over 13 weeks to decide which 16 teams will advance to the 2020 USL Championship Playoffs, which will begin the second weekend of October.
While the Group D opponents were announced last week, Energy FC will play crossover games against Sporting Kansas City II of the Eastern Conference, as well as familiar Western Conference foes New Mexico United and Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC.
In addition to today’s earlier announcement regarding the nationally-televised opener against FC Tulsa on July 13 at Taft Stadium, the Greens will play the following fixtures:
· @ Austin Bold FC, Bold Stadium, Austin, Texas, July 17
· vs Rio Grande Valley FC, Taft Stadium, OKC, July 22
· @ Sporting Kansas City II, Children’s Mercy Park, Kansas City, July 25
· vs New Mexico United, Taft Stadium, August 1
· vs San Antonio FC, Taft Stadium, August 8
· vs Rio Grande Valley FC, Taft Stadium, August 15
· @ San Antonio FC, Toyota Field, San Antonio, August 19
· vs Austin Bold FC, Taft Stadium, August 30
· @ Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, Weidner Field, Colorado Springs, September 5
· @ FC Tulsa, ONEOK Field, Tulsa, September 12
· @ San Antonio FC, September 19
· vs Austin Bold FC, Taft Stadium, September 27
· @ FC Tulsa, September 30
· @ Rio Grande Valley FC, H-E-B Park, Edinburg, Texas, October 3
The Black Gold Derby could be decided on September 30 as Energy FC travels to Tulsa, the second of two meetings between the clubs at that venue in the month.
The regular season concludes the opening weekend of October with a trip to Edinburg, Texas to face Rio Grande Valley for a third time.
Every game of the 2020 USL Championship season will air on the ESPN family of networks, with broadcasts on ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ bringing all the excitement of the first league in the United States to return to play in home markets directly to homes across the United States.
Click Here for the Complete Revised 2020 USL Championship Schedule
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General admission tickets for the opener against FC Tulsa on July 13 will go on sale Tuesday, July 7 at 10 a.m. CT. Fans can register for tickets ahead of time here. Information regarding available tickets for additional games will be made available in the coming weeks.
Energy FC is committed to providing a safe and entertaining experience at all seven remaining home games. For more information on procedures that will be in place at Taft Stadium, please visit energyfc.com/procedures.
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Our Cartoonist Went to Chelsea and All We Got Were these Brilliant Cartoons
Last Thursday was back-to-school night for the New York art world. Liana Finck braved the amped-up crowds and calescent galleries to catch up with an assembly of old stagers and gussied-up new kids.
by Liana Finck
GARAGE is a print and digital universe spanning the worlds of art, fashion, design, and culture. Our launch on VICE.com is coming soon , but until then, we're publishing original stories, essays, videos, and more to give you a taste of what's to come. Every year, we swear we'll stay away; every year we get sucked back in. Attendance at fall's first batch of exhibition openings in Chelsea remains a mandatory annual ritual, an instant and total immersion in the professionalized art world that's equal parts party and purgatory. We sent cartoonist Liana Finck to "Super Thursday" armed with nothing more than a smartphone and her wits. Below, Finck's sketches from the evening.
Liana Finck's cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Awl, Catapult, and on her Instagram. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press in 2014.
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colfax_m said:
Yes... bullshit law saying when the bullshit law can be challenged has not much weight in it.
No different than the statues of limitations the federal government imposes on itself. Or the time limits of the Speedy Trials Act 1974 - 18 USC 3161
Bullshit, that's not what they even argued, as they directly state:
"While the Commonwealth also relies upon Section 13(3) of Act 77, providing for a 180- day period in which constitutional challenges may be commenced, given our reliance upon the doctrine of laches, we do not speak to this basis for dismissal. "
Supreme court it is.
The Supreme Court is who just dismissed the case with prejudice.
Trolololoo...
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There’s no federal question so the US Supreme Court has no jurisdiction.
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Yeah, because how many times have you been right on these cases, Lionel?
Is it zero?
Yes, it's zero times you've been right so far.
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You know that act is over a year old and well outside of the 180 day window, right?
No he doesn't.
He got his law degree from the University of Western Samoa.
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Laches and Post-2020 Election Challenges: Why Many of the Republican Gambits Challenging Election Laws Will Come Too Late
In this post, I want to talk about a key issue about timing that could mean many such gambits come too late under the doctrine of “laches.” Laches is a remedial defense that says that when there is unreasonable delay and it prejudices the other party, then the claim comes too late.
The bottom line is that if you think there is a problem with how an election is being run, you need to go to court at that point to sue about it; you can’t wait to see how the election turns out and then do it.
October 29, 2020 11:39 am by Rick Hasen
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Fort Fun Indiana said:
You can stop whining, now. This thread is officially deceased. Time for you to flit on to the next desperate nugget of cultish goofiness.
. He says, "The supreme court will decide." When they do, he rejects their decision. He has lied so much he doesnt even remember how not to lie.
They think Amy's gonna save 'em
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A Pennsylvania state court Judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Pennsylvania from taking any further steps to perfect its certification of the election, including but not limited to appointment of electors and transmission of necessary paperwork to the Electoral College, pending further court hearings and rulings. The ruling upholds an injunction from earlier in the week, and is significant because of the findings made in the Opinion released tonight.
You can read the Opinion here.
The case has been somewhat under the radar, because it doesn’t involve claims of fraud. It appears to be a pretty straight legal argument. This is not the federal court case that has received a lot of press attention and in which the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied relief.
The issue in this case is whether legislative expansion of absentee balloting to broad mail-in balloting violated the Pennsylvania Constitution. It’s not clear what the relief would be; the petitioners seek to preclude the Secretary of State from transmitting the certification or otherwise perfecting the electoral college selections.
Here is the Judge’s description of the claim:
In the Petition, Petitioners allege that the Act of October 31, 2019, P.L. 552, No. 77 (Act 77), which added and amended various absentee and mail-in voting provisions in the Pennsylvania Election Code (Election Code),1 is unconstitutional and void ab initio because it purportedly contravenes the requirements of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Petitioners allege that Article VII, section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution provides two exclusive mechanisms by which a qualified elector may cast his or her vote in an election: (1) by submitting his or her vote in propria persona at the polling place on election day; and (2) by submitting an absentee ballot, but only if the qualified voter satisfies the conditions precedent to meet the requirements of one of the four, limited exclusive circumstances under which absentee voting is authorized under the Pennsylvania constitution. (Petition, ¶16.) Petitioners allege that mail-in voting in the form implemented through Act 77 is an attempt by the legislature to fundamentally overhaul the Pennsylvania voting system and permit universal, no-excuse, mail-in voting absent any constitutional authority. Id., ¶17. Petitioners argue that in order to amend the Constitution, mandatory procedural requirements must be strictly followed. Specifically, pursuant to Article XI, Section 1, a proposed constitutional amendment must be approved by a majority vote of the members of both the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate in two consecutive legislative sessions, then the proposed amendment must be published for three months ahead of the next general election in two newspapers in each county, and finally it must be submitted to the qualified electors as a ballot question in the next general election and approved by a majority of those voting on the amendment. According to Petitioners, the legislature did not follow the necessary procedures for amending the Constitution before enacting Act 77 which created a new category of mail-in voting; therefore, the mail-in ballot scheme under Act 77 is unconstitutional on its face and must be struck down. Id., ¶¶27, 35-37. As relief, Petitioners seek, inter alia, a declaration and/or injunction that prohibits Respondents from certifying the November 2020 General Election results, which include mail-in ballots that are permitted on a statewide basis and are allegedlyimproper because Act 77 is unconstitutional.
The Judge found, among other things, that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail on their PA constitutional claims, and that the matter was not moot even though PA had “certified” the results, because there were more steps to be taken [emphasis added]:
Pennsylvania State Judge Upholds Halt To Certification, Finds Likelihood Mail-In Balloting Procedures Violate PA Constitution
UPDATE 11-28-2020 7 p.m.: Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses challenge to mail-in ballot procedures, vacates halt to certification.
legalinsurrection.com
Folks, mail in balloting already IS illegal in PA thank God.
This thread ended in embarrassment for the author and right-wing fans, as the Pa Supreme Court wiped its butt with the rightwing-nut judge's decision:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses GOP congressman’s suit seeking to throw out all ballots cast by mail (inquirer.com)
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The OP is wrong. The court did NOT find that mail-in ballots in PA are unconstitutional.
The court halted the certification process so those arguing that it is unconstitutional can have their say in court.
The judge also said that she didn’t know what the relief was, but that an election shouldn’t be tossed and handed to the legislature.
What can you expect? Moderators in this right-wing message board don't send inaccurate threads like these to the "Rubber Room" (when the author is a right-wing nut). The goal is to spread fake news in favor of Trump.
L.K.Eder said:
The state Supreme Court dismissed the case on Saturday, based on the “Petitioners’ failure to file their facial constitutional challenge in a timely manner.”
Ha! I was right! I'd have made an awesome lawyer!
pyetro said:
The you know whos shitcanned one of his threads yesterday. Stunned me too.
what a bunch of buffoons
and the cult is so much in denial they think this is real
but ... but ... but ... SCOTUS!!!!!!
Read it carefully. They said they relied on the doctrine of laches, and not the ;limits within the code itself.
In short, They used an independent legal principle, so nothing contained in the election law was subject to interpretation by another court.
The USSC would be limited to ruling on the doctrine of laches.
Therefore the judges were acting as politicians in black robes consequently the sham ruling will be reversed by SCOTUS
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Can you then explain, why is the matter of the ballots that arrived after 8 PM on the SCOTUS right now? Mind you, a other case where the SC of PA went 100% political.
An illegitimate election is a bigger deal than a ballot arriving after 8 PM.
I doubt many expected the Supreme Court of PA to decide the matter any other way. Clearly they are political hacks.
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Homeland Security Committee Releases Report Outlining Biden Family Selling U.S. Policy for Personal, Financial Ga
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There will be no unity until Trump's seditionists are no more.
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Numerische FluiddynamikTopics (Selection)
Topics and Research Projects
Model reduction for transport phenomena
© PK
Model reduction tries to describe large and numerical complex systems by much smaller ones, to save simulation time in design or control processes. Unfortunately, model reduction fails for transport dominated systems, like propagating flames, moving shocks or traveling acoustic waves. The goal of our research is to structurally extend the available standard methods for these kind of systems.
Acoustics / Liner
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One main research subject of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Acoustics deals with Helmholtz Resonators in a Turbulent Boundary Layer.
For industrial use, hollow chambers in a turbulent flow are frequently surveyed. Often in expansive experimental runs, various configurations are tested in order to fulfill design objectives.
Large-scale sound reinforcement for speech and music is nowadays typically realised with line array systems. Their drive has to be optimised with respect to several degrees of freedom, e.g.arrangement, geometry, construction of the boxes and different boundary constraints, e.g. geometry of the auditory, areas that have to be avoided, available acoustic power. It is an ill-posed inverse problem ...
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The analysis of complex fluid mechanical phenomena is based on experimental and numerical analysis. Both approaches provide suitable data, but no complete and exactly matching picture of a flow, which is to be examined. Experimental data are usually incomplete, because not every state variable is accessible by measurements and numerical solutions are often affected by ...
Fluid-structure interaction (insect flight)
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Our team combines the unique perspectives of high-performance computing and experimental biology to address the challenging question of how flying insects cope with turbulent perturbations in the surrounding air flow. This pluridisciplinary project assembles physics, numerical modeling and simulation with experimental biology.
Reactive flows
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The aim of the project is the depth investigation of the processes of pulsating-detonative combustion. Essential for the technical application of pulsating combustion is a fast and reliable transition from deflagration to more efficient detonation (DDT). In the experiment, a reliable DDT was found for a special geometry, consisting of a chamber with a convergent-divergent nozzle. The numerical simulation finds the DDT at the narrowest cross section as a complex interaction of different phenomena, in particular flame acceleration and shock focusing, which in turn is consistent with the measured pressure data. The underlying phenomena are strongly dependent on the speed of sound, heat release and characteristics of the flame as well as the boundary and start conditions, thus on the mixture properties and the operating conditions.
High speed flows with ion transport
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Gas flows transporting charged particles occur in different fields. Our focus are vacuum devices, where molecules are ionized to manipulate and analyze these. An important application is the mass spectrometry, which, in all its variations and extensions, is one of the work horses in chemical and biochemical research.
In such devices, particles, like complex biochemical molecules, are typically ionized under atmospheric conditions and transferred to low pressure conditions, whereby the gas is removed and intact ions of theses molecules in vacuum are obtained. This is the prerequisite for many accurate and detailed investigation methods. Ionization under atmospheric conditions, as in electrosprays, allows ionization of molecules which would be destroyed by other, more direct methods.
The vacuum transfer inevitably yields high speed flows over high pressure range, i.e. high speed sonic and supersonic flows. These take place in complex geometries dictated by the need to create special, appropriate electric fields to guide the ions, i.e. ion optics.
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Lady Vols roll past the tide 82-56
Lenoir City Boys & Girls Club receives $25,000 technology grant
by: Robert Holder
LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley was the recipient of a $25,000 grant Wednesday.
Government leaders including Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and Mayor Tony Aikens were joined by representatives of Spectrum to present the Spectrum Digital Education Grant.
The funding will be used to purchase new equipment that supports virtual learning and academics for more than 150 Boys & Girls Club members inside and outside the club.
KCS: Cedar Bluff Preschool moving to ‘red attendance’ starting Jan. 19 through at least Jan. 25
Powerball Jackpot increases to $730 million, 3 winning tickets worth $50,000 or more announced locally
by Curtis Carden / Jan 17, 2021
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) -- One Knox County school is shifting to "red attendance" this week.
According to a social media post from school system, Cedar Bluff Preschool will move to that status from Jan. 19 to Jan. 25, unless otherwise notified by the school system.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) -- Saturday's drawing didn't see a winner for the Powerball jackpot, but three other winning tickets were announced in the region.
According to a release from Tennessee Lottery, five players matched four out of five white balls and the red Powerball in Saturday’s drawing to win at least $50,000. Three of those players chose the Power Play feature for an extra $1, and because the Power Play number drawn was 3, the $50,000 prize was tripled to $150,000.
Faith leaders to address COVID-19 vaccine distribution among African American community
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) -- Steps continue to be made in the region to help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution among the African American community.
The Faith Leaders Church Initiative has announced it is establishing the African American Health Care Clinician Workgroup. A news conference about the new plan is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18.
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Multi-Alarm Fire Rages In Springboro, Three Children Involved
by: Steve Marshall
Update at 6 p.m. : Three children, two are 11 years old, the other age 10 are may be facing charges after allegedly setting fire to a barn in Springboro.
The fire was reported shortly after noon today in a barn on Lake street in Springboro. The block-long building was unused to store bales of hay. Due to the condition of the building, firefighters had to fight the fire from the outside, using ladder trucks to spray it from above.
Late this afternoon, State Police say charges pending completion of the investigation.
Witnesses told police they saw the boys running from the barn just minutes before the fire was spotted. A witness told police he looked in the barn and saw several bales of hay on fire.
SCI Albion is reporting the first death of an inmate from COVID-19.
The 67-year-old inmate died on Saturday from the virus.
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South Africa/Deep state
< South Africa
(Deep state)
SA/DS
Exposed by
Mark Minnie
The South African deep state hosted many meetings of Le Cercle.
The South African deep state is summarised here mainly because hosted many meetings of Le Cercle. A document published in 2014 suggested that they may have instigated the Olof Palme Assassination.[1]
1.1 Decolonialisation
2 Apartheid government
2.1 Le Cercle
3 End of apartheid
3.1 Nuclear weapons
3.2 South African Reserve Bank
4 VIPaedophile
5 An event carried out
As a British colony, South Africa was important because of its strategic position in connection to the sea lane to East Asia, and because gold and diamonds were discovered in large quantities.
“Alfred Milner organized and developed a talented coterie of Oxford graduates inside his South African administration, men who by 1914 held critical positions of power in the City, the Conservative Party, the Civil Service, major newspapers and academia. Carroll Quigley specifically dedicated a chapter of his seminal Anglo-American Establishment to this "Milner's Kindergarten", the men who rose to high office in government, industry and politics. He appointed, trained and developed his chosen men to drive forward the Secret Elite agenda with conviction.”
Jim Macgregor, Gerry Docherty (2017) [2]
Decolonialisation
Although it was given nominal independence[When?][How?], the nation remained under the control of the European educated and descended group which had ruled it as a colony. Patrick Duncan, for example, a member of the Milner Group, was made Governor-General of South Africa. The group retained close ties to London.
Apartheid government
Full article: Apartheid
The colonial mindset was legally entrenched by an openly racist legal system named Apartheid, with only token efforts towards equality. This disenfranchised the majority South African population and attracted worldwide criticism, leading to diplomatic isolation. The South African deep state was active in maintaining this system, and engaged in brutal repression of critics and activists promoting a more genuinely representative democracy.
Full article: Le Cercle
The diplomatic isolation of the apartheid government meant that global diplomatic contacts were highly valuable. The mindset of most members of Le Cercle meant that the apartheid government was no a barrier to collaboration. This lead to South Africa contributing money to the Cercle and hosting several of its meetings. This connection may have been important in the assassination of Olof Palme.
Attendees included billionaire businessman Anton Rupert.
End of apartheid
After years of economic and cultural sanctions, the apartheid government handed over official political power, after agreeing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission which guaranteed immunity to those fully admitted past crimes.
South Africa was in possession of 10 nuclear weapons, but the apartheid government reportedly disposed of them. Their fate however remains disputed. (See David Kelly)[citation needed]
Full article: South African Reserve Bank
A dead body is discovered in Harare, along with 67 tonnes of banknotes, aboard Western Global Airlines N545JN, which SARB later termed a "Diplomatic Shipment".
Unlike most central banks, the South African Reserve Bank is privately owned. Although it has its own facility for printing bank notes, it stated publicy after the exposure of Western Global Airlines N545JN that it also uses money printed abroad "as part of [its] contingency plans".[3]
VIPaedophile
Full article: VIPaedophile
Mark Minnie was a detective-turned-author who became interested in paedophilia networks at the top of the South African government. He collaborated with Chris Steyn to write The Lost Boys of Bird Island, published on 5 August 2018. This gave details of child rape and murder by key figures in the last apartheid government. Minnie was shot dead on 14 August. The South African police reported that it was a suicide, a claim that was widely disbelieved.[4]
An event carried out
Olof Palme/Assassination Sweden
Tunnelgatan
↑ http://www.thelocal.se/20140225/millenium-author-tracked-south-african-palme-killer
↑ Prolonging The Agony p. 7
↑ http://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/reserve-bank-working-zim-authorities-consignment-release
↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45195756
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About Books Journalism Events
In Xanadu
At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge’s Xanadu itself. At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.
Reviews and Quotes
Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator Books of the Year
“William Dalrymple's In Xanadu carries us breakneck from a predawn glimmer in the Holy Sepulchre right across Asia... It is learned and comic, and a most gifted first book touched by the spirits of Kinglake, Robert Byron and E. Waugh.”
Sir Alec Guinness, The Sunday Times
“The delightful, and funny, surprise mystery tour of the year.”
Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday
“In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books of the last twenty years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining… Dalrymple’s gift for transforming ordinary, humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength.”
In Xanadu elsewhere on the web:
Google Books Entry
© William Dalrymple 2021
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UK offshore falls to £57.50 in latest CfD round
11 September 2017 by David Weston
UK: Dong Energy and EDPR with Engie have secured contract for difference (CfD) deals at £57.50/MWh (€64.10/MWh) in the second auction round, as Innogy's Triton Knoll site also wins support.
London Array, the UK's current largest offshore wind farm, will be surpassed by the three newly contracted projects
Dong Energy will build 1,386MW of its Hornsea Project Two site off the east coast of England at £57.50/MWh, due to be delivered in 2022/23. It will be the largest offshore site in the world upon completion.
EDP Renovaveis (EDPR) has also secured a contract, with minority joint venture partner Engie, to build 950MW of the Moray Offshore Wind Farm East project, located over 22km off Scotland's east coast. It will also be delivered in 2022/23.
Innogy (formerly RWE Innogy) has also secured support to build the Triton Knoll offshore project. The site off England's east coast will be delivered a year earlier, in 2021/22. As a result, the 860MW site will be constructed at £74.75/MWh (€86/MWh).
Unlike the other low offshore wind prices recently seen in Germany and the Netherlands, the prices in the UK auction include the cost of the transmission assets.
The 15-year contracts are part of a second auction round to be held in the UK, in which 3,346MW of renewable or low-carbon "less-established" technologies competed to win government support.
In the UK's first auction round, awarded in 2015, two offshore wind projects, East Anglia One and Neart na Gaoithe, won support at an average of £117.14/MWh. This means offshore wind prices in the UK have halved since the first auction round in 30 months.
Offshore wind dominated the auction; dedicated biomass with combined heat and power (CHP), and advanced conversion technology projects won the remaining capacity.
REACTION: RenewableUK CEO Hugh McNeal said: "We knew today’s results would be impressive, but these are astounding. Today’s results mean that both onshore and offshore wind are cheaper than gas and nuclear. But this young, ambitious industry can go even further," Find more reaction to the results here.
According to the UK's department of business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), the total budget for contracts allocated in the auction round is forecast by National Grid at up to £176.2 million a year.
This is well below the £290 million budgeted by the government for the auction in November 2015.
UK minister for energy and industry, Richard Harrington, said: "The offshore wind sector alone will invest £17.5bn in the UK up to 2021 and thousands of new jobs in British businesses will be created by the projects announced today.
"This government will continue to seize these opportunities as the world moves towards a low carbon future, and will set out ambitious proposals in the upcoming Clean Growth Plan," he added.
The winners of CfD deals receive a top-up from the market price to the fixed tariff price they bid (strike price), meaning they can guarantee their income. However, should the market price rise above the strike price, then the generators will be paying the difference back to the government.
Hornsea Project Two
Dong Energy's Hornsea Project Two site was awarded government approval in August 2016. The site was due to have a capacity of up to 1.8GW.
It will be installed 89km from England's northeast coast next to the Hornsea Project One site which won an Final Investment Decision-enabling contracts for difference deal from the UK government in 2014.
Hornsea Project One will be built next year and receive £140/MWh (€153/MWh, 2011 prices) when it is completed, highlighting just how fast and far UK offshore wind prices have fallen.
"We have always promoted size as a key driver for cost. The ideal size of an offshore wind farm is 800-1,500MW, and therefore it is natural that Hornsea Project Two will deliver record-low costs to society.
"At the same time, the low strike price demonstrates the cost saving potential of developer-built offshore grid connections, which in the UK is included in the project scope," said Dong's wind power CEO Samuel Leopold.
Following the auction result, Dong Energy swiftly took a final investment decision on the project.
Moray Offshore Wind Farm East
EDPR sold a 23% stake in the Moray Offshore Wind Farm zone to French developer Engie for £21 million (€18.5 million) in July 2017.
The project secured consent from the Scottish Government in March 2014 to hold over 1.1GW of capacity.
"This auction has demonstrated the real progress in cost reduction and our result shows how affordable offshore wind can be compared to other technologies, including new thermal generation," said EDPR CEO Joao Manso Neto.
"The UK needs more low carbon generating infrastructure to maintain security of supply against an increasingly uncertain future. EDPR has demonstrated what can be done at this site. It is in the UK's interests to enable us to continue this achievement at other sites," Neto added.
With the successful bid in the auction, it is expected Chinese firm China Three Gorges will acquire up to 30% of the project, following a deal announced in October 2015.
The JV is also consulting on extending the zone to form the Moray Offshore Wind Farm West project, which had been constrained due to offshore oil and gas operations in the area.
Triton Knoll
Innogy will build the 860MW Triton Knoll offshore project at a slightly higher strike price of £74.75/MWh, this is reflected in the fact it will be delivered in slightly earlier in 2021.
Norwegian energy firm Statkraft currently owns a 50% stake in the project, acquired in February 2015. However, in December of that year, the company said it was looking to withdraw from the offshore wind sector, claiming it was 'too capital intensive'.
Statkraft said it would continue with the Triton Knoll project until a final investment decision is made, expected now in mid-2018, before looking to sell its stake.
Updated: Moray East reaches financial close
Updated: Triton Knoll onshore cabling work begins
JDR Cables awarded Hornsea Two contract
Japanese utilities buy into Triton Knoll
EEW secures Hornsea Two monopile contract
Ørsted in project export first
Siemens Gamesa signs Hornsea Project Two deal
EDF buys Mainstream's Neart Na Gaoithe
Mitsubishi's UK subsidiary acquires Moray East stake
Statkraft's offshore sales boost Q4 results
Vattenfall bids in no-subsidy Duch tender
Atkins to design Triton Knoll foundations
Galloper first power as UK prepares more zones
UK offshore facing skills shortage
MHI Vestas chosen for 950MW Moray East
UK CfD auction announced for spring 2019
Innogy buys Statkraft's Triton Knoll stake
Oklahoma 2GW 'megaproject' boosts Q3 investment
Triton Knoll selects VBMS for cable supply
Triton Knoll selects MHI Vestas 9.5MW
REACTION: UK offshore CfD 'breakthrough moment' for industry
Engie to buy 1.1GW Moray stake
UK offshore wind enters the next chapter
UK formally launches second CfD auction
Phased-project cap set for second UK auction
Scotland consults on "merchant" projects
New UK CfD round budget set
Triton Knoll ready for next UK auction
UK gives 1.8GW Hornsea Project Two green light
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A Curved Wall of Glass That Flickers as the Wind Blows
Simon Heijdens’ artistic career is built on a paradox. He uses technology to bring us closer to nature.
Shade translates gusts of wind into a light show via responsive glass facade. (This GIF is sped up; see video below for regular speed).Courtesy Simon Heijdens
Simon Heijdens' artistic career is built on a paradox. He uses technology to bring us closer to nature.
The 36-year-old Dutchman's works are like systems. The inputs are often elemental: things like wind, rain, sun. What comes out, translated via Heijdens' self-built hardware and software, are new, heightened versions of that natural world.
Shade, an installation which just wrapped up in London, is one striking example. It's a 1,500 square-foot facade of curved glass, fragmented into small triangular cells. Wind outside is measured at several points along the facade. The gusts are interpreted by a program, triggering individual cells to change from opaque to transparent. The result is an ever-changing ballet of light on the gallery floor. In the morning hours, the pattern is hard and angular pattern. As the sun moves overhead, the floor glows with a softer mosaic of sunlight.
Lightweeds, one of Heijdens' best known pieces, also diminishes the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space. It's currently installed at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. The piece is based around meadow of wispy, white weeds, digitally projected on the museum's walls, whose growth is dictated the weather outside. Just like the weeds in your yard, Heijdens computationally generated flora respond directly to sun, wind, and rain, as measured by outdoor sensors. The plants are sensitive to the indoor environment, too. As museum visitors pass by, their stalks bend and scatter their seeds, causing new weeds to spurt up in other parts of the space. Heijdens describes it as a "living digital organism."
Lightweeds is a series of digitally-projected plants that grow and move in response to the weather outside.
Courtesy Simon Heijdens
As Heijdens explains it, the aim of both these works is to reunite us with the rhythms of nature. "In the way our urbanizing world is generally built and planned, our everyday surroundings have become perpetual and static through conditioned climates and 24 hour lighting," he says. "When unpredictable natural elements such as a lifting breeze, a sudden shower, or a setting sun are planned out of our surroundings, the timeline of the everyday is lost.” You can think of his works like technological windows, letting those breezes and sunsets back into our spaces in novel, unexpected ways.
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“Full House” star Lori Loughlin to get 2 months in prison for college admissions scam
Posted: Aug 21, 2020 / 01:47 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 21, 2020 / 01:47 PM CDT
FILE – In this April 3, 2019 file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. The famous couple pleaded guilty to charges in May 2020, and are scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
BOSTON (AP) – “Full House” star Lori Loughlin will be sentenced to two months in prison after a judge accepted her plea deal with prosecutors for paying $500,000 in bribes to cheat the college admissions process.
Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, was sentenced earlier Friday to five months behind bars for his role in the college admissions bribery scheme. They pleaded guilty in May to paying half a million dollars to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as crew recruits even though neither is a rower.
Giannulli told the judge he takes full responsibility for his conduct and regrets the harm it is caused his family.
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Ask the Astro Poets: How Can You Tell If an Aries Really Loves You?
by Astro Poets
Ask the Astro Poets is the monthly advice column by W's resident astrologers, Alex Dimitrov (Sagittarius) and Dorothea Lasky (Aries). At the halfway point of every month, they take a breather from writing poetry and horoscopes, and take your questions about love, career, even the big existential questions in life. From matchmaking and compatibility, friendship or professional advice, the poets of the stars are here to guide you through any challenge:
Dear Astro Poets,
I'm a Taurus, and I think I’m in love with a strange but totally interesting Sagittarius. He’s in a band that I like a lot and somehow I ended up being a part of their music video, where I had to be bra-less and feed him bananas. We also fake-steered a ship together, and I felt so awkward that I started to wonder aloud how a ship works, which he explained to me—and since I was the only person he talked to during our scenes together, I totally got my hopes up. From then on, we've seen each other multiple times at their concerts and talked. He’s not a vocal person, but when we meet he always says something strange and confusing but appealing. Once I even contacted him and tried to play cool, as in "what’s up, buddy," but I still don’t know if he’s interested or not. What are our chances from an astrological perspective?
You always make me smile,
An Enamored Taurus
Dear Enamored Taurus,
A Sagittarius with strange, confusing, but somehow appealing and interesting things to say? Add him to the list of lovers driving someone crazy right this second—which will quite possibly include you next week. In the interest of transparency, as a Sagittarius and as a poet witch trying to help everyone reading this, I have to say this: People obsessed with us should really pay less attention to the crazy things we say! It's true at any time, and especially around matters of desire. A Sagittarius is an enormously frustrating sign to hit on. If they aren’t hitting on you loudly and directly—which they are known to do when they really want someone, or when they want to steal someone from someone else—they resort to a kind of coy game-playing where they’re mostly just showing off and aloof. Why? Because for them, the performance of flirting is often the most fun part of an initial romantic encounter. They’re entertaining themselves, and they think they’re entertaining you—though of course they’re building you a house of mystery and obsession and asking you to pay rent there—and they're assuming everyone watching is also intrigued.
The way to get a Sagittarius at this point in the game is to cut through all the smoke and mirrors and directly ask them out for a drink. Just be brief and matter-of-fact about it—that's the kind of text or, if you don't have his number, in-person ask that will get his attention. Don’t over-indulge in conversation or be self-deprecating or try to be funny—just shoot a real straight arrow. After your drink though, you’ll need—at least in the first few weeks—to resort to the opposite: giving him space and pretending you’re not thinking of texting him at all. Why? Well because every Sagittarius needs to believe in the illusion of freedom; that they can wake up in New York and end the evening in Paris without anyone getting in their way. Nine times out of 10 a Sagittarius will fall in love with someone because they presume they won’t get in their way. I know this is all frustrating, especially for a Taurus, a sign that likes to be commanding and lead. But if a Taurus and Sagittarius can get through these first, certainly not easy encounters, it’s actually a very dynamic partnership! A Sagattarius that's almost always trying to push buttons is a real challenge—but then again, of all the earth signs, a Taurus can both create and handle drama well, which will definitely come in handy with a mutable fire sign.
I won’t lie to you—both of these signs are stubborn and have tempers. I had a Taurus love affair once and it was truly unforgettable. As you know, when a Taurus zooms in on you, they really zoom in. I loved the attention, but it also really frightened my Sag autonomy. I remember after we'd been seeing each other for maybe two weeks, he wanted to miss his plane for me so he could see me for longer—a story that would make me say "Wow, truly romantic!" if I had no part in it. A Taurus has that wild romantic abandon in them, but experiencing it as a Sagittarius made me want to run for the hills. I actually wanted to make sure this Taurus was going to get on his plane an hour early and be the first one to fasten his seatbelt, which just shows you how this astrological pairing really tests fundamental parts of each sign’s identity: a Taurus’s need for devotion and a Sagittarius’s need for space.
Still, do text him and make the move. Because what I also remember from this love affair was how his Taurus boldness charmed me. Every Taurus knows how to fight for what they want, so if it's what you want, feed him bananas in your bed next time—or, better yet, make him feed you bananas if you’re more into that. Personally, I’ve always wanted to try that with one of those impossible fruits like pomegranate... but that’s because I’m a Sagittarius and I like making my lovers jump through hoops. It reveals who they are and fast. On that note, good luck! Take us with a grain of salt and lot of drinks.
A Sagittarius who’s on your side,
P.S.: One last secret. Sagittarius people can imagine how our own difficulty appears to others, and while we won’t ever be seen as the most loyal sign under any circumstances, we are the most loyal to the people who truly see us beneath all that difficulty and choose to stick around.
Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender: Smash of the Titans
Theron wears Agent Provocateur lace corset. Dolce & Gabbana silk bodysuit. Dior lambskin skirt. LaCrasia Gloves gloves. Fassbender wears Diesel Black Gold leather pants. Bess belt.
Photography by Mario Sorrenti. Styled by Edward Enninful.
Theron wears Yves Saint Laurent metal chain dress and belt. LaCrasia Gloves gloves. Fassbender wears DSquared2 lambskin vest. Viktor & Rolf Monsieur leather pants. Bess belt; Belstaff boots. Beauty note: Skin glows in even the darkest light with Diorsnow White Reveal Moisturizing Lotion.
Theron wears Yves Saint Laurent metal chain dress and pumps. LaCrasia Gloves gloves. Fassbender wears DSquared2 lambskin vest. Viktor & Rolf Monsieur leather pants. Bess belt; Belstaff boots.
Fassbender wears Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci lambskin shirt. Belstaff leather pants. Bess belt; Belstaff boots. Theron wears Agent Provocateur leather bodysuit. Yves Saint Laurent belt; LaCrasia Gloves gloves; Versace boots.
Charlize Theron wears Yves Saint Laurent metal chain dress. LaCrasia Gloves gloves. Michael Fassbender wears DSquared2 lambskin vest. Viktor & Rolf Monsieur leather pants. Bess belt; Belstaff boots.
Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender on W’s August 2012 cover.
Photography by Mario Sorrenti. Styled by Edward Enninful. Hair by Enzo Angileri for Tresemmé at Cloutier; makeup by Aaron de Mey at Art Partner; manicures by Yuna Park at Streeters. Grooming by Anna Bernabe for Oribe Haircare and Liz Earle Skincare at EAMGMT. Set design by Philipp Haemmerle. Digital technician: Xanny Handfield. Photography assistants: Lars Beaulieu, Johnny Vicari, David Schechter. Fashion assistants: Felicia Garcia-Rivera, Dena Giannini. Jewelry assistant: Tina Huynh.
I’m a Scorpio woman who’s been in a relationship with a hot Aries man since September. We spend a ton of time together, the sex is great—basically, he may be the best person I’ve ever dated. He’s hinted around about being in love but I haven’t brought it up yet, even though I do love him, no doubts there. Still, I’m reluctant to tell him even at my happiest heart-bursting moments. He was only a few months out of a relationship when we started seeing each other, which gave me pause, and I don't want to rock the boat. I’m starting to wonder, though, that if I don't show some vulnerability soon, he might feel that I’m not trying to be serious with him. Advice?
A Protective Scorpio
Dear Protective Scorpio,
As an Aries (Scorpio moon) hopelessly in love with all Scorpios, I'm very excited to answer your question, which I’ll just start off with the most impulsive Aries advice I can give you: Do it! Say you love him! Speaking for all Aries here—please! Text him this second!
Okay, now that I got that out of my system, I'll attempt to address your concerns in a more measured tone. The truth is, though, if you're even questioning whether or not to admit true love to an Aries, then you're wasting precious time—and this goes for all signs when it comes to Aries, so I hope everyone is listening. If an Aries is spending this much time with you and seriously dating you, and you’re a hot Scorpio, then you can bet six million dollars that he's trying very hard not to say "I love you." In fact, he’s practically an Aries hero right now in my book.
You're right to think that if you don’t show vulnerability immediately, an Aries will start to lose interest; again, Aries thrive on impulsive passion, acting now and thinking later (or never), most especially when it comes to matters of the heart. When another person doesn’t match their energy or enthusiasm—or even, dare I say, obsessiveness—it’s not that they think the other person isn't just not serious about them. They'll unfortunately begin to think rather quickly that the other person doesn’t like them at all, maybe even going so far as thinking the other person is about to break up with them, and/or has other people in the wings. (Aries are extremely jealous, but hey, you can relate right, Scorpio?) That's largely because Aries can be very insecure and need to know you are 1000 percent in for them to totally fall in love with you, which they're prepared to do at any moment, in one fiftieth of a nanosecond.
By the way, when he says "I love you" back, that's not say exactly that he'll mean it, especially in the way that you mean it. Like other fire signs, an Aries saying "I love you "is about the joy of the moment. It's the truth of their feelings in that instant, but it may not be about a lifelong commitment. For fire signs, the moment, especially in terms of love, is everything.
Still—Scorpio moon now talking—if you don’t feel you're ready to say "I love you," you shouldn’t have to. You’re right to protect yourself in any way you want to, because I know how much you want to avoid being hurt. And it’s very rational to think someone who is a few months out of a relationship might not be ready for another one. But then again, he’s an Aries—a few months might as well be 10 lifetimes ago. Whatever happens, he loves you, and I wish you so much luck!
Aries love forever,
Celebrity Capricorns: See Photographs of Sienna Miller, Bradley Cooper, Kate Moss and Other Stars With the Same Astrological Sign
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Very early in January, I turned 30, an occasion which I gladly welcomed. (Good riddance, twenties!) Normally, I don’t do much to celebrate my birthday: I have a fancy dinner with my long-term committed boyfriend, or I actually make the dinner I want to have for my family. When I have tried to make my birthday special, it’s often gone awry, but this year, I was excited enough to do something "daring": I invited a group of friends to celebrate at a bar. It turned out lovely, even though it was hellishly cold and half my friends couldn’t make it through the snow. And somehow, I now actually feel so hopeful this year and excited to challenge myself even more.
My twenties were grueling; the last four years actually felt like they were trying to break me. Each year I thought it had to get better, but it would get worse, with grad school breakdowns, infidelity, moving, and failed job and PhD applications all adding to the mix. Somehow, though, I think that I’ve turned that corner. It's not permanent, but I have a job in my field. I have a loving, stable, happy relationship, and good friends, even though many live far away. Am I wrong to think it might have something to do with my Saturn Return? How can I honor the newfound optimism I have? How do I make it my everyday reality? Basically, I want to know, will it really get and stay better?
A Buoyant Capricorn
Dear Buoyant Capricorn,
Yes, stay buoyant! Saturn Return, or the occurrence of Saturn finding itself in the same place in the sky as when you were born, is a huge event in someone’s life. It happens every 30 years or so, and it's different for each person—it could start as early as 27 and the last one could occur in your late eighties or even early nineties. If we’re lucky, we all get three. Each one tests us and asks us to leave behind something of our former self in order to move into new knowledge. The first Saturn Return is a big one: It’s basically crossing the threshold and becoming an adult (Whatever that is. As Charles Baudelaire once said—and I'm paraphrasing here—a poet is someone who can always recapture childhood at will.)
Now that you've passed your Saturn Return, you're wondering if this sudden gust of optimism and change will stay. Well, of course it won’t. But that's fine—surely it will need to be diverted in order to return and bring you more happiness next time. What I’m trying to say is that even though Saturn Returns alert us to a time in our lives, like our late twenties, when things will be moving and shifting and still somehow fall into place, that doesn’t guarantee peace for any amount of time. What it does offer you is a stronger version of yourself that's more able to handle difficulty.
The years right after my Saturn Return were hard in a different way. I could see what still had to change very clearly in relation to what already had, but I was second-guessing myself. For many people, Saturn’s shadow is real and they stay in it for a while even after their Saturn Return has passed. The opposite could also happen: a sudden transition into a new frame of mind right before Saturn Return hits, and then a true rough patch. Whatever the case, try to hold on to your buoyancy to keep your mind active and receptive, and be sure to welcome the inevitable shifts. They’re just as fleeting as the lightbulb Saturn Return moments when you suddenly realize, yes, you should move to New York or no, you shouldn’t apply for that job halfway across the country.
Every birthday is important. I’m glad you did something different in your own Capricorn way for your 30th, but the birthdays outside these big markers we’ve created—not to mention every single day—are also full of transformative potential, depending on how much transformation you want to commit to. Saturn Return is just one of various windows when that transformation is magnified and rewarded by the movement of the night sky. But you’re a Capricorn. You can change toward the direction of light even without it. You can practically outlast everyone.
