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Working together to harmonise cattle welfare standards
The Hon David Littleproud MP
Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management
Livestock export industry partnering with Vietnam on animal welfare.
Harmonising standards will reduce market access issues and strengthen standards in an important and growing market.
The Australian Government’s Agricultural Trade and Market Access Cooperation (ATMAC) program is supporting efforts to harmonise animal welfare standards with Vietnam.
Meat & Livestock Australia is partnering with the Department of Animal Health, Vietnam and the Australian Livestock Export Corporation to undertake the three-year program of work.
Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said the project was being funded, in part, by a ATMAC $135,000 grant.
“The ATMAC funded component of the project has so far included a cattle welfare workshop held in Hanoi in early November 2020 to determine what was needed to develop functional animal welfare changes in Vietnam,” Minister Littleproud said.
“The workshop was well attended by government departments, NGO organisations, universities, and commercial companies and provided stakeholders with the opportunity to discuss the regulations for exported Australian cattle and other animal welfare measures.
“Workshop participants endorsed a three-year program of work to address market access risks concerning animal welfare and traceability in cattle.
“Harmonising standards and compliance practices with Vietnam will reduce market access issues and reduce the risk to Australian live cattle trade.”
“The government of Vietnam has enlisted the support of the Australian livestock export industry to draft new animal health laws to ensure they are aligned to the international
standards which have to be met for Australian cattle.
“A Vietnamese working group will be convened to draft Cattle Animal Welfare standards for transport, husbandry and slaughter for consideration and adoption by the Vietnamese National Assembly.
“The working group will also develop a research paper into the standards developed under the Livestock Global Assurance Program to understand how these could deliver equivalence with animal welfare requirements for exported Australian feeder and slaughter livestock.
“ATMAC-funded projects such as this build stronger, mutually beneficial relationships with our trading partners.
“This project is another demonstration of the Australian Government’s commitment to modernising agricultural trade and grow agricultural exports.”
The ATMAC program objectives are to open, improve and/or maintain access to overseas markets for Australian agricultural products by building stronger relationships with trading partners, neighbouring countries and international organisations.
The government extended the program in 2019-20, with administered funding now totalling $6 million over four years from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
Tags:Agriculture, animal welfare, Assembly, Australia, Australian, Australian Government, building, demonstration, Government, Hanoi, industry, livestock, Minister, project, research, Vietnam
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Rockies Release Harrison Musgrave
By Connor Byrne | March 10, 2020 at 12:26am CDT
The Rockies have released left-handed reliever Harrison Musgrave, according to Chris Hilburn-Trenkle of Baseball America. The club previously outrighted him off its 40-man roster last summer.
Now 26 years old, Musgrave entered the professional ranks as an eighth-round pick of the Rockies in 2014. He received his first promotion to Colorado in 2018 despite posting less-than-stellar numbers in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League in the preceding couple years. With 44 2/3 innings as a rookie, Musgrave finished seventh among Rockies relievers in that category, though he struggled to prevent runs in that span. Musgrave could only muster a 4.63 ERA/5.31 FIP with 6.45 K/9, 4.43 BB/9 and a 38.3 percent groundball rate then.
Last season went down as an injury-shortened one for Musgrave, who battled elbow issues. His production in Colorado took steps forward, though it was in a much smaller sample of work. Across 10 innings, Musgrave allowed four earned runs on nine hits, seven walks and 12 strikeouts. He mostly spent the year in Triple-A Albuquerque, where he pitched to a whopping 10.13 ERA over 24 frames.
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Post-Deadline Outrights: Flynn, De La Cruz, Guerra, Blazek
By Anthony Franco | August 4, 2019 at 5:14pm CDT
In the immediate aftermath of the trade deadline, a handful of clubs cleared 40-man roster space with a series of designations. Many of those players have since cleared waivers, and we’ll round up those minor moves here…
Latest Moves
The Royals announced that southpaw Brian Flynn was outrighted to Triple-A after clearing waivers. Flynn has a 5.22 ERA over 29 1/3 innings for K.C. this season, a disappointing result for a reliever who posted solid numbers out of the Royals’ bullpen in both 2016 and 2018.
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Cubs minor-league right-hander Oscar de la Cruz has cleared waivers. The 24 year-old has seen his once-lofty prospect status deteriorate due to a combination of injuries, command woes, and a suspension for a masking agent. He’ll remain with the club’s AA affiliate in the Southern League.
Nationals right-handers Javy Guerra and Michael Blazek each cleared waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A Fresno. Because each veteran has previously been outrighted, they may elect free agency, but the shaky Washington bullpen could plausibly offer them the best opportunity to return to the big leagues in short order.
Giants right-handed reliever Dan Winkler was outrighted. San Francisco acquired him as a salary offset in the Mark Melancon trade but never had any interest in letting him see the field amidst a disappointing 2019 season. Winkler can elect free agency because he has over three years of MLB service.
Rockies left-handed relief arm Harrison Musgrave will remain on hand at Triple-A Albuquerque after clearing. The 27 year-old has had little success in 45 MLB games in Colorado over the past two seasons.
Diamondbacks right-hander Joey Krehbiel will remain on-hand at Triple-A Reno. Fangraphs’ Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel named the 26 year-old reliever a prospect to watch thanks to a plus changeup preseason, but he’s had a nightmarish season in the Pacific Coast League.
Veteran catcher Tim Federowicz has cleared. The backstop had been playing for the Rangers, but he may elect to catch on elsewhere on a minor-league deal.
Phillies corner infielder Mitch Walding has also cleared waivers. He’ll remain in Triple-A Lehigh Valley, where he’s struggled to make contact in 2019.
Eric Stamets, the Indians’ Opening Day shortstop, has cleared as well. The 27 year-old has put up anemic offensive numbers with Triple-A Columbus, where he’ll continue to try to right the ship, over the past two seasons.
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Minor MLB Transactions: 7/17/19
By Connor Byrne | July 17, 2019 at 11:59pm CDT
The latest minor moves from around baseball…
Left-hander Robbie Ross recently joined the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League. The 30-year-old has already thrown 7 1/3 innings with the club, striking out 13 but allowing eight earned runs on 10 hits and six walks. Ross spent last season in the minors with the White Sox after an injury-limited 2017 in Boston. Before that, Ross was fairly successful in the majors with the Rangers and Red Sox from 2012-16 – a 321 2/3-inning span in which he logged a 3.83 ERA/3.78 FIP with 7.41 K/9, 3.22 BB/9 and a 52.3 percent groundball rate.
The Rockies made a pair of 40-man roster transactions Wednesday, moving infielder Brendan Rodgers to the 60-day injured list after he underwent season-ending shoulder surgery and reinstating lefty Harrison Musgrave from the 60-day IL. The club optioned Musgrave, who hasn’t pitched since May 3 because of a flexor strain, to Triple-A Albuquerque after activating him. The 27-year-old Musgrave allowed four earned runs on nine hits and seven walks (with 12 strikeouts) in 10 innings before his IL placement. As a rookie last season, Musgrave threw 44 2/3 frames to rank seventh among Rockies relievers in that category, but he only mustered a 4.63 ERA/5.31 FIP with 6.45 K/9 against 4.43 BB/9.
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Charlie Blackmon Likely To Return Friday
By Connor Byrne | June 7, 2019 at 1:35am CDT
The Rockies will activate outfielder Charlie Blackmon from the 10-day injured list Friday, Kyle Newman of the Denver Post suggests. Meanwhile, the Rockies lost left-handed reliever Mike Dunn to the 10-day IL on Thursday (retroactive to June 3) because of left AC joint inflammation and transferred fellow southpaw Harrison Musgrave to the 60-day IL, per a team announcement. Musgrave’s 40-man spot went to righty Peter Lambert, who shut down the Cubs in a 3-1 win in his major league debut.
Although Blackmon’s one of their most valuable players, the Rockies (32-29) ripped off 10 wins in 15 games as he sat out with a right calf strain. Colorado’s just half a game behind a wild-card spot thanks to that impressive run, and Blackmon’s return should help the team’s cause as it pushes for a third straight playoff berth. The 32-year-old Blackmon slashed .300/.356/.565 (126 wRC+) with 10 home runs in 219 plate appearances before landing on the shelf.
The IL placement for Dunn, 34, is the latest negative development in a long line of them since he joined the Rockies on an ill-fated contract going into the 2017 campaign. The injury’s all the more troubling given that Dunn missed most of last season with an AC joint issue that required surgery in September.
Now in the last season of his three-year, $19MM deal, Dunn has pitched to a 5.19 ERA/4.83 FIP in 17 1/3 innings. Overall as a Rockie, Dunn has thrown 84 2/3 frames and logged a 5.53 ERA/4.88 FIP with 8.82 K/9, 5.53 BB/9 and a 35 percent groundball rate.
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Rockies Option Tyler Anderson, Place Harrison Musgrave On IL
By Connor Byrne | May 4, 2019 at 7:33pm CDT
The Rockies have optioned left-handed starter Tyler Anderson to Triple-A Albuquerque and placed southpaw reliever Harrison Musgrave on the 10-day injured list with a flexor strain in his pitching elbow, according to Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. The club recalled righties Yency Almonte and DJ Johnson from Albuquerque to take the spots of Anderson and Musgrave.
Anderson, a first-round pick of the Rockies in 2011, has been a full-time member of their rotation since debuting in 2016. While Anderson’s numbers have gone downhill since an impressive 19-start, 114 1/3-inning rookie campaign, he has nonetheless looked like another solid homegrown arm for the Rockies for most of his career. Prior to 2019, Anderson had pitched to a matching 4.30 ERA/FIP with 8.23 K/9, 2.7 BB/9 and a 42.7 percent groundball rate over 376 1/3 innings.
Unfortunately, things have gone off the rails this year for Anderson, who has opened with five starts of 11.76 ERA/7.52 FIP pitching and averaged a mere four innings per appearance. Anderson did strike out 21.7 percent of batters in that 20 2/3-inning span, right in line with his career mark of 21.8, but he also walked 10.4 percent (well above his lifetime figure of 7.4) and yielded a whopping 3.48 home runs per nine. And though Anderson’s .391 batting average on balls in play, 51.4 percent strand rate and .476 weighted on-base average against indicate fortune hasn’t been on his side, he has still surrendered the majors’ 10th-worst xwOBA (.414).
Neither mechanics nor health are to blame for Anderson’s woes, per manager Bud Black, who says the 29-year-old needs to work on pitch-to-pitch “consistency” in the minors. As they wait for Anderson to work his way back, the Rockies may recall righty Jeff Hoffman to replace Anderson in their rotation, Saunders suggests. Hoffman, 26, was once among the game’s finest pitching prospects, but he has lost a substantial amount of luster in the majors and minors over the past couple seasons. Triple-A hitters have tattooed Hoffman for 19 earned runs on 23 hits and nine walks in just 18 2/3 innings this year.
Meanwhile, Colorado’s bullpen will have to make do without Musgrave for a to-be-determined period of time. Musgrave was subpar as a rookie last season, but he has begun this year with a 3.60 ERA/2.82 FIP and 10.8 K/9 in 10 innings. Musgrave was effective against both left- and right-handed hitters before his injury, though he also walked 6.3 per nine and only induced grounders at a 25 percent clip.
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Rockies Place Chris Rusin On 10-Day DL, Move Carlos Estevez To 60-Day DL
By Jeff Todd | April 23, 2018 at 8:51pm CDT
The Rockies have announced a trio of pitching moves. Southpaw Chris Rusin will head to the 10-day DL with an intercostal strain, with fellow southpaw Harrison Musgrave replacing him on the active roster.
Bringing up Musgrave meant opening a 40-man spot, which the Rox accomplished by shifting reliever Carlos Estevez to the 60-day DL. He opened the year on the 10-day list owing to an oblique issue, but is now said to be dealing with an elbow strain. The team says Estevez is not at risk of requiring Tommy John surgery, Nick Groke of The Athletic tweets, though he’ll now have to sit for at least the first two months of the current campaign.
Rusin, 31, has been a huge asset for the Colorado pen over the past two seasons. The converted starter has consistently given good innings — often, more than one at a time — after having failed to stick in the rotation. Since a rough first outing, Rusin has been effective. His fastball velocity has been in line with prior seasons and he was generating grounders and swinging strikes at rates generally commensurate with his recent work.
While the Rockies wait for their longman to return, they’ll get a look at a 26-year-old lefty who has yet to reach the game’s highest level. Musgrave has spent the past couple seasons in the upper minors, where he has worked exclusively as a starter. He’s carrying a 3.38 ERA with ten strikeouts and two walks in his 10 2/3 innings at Triple-A Albuquerque thus far in 2018.
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Rockies Notes: Bullpen, Rotation, Dahl
By charliewilmoth and Connor Byrne | April 15, 2017 at 7:21pm CDT
Just last year, the Rockies’ bullpen ranked in baseball’s bottom third, coming in 21st in baseball with a 2.2 fWAR. So far this year, their relievers are the best in the game using that same metric, with a 1.4 fWAR and a 2.80 ERA that’s remarkable considering the context in which they pitch. The Denver Post’s Nick Groke explains the bullpen’s transformation, beginning with the signings of Greg Holland and Mike Dunn last winter. “Greg Holland and Mike Dunn have been fabulous for the mentality of the bullpen,” says manager Bud Black. “They have made a marked difference with the professionalism of that group. There’s no doubt they have set the standard.” So far, the pair have combined for 11 1/3 scoreless innings, and Dunn has performed very well despite his signing receiving lukewarm reviews from commentators. As Groke points out, Holland and Dunn look like far better gambles so far than Chad Qualls and Jason Motte were in 2015-16 (Qualls is currently hurt; the Rockies recently released Motte, and he signed a minor-league deal with the Braves.) Of course, it’s very early in the season.
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With top starter Jon Gray set to miss at least a month with a foot injury, the Rockies figure to turn to one of Jeff Hoffman, German Marquez or Harrison Musgrave to fill the void, writes Thomas Harding of MLB.com. Veteran swingman Chris Rusin has more major league starting experience than any of them, but he isn’t in contention to reenter the Rockies’ rotation because they like the value he provides to their bullpen, Black indicated. The 24-year-old Hoffman and the 22-year-old Marquez are among the premier prospects in the game, with Baseball America ranking the former 36th and the latter 53rd, and the two garnered some big league experience last season. While the 25-year-old Musgrave hasn’t yet cracked the bigs, nor does he carry a high-end prospect pedigree, he did come close to winning a job with the Rockies during the spring, notes Harding.
Outfielder David Dahl, on the shelf since early March with a stress fracture in his ribcage, feels healthy enough to return, but the Rockies are taking a cautious approach with the 23-year-old, per Groke. Dahl won’t be able to swing a bat until at least next week, as the Rockies first want to see the results from the MRI bone scan he’ll undergo April 21. “Honestly, I’ve been saying I’m ready to play. But they said you can feel good, but it still might not be healed,” said Dahl. “They want to make sure the bone scan comes back and it shows it’s healed.” If the scan yields good news, it should put Dahl on track to make his 2017 debut in May.
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United Arab Emirates: Overview Of Arbitration In UAE - Adding A Joinder And Consolidating Claims
by STA Law Firm
The United Arab Emirates with USD 37,600 per capita GDP is considered one of the most suitable countries for investment. The UAE has an open economy, high per capita income, stable political environment and pro-investment legislations promoting confidence among the business community. To ensure the constituting confidence of investors, UAE has recently passed new standalone arbitration law (the Federal Arbitration Law Number 6 of 2018) which is on the lines of UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration 1985.
Arbitration is one of the most preferred mechanisms of dispute resolution among the business community because of its transnational nature and the ability to resolve complex disputes while staying away from country-specific politics. The international commercial arbitration helps to resolve disputes, with individual parties from different countries remaining free from local jurisdiction (compared to national courts). Arbitration is meant to serve the business community, and therefore it is required to develop and adopt the best ways to accommodate the growing demand of the business community.
The contractual arrangements in the current commercial world are becoming complex due to multiple subsequent contracts between the same parties or unrelated parties or independent contracts between unconnected parties for the same projects. In such circumstances, it is crucial that when a dispute arises in such complex contracts, there is an arrangement to resolve it effectively even if there are more than two parties involved in that transaction.
This article is divided into four (4) Parts. Part I provides a brief introduction about joinder and consolidation of arbitration proceedings for the resolution of disputes arising from complex commercial arrangements. Part II of this article will focus on UAE, DIFC and ADGM arbitration laws. Part III of the article will examine the arbitration rules of prominent UAE arbitration institutes to see to what extent these institutes permit joinder and consolidation in commercial arbitration in UAE. Finally, the Part IVwill provides specific guidelines for parties to avoid landing in undesirable situations.
Part I: Understanding the Joinder and Consolidation
As stated above, the commercial arrangements around the world are getting complicated day by day and therefore requiring more sophisticated legal mechanisms to resolve such complicated commercial arrangements. Many commercial arrangements, whether in UAE of around the world, need lengthy and complicated contracts where multiple national and international parties are involved in the completion of a single project. Especially, construction contracts are highly complicated due to the involvement of various parties like landowner, contractor ........ etc
Consultants (Designers, Architects
Financier/Funder
Client etc.
Moreover, all these parties might have one or more contract between each other containing its arbitration clause. Big construction contracts are just on example of many complicated commercial arrangements.
Under such complicated commercial contract arrangements, an arbitral award passed under one contract might affect the right or interest of other parties engaged in the same project through a separate contract. This might also lead to the passing of conflicting and confusing arbitral awards increasing the cost and time of the entire dispute resolution mechanism. And this is where the joinder and consolidation of arbitration proceedings become useful.
When a dispute arises under one interrelated contract, the parties might want some other party also to be joined in the arbitration proceeding which is working on the same project in a different capacity under a separate, but interrelated agreement.
Joinder: The term joinder in arbitration means adding the non-signatory (third party) to an arbitration agreement.
Consolidation: In consolidation, two or more arbitrations are combined or consolidated into a single arbitration proceeding.
Part II: UAE Legislative Framework
UAE Federal Law
Article 22 of the new UAE Federal Arbitration Law Number 6 of 2018 covers the joinder of new parties into arbitration. It states that the arbitral tribunal has the discretion to authorize the joinder of a third party in arbitration if the original party of the arbitration or the joining party makes such request. The joining party has to be a party to the arbitration agreement. However, the UAE's new federal arbitration law is silent on consolidation of arbitration proceedings.
DIFC Arbitration Law
The DIFC Arbitration Law Number 1 of 2008 doesn't have any specific provision for consolidation and joinder of parties in arbitration. A limited reference has been provided in Article 17(3)(c) which states that if there are more than two parties to a dispute, then the DIFC Court of First Instance shall provide for the arbitration tribunal unless otherwise agreed by the parties.
ADGM Arbitration Rules
Rule 36 of the ADGM Arbitration Rules provides that the arbitration institute or the court (as the case may be) can permit the joinder if requested by a party if it considers that it is in the interest of justice.
It further provides that, only a party to the same arbitration agreement or has consented to the joinder in writing can be joined. This stipulates that the joinder shall not be permitted without giving all the parties (including the party to be joined) an opportunity to be heard. The Rule 36 further states that a party cannot be joined after the confirmation or appointment of an arbitrator unless all parties (including the joined party) otherwise agree.
Part III: Dissecting UAE's Institutional Arbitration Rules
DIAC Arbitration Rules
The DIAC arbitration rules do not refer to joinder or consolidation of arbitration proceedings. However, Rule 11.1 of the DIAC Arbitration Rules deals with the situation where there are multiple parties. It states that where there are numerous parties and the dispute is referred to a three-member tribunal the Claimants and Respondents shall together one arbitrator each for the constitution of the tribunal. The DIAC Arbitration Rules does not make any further reference to multi-party arbitration.
Abu Dhabi Conciliation and Arbitration Centre
The ADCAC does not have any specific provision for joinder or consolidation of arbitration proceedings.
Sharjah International Commercial Arbitration Centre (SICAC)
Article 7 of the Sharjah International Commercial Arbitration Centre provides for the joinder and intervention in arbitration proceedings.
Consent: for joinder, all parties (including the joined party) has to agree for the joinder.
The joined party as to be a party to the same arbitration agreement or another consistent arbitration agreement. The joinder request has to arise from the same legal relationship from which the dispute arises.The date of commencement of the arbitration proceeding for the joined party shall be the date on which the center receives a request for the joinder of the party.
The request for the joinder has to be made before the constitution of the arbitration tribunal unless;
There is an acceptable excuse or
All the parties (including the joined party) agrees.
Article 9 of the SICAC Rules provides that, all the claims arising under the same contract can be settled in the same arbitration even if those claims are arising under different arbitration agreements.
Article 10 of the SICAC Rules explicatively deals with the consolidation of arbitrations. It provides that the Executive Committee can consolidate two or more arbitration into single arbitration under the following circumstances:
If all the parties consent to consolidation;
All claims are arising from the same arbitration agreement; or
If the allegations are arising from different arbitration agreements, however, all the arbitrations arise from the same legal relationship, and the Executive Committee finds that all the arbitration agreements are either compatible or can be reconciled.
Article 10 further states that, if the Executive Committee decides to consolidate the arbitrations then they should be consolidated in the first registered arbitration (will this affect rights of parties like date of commencement of arbitration etc.?) unless otherwise agreed by the parties.
DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre:
Article 1.5 and Article 2.5 of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Rules 2016 provide that there can be more than one claimant and respondent respectively. Furthermore, Article 22.1 (ix) provides that the arbitration tribunal (with the approval of LCIA Court) can consolidate one or more arbitration into single arbitration if all the parties to arbitration provide their consent in writing.
As per the Article 22.1 (x) of the Rules, the arbitration tribunal (with the approval of LCIA Court) can order the consolidation of arbitrations into single arbitration if;
Arbitrations have commenced under the same arbitration agreement or
Commenced under any compatible arbitration agreement between the same disputing parties.
However, the following condition needs to be satisfied before any consolidation can be ordered under Article 22.1 (x) of the Rules;
No arbitration tribunal has been formed for such arbitrations or
If the tribunal is already formed, then such tribunal is composed of same arbitrators.
The International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration
No provision for joinder or consolidation of arbitration proceedings.
Part IV: Conclusion and Takeaways
Arbitration is a creature of contract and therefore, to what extent the joinder and consolidation of arbitration are possible, will entirely depend on the language of the arbitration agreement entered between the parties, arbitration rules applicable and the law of that specific jurisdiction. However, below are some guidelines that can come handy for avoiding uncomfortable situations.
If parties wish to allow for joinder or consolidation, they should provide this in their arbitration agreement and also choose the arbitration institute and rules accordingly. However, it is difficult to contemplate the requirement of joinder and consolidation at the beginning of the commercial arrangement, and sometimes it might be undesirable to permit joinder and consolidation.
If parties wish for unhindered joinder and consolidation, then they should make sure that the arbitration clause in all contract is same or at let compatible.
Parties should aim to have an umbrella arbitration agreement for related contracts to avoid any confusion or inconsistency.
If the party wish to avoid being joined or have its arbitration consolidated to an arbitration proceeding, it should expressly withhold its consent to such joinder or consolidation attempts. Withholding the consent can help the party to avoid joinder or consolidation or to resist the enforcement of an arbitral award if its lack of consent is ignored.
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Posted on May 11, 2018 by Point Pleasant Register
Blue Devils win sectional title
By Scott Jones - sjones@aimmediamidwest.com
MARIETTA, Ohio — It was a long night for the Blue Devils.
The Gallia Academy baseball team fought through extra innings on Thursday — as a costly error by host Marietta proved the difference — as the Blue and White earned a 5-4 win over the third-seeded Tigers in a Division II sectional final in Washington County.
The Blue Devils (12-11) leaped to a 1-0 advantage in the first, as Wyatt Sipple reached on an error to start the inning and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Braden Simms.
Marietta countered in the bottom of the first, as Kail Hill led off the frame with a single and scored on a two-out single by Jarrett Jackson to knot the game at 1-all.
GAHS grabbed a 2-1 lead in the second, as Andrew Toler reached on a fielding miscue by the hosts and was driven home by a two-out RBI single by Sipple.
The Tigers tied the game at 2-2 in the third, when Brady Vincent led of the inning with a single and scored on a run producing single by Derek Duckworth with two outs.
The Blue and White pulled ahead in the fifth, when Dakota Young doubled to start the inning and Sipple followed with a double to put GAHS ahead 3-2.
Marietta evened the score in the bottom of the fifth, as three-consecutive errors by Gallia Academy allowed Corbin Alkire — who led off the inning with a single — to tie the contest at 3-all.
Both teams were held scoreless through the sixth and seventh innings, each manufacturing just one hit apiece, respectively, over that span.
The Blue Devils took a 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth, as a lead off double by Simms set the stage for Toler to provide a go-ahead two-out RBI single.
The Tigers rallied in the bottom of the eighth, when Dakota Miller tied the game at 4-4 with a two-out RBI double. Marietta however stranded Miller in scoring position, as GAHS escaped the inning following an intentional walk to Hill and a fly-out by Vincent to end the inning.
Gallia Academy took a 5-4 advantage in the ninth, when Cole Davis led off with a hit by pitch and scored on an error by Marietta with one out in the inning.
The Tigers put the tying run on base in the bottom of the ninth, as Jackson was hit by a pitch and reached with one-out, but Gallia Academy retired Duckworth and Hill to close out the one-run victory.
The Blue Devils win served as their first sectional championship since 2014.
Davis was the winning pitcher of record for GAHS, as he provided 1⅔ innings of relief and surrendered one run on three hits, while walking three hitters. Davis also scored one run on the offensive side.
Josh Faro started on the mound, allowing three runs, six hits, with two walks and seven strikeouts in 6⅔ innings of work.
Simms was credited with a save, as he provided two-thirds of an inning of relief, allowing no runs, no hits, with one strikeout.
Sipple led the way for the Blue and White and the plate with two hits, two RBI and one run scored.
Simms and Toler each finished with one safety, one RBI and one run score apiece, respectively.
Young provided one hit and scored once, while Faro and Matt Moreaux each finished with one safety apiece, respectively, to conclude the offensive totals for the Blue Devils.
Duckworth took the loss for the Tigers, allowing two runs on three hits, with one walk and one strikeout in four innings of relief. Alkire started the contest and lasted five innings on the mound, surrendering three runs, four hits, one walk, with five strikeouts.
Jackson led the way for the hosts with two hits, while Hill, Vincent, Alkire, Miller, Duckworth, Devon Moss and Justin Thompson each provided one safety apiece, respectively.
GAHS committed three fielding miscues in the contest, while Marietta had five errors.
The Blue Devils return to action on Monday as they travel to face seventh-seeded Hillsboro in a Division II district semifinal contest at Athens High School at 7 p.m.
By Scott Jones
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The Backstage
Leading up to the Queensryche break-up
Thread starter Spot
Scooter2112
Malikon said:
I have never found this band as fascinating as I do at this moment.
*popcorn*
You were probably occupying a testicle at the time.
Classic Rock, eh?
your idol
I have never found this band as fascinating
Fix'd
SFK said:
This is the most I've ever cared about Queensryche.
I still DONT care about em but I dont care about trains either til i see em wreck. Lets face it were enamored with the meltdown and not the band.
To me the only thing about Queensryche that id ever liked is at kareoke bars. If there was some hesher reject there i would spend my ENTIRE night convincing them that i think they could and totally should sing and nail Jet City Woman...when they try its ALWAYS a disaster... Try it sometime! Its a blast. Hell the best one i had this kid "wolf" as he went buy do it...he didnt even know the damn words.. Neither did i but i sure as hell wasnt gonna sing it
Kamen_Kaiju
Tachibana Racing Club
Scooter2112 said:
I'd been playing a couple years when Mindcrime came out. I just never got into Queensryche.
At the time I was much more interested in...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CoGDjtBtVE&feature=relmfu]Slayer - Black Magic - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_ggFovJNo]Metallica - Blackened - YouTube[/ame]
I saw no technical challenge to playing QR songs, so they were totally off my radar at the time.
Gin&Pentatonic
Damn. I wonder if they'll try to trade him for Dwight Howard.
Ledheadforlife
I think I believe Tate's version, he said it's basically about money because he gets a 25% take, he said they wanted to kick him out and find some hired gun who'll work for an hourly wage or salary so they could split his 25%. Makes sense to me.
Thumpalumpacus
What a bummer. I was a big fan of theirs back in the day, and saw them on the Promised Land tour.
Tate's grandstanding in the RS interview. The shit about "writing 81% of all the songs" ignores the fact that those are all shared credits. It also ignores the fact that Empire, which is by far their bread-and-butter album which feeds their families, was a full-group effort.
AXE said:
Complete Jagoff!
Queensryche Live Rocklahoma 2012 "You guys suck" - YouTube
After that shit, there would have been a discussion in the blue room:
"Dude, wtf were you thinking? You pull that shit again, you'll be singing fvcking karaoke in Shitsplat, Nevada before you can pronounce the fvcking town name."
You never slam your audience. If you want them to be more pumped up -- you throw down harder. Or you break out the ole "Let's rock and roll, Cleveland!" Or you dig out an old chestnut that you never play, and give 'em a treat.
But you don't tell the audience "you suck."
There would definitely be an "if you ever pull that shit again" discussion after that shit.
There's surely two sides to this story, but if my singer talks to ticket-buying fans like that, some shit's gonna happen, and I'm gonna be a dick.
Shawn Lutz
They also can't blame Tate for the three poor album sales. Let's be brutally honest here....the genre pretty died a long time ago. Records from bands of the past generally don't sell well. It wouldn't matter if all original members were there and getting along like brothers or best friends.
Hairless_Ape
Wait...who broke up?
Never mind, with a name like that I'm already completely disinterested.
LesLuvva
All alone now, except for the memories...
jeff_farkas
Queensryche featuring Rebecca Black!!
Buying tickets already
Tates already been replaced. They're already playing out with the new guy under a nee name. Cant remember the name, has the word Rising in it. They'll never get it back. Genre is long gone and Chris was the talent in that band.
Malk gets ten points for a stunning take-down.
That poor bastard ain't never gettin' up again.
This is very interesting and educational, but I also had never heard of these creeps before. Sounds like a re-run of "Dallas" or "Falcon Crest". I couldn't care less.
12watt
He's been replaced with the singer from Crimson Glory and the band has been renamed "Rising West".
Crimson Glory...
Joeydego
your mom is a nice lady
If someone did that to me 5 minutes before showtime, one of us is going to leave on life support. LPC>mic stand. I'd be god damned. It would be "Queensryche, with surprise vocalist from the audience", an explanation and full refund to ticketholders. How many tickets, 5k on the high side? They ain't selling out arenas anymore. Free fan club memberships and meet and greets for EVERYONE in the audience. Come off as the good guys.
jfwund
I used to dig Queensryche quite a bit, back when Geoff could still wail and they actually wrote good songs. Then again, I enjoy me some Dream Theater and Rush, too, so I do enjoy the prog-metal genre.
Anyway, if the other 4 guys in your band form a "side project"/new group dedicated to playing the old material of your group from before you became the "primary creative force" (i.e. after the best songwriter in the group left the band and since the band's manager was your wife and most of the business was handled by your family you were able to assert your authority over the band and its music), then it's a pretty good bet that there were in fact creative differences behind this split. Plus the fact that Geoff has always come across as a bit of an egotistical jerk (I don't know him, so this is just my perception).
To remove oneself from the immediacy of the situation, has anyone actually listened to the music QR has put out since Hear in the Now Frontier? Some of it is passable, but it's entirely forgettable. I actually bought Mindcrime II. That was a waste of $14, even with Ronnie James Dio, and that was arguably QR's high point in the last 12 years... Can't blame the rest of the band for saying "enough's enough"
To their advantage:
This is the most anyone's talked about them in 20 years.
How the hell isn't he getting paid anyway for Rising West? If he did write or co-write those songs, he should be getting paid every time they are performed, a-la Ace Frehley.
Laaz
Still listen to a lot of the old stuff. Some great shit back in the day.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2QOBMlTA]Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3g6tTYoxM]Queensryche - I Don't Believe In Love - YouTube[/ame]
This....
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Comment on "On biological signaling" by G. Nimtz and H. Aichmann, Z. Naturforsch. 75a: 507-509, 2020
Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, Nov 2020, In : Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section A Journal of Physical Sciences. 75, 11, p. 933-935 3 p.
Noise residuals for GW150914 using maximum likelihood and numerical relativity templates
Jackson, Andrew D., Liu, H. & Nasselski, Pavel, 1 May 2019, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2019, 5, 21 p., 014.
Degeneracy of gravitational waveforms in the context of GW150914
Creswell, J., Liu, H., Jackson, Andrew D., von Hausegger, S. & Nasselski, Pavel, 5 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2018, 3, 19 p., 007.
A blind search for a common signal in gravitational wave detectors
Liu, H., Creswell, J., von Hausegger, S., Jackson, Andrew D. & Nasselski, Pavel, 7 Feb 2018, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2018, 2, 20 p., 013.
The free energy of biomembrane and nerve excitation and the role of anesthetics
Wang, T., Muzic, T., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 16 Oct 2018, In : Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 1860, 10, p. 2145-2153 9 p.
On the time lags of the LIGO signals
Creswell, J., von Hausegger, S., Jackson, Andrew D., Liu, H. & Nasselski, Pavel, 14 Jul 2017, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2017, 8, 013.
Wang, T., Gonzalez-Perez, A., Budvytyte, R., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 24 Apr 2017, In : Physical Review X. 7, 2, 028002.
Possible associated signal with GW150914 in the LIGO data
Liu, H. & Jackson, Andrew D., 24 Oct 2016, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016, 10, 014.
Understanding the LIGO GW150914 event
Nasselski, Pavel, Jackson, Andrew D. & Liu, H., 10 Aug 2016, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016, 8, 029.
Solitary electromechanical pulses in lobster neurons
Perez, A. G., Mosgaard, L. D., Budvytyte, R., Villagran-Vargas, E., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, Sep 2016, In : Biophysical Chemistry. 216, p. 51-59
Skewness and kurtosis as indicators of non-Gaussianity in galactic foreground maps
Ben-David, A., von Hausegger, S. & Jackson, Andrew D., 2 Nov 2015, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2015, 11, 019.
Ben-David, A., Liu, H. & Jackson, Andrew D., 1 Jun 2015, In : Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2015, 6, 051.
Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates: Closing the gap between exact and mean-field solutions
Cremon, J. C., Jackson, Andrew D., Karabulut, E. O., Kavoulakis, G. M., Mottelson, B. R. & Reimann, S. M., 20 Mar 2015, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 91, 3, 033623.
Hysteresis and metastability of Bose-Einstein-condensed clouds of atoms confined in ring potentials
Roussou, A., Tsibidis, G. D., Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M., Efremidis, N. K., Jackson, Andrew D. & Kavoulakis, G. M., 13 Feb 2015, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 91, 2, 023613.
Inelastic neutron Scattering: A different approach to understand drug stability: ESS and MAX IV – new opportunities in formulation research, Lund, Sweden
Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, Cardenas Gomez, M., Jackson, Andrew D., Lidin, S., Quitmann, C., Rennie, A. & Schurtenberger, P., 9 Jan 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
Biomaterials, complexity and neutrons: Third Annual Niels Bohr International Academy Workshop on ESS Science: Crossing space and time domains with SAS and QENS
Argyriou, D., Arleth, Lise, Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, Eckert, J., Jackson, Andrew D. & Kirkensgaard, Jacob Judas Kain, 24 Jun 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
Research output: Other contribution › Research
Fluctuations of systems in finite heat reservoirs with applications to phase transitions in lipid membranes
Mosgaard, L. D., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 25 Sep 2013, In : Journal of Chemical Physics. 139, 12, 125101.
Solitary-wave solutions in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates under periodic boundary conditions
Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M., Kavoulakis, G. M. & Jackson, Andrew D., 7 Jan 2013, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 87, 1, 013603.
Low frequency sound propagation in lipid memembranes
Mosgaard, L. D., Heimburg, Thomas Rainer & Jackson, Andrew D., 2012, Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes. Elsevier, Vol. 16. p. 51-74 24 p. (Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes).
Excitation spectrum of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring potentia
Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M., Jackson, Andrew D. & Kavoulakis, G. M., 16 Dec 2012, In : Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 45, 23, p. 235302
Solitary waves and yrast states in Bose-Einstein condensed gases of atoms
Jackson, Andrew D., Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M. & Kavoulakis, G. M., 12 Jul 2011, In : EPL. 95, 3, p. 30002-6
Lautrup, B. E., Appali, R., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 9 Jun 2011, In : The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics. 34, 57, p. 11057 9 p.
Random matrix models for phase diagrams
Vanderheyden, B. & Jackson, Andrew D., 19 Sep 2011, In : Reports on Progress in Physics. 74, 10, p. 102001-16 16 p.
Periodic solutions and refractory periods in the soliton theory for nerves and the locust femoral nerve
Vargas, V., Ludu, A., Hustert, R., Gumrich, P., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 1 Jan 2011, In : Biophysical Chemistry. 153, 2-3, p. 159-167 8 p.
Hvad kan Niels Bohr sige os i dag?
Hemmingsen, Ralf Peter, Jackson, Andrew D. & Aaserud, F., 4 Nov 2010, In : Universitetsavisen. 8, p. 24-25 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Review › Communication
Solitary waves in mixtures of Bose gases confined in annular traps
Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M., Kavoulakis, G. M. & Jackson, Andrew D., 1 Jun 2010, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 81, 6, p. 063601 5 p.
Solitary waves of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms confined in finite rings
Smyrnakis, J., Magiropoulos, M., Kavoulakis, G. M. & Jackson, Andrew D., 11 Aug 2010, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 82, 2, p. 023604 5 p.
Towards a thermodynamic theory of nerve pulse propagation
Andersen, S. S., Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 2009, In : Progress in Neurobiology. 88, 2, p. 104-113 9 p.
Statistics of trajectories in two-state master equations
Jackson, Andrew D. & Pigolotti, S., Feb 2009, In : Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics). 79, 2, p. 021121
Comment on "Citation Statistics" by joint committee on quantitative assessment of research
Lehmann, S., Lautrup, B. E. & Jackson, Andrew D., 2009, In : Statistical Science. 24, 1, p. 17-20 3 p.
Random matrix model for antiferromagnetism and superconductivity on a two-dimensional lattice
Vanderheyden, B. & Jackson, Andrew D., 2009, In : Physical Review B Condensed Matter. 79, 14, p. 144502
Constraints on food choices of women in the UK with lower educational attainment
Barker, M., Lawrence, W. T., Skinner, Timothy, Haslam, C. O., Robinson, S. M., Inskip, H. M., Margetts, B. M., Jackson, Andrew D., Barker, D. J. P. & Cooper, C., 1 Dec 2008, In : Public Health Nutrition. 11, 12, p. 1229-1237 9 p.
Fragility of fragmentation in Bose-Einstein condensates
Jackson, Andrew D., Kavoulakis, G. M. & Magriopoulos, M., 2008, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 78, p. 063623
Thermodynamics of the nervous impulse
Jackson, Andrew D. & Heimburg, Thomas Rainer, 2008, Structure and dynamics of membranous interfaces. Nag, K. (ed.). New York: Wiley, p. 317-340 24 p.
Bright solitary waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate and their interactions
Kärkkäinen, K., Jackson, Andrew D. & Kavoulakis, G. M., 2008, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 78, 3, p. 033610
A quantitative analysis of indicators of scientific performance
Lehmann, S., Jackson, Andrew D. & Lautrup, B. E., 2008, In : Scientometrics. 76, 2, p. 369-390 22 p.
Brownian Warps for Non-Rigid Registration
Nielsen, Mads, Johansen, P., Jackson, Andrew D., Lautrup, B. E. & Hauberg, S., 2008, In : Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 31, 2-3, p. 221-231 11 p.
On the action potential as a propagating density pulse and the role of anesthetics
Heimburg, Thomas Rainer & Jackson, Andrew D., 2007, In : Biophysical Reviews and Letters. 2, 1, p. 57-78 23 p.
The thermodynamics of general anesthesia
Heimburg, Thomas Rainer & Jackson, Andrew D., 2007, In : Biophysical Journal. 92, 9, p. 3159-3165 6 p.
Kvaliteten af kvalitetsmål
Lehmann, S., Jackson, Andrew D. & Lautrup, B. E., 2007, In : Ugeskrift for læger. 169, 38, p. 3205-3207 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Communication
Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in toroidal traps
Jackson, Andrew D. & Kavoulakis, G. M., 2006, In : Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). 74, 6, p. 065601 4 p.
Measures for measures
Lehmann, S., Jackson, Andrew D. & Lautrup, B. E., 2006, In : Nature. 444, 7122, p. 1003-1004 2 p.
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Additional tracks opening Monday morning at Hoboken Terminal
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By Editor October 17, 2016
Rail service is about to be fully restored at a transit station damaged last month when a train traveling more than twice the speed limit crashed, killing a woman on the platform and injuring more than 100 other people.
The return of full service into Hoboken Terminal comes less than three weeks after the crash.
New Jersey Transit said six more tracks will open at 4 a.m. Monday. It also noted that the station’s ticket office has resumed operations.
However, tracks 5 and 6 will remain closed as the transit agency continues repairs.
Trains entering the station will now reduce their approach speed from 10 mph to 5 mph for added safety, NJ Transit Executive Director Steven Santoro said.
In the Sept. 29 crash, the train’s data recorder showed it going twice the 10 mph speed limit just before it slammed through a bumper at the end of the track and dislodged an overhead canopy, showering debris onto the train.
New Jersey’s congressional delegation sent a letter on Friday to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx asking the government to fulfill the transit agency’s $10 million request to help it install the GPS-based positive train control system. The transit agency said in a filing in June that it has not made any additional progress on installing the system while approaching a December 2018 deadline.
The Democratic leaders of New Jersey’s Legislature announced that they will conduct a joint investigation into the agency and safety concerns.
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Press Releases Columbia Metals Begins Operations at New Headquarters in Bedford, UK
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Columbia Metals Begins Operations at New Headquarters in Bedford, UK
Leading non-ferrous metals specialist Columbia Metals is pleased to announce the opening of the company’s new 20,000ft2 warehouse and office facility in Bedford, UK.
Trading commences at the new location today. The Bedford site now serves all customers in the Midlands and Wales previously supplied by the Northampton branch.
All Head Office activity, including the finance and technical functions, will also be carried out in Bedford.
The new premises will enable Columbia Metals to develop its unrivalled stock range of non-ferrous metals in a prestigious location that offers excellent access to major road networks in the UK.
It will allow the company space to expand its stock and service capability and to become an even more valued partner to its extensive customer base.
The London branch, currently supplying customers in the South of England, will relocate its activity to Bedford during the first quarter of 2018.
