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Business-wise, it was a pretty rough year for WWE as RAW’s ratings hit their lowest point in the show’s history, but from an in-ring perspective, 2016 was no slouch. Just about every PPV of the year presented at least one match that was worthy of four stars or higher and many different wrestlers have been…
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Thanks to Rolling Stone and WWE (an odd combination to be sure), this week was largely about the ’60s, which is pretty much indisputably the best decade for music in our country’s history. However, it’s the much newer “Sirens” and “Piano Man” that are old to me, presenting an interesting dichotomy for my picks for…
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A lovely lineup of Metro buses past and present. Photo by @el_transit_foamer #MetroBus #buses #buslife #metrolosangeles
A photo posted by Metro Los Angeles (@metrolosangeles) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:30am PDT
Basics: the math of park-n-ride (Human Transit)
Boy, Laura Nelson’s article in the Times earlier this week on parking and the lack thereof at some Metro transit stations got people talking. That’s a good thing as parking at transit stations is an interesting public policy issue. The latest to chime in is transportation planner Jarrett Walker who says he doesn’t believe parking is needed in many cases to attract people to transit. Excerpt:
The claim that Park-and-Ride is needed to attract riders is true only in the earliest phases of development, or on transit services with limited utility like peak-only express service. Once land value rises in response to transit access, the highest source of ridership is also the economically highest use of the land: dense, transit-oriented development around the station combined with good provision for the space-efficient forms of access (i.e. everything but Park-and-Ride). This is why Park-and-Ride is often a logical interim use of land, but not one that you should plan on having forever. Once a city has grown in around a transit system, there may be little Park-and-Ride left at rail stations, and only massive, distorting subsidies will make it free.
Read his entire post — it offers more context and there are some situations in which Walker feels that parking is appropriate.
LADOT pilots pedestrian-first signal timing on Broadway (Streetsblog LA)
Some good news: it’s an experiment, but the city of Los Angeles has been tinkering with the timing of walk signals on Broadway in DTLA. The walk signal now comes on several seconds before the green light for cars, the idea being to give pedestrians a head start so they’re more visible to motorists who may otherwise quickly turn right or left into a crosswalk. I think they’ve been doing the same thing in Pasadena near City College and I love it — after spending years avoiding students who are driving too fast or too dumb-dumbly.
Faces of transportation (AASHTO)
The American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials shows off their annual photo contest winners. A few nice pics in there if you’re into this sort of thing. Some even nicer transpo photos on the Mobile Photography Awards’ website — not sure when they were first published, but they’re really good.
Speaking of mobile photography, I’m a big fan of Hipstamatic and have been giving their new TinType app a whirl. It’s designed for portrait photography, but folks I’ve taken pics of say it makes them look bug-eyed. Took this one on the Gold Line yesterday. It’s a little dark, but I do like the effect:
Trying new app. Think I like it. #TinType #Hipstamatic
A photo posted by Metro Los Angeles (@metrolosangeles) on Oct 10, 2014 at 5:32pm PDT
Santa Monica Airport could save us from alien invasion (Streetsblog Lite)
So says one letter writer in the Santa Monica Daily Press, suggesting the airport could be used for a military staging area to fight the outer-space people/things/creatures. Hmmm. But what if the alien invaders are friendly and just want to borrow some earthling stuff for a while?:
Take note, aspiring directors. It’s hard to do much better than that.
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VV says:
Steve, your hero Jarrett Walker states in his article “…parking at a high-utility rapid transit station is a price subsidy, exactly the way the Soviet Union’s caps on retail prices were.” Later he states, “The claim that Park-and-Ride is needed to attract riders is true only in the earliest phases of development,…”
You are right that he thinks that there are some situations where parking is reasonable but this is what he says, “Low-cost Park-and-Ride can make great sense where a station area is undevelopable (floodplains etc).”
Hilarious reading Steve. Since you either read the article and believe what he stated or you just want to point to a viewpoint from an academic/transit planner that lacks common sense, you certainly provided readers today with an opinion on how Metro would be on par with the Soviet Union if it provides if more parking. I am sure there are readers that will agree with you and Mr. Walker that Metro is subversively persuing communism.
Steve, do you believe Park and Rides, whether in the Metro system or not, should be built on Floodplains? What happens to the cars when or if it rains?
Erik Griswold says:
There is no “lack of parking” at the Metro stations which offer it. There is a lack of common sense regarding the pricing of a commodity that is now very much in demand. Free parking at stations may have made sense at opening to spur interest, but once the spaces started filling, pricing should have been implemented to ensure turnover and availabilty. How sad that Metro has kissed off millions of dollars in revenue for so many years.
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Does Office 365 Have SharePoint?
Why do the majority of Fortune 500 companies rely on SharePoint for document management and intranet? The same reasons smaller companies do: SharePoint is easy to learn, easy to use, and very dependable.
Combined with Office 365, SharePoint is even better.
Currently, SharePoint Online is bundled with some versions of Office 365, or it can be purchased as a standalone service. Office 365 SharePoint is fully integrated with your other apps. You can build secure sites to store, share, and co-edit different types of files with others across the company.
If you have a standalone SharePoint without Office 365, or Office 365 without SharePoint, you’ll still be able to carry out some document storage and intranet functions using other Office apps—it’s just not going to be as sleek, centralized, or controllable as setting up your content management with SharePoint.
Let’s go through the SharePoint basics, your plan options with and without Office 365, and what it’s all going to cost.
What is SharePoint?
SharePoint Online is a cloud-based platform that brings together several important aspects of business that were formerly independent, such as intranet, document storage, and permissions sharing.
The end result is that users can work within SharePoint to edit and comment on different versions of files, as well as coordinate big-picture tasks, all from the same dashboard.
SharePoint is a lot more than a place to build sites, but it’s a good place to start. There are three main types of SharePoint sites you can create.
Communication sites are good for broadcasting company-wide news or interfacing with external stakeholders and clients. Site Owners control the information its Members can post and Visitors can view.
Team sites are great for particular projects, products, clients, or working groups. Store and share files in a document library with a versioning history and other controls to keep your files safe. SharePoint team sites are built on top of Office 365 groups, so anyone you invite will have access to a shared calendar, inbox, and cloud storage.
Hub sites tie together various autonomous team and communication sites under a single navigation umbrella.
From there, you invite other users, assigning varying levels of permissions as needed.
Check out this chart from Microsoft to get a sense of how these three site types fit together and form the building blocks of your company’s intranet:
As different teams need to connect (or separate) for different projects, SharePoint admins can quickly make sure everyone has access to the information they need.
Key benefits of SharePoint
Usage varies considerably among organizations, but companies typically employ SharePoint to address the following needs:
SharePoint sites serve as secure document libraries that allow users to store, search, track, and retrieve files associated with a specific project or team. Many of the features in SharePoint (versioning, check in/out) are built specifically for companies to meet regulatory or process requirements.
SharePoint enjoys tight integration with all of the core Office apps, which makes for a rich collaboration environment. Co-edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and quickly see who made the last edit. Security and compliance features make it easy to set up a safe guest sharing environment as well.
Businesses use SharePoint to create and maintain a modern and intelligent intranet. Though Yammer is quickly supplanting SharePoint’s role as a company-wide social network, SharePoint communication sites are an easy way to share information with a large number of users across departments.
SharePoint leverages Graph and OneDrive for Business in order for you to generate insights about the data stored in reports, documents, and records.
SharePoint helps companies automate workflows, which can decrease costs while increasing productivity.
Is SharePoint included in Office 365?
Only certain versions of Office 365 include SharePoint Online:
Although SharePoint is a key app for many businesses, it’s not counted among the core apps for Microsoft. Of the subscription plans that include SharePoint, Office 365 Business Essentials is the most affordable.
Side note: All Enterprise Office 365 options come with SharePoint Online.
What’s the difference with SharePoint Online?
If you have Office 365 SharePoint, odds are you’re using SharePoint Online. Like Office 365, SharePoint Online is entirely cloud-based and located on Microsoft’s servers.
Not that it matters much from an end-user POV. SharePoint behaves exactly the same way, it’s just that your files aren’t taking up local space. The same is true for your tablets and phones: SharePoint Online works across all your devices, as long as you download the SharePoint Mobile app.
Alternatively, SharePoint can be deployed on-premises. This is known as a SharePoint Server plan. Companies may deploy completely online, completely on-premises, or a hybrid setup.
Those that install SharePoint on their own farms tend to have specific needs or compliance requirements that make it easier for them to manage their data themselves. They don’t benefit from the incremental improvements that come with SharePoint Online, but they have more control over their platform’s architecture and behavior.
That said, SharePoint Online users enjoy a considerable degree of customizability, and those who have Office 365 can access nifty add-ons to tackle tasks or hurdles that didn’t exist a month ago.
What are the other ways to get SharePoint?
If you want to purchase SharePoint separately from Office 365, there are two plans to choose from:
SharePoint Plan 1 works well for small to midsize businesses. It comes with everything included with SharePoint Online, including mobile access and 24/7 support.
SharePoint Plan 2 is designed for enterprise. There’s lots more storage per user, advanced DLP capabilities, and enhanced search and administrative features.
SharePoint migrations
Moving to SharePoint Online?
Much will hinge on the size and nature of the files you need to move, but even a small-scale SharePoint migration will benefit from planning. Taking time to inventory and assess your content will save you a ton of effort later on.
You also want to make sure you take advantage of tools designed specifically for SharePoint migrations. Depending on where your content lives now, you have a few options:
SharePoint Migration Tool: Best for migrating SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 environments or smaller file shares. Microsoft also provides the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool to help you assess your SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 content before migrating.
Mover: Best for cloud-to-cloud migration from other service providers, including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Google Drive. You can also use Mover to migrate one SharePoint tenant to another.
Migration Manager: Best for migrating large file shares. Migration Manager gives you a centralized way to connect servers, create tasks, and monitor progress.
There are other methods and tools out there for SharePoint migrations and plenty of companies that will do it for you (for a price).
When is SharePoint with Office 365 a good fit?
If enterprise content management is a concern, you’re going to want to get SharePoint sooner rather than later. OneDrive is not built for ECM, and though you can spend time customizing it to securely store and index your files, it will be an uphill battle.
This is to say nothing of the top-notch collaborative environment provided by SharePoint that you and your coworkers will miss out on. Yes, the Office 365 apps have a lot of collaborative features baked in, but a centralized SharePoint dashboard is going to help people manage work across all of their teams, committees, and groups.
If you’re thinking about SharePoint, it’s probably time to get it. You’ll grow to a point where you have to budget in a SharePoint migration eventually. And that will only climb in costs as you put it off.
A final thing: If you already have Office 365, the bump in per-user subscription costs to get SharePoint doesn’t have to break the bank. Get complete information on Office 365 pricing and plans here.
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Zombie lore lingers, looms in pop culture over time
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One of the most popular creatures featured around Halloween are zombies.
Being mindless, reanimated corpses, zombies have a strong desire to eat human flesh. They typically have rotting and decaying skin that is a white or green color.
Many believe that the idea of this terrifying creature came from director George A. Romero’s 1968 horror movie called “Night of the Living Dead,” but it was actually only the first time that the idea was present in American culture.
The idea of monsters that are composed of the bodies of former human beings is an idea that has been around in folklore since as early as the 18th century, when people would share scary stories of the dead coming back to life to eat humans.
However, the first documented use of the word “zombie” was from a poet named Robert Southey in 1819. The word comes from the Kongo and Creole words “nzambi” or “zonbi” which mean “spirit of a dead person.”
The film horror genre has had a particular preoccupation with zombie lore. Their first appearance in film was in the 1932 horror flick “White Zombie,” which is loosely based on the 1929 novel by William Seabrook titled “The Magic Island.”
The film’s plot takes place in Haiti as a couple, Madeleine and Neil, become cursed shortly before their marriage. The curse, put onto them by a voodoo master, kills Madeleine, but then promptly turns her into a zombie, who is kidnapped by the voodoo master. Neil, realizing that the body of his wife is missing from her grave, goes on a mission to save her. Madeleine is ordered to kill Neil by her kidnapper, but in the process of doing so, the voodoo master is killed, which then releases Madeleine from her zombie trance and she awakes to see Neil, as they have their happily ever after.
Since this first zombie film appeared in the media, the idea has skyrocketed into popularity, inspiring a slew of films, such as the aforementioned “Night of the Living Dead,” and its many remakes and spin-offs. Some more popular zombie movies include the 2004 comedy “Shaun of the Dead,” and the 1980 gore-filled film simply called “Zombie.”
A few popular examples of zombie-based novels include “World War Z,” by Max Brooks and “Warm Bodies,” by Isaac Marion, both of which have been turned into movies since their 2006 and 2010 releases. A couple popular examples of zombie-based television shows include “The Walking Dead;” (and its spin-off, “Fear the Walking Dead”) and “iZombie.”
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Alimony reform group sees progress with legislation
By Mike Faher
May 14 2017 November 8, 2017
BRATTLEBORO – For some who are lobbying for legislative changes, approval of a bill that creates a task force might not be much to cheer about.
But Rick Fleming sees it as real progress in his yearslong push to overhaul Vermont’s alimony statute.
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The Legislature has approved a bill, S.112, that temporarily imposes new alimony guidelines while creating an eight-member “spousal support and maintenance task force” that will take a close look at the state’s alimony law and how it might be changed.
Rick Fleming is president of Vermont Alimony Reform. File photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
Fleming, a Brattleboro businessman who leads Vermont Alimony Reform, is particularly happy that his group will have a seat on the task force. As recently as a few weeks ago, it didn’t appear that would happen.
“We’re hopeful and confident that Gov. (Phil) Scott will sign it, and we look forward to the hard work of reforming alimony in Vermont,” Fleming said.
The reform group began meeting in 2015 and started a legislative lobbying effort last year.
Vermont Alimony Reform’s membership consists of payers who feel they’ve been treated unfairly. But Fleming believes “there’s a misunderstanding as to where we’re coming from.”
“We’re for alimony, where it’s appropriate,” he said. “But it has to serve a defined purpose.”
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For example, the group wants to end indefinite alimony; make allowances for a payer’s retirement; and, in most cases, end alimony when a recipient remarries.
Fleming said he is not opposed to judicial discretion in alimony awards. But he believes judges and attorneys currently have too much leeway, leading to unpredictable outcomes.
The issue of judicial discretion has played a central role in the alimony debate.
The Legislature last year asked a state Supreme Court oversight committee to examine the law. In January, the committee issued a report recommending new guidelines based on income and the length of a marriage, but strongly warning against consideration of “rigid” alimony rules that would tie judges’ hands.
Fleming’s group took exception to that conclusion and began a new lobbying effort, again asking for a more inclusive examination of the alimony law.
After some back and forth – the Senate OK’d a task force, and the House then deleted it – a conference committee came up with final language that won approval in both chambers.
The task force is composed of one member of the House and one senator; the state’s chief superior judge; a Superior Court judge “who has significant experience” in family court; two experienced family law attorneys; a Vermont Alimony Reform member; and a representative of the Vermont Commission on Women.
Cary Brown, executive director of the Vermont Commission on Women. File photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger
The commission wasn’t initially included on the task force when it was proposed a few months ago. But the commission’s executive director, Cary Brown, said the alimony debate is directly related to economic equality issues that are at the core of the commission’s work.
She also points out that, while Vermont Alimony Reform has female members who are payers, the overwhelming majority of alimony recipients are women.
“We just want to be sure that the perspective of those who are receiving alimony and need it is well-represented,” Brown said.
That doesn’t mean, however, that the commission is opposed to possible changes in alimony law.
“I think it’s never a bad idea to look at ways to improve the laws that we have,” Brown said. “I feel pretty confident that this is actually a well-thought-out group of people they have” on the task force.
Fleming agrees, saying the addition of the Commission on Women is a “great change” for a group that is to make recommendations to improve the “clarity, fairness, predictability and consistency” of alimony law.
The task force must report back to the House and Senate Judiciary committees by Dec. 1.
“It’s a lot of work,” Fleming said. “But if we stay focused and dedicated to moving this forward, I think it is doable and we’ll be able to come back to the Legislature with some positive recommendations.”
Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham, has been a consistent supporter of an alimony reform study and served on the conference committee for S.112.
She noted that the House’s version of the bill had called for review of the alimony statute by the Supreme Court’s Family Division Oversight Committee – the same body that issued the January report, and the same group that has been looking at the issue for years.
“Our feeling was that they have been doing it for 15 years and have not made any progress except to create some suggested guidelines for alimony,” White said.
Those guidelines have been incorporated into S.112, but there’s also a provision for their repeal on July 1, 2019. “We did put in a two-year sunset so they will have to be reviewed again,” White said.
In the meantime, the task force will be taking a more wide-ranging look at the law. White called it “all around, a win for the folks who brought us the issue.”
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Volunteer Makers Gets the Abbey Habit!
13th June 2018 /0 Comments/in Images, News, Pioneers /by Claire Sully
Although many of Volunteer Makers’ users are traditional city museums, some are not – the apps blending of micro-volunteering with social benefits for supporters has applications in a variety of organisations.
A busy early June for the VM team was capped by the launch of a Volunteer Makers portal by a spectacular heritage destination, Glastonbury Abbey.
Launching, appropriately, in national Volunteers’ Week, the new portal aims to grow, diversify and engage volunteers with work at the 1,300-year-old Abbey – a site linked with Arthurian legend as well as Medieval monasticism and Henry VIII’s brutal Dissolution of The Monasteries.
Across the country from Somerset, another portal launched for a heritage group in Milton Keynes.
The VM model has proved to be very successful for heritage and arts organisations working as a consortia, and early indications are that the pattern could be repeated for HeritageMK.
HeritageMK includes sites showcasing the Roman and Saxon history of the area, as well as the home of Georgian poet William Cowper. It was there that Cowper’s friend John Newton wrote Amazing Grace.
The consortium also features the world-famous Bletchley Park, the stately home that became the centre for crucial Allied codebreaking in WWII.
Earlier in June, VM launched further South, with a portal at Southampton Heritage and Arts.
This group includes not only one of the port’s oldest surviving structures, the Tudor House, but SeasCity Museum where Southampton’s maritime history is explored, including a fascinating Titanic exhibition.
The city’s highly regarded Art Gallery is another organisation that will benefit from VM’s two-way model of volunteer engagement.
Volunteer Makers has proved a hit with organisations in Essex, and Chelmsford Museum became the latest to launch a VM portal.
The museum operates on three sites in the bustling county town, telling the archaeological, military and industrial history of the region and much more.
Elsewhere, one of VM’s smallest pioneering operations, the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham, has been recognised for its forward-thinking approach to volunteering.
The museum houses a fascinating archive on the composer Gustav Holst, who despite his Germanic name was a Gloucestershire lad.
Its active and innovative approach to supporters, now supported by its established Volunteer Makers portal, won it the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
As the Summer presses on, more and more organisations are finding through Volunteer Makers added value from engaging Volunteers in a 21st century way!
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Where in the world is Kelly?
World traveler, occasional blogger, and full-time adventurer: Where will she end up next?
Fulbright Years
Pangkal Pinang, 2015-2016
Sidoarjo, 2016-2017
Indonesiaful
Southeast Asia 2013
AFS Thailand 2010-2011
Images of Singapore
The colonial ties in Singapore are still strongly felt. Everyone speaks English, and some ties are still felt as this nifty motorbike parked in Little India may suggest. Teh C (tea with sugar and condensed milk) is a popular drink in Singapore. I tried this cup out of a cute cafe in the Arab District. … More Images of Singapore
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Illinois — March 2020 to present
New York City — I’ll return as soon as possible!
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Home Uncategorised Princeton grad gets maximum sentence in killing of hedge-fund father - Fox...
Princeton grad gets maximum sentence in killing of hedge-fund father – Fox News
The killing gripped Recent York Metropolis when it turned first reported.
A Princeton graduate with celeb appears turned accused of coming into his hedge fund father’s tony NYC rental and fatally capturing him. His mother– who he requested to obtain him a Coca-Cola from a retailer– got here proper by her husband’s physique in his bed room.
The trial turned by no methodology about who pulled the set off; it turned about whether or not or not or not Thomas Gilbert Jr., turned attentive to his actions on the time of the capturing.
Thomas Gilbert, Jr.
(Ny District Legal professional)
On Friday, a utter mediate in Ny dominated in opposition to the killer and sentenced him to primarily probably the most sentence allowed: 30 years to existence. Prosecutors acknowledged Gilbert knew what he turned doing and “threw the final tantrum” after having his allowance slashed.
Gilbert addressed the courtroom for roughly 10 minutes and referred to himself as “the defendant,” The Recent York Conditions reported.
He instructed the courtroom, “The defendant expresses regret.”
Justice Melissa Jackson turned not overjoyed that he’s insane.
“You knew precisely what you were doing,” she acknowledged, in conserving with the Conditions. “You were not insane on the time you killed your father. You were not insane then. You can moreover very well be not insane now.”
Thomas Gilbert Sr. turned fatally shot on Jan. 4, 2015. The youthful Gilbert confirmed up unannounced, offended that he misplaced his weekly allowance of $1,000. Principally primarily based on prosecutors, he spent the money on hunch, memberships to elite sporting golf equipment and different interior most fees, nevertheless turned not succesful of help down an on a customary foundation job.
His dad and mom, who furthermore lined his distinctive every day fees, had been encouraging him to alter into further self-ample and incrementally lowered his month-to-month allowance.
Shelley Gilbert, his mom, insisted after the sentencing that her son turned mentally sick and would possibly possibly furthermore not comprehend his actions. The Recent York Conditions reported that she pleaded with the mediate to snort her son to be admitted to a psychiatric facility.
“I do know that is what my husband would dangle wished for him,” she acknowledged.
The jury rejected the 35-300 and sixty 5 days-aged defendant’s madness safety proper by the trial, deciding that he murdered the hedge fund supervisor with a shot to the top at shut range from a semi-automated pistol, a .40-caliber Glock bought months earlier from a vendor in Ohio. Earlier than fleeing the rental, Gilbert connect the gun in his father’s hand to confirm out to stage his loss of life as a suicide, in conserving with trial testimony.
“Thomas Gilbert, Sr. turned a customary member of his household and industrial group when his dangle son murdered him in a wintry-blooded killing,” District Legal professional Cyrus Vance acknowledged Friday in a inform. “Nonetheless now, due to my diagram of labor’s prosecutors, the defendant has in the top been held accountable and he’ll help a existence sentence for this unconscionable crime.”
The elder Gilbert turned the founder and supervisor of the Recent York-primarily based totally Wainscott Capital Companions Fund.
His son furthermore turned convicted on prices of felony possession of a weapon.
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Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School – Slate Magazine
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is seen at Princeton University in this photo taken on August 14, 2010. Princeton University’s school of public policy will no longer carry the name of former President Woodrow Wilson and neither will a residential college. The school, which since 1948 has been known as the…
Princeton removes Woodrow Wilson’s name from school, citing his ‘racist thinking and policies’ – POLITICO
Wilson, a Democrat who led Princeton in the early 1900s and served as U.S. president between 1913 and 1921, publicly advocated for and implemented racist policies, including resegregating federal government workers after they had been integrated for decades. “Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” Eisgruber said. Princeton…
A Princeton Grad Who Killed His Dad For Reducing His Allowance Was Sentenced To 30 Years To Life – BuzzFeed News
A Princeton graduate who was convicted of killing his father, a hedge fund manager, after he reduced his son's allowance was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Friday.Thomas Gilbert Jr. was 30 years old and was receiving $1,000 a week from his parents, multiple outlets reported.Prosecutors said he spent that money "on…
Choir of more than 100 people sings without masks at Pence event in Texas | TheHill – The Hill
More than 100 choir members at a church where Vice President Pence attended a rally in Texas could be seen singing without masks on Sunday, just days after the state’s governor announced he would be reimplementing certain restrictions in the state following a surge in coronavirus cases.In footage of the event, which CNN reported was held at…
‘The Bachelor’: Kaitlyn Bristowe Applied to Be on Juan Pablo Galavis’ Season – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Fans got to look back at Juan Pablo Galavis’ season of The Bachelor with The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! Kaitlyn Bristowe appeared on the episode and revealed how she originally applied to be on his season. Kaitlyn Bristowe was on ‘The Bachelor’ Season 19 Kaitlyn Bristowe on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ | Frank…
Vizio’s 2020 lineup includes its biggest TV yet and first-ever OLED – The Verge
Vizio is going big at CES 2020 with a lineup of new 4K HDR TVs that are fully optimized for the current and upcoming generations of game consoles from Sony and Microsoft. But the company also has grander ambitions, and is introducing its first TV to feature an OLED panel. So Vizio is now joining…
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Chesapeake Bay by Air
By Nancy Coddington | March 9, 2016
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Shot in the air from two to two thousand feet, Chesapeake Bay by Air‘s unique perspective of the Chesapeake Bay marries gentle verse, prose and music with stunningly dramatic images of the Chesapeake in a way that, until now, only migrating Canada Geese could truly appreciate.
Chesapeake Bay by Air’s meandering aerial journey transports viewers to many of the Chesapeake Bay’s countless stunning locations — from a purple-orange dawn over the Susquehanna River to the mystery of the carved marsh of Blackwater Wildlife Refuge. From the tranquil fishing village of Smith Island to the belching smokestacks of Sparrow’s Point, from ancient Calvert Cliffs to bustling small-city Annapolis and metropolis Baltimore, from the mighty steel spans of the Chesapeake Bay Bridges and then to historic Point Lookout, Chesapeake by Air brings the bay into razor-sharp perspective, from well above the din.
Other points of interest include Smith Island, the last water-bound home to Chesapeake watermen; Crisfield, Maryland’s seafood capitol; St. Mary’s City, location of Maryland’s founding in 1634; Annapolis, home of the U.S. Naval Academy; Chesapeake Bay lighthouses; the Port of Baltimore, the nation’s farthest inland port; the nation’s own mighty river, the Potomac; the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; the Susquehanna River, and more.
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State Gas Limited (ASX:GAS) Quarterly Activities Report
Brisbane, July 31, 2020 AEST (ABN Newswire)
State Gas Limited (ASX:GAS) is owner and operator of the Reid's Dome Gas Project (PL 231) in central eastern Queensland, approximately 545 km northwest of Brisbane and 50 km southwest of Rolleston, in the Bowen Basin Central Queensland. The permit hosts both conventional and unconventional gas and is approximately 45 km from the high-pressure gas pipeline network in Queensland.
- Customised pumps manufactured and imported from Canada
- Dewatering activities recommenced at Reid's Dome
- All three wells (Serocold-1, Aldinga East-1A and Nyanda-4) at Reid's Dome have produced gas, with continuing production at Serocold-1 and Nyanda-4
- Streamlining of management structure towards production focus
- Costs of $233,000 received from successful outcome in legal appeal
To view the quarterly report, please visit:
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OPP identify victim in fatal Highway 401 collision near Tilbury
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 4:15PM EST
WINDSOR, ONT. -- Essex County OPP have identified a 60-year-old London man as the driver who died following a Highway 401 collision near Tilbury.
Glen Quann, 60, died after the vehicle he was driving and another vehicle collided in the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 east of County Road 41. Emergency crews were called to the scene Monday around 11:05 a.m.
Police say the passenger in Quann’s vehicle was transported to hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries.
The driver and lone occupant of the other involved vehicle was not injured.
The eastbound lanes of Highway 401 at County Road 42 were closed for several hours as a result of the investigation.
Police say the investigation is ongoing, and further updates will be provided as information becomes available.
Multiple accidents on Highway 401 due to wintry weather
One person dies, another injured after Highway 401 crash near Tilbury
COVID-19 cases up by 116 in Windsor-Essex, two new deaths
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DeBrincat, Hinostroza make their case as Blackhawks trounce Red Wings
The Chicago Blackhawks handed the Detroit Red Wings their first loss this preseason, scoring three third period goals to earn a 4-2 victory Thursday night.
Neither team tallied a goal in the first period, but the Red Wings did draw first blood in the second period, courtesy of Michael Rasmussen, their first round pick in this year’s draft. Richard Panik did tie things up six minutes into the frame, burying a pass from Jonathan Toews past Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek. Red Wings defenseman Libor Sulak did break the tie 108 seconds later, capitalizing on a odd-man rush to let one slip by Blackhawks netminder Anton Forsberg. The Blackhawks didn’t have to wait long to tie up the game again in the third period, as Tommy Wingels one-timed a beautiful pass from Vinnie Hinostroza pass Mrazek. Training camp sensation, and Michigan native, Alex DeBrincat broke the tie, scoring a power-play goal off of a pass from Cody Franson that was meant for Toews. Center Laurent Dauphin added the insurance goal late in the fourth, tallying an empty-net goal that he shot from center ice. The Blackhawks ended the night outshooting the Red Wings 40-34.
Goalie tandem set
Forsberg was once again solid on net, repelling 32 out of 34 shots that actually ended up on goal. I don’t think there was any doubt that he would end up the backup job behind Corey Crawford, but last night’s performance, compounded by his 6-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets during the first game of the preseason, in my opinion cemented his position as the number 2 goalie behind Crawford.
Hockey decisions vs. business decisions
At the beginning of training camp, consensus among those who care about these things was that there were going to be three forwards positions that were really going to be up for grabs, and that the Hawks brass will have a hard time deciding who makes it and who doesn’t.
At one end, you have the veterans. Lance Bouma and Tommy Wingels were both signed by Chicago during free agency this summer. Jordin Tootoo was re-signed this summer by the club. Tomas Jurco was acquired last trade deadline from the Red Wings. All four are character guys, for sure. But they are also veterans who, and especially in the cases of Bouma and Wingels, were recruited and sold on opportunities to play here in Chicago. Both Bouma and Wingels, and Tootoo for that matter, play the high-tempo, energetic, in your face type of game that Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman spoke of last July in his post-mortem press conference. On Jurco’s side, the organization gave up a third round pick to get him here. Just to point out in comparison, the Blackhawks gave up a second round pick to acquire defenseman David Rundblad from the then Phoenix Coyotes back in 2014. It took the organization two years and 63 games to realize that Rundblad is not a good defenseman, finally ending that experiment by buying out the last year of his contract on July 1, 2016.
But on the other end, you have the kids. Alex DeBrincat, in four preseason games, has two goals, one assist, and has created a ton of chances whenever he is on the ice. Whether he is placed in the first line, the second, or the third, the kid plays for keeps. He has the hockey sense to be on the right point on the ice to create terrific scoring chances. He doesn’t have dynamic speed, but he makes up for it in sheer chemistry with his line mates. Vinnie Hinostroza, on the other hand, has the speed. But, unlike last year, when he seemed to be always playing like his hair is on fire, he has been using that speed smartly. He has been more adept in changing speeds mid-skate, allowing him to exert more pressure on his forecheck. He has also been more responsible in his own zone, limiting the number of turnovers that he allows, which was a point of contention on his playing style last year. And last but not least, John Hayden, as I have previously stated in previous post-game analyses, has proven that he can proficiently use his size, strength and physicality to generate plays, whether it’s 5 on 5 or on the special teams.
Head coach Joel Quenneville has always been vocal about mitigating the effects the business side of hockey can have on a roster that he is creating, but I think this year will be a special case. What I can definitely say though is that, if the young guns continue to make the case on staying with their play, Q and his staff would be hard-pressed to not let them.
Third Star: Vinnie Hinostroza – 1A
Second Star: Anton Forsnerg – 32 saves
First Star: Alex DeBrincat – 1 G, 1 A
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Four stabbed and one shot after pro-Trump rallies
By: AFP Published: 03:37 PM, 13 Dec, 2020
Supporters of President Donald Trump wave a Betsy Ross flag with a circle of 13 five-point stars representing the 13 original colonies flies during a protest. AFP
Four people were stabbed and one shot as rallies backing President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud led to clashes in major US cities on Saturday.
Scuffles broke out in many places between rally-goers and counter-protesters who turned up to criticize the president, who lost the November 3 election to Democrat Joe Biden but is yet to concede.
Washington State Police said in a tweet late Saturday that a shooting had taken place after clashes near the capitol building in Olympia, and that a suspect had been detained.
In the US capital, DC Fire and EMS Department communications chief Doug Buchanan told AFP that four people had been stabbed and were now hospitalized "with serious injuries." The New York Times reported that 23 had been arrested throughout the day.
There was no indication of whether any of the victims had been involved in the protests, on either side of the divide.
The day had begun with a festive atmosphere as thousands of red-hatted protesters filled Washington's streets to support the president, undeterred by the US Supreme Court's rejection on Friday of what may have been his last chance to overturn the results.
Similar events took place in Olympia, Atlanta and St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as in smaller towns in Nebraska, Alabama and elsewhere.
Demonstrators at the DC rally -- noticeably smaller than a similar protest last month -- told AFP they were steadfast in their support for the embattled president.
"We're not gonna give up," said Luke Wilson, a sixty-something protester who had come all the way from the western state of Idaho.
"I believe there is a big injustice being done to the American people," added Dell Quick, a regular at Trump's political rallies, as he brandished a flag defending gun rights.
Protesters offered no shortage of explanations for the poll results, even though they have been affirmed by state election officials -- several of them Republican -- and by judges in several key states.
Every state has now certified the results, giving Biden 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump's 232. Electors are to formally cast their votes Monday.
But protesters insisted, as Trump has repeatedly, that there was widespread fraud in the election.
Some pointed to "foreign interference," others to software that allegedly erased millions of votes for the president -- but not those for other Republican candidates on the same ballots.
Quick told AFP that "there's no way possible" that Biden won. Susan Bowman, a 62-year-old from Hampton, Virginia, said "this is not a banana republic. We need to fix the election."
Those who addressed the crowd included Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser who was recently pardoned by the president after admitting that he lied to the FBI over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
'Stolen' election
Dozens of court cases alleging fraud or contesting the result have been decided -- virtually all in Biden's favor, with some judges offering stinging criticism of the lack of evidence.
But that was not enough for 47-year-old Darlene Denton, who wore a "Trump 2024" badge on her sweatshirt.
"Nobody wants to hear evidence, nobody wants to hear cases, everything just gets thrown out," said Denton, who had come from Tennessee to support a president she said had given "a voice to the people."
Trump, in stark defiance of the clear result and of US tradition, has refused to concede to Biden.
"Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal," he tweeted early Saturday. "Didn't know about this, but I'll be seeing them!"
Not long afterward, his helicopter lifted off from the White House grounds and passed over the crowd -- many singing the US national anthem -- as Trump headed to New York to attend the annual Army-Navy football game.
Among the protesters, members of the far-right militia group the Proud Boys were clearly visible -- in their signature black-and-yellow outfits, some wearing bulletproof vests -- and they often drew cheers from others in the crowd.
Some blocks away, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement held their own, much smaller, rally, chanting "Nazis out!"
Police, some in riot gear, used their bodies and bicycles to keep the groups apart. There was also at least one clash between police and counter-protesters.
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Matthew Lloyd reveals the three champions he tried to get to Essendon
Matthew Lloyd has revealed he met with Wayne Carey, Chris Judd and Jason Akermanis while he was playing in the hope of luring them to Essendon.
“I sat in Wayne Carey’s apartment and pitched to him,” Lloyd said on 3AW Football.
“Myself, James Hird and Kevin Sheedy went and told him why Essendon would be a great fit for him.
“We had the Essendon team with a Wayne Carey magnet at centre half forward.”
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Arkansas casino group turns in 50,000 additional signatures
A group hoping to develop casinos in three Arkansas counties says it has turned in another 50,000 signatures in its effort to place a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot.The group Arkansas Wins would build casinos in Boone, Miller and Washington counties - all of which are border counties.Arkansas Wins spokesman Robert Coon says the group delivered the petitions Monday to the Secretary of State's office. Late last month, the Secretary of State's office said it had verified 63,725 signatures on the petition, but 84,859 are needed. Because the group had attained more than 75 percent of the total needed, it was granted more time to gather additional signatures.The Secretary of State's office did not immediately return calls for comment. It must still verify the signatures.
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A group hoping to develop casinos in three Arkansas counties says it has turned in another 50,000 signatures in its effort to place a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot.
The group Arkansas Wins would build casinos in Boone, Miller and Washington counties - all of which are border counties.
Arkansas Wins spokesman Robert Coon says the group delivered the petitions Monday to the Secretary of State's office. Late last month, the Secretary of State's office said it had verified 63,725 signatures on the petition, but 84,859 are needed. Because the group had attained more than 75 percent of the total needed, it was granted more time to gather additional signatures.
The Secretary of State's office did not immediately return calls for comment. It must still verify the signatures.
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Fortescue turns to $US2.5b after loan investors shun offer
Jonathan Shapiro and Tess Ingram
Updated Mar 17, 2015 – 7.57pm, first published at 4.50pm
Fortescue Metals Group has turned to the junk bond market for $US2.5 billion ($3.27 billion) after US loan investors demanded better terms, forcing the miner to pay up to extend and refinance its debt. The switch to the bond market is set to result in higher financing costs than planned as analysts await the final terms of its debt refinancing.
The debt-dependent Perth-based miner formally launched a seven year $US2.5 billion raising on Tuesday. Fortescue had initially set out to raise funds in the loan market, via a $US2.5 billion secured loan, but investors demanded a higher rate than the 4.25 per cent margin over the bank rate.
That forced Fortescue to target the bond market through a secured issue. The deal is being managed by Credit Suisse and JPMorgan who came to Fortescue's rescue underwriting a $US4.5 billion secured loan in 2012 as its funding efforts were impeded by a plunging iron ore price and concerns that it could be in breach of its debt terms.
Andrew Forrest, chairman of Fortescue Metals, the debt-dependent Perth-based miner. Christopher Pearce
Initial reports are that Fortescue was marketing the seven-year bond issue, which it can repay after three years, in the "high 7 per cent area" range.
BBY analyst Mike Harrowell said the pricing of the bond issue "is going to be the real story" suggesting a rate of 6 per cent or lower would be favourable given the bonds it plans to retire with the proceeds pay 6 per cent, 6.9 per cent and 8.3 per cent.
"I will be watching to see whether they can book a profit. If the bond price is below what they are currently paying they will do that, and that's what people will be looking out for," he said.
Fortescue is also aiming to extend the maturity on a $US4.88 billion loan from June 2019 to December 2021 but is set to increase the margin to 4.5 per cent over the London Interbank Offer Rate from the current 2.75 per cent margin, according to Reuters.
The debt refinancing was first announced on March 5 and should it be completed as planned will alleviate the pressure placed on the company by falling iron ore prices – which dropped below $US60 a tonne for the first time since 2009. Fortescue's share price has come under pressure – falling 65 per cent since January 2014 – with short sellers that have borrowed more than 20 per cent of available shares, betting on a further drop.
The benchmark iron ore price was $US58.90 on Tuesday. UBS estimates Fortescue's cash break even price to be $US57 a tonne. Fortescue has been working to improve its balance sheet, paying down $US3.7 billion in debt since November 2013.
But its hard work is far from over. As it stands, almost 90 per cent of Fortescue's $US8.8 billion in gross debt is due to be repaid before 2021, including $US1 billion due in April 2017.
The impact of the sinking price on Fortescue's cash flow has sparked debate among analysts on whether Fortescue will be in a position to repay its single biggest obligation, a $US4.9 billion senior secured credit facility, when it falls due in 2019, especially after interim numbers released last month illuminated an 81 per cent drop in half-year profit.
Under the new schedule, more than 50 per cent of Fortescue's debt would be due after mid-2021, giving the company more time ride out the bottom of the price cycle.
"What could be drawn from this is that they couldn't get the price they wanted down the loan route," said one credit analyst, who declined to be named. "Additionally, FMG would have gone in with the intention to get unsecured notes as in the past but with the risk surrounding iron ore at the moment there is unlikely to be much interest in that so they would have had to move to secured."
The miner has increasingly turned to secured debt to lower its funding costs, placing pressure on its unsecured bonds as more assets are pledged as security, reducing possible recovery rates. The miner's 2022 unsecured bonds, which aren't part of the buyback offer, now yield 11.5 per cent.
The $US2.5 billion secured bond also brings the miner's US debt adventures a full circle. In August 2006, Fortescue raised $US2.05 billion of secured bonds to finance its mining and rail infrastructure and become the company it is today. As its mines prospered and the cash flowed, Fortescue switched to more flexible unsecured bonds at ever lower rates, but now as commodity prices place pressure on its balance sheet, Fortescue is once again pledging assets to attain affordable financing.
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Boeing CEO grilled on software decision in 737 MAX crashes
Tracy Ruckinski
Apr 30, 2019 – 7.37am
Chicago | Boeing chief executive and chairman Dennis Muilenburg faced a tough grilling from shareholders at the AGM and promised to win back the public's trust after facing tough questions in the wake of two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX plane.
Battling the biggest crisis of his nearly four years as chief executive officer, Muilenburg survived a shareholder motion to split his chairman and CEO roles.
"We know we do have work to do to earn and re-earn that trust and we will," says chief executive Dennis Muilenberg. Washington Post
He later told reporters he would continue to lead the company through a crisis that has triggered the grounding of Boeing's fastest-selling plane, lawsuits, investigations and lingering concerns over the 737 MAX's safety.
"I am very focused on safety going forward," he said after the meeting when reporters asked if he had considered resigning. "I am strongly vested in that. My clear intent is to continue to lead on the front of safety, quality and integrity."
However, Boeing will need to win back the trust of customers, passengers and regulators following the crashes.
"We know we do have work to do to earn and re-earn that trust and we will," Muilenburg said before ending the 16-minute news conference and ignoring shouted questions from reporters as he walked away.
The family of one American victim, 24-year-old Samya Stumo, staged a silent protest outside the meeting site in Chicago, while the families of other victims among the 157 killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX on March 10 held a tearful press conference at a Chicago law firm.
That plane plunged to the ground shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, five months after a similar Lion Air nosedive in Indonesia that killed all 189 passengers and crew.
The families spoke after filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Boeing and Rosemount Aerospace, which designed the sensors used in the 737 MAX, in Chicago federal court, one of dozens of lawsuits Boeing is facing over both crashes.
Stubbed toe
Daniel Johnson, an engineer and an intermittent Boeing shareholder since 1984, said the company "really stubbed their toe" by allowing the plane's anti-stall system - called Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS - to rely on only one sensor.
"The question is: Will they need to rebrand? We don’t know how much the general public actually knows what a 737 MAX is,” Johnson said outside the meeting.
About 150 shareholders gathered in the auditorium of the Chicago Field Museum for the meeting, but only a handful questioned Muilenburg over the MAX.
One shareholder asked Muilenburg what Boeing was doing on safety assessments following the crashes. The CEO said the company's commitment to safety has not wavered.
“Safety is at the core of what we do. Every day, we try to get better," Muilenburg said at the meeting, which took place exactly six months after the Lion Air crash.
Boeing shares fall 10pc
Shares of the company, worth $US214 billion, have lost nearly 10 per cent of their value since the March 10 crash.
Boeing is under pressure to deliver a software fix to prevent erroneous data from triggering the MCAS system and a new pilot training package that will convince global regulators, and the flying public, that the aircraft is safe.
Boeing has acknowledged that the accidental firing of the software based on bad sensor data was a common link in the chain of events leading to the two accidents.
"We know we can break this link in the chain. It’s our responsibility to eliminate this risk," Muilenburg told shareholders. When asked by reporters if the MCAS system was flawed, he said only that Boeing was making improvements to it.
The US Federal Aviation Administration could clear Boeing's 737 MAX jet to fly in late May or the first part of June, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, though Boeing has yet to submit the updated software and training for review.
Some pilots have warned that draft training proposals do not go far enough to address their concerns.
Boeing repeated on Monday it was making progress to certify its grounded jets with the software update.
737 MAX deliveries on hold
Meanwhile, deliveries of the 737 MAX, which airlines around the world had been relying on to service a growing air travel industry for years to come, are on hold.
Muilenburg said Boeing has been talking to customers and is sensitive to the impact of the crisis on their operations. He said the focus is on getting the MAX flying again.
Last week Boeing abandoned its 2019 financial outlook, halted share buybacks and said lowered production due to the 737 MAX grounding had cost it at least $US1 billion so far.
Shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of defrauding them by concealing safety deficiencies in the plane. The model is also the target of investigations by US transportation authorities and the Department of Justice.
The FAA is also investigating at least four calls from whistleblowers on concerns including the angle of attack sensor and MCAS, a government official said on Monday.
Boeing declined to comment.
Manant Vaidya of Canada, who lost six family members in the Ethiopian crash, said he had repeatedly heard Muilenburg defending the design and certification of the 737 MAX.
"At the end of the day, if everything was followed how could the crash have occurred?" Vaidya asked at the news conference at Clifford Law Offices.
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Android News / Android Distribution: Marshmallow At 2.3% & Lollipop At 36.1%
Android Distribution: Marshmallow At 2.3% & Lollipop At 36.1%
By John Anon
Each month a number of reports from data crunching companies come through and look to explain the current landscape of Android. The latest of which came from comScore last week and detailed that Android now occupies 52.8-percent of the U.S. operating system market. Following on from that report and the latest Android distribution figures direct from the Android Developers team have now been released and highlight the current breakdown of all the versions of Android that are currently used. As is usually the case, these figures relate to data which is collected over a seven-day period and in this case, a seven-day period which came to an end on March 7.