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I’m a Sagittarius and I’m pregnant with my second baby. Baby no. 1, like my husband, most of my former lovers, and, actually, my cat, is an Aquarius. Baby no. 2 will be a Cancer. Going through the significant people in my life, I realized I don't know any Cancers. What should I expect?
Sagittarius Mother of a Future Cancer
Dear Sagittarius Mom,
I'm really happy to answer your question, since we don't often get asked about this important topic: family dynamics! I’ve actually been thinking a lot lately about how important family dynamics are to a person’s astro-personality. The exact placement of your planets definitely matter when it comes to how you act and perform your sense of self, but these things don’t occur in a vacuum. A Taurus with air sign parents, for example, is going to probably behave at least a little differently than one raised by two Capricorns, and at the very least, the Taurus raised by air signs might be more sensitive to the way air signs are.... as well as, uh, the way they are—lord help us all! I don’t know for sure, as I don’t have any hard data on this, but I do have a hunch. (I’ll report back when I do more quantitative research.)
In any case, it's especially good for you to think of your family right now, because by late June/early July, a very family-oriented person is coming your way. You must feel a lot of harmony with your baby Aquarius, so when it's time to add a good dose of water to the mix, you might end up feeling pretty nervous. If you do, well, I'm here to tell you that being a mom to a Cancer is basically winning the jackpot of all jackpots, because if there is one thing Cancers are sure they love, it’s M-O-M.
Something to count on in all this newness, then, is that your baby is going to really love (read: downright worship) you. Practically speaking, this means that they're going to spend the rest of their lives observing you, emulating you, and overall having very deep feelings about you, which may not always be positive but are always intense. But let’s be honest for a moment: You’re a Sagittarius. So, while all of this adoration does seem nice in the abstract, it might make you feel a little weird, too. And there'll be other issues in your overall dynamic with the new baby, like your tendency to be—how do I put this nicely?—a little bit blunt, or, maybe at times—oh, I don’t know—insensitive. But your Aquarius child, husband, and cat aren’t really known to be all that sensitive either, when it comes right down to it. Especially to a Cancer.
Your babies will have a good relationship, with plenty of play and the Cancer (quite literally) cleaning up after their sibling. Once your sweet Cancer gets a little older, though, they may realize they have a lot of feelings, which at this point in their development they'll have the nuanced language to voice. Indeed, another thing to look out for is that as soon as, or even before, Cancers are old enough to walk, they're going to run your household. Yours might take over your household duties, tell you how to do them, or do some combination of both. Don’t get mad, Sag, they really can’t help it. The home is their domain. It’s also where their heart is. (And we promise you: their heart, with its overflowing love for their beautiful Sagittarius mom, is yours forever.)
Congratulations! We want to see pictures!
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Trump’s election standoff ’embarrassment,’ may raise death toll: Biden
Joe Biden.
New York, Nov 17 – As the standoff continues between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden over the election results, the Democrat it was an international “embarrassment” and the administration’s failure to cooperate with the transition team could lead to more people dying from the Covid-19 pandemic.
It “more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started” on his administration, Biden said on Monday about Trump’s refusal to admit defeat even though he had appeared to do so but then changed course.
Biden said that he was in contact with international leaders, from the pope to prime ministers who were calling with “some degree of enthusiasm,” and with business and trade union leaders to get ready for taking over on January 20.
He was speaking to reporters in Wilmington after he and his running mate Kamala Harris met with business chiefs, including CEOs Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sonia Syngal of Gap, and labour leaders on his economic plan.
Appealing to the Republicans, he said, “I will work with you. I understand a lot of your reluctance because of how the President operates.”
Trump had tweeted a backhanded admission of defeat on Sunday morning, “He won because the Election was Rigged.”
But hours later he made U-turn tweeting, “RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN!”
Shortly before midnight, he made a more definitive tweet, “I WON.”
Biden said that this showed that “there was no change in his modus operandi.”
He ridiculed Trump’s response to the crisis: “The idea the President is still playing golf and not doing anything about it is beyond my comprehension.”
Biden warned that as the pandemic rages if Trump doesn’t cooperate with the transition on the Covid-19 strategy and vaccine plans, “More people may die.”
Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced on Monday that its vaccine had a 94.5 per cent efficacy and Pfizer said last week that its vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective.
Moderna received financing from Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” to speed up vaccine development and Pfizer made a deal with it to supply vaccines.
Biden said, “They say they have this ‘Warp Speed Programme'” that worked to develop vaccines and prepare for the distribution, but “if we have to wait until January 20 to start that planning, it puts us behind for a month and a half.”
While some vaccine is expected to be ready for distribution next month, the bulk of the distribution would have to be done by a Biden administration.
Biden said, “We’re going into a very dark winter. Things are going to get much tougher before they get easier.”
“There’s so much we can do. The only way we do any of this is if we work together. I know we can do this,” he said.
While the media has declared Biden the winner with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the counting of votes is still continuing in several states and the results have not been officially announced.
The federal agency that has to by law give the Biden transition team facilities and access to information has said that since there hasn’t been an official announcement or concession of defeat by Trump it will not oblige the Democrat.
Biden said that since Harris was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, at least she was kept in the loop with intelligence briefings, which he cannot get.
Trump’s campaign and his supporters have filed several cases alleging irregularities or fraud in the election.
Four suits by supporters were withdrawn on Monday but at least four others by Trump or his campaign are pending and Trump tweeted on Sunday that his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, will marshal them indicating that he is not yet ready to concede defeat.
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Congress averts shutdown, buys time for more COVID-19 talks
By LISA MASCARO and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press
the election is over, the time is now to work, and there's an opportunity to get it done. Now. I know for more than 40 times you said no, but today we hope that you will say yes. How many more businesses have to shut her? How many more dreams have to be shattered? How many more people have to be laid off before Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats will act? I'll promise you this. The Republicans will continue to work in good faith. Justus. We put forth bills again and again that the Democrats have voted no on just a Sui worked with the Senate and the White House. Now, if we need more time than we take more time, but we have to have a bill and we cannot go home without it. I have to believe the administration and the Republicans in the Senate when they say they do not want to shut down government again. Who knows? We'll see how it goes. But we do have Thio. Uh, we cannot leave here without having a piece of legislation, and I can say this unequivocally. What Mr McConnell is putting forth in terms of liability is such a Nasaf Ault on Americans workers that I hope that the group goes nowhere near what he is presenting
Congress shipped a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday, averting a government shutdown at midnight and buying time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 relief.The bill, which sets a new shutdown deadline of midnight next Friday, passed the Senate by a unanimous voice vote that came without much drama despite and sent rank-and-file senators home for the weekend with no clear picture of what awaits next week. The House passed the bill on Wednesday, and Trump signed the one-week stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown at midnight.COVID-19 relief talks remain stalled but there is universal agreement that Congress won't adjourn for the year without passing a long-delayed round of pandemic relief. An emerging $900 billion aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers hit a rough patch after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell swung against the effort, but negotiations are ongoing and pressure remains intense.The House has recessed for a few days, with leaders warning members to be prepared to return to Washington to vote on the year-end deals, while the Senate will return next week.The breakdown over the COVID-19 aid package, after days of behind-the-scenes talks by a group of lawmakers fed up with inaction, comes as Trump has taken the talks in another direction — insisting on a fresh round of $600 stimulus checks for Americans.Sending direct cash payments to households was not included in the bipartisan proposal, but has been embraced by some of the president's fiercest critics — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N,Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who introduced an amendment to include the checks with Trump ally Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.Sanders had threatened to hold up the stopgap bill in hopes of adding a $1,200 direct payment to it but relented and sent members home for the weekend without delay — but with a warning.“We're not going to go home for the Christmas holidays unless we make sure that we provide for the millions of families in this country who are suffering," Sanders said.The one-week, stop-gap measure appears to have sapped some urgency from the talks. The next deadline would be Dec. 18, but both House and Senate leaders say they won’t adjourn without passing an aid measure.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Congress would keep working up to or even after Christmas to get an agreement. The new Congress is being sworn in on Jan. 3.“Now if we need more time then we take more time, but we have to have a bill and we cannot go home without it," Pelosi said. She also gave an upbeat assessment on the talks.The $900 billion-plus proposal provides sweeping new funds for vaccines, small businesses, health care providers, schools and families suffering from the virus crisis and the economic shutdowns.A key hold up has been the standoff over more money for the states, that Democrats — and some Republicans — want and the liability shield that is McConnell's top GOP priority but that most Democrats oppose.The partisan group tried to marry those two provisions as a compromise.McConnell had initially proposed a five-year liability shield from virus lawsuits, retroactive to December 2019, but the bipartisan group was eyeing a scaled-back shield of six months to a year. Labor and civil rights groups oppose any shield, which they say strips essential workers of potential legal recourse as they take risks during the pandemic.Democratic leaders had wanted far more in state and local aid, but were accepting of the lower $160 billion.But many Republicans have long viewed the state and local aid as a bailout they would have trouble supporting, despite the pleas for funds coming from governors and mayors nationwide.Late Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin and other Democrats pitched another liability proposal to the bipartisan group, but it was rejected by Republicans, according to a Senate aide granted anonymity to discuss the private session.The Trump administration is back in the middle of the negotiations with a $916 billion plan. It would send a $600 direct payment to most Americans but eliminate a $300-per-week employment benefit favored by the bipartisan group of Senate negotiators.The White House offer has the endorsement of the top House Republican and apparent backing from McConnell, who had previously favored a $519 billion GOP plan that has already failed twice. But Democrats oppose the plan in part because of the administration's refusal to back the partial restoration, to $300 per week, of bonus pandemic jobless benefits that lapsed in August.CNN contributed.
Congress shipped a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday, averting a government shutdown at midnight and buying time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 relief.
The bill, which sets a new shutdown deadline of midnight next Friday, passed the Senate by a unanimous voice vote that came without much drama despite and sent rank-and-file senators home for the weekend with no clear picture of what awaits next week. The House passed the bill on Wednesday, and Trump signed the one-week stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown at midnight.
COVID-19 relief talks remain stalled but there is universal agreement that Congress won't adjourn for the year without passing a long-delayed round of pandemic relief. An emerging $900 billion aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers hit a rough patch after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell swung against the effort, but negotiations are ongoing and pressure remains intense.
The House has recessed for a few days, with leaders warning members to be prepared to return to Washington to vote on the year-end deals, while the Senate will return next week.
The breakdown over the COVID-19 aid package, after days of behind-the-scenes talks by a group of lawmakers fed up with inaction, comes as Trump has taken the talks in another direction — insisting on a fresh round of $600 stimulus checks for Americans.
Sending direct cash payments to households was not included in the bipartisan proposal, but has been embraced by some of the president's fiercest critics — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N,Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who introduced an amendment to include the checks with Trump ally Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
Sanders had threatened to hold up the stopgap bill in hopes of adding a $1,200 direct payment to it but relented and sent members home for the weekend without delay — but with a warning.
“We're not going to go home for the Christmas holidays unless we make sure that we provide for the millions of families in this country who are suffering," Sanders said.
The one-week, stop-gap measure appears to have sapped some urgency from the talks. The next deadline would be Dec. 18, but both House and Senate leaders say they won’t adjourn without passing an aid measure.
Stimulus negotiations: Why leadership may have to step in
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Congress would keep working up to or even after Christmas to get an agreement. The new Congress is being sworn in on Jan. 3.
“Now if we need more time then we take more time, but we have to have a bill and we cannot go home without it," Pelosi said. She also gave an upbeat assessment on the talks.
The $900 billion-plus proposal provides sweeping new funds for vaccines, small businesses, health care providers, schools and families suffering from the virus crisis and the economic shutdowns.
A key hold up has been the standoff over more money for the states, that Democrats — and some Republicans — want and the liability shield that is McConnell's top GOP priority but that most Democrats oppose.
The partisan group tried to marry those two provisions as a compromise.
McConnell had initially proposed a five-year liability shield from virus lawsuits, retroactive to December 2019, but the bipartisan group was eyeing a scaled-back shield of six months to a year. Labor and civil rights groups oppose any shield, which they say strips essential workers of potential legal recourse as they take risks during the pandemic.
Biden predicts 'bleak future' if Congress doesn't act on aid
Democratic leaders had wanted far more in state and local aid, but were accepting of the lower $160 billion.
But many Republicans have long viewed the state and local aid as a bailout they would have trouble supporting, despite the pleas for funds coming from governors and mayors nationwide.
Late Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin and other Democrats pitched another liability proposal to the bipartisan group, but it was rejected by Republicans, according to a Senate aide granted anonymity to discuss the private session.
The Trump administration is back in the middle of the negotiations with a $916 billion plan. It would send a $600 direct payment to most Americans but eliminate a $300-per-week employment benefit favored by the bipartisan group of Senate negotiators.
The White House offer has the endorsement of the top House Republican and apparent backing from McConnell, who had previously favored a $519 billion GOP plan that has already failed twice. But Democrats oppose the plan in part because of the administration's refusal to back the partial restoration, to $300 per week, of bonus pandemic jobless benefits that lapsed in August.
CNN contributed.
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EIA Workshop in Bonn-Germany, 28 September –2nd October 2015
The second workshop took place in Bonn, Germany (program attached) with the participation of members of the Bolivian and German team.
The objective of this workshop was to present the core research activities on biodiversity from the German partner institution and bringing in expert views on experiences of accounting for biodiversity in environmental impact assessments in Germany from the legal perspective, practical implications, methods and challenges. In addition, some excursions were prepared to get practical impressions about EIA case studies and their on-the-ground implementation with a focus on biodiversity issues.
At the meetings participants from both university groups (ZEF-Bonn and UCB-Bolivia) held presentations and participated in active discussions. ZEF´s team presented biodiversity research at ZEF and current involvement of this institution and team members at the most important UN platform for the interface between science-policy on biodiversity, IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). Here, Bolivia participates with Bolivian policy makers (such as the Viceminister of Planning and Development and officers from the Bolivian Biodiversity Secretariat) as well as scientists appointed by the Bolivian government.
In addition, external experts were invited to this workshop including Dr. Carolin Kieß from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), who gave a presentation on „Assessing biodiversity in German EIAs: the legal perspective“, Dr. Lily Rodriguez from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics-ILR with insights on “Practical tools from the field for Biodiversity Assessments in EIAs”. Dr. Miguel Fernández from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research-iDiv, Leipzig was invited to give a presentation on „Challenges and Opportunities for a Bolivian Observatory Network”; whereas he presented the status of available biodiversity datasets of Bolivia, which he had gathered and processed including national herbariums and several Bolivian and international institutions. Dr. Fernández expressed his willingness to participate as external partner in this project and will provide his available biodiversity databases to contribute to the development of a future concept of including biodiversity aspects in EIAs. As immediate result, a joint publication draft concept was planned and discussed. Finally, as a result of this second workshop, a common agenda for potential future research within the framework of this project was set up.
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES AND EXCURSIONS – GERMANY
Photo 6. Excursion to Düren and Kerpen-NRW Roads, compensation measures such as eco-bridges to allow migration of fauna between places cut by roads.
Practical examples from “Biodiversity Aspects within Road Planning in Germany” were presented and discussed by Wolfgang Stein from Strassen NRW, the Road Authority for the State of Northrhine-Westfalia. The surface lignite mining sites in Hambach forest were visited. Tools, challenges, cost implications, regulatory framework, prevention and compensation measures that account for biodiversity in Germany were discussed during this excursion.
Photo 7. Excursion to Hambach lignite surface mining site and the transfer of A4 Motorway from Düren to Kerpen.
At the second excursion, the workshop participants visited an EIA planning company in Bonn city centre (http://www.zumbroich.com/). This company applies EIAs and is one of the leading companies specialized in biodiversity aspect. Prof. Zumbroich showed the company and gave a set of presentations on EIAs in general, relevant EIAs conducted by the company and on specific methods to account for biodiversity in fresh water and terrestrial ecosystems.
Photo 8. German ecosystems in Siebengebirge Nature Reserve, Bonn.
The third excursion was to Siebengebirge Nature Reserve south of Bonn, the oldest nature reserve in Germany. Aim was to give a practical insight in the historical development of the appreciation of nature conservation and the establishment of protected areas in Germany as a consequence of the experience of the negative consequences of over-exploitative natural resource extraction, as happened in case of the Drachenfels mountain. Moreover, the Siebengebirge is a typical regional site to learn about one of the major and dominant German ecosystems (Mixed beech forests), its particular geology and natural beauty.
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ANGLING HAS THE ABILITY TO THROW UP SOME AMAZING CATCHES just when you don’t expect them. You can usually predict big cod in winter, but massive bass in January are another matter. Yet that’s just what happened when a stunning 17lb 4oz fish (pictured on our front cover), the second-biggest ever on a lure, was caught by a boat angler (see page 32). There was also a 14lb fish, and late last year our contributor Andy Webb bagged a 12-pounder. You can read Andy’s story of his personal best on page 18. He was on a flounder session, but decided to target bass, which is what happened when Chris Clark fished Poole Harbour. Instead of flatties, he caught some superb bass (see page 6). It’s also worth remembering that, at the moment,…
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SCRAPING THE FROST FROM THE car windscreen during the early hours on a crisp December morning, the adrenaline was flowing freely. I was heading off on a flounder quest at one of the more remote areas of Poole Harbour in Dorset. With the harbour fishing poorly for flatties during the past months, I did have more than a few doubts, but a surprise in the form of bass was in store. Joining me for the fun were Steve Lawrence and Chris Rogers, both from Poole, and, as usual, Steve, who is the renowned Poole flounder ace, was brimming with confidence when I arrived at the rendezvous point just as the first shafts of daylight were starting to appear over the horizon. With the car loaded, we were soon heading to Wareham, from…
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THIRTY YEARS AGO, THORNBACK rays in West, Mid and North Wales would disappear from the inshore grounds during November for breeding, typically venturing back inshore in late February, sometimes even earlier, in many areas. Their return coincided with the cycle of herring shoals and the first peeling crabs shedding their shells out in the warmer, deeper water below the spring tide line. Now, with the winter producing, on average, higher overall sea temperatures, they seem to hang about throughout the year. There is also a wider spread of the outward and inward migration pattern through the spawning period. If you know where to look, it’s still February, with its increasing hours of daylight and, hopefully, sunshine to kick-start the inshore food supplies, that still signifies the real return of the rays in…
Casting distance can be an advantage, and is why some anglers miss out, even though they are in the right place with the correct rig and bait. For most, a cast beyond 100 yards with bait in fishing conditions is pretty good going. Stick to fixed-spool reels and European-style rods of 14-15ft in length and matched to a 7500 or 8000 sized fixed-spool reel with a long-cast spool. The rod’s added length increases lead weight speed, therefore increasing distance, and the long-cast spool design maintains a high line profile as line leaves it during the cast, again maximising distance. Other tips to get better casting distance are to load the reel with 20-30lb braid and fish a 60lb braid shockleader. An alternative is a 13ft beachcaster and a multiplier that will take…
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AFTER A PERIOD OF INTERMITTENT northerly winds along the east coast of Yorkshire, with some massive seas and horrid weather, the cliffs and get-downs get very sloppy. At times like this, it’s better to err on the side of caution and look for an easy-access venue. Feeling the urge to get out fishing, I decided to fish Easington beach on the Holderness Coast because of its easy access to the water, rather than what could be a tricky descent on some of the muddy cliff marks. The chosen spot was just past the caravan site. By locating an old boat compound adjacent to it, you’ll see a slipway cut out of the cliff providing an easy walk to the beach. Another bonus is the good parking after the caravan site. Having met up…
GETTING THERE From Hull, take the A1033 and B1445 to Easington caravan site, HU12 0TY. TACKLE SHOPS Chapman’s Angling, 208-212 Hull Rd, Hessle, Hull HU13 9NH tel: 01482 639900. East Coast Tackle, 1B Willows Rd, Hornsea HU18 1DA, tel: 01964 535064. Fishing Republic, 6 Strickland St, Hull HU13 4AQ, tel: 01482 707977. Hull Angling Centre, Holderness Rd, Hull HU9 3DS, tel: 01482 374201. North Bay Angling, 84 Promenade, Bridlington YO15 2QL, tel: 01262 401144. Top Sports, 118 Queen St, Withernsea HU19 2HB, tel: 01964 612340. 541192.…
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I’m doing… OK. On a scale of one to ten, where zero is outright, ‘cannot-get-out-of-bed’ dread, and ten is joyful, ‘singing-show-tunes-from-the-rafters’ glee, today I woke up hovering around a six. (And yes, maybe that sounds bad, but it does make me wonder whether we are conditioned to think we should always be running around with elated grins on our faces, or am I merely justifying my regular melancholy? After all, if we’re forever at a glowing ten, can we really appreciate being happy if we don’t know what it’s like not to be? And aren’t those eternally optimistic people skipping around at the ten end of the scale the kind you just want to push under a bus?) But I digress… Today, I slipped into some shorts, shot off to the gym to…
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Today when I went to read my email, I saw on my front home page "U.S. Soldier held in shooting rampage that killed 16 Afghans, officials say.
I feel disgusted. I am disgusted because I know that were probably women and children who were killed.I know that these were people who posed no threat and were probably unarmed. I know that after the kicking down of doors and the terrifying screams of the children, there is nothing left that documents the horror except a trail of blood, a pile of bodies and eternal nightmares for those who are still living.
I click on the link to the article.
Immediately I see a picture of an elderly man sitting inside a van, with two small bodies covered in blankets. He has such a look of pain, and agony on his face that I want to scream for him at the top of my lungs. Part of the caption reads: The dead included women and children, as least 5 others wounded in the attack.
The Washington Post recounts what Fazal Mohammad Esaqzai, the deputy chief of the provincial council witnessed.
"Esaqzai, who said he saw the 16 bodies, provided the following account. About midnight, 11 people, including three women; four children whose ages ranged from 6 to 9; and four men were executed inside the home of a village elder.
'They entered the room where the women and children were sleeping, and they were all shot in the head,' Esaqzai said, adding that he was doubtful of the U.S. account suggesting the killings were the work of a lone gunman. They were all shot in the head.' "
I didn't predict these details because I am a psychic, I predicted this because these atrocities have been the rule not the exception to the wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is rampage is already being spun as the act of one "rogue" soldier who was not following "protocol." Once again, the lie that this was just a fluke accident or a rare incident is being repeated by the politicians and the mainstream media.
Barack Obama said, "This incident is tragic and and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan." Marine Gen. John R. Allen and Leon Panetta expressed "shock" and the U.S. embassy said that they will make sure justice is served.
I could go on for hours detailing the evidence and stories that show that this is bullshit from the Afghan Kill Team, to the bombing of wedding parties to the Haditha Massacre. But just consider this: (1) Wikileaks revealed that civilian casualties in Afghanistan have been consciously covered up and lied about by those in highest levels of the U.S. government. (2) Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans have come forward to testify that these atrocities are daily occurrences and are inherent to the overall character and protocol of the U.S military. (3) These types of atrocities were ORDERED from the Bush Administration and the Obama administration went to great lengths to make sure those war criminals were protected from any kind of prosecution.
What does this tell us about the nature of these wars and the nature of the U.S. government that represents this system?
The powers that be know very well that this country's wealth was built on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans. The powers that be know very well that this wealth has to be expanded via coups, assassinations, massacres and illegal invasions. They will keep going until a mass movement of resistance and protest forces them to stop.
You are seriously delusional if you think that a war on Iran will not unleash the same (or worse) death and destruction on civilian populations, the same way the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and all wars for empire do.
It is long past time that those who run this empire are called out for the monsters that they are and that these monsters are stripped of their right to run the world.
We must get out to the public visibly soon to say that these wars are NOT IN OUR NAME. The U.S. needs to get out of Afghanistan now and Stay the FUCK OUT OF IRAN!
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by: Yianni Kourakis
Posted: Jul 14, 2020 / 07:07 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 14, 2020 / 07:31 PM EDT
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BRANFORD, Conn. (WPRI) ─ Bill Belichick ─ pitchman?
The head coach of the New England Patriots, who typically shies away from commercials and endorsements, was spotted in Connecticut Tuesday afternoon, sitting on a park bench and holding a Subway sandwich in front of several camera crews.
Subway would be my 456th guess on a company Bill Belichick would endorse publicly for what I can tell is the first time.
— Yianni Kourakis (@YianniKourakis) July 14, 2020
It appears Belichick was involved in some sort of commercial shoot for the sandwich chain, which is based out of Milford.
It’s unclear at this time what kind of sandwich he was eating or when the commercial will air. What is clear is that the Twitterverse had a field day with it.
So what is Belichick's favorite Subway sub?
Needs to be reliable. Dependable. Consistent across chain locations. Which crosses out tuna, meatball.
I'm going Turkey, wheat bread toasted. #Subway #Belichick
The sandwich is the AFC East.
Bill Belichick is Bill Belichick. pic.twitter.com/EaPWuSj3Em
— SAVAGE BOSTON🍀 (@SavageBoston) July 14, 2020
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Belichick will not accept Trump’s Medal of Freedom
by JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer / Jan 12, 2021
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on Monday night that he will not receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying “remaining true to the people, team and country I love outweigh the benefits of any individual award.”
In a one-paragraph statement, the six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump, instead explaining “the decision has been made not to move forward with the award” in the wake of last week's deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Report: Trump to present Medal of Freedom to Patriots coach Bill Belichick
by Jacqui Gomersall / Jan 11, 2021
FOXBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — The New England Patriots' season may be over, but head coach Bill Belichick may be in line for a big honor.
Politico reports that President Donald Trump is planning to award Belichick with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on Thursday.
Bailey and Olszewski make 2020 NFL first-team All-Pro Team Roster
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(WPRI) -- On Friday, the Associated Press released the 2020 NFL first and second-team All-Pro team roster.
New England Patriots' punter Jake Bailey and punt returner Gunner Olszewski both made first-team for special teams. On the second-team, Matthew Slater represented the Patriots for special teams.
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Medical device scam still targeting seniors, and we’re all still paying for it
Telemedicine is helping to fuel a multi-million dollar fraud scheme, feds say
On a busy main street in Sarasota, federal investigators say the owners of Age Vital pharmacy received more than $37,000 in illegal medical reimbursements for filling bogus pain cream prescriptions for a patient who didn’t need or want it.
By: Katie LaGrone
That patient blew the whistle.
“We had nurses in the southeast part of the United States who were writing prescriptions for patients for pain creams who resided in the northeast part of the United States,” explained Special Agent Ryan Lynch. Lynch leads Tampa’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force Team, one of 13 federal teams stationed around the country who are dedicated to combating Medicare fraud in the United States.
Age Vital describes itself online as a compounding, research and wellness institute. According to the federal civil complaint, the company was accused of violating the False Claims Act by engaging in an illegal kickback scheme. But, Age Vital's owners deny they knowingly did anything wrong. Prosecutors never criminally charged them.
In a lengthy email to us, its owner, Jenny Wilkins, blames a New Jersey clinic for calling patients to boost business and the New Jersey nurse who signed prescriptions for the cream.
“As soon as Age Vital became aware, it ceased all relationships in 2015,” Wilkins told us in an email. Wilkins did not respond to multiple requests for an on-camera interview.
This past February, the case against Age Vital ended in a civil settlement. It’s owners agreed to pay at least $775,000 to resolve the allegations. But to federal investigators in Florida, the case against Age Vital was one of the first to introduce them to what has become a rapidly exploding type of fraud.
It’s called telemedicine fraud and here’s how it works:
A medical supply company pitches Medicare patients medical supplies the patient doesn’t need or want. The same company will also hire doctors who have no relationship with the patient, but are willing to rubber stamp prescriptions for those supplies — up to $150 per signature. Patients get the goods and taxpayers foot the bill.
What used to be shipments of unwanted pain creams and gels have evolved to durable medical equipment (DME) like back braces and diabetic supplies, investigators say.
Last year, Bernadette Kopacz’s mother-in-law in Vero Beach received three boxes of body braces from three different medical supply companies.
“There was a shoulder brace, calf brace, foot brace another had a back brace. It was insane,” said Kopacz.
Another company sent Terry Coombs of Brandenton a back brace.
“I mean, they just wouldn’t leave me alone,” he told us back in the fall when we first started reporting on the nationwide scam.
Shantell Williams of Tampa got the calls and, eventually, a box of diabetic supplies she didn’t want, need or ask for.
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“I told the first person, I don’t want your supplies,” she said.
"We used to have a joke in the office, calling people robocop because we sold them so many products," said Cody Fletcher, a former telemarketer for a now-defunct medical device company in Delray Beach.
"We would pay anywhere from $45 to $55 a back brace. Medicare reimbursements were a grand," said Daniel Yarbrough who also worked for the company. Both filed a Whistleblower lawsuit against the company for committing fraud.
Federal investigators believe medical device fraud using telemedicine is next chapter over the age-old scheme.
"Over time we've realized we're not dealing with medication that's unnecessary, we're dealing with the absence of medicine completely," said Special Agent Lynch.
Investigators say the best way to protect yourself is not to reveal any medical history over the phone to someone you don’t know. Also, report companies that call or send you unwanted medical products.
Click here to report fraud or file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
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May 23, 2014 by pmbayobale, posted in Cinema, Comedy, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Uncategorized
Rogen vs Efron. Family vs Frat. Who Will Win? There’s only one way to find out . . . if you like that sort of thing.
Rogen’s best? Not even close. But is it funny? (The very purpose of a comedy). Did I laugh? Is it one of those movies where the best bits are in the trailers? Yes, yes, and unfortunately quite a bit. Once you’ve seen Rogen hurtled up in the air after sitting on a rigged chair involving an airbag, it gets old very quickly. Although Rogen creeping around the house with a broomstick did reprieve the gag. Surprisingly enough one of the heavily advertised gags wasn’t in the film. Back to my getting old quip. At it’s very core, the film is about a couple who have had their first child (the adorable Vargas twins) and are still trying to be cool and young. Beating the “constraints” that parenthood has apparently set on their “partying” lifestyles. In all fairness, there could have been a bigger examination into their relationship but it would have been an entirely different film.
A couple of well acted scenes make them a little more than a caricature couple. But come on, this is a fraternity freakshow involving Seth Rogen. He applies his slobby swearing spiel and luckily it still works. The whole slacking smoking pot thing is getting a little old. Rogen and Rose Byrne work well together and have good chemistry. It was good to see Rose Byrne (Damages) take off the serious shackles and lighten up. The scenes in which the Radners are trying to be cool with the kids is incredibly cringeworthy but nicely done. Others will say not funny, but that’s kind of the point as the pair battle to come to terms that its time to grow up. Or is it?
That soon gets thrown out of the window as low and behold the house next door is sold to a fraternity led by the charismatic and incredibly hench Zac Efron. (Just when I couldn’t hate him any more). Efron shakes off that squeaky clean High School Musical mould in one silk movement of his middle finger. Efron proves yet again to be a talented lead in a testosterone-pumped cast of fraternity frat boys. In all fairness, once Efron and Rogen meet, the film picks up. Their Batman impression off is worth watching alone. The getting high and taking shots scenes. Again, once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Rogen and Efron in a drunken dance off. Better.
Once the rivalry is set and the pranks begin, the thin plot gets thrown out like Rogen on the airbag. Where we got Efron coming to terms that he may have wasted his college years partying and the Radners battling to accept parenthood, we soon get college humour, dicking around (No literally, Rogen and Efron at one point are slapping each other with giant dildos) in an inevitably corny and OTT fashion. The big punch up finale being an incredibly hilarious, if ridiculous scene. It’s all still enjoyable, if a little lazy. It’s a shame that the talented cast didn’t really make as much of an impact as you would hope. Lisa Kudrow (Friends) plays a useless dean, Carla Gallo (Bones/Superbad) is shoved in an irritating and useless role and Christopher “McLovin/The Motherfucker” Mintz-Plasse is highly unmemorable, simply squawking YOLO in a high pitched voice. Disappointing after so many great turns. Ali Cobrin (American Pie: American Reunion) and Halston Sage (The Bling Ring) were wasted as silly frat chicks. Shame.
It’s the smaller names that provide the funnier characters. Craig Roberts’ turn (you may remember him? Look again. Here’s a hint. Richard Ayoade’s Submarine. Yep) as the appropriately named Assjuice wasn’t bad. Just as we get rid of one Franco, we find out there’s another. Dave Franco (Now You See Me) was good and is proving to be one to watch. Up and coming stand up Jerrod Carmichael was hilarious as weed junkie Garf. The award for scene stealing support act goes to Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) as Rogen’s neurotic best friend Jimmy. His impromptu one liners, bat shit crazy attitude and impeccable impressions of certain celebrities brings the film up a notch. The scene in which the frat house explain their origins and how they came across beer pong, the boot, etc was cheesy if funny and a lazy excuse to shove in a number of cameos from The Lonely Island and Jake Johnson (Nick from New Girl).
So in conclusion, do you like Rogen? Do you like Efron? Then bienvenue this film is for you. It’s big, dumb, silly, corny, OTT but brings the odd chuckle. Not a keg full but enough little shots to keep you buzzing 3 (just) out of 5!
Currently ranks #64 out of 175!
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Anniston, AL – December 7, 2015 – Industrial Tooling & Supply, Inc., (I.T.S) an industry leader in the distribution of Cutting Tools, Abrasives and MRO Products, announced today that it has opened a new branch location in Daphne, AL. Located at 26064 Capitol Drive, Suite D, the new branch and staff will serve the southern Alabama market including the Florida panhandle.
In business for over 32 years, I.T.S has a proven track record of serving manufacturing facilities, large and small, in the shipbuilding, aerospace, automotive, medical and food service industries as well as pipe mills, steel mills, paper mills, foundries and machine shops.
“Our sales engineers bring decades of problem solving experience and provide outstanding technical support for customers across many industries,” said Jayme Mancill, President, Industrial Tooling & Supply, Inc. “We look forward to serving new and existing customers in the southern Alabama market.”
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2020 Peugeot Partner review
Drives like a Peugeot should
Well equipped – good value
Clever and functional interior front and back
Chunky good looks
Ordinary radio usability in MY19 runout cars (MY20 touch screen not tested)
Thirstier than you’d expect
Servicing prices are on the higher side
You’re a Peugeot person or you aren’t, yet
The changes in how we are living this year have clearly highlighted the requirement for fast and local delivery of food, goods and other supplies. A requirement that is only going to become increasingly more important for small businesses, and there’s no better tool for this than a van.
Not a traditional slab-sided cab-over ‘toaster’ mind you, I’m talking about a compact hatch-based city dweller, like the 2020 Peugeot Partner.
Updated to an all-new EMP2 platform in 2018, the Partner shares its underpinnings with pretty much everything in the PSA catalogue. It is sold overseas in various badge-engineered forms as the Citroen Berlingo III, Opel Combo and Toyota ProAce. If that last one is a surprise, then it should give you some indication of the level of quality and functionality the new Pug has.
The Partner is available as a petrol-powered short wheel-base with either a manual or automatic transmission (from $25,990 for the manual), or a long wheel-base manual diesel (from $30,490). Our car is the Partner SWB 130 petrol automatic and is priced from $31,490 before options and on-road costs.
Contextually, that’s $200 more than the list price on a SWB automatic VW Caddy, but as I’ll cover shortly, the Pug comes with a lot more standard equipment.
Worth noting too, that we’re driving the last of the first-arrival MY19-spec cars which is mechanically identical but misses out on the road-side sliding door and 8.0-inch touchscreen, instead receiving a strange 1970s neo-futuristic radio tuning interface. Retail price on the MY19 cars was originally $500 less than the current Partner ($30,990) but as there are still stocks in final runout, you could expect to pay well under $30k on the road for one of these.
With chunky black plastic bumper bars and 16-inch steel wheels, the Peugeot Partner fully embraces its basic Parisienne livraison roots. Available in five colours, with white the only one not attracting a $690 premium, the Partner is handsome enough as far as rolling white-goods go. The signature quad-headlamps and chromed lion badge give it a familiar Peugeot look, where the lower fog/cornering lamps help balance it all out.
Under the bonnet is the 1.2-litre 3-cylinder turbocharged engine from the 308 hatch. Outputs are identical, with 96kW at 5500rpm and 230Nm from 1750rpm, giving it enough zip off the line for running about town.
Peugeot Partner 130 SWB
Engine configuration Three-cylinder turbocharged petrol
Displacement 1.2L (1199cc)
Power 96kW @ 5500rpm
Torque 230Nm @ 1750rpm
Power to weight ratio 72.0kW/t
Drive Front-wheel drive
Transmission 8-speed automatic w/ paddle shift
Fuel consumption (combined cycle) 6.3L/100km
Fuel tank size 50L
Fun fact, I actually just sold my 308 Allure hatch, which had been my daily for the past 18 months and have to say that engine, although lacking any real punch above 3500rpm, is really tractable and easy to live with as a city commuter.
In the Partner, the feeling is the same. Dealing with short runs in traffic and at low to middling speeds, the little three-cylinder works well. It handles freeway speeds comfortably, and you find that unless that delivery is running particularly late, a more relaxed driving style simply becomes the norm.
Peugeot claims a combined fuel consumption cycle of 6.3L/100km, which is a tad ambitious. We settled at 8.3L/100km with a mixture of urban and highway driving, which is about the same as my personal experience in the 308.
The eight-speed automatic gearbox is engaged by a rotary selector on the centre console, with shifts able to be changed by the paddles on the wheel, should you feel so inclined. The transmission works well, and suits the set-and-go nature of an urban hustler like the Partner. Remember too that a hatch-based van like the Partner is often a first-time light commercial vehicle for small business owners. That it is as easy and familiar to drive as a regular hatchback is an important consideration, and a job the Partner handles well.
Accommodations behind the wheel are similar to the 308 too, with the iCockpit instrument binnacle and side-plate sized steering wheel providing that unique ‘you get it or you don’t’ Peugeot experience. What is a bit strange is that the needle on the tachometer rotates in a standard clockwise direction, not anti-clockwise as in the 308. How about you save some money and maybe share more components, PSA?
The ride is compliant and comfortable, with the steering feeling light but direct, just like other Peugeots. There’s not the same level of ride control as in the 308 hatch, but even with a small load in the back, the Partner settles well and manages urban imperfections very capably. Simply put, the Partner is quite a fun thing to tootle about in.
Given a van tends to double as a mobile office, the cabin itself is very important, and it’s here where some clever thinking has really come into play. For starters, the shoulder-rubbing three-abreast layout offers handy flexibility, with the centre seat able to be folded into an armrest with integrated laptop desk. No chunky plastic handles to flip and fold though, just strips of ribbony fabric to pull – tres chic!
The cloth seats are comfortable, and the cabin is kept reasonably insulated from noise and temperature thanks to the fixed bulkhead that separates the load bay. You’ll still get a bit of echo at highway speeds, but it’s much better than an open van.
Aside from the comical ‘espresso’ holder in the console, there are handy cupholders either side of the dash, a storage shelf above where the glovebox would be (as in typical Peugeot fashion, the LHD cars have the fuse box here and it isn’t moved as part of the RHD conversion), and another shelf in place of the said glovebox.
There’s another actual glovebox above the shelf above the glovebox-that-isn’t, plus a shelf above the radio unit. Then there is another below the air conditioning controls, and yet another in front of the instruments. Need more space? There are big pockets in the doors and of course a shelf that runs the width of the cabin above the windscreen.
Comfort-wise, you have manual climate control, which heats things up very quickly, and even a switch to activate the heated mirrors. The Partner includes automatic headlamps, wipers and power mirrors, that all work the same as in the 308. You even get the strange-until-you-use-it cruise control and speed limit nodule on the lower left of the wheel.
In terms of infotainment, we’ve rated the car in the context of the whacky non-haptic, touch-sensitive radio tuner in our car. As noted, this is only equipped on MY19 runout stock, which I’d really suggest are best left to bargain hunters. The system works well enough, but the usability falls firmly into the ‘Frraaaance!’ category of not making much sense.
If the car was fitted with the 8.0-inch touchscreen, which as well as running the standard PSA infotainment interface, has support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, we’d not only rate it better, I would have had a more enjoyable week. My tip, go for the new car.
There is an impressive array of other technology though, with a lane departure alert, forward collision warning with AEB, speed sign recognition and a curious rear and side view video camera that replaces the standard rear view mirror.
The image quality isn’t perfect, but it works and allows you to run a continual ‘live’ feed from either the rear or side view at any time. Sounds cool, looks cool… but it's all but useless at night and in the wet.
Thankfully the side mirrors are nice and big, and you also have front and rear parking sensors to avoid those 7th Arrondissement type touch parks.
The cargo area is 1817mm long and has a volume of 3800L. For comparison, the clear ‘small van based on a hatch from the same brand’ segment leader, Volkswagen Caddy, offers 3200L and a length of 1779mm. The Partner also has a neat party trick by including a secret hatch in the bulkhead, which, with the front passenger seat folded, allows items of 3090mm in length to fit in. It’s not a huge hole so think poles and ladders rather than lounge settings.