Customers and suppliers are welcome to visit the new premises and to see for themselves the exciting opportunities for Columbia Metals to strengthen its position at the forefront of non-metal stockholding.
Please contact Columbia Metals via the enquiries form for more information.
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Breakers off to Herder
By NL Hockey Talk
The Southern Shore Breakers were victorious over the Clarenville Caribous, sweeping the series and giving them a berth in the Herder Memorial Championship game.
Michael Chafe’s second goal of the game came in overtime, gave the Breakers the win & put them on the road to the Herder Championship against the Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts.
The Breakers completed their Eastern Division final, beating the Clarenville Carious 4-3 to complete a four-game sweep at the Southern Shore Arena. The Breakers headed into the playoffs after finishing third in the East during the regular season 9-10 record. The Caribous were first in the East at 14-4-2.
In facing the Cataracts, the breakers will be facing a rested team. The Cataracts have been sitting idle for the past week after wrapping up their Central Division final with a 4-2 series win over the Gander Flyers.
The Cataracts won three straight Herders from 2014 to 2016, but didn’t make the provincial final the last two years.
The Breakers last won the Herder in 2004.
For the Breakers, goals came from Michael Chafe, Daniel Cadigan and Daniel Aylward. Chris Sparkes had two goals for the Caribous, and Chad Earle scored once.
The Shore grabbed a 3-0 series lead Friday night, beating the Clarenville Caribous 6-4 at the Eastlink Events Centre, sending the game back to the Breakers’ home ice.
In that game, the Breakers’ Keenan Kennedy potted the game-winning goal and added an insurance marker, while teammate Scott McCarthy scored the game’s opening two goals, giving the Shore a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes. Matthew Oates and Brandon Baird also scored for the winners.
Earle had two for the Caribous, and singles came from Mason Reid and Justin Pender.
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Want to find out what’s making headlines in the world of casinos right about now? Let’s take a look!
Google opens the way for online casino advertising
Ever wondered why you don’t see ads for online casinos when you’re browsing Google – particularly when you’re in the US? That’s because until now, the search engine company has had strict rules against it, effectively banning casino advertising on its website. Until now, that is. Just as the new decade is set to launch in 2020, so too are new online casino gambling rules set to launch on Google, no doubt thanks to last year’s legalization of gambling in a growing number of US states.
According to a report from EGR, the first quarter of 2020 looks set to see a new stance on gambling from Google’s side, following on from its recent updates to its gambling policy. Under its new advertising guidelines, sports betting ads will no longer be banned in Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. This lifting of the ban follows a similar update from earlier this year, when Nevada, New Jersey and West Virginia were also allowed to offer sports betting advertising online. Other countries positively affected by the update include Kenya, Nigeria and Colombia.
What does Google have to say about this? In an email to Gambling.com in August, Chris Harrison, Head of Financial Trading and Egaming offered the following: “For us, regulation is a huge signal and will be the building block of anything we do. We also take into consideration the norms and acceptance of gambling in any given state. We have to recognize customer concerns and face those as well. So it’s far from black or white in terms of opening up and allowing advertisers to use Google’s products and platforms.”
What does that mean for you, the player? Well, if you’re in one of the regions in which online casino advertising has been lifted, you can look forward to hearing more from selected gambling destinations. And even if you’re not, given how Google’s policies seem to be changing and evolving to meet growing demands, you could soon be seeing a whole new wealth of offers whenever you log on. You don’t have to look up “exciting” to know what that means!
Lucky BaoCasino player nets $388 000 CAD
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While it’s an exciting moment for a player to strike it rich on one slots game, to replicate that same success again and again, and in one single gaming session, is almost impossible. So how did the player do it? By hitting a number of lucky streaks on a number of games, including:
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Roulette con artists arrested
Sure the Ocean’s Eleven series of movies is fun and thoroughly watchable, but no one actually attempts casino heists for real do they? Or do they…
That’s what we thought until we stumbled upon this gem of a casino snippet – four scam artists being arrested in the Netherlands for trying to pull a fast one in the Holland Casino. Unfortunately for them, surveillance staff spotted their scamming ways, and they were duly arrested for their efforts. But what exactly happened?
According to reports, the four men, who are believed to be citizens of Georgia, were caught trying to manipulate the outcome of an automated Roulette machine. Not a good idea, and we really wouldn’t recommend trying it in your own casino. Apparently the scam involved them breaking the glass around the Roulette machine, lifting it off, then ensuring the Roulette ball landed in the right place for a win.
It all sounds extremely complicated, and not particularly subtle, so we’re not sure how they ever thought they would escape detection. But apparently they’d successfully carried out the con in other parts of the Netherlands and around various countries in Europe as well, so who are we to judge?
Suffice it to say, their luck finally ran out at the Holland Casino, where officials caught up with them after they’d become targets of an investigation by none other than Interpol. Money and vouchers were taken away from them, and the Dutch police began their own investigation, in conjunction with Interpol, into the group’s other nefarious deeds.
Coincidentally, this latest arrest comes off the back of an earlier arrest this same year, where police in Cyprus apprehended a casino dealer on suspicion of helping a casino patron to con the gambling establishment out of €5 800. Again both criminals were caught, this time on CCTV – we’re just not sure how the dealer wasn’t aware of the security measures in his own place of work. You’d think that would have been the first thing he thought of…
So if you’ve ever wondered about what it would be like to try and pull off your own casino heist, think again – you might get away with it for a while, but your crimes will always catch up with you in the end. And why? Because the house always wins!
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CheChe Lazaro Probes the Fertile Land of Lotus Pod Farm in Bay, Laguna
October 16, 2015 Agriculture, Che Che Lazaro, Farm, Laguna, Lotus Pod, reviews
A man of many hats; early 20th century environmentalist, forester, ecologist, scientist and author Aldo Leopold wrote on his 1949 non-fiction book A Sand County Almanac, “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
Known for her gritty investigative journalism that threads the layers of stories she covers like needles, deeper into probing every facets of truth; renowned journalist CheChe Lazaro is taking that same passionate approach as she now follows Leopold’s train of thought - that man should foster a good relationship with the land they dwell on, by advocating organic and backyard farming.
We meet CheChe Lazaro in her very casual self, contrasting the fiery and intense persona we see on her investigative news shows; The Probe Team, I-Witness, and Cheche Lazaro Presents. Catching up with her in the confines of her farm’s chilled down environment, she still speaks with an aura one should be all-ears about. This time however, instead of asking questions, she’s at the other end receiving queries about the origin of her new endeavor; the Lotus Pod Farm, a four-hectare piece of land situated at Bay, Laguna.
“This property was idle for many years before we decided to develop it into Lotus Pod. One of my favorite places to visit is Bali. I was inspired by what I would see in Bali. The architecture, the landscape and the serenity that surrounds the place. Originally, this place was all rice fields. We did some work to convert parts of it so we could build a few structures on the property.”
She explains to us as she walk us inside the main house and spa which infuses a typical Balinese architecture and vibe.
We stride inside her spacious room adorned with wooden interior that opens up to a spectacular view of an oval pond inhabited by many Lotus plants – everywhere I gaze is filled with lush greens comprising a variety of vegetable plants like; lemongrass, ampalaya, calamansi, green papaya, leeks, malunggay, okra, eggplant, lime, tomato, red and green lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, talbos ng kamote, kangkong, patola and saging na saba. Lotus Pod also grows an assortment of herbs like oregabo, basil, sawtooth, tarragon, mint, coriander and ashitaba aside from also producing fresh oyster mushroom and chemical-free vinegar sourced from the farm’s coconut trees and other fresh juices from the farm’s vegetable produce. Completing the farm is a small expanse of land dedicated to rice crops which at the time of our visit is gearing up for harvest season.
Calling herself a newbie in the world of farming, CheChe Lazaro explains the process of molding the over-all character of her farm by tapping influences from her world travels and getting advises from farming experts.
“There was no grand design. It came in bits and pieces--slowly over time. The choices were personal. We wanted to have fresh organically grown vegetables we could pick them from the garden-so that's how the vegetable plot came about. While the architecture is Balinese-inspired, it's more of a mix of elements I have seen during the times we travel. I'm not sure the garden can be called landscaped---it just forms as we go along. We have no landscaper---only experimenters like us! More trial and error than anything else”
In fruitfully crafting an organic farm, she adds;
“We only (use) natural fertilizers made on the farm utilizing vermi-culture, plant cuttings and sawdust. So when you eat locally and organically grown vegetables and fruits, you are assured of eating only the healthiest and cleanest. We compost and use that to grow our veggies. We have one greenhouse that grows hydroponic veggies as suggested by our friends at UPLB”
CheChe Lazaro believes one doesn’t need hectares of land to heed the call-to-farming in one’s own home no matter where it is located; may it be in the urban neighborhoods or in the countryside. Today, she promotes backyard farming through Lotus Pod, which she hopes will become the vessel that will spread her message across.
“We started our "backyard" farm as an experiment to grow our own veggies – the one we wanted to have most was arugula. It has grown from that single plot to a few more now. Our list now includes mushrooms. We think it would be great for everyone to do backyard farming. On the farm, we have a row of veggies growing in two liter bottles of coke just to demonstrate that you can grow your own veggies! During our agri-tours. Dr. Lilian Patena from UPLB is the one that teaches us how to become backyard farmers“
Encompassing the Lotus Pod are numerous fancy corners that summons picturesque views conveyed by its wide open green spaces and with the backdrop of Mount Banahaw providing additional romantic vibe, the farm has opened the place to hold various events such as wedding receptions, pre-nuptial photo-shoots and intimate lunches and dinners. CheChe Lazaro proudly states.
“We have only recently opened it up to events. Our first event was a beautiful wedding in March. It was a garden wedding ceremony where the bridal couple did everything themselves from building a little altar to lighting up the reception area with strings of bulbs that crisscrossed the open-air reception area.”
In charge of the Wedding and Event Catering Services is multi-awarded Chef Ariel Manuel of the popular fine dining restaurant Lolo's Dad. He brings along a wealth of experience creating sumptuous dishes in the kitchens of The Westin Philippine Plaza, Mandarin Oriental Manila, Makati Shangri-La, Peninsula Manla just to name a few, to the fine al fresco luncheon setting of Lotus Pod. Wellness enthusiasts will gleam in delight to learn that Lotus Pod Farm also provide an ideal setting for Yoga aficionados as well as ‘Agri-tours’ for those who want to learn more about organic farming and the basics of vegetable and fruits cultivation. Dr. Lilian Patena of UP Los Banos lends her expertise as she explain the concepts of organic farming divided in three parts; tissue culture, hydroponics and vermin-composting.
As spectacular as the surrounding of Lotus Pod, its promise does not remain singularly attached to its visual aesthetics, rather it hinges on the promise and advocacy it promotes which are; healthy living, backyard farming and self-sustainability that can become a model for communities looking for ways to harvest food for themselves without having to rely on the rising cost of farm products from the groceries.
I asked CheChe Lazaro how she compare probing the fertile soil of her farm to her career as a maverick journalist examining issues of national concern.
“It is so fulfilling in other ways. I love the idea of putting things together---much like putting a story together. There are so many elements that come into play in both careers...For Lotus Pod, which means deciding where to plant trees, shrubs, flowering plants. What veggies to grow, where and how to get better yields. It was a big challenge when we were deciding to open Lotus Pod as an event place. It took some time to get to that point. When we did decide to give it a try, we then had to think about how to make it more "friendly" for events. We had to design bathrooms, decide on the style, and what kind of events we would be available for“
In the words of one of organic farming’s leading influencer; Masanobu Fukuoka “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” Indeed, because as we discover the many great benefits of farming, we also progress as human beings in making good use of tapping the wealth of our natural environment. As CheChe Lazaro retains wearing her journalistic hat, she switches on to a burgeoning passion, that presents us this time, a story worthy of replication—so it can help us achieve our own ‘Bahay Kubo na ang tanim ay sari sari’ right in our own backyards.
Lotus Pod at Bay, Laguna
Please call or text 0917 878 9103 to ask for the specific address and direction.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/lotuspodph / http://www.lotuspodph.com/
*This article appeared in the April 3, 2016 issue of Manila Bulletin's Lifetyle pages*
Marky Ramone Go is a travel-junkie, writer and photographer based in the Philippines. Aside from contributing articles to various publications and websites, he narrates his experiences wandering the tropical paradise of the Philippines, the culturally rich regions of South East Asia, Sri Lanka and India on this travel blog. After Asia, he is keen on exploring South America and eventually tracing Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" trail in the United States to Mexico.
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Call to participate in UCT’s needs survey UCT staff and students are encouraged to participate in a campus-wide needs survey and stand a chance to win big. 03 Dec 2020
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Man Killed, Woman Injured When Car Hits Power Pole In SW OKC
Thursday, July 11th 2013, 8:38 am
A man has died after being trapped in an SUV early Thursday morning when the vehicle struck a power pole near S.W. 22nd Street and Portland.
The crash happened just after midnight. It's not known what caused the accident, but a female passenger was ejected from the SUV when it smashed into the pole and overturned. She was rushed to the hospital and her condition is not known.
The crash knocked the pole to the ground, and live wires surrounded the vehicle. Emergency workers could not rescue 28-year-old Joseph Schiebert, the male driver, until OG&E crews turned off the power. After several minutes, paramedics were finally able to pull Schiebert from the wreckage and rush him to the hospital. He later died from his injuries.
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Expose`: Gazette issued in 2013 allows to bring in garbage to the country
14 Jul, 2019 | 9:41 pm
Written by Staff Writer 14 Jul, 2019 | 9:41 pm
COLOMBO (News 1st):- Information has come to light that the waste containers that were recently discovered by the customs and the waste material piled at the Katunayake free trade zone were both brought down to the country based on a gazette notification issued in 2013. Ninety-four of the 102 containers that were sent to the country from the UK was discovered to be full of garbage after the customs officials took measures to open and inspect five of the containers.
Currently, these waste containers are docked at the Colombo International Container terminal, while we also revealed that waste is also piled at the Katunayake free trade zone.
Against a backdrop where there are no legal provisions to allow the import of foreign waste to our country, the particular companies that had taken measures to bring these consignments had relied on the extraordinary gazette notification issued under the signature of the then Minister of Finance Mahinda Rajapaksa on 11th of July 2013.
As per the gazette notification, permission was granted for these particular companies with a minimum foreign investment of 65% to initiate business activities:-
Entreport trade involving an import, minor processing and re-export.
Logistic services such as a bonded warehouse or in the case of operation of multi-country consolidation in Sri Lanka.
Speaking on the matter to News 1st, the Secretary of the All Ceylon Customs Services Union, J.A. Gunathilaka said that it was under the same gazette that pepper was brought to the country in a manner which affected the domestic pepper traders. He further said that if this particular gazette notification is not withdrawn that the customs officials will not be able to act against these smugglers.
The Secretary says that this gazette legalized the activities of smugglers who act out of the bounds of the Customs Ordinance, the Monetary Control Act and the Import and Export Control Act. He further urged the Finance Minister to withdraw the Gazette since the people involved in smuggling such goods are not the average people of the country but those who are highly privileged. Gunatilake added that these people should be exposed to the country and then be severely punished.
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Tulsa County Deputies Investigating Turley Double Shooting, 1 Critical
Tuesday, December 1st 2020, 4:45 pm
Tulsa County Deputies Searching For 3 Suspects In Turley Double Shooting
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Tulsa County deputies are investigating the shooting of a mother and daughter that happened Tuesday afternoon in Turley.
They said the mother was shot in the back and seriously injured and the daughter was shot in the leg and is going to be OK. Tulsa County deputies have taken two people in for questioning, but haven't made an arrest yet.
Deputies said a mother, her 15-year-old daughter and a man were riding four-wheelers when they saw three teenagers on a blue ATV. They said the mother and her friend thought it was an ATV that had been stolen from them and when they confronted the teenagers, shots were fired.
It happened on the bike trail along Madison near 56th Street North and Peoria. Deputies said the three suspects left on the blue ATV.
"They were going down the trail and they were confronted by the group that they thought had possibly stolen the ATV and that group opened fire on them," Casey Roebuck with the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office said.
News On 6 Tulsa County deputies are investigating after they said two people have been shot near E 56th Street N and Peoria Avenue.
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Johnny Resendiz The Broken Arrow Police Department said officers responded to a call around 10:45 p.m. Saturday at the Rose Event Center on Main Street.
Tulsa Woman Accused Of DUI, Child Endangerment
News On 6 Tulsa police arrested a woman accused of driving under the influence with her children in the car.
Deputies: Burglar Used Sledgehammer To Smash Through Business Wall
Grant Stephens Tulsa County Deputies said a man used a sledgehammer to break through the wall of a Sand Springs business and steal from the store.
2 Suspects Arrested In Connection To Deadly Shooting, Tulsa Police Say
News On 6 Police said one person has died after a shooting at a home near E 46th Street N and MLK Boulevard in Tulsa. On Wednesday, Tulsa police arrested two people in connection to a shooting that left one dead. According to officers, the shooting took place near East 46th Street North and MLK Boulevard around 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim, who has been identified as Randy Byers, was shot in his upper torso inside of a home.
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News On 6 Police are investigating a shooting Wednesday night in Tulsa.
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Construction Update: 432 Park Avenue
By: Nikolai Fedak 12:00 pm on September 20, 2013
The pace of construction is accelerating quickly at 432 Park Avenue, which is harkening back to the days of old New York, when supertalls like the Empire State Building were built in only one year; the pouring cycle for new floors has sped up to three days. That means 432 Park will soon begin rising at two floors per week, which is impressive – though given the tower’s extremely thin girth, it’s not all that shocking.
432 Park Avenue is now well past the 500-foot mark, though it remains just below the Midtown plateau.
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Demolition Wraps for Tree-Topped Skyscraper at 75 Nassau Street in the Financial District
75 Nassau Street, image by ODA New York
By: Andrew Nelson 8:00 am on May 24, 2018
Five buildings have now been demolished at 75-83 Nassau Street, just a block away from the Fulton Street transportation hub in the center of the Financial District. The activity will make way for Lexin Capital’s proposed 40-story residential skyscraper designed by ODA. New building permits are still awaiting approval, but recent activity on site suggests increasing momentum toward actual construction.
75 Nassau demolition complete, image by rbrome
The 498-foot tall structure will yield 312,800 square feet within, with 190,000 square feet dedicated to residential use, and 39,200 square feet for commercial use on the bottom four floors. Two floors will include retail shops, with two floors of office space above that.
Permits reveal that 229 apartments will be created, which includes rental and condominium residences. The Real Deal reported that air rights were purchased in 2014 for $63.4 million.
75 Nassau Street, image by ODA
ODA’s design is a post-modernist play on the traditional city-block building, with undulating sheared corners. In one rendering, the building looks as though it was squeezed in the center, revealing some red flare framing curtain wall.
75 Nassau Street rooftop elevation, design by HMWhite
HMWhite is responsible for the landscaping. The tower will receive a green crown in the form of a forest-like rooftop terrace. Native trees and vine curtains will be included on the multi-story rooftop amenities space. Three lounges will be included on the 5th, 22nd, and 25th floors. Tenants will also have access to a fitness center and laundry room, and space for 102 bicycles will be included on site.
An estimated completion date has not yet been announced. If permits are approved soon, completion by 2021 or 2022 could be expected.
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5 Comments on "Demolition Wraps for Tree-Topped Skyscraper at 75 Nassau Street in the Financial District"
David | May 24, 2018 at 8:23 am | Reply
Please pardon me for using your space: Natural look on the tower, high and design shining. (Thanks to all reporters)
TOM | May 24, 2018 at 1:50 pm | Reply
Sites that obscure the most wonderful Woolworth Building from any direction are not needed. The Gehry tower blocked it from the Brooklyn Bridge. A sin!
Jack Liberman | May 24, 2018 at 3:40 pm | Reply
498 feet height is by tree top or by roof top? Question that since the trees on the roof are part of architectural design, right? Looks like 498 feet is by curtain wall tip. And how about trees like leaking dirty water all over curtain wall, think they put heavy concrete roof otherwise wise dirt water gatering to the bottom. Or they recycle it for second use as recreation water. I guess that this trees barely would be visible from street level too. About blocking Woolwort Building I think is not, first it’s 2/3 height of it, and building on the same blockside of new MTA Fulton Center.
Joey Korom | June 4, 2018 at 1:32 pm | Reply
I have one question, and not necessarily about this tower: Just how many people in Manhattan like to swim?
Searcher of New York's lost soul | January 5, 2021 at 12:27 am | Reply
Another piece of old New York gone. I hope your happy
Santiago Calatrava’s St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Continues to Take Shape in the Financial District
Steelwork Continues on The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center in the Financial District
Hotel Indigo Continues to Rise at 50 Trinity Place in Financial District
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About Coward, G E
GEORGE EDGAR COWARD
Remembered with honour Dud Corner Cemetery: Plot IX, Row D, Grave 7.
He originally attested 29 June 1908 in London for Short Service (7 years with the Colours, 5 years in the Reserves): a general labourer aged 18, 5’6″ tall, C of E; no. 9365 Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He joined the regiment at Preston, Lancs, 2 July 1908, and was discharged 14 July 1913 at his own request on payment of £18.
He re-enlisted in Reading, Berks; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 May 1915; and was killed in action. Unfortunately, George’s W.W.1 Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of James and Susannah Maria (nee YOUNG) COWARD.
His parents married 1885 in the Tonbridge, Kent, district. James died 1904 in the Southampton, Hants, district aged 60; Susannah died 1948 in the Eton, Bucks, district aged 92.
George was born 1889 in the Holborn, London, district, and resided in Binfield, Berks.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he lived in Prittlewell, Essex, with his father and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a Private in the 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment aged 21, he was stationed at Bhurtpore Barracks, South Tidworth, Hants.
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Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity A century-long government assimilation program boarded children from their tribes. Now some former students are turning their old school into a Native American cultural center to play their own music.
Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity
Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity 5:33
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Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
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Former band student Rosalee Talahongva in front of her old music building, which is being turned into a Native American cultural center. Christopher Livesay for NPR hide caption
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Former band student Rosalee Talahongva in front of her old music building, which is being turned into a Native American cultural center.
From 1891 until 1990, just shy of a century, Phoenix Indian School boarded students from Navajo, Apache and other tribes across the Southwest.
Patty Talahongva is a Hopi who went to Phoenix Indian until 1979. By then, attendance was voluntary. That wasn't the case for generations of students before her.
"There's a well-known quote that said 'Kill the Indian, save the man.' That was the mindset," she says. "When the students arrived at school, their hair was cut, so they couldn't wear it in their traditional way. Their clothing was changed. They wanted to bring us to the boarding schools ... to be basically white people who were Christian."
It was part of a U.S. government policy intended to "Westernize" Native American children by sending them away from their tribes to boarding schools — often against their will.
By the time Talahongva lived here, conditions had greatly improved. But traditions were still suppressed.
Take the band, for instance.
"Tribes, we have our own music, but that music was never incorporated into 'The Band,' " she says. "These were European musical instruments. So how much more white can you get?"
Rosalee Talahongva, Patty's sister, played clarinet in the band and can still hear her conductor.
"We'd mess up and he'd tap his stand, 'Tap tap tap! Everybody stop stop! You did that wrong! You come in on this count! One and two and one and two!' " she says. "One time, I think it was the trumpet section that kept missing that beat, and finally, he literally wrote a note and said, 'Do I need to invite you to play? Dear so and so ...' And he was writing this note, it was the funniest thing. Well now it is."
The Indian School band made a name for itself nationwide, marching twice in the Rose Bowl Parade.
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It's a complicated legacy. Patty Talahongva and her old classmates are proud of their band's accomplishments, but she acknowledges they were also wheeled out for PR.
"The band was actually used as a recruitment tool," she says. "The idea was [to] show how great the band is and tell the kids from the reservation schools, 'Hey, pick Phoenix Indian High School and you can play in our cool band!' They would have concerts and the whole city of Phoenix would show up. It was like their little public outreach."
Only three of Phoenix Indian's 29 buildings still stand, and the band room is one of them. The risers are gone, and blobs of glue residue on the walls mark where sound panels once hung.
Today, Talahongva is working with two local Native American nonprofits to restore the defunct band building and turn it into a Native American cultural center in the heart of Phoenix.
The new space will be a classroom, a gallery, a reflection space and of course, a concert area right where band students used to slog through John Philip Sousa.
Students like Talahongva's sister Rosalee haven't been back in the music room since she was a teenager.
"Just this floor! This floor is the same," she says. "So it still had that echoey kind of sound when you walked on it. That just kind of brings things back."
Now the music room will be a place where Native Americans can remember their past while reclaiming their musical identity.
Cano Sanchez and David Montour of the band Clan-Destine recently stopped by to check out the acoustics for future concerts with an impromptu performance, the first here in 25 years. Organizers suspect it's also the first time that Native American music is being celebrated under this roof, rather than marginalized.
"There were some lonely children here, at one point," Sanchez says. "Look how far we've come. You can hold on to tragedy — you should always remember it — but you should learn from it and move forward. It makes me very proud and fills my soul today to be able to come here and bless the area with our being, with our presence, and hopefully be blessed as well."
Such is the power of music, he says, especially when you get to play your own.
Archival audio of Phoenix Indian School band, courtesy of the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Ariz. The date of the recording is unknown.
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Finance & Investment>CMBS
Slight Hiccup in 30+ Days CMBS Delinquency Rate Recorded in June
A non-performing loan backed by a hotel portfolio contributed to a higher delinquency rate.
Elaine Misonzhnik | Jul 16, 2019
The steady decline in the all-property 30+ days CMBS delinquency rate hit a bump in June, as one hotel portfolio loan skewed the figure higher, according to research firm Trepp. As a result, the June all-property delinquency rate rose to 2.84 percent, an 18-basis-point increase from the month prior. Year-over-year, the June delinquency rate was down by 111 basis points, Trepp reports.
Meanwhile, ratings firm Fitch estimates that June delinquencies fell by one basis point, to 1.87 percent.
The main culprit for the increase in the rate in June was the $754 million loan backed by the Innkeepers loan portfolio, which was reported as non-performing and past its maturity date, according to Trepp. But the loan comes with several one-year extension options and is expected to be updated to current status next month.
Still, the delinquency rate for the lodging sector went up by 99 basis points during the month, to 2.41 percent. Delinquency also went up for loans backed by retail properties—by 15 basis points, to 4.44 percent,—and for office-backed loans, by 4 basis points to 3.02 percent.
Loans backed by multifamily and industrial properties recorded slight improvements in delinquency, by 5 basis points to 2.11 percent and 11 basis points to 1.94 percent respectively.
The property-by-property breakdown differs a bit from June results reported by Fitch. The ratings firm estimates that the delinquency rate went down in the retail, office, multifamily and hotel sectors, but went up slightly for loans backed by industrial properties. Fitch reported that the delinquency rate went down by 4 basis points in the retail sector, to 4.4 percent; 4 basis points in the office sector, to 2.48 percent; 7 basis points for hotel properties, to 1.41 percent; and 2 basis points for multifamily properties, to 0.51 percent. The delinquency rate in the industrial sector went up by 5 basis points, to 0.96 percent.
Fitch researchers note that while they expect to see a certain degree of volatility in the coming months, their projection of a year-end 2019 CMBS delinquency range of 1.75 percent to 2.00 percent remains in place.
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Coronavirus: California stats point to…
Coronavirus: California stats point to unemployment bottom
The worst of California's job cuts may be over, economists say.
OAKLAND, CA – MARCH 17: Light traffic is seen in this aerial view of the maze in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Seven Bay Area counties are locked down in an unprecedented shelter-in-place order from Gov. Gavin Newsom because of the coronavirus spread. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2020 at 10:14 a.m. | UPDATED: June 1, 2020 at 10:19 a.m.
California’s reeling job market, knocked off its feet by government-mandated business shutdowns amid the coronavirus outbreak, may have staggered to a bottom, economists say.
The evidence that the worst may be over for job losses in California? A sharp decline in the number of people with ongoing unemployment insurance claims in California, a statistic known as continuing claims, according to economics experts.
“The continuing numbers for unemployment claims are the ones that show we are already at the bottom,” said Christopher Thornberg, an economist and founding partner with Beacon Economics. “The fact that continuing claims are dropping is evidence that we’re past the worst.”
Tucked away in the most recent official federal report on federal unemployment claims are statistics for early May that show a dramatic improvement in continuing claims for California.
“This doesn’t mean the economy is in great shape, but the big drop in continuing claims is one of the green shoots that were are looking at,” said Brian Wesbury, chief economist with First Trust Advisors, an investment firm. “It’s really going to be continuing claims that show when the job market is improving and employers are calling workers back.”
The number of workers claiming unemployment insurance benefits showed huge decreases both nationwide and in California, a Department of Labor report shows.
“The large drop in continuing claims is a direct result of the sudden reopening of the country and California for business,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist with Bank of the West. “New layoffs are still occurring, but at least near-term, the unemployment rate is peaking.”
For the week that ended on May 16, the number of California workers with claims for unemployment insurance totaled 2.12 million, down 40 percent from the continuing claims filed the prior week, the Labor Department report showed.
“Continuing claims could be falling because people are being recalled to their jobs,” said Jeffrey Michael, director of the Stockton-based Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific. “I do think we are at the bottom when it comes to unemployment.”
The claims filed during the week that ended May 16 were 1.44 million below the 3.56 million California workers who filed continuing claims in the week that ending on May 9, according to the report.
“As the state reopens, many of those furloughed will be re-employed,” said Jerry Nickelsburg, a veteran economist and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Still, California and the United States overall remain locked in an employment nosedive amid business shutdowns that state and local government agencies have ordered in a quest to combat the spread of the deadly bug.
Over the most recent four weeks that ended on May 23, initial unemployment claims averaged 246,400 a week. That figure is dramatically below the peak of 1.06 million unemployment claims that were filed during the week that ended on March 28.
Nevertheless, the recent figures remain more than five times higher than the 44,800 weekly average for initial unemployment claims that were filed over the first two months of 2020.
“We’ve definitely turned the corner, but there there are more bumps ahead,” Michael said.
Case in point: California, and the U.S. all must dig out of a historically huge hole of job losses before their respective economies can turn around.
During March and April, combined job losses for the two months totaled 2.56 million in California, and 21.42 million in the U.S.
In April alone, employment losses were 2.34 million in California and 20.54 million in the U.S.
It might take a few more weeks to be certain if the plunge in ongoing jobless claims is a pattern that firmly establishes an improving job market.
“This will be a short and sharp recession,” Thornberg said. “Very sharp and very short.”
George Avalos | Business Reporter
George Avalos is a business reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He covers the economy, jobs, PG&E, Chevron, financial companies and commercial real estate.
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GreenElec partners with five States to develop solar-powered mini-grids
By OrientEnergyReview On May 12, 2017
In Nigeria, five states- Kaduna, Imo, Rivers, Delta and Ogun have successfully partnered with France-based solar solution provider, GreenElec, to develop solar mini-grids.
According to GreenElec President, Marvel Hochet, the project will make populations of these States less dependent of national grid in addition to boosting the nation’s energy mix, as government wishes.“Investigation conducted by GreenElec reveals that a community on average boasts of 5,000 people and that the community would need two solar powered mini grids to function well. A home boasts of five people and when you divide it by 5,000 people, you will have 1,000 homes. A mini grid will serve 500 homes, while two mini grids would take care of 1,000 homes.”
In regards to the project’s cost, he said that only the government and high net worth groups could afford it given its size. It should be highlighted that in Nigeria, 80.96% of energy generated comes from renewable energies. This was revealed in the “Global Architecture Performance Index Report 2017” edited by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
Countering terrorism, Youth
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger visits Tajikistan and OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä (centre-left), Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, during the conference on “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism”, Dushanbe, 4 May 2018. (Press service of President of Republic of Tajikistan)
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger during his opening speech at high-level international conference on “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism”, Dushanbe, 4 May 2018. (Press service of President of Republic of Tajikistan)
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, during a bilateral meeting with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, Dushanbe, 4 May 2018. (Press service of President of Republic of Tajikistan)
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon (r) and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, Dushanbe, 4 May 2018. (Press service of President of Republic of Tajikistan)
Youth representatives discussing youth political participation, diplomacy, their hopes and concerns with the OSCE Secretary General, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
OSCE staff members from the Programme Office in Dushanbe and Secretary General Thomas Greminger pose for a group photo, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
Greminger addressing border officials from Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan participating in a course jointly organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the Border Management Northern Afghanistan (BOMNAF) project, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger during an official visit to Tajikistan to participate in a high-level conference on “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism”, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
Youth representatives take a selfie with the OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, discussing the OSCE’s work in Tajikistan with staff members of the OSCE Programme Office, Dushanbe, 3 May 2018. (OSCE/Munira Shoinbekova)
The OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger visited Tajikistan and the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe on 3-4 May 2018. As part of his official visit to the region the Secretary General participated in a high-level conference, entitled “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism”, which was organized by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in co-operation with the OSCE, the United Nations, and the European Union.
During his visit to the Programme Office in Dushanbe on 3 May 2018, Secretary General Greminger addressed border officials from Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan participating in a joint Afghan-Tajik-Turkmen Regional Border Management Awareness workshop.
The Secretary General also met with the OSCE staff from the Programme Office in Dushanbe, as well as with youth representatives from Tajikistan.
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Sara and James, DMTs
Sara and James, our Dive Masters in training (DMTs) are now halfway through their stay and well in to the courses. They are currently completing the mapping exercise and have recorded the house reef in detail. But this isn’t the first time they’ve documented the undersea world. Just a couple months the were working at a marine research base on the island of Cagalai helping to accumulate baseline data on the condition of the reef.
Two years ago, large storms disturbed much of the reef around Cagalai. The research Sara and James assisted with looked at the density of fish, invertebrates, soft and hard corals and more. The information gathered will help to map out the reef around Cagalai. They will then present the data back to the villages on the island to allow them to decide where to have their marine protected areas (MPAs), or tabu areas where no fishing will be allowed to let the reef recover. Sara said that their were patches of reef that were still really good and she could see where the reef was bouncing back. She is hoping to return to Cagalai after her DMT course at Paradise to continue the research. She says she was doing about two dives a day, five days a week for three months and did around 100 dives while there. So you can understand why she would want to go back.
James worked underwater on the research team but also spent a lot of time in the local schools teaching about marine ecology and rubbish. He started with grades 1-4, mostly 6-7 year olds, which was a bit difficult due to the language barrier as they were just then learning English. But, he said he had more success with grades 5-8, those aged 10-11, who seemed to get it. The main focus of his teaching was understanding what was living, what was part of the natural environment, and what wasn’t – basically, why we want to keep the rubbish out of the ocean. Community meetings were also occurring within the villages and the whole effort was leading to the opening of a recycling center with songs and entertainment provided by the school kids to celebrate.
In addition, there were beach clean-ups, underwater clean-ups that collected a lot of fishing line. Sara says her favorite were the opistobranch surveys to look for nudibranchs. Often, she would find a whole family of nudibranchs together and find 6-8 different types on one survey. Both are great divers and are sure to become Dive Masters with ease. Paradise is pleased to host two divers who have done some great work for Fiji.
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First Descent at Vuna Village dive site
With Cyclone Pam around Vanuatu kicking up a fuss, giving us wind and rain from the north, we decided to look for some new shore dives on the south side of the island. Vuna village has always welcomed us to come visit so we decided to ask the chief if we could dive Vuna reef from their backyard. We were given the okay and shown to a small rocky cove. With no idea what they would find dive instructor Antoni led three of our more experienced guests, Matt, Laura and Sally, over the rock and coral bottom at high tide and out to the ledge. Schools had been canceled because of the weather and a large group of children looked down from the rocky outcrop. It was the first time they’d seen scuba divers in their village. Some had taken tentative sips of air from our regulators to see how the scuba gear worked. The men of the village regularly collect shellfish and go spearfishing here, free diving to great depths including the young high chief himself who commands just over half the island’s landmass. But as yet the intrepid four would be the first scuba divers to explore the site at length.
I stood on the beach tracking their bubbles through my binoculars, occasionally letting the kids have a look, phone ready in case any problems should occur. The kids lost interest and wandered off and it was just me and a couple others sitting there when the divers resurfaced 50 minutes after their descent. They swam through the small surf back to the beach and we got their gear off. “Amazing,” they said. “Lots of ghost coral everywhere, some really big ones, bigger than we’ve seen anywhere else. The hard corals were probably the best on Vuna reef with plenty of large plates and branching staghorn.” The dive site in the protected southern bay is sheltered from the storm surges that would have hammered much of the reef during previous cyclones. Then, after the second dive, they came back reporting seeing several eagle rays, one especially large and old. It was a good dive site, maybe even great. The villagers said in June and July the surf would be pumping and a hundred kids on school holidays would be surfing on any piece of plywood they could find, vying for the few surfboards available. But for now we had found a great site to get us through the cyclone season until the surf arrived. And we had claimed a moment in history: the first descent at the reef off Vuna village. Special thanks must be given to the chief for giving us the opportunity. We promise to take good care of the site.
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Rich Wyman is known for his vocals and keyboarding skills.
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Music fans can catch a glimpse of a musician’s life tonight, for free.
Rich Wyman, One of Park City’s most popular vocalists, will enter a new phase of his career.
For the first time, he will record a live concert with High Definition cameras at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake at 8 p.m. The concert is free and is based on a first-come, first-serve basis. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and he urges people to be there early so they can be part of the recording. Attendees will also have a chance to make donations to the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity.
Lorraine Hortsmanshoff will be the opening act. She plays the acoustic guitar and a didgeridoo.
"She’s awesome," Wyman said. "I’ve seen her switch from guitar to the didgeridoo in a heartbeat."
"The main impetus for doing this is to have a promotional DVD, because you really need to see and hear me to know what I’m about," said Wyman, who runs his own recording studio.
He says he needs a promotional DVD that will serve as a movie trailer. He’s going to a convention in Reno in November where colleges in the West are booking music.
"I need something that says ‘Here’s Rich Wyman in your face.’ In order to get booked I need something, that’s why I’m doing this now," Wyman said.
Wyman will make CD of the day’s best performances, make a multi-track recording and sell a combo DVD/CD early next year.
"Editing it is really expensive," Wyman said. "My goal is to get five songs and then release a CD/DVD package. I can’t see the funds of editing all shows for the DVD."
As usual, Wyman thought of a way to support a charity through one of his events.
"I needed to film a DVD anyway, so I though I’d try to help (the children in New Orleans) out."
Wyman read an article in the New York Times about the impact Hurricane Katrina had on the children of New Orleans.
"We’re in the richest country and the children are still living in devastated homes." Wyman said. "None of the donations goes to the right people."
Wyman called a TV station in New Orleans and asked what group actually is working.
"They said, ‘Habitat for Humanity.’ Brad Pitt, Harry Connick Junior are doing great stuff through Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans and music is a great part of their rebuilding," Wyman said.
Wyman will be recording for most of today. He will be recording solo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and then his band will be recorded from 2 to 4 p.m. From 4 to 6 p.m. they will record their show and at 8 p.m., they will record the show again in front of a live audience during the evening performance. Nyk Fry is the director and Wyman will play on a 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano provided by Daynig Music in Salt Lake.
"I played it and it sounds beautiful," Wyman said.
Wyman isn’t worried about the long hours of singing. He says the extra singing just makes him better.
"My voice has more warmth and soul by the end. By the time the audience gets in my voice will be the best of the day," Wyman said.
A lot of the recording will be centered on his album "Factory," which came out last year, and the single "Angel."
"I never really promoted ‘Factory.’" Wyman said. "It was never really given a full shot. It will be kind of a re-release."
He’s never recorded an event like this live, but he says it will be a unique treat for listeners. The director will involve the audience in the filmmaking to create energy.
"There’s a chance you’ll be on camera at any moment," Wyman said. "The directors are getting up before the show and people will be interviewed, it’s like a premiere."
His band consists of Tracy Nielsen on the drums, Lisa Needham, his wife, who provides backup vocals, Reehan Jacob on the bass, a newcomer who Wyman says, has made a huge difference in the sound of the band and Jeff Alleman, the lead and rhythm guitarist is just starting to create chemistry with each other, Wyman said.
"When a band plays together, they reach a point where they really gel," Wyman said. "It has hit a higher level than it ever has before. It’s the perfect time to be filmed and recorded."
Wyman has a lot of hope for this recording and he believes the filming of his band will only make for a better performance.
"There will be more energy and intensity because we will be playing for posterity. I’m hoping this DVD will break open a ton of new territories."
Rich Wyman will perform in a free DVD filming concert at 8 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake. Doors open at 7 p.m. The event is free but people must have a ticket to enter. For more information or to reserve a ticket, call 640-2143.
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PTE interview: How RFID can reduce mishandling rates and enable greater data sharing
By Anthony James on March 11, 2019 Baggage, Expo, Features, News
Magali Collot, project manager, end-to-end baggage (APCS), IATA, discusses current thinking around baggage tracking and the role RFID can play in reducing mishandling rates and enabling greater data sharing, ahead of her presentation at Passenger Terminal Conference 2019.
Describe your presentation?
IATA and RAIN RFID Alliance are working together to help airlines and airports use RAIN RFID technology to track and trace bags. In 2018, IATA updated the RFID standard “Recommended Practice 1740c – Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Specifications for Interline Baggage” to reflect the latest developments in technology.
On Thursday 28th March at 10:35 during Day 3 of the Passenger Terminal CONFERENCE, IATA will cover what the current baggage tracking situation is, what passengers expect and where RFID fits in all of this. IATA will also share its 2019 RFID roadmap. RAIN RFID will focus more on the technology itself and showcase how it has worked in other industries and what it could bring to the aviation industry.
What exactly is RAIN RFID? How does it differ from plain, old, simple RFID?
The type of RFID that is used extensively in the aviation industry is passive Class 1 Gen 2 Ultra High Frequency (UHF), otherwise known or marketed as RAIN RFID. This type of RFID produces a very low energy signal when tracking bags throughout airport processes – without interfering with any aircraft systems. Additionally, the tag is ‘passive’ until it is ‘interrogated’ by a reader.
What are the current pain points regarding accurately tracking baggage?
With IATA’s Resolution 753 on baggage tracking now in effect, compliance will increase the accuracy of baggage handling and ease the process as the industry continues to grow with more travellers. Airlines are implementing baggage tracking, but implementing baggage tracking throughout an airline’s network is complex and takes time. It isn’t just a case of installing some readers – you have to take a good look at every installation point. These points are often airside, often in remote locations. An airline station manager, if there is one at the location, is not qualified to determine what needs to be installed. Of course, airports can undertake these installations but they also need to know the airlines’ requirements. Then there are the other stakeholders, such as ground handlers, who also have needs. Bring in technical challenges such as wi-fi connectivity and we can understand why tracking will take a few years to implement globally.