In terms of the latest figures, the big headline aspect is that Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) has now effectively doubled in its level of distribution. The figures for March now show Marshmallow running on 2.3-percent of devices, which is significantly up from the 1.2-percent figure which was noted for last month. Although, in reality, this only represents a 1-percent increase, the increase between Jan and Feb was only about 0.5-percent, again highlighting the much quicker rising of Marshmallow over the past month. Another headline aspect is that Android 5.0 (Lollipop) now resides on 36.1-percent, an increase from last month's total of 34.1-percent. The reason why this is of specific interest is that it is the first time that Lollipop has surpassed Android 4.4 (KitKat), which now makes Lollipop the most widely used version of Android for the first time.
Speaking of KitKat, Android 4.4 has now dropped down from last month's 35.5-percent total to this month 34.3-percent level, marking a decrease of just over 1-percent. Moving further back and Android 4.1.x – 4.3 (Jelly Bean) has now dropped to 22.3-percent, down from its previous total of 23.9-percent. Likewise, Android 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has also dropped down from its previous total of 2.5-percent to its current 2.3-percent level. While Gingerbread is another aspect which sees a drop, albeit a very slight one down from 2.7-percent to its new total of 2.6-percent. Completing the distribution list is Android 2.2 (Froyo) which in spite of seeing its first drop in a long time last month, currently remains stable on 0.1-percent.
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The '''twelve leverage points to intervene in a system''' were proposed by [[Donella Meadows]], a scientist and system analyst focused on environmental limits to economic growth. Meadows, who worked in the field of [[systems analysis]], proposed a scale of places to intervene in a [[system]]. Awareness and manipulation of these levers is an aspect of [[self-organization]] and can lead to [[collective intelligence]]. She started with the observation that there are levers, or places within a [[complex system]] (such as a firm, a city, an economy, a living being, an [[ecosystem]], an [[ecoregion]]) where a "small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything". She claimed we need to know about these ''shifts'', where they are and how to use them. She said most people know where these points are instinctively, but tend to adjust them in the wrong direction. This understanding would help solve global problems such as [[unemployment]], [[hunger]], [[economic stagnation]], [[pollution]], [[resources depletion]], and [[conservation]] issues. ==Leverage points to intervene in a system== The following are in increasing order of effectiveness. === 12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards) === Parameters are points of lowest leverage effects. Though they are the most clearly perceived among all leverages, they rarely change behaviors and therefore have little long-term effect. === 11. The size of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows === A [[wiktionary:Buffer|buffer]]'s ability to stabilize a system is important when the stock amount is much higher than the potential amount of inflows or outflows. In the lake, the water is the buffer: if there's a lot more of it than inflow/outflow, the system stays stable. Buffers can improve a system, but they are often physical entities whose size is critical and can't be changed easily. === 10. Structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport network, population age structures)=== A system's structure may have enormous effect on operations, but may be difficult or prohibitively expensive to change. Fluctuations, limitations, and bottlenecks may be easier to address. === 9. Length of delays, relative to the rate of system changes === Information received too quickly or too late can cause over- or underreaction, even oscillations. === 8. Strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the effect they are trying to correct against=== A [[negative feedback]] loop slows down a process, tending to promote stability. The loop will keep the stock near the goal, thanks to parameters, accuracy and speed of information feedback, and size of correcting flows. === 7. Gain around driving positive feedback loops=== A [[positive feedback]] loop speeds up a process. Meadows indicates that in most cases, it is preferable to slow down a positive loop, rather than speeding up a negative one. === 6. Structure of information flow (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information)=== [[Information flow (disambiguation)|Information flow]] is neither a parameter, nor a reinforcing or slowing loop, but a loop that delivers new information. It is cheaper and easier to change information flows than it is to change structure. === 5. Rules of the system (such as incentives, punishment, constraints)=== Pay attention to rules, and to who makes them. === 4. Power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure=== [[Self-organization]] describes a system's ability to change itself by creating new structures, adding new negative and positive feedback loops, promoting new information flows, or making new rules. === 3. Goal of the system === Changing goals changes every item listed above: parameters, feedback loops, information and self-organization. === 2. Mindset or paradigm that the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises from === A societal paradigm is an idea, a shared unstated assumption, or a system of thought that is the foundation of complex social structures. Paradigms are very hard to change, but there are no limits to paradigm change. Meadows indicates paradigms might be changed by repeatedly and consistently pointing out anomalies and failures in the current paradigm to those with open minds. === 1. Power to transcend paradigms=== Transcending paradigms may go beyond challenging fundamental assumptions, into the realm of changing the values and priorities that lead to the assumptions, and being able to choose among value sets at will. ==References== {{reflist}} *[http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/ "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System," Reproduced original work, archived at the Donella Meadows Institute] *[http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/places_intervene_system.html "Places to Intervene in a System," by Donella Meadows, published in a software development context] *Meadows, Donella H. 2008. ''Thinking in systems : a primer''. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont, p.145-165 *[https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com/leverage-points-by-donella-meadows/ "Leverage Points: Made You Think Podcast episode"] {{attrib wikipedia|Twelve leverage points}} [[Category:Design]] [[Category:Systems]]
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Advertisers Must Take The Lead In The Next Privacy Sandbox
by AdExchanger // Monday, September 21st, 2020 – 1:59 pm
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Today’s column is written by John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic.
As Google Chrome slowly dribbles out concepts for a cookieless future with little structure, many media buyers in the industry are getting restless to have a common solution that will be both privacy-compliant and standardized.
As a result, brands and leading advertiser coalitions including the ANA, 4A’s and IAB formed the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (PRAM) in early August.
The advertisers and advertising consortiums in the partnership want a standardized, privacy-compliant solution without relying on a huge company with its own motivations. This means that companies in the open web are going to be expected to adopt standards dictated by advertisers, not just Google.
Why advertisers must take the lead
Google wants to be out of the antitrust spotlight, but it also wants a beneficial cookie replacement solution, so it is slow playing its technology development while amping up its influence on so-called "third-party" decisions, such as the standards set by the W3C.
Google must prove to regulating bodies and global governments that its motivations are to solve for a direct cookie replacement that is fully privacy-compliant while also ensuring that it doesn’t appear to be acting monopolistically.
But it’s no guarantee that Google can thread that needle. The advent of PRAM should motivate the rest of us to move forward with other concepts.
Take Google’s recent “fenced frames” presentation to the W3C. This announcement could have created a contained space within the browser or page that would allow brands and publishers to transact in a privacy-safe environment without touching the rest of the elements on the page. Fenced frames should allow Google to step back from having to dictate many of the other elements of the solution, such as how to manage audience segmentation, verification and attribution.
Google could have created a safe and contained space where the specific ad tech, such as TURTLEDOVE, would operate. This would also be the space in which other parties that participate in ad tech could also run. This protected space could be the level playing field that would allow for the vibrant innovation that our ecosystem needs and could all support. But instead, fenced frames adds to many elements that Google would still have to solve for itself. It’s merely the facility to display the ad payload from TURTLEDOVE, and it brings up its own issues. For example, it creates the need for special handling of video ads from unspecified certified servers.
The PRAM partnership announcement clearly states: “All browsers, devices and platforms should allow equal access, free from unreasonable interference, to the new solutions.” Advertisers must start working directly with vendors and publishers to form a viable industry solution, and the W3C is not likely to be the place for that work.
Already, Google has stacked the decks, with 27 members as of Sept. 1, which is about 10% of the voting total. And the W3C is a browser standards body, not an advertising consortium. We need to solve this in an arena where advertisers, who are spending the money, are playing a bigger role. Perhaps PRAM could be that place.
Time to make a sandbox for the open web
There are many other non-browser elements, such as first-party data, and alternative identity solutions, such as LiveRamp ATS and BritePool, that are emerging. We should encourage publishers to start testing, collecting and sharing signals such as contextual data that can be used as a proxy for audience targeting.
Email is too sensitive and fraught with privacy challenges. Better would be something like a unique logged-in screen name that publishers can collect and transact on. It would be more persistent than cookies and more privacy-safe than email.
Publisher first-party data consortiums that offer server-side targeting are a realistic future element in our ecosystem. Contextual targeting that comes from much richer content tagging – the way YouTube currency operates – is also a very valuable addition to targeting options. Contextual targeting also doesn’t need to rely on the browser at all and is inherently privacy safe.
To properly stress-test new concepts in the months and years ahead, we also need the patience and flexibility to embrace multiple signals at once in a way that we can compare and contrast them. This approach will also serve our industry well, as mobile will take the same trajectory when Apple sunsets IDFA.
Now the advertising side has started to speak out for standards that will work and are privacy-compliant, without being overly reliant on Google. We all must see the writing on the wall at this point: It’s really time to come up with solutions that are not based on the browser companies, and that can be standardized and shared across the open web.
After all, the W3C is only a browser standards body. And we should stop waiting with bated breath for Google to swoop in and save us.
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The House of the Vestals: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
By Steven Saylor
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It is ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a secret and uncover one, Gordianus lays bare some of his most intriguing and compelling adventures. The House of the Vestals collects nine of the award-winning stories of Gordianus the Finder by critically acclaimed, bestselling author Steven Saylor. Filling in some of the gaps between novels, this delightful collection of unique and unforgettable mysteries is Saylor at his finest—revealing the intrigues in the secret history of Rome. In "Little Caesar and the Pirates," Gordianus must act as a go-between for kidnappers, but he begins to wonder who is really being held hostage. In "The Alexandrian Cat," a mischievous girl and a tell-tale sneeze reveal an ingenious plot of murder and thievery. In "The House of the Vestals," blackmail goes horribly wrong, and there is no one to take the blame. These stories and more make up an engrossing collection of finely wrought mystery tales with all the suspense and craft that are the trademark of Saylor's work.
It is ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a secret and uncover one, Gordianus lays bare some of his most intriguing and compelling adventures.
The House of the Vestals collects nine of the award-winning stories of Gordianus the Finder by critically acclaimed, bestselling author Steven Saylor. Filling in some of the gaps between novels, this delightful collection of unique and unforgettable mysteries is Saylor at his finest—revealing the intrigues in the secret history of Rome.
In "Little Caesar and the Pirates," Gordianus must act as a go-between for kidnappers, but he begins to wonder who is really being held hostage. In "The Alexandrian Cat," a mischievous girl and a tell-tale sneeze reveal an ingenious plot of murder and thievery. In "The House of the Vestals," blackmail goes horribly wrong, and there is no one to take the blame. These stories and more make up an engrossing collection of finely wrought mystery tales with all the suspense and craft that are the trademark of Saylor's work.
“Saylor’s fluid and probing characterization work as effectively in the short story as they have in his admirable Gordianus novels.” —Publishers Weekly
“Three groups of readers will find these stories irresistible: history buffs who appreciate Saylor’s careful research into Roman politics and Roman mores; fans of his five novels who want to find out how [the Finder] first became Lucius Claudius’ friend, or how he acquired his faithful slave Belbo; and anyone who enjoys leisurely, literate storytelling.” —Kirkus Reviews
“As usual, Saylor does a superb job of seamlessly incorporating the tumultuous history of the Roman Republic into the narrative flow. A welcome addition to the ever fascinating chronicles of Gordianus the Finder.” —Booklist
“Saylor serves up a collection of short stories designed to fill in some of the gaps that have piqued the curiosity of devoted fans of his popular Roma sub Rosa series…While each brief mystery presented is a gem in and of itself, readers will delight in the informational overview provided by the collection as a whole. As usual, Saylor does a superb job of seamlessly incorporating the tumultuous history of the Roman Republic into the narrative flow. A welcome addition to the ever fascinating chronicles of Gordianus the Finder.” —Booklist
“This collection of short stories…shows how a fine hand at historical research can enliven the most traditional and well-titled of genres…Gordianus himself is a compelling character.” —Rock Hill (SC) Herald
“Ingenious…Saylor offers rich history with great imagination.” —Seattle Times
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Steven Saylor is a freelance writer, editor, and the author of novels set in ancient Rome. He studied history at the University of Texas at Austin. Saylor’s writing has appeared in the Threepenny Review, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas.
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Hills Parramatta Annual Afternoon Tea Forum 2019
The topic of our Annual Afternoon Tea Forum is Collecting Quality Assessment Data From Our Students: how much is too much?
The abstract for a recent study on how secondary school English teachers score NAPLAN states: ‘The ubiquitous use of mass testing regimes in school-based education throughout the Western world continues to be controversial and contested’. Our 2019 Forum provides opportunity for educators with a heavy workload in a crowded curriculum to reflect on the quality and quantity of assessment data needed to support quality teaching for best student outcomes.
At the Forum, three speakers will contribute different perspectives with regard to collecting assessment data from students. Dr Jenny Donovan Managing Director at the Department of Education’s Learning Progressions and Online Formative Assessment Initiative. Dr Dennis Alonzo is a test and scale developer, program evaluator, curriculum designer, and applied statistician whose area of interest revolves around Assessment for Learning (AfL). Dr John Collier has been a Principal in government and non-government schools for 29 years and is Chair of the State Heads Group for International Baccalaureate Curriculum schools. Ms Sally Egan is the relieving Executive Director of the Centre for Educational Statistics and Evaluation (CESE).
The forum will be chaired by ACE College Medallist Dr Dorothy Hoddinott AO, FACE. Pro-Chancellor, University of Sydney.
Ticket cost includes afternoon tea.
Expert Panellists
Dr Jenny Donovan
Jenny Donovan is the Department of Education’s Managing Director of the Learning Progressions and Online Formative Assessment Initiative. Prior to this appointment, Jenny was the Deputy Director for Educational Assessment Australia at the University of NSW. Jenny began her career as a high school teacher in Sydney’s western suburbs.
Dr Dennis Alonzo
Dennis Alonzo is a Lecturer in the School of Education at UNSW with an MEd in Assessment and Evaluation. His area of interest revolves around Assessment for Learning (AfL) particularly in supporting teachers to make highly contextualised, consistent, fair and trustworthy assessment decisions to effectively support student learning.
Ms Sally Egan
Sally Egan is currently relieving in the role of Executive Director of the New South Wales Department of Education’s Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation (CESE).
Dr John Collier
John Collier is Head of St Andrew’s Cathedral School, a member of the Board of the Anglican Education Commission, and Chair of the State Heads Group for International Baccalaureate Curriculum schools. Dr Collier has stated that NAPLAN is ‘a serious distraction which has spawned anxiety among parents and students’ (SMH, 8 September 2018).
Sargood Hall
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ACE will collaborate with ACU (Australian Catholic University) to provide 1.5 hours QTC registered PD at Proficient Teacher level for this event.
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NXCR and Westlake Financial Announce $400 Million Debt Facility and Strategic Partnership to Advance NXCR’s Vehicle Subscription Platform
December 23, 2020 • by ADT Staff
Westlake is one of the largest automotive lenders in the U.S. with nearly $12 billion in assets under management, and provides indirect financing through a network of over 20,000 new and used car dealerships throughout the U.S.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – NextCar Holding Company Inc. (NXCR), a fintech and insurtech vehicle subscription platform, and Westlake Financial (Westlake) have signed a letter of intent to secure a NXCR $400 million debt facility, and to enter into a strategic partnership. Westlake is one of the largest automotive lenders in the U.S. with nearly $12 billion in assets under management, and provides indirect financing through a network of over 20,000 new and used car dealerships throughout the U.S.
A flexible mobility option outside the traditional loan or lease that’s affordable and not bound by terms is a highly attractive value proposition for consumers and forward-thinking dealers.
"Subscriptions represent an entirely new way to get flexible access to mobility,” said Scott Painter, Founder and CEO of NXCR. “Having strategic partners like Westlake is one of the building blocks for scaling subscriptions in a profitable way.”
The $400 million debt facility from Westlake will provide NXCR with highly flexible and efficient capital to finance subscriptions. The strategic partnership will also provide NXCR with loan and collections services through Westlake, as well as access to Westlake’s dealer network to scale indirect subscription offerings. For Westlake, the partnership with NXCR will also introduce access to a new product line that enables a 100% digital transaction.
“Figuring out how to innovate around our financial products with a known entrepreneur like Scott is an exciting development,” said Bret Hankey, President of Hankey Group and Vice Chairman of Westlake Financial. “We see used vehicle subscriptions similar to how leasing was seen when it was introduced 40 years ago, except the size of the opportunity is much bigger on the used car side and we believe technology and a digitally-driven consumer base will enable much faster adoption.”
“Partnering with NXCR is an exceptional product market fit that puts Westlake on the frontline of financial services innovation,” added Ian Anderson, Group President at Westlake Financial. “A flexible mobility option outside the traditional loan or lease that’s affordable and not bound by terms is a highly attractive value proposition for consumers and forward-thinking dealers.”
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HomeAntigua and BarbudaEnglish Harbour Town
Best time to visit, weather and climate English Harbour Town
Best time to visit English Harbour Town, Antigua and Barbuda
The best time to visit English Harbour Town in Antigua and Barbuda is from january until december, when you will have a pleasant or warm temperature and limited till mediocre rainfall. The highest average temperature in English Harbour Town is 29°C in august and the lowest is 26°C in january.
The average climate figure for English Harbour Town is an 8,6. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others.
English Harbour Town has the tropical rainforest climate prevailing. If you want to know what the average temperature is in English Harbour Town or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
Climate English Harbour Town per month
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English Harbour Town in brief
Place in Antigua and Barbuda
Coordinates 17° 1' N, 61° 46' W
Currency East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Local time 13:49 hour in the afternoon
Climate English Harbour Town
English Harbour Town has the tropical rainforest climate prevailing. It is usually (very) warm, humid and rainy all year round. The average annual temperature for English Harbour Town is 27° degrees and there is about 692 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 52 days a year with an average humidity of 76% and an UV-index of 7.
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Weather English Harbour Town january
On average, it is maximum 26° in january in English Harbour Town and at least around 26° degrees. In january there are 21 days of rainfall with a total of 29 mm and the it will be dry 10 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town february
On average, it is maximum 26° in february in English Harbour Town and at least around 25° degrees. In february there are 17 days of rainfall with a total of 21 mm and the it will be dry 11 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town march
On average, it is maximum 26° in march in English Harbour Town and at least around 25° degrees. In march there are 17 days of rainfall with a total of 19 mm and the it will be dry 14 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town april
On average, it is maximum 26° in april in English Harbour Town and at least around 26° degrees. In april there are 19 days of rainfall with a total of 37 mm and the it will be dry 11 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town may
On average, it is maximum 27° in may in English Harbour Town and at least around 27° degrees. In may there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 61 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town june
On average, it is maximum 28° in june in English Harbour Town and at least around 27° degrees. In june there are 20 days of rainfall with a total of 42 mm and the it will be dry 10 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town july
On average, it is maximum 28° in july in English Harbour Town and at least around 28° degrees. In july there are 24 days of rainfall with a total of 66 mm and the it will be dry 7 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town august
On average, it is maximum 29° in august in English Harbour Town and at least around 28° degrees. In august there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 81 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town september
On average, it is maximum 29° in september in English Harbour Town and at least around 28° degrees. In september there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 87 mm and the it will be dry 7 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town october
On average, it is maximum 29° in october in English Harbour Town and at least around 28° degrees. In october there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 101 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town november
On average, it is maximum 28° in november in English Harbour Town and at least around 27° degrees. In november there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 94 mm and the it will be dry 7 days this month in English Harbour Town.
Weather English Harbour Town december
On average, it is maximum 27° in december in English Harbour Town and at least around 26° degrees. In december there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 53 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in English Harbour Town.
14 day weather forecast English Harbour Town
The weather for English Harbour Town in Antigua and Barbuda will be 26° till 27° degrees in the next 14 days with every day chance of light rain showers or even quite a bit of rain.
26°C 24°C 27°C 0.5 mm 15% 6m/s 8
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Hotels and apartments in English Harbour Town
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Flight tickets to English Harbour Town
The 3 nearest airports to English Harbour Town you can fly to are:
Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet (87 km)
Vance W. Amory International Airport (90 km)
Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport (106 km)
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About English Harbour Town
English Harbour Town lies in Antigua and Barbuda in the province Saint Paul. If you want to call English Harbour Town you have to use +1809 or 001809 before the phone number without the first 0 in the original phone number (if it occurs). If the normal number is 05012457809, for example, you can remove the first 0 and call +18095012457809 or 0018095012457809.
English Harbour Town is in a straight line at 13.293 km distance from New Delhi. From Indira Gandhi the flight time is about 16 hours40.
The coordinates of English Harbour Town, Antigua and Barbuda are latitude: 17.016667 en longitude: -61.766667
The GPS coordinates are N 17° 1' 0.1200" en W 61° 46' 0.1200"
Currency English Harbour Town
In English Harbour Town the East Caribbean dollar is used to pay.
Exchange rate East Caribbean dollar (XCD) 24 january 2021
1 East Caribbean dollar = 27,43 Indian rupee
100 East Caribbean dollar = 2.743,50 Indian rupee
1 Indian rupee = 0,04 East Caribbean dollar
100 Indian rupee = 3,65 East Caribbean dollar
Time difference English Harbour Town
In English Harbour Town it is now 13:49 o’clock in the afternoon on sunday 24 january 2021. That is 9,5 hour earlier than in India. The time zone of English Harbour Town is America/Antigua and the Greenwich time is UTC-04.
Vaccinations English Harbour Town
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Bethlehem University, Higher Education Minister Discuss Future Cooperation
The Palestinian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research H.E. Prof. Mahmoud Abu Mouis visited Bethlehem University on Thursday, 24 October 2019.
Executive Vice President Dr. Michael Sansour, Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Irene Hazou, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Muna Matar, Deans and members of the Student Senate met with the Minister on his first visit to campus after assuming office.
Dr. Sansour welcomed the Minister and thanked him for visiting the University.
H.E. Prof. Abu Mouis discussed future cooperation between the University and the Ministry especially in regards to accreditation of new academic programs.
It is worth mentioning that three new academic programs have recently been accredited: a Master in Oncology Nursing and Palliative Care, a minor program in Entrepreneurship and a Professional Diploma in Music Therapy.
Academic Symposium on Sharing Experiences in Online Learning
Students Qualify to the Arab Collegiate Programming Contest
“Cheers to Bethlehem University”
COVID-19 and University Students
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Mac Games > Hidden Object Games > Yard Sale Junkie
Yard Sale Junkie
Shirley dreams of being a boutique owner in Beverly Hills, but first she needs some cold hard cash. Organize high end yard sales in the backyards of Malibu, Venice Beach, and Hollywood selling items to impatient customers. Cater to their every whim and be on the lookout for those willing to shell out bonuses. Yard Sale Junkie is a one-of-a-kind hunt for hidden objects where you must expertly manage your minutes.
Hidden Object fun
Bonus customers
Sweet neighborhoods
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OS: 10.4, 10.5 (recommended)
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Yard Sale Junkie is rated 3.3 out of 5 by 9.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Userbc44 from Fun, Fun, FUN! This can be a challenging game on the upper levels. The beginning levels are easy but gradually they get tougher and tougher. I think this game came out years ago and the graphics do look dated but the game was so engaging for me I didn't notice after awhile. On one level you had different panels of items to find, like watches, jewelry and had to remember which one had what. The customer will ask for certain things and you have to find/remember where they are. It was a big memory challenge while the clock is ticking. One level I played over and over until I could beat the clock. You don't have to beat the clock to advance but I really enjoyed finishing the levels before the clock ran out. The balloon level is one of my favorites! This game has no story it is just hidden object scenes, but this thing was a blast!
Rated 5 out of 5 by qpqt from A Different Kind of Hidden Object If you like the dark stories where you keep retracing your steps hidden object games, then this is not for you. This is bright with clear graphics and you go from one scene to the next -- all different. You have to match what a customer wants to what you are selling. Sometimes you have to move an object to see another object. Though there is a timer, it just affects if you get bonus points. There are variations in the different scenes on how you match the hidden objects, i.e. if a customer wants a pair of shoes (for which you see a picture), you might have to click on each individual shoe to make a pair. You have to try it to see what I mean.
Rated 5 out of 5 by terraNoxArcana from Play Hidden Objects under pressure!! I really liked this game! Some graphics are lower resoltuion but it didn't matter to me it was the game play I enjoyed!. This game is just Hidden Objects but some levels were very difficult and you had to play against the clock. The game is very straight forward and does not really have a storyline. If you are up for a challenge and want to test your memory under pressure, give the game a try.
Rated 5 out of 5 by grego25 from Yard Sale Junkie a real winner!!! I loved this game so much that I played it over and over. I have hundreds of games and have only played about five of them more than once. This one was different from other HOGs. I loved the balloon matches and the surfboard matches. You had to match jewelry and CD's and their covers. The last board you had to match shoes, jewelry and other things.
Rated 3 out of 5 by OHGAMER from This Game is Nuts! Either everyone else is quicker than I am; or I'm getting too old for this! This game was much too fast-paced for me even at the lowest level. Not fun for me at all. I enjoy the Gardenscapes genre. When you are racing against the clock; and some of the items are small or not clearly defined, it's a real strain on the eyes. I quit at the balloon challenge. That was just too outrageous for me! Try the demo and see what I'm talking about. If you're looking for a game that is a super challenge, this one is for you. If you don't mind, I'll just sit and watch. :-D
Rated 2 out of 5 by Ceolasfolly from Did not buy Ok, I got past the balloon level to the surf board level and beyond. As I went to the next level and loaded I decided that I'd rather return to the main menu and quit. Where, how, I was trapped in the game and I wanted out. Now, I've been playing for at least 50-55 min. on my free trial. How in the blank do I get out of here??? The only way out was to let the timer and let the trial run out. Good, at least it stopped. Rest of the game was ok. The color was great, but the sound was annoying. So, even though the game was pretty good, I just didn't buy it. It's not like putting a "main menu" button in the game play is hard. And, it's not like I'm exactly new to game playing. I have over 50 BF games.
Rated 2 out of 5 by duckyquack from disappointed game froze in the watch mode. I was hoping it would be a better game. I do not recommend. Items too hard to find.
Rated 2 out of 5 by alsteele28 from Only play if you have really really good eyes The title says it all really. The game is a good concept (kind of reminded me of the 'HO scenes in games like 'farmington tales', in that you had to find items for cash. The problem was the time meters for the customers went down very quick and the items were small, and some blended in a little too well with the surroundings, on top of this some items were obscured so you had to move as well as the other problems listed. Another problem was that if you got several bonus items for a 'bonus customer' the timer went down quicker each time and after about the third or fourth time the 'collect' bubble didn't go off the screen so that you can see the next item, thus stopping your bonus for that customer. I can't really say too many positives for this game, the concept was good, and the music was ok (didn't get too annoying, but then I could only manage around 15 minutes), the story-line was a bit iffy, but TM story-lines are never the best. Overall I would not recommend this game unless you had really really good eyes.
Rated 1 out of 5 by IndustriousFairy from Yard Sale Junkie is a piece of Junk. This game has horrible graphics and isn't challenging at all. I was disappointed!
Help Shirley scour backyards for hidden objects and raise enough capital to open a Beverly Hills boutique.
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer
A celebration of the life and work of Julia Donaldson and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination.
A celebration of the life and work of one of Britain's best-selling children's authors, with unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have sprung from her imagination. Specially commissioned animated illustrations from her long-term illustrator Axel Scheffler bring Julia's biography to life, and well-known admirers and collaborators pay tribute to the woman who has created characters and stories that have become fixtures of children’s bedtime routines all around the world, as well as spawning award-winning adaptations for stage and screen.
Looking at The Gruffalo, Zog and the Flying Doctors, Princess Mirror-Belle, The Scarecrow's Wedding, Stick Man and The Paper Dolls, the programme uncovers the surprising stories behind the creation of Julia's iconic characters and what they mean to a generation of readers. It also explores why Donaldson’s books appeal to both children and adults alike – tackling serious themes of love, loss, fear and bullying in a poignant but subtle way.
Passages from Julia's much-loved books are read by Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton and James McAvoy, and contributors including David Walliams, Nadiya Hussain, Claudia Winkleman, Sophie Dahl, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Michael Rosen pay tribute to her talent.
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Featured Artist Julia Donaldson
Narrator Julie Walters
Reader Helena Bonham Carter
Reader Imelda Staunton
Reader James McAvoy
Interviewed Guest David Walliams
Interviewed Guest Nadiya Hussain
Interviewed Guest Claudia Winkleman
Interviewed Guest Sophie Dahl
Interviewed Guest Victoria Coren Mitchell
Interviewed Guest Michael Rosen
Interviewed Guest Axel Scheffler
Interviewed Guest Lydia Monks
Interviewed Guest Sara Ogilvie
Interviewed Guest Rebecca Cobb
Interviewed Guest Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Director Katy Homan
Executive Producer Tanya Hudson
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Grand Forks prepares for flooding – May 29 - 31, 2020. (Jensen Edwards/Grand Forks Gazette)
RDKB to spend $5,000 to review 2020 freshet response
The province is also kicking in $5,000 for the review of flood protection rollout and communications
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) will spend $5,000 to study what went well and what needs work from its 2020 freshet response in the Boundary. Emergency Management B.C. (EMBC) will chip in another $5,000 to fund the after action review, which will shed some light on how threat levels and action calls were decided upon and communicated to the public.
“It’s valuable to make sure we don’t just go from one disaster to the next without [learning],” said RDKB Area D director Roly Russell on July 30 at a board of directors meeting, after approving the spending.
Particularly, Russell said he wanted to use the review to examine how river forecasts could be more responsibly communicated.
“I think one of the pieces that we really need to clarify and need to have some strong guiding direction for our board around is the challenges this year around […] wildly fluctuating forecasts,” he said at the meeting.
Before the West Kettle, Granby and Kettle rivers peaked between May 31 and June 2 in the Boundary, projections from the BC River Forecast Centre showed peaks well above those that caused widespread devastation in 2018, as well as more regular water return levels. The day-by-day changes caused increased anxiety in many residents and prompted the RDKB and the City of Grand Forks to spend $335,000 on flood protection, building large flood protection measures such as an earth berm along 68th Avenue and Tiger dams around the downtown core. Only one corner of the Tiger dam at City Park got wet from the river.
The RDKB had originally asked EMBC for $18,000, then $13,000 to fund the review, but was told that the lack of damage from the 2020 freshet meant that such an amount was not merited.
“EMBC denied our request saying they feel that due to the level of property damage or lack thereof, a request in the $5,000 range could be approved,” reads a staff report from Mark Stephens, the RDKB’s interim manager of emergency programs. Stephens told the board that the $5,000 offered by the province would not be enough to pay for a consultant to look at how COVID-19 affected this year’s flood response, nor to allow enough of a detailed review into the role of the BC River Forecast Centre – “one of the top items to be discussed,” Stephens said.
“The BC River Forecast Centre does things for us that are critical,” Russell said. “We need to have clarity around what that balance of timely and responsive forecasts is for us.”
• $335K spent on Boundary flood protection for 2020 freshet
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Force India F1 team hopes to get lift from new wind tunnel
Larger tunnel expected to translate into more accurate readings
Force India team boss Vijay Mallya says that a switch to the Toyota wind tunnel in Cologne will be key to improved Formula One performance this year, although he concedes it will take a while to pay off.
The German tunnel uses car models sized at 60 percent of a real car, whereas the team’s now-aging facility in Brackley, close to its Silverstone factory, can only accommodate 50-percent, or half-scale, models. Generally speaking, the larger the model, the more accurate testing will be.
The team's focus is on an updated package for the Spanish Grand Prix, which will see the first real fruits of the new tunnel.
“We were on the podium last year, which was an important boost,” said Mallya. “But actually I think we deserved more than that. So the target is to achieve more podiums in 2015, and we’ve taken some decisions recently to ensure we remain competitive. For example, moving all our wind tunnel work to the Toyota facility in Cologne gives us access to a tunnel that is a match for any team on the grid.
“Of course, there will be some transition time as we adapt and get up to speed, but I’m confident it’s a decision that will stand us in good stead for the future.”
Chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer added, “In light of the FIA’s restrictions on wind tunnel time and the fact that we can only nominate one tunnel, we decided that the Toyota facility in Cologne offered the best way forward for the short and medium term. It represents a major step up for us because we can improve our approach to testing with the use of a 60 percent model, which will provide better correlation results.
“The other major change is the use of a steel-belt rolling road, which will better simulate the impact of tire compression on aero performance. I expect we will start to feel the benefits of the new tunnel by the middle of the 2015 season.”
The team has also bolstered its Computational Fluid Dynamics facilities. “We have increased our CFD capability so that we are now at the maximum capacity permitted by the regulations,” said Szafnauer. “That came on-stream late in 2014, so the benefits will only become apparent towards the middle part of next season – in line with the new wind tunnel program. The other area of constant development is our simulator, which will play a bigger role in our preparatory work ahead of each Grand Prix.”
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Dubai swimming pools start to reopen after more than two months of closures
By Olga_Gafurova Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:19 AM
Swimming pools in hotels, health clubs and residential buildings are now able to operate, but there are still restrictions on the opening of water slides and rides. Pool parties and large social gatherings are also not permitted.
Temperature checks must be carried out for anyone wishing to use a pool, and social distancing measures still apply, with a two-metre gap required at all times. Groups must not exceed five.
The capacity for all in-resort pools will remain limited to one person per four square metres. All guests will also be required to bring their own towels, and changing facilities remain out of action.
Following the announcement, a number of Dubai’s biggest hotels confirmed they have opened up pools to residents: you don't need to be staying at the hotel to take a dip. Fitness centres have started to reopen swimming pools, too.
So, if you fancy cooling off with a dip, here is where to go…
Caesars Bluewaters
Caesars Bluewaters has launched a new day pass deal to celebrate the reopening of its Neptune Pool, starting at Dh150 per person on weekdays, with Dh100 redeemable against food and drink. Weekend day passes cost Dh245 per person, with Dh150 in credit to spend on lunch and refreshments. And for those looking for a little more privacy, pool or beach-side cabanas are available from Dh600 from Sunday to Thursday and Dh800 on Fridays and Saturdays. Each cabana can host a maximum of five people.
Mandarin Oriental Jumeirah
This ultra-luxe hotel has a day pass offer at the moment, but it's only available on weekdays and booking is essential so that they can keep track of numbers.
For Dh500 you can access the pool and beach at the Jumeirah resort, and you'll get a Dh200 credit to spend on food and beverage.
The access is from 9am to sunset, and guests should bring their own towel (as well as wear a mask and gloves when arriving).
Sofitel Dubai The Palm
Sofitel Dubai The Palm will be reopening its adult pools on Friday for hotel guests and visitors. The resort is currently offering a daycation package costing Dh400 for two adults, giving access to the hotel’s pool and beach, a hotel room to change and cool off in, and 30 per cent off at its restaurants and bars. Children’s pools remain closed.
Atlantis, The Palm
Guests at Atlantis, The Palm will be able to enjoy use of its Royal Pool from Friday, June 12. White Beach will also reopen its pool from Friday, allowing visitors to taking a dip while overlooking the Palm. Friday passes cost Dh300, which is redeemable of food and drink. It will also be hosting a Saturday brunch starting at Dh299.
Jumeirah Hotels
To welcome guests back, Jumeirah Group has launched a special package at four of its hotels – Jumeirah Al Qasr, Jumeirah Al Naseem, Jumeirah Zabeel Saray and Jumeirah Creekside Hotel – where guests can spend the day soaking up the sun and enjoying a dip.
Starting from Dh395 per person, guests can enjoy the two-kilometre stretch of private beach as well as day access to a hotel room and the newly added Celeste, a 22-metre infinity pool at Jumeirah Al Qasr.
Jumeirah Zabeel Saray is inviting guests to spend a day at its Royal Residences, including full access to the Lagoon pool from 10am to 7pm, private beach and dining at Plaj restaurant. Starting from Dh1,499 per day for up to 10 guests, the offer also includes a Dh500 food and drink credit, in addition to a 30 per cent saving on selected house beverages.
Jumeirah Creekside Hotel’s two-tier swimming pool is now open and guests can purchase a weekday pass for Dh100, while weekend passes will cost Dh150, which is fully redeemable on food and drink.
Meanwhile at Jumeirah Al Naseem, weekday daycation packages start at Dh395 per person offering access to the pool and two-kilometre private beach, while weekend passes are Dh495 per person. Up to two additional children are also welcome for a supplement fee of Dh95 per child.
Hilton Dubai Jumeirah has launched a new day pass deal to celebrate the reopening of its pool. The daycation deal includes both pool and beach access for Dh129 per adult, which is fully redeemable on food and drink across the hotel’s dining venues including Wavebreaker, Mango Tree Thai Bistro and McGettigan’s JBR.
Drift Beach
The pool at Drift Beach is now open. Weekday passes cost Dh150 per person, while on weekends, entrance will cost Dh200. Booking in advance is recommended to guarantee a spot. All guests will be required to bring their own towels and follow strict social distancing measures.
Cove Beach
Cove Beach’s three pools are now open for guests to enjoy. Open daily from 10am, Cove is offering weekday pool access for Dh200, which is fully redeemable on food and drink. On weekends, Dh100 is redeemable. Its Wednesday ladies day is also back, costing Dh149 including unlimited drinks. Booking in advance is a must, and guests are reminded to bring their own towels.
The swimming pools have now reopened at the Fitness First branches in Burjuman, Uptown Mirdiff, Mirdiff City Centre, The Lakes, Town Centre and Mudon.
Al Manzil and Dubai Media City remain closed.
You should bring your own towel and book before you go. While day passes used to be available for some branches, currently only members can visit and use the pools.
The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi
Set against the towering backdrop of Dubai Marina, The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi’s pool is a longtime favourite with Instagram fans, and it will be reopening on Friday. Weekend pool and beach passes cost Dh250, with Dh100 redeemable on food and drink. Weekday passes are Dh200.
Barasti will reopen its pool on Friday. Posting to Instagram on Thursday, it said, “Here’s the news you’ve all been waiting for... We are opening our pool tomorrow. Reservations are not needed and Barasti’s safety guidelines to be followed strictly.” Barasti offers free entry to both its pool and beach, however, it has imposed a two-hour limit on pool use. It will be open from 10am.
The Jumeirah Beach hotel reopens its pool on Friday for hotel guests, and is also offering day passes for visitors who wish to take a dip. A day pass will cost Dh105, and will give you access to the pool and private beach. Prices are the same for weekends and weekdays.
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Oil Eases; OPEC Cites Uncertain Market Outlook For 2018
June 12, 2018 12:00 PM UTC in News
Article Highlights
Volatility subsides as caution builds over OPEC meeting
OPEC cites uncertain market outlook in second half of 2018
Rising supplies from top producers cap market
OPEC, non-OPEC producers meet on June 22-23 in Vienna
Oil prices eased on Tuesday, paring earlier gains, although volatility subsided to its lowest in three weeks, as investors prepared for a key meeting of the OPEC producer group next week.
Crude remained in a tight trading range, in line with the broader financial markets, which were largely unruffled by a U.S.-North Korea summit aimed at the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries released its monthly report on Tuesday, in which it cited the high degree of uncertainty hanging over the global oil market this year.
Brent crude futures fell 29 cents to $76.17 a barrel by 1143 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures eased 12 cents to $65.98.
“The market has been rangebound for two weeks and that is likely to remain the case,” Ole Hansen, senior manager at Saxo Bank, said.
OPEC, together with partners including Russia, has cut oil output by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) since January 2017 in an effort to boost the market.
Volatility in oil prices has subsided due to caution around the group’s meetings scheduled for June 22-23, at which it will decide on future supply policy.
With U.S. sanctions threatening to cut Iranian exports and the potential for more declines in Venezuelan production, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and Russia have indicated they would be willing to raise output to make up for any supply shortfall.
Russian production reportedly climbed to 11.1 million bpd in early June.
In the United States, output has risen by almost a third in the last two years, to a record 10.8 million bpd.
Top exporter Saudi Arabia – which has so far led OPEC’s efforts to withhold supplies – is also showing signs of raising production.
OPEC said on Tuesday the outlook in the second half of the year is highly uncertain even though the oil producer group’s figures show a global glut is gone, suggesting exporters will be in no rush to fully relax output curbs next week.
“Recently, crude oil futures have lost some momentum amid uncertainty as traders prepare for potentially more supply returning to the market,” the group said.
“I feel that if they would like to be a responsible swing producer for the global oil market, based on their (demand) numbers, they should increase production by at least 1 million bpd from the current level,” PVM Oil Associates strategist Tamas Varga said.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
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Horizon:Volume 3B Chapter 43
Chapter 43: Ruler of the Dark Forest[edit]
Yes, what is going on here?
Point Allocation (Don’t let it surprise you)
Naito was the first to detect the attack by Mouri-03 and her four teams.
Up in the air, she spotted them coming from the west.
Her immediate response was to use a reduction spell to erase the heat radiating from her. She could not escape the automatons’ auditory detection, but this was better than letting them see her and her location clearly. And at the same time…
“Master Tenzou!”
While combating the enemy forces on the left, Mary used a spirit spell to erase the heat radiating from her and Tenzou.
That left only one thing to do.
Tenzou would charge in on Mouri-01 or Mouri-02 and take them hostage.
Retreat was not an option for them.
…We can’t let the enemy get close to Mito-tsan!
They did not know what the Reine des Garous would do with Toori, but they had to get Mitotsudaira to her to either buy time, fight, or negotiate.
Currently, Mitotsudaira was asleep in the pit on the slope.
Her body’s desire to heal itself had brought on this sleep.
Naito had seen how quickly a Loup-Garou could recover in England, so this sleep would likely fully heal the injuries from the beating she had taken.
So they could not let these pursuers approach her.
Naito also knew they had reached the final stage of the plan she had put together with Tenzou and Mary.
It all hinged on whether Tenzou could capture Mouri-01 or 02.
Tenzou’s charge was a risk to his life, but they could manage if he succeeded.
So to support him, Naito put some distance between them and then removed the reduction of her radiating heat. She held an Orei Metallo and a ten yen coin in her hand and prepared to fire. It probably would not hit, but it would draw their attention.
However, the coin in her hand would not move.
She saw the rear half of the enemy’s central unit slowly turn toward her and speak in unison.
“Is something the matter?”
It was the gravitational control that had affected Tenzou’s kunai.
…But why is it all the way over here!?
Her answer came in the form of a figure on a branch next to her. It was Mouri-03.
Naito realized what the automatons turning toward her and Mouri-03’s approach meant.
“They can see me without issue?”
“Could you not run away?” Mouri-03 smiled. “I locked my gravitational control’s position on you using my master setting, so even if you completely vanish, I can still track the traces of gravity to see that ninja’s approach and everything else. Also…”
Naito understood. Her weapon would not move. It was like pressing down on a child from above.
And just now, the front firing line had turned around.
Tenzou’s Excalibur was trapped in the pointed spires and she could not use her own weapon, so…
She gave an adlibbed instruction.
“Ma-yan!”
But her instruction proved meaningless because Mary was already on the move.
She did one thing to handle this situation.
“The divine protection of my Excalibur can resist the automatons’ gravitational control!”
While Tenzou revealed his form and ran, he reached a hand out toward Mary.
She did the same toward him and threw Excalibur to him.
Once it reached him, he would rush to the enemy and attack. That was his decision.
…Because we can’t let the enemy reach Mitotsudaira-dono!
Naito and Mary were here because they understood that, so he no longer worried about the danger this put them in.
He also had a further thought in reference to Mary.
…Mary-dono is more or less family, so worrying about her comes last!
That was an outrageous and somewhat conceited statement he could not say directly to her.
…But before fighting, she said she was prepared to be with me forever once this was over!
On the battlefield, the time to save someone came at the very end. And that was exactly why the battle’s end would bring them together forever.
And currently, she had given him her weapon which left her with only her spirit spells.
He looked her in the eye.
She smiled and mouthed the words “do your best”.
He prepared to take the sword and immediately attack.
But in that instant, his hand was knocked upwards.
It was a wall. A wall of earth had quickly and forcibly risen up between the two of them.
This was Mouri-02. Her sudden gravitational control had raised the wall.
Unable to withstand the burden of the gravitational control, Mouri-02’s right arm audibly burst.
The wall stopped, but it was already as tall as Tenzou and cut him off from Mary’s smile and Excalibur.
He heard the sword collide with the earth wall on the other side.
The sword had not reached him, and…
“They’re going to fire!?”
He ran with the wall to his right and a volley of gunfire came from the left.
Mitotsudaira heard a voice that sounded like a scream.
She wondered what it said, but her mind was too light and unclear.
…I need to sleep.
Yes, she needed to keep sleeping.
After all, she was currently half asleep. She was in a state of exhaustion that made it easy to tell herself to go back to sleep.
…That voice…
It was actually the person’s will that reached her. The tone of rejection in the voice reached her more than the voice itself.
And she somehow knew why that was.
She had once cried out in that same tone of rejection before.
That word summed it up best.
Please stop. I am telling you to stop.
But that word did not get through, so it eventually changed to something else.
…I won’t do it anymore.
That was it. Yes, that was definitely it.
If they would not stop, she would stop on her end. She would stop doing what she had been doing.
Stopping yourself as a sign of rejection only happened when you made someone angry by doing something. And the person scolding you would not stop even when you told them to.
They would only stop once you swore to never again do what had brought on the scolding.
She had once sworn that.
She had been horribly reluctant and had resisted, but the overwhelming difference in strength had prevented her from doing anything more, making any other choice, or even thinking. The difference in strength had ultimately made her make that promise.