Wheelbase 2785mm
Cargo bay length 1817mm (3090mm with bulkhead access)
Cargo bay height 1243mm
Cargo bay width 1527mm (1229mm between arches)
Payload 1000kg
GVM (Gross Vehicle Mass kg) 2320kg
Cargo volume (max L) 3800L
Wheels/tyres 16-inch / 205/60/16 Michelin
Payload is rated at 1000kg, which feels like a lot, and may change your opinion of the 1.2-litre engine. It’s fair to assume that a van like the Partner is more regularly purchased for smaller, lighter loads, but its good to know you can throw in around 20-wheels of cheese and still be able to carry two people up front if you have to.
At the back, the barn doors can click open past their standard 90-degrees to a full 180-degrees, and of course, on the MY20 Partner, there is the convenience of twin sliding side doors.
There are six tie-down points and a light in the cargo bay too.
Ownership is supported by a five-year, 200,000km warranty and 15,000km or 12-month service intervals. Service prices are capped but adjust year to year, with the first five years coming in at $2795.
Price (MSRP) $31,490
Options as tested $0
Servicing 3yr $1643
Warranty 5 years/200,000km
So far this year, the light van segment has moved a total of 1386 units, 69 per cent of which are Caddys. It’s not a big segment by any stretch, with the 107 Partners sold only accounting for eight per cent of total sales. But things are on the up, with July recording the strongest month so far (32 units).
I know that Peugeots aren’t for everyone, but once you get past the uniqueness, and spend time behind the little wheel, you’ll wonder what you and everyone else have been missing for so long. It’s well-priced, comfortable, clever, economical and well-featured, but perhaps better suited to a more regular owner/driver than as an ad-hoc runabout.
Score one with the basic infotainment for a better deal or go for the updated Partner with a touchscreen and smartphone mirroring for some real-world usability.
If local livraison is life for your small business, and you don’t need (or want) the footprint of a more traditional van, then the 2020 Peugeot Partner presents a solid case for an easy, practical and characterful alternative to the VW Caddy.
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Interview with Louise Laffey – Follow Your Intuition
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Intuition. Manifestation. Staying aligned to your highest purpose, all helps the equation of your SUCCESS!
Knowing how to tap into the unlimited potential out there in the universe could be the difference of you fully thriving and enjoying the fruits of success or continually hitting bumps and challenges along the way.
Louise Laffey created a global phenomena, a game called ‘The Wish’. Her game has allowed her to travel around the world speaking on the power of wishful thinking, and being invited to share the stage with some of the world’s most innovative thinkers such as Deepak Chopra, Martha Beck, Jean Houston and Mike Dooley.
This interview shares the pivotal event that woke Louise up in the middle of the night and she had no choice but to listen to her intuition. PLUS Louise herself gives you specific strategies on HOW to get in touch with your intuition and create a more fulfilling life.
Who is Louise Laffey?
Louise is the creator & CEO of the global phenomenon The Wish™ game, a spiritual consultant, speaker & author.
A metaphysical mentor with over 20 years experience, Louise travels the world teaching both individuals & corporations the power of ‘wishful thinking’ in creating a life you love.
Her work has been featured by The Chopra Center US, News.com.au, Mind Body Spirits Festival US, UK and Australia, Insight Magazine and The Sun Herald to name a few. She has shared the stage with some of the world’s leading innovative thinkers on metaphysics including Deepak Chopra, Martha Beck, Jean Houston and Mike Dooley.
In early 2007 Louise was awoken in the middle of the night with what she intuitively knew was a big idea. For the next 24 hours, she channeled pieces of a puzzle that would soon become her life’s work: The Wish™.
For the past seven years, Louise has traveled both internationally and locally teaching people how to work with Universal Energy and the Power of Wishing to transform their own life.
Sharing over 30,000 wishes with fans from over 20 countries & helping to manifest wishes for: true love, financial freedom, health & well being, life purpose and peace.
Formerly working as a lawyer and commercial director, she specialized in multi-million dollar infrastructure and communication projects. Louise holds University degrees in Law and Finance (UNSW) and a Masters of Business Administration (UNE). Within her corporate career she held a number of senior management positions with leading Australian and international corporations.
Praised for her uncanny knowing of how to connect the spiritual with the commercial, Louise now owns and manages an international Energy Consulting company, focused on raising conscious awareness within business. She regularly consults to Australia’s Top 200 companies as well as Fortune 500 companies, teaching executive management teams how to work with personal energy to create cultural change and achieve significant improvements in their companies’ bottom lines.
Louise lives in Sydney Australia.
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GOLDY LOCKS
By Anders Ekdahl September 19, 2012 September 19, 2012 Interviews
Nashville TN might not strike you as a great place for metal but don’t be fooled by all the C&W that keep pouring out of that city. Underneath brews a whole different concoction. GOLDY LOCKS are proof of that. Anders Ekdahl ©2012
What are the greatest challenges when you front your own band, when you don’t have anybody else to fall back on?
-I try to never look at things as a “challenge” rather, just the next step in this business. People forget this IS a business AND a game. So when you look at it that way, it’s actually kind of fun. There is always something new & exciting around the corner. Even if it’s venue canceling you, or a negative comment left online, you’re reaching people!
The only real irritating thing about this business is running into other lazy negative artists who try & such your soul with their doom & gloom. So many piss & moan when if they would just get off their asses, they’d be ok. People copy us a lot, and then lame out what we worked hard to make good. That’s not really a challenge though, that’s just non-creative people. The only real challenge out there is bands are a dime a dozen. One has to work really hard or be pretty creative to stand out.
When you are smack in the center of Country land how much do you stick out with your sound?
-How much does anyone stick out with their sound these days honestly? Most sound the same. Ours is definitely commercial, has its own flavor and I have a very distinctive voice that kicks you in the nuts and says, “Hey! I’ve paid some dues! I’m bruised and busted and as real as it gets.”
What kind of hardrock/metal scene is there in Nashville, TN?
-It’s pretty limited. There are a few good bands. Hollowed Soul, Noisecult & Mindset Defect are pretty badass. I’m proud of them. The rest need to stop drinking so much, wake up before 2pm & get something recorded.
When you write songs what is it that influences/inspires you? Do you have themes that you keep returning to?
-I write songs when I’m pissed, see a hot guy or am horny. I write to reflect. Jake our guitarist gives me some many tracks to write to. Sometime he & Vera or all the band just goes and jams, I run Protools and I go with what they give me. Writing comes from many things. I’m blessed & honored that I can come up with anything people actually enjoy or get something out of.
How do you avoid being a cliché when you play hardrock? How do you avoid doing stuff that has already been done?
-Basically, no one jumps around the stage like a big floppy Muppet. I do. Our band concentrates on having a great time and having fun on stage. Even if we look lame. If we entertain you, that’s what matters. So many “chick” fronts are worried about how big their boobies look, or that they are constantly “striking” a pose. All I care about is I’m close to hyperventilating, dripping blood & sweat. If I’m not? If my hair isn’t in a rats nest from constant spinning, I’m not doing my job correctly.
When I listen to the more hardrock kind of stuff I often wonder how many times to you can write lyrics about love before it gets boring. What kind of lyrical themes do you touch upon?
-Lyrically I like to write things that push buttons, or paint really good pictures. I like to say things in a way that no one else has. That’s just for me. On a selfish level, because I’m a competitive Bizatch! Writing should be like sex. If you’re good at it, it will never be boring. – Goldy lockS
How important is it to be portrayed the right way? How much do you think of your public profile?
-Come to our show. That’s how we are portrayed. I don’t really give a fat rats ass if people “get me” or don’t. The good “intelligent” people out there do. Even the true METAL hardcore peeps seem to get that we are about soul, entertaining and blowing vocally.
Is the art work, scene costumes etc. something you think a lot about? Do you have a style that you want to be associated with the band?
-Not always, but we do try & look interesting, like we thought about it. I’m cool with anyone in the band wearing or doing their thing, but I like it to co ordinate or at least look like some time went into it. There are too many bands who just look like shit. Like they just rolled out of bed. I think that’s lame, but that’s my opinion. There are just too many bands these days. Sometimes I feel like a maggot or a fly on a pile of cow sh!t in the yard. So so many of us. I like to stand out.
How do avoid being a victim of the latest trends? How do you keep the spirit of independence when so much in American society seems controlled by co-operations?
-I’m a commercial girl. So I, we just do our thing. Sometimes it’s overlooked that choosing to BE commercial, IS the spirit of independence. Because “I” chose to do it. I think the latest trends can be a good thing. You can hit more & a wider audience that you normally could just doing “only” your thing.
What future would you like to see for Goldy lockS?
-More shows, touring more & to a wider audience as well. I sing in 5 languages and love that. Communication with people and an audience is key. Gone are the days where the ugly American gets on stage & tells the people of Japan to F off. No one’s buying that. I watched someone do that once on a concert dvd. So I learned Japanese & how to sing in it. Now when we go back, I’ll have something personal to say.
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19 January 2021Literature/Talks/Walks
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives
Professor Helen Taylor
Professor Helen Taylor says she always warms to men who read novels. ‘I love that they’re not reading to get facts…I think they’re reading fiction to try and understand the world from an oblique perspective. Fiction takes you on indirect routes to truth.’ But sadly the idea that fiction is a purely female domain is taken for granted by most people involved in the world of books.
So why is it that far more women than men are readers of fiction, literary festival-goers, members of literary societies and book clubs? This is the question that Helen Taylor explores in her engaging study: Why Women Read Fiction – The Stories of Our Lives.
Come and listen to Helen discuss how women readers are preceived to form the life-support system for writers and publishers of fiction and why Ian McEwan once remarked ‘when women stop reading, the novel will be dead’.
Unfortunately, due to tier 4 regulations, we are no longer able to host this event live in the church. However, we will be filming Professor Taylor's talk and the film will be made available to BLS members from 19 January.
To join the BLS please email join@barnesliterarysociety.org.uk
Barnes Literary Society event
by Prof Lindsay Hall, University of Munich.
Zoom meeting. Members will automatically receive a link to this, but others can email richmond.science.society@gmail.com for a free link.
Lectures are about 1 hour long, with opportunities for questions.
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Thames Luminaries: Within the garden walls at Hogarth’s House
The Thames brought commerce and wealth to South West London, attracting royalty, aristocrats, artists, writers and wealthy property owners. The legacy of these luminaries is an area exceptionally rich in heritage buildings, gardens and landscapes. Pope’s Grotto Preservation Trust and English Heritage’s Marble Hill have organised a series of nine free virtual talks over three weeks beginning on Wednesday 27th January. Experts will explore, explain and offer insight about a luminary and their landscape, property and land.
William and Jane Hogarth took on a second home in the country in 1749. The house stood in the corner of a mixed orchard which had been enclosed within a high brick wall in the 1670s. Research into the history of the site has supported the lottery-funded Mulberry Garden Project now nearing completion. The plot has become an innovative "exhibition garden" with planting and features telling its whole story, to be recounted in this talk.
The talk will be given by Val Bott, Chairman of the William Hogarth Trust (WHT). She has been working on The Mulberry Garden Project on behalf of WHT, in partnership with the Hogarth House Trust / Hounslow Council.
Admission to the talk is free but but we encourage you to make a £5 donation for each talk, if you are able, which will be divided equally between the nine participating organisations. More about the talk and the speaker can be found here and you can book your place at TicketSource.
The talk will start at 7 pm and last for approximately 20 minutes with time being allowed for questions and answers at the end. The event will end at or before 8 pm. It will be delivered using Zoom so you will need a computer or tablet with the Zoom program/app on it. You will be sent a link by email shortly before the lecture begins and you should follow this link at the appropriate time to join the audience. If you haven't used Zoom before, you will be prompted to download the appropriate software as soon as you try to join.
This event is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
(1898 lithograph of the gate in the garden.)
Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust event
28 January 2021 - 28 October 2021Literature/Talks/Walks
Thames Luminaries: A painter’s garden: J.M.W. Turner and the grounds of Sandycombe Lodge
In 1807 J.M.W. Turner acquired two plots of land in Sand Pit Close on the Twickenham side of the Thames, a short walk from Richmond Bridge where he built his little villa to his own designs. The house and large garden, with a large pond, stood alone on the fringes of two grand estates, and provided a peaceful retreat from the busy hum of the London art world..
The talk will be given by Catherine Parry-Wingfield who is an art historian. She was a trustee of Turner’s House Trust from its inception in 2005, and chair from 2013 to 2019. She has produced two booklets, J.M.W. Turner, R.A. – the artist and his house at Twickenham and J.M.W. Turner and the ‘Matchless Vale of Thames’.
Admission to this talk is free but but we encourage you to make a £5 donation for each talk, if you are able, which will be divided equally between the nine participating organisations. More about the talk and the speaker can be found here and you can book your place at TicketSource.
(Sandycombe Lodge by W. Havell, c. 1814 pencil and brown wash)
Thames Luminaries: Alexander Pope: the poet and the poetic landscape
The Thames brought commerce and wealth to South West London, attracting royalty, aristocrats, artists, writers and wealthy property owners. The legacy of these luminaries is an area exceptionally rich in heritage buildings, gardens and landscapes. Pope’s Grotto Preservation Trust and English Heritage’s Marble Hill have organised a series of nine free virtual talks over three weeks beginning on Wednesday 27th January. Experts will explore, explain and offer insight about a luminary and their landscape, property
and land.
Alexander Pope was the principal literary genius of his day and was a pioneer in the landscape movement. His influence was critical, advocating ‘the simplicity of the ancients’ encapsulated in his poetic line to: ‘Consult the Genius of the Place in all,’ he was fundamental in establishing the new national style that came to be known as ‘English Garden Style’ which we will explore through his own garden at Twickenham and other gardens he influenced.
This talk will be given by Dr Marion Harney, is Director of Studies and Director of Teaching at the University of Bath specialising in the history and theory of historic buildings, designed and cultural landscapes and their conservation. She is Visiting Professor, University of Westminster and External Examiner for the MA in Garden and Landscape History, Institute for Historical Research. More about the talk and the speaker can be found here.
('A Plan of Mr Pope's Garden', John Serle, 1745)
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ALPA Governing Bodies: Central Executive Council Records
Identifier: LR002439
Abstract The Central Executive Council (CEC) was formed by the Board of Directors in 1932 and consisted of the President, First Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and regional Vice Presidents. The council functioned mainly as an advisory body to the President, and also worked on policies, planning, and programs for ALPA. The records are made up of minutes of CEC meetings from 1933-1946. Many of the subjects focus on the Council’s work interpreting and creating policies for the still new Association,...
ALPA Herndon EAL Strike Center Records
Abstract The Herndon EAL Strike Center Records document the 265 day strike on Eastern Airlines (EAL) from March 4, 1989 - November 23, 1989. During this period 3400 of 4200 EAL pilots went out on sympathy strike along with the flight attendants represented by the Transportation Workers Union (TWU), both of whom voted to honor the International Association of Machinists (IAM) strike of Eastern Airlines. The Herndon EAL Strike Center Records focus on the records of EAL Council 142 located in Herndon, VA,...
Dates: 1986 - 1990; Majority of material found in 1989 - 1989
ALPA Miami EAL MEC Records
Identifier: LR000247_Miami
Abstract Parts 1 and 2 of the EAL MEC Records spans 30 years but focuses mainly on the last decade of Eastern’s operations. Major subjects include mergers, air safety and bankruptcy litigation.
ALPA Miami Joint Council Office Records
Abstract The ALPA Miami Joint Council Office (JCO) was a regional office for ALPA Region II and councils in the Southeast United States. It was home to several Master Executive Councils (MEC) and Local Executive Councils (LEC) including: Braniff Airways MEC and Council 29, Delta Airlines Council 71, Eastern Airlines MEC and Council 18, National Airlines MEC and Councils 8 and 73, Pan American Airways (PAA) Council 10, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra, PNG) MEC and Councils 38 and 83 and Riddle...
ALPA President's Department Records
Abstract The President's Department records are arranged in three parts. Part I: The Air Line Pilots Association was formed in secret in 1930 by a group of “Key Men” from each airline, they formed openly and affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1931. In that same year David Behncke was elected president of ALPA, an office he held twenty years, until being recalled in 1951 (and off and on through 1952 during his legal battle with ALPA). His successor, Clarence Sayen, held...
ALPA Publications
Abstract The ALPA Publications is a collection of pamphlets, newsletters, magazines, bulletins, manuals, constitutions and by-laws, arbitration transcripts, and research reports produced by, or involving ALPA from 1933-2006. ALPA’s main publication, Air Line Pilot, is still in print and so not included here, but both ALPA national, and individual Master Executive Councils (MEC) also produced a wide variety of publications during the past 80 years which are included in this collection.
ALPA Publications: Air Line Pilot
Abstract Air Line Pilot is ALPA’s main publication and has been in continuous print since April 1932. The first volumes were published twice a month, and came in newspaper form, running about 4 pages each. ALPA soon began to produce Air Line Pilot monthly and steadily increased the page count, eventually publishing in the present magazine form in 1949. Air Line Pilot covers a variety of topics relevant to pilots such as news in the airline industry, ALPA structure and Association news, technical...
Subject: Aeronautics Safety measures X
Subject: Airlines--Collective bargaining X
Air pilots 6
Airlines--Employees 6
Aircraft accidents -- Investigation 5
Airlines--Management 5
Airlines--Technological innovations--United States. 5
Air traffic control 4
Flight attendants 4
Airlines hijacking 3
Airplanes--Noise 3
Age discrimination 2
Air mail service--United States 2
Airplanes Airworthiness 2
Pilots and pilotage 2
Air quality 1
Airlines 1
Airlines—Employees—Labor unions 1
Cockpit voice recorders 1
Deregulation--United States 1
Employees--Drug testing--United States 1
Sex discrimination 1
Strikes and lockouts, Sympathetic 1
United States. National Mediation Board 5
United States. Federal Aviation Administration 4
Continental Airlines 2
Eastern Air Lines 2
Texas Air Corporation 2
United States. Civil Aeronautics Board 2
Flight Engineers' International Association 1
United States. National Transportation Safety Board 1
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WIL Festival 6.2: “The First Part of Henry IV”
¶ Plays about the life and times of Henry V, affectionately referred to as Hal (Nikolas Hoback), were big business in 1580s and ’90s England. There were multiple versions, some treating him as a hero and others as a villain who comes to be reformed, before William Shakespeare came on the scene. The History play genre was a new thing, brought to great success by an earlier company called the Queen’s Men. (Check out their plays, here.) I am convinced by Jim Marino’s argument that “The First Part of Henry IV with the life and death of Henry sir-named Hotspurre” was a revision, rethought by Shakespeare as part of a tetralogy, what some call the “Henriad” after Homer’s Iliad, rather than a stand-alone piece.
¶ Similar to thinking about Shakespeare as an expert reviser, watching an “original practice” or First Folio performance take on any of the plays challenges your assumptions about what is and isn’t there. I discussed in a previous post the useful and necessary fiction that are critical editions of plays: they pull together all the extant versions of a play with a name like “King Lear” into one place. This isn’t really a different act than Shakespeare’s revising an old play new again, except that critical editing isn’t interested in (and typically doesn’t retain) performative coherence. And it’s not objective either: critical editing creates its own myths about what we want a play to mean at a particular point in time. Watching an O.P. production, a performance that picks one version of Shakespeare’s text and sticks with it, illuminates just what those myths are.
¶ So what happened in this performance, where the actors trust their text?
From left: Mikki Lipsey (Duke of Northumberland) and Isabella Buckner (Hotspurre).
Continue reading “WIL Festival 6.2: “The First Part of Henry IV””
WIL Festival 6.1: “Twelfe Night”
¶ Twelfth night refers to the last day of the Christmas holiday season, a time for playing practical jokes, such as hiding birds in pies, and going to plays. Like most of the plays being done as part of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival’s WIL Fest this month, twelfth night only comes once a year. It is special, occasional. I was reminded of this context when listening to Beth Yocam’s pre-show pitch: “this is the first time this group of actors has done this play together.” While Performance Studies teaches us that, because of its liveness, no two performances are alike, for OPS Fest this is doubly so: there is no chance to rehearse before the show or get another crack at it with this group of actors. What is more, this is true of every OPS Fest show. This is the only chance they get to play in this part with this group of people. If they do it again, the ensemble will be different in some—usually many—ways. For an OPS Fest actor, the stakes are high at every performance, so there is no room to phone it in or get bored.
¶ This occasional context also had me thinking about the other acts of courage that playing with OPS Fest requires…and not all kinds of actors are necessarily up for. If you’ve been to a show in the parks this year, you’ll notice that the actors play not only all the way up to the edge of the audience, but in the audience. When the London Globe theatre opened, backers were nervous and assumed no one would pay for the standing “groundling” tickets. These are now the first things that sell-out, and recordings demonstrate people love to lean in on the lip of the stage. Audiences want nearness. In the WIL Fest “Twelfe Night,” it felt like a third of the play was performed in and amongst the lawn chairs and blankets. Intimacy like this takes courage, a willingness to be close to an audience member you don’t know and not drop a line—let alone step on someone. This isn’t instinctual. The other kind of courage is that of trusting the other actors, often some of which you haven’t worked with before or in a long time. Will they say their lines correctly? This matters, as a well-timed entrance depends on a correctly delivered cue-line. With the three months of rehearsal that contemporary theatre companies use, it’d be silly if you hadn’t developed a rapport with your fellow players. There is also the added variable of apprentices being worked in to every show to consider. There is little way around giving yourself over to the process if you want to be protected by it.
¶ A play about disguised twins and forged letters, in what ways was this “Twelfe Night” affected by the dynamics of performer courage?
From left: Emma Whiteside (Fabian) and Kaia Maarja Hillier (Viola/Casario).
Continue reading “WIL Festival 6.1: “Twelfe Night””
In the wake of the coronavirus global pandemic, I curated a YouTube channel with research talks, full-length performances, and other academic materials related to early English drama and performance. Check back here and there for regularly updated contributions!
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People Feel Unsafe Using Public Restrooms with Air Dryers, New Study Finds
SOURCE: Essity
COVID-19 is shaping new attitudes and behaviors among people, especially a growing awareness of health risks associated with hygiene in public spaces. According to a new international study from Tork®, an Essity brand, nearly eight out of ten people surveyed in North America feel more unsafe going to facilities with unhygienic public restrooms today than before the pandemic - and 33% of these respondents say they feel unsafe entering a restroom equipped with air dryers.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2020 /3BL Media/ - Expectations of public spaces and demands for safe hygiene solutions are higher than ever before. According to the study, which examined the impact of COVID-19 on people’s attitudes regarding public hygiene, 86% believe it is critically important to public safety to maintain a high hygiene standard in public restrooms.
This increased concern for hygiene in public restrooms has driven a change in preference for hand drying solutions. According to the study, 70% of people in North America wish more facilities offered paper hand towels as an alternative to air dryers. The study also found that 33% of people now have an increased preference for paper hand towels versus before the pandemic. The most common reasons selected by North American survey respondents for this change in preferences are a perception that paper hand towels are more hygienic to the user (71%), dry hands more quickly (53%) and spread less bacteria in the air (43%).
As the preference of restroom visitors for paper hand towels increases, the cost of not offering paper hand towels can be high for facilities. More than 40% of North American survey respondents say they are less likely to visit places that do not offer paper hand towels as a hand drying alternative, and 33% say they feel unsafe entering a restroom equipped with air dryers.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that all businesses need to adapt to a new hygiene standard. While some facilities might have chosen air dryers before, based on the perceived ease of use, that is not enough anymore. A significant portion of the population feels less safe now using air dryers. We have seen an increase in requests from facility managers who want to change from air dryers to paper hand towels," says Alberto Cajiga, VP Marketing, Essity Professional Hygiene.
For hygiene-critical areas, such as food processing plants and hospitals, paper hand towels have long been the only acceptable hand drying solution.* And for good reason. Unlike paper hand towels, jet air dryers produce more airborne droplets,** which increases the risk of bacteria spread in the air. The friction from drying hands with paper towels also helps to remove more bacteria than other drying options.***
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more visitors are likely to hold public restrooms to the same standards that apply in those hygiene-critical areas. In fact, 86% of North American survey respondents say they expect public restrooms will provide a safer hygiene environment now than before the COVID-19 crisis.
“The study suggests that providing solutions that make people feel safe when visiting public spaces must be a top priority for facility managers that want to re-attract guests. The cost of not addressing their concerns is simply too high," says Cajiga.
For more information about making the safer choice and switching to Tork paper hand towels, visit www.torkusa.com/saferchoice.
*Source: Huang, C Mayo Clinic, 2011
**Source: Margas E. et al, J Applied Microbiol, 2013
***Source: Todd, J Food Prot, 2010
The survey was conducted by United Minds in cooperation with CINT using web-panels. Data was collected between April 8-13, 2020 in the US market with a total of 1012 respondents.
Rachel Sharpe, Weber Shandwick, rsharpe@webershandwick.com
About Tork
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About Essity
Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. We are dedicated to improving well-being through our products and services. Sales are conducted in approximately 150 countries under the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands, such as JOBST, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 46,000 employees. Net sales in 2019 amounted to approximately $13.5 billion. The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Essity breaks barriers to well-being and contributes to a healthy, sustainable and circular society. More information at www.essity.com.
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What Mike Pence should learn from Judas
Vice President Mike Pence could effectively and immediately fire President Trump by convincing a handful of Trump's Cabinet to invoke Article 4 of the 25th Amendment. By the time Trump appealed, he would already be out of office. Congressional Democrats are publicly urging Pence to take this step — in fact, if he does not, the House will impeach Trump for a second time.
There would be something remarkably neat about Pence being acting president for one week. Trump's term ending with an acting president would be a poetic finale for a man who prefers his Cabinet not hindered by Senate confirmation. America would certainly appreciate the flexibility.
Would Pence do it? He is keeping it as an option, in case Trump becomes "more unstable" in his last 10 days in office, CNN reports. But he clearly does not want to take this step, and the conventional wisdom is he won't.
Pence should not only do it, he should take inspiration from the slur running rampant across pro-Trump internet forums, that he is already Judas to Trump's Jesus.
Pence obviously knows the story of Judas Iscariot, but for anyone who doesn't, he is the friend and apostle who sold Jesus to his executioners for 30 pieces of silver, then killed himself in remorse. Not exactly an inspiring role model — Dante puts him in the final circle of hell, being eternally chewed apart by Satan.
But Pence should consider this about Judas: Whatever noble and good things you do in your life, you will forever be remembered for your last big act. And this is Pence's moment in history. Gerald Ford isn't remembered for his college football career or stint as House minority leader — he is and always will be the vice president who took over when Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, then pardoned him.
Mike Pence will be an ignoble footnote, a historical curiosity — or he will be a legend.
Pence does not appear to be a particularly principled man, though he likes to play-act one. The best explanation for his unswerving loyalty to Trump, through scandal after scandal, is that he is hoping to inherit Trump's political mantle. That dream is over. He is both tainted by his association with Trump and despised by the Trump wing of the Republican Party. After Trump publicly excoriated Pence for not attempting to seize the election for him during a joint session of Congress to tally President-elect Joe Biden's win, a mob of Trump supporters marched on and broke into the U.S. Capitol literally calling for Pence's head. And they brought their own scaffold and noose.
Trump supporters chanting 'HANG MIKE PENCE' at the Capitol Building pic.twitter.com/iMSOl4u3tg
— Dallas (@59dallas) January 6, 2021
Pence owes Trump nothing.
Sam Nunberg says Trump told Pence “I saved you. I made you. You would’ve lost without me. How dare you do this to me” and called him an expletive that starts with a “p” pic.twitter.com/TY0rcsJLiN
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) January 10, 2021
Of course, the best thing for the country at this point would be for Trump to resign. He has lost his party, his office, and his aura of political teflon. And he is widely regarded as a danger to American democracy and national security. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump ally, said Sunday he would vote to impeach Trump for inciting insurrection. A handful of Republican senators have publicly called for him to step down and probably don't want to have to vote on conviction.
Trump leaving on his own terms would also be the best thing for Trump, as Andrew McCarthy argues at National Review. The House will impeach him, and if the Senate were to convict him — either before he's out of office or, more likely, afterward, when Democrats take control — he will lose the thing he loves in life as much as fame: money. Specifically, his $200,000-a-year-for-life presidential pension, about $1 million in annual travel expenses, Secret Service protection, and other perks. And he probably won't be able to run for office again, should the political winds shift.
But "Trump would only abandon the presidency if he felt he had no other choice, most likely because staying put would thrust him into legal trouble," CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang writes at Politico. "Or, if he had something to gain that he couldn't turn down, such as a pardon by the vice president. Neither is the case. Besides, there is nothing Trump dislikes more than a loser. A resignation would amount to quitting, and he views quitters as losers."
In that sense, Pence forcing out Trump may actually be Trump's best viable hope. A win-win-win.
The hard thing about the Judas narrative is that the most despised figure in the New Testament is also a necessary part of the Jesus resurrection story. Without Judas or some other traitor, Jesus isn't crucified, died, buried, and risen again — and there is no Christianity. It is absurd to compare Trump to Jesus of Nazareth, but if you are inclined toward that particular blasphemy, the 25th Amendment would at least allow Trump the possibility of rising from the political ashes of his own profane immolation.
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
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Volume 27 - Issue 8 - August 2006
Keith F. Woeltje
Highly Sensitive and Efficient Computer–Assisted System for Routine Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection
Annie Chalfine, Daniel Cauet, Wei Chi Lin, Jacqueline Gonot, Nadine Calvo-Verjat, François-Emile Dazza, Olivier Billuart, Marie Dominique Kitzis, Jean Pierre Blériot, Marie Laure Pibarot, Jean Carlet
Objectives.
Surveillance of surgical site infections (SSIs) is effective in reducing the rates of these complications, but it is extremely time-consuming and, consequently, underused. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of a computer-assisted surveillance system, compared with a conventional method involving review of medical records, and the time saved with the computer-assisted system.
A prospective study was conducted from January 1 to December 31, 2001. With the computer-assisted method, screening for SSIs relied on identification in the laboratory database of positive results of microbiological tests of surgical-site specimens; confirmation was obtained via computer-generated questionnaires completed by the surgeon in charge of the patient. In the conventional method, SSIs were identified by exhaustive chart review. The time spent on surveillance was recorded for both methods.
A 25-bed gastrointestinal surgery unit in a tertiary care hospital.
Patients.
A total of 766 consecutive patients who underwent gastrointestinal surgery.
The sensitivity of the computer-assisted method was 84.3% (95% confidence interval, 0.66-0.94); the specificity was 99.9%. For the 807 surgical procedures in the study, 197 had an SSI identified by culture of a surgical-site specimen. After elimination of 63 duplicate cultures with positive results, 134 questionnaires were sent to the surgeons, who confirmed 27 SSIs. The conventional method identified 32 SSIs. The computer-assisted method required 60% less time than the conventional method (90 hours vs 223 hours).
Surveillance for SSIs using computer-assisted, laboratory-based screening and case confirmation by surgeons is as efficient as and far less time-consuming than the conventional method of chart review. This method permits routine surveillance for SSIs with reliable accuracy.
Admission-Specific Chronic Disease Scores as Alternative Predictors of Surgical Site Infection for Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Ruth Batista, Keith Kaye, Deborah S. Yokoe
Objective.
To evaluate the admission chronic disease score (ACDS) and a variant of the ACDS as predictors of surgical site infection (SSI) for study participants who underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Retrospective case-control study.
A 750-bed academic medical center.
Participants.
All participants with an SSI that was identified through hospital-based surveillance (defined as case patients) and a random sample of participants without SSI following CABG surgery (defined as control subjects) between July 1, 1999, and June 30, 2001.
An ACDS based on medications ordered on the day of hospital admission was determined for 264 study participants admitted prior to the day of the surgical procedure. A preadmission chronic disease score (PACDS) based on outpatient medications was calculated for 281 participants, using the record of preadmission medications in the patient's discharge summary. The ACDS and PACDS were significantly higher for case patients, compared with control subjects (P = .03 and P = .05, respectively). American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score and the standard National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system (NNIS) risk index were not significant predictors of SSI. In logistic regression models, only the ACDS (odds ratio, 1.02 per 100 ACDS points), the PACDS (odds ratio, 1.02 per 100 PACDS points), the highest PACDS quintile (odds ratio, 2.89 [compared with lowest quintile]), and a modified NNIS-PACDS score of 2 (odds ratio, 3.5 [compared with a score of 0]) were significant predictors of SSI.
Because preoperative medications are likely to reflect comorbidities that influence the risk of SSI, medication-based scoring systems such as the ACDS and PACDS may allow for better risk stratification than the standard NNIS risk index, particularly for patient populations with relatively homogenous wound classification and ASA score distributions.
Impact of Postdischarge Surveillance on Surgical Site Infection Rates for Several Surgical Procedures Results From the Nosocomial Surveillance Network in The Netherlands
Judith Manniën, Jan C. Wille, Ruud L. M. M. Snoeren, Susan van den Hof
To compare the number of surgical site infections (SSIs) registered after hospital discharge with respect to various surgical procedures and to identify the procedures for which postdischarge surveillance (PDS) is most important.
Prospective SSI surveillance with voluntary PDS. Recommended methods for PDS in the Dutch national nosocomial surveillance network are addition of a special registration card to the outpatient medical record, on which the surgeon notes clinical symptoms and whether a patient developed an SSI according to the definitions; an alternative method is examination of the outpatient medical record.
Hospitals participating in the Dutch national nosocomial surveillance network between 1996 and 2004.
We collected data on 131,798 surgical procedures performed in 64 of the 98 Dutch hospitals. PDS was performed according to one of the recommended methods for 31,134 operations (24%) and according to another active method for 32,589 operations (25%), and passive PDS was performed for 68,075 operations (52%). Relatively more SSIs were recorded after discharge for cases in which PDS was performed according to a recommended method (43%), compared with cases in which another active PDS method was used (30%) and cases in which passive PDS was used (25%). The highest rate of SSI after discharge was found for appendectomy (79% of operations), followed by knee prosthesis surgery (64%), mastectomy (61%), femoropopliteal or femorotibial bypass (53%), and abdominal hysterectomy (53%).
For certain surgical procedures, most SSIs develop after discharge. SSI rates will be underestimated if no PDS is performed. We believe we have found a feasible and sensitive method for PDS that, if patients routinely return to the hospital for a postdischarge follow-up visit, might be suitable for use internationally.
The Standardized Incidence Ratio as a Reliable Tool for Surgical Site Infection Surveillance
Christophe Rioux, Bruno Grandbastien, Pascal Astagneau
To evaluate whether the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) is a more reliable tool for comparing rates and temporal trends of surgical site infection (SSI) in surgery wards than the incidence rate among patients with an National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system (NNIS) risk index category of 0.
Observational, prospective cohort study in a sequential SSI surveillance system.
Volunteer surgery wards in a surveillance network in northern France that annually conducted SSI surveillance for 3 months from 1998 to 2000.
The incidence rate was the number of SSIs divided by the number of patients included, stratified by the NNIS risk index category. SIR was the observed number of SSIs divided by the expected number computed using a multiple regression model.
Overall, 26,904 patients in 67 surgery wards were enrolled. Between 1998 and 2000, the SSI incidence rate among patients with NNIS risk index category 0 decreased from 2.1% to 1.4%, which was a 33% reduction (P = .002). The SIR decreased from 1.2 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1-1.3) to 0.8 (95% CI, 0.7-0.9), which was a 20% decrease per year and an overall 33% reduction. The number of SSIs was significantly higher than expected in 17 of 201 surveillance periods over the 3 years. The classification of the wards according to the 2 indicators over the 3 years showed that wards with a high SIR did not consistently have the highest SSI incidence rate among patients with NNIS risk index category 0, partly because the type of surgical procedure and the duration of follow-up are not taken into account in the NNIS risk index.
SIR should be considered a reliable indicator to estimate the reduction in SSI incidence that results from implementation of infection control policies and for comparison of SSI rates between wards.
Indices of Surgical Site Infection Risk and Prediction of Other Adverse Outcomes During Hospitalization
Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Silvia Palma, Antonio Gómez-Ortega, Gabriel Martínez-Gallego, Marcelino Medina-Cuadros
To assess which adverse postsurgical outcomes are best predicted by the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) index and the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system (NNIS) index.
Prospective cohort study.
The service of general surgery at a tertiary care hospital.
A consecutive series of patients hospitalized for more than 1 day (n = 2,989).
The outcome best predicted by the SENIC and NNIS indices was assessed by estimating the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The areas under the ROC curves for nosocomial infection and in-hospital death were higher for the NNIS index than they were for the SENIC index (P<.05). The NNIS index predicted in-hospital death better than it predicted surgical site infection (area under the ROC curve ± SE, 0.836 ± 0.022 vs 0.689 ± 0.017; P = .001).
The NNIS index is superior to the SENIC index for all adverse postsurgical outcomes. Its ability to predict in-hospital mortality is clearly better than its ability to predict surgical site infection.
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Rates Among Patients Who Underwent Mastectomy After the Introduction of SSI Prevention Policies
Diana Vilar-Compte, Rodrigo Roldán-Marín, Carlos Robles-Vidal, Patricia Volkow
To describe the results of an intervention program to reduce the rate of surgical site infection (SSI) in the breast tumor department of a referral teaching hospital for patients with cancer.
Preventive measures introduced in the Breast Tumor Department of the study hospital included the following: starting in July 2000, use of sterile technique for wound care; starting in 2001, use of closed antireflux silicone evacuation systems, use of perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis, provision of feedback to surgeons, and remodeling of the ambulatory wound care clinic. We conducted surveillance of all patients who underwent mastectomy between February 1 and December 31, 2001, and the SSI rate was calculated. A case-control analysis was performed for risk factors known to be associated with SSI. Results were compared with the data from 2000.
The study included data on 385 surgeries. SSIs were registered in 52 (13.7%) of these 385, which was a rate 58.6% less than the 2000 infection rate (33.1%). Risk factors associated with SSI included concomitant chemotherapy and radiation therapy (OR, 3.6 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.9-7.1]), surgery performed during an evening shift (OR, 1.9 [95% CI, 1.1-3.6]), and insertion of a second drainage tube during the late postoperative period (OR, 2.8 [95% CI, 1.4-5.7]). The mean number (± SD) of postoperative visits to the outpatient wound care clinic was reduced from 11.6 ± 7.1 in 2000 to 9.2 ± 4.4 in 2001 (P< .001, Student's t test). The mean number of days that the evacuation systems were used was reduced from 19.0 to 16.0 days (P =.001, Student's t test).
Continuous wound surveillance, along with feedback to surgeons, use of closed antireflux evacuation systems, and standardized practices in wound and drainage-tube care, decreased by 58.6% the rate of SSI in a breast surgical department with high rates of infection.
Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Analysis of Adherence to Recommendations for Routine Infection Control Practices
Annalisa Castella, Lorena Charrier, Valeria Di Legami, Francesca Pastorino, Enzo Carlo Farina, Pier Angelo Argentero, Carla Maria Zotti, Piemonte Nosocomial Infection Study Group
To evaluate the application of surgical site infection control procedures in general surgery departments in hospitals in the Piemonte region of Italy.
The descriptive study entailed 1 week of observation in the general surgery departments and 1 week of observation in the operating rooms of 49 hospitals in Piemonte; the survey was conducted in 2003.
Data collection forms were designed to record information about presurgical patient preparation (form 1) and infection control practices routinely used by surgical teams (form 2).
A total of 856 patients were observed; 88% of operations were surgical wound class I or II; 70.6% of patients had hair removed, 28.8% showered the day before the operation; antimicrobial prophylaxis was administered in 63.3% of cases (68.4% on induction of anesthesia and 26% on the day of the operation) and was continued into the postoperative period in 43% of cases. A total of 799 operations were observed; the mean number of healthcare personnel in the operating room was 6; doors were opened an average of 12 times during an operation; 88% of the surgical team members wore a cap/hood and mask correctly; 25% of surgeons and 41% of instrument nurses wore an eye shield; preoperative hand and forearm scrubbing technique was correct in 78% of cases (surgeons, 74.6%; instrument nurses, 86.6%; and anesthesiologists, 73%).
A comparison between the survey data and the international recommendations for SSI prevention highlighted practices that could be improved with corrective interventions. The study provided an opportunity for sharing feedback on appropriate data with healthcare personnel and was an effective instrument to audit infection control practices.
Manual Methods Are Suboptimal Compared With Automated Methods for Cleaning of Single-Use Biopsy Forceps
M. J. Alfa, R. Nemes, N. Olson, A. Mulaire
Most reusable biopsy forceps and all of the currently available single-use biopsy forceps do not have a port that allows fluid flow down the inner tubular shaft of the device. Reusable biopsy forceps are widely used and reprocessed in healthcare facilities, and single-use biopsy forceps are reprocessed either in-house (eg, in Canada and Japan) or by third-party reprocessors (eg, in the United States). The objective of this study was to determine the cleaning efficacy of automated narrow-lumen sonic irrigation cleaning, sonication-only cleaning, and manual cleaning for biopsy forceps.