What is the best way to share baggage data between airlines, airports and travellers?
Baggage data should be shared in a standardised way using baggage messaging. Baggage messaging is the communication between airlines and airports that supports the transit of bags from origin to destination. With increasing bags and passengers comes a greater need to communicate and interpret this information.
New standards of baggage messaging are being implemented based on the IATA Airline Industry Data Model (AIDM), making it easier for airlines, airports and baggage handling vendors in the industry to understand and communicate baggage information with clarity.
There is an XML schema that supports messaging based on the AIDM and this is already being deployed by some airlines. Using this overcomes some of the challenges of legacy type B messaging.
If airlines want to give visibility of the bag’s journey to their passengers then they can also do this. Passengers should see a benefit through reduced mishandling and also through more product offerings from the airlines, such as push notifications about airlines’ applications.
What do you hope the audience will take away with them following your presentation?
RFID suffers from a number of myths. These centre around cost, ease of deployment, global standards and effectiveness. Following the presentation, the audience will know the reasons why IATA and RAIN RFID are embarking on making the bag digital and why RFID is the right technology to track bags.
Magali Collot, project manager, end-to-end baggage (APCS), IATA, will present ‘IATA and the RAIN RFID Alliance making the bag digital’ at this year’s Passenger Terminal CONFERENCE, which takes place during Passenger Terminal EXPO, 26, 27 and 28 March 2019, in London. Register here for your delegate pass.
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According to a Bloomberg report, Samson Hu, who manages Asustek's successful Asus Eee PC business, says his company has engineers working on an Android-based portable, which may ship by the end of the year. The project isn't a done deal, however, and Asustek apparently is still deciding whether to move forward with the mini-note.
Let's hope that Asustek green-lights the thing. Certainly, the cost benefits of using Google's free, Linux-based operating system are very apparent to a vendor of low-cost netbooks. And Android plays well with low-power, inexpensive processors used in the Eee series. For consumers, a strong competitor to Microsoft is always a good thing. Besides, Android looks promising. It's intuitive and easy to navigate on the T-Mobile G1 smart phone, although it remains to be seen how well Android translates from phone to tablet and netbook.
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Kojo Antwi Day Tomorrow...
The much-awaited fourth edition of the Legends and Legacy Ball (LAL) concert is slated for the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) tomorrow, Saturday, November 1.
The LAL Ball, which started four years ago, is an event which seeks to
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Lumba, Abrantie Amakye Dede and A.B Crentsil.
This year, Kojo Antwi, also known as Mr Music Man, takes the spotlight to be celebrated at tomorrow�s event, a night that would see supporting artistes challenge him to his own songs.
Kojo Antwi has contributed immensely towards the development and promotion of the Ghanaian highlife music.
The LAL Ball, according to the organisers, Imajin Advertising, has come to stay and promises to be an even more exciting and life changing experience for the legend and for patrons of who would attend this year�s event.
The night of glitz and glamour would feature tribute performances from Kwabena Kwabena, Edem, Wutah Afriyie, Kweisey Pee, Akwaboah and amazing performances from Efya, Kaaki, Noela, MzVee and Nacy.
South African singing super star, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who would also perform at the event, had expressed excitement to be part of the celebration of an African music icon.
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Kojo Antwi would be presented with a gold medal, a plaque and other awards in recognition of his hard work, success and contribution to the entertainment industry.
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A hero fighting against oppression
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Project Goal: 500,00 €
Financed: 500,00 €
Being a ‘hero’ and fighting against oppression within the structures of patriarchal honour cultures requires courage: the courage to question one’s own culture and origin, as well as the courage to stand up against oppression in the name of honour in public. Young men within the HEROES® project demonstrate this courage every day and their commitment to equal rights should be rewarded and made visible. Therefore, we want to organize a summer party for our young heroes, their families, as well as ineterested people from the neighbourhood. With 500 EUR, we wish to provide a multicultural buffet and drinks for approximately 80 guests including festive decoration. This way, we want to honour the success of the young heroes and their families, and spread the word!
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HEROES® was founded in Berlin in 2007. Within the project, young men from so-called honour cultures advocate against oppression in the name of honour and work towards equal rights for women and men. HEROES® works in two steps: First, the coaches provide traininga for young men from honour cultures, who want to discuss equal rights, honour and human rights, and who want to change structures in their everyday lives and societies. We focus on the problematic role of males in the context of oppression of women and girls. The purpose is to give young men the opportunity to dissociate themselves from these power structures. During the training, they learn to obtain the strength and ability to overcome the borders, which are set by the honour culture. The project seeks to motivate young men through creative and pedagogic methods to take a stand against oppression in the name of honour and to fight for the right of girls and women to be treated equally, in accordance with human rights. After approximately nine months, when the young men’s attitude has become strong enough, they obtain their HEROES®certificate. Now they themselves offer the workshop they have completed in the training to schools, educational institutions, youth centres etc. The basic principle of these workshops, based on roleplays, is peer-education. Especially when it comes to more difficult issues, young people learn best from companions of the same age, who grew up within the same cultural and social context. They work together in order to question archaic circumstances in society, and offer alternative perspectives.
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Petroleum Minister Kerengua Kua said that there will be an announcement next month if the Papua LNG will be a stand-alone project towards the design phase next year.
He added that the Total senior management and the delegation of the government will be meeting on Thursday, December 10.
“If the decision is made, it will be positive for PNG because we will begin to see some early work going on,” Kua said. “There will be cash flow for the country and it could have an impact on the gross domestic product for us. It’s a positive thing to look forward to so we will wait for the decision on Dec 10 or 11. We will make the announcement on whether we will delink Papua and P’nyang and make them separate stand-alone projects.”
Kua noted that this was the status of P’nyang and that there was still time to negotiate.
“The fact that we delink the two projects, it will not disadvantage P’nyang because whether you link it or delink it, the construction phase of P’nyang is still four to five years away down the track,” he said. “We have all the lead time here to negotiate a good contract, no need to rush because we don’t need a gas agreement for P’nyang for another four to five years yet. The construction for Papua has to start and complete before P’nyang connects so we still have a lot of time.”
Kua said the dialogue with Exxon showed opportunities for negotiations and that there could be good deals. “There is still some promise there so we will continue to work on that,” he said.
Kua said that Pasca was the only small project with less volume of oil and gas. He said that the construction is estimated to cost around K6.9 billion (US$2 billion) on a scale of PNG LNG which is K65bil (US$19bil) and Papua LNG which is K34.5bil (US$10bil).
“In PNG US$2bil (K6.9bil) is a lot of money and negotiation is at a very advanced stage,” he said. “We will announce a gas agreement as soon as we can. Our concentration on the negotiations has been compromised by the disturbance of politics but we are monitoring it.”
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Here at Powerhouse Planning we are surrounded by amazing talent. We really should spell that with a capital “T” because the talent is just that good. So is it any wonder that sometimes we just feel a need to throw a spotlight on some of that talent? Yeah, we don’t think so either.
This month we are pleased to celebrate the Powerhouse talent that is Ariana Detrez. Coincidentally, or not so coincidentally, Ariana is celebrating her first Powerhouse anniversary, and we could not be happier that she’s a part of our team. Ariana is one of our graphic designers, though she hasn’t always followed that career path. Ariana began her professional career as an art educator, but when life threw her a few curveballs, as it is wont to do, Ariana didn’t hesitate to turn her incredible talents to the equally artistic field of graphic design. You can currently see her artistic endeavors with Powerhouse clients like Jacey Eckhart, PayNet, and Gromelski & Associates, but we’re certain this is only the beginning.
As many of you know, Powerhouse is almost exclusively a military spouse and veteran organization. From our founder and president, Jessica Bertsch, to the array of freelancers we have on contract, Powerhouse is proud of our military ties. Ariana is no exception, though her military experience has turned out to be much shorter than she or her former Air Force husband ever anticipated. Though his military career didn’t turn out the way they planned through no fault of their own, Ariana credits their time with the Air Force with helping to shape who she is today. If nothing else, the adaptability required by the military has helped her deal with all the changes in her life this last year.
Since Powerhouse is also comprised of a virtual workforce, we asked Ariana what professional work relationships should look like in a virtual work space. She answered, “Effective communication is key here.” She went on to point out that it is especially important to have a connection to others when you work virtually. “Relationships are key when you’re living out your passion. You want to have a connection with the people you’re working with!” She adds that how you approach virtual work relationships is just as important. “Be authentic and, have I stressed this enough? Communicate effectively. It’s easy to misinterpret or not understand something through virtual chat—never hesitate to ask questions or for clarification,” she says.
She credits effective communication and the time spent building virtual relationships with helping her when her life was upended earlier this year and a cross-country move became necessary. Because she had built strong, clear relationships with Powerhouse’s Jessica Bertsch and Jennifer Kirkpatrick, Ariana says her move went much more smoothly than she expected it would. “Jess and Jen contacted me throughout to make sure I was okay and were open to providing any resources I needed,” she says. That kind of professional relationship, the kind that you know will survive whatever life throws your way, is why Ariana feels so blessed to be a part of Powerhouse and the virtual workforce. It’s why she’s so excited to continue to learn and improve her chosen profession and why she’s confident she’ll still be with Powerhouse in five years.
Ariana and her husband are dog parents to the adorable Professor, a nine-year-old Terrier mix, and Atlas, a one-year-old Australian Shepherd. While they currently call North Carolina home, they are eager to return to their home state of Florida next year, where they will be surrounded by family, friends, and all things Disney, which is a good thing because Ariana loves Disney!
We asked Ariana for a tidbit not many people know about her. Ariana shared that she was heavily into the art of paper crafting and has a YouTube channel with over 1,000 followers. While it may have started as a place to showcase her paper crafting expertise, it is now geared more toward design and art education. Is it any wonder that someone that involved with the arts has found a successful career as a graphic designer? We don’t know about you, but we’re pretty sure that on our lunch break here we’ll be heading over to YouTube and checking out a certain fabulous Powerhouse talent.
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Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping
October 27, 2017 · 8:00 AM EDT
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Model Aliyyah Abdul-Raul wearing designs from Ohio-based designer Chimiwear poses in front of the camara at a past Beautifully Wrapped Headwrap Expo. During the event, fashion shows take place every hour and features different looks from designers.
Courtesy of Felicia Tolbert
There’s no shortage of glam at a yearly Michigan fashion show where men, women and children glide down a runway while music booms in the background. But what sets this catwalk apart is the celebration of modest and “fly” looks. The models, wearing colorful headwraps or headscarves, are showcasing sleek and stylish clothes without showing skin. Near the runway, there’s a cacophony of color as vendors display fabrics, art and jewelry from around the world.
At the center of it all is Zarinah El-Amin Naeem. The native Detroiter and anthropologist created the yearly event bringing together groups with traditions of covering one's head. This includes Sikhs, Muslims, Jews, Black Hebrew Israelites, Orthodox Christians and African Spiritualists.
El-Amin Naeem says the Beautifully Wrapped Headwrap Expo brings people of diverse backgrounds under one roof to share ideas and learn from one another.
“Real people talking face to face, not just reading about each other, is key to our moving forward as a society,” says El-Amin Naeem.
She herself wraps her head in bright fabrics and her signature is the “tall tower” look, which can add as much as a foot to her height. When she was younger, El-Amin Naeem wrapped her head off and on simply because she liked the styles. But after her junior year of college at Howard University, she began wrapping every day as an expression of her Muslim faith.
It was, she says, “a way to visually identify as a Muslim woman. There were a lot of Muslim women who covered and I enjoyed the fact that people were able to see they were Muslim at a glance.”
Anthropologist Zarinah El-Amin Naeem wrapped her head as a young woman for style and later as a way to express her religion. After extensive traveling, she realized that there are many cultures around the world that traditionally cover the head.
People, she found, began to treat her differently. While traveling outside of the US during college and while working in international development in Egypt and Sierra Leone, El-Amin Naeem discovered how many cultures around the world wrap their heads and the great diversity in headwrapping styles. Her headwraps became a way of opening the door to conversations with other people.
“As an African American Muslim woman, and a traveler, I noticed the curiosity in my wraps,” El-Amin Naeem says. “People would stop and ask me how to tie them, where I got the fabrics, why I wore them and more. I started doing little impromptu workshops in bathrooms, and that grew into formal workshops at libraries.”
El-Amin Naeem eventually created Beautifully Wrapped, an international and interfaith organization with the goal of building love and humanity through the global art of headwrapping.
Français: Mode, foi et culture réunies dans l'art mondial du foulard
Português: Moda, fé e cultura se encontram na arte global de amarrar lenços e turbantes
Español: Pañuelos para la cabeza que enlazan moda, religión y cultura
繁體中文: 時尚、信仰和文化在全球頭巾藝術展上齊聚一堂
Since 2013, El-Amin Naeem has organized the annual headwrap expo, which attracts hundreds of men and women around the US. This year's event will be on Oct. 29 at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan.
“Broadening the understanding of the practice [of headwrapping] is important because women's dress, and in particular Muslim women's dress, has been politicized so much in today's world,” says El-Amin Naeem. “Many Muslim women feel like it is a burden that they and only they bear. However, when you see the full scope of the head covering practices, it causes you to wonder why one group — Muslim women — have been the focus of this debate.”
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For many, according to El-Amin Naeem, the expo is a chance to learn something new — from unique textiles to fresh looks. There are tutorials, an artisan’s market for fabric and the hourly fashion shows featuring about a dozen designers.
“For some, it is their first time wrapping. For others they feel stuck and just want to try a new style,” she says.
The expo is also a place for groups to ask questions of one another and build relationships. Last year, Princess Anne Oluwaseun Besimen-Akinfenwa with the Odua Organization of Michigan gave a presentation about the Yoruba culture in West Africa.
“I took away so much from other panelists,” she says. “I got a better understanding of head covering in the Sikh tradition.”
During a Headwrap Expo, a Sikh man is showing the crowd how to wrap a dastar or turban.
Aside from learning about differences between traditions, there’s also an opportunity to relate to one another — especially because covering one’s head today can sometimes spur suspicion or criticism.
“In a way, covering for many affords you the opportunity to express yourself, but it can also make just traversing life a bit more difficult,” says El-Amin Naeem. “I always say that to cover your head in a society that does not value the practice, you must have a bit of backbone. You are no longer invisible.”
Andrea Grinberg is a professional cellist and owner of Wrapunzel, a website for women who cover their hair. Grinberg is Jewish and remembers one year at the expo when a Muslim man approached her after a presentation saying he was surprised by the many similarities between Grinberg’s faith and his own.
“I’ve never even met a Jewish person before,” the man told her.
Grinberg calls the interaction amazing.
“And that’s really what it’s about,” says Grinberg. "I know Zarinah really aims to facilitate conversations."
Cellist and Jewish hair wrapping instructor Andrea Grinberg is pictured in the Beautifully Wrapped annual calendar. Grinberg runs an online community called Wrapunzel, where women who wear headscarves can connect with one another.
Courtesy of Yonatan Grinberg
During another year, after the Nation of Islam performed a stepping routine, there were some concerns from members of the Jewish community that the performance seemed military and political in nature. But the two groups spoke, Grinberg says, and learned that the movements were supposed to empower women and were meant to be done in private rather than as a public performance.
“If these [different] sorts of people can really come together and have such a great time together, then anything is possible,” says Grinberg.
As a vendor, Grinberg says she appreciates the opportunity to engage with people directly, along with learning about different styles of headwraps.
“There’s a real feeling when you go to the expo, that it’s fashion, it’s culture, it’s fun, it’s beautiful, and everything, but there is really something deeper going on. And I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that when I walk there,” says Grinberg.
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Every year, Beautifully Wrapped publishes a wall calendar featuring images of women from different backgrounds who cover their heads. El-Amin Naeem also created Niyah Press, which helps people disseminate stories not normally heard in the mainstream, and Enliven Your Soul, which takes groups of women on cultural tours to places like Morocco and Indonesia. For her next act, she's raising money to create a traveling mixed-media exhibition that will take conversations about fashion, faith and culture out to communities across the US.
“We have to consistently build up our community armor and as a whole say we care about each other's well-being, we love each other, and we are going to have to work through our differences,” says El Amin Naeem.
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It’s Alive: Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Cloning Mammoths
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The Japanese-Russian team of scientists has revealed significant progress in their work to bring the woolly mammoths, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago, back to life. According to the German outlet Deutsche Welle, several samples extracted from the leg of a juvenile mammoth, “Yuka”, which was recovered in Siberia eight years ago, showed biological reactions necessary before cell division.
Cell nuclei were recovered from an approximately 28,000-year-old creature and implanted in mouse cells. One member of the international team at Kindai University, Professor Kei Miyamoto, confirmed in an interview with the outlet that the cells were able to react and showed biological activity, despite having been frozen for thousands of years in permafrost.
However, he also indicated that despite the highly promising development, none of the cells divided, which is essential for bringing back the extinct creatures, cautioning against imagining that the fantastic plot is coming true.
"We are still many steps away from Jurassic Park. The technology to resurrect an extinct creature does not yet exist, although I will not deny that it probably will in the future. We just have to continue the research", he said.
According to him, the scientists’ next goal is cell division, so they are studying the carcass of the mammoth in search for less damaged cells that can help the team to move to the next stage. The experts are looking for “relatives” of Yuka that might be preserved well enough to become material for future cloning.
While it remains unclear whether the mission will be successful, the professor revealed that he aspires to prevent endangered animals from dying out, as he is studying the factors that influence how they disappear.
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Motorcade traveling West on lower Broadway with President Truman, Congressional candidate Clinton McKinnon (center) and Harley Knox, Mayor of San Diego.
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ONE HOUR WHISTLESTOP--On this day in 1948, President Harry S. Truman toured California and Arizona aboard the Presidential train dubbed “the Magellan.” He began in San Diego, where he spoke twice. Once from the rear of the campaign train and at a campaign rally held inside Lane Field (Broadway and Pacific Coast Highway), a baseball field where the then minor league San Diego Padres played.
He participated in a whirlwind motorcade along downtown San Diego streets (mainly Sixth Avenue and Broadway) before reboarding his train. Along the motorcade then Congressional candidate Clinton McKinnon and incumbent Mayor Harvey Knox joined him.
After an hour in San Diego, President Truman also stopped in two other California locations: Oceanside and Colton. He stopped briefly in Yuma and concluded his day (September 24) with a major address in Phoenix from the rear platform of his train at 10:45 PM.
The Magellan was a 17-car train and was the President’s preferred mode of campaign transportation. He often made eight speeches a day from the platform of the rear train car. Aside from the Truman family quarters, the train had sleeper cars for the entourage; two dining cars, including three lounge cars where people could sit and talk or read. Also, the train had a press car where the media traveling with HST could compile stories.
At the end of this blog is the text of his remarks made in Oceanside, California at 10:45 am. The President wrote this speech for the people in the southern California area. The population in the Southern California area was growing and this caused a water shortage.
The solution to the water and housing problems was brought to Congress again and still nothing was done. Truman said that the democrats were for the people, and if elected into office, the problems of the people would be heard. Democrats would hear the voice of Southern California and solve the water shortage. Truman urged the people of Southern California to vote a straight Democratic ticket.”
THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate Very much that most cordial introduction of Mr. Clinton McKinnon, who I under stand is going to be your next Congressman I am very happy that you are going to send a Democrat to Washington. In your own selfish, special interest you ought to send a Democrat to Washington.
The Democratic Party stands for those things in which you are most interested. The Democratic Party has been responsible for the development of water Power, and the other things in which the West is vitally Interested. If you read the record, you will find that all these great projects originated under Democratic administrations, and you will find that this Republican 80th Congress has done everything it possibly can to sabotage the West. And they are still at it. You can't afford to allow that to happen.
Now, your great need in this part of the world is water, and we are trying to develop a plan for the whole of the State of California which will to some extent, and I hope completely solve the water problem which you are up against, and which the whole State is up against, because of the shortage of water.
When you go through this beautiful country, it almost makes you weep to think of what could be done if you just had the water to put on this land.
Now, if you will remember, when President Roosevelt was down here, he ordered this aqueduct to be built because it was necessary to furnish water not only to this part of California, but to keep the naval works and airplane factories going that were in San Diego. The first thing the Republicans did, as soon as they got into office, was to try to sabotage that great project, but we succeeded in getting it restored; and we - the Democrats-are now working on a plan which we hope will increase the water supply to this part of the country.
You are interested in housing. The Republican Congress sabotaged the housing bill. That bill passed the Senate and went over to the House, and the Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee and the Chairman of the Rules Committee prevented the House from voting on that measure. I am sure that the House, if it had been allowed to vote by the Republican leadership, would have passed that housing bill.
That bill was introduced nearly 3 years ago and it was called the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill. It passed the Senate at that time and was defeated in the House. In the 80th Congress it was introduced again in 1947, and it was called the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill. It passed the Senate, went over to the House, and Senator Taft himself helped to kill that bill-his own bill with his name on it.
That is customary with the present Congress and its leadership, and you want to bear in mind that if you send another Congress back there with a Republican tinge and a Republican majority, you will have the same old bunch of mossbacks in charge that are in charge now, and you won't get a thing.
You ought to bear all these things in mind. In Los Angeles last night, I went into detail as to what the Democratic Party stands for, and you know how I stand on these things.
Try to find out where the rest of the people stand who are in opposition to me. See whether they will tell you or not. I don't think they will, because they are trying to make you believe one thing when they are really going to do another. It's a case of double talk.
You don't have to find out what I mean when I say it. I say it so you can understand it. The record speaks for itself. All you have to do is study the record.
Now, it is up to you to decide whether you want to turn the clock back and leave the saboteurs in the Congress or whether you want to go forward with the Democratic Party and accomplish what is necessary to make this country great.
To do that, you must exercise your Godgiven privilege to vote. That is the greatest privilege that you have in this great Nation, the freedom of the ballot. That means that you are the Government. When you don't vote, and you get something like the 80th Congress, you are to blame for it. If you don't go out and vote the 2nd of November, and you have this backward-looking outfit in complete control of the Government, then you won't have anybody to blame but yourselves.
If you do go out and vote, as I am sure you are going to, I am not going to worry about the result, because the people know what is right. The people are usually right if they can get the facts-and I am trying to give them to you. That is the reason I came out here.
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Annual wood tie market update 2019
Instead of stacking ties as usual, Stella-Jones is immediately providing many of them to customers.
Photo – Stella-Jones Corp.
By Jeff Stagl, Managing Editor
A perfect storm has brewed this year in the North American wood crosstie industry that has rained down on sawmills and tie suppliers. Numerous factors have combined to tighten the availability of cut timber and significantly reduce tie inventories.
In 2019’s first half, severe weather — ranging from record rainfalls to damaging floods — greatly impeded tree-cutting and drying operations. During the same time, U.S. tariffs placed on hardwoods and a weaker Chinese economy fizzled sawmills’ export business, disincentivizing them to produce more cut timber.
In addition, precision scheduled railroading (PSR) adoptions and weak rail traffic in several sectors prompted some Class Is to install fewer ties, according to the Railway Tie Association (RTA). Crude-by-rail and coal traffic has been soft in 2019, while gross ton-miles are down in the intermodal sector, reducing wear and tear on heavily used track.
The end result: The industry’s tie inventory and inventory-to-sales (ISR) ratio — a key measure of tie purchases and production — are “out of whack,” says RTA President Jim Gauntt. A comfortable inventory level to meet tie demand generally is about 18 million units, but the current count is down nearly one-third from that figure.
Wood-tie demand has been steady among the Class Is, with several of them boosting installations this year.
Railway Tie Association
Wood-tie suppliers also aim to have 80 percent of expected sales in inventory — meaning an ISR of 0.80 — yet the ratio now is hovering in the uncomfortably low 0.60s, and the short-term outlook doesn’t suggest a significant rise anytime soon. Moreover, once the ISR falls to a critically low level, it’s more difficult for suppliers to rebuild their inventories.
“How many punches can we take as an industry?” Gauntt asks.
Since the last recession in 2008 — which also caused a large downturn in the tie market — about 40 percent of North American sawmill capacity was lost due to mill closings and consolidations, and only a small portion of it has been regained through expansions.
“We could lose even more sawmill capacity before it’s all over,” says Gauntt.
Numbers not favorable
RTA data shows that in June, tie production totaled 1.44 million units, down 6.8 percent from May’s 1.55 million units and 6.5 percent from June 2018’s 1.54 million units. Tie purchases in June tumbled to 1.7 million units, down 4.9 percent on a month-over-month basis and 23.7 percent on a year-over-year basis.
As of June 30, the tie inventory had plunged to 12.4 million units versus 12.8 million units in May and 14.8 million units in June 2018 — a 19 percent year-over-year drop. The ISR in June stood at 0.64, equaling the ratio set in April, but trailing December 2018’s 0.68 ratio and June 2018’s 0.69 ratio.
Although the ISR is at a near-historic low, it isn’t the worst ratio Gauntt has witnessed since he joined the RTA in 1995. From June 1997 to September 1998, the ISR remained in the 0.50s, mostly because of railroad mergers and consolidations.
“So, there were much different factors back then,” says Gauntt.
Despite what’s now been a long period of doom and gloom, the tie industry likely won’t remain under a dark cloud for a lot longer. The industry will bounce back when everything normalizes, as it typically does after a downturn, Gauntt says.
The RTA currently is sorting out all the factors and recalibrating its forecast models. The association’s best guess/best-case scenario projections show total tie purchases in 2019 ranging from about 21.7 million to 23 million units. Production figures to total in the neighborhood of 17 million units.
For now, it’s safe to predict that the rebound will take time, says Gauntt.
“We expect 2020 to be flat-ish,” he says. “If we can get logs fast enough, it might take through 2019 and 2020 to normalize. So, we’re looking towards 2021.”
In the meantime, what’s promising for suppliers is that wood ties continue to dominate the overall tie market. Wood ties account for 94 percent to 95 percent of all new tie installations, with concrete, steel and composite ties covering the remainder.
“We see a few steel ties and composite ties that continue to get experimented with,” says Gauntt.
Moreover, tie demand remains relatively steady among the Class Is.
Progressive Railroading’s annual maintenance-of-way survey conducted earlier this year shows the following three large roads boosted their 2019 programs — which mostly involve wood ties — by about 100 million or more units compared with 2018: Union Pacific Railroad, to 3.7 million; CSX, to 3 million; and Norfolk Southern Railway, to 2.5 million.
Canadian Pacific’s and Kansas City Southern’s 2019 programs are relatively flat at 1.1 million and 600,000 units, respectively, while CN’s is down about 100 million ties to 2 million. BNSF Railway Co. expects to install 2.1 million ties this year versus 2.9 million in 2018.
The severe weather in the first half not only significantly impacted sawmills, but Class Is. This BNSF line in Nebraska was heavily damaged by a flood.
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“Every year, we do an assessment of our network to determine the overall scope of our tie replacement program, so figures are going to vary depending on what our replacement needs may be for that given year,” said BNSF spokeswoman Amy Casas in an email.
Demand in the first half wasn’t an issue for wood-tie suppliers. Koppers Inc. registered strong tie orders, and its financial results were solid, too, says Vice President of Sales and Marketing John Giallonardo.
But severe weather — particularly in such key hardwood-producing regions as Arkansas and Missouri — impeded the company from building up its tie supply, especially for railroads in the West. Inventory was off 20 percent to 30 percent for Koppers in the first half, says Giallonardo. Supply remains tight in pockets of the nation, he adds.
Koppers operates a Canadian tie treating plant in Ashcroft, British Columbia.
Koppers Inc.
“This is two years in a row now with bad weather and raw material supply issues,” says Giallonardo. “So is this the new normal or an aberration?”
It takes up to a year for a tie to be processed, sold and put in place, from initial cut to air drying to treating to transportation to a customer to installation. Usually, tie production takes off in summer after wood has dried out, but that hasn’t happened because of the unusually wet weather, says Giallonardo. So, Koppers’ inventory replenishment will take a long time, he believes.
The company has nine tie processing facilities in the United States and Canada, some of which are tapped out with production while some aren’t near as active.
“Overall, it balances out,” says Giallonardo.
PSR has impacted Koppers’ business slightly since some Class Is reduced track time for tie installations in an effort to cut their operating ratios, he believes. Eventually, track time increases as rail operations normalize, then tie gangs become more active.
Since customer demand is healthy, Giallonardo is optimistic about tie business in the second half and into next year.
“The weather will be key again. If weather improves, the market is set up to do well,” says Giallonardo.
Hoping for dry conditions
Supplier Stella-Jones Corp. also anticipates improvements to business conditions, weather permitting. The market could struggle into 2020 unless there’s dry weather in fall, says VP of Marketing George Caric.
Stella-Jones has registered robust demand this year from Class Is and commercial customers, which include short lines, transit agencies and industrial plants. Its wood-tie business split is 60 percent for Class I orders and 40 percent for commercial market orders.
Stella-Jones already has noticed a slight uptick in business from some Class Is that employ PSR. Those railroads are getting better at performing under the operating strategy, and realizing it’s important to continue fixing track and employing tie gangs, says Caric. Under E. Hunter Harrison’s leadership reign, CSX practically halted all track maintenance while adopting PSR, which was “a shock to the system” that now is being rectified, he says.
Stella-Jones also has noted Class Is’ recent emphasis on higher tie quality and efforts to use science for better tie-defect detection. Traditional visual inspections of ties aren’t as accurate as technology-driven inspection methods, says Caric.
“So, we’re seeing ties get changed out that actually need changing, which is helping to increase the volume of tie changeouts a bit,” he says. “We expect to see more of this.”
What Caric doesn’t expect to see in the near term is a big jump in supplies. The company’s inventory was down about 20 percent in the first half, “and the year’s not even over yet,” he says.
Some providers in the East are generating good raw material supplies, such as sawmills in the Northeast, but the worst weather-impacted areas for purchases are in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and other neighboring areas, says Caric.
“We don’t see it drying up there anytime soon,” he says. “I’ve never seen supply as bad as it is now. It’s curtailing production.”
To counter the low inventory and steady demand, Stella-Jones isn’t stacking ties as usual and instead is trying to immediately provide ties for consumption. Although a dry tie can be treated in about nine hours, the wet ties the company is receiving because of heavy rains need about 48 hours in a cylinder to boil out the water. Stella-Jones operates 11 tie processing/treating plants in the United States and Canada.
Of biblical proportions
Supplier Gross & Janes Co. encountered serious tie inventory challenges in the first half, as well. Storms and floods in the six states where it purchases cut ties from sawmills — Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas — resembled “Old Testament stuff,” says Gross & Janes President Bill Behan.
The ramifications from severe weather are startling, he says. For example, Behan spoke to a Louisiana sawmill executive on Aug. 2 who said his company had finally just completed its first full week of production in all of 2019 after months of rainy weather.
Because of the ongoing supply issues, Gross & Janes’ inventory was down about 20 percent through June.
“We were off our targets in the first quarter, but then in the second quarter, it really flatlined,” says Behan. “We weren’t able to provide the ties we needed to fulfill orders. Since the sawmills have finite production, it will take a very long time to catch up.”
The good news for Gross & Janes? As of mid-August, sawmills in the six states were encountering good weather and producing at capacity. In turn, Gross & Janes’ processing plants in Williamsville, Missouri, and Camden, Arkansas, were getting busier.
“We are gobbling up whatever we can get our hands on. Hopefully, the second half will be more like the first quarter,” says Behan.
Gross & Janes expects tie demand to remain steady going forward.
“I think railroads won’t overreact and will keep 2020 MOW programs similar to 2019,” says Behan.
A turn in the third quarter
Wood-tie treaters anticipate similar stable demand for their services in the near term. Treating business was solid for Nisus Corp. in the first half even though there was a shortage of wood, especially cut ties in the South. The company provides wood preservation treatments for ties, poles and pilings, and other lumber.
Nisus treated ties that were installed on the MRC bridge over the Missouri River.
Nisus Corp.
“We see this starting to turn in the third quarter,” Nisus officials said in an email.
Class Is and industrial plants continue to move to a borate two-step system designed to make ties stronger. The system virtually eliminates stack burn, and dries faster and more evenly, giving railroads an extended life expectancy of ties in track, Nisus officials said.
“The need for restricted use pesticide licensing required with other products and easier end-of-life planning also facilitates [this] switch,” they said.
Another trend noted by Nisus: Railroads converting from other traditional treatments to QNAP® copper napthenate for bridges over waterways and roads. QNAP copper napthenate addresses the bleeding problems that have cost railroads hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs, Nisus officials said.
There also are many railroads installing QNAP copper napthenate ties in general or in environmentally sensitive areas. Quality control for QNAP is “easy and instant,” guaranteeing tie longevity, Nisus officials said.
All things large and small
To respond to the demand for better efficacy and effectiveness, ties are being pre-dipped at sawmills, reducing the amount of downgrade when ties are graded at treatment plants.
“This can be accomplished easily by the smallest sawmills, as well as the very large mills,” Nisus officials said.
Meanwhile, Lonza Wood Protection officials say a drop in U.S. tie purchases has prompted customers to move from providing ties for treatment to treating their other infrastructure products, such as piling and poles.
“So, while [these customers] are doing well, it is not in the railroad area,” said Lonza Industrial Product Specialist Tim Carey in an email.
Lonza has just introduced a new oil-based wood treatment in Europe that’s being offered as an alternative to traditional creosote-based treatments. Called Tanasote, the treatment targets high-performance applications for ties, poles and agricultural timbers. Lonza has established a new pilot Tanasote treatment facility at its Castleford headquarters in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
For many years, creosote has proven to be an effective, long-term protection treatment for high-performance timber applications, but there are growing regulatory pressures on its future use, Lonza officials said on the company’s website.
Although the company currently has no plans to market Tanasote in North America, it might eventually be offered domestically, said Carey.
The word “eventually” is what sawmills and wood-tie suppliers are clinging to, hoping business conditions at some point soon turn in their favor. Mother nature and the U.S. government need to pitch in so an upturn occurs sooner rather than later, says RTA’s Gauntt.
“It will take time to regain inventory. We need the weather to cooperate,” he says. “And we gotta fix the relationship with China.”
Email questions or comments to jeff.stagl@tradepress.com.
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The lost art - Theatre of the Mind - the colour of sound
by gwp » Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:52 pm
When was the last time you heard a real radio commercial? That is other than someone shouting at you with echo -- sale, sale, sale?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZ57EeX6vE
Re: The lost art - Theatre of the Mind - the colour of sound
by pave » Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:03 pm
That Stan Freeberg piece was produced around 1963.
Not all that many similar bits have been cooked up since.
This is a lament that falls on deaf ears and addled minds.
by gwp » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:47 pm
pave wrote: This is a lament that falls on deaf ears and addled minds.
Sadly, with today's technology it would be so much simpler with electronic editing and layering.
It used to require using all three turntables, and two tape machines to inject the music and sound and simultaneously do the voice over while starting the individual elements at the right moment and then tidy it up with a razor blade edit before you got something that met the time limit and was presentable
by pave » Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:01 am
Quite so, gwp.
With the technologies available over the last 20 years or so, spectacular productions can be generated - from home, no less!
It's about perceived need and perceived value.
So far as the grande poo-bahs are concerned, there is no need and minimal value.
Opportunities to impact audiences on behalf of advertisers are lost - again.
by talker2002@gmail.com » Sat Aug 15, 2020 3:22 pm
GWP nailed it! I spent many hours labouring over a single commercial because I was using a pair of Ampex tape machines, a couple of cart machines, a few turntables and a razor blade with sticky tape. Eventually, the final product was put on a 3 inch reel of tape for the salesman to play for the cllient or it was loaded onto a cart and placed in rotation in the control room. So much easier these days! As Stan Freberg used to say, radio was better than television because television only stretched your imagination up to 21 inches.
And as Bang Gunley, U.S. Marshal Fields used to say, "Yup, sure looks like somebody cut through that fence, alright."
talker2002@gmail.com
by paterson » Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:23 pm
Well, I guess I am going to be the old guy who disagrees.
I loved working in production, producing a commercial or promo that required sometimes hours of work, editing, multi tracks, voices etc. But having said that, in my last years in radio and later in the newspaper business, I was amazed at the talent and great young people that I had the opportunity to work with.
We would have college and university students in with coop programs. Some were in production, some news, a few in sales, others in the creative department. All of them without fail were great to work with, helpful and wanted to do a good job.
One young man who was helping us in sales would bop around on three different computers helping sales people and emailing shortcuts or helpful tips for those of us that weren't always too swift on computers. In a power point presentation (remember those?) that seemed to be a huge problem for me, he could fix and clean up in a minute. The kid was amazing, never got phased, never complained and even stayed sometimes for an extra hour or so to help someone out.
So I guess all I am saying is, yes I loved and miss my era and the way it used to be. But let's not be blind to all of the innovations and improvements over the years. And give some credit to the next generation. The kids really are alright!
by pave » Mon Aug 17, 2020 12:37 am
This is not about whether this generation of performers is any more or less talented or motivated than the ones that preceded it.
Rather, it is about them not being hired in the first place and then given the green light to be creative or to acquire new skills and knowledge.
Radio has become, essentially, a business that cranks out sub-standard widgets.
Talent, through time, is more likely to gravitate elsewhere.
by paterson » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:14 am
I can agree with you but only somewhat.
First off there is much more radio now than in the 70's. More radio stations, internet radio, more specialized etc.
One of my earlier jobs (1980) was in Owen Sound ON where there was one local AM station and we could receive two others off air in town reasonably clear. Today the same community, which hasn't grown too much has six local radio stations and receives another eight off air from around the area. So 14 local/regional stations vs 3 in 1980.
Our one radio station back then employed about 40 people. And that was a big number back then for a local small market independent station. Do the six stations today employ that number? Yes, but as you know you can run a station (not a repeater) with less than 10 people.
Quality of programming today in all markets, in many ways is superior. Sound quality is better, automation is much better, and specific formats like talk radio much improved and more of it. When I started my radio career there were no such things as all talk radio, or all sports stations, or all oldies/gold formats, all comedy etc.
Now I do agree there has been a watering down somewhat of creativity, and a sameness in programming, especially with corporate ownership. Although to be perfectly honest some of the former independent mom and pop stations in my area (Kitchener/Waterloo ON), that have been bought out by Bell, Corus, Rogers or one of the mid sized companies actually sound better overall. Number one, all of these stations moved to FM. Second thing was they all had updated and much improved studios and facilities. Thirdly, all of them have an actual format now, rather than a mix of this, that, and the other, when they were AM independent operations.
Has something been lost? Absolutely, but a few things have been gained as well. Radio like every other business has changed dramatically from 40 years ago. And some of this change has been for the better.
by gwp » Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:04 pm
paterson wrote: I can agree with you but only somewhat.
I rarely engage these discussions, but is there a list of the changes for the better?
Sadly, about the only place radio is being used as it is meant is by the CBC and the audience figures in most major markets across the country demonstrate that as the CBC Radio station is often the most listened to. Corporate commercial radio has become a juke box on a hard drive. With the exception of talk radio there is little redeeming social value or service to the community - no original local news, no creative commercials that play in your mind's theatre. The stations I once was GM for had 50 people, seven exclusive to news with four others part time. I get using technology to reduce staff costs for lesser audience day parts, I was part of it when I replaced the all night person with a broadband satellite feed and made more money midnight to six a.m. at "a dollar a holler." So much of radio's potential is wasted ... but the cash flow must be great if you are not paying any people.
by cart_machine » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:07 pm
gwp wrote: Sadly, about the only place radio is being used as it is meant is by the CBC and the audience figures in most major markets across the country demonstrate that as the CBC Radio station is often the most listened to. Corporate commercial radio has become a juke box on a hard drive.
One of the more amusing and interesting things to do is to go back through 1960s trade publications and hear from 1950s radio people how the industry had been ruined by the people who followed.
cArtie.
cart_machine
Location: The Past
by pave » Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:39 am
If a member of a previous generation is going to trash the efforts of a newer generation, at some point along the line, they will be proven correct.
We have reached that threshold.
by gwp » Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:34 am
pave wrote: If a member of a previous generation is going to trash the efforts of a newer generation, at some point along the line, they will be proven correct.
No intention to trash anyone. The transition of radio of the 1940/50 of programs and radio drama to the music based formats into the 1960's and onward is quite different from what has occurred from the 1990's where the basic elements of a mix of news, music, talk, and commercials is really unchanged.
It is the utilization of the resource that has been diminished. There can be little excuse for not giving advertisers the benefit of what radio can really do for their product through produced commercials, rather than shouting simple copy. Creative commercials will also enhance audience interest. While internet sources have changed how people access news, there is no excuse for not covering local news even if it means following up a story that broke on twitter first and making the phone calls and write the copy to report "news as it happens."
There is a privilege that comes with holding a broadcast license and benefit from a finite public resource of a radio frequency. While there are exceptions, the concept of providing community service in return for the use of the airwaves seems to have been lost in favour of the business side of radio broadcasting. The community service element is more and more being filled by low power community stations.
by pave » Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:24 pm
gwp writes of noble premises and laudable priorities.
Indeed, his comments include righteous and useful ideals.
However, none of them are being executed in real-life, real-time, commercial, music radio.
Radio has become no more than a running programmer's scam as their tawdry attempts to manipulate ratings continue - a distasteful holdover from decades gone by.
We all remember the extraordinarily expensive contests being run only during ratings periods.
The whole business was about influencing ratings - and was done eagerly and shamelessly.
The jocks would exclaim, "Well there go our bonus cheques!"
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Round 8 Day 1 – Randwick Petersham (14th Club Championship) v North Sydney (19th Club Championship)
Well, what a way to go into Christmas with the club pulling off a “Greenwash” against the Bears. After three wins against UNSW, this was exactly the follow up the club required to catapult Randy Petes up the Club Championship from 17th, two games ago, to 12th at present. What was so impressive on the weekend was the manner of the victories across the Grades. Whilst the Bears are struggling a bit at present, we have often struggled against teams down the bottom of the table, and to record five emphatic victories, some with a bonus point, was a good reward for some hard work over the past few weeks. With a 3-week break now before our games against Bankstown, it’s a good chance to freshen up, enjoy Christmas and the New Year, and come back and continue charging up that ladder as we head towards the finals.
1st Grade – North Sydney (14th) v Randwick Petersham (7th) v North Sydney (14th) @ North Sydney Oval
Team – A.Sams (+), Kemp(c, Price, Scicluna, D.Sams, Psarakis, Critchley, Sangha, Semple, Neser, Warren
Result – Randwick Petersham 2/176 – 24.1 Overs (Kemp 104 n/o, Scicluna 40 n/o, Price 29) Defeated North Sydney 9/174 – 50 overs (Semple 3/50-10, Neser 2/26-9. Critchley 2/22-8, D.Sams 2/36-10)
http://www.premier.nsw.cricket.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/match.aspx?locx=MATCH&matchID=2362226
First Grade ventured to one of their homes away from home, North Sydney Oval, superbly looked after by former Club great, coach and selector Peter Devlin. “Devo” always does an outstanding job at North Sydney and made sure, in a week of rain, the ground was in top notch shape and ready to start on time. There was some drama during the warm-up with Soumil Chibber forced to withdraw and experienced 1st Grader Nick Warren coming in his place. Jason Sangha also returned from a successful Under 19s Carnival playing for the Cricket Australia XI.