That was what had twisted her.
When someone was left in a shameful, worn-down state, others showed no mercy.
Those close to her had been worried, but even that had felt like pity and grown distorted in her mind.
After all, while there were some who would take her side…
…The other people were far more numerous.
So she had ignored those close to her and opposed those more distant. Eventually, that had gone beyond just playing around.
It doesn’t matter, she thought.
Back then, she had promised to redo everything, but here she had not even noticed that she had lost the sign of that promise.
And she had been unable to stand up to the person who had caused it all back then.
She had seen speed as her own weakness, but that had not held true for her opponent. The memory of that opponent demonstrating the speed needed to dodge Futayo’s cutting attack was still fresh in her mind.
She could not stand up to her, so there was no way she could rescue the chancellor.
…So it doesn’t matter.
She tried to go to sleep because there was no point in fighting anymore.
That distant voice of rejection would not stop ringing in her ears.
“Kh.”
What am I doing? thought Mitotsudaira.
She was trying to gather strength in her body and recall the shape of that body.
…You idiot.
What am I doing? she thought again. Why am I trying to move?
“Nn.”
The painkilling spell was in effect, so her body was heavy and it creaked as if forcing it to move would strip the flesh from the bone. However, she tried to move regardless.
What was she doing? Why was she getting up?
She had a somehow distant sense that her classmates were fighting and she understood why they had left her here to sleep.
The scent reaching her nose told her she was surrounded by plants. Mary had likely used spirit spells to wrap ivy and other plants around her to hide her from the outside.
She might not be found even if Tenzou and the others lost. They were telling her to sleep, recover, and continue on to the chancellor after the enemy passed by.
Why was she trying to get up?
Stubbornness? Regret? Or was it pride or a show of courage?
She had lost the proof of her promise, so she felt she had no right to get up.
And she knew who that voice of rejection had belonged to.
…It was Mary.
Then what did it matter? She had kept her distance from that English royal. Mary would not expect her to come save her, so what reason did she have to go?
She had no reason to help and they did not want her to help. And yet…
Why? she asked herself. Why are you trying to move and get up?
And because she did not know…
No, that was wrong. That was the wrong word.
Please stop. She was saying to stop and yet…
“I won’t…stop.”
She understood. She really did. The part of her heart telling her to stop was saying something.
Please what?
…I won’t do it again.
Do what? What won’t you do?
It came back to that cry of rejection.
She felt that her former choice had been wrong. That was why she had corrected her rejection.
But what about this voice that still rang in her ears?
Was there a rejection that could be allowed and that did not need to be stopped?
“I won’t lose anyone again.”
That was what her king and princess had wished for.
…And I made a promise.
She had once made a promise. She had made up her mind and used that as a basis for her decisions.
Mitotsudaira awoke. She tried to gather strength in her body.
But she could not get up. Her mind had cleared, but her body could not keep up.
The cry of rejection still rang in her ears.
…Kh!!
She clearly told herself to get up. She willed it and trembled with effort, but her body was sluggish and refused to move.
She wondered if the hang-up was Mary. Did this last bit of hesitation hinge on whether she would rescue the girl or not?
…As for Tenzou…um, what am I supposed to say? But maybe I’m being too harsh. Although this is a completely different issue.
At any rate, she had definitely concluded she had no reason to rescue them.
She truly did have no reason. That was a fact.
…But that cry of rejection is still ringing in my ears!
Mary had given the same cry she once had.
…So move!
But despite that, she could not even clench her teeth.
Just as she wondered what to do, a new scent reached her nose.
It was something that should not have been here.
Her entire body sprang up in surprise.
Tenzou had not given up.
The earth wall to his right had blocked Excalibur’s path, but he made a short dash up onto the side of the wall.
He then twisted his body downwards and kicked off the wall.
He would perform a midair side-flip over Mouri-02’s head.
He would be upside down once he reached Mouri-02 and he would remove and throw her head with his hands.
He would go for a midair decapitation throw.
He quickly enacted that plan.
He twisted around in midair and threw his body into empty air while stretching his head downwards.
He saw Mary for a brief moment. She was deflecting bullets with a spirit spell air shield, but knowing she was safe was enough. Right now, he had only one thing to focus on.
…My target!
He jumped over Mouri-02’s head.
She had no way of attacking after losing her right arm and the gunners to the left would be unable to keep up with his sudden movement.
He used his full mobility as a ninja. He was confident that only someone at the level of an academy’s vice-chancellor could keep up with his speed.
But below him, he saw Mouri-02 bring her left hand to her own head.
However, that hand did not stay there.
She pulled back her hand to remove the head.
As her head tilted back and fell behind her, it looked up into the sky and at him.
She was not smiling, angry, or even sad. She was completely expressionless as she had her headless body jump up at him.
It could not reach him and it was too slow, but…
It exploded directly below him.
“Master Tenzou!!”
Mary saw the blast envelop him.
Excalibur was returning to her after hitting the earth wall, but an attack was already coming from ahead.
Several headless dolls were rushing in to self-destruct.
She grabbed Excalibur, but it was too late to use it as a shield.
As soon as she realized she could not avoid this attack, the three directly in front of her spread their arms as if welcoming her.
They produced three explosions in quick succession.
“Please confirm the situation.”
Mouri-01 used her high-speed thoughts to communicate through the scattering heat of the blast.
An automaton’s high-speed thoughts could divide a second into nearly a million parts, so the surrounding motion almost seemed to stop as she made her decisions about the battlefield.
So far, a total of twenty-two automatons had self-destructed and eight were otherwise damaged.
Mouri-02 was one of those who had self-destructed, but all of their cores and memory devices had been recovered.
On the other hand, the enemy’s 1st special duty officer…
…Um, what was his name again?
Whatever. We can worry about that later.
Regardless, the enemy’s 1st special duty officer had been caught in a blast, Mary “Double Bloody Mary” Stuart who was on the level of a special duty officer had also been caught in a blast, and 3rd Special Duty Officer Margot Naito was being attacked.
Comparing the losses of special duty officer level warriors, the automatons were winning. They were of course losing if the total numbers were compared, but a special duty officer level warrior was not comparable to a normal warrior in any academy.
…This is a difficult judgment to make.
She decided to leave that judgment to the academy and to simply do her best here.
She slowed her thought speed to match the outside world and her surroundings sped up. After checking the thermal reading of the explosion that had caught the enemy’s 1st special duty officer, she realized something.
“Musashi’s 1st special duty officer is gone!?”
Mary was the one who realized where Tenzou was.
She had supposedly been caught in an explosion, but she was now seeing the night sky.
From the depths of the forest, she had only been able to see that sky between the branches, but now someone held her in their arms and she looked to the right to see who.
“Master Tenzou!?”
Mouri-01 was baffled.
Why were the 1st special duty officer and Mary unharmed after those explosions? And how had the 1st special duty officer managed to reach Mary?
A few different phenomena did not fit together. They went beyond her statistical, causal, and predictive reasoning, so she had difficulty understanding what she was seeing.
The battle was still ongoing.
She double-checked the facts. The enemy was unharmed, Mary had been taken away by the 1st special duty officer, and they had both moved to the left end of the battlefield.
That was all. Mouri-03 was attacking the 3rd special duty officer, but…
“Big sister!”
A sound suddenly reached her from directly ahead. It was the sound of an object slicing through the air in a straight line.
“A stone!”
Mouri-01 shifted her thoughts into high speed. She switched back and forth between auditory and thermal detection, added that on top of her visual information, and even amplified the light in that information.
The processing of the visual data was heavy enough for her to drop some frames, but the data she did get informed her of a definite truth.
“We have a new enemy!”
Mouri-01 ignored the earthen spikes surrounding her and raised her right hand. She swung the hand as if rolling her shoulder and a row of new spikes formed in front of her. A total of thirty-two earthen spikes stood in a line stretching out in front of her. The hardened soil rose like a wave, but they were immediately destroyed from the other side.
The flying stone loudly smashed the spikes.
Twenty of them broke in an instant, six more followed, four bent, one broke, and the final one stopped it.
However, the stone simply stopped in midair. It did not fall to the ground.
This was not gravitational control, so Mouri-01 checked visually.
…It’s wrapped in ivy!?
Ivy was crudely tied around the stone and it extended back into the darkness.
With a tug on the ivy, it returned. It moved so quickly that it seemed to shoot back.
The stone returned to the newcomer who had likely been the one to retrieve the ninja and Mary with the ivy stone.
“You are Lady Mitotsudaira Nate, 5th special duty officer of Musashi!”
Mary saw the silver wolf from Tenzou’s arms.
Mitotsudaira stood halfway up the slope, she was not wearing her coat or skirt, and she still looked very exhausted.
But when she caught the stone in her right hand, her stance showed her intent to move forward.
…She is not going to run.
The ivy on her shoulder was the ivy Mary had gathered to hide her, but…
Gold Mar: “Mito-tsan, how did you get up!?”
Silver Wolf: “Eh? Oh, um, how should I put it? My pride as a knight, I guess.”
Gold Mar: “Wow, knights are awesome! I mean, I went a little crazy on the pain reduction cause I figured you could handle it, but you still managed to get up!”
Silver Wolf: “Y-you had better remember this later! That really wasn’t easy! But…”
Mitotsudaira glanced over at Mary and held something up in her left hand.
It was a rice ball.
“I’m surprised you had this with you. Horizon made this, didn’t she?”
“Judge. Lady Naito brought it, but it seems they got messed up during the descent. They had lost their shape and, while we rested, Master Tenzou expressed his concern about their state.”
“Mary.” The silver wolf took a bite of the rice ball and swallowed it. “Mary, you use a lot of herbs, don’t you? They have a bit of a strong scent.”
“Eh? Oh, sorry-…”
“It is not a bad scent. …I am familiar with it from mixing perfumes.”
As she spoke, she raised the stone and lifted her left leg for a right overhand throw.
She threw the stone projectile into the enemy group.
Mouri-01 made a split-second decision. She used her gravitational control to break the surrounding spikes at their base and free everyone. At the same time…
“Spread out!!”
She gave her command to the others and swung her own arms forward.
Those two arms directed her gravitational control and pointed the broken spikes forward.
“Please have these!”
The broken spikes were fired toward the silver wolf as if they had been kicked forward.
The spikes were made of earth and packed as hard as stone. Those several dozen spears sliced through the air as their paths crossed.
But Mitotsudaira did not panic in the face of what looked like countless deadly attacks. Her mind was still unsteady and her breathing rough, but…
“Like this, right?”
She twisted the thumb and forefinger holding the forcefully extending ivy.
This swung the stone and changed its path to a quick arc from left to right.
The movement was unthinkable as simple physical motion, but…
...This will work!
This ivy was what Mary had used to weave together and hide her. Mary had applied a spell to them, so now that Mitotsudaira had taken it apart, it was a long piece of ivy that carried ether. It was weak, but…
“It’s no different from the silver chains!”
That was how the ivy allowed the stone to change its path in midair.
It shifted to a gouging arc toward the group of spikes.
And it struck.
It pierced straight through the center of the flying spikes from the side.
The sound of destruction reached Mitotsudaira.
She tugged on the ivy to return the stone and smash the spikes again from behind.
But she was too slow. She had torn several holes in them, but the density of flying spikes was still too high.
“Mary!”
Mitotsudaira forced the stone back to her with pure strength, but she did not catch it. It passed by her and she let it fly behind her.
“Reinforce the ivy!”
“Judge!!”
Bluish-white light filled the ivy along with a flexibility that seemed to push out from within.
…Such great strength!!
Mitotsudaira wrapped the ivy stone around something behind her.
“That big tree!”
She tossed the last of the rice ball into her mouth and moved just as she started chewing.
She tugged on the ivy with both hands.
With the sound of snapping fibers and a great roar, the silver wolf uprooted the large tree behind her.
She went on to carry it forward.
And she chucked the thirty meter or taller tree into the group of spikes.
All of the spikes were smashed, the branches scattered, and the leaves flew about. After confirming the result, Mitotsudaira howled.
As if swinging her hair around, she lowered her arms to her sides and raised her throat to the sky.
The howl continued with an extended “oh” and a reverberating “nn”.
She then bent her entire body forward and lowered down almost to the ground.
She began to dash. In an instant, she shot below the falling tree and grabbed a thick branch.
“Right!!”
She threw the large tree to the left. She had made a verbal feint, but she saw nothing wrong with that small level of cruelty.
The tree stirred up the wind, broke through some automatons, and cleared a path down the center.
She stood the tree in the dirt as thanks, and prepared to face those on the left. She could leave the right to Tenzou and Mary. She could already see Tenzou’s Excalibur returning after being freed from the spikes, so…
“Third throw!”
She threw the stone toward Mouri-01 who stood forty meters ahead.
However, someone got in the way: the automatons making up Mouri-01’s unit. They moved forward and raised earthen walls.
The ivy moved. She was not simply controlling it with the movement of her fingers. It arced up like a snake raising its head and twisted around to tear into the enemies behind the wall.
It moved just like her silver chains.
Mouri-01 realized what the silver wolf’s weapon was. It was not ivy or a stone.
…Is it a thought transmission spell!?
The spell sent her intention to an object and had the object move accordingly.
It was the same type of spell as the one used by Musashi’s chancellor. While his spell distributed ether to a great number of people, this was a lighter spell that conveyed her thoughts to any ether-protected object she touched with her hands.
Mouri-01 guessed the spell was meant to allow communication with her silver chain divine weapon, but the spirit-reinforced ivy created with Mary’s spell was enough to receive her thoughts.
The wall raised by Mouri-01’s subordinate automatons was completely ignored. The stone flew past it and swept them away.
But it did not end there.
There was more. The silver wolf prepared her left hand for an underhand throw.
She held a stone tied to the opposite end of the ivy draped over her shoulders.
“Fourth throw!”
It broke straight through the wall.
What a powerful strike, thought Mouri-01. I must stop this stone.
She searched for any way of intercepting it in the current situation, but the answer to her question quickly arrived from outside.
“Big sister!” shouted Mouri-03. “I’ll stop it!”
Mitotsudaira saw a small form jumping above the tree branches.
She swung down her hand which was connected to her fourth throw.
At the same time, Tenzou raised his voice after lowering Mary to the ground and catching his Excalibur.
“Mitotsudaira-dono!”
She already knew from the Magie Figur that Naito had sent her.
…So that’s how Mouri-03’s gravitational control works.
“She can freely set an enemy as her master to stop their weapons!”
By repeatedly switching between people with the high-speed thoughts of an automaton, she could artificially hold multiple “masters” at the same time.
And so Mitotsudaira gave a shout with the same volume as her howl.
“Stand back!!”
Automatons obeyed orders from their masters.
However, that fact held little meaning for Mouri-03. She could freely switch between masters, so she could switch to another master and switch back after ignoring the order.
She did the same here. To stop the enemy 5th special duty officer’s weapon, she had set the wolf as her master. The wolf had told her to stand back, but that only meant she had to set someone else as her master.
But the enemies she had intended to make her master had vanished. Both Mary and the 1st special duty officer were gone.
She had removed the tracking lock using her gravitational control back when she had thought they were defeated in the explosions, so…
…I’m in trouble if they’ve hidden themselves with a spirit spell and ninja technique!
If she could not see them, she could not set them as her master.
But an automaton needed a master.
If she removed her master setting, she would lose her reason for existence as an automaton, her abilities would be restricted, and she might even cease to function altogether. Also, it was impossible to set another automaton as her master.
…So I need to set another enemy as my master!
“Where’s the enemy’s 3rd special duty officer!?”
She started to turn around, but…
Someone tapped on her right shoulder from behind and she turned around to find someone whose feathers had scattered from gunfire.
“The 3rd special duty officer…”
“You really shouldn’t hesitate. If you hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t have caught up.”
A speedometer-style Magie Figur now hovered above her right shoulder. There was no escape. The girl grabbed her shoulder to press a ten yen coin against it. Not even gravitational control could stop this.
“Doing it like this will damage your hand too!”
“Oh, don’t worry about that.”
The enemy 3rd special duty officer smiled.
“Your master has guts.”
Mouri-01 heard something fired overhead.
Mouri-03’s right arm flew through the air while the rest of her used her left arm to grab at a tree trunk to the upper right.
And she fell.
Mouri-01 determined there was nothing to apologize for. In fact, she was the one that needed to apologize. She had been the one to set up the battlefield on the assumption that the enemy’s 5th special duty officer and daughter of their vice chancellor would not take part.
That was why Mouri-01 decided that she should take responsibility.
…So I will win this!
She raised both her arms.
The ground below her hands was rapidly torn up and quickly transformed into a projectile.
She had to hurry. Her gravitational control excelled at bursts of strength, but creating and firing this high-density projectile was still a difficult task. She compensated by raising her power output above normal.
“I will hurry!”
This put a great burden on her body, so the ulna of her left forearm and the back of her right hand burst. But she did not care. These were necessary losses to achieve victory.
After all, the enemy’s stone was breaking through their walls as it flew toward them.
She had to hurry but remain calm.
She had created a two meter spear. It was made denser than rock and she raised it in her right hand and flung her left hand forward.
She broke her own wall and cleared her vision.
Mouri-01 resolved herself.
She looked to her enemy, looked to the stone that enemy had thrown, and moved to place her projectile on the same path.
She succeeded.
The two attacks collided in the center of the forest.
The sound of destruction resembled splitting stone and bright sparks lit up the forest.
The scattershot of fragments sounded like a spray of rain as they gouged into the trees and ground.
As for the two who had launched these attacks…
They had already begun their next moves.
Mouri-01 raised her arms again to create a second spear while Mitotsudaira began to catch the stone in her hand as it returned to her.
However, Mouri-01 did something else to speed up the creation of her projectile.
“How about an addition?”
She severed her own left arm to use it as extra material.
The spear took form much faster with the extra part.
Meanwhile, the stone returned to Mitosudaira’s hand and she raised it overhead.
But Mouri-01 was ever-so-slightly faster.
“Now, this one is ready.”
She lifted her right hand toward Mitotsudaira with the spear projectile floating beneath it.
It shot directly toward the silver wolf.
…She’s using her own body to win!?
Mitotsudaira’s heart filled with admiration of her enemy.
She knew this was dangerous, but she had to admire the action.
This was not self-sacrifice. It was true cooperation to achieve victory.
She knew only an automaton could do that.
However, the level of praise she gave her enemy was also the level of danger she was now in.
She had to intercept this.
She did not have time to avoid it. Not only was it a speedy attack, but she had already raised her arm to throw.
Her only option was to stop the projectile with her stone.
There was a single problem with that, though.
…Hers will be faster!
A projectile thrown by an automaton’s gravitational control had a certain unique trait: the gravitational control could continue working on it shortly after it was fired.
Their gravitational control had an effective range, so acceleration of the launched object could continue while it remained in that range.
Mitotsudaira had thrown her previous attack before the enemy had thrown her projectile. They had collided nearby the enemy, but that meant the enemy’s projectile had yet to reach its full speed.
They had been of equal power at that point, so…
…I’ll lose if hers is at full speed!!
Mitotsudaira was raising her stone, but the enemy had already fired.
She could not avoid having inferior speed.
At this rate, her stone would shatter on impact and the projectile would reach her.
“In that case…!”
She reached a certain answer.
…I will throw it with all my strength!
She could not dodge in time, so she simply made her overhand throw.
But even as she did so, she knew it would be slower than her enemy’s attack.
I need speed, she begged.
An instant later, speed came to her.
However, it was a crumbling drop in speed.
…What is this!?
It was the pain reduction.
Her doubt about her counterattack had disturbed her focus.
Her knees gave way and strength left the arm throwing the stone.
She heard Tenzou’s voice and saw him and Mary appear, but they were immediately stopped.
Mouri-03 had fallen to the ground, but she stood with her back leaning against a tree and stopped Tenzou and Mary by viewing them as her masters.
Strength drained from Mitotsudaira’s body and her arm swung forward.
She felt the stone slip from her fingers.
But in that instant, she saw something unexpected.
After the stone vanished from her hand, it immediately shot toward her enemy.
…Eh!?
She expressed her confusion in her heart.
It had been a weak throw that only slipped from her fingers, so what had happened?
The stone arrived right in front of the enemy’s projectile.
The instant of collision settled everything.
Her stone attacked the hardened spear projectile just as it was about to break from its initial velocity.
The stone scraped along the side of the spear as it passed by and its great speed caused the spear to burst from that scraped area.
It was utterly destroyed.
The solid sound told Mitotsudaira the truth. The stone she thought she had failed to throw had flown faster than the one she had thrown with her full strength. Not only that, it had reached her enemy.
…What was that!?
A certain memory came back to her.
When she had fought her mother in IZUMO, her mother had instantly avoided Futayo’s cutting attack.
She had thought her mother’s superhuman speed was something she did not have, but…
…What did I just do!?
She did not understand because she was clearly not at 100% right now. So why had she been able to give the stone such speed?
She remained confused while the stone destroyed the projectile and flew toward her enemy.
It continued on to gouge into that enemy, but…
“Now, then.”
She heard a sudden voice and a loud noise from behind.
Mitotsudaira saw the source of the noise.
It was a tree. A felled tree dropped from the sky like a stake and stabbed into the ground right in front of Mouri-01.
Mitotsudaira’s stone crashed into the tree. The trunk split open, but the stone shattered.
…Who threw that tree!?
She was a little annoyed at this intervention, but she soon heard another reaction. Mary spoke while looking behind her.
“Oh, good evening.”
Mitotsudaira knew what that confused and smiling voice meant: someone stood behind her who it would be best to greet.
She sensed her mother’s presence.
Mitotsudaira felt the source of her mother’s presence.
There was a scent, faint body heat, and some movement of the air. All those things told her that her mother had appeared about five meters behind her.
No one could move and they all focused on the person behind Mitotsudaira.
Mitotsudaira herself breathed with her gut to prevent her mother from seeing her shoulders rising and falling.
…Calm down.
Her mother had likely heard about the commotion from the forest’s animals.
She could do nothing now.
…Nothing except buy time for the others to escape.
So she turned toward Tenzou.
But the ninja in the darkness did not nod. He did not want the enemy to see him react. Taking his motionlessness as an answer, Mitotsudaira prepared herself.
She realized she could not turn around. She would be defeated in the time it took her to do so. If she did move, anything but a sudden action with all her strength would be too dangerous.
…So I need to move the instant I hear her approach!
It came immediately afterwards.
It came as pressure. The movement of the air, the scent, and the light sound all created a pressure that pressed against her back.
I need to escape, she thought just as the presence arrived right behind her ear.
She tried to leap, but…
Before her legs could sink down, she heard a breath of laughter in her ear. Or she thought she did.
Dammit, she swore.
…But I just threw that stone so quickly!
She was slow and heavy now, so what had that previous speed been? As if to take her past that question, the time for an attack to reach her passed and it was already too late to avoid it.
She realized she had messed up and wondered if she would not even be able to buy any time.
…If only I had speed!
A moment later, an attack arrived behind her.
She was not hit by claws, swung around, or jabbed.
Instead, a giant red sword fell from the sky.
“That’s one of the swords spatially ejected by Henri of the Three Musketeers!?”
The god of war sized blade stabbed into the ground behind her and an attack hit it on the other side.
The heavy, carrying sound was much like a bell and it shook the forest.
But Mitotsudaira felt some wind.
Her mother left. She gave a breath of laughter and ran off into the darkness.
Next, some pressure arrived overhead. The heavy noise of wind came from a light aerial ship.
“I am Henri of Hexagone Française’s Three Musketeers! I forbid this battle from continuing!”
“Hexagone Française and Musashi have unofficially agreed to a ceasefire! Any further conflict would be meaningless for both sides!! Reine des Garous, are you listening!? This is…”
What? wondered Mitotsudaira as she looked up at the aerial ship.
“This is the will of Former Provisional Chancellor and Student Council President Anne of Austria!”
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Fans are also respectfully reminded that the scheduled kick off time at Glanford Park for this fixture is 12:30pm.
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Poetry as Protest and Sanctuary: Jane Hirshfield’s Magnificent Poem Against the Silencing of Science and the Assault on Nature
Marcus Aurelius on How to Live Through Difficult Times
Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence
How to Befriend the Universe: Philosopher and Comedian Emily Levine on the Art of Meeting Reality on Its Own Terms
From Newton to quantum physics to Hannah Arendt, a mind-bending, heart-opening invitation to welcome nature exactly as it is and ourselves exactly as we are.
“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life,” wrote Alice James — William and Henry James’s brilliant sister — as she modeled how to live fully while dying. “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love,” Rilke wrote a generation later in contemplating the supreme existential art of befriending our finitude — that ultimate assent to what Emily Dickinson had termed “the drift called ‘the infinite.'”
More than a century after James, Rilke, and Dickinson, a different Emily — the pathbreaking comedian, philosopher, steward of poetry, and my beloved friend Emily Levine — offers a brilliant, funny, bittersweet, largehearted meditation on the existential art of befriending our finitude as she faces her own terminal illness:
We don’t live in Newton’s clockwork universe anymore — we live in a banana peel universe, and we won’t ever be able to know everything, or control everything, or predict everything.
If you’re anti-death — which to me translates as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature — it also translates to me as anti-woman, because women have long been identified with nature. My source on this is Hannah Arendt — the German philosopher who wrote a book called The Human Condition. In it, she says that classically, work is associated with men. Work is what comes out of the head — it’s what we invent, it’s what we create, it’s how we leave our mark upon the world — whereas labor is associated with the body; it’s associated with the people who perform labor or undergo labor. So, to me, the mindset that denies this — that denies that we’re in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe — does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of slaves, or people who perform manual labor.
I love being in sync with the cyclical rhythms of the universe. That’s what’s so extraordinary about life — it’s a cycle of generation, degeneration, regeneration. “I” am just a collection of particles that is arranged into this pattern, then will decompose and be available, all of its constituent parts, to nature, to reorganize into another pattern. To me, that is so exciting, and it makes me even more grateful to be part of that process.
Complement with neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s beautiful reflections on the meaning of life as he faces his death, Denise Levertov’s splendid poem about our unreasonable resistance to acknowledging ourselves as part of nature, and Duck, Death and the Tulip — an uncommonly tender illustrated meditation on the cycle of life — then revisit physicist and poet Alan Lightman on our longing for permanence in a universe predicated on constant change.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/24/emily-levine-ted-reality/
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Home / Destinations / North America / The USA / Utah: A Luxury Adventure in the American Southwest
Utah: A Luxury Adventure in the American Southwest
This is a landscape made for spectacular sunrises
Head into the otherworldly Zion landscapes
Sleep beneath the stars in your luxury tent at Under Canvas
Squeeze through the Narrows in Zion
Take in Zion's stunning rock formations, including the imposing Three Patriarchs
Dine out in the wilderness at Under Canvas
Hit the road in one of America's most scenic drives
The peaceful waters of Lake Powell
The bright colours of Antelope Canyon
Awe-inspiring views of the Grand Canyon at dusk
Soak up the splendour from your terrace
The otherworldly hoodoos of Bryce Canyon
Float over the awe-inspiring Vermilion Cliffs
A luxurious base from which to explore the American Southwest
Streams of light burst through the cracks in Antelope Canyon
An icon of the American Southwest - The Grand Canyon
Relax by the gorgeous freeform pool at Amangiri
When to go August-November
Price From £7,000 pp excluding flights
Ideal length 5 nights
Flight time 10hrs 40mins from London. 5hrs 40mins from NYC.
Contrary to their common perception, adventures need not require you to travel to far-flung places and take weeks off work. No, some of the best adventures are those that are that bit closer to home. Those that don’t require a passport and those that can be conquered just over the course of a couple of days. Now, our travel experts are on hand to show you just how to make the most of these whirlwind adventures, in true Black Tomato style. For us, nowhere screams ‘adventure’ quite like the American Southwest. Crammed full of otherworldly landscapes, plunging canyons and star-filled skies – it’s an adventurer’s playground. Spend five days scrambling over the red rock terrain, squeezing through ravines and paddling to secluded bays as you discover Utah’s hypnotic beauty.
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Flying into Las Vegas, you’ll be met by your private driver who will then take you out of Nevada and into Utah and the towering red and white cliffs of Zion National Park. Home to off the beaten track adventures (just how we like them) and spectacular views of Zion’s red rocks, you’ll spend your first two nights in true adventuring style – under canvas. But Under Canvas camp is far from your ordinary camping experience. Featuring king-sized beds, stargazer tents and fine dining, it’s glamping all the way here.
Whilst hiking through Zion alongside an expert guide is an unbeatable way to take in the breathtaking scenery at a more sedate pace, this is a place built for canyoneering. So get to know the canyon walls and the overlooks, the rivers and the waterfalls first, then buckle up your harness as you rappel your way through these stunning panoramas. From the Three Patriarchs to the iconic Narrows, it seems that another natural wonder awaits you around every corner on this two-day jaunt through the otherworldly landscapes of Zion. There’s simply no better place to kick start your adventure.
Where Action Meets Relaxation
From Zion, you’ll then head east to the Grand Circle and the remote Amangiri. A luxurious hideaway tucked within light-dappled canyons, Amangiri perfectly balances adrenaline-fuelled adventure with peaceful serenity. At the heart of the Grand Circle, your next three days are guaranteed to be action-packed. We’ll send you hiking amongst the otherworldly hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park, kayaking over the deep-blue waters of Lake Powell and squeezing through the tight spaces of photographer’s favourite, Antelope Canyon.
No adventure through the American Southwest would be complete, however, without a visit to the iconic Grand Canyon. Alongside an expert guide, discover the layers of red rock which act as a storybook of American adventuring history. For a whole new perspective though? Take to the skies on a morning hot air balloon flight, taking in aerial views of Lake Powell, Navajo Mountain and the Vermillion Cliffs. It’s only when you’re this high up that you can get a real sense of the sheer scale and wonder of this beguiling region of the Southwest.
So there you have it – the ultimate American Southwest adventure rolled up into just a couple of days. We’ve taken you into all the tightest nooks and crannies (and out the other side again), but in a place such as this, you can’t help but feel you’re only ever scratching the surface. Just one reason to keep coming back, if you ask us.
Where to rest your head
Under Canvas, Zion National Park
Amangiri, Canyon Point
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INSPO SERIES #5 - Black + Queer in Urban Planning
I thought the title would catch your attention lol but if not glad you're reading regardless. So as the title says, this post is about being a Black gay woman in urban planning + urban design as it relates to the way I plan, create, and design places I exist in. I was extremely grateful and humbled to have been on an amazing call with some other dope ass Black gay women in urban planning and when I say... I N S P I R E D!!! You can't even imagine how I felt sharing a virtual space with these amazing women, I'm still in shock on the cool lol but on a serious note, that conversation and those women made me so happy to exist as an OPEN gay Black woman who happens to be an urban planning.
Before that I call I wasn't extremely aware of how my sexuality intersects with my professional passions, although they've always seemed connected, hearing other women in this space express their views/thoughts really put two and two together for me. The two are actually dependent on one another in the sense that enjoying public spaces is something critical when designing their impact on its patrons/attendants, primarily for those that identify as anything besides white unfortunately. As a gay Black woman I experience and feel places differently than my straight friends or even differently than my other gay friends who are white - despite what people may think interacting and moving as a Black gay woman is a completely different experience than that of a white woman. Society kind of caters to the white gay community, whereas, the Black gay community is kind of non-existent and as far as comfortable places + spaces go, well yeah. As I continue to transform my passions towards becoming an urban designer I've realized my lens on what it is equitable and safe potentially holds a lot of weight when it comes to functionality beyond form. I can't design places + spaces that look great but provides no form of safe recreation for Black folks and gay folks; both are a part of me and who I am.
Let me say that I don't go into every meeting, Zoom call, or any other setting with a sticky note on my forehead saying "I'm gay!" lol. But I'm also very comfortable talking about it (appropriately) and expressing how planning has also excluded those in the LGBTQA+ community; whether that's available restrooms in a time where gender identity is crucial, safety of trans people, and the overall sense of inviting places for us as Black queer people. It's more than creating cool sidewalk cafes or opening streets up more - unfortunately, none of that matters when you don't feel safe or feel like the space isn't really designed for you. As I move forward in designing better and community-geared places it's so important to incorporate elements that create a safe space for Black/brown people, but also, a truly inviting and safe space for the Black/brown LGBTQA+ community. Being able to exist as an openly gay/trans/non-binary/etc. Black individual shouldn't be up for debate - how a person chooses to identify doesn't mean they shouldn't be protected any less than a heterosexual person.
Places + spaces for the Black gay community are few and in between, whether that's bars, lounges, PUBLIC spaces, or wherever else, it's wild to think that I couldn't be out with my girl without possibly (or definitely) being harassed, stared at, followed... you get the point. As a Black gay person in 2020 it's seemingly more acceptable than what it was back in 2012 granted we're still struggling to be accepted by our families and society, which is extra challenging with the way white people are setup of these days. It's tough to be out and open without having to risk your livelihood or severing relationships with friends/family, some are still living in two worlds, others are trying to really find themselves and champion through without the support of those close to them. In whichever case, when you can't be comfortable as you are at home then the next best place people typically find solace is... you guessed it - public spaces. Like coffee shops, bars, intimate gatherings, and so on, these are communal spots that don't get enough love or recognition or even exist enough in Black/brown communities and for Black/brown LGBTQA+ individuals. There's no better time than now to push that narrative of truly equitable development and urban design because open streets are cool no doubt but are open streets cool and inviting for a Black gay couple to walk through or patronize a business. Or can open streets serve as an aid in the policing, harassment, and lack of safety for that same Black gay couple - I'd rather not guess at it but make damn sure it functions for us.
It goes without saying at this point - a space/place is nothing without comfort and safety. At least that's the standard in my eyes. When those elements are put FIRST other elements like equity, diversity, and the like will follow with ease. We as urban planners/urban designers celebrate ideas like open streets or tactical urbanism as "innovative". "inclusive", "game changing" that we completely bypass the question of where would this work or who is this really benefiting? We've allowed form, accolades, and recognition of a copy/paste idea to overshadow the whole purpose of designing the space from the beginning - safe, comfortable, vibrant, INTENTIONAL, and equitable spots that everyone can feel welcome especially in historically marginalized communities. That alone is enough fire for me to keep making a way for myself and others in urban planning/urban design - designing for US shouldn't be rocket science; just give a damn.
If you identify in the LGBTQA+ community and are an urban planner/urban designer please know there are professionals out here that you can reach out to. And if you're a Black urban planner/urban designer - this is especially important for YOU! If you're struggling to exist as yourself in/out of your workplace please don't hesitate to reach out to me!! Your sexual preference or identity is not and will not be barrier to you being an amazing, successful planner/designer - that's on PERIOD. Not only am I here for you, there are other amazing BLACK queer women that are transforming the field as we speak! Special shoutout to Les Henderson, Kristen Jeffers, Tamika Butler, and Ebony Dumas for being those lights for me! I talk A LOT about representation as a Black urban planner but it's even more crucial as a Black female gay planner - their presence means so much to me and I hope to inspire others the way they inspire me. Your best you is when you can exist 100% as you are - stop watering yourself down; you got IT!
I love y'all fr! It's not easy becoming 100% in love with yourself and your sexual identity in a field like urban planning but i promise you it's so worth it. I'm here for you if no one else and I know you're gonna be an amazing urban planner despite what social norms may imply. BLACK QUEER URBAN PLANNERS MATTER!!
If you wanna follow the amazing Black queer women I mentioned earlier here are their socials:
Les Henderson - @lessequalmore (IG)
Kristen Jeffers - @blackurbanist (IG/Twitter) and theblackurbanist.com
Tamika Butler - @tamikabutler (IG/Twitter) and tamikabutler.com/blog
Ebony Dumas - @djnattyboom (IG)
Humbled, grateful, and thankful as ever to share a space with these and other amazing BLACK queer women in urban planning. I see US doing the damn thing! Be present, hold your presence, and make sure they capitalize the "B" when talking about Black women in urban planning.
yours truly...
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Thailand to Get Two Million Doses of China’s Sinovac Shots
Randy Thanthong-Knight
(Bloomberg) -- Thailand will get its first lot of Covid-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. next month, allowing the country in the middle of a resurgence of the coronavirus outbreak to begin inoculating people with the highest risks for infections.
The Southeast Asian nation will receive the Chinese vaccine in three batches, with the first 200,000 doses arriving in February, 800,000 in March, and another 1 million in April, according to the Health Ministry. Thailand has also started local production of vaccines developed by AstraZeneca Plc under a technology transfer agreement, which is expected to be ready for distribution in May, the ministry said.
Thailand is racing to curb the spread of a new wave of local infections that started from seafood markets near Bangkok, the nation’s capital and the largest city. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha has imposed a new set of restrictions on businesses and gatherings in Bangkok and 27 of its worst-affected provinces from Monday to contain the outbreak.
Thailand, which was relatively successful in containing the pathogen after becoming the first country outside China to report the deadly virus, may see cases spike to about 1,000 a day even with strict control measures, according to the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration. The country reported 315 new virus cases on Sunday with 294 of them locally transmitted, taking the nation’s total to 7,694.
Prayuth’s government has set a target of inoculating 50% of its population, or about 33 million people, by the end of 2021 with vaccines from various sources, including the World Health Organization-backed Covax program. It’s also negotiating with other vaccine developers for additional supplies, according to the health ministry.
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Tonix, Biolase Join Penny Stocks Surge After Reddit Touts
Cristin Flanagan
(Bloomberg) -- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding jumped as much as 24% early Wednesday, the latest in a group of tiny health-care stocks to get a boost in volume, after day traders touted the company on message boards for no apparent reason.
Trading in micro-cap companies that most Wall Street professionals ignore has made up roughly 20% of all U.S. stock market trading volume lately. Much of that action is driven by newly minted traders stuck at home during the pandemic, and the biotech sector in particular seems to have captured their imagination on the Robinhood platform and Reddit message boards.
“Out with ZOM in with BIOL And TNXP!,” posted one Reddit user, referring to the small-caps by their tickers. As if in response, Zomedica Corp. halted a three-day rally, spurred on by animal rights activist of Tiger King fame Carole Baskin, that sent the pet medicine company up 225% to a more than two-year high. The stock was down as much as 38% Wednesday, on more than 220 million shares traded.
Read more: A Handful of Penny Stocks Just Made Up a Fifth of U.S. Volume
So far, more than 50 million Tonix shares have changed hands Wednesday. Yesterday’s trading volume was more than seven-times normal. Biolase Inc. jumped as much as 33% in early trading before the move melted dropping 17%. The dental laser company had surged 80% on Tuesday and has already more than doubled in 2021.
Some of the companies benefiting from the rallies, such as TransEnterix Inc, are using the share gains to bolster cash positions. The medical device company reported on Tuesday a direct stock offering worth $31.3 million after its shares more than doubled this year.
Tonix declined to comment on the share move but noted through a third party spokeswoman that a recent $40 million stock offering “strengthens our balance sheet.”
An outside representative for Biolase said the company has no plans for a cash raise in the near-term and attributed the gains in part to positive news on its dental laser that spreads less matter into the air and could limit the spread of pathogens like Covid-19. The company ended September with a little more than $19 million of cash on hand.
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Time Running Out for FCC to Take Up Trump Attack on Social Media
Todd Shields
Dec 25 2020, 12:14 AM Dec 28 2020, 2:07 PM December 25 2020, 12:14 AM December 28 2020, 2:07 PM
(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Communications Commission has run low on time to adopt an order trimming a liability shield for social media companies, leaving the fate of a request from President Donald Trump in doubt.
Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai let slip a Wednesday deadline for setting a vote on the proposal at the next monthly meeting of the agency, which is scheduled for Jan. 13 and is the last before he leaves the commission a week later.
“It appears he has run out of calendar,” said Michael O’Rielly, a former Republican FCC member whose nomination to another term was withdrawn by the White House after he voiced doubts about the measure.
FCC proposals not adopted at meetings can be passed with a vote by commissioners behind closed doors. But FCC Democrats oppose the measure and could kill it by delaying the process past the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Pai has said little about the topic since Oct. 15 when he announced he planned to move forward with a rulemaking on the legal shield, contained in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Will Wiquist, an FCC spokesman, declined to comment on the matter Wednesday.
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The Commerce Department, prompted by a Trump order, asked the FCC to offer an interpretation of Section 230 that critics said would leave Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others more vulnerable to litigation for moderating the posts of users.
Pai has a three-member Republican majority until he leaves. He could call a special meeting, or simply have FCC staff issue an order, said Andrew Jay Schwartzman of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society.
An order without a vote by the commissioners wouldn’t carry as much weight before courts as language adopted by a vote, and “in fact, even a full FCC declaration might not be given too much weight,” Schwartzman said in an email.
“President Donald Trump’s push for the FCC to make rules about a key liability shield for Twitter, Facebook and Google appears dead, given Chairman Ajit Pai didn’t add the item to a Jan. 13 meeting agenda,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matthew Schettenhelm said in a note Thursday. “With President-elect Joe Biden set to name a new chair in January, the rulemaking won’t advance.”
Pai has said he will leave the FCC on Jan. 20. That would leave the FCC at a 2-to-2 partisan deadlock until the Senate confirms another member selected by Biden. In the meantime, he’ll be able to designate one of the sitting Democrats as chair with control of the agency’s agenda.
Although Biden has criticized Section 230, his campaign also slammed Trump’s order to rein in Big Tech when it was issued in May.
“I don’t see the incentive for him to do anything at this moment,” said Gigi Sohn, a former Democratic FCC aide, said of Pai. “Is anybody screaming and yelling at this point? Why bother?”
Trump on Wednesday vetoed a defense bill in part because lawmakers refused to include a repeal of the Section 230 protections. Congress will attempt to override the veto next week.
The president and others on the right have long accused social media platforms of censoring conservatives, something that the technology giants deny.
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Laying Bare Identity - Exposure in Turn
This is a post about my current project, Turn, which is a game about shapeshifters in small towns. See more posts about Turn on the Thoughty Turn tag.
There are a number of mechanics I've been working with to make Turn the game I want it to be, but one of the most vital components of the game is a mechanic called exposure. Exposure is what happens when a shapeshifter's identity is made evident to an NPC or the town itself. It is, in essence, more dangerous than any physical damage a shifter could take (which is why damage isn't really A Thing in Turn), but also potentially very fruitful.
You start off with a character that people know, that people have impressions of. Everyone knows everyone in small towns. When you act unusual? People notice, especially the closer they are to you.
Who are you? Who do people think you are?
Exposure isn't necessarily bad. There are risks - if the whole town finds out you're a shapeshifter and doesn't like you or you've hurt someone, admittedly torches and pitchforks may be in your future. However, if someone you love slowly discovers you're secretly an otter part-time, they might be willing to accept you.
Shifters mark their exposure track when they use their abilities outside of their current form - like when someone who is in human form uses their beast abilities, or when someone in beast form uses their human abilities. Some beasts have flexibility in this, like trash pandas raccoons who can casually escape exposure:
In Plain Sight - You never generate exposure for being seen in beast form if there are no witnesses to your transformation.
...or those who have animal groups (herds, romps, flocks) who can avoid exposure to humans while in animal form - but risk exposure to their group:
Otters have romps!
Each instance of exposure is either marked positive or negative. Each space on the track has room for a + or -, and when the exposure is assigned, the players will mark appropriate to the experience. Eventually, they'll reach the end of the track, and add up their positives and negatives - and from that, determine the path they'll take when they resolve the exposure.
If they ignore resolving NPC exposure for too long, it can overflow into the town - gossip is a bitch - and lead to further complications. Every town has themes and bloodlines that interconnect, and events that can be dark, or happy, or simply mysterious. What rumors led to those events? Did someone get hurt because a shifter just didn't "act right" and someone saw them slip-up? In small towns, deviance is always noticed.
"We don't talk about that." - 13 deaths.
The exposure mechanic is really important to the experience in Turn and I'm hoping that, as play happens, it will be as fruitful as I want it to be. Fingers crossed that when it's revealed to more players, I get a positive result!
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Techniques for Publishing in Transformative Ground-Breaking Journals Recorded: Dec 12 2020 75 mins
Dr. Lewis Collins, Editor-in-Chief, One Earth (A Cell Press journal)
Learn techniques and strategies for publishing in transformative ground-breaking journals with Dr. Lewis Collins, Editor-in-Chief of One Earth (a Cell Press journal). Dr. Collins will share tips on developing your papers for ground-breaking publications, elaborate on his experience of working with researchers and authors throughout the research publishing cycle and the opportunity to broadly disseminate findings. Dr. Collins will also share more details about the growth of Cell Press journals in the physical and environmental sciences field, including the launch of many new titles such as Chem, Matter, Joule, and One Earth. He’ll outline Cell Press’ approach to high-demand, multi-disciplinary content, and expanding OA publishing strategies at Cell Press. Join this engaging webinar to find the answers to your pressing questions in the Q&A session during the webinar. Don’t forget to extend this invite to your colleagues who might find this of interest.
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Inspired by David Attenborough documentaries as a child, Lewis has been amazed by the natural world from an early age. While undergraduate and master’s degrees in Earth science (Cardiff University), and Climate Change (University of East Anglia) nurtured this interest, it was doctoral (British Antarctic Survey) and post-doctoral (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) research on Antarctica that centered his focus on environmental change. Prior to launching One Earth, Lewis spent over 5 years with Nature Communications, where he led the Earth editorial team and curated, commissioned, handled (and occasionally rejected…) research across the full spectrum of Earth and environmental science. Lewis is particularly interested in grand challenges associated with land-use and the competing demands for this increasingly scarce resource.