A simulated-use study was performed by inoculating the inner channel of single-use biopsy forceps with artificial test soil containing both Enterococcus faecalis and Geobacillus stearothermophilus at concentrations of 106 colony-forming units per milliliter. The cleaning methods evaluated were manual cleaning, sonication-only cleaning, and “retroflush” cleaning by an automated narrow-lumen irrigator. Bioburden and organic soil reduction after washing was evaluated. Forceps used in biopsies of patients were also tested to determine the worst-case soiling levels.
Only retroflush irrigation cleaning could effectively remove material from within the shaft portion of the biopsy forceps: it achieved an average reduction of more than 95% in levels of protein, hemoglobin, carbohydrate, and endotoxin. However, even this method of cleaning was not totally effective, as only a 2 log10 reduction in bioburden could be achieved, and there were low residual levels of hemoglobin and carbohydrate.
The data from this evaluation indicate that manual and sonication-only cleaning methods for biopsy forceps were totally ineffective in removing material from within the biopsy forceps. Even the use of retroflush cleaning was not totally effective. These findings suggest that in-hospital reprocessing of biopsy forceps with currently available equipment and cleaning methods is suboptimal.
The Postoperative Bacteriuria Score A New Way to Predict Nosocomial Infection After Prostate Surgery
E. Girou, C. Rioux, C. Brun-Buisson, B. Lobel
Urinary tract infections are the leading nosocomial urologic infections and may be a cause of added morbidity and costs, and sometimes sepsis. The aim of this study was to design a predictive score for these complications after prostate surgery.
Multicenter prospective survey.
Eleven French urology centers.
All patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) during a 3-month period.
The overall incidence of postoperative bacteriuria was 25.0% (95% confidence interval, 17.7%-29.5%). Almost all patients (95.7%) received antibiotic prophylaxis. A predictive postoperative bacteriuria score (POBS), with a 6-point scale of 0 to 5, was constructed on the basis of independent risk factors identified in multivariate analysis of a test sample of patients (n = 135) and tested in a validation sample (n = 73). Significantly more infections occurred in patients with a POBS of 2 or higher (87 [8%] vs 48 [50%]; P<.0001). With the test sample, this yielded a sensitivity of 77%, a specificity of 77%, a positive predictive value of 50%, a negative predictive value of 92%, and a global accuracy of 77%.
POBS could be used to distinguish patients at risk of developing infection after TURP. This information might be useful for implementing selective prevention measures or for adjustment for differences in nosocomial infection rates when comparing data between urology centers.
Microbiology of Surgical Site Infections and Associated Antimicrobial Use Among Vietnamese Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Patients
Le Thi Anh Thu, Annette H. Sohn, Nguyen Phuc Tien, Vo Thi Chi Mai, Vo Van Nho, Tran Nguyen Trinh Hanh, Ben Ewald, Michael Dibley
To determine the pathogens associated with surgical site infections (SSIs) and describe patterns of antimicrobial use and resistance in orthopedic and neurosurgical patients in a large university hospital in Vietnam.
Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
All patients who had operations during a 5-week study period.
Of 702 surgical patients, 80 (11.4%) developed an SSI. The incidence of SSI among orthopedic patients was 15.2% (48 of 315), and among neurosurgical patients it was 8.3% (32 of 387). Postoperative bacterial cultures of samples from the surgical sites were performed for 55 (68.8%) of the 80 patients with SSI; 68 wound swab specimens and 10 cerebrospinal fluid samples were cultured. Of these 78 cultures, 60 (76.9%) were positive for a pathogen, and 15 (25%) of those 60 cultures yielded multiple pathogens. The 3 most frequently isolated pathogens were Pseudomonas aeruginosa (29.5% of isolates), Staphylococcus aureus (11.5% of isolates), and Escherichia coli (10.3% of isolates). Ninety percent of S. aureus isolates were methicillin resistant, 91% of P. aeruginosa isolates were ceftazidime resistant, and 38% of E. coli isolates were cefotaxime resistant. All but 1 of the 702 patients received antimicrobial therapy after surgery, and the median duration of antimicrobial therapy was 11 days. Commonly used antimicrobials included aminopenicillins and second- and third-generation cephalosporins. Two or, more agents were given to 634 (90%) of the patients, and most combination drug regimens (86%) included an aminoglycoside.
Our data indicate that the incidence of SSI is high in our study population, that the main pathogens causing SSI are gram-negative bacteria and are often resistant to commonly used antimicrobials, that the use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials after surgery is widespread, and that implementation of interventions aimed at promoting appropriate and evidence-based use of antimicrobials are needed in Vietnam.
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The names in the marriage record are written as “Edward Chartier” and Annie Shorkey”. When the 1900 census was taken, this family’s surname was Sharkey and they were living in Gladstone (Delta), Michigan. Edward was a common laborer. When the 1910 census was taken, this family’s surname was Chartier, and they were still living in Gladstone. Edward was a saloonkeeper. In this census Emma says she is the mother of 6 children with 5 of them living. When the 1920 census was taken, this “Edward Sharkey” family was living in the home of Frank and Evelyn Munger. Evelyn Munger was Frank and Emma “Sharkey’s” daughter. They resided on Bush St. East in Nankin (Wayne), Michigan. Edward was a machinist in a tractor plant and Frank Munger was a foreman in house construction. When the 1930 census was taken, Edward, Emma and Edward, Jr. were living at 52222 Kenilworth St. in Dearborn (Wayne), Michigan. Living at the same address was their son, Raymond and his family. Edward was a machine operator in a car factory; Edward, Jr. was a metal finisher in a car factory, and Raymond was a car mechanic in a garage. These families could not be found in the 1920 census. In the 1930 census Edward said he immigrated to the U.S. in 1890. The marriage place and date is based upon a marriage record in the Delta County, Michigan marriages (1862-1927) between an Ed Chartier and an Annie Shorkey. In Polk’s Dearborn (Wayne County, Michigan City Directory for 1941, Edward and Emma lived at 5222 Kenilworth. Edward was a laborer. Edward, Jr. and his wife lived at 6511 Coleman. He was an assembler at a DeSoto factory in Detroit. Ray and Gertrude lived at 4795 Rosalie. He was an employee of Chrysler in Detroit.
Born 05 Jul 1870 Alymer, QC, Canada
Died 29 Apr 1949 Dearborn, Wayne Co., MI
Buried Wayne, Wayne Co, MI @ St Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery
Person ID I10410 Chartier Family
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Father Leon CHARTIER, b. 17 Jun 1831, St.Roch, QC, Canada
Mother Sophie DALPE-PARISEAU
Married c.1858
Family Emma CHARTIE CHARTIER, b. 01 Mar 1876, WI
Married 18 Oct 1898 Delta Co., MI
1. Irene CHARTIER, b. c.Sep 1899, Escanaba, Delta Co., MI , d. 16 Jul 1960, Wayne Co. MI (Age ~ 61 years) [Birth]
2. Evaline (Evelyn) CHARTIER, b. c.1900, MI [Birth]
3. Maud CHARTIER, b. c.1902, MI [Birth]
4. Edward CHARTIER, b. 22 Jun 1905, Gladstone, Delta Co., MI , d. c.Apr 1973, Dearborn, Wayne Co., MI (Age 67 years) [Birth]
5. Norbit Raymond CHARTIER, b. 14 Aug 1906, Gladstone, Delta Co., MI , d. 23 Mar 1988, Traverse City, Grand Traverse Co., MI (Age 81 years) [Birth]
6. Alexander Joseph CHARTIER, b. 12 Oct 1908, MI , d. 19 Jan 1909, Gladstone, Delta Co., MI (Age 0 years) [Birth]
Last Modified 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00
Born - 05 Jul 1870 - Alymer, QC, Canada
Married - 18 Oct 1898 - Delta Co., MI
Died - 29 Apr 1949 - Dearborn, Wayne Co., MI
Buried - - Wayne, Wayne Co, MI @ St Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery
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The event was first held in 1981 under the organisation of the Panda Running Club and was the first international marathon to be held in the region. The Macau Athletic Association took over organisational duties in 1987 and the race was accepted as a member of the AIMS Racing Group in 1990.
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Seen in… December
December is the Season for cranking up the heat until sauna conditions are reached. Yet it’s also the time when I seek comfort in watching old favourites or seeking sentimental seasonal flicks. Call it seasonal cinematic disorder.
Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens. Image from The Movie DB
A new spin on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Dan Stevens as Dickens. We meet Charles Dickens returning from a successful American tour only to find his recent books are failures, his debts are piling up, his wife is struggling to make a home in their new (expensive) London house while his ne’er-do-well father shows up with hands out hustling for an income by selling his son’s autographed letters. Dickens knows he needs a hit and has struck upon an idea inspired by his young Irish housekeeper for a Christmas story. His publishers are skeptical, even wondering who even cares about Christmas, and unsure of being able to print a book in time for the holiday never mind write one. Frustrated, Dickens fronts the money for the illustrations, the printing plates and the elaborate, ornate binding he envisions. Of course this only adds to his stress. We see the story come together as Dickens struggles with writer’s block while arguing with the imaginary cast of characters that will be so well known to us in the story that will become A Christmas Carol. Plummer is a perfect Ebenezer Scrooge and a wonderful foil to Dan Stevens as Dickens.
Zinedine Zindane in his natural environment.
Zindane: a 21st Century Portrait
Listed as a documentary, this film should not be confused with anything other than an unique art film that explores the idea of portraiture through movement, audio and a kind of video collage - so yeah, not your average documentary. Seventeen cameras follow French soccer icon Zinedine Zindane during a Real Madrid vs. Villareal match from April 23, 2005. With music from the band Mogwai as the score, it's not a particularly thrilling match but it is a mesmerizing montage of modern sport.
That's Miles Morales as Spider-man. Image from The Movie DB
Dazzling. For the young at heart but definitely not for anyone who isn't up to contemporary cinema's fast paced editing style. There is also a unique style of animation here that merges the graphic vernacular of comics with computer generated effects and a sort of, American Anime. For me a problem of the Marvel live action films is how a character like Spider-man, as computer generated puppet appears to defy the gravity of the real world. In animation however, the squash, stretch and spring of the character comes to life in a stylishly unrealistic way that is very satisfying. The animation sets the characters free to be as exciting on screen as they are on the page. This Spider-man is torn from Marvel’s multi-universe interpretation in which many different people in many different variations become Spider-man and Spider-women. In this universe, a confident and daring Spider-man dies while trying to stop his nemesis the Kingpin from using an electron collider to open a parallel universe (see, even science can be set free in an animated world). The consequences of this device are that Spider-people from various alternative universes begin to show up in New York like Gwen Stacey or a Japanese school girl, or a talking pig or a young bi-racial Brooklyn teen named Miles Morales who becomes his own version of Spider-man and discovers new abilities that the previous Peter Parker never had. Miles is tutored and encouraged by our universe's Peter Parker, who has become somewhat of a disappointment to his friends, family and himself. Divorced, broke, out of shape, our Peter Parker seems too far gone to save anyway, including himself but of course you’ll have to see the movie to know how that turns out.
Excellent teenage sex comedy that effectively gives us the viewpoint of the parent and teenage girl without the creepy "male gaze" of what you would expect. This movie is the story of three girls determined to lose their virginity on prom night and is surprisingly funny and a refreshing take on the teen “sex” comedy. The trio of teens are well cast along with their parents that feature Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena as one particularly over-protective dad.
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A female customs agent, Tina, is curiously, well, there’s no other way to put it, unattractive, but she is also curiously able to smell or sense when anything seems off. Her uncanny ability is thrown into disarray when one day she meets a traveller named Vore who is much more like her than she understands. This person throws her life upside down while shattering the audience’s expectations of what a movie plot or genre can be. At first blush you might think, is this a horror movie or an art film? Or is it a fantastical metaphor or dramatic action thriller. Yes. Yes it is. It is all those things. To say more would ruin the fun. I will tempt you with this one salacious detail: wildest sex scene ever.
Is this the "Golden Age of Television" or is it that we have really great access to brilliant British storytelling like this series from the BBC? The series focusses on a highly proficient London detective played by Game of Thrones star Richard Madden, who is an Afghanistan War vet suffering from PTSD assigned to protect the very type of politician that sent him and his colleagues to fight a regrettable, neglected war. The tension filled drama is so good that it highlights the effectiveness of every aspect of great television, from the writing, the dialogue, the performances, the direction to the editing and score. This was undeniably one of the best shows from 2018.
Don Juan begins his conquest. Image from The Movie DB
The Devil’s Eye
I think this was supposed to be a comedy by Ingmar Bergman, but perhaps the Swedes have a very different sense of humour. It's also a little bit dated when it comes to the ethics that form the basis of the story. It begins with an invented expression of folk wisdom that a beautiful girl who is wed a virgin is a stye in the Devils’ eye (yeah, I have no idea what that is) but the devil who finds himself with such a malady sends his best agents, including Don Juan, up to earth to rectify the situation by deflowering the beautiful young lass played by the Swedish icon and Bergman favourite Bibi Andersson. It’s a curious sort of morality play with uninspired priests, demons who can change form and a horny side kick who is actually more effective than the master Don Juan himself. While this is “light” for a Bergman film, I wouldn't exactly describe this as a comedy, but then again it is Bergman.
A family day at the beach, from the film Shoplifters. Image from The Movie DB
Fantastic and wonderful film of a “family" in a Japanese city. The word family is in quotes there because that definition is really part of the heart of the film. A couple find a neglected little girl on the street and take her in, to find months later that her abusive parents are searching for, as are the police. We don’t realize the fragility of their arrangement until the woman we believed to the grandmother passes away. This troupe of misfits steal to get by and it turns out their entire lives are lifted from where ever they could find it. They’ll wind up shop lifting your heart too - c’mon, give me a break, it was right there for me to use!
OK, so I saw Paddington 2 before this but never mind. These films have found a comforting magic realism where every character is slightly larger than life while the little bear from Peru remains the centre of attention and no one asks how a forest-raised animal speaks such fine English and always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat for emergencies.
This was a hit, right? Made tons of money? Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams are amongst the best talents of their generation but they blend into their stereotypes here. I guess this is why I don’t understand the kids these days. It didn’t really interest me but I get why it would be popular. The thing is the comic book character of Venom is the anti-hero story that is right for our times. A symbiotic or parasitic alien who needs a host to survive on Earth lands on Eddie Brock, as played by Hardy (whose unplaceable Brooklyn accent is proof that even great actors can be bad at accents). Venom provides a modern day kind of Jekyll and Hyde story. The do-gooder/rule-breaking reporter of Eddie Brock wants to fight for the little guy while space alien Venom wants to eat the little guy. I suppose the success of the Deadpool movies and the availability of computer effects making the visualization of Venom possible makes this as good a time as any to bring the character to the big screen.
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A. Public Work Architects
B. Bank Architects
C. Names of Architects Excluded From This Work
D. List of Foriegn Architects With Works In Canada
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Nobbs, Percy Erskine
NOBBS, Percy Erskine (1875-1964)
(biography in preparation)
A collection of architectural drawings prepared by Percy E. Nobbs and the firm of Nobbs & Hyde is now held in the Canadian Architectural Collection at McGill University, Montreal, Que. A complete finding aid to the collection, entitled Percy E. Nobbs and His Associates: A Guide to the Archive, was published in 1986. Virtually all commissions listed below are accompanied by drawings in this collection. In addition, a list of works by Nobbs was complied by Susan Wagg and published in her catalogue entitled Percy Erskine Nobbs - Architect, Artist, Craftsman, 1982, 95-7.
A series of autobiographical memoirs, written by Nobbs between 1896 and c. 1940, have been transcribed and published in a recent book entitled "Clear Recollections- Memoirs of Percy Nobbs". This book, edited by Karen Molson, was published in 2015 by Shoreline Press of Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que.
PERCY NOBBS
(works in Montreal unless noted)
(with Hutchison & Wood) McGILL UNION BUILDING, Sherbrooke Street West at Victoria Street, 1904-05 (C.A.B., xix, Dec. 1906, 181, 228, illus. & descrip.; Const., xx, June 1927, 194, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Publics, 1981, 282-3, illus.; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 152-54, illus. & descrip.)
(with David R. Brown) PINE AVENUE, residence for C.W. Colby, 1905 (C.A.B., xix, Aug. 1906, 224, illus.)
WESTMOUNT, residence for E. Rutherford, Rosemount Avenue, 1906 (C.A.B., xix, Aug. 1906, illus.)
WINDERMERE, B.C., residence for Dr. Adami, 1906 (C.A.B., xix, Sept. 1906, 133, illus. & descrip.)
CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL, Ste. Catherine Street West, restoration and interior redecoration, 1907; Chapel 1940 (C.A.B., xx, Dec. 1907, 25; R.A.I.C. Journal, xviii, July 1941, 115-16, illus.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 10, 14-15)
(with Cecil S. Burgess) McTAVISH STREET, residence for Dr. John B. Porter, 1907 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, MacDonald Engineering Building, reconstruction after fire in 1907 (C.A.B., xx, Aug. 1907, 134; Builder [London], cxv, 5 July 1918, illus.; R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, March-April 1925, 49, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 134-7, illus.)
UNIVERSITY CLUB, Dorchester Street West near St. Monique Street, for McGill University, 1907-08 (Gazette [Montreal], 30 March 1908, 5, descrip.) N.B. This Club building should not be confused with the University Club on Mansfield Street, designed by Nobbs & Hyde and built in 1912 (see below).
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Power House, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 21 April 1909, 19)
McGREGOR STREET, houses for T.P. Howard, 1910-11 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
(with A.M. Jeffers and William Fingland) EDMONTON, ALTA., Provincial Legislature Building, 1909-12 (Const., iii, Dec. 1909, 104-05, descrip.;)
(with Frank Darling) EDMONTON, ALTA., University of Alberta, Master Plan, 1909-12 (Univ. of Edmonton Archives, Senate Minutes, 7 Sept. 1909; Univ. of Edmonton Archives, perspective and site plans by Nobbs; R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, Sept.-Oct. 1925, 159-65, illus. & descrip.; R.I.B.A. Drawings Coll., London, Acc. Z3/54; O. Bilash & O. Sitwell, 'Words into Buildings: The University of Alberta 1906-28', in Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xx, March 1995, 4-21, illus.; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 262-64, illus. & descrip.)
NOBBS & HYDE
Institutional & Ecclesiastical Works
FAIRMOUNT PUBLIC SCHOOL, Esplanade Avenue, addition of South Wing, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 22 March 1911, 53, descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Sept. 1927, 333)
EDWARD VII PUBLIC SCHOOL, Esplanade Avenue, 1912; addition 1914 (C.R., xxvi, 20 March 1912, 66; Const., vi, Dec. 1913, 455-7, 461, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Sept. 1927, 333)
STRATHEARN PUBLIC SCHOOL, Jeanne Mance Street, 1912 (Const., vi, Dec. 1913, 457-9, 461, illus. & descrip.; Architectural Forum (New York), xxxii, June 1920, 257, illus.)
SARAH MAXWELL PUBLIC SCHOOL, Hochelaga Street at Dezery Street, major addition, 1912 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
UNIVERSITY CLUB, Mansfield Street, for McGill University, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 17 April 1912, 65; American Architect & Architectural Review [Boston], cxxiv, 4 July 1923, illus.; F. Remillard & B. Merrett, Montreal Architecture, 1990, 138, illus.)
CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, Mansfield Street, major addition, 1912-13 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
PEACE CENTENNIAL PUBLIC SCHOOL, Boyer Avenue, 1913 (Const., vi, Dec. 1913, 457, 460, illus. & descrip.; Builder [London], cxix, 29 Oct. 1920, 491-2, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Sept. 1927, 333, 337, illus. & descrip.)
ROSEMOUNT PUBLIC SCHOOL, Rosemont Boulevard at Sixth Avenue, major addition, 1914 (R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Sept. 1927, 327, illus.; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
BANCROFT PUBLIC SCHOOL, St. Urbain Street, 1914-15 (C.R., 3 Nov. 1915, 1141-2, illus. & descrip.; Architectural Forum (New York), xxxii, May 1920, 209-12, illus.; R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, Sept. 1927, 333, 336, illus. & descrip.)
EDMONTON, ALTA., University of Alberta, Arts Building, 1914-15; laboratories and Power House, 1914 (Edmonton Daily Bulletin, 18 Dec. 1913, 8, descrip.; C.R., xxviii, 18 March 1914, 332, illus. & descrip.; xxix, 1 Dec. 1915, 1221-22, illus. & descrip.; Building News [London], cix, 22 Dec. 1915, 719, descrip.; Const., xiv, Jan. 1921, 6-9, illus.; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 262-64, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. at Canadian Architectural Archives, Calgary, Alta.)
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL, Hamilton Street, addition, 1915 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
TROIS RIVIERES, QUE., St. James Anglican Church, des Ursulines Street at St. Francois Xavier Street, extensive renovations and alterations, 1916 (American Architect & Architectural Review [Boston], cxxiv, 4 July 1923, illus.; A. Legge, The Anglican Church in Three Rivers, Quebec 1768-1956, 120-2; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 128-30, 195, illus. & descrip.)
GRAND PRE, N.S., Evangeline Memorial Park, landscaping, gatehouse, monument, fences and ironwork, 1919 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
SHAWBRIDGE, QUE., Boy's Farm and Training School, 1919 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, Warr Memorial at City Hall Park, 1920 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
(with Cecil S. Burgess) EDMONTON, ALTA., University of Alberta, Provincial College of Medicine, 1920-21 (Const., xiv, Jan. 1921, 4-5, 12, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, Sept.-Oct. 1925, 162-5, illus.)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., St. Peter's Anglican Church, Dufferin Street at Terrill Street, a War Memorial chapel, 1920 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, major addition to the University Library, McTavish Street, 1921-22 (R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, March-April 1925, 63, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 148-51)
HALIFAX, N.S., Naval Memorial at Point Pleasant Park, 1922 (Saturday Night [Toronto], 29 Nov. 1924, 12, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Indoor Field House & Locker Rooms, adjacent to Molson Stadium, 1922; with addition, 1923 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Strathcona Medical Building, interiors and furniture for the Osler Memorial Library, 1923 (R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, June 1930, 204-05, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 152-5, illus.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Pathology Building, University Street at Pine Avenue, 1923 (C.R., xxxvii, 7 Feb. 1923, 122-3, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, March-April 1925, 54, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 174-5, illus.)
EARL GREY PUBLIC SCHOOL, Bellechasse Street East, addition, 1923-24 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
ROTHESAY, N.B., Netherwood School, dormitory block, 1924; residence for Miss Ganong, 1928 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
SAULT-AT-RECOLLET, Public School, Montreal North, 1925; addition, 1929 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
TROIS RIVIERES, QUE., elementary school for the Dissentient School Board, 1926; addition, 1930 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Pulp & Paper Research Institute, University Street, 1927 (R.A.I.C. Journal, vi, Dec. 1929, 431, illus.; vii, Jan. 1930, 6-10, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 146-7 , illus.)
ARVIDA, QUE., First United Church, Radin Road at Regnault Street, 1927-28; burned 1946 (inf. Scott Edwards; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
VERDUN HIGH SCHOOL, Bannatyne Avenue near Riverview Avenue, major addition, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 4 April 1928, 51)
VERDUN, Rushbrooke Street School, major addition, 1928 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
VERDUN, Woodlands Public School, Verdun Avenue, major addition, 1928 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
VERDUN, Riverview Public School, Favard Street at Bourgeoys Street, 1928 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, large addition to Percival Molson Stadium, with 5,000 seats, 1928-29 (Gazette [Montreal], 8 Nov. 1928, 16; inf. Scott Edwards; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
VERDUN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Gordon Avenue, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 6 March 1929, 51, t.c.; Gazette [Montreal], 6 April 1929, 4; inf. Scott Edwards)
CHATEAU RICHER, Que., alterations to the Church, 1929 (R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, Jan. 1930, xxv, illus. in advert.)
McGILL UNIVERSITY, Royal Victoria College, Sherbrooke Street West, addition of West Wing, 1930 -31 (C.R., xliv, 26 March 1930, 62, t.c.; Pencil Points [New York], xx, Sept. 1939, 571, illus.; Montreal, Les Edifices Scolaires, 1980, 204-07, illus.; dwg. at National Gallery, Ottawa, Royal Canadian Academy Coll., diploma work)
ERSKINE & AMERICAN UNITED CHURCH, Sherbrooke Street West, major interior alterations with new Chancel, 1938 (Gazette [Montreal], 14 Jan. 1939, 3, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, April 1939, 80-1, illus. & descrip.; Montreal, Les Eglises, 1981, 26-9, illus.)
ARGENTEUIL COUNTY, restoration of Carillon Barracks Museum, 1938-39 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, June 1939, 139-40)
HUDSON HEIGHTS, QUE., addition to Public School, 1939 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
GASPE, QUE., St. Paul's Anglican Church, 1940 (Gazette [Montreal], 4 May 1940, 3, descrip.)
Commercial & Industrial Works
CANADA PAINT CO., William Street, addition to factory, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 12 April 1911, 56)
HENRY BIRKS & SONS, Cathcart Street at Union Avenue, 1911-12; with ten storey addition at rear, facing Union Avenue, 1926 (C.R., xxv, 19 July 1911, 49, illus. & descrip.; Const., viii, July 1915, 312-15, illus. & descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 16 Jan. 1926, 5; Montreal, Les Hotels Les Immeubles de Bureaux, 1983, 206-09, illus.; inf. Scott Edwards)
WINNIPEG, MAN., Birks Building, Portage Avenue, alterations and remodelling of facade of the Y.M.C.A. Building designed by George C. Browne, 1913 (Const., ix, Sept. 1916, 294-6, illus. & descrip.; Winnipeg, 1991-The Year Past, 1993, 43-8, illus.; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 196-97, illus. & descrip.) )
(with J.Rawson Gardiner) LIVERPOOL, LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO., Dorchester Boulevard West at Union Avenue, 1914-15 (C.R., xxviii, 15 April 1914, 78; xxx, 8 March 1916, 231; Financial Post [Toronto], 18 July 1914, 14, descrip.; American Architect & Architectural Review [Boston], cxxiv, 4 July 1923, illus.)
ST. HYACINTHE, QUE., store, showroom and offices for H.T. Chalifoux of the Southern Canada Power Co., 1916-17 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
HENRY BIRKS & SONS, Phillips Square at Ste. Catherine Street West, addition to retail store and offices, 1920; 1931 (C.R., xxxiii, 17 Dec. 1919, 47; Montreal, Les Magasins Les Cinemas, 1985, 164-7, illus.)
ELMHURST DAIRY CO., Western Avenue at Elmhurst Avenue, office building, 1924 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
ROYAL PARKING GARAGE, St. Monique Street at Cathcart Street, 1925 (C.R., xxxix, 6 May 1925, 449, illus. & descrip.; Gazette [Montreal], 5 June 1925, 10, advert. with descrip.; Const., xx, Aug. 1927, 263-5, illus. & descrip.; inf. Scott Edwards)
DRUMMOND MEDICAL BUILDING, Drummond Street near Ste. Catherine Street West, 1929-30 (Gazette [Montreal], 4 Sept. 1929, 4, descrip.; Const., xxiii, Sept. 1930, 297-8, 303-06, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, vii, Sept. 1930, xxiv, illus. in advert.; Montreal, Les Hotels Les Immeubles de Bureaux, 1983, 182-6, illus.; inf. Scott Edwards)
SASKATOON, SASK., Henry Birks & Sons Building, 21st Street East at Third Avenue South, 1929 (C.R., xliv, 16 April 1930, 459, illus. & descrip.)
EDMONTON, ALTA., Henry Birks & Sons Building, 104th Street at Jasper Avenue, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 21 Aug. 1929, 96; City of Edmonton, Historical Walking Tours of Downtown Edmonton, 1988, 34, illus.)
CALGARY, ALTA., Henry Birks & Sons Building, 8th Avenue West near Third Street, 1929 (Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 25 May 1929, 6; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
DRESNER'S LADIES SHOP, Ste. Catherine Street West, 1932 (Const., xxv, Dec. 1932, 291-2, but lacking attribution; xxvi, Jan. 1933, 9, with correction)
MERIT MOTORS LTD., Ste. Catherine Street West, showroom and repair shops, 1934 (C.R., xlviii, 24 Jan. 1934, 28)
Residential Works
WESTMOUNT, for A.F. Byers, Belmont Avenue, 1910 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for H.C. Hitch, Western Avenue near Olivier Avenue, 1910 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Maxwell Goldstein, Westmount Avenue, 1910-11 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
McGREGOR STREET, two houses for T.P. Howard, 1910-11 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Mrs. George T. Hyde, Westmount Avenue, 1911 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Dr. William Giles, Windsor Avenue, 1911 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for T.H. Prissick, Bellevue Avenue, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 18 Oct. 1911, 57)
PINE AVENUE WEST, at Cedar Avenue, for George A. Greene, 1911 (Const., viii, June 1915, 269, 272, illus. & descrip.)
SENNEVILLE, QUE., for Dr. J.L. Todd, Senneville Road, 1912 (C.R., xxv, 27 Dec. 1911, 64; xxvi, 10 April 1912, 67; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 715-17, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 630-1, illus. & descrip.)
WESTMOUNT, for T.P. Howard, Avenue Road, 1912 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
METIS, QUE., for George W. Grier, 1913 (Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 82-3, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, two houses for Thomas W. Lamb, The Boulevard, 1913 (C.R., xxvii, 19 Feb. 1913, 78)
WESTMOUNT, residence for Percy Nobbs, Architect, Belvedere Road, 1913 (C.H.G., iii, May 1926, 80; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 621, illus. & descrip.; Charles C. Hill, edit., Artists, Architects & Artisans - Canadian Art 1890-1918, 2013, 69-74, illus. & descrip.; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, pair of houses for T.P. Howard, Avenue Road near Clarke Avenue, 1914-15; additions 1919 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for C.W. Tinling, Edgehill Avenue, 1915 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, pair of houses for Thomas Lamb, Grosvenor Avenue, 1915 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
OSGOOD LAKE, N.Y., for W.L. McDougald, 1915 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Dr. W. Gordon M. Byers, Summit Circle, 1916-17 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
TROIS RIVIERES, QUE., worker's housing for the Wayagamack Pulp & Paper Co., Notre Dame Street, 1919; Dormitory Block, 1920 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
HAMPSTEAD, for Mrs. A.F. Byers, Queen Mary Road at Ellerdale Road, 1919 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
MONTREAL WEST, two houses for Henry R. Trenholme, 1919-20 (C.R., xxxiii, 31 Dec. 1919, 47)
WESTMOUNT, two houses for Dr. A. Stanfield and Dr. F.B. Gurd, Westmount Avenue at Mount Pleasant Avenue, 1921 (C.R., xxxv, 4 May 1921, 60)
WESTMOUNT, for Dr. J. Roddick Byers, The Boulevard, 1922 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for J.Harold Magor, Mount Pleasant Avenue at Montrose Avenue, 1922 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Henry R. Trenholme, Mount Pleasant Avenue, 1922 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Dr. W.L. McDougald, Sunnyside Avenue, arched gateway linking house and garage, with cast iron gate and fence, 1922 (Const., xviii, June 1925, 19, illus. in advert.; R.A.I.C. Journal, v, June 1928, 214, 218, illus.; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Mrs. Katie Stewart, Edgehill Road, 1922 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
CEDAR AVENUE, for Mrs. George T. Hyde, 1922-23 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
DORVAL, QUE., for Arthur H. Scott, Lakeshore Road, 1923 (C.R., xxxvi, 11 Oct. 1922, 52; R.A.I.C. Journal, v, May 1928, 180, illus.; June 1928, 213-14, descrip.; C.H.G., vii, April 1930, 40, illus.; ix, Jan. 1932, 59, illus.; xvi, May 1939, 45, illus.; Montreal, Les Résidences, 1987, 178-81, illus.)
WESTMOUNT, Grove Park Housing Estate, 1924-29 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for Mrs. R.J. Durley, The Boulevard, 1925 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
TROIS RIVIERES, QUE., restoration of house for C.R. Whitehead, 1925 (C.H.G., iv, Dec. 1927, 28-9, illus.)
WESTMOUNT, for Ross Clarkson, The Boulevard, 1926 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for F.C. Wilson, Belvedere Place, 1926 (R.A.I.C. Journal, iv, June 1927, 209, 229, illus.)
PINE AVENUE WEST, for Mrs. G.T. Hyde, 1926 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for W.M. and J. Henry Birks, Belvedere Place, 1927 (R.A.I.C. Journal, v, May 1928, 172-3, illus.; Montreal, Les Residences, 1987, 72-3, illus.)
DELTA UPSILON FRATERNITY, McTavish Street, major addition, 1928 (Gazette [Montreal], 7 July 1928, 4; inf. Scott Edwards; dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
REDPATH CRESCENT, for R. Reid Dobell, 1928 (C.R., xlii, 12 Sept. 1928, 54)
REDPATH CRESCENT, for George W. Grier, 1929 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
WESTMOUNT, for John Colford, Bellevue Avenue, 1929-31 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
HALIFAX, N.S., for A.J. Lomas, Bloomingdale Terrace, 1931; addition 1939 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
ALMONTE, ONT., reconstruction of Baird's Mill as residence and studio for R. Tait McKenzie, 1931 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
LAC BRULE, QUE., for Ross Clarkson, 1933 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
MOUNT ROYAL, for William Thow, Cedar Crescent, 1937 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
KNOWLTON, QUE., for Mrs. G. Miller Hyde, 1942 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
NOBBS & VALENTINE
PHILLIPS SQUARE, offices for the architects located in the Henry Birks Building, c. 1912 (R.A.I.C. Journal, xxv, Oct. 1948, 376-7, illus. & descrip.)
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL [Anglican], Ste. Catherine Street West, alterations, 1947-49; alterations to southwest Transept, 1950 (dwgs. in Nobbs Coll.)
ENGLAND, The Tite Prize, for Travel in Italy, 1900, sponsored by the Royal Inst. of British Architects. Nobbs was one of 13 entrants who submitted designs for this annual award, His scheme, showing a Design for An Isolated Clock Tower and Belfry, and signed "Edificaturus" received the First Premium, and was illustrated and described in two large double-page plates in The Builder [London], lxxviii, 17 Feb. 1900, text p. 166 and plates. The design was the subject of some editorial criticism, however, as the design was described as one "...not of striking originality, but certainly one with the fewest faults" (Builder [London], lxxviii, 27 Jan. 1900, 75). ENGLAND, Owen Jones Studentship for Travel in Europe, 1901. Nobbs was among six applicants for the scholarship, and received 2nd Prize of a Medal of Merit for his drawings of the choir stalls at Santa Maria Della Grazie Church in Milan (Builder [London], lxxx, 26 Jan. 1901, 78; Building News [London], lxxx, 1 March 1901, 291, descrip.). These drawings were later published as three full-page plates in Building News [London], lxxxi, 23 Aug. 1901, 243, 256-57, and 261.
ENGLAND, Design for a Town Church, 1903. Nobbs submitted an elaborate Edwardian design to the Royal Institute of British Architects as part of their annual Soane Medallion competition in 1903. He was one of 21 students who submitted designs, but failed to place among the finalists (Builder [London], lxxxiv, 24 Jan. 1903, 79). His drawings were eventually published in the British Architect [London], lix, 20 March 1903, 206 and plates, where it was cited as ‘a clever design among the most noticeable in the recent Soane Medallion competiton drawings’
ENGLAND, Owen Jones Studentship for Travel in Europe, 1903. Nobbs received the First Prize of £ 100 for his measured drawings showing details inside a Romanesque Church (Building News [London], lxxxiv, 23 Jan. 1903, 112, 114; with critique of drawings 6 Feb. 1903, 185; Builder [London], lxxxiv, 24 Jan. 1903, 80, descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke Street West, 1910. The firm of Nobbs & Hyde was one of three Montreal architectural offices invited by Edmund M. Wheelwright, the distinguished architect from Boston, to submit a design in a competition for this important institution (Gazette [Montreal], 5 April 1910, 3, and 14 May 1910, 11). Their design was passed over in favour of the winning submission by Edward & W.S. Maxwell. A consolation prize of $1,000 was given to Nobbs & Hyde for their effort (Rosalind M. Pepall, Building a Beaux-Arts Museum - Montreal, 1986, 35-40)
WINNIPEG, MAN., City Hall, 1913. The Montreal firm of Nobbs & Hyde were one of 39 architects from across Canada who submitted plans in this national competition, but they were not among the five finalists (City of Winnipeg Archives, Council Communications, 1913, Box A169, Item 9741, list of entrants). The original drawings illustrating the Nobbs design have survived, and are now held in the Nobbs Collection at McGill University. The winners of the competition were Clemesha & Portnall of Regina, but their scheme was never built.
REGINA, SASK., War Memorial Museum, Albert Street, 1919. Nobbs & Hyde were one of eight architectural firms invited to submit proposals for this major commission, competing against other talented architects including Edward & W.S. Maxwell, Brown & Vallance, and Storey & Van Egmond. Nobbs & Hyde were awarded First Premium, but the scheme was never realised (Const., xii, Sept. 1919, 268-71, 277-78, illus. & descrip.)
HAMILTON, ONT., North Western Entrance to the City, 1927-28. This competition was initiated by the City of Hamilton to create a series of parks, gardens and a high level bridge on the lands adjacent to Dundurn Castle. Nobbs & Hyde, in collaboration with Noulan Couchon, prepared an highly ordered design inspired by 18th Century French landscape precedent (Mark Osbaldeston, Unbuilt Hamilton, 2016, 159-60, illus. & descrip.). Their entry was not premiated, but their elaborate watercolour drawings survive in the Nobbs Coll. at McGill University.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Palace for the League of Nations, 1927. The scheme submitted by Nobbs & Hyde was a stiff and somewhat outdated Edwardian proposal which proved to be no match for the dramatic and innovative designs put forward by progressive European architects such as Le Corbusier, Eliel Saarinen, Richard Neutra and Hannes Meyer. Nobbs was not included in the twenty-seven finalists. The First Premium was later awarded to Henri-Paul Nenot of Paris. Presentation drawings prepared by Nobbs can be found in the Nobbs Collection (Architect & Building News [London], cxviii, 9 Dec. 1927, 881-2, 885, illus. & descrip.; R.A.I.C. Journal, v, May 1928, 187-190, illus. & descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul, Sherbrooke Street West at Redpath Street, 1929. The office of Nobbs & Hyde were one of twelve Montreal architectural firms invited to submit an entry (R.A.I.C. Journal, vi, Dec. 1929, 442-3, illus.; inf. Scott Edwards). Their proposal was set aside in favour of the modern Gothic design by Harold L. Fetherstonhaugh, who was declared the winner.
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Report on excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq
Mackay, Ernest John Henry, 1880-1943
Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Fara und Abu Hatab - Page 103
Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 - Page 3
Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 - Page 447
The seal cylinders of western Asia - Page 46
The buildings of the third dynasty - Page 8
Nippur II: the North Temple and sounding E: excavations of the Joint Expedition to Nippur of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Joint Expedition to Nippur
McCown, Donald Eugene, 1910-
Prehistoric investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan
Stone age -- Iraq
Braidwood, Robert J. (Robert John), 1907-
Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1969 : the early periods - Page 7
Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1969 : the early periods - Page 124
Stamped and inscribed objects from Seleucia on the Tigris
Seals (Numismatics)
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Clopidogrel Resistance: Effect on Outcomes, Genetic Causes, How to Test for it, & What to do About it
Henry I. Bussey, Pharm.D., FCCP, FAHA
While uncertainty continues in several aspects of how to evaluate and manage patients with clopidogrel resistance, several publications appeared this month that address these issues and provide interesting new insight.
Three studies reported a strong correlation between genetic causes of clopidogrel resistance and cardiac events.1-3 A commentary accompanying one of the 3 reports suggested that platelet function tests might be preferred over genotyping and that newer antiplatelet agents may offer some advantages in this area.4 Finally, the complex issues of which antiplatelet tests to use and how to adjust therapy based on the results are discussed in several articles in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology - Intervention.5
Only the 3 studies reporting the correlation in clinical outcomes are highlighted below; the reader is referred to the commentary and the issue of JACC - Intervention listed below for a more thorough discussion on the controversies that those publications address.
Study by Mega, et al.1
Among 1477 patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), 21% had at least 1 CYP2C19*2 allele that results in reduced conversion of clopidogrel to its active metabolite and, therefore, less platelet inhibition.