Kempie’s men put together a complete performance in the first 50-over match since Round 2, destroying the Bears by 8 wickets and claiming a valuable bonus point in the process. By chasing the runs inside 25 overs, we moved up to 31 points, outside the all-important Top 6 by 3 points heading into the Christmas break.
After winning the toss and sending the Bears in, all our bowlers did an outstanding job to limit them to 9/174 from their 50 overs. Adam Semple (3/50-10) continued his fine form, now having 16 wickets for the season. Matt Critchley (2/22-8) has really added a different dimension to the side with his controlled and aggressive leg spin, and he was on point again here. The ever reliable Francois Neser (2/26-9) did the bulk of the donkey work, while Daniel Sams (2/36-10) crept up to 4th in the leading wicket takers with 22 scalps at 21.
Despite an early setback, the chase was never really in doubt, as returning captain Alex Kemp (104n/o) played a blinder, flaying the Bears to all parts. He was well supported by Nathan Price (29) and Jake Scicluna (40n/o) and we finished the game by dispatching the Bears’ bowling to all parts. It looked like men against boys when Kemp was batting, as he raced to a century off just 69 balls, with 14 fours and 5 horns. The skipper now has 365 runs at the impressive average of 63.
First Grade are pretty well placed heading into the Christmas break with a crunch clash against a strong Bankstown side straight off the bat in the New Year. Whilst last season we fell just short of the finals, this time the boys will be desperate to make amends and get into the Top 6 in the search for that elusive Belvedere Cup.
2nd Grade – Randwick Petersham (17th) v NorthSydney (20th) @ Petersham Oval
Team – Everett (+), Moran, Balbirnie, Eaton, Hassan, Holland (c), Ram, Sharma, Hart, Burton, Tyson
Result – North Sydney 10/190 – 42 Overs (Eaton 3/20-7) Defeated By Randwick Petersham 4/194 – 38 Overs (Balbirnie 90n/o, Everett 42, Hassan 23, Moran 21)
Second Grade returned to Petersham Oval to take on the bottom of the table Bears in a must win game before the Christmas break. The team was looking particularly strong this week, with gun all-rounder Sean Eaton and batsman Suffan Hassan returning from 1st Grade duties. The team was looking for back-to-back victories for the first time this season, after a slow start to their campaign.
At the end of a long day, after a delayed start, Holland’s men were able to celebrate a really hard-fought 6-wicket victory with the game finishing after 7pm. The game was reduced to 42-overs per side and a 1pm start after significant rain on Thursday and Friday. The Green Options staff did a magnificent job to get the ground to standard after nearly 50 overs were played in rainy conditions on Thursday in AWGS. Their tireless work does not go unnoticed and is greatly appreciated by Second Grade and the club overall.
With the ball we managed to reduce the Bears to a moderate 190, bowling them out with two overs still to play. We were a little sloppy with our extras, racking up 14 wides and 6 no balls, however we managed to take wickets at regular intervals. The pick of the bowlers was clearly Sean Eaton (3/20-7) who continued his fine form with the ball in Second Grade. Sean bowled with discipline and control and was unlucky not to pick up a few more wickets.
With the wicket starting to flatten out, Matt Everett (42) and Max Moran (21) got the team off to a great start, putting on 42 for the first wicket. It’s been a great first half of the season for Everett in 2nd Grade with 352 runs at an average of 44, placing him 5th overall in the competition for runs scored. However, the star of the show was once again Andrew Balbirnie (90 n/o) who backed up his century last week with another innings of pure class. Balbirnie is a few classes above 2nd Grade and he displayed great professionalism and skill during his time at the Club as he toyed with the Bears’ bowlers here to help get us over the line with a couple of overs to spare. Balbirnie was well supported by Suffan Hassan (23) on our way to victory.
Despite sitting in 16th spot, it’s great to see this side starting to put it together and display some consistent performances. We are only 12 points out of the top 6 and capable of going on a big run after Christmas. He will have to do it without Andre Balbirnie though, who finishes his time at the Club. We thank him greatly for his services and wish him all the best with his County Cricket and playing for the Irish National team.
3rd Grade – North Sydney (11th) v Randwick Petersham (14th) @ Bon Andrews Oval
Team – Ahmed (+), Stares, James, McLoughlin, Calder, Lyle, Graham, Stafford (c), Nawaz , Loth, Tsalikidis
Result – North Sydney 10/138 – 44.4 overs (Tsalikidis 4/38-10, Loth 3/20-7.4, Nawaz 2/16-7) Defeated by Randwick Petersham 3/141 (James 57, McLoughlin 39n/o) – 33.3 Overs
Third Grade headed to the picturesque North Sydney Number 2 Oval, now known as Bon Andrews Oval. It was a crucial game for Stafford’s men, sitting just 3 points below the Bears on the competition ladder, and capable of leap frogging a few teams with a victory. The side welcomed back Ben Stares at the top of the order and looked close to the strongest 3rd Grade side we had fielded on paper all year.
Just like 2nd Grade this was a tremendous day for 3’s as they too secured back-to-back victories for the first time this season, achieved comfortably by 7 wickets. After a number of really close and frustrating losses or ties this season, it was only a matter of time before the boys hit their straps and they have set themselves up for an assault on the finals after Christmas now with this big win.
After winning the toss and inserting the Bears into bat, we made an amazing start to the day courtesy of big fast bowler Doug Loth (3/20-7.4). Loth clean bowled two of the Bears in the very first over of the match, to set the tone for the rest of the day. Loth was ably supported by fellow opening bowler Rehaan Nawaz (2/16-7) who did an outstanding job himself, picking up two wickets in his first two overs, as we had the Bears reeling at 4/16 after 4 overs. From there they consolidated well before in form leg spinner Kiri Tsaliskidis (4/38-10) ripped through the lower order to continue his outstanding form. Nawaz also pulled out a ridiculously good run out from cover. We put together a great team performance as the Bears were dismissed for 138.
After a solid start from openers Ahmed and Stares, we lost two quick wickets in the run chase to bring youngster Jack James (57) and veteran John McLoughlin (39n/o) together. The pair looked in cruise control throughout and put on a wonderful 83-run partnership to all but seal victory. James has now backed up his century with a half century and his higher Grade talent is becoming more and more obvious by the week. “J Mac” and Matt Calder (11n/o) saw us over the line to complete a dominant win.
Stafford’s men are now up to 10th, just 10 points out of the finals’ spots. Let’s remember this team put together a 5-match winning streak after Christmas last season, and with back-to-back victories already on the board, the scene is well and truly set for a finals charge in the New Year.
4th Grade – Randwick Petersham (14th) v North Sydney (10th) @ Coogee Oval
Team – Powell, Schubert (+), Murdita, Mitchell, King, Bourke (c), Wallis, Standing, Budwee, Jenkins, Sprowls
Result – Randwick Petersham 10/217 – 45.3 Overs (Mitchell 64, Schubert 45, Wallis 34, Standing 29) Defeated North Sydney 10/103 – 34.5 Overs (Wallis 3/20-7.5, Jenkins 3/20/7, Standing 2/15-6, Sprowls 2/15-5)
Fourth Grade headed to our seaside home of Coogee Oval, always confident of getting a game despite heavy rain on the Thursday and Friday. Coogee is the best draining ground in Sydney and Green Options do a magnificent job there of making sure we always get on when other games are abandoned or rain shortened.
Bourke’s men were looking for a second win on the bounce after their outstanding come from behind victory over UNSW the week before. The side welcomed back experienced batsman David Mitchell, veteran wicketkeeper batsman Karl Schubert and fast bowling all-rounder Matt Wallis. The three inclusions would strengthen any side let alone a 4th Grade side, and captain Bourke must have been curling the mo to have those three in the line-up.
Just like every other Grade this week, 4th Grade put together a complete performance, dominating the Bears with bat and ball to claim a 114-run victory. The win tasted even more sweet given the fact we picked up a bonus point which could be crucial at the end of the year.
After being sent in on a wicket offering plenty of early assistance for the bowlers, our top order did a great job of getting us through a tricky period. Karl Schubert (45) and David Mitchell (64) used their years of skill and experience down at Coogee to put on 60 runs with the ball nipping around. Schubert played more patiently than usual and was unlucky to fall just short of a half century. “Mitch” once again showed his class with an elegant half century and is really starting to hit his straps heading into the New Year. No team in the competition would be able to call upon the brutal power of Matt Wallis (34) and Jack Standing (29) down the order. It’s a real luxury for “Bourkey” as both these guys can change a game in an instant with their power hitting.
After racking up a more than competitive 216, we finished the job with the ball, rolling the Bears for just 103. Matt Wallis (3/20-7) completed an excellent all-round game while gun young spinner Mac Jenkins (3/20-7.5) spun a web through the Bears lower order. With Sprowls and Standing both chipping in with a couple of wickets, it was a great team performance with the ball.
“Bourkey” wanted to send a special shout out to Gab Budwee’s girlfriend, brother and cousin for coming down and supporting the boys all day, getting in the sheds for the victory song and taking some photos and videos of the game – the support was much appreciated. Amazingly 4th Grade are now in equal 6th position on 25 points, having looked down and out just two rounds ago.
5th Grade – Randwick Petersham (5th) v North Sydney (18th) @ Tunks Park
Team – Gracias Flor, Hart, Rushton, Saini, Hilder, De Silva, Montedoro, Singh (c), Jones, Boyns, O’Laughlin
Result – North Sydney 10/136 – 47 Overs (O’Laughlin 5/25-9, Montedoro 2/9-4) Defeated By Randwick Petersham 3/137 – 34 Overs (Saini 56n/o, Hilder 40n/o, Hart 20)
Fifth Grade have been flying high this year and they were looking to consolidate their spot in the Top 6 heading into Christmas as they travelled to Tunks Park to take on the Bears. It was a danger game for 5th Grade, with the Bears in lowly 18th spot, and a win would be like gold with 7 other 5th Grade games abandoned due to the weather.
The side looked very strong on paper this week with fast bowler Sam Boyns back into the line-up, along with hard hitting opening batsman Savio Gracias Flor. Vishwas Saini was also rewarded for his outstanding innings of 80 not out in Metropolitan Cup with a recall to 5th Grade for our final game before the New Year.
We completed the “Greenwash” in fine style here, with a commanding 7-wicket victory achieved with over 15 overs to spare. Chasing the Bears moderate 136, the result never really looked in doubt, as despite an early stumble, Saini (56n/o) and Hilder (40n/o) put on an unbroken 101-run partnership to steer us out of trouble at 3/36. Saini is a talented young batsman and while he would’ve been disappointed to be dropped to Metropolitan Cup, he responded in fine style backing up his 80n/o last week with another unbeaten half century. Veteran Matt Hilder has been in excellent form in the past few rounds and he is really holding that middle order together.
Earlier in the day, the bowlers once again did a great job as they have all year in 5th Grade. However the star of the show was AWGS fast bowler Mitchell O’Laughlin (5/25-9) who claimed a magnificent 5-wicket haul. O’Laughlin is a fast bowler who pounds away on a great length and he found a few soft spots in the pitch early, claiming 3 wickets in his opening 3 overs. He came back to claim a much deserved 5-wicket haul and more displays like this and he will be shooting up the Grades in no time.
Singhy’s men are flying the flag for the club at Christmas time, sitting pretty in 2nd spot on the table. The lure of Semi-final cricket on our home grounds is a strong one, and one we are capable of achieving with more great cricket after the Christmas break. Have a Merry Christmas everyone and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.
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Yokohama announces leadership changes
February 16, 2016 – Yokohama Corporation of North America (YCNA) announced several corporate strategic management changes, effective March 30. These changes and promotions include:
Hideto Katsuragawa: who is a member of the YRC Board and senior managing corporate officer has been appointed CEO of YCNA and CEO of Yokohama Tire (Canada) Inc. Katsuragawa will be based in Yokohama’s U.S. headquarters in Southern California. He will succeed Takaharu Fushimi.
Takaharu Fushimi: who has been CEO of YCNA, CEO of Yokohama Tire (Canada) Inc. and CEO of Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) since 2014, will return to YRC as managing corporate officer and head of tire overseas sales & marketing division.
Shinichi Takimoto: a corporate officer at YRC has been named CEO of YTC and CEO of Yokohama Tire Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (YTMX).
Takayuki Hamaya: who has been YTC’s COO since 2012 has been named president of Yokohama Russia L.L.C., the Russian sales subsidiary of YRC.
Tetsuya Kuze: who is a member of the YRC Board and managing corporate officer, will become a managing corporate officer with YRC and has been named vice president of YCNA and CEO of Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi, L.L.C. (YTMM). He will be based in Mississippi and will succeed Tadaharu Yamamoto.
Tadaharu Yamamoto: who has been YTMM’s president since 2013 will return to YRC as newly-appointed corporate officer and acting head of tire business planning division and head of tire business planning department.
Satoshi Miyata: will return from YRC to the U.S. to assume the post of EVP and CFO for YCNA.
Naoki Takeda: who has been YTC’s EVP and CFO since 2013 will return to YRC for a leadership position to be announced at a future date.
Fushimi named CEO of Yokohama North America
Yokohama gets reorganized
Yokohama to raise prices on off-road tires
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December cement production rises
B2W continues strong growth
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Nielsen: Olympics and sun give grocery retailers four-week sales boost
Sales uplift at UK grocers
The London 2012 Olympics and summer weather helped UK grocery retailers enjoy their best four-week period so far this year, in terms of both year-on-year sales and unit growths, according to the latest UK retailer performance figures from Nielsen.
Aggregate sales growth for the UK’s leading supermarkets during the four weeks ending 18 August 2012 was +3.5% higher than the same period a year ago. Furthermore, unit sales (volume) also increased by +1.7% year-on-year – reversing an 18-month trend of declining unit growth.
The general feel-good factor from the Olympics and the better weather also contributed to the strong performance of the sharing FMCG categories.
In the four-week period, soft drinks sales increased +10% in value year-on-year (+8% volume), with confectionery up +8% (+6% volume), while crisps/snacks increased +7% (+6% volume).
However, sales growths in the ambient grocery and household category did remain subdued and general merchandise growths fell back (-0.3% value and -1.4% unit sales), indicating weak underlying consumer confidence, said Nielsen.
Nielsen’s UK head of retailer insight, Mike Watkins, said: “Retailers have clearly looked to maximise the sales opportunity around the London 2012 Olympics. Although promotional activity has remained unchanged at 35% of FMCG sales, the continual use of money-off vouchers and coupons has marked a differing approach by retailers this summer.
“This has helped to increase shopping basket spends and, in return, given shoppers further savings at the checkout. Tesco, in particular, had some very attractive offers during July and August which will have helped to increase the frequency of shoppers’ visits.”
When looking at the individual grocery retailers, Watkins said: “The Tesco sales recovery we first saw last month has continued and Tesco has now held market share at 29.1% over the last 12 weeks.
“Discounters continue to grow sales faster than other food retailers, while Waitrose outperformed with a stellar sales growth of +12% in the four weeks to 18 August 2012 – helped by shoppers spending more per visit on food and drink – making them this period’s winner across the supermarket sector.”
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The Power Vertical
Gangsters And Fascists And Separatists -- Oh My!
June 05, 2014 16:37 GMT
The self-proclaimed governor of the Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev (first row, third from left), as a Russian nationalist.
A multibillion-dollar project is announced to construct a bridge across the Kerch Strait. Police raid a meeting of Georgian gangsters at a swanky downtown Moscow restaurant. And an emissary from the powerful Solntsevo crime syndicate is reportedly dispatched to Simferopol.
What do all these things have in common? They're all elements of a shadowy struggle among organized crime groups to get their claws into Crimea.
Vladimir Putin's annexation of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula has turned the international order on its ear. And as longtime Kremlin-watcher and security expert Mark Galeotti wrote this week, it also promises to upend the delicate balance in the post-Soviet underworld -- with possibly violent results.
"The underworld status quo is relatively brittle, full of hungry upstarts and deep feuds, as well as unbalanced by new money flowing into some gangs' coffers, thanks to the growing and massive trade in Afghan heroin," Galeotti, a professor at New York University and a co-host of the Power Vertical Podcast, wrote this week in "The Moscow Times."
"Further competition in Crimea could shatter the already fragile underworld peace."
And it's not like Crimea was exactly gangster-free even before the Russian annexation. A combination of official neglect from Kyiv, hostility between local law enforcement and the central Ukrainian government, and the Black Sea Fleet's role in various smuggling operations combined to make the peninsula a magnet for post-Soviet organized crime.
"Crimea's political and economic structures were infamously interconnected with its underworld. Simferopol's Salem and Bashmaki crime gangs of the 1990s ran protection rackets, smuggled drugs, and assassinated each other, Galeotti wrote.
Indeed, Crimea's Moscow-installed de facto Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov is widely reported to be a mid-level gangster -- known as "the Goblin" -- with the Salem gang.
And now, major projects like the $5.5 billion Kerch Strait bridge project connecting Crimea to Russia's Krasnodar Krai and plans to build a new casino and resort complex promise to present the most lucrative opportunity for the criminal underworld since, well, since the Sochi Olympics.
And the Russian authorities seem determined to make sure "their" anointed gangsters -- like Moscow's powerful Solntsevo group -- get the largest piece of the action.
In a recent post on his blog, Galeotti noted how on May 24 police broke up a meeting of Georgian gangsters at a swanky restaurant in downtown Moscow -- an apparent attempt to warn them to stay out of Crimea. "It’s futile to try and keep the Georgians out of Crimea, but I imagine that a pernicious alliance of ethnic Russian mobsters and the government will try to minimize their role there," he wrote.
Given the fragile peace in the underworld in the wake of the Moscow assassination of the legendary crime boss Aslan Usoyan in January 2013, it looks like Crimea's new status provides all the conditions for a mob war.
And if Crimea looks like a playground for gangsters, in eastern Ukraine it's springtime for Russian ultranationalists and neo-Nazis.
Pavel Gubarev, the self-styled "people's governor" of Donetsk, was a member of the ultranationalist group Russian National Unity, whose symbol bears a disturbing resemblance to a swastika.
The far-right paramilitary organization was founded in 1990 by nationalist leader Aleksandr Barkashov, and its members have been implicated in violent crimes against ethnic minorities and in the 2009 killings of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.
Aleksandr Borodai, a Russian citizen who is the "prime minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was an editor and remains a contributor to the far-right -- and often anti-Semitic -- newspaper "Zavtra," founded by ultranationalist Aleksandr Prokhanov in the 1990s. The newspaper's website now serves as a recruiting platform for mercenaries fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Prokhanov, a fringe figure in the 1990s, has enjoyed a resurgence with the Ukrainian crisis, with his articles appearing regularly in the mass-circulation pro-Kremlin daily "Izvestia.'
The Donetsk People's Republic's self-styled "defense minister," Igor Girkin, aka "Strelkov," is also a contributor to "Zavtra" Girkin, who Ukrainian authorities claim is an agent with the Russian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), also reportedly served as a mercenary in conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Transdniester, and Chechnya.
And Gubarev, Borodai, and Girkin are just the tip of the iceberg. Moscow-based political analyst Vladimir Pribylovsky told RFE/RL's Russian Service this week that the conflict in eastern Ukraine is serving as a magnet for Russian nationalists of various stripes.
Russia may be threatening to cut off Ukraine's gas supply. But it is busy exporting its mafia and neo-Nazis to its southern neighbor.
-- Brian Whitmore
NOTE TO READERS: Be sure to tune in to the Power Vertical Podcast on June 6 when I will discuss the themes raised in this post with co-host Mark Galeotti and guest Merkhat Sharipzhan.
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Creationist attacks Stephen Hawking: "The Bible says he's a fool"
Last month Hawking explained that he is an atheist
By Sarah Gray
October 8, 2014 9:17PM (UTC)
(Reuters/Kimberly White)
Stephen Hawking is one of the word's preeminent scientists. The physicist and cosmologist is known for many important theories including those on black holes and the birth of our universe.
However, according to creationist and evangelical minister Ray Comfort, Hawking is a "fool" committing "intellectual suicide." Why? Because the Bible says so. (Comfort, Metro points out, pursued no further education after leaving school at 16-years-old.)
"The Bible says he who denies God’s existence is a fool, and if we say the guy is intelligent, then we are denying what scripture said," Comfort said on his weekly YouTube show "The Comfort Zone."
Comfort's attack was in response to a recent interview that Stephen Hawking did with Spanish newspaper El Mundo. In that exclusive interview, Hawking stated that he is an atheist.
"Before we understood science it was natural to believe that god created the universe," Hawking said in a video interview. "But now science offers a more convincing explanation."
"What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God,' is that we would know everything that god would know if there were a god, which there isn't," Hawking continued. "I'm an atheist."
Hawking also spoke to El Mundo about the Starmus Festival, which took place at the end of September.
Watch Comfort's comments below via Best in World:
Sarah Gray is an assistant editor at Salon, focusing on innovation. Follow @sarahhhgray or email sgray@salon.com.
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A backstage pass to Trump-apalooza: Inside the bizarre, dizzying, xenophobic spectacle
Ann Coulter was there. So was Scott Brown. Here's what it's like to attend a Donald Trump campaign rally
By Gary Legum
Donald Trump (AP/Matt Rourke)
I’m sitting on the hard floor of an indoor tennis court with my laptop balanced on my knees when Ann Coulter sweeps past me, all fur coat and sharp angles.
This is in the press pen set up for Donald Trump’s first post-Iowa rally, at the Hampshire Hills Country Club in Milford, NH. It encloses a stage to accommodate TV cameras and a handful of tables and folding chairs for the working press. There are not nearly enough chairs, which is why I’m sitting on the floor.
Coulter has a seat, of course. She’s at a table in the corner, doing a radio interview with Howie Carr, the Boston-based conservative talk radio host. I wander over to join the crowd that immediately formed around her, but with the noise in this huge space I can’t hear a thing she’s saying. Not to worry. An hour later she’s on stage warming up the crowd for Trump.
My notes from Coulter’s speech look too banal sitting on a page in my notebook to really reflect what an ugly 10 minutes it was to endure. Imagine an unrelenting tirade of xenophobic nonsense, withering scorn for politicians in Washington who are letting the country be overrun with hordes of immigrants, and gay jokes at the expense of candidates still in the race (“Marco Rubio has nice high-heel boots”) and those long gone (“I’m more excited than Lindsay Graham in a fabric store!”).
To hear Coulter and former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (who was there to endorse Trump) and some of the local political figures who also spoke, you’d have thought Pancho Villa himself was leading an army of Mexican maple syrup tappers up Route 13 at that very moment to take over the cherished New Hampshire industry. In his own speech, Trump himself referred to the eroding of American industry, saying of companies having left this state in recent years: “New Hampshire got hammered…boy, what they’ve done to you is terrible.”
That right there is the foundation upon which Trump has built his entire campaign. Everyone in that room was a victim. (Except the press, of course – we’ve been told multiple times that we’re terrible people.) Terrorists are attacking, companies are leaving, jobs are disappearing, baristas won’t say “Merry Christmas.” And all that stands between you and oblivion is Donald Trump and the guns that he’s going to let you carry, because no one is touching the Second Amendment on his watch.
When Trump’s president, everyone will say Merry Christmas. This is one of the standards of his stump speech -- well, he doesn’t really give a speech; it’s more a gibbering stream of consciousness where sentences bounce off each other like bumper cars -- and it got some run at the Hampshire Hills Country Club. His greatest hits make up a Perry Como album from hell: “We’re Going to Have So Much Winning.” “If Anyone Attacks While I’m President, We’ll Knock The Hell Out of Them.” “Bowe Bergdahl Is a Dirty Rotten Traitor!”
The sad part is, there is a germ of truth underlying the whole spectacle. Jobs have disappeared, the middle class in America has been hollowed out, income inequality is at an all-time high. There is an anger, in this room and in the rooms where all the candidates both Democratic and Republican are conducting their campaigns, that no one seems to know how to channel. It has already turned the GOP primary into a bubbling cauldron that would terrify a coven of witches, and it’s possibly going to swamp the Democratic primary before the snow melts.
Yet we’re throwing out hucksters, charlatans and intellectual flyweights to lead us out of this mess. This was most evident when Brown took the stage. (To some scattered boos, it must be noted. Politically savvy New Hampshire crowds can smell flop sweat on politicians at 5,000 yards, and the carpet-bagging Brown seems about as popular as a swarm of pissed-off wasps.)
But Brown did somehow spend a couple of years in the Senate, which he thinks gives him some insight. He tried to convince the crowd that after his time in the nation’s capital, he had determined the best person to get things done in Washington is Donald Trump, and I mean, really, Scott Brown? Bashing politicians in Washington is one of the great American pastimes, but really? Of all the people you met in D.C., all the politicians you have rubbed elbows with, you think this Creamsicle in a suit is the solution?
There is really nothing else to say. When a campaign has stayed on top for months by appealing to the worst in people until they are so terrified they’ll turn the keys to the nation over to a jabbering baboon, all we can do is file our stories, pack up the laptops, and get out of this room. And hope there’s enough gas in the car to make the Canadian border without needing to stop for a fill-up.
Gary Legum
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Packers’ defense finally starting to produce more takeaways
Green Bay Packers’ Darnell Savage intercepts a pass in front of Chicago Bears’ Anthony Miller during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
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By STEVE MEGARGEEAP Sports Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
The Green Bay Packers thrived on big plays from their defense last year, but didn’t produce nearly enough of them the first half of this season.
That’s starting to change now as the Packers move closer to a second straight NFC North title.
Green Bay (8-3) scored three touchdowns off turnovers Sunday night in a 41-25 victory over the Chicago Bears (5-6). The Packers have eight takeaways in their last four games after forcing just four turnovers in their first seven games.
The Packers’ 12 overall takeaways still put them in the bottom half of the NFL rankings and well off their pace from last year, when they forced 25 turnovers.
But they’ve picked up the pace and gotten more aggressive lately.
“As coaches, typically you get what you emphasize,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Monday. “Obviously, (we) did not do a good enough job emphasizing that early in the year. I think our guys are taking that to heart, they’re taking it personal. They want to show everybody that they can be a great defense.”
Green Bay’s defense scored one touchdown on its own. After Za’Darius Smith sacked Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky to force a fumble, Preston Smith picked the ball up and ran 14 yards into the end zone to give the Packers a 27-3 lead.
Darnell Savage Jr. picked off two of Trubisky’s passes, his first two interceptions of the season.
“I think everybody’s been doing their job and we’re talented enough to make those plays when we get our opportunities,” Savage said after the game. “We’re going to keep that up.”
Green Bay’s defense remains a work in progress. The Packers rank just 19th in the NFL in scoring defense and allowed David Montgomery to rush for 103 yards on just 11 carries Sunday. The Packers added some depth Monday by claiming defensive lineman Anthony Rush off waivers from the Bears.
But the Packers might be good enough on offense to make a deep playoff run by outscoring teams, as long as their defense can make a few big plays to help the cause. Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes Sunday to continue his push toward a potential third MVP honor.
LaFleur raved about Rodgers after the game by saying, “this is as good as I’ve ever seen anybody play.”
“In my eyes, he’s an MVP player, no doubt about it,” LaFleur said. “And I wouldn’t want any other quarterback on our football team.”
Green Bay is scoring 31.7 points per game. The Packers scored touchdowns on their first three drives of the game and on two of their first three series in the second half. The offensive line lost center Corey Linsley and guard Lucas Patrick to injuries and still didn’t allow a sack.
WHAT NEEDS WORK
The Packers’ defense let up a bit late in the game by allowing two fourth-quarter touchdown drives with the game out of reach. Over its last five games, the Packers have allowed Minnesota’s Dalvin Cook, Jacksonville’s James Robinson and now Montgomery to all exceed 100 yards rushing. Indianapolis rookie Jonathan Taylor rushed for 90 yards against the Packers last week.
Rodgers has thrown 33 touchdown passes with only four interceptions. He already has his highest single-season touchdown pass total since 2014, when he had 38. … WR Davante Adams has caught a touchdown pass in six straight games for the NFL’s longest active streak. … The entire offensive line deserves plenty of praise, but Elgton Jenkins and Billy Turner get special mention for making seamless position switches after injuries to Linsley and Patrick. Jenkins moved from left guard to center. Turner shifted from right tackle to right guard.
Mason Crosby’s having a very good season, but he missed an extra-point attempt after Green Bay’s first touchdown. Crosby is 40 of 42 on PATs and 13 of 13 on field-goal tries this season.
Linsley suffered a knee injury in the first half and Patrick hurt his toe in the second half. LaFleur said after the game he didn’t believe Linsley’s injury was a season-ending issue. Savage hurt his back while making his second interception.
50,046 — Rodgers’ career yards passing. His 211-yard effort Sunday enabled him to join Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Philip Rivers, Dan Marino, Ben Roethlisberger, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan and John Elway as the only NFL players to throw for at least 50,000 yards. Roethlisberger is the only player who reached that mark in fewer pass attempts than Rodgers.
Green Bay players are off until Wednesday as the Packers wait to find out whether injuries will require them to shake up their offensive line once more as they prepare to host the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Louisville is No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll for the first time in school history
POLL ALERT: Louisville moves to No. 1 in women’s Top 25 for 1st time in school history; Stanford tumbles to No. 5
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Monday No. 1 Gonzaga (14-0) did not play. Next: Next: vs. Pacific, Saturday. No. 2 Baylor (12-0) vs.
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Bournemouth's Dan Gosling says referee was 'a disgrace' at Sheffield United
Tom Seymour
Bournemouth midfielder, Dan Gosling, says referee Jon Moss was “a disgrace” during their 2-1 Premier League defeat to Sheffield United.
The Blades came from behind at Bramall Lane to win and move up to fifth in the table. For the Cherries, they remain two points and two places outside the relegation zone following the result.
And it was his side’s perilous position towards the bottom of the division that Gosling says Moss mocked him and his teammates about.
“The officials talk about respect at the start of the season and there was zero respect from Jon Moss on Sunday,” the 30-year-old told the Daily Echo.
“I thought he was a disgrace. The comments that he made especially to me and one other player – talking about the relegation zone and ‘you’re still in the relegation zone’, ‘you’re having one’, ‘your team’s having one’ this and that and it was very, very disrespectful.”
Why Dan Gosling comments are hypocritical
(Photo by Daniel Chesterton/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
As a top flight referee, Moss is a professional and should act like one. If he said what Gosling alleges he did, then that is unprofessional and he may be reprimanded by the Premier League.
Yet if players want respect from officials, then it works both ways. This is not about Gosling specifically. He may never have been disrespectful to a ref during his career for all we know.
But for those who watch football regularly it’s clear that, in general, footballers do not show respect to officials. In fact, they are often subject to abuse.
In a 2015 survey, as reported by BBC Sport, almost two-thirds of refs in England said they “experience verbal abuse on a regular basis.”
Many of those asked were at grassroots level, but it doesn’t take a lipreader to see what officials are subjected to in the top flight as well.
Is it any wonder that sometimes they might respond? And, in the case of Moss, with comments that sound like a joke?
A player calling a referee out for a lack of respect just stinks of hypocrisy.
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Often spotted working at EFL and WSL games reporting and commentating, Tom is an avid Sheffield United fan and freelance sports journalist.
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Multi-unit events in the time of COVID
By FireStone,
November 1, 2020 in Open Discussion - Program
I've been digging for an answer to a question and can't find it:
What's the BSA's stance on multi-unit events/activities currently? For example 2 Packs, 1 or 2 Troops, 1 Crew getting together for an outdoor activity.
I've been comfortable with den and pack meetings, but this one has me hesitating, bringing kids together from different units, both pack and troop level, different schools, and during a week when we've some positive covid tests in local schools.
Cleveland Rocks 70
Cleveland Rocks
The BSA says: if all those units were charted to the same CO, then yes, they could do an activity together. But if they are not, the BSA says no. This was the stance prior to the pandemic; it is just being reiterated again. Because you'd be planning an activity for units that your CO does not charter, that would prevent the activity from being permitted.
The relevant quote from the BSA's COVID-19 FAQ (emphasis mine):
♦ Q: If my camp is cancelled, can my unit get together with other units and have our own camp?
No. Chartering organizations play an important role in the program and activities for their chartered units. Chartering organizations promote well-planned unit program for the units they charter and encourage their units to have active outdoor unit programs. Chartering organizations are not authorized to plan, promote, or deliver programs for units outside of their charter.
It is the role of the council to plan long-term or resident camps and the role of councils or districts to plan camporees and other outings during the year that give youth an opportunity to test their knowledge and skills in competitive events with other troops and/or patrols.
When units with different chartered organizations do activities together, this becomes a district or council event and requires council approval. In fact, some states require such activities to be licensed.
yknot 475
I don't think that's a good idea. Pre Covid we sometimes did things with other units but not now. Stay in your pod.
awanatech 72
awanatech
We have had three campouts with another Troop this year. It's a Troop with whom we have done many things with over the years. We've selected a location, but each Troop has made their wn arrangements as far as food, transportation, costs, etc. We basically look at it like each Troop is doing their own campout, just at the same location. Sometimes, the activities would coincide with each other. Other times, we are doing separate stuff. We have 1 family where the grandparents are raising the grandsons. One grandson is in each Troop. Last year, they had 2 Scouts who transferred to our Troop. This year, we had 2 who transferred to their Troop. Most of our Scouts are in school together & see each other outside of Scouting. We each have access to resources that we share with each other. It has worked well for us, including this year.
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Just one more beggar ...
It’s actually a great idea that units have been doing for a long time.
BSA is trying to put and end to it out of a desire to ensure NCAP standards at all activities. It appears in he COVID FAQ because units were maneuvering to replace canceled council activities, this obviously undermines the council’s effort to limit community spread.
So, to the specific issue of COVID cases in school, if your scouts associate with those students, you need to seriously consider suspending activities for two weeks from the time that student was infected.
Jameson76 1187
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An Alan Smithee Film and Happy as a Conditional Scouter
Don't kid yourself that this is about COVID. That may be the reason given, but in all likelihood it's about money. If units start doing things together and having a fun time, how in the world will the Council be able to monetize these events? Why maybe we don't really need the council management overhead.
All those fees for camporees and council events come with a "surcharge" that goes to the council coffers. God forbid, troops may get together and run their own summer camp for a greatly reduced cost.
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1 hour ago, Jameson76 said:
There are 3 troops that have the same CO. They have been putting on their own summer camp and allowing others to attend for ages. Do not know if they still do it or not. It was 1/3 of the cost, but each unit had to provide MBCs for x number of Scouts attending. I am told it was a high quality camp, but never attended.
I also do not know when the "2 or more units = distirct/council event" went into effect. I remember joint camping with other units. I do know that as early as 2010, that rule was in effect, but in my council not widely known. Then again, my council didn't know Cub Scout Family Camping standards existed until 2010. " Cubs don't need to camp" was the attitude.
ParkMan 1201
Optomist
2 hours ago, Jameson76 said:
As a council Scouter part of the time, I can say that this isn't something anyone is concerned with. Troops participate in district/council programming based on the quality of the programming. A council summer camp is not worried that some units will get together and make their own summer camp. If they were worried about competition and wanted to setup a monopoly they would prohibit out of council summer camps which are a significantly larger reality.
This is just about an overzealous risk management effort.
RichardB 176
Theories aside, perhaps one could review the CO agreement to see what is chartered or not? https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/membership/pdf/524-182_web.pdf
21 minutes ago, RichardB said:
Uh. Not trying to be difficult, but I don't see anything in there that makes a statement about whether two or three units can jointly camp together. This is why this has become something of a topic because no-one is aware of anything that says units cannot jointly plan a weekend together. It's something of Scouting tradition that unit co-operate and work together.
7 minutes ago, RichardB said:
What is chartered is councils obligation:
Respect the aims and objectives of the Chartered Organization and assist the Chartered Organization by making available Scouting resources.
I know some COR's who object to their scouts camping with others. That generally comes straight from the CO. But many COs actually want to encourage their youth to share an activity or two. So, I take the agreement to read "What CO's have joined together, let no council put asunder."
Another more nuanced question: are scouts from one troop/crew permitted to attend another unit's campout as provisional guests of that unit?
We've always taken this to be affirmative. An "official" example, most packs welcome den chiefs on a pack campout.
With all due respect, nothing in the CO agreement prohibits it. Nor is there any prohibition in the Guide to Safe Scouting. Only place that rule can be found is NCAP, and how many units use that since that is for district/council level day camps and camps?
Besides, BSA has a history of changing the rules with little to no advance notice. Remember when 18-20 years olds could not count from as a second adult from February 1, 2018 to March 10? It got changed from because units complained because they did not have enough adults to cover summer camp and HA bases. You guys decided to wait until October 1, 2018. And don't forget the Dodgeball ban. From at least 1929 until 2018/19, Dodgeball was an approved game in SMHBs and Troop Program Resources.
Perhaps one of you could point out where it enables an CO to do events for others in the name of scouting on behalf of the local council or BSA? I don't think you are going to find that in there.
Maybe we're confusing things here. Units team up, all or in part, for multiple types of things from HA blended crews to provisional camping to getting together to run a first aid merit badge session or for a cook off or service project. Staging a shadow council camp might be a different issue.
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Home » Blogs » Security Blog » Top 30 Voices in Healthcare Security: How Is the Industry Changing?
Top 30 Voices in Healthcare Security: How Is the Industry Changing?
KEYWORDS healthcare security / hospital security / security industry / security leadership
How is healthcare industry security changing? The evolving demographics of the average emergency room population, in addition to an increased focus on workplace violence, are impacting the security department’s role within a hospital or healthcare system.
These 30 “most popular voices in healthcare security” are moving the industry forward with both online and offline contributions to the national healthcare security conversation. So what do these leaders have to say about the state of healthcare security today?
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Says David LaRose, MS, CHPA, CPP, 2015 IAHSS President and Director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Lakeland Regional Medical Center: “I believe healthcare is a unique melting-pot community of its own. Although many of the programs mentioned above can be and are commonly used in healthcare security and safety to great success…there are immense differences present every day. Consider how many occupations on a daily basis deal with every aspect of humanity encompassing every social and economic range, every cultural diversity spectrum…and to raise the intensity, throw in every human emotion at any given moment of the aggression cycle…and now I believe you have healthcare! What a remarkable, challenging and yet rewarding nub of its own.”
According to Lisa Pryse Terry, CHPA, CPP, Director of Hospital Police and Transportation for UNC Healthcare: “In my years of experience in law enforcement and healthcare security, I have seen extraordinary growth and witnessed unfathomable changes within healthcare and the role played by security. I have seen the job of healthcare security professionals evolve from guards in the shadows to highly valued members of the healthcare team. Security guards were once considered nice to have, and their role extended to handing out visitor passes and relieving switchboard operators. But today’s healthcare security professionals are not only highly respected, they have also become a vital and necessary member of the clinical team. Competency levels, advanced training, educational degrees, professionalism, certifications, and healthcare-specific experience are shining a new light on the profession. Healthcare security professionals manage with data and metrics, evaluate and remediate based on historical events, utilize valuable information collected through comprehensive threat assessments, collaborate with regulatory agencies, and refine proactive violence prevention plans to contribute to a safe, secure environment for people to work and for patients to heal.
“The hospitals of tomorrow face tremendous challenges. And healthcare security professionals will work right alongside them as we create a new patient experience together: One that is built on trust, compassion, collaboration, and a better way to heal. The increased pressure on hospitals to reduce operational costs and improve patient outcomes is supported by the healthcare security professional. Security officers can positively impact patient experience by assuming an enhanced role and collaborating with the clinical team. Maintaining a calm waiting room when wait times are longer is one highly valued role of security. De-escalation, early intervention, crisis intervention, and other techniques enable officers to positively reduce interruptions and challenges for the clinical and administrative teams.”
LaRose adds: “Healthcare security will need to work smarter, more efficient and more productive with limited staffing and budgetary resources. A solid integration of appropriate technology with competent and skilled security officer staff will be the key to success. Security directors need to make sure they are aligned with the healthcare-system mission, corporate strategies and objectives. The security department must continually come to the table not only as the subject matter expert, but as a key stakeholder for system-wide safety and security success.”
In addition, hospital budgets are facing more cuts, especially as a result of the recession and the Affordable Care Act. While security departments might be downsized or cut due to budgetary reasons, it’s imperative that security leadership do everything possible to demonstrate their department’s value to the C-Suite to avoid being categorized as a mere cost-center instead of a business partner.
According to John White, CPP, CHPA, the President, CEO and independent security consultant for Protection Management, LLC, “We also saw in some cases where security departments were cut because their value was not well documented throughout the organization. What I am referring to is the fact that security management was not tracking their progress and proving their value to the organization.
“In one case I had a medical center Chief Operating Officer (COO) tell me that he had no idea why he was spending over a million dollars each year on security because they had no security issues to speak of. The fact of the matter was that there were plenty of security issues but security management was managing them exceptionally well, but they were not keeping the administration informed of that fact. Therefore, the administrators did not realize the true value in the existing security program.
“It is all about Return on Investment (ROI), and if a healthcare security manager is not tracking their security incidents and keeping administrators informed in some manner, the C-Suite may believe that there are opportunities to reduce the security budget,” White adds. “From my perspective I would say that in order for security to compete internally for budget dollars into the future they must insure that their program has a firm understanding of ROI, and is able to show how their department is properly managing risks and vulnerabilities and bringing value to the organization. Just to say that your hospital needs security is not enough, you need to prove the value of your program to the organization’s long term goals.”
According to Bryan Warren, MBA, CHPA, Director of Corporate Security for Carolinas Health System, “(Workplace violence) issues at hospitals will continue to remain constant until healthcare administrators, regulatory agencies and those that provide accreditation to healthcare facilities begin to take healthcare security seriously and recognize it as a legitimate profession with its own unique issues and separate it from the generic ‘ancillary services / non-clinical’ paradigm that it has been relegated to. Healthcare security does not typically generate revenue, but a solid proactive security program can provide enormous tangible and intangible value to the healthcare organization if given the proper support.
“Continued increases in the long term boarding of behavioral health patients in Emergency Departments, ever growing issues with criminal activities taking place on hospital property such as active shooter events and the increasing marginalization of security as short sighted attempts at cost savings are all issues that we will continue to face as an industry and consequences of which our patients will be forced to endure. Making broad decisions made without the required subject matter expertise to accurately predict their probable outcomes is simply poor management, regardless of the profession.”