How to publish in groundbreaking journals Recorded: Dec 12 2020 87 mins
Steve W. Cranford, Editor-in-Chief, Matter
Would you like to learn tips for writing and developing a strong narrative for your work? Do you want advice on how to prepare your manuscripts for publication in the best journal for your research? Join us for a webinar with Steve W. Cranford, Editor-in-Chief, Matter to learn techniques and strategies to set yourself up for publishing success. Dr. Cranford will share details about the growth of multidisciplinary Cell Press journals and tips on developing your manuscript and will elaborate on his experience working with researchers throughout the publishing cycle. Join this engaging webinar and get answers to your questions in the Q&A session. Don’t forget to extend this invitation to your colleagues who might find this of interest.
About Steve W. Cranford:
A graduate from Memorial University (Canada), Stanford University (USA), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Dr. Cranford was faculty at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering prior to accepting a new role as editor-in-chief for Matter.
He has over 50 publications in the field of materials science in a range of high-impact journals, including Nature and Advanced Materials, with expertise in the area of atomistic simulation, computational modeling, and nanomechanics, encompassing a variety of materials systems, from carbyne to copper to concrete.
He would have preferred to have published in Matter, but it didn’t exist. He constantly played with LEGO blocks as a child, likely leading to his interest in material assembly and structure.
About the journal Matter:
Matter, a sister journal to Cell, is a monthly journal encompassing the general field of materials science, from nano to macro and fundamentals to application. Recognizing that materials discovery and development facilitate groundbreaking technologies bridging multiple disciplines, Matter will embrace all significant advances in materials research, encompassing the previously unknown and the innovative.
Content and Manuscript Submission Tips for JOGNN Recorded: Dec 11 2020 47 mins
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Learn more about the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing from Dr. Patricia Robin McCartney, Associate Editor. In this engaging webinar, Dr. McCartney will share information about JOGNN, the JOGNN audience, and what to consider before submitting your manuscript for publication consideration in JOGNN. You will learn about the criteria for reporting clinical projects in manuscripts for the Health Care Improvement and Evaluation category. Dr. McCartney will also provide advice on preparing your manuscript, editorial style, the publishing process, and resources available to support authors.
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Authoring in The Lancet — Learn from the Editors! Recorded: Dec 10 2020 76 mins
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Must Know Tips for Publishing In JACC Journals Recorded: Dec 9 2020 75 mins
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Learn techniques and strategies for getting published in JACC journals with Dr. David J. Moliterno, MD, FACC, Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Dr. Moliterno will present information on publishing in JACC Journals. Dr. Moliterno will share his expertise in working with researchers and authors throughout the research publishing cycle, how to develop papers for premium publications, and the opportunity to broadly disseminate findings. One of eight JACC Journals published by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions disseminated top science in interventional cardiovascular medicine, including coronary, structural, peripheral and cerebrovascular diseases. You won’t want to miss this engaging webinar and how it can benefit your research process and impact. Learn about submitting to JACC Journals and subscribe to eTable of Content emails.
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How to Prepare Your Manuscripts for Publication in Top Journals Recorded: Dec 9 2020 78 mins
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Light/Matter Interactions: Illuminating Materials and Researchers Recorded: Dec 8 2020 113 mins
Lea Nienhaus, Raffaella Buonsanti, and Bozhi Tian
The interactions between light and matter have been widely studied for applications in energy, bioelectronics, and catalysis, among others. These applications are heavily reliant on precise synthesis and materials characterization in order to fundamentally understand the physics, chemistry, and biology that drive the observed phenomena.
In this webinar, Lea Nienhaus, Raffaella Buonsanti, and Bozhi Tian discuss their efforts in studying light/matter interactions from different disciplinary backgrounds. In addition to their scientific insights, they will speak about their ongoing broader engagement with the scientific community and strong advocacy for mentoring, outreach, and science communication. Specifically, during a panel discussion, they will address how they have tried to keep engaged during this time away from the lab.
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Lea Nienhaus, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
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Raffaella Buonsanti, Assistant Professor, EPFL
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Bozhi Tian, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Bozhi Tian received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 2010. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Chicago and working on semiconductor-enabled fundamental studies of subcellular biophysics and soft matter dynamics.
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How to Become a Successful Researcher At Every Stage of Your Career Recorded: Dec 8 2020 90 mins
Dr. Valentin Fuster, Editor-in-Chief, JACC & Dr. Harlan Krumholz, Cardiologist & Health Care Researcher at Yale University
Pursuing a career as a physician-scientist can be daunting, especially as the success rates for securing research grants has declined from 33% to 19%, while the number of grant applications has increased by 72%. However, the pathway can provide personal and professional fulfillment and dynamism, if the individual is equipped with a roadmap for success. Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC, editor in chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine, will discuss how to maintain a successful physician-scientist career at three stages: early career, mid-career and senior. They will include tips for grant receipts, the importance of the mentee/mentorship relationship, and the need for creativity in grant submissions. In addition, viewers will have the opportunity to ask these thought leaders questions and pointers.
About the presenters:
Dr. Valentin Fuster serves The Mount Sinai Hospital as Physician-in-Chief, as well as Director of Mount Sinai Heart, the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health. He is also the Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and health care researcher at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital. He also serves as Director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at Yale School of Medicine.
Learn more about the JACC family of journals at JACC.org.
Learn how Lancet editors decide which papers to accept for publication Recorded: Dec 7 2020 69 mins
Heather Van Epps, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet Rheumatology
Join Heather Van Epps, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Rheumatology, to learn about techniques and strategies for preparing your paper to submit to high-impact journals.
Heather will share her experiences working with researchers and authors throughout the research publishing cycle. You will learn how to develop papers for submission to publications like the Lancet family of journals.
Do not miss this engaging webinar―you are invited to join and ask any questions that you feel will benefit your research.
Don't forget to download your manuscript checklist from the resources section.
Best Practices in Submitting Research for Highly Selective Journals Recorded: Dec 7 2020 76 mins
Dr. Robert D. Eagling, Editor-in-Chief of Chem (Cell Press journal)
Learn techniques and strategies for publishing strategies to give you the best chance of successfully publishing in highly selective journals with Dr. Robert D. Eagling, editor-in-chief of Chem (a Cell Press journal). Dr. Eagling will share tips on developing your papers for premium publications (with special focus on researchers based in the Eastern Europe region), elaborate on his experience of working with researchers and authors throughout the research publishing cycle and discuss the opportunity to broadly disseminate findings. Dr. Eagling will also share more details about the growth of Cell Press journals in the physical sciences field. Such details will include the launch of many new titles, such as Chem, Matter, Joule, and One Earth. He’ll also outline Cell Press’s approach to high-demand, multi-disciplinary content and expanding OA publishing strategies at Cell Press. Join this engaging webinar and ask any remaining questions in the Q&A session. Don’t forget to extend this invitation to your colleagues who might find this of interest.
About Robert Eagling:
Robert Eagling, Ph.D., is a graduate of Newcastle University in England and brings to Chem around 15 years of experience in chemistry publishing. He came to Cell Press from the Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC), where he helped grow submissions and readership of Chemical Communications, increased the visibility and impact of Chemical Society Reviews in 10 years from 13 to 34, and led the launch of Chemical Science, the RSC’s flagship general chemistry journal with Professor David McMillan as the inaugural Editorial Board Chairman.
Techniques for Publishing in Transformative Ground-Breaking Journals Recorded: Dec 5 2020 75 mins
How to publish in groundbreaking journals Recorded: Dec 4 2020 87 mins
Clinical Cases & Social Media: Tips & Techniques Recorded: Dec 4 2020 71 mins
Dr. Julia Grapsa, Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Case Reports & Dr. Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC, President, ACC
In order to create the right impact, researchers must first prepare their clinical case for successful submission and once published – work to ensure visibility of their findings for the benefit of the wider public. Join our webinar with Julia Grapsa, MD, PhD, FACC, editor-in-chief of JACC: Case Reports and Mary Norine Walsh, MD, MACC, deputy editor of JACC: Case Reports and past president of the ACC. You can expect to learn:
• How to prepare a clinical case report
• Common mistakes in submitting case reports
• A checklist to follow prior to submission
• Best practices to bring visibility to your research via social media
• Benefits of each platform type and how you can use them to your advantage
• How researchers can network online effectively
Sign up for this engaging webinar and get an opportunity to find answers to your questions during the Q&A session with Dr. Grapsa & Dr. Walsh.
About Dr. Grapsa:
Julia Grapsa, MD, PhD, FACC, is a consultant cardiologist at Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust, where she is responsible for the valvular heart disease network and echocardiography. Prior to her role as JACC: Case Reports editor-in-chief, Dr. Grapsa served as an editorial consultant for JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. Dr. Grapsa’s areas of research include valvular heart disease and the study of right heart remodelling.
About Dr. Walsh:
Mary Norine Walsh, MD, MACC is the medical director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Programs at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital; director of Nuclear Cardiology at The Care Group, a member of St. Vincent Medical Group; and clinical associate professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise include nuclear cardiology, congestive heart failure and cardiac transplantation with a special interest in women and heart disease.
New Trends and Future Directions in Catalysis Recorded: Dec 3 2020 107 mins
Frances Arnold, Lutz Ackermann, Corinna Schindler, and Douglas W. Stephan
The field of catalysis in chemistry was historically dominated by the use of transition metal catalysts. Due to a unique set of properties, precious metals in particular have played an integral role in developing catalysts for new modes of chemical bond activation and formation. One major and inherent drawback of precious metals, however, is their scarcity; in order to transition chemistry to a more sustainable use of the world’s limited resources, finding alternative strategies for catalysis is a major driving force in contemporary research. In this spirit, this webinar will feature talks about four areas of sustainable catalysis from leaders in their respective fields, highlighting state-of-the-art approaches and providing guidance for future developments in these areas of research.
Speaker Information:
Frances Arnold is Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and Director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center at Caltech. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 for directed enzyme evolution.
Lutz Ackermann is a Professor at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitutes his major current research interest, and he has a topical focus on C–H activation.
Corinna Schindler is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. The research interests of her laboratory include the synthesis of complex molecules and the development of new synthetic transformations between carbonyls and alkenes.
Douglas W. Stephan is a Professor at the University of Toronto and a world-leading researcher in inorganic chemistry/catalysis and the founder of the field of “frustrated Lewis pair” (FLP) chemistry. He has received many national and international awards, including Humboldt and Killam Fellowships.
Must Know Tips for Publishing in Premium Journals Recorded: Dec 2 2020 75 mins
Learn from editors of premium ground-breaking journals
As a researcher, you want to learn techniques and strategies to set yourself up for publishing success. On our premium content channel, you can find useful resources to learn the best practices on preparing manuscripts for publication and discovering the best journal for your research. Join esteemed editors from premium journals like Cell Press, The Lancet and Societies like ACC, AWHONN, AATS and many others to learn tips on publishing in top journals.
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Hotels in Redlands, CA
Pet Friendly Hotels & Resorts in Redlands, CA
There are 5 pet friendly hotels in Redlands. Need help deciding where to stay with your dog? You can browse the results below and filter by amenities to find the the perfect spot. All pet policy information is guaranteed and there are no booking fees!
Ayres Hotel Redlands
Ayres Hotel Redlands Pet Policy Ayres Hotel Redlands welcomes two pets up to 60 lbs for an additional fee of $45 per stay. Fireplace Rooms and Interior View rooms are not pet friendly. Both dogs and cats are allowed, but pets may not be left unattended in rooms. There is a grassy area on the property for pet relief, and cleanup bags are available at the front desk. See Details
Motel 6 Redlands
Motel 6 Redlands Pet Policy Motel 6 Redlands is pet friendly! Two pets up to 50 lbs are welcome for no additional fee. Both dogs and cats are allowed, and quiet pets may be left in rooms unattended. There is a grassy area for pet relief on the property. See Details
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson San Bernardino
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson San Bernardino Pet Policy Country Inn & Suites by Radisson San Bernardino allows one pet of any size for an additional fee of $50 per stay. Both dogs and cats are welcome. See Details
Dynasty Suites Redlands
Dynasty Suites Redlands Pet Policy Dynasty Suites Redlands welcomes one dog up to 20 lbs for an additional fee of $17 per night, plus a $100 refundable deposit. Guests with dogs are assigned to rooms on the lower floors for easy access to the grassy pet relief area. Dogs are not permitted in Presidential Suites, and must be crated if left unattended in rooms. Sorry, cats are not allowed. See Details
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson Redlands
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson Redlands Pet Policy Country Inn & Suites by Radisson Redlands welcomes one pet up to 30 lbs for an additional fee of $50 per night. Rooms on the first two floors are pet friendly. Both dogs and cats are allowed, but pets must be crated if left unattended. There is a grassy pet relief area with waste station on the property. See Details
Motel 6 San Bernardino
Motel 6 San Bernardino Pet Policy Motel 6 San Bernardino is pet friendly! Two pets of any size are permitted for no additional fee. Both dogs and cats are welcome, but pets may not be left in the room unattended. There is a pet relief area on site. See Details
Golden Bear Cottages
Golden Bear Cottages Pet Policy Golden Bear Cottages welcomes pets of any size for an additional fee of $10 per pet, per night. Only select cabins allow pets. Guests with pets must call (877) 411-3436 prior to booking to verify availability of a pet-friendly room or risk not being able to check in with a pet and/or incurring any associated cancellation penalties. See Details
Saddleback Inn
Saddleback Inn Pet Policy Saddleback Inn welcomes two pets of any size for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per night. Guests with pets are only permitted in Outside Rooms or Cottages. Both dogs and cats are allowed, but pets may not be left unattended in rooms. There is a wooded area for pet relief on the property. See Details
The Wigwam Motel
The Wigwam Motel Pet Policy The Wigwam Motel welcomes two dogs of any size for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per stay. Dogs are permitted in four rooms. Guests with pets must call (877) 411-3436 prior to booking to verify availability of a pet-friendly room or risk not being able to check in with a pet and/or incurring any associated cancellation penalties. Dogs may not be left unattended. There is a designated grassy relief area on the property. Sorry, cats are not permitted. See Details
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Loma Linda- San Bernardino S
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Loma Linda- San Bernardino S Pet Policy Holiday Inn Express & Suites Loma Linda- San Bernardino S welcomes two pets up to 50 lbs for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per night. Both dogs and cats are allowed, but pets may not be left unattended in the rooms. There is a grassy area with a waste station for pet relief on the property. See Details
Big Bear Frontier
Big Bear Frontier Pet Policy Big Bear Frontier welcomes pets of any size for an additional fee of $15 per pet, per night. Both dogs and cats are accepted and may be left in the room unattended. The hotel has several grassy areas with pet stations, and treats are usually available at front desk. See Details
The Timberline Lodge
The Timberline Lodge Pet Policy The Timberline Lodge welcomes two pets of any size for an additional fee of $15 per pet, per night. Both dogs and cats are accepted, but pets may not be left in rooms unattended. Treats are available at the front desk, and there is a grassy area for pet relief near the hotel. See Details
Bay Meadows Resort
Bay Meadows Resort Pet Policy Bay Meadows Resort welcomes pets of any size for an additional fee of $20 per pet, per stay. Both dogs and cats are allowed, but pets may not be left unattended in rooms. There is green space for pet relief on the property. See Details
ITH Big Bear Retreat Center and Hostel
ITH Big Bear Retreat Center and Hostel Pet Policy ITH Big Bear Retreat Center and Hostel is pet friendly! Dogs of any size are welcome for no additional fee. See Details
DoubleTree by Hilton San Bernardino
DoubleTree by Hilton San Bernardino Pet Policy DoubleTree by Hilton San Bernardino welcomes two dogs of any size for an additional fee of $75 per stay. Dogs may not be left in the room unattended. There are grassy areas for pet relief on the property, and waste bags are available. Cats are not allowed. See Details
La Quinta Inn & Suites Moreno Valley
La Quinta Inn & Suites Moreno Valley Pet Policy La Quinta Inn and Suites Moreno Valley welcomes two pets up to 45 lbs for an additional fee of $20 per pet, per night. Both dogs and cats are allowed. Well-behaved pets may be left unattended in the guest rooms. There is a grassy relief area at the front of the property. See Details
Sleepy Hollow Cabins and Hotel of Crestline/Lake Gregory
Sleepy Hollow Cabins and Hotel of Crestline/Lake Gregory Pet Policy Sleepy Hollow Cabins and Hotel of Crestline Lake Gregory welcomes two dogs up to 60 lbs for an additional fee of $20 per dog, per night. A refundable deposit of $100 is also required at check-in. Dogs are only permitted in two designated hotel rooms, and four cabins. Guests with pets must call (877) 411-3436 prior to booking to verify availability of a pet-friendly room or risk not being able to check in with a pet and/or incurring any associated cancellation penalties. Dogs may not be left in rooms unattended and must stay off furniture, unless it is covered. Furniture covers are available. There is a fenced, outdoor dog run and a fitness trail in Lake Gregory Regional Park. There is also a dog park 5 minutes away. Cats may be accepted with prior hotel approval. See Details
Hampton Inn & Suites Banning Beaumont
Hampton Inn & Suites Banning Beaumont Pet Policy Hampton Inn & Suites Banning Beaumont welcomes two dogs up to 40 lbs for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per night. Well-behaved dogs may be left in the room unattended. There is green space on the property, but guests must provide their own waste bags. Cats are not permitted. See Details
Honey Bear Lodge & Cabins
Honey Bear Lodge & Cabins Pet Policy Honey Bear Lodge & Cabins welcomes two dogs up to 60 lbs for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per night. Dogs are only permitted in two designated rooms and three designated cabins. Crated dogs may be left in rooms unattended. There is a grassy area with waste stations on the property. Cats are not allowed. See Details
The North Shore Inn
The North Shore Inn Pet Policy The North Shore Inn welcomes two dogs of any size for an additional fee of $25 per pet, per night. However, only three rooms are pet friendly. Guests with pets must call (877) 411-3436 prior to booking to verify availability of a pet-friendly room or risk not being able to check in with a pet and/or incurring any associated cancellation penalties. Dogs may not be left unattended in the room. Dog bowls, treats, and towels are offered, and there is a dog park nearby for pet relief. Sorry, cats are not permitted. See Details
Motel 6 Fontana
Motel 6 Fontana Pet Policy Motel 6 Fontana is pet friendly! One pet of any size is welcome for no additional fee. Guests with pets are assigned to ground floor rooms. Both dogs and cats are permitted, but are not allowed to be left in rooms unattended. There are grassy pet relief areas with waste stations on site. See Details
Lake Arrowhead Resort & Spa
Lake Arrowhead Resort & Spa Pet Policy Lake Arrowhead Resort & Spa welcomes two pets up to 50 lbs for an additional fee of $150 per stay. Both dogs and cats are permitted, but pets must be crated if left unattended in rooms. Pets are allowed on the property's private beach and walking paths. See Details
Americas Best Value Inn Beaumont
Americas Best Value Inn Beaumont Pet Policy Americas Best Value Inn Beaumont welcomes two pets of any size for an additional fee of $10 per pet, per night. Both dogs and cats are allowed, and quiet, well-behaved pets may be left in rooms unattended. There are grassy areas for pet relief on the property. See Details
Big Bear Village Lodge
Big Bear Village Lodge Pet Policy Big Bear Village Lodge allows pets of any size for a fee of $10 per pet, per night. See Details
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Craig Levein not expecting Aberdeen to be weakened by their European efforts
The Dons beat Georgian side Chikhura Sachkhere 5-0 at Pittodrie on Thursday.
Hearts manager Craig Levein has dismissed any notion that Aberdeen will be vulnerable after their European exploits.
The Dons beat Georgian side Chikhura Sachkhere 5-0 at Pittodrie on Thursday to reach the third qualifying round of the Europa League.
Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes admitted he had to make some team and substitute selections with Sunday’s Ladbrokes Premiership opener against Hearts in mind to make sure the exertions did not affect his side too much.
But McInnes has had plenty of experience of managing the different competitions at this stage of the season after leading Aberdeen into Europe on six consecutive occasions.
Levein said: “Once you’ve done it as many times as Aberdeen have recently then you’ll know what you’re facing and what to expect.
“Derek will know whether he needs to change some players to freshen things up because he’s been very successful in that regard.
“I don’t expect Aberdeen to be in any way weakened by their European exploits.”
Wonderful Rashford pass tees up Greenwood for leveller
Salah's deft finish gives Liverpool an early lead
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Harry Kane among 11 players absent from England training
Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were also missing at St George’s Park on Monday following their weekend exertions.
Harry Kane, Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain were among 11 players absent from England’s open training session on Monday.
Gareth Southgate last week named a 25-man squad for the Euro 2020 qualification double-header against Bulgaria and Kosovo.
But a swathe of those players were missing at St George’s Park on Monday following their weekend exertions.
Kane, Danny Rose, Jordan Pickford, Michael Keane, Kieran Trippier and Harry Winks did not train with the group after playing on Sunday.
Ben Chilwell, Tyrone Mings, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jadon Sancho were also absent from the session on the Sir Bobby Charlton Pitch.
Training also saw ex-England international Chris Powell join Southgate’s coaching team for the first time.
The former Charlton, Huddersfield and Southend boss is joining the Three Lions this season as part of the next phase of the Elite Coach Placement Programme – the Football Association’s programme to solve the challenge of under-representation of BAME coaches.
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Each year the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences invites countries to submit a single film for consideration in the competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film. FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION is a choice sampling of these submissions, curated by California Film Institute, offering a rare opportunity to view some of the most distinguished works in world cinema.
The FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Series epitomizes our continued mission to celebrate the art of film and demonstrates our dedication to showcasing original voices in independent cinema.
This exciting series is available via CineConductor.
THE FENCER will be available as a stand-alone title from CFI Releasing in Spring, 2017.
Booking: Jonathan Howell | [email protected] | 917.400.1437
Publicity: Shelley Spicer | [email protected] | 415.526.5845
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AFTERIMAGE
Poland’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
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In a finale to an illustrious moviemaking career, director Andrzej Wajda (who passed away in October) charts the life of the passionate artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art. Strzeminski was considered a peer of Kandinsky and a pioneer of the Polish Constructivist avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s. In Polish with English subtitles. 98 min.
AWARDS: Special Jury Prize, Polish Film Festival 2016
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay: Andrzej Mularczyk
Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Aleksandra Justa,Bronislawa Zamachowska
Format(s): CineConductor
Details: 2016. Poland. 98 min. Color. Drama.
Rights holder: Film Movement
Singapore’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
Aiman, an ambitious young correctional officer, will do anything it takes to be transferred to Singapore’s highest-security prison. His drive to become apprentice to the chief executioner Rahim is born of a desire to reconnect with a past that haunts him. Award winning Director Boo Jenfeng’s stylized tale dazzled audiences at Cannes last May. In Malay with English Subtitles. 97 min.
AWARDS: Rising Director Award, Busan International Film Festival 2016; special Mention, Hawaii International Film Festival 2016; Pylon Award, QCinema Interntational Film Festival 2016; Interfaith Award, St. Louis International Film Festival 2016; (nominated) Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2016
Director: Boo Junfeng
Screenplay: Boo Junfeng
Cast: Firdaus Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad
Details: 2016. Singapore. 97 min. Color. Drama.
THE BLACK HEN (KALO POTHI)
Nepal’s submission for the 88th Academy Awards®, 2016
Mixing humor, tragedy and beautiful fantasy, first time writer/director Min Bahadur Bham borrows from his own experience growing up in a segregated village in Northern Nepal during the Maoist insurgency. The story centers on two boys, inseparable friends divided by caste, who concoct a plan to sell the eggs of a prized and pampered black hen. In Nepali with English subtitles. 90 minutes.
AWARDS: Fedeora Award, Best Film (International Film Critics Week), 2015 Venice Film Festival
Director: Min Bahadur Bham
Screenplay: Min Bahadur Bham, Abinash Bikram Shah
Cast: Khadka Raj Nepali, Sukra Raj Rokaya, Jit Bahadur Malla
Details: 2015. Nepal. 90 min. Color. Drama.
Rights holder: Wide Management
FIRE AT SEA (FUOCOAMMARE)
Italy’s submission for the 88th Academy Awards®, 2016
Gianfranco Rosi’s stunning documentary focuses on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, a key entry point for refugees fleeing war and persecution in Africa. Brilliantly juxtaposing the lives of local residents like young Samuele, a slingshot aficionado and his doting grandmother, with heart-wrenching portraits of the refugees, Fire at Sea reveals the subtle connections between the micro and macro realities of our globalized world. In Italian with English subtitles. 114 min.
AWARDS: Golden Bear, Amnesty International Film Prize & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin Film Festival 2016; Cinema Eye Honors Award, 2017; (Nominated) Best Documentary – Academy Awards®, 2017
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Screenplay: Gianfranco Rosi, Carla Cattani
Cast: Samuele Pucillo, Maria Costa, Giuseppe Fragapane
Details: 2015. Italy. 114 min. Color. Documentary.
Rights holder: Kino Lorber
A FLICKERING TRUTH
New Zealand’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
An extraordinary documentary that literally blows the dust off of 100 years of conflict, revealing cinematic gems of the Afghani film archives that were ravaged, burned and banned by Taliban interdiction. As brave archivists thread projectors with film from unmarked reels, the country’s rich history comes alive with images of former leaders, beloved actresses, and landmarks now gone. In Dari with English subtitles. 93 min.
AWARDS: Best Documentary, Bergen International Film Festival; Documentary Award, The WIFTS Foundation International Visionary Award 2015
Director: Pietra Brettkelly
Screenplay: Pietra Brettkelly
Cast: Ibrehim Arif, Mahmoud Ghafouri, Isaaq Yousif
Details: 2015. New Zealand. 93 min. Color. Documentary.
Rights holder: Pietra Brettkelly
I AM NOJOOM, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED
Yemen’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
Amid strikingly beautiful and stark landscapes, this true story of underage marriage reflects the painful reality of Yemeni tribal culture and the vulnerability of girls. Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, Nojoom escapes her family and files for divorce in court. Wiser than her years, she has unshakeable resolve. In Arabic with English subtitles. Writer/Director: Khadija Al-Salami. 99 minutes.
AWARDS: Best Fiction Feature, Dubai International Film Festival 2014
Director: Khadija Al-Salami
Screenplay: Khadija Al-Salami
Cast: Adnan Alkhader, Rana Mohammed, Reham Mohammed
Details: 2014. Yemen. 99 min. Color. Biography Drama.
Russia’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
This striking period drama by Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train) reveals the price of loyalty to one’s convictions. Russian noblewoman Olga is arrested and imprisoned in occupied France for sheltering Jewish children. She ends up in a concentration camp where she rekindles a romance with Helmut, now a Nazi SS officer. Seeing that the tide of war is quickly turning against the Nazis, they plot their escape. In French, German & Russian with English subtitles. 131 min
AWARDS: Silver Lion, Best Director, Venice Film Festival 2016; Best Screenplay, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2016; Best Actress, Best Cinematography & Youth Jury Award, Gijon International Film Festival; (nominated) Best Feature, Chicago International Film Festival 2016; Short List, Best Foreign Language Film – Academy Awards®, 2017
Director: Andrei Konchalovskiy
Screenplay: Elena Kiseleva, Andrei Konchalovskiy
Cast: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Peter Kurth, Victor Sukhorukov
Details: 2016. Russia. 131 min. Black and white. Narrative Drama.
Australia’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards®, 2017
Venice Film Festival winner Tanna is the tale of young lovers caught between the traditions and taboos of their tribe and following the desires of their hearts. Co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler spent 7 months with the Yakel people of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, developing a collaborative script based on actual events. The results are sensuous, magical and unforgettable. In Nauvhal with English subtitles. 104 min.
AWARDS: Best Foreign Film, African-American Film Critics Association 2016; Best Direction, Australian Directors Guild Award 2016; Special Jury Prize, London Film Festival 2015; Best Cinematography & International Critics’ Week Award, Venice Film Festival 2015; (Nominated) Best Foreign Language Film – Academy Awards®, 2017
Director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Screenplay: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, John Collee
Cast: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa
Details: 2015. Australia. 104 min. Color. Narrative Drama.
Rights holder: Lightyear Entertainment
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40 Days for Life defends its methods against slurs
An interview with 40 Day for Life National Director David Bereit
March 28, 2012 Michael J. Miller General 0 Print
40 Days for Life is a grass-roots movement to end abortion through prayer and fasting, constant vigil at places where preborn children are aborted, and community outreach to educate and mobilize the public. Nine coordinated national 40 Days for Life campaigns have been conducted since 2007. A Lenten campaign is currently underway.
Interviews with 40 Days for Life leaders David Bereit and Shawn Carney appeared in the January and February 2009 issues of Catholic World Report, as the movement was beginning to spread rapidly through the United States. CWR recently contacted National Director David Bereit for clarifications about certain recent news reports.
CWR: The 40 Days for Life campaign in London has been repeatedly accused in the press of “bullying” or “intimidating” women, even of pointing video cameras at women who go into the clinics. Participants in 40 Days for Life reply that they must sign a pledge to be non-confrontational. Are the vigils in London significantly different from the peaceful, prayerful demonstrations in the U.S.?
David Bereit: The vigils in London use the exact same approach as those in the United States. Having just been to visit three of the 40 Days for Life campaigns in England a few weeks ago, including the London campaign, I can attest to their non-confrontational approach and to their use of the same statement of peace that we use.
Unfortunately a publication that regularly takes a “pro-choice” position, The Guardian, simply regurgitated the abortion facility’s false accusations without doing the research to find out that the cameraman in question was an independent person filming a documentary, who was not involved with 40 Days for Life. The “bullying” and “intimidating” actions they alleged were people praying, and others who were gently offering assistance to the pregnant mothers and referrals to local pregnancy help centers. The article was then circulated by other media outlets (including the Associated Press here in the U.S.) that did not even bother to check in with us or with the London 40 Days for Life leaders to verify or correct the accusations.*
CWR: Have the widely-publicized scandals involving Planned Parenthood changed the way in which the 40 Days for Life campaigns at those facilities are perceived?
Bereit: The scandals at Planned Parenthood have significantly fueled participation in 40 Days for Life campaigns held outside Planned Parenthood facilities, and we are seeing record numbers of people stand up against the abortion chain in communities coast to coast. We have also been encouraged to see two more Planned Parenthood abortion centers close during the current 40 Days for Life campaign, and numerous Planned Parenthood workers leave their jobs, thanking the 40 Days for Life participants who had been praying for them.
CWR: Over the past two years the prospect of mandatory health insurance in the U.S.A. has politicized the debate over abortion even more. Has this in any way affected the ability of 40 Days for Life to plan and conduct vigils and to educate local communities?
Bereit: If anything, the national debate about the abortion mandate in the Obama healthcare overhaul, and about the HHS mandate requiring religious employers to violate their consciences by paying for insurance with mandatory coverage of abortion-causing drugs, has awakened a sleeping giant. We are seeing record numbers of Christians getting active in pro-life efforts on every front. 40 Days for Life campaigns are growing larger than ever before, and we are seeing more positive results than in any of our past efforts. As people realize that the fundamental rights to life and religious freedom are under attack, they are finally coming out of their homes, workplaces, and churches to take a peaceful stand for life and justice.
* Additional resources:
• London 40 Days for Life leader on the BBC
• On-the-ground report of what things are really like
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Baby chickens ‘cooked alive’ at hatchery, animal rights group contends
Maple Leaf Foods is facing allegations of animal mistreatment at one of its chicken hatcheries in Hanover, Ont., in the wake of troubling undercover footage shot by an animal rights group and shared exclusively with CBC News.
CBC Marketplace investigation: Allegations of abuse at Maple Leaf Foods facility
Megan Griffith-Greene · CBC News · Posted: Apr 15, 2014 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 15, 2014
A worker at Horizon Poultry in Hanover, Ont., sorts baby chicks by sex. The company, owned by Maple Leaf Foods, is accused of mistreating the young birds by an animal rights group. (CBC)
Maple Leaf Foods is facing allegations of animal mistreatment at one of its chicken hatcheries, in the wake of troubling undercover footage shot by an animal rights group and shared exclusively with CBC News.
The video was shot by an employee of the animal rights group Mercy For Animals Canada who got a job working at Horizon Poultry in Hanover, Ont., and used a hidden camera to document events there over a six-week period.
Horizon is a chicken hatchery owned by Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s leading retailers of chicken.
Canadians consume more than one billion kilograms of chicken every year, and Maple Leaf sells both raw and processed chicken under multiple brands, including Schneiders, Maple Leaf Natural Selections and Maple Leaf Prime.
The video, recorded over several weeks at the hatchery, captures a number of questionable practices.
The footage shows dead chicks coming out of a dishwasher, likely as a result of getting their feet caught in baskets that go into the high-temperature washer. When the undercover worker asks how they die, an employee laughs and says, “They boil! I have no sympathy for them anymore.”
The footage also shows an employee euthanizing sick and injured chicks by dumping several large baskets of chicks into a mechanical macerator and pushing them into the grinder with a squeegee.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Raw video of controversial hatchery practices
Using a macerator to euthanize chicks is an accepted industry practice and considered humane according to industry guidelines. The guidelines were written by a group that includes industry, researchers and government.
However, the codes of practice explicitly state: “Chicks must be delivered to the macerator in a way that prevents a backlog of chicks at the point of entry … without causing injury or avoidable distress.”
Other footage shows workers picking up birds by their wings and tossing them. The undercover worker who shot the footage wrote detailed notes of the hatchery’s operations, and said that it was a fast-paced environment and that he was expected to sort 1,750 chicks every hour.
Hidden camera video of the undercover employee’s performance review shows a supervisor telling him that he is under his production goal.
Meat company suspends employee
Maple Leaf Foods has a public animal welfare policy that states that the company takes a zero-tolerance stance on animal cruelty.
“Everyone involved in the raising and processing of animals and poultry, from producers and transport workers to all of our employees, are required to adhere to good animal handling practices in accordance with industry guidelines, serving as stewards of the animals entrusted to their care,” the policy states.
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CBC notified Maple Leaf about the video from Horizon, and showed footage to the company. In response, Ben Brooks, general manager of poultry operations, issued a statement:
“The employee who was overheard making callous remarks on the video does not reflect the values of our workforce or culture, and her comments violate our animal welfare program. The employee has been immediately suspended without pay.”
Brooks responded to the allegations that chicks were killed in the dishwasher, writing that the company is “reviewing procedures and practices at this location to ensure that live chicks are removed safely at all times, as they should be.”
After consulting with an independent expert about footage of a worker dumping several baskets of chicks into the macerator, the company stated that the squeegee was used to space the chicks out, not push them through, and that this is not inconsistent with the company’s welfare guidelines.
The company also told the CBC that, “the amount of chicks entering the line did not have a significant impact on animal welfare.”
However, Brooks says that the company is, “going to review the proper care and handling of chicks with our employees and our requirement that they remove them [to the macerator] one box at a time.”
Brooks also wrote that, "we do not promote speed at the expense of animal welfare, nor do we enforce production quotas."
Treatment ‘completely unacceptable’
Veterinarian Dr. Mary Richardson, an animal welfare expert, was shocked by the video.
“I think the workers are showing such a lack of care and respect for the chicks. It’s almost like they’re widgets in a factory line,” she told CBC Marketplace co-host Erica Johnson.
Veterinarian Mary Richardson says we owe it to animals to treat them humanely. (CBC)
“We owe it to animals to treat them humanely, and in this case it’s clear that they are not being treated humanely or respectfully at all,” she says.
Richardson was particularly alarmed by the footage showing dead chicks in a dishwasher.
“What seems to be happening is they’re either being drowned or they’re being cooked alive, really, from the heat of the water, and neither of those methods are humane ways to kill an animal. So that’s completely unacceptable,” she says.
Richardson was also disturbed by footage showing the chicks being euthanized.
“The onus is on us when we use animals, and kill them for our own purposes, to do it humanely and there are laws in place to ensure that,” she says. “To me, these chicks are suffering a lot of anxiety and stress and pain, probably at the beginning before they’re even killed, and that’s not acceptable.”
Most agricultural facilities in Canada — including many farms and hatcheries — are not subject to mandatory animal welfare inspection by government, something animal welfare groups say needs to change.
Mercy for Animals Canada has filed a complaint with the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which enforces provincial animal cruelty legislation, and the OSPCA is investigating.
“The government only inspects farms in response to complaints and those complaints are few and far between,” says Anna Pippus, a lawyer for Mercy for Animals Canada.
“The industry is self-regulated but they have proven time and time again that they are incapable of self-regulation.”
Pippus says the solution is for proactive government inspection for welfare issues, and more specific standards for farm animals.
She also says that farms could prove a commitment to animal welfare by live-streaming video from their operations, something the American Veterinary Medical Association has also endorsed.
Trouble with turkey breeder
This troubling footage comes only weeks after a Marketplace investigation detailed cruelty concerns at one of Maple Leaf’s turkey suppliers, Hybrid Turkeys.
CBC Marketplace: The trouble with turkeys
In that case, the video depicted disturbing conduct at a breeding barn in southwestern Ontario.
That video, also shot by an undercover employee working for Mercy for Animals Canada, showed birds with large open wounds, failed euthanizations and an employee advising the undercover worker to kick birds.
After the CBC report, Maple Leaf promised independent welfare audits at Hybrid’s facilities.
"We saw the video on Marketplace for the first time. We are very disturbed by the abuse shown — it violates our animal welfare policies and requirements of our suppliers, who receive eggs from Hybrid to grow their turkeys,” Maple Leaf spokesperson David Bauer wrote in a statement.
In response to the allegations, Hybrid Turkeys suspended four employees, including a supervisor, and launched an internal investigation. According to media reports, at least one employee has since been fired, and others have been conditionally reinstated.
Hybrid refused to confirm the report, saying that it does not comment on matters of personnel.
The OSPCA and OPP are also investigating that incident.
Megan Griffith-Greene
Megan Griffith-Greene is the digital producer at CBC's weekly consumer news program Marketplace. Find out more at cbc.ca/marketplace.
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The Living Planet Index (LPI) for the Netherlands has risen marginally in the past decades. Populations of mammals, reptiles and dragonflies have grown on average, as well as those of most native amphibian species. Butterflies on the other hand have shown a decline as a group. Reintroduced species such as beavers and otters influence the trend positively, as do southern species that occur more and more northerly as a result of climate change. Aquatic species are benefiting from improving quality of fresh water.
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The global LPI (WWF 2014, 2016) includes population data on more than 3 thousand vertebrates (mammals, breeding birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish).The global LPI decreased by 52 percent in the period 1970-2012, and, since 1990 (the start of the Dutch time series), the trend has continued to be downward. So, the marginally upward trend in the Netherlands observed since 1990 and the subsequent stabilisation are at odds with the overall global trend.
Broken down by groups of countries with different income levels (according to World Bank criteria), it turns out that the LPI has risen in high-income countries (WWF 2014), similar to the Dutch trend. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the increase is an indication of recovery after severe loss of biodiversity, which partly occurred prior to 1970 and proves that restoration of natural environment is possible today because rich countries are prepared to mobilise more financial resources for projects aimed at restoring the natural environment. Furthermore, goods are often imported from low-income countries which then suffer the negative effects on biodiversity of the massive production of these goods.
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President Obama’s Re-Election Headquarters for Seattle Coming to Jackson Place
Posted on April 30, 2012 by falcon
President Obama’s Presidential re-election headquarters for the City of Seattle is coming to Jackson Place. The grand opening is 3:30 Pm this Thursday at 901 Rainier Ave. S. at the corner of S. Charles St. and Rainier Ave. S.
EDITOR’S UPDATE: The Obama campaign website has more details on the headquarters launch party, which will feature Democratic candidate for governor Jay Inslee:
On Thursday, May 3, please join Organizing for America-Washington and Jay Inslee for Governor as we open our new Seattle headquarters!
Come learn how to get involved, and meet Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Jay Inslee, the next Governor of Washington State.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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12 thoughts on “President Obama’s Re-Election Headquarters for Seattle Coming to Jackson Place”
monster on May 1, 2012 at 4:09 pm said:
Are you sure that is from the CD?
JimS. on May 2, 2012 at 12:00 pm said:
Newflash– white people live in the CD too and lots of white people love Obama too. So, what was your point again?
Grumbo on May 2, 2012 at 1:25 pm said:
Looks like they plan to clean up the CD
Cauchy75 on May 2, 2012 at 4:39 pm said:
Eyes on May 3, 2012 at 1:09 pm said:
I care,where are the midgets?
joanna on May 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm said:
There was great showing.
Diggy doolittle on October 6, 2012 at 10:46 am said:
A rage comic for your pleasure
http://imgur.com/8Xxv9
70 Joe PC on October 7, 2012 at 1:53 pm said:
I just watched an ad that; targeted the Jewish voter; The end line of the comercial was “we can do better in this election than Barack Obama”
The counter ad will say maybe we can do better than Barack Obama. But
not in this election. This will let the disenchanted Obama voters know that although he did something they did not like he is still the only logical choice in the upcoming election. I am not fully happy with Obama; but the alternative is worse.
Terry Ann Cockrill on October 8, 2012 at 11:34 am said:
I am a PCO for the 11th Dist Democrats and am making my plans to canvass my precinct. Can you please tell me where to go to pick up some leaflets for President Obama’s campaign to hand out? Do you have a Bellevue office? Thanks!
Terry A Cockrill
PCO 11th Dist Democrats
Fairwood Precinct
ktkeller on October 8, 2012 at 12:59 pm said:
There is an office at Jackson Place
http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2012/04/30/president-obam
and your 11th District should be organizing materials for you
http://www.11thlddems.org/
You can contact one of the officers under the ‘About Us’ tab.
Grumbo on October 8, 2012 at 3:17 pm said:
The State of Washington’s electoral votes will go to Obama.
Try not to create too much garbage posters and leaflets. Your efforts would be better spent in Nevada, Ohio, or Florida.
Focus on something that will make a difference. Perhaps the Govenors race. That seems borderline and kind of scary. So far Inslee comes across as a pretty dumb guy. See if you can present some intelligent argument for him.
22u on October 8, 2012 at 3:40 pm said:
Of course WA goes to Obama, but the more votes they can round up for Obama… well, won’t that be better for Inslee? That’s probably the thinking. I think drumming up turnout for the presidential election does affect the governor’s race (not that kind of race).
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On behalf of The Spitz Law Firm, LLC | Feb 13, 2019 | Areas of Practice, Employment Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination |
Best Ohio Religious Discrimination Attorney Answers: Can I sue if my co-workers harass me about my religion and call me a terrorist because I’m Muslim? My supervisor tells me I cannot wear my Muslim religious attire; what can I do? I was fired today because I’m Jewish; do I need a lawyer?
When someone talks about discrimination it is usually about discrimination based on traits, such as race/color, gender/sex, national origin, and age. These are traits that a person cannot really change about themselves. These traits are also highly visible. For some reason lines often get blurred when it comes to religious discrimination. This is because unlike race, color, national origin, birth gender or age, religion is not necessarily a trait that an individual is born with, and it is trait that may change over a person’s lifetime. However, just because religion is a more fluid trait than race, or color it is considered an essential part of an individual’s identity and is therefore a protected class under both state and federal law.
All employees are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, in Ohio under R.C. § 4112.02(A). Under Title VII and Ohio laws employees are protected from discrimination, harassment or retaliation against by their employers on the basis of their race/color, religion, gender/sex, national origin, age, or disability. These employment laws make it unlawful for employers to consider one, or more of these protected traits in making decisions regarding hiring, promotion, wrongful discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment.
In many cases, harassment based on these protected classes becomes so bad that it turns into what the legal world calls a “hostile work environment.” A hostile work environment is one in which there is harassment or discrimination (because of race, gender, national origin, religion, age, or disability) that is so severe and pervasive that it alters the terms and conditions of one’s employment and creates an abusive working environment. To prove that discrimination and harassment is “severe and pervasive,” an employee must show that the work environment is both subjectively hostile (hostile to the employee personally) and objectively hostile (a reasonable person would find the environment hostile). Critically, courts generally review the objective requirement from the perspective of a reasonable person in the employee’s shoes, who knew what the employee knew at the time. Religion is just as protected from discrimination as race, national origin and sex. Unfortunately, this is because religion is just as susceptible to discrimination, and harassment as these other characteristics. Our employment discrimination attorneys have blogged about religious discrimination before. See Can I Sue My Employer For Not Accommodating My Religious Dress? I Need A Lawyer!; Can I Sue if I Was Fired Because Of My Religion? I Need The Best Lawyer Reply!; Can I Sue A Religious Employer For Employment Discrimination? I Need A Lawyer!; and Can My Boss Fire Me If She Thinks I’m A Certain Religion But I’m Not? I Need An Employment Lawyer!)
Let’s look at the case of Hugo Lizzagra. Lizzagra is a 44-year-old Muslim man, who worked diligently at his job in the warehouse of Loma Linda University Medical Center in California for over 20 years. For the first ten years of his employment, Lizzagra worked in the hospital without experiencing any harassment. However, in 2012, Lizzagra broke his thumb and his doctor recommended an accommodation to his work duties, around this time Lizzagra converted to Islam.