Patients with the CYP2C19*2 allele had a 53% relative increase in the composite of death from cardiovascular causes + myocardial infarction (MI) + stroke (12.1% vs. 8.0%, p=0.01)
There was a 3-fold increase in stent thrombosis (2.6% vs. 0.8%, p=0.02) among those with the CYP2C19*2 polymorphism
CYP2C19*2 accounted for 95% of the reduced function alleles and previously had been reported to occur in 30% of whites, 40% of blacks, and 55% of east Asians
Study by Simone, et al. 2
2208 Acute MI patients were studied from a French registry
Those with 2 variant alleles of ABCBI (a gene that modulates absorption of clopidogrel) had a higher cardiovascular event rate at 1 yr (15.5% vs. 10.7%, hazard ratio of 1.72, CI 1.2 - 2.47)
Those with 2 "loss of function" alleles (*2, *3, *4, *5) of the CYP2C19 had almost a 2-fold increase (hazard ratio 1.98) in cardiovascular events (21.5% vs 13.3%)
Among 1535 who received percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiovascular events were 3.58 fold higher in those with 2 "loss of function" alleles in CYP2C19.
Study by Collet, et al.3
259 young (< 45 yo) post-MI patients, 186 non-carriers and 73 carriers of CYP2C19*2.
Primary events (death, MI, urgent revascularization during clopidogrel treatment): 11 events in 186 non-carriers vs. 15 events in 73 carriers (hazard ratio 3.69 p=0.0005)
Secondary events = stent thrombosis: 8 in non-carriers vs. 4 in carriers (hazard ratio 6.02, p=0.0009).
Although the 3 studies provide impressive evidence of an association between these genetic markers, clopidogrel resistance, and an increase in cardiovascular event rates; there are a number of questions that remain. Is the association actually cause-and-effect? The mechanism of reduced conversion of clopidogrel to its active metabolite certainly supports a cause-and-effect relationship; but it is possible that other factors may be involved as well. Should we be performing genetic testing to identify individuals with these genetic polymorphisms or would it be better to rely on studies of platelet inhibition? If we are to rely on a test of platelet inhibition (as Storey suggests4), which platelet function test should we use. What options are there for mitigating the effect of such clopidogrel resistance? These questions and others are discussed in the commentary by Storey4 and in the Dec. 2008 issue of JACC - Intervention.5
Mega JL, Close SL, Wiviott SD, et al. Cytochrome P-450 Polymorphisms and Response to Clopidogrel http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0809171 This article (10.1056/NEJMoa0809171) was published at NEJM.org on December 22, 2008. It will appear in the January 22 issue of the Journal.
Simon T, Verstuyft C, Mary-Krause M, et al. Genetic Determinants of Response to Clopidogrel and Cardiovascular Events. (French Registry study): http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0808227 This article (10.1056/NEJMoa0808227) was published at NEJM.org on December 22, 2008. It will appear in the January 22 issue of the Journal.
Collet J-P, Hulot J-S, Pena A, et al. Cytochrome P 450 2C19 Polymorphism in young patients treated with clopidogrel after myocardial infarction: a cohort study. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/
article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61845-0/fulltext The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 23 December 2008. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61845-0
Storey RF. Clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome: to genotype or not? The Lancet published online Dec. 23, 2008 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61846-2
Aleil B et al. Cuisset T et al. Gladding P et al. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2008 (Dec. 18); 1: 631-638, 649-653, 612-627.) These articles are discussed and reference links provided by heartwire at: http://www.theheart.org/viewArticle.do?
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Swany - Recording of Protest Trip of Asia Swany in 1989
OH Doo-hee
Asia Swany shuts down its ski glove factory in Iksan in 1989. Most of the workers there are young women who had to work to support their family. It wasn’t realistic for them to carry on with their studies while working under such harsh conditions and they form a labor union as they become more aware of the irrational labor environment. Around this time, they receive a sudden notice of the company’s shutdown from the headquarters in Japan. They take over the building and begin to boycott, but when there are no signs of a settlement being reached, four women laborers decide to leave for Japan to fight. This movie intersects documented footage of their 100 days of struggle in Japan and the present day of these women who recall those moments. Although ultimately not a complete victory, this movie is filled with optimistic energy rather than defeatism. It does not simply show the dogmatic process of innocent young girls transforming into laborers but rather creates a world formed by the vitality of young women and the spirit of laborers. Most importantly, the various ways that Koreans who reside in Japan and Japanese citizens respond to their spirit illustrate with warmth and not indifference the process of their struggle and the movie’s perspective as it recalls those times. Their 100 days prove the idealistic yet rare truth that people can respond with sincerity to others that they have no vested interest in despite nationality and language differences. (NAM Da-eun)
Swany- Recording of Protest Trip of Asia Swany in 1989 (2014) 23x371days -The Story Of Namildang In Yongsan (2010)
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Cinematography OH Doo-hee
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Old friends Brandon Morrow, Jimmy Nelson, Brock Stewart among 5 given MiLB contracts by Dodgers
Chad Moriyama 12/12/2020 MiLB, Minor league signings Leave A Comment
Photo: Stacie Wheeler
The Dodgers announced the signings of Brandon Morrow, Jimmy Nelson, Brock Stewart, James Pazos, and Carlos Asuaje to minor-league deals with invites to Spring Training.
The Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to minor league deals with RHPs Brandon Morrow, Brock Stewart and Jimmy Nelson, LHP James Pazos and IF Carlos Asuaje.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) December 12, 2020
Morrow, 36, is a welcome returnee and he’s a guy that Dodgers fans should be rooting for to get back on his feet a bit. After his stellar 2017 that unfortunately culminated with him looking overworked in the World Series (not to mention victimized by the Astros’ cheating), injuries quickly befell him and he hasn’t actually pitched since 2018. Granted, he did have a 1.47 ERA that year in 30.2 innings and his velocity maintained, but after missing the end of 2018 due to his back and both 2019 and 2020 due to his elbow, generally speaking missing 2.5 years isn’t the best sign for a pitcher at the back-end of his career.
The 31-year-old Nelson was signed by the Dodgers last year as a low-cost pickup that they hoped would contribute in the pen and maybe make a start here or there. He ended up never throwing a pitch for the Dodgers after back surgery and has now pitched 22 innings since 2017. Like with Morrow, the upside is there but that’s a long layoff.
Brock Brock is now 29, and after showing some promise in 2018 with the Dodgers, has been released by two other teams as well. He has never quite figured it out in the majors, posting a 6.05 ERA in 105.2 innings as a starter and reliever. Assuming his arm is still intact, he has swingman potential, but maybe not the upside that the Dodgers are getting with the other two.
Pazos is a 29-year-old lefty who is potential quality depth. Because of the arms in the system it’ll be tough to crack this roster, but from 2017 to 2019 with the Mariners and Rockies, Pazos did put up a 3.24 ERA in 114 relief innings, which is nothing to sneeze at. Of course, he’s available because he had a 16.88 ERA last year in Colorado, but assuming he can be that old guy again, it’s not a stretch that he could contribute.
Former Padre Asuaje is now 29 and back from Korea. In the majors, he never hit much, slashing .240/.312/.329/.641 in 586 PA. That didn’t change a whole lot in the KBO, posting a .252/.356/.368/.724 slash for Lotte in 2019. He has since hit well in the Dominican Winter League (.984 OPS in 49 PA), and has played second, third, and some outfield in his career, so a potential utility role is possible.
Brock, Pazos, and Asuaje seem to be primarily for organizational depth purposes, but the Dodgers obviously had Nelson in mind for the MLB roster last year and Morrow seems like an ideal bounceback candidate they seek if the stuff is still there. It should be interesting to watch how their stuff is in Spring Training, whenever that ends up being, as they could definitely play major roles for the Dodgers in 2021.
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Olympic Berths for Brazil & South Africa Down to Wire, Austria & France in Wings
1 year ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Olympic Berths for Brazil & South Africa Down to Wire, Austria & France in Wings
Morgan Barbançon Mestre and Sir Donnerhall II OLD. File photo. © Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
With barely a month and only a handful of hard-to-enter qualifying competitions left, Brazil and South Africa are in danger of losing 2020 Olympic dressage team berths that would hand Austria and France the chance of filling the spots with composite squads.
Brazil has not yet fully qualified any of the required three rider/horse combinations while South Africa is one score short for its third prospective team partnership and few chances left to achieve it before the deadline of Dec. 31.
Unofficial Olympic rankings of rider/horse combinations–the official standings are only through the end of October so do not include major competitions such as the German Masters at Stuttgart–show that Austria will most likely be first up if one of the slots open up with France next in line.
Morgan Barbançon Mestre on Sir Donnerhall II OLD, who rode for Spain at the 2012 London Olympics when she was 19 years old but has since switched to ride for France, is the highest ranked of the French or Austrian pairs at No. 49 with 981 points at the end of October. The pair are entered at Madrid next week so could advance further in the rankings.
Anne Sophie Serre on Actuelle de Massa ranks 70th with 918 points and Alexandre Ayache on Zo What 94th on 862 points.
For Austria, Ulrike Prunthaller on Bartlgut’s Quebec is currently top ranked at No. 51 for 970 points. The 35-year-old rider has never competed on an Austrian championship team but has performed at the World Young Horse Championships four times.
Victoria Max-Theurer on Benaglio in the Cappeln CDI4* Grand Prix. © 2019 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
Victoria Max-Theurer, who at 34 has already competed in four Olympics, currently stands in 61st on 948 points on Benaglio. She will likely move higher based on results at Stuttgart last week.
Stefan Lehfellner on Fackeltanz OLD is ranked 91st on 865 points.
Austria has placed emphasis on pursuing a strong finish for a third combination; at the Munich, Germany CDI4* this week, the nation has two prospects competing in addition to Ulrike and Quebec.
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United States and host Japan have been pencilled in for the 15 places in Tokyo. All but Brazil and South Africa have the required scores so the focus of those countries now is on picking the best three pairs for Tokyo.
South Africa qualified by being the only team to participate in a special Olympic qualifying event in the Netherlands in October for its geographic area of Africa and the Middle East.
South Africa qualified for the last Olympia team slot–Ingeborg Sanne, Tanya Seymour, Nicole Smith, Laurienne Dittmann, Gretha Ferreira. File photo.
© Leanjo de Koster/digishots
But in an “Alice in Wonderland” style fantasy, none of the scores from any competitors would have counted even though it was an Olympic qualifier. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) determined that only events on the 2019 calendar by the deadline of October, 2018 could count. The special qualifier wasn’t scheduled until the month before the competition so a team could be declared the winner as long as three of the four pairs finished. It turns out the South African that needed the score didn’t get it, anyway.
Brazil earned its ticket to Tokyo at the Pan American Games in Peru in July of mixed Small and Big Tour combinations, but needed to qualify three pairs with minimum eligibility scores of 66% at Grand Prix by the end of the year to receive boarding passes.
The possibility that Brazil will not be able to qualify a team has again raised the issue of the Pan Ams as an Olympic selection event. A Colombian Small Tour team made a bronze medal finish at the 2011 Pan Ams but was unable to get the scores at Grand Prix to send a team to the London Olympics in 2012.
Brazil bronze medal team at 2019 Pan American Games: João Victor Oliva, Pedro Almeida, Leandro Silva and João Paulo dos Santos. File photo. © 2019 CBH Luis Ruas
An issue for both Brazil and South Africa is the limited number of competitions at CDI3* or above before the deadline.
Of six events in western Europe where riders from both countries are competing, three Brazilians are entered in Munich later this week. No Brazilians or South Africans are on the schedule for Madrid the week after while Stockholm at the same time is a CDI5* limited to the “Top Ten.”
Salzburg, Austria World Cup and CDI4* is reported already over-subscribed with no Brazilian or South African entries confirmed. London Olympia World Cup the week before Christmas is an experimental shortened Grand Prix test event that would not count.
Frankfurt later the same week is a premier 5* event coupled with the prestigious German championships of Nürnberger Burg-Pokal for developing Prix St. Georges and Louisdor Prize for developing Grand Prix that starting places are in high demand. The organizing family, though, has a reputation of doing everything possible to help out
The World Cup event in Mechelen, Belgium, Dec. 26-30 is the last possible team qualifying event.
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V-Plus Gold, 4-Year-Old Oldenburg Dressage Stallion Sells for €1.3/US$1.43 Million at PSI Auction
StraightArrow 1 year ago
ANKUM, GERMANY, Dec. 8, 2019--V-Plus Gold, a four-year-old Oldenburg dressage stallion, was sold for €1.3/US$1.43 million at the Performance Sales International 40th annual auction Sunday. Read More
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Predicció de les fragmentacions d’aminoàcids en espectrometria de masses
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The mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the most important instrumental techniques. In the case of electron ionization spectrometry (MS-EI), the ionized molecules undergo different fragmentations that give the characteristic peaks of the spectrum. There are two ways of predicting these signals: using generic rules or using theoretical calculations. This work focuses on the prediction of the major signals of the spectra, that is, expected fragmentations of amino acids in the cation radical state, with the help of the so-called molecular energy decomposition schemes. With this method, we can make electronic structure calculations of the neutral and radical cation species, but we do not have to consider the systematic study of all the possible unimolecular decomposition reactions that the ionized species can suffer. To make the study as complete as possible, we have tried to take into account factors that have not been covered in similar previous studies, such as expanding the number of amino acids to be studied, making a full conformational study for each amino acid in its neutral and radical cation states, and take into account both electronic and nuclear relaxation in ionized species. The results obtained were quite satisfactory since, from the minimal energy structures of the neutral and cation radical species of each amino acid, the main peak of the MS-EI spectrum was correctly predicted in 9 of the 10 cases studied
Lakhlifi El Alami, YasminaLakhlifi El Alami, Yasmina
Manager: Salvador Sedano, Pedro
Other contributions: Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Ciències
Author: Lakhlifi El Alami, Yasmina
Abstract: The mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the most important instrumental techniques. In the case of electron ionization spectrometry (MS-EI), the ionized molecules undergo different fragmentations that give the characteristic peaks of the spectrum. There are two ways of predicting these signals: using generic rules or using theoretical calculations. This work focuses on the prediction of the major signals of the spectra, that is, expected fragmentations of amino acids in the cation radical state, with the help of the so-called molecular energy decomposition schemes. With this method, we can make electronic structure calculations of the neutral and radical cation species, but we do not have to consider the systematic study of all the possible unimolecular decomposition reactions that the ionized species can suffer. To make the study as complete as possible, we have tried to take into account factors that have not been covered in similar previous studies, such as expanding the number of amino acids to be studied, making a full conformational study for each amino acid in its neutral and radical cation states, and take into account both electronic and nuclear relaxation in ionized species. The results obtained were quite satisfactory since, from the minimal energy structures of the neutral and cation radical species of each amino acid, the main peak of the MS-EI spectrum was correctly predicted in 9 of the 10 cases studied
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/299899
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Title: Predicció de les fragmentacions d’aminoàcids en espectrometria de masses
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Show me the money, Mr Strauss Kahn
If DSK's outrageous, $35,000-a-month new home in NYC was hard to swallow for fellow French socialists, the former IMF boss doesn't care much about politics these days. And the message is first intended to the alleged victim's lawyers.
Here it goes :
We cannot contact you, but know that money is not an issue for us.
It may be for Nafissatou Diallo, that client of yours, a brave single mom maid coming from a poor African country and living in a not so nice neighborhood. She can't offer you much beyond the satisfaction of doing something good for her and furthermore for Cyrus Vance Jr, that ambitious DA who will never make it into the Big League.
You already know that this trial won't be a walk in the park for you nor for Nafissatou : our own teams have been digging everywhere, and you know how nasty things can become. Our client's honor has already been tarnished*, but he's ready to put that aside. A nice, fat settlement would be a win win win situation, don't you think ?
Name your price.
Yours falsely.
* see former episode : "DSK's appallingchian trail"
Labels: Cyrus Vance Jr, Dominique Strauss Kahn, France, justice, Nafissatou Diallo, socialism
DSK's appallingchian trail
Yes, I'm a French citizen but no, I have no more sympathy for Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn than I had for Roman Polanski.
Unlike the latter, the former has not been convicted yet, but his troubled personality is at last being publicly exposed and that's a good start. Excellent news for the alledged victim, but also for France, for the French Socialist Party, and for DSK himself.
Good news for France ? All my country needed was a non deforming mirror to expose its own troubled personality : a Republic claiming liberty, equality, and fraternity, but actually a corrupt system promoting impunity, unfairness, and collusion between politics, justice, and the media.
Good news for the PS ? DSK was expected to be the target of a well deserved character assassination much closer to the Presidential elections, so the party has more time to look for a decent plan B, and if possible to look for a consistent program, one that aims at the political center and not at the impossible synthesis between progressive and obsolete currents. In the mirror, what they see is a leadership that failed to address the issues that really matter, that forgot what politics should be all about.
Good news for DSK ? This man is obviously sick and in denial of the danger he represents. Even before the alledged assault, Strauss Kahn was perfectly aware of the attacks to come on this very dark side of his personality... He too needed to have a good look at himself in the mirror.
So thank you, Dear America, for this embarrassingly precious mirror.
But please, this time, spare us your usual fake happy endings (OJ, Wacko Jacko...), and go all the way.
Labels: Dominique Strauss Kahn, France, justice, Michael Jackson, O. J. Simpson, Roman Polanski, socialism
Truthers Part MMXI - Saving Private Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden is not dead. Of course, the US confirmed his death*, and so did al Qaeda, not to mention Osama's daughter, an eye witness of the operation. But for Truthers**, Bin Laden is not dead.
To their credit, his elimination brought all the ingredients needed for a good conspiration theory with a stealth chopper parading next to a Pakistanese army base, a body discarded into the sea, and a final victory speech by Agent O from the Men In Black... But no. Osama is not dead. Truthers ask for pieces of evidence they will anyway never consider as true, as usual.
Because for a Truther, the truth lies somewhere else an preferably in some remote, hidden place. Those guys love the X-Files because you only catch a few subliminal glimpses of The Unbelievable. Not the classic B-movie where Godzilla shows his ugly plastic face on every frame, no. Here, everything is suggested, with here and there a 25th image stolen from an impossible angle, just to maintain the suspense and to help those nerds moving one nanoinch closer to their elusive orgasm. And above all, no final conclusion. Because a solved and close case means death. Their death.
So no, Bin Laden is not dead. Or maybe he'll resuscitate the third day. Anyway, bet on more sightings on video : as a Yeti up in the Himalayas, as a Dahu in the Swiss Alps, as Rick Astley in the Apple Store... it doesn't matter if, for the same lunatics, Bin Laden didn't exist in the first place. Just like September 11, 2001, that mythic, concealed, classified day when all cameras where simultaneously hacked by a clone of Kim Jong-il.
Navy Seals didn't assassinate Bin Laden : Americans got rid of the worst enemy of Islam***. Using methods (un)worthy of Mossad (when they don't imitate Borat, that is - see "Israel's Funniest Away Videos"), but also using a clear mandate against the criminal at the top of the world's most wanted list. Moderate Muslims applaud, but Truthers see a Zionist plot, a grotesque Photoshop forgery. The impostor who announced the death of their hero ? Michael Jackson. The old man watching the terrorist on his TV ? Elvis himself, barely recognizable after his opium diet in Afghanistan. Amateur work.
Now Truthers, they're true professionals : field journalists who investigate beyond what official media say, but never far away from the Truthersphere... except when they dump tons of Trutherisms over the web, clogging up fora and even this excuse for a website.
Actually, the true Truther doesn't want to know for fear of facing his own reality.
blogules 2011 (see also on blogules VF : "Les Truthers veulent la peau de Geronimo")
* BTW loved that cartoon (I forgot by whom) where Obama proudly brandishes his birth certificate in one hand and Osama's death certificate in the other, in front of a 2012 campaign board.
** on this weird cult, see previous episodes :
- "ReOpenReOpenReOpen911 - the Pentagony continues" ("Truthers : la Pentagonnade continue")
- "9/11 Truthers Knockin' At Your Door" ("Baggy truthers")
- "11 Septembre français : l'incroyable vérité"
*** see "Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, he was a mass murderer of Muslims"
Labels: 9/11, Barack Obama, Mossad, osama bin laden, Pakistan, propaganda
Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, he was a mass murderer of Muslims
Another radical political leader falls : Bin Laden was a warlord and by no means a religious leader.
So thank you Mr President for reminding your national and international audience this evidence : Bin Laden was an imposter and the worst enemy of Islam, even before he was an enemy of the USA*.
Yes, "Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, he was a mass murderer of Muslims". But no, Justice has not fully be done : the man has been killed, not technically brought to justice.
Still, his death is the best case scenario : the terrorist has already been found guilty, and a public trial would have offered him one last moment to spread hatred in the spotlight.
The President's Speech (not the one broadcasted at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner) also timely stressed the need for national unity, to the point of mentioning Fundamentalist in Chief GWB in positive terms.
That imposter has yet to be brought to justice.
* see "Universal Declaration of Independence from Fundamentalism"
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Family business trends for 2021
After a 2020 that was nowhere near what most of us anticipated, it’s perhaps bullish to make predictions about 2021, but Tom McGinness, KPMG’s head of family business, is not deterred from outlining the top 10 topics that he expects to be discussing with those leading family businesses during the coming year.
1. Reviewing shared purpose
Should you sell the ancestral family estate?
Why would a family who at one time owned up to 50,000 acres sell a house that has been in the family for 40 generations? This is what Will Garton-Jones, owner of the Llanfendigaid Estate in Wales has chosen to do, but it is not a decision that he will have taken lightly.
FB Roundup: Grundfos, Samsung, Warburtons
Due Jensen family heir named new chief executive of Grundfos, Lee Kun-hee leaves legacy of Samsung success but succession chaos, Warburtons shares pandemic dough with staff.
Due Jensen family heir named new chief executive of Grundfos
The Due Jensen family of Denmark has returned to helm their industrial giant Grundfos for the first time in almost two decades with the succession of next-generation heir Poul Due Jensen.
Inheritance tax planning ideas for family business, property and land owners
There are a number of inheritance tax-saving strategies available, but apart from giving away cash, what are ultra-wealthy individuals and families doing to mitigate their exposure to IHT?
Surrey has been labelled Britain’s inheritance tax capital by a national newspaper, the county southwest of London where the average UK inheritance tax (IHT) bill is £234,000 ($303,000).
With property prices in Surrey and across the UK continuing to rise, and the tax-free threshold (known as the ‘nil rate band’) of £325,000 ($421,000) frozen, family business owners could be forgiven for thinking that IHT is a fact of life.
General lifetime planning opportunities
The many faces of family business succession
While some financial commentators described the onset of the Covid pandemic in March 2020 as a so-called “Black Swan”—a one-off, rare and unpredictable event—it would appear that what we are dealing with is more of a migratory bird, a “Black Stork” if you like, whose movements recur with an element of (seasonal) regularity, at least until there is a circuit-breaker.
Family offices urged to review inheritance tax affairs during coronavirus crisis
The UK tax authority’s suspension of its Inheritance Tax investigations during the coronavirus crisis gives family offices the opportunity to get their affairs in order, family lawyers say.
Family offices and cross-border succession planning during Covid-19
Family offices increasingly have to navigate the complexities of cross-border legal issues: a necessary side-effect of globalisation. The family office will consequently need advisers on issues such as tax, estate planning and regulation that covers all countries in the mix, and advice on succession planning is increasingly featuring high up on the family office to-do list.
Inheritance tax rebate for assets that decline in value after death
With the spread of Covid-19 bringing the UK housing market to a standstill and shaking financial markets across the world, families who have lost loved ones leading up to the outbreak of the pandemic, could be seeing some of their assets plummet in value. If inheritance tax has already been paid on those assets on the basis of their higher values in the pre-Covid world, an inheritance tax rebate could be due.
HMRC's new Family Investment Companies team: How family offices and ultra-wealthy individuals can protect themselves
In late February, news broke that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has set up a new team to investigate the use of Family Investment Companies (FICS) with a focus on Inheritance Tax (IHT).
Increases in tax burden predicted as UK tax man targets family offices
Families are being advised to get their financial affairs in order and brace for an increase in tax bills following the revelation the UK’s tax authority set up a secret unit to probe family investment companies, specifically their use by the wealthy to avoid inheritance tax.
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Contrast (PC) Review
Joe Van Fossen / Dec 30th, 2013 No Comments
There has been a revival of puzzle-platforming games in recent years. The immense popularity of games like Braid and Portal prove a continuing viability for a genre that doesn’t get much mainstream attention. Aside from Valve, major developers have largely ignored the category, leaving indie developers to take the reins and move the genre forward. Enter Compulsion Games, an independent Montreal-based studio comprised of a small group of industry veterans. Contrast, Compulsions’ debut effort, is an adventure through light and shadow that offers a unique platforming experience.
In Contrast, players take control of Dawn, the imaginary friend of a young girl named Didi. Dawn is only visible to Didi and Dawn cannot see anyone but Didi. However, Dawn can see and interact with the shadows cast by the other inhabitants of the game world. She has the ability to circumnavigate both 3D space and a 2D world of shadows.
The daunting Excelsior Hotel puzzle requires manipulation of multiple light sources.
One of the more unique features of Contrast is the ability to switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D platforming. The need to adjust lighting sources to manipulate shadows adds an interesting challenge to many of the obstacles. The player is also tasked with collecting luminaries – little balls of light – to power some of the contraptions found throughout the game. The controls are fairly straightforward and don’t take much time getting used to. Contrast offers a fair amount of difficulty and a variety of puzzles that should please most fans of the genre. There were a few noticeable minor glitches here and there, but a patch was recently released that should take care of them.
Set in a fictional art deco-inspired world, the game revolves around Didi and her quest to reunite her family. The player controls her imaginary friend Dawn, a silent acrobat who moves through light and shadow in order to assist Didi throughout her adventure. An assortment of classic film noir types round out the cast, including a cabaret singing mother, a sheisty double-dealing father, the mob and an obsessive magician who is a cross between Houdini and Tesla. At its heart, Contrast is the tale of a girl putting the pieces of her broken family back together while discovering much about both her family and herself along the way. The game has all of the foundations of a great story. However, the pacing feels a bit rushed, leaving the characters little room to fully develop.
Designed for PC, current and next-gen consoles, Contrast’s visuals are striking and of triole-A quality. The artists did an exemplary job of creating a dark, vintage world with a touch of fantasy and whimsy. Backgrounds are finely detailed and the lighting engine is top-notch. Aside from a variety of shadows, character design is limited to Dawn and Didi and is just as impressive as the rest of the artwork.
Detailed and whimsical environments abound.
The game’s music faithfully embodies the era to which it belongs. It enhances the atmosphere created by the visuals and helps bring the dreary, circa-1940s noir world to life. While the music is fitting and well executed, it tends to be a bit sparse. There are some extended moments of silence that could benefit from more aural embellishments. Nevertheless, it is a minor issue made less noticeable by the game’s first class sound design. The voice cast also does an excellent job of nailing the noir tenor, as if they were plucked straight from an old Humphrey Bogart film.
Contrast is a highly entertaining puzzle-platformer that offers a new twist on an otherwise familiar gameplay experience. It clocks in at around four hours and can be slightly expanded by finding all of the extra luminaries and collectibles hidden within the game. Gathering collectibles also adds more insight into the characters and the game’s world. While the story isn’t as engaging as it could have been, the game’s settings and high production values more than make up for it. It’s a solid debut from Compulsion Games that should arouse the interest of any enthusiast of the genre.
Joe Van Fossen
Contributor at Gaming Illustrated
Joe Van Fossen is an avid gamer, film nerd, and unabashed gadget geek. When he's not playing games, watching movies or gadgeteering, he's writing about it (or he's off playing music in some seedy bar somewhere in L.A. or Orange County).
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Verify That You Are Human... * × two = two
Gaming Illustrated RATING
Overall81%
Gameplay8
The interplay between light and shadow (2D and 3D) makes for a fresh and interesting experience. The puzzles offer a fair amount of challenge. The game clocks in at around 4 hours, but finding hidden collectibles is a great way to further explore.
A beautifully created game world that feels both dark and whimsical.
An excellent score is interwoven with quality sound effects and a first rate voice cast.
Story6.5
A great setting, cast of characters, and premise. However, it falls short of any serious character development and the story moves along at a hurried pace.
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1859 Errata
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Welcome to Grand Tactical Rules
We currently offer four rule sets for miniatures gaming: "1870" and "1871", which cover the Franco-Prussian War; "1859", which covers both the 1859 Second Italian War of Independence and the 1864 Second Schleswig War; and "1866" which covers the Austro-Prussian Wars. The rules were designed specifically for large-scale battles of several divisions to several corps on each side, ideally with 6, 10, and 15mm figures. The rule system has variants enabling the detailed fighting of much smaller engagements as well.
Besides the rules, the vast majority of each book is devoted to detailed historical notes, background information, orders of battle, and an extensive annotated bibliography.
Fourteen exhaustively-researched historical battle scenarios are included in the first three books, and twelve in 1871; these cover both the Imperial and Republican phases of the war in "1870" and “1871”, and seven Italian and seven Danish scenarios in"1859". Eight battles in Bohemia, five in Germany, and one in Italy are featured in “1866.”
All four books are extensively illustrated in color throughout, and contain ample diagrams and examples of play.
The first three books include a four-page card stock “cheat sheet” that neatly summarizes everything gamers need to have to run a game, without having to refer to the rules booklet. In the new 1871 book, this has been reduced to a single two-sided sheet, as befits its simplified format.
Updated fast-play quick reference sheets for 1859 and 1866 are also available for download.
IMPORTANT NOTICE from the designer: With the long-awaited advent of 1871 Fast Play rules, the grand tactical rules series got an enormous boost in playability and popularity. After years of tweaking the original rules in an effort to enable quicker, easier games, the 1871 rules seem to have done the trick: they are truly the “fast play” rule set to which the “1870” series aspired since their inception. The basics of the Fast Play rules remain the same, however, so they are completely compatible with the earlier rules; the combat and morale sections, however, have been brilliantly simplified and streamlined to the point that play time is about half as long.
The Fast Play 1871 rules were so successful that I retrofitted all the new stuff onto new full-color quick reference sheets for 1859, 1864, and 1866 as well, so those rules could also benefit. Since the Fast Play rules were finished, in fact, most Grand Tactical Rules aficionados have used them exclusively in preference to the original rules – they're that much better. The revised/updated quick reference sheets for the 1859, 1864, 1866, and 1870 rules – plus a Word document explaining the changes made -- can be downloaded from this site, under “Rules Info – Downloads.” Good gaming!
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History Helps Math Make Sense
By Daniel E. Otero
Has it ever bothered you that many mathematics textbooks begin with a number of strangely crafted definitions?
These definitions invariably turn out to be extremely valuable for the development of the theory in question, but it may be days, months, or years—with many rereadings—before this is apparent.
I remember wondering as a college sophomore why the definition of the linear independence of vectors v1, v2, …, vn had to be so complicated and, in particular, what the algebraic condition
The only scalars a1, a2, …, an that satisfy a1v1 + a2v2 + … + anvn = 0 are a1 = a2 = … = an = 0.
had to do with the ability of the vectors to fill out n-dimensional space. It was years before I figured out that connection.
Anyway, after the cryptic definitions, the textbook author embarks on proving a series of theorems whose purpose is hidden until quite late in the theory’s development, if ever.
The most important results, so identified because they are called The Fundamental Theorem of Something or Other, appear at the end of section 3.3 as a corollary to some other impenetrably technical theorem, apparently as an afterthought!
If the intrepid reader has lasted this far, the author throws a bone late in chapter 4 in the guise of an application of the theory to some problem that may have helped someone at some time.
No wonder so many people think that mathematics is only for nonhumans!
To be fair, more and more mathematics textbooks are far better written than this caricature I have painted for you, but sadly, plenty of examples of expositional writing in mathematics fit this mold.
You can thank Euclid for this penchant professional mathematicians have of organizing their writing in axiomatic form: definitions, axioms, propositions, theorems, and corollaries. Indeed, Euclid didn’t bother adding applications to such expositions. You can thank Archimedes, Ptolemy, and Galileo for including them (although Descartes, Gauss, and Cauchy usually did not).
I won’t argue that the traditional axiomatic style lacks value—mostly because I don’t believe this at all! I will suggest that it is not the best vehicle for learning mathematics. My contention here is that the best antidote for students who struggle with traditional forms of axiomatic exposition is to investigate the history of the subject.
That definition of linear independence at the start of this article? I finally started figuring out the link between it and the geometry of space when I read about linear algebra’s history (specifically the work of Herman Grassmann in the mid-1800s and the later formalism of linear algebra under Giuseppe Peano and others later in that century). And this is not the only occasion when learning how a mathematical subject developed helped me make sense of what was going on.
Studying the history of mathematics has much to offer the mathematics student:
Context (the conceptual and cultural circumstances for the underlying problems);
Motivation (the rationale or even the value of wanting to know the answers to the central questions involved); and
Connections (how the mathematicians thought in terms of other ideas that were already established at those times and places).
What’s more, the history of mathematics humanizes the subject in a way that no formal presentation can, reminding us that it’s people who do mathematics, not textbooks. And that, after all, just makes sense.
To purchase at JSTOR: http://dx.doi.org/10.4169/mathhorizons.22.4.34
Danny Otero is an associate professor of mathematics at Xavier University, president of the MAA Ohio Section, and chair of the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the MAA. He still digs the Power Puff Girls. Email: otero@xavier.edu
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LoC #62 - Top 50 Tabletop Games
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I played a modified version of Operation at GenCon 2003. You would play Operation, and the other players would try to distract you by yelling at you and throwing things at you. Points were calculated based on how many pieces you could extract before setting off the buzzer. Then the pieces would be reset for the next guy. I was really good at the game, at least back then, so I won by a pretty big margin.
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Quote from: Pak-Man on July 30, 2012, 04:05:19 PM
Ooh. Dominion looks like fun. I might have to track that one down. Don't know if I want to pay $30 for it, though...
Dominion is a pretty cool game. No board (though you need space for the stuff you want to buy) and actually rather easy to get the hang of.
Quote from: Compound on July 30, 2012, 03:20:36 PM
# 24: Go
Always wanted to play this. Largely because I was a fan of Hikaru no Go.
http://www.youtube.com/v/1_WMa42spAs
It also increased the popularity of Go in Japan immensely as it used to be seen as an "Old Man Game"
# 25: Scattergories
Loves me some Scattergories. It's also a good game for ESL teaching.
# 26: Carcassone
Those Germans make some damned fine board games. Carcassone on X-Box Live is also pretty fun.
# 27: Ticket to Ride
I like this one a lot, but I don't think I'll be playing it much anymore, since apparently my friend and his fiance who own it are all played out of this one.
Looking forward to seeing what comes up next.
Mrs. Dick Courier
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keeping an eye on the sammich since 1993
I love word games...I kicked ass at Scattergories.
Never heard of some of these though, like Ticket to Ride. Sounds like a good game though.
Opticians are easy on the eyes
Happy 11th Birthday, Synch Issues!
Okay, let's see if I can sneak in some more entries.
# 19: Mastermind
a.k.a. Codebreaker
57 Points (On 3 of 14 lists)
Highest Vote: (#4 by CJones)
Designed by: Mordecai Meirowitz
Publisher: Hasbro/ Pressman/Invicta Plastics
Guess the color of hidden pegs. A deduction game where each player takes turn making a limited number of guesses, using logic to deduce what pegs the opponent has hidden.
Hey, How Do I Win This?
By guessing the color combo before a certain number of guesses. (Usually 20)
Fun Gaming Facts:
Numeric and letter-based versions of Mastermind also exist.
Mastermind has been produced in electronic and non-electronic versions. There have been variations that use from 3-6 holes and 5-26 colors/numbers/words to guess.
Computer programs have been programmed that can deduce what the pattern is in a standard game in 4.3 moves. Keep that in mind next time you're on move 18 or so.
Here's the original box art from 1973.
Here's the same couple in 2006:
She's a computer programmer now, BTW.
Purple and Orange?:
Sometimes. There have been a number of different colors used for the pegs, and purple and orange are sometimes used.
Awards & Stuff:
While the box art above says "Game of the Year" I can't read who gave that out. So it won something.
Related Games that Received Votes:
Related Games that Didn't Receive Votes:
Hey! It's an Amazon link with the price! $8.97
Next Turn:
I'm guessing "flirty" because I think Tom is just choosing random cards from his hand.
« Last Edit: July 31, 2012, 07:18:05 PM by Compound »
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
# 18: Apples to Apples
Highest Vote: (#3 by Cole Stratton)
Number of Players: 4-10
Designed by: Matthew Kirby, Mark Alan Osterhaus
Publisher: Out of the Box Publishing/ Mattel
Apples to Apples consists only of two decks of cards: Things and Descriptions. Each turn, the current referee selects a Description and players try to pick, from the cards in their hands, the Things that best match that Description. The referee then chooses the Thing that appeals most and awards the card to the player who played it. The unusual combinations of Things and Descriptions are humorous to the extreme, and will quickly have the entire room in an uproar. Once a player has won a pre-determined number of cards, that player wins.
Win a certain number of cards before someone flips the table over in disgust at your choices.
I've met John Kovalic, the artist for this game. This was back when he was drawing a muskrat related comic strip, not these days when he's chillin' at Wil Wheaton's b-day party.
Target sells a variant called "Sour Apples to Apples" where the judge chooses the best and the worst answer of the cards. The worst answer gets to spin on the punishment wheel and suffers for the next round with a minor penalty.
The Spanish edition is naturally called Manzanas con manzanas.
Unfortunately, no. The standard colors are red and green. Because, you know. Apples.
1999 Mensa Select Winner
2001 Origins Awards Winner, Best Card Game Supplement
2003 Japan Boardgame prize Winner, Best Japanese game
Games Magazine Hall of Fame
Cards Against Humanity, which plays like Apples to Apples, but instead of nouns and descriptions, you have questions, such as "What's the next Happy Meal toy?" and rather inappropriate answers, such as "German dungeon porn" or "Eating all the cookies before the AIDS bake sale." And the best answer gets an awesome point. Needless to say, it's not for everyone.
Hey! It's an Amazon link with the price! $22.99
I once saw someone set about 300 of these on fire.
# 17: Magic the Gathering
Highest Vote: (#5 by Johnny U)
Designed by: Richard Garfield
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast/ Hasbro
Magic: The Gathering (MTG; also known as Magic) is the first collectible card game, created by Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011. Magic can be played by two or more players each using a deck of printed cards or a deck of virtual cards through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online or third-party programs.
Each game represents a battle between mighty wizards, known as "planeswalkers", who employ spells, items, and creatures depicted on individual Magic cards to defeat their opponents.
By either reducing your opponent to zero life points or below or by being the last player with cards in your draw deck.
Magic begun the collectable card game genre, which dominated the gaming scene throughout the 90s. There are fewer CCGs around these days, but they're still around.
The two rarest cards in the game are a card given to the 1996 World Champion (Aussie Tom Chanpheng, BTW) and a card to celebrate the opening of the magic center in Japan. In both cases, only a single card exists in the world. Additionally, Richard Garfield used a Magic card to propose to his wife and also to celebrate the birth of his first two children. But there are 15 of each of those in the world, so they're not rare at all.
Magic the Gathering was shown on ESPN2 for a while. It wasn't exactly the most spellbinding of presentations to watch.
And those 300 cards burned above to show people at a con that "they were just frigging cards?" Today, those cards would be worth thousands of dollars. Yeah, Mr. "You Magic Players suck" probably regrets that these days.
No. While purple and orange are used in the artwork of some cards, the main colors in magic are red, blue, green, white and black. Although Phil Folgio predicted orange mana back in 1994.
Wow, Phil made more What's New comics after The Duelist? How did I not know that?
2005 Origins Awards Winner, Collectable Card Game or Expansion of the Year (for "Ravnica: City of Guilds").
2005 Årets Spill Nominee, Strategy Game of the Year (for 9th Edition).
1998 Origins Awards Winner, Best Card Game Expansion or Supplement (for "Urza's Saga").
1996 Golden Ace, (Game of the Year, France) Winner
1995 A la carte Fairplay Magazine prize for card games 1st Place.
1994 Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy), Winner, Best Translated Game
1993 Origins Awards Winner, Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame and Best Graphic Presentation of a Boardgame.
Games Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee.
Oh, let's say Legend of the Five Rings, a CCG based on a fantasy version of the Orient with dueling clans. And it's just about to release its 10,000th different card at GenCon. And yay, Toku.
Hey! It's an Amazon link with the price! Here, have a core set fat Pack
A classy, urbane game.
But first, more Magic stuff that I didn't want to stick in that entry.
Since Magic began, people have been creating homemade magic cards. Pretty much any genre imaginable has had folks make Magic cards for it.