Evolve!, sponsored by Guardian8, built the list based on extensive research from online and offline popularity of the individuals on the list, including Web presences, articles authored, LinkedIn discussion participations, input from a hospital security survey and more. For more influencers to follow, please check out the Guardian8 blog with the 50 most popular voices in healthcare security.
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Genre: Platform Developer: Sega of Japan Publisher: Sega of Japan Players: 1 Released: 1991 (download)
16t may be quite possibly one of the most obscure games available for the Japanese Mega Drive as a whole. It was released on Sega’s Toshokan modem service as a download-only game. It was later released the Sega CD Game Can series of compilations featuring many of Sega’s downloadable titles.
In 16t, you take the role of a programmer who enters his bugged program to kill off all of the baddies by throwing 16-ton weights on them hence the game’s namesake. The game is really too overly simple to really recommend though. Even as a download-only game, it’s still really too thin to enjoy for very long. If you’re a fan of games such as Flicky, Teddy Boy or Ghost House you may find something to like here as it plays really similar to those games. You run through endlessly scrolling stages trying to squash a set number of enemies in order to advance to the next stage. There is a small grid at the top of the screen that tells you where the enemies will spawn at and where they are on the screen, giving you a chance to avoid being squashed by them when they fall. There are three enemy types: a mummy who flies, a zombie like guy who ducks under your thrown weights and some other type of undecipherable enemy that jumps over your weights. The same three enemies keep repeating for every stage taking much of the variety of the game away.
Your character can simple jump around and throw weights. If you’re moving your throw weights further and harder. Weights can also bounce off already thrown ones to kill enemies or you if you’re not careful, and they slowly disintegrate over time. Also, you can only throw a certain amount of weights at a time.
The stages have a few different kinds of platforms, from ice to slide on, stones that break with thrown weights, and bounce platforms. The stages and backgrounds repeat pretty quickly and never show much detail to begin with. Thankfully, the game is not without some charm. The enemies explode in a mess of gore when killed, which is worth a laugh or two, and the single musical track is almost catchy though repetitive.
I played a handful of games to see how far I could get and made it all the way to round 14 before the big game over hit, and I had some fun while it lasted but don’t really want to play it again. 16t is a game that’s fun to play for around fifteen to twenty minutes but is far too shallow to have been released on the Genesis and it’s a game that would’ve felt way more at home on a system like the ColecoVision or another system from that time so as it stands it’s not really worth tracking down in any incarnation.
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome infertility influences negatively because women with PCOS do not ovulate, or release an egg, every month because of the over-production of estrogen by the ovaries. Since ovulation does not happen often, the Menstrual cycle turn out to be unbalanced and augmented phases of hormones like testosterone can interrupt the superiority of egg, prevent ovulation, root to insulin fight, and upsurge the risk ailments such as gestational diabetes.
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PCOS Women who has infrequent ovulation in spite of lifestyle disparities essentially require PCOS infertility treatment to support them out a release of an egg from the ovary. Distinctive preliminary polycystic ovarian syndrome infertility treatment for women with PCOS who do not ovulate and are arduous to get pregnant includes supervision of some fertility medicines.
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Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2021) - Today the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition announced the addition of five new members to its board of directors in 2021:
Cathy Cruzan, president, Funds For Learning
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The 2020 SHLB board of directors appointed Cruzan, Goff, Klupenger, and Siefer, while SHLB members elected Sutherland. The incoming directors began three-year terms effective January 1, 2021. In addition, the board appointed Microsoft’s Paula Boyd, former Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Rachelle Chong, the State E-rate Coordinators Alliance’s Debra Kriete, and Broadband Catalysts’ Jane Patterson to continue their exceptional service for another three years.
“The SHLB Coalition has always taken pride in the diversity of our membership, and we strive to ensure that our board of directors reflects that diversity,” said John Windhausen Jr., executive director of the SHLB Coalition. “We are delighted to welcome Cruzan, Goff, Klupenger, Siefer, and Sutherland to the board, each of whom brings a unique perspective and skillset. With the growth in SHLB’s membership and the expansion of our board of directors, I’m confident that the SHLB Coalition’s effectiveness will grow even stronger in 2021.”
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India will be the first country in the world to receive the €80 Android One phone that will supposedly offer reasonably high-end specs for a cheap price.
Led by Indian national Sundar Piachi who is Android’s leading developer, the production details of the phone have put a heavy emphasis on making it as cheap as possible to produce as competitors, such as the US$33 Mozilla smartphone, enters the market.
Targeted firmly at developing nations where higher-end phones are out of reach for the average person, much of the phone’s hardware has been outsourced to Indian manufacturers who have the option to select components from a list compiled by Google to suit their budget.
According to the BBC, the first phone confirmed for the market will be produced by Micromax who are currently India’s largest and most successful indigenous mobile phone manufacturer.
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Late summer and early fall is hurricane season in Jamaica and most of the Caribbean, but if you’re willing to take a chance, you’ll be rewarded with major discounts driven by the seasonal drop in tourism and the lagging economy. Play it smart and you won’t have to worry too much about the weather: These days, many resorts and vacation providers offer some kind of hurricane refund or rebooking guarantee.
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Prof. Naskar's research interests and expertise broadly lie in the field of manufacturing lightweight functional materials and structures (such as composites, functionally graded materials, metals, and alloys) at multiple length-scales involving both forward and inverse problems of engineering that warrants frequent excursions among the boundaries of applied mathematics, physics, probability theory and nanotechnology with an ideal balance between fundamental developments and industry-oriented applications. Prof. Naskar's research findings and developments are regularly published in reputed journals and conferences.
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The Maine Arts Commission is pleased to announce traditional snowshoe maker, Brian Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, is one of the 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship award winners.
Continuing a Native American tradition that began centuries ago, Brian has been making one-of-a-kind snowshoes for more than 40 years. His father, Edmond Theriault, taught him how to both make and repair snowshoes when Brian was a young man. Known for their strength, durability, and flexibility, Theriault snowshoes are handcrafted using local brown ash and cattle hides.
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Maine Arts Commission Fellowships reward artistic excellence, help advance the careers of Maine artists and promote public awareness of the creative sector in the State. The program, which offers awards of $5,000, was updated in 2014 to offer two new discipline categories, bringing the number of fellowships to seven—Contemporary Craft, Functional Craft, Literary, Media, Performing, Traditional, and Visual Arts.
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The Mission Critical roast is a dark roast combination of two organic Sumatra blends containing Mandheling and Ketiara variety. It’s flavor profile contains a rich and chocolately tasting note with a mahogany, cocoa bitter, and robust finish.
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Security for banks can be a real challenge when faced with a multitude of threats including: fraud, theft and physical attacks. One bank which is setting new standards in the Middle East, when it comes to the application of surveillance technology to keep its infrastructure, staff and customers safe and secure, is National Bank of Kuwait (NBK). This is thanks to the roll out of an advanced NetVu Connected CCTV solution from Dedicated Micros part of AD Group which is focused on the centralised monitoring of all of its branches and critical ATM infrastructure.Awarded the Best Bank in the Middle East 2010 accolade by EuroMoney, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), which was incorporated in 1952 as the first indigenous bank in the entire Gulf region, remains the preeminent banking institution in Kuwait as well as being an established banking franchise across the Middle East and supporting a large branch network, spanning 17 countries, including many of the world's financial and business centres.Dedicated Micros connection with National Bank of Kuwait stretches back over four years. The catalyst for the surveillance specialist being brought on board for this ambitious ATM protection project was the bank's dissatisfaction with the CCTV solutions it tested from other providers. A spokesperson for the Engineering Services Division, NBK, takes up the story: "We looked at and tested several brands of DVRs as potential answers to our pressing ATM surveillance needs before deciding to go ultimately with Dedicated Micros. The solutions that fell by the wayside were simply too cumbersome and complicated in terms of all the extra equipment (and software licenses) that would have been required to activate the functionality we wanted. This was in stark contrast to Dedicated Micros which was able to meet our needs based around an effective hardware-based package." Said Salim Idris, General Manager (Middle East), Dedicated Micros: "When contacted by NBK we were delighted to assist Kuwait's foremost banking establishment, not only were we able to demonstrate that we had the solutions available, such as the DV-IP ATM, that could address their specific requirements head-on, without lots of add-ons, but could also point to an unparallelled track record. To put our extensive experience, protecting the banking sector, into some sort of context, across the Gulf Cooperation Council area alone, we can now count 10 major banks - in Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia - as customers. Significantly, as our CCTV systems are embedded, rather than PC based, they are recognised for their stability - essential in the banking environment - whereas PC dependent solutions have a reputation for crashing without warning."ATM FocusLooking in more detail at the systems from Dedicated Micros which have been put in place at NBK, since 2006, to support the effective monitoring of vital local and overseas ATM related infrastructure. These comprise 28 individual DV-IP ATM units which are used primarily to protect standalone Automated Teller Machines, with numbers expected to rise as part of the ongoing ATM project. There are also 145 NetVu Connected DS2 DVRs, with typically two systems connected at each National Bank of Kuwait branch plus an associated RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) unit giving additional storage capacity to the existing internal hard disk of the DVR.This set-up offers redundancy and resilience to ensure any recorded video images are securely stored. In the case of the larger Dubai branch this combination was doubled up and four (DS2s and RAIDs) were installed at NBK's extensive Bahrain site. To help with the management of the geographically dispersed NetVu Connected CCTV infrastructure, at an early stage, Dedicated Micros was called upon to assist NBK in the setting-up of centralised monitoring from a control room. This was achieved by deploying NetVu Observer video management software to allow operators to seamlessly view distributed images from any NetVu Connected product. DV-IP ATM units from Dedicated Micros have proved useful in making transactions more secure and safe The robust DV-IP ATM units specified for the National Bank of Kuwait project are designed to work, primarily, within the confines of an Automated Teller Machine. Certainly the security challenges with regards to banking are most keenly felt when it comes to the safe operation of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) whose accessibility makes them a convenient target for card skimming, shoulder surfing, and even physical theft from customers. It is CCTV systems, specifically remotely accessible DVRs, that are at the very heart of efforts to deal with these types of threat.Combining Video and Transaction DataThe Dedicated DV-IP ATM, based on NetVu Connected technology which ensures its interoperability with other DM and AD Group systems, is able to process transaction data which is then recorded with video footage. Post event analysis, via a powerful text search engine, provides video imagery of the ATM user plus the associated transaction information. For NBK this allows security staff to deal with any fraudulent activity and ensures that customer services representatives are well placed to quickly resolve any genuine customer withdrawal disputes.Marrying up the DS2 DVRs with RAID units at every NBK branch, also facilitated the effective monitoring of each location including the in-branch ATMs not covered by the DV-IP ATMs. With, in this case, the cameras in the ATMs connected to the DVRs which had been specifically programmed to have the capability to associate transaction data with the appropriate video footage.The ability of both the DV-IP ATM systems and DS2 DVRs, deployed for the NBK project, to apply Dedicated Micros' TransCoding technology to record evidential quality MJPEG locally and simultaneously support low bit rate data streaming in MPEG-4 compression format for remote viewing has proved to be advantageous in keeping bandwidth demands on NBK's network to an absolute minimum. Of course local recording (including the additional capacity provided by the RAID units) has the added benefit that, even in the event of a network failure, recording is not interrupted or vital evidence lost. Adding-Up the Benefits NetVu connected solution from Dedicated Micros has enabled National Bank of Kuwait to monitor all the branches Reflecting on the success of the project to date, a spokesperson for the Engineering Services Division, NBK, commented: "The NetVu Connected solution from Dedicated Micros we have adopted has given us the opportunity, for the first time, to monitor all of our branches remotely 24/7 wherever they might be and to cover a large number of ATMs (181 at the latest count) through the ATM transactions interface. We have been very pleased with the performance of the NetVu Observer viewing software over the past four years - which we are in the process of upgrading to Pick-a-Point Icon - as it has made it extremely easy to retrieve footage and to playback recordings over the network. With numerous cases involving ATMs reported on a daily basis and, with the Dedicated Micros' solution in place, we have been able to provide recorded footage, in a timely manner, to offer proof of what has actually happened. In practice, we have found the speed that video can be delivered across the network to be extremely favourable, for management and archiving, when set against the limited bandwidth provided."The distributed architecture of the solution has also meant that even, when there has been a network issue, critical recording has been able to continue unabated. Testament to this is the fact that since the start of the project no footage has been lost in this way. A major benefit we have also seen, in terms of cost of ownership, is the fact that from an Engineering Services' point of view the DVRs have been much easier to maintain, compared to what was in place before, and we have been very impressed with the stability of the DVRs in operation with zero reported failures. Alongside this the web-based configuration for the Dedicated Micros' systems has proved to be very intuitive."Future Plans Looking ahead, Dedicated Micros is working closely with NBK to expand the capabilities of the surveillance infrastructure. One key development soon to go 'live' is the implementation of the Pick-a-Point Icon multi-site video management solution in the bank's main control room to further enhance the remote monitoring of all of the bank's geographically dispersed locations. The uplift in functionality provided by Pick-a-Point Icon's more extensive features, compared to NetVu Observer, should greatly enhance the ability of the bank's security staff to manage and control their CCTV infrastructure. Dedicated Micros has formed many of the building blocks for the success of today's CCTV industry From the start Pick-A-Point Icon has been designed to be intuitive for operators, simplifying and speeding up image retrieval. In future, operators in the main NBK control room will be able to select cameras using Pick-A-Point Icon's enhanced GUI (Graphical User Interface) via multiple map screens and highly detailed map images, allowing them to pick a camera on-screen without having to know which digital video recorder the camera is linked to. Pick-A-Point Icon is based around a robust standalone hardware based workstation, which eliminates the reliability issues associated with PC based systems - a key consideration in the banking sector.Closed IPTV InvestmentCommented Salim Idris, General Manager (Middle East), Dedicated Micros: "As the surveillance solution moves ahead, we are delighted that National Bank of Kuwait has confirmed that it will also act as a trailblazer for the deployment of our award winning Closed IPTV 'IP Video' solution. This follows on from the successful testing of the Closed IPTV version of the SD Advanced hybrid NVR/DVR, which will now be rolled out gradually across all of the bank's extensive branch network, making NBK one of the first customers in the Middle East region for this new solution."Essentially, adopting Closed IPTV systems such as the SD Advanced - in conjunction with a Layer 3 Enhanced CCTV Switch which provides greater security for less configuration effort than a conventional managed switch - makes deploying an IP Video, CCTV system safe, secure and simple. Combining patent-pending innovation with zeroconf networking technology, Closed IPTV automatically allocates IP addresses to IP cameras by physical port. In this way the system is completely deterministic, creating firewalls and monitoring IP connections by individual network ports so they cannot be hacked or intercepted. This ground breaking solution provides a very simple and secure answer to IP Video, where no prior knowledge of IP networking is required. National Bank of Kuwait is going to adopt Dedicated Micros' HyperSense APNR cameras for its car park management A further enhancement, in the pipeline for NBK, is the adoption of Dedicated Micros' HyperSense ANPR cameras for its car park management, in this case combining an Overview and ANPR camera, with alerts triggered by car park barriers to monitor vehicles entering and leaving a location. The sophisticated HyperSense technology built in to the cameras removes ambient light from the scene leaving only the objects that strongly reflect the IR light emitted by the integrated invisible IR LED flash to be displayed. The ability to eliminate glare from vehicle headlights delivers a more distinct image for evidential purposes and the black and white ANPR camera ensures that details of the numberplate can be seen, whilst the 'overview' camera allows this to be tied-up with other details such as the colour of the vehicle.Banking on SecurityUltimately, National Bank of Kuwait, through continuing investment in the latest surveillance infrastructure from Dedicated Micros, has demonstrated a real commitment to not only be a leader in the banking services it provides but also, crucially, to back this up with the best possible levels of security for customers, staff, and physical assets such as the branch network and ATMs making NBK ideally placed to deal expeditiously with any form of criminal attack.
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Yacht being towed to safety after RNLI called to casualty off Old Head
October 11th, 2016 2:30 PM
The RNLI crew with the yacht in tow, heading inshore at lunchtime today.
A YACHT that was en route from England to West Cork was the subject of an RNLI rescue off the Old Head this lunchtime.
The Courtmacsherry RNLI All Weather Lifeboat was called out at 12.30pm this afternoon to go to the immediate aid of a 40-ft Sailing Sloop that was in trouble eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale in West Cork.
The Courtmacsherry Lifeboat, under coxswain Sean O'Farrell and a crew of six, launched immediately in response to the Mayday alert from the Coast Guard and reached the casualty at 1.10 pm.
The casualty, with two persons on board, had lost power in deteriorating conditions at sea and one of the crew on board the yacht was reported unwell also.
The lifeboat has now succeeded in transferring its tow rope in difficult conditions to the casualty, which was on passage from England to West Cork.
The lifeboat has now taken the stricken vessel in tow and is heading at low speed to Kinsale.
Conditions at sea this afternoon were described by the RNLI as 'very poor with strong winds force 7/8 with very heavy swells'. Winds in the area are blowing 35 knots and increasing.
The estimated time of arrival in Kinsale is approx 2.45pm.
The crew on board today's callout are coxswain Sean O'Farrell and volunteer crew members Tadgh McCarthy (mechanic), Mark Gannon, Ciaran Hurley, Ken Cashman, Mark John Gannon and Dave Philips.
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Rossignol Experience 74 (2014)
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Waist Width: 110
Lengths: 136, 146, 156, 166, 176
The Experience 74 is the least-expensive Experience model, slightly narrower than the Experience 76 but equally suited to intermediate skiers and slow cruising on groomers. It’s sold only as a system, with the 10-DIN Xelium 100 binding. It’s part of Rossignol’s All Mountain collection, designed for maximum versatility in all the terrain and snow types that resort skiers encounter. Waist widths vary widely in the series, from 98 mm in the flagship model down to 74 mm, with target abilities decreasing with size (fatter models for experts, narrower ones for intermediates). All feature Rossi’s Auto Turn Rocker – early-rise tip and tail for shock absorption and soft-snow float, camber under foot for hard-snow carvability. Extended Sidecut moves the widest part of the ski beyond the fore and aft contact points: The ski won’t feel hooky or unmanageable at low speeds and edge angles, but when pushed to higher speeds and edge angles the sidecut engages more edge for maximum stability. All are wood-core, laminate constructions with reinforcing laminates of different weights and densities, including metal (Experience 98), basalt (88 and 83), carbon fiber (78 and 74) and aramide fiber (76). All have vertical sidewalls (with the exception of the Experience 76 and 74) for maximum transmission of energy to the edge. Most also feature Rossi’s distinctive Cascade Tip design: like a leaf spring in a car, the ski gets thinner, lighter and more flexible near the tip, reducing swing-weight and promoting easy turn initiation.
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'Nothing like a real hug.' Minnesota mom, son reunited after months apart in quarantine
We've all done something to pass the time during the tedious months of COVID-19. Perhaps you perfected that sourdough recipe. Or reacquainted yourself with the piano. Or finally took up that home project you've been putting off for years.
Colin Scharf produced an album of Christmas music.
The 35-year-old Mankato musician has always loved holiday music. When he was growing up in upstate New York, his favorite was Bruce Springsteen's rendition of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town." Christmas music signified a world that's magical and beautiful and wonderful.
However, Scharf couldn't stand to hear Christmas music out of season. Christmas music in July? That just made him sad, a reminder of how brief the window is for that magical/beautiful/wonderful season.
A year ago, Robb Murray, then a writer for the Mankato Free Press, came to Scharf with an idea: to produce a Christmas album by local artists, distributed by the Free Press and benefiting Connections homeless shelter in Mankato.
Scharf is connected in the local music community. He's an adjunct English instructor at Minnesota State University, Mankato who also works at Scheitel's Music. Scharf and his wife, Laura Schultz, have a band, Good Night Gold Dust, a high-energy singer-songwriter team with electronica mixed in.
It was in February, around when the pandemic was first growing, when Scharf started buying studio gear and figuring out how to produce his first full-length record. By May, he'd started making the album. It would be 13 Christmas songs — some standards, some originals — recorded by 13 different local artists and bands. Among them: Bee Balm Fields, the Mukamuri Sisters, Generation Gap — a collaboration between Rod Scheitel, the owner of Scheitel's Music, and his 22-year-old grandson, Carter Quast — and Minnesota State's Chamber Singers.
They originally planned a big album release event. When the coronavirus made that impossible, they thought about pushing it back a year.
"But we decided it was even more needed now, because of the pandemic, than it was before," Murray said. "Something to make people happy."
Scharf spent the summer recording and tracking and thinking about Christmas songs. It became a calming feeling to wake up in mid-August with John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in his head. The last song was "O Holy Night," his wife's ethereal voice floating over soothing electronica. That's Murray's favorite Christmas song. After the album was complete, Scharf invited Murray for a listen. By the end, Murray was hugging Scharf's wife.
"I catch his face and he's just bleary-eyed and sobbing," Scharf said. "That's when I knew we did something right."
The Free Press pressed 250 compact discs of "River City Holiday: A Yuletide Collection of Mankato Music." The discs have sold briskly, and the album is now available digitally on bandcamp. All proceeds — a minimum $7 donation gets you the digital album — go to the homeless shelter.
"I'm getting people left and right asking me, 'Where can I get this?' " Scharf said.
2020 has been tough for everyone. Musicians have been hit especially hard, with live music going mostly dark. One of Scharf's greatest fears is not being able to play music. When past bands have broken up, or when he moved to Mankato and didn't have musical partners, he was inconsolable.
"So enter quarantine: venues closing down, shows getting canceled," Scharf said. "Being able to make this album — well, that's exactly what's made this year be OK for me."
Reid Forgrave covers Minnesota and the Upper Midwest for the Star Tribune. He started at the paper in September 2019, returning to his newspaper storytelling roots after eight years as a national sportswriter for FOXSports.com and CBSSports.com.
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Bill Proposes Splitting NY Into 3 Regions
The Republican legislation is designed to lessen New York City’s control over the rest of the state. Do you think that is a good idea?
Republicans in the Albany want to break up New York into three separate regions. (Shutterstock)
NEW YORK — There have been proposals to break up New York into separate states, but how does one state with three separate regions and legislative bodies sound?
Assemblyman David DiPietro, a Republican who represents a portion of Wyoming County which is wedged between Buffalo and Rochester, has put a bill forward that would create three distinct regions that would have their own governors and legislators, WHAM reports.
The Assembly’s version of the bill, as well as the Senate’s, is sponsored and co-sponsored only by Republicans.
DiPietro would turn the five boroughs of New York City into the New York Region; Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester would become the Montauk Region and the remaining 53 counties would be turned into the New Amsterdam Region, according to A5498, which is the Assembly bill.
Each region would have its own senate and assembly and those legislators would also serve in the state Senate and Assembly.
The bill would also provide for a state sales tax, divide various departments and agencies and provide for separate court and prison systems.
Capitals for the regions would be assigned to Albany County for the New Amsterdam Region, Richmond County — Staten Island — for the New York Region and Westchester County for the Montauk Region.
DiPietro said the bill is designed to wrestle control of the state away from New York City and is a reaction to, what he sees as, the policies passed by downstate Democrats at the expense of other parts of the state, Fox News reported.
Both the Assembly and the Senate versions are in committee and are unlikely to be passed by what are currently Democratic-held chambers.
Local assemblyman touts plan to split New York into 3 regions
Assemblyman DiPietro introduced a bill in March that would split the state. He says the bill would be beneficial financially for counties outside New York City.
October 3, 2019 | WGRZ-TV
BUFFALO, N.Y. — We’ve heard this idea before, but another local lawmaker is getting behind it: splitting New York State into three regions.
It’s an idea Assemblyman Dave DiPietro says is long overdue.
“We have different morals, different values, different lifestyles around the state, and one box does not fit everyone,” DiPietro said.
DiPietro introduced a bill back in March that would split the state. He says the bill would be beneficial financially for counties outside New York City.
And says he’s recently gotten a lot of support both from his colleagues in the State Assembly and from people here in Western New York
“It’s gone viral. I get calls. I get hundred and hundreds of emails,” DiPietro said.
Here’s how it would work.
The bill would split New York State into three regions:
The New York Region, including The Bronx, Kings and Queens and Richmond
The Montauk region, made up of Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester counties
And the New Amsterdam Region, which would be everything north of Westchester County.
Under the plan, Congressman and Senators would remain the same. But each region would have its own governor and legislative body, which would meet during the first three months of the year.
Different variations of this idea have come up in the past, but so far nothing has come to a vote.
A few years ago, Assemblyman Stephen Hawley proposed splitting the state into two parts.
But he also proposed letting the public vote on the idea before taking any legislative action.
DiPietro was told under his new plan the whole region would turn red. Did he think this is a partisan issue?
“No. The fact is you have an immense region with the concentration of 50 square miles controlling the entire state,” he said.
2 On Your Side reached out to the local assembly members who are on the committee considering DiPietro’s bill. We haven’t heard back yet on what kind of action they plan to take on the legislation.
ORIGINAL STORY: https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/politics/local-assemblyman-backs-plan-to-split-new-york-into-3-states/71-c4045377-46b0-47a6-95f6-f6053f73333b
Movements to Split New York State into 3 Regions Gain Steam
October 03, 2019 | WHEC-TV
ROCHESTER N.Y. (WHEC) – Could New York state really be split into three parts? Legislation to make the split happen is reportedly gaining some support.
According to Hudson Valley 360, members of the Divide New York State Caucus are going county to county to talk about the bill.
If passed, the state would break off into three self-governing areas:
New York – Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond counties
Montauk – Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester counties
New Amsterdam – every county north of Westchester County
The bill was first introduced by Republican Assemblyman David DiPietro in April. He started a website dedicated to the movement, complete with a petition.
Right now, the goal is to gain enough support in local towns to force lawmakers to co-sponsor the bill through a clause in New York’s Municipal Home Rule Law.
As of now, there has not been any senate committee or floor votes on the bill.
ORIGINAL STORY: https://www.whec.com/news/movements-to-split-new-york-state-into-3-regions-gain-steam/5513826/?fbclid=IwAR0f3bkP2zg5IkTkfUK7VCkQKeEzsqohuQG-RWXy8smQnI5QN0xkHrB8PDE#.XZX7uxnnJq4.facebook
You Can Now Sign a Petition to Split New York Three Ways
WKBW-TV, APRIL 29, 2019
(WKBW) — You can now sign a petition to split the state of New York into three autonomous regions.
State Assemblymember David DiPietro (R,C,I-East Aurora) created the petition .
The petition says that a lot of taxes from upstate New York are being invested into New York City. “New York City has taxed us out of our homes and our businesses. Our values are ignored and our resources are shipped downstate where we never see the benefits.”
Split New York 3 Ways? Assemblyman’s Petition Has New Approach to Carving Up NY
BY BEN AXELSON (NYUP.COM) APRIL 29, 2019
A state Assemblyman from Western New York is revisiting the often-repeated idea of dividing up New York to better reflect the differences between the New York City area and the broad Upstate New York region. But this time, the proposition makes a case for a third region.
Assemblyman David DiPietro, a Republican from East Aurora, has created a petition at SplitTheState.com to garner support for his idea to turn New York into three autonomous regions, while still keeping it one state. The regions would be:
New York Lawmaker Proposes Chopping State Into 3 Self-governing Regions
The Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor with the New York City skyline in the background. KATHY WILLENS AP
BY JARED GILMOUR (MIAMI HERALD) APRIL 07, 2019
A state lawmaker from upstate New York has proposed splitting the state into three self-governing regions, while still remaining one state.
Republican Assemblyman David DiPietro of East Aurora introduced the bill last month to “finally unshackle the regions of New York that are subjected to decisions and rule from New York City,” according to a news release. The proposal would amend the state’s constitution to set up one autonomous region for New York City’s five boroughs, a second for the rest of Long Island and suburban Rockland and Westchester counties, and then a third region for all of upstate New York.
“It’s time to let people go their own way,” DiPietro said in a statement. “Upstate New Yorkers and Long Islanders have long been subjected to the whim of New York City politicians who don’t understand our way of life.”
DiPietro Joins Call For American Legion Funding In State Budget
This week, Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C,I-East Aurora) joined members of the Assembly Minority Conference in signing a letter to the governor and legislative leaders requesting $150,000 be allocated to the American Legion Boys State program in the state budget for the program’s 100th Anniversary. American Legion Boys State is a week-long program that offers high school seniors an opportunity to gain leadership training and first-class citizenship skills through government operations, exercises, physical fitness, teamwork and other activities. The program is led by American Legion counselors and active-duty marines. The American Legion has received $150,000 each of the past five years.
“The message from the Assembly Majority to everyone north of Westchester is clear, get out. Refusing to make the property tax cap permanent hurts practically everyone, burdening residents with $5.7 billion in new taxes cripples our ability to raise a family or start a business, and wanting to cut funding to local farmers wounds one of the most vital parts of upstate’s economy. The message is clear, you’re not wanted in this state if you’re not a connected member of their party, you don’t matter and your money is theirs to play with as they see fit down in New York City.”
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DiPietro Honors Teacher of the Month
Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C,I-East Aurora) recently gave out the first award honoring local educators. Lisa Barron of Parkdale Elementary School in East Aurora was awarded the first certificate for her dedication to her student’s education.
“Lisa is one of the best teachers I’ve had the honor of meeting, and to have her teaching in my hometown of East Aurora is a great treasure to the community,” DiPietro said. “We trust our teachers to bring out the best in our students and Lisa is the textbook example of what a teacher should be. She’s determined, caring, and passionate about each one of her charges and I am very proud to honor her hard work. Thank you so much for what you do!”
Let People Go Their Own Way: Split the State
Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C,I-East Aurora) has introduced legislation that would create a constitutional amendment to split New York State into three separate autonomous regions. The three regions are New York, which includes Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond counties, Montauk, which includes Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester counties, and New Amsterdam, which would include every county north of Westchester.
The goal of the bill is to finally unshackle the regions of New York that are subjected to decisions and rule from New York City with a different value structure and way of life. Each region would elect its own governor, Legislature and judicial wing and be responsible for its own management. This would allow local rule to return to the state which has been so ideologically and politically dominated by the city for decades.
“It’s time to let people go their own way,” DiPietro said. “Upstate New Yorkers and Long Islanders have long been subjected to the whim of New York City politicians who don’t understand our way of life, our value, and simply don’t care about us. This bill would once again let the people of New York decide their fate. We should not be burdened with laws and regulations that have no thought to our economic situation or how we live our lives. Main Street in East Aurora is a totally different world than the center of Manhattan, and our people have the right to make their own decisions. The time is past due, we deserve to govern ourselves as is our God-given right. Split the state, the people deserve and demand it.”
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Extreme Sports: A Basic Guide
Adrenaline rush seekers, people who love living on the edge and even your everyday regular 9 to 5 workers these are constantly seeking new ways to seek a crazy time. Push yourself and other people to conquer their biggest fears by defying all logic and sense of reasoning. Go ahead, live - take the plunge!
Adventure sports or Extreme sports are recreational sports that are known to involve extremely high levels of risk. These sports have been known to involve, high levels of speed, height, physical exertion, and specialized tools and techniques.
The definition of an extreme sport isn't exact and the birthplace of the term is misty, yet it picked up popularity during the 1990s when it was grabbed by showcasing organizations to promote the X Games. Nevertheless, as of late, the ordinarily used definition from research is "an aggressive (self-evaluative) action within which the member is exposed to normal or uncommon physical and mental difficulties, for example, speed, height, depth or natural forces and where quick and exact subjective perceptual handling will be required for a successful result"
While utilization of the expression "Extreme Sports" has spread everywhere to depict a large number of various exercises, precisely which sports are considered 'outrageous' is debatable. In a customary sporting occasion, competitors contend with one another under controlled conditions. While it is conceivable to make a controlled sporting event, for example, X Games, there are environmental factors that can't be held consistent for all competitors. examples include changing snow conditions for snowboarders, rock and ice quality for climbers, and wave height and shape for surfers.
The mortality rate of these sports has known to be ranging from near fatal to fatal incidences. But a part of the thrill is to be able to conquer your fear of death by mastering the techniques required to get through a race or an obstacle.
These are some of the most popular extreme sports across the globe.
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A superbly converted Windmill suitable for modern living with sea views
The Old Mill in Corton was originally built in 1837 and stands 64ft high with a boat-shaped cap & two sets of French burr stones. In 1906/7 The Old Mill ceased working during the winter and in 1909 the sails were removed.
In 1921 the Mill was sold by the Colman family to Mr & Mrs Norton for £450 In 1923 the cap was removed, a new staircase installed & the floors were modified. The tower was then used as a residence & a cobbler's shop. During WWII it was an observation post & following the war, the property was acquired by Yarmouth Stores as a sheet metal works.
In 1993 the property was bought & restored as a residence. It is grade II listed.
There are currently three bedrooms and two bathrooms (1 en-suite) but the main tower could be used for further bedrooms. There are attractive areas of exposed brickwork especially in the tower which provides generous living space and a fireplace in the sitting room.
The Old Mill would be ideal as a holiday let investment.
The Old Mill is surrounded by a charming secluded garden mainly laid to lawn and interspersed with flower beds and shrub borders.
There is a garden room which has plumbing and electrics and could be used as an annexe if required.
The Old Mill sits centrally in the village of Corton which has superb beaches nearby and a wide variety of leisure pursuits. There are a number of shops nearby both locally and in Lowestoft. The Somerleyton Estate is to the west and has a fine pub and a number of events throughout the year. The Norfolk Broads national park is nearby and provides excellent boating, walking and bird watching opportunities.
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SuCoHS Newsletter No 2: Interview
Find out how the people involved in SuCoHS have been working to achieve the objectives of the project!
Interview with Christian Brauner, leader of the group "Structural Mechanics" at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
Christian Brauner, FHNW
Q1: FHNW is the leader of the WP2 “New Materials and Manufacturing Processes”. Can you briefly describe your involvement in SuCoHS?
A1: The institute of Polymer Engineering has a long track record in new formulation of resins for high temperature applications as well as for impact modification of the otherwise quite fragile thermosets based on epoxy or cyanate ester resins. In the SuCoHS project both concepts needed to be combined, means the requirement for the matrix is to have a high thermal stability and at the same time to provide significant better impact properties than the neat resin. Besides these requirements, the matrix material needs to be processible for the production of prepregs by the company North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT).
Q2: Can you explain the steps of the material developments within the project?
A2: After the selection of the base resin different approaches were taken to improve the impact properties, however soon it was obvious that only the concept to add a suitable thermoplastic material into the base resin under formation of a distinct target morphology was promising enough. As many factors are influencing the morphology of thermoset-thermoplast-blends, a thorough analysis of the reaction partners, the processing temperature and mixing was performed. By the variation of these parameters a better understanding of the complex system was reached.
Q3: What is the method used to perform the down-selection of materials? What conclusions can be drawn from the down-selection process?
A3: The choice on the base resin was quite limited as the requirements – mainly the thermal resistance properties - given from the project exclude most on the market freely available resin classes. As soon as the base resin was fixed, the testing with the thermoplastic additives was initiated and the morphological results decided on suitability of the reaction partner. As this process is very delicate, the selection was rather fast. The most important factor for a fast and successful down-selection is the availability of detailed technical specifications.
Q4: FHNW has also been involved in the development of higher resistant composites. What kind of solutions have the partners investigated so far?
A4: In SUCHS two promising material systems have been developed. In the first case applicable for high temperature application up to a maximum operation temperature of 300°C and in the second case a sustainable system for interior application which satisfies the FST requirements. By a holistic approach of material providers like Transfurans Chemicals, a prepreg provider for thin ply prepreg systems like NTPT and end users like Bombardier, Aernnova and Collins Aerospace solutions are under development which fits to the requirements & specifications to enable new cost efficient light weight solutions.
Interview with Javier Navas and Inigo Ortiz de Zarate, engineers at Aernnova Engineering, Spain.
Q1: Aernnova is one of the industrial end users in SuCoHS. Can you briefly describe your involvement in the project?
A1: Aernnova is a leading aerostructures company specialized in the design and manufacturing of aerostructures and components such as wings, empennages and fuselage sections. Our capabilities enable us to assume full responsibility of the programs over the Product Life Cycle: From conceptual and detail design, testing & certification to serial production and in service support. In relation with the Sucohs objetives, it must be highlighted AED contribution to the following commercial projects:
Bombardier Cseries (now Airbus A220) Tailcone: Development of thermal and fire protection structure for the APU named "Dog House" within the Tailcon carbon structure.
Sikorsky S92 Main Rotor Pylon: Selection of suitable carbon material depending on the thermal map defined in MRP areas. Definition of thermal protection shields in Engine Cowlings. Definition of fire extinguishing protection grids in the APU area of the MRP. Realization of real product 3D tests for FAA fire certification.
Sikorsky S-92 interiors: Definition of materials configuration for validation by flammability tests,fire proof and fire resistance. Realization of fire proof and fire resistance tests as well as emission of particles.
On the Sucohs project AED will play an industrial partner role, fixing the requirements for new material development, supplying knowledge into design of composite parts with new hybrid material and detailed modelling of structure (analysis methods, material modelling, allowables), will provide a subcomponent representative of a tailcone and finally, also will contribute in the creation of the test plan lower levels of the pyramid testing: large coupons and small subcomponent).
Q2: What is the industrial use case proposed by Aernnova to demonstrate the new technologies developed in SuCoHS?
A2: the industrial case proposed by Aernnova is the fuselage composite end section commonly called tailcone. The Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) key functional requirements are to provide electrical energy and compressed air, mainly to start main engines and it is tipically located within the tail cone of current aircrafts. The Tail Cone contains systems components that need to operate under thermal and potentially fire environments originated in the APU. These components are currently encapsulated by a titanium box –type structural arrangement to prevent the surrounding tail cone structure from fire hazards and high static thermal loads up to 180°C.
Q3: What are the main requirements/constraints for this use case and what kind of improvements do you plan to achieve?
A3: The AED proposed use case is a high temperature tail cone panel substructure with a double curved part. Main goal is to avoid the need of an extra insulating titanium box by introducing high temperature composite materials for the primary fuselage structure, in order to significantly reduce weight, manufacturing costs and operational costs.
The reference fuselage structure is defined by a stringer-frame design where skin and stringers are made of CFRP and frames of metal.
The Tail Cone is not a mechanically highly loaded structure. The temperature distribution within the Tail Cone when removing the titanium box has to be investigated and analyzed. Resulting from that, temperature gradients cause mechanical strains that concur with mechanical loads. The critical requirement is defined by the max. peak temperature that is required to be below Tg of 300°C. Different fire scenarios are also an important requirement for certification not only in terms of temperature and time exposition, but also the fumes and toxicity.
Regarding manufacturing limitations, autoclave curing is required to be below 210°C temperature. Postcuring is not desirable in order to reduce costs and parts production times.
The target objectives are the following:
15% weight savings
10% cost saving
15% maintenance saving
Q4: Aernnova has been investigating fire behaviour of the composite materials. Why is this aspect important?
A4: Airworthiness Certification Agencies identify the Fire events as critical for the safety and survivability of airplane occupants. Therefore, aircraft development projects have to ensure potential fire hazards are properly contained so as not to affect the flight safety. The traditional Means of compliance is through the certification tests of the designated fire zones. A few well-known guidelines for metallic structures are available for fire design criteria. However this is not valid for composites due to the huge variability and complexity of materials and laminates. Thus, fire design criteria many times lay on endless and costly try&error tests up to get the valid configuration of composite material, laminate and structural designs. And that is the reason why to gain knowledge on fire simulation tools is important to Aernnova. The main objective is to develop fire simulation capabilities to support the design against fire of structural details and certification tests and hence, gain design capabilities and reduce development costs.
Q5: What technology readiness level (TRL) is the pilot demonstrator supposed to reach at the end of the project? What are the next steps towards the application of the new technologies in industry?
Javier Navas and Íñigo Ortiz, Aernnova Engineering
The information, statements and opinions in the above interviews are personal views of the individuals involved in the SuCoHS project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SuCoHS consortium as a whole, nor of the European Commission. None of them shall be liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.
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The Hot Corner: Narrative surrounding Pats, Sox is nauseating
By Kalle Oakes, Sports Columnist
“Pink hat” is an overused term in Boston sports parlance. It’s essentially used to disparage any fan who goes through the full range of emotions about the region’s win-more-often-than-not teams more quickly than we do.
That being said, my goodness, September and October are painful months if you follow these people on social media. The Patriots’ dynasty is over. The Red Sox’ collapse is imminent. The Bruins are an embarrassment. And Gordon Hayward will never be the same.
Sigh. Logic tells us that 10 titles since the turn of the century should have diminished the self-loathing that is our birthright. If anything, however, it has intensified. Apparently the only thing stronger than the stigma of a bridesmaid culture is the entitlement of a winning one.
Does it make you wonder how the narrative would have read if Twitter existed when the Patriots and Red Sox were on the cusp of their most memorable win-or-else moments back in the double-ought decade?
A hypothetical sampling:
Sept, 23, 2001: “Oh my. Mo Lewis just killed Drew Bledsoe, and Damon Huard not even warming up. Told you we’d regret giving up on Michael Bishop! Belichick must go!”
Oct. 28, 2001: “Four picks for this Tom Brady clown. Pats will never, ever win a game in Denver. This team’s going nowhere but on the clock.”
Nov. 28, 2001: “Nice effort to keep the Rams close. Still, if you think Law, Buckley, Milloy and Jones can shut down Warner, Faulk, Holt and Bruce for an entire game, you’re on drugs.”
Jan. 19, 2002: “Underdog story was nice, but down 13-3 with a quarter to play and they can’t even see the first-down marker through the snow, never mind reach it. Time for bed.”
Feb. 3, 2002: “Madden’s right. Kneel on it and pray that we win the toss. Brady can manage the game but has no business running a one-minute drill.”
Sept. 7, 2003: “31-0? You kidding me? Belichick needs to coach and stop sticking his nose in the personnel decisions. Let your division rival end up with Bledsoe AND Milloy. Two hall of famers. Nice going.”
Oct. 16, 2003: “Williams, Matsui and Posada. Have to let Pedro pitch to these guys. Just have to. Embree’s a never-was and Timlin’s a has-been. Dance with one who brought ya.”
Nov. 30, 2003: “Colts about to punch it in here. Patriots about to pass the torch. Edgerrin James is automatic. And this is why you need a franchise quarterback like Manning.”
July 31, 2004: “Nomar traded. I am completely done with this team. Forever. I mean, who in name of all that is decent and holy are Orlando Cabrera and Doug Mientkiewicz? And I know I spelled that wrong and I told you I don’t care anymore.”