Despite the fact that he was a hard worker and a good employee who just wanted to do his job in peace, Lizzagra was the victim of religious discrimination and harassment for years at the hands of his his supervisors. According to the lawsuit Lizzagra filed, he was a victim of religious and disability discrimination by Jerry Strode, and Jose Gonzalaz. Jerry and Jose were Lizzagra’s supervisors at the time. Lizzagra claimed he was also harassed by employees in the human resources department.
Strode and Gonzalaz often referred to Lizzagra as a terrorist, and would say to him “Why don’t you quit?” or “You are going to get fired anyway.” His supervisors also told Lizzagra that he was too slow, and even after his injured thumb healed strode and Gonzalaz would harass Lizzagra about being too slow, and would continually tell him to quit. Like any normal employee would Lizzagra filed a complaint with the medical center’s human resources department. Unfortunately, instead of doing their job’s and putting a stop to Strode and Gonzalaz’s harassment of Lizzagra, Loma Linda’s HR department ignored Lizzagra’s complaints and told him “nothing would be done” and that Lizzagra “should just go back to work.” Only when several employees backed up Lizzagra’s claims did the employer get around to firing in 2015.
However, Lizzagra’s nightmare did not end there. In February 2016, Lizzagra was approached by a San Bernardino police officer who asked Lizzagra if he had made terrorist threats against the hospital. As it turned out, one of Lizzagra’s co-workers had called the police and falsely reported that Lizzagra had been making terrorist like comments around the hospital. Even though the deputy determined that Lizzagra was not a threat to the hospital and did not have a criminal record, the hospital placed Lizzagra on administrative leave and eventually terminated Lizzagra in March 2016.
Lizzagra contacted a wrongful termination attorney and sued Loma Linda for religious discrimination. Thankfully this story has a happy ending. Recently, a jury found that Loma Linda indeed violated Title VII and California employment discrimination law and awarded $3.2 million to Lizzagra in lost wages and emotional distress damages.
Lizzagra’s attorney hit the nail right on the head when explaining what had happened to his client saying: “The hospital preyed on the fears about Muslims in the shooting which occurred only a block from the warehouse where Lizzagra worked,” he said. “An official testified at trial that Lizzagra’s religion was considered in deciding whether he should be fired. And that sealed the deal with the jury.”
Here, the employer was required to stop the reported religious harassment of the employee based on his religion but turned a blind eye as to not upset the more numerous prejudice employees. Not only did they not put an end to the hostile work environment by disciplining the harassers, the employer sided with the harassers and got rid of the religious minority. Unfortunately, many employers see this as the most practical and less invasive way to correct a dispute at work – firing one employee instead of firing and needing to replace many employees. Sometimes employers will side with the better producing employee, even though that is the employee doing the unlawful harassment. The employer’s though it is easier to replace a lower level employee than a manager level or high producing employee. At first glance, this may seem easier and cheaper to the employer – but it is unlawful. And, once such a case gets into the hands of a qualified employment discrimination lawyer, it will be neither easier nor cheaper for the employer.
In this case there, was a happy ending because the employee took the best course of action by getting a top employment lawyer. If you feel that you have been discriminated against based on your religion than you need to call the right attorney!
Another important point to consider from this case is that the employment discrimination laws protect every religion – not just minority religions. Lizzagra was Muslim. He could have been Catholic, Hindu, Jewish or Mormon. Title VII, as well as the corresponding Ohio law, do not mention particular religions. Likewise, these laws also do not mention specific races, genders, or national origins (it does mention specific ages – over 40 years old). Some people have dubbed claims against the majority religion, race or gender to be “reverse discrimination” but there is no such term written in the actual laws. Our team of employment lawyers have blogged about this before. (What Is Reverse Discrimination?; National Origin Discrimination Claims Can Be Based On Reverse Discrimination; Can White People Sue For Race Discrimination?; Can Men Win Gender Discrimination Claims?).
If you feel that you are being discriminated or harassed based on your religion or religious beliefs or that you were wrongfully terminated because of you are Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, Hindu or any other religion, the best course of action you can take is to call the right attorney at 866-797-6040 to schedule a free and confidential consultation. At The Spitz Law Firm, you will meet with a religious discrimination attorney, who will be able to tell you what your legal rights are and the best way to protect them.
If you feel that you are being discriminated or harassed based on your religion or religious beliefs or that you were wrongfully terminated because of you are Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, Hindu or any other religion, the best course of action you can take is to call the right attorney to schedule a free and confidential consultation. At The Spitz Law Firm, you will meet with a religious discrimination attorney, who will be able to tell you what your legal rights are and the best way to protect them. Call our office at 866-797-6040.
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Super Consumers Australia Statement on the Retirement Income Review
Super Consumers Australia welcomes the announcement of the Federal Government’s Retirement Income Review, but notes that there are many steps that could be taken now to make our superannuation system more efficient for everyone.
Our current superannuation system could be made fairer and more equitable while the retirement income review considers the big questions, like the adequacy of contribution rates, the impact of taxation, and the balancing act of the so-called ‘three pillars’ of the retirement income system.
"We could fix many of the ‘holes in the bucket’ now, which will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to people’s incomes in retirement," said Xavier O’Halloran, Acting Director, Super Consumers Australia.
"We already know that there are dozens of serial underperforming superannuation funds that should be removed from the super system"
"We know that millions of Australians have ‘unintended multiple’ super accounts, that are losing money to unnecessary fees and charges."
"We know that too many people are paying for insurance products in their super that are low value or they are unable to claim on."
Super Consumers Australia welcomes the appointment of Michael Callaghan to head the review alongside Carolyn Kay and Prof Deborah Ralston; and urges the panel to closely consider the many gaps and quirks in our super system that affect people on low and middle incomes.
Cameron Sinclair
Senior Policy Adviser
Super Consumers Australia
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US States Strengthen Laws Against Assisted Suicide
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Margaret Dore published in the Baltimore Sun
The letter below, published in the Baltimore Sun, describes the positive statistical correlation between legalizing physician-assisted suicide and the significant increase in other "regular" suicides in Oregon. This is at great financial cost to that state.
For more detail and links to supporting documentation, please see: Letter from Margaret Dore to Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, March 4, 2014, titled: "The High Financial Cost of (Regular) Suicide."
The published letter: Margaret Dore," Legalizing assisted suicide is a bad idea."
Alexa Fraser's recent commentary promotes the idea of legalizing physician-assisted suicide. . . .
The term "physician-assisted suicide" means that a physician provides the means or information to enable a patient to perform a life-ending act, such as through a lethal prescription.
The premise of Ms. Fraser's commentary is that legalization of physician-assisted suicide will eliminate other types of suicides, such as those resulting from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
This premise is not, however, supported by statistics from Oregon, which is the only state in which physician-assisted suicide has been legal long enough to have valid statistics over time.
The Oregon statistics support the conclusion that, if anything, "ordinary" suicides will actually increase if physician-assisted suicide were legalized in Maryland.
Please consider the following.
Oregon's assisted suicide act went into effect in 1997. By 2000, Oregon's regular suicide rate was "increasing significantly," and by 2010 its suicide rate was 35 percent above the national average. In 2012, the most recent year for which statistics are available, Oregon's suicide rate was 41 percent above the national average.
Moreover, the cost of suicide is enormous. In 2010 alone, hospitalization charges for self-inflicted injuries exceeded $41 million.
In short, there is no statistical support for the premise that conventional suicides will be eliminated if physician-assisted suicide is legalized. The data, instead, suggest that the opposite is true, and that the financial cost to the state of Maryland could be enormous.
[A related point: The increase in other "regular" suicides is consistent with a suicide contagion in which the legitimization of one type of suicide (physician assisted) has removed the stigma from other suicides. For more info, click here.]
Margaret Dore, Seattle, Wash.
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Where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal, laws allowing these practices are stacked against the individual.
With US laws, the most obvious problem is a complete lack of oversight at the death. If the individual objects or even struggles against taking the lethal dose, who would know?
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Proposed Federal Palliative Care Act Is a Springing Euthanasia Bill
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Reel Rock
However, the one non-Ground Rock-sort Pokémon round on the time (the then five Fossil Pokémon) had been actually weak to them. Generation IV launched essentially the most Rock-sort strikes of any Generation, with six, and Generation VI launched the fewest Rock-kind strikes, with only one. Generation III introduced the most Rock-type Pokémon of any Generation, with 12. Generation VII and Generation VIII launched the fewest Rock-type Pokémon, with 5 every. A Pokémon with Color Change, Protean, Imposter, RKS System, or Multitype will turn into a Rock-sort Pokémon if (respectively) it is hit with a Rock-type move, makes use of a Rock-kind transfer, is sent out in opposition to a Rock-type opponent, is holding a Rock Memory, or is holding a Stone Plate or Rockium Z.
Tied with Grass, Rock varieties have probably the most weaknesses of any kind, with five. Son of WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson, the University of Miami soccer standout confirmed promise early when he received the Intercontinental Championship within months of first setting foot in the ring. From there, The Rock’s momentum never slowed, as he laid the smackdown on “Attitude Era” rivals like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Triple H while spouting off countless catchphrases that instantly grew to become part of nationwide dialog. With one eyebrow cocked, The People’s Champion would warn jabronis to “Know your position and shut your mouth” or “Just convey it!
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However, a combination of the 2 types (Rock/Grass) would solely have 4 weaknesses. Rock moves are super efficient towards four of the 5 varieties Grass is weak to, with Poison being the exception. In the first season of the anime and during a lot of Generation I, the Rock type was typically wrongly assumed to be unaffected by Electric-sort assaults. This was doubtless as a result of the truth that at the time, most Rock-type Pokémon (specifically the Geodude and Rhyhorn evolution traces, and Onix) had been part Ground-type and thus proof against Electric-kind moves.
As of Generation VIII, there are 65 Rock-sort Pokémon or 7.three% of all Pokémon, making it the 7th rarest sort. In particular, Rock pairs properly with Ground, since very few Pokémon naturally resist this mixture. The largest downside of Rock-sort strikes is the big share of moves which have lower than 100% accuracy.
Rocks State Park features 855 acres of rocky forest land nestled in rural northern Harford County.
The main part of the park includes three picnic areas, 3.5-miles of mountaineering trails, and entry to Deer Creek, which is right for fishing, wading and tubing.
The park’s two satellite properties, Falling Branch (residence to Kilgore Falls) and Hidden Valley, are a short drive from the main park.
Primary attractions at Rocks embody the King and Queen Seat and Kilgore Falls.
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Isle Royale Resorts won’t operate at Isle Royale National Park for the 2020 season. This is so totally different from the music classes that existed once I was a kid. These kids are literally making music and studying to play as a band. The performances are so spectacular, and watching the children achieve confidence and express themselves on stage is priceless. Taking classes to learn an instrument is one factor, but studying tips on how to be part of a band is on another degree.
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a nationwide nonprofit that’s dedicated to constructing a world where children can live wealthy, purposeful lives by guaranteeing that every one public school kids have the opportunity to unlock their internal music makers. Despite being launched in Generation I, there were no pure Rock-sort Pokémon until Generation II, with solely Sudowoodo. Johto’s Olivine Gym was a Rock sort Gym before the Steel kind was found. This is most likely because of the placement of real fossils in rock formations, as well as the method by which fossils are created. The Rock kind is tied with the Grass sort for the most important variety of weaknesses when unpaired, with five.
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What is Cloud Storage? – Definition, Properties, Types And More
Definition Cloud Storage
Different types of Cloud Storage
How does Cloud Storage work?
Cloud storage involves organizing, archiving, and distributing data as required, in different volumes of virtualized storage consolidated from different physical hardware systems. It is the organization of data stored somewhere that can be accessed by anyone who has the appropriate permissions, through the Internet.
It is not necessary that you have to connect to an internal network (what is known as storage attached to the network), nor that you access the data from your hard drive or a hardware system connected directly to your computer. Cloud storage relies on virtualization to create clouds that store data.
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Virtualization extracts storage space from physical hardware systems (such as storage servers).
Clouds are the groupings of resources that coordinates through management tools so that they function as a single resource. Users can access these clouds at their request through self-service portals, which are compatible with automation software and dynamic resource allocation.
It is the process by which data stores in those clouds.
There are three types of cloud storage for businesses: public, private, and hybrid cloud. There are three ways to shape this storage: in blocks, files, or objects. Each format has its advantages and disadvantages.
The blocks are faster, the records are easier to understand, and the objects work best with packages of native cloud applications in containers. But some software-defined cloud storage products can combine all three formats in a unified and easy-to-implement solution.
The data acts as short-term memory, or it can get archived as long-term memory. Random-access memory (RAM) is responsible for processing short-term memory. All requests and actions processes and records during the time a computer processes specific calculations (familiar as tasks).
Once all the estimates are over, the data stores, as long-term memory in different storage volumes, and some of them may be clouds.
At the base of each volume of cloud storage are virtual storage resources, which extract from physical hardware. Virtualization technologies can take a dozen different servers (basic or proprietary) and obtain their storage space.
We can group all of this virtual storage space into a data gap, which users access as a single repository. If we combine those data gaps with automation and management software, which measures all space and implements storage volumes as necessary. It will create cloud storage that can also access the Internet or APIs correctly.
All of that technology (virtualization, management, and automation) must work well together for cloud storage to work. Connectivity depends on the technology that is probably less important: the operating system. The uniformity, reliability, and flexibility of the operating system determine how secure are the connections between
virtual data groups
automation scripts
and users
are the only operating systems capable of doing everything are that use open source technology, such as Linux®.
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Hillary Still Whining About “Stolen” Election
Hillary made sure to tell her Los Angeles audience Saturday that the 2016 election was stolen from her. “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” she whined. The broken record no doubt received a lot of head nods from the extremely delusional attending the “An Evening With the Clintons” event, the Clintons’ latest effort to bankroll off their dwindling political celebrity while misleading gullible Leftists. Hillary must love irony. Had Obama’s Deep State strategy to prevent Trump’s election actually worked, it would have been the greatest example of election fraud in American history. In other words, Hillary would have stolen the election. Only Leftist elites regard a defeat as equivalent to theft.
Here’s more from The Daily Caller…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a Los Angeles event Saturday that the 2016 election was stolen from her.
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee spoke with her husband at “An Evening With The Clintons” event.
“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” she said, according to CNN.
Clinton has suggested that she unfairly lost the 2016 election numerous times but also criticized President Donald Trump for saying the election was rigged against him.
“Every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is rigged against him,” Clinton said in October 2016. “That is not the way our democracy works. We’ve been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them. He is a denigrating, he’s talking down our democracy and I, for one, am appalled.”
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The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rules on the co-conspirator exception to the Illinois Brick rule against distributors in the healthcare market(Marion Healthcare / Becton Dickinson & Company)
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US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Marion Healthcare / Becton Dickinson & Company, No. 18-3735, 5 March 2020
The Seventh Circuit Explains the “Co-Conspiracy Exception” to the Illinois Brick Rule in Healthcare Antitrust Lawsuit* Antitrust law evolves in such a way that opinions from federal appellate courts are always interesting in how they affect the doctrine. But there are a select few judges who earn even closer attention when they write an antitrust opinion. Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is one of those judges. In Marion Healthcare, LLC v. Becton Dickinson & Company, the Seventh Circuit, through Judge Wood’s opinion, effectively articulates the co-conspiracy exception to the Illinois Brick rule. The opinion is significant not because it marks a departure in the prevailing law, but because it explains it so well. This is an example of
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The standards of our management, concept, service, production, health and safety have been established within the scope of Total Quality Management at our facilities within CORNELIA HOTELS. As a result of these studies, our facilities hold international standard certification in Quality Management System, Food Safety Management System and Environmental Management System, and have international accreditation and recognition. Our facilities are periodically inspected by lead expert auditors for these certificates and they are maintained. Nationally, legal statutes and regulations designated for health, safety and hygiene by public institutions, including the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Livestock, the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning and the Ministry of Health and Governorate commission, are being exercised, included into the system and implemented by following the updates. In addition, we are exercising utmost precision in adhering to international health and safety standards, such as FTO and ABTA, following the expectations and directions of our business partners; our agency and tour operators.
AWARDS As a result of these applications, we have received awards and certificates from both private and public institutions. Some of these are listed below; ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System Certificate (Bureau Veritas) ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Management System Certificate (Bureau Veritas) ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System Certificate (Bureau Veritas) White Flag Award (Ministry of Agriculture / Food Safety Award) Clean Pool Water Certificate (Ministry of Health / Pool Hygiene Award) Greening Hotels Award (Bureau Veritas / Environmental Awareness Award) Blue Flag Award (TURCEV / Coast and Beach Safety) Travelife Gold (TUI / Sustainable Tourism Award) ESPA (SPA Management and Hygiene Award)
As a requirement and a result of these studies, the activities carried out in our facilities can be summarized as follows: Risk analyses of all processes within the facility are being renewed and updated, revised according to changing agendas and needs, and their services are being planned in accordance with goals that are set by the executive management. The practices of these processes are consistently monitored with periodic internal audits performed by the Quality Team, and analysed and reported. Cleaning and disinfection plans of all areas throughout the facility are continuously updated and controlled by the recording system. Measurement and recording processes are performed throughout the entire production chain, from product acceptance to delivery, in accordance with the determined standards under the Food Safety Management System. As well, all necessary general and personal hygiene conditions are provided and constantly followed-up by the Food Safety team. Moreover, we are working only with suppliers that respect our understanding and act in conformity to national and international standards.
The compliance of our water and pool water with the designated legal values, particularly regarding those parameters that have significance for human health, are checked daily by our expert team and all types of measures are taken. Monthly external audits are carried out by the internationally renowned E-Cristal company, covering all requirements of general hygiene and, in particular, Food Safety; and our hygiene system is continuously monitored and controlled. Monthly microbiological, chemical and physical analysis of all our production sections and the employees who work in these sections, as well as the domestic and pool water throughout the facility, are periodically performed by the certified laboratory. With regard to rodents and flying insects, which are among the most significant vectors for disease transmission, our facility is sprayed with products approved by the Ministry of Health. These controls are performed on a monthly basis by an expert firm and in such a manner to avoid harming the environment and the ecosystem.
Our areas of private use, such as the SPA, fitness area and the Kids Club, are operated under the surveillance of our professionally certified employees, and health and safety measures are followed at the highest level. To protect the health of our employees and ensure appropriate environmental conditions, risk analyses are carried out by the expert authority and the necessary measures are undertaken. As well, all employees undergo medical screening. Employees are required to comply with the legal health protocols at the recruitment stage; staff who possess hygiene certification, and professional expertise and qualification certificates are employed. Our guests’ comments and requests are recorded and evaluated within the scope of our CRM and Guest Relations departments and improvements are made accordingly. The awareness of all our employees is constantly raised through internal and external training, to ensure the development and continuity of these works. In addition, the Personal Data of both our guests and employees is protected and secured as required by legal regulations during all these processes.
As CORNELIA HOTELS, we determined to review our service standards following the Covid-19 outbreak, which has been declared as a worldwide pandemic. During this process, we have developed new applications and expanded the scope of other measures, while maintaining our understanding of uncompromising total quality and service standards – among our most notable strengths. In consideration of the expectations and priorities of our guests from many different countries and cultures, our current POSI (Prevention the Spread of Infection) and Emergency Practices have been updated according to prevailing science and technology protocols and changing and developing health and safety conditions. To this extent, a series of new practices have been launched, especially regarding social distancing and cross-contamination; and general hygiene and existing practices have been developed and enhanced.
Our practices are delivered with team spirit and always considering the continuity of health and safety conditions, which are our guests’ priorities, as well as ensuring a comfortable and peaceful environment. These are as follows;
MAIN PRECAUTIONS
All our public and private areas, along with all staff sections, have been sterilized with a hydrogen peroxide-based disinfectant approved by the World Health Organization. The number of fixed and mobile hand disinfectant units has been increased in the common areas frequented by our guests. The beds in all our guest rooms have been disinfected with a separate application. All areas of use throughout the facility have been redesigned according to social distancing (1.5 m) guidelines by reducing capacity to a maximum of 50%. While all our employees undergo a medical screening, their temperatures are now measured as they enter the facility. The common use areas of our employees are arranged in accordance with social distancing guidelines and the number of hand disinfectant units has been increased. All staff are obliged to use personal protective equipment (mask, gloves, face shield, special protection equipment, etc.). Measures aimed to prevent cross-contamination in our food and beverage services, in which an exclusive serving approach has stood out, are in effect. Innovations have been made in all our services, throughout the facility, in consideration of minimum contact and social distancing (1.5 m) guidelines. All general areas of our facility are ventilated with 100% fresh air. To ensure a unified and effective approach by our entire team, online and formal awareness trainings have been delivered to all managers and employees.
FOOD-BEVERAGE SERVICES
Limited capacity and social distancing (1.5 m) arrangements in all our food and beverage areas Exclusive serving in all our food and beverage areas Service of breakfast specific to the table in the main restaurant Service of soup, cold plates, and dessert/fruit specific to the table in the main restaurant A hot menu service with a rich variety offered by our chefs in the main restaurant Special arrangements with face shields in the hot buffet and grill sections Reservation arrangements according to limited capacity and a la carte service specific to the table in special themed restaurants Hand sanitizer unit applications at the entrances to all our food and beverage areas Special disposable and closed set-up application Special disposable packaged product preferences Private room service (paid) Daily special ULV disinfection application in all our food and beverage areas.
WELCOMING GUESTS
Arrangements in accordance with social distancing (1.5 m) guidelines for to C/In - C/Out processes Temperature measurement with a special thermal camera at check-in Information on concepts specific to guest and health practices at check-in Acquisition of guest health information at checkin within the scope of the PDP Law Presentation of masks, gloves upon guest requests HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES
Special ULV disinfection in all rooms Daily textile replacements in the rooms Daily ozone system ventilation in all rooms Limited-capacity room blockage Supply of liquid soap with special disinfectant and separate hand disinfectant in the rooms Special mask presentation for our guests Daily disinfection of room furnishings and equipment Fixed staff specific to each room Use of elevators with limited capacity and suitable for social distancing Leaving the room vacant at least one day after C/Out.
GUEST RELATIONS
Special Call Centre for guest requests
Self-reservation by phone for a la carte restaurants
POOL AND BEACH
Sunbed arrangement within limited capacity and social distancing (1.5 m) guidelines Disinfection of all sunbeds after every use Chlorine-pH application and disinfection in our pools per legal standards and at the upper limit
MEETING HALLS
Hall layout within limited capacity and social distancing (1.5 m) guidelines Fixed hand disinfection unit at the entrance to the hall Ventilation system with 100% fresh air Periodic special ULV disinfection in all halls and disinfection processes after every use
GOLF CLUB
Contactless fever measurement of the guests before the game.
Compliance with social distance at the reception, in the Pro Shop and in the restaurant.
Limited capacity and reservation.
Routine special ULV disinfection of used trolleys and club cars as well as disinfection after each use.
Club cars can only be used by one person.
Bunker rakes will not be used during the game.
The showers in the changing rooms are not to be used.
The textiles sold in the Pro Shop are not to be tried before purchasing.
Products in the Pro Shop will be handled only by the personnel who wear gloves.
Guests will carry their golf bags themselves
Contactless temperature measurement at all entrances of the facility
Thermal camera application
Limited visitor admission to the facility
Limited capacity application in all transfer vehicles; disinfection and mask usage in each vehicle
Special ULV disinfection in all transfer vehicles
STAFF
Social distancing (1.5 m) and limited capacity in all staff sections and services
Personal protective equipment (mask, face shield, gloves, cap etc.) required for all staff
Periodic special training on pandemic prevention measures, cleaning and disinfection applications
Periodic medical screening for each employee
Contactless temperature measurement of staff in daily entries
ULV disinfection application in all staff sections and fixed hand disinfectant units in all areas.
The basic principles of our renewed service approach have become our indispensable principles and standards, and will remain as such in the forthcoming periods. During this process, we have been motivated by our desire to welcome all our past and future guests: We look forward to offering the “CORNELIA HOTELS Difference” once again with our renewed perspective and continuing to present the “Cornelia Quality” at all our service points.
IN SPITE OF THE SOCIAL DISTANCE BETWEEN US, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU ONCE AGAIN TO CORNELIA – AND TO AN UNUSUAL BUT UNFORGETTABLE HOLIDAY!
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Second Circuit Upholds Fraud Conviction of ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli
July 18, 2019 July 19, 2019 AMANDA OTTAWAY
Fraud, jury, Martin Shkreli, pharmaceuticals, Ponzi, Second Circuit
MANHATTAN (CN) – The Second Circuit on Thursday affirmed the conviction of “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, who has been in federal prison since he was found guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy charges two years ago.
Martin Shkreli arrives at federal court in New York for his securities fraud trial on Aug. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Shkreli, 36, gained notoriety as the young CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals for jacking up the price of the life-saving AIDS drug Daraprim by 5,000% in 2015. Today, however, the Brooklyn-born Shkreli is serving a seven-year stint at a low-security federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, for securities fraud. Thanks to Thursday’s decision, he’ll stay there.
In his appeal to the Manhattan-based Second Circuit, Shkreli argued the instructions to jurors before they began their deliberations were “incorrect and confusing,” according to the ruling.
Shkreli specifically claimed that U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto was wrong to include a so-called “no ultimate harm” instruction on the securities fraud charges. He says the instruction was unduly prejudicial and caused jury confusion, resulting in a split verdict.
He was convicted by the federal jury in August 2017 for looting revenue from Retrophin, another of his drug companies, to compensate investors in his failing hedge funds, MSMB Healthcare and MSMB Capital.
The jury found Shkreli guilty on three out of eight criminal counts – two counts of substantive securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
He was found not guilty of five other counts, including wire fraud.
Shkreli’s attorneys had argued in their appeals brief the jury should have been instructed that, for Shkreli to be guilty of securities fraud, he must have made false statements “for the purpose of causing some loss to another.” His investors did not actually lose money, they pointed out.
The Second Circuit disagreed.
“We agree with the government that a securities fraud charge without the [no ultimate harm] instruction would actually have constituted a windfall for Shkreli, whose defense was ‘exactly the kind of improper argument that the [no ultimate harm] instruction was designed to address,’” the unsigned seven-page ruling states.
The three-judge panel also upheld the order of forfeiture against Shkreli for over $7.3 million.
In arguing against the forfeiture amount, Shkreli had cited a court case that held “that the robust returns received by investors should reduce the forfeiture amount required of the defendant to zero.”
“However…we have held that ‘forfeiture is gain based,’ not based on the losses (or gains) to victims,” the ruling states. (Parentheses in original.)
The decision by the Second Circuit came nearly three weeks after the parties appeared for oral arguments. The panel in Shrekli’s case was comprised of U.S. Circuit Judges Dennis Jacobs, Debra Ann Livingston and Joseph Bianco.
Shkreli’s appeals lawyer Mark Baker said in a statement, “We’re obviously disappointed in the results and we’re considering whatever options are still available to us.”
Baker said he will consider whether an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is “in the client’s interest.”
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Why Apple Needs a Really Expensive iPhone
By Mike Elgan • 10:49 am, December 22, 2012
Some pundits are predicting, and others are advocating, that Apple launch an iPhone that’s much cheaper than the current iPhone in order to keep up with Android phone sales.
This is crazy talk.
Apple doesn’t need a cheaper iPhone. They need a more expensive one — much more expensive. Here’s why.
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Android Gets Big Market Share with Small Profits
Android phones are selling in vastly higher numbers than iPhones. So high, in fact, that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says the market share numbers are comparable to Microsoft vs Apple in desktop operating systems in the past 20 years.
The difference Schmidt didn’t mention is that Microsoft always made money from Windows.
The main reason Android is selling so well is that most Android phones are very cheap.
Sure, a tiny number of handset models like the Samsung Galaxy S3 are both very good and profitable. But the high-end, best-of-breed Android phones aren’t the ones driving massive market share numbers for the Android platform.
Those big Android market share and unit shipment numbers are being generated by China. In the world’s most populous country, with a population of more than 1.3 billion people, roughly 2/3 of the phones sold are Android phones. In fact one-third of all Android phones sold in the entire world are sold in China. And a huge chunk of the phones sold in the third world these days are Chinese-made Android phones. For example, one of the most popular phones sold in Kenya right now is a Chinese Android phone called the Huawei IDEOS that costs $80 unlocked.
These phones for the masses are not profitable Samsung Galaxy S3s, but instead no-name, no-margin Chinese-made pieces of junk, for the most part. They use Android in part because it’s free.
You’ll also note that, although there are hundreds of companies making Android phones, Apple makes far more money in mobile phone profits than all of them combined.
To say that Apple should make a cheap phone in order to keep up with Android market share is madness.
It’s like saying Ferrari should make a low-cost family car to keep up with Toyota. It’s like saying Starbucks should make cheap, low-quality coffee in a can to keep up with Folgers. It’s like saying Nordstrom should open a floor of cheap, discount clothing to keep up with J.C. Penny.
Apple is a premium, aspirational brand. It successfully targets the most profitable sweet spot in the market.
To slug it out in the muck with cheap Chinese phones for small margins would not only tarnish Apple’s image, it simply wouldn’t be worth the tech support, supply chain and manufacturing trouble.
Instead of a cheap, low-margin phone Apple should come out with an expensive, high-margin phone. A satellite phone.
Why Apple Should Sell a Satellite iPhone
A satellite phone lets you make calls from anywhere — while hiking, traveling, sailing, or when your carrier just sucks and becomes unavailable. They’re great to have, but they can be expensive.
If you think satellite phones are ugly, boxy, heavy gadgets from the 90s with horrible, fat, swing-out antennas, then you may be unfamiliar with the TerreStar Genus phone.
The Genus is a Windows Mobile smart phone, so nobody wants to buy it. It looks to me like a BlackBerry phone with extra heft in the back, presumably for the satellite antenna and electronics.
The TerreStar Genus costs $800 unlocked on Amazon.com. It works like a normal GSM phone, but you can switch to satellite mode for both voice and data.
It’s on the AT&T network, and the charge for the satellite feature is an extra $24.99 per month above the regular amount you would pay, plus 65 cents per minute for each satellite call.
The phone enables users to switch into satellite mode, which supports voice, texting and data.
The TerreStar Genus is not a great phone, and the satellite service isn’t great, either, nor is it global (it’s North America only).
The point is that a relatively compact, satellite-capable smart phone is possible, and the rates for usage are more reasonable than you might expect.
Apple isn’t in the business of cheap products that do the same things other phones do. Apple is in the business of re-inventing industries.
Apple needs to re-invent the satellite phone industry. (Yes, I’m suggesting that Apple needs a space program.)
Just to give you a sense of scale and proportion, Apple could probably buy any one of the existing satellite phone providers for less than $3 billion. (Apple has more than $125 billion in cash.)
Better yet, Apple should develop it’s own high-speed, high-capacity global satellite network, which it could do for less than $5 billion, I would imagine.
Note that running its own satellite system would be expensive. But it would make Apple a wireless carrier, and a global one — for decades.
So the company would not only be able to get large profits from each handset, it would be able to earn hundreds or thousands of dollars from each user in carrier fees.
I would guess off the top of my head that Apple could sell a satellite iPhone for, say, $1,500 unlocked, or $600 to $800 with a contract.
The price should be whatever it costs Apple to make the phone, plus a fat margin of $500 or more.
While Android phones scramble to match the iPhone feature for feature, rendering it somewhat ordinary by comparison, a satellite iPhone would be almost impossible for competitors to beat.
Plus, a super high-end iPhone would be an aspirational item that elevates the image of the entire iPhone brand.
And who would buy such a phone and pay such prices for handsets and service?
Business travelers with expense accounts
People who live outside cell coverage areas
People who work or live on boats
World travelers
Government workers
Military people
NGO workers
Emergency workers
Posh rich people
People who enjoy outdoor recreation
Apple fans who want the very best of everything
The reality is that Apple’s iPhone — once the industry’s new hotness — is quickly becoming old and busted as the rest of the industry copies, catches up or exceeds the iPhone in specs and features.
The solution to this problem is not for Apple to come out with a cheap piece of crap.
The solution is for Apple to do what it does best: re-invent an industry, seize control of its ecosystem, think big and come out with the very best product in the world.
Apple needs an expensive satellite iPhone. And the high-margin, big-spending, jet-setting world needs one, too.
Would you buy a satellite iPhone?
(Concept photo courtesy of Jsus)
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What the Rise of 5G Means for Cyber Threat Information Sharing Practices
The fifth generation technology standard for mobile phone networks, commonly known simply as 5G, began deploying worldwide since 2019 as a successor for the fourth generation networks that most devices use worldwide.
What’s all the fuss about?
5G has a greater bandwidth capacity than its predecessors, which allows for more devices to be connected without slowing down your connection speed as it happened with previous networks. This is thanks to the fact that the 5G network is up to 100 times faster than the current 4G network.
Although the high-speed of this new technology seems to be more than favourable, it is exactly the speed with which everything else has to change in order for new devices, agency systems and cyber technology have to catch up to be up to date with the network.
It is expected that it will take years for a significant adoption of the 5G network to happen worldwide. The industry trade group GSMA has estimated that it will not be until 2025 when just half of mobile connections will be under the 5G network.
Precisely because of the time frame that is needed to catch up to the speed of the latest network is the reason why so many concerns regarding 5G security exist. Which is why not only does the 5G network provide a great deal of work for the technology industry to suit the network’s capacity, but it also comes with some major implications for intelligence and cybersecurity officials.
This is because the fifth generation network could provide a larger attack surface for adversaries who are not familiar enough to put up some defence mechanisms to stay protected from cyber attacks.
Because the network is so new, there still isn’t a real scope of the cyber threats that are emerging or that could emerge in the future. So far, the banking, medical, energy and telecommunications industries are those whose infrastructure is more prone to a cyber attack through the 5G network as they make the transition from 4G to 5G.
As an attempt to gain the public’s trust, government cybersecurity and infrastructure agencies all over the world are looking for ways in which they can become public with their cybersecurity practices so that they may incentivise companies in the private sector to take critical steps towards protecting their data and online presence.
To back up the sentiment, Bob Kolasky, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Risk Management Center in the United States said:
“We want to be somewhat public in the steps we’ve taken because we think that incentivises and encourages other critical infrastructure companies, state governments, private sector critical infrastructure companies to look at what the federal government is doing.” – Bob Kolasky
The 5G network comes with “blended operation” vulnerabilities in the supply-chain sector which meshes the physical and virtual worlds by combining insider threats and other types of cyber threats.
A Government’s Duty to Share Cyber Threat Information
In order for businesses, enterprises and citizens of the world to stay protected, every country counts with a specific organisation that is focused towards safeguarding the cyber security integrity of its citizens and economy.
However, it is no easy task to keep every enterprise and individual in a country safe from a cyber attack, which is why government agencies and organisations share cyber threat information with the purpose of improving their individual posture in the fight against cyber crime.
Building these types of relationships has been a crucial part for the government to stay informed about its citizens’ cybersecurity practices, while acknowledging and sharing the probable threats that one could encounter.
So, how is this information shared and handled?
Well, although the whole idea seems to be as easy as sending out a newsletter, you actually have to dig for it and look for publications made regarding the subject. And if you’re not involved in the field of cybersecurity, you may have a difficult time finding it.
In order to facilitate sharing such information, government organisations continuously publish commercial cyber threat information on news feeds, blogs, public official websites and data feeds. This means that in order to stay informed, you will really have to stay up to date with government publications regarding cyber security threats.
The Reason You Should Stay Updated
Businesses and organisations of the private and public sector have seen a significant increase in the frequency of cyber attacks. Not only have these attacks grown in density and frequency but they are becoming more and more sophisticated by the day.
This makes it easier for cyber criminals to have access to personal and professional data, an enterprise’s day-to-day activities and even client information you may have stored in your database.
As cyber criminals are motivated, persistent and agile it’s not a thing of the other world anymore to fall victim to a cyber threat.
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Houston police chief says missing four-year-old Maleah Davis has 'probably been murdered' and insists her stepfather is the only person who knows where her body is
Houston Police have increased reward money to $10,000 for the girl to be found
Maleah Davis was last seen entering her stepfather's home on April 30
Derion Vence has been charged with tampering with a corpse after blood was found in the car he said was stolen with her in it but she is yet to be found
HPD Police Chief believes the stepfather knows exactly where the body is
Her biological father has meanwhile blamed him for the girl's death and shared photographs of her on social media
Her mother, who left her with the allegedly abusive stepfather, is also facing scrutiny
Published: 15:53 EST, 23 May 2019 | Updated: 02:27 EST, 24 May 2019
Houston police are trying to determine what happened to four-year-old Maleah Davis after the ex-fiance of her mother said she was taken by men who released him and his two-year-old son after abducting them as well. Police say the story simply doesn't add up
The police chief in Houston says evidence shows that a four-year-old girl who has been missing since earlier this month was killed and he's asking for the public's help in finding her body.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference Thursday that finding the body of Maleah Davis will allow her family to have a proper burial for her.
He says he believes Derion Vence, the former fiance of the girl's mother, knows where the child is but has not told police.
'We strongly believe he knows where she's at and if he wanted to tell us, he would,' Acevedo said about Vence.
'We really believe we have a little girl that has been murdered.'
Vence's story has a hole so large 'you could drive a big rig through it,' Acevedo said.
'Maleah deserves to be found, be recovered and deserves a proper burial, and we need the community's help.' the chief continued.
Acevedo said the HPD is still searching for Maleah, 4, and pursuing leads urging anyone with information to come forward.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference Thursday that finding the body of Maleah Davis will allow her family to have a proper burial for her
'We strongly believe he knows where she's at and if he wanted to tell us, he would,' Acevedo said about Vence. 'We really believe we have a little girl that has been murdered.'
Executive Assistant Chief Matt Slinkard, who also spoke at the news conference, said: 'We are not receiving the level of cooperation we need from anybody involved at this point.'
In addition to asking anyone who may have seen something or has information about the case to come forward, Acevedo also implored the public to be vigilant when out in places that are not heavily traveled, such as hiking trails and wooded areas.
He said to look out for things like out-of-place soil.
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The force has also pledged an extra $5,000 from HPD to increase the total reward money of up to $10,000 in the case according to Click2Houston.
Vence reported the girl missing in early May, saying she'd been abducted after he pulled over on a Houston highway. Police later said the story didn't add up.
Vence is being held on a charge of tampering with evidence, specifically a human corpse.
Authorities have not said he killed Maleah, but investigators found blood in Vence's apartment and search dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in his car.
Derion Vence has been charged with tampering with a corpse after blood was found in the car he said was stolen with her in it, but she is yet to be found
Last week, the volunteer-led search for the missing Texas girl was suspended after a string of dead end tips including one where suspect Vence said he knew where to hide a dead body.
'He actually said to his mother-in-law a year ago that, 'Man, if I ever killed anybody, I've got some places down in Rosharon they'd never find the body',' Texas EquuSearch volunteer Tim Miller told Khou 11. 'I talked to Brittany on the phone to see if that was correct or just a rumor, and she said, 'Yeah, that was correct'.'
After two days of combing through fields, using trucks to check ditches, flying helicopters to look for burn sites and walking through neighborhoods, they were beginning to give up hope.
Heavy rain had made the search more difficult and there was concern ATVs used by the crew could push evidence further into the ground.
This photo shows the last time Maleah was seen alive, on April 30 as she and her stepfather, Derion Vence, walked into the family's apartment together just before 8am
'We feel as though there is a strong possibility that she was burned,' Miller said. 'Many of these areas are under water. We've tried to find burn spots. We've tried to find whatever we can by the air. 'Are we going to have to redo these areas as water goes down? Of course, we will.'
Suspect Vence claims Davis was abducted along with a silver Nissan Ultima he was driving with his young son also inside on May 3.
It was reported that she had vanished on May 4 near the Eastex Freeway and Greens Road in northeast Houston. Vence showed up at a hospital in Sugar Land making the claim they'd been attacked.
The volunteers started working to find Davis around the area that Vence claimed they were attacked on May 6.
Maleah was reported missing May 5 by Vence, who told officers the little girl was kidnapped
The search moved to the southwest part of the city as Vence said he woke up on the Southwest Freeway with his two-year-old son 24 hours after being attacked.
Their apartment was examined after May 3 surveillance footage showed Vence emerging carrying a black trash bag in a basket and what appeared to be a container of gasoline on the day of the alleged attack.
Investigators found blood consistent with DNA on the child's toothbrush in the hallway and bathroom of the home. It's the last spot Davis was seen alive on April 30 but she was never spotted leaving after entering.
Texas EquuSearch suspended their hunt May 8 due to flooding but when they resumed May 9, the car was discovered at a shopping center on Highway 6 in Missouri City. Dogs detected a scent of human decomposition in the vehicle.
May 14 took Texas EquuSearch to the Rosharon area following the most recent tip alleging Vence had spoken about where he'd hide a dead body.
Anyone with information on Maleah's whereabouts is urged to contact HPD at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
MALEAH DAVIS MISSING TIMELINE
Maleah Davis, 4, is seen entering home with stepfather, Derion Vence, 26
Vence is due to collect the girl's mother Brittany Bowens from airport
He is seen leaving his home with his two-year-old son but not Davis
Vence is seen carrying black trash bag inside a basket
It's on this day Vence claims he, Davis and were attacked by a 'Hispanic' group when he heard a noise and pulled over near the Eastex Freeway and Greens Road in northeast Houston
Bowens contacts another relative to pick her up when Vence does not show. She doesn't contact police
Vence showed up at a hospital in Sugar Land claiming they'd been attacked and that he had woken 24 hours after being abducted to learn Davis was gone
Texas EquuSearch hunt near the Southwest Freeway where Vence claimed he had woken up
Investigators find blood consistent with DNA on the child's toothbrush in the hallway and bathroom of the family home
Texas EquuSearch suspend their hunt due to flooding
The search resumes and the car that Vence says Davis was abducted in is discovered at a shopping center on Highway 6 in Missouri City after dogs detect a scent of human decomposition
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Woolsey fire-ravaged Malibu winery and nearby…
Woolsey fire-ravaged Malibu winery and nearby homeowners sue SCE, alleging utility started blaze that destroyed 1,600 structures
A recently renovated Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home is among structures destroyed
A vehicle and a home destroyed by the Woolsey Fire on Mulholland Highway, are seen Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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LOS ANGELES — A Malibu winery and multiple homeowners in that city are suing Southern California Edison Co., blaming the utility for their property losses from the Woolsey fire.
The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, filed Tuesday, seeks unspecified damages on allegations of negligence, inverse condemnation, nuisance, premises liability and violations of the Public Utilities and Health & Safety codes. The lead plaintiff is winery Cielo Farms LLC.
“Plaintiffs, through no fault of their own, went from homeowners to homeless in a matter of hours,” the suit states.
The utility issued a statement Thursday morning regarding the lawsuit.
“At this time, SCE is not commenting on any lawsuits associated with the Woolsey fire, as an ongoing investigation is underway by Cal Fire and Ventura County Fire,” the statement read. “SCE is fully cooperating in their investigation.”
According to the lawsuit, SCE knew its overhead electrical equipment had caused previous fires during Santa Ana wind events but still failed to shut off circuits. The suit alleges the utility’s inaction “resulted in the ignition of the Woolsey fire.”
“Plaintiffs allege SCE’s electrical equipment … caused the Woolsey fire, demonstrating a reckless pattern of destroying entire communities through its unsafe operation of its overhead electrical equipment,” according to the suit.
The blaze, which ignited on Nov. 8 and burned nearly 100,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, destroyed more than 1,600 structures and killed three people. Nearly 300,000 people were evacuated.
The Woolsey fire destroyed 3,000 Cielo Farms vines, multiple structures and 1,400 trees, causing a multimillion-dollar business loss, according to the suit, which describes Cielo Farms as “an iconic winery, vineyard and wedding event venue.”
“The plaintiff’s venue was voted the No. 1 wedding venue in Los Angeles County for the three years preceding the fire,” according to the suit, which includes photos of the winery and other affected properties before and after the fire.
Two other plaintiffs, John David Knight and Dorothy Louise Blowers, spent millions of dollars restoring a $20 million residential property that included a home designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright just three weeks before the fire, the suit says. The blaze completely destroyed the home and all of the improvements, the plaintiffs say.
Consisting of more than 100 acres and featuring hundreds of trees, a pond and a natural habitat, the property had been used as a location for movies, commercials and other income-generating activities, the suit states.
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Obituary of Somerset Artist Jack Coulthard
These few, rather disjointed paragraphs, are not intended to be a comprehensive biography of Jack Coulthard’s life, nor a particularly penetrating enquiry into the meanings, complexities or significance of his many works. I leave those tasks to the army, which I am sure is already gathering at the gate, of academics and PhD students, ready to tell us what Jack meant.
Here, I am eulogizing about a man. Not any man, but one of considerable cultural significance, written, rather oddly, as if he might read it himself. So don’t expect the considered prose of the obituarist, nor a Socratic apology.
No, more Jack’s style I hope, arrivederci baby and amen!
If you know Jack’s work and it is biographical details and paintings you want, or maybe you’ve never heard of him and are curious to know what I’m banging on about go to http://www.jackcoulthard.co.uk where there is some good material including the excellent interviews with Viv Grant. If you don’t know Jack’s work I envy you that rush when you suddenly realize what you have stumbled upon.
Jack’s explanations for his paintings are, at best, simply descriptions of what you see or maybe the occasional cryptic clue. Here’s one, Jack says of this painting, ‘An Angel Even,’ 1990, reproduced right.