(None for Rifftrax though, although a GIS gives ...interesting... results. (No, not porny.)
Although I think that's a real card with googly eyes attached to it.
Radioactive Man
(One of my favorite cards ever, BTW.)
And yes, even My Little Pony
And sadly, I'm not sure if that's a random fan made card or one from the "official" fan made MLP set.
Curse you bronies for making me ask that.
This one though? It's a real card.
# 16: Backgammon
Highest Vote: (#2 by Tripe and Gojikranz)
Publication Date: Approx 3000 BC
Designed by: Unknown
Publisher: Public Domain
Backgammon is a classic abstract strategy game dating back thousands of years. Each player has a set of 15 "men" that must be moved from their starting positions, around, and then off the board. Dice are thrown each turn, and each player must decide which of his men to move based on the outcome of the roll. Players can capture each other's men, forcing the captured men to restart their journey around the board. The winner is the first player to get all 15 men off the board. A more recent addition to the game is the "doubling cube", which allows players to up the stakes of the game, as it is often played for money. Although the game relies on dice to determine movement, there is a large degree of strategy in deciding how to make the most effective moves given each dice roll as well as measuring the risk in terms of possible rolls the opponent may get.
Backgammon may be the first game to be mentioned in written history, going back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. During the 1920's, archaeologists unearthed five boards from a cemetery in the ancient town of Ur. At another location, pieces and dice were also found along with the board. Boards from ancient Egypt have also been recovered from the tomb of Tutanchamun, including a mechanical dice box, no doubt intended to stop cheaters.
It was often enjoyed by the upper classes and is sometimes called "The Aristocratic Game." The Roman Emperor Claudius was known to be such a fan that he had a set built into his coach so he could play as he traveled (the world's first travel edition?).
The rules in English were standardized in 1743 by Edmond Hoyle. These remained popular until the American innovations of the 1930's.
Hey, How Do I Win This[size=0pt]?
Remove all 15 of your pieces before your opponent. Do that before they remove any checkers and get a gammon for double the points. Do that before they remove any checkers from the starting area and get a backgammon for triple the points.
A wordy quote regarding the different names of the game:
The names of the game were many. In Persia, Takhteh Nard which means "Battle on Wood". In Egypt, Tau, which may be the ancestor of Senat. In Rome, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum ("game of twelve marks"), later, Tabula ("table"), and by the sixth century, Alea ("dice"). In ancient China, T-shu-p-u and later in Japan, Sugoroko. The English name may derive from "Bac gamen" meaning "Back Game", referring to re-entry of taken stones back to the board.
The doubling cube is an American creation, dating back to the 1920s.
Hugh Hefner used to host backgammon parties at the Playboy Club. No that's not a euphemism for anything other than playing backgammon.
Yes! A pair of six siders plus the doubling cube.
Nope/
I've actually seen more fistfights involving this than with poker.
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Very dapper
Fantastic game, almost had fourth place on my list had to settle for fifth.
# 19: Chess
Also splendid.
Quote from: Tripe H. Redux on July 31, 2012, 06:26:54 PM
Oh , hell. That's not an ahem, that's a "say, what does that flashing light on the reactor console mean?"
And we take a quick moment to recalculate numbers as there's a duplicate entry.
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My name is Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau
Out of my 3,4,5,6 and 7, my #4 Mastermind is the first to make it (my numbers 1 & 2 were givens, and there was no chance they wouldn't make it).
I suspect 5 will make it. 6 probably not, even though it won the Spiel des Jahres. I'm surprised not to have seen my #3 by now. I have a bad feeling, if it was going to show up, it would have already. Then again, I fully expected Chess to take number 1 easily, so who knows. Finally my number 7 is another trick taking card game, and we've had several of them, and that's not even including Bridge. Before the internet, I'd never seen anyone play, or even mention this game, since my grandmother taught me how to play it. She'd invite me (I'm about 12 at this point) and three of her elderly female friends over, and we'd play it. Yep little kid me versus 3 old women.
After my grandmother's passing I haven't played the game, which is a shame, cause I really liked it. I simply don't know anyone who knows how to play it, and I can't remember the rules well enough to explain it.
Oh, and I checked my Mastermind. It has that same cover (the one where they're younger) except the game of the year star is on the right instead of the left. The first word is "Awarded". It says nothing about awarded by whom, or what year. And might I add: TWENTY GUESSES?! The one I have gives you ten. I guess they figure kids are getting stupider and stupider.
What's the best use for all those extra quarters? Arcade games of course!
Counting down the Top 50 Coin Operated Games!
What do you mean a duplicate entry?
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The contested history of the left and Zionism
Posted on 10th October 2014 by ISJ
Miriam Scharf
Philip Mendes, Jews and the Left: the Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), £65, and Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce (Manchester University Press, 2012), £15.99
These two books, one concentrating on Jews and the left internationally and the other on Zionism and the British left, show some convergence in their pre Second World War coverage of left support for Zionism. But the different political perspectives of the authors—Mendes is pro-Zionist and Kelemen is not—lead to very different references, analyses and commentary for the period after the establishment of the state of Israel.
Mendes’s premise is that Jews form a community and as such have particular “objective Jewish interests”. Mendes’s focus is on Jewish involvement in the left and he provides detail of the shift in different countries and political parties from universalist, ie supporting changes that would benefit all exploited classes or groups, to particularist views of Jews. Jews who retain universalist, more socialist, attitudes after 1948—and Mendes acknowledges many of them—are suspect.
Kelemen, by contrast, begins by pointing out the ethnic exclusiveness of Zionism as a problem. Given that Israel is an ethnically defined state founded on the dispossession of the Palestinians, what he aims to explain to us is not so much the divorce of the left from Zionism but why there was a marriage in the first place.
Kelemen details pre-1939 policies, speeches and documents from the Labour Party, Communist Party and Anglo-Jewry to provide this explanation. He then evidences British government attitudes, especially among Labour MPs, to the post-war situation. Noted throughout is the lack of concern for, or sometimes any reference whatever to the Palestinians. Tracing the shape of Zionist ideology, Kelemen notes the principle of national self-determination as adopted by the Labour Party in 1917. He contrasts Lenin’s endorsement of self-determination as a way to undermine imperialism with Harold Wilson’s vision of an evolutionary process for non-European peoples under Western tutelage. He shows how the latter view prevailed among Labourites whose Social Darwinist tendencies led them to contend that European Jews would develop Palestine for the “greater good” in a way that Muslim Arabs could not. Providing evidence that the nonconformist heritage of the British labour movement—in which “Israelites” were venerated—fed this view, he shows how the kind of anti-Semitism that characterises the Jews as a different and special people also helped the Zionist project and provided an unchallenged racism against Arabs and Palestinians.
The identification of Zionism with social progress was the political line of the labour Zionist party Poale Zion, which Mendes characterises as “Left Zionist”, a party linked to the Zionist labour organisations in Palestine. Both authors document the importance of Poale Zion in promulgating and winning Labour Party support for the idea that Jews settling in Palestine conformed to a new socialist ideal. Mendes cites Kelemen on the British Labour Party from 1936-45, when “successive annual party conferences supported the establishment of a Jewish state”. Quotes from Labour leaders, like Herbert Morrison and Richard Crossman, exhibit the exceptionalism with regard to Israel that, for Mendes, is welcomed as understanding the Jewish interest. Similar quotations used by Kelemen demonstrate why and how those with social democratic ideas supported Zionism.
Kelemen shows the case for a Jewish nation as an imperialist ally is crucial to understanding the Realpolitik favouring Zionism. For example, he quotes Ramsay MacDonald in 1929: “It is of greatest importance to us that we should keep American oil interests in good relations with us.” For Mendes, there is only “alleged collaboration with Western imperialism”, even post-Suez.
Both books look at pre-war Jewish support for left parties, clearly showing that the still largely working class Jewish population were far less interested in going to Palestine than in improving their material conditions where they were. Jews were disproportionately active in the Communist Party, Labour Party and trade unions in the UK; and Mendes shows this was also the case worldwide. Here Mendes’s contribution on Bundism, the majority working class and socialist response to anti-Semitism and oppression in Eastern Europe, is useful: “The Bund accused the Zionist movement of legitimitising Polish anti-Semitism and also attacked its negation of the national rights of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine.” The Bund opposed the creation of Israel in 1948, claiming, “It was designed to serve the imperialistic interests of the Western powers, and would only perpetuate the conflict between Jews and Arabs.”
Kelemen and Mendes provide detailed research on the Communist Party, in the former case solely the Communist Party of Great Britain: the CP’s anti-colonialist opposition to Zionism, its support for the Union of Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine against the Jewish only Histadrut, and its support of Arab demands to cease Jewish immigration. They also show that during the rise of fascism support for Zionism rose in the Jewish working class. Both report the most important change for all national CPs was when the line from Moscow reversed into support for the Zionists against British imperialism in 1947. Kelemen quotes telling coverage from the CPGB’s daily newspaper, indicating their confusion and then submission, so that by August 1948, “the only force the Daily Worker was prepared to exonerate from causing Palestinians to abandon their homes was the Israeli army”. He shows how other left papers including the Daily Herald and the Tribune told the same story.
Mendes records the attitude of Communist Parties showing acceptance of the Moscow line that Israel was part of the struggle against British and Anglo-American imperialism. American, French and Canadian CPs write of “a just war of independence against British and US-sponsored imperialism”. Though much harder to swallow for the Arab CPs the joint statement issued by the CPs of the Middle East in October 1948 condemns the “Arab invasion of Palestine”, dutifully tailing Stalin’s line.
In regard to the CP, Mendes’s description of Jews’ disproportionate prominence in leadership roles in post-war Eastern European governments provides interesting reading, but is more pertinent to how Stalinism used anti-Semitism than to a discussion about Zionism.
Perhaps more relevant to readers now is the discussion by both writers of the left in relation to Israel following the Second World War. After the Holocaust they concur in showing how the idea common across the political spectrum was that Europe’s surviving Jews should have a nation. Kelemen shows that, in the Labour Party, the fact that Israel provided an important strategic ally to the US, and therefore the UK, served to counter Soviet influence and Arab nationalism. This made Zionism popular on the right, while the left continued its support for Israel’s “social democratic values”. He sees this convergence as enabling the popularising of “an image of Israel as a beacon of progress in the Middle East”. Mendes notes that the response of the 1944 Labour Party Conference to the Holocaust was to vote for admission of Jews to Palestine “in such numbers as to become a majority” to urge “the ‘transfer’ of the Arab population to neighbouring countries”. He quotes approvingly leftists, among them Harold Laski, Michael Foot and Aneurin Bevan, arguing for the party’s traditional Zionist perspectives and praising both the Histadrut and “socialist” Zionist parties and culture.
Then comes the break, described by Kelemen in terms of how some of the left changed their understanding of the nature of the Israeli state to that of an illegal occupier and imperialist ally, and so began the left’s divorce from Zionism. Both writers see Israel’s 1967 victory and subsequent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a watershed. Both identify the rise of the “new left” in the 1960s, their analysis of Israel being influenced by the emergence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the wider world recognition of Palestinians as a national group with national rights.
Kelemen, aware of the accusation of anti-Semitism waiting in the wings, shows objectively how the left was able to break with Zionism and to stand up for Palestinian rights. He relates this to developments among the Palestinian political parties and does good service to the radical left outside the Labour Party mainstream. Kelemen traces the conflict between a pro-Zionist Labour leadership and grassroots activists. This includes the launch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in 1969 alongside Harold Wilson’s backing of Israel. It also includes the Blair/Brown governments’ support for Israel parallel to the proliferation of pro-Palestinian groups during their tenure with dropping levels of support for the Labour Friends of Israel and the Trade Union Friends of Israel. In contrast, Mendes’s desire to de-legitimise anti-Zionism leads him to include insignificant esoteric groups and to misrepresent more influential Marxists and Trotskyists.
Mendes says a consequence of the 1967 war was that “support for Israel became the principal determinant of Jewish identity”. The left after this is characterised by those who support a two-state solution. He resorts to judgemental and subjective language for other analyses:
“anti-Zionist fundamentalists today wish to eliminate the actual existing nation state of Israel. Israelis and their Jewish supporters are depicted as inherently evil oppressors… Conversely, Palestinians are depicted as intrinsically innocent victims. In place of the fundamental and objective centrality of the state of Israel to contemporary Jewish identity, anti-Zionist fundamentalists…utilise ethnic stereotyping of all Israelis…[and] construct a subjective fantasy world in which Israel is detached from its specifically Jewish roots, and then miraculously destroyed by remote control” (pp125-126).
In Kelemen’s account different proposals are examined, for example the debate between Ralph Miliband and Marcel Liebman, with the latter arguing for a one-state solution and exposing Israel as an ally of Western imperialism.
One of the most demanding aspects in writing such an account is the massive number of events that provide the context for the development of ideas on the left. Kelemen has not only included the left’s various responses to different government papers and reports on Palestine but has made an impressive effort to show how major events in 1947-8, Suez, the 1967 war, etc affected the different elements of the left. He has excavated much interesting evidence of these responses. To give an example from during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon: By August 1982 only two resolutions of 500 submitted to Labour Party Conference concerned the Middle East; a month later 46 resolutions critical of Israel had been submitted. At the conference a resolution from Norwood Constituency Labour Party called for support for “the establishment of a democratic secular state in Palestine as the long-term solution to the Palestine problem”—it passed.
The younger generation of the British left is now pro-Palestinian and critical of Israeli occupation and bombing. Palestinians have become an acknowledged symbol of the oppressed and for the fight for freedom and justice. Kelemen’s book showing the history of how the British left finally reached this position is meticulously well researched and well written. Mendes, although including interesting material, has a familiarly skewed analysis. This he exemplifies in his concluding contrast between “Western values” and “the culture of the Arab world”, pessimistically forecasting that the latter “would be very unlikely to protect the human rights of Israeli Jews”.
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The stories in Cold War Canoe Club are like vertical launch missiles that explode to reveal a darker side of the US Navy in a time when most of the action took place away from the headlines. Welcome to the period between World War II and the Desert Storm, when enemies were just as likely to be seen on radar as aboard the same ship.
The characters who populate the stories Hess has written face their own doom through dangers—foreign and domestic, including shipmates, spouses, secrets, lies, greed, lust, and bad decisions.
As Cold War Canoe Club unfolds, we witness the darkest recesses of war ships and the men who sail aboard them as well as the women who wait for them in port and at home.
There’s a submarine sinking in frigid waters, a pregnant Navy wife distraught over the Cuban Missile Crisis, a race riot aboard an air craft carrier, fist fights, loose women, bad luck, and bad decisions.
Hess’s sailors and veterans haunt deeply with the authentic sense of people being on ships at sea or at the ends of their ropes as civilians. These stories bristle with noir intrigue and energy, while transporting readers to worlds few have ever seen. A dark exploration of service men, officers, gentlemen, lowlifes, and those trying to navigate troubled waters across oceans and on land.
“Jeffery Hess combines a flair for gripping storytelling with a powerful lyrical sensibility to produce that rarest of birds: a book full of page-turners that read like literary fiction. Like Tim O’Brien and Kevin Powers, Hess writes with absolute authority about the military men whose lives he sees with utter clarity and intimacy.”
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The Big Damn Buffy Rewatch S03E11, “Gingerbread”
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone is just about done with the Michigan State Department of Treasury and their shitty, shitty website. She will also recap every episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with an eye to the following themes:
Sex is the real villain of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer universe.
Giles is totally in love with Buffy.
Joyce is a fucking terrible parent.
Willow’s magic is utterly useless (this one won’t be an issue until season 2, when she gets a chance to become a witch)
Xander is a textbook Nice Guy.
The show isn’t as feminist as people claim.
All the monsters look like wieners.
If ambivalence to possible danger were an Olympic sport, Team Sunnydale would take the gold.
Angel is a dick.
Harmony is the strongest female character on the show.
Team sports are portrayed in an extremely negative light.
Some of this shit is racist as fuck.
Science and technology are not to be trusted.
Mental illness is stigmatized.
Only Willow can use a computer.
Buffy’s strength is flexible at the plot’s convenience.
Cheap laughs and desperate grabs at plot plausibility are made through Xenophobia.
Oz is the Anti-Xander
Spike is capable of love despite his lack of soul
Don’t freaking tell me the vampires don’t need to breathe because they’re constantly out of frickin’ breath.
The foreshadowing on this show is freaking amazing.
Smoking is evil.
Despite praise for its positive portrayal of non-straight sexualities, some of this shit is homophobic as fuck.
How do these kids know all these outdated references, anyway?
Technology is used inconsistently as per its convenience in the script.
Sunnydale residents are no longer shocked by supernatural attacks.
Casual rape dismissal/victim blaming a-go-go
Snyder believes Buffy is a demon or other evil entity.
The Scoobies kind of help turn Jonathan into a bad guy.
This show caters to the straight female gaze like whoa.
Sunnydale General is the worst hospital in the world.
Faith is hyper-sexualized needlessly.
Slut shame!
The Watchers have no fucking clue what they’re doing.
Vampire bites, even very brief ones, are 99.8% fatal.
Have I missed any that were added in past recaps? Let me know in the comments. Even though I might forget that you mentioned it.
WARNING: Some people have mentioned they’re watching along with me, and that’s awesome, but I’ve seen the entire series already and I’ll probably mention things that happen in later seasons. So… you know, take that under consideration, if you’re a person who can’t enjoy something if you know future details about it.
Hooray! We’ve reached what I consider to be one of the scariest episodes of the entire series. It highlights the helplessness of children and teens when their parents subscribe to dangerous ideas!
Buffy wanders alone through a wooded area at night, wary, stalking something. Bushes rustle, and Joyce emerges, scaring the daylights out Buffy. Joyce wants to watch Buffy slay, which Buffy is not thrilled about.
Joyce: “But it’s such a big part of your life, and I’d like to understand it.”
This is one of the rare instances where we see Joyce acting counter to #3, even if she is pulling a major #8. When a vampire does appear, Joyce takes on the role of a cheerleader, until she notices that the vampire in question is a guy she recognizes from the bank. The vampire gets away, and Buffy tells her mom to stay put. While Buffy runs off, Joyce goes to a nearby playground to wait, where she finds this:
That’s two dead children, with symbols drawn into their hands.
After the credits, police swarm the scene, while a traumatized Joyce stands by helplessly. Buffy tries to reassure her mother by promising to find whoever killed them, but Joyce says that nothing will make it right. They hug, and Buffy tells her to try to calm down.
Cut to Buffy in the library, shouting at Giles that she will not calm down. Her mother is super messed up by seeing these dead kids. She tells Giles about the mark on their hands, and Giles suggests it might not be a supernatural creature that killed them, but people who committed a ritualistic murder. Buffy asks him to find a “loophole” in the rule that says she can’t kill humans, which stuns him. He suggests that she’s emotionally affected by the tragedy because of her mother’s involvement, which she does not want to hear at all.
At lunch, Xander and Oz are in line next to each other. Xander tries to make conversation with Oz, which is awkward enough on most days, but probably worse when you’re the person Oz’s girlfriend cheated on him with. Oz is a cool guy, though, so he kind of goes with it. Willow joins them at a table, with Amy, the witch from earlier episodes, who’s never around but just kind of there now. I love when that happens on shows, where a recurring character randomly pops up and you’re like, “Ah, they have something to do with the plot this week, I’ll wager!”
Willow reminds everyone that Buffy’s birthday is coming up, which means the worst episode ever is also coming up. So, I’m super happy when Buffy arrives and asks them if they heard about the kids who got murdered and how her mom found the bodies. Then Joyce shows up to ask Buffy if she’s made any headway on the case of the murdered kids. Buffy tells her Giles’s cult theory, and Joyce immediately jumps to witches, which makes Amy and Willow visibly uncomfortable.
Joyce: “I know you kids think that stuff’s cool. Buffy told me you dabble.”
Joyce goes on to say that anyone who would kill children isn’t “cool,” like the group needs that explained to them. She’s visibly shaken, so Buffy gets her out of there. Xander mentions how detrimental this whole thing is going to be to Joyce’s support of Buffy’s Slayer duties, to which Willow responds that she feels lucky that her mom doesn’t pay attention to anything she does.
In the hallway, Joyce asks Buffy if her friends are going to help find the cult, but Buffy tries to get her to maybe stop talking supernatural murder in the hallway. Joyce accuses Buffy of being embarrassed of her, and Buffy tries to explain that she’s compartmentalized her home business and school business, and Joyce is kind of obliterating that compartment system.
Joyce says she’s been moved to help, and she’s called everyone she knows, who called everyone they know, and there’s going to be a vigil at City Hall. Even the Mayor is going to attend. Buffy is worried that too many people are being brought into this mess, but Joyce says maybe not many people will show up.
Cut to City Hall, which is absolutely packed. Even Willow’s mom is there, and she notices for the first time that Willow cut her hair. Willow mentions that she cut her hair in August. So, welcome to January, totally unobservant mom. In comparison to Willow’s mom, Joyce is Mrs. Fucking Cunningham.
Giles is at the vigil, too, and he and Joyce have yet another odd interaction:
Joyce: “It’s been a while.”
Giles: “Right. Not since, um. Not since…not for a while.”
Willow’s mom: “There’s a rumor going around, Mr. Giles.”
Giles: “A rumor? About us?”
Oh, Giles. That sounds in no way suspicious.
Willow’s mom tells Giles that the rumor is about witchcraft being the cause of the murder. Willow tries to blow it off as a silly notion, but her mom has been doing research on the rise of magic use among teens. Before she can get too far, the Mayor takes the podium and gives a very convincing speech about how bad how Sunnydale is a good town and how hard he’s going to fight to make sure it stays that way. He turns over the mic to Joyce, who drops a bomb:
Joyce: “Mr. Mayor, you’re dead wrong. This is not a good town. How many of us have, have lost someone who, who just disappeared? Or, or got skinned? Or suffered neck rupture? And how many of us have been too afraid to speak out? I was supposed to lead us in a moment of silence, but silence is this town’s disease. Too long we’ve been plagued by unnatural evils. This isn’t our town anymore. It belongs to the monsters and the witches and the Slayers. I say it’s time for the grown ups to take Sunnydale back. I say we start by finding the people who did this, and making them pay.”
So, when she says the stuff about Slayers? This is what Buffy and Willow and Giles look like:
Shit is bad here. Now everyone in town knows that a Slayer is a thing, and Buffy was trying to keep that pretty low key.
Later that night, we see Amy and some other witches all gothed out and doing a spell that involves a human skull and all sorts of nasty looking jars. And oh no…
Also not great?
Because that is the exact symbol that was in the dead kids’ hands.
At school the next day, one of the witch kids, a guy who wears black lipstick and eyeliner, gets bullied. Not because of the eyeliner, though you get the feeling that’s been the case in the past. Today, it’s because the bullies think he’s a witch and involved in killing the children. Amy steps in to try to defuse the situation, but it only escalates. Buffy scares the bullies off (her reputation apparently precedes her now), and Cordelia has feelings about that.
Cordelia: “Everyone knows that witches killed those kids, and Amy is a witch. And Michael is whatever the boy witch is, plus being the poster child for yuck–”
Buffy: “Cordelia–”
Cordelia: “If you’re going to hang with them, expect badness.Cause that’s what you get when you hang with freaks and losers. Believe me. I know. That was a pointed comment about me hanging with you guys.”
Through this entire exchange, Giles is standing behind Cordelia, patiently waiting for the fight to be over. I love when he gets stuck listening to high school drama bullshit and just waits it out. When Buffy shouts after Cordelia that witches didn’t do it, Giles tells her that yeah, they actually probably did. He just needs a book that Willow borrowed from him so that he can confirm it.
Buffy heads off to find Willow, and asks Xander where she is:
Xander: “How can I convince you people that it’s over? You assume because I’m here, she’s here. That I somehow mysteriously know where she is.”
Buffy: “Those her books?”
Xander: “Yeah, she’s in the bathroom. But the fact that I know that doesn’t change that I have a genuine complaint here. Look, I’m getting sick of the judgement. The innuendos. Is a man not innocent until proven guilty?”
Buffy: “You are guilty. You got illicit smoochies, you gotta pay the price.”
This exchange finally puts into perspective for me exactly why I hate the Xander-Willow cheating arc. Because when they do get caught, Willow is sad and feels bad, because that’s her character. But there was really nowhere they could go with Xander. He’s the funny guy, so somehow, this had to turn out funny. What happens instead is that he sounds pissed off that he got caught, not actually bad for what he’s done.
Buffy notices Willow’s notebook has the same symbol drawn in it that they found on the dead kids. Willow tries to pass it off as just a doodle, but they’re interrupted by a commotion in the hall. The police are raiding lockers for witchcraft items and taking away kids that have stuff. Amy says they’ve already found her spellbook, just before the police take her away. Meanwhile, Xander is freaking out because he has Playboy magazines in his locker:
Willow: “I have stuff in my locker! Henbane, hellebore, mandrake root–”
Xander: “Excuse me. Playboys. Can we turn the sympathy this way?”
Oh my god, shut up, Xander. You’re standing in the middle of a literal witch hunt, with your friend the witch. Worry about someone else for a change.
Willow tells Buffy that she did a spell with Amy and Michael to protect Buffy. It’s a birthday present. IT’S GOOD TO KNOW THAT AT LEAST SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE CONCERNED WITH PROTECTING BUFFY ON HER BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
They find the stuff in Willow’s locker, and Snyder takes her away. In the library, Giles is being raided. The cops are taking every book, and Snyder shows up to gloat. He tells them about an organization called M.O.O., Mothers Opposed to the Occult, founded by none other than Buffy’s mom.
Willow comes home to find her mother going through some witchy stuff on the coffee table. Her mother explains that she’s not surprised to see Willow involved in identifying with archetypes. She feels Willow is developmentally fine, which Willow isn’t really digging. She doesn’t want to be thought of as a demographic but as herself. Her mother says she’s worried that Willow is delusional for believing she can do spells:
Willow: “Mom, how would you know what I can do? I mean, the last time we had a conversation over three minutes it was about the patriarchal bias of the Mr. Roger’s show.”
Willow’s Mom: “Well, with King Friday lording it over all the lesser puppets–”
1) King Friday was a kind and noble ruler who had only the best interests of the citizens of the Land of Make Believe at heart.
2) This is the kind of thing that makes me think #6. The cold, uncaring feminist mother figure is a really insidious stereotype, and once you notice it, you’re going to notice it in a lot of places. Willow’s mom is a psychologist, so obviously that’s a strike against her; fictional psychologists are generally evil, meddlesome, or don’t have their own lives together. She also uses the big, scary words of an intellectual, which also informs us that she is, by virtue of her intelligence, unable to be a warm, human woman. Contrast her to Joyce. Joyce, like Willow’s mom, isn’t around much and doesn’t seem to be very involved in her daughter’s life. But she runs an art gallery. Art is an acceptable thing for a female character to be involved in. It’s all about intuition and creativity, things we unconsciously consider “female”. But intellect is a man’s domain, so it’s used as shorthand here for an uncaring mother who’s too concerned with ideas and thoughts outside of the home. Therefore, we can still see Joyce as a caring parent, while Willow’s mother is self-obsessed. There are dozens of ways they could have made Willow’s mom cold and unfeeling without using feminism and intellect as shorthand for “bad mom”.
In a fit of teen pique, Willow insists that she’s a rebel, that she sacrifices goats and worships the devil, all to try and get some kind of reaction out of her mother. The reaction she gets is a grounding and being forbidden from hanging out with Buffy.
Meanwhile, back at the M.O.O. command center:
Joyce knows about Willow’s witchcraft and forbids Buffy from ever seeing her again. She also promises that Giles will get “some” of his books back if they’re appropriate. Buffy tries to explain how important it is that they have the books so that they can fight whatever evil is out there and did this, but Joyce is focused on her fear:
Joyce: “Sweetie. Those books have no place in a public school library, especially now. Any student can waltz in there and get all sorts of ideas. Do you understand how that terrifies me?”
Boom. This sums up the entire witch hunt effect, which we can actually see happening in America and France and other countries right now. Because people fear for their own safety, they don’t care about the safety of others. They just seek to destroy, either physically or metaphorically, the people they perceive as being the problem.
On the other hand, I’m not a fan of banning books from libraries, but I agree that Giles doesn’t need to be keeping potentially dangerous and rare books in a freaking school library.
Joyce tells Buffy that reacting without a plan is fruitless, and killing monsters and evil and vampires isn’t really helping the town at all. In other words, Slayers don’t do anything. Nice one, Joyce.
Buffy: “And maybe next time that the world is getting sucked into hell I won’t be able to stop it because the anti-hell-sucking book isn’t on the approved reading list.”
Joyce: “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to put down–”
Buffy: “Well, you did. Doesn’t matter. I have to go. I have to go on one of my pointless patrols and react to some vampires. If that’s all right with M.O.O.. And nice acronym, mom.”
When Buffy leaves, Joyce says she’s just trying to make things better. And suddenly, the dead kids are there, talking to Joyce:
Dead Boy: “You are.”
Dead Girl: “There’s bad people out there.”
Dead Boy: “And we can’t sleep.”
Dead Girl: “Not until you hurt them.”
Dead Boy: “The way they hurt us.”
The playground where the dead kids were found has turned into a shrine with candles and pictures and stuffed animals, the way that shit happens. Buffy is looking at it when Angel shows up. He gives her a much-needed friend hug because he knows she’s in a bad place. They talk about why Sunnydale has reacted so strongly to this death. Buffy finds it a little hypocritical that innocent people die every day, but it’s only when kids die that they care. She tells Angel that she thinks her mom might be right: slaying might not be actually fixing anything because evil is never going to just run out. Angel tells her that it’s important to keep fighting, even though they’ll never win.
Angel: “We do it because there are things worth fighting for. Those kids. Their parents.”
Buffy: “Their parents…”
In the library, Giles is being forced to use a computer. Which means he’s basically just stress eating and screaming at it. Also known as a normal work day in Troutland. Xander and Oz have found Giles’s books. They’re at City Hall, all locked up. Buffy comes in and asks them all what they know about the dead kids. They all realize they don’t know anything about them, not even their names. They don’t even know where the pictures of the kids came from.
The problem is that Willow, the only person who knows how to search on the internet, is grounded and can’t come to the phone. Oz contacts her via computer, though, and she’s able to do all the searching on her laptop in her bedroom. I call #15. Even though Oz remembers to send her a message, that’s the extent of his expertise. Only Willow can run even a cursory search of the internet to look for information. The search finds the same kids in the same circumstances in the 1940s and 1800s.
Giles: “A hundred years? How is this possible?”
Says the guy who has literally commanded demonic forces through dark magic. Come on, Giles.
The kids show up dead every fifty years and sow chaos in small communities. And their names are Hans and Greta. But that’s all they find out before Willow’s mom comes to her and tells her that she absolutely believes everything Willow told her about witchcraft.
Willow’s mom: “Now, all I can do is let you go with love.”
Then she leaves and locks the door behind her.
Is it legal in California to have locks on kids’ bedroom doors where you can lock them in? I don’t think that’s legal in Michigan.
Giles thinks that this is a case of the Hansel and Gretel story being somewhat true:
Giles: “Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and, and persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not by, not by destroying men, but by watching men destroy each other. They feed us our darkest fear and turn peaceful communities into vigilantes.”
Buffy: “Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.”
Giles: “And then she and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob.”
Before they can do anything about it, eyeliner kid runs in with a bloody face and tells them his father attacked him. The town is gathering at City Hall for a trial, and Amy has already been taken in.
Back at Willow’s house, her mom comes to her door with other people wearing M.O.O. insignia:
Willow’s Mom: “Time to go. Oh, and get your coat, it’s chilly out.”
Willow: “Go? Go where?”
Willow’s Mom: “I said get your coat, witch!”
So things are right on schedule with the vigilante process.
Buffy and Giles hurry to tell Joyce what’s happening, but they’re quickly chloroformed by Joyce and the other M.O.O. members. Buffy sees the dead kids before she falls unconscious. They tell Joyce that they’re afraid of the bad girls and she should make them go away forever. Xander and Oz arrive at Willow’s house and find her gone and her room ransacked. She, Buffy, and Amy are at City Hall, tied to stakes surrounded by all the books that are going to be burned. One thing I’ll say for this witch hunt, they’re being super efficient.
At Buffy’s house, Giles wakes to find Cordelia slapping him repeatedly. Then she complains about her hand hurting from slapping him so much. Because Cordelia is amazing. So, if Cordelia hates her former friends so much, why is she there? Because her mother confiscated her black clothes and scented candles, so now the situation negatively affects her. And it’s a good thing she’s here because she gets to deliver one of my favorite Cordelia lines:
Cordelia: “How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one of these times you’re gonna wake up in a coma.”
Oz and Xander rush to City Hall, where concerned dads chase them down. Buffy comes to and finds herself tied to a stake, ready to burn. She tries to reason with her mom, telling this isn’t what she really wants.
Joyce: “Since when does it matter what I want? I wanted a normal, happy daughter. Instead, I got a Slayer.”
OUCH. We’re going to touch on this later.
Willow’s mom passes Joyce a torch, and they make plans to get together and have lunch, in the casual way you do when you’re about to burn your children alive. They light up the books and Amy saves herself by transforming into a rat and slipping the ropes. That leaves Willow and Buffy to fend for themselves. They threaten to turn everyone in the crowd into rodents and fish, and one man suggests they should all leave. That’s when the dead kids appear to them all and demand they fulfill their promise to get rid of the bad girls.
Giles is stuck on the car ride from hell with Cordelia, instructing her to make a potion while he tries to remember an incantation that will force the demon to appear in its true form.
Giles: “And, uh, drop a toad stone into the mixture.”
Cordelia: “This? It doesn’t look like a toad.”
Giles: “No reason it should. It’s from inside the toad.”
Cordelia: “I hate you.”
I know everyone loves watching Giles barely tolerating Xander, but I really wish we would have had more scenes of him having to deal with Cordelia one-on-one.
At City Hall, Oz and Xander crawl through the ventilation system to try to reach Buffy and Willow. Buffy begs Joyce to stop, but Joyce can’t see that she’s under the influence of the demon. Giles and Cordelia rush into City Hall and find the doors to the room where all the burning is happening are locked. Giles rips a bobby pin out of Cordelia’s hair to pick the lock, while Cordelia mocks him for his juvenile delinquent past.
I kind of want to know why anyone thought burning at the stake was a great idea inside a building. If my obsessive compulsive disorder has taught me anything, it’s that buildings are extremely flammable and you need to be constantly vigilant. I get up in the night sometimes to check outlets, just to see if they’re hot. I can’t imagine making a fire inside a building. Especially not one that’s big and hot enough to burn a human being. Like, how is everyone in that room not dying of smoke inhalation right now?
Buffy sees Giles run into the room, and she looks so hopeful and relieved to be rescued. Keep this image in mind when we get to THE EPISODE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED:
Let’s talk about #16, shall we? We have seen Buffy bend metal with her bare hands, but she can’t struggle free from some rope?
Cordelia grabs a fire hose and drives the crowd back with it, until Buffy reminds her that a better use would be to put out the fire that’s burning two people alive. Giles does the incantation to make the demon reveal its true form, and it’s not great:
This is like the final form of Station from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters 2 had a demon baby. Only when the demon isn’t cute anymore does everyone realize that hey, it is kind of weird that dead kids were controlling their actions. It tries to keep doing its “protect us” schtick, but it’s not as convincing anymore. Now that it’s convenient to the plot, Buffy is able to break the stake she’s tied to. She leans forward and there’s a big, wet crunch.
Buffy: “Did I get it? Did I get it?”
Yeah, I think you got it.
Then Oz and Xander crash through the ceiling to rescue them.
We cut to Willow’s house, where she and Buffy are doing a spell to try and change Amy back from her rat state. Buffy asks if Willow’s mom knows they’re doing the spell, and she doesn’t. It seems that the parenting in Sunnydale has returned to the usual:
Willow: “She’s doing that selective memory thing your mom used to be so good at.”
The spell doesn’t work, and Amy is still a rat.
Buffy: “Maybe we should get her one of those wheel things.”
And that’s it. That’s where the episode ends. These girls were almost burned to death by their own mothers, but that’s never dealt with. And Buffy. Let’s get back to what Joyce said about Buffy.
The demon did not make Joyce suddenly hate the fact that her daughter is a Slayer. This is a common theme throughout season three. She doesn’t like that Buffy is the Slayer. She never seems to stop wishing Buffy didn’t have to be the Slayer. That’s not support, it’s begrudging acceptance. And now she’s tried to burn Buffy at the stake. Sure, Buffy knows that the burning thing was a result of the demon’s influence, but she heard her mom say that she wishes she had a different daughter. And we never see any resolution on that. Just, ha ha, Amy is a rat. It’s so disappointing. Even a short scene of Joyce telling Buffy that no matter what the demon made her say she loves her and is proud of her would have gone a long way in making Joyce a more likable character.
Other than the tragic omission of a resolution to the I-wish-I-had-a-different-daughter thing, this is a solid monster-of-the-week episode, and it’s awesome that it finally breaks #8. It also shows us that #8 is preferable to the alternative. When people in Sunnydale actually see what’s going on, they react…poorly.
Next up, the worst episode of the entire series. Somebody hold me.
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And right out of the gate you’re proving that not recapping Grey has done nothing to your general awesomeness! Amazing recap, though all these screengrabs are doing is reminding me that I wish I was Sarah Michelle Gellar, who may be the most perfect woman alive. (I wonder if she’s been doing anything lately? She’s a pretty underrated actress . . .) These recaps always make me think, which is not something I do very much when watching TV. On the one hand it’s sad, because it points out all of the fucked-up and stupid stuff I blissfully ignored while the writers led me around by the nose, but your insights are so entertaining that I can’t be too disappointed that my favorite show has some serious flaws.
Joyce is honestly more evil than any demon in this show, and the fact that (SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5) her death is so upsetting is a testament to Whedon and co.’s emotional manipulation skills. Which isn’t an insult, exactly, but I’m not sure it’s a compliment either. (END SPOILERS)
SMG started a company! They’re like Blue Apron, but specifically with desserts you can do with your kids. It’s called FoodStirs. And her husband recently wrote a cookbook. I guess they’re just really, really into food and moved into that area of interest.
This was 100% the scariest episode ever for me when I was a teenager. I just double checked the air date, and was surprised to discover that it originally aired in January of 1999. Several months before Columbine.
As a goth kid in Catholic school, though, this episode was, like, my actual greatest fear. I literally had nightmares about scenarios like this for years and years, and they got way worse after Columbine. I remember that this episode was hugely important to me at the time because I felt like literally no one else was on my side in this sort of thing, and while it was terrifying it also made me feel a lot better to see that there was someone, anyone out there who could tell a story like this where the parents’ panicking actually harms their kids.
Linus: In all the world, Charlie Brown, there is nothing so terrible as the getting together of a group of parents.
Soooo, since you’re no longer doing Grey (*crying face!*), is there a possibility of getting more frequent BtVS recaps? Because this is now what i live for….
I was always so bummed I missed out on Buffy when it was on tv, but these recaps are my favorite and totally make up for it!
I remember this one giving me the creeps! Everyone assuming and not even knowing the kids. I grew up in a small town and Sunnyvale reminds me of it.
Jemmy
What gets me about this is it is clear everyone knows there’s problems in Sunnydale. The speech Joyce gives that goes through all the odd things that happens to people, none of that stuff was related to the kids but it all gets brushed away again. Despite the demon being killed right in front of the mob.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s something in the water that makes anyone over a certain mentally blind to stuff. There’s a level of gross carelessness towards the children and the rest of the community that is mind boggling.
I mentally ret-conned it so that Hellmouths all have some kind of pervasive, dark bullshit that makes people who live there really negligent in terms of noticing and stopping evil. Otherwise why would you live there at all?
While I agree that it is disappointing there wasn’t a specific wrap-up to the Joyce/Buffy/Slayer/disappointment theme at the end of this episode; I feel that throughout the rest of the series, you see gradual change in Joyce’s attitude and in her and Buffy’s relationship. Which might be accidental, but I always liked how Joyce kind of gradually becomes momlier, more comforting figure in the Scooby gang.
In the beginning of the series, she is legit terrible, though.
Agree. I think that by the time The Body rocks up in Season 5, Joyce has just about redeemed herself as far as those earlier episodes go. At least to me, anyway. I guess if any parent found out their child had such a huge weight on their shoulders; a job that they couldn’t quit and that has a better than even chance of getting them killed one day, they’d be less than thrilled about it. I don’t know if they’d make the comment Joyce did about not wanting the Slayer for a daughter but they’d find ways of voicing their disapproval and worry. I think Joyce’s worst moment comes in Episode 1 of Season four when her daughter returns from college upset and Joyce doesn’t want to hear about it. She’s even using Buffy’s bedroom for storage. Who the fuck does that?!