Oct. 16. 2004: “Got away with taking the Mrs. to see Friday Night Lights tonight. Made the right choice, apparently. 19-8. SMH. Way to wave the white flag. Done with ’em. I swear this time.”
Oct. 31, 2004: “21 straight wins? How about 21 first-quarter points for the Steelers. That was fun while it lasted. This Whataburger guy can’t be a rookie. He’s going to have our number for the next 15 years.”
Jan. 14, 2006: “Not gonna be close enough to win with an intentional safety this time, Bill. Why can’t we get players like Champ Bailey? Oh, that’s right, we had one. His name was Ty Law.”
March 22, 2006: “Vinatieri to the Colts? LOL. Kickers aren’t just a dime a dozen. Next guy will be a complete flop. You can bet on that.”
Oct. 16. 2007: “It’s over. Yes, Beckett and Schilling are next, but that would leave Dice-K for Game 7. And J.D. Drew isn’t even hitting his weight in this series. Useless.”
Feb. 3, 2008: (Nope, sorry, no way to censor even a imaginary tweet here and make it fit for a family publication.)
Nov. 4, 2009: “Yankees back on top. Colts and Steelers pretty much own the AFC. At least we have the Celtics. Of course, we also have Danny Ainge. Pass me another bottle of something.”
Moral of this story: Try not to lose your mind when the Jacksonville Jaguars hold serve at home in September, or when David Price does precisely what history tells us he’ll do in the playoffs in Game 2. Tighten up that hat, whatever color it is, and back away from the keyboard.
Oct. 8, 2018: “Today’s a new day. Best-of-three begins in the Bronx. Boston’s regular-season winning percentage precisely two-out-of-three. Like our chances.”
— Kalle Oakes spent 27 years with the Sun Journal sports staff. He is now sports editor of the Georgetown (Kentucky) News-Graphic. Keep in touch with him (where else?) on Twitter @oaksie72, or by email at [email protected]
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It’s so cool… True Romance soundtrack reissued on coloured vinyl and box set
May 25, 2017 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990s, hans zimmer, robert palmer, Soundgarden, soundtracks
The soundtrack to Tony Scott’s brilliant 1993 film True Romance is being issued on vinyl for the first time and will be available as part of a deluxe box set but also separately in limited quantities.
Quentin Tarantino penned the script for the movie, which was released between Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and the narrative and dialogue bear all the hallmarks of the now legendary director. The film, which stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, boasts many memorable scenes including a tour-de-force turns from both Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot an early big-screen role for James Gandolfini, as the violent mobster who confronts Arquette in the motel bedroom.
The music is excellent and the relatively short soundtrack mixes pop from the likes of Robert Palmer, Chris Isaak and Soundgarden with some original Hans Zimmer compositions. You’ll probably recognise the first track, You’re So Cool, which is a very beautiful piece of music, variations on which can be heard regularly in advertising on TV. In fact Zimmer based this on Carl Orff’s Gassenhauer which was used in Terence Malick’s 1973 film Badlands.
The reissues come from Wargod/Real Gone Music although with the best will in the world, they really crank up the tat in order to somehow manage to spin a $180 box from this one album. Items include a five-piece set of enamel pins, two pairs of sunglasses, a mock ‘Coming Home in a Bodybag VHS case, Clarence’s drivers licence, Beverly Ambassador Hotel napkin and more! You get three of the same record in different coloured vinyl pressings in this box, but can save $40 and opt for just one record in the box set.
SDE’s advice is to forget about all that… crap and just pick up the standalone coloured vinyl pressing which comes in “pillow feather white with blood red spatter”. This is limited to 2000 copies and is relatively cheap on Amazon UK, for this kind of import (see: Twin Peaks). The gatefold album sleeve features some attractive artwork by Rafal Wechterowicz which is “exclusive to this album’s initial manufacturing run and will never be reprinted”. You can see the what this looks like on the top left of the image above.
The True Romance soundtrack is reissued on coloured vinyl and as the two different box sets on 7 July 2017.
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1. You’re So Cool / Hans Zimmer
2. Graceland / Charlie Sexton
3. In Dreams / John Waite
4. Wounded Bird / Charles & Eddie
5. I Want Your Body / Nymphomania
6. Stars at Dawn / Hans Zimmer
1. I Need a Heart to Come Home to / Shelby Lynne
2. Viens Mallika Sous le Dome Edais from Lakme Deibes
3. (Love Is) The Tender Trap / Robert Palmer
4. Outshined / Soundgarden
5. Amid the Chaos of the Day / Hans Zimmer
6. Two Hearts / Chris Isaak
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Megatof says:
I remember Aerosmith’s “The Other Side” In the movie, but it’s not on the soundtrack.
And IMDB also lists Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” among others.
I wonder why some songs are chosen, and some are not…
Out of interest: who is the guy on the top right hand side of the picture (opposite the Jack Sparrow-looking Gary Oldman). He looks a bit like the guy that played a lawyer in a few episodes of Frazier…
It’s Saul Rubinek who plays the movie producer…
Thanks Paul – so it is indeed the guy that played the lawyer (and Daphne’s love interest) in Frazier!
Oh yeah… think he was better in True Romance! :)
El Nino says:
Does the splatter style vinyl sound as good as normal vinyl?
Fans of TR should seek this out, much better version of the film!
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/true-romance-the-quentin-tarantino-cut/
2badmofo says:
@Brian – Can u tell me how I go about getting to see that version?, TIA
@2badmofo It’s a fan edit. The fan edit community is pretty amazing.
Obtaining them, well you have to search around the internet I’m afraid. Torrents and the like.
They are unofficial versions, so they are a bit naughty.
Best movie ever, great soundtrack too, only showed it to 2 close friends and they loved it, I probably seen it 60-70 times (no lie). Charles & Eddie song is one of the best. The cover looks like something from Beavis and Butt-head, not sure if that’s good or bad
That’ll be Gary Oldman :-)
That looks like Johnny Depp in the upper left hand corner. Wrong movie?
Alex M says:
It’s Gary Oldman. He had a fantastic cameo.
Simon Taylor says:
I bought the cd back in the 90’s, i remember it cost a fair amount too. I checked the price of the better looking Alabama coloured vinyl, works out about $40 with shipping to UK with import duty on top. Thats a shame, would much prefer that but will stick with my amazon.uk red and white pre-order.
Great movie – terrible album artwork .
Shame its not the other one, the coloured one on the right hand side looks much better, available from the US site but import duty, etc etc,. Love this film, decent sound track.
Tim-meh says:
Trouble is I now associate You’re So Cool soundtracking Iceland ads which is so very wrong.
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Students in the Theatre and Screen Performance course at the Eora College in 2010 (photograph courtesy TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute)
Location: 333 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale
The Eora Centre (now Eora College) in Chippendale is a campus of the Sydney Institute of TAFE. Originally located at Regent Street, and later relocated to its present site on Abercrombie Street, it has been a centre for contemporary visual and performing arts and Aboriginal studies since it was established in July 1984.
The Eora Centre nurtured a range of practising visual artists including Roy Kennedy, H J Wedge and Euphemia Bostock. Many went on to be involved with the Boomalli artists’ cooperative, while others now have their works exhibited at the Yiribana Gallery at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Eora College
333 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale
Website: sydneytafe.edu.au/future-students/eora-college/eora-college
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Goga at Table 13
August 20, 2015 By richard redig 0 Comment
Table 13 entertainer Goga Denisov was recently featured on Addison Magazine’s website. “No matter what genre of music you like, Goga Denisov does it. Growing up studying a wide range of music, he’s made a living performing at venues around the area and even around the country. Lucky for locals, he’s performing right here in Addison at Table 13. Goga has opened for notable artists such as Cindy Lauper and…
Table 13 accepting reservations for DFW Restaurant Week
July 16, 2015 By Dawn Redig 0 Comment
Summer’s hottest dining event is back (DALLAS, TX – July 16, 2015) Reservations are open for DFW Restaurant Week – and Table 13, one of Addison’s most unique fine dining and entertainment venues, is among the participants. Located at Belt Line and Inwood Road, Table 13 offers vintage-inspired food, beverage and service in a distinctive, upscale atmosphere reminiscent of the early 1960s. Recently voted “Best Place to See Live Music”…
Easter Dinner Celebration at Table 13 in Addison
March 25, 2015 By richard redig 0 Comment
ADDISON, TX (March 25, 2015) Table 13’s distinctive atmosphere, reminiscent of the early 1960s, will provide the perfect backdrop for family and friends to gather this Easter to enjoy vintage-inspired food, beverage and service for only $29.95/person. Children under 12 may choose from a special Kids Menu for only $14.95. Table 13’s Easter Dinner Menu will be served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 5, and will feature…
Table 13 announces special discounted menu for WaterTower Theatre ticket holders
October 13, 2014 By Dawn Redig 0 Comment
WTT & T13 partner for Dinner & Theater Nights ADDISON, TX (October 13, 2014) Following the opening of WaterTower Theatre’s production of BONNIE & CLYDE this evening, Table 13 will host a private, after-hours cast party and introduce its special discounted menu for all WTT ticket holders. Table 13 has partnered with WaterTower Theatre to offer “Dinner & Theater Nights” to WTT patrons. The exclusive WaterTower Theatre dinner menu includes…
Have Ice Cream and Liqueur for Dessert Near VV&M Boutique Residential Living at Addison’s Table 13
October 2, 2014 By Amy 0 Comment
September 26, 2014 by gables If you’ve never tried a liqueur parfait before, it might be time to pay a visit to Table 13. The chefs at this Addison eatery are admittedly eccentric, and customers can enjoy the fruits of their creativity with one of the parfaits. A blend of house-crafted ice cream and sweet liqueurs, the frosty drinks have become a popular offering at Table 13—especially the Velvet Hammer, the…
Sinatra Lives Again at Table 13
September 2, 2014 By richard redig 0 Comment
Table 13 is raving about it’s latest appearance in Exploding Potatoes review blog. Here’s a taste of what was written… “I kept looking for Count Basie to show up with his band. Alas, it was not to be, however the ambiance at Table 13 in Addison, Texas would have made the legendary piano player feel right at home. This fine dining restaurant, located in a northern suburb of Dallas, did a fine job…
SideDish Server of the Week: Josh Yancey of Table 13 in Addison
Congrats to Table 13 Server Josh Yancey as being honored SideDish Server of the Week! Read about Josh and his nomination in the DMagazine article below. “Each Friday during DFW Restaurant Week 2014, we honor a server who has gone above and beyond the call of duty. The winners are chosen by diners. SideDish readers Liz and Alek Grigorian dined at Table 13. ‘We had our first dine at Table 13…
Table 13 makes Mr. Dallas’ Top 10 ‘convivial’ night spots
August 22, 2014 By Dawn Redig 0 Comment
Mr. Dallas’ top nightspots: 40 places where you can get a good drink (August 22, 2014) These recommendations by Mr. Dallas represent convivial nightspots for upscale (or at least aspiring-upscale) tipplers, particularly those in their 30s and 40s who are out and about but allergic to Hashtag Harriets and frat-boy excess. In keeping with the craft cocktail craze, and the general drift of night life away from mega-clubs, this lineup…
Table 13 named ‘Great Place for Jazz in Dallas’
Table 13 is honored to have been named one of the five “Great Places for Jazz in Dallas” by Penny Sadler from the Adventures of a Carry-On. Dallas is a great city for listening to live music and you can literally go out to a different place every night of the week. I continue to be amazed at number of extremely talented musicians in this city. Since the 1920s Dallas has…
Table 13 participates in DFW Restaurant Week
August 6, 2014 By richard redig 0 Comment
ADDISON, TX (August 6, 2014) The 17th annual DFW Restaurant Week presented by Central Market is back, and Table 13, Addison’s newest fine dining and entertainment venue, is among the participants. Recently voted “Best New Restaurant” in Addison Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards, Table 13 is offering prix fixe dinner options for $35, as well as the Cadillac Lunch Experience brought to you by Oak Farms Dairy for $25 (tax and…
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Road to Sochi | Q-and-A with 2014 Olympic team member Jamie Anderson
Becky Regan
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South Lake Tahoeâs Jamie Anderson tail-presses a rail at the 2013 Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix at Copper Mountain, Colo., Dec. 16-22.
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Jamie Anderson started down her Olympic path well before it ever existed.
The timing was perfect. While Anderson was emerging as one of the top freestylers in the pro scene, snowboard slopestyle was building a case for itself as an Olympic sport.
The South Lake Tahoe rider climbed rapidly. She started at 13 with her first trip to the X Games, and soon became the youngest Winter X Games athlete to have won a medal — bronze at age 15. It’s an honor that Anderson still owns, and now she has added seven X Games medals, including four golds, along with a slew of competition slopestyle hardware.
Safe to say, Anderson is at the top of the pack just as her event is finally kicking through the Olympic barrier. She’ll also compete this weekend at the X Games The Tribune checked in with Anderson for an email Q-and-A prior to finalizing her place on the country’s first slopestyle team.
Q: Aside from winning a medal, what do you want to take away from an Olympic experience?
A: Gratitude of being a part of such a prestigious event. I can imagine how humbling it is to just walk through the opening ceremonies.
Q: This will be the first year that slopestyle snowboarding will hit the Olympic scene. What were your thoughts when you first found out that your event was being added to Olympic competition?
A: I think it’s amazing. I feel slopestyle is going to bring a new fun energy to the games!
Q: Who do you believe are the top contenders you’ll have to get through to win gold?
A: There’s a lot of amazing athletes, it’s hard to say…
Q: Are you planning any new tricks that we can look forward to seeing?
A: Working on it for sure, but nothing is guaranteed.
Q: Any Olympic heroes or favorite memories that you have from watching past Winter Olympics?
A: Torah Bright winning in Vancouver was absolutely amazing! I really look up to her, and was so happy to see her do well!
Q: What are some of your hopes or goals for this season? What would make this a successful year in your book?
A: Stay healthy, happy and strong, and enjoy every moment.
Q: Anything else you want to see or do in Russia off the snow?
A: I want to see the Black Sea and explore the city of Sochi and the culture.
Q: I know you’re passionate about the environment. What actions should fellow snowboarders or skiers take to help preserve the environment?
A: To each their own. I just focus on my own impact and what I can do to make a positive impact. Anything from recycling, to doing the little things, like walking or riding a bike, buying sustainable organic local food, picking up trash when I see it, and respecting our earth in any way I can!
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Today — January 18th 2021General Tech
By Kirsten Korosec
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
Before I launch into the news of the week, let’s take care of some housekeeping. First, you might have noticed that The Station landed in your email inbox on Sunday, not Saturday.
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One last item: I am now transportation editor at TechCrunch. The title change comes with more responsibility and a mission. I’ll be bringing on more freelancers to expand our “future of transportation” coverage. Mark Harris, an investigative reporter who has already delivered some wonderful articles for us, will be a more regular fixture here. Harris has a knack for rooting out news tucked inside legal documents and filings such as his Tesla tariffs article in 2019 and insights into the passenger capability of Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop project.
I hope to add more faces to the transportation bureau in the weeks and months to come.
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CES roundup
Mercedes-EQ. MBUX Hyperscreen
Maybe it was the virtual format, but autonomous vehicle technology didn’t play a starring role at CES this year as it has in the past.
Instead, several other themes emerged at CES, mostly around infotainment and advanced driver assistance systems. And continuing a trend in 2020, there were several gigantic screens, including the Mercedes Hyperscreen that is pictured below.
Pioneer, Harman and Panasonic all revealed future products aimed at bringing more audio and visual technology into the vehicle. Harman, for instance, unveiled three new “experience concepts,” that can turn the infotainment system in a vehicle into a concert hall, recording studio or gaming center.
Panasonic also announced a partnership with UK startup Envisics to jointly develop and commercialize a new generation of head-up displays for cars, trucks and SUVs. Head-up displays, or HUDs, seemed to be everywhere this show. The technology isn’t new. But recent advances are pushing the capabilities of these systems, which are integrated in the dash of a vehicle and project images onto the windshield to aid drivers with navigation and provide other alerts.
Image Credits: Envisics
GM had perhaps the biggest presence at the virtual 2021 CES, at least within the transportation sector. The automaker chose the tech trade show to announce a new business unit called BrightDrop that will focus on electric vans and other products and services for the commercial market. But that wasn’t all.
GM used the opportunity to tease its upcoming Chevrolet Bolt EUV — a vehicle that will have GM’s hands-free highway driving assist technology known as Super Cruise — as well as the Cadillac Celestiq dashboard and even a new logo. The intent of this bouquet of announcements was clear: GM wants the world — and shareholders — to know it’s serious about electrification and connected car tech.
GM’s numerous announcements were hard to miss — there was even an eVTOL. Conversely, Mobileye’s announcements flew a bit under the radar, but are arguably as notable.
GM showed off two concepts at CES 2021: an autonomous shuttle and a personal eVTOL.
Mobileye outlined plans to expand its autonomous vehicles testing to more cities, which was expected and is in line with the company’s previously stated plans.
What stood out to me was a talk that Mobileye president and CEO Amnon Shashua gave which outlined the company’s vision and progress.
The recap: Mobileye is taking a three-pronged strategy to developing and deploying automated vehicle technology that combines a full self-driving stack — that includes redundant sensing subsystems based on camera, radar and lidar technology— with its REM mapping system and a rules-based Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) driving policy.
Mobileye’s REM mapping system essentially crowdsources data by tapping into nearly 1 million vehicles equipped with its tech to build high-definition maps that can be used to support in ADAS and autonomous driving systems. Shashua said Mobileye’s technology can now map the world automatically with nearly 8 million kilometers tracked daily and nearly 1 billion kilometers completed to date.
The company provided more details at CES about a new lidar System on Chip product that is under development and will come to market in 2025. The lidar, which will use Intel’s specialized silicon photonics fab, is notable because Mobileye is known for its camera-based technology. To be clear, Mobileye is not backing away from that camera-first approach. Shashua explained Mobileye believes the best technological and business approach is to develop a camera-first system and use the lidar and radar as add-ons for redundancy.
In short: Mobileye has the money and existing network to commercialize automated vehicle technology and bring it to the masses.
Below is sampling of our transportation-related CES coverage:
Mercedes unveils Hyperscreen, a 56-inch screen for its flagship EQS electric vehicle
GM targets delivery with new EV business unit BrightDrop
Mobileye is bringing its autonomous vehicle test fleets to at least four more cities in 2021
Sony reveal more details on its secretive Vision S sedan
Holographic startup Envisics partners with Panasonic to fast track in-car AR tech
BMW previews its next-generation iDrive infotainment system
Sono Motor plans to license the tech that powers it solar electric car
Air taxi startup Archer partners with FCA
Another Uber spinoff is in the works
Postmates’ Serve robot is equipped with cameras as well as lidar from Ouster.
Remember when I predicted that autonomous delivery would gain momentum in 2021? It seems that sometimes I am right!
Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion, is seeking investors in its bid to become a separate company called Serve Robotics.
You might recall Serve, the yellow and black-emblazoned autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X. This robot, which recently partnered with Pink Dot Stores for deliveries in West Hollywood, will likely be the centerpiece of the new startup.
I learned of a few important details of this plan, which is not yet settled. Uber will maintain a stake in this new startup. Uber’s stake was initially low, but has since popped to about 25%, according to sources familiar with the deal.
The company would be run by Ali Kashani, who heads up Postmates X and leads the Serve program. Anthony Armenta would lead the startup’s software efforts and Aaron Leiba would be in charge of hardware — keeping the same positions they hold at Postmates X.
I’ll fill y’all in with more details as I learn them.
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By Mike Butcher
TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities.
Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Bucharest and Romania will capture how the country is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic.
We’d like to know how Romania’s startup scene is evolving, how the tech sector is being impacted by COVID-19, and, generally, how your thinking will evolve from here.
Our survey will only be about investors, and only the contributions of VC investors will be included. More than one partner is welcome to fill out the survey. (Please note, if you have filled the survey out already, there is no need to do it again).
The shortlist of questions will require only brief responses, but the more you can add, the better.
You can fill out the survey here.
The deadline is January 22, 2021.
Obviously, investors who contribute will be featured in the final surveys, with links to their companies and profiles.
What kinds of things do we want to know? Questions include: Which trends are you most excited by? What startup do you wish someone would create? Where are the overlooked opportunities? What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? How is your local ecosystem going? And how has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?
This survey is part of a broader series of surveys we’re doing to help founders find the right investors.
https://techcrunch.com/extra-crunch/investor-surveys/
For example, here is the recent survey of London.
You are not in Romania, but would like to take part? That’s fine! Any European VC investor can STILL fill out the survey, as we probably will be putting a call out to your country next anyway! And we will use the data for future surveys on vertical topics.
The survey is covering almost every country on in the Union for the Mediterranean, so just look for your country and city on the survey and please participate (if you’re a venture capital investor).
Thank you for participating. If you have questions you can email mike@techcrunch.com
(Please note: Filling out the survey is not a guarantee of inclusion in the final published piece).
By Walter Thompson
Sindhya Valloppillil Contributor
Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor.
Last week, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced that it was terminating plans to acquire razor startup Billie following a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit to stop the deal.
Last year, Edgewell Personal Care ditched its debt-heavy $1.37 billion deal for Harry’s, Inc, formerly valued at $1 billion after the FTC sought to block the acquisition.
In addition to these FTC challenges, it is also now becoming clear that relying on VC-subsidized products and celebrating outrageous valuations can be problematic for D2C brands. With a few wonderful and rare exceptions such as Rothy’s (which raised $42 million but was profitable from the beginning and generated $140 million in revenue within two years of launching), D2C unicorns are addicted to the cycle of venture funding to feed growth in order to maintain a high valuation multiple.
The path to profitability has become a more important part of the startup story versus growth at all costs.
This works for a while; however, when the path to profitability appears murky and exit options either don’t appear or only appear from nontech companies with very conservative multiples, the walls start crumbling.
In a WWD article, Odile Roujol, the former CEO of Lancôme who launched venture fund FAB Ventures, said, “Generally speaking, the era of $1 billion valuations for beauty companies is over. The people that struggle have been the companies that spend so much money in just a few years.” She went on to say, “The big corporations now … are not ready to spend $1.2 billion, $1.5 billion on such a brand like Glossier.”
This change in sentiment from acquirers is further fueled by recent research on the challenges of turning hypergrowth companies profitable. In his Harvard Business School case study “Direct to Consumer Brands,” Professor Sunil Gupta wrote, “Acquiring DTC brands is easy for incumbent conglomerates, but making them profitable is challenging. More than three years after Unilever acquired Dollar Shave Club, it was still unprofitable.”
Unilever executives learned that the average cost of acquiring a new customer online was about the same as in stores. David Taylor, CEO of P&G, said his company was still figuring out how to turn recently acquired direct-to-consumer brands into profitable businesses.
Taylor summarized this dilemma, saying, “There are many, many launches that grow fast … a business model that makes money is a higher challenge.” Since making these realizations, incumbent conglomerates will be more cautious when considering the acquisition of hyped D2C brands that raised lots of venture capital.
Beauty tech is a better bet: Meitu and Perfect Corp.
What’s cooler than beauty companies that are (or were) valued at $1 billion? Beauty tech SaaS companies that are worth $5.2 billion at IPO. We don’t hear much about the leading global beauty tech companies such as Meitu and Perfect Corp. because their founders are not celebrity influencers, they don’t have massive Instagram followings here in the U.S. and they are not celebrated in our media. Although their companies are based in Asia and they raised money mostly from Chinese investors, their companies are global successes.
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By Anthony Ha
Bustle Digital Group — owner of Bustle, Inverse, Input, Mic and other titles — could eventually join the ranks of startups going public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
During an interview about the state of BDG and the digital media industry at the end of 2020, founder and CEO Bryan Goldberg laid out ambitious goals for the next few years.
“Where do I want to see the company in three years? I want to see three things: I want to be public, I want to see us driving a lot of profits and I want it to be a lot bigger, because we’ve consolidated a lot of other publications,” he said.
He added that those goals connect, because by going public, BDG can raise “hundreds of millions dollars,” which Goldberg wants to use to “buy a lot of media companies.”
That might seem like bluster after a year in which many digital media companies (including BDG) had to make serious cuts. But Goldberg said that the company would be profitable in 2020, with revenue that’s “a little bit under $100 million.” And it won’t be the first digital media company to take a similar route — Group Nine created a SPAC that went public last week.
“I want to prove that we can be highly profitable,” he said. “A lot of startups don’t have that goal. A lot of VCs tell their startups: Don’t worry about profits, don’t worry about losing money. I don’t believe in that.”
In addition to his plans to go public, Goldberg also discussed how acquisitions have helped Bustle’s business, his joint venture to purchase W Magazine and digital media’s “overcapitalization” problem. You can read our full conversation, edited for length and clarity, below.
TechCrunch: The last time I caught up with someone at BDG, it was with [the company’s president Jason Wagenheim] and that was when you guys were dealing with the initial fallout [from the pandemic]. Now we’re a lot further into whatever this new world is, so what is your sense of where BDG is now, versus where it was in the early days of the pandemic?
Bryan Goldberg: It might be the craziest, most eventful six months for many of us in our lives. And certainly, for those of us in this industry, the difference between April and October, it’s really hard to fathom, it’s complete night and day. April was a very frightening time for everyone, personally and professionally across the country, across the world.
From an advertising standpoint, it was a really scary time, because we have clients across every industry, and every industry was impacted differently. We have clients who were greatly impacted — theme parks, car makers, hotel companies, airlines — and then we had clients who were not as badly affected, such as a lot of CPG clients, who everybody depended upon so much during the pandemic.
There was a huge pause in our business in in March, April and May. For a lot of clients, tossing advertising was a sort of knee-jerk reaction to the sudden shock of COVID, and so we saw a huge negative impact in our second quarter. What we started to see in the third quarter, and especially now in the fourth quarter, is now that the shock of COVID is behind us, the macro trends that were catalyzed by COVID are now moving into the forefront.
The story of media is no longer about the shock of COVID. The story of media is now about all of the changes to our world, and changes to our industry that were brought about as a consequence of COVID.
The good news for our company, and the good news for other digital media companies, is it looks like the future is being accelerated. It looks like people are watching less television, and so advertisers are moving their budgets into digital faster than they would have had it not been for COVID. Even things like live sports, [their] TV ratings are way down. And a lot of advertisers are saying, “Is there efficacy anymore in cable television or broadcast television?” And the magazine industry was heavily impaired, simply because magazines are a physical medium, and people didn’t want to pass around magazines or read magazines at the dentist’s office, so we probably saw some print budget move into digital as well.
Industry analysts now are going to take up their estimates of what digital revenue is going to look like in 2021, 2022 and beyond. I also think we’ve seen a world in which a lot of brand advertisers are starting to think about what happens when they start to spend beyond Facebook and Google. For most of the last three years, there’s been so much talk about the duopoly, the idea that Facebook and Google are going to eat almost every last dollar of advertising. What we’ve seen in the last three months is advertisers saying that this needs to be the moment in which they learn how to deploy advertising spend digitally beyond Facebook or Google.
No, it doesn’t mean they’re all pulling out of Facebook — Facebook and Google are doing just fine. But there are still tens of billions of dollars that need to be deployed outside of Facebook and Google. And you’re seeing winners such as Snapchat, Pinterest. Both had incredibly strong earnings. They’re benefiting from the same thing that benefits Bustle Digital Group and a lot of other digital media players who aren’t Facebook and Google, which is you’re seeing big ad spenders finally deciding that now’s the time to find other ways to deploy advertising spend.
I think those are the two big trends: Dollars moving to digital out of TV faster than we thought, and major advertisers using now as a time to find other channels beyond Facebook and Google.
So when you look at how that is impacting Bustle’s business, has it returned to pre-COVID levels?
For us, when we reflect upon the year 2020, we see that we had a great first quarter, we see that we’re having an incredible fourth quarter, and we have a big, epic crater in the second and third quarters. So when we look at the year, we basically have to say to ourselves, if it were not for that crater in the second and third quarters, what would this year have looked like? We would have had revenue well in excess of $100 million. Now, we’re gonna have revenue a little bit under $100 million.
But when we think about how we prepare for 2021 and set goals for 2021, we have to set goals for 2021 as though COVID had never happened, we have to set goals for 2021 without using Q2 and Q3 as a sort of excuse for lowering expectations. Because the fourth quarter, the quarter we’re currently in, has exceeded our wildest expectations.
People sort of sat up and took notice of the company because you had a pretty aggressive acquisition strategy. I imagine that strategy had to change a little bit in 2020. To what extent do you feel that ambition is something that you can pick up again?
So to be clear, not only do we feel great about our strategy, our strategy was critical in helping our company survive and ultimately thrive in the wake of the virus. You know, we made two acquisitions [in 2019] — in the science and technology category, we bought Inverse, which is a science and technology publication, and then Josh Topolsky launched a tech-and-gadget publication for us called Input Magazine that’s growing very quickly.
It’s critical that we had that strategy, because no single advertiser category has performed better for us in 2020 than tech — we more than tripled our revenue from technology clients this year, because technology has thrived through COVID. Had we not had an acquisition strategy, had we not diversified into tech media publishing, we certainly would not have had the outcome we had in 2020. That’s just the reality.
Categories like beauty, fashion, retail were very hard hit. Those have traditionally been our bread and butter, and they’re going to be great again, in 2021. But this spring, beauty companies weren’t doing so well, because people weren’t leaving the house. So the strategy worked, in part, because we diversified the categories in which we created content, which allowed us to diversify the advertiser base. And we’re gonna continue full speed ahead in 2021.
Now, you know, we did six acquisitions in 2019. I don’t know if we’ll do six acquisitions in 2021. But I want to do a lot more than one acquisition in 2021.
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Watch Virgin Orbit launch a rocket to space from a modified 747 for the first time
Virgin Orbit scored a major success on Sunday, with a test flight that not only achieved its goals of reaching space and orbit, but also of delivering payloads on board for NASA, marking its first commercial mission, too. The launch was a success in every possible regard, which puts Virgin Orbit on track to becoming an active launch provider for small payloads for both commercial and defense customers.
Today's sequence of events for #LaunchDemo2 went exactly to plan, from safe execution of our ground ops all the way through successful full duration burns on both engines. To say we're thrilled would be a massive understatement, but 240 characters couldn't do it justice anyway. pic.twitter.com/ZKpoi7hkGN
Above, you can watch the actual launch itself – the moment the LauncherOne rocket detaches from ‘Cosmic Girl,’ a modified Boeing 747 airliner that takes off normally from a standard aircraft runway, and then climbs to a cruising altitude to release the rocket, which then ignites its own engines and flies the rest of the way to space. Virgin Orbit’s launch model was designed to reduce the barriers to carrying small payloads to orbit vs. traditional vertical take-off vehicles, and this successful test flight proves the model works.
Virgin Orbit now joins a small but growing group of private launch companies who have actually reached space, and made it to orbit. That should be great news for the small satellite launch market, which still has much more demand than there is supply. Virgin Orbit also offers something very different from current launch providers like SpaceX, which typically serves larger payloads or which must offer rideshare model missions for those with smaller spacecraft. The LauncherOne design potentially means more on-demand, response and quick-turnaround launch services for satellite operators.
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WhatsApp-Facebook data-sharing transparency under review by EU DPAs after Ireland sends draft decision
By Natasha Lomas
A long-running investigation in the European Union focused on the transparency of data-sharing between Facebook and WhatsApp has taken the first major step towards a resolution. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) confirmed Saturday it sent a draft decision to fellow EU DPAs towards the back end of last year.
This will trigger a review process of the draft by other DPAs. Majority backing for Facebook’s lead EU data supervisor’s proposed settlement is required under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before a decision can be finalized.
The DPC’s draft WhatsApp decision, which it told us was sent to the other supervisors for review on December 24, is only the second such draft the Irish watchdog has issued to-date in cross-border GDPR cases.
The first case to go through the process was an investigation into a Twitter security breach — which led to the company being issued with a $550,000 fine last month.
The WhatsApp case may look very timely, given the recent backlash over an update to its T&Cs, but it actually dates back to 2018, the year GDPR begun being applied — and relates to WhatsApp Ireland’s compliance with Articles 12-14 of the GDPR (which set out how information must be provided to data subjects whose information is being processed in order that they are able to exercise their rights).
In a statement, the DPC said:
“As you are aware, the DPC has been conducting an investigation into WhatsApp Ireland’s compliance with Articles 12-14 of the GDPR in terms of transparency, including in relation to transparency around what information is shared with Facebook, since 2018. The DPC has provisionally concluded this investigation and we sent a draft decision to our fellow EU Data Protection Authorities on December 24, 2020 (in accordance with Article 60 of the GDPR in order to commence the co-decision-making process) and we are waiting to receive their comments on this draft decision.
“When the process is completed and a final decision issues, it will make clear the standard of transparency to which WhatsApp is expected to adhere as articulated by EU Data Protection Authorities,” it added.
Ireland has additional ongoing GDPR investigations into other aspects of the tech giant’s business, including related to complaints filed back in May 2018 by the EU privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb (over so called ‘forced consent’). In May 2020 the DPC said that separate investigation was at the decision-making phase — but so far it has not confirmed sending a draft decision for review.
It’s also notably that the time between the DPC’s Twitter draft and the final decision being issued — after gaining majority backing from other EU DPAs — was almost seven months.
The Twitter case was relatively straightforward (a data breach) vs the more complex business of assessing ‘transparency’. So a final decision on WhatsApp seems unlikely to come to a swifter resolution. There are clearly substantial differences of opinion between DPAs on how the GDPR should be enforced across the bloc. (In the Twitter case, for example, German DPAs suggested a fine of up to $22M vs Ireland’s initial proposal of a maximum of $300k). Although there is some hope that GDPR enforcement of cross border cases will speed up as DPAs gain experience of the various processes involved in making these co-decisions.
Returning to WhatsApp, the messaging platform has had plenty of problems with transparency in recent weeks — garnering lots of unwelcome attention and concern over the privacy implications of a confusing mandatory update to its T&Cs which has contributed to a major migration of users to alternative chat platforms, such as Signal and Telegram.
The backlash led WhatsApp to announced last week that it was delaying enforcement of the new terms by three months. Last week Italy’s data protection agency also issued a warning over a lack of clarity in the T&Cs — saying it could intervene using an emergency process allowed for by EU law (which would be in addition to the ongoing DPC procedure).
Confusion over WhatsApp’s new T&Cs triggers privacy warning from Italy
On the WhatsApp T&Cs controversy, the DPC’s deputy commissioner Graham Doyle told us the regulator had received “numerous queries” from confused and concerned stakeholders which he said led it to re-engage with the company. The regulator previously obtained a commitment from WhatsApp that there is “no change to data-sharing practices either in the European Region or the rest of the world”. But it subsequently confirmed it would delay enforcement of the new terms.
“The updates made by WhatsApp last week are about providing clearer, more detailed information to users on how and why they use data. WhatsApp have confirmed to us that there is no change to data-sharing practices either in the European Region or the rest of the world arising from these updates. However, the DPC has received numerous queries from stakeholders who are confused and concerned about these updates,” Doyle said.
“We engaged with WhatsApp on the matter and they confirmed to us that they will delay the date by which people will be asked to review and accept the terms from February 8th to May 15th. In the meantime, WhatsApp will launch information campaigns to provide further clarity about how privacy and security works on the platform. We will continue to engage with WhatsApp on these updates.”
While there’s no doubt Europe’s record of enforcement of its much vaunted data protection laws against tech giants remains a major weak point of the regulation, there are signs that increased user awareness of rights and, more broadly, concern for privacy, is causing a shift in the balance of power in favor of users.
Proper privacy enforcement is still sorely lacking but Facebook being forced to put a T&Cs update on ice for three months — as its business is subject to ongoing regulatory scrutiny — suggests the days of platform giants being able to move fast and break things are firmly on the wain.
Similarly, for example, Facebook recently had to delay the launch of a dating feature in Europe while it consulted with the DPC. It also remains limited in the data it can share between WhatsApp and Facebook because of the existence of the GDPR — so still can’t share data for ad targeting and product enhancement purposes, even under the new terms.
Europe, meanwhile, is coming with ex ante rules for platform giants that will place further obligations on how they can operate with the aim of counteracting abusive behaviors and bolstering competition in digital markets.
GDPR enforcement must level up to catch big tech, report warns
Understanding Europe’s big push to rewrite the digital rulebook
By Manish Singh
India’s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging.
Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued at $1.4 billion in 2016, earlier this month announced that it was shutting down Sticker Chat, its messaging app.
The startup, founded by Kavin Bharti Mittal, this month pivoted to two virtual social apps called Vibe and Rush, said Mittal, who is the son of telecom giant Airtel’s chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.
In a series of tweets earlier this month, Kavin said that India will never have a homegrown messenger that makes inroads in the world’s second largest market unless it chooses to ban Western companies from operating in the nation. “Global network effects are too strong,” he said. WhatsApp has amassed over 450 million users in India, its biggest market by users.
Mittal described opportunities in building virtual worlds as a “much better approach for today’s world that is unconstrained by cheap, fast data and powerful smartphones.”
In recent years, Hike made bets on stickers and emojis to cater to the younger population in India. In a meeting with TechCrunch in late 2019, Mittal said that the startup was overwhelmed with the engagement stickers on its platform and was working to automate development of personalized stickers.
In a different meeting last year, Mittal showcased emojis that replicated human expressions and a virtual hangout place called HikeLand. Vibe is the rebranded version of HikeLand and the emojis Hike developed will continue to be available to users on both the newer apps, Mittal said earlier this month.
Hike, which has raised more than $260 million to date, had enough runway last year, Mittal said, who hinted that the startup may raise more capital a year later.
Hike also attempted to build its own operating system through acquisition of a startup called Creo. In 2018, Hike launched Total OS that aimed to cater to users with low-cost Android smartphones and slow internet data.
The startup later shut down the project. Mittal told TechCrunch that the arrival of Reliance Jio, which prompted Airtel and Vodafone to lower mobile data tariff on their networks, solved the data issues in the country and Total OS was no longer needed in the market.
For several years there has been talk about how to leverage ‘experts’ online. How do you ‘suck their brains’ for information in an efficient manner, whether it be for research into companies or sectors, often for investment purposes. Major players in this arena include GLG, Third Bridge, Guidepoint and Alphasights. With the pandemic destroying many means of hearing experts – conferences and events for instance – and turning the entire world into a remote working experiment, platforms like these are now far more relevant than they ever were before.
So it’s perhaps unsurprising that the expert network and primary research platform, proSapient, has now closed a $10m Series A investment led by Smedvig Capital. Noted high-profile investor Guy Hands and existing investors 24 Haymarket also participated in the round. This brings the total raised by proSapient to date to $18m. The company will use the cash to expand internationally.
proSapient is essentially a SaaS platform for interrogating expert networks. It’s aimed mainly at investors and consultants to gather data. The platform matches experts to projects and provides transcripts. You can gather insight over the phone or in-person; launch bespoke surveys; conduct small strategy projects with a small group of experts. You can search, filter messaging, and also collaborate internally on the platform. It now claims to be servicing over 100 clients across Europe and the USA, with revenue up over 100% year on year.
Margo Polishchuk, Co-Founder of proSapient, said in a statement: “This funding round will facilitate our strategic objective of being a leading primary research platform for the private equity and consulting sectors.”
Rob Toms, managing director at Smedvig Capital, commented: “We’re excited to be working with Margo and Jordan to continue their impressive growth and international expansion. They have a great team, strong market position and a clear vision of where the business is going.”
Additionally, proSapient recently appointed Mike Wroe, former group CFO of Just Eat plc, as Chairman.
Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee sent back to prison in bribery case
By Catherine Shu
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee is back in prison following a retrial of his 2017 conviction in a bribery case that helped lead to the downfall of former South Korean president Park Guen-hye. The Seoul High Court sentenced Lee to 30 months on Monday.
Lee was originally convicted of bribery in 2017 and sentenced to five years, but was released in 2018 after the sentence was reduced and suspended on appeal. In August 2019, however, South Korea’s Supreme Court overturned the appeals court, ruling that it was too lenient, and ordered the case to be retried.
Lee was expected to become chairman of Samsung after the death of his father, Lee Kun-hee, in October 2020. He has served as the chaebol’s de facto leader since his father suffered a stroke in 2014. With Lee’s sentencing today, it is unclear who will take over his responsibilities at Samsung.
Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces nine-year sentence in bribery case
Charges against Lee included bribing Park to gain support for deals that would have helped Lee inherit control of Samsung from his father. The illegal payments played a major role in the corruption scandal that led to Park’s impeachment, arrest and 25-year prison sentence.
The bribery case is separate from another one Lee is involved in, over alleged accounting fraud and stock manipulation. Hearings in that case begun in October.
TechCrunch has contacted Samsung for comment.
Hearings begin in Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee’s accounting fraud trial
Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps
Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app.
The startup, which recently took part in SOSV’s accelerator program, presented last week during CES at the Taiwan Tech Arena pavilion. The event is over, but Goama’s virtual booth is still up.
Some of Goama’s clients are “super apps,” or apps that offer several services and want to include games, too. To better serve super apps, Goama recently introduced a tournament model in addition to its subscription model for users.
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The startup says that integrating Goama’s platform can help apps grow brand awareness when people share their results or invite other players tournaments. It also increases user engagement, with players typically spending more than 16 minutes per session playing games. So far, the platform has a combined total of 2.5 million unique users.
The company currently focuses on Asia and Latin America, where mobile penetration is growing quickly, and works with more than 15 partners, including GCash and Rappi, to enable digital payments and communications. Its gaming platform’s user interface can be customized to match host apps and rewards can include points and other prizes that can be spent inside the app. Some companies that have used Goama include food delivery app FoodPanda, Snickers and money transfer app WavePay.
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Twitter is bringing Moments to Indian social app Dailyhunt
Five years after its launch, Twitter Moments is growing beyond the American social networking platform.
On Monday, Twitter said it had partnered with Dailyhunt to bring Moments to the Indian social app. Dailyhunt app now has a dedicated tab called ‘Twitter Moments India’ to showcase curated tweets pertaining to news and other events in the world’s second largest internet market.
The partnership will allow Twitter to extend its reach in India, where according to mobile insight firm App Annie (data of which an industry executive shared with TechCrunch), it had fewer than 75 million monthly active users last month. Dailyhunt, which last month raised $100 million in a round from Google, Microsoft and AlphaWave, in comparison, claims to reach over 285 million users each day.
Unlike Twitter, Dailyhunt is also popular in smaller Indian cities and towns. The Indian social app, which serves users in 14 local languages, termed its partnership with Twitter as its “biggest collaboration” to date.
“At Twitter, we are committed to doing what we can to ensure people can keep up with what the world is talking about at any given time. Moments — a curated set of Tweets about a particular topic — are a powerful way to do so. With this partnership with Dailyhunt, a platform that caters to diverse languages and readers from all parts of India, we are thrilled to extend Twitter Moments to the Dailyhunt app,” said Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter India, in a statement.