Homage to Marcel Duchamp, at least he made us THINK. Here the Angel Bride is beset by Rembrandt and some demon bachelors, however, she knows the difference between life and art.
Jack was a consummate obscurest, using ambiguity not only to throw off the most well-meaning questioner, but also to quiet with effected candour, even the most informed of enquiries. In the quote above he doesn’t even begin to explain what these references mean. ‘Rembrandt,’ what’s he doing there? ‘Bachelors, she knows the difference between life and art?’ Having read this we return to the painting with another layer of narrative to thwart our quest for explanation.
And of course, that is the point. These paintings were never meant to be decoded as one might the Rosetta stone. They are paradoxes, sometimes even contradictory. No, to get anywhere with these images one has to accept that they are as much about Coulthard’s unique vision of the world as they are about the references he uses. Only the most pedantic of viewers believes that unravelling the references in these works will lead to enlightenment, it won’t. But what will?
Coulthard gives us the clue himself. In one of the interviews he gave to Viv Grant, when she asked him why someone should buy one of his paintings. ‘You can look at them for a very, very long time,’ he says. At first that sounds rather throw away but upon reflection I think he means just that. He put a huge amount into these works and it takes an awful lot of looking to get beyond their breathtaking power to even begin to start reading them.
In an age that craves instant gratification and accepts the exhibits in Tate Modern and the Turner Prize as the best current Art, it is a courageous man to fly in the face of such elitist, cultural bullying. But, that is exactly what Jack Coulthard did with such commitment, intelligence and strength that it humbles all but the most arrogant amongst us. But we aren’t short of them are we?
Take the entire contents of Tate Modern and pile them up in a heap on some waste ground. Scatter a few Coulthard paintings around and then ask people to take one thing from the heap to keep. Exclude precious metal scavengers or the homeless looking for boxes to live in. Now what do you think would happen? Do people grab some bits of broken glass, a pile of stones or bits of driftwood? Are we all philistines? Is this another referendum after which we are all told by Sir Nicholas Serota or Charles Saatchi that we are stupid and do not know what’s good for us?
Despite an apparent willingness to talk earnestly about every aspect of his work, Coulthard could be sesquipedalian. In fact I think he deliberately shrank back behind clouds of obfuscation and myth of his own making. This is not to say that he was concerned that his work needed any further layers of obscurity to give it value, quite the opposite, it never did and he knew it. He also knew that if his paintings could be easily explained in words, why bother producing them at all, after all he was quite a good poet too? (Ezra Pound later)
No, in Coulthard’s hands the images he produced go way beyond the simply figurative made extraordinary by his imagination and the raw talent that puts him up there with the greats. Yes, I am talking Piero della Francesca, the Bosch boys, Vermeer and of course Bruegel. Put Coulthard’s Memorial II next to Bruegal’s Tower of Babel. See what I mean? And what would they have talked about, Jack and Pieter? I can tell you. Bruegel would have wanted to know just how Coulthard made those brush strokes invisible. Yes how the hell did he do that and why? Because unlike most art movements he did not want anything like messy paint or technique to get in the way of narrative meaning.
In most current art there is neither meaning, nor any apology for its absence either. Why should there be when meaninglessness, or perhaps very trite meanings, is the current vogue? Think Turner Prize, a light going on and off, cotton buds, fish skins and train sets. So, far from expectations of ground breaking Art being conceived by the YBA’s and their acolytes it turns out that the truly revolutionary stuff was being produced in a garden shed in Somerset. The YBA’s are actually the impotent lackeys of the right wing establishment producing the bit coin tokens to be traded around the world of banking and hedge funds. No wonder the works have no meaning, what meaning do you want in toy town money? But of course, in this climate, to appreciate what Coulthard has been doing would have been an anathema to what is now, strangely, the establishment.
Up until now I have carefully avoided direct references to too many events in Jack’s life, knowing that these facts are easily available elsewhere. Although I wanted this piece to be about his work, there is one event that merits mention. The year he spent in Tarquinia, Italy, with his wife Barbara in the sixties. More than anything else this experience profoundly influenced his work. Look at almost any painting and you will see an Italian influence. Apart from the artists, Italian Renaissance architecture, (Brunalesqui and Sienna) that occur again and again, there is one Italian reference that stands out, Ezra Pound.
Although ‘dark Satanic Mills,’ (Blake) do appear in Jack’s landscapes they are usually tempered by dramatic Mediterranean, bolder-strewn landscapes, often ruined classical temples or abandoned buildings, all that’s left of civilisation, await a final destruction that never comes, this is it, the end of all we know. We are quite often in utopian places of great beauty that are also contained within visible boundaries as if the world we see is carefully packaged and sent off into space like the garden in ‘Silent Running.’ (The world on a plate) (shown right).
And so to Pound. Although lucky not to have been executed at the end of the Second World War as a fascist collaborator for his support of Franco Mussolini, Pound went on to become one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Without Pound there would be no TS Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ or arguably Bob Dylan.
I quote the Dylan lyrics of Desolation Row: “Ezra Pound and T S Eliot are fighting in the Captain’s tower,” he sings, the Captain presumably Whitman, the tower maybe belonging to Yeats.
I use this only to show how influential Pound was on twentieth century creative thinking. Jack paints Pound several times and Dylan mentions him and I think they do this for the same basic reason. The Cantos of Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto. The poems are widely considered to present almost insurmountable difficulties to readers of all but the most powerful of intellects. Rather like a Coulthard painting or a complex Dylan song. Pound gave them the permission they needed to seek out references already existing in Art and literature to create entirely new ways of seeing people and the world, of creating a new reality. Dylan gets a Nobel prize.
‘I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.’ Ezra Pound.
If you want to begin the journey to enter Jack’s world here are a few names that might help, DH Lawrence (Italy); Rosa Luxemburg (Julia); Tom Petty; WB Yeats (poems); Kurosawa (Samurai); Vermeer; Euclid, Nicholas Roerich (Le Sauce du printemps); Moritaten; Justin Williamson; Kamikaze; Han-shan and of course Confucius.
Otherwise just stand in front of these pieces of extraordinary Art.
In the end there is yet a final paradox. For someone who sought only recognition for his work through exhibition and was, despite bravado, a rather reticent man, he attracted a coterie of friends and admirers who, even after quite brief acquaintance, loved him.
The Master of Cold Mountain
Where’s the trail to Cold Mountain?
There’s no clear way.
Ice, in summer, is still frozen.
Bright sun shines through thick fog.
You won’t get there following me.
Your heart and mine are not the same.
If your heart was like mine,
You’d have made it, and be there!
Han-shan, Poet.
Late eighth century China
Jack Gardner
The opinions expressed in this article are exclusively those of the author Jack Gardner, who was for many years, Head of School of Communication Arts at Somerset College and latterly visiting lecturer at Bath Spa University College. He has written two books, ‘Words are not things,’ and ‘I wish I was the person I’m pretending to be.’ (Both published by Foulsham). His new book, ‘Jotter’ will be published in the spring. He lives in Bath.
Email jackrobertgardner@gmail.com
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Stark County Courts resolve legal disputes, including criminal misdemeanors and felonies in Stark County, Illinois. Courts operate at the Federal, Illinois State, or local Stark County level, and they maintain records for all of their criminal cases, which make up an individual's Stark County criminal history. These Stark County public criminal records include homicides, sexual assaults, DUIs, drug charges, property crimes, and more. Criminal records also list trials, convictions, and sentences, as well as any plea bargains or settlements. Stark County criminal history records include the defendant's name, personal information, the criminal charges brought against the individual, and any criminal case files created by Illinois law enforcement. A criminal history search shows an individual's criminal record, making it an important part of performing a thorough Stark County background check. Stark County Courts may provide online access to their criminal history records.
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Stark County Police Departments provide local law enforcement services, including stopping crimes, arresting suspects, and conducting investigations in Stark County, Illinois. As part of this job, Police Departments maintain a number of criminal history records, including Stark County arrest records, warrants, and reports on jail bookings. These records make up an individual's Stark County criminal record, including the criminal charges made during an arrest and any resulting legal cases from a police arrest. This can include felonies and misdemeanors such as fraud, probation violations, drug possession, manslaughter, and traffic crimes. Police Department records can include investigation materials and criminal case files, and searching criminal history records is an important step in performing a Stark County background check. Police Departments make many of their criminal history records available online.
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Stark County Probation Departments oversee court-ordered probations which have been imposed instead of incarceration in Stark County, Illinois. Probation Departments maintain detailed records on individuals who are on probation, which is part of the individual's criminal history. These Stark County public records include personal information on the individual and the criminal charges that led to probation. It can also include the terms of the probation, such as any requirements to seek treatment, attend counseling, or pay restitution to victims, as well as any travel restrictions or bans on contacting certain people that may be included in the probation order. Stark County probation records also list the length of the probation sentence, and they are an important part of a background check. Probation Departments may provide online searches for criminal history records.
Stark County Probation Department Toulon IL 130 West Main Street 61483 309-286-7181
Stark County Sheriff Departments operates at the county or local level, keeping public order by investigating crimes, arresting suspected criminals, and stopping crimes in progress in Stark County, Illinois. Sheriff Departments maintain records on all of their actions, including arrest reports, warrants, and jail bookings. These Stark County criminal records make up an individual's criminal history, and they contain personal information, all criminal charges in a person's record, and any legal cases after an arrest. Criminal history records include felonies and misdemeanors such as Stark County DUIs, drug charges, homicide, domestic violence, and probation violations. Sheriff Department records also include criminal case files and investigation records, which makes searching criminal history records an important step in conducting a background check in Stark County. These records may be available online from the Sheriff Department.
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Thu Jun 01 2006 23:11: Excellent report on what's available at the Union Square Greenmarket. Needs an RSS feed.
Fri Jun 02 2006 12:50 Beautiful Soup 3.0.2: No real user-visible changes; it should do what you expect, more reliably. I did add back aliases for the old method names, so your 2.x scripts are pretty likely to work again now.
Fri Jun 02 2006 18:30 Mushy Applesauce: I make up random pet names for Sumana. Sometimes there are namespace collisions.
"You're the apple-finder!"
"Wait, I'm the Apple Finder?"
(1) Sat Jun 03 2006 09:52 Weird Fact: Emacs has no built-in word count function.
(1) Sun Jun 04 2006 11:41 Brick: Sumana and I went and saw Brick last night. Actually we went to do some unspecified thing in the East Village, and while perusing the Voice (<--aaaaargh) we saw that close by was the only theater in Manhattan playing Brick, so that's what we did.
This is a good movie but, pace Brendan, not the best ever made. The problem is that while it's stylistically excellent, it follows the noir mystery formula too faithfully. The best noir mysteries have a non-stylistic twist on the formula (The Big Lebowski, which for my money remains the king of stylistic twists as well). The best noir movies abandon the mystery element altogether and just go after the depravity of man (Double Indemnity). Or you can just be an extremely confusing mystery like The Big Sleep, which gives you some points in my book. In between you have movies like The Maltese Falcon and Brick, which are very stylish but formulaic.
I think the other major noir subgenre is the underworld film, but I haven't seen any of those yet, so I'm even less able than usual to pass ill-informed judgement. Those movies seem kind of sensationalistic and Manichean, but I could be wrong.
(5) Mon Jun 05 2006 09:50: Frickin post office lost eight chapters of my Ruby Cookbook edits.
Tue Jun 06 2006 23:12: Bonus: Beautiful Soup 3.0.3
Tue Jun 06 2006 23:57 Anacrusish #5: [This is the entry to which the previous entry was supposed to be a bonus.] While I wait for feedback on my story, here's another Anacrusis-type story for you.
Phyla
"We are the whales," says Phyla. "the ocean's voice. Keepers of the deep eternal secrets." She strokes the fishbowl of warm seawater.
"We want krill," she says, surprising herself. "You have boats. Go north. Bring us krill." Even this crowd hoots and leaves. A few stay.
"Prepare to be boarded!" says Phyla, still translating. "Drop nets, me hearties!"
"Good job," say the whales. "Now..."
Then, Phyla gets another radio in her head: one eye's made of crystal. "Fishing craft, change course ten degrees."
"I know who you are," she says, "and why you're here."
To her crew: "Load the cannons."
Wed Jun 07 2006 20:38: Great paper on detecting spam web pages. Factoid: about 70% of the sampled .biz sites were spam.
Fri Jun 09 2006 20:49 Parrot: Sumana was talking about parrots and I made a penguin noise, which is really the only kind of bird noise I know how to make.
"Parrots don't make that noise!" said Sumana.
"They do if they're around penguins."
Sat Jun 10 2006 18:13 MOCCA: We went to the MOCCA indie comics show today with Sarah. We met many people including Ryan North, and spent way too much money on comic books. On Monday something even more awesome will happen.
We met Dorothy of Cat and Girl, who was as shy as I would be if I had written an amazing webcomic and had to stand around while people fawned over me all day. WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT I SYMPATHIZE.
We wandered for a while (usually but not always a good strategy) and found a good vegan pan-Asian restaurant and a chocolate-obsessed store. Now we are admiring our huge stacks of comic books.
Sat Jun 10 2006 19:01 Uncle Leonard's Dub Shack: Hey, Uncle Morty's Dub Shack is showing new episodes again. I meant to warn you earlier, but I was too busy buying comic books. Today they showed the episode in which Sumana and I were extras, and you missed it. Unless you've been Tivoing it, you'll have to wait until it gets rerun, which I'm sure it will be indefinitely.
Here's a still Jimbo sent us, though not from footage that was actually used. I wonder if this qualifies us for IMDB entries. I'm only credited as "Leonard".
I recommend you watch it if only to use our gaudy dress as markers for the amazing continuity errors. We warp around the bar, appearing in almost every scene because we were the only extras who showed up on time for the shoot.
The episode itself is best summarized by a Trevor line: "That's the second-best song I've ever heard about big butts!" Later I'll tell you about a funny scene that they cut.
Sat Jun 10 2006 19:28: Earlier I speculated that you could improve any game by replacing the human characters with cars. The movie Cars demonstrates that this does not work for movies.
Sun Jun 11 2006 21:53 One Night Only: On Tuesday I go up to Worcester to start a band with Jake Berendes. Thursday night the band plays a set in Nicholas Reville's basement. Nobody will be there--will you? This amazing musical event will probably NEVER BE REPEATED in the near future!
PS: our band is called "early internet".
(2) Mon Jun 12 2006 18:44: Today I hung out with Ryan North! Sumana and I had lunch with him, his SO Allene, and friend Steve. Sumana went back to work but we wandered around and ran into more web comics fans and creators, including David Malki!. Verdict: awesome. Here are a couple pictures.
Thu Jun 15 2006 02:21 Never Spent A Single Day In Retail: Until yesterday, when I worked with Jake at Happy Birthday Mike Leslie. Not a whole lot happened, but I made some buttons and then decided to improve the sale value of Jake's junk. I turned a Parcheesi board into a crackpot diagram of the universe (which is a rotating twelve-dimensional hypercube). Today I hope to improve the Ouija board.
Then we went to karaoke, which was fun. Jake and I did a duet on "A Boy Named Sue". Karaoke tip: if you're going to sing "Piano Man", save it for the karaoke contest.
(3) Mon Jun 19 2006 23:47: Back in New York. More later.
(2) Tue Jun 20 2006 10:56: J. Michael Straczynski's rejected proposal for rebooting the Star Trek franchise. Gorgeous.
(4) Tue Jun 20 2006 23:16 Extra Spatial Dimensions: I have a question about these little buggers. Kris couldn't answer it, so you know it's tough. Whenever I heard an explanation of string theory or any other theory that predicts more spatial dimensions, they always said the extra dimensions were "rolled up very small". That doesn't make sense. Rolled up very small through what dimensions?
Then I think I figured it out with a Flatland analogy. Suppose Flatland exists in a 3D universe, but one in which nothing is more than a Planck distance tall. The Flatlanders extend in three dimensions, but they only perceive two. They would say that the third dimension was "rolled up very small", even though that doesn't make sense.
Wikipedia seems to back me up on this one, ladies, so the first question is, am I right? Does the analogy hold? Second question is, what is with the "rolled up" nonsense? Are they trying to convey that the structure of space makes it impossible for something to be large in that dimension ("the universe measured along these additional dimensions is subatomic in size")?
(4) Wed Jun 21 2006 19:08: Nightmarish tips on flag design. Nightmarish because they present terrifying flag design faux pas I'd never even considered, like putting different things on the front and back of your flag, or including other flags on your flag so that you're always changing it. Gah!
Thu Jun 22 2006 17:02 Here Goes Nothing: I submitted my short story to Futurismic. Who knows if they'll like it, but at least I can work on other stuff now instead of always trying to polish it.
Fri Jun 23 2006 09:12:
"I got a map of the Pacific Ocean."
"I don't like maps of oceans. They're too big. I thought you knew that."
"Well, what if it's like a MAD fold-in? See? Now you can walk from Idaho to Japan."
"That's better."
(2) Fri Jun 23 2006 11:46 Strapping Young Men: Jake Berendes has two guitars but only one guitar strap. This posed problems when we were practicing for our one and only gig. He ingeniously made a new guitar strap by cutting up a bicycle inner tube. It felt great on the shoulders, really light. Take that, MAKE Magazine!
Then we practiced and played the gig (which went well), and the next day my left hand hurt. The elasticity of the inner tube that made it so easy on the shoulders made it very hard on my left hand, which had to support the neck of the guitar as well as do the fingering. Take that, people who reflexively build anything they see described on a weblog! Fortunately, the pain is now mostly gone.
If we can figure out a way to do that kind of strap that doesn't stress the left hand, we'll have it made. It was really comfortable until I stopped using it.
(4) Fri Jun 23 2006 16:47 Comic Books: When I was a kid I never read comic books. My uncle Don (I think) once gave me a box full of comic books for Christmas. Now that I think about it, that was a really creative gift, but that box just stayed untouched in my room for about six years until I was about to move out, when I gave it to a friend.
Sumana likes the highbrow comic books they put out nowadays. I've read some of hers and I didn't like those a whole lot either. So what does picky me like? Well, I like ACKs. I like books of comic strips. Though I don't like the comic books themselves, I love the insane crowdedness of the Marvel and DC universes, caused by the respective companies having to crank out twenty books a month for decades.
Jake has a bunch of comic books, and I trust Jake's taste, so when I was in Worcester I decided to give the traditional comic book a try. Verdict: not great. The plots are pretty dull and the dialogue is either stilted or fake-casual. The drawing's good but I don't really notice that kind of thing.
The community of comic book creators, as revealed in the books, is interesting. They dish dirt on each other, make up ridiculous retcons and silly nicknames. It seems pretty tight-knit and full of love-hate relationships.
The Green Lantern comics are a lot like really old science fiction, especially the Lensman novels. I think those stories work a lot better as comic books. But I wasn't crazy about the Lensman novels and I don't want to read a lot of Green Lantern either.
Silver Surfer has a ludicrous story and some of the most stilted dialogue I've ever seen, but it's really compelling. I think this is what comic books feel like to big fans.
The Nethack phrase "undergo a freakish metamorphosis" shows up a lot in comic books. I don't know what the original source is.
But the big highlight was Jake's set of Ambush Bug comics, which were everything I want comic books to be. Unfortunately, Ambush Bug can only exist in the context of everything I find boring about comic books.
Ambush Bug is if Checkerboard Nightmare lived in the DC universe and thought he was Superman's pal. He had bit parts in Superman comics (including one where he kind of casually figures out Superman's secret identity), and then two mini-series of his own. Which actually ended the same way Checkerboard Nightmare ended. But which mainly focused on the weirdness of obscure comic book characters and the nature of continuity. It's really funny stuff and I recommend it. The miniseries also has parodies of those comic book ads that sell junk that doesn't work, which aren't that funny, but you can never have enough parodies of those ads.
Sat Jun 24 2006 23:52 A Prairie Home Companion: A fun movie, not mind-blowing, about what you'd expect. Garrison Keillor is self-deprecating and deadpan funny and writes the worst parts of his personal life into the script. The singers are good, the plot happens, there are dirty jokes. Oh, the penguin joke is in this movie, too. It's good to see in the theater, but with prices the way they are these days you might want to wait.
Sun Jun 25 2006 00:29 Lucky Wander Boy: I've had this book for a long time, but I held off reading it because I knew it had thematic overlap with the story I just finished. I didn't want to accidentally plagiarize it, or always be second-guessing myself about similarities.
Now I've read it and I'm happy to report that there's not much overlap. It's true that these are the only two pieces of fiction I know of that use MAME as a dramatic device, but the purpose is totally different. I would actually say this book is closer to Frog/Antifrog.
Okay, about the book itself. The middle is a Douglas Coupland-esque slog, but the beginning is fun and the end has a twist that I should have seen coming but didn't. Good job--the best kind of twist. Plus, there's a tiny piece of exposition hidden in the book that makes the central reveal semi-plausible sci-fi instead of squishy novel mysticism. I think many people who didn't like the ending missed that piece of exposition. But I say, thanks for including it, D. B. Weiss.
Mon Jun 26 2006 07:42 Fascinating! Educational!: Reproduce trademarked characters and sell them! via Kevan.
Mon Jun 26 2006 23:24 Nobody Expects The Game Roundup: But here it is.
Flatland goes to war in Dangen, the geometric shoot-em-up. Minimalist Galaga-like sharpshooter action. Fun and elegant.
Less elegant but more three-dimensional-looking is Triplex Invaders, featuring hot triplex action. Everything is rendered in real-time as big Dactyl Nightmare-style polygonal shapes. Cool Ghostbusters-like beam weapons add to the fun. Lousy projectile weapons subtract from the fun. Can this game achieve a fun surplus?
Lämmerlinge is a fun Javascript game where you guide sheep around a board, feeding them flowers and preventing them from wandering off or drowning. Documentation is both in German and totally superfluous. Levels are password-protected: also superfluous since the passwords are right there in a supplimentary Javascript file.
Deadly Rooms of Death is a fun shareware puzzle game with a video game sense of humor. This is not a sophisticated sense of humor, not an interactive fiction or Ealing Studios humor. Maybe a ZZT game humor. If you saw it in a sitcom it would be undistinguished, but so few video games these days have any sense of humor that DROD's juvenile antics are charming. DROD has lots of puzzle elements and scriptability that make it more enjoyable than Rocks 'n' Diamonds. Fun voice acting separates this game from free software games with no voice acting.
Trackballs (Debian: trackballs) captures the sleek futuristic look of Marble Madness but seems really obsessed with narrow passageways for your marble to navigate, instead of the sweeping ski-slope wireframe mountains of the original. On the plus side, your marble can jump, and the game levels are scriptable with Guile. So make some levels that don't rely on split-second marble manipulation cause I don't do that. Oh, this game also has enemies that you can squash with your marble. Unfortunately this does not make your marble bigger a la Katamari Damacy.
How's that crackpot scheme of yours to mine Mars for mercy and sell it back on Earth? Not going too well? Maybe you should have played the cautionary game Mars: Land of No Mercy. You'll find out that anything that lands on the surface of Mars can only move once and then has to wait for the opponent's move, which never comes. Basically the game is still in a very early stage. Nice realistic Mars graphics though.
Tue Jun 27 2006 06:56 ActiveResource: Excellent.
(1) Tue Jun 27 2006 08:14 Game Roundup Addendum: I didn't mention this yesterday because I wanted to go to sleep instead of playtesting, but Battle for Wesnoth is a really good turn-based strategy game. Simple with good presentation. The only downside is the cheesy fantasy art in the cut scenes.
Thu Jun 29 2006 23:49: Sorry for no NYCB. I'm in the early stages of working on another book, as you can probably tell if you watch my del.icio.us feed. Also writing an article and fiction. Why should I waste my time with this puny weblog? My atomic grapefruit will split it asunder, revealing the iron-rich core within!
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Canadian Blood Services: Only half of donors follow through with stem cell transplants
Ross Andersen CTVNews.ca writer
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Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 8:27PM EST
A bag of blood is shown at a clinic in Montreal on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
TORONTO -- Canadian Blood Services is pleading to registered stem-cells donors to follow through with their commitments.
The organization says that only 50 per cent of those potential donors who are registered to give stem cells actually follow through with the procedure when the call comes.
They say not enough Canadians are honouring their commitment to donate stem cells, which can pose potentially dangerous consequences to those who need them most.
“Most people are passionate when they join the registry about helping a patient in need,” said Dr. Heidi Elmoazzen, director of stem cells at Canadian Blood Services.
Canada is currently well below the international standard target of 80 per cent donor availability, set by the World Marrow Donor Association. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the problem as fewer people are registering to donate.
“The biggest challenge is recruiting new donors because recruitments happen at community swabbing events. We normally get thousands of registers this way but the pandemic has slowed our efforts,” she said.
She says people do not follow through because they sometimes misunderstand the registry process, as their stem-cell donation can be donated to anyone in Canada, or elsewhere around the world.
“We want people to be able and willing to donate to anyone who may need those stem cells,” said Elmoazzen.
In other cases, young teenagers who register to donate stem cells are sometimes persuaded to cancel the appointment by their parents or guardian, according to Elmoazzen.
Stem-cell donation is a long-term commitment, and while a potential donor may want to join the registry, it might wait years before they are matched with a patient in need. When that call comes, the need is typically urgent.
Any delay, such as one caused by a need to seek an alternative donor — if one can even be identified — can put a patient at risk. Registered donors also sometimes change their contact information or mailing addresses, making it more difficult for contacting a potential donor.
“Part of the challenge is when we call upon somebody and they don’t go through with it, it just adds time to a patient who doesn’t have a lot of time,” said Elmoazzen.
There are also legitimate reasons why potential donors may back out of a procedures, based on health history and ineligibility.
The organization is asking all registered donors to reaffirm their commitment to the registry.
Current registrants who no longer wish to be considered as a potential stem-cell donor should contact the organization to update their status.
Canadian Blood Services is also accepting new donors online, and are mailing swabbing kits to people who are considering to register.
“Only 25 per cent of patients are successful in finding a matching donor within their family, leaving 75 per cent who rely on the generosity of a stranger to save their lives,” she said.
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Sea of Thieves Review
Sea of Thieves is beautiful on the surface, but quite shallow as a sandbox experience. Our review of Rare's latest...
By Bernard Boo | March 30, 2018 |
It’s pure magic staring out at the undulating, immaculately rendered ocean waves in Rare’s online pirate playground, Sea of Thieves. Sitting high atop the crow’s nest of your creaky ship and admiring the view as the colors of sunset dance and flicker just underneath the water’s surface isn’t just a thing of beauty, it’s an experience.
It’s another kind of experience entirely, though, to drop your gaze from the horizon to the deck below and see your crewmates, scoundrels, pillagers, and miscreants clinking tankards brimming with grog, as they puke their guts out to the rhythms of spirit-lifting shanties, your shared vessel of death and debauchery barrelling toward whatever new adventure awaits.
At its best, the game is a terrific place to hang out with your friends, having a chat while doing nothing particularly remarkable. Taking in the sights and sounds of the high seas with your crew as you learn how to navigate the violent waters as a well-coordinated team can be a lot of fun, and if the simple pleasure of social interaction is your thing, the game provides ample opportunity to simply get lost at sea with your buddies and have a laugh.
But if you’re expecting a robust sandbox experience with endless hours of adventures and stories to sink your teeth into, you’re out of luck. Content-wise, Sea of Thieves is anemic at best. With little to no guidance, you and your crew (or you alone, should you so choose) are dropped into a vast ocean dotted with islands, sunken ships, and other curiosities, and you’ll to go on quests big and small to amass special items and mounds of gold while crossing swords and cannons with other groups of players from time to time.
The quests are straightforward and unvaried. You’ll hunt for treasure chests, exterminate hoards of sword-wielding skeletons, and capture and escort animals. When you’re done with that, you’ll…dig up more chests, fight off more skeletons, and babysit more animals. It’s really befuddling that Rare didn’t have time to add any more variety to the quest structure.
There are some random encounters with Krakens that break things up every few hours or so (why not make these more frequent?), and there are raids that involve you and other crews battling with armies of skeletons and each other over treasure, but at the end of the day, you’re still hacking, slashing, and shooting at the same old enemies and carrying out the same old tasks.
The repetition is maddening, and what’s worse, the gold you earn from carrying out each quest can only be spent on cosmetic accessories and costumes. All player stats are fixed, which keeps a level playing field across the game but allows for no sense of character progression. You can raise your “reputation,” which gives you access to bigger quests, but again, the fruits of your labor are only skin deep and don’t change the actual gameplay experience.
This inherent shallowness is a huge disappointment, especially for a game that ostensibly appears to be so ambitious and grand in scale. Also, this is a game all about pirates, which naturally means that it’s really all about treasure. Why would you make all of the treasure essentially inert and meaningless? Sure, you can gussy up your character in myriad ways, but in a first-person game in which you almost never see yourself, what’s the point?
PvP gameplay feels similarly pointless. Because all players’ abilities are the same, the combat feels quite rudimentary and rigid, which is a shame considering PvP should be ripe with opportunity to spice up the larger gameplay loop. Firing cannons is exciting (at least the first couple of times), and you can even fire yourself onto enemy ships. But because everything is so even-steven gameplay-wise, truly interesting scenarios never actually arise. The game’s got a major issue with staying power as it is, and PvP feeling so flaccid doesn’t help matters one bit.
Still, the game isn’t without its virtues. Working together with friends to maneuver your ship feels terrific, perhaps better (or at least more unique) than in any other game in recent memory. At once, you’ll have one person steering, another unfurling the sails, one raising the anchor, and another friend using his/her compass and map to navigate. Getting the timing right and reaching your destination smoothly (or even better yet, taking down a rival ship), is an unmitigated thrill and offers a genuine sense of shared accomplishment.
While there’s no real leveling-up to do in the game, you’ll certainly develop applicable skills that can mean the difference between your crew sleeping with the fishes or sailing to victory in a naval battle. Sure, it only takes a few hours for you and your team to get the hang of the game’s basic strategies, but those first few hours are insanely fun.
The game’s other saving grace is the visual style, which is so wondrous and jaw-dropping that it’ll occasionally, mercifully, distract you from the monotony of the questing. From the sleek character models to the ungodly water effects, the presentation is top-notch, and the stylized visuals ensure that, whether you’re playing on the Xbox One or PC, you’re going to be thoroughly blown away.
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The game’s color palette is a high point, with deep greens and blues contrasted with fiery sunset hues that are sometimes so pretty that you’ll stare and stare and forget what you’re doing, almost causing your ship to crash into a wall of jagged rocks, drawing the ire of your perturbed shipmates. No matter, though – the view was worth it.
The tireless work of Rare’s artists and engineers amounts to more than just eye candy, though. There’s something to be said for a game’s visuals making you feel a sense of place, and the development team does just that here, using enveloping weather effects and sound design to make Sea of Thieves a true escapist experience, as all games of this nature should be. Hearing the wood of your ship crackle and creak around you as the wind whips by your ears and the waves crash into each other sounds almost freakily realistic, and while the visuals are cartoonish, there’s a weight to them that makes the game world feel absolutely cohesive.
There are sure to be gamers out there who feel more than content to get a group of friends together in Sea of Thieves and simply sail across Rare’s beautiful game world, hunt for multi-colored pigs and chickens, and laugh hysterically as they watch their friends get their characters drunk and stumble overboard. This game is for them – it’s leisurely, approachable, and unchallenging, and is largely inoffensive in every facet. But for the rest of us gamers seeking substantive, rich, engaging online experiences – especially when shelling out $60 – our time and money would be better spent elsewhere.
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Before we enter the review of the data recovery in Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are some important basic information we should learn which will help to understand more about theDemocratic Republic of the Congo data recovery situations including the data recovery companies, data recovery tools used there and the data recovery cost in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Berkshire Hathaway Purchases Stakes in Four Major Airline Companies
The airline industry received a major stamp of approval earlier this week after it was revealed that Warren Buffett had purchased stakes in four major airlines for Berkshire Hathaway and its shareholders.
In the past quarter, Berkshire Hathaway bought:
21,770,555 shares of American Airlines
6,333,923 shares of Delta Air Lines
4,533,013 shares of United Continental
In addition, Buffett also revealed that Berkshire Hathaway had purchased shares in Southwest Airlines Co. following the end of the third quarter.
Airline stocks predictably surged on the news, with United trading up nearly 5% on the day.
As mentioned, Buffett's interest in airline stocks marked a dramatic change from his past views on the industry.
In the past, Buffett has referred to the industry as a "death trap". Other prominent money managers have been calling the industry remarkably cheap over the past few months, and Buffett obviously now agrees with this assessment. Airline companies have, in the past, possessed very weak balance sheets and a myriad of other issues (unions, etc), though these problems have abated enough so that Buffett nows feel safe putting some of Berkshire Hathaway's money to work in the industry.
Buffett is set in his ways when it comes to his overall investment methodology, though he is flexible enough to re-visit industries that he has previously trashed when the circumstances dictate another look.
With President Trump having left the White House, there are whispers that he is already talking abou...
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Dazzled by Books
Sharing The Dazzling Power Of Books (And My Life)
Cover Reveal: Seven Day Fiance by Rachel Harris
Summary from Goodreads:Angelle Prejean is in a pickle. Her family is expecting her to come home with a fiancé—a fiancé who doesn’t exist. Well, he exists, but he definitely has no idea Angelle told her mama they were engaged. Tattooed, muscled, and hotter than sin, Cane can reduce Angelle to a hot mess with one look—and leave her heart a mess if she falls for him. But when she ends up winning Cane at a charity bachelor auction, she knows just how to solve her fiancé problem.
Cane Robicheaux is no one’s prince. He doesn’t do relationships and he doesn’t fall in love. When sweet, sultry-voiced Angelle propositions him, he hopes their little game can finally get her out of his head. He doesn’t expect her to break through all his barriers. But even as Angelle burrows deeper into his heart, he knows once their seven days are up, so is their ruse.
Seven Day Fiancé (Love and Games #2)
by Rachel Harris
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Angelle stopped beside a folding table boasting boxes of fresh, crispy cracklins and selected a thick piece. Cane watched, mesmerized, as she puckered those gorgeous lips and blew on the sliver. With a flirtatious glint in her eyes, she held it up to his mouth, and he opened.
Holy crap.
He’d had cracklins before. Fried pork fat was a standard gas station treat, usually shrink-wrapped and stale as shit. But this, fresh from the pot and piping hot, was unbelievable. Cane widened his eyes, and it was possible he even moaned. It was thatgood. And as he swallowed, Angel rewarded him with a rich, throaty laugh.
“Ca c’est bon?” she asked, grinning when he grabbed another handful.
He touched her nose and popped a piece in his mouth. “Good would be an understatement.”
Grinning, she took a fried morsel for herself and sent the balding, overweight gentleman tending the table a wink. “Now that’s what we like to hear.” Then she closed her eyes as she savored the treat.
The sounds of Angel moaning, and watching her face soften in the throes of a foodgasm, had to be the sexiest damn thing Cane had ever seen. His pants tightened, embarrassingly so considering he knew the audience was still watching, but what pushed him over the edge was when her eyes opened. The pleasure in them was his undoing.
Feeling the weight of the crowd’s disapproving stares and not giving a damn, figuring now was as good a time as any to give the people the show they clearly wanted, he grasped her hip and tugged her forward, pausing only to inhale her gasp of surprise before brushing her mouth with his.
It was like setting off a damn forest fire.
Angelle, his shocking little hellcat, pounced. Forgetting all about their audience, or maybe not giving a damn either, she wound her arms around his neck, lifted onto her toes, and kissed him back with everything she had. Cane had intended to steal a quick taste, take the edge off his craving for her, and prove their point with the town’s people. But hell if he was gonna be the one to back down now. Tightening his grasp on her slim hips, he brushed his thumbs across the smooth, exposed skin near her waistband. He deepened the kiss, thrilling over her telltale shiver. Whimpering, she yanked on the hair at his nape and sucked his bottom lip into her mouth. Hot damn.
Okay, now he had to start backing down. With all her male relatives watching, not to mention the knives and axes still lying around from the butchering earlier, if Cane valued his life, he needed to wrangle control of the situation. He’d heard patience was a virtue. That was a line of bull—he’d always sucked at waiting for anything he wanted. But for Angel, he was willing to try.
Loosening his grip on her belt loops, Cane slowed the intensity of the kiss. He smoothed the hem of her shirt down, grazed her lips one last time, and, placing his forehead against hers, inhaled through his nose. Sunflowers mixed with cayenne may be his new favorite scent. Angelle released a heavy breath, a flush blooming on her cheeks. She darted a glance at the crowd, then looking into his eyes, grinned lazily. “My goodness. If anyone doubted we were a couple before, I guess that showed them.”
I grew up in New Orleans, where I watched soap operas with my grandmother and stayed up late sneak reading my mama’s favorite romance novels. Now a Cajun cowgirl living in Houston, I still stay up way too late reading my favorite romances, only now, I can do so openly. I firmly believe life’s problems can be solved with a hot, powdered-sugar-coated beignet or a thick slice of king cake, and that screaming at strangers for cheap, plastic beads is acceptable behavior in certain situations.
When not typing furiously or flipping pages in an enthralling romance, I homeschool my two beautiful girls and watch reality television with my amazing husband.
I write YA, NA, and Adult Fun & Flirty Escapes. Taste The Heat is my adult romance debut, and I'm also the author of MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEENTH CENTURY and A TALE OF TWO CENTURIES, as well as a ton of other books to come. I love hearing from readers and dishing books!
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Ali Kiki is a reader, writer, reviewer, blogger, and photographer. Sometimes she is a pirate or maybe she is always a pirate. Located in Portland, OR she enjoys exploring the city and finding new unique places. As an avid reader since childhood, you can usually find Ali devouring a book or stalking the bookstagram hashtag in her lovely apartment surrounded by books and Funko pops. Ali has been blogging since 2006 and she created Dazzled by Books in 2012.
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Lifestyle Fashion and Beauty 04 Nov 2018 Fashionably famous!
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Fashionably famous!
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Published Nov 4, 2018, 12:49 am IST
Updated Nov 4, 2018, 12:49 am IST
An exclusive tete-a tete with India's bridal couture designers, Monica and Karishma
They had the cream of Mumbai society at their 10th anniversary celebrations recently. Relatively low profile by choice, you will not find Monica and Karishma splashed across the media. And yet their designer creations have been worn by virtually every A list star or celebrity in India from Aishwarya Rai to Deepika Padukone to Gauri Khan — they have every high profile name on their clientele list. The front row seats at their recent showing were occupied by the likes of Roohi Jaikishen, Farah Oomerbhoy, Gayatri Oberoi, Monica Garware, Schauna Chauhan, to name a few. Excerpts from our conversation.
Congrats on your 10th anniversary. Why have you maintained such a low profile all these years?
Thank you! Well, it hasn't been a conscious decision. As it is, as designers we'd much rather let our work do the talking. We love what we do, and so we do a lot of it! Our time in the studio is sacred.
Let's trace your story. How and when did this interest in designing clothes begin and how did the two of you start collaborating together?
We've always been creatively inclined. Fashion and design have always felt like a natural extension of our personalities and how we express our artistic bend. So, this seemed like a natural progression. We met via mutual friends and hit it off immediately. As it goes with creative people, we started bouncing ideas back and forth with each other. The decision to start working together only felt obvious. We started out collaborating with and researching for major labels across Europe and eventually, the world. That journey was so rich, eye-opening and immersive, we realised that the only way to carry this experience forward would be by returning home, starting our own couture label that was rooted in Indianness yet had a global DNA.
Maria Grazia, the artistic director of Christian Dior spoke very warmly about the two of you in her speech. Can you share some memories of your association with her?
Oh, there are so many! But in the 20 years of us knowing Maria Grazia, the one memory that really stands out to this day is the very first time we met her. Back then, Maria Grazia and Pierpaolo Piccioli were heading the accessories division at Fendi, and we were just fledgling designers with so much passion and enthusiasm to taking India's legacy of craftsmanship to the world. MG saw our work, and told us she believed in our vision and talent. Coming from a powerful presence like herself, it was all the fuel we needed to keep going. Since then, there has been no looking back for us. In a way, she helped us lay the very foundation of our careers, and to this day she continues to be a mentor and guiding light.
The Indian fashion industry has evolved so much over the years. Are there any local designers whose works you admire?
We really admire Rohit Bal's work! His work is so refined and distinct. The attention to detail and stellar workmanship in his outfits is just brilliant!
What about internationally, any designers who have impacted you over the years?
It has to be Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. Rei Kawakubo is an icon, a visionary and her work is so radical. And the way Yohji Yamamoto plays with silhouettes and draping is simply inspiring. Both these designers have taken Japanese avant-garde aesthetic global in the most stunning ways.
You specialise in heirloom pieces for modern brides. How did this interest in bridal couture come about?
What makes any object special and unique to its owner is its heirloom value — the ability of an item to retain its beauty and carry on from one generation to another. This is especially true for bridalwear — since so many emotions are attached to it. Garments stop being mere objects and instead become storytellers, and over time that becomes a legacy. We wanted the brides of today to have something like this, something they could cherish, that would bring them and their future generation a unique sense of warmth. During our time with international couture brands, we found a keenness to make our mark in India, and couture and bridalwear are very well-intertwined together here. But, we also noticed a distinct lack in subtle, understated and eclectic bridalwear - something for the discerning bride. So, that's how our foray into bridal couture came about.
What kind of woman can carry of your clothes? Any celebrity icons who have recently sported your outfits? Can you talk about your experience with them?
We'd like to think that our brides are very discerning and evolved in their sense of style.
What is life like for Monica and Karishma outside of work?
We love travelling and immersing ourselves in different cultures! It's important for us to diversify our perception of the world and take ourselves out of our comfort zones constantly. And travel gives us the privilege to do that. Apart from that, yoga and meditation. Our personal lives are all about quality time with the family.
On a personal level, who are the designers that you wear?
Karishma: I love Dior, Tibi, Preen, Sandro and Maje.
Monica: I have a preference for Dior, Marni and Stella
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Nation Current Affairs 09 Mar 2016 Supreme Court extend ...
Supreme Court extends interim bail of Teesta Setalvad, husband
Published Mar 9, 2016, 9:17 pm IST
Updated Mar 9, 2016, 9:17 pm IST
Teesta and her husband have two criminal cases of alleged embezzlement of funds lodged against them by Gujarat Police and CBI.
The apex court bench declined the bail plea of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was appearing for Teesta and her husband Javed Anand. (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the interim bail of social activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband till April 29 in two criminal cases of alleged embezzlement of funds lodged by Gujarat Police and CBI.
A bench comprising justices A R Dave, FMI Kalifulla and V Gopala Gowda also referred the matters to Chief Justice of India TS Thakur for constituting another bench to hear them.
It said the Chief Justice will set up a regular bench for hearing them as the present combination of judges are not sitting together on a day-to-day basis.
The bench declined the plea of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was appearing for Teesta and her husband Javed Anand, that instead of any particular duration the interim bail be extended till further order.
"No we cannot do that," the bench said making it clear that it was extending interim bail for about a month and half. The interim bail of the couple is expiring on March 18.
The apex court on January 28 had asked them to cooperate in the probe by Gujarat Police and CBI after they alleged the duo were not cooperating with the investigation and not supplying relevant documents relating to how the funds were spent.
While Gujarat Police is probing the alleged embezzlement of funds for a museum at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society that was devastated in the 2002 riots, CBI is investigating the purported violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in connection with the utilisation of funds received from Ford Foundation by Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt Ltd, run by the couple.
During the last hearing, Sibal had refuted the allegation of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar and senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani on behalf of CBI and the state police respectively.
He had said the allegation of non-cooperation was being made against Teesta and her husband as the probe was not suiting the investigators.
The court had directed Teesta and Javed that if they have not supplied the relevant documents relating to the embezzlement case to Gujarat Police in accordance with the list provided to them by investigators, they would "furnish those documents as soon as possible and preferably within two weeks".
In the FCRA case, the bench had asked the couple to file an affidavit within two weeks explaining their stand on the issue of utilisation of funds procured by Sabrang.
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Sports, Cricket
ICC CWC'19: Virat and Rohit's coaches confident of India's win against Pakistan
Published Jun 16, 2019, 2:24 pm IST
Updated Jun 16, 2019, 2:24 pm IST
Rajkumar Sharma, skipper Kohli's coach, termed the clash highly anticipated and adviced team India to not panic.
India will take on Pakistan later in the day at 3 pm in Manchester with a prediction of rain at the venue adding more suspense to the nail-biting encounter. (Photo: AFP)
New Delhi: In the much-awaited World Cup game between rivals India and Pakistan, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma's coaches are confident of victory for the Men in Blue.
"It is a highly-anticipated match as it is happening after a long time so people around the world are eagerly waiting for the clash," Rajkumar told ANI.
India should play their natural game and should take the pressure on them as they are the better team than Pakistan, he said.
"India should play on their potential and should not panic and should hold their nerve as they have performed well in the last couple of years. People are highly excited as in both the country cricket is treated as a religion. Both the teams will try to win the game," he explained.
Rohit's coach Dinesh Lad suggested fans to treat the clash as a game, not war.
"Everybody sees India-Pakistan match as a war but it is just a cricket game. Winning and losing are part of sports, but every Indian wants India to defeat Pakistan in the World Cup. India can afford to lose against any other opponent in the World Cup but certainly not at the hands of Pakistan," Lad told ANI.