Just dropping this off
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I’ve been looking forward to your review of Helpless ever since you started hinting at how much you hate it. 😀
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You forgot one of my favorite lines from this episode! When the demon transforms into its actual firm and Cordelia says “I think I like the two little ones better than the one big one.” Charisma Carpenter’s delivery is so perfectly hilarious. I always laugh at that line.
Yeah. I love the “wake up in a coma” line better though. I always get fits of giggles at that one.
This was the first episode of “Buffy” I ever saw! (I was kind of late to the party, and only caught up with the show on DVD a few years later.) It’s such a heavily serialized show that I didn’t really understand all the character beats, but the central horror of the story resonated.
It’s not just Joyce, is it? EVERYONE is a fucking terrible parent. Willow’s parents are totally distant, and I’m not sure we ever even see Xander’s, but they’re clearly awful and maybe abusive. I think Faith is an orphan? It’s probably supposed to mirror the way teenagers can feel isolated from their families, but it would have been cool to have a supportive actual parent, like Keith Mars on “Veronica Mars” or Joyce Byers on “Stranger Things”.
Oh, look, this is one of those episodes where I get to wave around my bedazzled giant three!!!
God, I really hate Joyce in these seasons.
Noisyninja
Hey, at least Buffy got rid of those ridiculous bangs from “Amends”…
Uh so I found the most perfect thing for you. https://www.etsy.com/listing/272747828/buffy-prayer-candles?ref=shop_home_active_4 (Giles specifically.)
I know this is super late but I always liked how they had “The Wish” before this episode show that actually, Joyce, if Buffy wasn’t out there, “reacting” to vampires and evil, Sunnydale would be a hell of a lot worse. Pun intended.
Being autistic and living life near those “autism mommies” made me look at this episode, particularly the exchanges between Joyce and Willow’s mom, in a different life. I mean, telling your friend that vilifying her own child “must be so hard on [her]”? Sounded a little too familiar for my taste.
And that thing where Joyce acts like being a Slayer is something Buffy did to punish her? How she says she’s trying to be accepting, when in reality, she just constantly makes things worse because she hates something about her daughter that Buffy didn’t even choose? Something that isn’t even necessarily bad, just different?
I definitely see the Slayer/Gay parallels, but this episode felt personal for me for autistic reasons over queer reasons.
Nichol DeCastra
Is it just me or do a lot of the mother figures in Joss’s shows seem to be terrible?
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Hamari Traoré from JMG Academy Mali
Hamary Traoré is a JMG Academician right fullback from Bamako, Mali. Who plays in French D1 with the Stade Rennais. Plays with Mali National Team Full name Hamari Traoré Date of birth 27 January 1992 Place of birth Bamako, Mali Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Playing position Right-back Club information...
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Multi Residential
House Ocean View 208 Fresnaye
The brief for the remodelling of an existing house in Ocean View Drive, included maximising the views and retaining as much of the garden as possible as well as assuring safe access to and from the site parking. To achieve this brief, the existing garage was relocated from under the terrace onto Ocean View Drive. This made it possible to do away with the majority of the old driveway and transform the area into a new garden.
The old garage was replaced by a new lounge and 2 new bedrooms. These enjoy direct access to the new enlarged garden and pool area. The first floor comprises the new repositioned garage with indirect access to Ocean view Drive, the entrance, lounge, kitchen, dining room, and a covered terrace with openable roof. Fully operable sliding doors between the lounge and covered terrace with built-in braai ensures that this North facing space is perfect for entertainment purpose all year round.
The materials used are not only clean, but are also kept within a natural colour palate. They include off shutter concrete ceilings, combined with skimmed and white painted ceiling bulkheads. The house features two interior stairs. A solid tiled stair leads down to the ground floor and the other floating steel and timber stair leads up to the second floor. The roof is a dominant feature of the house and is stepped and floats elegantly over a concrete ring beam. On the North West side of the house, it has exceptionally long overhangs to protect against the North West orientation.
The high level windows, were designed to capture views whilst retaining privacy and allowing light to enter. The main bedroom and guest room bedroom suites are both located on the first floor, they feature a floating roof and tongue and groove timber finish. It perfectly complements the natural materials used in the spaces and adds a sense of fluidity, which is furthermore enhanced by the uninterrupted vistas from Sea Point to Robben Island.
House Drelingcourt Fresnaye
66 Roeland Street, Cape Town, 8001
info@kmma.co.za
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Oil Patch
Category: Jordan-Eberle
Entry Level Contract Players AHL Eligible
by Lisa Brown on 09/11/12 at 10:15 PM ET
Saturday’s deadline looms, and there isn’t much hope on the horizon. The Edmonton Oilers are split down the middle; guys who can’t afford to miss a year’s salary because they are in the final half of their careers, and guys who just starting their career and who can’t get rusty. And so none of the players look forward to any kind of work stoppage.
Currently, only Nail Yakupov has come out and said that he will play in Europe, the KHL more specifically should the NHL season be cancelled. The rest, many are preparing to receive an assignment to the AHL and the Oklahoma City Barons.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Nail Yakupov, Justin Schultz, Jordan Eberle, Magnus Pääjärvi, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Oilers Ink Eberle to 6 Years $36 Million
Cross another name off of the list of young players that the Oilers need to ink up long term as Lady Byng candidate sophomore Jordan Eberle has signed his extension. While Eberle’s agent may have gone into negotiations with the intentions of signing Eberle to more money than Hall based on their current production to date, Eberle has in fact signed a deal quite similar to his roommate, teammate and friend Taylor Hall, 6 years $36 million.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Tags: jordan+eberle, taylor+hall
No Oiler Award Winners… This Year
by Lisa Brown on 06/21/12 at 12:00 AM ET
It was close, but neither Ryan Nugent-Hopkins or Jordan Eberle walked away from the annual NHL awards show in Las Vegas with an award. Both players placed second in voting for their respective awards; the Calder Trophy and the Lady Byng.What might be considered shocking is that 2 voters placed Nugent-Hopkins as 5th best, and 12 as 4th rookie of the year (as per Dan Tencer). Of course both players are happy just to be nominated, but surely it won’t be too long before players like Eberle and Nugent-Hopkins are awarded something.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Jordan Eberle Gives Babk To Regina
While Canadian summers are known to be short, Canadians like Jordan Eberle try to make the most of the time we are given. After the Oilers missed the post season, again, Eberle was selected to play in the Worlds for Canada. But even there Eberle saw an early exit. Now according to Greg Harder of the Regina Leader Post Eberle has a busy summer ahead of him raising money through golf in him home town of Regina.
Eberle enjoyed home-course advantage Thursday when he took part in the sixth annual Shooting Stars Foundation golf gala at the Royal Regina Golf Club. Eberle has a vested interest in the event after joining forces last year with Shooting Stars, a local charitable organization founded by former NHLers Jamie Heward and Mike Sillinger. The trio invited a handful of other NHL players and local celebrities to take part in the two-day event, concluding today with the Sticks on Rose street hockey tournament.
It’s a busy time for Eberle, who is also slated to be back in Regina on July 11-12 for the first-ever Eberle and Friends Golf Classic, in support of the Hospitals of Regina Foundation.
“Being a Regina boy, it’s nice to give back,” said Eberle, who now resides in Calgary. “I still have lots of family here and I try to get back as much as I can. Hewie and Silly are guys I looked up to growing up. They followed the same path as me as far as playing for the (WHL’s Regina) Pats and then moving on to the NHL. To actually be a part of (Shooting Stars) is kind of a no-brainer.”
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Oilers Well Represented at the 2012 Worlds
The Edmonton Oilers have two first overall players and a third one this summer but it is Jordan Eberle making headlines in the post season. Eblere was surely an easy pick for Team Canada and the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships in Sweden and Finland and now that pick is paying off.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Devan Dubnyk, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Oilers 2011-12 Season: The Good
The Edmonton Oilers’ season did not go the way that many had expected, but somehow things have worked out. The team starred the season off with rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scoring his first NHL goal in his first NHL game and then also the game winning shootout goal in the team’s home opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Nugent-Hopkins would go on to win the rookie of the month title for the month of October while netminders Nikolai Khabibulin and Devan Dubnyk would put up unreal numbers of their own and Khabibulin would be named the NHL third star of the same month. Things may have gone downhill from there, but this was a far more exciting season than years previous.
Jordan Eberle Nominated for Lady Byng
The Edmonton Oilers will not be raising any banners earned from this season to the rafters of Rexall Place, but now two players have the possibility of raising a trophy. Last week it was announced that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was a finalist for the Calder Trophy and now Jordan Eberle has been selected as a finalist for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. While the Lady Byng may not be the award midget or even junior players dream of winning it is still a prestigious award that has been handed out to a very impressive and talented list of players.
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Oilers beat Blue Jackets 6-3 in rare afternoon victory
It is official, the last place team has been determined and for the first time in three years, it’s not the Edmonton Oilers. Of course speaking to some Columbus fans in the stands, they believe that they will not be lucky enough to actually draft first overall. To that I say, you just never know.
This Oilers win also means that the Oilers are no longer the worst Canadian team, at least for now, and because they are now tied for 71 points with the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Islanders.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Ales Hemsky, Jordan Eberle, Ladislav Smid, Ryan Jones, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan Smyth, Taylor Hall, Theo Peckham, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Howling For You
Oilers lose 3-2 to Coyotes
It was close, so close. The Oilers nearly had their first victory over the Phoenix Coyotes of the season, even if it was during their last meeting of the season. But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. After taking a two goal second period lead, the Oilers finally succumbed to the Yotes in the third period and lost in the shootout.
Filed in: Edmonton Oilers, Ales Hemsky, Devan Dubnyk, Jordan Eberle, | Oil Patch | Permalink
Eberle Hits 30
As we all know, the Edmonton Oilers finished 30th. Two years in a row. Shockingly, the first time around there was still a 32 goal scorer on the team; Dustin Penner. The second time, the top goal scorer on an injury riddled team was Taylor Hall with 22. This season and in early March, Jordan Eberle has defied expectations and hit 30 goals in 62 games. Of course Eberle leads the Oilers in scoring. The best part is, he’s not done yet and the Oilers will not finish 30th.
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Deepcell Expands Leadership Team to Shape the Future of Cell Morphology
Innovation, high-growth opportunities and long-term vision of Deepcell attract top talent to its senior management team
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Deepcell, a life science company pioneering AI-powered cell classification and isolation for cell biology and translational research, today announced the expansion of its executive leadership team. Marc Montserrat joins as Chief Business Officer of Deepcell, bringing two decades of experience at successful therapeutics, diagnostics and life sciences companies, including Roche and Genentech. The company also announced that Matt Posard, a 30-year life sciences industry veteran and former Illumina executive, will guide Deepcell’s leadership team as Chief Strategist, providing strategic guidance and executive-level support.
In his new role as CBO, Marc Montserrat is responsible for managing the company’s business development and providing leadership to create value for customers, partners and investors through strategic alignment and cross-functional execution. Before joining Deepcell, he was VP of Commercial Development at Omniome, and, prior to that role, he was International Business Leader for NIPT at Roche Diagnostics, where he helped scale the business from a startup at Ariosa Diagnostics to the sale and integration within Roche. Marc graduated with honors from the Wharton School with an MBA and from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya with a master’s degree in industrial engineering.
“I’m excited to join Deepcell and help drive the company’s mission to revolutionize cell isolation and classification by bringing cell morphology into the digital age,” said Montserrat. “Deepcell’s innovation is a breakthrough to contextualize and generate insights from cell morphology data through artificial intelligence. By identifying cell types in a hypothesis-free manner with high accuracy and isolating label-free, viable cells, Deepcell opens up new horizons for pharma and biotech companies, as well as academic and clinical researchers who are analyzing cells.”
As Chief Strategist, Matt Posard supports the executive team in charting Deepcell’s strategy, driving the company’s platform approach to address a wide breadth of applications relevant to cell biology. Posard continues to serve on the boards of Halozyme Therapeutics and Dermtech Inc., as well as sit on a number of private boards. Prior to his current work advising early stage companies, Posard was in key leadership positions at Illumina for nearly a decade. He has vast experience in launching novel products, especially instruments and consumables, and generating high growth and leading market share.
“I have a passion for helping advance start-up companies with disruptive technologies, such as Deepcell, and after what I have witnessed of their uniquely special approach to cell biology, I see Deepcell as having a real path to transform biological research, diagnostics and therapeutics in the future,” said Posard, who takes on the fractional executive role at a pivotal point. “Deepcell’s emergence from stealth mode recently comes at a perfect time when the converging of high speed, high resolution imaging with advanced microfluidics and AI gives us the opportunity to forever change research and applications of cell biology.”
Maddison Masaeli, co-founder and CEO of Deepcell, said, “We’re very pleased that Marc and Matt are part of our journey to take Deepcell to the next level. Their knowledge and collective experience will be highly valuable in bringing our AI-powered innovation to market and engaging with the life science and biomedical community to maximize the potential of our unique technology platform.”
For more information about Deepcell, please go to www.deepcell.com.
About Deepcell
Deepcell is helping to advance precision medicine by combining advances in AI, cell classification and capture, and single-cell analysis to deliver novel insights through an unprecedented view of cell biology. Spun out of Stanford University in 2017, the company has created unique, microfluidics-based technology that uses continuously learning AI to classify cells based on detailed visual features and sort them without inherent bias. The Deepcell platform maintains cell viability for downstream single-cell analysis and can be used to isolate virtually any type of cell, even those occurring at frequencies as low as one in a billion. The technology will initially be available as a service for use in translational research as well as diagnostics and therapeutic development. Deepcell is privately held and based in Mountain View, CA. For more information, please visit deepcellbio.com.
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The Glass Fiber Market Is Expected to Reach $10.4 Billion By 2026
DALLAS, TX / ACCESSWIRE / January 14, 2021 / According to a new market report published by Lucintel, the future of the global glass fiber market is promising with opportunities in the transportation, construction, pipe and tank, electrical and electronics, consumer goods, and wind energy industry. The global glass fiber market is declined in 2020 due to global economic recession led by COVID-19. However, market will witness recovery in the year 2021 and it is expected to reach an estimated $10.4 billion by 2026 with a CAGR of 2% to 4% from 2021 to 2026. The major driver for this market is rise in demand for products made of glass composites; these include bathtubs, pipes, tanks, printed circuit boards, wind blades, and automotive parts.
Browse 101 market data tables and 148 figures spread through 240 pages and in-depth TOC on “Global Glass Fiber Market”
To download report brochure, please go to https://www.lucintel.com/glass-fiber-market.aspx and click ” download brochure ” tab from the menu.
In this market, different types of glass fiber such as E/ECR glass fiber, S glass fiber, C glass fiber and others are used as fiber type. On the basis of its comprehensive research, Lucintel forecasts that E (ECR) glass will remain the largest fiber type by value and volume over the forecast period.
Within the global glass fiber market, transportation will remain the largest market by value and volume over the forecast period due to government regulations, such as CAFE Standards in the US and carbon emission targets in Europe, are putting pressure on OEMs to incorporate lightweight materials to curb the overall vehicle weight.
Asia Pacific is expected to remain the largest region by value and volume and is also expected to experience the highest growth over the forecast period because of growth in construction, transportation, and the electrical and electronics segments. Growing economy, growth in population, and urbanization are the major forces that drive the construction segment, especially in China and India.
Emerging trends, which have a direct impact on the dynamics of the glass fiber industry, include cost optimization and performance enhancement of glass fibers. Owens Corning, Jushi, Nippon Electric Glass Co. Ltd., Taishan Fiberglass Inc., Chongqing Polycomp International Corporation (CPIC), Johns Manville, Nittobo, Goa Glass Fiber Ltd, Taiwan Glass Group, and Sichuan Weibo New Material Group Co., Ltd. And others are among the major glass fiber manufacturers.
Lucintel, a leading global strategic consulting and market research firm, has analyzed the global glass fiber market by application type, fiber type, product type, manufacturing process, region, and country and has come up with a comprehensive research report entitled “Growth Opportunities in the Global Glass Fiber Market 2021-2026: Trends, Forecast, and Opportunity Analysis.” The Lucintel report serves as a catalyst for growth strategy as it provides a comprehensive data and analysis on trends, key drivers, and directions. The study includes a forecast for the global glass fiber market by application type, fiber type, product type, manufacturing process, region, and country as follows:
By Application Type (million pounds and $ million shipment analysis from 2015 to 2026):
Pipe and Tank
By Fiber Type (million pounds and $ million shipment analysis from 2015 to 2026):
E/ECR Glass fiber
S Glass fiber
C Glass Fiber
By Product Type (million pounds and $ million shipment analysis in 2020):
Single end roving
Multi end roving
DUCS
By Manufacturing Process (million pounds and $ million shipment analysis from 2015 to 2026):
Hand lay up
Spray up
Pultrusion
Prepreg lay up
By Region (million pounds and $ million shipment analysis from 2015 to 2026):
The Rest of the World
By Country (Value ($M) and Volume (M lbs) shipment analysis for 2015- 2026):
This 240-page research report will enable you to make confident business decisions in this globally competitive marketplace. For a detailed table of contents, contact Lucintel at +1-972-636-5056 or click on this link helpdesk@lucintel.com.
About Lucintel
Lucintel, the premier global management consulting and market research firm, creates winning strategies for growth. It offers market assessments, competitive analysis, opportunity analysis, growth consulting, M&A, and due diligence services to executives and key decision-makers in a variety of industries. For further information, visit www.lucintel.com.
Brandon Fitzgerald
Lucintel
Email: brandon.fitzgerald@lucintel.com
High Performance Glass Fiber Market Report:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/high-performance-glass-fiber-market.aspx
Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic Market:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/glass-fiber-reinforced-plastic-market.aspx
Global FRP Pipes Market:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/fc/frp-pipe-market-2020.aspx
Middle East Glass Fiber Market:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/middle-east-glass-fiber-market-2016-2021.aspx
Emerging Carbon Fiber Applications:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/carbon-fiber-applications-2016.aspx
FRP Pole Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/frp-pole-market.aspx
Growth Opportunities for Composites in the Global Mass Transportation and Off Road Equipment Market:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/composites-in-mass-transportation-and-off-road.aspx
Growth Opportunities in the European Glass Fiber Market:
For more details click here: https://www.lucintel.com/european-glass-fiber-market.aspx
Opportunities for the FRP Tank in the Water and Wastewater Market in the:
For more details click here https://www.lucintel.com/United-States/opportunities-for-the-frp-tank-in-the-water-and-wastewater.aspx
Composites in the Passenger Rail Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis:
For more details click here: https://www.lucintel.com/passenger-rail-composites-market.aspx
SOURCE: Lucintel
https://www.accesswire.com/624292/The-Glass-Fiber-Market-Is-Expected-to-Reach-104-Billion-By-2026
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EO GLOBAL
To UnboXX is to discover and share different opportunities and possibilities that today's situation presents to us.
For 2020-2021 EO Philippine Chapter will focus on 3 priorities: Engagement/Connection, Community and Clear Communication.
EO is a gift waiting to be UnboXXed by entrepreneurs
As a member of EO, you gain access to a wide variety of tailor-made benefits designed to help you grow your business and become a better leader. Learn More...
EO membership is by invitation and is for Entrepreneurs Only. To inquire about membership, apply or to find out more information, click this.
Lisset Laus-Velasco
Meet Lisset. She's the chairman and CEO of Laus Group of Companies. They are in the automotive, non-life insurance, food and media industries among others. She's been with EO since 2011 and currently serves as EO's Chapter President
Mahesh Mirpuri
Member Engagement Co-Chair and President Elect
Meet Mahesh. He's a serial entrepreneur. One of his companies is Styletex Corp, which manufactures apparel where he's the current CEO. He's been with EO for over than seven years now and on the board for five.
Richard Tiu
Ambassador Chair
Meet Richard, He's with the ambassador committee. He's been with EO for almost twenty-three years. He may look like an extrovert but deep inside he's an introvert. He's into manufacturing plastic and rubber products.
Edison Yap
Meet Edison. He's married to Emily, with two daughters aged twelve and four. He's the General Manager of Clairmont, a company whose purpose is to fulfill the need for space. He's been a member of EO for more than two years, and currently its finance chair.
Forum Chair
Meet Jenny. She's our current Forum Chair. She's the CFO of Plastmann Industrial Corporation & Gran Alphatech International Corp. She's been with EO for seven years.
Jean De Castro
Forum C0-Chair
Jean is the CEO of ESCA Inc., a Filipino-owned full service Engineering Firm that provides Engineering Design, Project Management and Building Information Modelling (BIM) services to local and foreign clients for more than 35 years. She is also the CEO of ESCA International Inc. (EII), an engineering outsourcing company that provides high value outsourcing services to clients abroad
Merrick Sua
Forum Co-Chair
Meet Merrick. He's the current Managing Director of Unisell Corporation, a leading full-service sales, marketing, and distribution company in the Philippines for household, health, personal care, and beauty products.
Trixie Whyte
Meet Trixie. She's the founder, President and Visionary of Q2 HR Solutions Group of Companies. Q2 is the leading Fully Integrated HR solutions provider in the Philippines and they are in the business of uplifting lives in the Human Resources space. She's been with EO for six years.
JP Tuazon
GSEA
Meet JP. He's the CEO of Tuason Racing School. Their company's purpose is to make dreams come true for their clients and employees thru motorsports. He's been with EO for six years and on his fourth year serving on the board as the GSEA chair.
Andoni Albert
EO Hero
Meet Andoni. He's the CEO of Kation Technologies Inc. Kation Technologies is an IT company in the Philippines that serves clients in the Asia Pacific region, especially customers who are growing and who see the need to transform their businesses.
Vincent Grey
Meet Vincent. He's been with EO for almost twenty years. His companies are FilTech that resell mobile load, collect payments from migrant workers, and make it possible for them to participate in e-commerce. He's a father of four.
Liza Morales - Crespo
Meet Liza. She's the CEO of Philippine Geogreen Inc, a distribution company focused on sustainable products. She's been with EO for three years.
Leah Z. Caringal
Meet Leah. She's the founder and CEO of Greenbulb Communications and RedTorch Communications. Her companies role is creating and sharing brand stories that create positive change. She's an EO member since 2016
Edward Lim
Meet Edward. He's the President of Morning Star Milling Corporation, a flour milling and pasta manufacturing company. He's been with EO for the last eighteen years and has occupied all sort of roles in the organization. He's happy to be back on the local chapter!
Audrey Uy
Meet Audrey. She's the Co-Founder of Frozen MNL, Frozen MNL is a homegrown website that specializes in all things, well, frozen—from meats to fish to desserts and of course, frozen meals.
Ray Roxas-Chua
Meet Ray. He's been an EO member for thirteen years. He runs his family businesses in glass container manufacturing and real estate development, and dabbles in e-commerce. He's married with four boys.
Marvin Tiu Lim
Meet Marvin. A happy and lighthearted type of guy! He's a new EO Member for only a year and he has been learning and growing so much since then. He works with his family in th FMCG industry.
Laura Verallo de Bertotto
Meet Laura. She's a big believer in spreading(like a great cream!) kindness-health-happiness, with a background in critical theory, race and gender, and a cocktail fan. She's the "dew"-good CEO of VMV HYPOALLERGENICS®, she's here to save the world's skin with the safest, most(proven) effective care on the planet.
Atticus King
Meet Atticus. His paradigm in his journey through life is that of a seeker, He plays the role of a father and a husband and he spent most of his time operating a motel business called Victoria Court. He calls himself the Chief Mascot, but his guys calls him the CEO. He's been with EO since 2009.
Rain Belo Cincochan
Meet Rain. She's a second-generation owner and the current president of their family business, Wilcon Depot. She's been with EO for eight years.
Madonna Idica
MyEO
She's the managing director for EcoSci Food, an importer and distributor of frozen meat, seafood and potato items. EcoSci Food is a vehicle for growth, enabling both its people and food entrepreneurs to think big or bigger. She's been with EO for more than a year.
Manny Ayala
Meet Manny. He's been with EO since 2008. He's currently the Managing Director of Endeavor Philippines, an organization that helps scale up High Impact Entrepreneurs. He's a father of two.
Shiela Ramos
Meet Sheila. She's been with EO for over twenty years as one of it's pioneering members, Along with her husband. They've built, closed and sold businesses ranging from food to technology. Currently, their primary occupation is raising their sons, whilst investing on the side.
Debbie Rodrigo
MyEO Engage
Meet Debbie. She's the managing director of Sugar Crafts Inc. They manufacture handcrafted edible sugar decorations for export for the last eighteen years. She joined EO in November 2014.
Wilbert Cua
Meet Wilbert. He considers himself a Jack-of-All-Trades. He's the GM of Optimal Systems Distribution. He's been with EO for four years.
Benson Siao
Meet Benson. Currently, Robinson W. Siao occupies the position of President & Chief Executive Officer at Value Quest Securities Corp. Benson is also on the board of 5 other companies..
Ann Pastrana
Meet Ann. Wife of Chet Pastrana, mom to four adult children. She is a Co-Founder and Executive Vice-President of FastCat, a domestic shipping company connecting the Philippine Islands via Ferry Safe, Ferry Fast and Ferry Convenient Ferries. She's been with EO since 2000.
Sheree Gotuaco
Meet Sheree. She's the CEO of Stylist in Pocket Technology, Inc. and Omnimoda Intl, Inc. (Freeway Ensembles). She's been with EO from the very start as a member of the Spousal forum when her husband Eric was a member of the second forum formed. When Eric left EO, she joined as a member around four years later.
Javi Ko
NextGen Board
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Louis market, a rep told Best Products. The Impossible Whopper features a flame-grilled patty made from plants topped with sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup and pickles on a toasted sesame seed bun. Impossible Foods Stock. Impossible Burger. Burger King and its Impossible Whopper are taking the world by storm, boosting stocks and giving Beyond Meat a run for its money. National chains such as Umami Burger, White Castle, The Counter, and others already have the 2. Back in September 2019, Impossible Burger hit store shelves. First things first, let me just say this: In general, I am not really much of a hypebeast. Onet: codzienne źródło informacji milionów Polaków - wiadomości z kraju i ze świata 24/7, pogoda, sport, biznes, moto, rozrywka. Article Stock Quotes (2) Comments (0) The flagship product, Impossible Burger, was named top plant-based burger by the New York Times and received the Food and Beverage. 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Impossible Foods announces that Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is rolling out Impossible Burger grounds at 2,100 stores, starting today. The Impossible Burger — 'made from plants for people who love ground beef' — is debuting at 13 restaurants in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Impossible Foods said on Thursday it will sell plant-based meat burgers in the United States directly to consumers through its own website, as demand for vegan alternatives surge. The company's products are created using a combination of ingredients like fats, amino acids, and vitamins from plants that deliver the texture and taste of conventional beef, enabling consumers to get a healthy alternative for meat and dairy. The burger is available in more than 450 restaurants across the country, and debuted in a dozen of Canada's top restaurants a month ago. Burger King launches The Impossible Taste Test to introduce their Impossible Whopper. Impossible Foods introduced the new items at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. Find Free Vectors, Stock Photos, PSD and Icons. After a massive increase in distribution, restaurant owners are frustrated by stock-outs of the Impossible Burger, a plant-based burger patty made by Impossible Foods, they told Eater. As plant-based foods become more popular, Impossible Foods is catering to the consumer demand. The Impossible Burger, which even “bleeds,” has received over $250 million in support from investors like Bill Gates. “I think one of the insights we had during the entire process is that it really does taste like beef,” Finazzo said. Meatless burgers are becoming so popular that companies like Impossible Foods are having trouble meeting demand for their Impossible Burger, and investors are taking note of the potentially. 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Burger & Lobster restaurants serve wild, live Atlantic lobsters, prime cut and aged beef burgers, and have a tempting cocktail list. A Chop House Hamburger. The company recently launched a new burger, called the Impossible Burger 2. The Impossible burger brings back that nostalgia. This is evident in its 2019 introduction of Impossible Burger “2. To see if your favorite restaurant or brewery has updated its stock, visit the Impossible Foods’ location finder. Company profile page for Impossible Foods Inc including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information Walmart to Sell Impossible Burgers, a. The Restaurant Brands International Inc (NYSE: QSR) chain said the inclusion in the "2 for. Chef Bill Erath prepared this ‘Beyond Burger’ at Rocky River Tap & Table in Granger. The company's products are created using a combination of ingredients like fats, amino acids, and vitamins from plants that deliver the texture and taste of conventional beef, enabling consumers to get a healthy alternative for meat and dairy. The only thing better than polishing off a Sack of Sliders alone, is doing it with friends. Starting this fall, the plant-based meat substitute will be available at about 1,500 colleges, corporate cafeterias and hospitals through Sodexo, a foodservice. The official Impossible Burger website describes that the burger is made from wheat, coconut oil The impossible burger is also way healthier than a normal burger as it is completely plant based. Impossible TM Pork Made from Plants. The plant-based burger, which was previously only available at restaurants, obtained FDA approval to be sold in grocery stores in response to a petition submitted by Impossible Foods. The second problem: The soy leghemoglobin Impossible uses in its burgers doesn’t come directly from soy plants. We are happy to announce that the burger is now part of City Works’s gourmet burger selection , served all day every day. By Wayne Duggan , Contributor May 24, 2019 By Wayne Duggan , Contributor May 24, 2019, at 3:10 p. Order now on www. Ingredients You Know and Taste You'll Love. Impossible Burger is made from simple, plant-based ingredients. Twenty-seven Gelson’s Markets in Southern California. Burger King Cuts Impossible Whopper Price on Slowing Sales By. Kocaman ele sığmayan burgerlerden değiliz biz! Burgeri en basit, en sevilen, en iyi malzemelerle yapıyoruz ve buna. The Impossible Burger's biggest competitor is Beyond Burger, another popular plant-based option. Impossible Cheeseburger Pie -- Gluten Free. Impossible Foods is no longer trying to win a coveted deal to supply McDonald's Corp with plant-based burgers, telling Reuters it cannot produce enough of its imitation meat to partner. Washington Insider: Impossible Burger’s Regulatory Fight The New York Times is reporting that the new non-meat meat, the “impossible burger,” is under regulatory examination. Controversy over Burger King’s Impossible Burgers cooking methods were first sparked at the beginning of August when the chain’s US head, Chris Finazzo, told Bloomberg the vegan option would. Craft beer/wine available. On Thursday, Impossible Foods announced that Walmart would roll out the Impossible Burger grounds at 2,100 stores starting that day. Download SVG and PNG. Hello, As I write this I’m having what might be described as an allergic reaction to Beyond Meat… First, I do not have any known food allergies and can’t think of anything I eat that makes me react badly to food. Read the latest headlines, news stories, and opinion from Politics, Entertainment, Life, Perspectives, and more. Impossible Burger is sold at 17,000 restaurants in the United States, Hong Kong and Macau in China, the company estimates. Burger King will run a limited-time offer to promote the Impossible Whopper via its mobile app and DoorDash delivery partner. Click on the locations tab above for more info on the hours of operation for your favorite burger stand. The official Impossible Burger website describes that the burger is made from wheat, coconut oil, and potatoes, but this secret ingredient is heme. And yet, Impossible isn't necessarily completely out of the woods: The company is currently in the midst of its largest rollout yet, hoping to stock over 7,000 Burger King locations nationwide by the. Impossible Foods, which has kicked to meet ultimatum, said Monday it is increasing the number of hours and employees at its Oakland, California, plant. Sodium: The Impossible Burger has a 370 mg of sodium versus 82 mg in a standard beef patty. 75% off (4 days ago) Tuicoupon regularly update the results of burger king impossible whopper coupons on the page. Impossible Burgers are so popular, their maker can barely keep up with demand. , so hot right now; also has juice), attracting such celebrity investors as Jay-Z and Serena Williams and earning. >> How To Buy Enterprise Stock. August 2020. Download this stock image: Vedang Plant is a vegan fast food in Berlin with Impossible food and plant based burger. Get breaking news, photos, and video of your favorite WWE Superstars. View Impossible Foods stock / share price, financials, funding rounds, investors and more at Craft. Easy Returns. All drive thrus and dining rooms are open. Instead, Impossible has implanted the soy gene responsible for creating it in yeast cells—specifically Pichia pastoris, one of the workhorses of biotech. Carbs: An Impossible Burger contains nine grams of carbs versus ZERO in a standard beef burger (in both cases without a bun, of course). Burger King’s Impossible Whopper uses the Impossible Burger 2. Impossible Burger is sold at 17,000 restaurants in the United States, Hong Kong and Macau in China, the company estimates. The Impossible Burger by Impossible Foods is similar to Beyond Meat - except it's made with soy The Impossible Burger seems more expensive, but that could be because it's only carried by fancy. Year to date, Beyond Meat’s stock price has gained. Published on 26 October 2020 at 4:59am EST on Ca. The company's products are created using a combination of ingredients like fats, amino acids, and vitamins from plants that deliver the texture and taste of conventional beef, enabling consumers to get a healthy alternative for meat and dairy. Last month the firm said it raised $300 million ahead of a possible public offering, but the company said it is "not in a rush. Beyond shares were up about 1. Dine-in, take-out and online ordering available. Impossible Foods is a provider of plant-based beef products. Topped with melted cheddar cheese, farm fresh romaine lettuce, juicy tomatoes, and our homemade GrillHouse's BBQ sauce! Served with a generous side of mouth-watering aromatic fries to enhance the gourmet. Photo: Burger King. Impossible Burger = Impossible Stock? First time since I've started trading I've seen a stock move like this. Many of them have been specifically asking for Impossible Burger to come to Publix," said Impossible's President Dennis Woodside in a. Visit Impossible Foods website to find the nearest restaurant that carries the impossible burger. Founded in 2011, and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company's stated aim is to give people the taste and nutritional benefits of meat without the negative health and environmental impacts associated with livestock products. I would pay more for one over the beyond. The Impossible burger is available in over 15,000 restaurants around the world. Impossible Foods, which has kicked to meet ultimatum, said Monday it is increasing the number of hours and employees at its Oakland, California, plant. A deal wasn’t reached—one person said Impossible Foods wanted a higher price—and whether Google will look for similar targets isn’t clear. Impossible Foods General Information Description. Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon. Select from premium Impossible Burger images of the highest quality. “I’m not going to estimate the number of restaurants that currently have the product or are sold out,” Konrad said at the time. The company recently announced that it will be expanding its plant-based menu items across its theme parks and cruise lines, adding that the Impossible Burger has been chosen as the “preferred. Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Company profile page for Impossible Foods Inc including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information Walmart to Sell Impossible Burgers, a. The Impossible Whopper is supposed to taste just like Burger King's regular Whopper. The Impossible Burger is the only veggie burger that looks, handles, smells, cooks and tastes like ground beef. Other Impossible Burger ingredients include plant-based ingredients—but it’s not 100 percent veggies. A Chop House Hamburger. Every time you choose a quarter-pound Impossible Burger instead of a burger made from a cow. VIDEO 1:33 01:33 Impossible Foods valued as high as. and has worked as a research scientist for many years. In April, Burger King became the first fast-food chain to sell the Impossible burger, but it was only available at select locations. An Original Impossible Burger, left, and a Cali Burger, from Umami Burger, are shown in this photo in New York, Friday, May 3, 2019. In fact, the Impossible Burger's key ingredient is genetically modified soy leghemoglobin. 90 a share on July 26, has struggled with the broader market declines, trade tension and recession fears. Onet: codzienne źródło informacji milionów Polaków - wiadomości z kraju i ze świata 24/7, pogoda, sport, biznes, moto, rozrywka. Click on the locations tab above for more info on the hours of operation for your favorite burger stand. Amazon to Offer Prime Users 1-Hour Grocery Pickup at Whole Foods. First things first, let me just say this: In general, I am not really much of a hypebeast. The company has not yet set a price for its products in. com reports. Bobby's Burger Palace presents signature burgers, fries, milkshakes, salads, and sandwiches inspired by Chef Bobby Flay. Carrols Restaurant Group Inc. Enjoy your food. You can also take online stock market courses to get a better understanding of other financial investment options like cryptocurrencies and. 0 will reduce aquatic eutrophication by 78%, global warming by 60%, land occupation by more than 99%, and water consumption by 79%. 0, which swaps out whey protein for soy protein. It’s simply not possible to re-create something nature made in a lab and call it identical. Brown is a scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University in California. Impossible Foods claims that the Impossible Burger 2. A Definitive Ranking Of All Impossible Burger Fast Food Options. Restaurant chains Red Robin and White Castle are reporting scarcities—or no patties at all—even as the plant-based food producer begins a nationwide partnership with Burger King. In fact, the Impossible Burger's key ingredient is genetically modified soy leghemoglobin. It’s offered the Veggie Burger for some time, but its patty, buns, and sweet mustard sauce are now vegan!. In 1921, it all started out so innocently. A Castle-shaped restaurant. Impossible Foods' burgers to be launched in Canadian grocery stores. I am okay with the Beyond. The Impossible Foods IPO will be watched closely after the huge success of it's primary competitor, Beyond Meat, whose stock increased more than 100% within a few days of its IPO. Impossible Foods is no longer trying to win a coveted deal to supply McDonald's Corp with plant-based burgers, telling Reuters it cannot produce enough of its imitation meat to partner with the. Impossible Foods isn't publicly traded, but it's still a prominent. No, Impossible Burgers do not taste like beef hamburgers. But rival meat alternative maker Impossible Foods doesn’t see an IPO on its near. Try Prime for free. Deena Shanker. This was amazing. View Impossible Foods stock / share price, financials, funding rounds, investors and more at Craft. For the health of people and the planet. Company profile page for Impossible Foods Inc including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information Walmart to Sell Impossible Burgers, a. Curbside Pick Up! No Fees! New Website! Click Here! Order online and save some time!. Stock Graph (1y) D-Texas Gulf Energy, Incorporated (TXGE) 0. Impossible Foods told Bloomberg last week that its products are now on the menu at about 9,000 restaurants, but couldn’t say how many currently had access to stock. By most accounts Impossible Burger 1. Impossible Foods is going more mainstream with its plant-based burger by launching in Bareburger, its first chain. Restaurant chains Red Robin and White Castle are reporting scarcities—or no patties at all—even as the plant-based food producer begins a nationwide partnership with Burger King. Impossible Foods said it had instituted mandatory work from home policies for all of its employees who can telecommute; restricted visitors to its facilities and those operated by co-manufacturers. Download affordable high-res stock photography and high quality stock footage videos. Sobeys will be the exclusive retailer for the company's flagship Impossible Burger until February 2021, Impossible Foods said in a statement. Redwood City’s Impossible Foods announced Tuesday that it has raised an additional $114 million in financing, making a total of $396 million in funding since it was founded in 2011 by Stanford. Burger King even “tricked” some customers into eating it on April Fool’s Day. Sodium: The Impossible Burger has a 370 mg of sodium versus 82 mg in a standard beef patty. The smallest item has four 12-ounce packages of Impossible Burger. Article Stock Quotes (2) Comments (0) The flagship product, Impossible Burger, was named top plant-based burger by the New York Times and received the Food and Beverage. Search for Can I Buy Impossible Burger Stock And Top 10 Companies To Buy Stock In 2018 Ads Immediately. After Impossible Food's veggie Whopper debuted in test locations for Burger King, the CEO of owner Restaurant Brands International, José Cil, said sales of the vegan version of its signature. A Definitive Ranking Of All Impossible Burger Fast Food Options. Please try again, try another browser, or Click Here to Order Online. Impossible Foods Launches Major Canadian Grocery and Home Delivery Alliance. Burger King launches The Impossible Taste Test to introduce their Impossible Whopper. In April, Burger King became the first fast-food chain to sell the Impossible burger, but it was only available at select locations. Millions of Free Graphic Resources. The company recently launched a test with Burger King to create the “ Impossible Whopper. The Beyond Burger is more widely available, and also resembles the real thing. The first location was opened in February 2011 in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida. We believe in making commerce better for everyone, so these stock photos are free to use on any online store platform or ecommerce marketplace. com for Every Day Low Prices. The company additionally sells its products to consumers through restaurants, such as Burger King. We are home to 75% of all U. with a stock target price of $25 a share. Impossible Foods products have entered the mainstream, most notably making their way onto the Burger King menu via The Impossible Burger and into grocery store cases. The company's stock has been soaring since it went public in May. Impossibly Easy Mini Cheeseburger Pies. POP UP BURGER STORE bir "yenilikçi burger hareketi". raising livestock for the sole pur. Starting late January in select test markets across the U. Delivery available through Favor and DoorDash. The Impossible burger bricks bulk pack is ideal for restaurants, food-trucks and retail stores. Two Beyond or Impossible burger patties on a 6” sub roll, with mayo, lettuce and tomato, plus Ben’s veggie chili upon request. Photo: Melissa Hom. July 30, 2020. According to Fast & Company, the newest iteration of the Impossible Burger has a carbon footprint 89 percent smaller than a burger made from real beef: “A new analysis found that the burger also. Even the most unapologetic meat lovers can't deny that the age of the plant-based burger is upon us — and it's actually pretty. That said, the Impossible Burger 2. According to a Bloomberg report, the. Skip the grocery store because Impossible Foods delivers directly to your home. 0148: Join Now! 19. its stock price soaring 163% in mere weeks. Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon. Enjoy your food. I am okay with the Beyond. I do love its competitor the Impossible Burger which to me tastes more like meat. 0” which improved on the burger’s taste and handling, has 30% less sodium and 40% less saturated fat than the original recipe, and has as much protein as 80/20 ground beef. Impossible foods stock is in high demand. Impossible Foods is making its plant-based burger available to home chefs in Canada in nearly 600 Sobeys is the exclusive retailer of the Impossible Burger until February 2021, at which point the. Try Prime for free. We believe in making commerce better for everyone, so these stock photos are free to use on any online store platform or ecommerce marketplace. The manufacturer, Impossible Foods, claims that its production process generates way less greenhouse gases than cattle farming, but the Impossible Burger may not beat a traditional burger in one. The Impossible Burger can be found at more than 7,000 restaurants, including White Castle, Qdoba and Red Robin locations. July 30, 2020. the Impossible Burger, as a way to quickly. The veggie burger boom shows no signs of slowing down. The company announced its limited partnership with Burger King would expand nationwide by the end of the year. The company takes deep pride in the many benefits that come with the move away from eating meat – particularly. Download this stock image: Vedang Plant is a vegan fast food in Berlin with Impossible food and plant based burger. Once only available at restaurants and fast-food chains, the Impossible Burger is now available to buy at grocery stores across the US. Bobby's Burger Palace presents signature burgers, fries, milkshakes, salads, and sandwiches inspired by Chef Bobby Flay. Order Burger online for fast Burger delivery or drop by for carryout. The company's first product is the Impossible Burger, which is made from ingredients including plant-based protein, coconut oil, and heme, among other ingredients. In the US and Brazil, Burger King has introduced the Impossible Whopper, which tastes and sizzles like meat, but is vegetarian. A fifth brother was born and, as their family grew, so did their business. The Impossible Burger might be getting impossible to find as its popularity is soaring because it mimics a beef burger. The Impossible Burger was created by Impossible Foods, a company Patrick O. Impossible Foods is a provider of plant-based beef products. Notify On Stock Availability. The Impossible Burger Bricks make for a yummy meal option for kids and adults alike. The company researches animal products at the molecular level. SLH contains an add-on component known as “heme”. Brown founded in 2011. The Impossible Burger — 'made from plants for people who love ground beef' — is debuting at 13 restaurants in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Stunning free images & royalty free stock. Topped with melted cheddar cheese, farm fresh romaine lettuce, juicy tomatoes, and our homemade GrillHouse's BBQ sauce! Served with a generous side of mouth-watering aromatic fries to enhance the gourmet. Impossible Burger uses an ingredient called "soy leghemoglobin," which contains "heme," to get Last week, Beyond Meat came out with an initial public offering (IPO) with a stock target price of $25. One of the biggest names in the field is, of course, the Impossible Burger from Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods, which last week. Mission Actually Impossible. 126,509 likes · 3,136 talking about this · 75 were here. This could (and eventually would) result in the poor player having over a dozen Traves got burgers in their inventory. The comments follow a Bloomberg report Friday suggesting Impossible Foods’ burgers are out of stock in many Red Robin and White Castle locations. 2 percent at $84. Free for commercial use No attribution required Copyright-free. GMO Impossible Burger Tests 11X Higher for Glyphosate Weed Killer Residue than Beyond Meat Burger. Be part of the world's largest community of book lovers on Goodreads. com reports. It’s signature product, the Impossible Burger, was launched in 2016 and now sells its burgers in grocery stores and restaurants. Lumea dulciurilor și snackurilor. The Impossible Burger, which even “bleeds,” has received over $250 million in support from investors like Bill Gates. Impossible Foods is working with Burger King to launch the first-ever plant-based Whopper burger. Impossible already has burgers at Burger King (the Impossible Whopper) and White Castle, as An Impossible Foods burger I made at home, and then lovingly photographed in the afternoon sunlight. The burger is made by Impossible Foods, who spent five years developing the best plant-based burger that would satisfy the tastes and cravings of meat-eaters. SEE Buy Impossible Burger Stock And Buy Itc Stock IN BEST PRICES NOW. >> How To Buy Enterprise Stock. The brands Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat both contain over 20 highly-processed ingredients commonly used in pet foods. 6% year-to-date. Preheat oven to 350°. The manufacturer, Impossible Foods, claims that its production process generates way less greenhouse gases than cattle farming, but the Impossible Burger may not beat a traditional burger in one. Wednesday following a 12. Impossible Foods, which has kicked to meet ultimatum, said Monday it is increasing the number of hours and employees at its Oakland, California, plant. Louis market, a rep told Best Products. The Impossible Whopper features a flame-grilled patty made from plants topped with sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup and pickles on a toasted sesame seed bun. The Beyond Burger is more widely available, and also resembles the real thing. D Professor Emeritus from Stanford, and counts Bill Gates as one of its. Impossible Burgers are so popular, their maker can barely keep up with demand. MotleyFool 22 hrs ago. I was assured that this was physically impossible. Kocaman ele sığmayan burgerlerden değiliz biz! Burgeri en basit, en sevilen, en iyi malzemelerle yapıyoruz ve buna. In September, Impossible Burgers roll out in grocery stores. By Paola Rosa-Aquino on Apr 1, 2019. Analysts at JPMorgan have said Beyond's stock price could see a boost up to 30% if it were to secure a partnership with McDonald's, similar to Impossible Foods work with Burger King to launch the.