Umang Bedi, co-founder of Dailyhunt and former head of Facebook India, said, “the past year has shown us the power of public opinion and awareness and it is incumbent upon us to mobilize this discourse by making information more accessible, more reliable, and more engaging. When a trusted partner with our shared vision of enabling consumers to create and share information without barriers validates our platform with their presence, we know we are on the right path.”
Flipkart doubles down on rewards program, partners with 5,000 retail outlets in India
Flipkart on Monday launched SuperCoin Pay that its customers will be able to use across thousands of retail stores across the country as Walmart-owned e-commerce giant bets on its loyalty program to win and sustain its user base in the world’s second largest internet market.
The Bangalore-headquartered e-commerce giant said it had partnered with over 5,000 retail outlets including TimesPoints, Peter England, Cafe Coffee Day and Flying Machine across India to give its customers a “greater value and choice” to cash in on their Flipkart loyalty program, called SuperCoin Rewards. Flipkart customers earn these SuperCoins when they make purchases on the e-commerce platform.
Customers will be able to pay up to 100% of the bill value through SuperCoins, Flipkart said, pointing out that traditional loyalty programs have struggled to gain traction because they locked customers to their platform and made it difficult to convert reward points to cash.
Its retail partners operate in a wide-range of categories including fashion, grocery, food and beverages, travel, health and wellness. These retail partners will offer a QR code to make it easier for Flipkart customers to redeem their rewards points.
The move comes as giant e-commerce firms in India aggressively partner with physical and digital stores across the country. Amazon, too, has broadened its offering in recent years to offer coupons and discounts that Amazon Pay customers can redeem when making purchases at Urban Company, Domino’s, BigBazaar, More, Oyo Rooms, Licious, BookMyShow, Swiggy, and RedBus, for instance.
“The lines between online and offline shopping are becoming increasingly blurred, and our intention is to make the consumers’ shopping experience more rewarding, no matter where they shop,” said Prakash Sikaria, Vice President of Growth and Monetization at Flipkart, in a statement.
“Being a part of the SuperCoin programme enables our partners to reap the benefits of Flipkart’s 300 million customer base through a truly integrated rewards initiative,” he added.
Flipkart said customers on its platform have earned over a billion SuperCoin to date.
Personio raises $125M on a $1.7B valuation for an HR platform targeting SMEs
By Ingrid Lunden
With the last year changing how (and where) many of us work, organizations have started to rethink how well they manage their employees, and what tools they use to do that. Today, one of the startups that is building technology to address this challenge is announcing a major round of funding that underscores its traction to date.
Personio — the German startup that targets small and medium-sized businesses (10-2,000 employees) with an all-in-one HR platform covering recruiting and onboarding, payroll, absence tracking and other major HR functions — has picked up $125 million in funding at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation.
The Series D is being co-led by Index Ventures and Meritech, with previous backers Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Global Founders Capital and Picus all participating.
The $1.7 billion valuation is a big jump on the company’s $500 million valuation a year ago, and it comes after a year where the startup has doubled its revenues, and was not on the hunt to raise, with much of its previous fundraising still in the bank.
Personio currently counts some 3,000 SMEs in Europe as customers.
In an interview, Hanno Renner, the co-founder and CEO of Personio, said that the startup would be using the funding to continue building out the product — which operates a little like Workday, but built for much smaller organizations — as well as expanding its presence in Europe.
Although SMEs can be a notoriously challenging customer segment, Renner said that a new opportunity has emerged: a new wave of people in the SME sector have started to realise the value of having a modern and integrated HR platform.
“We started Personio in 2016 wanting to become the leading HR platform for mid-market companies, and we knew it could be a great company, but we realize it can be hard to grasp what HR really means,” he said. “But I think what has driven our business in the past year has been the realization that HR is not just an important part, but maybe the most important part, of any business.”
It may take one magic turn to convert users, he said, by providing (as one example) tools to recruit, sign contracts and onboard new employees remotely. Still, he acknowledges that the mid-market — especially those companies not built around technology — has been “lagging for years,” with many still working off Excel spreadsheets, or even more surprisingly, pen and paper. “Supporting them by helping them to digitize in a more efficient way has been driving our business.”
Personio is not the only startup hopeful that the shift in how we work will bring a new appreciation (and appetite) for purchasing HR tools. Others like Hibob have also seen a big boost in their business, and have also been raising money to tap into the opportunity more aggressively.
Hibob is looking to build in more training tools, underscoring the feature race that Personio will also have to run to keep up.
But given the sheer numbers of SMBs in the European market — more than 25 million, and accounting for more than 99% of all enterprises, according to research from the European Union — the fact that many of them have yet to adopt any kind of HR platform at all, there remains a lot of growth for a number of players.
“SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, employing 100 million people across the continent, but it is also a sector that has been neglected by software companies focused predominantly on large enterprises,” Martin Mingot, a partner at Index who sits on Personio’s board, said in a statement. “Personio changes that, having created a set of powerful tools tailored to address the needs of small businesses.”
“We have had the pleasure of working with some of the most successful SaaS companies in the world, and given Personio’s success over the past five years and the immense market potential, we strongly believe in Personio’s ability to build an equally successful and impactful business,” added Alex Clayton, general partner at Meritech Capital, in his own statement. “After many great discussions with Hanno over recent years, we are now excited to be joining the journey.” Clayton is also joining the board with this round.
The COVID-19 pandemic shined a harsh spotlight on the challenges many elderly people face. Older adults are among the highest-risk groups for developing cases that need hospitalization and nursing homes were especially vulnerable to outbreaks. While dealing with COVID-19, the elderly have also faced many other problems, including the difficulty of accessing medical care for chronic conditions during lockdowns and isolation.
Many of these issues won’t go away after the pandemic. According to the United Nations, the global population of people 65 and over is growing faster than any other age group. At the same time, there is a critical shortage of caregivers, especially for elderly people who want to continue living at home instead of moving into nursing homes.
Tech can help in many ways: by helping caregivers (and reducing burnout), allowing seniors to perform health monitoring at home and creating tools to combat isolation. During CES, there were several “age-tech” presentations. One of the most notable was AARP Innovation Lab, the non-profit’s startup accelerator program. It presented nine companies at the virtual show.
Zibrio’s smart scale for assessing postural stability, or balance
One common theme among AARP’s group was tech that helps elderly people “age in place,” or stay in their homes or communities instead of moving into a nursing home. For example, Wheel Pad designs accessible home and work spaces that can be installed into existing structures and sites. Mighty Health is an app that pairs users with health coaches, certified trainers and personalized nutrition plans, while Zibrio, a scale that assesses users’ balance to predict if they are at risk for a fall, can also be incorporated into at-home routines.
Other startups from AARP Innovation Lab focus on helping caregivers, too. For example, FallCall Solutions’ creates Apple Watch apps that send alerts if a fall is detected and help family members check on users. Another app, called Ianacare, helps family members coordinate caregiving tasks and ask for support. End-of-life planning is one of the most emotionally difficult processes for families, and Cake, an “end-of-life platform” helps by providing tools for estate and health care planning, as well as resources to help relatives cope with caregiving issues and grief.
Other startups center on medical care. For people with chronic conditions, Folia Health helps monitor the progress of treatments. On the clinical side, Embleema’s software allows clinical investigators to share data and design studies, making pharmaceutical research more efficient.
Nobi’s smart lamp alerts caregivers when a fall is detected
Other noteworthy age-tech startups at CES included Nobi, a smart lamp that automatically turns on when users stand up and sends alerts to family members if they fall. Nobi can also be used in residences and nursing homes.
Caregiver Smart Solution’s app for caregivers to coordinate tasks
Caregiver Smart Solutions is a multi-faceted platform that makes it easier for seniors to stay at home with a machine learning-based app for early detection of potential health issues, fall sensors, monitors and emergency buttons. For people with incontinence, DFree, a wearable device, can reduce stress by monitoring how full their bladder is with an ultrasound sensor and keeping track of their average time between bathroom visits. It’s available for both consumers and health care facilities.
A diagram of companion robot Cutii’s features
For elderly people living in nursing homes, Rendever is a virtual reality platform that wants to help reduce isolation. It can be used with reminiscence therapy, which guides individuals with dementia through experiences that remind them of their pasts, and to allow virtual travel to landmarks. Cutii, a companion robot, also seeks to reduce loneliness. While companion robots have been a mainstay of CES for years, Cutii sets itself apart with entertainment like music, games and live events. It also has video call and night patrol features.
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Signal and Telegram are also growing in China – for now
By Rita Liao
As fears over WhatsApp’s privacy policies send millions of users in the West to Signal and Telegram, the two encrypted apps are also seeing a slight user uptick in China, where WeChat has long dominated and the government has a tight grip on online communication.
Following WhatsApp’s pop-up notification reminding users that it shares their data with its parent Facebook, people began fleeing to alternate encrypted platforms. Telegram added 25 million just between January 10-13, the company said on its official Telegram channel, while Signal surged to the top of the App Store and Google Play Store in dozens of countries, TechCrunch learned earlier.
The migration was accelerated when, on January 7, Elon Musk urged his 40 million Twitter followers to install Signal in a tweet that likely stoked more interest in the end-to-end encryption messenger.
The growth of Telegram and Signal in China isn’t nearly as remarkable as their soaring popularity in regions where WhatsApp has been the mainstream chat app, but the uplift is a reminder that WeChat alternatives still exist in China in various capacities.
Signal amassed 9,000 new downloads from the China App Store between January 8 and 12, up 500% from the period between January 3 and 7, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. Telegram added 17,000 downloads during January 8-12, up 6% from the January 3-7 duration. WhatsApp’s growth stalled, recording 10,000 downloads in both periods.
Sensor Tower estimates that Telegram has seen about 2.7 million total installs on China’s App Store, compared to 458,000 downloads from Signal and 9.5 million times from WhatsApp.
The fact that Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp are accessible in China might come as a surprise to some people. But China’s censorship decisions can be arbitrary and inconsistent. As censorship monitoring site Apple Censorship shows, all major Western messengers are still available on the China App Store.
The situation for Android is trickier. Google services are largely blocked in China and Android users revert to Android app stores operated by local companies like Tencent and Baidu. Neither Telegram nor Signal is available on these third-party Android stores, but users with a tool that can bypass China’s Great Firewall, such as a virtual private network (VPN), can access Google Play and install the encrypted messengers.
The next challenge is actually using these apps. The major chat apps all get slightly different treatment from Beijing’s censorship apparatus. Some, like Signal, work perfectly without the need for a VPN. Users have reported that WhatsApp occasionally works in China without a VPN, though it loads very slowly. And Facebook doesn’t work at all without a VPN.
“Some websites and apps can remain untouched until they reach a certain threshold of users at which point the authorities will try to block or disrupt the website or app,” said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous head of Great Fire, an organization monitoring the Chinese internet that also runs Apple Censorship.
“Perhaps before this mass migration from WhatsApp, Signal did not have that many users in China. That might have changed over the last week in which case the authorities could be pondering restrictions for Signal,” Smith added.
To legally operate in China, companies must store their data within China and submit information to the authorities for security spot-checks, according to a cybersecurity law enacted in 2017. Apple, for instance, partners with a local cloud provider to store the data of its Chinese users.
The requirement raises questions about the type of interaction that Signal, Telegram, and other foreign apps have with the Chinese authorities. Signal said it never turned over data to the Hong Kong police and had no data to turn over when concerns grew over Beijing’s heightened controls over the former British colony.
The biggest challenges for apps like Signal in China, according to Smith, will come from Apple, which is constantly under fire by investors and activists for submitting to the Chinese authorities.
In recent years, the American giant has stepped up app crackdown in China, zeroing in on services that grant Chinese users access to unfiltered information, such as VPN providers, RSS feed readers and podcast apps. Apple has also purged tens of thousands of unlicensed games in recent quarters after a years-long delay.
“Apple has a history of pre-emptively censoring apps that they believe the authorities would want censored,” Smith observed. “If Apple decides to remove Signal in China, either on its own initiative or in direct response to a request from the authorities, then Apple customers in China will be left with no secure messaging options.”
Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers, has seen business blossom in the last year. And today, it is announcing a big round of funding to help it double down on the opportunity ahead.
The company has raised £75 million ($102 million), a Series D that it plans to use to continue expanding across Europe (in addition to the UK, it operates today in Ireland, France, Germany and Austria) as it also continues to build out the business through technology, hiring new talent, thinking up more ideas and new partnerships, such as a new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury’s to spearhead a new brick-and-mortar push.
“We’ve been extremely fortunate to have been able to continue trading when we know how tough the past nine months or so has been for many,” said Aron Gelbard, Bloom & Wild’s co-founder & CEO, in an emailed interview. “It’s been a real joy & privilege to help keep our customers connected with their loved ones when we’ve all been missing being able to see our friends & family. We’ve certainly seen strong sales during periods of national restrictions across our markets, but sales have held strong during periods of relatively limited restrictions as we’ve retained new customers and converted many of our new recipients too.”
The funding is being led by General Catalyst, with Index Ventures, Novator, Latitude Ventures, D4 Ventures (established by Hanzade Dogan), and existing investors such as Burda Principal Investments also participating.
Bloom & Wild is not disclosing its valuation, but it comes on the heels of some very strong growth. Revenues for the company were up 160% in 2020, with some 4 million deliveries of flowers in that period — more than had ever been made in the lifetime of the company previously, it said. That helped push the company into the black, its first profitable year.
Founded in 2014, Bloom & Wild had only raised around $35 million before this, according to PitchBook, which estimates its pre-money valuation at $88 million.
Now, you might be asking yourself, “How can people think about flowers at a time like this? We’re in the midst of a global pandemic, for crying out loud.”
And indeed, that is so. But it seems that there is a special place for flower-based gifts, whether for other people or just for ourselves, that are appreciated especially when times are hard.
And while we’ve also seen people move quickly past that extra toilet paper, face masks and other practical purchases to click buy on many not-totally-essential indulgences — from fancy food and drinks through to nicer furniture since they’re spending so much time at home — I’d argue flowers have a unique position in the indulgence/gifting pantheon.
In the midst of a health pandemic that has severely curtailed how people can interact with each other in person, getting flowers from a person can take on a new and sometimes deeper meaning. The physical presence — the colors, the smells, the rustle of life — they convey can be a proxy for the human interaction that we’re missing.
“We’re privileged to have played our part in keeping people connected in this difficult period, and I’m proud of our growing team for scaling our operations whilst maintaining the signature thought and care we put into every order,” said Gelbard in a statement. “With this new backing from General Catalyst and Index we start 2021 with renewed energy to pursue our vision of becoming the world’s leading and most loved flower company.”
If you’ve ever ordered flowers for someone or for yourself, you know there is no shortage of options for doing so. In the UK alone there are some 7,500 florists according to the British Florist Association, and that’s not counting thousands more online-only retailers (like Bloom & Wild) or the many services that knit these together into wider delivery networks such as Interflora or FTD. FTD has been something of a consolidator here: in 2018 it acquired a US flower delivery startup called BloomThat (which likened itself to an Uber for flowers).
While some people still prefer to shop for tangible things like flowers in person, a lot of that has moved into the virtual world over the years — especially for those ordering flowers to be delivered to someone — making it in some ways much easier to launch and grow online-only flower businesses.
Bloom & Wild’s product approach is to sell flowers as bouquets, and to give people the option of making the smaller of those bouquets extremely easy to deliver, by designing a box that fits through the typical UK mail slot (either in your front door or elsewhere).
The bouquets it sells, meanwhile, are Instagrammably eye-catching, created for the kind of person who might discover them on that social network (where it has around 250,000 followers), and targeted at our modern predicament. (For example, the bouquet pictured above is called “The Ezra”. Its description: “This cocktail of vibrant oranges and soft lilacs reminds us of holidays in the sun. And the people we’d spend them with. Missing your travel buddy? Send them this instant day-brightener.”)
There are options for ordering flowers for offices — although these are almost certainly not getting ordered as much days — and to build subscriptions, as you might with any other D2C product you order online. And once Bloom & Wild gets to know you and what you like, that will inform how and which flowers on the service are presented to you. Over time it’s moved into more than flowers — it sold Christmas trees this season, and offers a few gifts alongside its bouquets — and it is gradually building out a brick-and-mortar presence, too.
But most of all, it seems the company has seen a surge of interest not just because of the efficiency and targeting of its service, but because it has gotten the product right — specifically delivering flowers that people like.
Gelbard points out that the company has “the most direct supply chain in the flower industry, sourcing directly from growers. This means our customers get excellent value and their flowers last longer, arriving in bud and regularly blooming for up to ten days or more.”
He also notes that the company has built a “bespoke technology and data science platform” focused on a quick and easy ordering experience on app or web. Lastly, “in a traditionally commoditised industry reliant on paid search, we’ve taken an innovative approach to product and brand development,” he notes, pointing to the “letterbox flower” invention.
“Bloom & Wild has infused the traditional flower giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-travelled bouquet to the people you care most about,” said Adam Valkin, MD, General Catalyst, in a statement. “What’s most impressive about Aron and his team has been their duality of focus since launch. They’re bringing industry-leading efficiency to the intricate supply chain challenges of flower delivery while simultaneously building a beloved experience that connects with consumers in a remarkably authentic way.”
Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures added: “Bloom & Wild team have reinvented every aspect of flower delivery and gifting, challenging the status quo at every stage. Through relentless execution, Aron and his team have created a delightful experience for customers, becoming the fastest growing flower business in Europe. We’re thrilled to partner with them as they scale internationally.”
Yesterday — January 17th 2021General Tech
Virgin Orbit launched its LauncherOne rocket to orbit for the first time today, with a successful demonstration mission that carried a handful of satellites and will attempt to deliver them to low Earth orbit on behalf of NASA. It’s a crucial milestone for the small satellite launch company, and the first time the company has shown that its hybrid carrier aircraft/small payload orbital delivery rocket works as intended, which should set the company up to begin commercial operations of its launch system very soon.
This is the second attempt at reaching orbit for Virgin Orbit, after a first try in late May ended with the LauncherOne rocket initiating an automatic safety shutdown of its engines shortly after detaching from the ‘Cosmic Girl’ carrier aircraft, a modified Boeing 747 that transports the rocket to its launch altitude. The company said that it learned a lot from that attempt, including identifying the error that caused the failsafe engine shut down, which it corrected in advance of today’s mission.
Virgin Orbit’s first orbital test flight cut short after rocket released from carrier aircraft
Virgin’s Cosmic Girl took off at just before 2 PM EDT, and then released LauncherOne from its wing at roughly 2:40 PM EDT. LauncherOne had a “clean separation” as intended, and then ignited its own rocket engines and quickly accelerated to the point where it was undergoing the maximum amount of aerodynamic pressure (called max q in the aerospace industry). LauncherOne’s main engine then cut off after its burn, and its payload stage separated, crossing the Karman line and entering space for the first time.
It achieved orbit at around 2:49 PM EDT, and will release its payload of small satellites in roughly 30 minutes. We’ll update this post to provide the results of this part of its mission later, but this is already a major milestone and huge achievement for the Virgin Orbit team.
Virgin Orbit’s unique value proposition in the small launch market is that it can take off and land from traditional runways thanks to its carrier aircraft and mid-air rocket launch approach. That should provide flexibility in terms of launch locations, allowing it to be more responsive to customer needs in terms of geographies and target orbital deliveries.
In 2017, Virgin Orbit was spun out of Virgin Galactic, to focus exclusively on small payload orbital launch. Virgin Galactic then devoted itself entirely to its own mission of offering commercial human spaceflight. Virgin Orbit itself create its own subsidiary earlier this year, called VOX Space, which intends to use LauncherOne to deliver small satellites to orbit specifically for the U.S. national security market.
By Megan Rose Dickey
A GitHub internal investigation has revealed the company made “significant errors of judgment and procedure” in the firing of the Jewish employee who cautioned his coworkers about the presence of Nazis in the DC area on the day of insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
In a blog post today, GitHub COO Erica Brescia said the company’s head of HR took full responsibility for what happened and resigned from the company yesterday.
“In light of these findings, we immediately reversed the decision to separate with the employee and are in communication with his representative,” Brescia said in the blog post. “To the employee we wish to say publicly: we sincerely apologize.”
On the day a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, a worried GitHub employee warned his co-workers in the D.C. area to be safe.
After making a comment in Slack saying, “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” a fellow employee took offense, saying that type of rhetoric wasn’t good for work, the former employee previously told me. Two days later, he was fired, with a human relations representative citing a “pattern of behavior that is not conducive to company policy” as the rationale for his termination, he told me.
In an interview with TechCrunch earlier this week, the now-former employee said he was genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members. During that interview, he said he would not be interested in getting his job back, but would be interested in other forms of reconciliation.
By Taylor Hatmaker
As the U.S. heads into one of the most perilous phases of American democracy since the Civil War, social media companies are scrambling to shore up their patchwork defenses for a moment they appear to have believed would never come.
Most major platforms pulled the emergency break last week, deplatforming the president of the United States and enforcing suddenly robust rules against conspiracies, violent threats and undercurrents of armed insurrection, all of which proliferated on those services for years. But within a week’s time, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google had all made historic decisions in the name of national stability — and appearances. Snapchat, TikTok, Reddit and even Pinterest took their own actions to prevent a terror plot from being hatched on their platforms.
Now, we’re in the waiting phase. More than a week after a deadly pro-Trump riot invaded the iconic seat of the U.S. legislature, the internet still feels like it’s holding its breath, a now heavily-fortified inauguration ceremony looming ahead.
(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
What’s still out there
On the largest social network of all, images hyping follow-up events continued to circulate mid this week. One digital Facebook flyer promoted an “armed march on Capitol Hill and all state Capitols,” pushing the dangerous and false conspiracy that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Facebook says that it’s working to identify flyers calling for “Stop the Steal” adjacent events using digital fingerprinting, the same process it uses to remove terrorist content from ISIS and Al Qaeda. The company noted that it has seen flyers calling for events on January 17 across the country, January 18 in Virginia and inauguration day in D.C.
At least some of Facebook’s new efforts are working: one popular flyer TechCrunch observed on the platform was removed from some users’ feeds this week. A number of “Stop the Steal” groups we’d observed over the last month also unceremoniously blinked offline early this week following more forceful action from the company. Still, given the writing on the wall, many groups had plenty of time to tweak their names by a few words or point followers elsewhere to organize.
With only days until the presidential transition, acronym-heavy screeds promoting QAnon, an increasingly mainstream collection of outrageous pro-Trump government conspiracy theories, also remain easy to find. On one page with 2,500 followers, a QAnon believer pushed the debunked claim that anti-fascists executed the attack on the Capitol, claiming “January 6 was a trap.”
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
On a different QAnon group, an ominous post from an admin issued Congress a warning: “We have found a way to end this travesty! YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!” The elaborate conspiracy’s followers were well represented at the deadly riot at the Capitol, as the many giant “Q” signs and esoteric t-shirt slogans made clear.
In a statement to TechCrunch about the state of extremism on the platform, Facebook says it is coordinating with terrorism experts as well as law enforcement “to prevent direct threats to public safety.” The company also noted that it works with partners to stay aware of violent content taking root on other platforms.
Facebook’s efforts are and late and uneven, but they’re also more than the company has done to date. Measures from big social networks coupled with the absence of far-right social networks like Parler and Gab have left Trump’s most ardent supporters once again swearing off Silicon Valley and fanning out for an alternative.
Social media migration
Private messaging apps Telegram and Signal are both seeing an influx of users this week, but they offer something quite different from a Facebook or Twitter-like experience. Some expert social network observers see the recent migration as seasonal rather than permanent.
“The spike in usage of messaging platforms like Telegram and Signal will be temporary,” Yonder CEO Jonathon Morgan told TechCrunch. “Most users will either settle on platforms with a social experience, like Gab, MeWe, or Parler, if it returns, or will migrate back to Twitter and Facebook.”
That company uses AI to track how social groups connect online and what they talk about — violent conspiracies included. Morgan believes that propaganda-spreading “performative internet warriors” make a lot of noise online, but a performance doesn’t work without an audience. Others may quietly pose a more serious threat.
“The different types of engagement we saw during the assault on the Capitol mirror how these groups have fragmented online,” Morgan said. “We saw a large mob who was there to cheer on the extremists but didn’t enter the Capitol, performative internet warriors taking selfies, and paramilitaries carrying flex cuffs (mislabeled as “zip ties” in a lot of social conversation), presumably ready to take hostages.
“Most users (the mob) will be back on Parler if it returns, and in the meantime, they are moving to other apps that mimic the social experience of Twitter and Facebook, like MeWe.”
Still, Morgan says that research shows “deplatforming” extremists and conspiracy-spreaders is an effective strategy and efforts by “tech companies from Airbnb to AWS” will reduce the chances of violence in the coming days.
Cleaning up platforms can help turn the masses away from dangerous views, he explained, but the same efforts might further galvanize people with an existing intense commitment to those beliefs. With the winds shifting, already heterogeneous groups will be scattered too, making their efforts desperate and less predictable.
Deplatforming works, with risks
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, told TechCrunch that social media companies still need to do much more to prepare for inauguration week. “We saw platforms fall short in their response to the Capitol insurrection,” Greenblatt said.
He cautioned that while many changes are necessary, we should be ready for online extremism to evolve into a more fractured ecosystem. Echo chambers may become smaller and louder, even as the threat of “large scale” coordinated action diminishes.
“The fracturing has also likely pushed people to start communicating with each other via encrypted apps and other private means, strengthening the connections between those in the chat and providing a space where people feel safe openly expressing violent thoughts, organizing future events, and potentially plotting future violence,” Greenblatt said.
By their own standards, social media companies have taken extraordinary measures in the U.S. in the last two weeks. But social networks have a long history of facilitating violence abroad, even as attention turns to political violence in America.
Greenblatt repeated calls for companies to hire more human moderators, a suggestion often made by experts focused on extremism. He believes social media could still take other precautions for inauguration week, like introducing a delay into livestreams or disabling them altogether, bolstering rapid response teams and suspending more accounts temporarily rather than focusing on content takedowns and handing out “strikes.”
“Platforms have provided little-to-nothing in the way of transparency about learnings from last week’s violent attack in the Capitol,” Greenblatt said.
“We know the bare minimum of what they ought to be doing and what they are capable of doing. If these platforms actually provided transparency and insights, we could offer additional—and potentially significantly stronger—suggestions.”
Telegram blocks ‘dozens’ of hardcore hate channels threatening violence
Signal operational again after daylong outage - CNET
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The encrypted-messaging app was offline after experiencing a surge in new users.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is now its lowest price ever for Prime Day
By James Peckham 16 July 2019
Two of Samsung's greatest watches are on sale
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If you're after one of the best smartwatches money can buy, Amazon Prime Day is a fantastic opportunity to buy one of the latest Samsung smartwatches.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch is on sale in the US, while those in the UK can get the Galaxy Watch Active for its best price yet.
We've seen the Galaxy Watch for a little less than its $299 price on Prime Day in the past, but it's still a solid $50 off for the 46mm larger version of the watch with a rotating bezel.
Those in the UK are able to get this year's Samsung Galaxy Watch Active for the best price we've seen so far. It's down to £169 which is the first time we've seen the price drop below £199 in the UK.
You won't get the rotating bezel with the Galaxy Watch Active, but it has a slick design and access to all the greatest Tizen features. Scroll down below to see the best deals on both watches.
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Teenage Cancer Trust celebrates success of Sunday Mirror Christmas Charity Appeal 2018
We were chosen as the beneficiary of the Sunday Mirror's 2018 Christmas Charity Appeal and now it's time to celebrate how it went!
We were thrilled to be chosen as the Sunday Mirror's partner for their 2018 Christmas Charity Appeal.
As part of the appeal, Sunday Mirror readers were urged to donate to our #GiveAnHour campaign to help fund our specialist nurses and Youth Support Coordinators.
Five incredible young people and a Teenage Cancer Trust Clinical Nurse Specialist shared their stories to highlight the vital work we do to support young people with cancer every day.
We want to thank the kind generosity of Sunday Mirror readers who donated an incredible £5,411 throughout the appeal.
These funds will go towards supporting the life-changing care we provide young people and their families before, during and after cancer.
By supporting the #GiveAnHour campaign, readers helped fund Teenage Cancer Trust Nurses and Youth Support Coordinators who helped to support young people like Owen, Molly, Dionne, Shannon and Demi, who featured in the campaign.
Liz Tait, Director of Fundraising at Teenage Cancer Trust, said, "Having cancer is tough at any age, but as a young person it brings unique challenges. Combining treatment with school, friendships and all the usual challenges of this turbulent time of life means it’s even more important to be treated as an individual, not a diagnosis.
We’re so grateful for the incredible support shown by our supporters and the readers of the Sunday Mirror. By donating to the #GiveAnHour campaign, they will help us to continue supporting young people with cancer.
£25 could pay for a Youth Support Coordinator for one hour, while it costs £30 to fund a nurse specialist for an hour.
Whether you can donate £2.50 or £25, your incredible support will mean that we can be there for more young people with cancer like Owen, Molly, Dionne, Shannon and Demi.
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When It Comes To Joe Biden, Immigration Advocates Are Cautiously Optimistic
Though the president-elect has pledged to roll back some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive policies, advocates say the Obama administration shouldn’t be Biden’s model.
By Michael Marks & Shelly BrisbinDecember 2, 2020 12:24 pmBorder & Immigration, Government & Politics
Political watchers are looking for any clues about how a Biden administration is likely to address immigration policy.
Silvia Foster-Frau spoke to immigration advocates to get a sense for what they’re hoping for, and what they’re expecting. She covers immigration and border affairs for the San Antonio Express-News. She told Texas Standard that advocates are “heartened” by pledges to roll back Trump administration policies that capped refugee admittance and attempted to restrict the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Biden has also pledged to create a task force focused on reunifying migrant children with their parents.
But advocates are also concerned about the family detention centers in Texas created back during the Obama administration.
“I think it makes them a little wary because there’s this sense that Biden is kind of going to go back to the status quo of the Obama era, unraveling things that the Trump administration put in place, but perhaps simply returning to the Obama-era initiatives,” Foster-Frau said. “And for them, that era was fraught with a lot of work.”
Foster-Frau said one advocate wants Biden to be as pro-immigrant as President Donald Trump was perceived to be anti-immigrant.
Biden’s selection of Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security received mixed reactions from immigration advocates. Mayorkas would be the first Latino and the first immigrant to lead DHS. He served in the Obama administration in a role that was key to implementing the popular DACA program.
“But again, he represents part of this establishment that was there before, and I think that’s being [viewed] with some caution,” Foster-Frau said.
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Review: Blackrock at The Arch at Holden Street Theatres - Adelaide Fringe
By Lia Cocks
Blackrock and Nick Enright have been customary with drama school auditions around the country since the mid 90s, and with good reason.
Inspired by the true events of a young girls murder on Newcastle’s Stockton Beach in 1989, Enright was asked to write an education piece that examines the world of adolescence, mateship, violence, and relationships. He was then commissioned by Sydney Theatre Company to expand the play into a full length work, and Blackrock was debuted in 1995 to critical acclaim.
The town of Blackrock is shook when the body of a teenage girl is found the morning after a party, raped and murdered. The play does not depict the murder itself. Instead, the focus is on a teenager, Jared Kirby, torn between the choking culture of mateship and misogyny and the effect of Tracy’s death on her friends, the parents of those involved and the town.
Although the play is now over 30 years old, Enright’s depiction of Australian youth culture is still front and centre today. The objectification of young women, binge drinking, sexism and toxic masculinity are all issues we are confronted with and fighting against.
This production of Blackrock marks the second show for Glassroom Theatre Company, following their sold out season of Clanstow.
I immediately loved the location of Holden Street Theatres for this production and sat right at the front to feel the drama as much as possible. A simple and very effective set of black backdrop with rocks symbolising the beach, a couch and plant for the Ackland’s house, and table and chairs for Jared’s home he shares with his mother.
Director, producer and star Jack Cummins really is one to watch - on the stage and off. He plays the tortured and conflicted Jared with such commitment and assurity, I couldn’t take my eyes off him when he was onstage.
Two scenes stand out for me more than any others. The first being the revelation of Toby’s (Jai Pearce) involvement in the crime and the response of his parents. Toby’s sister Rachel, played brilliantly by Millie Sanford, has to watch as her parents focus on not what Toby did, but how to keep him out of jail. I felt proud of her for standing her ground but also frustrated at her family’s complete disregard and neglect of her.
The second standout was the scene of Ricko’s confession to Jared, and the violent confrontation that followed. This is when James Coates (Ricko) really became his character - dangerous, manipulative and brutal.
Well done to the support cast, with special mention to Ella Buckingham, who played the murdered girl Tracy’s best friend Cherie, Miraede Bhatia as Ricko’s long suffering, abused girlfriend Tiffany and Jade Ryles, Jared’s single mother Diane, who cannot communicate with her son about anything, especially not her breast cancer diagnosis.
Blackrock encourages a dialogue post show about the themes of ‘Aussie’ culture, slut-shaming and victim blaming which can’t and shouldn’t be ignored.
See it - and the outstanding cast of up and coming actors. Glassroom Theatre Company should be extremely proud of themselves.
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Conservative Review August 02, 2016
Daniel Horowitz
12 reasons why federal judiciary is irremediably broken
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Every four years since at least the 1960s, Republican leaders warned the conservative base that if they declined to support the lesser of two evils, scary liberal judges will permanently ruin their lives. “The courts will be lost forever,” they say. Not that these individuals ever have a problem with the judiciary, as witnessed by the multitude of prominent Republicans who say “gay marriage is the law of the land”and the “courts should decide religious liberty.” But these same leaders know the conservative base, the voters most likely to bolt the party as a result of non-conservative leadership, are the most revolted by the prospect of losing the courts.
The truth that nobody in the conservative movement will tell you is that at some point between the ‘60s and today — through one or several of those many elections in which we were supposed to lose the courts forever — the courts were indeed lost forever. One could debate exactly when we officially crossed that Rubicon, and as I write in Stolen Sovereignty, Robert Bork believed that time was in the ‘90s.
Regardless of the exact timing, one thing is clear: we are certainly at that point now.
Thus, the notion that we must elect a Republican president and Senate in order to “appoint better judges” and keep agreeing to the liberal premise that the courts have the power they now claim to hold, is a sure path to failure. The real reason we need a Republican president (aside from other issues such as reviving the military) is to sign legislation permanently taking the ball of the political game out of the courts’ hands by exercising Article III Section 2 and narrowing their jurisdiction. This is essentially what I demonstrate in my book — that no matter who wins in future elections, the courts will only get worse, not better. And in case you haven’t noticed, they did redefine the building block of civilization and are well on their way to redefining sexuality. Since the release of my book, just a few short weeks ago, lower courts have tossed out the most basic state powers imaginable, including measures that would protect voter integrity, protect religious liberty, defund planned parenthood, identify requirements for birth certificates, and recognize men as men and women as women in private dressing spaces.
I’m not saying we should refrain from making the best judicial selections we can when the opportunities present themselves. But if we fail to fight concurrently for judicial reform and begin reclaiming power for the states and the people’s representatives, the nomination of good judges will continue to be a fool’s errand.
Here are 12 reasons why the judiciary, as currently constructed, is irremediably broken in the short-term and long-term and must be stripped down to size if we ever hope to benefit from electing conservatives to the political branches of government:
1. Permanent imbalance on the courts: The nature of the legal profession and the culture of constitutional construction is such that every Democrat appointee is a rabid post-constitutionalist. They bat .1000 on liberal issues. Every one of them believes in codifying transgenderism and gay marriage into law and elevating those issues over our inalienable religious liberty and property rights. Every one of them believes in expanding constitutional rights and citizen privileges for illegal aliens. On the other hand, roughly half of the GOP appointees are not originalists, as witnessed by how many go along with mandated gay marriage and anti-religious liberty rulings. Even if our movement finally succeeds in clamping down on SCOTUS picks, there is no way we will ever bat .1000 with lower court picks. As I pointed out last week, four GOP- appointees on the much-vaunted Fifth Circuit gutted a common sense voter ID law, something not a single Democrat appointee should have done from a legal standpoint even if they disagreed with the policy. But this happens on a weekly basis, and consequently, there will always be an imbalance in the system against us.
2. A penny short and a day late: There is enough existing “jurisprudence” to destroy every facet of the Constitution based on liberal precedent. Likewise, there are far few judges who, like Clarence Thomas, are willing to go back to the original Constitution, even if it means countermanding decades of odious precedent. Even “good judges” will only decline to expand the bastardization of the 14th Amendment, Civil Rights Actand Voting Rights Act. We will never have enough of them to roll back existing precedent, which by itself is enough for the Left to shut down every agenda item we have in the states headed forward.
3. Lower courts matter and are even worse: So many important cases are decided in the lower courts, and those that make it to the Supreme Court are often influenced by the momentum of the lower courts. As I’ve noted on many occasions, the lower courts are even worse than the Supreme Court and that is not going to change any time this generation, thanks to Obama’s lucky timing in turning over circuits. Again, the Fifth and Eight Circuits are the only ones where there is some sanity, and as noted above, we couldn’t even get a voter ID law passed the Fifth Circuit. It has gotten so bad that in some of the most bedrock cases — where in a perfect world every judge would side with the Constitution — we can’t even get one circuit to dissent, thereby making it unlikely the Supreme Court even takes up the case. Only one circuit sided with the right to conscience in a private organization (Little Sisters of the Poor), which is the most sacred property right. The second most important court is already gone for at least a generation. Democrats have an 11-1 majority on the ever-important D.C. district court and a 7-4 majority on the D.C. circuit. And that matters little as not all the Republican judges are originalists (some have been on the wrong side of issues such as Obamacare and gun rights).
4. The next president will not fundamentally alter the balance in lower courts: Given that President Obama has remade 40 percent of the district bench and 30 percent of the appellate bench, liberals are strategically positioned in enough circuits that, when age and circuits are factored in, we are unlikely to shift the balance of any court in a major way unless we had the presidency for roughly 12 years. Meanwhile, conservatives face a judicial time bomb as cases that deal with the most destructive aspects of the Left’s agenda — tearing down immigration enforcement, state criminal codes, voting and redistricting statutes, abortion regulations and laws defining marriage, sexuality and religious liberty — are decided by Obama judges. These judges are not only redefining civilization, thereby rendering election results moot, but are also preventing us from winning elections in the first place by perpetuating voter fraud. Conservatives could never appoint a sufficient number of “good judges” fast enough to slow these leftists from locking in precedent. And as mentioned before, because almost all GOP appointees tend to accept post-constitutional stare decisis, they will not overturn such decisions. Let’s face it: these “conservative legal eagles” will not overturn Obergerfell nor will they overturn the transgender equivalent that will likely be decided soon. Only Justice Thomas was willing to fully uphold the Texas abortion laws. Justices Alito and Roberts would have remanded the case back to the lower courts to better analyze the effects of the law in limiting access to abortion. Now, it could be that these justices still fundamentally oppose the entire abortion jurisprudence and were just playing within the sand box created by Roe and Casey, albeit with a more milquetoast approach than Thomas. But it is quite likely, especially in the case of Roberts, that he would not overturn Roe v.Wade or any other breach in the 14th Amendment already universally accepted by the legal profession. This is the fundamental problem with those who believe we can win the “judicial game” by appointing better justices.
5. The Left only needs a few courts to hamper a common sense conservative agenda: Most major policy issues that Democrats will use the courts to attack are national in scope. Therefore, they can usually shop their lawsuits to specific districts and circuits, where even after four years of a GOP president, they will always find a willing audience. As for state laws, most states have multiple districts, and liberals can usually find at least one district that is willing to issue an injunction. Again, many of these cases never make it to SCOTUS, and even if they do and we successfully change the balance on the high court, it will take years to uphold every common sense policy on a state and federal level. Every deportation, defense of religious liberty, voter integrity law or abortion regulation will be encumbered in courts for years if we continue to accept the premise that courts wield such power. We don’t have the time.
6. Precedent works only one way: By the time conservatives might have sufficient GOP governance to actually make a dent in the lower courts and change the balance of the Supreme Court, we will lose power any way. No party has ever been in office for more than 12 years aside from the FDR-era. Democrats will come roaring back, as the pendulum always swings back and forth, and will continue appointing crazies to the bench. Unlike our judges who uphold even post-constitutional precedent, the Left’s judges have no qualms about overturning 200 years of settled case law and the plain meaning of the Constitution. After all, how else can you explain gay marriage, transgenderism, and overturning immigration enforcement laws? As long as there is one court decision overturning natural law and fundamental rights, our side tends to respect it thereafter. Which is why we won’t even get to this point.
7. Good judges don’t balance bad judges: Let’s say Democrats control the process for eight years in a row and appoint 240 lower court judges and two SCOTUS picks. Then Republicans do the same in the ensuing eight years. Even if we’d miraculously defy gravity and successfully counter all 240 post-constitutionalists with 240 pure originalists in the mold of Clarence Thomas, an impossibility in itself, there is still a major imbalance. We can never win a rigged system in which leftist political ideologues manipulate rules of standing, statutory interpretation and constitutional construction in order to achieve their political outcome. There is no such thing as a Ted Cruz, R- Texas (A, 97%) or Louie Gohmert, R-Texas (A, 96%) of the judiciary. That’s the point; it’s not political. You can’t just grab cases. They have to be brought before the court, the plaintiffs have to legitimately have standing, and the outcome of the case has to legitimately create that desired precedent (not that courts have this power anyway). True originalists won’t manipulate the system to get the desired political result. There is no way to balance 50-60% of the judiciary that believes every single Democrat policy, more radical than ever before, should be enshrined into law and the Constitution. There is no conservative equivalent to codifying state recognition of transgenderism as an inalienable right. Thus, liberal judicial activism is a cancer that can only be cured with wholesale surgery, not chemotherapy.
8. Rigged rules of standing: Closely related to the previous point, for every one at-bat we have at the courts to strike down bad laws in blue states, the other side gets 50 at bats against our laws in red states. This will only get worse when we are in power at a federal level. The Left simply has a legal infrastructure that dwarfs our side and they have the ability to tie up our laws in court within days. While it took us years to even nail down the plain meaning of the most inviolable right to self-defense in Heller, the other side won mandated gay marriage on states, the most radical deviation from the Constitution imaginable, within a few years, and almost immediately in many lower courts. The same thing is happening with transgenderism, Planned Parenthood funding and “rights” for illegal immigrants. And as noted, the judicial tyrants always give them standing to sue.