"Pakistan has a couple of good bowlers and Indian batsmen have to play with patience as they are playing good in the World Cup. My advice to Rohit is that if he stays in the middle for 10-15 overs, it will be difficult to Pakistani bowlers to get rid of him," he added.
Lad opined that Shikhar Dhawan's absence will put more responsibility of Rohit Sharma.
"Loss of Dhawan will affect the opening, as he with Rohit has scored many hundred plus partnership for the team. Rohit has to play with the responsibility, although India has a very good batting line-up as they have Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, KL Rahul and Dinesh Kartik. If India manages to score the 300 and above, it will be difficult for Pakistan to chase the target," Lad said.
"I hope that this match will happen without the disturbance of rain as four matches of the tournament so far have been called off due to showers," he added.
India will take on Pakistan later in the day at 3 pm in Manchester with a prediction of rain at the venue adding more suspense to the nail-biting encounter.
The Indian side has never lost to Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup and will look to continue their winning streak today.
Tags: 2019 icc cricket world cup, india vs pakistan, india vs pakistan world cup
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Name : Cassandra Peterson
Birth Date : 17 September 1951
Birth Place : Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Nationality : NA
Height : 1.7 m
Occupation : Actress
Cassandra Peterson is an American actress, writer and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles ...
Cassandra Peterson Movies and TV Shows
Acting on Impulse [3 June 1993]
Hollywood-style mayhem follows a B-movie queen (Linda Fiorentino) who tries to get away from it all at a resort hotel.
All About Evil [1 May 2010]
A mousy woman inherits an old movie house and starts making a series of grisly shorts, but her fans do not realize that the murders in the films are all real.
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold [18 December 1986 (Germany)]
Allan Quatermain teams up with Jesse Hudson, as the discovery of a mysterious old gold piece sends Quatermain looking for his long-lost brother, missing in the wilds of Africa.
Arias With A Twist [13 February 2010]
A drag artist and a puppeteer collaborate on a show that brings them great success.
Attack of the Killer B-Movies [1995]
Blood Legacy [17 March 1971]
Heirs to a large fortune must join together and spend the night in a creepy haunted house to get their inheritance.
Bride of Monster Mania [2001]
Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas [9 July 2013]
Earlene (Ashleigh Sumner) runs away from an estranged lover and arrives in Venice Beach. She becomes friends with an Australian skater and they journey into the desert to find themselves.
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie [1977]
An alien becomes a flesh-eating zombie when it assumes the form of a murder victim's corpse.
Coast to Coast [3 October 1980]
A giggling rich woman (Dyan Cannon) escapes from an asylum and hitches west with a weary trucker (Robert Blake) hauling cattle.
Diamonds Are Forever [14 December 1971 (West Germany)]
James Bond masquerades as Peter Franks to uncover a diamond smuggling conspiracy. He must also deal with his old rival who wants to use the diamonds to build a giant laser.
Die Nacht der lebenden Idioten [Alex Lotz]
Doomsday Machine [1972]
People (Denny Miller, Mala Powers, Grant Williams) on a spaceship ponder repopulation after seeing Earth destroyed on their way to Venus.
Echo Park [16 May 1986]
Echo Park, L.A., is where the city's has-beens, hopefuls and dreamers work their day jobs. May (Susan Dey), a single parent, works as a bartender to support herself and her son, Henry (Christopher Walker), though her real passion is acting. She also maintains a lukewarm affair with August (Michael Bowen), a would-be action star. For extra cash, she takes on a tenant, Jonathan (Tom Hulce), who wants to be a singer. Jonathan has more than success on his mind, though, as he begins to fall for May.… MORE
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films [2 August 2014]
Robert Forster, Sybil Danning, Bo Derek, Tobe Hooper and others help filmmaker Mark Hartley recount the rise and fall of Cannon Films, the studio behind such schlock films as "The Apple" and "King Solomon's Mines."
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark [30 September 1988 (USA)]
The horror-movie hostess turns a puritanical community on its ear when she arrives in town to claim her inheritance.
Elvira's Box of Horrors [1959]
Elvira's Halloween Special [31 October 1986]
Elvira's Halloween Special is a 1986 TV special for MTV hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The special included skits with Elvira as well as music videos.
Elvira's Haunted Hills [23 June 2001 (USA)]
Elvira and her maid ZouZou are en route to perform in the Parisian Revue `Yes I Can Can' but inadvertently end up at the sinister Lord Vladimere Hellsubus' medieval castle. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to Vladimere's long-dead wife, Elvira learns of the Hellsubus curse and finds her life in danger.
Encounter in the Third Dimension [31 March 1999]
This mix of fact-based documentary and camp comedy focuses on a professor (Stuart Pankin) as he explains the history and technology of 3-D film-making, with the help of his flying robot assistant, M.A.X. Enlisting late-night television temptress Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) to illustrate his new invention, Real-O-Vision, the professor loses control and all goes haywire. In the end, Elvira turns the professor into cardboard and traps M.A.X. inside a TV, debating whether or not to release him.… MORE
Filmgore [Ken Dixon]
First Period [27 July 2013]
Two new girls that are easily the most awkward girls in high school, decide on a way to win the hearts of the cute boys and popular girls at school.
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks [19 February 1974 (Italy)]
Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
Get Out of My Room [1985]
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! [6 October 2020]
In Search of Darkness [6 October 2019]
An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
It's My Party [22 March 1996]
Nick (Eric Roberts), a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon (Gregory Harrison), a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.… MORE
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again [1 October 1982]
Dr. Jekyll (Mark Blankfield) inhales white powder and becomes an obnoxious Southern Californian.
King of the Mountain [4 April 1981]
A Los Angeles mechanic (Harry Hamlin), songwriter (Joseph Bottoms) and record producer race sports cars on winding Mulholland Drive.
Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood [27 March 2016]
Scooby Doo and the gang try to rescue a dilapidated movie studio, which is haunted by several ghosts and monsters.
Making Fun: The Story of Funko [22 January 2018]
The history of the toy company, how it grew its customer base, and its influence on pop culture collectibles.
Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts [Ed Polgardy]
Pee-wee's Big Adventure [9 August 1985 (USA)]
Pee Wee Herman goes on a big adventure when his bike is stolen. He hitches across America, encountering various people and situations in his own special way, but will he find his beloved bike?
Red Riding Hood [7 February 2007 (Brazil)]
In this re-telling of the classic fairytale with a twist, Red is on a journey of initiation and not just a naive girl delivering cakes to Granny.
Rewind This! [11 March 2013]
A filmmaker explores the creation of the videocassette, a technology that changed the world as we know it. Those who collect and care passionately about the ground-breaking home electronics format speak about cultural impact it made.
Ring of the Musketeers [1 December 1992 (Germany)]
As descendants of the original Three Musketeers, Peter Porthos (Thomas Gottschalk), John Smith D'Artagnan (David Hasselhoff) and Anne-Marie Athos (Alison Doody) are continuing the chivalrous tradition of protecting those who can't protect themselves, carrying it into the modern age. Rather than fighting lords and counts, these Musketeers have the Mafia to deal with, but they're aided by reformed burglar Burt Aramis (Cheech Marin), the newly knighted fourth Musketeer.… MORE
Roma [16 March 1972 (Italy)]
A gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome, described through an autobiographical reconstruction of Fellini's arrival into Rome during the Mussolini years.
Stroker Ace [1 July 1983 (USA)]
Confident NASCAR driver Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds) runs into problems when a confrontation with his commercial sponsor causes him to lose his contract. Clyde Torkel (Ned Beatty), the owner of a fried-chicken chain, immediately asks Stroker to be the face of his company. After some pushing by Clyde and his marketing executive, Pembrook Feeney (Loni Anderson), Stroker signs on without even reading his obligations. He then finds himself legally bound to a horrible contract, with no end in sight.… MORE
Ted & Venus [1991]
Ted Whitley, a poet, falls head-over-heels in love with the woman of his dreams while looking for a place to stay. He begins stalking her.
The Devil's Wedding Night [14 March 1973 (Italy)]
Twin archaeologists (Mark Damon) seek the Ring of the Nibelung at a castle in Transylvania and find a vampire countess (Rosalba Neri).
The Elvira Show [Peter Bonerz]
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto [12 September 2009 (USA)]
An adventurous wrestler (Tom Papa) battles supernatural forces and the evil Dr. Satan (Paul Giamatti).
The Ketchup Vampires [26 September 1995]
The Scream [5 March 2009]
The Sting II [18 February 1983]
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on a nasty mob boss with the help of a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf.
The Werewolf of Washington [1973]
The nation's capital faces a bizarre political scandal when a top presidential aide suffers a severe personality change.
The Working Girls [October 1974]
Desperate for work, three Los Angeles women sample a variety of unusual jobs. Featuring Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson.
Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun: IMAX [1997]
Filmmaker Ben Stassen presents the history of roller coasters, motion simulators, motion pictures and computer animation.
To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story [26 August 2017]
Hollywood stuntman Kane Hodder, famous for Friday the 13th, revisits his rough childhood and near-death accident.
Vampira: The Movie [Kevin Sean Michaels]
Biography of the first horror-movie host, Maila Nurmi.
Zombie Killer [23 October 2008]
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- 1.7 m.
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- 69.
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Lisa Connell, GCN Managing Editor, speaks to Laura Louise about her work with Gay Community News, the importance of queer nightlife and the origins of Love Sensation.
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Episode 2 Transcription
Intro: And welcome to women STAR Dublin lesbian line’s new podcast created to showcase the stories within the LGBTQAI community, specifically the stories of women STAR, which includes queer, nonbinary and transgender people. We want you to feel included whatever way you present yourself to the world so if you have a story you want to tell get in touch with us at www.dublinlesbianline.ie. Today’s guest is Lisa Connell, managing editor of Gay Community News. We spoke to Lisa at the end of 2019 about her work with GCN and the importance of queer nightlife. We began by asking her to introduce herself.
Lisa Connell [LC]: My name is Lisa, I am a human person who works for GCN, Gay Community News, and I'm the managing editor and I also run parties and events and things for the community.
Laura Louise Condell [LLC]: So I heard you talk on the in ‘In Awe of Mná’ podcast, it was absolutely brilliant and thank you for the DLL and the 40th shout-out by the way. We'd love to hear similar topics but we really want to hear your personal experiences if that's okay with you. So starting back from the beginning, can you tell us about growing up queer in Donegal please?
LC: Okay, fadó fadó... so I'm of a certain age that I think it's a funny thing to say growing up queer because that's a very retrospective descriptor because I would say I grew up straight in this weird way, in that I don't think, I just do not think I had a real sense of my queerness as a child or as a teenager. It really came to me a lot later so I think I grew up feeling different but really didn't get to the bottom of that for a long time and didn't really... ya know thought it was about other things or different things so it's kind of... I often, when I was a younger queer person I would often envy people who had that very clearly 'awh I knew I was gay at four’ because I thought that that was so fabulous and amazing and for me it didn't really go like that, so you know like, I almost wish I was more of a tomboy than I even was, which is sort of silly, but that was kind of part of my process. So I kind of came to my queerness in my late teens and early 20's. I came out at the age of... I was early 21 when I came out so yeah it took me a bit of time and I think part of that was that I didn’t think you could be gay, I didn't have any, I didn't know any gay people. I didn't really register it in a way that felt accessible or visible even. So when I was in college I did a theatre degree so there was a high density of non-straight people and I was often mistaken for a queer person and I had... I was in an opposite sex relationship at the time and I used to be so hilariously offended when people would think I was gay, 'how dare you I have a boyfriend!' I mean who was I fooling? So then at 20 I met somebody and fell madly in love and she was my first girlfriend, my first love and then sort of from there there was a lot of retrospective 'ah ha, oh yes...' And it's interesting because I think sometimes for some queer folk you kind of revisit the past and then learn more about it with hindsight so yeah, that was sort of how it kind of happened.
LL: Thank you, I definitely think that's the case for a lot of [people], that there was a different feeling, but there wasn't any visibility or representation so it was like what... couldn't quite place what that different feeling was until you go out into the world and meet other people or fall for someone and then you're like 'oh yeah, that's what that was'. Ehm, and how did you end up in Dublin?
LC: So I, after I did my degree in the University of Ulster at Coleraine. So I'm from Donegal and I was actually explaining this recently, I feel that Donegal people are very much, we feel very close to Northern Ireland because obviously we're literally in it but think we sort of feel quite... ya know I grew up just across the border from Derry so when I finished college my natural first step was to live in Belfast which I did for a few years and then I decided to move to Dublin with my first girlfriend a couple of years after we lived in Belfast together because we wanted to move somewhere but we couldn’t decide on where so Dublin was sort of supposed to be the stepping and it ended up being the final destination. So we moved here at the height of the boom and it was kind of hilarious and ridiculous and Belfast is relatively affordable city to live in, like the living standards and the cost of living would be pretty reasonable I think, like I know it's changed now, at that time particularly and so when we moved to Dublin I was completely, I couldn't... it was bonkers, like rental... like actually hilariously cut to today we've gone back to that place. Ehm so yeah, and actually when I moved here I didn't particularly warm to it to start with, I was holding a candle for Northern Ireland still so it took me... actually what happened, I was really close to moving back to Belfast but I got involved in gay rights activism and that sort of ignited my love of this city through the people and through our community so I credit my early days with LGBT noise as my... they really bonded me to the city.
LLC: That's amazing, thank you. Congratulations on managing editor of GCN, would you tell us please how you got to this point?
LC: So I have been working with GCN for a decade and so at the start and for many years I worked part time and I was looking after distribution and at the same time that i was doing that I was also doing a lot of activism so it really suited me to have a part time gig and I was also working in coffee shops or working in bars but I enjoyed just the being part of the community magazine and feeling like I was contributing to something and then I kind of, you know that thing when you're juggling lots of jobs so I said to the guys 'ya know, is there more work going?' And so my previous colleague Conor Wilson said 'okay well let's get you selling some ads and you can pay for your extra time in the week or whatever'. So then I started selling ads and then it just sort of really, I just stayed around and kept learning more skills and doing more projects and tasks. GCN is a really wonderful place to work in that it's small enough that you can kind of get your hands dirty in all the different departments which is really exciting if you're someone like me who wants to know how everything works and how things are done. So I think my natural curiousity really allowed me to keep growing in this job because I was always wanting... 'Oh how do you run that event? And how would you do the ticketing for that?’ And you know of course in the community you're doing a lot of stuff on a shoe string or on no budget at all so you need people who are nosey enough and busy enough to sustain that energy. So yeah I just, and GCN has had over... last year we celebrated 30 years in publishing and it's had many wonderful editors and commercial managers and loads of brilliant people have come through the place across the last 30 years and I feel very indebted and I feel that we're still here and we're still thriving is a testament to hundreds of people and all the board members who would have run it across loads of different time periods. And then yeah I became the commercial manager two years ago and I did that for about a year and then the outgoing managing editor Brian was leaving so there was the opportunity to apply for his job so I thought ‘ya know I have come this far', and I applied for the job and got the job which is very exciting. And now I work with a really awesome small team. It's always funny, people are really surprised by how few of us there because I feel like we do a lot for out 40 hours a week but we're really excited and committed and we're all a bunch of people who have a similar... we really share a drive and a passion and an energy and that's really helpful. In fact I shouldn't really joke but I half joke the problem with this team is getting them to stop working so it's a really thing where we're all really committed and I just want everyone to mind themselves as well because I don't want people burning out. It's a dream job, it's a wonderful thing to be able to serve the community in such a tangible way because there's the physical product every month in the magazine and there's a physical product every day in the website and then we do events every quarter so there's a really, the kind of rewards are very rich in terms of that.
LLC: Absolutely, I think DLL can really relate to a lot of what you said there about doing things on a shoestring but also about passion and drive and not burning out because especially when, I think you mentioned in the other podcast, there's excitement and ideas and there's also a never ending list of things to try and achieve. And on that, now that you are managing editor what’s your priority for GCN?
LC: So I mean there's lots of things, we are, we're nearly at the end of 2019 and we've spent all year really reaching out to the community and trying every issue to really try to get to grips with what's going on for people and also really trying to showcase the rich diversity and difference and kind of amazing mix of types of people that in the community. Because you know at various points through time the magazine went through stages of feeling more of one thing than another or less of that and we, the current team, are very very committed and interested in the idea of having the most diverse representation and visibility of the community and really talking to all parts of the community about the other parts of the community because you know wanting people to understand trans folk, like having the rest of the community understand what's going with trans healthcare or having younger queer people understand what it might feel like to be a 60 something year old queer person. Because I think the sharing within the community is really important and when we know about one another we can have one another's backs. And then beyond that obviously is just there's an ever pressing priority to keep it afloat, keep the money coming in, working to make it sustainable business as well because there's often, it can be a bit of hustle at times so one goal that I have set for us and we're getting there, is to really just place it in an appropriate part of the Irish market so it has a sort of place and a sustainable place.
LLC: Thank you, that was actually another question, I think it's so phenomenal that GCN has always been free and still is, how do you manage that?
LC: Well we, it's absolutely fundamental that GCN remains as a free product, there isn't... unless the community vastly change it's ask of us, there's no way we would ever change that. It's so important that's it's a free community resource, you know the way people access information has changed but there is still a massive need for the magazine and we believe for the print edition as well as, I mean we've been growing our digital offering and reach but that is not in my opinion or it is not the idea to replace but it's to compliment because you know there are people who are not online and there are people in a rural setting who might, there access point might be their local resource centre or their library. We're a pretty creative bunch so we have part of our funding comes from the government, so we're Pobail funded, a big old chunk of our funding comes from Mother, which is a weekly nightclub with bigger seasonal parties and that's really my job as managing editor is to run the business. But Cormac and I run mother together and it's very much, it's a really important strand in GCN's kind of well, it helps us run ya know. And then obviously other GCN events, you know all the stuff that happen regularly in the community, we do quizzes, we do panel events, working with brands to really raise funds and that's a really interesting model to me because I feel that it's really important that all our events remain accessible because I don't want someone to be priced out of a conversation and so we work with different companies and brands in order, so they can cover the big costs so the LGBT person who might want to come isn't priced out of it.
LLC: I love that you’re anticipating all my questions before I get to them as well because I was going to ask you, GCN has an incredible online presence and it's made organisations like DLL, well not now that we have a comms team, but before that doing things quite last minute and maybe not knowing things in advance for the deadlines of the print magazines to be able to email and a journalist with say yeah sure we will put that online today. I was going to ask you, how important is keeping the print magazine and what it means to you?
LC: Actually interestingly about the digital stuff is that I love, one of the things that I, the limitation of a monthly cycle is that there will always be stuff that it's too far beyond... so say you guys have an event but then it's a full month after the event so it's kind of is a bit funny to put it on the magazine so the website is so great and the social media is so great because it allows us to cover community stuff in real time or just before or just after and it's great because it just allows... the other thing that I would say because we are a news site also you know we tend to be reporting on some tough stuff. Like LGBT news can be overwhelmingly bad news as the news can be in general so what the thing we love in here as well is actually we love working with community groups to get positive stuff out there, meet ups that are happening, you know that's so important. And in terms of the print publication, I know I sort of said it already, but for me personally beyond kind of, beyond the mission of the magazine... I think if you're over a certain age particularly GCN had a very specific role to play in your LGBT life, you know I certainly remember when I moved to Dublin first I would go to the IFI religiously every month when I knew it was out and pick it up because obviously we didn't all have phones and we didn't all have internet, we really did rely on the print product, obviously that has now changed quite dramatically. I do still love the idea that at any moment someone in the city can kind of dip into our world and okay it's not exhaustive but it is giving someone a sense what is happening for LGBT people on this island right now at this moment and so there's an even beyond the sort of information and resourcing there's also the documentation. Because Tonie Walsh who's one of the cofounders of GCN along with Katherine Glendon speaks a lot about the fact that one of the drivers to get the thing set up in the first place was the fact that mainstream media wouldn't cover anything to do with LGBT life or struggles or any of the great activism that was happening so it was really a way for the community to take it's story into its own hands and that has a lot of power and relevance and resonance because those stories are still important.
LLC: Absolutely. And I think the physical magazine; it serves so many purposes, not just for people who can't access things online. Like it's really nice to walk into somewhere that you don't expect to see GCN, I think it's a great signifier that the place is welcoming and it's accepting and I know for a lot of people who aren't necessarily out yet going to pick up a physical copy of GCN, it's there kind of queer thing to do for the month. Like god I remember I collected loads of them from important times in Ireland and important times in my life and I remember when I wasn’t out, the Pride parade was going on and I was working in shoe shop and I ran down the road and I got a copy of GCN and I still have that first GCN from my first secret pride. Like it's really important, it's something really special. And on special and important things... were you going to say something, sorry...
LC: I actually was, so we did on our arts issue a couple of months ago we did a cover with SOAK, the musician who's also an amazing illustrator, and we did the cover was the North is next and it was about ally-ship and support of our queer and also people who can get pregnant in Northern Ireland so there's sort of a cross border project that we did with Outburst arts and Dublin fringe and one of the proudest most amazing things, well there was two things – for the event we created a special zine which felt really, there was sort of a nice tactile nature of actually creating a physical product that people went to a space to get was really special and important because it marked it just as you're saying but also my pal lives in Berlin and she sent me a photo of the doorway of a block of flats and someone had put the GCN, like the full magazine, they'd pasted it up on to the front door and I just thought, I was completely delighted and blown away and so excited that the relevance of that physical artefact for want of a better term it still, as you say it's a signifier , it signals something and it just made me so happy. I was beside myself with joy.
LLC: That's amazing. And also I think with something like a physical magazine someone can walk past that and read and it and be brought into a world that maybe wasn't on their radar or they weren't thinking of. Like I think with the website which is fantastic a lot of the time people are going to it specifically. But with the magazine if you're in a cafe if you just pick it up in a queue like you might get introduced to something that you didn't know you were looking for. That's incredible. So you said at the start that you organised, and I hope I get this right, parties for the community, I love that and I have been to many of those parties and they're fantastic. What is it about queer nightlife that draws you in or that you're passionate about?
LC: So I mean I think that I have to claim my bias that I just think LGBT folk are more fun so no, I support queer spaces and I think they’re still relevant and important and necessary and yes we do know how to put on a good party and that's always helpful because going back across many decades the kind of cool music thing will start in the gay clubs and then filter out into wider culture and I think that's still the case. And yeah when we set mother up it was in a time of, the recession had hit really intensely and actually GCN was in a really rocky place because the bottom fell out of the advertising market so suddenly all the lovely shiny ads that would have been in the mag were not there because people's marketing budgets were just slashed so we had to, you know part necessity but also part a desire to kind of gather people together and say you know what can we always do? And what we can always do is find one another, and party and dance and I love dancing and I always have and I think it is such a powerful positive force and I I've said this before for LGBT people particularly, even if you're not, well especially if you're an activist, but even if you're not an activist sometimes just being an LGBT person in the world is your activism so there's the letting off steam that happens particularly in a queer space that is really important because as you said early if you do community work you can get fatigued, like it can be draining, it can be sometimes thankless, it can be tiring, and you don't know how can I do this or I can't do that or I've done too much already, but for me anyway there's something very rejuvenating or recharging about going in, having a bop, seeing your pals, having a laugh and then you know often feeling kind of, even if you're tired even if you’re hungover, just feeling that that was a great night and those are really important because I think those can fill the tank back up again. Particularly I mean now because I run the parties it's kind of important that they go well for other reasons because I want them to be a success but it just it gives me a lot of joy to see it and to feel it and to actually just be with your people and go 'these are my people'.
LLC: Absolutely it's so rejuvenating, it's such a powerful energy. I often don't make it to nights out, I think I just work so much in the community and volunteer so much that I'm just at my limit, I just want to go home. And I was working on pride, like work working, and Cáitríona had a ticket for me for Mother and it was just like, I was so tired but we danced until the very last song, like we're not leaving. And at one point I was just barely moving but it just felt so important to just be out and stay out and be there on Pride at our party. It was a great night and I wasn't drinking or anything that day I was just like wooo.
LC: Oh I mean that's another thing, dear listener, super super party hack is to stay sober, I'm telling you, it is the way of the future because I find as I have gotten older I actually find alcohol tires me more if I was just there with a little can of soda pop or sparkling water. So yeah I'm all about the sober party.
LLC: And I think people think that they can't go out in queer spaces if they don't drink or they don't do drugs. But I don't know, our spaces are there for us so whatever you do I would feel that Mother is a welcoming place.
LC: And yeah you know the serious sort of side to that is that obviously we are as community more vulnerable to being disproportionally affected by addiction so there is a part of that absolutely a lot of people feel that 'I can't go out unless I'm going to get wrecked' and actually I hope that people are moving beyond that and understanding that ‘no no I can do this a different way and I can access it a better way and a different way'. And people minding themselves because Irish people in general are terrible for 'what? What's wrong with you? Are you pregnant? Are you sick?' You know that kind of silly nonsense. I hope it’s changing because I do think people need to mind of themselves and I'm often sober now at parties because I'm working so it would be not cute for me to be drunk but it does not diminish my ability to enjoy. In fact I would argue that it has increased my capacity for enjoyment and kind of get the buzz out of it.
LLC: I agree with you, I do think things are changing on that front, I know the last few years there's been such a demand for night-time spaces that don't have alcohol in them but then I know that there's people that don't drink that still want to be out in dancing spaces. Now it is possible to still go out even if other people are drinking...
LC: Yeah I mean I find it really interesting at the moment that there's a whole exploding of non-alcoholic beers as a thing at the moment on the market. Like me and a couple of pals do a thing we call it Noo-vember so you don't drink in November and say even a few years ago when we started it, like you're options are you have water or you'd be drinking sugar which is fine... like I love a coca cola but you can't have 5 coca colas or your teeth would just all fall out. So it's really interesting the non-alcoholic beer is a really good and interesting development because it would allow people to feel that they're accessing something that they can't. I'm glad that that's a thing because I see more and more people kind of having that and also it means that you can drive in or then you can get up the next day or whatever so it's good. And also just for people minding themselves, you know the whole drink and drugs are not good for your mental health so yeah.
LLC: And what about Love Sensation? How did that come about? Did you enjoy it? Are you going to do it again?
LC: Okay so Love Sensation came about because of Pride. So pride as a party was growing and growing and we were super excited and it was just this massive thing and it kept kind of getting bigger every year. And at the same time as the Pride party was growing we were being asked to go to different music festivals, so we would do a stage at body and soul or we would do something at electric picnic. And loads of other lovely festivals and we kind of, obviously it's quite a dream, like that would be a big dream of 'oh we could do our own festival'. But it's obviously a massive undertaking and so it didn't feel like something, until this year it wasn't really something we felt we have the capacity to actually do. But then we had conversations with people who work in the industry and we teamed up with MCD as our booking partner because they are the people who help you get all the big acts and they would also have a good sense of, because they do so many other festivals. And so it kind of grew from there and suddenly it went from being a theoretical idea to a real life thing which was both exhilarating and terrifying and Cormac and I worked a lot on it. Cormac very much taking the lead on it and then it just went super well. I was really proud of it. I thought it was wonderful and to speak back to what we were saying about the queer space and the loveliness of being with your peeps, that was like super extra bonus queer space vibes and it felt really exciting that we were suddenly taking over this massive space, literal physical massive green site festival space and really making it feel our own and making it, like we put a lot of time and effort into making sure that the bathrooms weren’t gendered and we made sure the queuing system wasn't gendered and we briefed security on ‘you know this is a diverse crowd and you've got to just be really chill and if you see something that you are not used to please don't laugh’ and just really kind of thinking about what it is to be a queer person in a space and thinking about how we could make sure that there weren’t very pedestrian but often very upsetting encounters that just feel crap and would really kind of just bring your day down at little bit. And let's be real, it's not that people mean to do that, it's just we get so... particularly, and I can speak to this as someone who runs an event, people get very panicky because it's all crowd control stuff, so security are often gruff with people because they've been told to do a job, and 'I must not let anyone pass this or if you look like you might be a female person I can't let you in this space or vice verse'. And actually it's not that they want to be transphobic or problematic, they're burdened by this worry that they have to do the right thing in terms of the rules. So really we sort of were like ‘let's scratch all that, this is how this is going to go’. And it actually was beautiful and lovely and chill and there was no trouble and there was no, thankfully no bad incidents, no drama and then we had super exciting and fun acts and there were 3 stages and there was funfair and there was a queer quarter which was full of deadly people from the community doing deadly things. And yes we're doing it again, can't tell you anything yet, but like yes, in the works, and also going back to what worked, what didn't work, what we can make better and really going again.
LLC: Congratulations, it's amazing that the first year was such a success.
LC: Yeah it's wild, like Cormac and I about an hour before the gates opened the Saturday, we were doing a security check and we were walking through this site and just looking at one another going 'what on earth are we doing?' And I was kind of kidding and was like 'will we just, can we just leave now?’ [Laughs]. But no, obviously it was such a buzz and yeah it's a sort of a mad old game but it's really fun. But it's also, Ireland is already super, we have a lot of festivals already, it's a very, I would say nearly a fully saturated market in fact when you try to book dates or thinking when to have things there's so much stuff on but I suppose one thing that was really exciting for us with love sensation even though it is very busy we were offering enough of a different thing that people were into in it so that's kind of fun. And also even fun stuff like festivals historically have had a really big problem with balancing gender on their line ups and it's not that it's coincidence because obviously we have an approach to how we book but we tend to have 50 per cent or more female. Although I get that the binaried approach is also becoming, we're moving beyond that or at least challenging it more. But eh yeah even just that the way, who we're curating to play, who we're inviting to come and perform that's also really fun because that's when you get a chance to showcase talent and give people opportunities.
LLC: That's incredible and I love all the thought that went into not having gendered queues and things because I know so many trans people and non-binary people or people that present or feel differently than they present, queues going into things stress them out so much and can be a barrier to something. Like a real block, not wanting to be told you're in the wrong queue or to be patted down and being like 'what's...?' Like if someone is binded or if they're wearing a strap-on, to not have them being like 'oh what's in there?!' So to have that awareness and know you're going into a space that's not going to be gendered I would say that would even inspire people to go, just to get past that first block.
LC: Oh 100% because we know that's not fun and it's really difficult because again, not that I'm trying to... because obviously people can be homophobic and transphobic but it's often not even, it's something that maybe a security person might think it's a relatively innocuous or they think they're just doing their job. they don't really get or understand that they've just really really triggered or upset that person for the day and yeah exactly that sort of bizarre and violating feeling of being figured out you know? So yeah we were very, we had very strong ideas about how that should feel for people and I'm really glad to say that the security were all brilliant. And I think that's the thing you have to set the culture and explain that this is how this is going to be and we're really lucky, the crowd are, our customers are, the people who come and party with us are awesome so that's the other part. There's no need, the kind of heavy handed security vibe is not really needed with our events anyway because people are sound. Because sometimes I think poor security folk have a tough time when crowds are maybe trying to be bratty or agro so.
LLC: Yeah I love that you set the culture, especially seeing as you set that from the very start it's harder to change that once it's in whereas if you start off a certain way. That’s fantastic. And everyone knows going forward there's a reputation of the festival. So because this is with DLL the podcast is for people to feel supported or inspired or something like that. So as a human person or even as managing editor of GCN do you have any words of support or anything for anybody that might be listening that is feeling a bit lost.
LC: Oh well my experience tells me that people tend to be really hard on themselves and I wonder if we could all be slightly nicer to ourselves if that might not make quite a big difference because I think often you know the biggest critic and you're biggest enemy can sometimes be that kind of critical voice in your head. I'm not suggesting it's the only thing of course there's lots of other challenges and external forces. But I think there's something, and you know it's a slow process for me, I'm a person of a certain age and it's a work in process but yeah try and go easy on yourselves and if you're struggling talk to your pals or keep a journal or of course call the helpline. The reaching out and talking to folk is absolutely... you know I, there's no problem ever so big when you talk it out a little bit that you can't sort of at least figure out what is a potential next step. And I might say I'm so proud of you guys, I think it's amazing, I really think what the line does is so brilliant and special and important and the fact that you guys have been around, it's astounding to me that it's been 40 years and counting. I'm really happy and proud that our community has that resource because it's important.
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Lovely Peaches reportedly loses custody of daughter after investigation
Published: 7/Aug/2020 9:54
by Brad Norton
Controversial social media personality Brittany ‘Lovely Peaches’ Johnson has reportedly lost custody of her daughter following an official investigation from the FBI.
The 19-year-old internet personality has long been a controversial figure. Constant threats to TikTok star Charli D’Amelio threw Johnson into the spotlight in July. On the back of these worrying messages and posts, she was deemed an ‘unstable parental figure’ for her young daughter.
Johnson exploded on social media largely due to these threats, alongside troublesome videos involving her 8-month-old baby, Cora. In these videos, Johnson laughed off vile behavior and joked about harmful activities involving the child.
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Cora was taken away due to these issues, however, Johnson was seen with the baby once again on July 26. Just days later, following viral outcries from people on social media, an official FBI investigation was launched.
On August 6 it was reported by Children’s Riot that Cora had been “rescued” and “will never be returned” to her biological mother.
To witness the effort of this groups dedication to demand that justice is served to Peaches is empowering. Because of your massive effort we have gotten word that Cora has been rescued and will never be returned to her abusive mother. Thank you for your passion and energy. Cora will never have to endure this pain again. Since these videos and photos are so brutal, we have chosen to take them down and hone our focus on donating to the trafficking shelter through our coffee initiative for this week. This will help aid the rehabilitation for kids like Cora and we couldn’t think of a better way to support this cause than helping the front lines. Please join us in donating to this shelter to help these children heal ???
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“Cora was back with her mother, and has been taken away from her as of this morning,” according to The Salvation Foundation. “As of now, she is safe, she is no longer with her mother.”
This foundation also stated that they’re working on erasing Johnson’s social media presence. Her Instagram account with over a million followers has already been removed from the internet, following swiftly in the aftermath of a platform ban on TikTok as well.
“The FBI has ensured that Peaches will no longer have access to hurting Cora or any other children,” Candle In A Dark Room claims. “She is being prosecuted and will pay for what she has done.”
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An online petition to launch an investigation started over two years ago, which has amassed over 170,000 signatures in that time. This social media movement has unquestionably played a major part in bringing the situation to light.
Holy shit guys, we freakin did it!!!! ?? I just received some phone calls, text messages and confirmation from @childrensriot that baby Cora has been rescued and is safe from lovely peaches! @thesalvationfoundation also confirmed this information. The FBI has ensured that Peaches will no longer have access to hurting Cora or any other children. She is being prosecuted and will pay for what she has done!! I seriously cannot think everyone enough! I can’t believe because of all of us that have been fighting and using our voice & platforms for Cora, she’s now safe!! This could not have happened without all of you, so I seriously cannot thank you enough! This includes all influencers like @kiborman & others with large and small platforms, who shared the videos & info. Our voices are finally being heard. As a survivor I have felt alone in this fight for so long and I no longer feel that way. I’m honestly in shock & over the moon with everything I just found out! WE saved that little girl!! I don’t know why Peaches said she died cuz that is not true. Some are also saying Peaches didn’t have custody, but I’m trying to confirm that. With the recent pics & video, Peaches had access to cora somehow & she was in danger. Myself & CIADR will continue to fight for kids like Cora! I’m still looking into going to the court hearing if I can (cuz of COVID) to make sure she never has the opportunity to hurt another child! Her social media accounts have been deleted from TikTok and Instagram as well!! PLEASE, let’s not stop fighting for justice for children like Cora. We’re the only voice they have! The fight has only started so let’s keep fighting. I freakin love all of you and I’m SO grateful for the kind messages & support I have received! Thank you, thank you! Again, these results were cuz of ALL who have been sharing & talking about this. We will have the report with more info in about 10 days. Please keep following CIADR & supporting our purpose in helping survivors, cuz we can’t do this alone! It takes many organizations and groups of people to make a difference in the world! ?❤️???? SHARE this post so everyone knows!! I will update as updates come.
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The controversial figure boasted hundreds of thousands of followers across various platforms, however many of those accounts have now been taken down. At the time of writing, her YouTube account is currently still live with just under 90,000 subscribers.
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Jake Paul roasts Conor McGregor with new fight deal after UFC 257 Poirier loss
Published: 24/Jan/2021 6:37 Updated: 24/Jan/2021 10:39
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Conor McGregor Jake Paul
Jake Paul has jokingly rescinded his $50 million fight offer to Conor McGregor after his shock loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 257, offering him a measly $10,000 instead.
Jake Paul has been nipping at Conor McGregor’s heels in the weeks leading up to UFC 257, trying to bait the former double-champ into accepting a $50 million fight offer for an exhibition boxing bout.
However, despite his best efforts, it didn’t work. Conor McGregor was too focused on his own endeavors and never acknowledged it, although he tip-toed around the question a few times.
Eventually, he flat-out said he’s not interested in the fight, and it seemed like the idea was dead and buried once and for all. But after Conor McGregor’s shock UFC 257 loss to Dustin Poirier, Jake Paul is at it again. And this time, his original offer is off the table.
Jake Paul / Conor McGregor
Jake Paul’s second fight offer adds more insult to injury after Conor McGregor’s UFC 257 loss.
Jake Paul tuned in to watch the main event like millions of other UFC fans. But he had more invested in the fight than the average viewer, and once it was over, it was only a matter of time before he posted a video.
Read more: Jake Paul mocks Conor McGregor’s sparring partner
“Hey Conor,” she said, laughing hysterically in a video that he shared on Twitter moments after the loss. “I’ve got ten thousand dollars for you, cash!” He struggled to contain his laughter and kept repeating words. “Oh, you had fifty million dollars,” he added, right at the end.
AYE @thenotoriousmma INSTEAD OF $50 MILLION I GOT $10,000 for you now😂😂😂 CASH THO!! ALL CASH😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8EfPgvAk97
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) January 24, 2021
The same message was echoed in a YouTube video Jake uploaded to his YouTube channel shortly after titled ‘My Message to Conor McGregor.’ He said, “you should have taken the Jake Paul fight for $50 million, but now I got $10,000 for you. I got $10,000 cash, cold hard cash. Or I’ll give you a third of a bitcoin. You choose, Conor McGregor.”
At the end of the video he says “April 17th guys, I’m fighting… You know, it was supposed to be Conor McGregor but we’ll see what happens, stay tuned.”
It’s obvious that Jake is still up to his usual antics. He’s trying to kick Conor while he’s down. But this time, it might actually work.
Read more: Jake Paul slammed by Conor McGregor’s UFC coach
Conor’s loss will undoubtedly be a spanner in the works for his UFC plans. However, it means he might be open to lucrative exhibition fight offers once again.
Of course, there’s no way he’d accept the second $10,000 fight offer. But he might consider the initial $50 million one, which is probably what Jake Paul intended. We’ll have to wait and see what happens next.
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A diamond can be cut in different shapes, of which the brilliant cut is the most famous one. However, there are more types of diamond cuts and they all have their own unique characteristics. Below, we listed an overview of the most famous cuts and their special characteristics.
Brilliant The brilliant cut diamond is the most popular diamond shape, and consists of 57 facets. Because of its exceptional brightness and its modern and timeless look, this brilliant cut is a very popular choice in engagement rings and other jewellery.
Princess The princess cut diamond is uniquely designed to create a maximum brilliance. The princess cut diamond has a unique square shape and has a sparkling look due to its 76 facets. Since the princess cut diamond is a timeless appearance with a modern twist, it is often manufactured for engagement rings. The perfect choice for a modern-day royalty!
Hearts & Arrows Hearts & Arrows diamonds are the most perfect cut diamonds in the world. Only one in a million diamonds can be selected as a Hearts & Arrows diamond. The diamond is perfectly cut, making it impossible to miss the precise proportion and symmetry. With a special loupe, a pattern of hearts and arrows will be visible within the diamond.
Baquette The baguette cut diamond has an elongated design with quadrangular facet-cut surface. The straight lines of the design of the baguette cut diamonds are toned down by the sparkling of the diamond itself. Moreover, because of the angle in which the light is reflected in the baguette cut, it creates a ‘halls of mirrors’ effect, giving the jewellery an elegant look.
Peonia The peonia cut diamond consists of 88 facets, giving diamonds the ability to reflect light breathtakingly beautiful. The ability to reflect the light this way, gives Peonia cut diamonds the luxurious appearance of a peony. With a special loupe, a pattern of flowers will be visible within the diamond. Diamond Point is the only brand in Europe that manufactures this special peonia cut.
Marquise Marquise cut diamond consist of 56 facets and has an elliptical shape with a rounded centre and pointed ends. The centre of the marquise cut diamond gives the diamond a sparkling appearance. The marquise cut makes fingers look slimmer and longer. This cut is a real eye-catcher!
Buddha The Diamonds of Diamond Buddha are manufactured by hand with great precision and are cut in the shape of a meditating Chinese GUAN YIN. Guanyin is the goddess of comfort and mercy. The diamond symbolizes eternity, prosperity and happiness/luck. The Buddha cut diamond consists of 54 facets and is exclusively available at Diamond Point in the Netherlands.
Emerald The emerald cut diamond is known for its unique shape. The emerald has a rectangular shape, with cut corners and a large flat table. Although the emerald cut diamond looks similar to the baguette cut diamond, the former consists of more corners. The emerald cut diamonds consist of 48 to 50 facets.
Asscher The asscher cut diamond was first produced in 1902 by the Asscher brothers in the Netherlands. Although the asscher cut diamond looks similar to the emerald cut diamond, the former has a square shape. In the ’20s, this cut became extremely popular. This classic and timeless cut became popular again after it was shown in the movie ‘Sex and the City’.
Old single cut The old single cut diamond is one of the oldest shapes that exist and was used before the brilliant cut diamond was discovered. The old single cut has 8 facets at the top and 8 facets at the bottom.
Rose The rose cut diamond looks very similar to the brilliant cut diamond. However, the bottom side of the rose cut diamond is flattened, while the bottom of the brilliant cut diamond is not. The rose cut is an ancient manner to cut diamonds, and was one of the cuts that preceded the modern brilliant cut. The rose diamond cut has a convex top and 9, 2 or 24 facets.
Oval The oval cut diamond shares almost the same brilliance as a brilliant cut diamond. The oval cut diamond consists of 56 facets and is very popular among women, because it make hands and fingers look slimmer and longer. The oval cut diamond has an elongated shape, which creates the illusion of greater size. .
Heart The heart is the ultimate symbol of love. The heart cut diamond is seen as the most romantic diamond cut and consist of 59 facets. This ancient diamond cut is designed to immortalize love.
Pear The pear cut diamond, also known as pendeloque cut diamond, is shaped like a raindrop. The pear cut is a combination of a round and marquise cut diamond, and it consists of 58 facets.
The purity of a diamond is determined using the number and format of microscopic imperfections, also called inclusions, which occur in nearly all diamonds and do not influence the cleanliness of a diamond in an observable manner. Diamonds with the lowest and smalles imperfections get the highest degree of purity
In the below overview, you will find the name and description of every degree of purity:
Purity Naming
LC Flawless
Not a single inclusion is visible with the magnifying glass. The diamond is flawless, very rare and of the best quality.
The inclusions range from very difficult to difficult to find with the magnifying glass. The diamond is of exceptional quality.
VS1 en VS2 Very small internal characteristics
The inclusions are rather easy to find with a magnifying glass. The diamond is of very good quality and softer than VVS1 or VVS2.
SI1 en SI2 Small internal characteristics
The inclusions range from very easy to easy to find with a magnifying glass. The diamond is of good quality.
The inclusions are difficult to find with the naked eye through the upper side of the diamond.
The inclusions are easy to find with the naked eye but have little influence on the brilliance of the diamond.
The inclusions are very easy to find with the naked eye and have an influence on the brilliance of the diamond.
The term ‘carat’ stands for the weight of a diamond or another gemstone (1 carat = 0.2 gram). A carat is sub-divided into a hundred points and is always expressed in two decimals (1.00 carat = 100 points). Bigger diamonds are rarer than smaller diamonds. Thus, a diamond with a weight of 1.00 carat, for example, is worth more than the total weight of 2 small diamonds of 0.50 carats each.
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ATLANTA – (February 2, 2009) – Digital Element, the leader in IP Intelligence solutions, today announced that Zinio LLC, the global leader in digital publishing products and services, is leveraging the company’s technology to deliver new insights about its global online audience.
Recognizing that consumer adoption of digital publishing technology is growing rapidly across the globe, and that the digital reading model is both more convenient and environmentally friendly, Zinio decided to leverage Digital Element’s IP Intelligence technology to:
Improve its understanding of the way in which consumers interact with its publishing site;
Better segment its online audience; and
Seamlessly deliver targeted content to its diverse and global online base of readers.
Digital Element’s industry-leading IP Intelligence provides Zinio with the tools to perfect audience segmentation and improve targeting accuracy based on a comprehensive set of parameters that include geographic location (country, region, state, city and zip code), connection speed, Internet Service Provider (ISP), language, domain name, demographics, and more.
“Zinio is in a unique position. We serve digital content to millions of people. In a time of great change, as more publishers adopt digital strategies as a primary driver, understanding the nuances and element of each reader is key.” said Rich Maggiotto, CEO of Zinio.com. “By enhancing our insights, we are creating an intelligence repository that will fuel the continued growth of the digital publishing industry. From our own research, Digital Element’s data accuracy made it the clear choice to help us stay ahead of the curve and continue to maintain our position as the world’s leading global digital newsstand.”