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Watch brand MB&F has opened M.A.D. Gallery
Just a few steps from the own workshops of Swiss watch company MB&F (Maximilian Busser & Friends) has opened M.A.D. Gallery - Rue Verdun, the city center. This gallery has become one of the most unique attractions of Geneva. In M.A.D. Gallery you will never find such a popular crowded with empty pathos of modern shops. There are only artfully decorated galleries and boutiques, as if arriving here from the distant future, containing not only MB&F watches, but other rare and not less original exposure.
The most interesting thing is, MB & F does not seek to open a boutique and praise its name and own watches. This, you see, is unusual. Instead of this M.A.D. Gallery is a creative gallery, which found its place not only Horological Machines of the renowned watch brand, but also other works of art. The selection criteria for the exhibits were the personal taste of the owners of trademarks and admiration, which caused the masterpieces of the young and still "undiscovered" talent. Presented in M.A.D. Gallery work, as well as watches MB & F, go far beyond pure functionality. All that is here presented, the authors boldly called "dynamic three-dimensional sculptures."
For example, in M.A.D. Gallery are presented unusual lightings Machine Lights, created by Berlin designer Frank Buchwald, or sculptures-transformers owned by the Chinese artist Xia Hangu. Of course, among all the amazing exhibits presented to visitors and a complete collection of so-called "time machine" by MB & F, including the newly released limited editions of Legacy Machine № 1 and HM4. However, the main advantage of M.A.D. Gallery is the fact that watches are not the centerpiece - just one from the others.
However, the company Maximilian Busser & Friends cannot unambiguously be called as watch one. Rather, it is a unique laboratory in which are created unusual-the-art mechanisms by means of time indication expressing their technical perfection.
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BaselWorld 2014: Starfleet Machine by MB & F
The watchmaker MB & F at the international exhibition BaselWorld 2014 has introduced a desktop clock Starfleet Machine, made in the form of a spaceship.
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Legacy Machine № 1 Xia Hang
45 hours of continuous work on deterioration. The day turned out to be a heavy one and forces have almost gone. Initially to sit right was relatively easy, now the fatigue fell upon, the back helplessly bent, the head hung. Mr. Up turned into Mr. Down.
New Music Box by MB & F and Reuge
The watch brand MB & F and the manufacturer of pocket watches and boxes Reuge have presented the result of their collaboration - a futuristic music box MusicMachine.
MB&F announces a unique model HM5 Red Gold
The company Maximilian Büsser & Friends has released a limited edition new version of Horological Machine No.5. HM5 `RT` - the HM5 Red Gold watch in red gold.
Legacy Machine № 2 by MB & F
The novelty Legacy Machine by the brand MB & F is a tribute to the watchmakers of the 18th century. Like the previous watch, the model Legacy Machine № 2 - the result of joint work of Maximilian Büsser, Jean -François Mojon and Kari Voutilainen.
MusicMachine by MB & F
This year, the well-known company MB & F has pleased its fans with an original music box MusicMachine. The box is developed in collaboration with the Swiss company Reuge, producing unique jewelry boxes.
Maximilian Büsser & Friends Presents MegaMind Timepiece
Watchmaker Maximilian Büsser & Friends is known around the world for its incomparable models that can safely be called masterpieces.
HM4 Final Edition by MB & F
The watch by the company MB & F - this is the model, the mention of which to mind immediately comes an image of futuristic vehicles, robotic vehicles, which do not look at a clock, except that they have straps, typical for wrist models.
M.A.D. Gallery of MB & F Presents Miki Eleta’s Clock
In the M.A.D. gallery of the company MB & F held recently the world premiere of a new watch ob the Zurich watchmaker Miki Eleta.
On The Road Again – an excellent new HM5 watch by MB & F
The famous watchmaker MB & F announces the fifth model from the Horological Machine collection. The exclusive novelty HM5 is nicknamed «On The Road Again».
Exclusive Legacy Machine No.1 by MB & F - a GPHG double medalist
At the ceremony of the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), held on 15 November, the famous watchmaker MB & F was awarded two prizes for the original watch Legacy Machine No.1 (LM1).
Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve 2012 Award was held in November 15
November 15, 2012 at the Grand Theatre in Geneva the ceremony awarding of Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve 2012 was held. Unique competition was first held in 2001 and today is considered one of the most important events of the year time.
MB & F Has New Commercial Director
The watch company Maximilian Büsser & Friends, known in the market for its exclusive models, recently has announced the completion in its ranks. It was learned that Alexander David, who heads for four years Ikepod, is the new sales manager of MB & F.
HM3 Poison Dart Frog Watch - for those who are partial to frogs!
The watch company MB & F has introduced the original HM3 Poison Dart Frog watch, which, in fact - a new version of the model, which the brand has already represented.
News of montre24.com: novelty MB&F 2012 at BaselWorld 2012 in an exclusive video clip
Especially for fans of unique watches, conceptual design of which often go beyond the traditional and familiar to the eyes watch making information watch portal montre24.com presents an exclusive video clip directly from the annual exhibition - fair BaselWorld 2012, which is perhaps the most important event of all jewelry and watch world.
MOONMACHINE Watch – The Moon of Stepan Sarpaneva on the Watch of MB & F
Finnish independent watchmaker Stepan Sarpaneva, a founder of the company Sarpaneva, with the assistance of the brand MB & F in 2012 has introduced a new model MOONMACHINE.
Baselworld 2012: MB&F – HM4 Thunderbolt RT
Several years ago company MB&F presented to the world a real masterpiece of watch art: wristwatch HM4 Thunderbolt. This time on world exhibition Baselworld 2012 manufacture amazed with its new creation produced in the same form that previous HM4 Thunderbolt RT, which combines elegance and refinement of such metals as platinum and rose gold.
MB & F watch is the best avant-garde version at The Watches Days
Watchmaker MB & F at the recent watch exhibition The Watches Days won the title of Nouvelle Horlogerie or Best Avant-Garde Watch. The best avant-garde watch by a vote of visitors was found to MB & F Legacy Machine No.1. Over the watch was given to 491 votes.
Horological Machine No4: Razzle Dazzle & Double Trouble
Rebellious individualism is an incredibly powerful creative force. It is a force that has been responsible for some of – if not all – the greatest art in history. Art often thrives under adversity, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that during WW2, artists found their canvases in unusual places – such as on the nose cones of aircraft.
A New model Legacy Machines by MB & F: «golden epoch of horology
The new model Legacy Machines - it's completely different watch that does not fit into the accepted framework and concept of the avant-garde watchmaking company Maximilian Büsser & Friends (MB & F). The source of inspiration for the creation of this model is obvious: the "golden epoch of watchmaking." It was at this time, MB & F could create such a watch!
In September 23, 2011, a charity auction Only Watch was held
In September 23, 2011, on Friday, a charity auction Only Watch was held under the patronage of His Highness Prince Albert II. The proceeds for the auction will be given for research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The auction is held every two years, and among its members the most prestigious Swiss watch brands appear.
Maximilian Busser & Friends
According to Maximilian Büsser, the founder of Maximilian & Friends (MB & F) company, the MB & F company is creating machines which tell the time, but not the machines, made to tell the time. These are the Horological Machines, that reflect the microtechnological possibilities while displaying the time. By the creation of these masterpieces Maximilian Büsser & Frie...
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Three Novelties by Linde Werdelin at BaselWorld 2014
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Author Galvan, David A., author
Title Satellite anomalies : benefits of a centralized anomaly database and methods for securely sharing information among satellite operators / David A. Galvan, Brett Hemenway, William Welser IV, Dave Baiocchi
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2014
Description 1 online resource (xv, 1 page, 61 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Satellite anomalies -- Anomaly databases -- Meeting the security requirements of contributors -- Observations and recommendations
Summary Satellite anomalies are mission-degrading events that negatively affect on-orbit operational spacecraft. All satellites experience anomalies of some kind during their operational lifetime. They range in severity from temporary errors in noncritical subsystems to loss-of-contact and complete mission failure. There is a range of causes for these anomalies, and investigations by the satellite operator or manufacturer to determine the cause of a specific anomaly are sometimes conducted at significant expense. Maintaining an anomaly database is one way to build an empirical understanding of what situations are more or less likely to result in satellite anomalies, and help determine causal relationships. These databases can inform future design and orbital regimes, and can help determine measures to prolong the useful life of an on-orbit spacecraft experiencing problems. However, there is no centralized, up-to-date, detailed, and broadly available database of anomalies covering many different satellites. This report describes the nature and causes of satellite anomalies, and the potential benefits of a shared and centralized satellite anomaly database. Findings indicate that a shared satellite anomaly database would bring significant benefits to the commercial community, and the main obstacles are reluctance to share detailed information with the broader community, as well as a lack of dedicated resources available to any trusted third party to build and manage such a database. Trusted third parties and cryptographic methods such as secure multiparty computing or differential privacy are not complete solutions, but show potential to be further tailored to help resolve the issue of securely sharing anomaly data
Notes "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
"This research was ... conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-61)
Subject Artificial satellites -- Computer networks.
Author Baiocchi, Dave, author
Hemenway, Brett, 1981- author
Welser, William, IV, author
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Acquisition and Technology Policy Center.
Rand Corporation.
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Want to go explore Iceland or journey to Japan? Head to Prague for a week of music and museum-hopping?
How about coming with me on the ferry to a folk festival in the Orkney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland?
Or maybe you'd take a turn behind the wheel of my trusty Toyota for a cross-country jaunt that covers the backwoods of Montana and Glacier National Park, all the way down the Pacific Coast highway, and back east through the stark glories of New Mexico and the wheatfields of Kansas.
Good travelling companions are hard to come by--up til now, I've done all these trips on my own.
[Why is there a section on travel and on my journeys in a professional web site? What's that got to do with anything?]
I believe that my journeys have genuinely changed me and the way I see the world. That's why I've included this little segment--and it gives me an opportunity to tell you about a marvelous organization designed for people who enjoy traveling, connecting with other people and learning about foreign cultures, but who may not have pots of money to subsidize a world tour.
[Find out more more about me and what I might be like as a travel companion by going back to the home page and clicking on my photograph.]
About SERVAS
My SERVAS Experience
First, a word about SERVAS: Perhaps best described as an international friendship organization, SERVAS was founded by a couple of Quakers right after World War II. Its premise is simple: in order to work toward world peace, we must first build friendships among individuals.
Today, with hosts in more than 130 countries, SERVAS is a global program with more than 14,000 hosts and thousands of travelers. As the U.S. guidebook introduction says, "Travelers who make the effort to slow down and get off the beaten path, who try to understand the communities they visit on a deeper level, can have an experience that will change their view of life."
(Or, as Mark Twain succinctly stated, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness.")
Here's how SERVAS works: You interview with a local coordinator, get recommendations from a couple of folks you know through work or the community (they want to make sure you're not an ax murderer, after all), and then ask for the lists of hosts in the countries you're traveling to.
The booklet of host lists tells you:
what they do for a living (mostly professionals, with lots of teachers and architects and lawyers and quite a few creative types)
how old they are (and the kids' ages, too, if they have any)
what organizations they belong to (in the U.S., everything from peace organizations and Habitat for Humanity to the AMA and PTA)
where they've traveled and what languages they speak
how many cats and dogs in the house
what the accommodation's like (sometimes a sleeping bag is advisable)
how many days you can stay (the general rule is two, though some folks offer extended stays)
how much advance notice you need to give them (it can range from two weeks to none at all)
Warning: SERVAS will change the way you travel forever! Check out the details: U.S. SERVAS, 11 John Street, Room 407, New York, NY 10038-4009; telephone (212)267-0252.
www.servas.org
My first SERVAS experience was in 1989, back when I was living in Washington, D.C., and quit my senior writer position at the American Association of Museums to spend four months traveling in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England and France. Staying with SERVAS families made the trip a wonderful experience: I trekked in five miles to a remote community of crofters in the Scottish Highlands where I stayed with a Hungarian emigre and his family; enjoyed all that Paris has to offer as I made friends with a woman my age who is an architect (now married with two kids--we continue to correspond); I stayed with a Welsh miner's family in government-sponsored housing and learned more about the unromantic side of that green-valed country. When I first toured the States on my own, I found occasion to stay with SERVAS families in several states, including Wisconsin and Minnesota when I took a road trip following the Mississippi River.
Other trips throughout the past few years to places like Czech Republic and Japan were highlighted by SERVAS visits; I sing the praises of the organization as I describe to folks what a marvelous vehicle it is for making friends and seeing new places. Especially in places where language is a barrier to genuine communication, seeking out SERVAS members has resulted in marvelous experiences.
But even before I discovered SERVAS, I'd always enjoyed long road trips: after the classic cross-country journey I made with a friend after I graduated from Oberlin, I explored much of French Canada on my own, up past Montreal and Quebec to circle the Gaspe Peninsula and on to Nova Scotia and P.E.I. I have followed the southeastern coastline down through the Florida Keys; on the west coast I have been up through British Columbia past Vancouver and, on separate trips, covered all of Highway 1 down into Baja Mexico.
In grad school, my first spring-break trip pointed me toward Amsterdam, by way of Reykjavik, Iceland, a place that'd always intrigued me. An internship out in Seattle provided an excuse for yet another wonderful cross-country adventure, this time across Canada, down the Pacific Coast again, and back along the Southern route. (See Letter to a Friend, in WORDS for a chatty summary of my trip.) And last month, I finally made it down to Louisiana for the first time, enjoying the best New Orleans has to offer in the way of music and food.
Maybe later this year I can get to Sweden, where I have a friend who plays horn in the orchestra in Gayle. And I hope to make visits to mainland China and Greece in the next few years.
My house here in Ithaca is open to fellow travelers, and is becoming a place for musicians to stay as they pass through on their road trips from venue to venue. Whether on the road or here in Ithaca, I find that meeting folks who share some similar values and interests but hold different beliefs and world views makes for always-interesting interchange. I won't wax eloquent about how my travels relate to the higher purpose of SERVAS: it just makes sense that by listening to others and seeing how they live, by fostering friendships among individuals, that we are working toward world peace.
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick
CHAPTER 27: Knights and Squires. (continued)
I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.
The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time. As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.
Now these three mates--Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, were momentous men. They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen. In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies. Or, being armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio of lancers; even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
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Live and Let Bee
Bugday Association
Smart Beeing Foundation
The Natural Beekeeping Trust
Aronija
Ecological Beekeeping in Partner Countries
The Life of Bees
Current Situation of Bees
Ecological Beekeeping
Hive Types
Effects of pesticides
Sustainable use of bee products
Hobbyists
Consumers and City Dwellers
Web Sites and Articles
Are The Bees Dying Off?
In 2007, the environmental world was shocked by massive bee deaths, mainly colony collapse disorder (CCD), where the bees in the hives disappeared completely. Although there are not very reliable statistics about hive loss in Turkey, Uludağ University shared information about the percentage of loss in bees increased from 10-20% to 70%, an alarming rate.
However, thanks to government aids and increasing interest in beekeeping and honey producing, it seems like the total number of hives are not diminishing but increasing as in this graph.
Trying to read what is going on with the bees just by looking at numbers may be misleading. As in the case for Turkey, many hives may be lost because of several causes (you may see on the link), but even more are added. The bottom line is, there are more than one environmental factor that affect the bee health and none seem to be going in favour of the bees. We need to do whatever we can to change whatever factor we can in order to help the bees.
What’s Killing the Bees — and Why It Matters
When something has multiple causes, it’s usually the case that those causes are interrelated in complicated ways; it’s not necessarily as simple as shutting down one or two of them and the whole problem melts away. A simplified example is the ongoing mass die-off of coniferous trees due to bark beetles. There is one cause, but it needs two legs to stand on. Bark beetles are endemic to conifers, but it is the continuing drought that causes the trees to be susceptible. Without the drought, the trees fight off the beetles. Without the beetles, the trees could weather the drought. But put them both together, and they form a threat that the trees cannot defend against. This is probably thematically similar to what the bees are going through.
The systemic nature of the problem makes it complex, but not impenetrable. Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss.
Worker bees (females) live about six weeks in summer and several months in the winter. Colonies produce new worker bees continuously during the spring and summer, and then reproduction slows during the winter. Typically, a bee hive or colony will decline by 5-10 percent over the winter, and replace those lost bees in the spring. In a bad year, a bee colony might lose 15-20 percent of its bees.
Pesticides and Bees
Biologists have found more than 150 different chemical residues in bee pollen, a deadly “pesticide cocktail” according to University of California apiculturist Eric Mussen. Furthermore, wild bee habitat shrinks every year as industrial agribusiness converts grasslands and forest into mono-culture farms, which are then contaminated with pesticides. To reverse the world bee decline, we need to fix our dysfunctional and destructive agricultural system.
Solutions That Save the Bees
Common sense actions can restore and protect the world’s bees. Here’s a strong start:
Ban the seven most dangerous pesticides.
Protect pollinator health by preserving wild habitat.
Restore ecological agriculture.
Ecological, organic farming is nothing new. It is the way most farming has been done throughout human history. Ecological farming resists insect damage by avoiding large monocrops and preserving ecosystem diversity. Ecological farming restores soil nutrients with natural composting systems, avoids soil loss from wind and water erosion, and avoids pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
By restoring bee populations and healthier bees, ecological agriculture improves pollination, which in turn improves crop yields. Ecological farming takes advantage of the natural ecosystem services, water filtration, pollination, oxygen production, and disease and pest control.
What Can We Learn From Europe About Saving the Bees
A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific report determined that three widely used pesticides — nicotine-based clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam — pose “high acute risks” for bees. The nicotinoid pesticides—used in soils, on foliage, and embedded in seeds—persist at the core of the toxic pesticide cocktail found in bee hives. The three neonicotinoids act on insect nervous systems. They accumulate in individual bees and within entire colonies, including the honey that bees feed to infant larvae. Bees that do not die outright, experience sub-lethal systemic effects, development defects, weakness, and loss of orientation. The die-off leaves fewer bees and weaker bees, who must work harder to produce honey in depleted wild habitats. These conditions create the nightmare formula for bee colony collapse.
On 23 March 2017, the European Commission has presented to the Member States its draft regulations to ban neonicotinoids. A vote by Member State could take place in May. In the frame of the Comitology process, the European Commission is presenting, in the Standing Committee on Plant, Animal, Food and Feed, 3 draft regulations to ban the 3 bee-killing neonicotinoids in the entire EU. Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam would not be authorised with an exception for permanent greenhouses that are supposedly completely closed systems. When the European Commission (EC) restricted the 3 neonicotinoids in 2013, the producers (Bayer for imidacloprid and clothianidin and Syngenta for thiamethoxam) were requested to provide the EC with socalled ‘confirmatory data’ by 31 December 2014. Based on these data, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has carried out a peer review and updated its risk assessment . The information provided by Syngenta was not sufficient to improve the risk assessment and the majority of the risks could not be characterised: ‘high risk cannot be excluded’ concluded the EFSA. On the other hand, the agency identified new high risks to bees concerning Bayer’s clothianidin and imidacloprid.
The high risk posed by these 3 chemicals is linked to the fact that they are the most potent and systemic insecticides ever produced by agrochemical industry. They are persistent in soils. Because they are systemic, the soil residues are absorbed by succeeding crops as well as by flowering weeds adjacent to the treated crops. They contaminate water streams and can now be found anywhere in the environment. Wild flowers’ nectar is contaminated as well as rain water! Martin Dermine, PAN Europe’s pollinator project coordinator said ‘Neonicotinoids have been decimating honey bees as well as wild pollinators in Europe for more than 20 years. This proposal from the Commission is a first step for the recognition of this long fight for environmentalists and beekeepers. The amount of scientific evidence on the toxicity of these insecticides is so high that there is no way these chemicals should remain on the market. This is not precaution anymore: it is prevention to avoid prolonging this environmental disaster.
Sources: Anadolu Ajansı, Greenpeace, PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Europe
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DMX Wants to Go Head-to-Head With Jay-Z in a 'Verzuz' Battle
Post author By Iqra Mcfadden
Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz series might serve as the battleground for a potential heavyweight bout between Jay-Z and DMX.
During an interview with Drink Champs on Wednesday (May 7), the question of who DMX would be interested in competing against in Verzuz came up. With no hesitation, The Darkman replied “Jay.” Bemused by his answer, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN promptly sought clarity, and when asked again, X doubled down and said, “Yeah! Who you think, n—a?”
In the late ’90s, Jay-Z and DMX were Def Jam’s most successful stars. The friendly rivalry includes several rap battles between the legendary MCs, including their Backstage Freestyle match in 2000. In 1999, they also created the infamous supergroup Murder Inc, which starred both rappers and Ja Rule. Their time together, though, was short-lived as the group disbanded immediately because Jay and X’s relationship soured.
Fast forward to 2010, and DMX called out Jay-Z during a concert in Arizona because of his unwillingness to help Def Jam artists to succeed during his tenure as the label’s president. Six years after, during Beyonce’s Formation Tour in New Jersey, both men called a truce and took a photo together with DJ Khaled.
See X’s interview with Drink Champs below.
#DrinkChamps We got the dog @DMX on this new #Quarantine episode of @DrinkChamps! We asked who he would battle on #Verzuz @VerzuzTV & he didn’t hesitate ALL NEW episode on @TIDAL NOW! @Noreaga @DJEFN @iRossta pic.twitter.com/nWl7HWFcBW
— Drink Champs (@Drinkchamps) May 6, 2020
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What are you playing? or what's playing you? 2704 replies to this topic Started by neshcom , Feb 01 2009 06:45 PM ·
#1 neshcom
neshcom
howdy, y'all
Tell me what you're playing. GO.
Oshiri Kajiri Mushi no Rhythm Lesson (DS) - Adorable little rhythm game based on the OKM. The game is very well made and has voice training, the ability to listen to many of the songs featured in the game and conductor lessons.
Quickspot (DS) - A really well made "spot the difference" game. Features images from Namco-Bandai games from Katamari to Taiko no Tatsujin to Tower of Druaga. Definitely no very easy, but fun. Also has daily fortune telling games and two modes of play.
Super Mario 64 DS (DS) - Very hard to control. And why am I Yoshi?
Build-a-Lot (DS) - I thought this would be the other house buying/selling games, but I like this one too. I'm always expecting it to suddenly be wacky, but it doesn't get that way...
Bomberman Land Touch! (DS) - Really fun, but there are a lot of bottlenecks in the variety of choices available to you.
IIDX 16th: DJ TROOPERS (PS2) - Probably my second favorite IIDX style yet, but DistorteD will be my favorite for a while (at least until Empress hits consoles).
#2 perfectblue
perfectblue
Junk Punk
Just about finished with Mite wa Ikenai (DS), interesting idea for a game, though not much in the way of lastability.
Twilight Syndrome: Kinjiratera Toshi Densetsu (DS)
Nanashi No Game (DS)
Yeah, I kinda have a thing for horror games.
#3 The☆AEUGNewtype
The☆AEUGNewtype
♥ まいぷる ♥
This makes me think about how disgustingly quickly my interest dropped in IIDX. The last one I played on PS2 was DistorteD, and that was my favorite one, and after that, I like a few songs from Gold, but then my interest just completely dropped off and I haven't even touched the game since then, almost 2 years ago. I used to play almost every single day of my life in college, and after that, nothing. A lot of the music I listened to for DJ Troopers was just underwhelming and the lack of great things in Gold must have compounded that. It kinda sucks after I spend a couple thousand dollars on music game controllers, games, and soundtracks, and now I haven't even touched one of them besides Rock Band in years.
I love how DS is the new black with seemingly everyone who has interest in Japanese culture, yet there has not been one single game that has interested me for it in over 2 years (Rhythm Tengoku Gold excepted) and in those two years I've been interested in and played at least 80 to 100 games for Xbox 360. Nintendo really has a hold on the world of capitalism with their novelty gaming consoles.
I play so many games that most of the time its not even worth listing, beside the fact that most of what I post would never get responses or conversation since they're not about DS or Wii games! You could always click on the 360 thing in my sig and find out, if you really care to know, too.
#4 JoshuaHallto
JoshuaHallto
Kenshuusei
Im playing:
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GCN)
Metroid Prime (GCN)
Mario Kart Wii (wii)
#5 Valerie
Supertemp!
Playing Quickspot now -- thanks Neshcom for the recommendation! I've cleared 40/50 stages.
#6 Ap2000
I program stuff.
Now that exams are over, I'm going to finish/play a lot of games:
CoD 4 (MP of course)
BattleForge beta
and of course still Civ 4 (BTS)
All for PC naturally.
I also just rented a Wii + Super Mario Galaxy from a friend. So I'll also be playing that one, trying to finish it in the next few days. It has some really good level design and gameplay ideas, but somehow I'm not amazed as much as reviewers and previewers were. I also miss the dive-jumping.
I also want to start playing Persona 4 soon.
#7 ///
¯\(°_o)/¯
Preordered Madworld. (Former) Clover studios are ANGRY because you assholes didn't buy enough copies of God Hand. And the result... is fabulous. I'm also really looking forward to Bayonetta, cause who doesn't love a Devil May Cry-esque game (by the original inventor of the DMC-game and with it the genre, that is!) with a girl whose clothes disappear when she does special moves? WHO DOESN'T LOVE THAT?
Anyway... Played the FEAR 2 demo, kick ass. Monolith <3 So after playing that I remembered that I bought Condemned so I played a bit of that, awesome also, though it's quite interesting to see the different level of polish between these two titles, in every aspect (graphics, controls, presentation, etc.). Even so, so far I think the Condemned storytelling seems much more subtle and interesting compared to FEAR 2.
I still don't understand how everyone likes the F.E.A.R. series. The first one was clunky, looked bad, controlled even worse, and really didn't have any good storytelling elements, as well as not even being scary besides like 4 or 5 jump scares. I played the demo for 2 and its basically the same thing with better graphics. Condemned is run on the same engine, it just doesn't have many guns and the storytelling is fantastic, and just those things alone make the game ten times better.
I didn't like FEAR at all either (it's my least favorite Monolith game aside from The Sequel That Must Not Be Mentioned), but the FEAR 2 demo was really enjoyable. I never had a problem with any controls in any Monolith game, they are always really good. Monolith is basically one of the best Western developers still around. It is kinda puzzling how a team of such great writers (NOLF is probably the best-written FPS ever) can go on to make such a trite work as FEAR, for sure.
#10 Ap2000
Anyway... Played the FEAR 2 demo, kick ass.
FEAR 2 is one of the two games (the other one being FEAR 1...) I'd want to play, but played the demo and I know i'm not capable of doing so...
I just hate being scared to (near) death, no matter if it's in rl, games or movies. =/
#11 Special Needs Tricycle
Special Needs Tricycle
LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MUSIC
Sally's Salon on the DS. :> Shut up, it's fun. I'm playing Rune Factory 2 too.
Also, waiting for Street Fighter IV.
#12 Al Kusanagi
Al Kusanagi
Iä! Iä! Sayumi Fhtagn!
Playing far too much WoW until SF4 shows up next week. That should keep me busy until RE5.
#13 aine
名無しさん
I finished the first episode of Quake, ported to DS. This was my first extensive experience with Quake, save for a few deathmatches back in Quake's prime day (where, needless to say, I was getting owned pretty badly by mates who did nothing but played DM all day long). And I still say it sucks and is utterly rotting-green-brown dull and boring. Doom for life! I'll admit though that gameplay-wise it's still one of better DS titles I tried so far, even with slightly crippled controls (no rocketjumping, lol).
I'm also wasting unspeakable amounts of time on Animal Crossing, although luckily the novelty is wearing off, and recently I even allowed myself to neglect it to the point one of the animals moved out. I'm guessing I will get into it more again once I start playing online. I must say though I'm damn proud of my Hard Gay cosplay:
I'm also playing Ouendan on and off, which is mighty fun, but I hate it because it keeps reminding me how rhythmically challenged I am.
If anyone didn't notice, I'm a fresh and excited DS user (better late than never).
#14 Plum
I love you guys. Fruit Love.
Sally's Salon on the DS. :> Shut up, it's fun.
Pokemon Diamond, and Ouendan kind of on and off as well. I can't get myself to hunker down and beat that last level.
I enjoy the Pokemon games way, way too much. My team looks so bad-ass this time. I actually had a color scheme thing where I only fought with blue/purple/black pokemon, but I have a hard time resisting Ponyta anytime I find it, so my theme is RUIIIINED.
I think it's because I got so excited when I was 12 and found one in Pokemon Blue. That is so sad.
Also, I named one of them Bacon, which makes it great when a foe uses foresight.
MACHOKE IDENTIFIED BACON!
#15 sadude
sadude
~<3
That sounds interesting. Link to it?
Here. I don't have any RAM expansion yet so I couldn't try Q2, but it's there too. For the record, Doom port is here. It's fully playable too, however I can't get used to the controls (might be just a matter of tweaking the settings though).
#17 Monkeypretzels
Monkeypretzels
My Japanese Coach (DS)
Super Mario Sunshine (GC)
#18 ashivers
ashivers
Replaying through all the Phoenix Wright games for like... the third time XD Yeah I KNOW its the same each time, but damn they're fun once you give yourself enough time to forget to cases a bit, and come back again only a little more prepared then last time XD
Weren't you talking about how bad SF4 was going to be and how amazing KoFXII was going to be? SF4 looks amazing and I keep hearing the opposite about KoFXII now.
#20 ///
Since it's made by Capcom and their record with their older franchises is spotty to say the least, I wasn't too sure about SF4. However, I have to say it looks... well, it looks like shit but it also looks like it's really fun to play. I don't know why it has to be so ugly though, maybe it's to scare girls away from playing it. But anyway, KOF XII is going to be awesome also, so I don't know who you're talking to but they need to be lobotomized. Probably KOF fanboys who are moaning that the roster isn't big enough.
I tried the Halo Wars demo... I guess RTS games haven't really changed much since Total Annihilation/Starcraft. I'd rather play either of those than Halo Wars, frankly. It did sport one of the least believable British accents I ever heard, so there's that. If that's indicative of the quality of voice acting across the Halo franchise, I'm glad I never got into it.
A bunch of random hardcore FG players I talk to say it's going to be terrible, despite that it's really pretty to look like. I can't say I exactly know, because I don't really follow SNK games.
And SF4 looks perfectly FINE. > Have you seen the facial animation screencaps? They're incredible.
http://ruliwebimg.em..._sf4kors_69.jpg
http://ruliwebimg.em...iweb-st4_31.jpg
#22 Mudfish
Mudfish
泣いて 笑って 怒って 叫んで
All DS:
Tamagotchi Connection Corner Shop 2-4
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2nd Season
and kinda playing Chrono Trigger and Rune Factory but not so much.
Street Fighter 4 sucks in the arcade, but I'll buy the home version just for Cammy. And the new KoF game will still rock your ass silly.
#24 Tremnant
Tremnant
Any of you ever tried IL2 - Sturmovik? ( Just asking )
#25 kuze
kuze
Bangai-O on nullDC, only game that can keep my attention for 5 minutes at a time.
Who are you asking ?
#27 Falcon
'Any of you' - don't be stupid.
Apparently it's a WWII combat flight simulator coming out for the handhelds (PSP, DS) as well as 360, PS3.
Is it any good?
One of the best flight simulators since it's very accurate and realistic for example you can only go up on a certain altitude and stall like in real life so its challenging as well. You can play on any side of the war too. I'm not sure what it's gonna turn out like on the hand helds and the consoles since you pretty much need Rudder Pedals, and a Joystick. (I have both )
#29 neshcom
One of the best flight simulators since it's very accurate and realistic for example you can only go up on a certain altitude and stall like in real life so its challenging as well.
So... not fun?
Actually it's quite fun. The most experienced players play all around the world and even pilots play it. Now if your not into challenges you can make the game easy so you dont die at all, but seriously wheres the fun in that if you keep winning?
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 13:46 GMT
SF member critical of suspension
Mr Molloy is a councillor on Dungannon District Council
Sinn Fein members should be allowed to express their own opinion, a suspended party member has said.
Francie Molloy was suspended from the party pending a disciplinary hearing after going against party policy on the Review of Public Administration.
Speaking on BBC radio on Tuesday, he spoke against SF policy by opposing the move to reduce the number of district councils to seven.
"There has to be room in all parties for a dissenting voice," he said.
"I think we need discussion. As Gerry Adams said a short time ago at a dinner in Dublin, he doesn't need sheep and he expects people to have different views."
The party's general secretary, Mitchel McLaughlin, said he was the person who told Mr Molloy he was being suspended.
On Wednesday, Mr McLaughlin said that as party secretary it was his job to inform members when disciplinary procedures were being taken against them.
"I did actually have to deliver the message, I have responsibilities as general secretary to apply the party procedures," he said.
Sinn Fein favours seven councils, but Mr Molloy, a veteran republican, said 15 would be better.
He earlier said his position was rooted in the civil rights campaign and that reducing the number of councils to seven would be "a sectarian headcount".
District councils will be cut from 26 to seven - Belfast and six others.
Mr Molloy is a councillor on Dungannon District Council which is set to be scrapped.
He is also a Sinn Fein assembly member for Mid Ulster.
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Path: Moros
Order: Mysterium
Concilium: Trøndelag, Norge
Position: Hierarch
First met: 4.7 "All the King's Mages and All the King's Men"
Description: Very old and tall woman, with long iron-gray hair. Walks with a slight stoop a if to conceal her height a bit, and a problematic leg causes her to lean on her can whenever she takes a step. Her voice is usually kind and friendly, and given half a chance she'll offer you homemade cookies and talk your ears off about what her favorite descendant of the week is doing.Though she practically never jokes or makes fun of things herself she enjoys humor and levity greatly, and is seldom seen without a smile on her lips despite the aches and problems of her body.
Info: Claims to be over three hundred years old, and is known to wield Mastery in at least Life and Death. Solid records have shown that she's capable of Adept-level effects in both Time and Spirit, though it is widely believed that she's hiding her true capabilities in either of these, or even both. Though her familiar is a small black cat whose name has never been revealed to anyone she's also prone to keeping all sorts of strange company, most notably the two sentient raven-like creatures known as Hugin and Munin. Having remained Hierarch of not only the city of Trondheim but also most of the region of Trøndelag for two centuries or more has enabled her to entrench herself in the local power structure to the point where most consider it virtually impossible to unseat her. In return she seldom involved herself in the actual daily running of the Concilium, acting more like a senior adviser and a living memory-bank of information on how the city works, available to whoever currently sits on the ruling council.
Given that she's known to keep track of the real names of all mages born in her domain and that she literally knows where the bodies are buried it's likely that should she choose to do so she could summon up the ghosts of any and all deceased mages of the region for several generations past. With this being just one example among many of the sort of power she possesses there's no end to the speculation as to what she's actually doingwith it all. When asked directly about this she usually answers something along the lines of "My granddaughter is teaching me Tetris" or other such mundane trivialities. Which is usually rather frustrating, given the amount of work and patience required to ever be granted a visit with her, unless she takes a personal interest in the petitioner. In fact her strict hands-off approach means that many of the local mages do not even hear about her until they've been Awakened for several years, and more than one wizard has honestly believed her to be a hoax or urban legend until she showed up to a Concilium meeting half a decade later.
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