In chapter five of Stolen Sovereignty, I discuss the imbalance of standing in the context of immigration. With the financial help of George Soros, the Ford Foundation, et al., groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Immigration Law Center, LatinoJustice and the 10,000 indefatigable lawyers of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, liberals have enough resources to encumber every state and federal law and every enforcement action in the courts for years. They get standing on behalf of illegal aliens and even criminal aliens. But modern standing doctrine in America states that, for the most part, U.S. taxpayers and concerned citizens do not have the same right, as their injury is said to be too attenuated or not direct enough. Despite mass immigration’s negative effects on social cohesion, labor markets, crime, schools, hospitals and public assets being obvious and generally quantifiable, courts continuously dismiss cases brought by American citizens challenging the government’s multi-decades of non-enforcement of our immigration laws. This means a crucial area of policy, one that is absolutely core to our nation’s future and sovereignty, is being decided every day in the courts in a one-sided and biased way.
Thus, even if we appoint a few more good judges and the other side loses some of the cases, they will still win enough cases to impede our entire governing agenda. To use a sports analogy, they have a perpetual first-and-goal at our one-yard line with as many tries as they want. Coupled with one-directional stare decisis, we have to win every case while they only have to win once to cement an enduring victory.
9. Senate politics ruin lower court picks: It is almost impossible to have a perfect record with lower court picks anyway. Aside from the fact that there are too few eligible judges who would actually overturn all of the corrosive stare decisis, there is a tradition whereby the senators from the respective states get to sign off on the nominees. Senate Republicans have already cut deals in their respective states to nominate mutually agreed upon candidates who are more than likely non-originalists.
10. Conservative court victories pale in comparison to sweeping losses: When we win in the courts, they are narrow victories. When the other side wins, they are sweeping social transformations across the board, such as Roe, Obergefell, disparate impact, criminal justice “reform” etc. What about guns and Heller? Heller doesn’t matter that much anyway because we won on the politics of the issue and red states could still do what they want. It’s only blue states that are effected by keeping Heller intact, but remember, even six years after Heller and McDonald, these states are still not enforcing the Constitution and blue states are banning weapons and completely denying the right to carry to residents. Even John Roberts has shown a reluctance to grant cert when there is no circuit split, and the circuits are so bad, they all chip away at Heller. Thus far not a single circuit has ruled our way on right-to-carry or so-called state assault weapons bans. And don’t forget that the benefits of going on offense in Citizens United and some regulatory cases pale in magnitude to the liability of the courts on de-civilization through disparate impact, gay marriage, transgenderism and anti- religious liberty edicts. The sweeping victories for the Left in redefining fundamental rights, natural law and state powers overwhelm any fleeting and narrow victories conservatives might get from a powerful judiciary, in an alternative universe, striking down liberal laws. And as we learned from Obamacare, those victories rarely happen.
11. Supreme Court is not equally divided: It would have been one thing had a liberal judge on the Supreme Court passed away, instead of Scalia. The replacement of that judge, coupled with Scalia’s remaining on the court, would have increased the possibility of swaying the balance in many (but not all) cases. My concern, however, is that raising the specter that everything hinges upon the next Supreme Court justice pick will exhaust all of our political capital … for nothing. To begin with, it will be almost impossible to replace Scalia with a conservative if Democrats hold the Senate. If Republicans maintain a small majority in the Senate, they will have to pull the nuclear option and abolish the filibuster in order to get an originalist confirmed because no Democrat will agree to confirm a true constitutionalist, making it impossible to garner the requisite 60 votes.
Then what? After all that political investment, the Left will still have a 5-4 (and sometimes 6-3) majority on most critical issues, particularly the religious liberty and cultural Marxist issues in which Kennedy is 100% as bad as Elena Kagan. All we would have done is raise the specter of the importance of the court and legitimize its power as the ultimate council of revision, yet we would be forced to submit to all the bad decisions that we had just legitimized. And meanwhile, the lower courts will continue to build momentum for new and radical frontiers of social transformation. Unless another liberal justice dies within the next two years, there will be no more vacancies with a GOP president because Kennedy and Ginsburg won’t retire if Trump wins. To the extent there is a slight shift from the right, Kennedy will continue shifting even further to the Left and the existing problems with Roberts on some issues will become more apparent.
12. Solve the problem wholesale and follow the Constitution: The Judiciary doesn’t have this power anyway so why not go back to the way it was supposed to be rather than raise the specter and legitimacy of the judiciary as the council of revision … and then lose anyway? Stripping the courts of power over societal issues, especially the lower courts, would cost as much political capital as it would to confirm a single justice. Either way, we’d have to blow up the filibuster. Isn’t it better to expend that capital towards actually solving the problem and restoring our system of governance rather than try to repeat 50 years of failure attempting to game an illegal system?
For how much longer will our side continue to legitimize the judicial power grab?
20 years ago, jurist extraordinaire, Robert Bork, made the following trenchant observation:
Republican Presidents have used the nomination process in an effort to change the direction of the Court with almost zero results on the major issues. After twelve years of Presidents Reagan and Bush, each of whom made a determined effort to appoint Justices who would abide by the Constitution as originally understood, we seem farther than ever from a restrained Court. Between them, Reagan and Bush had five appointments. Only two try to relate their decisions to the Constitution as the men who wrote, proposed, and ratified it understood it. A majority of the Justices has become more arrogantly authoritarian than ever.
That was at a time when the redefinition of marriage was a long-term fear and the issue of transgenderism wasn’t even contemplated. That was at the foot of the mountain of so much of the radicalism in the lower courts we are seeing today and it was before Obama was able to remake so many circuits in astounding fashion. On net, most of us would go back to the judicial threats of the ‘90s any day of the week — relative to what we are dealing with today. Yet, Bork , understood the judiciary was terminally ill in its entire culture.
For how much longer will our side continue to legitimize the judicial power grab? For how much longer will our side allow the courts to redefine the relationship between man and government, the contours of fundamental rights, natural law, and national or state sovereignty?
There is a better way — a way that addresses the fundamental failure of our strategy for the past 50 years. I invite everyone to join me in educating our elected officials that the ultimate power over broad societal and political questions, and the power of the judiciary itself, lies with their branch of government, certainly not within the exclusive and final jurisdiction of the unelected courts.
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Home Opinion Harnessing the happenstance of two Agbas as ministers-designate
Harnessing the happenstance of two Agbas as ministers-designate
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By Sufuyan Ojeifo
Skimming and scanning through the list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers-designate, one would see therein the inclusion of two Agbas, to wit: Goddy Jedy-Agba and Clem IK Agba. The enclosure of these Nigerians who bear the same surname is one of the rare happenstances in life and in the constitution of this particular cabinet. Apparently unrelated by blood and ethnicity, Goddy and Clem have the good fortune of coming into the cabinet with surnames that are the same in spelling even if they are, as expected, different in meaning.
Although, Goddy is from Cross River state while Clem is from Edo state both within the South-south geo-political zone, yet they share a few things in common on other fronts. For instance, they are both princes of their respective kingdom. Goddy was born into a royal family in Obudu by His Royal Highness Uti J.D. Agba while Clem was born into the family of His Royal Highness, Pius Kadiri Ikanade Agba – the Oliola of Uzanu in Etsako East. They thus bring their blue bloods into the cabinet.
To boot, they are both technocrats with track records of achievements in their fields of interest. Interestingly, both men have been “big players” in the very lucrative oil and gas sectors of the Nigerian economy. Therefore, there is a comical sense in which both could be referred to as oil “Sheiks”. Goddy worked for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) where he retired as Group General Manager (GGM), Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD) while Clem has been in and out of work for Chevron Oil.
Clem’s last position was Manager, Community Procurement Operations at Chevron Oil from where he was tapped for appointment as a minister by President Buhari. But before his appointment as a minister, he had gone on leave of absence in 2009 to serve as a Commissioner in the Ministry of Environment and Public Utilities and later in the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Housing in Edo state in the government of Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole.
By way of salutary digression, Clem, as a commissioner in charge of Environment and Public Utilities, championed the urban renewal and construction of drainage infrastructure to combat erosion menace in Edo state. He was largely instrumental to the conceptualization of the Benin Water Storm project to deal with the perennial flooding problem in the state capital. He reformed waste management and ensured beautification of the Ring Road; and, addressed the issues of defacing, slum settlements and chaotic traffic flows in urban centres, particularly Benin City. He was also credited with coming up with sustainable forest regeneration initiatives.
At the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Housing, he set up the Edo Geographic Information Services (EGIS). These were in addition to his being the chairman of Edo State Tenders Board (2009-2012) and his numerous contributions as a member of Edo State Economic and Strategy Team that was then under the headship of the current State Governor, Godwin Obaseki. Apparently, Clem has under his belt solid experience in both the private and public sectors and can then boast of his readiness to engage with the intricate working of executive implementation and supervision of policies and programmes.
Clem’s landmark achievements in Edo state constitute his enduring legacies. Analytical and very resourceful, his capacities and possibilities were attested to on the occasions when Edo State Government episodically briefed the Edo people on its activities. He was always a cynosure of all eyes for his erudition so much so that a former governorship aspirant in the state, architect and neo-scholar, Dr Austin Emuan, once lauded his creativity and industry.
For Goddy, with his exposure to the dynamics of public finance management in the NNPC, one can safely surmise that in him the president has a brilliant and sharply-focused minister-designate who could, without thinking twice, given his obvious experience, be picked for the critical petroleum portfolio. While in charge of Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD) as GGM at the NNPC, he was, among other duties, responsible for liaising with Crude Pricing and Technical Evaluation Section on Price Movement and other input data for market reports.
Goddy also monitored and analyzed consumption of other energy types, terms of cost availability and relative impact on world petroleum supply/demand balance; monitored and analyzed consumption patterns and conservation policies in consumer countries and implication for oil demand; monitored and analyzed tanker market as well as world crude oil supply and demand balance; prepared monthly as well as quarterly reports; participated in quarterly market review meetings and prepared summary of review with marketers.
As Head of Gas/Gas Liquids/Condensate Sale, before he was elevated to the position of GGM, COMD, Goddy was responsible for letters of credit administration, credit control claims and documentations (including documents of oil lifting and payments, reconciliation of all credits-demurrage, debits, penalties and interest charges). He took part in tripartite reconciliation with CBN/FAD/Commercial Division to ensure uniformity of sales and receipts; and undertook the supervision of re-test of condensate, LPG, LNG and gas samples for quality control, including, specifically, investigation and assessment of demurrage and loss claims as well as coordination and supervision of credit control and claims.
Indeed, both men (Goddy and Clem), with solid experiences under their belt, can very well pass for utilitarian technocrats that will offer the marked seriousness and commitment to effective service delivery by government in the next four years, which are critical to President Buhari for building enduring legacies. The resourcefulness of both ministers-designate in the oil sector can be harnessed either as a tag team to address the contending issues in the sector or through inter-ministerial synergies and the complementarities of special purpose committees for holistic solutions to identified issues.
Besides, the princely duo should be expected to commit greater effort to effective service delivery than the dyed-in-the-wool politician-ministers who may be more interested in deploying their offices in bolstering their political interests in the build-up to the 2023 general election. In the circumstance of mitigating the expected pressure between delivering on set-mandates and satisfying the diktats of vested political interests, President Buhari would do well to set his eyes on the likes of the two Agbas and a few other technocrats in the cabinet to handle specialised ministerial portfolios that are critical to national development and to the institution of accountability in leadership in terms of measurable infrastructure development and achievements.
For Goddy and Clem, the consensus among close watchers of the politics of ministerial appointment and assignment of portfolios is that, given the validation of their backgrounds and performances during the Senate screening and confirmation hearing, they could be deployed in driving the critical sectors of any of petroleum, power, works, housing and environment portfolios. As individuals who crave the institution of excellence in public service and from whom much is expected, they must put their nose to the grindstone.
Interestingly, while both of them did not study engineering or any oil and gas-related courses in the University (Goddy obtained a first degree in International Studies and a second degree in International Law and Diplomacy; Clem obtained a B.Sc degree in Economics and two Master of Business Administration degrees (one in management and the second in Supply Chain Management), they thus communicate a fact that there is something unique about their Intelligent Quotient (IQ), to wit: the power and capacity to adapt and focus on areas of interest for self-actualisation, achievement of corporate goals and benefit of humanity.
Ojeifo, an Abuja-based journalist, contributed this piece via ojwonderngr@yahoo.com
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Following up my earlier posts on COVID I’d like share a long interview (in Chinese and Italian) with Zheng Ningyuan on the website sconessione precarie, a web platform of precarious workers based in Italy. Ningyuan is a Chinese artist and co-founded founder of the WUXU group. During the current crisis he founded the 4xDecameron project to share reflections and thoughts on the quarantine between Italy and China.
Ningyuan’s interview offers a spectrum of how COVID may transform people’s lives fundamentally in the shadow of currently adopted containment measures. One important aspect concerns what Biao Xiang, in another article, calls the deep transformations to our current “mobility economy“. In line with previous observations about the rising oligopoly of retail businesses and the current global re-dimensioning of commodity trade (particularly of food products), Ningyuan reveals a few rarely highlighted aspects of the Chinese crisis response. Rising difficulties in the food supply chain during the lockdown have inspired the Chinese government to stimulate digitalised buying platforms like (Alipay) e Tencent (WeChatpay), for example. On the one hand, such online distribution has compensated the perceived inefficiency of physical retail shops and centralised logistics. But it also generates an acceleration of control mechanisms over people’s everyday mobilities through increased web surveillance. Finally, it leaves millions of non-resident citizens such as informal migrant workers and homeless people, literally, off the grid. During this current epidemic, for example, the Chinese government has strengthened the so-called “health code (健康 码)” system in order to monitor the biological status of individual citizens in order to avoid possible threats to public health. This system can directly limit our very sense of being mobile, Ningyuan concludes, because it further blurs the boundary of who and what is determined a risk to the preservation of biological life as an object of government intervention.
One of the major challenges ahead is exactly to foresee how the biological governance of post-COVID life will further enhance this digital extractivism of our everyday mobilities – in which China is observed to be prime developer and commercial leader. In line with Ningyuan’s interview, Biao Xiang writes how the COVID-19 epidemic and the subsequent responses are particularly impactful because they abruptly halt what we may call a “mobility economy” -while also transforming it in different ways. Comparing the Chinese government reaction to the 2003 Sars crisis and the current COVID epidemic, he concludes that that the control of mobility is no longer specific to controlling the chain-like mobility of rural-urban migrants and the way they are presumed a risk to society. Today, the government is consolidating what Xiang calls a serious of grid reactions: residential communities, districts, cities and even entire provinces act as grids to impose blanket surveillance over all the residents, minimise mobilities, and enforce isolation. Such reactions are following a trend of proliferating labour mobilities, whereby people are constantly moving between homes and jobs -a situation that is pushing this differentiation, rhyzomatic government response. Several autocratic governments are already experimenting with social network technologies today to control mobility in the post-COVID phase. it remains an open question how these technologies will also include the “off the grid” informal workers and non-residents who remain or do not remain valued as key assets to maintain current levels of welfare.
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Further to my previous post about Brussels some days ago, two apparently unrelated analyses appear to confirm my observations about the reasons behind IS expansion. According to terrorism expert Hassan Hassan, the strategy of hitting targets in Europe, far removed from their operational bases in the Middle East and Northern Africa, is increasingly unrelated to the loss of terrain they are experiencing in the latter. On the contrary, the attacks in Paris and Brussels show how IS is trying to take control over former Al Qaeda networks by aligning and associating themselves with the latter’s militants.
In an unrelated analysis, Scott Atran -an anthropologist working in France and the UK- warns not to underestimate the ideological traction of the IS Caliphate. In the poor neighbourhoods of Casablanca and Tetuan, as in the Parisian banlieus, he and his colleagues encountered a widespread acceptance, if not a sharing, of IS values as well as the brutal violence committed in its name. Despite some of the factual mistakes in Atran’s text (which are discussed in part on the Aeon forum) the key message is valid and lays in what Edmund Burke, in a different context, calls the attraction for the sublime -or the fascination to fight for a glorious and unifying cause.
Far from being miserable paupers, or a rejected Lumpenproletariat (as Diego Gambetta showed for other historical examples), IS suicide bombers not only share this fascination, but they are also ready to make the ultimate sacrifice in favour of this greater good as well as for their group of companions with whom they share intimate relationships (Atran talks about a fusion of identity in this regard). In this sense it does not come as a big surprise that the large majority of IS recruits are mobilised through their proper families, the French centre against religious radicalisation (or CPDSI) reveals. Rather than more police and camouflage on the streets, therefore, what might be needed instead are closer contacts with such families at risk as well as community leaders. In their unwillingness to also address the socio-psychological causes of this terrorist (or, as Atran provocatively says, “revolutionary”) struggle, European leaders continue to play into the cards of the IS military leadership, which is becoming increasingly apt in exploiting this diminishing grey zone between the sovereign life of post-modern (neo)liberal democracies, and the killing of this life in the name of revolutionary sacrifice…
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After Brussels
I’ve been willing to write something about Brussels for a while now, but somehow I missed the words. Other than the tragic loss of 32 lives, the wounding of many others, as well as the fact that the attack took place in Belgium, where I was born, in an airport where I’ve passed dozens of times, a metro I regularly took, perhaps the most sobering aspect of the 22 March attacks has been the widespread resignation with which they have been received. Contrarily to Paris and New York, there were no patriotic speeches on the rubble of crumbled buildings; and few were the propositions to ‘smoke out the terrorists’ from their ‘caves’ and hideouts.
One reason might be the awareness that the neuralgic centre of the attacks lay a few miles from where they took place this time. In that respect, it’s been ironic how Brussels, and Belgium by extension, has quickly acquired the epithet of the ‘failed state’ in quite similar ways Afghanistan or Somalia continue to be described by some conservative think-tanks like the Fund for Peace. Driven by almost revanchist undertones (for example in these reflections by Tim King and former war reporter Teun Voeten for Politico), Belgium’s dysfunctional federalism is taken as a mirror for the ‘lawlessness’ and rising radicalism in the Brussels neighbourhood known as the terrorists’ headquarters. Such analysis not only glosses over the systematic institutional hypocrisy with regard to the city’s, admittedly, major problems (which are confronted with the usual mix of militarisation and social neglect) but it also mistakes such wider social unrest for the jihadi’s personal motivations. Besides the fact that Belgium still produces more foreign fighters than any other European country, one must not forget that none of the attackers (neither of Paris nor of Brussels) were interested in radical Islam until very late before they decided to dedicate themselves to the armed struggle. Observers, like Olivier Roy and Fabio Merone, who know the wider recruitment basis of ISIS in Europe a bit, all agree that the religious extremism of these young people is nothing more than anger dressed as Islam. Otherwise how do you explain that Abdelsalam Salah was “drinking beer and smoking joints” a few weeks from the attacks of the Bataclan, as some of his friends recalled in front of the cameras…
In that respect I much more preferred a report by l’Espresso (unfortunately not translated into English) which places the reasons for this rage in the socio-cultural divide between first and second generation immigrants, and the fact that immigrant youth risk to see their host country and their parents as traitors of a failed life project (or, as one foreign fighter explained to his mother shortly before he left: “If I had blond hair and be called Jacques I would most likely be sitting at my comfortable job at the commune, but with my Arab name I can’t even find work as a street-sweeper”). Even if this sounds absurd for the majority of muslim youth in Belgium, ISIS has become very apt at exploiting the projects of revenge that germinate in a life enmeshed with boredom, frustration and petty criminality for a minority of them in very similar ways as the Camorra has taken grip over its strongholds of Scampia or Castelvolturno in the Italian de-industrialized South. With the only difference that ISIS does not (just) promise money and power but also paradise. Feeling rejected by their homes, organised violence provides for these youngsters a new family in many respects -awkward as it is.
But BXL22M also forces us to consider more seriously the changing geography of global warfare these days. Besides the risk of urban conflict strategic think thanks warn for (of which Brussels has been another prominent example the last few days), global jihad cannot be limited to a war ‘in the borderlands’, but it also comprises a wider structural basis in the many de-industrialized cities of the North that continue to germinate frustration and revenge. How to connect these dots will be an important task for the future, as will be the challenge to avenge right-wing extremism that is rising at equal pace.
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British born, Julian Ayers has a wealth of experience from various international management positions held by him in India, Oman, Indonesia, the Caribbean and UK. Before stepping into his role as a General Manager at Hyatt Regency Delhi, Julian was the General Manager at Alila Jabal Akhtar, Oman and the Regional Vice President at the Alila Hotels and Resorts, Middle East and India. He is not new to Delhi having had previous posting with IHG & Hilton Groups. A graduate of Suffolk College, he honed his skills at Gleneagles in Scotland before driving his career through successful managerial appointments with highly regarded properties all over the world.
Passionate about sustainability, Julian’s strengths lie in his ability to develop a strong team of highly motivated professionals to deliver a remarkable luxury experience. He has extensive experience with resorts as well as busy city centres, owing to which he has acquired an in-depth knowledge of the local market. It helps him to forge lasting relationships as well as the financial skills required to find and negotiate contracts. He aims to bring his global experience to invoke a spirit of innovation and diversity at Hyatt Regency Delhi.
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Monaco has a number of great options to wine and dine. Choose from classic French and Mediterranean dishes and exotic cuisines, sit down at one of our restaurants and get ready for an exceptional culinary journey full of flavours and aromas. With more than 170 restaurants throughout the principality, beginning with the 3-Michelin-starred Louis XV by Chef Alain Ducasse at Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo offers a haute couture menu dedicated to the Riviera.
Experience pure enjoyment at the elegant Le Grill at Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, where the cuisine features grilled meats that have built the restaurant’s reputation. The renovations of this magical place promise an exhilarating experience. Feel the vibe at Cafe de Paris, as you sip the coffee in both the indoor and outdoor areas for breakfast and lunch in the sun, afternoon tea, followed by dinners and get-togethers. Don’t miss the Mediterranean-inspired menu at the restaurant by Chef Joel Robuchon. Or experience the specially curated subtle and innovative Japanese cuisine in a soothing Japanese garden decor at the restaurant Yoshi housed in the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo.
Le Vistamar by Chef Benoit Witz, offers refined lunch options in a modern setting filled with natural light as you’ll love the gorgeous view of the Port overlooking the Mediterranean. At the Blue Bay, enjoy cuisines inspired by Caribbean and Mediterranean influences by Chef Marcel Ravin. Elsa, a sunny restaurant that won the first Michelin star ever awarded to a 100% organic establishment; is situated in Monte Carlo Beach Hotel and more than 90% of its produce comes from within a radius of 60 miles. Nobu Fairmont, Monte Carlo, is recognised worldwide for its amazing cuisine, mixing traditional Japanese dishes and South American spices and aromas.
For all things Indians, Maya Jah, the new authentic Indian fine dine restaurant, by Chef Ravinder Negi, refines traditional recipes. A delicious oriental blend of decoration will make the Maya Jah a must for a new taste experience in Monaco. Maya Jah offers a selection of timeless recipes from different regions of India and a discovery of flavours, thanks to the secrets of herbs and spices used in Indian cuisine. If this is not enough, then get ready for the Monaco nightlife experience! The Principality take its nightlife to another level altogether. The evenings, here, are full of sparkle and the nights are magical!
Monaco definitely delivers when it comes to nightlife. There are plenty of glamorous options for a night out in Monte Carlo. Lounges, clubs and speakeasies, indoors or on the terrace, on the seaside or under the stars, there’s always something trendy and fun to do in Monaco: sip a delicious cocktail, listen to live music, or dance to the best DJs. For something less exclusive but also extraordinary, visit the Buddha Bar and marvel at the incredible oriental decor and giant Buddhas. Find your way to Jimmy’z. This club is set around a stunning Japanese garden, overlooking the Mediterranean complemented by a pool. Located on a turn in the Monte-Carlo Grand Prix circuit, La Rascasse is the
place to go in Monaco for a great night out. Or enjoy a gin cocktail on the terrace at the Blue Gin, or head inside for billiards and to listen to the DJ in this very chic venue.
Experience the billionaire life at Twiga Monte-Carlo which offers a lounge concept, shisha, restaurant and a night club. Relax and enjoy with all your senses at any time of day at the Bar America, famous for its live music programme and signature cocktails.
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A Quick Look At Arabian Nights: Prince of Persia
I loved Flashback. It was such an epic game. The rotoscoped animation of Conrad B. Hart, the cinematics, the fantastic storyline and pacing of the adventure. You really felt like you were playing a role in the greatest sci-fi caper ever told; you literally had the fate of mankind in your frail, meat-based human hands. I initially experienced Flashback on the Mega Drive (and later the Jaguar and 3DO) and once I'd finished it, I looked into other games that were similar in scope and design and eventually my quest lead me to buy an earlier title from the bountiful table of Delphine Software and US Gold: Another World.
I'm not going to lie in an attempt to look like some learned and well-versed gaming expert: I thought Another World was shite. Even though it was lauded by the press, I couldn't even get past the first couple of screens with that big black dog and those stupid snaggle-toothed slug things nipping at my ankles. Ultimately, Another World (or Out of This World if you're American) was tossed aside after about an hour of trial and error (and random outbursts of rage at the TV screen if I remember rightly). Before you start foaming on your yellowing, crumb-filled Amiga keyboard know this: I have since played it as an adult and fully appreciate the game now; but back then in my youthful 'fresh from Flashback' comedown period, I thought it was an impenetrable mess. A good looking mess with excellent cut scenes, but a mess all the same. I can only apologise for such adolescent idiocy.
I looked again for another title that could fill the void left by Delphine's spectacular adventure and eventually I landed a copy of Prince of Persia for the Mega CD. I knew that Prince was basically the grandaddy of the genre - side-on action with relentless hardcore puzzles and cruel trial and error insta-death gameplay - but I vividly remember buying it from a stall in Manchester's Arndale market, and excitedly absorbing the contents of the manual on the bus back to my squalid homestead. After getting home and slapping the CD into my Multimega, I recall that it took me about 10 minutes to realise that Prince of Persia was not a game I would be enjoying in this life, or the next. Constant deaths, shit controls, graphics that looked like something out of a Kinder egg. The CD was quickly removed from the machine, replaced with Silpheed and never spoken of again.
If I said that was my last experience with Prince of Persia, I'd be lying. I played the shit out of Sands of Time on the Gamecube and Warrior Within on PSP, and even went to see the movie adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that I've had quite a history with the franchise...but not through any sentient thought process. Just goes to show that if you drift through life like I do, you'll develop weird relationships with all manner of random, antiquated and forgotten crap. Cough.
Anyway, let's get back on track. During the Dreamcast era, I was aware of Prince of Persia 3D/Arabian Nights but because the game never got a PAL release, I just let it pass me by. I'd heard it was shit anyway so figured I wasn't missing much. Last week though, I managed (through the kindness of a friend) to finally get my hands on a copy of this much maligned 3D platformer and my torrid affair with his Highness was rekindled. Contrary to what you may expect though, I was pleasantly surprised by the whole experience, and not because of his rugged good looks and legendary witty banter.
The later Prince of Persia titles on the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube et al are widely considered to be some very decent games, and I'd be inclined to agree. Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights though, is widely condemned as a bit of a dog's dinner. A dog's dinner that has already been eaten and subsequently passed though the brown eye of said canine, no less. Indeed, before playing it myself, I'd heard traumatic tales of a terrible camera system, atrocious graphics and wanky controls. As you can probably appreciate, I went into this with an air of trepidation on just how crap the game would be, and was gearing myself up to write an absolutely damning report of almost Spirit Of Speed 1937 proportions. The thing is, Arabian Nights is actually rather good.
Yes, you read that right. I was expecting a total abortion of a game, but what I got was a perfectly functional 3D action adventure in the vein of the original Tomb Raider. The story is as contrived as you'd expect (you're basically a prince rescuing a princess, natch) but the execution is perfectly fine. Control of your onscreen avatar is via the analogue stick, you can crouch under objects and jump over chasms. The D-pad lets you adjust the camera or switch to first person, while the triggers act as modifiers for combat, sidestepping etc. The only odd thing I must note is that 'grabbing' ledges etc is not automatic - once you jump, you must press the 'action' button to grab a ledge. Failure to do so will inevitably lead to some form of death. And death comes very quickly, which is really my only real bugbear with Arabian Nights. I recall that the Mega CD game I played for twenty minutes all those years ago was packed full of 'instant death' moments. Be it falling down a shaft lined with spikes or having your head cut off by some arcane system of pulleys and wires - the same is true in Arabian Nights. While you have a health bar of sorts, if you come a cropper in one of the game's many, many unannounced and downright illogical traps (sometimes you literally can't tell if a door handle will kill you), then that's it - you're dead and you have to reload from the last checkpoint.
That said, this is a quickly learned behaviour in Arabian Nights. If something looks too good to be true...it usually is. See that health vial over there? If you pick it up without first analysing your surroundings, the chances are you'll probably activate a trap as soon as you collect it...and then you're dead. No ifs or buts. You are dead, now fuck off. Annoying, yes...but it does make you treat everything - everything - with suspicion. And for that, I kinda like it.
So what of the other aspects of the game? Well for a start, it looks pretty great to be honest. The environments are quite varied and well textured and the locations are nicely realised. Prisons, city streets, rooftops, caves, underwater caverns...it all looks good as far as games from the era go. Sure, it's a port of a PC game and so it doesn't make much use of the Dreamcast's dedicated hardware (as is evident in the angular character models) but apart from that it looks fine...and even better through VGA. There is no slowdown whatsoever and the engine seems perfectly at home with even the biggest of open areas...which is more than can be said of any of the Tomb Raider titles on the Dreamcast. The sound is also very good - the music is perfectly suited to the 'Arabian' setting, with lots of drums and whining horns. The voice acting is also pretty good - even NPCs you encounter have good quality dialogue.
I must say that after reading such damning opinions of Arabian Nights, I was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable (and polished) it actually was. Apart from the bizarre insta-death traps (of which there are many), the trial and error nature of the gameplay and the slightly cringeworthy CGI cut scenes, Arabian Nights: Prince of Persia is a nice little action adventure that rounds off the original trilogy in a fitting way. I'm not entirely sure why the game didn't get a PAL release, but maybe the low review scores and poor sales had a hand in that...which is the story of the Dreamcast's life in all honesty. In summary, if you can find this game for a decent price, it is well worth investigating.
Tags: Arabian Nights: Prince Of Persia, DCJY Review
JoeMD said...
Thanks for this. I've always wondered what this game was like. I'm a big PoP fan but never had the opportunity to check this game out, mostly because - as you say - so many said it was rubbish to I didn't bother. I think it's available on GoG so maybe I'll grab it there. Great article!
Caspian said...
Quite an accurate review. I played the game back in its time and it was a very decent one. I do not understand the extend of the negativity in the reviews. The game would give a similar feeling to the one offered in "Omikron: the Nomad Soul" in most respects: graphics, handling, gameplay. Both are direct PC ports anyway with no obvious effort to improve on them. All in all, if someone does not have Shenmue-like expectations, he would have a very pleasant time playing through this game.
Note that this game is regarded something like a collectible if I judge by the prices I see in Ebay. So, more often than not, someone would have to pay a bit extra to buy an original copy.
The Voice Of Reason said...
;-) You should have tried the cartridge version on MegaDrive, not the CD version,it's far superior.
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Cannabis canned drinks have run into a few snags along the way. Product makers aren’t able to get the dosage right and it seems like the cans themselves might also be a problem, tampering with the THC in the product. But when it comes to CBD, plenty of businesses say that their cans contain between 20-25mg of the compound in a wide variety of flavors.
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Consuming CBD in a can sounds like a promising idea, one that lends itself to producing quick therapeutic effects. Still, unless we get the science, we remain in the dark with these kinds of products. Although there’s almost nothing that suggests that CBD is harmful to your health, there is evidence that indicates these products might just be a waste of money.
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Baton rouge — thaddeus moss' dad is randy moss — one of the greatest wide receivers ever to play in the nfl and an inductee into the pro football hall of fame in 2018. And according to kyle stackpole of redskins , thaddeus moss spoke about living in his father’s shadow. “having the last name that i have, a lot of people think that i was handed a lot of things. Lsu tight end thaddeus moss, the son of pro football hall of famer randy moss, presents an entirely different matchup problem. a 6 foot 3, 249 pound junior from charlotte, north carolina, moss set. For thaddeus moss, the last name from father randy moss is a burden but is finally living up to it published tue jan 14 2020 by sea after a few stints of failed seasons early on, thaddeus moss' lsu career is his best, and it's so very important for hanging the last name from father randy moss. His father, hall of famer randy moss, clad in a white lsu t shirt featuring an image of his son, purple hat, and yellow and purple scarf, is high fiving everyone around him. though this was.
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Thaddeus moss, 21, who transferred to lsu from north carolina state, said he’ll decide what comes next after talking to his father, now an espn nfl analyst and commentator, about his future. the. In january, lsu tight end thaddeus moss declared for the 2020 nfl draft. if that last name reads familiar, it's because thaddeus is the son of randy, the pro football hall of fame wideout. moss has. Randy moss’ son, thaddeus moss, is hoping to follow in his father’s football footsteps as he is in the process of a college restart at lsu. randy is known for being a hall of fame wide receiver,. Thaddeus moss (born may 14, 1998) is an american football tight end for the washington football team of the national football league (nfl). he played college football at nc state before transferring to lsu, where he caught two touchdowns in their 2020 college football playoff national championship game victory. moss signed as an undrafted free agent with the washington football team in 2020. Moss, the son of nfl hall of famer randy moss, said earlier this week he planned to forgo any on field testing to allow more time for his body to recover from lsu's extended season.
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I'm so appreciative for him," thaddeus moss said of his father, for whom he did the hall of fame introduction at randy's induction in 2018. "he faced a lot of adversity throughout his career. Lsu tight end thaddeus moss is the son of legendary wide receiver randy moss. randy was just named as one of the nfl’s top 100 players during the league’s anniversary. it can be challenging. Indianapolis – lsu tight end thaddeus moss is taking a big game and a famous name to the nfl. moss is the son of hall of fame receiver randy moss. moss ranks second in nfl history with 156. While his dad was a heralded prospect coming out of college, eventually going to the minnesota vikings with the 21st pick in the 1998 draft, thaddeus moss will have a harder time sticking in the nfl. however, washington is in dire need of tight end talent, so this might be the perfect landing spot for him to make his own mark on the league. When your last name is “moss” and you play football, it can take a while to find your footing. that has been the case for thaddeus moss — son of nfl hall of famer randy moss, charlottean and the.
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His dad was known for making the spectacular catch, and while the younger moss isn’t nearly as flashy, he is certainly capable of making a ‘wow’ play every now and then. moss has shown strong hands, even with defenders draped on him. thaddeus moss living up to the name on the back of his jersey. randy has to be proud of his kid. The lsu product arrives in the nation’s capital with a major chip on his shoulder. twelve tight ends came off the board in last month’s nfl draft. inexplicably, moss was not one of them. When thaddeus moss first stepped on the lsu campus last season, questions about his famous father were inevitable. moss, the son of soon to be pro football hall of fame inductee randy moss, said. Lsu's thaddeus moss, whose father is nfl hall of fame wide receiver randy moss, will start at tight end on saturday when the no. 6 tigers host georgia southern at 6:30 p.m. in tiger stadium on. Thaddeus moss has put together a solid junior season for the tigers, catching 27 passes for 292 yards and helping the tigers to a perfect 9 0 record. lsu is set to face 4 6 ole miss on saturday.
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Lsu tight end thaddeus moss talks about his father's influence on his career at nfl combine. nfl scouting combine trainer pete bommarito, who has trained le'veon bell and ezekiel elliott, takes two time olympic gold medalist and mma fighter kayla harrison through some of the toughest combine drills. Thaddeus moss hauled in his first touchdown of the game from heisman trophy winner joe burrow with 10 seconds to play before the half, extending lsu’s lead to 28 17. his second touchdown was. One of the surprises of the 2020 nfl draft from an lsu perspective was watching tight end thaddeus moss go undrafted. on his way to helping lsu win a national championship, moss hauled in 47. Lsu tight end thaddeus moss, who happens to be the son of nfl legend randy moss, delivered one of the best plays during saturday’s epic showdown between alabama and lsu. thaddeus moss living up to the name on the back of his jersey.
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£1m sales boost tops off 121 years of trading for Black Country’s Deritend Group
Posted on 11 Dec 2019 by The Manufacturer
Integrated engineering service provider, Deritend Group is celebrating another successful year of trading with almost a dozen hires and a £1m boost in sales.
Deritend Group is on track to post £11m in sales for 2019 – the same year the company celebrated well over a century in business.
As the firm prepares to toast its 121st anniversary having started life as a small electrical maintenance business in London in the 1890s, it also announced the recruitment of 11 new faces and a raft of business deals valued at £1m.
Richard Hale, managing director of Deritend Group, hailed the firm’s birthday as a “fantastic achievement”, adding that a series of celebrations was planned for his workforce, some of whom have been with the company for nearly a half century.
He added that although Deritend has seen many hardships in its 121 years of trading including economic uncertainty in the UK, various site moves, mergers and the occasional recession, the company endures today because “we have always stayed true to our founding principles of being small enough to care, but large enough to cope.”
Today, Deritend employs 110 people across four locations in the Black Country, Luton and Middlesbrough.
The flame still burns today
The Wolverhampton-headquartered company has come a long way since it started out as a small electrical maintenance business in London in 1898, primarily repairing street lighting in and around the capital.
It was purchased by Hale and his senior management team in 2001 who ramped up Deritend’s capacity for the restoration of electric motors, pumps, gearboxes, electronic controls and induction equipment, and who last year invested more than £750,000 in new equipment, recruitment and upskilling its workforce.
“We have acquired companies, we have sold firms and we have moved sites on numerous occasions – throughout all of this we have always stayed true to our founding principles,” said Hale.
“This approach, combined with investment in modern facilities and our people, means we are able to offer our customers a proactive repair and maintenance service for their critical assets, helping them minimise the downtime, decrease the costs and maximise the productivity of equipment,” he added.
Deritend helps to ensure clean water in our homes, production lines meeting just-in-time requirements and a regular supply of food are possible for society. Its new £1m contracts are with clients involved in utilities, food processing and the automotive sector.
As part of its growth plans, Deritend has developed a new apprenticeship programme, with support from Make UK, that has seen the company take on four candidates to date. Deritend also has plans in place to relocate its Wolverhampton site to West Bromwich by the start of 2021.
“We are continuing to grow so there has to be a focus on ensuring we have the rich engineering skills to move forward,” said Hale.
“Make UK are helping us shape the delivery of the training and we have committed significant investment into ensuring this is a focal point of our recruitment activity going forward,” he added.
Speaking about Deritend’s 121-year anniversary, Hale said: “Our staff have been fantastic and a key part of the journey we have been on, with some of them working with us for over 45 years.
“We wanted to do something to celebrate the 121st birthday and have organised a series of celebrations at our four locations, where every employee will receive a gift as a memento of our anniversary and a thank you from the management team.”
Deritend’s customers range from Severn Trent and Thames Water, to JCB, British Steel and Mondelez International.
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Russia Approves $4.7 Bln Investment for Crimean Infrastructure and Tourism
The Russian government on Monday approved an additional $4.7 billion in investments on infrastructure and tourism in the annexed Crimean peninsula over the next three years.
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Quan wins Oakland mayor's race
Ranked-choice voting, he said, "is an injustice, and Oakland will pay the price.
via sfgate.com
Jean Quan will be Oakland's next mayor. As I've said before, it's a lesser of two evils situation as Rebecca Kaplan had my vote. But the above quote from a Perata campaigner cries of sour grapes and underscores why Perata was a terrible choice as mayor. He had no problem using gutless tactics and bending the rules when it came to campaign financing. The fact that he lost is almost as sweet as a Kaplan victory. Though I don't think much of Quan, I felt she at least ran a cleaner campaign and didn't shy away from tough questions. But again, proof will be in the pudding and Quan needs to step up to fix the problems of Oakland.
tags: mayor politics rebecca kaplan don perata jean quan oakland campaign
Stunning upset - Jean Quan is in line to be Oakland's next mayor.
Ok, I was wrong yet again. It what may be considered a pretty stunning upset, Jean Quan has taken the lead from Don Perata to be Oakland's next mayor. The ranked-choice voting system seems to have allocated a fair number of votes from my choice, Rebecca Kaplan, to Quan instead of Perata. I myself don't know the methodology behind how these votes are counted but it looks like there was some sort of round robin allocation spanning 10 rounds (confused yet?). Here are the results from the County of Alameda's website.
The tabulations have not yet been finalized so we'll have to wait another day or so before the registrar makes the official announcement. Still, it's a small victory given that I didn't think much of Quan (the lesser of two evils) but feel she would be more willing to work with people like Kaplan versus Perata who would cater to his cronies and be just an overall ineffective executor of the duties of mayor. He's good at playing the political game but Oakland has real problems that need to be addressed and not just someone looking for another item on their resume.
tags: politics election mayor oakland rebecca kaplan don perata jean quan
Oakland mayor: Perata's lead seems insurmountable
It seems inevitable that Don Perata is going to be Oakland's next mayor. My vote was for Rebecca Kaplan and her fresh thinking/ideas but she's currently in 3rd place - about 14 points behind.
I don't have much faith in Perata's ability to lead this city out of its problems. Let's hope I'm wrong.
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Don Perata is NOT the answer to Oakland's problems
During the interview, we were shocked by Perata's evasiveness, use of faulty facts, and ignorance of some of the major issues facing the city ... Regardless of his standing in the polls, we felt that Perata's poor knowledge of the issues, combined with his history of ethically questionable dealings, made him a poor choice for mayor.
via insidebayarea.com
Many newspapers in the Bay Area have chosen Rebecca Kaplan as their choice as Oakland's next mayor. Unfortunately, that's not always a good predictor of who will win the election.
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Chickenshit and gutless political attack ad
I just received this political mail piece today. What a totally gutless and chickenshit tactic. The ad doesn't endorse anyone, instead just anonymously tells you to vote for anyone BUT Jean Quan because of her ties to Dellums. At least have the decency to step up and take credit for it.
It's pretty clear this came from Don Perata's camp. The polls currently have him in first, Quan in second and Rebecca Kaplan in third. The only person who benefits from this ad is Perata since none of the other 7 mayoral candidates are in striking distance. Kaplan doesn't have the resources to do a direct mail piece like this nor would she target Jean Quan (she'd be better off going after Perata). Plus I have yet to see one negative ad come from her camp. She'd rather focus on the issues and come up with potential solutions to Oakland's problems - go figure.
For the record, I'm not voting for Quan and I think Dellums was an ineffective mayor. My vote is for Kaplan because I think Don Perata is actually more like Dellums than Quan is. Maybe not ideologically but I think he'll be just as effective as Dellums was in his time as mayor. Plus is this the type of mayor you want leading your city?
tags: mayor rebecca kaplan oakland don perata jean quan
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