As interactive capabilities have improved, digital publications and their readerships have grown accordingly. Gilbane Group, an information technology analyst and consulting firm, reported in its 2008 research that from 2005 to 2007 the total number of publications that offered a digital edition grew from 1,188 to 3,286 — a 277 percentage increase. During the same period, the number of digital subscribers increased from approximately 5.2 million to 13.4 million — an increase of 260 percent.
“Zinio was an early leader in online publishing and continues to pave the way in terms of innovation for the thousands of consumer brands it represents,” said Rob Friedman, executive vice president, Digital Element. “Leveraging our technology will provide new insights about the more than 5 million global readers that Zinio currently serves. IP Intelligence will be an invaluable tool in helping Zinio provide even more reach and relevance for its publishing partners and their online subscribers.”
About Digital Element
Founded in 1999, Digital Element is the industry pioneer of IP Intelligence, a non-invasive, privacy-sensitive technology that automatically uncovers geographic information, connection speed, domain name, ISP, language and other characteristics about online users based solely on their IP addresses. This knowledge enables online businesses to customize content for more accurate and profitable online interactions, making it ideal for targeted advertising, content localization, geographic rights management, local search and enhanced analytics. Digital Element’s patented IP Intelligence solution with its exceedingly accurate geolocation capabilities is used by industry-leading advertising networks, web publishers, search engines, social networks, e-tailers, and analytics platforms around the world to revolutionize the way people experience the Internet.
Digital Element is a business unit of Digital Envoy, part of Landmark Interactive, a Landmark Media Enterprises Company. For more information about Digital Element, visit www.digitalelement.net.
About Zinio LLC
Zinio is the global leader in digital and interactive publishing products and services, currently distributing over 1,000 digital magazine titles currently in its stable. Partnering with American and International publishers, Zinio opens opportunities for revenue growth and wider circulation. Zinio also designs marketing programs that focus on consumer acquisition and retention, cross-promotion, and driving revenue. Zinio is also the founder of The Read Green Initiative™ (GoReadGreen.com).
As a worldwide distributor, Zinio has offices in San Francisco and New York and Distribution partners across the globe. Zinio’s partners include Bonnier, Hearst, IDG, Gruner + Jahr, Hachette Filipacchi, IPC Media, Mariah Media, McGraw-Hill,, Playboy Enterprises, Rogers Publishing and Ziff Davis. Zinio is also the exclusive home of VIVmag, the world’s first fully digital and 100% interactive women’s luxury publication. For more information, or to purchase any of the digital magazine-specific titles offered by Zinio, please visitwww.zinio.com.
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Rachel Schwan-McKay - In Memoriam August 11, 2010
RACHEL SCHWAN MCKAY, one of the few remaining of the Ballinafad pioneer community, died on August 11, 2010,just hours after celebrating her 93rd birthday with her immediate family and her best friend and caregiver, Marg. Her children, Brenda (Owen Sound), Linda (Peterborough) and Frankie(Missassauga) and their children and grandchildren had been all present at her celebration. Aunt Rachel had said to her daughter Brenda that she would "stick around until her birthday". She than left us on her own conditions. Discretely and silently in the night, without bothering anyone. According to her wishes, there was no service and she was buried intimately, her family attending on August 17. Rachel is now in Greenwood Cemetary, Owen Sound, next to her husband Clete and her parents.
Aunt Rachel was the sister of my father and the granddaughter of Donald Mckay, the patriarch of Fallbrook who built the farmhouse,1879, over the McClure log-cabin,1856. Her father, David Mckay was a skilled carpenter who had moved from Ballinafad to Owen Sound. Her mother, Bessie Sinclair, daughter of Gilbert Sinclair, another Ballinafad farm pioneer, died prematurlely in 1921. In her early teens, she was taken out of school to take care of the men. She fulfilled that role with her own family, husband Clete Schwan, for the the next 60 years. After the death of her husband, Aunt Rachel made a life of her own, becoming one of the best bridge players in Owen Sound. Suffering from back pain all her adult life, she travelled little. But she had visited Ballinafad every summer until her late teens and was present at the funeral of Donald Mckay and his burial at Providence cemetary in Ballinafad in 1931.
RACHEL SCHWAN-MCKAY, DURING HER INTERVIEW WITH ALAN AND NANCY SINCLAIR, AUGUST, 2009. ON THE LEFT OF THE MARRIAGE PICTURE, HER FATHER AND MY GRANDFATHER DAVID, BORN AT FALLBROOK, WITH HER MOTHER BESSIE SINCLAIR. BROTHER WILLIAM MCKAY AND SISTER JESSIE SINCLAIR ALSO MARRIED.
In the famous picture of the Silver Creek bridge, known by the pioneers as Buttermilk Falls, taken in 1921, we see Aunt Rachel holding the railing beside her grandfather, Donald. We can see behind her my father Alec with his summer brush cut. Sandy McKay drives the buggy and it appears to be another child sitting beside him. We also see Aunt Rachel circa 1923 under the tree in front of the original home. The tree still stands and ,thanks to Rachel, we can estimate its age at over 100 years. This dress was made by her aunt, Nel McKay. Rachel saw this picture for the first time this spring. After her mother died, Aunt Nel came to Owen Sound to care for the family for 3 years .Losing her mother, a wonderful person, so early in her life was a tragedy which Rachel bore silently. When she first heard about the campaign in 2007 to preserve the McClure-McKay homestead Rachel said to me, "Life was tough in those days, especially for the women. You did what you had to do. It was the same for everyone."
Above, we see Aunt Rachel in the arm of her mother circa 1917. Her niece, Mary McKay, showed her this picture in spring of 2010. She saw it for the first time and was very moved. Her mother died tragically 2 years later the picture was taken. Aunt Rachel proudly affirmed that her mother made all their clothes, including the dresses they are wearing. Above right, she sits on the steps of the farmhouse with one of her many friends in Ballinafad. At right, she stands with cousins while her brothers are at the far right. Or so we surmise.
In the lower picture, Nancy Sinclair as well as her husband Alan, hors plan, exchange memories of the Fad back in the good old days. That interview was taped and will be made available on our web when appropriately edited.
Pictures were discovered and meticulously preserved by Nancy Sinclair.
Reproduction with permission only. NHCHS/S.Mc.
For it is the pioneer women who are the unsung heroes of as they left desparate existences in Scotland and Ireland to forge new lives in the Canadian wilderness where only the native peoples has passed before them. On the McKay homestead, as on all the farms, Rachel's aunts were up at 4 a.m. to herd in the cows, do the milking, haul never ending pails of water from the stream too low for a hand pump. Than collecting wood to fire the stove, preparing the breakfast of salted porridge and going to bed only when all others were asleep. In the last years of his life, Donald was very sick and his daughters took turns keeping watch at his door all night. Of the many generations of the McClure-McKay/Fallbrook homestead, of the original pioneer families, only three remain. Of the farm manager families, only four or five remain. They are all women! Ironically, Rachel remembers wonderful holidays in the Fad where her task was doing errands for her grandfather, especially combing his long white hair and beard, staying at the Kirkwood store or going to activities at the church. At the left, we see Donald under the same tree as Rachel where he spent all his last summers. On the right, Sandy and wife Kate at their home at Silver Creek in front of the Baker garage .This is where I knew Kate and Sandy, after whom I received my nickname. They loved children and assured them happy times.
Above, the steps of the creek "which froze your feet when you walked up them." Below, we see the tombstone of the patriarch Donald and his daughter Ellen at Providence Cemetary in Ballinafad. The last resting place of Rachel's grandfather and her beloved aunt. It is Anne Mc Intyre-Shortill who first introduced me to this heritage on a blistery, freezing day in February of 2008. On the left is Brenda Schwan beside the family plot in Greenwood cemetary in Owen Sound.( a slip of the tongue has Brenda with the name of her sister Linda in update 18-sorry). Aunt Rachel is now resting here next to her husband Clete and her parents David McKay and Bessie Sinclair.
Rachel Schwan-McKay continues her travels as she lived, discretely and with a savoir vivre and determination typical of the pioneer women. She will be quite happy to find a good table of bridge and intelligent conversation. For the McKay clan and the Fallbrook campaigners, we express our deepest respect and gratitude for a life well lived and her very significant contribution. Sandy McKay NHCHS/Fallbrook Farm Heritage Site.
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Canberra's gay conversion laws could target churches and families
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The likely legal implications of an ACT bill, aimed at outlawing gay and gender “conversion practices”, have been outlined by John Steenhof, Managing Director of the Human Rights Law Alliance.
The examples Steenhof provides in a paper highlight the tension between the aims of the bill and religious freedom. In particular, they focus upon the practical difficulty of separating religious teaching and practise in family and church settings.
Steenhof gives these examples of conduct he believes “could be criminal” under the proposed laws.
Parents. If a five-year-old biological girl tells her parents that she wants to be a boy, criminal proceedings could be brought against her parents, school, teachers and doctors if they continue to treat her as a girl, counsel her to love the body she was born with, explore alternative reasons other than gender confusion for this expressed desire – or if they adopt a “watchful waiting” approach in relation to these desires. These are potential practices that seek to change this young girl’s gender.
Teachers. Criminal proceedings for conversion practices could be brought against a Christian school that teaches the orthodox Christian belief that sexuality should only be expressed between a man and a woman within the confines of heterosexual marriage, and that this is normative for Christians.
Religious Leaders. A Christian pastor leading a Sunday School class of 13-year-olds and explaining the Bible’s teaching that homosexual practice is not consistent with Biblical doctrine and that all Christians are called to abstinence and celibacy outside of heterosexual marriage could be criminalised.
Counsellors. A psychologist examining whether a 14-year-old biological girl’s desire to transition to a boy might be related to their autism, or arise as a result of sexual trauma, would be at risk of criminal sanctions.
Advocates for the Sexual and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Bill 2020 – such as the SOGICE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts) Survivors group – argue that religious teaching and preaching is left alone by the bill.
“Freedom of belief does not equate to freedom of behaviour …” – SOGICE
SOGICE posted on Eternity‘s Facebook discussion that “they [religious teachers] are not allowed to make therapeutically fraudulent statements. Religious communities are free to call queer people sinful without needing to proclaim that they must also be psychologically dysfunctional.”
They make similar points on their website: “Faith communities and religious Australians currently have the freedom to believe and preach what they like, for example, about whether or not being LGBTQA+ is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.”
“They are not free, however, to harm or promote harm towards LGBTQA+ people. Freedom of belief does not equate to freedom of behaviour and it certainly does not equate to freedom from consequences.
“There is a marked difference between conservative religious homo/bi/transphobia and conversion ideology. The first is rooted in religious beliefs about ‘sin’, a religious doctrine that does not always align with modern secular and ethical values. Conversion ideology, on the other hand, is a contemporary pseudo-science grounded in psychoanalytic hypotheses developed in the 19th century then later abandoned by modern psychology in the mid-20th century.”
However, the examples raised by Steenhof may relate to “sin” (doctrine) not necessarily to “psychoanalytic hypotheses.”
A definition of SOGICE promoted by the survivors group is “any formal or informal practice, activity or treatment (in any setting) that seeks, or is used, to suppress, eliminate or change a person’s sexual or romantic orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, where that change is deemed necessary due to the instigator’s belief in or adherence to conversion ideology (see the SOGICE Survivor Statement for a detailed explanation of LGBTQA+ conversion ideology).”
The ACT bill’s definition is “sexuality or gender identity conversion practice means a treatment or other practice the purpose, or purported purpose, of which is to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity.”
A key question is whether activity to “suppress” expression of an orientation or gender identity will be regarded as “change”, under the new law. The second category may be more likely, given that “identity” differs in some respects from “orientation”, and is more linked to outward signing, such as clothing codes for example. (A homosexual teen won’t necessarily dress in a certain way, but a trans child is more likely to)
In addition, would praying to change a sexual orientation or gender identity be captured by the bill’s scope?
“Any practice to ‘change’ a ‘person’s sexuality or gender identity’ will be criminal.” – John Steenhof
The SOGICE Survivors definition captures at least many of the examples Steenhof cites. The practical effect of the bill could turn on tricky questions such as “did a preacher or pray-er expect people to change?”
Steenhof believes that “any practice to ‘change’ a ‘person’s sexuality or gender identity’ will be criminal.”
“This is so undefined that it could criminalise parents who provide advice directed at abstinence or celibacy or who encourage their child to love the body they were born with.”
Steenhof believes that the bill is broader than it needs to be and has effects which are “disproportionate to the harms that the Conversion Bill seeks to prevent.”
The bill provides criminal penalties for imposing change efforts on vulnerable people or minors. Compensation with no financial limits can be imposed by the ACAT (ACT Civil & Administrative Tribunal).
A faith based school has been chastised by the ACT goverment “for making parents aware of the government’s authoritarian anti-conversion bill” according to the Australian Christian Lobby. It is likely the debate over the bill will engage passions on both sides.
The Bill and its explanatory statement can be found here. Steenhof’s analysis is here.
The Human Rights Law Alliance is a not-for-profit law firm specialising in religious freedom, speech and conscience and has links to the Australian Christian Lobby.
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Iris Apatow Is All Grown Up and Looks Just Like Mom Leslie Mann -- See the New Pic!
By Emily Krauser 3:57 PM PST, January 23, 2017
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since we were introduced to Iris Apatow in Knocked Up, because the little girl who played Charlotte is so grown up now!
Iris made a stunning appearance at the Sundance Film Festival with her parents, actress Leslie Mann and director Judd Apatow, when they stepped out for the premiere of The Big Sick on Friday.
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Judd, 49, produced The Big Sick, which stars Zoe Kazan and Kumail Nanjiani, who co-wrote the film with wife Emily V. Gordon. The proud dad even snapped a pic of his daughter as they made their way to the premiere.
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Despite the cold temps, the 14-year-old actress ditched her coat to show off her age-appropriate style on the red carpet, which included a sleeveless powder blue floral dress paired with black tights and booties.
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She got in some fresh air as well, posting a pensive shot on Sunday while surrounded by the gorgeous snowfall.
Iris' last public appearance with her 'rents was in November, at the premiere of The Comedian in Hollywood. She most recently appeared in the Netflix series, Love, which was co-created by Judd and will return for a second season later this year.
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We know time flies and all that, but it's still hard to believe how much she's grown up over the years, especially compared to this appearance at the 2014 PaleyFest.
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Mazda CX-8. Luxury and versatility has arrived.
A premium and luxurious driving experience set to pave way for a new era for Mazda.
SINGAPORE, 16 October 2020 – Eurokars Group has officially unveiled the new crossover, Mazda CX-8, a new generation of product lineup of SUVs by Mazda. Debunking the myth that “A three-row vehicle must be a minivan”, the Mazda CX-8 belongs to a sophisticated genre of the SUV segment. The objectives of this powertrain expansion lineup are to complement the customers’ diversified and multi-faceted lifestyles while enhancing safety performance and interior quality and comfort for all vehicle occupants.
Designed to look both timeless and edgy, with an elegant and premium feel, the Mazda CX-8 is made with a focus on proportions, form and fine details to engender a strong, matured and dignified road presence. The CX-8 is Mazda’s first new-generation model in Japan to feature a more mature interpretation of Mazda’s Signature KODO – Soul of Motion design language that explores the essence of Japanese aesthetics while elevating car design to the level of fine art.
The development of this model is also in line with the spirit of Mazda Motor Corporation’s “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030” long-term vision which delineates how Mazda will use driving pleasure to help solve issues facing people, the earth and society.
The Mazda CX-8 aims to satisfy customers’ diverse needs ranging from requiring more space or increased seating capacity to higher quality and greater comfort on the road, and at the same time, thrill and delight them with the exciting and dynamic performance that is intrinsic in all Mazda cars.
Packed with this gamut of exceptional attributes, it is little wonder that in 2018, the Mazda CX-8 was named the Japan Automobile Hall of Fame’s Car of the Year for its outstanding performance and space-efficient interior as well as its advanced technologies aimed at preventing accidents and reducing driver fatigue.
The Mazda CX-8 is well-equipped with a host of high-tech features and components to aid and support the driver, and improve the vehicle’s overall performance. The Mazda CX-8 is powered by Mazda’s trademark SKYACTIV-G 2.5 litre gasoline engine which offers drivers nimble handling, excellent fuel economy and agile driving performance. The high 13:1 compression ratio; lower weight of the aluminum-alloy cylinder block and a redesigned balance shaft reduce low frequency booming noise, which in turn propels the engine to achieve its high levels of dynamic performance and cabin quietness.
Other notable technologies include precision manufactured intake ports, three-stage split fuel injection and coolant control valve which further accentuate the car’s real-world performance.
Now, coupled with its exquisite and stylish design, the Mazda CX-8 also offers a three-row seating option which caters to the needs of families or people who enjoy the freedom and flexibility of increased space without having to compromise fuel efficiency, space, safety and driving performance.
For greater versatility, customers can choose between a six-seater model variant or seven-seater model variant to meet their need for space. Comfort is assured as the Mazda CX-8 boasts a cabin environment that provides the occupants in all three rows with sufficient legroom for a smooth ride. The cabin design is aimed at fully utilising the available space and creates an environment that allows each occupant to sit comfortably by adopting a natural posture.
Passengers in second-row seats will experience the same level of comfort as those in the front with the provision of cup holders and USB ports which offer the best hospitality one can experience in a vehicle. The third row folds down to provide additional seating capacity to meet the occupants’ varied needs.
Mazda has also made strides when it comes to soundproofing in the Mazda CX-8 by creating an even quieter cabin environment that allows the occupants to engage in conversations with relative ease. The quietness in the third row of the Mazda CX-8 is achieved by applying the adhesive which bonds the glass to the liftgate in a different position that suppresses the sound resonance. The area and the number of layers of coating-type vibration-control material under the luggage-room floor were increased as well.
The handling stability and ride comfort of the Mazda CX-8 are superlative due to refinements made to the suspension and steering system to achieve more linear vehicle behaviour. Moreover, the G-Vectoring Control Plus (GVC Plus) — an advanced version of G-Vectoring Control (GVC) — enables direct yaw moment control for more stable vehicle behaviour at high speed.
When cornering, GVC Plus lightly applies brake force to the outer wheels as the steering wheel is returned to the center position, providing a recovery moment to restore the vehicle to straight-line running. As a result, the car handles emergency avoidance and manoeuvre better and offers more confidence-inspiring controllability in various situations including lane changes at high speeds and driving on slippery surfaces. The GVC Plus reinforces stability, alleviates driver workload and provides the occupants with an even more comfortable and seamless ride.
The Mazda CX-8 delivers the latest and state-of-the-art connectivity and infotainment to everyone on board. Mazda’s advanced Mazda Connect system allows the driver to safely access a compatible smartphone’s contact list and music through Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connection.
The exceptional audio sound system is integrated seamlessly throughout the cabin – providing clear tunes from the front row to the third. The seven-inch TFT LCD display mounted in the center of the meter cluster can show a variety of information directly in the driver’s line of sight which reduces the amount of eye movement required, and improves readability and usability. The rotary switches and dials were designed to convey a more refined look to the commander control.
The Mazda CX-8 is fitted with Mazda’s cutting-edge i-ACTIVSENSE safety technology features which are designed to recognise and avert potential hazards, and pivot the driver’s and passengers’ safety at the heart of all of Mazda’s safety innovations.
The full suite includes Adaptive LED Headlights (ALH); Lane-Keep Assist System (LAS); Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS); Advanced Smart City Brake Support (Advanced SCBS) with day and night pedestrian detection and Driver Attention Alert (DAA). The Mazda CX-8 is also equipped with a 360° camera and display system with eight parking sensors at the front and rear that detect proximity to obstacles and trigger an alarm when necessary.
Blind Spot Monitoring (BSM) and Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) are only available for 6-seater and 7-seater Luxury variants.
The All-New Mazda CX-8 will be retailing from S$153,888 for the 7-Seater (Elegance) and S$157,888 for both the 6-Seater and 7-Seater (Luxury). Prices are valid until 21 October 2020 and are accurate at the time of print. Trans Eurokars Pte Ltd reserves the right to amend the prices without prior notice.
Customers who make an early bird booking are also entitled to:
• Free upgrade to five years’ free service and five years’ warranty
• Free upgrade to Guaranteed Plan (or Immediate Registration)
• Exclusive welcome gift
About Eurokars Group
Eurokars Group is synonymous with premium automotive brands in Singapore and has enjoyed significant growth, with every brand under its care boasting an unblemished track record, each with its own unique branding and positioning. With more than 30 years of market representation and industry accolades from Enterprise 50 and Superbrands, Eurokars Group is a well-established motoring entity, having grown over the years from a niche sports car retailer to a multi-franchise automotive dealership group.
Eurokars Group was founded by respected entrepreneur, Mr. Karsono Kwee, who as Executive Chairman of the group is driven by a genuine passion for motorcars and has turned the business into a well-diversified and leading customer-oriented dealer of premium automobile brands in the region.
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Suffolk agrees to form five year cycle plan but commitment for cash falls short
Published: 3:19 PM July 22, 2018 Updated: 5:59 PM October 11, 2020
Calls have been made for more investment in Suffolk's cycle path network File picture: PHIL MORLEY - Credit: Archant
Proposals to form a task group to develop a dedicated plan of action for Suffolk’s cycle network have been agreed – but calls to commit funding were turned down.
Campaigners calling for more investment in Suffolk's cycle path network gathered outside Endeavour House ahead of the council meeting where it was decided Picture: ROBERT LINDSAY - Credit: Robert Lindsay
Two motions were put forward by the Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent group at Suffolk County Council’s full council meeting on Thursday.
The first called for a cross-party task group to be formed which would develop a fully-costed five year plan for Suffolk’s cycling network, a motion agreed unanimously.
But a second motion calling for 5% of the transport budget to be ringfenced for cycling infrastructure – the equivalent of around £160,000 this year – was voted down with 21 in favour and 38 against.
Green councillor Robert Lindsay who put forward the motions, said: “I’m obviously very disappointed with the way the Conservatives voted today. It makes absolutely no sense to agree to draw up a costed cycling plan, and then refuse to commit any funding to it.
“That is the reason Suffolk County Council’s funding bids always fail – the DfT simply don’t believe that we are truly committed to improving cycling in Suffolk.
“Other Conservative councils have understood the need to commit funding – Cheshire East just promised 8.5% of their budget to cycling. It is high time Suffolk Conservatives put their money where their mouth is. Just saying you support cycling is simply not good enough.”
The group pointed to six sustainable travel grants Suffolk was eligible for since 2011, all of which the county failed to secure.
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Richard Smith, Suffolk County Council’s cabinet member for finance and assets urged his colleagues not to “tie his hands” by agreeing to commit 5% of the transport budget each year.
Mary Evans, cabinet member for highways, transport and rural affairs, said: “I think it is entirely right that this chamber comes together to work on a policy development panel on cycling.
“I think it would really, really help us because we need to produce a costed five-year cycling plan.”
Ms Evans said that last year more than £200,000 was spent on the cycle path infrastructure.
The panel will be formed with members from all parties, although a timescale of completion has not been laid out.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update and Information for Eagle-Eye Tours Customers
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North Carolina Pelagics & Pineywoods
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 to Wednesday, June 9, 2021
$4,475 CAD, $3,250 USD
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$785 CAD, $570 USD
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Skye Haas
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An incredible opportunity to observe deep-sea pelagic birds and mammals not normally seen from shore like petrels, shearwaters, jaegers and pilot whales.
Breeding terns, shorebirds and waders along the barrier islands of the Carolinas.
To see the successful efforts of the conservation work of the Pineylands and observe the critically endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
A chance to see southeastern breeding bird specialties like Swainson’s Warbler, Painted Bunting, Brown-headed Nuthatch and Bachman’s Sparrow.
A short but bird-filled run to the Southeast US, this tour is centered around two days of pelagic birding in search of seabirds like Black-capped Petrel, Great, Cory’s and Audubon’s Shearwaters, Wilson’s and Band-rumped Storm-Petrels, Long-tailed and Pomarine Jaegers, South Polar Skua, and Bridled and Arctic Terns and good chances for other rarities. Marine mammals like Short-finned Pilot Whales, Atlantic Spotted Dolphins and Bottlenose Dolphins are also regularly observed on these pelagic trips.
We then head to the Pineywoods of the coastal plain for a couple of days of birding targeting the highly endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, as well as more common species like Brown-headed Nuthatch, Prairie and Yellow-throated Warblers and Bachman’s Sparrows. Other southeast specialties to track down include Swainson’s, Worm-eating, Kentucky and Prothonotary Warblers, Acadian Flycatchers, Blue Grosbeak and Painted Bunting. We will also take some time to bird the coast looking at shorebirds, terns and waders like Wilson’s Plover, American Oystercatcher and Least Terns.
Itinerary View Short Itinerary
Day 1: Norfolk, Virginia
Day 2: Outer Banks
Day 3: Pelagic
Day 5: Drive to Morehead City
Day 6: Pineywoods
Day 7: Fort Macon State Park
Day 8: Departure
Arrival in Norfolk, Virginia. We will meet that evening at the hotel for a meet and greet over dinner. Night in Norfolk, Virginia.
After breakfast we will make the 3 hour drive to Hatteras, birding the coast of the Outer Banks along the way at locations like Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. We’ll settle into our hotel in the late afternoon, and after dinner, turn in early due to the early meet time on the docks the next morning. Night in Hatteras.
The first of our two back-to-back pelagic trips! We will be getting up early to head to the boat dock for a 5:15 meeting time. We will head out on the Stormy Petrel II and be on the ocean all day, getting back in around 5-6pm. We will likely see a good selection of seabirds with Black-capped Petrel, Cory’s and Audubon’s Shearwaters, Wilson’s and Band-rumped Storm-Petrels, Long-tailed and Pomarine Jaegers, and Bridled and Arctic Terns all likely to be encountered. Truly rare species are encountered with quite some regularity with birds like Trinadade and Fea’s Petrels, South Polar Skua, tropicbirds and Brown and Masked Booby! We’ll head for dinner afterwards and head back to the hotel to rest up for a second day of pelagic goodness! Night in Hatteras.
We will head back out to the ocean for round two of our deep water adventure. Being that conditions can change from day to day, it’s certainly possible that we’ll see a striking different selection of seabirds and other ocean creatures. Marine mammals like Short-finned Pilot Whales, Atlantic Spotted Dolphins and Bottlenose Dolphins are also regularly observed on these pelagic trips. Again we’ll return to the docks by 5-6pm and go out for dinner. Night in Hatteras.
We’ll have a leisurely start to our day and then leave Hatteras via a car ferry to head down to Morehead City. We should have some good opportunities to see near-shore animals like Sandwich and Royal Terns, Brown Pelicans and Bottlenose Dolphins from the ferry. It will be a couple hours each of driving and on the ferry, but we will do some coastal birding before and after the journey. We’ll turn in a touch early tonight as the next morning will be another early day. Night in Atlantic Beach.
We’ll be rising early to head out to the Croatan National Forest to spend the day in the beautiful Pineywoods looking for southeast goodies like Red-cocked Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Bachman’s Sparrow and Swainson’s Warblers. Other species we’ll try to locate include Worm-eating, Kentucky and Prothonotary Warblers, Acadian Flycatchers, Blue Grosbeak and Painted Bunting. If we are feeling so inclined, we may try for some night birds like Eastern Screech Owls and Chuck-wills Widow. Night in Atlantic Beach.
For our final day of the tour, we will bird Fort Macon State Park in the morning and spend the afternoon driving back to Norfolk, Virginia for a final dinner/tour wrap-up. Night in Norfolk.
Our North Carolina Pelagics & Pineywoods birding tour concludes today. You can depart for fights home anytime today.
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Black-capped Petrel
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Audubon’s Shearwater
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Bridled Tern
Long-tailed Jaeger
Bachman’s Sparrow
American Oystercatcher
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prothonotory Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler
Acadian Flycatcher
Wilson’s Plover
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Past Tour Checklists
2018 North Carolina: Pelagics and Pineywoods species list (pdf)
The climate of North Carolina is most certainly warm in early June. Daytime highs average from the mid 70s-mid 80s (22-30°C) with nighttime lows dropping to the low 60s (15°C). However we will be on the coast a bit and it can be windy so having a long-sleeve shirt may be handy at times. Certainly it can be cooler over the ocean and a light jacket for our pelagic may be needed. Rain is certainly possibly and raingear with boots to keep your feet dry will be possibly needed. Most walking will be easy to moderate on trails and some sand.
We will have mostly early morning departures to observe the dawn movements of birds and be having continental breakfast at the hotel before departure each day. Picnic lunch will be supplied on most days, perhaps one day we will break for a restaurant lunch. All dinners will be at restaurants. Each night at dinner, we will compile the bird list for the day and finalize our plans for the next day.
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Can Globalization work for the Poor? EAPN workshop & seminar reports are out
EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff May 15, 2008
These events involved EAPN National members, facilitators involved in the 7th People Experiencing poverty conference, and members from key Development organisations including CONCORD, Solidar, Caritas, ATD Fourth World and Dignity International.
Report from EAPN Capacity Building Workshop: Building for a more effective engagement in the OMC Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008-11
EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff May 15, 2008
The main aim of the capacity building seminar was to achieve a new momentum on EAPN’s
engagement with the NAP/OMC and to promote more effective engagement at national and EU level.
“Stand up for your Human Rights”: Report from the EAPN Capacity Building Workshop on Globalization and Poverty
This event involved EAPN National members, facilitators involved in the 7th People Experiencing poverty conference, and members from key Development organisations including CONCORD, Solidar, Caritas, ATD Fourth World and Dignity International.
“Can Globalization deliver a better world?“: Report from the EAPN Globalization and Poverty Seminar
Press release: “President Barroso, if you want to strengthen citizens’ confidence in the EU, why not start by respecting the consultation process on the future social policy agenda”
EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff May 9, 2008
Brussels, 9 May 2008 – In a letter to President Barroso, EAPN expresses its serious concerns about the lack of respect for the consultation process that the Commission launched on the future social policy agenda for the EU.
EAPN letter to President Barroso “A flawed consultation process and a social vision out of line with the views of social actors”
EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff May 9, 2008
In a letter to President Barroso, EAPN expresses its serious concerns about the lack of respect for the consultation process that the Commission launched on the future social policy agenda for the EU.
EAPN Tool Kit: Engaging with the NAP Inclusion 2008-11
EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff April 30, 2008
This tool kit aims to provide useful information and ideas to support national EAPN networks in engaging with the National Reports on strategies for social protection and social inclusion (SPSI) and particularly the NAPs Inclusion at national level.
EAPN to follow European Parliament’s vote on the Framework for the 2010 Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff April 28, 2008
The European Commission’s proposal for a Framework on the EU Year 2010 for combating poverty and social exclusion is currently under discussion. EAPN has for long called for its adoption before the summer 2008.
EAPN letter to the College of EU Commissioners: The Commission must deliver a Social Progress Agenda
Ahead of the meeting of the College of Commissioners on 30 April dedicated to EU social policy agenda, EAPN sent EU Commissioners a letter on 25 April urging them to deliver a Social Policy Agenda that matches Europe’s social reality and the values and objectives of the EU Treaties.
Press release: “Commissioners: Be ambitious and give the EU an Agenda for Social Progress!”
EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff April 28, 2008
In a letter sent to the College of Commissioners ahead of its meeting on 30 April dedicated to the EU social policy agenda, EAPN urges the Commission to deliver a dynamic social agenda responding to the social realities, such as the fact that 78 million people live in poverty in the EU, amongst whom 19 million are in employment.
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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott Enjoy Courtside Date Night at NBA Playoffs
Couple traveled to the rapper's Houston hometown to see the Rockets play the Golden State Warriors
By McKenna Aiello May 29, 2018 7:41 PMTags
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Parents' night out!
On Monday evening, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott sat courtside as the Houston Rockets took on the Golden State Warriors during Game 7 of the Western Conference NBA finals at the Toyota Center. Unfortunately for the rapper and basketball fanatic, his hometown team came up short, losing 101-92.
Kylie sat close beside her boyfriend of just over a year, wearing a black bodysuit and knee-high leather boots. Travis kept it casual in dark denim and a colorful flannel.
By Tuesday, it appeared as if the 20-year-old cosmetics mogul was already back in Southern California with her beloved pooches, per a photo on Kylie's Instagram Stories. It's unclear if the couple's 3-month-old daughter, Stormi Webster, made the trip to Houston as well.
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's Road to Baby
The adorable newborn did join her famous 'rents on a recent beachside vacation in honor of Scott's 26th birthday.
"Kylie and Travis are currently in the best place they have ever been in their relationship," an insider recently told E! News. "Things really came full circle once Stormi was born, and they now have an unbreakable bond."
And in an interview for ES Magazine, Kylie told big sister Kim Kardashian she often feels guilty for leaving Stormi in the care of her two nannies. "I'm like, 'I'll be right back, I'm so sorry, I have to leave!' And she doesn't even know what's going on. I think about her all the time, anywhere I am."
"Every time I leave and I'm stressed about leaving her," Jenner continued, "I'm like, 'I'm doing it for you.' Everyone says you change completely when you become a mom, but I really feel the same, just better."
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Investigating the long-term impacts of everyday decisions at heart of EPA second-level schools’ competition – The Story of Your Stuff
Date released: Jan 13 2021
The EPA today launched The Story of Your Stuff, a competition which challenges students to investigate the life cycle of their everyday ‘stuff’ through a creative medium, considering the entirety of the item’s life cycle.
Students are encouraged to use the EPA’s Ireland’s Environment website, www.epa.ie/irelandsenvironment/ as a main resource to assist their research.
The Story of Your Stuff asks students to address climate issues with creativity, and also awards a special prize for Irish language entries.
Students are encouraged to consider answers to questions of environmental sustainability raised during pandemic.
Closing date for entries is Monday, 8th March 2021.
13 January 2021: The EPA today launched The Story of Your Stuff, a competition aimed at secondary school students, which seeks to empower young people to make environmentally conscious decisions about their everyday ‘stuff’ and activities. Entrants are tasked with researching the life cycle of an everyday item or environmental impact of an activity, and creatively telling its story through a visual medium.
Now in its fifth year, the competition brings together curiosity, creativity and science, and aims to get young people thinking about sustainability, climate action and environmental protection, spread the word among their friends and family and make lasting and impactful changes.
Entrants will be in with a chance to win €500 for themselves and €500 for their school. An additional ‘climate topic prize’ will be awarded to the entry that best addresses and incorporates specific climate considerations, including carbon footprint or greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, to recognise a yearly increase in the number of Irish language entries received to the competition, a special prize for the best project delivered in Irish has been introduced.
Speaking at the launch of the competition, EPA Programme Manager, Dr Jonathan Derham said:
“The EPA’s recently published State of the Environment Report highlights that the overall quality of Ireland’s environment is not what it should be, and the outlook is not optimistic unless we accelerate the implementation of solutions across all sectors and society. How and what we consume can directly negatively impact our environment. We need to understand these pressures and work to embrace more sustainable consumption behaviours.
The Story of Your Stuff offers young people almost limitless opportunities to explore how everyday decisions have far-reaching impacts on our environment. Moreover, against the backdrop of school closures due to COVID-19, The Story of Your Stuff is an ideal project to undertake from home, and for students to work on remotely with their classmates. I would encourage all second-level students and teachers to enter this year’s competition.”
Astronaut ambassador
This year, the EPA has enlisted the support of aeronautical engineer, citizen scientist-astronaut candidate and award-winning STEM advocate, Dr Norah Patten as the competition ambassador for The Story of Your Stuff.
Dr Patten said:
“As an advocate of participation in STEM, I’m encouraged by The Story of Your Stuff and am delighted to take up the role of ambassador for this year’s competition. Here, young people have the opportunity to bring their commitment to climate action and apply it to help influence environmentally-conscious decisions. I look forward to seeing how students immerse themselves in their chosen topic and go about presenting their findings in a creative and digestible way, with the aim of influencing behavioural change. I wish all entrants and their teachers the best of luck.”
For a third year, The Story of Your Stuff has partnered with UCD, which will host a finale event in April. Director of the Earth Institute at UCD, Professor Tasman Crowe said:
“UCD is delighted to once again support the EPA in delivering this initiative. The Story of Your Stuff has the potential to inspire the scientists of the future and is an important tool through which students develop the skills used by scientists and other researchers. Research has a huge role to play in protecting our planet and I hope students are inspired by the initiative to consider future studies in science and sustainability.”
Last year’s winners were Caoimhe Higgins and Katherine from St. Andrews College, Booterstown, Dublin who made a video on the story of soap. The inaugural Climate Topic Prize winner was Lana Mitchel from Coolmine Community School, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 who created a video on the story of paper.
Competition guidelines and tips are available at www.thestoryofyourstuff.ie. The deadline for entries is Monday, 8th March 2021.
Further information: Emily Williamson/Aileen Moon, EPA Media Relations Office 053-9170770 (24 hours) or media@epa.ie
Spokespersons from the EPA are available on request.
Photos will be issued to photodesks this morning from DHR Communications, and further imagery is available on request to the EPA.
An informational video for The Story of Your Stuff 2020 is available to watch here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ukejonpt4ozqyby/AAD6nR5O0izX_IEWYaOP4jvNa?dl=0%20
About ‘The Story of Your Stuff’:
The Story of Your Stuff is a nationwide competition for secondary school students run by the EPA. The competition challenges students to investigate the life cycle of their everyday ‘stuff’ through a creative medium, considering the entirety of the item’s life cycle. The EPA’s Ireland’s Environment website, http://www.epa.ie/irelandsenvironment/ has a range of resources to assist students’ research. Visit www.thestoryofyourstuff.ie for competition guidelines and tips, and follow TSOYS on Instagram @EPAIreland and @storyofyourstuff.
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Deutschland ist ein krimineller und korrupter Staat, der von Banditen und Mördern geführt wird
Immediately evacuation of personnel from Germany! In Germany, the life of highly qualified specialists with children is dangerous for the life and health of children due to corruption and crimes of the ruling regime.
German social networks recalled how Navalny raised „Cheers to the Holocaust!“
Post author By админ
Post date Friday, September 11, 2020
The same collage about “best friend” Merkel. Illustration: facebook.com
In German social networks, a collage is actively spreading, which depicts Alexei Navalny with a glass of wine against the background of the prisoners of Auschwitz. A Russian blogger who is in Germany as a “guest of the Chancellor” says from a poster: “The first toast to the Holocaust!”
The phrase from Navalny’s mouth is not a fake. In 2013, the influential Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post published an article in which it reported that at a party in the editorial office of The New Times, Navalny uttered a rhymed slogan: “First toast to the Holocaust!” Then Israeli journalists analyzed Navalny’s blog and found many anti-Semitic and openly pro-fascist statements. In particular, this phrase of the oppositionist:
“Anyone who wants to live in Russia must become Russian in the full sense of the word.”
Jerusalem Post article on “toast to the Holocaust” from Navalny.
In addition, the Jerusalem Post noted that “the so-called defender of Russian democracy, known in the West for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin and running for mayor of Moscow, causes fear and anxiety among Jews and other people because of his anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements.” Note that no apologies or denials from the blogger have been made since that time. But then the first vice-president of the World Congress of Russian-speaking Jewry Valery Engel spoke out :”The manner and bravado of the word ‘Holocaust’ seems ridiculous to Navalny, but for millions of people, including in the Russian Federation, and not only Jews, this is not funny – it is tragic, sad and even dangerous.”
Against this background, the reception of Navalny in Germany at the highest level looks like a mockery of the memory of the victims of the Nazis, according to Internet users from Germany. According to the head of the European Information Center for Human Rights (Austria) Harry Moorey , this is “a slap in the face to the entire Jewish people.”“The outlines of the past are increasingly enveloping Germany. More and more human rights defenders and lawyers come to the idea that Germany is a country with a fascist past and, unfortunately, a fascist present. Even in the German “Wikipedia” it is said in black and white that Navalny took part in the ultra-right “Russian Marches” for at least four years – for the Germans they are definitely fascists. And if you dig around the Internet, then this disgusting “toast to the Holocaust” is also easy to find. However, Navalny’s anti-Semitic views in the West are not covered in any way and, most likely, will not be covered, despite the fact that such dubious remarks fall under German law. If Merkel warmed a fascist and an anti-Semite, then who is she herself? ” – Harry Moorey, commented to EADaily.
In turn, the Russian German social activist Nikolai Erney drew a parallel with the sad story that happened with the former compatriot Vladimir Braginsky , a Jew by blood, who suffered from the German authorities because of his own investigation of the situation of the Jewish population in Germany at the beginning of the XXI century.“In June 2020, a remarkable man, Vladimir Mikhailovich Braginsky, the author of the book“ Immigration of Jews to Germany. Manipulation of Consciousness and Ethical Aspect “, which in 2009 said that” Jews cannot live in Germany. ” He moved to West Germany from the Soviet Union in 1992, but after living there for several years, he realized that Germany was hiding information about the situation of Jews in the country. Moreover, he came to the conviction that the very idea of a post-war settlement of Jews in Germany was a product of Nazi thinking, and the goal of organizing Jewish immigration to Germany was to falsify history. As a result, a criminal case was fabricated against Braginsky by the German prosecutor’s office, and he was forced to flee from Germany to Russia” Erney told EADaily.
More details: https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2020/09/11/nemeckie-socseti-napomnili-kak-navalnyy-podnyal-pervyy-tost-za-holokost
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ESRNHS
ESR NHS: ESR portal all the working staff of the NHS a medium to access the HR and also the payroll information of the NHS organisation. ESR NHS can be extended as Electronic Staff Record System of National Health Services England. Currently ESR NHS offers various functionalities which includes ESS, MSS and OLM. ESS is Employee Self Service programme which lets the employees to check their payslips, view their schedules, apply for leaves etc. Whereas MSS which is Manager Self Service is the feature which has to be used by the managers working under the NHS.
The process to log into the ESR NHS:
The following steps will help you to access to the ESRNHS quickly
Firstly you need to click on the homepage under the tab Wave systems. This tab will be presented on the left-hand side of the screen corner.
Click on the ESR login button present there
Then you have to click on the download application of ESR or click on the link given below from the home page http://my.esr.nhs.uk
After that, you will get a dialogue box with the required fields for username and password where you need to fill in the credentials and click on the option login via username password given there.
How to reset ESR NHS password?
If you have forgotten the password of your ESRNHS account then you can set it up simply by following these steps mentioned below:
Visit https://my.esr.nhs.uk/
Enter your username and press the submit button.
If you do not remember your username, then fill up your email and date of birth and press the submit button.
You will receive an email to your registered email id with the password creating instructions, kindly follow them by clicking on the password change link provided with the email.
The ESR stands for electronic staff record, which is a human resource based on oracle and the database system. In whales and England, the database has been used by 585 units of NHS. NHS stands for National Health Service, which manages the payroll for the health service staffs of 1.2 million. For the NHS, the record application of the team is managed by IBM. The implementation of electronic staff record
Implementation of a group of 50 units leads down reading a couple of months, which started in 2006. The application of electronic stuff record was completed in the year 2008 on March. Best IT implementation of electronic staff record is the one among all the large deployments all over the world. It replaced 38 human resources and 29 payroll systems which were used throughout the NHS. According to the records based on March 2012, the fifth-largest employer is known as NHS, in the world.
The supported software which helps to assess ESR
The electronic staff record solution is based totally on the electronic business of Oracle Suite R12. This is allowed to run the desktops mostly with the Windows software or operating system which is currently available by Microsoft. Generally, oracle’s third-party certification OS, including the browser commodities, is responsible for the lifetime support cycle of the vendor who so ever is responsible.
Processing to the Electronic staff record is supported and thoroughly tested on an ongoing basis which may be against the software versions mentioned here:
Internet Explorer version 8
JRE version 1.6.0 underscores 39
Flash Player 10.3
Acceptance of the user’s organisations may run up to different versions of data of the mentioned software components. They are even suggested to run it based on the workstation at least once. This “base” workstation may then be utilised for allocating any access issue of ESR. The support team of this staff record will work with the website for solving the problems of accessing based on the “base” workstation.
Get to know about the function and information of electronic staff record.
The electronic staff recorder is based on the NHS system, which is used for payroll and human resource. It is used to maintain the records and information about the employees and constitutes a lot of self-service modules which help the staff and the managers to change the data themselves. But it is held by the organisation. If we move close to the group model operating framework and then review the requirements, then many decisions need to be made on how to utilise the ESR at its best. Meanwhile, you will get to know what type of modules are put up and how can you access them. You will be provided with the required guidelines and information.
ESS which stands for employee self-service
The staffs are granted accessibility automatically to the staff-record-cell-service-system at the point when they join the organisation. As soon as you enter, you’ll receive a password and a user name automatically. By using this user name and password, you can create your own account. Logging into the employee self-service record can also be done in different ways. For each of the ways, you will be granted and provided with all the required information and guidance. They can be operated from the place you work or even from the computer of your home or maybe via an application in your Smartphone.
Smart Card access
If you en-roll your name using a smart card, then you need to keep in mind that you have to perform it from a trusted PC by using your smart card. This is the only way through which you can log in to your account using the user ID and password.
Accessing through username and password
Apart from using Smart Card, you can also use the username and password to access the account through your PC. If you have not been allotted the password and the username, then contact the official email ids and links.
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